Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture

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As one of the most alluring yet elusive concepts in contemporary style, glamour is an ideal that permeates our visual culture. This lavishly illustrated book radically revises our understanding of glamour in fashion, industrial design, and architecture. The volume traces glamour’s trajectory from its historical middle-class origins to its present-day connotations of affluence and elegance. In doing so, “glamour” is established as a new critical category for design that embraces richly decorative patterns, complex layering, sumptuous materials, and sculptural forms.
Following a general introduction on the culture and consumption of glamour, three essays explore the concept as it has evolved in the fields of fashion, design, and architecture. Valerie Steele examines the construction of glamour from nineteenth-century fashion through the golden age of Hollywood and beyond, addressing the creations of Adrian, Christian Dior, Chanel, Gucci, and Versace, among others. Phil Patton discusses the industrial designs of Bentley, Jakob + MacFarlane, Marc Newson, Greg Lynn, and more, linking postwar culture’s fixation on consumer goods to the establishment of class identity and the intricacies of branding and marketing. Joseph Rosa identifies the roots of glamour in projects by postwar architects such as Philip Johnson and Paul Rudolph, exploring their influences on contemporary architects such as Herzog and de Meuron, Bernard Tschumi, and Neil Denari.
Presenting a diverse array of striking couture, design objects (from cars to watches), and buildings (both built and unbuilt), this beautiful book is essential for anyone interested in fashion, design, or architecture.

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Why the airbrush is an ideal tool for presenting architecture, and how to use it. The airbrush, considered a technically daunting instrument, renders mass, volume, light, color, and surface more accurately and elegantly than the customary presentation tools of architects and interior designers. But it offers rich effects worth using, even in the computer age. This book dispels common misconceptions and gives instructions for mastering the technique. 80 color illustrations, 80 line drawings.

The Airbrush in Architectural Illustration

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The Airbrush in Architectural Illustration
Tibor K. Karsai
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Drawing | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0442246900

Hot Air 1: An Explosive Collection of Top Airbrush Illustration

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Hot Air 1: An Explosive Collection of Top Airbrush Illustration
Werner Steuer
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

General | Drawing | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0891343458

Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne

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Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne
Alberto Vargas
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Alberto Vargas: Works from the Max Vargas Collection

ASIN: 0912383488

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Whether you are producing an entry-required short for acceptance into film school, a student film as a class assignment, a demo reel for prospective employers, or a home video, making a film is a challenging task. The Beginning Filmmaker's Guide to a Successful First Film can make your task much easier. Combining classroom theory with practical, hands-on advice, Renee Harmon and Jim Lawrence offer helpful tips and detailed guidelines on choosing the right kind of project, from a slice-of-life video to a documentary or short dramatic film; writing a script that can be produced within the resources and time available; assembling film financing and preparing a budget; casting the right actors and making the most of the rehearsal process; and selecting and entering the more that 35 film festivals that showcase new films nationwide. This book is an essential production and career resource for every beginning and intermediate filmmaker.

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Benchmarking Procurement: Measures for Surivial
Allan Robertson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HWYJBW

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This book provides organizations and purchasing professionals with a tool for benchmarking the procurement function.

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Are your children becoming adults, or just adult-aged children? Jim Hancock takes a straight-forward look at the mindset of today's generations and their different life perspectives. He challenges assumptions and creates common ground to allow parents to train their children to accept responsibility and gain an adult perspective on life. RAISING ADULTS includes a thirty day guarantee that parents can change their relationship with their child by doing "nothing"--in other words, by not practicing certain toxic behaviors over thirty days. Jim also addresses ten distinctives he believes ring true for youth in today's culture including a sense of isolation, anger, and hopelessness. As a former youth worker, Hancock writes on a down-to-earth, relational level.

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Raising Adults: Getting Kids Ready for the Real World.......2007-05-14

This book is really helpful, and a must have for anyone that works with the young people.

this book is supposed to be for parents, but the writing is for teens.......2006-08-22

i found this book annoying. you can tell that mr. hancock is more comfortable speaking to youth because he can't seem to write decently for adults. i found the style so distracting and, at times, condescending, i finally had to quit after chapter 3.4 (numbering the chapters with decimals doesn't make your book cool, by the way). too bad, because it seemed like he had some valid points.

Purposeful Parenting.......2000-11-28

As a college chaplain, I have the opportunity to see highly functioning, effective adolescents and young adults. I also happen to see those who are nowhere near ready to deal with the real world. Often it is their family life which has made the difference. This book is one of the best at assisting parents in making their efforts purposeful while encouraging us to ease up on the constant anxiety about doing the "worst wrong thing." As both a parent and a facilitator of parenting workshops, I enthusiastically recommend this book as one of the best resources available.

I heard the author on the radio..........1999-11-19

I heard the author of this book (Jim Hancock) interviewed on the radio. Much of what he said there is the same as in his book. As a professional educator (I teach high school), I can heartily endorse this book. I would say that it should, however, be read by parents of small children. By high school, it can be too late to implement some of his ideas, although parents of high school students can also benefit from reading this book, because other of his ideas can still be useful.

Christian Parenting: Raising Children in the Real World

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Christian Parenting: Raising Children in the Real World
Donna Sinclair , and Yvonne Stewart
Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Morals & Responsibility | Parenting | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 0664252907

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Succinct edition of the influential work, from its observations on the nature and theory of warfare to its outlines of strategic policies: moral force and military virtues, duration and decision of combat, effects of victory and retreat, tactics of offense and defense, planning, and wartime politics.

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Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community
Susan Paul Pattie
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHOEJE

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This definitive source provides practicing professionals and students in the occupational, environmental, and public health and safety fields with the functional basics of biological monitoring. The author examines how environmental exposures to particular chemicals are related to concentrations of markers in body tissues and fluids. Biological Monitoring integrates the applied sciences of industrial/environmental hygiene, epidemiology, public health, occupational medicine, toxicology, biochemistry, and analytical chemistry with the basic sciences to interpret the connections between exposures and lifestyle/environmental influences, and their effects on humans. This comprehensive introduction provides dependable, detailed coverage of:

monitoring for harmful substances in the workplace
the benefits and limitations of testing for critical levels of toxic materials in bodily tissues and fluids
state-of-the-art developments in biological monitoring
a wide variety of toxic chemicals and selected physical agents
immunoassays
monitoring for HIV and AIDS
importance of exposure routes
the most up-to-date methods of health and medical surveillance
the interpretation of adduct concentrations
biological exposure indices
biological monitoring of pesticides
biological monitoring in the home and around hazardous waste sites
and much more

This essential, compelling guide is the only inclusive and thorough introduction available. Biological Monitoring's rigorous, accessible, interdisciplinary approach makes this an invaluable reference and text for industrial and environmental hygienists, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, epidemiologists, toxicologists, laboratory technicians, chemical engineers, science graduate students, and the environmentally concerned.

The United Kingdom Acid Waters Monitoring Network: a review of the first 15 years and introduction to the special issue [An article from: Environmental Pollution]

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The United Kingdom Acid Waters Monitoring Network: a review of the first 15 years and introduction to the special issue [An article from: Environmental Pollution]
D.T. Monteith , and C.D. Evans
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR7CJI

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Pollution, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The United Kingdom Acid Waters Monitoring Network (AWMN) was established in 1988 to determine the ecological impact of acidic emissions control policy on acid-sensitive lakes and streams. AWMN data have been used to explore a range of causal linkages necessary to connect changes in emissions to chemical and, ultimately, biological recovery. Regional scale reductions in sulphur (S) deposition have been found to have had an immediate influence on surface water chemistry, including increases in acid neutralising capacity, pH and alkalinity and declines in aluminium toxicity. These in turn can be linked to changes in the aquatic biota which are consistent with ''recovery'' responses. A continuation of the current programme is essential in order to better understand apparent non-linearity between nitrogen (N) in deposition and runoff, the substantial rise in organic acid concentrations, and the likely impacts of forecast climate change and other potential constraints on further biological improvement.

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Ask people what they remember most about the physical surroundings of their childhood and they're likely to describe a special place out of doors—a school yard, a patch of woods, a community garden. For it is outside space that is most conducive to the ebb and flow of spontaneous activities, offers rich and often surprising sensory input, and provides endless possibilities for exploration. If the classroom is the place where children are taught, the outdoors is where they learn on their own.

A growing legion of landscape architects is exploring and exploiting the ability to create outdoor environments that optimize the learning experience and mirror the ideas, values, attitudes, and cultures of those who inhabit them. In Landscapes for Learning, Dr. Sharon Stine presents 11 case studies of the very best of these design projects from around the world. Her findings describe not only design concepts and end results—rich outdoor learning environments—but, more importantly, the processes that led to the creation of these environments. She examines the roles of designers, teachers, and the children themselves, and how their interaction affects the planning, building, and use of the space.

Dr. Stine shows how the most successful designs address the needs of both the children whose job it is to "mess up" the space and the adults who supervise them. She defines nine pairs of contrasting elements that are essential to any play environment and uses these both as the basis for her analyses of particular environments and as the foundation of a common language that designers and educators can use when developing a new design. She also addresses the issues of safety and security and demonstrates that learning environments can be stimulating, interesting links with the natural world and safe places for children to run free.

Landscapes for Learning is the ideal source for landscape architects, architects, planners, school administrators, and teachers who want to collaborate in the development of useful, intriguing outdoor environments for students in day care, preschool, elementary school, junior high, and high school.

Discover the keys to creating delightful, stimulating, challenging, and educational outdoor environments for children and youth

This unique volume explores the vital and growing movement that is transforming school yards, day-care facilities, and museum grounds around the world. Dr. Sharon Stine presents detailed analyses of a wide variety of outdoor environments for children and the principles and processes that enabled their design, creation, and ongoing operation. Special features of this book include:

Eleven case studies of outstanding outdoor environments for children and youth—both contemporary and historical
More than 140 photos and line drawings that illustrate the application of specific design principles
Nine pairs of contrasting elements essential in any play environment that form the basis of a shared language for the design and analysis of outdoor learning environments
In-depth analyses of the development and evolution of outside space in two schools over a period of 80 years
And much more

Planners Library.(Review): An article from: Planning

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Planners Library.(Review): An article from: Planning
Harold Henderson
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Online Books | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1668 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Planners Library.(Review)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1998
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 64 Issue: 12 Page: 31(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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A daily report of everyday life by one of the masters of twentieth century photography. Every single day throughout 1999 Frank Horvat photographed-creating his personal diary of the last year of the century. The challenge was to produce each day at least one image of substance. The result is a fascinating and revealing panorama of one man's vision.

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Beautifully honest snapshots of life........2001-04-05

"I would rather that this work be seen as a sort of inventory of my visual horizon; but also - and without the two aspects contradicting each other - as an expression of my gratitude to destiny, for being born (and surviving) in such an exceptional and crucial period." And with these words, Frank Horvat brings forth 1999 A Visual Diary, with a snapshot of his own visual horizon for everyday of the year. Some resonating with social implications, exposing the face of modern Europe, some lovely and ephermal portraits of his grandchildren. There is no elaborate artistry to this diary, just a collection of color snapshots.

The book is slightly larger than the prints, and gives the impression of a flipbook. You glide through Mr. Horvat's travels, Rome, Paris, his country house, his grandchildren. Some photographs are overwhelmed by the human subject, others are quiet glimpses of unusual cityscapes.

Horvat's diary is characterized by an attention to rich and usual color, as well as interesting faces. And ultimately, the photographs that you find most memorable reflect something about yourself. Looking back, perhaps the most interesting aspect of 1999 A Visual Diary is the inconsistency that arises when my friends are asked to choose their favorites photographs from a collection that escapes any categorization other than snapshots of life.

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If you want to pass the State Exam......this is the book!!.......2000-08-26

This was the best book I ever read to help me pass my state exam and both parts too.... at one time. Julie's way with words seem to put it all together by cutting to the real issue of whats needed in passing the exam. The study concept she gives you prepares one for a very hard exam, and by being real with words that none real estate people can relate to, your confidents and smarts come together.Combine the above with ample pre-tests and a well proven study concept and the exam is a cake walk. Again, if you want to pass your exam......this is the book to read!!!

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Unbelievable insights, Plunkett's right on retail...

Plunkett's Retail Industry Almanac: The Only Complete Guide to America's Top Retail Companies (Plunkett's Retail Industry Almanac)

Manufacturer: Plunkett Research Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Retailing | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0963826859

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Unbelievable insights, Plunkett's right on retail..........1999-08-09

An excellent overview of the retail industry and an even better closeup look. Plunkett's knowledge of retail is evident in the opening pages. A deep resource for anyone in business, the "Almanac" is a must buy.

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What I needed.......2002-01-31

Perskes book was given to me after the birth of my
son who experiences Down Syndrome. It has been a source
of hope and inspiration even ten years later. This is a book
that should be passed out to parents and professionals
of special needs children, and required reading for anyone
going into a teaching or health related field where they will
have the pleasure of working with differently abled
people.

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On a hot, dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Hannibal slaughtered the much larger Roman army. It was the high point of his military career. Massively outnumbered, they nevertheless won an astonishing victory-one that left more than 50,000 Romans dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling narrative recreates the infamous battle and provides a compelling portrait of the horror and chaos of ancient warfare. From the composition of the armies to the strategy and methods of the generals, Daly draws the reader in and makes the battle come alive.
Clear, vivid, and drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and modern scholarship, Cannae offers the fullest account yet of the most destructive battle in ancient history.

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$110?.......2007-07-02

Can someone please explain why the hardcover edition of this book is listed at $110? I'm baffled.

I am interested in reading the book, but there is no way that I will throw down that much money for a book that was just published 5 years ago!

Can anyone explain the exceedingly high price?

A Fascinating Read!!.......2005-10-15

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and could not put it down. Although the available references for this battle are rather limited (primarily Polybius and Livy) Daly does a masterful job of combing the ancient sources for evidence of what the experience of combat must have been like for the Carthaginians and Romans on that hot day. He uses much of what Victor Hanson has written regarding ancient warfare, John Keegan's analytical framework and considerable thought and insight to weave a "face of battle" picture of the event. The work has great information on the composition and tactics of the armies and a wonderful description of the manipular legion at work. A must read if you are even remotely interested in ancient warfare.

Excellent study of an ancient battle.......2004-01-12

Battle of Cannae was one of the most complete victories ever won over the famed Roman legions by any of her many opponents. Fought during the Second Punic War, Hannibal who won this great tactical victory will be forever be remembered by it. This battle set the standard of what we would regard as a total tactical victory on the battlefield. Gregory Daly's book goes into considerable details on how this event took places, forces and commanders involved and lay-out of the battle, location, formations and conditions. Daly's put considerable effort into his research and what we have here is a very definitive book on the battle of Cannae. Its also helped that I thought Gregory Daly wrote pretty well, nicely paced and clearly written. Anyone with a slightest interest in this time period should buy this book.

Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War.......2003-09-28

A facinating educational read! Thorough details of battle - indepth descriptions of conditions and strategies. Need I say more.

BW CA 90210

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Cannae: the Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Kevin K. Carroll
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Canada | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00097568U
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 827 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cannae: the Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War.(Book Review)
Author: Kevin K. Carroll
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39 Issue: 3 Page: 557(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Set against the backdrop of the mutiny of 1857, C.F. Andrews draws upon the story of Zaka Ullah's life to briefly trace the social and literary history of Delhi from the decline of the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth century to the emerging nationalist movement in the latter half of the
nineteenth century. Two new introductions written especially for this volume place the book, its subject, and its author in a socio-historical context.

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National Geographic Guide to Bird Watching Sites, Eastern US
National Geographic Society
Manufacturer: National Geographic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

ASIN: 0792273745
Release Date: 1999-04-01

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Guide to Birdwatching Sites Eastern U.S.

Discover the best places to see birds in the Eastern United States with National Geographic as your guide. Dedicated to beginning and intermediate birders, the National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites takes you to the birding hot spots, both highly visited and lesser known. Features include:

* Special species lists, best seasons to visit, and insider's advice
* Detailed directions and 8 easy-to-read area maps
* Descriptions of birds and their behavior
* 193 vivid color photos and illustrations
* National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites -- Western U.S. also available

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Book.......2007-01-04

Great book, as advertised, arrived in perfect condition, in good packaging and quite promptly. Would absolutely use this merchant again!

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