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The perfect book for anyone who has rescued a dog from the shelter or wants to adopt a dog whose owner can't care for it anymore. Authoritative advice on everything from choosing the right dog to dealing with difficult problems.
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Adopt the Perfect Dog.......2007-07-18
Great book and great advice! Very detailed dog selection process helped our family get the perfect dog!
A must for adopting a shelter dog!!!!.......2001-05-30
This book is unique in that it talks specifically about adopting a shelter dog. Shelter dogs have a whole different set of challenges and expereinces than puppies - and this book has simple, straight forward advice on a successful and rewarding adoption.
Adopting an Adult Dog 101.......2000-08-16
Well-written and consise, this book provides help for most common issues and potential pitfalls of adopting an adult dog. The story of the author's work w/ a "vicious" dog (last chapt.) is especially illustrative of how much adult dogs have to offer, even and perhaps esp. ones that did not grow up in good circumstances.
Further, the book's focus on positive reinforcement and emphasis on training and exercise (read "play") for a dog will prevent many problems if followed.
While writing this review, my newly adopted adult Belgian Shepherd brought me a pair of dirty socks from the laundry basket - time to consult the book! :-]
A complete primer on adopting a shelter dog.......2000-07-27
A truely worthwhile book -- leads those interested in adopting and saving the life of a shelter dog, rather than taking the puppy mill or breeder routes, through a step-by-step analysis of how to ascertain the right dog for your family and how to judge a dog by more than its cover! Buy it and you will feel empowered in the proper way to go about making a friend for life.
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- Great Reference for Steamship China Collectors!
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The Cube Teapot: The Story of the Patent Teapot
Anne Anderson
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A paragon of modern design, this book charts the history, rise and fall of the world's best-selling patented teapot.
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Great Reference for Steamship China Collectors!.......2001-01-18
Anne Anderson's tome on the cube teapot is without doubt the definitive history on the subject. Of special interest to steamship china collectors is the impressive number of photographs showing the cube tea service in use on board the old Cunard ocean liners. There were a number of different patterns applied to the service and Anne provides us with an excellent photographic reference of each one. Loaded with vintage photographs, this book is a must have for collectors of this type of china. I am so happy to see books like this documenting something that would otherwise be lost forever that I am reluctant to offer criticism. The narrative in the book, while thorough, could use a bit more editing to smooth it out. There are several typos in the book as well as instances of paragraphs with random facts thrown in that are irrelevant to the main idea being presented. Hence my rating of three stars.
Who Knew? Square Teapots?.......2000-04-14
I purchased this book to learn more about the cube shaped (and space saving) tea sets used on the Cunard ocean liners in the 1920's through the 1960's. It is a wonderful resource for collectors of ocean liner memorabilia but it also tells a facinating story of the development of the cube teapot. This book discusses the English pastime of taking tea and the quest to design the perfect teapot. The end result was a patented cube design produced in beautiful, collectible colors and patterns. This book is a must for collectors and history buffs alike. Happy reading!
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How to Repair, Reupholster, and Refinish Furniture
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Donald R. Brann
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This third edition has been expanded and improved to give you the latest graphic information for planning and designing all major types of buildings and structures--residential, educational, industrial, cultural and entertainment, health, religious, governmental and public, commercial, sports and recreation, and transportation. You'll also have fast access to standards for housing for the elderly and handicapped and for handicapped access to public buildings and restrooms. With this huge resource you'll be able to produce top quality work faster and more accurately than ever before.
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perfect reference.......2004-02-13
rich in graphics and details, perfect companion when you need quick answers, specially if you get a used book at a fantastic price like these, it is worth it!!
newfet Architectural data.......2003-07-28
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A great reference book.......2002-05-07
This is a book that sometimes resembles Neufert's, but it has a lot of additional information you might need that will make easier the process of designing various types of buildings. It gives you notions, ideas, proportions, measures and everything you need to know when starting a project. A must-have to any architect (specially with these incredible low-priced used ones. I got mine for 13 bucks and it's absolutely like new).
Over priced.......1999-07-02
Amozon.com says that they save you money on books but this book cost a cool 150 smackers even if a customer has purchased many books from them -- the book is valuable and used like a dictionary for reference -- why can't we get a resonable price for it -- Amozon.com send out thank you and promises to do their best to keep the price lowest but why do they continue to bate and switch.
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Houses and Households: A Comparative Study (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Richard E. Blanton
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The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other areas; proposes new methodologies for comparative analyses of houses; and critically examines existing methodologies, theories, and data. His work expands on and systematizes comparative and cross-cultural approaches to the study of households and their environments to provide a firm foundation for this emerging line of study.
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The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Readers)
ASIN: 0415366534 |
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From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such as the Twin Towers, the London Eye, and the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Working at the intersections of visual, material, and literary culture, Urban Space and Cityscapes seeks in particular:
· to provide new critical and theoretical perspectives on the city at a time when the condition and future of urbanism are major subjects of international and public concern.
· to examine the aesthetic, narrative, and representational strategies used to interpret the dynamic space of cities.
· to explore the relationship between urban space and a variety of pressing cultural concerns, including issues of identity, memory, technology, class, gender, nation, and ethnicity.
With original essays from the fields of architecture, cultural theory, film, geography, literature, and visual art, Urban Space and Cityscapes offers fresh insight into the increasingly complex relationship between urban space, cultural production, and everyday life.
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The content of the book.......2001-02-09
I would to know the contents of the book
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1,005 architectural graphics on CD-ROM! Now you can create stunning, persuasive architectural presentations that bring your designs to life-faster and easier than ever before, in Ernest Burden's Entourage on CD: A Clip Art Resource For Architects and Designers you get 1,005 images of human figures and groups... trees, plants and environmental elements... and all kinds of vehicles to infuse a sense of life, movement, depth and distance into all your renderings. No matter what type of space you're designing-urban or rural, interior or exterior, commercial or residential-this sure-fire design tool enables you to: Add more power and impact to your presentations; Present your ideas with lifelike realism; Retrieve clip art images and visual elements in seconds; Find the right size, scale, posture, dress, and style at once; and difficult or complicated settings with ease and much more.
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A Must Have .......2007-09-18
Entourage is an excellent resource for students and professionals in any design field. The tracing files are organized for quick and easy use. Some of the images are a little dated, but overall it is a must have!
Great source, but getting dated.......2007-06-30
As others have stated here, this book is a great resource for entourage, but most of the imagery is from the 1970s and early 1980s.
Badly in need of a major update.......2007-02-10
This book has pretty much been the standard in its genre since the 1970s, but that doesn't mean designers want to use people, vehicles, and other objects that still belong in that decade. The vast majority of images in this book are utterly useless because they are so terribly out of date.
Entourage.......2007-01-05
I am a 1st year landscape design student and this book has been a great help in my studies.I found this book on amazon for 30 dollars less on amazon than I would of had to pay at the bookstore.
Great Tracing Book!.......2005-04-27
I am an interior design student who LOVES this book. I had been struggling with drawing people in my renderings and this book really saved my drawings. You can be the best interior artist and have perfected drawing rooms, but if you stick an akward looking person in the center of your room....you have just completely ruined it. This book helps artists, interior designers, architects, students, teachers....everyone.
It has pages and pages filled with people of ALL sizes and shapes. It also has people sitting, laying down, kneeling, etc. There are some pictures of cars, boats, planes, & trees/plants.
Conviently, all of the book's pages can be torn out with perforated edges. You can choose which page you want and slip it right underneath your drawing to trace.
I looked and lookd for a tracing guide and this book is the best out there. If you need help with any kind of human rendering, this book will do the trick.
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This text investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organization of space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists, and architects, who form their different backgrounds are able to provide some important and original insights into this relationship. They explore the fundamental role of culture as expressed in technology, symbolism, sociopolitical organization and economics, and draw on case studies from past and present groups in North America, South America, Africa, and elsewhere.
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This book brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. It guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas.
It includes essays by Leslie Kanes Weisman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Michèle Barrett, Nancy Chodorow, Luce Irigaray, Joan Wallach Scott, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Harry Brod, Judith Butler, Daphne Spain, Doreen Massey, Elizabeth Wilson, Griselda Pollock, Meaghan Morris, bell hooks, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Boutelle, Lynne Walker, Denise Scott Brown, Dolores Hayden, Zeynep Celik, Alice T. Friedman, Joel Sanders, Elizabeth Diller, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning, and others.
Customer Reviews:
great introduction to the topic.......2001-04-15
I am writing because in my opinion the editorial description of this book doesn't give readers a clear enough idea of what makes it different from all the other feminism and architecture anthologies currently on sale.
Part of the problem is that there now seem to be so many books with titles like "Gender and Space" etc.
But don't be fooled - this really is the only book out there that tries to give an overview of the impact of feminism on architecture, gathering and reprinting seminal essays from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Aside from the convenience of having all of these important essays at hand in one volume, the book also provides readers with an excellent bibliography (almost 25 pages) of related books in the field. While the bibliography doesn't refer to absolutely everything, it is pretty comprehensive - and, if you're interested in further research, this gives you a good starting point.
The introductions in this book though are perhaps its best feature - in particular, the introduction to "Gender Space Architecture" by Jane Rendell. When people want to know what feminism can do for architecture (or has done for architecture), I refer them to this essay. It's lucidly written and provides a great map to the subject. Particularly useful for students!
If you're just starting out on this subject, this is the book for you.
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