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Building A Better Mouse: The Story Of The Electronic Imagineers Who Designed Epcot - Paperback

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by David Green (Author), Steve Alcorn (Author)On October 1, 1982, The Walt Disney Company opened its EPCOT Center to the world, heralding changes that would take the Disney property in Florida from a mere theme park to a world-class resort destination. Authors Steve Alcorn and David Green were there, as employees of Disney's WED Imagineering. "Building a Better Mouse" tells the tale of the "hundreds of mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people" who worked on Epcot, ...

Central Park, The Early Years - Paperback

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by Dianne L. Durante (Author)It's difficult to imagine Manhattan without the glorious oasis that is Central Park. But the Park's existence was not inevitable, and its design was very much a product of its time. *Central Park: The Early Years* looks at why and how Central Park was created in the 1850s and its history during the formative decades of the 1860s and 1870s. With full-color images from the period. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June...

Earth Render - The Art of Clay Plaster, Render and Paints - Paperback

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by James Henderson (Author), Mike Angliss (Illustrator), Peter Hickson (Foreword by)Rendering or plastering is a craft as old as house building, the basic methods and concepts having changed little over time. This book offers a detailed look at the use of raw earth for painting and rendering walls in new as well as in existing buildings, focusing on sand-clay render, straw-clay render and clay paints. The skills needed to create and apply these natural finishes are easy to learn and the tools...

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by Marie De France (Author), Robert Zubrin (Translator)Born in the early 1120s, the troubaritz Marie de France was the first European woman to write a book. Her Lais of Marie de France, a set of chivalric tales published circa 1170, was an immediate hit and has been in print in many languages ever since. Eleanor's Crusades, the autobiographical account of her extraordinary youthful adventures as bard to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, was lost until its rediscovery in 2005. A remarkable document ...

Cornell Journal of Architecture 10: Spirits - Paperback

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by Caroline O'Donnell (Editor)In distilling, the small amount of alcohol evaporated during the aging process is known as the angels' share. at is, while lost to us, the alcohol does not cease to exist, but instead is given to -- or taken by -- the angels. Architecture's own angels' share--the notion of an absent and intangible other--has too been personi ed. From Genius Loci to Zeitgeist, the gure of the spirit is perhaps the most fundamental component of architecture, even before walls or c...

What Your Builder Should Know: Best Practices for Building a Healthy Home - Paperback

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by Daniel Stih (Author)Are you building and want a new home that is healthy and mold-free? This book makes it simple. Each step of construction is covered and explains suggestions on materials to use, the common types of mistakes made, and proper construction.Topics include mold, ventilation, and Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs).Each step includes a summary, Give This to Your Builder.This book tells you when to inspect the builder's work and what to look for. Don't leave it to chance that your b...

How to Build a Healthy Home: And Prevent the Negative Impacts on Your Health that Can Result from Poorly Executed Green Building Initiatives - Paperback

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by Daniel Stih (Author)Building or Remodeling? If you want your home to be healthy, you need this book.A lot of new houses are being built "green". Green does not mean healthy. Green means environmentally friendly and energy efficient building practices. It's nice to think about the environment and reducing energy consumption, but what about creating a healthy environment for the people living in the building - you and your family. Your house should be the safest, healthiest place to be. Thi...

The Way of Saint James, Volume II - Paperback

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by Georgiana Goddard King (Author), George D. Greenia (Introduction by)Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is finally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's "three years wanderings" on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage road, and on extensive academic research with part...

The Way of Saint James, Volume III - Paperback

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by Georgiana Goddard King (Author), Elyn Aviva (Introduction by)Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is fi nally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's "three years wanderings" on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage road, and on extensive academic research with particular...

Lemurian Seeds: Hope for Humanity - Paperback

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by Shelley Kaehr (Author)From the author of Edgar Cayce's Sacred Stones & Edgar Cayce's Guide to Gemstones, Minerals, Metals & MoreA revolutionary look at the ancient Lemurian civilization and how advanced and benevolent beings left messages for humanity in crystals. Could the Lemurian Seeds contain vital information to assist the human race? Learn to unlock the wisdom within the crystals, and discover why this is so important at this time. Visit Shelley online: www.pastlifelady.comAu...

BIG BIM little Bim: The Practical Approach to Building Information Modeling Integrated Practice done the right Way! - Paperback

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by Finith E. Jernigan Aia (Author)This book provides the tools architects need to synthesize and reuse complex data, solve problems early in the design-build process, save costs, and increase profits and productivity. Using virtual information models and the latest technology, Jernigan is able to streamline decision making, improve project visualization, and achieve superior results during design and construction phases. The book shows you how to effectively use BIM to overcome design challen...

BIG BIM little bim - Second Edition - Paperback

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by Finith E. Jernigan Aia (Author)Finith Jernigan has rewritten his award-winning book to include the big changes happening every day in the world of BIG BIM. The second edition of "BIG BIM little bim" has expanded coverage of the practical applications of BIM for the entire construction industry. The phenomenon of the worldwide BIMStorm is highlighted in this new edition. The book gives user-friendly approaches that architects, engineers, owners, builders, facility managers, educators and st...

Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past - Paperback

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by Philip Gardiner (Author), John Malloy (Designed by)Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past by Philip Gardiner Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped it's authority on the face of the planet. Now, after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the first time reveals the world's most mysterious places were on...

Excavating History: artists take on historic sites - Paperback

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by Rebecca Keller (Author), Mary Jane Jacob (Contribution by), Vince Michael (Contribution by)Artist Rebecca Keller started making site-specific interventions in an anatomy theatre in Estonia in 2006. The project has since become a course, a collective, and a series of artist exhibitions in historic sites in the United States and Europe. This full-color book shares the stories of these exhibitions, student reflections, and essays from scholars with concerns in historic preservation and artist...

Carbondale After Dark And Other Stories: Expanded Edition - Paperback

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by H. B. Koplowitz (Author)From panty raids to riots, "Carbondale After Dark" is a profusely illustrated anthology of history, essays and short stories that chronicles how a sleepy little college town in the Midwest became a hippie haven and radical outpost during the 1960s and '70s. Some call that Carbondale's golden age, while others say it was the city's hippie phase. Either way, it left a mark on the town and those who went through those tumultuous times, and it remains a period of intere...

Carbondale After Dark And Other Stories: Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity - Paperback

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by Andrew Benjamin (Editor), Charles Rice (Editor)Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have had an incalculable influence on contemporary thought. Yet the problem of architecture in and for Benjamin's work remains relatively underexamined. Does Benjamin's project have an architecture and, if so, how does this architecture affect the explicit propositions that he offers us? In ...

Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir - Paperback

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by Randolph Langenbach (Author), Minja Yang (Foreword by)DON'T TEAR IT DOWN Preserving the Earthquake-Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir, makes the case for the preservation of the traditional domestic architecture that make up the urban form of Srinagar and the other cities in Kashmir. Published initially by UNESCO's New Delhi Office for distribution in Indian and Pakistan Administered Kashmir, the book is a product of UNESCO's mission to advance scientific understanding following...

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by John J. O'Neill (Author) One of the most enduring problems of history is the decline of Classical Civilization. How was it that the civilization of Greece and Rome, which had endured almost a thousand years, a civilization which prized learning, science and reason, gave way to the world of the Medieval; an age which saw, for a while, the almost complete disappearance of the rationalist spirit of Greece and Rome? The traditional view was that after their seizure of Italy in the fifth centur...

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by Carlo Aiello (Author)Established in 2006, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world's most prestigious award for high-rise architecture. Over the last six years, an international panel of renowned architects, engineers, and city planners have reviewed more than 4,000 projects submitted from 168 countries around the world. This book is the compilation of 300 outstanding projects selected for their innovative concepts that challenge the way we understand architecture and their re...

The Architecture of Light: Architectural Lighting Design Concepts and Techniques - Paperback

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by Sage Russell (Author)The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, drafting and presenting lighting design. Written by a practicing professional lighting designer who is also a...

The Architecture of Light (2nd Edition): Architectural Lighting Design Concepts and Techniques - Paperback

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by Sage Russell (Author)The Architecture of Light (Second Edition) makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, drafting and presenting lighting design. Written by a practicing professional lighting desig...

Life and Shape: The Autobiography of Richard Neutra - Paperback

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by Richard Neutra (Author), Dion Neutra (Foreword by)Since he followed it all of his life, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) must have relished the maxim of the Greek philosopher Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." In his books, articles, lectures, correspondence, and even casual conversations, Neutra constantly examined, not only his own life, but the lives of others - present and past - and the human and natural world they inhabited. Nowhere was this truer than in his autobiograph...

Death Wish: Starring Charles Bronson, Architect - Paperback

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by Rob Kovitz (Author)The first one is the hardest. Then he discovers he likes it. DEATH WISH: Starring Charles Bronson, Architect is based on the sensationalistic and controversial Death Wish movies, in which Charles Bronson portrays an architect who becomes a vigilante-killer. Death Wish by Rob Kovitz is a kind of enigmatic allegory, in which Bronson is Everyman, and Architecture is the dream/nightmare that goes to bed with each of us at night. Treyf 25th Anniversary edition. treyf...

Green Construction: An Introduction to a Changing Industry - Paperback

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by Alison Dykstra (Author)What green, sustainable, and high-performance means for the construction industry and its workers. Not another how-to book, nor a sermon on the benefits of environmentalism, the text provides an overview of a quickly changing construction industry and clarification of what green means and how it is impacting jobs, workers, and the built environment.In-depth coverage of topics include: What is meant by terms like green, sustainable, and high performance? What makes c...

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by Peter Nicholson (Author), Gary Roberts (Introduction by)THE MECHANIC'S COMPANION, by Peter Nicholson, describes in detail the skilled building trades of the 19th Century: Carpentry; Joinery; Bricklaying; Masonry; Slating; Plastering; Painting; Smithing & Turning. In print for more than half a century, THE MECHANIC'S COMPANION was a primary reference for the amateur, the student and the practical mechanic. Published first in 1812 as Mechanical Exercises, then in 1831 as The Mechanic's C...

Mechanick Exercises: Or the Doctrine of Handy-Works - Paperback

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by Joseph Moxon (Author)Mechanick Exercises: Or The Doctrine Of Handy-Works, was written, printed and published by Joseph Moxon between 1683 & 1685 and reprinted in 1703. Breaking away from Guild restrictions, Moxon wrote of what he knew from his experiences as a practitioner of skilled trades. A mathematician, writer, printer, publisher and maker of maps, globes and scientific instruments, Joseph Moxon was also the first tradesman to be awarded membership in the Royal Society of London. ...

Woodwork Tools and How to Use Them - Paperback

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by William Fairham (Author), Gary Roberts (Introduction by)"...to know just how to handle and manipulate the saw or the plane or the chisel to effect the desired result with a minimum of effort and without injury to either tool or material - that is knowledge worth having..." Woodwork Tools was published c1922 as part of The Woodworker Series, by Evans Bros., London. Authored by William Fairham, a well-respected practicing woodworker and technical school instructor. Woodwork Tools introduces ...

The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology - Paperback

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by John B. Henderson (Author)Cosmological ideas influenced every aspect of traditional Chinese culture, from science and medicine to art, philosophy, and religion. Although other premodern societies developed similar conceptions, in no other major civilization were such ideas so pervasive or powerful.In The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology, John Henderson traces the evolution of Chinese thought on cosmic order from the classical era to the nineteenth century. Unlike many standard ...

Look Up, South Carolina!: Walking Tours of 25 Towns in the Palmetto State - Paperback

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by Doug Gelbert (Author)South Carolina has towns that were founded by the British, towns that were founded by the Irish, towns that were founded by the French. South Carolina has towns built in the mountains, towns built on a great ocean, towns built on great rivers. South Carolina has towns built on cotton, towns built on timber, towns built railroads, towns built as resorts. There is no better way to see South Carolina towns than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you ar...

Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting - Paperback

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by Inga DuBay (Author), Barbara Getty (Author)A complete guide to italic calligraphy.Handwritten by the authors from cover to cover, Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting by Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty is the most comprehensive "how-to" workbook that exists on learning italic -- 181 pages of step-by-step, beautifully illustrated instruction.The book provides page after page of models to trace and letters to copy. Each letter is presented in both a monoline tool, for informal and rapi...

Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal - Paperback

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by Cathleen a. Cummings (Author)Queen Lokamahadevi, the chief wife of the Early Chalukya king Vikramaditya II, began construction of the Virupaksha Temple in approximately 733 at the dynasty's royal consecration site of Pattakadal, in Karnataka, India. As one of the most powerful rulers of the Early Chalukya dynasty, Vikramaditya II controlled territories spread over a vast region of central and southern India. The Virupaksha Temple commemorated his crucial victory over the rival Pallava dyna...