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Village Homes: A Community By Design (Case Studies Land Community Design)
Mark Francis Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559631112 |
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The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades and brings together existing research and writing on the community, studies about the children of Village Homes he conducted throughout the 1980s, and interviews with many parties involved with the project including designers, residents, gardeners, and maintenance people. Mark Francis takes a critical look at Village Homes, addressing its failures as well as its successes, and examines the question of why, despite its success, this development has not been replicated.
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Village Voices: French Country Life
Marie-France Boyer Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0500019452 |
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In modern France, as in centuries past, village life revolves around the school, post office, shops, and railway station--the centers where people meet to exchange news and gossip. Marie-France Boyer's beautiful book is a visual distillation of village life in France today, where the traditions live on in the caf that doubles as a charcuterie, or in the small hotel (awarded no stars in the guide books) that provides long tables and decorative settings for local wedding receptions. We see the young adults who help keep the village viable and thriving. Boyer's text allows them to speak to us in their own words: the boulangre, who serves her many customers from a modern mobile bakery; the gendarme, who keeps a photograph of his wife and children inside his cap; and the incumbent mayor standing proudly in her office beside the bust of Marianne, symbol of the French Republic. This delightful record of French villages will prove irresistible to all those who love France and to anyone who appreciates the traditions of small-town life.
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Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes. (Reviews: alternative technology for planners).: An article from: Town and Country Planning
Lucy Nichol Manufacturer: Town and Country Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008INYMU Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Town and Country Planning Association on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 769 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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Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes; The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design. (Sustainable Development). (book review): An article ... Journal of the American Planning Association
Matt Taecker Manufacturer: American Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FA1Q0 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1544 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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A new home for everyone: new concepts in construction might provide low-cost housing and jobs for some village communities.(Special section: building Alaska) : An article from: Alaska Business Monthly
Gary L. Martin Manufacturer: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009GOCRM Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1037 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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Urban and landscape design.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Margarita Hill , and Thomas A. Hutton Manufacturer: American Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00084CEYI Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2260 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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Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)
Ivan Turgenev Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0140445226 |
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A lesson.......2004-09-19
Turgenev, sportsman and ardent liberal.......2003-11-18
The most profound sketch to my mind is "Yermolay and the Millers Wife" which relates the harsh treatment doled out to a beautiful serf woman merely because she wants to get married, and a close second is "Bezhin Lea" about a group of boys telling ghost stories around a fire as they tend a herd of horses grazing at night. The former sketch pefectly conveys what absolute power the landowners have over every aspect of the serfs life and the latter sketch perfectly conveys how the serfs pass down their own particular brand of wisdom from one generation to the next. Perhaps the most famous sketch however is "Khor and Kalinych" which juxtaposes two kinds of serfs--one resigned to his lot and the other who despite his status as serf finds his own kind of freedom by wandering the countryside. "Kasyan and the Beautiful Lands" is perhaps the most unusual story as it presents a sage-like man who speaks as though he were a living oracle. Deprived of education the serfs remain in thrall not only to the landowners but to ignorance as well; nonetheless there is a beauty and tragic grace in the voices of these serfs that remains in memory long after you have read these sketches. The sketches are complex and layered enough to invite you back to them again and again.
The biggest joy of the sketches is their casualness. Nothing is ever overly stated or stated in black and white but everything nonetheless appears clear as day. It seems at times as if Turgenev is the only enlightened soul in Russia and yet he is absolutely civil even when with a pernicious landowner because he innately knows what is right and he trusts that we know as well. Turgenev reminds me of Thoreau in his devotions which are equally divided between nature and the forwarding of liberal ideas. Though Pushkin and Lermontov both came before him Turgenev was the first Russian writer to achieve fame outside of Russia. Fathers and Sons is considered his masterpiece but these sketches stand as something unique in all of literature.
Lessons from a Master.......2002-06-18
Turgenev calls these 'sketches' rather than stories. It's a good distinction. More story writers should concentrate on their sketch pads. The sketches are of places and people in the rural south of Russia in the 1840s. Each is strung thematically on Turgenev's wandrings through the countryside while hunting for game birds. Each begins with a mention that he was hunting in a certain place. He goes into lovely thoughtful and surprising descriptions of the woods or marsh, the sky, the smells, the sounds, the light. Even in translation, these are exquisite. He speaks of shifting light shining through the leaves onto the forest floor, or unbreatheable noonday heat, or changing skies at the advent of a storm, a dawn, or a sunset; he calls up moments from your own life that you thought could not be shared with anyone who wasn't there and he makes you relive those moments as if he had been there with you.
For anyone who has spent time out of doors, these little Aldo Leopold nature essays standing alone would be reason enough to read the 'Sketches', but these are just hors d'uvre to his descriptions of the persons he meets while hunting. When sketching people, Turgenev does gracefully what Dickens tried to do and did clumsily; that is, he describes the physical characteristics of a person and gives you a fully formed description of their character as well, and he does this without sounding forced and without showing himself. (And you will burst out laughing at the sudden recognition that, indeed, someone does look 'like a root vegetable'.)
"Sketches" was published twice in Turgenev's lifetime and in the second edition he added to it. In the earlier sketches, Turgenev brings a character to life in a description; the character may speak a few words, and disappear from the scene, as people do in real life, leaving the reader to speculate what became of him. Yet, Turgenev has given us enough insight into the character that we think we know what probably happened next, and so the story is complete. These are elegant Aristotelian constructs with the action taking place offstage, and, oh elegance! with the final action taking place in the reader's imagination after the story has ended. If my description leaves you wondering, read them! (Would that I could spur you to act as Turgenev spurs his readers to think. Ah, but it's too much... .) This is what Turgenev does. He starts you thinking, but requires you to complete the story. In the later sketches Turgenev is just as deft in his descriptions, but perhaps to satisfy the market or his editors he adopts a more plot driven model. These later contributions can more truly be called stories rather than sketches. They are equally well-crafted, but they demand less of the reader. Curiously, they give us less as well.
The hunter's travels theme gives the collection an interrelatedness, almost like a picaresque novel. As in Huckleberry Finn or Don Quixote, neither the author nor the protagonist directly express opinions, but as stories accumulate the reader acquires the author's strong politicized view. We meet the aristocrats and peasants of rural Russia. The serf-holding system had been 'liberalized' in the early 19th century, but it is revealed as the unnamed slavery it was. Landlords control peasants' rights to marry; they name the persons to fill regional conscription quotas; they assign agricultural and residential alotments; and thoughtless and uncaring aristocrats use these powers carelessly or maliciously to destroy lives. Liberal aristocrats fare no better than traditional feudalists, as Turgenev details social reformers' well-meaning disasters which beggar both for the peasants and the bumbling aristocrats who direct them.
America often forgets that its civil war was part of a European pandemic of peasant revolts driven by the extended logic of the Enlightenment. As masters and slaves in the United States were struggling with the immorality of a divine order handed down from a prior age, the masters and servants in Europe did the same. The 1840s, 50s, and 60s were tumultuous times in central and eastern Europe. Turgenev, arrested and exiled in 1852 because of the 'Sketches', has an historical place akin to the American abolitionists of the same day, however, unlike Harriet Beecher Stowe, Turgenev draws his characters in three dimensions with humanity, with love and understanding even when he does not forgive them their moral failings. The 'Sketches' would be an interesting book to teach alongside Huckleberry Finn.
A Collection of short stories for those who don't like them.......2001-12-06
Cor!.......2001-10-18
Examples: "He was a right pain to his peasant girls." "They felt right idiots." "He's not a gent, is he?" "Help us, mate." "Judge for yourself, mate." "He's the soul of kindness, he is." "Gavrila comprehended-like how to get out of the wood." The use of "'cos" for "because." The use of "gotta"--"And I've gotta tell you this."
And what was for me the last straw, in the story Bezhin Lea, "Cor!" and "Cor, stone me!"
If you like this kind of thing, you'll love the book. For Russian lit in translation, give me Constance Garnett (and her Edwardian diction--which works so well, perhaps because it seems natural in contrast to the forced quality on display in "Sketches") or else the current team of Pevear and Volokhonsky.
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Complete Works : Two : The Caretaker, the Dwarfs, the Collection, the Lover, Night School, Revue Sketches
Harold Pinter Manufacturer: Grove Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0802132375 |
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Revue Sketches.......2006-07-12
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The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
Mark Twain Manufacturer: Da Capo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0306807025 |
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good quality,quick delivary ,high reliability........2005-08-07
The best ever intro to Mark Twain.......2005-01-11
A distressingly funny book, inappropriate for quiet areas.......1999-04-16
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The complete short stories & sketches of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane Manufacturer: DoubleDay ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AYWFS |
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Crane, Stephen (1963 edition) The complete short stories & sketches of Stephen Crane. .......2006-03-03
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The complete poetical works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith. With biographical sketches and notes. Ed. by Epes Sargent.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425545742 Release Date: 2005-12-21 |
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Piano Works: Woodland Sketches, Complete Sonatas and Other Pieces
Edward MacDowell Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0486262936 |
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Neglected Gems.......1999-05-09
The shorter pieces, however, will delight any amateur pianist. The "Sea Pieces" are stunningly evocative and make the most of a grand piano's sonorities. The "Woodland Sketches" was arguably the most popular collection of piano music in the United States for the first two decades of the twentieth century. Avoiding an overly sentimental approach to these pieces is essential allows MacDowell's compositional genius to shine.
The other collections are equally worthwhile. Some of the pieces are whimsical, some profound and some are downright odd, such as the quirky "Of Salamanders"...
The Dover Edition, as usual, is first class.
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O. Henry Papers: Some Sketches of His Life Together With an Alphabetical Index to His Complete Works
O. Henry Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1410207862 |
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This book is a collection, an assembly, gathered from many sources of the most intimate and significant of the O. Henry memoirs. They will give a glimpse of the little known life of Sydney Porter, and the alphabetical index will be a convenient guide to his works.The authoritative "O. Henry Biography," by Professor C. Alphonso Smith of the United States Naval Academy was published in 1916. Many years earlier the plans for this book were laid by Harry Peyton Steger, a friend of Sydney Porter's who visited, in 1912, every haunt of O. Henry in the South and brought to light a quantity of the dijecta membra of O. Henry's early literary efforts. These were later collected in the volume called Rolling Stones.
Steger's faith in the ultimate position which O. Henry would occupy in American literature was of the type which moves mountains. He was an indefatigable worker for the spread of O. Henry's fame after he died, and probably did more than any other individual to lay the foundations of O. Henry's popularity.
The article by George MacAdam, O. Henry's only interviewer, is new material, now printed in full for the first time.
The sketches by Arthur Page and Richard Duffy are reprinted from The Bookman.
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The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls
Unknown Author Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0543926613 Release Date: 2001-05-04 |
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1893 edition by Underhill and Nichols, Buffalo.
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The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches
Jan Hulsker Manufacturer: John Benjamins Publishing Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1556195133 |
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The New Complete Van Gogh : Paintings, Drawings, Sketches.......2000-01-27
An absolute must-have book for Van Gogh enthusiasts........1999-06-17
Jan Hulsker is one of the world's foremost scholars on Vincent van Gogh and this book is the first new catalogue of the complete works to come along in 26 years. The listings are updated and the commentary--as one would expect from Dr. Hulsker--is crisp and insightful.
This book is an invaluable part of my Van Gogh library--I honestly couldn't get along without it in my own studies of Van Gogh's art.
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Complete Sketch
Robert S. Oliver Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0442266855 |
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