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This book goes into great detail in describing some of Calatrava's greatest architectural pieces. There are photographs (night and day shots) accompanying the CAD plans. It a great book to look through and learn from.

One of the best books in the market describing some of Calatrava's work in detail. A book worth its price.

One of the most unique and informitive books of architecture and what is possible within engineering today

Surely human architecture in outer space will quote Calatrava

This coloring book, as well as other stained-glass coloring books from Dover, is suitable for all ages, including adults. In fact, the books would be wasted on young children. All of them are especially beautiful when colored with the deepest shades of markers, and particularly when viewed from the back.

These are wonderful pics that look beautiful when finished. Our other stained glass books came with a white flap to put under the page you're working on. That's kind of a must and isn't a feature of this book. But you can find your own backing for it.

This coloring book is wonderful. I have a carousel themed room and I colored the different pics to the color scheme of my room. This is an excellent gift for any carousel horse fan or an older person who enjoys coloring books. Not ideal for young children.

It is being used as a reference for future art projects. It has great ideas/pictures to work with.

Unbelievable new book--from the red plastic cover (meant to mirror, and mock, the Little Red Book of Mao Tse-tung) to the great historic photos to the informative text and interviews, this is a unique creation. It's part autobiography (Tam was born in China, moved to Hong Kong at age 3, and grew up there), part fashion history, part contemporary culture, and all fun. Special chapter called "Mao Crazy," on the cult of Mao is worth the cost of the book alone.`

Big book with stunning and bright photo illustrations that "bleed" off the page.

Ms. Tam understands the style of Hong Kong and China (especially Shanghai) like few others; the best of that style is all here. She writes with enthusiasm and love for many essential aspects of the appeal of a culture known for its centuries-old aesthetic and for its mass-production and other mass sensibilities.

Tam's education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic gives her a unique vantage point for isolating Chinese chic. She can view Cultural Revolution paraphrenalia with the eye of a designer, collector, and artist, rather than with painful memories. In a show of global sophistication, she understands East-meets-West sensibility (her chapter on Chinglish is told with an appealing tenderness). The text comes off without a shimmer of self-consciousness or compulsion to 'be Chinese.' There is camp, sex, zen, pizzazz and beauty, exploding off of every page and augmented by Tam's tales of exploration and appreciation.

Bonus interviews with composer Tan Dun and choreographer/visionary Danny Yung are painfully short, but the reader still gets a healthy dose of young Chinese intelligensia. The text is endearingly personal, Vivienne Tam sharing with the reader what her senses take in. It's quite delightful.

Great keepsake for people who have visited Hong Kong or Shanghai!

I just decorated my entire apartment in a fusion-asian style and this book was the last item I bought - to sit on my coffee table and accentuate the living room. I look at it all the time!!

Beautiful pictures throughout. What a wonderful book!!

If you are interested in Chinese art, culture, clothing, and history, then this is your Bible. Chalked full of photos that pop off the page. This witty and interesting book takes you from Ming to present day China. Vivienne Tam reflects on her life, born in mainland China, raised in Hong Kong, then moving to New York. She tells charming stories about what has influenced and inspired her and her collections. Great interviews with members of China's creative community, and who can forget Mao? The book is designed like a large coffee table version of Mao's little red book! This is simply stunning.

If you collect Chinese labels this is a must have book.

Chinese label art has long been outstanding, so it's surprising that few coverages of Chinese ad art have revealed its history before. CHINESE LABEL ART 1900-1976 provides a fine survey of packaging and labels from the period, pairing stunning images from around China to beyond its borders into Hong Kong and Macau. From tea and medicines to foods, cigarettes, firecrackers and religious items, over 400 color images pair with an authoritative discussion of history and art from Andy Cahan, who has been collecting Chinese ephemera for most of his life.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

In this fantastic work (in all meanings of the word), Cahan opens a door to an utterly unique aesthetic - one most of us have only caught a glimpse of when we set off firecrackers as a child, or wandered through an Asian Food Market - a world of lurid colors and incredibly ornate designs, populated with dragons, temples, bearded Mandarins, strange winged creatures, and smiling sages. An initial epiphany during a celebration of lunar new year in New York's Chinatown when he was an infant led Andrew Cahan into a collecting odyssey - into old shops and factories in the backstreets of the "Chinatowns" of U.S. cities to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taipei. This beautifully printed book is a distillation of the fabulous collection of graphic art Cahan accumulated in his lifetime of collecting. Cahan's insightful commentary on the art illuminates the use of colors, symbols, and designs, as the art evolved in response to religious, political, and cultural influences from both within and outside of the region.
I would like to second the previous reviewer's perceptive and enthusiastic endorsement of this book! The Graphic Arts of China is a delightful and beautiful work of art in itself. Here's an opportunity to learn all about an utterly exotic and previously unexplored cultural phenomenon, while experiencing a vision of a fantastic world, reminiscent of the imaginary China of Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung books. Highly recommended!

Sometimes the best way to understand a culture is to take a deep look at it through a keyhole: the home cooking of French housewives, appreciation for American R&B records in the rural villages of Africa, the flourishing of Yiddish newspapers on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Now Andrew Cahan opens a window to understanding Chinese culture through an unexpected route: the vivid, fantastic, charming, and surprisingly hip label art that appeared on packaging for fireworks, cigarettes, and other consumer products in the early-to-mid 20th Century.

Most of this book, as it should be, is pictures, and what glorious pictures they are! The smiling face of Buddha unexpectedly adorns a pack of firecrackers; an entrancing image of a deer with a pine shoot in its mouth stands before a snowy mountain on a fabric label; one of dozens of happy infant boys raises his hands on a label for "The Baby" cigarettes. Along the way, Cahan offers fascinating insights on the changing social dynamics in China during that tumultuous century, examining gender issues (without getting tedious) and the ways the rise of Communism altered community values (without getting polemical). Along the way, he tells his own story of being a young suburban Jewish kid who was seduced by these brightly colored curiosa on visits to New York's Chinatown. His writing style is warm, elegant, and full of affection for his subject.

For people who collect this stuff, this book is a must-buy. But if I was a young rock star shopping for a killer-hip design for my next CD cover, I'd get a million ideas browsing through this marvelous book.

I agree with the other two reviewers in every thing they said: this is an easy to use dictionary, and very entertaining, but the thing that sold me was that a) in addition to being organized in alphabetical pinyin order (though it still has a radical index of course) all the words have the pinyin pronunciation (though not the example sentences of course) and b--very important to me- there is also a table in the back to find the TRADITIONAL forms of characters that are still used in the ROC (Taiwan), Hong Kong and the US!!

Also included are charts comparing the various phonetic systems for transliterating Chinese (including the international phonetic alphabet). It has a Chronology of Chinese History, the periodic chart in Chinese, metric/imperial conversions, a pretty comprehensive list of Countries, Capitols and Currencies....even a list of the "12 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches" and the "24 Solar Terms" (whatever they are!)

The dictionary is great if you speak Chinese but are a little rusty on writing the characters. The format is simple. The characters are organized by the Pinyin system. If you want to look up "friend" then you look for "Peng" and then there are four subgroups of "Peng" according to tone. After you are to the right tone you look up the second character "You". There it is. Pengyou

This dictionary ("A Chinese-English Dictionary"; [...]) was first published in 1978 in Beijing, and reprinted several times later on, both in PRC and elsewhere. The copy I own (ISBN 7100001307; but the cover looks exactly like the one shown at Amazon's listing for 7100005302) was printed in 1988, but the text is apparently identical to the original edition.

Despite its age, this is still likely one of the best big Chinese-English dictionaries in existence.

The size of the dictionary (976 p main body + 31 p preliminary matter), alows it to be quite complete. It includes some 6000-7000 characters, apparently covering practically every character that one is likely to encounter in modern printed matter from PRC. However it is not a "character dictionary" "zidian"), but a word dictionary ("cidian"): character articles are arranged in the Pinyin alphabetic order, and within each character article there are numerous articles for 2-, 3-, 4-character words and expressions that start with that character, all alphabetically ordered. For the users who don't speak the language, a radical-based character index is provided as well. There is no stroke-count based index, though.

The coolest feature of the book are numerous examples it gives. Two particularly interesting categories of examples may make one read the disctionary just for its entertainment value. First, pithy folksy sayings [...]: "Don't pull on your shoe in a melon patch; don't adjust your cap under a plum tree" -- don't do anything to arouse suspicions). Second, political phraseology from the eras of the Cultural Revolution and the Four Modernizations. [...] zou3gou3: running dog; lackey; flunkey; stooge; servile follower).

Dictionary articles are well provided with explanations and, when necessary, usage markers (labeling some words or meanings as measure words, archaic words, colloquialisms; regional expressions, scientific terms, etc.). However, as the dictionary as mainly intended for Chinese users, most of this explanatory matter is in Chinese as well.

English translations are good, and -- unlike certain other dictionaries -- rarely appear unidiomatic or stilted (as much as it is possible to achieve that when translating the subject matter...). Considering the conditions of the time, both the Chinese and Anglo members of the production team did an admirable job.

Written in simplified characters, the dictionary is not as convenient for reading texts written in traditional characters. There is an appendix with traditional characters alright; but, unfortunately, the way it is arranged, it is more suitable for looking up the traditional form based on the simplified character, rather than vice versa (which you'd probably want to do to read a book from Taiwan or Hong Kong).

As pretty much all standard Chinese dictionaries, it is focused on Putonghua (Standard Mandarin), so, not surprisingly, it
will not be of much help for reading something written e.g. in Cantonese.

Typographically, my edition (1988 printing -- which I bought a few years ago as the only Chinese dictionary that happened to be sold in my then-hometown in Canada) is in a rather poor shape, with printing not always easy to read, and binding not surviving heavy use too well. Hopefully, later reprints are better printed and more sturdily bound.

Overall, even though I don't know the language, and am not likely to ever learn much, the purchase was worth it for me. There are many smaller dictionaries on the market, specifically designed for a student or traveller, and they will serve their practical purposes better. But as a cultural artefact and a standard reference, this one was certainly worth it for me.

If you are only going to get one chinese dictionary, this should be it. The format is extremely convenient and the content superb given its size and price. Also, since it was written under the auspices of the Communist Chinese government, most of the example sentences are about american imperialists and so forth, which is very funny to read. It is hard for us, living in a democratic society, to really appreciate what it would be like under a totalitarian regime, and this gives us a taste of the blatant propaganda. So, not only is this dictionary useful, it is also entertaining!

Creative projects for homemade Christmas decorations make this book a great gift.. If you can part with it!

This book has lovely ideas for decoarting using natural materials. I found many of the ideas could be done very inexpensively.

I bought this book for my neighbor and when it came I wanted to keep it! She had recently visited Williamsburg and came back with stories of how she loved the Christmas decorating and wanted to emulate things for her own home.
I've never been to Williamsburg myself, but this book was beautiful! The pictures were professional (I've seen books where they were not) and there were instructions on how to make the decor yourself. Well worth it! I will probaly get one for myself for next season!

Since I love boxwood growing in the yard and using the beautiful greens at Christmas, I found this book to be one of the most informative books I own about Christmas greens. The instructions on how to create many decorations for the inside and outside the home are very clear. The pictures are gorgeous. I have learned to make garlands, wreaths, centerpieces, swags, boxwood trees, and other lovely items. The book features many different types of greens to use for creating holiday decorations. I have taught many others how to make holiday decorations that are featured in this book.

This is a great book! I've been following the instructions, exercising at TV commercials, and I'm starting to see the difference!

I AM a couch potato, and this book is GREAT for me. I can watch all the tv I want and exercise at commercials. It's easy, it feels good, and I'm starting to see results!

An easy to follow and well thought out exercise program for those of us who are less then inspired jocks. If TV and tight buns are your cup of tea then this is the book for you!

Well thought out and easily followed exercise program for those of us who are less then inspired jocks. If TV and tight buns are your cup of tea, then this book will do the job!

Suffolk University Law School's Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law and Director of High Technology Law Program, Michael L. Rustad's The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is a clear, concise text that provides useful and easily understandable examples for learning and applying the Uniform Commercial Code's Articles 2, and 2A. The text is laid out in chapter format each dealing with a different aspect of the UCC and is published in softbound text by Carolina Academic Press. The text also contains a section on proposed Article 2B which has evolved into NCCUSL's Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA).

The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is a tremendous resource for the law student who requires a mastery of sales and leases law, and how the Uniform Commercial Code's Articles 2 and 2A apply to real-world situations. Professor Rustad's treatise tames the "terrible 2s beast" for the most timid through the use of examples, and useful quick-reference charts.

The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses contains practical problems that apply and analyze the methodology of Articles 2 and 2A with unpretentious, straightforward, succinct model answers. The text contain useful hints segments and indispensable tables for use as quick reference to determine which specific UCC section applies to a given set of facts. The treatise contains an informative discussion on the Federal Counterpart to Article 2, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act and provides information on other relevant bodies of sales law. There is a clear summary of the Vienna Convention or the Convention for the International Sale of Goods which applies to many international sales of goods between merchants.

Professor Rustad's draws upon his boyhood on a Minnesota farm to illustrate concepts of sales law. Those raised in a large metropolitan city learn all about agricultural commodities and the travails of farm life. His examples include such oddities as Alvin, the "Beefalow" and examples of sales nightmares to educate the law student to protect his against clients against, such as the defective watermelon seeds that required the farmer to destroy his harvest equipment and entire crop where his only remedy was the cost or replacement of the seeds. The text provides insightful examples on offer, tender, acceptance and rejection of goods and latent damages such as when a wool manufacturer shipped defective wool that did not manifest its defect until woven into sweaters, sold to consumers, and subsequently washed by the consumer. The text walks the student through the methodology of the UCC clearly demonstrating which specific sections of the code to apply and how to apply them in a real-world setting as a lawyer.

The text discusses how to apply common law causes of action through Article 1 of the UCC and provides useful tests to determine if a transaction is actually a sale or a lease. The text also describes the predominant purpose and gravamen tests for hybrid transactions such as computers loaded with software to determine which body of law applies.

Overall, the book is an exceptional resource of information containing practical and useful material for preparing for an exam or the multistate bar. The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is highly recommended for the law student and law library. The book is also a useful reference for associates or business persons interested in a good overview of sales, leases and licenses.

Suffolk University Law School's Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law and Director of High Technology Law Program, Michael L. Rustad's The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is a clear, concise text that provides useful and easily understandable examples for learning and applying the Uniform Commercial Code's Articles 2, and 2A. The text is laid out in chapter format each dealing with a different aspect of the UCC and is published in softbound text by Carolina Academic Press. The text also contains a section on proposed Article 2B which has evolved into NCCUSL's Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA).

The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is a tremendous resource for the law student who requires a mastery of sales and leases law, and how the Uniform Commercial Code's Articles 2 and 2A apply to real-world situations. Professor Rustad's treatise tames the "terrible 2s beast" for the most timid through the use of examples, and useful quick-reference charts.

The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses contains practical problems that apply and analyze the methodology of Articles 2 and 2A with unpretentious, straightforward, succinct model answers. The text contain useful hints segments and indispensable tables for use as quick reference to determine which specific UCC section applies to a given set of facts. The treatise contains an informative discussion on the Federal Counterpart to Article 2, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act and provides information on other relevant bodies of sales law. There is a clear summary of the Vienna Convention or the Convention for the International Sale of Goods which applies to many international sales of goods between merchants.

Professor Rustad's draws upon his boyhood on a Minnesota farm to illustrate concepts of sales law. Those raised in a large metropolitan city learn all about agricultural commodities and the travails of farm life. His examples include such oddities as Alvin, the "Beefalow" and examples of sales nightmares to educate the law student to protect his against clients against, such as the defective watermelon seeds that required the farmer to destroy his harvest equipment and entire crop where his only remedy was the cost or replacement of the seeds. The text provides insightful examples on offer, tender, acceptance and rejection of goods and latent damages such as when a wool manufacturer shipped defective wool that did not manifest its defect until woven into sweaters, sold to consumers, and subsequently washed by the consumer. The text walks the student through the methodology of the UCC clearly demonstrating which specific sections of the code to apply and how to apply them in a real-world setting as a lawyer.

The text discusses how to apply common law causes of action through Article 1 of the UCC and provides useful tests to determine if a transaction is actually a sale or a lease. The text also describes the predominant purpose and gravamen tests for hybrid transactions such as computers loaded with software to determine which body of law applies.

Overall, the book is an exceptional resource of information containing practical and useful material for preparing for an exam or the multistate bar. The Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses is highly recommended for the law student and law library. The book is also a useful reference for associates or business persons interested in a good overview of sales, leases and licenses.

For the interested business person, lawyer, or law student, this book unpacks difficult sales, leases and software licensing law in an easy to read and humorous manner. This is the first book to offer a detailed analysis of proposed Article 2B of the UCC which will apply to cyberspace and online transactions.

Michael Rustad's book on the Concepts and Methods of Sales, Leases and Licenses clearly presents how U.C.C. Articles 2 and 2A work in the real world. It also covers proposed Article 2B. This book is a superior resource for legal professionals and law students because it is organized and concise without being dry. The Helpful Hints are excellent summaries of the issues discussed in the main text. Another strong feature is the Practice Problems, which unlike many other texts, include answers and don't merely pose questions. These Practice Problems are generally based on real legal controversies. The Article 2B section contains an informative overview of the ALI's development of a legal structure intended to cover computer information transactions. Since proposed Article 2B is still being drafted, the book also notes the web site where the most recent draft of Article 2B may be found. Finally, the Appendix contains a review section designed to assist law students in exam preparation. I heartily recommend this book for those interested in this area of the law.

That's a very good book! A complete book, specially if you want to know about concert hall. All plans are in scale

FYI - I just wrote a review of the book and it got lost in cyber space. So this is my abreviated second attempt.

1- This is more thorough than Auditoria by Forsyth. It is focused soley on acoustics of the spaces, not the architecture.
2- There are 18 to 21 acoustic metrics reported for each of the halls.
3- The last sections on acoustics of concert halls and opera halls is up to date and discusses key concepts & criteria in realtion to existing facilities.

The appendices are wonderful. Appendix #2 lists additional acoutical data that is availble on the concert halls reviewed in earlier chapters. Typically this additional data inlcudes RT by octave, and may include ITDG, G (strength) & IACC.

This is a classic reference for students and practitioners working in the field. It is the most complete compendium available of acoustical and architectural data on concert and opera halls throughout the world. Each building is meticulously detailed with photographs, line drawings and technical data.

The author of this book greets us with an endearing smile on the back flap of the dust cover, and has every reason to. Imagine spending a significant part of your life touring concert halls and opera houses all over the world, sitting in on concerts (often changing seats in the course of the program), in order to assess the acoustic properties of the venue at hand. Fortunately, dr. Beranek has been kind enough to lay down his findings in this scholarly yet enchanting book. It offers invaluable insights into the workings of acoustics and the many factors that determine a hall's aural properties. It does so by elucidating the general principles of acoustics, and by addressing topics like building materials, hall shapes, balconies, etc., separately. But the bulk of the book is taken up by a kind of gazetteer describing in detail 100 concert halls and opera houses from around the world. Each of the descriptions includes data on all significant hall properties, as well as plans, cross sections, and (black and white) photographs looking from the auditorium towards the stage and vice versa. Yet you need not fear a dry, scientific inventory; on the contrary: the writing is never anything less than engaging, and the author never forgets that in the end it is all about the joys of music, which he clearly savours himself. The text is strewn with anecdotal quotations from conductors, players and reviewers alike - the author is acutely aware that a hall's reputation rests as much on the writings of critics and the overall audience experience as it does on quantifiable acoustical qualities. For those who like hit parades, yes, there is a top 20, though dr. Beranek is too much of a scientist to present it without heaps of caveats (though it is clear throughout the book that Boston Symphony Hall is his acoustic Walhalla).
Of course, a book like this can never be quite complete, and though I encountered the two halls I'd expected to see from my own country (the Amsterdam Concertgebouw again featuring as one of the world's top three), I was inevitably slightly disappointed to see my own town's hall disregarded, even though it is generally acknowledged to surpass the Concertgebouw when it comes to classical and early romantic repertoire. In a more general sense, the question is how random the selection was. You will find all the great halls you would expect in a survey like this (though Russia is conspicuously absent), but like me many readers are bound to be aware of hidden gems undiscovered (or at least unaddressed) by Beranek. London and Japan seem to be disproportionately represented (no less than 9 Tokyo halls are listed!), nor did I find all the US entries equally compelling (one wonders also why all countries are listed alphabetically, but after the US?). It should be noted, too, that the images serve to give a general impression of a hall, but are mostly of moderate quality, and sometimes quite bad. Finally, and then I'll stop complaining and resume the praise, opera houses are very much underrepresented and almost seem like an afterthought; they might as well have been left out, the focus is clearly on symphonic concert spaces.
None of this detracts in any significant way from the wonders of this unique book, which is, by the way, beautifully produced, featuring smooth, glossy paper. Whether an acoustic scientist, a regular concert goer or an architecture buff, this book will be fascinating reading for you. It may, indeed, even help you select the best available seat when you're booking a ticket in a hall you've never visited before (avoid those three back rows on the Boston Symphony Hall middle balcony!).

Ritch Rand made a hat for me in 1994 and I'm still wearing it today. His book is like his hats- authentic, of the excellent quality and dedicated to the history of the Old West. If you believe that a hat says something about the person who wears it, if you are of the opinion that a hat is more friend and traveling companion than garment, then this book is for you. Read the book then get yourself a hat!!

If you would like to know any, and everything about cowboy hats this books for you.

Bought this book for my Dad who always wears a hat. It was a big hit!

This coffee-table type book contains a detailed history of the cowboy hat, specific information about how to choose a hat, measure properly for fit, clean it, store it, travel with it, and much more. Even discusses "hat hair!" Numerous historical photos show the development of the cowboy hat across the west and around the world. Exceptional photos of famous hats (who doesn't recognize Festus' Gunsmoke hat or Hoss Cartwright's 10-gallon monster on sight?) and great hat-wearers such as James Garner, the Duke, Henry Fonda and Clint Eastwood. A must for Western lovers, cowboy buffs, and everyday folks who own their own Stetson and want to know how to keep it nice!