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Le Corbusier Le Grand
Editors of Phaidon
Phaidon Press Inc., 2008
Le Corbusier Le Grande
Imagine being able to sort through Le Corbusier's private archive on your own; his sketches, his private correspondence, his family picture album, his artwork and his original architectural drawings. This tome is like no other on Pe're Corbu that you have ever seen. ...
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World Atlas of Wine
Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson
Hamlyn, 2008
almost an encyclopedia
This is my third copy of World Atlas. Each one has been such a substantial improvement over the previous one that its purchase was inevitable. Great maps, witty, relevant text and the usual breath-taking photographs of wine country. (did you ever notice that no body ...
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Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems , 8th Edition, with ODE Architect CD
William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima
Wiley, 2004
Not entirely useless
Ok, so I'm in the same boat as most of you here.
I hardly even opened this book when I first took a course in differential equations.
However, once I began taking higher level courses I found its introductory explanations of many forms of solutions (like Bessel ...
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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan
Ballantine Books, 2008
Captivating, enlightening novel
To put it simply, I absolutely LOVED Loving Frank. Nancy Horan is clearly a gifted writer in that she has a great command of the language but is also accessible to any reader. I couldn't put this book down. I knew very little of Frank Lloyd Wright and found myself ...
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Protect and Defend: A Thriller
Vince Flynn
Atria Books, 2007
Mitch Rapp Rocks!
I've read all of Flynn's Mitch Rapp thrillers and they are excellent. They are gritty, real-life characters that tell it like it is. As a fellow author of thrillers, I appreciate his attention to detail and his exhaustive research. He teaches me how to write the genre. ...
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Chanel and Her World
Edmonde Charles-Roux
Vendome Press, 2005
All about Coco Chanel & her world!
I paid almost full price for this book and I don't regret it. I found this coffee table book just lovely.
I am not a fashion expert. I'm just a reader interested in interesting people, so I was looking for a book on CHANEL that gave a brief background on her life ...
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Design Drawing
Francis D. K. Ching
Wiley, 1997
Drafting book for Design Students
While Ching does cover some aspects of drawing outside of those needed for drafting, the primary focus is on architectural drafting. This is a technical book intended for design students. It is not a do-it-yourself learn-to-draw manual. Most often, this book will be ...
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Chanel: A Woman of her Own
Axel Madsen
Holt Paperbacks, 1991
Chanel Bio is everything it should be.
I found it strange that some readers gave negative or highly critical reviews of this biography. Someone even commented on the difficulty in reading the French names! It's a little late to change Chanel's nationality and thank God! This biography is successful on a ...
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The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design
Edward Allen, Joseph Iano
Wiley, 2006
A Tool to Speed Preliminary
This book is designed to help architects in their design of new buildings. Spedifically, the book is organized about the common building codes in place around the United States. The intent of the book is to minimize the time that an architect need spend on checking ...
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
Jonathan Lopez
Harcourt, 2008
A Scholarly Book That's Fun to Read
There are a lot of fun books out there that use artworks as a sort of McGuffin for an elaborate or at least distracting plot. Books like The DaVinci Code or The Girl with the Pearl Earring, for instance, give the impression of being based on art historical research, ...
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Silent Thunder
Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Full Speed Ahead Action Tale
Iris Johansen fans know her for the Eve Duncan suspense thrillers and for the blistering reads she delivers with every book. I have to mark time on my calendar to sit down with a new book because I know I won't want to have to get up. SILENT THUNDER proved to be ...
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Ross King
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
A dome for eternity
The dual papacy had been resolved in favor of Rome (1416). Florence was the interim home for the Pope while permanent quarters were being readied in Rome (1420). Florence considered itself the new Athens of the western world, and on August 19, 1418 Filippo Brunelleschi ...
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects
Norbert Lechner
Wiley, 2000
Great Book
Very informative and easy to read. I picked this book up to study for my Architect's License Exam and found it to be a very well rounded book. There are lots of good ideas for saving energy and good practices for building orientation and construction. There are also ...
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Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
Jean-Louis Cohen, Frank Escher
Rizzoli, 2008
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
Between Earth and Heaven is a fabulous book about John Lautner and his work. The book arrived just a few days after I ordered it ... I couldn't believe I got it so fast.
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Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (3rd Edition)
Ron Larson, Elizabeth Farber
Prentice Hall, 2005
Excellent book!
Excellent book! This is an easy to follow textbook for elementary statistics. There are a lot of examples and a lot of exercise to practice what you learned in the examples. I didn't purchase the student study pack, but several students in my class did and it really ...
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