It is an excellent and appropriately illustrated paperback, in the format of an oeuvre complete.Eschewing flashy graphics, this book provides information about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's built work & projects in a clearly laid out manner, with b&w photographs, plans, sections, elevations, perspective drawings and sketches - combined with concise & straightforward text.Instead of passionate theorising and rich intellectualising, this Phaidon 1999 paperback reprint emphasizes upon Mies van der Rohe's way of work and his essential canon of absolute spareness and strong contours... A truly indispensable book for every architect and scholar!

Peter Carter, who studied under Mies at IIT, wrote this book in the early 70s, shortly after Mies died. It's been long out of print, and I paid dearly to get a copy of the original version, shortly before this rerelease was announced. A lot has happened in architecture since it was written and yet Mies's best work still shines as brightly. For anyone with an interest in Mies in particular, or modern architecture in general, whether as a professional or layman, this is a must-have book.

The strength of this book is its many examples. Carter takes the concepts and applies them to simple inorganic or organic compounds. Very helpful to students. The end of chapter problems are nice as well. A great text and one that I would recommend to students as well as faculty.

This is a text set apart from the pack. It clearly states what other books attempt to describe. There need to be more texts on the market like this. Dr. Carter has taken a subject that has historically been elusive, and presented it in a comprehensive, READABLE volume. This text is helping me through my thesis in chemistry. It is highly practical, easily read, and heavily referenced, all of the qualities, I believe, that make up an excellent text! Excellent work!

Rider haggard at his best. This amazing Fantasy story takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, a prince, has to go through many extreme challenges to win the throne and the heart of his beloved women. The book gives a great insight on Egyptian religions and culture. It is a great book for Egyption culture fans, adventure and fantasy lovers, and for anyone else too...

when i was about 11years old,i came across this book back home in west africa.it is a story about an egyptian royal family.ramses .it is captivating to the point where,it made me to cry,laugh,and be kept in feverish suspense,but at the same time gave me an understanding of what power,position greed,and betrayal means. an absolute must read.

This is a beautiful book! The color plates are very nice and are good representations of the actual paintings. Brief histories are also presented. I bought it after my first visit to the National Gallery of Art and before my second visit. I enjoyed the second visit much more because I felt that I really knew what was going on with the artists and paintings. Get the book and then go to the National Gallery of Art!

This book is one of my favorites, and has been for many years. Its beautiful color illustrations are grouped by the period and country in which they were created. The book presents works (mostly paintings) from many countries (mostly Western) beginning in the Byzantine era, extending up until the early twentieth century. Many of the works are accompanied by art historical abstracts which offer insight for both the inexperienced and learned art enthusiast. This is a great book to have around as an extensive survey of Western painting.

Information I just recieved; "The lymphatics are the most important part of the natural immune system. Like tubes, they rum paralel with the body's arteries. It's their job to wash, clean, and feed the cells. After "vacuming" the cells, they transport the cell food (oxygen) through the tubes using a glucose type substance. If one gets cancer, the lymphs stop transporting the oxygen and the glucose ferments. The cancer "feeds" on that fermented glucose, grows until it kills the patient. The only exercise that gets the lymphatics to working again and stops cancer growth, is "rebound". If this is true, and this writer believes it to be, anyone who uses the trampoline can avoid cancer, or maybe even heal it if one already has it, or if it's not too late and the decay hasn'lt yet reached the vital organs. I believe this book to be truly "futuristic" and a "must" for everyone who fears the dreaded killer, "cancer". I do not know the writer, but would like to meet him someday and share ideas. It's sad to watch folks suffer needlessly and die prematuraly because of a lack of free choice in medical care and because of the one philosophy medical system we have in America, and how it's become a monopoly,(without competition). The "choice" is in treatments. When we have cancer for instance, no matter how many doctors we see, they "all" treat us the same, with rediation and chemothrapy. For a free choice, we must be able to go to a doctor of a different philosophy who will give us different and safer treatments. A very viable second philosophy has existed for many dacdes in Europe, but it's not allowed in america. Why?

I discovered 20 years ago about the medical effects of rebound. I was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer,(hodgkins desease). My doctor informed me that I must have radiation and chemo. treatments after xrays. I refused the first step that I knew would lead me down the road to my doom. I stopped eating and went on a veggie and fruit juice fast for two months. All the swelling of my lympth nodes went down, but the soreness remained. My guarding angel led me to a German Homeopathic Doctor who, with one treatment, knocked it out. The cost was $42.00. I was not cured because there is no such word as "cure." Once the symptoms appear, it's already too late, I became symptom free. I changed my eating habits and got a small trampoline, and have not only remained symptom free since, but healthier at 72 than I was at twenty. I need no other exercise. Rebounding is the only exercise that keeps my lymphatics working as it should. This book is the best of it's kind and will in time, prove to be the "Bible of new age medicine!"

OFFSPRING OF EMPIRE: THE KOCH"ANG KIMS AND THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF KOREAN CAPITALISM 1876-1945 is a detailed economic, historical, and biographical polemic about the origins of capitalism in Korea. The author argues, that Japanese "(c)olonialism...for better or worse...was the catalyst and cradle of industrial development in Korea...". Using the example of two brothers, Kim Songsu and Kim Yonsu, Eckart reveals a rough portrait of middle-class life in pre-and-Occupation-era Korea. Wading through economic statistics, newspaper clippings, boardroom minutes, and interviews, the author also contends against nationalistic, whether South Korean ("sprouts theory") or North Korean, theories of Korean development. What remains is the disturbing thought, that the glue holding nationalism together on the Korean peninsula, is morally bankrupt.

Although this book was published originally in 1991 (reprinted in 1997), the full effect of the events it describes are still unfolding. Relations between the two Koreas, and both Koreas' relations with foreign nations, particularly Japan, China, Russia, and the United States, are complicated by questions from just this period of history. Where is Korea? Who are the Koreans? Both these basic questions continue to unnerve Koreans as they try to locate themselves in the larger world outside Asia. Eckart's argument undermines the Korean argument, that Koreans were developing into a modern nation just like any western nation. He also undermines the role of Koreans in the capitalist development of their own country. He even, by questioning the origins of Park Chung Hee's inspiration for developing South Korea after the Occupation, undermines all of Korea's development efforts. One is left with the disturbing thought, that Korea, as the average Korean loves to say, is the land of one racial group, a theory fraught with serious moral implications.

Eckart's argument also frustrates the search for an alternative to authoritarian development by a strong government, whether colonialist or Park-esque. Its as if the Americans had crowned Washington after all, instead of devising an original alternative to the despotism the revolutionaries had just defeated. As Korea stumbles through reform with a president highly unpopular and limited by constitutional restrictions, these thoughts,this book raises,take on more urgency.

OFFSPRING OF EMPIRE is, in one aspect, history of a powerful landlord family, Kochang Kims, their interactions with Japanese colonial authorities and the active role they played in the growth of textile and other industries throughout 20th century Korea. More broadly and importantly, it is a rigorous and insightful analysis of the emergence of industrial capitalism in Korea. When it was initially published, the book received criticism from Korean scholars for challenging the then-dominant model of the nationalist scholarship; "sprout theory," or the notion that indigenous sprouts of industrial capitalism were nipped by the colonial exploitation by the Japanese. Recently, however, nationalist scholarship has come under attack by a new generation of Korean historians. Much of the nationalist criticism -- including the claim that the book "rationalizes" Japanese colonial rule -- were operating under the (unstated) assumption that economic development was an unquestioned good, and since the Japanese colonial rule was evil, it could not possibly have helped Korean economic development. Some young Korean historians are now seriously questioning this assumption. Economic development , in either colonial or postcolonial Korea, no longer appears to be an unquestioned good, given its gross human rights violations, environmental destruction and other negative legacies. (North Korea in its way had to deal with the legacy of colonialism -- it can be seen as a nation where nationalism, emerged as an oppositional ideology to the Japanese colonial rule, has been elevated to the level of religious credo. The result of this, as we all can plainly see, has been disastrous to the basic human dignity of North Koreans) The evidence for continuties between colonial and postcolonial regimes is too numerous and obvious to be brushed aside. The fact that there was economic development under the colonial rule by no means justifies or excuses the Japanese domination, an act of profound disregard and contempt for the people of Korea. Acknowledging this fact simply opens the way for raising more questions and topics to be investigated about the nature of Japanese colonialism. The critical attitude of many young Korean historians indicates, indeed, that one of the most important negative legacies of Japanese colonialism, i.e. absolutist, unyielding allegiance to nationalism, (which so often breaks down into the "blood is thicker than water" variety of ethnic chauvinism) is becoming the thing of the past. Read OFFSPRING if you are interested in modern Korean history, modern Japanese history and East Asian economic development, and make up your own mind.

You think you'll remember all the special, wonderful things your children say, but you won't. My oldest child has only been talking for 1 1/2 years, and when I go back and read some of the things he has said, I laugh, I'm amazed, and I want to cry! And I can only imagine how much enjoyment he'll get out of it when he's grown. It's a wonderful keepsake book to have for each of your children.

ONCE UPON A CHILD INSPIRES PARENTS TO FIND AND RECORD THE GREATNESS,GRANDNESS, AND GOODNESS IN US ALL. ONCE RECORDED, REVIEWED AND REMEMBERED, IT MAKES US EVER BETTER. THIS BOOK HELPS EACH OF US TO LEAD A MORE MEANINGFUL LIFE. PLEASE READ IT AND USE IT, AND GET THREE FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME. MARK VICTOR HANSEN AUTHOR OF CHICKEN SOUP SERIES

I thought this was an awesome book. It really really hit home for me. Now I know that I've been a people pleaser since I was a child, how it happened and what to work on to change it! This is the most important book for me that I have ever read. I practically highlighted the whole book!
It's so great to be able to put a label on it. Being a people pleaser can make you miserable and depressed and it can also be a turn off...

Yesterday I purchased this book with the intent that I would not like it and would take it right back after reviewing it. It less than 1 hour of reading it, it has become my salvation! I have been so unhappy and did not realize why until I read Les Carter's PEOPLE PLEASERS. In a flash I am cured of my curse of being sickeningly helpful - all to my detriment.I thought I should see a therapist, because I cound not understand why I felt I had to be so nice and helpful to everyone and almost nobody ever returned a kindness. This book was easy to understand and extremely helpful and though I will continue to be a pleaser, I have learned how to successfully please without hurting myself. I wish Les Carter had come into my life sooner. The rest of my life is now in control and I feel more confident -- the book made me realize I had to change -- it wasn't about other people it was all about me. Thank you Mr. Carter!

This book is great for beginning readers- not people who have been following him since 1997. Also, 2-3 chapters have nothing to do with him, just the BSB. Then again what AC book doesn't name the BSB, but 3 chapters is over-kill. This book has the basics and then somefun stuff like astrology and numerology and stuff like that. It has 8 pictures whihc are probably the highlight of the book. I enjoyed reading it but I already knew everything in there. If youdecide the pics are worth it, get it, but if you want to read something new pick up Aaron Carter: Little Prince Of Pop by jis mom/manager Jane Carter.

This book is about one of the most hottest young singers of our century. Of course this is must-have for all of his fans (like any information about him). And for sure for everyone who want to know about how Aaron in his young age - now with all his success. He made it with hard work all the way, not just luck. So, what else - buy this book without a doubt.

This book is extremely moving and intense. I have gained a great appreciation for the selfless acts and unyeilding faith that our forefathers had. I have learned a great deal about the history of the Revolutionary War as the author has creatively woven in fictional characters and yet accurately described events and locations that are a part of this nations history. I have read the entire series and cannot wait for the next one to be published.

This story of our American Revalutionary War, is told so vividly that the reader feels like they are there, experiencing it with the people at that time. It covers the period when George Washington and his troops were at Valley Forge. It is at the same calaber as the rest of this series; "Prelude to Glory". I highly recommend this book to all DAR members.