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by Norman Katter
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
An easy-to-read guide to understanding essential law for business, professionals, government and students. Practical scenarios with legal solutions are provided at the end of each chapter. Topics include: Australian Legal System, Business Entities, Classification of Law, Contracts, Negligence, Property, Misrepresentation, Agency, Property & Secured and Unsecured Credit.
Washington on Foot, Fifth Edition
24 Walking Tours and Maps of Washington, DC, Old Town Alexandria, and Takoma Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been compeltely revised and updated to offer 24 walking tours of Washington's neighborhoods. Familiar monuments and museums are all here, side-by-side with lesser-known historic sites and storied...
by Janice A. Knox, Heather Olivia Belcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Chicago's famed "Loop" is said to have gotten its name from the route of a cable car that looped the central business district in 1882. Since then, much has changed. This book captures the evolving urban landscape of the Chicago Loop, with a collection of over 100 vintage images, each coupled with its...
Time Frames
Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with...
City Halls and Civic Materialism
Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built...
Planning for Retail Development
A Critical View of the British Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context.
Planning...
A Designer's Research Manual, 2nd edition, Updated and Expanded
Succeed in design by knowing your clients and understanding what they really need
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
**Good information gives designers a competitive advantage. **Understanding the wishes of a client and the needs and preferences of their audience drives innovation. The ability to gather research, analyze findings, and apply them to project goals is as important to successful design teams as their...
Trade, Investment, Innovation and their Impact on Access to Medicines
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The last two decades have seen great economic change in Asia and this has impacted upon the vexed question of access to affordable healthcare and medicines in many Asian states. In this book Locknie Hsu examines the issue of access to medicines in Asia from a fresh perspective which embraces trade...
Bold Brand
The New Rules for Differentiating, Branding, and Marketing Your Professional Services Firm
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In the past, most professional services firms could get by simply relying on traditional marketing tactics. For most firms, networking, attending benefit dinners, advertising in the Yellow Pages, and merely adding the new partner's name to the office sign was enough to stay top of mind. Today, everything...
Looking Closer 4
Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor,...
Citizen Designer
Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic Views
What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints...
by Kirk W. House
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
The oldest names in aviation joined forces in 1929, when Wright Aeronautical and Curtiss Aeroplane formed the giant Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Curtiss airplanes were already �the best things with wings,� while Charles Lawrance had made Wright powerplants the leader in American radial engines. Aviation...
Brandjam
Humanizing Brands Through Emotional Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Brandjam, the follow-up to the groundbreaking best-seller Emotional Branding, presents a powerful new concept from renowned designer and business guru Mark Gobe. The Brandjam concept is about innovation, intuition, and risk. Gobe explains how design is the instrument” companies can use for jazzing...
Getting to the Bottom of Top
Foundations of the Methodologies of the Technology of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
People demand authentic participation in decisions that affect their lives. ToP methods answer that call because they reflect how humans think, growing out of reflective inquiry into what works in real life and the study of phenomenology and existentialism. This book explores the foundational understandings...