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AUG

Designing sustainable forest landscapes

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Designing sustainable forest landscapes

Designing sustainable forest landscapes

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This book is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools in a variety of forest areas.

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18th

Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

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Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

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An award-winning author presents a detailed tutorial covering every feature of this popular program

Each year, Mastering AutoCAD appears at the top of the AutoCAD book sales charts; it’s the world’s all-time bestselling series on the AutoCAD design software. This revision thoroughly covers all the new features and gives you a complete education in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.

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18th

Valode & Pistre Architects

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Valode & Pistre Architects

Valode & Pistre Architects

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The firm of Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, which has been practicing for 25 years, entered upon a new phase of its career in 1992, when the architects — in cooperation with the landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson — received the Equerre d’argent prize of the journal Le Moniteur for the L’Oréal corporate headquarters outside Paris. Their predominantly large-scale projects are distinguished by their high degree of diversity. For some years, Valode & Pistre have not only been practicing in France, their native country, but also maintain offices in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, Mexico, China, and elsewhere.

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16th
AUG

Design Meets Disability

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Design Meets Disability

Design Meets Disability

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Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn’t design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions in mainstream design. Charles and Ray Eames’s iconic furniture was inspired by a molded plywood leg splint that they designed for injured and disabled servicemen. Designers today could be similarly inspired by disability.

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15th
AUG

Imagining the Turkish House – Collective Visions of Home

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Imagining the Turkish House - Collective Visions of Home

Imagining the Turkish House - Collective Visions of Home

This layered, intelligent, and sensitive study proves the existence of a tight relationship between the imagined Ottoman house and the society of the Turkish Republic… It illuminates the special place that a particular building type, now lost, can hold in the mind and heart of a whole culture, a whole nation that is struggling with modernity, history, and identity.” Eleni Bastea, Professor of Architecture, University of New Mexico

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14th
AUG

Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

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Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the “Wild West,” cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West.

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