1 comments about Garden Rooms: Greenhouse, Sunroom and Solarium Design.

1. This book is absolutely beautiful to look at and dream of how you can have your own sunroom. But it's more than just a wish book - Mr Tanner gives information that you can use on a smaller scale in your own home. He shows how you can work a garden room into your house for a relatively low price - all the way from skylights to whole glass paneled rooms.

   You can plan a tropic green house (good for those orchids you've always wanted to grow) or even a small kitchen herb garden - great for those fresh delights for your cooking.

   Mr Tanner also gives practival advice on wht types of plants do well in what setting. The Latin name, as well as the common name is given so you'll know what to get at the store. If that's not enough help for you, there's lots of glorious color photographs so you can recognize exactly what you're looking for when you see it.

   Another section of the book deals with the basics of building a glass addition to your house. It thoroughly explains where the addition should ideally be constructed, what type of glass and framework should be used as well as giving sources to help obtain the supplies.

   So if you're thinking of adding a sunroom, or just want to dream about it, I recommend this book highly.

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1 comments about American Log Homes.

1. I like this book because it gave me several design ideas that I could use in building my home. The pictures were great and it's worth the money!

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5 comments about Divided We Stand : A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center.

1. The publication arrived in the within a week. It was well wrapped and the book was new as advertised. Would would use the bookseller again.



2. If you are looking for the difinitive history of the World Trade Center, like I was when I purchased this book, you will be disapointed. What you will find however is a long, drawn out social analysis and attempted cultrual look at the towers impact prior to the 11th.



3. a fascinating account of not just the history of the world trade center, but of the Big Apple, and replete with special insites into the culture of unbridled consumerism in particular and human nature in general



4. Such detailed biographical information on the WTC as the exalted 9/11 Commission would never think to request from the public library.
   
   Divided We Stand, with its foreshadowing cover of the Twin Towers seen through a wrecked waterfront structure across New York Harbor; there is a story in this book which must in some way consistently tie in with the buildings' demise, and a story in America, without all the cosmetic, imported henchmen.
   
   I was impressed by this book's stream of detailed consciousness, so many busy parts of a city impinging on the labyrinth of financial and realty concerns, key figures in government, the mayor, the legislature. We learn from the statements of those who went on record when the buildings were conceived and planned at inception, what they amounted to as office buildings in their eyes; and whether they believed it should've been afforded privately rather than through bonds. All very fascinating, yet I never would have sought the information out had 9/11 not happened.
   
   Another curiosity is the story of the $300 Million dynamiting of what is called The Kill, or Kill Van Kull, to a depth of 40 meters--it is a passageway for cargo ships, then later the larger ships couldn't fit through it. New York City must have learned of the expense involved in boondoggles of remodeling.
   
   Jobs, tax breaks, the movement of people, opportunities and billions of dollars. This book also covers the aftermaths of the February 26, 1993 bombing. And it chronicles the selling off of components to what were self sustaining cities built vertically; also the axing of 1,800 NYC Port Authority jobs, the selling off of the Visa Hotel and Port Authority language school and library, "75 years of the preeminent American public corporation's autobiography have, at least for the present, disappeared from view." All these liquidations happened well in advance of 9/11. Where is one word about this in The Official 9/11 Commission Report of Thomas H. Kean, Chair, and Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair--or in the reporting and analysis by The New York Times?
   
   I recommend that the principle figures in orchestrating that sham investigation be summarily removed from office for obstruction of justice, destruction of records, aiding, abetting, colluding and other aggravating offenses to the acts of war on the United States on September the 11th, 2001; under all the titles, including 50, for war treasons.
   
   Further it is required that a forensic reconstruction of the crime scene put back evidence unlawfully removed or never noted for the record, such as the pyrotechnics shockwave analysis, the particulate analysis of explosively pulverized drywall gypsum dust, and the base of wreckage excavation findings of burning metal, and liquid steel weeks later, fueled by a non-atmospheric source of oxygen--most logically thermite metal oxide introduced to the buildings' structures to weaken their support columns prior to detonation as well as source of the suffocating smoke that sent dozens of people plunging to their deaths, where they splattered the mall concourse and lobby windows evacuating survivors had to wade through. Let the record also make budget analysis of the rate and volume of smoke production released into the atmosphere in cross correlation with full conflagration analysis taking into account all fire control systems in the buildings, and the fireball cloud radii on each airliner's impact with the respective Tower structures offset in requisite volatiles of jet fuel with the known fuel tank topped off capacities shortly after takeoff.
   
   If a smart lawyer and Senator from New York like Hillary R. Clinton can't write those paragraphs for you, then you need not consider her a politician or lawyer anymore; nor do you need regard the republican party in any other light than a totalitarian organizing in violation against such threats to this country outlined in the statues. The federal government need regard the State of New York as insurrectory under Title 50, and held in suspension until the matter is cleared up, including Florida, where the coup's greatest ease and facility with exploits to steal the 2000 election were hosted, including the training camp for the recruited suicide hijacker pilots. Our troops in Iraq can be recalled to prosecute this, for once being able to do something about the problem on their own turf.
   
   The impersonating rogues in the executive branch do not have permits to murder 3,000 Americans, or one American, or the over 2,000 Americans who have died on their fallacious military expedition. They are fugitives from justice, and for my regard, duly and justly served and processed to completion where they stand, to their natural ends. Impeachment is moot, there are no statutes of limitations; and Censure is only further aggravation obstructing justice. When Republican Senator Arlan Specter, Chair of the Resolution Hearing on Censure said at the end of proceedings on March 31, 2006 he "finds no merit", because he cannot locate any "bad faith", he needs to be removed from office and put on trial as well.
   
   When crook lawyers for The Families of the 9/11 Victims go after trivial details and end up losing in court, the justice system proves its ineffectiveness, yet at the same time how effective it is for highest crimes to escape any prosecution. Why are civil suits being brought when criminal prosecutors and district attorneys should be responsible enough to begin cracking down? Where is the City's lawsuit, the State's, the Port Authority's? Or the FAA's, why are they all such pushovers being used to put on such a stunt? What about the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and their enforceable domain to bring charges; or is it true, this country has been tipped over? Everyone solemnly bow to the autocrat and Senate.
   
   This has driven that wedge dividing this people, again. It has been driving into this country since the end of World War II, taking advantage of warfare exploits such as the denuding of the public education system, attacking Social Security with frauds of misrepresentation; and removing public epidemiological records from the CDC tracking the autism pandemic.



5. Part history lesson, part autobiography (in the second person, no less!), part architectural study, part urban planning critique... No wonder my thoughts about this book are fragmented and ambivalent. I wish the book had been written in a few separate complete sections, something like Part One--The History of New York Real Estate, Part Two--The Forces Behind the WTC's Creation, Part Three--The Rockefellers, Part Four--The Builders... You get the idea. Instead, the book, while it does offer several fascinating and provocative sections, they're spread out among so many other topics and diversions, that I lost my patience several times and had to put the book away for days at a time. The only section that was complete was the most effective, and that was the discussion about the now-lost Radio Row and the neighborhood around it. I would recommend the book just for that section, and for its studies of August Tobin and the Rockefeller clan. But I couldn't in good conscience give it a higher rating than the one I gave it. I was that divided.

   Rocco Dormarunno, author of The Five Points

1 comments about Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe during the Stalin Era: An Aspect of Cold-War History.

1. This book links text and image very well. It provides excellent photographs of architecture though some are small and most are in black and white. However, most photos are taken from the original journals of the day. The text is lucid and engaging, the author does not shy away from some of the enigmatic of the topic. He uses diagrams and common themes as useful literary devices to enable the reader to pull all the information together. All in all a well produced book that I would wholly recommend.

2 comments about Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House: Weekend House/Wochenendhaus (Mies Van Der Rohe Archive).

1. I love the Fansworth House but I've not been there yet. The book shows us full of images of the masterpiece and takes us into the house imaginarily. Black and white photos work very much and some Mies's drawings are also helpful to understand how the house was beyond the notions. It is still quite new and less is more, of course.
   Yoko Lewis, Berkeley in Califorinia



2. a magnificient book about the last domestic project built by mies, where an extraordinary complexity of details results in a very simple home. truly the work of a lifetime achievement.

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