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Author: Alicia Butler Pierre
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Published: 2018-10-10
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781732739208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen businesses receive positive publicity, it's exciting! More customers means more cash. But too much growth, too soon can be catastrophic, especially if a business lacks the operations to support this influx of customers. Behind the Façade introduces business infrastructure as a way to manage fast growth for repeatable and lasting success.
Author: Jenny Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781921488030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the many and varied uses of Flinders Street Station over and above its primary function as the central suburban rail terminus. The affinity and affection that hundreds of thousand of people have for this building is still strongly evident in the culture of Melbourne.
Author: Melle Leenstra
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Magali Sarfatti Larson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780520201613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMagali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history. Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history.
Author: Michael S. Heiser
Publisher: Kirkdale Press
Published: 2012-11-19
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1577995775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSci-fi meets historical fact in this thrilling novel by ancient-language scholar Michael S. Heiser. Haunted by his parents' death and his career failures, Dr. Brian Scott has begun to settle for the life he's been given. Until he's kidnapped by military insiders known as The Group. Disappearances. Visitations. Murder. Brian and a team of world-class scholars are given a confidential mission: To prepare humanity for a new reality. They are here. But as the government's involvement with extraterrestrials is revealed, strange things begin to happen. Something isn't right. Unpeeling layer after layer of deception and counter-deception, Brian moves toward a shocking revelation that will forever alter how humanity sees itself. Every document cited in The Façade actually exists. Every ancient text discussed in The Façade is authentic. Every historical figure referred to or quoted in The Façade is real.
Author: Marina Ottaway
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0870032771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee Morgenbesser
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1438462891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBehind the Façade examines the question of why authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia bother holding elections. Using comprehensive case studies of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Singapore, Lee Morgenbesser argues that elections allow authoritarian regimes to collect information, pursue legitimacy, manage political elites, and sustain neopatrimonial domination. He demonstrates how these functions are employed to manage the complex strategic interaction that occurs between dictators, political elites, and citizens. Far from being mere window dressing or even a precursor to democracy, flawed elections, Morgenbesser concludes, are paramount to the maintenance of authoritarian rule.
Author: Nyrae Dawn
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1455576301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this steamy romance from a New York Times bestseller, dark secrets threaten the passion and joy of a couple’s connection as the truth of their pasts slowly creeps up on them. "Phen-om-enal! Nyrae Dawn paints with words in a way that made me drink Facade down in one big gulp. This is one of those books you can read again and again." -- New York Times bestselling author, Courtney Cole on Facade. From bestselling author, Nyrae Dawn, comes Book 2 in her New Adult, Games Series! Can love save them? After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is alright. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she's never been--and into the arms of Adrian Westfall. To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his favßade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past. Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate, carefree love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together, or tear them apart forever?
Author: Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0198820941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing.
Author: Abbas Sundiata
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2006-04
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1597817554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to the author, Islam has hidden behind a fa ade of goodness for too long. The time has come to look behind that fa ade and view the malignity at the core of Islam.
