Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
In the tradition of The Wright Style, this lush volume captures the charm of that Arts and Crafts-era building type called the bungalow--and provides a wealth of ideas for restoring and decorating these historic American homes. 300+ full-color photos. 14 black & white photos. Line drawings.
"Reading The Beethoven Quartet Companion made me want to listen to the quartets again from a new sociological as well as musical perspective. It is an invaluable guide not only for professional and amateur musicians but also for anyone who is curious about culture and wants to find out more."--Yo-Yo Ma "These essays are the most readable, useful, and well-informed commentary available today on these masterworks. Michael Steinberg's 'program notes' to each quartet, directed at once to the musical beginner and to the expert, are as eloquent and persuasive as popular writing about music can get. . . . His essays are followed by equally expert and accessible contributions by other masters on The Master, providing literate music lovers with the context and equipment for a richer enjoyment and clearer understanding of these sixteen unique conversations among two violins, a viola, and a cello."--David Littlejohn, author of The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera "A fine collection of essays to assist the music lover in the seemingly endless quest to illuminate the Beethoven string quartets."--Arnold Steinhardt, The Guarneri String Quartet "This book delivers on the implied promise of its title--it provides a lively, readable, and wide-ranging introduction to the quartets. Readers at many levels of experience will find it profitable."--Lewis Lockwood, author of Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process
"1+1=3. That is the equation that summarizes the theme of this book. The bookℓ́ℓs message is to integrate the developmental principles of Agile with the result-focused approaches integral to performance consulting. Your outcomes in shaping human performance will be significant--and greater than if you only used one of these models. This is a book for anyone who seeks to work collaboratively with leaders to bring about continuously improving and sustainable organizational change." --Dana Gaines Robinson, coauthor of Performance Consulting Agile Performance Improvement demonstrates the mutual benefits that accrue to the worlds of performance consulting and agile software development when the values and principles of both are blended synergistically under the guidance of practitioners skilled in both. The agile performance improvement model blends the principles of human performance technology with the frameworks and practices of Agile.^The result is an approach that maximizes the value of interactions among the consultant, the work team, and the customer. Unlike traditional end-to-end waterfall processes, agile performance improvement delivers value continuously and in small increments, relentlessly focusing on outcomes of value to the customer. Building on structures of Agile that are used in software development, such as Scrum, the agile performance improvement model considers the human component of holistic solutions in establishing a continuous stream of value. Bob Winter, a performance consultant, was the product owner for the corporate education scrum supporting an agile transition initiative for hundreds of engineering teams.^From this cross-disciplinary experience, he discovered that the two cultures, two languages, and two methodologies of performance consulting and agile software development areℓ́ℓfar from being incongruent, incompatible, or irrelevant to each otherℓ́ℓin fact ideally suited to complement and support each other. Being agile improves the effectiveness of the performance consultant, and applying the lessons of human performance technology improves the effectiveness of software development teams. In Agile Performance Improvement, Winter teaches performance consultants how to apply agile principles, values, and methods usefully to the tasks of optimizing human performance in areas of practice not only adjoining but also well beyond the realm of software and IT engineering, such as corporate learning solutions, human resources systems, and non-software products.^Conversely, he shows engineering teams immersed in an agile environment how to boost their performance using the principles and techniques taught and cultivated by performance consultants. The author, who has worked extensively on both sides of the traditional divide, recounts entertainingly but informatively how both sparks and fur can fly when geeks encounter people people
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research, DERIST 2010, held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in June 2010. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 10 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organising design research, reflecting design science research, design research techniques, design and context, design and organisation, design and information, design research exemplars, design and behaviour, designing collaboration, as well as design and requirements engineering.
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - Deutschland - Neuere Geschichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: DDR, 1980: Die staatliche Überwachung und das eintönige Leben treiben viele junge Menschen in die rebellische Subkultur des Punk. Die Bands tragen schrille Namen wie Schleim-Keim , Wutanfall oder Koks . Die Lieder sind schnell, der Gesang laut, die Texte ehrlich und direkt. Zensur und Verbote sind an der Tagesordnung. Hier wiederholte sich die Geschichte, die 20 Jahre zuvor eine andere Musikrichtung erlebte: der Rock. Von der SED durch den intensiven Freiheitsgedanken ihrer Texte als widerstandsfördernd eingestuft, hatte auch die Rockmusik mit Repressalien zu kämpfen. Dennoch - oder gerade deswegen - fanden beide Stile ihren Weg in die Musikkultur der DDR. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen von Punk und Rock in der DDR. Aus dem Inhalt: Musik in der Grauzone 1964 bis 1974 DDR-Rockmusik zwischen Linientreue und Nonkonformismus Unabhängige Kulturszene. Die Punkbewegung in der DDR DDR Punker. Gefahr für Bürger und Staat? Rockmusik in der DDR. Junge Kultur zwischen Repression und Förderung Punk in der DDR. Entstehung, Entwicklung, Besonderheiten
Religiöser Fanatismus bei den Indianern Nordamerikas
104pages
4 heures de lecture
Tenskwatawa, als Medizinmann und Prophet bekannt, entfachte eine religiöse Bewegung unter den indigenen Stämmen, die durch seine Lehren und die Unterstützung seines Bruders Tecumseh geprägt war. Diese Freiheitsbewegung erlangte zwar Anerkennung, konnte jedoch die Expansion der Weißen nicht aufhalten. Die Kriege gegen die Vereinigten Staaten und die Aufstände der Creek und Seminole kamen zu spät, um einen nachhaltigen Widerstand zu leisten. Der Vertrag von Greenville führte zu einer schmerzhaften Zwangsumsiedlung der Indianerstämme aus ihren angestammten Gebieten.