Bali Houses: New Wave Asian Architecture and Design

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The phenomenon loosely termed "Bali style" has been the subject matter for countless books on art, architecture, and interior design. In this book, author and architect Gianni Francione showcases the new generation of Bali-style homes, interiors, and artifacts that utilize what he terms a new internationalism.

Even though the timeless, distinctive Balinese balé, open to a panorama of rice fields and the evening breeze, is still there, it may now be made in marble or stone. Similarly, present-day villas, resort bungalows, shops, restaurants, and other buildings are just as likely to use modernist techniques and materials as they are to utilize alang-alang and coconut wood.

Bali Houses presents this new departure in architecture, interior design, glassware, table settings, textiles, furniture, and furnishings in many never-before-photographed locations. It is a fitting sequel to Bali Modern.

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This is Bali condensed in a Book........2007-03-28

A beautiful book well balanced in terms of text and pictures. The quality of the pictures is second to none. Compared to other books about Balinese style mostly focused on interiors, this one captures not only the essence of the interiors but also open spaces and gardens.

Sphisticated and Balanced.......2007-02-22

Great photography and awesome scenarios. It really brings the feeling of being in Bali. And the decorations show the artistic side of the new interiors of the open living. It inspires my clients when they come inside my furniture store. Of the books I have from Bali, this is certainly the one with the best pictures!

Bali Houses Design.......2006-11-05

Being a Decorator, this comes in handy for clients who like the look of the Tropics. It's a complete book of ideas, design strategies, and an overall look into another world of comfortable, colorful, Paradise influence to bring a little joy to the reader.

Balinese houses - paradise........2006-01-04

This is a genuinely fine book. The photographs are spectacular, with fine color and resolution.
The text isn't too in-depth about houses in Bali, but the pictures speak for themselves.
I wholeheartedly recommend it, got me?

bali houses.......2005-07-20

Good overall but not as informative as Bali Modern another book by same author. PHotography excellent.

Fundamentals of Distributed Amplification (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)

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Fundamentals of Distributed Amplification (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)
Thomas T. Y. Wong
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Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture

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Deeply interesting
great book
Classic Acoustical Reference

Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture
Leo Beranek
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ASIN: 0387955240

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This illustrated guide to 100 of the world's most important concert halls and opera houses examines their architecture and engineering and discusses their acoustical quality as judged by conductors and music critics. The descriptions and photographs will serve as a valuable guide for today's peripatetic performers and music lovers. With technical discussions relegated to appendices, the book can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in musical performance. The photographs (specially commissioned for this book) and architectural drawings (all to the same scale) together with modern acoustical data on each of the halls provide a rich and unmatched resource on the design of halls for presenting musical performances. Together with the technical appendices, the data and drawings will serve as an invaluable reference for architects and engineers involved in the design of spaces for the performance of music. Leo Beranek is an internationally recognized authority in acoustics who has consulted on the design of dozens of important auditoriums around the World. He has received the highest honors of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Audio Engineering Society and has just been awarded the US National Medal of Science at the White House (Oct. 2003). Advance praise for Leo Beranek's "Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture" 2nd edition — PHILIP GOSSETT, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Given the many controversies surrounding the acoustical properties of concert halls and opera houses, it is a relief to be guided by someone who is both a scientist and a devoted listener. Here, the mysteries of acoustics seem less intimidating: we come to understand why music sounds the way it does in various performance spaces, and what we can do about it. It's a terrific book! I. M. PEI, ARCHITECT, NEW YORK[This book] provides an invaluable reference for the understanding and design of music facilities. JOHN WILLIAMS, COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR, LOS ANGELESDr. Beranek has created a comprehensive and fascinating study of 100 of the world's halls for music. Visiting each of these venues would be a great delight and a marvelous adventure, but such being impractical, this great book is the next best thing. All lovers of music, acoustics, architecture, and travel will enjoy this unique work.

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Deeply interesting .......2006-09-29

The author of this book greets us with an endearing smile on the back flap of the dust cover, and has every reason to. Imagine spending a significant part of your life touring concert halls and opera houses all over the world, sitting in on concerts (often changing seats in the course of the program), in order to assess the acoustic properties of the venue at hand. Fortunately, dr. Beranek has been kind enough to lay down his findings in this scholarly yet enchanting book. It offers invaluable insights into the workings of acoustics and the many factors that determine a hall's aural properties. It does so by elucidating the general principles of acoustics, and by addressing topics like building materials, hall shapes, balconies, etc., separately. But the bulk of the book is taken up by a kind of gazetteer describing in detail 100 concert halls and opera houses from around the world. Each of the descriptions includes data on all significant hall properties, as well as plans, cross sections, and (black and white) photographs looking from the auditorium towards the stage and vice versa. Yet you need not fear a dry, scientific inventory; on the contrary: the writing is never anything less than engaging, and the author never forgets that in the end it is all about the joys of music, which he clearly savours himself. The text is strewn with anecdotal quotations from conductors, players and reviewers alike - the author is acutely aware that a hall's reputation rests as much on the writings of critics and the overall audience experience as it does on quantifiable acoustical qualities. For those who like hit parades, yes, there is a top 20, though dr. Beranek is too much of a scientist to present it without heaps of caveats (though it is clear throughout the book that Boston Symphony Hall is his acoustic Walhalla).
Of course, a book like this can never be quite complete, and though I encountered the two halls I'd expected to see from my own country (the Amsterdam Concertgebouw again featuring as one of the world's top three), I was inevitably slightly disappointed to see my own town's hall disregarded, even though it is generally acknowledged to surpass the Concertgebouw when it comes to classical and early romantic repertoire. In a more general sense, the question is how random the selection was. You will find all the great halls you would expect in a survey like this (though Russia is conspicuously absent), but like me many readers are bound to be aware of hidden gems undiscovered (or at least unaddressed) by Beranek. London and Japan seem to be disproportionately represented (no less than 9 Tokyo halls are listed!), nor did I find all the US entries equally compelling (one wonders also why all countries are listed alphabetically, but after the US?). It should be noted, too, that the images serve to give a general impression of a hall, but are mostly of moderate quality, and sometimes quite bad. Finally, and then I'll stop complaining and resume the praise, opera houses are very much underrepresented and almost seem like an afterthought; they might as well have been left out, the focus is clearly on symphonic concert spaces.
None of this detracts in any significant way from the wonders of this unique book, which is, by the way, beautifully produced, featuring smooth, glossy paper. Whether an acoustic scientist, a regular concert goer or an architecture buff, this book will be fascinating reading for you. It may, indeed, even help you select the best available seat when you're booking a ticket in a hall you've never visited before (avoid those three back rows on the Boston Symphony Hall middle balcony!).

great book.......2006-08-06

FYI - I just wrote a review of the book and it got lost in cyber space. So this is my abreviated second attempt.

1- This is more thorough than Auditoria by Forsyth. It is focused soley on acoustics of the spaces, not the architecture.
2- There are 18 to 21 acoustic metrics reported for each of the halls.
3- The last sections on acoustics of concert halls and opera halls is up to date and discusses key concepts & criteria in realtion to existing facilities.

The appendices are wonderful. Appendix #2 lists additional acoutical data that is availble on the concert halls reviewed in earlier chapters. Typically this additional data inlcudes RT by octave, and may include ITDG, G (strength) & IACC.

Classic Acoustical Reference.......2006-07-20

This is a classic reference for students and practitioners working in the field. It is the most complete compendium available of acoustical and architectural data on concert and opera halls throughout the world. Each building is meticulously detailed with photographs, line drawings and technical data.

Principles of Traveling Wave Tubes (Artech House Radar Library)

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If you can have only one book on TWT's this is it.

Principles of Traveling Wave Tubes (Artech House Radar Library)
A. S. Gilmour Jr
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ASIN: 0890067201

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Offers detailed discussions of operating principles of helix and coupled-cavity traveling wave tubes, descriptions of RF interactions of electrons with electric fields, and the basic theories of electron bunching and traveling wave interactions.

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If you can have only one book on TWT's this is it........1997-07-06

Good match for the average engineering reader. Gentle buildup of the theory. Chapters on every part of the tube and key aspects of their technology (vacuum, cathodes and high voltage). Slightly "cookbook" but this gives it lots of examples

Dielectrics and Waves (Artech House Microwave Library)

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Dielectrics and Waves (Artech House Microwave Library)
Arthur R. Von Hippel
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Small-Aperture Radio Direction-Finding (Artech House Radar Library)

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Very interesting book
Excellent reference

Small-Aperture Radio Direction-Finding (Artech House Radar Library)
Herndon H. Jenkins
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ASIN: 0890064202

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This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the commercial and military applications of small-aperture radio direction finding. Supported by 154 equations and 108 illustrations, it also details the functional elements of radio-direction finding and a definition of small-aperture DF based on linear wavelength criteria.

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Very interesting book.......2003-05-21

He covers many methods most of which are quite old.
He does'nt cover synthetic beamforming approach though.
It would be great to have simulink models of his examples.

Excellent reference.......2001-07-22

This book covers pretty much the entire field, and in very good detail. If you're looking to engineer such a system, you need this book on your shelf.

Microwave Circulator Design (Atrech House Microwave Library)

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As a former co-worker with the author....

Microwave Circulator Design (Atrech House Microwave Library)
Douglas K. Linkhart
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As a former co-worker with the author...........2000-05-10

After working with the author at a microwave manufacturing facility in Tampa, Fla. I can assure the reader that they will not be disappointed by Doug's book. He is quite competent concerning the design of circulators and isolators and has a good understanding of stripline theory. He also hold's a B.S. in Computer Science (along with several other degree's and certifications) and at one time was developing software to model ferrite devices. I have read much of his book and at the price listed here I believe it would be a bargain. He makes this complex subject easy to comprehend.

Polarization in Electromagnetic Systems (Artech House Radar Library)

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Excellent resource on Polarization
clear expose of polarization effects

Polarization in Electromagnetic Systems (Artech House Radar Library)

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ASIN: 089006508X

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The only clear exposition of the effect of polarization on electromagnetic systems, this "hands-on" design treatment emphasizes the concepts needed for such functional aspects as systems calculations and device evaluation.

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Excellent resource on Polarization.......2006-03-16

This book is an excellent resource on polarization. It combines the physical description of the polarization phenomenon with a detailed description of the different methods for describing polarization. The assessment of when to use the different descriptions, the references to the IEEE-149 standard and the cautions on differences in conventions between other resources were particularly helpful. Finally, the section on cross polarization was a topic I had not found in as much breadth in any other resource. The problems at the end of the chapters were also useful in assessing my understanding of the topic. To take a line from the movie raters, I give this two thumbs up!

clear expose of polarization effects.......2002-10-27

Offers complete coverage of the specialized area of polarization in
electromagnetic systems. The only clear expose of polarization effects in
electromagnetic systems, this "hands on" design treatment doesn't require an
extensive background in physics or mathematics to understand.

CONTENTS: Wave polarization principles; polarization state representations;
partially polarized waves; antenna-wave interaction; dual-polarized systems;
depolarized media and system applications. ...

Wiggle And Wave!: Bear's Body Game (Bear in the Big Blue House)

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Wiggle And Wave!: Bear's Body Game (Bear in the Big Blue House)
Kylie Foxx
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Bear and his friends will have young readers giggling from head to toe as they learn all their different body parts. Can you touch your nose?

Graywater: The Next Wave
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Graywater: The Next Wave
Curtis McLamb
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Graywater: The Next Wave is a complete guide to conserving laundry and bath water-"graywater"-for use in landscape watering.

For the novice it offers complete details on the advantages, components and methods for conserving one of our most valuable resources. Those already familiar with the benefits of reclaiming graywater will find this up-to-date guide has the latest information for installing and maintaining several different types of graywater systems. A step-by-step guide and photographs teach you how to install a near-surface drainfield at a fraction of the cost of the methods employed in conventional graywater systems. Newly researched methods of graywater disinfectant are also detailed, which have less impact on plants and the environment.

Graywater: The Next Wave also includes a complete guide for homeowners with septic systems, which covers the primary reasons for their failure, and steps for preventing their failure. The life of a septic system can be greatly extended by the use of a graywater system. In many cases a failing septic system can be restored to normal operation by reducing the amount of liquids and detergents flowing into it by installing a graywater system.

Graywater is also spelled gray water, grey water, and greywater.

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I've always thought there was a way to do this..........2004-09-11

I'm on a septic system, as are other homes in my subdivision. I've often thought that there should be a cost effective way to re-use much of the water that I consume. This book describes several low-cost alternatives for implementing just such a system. The optimal Graywater system really depends upon what you want to accomplish and how much water you consume. This book is an excellent starting point for evaluating and developing an effective plan based upon an individual's water use pattern. References, including web resources, are also included for further study.

Keeper.......2004-05-13

This book explains both the theory of how a Graywater system works along with giving practical, useful, easy-to-follow, illustrated information on how to construct one at a cost-effective price. The author actually documented building his own Graywater system and then shared the experience he gained through this book. I am glad that I purchased this book, because I know sometime in the near future, I'll use it to actually construct my own Graywater system.

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