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Antonio Obrador

  Antonio Obrador Antonio Obrador OTHER ARTICLES - Antonio Obrador's areas of work encompass architecture, building refurbishment, urban planning, landscape design and interior design This book, which is profusely illustrated with photographs by Ricardo Labougle, surveys the most emblematic projects by Antonio Obrador, whose areas of work encompass architecture, building rehabilitation, urban planning, landscape design and interior design. His main talent lies in combining an exquisite aesthetic sensibility with a proper balance between tradition and modernity. All of his projects start with the same creative premise: finding the best solution for each client's needs. Antonio Obrador's career is endorsed by renowned figures whose private residences he has designed, built and reformed. He has also garnered international prestige thanks to his hotel designs both purpose-built creations and the refurbishment of historical buildings. One of his most celebrated projects is the r

Architects on Dwelling

  Architects on Dwelling Architects on Dwelling OTHER ARTICLES An inspirational reader that highlights how profoundly the place we live in matters to our well-being and what social responsibility architects have in creating the built environment.   While most books on architecture focus on the architectural outcome itself, Architects on Dwelling takes a close look at how that outcome is created. To design any kind of dwelling, architects draw on both their reservoir of ideas as well as their own experiences as fellow inhabitants of such structures. This book explores how architects design the places we inhabit and how those places in turn inform the manner in which we live, in ways beyond lifestyle and personal taste. Through contributions by Stephen Hoey, Henry McKeown & Ian Alexander, James Mitchell, Stacey Philips, Christopher Platt, Adrian Stewart, and Miranda Webster—most of whom are Scotland-based practitioners as well as teachers in The Glasgow School of Art—it reveals the u

Churches of Glasgow

  Churches of Glasgow Churches of Glasgow OTHER ARTICLES Glasgow has long been an important settlement on the River Clyde but it grew rapidly in the 18th and 19th centuries to become one of the largest cities in the world in that period. The largest seaport in Scotland, it was a major city in the Scottish enlightenment and the transatlantic trade brought wealth to the city. At the same time Glasgow was becoming an important industrial city, particularly in shipbuilding, engineering, chemicals and textiles, bringing in large numbers of people. Although many were relocated outside the city in the latter decades of the 20th century, Glasgow’s dynamic history is reflected in its diverse architecture and the heritage of its church buildings.In this book author Gordon Adams surveys the historic churches of Glasgow, outlining their story through the ages and picking out interesting features of each. The churches range from the elegant 18th century St Vincent Street Church, to the intimate Gov

Production Urbanism: The Meta Industrial City (Architectural Design)

  Production Urbanism: The Meta Industrial City (Architectural Design) Production Urbanism: The Meta Industrial City (Architectural Design) OTHER ARTICLES The Industrial Revolution caused a paradigm shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, giving birth to the industrial city. 'City' became synonymous with a concentration of factories causing unfiltered scenes between centres of production and urban dwellings. The corrupted image of the city ultimately led to the displacement and separation of production away from residential zones in the 20th century. However, new innovative manufacturing technologies are allowing a coexistence between factories and dwellings through hybrid typologies that blend production back into the urban fabric. This AD issue discusses the implications of the re-emergence of production as an architectural and urban agenda through hybrid models that engage a new socioeconomic shift. Given the contemporary circumstances of a global pandemic

Cozy White Cottage Seasons: 100 Ways to Be Cozy All Year Long

  Cozy White Cottage Seasons: 100 Ways to Be Cozy All Year Long Cozy White Cottage Seasons: 100 Ways to Be Cozy All Year Long OTHER ARTICLES Whether you want to create a cozy winter wonderland in your living room, a blooming summertime welcome on your deck, or an autumn refuge by your fireplace, Liz Marie Galvan's Cozy White Cottage Seasons gives you the inspiring photos, DIY ideas, and fun recipes you need to feel at home on any budget and in every season. DIY interior designer and popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan helps you create space to snuggle up, stretch out, or kick back at home so you can focus on what matters most during the holidays and every day. Following the popularity of Cozy White Cottage, Cozy White Cottage Seasons is a beautiful, full-color photography holiday lifestyle book with easy-to-do, practical tips to make your home a cozy haven from New Year's to the following Christmas. Here you'll discover how to:Create cozy celebrations, traditions, and memories

Basics Masonry Construction

  Basics Masonry Construction Basics Masonry Construction OTHER ARTICLES Der Mauerwerksbau steht in aller Regel an erster Stelle der konstruktiven ?bungen im Studium. Die Grundprinzipien der Ma?lichkeit, der Konstruktion und des Bauteilf?gens werden an einfachen Mauerwerksbauten entwickelt.Themen:Material und Ma?eBauphysikalischen und tragkonstruktiven EigenschaftenTypischen Verb?ndenBauteileAusf?hrung von Mauerwerk

Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution

  Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution OTHER ARTICLES The gripping story of how monasteries were swept away and their buildings adapted to secular use after the English Reformation. Five short years after Henry VIII’s break with Rome, his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was one of the most dramatic and fast-paced upheavals of the social and architectural fabric in the history of the British Isles. Monks and nuns were expelled and orders went out for the deserted monasteries to be dismantled, their churches demolished, and their sites transformed into architectural salvage yards. Out of the scarred remains of these vast complexes, there arose many magnificent new houses, created by men who seized this brief opportunity. Some of these, such as Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire, were adapted from the monastic buildings, while others, like Syon House in Midd

Goals: How to Get the Most Out of Your Life

  Goals: How to Get the Most Out of Your Life Goals: How to Get the Most Out of Your Life OTHER ARTICLES Do you ever find yourself confusing activity with accomplishment? In this book, legendary speaker and author, Zig Ziglar points out you can't hit a target you don't have. He shares the 4 Reasons People Don't Set Goals. Anyone can be, do, and have more. BUT... You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific. Zig guides you through the 9 Steps of Setting Goals. And he encourages you with, A goal properly set is halfway reached. Zig shares a quote by Oliver Wendall Holmes, Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. After teaching the steps to setting goals, Zig takes you straight into ACTION! Zig identifies 13 Variables in the Formula to Reach Your Goals. The day by day actions work. When you take hold of these ideas and

Financial & Managerial Accounting

  Financial & Managerial Accounting Financial & Managerial Accounting OTHER ARTICLES Establish a strong foundation in the accounting fundamentals that you need to succeed with Warren/Jones/Tayler's FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, 15E. This leading book's business examples provide a meaningful context as they demonstrate how each chapter's content fits into the big picture. The authors clearly connect fundamental accounting concepts to real businesses today. For example, each chapter begins with a real-world company opener that is linked to applicable content throughout the chapter. In addition, new Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exam questions prepare you for professional success, while Pathways Challenges help you hone critical-thinking skills. This edition also works seamlessly with online CengageNOWv2 resources to provide a range of activities that guide you through each stage of the learning process from motivation to mastery.

Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse

  Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse OTHER ARTICLES Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron's board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company's aggressive financial strategies and accounting practices? Why did Enron's external watchdogs--security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies--fail to bark? What actions can prevent Enron-type breakdowns in the future? Innovation Corrupted addresses each of these questions.In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation

True and False Prophets: Confronting Immorality in Ministry

  True and False Prophets: Confronting Immorality in Ministry True and False Prophets: Confronting Immorality in Ministry OTHER ARTICLES Teaching on the office of Prophet in the Church and how to tell in a true one and false.

The Interdependent Organization: The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise

  The Interdependent Organization: The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise The Interdependent Organization: The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise OTHER ARTICLES The Interdependent Organization provides its readers with a template for the development of an individualized transition plan to guide their journey toward becoming more organizationally sustainable. We as humans tend to rely on our current set of assumptions when we evaluate our actions and their potential impact on the future. With today's ever increasing rate of change in technology, our access to information and cultural interactions (interdependence) around the world, the reliance on old ways of thinking (linear) will not allow us to effectively transition into the systems-based world of tomorrow. The Interdependent Organization presents a deeper understanding of the financial, operational, and cultural crossroads we are facing as a planet, and introduces a systems-based transitional path that individuals, organi

Ignite Your Selling Potential: 7 Simple Accelerators to Drive Revenue and Results Fast

  Ignite Your Selling Potential: 7 Simple Accelerators to Drive Revenue and Results Fast Ignite Your Selling Potential: 7 Simple Accelerators to Drive Revenue and Results Fast OTHER ARTICLES You re in the drivers seat, take the wheel and ignite your selling potential! Experience results within 90 days. In Ignite Your Selling Potential, Author Susan A. Lund reveals a practical roadmap with 7 Accelerators to inspire, equip and empower you, your team and your organization to drive profitable revenue and results fast. You will gain access to proven strategies and principles that work to bring about the growth you desire and catapult your organization to greater success. You will learn how to: Avoid hazards and navigate around challenges to your desired destination Realize and maximize your selling potential and your teams selling potential Get everyone on the same page to create a consistent, repeatable client experience Transform activity into productivity(r) to gain a competitive advanta

Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability

  Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability OTHER ARTICLES Sustainability holds the promise of an exciting new approach to business - one in which business goals are aligned with social and environmental goals. Multinational corporations are recognizing that we live in an increasingly resource-constrained world, and that more accountability for corporate social and environmental impacts will accrue to them. More importantly, forward-thinking executives understand that sustainability can present new opportunities for competitive advantage - whether that is by reducing costs, minimizing risk, appealing to increasingly conscientious customers, or reaching new markets entirely.This second edition of the popular resource guide to careers in sustainability presents ideas for researching companies, making the most of your networking, identifying job and internship openings, and preparin

Smarter Business Exits: Strategies and Toolkits for Corporate Divorce, Succession Planning and Joint Exits

  Smarter Business Exits: Strategies and Toolkits for Corporate Divorce, Succession Planning and Joint Exits Smarter Business Exits: Strategies and Toolkits for Corporate Divorce, Succession Planning and Joint Exits OTHER ARTICLES financial advice

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

  The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable OTHER ARTICLES In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and a

StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work

  StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work OTHER ARTICLES The Groundbreaking Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths RevolutionIn the years since the publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have come to the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people, you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations—performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems—remain stubbornly remedial and exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It’s a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and everyday practice utterly out of sync.That’s about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enable

Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (What's New in Management)

  Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (What's New in Management) Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (What's New in Management) OTHER ARTICLES For courses in small business management, entrepreneurship, and new venture creation and/or management. The foundation to building a successful small business Taking a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship, this text equips students with the tools and critical-thinking skills needed for small business success. Now in its 9th Edition, Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management teaches students how to successfully launch and manage a business. By dissecting case studies, examining successes and failures in the context of the market, and observing the tactics used by today's most successful small business ventures, students can develop the skills that will give them a unique advantage in a hotly competitive environment. Also available with MyLab Entreprene

Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros (Super Searchers s...

  Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros (Super Searchers s... Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros (Super Searchers s... OTHER ARTICLES Merger and acquisition activity is breaking records—there are more transactions every year and the size of the transactions is constantly going up as well. However, a merger, acquisition, or divestiture deal is only as good as the information on which it is based. This guide details how and where M&A experts go online to compile lists of companies that are in the market to buy or sell, find the prices paid for similar businesses, and identify the legal issues that may surface in a given purchase or sale. Business researchers will find sources for hard-to-find information on companies that may be privately held, subsidiaries of another company, or based outside of the United States. Thirteen super searc