Greil Marcus

Erika Doss

Neil Harris

Yi-fu Tuan

The Architecture of Reassurance

Designing Disney's Theme Parks

Martin Davies

Aldo Manuzio. L'uomo, l'editore, il mito

Teri J. Edelstein

The Chicago lakefront is one of America’s urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, money, style, and development lies at the heart of the updated edition of Neil Harris's Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury. The book features more than one hundred buildings, stretching from south to north and across more than a century, each with its own special combination of design choice, floor plans, and background story. Harris, with the assistance of Teri J. Edelstein, proves to be an affable and knowledgeable tour guide, guiding us through dozens of buildings, detailing a host of inimitable development histories, design choices, floor plans, and more along the way. Of particular note are recent structures on the Chicago River and south of the Loop that are proposing new definitions of comfort and extravagance. Featuring nearly 350 stunning images and a foreword by renowned Chicago author Sara Paretsky, this new edition of Chicago Apartments offers a wide-ranging look inside some of the Windy City’s most magnificent abodes.

A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

Chicago Apartments

A biography of the famous American circus owner provides a detailed look at nineteenth-century popular culture

The Art of P. T. Barnum

Humbug

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.

J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Capital Culture

Drawing on sources including Masonic manuals, tourist guidebooks and religious texts, this illustrated study explores the rites of building passage over the past 150 years. The author suggests that architecture is a performing art as well as a fine art.

Constructing Rites and Passages

Building Lives

'Business Economics: Theory and Application' is an undaunting and accessible text that focuses on the real world of business and how this relates to economics. The links to business are far more intrinsic that in other business economics textbooks where a business "flavour" is simply added to traditional economics theory. It provides an in-depth jargon-free analysis, particularly relevant for one semester courses. A variety of case studies and questions are used throughout the text both to illustrate key points and for seminar and assignment work. Diagrams are included to aid the explanation of complex issues, and review and discussion questions are incorporated to consolidate and expand on the learning. A lecturer's supplement accompanies the text.

Business Economics: Theory and Application

Heidi Fraumeister inherited her father's business empire and became a millionairess overnight. While on a sailing holiday around the Canary Isles she is spotted by Jack Towney who assumes the alias of James De Villiers in order to impress her. They become entangled in a passionate relationship and are quickly married. Heidi insists on a pre-nuptial agreement to safeguard her fortune, which Jack gladly signs, but in the months that follow the gloss of the relationship suddenly tarnishes and Jack needs to find a way out without losing the lavish life-style being married to Heidi affords. Divorce would leave Jack back where he started, poor and lonely. He hatches a plan to have Heidi killed by a professional hit man and engages old friends Michael and Patrick Flannigan to provide the assassin. However with a huge sum of money on offer, greed takes over, and in the end the Flannigan brothers decide to carry out the kill themselves. "The Hit" follows the two bungling hit men as they try to kill off the millionairess to save their friend losing claim to her fortune. Despite numerous failed attempts they eventually manage to commit the murder they were being paid for, but not with the outcome they had anticipated.

The Hit

The Increment System is the world's first "sports psychology system," a system that allows sportspeople to design their perfect mental state and then achieve it through a simple, repeatable process. The system uses a powerful combination of tools and processes drawn from sports psychology, NLP, business project management, and pure common sense. It also includes new sports psychology theory known as "incrementing" which allows you to change your mental state in competition using an easy-to-achieve staged process. The system relies on, teaches and encourages: self-reflection, self-awareness, planning, preparation, experimentation, structured thinking, and the use of positive language and behavioural changes. It was tested and refined using the input of 25 world class athletes and keen amateurs from a wide range of sports. It has received exceptional feedback from people using the system, and has produced clear improvements in their mental performances. "A highly interesting and a refreshing approach to sports psychology," England Mens' Technical Golf Coach "With this system, we could have finished in the top four last season," Head of Sports Science for a Premier League football team "A fascinating and comprehensive book," New Holland Publishers "Impressive ideas and presentation," Hamlyn Books About the Author: Neil Harris is an NLP Sports Practitioner, a professional golfer, and a sports fanatic. He has a special interest in what separates high achievers from those who should achieve more in their chosen sport. He studied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and made a career of understanding and designing effective systems and processes around people, technology and businesses. In recent years his lifelong passion for sports psychology has culminated in the creation of the world's first sports psychology system, a system that allows sportspeople to design their perfect mental state and then achieve it through a simple, repeatable process.

A Complete Sports Psychology System

The Increment System

Oliver Green

Michael Twyman

Issued in connection with an exhibition held May 27-Aug. 15, 2010, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

British Posters for Transport

Art for All

‘Engaging Eric’ follows on from the trials and tribulations of Eric Littlejohn in ‘Eric and the red shoes.’ The blossoming relationship with the beautiful Gloria pushes Eric to take the ultimate step towards a joint future together. The distractions at work, his determination to learn to drive, and his many bungled attempts to get through life, cannot deter him, as they spend time together getting to know each other more intimately. Eric continues in his quest to win Gloria’s heart and map out their future together. ‘Engaging Eric’ continues the close and amusing relationship between the hapless Eric and the beautiful Gloria.

Engaging Eric

Elisabete A. Silva

Pieter Van den Broeck

Patsy Healey

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and educators, all recognized authorities in the field, provide accounts of designing and implementing research projects from different approaches and venues. This book shows how to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to projects, and how to take your research from the classroom to the real world. The book is structured into sections focusing on Beginning planning research Research design and development Rediscovering qualitative methods New advances in quantitative methods Turning research into action With chapters written by leading scholars in spatial planning, The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is the most authoritative and comprehensive handbook on the topic, providing both established and ground breaking coverage of spatial planning research methods. The book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate level students, young professionals and practitioners in urban, regional, and spatial planning.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods

Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three general sections: the first treats the history of cultural institutions, highlighting the role of museums; the second section focuses on some literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial responses to the new mass culture; and the final group of essays explores the social history of art and architecture. Throughout Harris's diverse writings certain themes recur—the redefining of boundaries between high art and popular culture, the relationship between public taste and technological change, and the very notion of what constitutes a shared social experience. Harris's pioneering work has broadened the field of cultural history and encouraged whole new areas of inquiry. Cultural Excursions will be useful for those in American and culture studies, as well as for the general reader trying to make sense of the culture in which we live.

Neil Harris

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