Philip Ross

Investigator James Marley's best friend Russ Detweiller has just run off to the Caribbean with a lovely Asian woman, leaving a multi-million-dollar computer program unfinished. Marley is beginning to wonder if what looks like an ordinary midlife crisis might not be something much more sinister. Is the seductive Lily truly in love with Detweiller, or part of a ruthless conspiracy to sabotage—or steal—her lover's research? Lily, it seems, has some powerful friends in low places. And they are watching her very closely … Now Marley has only a short time to save his friend's life, because reckless passion has just turned into deadly peril.

White Flower

Jeremy Myerson

This is the first comprehensive analysis of emerging office design practice to support and enhance the performance of knowledge workers. It explains how the office is being reinvented to respond to the imperatives of knowledge work, as well as the changing social imperatives and technology of the new millennium. A wide range of international workplace architecture and interior schemes that are leading the way in this important area is showcased. The book sets its 43 international case studies within a unique conceptual matrix that provides a framework for thinking about new strategies for reinventing office space. It identifies four 'realms' for knowledge work - the learning campus (ACADEMY); the professional cluster (GUILD); the public workplace (AGORA) and the live-work setting (LODGE). The authors argue that only by finding an entirely new equilibrium at work between the opposing forces of family, colleagues, customers and professional peers can knowledge workers in the 21st century achieve the same productivity gains as manual labour in the 20th century.

New Office Design

Space to Work

Waverly High Students and Their Teacher

When students leave the classroom, interesting things can happen, especially when they write. These sophomores from Waverly High venture out of their comfort zones in rural eastern Nebraska and do a kind of multi-genre research project by interviewing people, learning about various businesses, and researching native species, local events, and write even a little bit of poetry when they look at the landscape. The results are enjoyable and interesting.

Dist. #145 Sophomores Explore Features of Home

A Geography of Stories

The Bribe

The mob offers the young mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a $500,000 bribe to rezone land adjacent to the George Washington Bridge. Risking his life, the mayor pretends to go along with the plan but wears a wire. His efforts lead to the convictions of seven people.

This first comprehensive survey of workplace design for the new century, this book captures emerging themes and ideas in office architecture and interiors around the world. Written and researched by the authors of The Creative Office, it advances the concept of increasing creativity in planning and design by exploring the new workplace models that are developing in response to rapid organisational, social and technological change. In the introduction the authors discuss how the new workplace of the 21st century is already exhibiting different spatial, organizational and material characteristics from the scientifically managed, process-driven, mechanistic model of the 20th century modern office. This is followed by four thematic chapters that illustrate the key new trends through 45 international case studies.

The 21st Century Office

David and Eva meet and fall in love in London, but their relationship is marked by less-than-honest communication, which becomes a minor matter when a group of men begins pursuing them with an intention to kill.

True Lies

She had been missing for fourteen years... Sarah Kleinhagen. Her involvement with student anti-war activists in the 1970s and their bombing of an Air Force SAC base had forced her underground. Not even the FBI could locate her. Now James Marley needed to find her and bring her back to the child she'd had fourteen years ago... a child who desperately needed her. All he had to go on was a picture taken fourteen years ago. A picture of a strikingly beautiful girl with searching, intelligent eyes that pierced into your soul. Her child needed her. But someone else was looking for Sarah Kleinhagen, someone vicious with a killing instinct. Marley had to find her — if they didn't kill him first.

Blue Heron

Microclimatic and Vegetational Studies in a Cold-wet Deciduous Forest

The two authors complement each other beautifully, one a visionary and gutsy politician, the other a gifted academic with a deep rooted social conscience. With the benefit of a century of post Letchworth Garden City knowledge and the lessons of two World Wars, their timely released book re-brands the Garden City from a social as well as a technical point of view. It says it's a manifesto for 21st Century Garden Cities of To-Morrow, but it could equally be a manifesto for decent human urban survival on our cherished Planet. It concentrates on the role of each citizen - his or her responsibilities and opportunities. It advocates restoring basic human values back to ordinary people, away from the `I'm doing you a favour' private pro-bono benefaction and/or cash-starved governmental institutions that seem to know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.

Philip Ross

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