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I'm a semi-retired old fellow that recently moved to a little town in Nevada from living a few years in crowded New Jersey. Nevada = Good People, Good Climate, No Traffic, Cheap Housing, Cheap Food, Low Taxes, Cheap Everything but Gasoline. I find that with the house paid for, no car payment and the kid out of college and self-supporting (more or less) that life has gotten cheap and sweet. Ther… Read moreI'm a semi-retired old fellow that recently moved to a little town in Nevada from living a few years in crowded New Jersey.
Nevada = Good People, Good Climate, No Traffic, Cheap Housing, Cheap Food, Low Taxes, Cheap Everything but Gasoline.
I find that with the house paid for, no car payment and the kid out of college and self-supporting (more or less) that life has gotten cheap and sweet. There's plenty of time for reading, friends, travel and I'm loving it.
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This book is an idea book of the latest in innovative and exciting retail interiors from around the world: Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Barcelona, Tel Aviv and more. Here are the latest in stores that have been designed to appeal to the sophisticated buyer, stores that have an elegance that combines with innovation that shows off the merchandise in a dramatic and memorable way.
The book is a combination of photographs with an interview of the shop's designer, various technical aspects, plans and sketches of the interior. The quality of the book is very high, with sewn signatures and headbands that make for a more rugged and long lasting book. It should appeal to those… Read more
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Interior design remains an area where the art of the designer is constrained only by the shape of the walls, roof and floor, and dare I mention it - the budget. Up for grabs is the surface, color, lighting, and of course furnishings.
In this idea book, 40 houses/apartments from literally around the world are shown in these beautifully photographed pages. The book is broken down into three sections: houses, lofts, and apartments. The houses tend to be located in cities, be it Tokyo, London, New York, Victoria (Australia), or a surprising number from Barcelona. I like the idea of such a high percentage coming from Europe, as it seems that they are more willing to experment with… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
There were a lot of things you could say about Douglas Haig and World War II.
For one thing, you could fault him for not recognizing that the kind of war they were planning to fight had been preliminaried (if that's a word) by the Civil War in the United States. Mass production, mass armies, rapid communications (telegraph) and transportation (trains) had changed warfare forever. But those were only the colonials fighting amongst themselves, not at all indicative of what a European army could do.
In order to get to his rank, he had to be an excellent peace time soldier. But then real war came and on a scale never seen before. The skills of a good peacetime general… Read more
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