Author: George Baird
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: appearance, space
Number of Pages: 409
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262523434
ISBN-13: 9780262523431

What is architecture’s place in the world? Combining history, theory, and polemic, George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure of these theories to develop an architecture that is politically engaged and affirmative of the public sphere.Hannah Arendt’s imperative of worldliness plays a pivotal role in Baird’s reading of what has come

Authors:Peter Calthorpe, George Baird, Robert Fishman, Doug K
Publisher: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Keywords: urbanism, debates, michigan, new
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1891197355
ISBN-13: 9781891197352

In this volume Peter Calthorpe, renowned West Coast town planner and author, presents the case for New Urbanism, a movement that has enjoyed meteoric success since he co-founded it in the early 1990s. More utopian and civic than Everyday Urbanism, it promotes mixed-use and transit-oriented development and redevelopment of our cities, as well as walkability and socio-economic diversity. Less avant-garde than Post Urbanism, it embraces traditional urban and architectural scale and typologies. Lars Lerup, Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University and author, responds with counter-argu

Authors:Robert M. Baird, M. Katherine Baird,
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: issues, contemporary, debating, homosexuality
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1995-11
List price: $22.98
ISBN-10: 1573920037
ISBN-13: 9781573920032

This could be the most controversial book yet. Its balanced approach could risk the wrath of advocates and critics alike, offering powerful essays on four key issues: the causes of homosexuality, disputes about the role the courts should play, gays and the military, and religious attitudes toward homosexuality.

Author: Ed Baird
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: racing, laser
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0906754054
ISBN-13: 9780906754054

Laser Racing is essential reading for all Laser sailors who want to win in this highly competitive class. Top US racer Ed Baird - Laser World Champion in 1980 - explains in words and pictures how to prepare your boat, practice your boat handling skills and how to sail the race itself. Ed gives invaluable advice on line and gate starts, handling the Laser upwind in waves, adjusting the vang, gybing in heavy air and all the other problems frequently raised at his Laser racing clinics. Plus insights into the psychology of winning a series - while discouraging your opponents from doing the

Author: J. Baird
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays
Keywords: play, mystery, carte, murder
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 1980-06
List price: $5.00
ISBN-10: 0573690316
ISBN-13: 9780573690310

Author: Susan Baird
Publisher: Upstart Books
Keywords: handbook, series, press, highsmith, collections, services, audiobook
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2000-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 157950034X
ISBN-13: 9781579500344

This complete guide to the planning, development, marketing and administration of audiobook collections in libraries is packed with practical advice. The book provides a brief history of audiobooks followed by clear, easy-to-follow steps in planning, budgeting and evaluating your collection; how to select titles appropriate for adult and juvenile users, recommended selection policies, acquisition and processing procedures, advice on narrators and abridgments, coping with censorship threats, maintenance and repair, shelving and circulation, promotion and effective display. Appendices include

Author: Abigail A. Baird
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: psychology, think
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-01-07
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0205687385
ISBN-13: 9780205687381

THINK Psychology covers the essentials every introductory psychology student should know. The chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text—allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper. Unlike other brief texts, THINK Psychology includes 18 chapters of content—giving instructors the flexibility to choose what they want to cover without the worry that skipping several chapters will mean leaving out hundreds of pages of content.