Authors:Philip R. Berke, David R Godschalk,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: fifth, planning, land, urban
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0252030796
ISBN-13: 9780252030796

Divided into three sections, this edition of "Urban Land Use Planning" deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what land use planning should become. It explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders; it explains how to build planning support systems to assess future conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios; and it sets forth a methodology for creating plans that will influence future land use cha

Authors:David Godschalk, Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: policy, planning, disaster, recasting, hazard, mitigation, natural
Number of Pages: 591
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1559636025
ISBN-13: 9781559636025

The first half of the 1990s have seen the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.Natural Hazard Mitigation describes and analyzes the way that hazard mitigation has been carried out in the U.S. under our national disaster law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. It is the first systematic study of the complete intergovernmental system for natural haza

Author: Arnold Berke
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: southwest, architect, colter, mary
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 156898295X
ISBN-13: 9781568982953

Mary Colter may well be the best-known unknown architect in the world: her buildings at the Grand Canyon National Park--which include the Lookout Tower, Hopi House, Bright Angel Lodge, and many others--are admired by almost five million visitors a year. In addition to creating the "National Park Service Rustic" style, as it came to be known, Colter, a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, is also remembered as designer of three classic hotels: El Navajo (Gallup, NM), La Posada (Winslow, AZ), and Painted Desert Inn (Painted Desert, AZ), where Colter called on Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Mexican motif

Authors:Joseph H. Berke, Margaret Fagan, George Mak-Pearce, S
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Keywords: therapeutic, communities, psychosis, interventions, psychosocial, madness
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1853028894
ISBN-13: 9781853028892

A major question facing psychiatrists today is how to treat psychosis effectively while maintaining patients’ dignity, self respect and, as far as possible, their psychological and social functioning. The authors of Beyond Madness have all been associated with the Arbours Crisis Centre in London, a unique facility established in 1973 where therapists and patients, or guests, live together in order to establish a space where extremes of distress can be tolerated, understood and ameliorated. From the psychological and social care offered by the Arbours Crisis Centre, the treatments demonst

Authors:David Berke, Michael E. Kossler, Michael Wakefield,
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: tools, resource, essential, talent, leadership, developing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0470177020
ISBN-13: 9780470177020

Based on the popular Developing Leadership Talent program offered by the acclaimed Center for Creative Leadership, this important resource offers a nuts-and-bolts framework for putting in place a leadership development system that will attract and retain the best and brightest talent. Step by step, the authors explain how alignment with strategic goals and organizational purpose and effective developmental experiences are the backbone of a successful leadership program. An authoritative and useful book, Developing Leadership Talent is an essential tool for any leadership program.

Authors:Steven Harris, Steven Harris, Deborah Berke,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: everyday, architecture
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568981147
ISBN-13: 9781568981147

Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interest of a growing number of architects looking to the everyday to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that have reduced architecture to a series of stylistic fads. Architecture of the Everyday makes a plea for an architecture that is emphatically un-monumental, anti-heroic, and unconcerned with formal extravagance. Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris, this collection of writings, photo-essays, and projects describes an architecture that dr

Authors:Philip Hanno, Alan Wein, S. Bruce Malkowicz, Philip M
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: urology, manual, clinical
Number of Pages: 924
Published: 2001-05-02
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0071362010
ISBN-13: 9780071362016

A thorough clinical handbook in urology written by leading clinicians. In addition to presenting the major categories of urologic disease, the book also covers important topics such as radiology, radiation therapy, nephrology, pediatric urolog, transplantation surgery and vascular surgery.