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For almost two decades the work of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti has remained at the forefront of theoretical production. Their rigorously?detailed and exquisitely drawn projects characterize an attitude of?aesthetic realism towards materials, construction, function, and the?cultural role of architecture. Yet the conditions they address, and the?effects they produce, are unprecedented. Their projects synthesize?seemingly incompatible images, uses, and typologies.??Unprecedented Realism is not an illustration of theory. Rather,?what emerges is a constructive theory of architecture that understands the process of design itself as a distinct mode of knowledge --?as theoretical research that is still irreducibly architectural.??Unprecedented Realism presents both buildings and urban?infrastructures: Steps of Providence, RI; Entrance for Cranbrook,?Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Carnegie-Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh;?Pershing Square, Los Angeles; and Times Square, New York City.??Along with the analytic text of K. Michael Hays, the volume includes?critical essays by Alan Colquhoun, George Baird, Farès el-Dahdah,?and Rodolphe el-Khoury (please see the Table of Contents).

Foreword by Randy E. BarnettIn 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 5 4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on narrow grounds to save the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Unprecedented tells the inside story of how the challenge to Obamacare raced across all three branches of government, and narrowly avoided a constitutional collision between the Supreme Court and President Obama. On November 13, 2009, a group of Federalist Society lawyers met in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., to devise a legal challenge to the constitutionality of President Obama's legacy” his healthcare reform. It seemed a very long shot, and was dismissed peremptorily by the White House, much of Congress, most legal scholars, and all of the media. Two years later the fight to overturn the Affordable Care Act became a political and legal firestorm. When, finally, the Supreme Court announced its ruling, the judgment was so surprising that two cable news channels misreported it and announced that the Act had been declared unconstitutional.Unprecedented offers unrivaled inside access to how key decisions were made in Washington, based on interviews with over one hundred of the people who lived this journey including the academics who began the challenge, the attorneys who litigated the case at all levels, and Obama administration attorneys who successfully defended the law. It reads like a political thriller, provides the definitive account of how the Supreme Court almost struck down President Obama's unprecedented” law, and explains what this decision means for the future of the Constitution, the limits on federal power, and the Supreme Court.

For almost two decades the work of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti has remained at the forefront of theoretical production. Their rigorously?detailed and exquisitely drawn projects characterize an attitude of?aesthetic realism towards materials, construction, function, and the?cultural role of architecture. Yet the conditions they address, and the?effects they produce, are unprecedented. Their projects synthesize?seemingly incompatible images, uses, and typologies.??Unprecedented Realism is not an illustration of theory. Rather,?what emerges is a constructive theory of architecture that understands the process of design itself as a distinct mode of knowledge --?as theoretical research that is still irreducibly architectural.??Unprecedented Realism presents both buildings and urban?infrastructures: Steps of Providence, RI; Entrance for Cranbrook,?Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Carnegie-Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh;?Pershing Square, Los Angeles; and Times Square, New York City.??Along with the analytic text of K. Michael Hays, the volume includes?critical essays by Alan Colquhoun, George Baird, Farès el-Dahdah,?and Rodolphe el-Khoury (please see the Table of Contents).

In 2017, the heat waves, extreme wild fires, and flooding around the worldconfirmed beyond doubt that climate disruption is now a full-blown emergency.We have entered Churchill’s “period of consequences”, yet governments havesimply watched the disasters magnify, while rushing ahead with new pipelinesand annual trillions in fossil fuel subsidies.Governments simply cannot say they did not know. The events we are seeingtoday have been consistently forecast ever since the First Assessment by theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was signed by allgovernments back in 1990, which The Lancet has described as the best researchproject ever designed.Unprecedented Crime first lays out the culpability of governmental, political andreligious bodies, corporations, and the media through their failure to report oract on the climate emergency. No emergency response has even beencontemplated by wealthy high-emitting national governments. Extreme weatherreporting never even hints at the need to address climate change.It then reports how independently of governments, scores of proven zero-carbon game changers have been coming online all over the world. Theseexciting technologies, described in the book, are now able to power bothhousehold electricity and energy-dense heavy industry.We already have the technical solutions to the CO2 problem. With thesesolutions we can act in time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to near-zerowithin 20 years.These willful crimes against life itself by negligent governments, oblivious mediaand an insouciant civil society are crimes that everyday citizens can nonethelessreadily grasp – and then take to the streets and to the courts to protest onbehalf of their children and grand-children.This thoroughly researched and highly-documented book will show them how.

The complete, ultimate biography of Heisman Trophy winner, Florida State national champion and New York Knicks point guard Charlie WardIt takes a once-in-a-generation athlete to win a national championship as a quarterback for Florida State, reach the Sweet Sixteen three times as a point guard for his school, and then go on to become a starting guard for the New York Knicks in an NBA Finals. Yes, Charlie Ward's athletic accomplishments truly know no peer. Combine a twelve-year NBA career with a College Football Hall of Fame career and the portrait of a humble, magnanimous leader takes shape.The Athlete is the first definitive biography of Charlie Ward. Culled from hundreds of articles, clippings, books and original interviews with those who know Charlie best, this story begins with a foundation of college athletic excellence laid down by his father. From there, Jon Finkel traces Ward's background from small-town Thomasville, Georgia to football-crazed Tallahassee to basketball Mecca Madison Square Garden in New York City. Ward's remarkable journey includes staggering setbacks--from a near career-ending leg injury in high school, to academic obstacles prior to attending Florida State, to not being drafted by an NFL team after winning the Heisman Trophy. Through it all, Charlie's calm demeanor, high character and unshakeable faith buoyed his belief that be it basketball or football, grades or career, he was going to succeed and set a strong example along the way.As electrifying as Charlie Ward's highlight reel, The Athlete is a towering sports biography, epic in scope and triumphant in its portrayal of one of the greatest modern athletes the world has ever seen.

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Far too much emphasis has been placed on tools, tools and more tools (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data. It is Balestracci's goal in Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results to teach a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone. Many high-level executives have no idea of the vast potential that exists to allow their organizations to take a quantum leap to unprecedented results through a common language of data sanity new, more productive conversations in reaction to everyday use of data and the resulting meetings and actions.

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Dust jacket notes: "On a sleepy Saturday morning in a mountain hollow in West Virginia, a coal company's refuse-pile dam collapsed, devastating the sixteen small towns in the Buffalo Creek Valley below, killing over 125 people and scarring forever the lives of those who survived. The coal company immediately proclaimed the tragedy 'an act of God.' The survivors knew better. As one said, 'You can blame the Almighty all right - the almighty dollar.' A few hundred of these four thousand survivors banded together to find 'a law firm the company can't scare off or buy off.' They found Gerald Stern, the public interest partner in the well-known Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter. The reader joins Gerald Stern on his first flight into this remote are of West Virginia and follows him, step by step, as he reveals his thoughts, fears and strategies throughout one of the largest lawsuits in this country's history. It is a fascinating account of 'investigative lawyering,' of how he used the law to uncover, layer by layer, the evidence of the coal company's reckless conduct. But The Buffalo Creek Disaster is more than an inside look at a gripping legal drama. It is also an absorbing tale of human suffering, and human triumph, with personal stories movingly interwoven among the complexities of the court proceedings. The suspense grows as each side jockeys to win the case. In the end, there is a whole army of lawyers, doctors and psychiatrists involved as the survivors establish their right to recover, as survivors, for their own mental suffering, in addition to their traditional right to recover for the deaths of their loved ones and for their property losses. Gerald Stern has written a penetrating behind-the-scenes account of a precedent-making lawsuit, unveiling the mystery of the law in human terms."

Traces the history of strongwomen, offers profiles of top women bodybuilders, and describes their attitudes towards bodybuilding

The complete, ultimate biography of Heisman Trophy winner, Florida State national champion and New York Knicks point guard Charlie WardIt takes a once-in-a-generation athlete to win a national championship as a quarterback for Florida State, reach the Sweet Sixteen three times as a point guard for his school, and then go on to become a starting guard for the New York Knicks in an NBA Finals. Yes, Charlie Ward's athletic accomplishments truly know no peer. Combine a twelve-year NBA career with a College Football Hall of Fame career and the portrait of a humble, magnanimous leader takes shape.The Athlete is the first definitive biography of Charlie Ward. Culled from hundreds of articles, clippings, books and original interviews with those who know Charlie best, this story begins with a foundation of college athletic excellence laid down by his father. From there, Jon Finkel traces Ward's background from small-town Thomasville, Georgia to football-crazed Tallahassee to basketball Mecca Madison Square Garden in New York City. Ward's remarkable journey includes staggering setbacks--from a near career-ending leg injury in high school, to academic obstacles prior to attending Florida State, to not being drafted by an NFL team after winning the Heisman Trophy. Through it all, Charlie's calm demeanor, high character and unshakeable faith buoyed his belief that be it basketball or football, grades or career, he was going to succeed and set a strong example along the way.As electrifying as Charlie Ward's highlight reel, The Athlete is a towering sports biography, epic in scope and triumphant in its portrayal of one of the greatest modern athletes the world has ever seen.

"If you are a salesperson, you will find yourself in this book. Treat it like your road map to success and you will be a professional salesperson." - Willis Turner, CSE President, Sales and Marketing Executives International, Inc. "This action-oriented book covers the best practices of top sales performers in all critical areas. The lessons are easy to learn and they will help you forge more rewarding customer relationships, a higher income, and a richer career satisfaction. A must-read for any salesperson who wants to improve and reach the next level of success." - Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and Publisher, Selling Power magazine "As a professor teaching MBA students for twenty years, I encourage everyone in management to make this required reading for their sales teams." - Dr. Michael Russell, Chairman of the Marketing Dept., St. Bonaventure University "Each page is full of ideas for instant sales and commissions!" - Anthony Parinello, author of Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO

Far too much emphasis has been placed on tools, tools and more tools (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data. It is Balestracci's goal in Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results to teach a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone. Many high-level executives have no idea of the vast potential that exists to allow their organizations to take a quantum leap to unprecedented results through a common language of data sanity new, more productive conversations in reaction to everyday use of data and the resulting meetings and actions.

An estimated 100 million Americans (one third of the total US population) live with daily, chronic pain. This book presents to the public the next generation and most revolutionary, effective, innocuous, non-invasive, and inexpensive treatment for the root causes of chronic pain with no drugs or surgeries. These estimated numbers for the US apply to the rest of the world putting in evidence chronic pain as the number one affliction worldwide, and showing that medicine has little to offer other than very costly containment strategies with drugs -creating an addiction epidemic among many other serious problems- or invasive strategies with surgical and other interventions. If you are one of these millions of people, this is for you. You don’t have to live in pain. A revolution, PNT marks the dawn of a new paradigm in the healing arts. Learn about the thousands of people like you going through amazingly simple and profoundly life changing experiences in the hands of the new generation of healing practitioners bringing PNT to the world. Learn what you can do to leave chronic pain behind for good. The discovery of PNT and the expansion of its practice worldwide is one of the most fundamental and significant contributions to the medical sciences in the history of medicine. Let the judge of the significance of this revolution be you, don’t just take my words for it.

Traces the harrowing story of the three-year DNA investigative effort to identify the victims of the World Trade Center attacks, describing the obstacles faced by the author and his forensic biology team to bring closure to thousands of bereaved families. 75,000 first printing.