Twenty-First Century Estate Agency
Title | Twenty-First Century Estate Agency PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Norwood |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2013-10-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1135327181 |
This book is a must have for those estate agents who want to work more effectively in order to grow their business and profits. With 12,000 separately owned estate agencies in the UK this book illustrates how new technology and working practices can revolutionise the industry. Technology can help to improve the competitiveness and sometimes-tarnished image of estate agents in the eyes of the general public. The book contains case studies from international markets and shows how competitive the industry is and how each competitor needs to adopt new approaches to outwit rivals – and to reassure an increasingly sceptical public that agents are worth using, add value and earn their commission.
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Title | Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne E. Arnold |
Publisher | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2012-12-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1938770900 |
Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.
Next Houses
Title | Next Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Broadhurst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2009-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Presenting a collection of 25 houses on five continents, Next Houses is a tour of the finest residential architecture of this young century. Author Ron Broadhurst has selected examples from nine countries, showcasing established superstars and emerging architects, including UNStudio, David Adjaye, and David Chipperfield, among others. The products of dialogue between demanding clients and innovative designers, these houses represent the best and most innovative living spaces, including homes created with sustainability and ecofriendliness in mind--such as Werner Sobek's H16 and Krauss Schönberg's Haus W--as well as homes constructed on challenging sites--such as Tadao Ando's 4x4 House or Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira's Casa Tolo. An authoritative collection, Next Houses demonstrates uniquely of-the-moment architecture, and offers up a vision of how we will think of homes in the decades to come.
Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Title | Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Jeffries |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2002-02-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134561512 |
This volume examines Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Analysing major political and economic events in these countries from the mid-1990s to the present, a detailed and accessible guide is provided.
21st Century Houses
Title | 21st Century Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Beaver |
Publisher | Images Publishing |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | 1864703814 |
Offers a selection of contemporary house designs in colour spreads. From modest to massive, this title features 150 of the world's most prominent architects, including US architects Swatt Miers, Marmol Radziner, OSKA, and LPA Inc; European architects Jarmund Vigsnaes; and, South American architects Marcio Kogan, Una Arquitectos, and FGMF.
21st Century House
Title | 21st Century House PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Bell |
Publisher | Laurence King Publishing |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781856694537 |
Looking at diverse visions of the modern house, before placing them in the context of the technological and aesthetic concerns of architects, this text features illustrations and architectural drawings for every project, covering various aspects of contemporary house architecture.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Title | Capital in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Piketty |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 817 |
Release | 2017-08-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674979850 |
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.