03050nam 2200637Ia 450 991045816860332120200520144314.01-299-05284-31-60344-455-6(CKB)2560000000056219(EBL)3037849(SSID)ssj0000531092(PQKBManifestationID)11364244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000531092(PQKBWorkID)10583613(PQKB)10263560(MiAaPQ)EBC3037849(OCoLC)702137135(MdBmJHUP)muse1108(Au-PeEL)EBL3037849(CaPaEBR)ebr10436027(CaONFJC)MIL436534(OCoLC)923700409(EXLCZ)99256000000005621920070404d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHell's islands[electronic resource] the untold story of Guadalcanal /Stanley Coleman Jersey ; foreword by Edward W. Snedeker1st ed.College Station Texas A&M University Pressc20081 online resource (537 p.)Texas A & M University military history series ;111Description based upon print version of record.1-58544-616-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Hell�s Islands""; ""1 The Eve of World War II""; ""2 The Enemy at the Doorstep""; ""3 Flying Before the Storm""; ""4 The Japanese in the Southern Solomons, May�August 1942""; ""5 Preparing for Battle""; ""6 The Early Air War""; ""7 Day One, Guadalcanal""; ""8 Day One: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo""; ""9 Day Two: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo""; ""10 Guadalcanal: Hanging On""; ""11 Bloody September""; ""12 Black October""; ""13 A River Too Far""; ""14 War in the Outer Islands""""15 The U.S. Army Takes Over""""16 The Ke-go Operation""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix 1 Telegram to U.S. Navy Forces, 4 August 1942""; ""Appendix 2 Japanese Naval Forces in the Southern Solomons""; ""Appendix 3 Japanese 2nd Infantry Division""; ""Appendix 4 The Japanese Seventeenth Army Group""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Special Acknowledgments""; ""Index""Texas A & M University military history series ;111.World War, 1939-1945CampaignsSolomon IslandsGuadalcanalGuadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)History, MilitaryElectronic books.World War, 1939-1945CampaignsGuadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.940.54/265933Jersey Stanley Coleman1921-1030105MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458168603321Hell's islands2446876UNINA05088nam 2200637 a 450 991078450530332120230617040132.01-134-27472-61-281-15864-X97866111586440-203-64098-5(CKB)1000000000401082(EBL)308698(OCoLC)191800061(SSID)ssj0000105319(PQKBManifestationID)11133664(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105319(PQKBWorkID)10101531(PQKB)11124763(MiAaPQ)EBC308698(Au-PeEL)EBL308698(CaPaEBR)ebr10227289(CaONFJC)MIL115864(EXLCZ)99100000000040108220050218d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArchitecture and its ethical dilemmas[electronic resource] /edited by Nicholas RayLondon ;New York Taylor & Francisc20051 online resource (422 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-34869-2 0-415-34868-4 Includes bibliographical reference (p. [157]-162) and index.Contents; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Footnotes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Footnotes; Part 1 The historical perspective; Chapter 2 Practical wisdom for architects; The architect as quasi-arbitrator; Higher ideals; Survival; Architecture as art; Puginian truthfulness; Usefulness, and the architect's mission; The idea of the avant-garde; A moral agenda for today; Footnotes; Chapter 3 The Cambridge History Faculty Building; Footnotes; Part 2 The professional context in the twenty-first century; Footnotes; Chapter 4 Architecture and its ethical dilemmas; PartneringSpecialist contractorsDesign quality; Footnotes; Chapter 5 Architecture, art and accountability; Footnotes; Chapter 6 Responsive practice; The context of practice; An ethical role; Managerial or ethical values; The design team; Appropriate architectural education; Measuring design quality; Footnotes; Chapter 7 On being a humble architect; Footnotes; Part 3 Accountability and the architectural imagination; Chapter 8 Accountability, trust and professional practice; Is trust obsolete?; Accountability and transparency; 'Managerial accountability'; Merits and limits of managerial accountabilityAn intelligent approach to accountabilityThe general structure of intelligent accountability; Adding transparency; Standards for intelligent accountability; Informed judgement; Independent judgement; Intelligible communication; Institutions, professions and professionalism; Footnotes; Chapter 9 Moral imagination and the practice of architecture; The practice of architecture; Practice as the locus of 'the good'; Narratives of practice; Communities of practice; Agency and responsibility; Moral imagination; Exercising moral imagination; Moral imagination in practiceMoral imagination as artisticMoral imagination as communal and systemic; Footnotes; Chapter 10 Codes of ethics and coercion; The ARB and the RIBA standards; Vulnerability; Cultural capital; Codes and coercion; Some partial prescriptions; Postscript; Footnotes; Part 4 Personal and public ethos; Chapter 11 Hearth and horizon; Competing ethical demands; Habit; The habits of architecture; An alternative ethos; Nature and culture; Footnotes; Chapter 12 Architecture, luxury and ethics; Footnotes; Part 5 Ethics and aesthetics; Chapter 13 Less aesthetics, more ethicsThe ethical function of architectureCognitive mapping; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 14 Architecture, morality and taste; Philosophy, history and philosophical merit; Beauty and the sensual; Culture; Courbet's Origin of the World; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 15 Afterword; Footnotes; Select bibliography; IndexA cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current discussion of ethics in architecture on to a new stage, this volume provides an accumulation of diverse oArchitectsProfessional ethicsArchitectural practiceMoral and ethical aspectsArchitectsProfessional ethics.Architectural practiceMoral and ethical aspects.174/.972Ray Nicholas551519MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784505303321Architecture and its ethical dilemmas3864565UNINA