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Angkor Wat: Meaning Through Measurement. (Volumes I and II) (Architecture, Astronomy; Cambodia).
(1985)
Angkor Wat was constructed in the first half of the twelfth century by King Suryavarman II (r. 1135 - ca. 1150 A.D.). The temple is located at Angkor, a site of more than a dozen major Khmer monuments constructed between ...
Rites of Passage: the Making of a Professional Architect.
(1987)
This case study of an architectural college in the United States explores the experience of professional education from the perspective of the students. An interpretive analysis of the institution and its system of instruction ...
The Role of Public Discourse in the Soil Conservation Movement, 1865-1935.
(1985)
This dissertation is a study of the role of public discourse in the soil conservation movement in America from 1865 to 1935 including the major issues, themes and appeals of the spokesmen in the movement. Eleven key spokesmen ...
Television as Entertainer and as Educator: Processing and Reconstructing Narrative Content.
(1982)
This study explores the nature of cognitive responses to television content--the organization and reconstruction of a videotaped stimulus--within an experimental context. Three models of information processing encountered ...
Management Development Programs in Large Public Libraries in the United States.
(1982)
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which management development programs exist in large public libraries and to investigate the financial strategies for such training activities. The study also aimed ...
Open Office Programming: Assessment of "The Workstation Game" as a Planning Tool.
(1987)
There is an urgent need for employee participation in the office space planning process. While most management and space planners would agree with this, they also say that, for most office relocations, employee participation ...
Environmental Comfort as Criteria for Energy Management: a Case Study.
(1983)
One of the major tasks of architects and engineers is to design buildings which provide environmental comfort to the occupants. For building managers and operators, the maintenance of environmental comfort in buildings is ...
March Music in Nineteenth-Century America.
(1983)
This study of march music defines the march in form, style, and function in 19th-century America. A history of the origin of the march, before 1800, in European dance and military practices is also included. A distinction ...
The Chinese Impact on Certain Fifteenth Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul.
(1981)
The artistic contact between China and the Islamic world was initiated as early as the eighth century; from that period waves of Chinese influence reached the Islamic world continually, sometimes in an obvious manner and ...
Children's perceptions of television as a function of various modes of parental guidance.
(1988)
This study focuses on perceptions of children (from ages 7 to 16) of attributes associated with television and the TV-watching experience. The dependent variables include children's evaluations of television as good or ...