When Paul Benedict, an American, drops in unannounced at Constanza's Austrian chalet, he encounters Major Ruiz, a ruthless killer, and Herr Tolz, a counterspy, and learns that the lovely Constanza is actually a kidnapper

Choice of evils

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ROSS, PHILIP

Thrillers & Suspense

TOR.

Investigator James Marley is determined to find out why a computer genius ran away to the Caribbean with a former bar girl when he was on the verge of a lucrative software development

White Flower

Literature & Fiction

United States

Tor Books

Tom Talley is hired by the CIA to discover why Professor Lawrence Hovey, a man the agency never heard of, was sentenced to five years for espionage in Czechoslovakia and confessed to being a CIA agent

Hovey's Deception

Traditional office work, characterized by repetitive clerical tasks, is rapidly giving way to "knowledge work," characterized by the creative application and exchange of information. In response, architects around the world are leaving aside the old cubicle grid to design innovative, high-tech offices that foster knowledge work and, at the same time, help workers balance the competing demands of colleagues, customers, and family. The forty-three exceptional workplaces profiled in this timely volume were all completed within the last six years and serve a wide variety of organizations both private and public, small and large. Examples range from the headquarters of an advertising firm where one enormous table seats all two hundred employees, facilitating communication, to a BMW plant where the factory production line runs through and above the administrative offices, unifying the corporate community. The authors skillfully distinguish the primary trends in contemporary office design by dividing their engagingly written case studies among four chapters, each dedicated to a particular type of workplace: "Academics" encourage the sharing of knowledge within a corporate structure; "Guilds" allow the members of a profession to interact as peers; "Agoras" bring the workplace closer to the marketplace, and to civic life; and "Lodges" combine the home and the office. Two hundred vivid color photographs and fifty architectural drawings show how the featured architects have configured public areas, meeting rooms, and private work spaces to meet the needs of today's increasingly versatile and mobile workers. The inclusion of an informative introduction, which outlines the economic and technological factors driving the rapid evolution of contemporary workplace architecture, further ensures that this attractive book will be an essential reference for everybody who has a hand in designing offices, and thought-provoking reading for everybody who works in one.

Radical Office Design

Arts & Photography

Myerson, Jeremy

Architecture

Abbeville Press

Investigator James Marley is determined to find out why a computer genius ran away to the Caribbean with a former bar girl when he was on the verge of a lucrative software development

Professor Hovey, an American, is jailed for espionage in Prague, and confesses to having been hired by the CIA, but the CIA doesn't know what he's talking about

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

To save the life of a child, James Marley searches desperately for the elusive, former radical Sarah Kleinhagen, responsible for the bombing of a government facility, and discovers that they are both being stalked by a ruthless killer

Blue Heron

21st Century Office

This groundbreaking, comprehensive survey of workplace architecture of the new century captures emerging themes and ideas in office design from around the world. Rapid organizational, economic, and technological change has led to the creation of new workplace models that challenge designers to rework traditional theories. The 21st Century Office features forty-five case studies of offices planned or opened after January 2000 that showcase revolutionary designs in response to contemporary design challenges. The book begins by differentiating between today's workplace and the mechanistic, process-driven workplace model of twentieth-century modernism. This is followed by chapters focusing on four main thematic directions in contemporary office design-narrative, nodal, neighborly, and nomadic. Among the offices featured are Ogilvy &amp; Mather, Los Angeles; Reebok, Canton, MA; TBWA/Chiat/ Day, Los Angeles; PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philadelphia; Oliver, IBM, Santa Monica, CA.

Meyerson, Jeremy

Rizzoli

Government As a Source of Union Power

Business & Money

Brown Univ Pr

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Choice of evils

White Flower

Hovey's Deception

Radical Office Design

White Flower

Hovey's Deception

Blue Heron

21st Century Office

21st Century Office

Government As a Source of Union Power