John Dyson

In Dead Horse Bay, John Dyson's novel, three unlikely characters plan to rescue the geese that molt near Kennedy Airport from being killed. The geese are in danger because a goose has collided with an airplane at New York's, La Guardia Airport and all geese living within a 7-mile radius of La Guardia Airport are to be killed.The novel is named after the place where the action starts out and this is also the place where the action ends. Dead Horse Bay, is a small bay within Jamaica Bay and Jamaica Bay extends inland to Kennedy Airport. Dead Horse Bay earned its name because of the dead city horses that New York City dumped there in the 1800s. The three characters rescuing the geese are Marty, Tanisha and Don. Marty, at age 73, has initially little interest in rescuing geese, until he realizes that a goose rescue would be payback for the damage that airport construction did to the bay when he was a kid. Tanisha, at age 26, is student at Brooklyn Law School and has become involved with "Goose Watch" a local environmental group that is run by a fellow student. Don is a reformed duck hunter, who in the past has shot ducks and geese. Don still owns a shotgun, but now he finds it difficult to pull the trigger.Probably, the best comp (comparable title) is Edward Abbeys novel called The Monkey Wrench Gang, but this is a gentler novel. Marty, though, does idolize George Washington Hayduke, one of Abbeys characters, and he show this by littering Jamaica Bay with beer cans. But, unlike Hayduke with his brawn, Marty realizes early on that he will have to use psychology and cunning if they are going to succeed with the goose rescue.

Dead Horse Bay

Through the eyes of Pedro, a young boy on the Santa Maria, readers relive what it was like to sail on the fateful voyage that changed the world forever. Full colour photographs of John Dyson's 1990 voyage in the new Nina, as well as original illustrations, historical paintings, maps and diagrams, give a vivid picture of what it was like to sail with Columbus.

Westward with Columbus

Martin Wood

Mark Bryden

Jaimie Johnston

What opportunities does Design to Value afford the built environment? Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its potential is only now starting to be realised in architecture, engineering and construction. It challenges designers to lead the way in creating more innovative and stakeholder-centric analyses, workflows, construction techniques and products. Through architectural thinking, value in the built environment can be maximised. Seeking to create deep and lasting impacts on industry, society and the planet, Design to Value rejects architecture’s current professional services model. The design and delivery stages of traditional procurement routes are not sustainable, and Design to Value outlines a new path for informed design processes. Bryden Wood, leading international expert in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and the Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), has spent the last fifteen years developing Design to Value as part of a new framework for the future of the design and construction industry. In this essential book, the practice challenges architects and the wider industry to think differently about how value is generated, enhanced and retained in the built realm, providing a method that will improve outcomes for architects, clients, industries and society. Architects must bend and break habitual processes to build better systems, better buildings and better futures. Features: Over 125 images, including photographs, sketches and diagrams Over 20 international case studies, including those from Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia and USA Projects from leading practices, such as Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, David Miller Architects, Kieran Timberlake and Lacaton & Vassal, as well as Bryden Wood.

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Design to Value

Because he is black, lawman Otis McGee suffers a close brush with Judge Lynch after a young white girl, Eunice Thark, is found raped outside the township of Tulsa. How can he escape the angry mob and trace the real assailant? Otis has other problems - a wildcat oilman, busy cheating the Indians out of their land rights, has reasons for wanting McGee dead, and a gang of desperadoes is also after his blood. How can Otis outgun or outwit them and how can he save the dead girl's beautiful twin, Violet, from a similar fate to that of her sister?.

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