Author: C. R. Roseberry File Type: pdf A lavishly illustrated history of New Yorks Capitol and its recent renovation.The New York State Capitol sits majestically at the head of Albanys State Street, a masterpiece of civic architecture and decorative design. Built between 1867 and 1899, it was the work of four architectsThomas Fuller, Leopold Eidlitz, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Isaac Perrywho labored under geologically difficult, structurally challenging, and politically exasperating conditions. The building is also the product of hundreds of highly skilled masons and exceptional stone carvers. It is a feat of architectural design and engineering expertise, with superlatively executed interior features and finishes.First published in 1964 and reissued in 1982, C. R. Roseberrys Capitol Story tells the fascinating story of the Capitols design and construction. This revised and expanded edition includes new information based on research done over the past twenty years, and brings the story up to date with a new chapter on the extensive interior and exterior restorations that were completed in 2013. The book also includes scores of new, specially commissioned, full-color photographs notes and an index.Capitol Story will appeal to a wide audienceyoung and old, New Yorkers and visitors, architecture and history buffs. More importantly, it will help build an educated constituency for the Capitol, one that will understand and be prepared to preserve the building in the years to come.C. R. Roseberrys Capitol Story, published in 1964, gave us a marvelous history of the anguished thirty-year building of the New York State Capitola cavalcade of political clashes over its ever-escalating cost, rampant graft, public scorn, a battle royal among its eminent architects, yet a project that overrode all fury and became the most grandiose capitol in America. Now, half a century later, Diana S. Waite has enhanced Roseberrys history, meticulously detailing the Capitols restoration after fire, water, aging, and piecemeal changes marred its beauty and functionality. The book is elegantly designed with exquisite new color photos by Gary David Gold a grand documentation of a great American work of art. William KennedyThis third edition of Capitol Story brings the history of one of New York States most important landmarks full circlefrom its tumultuous thirty-year construction, through a devastating fire in 1911, to its recently completed world-class restoration. Along the way we are treated to the stories of the politicians, the architects, the craftspeople, and the preservationists that have created and preserved what many regard to be a state capitol like no other in the nation. Every student of New York architecture and preservation should know this story. Jay A. DiLorenzo, President, Preservation League of New York StateCapitol Story recounts the continuing saga of the people who planned, designed, built, renovated, and restored the New York State Capitol and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza. Spanning more than 200 years, this book succinctly traces the political, economic, artistic, and innovative decisions made over time to create and maintain a government complex befitting New York State. Recent scholarship, contemporary photographs, and a new chapter on restoration efforts bring this story to the present. Tammis K. Groft, Executive Director, Albany Institute of History & Art

Author: Marc Levinson File Type: pdf The definitive guide to why different financial markets exist and how they operate. Extensively revised and updated, the 4th edition of this best-selling book, brings the reader right up to speed with the latest developments in financial instruments and provides a clear and incisive guide to this complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. With chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, it looks at why these markets exist, how they work and who trades in them, and it gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates. Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms in financial markets they didnt properly understand. Read this book and you and your company wont be new additions to this list. A fabulous source of reference for anyone wishing to understand financial markets - there is no better guide.