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The Ultimate Book of Home Plans
The Editors of Homeowner Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580113362 Release Date: 2007-03-01 |
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Creative Homeowners lead title in its tremendously successful, ground-breaking home plan series, the revised The New Ultimate Book of Home Plans offers readers 730 of the best-selling designs from leading architects and designers. We added 130 additional home designs to this revised edition. Over 250 gorgeous, full-color photographs allow readers to experience homes actually built from the designs, plus some interiors. Virtually every home style is offered, including farmhouses, country cottages, contemporaries, luxury estates, vacation retreats, and regional specialties. In addition to these designs, The New Ultimate Book of Home Plans offers practical tips and advice on everything from selecting a site and hiring a contractor to adding such finishing touches as trimwork and landscaping.Customer Reviews:
Not a very good collection of plans.......2007-07-01
Great book for me to build my dream........2006-11-06
A Wish Book for adults.......2006-03-10
Title is accurate........2005-10-29
Close to "Ultimate".......2005-04-12
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The Ultimate House Book: For Home Design in the Twenty-First Century
Terence Conran Manufacturer: Conran ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1840913525 |
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A new book for a new century. This is the only book that you will need to plan, design and decorate your home whether you are buying your first, apartment or moving your family into a restored Brownstone. It is designed specifically to adhere to the demands of a modern lifestyle so the versatility and flexibility of space are central to its philosophy. The Ulitmate House Book is a comprehensive compendium providing everything you need to know from buying to building, improving to decorating, furnishing to fitting out. Combining inspiration with practical advice, in-depth case studies with hundreds of illustrated examples, this is the bible for modern living spaces, their design and the way in which we use them.Customer Reviews:
One of the few house design books you need.......2007-04-04
great book.......2007-02-15
The Ultimate House Book by Conran et al........2004-08-21
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The Ultimate Book of Designer Dream Homes: Over 475 Best-Selling Plans
Designs Direct Publishing Manufacturer: Designs Direct Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1932553185 |
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The Ultimate Homeschool Plan Book is just what it sounds like--the last planner you will ever need to purchase!Featuring ready-to-copy pages, this attractive planner can be used year after year after year. Simply choose which of the forms and sheets will be beneficial for you,make copies, and your set. And since you can photocopy and customize and change your planner from year to year, you will never have to purchase another! In addition to the every-imaginable worksheet and planning tool, THE ULTIMATE HOMESCHOOL PLAN BOOK features loads of articles to help guide you on your journey. You'll find article on how to schedule, how to balance your homeschool, organizing the home, budgeting your money and much more. After all we talked to hundreds of homeschoolers to find out what they wanted and needed in order to efficiently plan their homeschooling year. Then we created this planner to fill that need.
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This includes nearly every form you would ever need.......2007-03-13
Excellent Resource.......2006-12-01
It's okay but not super.......2006-04-05
Make Your Own........2005-12-23
This is a great resource for new homeschool moms.......2005-09-07
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Edvard Munch's Mermaid
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0271028564 |
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Edvard Munch's Mermaid
John Zarobell Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQR4AY |
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Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed (Revealed)
Chris Botello Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1598630288 |
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Get ready to capture the dynamic capabilities that Adobe Premiere Pro® 2.0 has to offer! Giving you a firm foundation, "Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed" allows you to master concepts on both a technical and artistic level. Begin by examining the concept behind each task-the goal and the necessary features that are involved. Then go in-depth with the objective of your task as you study examples and learn the steps necessary to complete it. Working your way through comprehensive, step-by-step lessons, you'll develop the confidence you need to create polished, professional-looking videos using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.
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Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed Projects Workbook
Ann Fisher Manufacturer: Course Technology ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1418860468 |
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Get ready to capture the dynamic capabilities that Adobe® Premiere® Pro 2.0 has to offer! This workbook is the perfect complement to the Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Revealed text and contains end-of-chapter exercises to make it easy for students to practice the skills learned. This companion text provides the tools needed to help students use what they've learned in the main textbook and develop the confidence to create amazing videos using Adobe Premiere Pro. Also available with the book is an Instructor Resources CD containing PowerPoint® slides for each chapter, a test bank, lecture notes, and solutions.
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Why are your Papers in Order?
Rh Value Publishing Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0517623455 Release Date: 1986-08-13 |
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Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion
Mary Louise Gude Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 026801308X |
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Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion........2001-08-01
Massignon had a most active life for a scholar, as Gude shows in her well-written and judicious biography. It included the excavation of an Iraqi fort, near-execution on a Turkish steamer, a passionate homosexual love affair, military combat in the first world war and a refusal to hand over the keys to a Bordeaux town in the second. Massignon experienced a dramatic conversion from secularism to Catholicism at age 24, ordination as a married Catholic priest at the age of 66, and arrest for political activities at the age of 75. He enjoyed friendships with such figures as Martin Buber, Paul Claudel, Charles de Foucauld, T. E. Lawrence, and François Mauriac.
Massignon forwarded too many eccentric ideas to found a school of thought or have his views accepted in their totality, but his deeply-held sympathy for Islam had immense influence both among fellow specialists (thanks to his unique scholarly accomplishments) and more broadly among the French intellectual elite (thanks to his long history of political activism). Massignon's writings and organizing won almost no practical victories, but his passionate determination to find common ground for Christians and Muslims have profoundly shaped the way several generations of sophisticated Westerners respond to that faith. Current American policy toward Islam bears the clear impress of his thinking.
Middle East Quarterly, Sept 1997
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Rare Jewel for a King
Anne M. Logan Manufacturer: Boston Mills Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 091978335X |
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Family Business: United We Stand-Divided We Fall
Laurie Pickard Manufacturer: Avant-Courier Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 0966697804 |
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Family Business: United We Stand-Divided We Fall is a comprehensive study of the dual relationship that exists in all family owned and operated companies. This twofold nature of being a member in a family and then transferring that membership into employment in the family business forms an alliance that is supposedly entered into for mutual benefit.It is healthy role behavior that sustains a functional family-run business. The emotional atmosphere within the company, formed through the family's pattern of relating, will enhance or destroy all that is initially well-intended. Give yourself permission to be open to understanding and subsequently to defining your family's "themes."
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Negocios familiares.(TT: Family business.)(Reseña): An article from: Semana
Javier Bernal Manufacturer: Spanish Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008H8DT0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on May 26, 2000. The length of the article is 576 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520215117 |
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When the first American Marines marched into Vietnam in March 1965, historical consensus holds, they were there because there was no alternative. President Johnson's hand had been forced by the right-wing hawks and the Communists. The general public wholeheartedly supported defending South Vietnam, as did our allies in Europe.That's not really the case, argues Fredrik Logevall, in Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. His provocative thesis--that Kennedy, Johnson, Rusk, McNamara, and Bundy chose to escalate American involvement when the war could have been avoided--is well supported by careful archival research and newly declassified documents. Logevall focuses on what he calls "The Long 1964"--18 critical months between August 1963 and February 1965, at the end of which President Johnson made the decision to "Americanize" the war. Despite many opportunities to negotiate a settlement, the Kennedy and the Johnson administrations were opposed to early negotiation--in part because they were worried about being seen as "soft on Communism" before the 1964 presidential election. Where this book is most interesting--and, in the long run, most valuable--is in Logevall's careful study of the conflict and American policymaking in international context. Looking at how the war played in London, Paris, Ottawa, Tokyo, Moscow, and Beijing--not just in Hanoi and Washington--reveals that even our allies had grave doubts about the probable outcome of a war. Both our allies and our enemies understood that "the Vietnam conflict's importance derived in large measure from its potential to threaten their own political standing--and their party's standing--at home." Compelling and controversial, Logevall's book is an excellent addition to the literature on the Vietnam War. --Sunny Delaney
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In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, Choosing War argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time.Customer Reviews:
A Very Excellent Work.......2007-09-24
A real page-turner.......2006-09-19
Escalation: By whom and why.......2003-04-25
Choosing War.......2002-05-27
Scathing & Illuminating Examination Of Why Vietnam...........2000-10-09
Unlike Kaiser in his excellent book, Professor Logevall chooses to concentrate impressively on a critical eighteen-month period spanning from the summer of 1963 to the early winter of 1965, and the fateful steps taken during that period toward a policy of escalation and direct involvement of American combat units. The author contends that any one of a number of important opportunities to step aside were deliberately ignored, often based on important information provided by key insiders such as McNamara. As the record also shows, this information was anything but the disinterested and objective assessment of the political, economic, and military situation on the ground in South Vietnam it was presented as. In this sense both President Kennedy and President Johnson were victims of a quite deliberate campaign of misinformation and self-serving worst-case analysis by Rusk, McNamara, and Westmoreland.
It was in such a poisonous and duplicitous environment that Lyndon Johnson made a fateful series of decisions to escalate the war by "Americanizing" it, something Kennedy before him had quite insistently denied permission to do. The author also argues quite persuasively that both Kennedy and Johnson had stepped away from opportunities for disengaging from the involvement in Vietnam for domestic political reasons, including a concern with being seen as "soft" on communism in the period preceding the coming national elections of 1964. This is substantiated by Johnson's actions after Kennedy's assassination; while secretly initiating actions to escalate the war, Johnson self-consciously campaigned saying exactly the opposite. He understood the potential firestorm American involvement could have for both liberal and conservative criticism, and was therefore careful to mitigate his vulnerability by neutralizing it as a political factor until after the Presidential elections of 1964.
Likewise, once committed to a policy of massive American participation in the war, Johnson feared the personal consequences both domestically and internationally were he to decide to withdraw and admit defeat. Yet world leaders almost uniformly distanced themselves from American involvement, and privately counseled Johnson to "cut and run". In addition, Johnson's own lack of appreciation for the potential damage our involvement in Vietnam might have on international relations resulted in a number of lost opportunities for détente and improvement in relations with both the Soviet Union and China. Based on his own personal frailties and the bad counsel of both his military and civilian advisors, he pursued the single most disastrous course imaginable; further escalation, condemning not only his own domestic program but nearly 60,000 American soldiers to untimely (and absolutely unnecessary) death.
This is am intriguing, insightful, and important book, and the author writes both in an entertaining and accessible style. He mirrors the evidence presented in other recent books such as the aforementioned Kaiser tome, and also in Major H.R. McMaster's absorbing recent book, "Dereliction Of Duty; Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, And The Lies That Led to Vietnam", and handily helps to put the lie to the kind of neo-revisionist saber-rattling of armchair conservatives like Michael Lind ( one wonders if Lind was ever in the military; or if he is a "George W. Bush" kind of born-again macho clebrant of combat who has never had a shot fired at him, an armchair enthusiast who cheered from the sidelines as a passive noncombatant member of the Texas Air National Guard). Gee, let's fly planes over the vacant Texas tundra and we can call ourselves patriots! Lind would have us believe this was all God's work in his silly and wrong-headed narrative "The Necessary War". Since he was likely still in his nappies when the firestorm was raining all over the heads of the more than half million uneducated, largely blue-collar men and women we deployed at any one time to Vietnam, I wonder how he would know. Did he read about it at Yale? "Choosing War", on the other hand, is an excellent and carefully crafted work of scholarship, and one that helps to nail together a much more comprehensive understanding of how it was we were so badly and quite unnecessarily led into this most unfortunate of American wars.
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Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Noam Kochavi Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JB6J2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1048 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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That Lousy War: Explaining Vietnam.(Review) (book review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Adam Garfinkle Manufacturer: Institute on Religion and Public Life ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008J7KWO Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 8268 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Asia Pacific ; A View on its Role in the New World Order
Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson Manufacturer: Viking Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0670853208 |
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Asia-Pacific in the New World Order (Open University Pacific Studies Course)
Anthony Mcgrew Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415172721 |
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Asia-Pacific in the New World Order critically explores the notion that a distinctive regional power bloc is developing, linking countries bordering the Pacific, with East Asia at its core. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific arena into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. Historical narratives alongside geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives are deployed to examine the shifting pattern of power relations and security structures across the region, set within a wider world context. Key issues addressed include: the primary security problems of the region and how are they being resolved; the dynamic growth of the region, and particularly the rise of China as a challenge to existing structures of world order. The text has a strong interdisciplinary flavor drawing on analytical approaches from international relations, political economy and political geography literature. Authors have been drawn from the Asia-Pacific region and the UK and all are established scholars in their specialist fields.
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MALAYSIA: Plans for proposed $180,000,000 magnesium plant relocation and upgrade project move ahead, NEW WORLD ALLOYS LTD. [Australia] - Order #: 041003. ... Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific
Manufacturer: Worldwide Projects, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009FWUFY Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1168 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Southeast Asia in the New World Order: The Political Economy of a Dynamic Region.: An article from: Pacific Affairs
R.S. Milne Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000987D30 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 576 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Electronic Light Microscopy (Techniques in Modern Biomedical Microscopy)
DAVID, ED. SHOTTON Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471560774 |
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Uses a methods-oriented approach to examine the principles and practice of confocal and video microscopy, including computer reconstruction in three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy.
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Principles and Techniques of Scanning Electron Microscopy
M. Arif Hayat Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0442256868 |
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