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Exercise Workbook for Advanced Autocad 2006: With 30-day Trial Version on Cd-rom
Cheryl Shrock Manufacturer: Industrial Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0831132140 |
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AutoCAD 2006 30-Day Trial Version included on the enclosed CD-ROM.Continue your AutoCAD education with this companion to the "Beginning" workbook. Completely updated for AutoCAD 2006 and 2006 LT software, this workbook includes 21 non-intimidating, easy to follow lessons and 3 on-the-job type projects in Architecture, Electro-mechanical and Mechanical fields. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to create customized borders, title blocks, page setups, Isometric drawings, DesignCenter, Xref, Attributes, Ordinate dimensioning, Geometric Tolerances and more. It also provides the basics for 3D solid modeling, such as using solid primitives, Boolean operations, extrude, slice, rotate, revolve, dimension and print.
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A great teacher.......2007-07-22
AutoCAD 2006.......2006-03-20
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Keys to Painting Light & Shadow: Light and Shadow (Keys to Painting)
Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0891349316 |
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Too expensive!.......2004-05-11
Improves observation skills.......2001-12-31
Better understanding to apply light and shadows in your art.......2000-03-26
Subsequent chapters devote to much further the concepts in the books. A couple of step-by-step case studies of paintings by different artists lead readers from start to finish, which allows readers to see how to actually apply the theory in an actual setting (I have always found the best way to learn art is to observer how the good artists do it). The book is easy to follow, with good qualites reproduction of example of paintings, and explanation along with pictures easy to understand. The book is about 124 pages long, ALL color pages (no black and white pictures anywhere, which is good!). This book is designed for anyone who wants to have a better grasp of using light in their art.
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Exploring Basic Black & White Photography (Design Exploration Series)
Joy McKenzie Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Abundant photographs and illustrations visually enhance the fundamental information offered in this new book for learning the manual operation of basic equipment, including a 35 mm camera. Unique in its use of student photographs, this introductory-level book provides a starting point for work in black and white photography that fosters ideas, inspires creativity, and serves as a method for measuring one's own work and techniques. Basic darkroom skills are examined including proper exposure of the negative, processing film, and printing, with an emphasis on camera techniques that helps readers fine-tune their personal vision while also serving as a foundation for more advanced photographic techniques.Customer Reviews:
General Photography Book.......2007-08-24
Exploring Basic Black & White Photography.......2005-09-25
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Exploring Basic Black & White Photography: An Introduction to Basic Camera Techniques, Darkroom Skills, and the Art of Photography (Gaming)
Joy McKenzie Manufacturer: Delmar Thomson Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 140181557X |
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Magical Pokemon Journey, Part 5, Number 1
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Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today General Series)
Manufacturer: Omnigraphics Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0780809688 |
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This volume in the "Biography Today Scientists and Inventors Series" focuses on computer scientists and pioneers of electronic commerce. The illustrated biographical profiles have been written to appeal to young readers ages 9 and up.The following scientists and inventors are covered in Volume 5: Steve Case, founder of America Online, Inc.; Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse; Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster; Sarah Flannery, student who created a method of encoding data; Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp.; Laura Groppe, founder of Girl Games, Inc.; Grace Murray Hopper, pioneering computer programmer; Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.; Rand & Robyn Miller, creators of computer games "Myst" & "Riven"; Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo game "Super Mario"; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.
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Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Author Series, Vol 1)
Manufacturer: Omnigraphics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0780800141 |
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Biography Today Author Series: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Author Series)
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Biography Today: Authors : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Author Series)
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Biography Today Profiles Of People Of Interest to Young Readers Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2001
Cherie (editor) Abbey Manufacturer: Omnigraphics, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000X0VOW0 |
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Biography Today Profiles Of People of Interest to Young Readers Volume 10 Issue 1, January 2001
Laurie Lanzen (executive editor) Harris Manufacturer: Omnigraphics, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000X0TLW0 |
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Biography Today - Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Volume 8, No. 3)
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Biography Today 1993: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers : No 1, Jan 1993
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Mallorca Magica
Carlos Garrido Manufacturer: Olaneta ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8476518226 |
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Die Balearen: Mallorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Menorca (Terra magica)
Hans Cornelius Manufacturer: Reich ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3724301588 |
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Families on the Fault Line America's Working Class speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race and Ethnicity
Lillian B. Rubin Manufacturer: Harper Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0UBEQ |
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Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
Lillian B. Rubin Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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An up-close and intimate look inside the lives, hearts, and minds of America's working-class families.Customer Reviews:
Wonderful book. Very easy to read........2004-12-03
Riviting Rubin.......2000-04-27
Nevertheless, Families on the Fault Line has a pretty broad audience, as shown through her word choice and sentence complexity. This book is a fast and interesting read for anyone interested in learning about the reality of being poor. Moreover, people in the middle and upper classes should read this book in order to get a better understanding of just how unglamorous being poor can be, and what a luxury it is to have job security, some extra money, be able to buy new clothes, afford a higher education for one's children. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned about his or her future, because while the economy may look good now, a person cannot predict how it will be in another two decades.
Explains many contradictions about race and class issues.......1999-01-09
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Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
Lillian B. Rubin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HEQBAM |
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Families on the fault line; America's working class speaks about the family, the economy, race, and ethnicity.
Lilliam B Rubin Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEAQLA |
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The Battle of Adwa Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory Against European Colonialism: Interpretations And Implications for Ethiopia And Beyond
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Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg
James R. Arnold Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 047135063X |
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As the Civil War accelerated, Abraham Lincoln recognized that the army holding Vicksburg, a town located at a strategic bend in the Mississippi River, essentially controlled passage on the entire river. In the spring of 1863 General Ulysses S. Grant was given the task of capturing the town, thereby effectively cutting the Confederacy in half. His campaign, while often overlooked by the general public, is considered by some historians to be brilliant. In this highly readable treatment of the Vicksburg campaign, historian James R. Arnold, author of Napoleon Captures Austria, makes the case that Grant's adroit military maneuvers were the equal of Napoleonic campaigns. The story of this critical turning point in U.S. history is told in a lively manner, and character studies of men such as Jefferson Davis, Admiral David Farragut, Confederate general John Pemberton, and Grant himself enliven the text.Book Description
Vicksburg is the key. . . . Let us get Vicksburg, and all that country is ours.âPresident Abraham Lincoln, 1862In a brilliantly constructed and powerfully rendered new account, James R. Arnold offers a penetrating analysis of Grant's strategies and actions leading to the Union victory at Vicksburg. Approaching these epic events from a unique and well-rounded perspective, and based on careful research, Grant Wins the War is fascinating reading for all Civil War and military history buffs.
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Nicely details the coordination of Union military and naval operations and the boldness and genius of General U. S. Grant that brought Union victory, and he offers an excellent discussion of the technology and tactics of siege warfare. . . . a good drums-and-bugle account of an important event.âLibrary Journal
A particular strength of this work is its demonstration that modern weapons left no shortcuts to victory, and little room for command virtuosity.âPublishers Weekly
Throughout, Arnold backs up his assessments with solid facts and sound reasoning, engagingly presented. He has produced a useful and enjoyable brief history of the Vicksburg campaign, helpful to scholars and general readers alike.âJournal of Military History
Powerfully and persuasively argues that the Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 was in fact the actual turning point of the Civil War.âHelena (Mont.) Independent Record
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Good Read on a Pivotal Campaign.......2003-09-09
Arnold's descriptions of the battles were interesting with notes on individual bravery without becoming too bogged down in details. Particularly interesting were the descriptions of the Union army's march on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River and the Union navy's several attempts to pass by Vicksburg's siege guns.
I also appreciated the author's balanced criticisms of leaders on both sides:
1) Pemberton, the Confederate commander, was too vacillating and involved in the petty politics that doomed the Confederacy in the West. Conflict between Confederate leaders Johnston, Davis, and Beauregard further doomed Pemberton.
2)Grant made the inexcusable mistake of leaving his own wounded on the battlefield after a charge on the Vicksburg works because of his faulty perception that to care for his wounded would be an admission of weakness.
My main complaints were the lack of sufficient maps - while the maps in the book were well-drawn and sufficiently detailed, more were needed, particularly for a campaign such as Vicksburg.
In conclusion, I recommend the book as an entertaining and informative read on an important campaign.
A very goog Vicksburg compendium........2001-06-05
Grant's amazing victory was as much politically as tactically driven. From the point of view of Grant's career, he had to win, had to take unorthodox chances, because he was as close to being dead meat as any Union general ever came. For months and months he was bogged down before Vicksburg. We know Lincoln was so dissatisfied with Grant that he sent Charles Dana to Vicksburg as the President's special envoy to see what was really going on.
General Banks, a Lincoln political appointee and very close friend, was driving north from Baton Rouge toward Port Gibson and Vicksburg. Banks stalled and Grant was ordered by Halleck (via Lincoln??) to assist Banks. Grant disobeyed this command from the then General in Chief of all Federal armies and went his own way. WOW! Big decision. What a way to make friends when you are under the looking glass.
Last, placed within Grant's command structure is another Lincoln political appointee and friend, General McClernand, who Grant subsequently relieves prior to Vicksburg's capitulation. Is he thumbing he nose?
At Vicksburg we see Grant's first inclination to tactically detach himself from direct supply and communication lines. But what caused it? Was it Pemberton's chauvinistic defense of Vicksburg and Grant's straight forward desire to defeat his foe? Or was it the internal pressure within the Union army and Grant's desire to save his career that forced Grant to do very, very differently from then current military principals, causing him to develop this amazingly different set of operational plans he would resort to again and again during the remainder of the war?
Last, from the Confederate side there is Jeff Davis' incredible stupidity. Did Jeff Davis hang Joe Johnston out to dry? And lets not forget Pemberton's direct disobedience to his theater commander's, Joe Johnston's order: Save the army, abandon Vicksburg. Why did Jeff Davis never censure Pemberton not only for the loss of Vicksburg, strategically and psychologically important to the South as it was, but also the loss of an entire army, complete with thousands of men and irreplaceable stores, arms and ammunition? And why does Davis again relieve Johnston from command, not reinstating him until the final hours of the war?
Seen simply from the viewpoint of the Union high command, i.e., a traitor in his midst (McClernand), a presidential spy at headquarters (Dana), an unwillingness to unite forces with a fellow field commander (Banks) and the disobedience of his direct superior's orders (Halleck's), Grant should be thankful for Lincoln's reaffirmed evaluation of him: "I cannot spare this man; he fights". Good for you, Charles Dana.
Grant's military victory at Vicksburg IS amazing and this book is as good an account of it as there is. But the author fails to live up to his title's claim. Grant's political coup (Lincoln's willing recognition of his ability despite his incredible disobedience and non cooperation with Lincoln favorites) is even more incredulous than his military one. Had not Meade just beaten Lee at Gettysbury on the very same day that Vicksburg fell? Which would have been of more immediate importance: a captured Confederate army on the Mississippi River or a victorious Confederate army next door to Washington? If Lee had won at Gettysburg, Vicksburg would have been what it will always be, a spectacular feat of arms. But Union army and Northern political concerns aside, maybe, just maybe, Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee lost the war that fateful day when they made the conscious decision to risk swapping Vicksburg for Washington and lost their gamble on both counts.
The most important item to come from the Vicksburg conflict was not Grant's victory as much as it was Lincoln's recognition of Grant as his next General in Chief. And in that vein it was not Grant's victory at Vicksburg but Lincoln's subsequent promotion of Grant over Meade that won the war.
Vicksburg Analysis at its Best.......2001-06-05
But like the title, a little too grandoise in its assertions. Grant's amazing victory was as much politically as tactically driven. Here we see Grant's first indclination to detach himself from direct supply and communication lines. But what caused it? Was it Pemberton's chauvenistic defense of Vicksburg (and Grant's straight forward desire to defeat his foe) or was it the internal pressure within the Union army (forcing Grant to do very, very differently from then current military principals)that caused him to develop this amazingly different set of operational plans he would resort to again and again during the remainder of the War?
Prior to this victory, Grant, as a general, was probably as much at risk to continuing his command as any time subsequent in his military career. He had horrifically bogged down at Vicksburg. General Banks, Lincoln political appointee and close friend of Lincoln's, is driving North from Baton Rouge. He is stalled outside Port Gibson and Grant is ordered by Hallack (via Lincoln??)to assist him. Grant disobeys this command from the then General in Chief of all Federal armies and goes his own way. WOW! Big decision.
Also, within his command structure is another Lincoln political appointee, General McClernand, who Grant relieves prior to Vickburg's capitulation.
Last, there is Jeff Davis' incredible stupidity (did he hang Joe Johnston out to dry)and Pemberton's direct disobedience to his theater commander's, Joe Johnston's order; save the army, abandon Vicksburg. Why did Jeff Davis never censure Pemberton not only for the loss of Vicksburg, strategically and psycologically important to the South as it was, but also an entire army, complete with thousands of men, stores, arms and ammunition? And why does Davis again relieve Johnston from command, not reinstating him until the final hours of the war?
Seen simply from the viewpoint of the Union high command,i.e., a traitor in his midst, McClernand, an unwillingness to unite forces with a fellow field commander, Banks, and the disobedience of his direct superior's orders, Halleck's,he should be thankful for Linclon's non military, non political eveluation of him: "I cannot spare this man; he fights".
Grant's military victory at Vicksburg is amazing. But his political victory (Lincoln's willing recognition of his ability despite his incredible disobedience)is even more incredulous.
Good Solid History.......2000-08-31
The books limitation is Arnold's almost infatuation with Grant and the need to make Vicksburg the pivotal battle of the war. While the strategy that Grant utilized was daring and unorthodox that does not substantiate the comparison with Napoleon. There is nothing in the campaign that demonstrates that Grant's tactics were Napoleonic in nature.
Whether Vicksburg was the pivotal battle of the civil was may be true. However, Arnold did not make the case that it was. A Union loss at Gettysburg surley would have had a dramatic impact on the Unions will to continue the war. While the issue of which battle was more important was not important to the Vicksburg story, once the issue was raised Arnold should have at least spent more than a moment discussing Gettysburg.
As a story about the Vicksburg Campaign, the book excells.
Well written and detailed........2000-04-02
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Grant Wins the War : Decision at Vicksburg (GREAT BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR, Volume 6)
James R. Arnold Manufacturer: Easton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Leather Bound ASIN: B000CC4A5M |
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These authoritative accounts, widely acclaimed for their compelling narrative and historical accuracy, offer a sweeping panoramic view of six crucial Civil War battles. Each magnificent volume includes a full-color frontispiece by renowned Civil War artist Mort Künstler - 6" x 9"
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Grant Wins the War: Decision At Vicksburg
James R. Arnold Manufacturer: Easton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Leather Bound ASIN: B000G2SCR0 |
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Grant Wins the War: Decision At Vicksburg
James R. Arnold Manufacturer: EASTON PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WSGO9G |
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Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 1996: Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Salzburg, Austria, July 9-12, 1996 (Lecture Notes in Statistics)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 038798335X |
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Monte Carlo methods are numerical methods based on random sampling and quasi-Monte Carlo methods are their deterministic versions. This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing which was held at the University of Salzburg (Austria) from July 9--12, 1996. The conference was a forum for recent progress in the theory and the applications of these methods. The topics covered in this volume range from theoretical issues in Monte Carlo and simulation methods, low-discrepancy point sets and sequences, lattice rules, and pseudorandom number generation to applications such as numerical integration, numerical linear algebra, integral equations, binary search, global optimization, computational physics, mathematical finance, and computer graphics. These proceedings will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods, to numerical analysts, and to practitioners of simulation methods.Books:
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