Most-Popular 1-Story Home Plans

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Color photos or images of actual homes

Most-Popular 1-Story Home Plans
Editors of Creative Homeowner
Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 158011184X

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Providing a unique combination of full-color photography and illustrations, Most-Popular 1-Story Home Plans offers readers 400 plans of the best-selling and stylish home designs available. From convenient ranch homes to traditional cottages, this book offers a wide variety of home styles and sizes to meet the budget of most readers. In addition to the designs, the book offers practical tips and advice to create the home of one's dreams.

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Color photos or images of actual homes.......2007-02-14

Terrific book full of 97% modern ranch plans. Great use of space with move of the designer/architect plans. House plans are not in order by square footage - which would be a little nicer. I know that it is easy to search through internet house plans - but it is so nice to have a color book with this quality of printed paper.

Cheap price for the quality. Easy to compare the plans you like.

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Over 200 illustrations provide a stunning display of attractive, highly stylized motifs adapted from authentic jewelry, textiles, pottery, masks, and other folk art sources. Includes handsome batiks of florals, clouds, and birds; language glyphs, Javanese shadow puppet with ornate filigree, lavishly embroidered skirt from Sumatra, and much more. Inexpensive royalty-free designs for artists and craftspeople and a fascinating glimpse of Indonesian culture for devotees of Far Eastern art.

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Very instructive with short description.......2000-02-29

Over 200 authentic motifs from Java, Bali, Irian Jaya, and etc., including Batik, Ikat, Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet), Topeng (masks) designs. Illustrations are all black and white, copyright-free. Each motif has a short description, such as "Rakshasa head gold earring motif, Java, 13th- 16th centuries." Usually this descriptions are quite short, just tells you where or what, still it's informative enough to show you the name of familiar motifs.

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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.

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ROBERT FRANK'S BEST (with the Americans, of course)

Lines of My Hand
Robert Frank
Manufacturer: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ROBERT FRANK'S BEST (with the Americans, of course).......2005-12-02

The Americans is a milestone in photography. Everybody should know that, and Robert Frank will surely be remembered for this book. But, what was before, and after the Americans? The answer is in The Lines of my Hand.
In these pages one can discover the strength of his vision before publishing The Americans, with pictures from England, Wales, Switzerland. And for me, what is more interesting, is all his evolution after the above mentioned book. His more and more experimental work in his house of Mabou. His loneliness, his isolation. In this book, all of his greatest pictures are printed (Sick of goodbys and Love, faith,... being the highlights).
Talking about the object itself, the printing is fantastic. It's a large format book, beautifully binded and with very good reproductions.
Really, for the price, it's a real bargain. Grab the first one you find.

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Robert Frank the Lines of My Hand
R. Frank
Manufacturer: Gould Trading
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ASIN: 0436162563

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Lines of My Hand
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Manufacturer: Pantheon
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THE LINES OF MY HAND - JAPANESE TRUE FIRST, LIMITED EDITION
ROBERT). Frank, Robert (FRANK
Manufacturer: Yugensha
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PILONE

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In 1865, William Buck Dana, working a bold new departure in American journalism, established the nation's first business weekly, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, in the country's commercial nerve center, New York City. As its publisher and editor, he became the nation's most influential reporter and commentator on business and finance, playing a major role in creating a national and international economy. Unequaled as a comprehensive and reliable source of business news, Dana's Chronicle has become a critical source for studying 19th century business history. This book is a study of Dana the man, his ideas, and their importance. Divided into three sections, the book considers Dana's formative years, his career, and his later life. The book then turns to the main themes conveyed in the Chronicle's editorial content, allowing the reader to imaginatively reconstruct Dana's mental world. Comments on Dana's and his paper's importance and influence are also included. While enlarging our understanding of Dana, the Chronicle, and economic thought of the time, Advocate for American Enterprise will enhance our understanding of this critically important era.

Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910

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Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865-1910
Douglas W. Steeples
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTY5HQ

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Whether epic tale or legendary quest, the narrative texts in this series are adapted in a captivating style for each period, allowing the reader to follow the track of heroes and share their adventures, discover great civilizations, and learn about world history. The texts are directly based upon the original works or upon a variety of authentic ancient sources and tales. The narratives are enhanced by specially commissioned illustrations, photographs, and reproductions of ancient artifacts and documents.

Mito, historia épica o búsqueda legendaria, los textos narrativos de esta colección adaptados con estilo cautivador para cada período permiten al lector seguir la huella del héroe para compartir sus aventuras, descubrir grandiosas civilizaciones y aprender acerca de la historia mundial. Los textos están tomados directamente de trabajos originales o de una variedad de fuentes auténticas antiguas y de relatos.

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Tras Los Pasos de Marco Polo
William Dalrymple
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Disciplining the Child Via the Discourse of the Professions (American Series in Behavioral Science and Law)
Roxanna P. Transit
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Best history of the Revolution in the South.......2005-02-02

I ran across this book in my local library. As an avid history buff, I've always felt my knowledge of the Revolution was lacking. Many books on the revolution end up mired in confusing details. This book by David Russell is probably the best history book I have ever read. He begins by giving a background of the colonies from their origins through the beginning of the war. Russell is good at giving all the important details and backgrounds of the characters without becoming bogged down in too much detail. The book is very well organized by campaigns and I felt that I had an excellent understanding of the war in the south when I finished. Sharp, concise background information on the the leaders and their motives. Almost every small skirmish is covered, as well as the main battles. Where available he gives casualties on each side as well as the result of the battle on the moral of the inhabitants in the area, whose support was crucial to both sides. Most civilians were torn between King and colony and were forced to make a choice. The Patriots who fought for our country risked everything they had, a fact that is mostly forgotten today. Many thanks to Russell whose great writing skills kept me up many a night with a book I just couldn't put down.

British Empire Before the American Revolution: British Isles and the American Colonies: the Southern Plantations, 1748-1754

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British Empire Before the American Revolution: British Isles and the American Colonies: the Southern Plantations, 1748-1754
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The British Empire Before The Revolution. British Isles and the American Colonies. Southern Plantations 1748-1754. Volume II

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The British Empire Before The Revolution. British Isles and the American Colonies. Southern Plantations 1748-1754. Volume II
Lawrence Henry Gipson
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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The British Isles and the American Colonies: The southern plantations : 1748-1754 (The British Empire before the American Revolution)

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Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Robin Einhorn
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 699 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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Title: Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution.(Book review)
Author: Robin Einhorn
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 4 Page: 922(2)

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The British Isles and the American Colonies. The Southern Plantations 1748-1754 (THE BRITISH EMPIRE BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2)

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The British Isles and the American Colonies. The Southern Plantations 1748-1754 (THE BRITISH EMPIRE BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2)

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1434 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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Title: Millenium III, Century XXI: A Retrospective on the Future. (book reviews)
Author: R. Lyn Rainard
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: v8 Issue: n2 Page: p190(3)

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The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationally is to 'act for the best', a theory Nathanson characterizes as "critical pluralism." Among present-day thinkers whose ideas are scrutinized are Richard Brandt, Bernard Gert, Gilbert Harman, John Kekes, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, and John Rawls.

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Philosophizing in mid-air.......2003-08-25

*The Ideal of Rationality* is one of those passable books I wasted my time on during the summer holidays because I could not muster the intellectual determination to read really great ones after spending three hours a day studying Rohrbacher's *History of the Catholic Church*.

The author starts with what he admits might be a caricature of the so-called «classical ideal» of rationality, which apparently values thinking so much that it does not care what is being thought about, so long as people think as much as they can, and then some.

Nathanson then borrows from modern literature a counter-example of a neurotic anti-hero (what else ?) to show that some obsessive people think a lot but about the wrong things (like : how should I place my legs when I sit ?), so that their whole lives are spent in miserable, pointless circles of deliberation.

A second flaw of classical rationalism is that it expects us to hold a cosmic perspective on things- what has derisively been called «the view from nowhere». But this assumes that to be rational is to have «no needs, desires, goals or aims», which is itself false and therefore irrational. (Then again, can't you view your own ends and needs themselves from a cosmic perspective ?)

And finally, the classical model advocates an exaggerated cautiousness which often leaves the thinker in limbo: «Rationalists are committed to seeking knowledge, and when they cannot meet high standards of evidence, they value suspending belief rather than accepting ill-founded beliefs.» But since life has to be lived, this is also unworkable.

The classical ideal, therefore, must be abandoned, which Nathanson promptly does, opting for an instrumentalist, pragmatic conception of rationality in which what matters is getting results. If it works for you, it is rational, even if it involves self-deception or other forms of untruth which the classical ideal rejects on principle: your reason must be the slave of your passions and help you maximize the satisfaction of your desires.

But as the resulting model of rationality turns out to be a little messy and potentially self-destructive, Nathanson scavenges a few provisos from colleagues and abandons the maximization of desires in favour of acting in one's best interests. He argues that our ideals should not be inconsistent, immoral, bizarre, harmful or based on false beliefs and ends up with a definition or «rationality within reason» as «acting for the best» or making «the best use of our cognitive powers in striving for things we take to be good»- a formula subjectivists should find much to their liking, all the more so as he explains that «a pure egoist, from this perspective, coul act for the best from the rational perspective and yet act in a way that is grossly immoral.»

Though written in a non-technical style by a person who seems to be honestly trying to get somewhere, *The Ideal of Rationality* shares many of the flaws of modern philosophy books: it starts philosophizing in midair, prefers philosophical patchworks to system-building and ends up in a middle-of-the-road position that looks like a horse designed by a committee.

Though Nathanson argues that to be rational is to act efficiently in one's own best interests, he fails to acknowledge that determining where one's interests lie first requires us to answer certain fundamental metaphysical questions, such as: Do I have a soul ? Do I have eternal interests ? And do my actions here on Earth influence those eternal interests ? For if I do, these interests will outweigh my temporal ones in any utilitarian calculus I can think of.

Nathanson implicitly answers all these questions negatively, assuming a fashionably materialistic point of view. This is why he cannot but conclude that rationality does not require us to think of others in our deliberations. But since «criticism of factual beliefs... is one way in which ideals can be rationally assessed», his ideal of rationality stands or falls with the «factual beliefs» the truthfulness of which it takes for granted.

The first questions we should answer according to the author's own conception of rationality are therefore the very questions his book leaves unanswered.

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