A Pride of Place: Rural Residences of Fauquier County, Virginia

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A Pride of Place, the result of a quarter-century¹s worth of painstaking research and collection, presents the first comprehensive architectural and historic inventory of the widely diverse and irreplaceable rural residences of Fauquier County, Virginia. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations, each accompanied by informative text, provide a fascinating and helpful overview of the county¹s rich architectural heritage.

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Well Written and Excellently Illustrated and accurate.......2007-05-15

This is a must have for any owner of a home built in Fauquier county in the 18th or early 19th century. It is also appealing to general historians and residents of the county and of Virginia.

While I was disappointed that my 150 year old home was not listed or its carpenter discussed (he was after all a Yankee transplant after the war between the states) the historical information was fascinating and is a very good reference for both County history and Architecture.

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Merge soft luminous washes with the markings of penwork. Each painting process is illustrated with step-by-steps. Includes gallery of finished works. This book will encourage painters.

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Line and wash.......2000-11-08

This book gives a thorough, clear, straightforward description of the line and wash watercolor technique. It gives advice in a relaxed manner, very well suited for hobby watercolorists like myself.

Wendy Jelbert's Line and Wash: Watercolour and pen techniques

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Wendy Jelbert's Line and Wash: Watercolour and pen techniques
Wendy Jelbert
Manufacturer: Search Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1844481573

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The methods of merging soft luminous washes with the crisp, definite markings of penwork, are made easy with this book. Each stage of the painting process is illustrated using step-by-step photographs and beautiful finished paintings. You can choose a bold effect or a delicate pastel approach, a drawing or painting, in monumental or miniature scale. The wonderful flexibility of line and wash can accommodate many tastes; it is an inexpensive technique which can be worked during any spare moment, on your lap or at a table, and is an excellent way of capturing texture and detail in the landscape, the delicate linework in flowers and leaves, or the linear beauty of buildings.

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Beware of Duplications .......2007-01-16

I have recently received two books exactly the same - however, advertised as being different by the front cover.
The exact same contents page for page on this item is duplicated in Line and wash - same artist with Tuscan farmhouse and sunflower seeds on cover.
Please be aware that if you are purchasing from overseas the 30 day return policy could be futile.

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The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections
David (Ed.) Altshuler
Manufacturer: Summit Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I8BAGM

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The Precious legacy : Judaic treasures from the Czechoslovak state collections

Manufacturer: Summit Books (Simon and Schuster)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PVVHW4

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The Precious legacy : Judaic treasures from the Czechoslovak state collections
David A. Altshuler
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster / Summit Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B00005WP2S

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The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collection

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0671494481

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The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures From The Czechoslovak State Collections

Manufacturer: Summit Books (Simon and Schuster)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O698KS

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The Precious Legacy - Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections
David Altshuler
Manufacturer: Summit Books, New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VZL6KW

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The Precious Legacy, Judaic Treasures From the Czechoslovak State Collections
Editor) Altshuler. David
Manufacturer: Summit Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0LF1Y

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The precious legacy: Judaic treasures from the Czechoslovak state collections
Joseph Gutman
Manufacturer: Royal Ontario Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007B90VM

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Garfield knows what matters in life --- whether he's stealing Jon's dinner, performing for his favorite audience, or simply pondering the vastness of space. And he must be doing sometjing right, because this is his 20th book and he's still going strong. Live it up, Garfield, and take your millions of fans along for the ride!

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One word: Cute........2002-11-04

"Garfield Takes Up Space" is a cute addition to this book series. Again, with witty lines and one-of-a-kind facial expressions, this book will get you smirking. I recommend.

GARFIELD RULES!.......2000-06-24

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

Garfield Takes Up Space. No. 9. Chinese/English Text.

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Garfield Takes Up Space. No. 9. Chinese/English Text.
Jim. Davis
Manufacturer: Shuang Dah Books.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garfield | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 957618097X

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Garfield Takes Up Space
Jim Davis
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garfield | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000K7M80I

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This book has changed my views on finances for the better!.......2001-09-27

I've learnt and applied the principles from this book and can give a testament that God has really changed my finances for the better as a result of a better understanding of God's promises and His words. Read it, apply it and pray about it! This book is also an excellent guide for quiet time reflections.

One Word from God can change your finances.......2001-06-22

For professing Christians, this book will help you to understand the importance of your finances. Yes, money is a spiritual issue. These are short articles written by different authors. Each one is pertinent for today's Christian. As one author states "Prosperity is not an option". There are doors of opportunity that are open in this earth and it will take money to get the Gospel to these areas. This book is very well written.

Awesome.......2000-05-19

The principles in this book are clearly explained and easy to apply to your life. I read it in one sitting. It is very uplifting and encouraging. After reading it, you'll be equipped with the truth to help you overcome the spirit of debt. Let the word of God change your finances.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and factories. The American federal government studied Indian tribes, explored the West, and investigated the condition of the South during and after the Civil War.

Performing, printing, and then circulating these studies, government established an economy of exchange with its diverse constituencies. In this medium, which Frankel terms "print statism," not only tangible objects such as reports and books but knowledge itself changed hands. As participants, citizens assumed the standing of informants and readers.

Even as policy investigations and official reportage became a distinctive feature of the modern governing process, buttressing the claim of the state to represent its populace, government discovered an unintended consequence: it could exercise only limited control over the process of inquiry, the behavior of its emissaries as investigators or authors, and the fate of official reports once issued and widely circulated.

This study contributes to current debates over knowledge, print culture, and the growth of the state as well as the nature and history of the "public sphere." It interweaves innovative, theoretical discussions into meticulous, historical analysis.

Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory: Historical Investigations

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Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory: Historical Investigations

Manufacturer: Charles River Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States

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The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0521528534

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The very meanings of terms such as poverty, unemployment, and inequality, as well as the data about them, have been shaped in inquiries undertaken either by or for the states. Through a comparative study of the United States and Britain, this book addresses the historical development of the knowledge base upon which the public policies of the democratic state depend. The book stretches from the Enlightement origins of the impulse to base legislation on scientific knowledge to the twentieth-century development of specialized institutions and professions engaged in social investigation and public policymaking. It probes investigators' biases and omissions as well as their strengths as factors shaping social learning, and ponders the impact on social investigation and social policy today of relativism, antistatism, devolution and privatization as these currents have developed in both societies since the 1970s.

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Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies)

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Handbook of Law Enforcement Ethnographers

Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies)
Peter K. Manning
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Criminology | Crime & Criminals | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0262132346

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This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social setting. It underscores the important yet often ignored role of the police as "sign" or "information workers."

Calls to the police represent a rich variety of human troubles, concerns, and needs by focusing on how police handle calls from the public, how they ascertain what a call means and what should be done with it, and how this is transformed through subsystems within the organization, Peter Manning provides a novel way of looking at organizational communication.

Symbolic Communication provides examples of how members of an organization interpret their environment - in this instance, how the meaning of a call to the police is transformed as it moves across the boundaries of the organization (a transformation that involves a series of codings and recodings ensuring a continuous loose linkage of organization and environment). Manning shows why the police act in ways that differ from the way citizens and politicians would have them act, revealing the uncertainties that surround a policy agency's responsiveness. And he points out how today's computer technologies constrain the coding process, limiting in particular the effectiveness of the 911 systems used in most of our major cities.

Peter K. Manning is a Professor of Psychiatry and of Sociology at Michigan State University and a member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford. Symbolic Communication brings to fruition themes and ideas introduced in his previous books, Police Work and The Narc's Game. Symbolic Communication is included in the Organization Studies series, edited by John van Maanen.

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Handbook of Law Enforcement Ethnographers.......1999-05-13

Well done, Peter Manning! This book explicates over 15 years of ethnographic research in the world of Law Enforcement. It is clearly written and well defined. The use of graphics and examples is also very helpful! This book can help the Law Enforcement professional, researcher, student, or teacher!

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Microcomponents and microdevices are increasingly finding application in everyday life. The specific functions of all modern microdevices depend strongly on the selection and combination of the materials used in their construction, i.e., the chemical and physical solid-state properties of these materials, and their treatment. The precise patterning of various materials, which is normally performed by lithographic etching processes, is a prerequisite for the fabrication of microdevices.
The microtechnical etching of functional patterns is a multidisciplinary area, the basis for the etching processes coming from chemistry, physics, and engineering.
The book is divided into two sections: the wet and dry etching processes are presented in the first, general, section, which provides the scientific fundamentals, while a catalog of etching bath composition, etching instructions, and parameters can be found in the second section. This section will enhance the comprehension of the general section and also give an overview of data that are essential in practice.

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Etching in Microsystem Technology
MICHAEL KOEHLER
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N59BHK

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ETCHING IN MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
MICHAEL KOEHLER
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N57MWG

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