False Flat: Why Dutch Design is so Good

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The Netherlands is currently one of the world's poles of great modern design, a center of innovation and experimentation in architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and graphic design.

This book showcases the dynamism of contemporary Dutch design and, through a detailed exploration of the country's geography, culture, and history, defines its particularities as a manifestation of things intrinsically "Dutch." Eschewing a traditional academic presentation, authors Aaron Betsky and Adam Eeuwens, together with the renowned Dutch book designer Irma Boom, have conceived a witty, multidimensional structure for the book that brings to life a prolific design culture in a rich landscape of interconnected stories.

False Flat consists of an introduction and five illustrated text chapters by Aaron Betsky, the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. These chapters are interspersed with 16-page sections consisting solely of selected images and extended captions, in a unique presentation conceived by Boom.

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False Flat: Why Dutch Design is so Good
Aaron Betsky
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Design & Decorative Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0714848611

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One of the All-Time Champs!.......2000-04-26

This book is a like all great books -- it's reread and referred to again and again. Essential for art teachers and artists alike. Kaupelis's insights and love of art and art-making are contagious.

A must have.......1999-01-28

This book is essential for anyone who wants to fully grasp hold of their drawing abilities.

Learning to Draw: a creative Approach to Expressive Drawing

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Learning to Draw: a creative Approach to Expressive Drawing
Robert Kaupelis
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GTGOQE

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A beautiful book in a 6" x 8" handy size; 175 illustrations, 33 in color; nice overview; text is well-written by native English speaker; well-respected reference

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It's Party Time Snoopy
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0449217310
Release Date: 1989-07-30

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Snoopy: Hats Off to You Charlie Brown/You're a Knockout, Charlie Brown/It's Party Time, Snoopy/Get Back to Nature, Snoopy/Boxed Set
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Fawcett Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0449285774

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National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art. He has penetrated many of the charactrers who have shaped history exposing the intricacies of not only the historical figure, but the man beneath the marble image. The range of Flexner's subjects is wide: painters, inventors, doctors, loyalists, traitors, and spies, such luminaries as George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, and John Singleton Copley, are among those Flexner has taken as subjects. After over fifty years of writnig, Flexner, one of America's greatest chroniclers has turned his probing eye back on to the pages of his own life with the same honesty, frankness, wit which have come to signify his form. James Thomas Flexner was born in 1908 on Lexington Avenue, New York City to parents Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner (scientist and first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical research.) Published in the literary magazine at the Lincoln High School, Flexner's passion for writing was spawned at a young age. This passion would become a source of life long struggle as well as success for Flexner. Journalist for the Herald Tribune, and foremost biographer (as well as making numerous appearances on radio and television,) Flexner's career allowed him access into the quick of the political, social, and artistic movements and developments that shaped the twentieth century. An un-traditional student, Flexner, although graduating magna com laude from Harvard University, often pursued what was to be considered by academics, unorthodox methods of research for his work. Following the passion of his own interests and plotting his own course of research and study, Flexner created of himself a sort of maverick, chartign a course for biography that countered that written in the guide books of academe. While he probed and uncovered the lives of the great men who shaped the past, noteworthy publishers, writers, artists, and politicians of the twentieth century fill the pages of Maverick's Progress. Flexner writes of how influences, acquantances, and friends such as Bernard Berenson, Conrad Aiken, Ivy Lee, Harry Hopkins, Allan Nevins, Logan Pearsall Smith, and Edward Hopper figured in his life, and in his development as a writer. James Flexner has authored more than twenty books, several of them have been recently re-published by Fordham University Press. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Eminence in Biography, by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988. He is perhaps most well known for his four-volume biography of George Washington which was eventually condensed into one: An Indispensable Man from which two television mini-series have been produced and for which he was awared the Peabody Award and Emmy Nomination. Maverick's Progress offers us a candid an sparkling look into the life of a writer who has indeed been a maverick in the canon of American historians - an individual who himself has been an Indispensable Man.

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Incorporating in Nevada provides step-by-step procedures for establishing a Nevada corporation with concise explanations regarding state laws and how they can be applied to befit and protect the owner. Learn from Nevada`s leading expert of corporate strategies and formation, Cort Christie, Ernst & Young`s Entrepreneur of the Year 1999 Award Winner.

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it's an advertisement for his company.......2005-08-09

This book was scanty on content. Much of it was promoting his agent services in Nevada. I feel I have to get another book to be able to do this.

Incomplete: One Big Advertisement For Author's Services.......1999-09-30

I really did expect a complete incorporation kit with all the things I'm used to getting like fill-in-the-blanks Articles of Incorporation, Stock Certificates, and a Stock Transfer Ledger. The real complete "corporate kit" is for sale on the last page of the book for another $79. The step-by-step guide repeatedly guides readers to the services of Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., owned by Cort W. Christie. The book also neglects to say anything about the complications involved in getting your profits into your pocket without running into trouble or paying the same taxes you would normally have to pay in you home state. I was sorely disappointed.

Garbage shill piece.......1999-04-22

What a waste of time, effort and money

Finally something that makes sense!!.......1999-01-07

I have wanted to move my company out of L.A. for so long & didn't know where to start & then I purchased Incorporating in Nevada & it answered all my questions & gave me the forms and guidance I needed to move my business and incorporate in Nevada. This book is very reasonably priced & saved me a great deal of money in the long run. DON'T PASS IT UP!!!!

Excellent info to accomplishing a fair system.......1998-09-15

I am from Egypt where Islam advocates 0% interest and approves of no tax other than 2.5% of one's annual SAVINGS. This tax - called Zakat - is given only to the needy, the poor, the orphan etc., as the Koran instructs. As for the government members they have only 1/8th of the Zakat fund to live on. This book systematically gets me closer to the American dream of 2.5% tax. Just for the fun of it, since this system encourages financial growth and forces the government to regulate thereby getting their share of 1/8th of tax, Omar, a Muslim caliph could not find a poor class of person to whom he could distribute the Zakat!

P.S. Nevada Corp does NOT need you to be in US

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Baby Child Care RV
Dr. benjamin spock
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0671823469

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Baby Child Care RV
Dr. benjamin spock
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 0671804928

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BABY CHILD CARE RV
Dr. benjamin spock
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O9M262

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From the people who lived through extraordinary and terrible times--the air raid wardens, the Home Guard, the Land Army, the families pulled apart and the communities brought together--real life stories of Britain under fire during World War II.

Revisiting an era brought to life with the vivid re-telling of events, this is a book written by the people who survived the war from their own homes and in their own workplaces. From the cities come stories of the bomb shelters and munitions factories; recollections of getting on with life when everything was in tatters. From the coasts and the countryside the Britons who worked to keep the nation fed and who took in the children of stangers when they were evacuated to safety, tell their story. Here too are tales of liasons with American Gis, and the relationship of the public with Italian POWs.

Voices from the Home Front offers a collection of viewpoints that will strike a chord of familiarity for all those that share these living memories. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the resilience of a nation at war, the humor and the strength that such times inspired even in the face of hardship and tragedy.

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This is a really great book.......2006-07-27

"Voices From the home front" by Felicity Goodall is a really great book. Ms. Goodall tell the experiences of the common person during World War two. This is a great book for any history fan.

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In addition to enumerating nearly every high performance polymeric material available, it provides detailed information on their methods of manufacture, properties and uses. Includes coverage of the newest materials for composites, a wealth of physical and mechanical data, and standards and specifications of each material. Alphabetical organization, extensive cross references, and a complete index further enhance its utility. Twenty main entries have been prepared by leading authorities from industry, academia, and research institutes. The contents will be of interest to those engaged in the manufacture and use of modern, lightweight, tough materials for use in consumer goods, transportation, aerospace, communications and related industrial activities.

High Performance Polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites: Symposium Held April 13-16, 1993, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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High Performance Polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites: Symposium Held April 13-16, 1993, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)
Ronald K. Eby , Robert C. Evers , and Michael A. Meador
Manufacturer: Materials Research Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1558992014

High Performance Polymers: Structures, Properties, Composites, Fibers.

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High Performance Polymers: Structures, Properties, Composites, Fibers.
Eric Baer
Manufacturer: Hanser Gardner Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1569900027

High Performance Thermoplastic Resins and Their Composites

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Good, but outdated and way too expensive

High Performance Thermoplastic Resins and Their Composites
Sylvie Beland
Manufacturer: Noyes Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0815512783

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Recent developments in high performance thermoplastic resins and their composites are described in this book, and the benefits and limitations of these emerging materials are assessed for aerospace and other applications. Discussions on the performance of neat and continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic resins in terms of their properties and environmental and chemical resistance are provided.

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Good, but outdated and way too expensive.......2005-02-19

Throughout the early and middle 20th century, thermosets have traditionally been preferred over thermosets for high temperature, high strength applications. This began to change in the 1970s as thermoplastics such as PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) and PBI (polybenzimidazole) came to market. These new, high performance thermoplastics often had properties as good as, or better than most thermosets, and their property densities (i.e. strength to weight ratio) made them more economic to use over many metal alloys and ceramics.

The production of many of these new polymers were kept under tight wraps by companies, hence the amount of literature on their properties is scarce compared to materials such as polyethylene or polystyrene. This book helps to remedy this problem by providing a summary of these new thermoplastics, along with tables of data. Unfortanetely, much of the property data cited in this text are from the manufacturers themselves.

Overall, this book is a useful text, and a good introduction to the new thermoplastics that are becoming available. I would not recommend purchasing this book though; it is expensive, and being published in 1990, is very much out of date. A lot of literature data has been published since 1990, and newer books on this topic are becoming available every year.

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High-performance Fibres
John W. S. Hearle
Manufacturer: CRC Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 084931304X

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Until a hundred years ago, natural fibres such as cotton, wool, and silk were commonly used in engineering applications. The introduction of manufactured fibres such as rayon, acetate, nylon, and polyester offered superior technical properties for industrial applications. A similar replacement of natural and regenerated fibres by synthetic fibres occurred in most technical textiles. High Performance Fibres covers the development of second- and third-generation high-performance fibres. The book discusses the aramid copolymer, melt-spun fully aromatic polyester, and Russian fibres. It describes gel-spinning and an alternative method of solid-state processing and features polymeric and inorganic high-performance, high-tenacity fibres. The book goes on to describe the new generation of fibres with thermal or chemical resistance. High performance fibres are used increasingly for a wide range of applications including geotextiles and geomembranes for construction and civil engineering as well as specialist fibres within composite materials where their ability to fulfill demanding roles makes them an effective choice for the engineer and materials scientist. Published in association with The Textile Institute, High Performance Fibres provides comprehensive coverage of the design and manufacture of high performance fibres and covers their capabilities and applications.

High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites

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High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites
Committee on High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites , and National Research Council
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0309096146

NASA CR-1114: Evaluation of Boron-Polymer Film Layer Composites for High-Performance Structures

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NASA CR-1114: Evaluation of Boron-Polymer Film Layer Composites for High-Performance Structures
Arinc Research Corporation; Fogel; Moore; Wallmark; Bosenburg; Ross; Flatley; Parker; Crawford;
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KGRTUI

High - Performance Polymer/Metal Composite Replaces Lead.: An article from: Plastics Engineering

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High - Performance Polymer/Metal Composite Replaces Lead.: An article from: Plastics Engineering
Jeff Frankish , David Douglas , and Robert Durkee
Manufacturer: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2009 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: High - Performance Polymer/Metal Composite Replaces Lead.
Author: Jeff Frankish
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 56 Issue: 10 Page: 59

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Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) Process of a High Performance Epoxy Resin. II: Effects of Process Variables on the Physical, Static and Dynamic Mechanical ... from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) Process of a High Performance Epoxy Resin. II: Effects of Process Variables on the Physical, Static and Dynamic Mechanical ... from: Polymer Engineering and Science
Chang-lun Lee , and Kung-hwa Wei
Manufacturer: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 4856 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: Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) Process of a High Performance Epoxy Resin. II: Effects of Process Variables on the Physical, Static and Dynamic Mechanical Behavior.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Chang-lun Lee
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Page: 935

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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Automated fabrication technologies for high performance polymer composites (SuDoc NAS 1.15:207992)

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Automated fabrication technologies for high performance polymer composites (SuDoc NAS 1.15:207992)
NASA
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010ZE9Q

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