Learn how to create tone, texture, light, shade and atmosphere, exercises, step-by-step demonstrations and a gallery of inspirational pictures showing trees, mountains, lakes, skies, boats, buildings, and more.
This book provides an overview of the interdisciplinary nature of facilities management. It discusses the framework within which facilites managers should operate and the key requirements of their task.
The variability of valuation practice within Europe is perceived as a problem within the globalization of property. This edited textbook examines the practice of real estate valuation in selected countries in Europe. The focus is on countries with well developed real estate markets in which both international and indigenous investors are active. The book is aimed at real estate professionals, financiers, institutional advisers, property researchers and students who require a greater understanding of comparative property appraisal techniques applied across Europe.
Embrace step-children, adopted, and special needs siblings
A hands-on primer for any parent with two or more children, The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Siblings helps you help your children build strong bonds that will last a lifetime.
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Great Book!.......2007-03-26
I am only 1/2 way through with it and i can already say, it has givin me many helpful, tips and easy ideas that i never thought of! It already has help us become better parents!
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Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces—all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers.
There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.
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Great stuff!.......2004-04-27
Well before, Bury my heart at Wounded Knee there was "Death on the prairie" Wellman tried to be more objective than Dee Brown without being a waxjob. Written at a time when to question American history was not so vogue.As I recollect Wellman was from OK.and was part NDN, back when a minority was good and quiet.Like my family except he never forgot, and we can't seem to remember. His writing is good and history as well.
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Adams Family Correspondence: December 1784-December 1785 (The Adams Papers, Series II, Adams Family Correspondence)
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"I cannot O! I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?'' So begins Abigail Adams' correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress.
In October 1782, the Adams family was as widely scattered as it would ever be, with young John Quincy Adams in St. Petersburg, John at The Hague, and Abigail in Braintree with her daughter and younger sons. With the summer of 1784, however, Abigail would have her fondest wish, as most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. As the Adams family traveled, and as the children came of age, so their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America. These pages also welcome Thomas Jefferson, who soon became one of Abigail's closest friends, into the family correspondence. From the intimacies 0f the children's education, sentimental and worldly, to the details of the 'arm friendship between Abigail and Madame Lafayette, to the grand drama of Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger debating in Parliament, the contents of these letters draw an incredibly rich picture of international life in the 17805 and an incomparable portrait of America's first family of politics and letters.
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An accurate painting of each bird aids in the identification of the familiar, garden-variety birds found in the United States, and accompanying maps show habitat range. With its lovely illustrations, hand-lettered text, and convenient size, "Early Birds" makes a wonderful gift for any occasion.
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Great for a first time birdwatcher / birdfeeder owner!.......1999-02-13
This is just the book to have on the kitchen counter for quick reference while watching the birdfeeder. It's small, but that's an advantage, especially if you're just starting out with birdwatching (when you don't need to know the difference between 50 types of sparrows, but just what that little brown one is called).
The text gives lots of information about what to feed the birds, their songs, why they got their names, and maps of their summer and winter ranges. The the color illlustrations are great and label all the distinguishing features of the birds.
We have a Peterson's Guide, but Early Birds is the book we always look at!
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