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Gracie Mansion: A Celebration of New York City's Mayoral Residence
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
ASIN: 0847825620
Release Date: 2005-11-29 |
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Gracie Mansion has been the official residence of New York's mayors since 1942. This exquisite political showcase is where visiting dignitaries occupy rooms once familiar to Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, and John Quincy Adams. Lavishly illustrated with 150 images, including paintings and watercolors, menus and maps, invitations and elevations-and enhanced by domestic memories from Ed Koch, Mary Lindsay, and other former tenants-the book documents over 200 years of colorful life in this historic house. Through designers' sketches and before-and-after photos, the book explores the changing interior, from original furnishings to the individual tastes of many mayoral first ladies, and the splendid restoration of 2002.
Written with the full cooperation of the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, this is the first anecdotal history of the house, its gardens and ghosts, and the mayors who have lived there, from Fiorello La Guardia to Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.
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A Fantastic Book About A New York Gem.......2005-12-30
Ellen Stern's "biography" of Gracie Mansion is simply tremendous. It traces the history of New York City's Mayoral Mansion from its beginning as a merchant's country house, through several owners, years of benign neglect after NYC acquired it to it's conversion into the Mayor's Mansion.
Ms. Stern tells the story of each family that has lived there starting with Fiorella LaGuardia through the current Mayor, Mike Bloomberg who uses Gracie Mansion only for entertaining.
The book is lavishly illustrated with wonderful color pictures as well as clever pen & ink caricatures of each of the mansion's mayors by Al Hirshfeld and Peter Stern.
This is a great book for anyone interested in the history of New York City, it's mayors and the many colorful personalities that have crossed Gracie Mansion's threshold.
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A lecture delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891.
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ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATIONS (Motta Photography Series)
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A new language.......2000-03-15
One of the very few existing attempts to create a visual language that derives from and explains our globalized world, through its symbols, shapes, objects and architectural/spacial relationships. The photographs span through half the globe, from Rome to Osaka but, through the formal rigour typical of such a "grand project", they are devoid of any local folklore and commonplace description, even when the subject itself is among the most recognizable iconas of our civilization.
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Illuminations
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Friedman countered.......2004-10-25
Peter Temin's answer to the title of his book is NO.
He explains clearly the two main hypotheses concerning the Great Depression.
First, the money hypothesis (Friedman & Schwartz), which states that the collapse of the banking system was the primary cause. The fall in consumption and investment were a result of the Depression.
Secondly, the spending hypothesis, which states that a fall in consumer spending was the prime cause. The banking crisis was a result of the Depression.
The author shows clearly that the banking panic was also caused by high-level fraud.
The spending collapse was caused by a fall in income (wages), to a lesser extent by a decline in wealth (the stock market crash) and a fall in consumer sentiment (bad expectations). It influenced negatively the residential construction market and via the textile industry, agriculture (a steep fall in cotton prices). The ultimate result was huge unemployment.
The Depression was also aggravated by international events. A steep depression in Europe caused a fall in exports.
The Federal reserve did nothing to stem the decline by e.g. an expansionary fiscal policy. On the contrary, it chose to raise interest rates in order to preserve the international value of the dollar during the European currency crisis.
Peter Temin's book is an important and extremely balanced econometric study. It could be rather difficult for the layman, although the author thinks otherwise.
Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression ?.......2000-03-31
This book was intended to argue against Friedman's monetary description of the Great Depression. However, it is hard to say that Temin responded to Friedman's main contention properly. For, while Friedman maintained that the Depression could have been alleviated had there been some appropriate actions of the Fed (namely, policies related to monetary expansion), Temin's response was composed of two parts which kill each other's clarity; namely, (A) there was no monetary constraint before September 1931: however, (B) we cannot say whether or not macroeconomic policies which were not used then could have been effective if they were actually used. At the same time, Temin's logic which made him say (A) above is based upon a coarse (and probably wrong) interpretation of Friedman's another article, ''Money and Business Cycles''. Nonetheless, I have to be fair to add that this book is one of good materials to examine Friedman's position from various points of views.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Monetary Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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We apply a dynamic general equilibrium model to the period of the U.S. Great Depression. In particular, we examine a modification of the real business cycle model in which the possibility of indeterminacy of equilibria arises. In other words, agents' self-fulfilling expectations can serve as a primary impulse behind fluctuations. We find that the model, driven only by these measured sunspot shocks, can explain well the entire Depression era. That is, the decline from 1929 to 1932, the subsequent slow recovery, and the recession that occurred in 1937-1938.
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The First and Only Complete Guide to Successfully Managing Faith-Based Organizations Faith-Based Management Written by a leading international expert on faith-based management, this book describes proven management strategies and techniques developed at some of the world's most successful places of worship and faith-based service organizations. It also supplies you with a complete action plan for quickly implementing them in your organization. Peter Brinckerhoff begins by exploring the unique challenges faced by managers of faith-based organizations. He then identifies the seven key characteristics of a successful faith-based organization and provides you with clear, easy-to-follow guidelines on how to:
- Assess and examine your organization's strengths and weaknesses
- Clearly define staff roles and responsibilities
- Delegate, evaluate, discipline, and motivate paid staff
- Find, train, motivate, and hold on to top-notch volunteers
- Generate budgets and financial reports and implement financial controls
- Improve your leadership skills
- Conduct sophisticated, cost-effective marketing compaigns that work
- Create strategic, business, and marketing plans
"Brinckerhoff has captured the essence of faith-based management in his latest book. He has successfully integrated proven management concepts and ideas with the spiritual mission that distinguishes faith-based organizations. A must-read for volunteers and staff." —Dana R. Todsen, ACFRE President and CEO Baptist Health Foundation, Inc. Birmingham, Alabama "Faith-Based Management is a concise, accurate, and practical book. It will be a very helpful resource for leaders who are trying to unite faith and mission in today's world." —The Reverend Dr. John R. Buzza Hope Presbyterian Church and Community Ministry Center Springfield, Illinois "Faith-Based Management offers the fourth important contribution in Peter Brinckerhoff's management series for not-for-profit executives. If mission, finance, and marketing are important to not-for-profits' success, core values and beliefs are essential to the faith-based not-for-profits' very existence. Peter once again challenges and provokes thoughtful reflection while providing the reader with a pragmatic prescription for improving the overall management of the faith-based organization. He challenges each of us to accept full responsibility for carrying out God's work. He shows us a way." —Reid S. Thebault President and CEO YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit
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Must Read!.......2000-03-31
Brinckerhoff has captured the essence of faith-based management in this book. He has successfully integrated proven management concepts and ideas with the spiritual mission that distinguishes faith-based organizations. This book is a must read for volunteers and staff.
As the foundation executive for the 25th largest health care organization in the USA, I can speak with authority that the concepts included in this text are 100% on the mark.
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Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. The advent of the industrial age brought about significant changes in gender and class relations, and also in work and culture. But it also involved a fundamental change in the way the natural world was handled. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control. It examines the legal issues that arose in settling disputes over water, and describes the far reaching ecological consequences of industrial change.
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This digital document is an article from Michigan Law Review, published by Michigan Law Review Association on May 1, 1993. The length of the article is 6869 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: Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. (book reviews)
Author: Carol M. Rose
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Michigan Law Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1993
Publisher: Michigan Law Review Association
Volume: 91
Issue: n6
Page: 1623-1636
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6000 Years of Earth History (Vision Forum Family Renewal Tape Library)
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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
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The True Story of God's Covenantal Faithfulness
Hold onto your seats. This tape reviews the entire history of the world -- millennia by millennia. The listener will discover that history is about God's love for His elect, and that it is a record, not merely of nation states, but of family generations. Approx. 60 min. on one audiocassette.
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F-14 A & B Tomcat: In Detail & Scale (D & S, V. 9)
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Information please book of world facts and records 1983
Manufacturer: Information Please Publishers
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What and where is the waterfowler's world? It isn't Manhattan, and it sure isn't L.A. But it is practically everywhere you go in the heart of duck and goose country. And it's more than geography - it's a lifestyle shared by men and women with an unwavering desire to greet the dawn in the watery realms of ducks and geese. Bill Buckley explores these special places and the compelling experiences they offer the waterfowling devotee. His astounding color photographs celebrate the waterfowler's world, from Canadian prairies, across America, to the Mexican border. Buckley's engaging writing complements his photographs' vivid imagery, providing insightful commentary on the waterfowler's consuming passion. (11 1/4 x 9 3/4, 192 pages, color photos)
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The Waterfowler's World.......2000-05-19
The highlight of this coffee table book on duck hunting is the spectacular collection of photographs. Any duck hunter who picks this up in May or June will be instantly transported back to their duck blind, along side a retriever and some friends. The commentary is well-written and compliments the color photography. This book would make a great gift, especially in the summer or fall, just prior to the beginning of the hunting season.
The Waterfowler's World.......2000-05-19
The highlight of this coffee table book on duck hunting is the spectacular collection of photographs. Any duck hunter who picks this up in May or June will be instantly transported back to their duck blind, along side a retriever and some friends. The commentary is well-written and compliments the color photography. This book would make a great gift, especially in the summer or fall, just prior to the beginning of the hunting season.
Descriptive and Realistic.......2000-05-18
The Waterfowler's World is a descriptive journey into the sport and nature of duck hunting. The photographs are vivid and artistic with compeling text containing human interest. For those who enjoy the sport, this book adds a new dimension; for those interested in the sport, it is a must.
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