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Learning from Palladio
Branko Mitrovic Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393731162 |
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An exploration of the design procedures and methodology of Andrea Palladio, arguably the most influential Renaissance architect.Even when Modernism dimmed interest in classical architecture, Palladio's opus never ceased to attract attention. This book sets him in his context; discusses the theory of the orders, proportions, space composition, and facade design; and presents this material for practicing architects and students, so that the ideas can be applied in their architectural work today. 200 illustrations, 16 pages of color.
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Decorative Painter's Guide to Fruits and Flowers (Watson-Guptill Crafts)
Andy Jones Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0823012808 |
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"There are as many ways to paint a subject using decorative painting techniques as there are decorative painters," says expert painter and masterful teacher Andy Jones. Though it may take a while to reach a high degree of proficiency, the systematic nature of the form means that even beginners can produce competent results. Yet there is still much room for creativity: following step-by-step instructions does not have to produce a formulaic outcome; quite to the contrary, as this adroitly presented guide makes clear. Once you learn the basics and practice the exercises, you'll be well equipped not only to do justice to the lovely projects, but also to design your own. Jones's approach is very thorough; he offers solid information (for both acrylics and oils) on all aspects of equipment, preparations, and basic techniques, then presents 13 projects in detail. He bedecks crockery, a cutting board, and a serving tray with luscious fruits, and strews beautiful flowers over boxes, lampshades, and frames. His results are gorgeous, and best of all, yours can be, too. --Amy Handy
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Portrait Hollywood: Gary Bernstein's Classic Celebrity Photographs
Manufacturer: Woodford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0942627024 |
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Features more than 160 lush, vibrant portraits of today's Hollywood legends, plus a foreword by Elizabeth Taylor.Customer Reviews:
Gary bernteins celebrity books.......2002-04-26
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Portrait Hollywood: Gary Bernsteins Classic Celebrity Photographs
Manufacturer: DIANE Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0788190741 |
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Principles of Macroeconomics and Graphing CD-ROM with InfoTrac College Edition
Fred M. Gottheil Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0324106777 |
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This text conveys the principles of macroeconomics in a superb conversational style that engages students in the material unlike any other text. By appealing to students' interests and language; using familiar stories, illustrations, and scenarios and a direct-to-student writing style; and a narrative built on questions, the distance is lessened between the student and the unfamiliar concepts of economics. The book also maintains a focus on presenting basic concepts in depth and developing economics analysis step-by-step, rather than covering hundreds of topics superficially. With this book, students are discouraged from simply memorizing facts, and are engaged in active learning.Customer Reviews:
Great products..........2005-09-27
Econ Profs, Start Here First.......2001-12-01
Gottheil's models (actually, he really only uses one model--a fishery) are almost absurdly easy to follow. Along the way he takes concepts a student would find new and difficult, and makes them into concepts a student can follow, and in my case, enjoy. I whole heartedly reccomend this title.
Principles of Microeconomics by Gottheil = SIMPLICITY.......2001-05-19
Easy to Understand Economics??.......2001-05-17
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Principles of Microeconomics and Graphing CD-ROM with InfoTrac College Edition
Fred M. Gottheil Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0324106785 |
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This text conveys the principles of microeconomics in a superb conversational style that engages students in the material unlike any other text. By appealing to students' interests and language; using familiar stories, illustrations, and scenarios and a direct-to-student writing style; and a narrative built on questions, the distance is lessened between the student and the unfamiliar concepts of economics. The book also maintains a focus on presenting basic concepts in depth and developing economics analysis step-by-step, rather than covering hundreds of topics superficially. With this book, students are discouraged from simply memorizing facts, and are engaged in active learning.Customer Reviews:
Easy to Understand Economics??.......2001-05-17
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Principles of Macroeconomics and Graphing CD-ROM with InfoTrac College Edition
Fred M. Gottheil Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OU7WHU |
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Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success
Kevin P. Kearns Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787941891 |
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This practical guide offers a realistic approach to strategic management, while borrowing from the most helpful and relevant business ideas, allows the public or nonprofit organization to achieve success without compromising its unique mission or constituency. Executives, managers, and policymakers will find key principles for everyday application, including how to: identify trends that will most affect programs and services; assess the organization's core strengths and competencies; select strategies that advance the mission while building operational success; explore opportunities for collaborations with other organizations; and encourage a culture of strategic thought and action.Throughout this innovative guide, there are numerous illustrations and examples of how to apply the most appropriate technique to a particular need or goal. At last, public and nonprofit organizations have a real-world guide to finding lasting success.
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A best buy for strategic thinking.......2007-02-19
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How to Get a Mortgage in 24 Hours
James E. A. Lumley Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471599387 |
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The latest edition continues to help readers find low-cost financing in the quickest possible time. Explores many novel alternative mortgage plans. New guidelines will aid in selecting among competing options--all with the goal of saving you money. Details how loans work, how to evaluate their costs and how to choose the one that's best for you. Abounds with examples of different types of mortgages and how they work. Includes two new chapters--the first deals with prequalifying yourself with a lender before finding a specific property; the second explains using low rates to trade up or down.Customer Reviews:
EXCELLENT AND INFORMATIVE!.......1998-08-30
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How to Get a Mortgage in 24 Hours
James E.A. Lumley Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 047151344X |
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14 Aprendizajes Vitales (Serendipity)
Carlos Alemany Manufacturer: Desclee De Brower ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 8433012762 |
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Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy
Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press Journals ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0226317048 |
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A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
Joseph Rotblat , and Daisaku Ikeda Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1845112792 Release Date: 2006-12-26 |
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Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism
John Finnis , Joseph Boyle , and Germain Grisez Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198247915 |
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Nuclear deterrence requires objective ethical analysis. In providing it, the authors face realities - the Soviet threat, possible nuclear holocaust, strategic imperatives - but they also unmask moral evasions - deterrence cannot be bluff, pure counterforce, the lesser (or greater) evil, or a step towards disarmament. They conclude that the deterrent is unjustifiable and examine the new question of conscience that this raises for everyone.Customer Reviews:
Bad Timing.......2006-05-26
A new outlook.......2000-05-22
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1995: A New Beginning for the NPT? (Issues in International Security)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306450011 |
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As a follow-up to Beyond 1995: The Future of NPT published in 1990, this compilation presents the major issues to be addressed at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. Renowned academic and diplomatic authorities from around the world contribute original essays and address questions such as: - Will the NPT be faced with a fundamental challege to its existence? - Will the treaty be allowed to lapse? - Will states withdraw? - Will the NPT be succeeded by an alternative treaty or regime?
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Apocalyptic Premise: Nuclear Arms Debated
Manufacturer: Ethics & Public Policy Center ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0896330621 |
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Arms Control (Reference Shelf; V. 51, No. 6)
Lineberry Manufacturer: H. W. Wilson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0824206363 |
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Deterrence and the Crisis in Moral Theory: An Analysis of the Moral Literature on the Nuclear Arms Debate (San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy, Vol 8)
Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0820426210 |
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Ethics and Nuclear Arms
Edward R. Norman Manufacturer: University Press of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0896330958 |
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Five European and five American political and religious leaders look at the morality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. Among their subjects are the history of the nuclear arms issue, the arms-control policy of the Reagan administration, the nuclear debate in German and American churches, the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on nuclear arms, whether NATO should pledge "no first use," and how the traditional Christian view of war and peace applies to the nuclear age.
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Human Life: Controversies and Concerns (The Reference shelf ; v. 51, no. 5)
Bohle Manufacturer: Hw Wilson Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0824206355 |
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My Country Right or Wrong: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Nuclear Age
Eileen P. Flynn Manufacturer: Loyola Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0829404775 |
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Tribes & Tribulations: Misconceptions About American Indians and Their Histories
Laurence M. Hauptman Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 082631581X |
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Most Americans are misinformed about Native Americans and their history. In the nine essays in this volume, Laurence M. Hauptman, drawing on twenty-five years of teaching American Indian history, selects topics from the seventeenth century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relations, including campaigns to pacify and christianize Indians, policies of removal, and stereotypes of Indians as mascots for sports teams or Hollywood film sidekicks.Some misconceptions arise from mistaken claims that pass as fact, such as the notion that the U.S. Constitution derived some of its concepts from the Iroquois. The misuse of terms such as genocide and paternalism has also obscured the experience of individual Indian nations or dulled perceptions about Anglo-American avarice. The tribal sovereignty guaranteed by treaties and, at the same time, Native Americans' United States citizenship have confused many who assume Indians receive special privileges.
Throughout the book, emphasis is given to Native Americans in the East, where a quarter of all Indians live today. Hauptman's knowledgeable and provocative analysis strips away wrong notions and replaces them with new insights and perspectives.
Selects topics from the 17th century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relationships, including stereotypes of Indians as mascots.
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Great Blue Heron (Camp & Cottage Collection. Wildlife)
Hayward Allen Manufacturer: Northword Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559710942 |
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Buy it for the photography--you'll learn something, too........2002-10-25
The Great Blue Heron.......2000-10-09
For three years now I've been mesmerized by this marshland creature. The elegant poise with which it carries itself. The superior "beat-the-bushes", stalking techniques have provided endless hours for relaxation within the confines of our great natural wetland areas.
The tedious research accompanied by the most fabulous photographs has made it #1 in my bird library. I've been privy to many of the same descriptive activites and marvel that for an amateur such as myself, I've experienced firsthand truly one of the greatest marvels of nature.
For 3 years I have followed their migratory routes throughout Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. My life shall never be the same. Thanks so much for this wealth of information about my all-time-favorite marshland creature!!!!
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The Great Blue Heron
Robert Butler Manufacturer: UBC Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0774806346 |
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Definitive resource on a crucial environmental icon.......2001-10-04
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Good liberals and great blue herons: Land, labor and politics in the Pajaro Valley
Frank Bardacke Manufacturer: Center for Political Ecology ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0964109409 |
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The Great Blue Heron
Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GT2YEK |
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Great Blue Heron And Other Poems, Play and Prose
Carl Cornelius Harnett Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1553954017 Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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Entertaining poetry and a play you must read. Poems for everyone, nature poems, love poems, sad poems
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Great blue: The odyssey of a great blue heron
Marnie Reed Crowell Manufacturer: Times Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006DXLNE |
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Great Blue: The Odyssey of a Great Blue Heron (First Edition with Dustjacket, Very Good)
Marnie Reed. Mary Champenois (illus) Crowell Manufacturer: Times Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TR0GBC |
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Henry the Hesitant Heron
Jacquelyn S. Krupinsky Manufacturer: Woodbury Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0912123028 |
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The story of a baby Great Blue Heron who is afraid to fly
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Heron/light: Poems
Clifford Burke Manufacturer: Brooding Heron Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0918116376 |
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In the House of the Great Blue Heron
Scott Lawrence Manufacturer: Harbour Publishing Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0920080804 |
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