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Manufactured Sites: Re-thinking the Post-industrial Landscape
Niall Kirkwood Manufacturer: Spon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415243653 |
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Kirkwood presents innovative environmental, engineering and design approaches along with ongoing research and built projects of international significance. Topics included are soil bioremediation, phytormediation brownfield development, structural soil, landfill capping and revegetation and bioengineering for soil and water quality. Ground breaking approaches to the design of contaminated land including public parks and commercial sites are outlined. Contributions range from innovative scientific and engineering research from industry and federal agencies to contemporary international and regional professional reclamation and redevelopment projects such as the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, the A.G Thyssen steelworks and blast furnace plant in Germany's Ruhr region to landfilling operations at Killingdon near London's Heathrow Airport (now Stockley Business Park).
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A Panorama on wastelands landscape.......2004-04-12
BOOK REVIEW: Landscape Architecture Review, November 2001.......2002-04-27
"This book is the proceedings of an extraordinary conference held at the Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the spring of 1998, organized by Niall Kirkwood, ASLA, a GSD professor and editor of this volume
The purpose of this book appears to be to provide a thoughtful overview of current approaches and issues that includes numerous case studies of actual sites, including such well-known brownfield redevelopments as Duisburg Nord in Germany, Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, and the Sydney Olympic's site.
Overall the value of this volume is in making a bold start at "rethinking the post-industrial landscape", as the subtitle suggests. Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the book is the gritty, substantive role it charts for landscape architects in brownfield reclamation"
Excellent State of the Art Book.......2001-11-19
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Enchanted Circles: Flower Garlands, Swags and Wreaths
Fiona Barnett Manufacturer: Southwater ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1842158090 |
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A beautiful and practical step-by-step guide to creating over 100 stunning wreaths and garlands with fresh and dried flowers.
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Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography
Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0520085248 |
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Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures.
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Investment under Uncertainty, Coalition Spillovers and Market Evolution in a Game Theoretic Perspective (Theory and Decision Library C:)
J.H.H Thijssen Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402078773 |
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Two crucial aspects of economic reality are uncertainty and dynamics. In this book, new models and techniques are developed to analyse economic dynamics in an uncertain environment. In the first part, investment decisions of firms are analysed in a framework where imperfect information regarding the investment's profitability is obtained randomly over time. In the second part, a new class of cooperative games, spillover games, is developed and applied to a particular investment problem under uncertainty: mergers. In the third part, the effect of bounded rationality on market evolution is analysed for oligopolistic competition and incomplete financial markets.
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Agent Guru
Lori Robertson-Stoudt Manufacturer: World Leisure Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0915009730 |
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A book written for the intermediate internet real estate professional. Agent Guru shows how to get the best out of various online listing databases, employ creative hyperlinking and provides invaluable agent and office website information.The agent will learn about current and future online real estate trends, tour the most successful agent websites and know how to identify the major online players,both friend and foe to the agent.
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Not really relevant.......2005-11-05
Real Estate Professionals On Line Marketing How to Book!.......2001-10-03
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The Guru's Generate Extra Cash, Biz Networking and eCommerce for Craft-Grade Alginate And Molding Agents Businesses 3 CD Combo Pack
Tracy Z Anderson Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000QV6VS8 |
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The Guru's Generate Extra Cash, Success Principles and Accounting & Finance for Craft-Grade Alginate And Molding Agents Businesses 3 CD Combo Pack
Bill Z Anderson Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PGGN7I |
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The Guru's How To Earn Extra Money, Biz Networking and Accounting & Finance for Cleaning Agents Web Biz 3 CD Course
Don Z Jones Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000QIW5VS |
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The Guru's Super Marketing, Godfather Principles and Accounting & Finance for Cleaning Agents Web Biz 3 Course + Resource Guide
Jeremy Z Miller Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PP0W8U |
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The Power of Place: Advanced Customer and Location Analytics for Market Planning
Manufacturer: Marketdata Enterprises, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0975405209 |
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Retail-based businesses are facing turbulent times. With intense pressure from competition and sophisticated new information technologies, devising successful growth strategies is difficult to say the least. Driven by the need for greater precision and certainty, retailers are seeking new tools and advanced decision-support systems are becoming the norm for retail location strategy. However, if used incorrectly, these systems can create confusion, disappointing results, and even inaccurate conclusions. This book offers guidelines for retail decision makers and analysts who are ultimately responsible for delivering good recommendations to top-level management. Its chapters will help you identify customer segments that are critical to your business, including their value, purchase behaviors, and current levels of penetration; identify which markets offer the greatest opportunities for growth and expansion; identify over-saturated markets; measure potential effects of same-store cannibalization; and minimize risk associated with real estate investment.
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Family Stress: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0761926127 |
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Why do some families rebound from stress with seeming ease while others seem to struggle? This anthology, comprised of 23 major articles from the family stress literature, addresses questions such as the increasingly diverse and complex family situations of stress and crisis. This volume provides the family stress community with an accessible, coherent compilation of writings by past, present and emerging family stress scholars. The reader includes classic and current writings from multi-disciplinary streams of work in family social science, social work, nursing, family sociology, family therapy, and family psychology.
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Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and masterâs students in departments of or courses related to Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Family Studies. Also suggested for professionals and practitioners working with families in social work, nursing, family therapy and family psychology settings.
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Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War II in the Pacific
Gavin Daws Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0688143709 Release Date: 1996-01-16 |
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Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surrviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account of the experiences of the Allied POWs of World War II. The Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners, and one in four died the hands of their captors. Here Daws reveals the survivors' haunting experiences, from the atrocities perpetrated during the Bataan Death March and the building of the Burma-Siam railroad to descriptions of disease, torture, and execution.
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Terrific.......2007-08-01
imperial devil race.......2006-03-28
WWII POWs in the Pacific.......2005-09-04
great book on important subject.......2005-07-27
Unbelievable Cruelty.......2004-05-25
This was a major event in 20th Century history and persons unfamiliar ought to become more aware of the depth of the brutality that has emerged in times of war. As I write this review, there is a lot of hand wringing, soul searching, and congressional investigations going on in the US over abusues American soldiers inflicted on Iraqi prisoners. What we are finding out is wrong and upsetting. However, the rhetoric and hyperbole suggest that we have forgotten the depths to which otherwise civilized nations have sunk in similar conditions in the past. It doesn't make what we've done acceptable but the comparisons some people are making betray their ignorance. If the pictures of Iraq shocked you, please read this book.
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Searching For Friday\'s Child
Marjorie Irish Randell Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1553694953 Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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"Searching for Friday\'s Child" chronicles the life of a young heroic soldier, his early life, duty in the Philippine Islands, on Bataan, Corregidor, and life as a Japanese POW during World War II, as told by letters, telegrams, the words of his close friends and those of his sister, the author.Customer Reviews:
Touching and True.......2007-02-10
Sister searches for brother.......2003-06-08
A family's quest to ascertain the status of a WWII POW.......2003-03-29
The book begins with the author's recollection of growing up on a Michigan farm, with her parents, and her brother, "Jack", four years her senior. We are then provided with copies of her brother's letters to home, and to his girlfriend, while he attends Michigan State College, when he is called into the Army Air Corps, from bootcamp, then when he is sent to the Philippines only months prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and Japan's simultaneous attack on the Philippines.
As of 12/7/41, the letters from Jack stop, and we are treated with reply letters to Jack's family from U.S. military, the Red Cross, etc., as the family is desparately trying to find out what's happened to Jack, with the advent of the US/Japanese war. Subsequently, the family learns Jack is a POW in the Philippines, but they cannot find out how he is, whether he is alive, healthy, or been a victim of the myriad of attrocities committed by the Japanese solders in the Philippines upon our servicemen, as well as the Filipinos.
Jack's family is advised of the POW camp within which Jack is held, and advised they should continue to write Jack as he may receive their letters. They do continue to write, but have no way of ascertaining if Jack is receiving any of their letters. After several months, they receive the first of about four "postcards" from Jack, from the POW camp, but these tell little of Jack, as little can be said due to censorship by his captors.
Ultimately, the family is informed that Jack was aboard a Japanese ship, one of 750 POWs being transported in September 1944 by the Japanese to another island, or perhaps Japan, that on September 7, 1944, that ship is torpedoed by the US during which 83 POW's swim to shore and are rescued by Filipinos, and ultimately returned to the US. Unfortunately, Jack was not one of the lucky ones. Thereafter, he is listed as Missing In Action(MIA), and again the family has no way of knowing if Jack is alive or dead, whether he drowned, was shot by the Japanese, who were murdering all visible POWs after the torpedo struck, or whether he somehow survived.
We are then treated to many letters from several surviving POWs, some who knew Jack, were his friends at the POW camp.
This is a wonderful historical account of a family's desparate, yet compassionate, attempts to try to find out about Jack's well-being, his life during those years, anything to fill the gaps. It begins primarily with the efforts of Jack's mother, but is continued with those of the author, his younger sister, efforts which continued all the way up the late 1990's, over fifty years after WWII.
We are treated to the insights of several POW's, their own accounts of life in a Japanese POW camp, their accounts of life with Jack, Jack's excellent accomplishments in the Army Air Corps, his unique skills with operating anti-aircraft artillery, his command's success is shooting down 15 Japanese aircraft, which as I recall, was a record during the war.
By the time one completes Searching for Friday's Child, one feels one knows Jack Irish, his mother, father, and certainly his sister, the author, she who joined the U.S. Marines Reserves during WWII. One is certainly treated to a wonderful account of a close-knit family's quest during unimaginable times of the tragedies of war.
This is a wonderful read. I highly recommend it.
Regards,
Frank Rankin
Sacramento, CA
Riverting and sentimental.......2003-01-12
Riverting and sentimental.......2003-01-12
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Prisoners Of The Japanese - Pows Of World War Ii In The Pacific
Gavan Daws Manufacturer: Quill / William Morrow & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000QC3J8W |
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Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American Pow's in the Pacific 1914-1945
E. Bartlett Kerr Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0688043445 |
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Well written, well organized. One of the better books on the subject!.......2007-05-17
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The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York
Hutchins Hapgood Manufacturer: Schocken Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0805205535 |
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Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague
Chayim Bloch , and Jacob Boehme Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0766101118 |
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A "Golem" is an artificial man made by qabalistic magic and legends of this strange being extend back at least to the ghettos of medieval Germany. The Golem was created to serve its creator.
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The Spirit of the Ghetto (Belknap Press)
Hutchins Hapgood Manufacturer: Belknap Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0674832663 |
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Ghetto Religiosity III: If You Don't Know, Now You Know!
Khalil Amani Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595264735 |
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Khalil Amani has done it again! With his third installment of theCustomer Reviews:
Ghetto Religiosity III.......2006-04-26
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THE SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO
Hutchins Hapgood Manufacturer: Schocken Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NPR7WQ |
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The Spirit of the Ghetto
Hutchins Hapgood Manufacturer: Belknap,Harvard Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0000CNKL0 |
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Spirit of the Ghetto
Hutchins Hapgood; Editor Moses Rischin Manufacturer: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OLK8UC |
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The Spirit of the Ghetto Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York
Hutchins with (Jacob Epstein, Drawings) and (Harry Golden Preface and Notes) Hapgood Manufacturer: Funk & Wagnalls ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0QSZ2 |
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The Spirit of the Ghetto Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York (Schocken Books, SB128)
Hapgood Hutchins Manufacturer: Schocken ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M7P9IO |
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The Spirit of the Ghetto Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York By Hutchins Hapgood with Drawings from Life By Jacob Epstein
Hutchins and Harry Golden Hapgood Manufacturer: Funk and Wagnalls Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GWNAGI |
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The Status and Distribution of New Jersey's Birds
Charles F. Leck Manufacturer: Rutgers Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813510333 |
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