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All too often, no one--neither the public, city officials, nor developers--is happy with the course of new development. But growing support for urban design and successful examples of redesigned cities are signs of positive change. In this book, Jonathan Barnett explains how design can reshape suburban growth patterns, revitalize older cities, and retrofit metropolitan areas where earlier development went wrong. He describes, in detail, specific techniques, materials, and technologies that should be known (but often aren't) by planners, public officials, and citizens--and, in the process, makes a valuable contribution to the development initiatives of the future.
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Title: Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation.(Book Review)
Author: Kevin K. Pierce
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Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 70
Issue: 1
Page: 104(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw helps the beginner to master the exciting medium of oils in the reissued paperback edition of this popular 29-lesson course. Starting with simple exercises on brush control and how to mix colours, Alwyn guides the beginner through all the basic methods and techniques of oil painting, explaining clearly each process and offering advice and encouragement at every stage. There are numerous step-by-step exercises and demonstrations throughout the book. Particularly useful for the beginner are the revealing sections on 'what went wrong', consisting of painting exercises which illustrate all the common pitfalls -- and how to avoid them.
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Alwyn crawshaw.......2005-09-30
This is a great book for artists of all levels, Crawshaws style of painting and writing is very enlighening and entertaining, a book for every artists library no matter what style you paint in.
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Animals and People/Book and Disk: Release 3 and 4 (3d Studio Tips & Tricks)
Michele Bousquet
Manufacturer: Delmar Publishers
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A true production studio for the desktop, 3D Studio software is a comprehensive environment for creating professional-quality animations and high-resolution still images. This book covers all the tools you'll need to create critters and characters, including tips on professional character animation.
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Akerlof illustrates how his 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology of using 'tailor-made' economic models to solve problems differs from the standard, benchmark, all-encompassing general-equilibrium-perfect competition-based methodology.
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Exploration in Microeconomics
James F. Willis , and
Martin L. Primack
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Exploration, Development, and Production: Texas Oil and Gas, 1970-1995 (Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis)
John R. Moroney
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- Wonderful Text, Brilliant Writing
- Outstanding Economics Narrative
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Explorations in Macroeconomics
James F. Willis ,
Martin L. Primack , and
Jorge Salazar
Manufacturer: Cat Publishing Company
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Wonderful Text, Brilliant Writing.......2001-05-23
I needed a text to teach an economics class with and searched for weeks with little satisfaction. Then I ran across this under utilized text. The writing is "brilliant" and the authors, especially Mr. Myers seem to have a very firm and realistic grasp of the essential concepts of "Economics"
Outstanding Economics Narrative.......2000-03-25
This is an outstanding economics textbook. Can be used as a quick primer on what the basics of the field are all about. I believe that the author of this book is a truly remarkable and extraordinary individual and everyone should listen to him closely.
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Explorations in Microeconomics
James F. Willis , and
Martin L. Primack
Manufacturer: Cat Publishing Company
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ASIN: 1562263315 |
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Explorations in Microeconomics
Manufacturer: North West Pub Llc
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excellent.......2005-08-03
Amazon is not just like ebay. In amazon everything is straight but in ebay lots of tricky people cheating customer.
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Retailing: Instructor Manual With Test Items
Robert Hartley
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin College Div
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ASIN: 0395342910 |
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Playing God in the Nursery
Jeff Lyon
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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ASIN: 0393303098 |
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Incredible!.......2005-06-09
I love this book. I happen to frequent a library with very old books, and I picked this up when I was pregnant.
The author recounts several true (sometimes heartbreaking) situations to show the reader different angles, from ethical, political, and medical, to emotional. He poses many questions and leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind, of course.
This is an exceptionally insightful book, espeically for being twenty years old!
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- More Nelson than Locker
- A book about a hero's own hero.
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NELSON'S HERO: The Story of His 'Sea-Daddy' Captain William Locker
Victor Sharman
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognized the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history.
Thirty-seven years later Admiral Lord Nelson wrote to Locker 'I have been your scholar; it was you who taught me to board a Frenchman by your conduct... It is you who always taught me to lay a Frenchman close and you will beat him. My only merit in my profession is being a good scholar'.
Captain William Locker's career as a Sea Captain fighting the King's enemies on the high seas makes gripping reading and high drama.
Customer Reviews:
More Nelson than Locker.......2006-05-18
Although extremely well researched and written, this book was a major disappointment. The title gives one the impression that the book is actually about Captain William Locker. Although the first chapter or so do indeed trace his background the remainder is largely a compilation of letters written to him by Nelson. Moreover, most of the pages are filled with descriptions of Nelson's exploits and few describe Locker's. As a biography of Nelson it is passing, there are far better books for that. As a biography of Locker it is sorely lacking.
A book about a hero's own hero........2006-03-14
It is often difficult to picture Nelson as a Midshipman or junior officer but, of course, there was a time when he was. The first months and years in any new job - where good and bad practises can be learned equally well, are an impressionable time for any person.
Nelson's very first captain was William Locker. Recognising the exceptional talents of the young Midshipman, it was he who set out to teach this young man just about everything he knew and ships, seamanship and the Navy. It says much for this training that 37 years later Nelson wrote to Locker acknowledging how his former teacher had been the main instrument of Nelson's success and that he (Nelson) had merely been a good scholar.
Victor T. Sharman is the Chairman of the Nelson Society and an acknowledged expert on the period. In this book, he recounts Nelson's time under Locker's command and how he taught the skills that Nelson would go on to master and put to such good use. We are then treated to a full account of Locker's life and career at sea in His Majesty's ships and it was nothing if not a full, varied and very exciting career.
Might have included just a few more illustrations to add to the 16 portraits reproduced in the middle of the book, but that does not detract from a product which is extremely well written and often hard to put down.
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Thanks to their distinctive colors and lively calls, warblers are a favorite among birders. However sightings can be rare due to the warbler's migratory nature, feeding habits, and sometime-endangered status.
Warblers is a handy reference for watching these fast-moving and elusive birds. It explains why warblers are difficult to spot and what you can do to see more of them. It accurately identifies 42 species found in the Great Lakes region and eastern North America. By focusing on this one family within a defined geographical area, the book's format is compact yet packed with information.
Photographing these highly spirited birds is never easy. Birders will appreciate the crisp, clean images of the warblers in their natural environment. Comparison pages group similar-looking birds on a single spread for quick reference. Each species is presented in accurate, full color to ensure precise identification. Species are presented in taxonomic order to show how one relates to the next. The information is concisely organized and includes:
Common names
Biological classification
Distinctive markings
Seasonal plumage changes
Song description
Behavioral habits
Customer Reviews:
Basic information about each species is provided.......2003-08-09
Knowledgeably and accessibly written by Chris G. Earley (an interpretive naturalist who regularly teaches bird identification workshops), Warblers Of The Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America is a superbly organized and presented ornithology field guide which packed from cover to cover with brilliant color photographs of various warblers, including separate photographs to show seasonal, gender, and juvenile versus adult variations in species plumage. Basic information about each species is provided with a strong slant toward concerning how to identify and distinguish it from similar species. Simply put, Warblers Of The Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America is a "must-have" for those birdwatchers with a special interest in tracking, sighting, and recognizing Upper Midwest and Eastern North American warblers.
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