Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-Iron Architecture

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This is, without question, the most extensive, most ambitious, and most thoroughly documented primary source of cast-iron architecture in 19th-century America. Originally intended as an advertising device, it has become an architectural classic! New introduction by Margot Gayle. 102 black-and-white plates.

Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-Iron Architecture

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Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-Iron Architecture
Daniel D. Badger
Manufacturer: Dover
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ASIN: B000KUXWQ4

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This is the only book devoted solely to the history of art instruction in grades one through twelve in public schools in the United States. Attention is given to cultural and social conditions, particularly in art and education, and to major influences and developments rather than to comprehensive detail about local schooling throughout the nation. Extensive appendices provide reprints of pages from manuals for teachers and pupils, examples of student drawing, programs for teacher preparation, reports on art education, etc. The book is 11 x 8 1/2" horizontal, with 288 pp. (two-column text, 188 pp.; nineteenth century reprints, 128 pp.; notes, 24 pp.).

The Anglo-American connection in the early nineteenth century (Dept. of American Civilization, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Studies in American civilization)

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The Anglo-American connection in the early nineteenth century (Dept. of American Civilization, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Studies in American civilization)
Frank Thistlethwaite
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006D6GRM

Art in America from Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century

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Art in America from Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century
Robert. Myron
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Binding: School & Library Binding

History of Medicine: a Brief Outline of Medical History from the Earliest Historic Period; with an Extended Account of the New Schools of the Healing Art in the Nineteenth Century., and Especially a History of the American Eclectic Practice of Medicine, never before Published

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History of Medicine: a Brief Outline of Medical History from the Earliest Historic Period; with an Extended Account of the New Schools of the Healing Art in the Nineteenth Century., and Especially a History of the American Eclectic Practice of Medicine, never before Published
Alexander Wilder
Manufacturer: New England Eclectic Publishing Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JVE6GY

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The Ordos Plateau of China is an account of regional human-environmental history of the Ordos Plateau, a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds. It surveys environmental change during 1949-92, examines such societal factors as government policy, resource use institutions, economics, population, and cultural attitudes and beliefs, and investigates how these factors have contributed to environmental change in the Ordos Plateau. The Ordos Plateau of China is among a few books written on China's regional human-environmental issues by a Chinese- and US-trained geographer in recent years. UNU Series on Critical Environmental Regions

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PhD in mail order

Mail Order Moonlighting
Cecil C. Hoge
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 091366894X

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PhD in mail order.......2004-07-05

It's instructive that you never see this book touted by the 'overnight rich' gurus.

This book is both a PhD in mail order marketing *and* advice for 'newbies' on how to avoid 'biz op' scams which are now more common that ever thanks to the Internet.

The section on how to research potential products to sell is worth its weight in gold.

If you mention this book to a 'guru' and he doesn't know it or is not excited about it, you can pretty much bet the guy's a scammer.

If you need to be pumped up on hype and nonsense, avoid this book. If you're serious about creating a real mail
order -type business, get it and absorb its contents.

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Mail Order Moonlighting
Cecil C. Sr. Hoge
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PYIPW6

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Mail Order Moonlighting
Cecil Hoge
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HKYT4Q

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This provocative book asks readers to be politically realistic about what is happening to the overwhelming majority of people in Third World countries. With three exceptions (Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan), development has not come. A myriad of people in feeble infant-states have been born--children of self-determination, but not of economic and scientific progress. State-driven, communist, and neo-liberal development models have failed most of these people. The large majority of Third World countries are only mistakenly called "developing." They are not actually in the process of becoming Newly Industrialized Countries (NIC's), but Non-Viable National Economies (NNE's). This book explores the option of replacing the wealth of nations agenda with a survival of nations agenda. In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security--and the stabilization of their populations.

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Very cogent.......2006-03-15

This book is a very persuasive, level-headed account of why most "developing countries" will never really develop. De Rivero cites the scientific and technological poverty of such countries as a prime reason. The modern "casino economy" of the global financial system makes it unlikely that this kind of poverty can be cured, since financial markets offer far richer short-term gains than capital investments in all but a handful of developing nations. Western abandonment of human rights in post-Cold War diplomacy (to say nothing of international business)also contributes to the problem.

Some of the book's other insights are quite arresting -- such as its points about the globalization of rubbish, the futility of the IMF's and World Bank's exclusive focus on countries that "have no influence on the world economy," and the notion that even the Four Tiger economies (Taiwan, S. Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore) probably would not have succeeded but for the fact that they were all strategic for (and so subsidized by) the US and Japan during the Cold War. The writing style is very clear and powerful; I was amazed to see that it was a translation.

The book isn't free from occasional overstatements; for example, I have the feeling that the environmental doom and gloom it describes might not descend upon us quite as soon as the author predicts. You should also note that the book was written before such developments as 9/11 and the offshoring boom in India. Nonetheless, I don't think either of those factors should discourage you from reading this very thought-provoking book.

Is there a future for the 'underdeveloped' states?.......2003-01-18

This is global classic by a Peruvian diplomat who has become convinced that the so-called 'underdeveloped' states are actually non-viable under the prevailing international order. He became convinced of this while participating in the longest trade talks in human history called the Uruguay Round under GATT. He discovered that the industrialised states who dominated the talks by reason of their share in international trade hardly paid any heed to the rest of the world exporting primary commodities and only marginally value-added manufactures. The emphasis was on export of high-tech goods, on trade of sophisticated services and on standards for the protection of intellectual property. There was a time when Peru, exporting raw materials and traditional Latin American items like guano, sugar, saltpetre, rubber, coffee, cotton, wool and minerals, had its clout. In the 1990s, it was sidelined, with its slightly value-added exports and a population that had doubled and an economy that was creaking under foreign loans.

The author is aware that the Latin American countries that got their independence in the 19th century were much better off than those in Africa and Asia that got free in the 20th. Yet, after 150 years as sovereign states the Latin American countries had neither become modern nor economically self-sufficient. Prosperity under capitalism had eluded them. Was it possible to 'develop' like the industrialised states of Europe and North America? Since the Industrial Revolution 185 new states had emerged on the world map but most of them were dysfunctional, unable to modernise to the level where they could participate in the international economy. While these states failed to keep pace, global economy itself shifted its paradigm: it no longer required raw material in the same quantity as in the past, and relied on technologies that cut cost by minimising labour. These states had nothing but raw materials and proliferating population to export.

They were in fact quasi nation-states. They had not evolved the way the nation-states of the industrialised world had evolved. The advanced nation-states had produced a middle class market of national dimensions before coming into their own. The new nation-states that came upon the scene suddenly after the Second World War were mostly without a middle class, a bourgeoisie and a unifying nationalist economy. The states had emerged before the nations could be sufficiently formed. They were the children of their enthusiasm rather than of prospering middle and scientific and technological progress, and they embarked upon the dubious task of replicating the developed, capitalist and democratic nation-states. They continue to survive as low-income, poverty-stricken, technologically backward societies ruled over by authoritarian regimes or 'low-powered' democracies. The survival was made possible because of the strategic value in the cold war and because of the residual value of their raw materials.

These non-viable quasi nation-states are told that they can achieve development under globalisation and its totally unfettered market. For this they have to open themselves to the multinationals and the floating international finance that comes in their wake. The leverage for this process is provided by the fact that state loans have dried up after the cold war and the developing states have no income and no savings to embark on investment on their own. The state is increasingly broke and has to privatise its assets developed during the cold war under inefficient comprador regimes. There is massive unemployment in consequence which the multinationals will not absorb because of an increased reliance on information technology and enhancement of profits through the cutting down of production cost. Because of the devaluation of exports coming mostly from the agrarian sector, poverty is first produced in the countryside from where population makes an exodus into the cities. There is unskilled labour which is sought to be absorbed into industries that increasingly require skilled manpower.

Oswaldo de Rivero Asks: 'How can the quasi-nation states be made economically viable when their populations are growing explosively and their export goods consist of primary goods or only slightly processed products, which fetch low prices and are in little demand? How are we to deal with ungovernable countries where corruption is rife and the daily practice of democracy is rudimentary at best? How are market economy and consumer society to be produced in Latin America. Asian and African countries that have more than 40 percent of their population living below the poverty line, on less than one dollar a day? How are nearly 5 billion persons with low incomes to be integrated into global consumption patterns, without seriously damaging the biosphere? How is the enormous gap between the rich and poor countries to be closed without gravely affecting the planet's ecological balance'. Add to that the developing countries' obsession with nationalism and war, and you have the slippery slope these states will never be able to negotiate.

What does the author offer as solution? Alas, there is no solution because the anti-globalisation drive is still a protest from the utopian well-wishers of humanity without a clear-cut anti-capitalist economic doctrine. After the collapse of socialism as a counter-system, no one risks recommending a return to the state sector economy, especially in the third world where it was simply another name for corruption and authoritarianism. The book ends with a pious hope that the more vigilant of the developing states would curb population growth and somehow save the ecology from being destroyed. The dream of a kind of 'union' of the poor is impossible because the poor are busy more often in fighting each other than in getting together against a hostile global environment.

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The Myth of Development: the Non-viable Economies of the 21st Century. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Anna C. Vakil
Manufacturer: Institute of Urban Studies
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Binding: Digital

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Urban Research, published by Institute of Urban Studies on December 22, 2002. The length of the article is 747 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: The Myth of Development: the Non-viable Economies of the 21st Century. .(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Anna C. Vakil
Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2002
Publisher: Institute of Urban Studies
Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Page: 353(2)

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In May of 1757 Frederick the Great invaded Bohemia, smashed an Austrian army outside Prague and bottled it up in the city. The Empress Maria Theresa despatched Marshal Daun with 60,000 men to save the Empire's second city. Frederick had won a string of victories over the Austrians and was convinced his men would always triumph. Although outnumbered he attacked, but the Austrians were waiting. His army was defeated and forced to withdraw. As his veterans commented, 'they were not the same old Austrians at all'. Simon Millar shows how Frederick's overconfidence proved his undoing at Kolin.

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Good Narrative with Analysis.......2001-12-01

Unlike some other recent Osprey Campaign series titles, Kolin 1757 follows the standard Osprey format faithfully and even attempts some analysis of why the battle turned out as it did. The Battle of Kolin was Frederick the Great's first defeat but it has not been covered well in recent historical writing and thus, this volume is something of a godsend to Prussian enthusiasts.

The book begins with a short section on the road to war and chronology of the campaign, then moves rapidly into sections on opposing commanders, opposing armies and a detailed order of battle. The section on commanders is quite good, and also discusses command and control in 18th Century warfare. The Spring 1757 Campaign and Battle of Prague in May 1757 are covered in eight pages. Unfortunately, the lack of a map for the Battle of Prague is a serious omission, since Frederick attempted similar maneuvers that should be compared at both Prague and Kolin. Frederick's invasion of Bohemia in the Spring of 1757 also demonstrated his tendency to disperse his army in unsupporting columns, lacking centralized coordination and a weighted main effort. The Spring Campaign also demonstrated the Austrian preference for unimaginative cordon defense tactics. While Frederick won the Battle of Prague, it was a costly victory due to the lack of effective Prussian terrain reconnaissance.

The Battle of Kolin itself, which resulted from an Austrian counteroffensive to relieve the besieged city of Prague, is well covered in forty pages of text. There are three 3-D "Bird's Eye View" maps which depict the battle in phases covering 1600-1730 hours, 1730-1830 hours and 1900-2100 hours. Also included are five 2-D maps which depict the approach march to battle, the initial dispositions and the retreat into Saxony. Three excellent battle scenes depict Field Marshal Daun atop Przerovsky Hill, the repulse of the Prussian Norman dragoons by IR Botta and Frederick leaving the field. Overall, the battle narrative is clear and well-supported by maps and illustrations, although the tangled nature of the charges and counter-charges atop Krzeczor Hill are difficult to follow. One minor criticism is that the author's reference to the "smell of cordite" over the battlefield is erroneous since cordite was not yet invented.

A welcome but unusual section in the aftermath of the battle attempts to analyze the action using the principles of war. Unfortunately, the author does not seem to fully grasp what the principle of war consist of, since he includes morale and flexibility - which are not principles - but excludes maneuver and unity of command. The author properly points out that the principle of objective was compromised by poor Prussian reconnaissance. The principles of surprise and security were also squandered, which contributed greatly to defeat. While the author properly pounds Frederick for lacking mass and wasting resources on secondary objectives, the criticisms only partly explain that the Prussians were attempting to attack at roughly 1:2 odds, instead of the recommended 3:1. Overall, Frederick attempted to use maneuver and the offensive by means of a turning movement to place his enemies in a position of peril, which in itself was a good idea. However, Frederick's turning movement was very clumsy and like his later famous "oblique order," represented little more than a cleverly executed frontal attack. Tactically, Frederick relied on the brawn of his infantry and cavalry to bash their way through a weak point in the enemy cordon, but Frederick was not very adept at finding those weak points. Poor reconnaissance and the lack of effective combined arms tactics that made integrated use of artillery, cavalry and infantry were the weak points of Frederick's method of warfare.

While the author addresses Frederick throughout the text, the portrait that emerges of Frederick in this campaign is far from "great." In particular, Frederick's contempt for the enemy severely degraded the quality of his operational planning; the author notes, "Frederick anticipated the Austrians accommodating his plan by doing nothing to interfere with the movement of his army." Frederick also had an unfortunate tendency to leave his army when things were going badly, which he did at Mollwitz, Lobositz and Kolin. Instead of rallying his defeated troops, Frederick hastened to the rear to sulk. Contrast Frederick's departure with Robert E. Lee's meeting the returning survivors of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg in 1863 and the disparity of styles in defeat are striking. When the Austrians pursued the defeated Prussians, Frederick turned over command to his brother while Frederick took to bed to mourn the death of his mother (apparently the death of thousands of his troops bothered him less). Yet when Frederick's brother was bested by the Austrians in a minor action, Frederick humiliatingly removed him from command. If anything is taught by the campaign of Kolin, it is that "greatness" is battlefield command is determined by exemplary leadership qualities, not the execution of fancy tactical maneuvers.

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The behind-the-scenes story of British agents and diplomats operating around the world in the decades after Waterloo. Scholars and general readers alike will be fascinated by this look into a world of intrigue, destabilization and covert operations of a type normally associated with more modern times.

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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.

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Catesby's Birds of Colonial America

Manufacturer: Univ. of North Carolina Pr.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I2XP8O

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