Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints

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Highlighting a Mary Cassatt article by a leading expert on the subject - Nancy Mowll Mathews. 12-pages; illus. w/13 plates. More of interest in this mag ~ Hingham Mass. history, Lowery Dale Kirby collection of old Sheffield plate, and more.

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Mary Cassatt Pastels and Color Prints
DC. National Collection of Fine Arts. Catalog by Adelyn D. Breeskin; Foreword by Joshua Washington
Manufacturer: National Collection of Fine Arts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000V5SZ6U

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Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Color Prints

Manufacturer: Smithsonian, Washington DC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I9EGBW

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Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Color Prints
Mary] National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution [Cassatt
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Inst Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000E9UAP

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MARY CASSATT: THE COLOR PRINTS
Nancy Mowll and Shapiro, Barbara Stern Mathews
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams Inc in assoc with Williams College Museum of Art
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VGA49U

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Cal 95: Mary Cassatt Color Prints
National Gallery of Canada
Manufacturer: Pomegranate (Cal)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar
ASIN: 1566408261

Catalogue: An exhibition of pastels, water-colors, pencil drawings, soft-ground etchings, aquatints, color prints, dry-points, etc

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Catalogue: An exhibition of pastels, water-colors, pencil drawings, soft-ground etchings, aquatints, color prints, dry-points, etc
Mary Cassatt
Manufacturer: Baltimore Museum of Art
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008BOBE2

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Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Color Prints
Adelyn Breeskin
Manufacturer: Smithsonian, Washington DC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S5XHA2

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The book is cool........1999-03-09

it has very cool info on fish

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This book presents more than 150 black and white photographs, from stunning landscapes to tender portraits, celebrating the western way of life in Yellowstone Country from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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The Art and Feel of Yellowstone Country.......2003-11-03

The strength of the black and white photography strongly captures the feel of the dramatic geography and history of Yellowstone. The intriguing story of the photographer written by Mark Bagne and the detailed restoration of the photographs create a book I will keep on my coffee table for years. This book is a grand tribute to our first National park and stands as a reminder that we must preserve Yellowstone for future generations.

My God! It's awesome!.......2003-03-12

A couple of good friends of mine recommended this book to me. I can't thank them enough for bringing the art of Jack Richard to my attention. The book is wonderfully put together - the selected photos included provide a great introduction to the art of Jack Richard while the text gives you an understanding of what the Yellowstone Country must have meant to the artist. I hope that the authors are hard at work on a second well deserved tribute to the art of Jack Richard!

Slice of Wyoming's Past.......2003-02-17

As my Mom used to tell it, Jack Richard was a gentleman who happened to be a photographer! He did it all--from capturing the splendor of Yellowstone to making portraits of people who lived and worked around the Cody area. Many of the photos he took of my grandparents are lost, but the surviving images are amazing. In this book, Wyoming Journalist Bark Bagne takes us behind Richard's camera and allows us a glimpse into his life and love as a photographer. Bagne, who honed his skills at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Cody Enterprise during the past two decades, is a perfect match for the story. Anyone who has a love for photography or Wyoming will cherish this book.

Back in Time.......2002-09-12

Many of the photographs in this book remind me of my own childhood growing up in Wyoming. Mark Bagne has done a great job of capturing the feel of the pictures with his writing. This will make a great gift for my mountain-loving friends.

Yellowstone Country.......2002-08-21

The black and white photographs contained in this book -- some never-before-seen -- are absolutely stunning! Mark Bagne's text is as crisp and informative as the photos! Definitely a must-see-and-read book for all!

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wow a real eye opener!!

Lacking in substance

Good Info

Retail in Detail, very informative!

Retail in Detail: How to Start and Manage a Small Retail Business
Ronald L. Bond
Manufacturer: Entrepreneur Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Do you dream of staking your claim to riches in the retail world?

With more than 30 years of experience, author Ronald L. Bond provides the most comprehensive information available on starting and running a retail business. Everything you need to know to successfully plan, launch and manage your own retail business is at your fingertips.

Most small-business owners have no one to turn to for professional advice and must learn how to set up and manage their businesses the slow hard way—through trial and error. Bond guides you every step of the way, utilizing real-world examples and information anecdotes to break down the critical daily processes into concise, easy-to-follow, chronological steps, including how to:

Select the ultimate location and develop your brand image
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wow a real eye opener!!.......2007-10-11

This book was really great. I learned things that I really never thought about before. It gave me some good ideas to go off of. I think that its a great book for anyone that is thinking about their own business.

Lacking in substance.......2004-08-19

I found this book dissapointing for the following reasons:

The author's only experience in retail was in giftware so he hardly mentioned examples from other industries.
There is little mention of sales techniques (vital to success in today's competitive environment) nor little advise on how to wow your customers with extraordinary service.
The book offered little advise on which types of people you should employ - and how they should be trained to maximise your customer's shopping experience and your company's profitability.

If you are looking for a book to inspire you - rather look at Retail Success.

Good Info.......2000-11-15

I am thinking about starting my own small business & found this book to contain very good info about what to do & even more important what not to do. Gives both the pros & cons of starting your own business in a enjoyable reading style but does not sugar coat the difficulties involved. I found lots of helpful info about who to contact & where to go to get both additional info & purchasing wholesale.

Retail in Detail, very informative!.......2000-05-23

Retail in Detail, How to start and manage a small retail business, was the most informative book I have read to date. In all the information out there to help you decide what to do and when, it gets a bit overwhelming. This book broke down very important points and explains them in detail. Other areas are hit lightly but you are given a variety of other areas of interest to answer them whether it is another book, etc. I will keep this with me for a long time.

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This collection offers a new rationale and framework for international development cooperation. Its main argument is that in actual practice, development cooperation has already moved beyond aid (i.e. assistance to poor countries) and onto issues such as the ozone hole, global climate change, HIV, drug trafficking, and financial volatility. These issues are not poverty-related but instead concern global housekeeping, which helps to ensure an adequate provision of global public goods. Contributors include Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Jeffrey Sachs of the Harvard Institute for International Development, Joseph Stiglitz of the World Bank, and many others.

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A new rationale for international development.......1999-07-28

"Global Public Goods" offers a new rationale and framework for international development. The book's main argument is that in practice this has moved on from financially assisting the poor to broader issues, including among many others the ozone hole, global climate change and peacemaking. Aid, the book suggests, has been primarily guided by national development priorities; but in response to today's global and regional challenges, the aid agenda needs to be amplified. These topics are in many cases not poverty-related, but instead concern adequate provision of "global public goods." Published for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and edited by three senior members of its staff, the book seeks to better understand the roots of contemporary crises and to look at today's policy challenges through the lens of such goods, with a view to managing globalization. As any businessperson knows, the market may be the most efficient way of producing private goods and services, yet it relies on commodities that it cannot itself make. These include such things as property rights, public safety, etc. goods recognized as having benefits that cannot easily be confined to a particular "buyer." Yet once they are provided, many can enjoy them for free. A sustainable environment is an example that, like other topics covered in this volume, has "public good" qualities. This difference between public and the private benefits is called an externality, and one of the main points of this book is that in today's world, large externalities are increasingly borne by people in other countries. Indeed, issues that have traditionally been merely national are now global; and this problem is compounded by the main policymaking unit remaining the nation state. The book investigates policy options and strategies that would ensure a more reliable supply of such global public goods as market efficiency, environmental sustainability and peace. These questions are examined in relation to selected areas of global policy concern in 15 case studies. Framing the case studies are two additional sections, one on concepts, the other on policy implications. An intriguing essay in the latter, by Harvard's Lisa Cook and Jeffrey Sachs, discusses the need for greater focus on regional public goods, both for the specialized requirements of individual regions and to co-ordinate regional contributions to global public goods. Noting the minimal funding currently targeted at this level, Cook and Sachs consider the success of the Marshal Plan in post-World War II development cooperation in Europe, and suggest that regional action in the future could follow a similar model. I found this essay particularly topical and interesting given the present stage of the Middle East peace process. One important point also made in the book is that the division of the world into "developed" and "developing" countries is no longer valid in its traditional form. It is becoming evident that high income is no guarantee of equitable or sustainable development, and that the adequate provision of global goods is likely to be critical to meeting this challenge in all countries. The book goes on to say that contemporary global challenges cannot be adequately understood by relying on any one strand of economic literature; and a main policy message emanating from this work is the need to transform international cooperation from "external affairs" into policy-making applicable to all areas. Several factors are behind this new type of global public goods. Among them is the increasing openness of countries. Another is the growing number of global risks that require more respect for sustainability. A third is the strength of transnational actors, such as the private sector and civil society, which have stepped up the pressure on governments to adhere to common policy norms from efficient markets to technical standards. Under these conditions, such global actions as eradicating disease or supervising banks are important to national policy objectives. Most of the developments set out in "Global Public Goods" have been in the making for decades, but only recently have the accumulating effects of these changes attracted serious attention from policy analysts, political leaders and the private sector. It is not too surprising, then, to find that policymaking has not yet been adjusted. The case studies point to several key weaknesses in the current arrangements for providing global public goods. One is the jurisdictional gap the discrepancy between a globalized world and national, separate units of policymaking. This is an important book, but not one for the general reader. It will be the task of UNDP, working with local and regional advocacy groups and the media, to dumb down the concepts of "global" and "regional" public goods to the level of the man and woman in the street or the boardroom, as well as that of the average policymaker. The problem, of course, is that in the region many of the latter are entirely unaware of the crucial implications of externalities and public goods. Had our leaders and decision-makers been better informed in this respect, the present valuable work by UNDP could no doubt be shunted off to research institutes and classrooms. However, given the intellectual poverty of much of our regional leadership, the ideas presented in "Global Public Goods" must be presented properly and allowed to play an increasingly important role in our lives. Looking at peace as a public good and the region as a focus for development will help us to secure stability and prosperity. What the rigorous presentations in this useful book also show is that the proper application of such concepts will not only benefit our part of the world, but the rest of the globe as well.

This book embarks into new dimensions of thinking........1999-06-23

This book tries to extrapolate the concept of 'public goods' from the national level to the global level. We live in an insreasingly integrated & inter-linked world. Thus as the book correctly points out there is a need to rethink the nature of international assistance. These global public goods cut accross several countries, several sectors, several socio-economic groups & several generations. No country can achieve these global public goods (peace, greater economic stability & well being, social justice & environmental stability) on its own & neither can the global marketplace. The book offers a powerful new arguement for increased international cooperation in order to provide the global public goods that are needed to give globalization a human face. Now that we are leaving in a more open world; global public bads travel; and the existence of public goods at the local level; often depends on events 'far away'. Therefore, to secure their national interests,the book says that it is now important to place international cooperation at the core of national public policy. Working together with other states and encouraging cooperation & fariness at the global level will increasingly be seen as vital elements of 'self interested' national strategies. The policy making under conditions of globalization & for 'global public goods' poses tremendous challenges of balance-because it entails the need to complement decentralization with centrlization & community with diversity. Thus as the book rightly suggests domestic affairs have to blend so that international cooperation becomes an integral part of national public polcy making. The book brings into the limelight some major areas, which is of immense importance as far as the global community is concerned. It introduces a framework for facilitating & reinforcing international development through an equal partnership model of cooperation.

Global public goods: International cooperation in the 21st century.(Review) (book review): An article from: International Labour Review

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Global public goods: International cooperation in the 21st century.(Review) (book review): An article from: International Labour Review
Mark Lansky
Manufacturer: International Labour Office
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008JA5AS
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from International Labour Review, published by International Labour Office on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1787 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: Global public goods: International cooperation in the 21st century.(Review) (book review)
Author: Mark Lansky
Publication: International Labour Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: International Labour Office
Volume: 139 Issue: 1 Page: 91

Article Type: Book Review

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The Devil's Eye' was the soldiers' name for the infamous Bulgarian observation post overlooking the British line at Doiran. The troops who fought in the Balkans, and especially the British contingent, became a forgotten army. The British Salonika Force landed in Greece in October 1915, to deter Bulgaria from joining the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary, in attacking Serbia. The campaign was, from the British perspective, always destined to be a 'side show'. Britain had no political, commercial or strategic interests in the region beyond prosecuting the First World War to a favorable conclusion, but the demands of coalition warfare made a continued Anglo-French presence necessary. From mid-1917, however, the War Office plundered the British Salonika Force's manpower to support offensives in Palestine and on the Western Front.

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The Pageant of Ibero-American Civilization is an introduction to the cultural history of the hybrid civilization that developed in those areas of the Americas that were conquered and settled by Europeans from the Iberian peninsula, under the Crown of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, five hundred years ago. Tarrago emphasizes the ideas and some of the individuals influential in the formation of that civilization. This book stands out in comparison to others of its kind because it chronicles events in Ibero-America taking into account the standards at the time that they took place and their relation to contemporary happenings in other areas of the world. Most importantly, this book does justice to the past of the region without justifying it, and it avoids subjecting its complex and undisciplined reality to a single "big idea." Written with an English speaking readership in mind, it includes a select thematic bibliography of titles in English.

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This guide highlights the main wildlife viewing areas and most visible species. Offering exceptional value and utility, it's map-sized, lightweight, and laminated for wear-resistance.

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Read description carefully.......2006-01-20

This "paperback" is a good example of why it is important to read the entire description of an item carefully. It is neither a paperback nor even a book. Instead, it is an (apparently sturdy) accordian-folded sheet that expands to 8"x22". It is not an "introduction" to the birds, but simply color illustrations of each bird (I assume they are all males) along with the common name, scientific name, and size. That's it. Birds are arranged into five groups (perching, waterbirds, nearshore & wading, birds of prey, and "doves, woodpeckers, etc."). I saw it listed as a "paperback" and so ordered it. I failed to note that it's length is listed as being only 12 pages. It has its very limited use as a quick reference tool. It seems better suited to be a fold-out reference appended to a comprehensive field guide to birds, rather than being a stand-alone tool.

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