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Glass in Structures: Elements, Concepts, Designs
Rob Nijsse Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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One of the most fascinating and sophisticated applications of glass in contemporary architecture is its use as a load-bearing material. Pioneered by Peter Rice and Hugh Dutton for structural glazing of façades, glass as a structural material is now commonly used throughout buildings. Glass Roofs, Glass Façades, Other Glass Walls, Glass Floors, Glass Beams and, as the utmost point of experiment, Glass Columns are the subjects of this book. The introduction deals with questions of material properties and the central issue of security, while the final part develops an integrative approach to architecture based on the experience of building with glass structures. The author Rob Nijsse is partner of abt, one of the biggest engineering firms in the Netherlands. He draws on his intimate knowledge of a large number of projects by Benthem & Crouwel, Neutelings, Mecanoo, van Egeraat, Cepezed, O.M.A., Arets and many other architects in the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Portugal and Korea.
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Rendering in Mixed Media
Joseph Ungar Manufacturer: Watson-Guptil Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MBR0TG |
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Rendering in Mixed Media
Joseph Ungar Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0823074277 |
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a great book on how to render and create your style!.......1999-01-30
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Rendering in Mixed Media Techniques for Concept Presentation for Designers and Illustrators
Joseph Ungar Manufacturer: Watson-Guptil ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LZJ6NG |
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Rendering techniques in watercolor and mixed media for interior designers, architects, graphic artists and watercolorists
Mary Jo Weale Manufacturer: M.J. Weale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000734L4Q |
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Robert Frost: Seasons : Poems
Robert Frost , and Burkett Manufacturer: MJF Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1567311032 |
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Perfect match of verse and pictures.......2000-08-16
Perhaps the best color photography ever!.......1998-12-31
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The Four Seasons
Edna St Vincent Millay , and William Cullen Bryant Manufacturer: Prior Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0930861450 |
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A treat for both your eyes and your ears! This unique set includes a beautiful picture book and music CD featuring Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". The gorgeous gift book features stunning nature photography from celebrated photographer Bruce Heinemann. The full-length music CD features Antonio Vivladi's beloved masterpiece, "The Four Seasons", as performed by The Cambridge Chamber Orchestra. The book and CD complement each other perfectly, and together offer a moving visual and aural entertainment experience. Makes a lovely gift!
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Newdick's Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0791458547 |
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NEWDICK'S SEASON OF FROST: AN INTERRUPTED BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT FROST (ED. WILLIAM A. SUTTON).
Robert Spangler. Newdick Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WAW34Y |
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Seasons
Robert Frost Manufacturer: MJF Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KK8S5O |
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NEWDICK'S SEASON OF FROST: AN INTERRUPTED BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT FROST (ED. WILLIAM A. SUTTON).
Robert Spangler. Newdick Manufacturer: Albany, New York U. P., 1976. 454 pp, illus. First edition in dust jacket, in very good condition. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UE07RM |
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Newdick's Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost.
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Season's greetings: [Christmas card]
Louis Henry Cohn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007JY84I |
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Seasons
Robert; Lathem, Edward Connery (editor) Frost Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LOHPVW |
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Latigo: 1979-1980 (Latigo)
Stan Lynde Manufacturer: Cottonwood Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0962699934 |
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Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing: From Techniques to Formats to Systems
Hendrick Meyer-Ohle Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1403911282 |
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Japanese retailing has long been regarded as traditional or even backwards when in reality it has constantly demonstrated its innovation and dynamism. This book highlights these developments by looking at: innovations and underlying driving forces; responses of Japanese retailers to deregulation; increasing competition; changes in consumer behavior; and internationalization during the 1990s. All of these factors are analyzed through a thorough investigation of innovative activity from the 1950s onwards.
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Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace
William Greider Manufacturer: PublicAffairs ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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"The U.S. military-industrial complex, as we have known it, is in the process of devouring itself, literally and tangibly. The awesome interlocking structure of armed forces, industrial interests, and political alliances that has sprawled across American public life and purpose for two generations cannot endure for long," writes Rolling Stone correspondent William Greider in the introduction to Fortress America. Although shorter than his previous books on the Federal Reserve and the global economy, Fortress America is vintage Greider: strong reporting and sharp analysis on a topic of current and compelling interest. Greider doesn't address U.S. defense strategy so much as the perverse economics underlying the American military establishment. Costs and commitments forever escalate as basic military readiness deteriorates. The Pentagon continues to request next-generation fighter aircraft and Congress agrees to fund them even as fundamental training exercises go wanting. The problem isn't that the United States will lose its next war, but that massive waste and incredible redundancy make national defense a pricey behemoth. Greider calls for a fundamental reordering of priorities; this is an argument Washington--and, increasingly, the public--cannot ignore. --John J. MillerBook Description
Through vivid reportage, revealing anecdotes, and illuminating interviews with military personnel, bestselling author William Greider explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era-and the troubling consequences for our fighting forces and our country.Customer Reviews:
The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-05
Analysis of military's dilemma holds up well post-9/11 .......2007-07-22
Useful, Not Moving.......2003-02-03
People like me who would like to see our military drastically reduced and who have little faith in the good intentions of anyone involved in it are likely to be turned off by Greider's more middle of the road views and what appears to be his reluctance to express some of the anti-military views he does hold.
People who long for an ever bigger military are unlikely to be converted by this book.
I think Greider wanted to avoid preaching to a choir, but walking down the middle, or pretending to, has found him fewer readers than his information and ideas deserve. He ought to have passionately argued a case (a moral case, not a strategic or economic one) for radical change. Those inclined to agree would have been more likely to get their hands on the book, and those inclined to disagree would have ended up picking it up too in order to know their opponent. Some would have been persuaded.
On page 10, Greider predicts a decrease in military ("defense") spending because this is what the public wants. On page 172 Greider points out a yawning chasm between what the public wants and what happens. This is illustrative of a gradual shift. The book starts out sounding like an article in the Washington Post and concludes sounding like one in the Nation.
The corruption analyzed along the way is not terribly new to readers of the Nation, but it's useful to have these facts and anecdotes in one place. The fact that a single aircraft carrier costs $5 billion, the same price as a proposed National Housing Trust Fund, is the sort of thing that cannot be restated enough.
What we could have used much more than this book was a plan for tying opposition to military waste into campaigns for positive public spending. We have for too long desperately needed to transform tax-and-spend proposals into axe-the-military-and-spend proposals.
We NEED to work out the politics of proposing and fighting a grassroots campaign for specific public school or Medicaid improvements tied to specific eliminations of military pork.
And quit calling it "defense" for godsake!
How We Got Here.......2002-12-06
Grieder's 'wake up call' details a bloated military industrial machine which has consumed much of our national wealth, and now has nowhere to direct its massive inventories.
Greider examines the political, social and economic effects from the perspectives of generals, line workers and politicians alike. The book has an excellent read, which will hold your interest through every paragraph. You will not be tempted to sigh and page ahead.
Grieder tells us how we got here, and offers a thesis to explain the current administration's obsession with finding a new boogey man to justify the continued propping up of a military industrial complex whose utlity expired along with the threat it geared up to face for decades - the Soviet Union.
Fortress America: Weapons for yesterday's war........2002-02-09
If this book reads like the tabloids, then please tell me which newspaper. I'd like to read related facts.
A puzzle still remains: How to keep weapon production ready for war without overproducing? Some old weapons are being upgraded or retrofit. However, obsolescence remains a major issue. Parts are really hard to replace when the vendor no longer exists, etc....
-Nomadder
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Fortifying Fortress America.(America needs to re examine its military spending policy)(Brief Article): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
John Isaacs Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098MDKI Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1081 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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Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace.(Review): An article from: World Policy Journal
David Rieff Manufacturer: World Policy Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098SLI6 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from World Policy Journal, published by World Policy Institute on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 4648 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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Raising Jewish Children in a Contemporary World: The Modern Parent's Guide to Creating a Jewish Home
Steven Carr Reuben Manufacturer: Prima Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories:
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Raising Jewish Children in a Contemporary World : The Modern Parent's Guide to Creating a Jewish Home
Manufacturer: Crown Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HNPZQE |
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American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
Frederick J. Simonelli Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Biased.......2007-06-15
Psychotic Abused Child Blames Grows Up To Become Fuehrer.......2004-01-18
But what is interesting is the man before me charges that the Jews control the media, and distort the news. How do they do this? Do they meet at a Chinese restaurant every Sunday to give out orders in controlling the world. Who is the top Jew? Larry King, Barbara Walters, Noam Chomsky, or maybe Michael Moore, who is really a Jew hiding his identity.
If the Jews control the media, why is it everytime I pick up a paper I see favorable pictures of Palestinians, and unfavorable pictures of Israelis, even when they are innocent civilians riding in buses and eating in restaurants?
Yes, there are a lot of Jews in the media, but when does that become a crime, and what type of personality, sees all Jews acting in a conspiracy?
This is the same type of person who feels humiliated by anyone who is more talented and competent than him, a perpetually impotent type of personality who is looking for a rationale for his failure in life and love.
The great crime of the Jew is that he has been successful, and to the perpetually impotent personality this is something that can never be forgiven. Personalities like Rockwell perpetually exploit this hatred, which is basically a hatred of life and love in all its forms. Their true focus is not the Jew per se, but all talent, all ability, all life-positive action.
Only hope for Amrica!.......2002-04-22
Frightening Proof Jewish Power and Media Control.......2001-09-07
In spite of this wealth of primary sources, however, the book is disappointing and prefunctory. It seems that after all his archival sleuthing, Simonelli lost interest in his subject matter when he actually sat down to write the book. This leads to a distorted picture of Rockell's ideas and personality. A much fuller picture is found in the Schmaltz biography HATE.
One case in point: Simonelli's discussion of the case against John Patler, Rockwell's convicted killer, leaves out crucial pieces of evidence, giving the impression that the case against Patler was weaker than it actually was. Then Simonelli goes on to air the conspiracy theories blaming Matt Koehl, William Pierce, and others for the murder. These may seem plausible to the reader only because the case against Patler is stated weakly. This is VERY MISLEADING and quite simply unjust.
Simonelli actually does a better job of documenting how Jewish organizations first tried to terrorize and intimidate Rockwell, and then, failing that, resorted to a very successful press blackout to deny him publicity and prevent his ideas from being heard and debated. Simonelli demonstrates just how powerful the Jewish control over the media is, and how Americans are fed a version of reality that is distorted to protect and advance Jewish interests. This is a frightening thought, because if they did it then, they can do it now too.
The bottom line: I recommend this book as a supplement to Schmaltz's HATE, but not as a substitute. If you read one book on Rockwell, read HATE.
Must read to understand Rockwell, neo-nazis.......2001-05-14
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American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
Frederick James Simonelli Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPVRGC |
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American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.(Review) (book review) : An article from: American Jewish History
Glen Jeansonne Manufacturer: American Jewish Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00099OQJI Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from American Jewish History, published by American Jewish Historical Society on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 847 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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The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0521630010 |
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This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. This is the first book to investigate systematically this important topic.Download Description
This volume investigates the ways in which people in western Europe between the fall of Rome and the twelfth century used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. The book thus has important implications for how historians use these sources as evidence: they emerge as representations of the past made for very special reasons, often by interested parties. This is the first volume to be devoted fully to these themes, and as such it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of the past within early medieval societies.
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National Audubon Society Birder's Handbook (Smithsonian Handbooks)
DK Publishing Manufacturer: DK ADULT ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0789451530 |
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Geared to beginning birders, the Handbook includes useful advice about selecting binoculars, looking for identification markings, even sketching birds. The presentation follows the usual Dorling Kindersley format: lots of annotated color photographs and illustrations; straightforward text penned by a recognized expert; and helpful appendices on related topics like birdwatching ethics, building a reference library, birding organizations, and taxonomy. A chapter on "Birding Hot Spots" provides maps and locations of particularly rich birding regions throughout North America, while those with a burgeoning interest will appreciate an overview on photographing and recording birds. This is not an ID guide (try National Geographic's Field Guide to the Birds of North America for that), and it's not meant to be carried in the field, but for a would-be birder looking to get started it's a fine primer.Book Description
A thorough and detailed guide to the art and science of birding for the novice and veteran alike. This invaluable guide includes over 280 photographs and 130 illustrations to explain the techniques and equipment of birding. Complete descriptions and invaluable tips on how to identify birds, locate and get close to them, record your observations, and organize and lead birding trips. Detailed information on essential tools for birding, including binoculars and scopes. This section is packed with tips on selecting, using, and caring for binoculars. Over 40 bird behaviors fully described and illustrated with color photos. This catalog will expand your knowledge of birds, helping you understand how they care for themselves and interact with their environment. All the details needed to select the right camera and recording equipment. A review of the most important technical aspects makes bird photography and bird song recording both enjoyable and worthwhile. A compendium of bird families to help identify birds and learn about the wide variety of North American species. Examples are taken from each of the bird families in North America -- over 80 in all. Each family is described in detail and includes a photo and silhouetted drawings. Full--color maps highlight some of the best places in North America for birding, including Audubon Centers, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Parks. Appendices give resources for birders, including Internet sites, books, periodicals, organizations, supply sources, and education programs.
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NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY BIRDER'S HANDBOOK.(Review) (book review): An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Sara R. Morris Manufacturer: Wilson Ornithological Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008J2BVE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 717 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.Books:
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