Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present

Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present
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Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present
Jean-Louis Ferrier
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ASIN: 0130116440

Art of Our Century. the Chronicle of Western Art 1900 to the Present
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Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art 1900 to the Present.
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Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art 1900 to the Present.
Jean-Louis Ferrier
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Art of Our Century: The Chronicle of Western Art,1900 to the Present
Jean-Louis Ferrier
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Coloured Pencil Drawing Techniques: 22 Coloured Pencil Projects, Illustrated Step-by-step with Advice on Materials and Techniques
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Coloured Pencil Drawing Techniques: 22 Coloured Pencil Projects, Illustrated Step-by-step with Advice on Materials and Techniques
Iain Hutton-Jamieson
Manufacturer: Cassell & Co (A member of the Orion Publishing Group)
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ASIN: 0289800005

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A holistic approach to poverty eradication that places the poor at the helm of development planning and action. A sustainable livelihoods approach shifts the focus from the `needs' of the poor to their assets, adaptive strategies and entitlements. This methodology empowers the poor to analyze their circumstances, identify their priorities and launch their own development initiatives.

Emphasizing livelihoods rather than jobs, this book points out the difference between sustainable livelihoods and integrated rural development, which is largely donor-driven. Using experiences in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia as examples, the book details the Participatory Assessment and Planning for Sustainable Livelihoods (PAPSL) methodology. It also defines key elements to which the poor must have access if their homegrown development plans are to be successful: science and technology, investments and financial services, sound governance and policies.

Sustainable Livelihoods is an informal handbook for development professionals. It is written in an accessible, journalistic style for anyone concerned about effectively reducing poverty.

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The rapid pace of change in the banking industry is impacting the manner in which community banks conduct their business. The community bank, long a tradition in banking, is faced with several obstacles it must address head-on in order to survive. The Community Bank Survival Guide calls upon community banks to abandon ``tradition'' and look to the future--now--to impact the way each institution conducts its business--from the procedures and policies in place to the equipment in used by the employees. This book describes techniques for survival and devotes coverage to the importance of developing leadership in the community bank and in the surrounding community. Changing the culture to one that is more sales and marketing driven--perhaps the most important change necessary for survival--is covered in great detail. The Community Bank Survival Guide includes strategies for: Designing tactics and techniques for increasing asset base and profitability; Highlighting community involvement as key to an institution's mission; Addressing the imperatives of change; Evolving the culture of an institution's staff to one that is more market savvy; Disclosing and communicating director liabilities and responsibilities.

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Remain Independent !.......2000-07-11

This book is an excellent resource for community financial institutions who desire to remain independent. The rules Dr. Austin has developed are insightful and obviously a result of years of working directly with community banks.

Concise Guide to Executive Etiquette
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Concise Guide to Executive Etiquette
Linda Phillips , and Wayne Phillips
Manufacturer: Main Street Books
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Release Date: 1990-05-01

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The founders of the Executive Etiquette Company offer expert advice on the many issues, questions, and quandaries of business protocol in the modern workplace.

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Achieve your Success Goals with Six Powerful Principles

Discover timeless success principles that will help you become more effective.Improve your professional and personal performance. Applying these principles will allow you to create new areas of achievement and fulfillment.

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Acne is a common disorder affecting both teenagers and adults. This book dispels the myths and introduces treatments from antibiotics to acupuncture and explains why and when acne occurs. It looks at the emotional consequences of acne and offers sympathetic case histories.

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British book.......2002-08-23

This book is by a British dermatologist. Much of the information about drugs and hormones included British brand names, no US brand names. Still, the information about causes and effects is wonderful and easily understood. And the doctor is not afraid to call a zit a zit!

Great at telling me how acne occurs but is not a must buy.......2001-07-01

This book is a great tool in telling you about acne and some of the myths around it, but it's not a must buy for acne sufferers. What this book did tell me was that acne was not something I had to live with. It can be stopped through medication, and this book was the final kick in the direction of seeing a dermatologist. For those of you who already know how it occurs, and a lot of the myths around acne, you may not need this but I would still recommend--there will be something in here you did not know before. For those of you who don't know much about acne I would definitely advise you to buy it.

The best thing that I got out of the book was pretty simple. Acne isn't neccesarily something you grow out of. Some people have it throughout there lives. There is no use in simply suffering through it thinking it it will eventually go away. Doing that risks permanent scarring of your face which may never go away. Treat it before the scarring becomes bad. This book pushed to see a dermatologist and get prescriptions for acne medication.

So in closing this book doesn't have the secrets to curing your acne(and it doesn't pretend it does) but the information in it is the best compilation of information on acne, it's causes, and it's treatments, that I know of. This review comes from a moderate acne sufferer who has had acne for the past 5 years.

Highly recommend it!.......2000-10-14

I am a licensed esthetician, and I love this book! It's small but packed with information on acne causes and treatments. I recommend it to clients, friends, other estheticians. This book has helped me many a time in my practice, as it gives me simple ways to explain things to my clients. Excellent (and not often heard) infomation on scarring and treatment modalities available for different types of scars. Written in an compassionate, straightforward manner... the way you would wish your doctor to talk to you!

The Good Skin Doctor.......2000-06-30

I liked it because it didn't use all these technical terms like some of those books. THe advice it gave was good advice. I'm glad I got it and I already use it a lot.

Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 to 8 May
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Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 to 8 May
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific
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This is General Eisenhower's official report on the war in Europe.

Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945.

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Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945.
Dwight Eisenhower
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Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
Allied Forces
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Report by the supreme commander to the Combined chiefs of staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied expeditionary force, 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters
Manufacturer: Washington, Govt. Print. Off
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ASIN: B000PKIPKW

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It is a widely known but insufficiently appreciated fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Goedel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. They walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German-Austrian science in which they had grown up. What is not widely known is that in 1949 Goedel made a remarkable discovery: there exist possible worlds described by the theory of relativity in which time, as we ordinarily understand it, does not exist. He added a philosophical argument that demonstrates, by Goedel's lights, that as a consequence, time does not exist in our world either. If Goedel is right, Einstein has not just explained time; he has explained it away.

Without committing himself to Goedel's philosophical interpretation of his discovery, Einstein acknowledged that his friend had made an important contribution to the theory of relativity, a contribution that he admitted raised new and disturbing questions about what remains of time in his own theory. Physicists since Einstein have tried without success to find an error in Goedel's physics or a missing element in relativity itself that would rule out the applicability of Goedel's results. Philosophers, for the most part, have been silent.

_A World Without Time_, addressed to experts and non experts alike, brings to life the sheer intellectual drama of the companionship of Goedel and Einstein, and places their discoveries -- which can only be measured on a millennial scale -- in the context of the great and disturbing intellectual movements of the twentieth century -- in physics, mathematics, logic, philosophy, and the arts. It contains, as well, a poignant and intimate account of the friendship between these two thinkers, each put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day -- and ours -- and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the work Goedel did, inspired by Einstein, which made clear for the first time the truly revolutionary nature of the theory of relativity, which to this day is hardly recognized.

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more about philosophy than about physics or math.......2007-02-27

A World Without Time is a book about the friendship between Einstein and Godel that occurred toward the end of their lives. The friendship was fruitful in that Godel used Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to prove the existence of what are now called Godel Universes. Godel Universes are universes where time loops back on itself so, if you go sufficiently fast, you would end up back where you started in time. This is interesting but perhaps the most interesting aspect of the book for me was it's philosophical aspect. The author mentions the Vienna Circle and some concepts of philosophy such as positivism and ontology and epistemology which I found very interesting. I found the explanations of Godel's theories hard to follow but got the basic idea. I recommend this book for it's philosophical content. If you want to learn about Godel's Incompleteness theorem I recommend reading Godel, Escher Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid.

Should we dispense with clocks ?.......2007-02-12

The title of the book suggests time does not exist. The justification is a certain solution to Einstein cosmological equation, where the universe is rotating and time travel is possible. A path could reach into the past going around the universe.It is the Godel solution.

Modern cosmology is based on the Robertson Walker metric , or model,where there is a universal time. It fits the obseved universal expansion.The universe was born in a big bang fifteen billions years ago.

Goodel gave too much importance to his solution. After all any equation can allow many mathematical solutions which bear no relation to physical reality or fact.

The book is good reading with old and rare photos.It compelled me to reread "The Godel Solution" in Adler ,Bazin and Schiffer General Relativity.
Early in the century,Kurt Godel had laid a golden egg with his incompleteness theorem, pertaining to pure mathematics, causing some stir among Hilbert and Russell.But his attempt to abolish time, much later in 1949, felt in deaf ears among physicists and cosmologists.This is not about to change any time soon.

Yourgrau does an elegant work in rescuing an old story.It takes us through Europe and the beginnings of the Princeton Advanced Study Institute.

A World Without Time.......2007-01-23

Great book about Godel & Einstein. It tells much about their human side & their friendship. Does good job explaining some of their work.

Very bad book: a waste of your money.......2007-01-17

It is a heap op philosophy, not science. No formula, math, explanation, working examples whatsoever. Just small-talk to fill up the pages. This is NOT a physics book. I was lured into buying it thinking to get a complete textbook on Gödel's explanation of time. Forget it, this book is not worth your money. Go check the internet for PDF's or webpages containing the original publications of Gödel, they are there allright.

A World Without Time.......2007-01-04

I bought this book because I loved the cover. Everyone knows Einstein but it is amazing how few know the equally revolutionary Godel and still fewer know of their freindship. This is an invaluable book for those that (somehow) don't know about Godel's work. I didn't expect much from this book because I know of Godel's revolving universe time paradox. However, I found this book to be extremely interesting. The author's minimalist definition of Godel's theorm (syntax does not equal semantics) was worth the price alone. Unfortunatley the last chapter of the book is muddled in philosophic musings, since I am a Physicist I am less appreciative of pure philosophy.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science)

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A must read for all educated people
The Dialogues of Galileo - with Modern Solutions

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science)
Galileo
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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ASIN: 037575766X
Release Date: 2001-10-02

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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

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A masterpiece written by a superb scientist.......2006-11-04

This is the famous book that got Galileo in trouble with the Inquisition. Galileo Galilei was one of the greatest scientists of all time. In Galileo's time the all powerful Catholic Church had decreed that the Earth was at the center of the Universe and that all celestial bodies orbited the Earth. The reasons given for this were Theological in nature, not scientific. According to the Church the Earth was a special place in the Universe, because God had chosen the Earth to be Man's home. By the sixteenth century Science had progressed to the point where this view of the Universe became increasingly untenable as it did not agree with observations about planetary motion. To resolve the difficulties created by these observations Copernicus had published from his deathbed a new theory proposing that the planets moved around the Sun in nearly circular orbits. Copernicus theory seemed to agree much better with what was known at the time about planetary motion. Galileo being perhaps the greatest scientist of his time immediately saw that the Copernican theory must be right, and debated the matter with people holding the opposite view at the University where he was a renowned professor, Mathematician and Scientist. For a while debates, arguments and counterarguments followed, until in July 1609 Galileo found the definitive proof that the Copernican theory was right. The story has been recounted in the "Starry Messenger" by Galileo. He had seen a toy sold by a Flemish spectacle maker in Venice which made distant objects look like they were near. Galileo bought the toy and did not rest until he had figured out how it worked. He then turned the toy into a scientific instrument, and the first telescope was born. Galileo soon turned his invention towards the heavens, and he almost immediately made a number of groundbreaking discoveries. When he observed Jupiter he noticed that Jupiter had Moons just like the Earth had, and by observing the Moons of Jupiter and Jupiter on successive nights he soon discovered that the Moons of Jupiter clearly orbited Jupiter, not the Earth, as they were supposed to by the Ptolomaic theory taught by the Church. This was the definitive proof that the Ptolomaic theory was just plain wrong. He started to teach this but trouble soon ensued. Galileo had been ordered by the Church that he could not discuss the Copernican theory except as a Hypothesis. When Pope Urban VIII became the Pope Galileo was greatly encouraged, because as Cardinal Maffeo Barberini prior to being elected Pope Urban VIII, he had been a great admirer of Galileo. When the new Pope was elected, Galileo had an interview with him and was told that he could teach the Copernican theory, but only as a Hypothesis, and he was not allowed to teach it as the "objective truth". In 1632 Galileo published this great book in which he debated the two systems between three protagonists. One of them called Simplicio (roughly simple-minded) was defending the Ptolomaic Theory and two others called Salviati and Sagredo defended the Copernican view. All the various arguments that had been offered by Simplicio for the Ptolomaic theory were demolished skillfully one by one by the clever Salviati and Sagredo. Unfortunately Urban VIII got furious, because some of his own arguments ended up in the mouth of Simplicio. He felt that Galileo had made a fool of him, and so he ordered the Inquisition to summon Galileo and he was tried and convicted of Heresy. Galileo protested that he followed the injunction he had been given, and only taught the Theory as a Hypothesis, but the Inquisition's powerful judges did not accept his argument and convicted him. He was placed under house arrest at his own home, and was forced under the threat of being burned alive, to renounce his theories, which he did. His book was banned, but it was too late. It had already become a best seller, and it soon would be published in translation in foreign lands where the Pope had no power. Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems thus changed History. It has also great relevance to today's World. The religious fanatics of today behave much the same way as the Inquisition had in Galileo's time. They bring forth Theological arguments where science is called for. An example of this is the debate about Darwin's theory of Evolution and natural Selection, the basis for most of modern Biology. In spite of absolutely overwhelming scientific evidence in favor of Darwin, ignorant people today still try to discredit Darwin's Theory on essentially Theological not scientific grounds. Evidently, just like the people opposing Galileo who did not succedd, similarly the ignorant Inquisitors of today will not succed. Another example in the modern World are the attempts of the Islamic fascists, who like the Inquisitors in Galileo's time try to force their despicable religious agenda on others by imposition and violence. They will not succeed either, for in the end Reason and Science always prevail.

Feels like it should required reading for everyone..........2005-05-02

During the [in]famous controversy of Galileo and the Church, the actual point of contention was this very work which Galileo published. In the Dialogue, he was supposed to set forth arguments for and agains the Ptolemaic worldview (the unmoving earth in the centre of the universe) and the Copernican (the earth and other planets going around the sun). This book does that, and brilliantly, showing Galileo's resourcefulness as a scientist, philosopher (at least to an extent!) and writer. The charge against him was that rather than being even-handed, the book was clear support of Copernicanism. This is a non-obvious topic but what is obvious is the importance and magnificence of the work in terms of both the subject matter (the importance of the structure of the universe) and method (a colourful dialogue containing heated debate which spans literally dozens of arguments for and against each system).

The work has 3 characters: Salviati who is a Copernican, Simplicio who is an Aristotelian and follower of the Ptolemaic system, and Sagredo, a non-affiliated but intelligent person. They meet and debate over 4 days. The first deals with the question of whether the substance of the heavens is fundamentally different to the earth as well as some other fundamental assertions of Aristotelianism. The second deals with the earth's daily rotation. The third is about the alleged yearly orbit of the earth around the sun. The fourth (considered by Galileo to be the crown of his argument - which is all the more endearing as it is wrong) is about the cause of the tides.

Reading this is especially interesting because [almost!] all of us believe that the earth goes around the sun, so it's easy to just approach this simplistically. But the reality is, it was an actual matter of debate, as the book shows. And no, Galileo does not *prove* the earth moves (contrary to the blurb at the back of the book), rather he proposes some very good arguments. Reading them critically was great at making me question things I consider fundamental.

As per the edition, it contains a very good, readable translation along with Galileo's margin notes and good footnotes which unfortunately aren't matched to the body text so you have to flip forward and back. The only other disappointment was Einstein's simplistic yay-Galileo-boo-obviously-stupid-Church-and-Aristotelianism introduction. Other than that, it's great great great! An absolute milestone in human thought.

A must read for all educated people.......2004-10-13

A scientist who can write! Galileo writes with the intent that his readers understand, he meets you more than half way. There is a wonderful forward by Albert Einstein that is worth the price of the book by itself. And the fascinating introduction places Galileo's writing in its historical context.

If you have any interest in the history of science, this is an essential book to read.

The Dialogues of Galileo - with Modern Solutions.......2000-03-06

This edition of the Dialogues of Galileo Galilei includes mathematical solutions to the problems Galileo treats in plain language and an introduction describing a new cannon-ball experiment of the type used by Galileo that may be used to distinguish between the predictions of General Relativity and the editor's unified field theory. The Dialogues are then more interesting to the modern physics student, as it begins to resemble a review of contemporary mechanics in addition to being a grand old piece of history. Additional forwarding material by Albert Einstein and historical background by translator Stillman Drake make this edition a supurb introduction to the history of physics in which now the correct solutions may be read from the margins in modern physical notation. In addition, a number of illustrations have been added to illustrate old terminology for describing heavenly bodies and to provide portraits of Copernicus, Galileo, and his contemporaries Tycho and Kepler.

Leap into the Unknown: Albert Einstein (Cover-to-Cover Novels: Biographical Fiction)

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Leap into the Unknown: Albert Einstein (Cover-to-Cover Novels: Biographical Fiction)
Margo Sorenson
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The World in the Time of Albert Einstein (The World in the Time of)

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Fiona MacDonald
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The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding in Three Volumes (in slipcover); Volume 1 Loons to Sandpipers Volume 2 Gulls to Dippers Volume 3 Old World Warblers to Sparrow
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The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding in Three Volumes (in slipcover); Volume 1 Loons to Sandpipers Volume 2 Gulls to Dippers Volume 3 Old World Warblers to Sparrow
John, Jr. (editor) Farrand
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THE AUDUBON SOCIETY MASTER GUIDE TO BIRDING - 2 - GULLS TO DIPPERS
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John Jr. Farrand
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding 2 Gulls to Dippers
John Jr. (editor) Farrand
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The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding; Vol. 1 , Loons to Sandpipers, Vol. 2 Gulls to Dippers
John Farrand Jr. Editor The Audubon Society
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