Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg

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Large, beautiful images

Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg
Giulia Bologna
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1555842755

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Large, beautiful images.......2002-04-01

This book is perfect for someone that would like to view illuminated manuscripts in large colorplates.

This is the only book i've seen (so far) that has this many and this large images in one collected volume.
Superb!

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Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg
Giulia Bolognia
Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0500235287

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Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg
Giulia Bologna
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LOG770

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In the fall of 1999, Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet produced, along with master printer Maurice Sanchez, a monotype project entitled The Varick Series. Zandvliet, one of the most talented and innovative painters of his generation, specializes in the currently neglected field of landscape painting.

Robert Zandvliet: The Varick Series. Monotypes.

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Robert Zandvliet: The Varick Series. Monotypes.
Robert] and Vincent Katz (essay by). [Zandvliet
Manufacturer: Peter Blum Edition
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P1035Q

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This third edition maintains the aim of providing a clear and comprehensive explanation of fundamental photographic techniques. Although the key focus of this update is bringing the digital content more in line with developments in this area, modifying the existing text to embrace digital capture and out-put more thoroughly. This acknowledges the requirement by those students who are now capturing and outputting digitally. Terminology such as film, film speed, etc. will be updated to include digital image sensors and sensitivity.

The main focus of this text is setting a comprehensive list of aims, objectives and resources. Staff and students alike are then aware of what they are expected to achieve and where to look for further information. Students or lecturers on vocational or non-vocational Photography, Art and Design or Media courses will find this book of immense value.

*Offers the latest coverage of photographic terminology and technology to ensure you are fully up to date
*Teaches how to plan and execute independent research through sequential study exercises
*New interior layout directs students to activities, resources, tables and important notes more easily

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Not a bad book, but it is first ever returned item!.......2007-04-20

This book is too simple for most photo enthusiasts who have already grasped the fundamental concepts such as balance and one-third. It doesn't elaborate on any topic.

It would be a decent book if you are looking for a beginner book which is simple to read.

A guide to creative photography.......2000-03-21

I checked this book out at my library not just once but twice. I'm sure that I'll check it out again until I buy my own copy, which I will be doing very soon. I want to go to school and major in photography. I know very little about the subject and decided to read up on it and have found many many books on the subject. Mark Galer's book was the first photography book that I came upon that was simple enough for me to understand everything, which is not the case with all photography books. Books on photography I have found to be very technical in terms and description. But Galer's student book is awesome when it comes to simplicity and understanding the fundamentals of photography. I definitely recommend this book.

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The visible encroachment of industrial development on the environment, and its unintended consequences, has increased public demand for better environmental management and policy. As policy makers struggle to meet these demands, empirical analysis of the effects of environmental policies is crucial for guiding the development, the implementation, and the evaluation of alternative government interventions and regulatory approaches. Such analysis is scarce, however. The need for empirical studies is particularly large in Europe, where environmental policy debates are still mainly theoretical and tend to reflect different ideological positions more than informed assessments of alternative policies.
Empirical Studies of Environmental Policies in Europe presents contributions on empirical environmental policy evaluation. The individual chapters, written by authors from Europe and the US, contain quantitative studies of proposed and implemented environmental policies, at both the micro and macroeconomic levels. The policy issues studied in this volume include the `double dividend-hypothesis' of carbon taxation, the political economy of environmental policy development, the voluntary environmental efforts of corporations, the enforcement of environmental regulations, the development of environmental policies in transition economies, and the implementation of environmental policies in the face of transboundary pollution.

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Engaging approach

Experimental Economics ... not as cool as it sounds.

Experiments with Economic Principles: Microeconomics
Theodore C. Bergstrom , and John H. Miller
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 007229518X

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This book contains economic experiments designed for students who have not previously taken any economics. While this book can supplement any microeconomics text, it can and has been used by itself to teach principles. Unique in the marketplace, EXPERIMENTS WITH ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES: MICROECONOMICS is an extension of the groundbreaking work in Experimental Economics of Vernon Smith. Bergstrom and Miller are two of the most highly-regarded researchers in the creative world of Experimental Economics. FEATURES 1. A new chapter on public goods (ch. 6). 2. A new chapter on network externalities (ch. 9). 3. A new Part V on essential concepts of economic principles. 4. More problems and tie-ins to economics in the news. 5. More discussion of economic concepts. 6. More modular organization for easy custom-publishing of instructor's own selection of experiments. 7. Streamlining some experiments. 8. Improved layout of homework exercises allows faster grading. 9. Improved layout of personal information sheets in Instructor's Manual. 10. Convenient class preparation kits for instructors. Go to the text website for more information on Bergstrom/Miller Experiments with Economic Principles: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/eep/eep.html

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Engaging approach.......2006-07-28

I took a course that used this book (taught by one of the authors) to fulfill an economics core requirement. Since then, I have studied economics on my own and know that I have retained a lot of the information that I learned in that first introductory class. In contrast, I've forgotten much of what I learned in standard lecture-style courses. I disagree with the previous reviewer in that I think this book is great for a beginner. You may not learn all of the mainstream technical terms and how to do economic busywork, but it does a really good job of teaching key concepts: supply and demand, market vs. regulated prices, etc... Conceptual understanding is extremely important in any field, and encourages the student to think creatively. Most importantly, this book encourages learning and instills an interest in economics.

Experimental Economics ... not as cool as it sounds........2000-12-24

I had the fortune of being in an introductory economics class where the experimental approach along with this book is used. I already had lots of microeconomics background and scored a 5 on my AP micro and macro eco exam. I believe that experimental approach to economics, although can be interesting at times, is not suitable for students with little or no economics background. It is essential for students to have a solid grasp of important economic concepts such as marginal cost/revenue, opportunity cost, and the experimental approach lacks in that respect. I tried this course and this book, because I wanted a different angle on something I already knew, and I didn't get much out of it. If you're new to economics, and perhaps want to continue into more economics courses later on, this book/course is not the way. The chapters are no more than explanations of the experiments done in class. Very little reference material exists, and everything is over simplified. By the end of this book, students will not be able to draw the MC/MR/TR/TC curves for perfect competitions/monopoly/oligopoly/monopolistic competiton. I got an A in the course, not because the book was so helpful to me, but because I already knew the stuff before I even registered for the class.

Experiments with Microeconomic Principles

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Experiments with Microeconomic Principles
Theodore C. Bergstrom , and John H. Miller
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Principles of chemistry;: A introductory textbook of inorganic, organic and physiological chemistry for nurses and students of home economics and applied chemistry, with laboratory experiments,

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Principles of chemistry;: A introductory textbook of inorganic, organic and physiological chemistry for nurses and students of home economics and applied chemistry, with laboratory experiments,
Joseph Hyram Roe
Manufacturer: The C.V. Mosby Company
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Principles of chemistry: An introductory textbook of inorganic, organic and physiological chemistry for nurses and students of home economics and applied chemistry : with laboratory experiments

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Joseph Hyram Roe
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Principles of chemistry: An introductory textbook of inorganic, organic, and physiological chemistry for nurses and students of home economics and applied chemistry, with laboratory experiments
Joseph Hyram Roe
Manufacturer: Mosby
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089DSWK

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Provides up-to-date coverage of the primary aspects of bank financial management. Fundamental financial instrumental techniques, such as basic asset investment and funding instruments, basic mathematics for measuring costs and yields, and interest and yield curve analysis are covered. Shows managers how to evaluate bank performance, then details the elements of bank asset and bank liability management. New financial alternatives and strategies are covered, including funding alternatives, pricing off balance sheet items, and contingent claims products. International banking and foreign exchange are also discussed. In addition, it deals with bank mergers and acquisitions, interest sensitivity and interest rate risk, and their impact on integrative bank financial management decisions.

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just the right book for toilet reading. :)

One of the best books ever published on Self Improvement

It's a Jungle Out There : 163 Business and Life Lessons From the Animal Kingdom

Manufacturer: State-Of-The-Art Technologies,
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ASIN: 0965076725

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Animals have been taking care of business much longer than humans and they do it with instinct few humans possess.

Yes, we can learn a lot from the animal kingdom and that is why I decided to write this book. Having been an avid animal behavior student for many years, I have observed their lessons and been awed by them. For example, young clown fish brush themselves against the tentacles of sea anemones to inoculate themselves to get immune to the poison. In time, they are able to dive into the tentacles and live there safely. Clown fish have instinctively understood the effectiveness of vaccination for thousands of years before humans discovered it.

It's a Jungle Out There!! is an upbeat and fun book to read that draws analogies from animal behavior and transposes them to human society. The book will help people learn lessons that they might not learn from a didactic or abstractive book. It illustrates with stories about animal behavior how everyone can learn and improve, not only their businesses, but also their lives. I decided to write this book after I searched high and low and could find no other book on the market that showed how humans could learn from animal instinct. Perhaps this book shows that animal instinct we used to survive in the age of dinosaurs are just as valuable today in our 21st century high tech jungle--albeit a slightly different jungle. Corporations and individuals still face the same primeval battles of supremacy--of predators and prey--in the workplace today. It's a Jungle Out There!! will be indispensable to their survival and prosperity.

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just the right book for toilet reading. :).......2004-07-15

The things that he has talked about are mostly common sense. Of course, if you don't observe, you won't know. And some of the samples are really just made up stories. And some of stories are not his observations; he must have spent quite some time watching those animal programs on TV.

Each page has one sample, and very short. This is the right book for toilet reading. It is just an entertaining book when you are bored. You can't really learn how to run a business just by reading this simple book.

This book also has some grammar mistakes.

One of the best books ever published on Self Improvement.......2001-03-24

Animals have been taking care of business much longer than humans and they do it with an instinct few humans possess. Yes, we can learn a lot from the animal kingdom and that is why the author decided to write this book. Having been an avid animal behavior student for many years the author has observed their lessons and been awed by them. For example young clown fish brush themselves against the tentacles of sea anemones to inoculate themselves and thus get immune to the poison. In time, they are able to dive into the tentacles and live there in safety. Clown fish have instinctively understood the effectiveness of vaccination for thousands of years before humans discovered it. This is an upbeat and fun book to read that draws analogies from animal behavior and transposes them to human society. The book will help people learn lessons that they might not learn from a didactic or abstractive book. It illustrates with stories about animal behavior how everyone can learn and improve, not only their businesses, but also their lives. There is no other book on the market, which shows so well how humans could learn from animal instinct. Perhaps this book will show that the animal instincts we used to survive in the age of dinosaurs are just as valuable today in our 21st century high tech jungle - albeit a slightly different jungle. Corporations and individuals still face the same primeval battles of supremacy - of predator and prey - in the workplace today. This book will be indispensable to their survival and prosperity.

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Small-Town Values for a Global World: Stories from the Heartland
Mark Vincent Soutor
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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ASIN: 1585008842

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Makes an interesting figure out of Hermann

The best bio on Göring

Good Biography Silhouetted Against the Backdrop of History

Interesting viewpoint

Hitler's Second In Command: Coward, Transvestite & Addict

Goring: A Biography
David John Cawdell Irving
Manufacturer: Avon Books (P)
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Hermann Goring was the First World War combat pilot and "Ace" who served as the last commander of von Richtofen's "Flying Circus" and rose to become Hitler's Reichsmarschall; the "Second Man" of the Third Reich.

In this major biography, based on hitherto undiscovered diaries and private and official documents, David Irving tells how Goring connived, intrigued, and conspired to bring Adolf Hitler to power, how he directed National Socialist Germany's industrial resurgence, commanded the mighty Luftwaffe, (Air Force), and served as Hitler's buttress through the years of struggle, triumph, and decline.

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Makes an interesting figure out of Hermann.......2007-06-06

As a fan of WWII literature, I have read many books about the war and its leaders. This book was one of the better ones on the German Luftwaffe commander that I've read in that it did not deal too much with the politics and intrigue behind the scenes, but rather the man himself. Irving writes eloquently about Goring's drug addictions; his life in Sweden with his first wife, Carin; and much about his wheelings and dealings with art dealers to "legitimately" buy art. I was surprised at how much Goring tended to shy away from the war to spend time at Carinhall hunting and playing with his animals and expensive toys.

The book captures the more personable side of the man. Irving paints Goring as a rather sad, drug-addled individual whom you begin to feel pity for. Irving also writes about how well Goring performed at the Nuremberg trials but doesn't go into too much detail about what made Goring's testimony so successful.

All in all, a good and pleasant book to read.

The best bio on Göring.......2004-09-15

One wonders what would have happened if someone other than Göring, a drug addict, slacker, looter and idiot, commanded the Luftwaffe? All in all, a gem of a book and as ususal, in Irving;s meticulously high standards. Read it togther with Irving's biography of Milch, and you get a feel of the real Luftwaffe.

Good Biography Silhouetted Against the Backdrop of History.......2004-01-02

It is precisely because of the "idiosyncracities" of the subject that jazzes this excellently written volume and sets it apart from the more generalized biographies of Hitler's henchmen authored by Peter Padfield and others. It is of course impossible to separate these men from the events of World War II, and most historians do not attempt it. Thus,the spate of biographies of Goebbels, Himmler, et. al., appearing in recent years are more generalized histories of World War II; tactics, politics, etc; than a close exploration into the inner workings of self, and environmental factors that drove these individuals into Hitler's orbit. Mr. Irving does a better job of unmasking the man that was Hermann Goring than most, and manages to capture the essence of the man against the larger themes of war, the Holocaust, and the mad delusions of the Third Reich.

Interesting viewpoint.......2002-04-10

I dont think any historian is perfect. And when an Historian has an unpopular view, he tends to be more scrutinized. David Irving is perhaps an apologist for Hitler (ie. It wasnt Hitler it was the bad men around him that brought him down), and therefore controversial. But he does present a fresh viewpoint and that helps the self intellectual decide for themselves what happened during those tempestuous times. I myself found the book interesting but too full of superficial idiosyncracies about Goering. I would have preferred more of a psychological evaluation and analysis of the man.

Hitler's Second In Command: Coward, Transvestite & Addict.......2000-05-31

Look up the word sybarite in your dictionary and a life sized portrait in living color of Hermann Goring should jump out at you. Even as Germany's fortunes waned in the latter stages of W.W.II, Goring spared no expense in providing himself an ever more luxurious life style.

His sumptious hunting retreat became the repository of one of the most impressive art collections in history. Using stolen and extorted funds he spent millions obtaining, for his personal collection, great works of art by the trainload, most of whose legitimate owners died in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.

Irving's well researched book traces Goring's life from his childhood in Bavaria through his education at a military academy where he first fell in love with smartly trimmed uniforms, through his experience as a Fighter Pilot in W.W.I, then through his early connection with Hitler and what Hitler stood for in the years of humiliation and finally, to the years of power as Hitler's second in command.

Irving leaves no doubt that Goring was a monster, a monster who had no second thoughts about engineering the deaths of countless numbers of innocent people. He found it aesthetically unpleasing, however, to actually witness any of these "unpleasantries."

Goring was a coward who pretended to be brave and heroic. He was a morphine addict because he couldn't tolerate pain, but had no qualms about inflicting pain on others. He was honest to no one, not to himself, not to his fellow officers, and certainly not to Hitler. A great percentage of his energy during the war years went to fabricating alibis and hiding from Hitler so he wouldn't have to admit to his responsibility for many great failures, particularly where the Luftwaffe was concerned.

He was an open transvestite, frequently appearing in public in effeminate clothing, including his ermine cape, and wearing heavy facial make-up.

In spite of all this, Hitler rewarded him for his early loyalty by making Goring his heir apparent. As the war drew to an unsuccesful end, Goring had grandiose ideas of sitting down with Eisenhower, and negotiating, as equals, a peace settlement. He was shocked when, instead of being treated as the honored and honorable leader of a nation defeated in war, he was arrested, stripped of all medals and symbols of rank, interrogated, and imprisoned in an unpleasant cell and fed soup out of a tin plate.

At the Neurenberg Trials, he was not allowed to make any of his carefully prepared statements and was sentenced to death by hanging. This planned method of execution was, to him, humiliating. He believed that he was entitled to the death of an honorable soldier, death by firing squad. To avoid this final humiliation, he managed to obtain a cyanide capsule and committed suicide, thus cheating the hangman.

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One of the few books available on the HG units, this book covers the commanders, Knight's Cross Holders, uniforms, insignia, standards, flags, pennants, and recruitment., over 210 photos, maps, 6" x 9"

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The Only Bird Guide to a Fascinating Region

Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia

Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia
Chris Doughty , Nicholas Day , and Andrew Plant
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The Only Bird Guide to a Fascinating Region.......2006-06-14

Melanesia is one of my favourite parts of the world, home to beautiful, largely unspoilt islands and unique fauna.
This being the only field guide to the birds of 3 of the Melanesian countries, it was a must have on my recent trip there, and it proved invaluable indeed. It is comprehensive, covering all species known to occur in the region covered, and in fact it allowed me to identify most birds I have seen. Although a few illustrations are poor, even hindering correct id'ing (hence the 4 stars), most were found to be pretty good.
Maps and text are placed opposite the colour plates, which is handy for quickly seeing what species are found on any one given island at all.
The book is also light enough to be portable in the field.
In short, if you are lucky enough to visit these exotic archipelagos and have any interest in birds (easily the most visible part of their terrestrial fauna), don't leave home without this guide!

Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.......2000-11-18

This is an excellent, one-of-a-kind field guide. Not since the 1940s has any book on this area of the Pacific appeared, let alone such a beautiful, usable field guide. The illustrations, maps and text are both accurate and up-to-date. The authors, highly reputable ornithologists of international stature, are to be congratulated on their efforts in this little-known area of the Pacific, historically and currently beset with political strife.

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