Illinois Institute of Technology: An Architectural Tour by Franz Schulze (The Campus Guide)

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The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the landmarks of modern American architecture. With a master plan and twenty renowned buildings by Mies van der Rohe, IIT has long been a pilgrimage site for architects and students of design. Thousands of visitors arrive each year to see International Style masterpieces such as S. R. Crown Hall, home of IIT's College of Architecture and one of Mies's greatest works.
Today, IIT is in the midst of an exciting new chapter in its design history. A new student center designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture has once again put IIT at the forefront of the design world. Meanwhile, a new master plan for the campus, new landscaping, and a residence-hall complex by Helmut Jahn have reinvigorated student life and revitalized the surrounding community of Chicago's South Side.
Featuring archival images of the Mies buildings as well as newly commissioned photographs of IIT's latest additions, this beautifully produced guide presents a comprehensive architectural walk through America's most distinguished modern campus.

Guide to the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology

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Guide to the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology
Rolf Achilles
Manufacturer: Mies Centennial Project
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FRANK HORVAT VIRTUAL ZOO (Motta Photography Series)
BROLLI D
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1560984430

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Frank Horvat: A Virtual Zoo
BROLLI D
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBXHKW

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Kevin McGrath Watercolors 2007 Wall Calendar
McGrath's Virtual Zoo
Manufacturer: McGrath's Virtual Zoo
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Binding: Calendar
ASIN: 1424301297

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When Hell is full of dead Archetypes, just open up this tome and hand out more! Fresh from the brains of our most rabid AFMBE fans comes more zombie madness. Attack of the Archetypes turns the screw a little tighter and kicks it up a notch. So what if your current character has given up his brain to feed the masses? Crack open this book and start spreading the love - and bullets - once more.

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Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop is both a genuinely witty and inventive swipe at the world's richest man and a masterwork of book design. Each page is a folded-out laptop, with jokes contained on the "screen." Here's a sample, from a chain letter Gates is sending to Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, and others:

"...But the President of South Korea deleted this E-mail message, and his economy collapsed. Later, he managed to retrieve it and sent it out, and the IMF gave his country a $20 billion bailout. As soon as you receive this message, wire one million dollars to the bank account next to the name below, then add your own name to the list, and send 10 identical E-mail messages to your fellow moguls. Do not break the chain. Mike Milken failed to reply to his E-mail message, and look what happened to him!"

No one has used the ubiquitous graphical user interface as a comic canvas before, and the authors should be commended for their cheeky, stylish innovation. The book's joke-intensive screens include topic lines from Bill Gates news groups, both pro and con; a letter encouraging the Unabomber to correspond with his competitors; a list of new software products--including the Cubicle '98 office politics software ("BackStabber memo-writing program with BlameShifter feature and FingerPointer mouse hardware"); the Mafia's Web page; et cetera. Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop is great fun, and sure to cement this trio's reputation as the masters of parody publishing. And it's much cheaper than a laptop--for now, at least. --Michael Gerber

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WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TODAY -- IF YOU HAD 50 BILLION DOLLARS?

Find out on Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop: A Microspoof. Due to a miraculous twist of fate, the laptop you hold in your hand came into the possession of Henry Beard, John Boswell, and Ron Barrett, a trio of concerned, if computer-illiterate, citizens and authors of such bestselling humor books as O.J.'s Legal Pad and French for Cats. Now that these three have hired precocious preteens to hock into Gates' secret notes, plans, e-mails, and to-do lists, we can all be privy to the intellectual property of the richest man in the world.

Fabulously fabricated in two-color throughout, Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop exhaustively captures the mind, spirit, and nerdiness of Bill Gates -- the guy who owns you, or soon will.

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dated but cute.......2006-12-29

Anything concerning Bill Gates is bound to be controversial (and the reviews below support that statement)

Take the book for what it is . . . simply a spoof on Gates with some interesting book design . . . it wasn't intended to be great literature!

Old jokes, but funny.............2001-12-26

The best part of the whole book is seeing which "keys" change on every page.... otherwise, it's a pretty funny book, but you do have to know what was going on when the book was written to get the jokes.

Poor all lies.......1999-07-24

very poor book. My ex-wife had to have written it

Humor at its Creative Best.......1998-12-07

This is the book you take with you to read in the waiting room at the doctor's office; otherwise, don't waste your time. The book's premise, albeit juvenile and narrow-minded, is an anchor for Beard and the gang to spin out some of the most creative stuff this reader's ever seen. (And don't let the laptop-style layout fool you--look closely at the keyboard on every page and you'll find irregularities in the keys.)

Junk.......1998-11-16

God, what a complete waste of trees! I mean, I'm not a billg fan, but this was an completely predictable, utterly sophomoric effort.

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The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces and households has become a crucial element in the reorientation of Mexican development. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book uses the voices of workers themselves to provide an intimate look at how daily lives have been unexpectedly transformed by the national and international processes shaping the country's industrial transition.

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What a great book!.......1998-11-25

One of the best histories of the industrialization of Mexico I've ever read ... the case studies are brillant & fascinating. Very relevant for anyone interested in women's studies and labor issues in Mexico.

Export processing, women's work, and the employment problem in developing contries; the case of the maquiladora program in Northern Mexico (Border issues and public policy)

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Export processing, women's work, and the employment problem in developing contries; the case of the maquiladora program in Northern Mexico (Border issues and public policy)
Susan B Tiano
Manufacturer: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, The University of Texas at El Paso
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Maquiladoras, women's work, and unemployment in northern Mexico (Working papers / Michigan State University)

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Maquiladoras, women's work, and unemployment in northern Mexico (Working papers / Michigan State University)
Susan Tiano
Manufacturer: Michigan State University
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006EG1M6

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The seeds of the Great Relgious Wars of Europe

The Glorious story of Jan Zizka and the hussite revolution

The Hussite Wars 1419-36 (Men-at-Arms)
Stephen Turnbull
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Medieval Scandinavian Armies (2): 1300-1500 (Men-at-Arms)

Italian Medieval Armies 1000-1300 (Men-at-Arms)

The Swiss at War 1300-1500 (Men-At-Arms Series, 94)

Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe 1000-1568 (Men-at-Arms)

ASIN: 1841766658
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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In 1415, the judicial murder of the religious reformer Jan Hus sparked a major uprising in Bohemia. His death led within a few years to the 'Hussite' revolution against the monarchy, the German aristocracy and the Church establishment. For two decades the largely peasant Hussite armies successfully defied a series of international 'crusades'; they owed many of their victories to the charismatic general Jan Zizka, and his novel tactical methods based on the use of 'war wagons'. This remarkable episode in medieval warfare is remembered not only as the Czech national epic, but as an important forerunner to the wars of the Reformation the following century.

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The seeds of the Great Relgious Wars of Europe.......2005-07-02

This is a good place to start for a overview of the Hussites. A group of Bohemians that were forced to become a great military force when they disagreed with going along with the corruption of the Church. That and some great illustrations by McBride and you have a great book to read.

The Glorious story of Jan Zizka and the hussite revolution.......2004-07-27

The Hussite Revolution(or Hussite Crusade)is little know outside the borders of the modern Czech Republic and Jan Hus the famous preacher of the 15th century who spoke out against the corruption of the Papal Catholicism (indulgences). He derided the comfortable life of establishment clergy and demanded a moral decency based on the teachings of Christ. With three Popes simultaneously occupying the chair of Peter, how could anyone respect the Catholic hierarchy? Hus make some reformation to the liturgy like singing in Czech and the communion in both kind,(wine and breath, when I was a Kid in Nicaragua it was rare to receive both, that was in 1983)everyone was raised in a surge of religious reformation combined with Czech national pride, at the end Jan Hus was put to trial for heresy and was burned to death at the stake. The death of this hero for many Bohemias sparked a hussite Movement which consisted of two distinct parts, the moderate Utraquists (utrae means equal, because of the communion in either form) and the radical Taborites (after the town of Tabor which they founded). Jan Zizka's support the Hus beliefs and was one of the Taborites General.

With all this details is hard to make a clear explanation in 48 pages but as other titles of Mr. Turnbull has made a nice clear summary of the Hussite Wars and a great contribution for all the fans of late medieval military history. The illustrations by Angus McBride are excellent both the Armies of the Hussite Wars(The Crusaders and the Hussites). The innovations of Jan Zizka would last well into the 16th Century, the use of the famous Hussite wagons, the important of the missilemen with handguns and artillery, although the Hussites were by no means the inventors of medievak artillery, their employment of firearms showed an understandings of how to use technology to its best effect. We follow the Hussite wars from the 1419 to the Wars of the Orphans(which is another part little known)Zizka although a National hero in the Czech Republic was until recently a little known General in the West, with the dead of Zizka a new leader Prokop the Great change the Hussite strategys of defensive to invading any neightbours territories,The Hussite cause after many years of resiting finally died on the battlefield of Lipany in 1434 were Hussite fought Hussite and the Hussite movement began to destroy each other, sadly there are no small maps like other editions dedicated to the wars of the Reformation(the German Peasants' War of 1524-MMA 384)but some good illustrations,photographs of surviving armour,weaponry and equipment,battle wagons or War Wagons reproduction and drawings.

This book is a must, too brief but still highly informative, Stephen Turnbull has specialized in Asian military history, Korea, Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and the Teutonic Knights.

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The Order Of Merit 1902-2002 marks the 100th anniversary of the foundation of this senior order of chivalry in the personal gift of the Queen and limited to 24 Ordinary Members, representing the highest distinction in a wide range of fields. This is both a study of the Order set in the context of British social and cultural history, and the current debate on the British honors system. It provides a full listing of members past and present with biographical details on each, including commentary on their positions and reputations. It also covers those who refused the Order and those who might have been considered.

British Orders and Decorations (Shire Album)

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British Orders and Decorations (Shire Album)
Peter Duckers
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British orders and awards: A description of all orders, decorations, long service, coronation, jubilee and commemoration medals, together with historical ... service ranks and similar information

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British orders and awards: A description of all orders, decorations, long service, coronation, jubilee and commemoration medals, together with historical ... service ranks and similar information

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James Charles *Author SIGNED!* Risk
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BRITISH ORDERS AND DECORATIONS.

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Donald Hall
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British Orders, Decorations, and Medals in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Orders, Decorations and Medals

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British Orders, Decorations, and Medals in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Orders, Decorations and Medals
David Andrew Workman
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A handbook of British and foreign orders, war medals, and decorations, awarded to the army and navy;

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A handbook of British and foreign orders, war medals, and decorations, awarded to the army and navy;
A. A Payne
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Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
A. Winton Thorpe
Manufacturer: Naval & Military Press
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History of the orders of knighthood of the British Empire; of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the medals, clasps, and crosses, conferred for naval and military services;

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History of the orders of knighthood of the British Empire; of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the medals, clasps, and crosses, conferred for naval and military services;
Nicholas Harris Nicolas
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For years, matryoshkas—Russian nesting dolls—have captured the imaginations of children all over the world. This interactive novelty book is illustrated with authentic Russian folk art and features the days of the week with push-out dolls. This unusual format encourages children to invent stories, play games, and put the dolls in sequential order before putting them back into the book. New words to a traditional children's song introduce readers to the unique food of eastern Europe.

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It's Nesting Time

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Olive Thorne Miller
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It' Nesting Time
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It's Nesting Time (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out)

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It's Nesting Time (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out)
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Mort Dixon , and James V. Monaco
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In Nesting Time
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