Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Gci Scientific Program Reports)

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This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. Part of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (GSAP), the three-year program outlined in this
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Personal style is one of the most sought-after aspects of painting and this practical guide will instruct all artists on developing a more individual approach to their art. It includes work by six top contemporary artists--Jill Bays, Alwyn Crawshaw, Anthony Flemming, Aubrey Phillips, Edward Wesson and John Yardley. "...sets you on the road to evolving your own inimitable style in watercolor." --Artists & Illustrators

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In a book that combines both oral history and documentary photography, Nano Riley and Davida Johns tell the story of Florida's farmworkers in the 21st century. Largely ignored by mainstream America, migrant laborers often toil under adverse labor and living conditions to provide the nation's food supply. Intimate photographs and lucid text offer a look not only into the difficulties faced by these laborers but also into the rich cultural heritages of their communities and the close ties of their family life.

Until now, most publications on migrant farm labor focused on California or the Southeast in general, offering little information on conditions particular to farmworkers in Florida. Florida's Farmworkers focuses on the history of Florida agriculture, the unique climate, ecology, crops, and working conditions that distinguish the situation of Florida's farm laborers from those in other states. Organized thematically, the book explores the issues facing these migrant workers, who are largely Hispanic, Haitian, and from other regions of the Caribbean. Among the issues addressed are low wages, children's problems, education, substandard living conditions, health, pesticide exposure, and immigrant smuggling. Riley and Johns draw attention to a labor system greatly in need of reform.

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FLORIDA'S FARMWORKERS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Photographs by Davida Johns
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Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
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As some of the most challenging and competitive interviews around, investment banking interviews require extensive preparation. This companion to Beat the Street offers more detailed explanations of the types of questions candidates are likely to encounter and 16 practice interview questions, with in-depth examples of good and bad answers. BUS037020

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Investment banking interviews are some of the most challenging and competitive interviews you're likely to face. As such, they require extensive preparation. This companion to Beat the Street offers more detailed explanations of the types of questions you're likely to encounter, along with a list of recruiters' all-time favorite questions in each category. At WetFeet, we believe that you'll respond to tough questions more effectively if you know what your interviewer is really getting at with each one and you've taken the time to do your homework and prepare your responses. To focus your preparations, this book includes 16 typical interview questions.

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This book describes the technical architecture and components that can be integrated in order to provide a comprehensive and robust infrastructure on which to build successful e-Business. It is essential reading for technical and functional team leaders and strategists, who analyse the options, limitations and possibilities for new technology and place them alongside the business requirements. Whyte intends to broaden the knowledge of specialists in computing, telecommunications, internet and electronic business. He also introduces the underlying business and technical principals of e business and how they interrelate to the undergraduates and postgraduate level at technical business units.

· Covers relevant and ever increasingly important issues such as security and business data processing.
· Bridges the gap between the fundamentals and the broader business models of e-business
· Detailed coverage of the functional architectures and technology
· Includes the technologies and techniques of on-line customer service, support and maintenance

The combination of both strategic and technical information in this text make it a valuable reference resource for telecommunication managers, e-business project leaders and final year and postgraduate students in computer science, electrical engineering and telecommunication courses and technical business units.

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Well written & business-focused.......2002-10-06

Although the title implies that this book is aimed at technical readers, it is strictly focused on the business aspects of e-business, with just enough emphasis on technology to educate non technical readers.

Among what I most like about the book is the clear writing, and the level of detain into which it goes into business and technical aspects of e-business. Technical readers will greatly benefit from the business aspects, especially the parts about online retailing and marketing. Moreover, some excellent material on customer relationship management is interwoven throughout the book, which will benefit both the business and technical reader. I also liked the parts about supply chain management, and trust, security and electronic money - these topics are important to business and technical readers and the material is accurate and clearly explained.

For business readers the details on architecture and technical underpinnings will arm them with the knowledge necessary for dealing with the technical side when it comes to implementing and managing the technology needed to support business imperatives.

There are additional bonuses to this book - it addresses knowledge management from a business perspective (important to providing online service and support to customers as well as showing how internal business processes need to be aligned to support online commerce), and keen insights on how the people side of the business needs to be structured to enable e-business operations.

Overall, this is an excellent view of the realities of implementing and managing e-business, and will provide common ground for the business and technical team members who will be charged with making it happen.

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Where words can make a difference in preserving excellence in prenatal care, "your baby's ultrasound for the sex & Beyond" provides all the pertinent and up-to-the minute information that every expectant mother and father should know about their developing baby's sonogram.

The author as both a mother and a long-time obstetric sonographer, with simple words, phrases and vivid fetal ultrasound images, shares her professional experiences with the parents to help them discover:

1) How to obtain the best quality prenatal ultrasound?
2) How to become familiar with the black and white images of a sonogram?
3) What is the success rate of an ultrasound for identifying the sex of the baby at different stages of pregnancy?
4) What are the modern techniques such as 3-D and 4-D ultrasounds and how do they compare with traditional methods?

References, Index and a 56 word Glossary are also listed at the end to provide the reader with even further information.

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very Informative.......2007-05-14

As an expectant mother, I found this book extremely helpfull, becasue there was a lot of information that helped me to be in charge of my baby's health at the time of my ultrasound visit.It was very easy to read and also explained a lot of my questions specially about the new 3-D,
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A unique book written exclusively for parents-to-be.......2002-06-08

Your Baby's Ultrasound For The Sex & Beyond by obstetric sonographer Nikki Nazeri is a unique book written exclusively for parents-to-be on the specialized subject of gender determination through the medical technique of ultrasound examination. Direct language and black-and-white photographs present a straightforward and candid understanding of what can and can't be learned from an ultrasound during pregnancy. Filled with advice and answers to common questions, Your Baby's Ultrasound For The Sex & Beyond is the ideal instructional reference for expectant parents before their first ultrasound appointment.

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Equaling Tarawa and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, until recently the battle for Peleliu has been regarded as the Pacific war's "forgotten battle," one that with hindsight should never have been fought at all. Originally planned to secure General MacArthur's eastern flank during his invasion of the Philippine Islands, the assault became superfluous after a massive carrier-based attack on the Palau Islands by Task Force 58 some weeks earlier destroyed all aircraft and shipping in the area and virtually isolated the Japanese garrison. The planners may have been influenced by the extravagant claims of the commander of the Marine Corps' 1st Division, General Rupertus, that it would "only take three days--maybe two," but as the Japanese defenders abandoned their previous strategy of attempting to repel the invader on the beaches and fought a battle of attrition from carefully prepared positions in the Umurbrogol Hills, the operation became a close-quarters slog of unprecedented savagery in which a whole Marine Division expended itself and had to be replaced by Army units.

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Good, but suffers from poor editing........2006-05-16

I agree completely with the other reviewer. Overall, a good addition to the Campaign series, but hopefully the next edition will emerge without the numerous small errors (units, locations, dates) that can make it an occasionally frustrating read.

Good overview, poor editing.......2004-09-30

This is a better Osprey book than most, but it doesn't reach its potential. In spite of the name, the book describes the U.S. Marine and U.S. Army infantry actions on all of the Palau Islands, though the emphasis is on Peleliu. In the typical Osprey format it begins with an overview of the campaign in the context of the Philipine campaign, describes the opposing commanders, and then delves into the details of the campaign itself. The last sections include the aftermath of the battle and a brief description of the islands today.

For the most part the book is pretty solid. World War II is not my specialty, and I'm just starting to read about the war in the Pacific. From what I have read elsewhere the book is reasonably accurate. The writing style is clean. Unlike when reading some of Osprey's other campaign books, I had little trouble following the action. Although the authors don't stick to a strict chronological order, they don't hop around more than is necessary. As always, the maps are gorgeous and excellent. I liked the Orders of Battle, though I wish they included the number of men at each organization level, but that's a minor quibble.

I had a couple of issues with the narrative. I wish they had spent more time explaining what was going on with the U.S. Navy elements during the campaign. The authors mention the initial, pre-invasion bombardment. They describe how Admiral Oldendorf declared that his ships had hit all available targets and ordered some to leave for the Philipines. They don't list the ships that were left, what they did during the rest of the campaign (were they conducting bombardment or just acting as a picket line?), or where they were located. This is important because several barges of Japanese reinforcements made for Peleliu during the battle, with 600 soldiers actually landing on the island. The book doesn't make clear how these soldiers managed to sneak through the navy cordon. There are some other details I'd have liked to have known, too, such as whether carrier airstrikes in support of the U.S. troops were a daily occurance, and when exactly the Marine fighters arrived on the island.

Although the authors did a good job of explaining the Japanese command structure, and the initial Japanese counterattacks, there is little on Japanese deployments, and virtually nothing beyond those counterattacks describing Japanese troop movements. They state that Col. Nakagawa was one of the two best tacticians the Japanese had, but there is no sense of why they believe this. The book doesn't describe any Japanese movements except in terms of their perimeter shrinking and the number of men left. Did Nakagawa place all of his men at the beginning of the battle and pretty much leave them there, or was he constantly shifting troops around? When the Marines first assaulted the Umurbrogol Mountains in the south, were there Japanese troops sitting around waiting in the north, or did Nakagawa move troops from quiet sectors to critical sectors? This isn't explained. I wanted an idea of the number of Japanese casualties per day, but Japanese casualties aren't mentioned except at a few key points in the battle. A couple of paragraphs describing Japanese infiltration techniques and the "limited counter-attacks" would have been most useful, but the book doesn't go into this level of detail for the Japanese (it does go into some of this kind of detail on the Marine side, especially in reference to a couple of the full color plates showing typical combat scenes). I really wanted a better idea of how the Japanese defenses were laid out, even if it was just a small diagram of a typical defensive layout but that wasn't supplied. Perhaps much of the information on the Japanese side of the campaign isn't available. If that's the case, it should have been mentioned.

In spite of these shortcomings I'd still give the book 4 stars for content, considering the size limitations. I only give it 3 stars because of the editing. This is, unfortunately, a common problem with Osprey books. The book was published in October, 2002, yet the text mentions something that happened in January, 2002. Nine months from finished manuscript to printed book is too fast to do a half decent editing job. Editing mistakes, such as sentence fragments, and phrases repeated at the end and the beginning of the same sentence, are found throughout the book, in the text and in picture captions. Editing problems throw some minor details into doubt. In one section of the text we are told that the island of Koror had a seaplane base. In another section we are told it was a submarine base. The map shows it as a seaplane base. Which is correct? Is the text and map right, or was the map based on the erroneous piece of text? A cursory reading of the book should have caught these errors (I certainly caught them easily enough). Osprey is sloppy, which is unfortunately the norm.

The book is a worthwhile overview of the campaign, in spite of its shortcomings. I only wish that it had a little extra detail and that more time had been spent editing it.

Bloody Forgotten Battle.......2003-07-16

A nice very easy access to this very bloody and forgotten battle. There is a very good section on how the battle figured in the overall strategic plans. In final analysis (and no one wants to admit it), like modern day Iraq, Peleliu was a battle that need never have been fought. Monday morning quarterbacking is easy, but there are some real glaring inconsistencies that someone should have taken the blame for at the time. If aerial recce's were done of Peleliu they would have instantly reccognised the central ridge of about 200 metres in height poking out of the jungle (I have flown over it twice at several elevations and can assure you that it is VERY visible).Apparently aerial recce's never saw this feature according to the text. Whay was this info. not conveyed to operational commanders? Bleeding the Marines in this battle gained the Americans nothing. Better to have taken Anguar established their base there and left the rest of the Palaus alone. It would have worked because that is in fact what more or less happened: the landings at Peleliu and Anguar still left the main island and numerous lesser islands occupied but neutralised. Why not merely neutralise and not land on Peleliu as well. That is the central question that will remain unanswered. This Osprey Edition does a good job of the overview of the battle and the hell that both sides faced in this "forgotten battle."Text is good but suffers from inaccurate rendering of Japanese names into Roman Script (eg. Taksgo is not a Japanese name). As do so many books on the Pacific war. The easy Japanese phonetic alphabet make such mistakes inexcusable.

Another Fine Addition to the Campaign Series.......2003-01-03

Peleliu 1944, Osprey Campaign volume number 110, covers one of the more obscure but controversial battles of the Pacific War. Jim Moran and Gordon L. Rottman, two authors well versed in US Marine Corps history, have done a fine job synthesizing the available secondary sources on the battle into a succinct campaign narrative. A detailed, blow-by-blow campaign narrative, combined with excellent maps and photographs, makes Peleliu 1944 a fine addition to the Osprey Campaign series. The authors succeed in laying out the two most enduring questions about the battle: was the invasion of Peleliu necessary and why was it so costly?

In standard Osprey Campaign series format, Peleliu 1944 begins with short sections on the origins of the campaign, a chronology, and sections on opposing plans, commanders and forces. The campaign narrative itself is 48 pages long, followed by a brief aftermath section, comments on the battlefield today and a bibliography. There are a total of three "Birds-Eye View" 3-D maps (D-Day on Peleliu, Securing the North of Peleliu and the Reduction of the Umurbrogol Pocket), six 2-D maps (Strategic situation, the Palau Islands, Peleliu Island, D-Day to D+8, Capture of Angaur Island and the Umurbrogol Mountains), and three battle scenes (Beach Orange on D-Day, the Japanese tank counterattack and Reducing the Umurbrogol Pocket). The authors also provide very detailed orders of battle for the 1st Marine Division, the US Army 81st Infantry Division and the Japanese forces on Peleliu.

The controversy about Peleliu began even before the invasion. Admiral Halsey wanted to neutralize the island by bombardment and then bypass it, as so many other islands had been bypassed. However, Admiral Nimitz disregarded this suggestion and ordered the invasion to proceed in order to remove a potential threat to General Macarthur's imminent invasion of the Philippines. The authors clearly point out that most of the Japanese aircraft and naval vessels in the Palau Island group had been destroyed by US air raids well before the invasion. Thus, the threat to Macarthur was minimal. Securing Peleliu provided the US Navy with a convenient but not critical base (although it did help to rescue the survivors of the sunken USS Indianapolis in 1945). Thus the question really devolves to whether or not the invasion was worth the cost, since it was clearly not critical to winning the war in the Pacific.

On the conduct of the battle itself, Moran and Rottman clearly place the blame for the heavy US casualties on two causes: inadequate intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) and incompetent senior leadership. In modern parlance, IPB focuses on gaining information about the terrain, weather and enemy that will enable the friendly commander to make the best possible decisions. However, the US Marines landing on Peleliu were continuously presented with unpleasant surprises about the terrain, weather and enemy. Instead of the "mostly low and flat terrain" briefed prior to D-Day, the invaders were confronted with undetected anti-tank ditches, coral outcrops and the very nasty Umurbrogol Mountains. How did aerial reconnaissance miss mountains this size? The Marines had only expected a short three-day fight for Peleliu and had not really considered the weather. However, temperatures around 100? F fatigued the Marines and the monsoon rains disrupted the build-up. Finally, the Japanese altered their tactics on Peleliu. The Japanese were beginning to learn from previous battles that wild Banzai charges consumed their troops quickly and led to short battles. On Peleliu the Japanese demonstrated a new preference for protracted, attritional struggles based around interlocking and cunningly hidden defenses. Indeed, it is hard not to read this book and gain great respect for the incredible defense put up by the Japanese troops on Peleliu. All three factors - terrain, weather and new enemy tactics - ruined the American timetable and exacted a heavy toll on the invaders.

Moran and Rottman blame Major General Rupertus, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, for much of the heavy casualties on Peleliu. Rupertus initially claimed that Peleliu would be secured in 3-4 days of hard fighting. It quickly became apparent on D-Day that the Marines were running into unexpectedly tough resistance, but Rupertus did not elect to alter his timetable. Instead, Rupertus continually urged his regimental commanders to make costly frontal assaults until his division was virtually decimated. Rupertus refused to ask for the 81st Division to relieve his Marines and he foolishly released his tank battalion just when his troops most needed armor support. Rupertus kept urging his exhausted marines into futile assaults until there was nothing left to give. At that point, the First Marines were relieved and replaced by the 81st Division, which eventually secured the island after two more months. In the end, it took the Americans over two months to secure Peleliu and cost over 1,500 dead. One big question left unanswered is why Nimitz didn't intervene to stop this senseless bloodletting and why Rupertus wasn't relieved until after the operation. Obviously, there were more than a few reputations to protect from fallout from the Peleliu slugfest. For military professionals, Peleliu 1944 provides an instructive lesson on the perils of over-confident predictions based on inadequate knowledge of the terrain, weather and a resourceful enemy.

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Peleliu 1944: The Forgotten Corner of Hell (Osprey Classic Battles)

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Providing in effect a mini-biography of every person

Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate
Bo Beolens , and Michael Watkins
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Is Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon Bonaparte? Is the Pallas' Sandgrouse named for the same individual as the Pallas' Warbler? This entertaining book provides for the first time a mini-biography of every person after whom a bird has been named in the English vernacular-some 1,400 individuals. Featuring 150 illustrations, Whose Bird? is arranged in the style of an encyclopedia with entries indexed both by relevant individual and by bird. The book concentrates on the people--heroes, romantics, fanatics, and many others. Entries explain who the people were, when and where they traveled, what else they did and were famous for, with whom they were connected, what they wrote and published, and how birds came to be named after them. Filled with fascinating stories about the lives and times of naturalists over the centuries, this accessible reference volume will intrigue readers at every level of interest in ornithology.

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Providing in effect a mini-biography of every person.......2004-05-06

Beo Beolens and Michael Watkins' Whose Bird? surveys common bird names and the people they commemorate, providing in effect a mini-biography of every person after whom a bird has been named in English. Add over a hundred illustrations to an encyclopedia with entries by bird and individual and you have a scientific reference which is also easily accessed by lay readers.

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David Brewer
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