The Rome of Alexander Vii, 1655-1667

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The Rome of Alexander Vii, 1655-1667
Richard Krautheimer
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Rome from the Ground Up (From the Ground Up)

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The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667
Richard KRAUTHEIMER
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THE ROME OF ALEXANDER VII, 1655-1667
Richard Krautheimer
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Roma Alessandrina: The remapping of Rome under Alexander VII, 1655-1667
Richard Krautheimer
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What do you pay attention to? The sublime of everyday life and the confusion of public and private are the stuff of Anne Daems' art work. In her video work, photography and drawings she explores the enigma that is the discrepancy between what is shown and what is described, allowing absence to define both the limits and the infinite possibilities of representation.

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This book addresses central issues in evolutionary and Schumpeterian accounts of industrial competition, learning, and innovation. It contains a collection of twelve papers which are oriented toward exploring methodological issues in evolutionary and related scholarship. Reflecting the diversity of work in evolutionary scholarship, a range of methodologies are employed in the papers, including simulation, experiments, and econometric analysis. Some of the papers use well established models to takle new questions and problems. Others introduce entirely new approaches, which the authors indicate are still in a state of infancy and await further development. The collection attempts to raise even more interest in evolutionary economics, to provide some suggestions for future research directions, and to initiate a lively discussion of the issues raised.

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Do you want to know what a job at Capital One is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet.com has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet.com guides are the industry standard-based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.

A top U.S. bank since it first opened its doors in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, Citibank now calls itself a "global-growth company." And rather than merge with another financial-services firm, it is pursuing two goals: global presence and market dominance. Jam-packed with information and insider views, and written expressly for job seekers, this exclusive WetFeet.com Company Insider Guide will take you inside one of the world's largest financial institutions and tell you what makes it tick. You'll learn answers to all of the following questions: * What is Citibank doing to become the Big Mac of banking? * How can you pursue a career in consumer marketing, finance and general management--and work for Citibank the whole time? * What international opportunities does Citibank offer? * What does Citibank's slogan mean when it is translated into different languages? * What is the Balanced Scorecard? * Why does CEO John Reed have a reason to feel a tad smug these days? * Why is Citibank known throughout the industry as an excellent training ground? * What's a typical day in a life of a global consumer banker, project manager, or fixed income trader?

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Not just for job seekers.......2000-03-30

This book is not only for job seekers to get a job in Citibank, but also for those who are interested to know more about how Citibank selects its most important asset, human capital.

Also this book will tell you why some promising bankers in the making may not necessary able to fit themselves into Citibank criteria of selection despite the belief that Citibank is an excellence training ground for future leading bankers. To know why, read this book.

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An excellent, comprehensive resource.......2003-02-14

I regularly teach a drama unit which focuses on child labour, and have found that this book provides the most comprehensive range of resources to accompany it. It's got everything - facts, interviews, stunning photos... and a respect for the point of view of the children themselves. Although I usually just pick a few sections to read out in class, I often recommend that students take the book out of the library themselves, as it's very accessibly written, even for middle school students. The section on exploitation of young workers in industrialized countries, e.g. fast food employees, has some great material to get teenagers thinking about labour issues and the role that they can play in creating change in their own environment. But Springer also gets the reader to identify with children from all over the world, and that's what really makes this a fantastic resource.

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Prairie Patrimony consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. . . . No one should doubt the great contribution that Salamon has made to our understanding of American rural life.
American Studies

[Salamon's] approach yields a depth of information about farming culture not usually found in the literature on rural America.
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Takes the reader on a cultural tour of a cherished American institution and landscape--midwestern farm families and their farms. With perceptive attention to detail and knowledge borne of first-hand study over many years, [Salamon] skillfully reveals the pervasive imprint of ethnicity. . . . Prairie Patrimony represents one of those rare studies that enrich our social vision and understanding in extraordinary ways.
Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Salamon's book is a remarkable contribution to the study of agriculture and culture, and its cross-disciplinary approach will engage scholars in many areas. For historians, it is a splendid illustration that different behaviors between American and immigrant farmers, planted over a century ago in the Middle West, have endured to the present.
Jon Gjerde, University of California, Berkeley

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In the spring of 1944, Japanese 15th Army was shattered at Imphal and Kohima, allowing General William Slim, commander of 14th Army, to liberate Burma overland from India – a task considered impossible by the British chiefs of staff. Overcoming immense logistical problems, Slim coordinated a precisely timed attack along a 200-mile front, the longest opposed river crossing of the entire war, and an armored dash behind enemy lines that seized Meiktila, cutting Japanese supply lines. Mandalay fell and at the end of March 1945, with the battle lost, the Japanese withdrew south. Slim gave them no chance; Allied troops raced south and captured Rangoon. The Japanese army in Burma was finished.

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A Classic Set-Piece Attack on an Isolated Foe.......2004-07-25

Edward M. Young, an aviation history, provides an excellent summary of the little-known Meiktila campaign in Burma in 1945 in Osprey's campaign series #136. Indeed, this volume is well suited for study by professional officers and military academics in regard to a classic set piece operational-level offensive. Young's narrative is crisp and workmanlike, and well supported by maps and illustrations. However, readers should be aware that the author is attempting to summarize six months of operations over a large theater into only 96 pages, and this reduces some of the detail that might shed greater light on facets of the campaign. Furthermore, the author has not provided much detail on the crucial role of logistics, which undermines his campaign narrative in certain areas. Nevertheless, Meiktila 1945 is certainly worth having for anyone interested in analyzing operational level combat in the Second World War. Young begins with a rather lengthy introduction that sets the strategic background to the campaign. While Young views the US and British differences over Burma as essentially related to the Chinese, this leaves out the very important consideration that the Americans felt that Burma was a waste of resources and that the British were pressing to reconquer Burma for parochial reasons. While the British army in Europe was running out of infantry, General Slim was committing 24 British battalions to reconquer Burma; these troops could have done more good in Europe than the Burmese jungles. Furthermore, if the land routes to China were no longer threatened after the failure of the Japanese offensive against Imphal-Kohima in March-June 1944, why reconquer Burma? A key fact that Young omits in this strategic debate is the logistical fragility of Slim's entire plan of operation - the entire plan would be anemic at best. Why take this strategic risk when Burma was nothing more than a strategic buffer for the Japanese empire? Capture of Rangoon would not render any immediate advantage to the Allies. Young's sections on opposing commanders and opposing plans are quite good, although the idea that the Meiktila campaign was an exploitation of the Imphal-Kohima victories overlooks the fact that the British gave the Japanese over six months to retreat into Burma and lick their wounds - hardly a pursuit. The section on opposing armies is decent, although a bit vague in some important areas. While noting that the Japanese were weak in armor and airpower, and that their infantry and artillery were at only 50% strength, Young doesn't seem to appreciate that the Japanese army in Burma was effectively isolated by February 1945 due to the US submarine campaign and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Indeed, the Japanese army in Burma received no replacements after November 1944; with Macarthur and Nimitz approaching the Japanese home islands, Burma was effectively written off. While Young claims that the "decisive weapon in the Meiktila battles proved to be the tank," it would be fair to say that the Allied "center of gravity" was air transport, of which 85% was American. Without his C-47s to provide air supply, Slim would never have crossed the Irrawaddy River. Young mentions that Allied edge in air power but fails to specify that they actually had a better than 13-1 superiority over the Japanese in Burma. Thus, Allied air supremacy enabled air resupply that allowed for operational maneuver, while the Japanese were effectively unable to replace their losses or maneuver much. The result of all these converging factors was an "overmatch" campaign where the Japanese had few viable options, which is important to keep in mind when reading Young's narrative (if Japanese intelligence had deduced Allied intent to seize Meiktila, could they have stopped it?). Meiktila 1945 includes six 2-D Maps (the Burma Front on 1 November 1944; Operation "Extended Capital"; IV and XXXIII Corps crossings of the Irrawaddy River; the armored thrust to Meiktila; the defense of Meiktila; the advance on Rangoon) and three 3-D Birds-Eye View maps (7th Division crosses the Irrawaddy; the Battle for Meiktila; the defense of Meiktila). There are also three color battle scenes: crossing the Irrawaddy; fighting in Meiktila; and clearing Wetlet. There is no doubt that General Slim planned and executed an excellent set-piece campaign in reconquering Burma in early 1945; but the British were also beneficiaries of good luck. Young notes that the British crossing of the Irrawaddy River fortuitously struck the boundary between the two Japanese armies and that Japanese C³I was abysmal. The fact that the Japanese failed to detect British road-building efforts through the jungle indicate incredible incompetence. Slim was able to get his 7th Division across the Irrawaddy with some difficulty and it is interesting that he took 13 days from crossing the river to reaching the main objective at Meiktila. While Slim's concept of an "armored dash" to Meiktila was sound, the fact that it took nearly two weeks to cover 80-odd miles indicates that it was no "blitzkrieg". Yet, if the British had dropped all or part of the Indian 50th Airborne brigade on the approaches to Meiktila, this might have prevented the Japanese rear area troops from establishing roadblocks. Once Meiktila was captured in March 1945, Slim was in the strongest position in warfare: a strategic offensive with a tactical defense. Since the British were sitting on their supply lines, the Japanese were forced to counterattack at Meiktila but the effort was piece-meal and they ruined two divisions in the process. Young fails to mention that Slim's 14th Army was experiencing significant logistical shortfalls at this point and the British were rapidly approaching a culminating point if the Japanese did not fold in central Burma. Perhaps the only viable Japanese strategy in Burma would have been to stay on the defense until the rainy season stopped the British in their tracks, but this would have violated the offensive spirit of Japanese doctrine.

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Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity

Manufacturer: Privately printed, New York
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000EBBXUQ

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Chastity belts

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Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity
Anonymous
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Padlocks and Girdles Of Chastity
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Padlocks and girdles of chastity
Alcide Bonneau
Manufacturer: Big Dollar Books
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ASIN: B00086EPRA

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The origin of padlocks of chastity in that peculiar knot, called the Herculean knot, which used to fasten the woolen sash of the Grecian maiden, and which the husband alone was to untie on his wedding night. Solidify this knot, apply it to iron bars, and you have almost the padlock.

The girdle of virginity, worn by the Grecian maidens, used to be put on at the nubile age and taken off after marriage; quite on the contrary, the girdle of chastity was presented by the husband to the wife in the morning of his wedding night, as a most suitable means of maintaining union and good understanding between them, by dispelling all his jealous fears.

The woman's body is like the larder of man's pleasures, in a selfish point of view; what can be more natural than to padlock the larder, for fear some intruder should come and fall upon the best morsels and eat up the dainties?

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Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity An Historical Descriptive Notice to which is added Freydier's Speech against their use in France
Alcide Bonneau
Manufacturer: Paris: Isidore Liseux
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000V4QLJ4

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Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity

Manufacturer: NY 1928.
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ASIN: B0000EERQF

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Padlocks and girdles of chastity: An historical and descriptive notice ; to which is added Freydier's speech against their use in France (ReLajon versus ... from the French ; with illustrations
Alcide Bonneau
Manufacturer: Isidore Liseux
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008ACKGO

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Spanish translation of the English language book, "Puerto Rico's Birds in Photographs" (ISBN 0-9650104-1-4), sold without the CD-ROM that accompanies the English book. Puerto Rico's first book to illustrate in color photographs all breeding birds and regular migrants. Over 320 color photos of 185 species of Puerto Rican birds are included. The text is designed for students, teachers, tourists, and anyone who wants to understand Puerto Rico's natural heritage by learning about its fascinating birds. The species' life histories are written in a non-technical style for the general reader, and include important lessons for conservation of our natural resources. All common birds of the Virgin Islands are also illustrated. Over 80 professional and amateur ornithologists collaborated in this effort.

Translation by José Placer.

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Las aves de Puerto Rico en Fotografias.......2003-12-25

Esta obra viene a llenar un nicho que ha estado vacio por muchos años en Puerto Rico. El libro presenta de forma clara, y mejor aun, de manera grafica y a todo color a las aves que habitan a la isla de Puerto Rico. Este libro ha sido un trabajo de muchas personas las cuales colaboraron para crear esta gran obra compilada por Mark Oberle.

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Bought this book approx. 25 years ago!
birds from puerto rico
Excellent reference book for ornithologists

Las aves de Puerto Rico
Virgilio Biaggi
Manufacturer: La Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0847702421

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Bought this book approx. 25 years ago!.......2002-08-15

..and now is time to get a revised version.

I grew up using this excellent reference and study guide. It is technically accurate and can be taken to the field. The color drawings are usefull.

I can't wait to see that was revised.. 25 years later.

birds from puerto rico.......1999-06-22

anything you need to know about birds of Puerto Rico is here.From their habitat,to their diet,even the colors and sizes of the eggs and the special traits they have from young to adults!It has pictures and it is a really great book that every bird lover should have.

Excellent reference book for ornithologists.......1997-10-29

The book is well detailed in the birds description. You can use it as a reference when doing reseach in this field. The explanations are simple and very descriptive.

Aves De Puerto Rico y las Islas Virgenes

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Aves De Puerto Rico y las Islas Virgenes

Manufacturer: Publishing Resources
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0898250005

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Birds of Puerto Rico in Spanish

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