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The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of two American campuses distinguished by landmark buildings-Harvard revealing stories of ivy-clad historic buildings and Cincinnati showcasing its major contemporary works of art, architecture, and landscape. One of the most prestigious universities in the world, Harvard is steeped in tradition and famous for its unique American Colonial campus which dates back to 1636. It features pre-Revolutionary, colonial, and classical buildings as well as more recent designs by Jose Luis Sert, LeCorbusier, and Walter Gropius.
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I CAN DRAW BIG MACHINES
Manufacturer: Walter Foster Art Books
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ASIN: B000H2GF1Y |
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I Can Draw Big Machines (I Can Draw)
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From Uncertain to Blue
Manufacturer: Texas a & M Univ Pr
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ASIN: 087719078X |
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a pretty good piece of work.......1998-06-11
Carter's first collection is a pretty good collection. I wasn't overly fond of this work (he has done much better), but there were some pieces that reach out and grab you, plus Carter's skill as an artist makes this book worth buying.
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- "It's Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him" - a review
- Great Illustrations
- Wonderful book
- Wait Until They're Older
- Bound to be a classic
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It's Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him
Robert Burleigh
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ASIN: 0531301060 |
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"It's Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him" - a review.......2005-11-27
I am always surprised when I find a good book that is only available in the after-market. What's with that?! (LOL).
This book is sweet, a good candidate for a `good night' book, and is bound to appeal to the train-fanatics amongst us. (Certainly my 3 year old son liked it.)
In this story, Ben draws trains and increasingly he, and we, get pulled into his imagination. His blanket becomes hills in the background. His blocks become tunnels, skyscrapers, and trees, and his toys become real cows and horses until at last he comes to the last station, "In my bed".
"Slow, slow, and slower.
Ben nods his head.
And arrives at the station
Called In-My-Bed.
Where filled with travels,
And train-wheel hums,
He'll dream train dreams,
Till morning comes.
Four Stars. A good read-aloud and good-night book. The artwork is sweet and clever and at least my little Thomas fan likes it.
While there are other books in the boy draws train motief -at the moment I'm thinking of Margaret Wise Brown's "Two Little Trains" book- we think this one is better.
Note: `funny' is indeed an difficult word for preschoolers and young children to understand in context. We substitute `interesting' when reading.
Great Illustrations.......2005-06-06
Children will love the illustrations in this picture book. Most younger children will have a hard time grasping the subtle humor. Children will have fun searching for things during the ride that are in Ben's room before the adventure starts. Can be good with students learning varying meanings of words in 3rd grade and up to think about what the word funny is meant to mean in the story.
Wonderful book.......2004-11-04
My 2 y.o. son LOVES this book. He loves trains and he gets that the little boy in the story is using his imagination to fantasize where the train goes. It's a bedtime favorite and I highly recommend it.
Wait Until They're Older.......2003-01-31
While my 2-year-old likes the pictures, the concepts of imagination and fantasy are apparently over his head. He clearly doesn't understand the concept, although he does enjoy the clip of the rhyming text. My advice: wait until your child is a little older before trying this book.
Bound to be a classic.......2000-03-09
We came across this book by chance at the library. My son is 2 years old and loves trains- this story is so sweet, it's a wonderful make believe. He loves it so much I renewed it 2 times before we broke down and had to buy it for him.
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Stories of the blind in the hope that you might come to understand blindness at something more than surface level. The Kernel series shares with you our lives as we live them, our hopes & dreams, failures and successes, frustrations & triumphs.
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Does the thought of going on another blind date make shivers run down your spine? In the Blind Date Survival Guide, Jeff Nagel takes you step-by-step through the blind dating process, sharing with you many new techniques he has discovered during the past decade, including: * How to avoid the good night kiss * Why meeting for dinner is the worst choice for a blind date * Why you should never eat lobster on a blind date * Why grandparents are the worst people to get names from * Why health clubs are terrible places to meet people
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I've never read the book, but I know the guy........1996-10-03
It must of worked for him. He married over his head.
I can say from working with him that, for some strange
reason, all the single employees started getting married
soon after his arrival at the company.
He should really write a book about married life.
Reviewed by Ken and Matt
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The creator of Hallmark's "Big Dreams" series cuts loose with yet another wacky collection of wacky cartoons for wacky people of a wacky persuasion.
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The Funny Dream
Kaethe Zemach
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Funny Dreams
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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A Funny Man's Dream
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Dostoyevsky is intimately linked with his heroes. It is his blood that courses through their veins, and his heart that beats in all of them. Dostoyevsky brings forth his characters in anguish, with throbbing pulse and breath that is gasping and labored. He commits the crimes his heroes commit, lives their titanically turbulent lives, repents with them, and is with them in his thoughts, which shake heaven and earth. Because of his urge to go through more and more experience with them with such terrible concreteness, we are shaken by him as by no one else.
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My Funny Guy (Sweet Dreams Series #220)
Helen Santori
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Release Date: 1994-10-01 |
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The Theory of Contestable Markets: Applications to Regulatory and Antitrust Problems in the Rail Industry (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
William B. Tye
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the application of the new theory of contestable markets to the problem of the transition to deregulation in regulated industries. It offers an extensive review of both the theory and practice of contestable markets, as well as guidelines for the practical application of the theory to regulated industries and antitrust, with special consideration given to the problems of the rail industry. As applied in this industry, the theory promised to help balance the conflicting goals of regulatory transition and to define standards for revenue adequacy, cooperation among competitors, maximum reasonable rates, and antitrust immunity for mergers. Unlike other, chiefly theoretical, treatments of the subject, the author has provided a study of the theory of contestable markets as well as its past and potential applications. His introduction discusses such topics as the relevant theory of perfect contestability, implications for economic welfare, and recent applications of the theory. Chapter 2 deals with vertical mergers into contestable markets, while chapter 3 concerns itself largely with the transition to deregulation in regulated industries. Unlike other theoretical studies, however, the work also addresses the theory in practice. Using the insights gained when the theory was employed in the rail industry, the author draws conclusions regarding a broad range of regulatory and antitrust issues affecting all industries, such as economic analysis of vertical mergers and vertical economic practices.
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The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 (Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State)
Nikki Mandell
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The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation's largest companies--firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan Life Insurance--engaged in some form of welfare work. Programs were implemented to achieve goals that ranged from improving basic workplace conditions, to providing educational, recreational, and social opportunities for workers and their families, to establishing savings and insurance plans.
Employing the critical lens of gender analysis, Nikki Mandell offers an innovative perspective on the development of corporate welfare. She argues that its advocates sought to build a new relationship between labor and management by recasting the modern corporation as a Victorian family. Employers assumed the authoritative position of fathers, assigned their employees the subordinate role of children, and hired male and female welfare managers to act as "corporate mothers" charged with creating a harmonious household. But internal conflict and external pressures weakened the corporate welfare system, and it eventually gave way to a system of personnel management and employee representation. With the abandonment of the familial model, the form of corporate welfare changed; but, as Mandell demonstrates, its content left an enduring legacy for modern industrial relations.
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1284 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Nikki Mandel, The Corporation as Family: the Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
Author: James Naylor
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Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 52
Page: 295(3)
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The "Back of the Yards of Chicago" was Sonny's playground. Cattle pens, sheep pens, pig pens, and piles of animal dung produced a smell that drove you out of the neighborhood during the hot, humid days in Chicago. His life goes through a tyrannical mother, alcoholic in-laws, a bipolar manic depressant wife with schizophrenic tendencies, and a son born with the lack of antibodies in his system to fight off the most common diseases. There will be brief periods of sadness, disbelief, arousal, and doubt. At the point of doubt, you will be involved in one of the biggest questions asked: "Why did you stay?"
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Explores the development of the V-2 rocket
A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius
Wernher von Braun is known to many as the brilliant pioneer of rocketry who left Germany after World War II to lead the United States' space program. Until now, few have realized the bloody legacy he left behind in the ruins of the Third Reich. The Nazi Rocketeers tells the story of how von Braun and his fellow rocket scientists postponed their initial dreams of space travel to create weapons of terror and mass destruction. Not only were they ambitious members of the Nazi movement, but they also, Piszkiewicz argues, collaborated with the SS in exploiting slave labor to build the V-2 rocket.
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Very biased historical revision of Von Braun.......1998-12-02
Piszkiewicz does a good job with getting the historical documentation down but fails miserably when he outs his obvious anti-Von braun spin to them. He constantly speculates without facts about Von Braun's thoughts, beliefs and motives, always casting them in a negative manner. He goes into detail about Himmler's attempts to eliminate Von Braun and the danger that posed and still castigates Von Braun for not acting to help the Dora workers. He dedicates the book to the V2 and Dora victims which seems to be why he wrote this revisionist tale. It is his way to find someone to blame and Von Braun seems to be as good as target as any for the author to attack. He admits the V2 was not an effective weapon yet he ignores the huge drain on resources that it had on the German war machine. This drain was praised by Winston Churchill for keeping more planes and guns off the field of battle, saving lives. He also twists quotes and facts out of context, a sin for a historian. This book is not about history so much as it is an attempt to discredit Von Braun. No documentation or factual evidence is ever presented to show Von Braun could have done anything to help the Dora workers. Von Braun was not a saint but neither was he a war criminal.
Incomplete.......1998-08-26
Misses the imprisonment for high treason on march 15th 1943, og Rieder VB and Dr Grottning. This was for saying in public that germany was losing the war and that they were more interested in building spaceships than weapons of war. Also the A4 was not a cost effective weapon. If the efforts had been put into fighter planes WWII would have dragged on alot longer. One ton of HE for the industrial cost of 6 jet fighters was probably the biggest sabotage of the nazi effort ever made. All it did was benifit spaceflight and science. Unbalanced. No historical perspective sensationalist trash.
They were in it up to their elbows........1997-04-21
(A numerical rating, as above, is required by the
new Amazon format. It is offensive to this
reviewer and explicitly disavowed.)
Author Piszkiewicz recounts the whole history of
German rocketry, from its beginnings through the
rocketeers' pact with the Devil, and on to their
historical rehabilitation at the hands of the
Americans who wanted their expertise.
Piszkiewicz sets the record straight, reminding us
that Wernher von Braun, for instance, was a
Sturmbannfuhrer (Major) in the SS who went to
Buchenwald personally to select slave laborers to
staff his V-2 missile plants.
Very interesting reading for students of the origins
of the Space Age, military history buffs, and others
who would understand the practical applications of
realpolitik.
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