Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland

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Detailed text and illustrations examine the buildings of the great neoclassical period, 1730–1875. The roster of masterpieces pictured and described include The Customs House, Dublin; The Bank of England, Liverpool; Newgate Prison, London; The British Museum, London; The National Gallery, Edinburgh; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and many more. 176 black-and-white illustrations.

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Masterpieces of British architecture.......2002-01-08

Albert Richardson's Monumental Classic Architecture In Great Britain And Ireland covers the achievements of Georgian architect Sir William Chambers and his contemporaries, revealing the buildings which have become masterpieces of British architecture. Dover here reproduces unabridged a production which first appeared in 1982, covering different phases of British classic architectural design and including black and white photos throughout.

Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland: During the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries

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Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland: During the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries
A. E Richardson
Manufacturer: Batsford
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Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

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Cruikshank's Water Colours
George (introduction by Joseph Grego) Cruikshank
Manufacturer: A & C Black
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2V1PM

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English Water-Colour with Reproductions of Drawings by Eminent Painters. Introduction by Frederick Wedmore.
Charles, ed. Holme
Manufacturer: London: Offices of The Studio,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IU2OJ2

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Ethan Frome. With water-colour drawings by Henry Varnum Poor and an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Signed
Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: The Limited Editions Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Wharton, Edith | Classics | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000J30EIG

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Introduction to Water Colours (Art School)
Ray Smith
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Watercolor | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0751306509

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Peter De Wint - Famous Water-Colour Painters
Martin (introduction by) Hardie
Manufacturer: The Studio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LL2N9O

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The Water-Colours of Turner, Cox & de Wint
A P (introduction by) Oppe
Manufacturer: Halton & Truscott Smith
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJ4CA8

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Canadian Water-Colours of the 19th Century.
Danielle [Introduction] Corbeil
Manufacturer: Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada 1970.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L5XHGS

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An Introduction to English Water-Colour Painting
Reynolds Graham
Manufacturer: Country Life
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TBGUYK

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An introduction to painting in water colors: In theory and practice : with an index of mixed tints, remarks on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, etc., and a manual of lithography
T. H Fielding
Manufacturer: D. Bogue
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Watercolor Painting | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00086IORC

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AN INTRODUCTION TO WATER COLOUR
SMITH
Manufacturer: KINDERSLEY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SDRAOS

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Practical, user-oriented reference for engineers who must incorporate and specify coatings for filters, antiglare effects, polarization, or other purposes in optical or electro-optical systems design. Focuses on preparation techniques and characteristics of commercially available products and provides information needed to determine what type of filter is needed to solve a particular problem, what its limitations are, and how to care for it.

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Better to wait for Macleod's 3rd edition.......2000-11-08

I bought a used copy of Optical Thin Films at a book show for $ 1. I would say that one dollar is about the fair price for Rancourt's book. It gives very little insight into the design of optical filters, and the discussion of technology was dated even at the time of publishing (1987); thirteen years later, the book borders on Cro-Magnon. Instead, I'm "chomping at the bit" to get Angus Macleod's latest version of his old workhorse, Thin Film Optical Filters, due out any day now.

Optical Thin Films: User's Handbook (Macmillan Series in Optical and Electro-Optical Engineering)

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Optical Thin Films: User's Handbook (Macmillan Series in Optical and Electro-Optical Engineering)
James D. Rancourt
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFMNV0

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Optical Thin Films: Users' Handbook

Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HKL81S

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A collection of cartoons featuring America's favorite kids -- Peanuts! Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the gang will touch your funny bone . . . and your heart.

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This book presents up-to-date evidence on the issues facing financiers and intermediaries involved in venture capital and management buy-outs. It provides a comprehensive review of existing literature and an analysis of international trends in market development as well as a global comparison of the major issues.

It addresses venture capital at the industry/market and firm level and provides full coverage on both informal and formal venture capitalists, management buy-outs, and competing and complementary sources of finance including bank finance and trade credit. The contributors also discuss issues not widely covered in the existing literature on the nature of venture capitalist-investee relationships and the revelation of knowledge, the costs of information searches, the development of appropriate forms of managerial and financial control systems, the role of the entrepreneur and bargaining models of contract negotiation. It uses case study examples from the US, the UK, and West and Eastern Europe.

This book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and policy makers in the area of the financing and management of firms as well as academics and students interested in management buy-outs, venture capital, entrepreneurship and finance.

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Illustrated catalog for an exhibit traces the exchange of North American furs for European manufactured goods.

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Information Technology, Organizations and People: Transformations in the UK Retail Financial Services Sector
Jeff Watkins
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Library & Information Science | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0203066278

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This wide-ranging volume presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure and is based on a series of rolling surveys carried out between 1989 and the present day.

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A unique and indispensible encyclopedia and sourcebook that provides parents with instant access to vital information on more than 2,000 topics concerning their children's health and well-being.

Parenting A to Z is the only single volume to offer such a range of essential information and insight on every aspect of a child's physical, emotional, and social development. An invaluable reference, the book contains entries on more than 2,000 subjects including such major parenting concerns as genetic counseling, educational and medical testing, drug and alcohol abuse, child care, social services, and family law, and the entire range of potentially serious medical problems; as well as the less serious but equally important subjects of sibling rivalry, toilet training, and diet. Each entry provides a thorough definition of its topic and includes a list of helping organizations (where appropriate), additional sources of information, and reading lists. In addition, the book includes a Special Help section that provides parents with information on hotlines, helplines, guides to children's reading, and sources of help for special children.

Originally published as The Parent's Desk Reference , this totally revised and updated edition puts at parents' fingertips all the information they need to understand their child's health and development, from the moment of conception to early adulthood.

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One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the British raiders had attacked and destroyed the station, but in reality key components had been stolen and the whole set analysed by British scientists. (What the 'boffins' did not know was that the British paratroops had orders to kill them, rather than let them fall into German hands if the operation went wrong.) Plucked to safety by Royal Navy landing craft, with Germans in hot pursuit, the raiders achieved complete success.

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Raid! What Raid?.......2005-04-08

I couldn't agree more with the review written by Doug Hutchinson. This book is certainly mistitled for it is not about the raid at Bruneval but a technical history of radar and its applications in war, period. As that it is good; as a story of a raid it is quite poor.

Lots of tech, not much action.......2003-12-01

The title of this book ought to be "The Technical Development of Radar and the Men who Were Responsible.". The first 2/3 of the book are dedicated to a plethora of names and the background of radar development in both England and Germany. It is interesting in its own right, for sure, but at times is tedious. The raid itself, as daring and romantic as it was, is given only superficial coverage, with no depth or suspense. This is due I'm sure to the no-nonsense English writing style of the author, who was an English soldier himself. Not a bad read, but more for the technical-minded than the war/history/action buff.

Excessive history and unrelated clutter........2003-05-15

I had heard of the raid when I attended radar school in Virginia in 1943. The details of the raid described in the book are interesting. The book is padded with history unrelated to the raid and about photography also unrelated. However, if the "padding" hadn't been included the book would have only been a phamplet. I wish the author had described in technical detail the unit captured.

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Bruneval Raid:Stealing Hitler's Radar
George 0-304-36221-2 Millar
Manufacturer: Cassell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSJUGS

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This book contains a lengthy introduction, translation and commentary on John Selden's Uxor Hebraica. Selden was a seventeenth century Christian talmudist, classicist, legal historian and member of the British parliament who wrote extensively on a wide variety of subjects including seven books, all in Latin, of various aspects of Jewish Law. Uxor Hebraica is an exhaustive treatment of Jewish marriage law. Among the subjects treated are incest (including a unique discussion of the Karaite rules), levirate, the marriage contract and ceremonies and divorce. Selden extensively used the Hebrew Bible, its ancient and later translations, the Talmud, and especially Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. He widened his discussion by including comparative material from the New Testament, church fathers, Greece and Rome, Islam, plus usages from Ethiopia, Russia, Byzantium and medieval Europe. Although written without polemic, the work is clearly related to the religious controversies of the day.

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American Bird Conservancy Compact Guides
The Bird Guides for Nature Enthusiasts

American Bird Conservancy Compact Guides focus on the birds that can be observed at specific sites. With illustrations by America's finest bird artists, a handy, pocket-size format and a ground breaking organization system derived from the definitive North American bird guide, ABC's All The Birds of North America, they are simply the most useful bird guides available.

All The Songbirds tells you everything you need to know about the songbirds you'll see in a national park, on a nature walk, or on a wilderness trek. It features:

Highly informative entries on more than 100songbird species. Spectacular, full-color paintings of songbirds in their natural habitats that set new standards for beauty and accuracy. Tips on where and how to find songbirds; plus a checklist for recording your sightings.

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All the Songbirds: Western Trailside
Jack L. Griggs
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OERBHM

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