Landscape Detailing Volume 4 (Landscape Detailing)

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Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designin external works. This volume covers water features and offers drawings detailed to scale, unlike many of the other books on the market which only deal in sketch forms.

Covers landscape ponds, streams and waterfalls, fountains, edges, bank protection, revetments, dams, weirs and sluices, island rafts and jetties and drainage. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction. This is followed by a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets. These details can be traced for direct incorporation into the set of contract drawings.

A ready reference for landscape designers and an indispensable time-saving tool, Landscape Detailing is an essential for the design office.

* Provides technical guidance notes and drawn to scale detail sheets for ease of understanding
* Learn first hand from a well established author in the field of Landscape Detailing and broaden your knowledge
* Save time with traceable detail sheets

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How does that work? Why? These fun science books answer kids_ questions about the world around them_and encourage them to ask more.

La Luz/Light: Sombras, Espejos Y Arco Iris/ Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows (Ciencia Asombrosa) (Ciencia Asombrosa)

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La Luz/Light: Sombras, Espejos Y Arco Iris/ Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows (Ciencia Asombrosa) (Ciencia Asombrosa)
Natalie M. Rosinsky
Manufacturer: Picture Window Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Luz Y Sombra
Maria Fernanda Canal
Manufacturer: Parramon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Luz y Sombra (Coleccion Puertorriquena) (Coleccion Puertorrique~na)

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Luz y Sombra (Coleccion Puertorriquena) (Coleccion Puertorrique~na)
Ana Roque , and Ana Roquc)
Manufacturer: La Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Luz Y Sombra (Yellow Umbrella Books (Spanish))

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Luz Y Sombra (Yellow Umbrella Books (Spanish))
Susan Ring
Manufacturer: Yellow Umbrella Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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Known worldwide for his remarkable and continually groundbreaking choreography, Merce Cunningham has a secret: he also draws. For the first time, he opens a door into his fantastical animal kingdom with Aperture’s publication of Other Animals.

Cunningham is an obsessive observer with a colossal sense of humor who revels in nature with the same childlike vision--and the same expressiveness--that infuses his dances. Like his dances, his drawings are impressions, inventions, gestures, and interactions. Cunningham introduces us to a bird riding a turtle, a bizarre hybrid creature wearing a fashionable sweater, and an ostrich whose daintily pointed toe rivals the gracefulness of his dancers.

The drawings are collected in a beautifully produced and colorful volume along with selected entries from Cunningham’s personal journals. Juxtaposed with photographs of some of his dances and their notations, Other Animals reveals another side of Cunningham’s creative process. One immediately senses the master’s connection with nature in all her idiosyncratic glory--a place for the unexpected and exotic and peculiar and even silly to roam free. These drawings, playful and evocative in their own right, offer a key to understanding how Cunningham renders his vision of the world through dance--and how his vision is translated into costuming through his close collaboration with designers such as Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçonnes.

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Dennis the Menace the Kid Next Door
Hank Ketcham
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0449136566
Release Date: 1980-09-12

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Dennis the Menace the Kid Next Door
Hank Ketcham
Manufacturer: FAWCETT GOLD MEDAL
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TXN4P6

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Dennis the Menace the Kid Next Door
Hank Ketcham
Manufacturer: FAWCETT GOLD MEDAL
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SE94PK

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An industrial accountant with an accountant's dedication to accuracy, Harold E. Meyer is also a master of precise, clear writing. In his latest book on how to express yourself in a variety of settings, for a variety of purposes, he proves that easily understood writing can be learned. He shows how to use ordinary English to produce clear messages of any kind. Meyer's approach is informal, pleasant, and presented in brief sections, each with its point clearly expressed. His book is well illustrated throughout by amusing--often startling--examples of good writing and bad writing, and what the result can be from both. A remarkable, business-oriented guide for people at all levels and in all capacities in today's organizations--where the ways in which ideas are expressed are at least as important as the ideas themselves. What makes Meyer's book enjoyable and so easy to read, grasp, and is his use of personal anecdotes. Readers will learn how to punctuate, how to organize and present ideas, and other essential skills. Meyer also provides a helpful reference that explains many of the changes in the language that have occurred in recent years and when to use them. The result is an essential aid and resource for anyone who has to communicate through the use of the written word.

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Comfort Food for Parents.......2003-10-29

I can't believe this book is out of print. I bought this book years ago on the advice of a friend and I have loved this book all through my children's growing up. My favorite chapters are ON BEING FAIR ("...rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that."); TEN YEAR-OLD'S TACKLE FOOTBALL ("Small boys learn to be large men in the presence of large men who care about small boys."); and IN PRAISE OF TEACHERS ("If I were in charge of the universe, good teachers would earn far more than cabinet ministers; the latter are replaceable, the former are not.")

If you are a parent of a child of any age, this book will become a favorite friend.

Night Lights : Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark

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Night Lights : Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark
Phyllis Theroux
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIXI6Q

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The end of the Seven Years’ War found Britain’s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between British, French, and Spanish America. There the soldiers found themselves serving as occupiers, police, and diplomats in a vast territory marked by extreme climatic variation—a world decidedly different from Britain or the settled American colonies.

Going beyond the war experience, Army and Empire examines the lives and experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers of the West in British America. From the first appearance of the redcoats in the West until the outbreak of the American Revolution, Michael N. McConnell explores all aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers’ diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, clothing, and the built environments within which they lived and worked. McConnell looks at the army on the frontier for what it was: a collection of small communities of men, women, and children faced with the challenges of surviving on the far western edge of empire.

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Lots of good info here, though not a rivetting read.......2006-03-04

Army & Empire, by M. N. McConnell, deals with the various aspects of life on the British western frontier from 1758-1775, chiefly in Indian relations, garrisoning forts, and other issues concerning British Empire's handling of the vast western territory it suddenly inherited from the French. Lots of details about soldier life too, what historians call "material culture." One drawback-$it is expensive! Maybe your library has it? Nevertheless it is a good read with good info presented in a very workmanlike, if not inspired way.

Army & Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Brief article)(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Army & Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Brief article)(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Richard Aquila
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MX6YVY
Release Date: 2007-01-24

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 562 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: Army & Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Brief article)(Book review)
Author: Richard Aquila
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 395(2)

Article Type: Book review, Brief article

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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book review) : An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book review) : An article from: Canadian Journal of History
J. Kent McGaughy
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 794 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: Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book review)
Author: J. Kent McGaughy
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Page: 556(2)

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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History
Eric Hinderaker
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EQIJEO
Release Date: 2006-02-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 583 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: Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book Review)
Author: Eric Hinderaker
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 1 Page: 161(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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"Plunging into the complexities of Elizabethan history, Hess raises a host of provocative questions about Shakespeare's identity and the controversial character of the 17th earl of Oxford, the leading candidate for authorship honors. Wide reading informs his answers, and he doesn't shy from proposing linkages, motivations and ingenius theories to make sense of the historical records and answer the many questions about Oxford's life. His work on Don Juan of Austria may well prove to have opened a new perspective on that military leader's connection to Shakespeare." -- Richard F. Whalen, author, Shakespeare: Who Was He?

"The Dark Side of Shakespeare is an original and stimulating book that takes the authorship debate in unexpected new directions. Even those who reject its conclusions will find plenty to think about." -- Joseph Sobran, author, Alias Shakespeare

"The 'dark side' of the title refers to what Hess finds to be Oxford-Shakespeare's somewhat 'schizoid' persona: outwardly foppish, Italianate in artistic tastes, manners and dress, but also a gallant jouster, graceful dancer, musician, gifted poet, and playwright, and beloved patron of poets, actors, and writers of learned treatises and entertainments alike. Hess shows, however, that behind the scenes Oxford's activities as spy, intriguer, betrayer, smuggler, and gun-runner (possibly even assassin), can be documented.... Hess delves into the mirky waters of how Oxford applied these Machiavellian activities both at home and abroad... In truth, as sort of a 'Scarlet Pimpernel,'... These facts support Hess' hypothesis of Oxford's role as 'King-maker' in English and European politics (not just from his own power, but as a mover within a plausible alliance)!... the Earl of Oxford was an internationalist in his politics, playing on a field that crossed continental boundaries, 'dancing with Don Juan,' consorting with foreign monarchs, queens, and mistresses.... So, Oxfordians should get ready for a 'paradigm shift' equal to that of J. Thomas Looney's in 1920, if Hess is right. If he is not, enjoy a rollicking 'good read!' For such, Ron Hess is a well-informed and widely-read guide." -- From a Foreword by Dr. Gordon C. Cyr

W. Ron Hess, CISSP, CBCP, obtained a B.A. in European and Russian History and an M.S. in Computer Science, works as a Computer Security Officer (in which trade he has been a widely published expert), teaches in the "Practitioner Faculty" of Johns Hopkins University's Graduate School, and is now turning his talents to his "first love," Elizabethan history. After combing through the cataloged archives of the great research libraries of the world, he has obtained bold new evidence about Shakespeare's life, works, and times. Abandoning the traditional "Anglo-centric" view, Mr. Hess declares that Shakespeare was an "internationalist" whose experiences (and abundant allusions to them) straddled a continent and far transcended "Merrie Olde England." However, those experiences had a "dark side," one that permeated the works, illuminated their meaning, and enhanced their value far beyond anything traditional scholarship has been capable of imagining! We understand Shakespeare best of all through his "dark side."

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