What Money Really Means

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* A systematic outline of American law, written to fill a void in this area which "...for many years was used as a textbook for American law students." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 250. Based on lectures given by Walker [1802-1856] while a law professor at Cincinnati College.

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With over 26,000 chemical and pharmaceutical terms, this modern, easy-to-use English and Spanish glossary is an indispensable resource for pharmacists, physicians, scientists, health care professionals, and anyone else who works in these or related fields.

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Photonic Crystals presents detailed coverage of all aspects of photonic crystal technology, from design and fabrication to applications. It consists of a coherent set of contributions from an international group of experts, addressing topics that include a historical viewpoint, modeling methods for photonic crystals, optimization techniques for a new level of design, waveguide design, silicon-based photonic crystals, optical characterization, dispersion in space and time, photonic crystal fibers, quantum computing, spontaneous emission in periodic structures, and photonic crystals in nature. It is ideal for graduate students and researchers in optics and optoelectronics.

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Cincinnati is excellent, some other plays only okay.

Cincinnati and Other Plays (includes the plays Cincinnati, Nightmare with Clocks, Captain Cook, Dead Men's Fingers, Axis Sally, How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth, and Full Fathom Five)
Don Nigro
Manufacturer: S. French
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0573621055

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Cincinnati is excellent, some other plays only okay........1998-02-05

I really enjoyed these monologues, but often very confusing. If you are able to cut, can be good for scenework.

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Full Fathom Five
Charles Martin
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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FULL FATHOM FIVE
J. E. Macdonnell
Manufacturer: Ace Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000SU2VNQ

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Full Fathom Five
John Stewart Carter
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000AOPL9Q

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Size: 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1"

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Full Fathom Five
Kate Humphrey
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0732275695

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Full Fathom Five
John Stewart Carter
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NOQYEY

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Full Fathom Five
J. E. MacDonnell
Manufacturer: Horwitz
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M64SV4

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Full Fathom Five
J. E. MacDonnell
Manufacturer: Dorchester Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0843906634

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Full Fathom Five
John Carter
Manufacturer: Houghtan Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O0EKZ2

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Full Fathom Five
Hugh Sykes Davies
Manufacturer: The Bodley Head
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HINZ2A

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Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photographs of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. In this volume, ten leading combat photographers relate incidents of horror, humor, bravery, and daring in locations from Vietnam to Haiti, Ramallah to Chechnya, El Salvador to Sarajevo, the World Trade Center to Afghanistan. Here, in their own words, are their stories of life in the combat zone, together with many of the powerful images they risked their lives to obtain. This historical and very human look at the pathos of war also reveals the moral and ethical issues that this elite corps of photographers face, and the decisions they must make in the chaos of conflict. In addition to the works of these talented photographers are iconic images, from the American Civil War to the devastation of the World Trade Center, that tell the story of the development of combat photography and the profound changes in warfare itself that have occurred in the last century and a half.

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Great Book.......2007-06-14

Very inspiring to an aspiring photojournalist. Also makes one aware of the risks involved and the state of affairs around the globe.

Inspirational.......2006-02-01

To say the least, this book motivates me, to become a better and more driven photographer. After reading this, i went on to look more into each of the PJ's whose work is featured in the book... One of the best photography books i've owned/read, ever. I'd fully reccomend it to any aspiring PJ out there that wants to know what the future may hold for them.

The second-best present I was ever given.......2004-05-16

Shooting Under Fire is an amazing collection of photographs from 10 living combat correspondants (except for one who died while photographing the 9/11 attacks). The color images are stunning in their graphic portrayal of the horrors of war, and the black and white images are intense and gritty in their truth.

As a photographer and a Peace Studies major (recently graduated), there was really *nothing* about this book that I didn't love!

For the record, the best present I was ever given was a charcoal drawing of one of the photos in this book, created by the same person who gave me the book as a gift!

Talented Artists - Great Images - Awful Prose.......2004-01-03

The photographs in this book are ... well ... amazing. Most of the most famous war photographs are included in this collection, and you will seen some, if not all of them before. But, it's nice to have them all together. Most of the captioning alongside the images shows that the photograhers are self-centered, egotistical social misfits (like most great artists) with an incredible eye for light and composition.

3 stars for the photos, none for the ideology.......2003-12-17

"it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing"

Me, too. When one of the photographers expressed his admiration for the Viet Cong - who were at the time conducting mass extra-judicial executions during the occupation of Hue during the Tet Offensive - I was...intrigued.

The write-ups indeed cast a not-so-flattering light on the subtle way that photographers "in the trenches" can be deluded into supporting the murderous "militants" that use them for their propaganda.

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Will you flinch? Confronting the images of war.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Anthony Swofford
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DMW9Q
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1887 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: Will you flinch? Confronting the images of war.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Anthony Swofford
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 42 Issue: 1 Page: 58(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of María de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; María de Peñalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quirós, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period—Spanish, Indian, and black—who held a wide variety of leadership positions.

The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States.

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Riviera nature notes
George Edward Comerford Casey
Manufacturer: Bernard Quaritch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Natural History | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00086JOG2

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"The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study in so favoured a region."

Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century-not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the time. A hundred years later the book is as fresh, topical and inviting as when it was first published. Preferring to remain anonymous as a naturalist, not only out of modesty but to guard the integrity of his liturgical writings, its clergyman author speaks of olives and pines, myrtles and figs, mosquitoes and rare butterflies-to name but a few of his subjects-with such passion and verve as to bring the land from the Ligurian coastline to the Maritime Alps vividly alive.

Published first at the expense of Sir Thomas Hanbury, master of the famed gardens at La Mortola, Italy and benefactor of the Royal Horticultural Society's sixty-acre estate at Wisley, a second edition in 1903 incorporated photographs taken by the temperamental and extravagant heiress Ellen Wilmot. Our anonymous author moved in the best horticultural and botanical circles, wore his learning lightly, and spoke to the common man and the general reader on equal terms. With an engaging, sometimes acerbic voice speaking effortlessly across the years, he will once again garner admirers among nature lovers, gardeners and travellers alike.

"Originally published in 1898 at the expense of Sir Thomas Hanbury, master of the famed gardens at La Mortola, Italy, this quirky, erudite and eminently readable compilation of 54 essays gives an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the century . . . is sure to garner admirers among nature lovers, gardeners, and travelers alike."--Museum Store Spring 2005

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Riviera nature notes,: A popular account of the more striking plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps
George Edward Comerford Casey
Manufacturer: Labour Press limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008595XA

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