Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing (TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, ECONOMICS AND POLICY Volume 9) (Transportation Research, Economics and Policy)

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Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and simulation experiments that all pertain to the general topic reflected in the title. The book is organized into four sections: 1) highway traffic flow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus freeways; 3) congestion pricing in the short run; and 4) road capacity and pricing in the long run.
In particular, the first section on highway traffic flow examines the chief models and empirical studies of vehicular flow on urban highways. The second section of the book is a theoretical and empirical examination of the choice that commuters make between urban tollways and freeways. The third section is devoted to congestion pricing in the short run, the time period in which the urban highway facilities are taken as given. This section is the most important part of the book from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and last section of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the long run, with the concluding chapter gathering the authors' main results in one place and making recommendations both for current policy and for future research.

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An intriguing dialogue on how different groups of people in our society confront different social realities. Leading scholars explore varied approaches to diversity in the research process and offer practical guidelines on conducting diversity-conscious and diversity-sensitive projects and research.

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First published in1955, this classic work by one of America's beloved outdoor writers pay homage to the Pleistocene Era's most pugnacious and extraordinary survivor, the grizzly bear.

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An enduring homage to the grizzly bear.......2004-01-13

Originally published in 1955, The Beast That Walks Like Man: The Story Of The Grizzly Bear is an enduring homage to the grizzly bear, and ranges from their role in Native American myths; to their first scientific classification in 1815; to their near-extinction in the lower forty-eight states. Informatively written by skilled hunter and wildlife expert Harold McCracken, (who once brought down a grizzly bear himself yet came to respect and admire these animals, as well as mourn the modern day threat of habitat destruction that may yet cause their end), The Beast That Walks Like Man is a very highly addition to Wildlife Studies reference collections.

The Beast that Walks Like a Man: The Story of the Grizzly Bear.

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The Beast that Walks Like a Man: The Story of the Grizzly Bear.
Harold. MCCRACKEN
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The Beast That Walks Like Man. The Story Of The Grizzly Bear

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The Beast That Walks Like Man. The Story Of The Grizzly Bear
HAROLD MCCRACKEN
Manufacturer: Oldbourne Press
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Excellent Resource for the Practicing Medieval Swordsman as Well as Historian

Marvelous

Excellent book, GREAT Translation. A MUST HAVE!!

Neat historical document

Excellent, but not for the casual swordsman

Codex Wallerstein: A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling
Grzegorz Zabinski , and Bartlomiej Walczak
Manufacturer: Paladin Press
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The Codex Wallerstein is one of the best known of the late medieval fencing treatises still in existence. Though perhaps not as widely known as Talhoffer 1467 or Flos Duellatorum, it is just as important to students of the Western martial arts. Originally written in Middle High German during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the Codex Wallerstein has long been available to scholars in microfilm format from Augusburg University. Now with the publication of this book, the text and drawings are available to scholars and martial artists in the original Middle High German, as well as in Modern German and English translations. The translations were provided by Grzegorz Zabinski, with assistance from Bartlomiej Walczak, two of the most esteemed interpreters of medieval combat in the world. The codex offers a series of fundamental counters to common attacks, using the longsword, falchion and dagger, as well as the complete system of wrestling techniques. In this work the reader will find a great deal of instruction on thrusting at or closing in against an opponent, expanding Master Johannes Liechtenauer's art of longsword combat. For martial artists, medievalists, historians or anyone with an interest in historical arms or self-defense, Codex Wallerstein is sure to become an invaluable reference.

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Excellent Resource for the Practicing Medieval Swordsman as Well as Historian.......2006-08-01

One of the great challenges of studying medieval forms of the martial arts is the fact that there is no school anywhere that preserves the actual fighting techniques of this era intact. While some of the techniques have survived, the decline of the necessity for a gentleman post Renaissance to be a man of arms as well as letters and learning has resulted in much knowledge being misplaced, lost and forgotten. As a result, modern schools of medieval martial arts can, and will, teach you basic techniques, but, as opposed to some of the better preserved Renaissance arts with the epée or rapier, most of the material tends to be appropriate for and focused on purely theatrical fighting. As such, this fighting manual of the late medieval period is invaluable, particularly due to the accessibility of the techniques contained therein.

While others may find this volume a bit advanced for the novice of medieval swordsmanship, I find the pictures and descriptions eminently understandable (and I'm certainly a novice). Frankly, learning any martial art through a book is a bit of a challenge, but, in this case, the manual is extremely easy to follow, which accounts in large part for its popularity in the 15th Century. The text focuses on the REAL art of the fighting man, centering on applications of the long sword, dagger, falchion and unarmed combat, and it's neither "chivalrous" in the modern sense of the word, nor pretty. The techniques within are designed for the professional fighting man, and the full emphasis is on surviving a fight, and not looking pretty while you do it. As such, in using the techniques, you will get cut, without a doubt - some of the holds, particularly in unarmed versus armed combat, and such put your bare skin on the edge of the opponents blade. However, they do increase the likelihood of being the one to walk (or stagger, or stumble) away from the encounter.

From the perspective of one only interested in the historical aspects, the book is fascinating in that it presents facsimiles of the original plates from the book, with a Latin alphabet version of the old German text on each plate, as well as modern German and English translations of the text. It's also fascinating, again, in that this was designed for the professional warrior, and the presumed context in which it would be read, and intent and value system of the reader of the day, is vastly different from what many hold as misconceptions of the period.

Highly recommended!

Marvelous.......2006-02-27

This is a marvelous book, the picture are clear and the moves easy to follow. Truely a must for anyone interested in high medieval martial arts.

Excellent book, GREAT Translation. A MUST HAVE!!.......2005-06-11

I have been involved in Chinese martial arts for close to 35 years. One day I received a book, in German; Talhoffers to be exact. Many things in their reminded me of things I saw in Chinese arts, and that to my purchase of Codex Wallerstein.
The methods shown in that book, as well as Arte Gladitoria Dimicandi, and Flos Duellatorum are just as effective as any other arts I have been exposed to over the decades.

So much was my interest in these books, that I decided to
write a few articles on the methods I had read about, and these were well received by the medieval martial arts community worldwide. I even got into contact with Grzegorz Zabinski, when I saw, and decoded several of the strange glyphs, or doodles; as I called them, that are shown in the Codex.

This book is for experienced people, and those with an explorer's
mind. If you have previous martial arts skill, you will no doubt
figure out many of the fine methods illustrated within this book.

Be warned however that the explanations accompanying some of the
drawings might be inaccurate, as I have some understanding of medieval German, and a great ability with modern Hoch Deutsch, I found a few gaffs in the manual. When in doubt, look to the pictures!!!!

I give this book a hearty and well deserved thumbs up!!

Neat historical document.......2004-11-05

Cool book on medieval swordsmanship. Nicely translated from an actual historical document. This is an accurate source for enthusiasts of the high Middle Ages. Good illustrations. As the title indicates it covers longsword, falchion, dagger, and wrestling techniques as they were taught in the 14th and 15th centuries. Could have been significantly improved with some more commentary and/or explanation.

Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction

Excellent, but not for the casual swordsman.......2003-09-30

This is an excellent book. Grzegorz and Bart are to be commended for their fine work translating this important medieval fechtbuch. The book contains some of the most important material on medieval unarmed combat and is an absolute must for anyone working in that area. It also contains many plates on longsword, messer and a range of other weapons.

What this book is: An excellent translation of a significant and well illustrated medieval fechtbuch.

What this book isn't: It isn't a guide to medieval fencing. Wallerstein is primarily illustrations. With minimal text and no interpretation, it's up to you to work out what's being done in the plates. If you're like me, this is great. If you're beginner, expecting a book teaching you medieval swordsmanship, this is not that book.

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Codex Wallerstein A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling
Grzegorz Zabinski
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7GKJK

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This much-awaited companion to the award-winning Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children reveals how daily child-parent social interactions govern children's language and social development.

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This book is must-reading for professionals in speech and language, child development, psychology, and education who need to understand how children come to talk as much and as well as their parents and caregivers.

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Great Book!.......2007-07-30

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I prefer not to spoil it for you, but Hart and Risley continue what they started by delving more deeply in langauge differences between SES homes by investigating the cultural differences in familial routines and how they construct meaning in those contexts.

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Mammoth volume by one of the world's foremost practitioners. Both historical survey emphasizing decorated bindings, and eminently practical guide to hand bookbinding. 93 plates, 242 figures.

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A very good history of bookbinding.......2000-06-27

Being a small publisher and bookbinder, I found this book very informative. It covers a wide view of bookbinding going back to the middle ages, right thru the 1950s. Edith Diehl has "been there" and knows all the ins and outs of bookbinding. At first some of the material may seem dated, but this is a manual for restoring books, using the same material and methods of the time period. Anyone who collects books should have this very well written and illustrated manual.

Bookbinding Its Background and Technique

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Bookbinding Its Background and Technique
Edith Diehl
Manufacturer: RINEHART & COMPANY, INC.
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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique [Two Volume Set].

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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique [Two Volume Set].
Edith. Diehl
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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. 2 volumes.

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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. 2 volumes.
Edith DIEHL
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Bookbinding-Its Background and Technique, 2 Vols in Slipcase

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Bookbinding-Its Background and Technique, 2 Vols in Slipcase
Edith Diehl
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BOOKBINDING: ITS BACKGROUND AND TECHNIQUE (2 Volumes)
Edith Diehl
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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. Two Volumes.

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Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. Two Volumes.
Edith Diehl
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