Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 1: Early Baroque (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.

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A terrific introduction toItalian Art.......2000-03-20

This is one of the most intelligent book I've ever read about art. It's simple, complete, full of original point-of-views. In asingle word: you can't miss it if you like the Art History!

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Disappointing.......2007-03-22

I purchased this for my 10 year old daughter, and I was disappointed with the unclear instructions. I couldn't even follow them myself.

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American business has recently been under fire, charged with inflated pricing and an inability to compete in the international marketplace. However, the evidence presented in this volume shows that the business community has been unfairly maligned—official measures of inflation and the standard of living have failed to account for progress in the quality of business equipment and consumer goods. Businesses have actually achieved higher productivity at lower prices, and new goods are lighter, faster, more energy efficient, and more reliable than their predecessors.

Robert J. Gordon has written the first full-scale work to treat the extent of quality changes over the entire range of durable goods, from autos to aircraft, computers to compressors, from televisions to tractors. He combines and extends existing methods of measurement, drawing data from industry sources, Consumer Reports, and the venerable Sears catalog.

Beyond his important finding that the American economy is more sound than officially recognized, Gordon provides a wealth of anecdotes tracing the postwar history of technological progress. Bolstering his argument that improved quality must be accurately measured, Gordon notes, for example, that today's mid-range personal computers outperform the multimillion-dollar mainframes of the 1970s. This remarkable book will be essential reading for economists and those in the business community.

Energy efficiency, user cost change, and the measurement of durable goods prices (Working paper - National Bureau of Economic Research)

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Energy efficiency, user cost change, and the measurement of durable goods prices (Working paper - National Bureau of Economic Research)
Robert J Gordon
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The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)

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The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)
Robert J. Gordon
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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This groundbreaking book applies tested marketing principles to the operation of a wide variety of human-service agencies and other not-for-profit organizations where business practices are typically considered incompatible with the public interest. Arguing that the marketing orientation can be extraordinarily useful in defining, developing, targeting, and promoting virtually any service or program, Armand Lauffer shows how the strategic marketing approach actually "increases the likelihood that professional activity will be responsive to consumer needs and societal concerns."

Lauffer emphasizes that the marketing approach to service delivery seeks to reconcile the often conflicting interests displayed by the various consumers, auspice providers, funders, and other publics with a stake in the system. Throughout, he strives to harmonize the traditions of community organizing, social planning, and business marketing with some of the latest, most timely and invaluable techniques available in strategic marketing today.

Lauffer begins by defining the marketing terminology central to program and resource development -- especially the five P's of products, publics, price, place, and promotions. Next, he introduces the concept of exchange, in which individuals and/or organizations cooperate to achieve shared or complementary objectives. He then explains that the degree to which an organization's three publics -- throughput (staff, volunteers, and members), input (providers of resources and legitimacy), and output (consumers) -- accept its programs and services determines its niche in the market.

The core of the book is devoted to discussing how to: establish and maintain productive exchange relationships; use a strategic marketing approach to assess, design, locate, price, budget, schedule, and evaluate a program; raise money; increase grants, contracts, and allocations power; and spotlight programs and services through print and broadcast media as well as personal appearances and presentations. A final chapter, "The Marketing Audit," demonstrates that taking stock of an organization's total marketing operation brings out the integral connections between the needs and resources of marketing, program development, and the larger environment.

Sharing both his own experiences and those of colleagues in a variety of human-service occupations, Lauffer includes a wealth of authentic case vignettes to illustrate successful (and occasionally unsuccessful) marketing practice. He also provides helpful chapter exercises that ask readers to apply what they've learned to their own areas of interest and concern. A challenging simulation game, Compacts II, allows them to test their complete understanding of the range of strategic marketing approaches explored in the book.

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Strategic planning for non-profit organizations.: An article from: Fund Raising Management
Douglass E. Ray
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This digital document is an article from Fund Raising Management, published by Hoke Communications, Inc. on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1517 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.

From the supplier: A strategic plan that emphasizes the organization's rationale for existing, its goals and concomitant objectives as well as its plans to implement feasible policies is essential even to a nonprofit institution. Strategic planning requires a vision toward which the people cultivate their efforts to achieve. A nonprofit institution should coordinate its clients, donors, volunteers and staff if it is to thrive in the fund raising field.

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Title: Strategic planning for non-profit organizations.
Author: Douglass E. Ray
Publication: Fund Raising Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Hoke Communications, Inc.
Volume: v28 Issue: n6 Page: p22(2)

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Strategic planning for non-profits. (non-profit organizations): An article from: Fund Raising Management
Edwin P. Moldof
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This digital document is an article from Fund Raising Management, published by Hoke Communications, Inc. on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2727 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.

From the supplier: Fund raising efforts call for effective and strategic planning. More often than not, non-profit organizations fail to meet their goals because they adopt models fit for profit-generating enterprises. Fund-raisers should be guided by a mission statement and should develop an action plan that will enable them to carry out their strategies. They must also be able to turn common fund raising mistakes to their advantage.

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Title: Strategic planning for non-profits. (non-profit organizations)
Author: Edwin P. Moldof
Publication: Fund Raising Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1993
Publisher: Hoke Communications, Inc.
Volume: v24 Issue: n10 Page: p29(4)

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Strategic Marketing for Not-for-Profit Organizations

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Strategic Marketing for Not-for-Profit Organizations
Armand Lauffer
Manufacturer: Free Press
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ASIN: B000O8XR76

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World War Two: U.S. Military Plans for the Invasion of Japan are the formerly Top Secret records for the invasion of Japan, if the A-bomb didn't work or didn't meet military and/or production deadlines. These records show that invading Japan on the beached, in a Normandy-style invasion would have been an enormous blood-bath; estimates were that 250,00-1,000,000 lives wourld have been lost in attempting an invasion of Japan by Sea.

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Booklist raved, "Were Audubon alive, he'd drop his pen and paint, and let Netherton catalog our feathered friends". Contains the most current, comprehensive information on 19 species of wading birds.

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A must for those who love architecture!.......1998-10-22

This recent publication of Quigley's works quickly demonstrates his passion and commitment to achieving a balanced "fit" between progressive, modern architecture and the context that surrounds it. Featuring photographs, drawings, and insightful essays and comments from Quigley and others familiar with the San Diego setting. A must read for architecture students and practicioners interested in the importance of the context of any architectural work. NOT the typical trade monograph...this book is readable, educational, and down to earth. The editor/writer does a good job of focusing on the work, not individual criticisims. Learn about this important architect of our times!!

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ROB WELLINGTON QUIGLEY: BUILDINGS + PROJECTS
Michael, Aaron Betsky and Ann Jarmusch Benedikt
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Unbuilt Oxford
Howard Montagu Colvin
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Howard Colvin
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Howard Colvin
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Meet the Bradleys, America's most dysfunctional family. Yes, even more dysfunctional than the Simpsons, though it's no surprise that Groening has cited the Bradleys as an early influence on his hit TV show. The best-selling humor cartoonist of his generation--the Bradleys remain Peter Bagge's most enduring creation. Created during the 1980s, this family for the ages has its roots firmly planted in All In the Family's Bunker family and MAD magazine, with a healthy punk rock anger occasionally exploding. Trenchant, caustic, but always hilarious, Bagge never fails to temper his anger with some of the most acute characterization in comics.

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Bigwig Briefs: Know What the CFO Knows explains in an easy to understand language and format the most importance financial concepts that will enable anyone to understand and speak the language of the CFO in the short time it takes to read this book. The book includes knowledge excerpts from some of the biggest name CFOs, investment bankers, accountants and consultants in the world including executives from Andersen, CBS MarketWatch, Credite Suisse First Boston, KPMG, Edgar Online and more on the most important aspects of finance, financial statements, managing a profitable department, controlling expenses, financial terms and the basic financial strategies and return on investment criteria that everyone should be aware of. A must read for every professional, regardless of their lack of knowledge or interest in financial matters, this book will teach you the most important financial underpinnings to be a better professional, spot ways to increase efficiencies and profits, and speak with ANYONE about important financial issues.

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Saving plants and jobs: Union-management negotiations in the context of threatened plant closing
Paul F Gerhart
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Raising Children Toxic Free: How to Keep Your Child Safe from Lead, Asbestos, Pesticides, and Other Environmental Hazards
Herbert L. Needleman , and Philip J. Landrigan
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Raising Children Toxic Free: How to Keep Your Child Safe from Lead Asbestos, Pesticides, and Other Environmental Hazards
Herbert L. Needleman; Philip J. Landrigan
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Important reference but not user friendly.......2007-02-06

Curt Johnson and Richard Anderson's "Artillery Hell" is a reference work for the artillery employed at Antietam. The authors bring forward a useful report by the now deceased Maj. Hanson, along with their own study of what armament each battery had, and they include After Action Reports from the Henry Hunt Papers not to be found in the Official Records.

The specialized nature of this work would easily gain 4 or 5 stars and a strong recommendation if it was not so flawed and user-unfriendly. The two most evident problems are an unpardonable lack of maps, and disjointed structure. The third flaw is one the reader should take more careful note of: a general misunderstanding of some types of artillery and misidentification/erroneous grouping of pieces. If one is researching orders of battle this could cause grief.

For the casual reader the lack of maps is very unfortunate. If you want to know where batteries were positioned you will have to bring maps from elsewhere and work it out yourself.

The disjointed nature of the work emerges from its semi-essay format. It doesn't feel complete and requires copious time for data mining. The authors present the work in sections and they did not take care to note differences in interpretation between sections. They present Maj. Hanson's work without sufficient editing or notes to show where it differs from their later studies/chapters. How bad is this? I spent about 4 hours in a first list of differences in their scattered OOB and Hanson's table. Of 62 Union batteries listed, there were significant differences with Hanson in 29. Of 57 CSA batteries engaged there were significant differences in 34. Why didn't the authors include their own summary table as well? Shouldn't that have been the culmination of their work? Hanson's work includes handy reference tables that will attract many readers and researchers looking for quick answers, but the tables are superceded by later textual information. To add to the confusion, the authors' own modern text contains a number of incorrect categorizations and nomenclature for pieces.

This brings us to another serious flaw: from the text and the bibliography it is apparent the authors have failed to avail themselves of more modern detailed reviews of ACW artillery and have therefore reached some erroneous conclusions. The bibliography does not include references to Hazlett, Olmstead, and Parks "Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War" Ripley's "Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War", or Daniel and Gunter's "Confederate Cannon Foundries."

The authors' incomplete knowledge of artillery leads to some embarrassing or confusing statements that mar an otherwise superb introductory section to ACW artillery. This is particularly true when it comes to James Rifles and Confederate 3" rifles. Anderson refers to "brass liners" in James Rifles and fails to distinguish between the two primary calibers properly (3.8" known as 14 pdrs, 3.67" as 12 pdrs.) Elsewhere in the text McMullin's 3.8" rifles are described variously and incorrectly as "10-lb James", "12-lb James, and Hanson's older unedited table refers to them as "10 pdr Parrotts (rifled)". (At least Hanson can be excused, for he did not have access to the Hunt papers that identified the rifles, nor to more modern treatments of ACW artillery.)

The authors lump all un-banded 3" Confederate rifles as "3" Ordnance RML." The text states that the CSA made their own version of the 3" Ordnance rifle and also refer to cannon produced by "Burton and Archer." It is true that CSA officers sometimes referred to their CSA made 3" rifled pieces this way because of the projectiles of the name, but that doesn't make it accurate. Burton and Archer was not a cannon foundry. The 3" Ordnance rifle was wrought iron while the un-banded Confederate rifles were either cast iron or bronze. Tredegar's cast iron pieces did conform to the Ordnance profile, were not made of wrought iron, the key to their prodigious reliability and durability. So beware of all the CSA battery entries for Ordnance rifles: these might be 3" US Ordnance rifles, un-banded 3" cast iron rifles, or possibly even some un-banded 3" or 3.3" bronze rifles cast in western CSA foundries. Hanson simplified by labeling them generically as 3" rifles, as opposed to 10 lb Parrotts.

In the end I can only give this work a mixed recommendation. It contains some great information, but it is "reader hell" trying to dig it out to put into summary format.

Definitive Account of the Long Arm at Antietam.......2006-09-05

In what is essentially a reference work, Johnson and Anderson offer the definitive account of the Union and Confederate artillery at the Battle of Antietam. The various chapters play out more as essays than as part of a chapter by chapter book. In a nice set of introductions, Curt Johnson sets the strategic and operational stage while Richard Anderson gives neophytes an excellent rundown on Civil War artillery and projectiles. The previously unpublished 1940 report of Joseph Mills Hanson on the particiaption and deployment of the various artillery batteries of each side fills out the center portion of the book. The authors then go through the artillery order of battle for each side and provide detailed numbers on gun types, number of tubes, and unit strengths, giving exhaustive documentation where sources differ. Reports of artillery commanders that did not make the Official Records serve to round out the last part of the book. All in all, this is a wargamer's and researcher's dream. In fact, I wish books of this type existed for more battles. If you are a Civil War wargamer and/or scenario designer, this is a must-own. If you are an Antietam fan, this is a must-own. Honestly, I consider this one a must-own for anyone interested in the battle of Antietam, artillery, and/or unit strengths and armaments. This is one purchase you will not regret.

Artillery at Antietam doesn't get better than this........2003-11-26

This concise summary of the artillery action at the Battle of
Antietam on 17 September 1862 is an excellent companion to other
more general accounts of the campaign and battle. It is a
specialist's treatment and helps to illuminate that aspect of the
bloodiest day of the Civil War. All too often the role of artillery at Antietam is minimized by emphasis on the infantry actions by themselves. A good corrective - buy and read this book!

Artillery Hell: the Employment of Artillery at Antietam.

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Artillery Hell: the Employment of Artillery at Antietam.
CURT & RICHARD C. JOHNSON
Manufacturer: Texas A & M Press
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ASIN: B000UCYF54

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