How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture

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Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Applying this method to residential structures of the Late Classic period (A.D. 700-900) at Copan leads Abrams to posit a six-tiered hierarchic social structure of political decision making, ranging from a stratified elite to low-ranking commoners. By comparing the labor costs of construction and other economic activities, he also prompts a reconsideration of the effects of royal construction demands on commoners.

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Following the success of their first book, Sculpting Traditional Bowls, Rip and Tammi Mann bring this new book to those who love this ancient craft. With step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions they lead the craftsperson to a beautiful handhewn octagonal bowl. In the gallery are a variety of contemporary bowls that can be made using the same techniques, though some will require the skill that comes from experience. They include octagonal bowls, bowls in the shapes of states, and bowls with natural exteriors. Rip and Tammi use only hand tools, the bowl adze, a bowl shave and a carver's hook. They begin with a blank and conclude with an oil finish process that makes the bowls beautiful and perfectly safe for use with food. Each step is illustrated in color, with a complete description of design and technique concerns. Both the beginner and the experienced woodworker will enjoy the creation of these functional, beautiful pieces. , 250 step-by-step color photos, gallery, 8 1/2" x 11"

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In this work Robert M. Levine undertakes two separate and important tasks: to provide the first overview of the history of photography in Latin America until the advent of the cheap cameras that permitted mass photography, and to analyze the photographic record for clues to the use of the images as historical documents.
Levine has woven together an account of the development of photographic equipment and processes, with the artists and entrepreneurs who actually took the pictures, and places the emergence of photography firmly in the historical context of Latin American societies.
Treating the photographs themselves—some 225 in all—Levine develops criteria for questions we can ask of the photographs in an attempt to extract emotional, psychological, and personal information, as well as the more obvious material evidence. This is an often subjective process, one that can lead to differing results, and observers may well come to conclusions departing radically from those of the author. But this may well be one of the most important functions of an innovative work, the creation of controversy that stimulates forward motion in a discipline.

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Comprehensive history of photography in Latin America.......1998-10-08

In addition to a crisp survey of photography in Latin America from the earliest days in the 1840s to the 20th century, the author shows how the photographic images may be used as social documents for historical research. This path-breaking approach values the visual images for what they reveal about society and people's lives. Of great value to researchers and readers who wish to know about how photographs--even if not taken by famous photographers--tell us about vanished times. A must read for students of historical methodology and visual sociology.

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A perceptive study of the past political year is presented in this collection of Australian political cartoons created by sharp-witted iconoclasts including Judy Horacek, Jon Kudelka, Michael Leunig, David Pope, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox. These cartoons skewer the pomposity, the glib rhetoric, and the untruths put forth by the political elite. Containing more than 150 examples of the cartoonist's art, this book is a tribute to the art, power, and vitality of these comic artists.

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This digital document is an article from E Semanal, published by Servicios Editoriales Sayrols S.A. de C.V. on March 8, 2004. The length of the article is 800 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: Administración sin dolores de cabeza: es indudable que administrar una red de manera correcta genera altos dividendos para el integrador; de lo contrario las pérdidas económicas pueden ser cuantiosas. Existen conceptos que establecen una gestión exitosa.
Author: Gonzalo Zermeño
Publication: E Semanal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 8, 2004
Publisher: Servicios Editoriales Sayrols S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 22 Issue: 594 Page: 26(1)

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Control De Gestion Y Red Agencia: Organizacion Y Gestion De La Red De Agencia (Familia Profesional Seguros Y Finanzas)

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Control De Gestion Y Red Agencia: Organizacion Y Gestion De La Red De Agencia (Familia Profesional Seguros Y Finanzas)
Ana Cid
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Binding: Paperback

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This is a collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power, a fundamental theme in medieval history. It addresses four main issues: the meaning of power over property; the ways in which property conveyed power; the nature of immunities; and the power of royal authority to affect property relations. The areas studied include Wales, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Byzantium, and the essays range across the period 650-1150.

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Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages.

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Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages.

Manufacturer: 1995
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IBJ0Y8

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An excellent and expertly written resource.......2004-04-13

Your Kids & Sports: Everything You Need To Know From Grade School To College by educator, coach and parent Michael Koehler is an impressively written parental guide which is packed cover to cover with a wealth of practical advice and information concerning everything from helping a child find the right sport for him or her; to learning to accept and teach one's child to accept losing; to the physical conditioning needs of young athletes; to the warning signs of drug use including alcohol, tobacco, and steroids, and so much more. An excellent and expertly written resource, Your Kids & Sports is a welcome and appreciated contribution to both Parenting Studies reading lists and Sports/Athletics Coaching reference collections.

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Yankee come back.

Fascinating like a thriller novel

A classic

Brilliant

The time in between

Brother Enemy: The War After the War
Nayan Chanda
Manufacturer: Free Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
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Southeast Asia | Asia | History | Subjects | Books
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HO CHI MINH: A LIFE

ASIN: 0020493614

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Yankee come back........2003-03-06

A fascinating account of the war after the war in Indo China.
Chanda gives us a wonderful review of the participants on the Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, and American sides. When South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to the Communists in 1975, Americans in general and the government in particular closed the book on this awful period in American history. The Vietnamese were gulled into thinking that after their violations of the ceasefire, they were entitled to billions of dollars for rebuilding their shattered economy. Instead they got nothing and selected the Soviets as sponsers. This presented a problem to the Chinese who went to the Khymer Rouge as their proxy. As a result, war followed the war. Cambodia was shattered by first American bombing, then the Khymer Rouge terror and finally the war with Vietnam. Both the Chinese and Vietnamese wanted the Americans to come back and serve a role.
Nayan Chanda does an excellent and even handed job of presenting the views of all the participants. This is a wonderful book to read if you are interested in geopolitics. At 500 some odd pages, this book will take some time to read.

Fascinating like a thriller novel.......2002-07-08

While visiting Cambodia's wonderous Ankor, I picked up this book out of curiosity from the Central Market in PnomPenh. It is an amazing piece of historical reporting, thouroughly researched and extremely readable. The author puts together the pieces of the puzzle to explain the wars between Vietnam-Cambodia and Vietnam-China, after the American retreat in 1975. The rise and fall of the notorious, murderous Khmer Rouge, the flamboyant Prince Sihanouk, the struggles of the Vietnamese, Chinese power plays, all of this weaved into a thrilling book of history. This book opens my mind to realpolitik: diplomacy, military power, geopolitics, race, and history. Simply a great book which tells the truth with extraordinary balance and fascinating details.

A classic.......2001-12-07

This is the classic study of the chaotic relations in Indochina from the end of the American wars there in 1975 through the escalating hostility between China and Vietnam and Vietnam and Khmer Rouge Cambodia. It ends in 1985, in the middle of the Cambodian stalemate.
The presentation is vivid and the research is solid.

Brilliant.......2001-02-05

If you are interested in South East Asia, then get this book. Fascinating and revealing account of international involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia. Getting a little old now (could do with an update) but still highly recommended.

The time in between.......2000-06-28

Most westerners know about the Vietnam War and, thanks to the movie The Killing Fields, the story of the Khmer Rouge. But very few of us have much of a clue what happened in Indochina between these events and the region's reopening to the west in the 90s.

Brother Enemy is a rich, compelling chronicle of the struggles that shaped the entire region, but primarily Cambodia and Vietnam, during that "in between time." It's a wonderful read because it manages to both detail the politics that shaped events while communicating how those events impacted real people. Nayan Chanda does this by weaving the experiences of individuals, including utterly common folk living day to day lives, into the larger story of regional power politics. It makes for great reading and a book that is both moving and informative. And, it's a great, page turner too.

Highly recommended.

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Brother Enemy: The War After the War
Nayan Chanda
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ45P8

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The book highlights the distinctive traits of the Aryan culture and discusses the identity of the Indus civilization. It presents the archaeological counterpart of the early Vedic culture reconstructed on the basis of textual and lexical evidence. The features of the Aryan culture in the Central Asian archaeology during the second millennium BC are pointed out, and the question of the migration of horse-using tribes from there to the subcontinent is examined.

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Fantastic!

Birds of Prey: Explore the Fascinating Worls of Eagles, Falcons, Owls, Vultures (Wild Ones)
Laura Evert , and Wayne Lynch
Manufacturer: NorthWord Books For Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1559719257

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This compilation in the Our Wild WorldTM series features Eagles, Falcons, Owls, and Vultures. Birds of prey have captured kids (and adults) interestperhaps its their reputation as fierce hunters at the top of the food chain. This book is packed with information about several species in each group, including habitat, diet, breeding, babies, socialization, and, of course, hunting prowess! Birds of Prey is chock-full of information, with 192 pages, more than 100 full-color photographs and illustrations, and fun facts throughout.

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Fantastic!.......2007-07-27

I usually rely on our public library for all the books our boys read, but this one caught my 6-year-old son's imagination and he LOVED this book. So this is one I will buy for him to keep. He could not put it down, and asked me to read from it again and again. Of all the kids' books on birds, this one is great. Even I liked it, and I am no fan of vultures!

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Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research into the links between past landscapes and political ideologies, economic and social structures, cartography, art and literature.There is also considerable concern at present with the need to evaluate and classify historic landscapes, and to develop policies for their conservation and management in relation to their scenic, heritage and recreational value. This is manifest not only in the designation of particularly valued areas with enhanced protection from planning developments, such as national parks and world heritage sites, but in the countryside more generally. Further, Ian D. Whyte argues, changes in European Union policies relating to agriculture, with a greater concern for the protection and sustainable management of rural landscapes, are likely to be of major importance in relation to the themes of continuity and change in the landscapes of Britain and Europe.

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photo book w/fascinating interview by poet Pettet

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A life's work of extraordinary photos.......2000-04-01

Rudy Burkhart was a gifted artist: a close and attentive painter of nature scenes and portraits; a maker of short, experimental documentary films that regularly show up on museum film programs. Most of all he was a photographer, and his work, reprinted in Talking Picutres, along with an extended interview with Rudy, is striking and fresh. He photographed artists such as DeKooningand Pollack, New York, London and Naples street scenes in the 30s, 40s and 50s, nudes and landscapes. He deserves to be better known, and so does his book.

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These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.

Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.

N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow. Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.

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Classical Keynesianism, Monetary Theory, and the Price Level
Sidney Weintraub
Manufacturer: Chilton Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O06O7Y

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Classical Keynesianism: Monetary Theory and the Price Level
Sidney Weintraub
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0837164214

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Essays on monetary theory and the price level.

CLASSICAL KEYNESIANISM MONETARY THEORY AND THE PRICE LEVEL

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CLASSICAL KEYNESIANISM MONETARY THEORY AND THE PRICE LEVEL
Sidney Weintraub
Manufacturer: Chilton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HHXNOG

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Despite the considerable economic growth of the Asia-Pacific, poverty continues to be a major problem. One key way to create sustainable livelihoods and to provide poor households an escape route from poverty is microfinance. Since the early 1980s, microfinance practitioners have proven that the poor are creditworthy, capable of utilizing scarce capital efficiently in viable incom-generating projects and able to pay back their loans. This book collects the experience of microfinance practitioners in 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region to describe the present state of the art. It is designed to provide an overview of the subject: why it is so essential to poverty reduction; what is the "best practice"; what kind of policy framework and regulatory environment is required. It offers both an extensive survey of the academic literature and a selection of case studies, all from authors who have been active practitioners in microfinance for many years. The case studies cover four key countries in South Asia and three countries in East Asia in which microfinance had become particularly important. There is also a regional chapter covering the Pacific islands.

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Often overlooked in the history of Progressive Era labor, the hoboes who rode the rails in search of seasonal work have nevertheless secured a place in the American imagination. The stories of the men who hunted work between city and countryside, men alternately portrayed as either romantic adventurers or degenerate outsiders, have not been easy to find. Nor have these stories found a comfortable home in either rural or labor histories.

Indispensable Outcasts weaves together history, anthropology, gender studies, and literary analysis to reposition these workers at the center of Progressive Era debates over class, race, manly responsibility, community, and citizenship. Combining incisive cultural criticism with the empiricism of a more traditional labor history, Frank Tobias Higbie illustrates how these so-called marginal figures were in fact integral to the communities they briefly inhabited and to the cultural conflicts over class, masculinity, and sexuality they embodied. He draws from life histories, the investigations of social reformers, and the organizing materials of the Industrial Workers of the World and presents a complex and compelling portrait of hobo life, from its often violent and dangerous working conditions to its ethic of "transient mutuality" that enabled survival and resistance on the road.

More than a study of hobo life, this interdisciplinary book is also a meditation on the possibilities for writing history from the bottom up, as well as a frank discussion of the ways historians' fascination with personal narrative has colored their construction and presentation of history.

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The tramp is back.(The Tramp in America; Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930)(Book review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Todd McCallum
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000FCW2NQ
Release Date: 2006-04-11

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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 6614 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: The tramp is back.(The Tramp in America; Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930)(Book review)
Author: Todd McCallum
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 56 Page: 237(14)

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Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (The Working Class in American History)

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Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (The Working Class in American History)
Frank Tobias Higbie
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPW6MQ

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You will sympathize, laugh, cry, or simply be amazed at what growing up in a foreign country is like for a missionary's child. Most "MKs" have exotic adventures in faraway lands and remote jungles. These, however, are the unique tales of growing pains, told first-hand, of an MK living in the capital city of Guatemala and other towns of Central America. mk.cam tells the stories of one child's life in the variety of settings encountered by MKs around the world. Parents will empathize with the usual child-rearing challenges made more complicated by life in a foreign culture. Anyone who has spent time in another culture will relate to the often humorous accounts and experiences this author faced while growing up in Central America. Here, then, are the memories of one MK's early childhood and teen years during the 1960s and '70s. "Pura Vida!"

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