Remaking the Urban Waterfront

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Waterfronts provide a natural opportunity to make a memorable urban place, yet many of them remain obsolete or underused. Remaking the Urban Waterfront, written by expert architects and planners, explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts, the key design issues, zoning and land use regulations, environmental obstacles, development incentives, and how the public and private sectors must work together to create spectacular new waterfronts. Case studies of both small- and large-scale projects describe how mixed-use, residential, retail/entertainment, commercial/ industrial, civic buildings, and parks were developed in the United States and abroad

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Throughout history people have sought ways to mark their passing and to memorialize their loved ones' final resting places. In this book, Dale Power provides you with the tools and techniques to create long lasting, beautiful stone monuments and markers with a sandblaster. Step-by-step, with straight-forward explanations and color illustrations, Dale takes you thorugh the process from preparing the stone and sandblasting mask, through the sandblasting process itself, and finally to finishing touches that will make your momument stand out among the rest.

The gallery is filled with fine examples of the sandblasting art--both old and new--to fire your creativity. Also provided are eleven designs to reproduce and ten typeface styles for easy monument and marker lettering. , 200 color photographs; 21 patterns and templates, 8 1/2" x 11"

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Waste of Money.......2005-12-20

Simply put this book is so remedial that it doesn't even rate a star. If anything a black hole, because that's about where your money goes when purchasing this book. Terrible photography and projects. This book stinks!

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Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, pioneer photographer of the old West
Freeman Tilden
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0006BLVP6

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Following the Frontier: With F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West
Freeman Tilden
Manufacturer: ALFRED A. KNOPF
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKCKA4

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Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes Pioneer Photographer of the Old West
Freeman Tilden
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NYNW26

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This complete manual guides you through every step of leasing a space in any shopping center. Learn how the shopping center business works, how to find the best location, and how to get the best rent deal.

Find out how to:

Â§ Negotiate successfully with leasing agents

Â§ Exploit specialty leasing opportunities: carts, kiosks and temporary leases

Â§ Understand your total rent and negotiate a better rent deal

Â§ Reduce your Overage Rent or Percentage Rent

Â§ Understand your Common Area Maintenance (CAM) fees and see how to reduce those expensive costs

Â§ Avoid those hidden and expensive lease charges

Â§ Get those special lease clauses to protect your business investment in the future

Â§ Improve your chances at success with better lease terms and lower rent

Draw on the authorÂ's 20 years of experience to improve the terms of your shopping center lease. This book brings you valid and proven methods of getting better lease terms, whether you are a first-timer renting your first space, or an experienced retailer seeking ways to reduce your rent expenses on your next lease.

Customer Reviews:

Very useful for newbie leasees.......2007-09-22

Very well laid out, great tips. I think it saved me thousands of dollars in rent alone. For instance, I though increases in rent when new major tenants were added was par for the course. Not so, explains Barry. Everything is negotiable.
I look forward to the next edition. I'm sure it'll have a ton more tips. I recommend this book to any person looking into a lease in a mall.

Well worth it.......2006-05-26

Clear and concise, this book will walk you through the shopping center leasing process. There's so much stuff I never would have thought of myself, I'm glad Mr. Fleisher is around to give advice. Buy this book!

Informative and Well Written.......2006-05-26

If you are considering leasing a space in a shopping center, this book is for you.

If you already lease a space in a shopping center, this book is for you.

The information is extremely valuable and you will better understand the contracting process and will discover new ways to cut your costs. A must have!

Best single-source quick read.......2006-05-20

Whether you're a lessor or lessee of commercial space, this well-written book is the single best source I've found for quickly understanding most of what it takes to create a mutually-beneficial shopping center lease. Best of all, the author explains an owner's obligation to carefully choose a mix of lessees to create a synergistic marketplace, supportive of every lessee. My own center's lessees will be more successful because I've read this book.

Jack Stout -- developer

Great book for anyone looking to lease space in a mall.......2004-08-14

Great book for anyone looking to lease space in a mall, very detailed. Very good examples of good and bad lease clauses.

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A unique book that integrates knowledge from a wide range of expertise, specifically applied to the mouse, and addressed at a wide audience from those new to the field to experts who want an update on the state of the art. Mouse Genetics and Transgenics: APA covers all aspects of using the mouse as a genetic model organism: care and husbandry; archiving stocks as frozen embryos or sperm; making new mutations by chemical mutagenesis; transgenesis; and gene targetting; mapping mutations and polygenic traits by cytogenetic, genetic, and physical means; and disseminating and researching information via the Internet.

Mouse Genetics and Transgenics: A Practical Approach

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Mouse Genetics and Transgenics: A Practical Approach
Ian J. Jackson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL0YYW

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This second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839.

By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia worked around legal constraints in order to keep mounted rangers in service. Expeditions against Indians during 1838 and 1839 were frequent, conducted by militiamen, rangers, cavalry, civilian volunteer groups and the new Frontier Regiment of the Texas Army. From the Surveyors' Fight to the Battle of Brushy Creek, each engagement is covered in new detail. The volume concludes with the Cherokee War of 1839, which saw the assembly of more Texas troops than had engaged the Mexican army at San Jacinto. Moore fully covers the failed peace negotiations, the role of the Texas Rangers in this campaign, and the last stand of heroic Chief Bowles.

Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as a complete list of Texan casualties of the frontier Indian wars from 1835 through 1839.

For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier series will be an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier violence.

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Savage Frontier, Volume II: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839
Stephen L. Moore
Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5ZUVG

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the very best

Photos, photos, photos...

Great book, but what's with PUP?

Fantastic Book!!!

Raptors of Western North America

Raptors of Western North America: The Wheeler Guides
Brian K. Wheeler
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0691115990

Book Description

Raptors of Western North America--together with its companion volume, Raptors of Eastern North America--are the best and most thorough guides to North American hawks, eagles, and other raptors ever published. Abundantly illustrated with hundreds of full-color high-quality photographs, they are essential books for anyone seeking to identify these notoriously tricky-to-identify birds.

The Wheeler Guides will help birders and biologists navigate the pitfalls of raptor identification, including raptors' often extreme variation by age and sex as well as the existence of numerous "confusion" species. The plumage section discusses more plumage variations--and in greater consistency, depth, and clarity--than any previously published guide. The text--informed by years of study and consultation with local, state, provincial, and regional experts--covers all aspects of raptor biology in an easy-to-read and consistent format. It provides the most up-to-date information available on status and distribution, taking into account the recent alteration of some species' ranges due to pesticide bans and introduction programs. The range maps--which include "city" plotting--are the most accurate and largest ever produced for North American raptors.

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the very best.......2007-03-09

This guide is more like a textbook in its attention to detail, and I rate it the best raptor guide I have seen and read. The photos are great, showing various poses and the way the birds look as juveniles and as adults of both sexes, and the text covers all the traits, habitat, morphs, etc. to help I.D. and understand the birds.

Photos, photos, photos..........2007-02-28

This book is wonderfull. With dozens of photos for each bird, this REALLY helps an amateur identify a bird. The best in it's class!

Great book, but what's with PUP?.......2004-02-07

Brian Wheeler has created what are likely to be THE standard guides to these taxa for the foreseeable future. Excellent photos, tremendous detail--a heroic effort with incredibly helpful results.
But what is wrong at Princeton UP? First they mess up Olsen's _Gulls_ to the point that the entire edition is pulped; and now Wheeler's text in both books is marred by what you would think would be embarrassing editorial errors. Wheeler's prose, for the most part serviceable, was obviously never read by an editor, and there are entire passages that make no sense (fortunately, they only rarely include identification matters). The very first page of the author's introduction has a shameful printing error, an entire half-line left blank.
This is a great book, I own it, I use it, I recommend it every chance I get; but the editorial and production slips make me wonder if Princeton has given up on its birding program--or whether it maybe ought to.

Fantastic Book!!!.......2004-01-21

Wheeler has outdone himself with this book. Raptors are difficult to identify on the wing and this bbok gives one the tools with which to do so. As a novice birder interested in raptors, I find this book is a great resource and invaluable!

Raptors of Western North America.......2003-12-21

Excelent could be the single word to describe this book. Brian K. Wheeler has put together the ultimate guide to raptors. The scores of color photographs are clear and precise, giving the reader great detail in showing the many variations of raptor plumage. The text that accompanies the photos is easy to read and follow, with details that give the reader confidence in improving their identification skills. Anyone that watches birds, and is especially interested in raptors, should put this book on the 'must have' list. This is a top quality guide at a great price.

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Pure abstract photography: The creative moment
Tom Reaume
Manufacturer: T.J. Reaume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0968008208

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This work addresses the particular problems of economic and financial policy, and broke new ground when it was published.

This is a new and complete translation of Bodin's treatise with notes, introduction, and bibliography, and was based on the first edition of 1568 but incorporates the considerable additions and amendments that Bodin introduced into the second edition of 1578, which additions include a substantial section from Six livres de la rpublique in which Bodin argues against the debasement of coinage and in favor of sound money. The volume gives a complete picture of Bodin's political economy and the stages of its development.

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Making the most of potential through emotional attachment

What Customers Like About You: Adding Emotional Value for Service Excellence and Competitive Advantage
David Freemantle
Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Emotional Value: Creating Strong Bonds with Your Customers

The BIZ: 50 Little Things That Make a Big Difference to Team Motivation & Leadership

ASIN: 1857882067

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Ben & Jerry's, Virgin UK and Nordstrom. These international leaders have discovered the secret Freemantle reveals here: that applying the highest level of emotional intelligence improves customer satisfaction and sustains growth.

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Making the most of potential through emotional attachment.......1998-09-13

Having just been sent a copy of David Freemantle's latest book I can totally recommend it. David uses live examples from many different companies across the world and it is one of those management books that you don't put down. Page after page of common sense combined with a real understanding of the problems that organisations are having as we approach this new age of opportunity. David explains has given many examples of organisations that can prove that by caring about people you can be incredibly successful. A great read for any leader that wants to unleash the potential of people across the business. We are all still learning and David's book leaves you with the feeling that with belief anything is possible.

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Fear Violence on the Job is designed to show readers how to recognize dangerous or violent customers, employees, students, or patients; identify specific warning sign behaviors; change those behaviors legally and safely; and protect the organization and its valuable assets from the real, costly, and even deadly hazards of workplace violence. The author is a nationally known expert on this subject who trains executives, managers, and supervisors on how to recognize problems and intervene before a situation becomes violent.

A complete guide to the subject of violence in the workplace by defining the issue, this book also discusses safe hiring practices, discipline procedures, termination policies, and management intervention steps that will help solve existing problems and prevent potential disasters. Other topics covered include domestic violence in the workplace, obsessive or stalking behavior at work, new personnel and human resources intervention methods, and updated security management solutions. Albrecht's book also examines the growing number of workplace violence incidents from an organizational security perspective. The reader will review the spectrum of workplace violence from covert threats to homicide, and learn to identify solutions to problems using internal and external resources. The objective of Fear Violence on the Job is to educate readers, change their understanding of the problems, and teach them strategies for business protection and survival.

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Dr. Mom's Parenting Guide Commonsense Guidance for the Life of Your Child
Marianne Egeland Neifert
Manufacturer: A Dutton Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RTGJ2C

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How it was in the General's own words.......2006-06-02

I can't really add much to what has already been said by Cousin John. Dr. Allen has brought from the backgound to the forefront a true Son of the South and hero of America.

A word about the publisher of this otherwise excellent book.......2006-02-16

The book, as has been noted above is excellent - about an excellent man who really wanted to be nothing but a farmer. From his position of wealth and prestige he could have accepted a high rank in the Confederate Army. Being a practical and honest man who would have no truck with losing men because of his inexperience, he chose to take a lower rank (Major) so he could learn from a West Point trained Army Officer. When Harrell Allen wrote this book he relied upon a publisher that was not up to the task of publishing a book - one that did a terrible job in setting the print and then proof reading his work. There are lots of mispellings and transposed illustration labels - for example mixing up the label of the picture of Bryan Grimes and his brother William in their 20's. Some chapters clearly got proof read, others clearly did not. It is a shame the publisher, in doing such a poor job of the mechanics of publishing this book have somehow reflected poor credit on Mr. Allen's excellent work. Despite the awkward typos' this is a wonderful book about the life and times of an honest man who honestly believed he was serving his country and did a damned good job of it.

A Great Biography.......2003-07-31

This is a great biography of one of the South's best fighting generals. Bryan Grimes was the last person Lee recommended for appointment to the rank of Major General and thus the title of the book.
Bryan Grimes was born into a wealthy plantation family in North Carolina in 1828. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and had little military experience before the war. But he rose from lower officer ranks to general's rank during the course of the war. He had six horses shot out from under him as he led his men across the fields of battle; yet he was never seriously hurt during the war. He participated in many of the major battles in Virginia.
The author was assisted in writing this book by what he describes as a "treasure trove" of letters written by Grimes and written to him during the war, which are located at various archives in North Carolina. This primary source material gives the book a sense of immediatecy when describing Grimes's life during this period.
The book has many interesting anecdotes such as the time Grimes's soldiers recovered some bags of Yankee mail. Included were some letters written by Gen. George A. Custer to his wife and from his wife to him. Gen. Grimes in a letter to his wife, described Gen. Custer's letters as being "vulgar beyond all conversation" and those from Gen. Custer's wife as letters that "would make any honest woman blush".
Another interesting anecdote describes Gen Grimes's return to North Carolina after Lee's surrender. Passing through scenes of destruction of civilian property, Gen Grimes and his companions came across an old man who was by the ruins of his home. The Yankees had destroyed his home, scattered and destroyed its contents, shot his yearling, his mule colt and even his dog! Is it any wonder that people in the South hated people from the North for generations?
Strangely, after surviving the war, Gen. Grimes was murdered in 1880. The author describes his murder, the surrounding circumstances and its aftermath in great detail, including the trials of the accused. This book will be the best source for information on Gen. Grimes's murder for years to come.
The author obviously liked and understood his subject. This is one of the best biographies of a Confederate general that I have ever read. This book is well worth the full five stars and I recommend it highly.

Really fresh and new biography.......1999-06-17

I had heard about this new biography and picked it up at a local book store. The author did a great job with this book, and finally someone has taken the time to present an excellent and fresh new history of General Grimes. So many books today say the same thing about the same officers. This book is based on hundreds of family letters, and so is very personal and exciting reading. It also has some great photos and detailed maps that are really good. There are a few typos in the book, but so what. I would rather read something new and original than the same old Pickett's Charge re-hash. Thanks to both the author and publisher for making this book available! I highly recommend it.

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This book brings together some of the most original and influential recent work in the field of medieval history. It provides a stimulating overview of current medieval historiography, demonstrating that history is not a collection of static facts, but rather a dynamic process of interpretation.The book is structured thematically under four key areas of scholarly discussion. Chapter 1, The Fate of Rome's Western Provinces explores current thinking about the age that used to be called the decline of Rome. Chapter 2, Feudalism and Its Alternatives, examines the debate on the very term' feudalism', which some historians would like to jettison altogether. The discussion in Chapter 3, Gender, turns to the rich array of studies about women (and men as defined as a gender category) that have been written in the last 20 years. In the final chapter, Religion and Society, the book highlights new ways in which medieval historians are connecting religious phenomena as diverse as formal doctrine, belief in miracles, and liturgical proliferations to transformations and preoccupations within secular society.Each section comprises an introduction by the editors, discussing the significance of the topic and the history of its interpretation. There follows, for each, five to six readings from books or articles that reflect some of the most important current scholarship in the field. Several pieces are here translated into English for the first time.

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A very good book.......2000-05-24

It's not a primer, but a book then everyone involved in medieval history can't miss.

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Nineteen feeder projects, ranging from simple to advanced challenges. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by exploded views, many with detail drawings. More than 80 illustrations and photos.

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