Today's Beach Houses (Today's)

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These forward-looking projects by internationally renowned architects profile unique and innovative beach house designs. Thorough explanations of the materials and techniques used in each of the projects accompany large-format photographs, floor plans, technical details, and architectural commentary straight from the studios of the designing architects themselves. This book is the perfect reference for any architect or interior designer.

312 pages 9 3/4" x 9 3/4" 350 color and 120 b&w illustrations hardbound 8-49626-308-8 $40.00

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A new type of craft, braided wire jewelry, does not require expensive equipment and can be made by almost anyone with easily found materials. Come and give it a try! Pretty, delicate-looking (but actually quite strong) jewelry, including pendants, pins, watchbands, and earrings, can be made from wires, beads, and stones. Cute monkey, butterfly, and cross shapes are shown, and you are encouraged to design your own styles once you learn her techniques. Let your imagination go! Have fun being creative! Step-by-step instructions with color photographs and detailed drawings guide you through the basic techniques and seven projects for varying levels of skill.

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Itty bitty pictures.......2003-04-05

Loretta wishes you "good luck" at the outset and you'll certainly need it. The photos are too tiny to distinguish any detail. I recommend that this book go back to the publisher to have the wire shown in its actual size. Pare down the explanations because bigger pictures could show more. In its current state, the book is fairly useless to learn wire wrapping techniques.

really elementary. good for school children, perhaps.......1999-02-16

this book only uses one form of braiding, and spends pages explaining how to do it -- the same braids we all learned as children, for pigtails. Then the patterns are gussied up with beads but there's nothing here the rankest beginner wouldn't invent for onesself -- nothing new. A pity.

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Braided Wire Jewelry
Henry
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q5QQD4

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Containing selections from a project in three parts-shown concurrently in Los Angeles, New York, and Stockholm-Nowhere Near exists as a sort of cinema in flux, a photographic investigation into perception and time that resists any will-to-narrate. Presented in mainly in diptychs and triptychs of precisely uniform dimension, every picture here features essentially the same subject-a large window in the artist's home with a view overlooking her yard. Some images focus on the view through the window: into the yard, at a tree, or off into the distance. Others are focused on the window itself or some component thereof: rain streaks, fingerprints, dust. Still others reflect the interior of the space. The sum effect is one of displacement-of the artist/viewer relationship, of the senses, and of subjectivity itself.

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Uta Barth's Genius of the Unconscious.......2000-03-26

This book is the first of three in a series (the second, 'and of time...' recently published with the J. Paul Getty Museuem in Los Angeles). Barth's subject is the obviousness of the unconscious. By creating photographs of objects that are - for her, at least, banal - she creates a context in which one might find a more meaningful level of discourse about the subject. In these photographs of windows in her home (and their views) she produces a series that presses the viewer to reconsider the very nature of a 'portal'. That the photographs are very beautiful in themselves only furthers the impression of a dream-state. Within them one reconsiders one's own conscious reaction in light of hers, thus bridging - emotionally - a path to unconscious perception. Jan Tumlir's essay provides the context for the work in a clear, concise prose, reminding the reader of Barth's philosophical importance, as well as her artistic value. A highly recommended book by one of the most innovative artists working today.

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My wife says this book is my biography!.......2000-01-07

It's simply hilarious! Things like a couple walking down the street and they pass a blind homeless man begging for money, the man of the couple looks over at his companion after they pass and he jealously says "Don't try to deny it, I saw you give him the eye!" This one is captioned "They're Jealous." Another good one is of a husband who is so sure with himself in trying to remember everything his wife likes for the special occasion they are celebrating, he comments "Surprise Sarah Darling, I remembered all your favorites. Your favorite meal, your favorite wine, your favorite desert, even your favorite flowers. I haven't forgotten a thing". Then she disappointedly says, "My name is Rose". That one is titled "They forget the 'little things'". This one is great, a woman is lost and she stops to ask a man, who looks to be in his 30s, for directions, he graciously says "You go straight ahead for one, maybe six miles, turn left at a big red (or is it green?) house. Drive until you reach a house with a dog out front, if the dog is a scottie, you've gone too far..." This one is labeled "They give terrible directions". The whole book is filled with these and EVERY SINGLE ONE HAS TRUTH TO IT! "They let things grow on their curtains". You have to see this one! "They give you practicle gifts". "They want sex too often". "They don't want sex often enough". It's simply hilarious!

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This publication will help you prepare your organization for its next business emergency by guiding you through the essential phases of emergency managementprevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. Its five sections: provide the basic concepts of emergency management and give insights on selling it to top management; address the prevention phase, covering vital records, risk management, and disaster prevention planning; guide the reader through the steps of preparing an emergency management plan; and address the recovery phase and resumption of operations. Chapter Checklists at the end of each chapter review major concepts and guide you in forming your emergency plan, and Small Business Tips give information of special importance to smaller organizations.

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Our new edition of a family favorite has hundreds of fun and educational activities that promote creative thinking, laughter, and loving relationships. From ways to make walking interesting to tips for creating a family book of world records, Susan Perry brings together simple activities that rely on little more than family commitment.

For parents who are looking for ways to enhance quality time, or for those who are looking for new, creative ways to play and learn with their children, PLAYING SMART provides a treasure trove of activities, resources, and ideas. Included in this revised, expanded, and updated edition are new chapters on the five-senses and geography as well as many new activities. Updated resources and family-friendly Web sites help point the way to more adventures.

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Easy, life enriching book for children AND adults!.......2003-04-02

Wow, this is just an awesome book for any parent, grandparent, caregiver, teacher... It was an "impulse buy" and turned out to be the best child activity book I have ever seen. As a former professional, college educated stay-at-home mom, I wanted to move beyond "Candyland" and "Go Fish" and have more fun with my kids. This book provides a wealth of information that makes having fun with them a lot of fun for me!

There are 14 chapters, after the introduction. Each CHAPTER provides a background on the topic, helpful information, many ideas and projects to try, sidebars with even more information and ideass, and a very extensive "resources" section with additional books, websites, relevant games, music and more. Chapters include Instant Fun, Playing around with Photography, Mind Snacks: Recipes for Kitchen Learning, The Junior Geographer, celebrate the Senses, and so on. The book provides a very well rounded experience without being "preachy". It isn't a "learning book" and doesn't teach skills, so to speak, but a child can't help but learn and grow from the activities listed. Most activities are free or require a very small investment.

Each chapter is a treasure. For example, the first chapter, Instant Fun, makes waiting with kids actually fun. There are 30 "instant games" (for example, picking out someone walking by or a fellow patient in a waiting room and making up a creative story about them, turning your hand into a puppet with instructions, things to do while waiting for a meal in a restaurant, etc.), five different ways to keep busy while travelling, 13 different quick pencil games (such as one of you draws a squiggle and then you and your child take turns completing it into a picture, dot games, a game called "scrambled sentences, etc.). There are 4 sidebars in this chapter with even more ideas for instant fun. And finally, there are 13 references for more information, books, catalogs, games, etc. Each idea or game is at least a paragraph long--it isn't simply a list of run of the mill ideas. For my family, this chapter alone is well worth the price of the book.

And each following chapter is just as chock-full of information, ideas and projects. A previous reviewer stated it was a good book to get out of a rut and I couldn't agree more. The back cover shows a review from Working Mother magazine that states, "The beauty of this guide is that most games call for nothing more than two people and two brains." I couldn't agree more.

Great ideas to stimulate you and your children.......2001-06-07

PLAYING SMART is a treasure trove of clever ideas. Using the simple and familiar, Susan K. Perry shows us how we can turn the most ordinary experiences into opportunities for creativity, learning, and fun, teaching children to begin a lifelong love of education and imagination. A walk becomes an adventure into biology and nature as well as a chance to make up stories about people, to notice change in daily surroundings. The backyard is filled with learning how to grow edible and decorative plants with an aesthetic appreciation of their variety and arrangement, along with respect for other living creatures. Cooking with your children, you can both learn about nutrition, health, and safety, fostering good habits that will serve them well in our fast food and junk food culture. Waiting in line and long car rides become openings for psychological sharing and excursions into the imagination.

Nearly all of the ideas in this book can be used by adults to stimulate their own creativity and get out of their daily ruts. I especially appreciated the sections of doing dreamwork and personal journaling with children. I frequently recommend this book to parents and teachers.

~~review by Joan Mazza, author of Dream Back Your Life; Dreaming Your Real Self; and 3 books in The Guided Journal Series with Writer's Digest/Walking Stick Press.

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New revised updated version of this book is better!

The author shares info about this book

Packed with creative fun

Excellent ways to play with kids while you wait and wait ...

Playing Smart: A Parent's Guide to Enriching, Offbeat Learning Activities for Ages 4 to 14
Susan K. Perry
Manufacturer: Free Spirit Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Family Activities | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
Child Development | Babies & Toddlers | Parenting | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
Performing Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books | Dance | General | Reference | Theater
General | Sports | Subjects | Books
Accessories:

Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer

ASIN: 0915793229

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New revised updated version of this book is better!.......2001-05-17

As the author, I'm letting you know that the resources in this older edition of Playing Smart are out of date after a full decade in print. Buy the REVISED edition (subtitle: THE FAMILY GUIDE etc.) and you won't be disappointed.

The author shares info about this book.......2001-01-31

PLAYING SMART is coming out in a new enlarged updated edition in April 2001. Stay tuned.

Packed with creative fun.......1999-07-02

Susan K. Perry's writing is always a delight. PLAYING SMART is filled with fun ideas that will entertain children AND adults. Each chapter offers dozens of suggestions to open children's minds to love learning, improve their powers of observation and innovative thinking, and to be respectful of the world and all its beauty. Many many resources listed for games, supplies, and further information. Children will learn they need never say they are bored again.

Excellent ways to play with kids while you wait and wait ..........1998-11-06

Here's where to turn for creative responses to "How much longer?" -- that classic question asked by children of all ages -- when sitting in traffic, waiting in the doctor's office, or standing in line at the supermarket. You and your kids (ages 4-14) will enjoy the offbeat, simple games in Playing Smart. The fun ideas in this book will turn, "Aren't we there yet?!" into "Are we there already?!"

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In 1946, before the start of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Army Air Forces established Project RAND -- a groundbreaking 'think tank' designed to link leaders in the military and aircraft industry. Modern war was now total war, a contest between entire societies, and demanded the commitment of peacetime preparation. Martin J. Collins examines the critical years of this experiment through an evolving cast of key individuals and investigates in-depth the scientific and social birth of systems analysis.

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The All-Season Backyard Birdwatcher: Feeding and Landscaping Techniques Guaranteed to Attract the Birds You Want Year Round (Quarry Book)
Marcus Schneck
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Birdwatching | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
Ornithology | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
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National Wildlife Federation Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Backyard Wildlife (National Wildlife Federation)

101 Ways to Help Birds

Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard: Watch Your Garden Come Alive With Beauty on the Wing (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)

Stokes Birdfeeder Book : The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Understanding Your Feeder Birds

ASIN: 1592531997

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No matter what the time of year, most of us enjoy having feathered visitors in our backyards. However, sometimes it can be a challenge to hold their attention long enough to figure out their names. With The All-Season Backyard Birdwatcher, your bird watching troubles are now over. In these easy-to-read, illustrated pages, you will learn how to attract birds to your yard like never before.

This book does not just focus on the actual watching of birds, but how to entice the birds to visit your backyard in the first place. It also will help you identify a variety of widely distributed bird species through appearance and song. Creating treats has always been a popular pastime used to attract birds, and this book gives you advice on providing bird-attracting treats, housing, water features and plants that will make your backyard the perfect bird haven.

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A candid study of all the facets of the secret, exciting world of modern erotic jewellery.

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Perfectly sized to fit in your camera bag, this handy take-along guide is filled with picture-taking tips and information on films, exposures, filters, flashes, and other photographic essentials. Regardless of the type of camera you have, you'll get expert help for using accessory lenses, determining depth of field, selecting the correct exposure settings, and more. Know what film and equipment to have on hand so you'll be prepared for any situation, and what exposures and filters are recommended for a wide variety of light sources--both natural and artificial. Convenient, color-coded chapters enable you to find the information you need quickly and easily, and seven dial calculators, including those for depth of field, various exposure situations, and electronic flashes, ensure the success of your photos. With this portable reference at your fingertips, your pictures will be better than ever before.

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A Wealth of Information.......2003-02-25

Looking for the correct filter to use with your film? Looking for information on a particular type of film? You'll find it here in the "Kodak Photoguide, 4th Edition". The book is small in size, but it is packed with information that easily fits into your camera bag.

You know all those little notes you make for yourself for determing what f-stop should be used during a specific lighting situation, or the film box your carry around with the films information? Well, assuming you're using Kodak film, it's all in there.

This is a great little book and well worth the price.

A useful little reference.......2002-04-13

While not comprehensive and tied to Kodak's product line, this photoguide is quite handy and compact. My favorite features are the wheels and other such devices that make the reference data much more accessible.

A necessary item for your camera bag!.......1998-07-29

The Kodak Pocket Photoguide is chocked full of information for the serious photographer. If your light meter goes on the fritz, you can use the Pocket Photoguide to find the correct exposure for most Kodak film.

The Kodak Pocket Photoguide also has information on taking pictures in existing light, giving recommendations on exposure with different films under many existing light conditions.

All of this information, plus plenty of other useful photographic information is at your fingertips with the Kodak Pocket Photoguide.

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This book represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. Taking an historical and comparative view, it highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress.

The leading historical example the author takes offers a major reassessment of the origins of the Irish Famine. His contemporary case study focuses on the Green Revolution, which the author analyses in terms of a broad Western strategy of capitalist agricultural development in the face of peasant insurgency. He examines how Malthusian arguments portrayed agricultural modernization as a humanitarian attempt to forestall a food crisis in the developing world when, in reality, he argues the agenda was to defer land reform and bolster existing rural class structures. Finally, the book examines how the political economy of underdevelopment is currently being obscured by alarm over the environmental impact of over-population, and how such Malthusian concerns represent the poor, not as victims of capitalist development, but as perpetrators of environmental destruction.

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An important rethinking of Malthus.......2004-02-14

Ross' analysis of Cold War uses of Malthusian dogma is succinct and brings a fresh and consistent analysis to, "the increasing subordination of demographic thinking to the Cold War." Ross examines the uses of the United States' Cold War policy directives which represented the underdeveloped world's demographic state (literally) as a "population bomb" needing to be defused by technicians from the North before its detonation shattered the global economic order. Further, Ross contextualizes Hardin's just-so-story of the Tragedy of the Commons as a Cold War parable passed on as empirical fact, a parable that teaches us that only private property, and an unequal distribution of resources can lead to social harmony.

The Malthus Factor is packed with detailed examples of how wide-ranging Malthus' impact on society has been, from discussions of the connections between the Green Revolution's fertilizer requirements and linkages between munitions industries and fertilizer industries, to links between the rise of the American Eugenics movement and the historical demise of American midwifery, to the roles of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in funding the Eugenics movement. Even readers who disagrees with Ross' theoretical approach to Malthus will learn something of value from his analysis. I expect that this book will soon become required reading for any graduate student studying for exams covering both demographic theory and political economy.

A critique of Malthusian thinking on capitalist development........1999-05-31

Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk -- This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress.

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This bible for harried parents gives you more than 80 fun, safe and stimulating activities: "good, clean fun" in the bathroom, counting and sorting games in the kitchen, and creative play games in the living room.

Customer Reviews:

Ready, Set, A Variety of Different Actions!.......2003-10-11

This is really a needed resource for every toddler parent who wants to create fun for her or his child in any possible setting in different ways.

I found that a lot of the activities were variations of things I did actively and Nancy Kelly's ideas and specific suggestions will increase my effectiveness.

Some of the especially cleaveer and useful include the Origami, Milk Viola and with my son who loves tossing and sorting and categorizing will love the increased intentionality with this book.

great book--great fun.......2003-03-04

Being a stay-at-home mom can get pretty challeging. Can anyone else recite Goodnight Moon in their sleep? I thought this book was very inventive and most of all fun. It gave practical ideas for lots of activities for toddlers to enjoy in different areas of the house. Anyone with small children will enjoy and benefit from this book. I highly recommend it.

Many fun activities.......2001-06-25

The book is broken down into 5 sections of the house, each with varying activities to do with your toddler in that area of the house. The activities are easy to follow, fun, and each one contains a MATERIALS list to describe what is needed for that activity. Most activities can be set up in 10 minutes or less. Even though some of the activities I had already known about, this book gave me variations on many of those, and many more that sounded fun and easy to set up. You can tell just by looking at the cover how much fun it is going to be!

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Focusing on the political, intellectual, and cultural context of Englandin the early modern period (14th century to 18th century), these timelystudies explore political theory and the English Revolution, the revisionist debates over the court and the country, and the role of Laudian policies in the years prior to the Civil War. The volume also explores aristocratic rule in 17th century England as compared to that of the Polish Commonwealth, the resonance of political events in literary culture, Hobbes's theory of passions, the role of the gentle apprentice in London, and the problem of religious dissent in the 17th century. Contributors include: PAUL SEAVER, PAOLO PASQUALUCCI, WILLIAM HUNT, GORDON SCHOCKET, LINDA PECK, EDWARD HUNDERT, JOHN GUY, ANTONIO D'ANDREA, WILLIAM DRAY, JOSEPH LEVINE, PETER LAKE, DWIGHT BRAUTIGAM and BONNELYN YOUNG KUNZE.

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This is the story of how the Endangered Species Act failed a small songbird, the dusky seaside sparrow. The sparrowÂ's only habitat lay in the path of the Kennedy Space Center, not far from Disney World.

Mark WaltersÂ' moving narrative describes how the social and political forces of an era forced irrevocable and profound changes in the environment of Brevard County, Florida, and brought about the extinction of a small bird.

Walters begins his story in the late 1950s, before Cape Canaveral was renamed the Kennedy Space Center. Against the backdrop of Merritt Island and the marshlands along the Indian, Banana, and St. Johns riversÂ—the only places on the planet where the sparrow thrivedÂ—he chronicles the struggles of many different personalities, strong-minded individuals whose lives and personal fates become inextricably entwined with those of the dusky. The cast of characters includes the head of Brevard County Mosquito Control, bureaucrats and rangers with U.S. Fish & Wildlife, NASA administrators, real estate developers, ranchers, highway engineers, egg collectors, conservationists, and finally, Disney World itself, home of the last duskies and their hybrid offspring.

The sparrow, like the spotted owl of the Pacific Northwest, was the victimÂ—the innocent bystanderÂ—of an intense human struggle between those who advocate growth and jobs at any cost and those who insist that each life form that is endangered be protected at any cost, and few, if any, winners in the end.

A Shadow and A Song The Struggle To Save An Endangered Species

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A Shadow and A Song The Struggle To Save An Endangered Species
Walters Mark Jerome
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDH4DS

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