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Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most outstanding design engineers of the 20th century. His work is a remarkable combination of creative imagination, technical skill and visionary enterprise. The first of Birkhäuser's 4-volume edition of Prouvé's Complete Works covers the period between 1917 and 1933 including the first metalwork objects (staircase railings, lamps), the first standardised building products (windows, doors, movable partitions), the first furniture in moulded steel and the first building projects to use folded sheet metal, such as operating theatres in Lyon's Hôpital Grange Blanche, as well as the text of numerous conversations with Jean Prouvé. "Peter Sulzer's work is an admirable catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean Prouvé... He has made a remarkable synthesis from a variety of sources, rigorously organised on the page and easily readable" (commendation on the award of the French Briey Prize for an architectural book).
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Watercolour Painting with Karen Simmons
Karen Simmons
Manufacturer: B.T. Batsford Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0713471050 |
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Revised & Updated? Please!.......2004-09-01
The book is outdated. It has several references to things that are clearly not done any longer. Like creating a slide show for a business. Not a computer powerpoint slideshow but the original slideshow that families used to show after a vacation. C'mon update the book. Having just criticzed the book for failing to update the text, I do think there is a lot of positives in the book that make it worth purchasing. It is not a "let's show you how" kinda book - it is more of an idea book. Very good, entreprenuerial ideas that I'm sure many overlook. One positive of it being outdated is that instead of the title being "Make $25,000 a year" it really should now be "Make $50,000 a year" simply due to the old pricing he refers to.
Just what I needed to get started!.......2003-05-24
I had thought for years that maybe it would be fun to sell some of my photos. Last year I saw the book, purchased it, and wouldn't put it down until I finished it. There were so many simple ideas on where to find business that I decided to pursue photography as a career. Less than a year later and with a lot of hard work, I am a working professional photographer. Without Larry's book I might have never had the courage and determination to pursue this career or the know-how of where to find business. This book got me started, but was certainly not the only book I've read since then. There's a lot more to a photography business than one book can possibly cover. But with this book convincing me that money can be made in photography, I'm doing it and loving it.
Gives short non-complicated ideas of how to make money.......1999-07-19
This is my first read about making money with my camera. It has given me encouragement that I can make a living as a photographer without a studio and without much expensive equipment. The ideas on where to find business was extremely helpful.
Adequate Reading but not too informative.......1999-04-13
Does give some helpful information, but only wish that it went more indepth with pricing.
Book Description
Have you ever had to be really brave? In Hermie and the Big Bully Croaker, Hermie faces the biggest frog he's ever seen to help out his friends, the ants. But -- just like David, when he faced Goliath -- Hermie turns to God for help and saves the day!
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"Great Story for All Ages!".......2004-01-05
Max Lucado's Hermie the Common Caterpillar series is quickly becoming a favorite in our house. This sturdy board book is perfectly sized for my daughters, ages 4 and 2. Hermie's questions quickly engage young minds as he himself introduces and concludes the story of a mean ol' frog who bullies some chicken-hearted ants. Illustrations are colorful and lifelike. Based on the story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17), Lucado reminds us that "the real hero is God." I also recommend the recently released Rock, Roll, and Run by the same author.
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Fey Croaker, star of this and three previous mysteries in Paul Bishop's increasingly interesting series, has just been promoted to lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department. Fey and her team have been reassigned to the elite Robbery-Homicide Department and charged with solving the high-profile slaying of Bianca Flynn, a prominent woman lawyer as well as the daughter of a powerful judge and the sister of a police commissioner.
Flynn's obsession with the victims of parental sexual abuse was clearly the motive for her murder, and this resonates at a very personal level with Fey, whose father molested her throughout her childhood. When Ellis "Jack" Kavanaugh, her father's former partner, dies and leaves her a fortune in marked bills traced to a robbery over two decades old, she is forced to confront a part of her past she believed she had come to terms with long ago. Unraveling the connection between Kavanaugh's cryptic dying words and the murder of Flynn, who ran an underground railroad for sexually threatened children, takes the tough but vulnerable Fey on a tumultuous personal journey. Her sojourn rivets the reader's attention and illuminates Bishop's skill at characterization as well as pace and plotting. While Fey is the soul of this excellent crime novel, the secondary figures are almost as compelling, particularly Hammer and Nails, the married detectives on Fey's crew, and Brink Kavanaugh, a charismatic artist to whom Fey is almost fatally attracted. Chalk Whispers confirms Bishop's place in the pantheon of writers like Joseph Wambaugh and Michael Connelly, as well as an earlier generation of pros like Ross MacDonald, who uncovered the corruption beneath Los Angeles's glossy exterior. --Jane Adams
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When LAPD homicide detective Fey Croaker is promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide division, her team's first case plunges them into a deadly investigation rife with betrayal. Not only does it pit them against a daunting list of high-profile suspects and an underground abused-child protection ring, the case also brings to light the legacy of Fey's own abusive father, who may have knowingly put an innocent black activist on death row. That man now claims to hold the key to the current investigation, and "female tough guy" (The Washington Post) Detective Croaker is about to face her darkest demons dead in the eye.
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Fey Croaker gets promoted.......2003-04-29
Paul Bishop has been writing cop novels for about a decade now. He started with a book that was a better premise than a novel, about a pair of patrolmen trying to win a bet by driving their patrol car from LA to Las Vegas and back in one shift without anyone noticing. It wasn't quite as good as it sounds. He's written several books since, trying different characters. One was a detective who was also a soccer player or something. The one he seems to have finally decided is a hit is Fey Croaker, who gets called Frog Lady (frogs croak) and who's been assigned to LAPD's West Side Division for three books. In this fourth entry, the author appparently decided to up the ante and promote her, and her "team", to Robbery Homicide Division downtown.
This was the first of several annoyances in this book. I don't know this, but I suspect that LAPD is like any other large organization: they don't transfer teams like this around their department's organizational structure. Now there are mitigating circumstances: Bishop mentions an outgoing chief of police, and a new one trying to shake things up. Still it was hard for me to buy that they would do this.
Next, no sooner do Fey and her cohorts get downtown than they are assigned a real hot potato: the torture-murder of a prominent black woman who's an attorney and child molestation crusader, and also the sister of a police commissioner, and the daughter of a judge. Soon, the case develops into a hunt for missing children who have entered an "underground railroad" where they are spirited away from abusive parents who have the law on their side. Just in case things weren't complex enough, the case also takes a historical turn, with a bloody armored car robbery and a shootout involving the police and the Black Panthers from almost thirty years ago proving to be connected with the case.
There are interesting, if a bit eccentric, characters throughout the book. The cops are fun, and well-defined. The dialog is well-written. The plot is a bit like something Michael Connelly or Jeffrey Deaver would concoct. Everything's logical and believable, but at the end you wonder if anything this complex ever occurs, and if it does, do the detectives on the case ever solve them?
Given that, I did enjoy the book, and would recommend it.
Awesome!.......2002-03-03
This book had everything: intrigue, graphic details of a bloody murder, and the biting sarcasm of Fey Croaker. It is a true work of art. Ironically it was the first of the series I had read, so now I am scrambling to read the other books. To anybody who is a fan of the NBC TV show LAW & ORDER, I recomend this book.
Everybody's a Child Molester or Victim in This Book!.......2001-05-25
I was a cop of some sort for over 30 years, and don't believe I've ever read a book with such a far-fetched plot or cast of characters. From the judge to his high-profile law partner, virtually everyone is a pedophile. If they're not a pedophile, then they've were molested when they were the operative age, which is conveniently about the age of several dozen children who come to the USA via some underground pipeline. Mr. Bishop truly does a great job of developing characters and building the story. However, the complexity of the story and the subtle nuances he continually throws in finally reaches a point where, if you don't read it all in one setting or a few nights, you completely lose track of what...is happening. I certainly liked some parts of the book, but the cover describes Mr. Bishop as "the new Joseph Wambaugh", or something similar, and that is certainly not the case....
Best Crime FIction Novel Of The Year.......2000-12-25
I try to read every cop fiction novel I can get my hands on. Wambough has always been my favorite author, but I found Paul Bishop to be more entertaining in this one. I've been a cop for 18 years, and enjoyed the realistic cop humor.
Gritty and hard-boiled, with heart.......2000-06-06
Los Angeles police veteran Paul Bishop's fourth Fey Croaker novel finds the LAPD detective promoted to robbery/homicide, where she heads up her old team in investigating the torture death of a black woman lawyer, Bianca Flynn, who helped run an illegal underground railroad to hide sexually abused children from predatory parents exonerated by the courts.
Gritty, sometimes over-the-top (but it works) writing propels this fast-paced procedural, exposing a conspiracy of power players in child sex abuse and exploring the uncertainties in nasty divorce cases. Croaker confronts her own abused childhood in an interconnected subplot, which includes a suitcase of money, a newly discovered sibling and a romance.
Bishop's secondary characters, particularly Croaker's team, are skillfully drawn and the quirky dynamic partnerships drive the police work. Intuitive thinking, luck, perseverance and distracted mistakes play crucial parts in this hard-boiled, action-packed series.
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The Croaker
Larry Wills
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 059541513X |
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Dysfunctional reporters converging on a sleepy small town, expecting "no news", become consumed by an avalanche of events that defies their understanding. Sometimes gruesome local traditions draw local outrage when reported. Past secrets are not talked about. Crimes become deeply personal for the entire community.
Reporters grapple with their emotions in trying to understand it all, while also enduring public contempt for the paper. The alcoholic editor misses typo after typo, which sinks stories into absurdity and makes the paper a laughingstock; hence the nickname, The Croaker.
The town itself is a victim of atrophy. Store after store goes under and the arrival of corporate-owned business spells the death of Main Street. The paper becomes such a victim, becoming a shopper. The reporters move elsewhere.
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The Croaker
GORDON ASHE
Manufacturer: Holt,Rinehart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KFULEA |
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Croakers
Don Dougherty
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0446372455 |
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Managing Information: Avoiding Overload (Cima Business Skills Series)
Trevor Bentley
Manufacturer: CIMA Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0749426829 |
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Managing Information - Avoiding Overload suggests that the value of information is directly related to its decision-making relevance. It therefore follows that managers need to know and understand their decision-making role before they can define their information needs with any accuracy.
The book is structured in three parts:
Part 1 covers the impact of the information revolution on society, organizations and individuals as well as including a section on the importance of 'getting connected'
Part 2 provides a guide for managers to understanding the basics of information management
Part 3 shows that managers need to be proactive in gathering, constructing and using information effectively
This practical book gives hands-on guidance to any manager keen to control and manage information overload
Packed full of case studies, examples and mini exercises
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Chartered Management Institute: Checklists: Managing Information and Finance, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1731 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: Handling information--avoiding overload.(Checklist 150)
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Chartered Management Institute: Checklists: Managing Information and Finance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by National Society of Public Accountants on February 1, 2000. The length of the article is 700 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: MANAGING INFORMATION--AVOIDING OVERLOAD.(Review) (book review)
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The National Public Accountant (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2000
Publisher: National Society of Public Accountants
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Page: 32
Article Type: Book Review
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Opportunities in Real Estate Careers offers you essential information about a variety of careers within real estate and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Opportunities in Real Estate Careers offers you essential information about a variety of careers within real estate and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Real Estate Careers.......2000-10-20
Opportunities in Real Estate is a book in which you'll find data on earnings and hours worked for various real estate professionals. The book speaks to the influence of the World Wide Web. It educates on projected growth rates for both commercial and residential real estate and how the changing population will effect trends. A great book to help determine how to get started, where to get trained, and what to expect on the job.
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