Architecture: From Art Nouveau to Deconstructivism (Prestel Sightlines)

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The second volume in the highly successful SightLines series is a beautifully designed, portable, and up-to-date guide to architecture of the last 100 years.

-Paperback with flaps
-Full-color illustrations
-Easy to use
-Fully cross-referenced
-Up-to-date

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An interactive alphabet book.......2004-09-15

Mitsumasa Anno and Masaichiro Anno's Anno's Magical ABC: an anamorphic alphabet is a highly unconventional book. With a simple 180º rotation and flip, the book can be read from either end, with an uppercase alphabet in one half of the book and a lowercase alphabet in the other half. The letters of the alphabet and accompanying drawings are distorted and nearly unrecognizable, requiring a curved mirror to view in the proper proportion. (The book includes sheets of reflective silver paper and instructions for rolling them into tubes for revealing the "magic.") Though the format and the presentation are unconventional, the subject matter is highly conventional. Each letter, upper- and lower-case, receives a single page and is accompanied by a drawing of an object that starts with that letter. The correct spot for placing the mirrored tube is marked by a circular seal which includes a botanical drawing that also starts with the letter on the page. So, "a" is represented with an anteater and an apple; "g" is represented with a goat and a gentian; "T" is represented with a tiger and thistle; "W" is represented with a windmill and walnut. The father and son team did the drawings and the letters (respectively). Children who are already familiar with their letters will delight in their abilities to transform and manipulate the letters of the alphabet.

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The best lettering book I own
Great book for all!

The ABC's of creative lettering
Lindsay Ostrom
Manufacturer: EK Success
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0006RFQ8I

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The best lettering book I own.......2005-09-17

This is my hands down favorite book on lettering. It has a variety to easy to duplicate examples. It was the first lettering book I bought and the standard that I compare everything else too. I am surprised to see it is out of print. If you happen to find one you should snatch it up as quickly as possible. I have one of her other titles. I've looked for some of the others in stores and have not had good luck finding them. I'm thinking Amazon is my best bet to buy them before they go out of print again.

Great book for all!.......2005-04-14

This is my "go to" guide for fun alphabets that anyone can do! I use them in scrapbooks, signs and anything else I can think of! I own one and am buying one for a friend too! Full of creative ideas that you don't have to be an artist to do!

A Russian ABC: Featuring Masterpieces from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Mayers, Florence Cassen. ABC.)

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Simple & Beautiful

A Russian ABC: Featuring Masterpieces from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Mayers, Florence Cassen. ABC.)
Florence Cassen Mayers
Manufacturer: HNA Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810919192

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Simple & Beautiful.......2006-10-26

Using wonderful art this book introduces the Russian alphabet in an easy to understand manner. Perfect for those of us who always wondered what those weird Russian symbols were. The book gives the Cyrillic spelling, the Roman spelling, and the English translation. For example, Beep = Veyer = Fan.

A Celtic Alphabet: From the Book of Kells and Other Sources

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A Celtic Alphabet: From the Book of Kells and Other Sources
Andrew Whitson
Manufacturer: Appletree Press (UK)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0862816645

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Decorative lettering is one of the splendors of Celtic art. This book reproduces the letters of the Celtic alphabet from original sources. Letters not used by the Celtic scribes have been drawn with meticulous care to correspond to Celtic models. In addition to the decorative capitals, letters are drawn in a modern Celtic style, both upper and lower case, making this a practical book for those who want to try out their own Celtic hand, as well as a beautiful gift book.

The ABCs of Words on Quilts: Applique & Embroidery Lettering Techniques, Beautiful Projects, 6 Complete Alphabets

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The ABCs of Words on Quilts: Applique & Embroidery Lettering Techniques, Beautiful Projects, 6 Complete Alphabets
Elizabeth Scott
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1571203710
Release Date: 2007-07-10

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Send a message to friends, family, and future generations with words and phrases in embroidery and machine-blanket-stitch appliqué. The ABCs of Words on Quilts includes tips and tricks for writing on quilts, pillows, runners, and throws--eight traditional projects in all. Full-size patterns for letters and numbers in six different styles are included, great for getting just the right look for every project. Add more variety with shadowing or combining techniques, or use the resource list to find more fonts. What will you write?

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The Big and Little ABC
Sandra Ure Griffin
Manufacturer: All about Kids Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0971027846

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This gentle ABC book features soft and delicately illustrated vignettes for every letter of the alphabet. Within each page, a young child and baby stand next to their respective capital and lower-case letters, surrounded by a frame entwined with plants and animals representing the particular letter. Clear and deft calligraphy labels each plant and animal within the frame, and encourages a young, curious mind to learn and grow. A stunning and -tender picture book, graceful in its simplicity.

Sandra Griffin lives in Ellisville, Missouri, where she draws, paints, writes and teaches. Sandra is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and the mother of four sons. This is her second children_s book.

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The ABC of Lettering
J. I. Biegeleisen
Manufacturer: ST Media Group International Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0911380728

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Since its publication in 1940, The ABC of Lettering has taught thousands how to letter by brush. Originally a standard for the sign industry, the 6th edition now upholds the craft for artistic and historical purposes. If you are interested in the classic approach to brushing letters and hand painting signs, this book is for you.

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ABC David Kindersley
Fiona MacCarthy
Manufacturer: Kettle's Yard Gallery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0907074790

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ABC Letter-forms & letterings
John R. Biggs
Manufacturer: Dorset ,England Blandford Press 1977.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WGZFMA

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The ABC of Lettering
J.I. Biegeleisen
Manufacturer: Harper and Brothers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MEDTE8

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Beautiful!!.......1998-06-27

This is a very beautiful book filled with many lavish photos of the gardens and statues at Versailles. It's an excellent source of pictorial reference for anyone who aspires to travel to France, and in particular, to visit the magnificent Palace of Versailles.

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The papers in this inaugural volume were presented at a workshop organized by the IUCN Sustainable Use Initiative (SUI) during the 1st World Conservation Congress, 1996. The first section includes several thought-provoking papers on broad issues pertaining to sustainable use. Three subsequent sections include papers from sessions organized by Regional Specialist Groups on artisanal fisheries, community-based management of forests and managing wildlife for sustainable use. Abstracts are provided in English, French, and Spanish.

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This book sets out the foundations of Post Keynesian price theory. Frederic Lee examines the administered, normal cost and mark up price doctrines associated with Post Keynesian economics; he then draws upon those doctrines and previous empirical studies to develop the pricing and production foundations of the theory. This is the only book that is solely concerned with Post Keynesian price theory and its foundations, and represents a major contributon to the literature of post-Keynesian economics.

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Frederic Lee sets out the foundations of a post-Keynesian price theory through developing an empirically grounded production schema. The administered, normal cost, and mark up price doctrines are explained in parts I-III of the book, as many of their theoretical arguments are important for developing the foundations. This involves discussing the work of Gardiner Means, Philip Andrews, and Michal Kalecki, as well as the developers of the doctrines, such as Edwin Nourse, Paolo Sylos Labini, Harry Edwards, Josef Steindl, and Alfred Eisner. Drawing upon the arguments and formal modelling offered by the doctrines, in conjunction with empirical evidence from one hundred studies on pricing and production, Dr Lee develops an empirically grounded pricing model and production schema. He argues that the model and the schema together constitute the foundations for post-Keynesian price theory.

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A book for those who can't understand ch.20 of Keynes'sGT.......2005-03-24

This book is the net result of nearly sixty years of confusion about the microeconomic foundations of the General Theory created by Richard Kahn(RK) and Joan(JR) and Austin Robinson(AR).Essentially,the author of this book blends the administered pricing approach of Gardinar Means,the normal cost pricing approach of Philip Andrews,and the mark up pricing approach of Michal Kalecki and later assorted Cambridge Keynesians into a consistent non neoclassical microeconomic theory that is supposed to allow post keynesians to present a unified front in their microeconomic foundations.Unfortunately,the economics of John Maynard Keynes becomes completely irrelevant because the theory of effective demand and the existence of involuntary unemployment is completely independent of the theory of the firm and/or price theory,be it classical,neoclassical,post keynesian,Kaleckian,non neoclassical,etc.Lee is implicitly basing the need for his clarifying exposition in this book on the claim,repeatedly made by JR,AR, and RK over a 60 year period ,that Keynes failed to support his macroeconomic theory of effective demand with any rigorous microeconomic foundation in price or value theory,a price or value theory which should have been imperfectly competitive in order to be realistic.Keynes provided a completely consistent and rigorous microeconomic foundation for his theory of effective demand based on the theory of purely competitive firms.The mathematical structure of both Keynes's pure competition and A C Pigou's free competition,assumed in his 1933 book,The Theory of Unemployment is, of course, the same as that of perfect competition.Keynes's general theory result,obtained from chapter 10,p116,ft.2 and chapter 20,p.283,ft.2and discussed by Keynes in his comparison-contrast of his mathematical model with that of Pigou's mathematical model in the appendix to chapter 19 of the GT,is that a macroscopic general equilibrium that is optimal is given by the condition that w/p=mpl/(mpc+mpi),where w/p equals the real wage,mpl equals the marginal product of labor,mpc equals the marginal propensity to spend on consumption goods,and mpi equals the marginal propensity to spend on investment goods.If the mpc+mpi=1,Keynes's theory merges with the classical and the neoclassical theories.Onthe other hand,if mpc+mpi <1,the result will be an unemployment equilibrium with some level of involuntary unemployment.Keynes established the existence of multiple equilibria as the general result to be expected in a capitalist economy with its highly unstable,volatile,uncertain investment sector.None of these Keynesian results are duplicated in Lee's theory.In fact,it is impossible to derive any such result from any kind of imperfect competition theory such as Lee's.Lee can,of course,integrate Keynes's chapter 20 into his model.However, that result is independent of any microeconomic theory.

Post Keynesian Econometrics, Microeconomics and the Theory of the Firm: Beyond Keynes (Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group (Series).)

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Post Keynesian Econometrics, Microeconomics and the Theory of the Firm: Beyond Keynes (Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group (Series).)

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1858985846

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This is the first of two volumes celebrating Keynes's contribution to economics, and the development of post Keynesian economics in recent years. It reinstates the importance of Keynesian economics and its revival since the end of the 1980s, and the book's authoritative chapters are presented by an outstanding group of international contributors.

Divided into two parts, this volume concentrates on microeconomics and econometrics. In the first section on microeconomics, the contributors address issues such as the division and coordination of knowledge, innovation, equilibrium and welfare, as well as transactions costs, imperfect competition, trust, and the theory of the firm. The second part focuses on econometrics within a post Keynesian framework and addresses issues such as realism, the use of empirical evidence, and the case of conflict in wage and unemployment determination.

This book will be welcomed by post Keynesian economists, microeconomists and those interested in the development of econometrics.

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Post Keynesian Microeconomic Theory (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
Frederic Lee , and Frederic S. Lee
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0415247314

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The purpose of this book is to delineate Post Keynesian microeconomic theory. More specifically, the objective is to build the theoretical core of Post Keynesian microeconomics that can then be used by other Post Keynesians in their work. Hence the book is about theory creation as opposed to delineating what is currently accepted, with an emphasis on business enterprise, production, costs, pricing and prices, markets, market governance, market demand, and distribution of income.

The book begins with a historical understanding of the origins of Post Keynesian economics and an awareness of the range of different and similar ideas that contributed to the development of Post Keynesian microeconomics. This book is unusal however to the extent that it refers more to theory than specific theorists, grounding each component of the core theory in empirical evidence. The conceptual organization of the book is based on a critical realist perspective of identifying structures and causal mechanisms, examining Post Keynesian microeconomics as it currently stands.

Pricing Theory in Post-Keynesian Economics: A Realist Approach (New Directions in Modern Economics)

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Pricing Theory in Post-Keynesian Economics: A Realist Approach (New Directions in Modern Economics)
Paul Downward
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1858987911

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This timely book explores the defining features of post Keynesian economics through an examination of pricing, and empirically investigates pricing behavior from the post Keynesian point of view. Paul Downward uses a synthesis of ideas from realist philosophy and methodology to explore post Keynesian pricing theory. He identifies a coherent core of post Keynesian pricing theory, strongly supported by a wide range of evidence. The author critically reviews and extends both the econometric and the non-econometric evidence as a basis of understanding the causal processes of pricing. Taking into account Keynes's notions of the 'weight of evidence' and 'negative analogy,' the post Keynesian account of pricing offered in the book appears compelling. The evidence presented will raise substantial questions about neoclassical accounts of pricing.

This book will be required reading for those interested in post Keynesian economics, methodology, behavioral economics and institutional economics as well as for marketing and management theorists and those generally interested in pricing decisions.

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Review in Paul's Work.......2000-10-09

This has got to be one of the most informative books I have ever read on this particular subject. Paul shows his complete and utter understanding of the subject matter. Icant wait for the next book by Paul

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Lasalle Banks Guide 1998-99: A Scholl Corporate Guide (Lasalle Banks Guide)

Manufacturer: Scholl Communications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0912519207

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Cyberfinance explores the tax, financial and legal considerations that must be addressed to get and keep new Internet-driven companies up and running. In practical and straightforward language, it examines the pertinent resources and techniques associated with the raising of capital for e-businesses -- i.e., firms using the Internet as a primary vehicle to marke ttheir wares to consumers or other businesses, firms using the Internet to create a marketplace for use by buyers and sellers, and firms providing Internet-related products or consulting services.

Capital-raising sources and procedures are explained in detail with separate discussions on the special financing concerns during the three main stages of business development -- start-up, growth and later-stage capital raising and capital harvesting (initial public offering and sale of the company).

While the focus is on obtaining financing for the e-business ventures, the book also lays a solid foundation to business startup by exploring the many considerations in choice of entity selection and organization, as well as the legal requirements and challenges for e-businesses based in securities law. This discussion creates a context in which the financing issues and techniques can be understood in their relation to the legal framework.

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