The Way of the Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture
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  • great book on japanese traditional architecture!
The Way of the Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture
William H. Coaldrake
Manufacturer: Weatherhill
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ASIN: 0834802317

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5 out of 5 stars great book on japanese traditional architecture!.......2000-06-10

Professor William Coaldrake is a lecturer in University of Melbourne Australia, one of the best architecture school in the world. Born in Japan, he has studies and investigated to great length about Japanese traditional architecture, and had participated in rebuilding projects in Japan. He also appears in a Discovery Channel documentary about the Japanese Samurai and Castles. In this book, you will learn the unique process of traditional architecture, the carpenters, and their tools and buildings. A great read for anthropologists, historians, architects and the general public who wants to discover the unique traditions in Japanese architecture.

Drawing Workbooks: Trees and Plants
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    Drawing Workbooks: Trees and Plants

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    Trees and Plants (Drawing Workbooks)
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      Bruce Robertson
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      Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography
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        Larry J. Schaaf
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        Handbook of Health Economics : Volumes 1A & 1B (Handbook of Health Economics)
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            Dudley Jackson
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            Payment Systems And Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, And Problems
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            • clear, interesting casebook that reads like a novel
            Payment Systems And Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, And Problems
            Ronald J. Mann
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            5 out of 5 stars clear, interesting casebook that reads like a novel.......1999-03-31

            Most legal casebooks are excrutiating to read. This is an exception. The descriptions of the payment systems are clear and understandable. The problems are interesting and illustrate the important points of the chapters in an enjoyable manner. The best casebook in 2 1/2 years of law school!
            Payments And Credits (University Casebook Series)
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              Payments And Credits (University Casebook Series)
              William D. Warren , and Steven D. Walt
              Manufacturer: Foundation Press
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              Binding: Hardcover

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              ASIN: 1587787407

              Book Description

              Payments and Credits provides detailed information on negotiable instruments, payments, and credits. The Sixth Edition updates the material on Revised Articles 3 (Negotiable Instruments), 4 (Bank Deposits and Collections), 5 (Letters of Credit) and 8 (Investment Securities), as well as new Article 4A (Funds Transfers). New Problems and Notes are integrated with cases to allow convenient treatment of statutory innovations. Relevant federal law is considered throughout.
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                Steve H. Nickles , John H. Matheson , and John F. Dolan
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                Payment Systems and Credit Instruments (University Casebook Series)
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                  Clayton P. Gillette , Alan Schwartz , and Robert E. Scott
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                  Payment Systems: Problems, Materials, and Cases (American Casebook)
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                    Linda J. Rusch
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                    ASIN: 0314146490

                    Book Description

                    Rusch Payment Systems will not only teach the law of payment systems, but also the art and skill of statutory reading and analysis. This volume includes an introduction to payment systems, an introduction to negotiable instruments as a payment system, contract liability on negotiable instruments, negotiable instruments as personal property, collection through the banking system, forgery and fraud in the use of negotiable instruments, letters of credit, electronic funds transfer, and evolving electronic payment systems.
                    Payments Systems: Problems, Materials,and Cases (American Casebook)
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                      Linda J. Rusch
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                      A Short Course in International Payments: How to Use Letters of Credit, D/P and D/a Terms, Prepayment, Credit, and Cyberpayments in International Transactions ... Short Course in International Trade Series)
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                        Edward G. Hinkelman
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                        ASIN: 188507364X

                        Product Description

                        If your international transactions involve the payment, receipt or transfer of money, this book will prove indispensable. Described in detail are the four primary payment methods: documentary letters of credit, documentary collections, pre-payment and credit transactions. Step by step instructions, accompanied by skillfully designed illustrations, are provided for both standard and special letters of credit, including revocable and irrevocable, confirmed and unconfirmed, back-to-back, deferred payment (usance), red clause, revolving, standby and transferable types. This book introduces each party to each transaction, contains lists of what can go wrong and provides solutions for common problems. The book is an excellent training tool for traders, bankers and brokers. Also covered: - Foreign exchange (forward contracts)
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                        Droit commercial: Instruments de paiement et de credit, entreprises en difficulte (Precis Dalloz)
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                          Michel Jeantin
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                          Payment and credit systems
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                            Ronald J Mann
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                            Searching for negotiability in payment and credit systems (Working paper series / Washington University School of Law)
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                              Ronald J Mann
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                              Being a Medical Transcriptionist
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                                NORMA LEE MORROW
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                                Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
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                                • Sweatshops from the workers' perspective
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                                Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
                                Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
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                                Book Description

                                In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights.

                                In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself.

                                With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others.

                                Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).

                                Customer Reviews:

                                5 out of 5 stars Sweatshops from the workers' perspective.......2004-04-30

                                I teach a course on Women and Work and Miriam Ching Louie's Sweatshop Warriors is the first book I have found that really describes sweatshops from the workers' perspectives, as agents rather than victims. The students really got it. I plan to use the book in this course from now on.

                                5 out of 5 stars A more sinister side of globalization.......2001-10-29

                                Miriam Ching Yoon Louie has a literary talent in exposing the ill effects of globalization on poor women of color in the American garment industry. Focusing on Chinese, Korean, and Mexican immigrants she documents how their labor is continuously being exploited without regard to their personal well-being. Transnational corporations seek their labor because it is cheap. It is these women who are the backbones of the forces of globalization and their stories need to be told. An added strength of this book is that the author doesn't just focus on the negative structural aspects but she also includes multiple instances of how these workers create social solidarity and fight for social change in their favor, even when up against the odds. Her personal involvement in these social movements is an added benefit. These poor women of color both produce and reproduce globalization on the local and global scale. It leaves one with the belief that there is hope after all for a fair and just world. This book will make you reevaluate the 'promises' of free trade agreements and economic growth. As one group prospers there is surely another group being disadvantaged. Overall, this book is accessible especially in discussions on the feminization of labor and migration that is not cluttered with jargon. Go ahead and take a gamble. I hope that it will alter your social stance on these important issues as it reinforced mine.

                                5 out of 5 stars In My Personal Top Ten.......2001-07-26

                                During my vacation, I've been reading "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory" by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. Miriam has a multi-decade organizing history with low income women of color. She is the co-founder of the Women of Color Resource Center in Berkeley, and author of an amazing trainers' manual called WEdGE" Women's Education in the Global Economy."

                                "Sweatshop Warriors" is one of my personal top ten books on radical organizing. It looks at transnational sweatshops through the eyes of Korean, Chinese and Mexican women forced to leave their homes of origin to take super exploited labor jobs in the world's sweatshops, ending up in the garment rows of NY, Oakland, LA, El Paso, etc. And there they have stood and fought. Against incredible odds, they've led international campaigns against the sweatshops industries, formed multi-purpose women workers centers, dealt with men in their families who were sometimes less than supportive of their activism, and learned to be world traveling organizers.

                                The author mixes political economy, analysis, history, and the herstories of the women organizers she has interviewed. Race/class/gender/nationality -- all come into play in the lives and organizing work of these incredible women.
                                Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
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                                  Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
                                  Teresa Bergen
                                  Manufacturer: Oral History Association
                                  ProductGroup: Book
                                  Binding: Digital
                                  ASIN: B0008EEHWU
                                  Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                                  This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 892 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: Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.(Book Review)
                                  Author: Teresa Bergen
                                  Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
                                  Date: June 22, 2003
                                  Publisher: Oral History Association
                                  Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Page: 138(3)

                                  Article Type: Book Review

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                                  SWEATSHOP WARRIORS Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory ISBN: 0-89608-683-0
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                                    SWEATSHOP WARRIORS Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory ISBN: 0-89608-683-0

                                    Manufacturer: South End Press
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