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The Stone Carvers: Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral
Marjorie Hunt Manufacturer: Smithsonian Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1560988290 |
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Marjorie Hunt presents the lives and careers of two Italian-American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, who have spent decades creating the sculptural works, such as gargoyles, grotesques, capitals, pinnacles, saints, and angels, that embellish Washington National Cathedral. Exploring the carvers' underlying aesthetic attitudes, Hunt reveals the spirit of creativity and mastery that infuses their work. She describes their backgrounds and apprenticeships in Italy, showing how memory and tradition continue to shape their art. The book records the stone-carving process, highlighting the carvers' complex body of technical knowledge---their opinions of various stones, their preferred tools for different stages of carving, and their techniques for achieving effects of light and shadow.Customer Reviews:
Book is even better than the movie.......2007-01-05
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The Stone Carvers Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral
Hunt Marjorie Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution Pres ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UEVCG2 |
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Applied and Decorative Arts: A Bibliographic Guide
Donald L. Ehresmann Manufacturer: Libraries Unlimited Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0872879062 |
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Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram Since 1919
Manufacturer: Roberts Rinehart Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1879373734 |
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Simpson Por Siempre
Matt Groening Manufacturer: Ediciones B ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8440696655 |
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¡Se me caen los pantalones!: ¡350 mil dólares en EU por capítulo! Humberto Vélez/la voz mexicana de Homero Simpson.(doblaje de programa de caricaturas ... An article from: Siempre!
Susana Moscatel Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082CCHO Release Date: 2006-10-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on April 11, 2004. The length of the article is 1074 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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Los Simpson: Por Siempre
Manufacturer: Ediciones B ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8466605037 |
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Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries
Jeffrey James Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415406889 |
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Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise.
This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary. That is, what matters is not the internet itself, rather its ability to provide information that can be made relevant and useful locally. Intermediaries are arguably more likely to provide such information and hence more likely to promote what Amartya Sen called individual 'functionings', for example the ability to be free of illness.
Jeffrey James is an impressive servant to the discipline of development studies, here he brings together previously fragmented literatures to break new ground in internet intermediation.
Information Technology and Development will interest development economists and practitioners in equal amounts.
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Booz-Allen & Hamilton: The WetFeet.com Insider Guide
WetFeet Manufacturer: Wet Feet Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1582070334 |
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Do you want to know what a job at Booz.Allen & Hamilton is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet.com has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet.com guides are the industry standard-based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.Booz.Allen & Hamilton is one of the biggest, oldest and best-known names in the field of general management consulting. Founded in 1914 by Ed Booz, one of the early pioneers in the management consulting field, the firm that bears his name now has more than 8,000 employees spread across 80 offices around the world. About 2,500 of these employees work in Booz.Allen's World Commercial Business (WCB), which is the focus of this guide. (The rest are in World Technology Business, which works mostly with government organizations.) WCB consults with Fortune 500 companies and their equivalents abroad and unlike many of its competitors (such as McKinsey and BCG) is divided by practice. What's the rest of the story behind this major player in the management consulting arena? This WetFeet.com Insider Guide will tell you.
You have questions about Booz.Allen & Hamilton, and our Insider Guides have answers. You'll be ready to ace your interviews after reading the WetFeet Insider Guide on Booz.Allen! You'll learn: * What's the difference between the Commercial Business and the Technology Business? * Acronym soup - MIG, KOL, EMG - what do they mean? * What are the key elements of BoozAllen's recently overhauled Worldwide Consultant Program? * What are examples of actual projects that BoozAllen consultants have worked on? * What happened when the firm went public in the 1970s? * What are the pluses and minuses of the practice approach to consulting? * How should you prepare for your Booz interview? * What's the deal with the dot (between "Booz" and "Allen")?
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Booz Allen Hamilton (Wetfoot.Com Insider Guide)
Wetfeet.Com Manufacturer: Wetfeet.Com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1582071152 |
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Founded in 1914 by Ed Booz, who was later joined by Jim Allen and Carl Hamilton, Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the most highly regarded firms in the management consulting industry. With more than 100 offices on six continents and more than 11,000 employees, it's also one of the largest. And Booz Allen has had for years what other consulting firms now strive for: both the ability to deliver strategic recommendations and the technology expertise to implement them. The firm stands out not only by helping devise strategy, but also by sticking around to help clients implement the changes it prescribes. It focuses on long-term client relationships; consultants work in the trenches and see their recommendations put into action. What's the rest of the story behind this major player in the management consulting arena? This WetFeet Insider Guide will tell you.Customer Reviews:
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C. H. Guenther & Son at 150 Years : The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer
Lewis F. Fisher Manufacturer: Maverick Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1893271145 |
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San Antonio-based C. H. Guenther & Son, founded by a young German immigrant in 1851, is the oldest family-owned business in Texas and the oldest continually-operated family-owned milling company in the United States. Evolution from waterwheels to computers and from plain flour to mixes and frozen foods form the backdrop to this human story of a company whose Pioneer, White Wings and White Lily brands approach nationwide distribution.
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C.H. Guenther & Son at 150 years The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer
Fisher Lewis F. Manufacturer: Maverick Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UIGRMC |
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Crusade for the children;: A history of the National Child Labor Committee and child labor reform in America,
Walter I Trattner Manufacturer: Quadrangle Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 081290141X |
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America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out
Suzanne Wiggans Helburn , Barbara R. Bergmann , Suzanne Helburn , Barbara Bergmann , and Suzanne W. Helburn Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1403962111 |
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The quality of child care in America is mediocre at best-and often far worse. Is there a way out of this mess, or are the lives of the nation's children jeopardized by a system that is minimally regulated and vastly underfunded? In America's Child Care Problem, esteemed economists Suzanne W. Helburn and Barbara R. Bergmann outline the kind of help Americans need from their government if their children are to get the early care and education they deserve, and at a price that won't wreck their family budgets.Customer Reviews:
Definitive Landmark work -- highly readable.......2002-03-17
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Children's Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America
David Post Manufacturer: Westview Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0813339154 |
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From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and repeatedly over different survey years, David Post documents tendencies for children to become economically active, to remain in school, or to do both. The survey data analyzed illustrates the roles of family and regional poverty, and parental resources, in determining what children did with their time in each country. However, rather than to treat children's activities merely as demographic phenomena, or in isolation of the policy environment, Post also scrutinizes the international differences in education policies, labor law, welfare spending, and mobilization for children's rights. Children's Work shows that child labor will not vanish of its own accord, nor follow a uniform path even within a common geographic region. Accordingly, there is a role for welfare policy and for popular mobilization. Post indicates that, even when children attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many students will continue to work to support the family. If the consequence of their work is to impede their educational success, then schools will need to attend to a new dimension of inequality: that between part-time and full-time students.
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Child Labor in America (Perspectives on History Series)
Manufacturer: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1878668986 |
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Child Labor in America: History, Policy and Legislative Issues
William G. Whittaker Manufacturer: Novinka Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1590338952 |
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Child Work and Education: Five Case Studies from Latin America (UNICEF In Association with)
Manufacturer: Ashgate Pub Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1840149264 |
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Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus). (book review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Susan Prentice Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FA6BU Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1361 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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Combating Child Labour
A. Bequele , and J. Boyden Manufacturer: International Labour Office ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9221063887 |
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Explore the history of child labor in America through photos.(Grades 6-12): An article from: Curriculum Review
Manufacturer: PaperClip Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IQYOU Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Curriculum Review, published by PaperClip Communications on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1619 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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Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Dominique Marshall Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALPN4C Release Date: 2005-07-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1589 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.Books:
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