The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
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    The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
    Nathan Silver
    Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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    ASIN: 0262193485

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    This is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely public buildings of the century, was designed and built. Nathan Silver's detailed account of the Centre Pompidou -- still called Beaubourg by its designers, and by Parisians -- takes the form of a fascinating and insightful "building biography." Not just a book about a building but about the making of a building, this fresh, heterodox means of inquiry is a holistic reading of the intricate process of creating architecture in contemporary society that brings to light its human story, encompassing its stylistic, historical, technical, and social aspects.

    Beaubourg, Silver reveals, was unlike anything that had ever been built. A realization of ideals and aspirations of it architectural generation, a rethinking of fundamental precepts of design and construction, it took nothing for granted, and it has since become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Europe -- flaunting new principles that other architects have to come to terms with.
    Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Pari
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      Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Pari

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        Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Pari
        Nathan Silver
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        The Weekend Crafter: Painting Ceramics: Easy Projects & Stylish Designs to Paint in a Weekend
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        The Weekend Crafter: Painting Ceramics: Easy Projects & Stylish Designs to Paint in a Weekend
        Moira Neal , and Lynda Howarth
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        5 out of 5 stars lucretia's reviews of weekend painters.......2000-08-03

        yes i really did enjoy your weekend crafter i was thrilled with the pictures to help me along with my projects i had never seen silverware wrote on before or painted on to match the plates and dinnerware. i really am glad i ordered this book thankyou lucretia
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              Painting Ceramics In a Weekend (Crafts in a Weekend)
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                  Verf Op Glas (Crafts in a Weekend)
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                    Moira Neal , and Lynda Howarth
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                    Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers
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                    Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers
                    Joe Farace
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                    ASIN: 024080838X

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                    Whether you are using a digital compact or dSLR camera to shoot, or a Mac or PC to manipulate your images, Joe Farace explains what products are out thereand how to use them to get the best shots.

                    While most books offer photographers tips and tricks for working with the latest software package, this book offers a new approach to working with digital images:

                    Learn how to use digital imaging tools not just a particular software package to produce professional prints or digital images for the web.

                    Getting Started with Digital Imaging offers a new approach for amateur photographers working with digital images. It takes you behind the screens, showing you how to use the tools - not the software itself - to produce professional prints or digital images for the Web.

                    Joe Farace guides you through the entire digital workflow, from choosing the right digital camera, setting up your digital darkroom, learning the key imaging tools and shortcuts, understanding file formats, printing and preparing images for the web.

                    Packed with step-by-step tutorials, case studies and invaluable tips from the pros, this guide will help you get to grips with digital imaging and produce fantastic results in no time at all.

                    * Guides you through digital workflow from capture to output
                    * Relevant for ALL digital imaging software
                    * Real world examples and invaluable tips are clearly explained with high quality full color images and screengrabs

                    * Get the most out of the digital imaging tools you have without the need to upgrade
                    * Streamline your digital photography workflow
                    * Packed with step-by-step tutorials, fully illustrated real world examples, and tips from the pros

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                    1 out of 5 stars Political Nonsense.......2007-07-25

                    This book covers many areas of digital imaging, or appears to do. If you bother to actually try to get any benefit from the book, you're wasting your time.
                    The first thing you realise is that the author should be a politician - talks a lot of words but doesn't actually say anything or commit himself to anything.
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                    Digital Imaging: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Photographers (Book & CD-ROM)
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                    Digital Imaging: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Photographers (Book & CD-ROM)
                    Joe Farace
                    Manufacturer: Focal Press
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                    The tips, tools and techniques covered here clearly explain, through step-by-step examples and case studies, exactly how to produce a wide range of specific images and photographic effects. Topics include how to assemble a digital imaging toolkit using power image editing and creation tools, getting your digital images into a form that can be printed using conventional analog darkroom techniques and printing on watercolor and other specialty papers. Also included is a comprehensive CD-ROM containing over 100 full-color images of all the steps outlined in the book and the stunning final images these lessons will help you to achieve. 195 pp., fully illustrated in color and b&w, 7 x 10 , Softbound. (C) 1998

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                    1 out of 5 stars I want my money back!.......1999-05-08

                    I purchased this book because of the claim on the back cover that the topic of getting your digital images into a form that can be printed using conventional analog darkroom techniques was covered. It is very hard to find information on this subject anywhere in the vast library of books covering the subject of digital imaging. The introduction to the book states that in chapter 8 "You will learn about getting your digital images into a form that can be printed using conventional analog - silver based darkroom techniques. This includes examples such as making 4X5 negatives and transparencies from your images." Guess what - there is nothing in chapter 8 or anywhere else in this book that discusses these techniques.

                    Hot Cider, Hot Cocoa and Hot Flashes - Maxine's Guide to the Holidays
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                      Hot Cider, Hot Cocoa and Hot Flashes - Maxine's Guide to the Holidays

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                      ASIN: 0875296564
                      Hot Cider, Hot Cocoa And Hot Flashes
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                      Hot Cider, Hot Cocoa And Hot Flashes
                      Wagner
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                      4 out of 5 stars How could any one hate Christmas?.......1999-10-29

                      Christmas, sometimes called "Satan's Revenge," is not universally loved, believe it or not. If you loathe "The Little Drummer Boy" after 89 hearings, you need this book, and a copy of "Ethel Burke's What I Hate About Christmas." Add both to your wish list for this Christmas.

                      La Economia de La Antiguedad
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                        La Economia de La Antiguedad
                        Michael I. Finley
                        Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
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                        Financing Technology's Frontier: Decision-Making  Models for Investors and Advisors (Wiley Finance)
                        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                        • Great, great business book...
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                        Financing Technology's Frontier: Decision-Making Models for Investors and Advisors (Wiley Finance)
                        Richard P. Shanley
                        Manufacturer: Wiley
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                        An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of emerging technology industries
                        Financing Technology's Frontier draws upon the experiences of today's most successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to provide investment professionals expert insight and powerful tools for identifying and capitalizing on the most promising high-tech and biotech opportunities. It also includes proven business models and many fascinating and instructive case studies that help entrepreneurs, CEOs and CFOs learn from the successes and setbacks of other companies in their sectors.
                        Richard Shanley (New York, NY) is a partner in the Health Services and New Media division at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

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                        An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of emerging technology industries
                        Financing Technology's Frontier draws upon the experiences of today's most successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to provide investment professionals expert insight and powerful tools for identifying and capitalizing on the most promising high-tech and biotech opportunities. It also includes proven business models and many fascinating and instructive case studies that help entrepreneurs, CEOs and CFOs learn from the successes and setbacks of other companies in their sectors.
                        Richard Shanley (New York, NY) is a partner in the Health Services and New Media division at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

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                        5 out of 5 stars Great, great business book..........2004-02-18

                        Covers financing from a variety of angles, with a number of different thought points I had not considered on the tax and workforce side. Liked the focus on biotech and pharma as well.

                        1 out of 5 stars Don't waste your $$$.......2000-11-22

                        Despite the nice title of the book, it is not worth a $105.00. The decision making models are overviews and are very brief. This book lacks numeracy. The case studies in my opinion are underdeveloped. The author spends time talking about strategic partnerships and the need for venture portfolio companies, to develop them, but he doesn't provide any examples of those that worked. There is some information to be gleaned from this book, but if you can get it for under $30, then buy it. Otherwise at $105, you will be very disappointed. This book is totally overpriced. If I could photocopy it and return it, I would have.

                        Friends but No Allies: Economic Liberalism and the Law of Nations (Political Economy of International Change)
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                          Friends but No Allies: Economic Liberalism and the Law of Nations (Political Economy of International Change)
                          Stephen C. Neff
                          Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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                          Friends But No Allies: Economic Liberalism and the Law of Nations
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                            Friends But No Allies: Economic Liberalism and the Law of Nations
                            Stephen Neff
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                            Labour Market Reform in China (Trade and Development)
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                              Labour Market Reform in China (Trade and Development)
                              Xin Meng
                              Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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                              ASIN: 0521771269

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                              Labour Market Reform in China analyzes institutional changes in the Chinese labor market over the past twenty years, and offers evidence that further reform is necessary if China is to sustain its high growth rates. It investigates separately the impact of economic reform on the rural and urban labor markets and then considers their interaction. Consideration is given to employment and unemployment, wages and social security. It provides a detailed analysis of how current ownership patterns of urban enterprises hinder further labor market reform.

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                              Labour Market Reform in China documents and analyses institutional changes in the Chinese labour market over the last twenty years, and argues that further reform is necessary if China is to sustain its high growth rates. The book first assesses the problems associated with the pre-reform labour arrangements. It offers an in-depth analysis of the urban labour market and its impact on individual wage determination, ownership structure, labour compensation and labour demand and of social security reform. In its main chapters, the book investigates the impact of rural economic reform on rural labour market. Detailed consideration is given to the rural agricultural labour market, labour arrangement in the rural non-agricultural sector, and the wage gap between the rural agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. Finally, the book examines the new phenomenon of rural-urban migration, its impact on rural and urban economic growth, and models its effect on urban employment, unemployment and earnings.
                              Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market (Chinese Worlds (University of Hawaii))
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                                Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market (Chinese Worlds (University of Hawaii))
                                Lvigi Tomba , and Luigi Tomba
                                Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
                                ProductGroup: Book
                                Binding: Hardcover

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                                ASIN: 0824826582

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                                Labor reform is only one component of the larger process of economic and societal reformation experienced by China from the late seventies, and is the part of this process where paradoxes emerge most clearly. Labor theory and consequent policy and law-making emerge from a rapidly changing ideological environment and violently clash with the social and practical contradictions of policy implementation. It is argued that this is accompanied by increasing societal resistance to the state's overall policies, and by an increasing informalization of labor practices.

                                Tomba borrows historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policy making takes place in contemporary China. This book will be valuable to students of contemporary Chinese society, and will be key to understanding twenty-five years of Chinese labor reform.
                                Labour market aspects of state enterprise reform in China (OECD Development Centre technical papers)
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                                  Labour market aspects of state enterprise reform in China (OECD Development Centre technical papers)
                                  Fan Gang
                                  Manufacturer: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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                                  Binding: Unknown Binding

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                                  ASIN: B0006FDY3E
                                  Labour Market Reform in China
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                                    Labour Market Reform in China
                                    Xin Meng
                                    Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr 01/1//2000
                                    ProductGroup: Book
                                    Binding: Paperback
                                    ASIN: B000N5TEPY

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