Landscape Detailing Volume 1:, Third Edition: Enclosures (Landscape Detailing)

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Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works.

Volume I, Enclosures, covers walls (free-standing, screen and retaining), fences, gates, barriers and bollards. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction and then provides a list of points against which specifications can be checked. This is followed by a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets. These details can be traced for direct incorporation into the set of contract drawings. A list of relevant British Standards, references, bibliography and a list of associations and institutions indicate where further guidance can be obtained. As a ready reference for landscape designers and as an indispensable time-saving tool, Landscape Detailing is an essential for the design office.

* Provides technical guidance notes and drawn to scale detail sheets for ease of understanding
* Learn first hand from a well-established author in the field of Landscape Detailing
* Save time with traceable drawn-to-scale detail sheets

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Home Guide to Trees Shrubs and Wild Flowers
Grimm
Manufacturer: Outlet
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517130556

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An absolute must-have book for cruisers.......2001-05-05

Having just spent 4 months cruising the Leeward and the Windward islands, I must say that I can't imagine doing so without Chris Doyle's cruising guides. They provide an amazing amount of detail on virtually every aspect of the islands; from anchorages to repairs to provisioning to customs. His maps and navigation sections prove invaluable.

The information in these guides are incredibly up to date considering the amount of change which is occurring in the islands. While Chris may be overly kind with his pen at times, you can always tell when he really likes or dislikes something. He is also very receptive to receiving corrections via e-mail.

All in all this is a must-have book for anyone thinking of cruising the Leewards.

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Charming illustrations and playful rhythmic verse make real-life learning fun by taking babies and toddlers on an adventurous discovery of water and its many sources. Squeezable and floatable, Water, Water, Everywhere can be enjoyed in and out of the tub.

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Wonderful.......2007-09-27

Our baby started "reading" this in the tub from about 4 months. At 19 months she still loves it. The verse was easily memorized and can get a smile out of her in or out of the tub. The other Baby Einstein bath books are cute, but this one is by far my (and her) favorite.

Best chew toy ever.......2007-08-09

I am a mama of 8 month old twins, and they love eating this book! On occasion we have been able to get through actually reading it, but for the most part it is in one or both of their mouths by the last page. All in all, I'd say its a hit. Maybe once they get past teething, we can actually read it to them.

Baby Einstein: Water, Water Everywhere: A Splash & Giggle Bath Book.......2007-07-04

I bought this, and other Baby Einstein Bath Books, for my eleven month old twin grandchildren. They love the bright colors and the feel of the material. They never tire of playing with them.

Well loved in our tub!.......2007-03-31

My son had a couple bath books that he loved, so I decided to add this one since we had to read the others so many times in a row. This quickly became his very favorite!!! He is 17 months and now "reads" it to me in the tub, babbling and turning pages.

Fun for baby, Big Help for mom.......2006-11-01

We bought this book along with the "Who lives in the pond" 8mos ago, when our baby was 10mos.
She was always trying to stand up and get out of the bathtub.
Now she sits in the tub "reading" her book.
Then the problem was that she never wanted to get out of the tub, so now we keep the other book in the bench where we dry and dress her.
With this books, bath time is now very fun for both of us.

Bears, Bears, Everywhere (Rookie Readers)

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Bears, Bears, Everywhere (Rookie Readers)
Rita Milios
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0516278304

Color is everywhere! (A Judy/Instructo doughnut book)

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Color is everywhere! (A Judy/Instructo doughnut book)
Cindy Barden
Manufacturer: Judy/Instructo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 1564178374

In the Air and Everywhere: The Scientific American Pop-Up Book of Birds

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In the Air and Everywhere: The Scientific American Pop-Up Book of Birds
Jody Marshall , and Jody Marcshall
Manufacturer: W H Freeman & Co (Sd)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0716765470

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Great for children over 1 year of age

Numbers Are Everywhere! (FUN FLAPS)
DK Publishing
Manufacturer: DK Preschool
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0756617634

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In this fun visual introduction to numbers and counting, the lift of a flap turns one puppy into two and three butterflies into four.

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Great for children over 1 year of age.......2007-06-27

The flaps are great! It's a little 'busy' for my 9 1/2 month old, but I'm excited that we have it in our book library for when he gets older. There are alot of items on 1 page, which I think can be distracting for him right now, but will be great in a couple of months. Overall, great learning book!

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Toys Everywhere (A World of Difference)
Cynthia Hedges Greising , and David Greising
Manufacturer: Childrens Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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Draw With Bear, Here, There, and Everywhere: With Stencils, Stylus and Magic Drawing Pad (Draw Boards)

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Draw With Bear, Here, There, and Everywhere: With Stencils, Stylus and Magic Drawing Pad (Draw Boards)
Claire Henley
Manufacturer: Barrons Juveniles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764174339

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Preschool and kindergarten-age kids will have fun learning to draw with Bear. The miniature portfolio opens to present a 6" x 7" spiral-bound book filled with bright illustrations and shapes simple enough so that very young children can successfully copy them. The book's artboard pages unfold to double size. The page's fold-over portion has a die-cut stencil that gives simple outlines of the illustration beneath it. Attached to the portfolio next to the picture book is a "Magic Pad"--a brightly tinted plastic sheet on which kids can trace animal images by using the enclosed wooden stylus. To erase their work and start another picture, they simply lift the plastic sheet and drop it back in place. They'll find dozens of pictures to copy for hours and hours of fun. Sturdy hardboard covers protect pages and stencils, so that Draw Boards can be used and enjoyed over and over again. (Ages 3-6)

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Easter bunnies everywhere
William Boniface
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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With Easter fast approaching, bunnies all over the world are preparing for the big day and they need help decorating their eggs in styles unique to their own countries. Following the same format as the wildly successful What Do You Want on Your Pizza?, this big, chunky book lets kids choose decorations and fit them into the appropriate slots on each of five spreads throughout the story. Whether it's jewels on the Russian bunny's eggs, a pattern of seashells on a South Pacific bunny's eggs, or stars and stripes on the American bunny's eggs, with over 30 fun, fabulous pieces, this is a one-of-a-kind holiday treat that kids will love!

Illustrated by Ronnie Rooney.

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This is a book about the physical processes in reacting complex molecules, particularly biomolecules. In the past decade scientists from different fields such as medicine, biology, chemistry and physics have collected a huge amount of data about the structure, dynamics and functioning of biomolecules. Great progress has been achieved in exploring the structure of complex molecules. However, there is still a lack of understanding of the dynamics and functioning of biological macromolecules. In particular this refers to enzymes, which are the basic molecular machines working in living systems. This book contributes to the exploration of the physical mechanisms of these processes, focusing on critical aspects such as the role of nonlinear excitations and of stochastic effects. An extensive range of original results has been obtained in the last few years by the authors, and these results are presented together with a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in the field.

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One of the major discoveries of the past two decades in algebraic geometry is the realization that the theory of minimal models of surfaces can be generalized to higher dimensional varieties. This generalization, called the minimal model program, or Mori's program, has developed into a powerful tool with applications to diverse questions in algebraic geometry and beyond. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the circle of ideas developed around the program, the prerequisites being only a basic knowledge of algebraic geometry. It will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers working in algebraic geometry and related fields.

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A gateway to modern birational geometry.......2002-11-09

This book provides a neat introduction to (basically) what happened in birational geometry in the '80s. It contains a description of so-called minimal model program which deals which birational classification of complex algebraic varieties. Some level of familiarity with standard algebraic geometry (like what're written in Hartshorne's famous book) is required to be able to read this book. All the important results in MMP were established in this book except the (general) existence of flips in 3 dimension, which doesn't appear anywhere else but the original research articles. One other thing that's missing in this book is discussions of complex analytic methods, which are proved to be extremely useful in dealing with some problems (for example, Fujita conjecture, invariance of plurigenera, so on...).
In conclusion, this is THE must-read book for people who would like to know MMP. It may not be very reader-friendly, but it's a book that you must read if you want to study birational geometry.

Higher Dimensional Birational Geometry (Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics)

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Higher Dimensional Birational Geometry (Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics)

Manufacturer: Mathematical Soc of Japan
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Algebraic Geometry: An Introduction to Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (Universitext)

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Algebraic Geometry: An Introduction to Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (Universitext)
Shigeru Iitaka
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions–affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

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I liked it-- but I'm hoping this isn't Baldwin's best novel........2004-10-11

You know, I'll just say it up front: I expected better. I was set up. Having previously read Baldwin's short story, "Sonny's Blues", I thought that I would find more of those deeply moving characteristics in Baldwin's novel, "If Beale Street Could Talk". But it didn't pan out that way. See for yourself! Give yourself an hour to soak up the richness of "Sonny's Blues"-- the deeply convincing character of Sonny, his life & passion for jazz music-- and compare that with Fonny and his hobby wood & stone carving. The latter character portrayal is much less convincing, as so I felt about the book as a whole. It felt too... forced. Maybe the relative youth of Fonny & Tish was the source of shallowness I experienced while reading Beale Street, but in any case I didn't find myself gripped & moved by the story-- like I did while reading "Sonny's Blues".

Enough with the critical comparisons; I still felt the theme of racial injustice, and the desperate efforts of the two families against near-impossible odds within the then-existing legal system. I did find myself hoping with the families as the conclusion neared. I give the book three stars-- perhaps closer to a three & a half star vote.

What Beal Street Says When It Talks.......2003-12-02

I think it sure would help our world if more people would read James Baldwin. He tells stories about parts of life (real life) and places in this world (in our country) that existed a long, long time without a reporter's voice. He wrote this book in the 1970's but it is still pertinent today. His talent is to turn into literature a reality that we might well prefer to hide from. His talent is not to be underestimated. He was a trained preacher and his cadence and language use are beautiful and compelling. There is hard well-honed anger fueling this story -- you can taste it as you read. But it is equally love that spurs Baldwin: the immense and enduring love he sees that holds people together in the corners where he's throwing his light for us to see. And, maybe more important, I contend that it is a bigger love and faith that moves his stories. Ultimately his faith is that in the possibility of our society waking up and responding out of love to the anger/stories/ reality he reports on. Why else would he tell us these stories if he didn't believe we could be moved and change? This book is a marvelous story of young love (Tish & Fonny) and mature love (Tish's parents/family) and distorted love (Fonny's parents) caught in a world that is cruel and arbitrary. It is the story of families holding together and falling apart as they cope and struggle with false accusations that tear their lives apart. It is about ways people: contend with / find resolve in the face of / are crushed by / survive and can be destroyed by / racism --as individuals; as families; as a society. And the nuisances of how racism works and the nicks and scrapes and deep cuts it wields along the way are everywhere, woven into the story not as didactic pounding away but as a subtle landscape in which the story's characters (and we) must find a way to survive. You can't read this story and not care. And where Baldwin leaves the reader in the end is exactly where we have to be left. Love can kill you - or maybe it can save us all. Baldwin was right to be angry and to make his anger known--and he was right to believe in love and to trust that the good in people can rise up--all people regardless of race--and make a difference. If only more people would read him and look at / think about the costs we all pay for letting racism survive we might find our selves on a path to a better future. Baldwin's left us these books. He did his part. We might all make a contribution by telling other people to read what her wrote.

If Beale Street Could Talk . . . would America hear it?.......2003-06-13

It is always a great disappointment and a tremendous joy to read Baldwin. The author's ability to bring the experiences of African American life and the circumstances under which those lives are lived here in America is a joyful, although difficult, reading experience. The disappointment comes in realizing that although Baldwin's canon of work spanned the late 1960's through 1970's, many of the conditions that he writes about so candidly still exist in 2003. The novel is, at its core, a beautiful love story. Not the kind where man meets woman, they fall in love, marry, have children and move into their lovely suburban home adorned with white picket fence and a two car garage. For that American dream was rarely the experience of many African Americans during the period in which the novel is set. In this depiction of the American dream, Tish and Fonny meet as children, grow up and in love, all the while aspiring to create a life together. Their hopes for the future are destroyed when Fonny is jailed for a rape he did not commit.

With classic Baldwin insight, the novel reveals how individual, systematic and internalized racial hatred ruined the lives of two lovers and their families. From the white cop that set Fonny up, to the court system that held him down (although he had an alibi) to the family that turned their backs on him, all contributed to his destruction. When Baldwin isn't rendering a scathing critique of America's racial injustices, he's rebuking the unquestioning manner that many African American's cling to religion in hopes of obtaining freedom here on earth.

Although at times it is difficult to distinguish the characters' voice from the author's, the novel truthfully depicts a fictional account of the realities of America's racism. I thought the ending was a bit fatalistic but decided that is exactly the point that Baldwin was making about the future of America in the absence of full equality for all of her citizens. "If Beale Street Could Talk" is as tragic as it is loving. It's a great read that serves to remind and encourage. Highly Recommended.

A Powerful Combination of Strength and Love.......2003-02-11

When Michael Ondaatje spoke of author James Baldwin, he responded, "If Van-Gogh was our 19th-cetury artist saint, James Baldwin is our 20th century one". This statement is clearly evident in Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk, a masterpiece that will move readers in more ways than one.

In the story, we are introduced to Fonny & Tish. They are a young couple, in love and looking toward marriage and building a life together; Tish is also expecting their first child. When Fonny is arrested and jailed for a serious crime, instead of waiting Tish fights for Fonny's release. She is also determined to deliver the child that is a symbol of their love and from beginning to end; we see the power of love and the realities of life that even today is an absolute truth.

With many twists and turns, If Beale Could Talk is an emotionally charged masterpiece with honest themes and characters that are relatable. James Baldwin is truly an author who has made a mark and this is one literary work that is truly recommended---for all the literary world.

Reviewed by Kanika (Nika) Wade
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Baldwin is beautiful!.......2003-02-03

There isn't enough that I can say about "If Beale Street Could Talk." It was one of the most captivating, loving, and pure novels ever written. I was moved by the love of Tish and Fonny, how their love grew naturally from childhood and blossomed into adulthood. That love transcends the prison which Fonny can't escape; that same love will set him free. I also appreciated the strong bond of Tish's family and Fonny's father, who work tirelessly to help this young man out of prison. It's refreshing to see a Black family come together in a dire time of need. This was a excellent novel for all Black readers and especially for all others who want to understand the Black experience.

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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
Manufacturer: Dial Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: B000EG3ZQG

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The relationship between two lovers and their families is the focus of If Beale Street Could Talk (1974). The novel concerns the hypocrisy found in the church and relationships between family membersespecially sisters, who for the first time make a serious appearance in Baldwins work.

Go Tell It On The Mountain The Fire Next Time If Beale Street Could Talk (Black Expression Rediscoveries, Second Volume)

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Go Tell It On The Mountain The Fire Next Time If Beale Street Could Talk (Black Expression Rediscoveries, Second Volume)

Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1582880824

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Includes: Go Tell It on The Mountain, The Next time by fire and If Beale Street Could Talk all in one volume

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If Beale Street Could Talk

Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
BALDWIN JAMES
Manufacturer: LAUREL - DELL
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ASIN: B000PGSW7C

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If Beale Street Could Talk
james baldwin
Manufacturer: Dial
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.

Manufacturer: Wolters-Noordhoff
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9001548741

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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. A Novel.
James. Baldwin
Manufacturer: Dial,
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Binding: Hardcover

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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
Manufacturer: Dial Press
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if beale street could talk
balden james
Manufacturer: dial press 1974 ist Prtg
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ASIN: B000N4QVEM

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