Earth from Above: 366 Days

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Based on Abrams' hugely successful Earth From Above: 365 Days, this new and improved edition includes 60 additional pages and almost 200 brand-new, eye-popping images by renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Reaching across the continents, from the icebergs of Antarctica to the cotton fields of India to the olive plantations of Spain, the breathtaking, full-color photographs are accompanied by informative new captions that illuminate what we see and describe the environmental concerns related to each location.

In addition, all 12 chapters of the book now open with an insightful introduction by one of several noted authors who address a wide variety of subjects critical to the present and future health of our planet: agriculture, biodiversity, sustainable development, energy, forests, fresh water, seas and oceans, global warming. Earth from Above: 366 Days offers us a valuable new perspective on our spectacular but fragile environment.

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Fascinating.......2007-10-24

The only way I seem to be able get out and about these days is through the internet or books. So I indulge in travel books and books about the world. This is my idea of travel. You might as well be hanging out the bottom of a plane, the view is incredible. The colors so beautiful and the sights amazing. You learn so much about your world through this book. I had no idea some of these places exist and I'm pretty well travelled and knowledgeable so it was fun discovering new places - places I may never get to in my life time. But Yann takes you there. I wish he would do more!

A big mistake.......2006-05-01

I could give 5 stars for the pictures but becouse of a big mistake, stars come down. Okay the photos are good but somewhere I am very dissapointed. On page August 22, where the comments for the picture were about the genocide of Jewish, it was written that Turks did the same thing to Armenians. But that was a lie. Some nummamorous people told this allegation and the writer believes them. This is very sad. If someone writing a book, he/she must be very careful about his/her words. Books must not contain allegations. Or author must tell that it was an allegation, unless it is proved.

More of the same--in every way........2006-03-17

For all intents and purposes this book is no different than the same author's book titled "Earth From Above 365 days". My comments are the same for this book as I wrote in my review of the other book;dated October 7,2004.The only difference is in the pictures. There are both good and poor aspects to this book and I have elaborated on them in my other review.

earth from above: 366 days.......2005-12-10

My husband and I love this book. We look at it every day. The text may be depressing, but it's a wake-up call to the destruction of beautiful areas like the ones depicted. The pictures are absolutely stunning and you will be astounded that there are such places in the world.

great but ..........2005-10-17

great photos!!! some repetition with the "big book". size of photos a bit small.

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The EUI has now published a draft Basic (Simplified) Treaty of the European Union -- a coherent Treaty that incorporates the essential constituent elements of the Union. This Treaty restructures and consolidates in a more accessible way the articles setting out the institutional framework and the operating rules of the Union and the EU`s policy objectives.

Convention Drawn Up on the Basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, on Simplified Extradition Procedure Between the Member States of the European ... European Communities: 1995: 2958: No. 5)

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Convention Drawn Up on the Basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, on Simplified Extradition Procedure Between the Member States of the European ... European Communities: 1995: 2958: No. 5)

Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0101295820

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Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the felt reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life.

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"This lucid study moves changing ideas about sex roles from the margins to the center of intellectual history. With superb insight and erudition Rosenberg discerns the connections between social science and feminism which replaced the ideal of 'true womanhood' with 'the new woman' at the turn of the 20th century. Besides brilliantly illuminating the personalities and ideas which led from one intellectual era to another, the book contributes groundbreaking research to the question of feminism's fate in the 1920s."-Nancy F. Cott "Weaving anecdote and analysis, Rosenberg shows how the women's experiences in academic and institutional settings influenced the direction and content of their theoretical work."-Kathryn Kish Sklar, The Wilson Quarterly

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The Intellectual Sphere of the USA
Sergey Khrystenko
Manufacturer: Authors Choice Press
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ASIN: 0595187315

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Author Sergey Khrystenko considers the intellectual sphere of the USA as an economic system that consists of three divisions.

As an economic system, the intellectual sphere of the USA is not only an aggregate of the production processes of intellectual values (books, pictures, etc.) and of intellectual services (of a teacher, musician, dancer, etc.), but also includes the distribution and consumption of these values and services, their exchange for other values and services, etc.

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An Incredibly Bad Book That Had Potential To Be Very Good

You sir, are a hero and you are now my hero

The Complete Guide to Pushing Carts for Little Pay and Years of Mental Scars
Brandon Downard
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1413785654

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My name is Brandon Downard, and I've had the incredible privilege to earn my living by pushing shopping carts for the last six years. With all the experience and disdain I've accumulated over the years, I thought I'd share it with anyone interested in seeing the world of minimum-wage labor through the eyes of some unlucky fool who is employed in it. I hope to enlighten the consumers of the world so they may be better customers and understand why people in the retail and service industries hate them so.

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An Incredibly Bad Book That Had Potential To Be Very Good .......2007-06-08

As I went through high school and college, I worked in the service industry doing menial jobs for the public, such as pumping gas, so I have a certain amount of sentiment for that portion of the workforce. This book had the potential to inform the public about such work and how it feels to be treated poorly by the public on a daily basis. It didn't, however, take advantage of the opportunity.

The book is basically a 50+ page rant by the author. It is poorly written, laden with mistakes, and appears not to have been edited. The structure is poor and the book is hard to follow. In addition, other than calling customers names, the author doesn't offer any constructive advice on how we could change the way this type worker is treated by the public.

Save your money. This vanity press "book" isn't worth much and certainly no what the publisher is charging. I would have given it zero stars if that had been possible.

You sir, are a hero and you are now my hero.......2007-04-21

Hearing about this book on Wrestlecrap radio and following the advice to this site, I just read the description and am I amazed that such a book exists and that a very large audience that this book needs may not have been tapped yet. At one time I wrangled some carts as well and am amazed at the people I still deal with on a daily basis who come into a store and you can almost hear IQ's plummeting since these people expect to be pampered to their hearts content or else they can throw a fit and storm out the door and someone could be without a job simply because they had the courage to stand up to some nuisance they call a customer.

"Customers are your paycheck" "The customer is always right" Please, don't make me choke from gutlaughing. Anyone who said that never worked these jobs before, or is now one of these sick things called a customer.

Is that what the book is really about? I don't know but from the preview I read that could sum it up. Retail is a tough life and is one that not many people escape, this book should be their (our) bible equivilant.

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Like many texts on musical analysis, FORMS IN TONAL MUSIC equips students to critically examine a wide range of compositions and forms. However, Green's text takes students a step further by enabling them to approach musical works unencumbered by preconceived notions of what characteristics the text should or should not have. Providing specific help on every aspect of musical analysis, this text uses many of the compositions found in Charles Burkhart's ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS, but it allows students the freedom to explore works that they already own.

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A fine text to help students develop skills in analysis of tonal music.......2005-11-20

This is not a book on form in the old sense of the term. That is, it is not a collection of terms for students to use as decals to stick on pieces as they learn them. Green aims to provide the student with skills that aid him or her to understand what the piece is about. What is that the piece says about itself? This is important because every piece, especially the masterworks, takes its own approach to form and for every rule provided, you can find many exceptions. The problem with the label approach is that music, thankfully, is not so standardized that you can say for a certainty how a given piece of a certain type is going to behave.

Yes, Green does use the standard terms, but only as a means of generalization. He is very good at pointing out the range of behaviors one might expect within a given form. He also provides historical notes that discuss how certain composers or historical periods used certain materials in their compositions.

Again, the goal here is to help students to develop a set of tools and intuitions so he or she can look at any (tonal) piece of music and be able to analyze what is going on within the piece. The labels only help the student if they allow the student to look more deeply and directly at the music. However, if the analysis stops with the application of a label the student will actually have been harmed. Remember, most labels are developed after a sufficient body of music has been written to codify a form. So, the living composers often wrote the music without the benefit of the terms we often use to describe their work.

While the book has many fine musical examples and recommended exercises, the teacher may wish to supplement them with examples of her own in order to provide supplementary examples of the principles discussed in the text. I believe the student gets a better idea of how music works through multiple and varied examples from the literature. The more well-chosen examples the student hears the better.

highly informative, but leaving a few gaps.......2005-03-10

This book is jam-packed with facts.

I have just two major criticisms:

--The explanations on binary forms is unnecessarily difficult to understand.

Just in case you're wondering, a binary form is closed, or sectional, if the first half ends on the tonic.
It is open, or continuous, if the first half ends on the dominant or any other chord.
It is rounded if the second part ends with a restatement of the first part.
It is simple if the second part does not end with such a restatement.
That is all in the wide world there is to it!

--The book gives detailed analyses of compositions after offering few or no musical examples. (I should have read Annie Burridge's review and purchased the Burkhart Anthology.)

I also see a few high points which are missed:

--There is no discussion of development themes. An outstanding example is Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony.
--There is no discussion of development canons. An outstanding example is Franck's Symphony in d minor.
--In the discussion on chorale preludes, he doesn't give the familiar example of "Wachet Auf."
--In the discussion on vocal chorales, he doesn't give the familiar example of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."
--In the discussion on baroque partitas, I would like to see the characteristic rhythms of each of the dance movements. The author probably considers this outside the scope of the book.
--He tells us that the recapitulation does not always treat all the themes in the exposition, but he gives us few examples. I have wondered why we never hear the lyrical theme in the recapitulation of the Dvorak cello concerto. This is such a well-known composition that I think it should be used as an example.
--I'm curious about how the Liszt piano concertos are constructed.
--I'm also curious about how the megalomanic symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner are constructed. It seems that the author was partial toward music of the baroque and classical eras, but nineteenth-century music is popular, like it or not.
--I would like more discussion about keyboard preludes. I have never been able to compose a good keyboard prelude.
--There is no discussion of standard liturgical texts for church vocal music. The author probably considered this outside the scope of the book, also.

Book bought for a class in school.......2002-04-15

This book, Form in Tonal Music, isn't the best of books for use in classes. I have found from using it that it give great examples, however, it doesn't explain definitions of words very well at all. If you are looking for a good book for examples to go with another book that you might be using on the same subject, then I would recomend it. However, if this book is going to be used without another guide, I don't recomend it.

What you must know before you buy this!.......2000-07-25

If you are using this book in a class then your teacher will guide you through it, BUT--if you are using this book to review music theory you must know a few things. 1) ALL the exercises in this book come out of the Burkhart Anthology, so you must purchase that as well. 2)There are no answers supplied for ANYof the exercises. 3) This book covers the analytical form of music (types of phrases, binary and ternary forms), it is assumed you are skilled in complex chord and harmonic analysis already. Overall, the book is fairly clear and well-organized and uses plenty of musical examples.

used this text in undergrad GREAT!.......1999-11-06

I used this text in my undergradaute study of music and find it to be useful even today. Greens' explanations along with exerpts and examples makes form in music an interesting facet. It is for those who are ready to dive into form and analysis head first. I would not recommend it to a beginner with little or no hard-core theory knowledge.

Form in Tonal Music : An Introduction to Analysis

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Form in Tonal Music : An Introduction to Analysis
Douglass M. Green
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HY5IWE

Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis (1st Edition)

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Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis (1st Edition)
Douglass M. Green
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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ASIN: B000MBR11I

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Form in tonal music : an introduction to analysis
Douglass M. Green
Manufacturer: HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON
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ASIN: B000U2KMLU

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Form in Tonal Music An Introduction to Analysis
Douglas M. Green
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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ASIN: B000PFJYT8

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Form in Tonal Music An Introduction to Analysis
Douglass M. Green
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart And Winston
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O05AJM

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Gale era una buena nadadora—pero a medio camino se dio cuenta que no lograría llegar hasta la otra orilla . . .

Annabel y su hija de tres años giraron su auto de repente—y vieron cómo otro carro se lanzaba directamente hacia ellas . . .

Ken se cayó y su rifle se disparó accidentalmente—dejándolo herido y sangrando, solo en el frío bosque . . .

¡Y ellos aparecieron!

Los ángeles sí existen—tal y como lo demuestran estas conmovedoras y verdades historias de personas cuyas vidas los ángeles salvaron y cambiaron para siempre.

El niño índigo : el viaje de dos seres extraordinarios hacia el descubrimiento de sí mismos

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El niño índigo : el viaje de dos seres extraordinarios hacia el descubrimiento de sí mismos
Arthur Colin
Manufacturer: Rba Libros
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 847871264X

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Seres Extraordinarios (Archivo del Misterio Iker Jime)
M. Moros
Manufacturer: Edaf S.A.
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Put away your secret decoder rings and pick up a copy of the latest edition of DOS For Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, the only book you'll ever need to take the mystery out of those strange, enigmatic commands in DOS-speak. Even if you've upgraded to the snazzy new Windows operating system, you may have times when those old DOS commands (which have been around since the first IBM computers appeared) may come in handy. What's a person to do?

Grab yourself a copy of DOS For Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, and keep it near your computer for quick, step-by-step instructions for doing almost anything in DOS. Author Greg Harvey has packed all the do's and don'ts of DOS together in one handy guide, written in language you can understand. Flip open the comb-bound, lay-flat book and let your fingers do the walking through the land of DOS, alphabetized from A to Z, to find fast answers to your questions. Whether you're running the original DOS or just playing DOS games under the latest versions of Windows, you'll find that this slim little reference book can be a big, big help. Plus, DOS For Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, features a Techie Talk" glossary in the back of the book to keep you from stumbling over words and phrases like clusters, FATs, sectors, and TSRs.

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good but not complete.......2003-05-31

The author seems to assume you already know something about DOS. He doesn't completely cover the basics you need to start with before you start entering commands in the MS-DOS prompt; for example, the command to change the directory is in the regular reference section rather than at the start of the book where you need it. And he just decided to not cover a few commands, like "debug". So it's not quite for "dummies", really, and it's not complete either. Lastly, we're referred to yet another book called "DOS for Dummies" rather than him explaining fully? What's up with that?

Don't get me wrong - it's still quite useful for people who already know a few basics and want to know more. But it's not well explained enough at the start for someone who's never dealt with DOS and someone who wants to really know DOS is going to have to find and buy another book on the subject.

A Great Book For Dummies.......2000-04-04

This book will really help you learn DOS commands. The DOS commands are very easy to look up in this book. This book gives simple and right to the point explanations of each command. I highly recommend this book for anyone who uses DOS.

dBASE 5 for DOS for Dummies Quick Reference

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dBASE 5 for DOS for Dummies Quick Reference
Barrie A. Sosinsky
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
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Binding: Paperback

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In an ideal world, your PC would come crammed full of RAM, and you'd never have to bother with memory-starved applications. In the real world, the best thing you can do is turn to Memory Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition. A complete resource for getting the most from your PC's memory, this easy-to-understand reference contains step-by-step instructions on determining if you have enough memory, upgrading memory, and setting up multiple configurations. Best of all, Memory Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition, covers everything Windows 95 users need to understand about that 32-bit operating system's special memory restrictions.

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WordPerfect for DOS for Dummies Quick Reference
Greg Harvey
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1568840098

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The quick and friendly way to remember all those WordPerfect functions and commands. Covers WordPerfect throuh version 6.0.

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Autocad for Dummies Quick Reference
Ellen Finkelstein
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
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Binding: Paperback

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AutoCAD is one of the most popular computer-aided design tools around - but it's not always easy to use. Fortunately, AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference sheds light on using even the most sophisticated capabilities of AutoCAD. Keyboard shortcuts, commands, and expert techniques are supplemented by real-world examples that show AutoCAD in action. Plus, to ensure that in-depth coverage is always right at hand, AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference includes cross references to AutoCAD® For Dummies®.

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Dos For Dummies Command Reference - A Quick Reference For The Rest Of Us! A To Z Dictionary Explains Dos Commands In English
Greg; Preface by Series Editor Gookin, Dan Harvey
Manufacturer: IDG Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1MWV4

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