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The Magnificent Seasons

How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports HIstory and Uplifted a City and the Country

By: Art Shamsky,Barry Zeman

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The Magnificent Seasons

How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports HIstory and Uplifted a City and the Country

By: Art Shamsky,Barry Zeman

The magical season of 1969--when the Jets, Mets, and Knicks all won championships--is recounted by the players who made it all happen and the fans who experienced it.

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Macmillan

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031233253X

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9780312332532

Dreamcrafting

The Art of Dreaming Big, the Sciene of Making It Happen

By: Paul Levesque,Art McNeil

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Dreamcrafting

The Art of Dreaming Big, the Sciene of Making It Happen

By: Paul Levesque,Art McNeil

Teaches concrete, real-world skills for turning any dream into a reality; Provides step-by-step exercises for defining and achieving dreams and overcoming internal and external obstacles; Includes inspirational profiles and real-life examples of high-achieving individuals who exemplify the skills described in the book.....Many people set out to ...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458777529

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Fernand Léger

Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Febr. 15 - May 12, 1998 F Organized by Carolyn Lanchner ; with Essays by Carolyn Lanchner, Jodi Hauptman and Matthew Affron ; and Contrib. by Beth Handler and Kristen Erickson

By: Fernand Léger,Carolyn Lanchner,Jodi Hauptman,Matthew Affron,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Fernand Léger

By: Fernand Léger,Carolyn Lanchner,Jodi Hauptman,Matthew Affron,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes (1913-14), the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism, through his last realistic paintings of construction workers from the early 1950s, Leger's lifelong subject was the pulse and dynamism of contemporary life.

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870700529

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9780870700521

World War II Veterans in Hollywood

By: Art Evans

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World War II Veterans in Hollywood

By: Art Evans

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, "America's number one soldier"; Clark Gable, the "King of Hollywood"; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the "singing cowboy," who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, "the Kid" who crashed gliders in the jungle; James Arness, who acquired his Gunsmoke limp in the mountains of Italy; Tony Bennett, who discovered his voice during the Battle of the Bulge; and Lee Marvin, a Marine NCO who invaded 29 islands. Profiles of these and 21 others include little-known stories and details.

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McFarland

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1476639671

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9781476639673

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kimbell Art Museum

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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kimbell Art Museum

Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393003

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9781588393005

American Art

Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery

By: Yale University Art Gallery

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American Art

Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery

By: Yale University Art Gallery

A tour through the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings of American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its kind This volume presents an engaging selection of highlights and introduces readers to the richness and diversity of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings of American art. An introductory essay outlines pivotal moments in the three-hundred-year history of collecting, exhibiting, and teaching with American art at Yale and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Friends of American Arts at Yale, whose support continues to ensure the excellence of the collection. The more than one hundred object entries that follow create a narrative that charts the multiplicity of experiences and accomplishments of artists and artisans living and working in North America--from the earliest days of European settlement to the present. Among the catalogued objects are works by some of the best-known names in American art as well as recent acquisitions and masterpieces that represent diverse American identities. A dazzling range of media is displayed, including paintings and sculpture, medals, prints and drawings, photographs, jewelry, furniture, and decorative arts. Each object is illustrated with a full-page image and is accompanied by a one-page discussion that focuses on its contribution to the history of American art. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

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Yale University Press

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0300269714

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9780300269710

The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

By: Art Byrne,James P. Womack

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The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

By: Art Byrne,James P. Womack

THE C-LEVEL GUIDE TO SUCCEEDING WITH LEAN "With 30 years of accumulated experience, Art Byrne is one of the rare few people who can speak with authority about the pitfalls of fi nancial measurement systems, the importance of respect for people, the power of Lean in the marketplace, and the leverage from organizing people around value streams. When he writes 'Go to the Gemba and Run Your Kaizen,' we must take heed." -- MASAAKI IMAI, bestselling author of Kaizen and Gemba Kaizen "In this wonderful and important book, Byrne shows us that Lean management, understood and practiced correctly, consistently delivers spectacular results." -- BOB EMILIANI, author, Better Thinking, Better Results, and Professor, Connecticut State University "A compelling picture of how Lean techniques and attitudes enable CEOs and senior executives to create a culture for transforming a company and putting it on a highperformance path." -- JERRY J. JASINOWSKI, former President of the National Association of Manufacturers "Art Byrne provides real-world examples of how he exhibited the wisdom and courage to do the right thing, improving work practices at all levels of the organization to deliver the right results for all stakeholders. Which comes first, the wisdom or the courage? Read The Lean Turnaround to find out." -- JOHN SHOOK, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute "Lean is the closest thing to magic I have experienced in my 40 years in business. I recommend Lean and this book to everyone responsible for the performance of a business, particularly those in private equity like me, where leverage magnifies the importance of cash." -- JOHN CHILDS, founder and CEO, of J. W. Childs Associates L.P. "A must-read for any leader interested in understanding the strategic advantages from focusing on activities that add value to the customer experience." -- GARY S. KAPLAN, MD, Chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System Lean isn't just for manufacturing anymore . . . Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has--and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Famous for turning around the wire management company Wiremold, where he rethought every aspect of operations from the customer's standpoint--and got everyone else in the company to do likewise--Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results. His primary message is this: Lean strategy isn't just for manufacturing. In fact, Byrne is using this very approach in his present position at a private equity firm. Whatever type of company you run, Lean can be used to improve virtually every aspect of operations, from training and leading employees to accounting and payroll issues. The Lean Turnaround explains all the ins and outs of applying Lean strategy to: Eliminate waste in every value-added operation Deliver consistent value to customers Stimulate growth and add jobs Increase wealth for all your stakeholders Build a company culture of continuous improvement (kaizen) Instead of attempting to get customers to conform to your way of doing things--which is, sadly, what most managers are taught to do--you need to configure your company to be responsive to the customers. This is at the core of Byrne's method--and it always works.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071800689

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9780071800686

New Mexico

A History

By: Joseph P. Sánchez,Robert L. Spude,Art Gómez

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New Mexico

A History

By: Joseph P. Sánchez,Robert L. Spude,Art Gómez

Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806151137

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9780806151137

Too Soon to Say Goodbye

By: Art Buchwald

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Too Soon to Say Goodbye

By: Art Buchwald

“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.”—Tom Brokaw When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop “salon” for his family and dozens of famous friends, and confronting things you usually don’t talk about before you die; he even jokes about them. Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experience—as dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the party—but also his whole wonderful life: his first love, an early brush with death in a foxhole on Eniwetok Atoll, his fourteen champagne years in Paris, fame as a columnist syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and his incarnation as hospice superstar. Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann. He plans his funeral (with a priest, a rabbi, and Billy Graham, to cover all the bases) and strategizes how to land a big obituary in The New York Times (“Make sure no head of state or Nobel Prize winner dies on the same day”). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Martha’s Vineyard and how he acquired a Picasso drawing without really trying. What we have here is a national treasure, the complete Buchwald, uncertain of where the next days or weeks may take him but unfazed by the inevitable, living life to the fullest, with frankness, dignity, and humor.

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Random House

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1588365743

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Mental Health, Inc.

How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens

By: Art Levine

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Mental Health, Inc.

How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens

By: Art Levine

The mental health system in America is hardly the front-burner issue it should be, despite lip service about reform after each new tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in “shambles.” By some measures, 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us—veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, the homeless.With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out of control, profit-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on dangerous residential treatment facilities and the failures of the pharmaceutical industry, including the overdrugging of children with antipsychotics and the disastrous maltreatment of veterans with PTSD by the scandal-wracked VA.Levine provides compelling narrative portraits of victims who needlessly died and some mentally ill people who won unexpected victories in their lives by getting smart, personalized help from “pyschosocial” programs that incorporate safe and appropriate prescribing, along with therapy and social support. He contrasts their stories with corrupt Big Pharma executives and researchers who created fraudulent marketing schemes. Levine also tells the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers, including Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who has acted as a whistleblower in several major cases, leading to important federal and state settlements; in addition, the book spotlights pioneering clinicians challenging outmoded, drug-and-sedate practices that leave 90 percent of people with serious mental illness too disabled to work.By taking a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices as well as pointing toward solutions for creating a system for effective, proven and compassionate care, Art Levine’s essential Mental Health, Inc. is a call to action for politicians and citizens alike—needed now more than ever.

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Abrams

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1468315315

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9781468315318

High Style

Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Jan Glier Reeder

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High Style

Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Jan Glier Reeder

Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010.

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1588393623

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9781588393623

Chicago Cubs

Tinker to Evers to Chance

By: Art Ahrens

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Chicago Cubs

Tinker to Evers to Chance

By: Art Ahrens

It has been a long time. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chancethat trio of bear cubs immortalized in poem and enshrined as a unit in Cooperstownformed the core of a ball club that brought Chicago baseball fans backtoback World Series championships 100 years ago. And fans are still waiting for victory number three. Chicago Cubs: Tinker to Evers to Chance brings the reader back to the notsohalcyon days of spitball pitchers, insidethepark home runs, and an era when raucous fans lined the foul lines, often a little too close for comfort for the visiting ballplayers. Beginning in 1898 with the acquisition of a green Frank Chance and following the teams exploits through the 1916 season, the last for Joe Tinker in a Cubs uniform, this is the story of Wrigleyvilles favorite tenants, before there was a Wrigleyville.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439618917

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9781439618912

Frames of Reference

Looking at American Art, 1900-1950 : Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art

By: Whitney Museum of American Art,Beth Venn,Adam D. Weinberg,Kennedy Fraser

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Looking at American Art, 1900-1950 : Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art

By: Whitney Museum of American Art,Beth Venn,Adam D. Weinberg,Kennedy Fraser

Eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture work together to provide a wide-ranging introduction to American art as well as to the Whitney Museum's unparalleled collection. 105 color plates. 130 b&w illustrations.

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Univ of California Press

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0520218884

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9780520218888

Why Winners Win

By: Art Garner

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Why Winners Win

By: Art Garner

Motivational speaker Art Garner shares advice and wisdom on how to live your best life, achieve your goals, and become the winner you’re meant to be. This is a special book about special people—Winners. Their attitudes can change the status quo; their fortitude helps them to climb mountains and endure tremendous burdens; they set their eyes on their goals and don't waver. The good news is you can be a Winner, too. What it takes to be a Winner can be learned. In this revised edition of Why Winners Win, Art Garner shows the reader the qualities, attitudes, and actions that will put one on the road to becoming a real Winner. Blending inspirational vignettes with humor, Garner takes the reader in hand and demonstrates how to shape attitudes, hone specific skills, and open previously locked doors to an exciting life of achievement. Included are chapters designed to dramatically alter one's view of oneself, one's thought patterns, and one's personal expectations. Garner teaches an effective method of motivation and shows how visualizing a goal is essential to reaching it. Among the key chapters are “Your Most Important Quality,” “Keeping Your Hot Button Hot,” “What You Set Is What You Get,” as well as a chapter original to this edition entitled “Releasing Your Untapped Potential.” Each chapter is followed by a section called “Wisdom for Winners”—pithy, commonsense guidelines to keep the would-be achiever on the upward path. Action sheets are provided to assist in charting progress. To start any journey, one must take the first step. To become a Winner, begin with this book.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455614254

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The Magnificent Seasons

The Magnificent Seasons

Dreamcrafting

Dreamcrafting

Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger

World War II Veterans in Hollywood

World War II Veterans in Hollywood

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

American Art

American Art

The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

New Mexico

New Mexico

Too Soon to Say Goodbye

Too Soon to Say Goodbye

Mental Health, Inc.

Mental Health, Inc.

High Style

High Style

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs

Frames of Reference

Frames of Reference

Why Winners Win

Why Winners Win

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