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Aureus

By: Joan Cathcart

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Aureus By: Joan Cathcart In twelfth-century England, soldiers’ bloody corpses flew into a castle courtyard, catapulted by a trebuchet, on the order of King Henry II. The king had declared war on the Earl of Boulton, giving him the opportunity to execute a “terrific air show,” in the mocking words of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. This astonishing performance was just one of many events provoked by the discovery of a Roman treasure, the Aureus. Political and military conflict dominated Henry’s reign. With new words and weapons, Aureus explores this violent landscape and the monumental egos that drove these struggles. Marriage betrothals, begotten by the need for war, peace and allies, were the critical glue in patching together the shifting coalitions of the Middle Ages. This practice provides the backdrop for Aureus’s budding teenage romance, interrupted by parental match-making, warfare, exile, the mighty English church and, of course, the quest for the treasure.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1639370072

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The Blue Diamond

By: Joan Smith

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The Blue Diamond

By: Joan Smith

The Congress of Vienna provided international society one party after another. But Lord Moncrief had more diplomatic duties to do in restraining his cousin from purchasing the famed (and stolen) Blue Tavernier diamond. Would the mysterious but suspicious Frenchwoman, Cécile Feydeau, or the enchantingly lovely Austrian, Maria Kruger, win Moncrief’s heart in this dangerous intrigue? Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett

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Belgrave House

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1610840410

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William Wegman

Funney/strange

By: Joan Simon,William Wegman,Brooklyn Museum

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William Wegman

Funney/strange

By: Joan Simon,William Wegman,Brooklyn Museum

An examination of William Wegman and how he transposes images of daily life to reflect both beauty and absurdity.

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Yale University Press

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0300114443

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9780300114447

Leadership Matters

By: Anne W. Ackerson,Joan H. Baldwin

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Leadership Matters

By: Anne W. Ackerson,Joan H. Baldwin

Today’s history and cultural heritage museum leaders are part visionary and part foot soldier, but what makes them tick? Are there attitudes, philosophies and skills that set some people apart from the thousands charged with moving institutions forward? What lessons can we draw from their stories? Now more than ever, success as a museum leader doesn’t necessarily come with longevity, scholarship or curatorial achievement. In fact, today’s successful leaders often bring myriad skills to the table, creating a style that works both personally and professionally. This snapshot of museum leadership focuses in particular on history and cultural heritage organizations to help readers understand the power of individual leadership and its relationship to organizational strength. This book features: • 36 interviews with leaders in the field from a range of positions and institutions • 10 myths of museum leadership and why they’re wrong • 10 simple truths of museum leadership • Leadership “agenda” with criteria and goals for individual and organizational development Using personal insights of the history museum field’s most engaging, innovative and entrepreneurial leaders, Leadership Matters profiles what makes inspiring leadership in 21st century institutions. These profiles focus not only on history museum presidents, directors, and CEOs, but also on the “leaders within”—deputies, vice-presidents and department heads, as well as their counterparts in the boardroom. Ackerson and Baldwin have brought together a resource to help individuals and institutions move from the status quo to being innovative and influential.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759121850

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Alternative Agriculture: A History

From the Black Death to the Present Day

By: Joan Thirsk

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Alternative Agriculture: A History

From the Black Death to the Present Day

By: Joan Thirsk

People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.

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OUP Oxford

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0191586811

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9780191586811

Loyalist Mosaic

A Multi-Ethnic Heritage

By: Joan Magee

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Loyalist Mosaic

A Multi-Ethnic Heritage

By: Joan Magee

Loyalist Mosaic highlights the ethnic diversity among the Loyalist settlers to Canada by exploring the experiences of 11 extraordinary individuals.

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Dundurn

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1554882206

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The Paintings of Joan Mitchell

By: Jane Livingston,Joan Mitchell,Linda Nochlin,Yvette Y. Lee

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The Paintings of Joan Mitchell

By: Jane Livingston,Joan Mitchell,Linda Nochlin,Yvette Y. Lee

This exquisitely illustrated volume and the exhibition that it accompanies restore Joan Mitchell to her rightful place in the history of American artists--one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters. 145 illustrations, 85 in color.

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Univ of California Press

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0520235703

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9780520235700

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195335791

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9780195335798

As Always, Julia

The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

By: Joan Reardon

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As Always, Julia

The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

By: Joan Reardon

With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting correspondence, in print for the first time, chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and the turbulent process of Julia’s creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks ever written. Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome as she follows her diplomat husband in his postings to Nice, Germany, and Norway. With commentary by the noted food historian Joan Reardon, and covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547504837

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9780547504834

Glen Cove Revisited

By: Joan Harrison

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Glen Cove Revisited

By: Joan Harrison

Since its founding in the late 17th century as a mill town, Glen Cove has been simultaneously rural and industrial, patrician and working class. A city of multiple ethnicities and close family ties, Glen Cove has been home to generations of immigrants who came to work and stayed to live, as well as to the children of Americas elite who built their summer homes on the shores of Hempstead Harbor. In Glen Cove Revisited, The Heart of the Gold Coast is seen as only insiders know it, through images of the mill ponds and barnyards, estates and factories, schools and neighborhoods, and the people, famous and unknown, which make up this microcosm of America.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439623775

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Checklist of Toronto cabinet and chair makers, 1800-1865

By: Joan MacKinnon

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Checklist of Toronto cabinet and chair makers, 1800-1865

By: Joan MacKinnon

This checklist of Toronto cabinet and chairmakers is published as an aid to and encouragement of further studies in the field of material history. It illustrates the variety and wealth of archival sources available for research, as well as the shortcomings of such material.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772823872

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Behind the Shoulder Pads

Tales I Tell My Friends

By: Joan Collins

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Behind the Shoulder Pads

Tales I Tell My Friends

By: Joan Collins

“I’ve had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends.… Until now!” Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind one’s shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life—in and out of the limelight. Behind the Shoulder Pads will take you on a spectacular journey from her early years as a young star in Hollywood to stamping her stilettos in Dynasty; from the glittering heights of Saint-Tropez to the busy Oscars seasons in LA over the years. Joan writes movingly about her adventures with and grief for her sister, Jackie, delves deeper into the ups and downs of love and relationships, and discusses her happiness with husband Percy. Filled with a cast of household names and Hollywood icons, Behind the Shoulder Pads is a spectacularly entertaining tour de force bound to delight and shock in equal measures. Hilarious, intimate, and completely spellbinding, Joan invites you into her life like never before, sharing the stories she only tells her closest friends.

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Simon and Schuster

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9798888451632

Judge Me Nottingham

A Nice Skates Ice Skating Mystery

By: Joan Bartlett

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Judge Me Nottingham

A Nice Skates Ice Skating Mystery

By: Joan Bartlett

Nice Skates," an ice arena on the very edge of the Pacific Ocean, was holding the Pacific Coast Championships in December, 1994. It was the qualifying competition for the 1995 Nationals. Many great skaters were in attendance, as well as some very important judges. One was from the Nice Skates' home town of Portugal, California, Judge Melissa Elizabeth Nottingham. Then, just minutes before the start of the final round of judging for the Senior Ladies competition, Judge Nottingham is found dead in the pros' room sitting by the fireplace in a Queen Anne chair. It's the last night of competition with a rink jam-packed with 5,000 spectators, parents, coaches and competitors (many of whom did not like Melissa Elizabeth). The final event is ready to start, and Berrien has a murdered "Judge" on her hands. Berrien is a skating coach as well as the co-owner of the ice arena. She found the body—the second at the rink in less than two years—and becomes involved, once again, with the county sheriff deputies including tall, handsome and short-tempered Sean Mather. Skating episodes and an intriguing murder investigation crown this new addition to the Nice Skates Ice Skating Mystery Series.

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iUniverse

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0595220355

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9780595220359

A History of Kershaw County, South Carolina

By: Joan A. Inabinet,L. Glen Inabinet

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A History of Kershaw County, South Carolina

By: Joan A. Inabinet,L. Glen Inabinet

A History of Kershaw County is a much anticipated comprehensive narrative describing a South Carolina community rooted in strong local traditions. From prehistoric to present times, the history spans Native American dwellers (including Cofitachiqui mound builders), through the county's major roles in the American Revolution and Civil War, to the commercial and industrial innovations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Joan and Glen Inabinet share insightful tales of the region's inhabitants through defining historical moments as well as transformative local changes in agriculture and industry, transportation and tourism, education and community development. Kershaw County is home to some of South Carolina's most notable prehistoric sites as well as the state's oldest inland city, Camden, thus giving the region an impressive and richly textured human history. Still the most familiar icon of the county is an early weathervane silhouette honoring the Catawba Indian chief King Hagler for protecting pioneer settlers. An important colonial milling and trading center, Camden was seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis during the American Revolution and fortified as their backcountry headquarters. Eight battles and skirmishes were fought within the modern boundaries of Kershaw County, including the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, and the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill on April 25, 1781. Named for Revolutionary War patriot Joseph Kershaw, the county was created in 1791 from portions of Claremont, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Richland counties. Kershaw County developed its local economy through plantation agriculture, an enterprise dependent on African slave labor. Distinctive homes were built on rural plantations and in Camden, and a village of well-to-do planters grew up at Liberty Hill. Six Confederate generals claimed the county as their birthplace, and the area also was home to Mary Boykin Chesnut, acclaimed diarist of the Civil War. In their descriptions of Kershaw County in modern times, the Inabinets chronicle how the railroad and later U.S. Highway 1 brought opportunities for the expansion of tourism and led to Camden's development as a popular winter resort for wealthy northerners. Small towns and villages emerged from railroad stops, including Bethune, Blaney (later Elgin), Boykin, Cassatt, Kershaw, Lugoff, and Westville. The influx of new money coupled with local equestrian traditions led to an enthusiasm for polo and the creation of the Carolina Cup steeplechase at the Springdale Course. Aside from early developments in textile manufacturing, industrialization proceeded slowly in Kershaw County. The completion of the Wateree Dam in 1919 gave the region a valuable source of electricity as well as much-needed flood control and a popular new recreational area in Lake Wateree. Despite these incentives for new industry, agricultural ways of life continued to dominate until World War II influenced advances in aviation, communication, and industrialization. In describing these changes, the Inabinets map the circumstances surrounding the building of the DuPont plant which opened in 1950 and the expansion of several other industries in the area. Through perceptive text and more than eighty images, this first book-length history of Kershaw County illustrates how the region is steeped in a rich history of more than two centuries of struggles and accomplishments in which preserving lessons of the past holds equal sway with welcoming opportunities for the future.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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164336409X

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Form and Fancy

Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939

By: Joan S. Skinner

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Form and Fancy

Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939

By: Joan S. Skinner

In 1916, at an unpropitious time, Thomas Wallis founded a new practice, Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, primarily to collaborate with an American company in the design of factories to be constructed of reinforced concrete. Up to this time, the designing of factories was not popular among architects and many manufacturers regarded the employment of an architect as a wanton extravagance. Wallis's move could in this light be seen as a reckless gamble, but the subsequent achievements of him and his partners suggest that his choice had been well considered. They became prolific designers of factories and some of the best known inter-war industrial buildings – Firestone, Hoover, The Gramophone Company, Glaxo Laboratories to name only a few – were their work. Skinner looks first at the biographical background of Wallis, at the history and organization of the partnership he founded, and at the many factors that contributed to its reputation in the inter-war years. She then offers a perspective on architectural thought and activity in that period, and of the attitudes and influences on factory design. Designs by the partnership for over one hundred factories and factory buildings have been discovered and, at the core of the book is a third chapter which analyses and assesses them under four headings: the early "daylight/masonry" style; the "fancy" factories of the mid-term years of 1927–35; the more sculptural and geometrical "British modern" later works up to 1939; and designs, including overseas commissions, that do not easily fit within the three style groups. Skinner concludes with an evaluation of the philosophy of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, which was to contribute through the architectural design of factories to the successful pursuit of business by the companies that commissioned them. Although factories have played an influential role in society for more than two centuries, their design has rarely caught the imagination of architectural historians. Their neglect of the field is now being rectified to some extent and this book will contribute to the further stimulation of interest in the architectural history of factories.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853236127

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9780853236122

The Death of Ben Linder

The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua

By: Joan Kruckewitt

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The Death of Ben Linder

The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua

By: Joan Kruckewitt

In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. In 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.

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Seven Stories Press

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1583220682

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9781583220689

Seven Weeks to Sobriety

The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition

By: Joan Mathews Larson, PhD

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Seven Weeks to Sobriety

The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition

By: Joan Mathews Larson, PhD

Comprehensive, rational and personal. It suppplies much of what is missing in traditional approaches to alcoholic rehabilitation. I believe that this book can save lives." Leo Galland, M.D. Open this book and you will embark on a groundbreaking seven-week journey that will change your life. You will learn how to break your addiction to alcohol and end your cravings--and do it under your own power. Here, step-by-step, is a proven, seven-week program developed by Dr. Joan Matthews Larson at the innovative Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, that subdues your body's addictive chemistry and puts you on the path to full recovery.

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366

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Ballantine Books

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0449002594

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9780449002599

A Common Hunger

Land Rights in Canada and South Africa

By: Joan G. Fairweather

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A Common Hunger

Land Rights in Canada and South Africa

By: Joan G. Fairweather

The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications places a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. This book considers the efforts by both Canada and South Africa to reconcile the damage left by colonial expansion, in part, looking back with a critical eye, but also pointing the way towards a solution that will satisfy the common need for human dignity

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University of Calgary Press

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1552381927

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9781552381922

The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

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The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces

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Univ of California Press

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0520214692

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9780520214699

Intermediate Accounting

By: Thomas H. Beechy,Joan Elizabeth Davison Conrod

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Intermediate Accounting

By: Thomas H. Beechy,Joan Elizabeth Davison Conrod

What is intermediate accounting all about? There is a vast body of knowledge that must be mastered before you can account for the activities of an enterprise. It is the nitty-gritty course where it all happens. Every important financial accounting topic is included in this textbook. The book is a blend of technical knowledge; professional judgement; non-GAAP situations; a Canadian agenda; and an international view. In this book, the authors have taken a fresh look at the realities of Canadian business practice. A series of annual reports accompany this text as a value-added supplement.

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c2002-c2003.

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0070890234

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9780070890237

Essential Supplements for Women

What Every Woman Should Know about Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes & Amino Acids

By: Carolyn Reuben,Joan Priestly

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Essential Supplements for Women

What Every Woman Should Know about Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes & Amino Acids

By: Carolyn Reuben,Joan Priestly

This groundbreaking guide explains how vitamin and mineral supplements are useful for combating common female ailments, for preventing major diseases, and enhancing good health. Contains information on the most suitable dosages for many specific health conditions.

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Perigee Trade

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0399514376

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