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Glamour

Making it Modern

By: Michael Lassell

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Embracing design of every kind from every corner of the globe, this inspirational work looks at the defining notions of glamour, elements of home decoration, and homes where everything comes glamorously together. Includes a directory of the designers and resources.

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Filipacchi Publishing

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1933231564

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Decorate

Insider's Tips from Top Interior Designers

By: Michael Lassell

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Decorate

Insider's Tips from Top Interior Designers

By: Michael Lassell

Whatever kind of home you live in-from a high-rise condo on Miami Beach to a glass-enclosed "cabin" in the Pacific Northwest, from a New York City townhouse to a ranch house in New Orleans, Dallas, or L.A.-Decorate has something to offer. With its focus on current trends, this book offers advice and insight from some of the top designers working today.

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Filipacchi Publishing

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1933231033

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The Cambridge Planetary Handbook

By: Michael E. Bakich

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The Cambridge Planetary Handbook

By: Michael E. Bakich

Comprehensive reference text on planetary astronomy written for the general reader.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521632803

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Living Among Giants

Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System

By: Michael Carroll

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Living Among Giants

Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System

By: Michael Carroll

The outer Solar System is rich in resources and may be the best region in which to search for life beyond Earth. In fact, it may ultimately be the best place for Earthlings to set up permanent abodes. This book surveys the feasibility of that prospect, covering the fascinating history of exploration that kicks off our adventure into the outer Solar System. Although other books provide surveys of the outer planets, Carroll approaches it from the perspective of potential future human exploration, exploitation and settlement, using insights from today’s leading scientists in the field. These experts take us to targets such as the moons Titan, Triton, Enceladus, Iapetus and Europa, and within the atmospheres of the gas and ice giants. In these pages you will experience the thrill of discovery awaiting those who journey through the giant worlds and their moons. All the latest research is included, as are numerous illustrations, among them original paintings by the author, a renowned prize-winning space artist.

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Springer

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3319106740

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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday

1849-1855, Volume 4

By: Michael Faraday

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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday

1849-1855, Volume 4

By: Michael Faraday

The complete Correspondence, which will comprise six volumes, is a landmark resource for all historians of science and technology. Nearly two-thirds of the letters in this 4th volume are previously unpublished. They concern Faraday's work on such diverse topics as terrestrial and atmospheric magnetism, the electrification of lighthouses and the theory of telegraphic retardation, as well as advice to the Government on the war with Russia, his exclusion from the Sandemanian Church and his views on table turning. Correspondence with such figures as Thomson, Babbage, Brunel, Schoenbein and Whewell.

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IET

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0863412513

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Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World

And How To Make Them Yourself

By: Michael Marett-Crosby

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Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World

And How To Make Them Yourself

By: Michael Marett-Crosby

Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World" takes twenty-five journeys through space, back in time and into human history. We begin with the simplest sight of the Tycho Crater on the Moon, through a repeat of Galileo's observations of Jupiter's moons, and then move out towards the nebulae, stars, and galaxies. The astronomical observations repeat the original groundbreaking discoveries that have changed our understanding of science and ourselves. This title contains graded observing challenges from the straightforward to the more difficult (in chapter order). It offers clear observing tips and lots of practical help, presuming no prior in-depth knowledge of equipment. Binoculars and/or a small astronomical telescope are all that is required for most of the observations. Secondly, it explores for each observation the science of what is seen, adding to the knowledge and enjoyment of amateur astronomers and offering lots of reading for the cloudy nights when there is not a star in view. Thirdly, the book puts the amateur astronomers' observations into a wider perspective. "Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World" makes the observer part of that great story of discovery. Each chapter, each observing challenge, shows how to observe and then how to look with understanding. The projects begin with practicalities: where the object is, how best is it observed and with what appropriate equipment (usually a small-to-medium aperture amateur telescope, binoculars, even the naked eye). "Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations that Changed the World" guides even the inexperienced amateur astronomer - beginners can use the book - around a variety of night-sky objects, and reminds the more experienced how they can best be seen. These practical observations put us in contact with all the history and culture surrounding them: through scientific speculation and literature to those first fuzzy images made in 1959 by the Russian space probe Luna 3.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461468000

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The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II

By: Michael Alfred Peszke

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The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II

By: Michael Alfred Peszke

This military history covers the attempts of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his successor (General Kazimierz Sosnkowski) to integrate Polish forces into Western strategy, and to have their clandestine forces declared an allied combatant. It addresses such topics as Poland's part in the Norwegian and French campaigns, the Battle of Britain, Polish intelligence services, Polish radio communications, the Polish Parachute Brigade, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Bomber Offensive, the Katyn graves, Polish air crews in the RAF Transport Command, the Tehran Conference, Polish Wings in the 2nd Tactical Air Force, the Bardsea Plan, the invasion of Normandy, the Pierwsza Pancera, the Warsaw Uprising, Operation Freston, the disbanding of the Polish Home Army, and the Yalta Conference.

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McFarland

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1476610274

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What is Hinduism?

A Student's Introduction

By: Michael Baltutis

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What is Hinduism?

A Student's Introduction

By: Michael Baltutis

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism. Central to its focus is demonstrating the fundamental diversity within Hinduism through the multiplicity of its core beliefs and traditions. Chapters are divided into four historical categories – Vedic, Ascetic, Classical, and Contemporary Hinduism – with each examining one deity alongside one key term, serving as a twin focal point for a more complex discussion of related key texts, ideas, social structures, religious practices, festivals, and concepts such as ritual and sacrifice, music and devotion, and engagement and renunciation. The organization of this book requires that we see deities as not simply divine individuals who preside over one part of the Hindu world, but that each deity operates as a larger cultural category whose related persons, concepts, and practices provide a vivid lens through which Hindu devotees see and continue to readapt to the world in which they live. With study questions, glossaries, and lists of key contemporary figures, this book is an essential and comprehensive resource for students encountering the multiplicity of Hinduism for the first time.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040025927

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The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900

By: Michael J. Crowe

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The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900

By: Michael J. Crowe

Detailed, scholarly study examines the ideas that developed between 1750 and 1900 regarding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, including those of Kant, Herschel, Voltaire, Lowell, many others. 16 illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486145018

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Buildings for Music

The Architect, the Musician, the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day

By: Michael Forsyth

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Buildings for Music

The Architect, the Musician, the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day

By: Michael Forsyth

The book focuses on how musical taste and style affected architecture and acoustics influenced musical composition.

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CUP Archive

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0521268621

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A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences

By: Michael Allaby

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A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences

By: Michael Allaby

This new edition includes 10,000 entries which cover all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy and volcanology. In this edition, 675 new entries have been added, and include expanded coverage of planetary geology and earth-observing-satellites. Other new entries terms such as Ianammox, Boomerangian, earth rheological layering, and metamorphic rock classification. The entries are also complemented by more than 130 diagrams and numerous web links that are listed on a regularly updated dedicated companion website. Appendices supplement the A-Z and have been extended to include three new tables on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, Avalanche Classes, and the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The list of satellite missions has also been revised and updated to include recent developments. A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences is an authoritative, and jargon-free resource for students of geology, geography, geosciences, physical science, and those in related disciplines.

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Oxford University Press

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0192575708

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Picture This!

Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space

By: Michael Carroll

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Picture This!

Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space

By: Michael Carroll

Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put scale extraterrestrial objects side by side with objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example, study the pictures of Earth floating above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto’s CN Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later chapters, you will be told how close the visionaries of the past came to guessing what today’s explorers would find. Astronomer/painter Lucien Rudaux’s masterpieces of Mars dust storms anticipated Viking and Mars rover images by nearly a century. Space artist Ludek Pesek envisioned astronauts setting up camp on the lunar surface in scenes hauntingly similar to photos taken by Apollo astronauts decades later. But the real benefit of this work is in better grasping the nature of our universe -- how big it is, now large it is, and how we fit into it.

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Springer

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331924907X

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The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

By: Michael Lemonick

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The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

By: Michael Lemonick

“A bright, shiny gift to popular-science collections.”—Booklist Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work that affects how we see the world today. The Herschels made comprehensive surveys of the night sky, carefully categorizing every visible object in the void. Caroline wrote an influential catalogue of nebulae, and William discovered infrared radiation. Veteran science writer Michael D. Lemonick guides readers through the depths of the solar system and into his subjects’ private lives: William developed bizarre theories about inhabitants of the sun; he procured an unheard-of salary for Caroline from King George III even as he hassled over the funding for an enormous, forty-foot telescope; and the siblings feuded over William’s marriage but eventually reconciled.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393072088

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9780393072082

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

By: Michael Bierut

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Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

By: Michael Bierut

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.

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Chronicle Books

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1616890711

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Ice Worlds of the Solar System

Their Tortured Landscapes and Biological Potential

By: Michael Carroll

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Ice Worlds of the Solar System

Their Tortured Landscapes and Biological Potential

By: Michael Carroll

Although there is a chance that certain planets may be habitable for life, the moons of planets might have even more to offer. The icy moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have taught us important lessons about new volcanic forms—cryovolcanism—and the bizarre landscapes sculpted by those erupting geysers. Glaciers, ice mountains, and vast canyons mold the faces of these worlds of ice and thunder. Yet, many ice moons and dwarf planets, including Ceres and Pluto, are in fact sea worlds, hiding deep oceans beneath their ice crusts. This book explores the frozen worlds beyond Mars, delving into the interior forces of migrating ice diapirs, seafloor volcanism and tidal friction, which help form the landscapes found above and biologically friendly environs buried below. It covers the latest research in the field and includes interviews with today’s foremost authorities, including astrobiologists Chris McKay (NASA Ames), Ralph Lorenz (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) and Karl Mitchell (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Original art by the author enhances the concepts explored in the text, recreating some of the most remarkable landscapes on icy planets and moons.

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Springer Nature

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3030281205

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Steven Ehrlich Architects

A Dynamic Serenity

By: Michael Webb

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Steven Ehrlich Architects

A Dynamic Serenity

By: Michael Webb

Founded in 1970, Steven Ehrlich Architects is a twenty-person architectural team whose office is a converted dance hall in Culver City, California. This award-winning firm is internationally recognised for its distinctive residential designs that extend Los Angeles' tradition of architectural innovation, fusing technology with cultural and environmental sensitivity. This fine volume details Ehrlich's most famous projects and includes floorplans, delightful photographs and textual accompaniment by renowned architecture and design writer Michael Webb. SELLING POINTS: - Features the best work from this renowned architect, culled from a career spanning decades - Showcases state-of-the-art architectural photography by the finest in the field - Blends some of the architect's original sketches with detailed floor plans and fantastic digital images 122 col., 91 b/w

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Images Publishing

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1864701021

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Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

By: Michael E. Bakich

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Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

By: Michael E. Bakich

In this book Astronomy Magazine editor Michael Bakich presents all the information you’ll need to be ready for the total solar eclipse that will cross the United States on August 21, 2017. In this one resource you’ll find out where the eclipse will occur, how to observe it safely, what you’ll experience during the eclipse, the best equipment to choose, how to photograph the event, detailed weather forecasts for locations where the Moon’s shadow will fall, and much more. Written in easy-to-understand language (and with a glossary for those few terms you may not be familiar with), this is the must-have reference for this unique occurrence. It’s not a stretch to say that this eclipse will prove to be the most viewed sky event in history. That’s why even now, more than a year before the eclipse, astronomy clubs, government agencies, cities — even whole states — are preparing for the unprecedented onslaught of visitors whose only desire is to experience darkness at midday. Bakich informs observers what anyone will need to observe, enjoy, and understand this event.

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3319276328

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The Georgian Star

How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

By: Michael D. Lemonick

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The Georgian Star

How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

By: Michael D. Lemonick

In 1781, William Herschel won international fame for discovering Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. In documenting a new planet - something no one had done since the dawn of civilization - he expanded our perception that we are part of something much greater than the immediately visible solar system." "Herschel remains most famous for this discovery, but, as The Georgian Star makes vividly clear, he accomplished much more. After a successful career as a professional musician, he turned his attention to astronomy in his mid-thirties. With his sister Caroline as a partner, he pioneered techniques that are still used by astronomers today. The Herschels were the first to map the night sky, listing and categorizing every object they could see. To do so, they built a massive, forty-foot-tall telescope under the patronage of King George III. They were also the first to propose that the visible stars surrounding our little planet are only a fraction of those that make up a continually evolving universe. William's restless intelligence led further still, to the discovery of infrared radiation - invisible radiation that has a wavelength longer than microwaves but shorter than that of visible light. Caroline assembled an exhaustive catalog of nebulae, the beautiful, cloudy assemblages of dust and stellar light." "Erudite and accessible, The Georgian Star is a lively portrait of the pair who invented modern astronomy."--BOOK JACKET.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039306574X

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9780393065749

Singular Sensation

The Triumph of Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

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Singular Sensation

The Triumph of Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

The "New York Post" theater columnist draws on more than 150 insider interviews to celebrate the productions, artists, and movements that shaped Broadway in the years spanning "Sunset Boulevard" through "The Lion King.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501166654

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9781501166655

Human Vision and The Night Sky

How to Improve Your Observing Skills

By: Michael Borgia

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Human Vision and The Night Sky

How to Improve Your Observing Skills

By: Michael Borgia

This book brings the challenge and fun back to a hobby that goes stale far too quickly for many budding amateur astronomers. The book begins with teaching astronomers to use their most important astronomy tool, their eyes. It discusses how to select the right telescope, and subsequent chapters take the readers on a tour of the solar system as they have never viewed it before... through their own eyes. Each chapter includes a series of observing challenges that will entertain and push the reader to continually higher levels of achievement.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387463224

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9780387463223

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London

By: Lisa Ritchie,Michael Leapman

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London

By: Lisa Ritchie,Michael Leapman

For things to do and see visitors to London are spoiled for choice. Whether you are in London for a long trip or a quick taste of the city the Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to make the most of your time. You will find suggestions on what to see, how to get about and where to eat and stay. Annually revised and updated and with beautiful new full-color photos, illustrations, and maps, this guide includes information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Consistently chosen over the competition in national consumer market research. The best keeps getting better!

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Penguin

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0756691176

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9780756691172

The Osiris Numbers

By: Michael James Quinlan

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The Osiris Numbers

By: Michael James Quinlan

The wealthiest nations, religions, and corporations have colonized the solar system. Human combat has been reduced to hand-to-hand warfare; non-secular conflict is averted by the threat of elite soldiers. For approximately 750 years, there has been relative peace and prosperity. However, science threatens the human species with warfare not across one planet, but on a solar system-wide scale. A plan is devised to stop the experiment, but are the conspirators really prepared to resort to genocide, using one of the deadliest viruses ever to plague the human species, in order to stop it?

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Lulu.com

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0557504880

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9780557504886

Historic Preservation

Caring for Our Expanding Legacy

By: Michael A. Tomlan

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Historic Preservation

Caring for Our Expanding Legacy

By: Michael A. Tomlan

This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention. The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad intellectual basis and fundamental legal framework is provided. The economic shifts associated with major demographic changes are explored, in tandem with responses of the preservation community. A chapter is dedicated to the financial challenges and sources of revenue available in typical preservation projects, and another chapter focuses on the manner in which seeing, recording, and interpreting information provides the context for an appropriate vision for the future. In this regard, it is made clear that not all “green” design alternatives are preservation-sensitive. The advocacy battles during the last few decades provide a number of short stories of the ethical battles regarding below-ground and above ground historic resources, and the eighth chapter attempts to explain why religion has been long held at arm’s length in publicly-supported preservation efforts, when in fact, it holds more potential to regenerate existing sites than any governmental program.

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3319049755

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9783319049755

David II

1329–71

By: Michael Penman

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David II

1329–71

By: Michael Penman

David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland's 'auld enemy', England. Bringing together evidence from Scotland, England and France, Michael Penman offers a different view: that of a child king who survived usurpation, English invasion, exile and eleven years of English captivity after defeat in battle in 1326 to emerge as a formidable ruler of Scotland. Learning from Philip VI of France and Edward III of England in turn, David became the charismatic patron of a vibrant court focused on the arts of chivalry: had he lived longer, Scotland's political landscape and national outlook might have been very different to that which emerged under his successors, the Stewart kings. But David's was also a reign of internal tensions fuelled by his increasingly desperate efforts to determine the royal succession, overawe great magnates like his heir presumptive, Robert the Steward, and persuade his subjects of the need for closer relations with England after sixty years of war.

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1788853385

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