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Mel Bay's Violin Primer
Frank Zucco Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0871663775 |
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This extremely simple, big-note method is ideal for young children, and is especially useful for the trail or rental period. Teaching first position notes all four strings, the exercises guide early beginners through their first production of tone. Great emphasis has been placed in this book of sound fundamentals, proper hand positioning, holding of the bow, etc. Designed to be used in introductory lessons, this book contains extensive photographs illustrating proper hand positions. The exercises in the book progress from single-string studies to melodies combining more than one string. Upon completion of this book, the student will be ready to enter into Mel Bay's Violin Method.Customer Reviews:
Pretty good, but one major drawback!.......2005-01-03
Great for anybody who already has some music knowledge.......2004-06-17
You get what you pay for.......2003-03-16
Like the music teacher you never wanted........2002-07-28
Mel Bay's Violin Primer by Frank Zucco.......2001-09-04
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Icons of the 20th Century: 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Barbara Cady , and Jean-Jacques Naudet Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0879518936 |
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Who becomes a legend most? For more than two years, a panel composed of such arbiters of culture as Leo Castelli, Rita Dove, Bruce Jenner, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Schorr, Gay Talese, Pierre Trudeau, and Eli Wallach pondered that question and came up with a list of the 200 most important icons of the 20th century. Their choices are compiled in this wonderfully designed book. Each icon merits a tall, vertically oriented, two-page spread. A full-page portrait is expertly reproduced on the right-hand side, and, given its length, a surprisingly informative biography takes up the facing page. Uncommon photos of the usual suspects are here--Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King Jr., James Joyce, Babe Ruth, Bette Davis, Jesse Owens, Marlon Brando, JFK, Anna Pavlova, even Michael Jordan. But some of the most pleasing inclusions are the surprises--the people who shaped the century but whose faces are less recognizable. This group includes philosophers Hannah Arendt and Carl Jung; South African doctor Christiann Barnard, who performed the first successful human heart transplant surgery; scientist Enrico Fermi, whose work led directly to the discovery of nuclear fission; Maria Montessori, who revolutionized early childhood education; legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini; and James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered the shape of DNA. This is a well-timed book, for as the century draws to a close, one can hardly think of a better way to take stock of the dramatic events, advances, and--arguably--declines that have shaped the human experience over the past 100 years.Customer Reviews:
A Good Book, Despite Certain Omissions.......2001-11-19
Pope John Paul II
Nikita Khruschtev
J. Edgar Hoover
Ayatollah Khomeni
Wayne Gretzky
Vince Lombardi
Howard Stern
Jimi Hendrix
Thelonius Monk
The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen
Lenny Bruce
George S. Patton
Joe Montana
Gloria Steinman
Janis Joplin
Harrison Ford
Irving Berlin
Bill Clinton
Charles Manson
Howard Cosell
Barbara Cady is the best!.......1999-12-30
A real collectors Item.......1999-10-06
Cady blends detail with a personal touch in each biographical synopsis. The photos, in black and white, give the reader a face to put to the story. Photographer Jean-Jacques Naudet is a master of capturing the essence of the person on film.
While the price of the book is a bit hefty, your money is well spent in this collectable piece of work. For the past hundred years you have read stories about JFK, Ali, Mother Theresa, Michael Jordan now you can own a part of history.
I was most impressed by the author's ability to remain unbiased in the reporting. While I may not have include some of the people, I was no doubt impressed by the list. I am certain that this book will be real family or school crowd pleaser well into the next century.
Big Big Book.......1999-05-06
An excellent, well-designed & -illustrated book.......1999-02-01
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Icons of the 20th Century: 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Barbara Cady; Jean-Jacques Naudet Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QYE6BE |
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ICONS OF THE 2OTH CENTURY: 200 MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
Barbara Cady Manufacturer: Overlook Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J3JKSQ |
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Icons: 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Barbara Cady Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1579123287 |
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This dramatic record of the key figures of the 20th Century is a powerful and provocative look at the giants of our time--the groundbreakers, thought-provokers, heroes, visionaries, tyrants, trendsetters, and style-makers who have left their indelible mark, from Mahatma Gandhi to Elizabeth Taylor. They are the people who have changed our world, for better or for worse, captured for all time as never before.Customer Reviews:
Definitely a view of the last century through people.......2004-05-21
A lavish album, Icons presents an extraordinarily wide selection of people chosen by a panel of more than sixty international leaders in the arts, sciences, politics, fashion, and technology. Barbara Cady's lively and probing biographies tell the fascinating stories behind these individuals' great accomplishments, exploring the views, personal backgrounds, and dramatic contributions each "icon" has made. Through Cady's treatment, the politician, philosopher, scientist, artist, athlete, and entertainer is presented in his or her unique greatness-or infamy.
The rare black-and-white photographs in Icons establish the book's unparalleled visual impact. They are by turns elegiac and haunting, celebratory and enchanting-all are arresting portraits of the century's most familiar faces caught in unfamiliar and revealing lights. Culled from archives around the world, the images in Icons represent the best of modern photography, with works by such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson himself one of the icons), Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, and Robert Capa.
Powerful, intriguing, and informative, Icons is a visually stunning, historically sweeping work, destined to become a collector's item.
The two hundred individuals included in Icons of the Twentieth Century were chosen with the help of a multi-national Board of Advisors, respected leaders in the arts and sciences, in politics, publishing, education, fashion, entertainment and technology. Asked to base their deletions, nominations and rankings on their following definition of an icon: "Individuals whose names and faces have impacted us all and whose deeds-for good or ill-have literally shaped the course of modern history." When the ballots were tallied, about fifteen percent of the 200-name list-the nominations which garnered only a few votes each-fell at the thin end of the statistical bell curve. It was here that the combined efforts of the author, the publisher and the project's editors and researchers were called into service.
No grouping, of course, can ever be complete, nor can there be any objective criteria for hierarchical importance-not even for who is included and who is not. Questions will immediately arise: Why Nasser and not Khomeni? Why not Idi Amin, whose face came to symbolize the destruction of Africa in the post-colonial period, or Kwame Nkuma, whose independent Ghana initially offered a better hope for a continent in turmoil? Why not Konrad Adenauer, who out of the ruins of the Third Reich established the beginnings of post-World War democracy in Germany? And why Emperor Hirohito and not Tojo whose leadership of Japan may have had more to do with World War II in Asia than the imperial family? In the end, it would have been impossible to include every famous political leader of the century without eliminating key individuals in, say, music or literature.
Acknowledging that in this century government leaders-whether mass executioners or sun-kings-ipso facto dominated the world stage, it was decided they would not overrun Icons.
There were many others who made us think differently about our world-originals like Alfred Kinsey, Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan-who were not included. In some cases, it was because heir faces were simply not as recognizable as others, an important consideration because of the book's defining concept of eikon, or image. A similar point can be made for many of the century's innovators, individuals whose inventions-the television, the computer, the jet engine, the Pill, penicillin-are much more well known than they are. But Icons was about people not things.
Given that the major categories of human endeavor were to be represented, choice was difficult when there were too many candidates in one category, which was often the case. Why Nureyev and not also Nijinsky or Balanchine? Why Billie Holiday and not also Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald? Marcel Proust and not also Thomas Mann and William Faulkner? Why Babe Ruth and not Joe DiMaggio? Why not dozens of other high profile sports stars and performers, all iconic in their way due to the development of mass media in our century? Behind each inclusion and exclusion lie endless arguments. But the selection made at the end of the day is at best a selection.
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Icons of the 20th Century : 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Barbara Cady Manufacturer: The Overlook Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M3BV08 |
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Barbara Cady Manufacturer: Overlook Pr. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K4ZMZO |
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The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels
Thomas Gold Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0387952535 |
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Suppose someone claimed that we are not running out of petroleum? Or that life on Earth began below the surface of our planet? Or that oil and gas are not "fossil fuels"? Or that if we find extraterrestrial life it is likely to be within, not on, other planets? You might expect to hear statements like these from an author of science fiction. But what if they came from a renowned physicist, an indisputably brilliant scientist who has been called "one of the world's most original minds"? In the The Deep Hot Biosphere, Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic "signatures." The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputabel stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific enterprise. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly orginal thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he developes a revolutionary new view about the fundamental workings of our planet. Thomas Gold is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Emertius Professor at Cornell University. Regarded as one of the most creative and wide-ranging scientists of his generation, he has taughtat Cambridge University and Harvard, and for 20 years was the Director of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.Customer Reviews:
Well, but where's the abiogenic oil?.......2007-07-12
Impressive book, a must read.......2007-06-10
Challenging Conventional Dogma.......2007-06-03
Down with dogma! It feels great to question something you've always been told is fact without ever being given an explanation.......2007-01-05
A Tour de Force by a very gifted amateur.......2007-01-01
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Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1912: Part I. - Metals and nonmetals except fuels (Geological Survey)
David White Manufacturer: U.S. G.P.O ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089QPDE |
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Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1916: Part 1. - Metals and nonmetals except fuels (Geological Survey 640)
F. L Ransome Manufacturer: U.S. G.P.O ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B00089SKYG |
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Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1931-32: Part I. - Metals and nonmetals except fuels (Geological Survey)
G. F Loughlin Manufacturer: U.S. G.P.O ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B00089TMPM |
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Fuel's Gold (Car Wars Adventure Game Book)
Steve Jackson Manufacturer: T S R ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0880382988 |
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Water in Synthetic Fuel Production: The Technology and the Alternatives
Ronald F. Probstein , and Harris Gold Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0262660393 |
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EERE, GCCCC to Host 10th National Clean Cities Conference.(Gold coast clean cities coalition): An article from: Alternative Transportation Fuels Today
Manufacturer: EIN Publishing, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008274ZY Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Alternative Transportation Fuels Today, published by EIN Publishing, Inc. on March 19, 2004. The length of the article is 375 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Enova, Hyundai Win Gold.(Brief Article): An article from: Fuel Cell Technology News
Manufacturer: Business Communications Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IL3GY Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Fuel Cell Technology News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 398 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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State hopes to spin straw into gold; Arkansas well positioned for future of biomass.: An article from: Arkansas Business
John Henry Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000NQDJSQ Release Date: 2007-02-26 |
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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Thomson Gale on January 29, 2007. The length of the article is 2082 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Effects of emission standards on methanol vehicle-related ozone, formaldehyde, and methanol exposure
Michael D Gold Manufacturer: APCA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072SQFW |
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MCSE: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide (70-297)
Brad Price , and Sybex Manufacturer: Sybex ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0782143210 |
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Here's the book you need to prepare for the Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure exam (70-297).This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:
You'll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:
Customer Reviews:
OK Book, don't use as only reference.......2007-09-03
Good Book.......2007-07-09
Good base.......2005-06-01
Excellent Study Guide!.......2004-09-04
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MCSE Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure: Exam 70-297 Study Guide & DVD Training System is a one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation. This system provides readers 100% coverage of the official Microsoft exam objectives plus test preparation software for the edge needed to pass the exam on the first try.Download Description
MCSE Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure (Exam 70-297) Study Guide and DVD Training System is a one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation. This system gives readers 100% coverage of the official Microsoft exam objectives plus test preparation software for the edge needed to pass the exam on your first try.Customer Reviews:
Good Condition Book.......2005-10-15
Highly recommended.......2004-03-29
The book goes beyond the bare minimum information needed to pass the exam and instead offers lots of additional tips and useful pieces of information which the authors have no doubt acquired through their years of experience in the world of designing Active Directory solutions.
Thoroughly recommended!
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