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∗ continues to be of considerable interest in decorative paint finishes ∗ revival of the craft part of the interest in conservation issues ∗ highly regarded technical manual for the expert and student ∗ part of successful list of painting and decorating books, including Fulcher et al. ′s Painting and Decorating and Stewart′s Signwork.

This book covers a broad range of topics necessary for those managing engineering personnel, projects and organizations.

∗ This book contains specially commissioned chapters by leading experts on economic development in the Third World. ∗ Leftwich examines and assesses the key conditions of economic development and takes a critical look at the role of democracy. ∗ This authoritative volume is a major contribution to the discipline.

These exciting books use full-color, and interesting, realistic illustrations to enhance reader comprehension. Also include a large number of worked examples that provide a good balance between initial, confidence building problems and more advanced level problems. Fundamental principles for solving problems are emphasized throughout.

When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law. Over a five-year period she conducted in-depth, non-directed interviews with educated women who were able to analyze and interpret their lives in the context of important...

Superior Product Development presents lessons learned by actual firms whose high-value, robust and timely products have been technical and market successes.

Geomorphology and Groundwater is an up-to-the-minute collection dealing with the overlap between geomorphology and hydrogeology. These two disciplines have much to offer each other in several fields such as river -- groundwater interactions, the location and evolution of aquifers, karst and landform evolution. There is increasing realisation that groundwater plays an important role in many geomorphological processes and of the utility of geomo...

This work analyzes the evolution of the U.S. strategic air force from 1945 to 1955. As commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) from 1948 through 1955, Curtis LeMay shaped U.S. strategic forces to survive the new world. He insisted that the Air Force have access to atomic energy information for strategic planning. He struggled to find, promote, and retain the most qualified pilots and support personnel in the Air Force. This work describes...

A complete reference to new sources of starting materials for organic synthesis of chiral compounds While carbohydrate synthons have received much attention in recent years, the potential pool of new compounds has gone largely untapped. This book removes the obstacles to using many carbohydrate products and derivatives and provides a broad introduction to implementing the organic synthesis of chiral compounds. Unlike any other book on the su...

This work on environmental quality management (seen, the book argues, as a good competitive strategy) focuses not on the "direct" customers who are consumers of products, but instead places emphasis on the stakeholders of the environment because they are the potential influencers of business costs.

This book explores three themes. The Eisenhower Administration's overriding Cold War goal in the oil-rich Middle East was minimizing Soviet influence. Second, Soviet support for Arab opposition to British colonialism and Israeli Zionism prompted Arab nationalists to embrace neutralism in the Cold War. Third, Eisenhower and Dulles perceived neutral Arab nationalism as virtually tantamount to pro-communism. Syria, the most xenophobic Arab state,...

Multicultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, crit...

The Count, The Slice, The Thunderbolt & Dragon Ring Calling all pilots: Fly them indoors. Fly them outdoors. Perform loops, dives, and other stunts, or challenge your friends to a race. And get to know your drag and lift. KIDS' PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK has everything you need to fold and fly a squadron of bold, bright, custom-designed paper aircraft. PLUS: Games, activities, the pilot's alphabet, a full-color, pull-out poster of an airport, field g...

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A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual, " while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A lite...

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JANUARY Twelfth Night FEBRUARY Valentine Tea for Two MARCH Breakfast in Bed APRIL Easter Brunch MAY Mother's Day JUNE Bridal Shower JULY Tea & Roses AUGUST The Queen's Tea SEPTEMBER Hiker's Tea OCTOBER Children's Tea NOVEMBER Party for a Shut-In DECEMBER Holiday Open House

Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today ...

The concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed as an alternative to chemical pesticides following the widespread realization or their horrifying and damaging effects on environment, human, animal and plant health, which were vividly portrayed in Rachel Carsons book Silent Spring. The IPM approach involves the use of different tactics in compatible combinations to keep pest populations below the levels at which they cause economi...

It is not only 'green thinkers who value the environment. Decisions on how to respond to global environmental change, energy policy or where to site a new road are all informed by values. People bring very different sets of values to the understanding of environmental issues depending on whether they come from developed or developing countries, are applying an expert or lay person judgment, are making policy decisions from a distance or are di...