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This inspirational and informative guide is designed to take readers on a journey to develop their understanding of form, design, artistic creativity, and technical knowledge in woodcarving. Seven innovative projects, which gradually increase in difficulty, introduce and build on key techniques for beginners to learn, practice, and adopt. The freeform projects include a wave, fossil, cat, female torso, swan, emperor penguin, and humpback whale.

Inspiring lessons on business and life from Frank Savage Frank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education, Savage's career has taken him around the world as a globetrotting financier. From his first banking job at Citibank to his current position as Chairman Emeritus of Howard University, The Savage Way shares the life and business less...

Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. This ethnographic study demonstrates that kinship, particularly agnatic kinship, has remained a valuable resource for Pang village...

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964 to 1985.

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias ...

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Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh approach to transforming uncertainty, risk of loss, and exposure to judgment into catalysts for inno...

Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” - From the Introduction The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each-and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time. In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our liv...

In the fourth and final volume of A History of Iranian Cinema, Hamid Naficy looks at the extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film and other visual media since the Islamic Revolution.

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Le ultime statistiche, stilate dall'Associazione degli Editori Italiani, dicono che qui da noi in Italia, la gente legge pochissimo. In compenso TUTTI scrivono. Non è del tutto vero perché fino ad oggi, alla schiera vastissima dei "tutti" mancavo solo io. Così ho deciso di colmare questa deprecabile lacuna proponendo alla lettura queste mie memorie d'infanzia e di adolescenza. Probabilmente non vincerò alcun premio letterario, né, forse, sarò ...

Torino, 1806. In piena occupazione napoleonica, con il Piemonte annesso direttamente alla Francia, avvengono delle morti inspiegabili. Lady Costantine ed il suo aiutante Jean Ladini si trovano ad investigare su queste misteriose morti. Per l'appunto, un piccolo mistero mortale... Riusciranno ad assicurare il colpevole alla giustizia? Il libro è un giallo storico, un fantastico affresco della Torino del 1806 che in questo secondo, interessante ...

Principles and Procedures of Classification.- Structure of the Male Postabdomen.- The Relationship of the Cyclorrhapha to Other Eremoneura.- The Major Subordinate Groups of the Cyclorrhapha.- Review of the Classification of the Schizophora.- Check-List of Revised Family Classification of the Cyclorrhapha.- Concluding Remarks.- Acknowledgements.- Summary.- References.

The fully revised edition of this best-selling title presents the modern computer algebra system Maple. It teaches the reader not only what can be done by Maple but also how and why it can be done. It provides the necessary background for those who want the most of Maple or want to extend its built-in knowledge, and it includes both elementary and more sophisticated examples as well as many exercises.

The ultimate collection of 1, 500 facts about the world's toughest and most awesome man. Finally, the wait is over. The most comprehensive collection of Chuck Norris facts from the New York Times bestselling series by Ian Spector is ready to blow your mind. Only the manliest of men will be able to handle this bind-up of The Truth About Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris vs. Mr. T, Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped, The Last Stand of Chuck Norris, and ove...

EBBING AND FIBBING" is a book of poems on life and liberty and dreams and death, with surreal storytelling and slippery wisdom, where "the question is truly worth more than the answer".

Learn French with this first word-and-picture book for early readers, with delightfully illustrated scenes to explore. >

These days, eco-friendly and organic designed products/stores are in mode. This is a resource book including layout materials that will be useful for designs that give people natural and organic images. All data is on attached DVD-ROM with JPEG and PNG image. The included materials such as paper, cloth, wood grain, leaves and strings are very simple and casual that designers can arrange them variously into their organic design works.Contents: ...

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes: This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a background in...

This volume of "lifetime" poems contains the selections that had been omitted (much to my wife's chagrin) from volume 1, as well as poems written after the publication of the first volume. The poems in the section devoted to "other" works are actually also love poems, but the love is that for children and grandchildren, which of course differs from spousal love. The reader may wonder about the dearth of poems for my son's two sons. When my las...