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Immanuel Wallerstein
Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World System (Studies in Modern Capitalism)

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Description: This is the third volume of Immanuel Wallerstein`s essays to appear in Studies in Modern Capitalism, following the immensely successful collections The Politics of the World Economy and The Capitalist World Economy. Written between 1982 and 1989, the essays in this volume offer Wallerstein`s perspective on the events of the period, and the background to his interpretation of the momentous events of 1989. Wallerstein argues that the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the process of perestroika bear out hisbasic analysis: that the decline of U.S. hegemony in the world-system is the central explanatory variable of change, and that the collapse of the communist empire and the approach of European unity cannot be understood without reference to this decline as a critical stage in the cyclical rhythm of the capitalist world economy. As part of the analysis the book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant `geoculture`: the cultural framework within which the world-system… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521406048
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John H. Perkins
Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War

— y.
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Description: During the past 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereals and grains, such as rice and wheat, have increased dramatically. Indeed, since the 1950s, the influence of plant breeding science on modern agriculture has been trumpeted as the `Green Revolution`. But every revolution is not without consequence, and in the West, the reverberations of the Green Revolution include a complex co-dependency between people and their national appetite for wheat. Geopolitics and the Green Revolution examines this tenuous relationship by exploring the political ecology of wheat breeding in developed countries such as the U.S., India, Britain, and Mexico. Through a detailed study of the history of the Green Revolution, this provocative work stimulates questions about the sustainability of agriculture and the future of human population growth. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0195110137
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Linda L. Hill
Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

2006 y.
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Description: Georeferencing--relating information to geographic location--has been incorporated into today`s information systems in various ways. We use online services to map our route from one place to another, science, business, and government increasingly use geographic information systems (GIS) to hold and analyze data. Most georeferenced information searches using today`s information systems are done by text query. But text searches for placenames fall short--when, for example, a place is known by several names (or by none). In addition, text searches don`t cover all sources of geographic data, maps are traditionally accessed only through special indexes, filing systems, and agency contacts, data from remote sensing images or aerial photography is indexed by geospatial location (mathematical coordinates such as longitude and latitude). In this book, Linda Hill describes the advantages of integrating placename-based and geospatial referencing, introducing an approach to `unified… [detailed...]

ISBN: 026208354X
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Georg Gerster
Georg Gerster: Swissair Posters

2006 y.
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Description: Georg Gerster: Swissair Posters Swissair was perhaps the most prestigious European airline at a time when flying was still a matter of quality. Matching the company`s standards of exclusivity, cosmopolitan spirit, and taste, their poster campaign became a legend in itself. Georg Gerster, award-winning Swiss pioneer of aerial photography, spent two decades shooting Swissair`s advertising posters that today, with the airline now defunct, are pricy collectors` items. A unique fusion of Land Art, Minimalism, and photography, Gerster`s bird`s-eye view pictures display a travel romanticism devoid of the usual tourist kitsch. Joseph Beuys once said, `whether advertising is art depends on what it advertises.` Promoting the beauty of our planet in pictures of a `timeless zeitgeist,` there`s no doubt that Georg Gerster`s Swissair posters are unique pieces of art. This book for the first time presents the entire collection of Gerster`s breathtaking 1975 to 1995 Swissair posters. Text by… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3829602294
Book size: —; Page extent: 96.

 

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Georg Jensen Jewelry (Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture)

2005 y.
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Description: The Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866–1935) first established a worldwide reputation as a designer of flatware, hollowware, and jewelry in the arts and crafts idiom of the early twentieth century, then went on to become a foremost international designer of elegant and refined silver creations in the modernist style. This book surveys his work from his beginnings as a self-taught artist through his apprenticeship to a master silversmith and beyond. His work is highly sought after today, and he is considered one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated, the book provides thorough, detailed coverage of the full range of Jensen’s jewelry. The contributors to the volume consider Jensen in the context of American modernist jewelry, the significance of the international exhibitions and World’s Fairs at which he first promoted his work, and the output of his company, where his own designs and those of current silversmiths… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300107064
Book size: —; Page extent: 400.

 

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Charlotte Moore
George &, Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism

2007 y.
Publisher: St. Martin`s Griffin
Description: For the parents, families, and friends of the 1 in 250 autistic children born annually in the United States, George and Sam provides a unique look into the life of the autistic child. Charlotte Moore has three children, George, Sam, and Jake. George and Sam are autistic. George and Sam takes the reader from the births of each of the two boys, along the painstaking path to diagnosis, interventions, schooling and more. She writes powerfully about her family and her sons, and allows readers to see the boys behind the label of autism. Their often puzzling behavior, unusual food aversions, and the different ways that autism effects George and Sam lend deeper insight into this confounding disorder. George and Sam emerge from her narrative as distinct, wonderful, and at times frustrating children who both are autistic through and through. Moore does not feel the need to search for cause or cure, but simply to find the best ways to help her sons. She conveys to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312374240
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Robert Gottlieb
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)

2004 y.
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Description: Part of the Eminent Lives Series, this biography, written by the gifted author Robert Gottlieb, will describe the life of the dynamic George Balanchine, the foremost contemporary choreographer in ballet. Timed to coincide with the 2004 centenary of the artist`s birth. The life and achievement of the great choreographer who both summed up everything that proceeded him in ballet, and extended the art form into radical yet inevitable new paths. Leaving Revolutionary Russia in 1924 (he was 20), he joined Serge Diaghilev`s famous Ballets Russes, where he created his first enduring masterpiece, Apollo, cementing his lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky. In 1933 he arrived in America to found a school and a company, but the company as we know it - The New York City Ballet - didn`t emerge until 1948. Meanwhile, he made ballets wherever opportunity allowed, while choreographing Broadway shows (four for Rodgers and Hart), movies (The Goldwyn Follies), even the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060750707
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw: A Critique by Shaw`s Respected Critic

2009 y.
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Description: Chesterton was a famous and respected critic and author. His insightful comments about his `friendly enemy` made National headlines in America. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1448650224
Book size: —; Page extent: 84.

 

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Bernie Smith, Maureen Hunt
George Best: A Celebration

2007 y.
Publisher: John Blake
Description: George Best was one of the greatest footballers ever to have walked the Earth - an absolute legend. His ability as an all-round player was, and still is, unsurpassed. He was highly skilled, a tough tackler and great in the air. As well as being an exceptionally gifted sportsman, George also had a unique gift when it came to people. His open and friendly nature meant that other were naturally drawn to him and he always had time to get to know people. As well as the legions of football fans who watched, awestruck as he played, he also touched the hearts of everyone whom he came into contact with: from club managers to the grounds man at Old Trafford, Bestie had time for them all. Maureen Hunt and Bernie Smth are two avid collectors of George Best memorabilia and there is not much about the great man that they don`t know or possess. They have come to realsie that every collectable, keepsake and souvenir has a humourous, heart-warming or poignant story surrounding it, an dpiecing these… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1844544559
Book size: —; Page extent: 344.

 

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Martin Knowlden
George Best: A Life in the News

2006 y.
Publisher: Aurum Press
Description: The career of the most magical footballer of his generation is told through the newspaper reports and features on him that appeared in `The Guardian and the Manchester Evening News` from his first appearances for Manchester Utd as a teenage starlet, through the glory days of the 6-0 trouncing of Northampton and the European Cup win in 1968, to the long obituary assessing his sad later decline. These compassionate, insightful pieces are written by numerous famous - and unexpected - names, from Hugh McIllvanney to John Arlott. They reflect Best`s sad destiny to become more famous for his indiscretions (his drinking, his affairs, his absences-without-leave) than his football. They also trace his transformation from the willowy Belfast boy who become a Manchester man through and through to the rotund and peripatetic football gipsy who drifted from Fulham to the U.S. to Hibernian and even Dunstable Town, and eventually into the sad alcoholic bar habitue in Chelsea. It is a unique chronicle… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1845132017
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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George Bush (Getting to Know the Us Presidents)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0516255363
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Webster Griffin Tarpley
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThis is the groundbreaking classic expose of the Bush family, cited by all that followed it, yet still unmatched. Exhaustively documented by intensive search of dozens of archives and months of interviews with government insiders, this biography digs up all the dirt ? frightening, gory, hilarious ? on the Bush dynasty: How the Bushes made their fortune building up Hitler and the Nazi war machine ~ Iran-Contra ~ Zapata?s Watergate burglars ~ The Reagan shooting ~ The `war hero` story ~ The secret government ~ `Eugenic` population reduction plans ~ Kissinger, China, and genocide in the Third World ~ Luring Iraq to attack Kuwait ~ The Bush Leveraged Buyout Mob, theft of a nation ~ Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other power bases. Essential reading as long as this Anglo-American oligarchy directs American politics, the Unauthorized Biography is a vivid X-ray of the presidential dynasty, and the private forces dominating both major political… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0930852923
Book size: —; Page extent: 700.

 

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Paul C. Nagel
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri`s Famed Painter And Forgotten Politician (Missouri Heritage Readers)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0826215742
Book size: —; Page extent: 161.

 

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Dana Henricks
George Clooney (Sharing the American Dream: Overcoming Adversity)

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1422206009
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Kimberly J. Potts
George Clooney: The Last Great Movie Star

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0155783721
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Thomas Kellein
George Condo: One Hundred Women

2005 y.
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Description: `A woman is something you can glorify, you can be horrified by, you can be paranoid in front of, you can love, you can hate.` So says painter George Condo, not the first artist to have tackled the subject of Woman and certainly not the last. Nevertheless, Condo`s particular brand of cartoonish figurative painting, with its equal debts to Surrealism, Pop Art, and painterly abstraction, has gone a long way to pushing the means through which Woman might be represented. Herewith are One Hundred Women , drawn, painted, and sculpted by the American artist--some of them nudes, some of them portraits, some of them part of large-scale art-historical collages. Each woman bears at least some trace of Condo`s signature style, replete with animalistic grotesqueness and stylistic references to such modern masters as Goya, Velazquez, Picasso, and Warhol. Edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Thomas Kellein. Essays by Margrit Brehm and Stacey Schmidt. Clothbound, 8.5 x 11 in./140 pgs / 110 color. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3775716262
Book size: —; Page extent: 140.

 

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George DeWolfe
George DeWolfe`s Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop

2006 y.
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Description: A full-color tutorial guides you through the ins and outs of digital photography—based on the author’s most popular workshop Renowned photographer and lecturer George DeWolfe shares his established, straightforward, and effectve method for shooting, editing, and printing high-quality black &, white and color digital images in this full-color book. He explains his “16-bit workflow” technique for taking great digital pictures, preparing them on a computer, and consistntly producing beautiful fine art prints. You’ll also learn how to set up a successful “closed loop” environment—one in which the photographer does everything on his or her own, sending nothing out for development. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0072260874
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Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
George Did It

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0142408956
Book size: —; Page extent: 40.

 

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Elizabeth Brayer
George Eastman : A Biography

2006 y.
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Description: Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him `America`s most modest and least-known millionaire.` Despite his retirement in 1925, Eastman showed little sign of slowing down. Making money had been interesting, but putting money to work became more so. In the 1920s he designed a special camera for use in orthodontia and established elaborate dental clinics for needy children around the world. He oversaw the building of the Eastman theatre and the Eastman School of Music. His contributions built a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1580462472
Book size: —; Page extent: 654.

 

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Monica L. Rausch
George Eastman Y La Camara / George Eastman and the Camera (Inventores Y Sus Descubrimientos / Inventors and Their Discoveries)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0836879996
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Monica L. Rausch
George Eastman Y La Camara/George Eastman and the Camera (Inventores Y Sus Descubrimientos/Inventors and Their Discoveries)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0836879945
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Carl W. Ackerman
George Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography Business (Business Biographies)

— y.
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Description: A fascinating view of a successful and famous inventor, innovator, financier, and entrepreneur. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1893122999
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Brenda McLean
George Forrest Plant Hunter

2009 y.
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Description: George Forrest was a legendary plant collector in the heyday of the British Empire. His career spanned the decades before and after the First World War. Risking his safety and health, he discovered hundreds of new species, introduced many plants to our gardens, and became one of the most outstanding plant collectors in the Sino-Himalaya. As many plants were named after him, he is well known in gardening circles yet this is the first biography of Forrest, and the first book on him for fifty years. This book, published to celebrate the centenary of Forrest`s first setting out for the mountains of Yunnan, south-west China, brings Forrest to life, drawing on his own letters and those of his contemporaries. It tells of Forrest`s adventures and his escape from death at the hands of warring Lamas. It shows the influence of his patrons, describes the excitement of his plant and animal discoveries, and reveals his rivalry with other plant hunters, Reginald Farrer and Frank Kingdon Ward. `… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1851494618
Book size: —; Page extent: 250.

 

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Louise Ware
George Foster Peabody: Banker, Philanthropist, Publicist

2009 y.
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ISBN: 0820334561
Book size: —; Page extent: 294.

 

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William G. Hyland
George Gershwin : A New Biography

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionHyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved. This is a fascinating new biography that no Gershwin fan--and no music fan--should be without. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0275981118
Book size: —; Page extent: 312.

 

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Walter Rimler
George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait (Music in American Life)

2009 y.
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Description: George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a home when he married Leonore Strunsky, a hard-edged woman who lived for wealth and status. The closest George came to domesticity was through his longtime relationship with Kay Swift. She was his lover, musical confidante, and fellow composer. But she remained married to another man while he went endlessly from woman to woman. Only in the final hours of his life, when they were separated by a continent, did he realize how much he needed her. Fatally ill, unprotected by (and perhaps estranged from) Ira, he was exiled by Leonore from the house she and the brothers shared, and he died horribly and alone at the age of thirty-eight. Nor was Gershwin able to find a satisfying… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0252034449
Book size: —; Page extent: 216.

 

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Джордж Гордон Байрон
George Gordon Byron. The Poems / Джордж Гордон Байрон. Избранная лирика

2004 y.
Publisher: Радуга
Description: В издании представлено лирическое наследие великого английского поэта в оригинале и в переводах на русский язык, выполненных крупнейшими русскими поэтами и переводчиками. [detailed...]

ISBN: 5-05-005883-X
Book size: 70x100/32; Page extent: 768.

 

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George Harrison
George Harrison - Brainwashed

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn its glowing 4-1/2-star review, the All Music Guide calls this 2002 release `a quiet, subtle gem` and `one of the finest records Harrison ever made.` Our matching folio to this posthumous record, finished by George`s son Dhani and his longtime collaborator Jeff Lynne, includes all 12 songs: Any Road * Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea * Brainwashed * Looking for My Life * Marwa Blues * Never Get Over You * Pisces Fish * P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night) * Rising Sun * RockingChair in Hawaii * Run So Far * Stuck Inside a Cloud. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0634057774
Book size: —; Page extent: 80.

 

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George Herms
George Herms: Then and Now: Fifty Years of Assemblage

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionOne of the founding members of the California Assemblage movement in the 1950s, George Herms and his colleagues made a name for themselves through their use of the discarded, greatly influencing the Pop artists to come. A 20th-century philosopher who uses objects instead of words to deliver quixotic thoughts, Herms, through his work, starts easy conversations with the viewer, making gentle, sometimes funny statements. All copies of Then and Now are signed. Preface by Anthony Seraphin. Introduction by Charles Simic and thoughts by George Herms on his 67th Birthday. Paperback, 9.75 x 1175 in. 88 pages, 61 color illustrations. Each book is signed by the artist. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0971928908
Book size: —; Page extent: 88.

 

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George Kelly

2007 y.
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ISBN: 978-0-230-00841-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 152.

 

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Nora London
George London: Of Gods and Demons (Great Voices)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 188090974X
Book size: —; Page extent: 154.

 

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