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Mary Watson
The Paper Dragonfly

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0972661433
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Labeena Ishaque
The Paper Home: Side Tables, Clocks, Bowls, and Other Home Projects Made from Paper

2008 y.
Publisher: Potter Craft
Description: Paper is practical, readily available, versatile, and inexpensive. And as `The Paper Home` brilliantly demonstrates, it is also an easy-to-work-with material that can be fashioned in many ways to create beautiful objects for any living space. From card stock to cardboard, and using techniques from papier-mache to origami, this avant-garde book shows paper crafters looking for a new twist - or any designer eager to experiment with a new medium - how to create unique home accents. Beginning with a brief history of paper and how it functions as an interior design element, the book goes on to provide directions for 20 eclectic objects that are inspiring, beautiful, and chic. With simple, straightforward instructions, `The Paper Home` shows even those who have never worked with paper before how to create stunning objects d`art. Whether it`s a side table made from carved foam board or a clock made from corrugated cardboard, these three-dimensional projects will change the way… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0307396134
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Elisa Kleven
The Paper Princess Flies Again: (with Her Dog)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionNot so far away, in Mexico, a girl named Lucy loved a paper princess. . . After her many travels, the Paper Princess has finally found a good home with Lucy. She even has a paper dog to keep her company. One day, as the household preparesfor a big fiesta, the Paper Princess and her dog set out to find a gift for the girl who has cared for them so well. Their adventure leads them to a kite-flying boy, a hungry coyote, and the wide and windy ocean. Will the princess and her dog ever find their way home again? [detailed...]

ISBN: 1582461465
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The Papered Wall: The History, Patterns and Techniques of Wallpaper, Second Edition

1905 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description The only international history of wallpaper from its origins to today`s digital and laser printing, now brought completely up to date. Wallpaper is high fashion, and literally so in the wallcovering lines launched by Gucci in 2003 and Benetton in 2004. Innovation has been fueled by technology (with developments such as multicolored dry rub-off transfers), by environmental concerns (with nonwovens, or vlies, that breathe and create no harmful residues), and by a profusion of retro, luxury, naturalistic, humorous, and artistic ideas. First published in 1994, The Papered Wall has been revised to include a new and fully illustrated chapter on recent trends and a thorough reworking of its invaluable reference section, including suppliers of historic patterns and collections open to the public. Written by experts from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, this authoritative volume begins with the individually printed… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0500285683
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Helen Hiebert
The Papermaker`s Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making And Using Handmade Paper

2000 y.
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Description: This valuable reference covers everything, from the basics to more advanced techniques like shaped sheets, embossing, laminating, and watermarking. Included are extensive step-by-step instructions on processing pulp, building papermaking equipment, and making paper-based projects like cards, lamp shades, and sculpture. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1580172008
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Frederick Law Olmsted
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874--1882 (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0801883369
Book size: —; Page extent: 784.

 

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George Washington
The Papers of George Washington: January-May 1793 (Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 081392314X
Book size: —; Page extent: 708.

 

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The Papers of James Monroe : A Documentary History of the Presidential Tours of James Monroe, 1817, 1818, 1819 Volume 1 (Papers of James Monroe)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionFilling a major gap in American history, this project will provide access to the massive and widely scattered Monroe Papers, enabling scholars to revisit Monroe`s role in the birth and infancy of the United States. Volume 1 covers his presidential tours in 1817, 1818, and 1819, including his correspondence, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness accounts. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0313319782
Book size: —; Page extent: 840.

 

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Thomas A. Edison
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison : Research to Development at Menlo Park, January 1879-March 1881 (The Papers of Thomas A. Edison)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description The fifth volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers Edison`s invention and development of the first commercial incandescent electric light and power system. In the process he turned his famed Menlo Park laboratory into the first true research and development facility. This also enabled him to develop a new telephone for the British market in the midst of his herculean efforts on electric lighting. In the face of daunting technical challenges and skepticism from leading scientists and engineers, Edison and his team of experimenters and machinists found the solution to the decades-old problem of creating a practical incandescent lamp. By focusing on the characteristics of the entire system Edison reconceptualized the requirements of a successful lamp design. While rivals worked primarily on lamps, Edison developed other parts of a complete system as well. This approach was most notable in his revolutionary work on generator technology, one of the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801831040
Book size: —; Page extent: 1152.

 

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Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 1: 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description This volume inaugurates the definitive edition of papers from Thomas Jefferson`s retirement. As the volume opens, a new president is installed and Jefferson is anticipating his return to Virginia, where he will pursue a fascinating range of personal and intellectual activities. He prepares for his final departure from Washington by settling accounts and borrowing to pay his creditors. At Monticello he tells of his efforts to restore order at his mismanaged mill complex, breed merino sheep, and otherwise resume full control of his financial and agricultural affairs. Though he is entering retirement, he still has one foot firmly planted in the world of public affairs. He acknowledges a flood of accolades on his retirement and has frequent exchanges with President James Madison. While fielding written requests for money, favors, and advice from a kaleidoscopic array of relatives, acquaintances, strangers, cranks, anonymous writers, and a blackmailer, he… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691121214
Book size: —; Page extent: 780.

 

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Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813 (v. 5)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Volume Five of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson`s papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 592 documents from 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813. America declares war on Great Britain on 18 June 1812. Jefferson counsels domestic reconciliation while suggesting that America recruit British incendiaries to burn London if British ships attack American cities. He passes on to President James Madison a long and discouraging letter from Isaac A. Coles describing American military bungling in the Niagara Campaign. An unofficial proposal that Jefferson return to public life as secretary of state does not gain the retired statesman`s support. Jefferson receives many requests for governmental patronage, responds insightfully to a colorful assortment of authors and inventors, is mildly diverted by a fraudulent perpetual-motion machine, and spends considerable time on legal troubles. A dispute with David Michie over land in Albemarle County nearly leads to a duel between… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691137714
Book size: —; Page extent: 812.

 

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Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 30: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description During the thirteen months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson spent more than half of his time in Philadelphia serving as vice president under President John Adams and presiding over a Senate that was dominated by his political opponents, the Federalists. Debates in Congress took place against a backdrop of bitter partisan rivalry, characterized most famously by the near-brawl on the floor of the House between Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold. Congress and the nation waited, in a `state of extraordinary suspense,` for dispatches from the American envoys in France. When the accounts of the XYZ Affair became public, the nation prepared for war. Two days after the Alien Friends Act was signed into law Jefferson left for Monticello, stopping at Montpelier to convey the latest news to James Madison. Disheartened and frustrated by the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson penned the famous resolutions adopted in November by the Kentucky legislature. He kept his… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691094985
Book size: —; Page extent: 800.

 

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Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description As this volume opens, partisan politics in the United States are building to a crescendo with the approach of the presidential election. Working for a Republican victory, Jefferson consults frequently with Madison, Monroe, and others to achieve favorable results in state elections. He corresponds with controversial journalist James T. Callender. Sifting information from published rumors and private letters, he follows events in Europe, including Bonaparte`s unexpected rise to power in France, and sees the value of his tobacco crop plummet as U.S. legislation cuts off the French market. Jefferson grows concerned at Federalist promotion of English common law in American jurisprudence and at proceedings in the Senate against William Duane, printer of the Philadelphia Aurora . Drawing heavily on British legislative practice, however, as well as advice from Virginia, he begins in earnest to compile a manual of parliamentary procedures for the Senate. As… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691118957
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Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: For the first two months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson is residing at Monticello, avoiding the `rather sickly` season in the nation`s capital. His mountaintop house finally has a roof and both daughters and their families come to stay with him. Using cowpox vaccine received from Benjamin Waterhouse, he undertakes what he calls `my experiment,` the systematic inoculation of family members and slaves against the smallpox. In Washington, the construction of buildings for the nation`s capital moves forward. The walls of the chamber of the House of Representatives now extend `up to the window heads,` with only three feet more to go. Jefferson considers the erection of this chamber as well as completion of a `good gravel road` along Rock Creek as crucial for `ensuring the destinies of the city.` The interior decoration of the President`s House also progresses, with draperies, girandoles, and a chandelier furnishing the circular room. His carriage is ready to be shipped from… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691137730
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Will Rogers
The Papers of Will Rogers: From Broadway to the National Stage, September 1915-July 1928

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0806137045
Book size: —; Page extent: 619.

 

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Alyce M. McKenzie
The Parables for Today (For Today)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0664229581
Book size: —; Page extent: 107.

 

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The Parables of Jesus Participant`s Guide: Six In-depth Studies Connecting the Bible to Life

2007 y.
Publisher: Zondervan
Description: This series of Bible Study guides with DVDs provides the depth for a more thorough study of the Bible, allowing participants to make deeper connections with a knowledge of historical background of the Bible, biblical text, and real life applications. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0310271916
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Stephen R. Lawhead
The Paradise War: Book One in The Song of Albion Trilogy (Song of Albion (Westbow))

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: From the dreaming spires of Oxford, Lewis Gillies drives north to seek a mythical creature in a misty glen in Scotland. Expecting little more than a weekend diversion, Lewis finds himself in a mystical place where two worlds meet, in the time-between-times--and in the heart of a battle between good and evil. The ancient Celts admitted no separation between this world and the Otherworld: the two were delicately interwoven, each dependent on the other. The Paradise War crosses the thin places between this world and that, as Lewis Gillies comes face-to-face with an ancient mystery--and a cosmic catastrophe in the making. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1595542191
Book size: —; Page extent: 400.

 

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John Hanson Mitchell
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston

2008 y.
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Description: In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as `the Paradise of all these parts.` Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole-shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Massachusett tribe fled. Now, nearly four hundred years later, one must wonder what remains of John Smith`s `Paradise.` Equipped with wit, intellect, and an innate curiosity about people and places, John Hanson Mitchell strolls through Boston`s streets, chronicling the nonhuman inhabitants and surprisingly diverse plant life, as well as the eccentric characters he meets at various turns. Using his modern observations as a starting point, he tells the fascinating stories of the tribal leaders, naturalists, community activists, and organizations who worked to preserve nature in the city over generations, from the Victory Gardens of the Fenway to the expansive woods of Franklin Park.But much of the history is in the land… [detailed...]

ISBN: 080707148X
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Norman Wirzba
The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0195333500
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Tirfe Mammo
The Paradox of Africa`s Poverty: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions - The Case of Ethiopia

— y.
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ISBN: 1569020493
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Joseph S. Nye
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World`s Only Superpower Can`t Go It Alone

2003 y.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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ISBN: 0195161106
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Seymour Martin Lipset, Rafael Gomez, Ivan Katchanovski, Thomas A. Kochan (Foreword), Noah M. Meltz
The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of unions, stopped joining them in greater numbers than ever before? This book answers that question by comparing the American experience with that of Canada, where approval for unions is significantly lower than in the United States, but where since the mid-1960s, workers have joined organized labor to a much greater extent. Given that the two countries are outwardly so similar, what explains this paradox? This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of both countries using, among other things, a unique survey conducted in the United States and Canada by the Ipsos Reid polling group. The authors discover that the reluctance of employees in the United States to join unions, compared with thosein Canada, is rooted less in their attitudes toward unions, and more in the former country`s deep-seated tradition of individualism and laissez-faire economic values.` Canada has a more statist, social democratic tradition, which is in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801442001
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Peter Bossaerts
The Paradox of Asset Pricing (Frontiers of Economic Research)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Asset pricing theory abounds with elegant mathematical models. The logic is so compelling that the models are widely used in policy, from banking, investments, and corporate finance to government. To what extent, however, can these models predict what actually happens in financial markets? In The Paradox of Asset Pricing , a leading financial researcher argues forcefully that the empirical record is weak at best. Peter Bossaerts undertakes the most thorough, technically sound investigation in many years into the scientific character of the pricing of financial assets. He probes this conundrum by modeling a decidedly volatile phenomenon that, he says, the world of finance has forgotten in its enthusiasm for the efficient markets hypothesis--speculation. Bossaerts writes that the existing empirical evidence may be tainted by the assumptions needed to make sense of historical field data or by reanalysis of the same data. To address the first problem, he… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691123136
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Li Tan
The Paradox of Catching Up: Rethinking of State-Led Economic Development

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The phenomenon of state-led development has been persistent throughout modern history and remains significant today. Latecomers in the world`s development, from Russia in the 19th century to contemporary China, persistently resorted to the state as a developmental instrument in economic catch-up. Why did relatively `backward`economies tend to take the state-led approach rather than following the free market model? Why did those latecomers that used the state as the main coordinator and had the bureaucratic capacity to do so modernize faster than other `backward` economies? Finally, do the successful state-led developers have the potentials to take the lead in world`s developments? Or under what conditions could they do so? These are the questions the book intends to answer. This book looks into the state-led development in the post-war period, offering a new perspective for interpreting the choice of the state-led approach by latecomers and the consequences of such choices. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1403949549
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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Merle Goldman
The Paradox of China`s Post-Mao Reforms (Harvard Contemporary China Series, 12)

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: China`s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s-the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world-ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China`s unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China`s population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith,Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O`Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyze the contradictory impact of China`s economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674654544
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Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

2005 y.
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Description: Like Thoreau and the band Devo, psychology professor Schwartz provides ample evidence that we are faced with far too many choices on a daily basis, providing an illusion of a multitude of options when few honestly different ones actually exist. The conclusions Schwartz draws will be familiar to anyone who has flipped through 900 eerily similar channels of cable television only to find that nothing good is on. Whether choosing a health-care plan, choosing a college class or even buying a pair of jeans, Schwartz, drawing extensively on his own work in the social sciences, shows that a bewildering array of choices floods our exhausted brains, ultimately restricting instead of freeing us. We normally assume in America that more options (`easy fit` or `relaxed fit`?) will make us happier, but Schwartz shows the opposite is true, arguing that having all these choices actually goes so far as to erode our psychological well-being. Part research summary, part introductory social sciences… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-06-000569-6
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Philip J. Streatfield
The Paradox of Control in Organizations

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: In this book Philip Streatfield reflects on his own experience as a manager to explore the question - who, or what is `in control` in an organization. Adopting the perspective of complex responsive processes developed in the first two volumes of this series, the author takes self-organization and emergence as central themes in thinking about life in organizations. He focuses on the tension between spontaneously forming patterns of conversation, and intentional actions, arguing that the order of organizations emerges through a combination of collective interaction and individual intentions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415250315
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Philip J. Streatfield
The Paradox of Control in Organizations

— y.
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ISBN: 0415250323
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David F. Prindle
The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A truly interdisciplinary enterprise, The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism examines the interplay of ideas about politics, economics, and law in American society from the pre-revolutionary era to the eve of the September 11 attacks. David F. Prindle argues that while the United States was founded on liberalism, there is constant tension between two ideals of the liberal tradition: capitalism and democracy. Tracing the rise of natural law doctrine from neoclassical economics, Prindle examines the influence of economic development in late medieval society on the emergence of classical liberalism in early America and likens that influence to the impact of orthodox economics on contemporary American society. Prindle also evaluates political, economic, and legal ideas through the lens of his own beliefs. He warns against the emerging extremes of liberal ideology in contemporary American politics, where the right`s definition of capitalism excludes interference from… [detailed...]

ISBN: 080188411X
Book size: —; Page extent: 392.

 

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Terry Lynn Karl
The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States

1997 y.
Publisher: University of California Press
Description: Political scientist Terry Lynn Karl explains why in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Karl contends that oil countries, while seemingly disparate, are characterized by similar social classes and patterns of collective action. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0520207726
Book size: —; Page extent: 380.

 

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