Unforgettable Books
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If I Was a Horse Plush: 10
This elegant dappled brown horse, with a striking black mane, is inspired by award-winning author Sophie Blackall's beautiful book If I Was a Horse. Standing 10 inches tall and adorned with a blue iridescent party hat and a fluffy pink tutu, this plush horse will be loved for years to come. Either lovingly read to, trotted around for play, or showcased on display, this gorgeous gift will allow children's imaginations to run wild!
$26.00
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If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't): (And of Course You Won't)
The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Saturday Night Live! In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is, and I never intend to find out"), Betty White shares her observations about life, celebrity, and love (for humans and animals). Filled with photos, If You Ask Me is funny, sweet, and straight to the point--just like Betty.
$20.00
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Ikebana: The Art and Beauty of Flower Arranging: The Art and Beauty of Flower Arranging
This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the Japanese art of arranging flowers with reproductions of classical seventeenth-century artworks from the New York Public Library's Spencer Collection. Meticulous reproductions of sublime paintings showcase rikka, the oldest and most traditional form of flower arranging, which is linked to the Ikenobō school, Japan's first and largest school of ikebana. The images presented here perfectly illustrate the main principles of ikebana--harmonious juxtaposition of flowers, balance between foliage (leaves, fronds, reeds, etc.) and branches, and naturalistic compositions for display. Several schools and styles of ikebana have evolved over the centuries. The rikka style is characterized by the use of erect branches and flowers to display a marked verticality in order to express the beauty of a natural landscape in a single vase. The floral arrangements in this collection date back to the Ikenobō Grand Master of Kyoto's Rokkakudō Temple and his disciples from the Ashikaga Shogunate (1336-1573). These flower arrangements were officially documented by Igai Sansaemon in 1673 in artworks printed xylographically and then hand-colored using the gansai watercolor technique. The reproductions are accompanied by authoritative text by one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese art. Today, ikebana remains one of Japan's most popular art forms, and it is increasingly embraced by flower arrangers around the world. It is a wonderfully meditative and contemplative form of creative and personal expression, allowing practitioners to flee their daily cares into a world of balance, order, serenity, and beauty.
$65.00
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Illustrated Guide to the National Electrical Code
Master the complex requirements of the National Electrical Code (NEC) with the Illustrated Guide to the National Electrical Code. This invaluable resource is designed to bridge the gap between technical code language and practical field application, using clear, highly detailed illustrations to help you visualize and understand key electrical standards. Why Choose This Illustrated Guide? The NEC can be difficult to navigate, with dense, often complex terminology. This guide simplifies the process by translating these requirements into plain, easy-to-follow instructions. By presenting information through a "visual learning" approach, it helps you quickly grasp difficult concepts, ensuring you can apply code regulations accurately and safely on every project. Who Is This Book For? Beginning Electricians: A perfect foundational tool for those just entering the trade who need to build confidence with NEC standards. Experienced Professionals: A reliable reference for journeyman and master electricians, engineers, and inspectors who want to stay current and clarify specific code requirements. Visual Learners: Anyone who finds traditional text-heavy code books difficult to use and prefers illustrations, diagrams, and clear, concise text to master complex material. Key Features Technically Accurate Visuals: Features detailed, full-color illustrations that turn abstract code rules into clear, real-world examples. Logical Organization: Content is gathered by occupancy type—such as one-family dwellings, multi-family housing, and commercial locations—making it easy to find exactly what you need. Reinforcement Tools: Includes chapter summaries and competency tests to help you track your progress and reinforce your knowledge as you study.
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Illustrations Of The Manners, Customs And Condition Of The North American Indians V2: With Letters And Notes (1876): With Letters And Notes (1876)
Illustrations Of The Manners, Customs And Condition Of The North American Indians V2: With Letters And Notes (1876) is a book written by George Catlin. The book is a compilation of detailed illustrations and descriptions of the culture, customs, and lifestyle of the North American Indians. The illustrations and descriptions are based on the author's travels and experiences with various Indian tribes during the early 19th century. The book is divided into two volumes, with the second volume containing additional letters and notes from the author. The illustrations in the book are vivid and capture the essence of the Indian way of life, including their clothing, hunting practices, and tribal rituals. The book provides a rich and comprehensive account of the North American Indian culture and is considered a valuable resource for historians, anthropologists, and anyone interested in the history and culture of the indigenous people of North America.In Two Volumes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
$55.95
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Imaginary Friends
The bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy--two bigger-than-life feuding writers--to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences. Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" The public battle, and the legal squabbling, that ensued ended, unsatisfactorily for all, with Hellman's death. "A sharp-eyed and even sharper-clawed memory-play.... Provides...guilty pleasures, keeping the repartee both snappy and snappish." --The Wall Street Journal
$15.00
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Imaging del Trauma Osteo-Articolare in Età Pediatrica: Lesioni Acute E Croniche Dello Scheletro in Accrescimento (2009): Lesioni Acute E Croniche Dello Scheletro in Accrescimento
Capitolo 1 Lesioni traumatiche osteo-articolari maggiori: generalità. Introduzione. Sviluppo e accrescimento delle ossa. Caratteristiche dello scheletro in accrescimento. Fratture e processo di guarigione: valutazione clinico-radiologica. Lesioni osteo-traumatiche tipiche dello scheletro immaturo. Distacchi apofisari. L'imaging nel follow-up. Ruolo della diagnostica per immagini.- Capitolo 2 Lesioni microtraumatiche da overuse: generalità. Introduzione. Arto superiore. Arto inferiore.- Capitolo 3 Lesioni traumatiche apofisarie maggiori e minori. Introduzione. Tendini. Legamenti.- Capitolo 4 Lesioni traumatiche muscolo-tendinee e dei legamenti in età pediatrica. Introduzione. Patologia muscolare. Patologia tendinea. Patologia dei legamenti.- Capitolo 5 Lesioni da trauma dei nervi periferici. Introduzione. Ecografia. Risonanza magnetica.- Capitolo 6 Imaging delle lesioni traumatiche distrettuali. Scheletro assiale: cranio, rachide, scheletro toraco-costale. Cranio. Traumi orbitali e naso etmoidali. Traumi maxillo-facciali. Rachide.- Capitolo 7 Arto superiore. Spalla e braccio. Gomito e avambraccio. Polso e mano.- Capitolo 8 Bacino ed arto inferiore. Bacino, anca e femore. Ginocchio e gamba. Caviglia e piede.- Capitolo 9 Il trauma da parto. Introduzione. Pseudo-paralisi ostetriche. Birth fractures.- Capitolo 10 Le fratture occulte dell'arto inferiore nella prima infanzia: 'toddler's fractures'. Introduzione. Concetto di 'toddler's fracture'. Imaging.- Capitolo 11 Lesioni ossee da trauma non accidentale. Introduzione. Il 'bambino battuto': diagnostica per immagini. Fratture in sedi anatomiche caratteristiche. Fratture aspecifiche con caratteristiche radiografiche particolari. Datazione della lesione. Fratture dotate di caratteristiche radiografiche specifiche. Diagnosidifferenziale.- Capitolo 12 Il bambino battuto: linee guida e risvolti medico-legali. Introduzione. Normativa attuale e considerazioni medico-legali. Conclusioni. Appendice A: linee guida.- Letture consigliate
$54.99
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Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis: Results of the Dfg Priority Programme 1147 "Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis" 2003-2009 (2: Results of the Dfg Priority Programme 1147 "Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis" 2003-2009
In 2003 the German Research Foundation established a new priority programme on the subject of "Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis" (SPP 1147). This research programme was based on the fact that experimental ?ow analysis, in addition to theory and numerics, has always played a predominant part both in ?ow research and in other areas of industrial practice. At the time, however, c- parisons with numerical tools (such as Computational Fluid Dynamics), which were increasingly used in research and practical applications, soon made it clear that there are relatively few experimental procedures which can keep up with state-of-the-art numerical methods in respect of their informative value, e.g. with regard to visu- spatial analysis or the dynamics of ?ow ?elds. The priority programme "Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis" was to help close this development gap. Hence the project was to focus on the investigation of ef?cient measurement me- ods to analyse complex spatial ?ow ?elds. Speci?c cooperations with computer sciences and especially measurement physics were to advance ?ow measurement techniques to a widely renowned key technology, exceeding the classical ?elds of ?uid mechanics by a long chalk.
$219.99
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Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods (2010)
Monitoring brain function with light in vivo has become a reality. The technology 33 of detecting and interpreting patterns of reflected light has reached a degree of 34 maturity that now permits high spatial and temporal resolution visualization at both 35 the systems and cellular levels. There now exist several optical imaging methodolo- 36 gies, based on either hemodynamic changes in nervous tissue or neurally induced 37 light scattering changes, that can be used to measure ongoing activity in the brain. 38 These include the techniques of intrinsic signal optical imaging, near-infrared optical 39 imaging, fast optical imaging based on scattered light, optical imaging with voltage 40 sensitive dyes, and two-photon imaging of hemodynamic signals. The purpose of 41 this volume is to capture some of the latest applications of these methodologies to 42 the study of cerebral cortical function. 43 This volume begins with an overview and history of optical imaging and its use 44 in the study of brain function. Several chapters are devoted to the method of intrin- 45 sic signal optical imaging, a method used to record the minute changes in optical 46 absorption due to hemodynamic changes that accompanies cortical activity. Since the 47 detected hemodynamic changes are highly localized, this method has excellent 48 spatial resolution (50-100 µm ), a resolution sufficient for visualization of fundamen- 49 tal modules of cerebral cortical function.
$169.99
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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena: Zu Einer Jeden Kunstigen Metaphysik (1893): Zu Einer Jeden Kunstigen Metaphysik (1893)
Das Buch ""Immanuel Kants Prolegomena: Zu Einer Jeden Kunstigen Metaphysik"" von Immanuel Kant wurde im Jahr 1893 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Zusammenstellung von Kants Gedanken zur Metaphysik, die er in seinen Vorlesungen an der Universit�����t K������nigsberg vorgetragen hat. In den Prolegomena geht es um die Frage, ob Metaphysik als Wissenschaft m������glich ist und welche Bedingungen daf�����r erf�����llt sein m�����ssen. Kant argumentiert dabei, dass die Metaphysik nur dann als Wissenschaft gelten kann, wenn sie sich auf die Erfahrung st�����tzt und sich nicht auf spekulative Annahmen oder Vermutungen st�����tzt. Das Buch ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Philosophiegeschichte und hat bis heute Einfluss auf die moderne Philosophie.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
$62.95
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Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota: Comparative Analysis of 18 Contaminated Areas (2009): Comparative Analysis of 18 Contaminated Areas
The adverse consequences of pollution impact on terrestrial ecosystems have been under careful investigation since the beginning of the twentieth century. Several thousand case studies have documented the biotic effects occurring in contaminated areas. However, after more than a century of research, ecologists are still far from understanding the effects of pollution on biota. Only a few generalisations have been made on the basis of extensive monitoring programs and numerous expe- ments with industrial contaminants. The need to reveal general patterns in the responses of terrestrial biota to ind- trial pollution and to identify the sources of variation in these responses became obvious more than a decade ago. At about that time, our team initiated a quanti- tive research synthesis of the biotic effects caused by industrial pollution, based on 1 a meta-analysis of published data. All meta-analyses conducted so far (covering diversity and abundance of soil microfungi, diversity of vascular plants, diversity and abundance of terrestrial arthropods, and plant growth and reproduction) c- sistently showed high heterogeneity in the responses of terrestrial biota to industrial pollution. At the same time, they demonstrated an unexpected shortage of infor- tion suitable for meta-analyses, as well as a considerable influence of methodology of primary studies on the outcome of the research syntheses. To overcome the identified problems, we designed a comparative study, the results of which are reported in this book.
$219.99
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Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
A boldly rendered--and deeply intimate--account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. "[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes."--The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally--often in vain--against threats to their fundamental freedoms. But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized. Drawing from her own experience reporting on the politics and culture of her hometown, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform, Karen Cheung gives us a rare insider's view of this remarkable city at a pivotal moment--for Hong Kong and, ultimately, for herself. Born just before the handover to China in 1997, Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. Not quite at ease within the middle-class, cosmopolitan identity available to her at her English-speaking international school, she also resisted the conservative values of her deeply traditional, often dysfunctional family. Through vivid and character-rich stories, Cheung braids a dual narrative of her own coming of age alongside that of her generation. With heartbreaking candor, she recounts her yearslong struggle to find reliable mental health care in a city reeling from the traumatic aftermath of recent protests. Cheung also captures moments of miraculous triumph, documenting Hong Kong's vibrant counterculture and taking us deep into its indie music and creative scenes. Inevitably, she brings us to the protests, where her understanding of what it means to belong to Hong Kong finally crystallized. An exhilarating blend of memoir and reportage, The Impossible City charts the parallel journeys of both a young woman and a city as they navigate the various, sometimes contradictory paths of coming into one's own. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
$28.99
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