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This microcomputer-based systems text emphasizes practical problem-solving tools and strategies, making it relevant to the real world without diluting the basic theoretical content. ... Read more

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This well regarded series for students taking the commercial and airline transport pilot licences has been substantially revised to bring it into line with the new European Joint Aviation Requirements (JARs) for flight crew licensing. Each volume deals with the material required by one of the new JAR papers.

This volume deals with those subjects covered in the 022 section of the aircraft general knowledge part of the syllabus. It continues to cover air data and gyroscopic flight instruments, compasses and inertial navigation systems. Electronic instrumentation, automatic flight control and in-flight protection systems have been included and updated, together with thrust control and powerplant and system monitoring instruments.

Basic principles are covered as before, but emphasis on obsolete equipment and calculations has been reduced or removed as appropriate, permitting increased coverage of modern systems.

The opportunity has been taken to simplify the presentation of information so as to aid study and revision work. Many test questions and answers have been included, based upon the JAR syllabus and style. ... Read more

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The importance of understanding complex toxicological and chemical properties of hexavalent and trivalent chromium has increased rapidly over the last few years as state and federal regulators reevaluate environmental standards. The risk management of chromium-contaminated soils continues to be a very dynamic process that presents interesting challenges.Chromium in Soil discusses the challenges faced by those investigating and remediating chromium-impacted soils and groundwater. The chapters address numerous ground-breaking developments in various fields of environmental chromium research, including toxicity, chemistry, environmental fate and transport, remediation technology, and health-based cleanup standards. ... Read more

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Over the course of the last 50 years, Gabor Szilasi (b. Budapest, 1928) has created one of the world s most significant bodies of photographic work. His photographs, which are found in numerous private and public collections, have been sustained by an unwavering belief in the humanistic and documentary value of the medium. This publication uncovers the essence of Szilasi s artistic vision through his observations of urban and rural life and his recordings of the connections between culture and community. While much of the work was undertaken for specific projects, it is gathered here so as to reveal larger patterns of social interaction and cultural values that only become apparent when photographs taken over time are brought together. The evolution of Szilasi s work is revealed through the juxtaposition of lesser-known, never-before-published photographs with more familiar, iconic images. ... Read more

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The 2005 edition of CIMA's Official Study Systems have been fully updated to reflect the new syllabus.

Updated to incorporate legislative and syllabus changes, the 2005 Study Systems provide complete study material for the May and November 2005 exams. The new edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains:
* practice questions throughout
* complete revision section
* topic summaries
* recommended reading articles from a range of journals
* pilot paper

* The official study systems are the only study materials endorsed by CIMA
* Updated to reflect the new syllabus with key sections written by examiners and assessors
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Balkans, the story behind it.
This is an extreme study of the crisis in the Balkans in 1875.It builds up to the year of the outbreaks and exposes the how and why of the crisis.In Harris' book he reveals to the reader that the happenings in the Balkansis directly and indirectly related to the onset of 1914.The author digsdeep into numerous sources and uses primary sources.Overall it gives thereader a better understanding of why problems exist in the Balkans.It isa slow read and is highly informative.It should be read by all who arestudying foreign relations. ... Read more

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The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is rapidly acquiring great influence in international law, as academics and practitioners recognize the profound scope and reach of the Covenant's provisions for the promotion and protection of individual freedom, and human rights. In this highly original collection of essays by a group of leading British scholars, the impact of the Covenant on United Kingdom law is assessed, and the relative effectiveness of the Covenant as opposed to other regionally-based human rights agreements is discussed and analysed. ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Bill has been recruited by Captain Kadaffi - better known as Captain Cadaver - for a suicide mission on the planet Eyerack. Bill has orders to die trying - but trying what, he doesn't know. Will he lead the mission? Will he survive the bombs, blondes and booze? Will he ever find a foot? ... Read more

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Harrison Doesn't Know When to Stop
The first "Bill" book was good. Not great, but decent, funny and satirically sharp. The rest of the series is barely-mitigated garbage. By this point, he's clearly not even writing the stuff at all, as one "co-author" after another takes over. Sadly, it's difficult to see how it would be any better if he had. Harrison can write great, lively, funny, inventive sci-fi: the early "Rat" books, "Deathworld". "Deathworld" works so well because he wrote three short books, one short story and then stopped (or converted its protagonist into the Rat, one could argue). But the Rat books decay into a muddle when it becomes clear that Harrison just thrives on the stock elements of the stories; the capers, gadgets and booze. Continuity and development can go hang. Who cares if English was the native language of Jim diGriz's homeworld in some books but has to learn it in others? Who cares that the man who has dealt with money in every form from coin to electronic transfer can suddenly be confused by a wallet and its contents? Stick with the ride and it'll all work out OK. The Rat character and the main ingredients are good enough. After a while, though, the contempt that Harrison exudes for his audience starts to get wearing. If Harrison doesn't care enough to keep consistent about basic details of his major character's history, why should we care about him at all?

But with "Bill", we reach this point after Book 1. The character is not as accessible, his lot in life not as enjoyable to read about, the reversals he suffers tiresome. Add in some often appallingly bad attempts at genre parody (the Cyberpunk and Orson Scott Card efforts in one of this series, in particular, were cringe-makingly horrible) and it's no surprise that in every used SF bookstore I've seen, a chunk of the Harry Harrison shelfspace is taken by barely-touched copies of "Bill the Galactic Hero And Something Or Other" by Harry Harrison And Some Guy. I've read them all once and will never touch any of them again. Harrison clearly doesn't care about Bill, and nor do I.

funny stuff on paper.
Harry Harrison has an ingenius talent when it comes to creating fundamentally likeable,amusing characters and scenarios.Similar to sleeeepery jeeeeem digriz(anti-hero of the stainless steel rat series)Bill is stuck in the TROOPERS and all his adventures revolve around trying to get out and back to his sepia-toned robomule.The final adventure is more topical than previous novels but is firmly rooted in the soil of mirth with running gags,polevaulting gags and gags on rocketpowered rollerblades(both left footed,chuckle chuckle chuckle)ah bejesus,this was my 'bath book' for ages,like a fine wine in nearly no way at all except its funnier.buy this for a much needed laugh at the military mind.

Funny, satiric look at the Gulf War through the eyes of Bill
Harris and Harrison have taken their Galactic Hero into the middle of a war for control of vital neutron mines. This book takes Bill back to satiric vision created by Harrison in the original book, Bill the Galatic Hero.Funny, occasionally moving, with an undercurrent of contemporary commentary on the nature of war--and people who like their jokes well-aged. ... Read more

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David Gold is a remarkable person with an even more improbable story. This is the original rags to riches tale of a man journeying from abject poverty and ill health in the back streets of the East End to a multi-million pound business empire and a magnificent mansion in the heart of the Surrey countryside. Along the way this fascinating story introduces us to crushing poverty, dysentery, East End villainy, anti-semitism and a father in prison...then a crucial 'break' in the world of business, followed by ownership of national newspapers and the hugely successful Ann Summers retail business, plus chairmanship of Premiership team Birmingham City FC. "Pure Gold" is a tale that will inspire people from all walks of life, by a man who has kept his feet on the ground at all times on his unbelievable life journey. ... Read more

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An introduction to social theory, touching on key aspects of everyday life. The author attempts to engage with the problems students typically face in studying social theory by using non-specialized terms and examples to introduce more complex themes. Includes references and index. Softcover, hardcover available. ... Read more

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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In Shards of America, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children's letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole.

Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present...touching on all these themes, Bergerson's quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years' time. 119 color photographs. ... Read more

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Untitled
Phil Bergerson's square color photographs show that he has a sensitive eye for the unusual, the intriguing, the ironic in American life.His sensibility brings to mind that of other contemporary photographers, Elliott Erwitt and Lee Friedlander.The book is a delight.

Message man
Canadian Phil Bergerson continues the American tradition of photographing messages in public places.The sixty photo spreads in the book all contain some sort lettering: either commercially printed or hand created which appear in shop windows or in the environment.David Harris writes in his excellent intro that the flow of images creates a visual framework with each spread deliberately contrasting their two photos.Some of this is not immediately apparent in the same way that not every photo in 'William Eggleston's Guide' slots into place on the first look through.

So many of Bergerson's photos pull you into the composition.Page forty-eight shows a cash register and liquor bottles in a bar with various printed messages on the wall behind and on the register, or the roadside on page eighty-eight with a vertical pole almost splitting the photo in two and various signs stretching into the distance both compositions, cropping and the deep saturated colors just seem so right.I thought the amount of detail in each photo very impressive, all the more so because every shot has been taken in a public place where anyone could have seen what Bergerson has seen but mostly we just pass it by and it's only when the same view is placed on a page that the ordinary reveals more.

Overall I thought this was a wonderful set of photos and the book is typical of the high standards you would expect from the Quantuck.Laura Lindgren (who has designed other Quantuck titles) does the usual impressive layout and typography and the Italian printer Mondadori (matt art with 175 screen) completes the package.

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`This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University

Written with the needs of today's student in mind, the SAGE Key Concepts series provides accessible, authoritative and reliable coverage of the essential issues in a range of disciplines. Written in each case by experienced and respected experts in the subject area, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages understanding without sacrificing the level of detail and critical evaluation essential to convey the complexity of the issues.

Key Concepts in Leisure Studies:

• Provides a student-friendly guide to the key debates in leisure studies

• Reflects recent developments in the field, encompassing related work in media studies, cultural studies, sports studies and sociology

• Cross-references each 1500 word exposition to other concepts in the field

• Offers definitions, section outlines and further reading guidance for independent learning

• Is supported by the author's website http:/www.arasite.org/keyconc.html

• Is essential reading for undergraduates and NVQ students in leisure studies.

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'An extremely straight forward and no nonsense approach to Documentary Credits - This Book should be on every L/C professional's shelves' - Amazon Customer, Review of previous edition. This practical work offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the workings of documentary credits in the context of English law and under international banking practice as applied in England. Written from the perspective of banking practices as well as the law, the text fully considers the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits 600, as well as a full review of the body of case law on the UCPDC 500. ... Read more