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Perfect for beginning readers, this laugh-out-loud joke book about foolish farm animals will put a smile on your face! ... Read more

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Mapping the West:America's Westward Movement 1524-1890, a stunning collection of the finest maps ever made of the American West, chronicles the cartographic history of the western United States from 1524 to 1890. The book begins with a look at the European powers' (Spain, France, England) efforts to comprehend their far-flung colonies, then directs our attention toward U.S. Government and military maps made by such notables as Lewis and Clark, Robert E. Lee, and C.T. Beauregard. Also included are maps by American Indians, maps that highlight the epicenter of the California gold rush, and maps that delineate the proposed and final courses of the transcontinental railroad, to mention only a few of the areas herein discussed.

The sixty-five maps shown come from collections throughout the world. Leading private collectors of maps of the American West, whose holdings have never been published, have put their collections at the disposal of this study. Many maps are here shown for the first time, most for the first time in color. Filled with fascinating historical anecdote and detailed scholarship, Mapping the West is a work that will be highly prized by map lovers and history buffs alike. It is a sumptuous feast of glorious full-color reproductions of maps by the most extraordinary cartographers this country has known.
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A Collector's Delight
I can recommmend this book in three ways-as a coffee table book,as a map collector's reference book, and as a history book.As a book out on your living room table, visitors will be sure to pick it up and review it.As a collector's reference it is wonderful.A good overview of various maps, some one of a kind, with a great writeup on each map and mapmaker.It may become a "reference" book, whereby the maps shown are more desirable to collectors simply because they are listed in "Cohen".Finaly, it is a great history book dealing with the exploration of America westward. Highly recommend to anyone interested in maps and mapping, or in American history. ... Read more

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A fascinating way to explore cities is through historic maps and views. It is while deciphering its creation and development that one uncovers the true spirit of a city. American Cities features nine of this country s greatest metropolises; cities that are thriving urban centers today with colorful histories rich in graphic representation: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, St Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. Rare or previously unpublished, the maps and views reproduced for each city turn the book into a unique journey of both form and content. An essay by a specialist accompanies each section. The result is a lavish work that pays tribute to the most important and artistic images of America. ... Read more

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5 Star Printing with 1 Star Text
This is a beautiful book.The maps and illustrations are magnificently reproduced with the superb quality I have come to expect from Italian printers.Unfortunately, the book's usefulness is limited by the text, set in an almost unreadable typeface.Whoever designed this book obviously does not read much.It's a pity.The authors had a lot to say, but it takes a major effort to read it.

Very Interesting!
As a fan of historic cartography, this is a "must have" book to own.

A Rich Visual History
After enjoying this informative and graphically rich tome, I feel a better title for it might be "Nine American Cities: A Visual History."

The cities highlighted in this book are Boston, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.Containing historical maps and illustrations accompanied by essays explaining historic and narrative context, "American Cities" surprises and delights by revealing how these cities used to be and developed into the cities we know now.The enjoyment and relevance increases when the city under exploration happens to be one in which one lives.As I have lived in two of the nine cities and am familiar with another, I found this book especially engaging, although residence in one of the nine cities need not be a requirement to enjoy this beautifully formatted book.The two editors are dealers in antique maps and books, and their love of their work shows in "American Cities". ... Read more

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In 2009, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened a major conference to discuss the health and longevity of China’s ruling system and to consider a fundamental question: After three decades of internal strife and turmoil, followed by an era of reform, entrepreneurialism, and internationalization, is the PRC here for the dynastic long haul?

Bringing together scholars and students of China from around the world, the gathering witnessed an energetic exchange of views on four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. Edited and expanded from the original conference papers, the wide-ranging essays in this bilingual volume remain true to the conference’s aim: to promote open discussion of the past, present, and future of the People’s Republic of China.

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In February 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the American Society of International Law organized a study panel of legal scholars, social scientists, lawyers, and government officials to consider problems relating to "China and International Order." The panel was founded in the belief that the turmoil in China would not endure and that the People's Republic might soon wish to participate fully in the world community. To prepare for this day, the panel commissioned and reviewed a number of studies of China's interpretation and application of international law.

The ten essays in this volume-written by twelve scholars including Mr. Cohen, who has also written a substantial introduction are the fruit of this effort. Four of the essays deal with basic problems relating to Peking's international conduct: recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations, the regulation of foreign diplomats serving in China, manipulation of the concept of "unequal treaties," and the PRC's conditions for participation in international organizations. The other six essays focus on legal problems that have arisen in China's relations with a given country or international organization.

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gotta love it
Great product, great service.
What more can I say. I bought 2 of these books. One for my child and one for a friends. Both books where almost brand new. few if any pencil marks in one of them. The kids love them, since they can write into themand they are small and compact - no pictures unless absolutely needed makes them an easy carry vs 7 lb school copies. wish I could get all school books in this type of format and for this type of price.

Well-written chemistry text
I learned a lot from this chemistry text.It beats the standard intro level chem. texts by emphasizing the most important concepts for a beginning course. Highly recommended.

Chemistry : A Contemporary Approach
This is an excellent supplement for leaning introductory chemistry. I found chemistry very difficult in the first semester. Once I found this book in one of the shelves in my chem classroom and thought it was really good. I found it in amazon.com and bought it. I started reading it and found chemistry getting eaiser and eaiser. My grade went up from a C+ to an A in the second semester. It uses the most concise words to explain the complex ideas. Chemistry is not an easy subject for many people. Having an useful supplement like this book could really make a big difference. ... Read more

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Chapters: Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Cohen, Atle Selberg, René Thom, Edward Witten, Enrico Bombieri, Alain Connes, John Milnor, William Thurston, Michael Atiyah, Lars Ahlfors, Stephen Smale, Heisuke Hironaka, Vladimir Voevodsky, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, Richard Borcherds, Grigori Perelman, Shing-Tung Yau, David Mumford, Terence Tao, Lars Hörmander, Jean-Pierre Serre, Grigory Margulis, Timothy Gowers, Simon Donaldson, Alan Baker, Laurent Schwartz, John G. Thompson, Vladimir Drinfel'd, Sergei Novikov, Pierre Deligne, Kunihiko Kodaira, Charles Fefferman, Michael Freedman, Daniel Quillen, Vaughan Jones, Wendelin Werner, Andrei Okounkov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jesse Douglas, Jean Bourgain, Curtis T. Mcmullen, Efim Zelmanov, Gerd Faltings, Shigefumi Mori, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Klaus Roth. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 229. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (born 22 April 1929) is a British mathematician, and one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He grew up in Sudan and Egypt, and spent most of his academic life at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been President of the Royal Society (19901995), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (19901997), Chancellor of the University of Leicester (19952005), and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (20052008). He is currently retired and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has had many mathematical collaborations, in particular with Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch and Isadore Singer, and his students include Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. With Hirzebruch he founded topological K-theory, a major tool in algebraic topology, that describes the ways in which high dimensional space...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20698 ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Cohen, Roald Hoffmann, James Cagney, Thelonious Monk, Samuel P. Huntington, Bob Frankston, Hubert Selby, Jr., Lucy Liu, Thomas Sowell, List of Stuyvesant High School People, Eric Holder, Dick Morris, John S. Hall, Ted Gold, David Axelrod, Tim Robbins, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lewis Mumford, Richard Axel, George Raft, John F. Banzhaf Iii, Brian Greene, Jerrold Nadler, Robert Fogel, Joshua Lederberg, Paul Moskowitz, Ron Silver, Eric Lander, Anwar Shaikh, Albert Shanker, Roy Innis, Terry Carter, Denny Chin, Julius Hegyi, Kamran Pasha, Angela Goethals, Richard Ben-Veniste, Mike Greenberg, Joseph Nacchio, Ben Gazzara, Nat Finkelstein, David Lipsky, Lawrence Grossberg, Jeffrey Loria, Eva Moskowitz, Lisa Randall, Alexander Rosenberg, Bram Cohen, Ronald J. Grabe, Paul Reiser, Walter Becker, Vladimir Posner, Michael Silverstein, Hans Mark, Peter Lax, Albert Axelrod, Les Krims, George Segal, Elias M. Stein, Sheldon Leonard, Rolf Landauer, Paul Levitz, Marshall Rosenbluth, Tom Dowd, Alexander N. Rossolimo, Ted Husing, Gary Shteyngart, Robert Parris Moses, Dalton Conley, Len Berman, Kai Winding, Rebecca Pawel, Bernie Brillstein, Arthur Blank, Michael Levin, Edwin Torres, George Kisevalter, J. Edward Bromberg, Mace Neufeld, Igor Ansoff, Paul Stuart Appelbaum, Tobias Schneebaum, Noam Elkies, Robert Zimmer, Bernard W. Nussbaum, Stephen Grossberg, Samuel and Bella Spewack, Hanna Rosin, Reihan Salam, Charlie Scott, John Tietjen, Martin Brest, Melvin Hochster, Jessica Lappin, Harold Widom, Donald J. Newman, Harvey Pitt, George Michael Cuomo, Richard H. Price, Daniel Berg, Matt Ruff, Robert Alda, Eric Van Lustbader, Benjamin Widom, Daniel Radosh, Frederick B. Abramson, Arthur M. Jolly, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, Howard Golden, Peter Shalen, Heather Juergensen, Ashley Springer, Adriana Diaz, Ned Vizzini, Charles Dryden, Steven M. Bellovin, Kelly Karbacz, Alan Gerson, John Schoenherr, Bertram Kostant, William Greaves, M. G. Sheftall, Ka...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16046 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kurt Gödel, Bertrand Russell, Georg Cantor, Paul Cohen, Max August Zorn, Chris Freiling, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Saharon Shelah, András Hajnal, Edward Kofler, Thoralf Skolem, Leonard Gillman, Ernst Zermelo, Judith Roitman, Petr Vopěnka, Abraham Fraenkel, Raphael M. Robinson, Paul Bernays, Menachem Magidor, Richard Laver, Keith Devlin, Andreas Blass, Edward Nelson, Ronald Jensen, Sy Friedman, Matthew Foreman, Tomek Bartoszyński, Robert M. Solovay, Eric Charles Milner, Leo Harrington, James Earl Baumgartner, Jack Silver, W. Hugh Woodin, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Kenneth Kunen, Fred Galvin, Akihiro Kanamori, Azriel Levy, Cabal, Thomas Jech, Alexander S. Kechris, Ernst Specker, John R. Steel, Bohuslav Balcar, Katsuya Eda, Géza Fodor. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic. Although he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales where he also died, aged 97. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his protégé Wittgenstein and his predecessor Frege, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." Both works have had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, and philosophy. He was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. Russell was imprisoned for his pacifist activism dur...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4163 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Cohen, Dorothy Parker, Garret Hobart, Clint Black, Norman Mailer, Scott Schoeneweis, Tom Constanten, Robert Pinsky, M. H. Abrams, William A. Stevens, the Atomic Bitchwax, John Guire, Alyssa Beckerman, Anthony Portantino, Paul Kiernan, Bryant B. Newcomb, Sonny Greer, Rufus Blodgett, Ed Jones. Excerpt:Personal information Alyssa Erin Beckerman (born January 23, 1981 in Long Branch, New Jersey ) is an American gymnast and student. Beckerman was a member of the United States National Gymnastics Team from 1997 to 2000. Her highest honor was making the 1999 World Gymnastics Championships although she was unable to compete due to a wrist injury. She was named an alternate member of the 2000 US Olympic team, but was unable to compete because Tasha Schwikert (the other alternate member) was instead selected in place of an injured Morgan White. Beckerman competed on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ) intercollegiate gymnastics team from 2001 to 2003 while pursuing a degree in sociology . Beckerman is best known for her exquisite, clean gymnastics, impeccably long and smooth legs, and her tremendous dance ability. While not a very powerful gymnast, her floor exercise routines were dramatic and well-received by judges. Beckerman's ability to pirouette was largely unmatched by other American gymnasts. Her triple pirouette on the floor exercise was well performed, as well as her pirouette with leg horizontal to the floor on the balance beam. Beckerman's strongest events were the uneven bars and the balance beam. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anthony J. Portantino (born January 29, 1961 in Long Branch, New Jersey ), has represented California's 44th assembly district since December 2006. He is a Democrat . Entertainment career Assembly... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on April 10, 2006. The length of the article is 960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Five tycooniest tycoons in the county.(the grapevine)(richest people on the list)(Steven A. Cohen)(Paul Tudor Jones)(Edward S. Lampert)
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Date: April 10, 2006
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Volume: 45Issue: 15Page: 39(1)

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Paul Andrew Cohen, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 448 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 372 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Frank Walker, Philip Ozouf Jr, Ben Shenton, Terry le Main, Guy de Faye, Freddie Cohen, Paul Routier, Terry le Sueur, Mike Vibert, Wendy Kinnard, Ian Gorst. Excerpt:Jersey item Crown Officers item Other countries · Atlas Politics portal Biography Ben Shenton is the son of the politician and former Senator Dick Shenton . He was born in Saint Helier in 1960, the third of four children and educated at De La Salle College . He lives in Grouville, Jersey, with his wife Debbie and his two daughters, Tori (16) and Lucy (14). Before being elected to the States he worked in the investment management business with various employers for 27 years, in both Jersey and London. He is a Fellow of the Securities ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Theodor Herzl Foundation on September 1, 2008. The length of the article is 2352 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sergeant Cohen's war: a memoir of victory, liberation, and loss.(Paul Cohen)(Personal account)
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Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2008
Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
Volume: 54Issue: 5Page: 23(3)

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