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Complete reference guide to caring for pet birds in the home or an outdoor aviary.
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Caged & Aviary Birds.......2007-07-16
One of the first books you should buy if you're thinking of purchasing any kind of pet bird. An excellent overview of most available. Great for the newcomer or experienced bird keeper.
If you are looking for great photographs,and thorough but general descriptions..........2006-03-20
this is the best I've found so far. I've read this book cover to cover, but it is also great to just pick up and flip to a random page. It would be great for a parrot beginner.
Nice book, but with little detail.......2001-11-19
This book is a masterpiece when it comes to picture quality and when you are looking for a book that covers the most common species. If you have special interest in one or some species, the book is far from detailed enough
Also, the book makes a great present for a bird lover.
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Ultimate Encyclopedia Caged & Aviary Birds
David Alderton
Manufacturer: Southwater
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This beautiful comprehensive directory and practical reference book is an essential manual for bird-keepers of all levels--from the novice looking to keep a single pet bird indoors to sthe seasoned breeder wishing to extend an existing aviary collection.
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Fenton Burmese Glass (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Debbie Coe , and
Randy Coe
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- A fabulous book - but go for the 'MORE' version
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Making Wooden Mechanical Models: 15 Designs With Visible Wheels, Cranks, Pistons, Cogs, and Cams
Alan Bridgewater , and
Gill Bridgewater
Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Books
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Way overpriced .......2007-08-30
I bought this book based on previous reviews. I had high expectations of it and made the decision to purchase it.
This book is way overpriced for its contents. There are very little woodworking techniques described for these mechanisms. The author expects you have a solid woodworking background to make his projects.
The biggest disappointment is that the plans lack dimensions. Each plan comes with 2 sheets. The first is a very confusing and hard to understand hand sketch describing the movement. The second is also a 2D sketch on a 1"x1" squared sheet. The lack of dimensions makes more work for you since you have to translate the dimensions from the sketch to make a template or any other method you decide to follow to build them. I've purchased woodworking plans before and ALL come with dimensions, this is a first for me. These sketches remind me of sewing patterns my grandmother used to have.
The mechanisms are good looking but not easy at all to make.
I feel disappointed. I do not recommend you pay the high price for this book. If you still feel the need for one, try to buy the cheapest you can around.
A fabulous book - but go for the 'MORE' version.......2007-08-06
I bought both books (the first and the 'More') and I have to admit comparing the models in the first and second, the second book 'Building More Mechanical Wooden Models' has far more interesting and 'tactile' machines to build.
Be wary, there are a few omissions, mistakes and mis-prints; probably enough to feel like you're being steered by a forgetful but friendly master carpenter, but if you are an astute reader and do some careful comparisons you can get past these fairly easily. Good Luck!
Great book.......2002-05-28
This book has a series of interesting projects that can be explored in different ways by teachers and educators. Besides the obvious applications in woodworking practical classes, the projects illustrate in a very simple way concepts and basic ideas in motion and mechanics. These are undoubtedly exciting ways to "tease" students in his discovering of physics and mechanics.
Making Wooden Mechanical Models.......2000-06-26
This book is great. I am looking at it from a teachers point of view. With our highly mechanized world, I find that students sometimes do not understand the priciples behind some of our most simple machines. Examples might be a lever, inclined plane, pully, or gears and cams. This book not only teaches about the make-up of machines, it teaches them a lesson in woodworking craftsmanship. In order for these projects to work superbly, great care and pride must be taken in the making and assembling of each project. When the projects in this book are completed, they can serve as a model for someone to actually hold and use to grasp concepts of the mechanical nature. They are also great conversation pieces. I would highly recommend this book not only for it's projects, but it's easy to read and understand format.
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State and Business in Modern Turkey: A Comparative Study (S U N Y Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)
Ayse Bugra
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The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East
Graham Chapman
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The changing Geography of North Africa and The Middle East.......2003-01-08
I will submit it after recieving the book
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Using case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and including such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt, Civil Society focuses on the processes and politics of dismantling "corporate" (state directed) economies in the Third World in order to move toward civil societies of free associability and democracy. The book presents a number of significant findings and recommendations, for example:
Civil society plays an emerging role in East Asia and Latin America but is still weak in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
No one model of development fits all countries. It is imperative to recognize and accommodate indigenous aspects of civil society in development.
Corporatism will remain especially important in countries at a middle level of development as they make the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. REVIEW: "Will stimulate thought and debate over the western model of civil society and its application in the less developed world." (Michael Kryzanek, Chair of the Department of the Political Science, Bridgewater State College) REVIEW: "Wiarda is one of the leading scholars of 'corporatism,' and he has been for decades." (Phil Kelly, professor of political science, Emporia State University)
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This is a unique and original survey of Middle Eastern and Muslim charity groups, their work, and their links to the political firmament within the Islamic world today. It explains the conflict between two trends: the tradition of philanthropy of Muslim societies on the one hand, and the demands of politics on the other. In the process the authors identify a number of issues: who is entitled to benefit from Muslim alms? What are the priorities? What should be the relations between charitable institutions and the state? What account must the organizers of charity give to the public? And who is entitled to interpret Islamic doctrine?
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The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization
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Insightful commentary from thirteen Middle Eastern scholars who argue that economic liberalization has helped to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization argues that the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be expedited by increased economic liberalization. Israel has undergone dramatic economic change in the 1990s, shifting from a strongly protectionist, state-centered economy to a more international, "neoliberal" one. The book maintains that these fundamental changes have in turn transformed Israeli society as a whole, resulting in a significant moderation of attitudes toward the Palestinian people and Palestinian nationalism. The New Israel contains contributions from both established Israeli sociologists and promising young scholars. The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization is an insightful commentary on one of the most crucial international issues of our time.
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The Arab World: Nation, State, and Democracy (Studies in African Political Economy, General ed Samir Amin)
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The Cambodia Country Profile, 22nd title in this series, explores the rich cultural heritage of Cambodia, while also showing a nation in rapid change as it prepares to claim its place in the advanced economies of South East Asia. A continuing theme through the book is how Cambodia can balance the demands for social equity and a sustainable civil society with its rapid economic growth.
This profile focuses on campaigns to preserve traditional livelihoods; on efforts to deal with landmines and AIDS-related illness; and initiatives to rebuild trust and to break with the nation’s violent past. There are personal testimonies from six Cambodian families whose lives have been shaped by the past thirty years of conflict and disregard for their basic civil rights.
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The Economic Structure of the Middle East
Z. Y. Hershlag
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Economic Structures of Antiquity (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
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The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights). The analysis of transaction costs provides insights into many characteristics of the ancient economy, such as the important role of the sacred and symbolic gestures in making contracts, magical technology, the entrepreneurial role of high-born women, the elevation of familial ties and other departures from impersonal economics, reliance on slavery and adoption, and the insatiable drive to accumulate trust-capital. The "peculiar" behavior patterns and mindsets of ancient economic man are shown to be facilitators of economic growth. In recent years, our view of the economy of the ancient world has been shaped by the theories of Karl Polanyi. Silver confronts Polanyi's empirical propositions with the available evidence and demonstrates that antiquity knew active and sophisticated markets. In the course of providing an alternative analytical framework for studying the ancient economy, Silver gives critical attention to the economic views of the Assyriologists I.M. Diakonoff, W.F. Leemans, Mario Liverani, and J.N. Postgate; of the Egyptologists Jacob J. Janssen and Wolfgang Helck; and of the numerous followers of Moses Finley. Silver convincingly demonstrates that the ancient world was not static: periods of pervasive economic regulation by the state are interspersed with lengthy periods of relatively unfettered market activity, and the economies of Sumer, Babylonia, and archaic Greece were capable of transforming themselves in order to take advantage of new opportunities. This new synthesis is essential reading for economic historians and researchers of the ancient Near East and Greece.
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