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Six millennia of world history at a glance, in more than 400 illustrations.Through thousands of dates, facts and quotes, all in chronological sequence, a 30-foot, visual panorama of history literally unfolds, revealing untold treasures inside. Great empires, dynasties, rulers from King Solomon to the present day, exciting inventions, and dramatic discoveries: this magnificent, fully updated chart covers 40 centuries before Christ and 20 centuries after his birth. Based on the famous and now very rare Victoria wall chart, first published in 1890, it maintains the traditional design, but with new maps, charts, and information that go right up to the 21st century. With coverage of the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds; Geochronological Timecharts; images of sculptures and costumes; ethnologies; and lots more, this one-of-a-kind item can be displayed on the wall or used as a handy educational reference.
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This is a Great Treasure.......2007-06-02
An immensely interesting timeline that takes you from Adam and Eve to walking on the moon. History buffs can study and read this chart for years on end. It is a visual representation of our past and graphically traces the nations, leaders and events of our civilized world. Great for kids to gaze at, grandparents to marvel at, and teachers to hang in their classroom as I did. Also helpful if your reading about the past to gather context about the time period. Makes a great gift. Do not plan to buy this and place on a self, you must unfold it and hang it on a wall to truly enjoy day after day.
Wall Chart of World History.......2005-09-09
Received in a timely manner and as represented by the seller. A good experience.
Great conversation starter!.......2004-08-16
This is a neat book. It's a foldout time-line poster that's over 10 feet long. It was first published in the 1890's, and has been updated to the 20th century.
On the top is Biblical history, complete with references to the Bible book of Daniel with its stunning prophecies. It continues with Christendom history and major events.
The rest of it compares Biblical, then Christendom, history with secular history.
A very interesting, complex book to say the least!
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Wallchart of World History
Manufacturer: Studio
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great reference.......2003-05-28
I really loved my brother's copy of this book and eagerly bought my own copy of it. I was going to give it as a gift to a friend who is also "into" history and was very disappointed to see it is no longer in print. I think it usually gets republished at the start of a new year. I hope that is the case this time. Great reference for anyone into historical fiction or any type of study into history. It is nice to see all of the world's events and leaders in line to get a good perspective of what was happening and when.
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Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies.
Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management.
Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. Chinese American activists drew upon public health strategies in their advocacy for health services and public housing. Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society.
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an intriguing blend of many diverse source texts.......2005-04-10
Even though the United States was still a young country during the nineteenth century - where Shah begins his interweaving of public health, race, and citizenship - a strong enough sense of identity had been established to create a milieu of xenophobia with regard to non-Western cultures. In setting up the perspective of the alien as Other and tracing its influences throughout the health crises of San Francisco into the twentieth century, Shah establishes viral contamination as metaphor for cultural contamination. The threat from invaders comes not merely from their different cultural practices but also from their very biology, conflating a social threat with a physical one. White culture became the normative body by which Chinese difference was articulated.
As viruses and other contagious diseases were just beginning to be studied scientifically, some of the advancements were applied for the improvement of individuals while other advancements were used for the improvement of the society around those individuals through suppression or quarantine. A study of the maps of San Francisco that Shah provides read almost like an anatomy diagram, showing the growing cell of the foreign invader in the body politic. Maintenance of a spatial boundary, in order to control disease, transformed into maintenance of a racial boundary.
Throughout the text, Shah presents a considerable amount of evidence from many disparate sources, showing the collusion - often conscious, but sometimes not - of scientific, economic, legal, and other forces. Initially, one of the most important of the media shaped the city's perception of its Chinese foreign nationals through its articles, particularly through its use of pseudo-scientific jargon and its likening of the Chinese to vermin, another icon of plague; this also dehumanized the Chinese population by relegating them to the border spaces of civilized (white, Western) society.
Shah engages in critical debate about dominant versus subordinate social class, using his sources to illuminate developments within both Chinatown and the rest of San Francisco. By the end of Shah's text, the processes of governance transform the alien into the citizen much like the medication that can control and cure a disease, and he wonders if the ways of cultural assimilation are so strong that, in many ways, they eradicate something essential in the original individual. The patient has been saved, but at what cost?
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"This book fills a large gap in the applied statistics literature and, at the same time, provides empirical researchers with the means to quickly determine a valuable piece of information, namely: what sample size is needed for a particular study. "If this book only presented the reader with a straightforward set of procedures for determining N for any particular research design, it would have fulfilled its mission successfully. But the book does more. . . . How Many Subjects? has much to offer the careful and interested reader." --from the Foreword by Victor H. Denenberg "How Many Subjects? provides a 'cookbook' enabling researchers to plan an analysis that gives their alternative or research hypotheses a reasonable chance of being supported . . . useful to those with limited statistical background who simply need a guide to evaluating the power of a test contained in others' research, or to selecting the proper sample size to achieve a given level of power in their own research." --Contemporary Sociology "Until now no broad framework has existed to treat power in a unified fashion across hypothesis testing techniques. . . . An excellent contribution to the literature. . . . A valuable reference book. . . . A nice addition to the statistical literature. How Many Subjects? should be at the disposal of teachers and students of statistics." --Applied Psychological Measurement "This is a simple introduction for non-statisticians to power analysis and sample size determination. Helena Chmura Kraemer and Sue Thiemann have produced an easily readable book that clearly illustrates why sample sizes need to be sufficiently large, so that the experiment has good power properties and hence low type II error rates. . . . This book is an excellent introduction to the problem and whets the appetite to find out more." --The Statistician "A success. . . . For graduate students, there is no question about the book's value. I think that all graduate students should be advised to read this book before starting significant projects such as a dissertation." --Journal of Marketing Research The authors introduce a simple technique of statistical power analysis that allows researchers to compute approximate sample sizes and power for a wide variety of research designs. Because the same technique is used with only slight modifications for different statistical tests, researchers can easily compare the sample sizes required by different designs and tests to make cost-effective decisions in planning a study. These comparisons, emphasized throughout the book, demonstrate some important principles of design, measurement, and analysis that are rarely discussed in courses or textbooks. This book therefore serves not merely as a "how-to" reference for sample size calculations but also as a guide to some general principles of cost-effective research.
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The first book of its kind! A fun and informative guide to equip readers with all the numerical facts they need to know, in one convenient volume.
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Fun To Use - All The Numbers You Need For Life.......2005-05-18
This book has thousands of numbers that you will use in everyday life and it is fun to browse through the book. It is very affordable in the Amazon Marketplace and is offered as low as 75 cents. It is comprehensive with over 600 pages.
Here is a sampling of what is covered:
Worldwide phone numbers - international calling zones.
Appliances life spans for all major appliances.
Nationwide zip codes.
Worldwide air travel distances.
Nationwide area codes.
Tree heights at maturity.
Correct mowing heights for different grasses.
Numbers of rolls of wallpaper for square foot coverage.
Nutritional values for foods.
Caffeine contents of various beverages.
Salaries and wages for 281 different occupations.
Values of home improvements on the sales value of a house.
The best weather worldwide - the best times of the year.
What is your ideal pulse rate?
How long does paint and wallpaper last?
How many moons does each planet have?
What are the relative sizes of the planets?
When are the planets at their brightest?
What are the many astronomical facts and figures?
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How Many Subjects
Kraemer
Manufacturer: Sage Publications
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 080392948X |
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How Many? (Match Them)
Michael Holt
Manufacturer: Collins
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It is best to travel slowly along the roads and highways of Texas. Not because of speed traps, though they are there. But because if you travel slowly, you are less likely to miss the turns that will take you to the heart of this great state. Take these turns, and they will lead you to stories and places of faith.
The Amazing Faith of Texas is an exploration in words and pictures of people and places that represent the strong, abiding belief that sustains faith-filled Texans. A belief that transcends the boundaries of religion. Transcends the dogma. Transcends the differences.
We have heard all we need to hear about what divides us.
The Amazing Faith of Texas is about what unites us. From tiny churches on dusty back roads to the mega churches along our cities' highways, from temples, mosques, and synagogues—
Amazing Faith is a look at our places of worship and a listen to the stories that bring Texans to their faith. From the desert of West Texas to the pines of East Texas, from the Panhandle to the border,
The Amazing Faith of Texas is an exploration of common ground on higher ground.
Customer Reviews:
The photographer makes it happen........2007-02-28
The photographer, Randal Ford, is amazing. He captures the essence of everything he shoots -see his website and no, I'm not related... I can't judge the stories, although they seem pretty good to me.
Just the photos are worth the price of this book. For a little bit more of Texas check out books by Wyman Meinzer and John Graves. Texas - it's a big place.
Beautiful photos, inspirational text.......2007-01-10
I thought this was going to be primarily an art book. I purchased it as a gift for my in-laws, but of course I had to glance through it before I gave it to them. I loved it - the stories that go with the lovely pictures are short and well-written - I couldn't put it down. My in-laws loved it, too. Now I want one for me!
Regular reader of books.......2007-01-05
It is amazing, with all the different faiths, that we all are working for the same thing: higher ground. Pictures in the bok are great.
The Amazing Austin Area and a few strangers.......2006-12-18
This book proves that if you have enough money, you can publish a book that includes your family and friends. Add to that a few more of the rich and famous of the Austin area, throw in a few out-of-town strangers for authenticity (unbeknownst to them), then call it art. Mike Blair wrote that he "crisscrossed the state, searching for stories of faith..." And the book is by "Roy Spence with the People of Texas." Hmmmmm... The photographer's work is incredible, but many of the stories are not. This is a good example of what Chogyam Trungpa calls spiritual materialism at its best. I'd be curious to find out the number of people who are native Texans--since it seems that many are not. C'mon. Don't Mess with Texas.
A buddy of mine also loves this book..........2006-11-21
This book will fill you with hope for the future! The absolutely breathtaking photos of holy men and women were taken by Randal Ford, and the stories were collected and edited by Mike Blair. Some motivational pieces are as follows: A quote by St. Ignatius Loyola, "For those who believe, no explanation is needed, for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible" is positioned opposite a photo of a stark white metal cross in a Texas field. Sister Angela, a Catholic nun who lives in a monastery and raises miniature horses, says, "God is the boss, and I'm just an employee." There is a great photo of Gerald Mann, who was the founder of Riverbend Church, and he is quoted, "The dirtiest word in the English language is they." Alan Graham of Mobile Loaves and Fishes in Austin, is pictured on the streets with a homeless friend and he states, "When you walk through the wall of prejudice, you will find that we are all indeed children of God." Carol C. Walker, Ph.D., is listed as "Missionary, Humanitarian, Texan" and her words quoted are, "We need to always be able to step back and say, 'There might be another way of thinking than mine.'" If you need a spiritual boost as I did, leaf through these pages and know that God is with us.
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Common Ground: Heritage & Public Places in New Zealand
Manufacturer: Univ of Otago Pr
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Building on Common Ground
Manufacturer: Winnipeg Habitat for Humanity
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- Ryan Hays is destined for greatness!
- Heart-warming Inspirational Quotes
- Buy a copy for yourself and a copy for a friend!
- For people passionate about the ideal of community
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Common Good-Common Ground: Building Commitment & Community
Ryan Hays ,
Kelly Haley , and
Wayne Meisel
Manufacturer: Peter Pauper Press
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ASIN: 0880881070 |
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Quotes that inspire us to work together as a community.
Customer Reviews:
Ryan Hays is destined for greatness!.......2002-01-16
Ryan Hays has a keen mind and a sharp wit! In this book he has collected inspirational and heartwarming wisdom. Expect great things from him in the future. Hays, a proud graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is a thoughtful, deliberate writer whose reflections upon the state of religion in America are both insightful and entertaining.
Heart-warming Inspirational Quotes.......2000-11-30
Ryan Hays has a gift for selecting profound quotes. In this book he and his colleagues have collected a series of trenchant thoughts that offer encouragement to anyone interested in finding "Common Good -- Common Ground."
Buy a copy for yourself and a copy for a friend!.......2000-08-17
This attractive book is collection of quotes that will help inspire you to make a difference in your community!
For people passionate about the ideal of community.......2000-02-03
Reading through this book is like visiting old friends or acquainting myself with new ones. Some of my most favorite quotations are collected in this one volume. Common Good, Common Ground also places before me unfamiliar words, from authors across the centuries and across the globe, which both inspire and provoke. After reading this book, you will look at your community with new eyes. You will want to join hands with your neighbors and work to transform it.
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Common Ground: Contemporary Craft, Architecture and the Decorative Arts (Mercury Series)
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A Common Ground: Erb Memorial Union 1950 to 2000
Adell McMillan
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This book provides a common sense approach that, if enacted, will improve the educational system for the students who attend school in America. Oftentimes, we as educators know what needs to be changed or done to make a school more successful, but don't implement those strategies, because they may not be "politically correct". This book does not take political correctness into account when it comes to student achievement. There is no program that is more important than one which ensures that students get the proper education. You will read about the importance of having a vision, analyzing test data, implementing strategies that improve student learning, and implementing a strong and consistent discipline program. This book will help parents as well as educators see a "common sense approach" to student performance. Administrators, teachers, and parents will read about how to organize and work together, so that the students of America will receive the best education possible.
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User-developer Cooperation In Software Development: Building Common Ground and Usable Systems (Distinguished Dissertations)
E. O'Neill
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User-Developer Cooperation in Software Development brings together the strengths of task analysis and user participation within an overall software development process, and presents a detailed observation and theoretical analysis of what it is for users and developers to cooperate, and the nature of user-developer interaction. Eamonn O'Neill deals with these issues through the development and application of an approach to task-based participatory development in two real world development projects, and discusses the strengths of task analysis and participatory design methods, and how they complement each other's weaker aspects.
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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 4363 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: A Bronx tale: creating common ground for high school success; The situation at two large high schools in the Bronx seemed hopeless. It was only when that point was reached that the door was opened for radical reform. The schools were divided into a number of small autonomous schools, which have achieved remarkable turnarounds. Ms. House describes the exciting programs in two of those schools.
Author: N. Gerry House
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Phi Delta Kappan (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 88
Issue: 5
Page: 377(7)
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