The Templar Salvation

The Templar Salvation Review

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When Tess Chaykin is taken hostage, FBI Agent Sean Reilly is forced to do the unthinkable. He must infiltrate the Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition and steal a legendary document known as the Fondo Templari--the secret history of the infamous Templars...

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How to Sell Anything on eBay... And Make a Fortune (How to Sell Anything on Ebay & Make a Fortune)

How to Sell Anything on eBay... And Make a Fortune (How to Sell Anything on Ebay & Make a Fortune) Review

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Imagine opening a store...and more than 150 million people showing up.

That's the power of selling on eBay.

More than 100,000 people have used the first edition of How to Sell Anything on eBay...and Make a Fortune! to make their fortunes. Now the fully revised second edition shows you how to navigate the new site design, revised fee structures, and most importantly, how to reach the increased number of registered users-from 50 million to 157 million!

You'll learn about the newest ways to make it big, including:

• A list of current fee structures and tips on how to make the most money
• Updated “screen shots,” detailing how to navigate through eBay's redesigned Web site
• Revised policies, and ways to dodge possible pitfalls
• Money-making ideas for your auction

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Workers Control: Another World is Possible

Workers Control: Another World is Possible Review

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"Another World is Possible", the slogan of the World Social Forum, throws into vivid relief the hopes and ideals of a new generation of concerned people. But their aspiration was not newly invented at the great gatherings in Porto Alegre, Seattle or Florence. It had also animated very many people of a previous generation, as this collection of writings on workers' control shows. Trade unionists in Britain pursued their hope of a more fulfilling life in the secure knowledge that if they joined together, a better world was indeed possible. Now, a new generation of trade unionists, internationally, may in turn draw inspiration from the ideas and experiences of those who came together in pursuit of industrial democracy and workers' control.

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Cities and Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability

Cities and Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability Review

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Cities and Natural Process is a discussion of the fundamental conflict in the perception of nature and an expression of the essential need for an environmental view when approaching urban design. Whilst retaining the existing structure, each of the chapters has been revised to take into account recent theoretical and practical developments. A completely new concluding chapter has been added which draws together the themes of the volume and links these to broader landscape issues such as greenway systems, landscape ecology and green infrastructure.

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Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary

Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary Review

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Bill Holm, often called “the bard of the Midwest,” takes readers on an excursion to islands both real and symbolic. He journeys to five physical islands: Iceland, Madagascar, Molokai, Isla Mujeres, and Mallard Island. And he travels to conceptual islands, including the Necessary Island of the Imagination, the whimsical Piano Island (located in a man-made lake under the atrium of an upscale hotel in the far interior of China), and the acute isolation of the Island of Pain. Writing with the mind-set of a 19th-century traveler for whom the journey is as important as the destination, Holm appeals to the traveler and the philosopher in everyone.

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The Bone Vault

The Bone Vault Review

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The Bone Vault Feature

• The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein
• Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper Murder Mystery, with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace
• 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition, Jan 2004
• Pocket Books is A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
• ISBN-10: 0743436679, ISBN-13: 978-0743436670

One of the special pleasures of this lively series, written by a veteran sex-crimes investigator for the Manhattan district attorney's office, is the unusual glimpse it gives readers into corners of New York no tourist and few residents ever see (The Deadhouse). Here she turns her attention to the city's major cultural edifices--the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the Cloisters--and takes us behind their sealed doors to investigate the murder of a museum curator whose mummified body turns up in an ancient sarcophagus just before it's shipped out of the country. Together with her partners, cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, assistant DA Alexandra Cooper retraces Katrina Grooten's steps from her native South Africa to the discovery of her remains on a New Jersey pier. Along the way, the mysteries of the ancient world get equal billing with the more contemporary whodunit, and Cooper and her pals get a firsthand look at the murderous New York art world, too. Fairstein's thrillers offer an in-depth tour of truly off-the-beaten-path Manhattan as well as solid plotting, well-drawn characters, and snappy dialogue. What the DA's office lost when the author retired to write full-time is the mystery fan's biggest gain! --Jane Adams


In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exquisite Temple of Dendur, a monument to an ancient world, a very modern debate is raging at a gala dinner: a controversial new exhibit is fiercely opposed by many among the upper echelon of museum donors. Alex Cooper steps into this highly charged ring of power players only to make a much more troubling discovery: a young museum researcher has been murdered, her body shipped to the Met in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. Together with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must penetrate the realm of the city's cultural elite to find a killer intent on keeping some secrets buried for eternity.

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Bulbs in Containers

Bulbs in Containers Review

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Fantastic color photographs and excellent writing make this an inspirational and accessible guide for specialty plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners, and city gardeners, as well as anyone gardening in small spaces. Readers will learn about the ease and practicality of growing bulbs in containers — bringing year-round color and interest to one's home. Popular classic bulbs are included, as well as a range of more unusual varieties such as the delicate-looking but surprisingly unfussy corydalis, and graceful, late-spring-flowering scillas. The book details how to plan and prepare for a year of flowering bulbs — how to store bulbs during the dormant period and get them ready for planting, how to make homemade shelters to protect plants during the growing season before they begin to flower, and how to create simple accessories that show off the final display. Detailed advice on seed propagation provides gardeners an inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and satisfying method of increasing their range of species bulbs.

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Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th Edition

Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th Edition Review

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Since 1932, the ten editions of Architectural Graphic Standards have been referred to as the "architect's bible." From site excavation to structures to roofs, this book is the first place to look when an architect is confronted with a question about building design. With more than 8,000 architectural illustrations, including both reference drawings and constructible architectural details, this book provides an easily accessible graphic reference for highly visual professionals.

To celebrate seventy-five years as the cornerstone of an industry, this commemorative Eleventh Edition is the most thorough and significant revision of Architectural Graphic Standards in a generation. Substantially revised to be even more relevant to today's design professionals, it features:

An entirely new, innovative look and design created by Bruce Mau Design that includes a modern page layout, bold second color, and new typeface

Better organized-- a completely new organization structure applies the UniFormat(r) classification system which organizes content by function rather than product or material

Expanded and updated coverage of inclusive, universal, and accessible design strategies

Environmentally-sensitive and sustainable design is presented and woven throughout including green materials, LEEDS standards, and recyclability

A bold, contemporary new package--as impressive closed as it is open, the Eleventh Edition features a beveled metal plate set in a sleek, black cloth cover

Ribbon Markers included as a convenient and helpful way to mark favorite and well used spots in the book

All New material

Thoroughly reviewed and edited by hundreds of building science experts and experienced architects, all new details and content including:

new structural technologies, building systems, and materials

emphasis on sustainable construction, green materials, LEED standards, and recyclability

expanded and updated coverage on inclusive, universal, and accessible design strategies

computing technologies including Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAD/CAM

new information on regional and international variations

accessibility requirements keyed throughout the text

new standards for conducting, disseminating, and applying architectural research

New and improved details

With some 8,500 architectural illustrations, including both reference drawings and constructible architectural details, Architectural Graphic Standards continues to be the industry's leading, easily accessible graphic reference for highly visual professionals.

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Fords of the Fifties

Fords of the Fifties Review

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Fords of the Fifties is a book about Ford Motor Company and its cars during the 1950s -- the romantic decade of chrome, fins and dual exhausts. Much of the photography is by author Mike Parris. Original photographs and information from the archives of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village and the Detroit Library's National Automotive Collection are also featured in this must-have book for any classic car enthusiast. Parris blends a behind-the-scenes story of Ford Motor Company's survival and comeback from 1949 to 1959 with these beautiful images, interviews and details of classic Fords.

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Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)

Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) Review

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"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design.

In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional unselfconscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities.

In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct.

The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.

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When Darkness Falls

When Darkness Falls Review

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From the moment Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is called upon to defend a new client, a homeless man jailed for threatening to jump off a bridge, it's obvious something is amiss. For one thing, the man called Falcon manages to come up with the ,000 bail . . . in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the abandoned car he's living in.

But it isn't until a panicked Falcon takes a group of innocent people hostage, including Jack's best friend, and barricades himself and his prisoners in a motel room that Swyteck realizes how much is truly at stake. For Falcon has a bigger agenda than suicide, and Jack Swyteck must get to the root of a dark history and bitter secrets before Falcon decides he has nothing to lose by killing them all.

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All hands on deck: local governments and the potential for bidirectional climate change regulation.: An article from: Stanford Law Review

All hands on deck: local governments and the potential for bidirectional climate change regulation.: An article from: Stanford Law Review Review

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This digital document is an article from Stanford Law Review, published by Stanford Law School on March 1, 2010. The length of the article is 38259 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.

From the author: In line with accepted theories of environmental law, many prominent environmental law scholars have dismissed the climate change plans of U.S. cities and other local governments, presuming that these efforts will have no more than a trivial effect on greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing upon economic theories, others find local "piecemeal" efforts not only ineffective, but also potentially harmful to the prospects for a successful national emissions reduction program. In contrast, this Article argues that local governments have core regulatory powers in domains that will prove critical to a comprehensive response to climate change. Following a trend in scholarship that moves away from rigid prescriptions for either centralized or decentralized environmental regulation, this Article envisions local governments as important players in a multilevel governmental effort that regulates greenhouse gas emissions from the bottom up and the top down.

Citation Details
Title: All hands on deck: local governments and the potential for bidirectional climate change regulation.
Author: Katherine A. Trisolini
Publication:Stanford Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Stanford Law School
Volume: 62 Issue: 3 Page: 669(78)

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Extreme heat: tale of two cities.(Building Sciences)(Las Vegas and Dubai)(Report): An article from: ASHRAE Journal

Extreme heat: tale of two cities.(Building Sciences)(Las Vegas and Dubai)(Report): An article from: ASHRAE Journal Review

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This digital document is an article from ASHRAE Journal, published by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. on March 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1849 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.

Citation Details
Title: Extreme heat: tale of two cities.(Building Sciences)(Las Vegas and Dubai)(Report)
Author: Joseph W. Lstiburek
Publication:ASHRAE Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2009
Publisher: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 51 Issue: 3 Page: 75(5)

Article Type: Report

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Fire, Ice and Paradise

Fire, Ice and Paradise Review

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Blueberry Pie is the first book in the series of books that was inspired by my brother-in-law John. It all started as a joke he played on my two girl's when they were on vacation.The entire series will grow and mature in content and writing style and will encourage your child to keep reading as they grow and mature in their own reading abilities. Parents will also enjoy reading the books to their younger children until they are ready to read themselves. New characters are introduced throughout the series while the main characters stay the same so the child can enjoy reading about the adventures of their new friends....Blueberry is a sweet bear who gets into some serious trouble. The book goes on to describe her heroing experience as her friends rally together to save her.Come along on the adventure and start your journey with Blueberry and her friends.

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Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2008 (VDI-Buch)

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2008 (VDI-Buch) Review

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With the total number of vehicles steadily increasing and soon approaching one billion, the world is facing serious challenges in terms of both safety of road transport and sustainability. Consequently the two major persistent issues for the automotive industry are improved safety and reduced emissions.

The integration of complex microsystems with enhanced intelligence, so-called smart systems has enabled an increase of efficiency of the previously ‘dumb’ internal combustion engine by on average 1% annually during the last 20 years. In the future, smart systems may help to leverage novel powertrain concepts towards the zero emissions vehicle. Particularly for electric vehicles, anticipatory power management and efficient driving assistance by smart systems will be needed to overcome the range limitations. Adaptive systems predicting the energy demand for a chosen route will help the driver to increase energy efficiency. Networked devices for car-to-car communication could help to avoid the waste of energy due to unnecessary braking and accelerating. Intelligent systems for tire monitoring and control deserve special attention since insufficient tire pressure accounts for more than 3% of the efficiency losses in the car. Future electrical in-wheel motors require new miniaturised functionalities enabled by advanced micro- and smart systems.

The conference book in hand is a showroom of activities, the AMAA has been known for during the last 12 years: advanced sensors even including one based on the giant magneto resistance (GMR) effect – a finding for which two European physicists were awarded the Nobel prize, recently – several camera and radar systems making road traffic safer by assisting the driver in recognizing pedestrians and obstacles, and human-machine interfaces based on the recognition of hand gestures - a striking example of how smart systems will further enhance the usability of vehicles and the comfort of driving.

Additional information is available on www.amaa.de

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Jaguar/Daimler XJ: The Essential Buyer's Guide

Jaguar/Daimler XJ: The Essential Buyer's Guide Review

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The X300 was the first serious model development in collaboration with Ford and the cars benefited in quality terms as a result. Problems do exist, however, especially with the X308 models which followed in 1997. Though they are excellent value today, it is still important to buy the right car if expensive problems are to be avoided. This book will help you decide which car to consider and having chosen your model it will help pick a sound car from among those you locate and inspect. High mileage need not be a deterrent but you need to avoid neglected cars and know exactly what to look for. This book ensures you have the insight and expertise to select the best example within your budget. Each aspect of the vehicles is given an objective numerical score reflecting the car’s condition. These are added to give an overall score supporting a decision to buy or leave. There is no safer way to avoid buying a bad car short of paying for a professional evaluation. This book will pay for itself.

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Cities and Natural Process

Cities and Natural Process Review

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Cities and Natural Process is a book for all concerned with the future of our cities, their design and sustainability, and our quality of life within them.
Michael Hough describes how economic and technological values have squeezed any real sense of nature out of the modern city, the ways in which this has led to
a divisive separation of countryside and city, has wasted much of the city's resources, and has shaped an urban aesthetic which is sharply at odds with both natural and social processes. Against this is set an alternative history of ecological values informing proven approaches to urban design which work with^n nature in the city.

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