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A hiking guide and photography book on North Carolina's lookout
towers. In the 1920s and 1930s, forestry organizations built dozens
of lookout structures in Western North Carolina as the backbone of
a firefighting system. Many of these lookouts survive in North
Carolina today- they represent some of the best destinations for
hikers who want to see the incredible vistas of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Part hiking guide and part photography collection, this
book contains wonderful stories about the history and folklore of
the lookouts and their fire lookout inhabitants, a detailed guide
of hikes to each, and details about the views at the top-all
provided by a local, long-term land preservationist and lookout
fanatic, Peter J. Barr. Barr's text is augmented by the amazing
full-color photographs of well-known nature photographer Kevin
Adams (North Carolina Waterfalls).
A hiking guide and photography book on North Carolina's lookout
towers. In the 1920s and 1930s, forestry organizations built dozens
of lookout structures in Western North Carolina as the backbone of
a firefighting system. Many of these lookouts survive in North
Carolina today- they represent some of the best destinations for
hikers who want to see the incredible vistas of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Part hiking guide and part photography collection, this
book contains wonderful stories about the history and folklore of
the lookouts and their fire lookout inhabitants, a detailed guide
of hikes to each, and details about the views at the top-all
provided by a local, long-term land preservationist and lookout
fanatic, Peter J. Barr. Barr's text is augmented by the amazing
full-color photographs of well-known nature photographer Kevin
Adams (North Carolina Waterfalls).
The atlas that helps you differentiate visually similar diseases
Written with the dermatology trainee in mind, Dermatopathology:
Diagnosis by First Impression uses more than 800 high resolution
color images to introduce a simple and effective way to defuse the
confusion caused by dermatopathology slides. Focused on commonly
tested entities, and using low- to high-power views, this atlas
emphasizes the key differences between visually similar diseases by
using appearance as the starting point for diagnosis. The Third
Edition provides: *800 high resolution and annotated photographs,
now all fully downloadable *'Key Differences' to train the eye on
distinctive diagnostic features * Disease-based as well as
alphabetical indexes *75 new interactive self-assessment questions
to perfect your diagnostic skills * Brand new algorithms for
pattern analysis Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression,
Third Edition, once again provides simple and effective guidance to
help you approach dermatopathology and accurate diagnosis of skin
disease.
The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army
in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of
various European nations on the US military are examined. The
central theme, however, is how a small number of influential
figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques
from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued
these military reforms represented a wider influence in the
progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques
developed by US business to improve government.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In its third edition, Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and
the Graphing Calculator continues to emphasize collaborative
learning, require reader observation, and integrate technology for
gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. The third edition
provides even more guidance and resources for readers to support
their active learning of statistics and includes updated real data
sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical
literacy. This version of the text is recommended for use with
graphing calculator technology and includes integrated instructions
for using a Texas Instruments calculator (specifically a TI-83 or
TI-84).
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