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Wood Identification & Use is a gift book for wood lovers - an indispensable and informative guide to over a hundred different kinds of wood. This compact directory explores the world's most valuable natural resource in detail. This new gift edition gives helpful details about the most popular and useful woods with illustrations and photographs to help with identification. There is also valuable information on the typical uses, durability, wood defects and potential health hazards for each species. Based on a best-selling reference work, this revised and updated abridged version includes drawings and descriptions of the living trees to enhance appreciation of the raw material of woodwork. In-depth yet accessible this handy pocket guide will be the perfect gift for all woodworkers and wood lovers.

This in-depth treatment uses shape theory as a ""case study"" to illustrate situations common to many areas of mathematics, including the use of archetypal models as a basis for systems of approximations. 1989 edition.

The globalization of finance is widely recognised as one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. In this timely new book, Tony Porter guides students through current debates about global finance and discusses the extent to which the development of a global marketplace affects our daily lives.

He examines the complex networks of public-sector and non-governmental institutions and practices that facilitate the globalization of finance and provide an emerging set of arrangements for regulating it.

The book is both comprehensive and innovative, and includes chapters on banking, securities markets, foreign direct investment, private authority, the role of developing and transition countries, global civil society, gender, the politics of risk practices and financial crises, and democracy.

Written for students approaching the topic for the first time, this book provides a coherent, empirical and theoretically rigorous introduction to the governance of global finance.

Prazisionsarbeit die Voraussetzung des Schnellbetriebes ist, und man erstaunt immer wieder, mit welcher Klarheit dieser bedeutende Mann schon in den 1860er Jahren die Grundsatze erfaBt hat, die Allgemeingut des "modernen" Maschinenbaues erst im Anfange des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurden. Darin, daB Porter seiner Zeit so weit voraus war, lag gewisser maBen ein tragisches Motiv fUr sein Berufsleben, das wir in diesern Buch sich vor uns abspielen sehen. Die zweite inn ere Ursache fiir den irn Grunde unbefriedigenden AbschluLl seiner Ingenieurlaufbahn lag in dem tiefgriindigenden Gegensatz zwischen Ingenieurund Kaufmann. In dieser Berufstragik liegt so viel allgemein Mensch liches, daB das Buch auch den Nicht-Fachmann fesseln diirfte. In einem gewissen Gegensatz zu dem, was Porter in seiner kurzen Vorrede ausspricht, erscheint uns sein Buch in erster Linie deshalb lesenswert, weil es eine groLle und starke Personlichkeit widerspiegelt. Wir haben uns auch deshalb irgendwelcher Uber arbeitung fiir den deutschen Leser enthalten und versucht, den schlichten, oft trocken-komischen Stil des Buchs so wiederzugeben, wie er etwa auf den englischen Leser wirkt. Ebensowenig haben wir uns bei den zahlreichen Erwahnungen bekannter und unbekannter Personlichkeiten zur Sichtung befugt geglaubt. Eine ganze industrielle Generation spricht und handelt in dem Buch, und manchem, del' Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten und England hat, mogen alte Bekannte darin begegnen. Man konnte noch vieles fiber die interessanten Gegensatze sagen, die Porter in sich vereinte: - ein idealistischer Amerikaner, der nach mehrjahriger erfolgreicher Rechtsanwaltstatigkeit sich plOtz lich als geborener Ingenieur entpuppt -, doch glauben wir darin anderen nicht vorgreifen zu sollen."

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

Jessica Miller, friendly, outgoing, popular, and only 16, has just met the boy of her dreams, Josh Devette. Problem is her parents see something in Josh she doesn't. Josh's obvious dislike for Jessica's life long and closest friend, Jake Williams, as well as Josh's desire to control her every move. Knowing they can't stop her from seeing him, they allow the relationship to continue on a trial basis. Tragedy strikes and Jessica's world is flipped upside down. Almost two years later, she is still friendly, outgoing and popular. But Jessica now sees the truth about Josh, the boy no one wanted her to date. Realizing the real man of her dreams is the one who has stood by her side her entire life, Jake. After an awkward start Jessica and Jake explore their newfound romance, while trying to enjoy their spring break. But recently dumped Josh, who blames Jake for the split desperately, wants Jessica back at any cost. Willing to kill whoever gets in the way.

Imagine it's the end of time. Your safe little world is shaken at its very core. All the horror you thought might someday happen to the earth came suddenly - but in a way that was completely topsy-turvy to your understanding. This is what happened to Will and his friends, as they were faced with the biggest challenge of their lives. How could they and a handful of pilgrims survive the life-threatening storm from the hand of the Antichrist that lashed out all around them, without becoming another casualty along the way? Deep trust in God and an unwavering commitment to His faithfulness provided the refuge and strength they needed to prevail in the midst of the encroaching darkness.

Embracing The Causes Of The War, The Responsibility Of Its Commencement, The Purposes Of The American Government In Its Prosecution, Its Benefits And Its Evils.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!