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Photographer Paul Clemence captures the emblematic forms of Miami Beach's Art Deco architecture in 20 dramatic black-and-white postcards. Mail them or frame and hang as the fine art they are! This book is the perfect souvenir, and a must-have for lovers of South Beach, Art Deco, architecture, and photography.

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In 1988, Barbara Streisand paid $363,000 at auction for a sideboard by Gustav Stickley, establishing mission furniture as a rival of early American furniture. Since then, dealers and collectors have scrambled to learn how to identify makers and evaluate prices. This extensive book, now with updated values, has served as an essential tool for dealers and collectors trying to identify makers and evaluate these valuable pieces. Included are histories of the major mission furniture companies including Stickley, Limbert, Roycroft, Young, Harden, Leavens, and others. It also documents the never-before published furniture designs of the William Leavans Company. With more than 300 color photographs, Mission Furniture provides identification clues and a glossary of terms. This is an excellent reference source that is a must for dealers, collectors, interior designers, and anyone interested in the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Few twentieth-century artists are renowned in such a variety of media as Orson Welles. Well known for his work in film and theater as director, actor, and writer, Welles's influence in the field of radio has often been overlooked for the more glamorous entertainment of his movies. The Medium and the Magician is a comprehensive review of Welles's radio career, devoted to assessing his radio artistry and influence in the field. Paul Heyer offers a new look at the infamous War of the Worlds panic broadcast and a discussion of how Welles's use of sound in radio influenced his motion pictures.

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The Civil War and Reconstruction periods in United States history are widely viewed as a “second founding” of the nation, one that sought to bring the American regime into better alignment with the aspirations articulated at the first founding. Among the figures involved in shaping this new start for the American republic, Lyman Trumbull played an instrumental role.As the chairman of the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, Trumbull advanced the most important legislation of both the Civil War and Reconstruction, including the First and Second Confiscation Acts, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863, the 1866 Freedmen’s Bureau Act, and the Military Reconstruction Acts. Most significantly, he was the principal author and driver of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery permanently throughout the United States. On the basis of the Thirteenth Amendment, he also authored the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the nation’s first civil rights law, which protected the fundamental rights of all Americans, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Despite being arguably the greatest legislative architect of America’s second founding, Trumbull later turned his back on the Reconstruction that he helped initiate. Worried that Reconstruction was going too far and lasting too long, he eventually embraced a rigid and uncompromising view of states’ rights, rejecting his own previous defense of the national government’s ultimate power and responsibility to secure the privileges and immunities of US citizenship.Paul Rego’s study of Trumbull’s political and constitutional thought is a much-needed exploration of this key figure in Civil War and Reconstruction history. Like the framers of the first founding, Trumbull was complex and contradictory—a symbol of both the nation’s rebirth and its lost promise, as responsible for the period's disappointments as he was for its triumphs. This is a long overdue book on one of the forgotten framers of the United States.Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States examines the political and constitutional thought of Trumbull. Understanding Trumbull is essential to a comprehensive understanding of American political and legal development, especially during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 5 workbook contains the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 5. It also uses finger fitness exercises, top tips and key pieces to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

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Christmas Flute Basics is a collection of fun and festive flute repertoire. Leap through the twelve days of Christmas in twelve stages, including Christmas-themed improvisations, warm-ups and studies, and your favourite Christmas tunes with piano accompaniment, or as duets for 2 flutes or flute and clarinet. Each stage wraps together musical and technical elements to help focus your festive playing.

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Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Flute Grades 1-3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Bassoon Grades 1-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria on the 2018-2021 syllabus.

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The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London electronic keyboard sight-reading criteria. Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Electronic Keyboard Initial-Grade 1 have been specifically written to reflect Trinity’s parameters for the electronic keyboard, Initial-Grade 1, and contain new material throughout. Improve your sight-reading! series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions, where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by 'going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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Part of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Piano Grade 1 has been specifically written to support the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria and reflects Trinity’s parameters for Grade 1. Improve your sight-reading! Series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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Songs for Linda by Paul McCartney (Parts) Six songs written specially for Linda McCartney in arrangements for string quartet. Paul McCartney's unmistakable melodic and rhythmic style come to the fore in these beautiful pieces. They are presented here in skilful arrangements by Michael Thomas, Robert Pansera and the Loma Mar Quartet.

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Unbeaten Tracks (Clarinet) introduces contemporary pieces of standard and new to unusual repertoire to the Intermediate clarinet player (Grade 4-7), and is paired with piano accompaniment, offering both challenge and reward in equal measure. This book, edited by esteemed clarinet educator Paul Harris, presents 8 a kaleidoscopic mix of styles by some of today's most talented composers and are undoubtedly destined to become standard repertoire. The Unbeaten Tracks Series has made a profound mark on the music world with its volumes of specially commissioned pieces for intermediate-level players. There are also small 'biopics' about each composer that give tidbits of information about the composer's inspiration and intention behind their piece, which give musicians a greater insight into the music. **ABRSM selected piece (Clarinet 2008-2013): Night Run (Hawkins)

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Paul Galdone's version of the classic fairy tale stands above the rest. His gentle retelling is resplendent with lush artwork and storytelling that weaves the magical tale of a princess both beautiful and kind. This lovely story is now a Folk Tale Classic, with gold foil stamping on the cover and saturated, full-colour illustrations throughout. A beautiful and value-priced edition of a classic, this book deserves a place in every child's library!

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Bioinformatics Software Engineering: Delivering Effective Applications will be useful to anyone who wants to understand how successful software can be developed in a rapidly changing environment. A handbook, not a textbook, it is not tied to any particular operating system, platform, language, or methodology. Instead it focuses on principles and practices that have been proven in the real world. It is pragmatic, emphasizing the importance of what the author calls Adaptive Programming - doing what works in your situation, and it is concise, covering the whole software development lifecycle in one slim volume. At each stage, it describes common pitfalls, explains how these can be avoided, and suggests simple techniques which make it easier to deliver better solutions. "Well thought-out ... addresses many of the key issues facing developers of bioinformatics software." (Simon Dear, Director, UK Technology and Development, Bioinformatics Engineering and Integration, Genetics Research, GlaxoSmithKline) Here are some examples from the book itself. On software development: “Writing software properly involves talking to people – often lots of people – and plenty of non-coding work on your part. It requires the ability to dream up new solutions to problems so complicated that they are hard to describe.” From description to specification: “Look for verbs – action words, such as ‘does’, ‘is’ and ‘views’. Identify nouns – naming words, like ‘user’, ‘home’ and ‘sequence’. List the adjectives – describing words, for example ‘quick’, ‘simple’ or ‘precise’. The verbs are the functions that must be provided by your application. The nouns define the parameters to those functions, and the adjectives specify the constraint conditions under which your program must operate.” On how to start writing software: “Handle errors. Take in data. Show output. Get going!” On testing: “It may not be physically possible to test every potential combination of situations that could occur as users interact with a program. But one thing that can be done is to test an application at the agreed extremes of its capability: the maximum number of simultaneous users it has to support, the minimum system configuration it must run on, the lowest communication speed it must cope with, and the most complex operations it must perform. If your program can cope with conditions at the edge of its performance envelope, it is less likely to encounter difficulties in dealing with less challenging situations.” On showing early versions of software to users: “It can be hard explaining the software development process to people who are unfamiliar with it. Code that to you is nearly finished is simply not working to them, and seeing their dream in bits on the workbench can be disappointing to customers, especially when they were expecting to be able to take it for a test drive.” On bugs: “If your users find a genuinely reproducible bug in production code, apologize, fix it fast, and then fix the system that allowed it through. And tell your customers what you are doing, and why, so they will be confident that it will not happen again. Everybody makes mistakes. Don’t make the same ones twice.” And one last thought on successful software development: "You have to be a detective, following up clues and examining evidence to discover what has gone wrong and why. And you have to be a politician, understanding what people want, both in public and in private, and how this is likely to affect what you are trying to do. This book cannot teach you how to do all of that, but it can help."

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Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.

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The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now.

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American wine—once an object of ridicule—now holds its own against the world's best. But which wines are America's finest? Who makes them? In The Great Wines of America, Paul Lukacs selects forty wines that have helped elevate American wine to unprecedented heights. Each chapter contains the specific wine's history, the vintner's vision for it, a map of its terroir, and a list of successful vintages. Not too long ago, American wine was an object of ridicule. When compared to the great growths of Europe, it played in the minor leagues—if it even played the same game. All that has changed. At the start of the twenty-first century, the finest American wines hold their own with the best made anywhere. But which wines are these? And who are the people responsible for them? Because American vineyards are largely devoid of tradition, American vintners have had to make choices unknown to their Old World counterparts. These involve which grapes to grow, where best to plant the vines, and, most important, how to create rather than merely emulate truly distinctive wines. The Great Wines of America tells the story of how those choices, made successfully, have elevated American wine to unprecedented heights of quality and renown.

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