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Build Your Own Home Theater
E-bok, 2001
504 kr
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Written to provide information on all price ranges of equipment to everyone from the beginner to the experienced home theater owner, Build Your Own Home Theater has been completely updated for today''s audience. This new edition contains valuable consumer information on the latest digital home …
Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Häftad, 2003
360 kr
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The correspondence of a Founding Father and his brilliant wife The Letters of John and Abigail Adams provides an insightful record of American life before, during, and after the Revolution; the letters also reveal the intellectually and emotionally fulfilling relationship between John and Abigail …
Managerial Economics for Decision Making
E-bok, 2017
1284 kr
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Managerial Economics for Decision Making is designed for MBA and final year undergraduates taking a module in Managerial Economics. The text is written in a lively and engaging style with the use of mathematics kept to a miniumum. Ample examples and case studies demonstrate how economics can be …
Managerial Economics for Decision Making
Häftad, 2003
1172 kr
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Managerial Economics for Decision Making is designed for MBA and final year undergraduates taking a module in Managerial Economics. The text is written in a lively and engaging style with the use of mathematics kept to a miniumum. Ample examples and case studies demonstrate how economics can be …
Transport Planning
Vision and Practice
Av John Adams
Inbunden, 2021
1828 kr
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Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning. It shows how past transport policies blighted cities, suburbs and countryside alike, led to increased death and injury on the roads and offered the whole of the motorized …
Transport Planning
Vision and Practice
Av John Adams
Häftad, 2023
531 kr
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Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning. It shows how past transport policies blighted cities, suburbs and countryside alike, led to increased death and injury on the roads and offered the whole of the motorized …
ATM for Service Providers
Av John Adams
Inbunden, 1997
1638 kr
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ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) is one of the options for communications protocols and is considered to be one of the most likely to dominate the technology in the middle term. This text offers coverage of the current developments and applications. It should be suitable for professional reference …
Black Homelands of South Africa
The Political and Economic Development of Bophuthatswana and Kwa-Zulu
Av Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
386 kr
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"An admirable mixture of first-rate scholarship and controversial political thinking. For anybody who wants to know what the homelands policy is all about, and how it works out in practice, this rightly wrin en volume can be highly recommended."--Cape Times "Many volumes on South Africa have …
Hallelujah Junction
Composing an American Life
Av John Adams
Häftad, 2016
153 kr
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'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is often a business of watching them grow, knowing …
Hallelujah Junction
Composing an American Life
Av John Adams
E-bok, 2011
167 kr
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'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is often a business of watching them grow, knowing …
Papers of John Adams
January–September 1781
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1378 kr
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In mid-March 1781, John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed …
Papers of John Adams
October 1781 – April 1782
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1669 kr
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The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord North’s ministry in March 1782 opened the possibility that John Adams might soon be involved in negotiations to end the war for American independence. To prepare for the occasion, Adams and Benjamin Franklin discussed in their …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 13 – May–October 1782
May–October 1782
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
820 kr
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A new chapter in John Adams's diplomatic career opened when the Dutch recognized the United States in April 1782. Operating from the recently purchased American legation at The Hague, Adams focused his energies on raising a much needed loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American …
Papers of John Adams
October 1782 – May 1783
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1249 kr
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John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, …
Papers of John Adams
June 1783 – January 1784
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1192 kr
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On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism. Adams’ …
My Dearest Friend
Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Av Abigail Adams, John Adams m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
262 kr
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“A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesIn 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss …
Papers of John Adams
February 1784 – March 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
967 kr
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“Once more after an Interruption of ten Years, I pronounce myself a happy Man, and pray Heaven to continue me so.” Thus wrote John Adams in late August 1784 after the arrival in Europe of his wife Abigail and daughter Nabby. Adams and his family were living together in the pleasant Paris suburb of …
Papers of John Adams
June 1789 – February 1791
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
915 kr
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John Adams’s shaping of the vice presidency dominates this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles a formative era in American government spanning June 1789 to February 1791. As the first federal Congress struggled to interpret the US Constitution and implement a new economic …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 21 – March 1791 – January 1797
March 1791 – January 1797
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
942 kr
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Vice President John Adams and the US government faced a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles the period from March 1791 to January 1797. The grim shadow of the French Revolution and the whirlwind of a massive European war left political leaders …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 22 – February 1797 – February 1798
February 1797 – February 1798
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
915 kr
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Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: “Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life, is too prescious and Sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly.” This volume of the Papers of John Adams charts the period from February 1797 to …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 23
March 1798 – June 1799
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
409 kr
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This volume of the Papers of John Adams explores the period from March 1798 to June 1799, showing how President John Adams strained to repair Franco-American relations. The XYZ Affair sank his initial plans for peace, compelling Adams to recalibrate his policy. Anxious to counter French …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 18 – December 1785 – January 1787
December 1785 – January 1787
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
915 kr
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Volume 18 is the final volume of the Papers of John Adams wholly devoted to Adams’ diplomatic career. It chronicles fourteen months of his tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint commission, with Thomas Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with Europe and North Africa. With respect to …
Papers of John Adams
September 1755 – April 1775
Av John Adams, Robert J. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2755 kr
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No family in three generations has contributed so much to American history as the Adamses. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the Adams Papers series is …
Papers of John Adams
May 1775 – August 1776
Av John Adams, Robert J. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1980
2636 kr
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As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing …
Papers of John Adams
August 1776 – July 1778
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
2755 kr
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These volumes document John Adams’s thinking and actions during the final years of his congressional service and take him through his first five months as a Commissioner in France in association with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee.While Adams was still in Philadelphia, military matters continued …
Papers of John Adams
September 1778 – February 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2755 kr
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These volumes provide an unparalleled account of the conduct of American diplomacy in the early years of the republic, while the war with Britain continued and after the treaty of alliance with France was signed. John Adams served for ten months as a commissioner to France. Though he was the newest …
Papers of John Adams
March–December 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2839 kr
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On the last day of December 1780, John Adams wrote that he had just spent “the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life.” He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, attempting, without success, to open Anglo–American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 …
Papers of John Adams
April–November 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
997 kr
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"You may well Suppose that I was the Focus of all Eyes," John Adams wrote on 2 June 1785 of his first audience with George III, which formally inaugurated the post of American minister to Great Britain. Eager to restore "the old good Nature and the old good Humour" between the two nations, Adams …
