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Blu-ray Disc Demystified»rank: 30005by: Jim Taylor, Michael Zink, Charles Crawford, Christen Armbrust
: :The Latest Tips and Techniques for Getting the Maximum from Blu-ray Technology. . Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides the most current information and applications available for this popular high-definition optical disc format. Written by a team of experts with a wide range of experience in DVD and high-definition production, this thorough, skill-building guide details Blu-ray's many features, formats, and applications.. . Blu-ray Disc Demystified provides exhaustive coverage of the multitude of production and authoring processes, while explaining how the standard and high-definition DVD specifications dovetail and/or clash with related digital media standards. The authors also provide detailed descriptions of Blu-ray's strengths, as well as frank assessments of its weaknesses and common traps that ... |
The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons»rank: 109922by: Robert Mankoff, Michael Crawford
: :Strike one! Strike two! Strike....no, they're not out. They're playing. But among the truisms of baseball, we offer three. One is that kids have always kept on playing, no matter what the pros do. The second is that the cartoonists of The New Yorker have kept on hitting home runs with their funny and insightful looks at all aspects of baseball. The third is that, year in and year out, baseball fans and devotees step up to the plate (and the cash registers) at bookstores to buy books on the most cerebral of team sports. With cartoons spanning eight decades, this collection includes work from many of The New Yorker's most beloved ... |
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Chicken Little»rank: 416595from: Eager Minds Press
: :Strike one! Strike two! Strike....no, they're not out. They're playing. But among the truisms of baseball, we offer three. One is that kids have always kept on playing, no matter what the pros do. The second is that the cartoonists of The New Yorker have kept on hitting home runs with their funny and insightful looks at all aspects of baseball. The third is that, year in and year out, baseball fans and devotees step up to the plate (and the cash registers) at bookstores to buy books on the most cerebral of team sports. With cartoons spanning eight decades, this collection includes work from many of The New Yorker's most beloved ... |
Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String»rank: 447710by: Michael Crawford
: :In his autobiography, Michael Crawford recalls his childhood, his memories and his early years in showbusiness and the friendships he developed. He recalls stage hits such as 'The Phantom of the Opera' and films such as 'Hello Dolly!', and offers both professional and personal anecdotes. |
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On Eagle's Wings: Piano, Vocal, Chords»rank: 723177by: Michael Crawford
: :The star of Phantom of the Opera has hand-picked each of the songs in this collection for his Atlantic Records album, ON EAGLE'S WINGS, which includes both classic and contemporary songs of inspiration. Titles include: Amazing Grace * Ave Maria * Eternal Love * The Holy City * I'll Walk with God * Joseph's Lullaby * Not Too Far from Here * Now the Day Is Over * On Eagle's Wings * Panis Angelicus * Spirit of the Living God. |
Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials And Commentary»rank: 751814by: Raymond Doak Bishop; James Crawford; Michael Reisman
: :This indispensable handbook is the first legal resource to gather together the most important cases and commentary no the increasingly significant subject of foreign investment disputes. It fills the need for a compilation of the basis source material into a well-organised and up-to-date volume covering the full scope of the subject. The work provides broad coverage of all aspects of foreign investment disputes: the treaty system protecting investments, investment contracts and key clauses, forums for resolving investment disputes, political risk insurance, applicable law, principles of state responsibility, investor rights under investment treaties and customary international law, defenses to investor claims, reparations, procedure and proof, and enforcement of arbitral awards. Of particular value ... |
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Convective Heat and Mass Transfer»rank: 899991by: W.M. Kays, Michael E. Crawford, Bernhard Weigand
: :The 4th edition of 'CHMT' continues the trend, initiated with the 3rd edition, of encouraging the use of a numerically based, computational approach to solving convective heat and mass transfer problems. The book also continues its tradition of also providing classic problem solving approaches to this subject. This textbook presents a strong theoretical basis for convective heat and mass transfer by focusing on boundary layer theory. This new edition provides optional coverage of the software teaching tool TEXSTAN. This boundary layer computer program can be used to enhance the understanding of the relationship between the surface friction, heat, and mass transfer and their respective flow fields. TEXSTAN contains the data structure needed ... |
Everyday Urbanism (Michigan Debates on Urbanism)»rank: 696954by: Margaret Crawford, George Baird
: :Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the 'Michigan Debates on Urbanism' series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. In this volume Margaret Crawford, co-author of Everyday Urbanism and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, is the protagonist. She presents the case for an informal, bottom-up urbanism that celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality, with little pretense about the possibility of a tidy or ideal built environment. Michael Speaks, ... |
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The Roman Republic: Second Edition»rank: 722029by: Michael Crawford
: :Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the 'Michigan Debates on Urbanism' series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. In this volume Margaret Crawford, co-author of Everyday Urbanism and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, is the protagonist. She presents the case for an informal, bottom-up urbanism that celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality, with little pretense about the possibility of a tidy or ideal built environment. Michael Speaks, ... |
Governmental GAAP Guide, 2008 (Miller Governmental Gaap Guide)»rank: 596440by: Michael A. Crawford, D. Scot Loyd
: :Governmental GAAP Guide discusses all the promulgated accounting principles applicable to financial reporting by state and local governments. It delivers a thorough analysis of GASB Statements, GASB Interpretations, GASB Technical Bulletins, NCGA Statements, NCGA Interpretations and certain AICPA Statements of Position, as well as Auditing and Accounting Guides. Everything has been analyzed and restated in plain English and is supported by timesaving examples and illustrations. The Guide alerts readers to and discusses financial accounting and reporting standards necessary to prepare the basic external financial statements of a governmental entity. (A companion publication, Governmental GAAP Practice Manual, illustrates how governmental financial statements are prepared based on the standards established by GASB-34 and beyond.) ... |