Author: Tourbillon International
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847843025
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalog features the highest-quality complicated timepieces from the world's most luxurious watchmakers. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history to their most recent developments.
Grand Complications Volume X
Author: Tourbillon International
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847843025
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalog features the highest-quality complicated timepieces from the world's most luxurious watchmakers. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history to their most recent developments.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847843025
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This catalog features the highest-quality complicated timepieces from the world's most luxurious watchmakers. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history to their most recent developments.
History of Technology
Author: Norman Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018430
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018430
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 10
Author: Yu Okano
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 171832118X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Tasked with picking up the grand guildmaster of Yaaran and bringing them to Maalt, Rentt and Lorraine travel to Yaaran’s capital, Vistelya, only to find the grand guildmaster is out and won’t be back for a few days. Now that Rentt and Lorraine have unexpected time on their hands, they decide to take care of their additional errands in the city. They head to the Church of the Eastern Sky to deliver Sister Lillian’s letter to Abess Elza, then meet up with Augurey, their colorful acquaintance, to visit the palace for an audience with Princess Jia. During their meeting, the princess unexpectedly begs Rentt for a favor. Secrets and machinations abound among the Kingdom of Yaaran’s royalty, putting themselves and the kingdom at risk. The solution lies with the Land of the Venerable Holy Tree and the high elves that live there, but their help comes with conditions, ones that may involve Rentt and, of all things, his cursed mask!
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 171832118X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Tasked with picking up the grand guildmaster of Yaaran and bringing them to Maalt, Rentt and Lorraine travel to Yaaran’s capital, Vistelya, only to find the grand guildmaster is out and won’t be back for a few days. Now that Rentt and Lorraine have unexpected time on their hands, they decide to take care of their additional errands in the city. They head to the Church of the Eastern Sky to deliver Sister Lillian’s letter to Abess Elza, then meet up with Augurey, their colorful acquaintance, to visit the palace for an audience with Princess Jia. During their meeting, the princess unexpectedly begs Rentt for a favor. Secrets and machinations abound among the Kingdom of Yaaran’s royalty, putting themselves and the kingdom at risk. The solution lies with the Land of the Venerable Holy Tree and the high elves that live there, but their help comes with conditions, ones that may involve Rentt and, of all things, his cursed mask!
The Griffith Project, Volume 10
Author: Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838718990
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, 'The Griffith Project 'is now an indispensable guide to his work. This is the final volume of the project.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838718990
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, 'The Griffith Project 'is now an indispensable guide to his work. This is the final volume of the project.
Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 10
Author: Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826116396
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Although the topic of decision making capacity and older persons has been discussed in the literature, there still is much to be learned about it theoretically and practically. Experts continue to disagree about which standards are important for assessing decision making capacity. Questions such as: ìWhen should a capacity assessment be done on an older person and by whom?î are covered by the editors. Topics included in this volume are the application of an original framework for ethical decision making in long term care; an elder's capacity to decide to remain living alone in the community; the quest for helpful standardized instruments for evaluating decision making capacity; and end-of-life liability issues.
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826116396
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Although the topic of decision making capacity and older persons has been discussed in the literature, there still is much to be learned about it theoretically and practically. Experts continue to disagree about which standards are important for assessing decision making capacity. Questions such as: ìWhen should a capacity assessment be done on an older person and by whom?î are covered by the editors. Topics included in this volume are the application of an original framework for ethical decision making in long term care; an elder's capacity to decide to remain living alone in the community; the quest for helpful standardized instruments for evaluating decision making capacity; and end-of-life liability issues.
Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 10: Diabetic Kidney Disease
Author: Johannah Shergis
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813276126
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book presents an in-depth analysis using a 'whole evidence' approach of Chinese medicine treatments for diabetic kidney disease. It is the 10th volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is an essential reference tool for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in kidney diseases and nephrology.The book provides a comprehensive description of diabetic kidney disease from conventional medicine and Chinese medicine. It includes a summary of Chinese medicine treatments used in classical Chinese medicine books, as well as treatments that have been verified in clinical studies.Written by internationally recognized, well respected leaders in Chinese medicine, this book is ideal for Chinese medicine practitioners and students who want to keep up to date with the latest research to support their clinical practice. Providing summaries of the classical and modern literature in one book gives readers easy access to the evidence that will ensure their clinical practice incorporates an evidence-based approach.Chinese medicine treatments in the book include herbal medicine, acupuncture and combinations of these therapies. Treatment effects are described in terms of progression of disease, change in kidney function, markers of kidney damage, and indicators of risk factor control. Herbal formulas, herb ingredients and acupuncture points are analysed and discussed in relation to treatments described in clinical textbooks and guidelines, clinical trials and those identified in classical literature.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813276126
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book presents an in-depth analysis using a 'whole evidence' approach of Chinese medicine treatments for diabetic kidney disease. It is the 10th volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is an essential reference tool for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in kidney diseases and nephrology.The book provides a comprehensive description of diabetic kidney disease from conventional medicine and Chinese medicine. It includes a summary of Chinese medicine treatments used in classical Chinese medicine books, as well as treatments that have been verified in clinical studies.Written by internationally recognized, well respected leaders in Chinese medicine, this book is ideal for Chinese medicine practitioners and students who want to keep up to date with the latest research to support their clinical practice. Providing summaries of the classical and modern literature in one book gives readers easy access to the evidence that will ensure their clinical practice incorporates an evidence-based approach.Chinese medicine treatments in the book include herbal medicine, acupuncture and combinations of these therapies. Treatment effects are described in terms of progression of disease, change in kidney function, markers of kidney damage, and indicators of risk factor control. Herbal formulas, herb ingredients and acupuncture points are analysed and discussed in relation to treatments described in clinical textbooks and guidelines, clinical trials and those identified in classical literature.
Grand Complications Volume VIII
Author: Tourbillon International
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847837513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847837513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ...
Author: Independent Order of Odd Fellows of North Carolina. Grand Lodge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Medical Grand Rounds
Author: Veterans Administration Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.).
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Grand complications
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Category : Wrist watches
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Wrist watches
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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