Authors:Jean Renoir, Randolph Weaver, Dorothy Weaver, Robert
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, father, new, renoir
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2001-09-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0940322773
ISBN-13: 9780940322776

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste’s extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir’s book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding,

Author: David Weaver
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: tourism, sustainable
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 075066438X
ISBN-13: 9780750664387

Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case studies and examples, it provides cutting edge coverage of the latest developments in the area, both theoretically and practically. It takes the reader through all aspects of sustainable tourism from the emergence of the paradigm to sustainability issues in all types of tourism and all components of the industry. Divided into 11 chapters it covers* ?Alternative tourism? (AT), or small-scale tourism and its associated pros an

Author: David Weaver
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Keywords: tourism, australia, wiley, ecotourism
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470813040
ISBN-13: 9780470813041

Ecotourism, second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect contemporary developments in ecotourism. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the text discusses the significance of ecotourism in the domestic and international tourism sector. Ecotourism origins, markets, venues and impacts form the basis of the first part of the book. Business aspects of ecotourism, external environments, organisations and policies are examined in the second part of the book, along with special environments and activities such as whale watching, islands, polar regions and indigenous territories. Th

Author: David D. Weaver
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: contemporary, medicine, public, health, series, hopkins, prenatally, diagnosed, conditions, johns, catalog
Number of Pages: 711
Published: 1998-12-02
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 080186044X
ISBN-13: 9780801860447

This book is a catalog of detailed information on approximately 800 conditions that have been diagnosed prenatally. It includes the methods of detecting fetal abnormalities, the abnormal findings, and the published references in which the condition is reported. Conditions are grouped according to related disorders, using a numbering system based on that developed by Victor McKusick for Mendelian Inheritance in Man. The third edition contains approximately 200 new entries and 850 new references. Catalog of Prenatally Diagnosed Conditions will be of interest to research and clinical geneticists

Authors:Mary Jo Weaver, David Brakke,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: christianity, introduction
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2008-01-29
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0495097268
ISBN-13: 9780495097266

Gain a better understanding of Christianity--its history, driving ideas, and numerous diversities--with the help of this best-selling Christianity text by the leading, respected authors Weaver and Brakke. This long-awaited INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY, Fourth Edition, offers a solid, practical foundation of the essentials of Christianity, interlaced with dynamic discussion and glimpses into some of the latest Christian movements worldwide. Fresh, thematic Sidebars, a popular hallmark of this book, weave current issues such as today?s spirituality into history, while the book?s balanced coverag

Authors:Bernie D. Shizgal, David P. Weaver,
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast
Keywords: progress, astronautics, aeronautics, engineering, science, gas, dynamics, space, rarefied
Number of Pages: 545
Published: 1994-12
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1563470810
ISBN-13: 9781563470813

The three volumes of Rarefied Gas Dynamicis contain 168 technical papers presented in 44 sessions at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, which took place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 26-30, 1992. Hundreds of figures accompany the reviewed and revised papers. Traditional areas of kinetic theory, discrete velocity models, freejets, hypersonic and rarefied flows, shock phenomena, condensation and evaporation, and associated mathematical and numerical techniques are discussed. In addition, the chapters emph

Authors:Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver-
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: perilous, world, faith, patient, way, amish
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-09-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470520698
ISBN-13: 9780470520697

A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the AmishThis second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices. They interpret the distinctive practices of the Amish way of life and spirituality in their cultural context and explore their applicability for the wider world. Using a holistic perspective, the book tells the story of Amish religious experience in the words of the Amish themselves. Due to their long-standing friendships and relationships with Amish peop