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Uncover a Tarantula: Take a Three-Dimensional Look Inside a Tarantula! (Uncover Books)
David George Gordon
$14.17

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Uncover a Tarantula examines the structure and anatomy of the largest spiders in the world and provides fascinating facts and information on each exciting page. Learn how these predators capture and kill other insects and animals, use their bodies to protect and camouflage themselves and why their blood is green. This full-color illustrated book combines the best model elements to help readers truly uncover the mysteries of what makes things work. A fascinating three-dimensional presentation allows in-depth, hands-on exploration of the subject at hand. This unique model is easily built, deconstructed, and rebuilt layer-by-layer, system-by-system, just by turning a page, until an understanding of the topic is achieved. Kids will love to see and touch each disgusting but interesting tarantula part!

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Insights to Performance Excellence 2009-2010: An Inside Look at the 2009-2010 Baldrige Award Criteria
Mark L. Blazey
$80.00

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This book helps performance-excellent examiners and organization-improvement practitioners to understand the 2009-2010 Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria, and the linkages and relationships among its many Items. Blazey simplifies the Criteria into easily understandable and actionable items through the use of plain-English explanations, flowcharts, and relationship matrixes. As always, also included are examples of effective practices that recent Award-winning organizations have developed. Changes to this edition include: New information from the Baldrige 2009-2010 Criteria for Performance Excellence to help leaders focus on priority opportunities for improvement and better understand the role they must play in refining their management systems and processes. The CD-ROM included with this book has been modified to bring templates and related analyses up to date with the changes in the Criteria. Reading Insights to Performance Excellence 2009-2010 will strengthen your understanding of the Criteria and provide insight on analyzing your organization, improving performance, and applying for the award.

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Dragon Rising: An Inside Look At China Today
Jasper Becker
$3.79

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No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China—and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, as world attention focuses on China's all-out effort to present itself as a modern world power and on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes within China that are reshaping global economic, diplomatic, and military strategies. He weaves analysis with anecdotes to address today's pressing uncertainties: How will China cope with pollution, unemployment, and demand for energy? What form will its government take? Can Shanghai's success with urban capitalism be replicated elsewhere? Each chapter focuses on a specific region and its local issues—minority unrest, poverty, corruption—then places them in the broader context of China society as a whole.

Vividly illustrated with photographs that capture the paradox of an ancient culture remaking itself into a dynamic consumer society, Dragon Rising is a wonderfully written, well-rounded, wide-ranging portrait of China's problems and prospects.

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A Look Inside... For Better or for Worse (10th Anniversary)
Lynn Johnston
$4.81

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Dozens of full-color Sunday strips--along with hundreds of dailies--are collected here. This comic strip has an uncanny resemblance to the real relationship between children and parents.

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The Great Brain Book: An Inside Look At The Inside Of Your Head
HP Newquist
$11.54

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A Look Inside America: Exploring America's Cultural Values and Holidays
$3.99

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A clear and concise explanation of what those values actually are and a full explanatoin of US holidays and what each day commemorates.

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Hitchcock's Notebooks: An Authorized And Illustrated Look Inside The Creative Mind Of Alfred Hitchcock
Dan Auiler
$1.99

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Dan Auiler is undoubtedly the luckiest Alfred Hitchcock devotee alive. With the permission of the director's family, he sifted through the Hitchcock archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a multifaceted portrait of the artist at work. If this book has a fault, it's that the sheer mass of information makes it a little hard to digest; but taken in small doses, its richness becomes a virtue, offering unique insights into the complicated processes that led to some of the greatest movies ever made.

Auiler divides the creative act into three parts: "Building the Screenplay," "Preparing the Visual," and "Putting It All Together." In each section he provides documents, including memos, script excerpts, sketches, and storyboards from a selection of films. Most interesting are those relating to Kaleidoscope a project from the late '60s that, Auiler contends, would have been a groundbreaking film had the studio not forced Hitchcock to abandon it. This collection also gives full credit to Alma Reville, the director's wife and lifelong collaborator, and her influence on the development of Hitchcock's style is evident throughout. Other gems include a transcript of discussions between Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren about her character in The Birds and a set of production stills from an early, lost movie, The Mountain Eagle.

There's an enormous amount to take in, but what quickly emerges is a sense of Hitchcock's meticulous approach to crafting a film. He frequently sent script treatments to other writers and filmmakers, asking for their critical comments, and Auiler reproduces several of these correspondences, including François Truffaut's detailed analysis of Kaleidoscope. At the other end of the creative journey the book closes with the script for an unproduced Spellbound trailer in which Hitchcock playfully evokes the magic of movies: "That screen up there is like a mind ... we here in Hollywood can make anything happen there." Hitchcock's Notebooks is a testament to the powerful vision and sheer hard work that lay behind that magic. --Simon Leake

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Security: An Inside Look at the Tactics of the NYPD
Ellis Whitman
$4.89

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From counterterrorism to tracking criminals by satellite Safir's Security gives an expert's tour of 21st century law enforcement, and reveals the tools, methods, and science that police officers use to reduce crime, and track and apprehend criminals, including surveillance, crime scene evidence, DNA profiling, narcotics and quality of life enforcement.

Security gives insight into how methods of enforcement need to be adapted to prevent terrorism, a look into the workings of a police department, and examines how the NYPD drastically reduced crime with Goal-Oriented Neighborhood Policing.

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Sound for Picture: An Inside Look at Audio Production for Film and Television (Mix Pro Audio)
Jeff Forlenza
$41.48

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A journey behind the scenes into the high-tech world of audio production for television and film. Professionals reveal how dialogue, sound effects and musical scores are recorded, edited and assembled into seamless soundtracks. There are case studies and a glossary of audio terms.

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The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Inside the Minds of Murderers
Jennifer Furio
$15.75

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Detailed uncensored letters written to a young mother from inmates on death row. Gives graphic accounts of their childhood, crimes, and sexual preferences. Includes handwriting, drawings, and other artwork by the prisoners. For clinicians and those interested in the subject. Softcover.