Inspired by a true story, this is the saga of Tim Reinhart, a former New York teacher, who enters a wondrous new world the moment he buys a farmhouse in the country of France and falls in love with Mademoiselle Benoir, a beautiful, aristocratic woman 20 years his senior.
The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a ...
Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters - how the shocking biblical text describing the crucial relationship between that patriarch and his ...
Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His "The Nature and Uses of Lotteries" (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important ...
Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking ...
"The Rough Guide to The Dordogne & The Lot" is your definitive handbook to one of France's most beautiful regions. From prehistoric cave paintings and majestic castles to the vineyards of Bordeaux, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions highlights. For every town and village, there are comprehensive and opinionated reviews of all ...
A well-planned production run is the key to saving time and money. This guide takes woodworkers into the shops of several successful professionals to give them an o ver-the-shoulder perspective on the business of running a gr eat home shop. '
Vacant lots aren't really vacant: a surprising number of plants and animals live in the left-over spaces in our cities. In this fascinating guide, authors Vessel and Wong provide a broad introduction to the unique ecosystems that can survive in the urban environment.
From the CADOGAN GUIDES series, gourmet tours of the Dordogne and the Lot which are centred around a stop at a restaurant or auberge, where the real scents and flavours of the area can be savoured. Includes practical information, from travel tips and maps to pate prices and recipes.
The ultimate companion to one of France's most alluring regions, covering sights as diverse as prehistoric cave paintings, ancient abbeys, Renaissance chateaux and deep valley gorges. As well as detailing possible activities in the region, from wine-tasting in the Bordeaux vineyards to canoeing down the Dordogne itself, the book gives ...
The logic of manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) which is implemented in most modern production planning and control systems does not provide any satisfying solutions for multi-level lot sizing, especially not, when capacity is scarce. Moreover, lot size and sequence decisions are usually not integrated as it should be for the short-term ...
This series of guide books covers the whole of France, region by region. They are designed as practical reference books and each contains an account of the region's history, a section on food and drink and a narrative tour of the region's notable features - cities, villages, chateaux, churches, monuments and areas of natural beauty. The text for ...
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