Thomas Allen

Some folks are bothered that most love stories seem a bit contrived and have a suspension of belief. They normally label themselves as realists-"not into that fairy-tale stuff." But what better way to deal with the real world, 24/7, than to take a break, experience a lovelier world- one that transforms the mood and lifts the spirit, giving hope to something better. Although my story is fictional, the magical thing about it is that it could really happen. Jenny Kissed Me! is a clean & wholesome novel for the truly romantic. When Jenny finds an old letter in a shoebox, her mind is flooded with memories of a long forgotten love. She and Jonathan had secretly loved one another in high school, but never shared those feelings except for that one time in the library their senior year. Jenny had impetuously kissed Jonathan on the cheek-a moment neither forgot. Four decades and five thousand miles away they meet as strangers in Italy where they are rewarded one of life's rarest gifts-the opportunity for a second chance. A classic story transcending time. The story of a powerful love that time could not alter-matters of the heart are not governed by time.

Jenny Kissed Me!

Pamela Opal

Us Fish & Wildlife Service

Easy Stock Photos

Wildside Photography

Butterfly and Dragonfly, Grasshopper and Ant, Honeybee and Firefly, and other insects teach important life lessons

Insect Wisdom

A new and complete history of the county of York

Including Biographical Sketches ...

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth, and the Archiepiscopal Palace

Gunter Henn

Building on his pioneering work on the management of technology and innovation in his first book, Managing the Flow of Technology, Thomas J. Allen of MIT has joined with award-winning German architect Gunter Henn of HENN Architekten to produce a book that explores the combined use of two management tools to make the innovation process most effective: organizational structure and physical space. They present research demonstrating how organizational structure and physical space each affect communication among people—in this case, engineers, scientists, and others in technical organizations—and they illustrate how organizations can transform both to increase the transfer of technical knowledge and maximize the “communication for inspiration” that is central to the innovation process. Allen and Henn illustrate their points with discussions of well-known buildings around the world, including Audi’s corporate headquarters, Steelcase’s corporate design center, and the Corning Glass Becker building, as well as several of Gunter Henn’s own projects, including the Skoda automotive factory in the Czech Republic and the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Allen and Henn then demonstrate the principles developed in their work by discussing in detail one example in which organizational structure and physical space were combined successfully to promote innovation with impressive results: HENN Architekten’s Project House for the BMW Group Research and Innovation Centre in Munich, cited by Business Week (April 24, 2006) in naming BMW one of the world’s most innovative companies. Professor Thomas Allen is the originator of the Allen curve. In the late 1970s, Tom Allen undertook a project to determine how the distance between engineers’ offices coincided with the level of regular technical communication between them. The results of that research, now known as the Allen Curve, revealed a distinct correlation between distance and frequency of communication (i.e. the more distance there is between people — 50 meters or more to be exact — the less they will communicate). This principle has been incorporated into forward-thinking commercial design ever since, in, for example, The Decker Engineering Building in New York, the Steelcase Corporate Development Center in Michigan, and BMW’s Research Center in Germany.

The Organization and Architecture of Innovation

From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

The History of the County of Lincoln

Donna Morere

Humans’ development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research from the reading, cognitive, and neuroscience fields. But for individuals who are deaf—who rely greatly on their visual skills for language and learning—the findings don’t necessarily apply, leaving theoretical and practical gaps in approaches to their education. Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals: Neurocognitive Measurement and Predictors narrows these gaps by introducing the VL2 Toolkit, a comprehensive test battery for assessing the academic skills and cognitive functioning of deaf persons who use sign language. Skills measured include executive functioning, memory, reading, visuospatial ability, writing fluency, math, and expressive and receptive language. Comprehensive data are provided for each, with discussion of validity and reliability issues as well as ethical and legal questions involved in the study. And background chapters explain how the Toolkit was compiled, describing the procedures of the study, its rationale, and salient characteristics of its participants. This notable book: Describes each Toolkit instrument and the psychometric properties it measures. Presents detailed findings on test measures and relationships between skills. Discusses issues and challenges relating to visual representations of English, including fingerspelling and lipreading. Features a factor analysis of the Toolkit measures to identify underlying cognitive structures in deaf learners. Reviews trends in American Sign Language assessment. Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and other professionals working in the field of deafness and deaf education across in such areas as clinical child and school psychology, audiology, and linguistics.

Neurocognitive Measurement and Predictors

Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals

A New Zealander in Many Lands

A Series of Views, from Original Drawings, with Historical, Topographical, Critical, and Biographical Notices

The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain

From the Earliest Period to the Present Time;

The History of the County of Lincoln,

A New and Complete History of the County of York

The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent

Excerpt from Address of Hon. Thos. Allen, of St. Louis, on the History, Characteristics, Resources, and Present Condition of Missouri: Delivered by Appointment on the Centennial Commission, at the Judge's Hall, July 28th, 1876 Sioux, and other wandering tribes. From one of these tribes, the name Missouri is derived; and by some it is supposed to signify mad, and by others muddy, as applied to the characteristics of the river, upon the banks of which the tribe dwelt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Delivered by Appointment on the Centennial Commission, at the Judge's Hall, July 28th, 1876 (Classic Reprint)

Address of Hon. Thos. Allen, of St. Louis, on the History, Characteristics, Resources, and Present Condition of Missouri

Bodleian Library

William Dunn Macray

Richard William Hunt

Andrew G. Watson

Digby Manuscripts

Jennifer Blair

Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body. The book’s three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight some of the most exciting new developments in the field, such as the emergence of “new materialism,” affect theory, globalization studies, and environmental criticism. Although the book has a Canadian centre, the majority of its contributors consider objects that cross borders or otherwise resist national affiliation. This collection will be valuable to readers within and outside of Canada who are interested in material culture studies and, in addition, will appeal to anyone interested in the central debates taking place in Canadian political and cultural life today, such as climate change, citizenship, shifts in urban and small-town life, and the persistence of imperialism.

Material Cultures in Canada

The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Other Parts Adjacent

Mike Miner

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