Product Description: Construction is a complex industry, operating with ever changing legislative needs, new materials and technologies, and constant demands on resources.Professionals are now expected to deliver a broad spectrum of skills and competencies, and this new textbook will help them achieve this...read more

As he is about to set sail for Japan, naval lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton looks back on his early family life and his most ill-fated act: the abandonment of Madame Butterfly, the woman who loved him.

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In a novel that celebrates the power of fiction and its ultimate redeeming quality, Alice Pinkerton transports those who belittle her into her own secretly written books where they are forced to reveal their true natures, in a novel set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century New York. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.