London's Waterfront: The Thames from Battersea to the Barrier

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The River Thames has played a crucial role in the emergence of London as a great international city and the hub of Britain's Empire. Now, for the first time, London's Waterfront provides a detailed and architectural panorama of the buildings that line the banks of the Thames and give the city its compelling personality. The book begins in Chelsea then follows the north bank past Westminster and its majestic seat of government, through the City and on past the Isle of Dogs and its transformation from medieval port to one of the world's leading financial centres. At the architecturally stunning Thames Flood Barrier we return upstream along the south bank, past the controversial Millennium Dome, through Greenwich and its stately naval college, to Southwark and the reconstructed Globe Theatre, past the South Bank arts complex and the unique London Eye, ending up in the village of Battersea. With over 250 pages of detailed drawings and historical background, London's Waterfront is a continuous and colourful panorama along the banks of the Thames, taking the reader on an enchanting and informative 25 mile journey of discovery.

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Most disapointing Quitessential book.......2006-08-01

When this book first came out, it was the first support the Psychic Warrior had seen, but it was and is very disapointing. Keep in mind that Psionics has moved to Expanded Psionic Handbook since this book came out so several sections are now for rules no longer used. Other aspects of this book will also need revisions to work.
Many powers have too many built in drawbacks to be usefull; Void Targeting allows to target everyone in the area of effect with a missle weapon, allies included!
Chakra Access section reads more like a guide to scarification and canibalism than role playing.
The weapon meditations are a nice idea, but why does my Psychic Corsair wielding a cutlass get a bonus to Mounted Combat?
Too many of the feats are just bonuses for using the powers in the book, why would I take a feat that allows me to use two specific powers in a round when I can take Quicken Power and do the same with any two powers?
The Prestige classes return power advancement back to 1st level and one has the benefit or an Improved version of a power the Psychic Warrior has no access to.

If you have the time and inclination, there are some ideas that can be salavaged with some hard work, but overall, this is a book to avoid.

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on November 7, 1996. The length of the article is 432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A dólar por día: crece la pobreza mundial.(TT: A dollar by day: world poverty keeps growing)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 7, 1996
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v3 Issue: n195 Page: p7(1)

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El Marketing De Las Naciones/ the Marketing of Nations: Una Aproximacion Estrategica a La Creacion De La Riqueza Nacional/ a Strategic Approach to Building ... Estado Y Sociedad / State and Society)

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El Marketing De Las Naciones/ the Marketing of Nations: Una Aproximacion Estrategica a La Creacion De La Riqueza Nacional/ a Strategic Approach to Building ... Estado Y Sociedad / State and Society)
Philip Kotler , Somkid Jatusripitak , and Suvit Maesincee
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La pandemia del dinero.: An article from: Proceso

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La pandemia del dinero.: An article from: Proceso
Anne Marie Mergier
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Release Date: 2007-08-01

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Title: La pandemia del dinero.
Author: Anne Marie Mergier
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 15, 2007
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Miseria y riqueza: El conflicto presente entre las naciones (El Libro de bolsillo ; 557 : Seccion Humanidades)

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Miseria y riqueza: El conflicto presente entre las naciones (El Libro de bolsillo ; 557 : Seccion Humanidades)
Jose Ramon Lasuen
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La Riqueza y La Pobreza de Las Naciones
David S. Landes
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La Riqueza y Pobreza de Las Naciones
David S. Landes
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Merchant Banking Regulations Pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999: Joint Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate

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Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building.

Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled. In Argentina and Brazil, Italian migrants were welcomed as a civilizing influence and were instrumental in establishing and leading syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist labor movements committed to labor internationalism. In the United States, by contrast, where Italian workers were greeted by the American Federation of Labor's hostility to socialism, internationalism, and unskilled laborers, they organized in ethnically mixed unions, including the radical Industrial Workers of the World. The xenophobia they encountered in the "land of opportunity" ultimately encouraged sympathy among Italian Americans for Mussolini's modernizing, imperialist ambitions for the Italian state.

Covering the work of republican "Garibaldians" in South America and antifascist currents among Italian migrants in France and the United States, as well as such seminal events as the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, Italian Workers of the World shows how modes of incorporating (or excluding) foreign-born workers were carried over from nineteenth-century labor movements to twentieth-century nation-states. This volume also paves the way for new modes of collaboration across the boundaries of historical nationalism.

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Broad strokes study Italian workers worldwide.......2002-02-14

Italians, including Sardinians and Sicilians, left their homeland by the millions between the French Revolution and the onset of World War II. Roughly 20,000,000 Italian migrants, about 10% of all long-distance migrants during those years, left for newer, more profitable worlds. The vast majority of the Italian migrants were unskilled workers and peasants, street traders, and owners of small parcels of land. Their search for wages prompted temporary migration but scattered them more widely than most other European and Asian migrants of the era. About half of the Italian migrants found work in Europe, approximately a third traveled to North America, and a quarter went to South America, while small, but significant numbers also worked in Australia and in North and South Africa. Once abroad, the largest groups were men who worked in construction, mining, and industry, or in plantation or other forms of large-scale, commercial agriculture.

During the 19th century, the creation of new nations and international mass migrations progressed along with the development of new labor movements. Many of these movements were based on the notion that class transcended national boundaries, "workers of the world unite," where an Italian anarchist proclaimed "there are no frontiers." Whether they were "sent" or "received" migrants, Italian or non-Italian, the nation-state was challenged from below (by the regionalism or ethnic diversity of their populations) and from above (by class-conscious and consciously internationalist labor movements). During and after World War I, nation-states increasingly resolved this tension by pressuring migrants to increase commitment and loyalty to one nation.

This is a fascinating study of the Italian workers of the world and how they saw themselves as Italians, part of the international workers of the world, and as assimilated immigrants in their new countries and what impact that had on the formation of those nation-states and Italy. Eleven experts from various universities and research institutions contributed to this book. Two segments are about Italian nationalism in the age of exile and labor migration, 1789-1880. Five segments look at class, nation, and internationalism in an era of proletarian mass migration, 1870-1920. The last four segments look at antifascism as an international movement.

If you ever wanted to put the Italian-American (United States) immigrant movement in perspective, this book will certainly help.

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Magyar, Stars & Stripes strikingly recounts a Hungarian Jewish familyÂ's history of love, affection, persecution, and injustice. It tells about their close kinship and heart-wrenching experiences in labor and concentration camps.

The book chronicles Alexander TaubÂ's lifeÂ—from a playful childhood to a young adulthood shattered within a labor camp in Schachendorf, Austria. Every day is a new battle to survive amid countless bodies. He makes a daring escape and finds compassion in people who offer food and clothing. Rebuilding the ashes of his family, Taub takes us on an extraordinary journey to Manhattan, where he and surviving family members eventually become successful entrepreneurs. He uses street smarts and intuition to make his fortune but still remains an enigmatic figure building a brick wall to contend with the great losses in his life.

While giving historical accounts and sufficient background information of these different periods, the author often transcribes verbatim his grandfatherÂ's broken English to illustrate the manÂ's unique style and humorous outlook on life. This incredibly witty and courageous story of perseverance will greatly appeal to the readerÂ's emotions.

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History made personal.......2006-04-15

Teaching history should never just be about memorizing names, events and dates. It is about something so much more ?" it is about, among other things, the lives of people past, present and future. Unfortunately, many educators are stuck using texts that concentrate on the didactic and rarely ever stimulate students in an affective manner. Recently I introduced excerpts from Mr. Lipiner?s book, Magyar, Stars & Stripes, to my Western Civilization class to supplement our current text?s generalized and very formal account of World War II. In discussing the excerpts ("The Russians are Coming") in class I found that students became more engaged in our unit on World War II then previous classes that used only our text. In addition to this, and something I had not anticipated originally, was the different historical perspective provided from the excerpts of Magyar, Stars & Stripes from our class text. Our text provides a viewpoint of World War II that is very American as opposed to Mr. Lipiner?s perspective that is uniquely European.

Let me be clear - one need not be a history teacher or history student to enjoy this book. I enjoyed this book for its profound implicit statement - our American culture is a conglomeration of many personal stories. Magyar, Stars & Stripes happens to be just one of those stories that is very well told and documented. Perhaps what I enjoyed most about this book is the undeniable passion and conviction in which it is written which is a deserving tribute to a truly remarkable man - Alexander Taub.

Magyar Moved Me.......2006-01-20

As I read Lipiner's recount of his grandfather's journey and struggles, it occured to me that this should be on every student's required reading list. It depicts a holocaust survivor's odyssey from his Hungarian homeland through Nazi Europe, back to his home, and eventually to the land of opportunity, America.

You don't have to be Jewish to love this book!!!!.......2005-09-16

As a Greek-American daughter, whose parents lived through the Greek Civil War, I could relate to this book on many levels. Sandor's stories were heartbreaking and compelling, as many war stories are. I couldn't put this book down. I wanted to know, what happened next. Who would live? Who would die? My heart broke with each chapter, but then again, I also laughed at how Sandor sometimes viewed the world around him. Michael Lipiner took us through the Holocaust and into the present with the ease of a master story-teller. This book is a wonderful tribute to his grandfather and his heritage!

Great book.......2005-08-31

This is a touching, sad, happy, amazing story. The ability to hear the story through the survivor, Alex Taub's, own words (his often charming broken English) is one of the many reasons this book is unique. The pictures and vivid details make it easy to care about the other survivors portrayed in this book. More than simply the story of a Holocaust survivor, Magyar, Stars & Stripes is an emotionally touching story about hope, family, love and survival. It's a remarkable story with great meaning and I recommend it to people of all ages and backgrounds.

The Human Spirit is Resilient.......2005-08-20

"Hate is no good because [from] the hate comes out trouble. More trouble. Someone hates someone, more trouble come. Nothing come out good: never."

This is one of the many quotes from Alexander "Sandor" Taub as transcribed by his grandson in this very poignant book. It is amazing how much suffering the human spirit can handle while still being open to love and hope. So many times I have whined and complained about the inconsequential annoyances of daily life. In reality, I have never known true suffering.

This is just one man's story. One story that is similar to so many others. We are lucky we have Alexander Taub to speak for many of the other 6 million victims whose stories will never be heard. This book should not be missed.

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In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The war zone spawned the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments these physicians ever faced. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, physician-journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing-and ultimately enlightening-experiences of three characters: an idealistic physician from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international physicians will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues.

With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?

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A beautifully written chronicle of caring.......2006-06-03

Whether you are interested in contemporary history, war, medicine, morality and hope, you should read War Hospital. This nonfiction book about the siege of single town is an inspiring chronicle of true heroism by physicians and nurses in the face of war and its assorted horrors including internecine carnage, genocide and malign indifference. However, I first looked at this site not to see whether others enjoyed reading the book but because I wanted to see whether War Hospital had affected anyone else as much as it had me. I see that it has, and so I feel it's important to acknowledge the achievement of this book because I want everyone to have the experience I had.

What was that?

Well, as a social worker I was always quite skeptical of people who complained of `compassion fatigue' or bemoaned their inability to care deeply about the unspeakable assorted cruelties and human rights abuse that scar the globe. I looked at such complaints as little more than excuses for choosing not to care. Yet I couldn't ignore the fact that I was becoming inured to the news of genocide in the Balkans, especially because it was being rapidly supplanted by genocide in other areas such as Rwanda. Although genocide is equally evil throughout the world and suffering itself has no color, I resented the fact that Africans were getting less press and global outrage. and because journalists were also tiring of the Balkans they began to desert it for the next hotspot du jour. In the age of information overload these were all competing for our attention and the surfeit of shocking details were producing a sort of ennui. I would never have admitted to compassion fatigue, but it was becoming harder to access my outrage and easier to fall into a melancholy desire to not know more.

War Hospital proved just the medicine for this sense of paralysis.

First, the book is no preachy lecture: It is entertaining and a gripping story, very well told, that quote effectively puts a human face and universalizes the experience of genocide. And this face is a heroic face, an inspiration. This taut story is as powerful and intoxicating as any mystery novel. It is the story of a group of heroes, but heroes not in the diluted newspaper sense of a fireman saving a child but heroes in the classic sense of people who survive seemingly impossible personal tests as they mature from naïve, idealistic youths to flawed but ultimately successful saviors.

A small corps of very inexperienced young physicians including Drs. Alic, Dachy, and Dautbasic find themselves trapped in the besieged city of Srebnenica, where they must care for an unstemmed flood of Bosnian Muslims. Worse, their patients are brought in suffering from gruesome traumatic war injuries-- shredded arms and legs, and devastating head injuries for which the pediatricians and internists are ill prepared to cope: There are no surgeons. Even anesthetics and disinfectants are in short supply. When the eagerly awaited surgeon finally cheats death through a hazardous odyssey to join them, he is revealed as just another young general practitioner, Dr. Ilijaz Pilav, without surgical training. This ill-equipped band faces the challenge of providing medical and surgical care, hope and inspiration to the remaining residents of the Eastern Bosnia area, including Srebnenica, a former resort town now physically ravaged by war, haunted by snipers and tottering on the brink of despair as it is seemingly abandoned by the world. And outside, the world remains mute as genocide overtakes the country and the city: When the former resort town falls, 8,000 people are massacred .

All this is just the beginning. As Dr. Fink takes us on the roller-coaster descent of Srebnenica's fortunes, she fully fleshes out the individuals, telling their stories and illuminating their characters, warts and all: We know and care for them all by the end of the book. One man stumbled onto medicine because the engineering program he initially wished to attend was in a dull area that would not give him, a village boy, the urban experience he craved. Another must battle his own professional crisis of confidence-- is he really skilled enough to help all these people?-- as he seeks to allay the skepticism of others.

Because we know and care about them, Fink's subtle gradual introduction of ethical and moral issues as the doctors and nurses confront them is very powerful. She avoids the pitfalls of introducing thorny medical ethics issues too early and in too much depth. This means that when characters with whom we empathize ask themselves how to triage the young vs. the armed, when they ask whether they will save more lives by arming themselves against aggressor or how they can morally justify treating an enemy soldier who will turn to genocide or massacre again these concerns become immediate moral crises, not abstractions. When some doctors decide that medical measures are not enough and they decamp to take up arms to rejoin former comrades or simply to abandon their work in the clinic as hopelessly inadequate, this becomes more than a political or ethical argument.

An unexpected virtue of the book is its luminous language. It is written in a clear forthright voice that eschews semantic tricks but unerringly chooses each perfectly apt word in fresh combinations that are at once lyrical and evocative of a disturbing atmosphere: For example, a ravaged leg is `filleted' by a young surgeon in preparation for amputation. A hazard-fraught nocturnal trek to freedom by the survivors is rendered in language that contrasts brute violence with wondrous depictions of the wondrous nightscape.

In the hands of a capable writer this gripping story would have made a rousing book: In the hands of this writer who achieves rich characterization, keen ethical insight, and lyrical prose, it is an inspiration, and the cure for compassion fatigue.

Impressive, beautifully written.......2006-05-13

This is an important, gripping book about doctors in wartime. And it is an impressive, beautifully written first book by Sheri Fink. War Hospital is a powerful, haunting narrative presented in fast-paced, present time, first person narrative that unfolds like a Greek tragedy. This is the story of a group of very young, inexperienced doctors amidst the siege and eventual fall of Srebnenica that ended with genocide in Europe as the world stood by. The very fact that our protagonists - humanitarians and idealists-are trapped in the midst of the eventual ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs poses the book's central questions. Is the traditional role of humanitarian medicine -- neutral, unarmed, detached - sufficient in the face of looming massacre? And are the similarly evolved views of sovereignty and non-intervention in the international community outdated? If so, how and where does one choose sides, decide to intervene, offer medical care, or seek armed protection?

But the strength of War Hospital ultimately lies in Fink's brilliant structural choice to save the analysis, the conclusions, the politics and policy dilemmas for an epilogue thus allowing the reader to become engrossed with the stories of Drs. Ilijaz Pilav, Eric Dachy, Fatima Dautbasic and a handful of others who serve as the only doctors for the 70,000 or so Bosnian Muslims surrounded in enclaves in eastern Bosnia. From the opening scene where Dr. Ejub Alic, a 32-year old pediatric resident with no surgical training, performs an amputation with a razor cleaned in hydrogen peroxide, you will find yourself caught up in a swift, compelling novelistic reconstruction of events worthy of a future film or television series. Like a special episode of ER, but with our cast operating in a very real dilapidated hospital without adequate equipment or supplies, War Hospital makes you care about Bosnians, makes you feel, see, and smell the fear, despair, humor, bravery, betrayal, and confusion that permeate war.

When Dr. Alic finally gets a surgeon to help him out, the new arrival turns out to be the even younger, 28-year old general practitioner, Dr. Ilijaz Pilav, who has no surgical training either. He must brush aside questions on his past and training if he hopes to avoid creating despair or panic in Srebnenica. And so it goes. As our cast of young doctors is fleshed out, we watch their surgeries, their witness to massacres and gas attacks, their love affairs and infidelities, their arguments, and above all, their moral and ethical dilemmas as they try to live up to their calling to "do no harm" and to remain neutral as it becomes clear that active involvement, interposition with imperiled citizens and soldiers, and even occasionally taking up arms may be essential to survival and carrying out their medical missions. In this sense, War Hospital, in the best sense, resembles a high-toned TV survivor series where the outcome actually matters. As you watch some of our doctors join in fighting with Muslim forces, escape to rejoin families, get caught in ambushes, or leave overwhelmed and disillusioned, you will find yourself, if honest, frequently identifying with and then rejecting a number of moral stances and options. There are no easy answers here.

This combination, then, of vivid narrative with a setting and structure that raises the most important ethical questions of our time for doctors and civilians alike makes War Hospital indispensable reading not only for medical students, physicians, nurses and other health professionals, but also for ethicists, historians, psychologists, journalists, foreign policy analysts and more. I can see it used in many, many university courses and, with decent publicity, selling well and giving rise to that movie.

So. Go get War Hospital and read it now. If we had had it in 1992, genocide might have been averted. But its prose and powerful human insights and ethical engagement are as fresh and relevant today as the daily headlines from Iraq.

Great read.......2005-09-25

Fascinating book. It is an amazing story and very well written. I recommend it highly.

Great story, bad writing.......2005-08-19

Fink did a great job researching the war in the former Yugoslavia. This book does a great job of covering the history of the region, the politics behind the war, the progression of the war, and the paradox of humanitarian aid prolonging suffering in war stricken areas.

But, Fink made a poor decision by telling the narrative in the present tense. It was distracting to hear a universally aware narrator telling the story as if she were in the midst of it. You're either in the story, or you're not.

The writing makes it difficult to read unless you're really interested in one of the following:
- Adventurous, MSF-type doctors
- Deeper thoughts on humanitarian aid
- The war in the former Yugoslavia
- History of the former Yugoslavia
- Sheri Fink

Doctors Against the World.......2005-05-19

Very well written narrative, exploring the struggles understaffed, overworked, and in a lot of cases under-educated doctors who risk there lives to treat there patients during a time of war, often in EXTREME circumstances. It is a very striking story in that some doctors join the fight, some stay neutral, others just get lost in the horrible world that there previously beautiful home has turned into. It really make you think what you would have done in there position and question ones own moral fiber. It also makes one question governments and there priorities. In some places the book digresses into too much history which was hard in some places to get through, but it was necessary for the overall picture for this true story. I good read for anyone who is interested in medicine, ethics, history or a great dramatic narrative.

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Enforced disarmament has often been ignored by historians, diplomats, and strategic analaysts. Yet the democracies have imposed some measure of disarmament on their enemies after every major victory since 1815. In many cases, forced disarmament was one of the most important, if not the most important, of their war aims. The demilitarization of Germany and Japan, for example, was one of the most significant post-war measures agreed by the Soviet Union, Britain, and the USA in 1945, whilst the debate on the disarmament measures imposed on Iraq after the Gulf War continues to rage. The efficacy and durability of enforced disarmament measures, and the resistance they are likely to encounter are thus issues of central strategic and political importance. Philip Towle examines the most important peace settlements from the time of Napoleon to Saddam Hussein, in the first major history of this fascinating subject.

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