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Varied and loving.......2007-07-03

This collection covers some of the earliest (copyright 1995) and most varied work I've seen by Karsten. It carries the hallmarks of his later work including the passion, not always platonic, for female beauty. It also presents women in pairs and groups from silly to sapphic, but always with an underlying respect and affection for the model.

More than other collections of Karsten's photography, this spans wide ranges in many dimensions of composition. It includes photos in color along with B&W, and includes women of color (Afra, Bina). Affection figures strongly in many of these photos, whether maternal (Almut and Ferdinand), sisterly (Fritzi and Maxi, in an interesting time progression), companionable (Insa and Annette), physical (Valerie and Dorte), or something of many parts and no easy words (Kerstin and Kathrin). This collection covers a wider range of ages, too, younger (e.g. Afra again, Mira and Gabi) as well as older (Yvonne). His photos of girls have the same playful, happy sense in so many of Sturges's images, but some viewers may find them problematic for the same reasons. Perhaps most surprisingly, Karsten also presents pregnancy (Kris-Karen twice), including its magnificent late stage. That may be the test of a photographer's dedication to the whole of womanly beauty: the ability to capture a woman's native grace and elegance even when she's filled with new life.

In among all the surprises, Karsten also brings more conventional studies of more conventional kinds of beauty. His best work shows the uniqueness of each model (for example Franziska I, Helen, Bina, and Franziska II), at the same time that it honors what's lovely in very nearly all women. This collection lacks the single-minded intensity of others including Days of Intimacy, but does even better at showing Karsten's full range. It will serve well in any library of figure photography.

-- wiredweird

Alles Schmuck: Avantgarde-Schmuck seit 1960 und die Lust sich zu schmucken.

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Alles Schmuck: Avantgarde-Schmuck seit 1960 und die Lust sich zu schmucken.
Alles Schmuck , Brigitte Felderer , Herbert Lachmayer , and Erika Keil
Manufacturer: Lars Muller
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3907078322

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Edited by Brigitte Felderer, Herbert Lachmayer & Erika Keil.

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Great Book!.......2003-01-03

Professor Glantz has been instrumental for us in his writings and seminars. He truly is one of the world's foremost authorities on credit and the world of banking.

New York Investment Banker.......2002-03-26

Don't know who wrote such silliness from the previous review. Obviously, not someone who is a senior member of the financial community. Mr. Glantz, well done! For readers yet to come, this book demonstrates and applies brilliant techniques. Enough said!

Money not wisely invested.......2001-12-30

I wonder what the other reviewers see in this book as it seems not highly valuable to me. The book presents more a general overview of different techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation or Neural Networks without going into the necessary depth. Moreover, most of the explanations and expamples in the book can be found in a similar way on the web pages of the software companies mentioned in the book - for free.
I regret having bought this book - having learned nothing but not to trust too much euphoric reviewers.

Utter Brilliance!.......2001-07-28

This text provides the tools necessary to make an informed decision as a member of the financial senior management team. The most valuable element of the book is its current and future approach to valuation. The modeling techniques allow the reader to properly access and implement innovative methods for proper and precise valuation. Thank you Mr. Glantz for making me look smarter to my boss and other senior members of my large capitalization company.

Top Notch!.......2001-05-23

Extremely impressed with the author's insightful explanations. As an analyst at a prominent institution, I look forward to Mr. Glantz's continued works. Bravo!

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This is the first major study in Chinese business history based largely on business's own records. It focuses on the battle for the cigarette market in early twentieth-century China between the British-American Tobacco Company, based in New York and London, and its leading Chinese rival, Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, whose headquarters were in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

From its founding in 1902, the British-American Tobacco Company maintained a lucrative monopoly of the market until 1915, when Nanyang entered China and extended tis operations into the country's major markets despite the use of aggressive tactics against it. Both companies grew rapidly during the 1920s, and competition between them reached its peak, but by 1930 Nanyang weakened, bringing an end to serious commercial rivalry. Though less competitive, both companies continued to trade in China until their Sino-foreign rivalry ended altogether with the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.

Debate over international commercial rivalries has often been conducted broadly in terms of imperialist exploitation and economic nationalism. This study shows the usefulness and limitations of these terms for historical purposes and contributes to the separate but related debate over the significance of entrepreneurial innovation in Chinese economic history. By analyzing the foreign Chinese companies' business practices and by describing their involvement in diplomatic incidents, boycotts, strikes, student protests, relations with peasant tobacco growers, dealings with the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party, and a host of other activities, the author brings to light the roles that big businesses played not only in China's economy but also in its politics, society, and foreign affairs.

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There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work.
The author employs qualitative research methods to challenge the idea that if you look well, you must be well. While demonstrating the effectiveness of this controversial methodology, she uses it to expose the voices of a group of marginalized workplace actors who have hitherto remained unheard.

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In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new raw doctrine of mobile warfare and "deep operations." The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, this book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparedness, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.

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Brilliant account of Soviet defence plans for WW2.......2001-07-31

In this detailed book, based on newly opened Russian archives, Lennart Samuelson studies Soviet military and economic planning from 1925 to 1941. He shows how the Soviet leadership integrated defence into their general economic planning and decision-making, and how well the defence industries met military requirements.

With the first five-year plan, the Soviet Union developed an advanced industrialised civilian economy. The vital machine building, automobile, tractor, chemical and aircraft industries could be swiftly mobilised in case of war. Samuelson argues that this did not lead to what could be called a `militarised economy', because the USA, France, Italy and Germany made similar preparations for the demands of total war.

He also discusses Soviet strategic thinking. In the 1918-21 War of Intervention, the armies of fourteen capitalist states invaded Russia, trying to overthrow the revolutionary Government. This naturally confirmed the Soviet leadership's belief that these states would inevitably attack the new socialist state again. The debate raged - could the Soviet Union defeat such an attack? In 1927, Marshall Tukhachevskii, then Chief of Staff, said that the Soviet Union would be defeated, "unless the European revolution will come to our rescue." In 1936, when he was Deputy Defence Commissar, he agreed with Trotsky that Nazi Germany would definitely defeat the Soviet Union. This consistent defeatism was hardly appropriate to a leading figure. Further, Tukhachevskii wanted the military, not civilians, to run military-industrial planning, a clear threat to the Party's leadership of the country.

Samuelson concludes, "With regard to industrial mobilisation, it [the Soviet Union] was certainly ahead of Germany - having adopted the best methods and techniques for preparing the economy in general, and industry in particular, for the test of wartime production conditions." He sums up, "The presently available data give on the whole a more balanced and well-equipped Red Army on the eve of Operation Barbarossa than in the historiography of past decades."

How the soviet economy was forged for war.......2000-07-07

In recent years, quite some books have been published on the Soviet Union in the pre-war period. They have all gratefully used soviet archives to give an insight on the situation of the socialist state on the eve of World War II. They all help to explain the debacle that the initial period of War proved to be for the Red Army. Roger Reese wrote his "Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers", giving a social history of the Red Army up to the clash with Germany, focussing on morale and training. David Glantz covered the physical state of the Red Army in "Stumbling Colossus" and Gorodetsky in "Grand Delusion" focuses on diplomacy and politics.

In "Plans for Stalin's War Machine", the Norwegian Lennart Samualson makes an effort to put the economic planning of the three pre-war Five-Year Plans in perspective with the military planning and military doctrine. He argues, not quite surprisingly, that the armed forces have always dominated economic planning. Central figure in the book is Tukhachevsky, successively chief of staff, commander of the Leningrad military district and deputy people commissar (minister) for defence, only to fall victim to Stalin's Great Terror in 1937. Tukhachevsky was the main architect of the Soviet military doctrine of 'deep battle'. Deep battle was the Red Armies way to overcome a trench warfare. Huge forces of modern equipment (tanks, aeroplanes and artillery) would crush the enemy's lines. Meanwhile, great forces of airborne troops would make sure the enemy would get surrounded and would siege main communication and transport point in the hinterland. After this policy got adopted in the early 1930's, it was up to the soviet industry to supply the army with the requested amounts of tanks, aeroplanes and artillery.

As Samuelson points out, things went dearly wrong. The reason for this failure lies in the fact that the Soviet Union couldn't afford to invest heavily in the defence industry. It therefore chose a to set up a dual industry: in case of war, civil industry would transform itself to war industry. Tanks could easily be build on the framework of a tractor of car, Tukhachevsky argued. After 1937 the Soviet Union abandoned this tactic because the civil industry didn't seem able to deliver the goods the Red Army ordered. Just as things get tense - there's a war closing in - the author speeds up his book.

It takes half the book to cover the six years from 1925 to 1931, in which the Red Army basically was wondering how it would survive any war, given the deplorable state of the soviet economy. It than decided that there was no real war threat at all, since none of the likely enemies were able to form any real danger. But as things get really interesting - after all the war forms a real test for the soviet idea's on tactics, the quality of it's weapons, troops and newly build industry - the book gets less and less detailed.

The final chapter on "Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937-41" shows us a huge amount of tables. The tables show the planed production for the third Five Year Plan (1937-1942). But as Samualson had so well explained previously, actual spending hardly ever followed the plans made in advance by Gosplan, the central planning agency. Apparently, Samualson couldn't find enough archival evidence on the state of the Soviet economy in the thrird Five-Year Plan.

Meanwhile the reader has gotten spoiled by quality material. And most of all, the weak evidence presented by the author doesn't seem to prove his conclusion that in the final pre-war years, the soviet economy succeeded quite well in supplying the Red Army with vast amounts of tanks, aeroplanes, artillery and ammunition. In fact, the first period of war for the Red Army knew larges shortages of supplies, partly because warehouse had been build close to the border and were destroyed by the Germans, partly because of a very weak transport system. Any good mobilisation plan would have dealt with the transport problem. Since he couldn't provide sufficient information on the final period covered by his book, Samuelson should have limited it to the period of 1925-1937. That way, he certainly would have gotten five stars.

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Revised and updated, this new edition of a much sought-after classic remains the best source for information about the trees, shrubs, and vines that provide bird habitats and feeding sources in the United States and Canada from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. More than 160 species of trees, shrubs, and vines that provide food, cover, and nesting for common North American birds are highlighted, with instructions on designing a landscape habitat that attracts desired bird species.

For each plant species the author provides a description, flowering and fruiting periods, preferred habitat conditions, growing ranges, and hardiness zones. Detailed instructions cover propagation, transplantation, landscape, and site requirements. The new edition includes updated data, expanded bird/plant preference indexes, 24 new photographs of trees and plants in actual backyard habitats, and 64 detailed drawings of branches, leaves, and berries for easy identification.

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bird attractions.......2006-12-15

A very good book, can be used as a reference book when planning for planting, very informative and interesting.a worthy addition to the birders library.Good for beginners and expierienced persons familiar with plants and birds.

Good resource if you ignore the invasives listed.......2006-03-25

If you're interested in providing habitat for birds, this is a good resource...but if you're interested in preserving habitat for birds, ignore the invasive plants listed. I had assumed that an updated version of any book wouldn't list plants that are among those invading our natural areas! Even if these plants do provide nesting areas and food, they ultimately lead to a decrease in habitat as the invasive plants, such as multiflora rose, displace native plants. (For lists of invasive plants, check out www.invasive.org and other websites.) The book sometimes cautions to keep these plants under control, but why contribute to further problems when there are so many great native plants? Seeing these plants listed in a book that was updated so recently was very disappointing. Use this book cautiously - the information presented is very useful and well-organized. Before planting any of the plants listed, though, verify that it isn't invasive in your area.

Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Attracting Birds: A Manual for the Northeast

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Trees, Shrubs and Vines for Attracting Birds: A Manual for the Northeast
Richard M. Degraaf , and Gretchin Witman
Manufacturer: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0870232029

Trees, shrubs, and vines that will attract birds

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Trees, shrubs, and vines that will attract birds
G. W Longenecker
Manufacturer: Dept. of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007HOW5A

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