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Is Fashion A Woman's Right?
Carolyn Beckingham
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Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer
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Quantitative Techniques in Real Estate Counseling (Lexington Books special series in real estate and urban land economics)
Gene Dilmore
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In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.
Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonzalez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonzalez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodovar. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonzalez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.
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IIs there such a thing as World Cinema? Is it simply cinema that isn't from Hollywood? Is British or European Cinema part of World Cinema, or is World Cinema something other than our own? These key questions are addressed in this guide, which provides teachers with a comprehensive and detailed approach to teaching World Cinema.
* Investigates the concepts of World Cinema and National Cinema
* Considers place of the auteur in World Cinema
* Gives examples of World Cinema in their historical and cultural contexts
* Discusses finance and distribution
* Case studies look at Hong Kong, Scandinavia, and France, and the films Chungking Express, Show me Love, and La Haine
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Super series for media & film studies (16-19 year olds).......2005-09-27
I am biased, as I'm the Series Editor, but every title in the series has lots of factual and conceptual background information for each topic, two sample six-week teaching schemes and teaching tips (and downloadable photocopiable worksheets and web notes from [...]) as well as 3-5 detailed case studies, full glossary and suggestions for further research.
Every writer is an experienced teacher and/or examiner and most titles (with the exception of ones with 'British' in the title) have a fairly international perspective.
More titles on the way...
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Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives
Penelope Houston
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In 1947 the theologian and musicologist Friedrich Smend published a study which claimed that J. S. Bach regularly employed the natural-order number alphabet (A=1 to Z=24) in his works. Smend provided historical evidence and music examples to support his theory which demonstrated that by this means Bach incorporated significant words into his music, and provided himself with a symbolic compositional scheme. Since then many people have taken up Smend’s theory, interpreting numbers of bars and notes in Bach scores according to the natural-order alphabet. By presenting a thorough survey of different number alphabets and their uses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany, Dr Tatlow investigates the plausibility of Smend’s claims. Her new evidence fundamentally challenges Smend’s conclusions and the book sounds a note of caution to all who continue to use his number-alphabet theory. Dr Tatlow’s painstaking research will fascinate all those with an interest in the music of J. S. Bach and German Baroque culture, and will be of particular importance for music historians and analysts.
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Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography
Jeremy Gaige
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First published in 1987 to overwhelming international acclaim, Jeremy Gaiges Chess Personalia has been called one of the most useful chess books ever published (Edward Winter in New in Chess). The book is an invaluable resource for researchers and enthusiasts, and original copies are highly sought after by chess collectors. Long out of print, the original work is available here for the first time in a softcover format. This biobibliography contains around 14,000 worldwide entries, each entry offering full name, date and place of birth and death, FIDE title, country of citizenship and citations to mentions in the worlds media. Variants in names are cross-referenced. Those knowledgeable in the chess world will recognize the authors name and be completely assured as to the comprehensiveness, accuracy, lack of bias, and sedulous research this extraordinary reference work represents.
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Definitive, but not a new edition.......2005-08-20
This is the best (and only so far as I know) work out there listing chess player names, and minimal biographical info (birth date/place, date/place of death, country, date of significant chess titles, etc.). Also functions as a standard for spelling of transliteration of non-English names.
It's great for a researcher, writer, etc., but probably a limited market for others. Recommended (I'm tempted to say indespensible) for anyone with that type of interest.
BE AWARE: Even though the publication date of this paperback edition is 2005, this is merely a reprint of the 1987 edition that came out in hardcover - IT IS NOT A NEW, REVISED EDITION.
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All the forms you need to keep your corporation valid in the eyes of the IRS and courts.
If you've taken the time to turn your business into a corporation, chances are you'd like to see it stay that way. Your business card may say "incorporated," but if the courts and the IRS think differently, it's closing time.
Because meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life, it's important to know when and how to prepare these minutes. The Corporate Records Handbook provides all the forms (plus instructions) you need, including:
Call of Meeting
Meeting Participant List
Notice of Meeting
Certification of Mailing
Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Meeting
Shareholder Proxy
Meeting Summary Sheet
Minutes of Annual Shareholders' Meeting
Minutes of Special Shareholders' Meeting
Minutes of Annual Directors' Meeting
Minutes of Special Directors' Meeting
Waiver of Notice of Meeting
Approval of Corporate Minutes By Directors of Shareholders
Cover Letter for Approval of Minutes of Paper Meeting
Written Consent to Action Without Meeting
The Corporate Records Handbook also gives you more than 75 additional resolutions -- both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM -- to insert into your minutes. So take a few minutes and read this book -- your corporation deserves it!
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A superb collection of forms for an established business.......2006-08-06
This book contains a great deal of ready to use forms for your corporate records on many aspects of business operations but be careful if you are looking for information on minutes of first meeting. The book says not to worry if you don't have organizational minutes; however, such important resolutions as corporate seal or principal office are missing.
Apparently these resolutions are covered by other NoLo books, which deal with formation of various corporation types. So just be aware, you may need to pick up one of those books in addition to this one.
Great coverage of exactly what it says it's going to cover........2006-04-15
Many other books on corporate forms try to cover everything (from selection of entity type to formation, filings, taxes, legalities, etc.) which means they usually just cover these topics in a shallow and frustrating way.
This book covers exactly what it says it covers (meetings, minutes and resolutions) and covers these topics very well, with lots of details, advice, examples and related useful tid-bits. It doesn't try to be an encyclopedia of everything related to corporations, which is GOOD, it has FOCUS. Also, it's from Nolo press, a generally better publisher of these types of books in my opinion, and Mancuso has written lots of good business/legal books.
The book is overkill for the typical LLC or small S-corp, but, on the other hand, these are the businesses that are at greater risk of having their corporate veils discarded in court. You can crank down the degree of formality to whatever level you feel comfortable, but at least you'll have a good idea of how the larger and more professionally-managed corporations document themselves.
If you're a sole proprietor upgrading to an LLC, or a two-person corp of any type, then this book probably won't be what you're looking for. If you're a newly-minted MBA or lawyer and now you're handling the affairs of a small- to mid-sized corp as an officer or advisor, then I'll bet you'll think the book is great (and maybe you'll secretly hide it in your desk to make everyone think you just know all this "corporate paperwork BS" off the top of your head). In general, the book is very good at clarifying the weirdness of corporate documentation.
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This is the complete, original biography of the best-documented psychic in America. It tells the story of how Edgar Cayce discovered his astounding psychic gifts and what led him to a life dedicated to helping others. Cayce's "readings," given in a trancelike state, ranged from phenomenal medical cures to advice on spiritual growth, psychology, and the prophesy of world events. A philosophy section outlines Cayce's revelations about our origin, purpose, and destinies on the earth, making this book a valuable resource. This book contains many photos of Edgar Cayce, his family, and close friends.
This special edition features Auras, the only book written by Edgar Cayce himself.
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wonderful!.......2007-04-13
If you've ever wondered "Who is Edgar Cayce?", then I suggest in reading this book! It is the story of Edgars' life from his beginings. I learned so much, infact he is the real deal. Edgar was leery of his ability to "see into the unseen" and worried if possibly his gift was not a gift at all but a tool of the devil ment for evil purposes. It wasn't till he knew for a fact that his "gift" was helping people all over the world that he felt comfortable and ready to give with out reservations.
Also it's easy reading except I had a hard time understanding the "readings" and would have to re read them. Other wise, Easy enjoyable reading.
More like a novel.......2006-12-20
It would be wonderful, if what Mr. Cayce realized, were the truth. As to the book, it isn't bad. It reads more like a novel, than like a biography. A little slow of a read but then most biographies are. I like the fact it did not embellish the character. It seemed to tell the facts the way they were. Probably not the end all of Mr. Cayce resources, but overall a good book.
A decent book about an interesting man.......2006-04-07
I had heard of Edgar Cayce before, mainly because I shelved so many books by or about him in my years as a bookseller. It was only recently, though, as I was browsing through one of the Stranger than... books by the late Frank Edwards that I came across a brief biography of Edgar Cayce and learned more about his mysterious diagnoses given while unconscious. I remembered that I had this book, one of the Time-Life Collector's Library of the Unknown reprints, on my shelf and so I dug in.
For the most part, the prose was easy to read and written in a straightforward, familiar style, so that I felt like I was seeing the events of Cayce's life as they happened. The book begins like a normal biography, discussing early romances, jobs, family incidents, etc., with very little to indicate how strange Mr. Cayce's life would become. Around 1/3 of the way through the book, we discover, along with young Edgar, that he can memorize written materials just by sleeping on them. He also discovers that he has miraculous powers to diagnose illnesses and prescribe cures for people he has never met, all while unconscious. (In his waking life, Mr. Cayce was very modestly educated, and was as surprised as anyone at the ideas and language that came from his unconscious form.) The way that this section of the book reads, you would imagine that Cayce's cures were always successful and that skeptics were fools.
The book begins to drag after the second half, though, for a variety of reasons. First, Cayce could never actually put his powers to any real end. Every attempt to establish a multidisciplinary hospital to implement and research his unconscious revelations, as was his dream, came to an unsuccessful conclusion. This is fairly anticlimactic and does not make for a very "heroic" story. Second, one of his benefactors, a man quite interested in matters occult, began to ask Cayce more arcane questions, and so the revelations began to drift into, to me, less interesting areas-the typical new age stuff about Atlantis, reincarnation, soul mates, etc. Finally, it became more apparent to me, based on the later, more thoroughly documented cases, that Cayce's "miraculous" cures might not have been as amazing as they seemed in the earlier chapters; the earlier cures seemed more amazing simply because the way in which they were recorded and related was more "oh gosh" and less stringent. (In other words, as he gets older and more jaded, even his cures seem less special and miraculous. Maybe this was the writer's intention.)
The conclusion of the book was, for me, the worst part. It is divided into two appendix-like sections. In the first section, the author tries to systematically describe Cayce's philosophy. Boring. Too much like the Ascended Master stuff that I find hard to swallow. Maybe it is true. Maybe not. Whenever I read this stuff, I just get the feeling that I am listening to some pedantic, New England minister lecturing on matters that were expressed much more interestingly 2,000 years ago by Hindus and Buddhists. The second section in the conclusion recounts six case studies from the Cayce files, and these are interesting only for those who want to see how difficult to understand Cayce's medical diagnoses could be, due to the odd structure of his language and the outdated medical terminology.
It was a quick read, except for those two concluding sections, so if you are at all interested, I highly recommend reading it. As for what it means, though, I really have no clue. And I don't plan on re-reading it to find out, though the pretty Time-Life book will remain on my shelf as decoration.
The Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is A River.......2005-09-30
This book adds to the wonders that can be achieved with dedication
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An eye-opener.......2005-07-23
For those with strong religious faith, but no sort of flexibility, don't buy this book. However, if you are open to suggestion and the possibility that you don't have all the answers, then this is a must read.
A devoted Christian his entire life, Edgar Cayce's life story challenges what many claim to be the "truth" or the "meaning". Cayce's faith was never in question - he read the Bible one time for each year of his life by the time he was 13. His readings on the other hand, challenged even his convictions, forcing him to open his mind, body, and soul to the possibilities that he once thought foreign and possibly blasphemous.
While many of his stories about growing up are on the boring side, and very slow reading, the information sprinkled in his biography about where his talent comes from is interesting. His talents produced results that many attempted to disprove, but the facts always sided with Cayce.
If you believe that humankind is capable of more than the simplicity of thought that we consider intelligent by today's standards, read Cayce's story.
If you believe that there are many unanswered questions that science can't necessarily answer, read the book.
The book is easily worth the price and the read for the end alone. After the biography there is a brief section that deals with the aspect many are amazed by: the supernatural. The tidbits of his thoughts and readings in relation to after-life, the beginning of time, religion, and various other deeply philosophical questions...are words I will never forget.
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Man or miracle? The astounding true story of Edgar Cayce, the fantastic seer who could: Correctly describe someone he had never seen; Diagnose illnesses he had never studied; Outline medical treatments that he had never even heard of. And in more than ninety percent of the cases was proved to be completely accurate! The true story of a man in touch with the unknown told by the only writer who knew and investigated him while he lived.
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Poised to strike at England in the summer of 1805, Napoleon found himself facing a coalition of European powers determined to limit his territorial ambitions. Still, in less than one hundred days, Napoleon's armies marched from the English Channel to Central Europe, crushing the armies of Austria and Russia-the first step in his conquest of Europe. Schneid demonstrates how this was possible. Napoleon's victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances. He played upon the prevailing conditions of the European state system and the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire to improve France's strategic position. This war must be understood in the context of the French Revolution and its influence on major and minor European states. In some cases, Napoleonic diplomacy returned to France's traditional and historic relationships; in others, he capitalized upon longstanding competition and animosities to gather allies and create wedges. Schneid approaches the campaign from a broad diplomatic, economic, and military perspective, including not only the French perspective, but the points of view of the other powers involved as well. This telling account reveals that the road to Vienna was paved long before Napoleon's armies marched upon the enemies arrayed against them.
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Federalist Papers made easy.......2007-06-11
While reading The Federalist in the original language of Madison, Hamilton and Jay is still my first choice, this modern language version is perfect for those students who struggle with the original. It also indexes the papers to some of the major issues of the day and provides a good contemporary slant to these important American documents.
Professor James Kee
George Washington University
What it Means to be American .......2006-11-18
Although I thought I had a fairly good command of American history, the Federalist Papers reminds me of what it means to be American, and that I needed to learn a great deal more. It describes something lost. It reminds us that there was a time when everyone was involved in society and government, that people took pride in political discussion, and lacked the cynicism and neglect that Americans have today. It was political discussion that lacked name-calling, rabid conservatism or liberalism that so divides us deeply. And in the middle, are the people who just don't care. Being American is not just about waving the flag, it really is about earning a Ph.d in citizenship, and the Federalist Papers provides the opportunity for achieving it.
Many reviews describe books they think should be textbooks for school. These screeds are usually attempts at revisionism that should be anything but textbooks or required reading. The Federalist Papers should be both. They should be discussed daily and the earlier, the better. It should be the New Testament of America, and the Constitution should be the Old.
I was drawn toward this edition for two reasons: 1) it is modern language that made it a bit easier for me to comprehend. 2) After listening to arguments by Senator Byrd of West Virginia, and the misinterpretation of the Constitution by Sean Hannity, I felt it almost a civic duty to make the purchase. Much of it is now highlighted in yellow.
I hope you too will feel bound to purchase the Federalist Papers in any form. It's what it means to be American.
Manditory reading for anyone interested in Laws and Rights.......2005-10-08
This is nothing less than an exact translation of the Federalist papers for perople of our generations to read and understand. I found this necessary, as the truth and the history of our country is so clouded by media and revisionism, that it becomes very important to really look and study why our country was set up like it is. I recommend it to everyone. But I especially recommend it to students of law and our country. It is interesting, and well written. It easily is equivalent to a number of college level classes in constitutional law.
Great FP Primer.......2004-03-20
I think this book would make a great high school text for students in American Government classes. I'm sure at college levels the FPs aren't too hard to read in their old English, but the index is great. And the book is a testament to how wise the founding fathers who made the case for our current constitution really were. Many of the things they warned us against are indeed coming true in our democracy today.
Perhaps if more people actually read the documents our founders wrote, there would be fewer people who believed in Bush's "activist" judges charge and more who realized that judges are supposed to uphold constitutions - uphold them even when the equality they provide to a minority is doing so against the will of a popular majority.
An Aid To Understanding Our Political Heritage.......2004-01-05
Mary E. Webster has performed an invaluable public service with this book. The Federalist Papers are among the most significant documents of this nation's founding era, yet they go largely unread, primarily because of their legalistic tone and complex sentence structure. As Webster states in her introduction, she has no political or social axe to grind and no agenda to fulfill. She simply wished to make these important documents available to a wider audience, and has succeeded admirably in that goal.
Webster's background allowed her to bring a one-of-a-kind approach to this project. She's not a political scholar; she is a published novelist, and a certified interpreter for the deaf. She says this was her best preparation for conveying what Hamilton, Madison and Jay actually meant. Also, she cautions this work is not meant as a substitute for reading the papers themselves; rather she hopes it will inspire readers (as it did this one) to go to the originals with greater interest and confidence.
In addition to the "translation" of the papers, Webster has also provided a comprehensive index to their contents. There's been much debate in recent years about the "original intent" of the men who drafted the constitution. The best places to find their true intentions are in the records of the constitutional convention itself and in the Federalist Papers. It's all here, from taxation and property rights, to gun rights and the impeachment process. This is a book for the scholar, the student and any citizen who cares about our most fundamental rights.--William C. Hall
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Treasury of Audubon Birds in Full Color: 224 Plates from "the Birds of America"
John James Audubon
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