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From Athens to Zagreb, Rykjavik to Warsaw, the Berlitz Business Travel Guide to Europe offers a wealth of useful information on 38 European countries, covering everything from social customs to trade fairs. In a handy pocket-sized format, this is the prefect companion for those conducting business in Europe. Features include: useful facts about each country, culture tips to ease you through uncharted social terrain, quick reference maps for each country, and essential words and phrases, with expanded business phrases. New to this edition are computer terms in 24 languages, how to use your laptop and access the Internet abroad, hints for easy ATM use, and the latest information on the Euro.

Berlitz Business Travel Guide to Europe (European Guides)

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Berlitz Business Travel Guide: Europe
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Perspectives in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: A Structured Approach to Combine Models of the Technosphere, Ecosphere and Valuesphere describes the relationship between subjective and objective elements in Life Cycle Impact Assessment. It suggests a new framework which will allow people to master two of the major problems associated with LCA, the difficulty of separating subjective from objective elements and the tendency for impact assessment to record `phantoms' rather than actual damages.
Perspectives in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: A Structured Approach to Combine Models of the Technosphere, Ecosphere and Valuesphere presents a proposal for a second generation framework and method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Many of the suggested elements are either based on other tools for environmental analysis, e.g. risk assessment, or fit in well with tools and concepts such as industrial ecology, technology assessment, or environmental impact assessment. The research presented in this book goes beyond the scope of presently used methods for Life Cycle Assessment and may stimulate new developments in a variety of areas.
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Bioanalytical Separations is volume 4 of the multi-volume series, Handbook of Analytical Separations, providing reviews of analytical separation methods and techniques used for the determination of analytes across a whole range of applications. The theme for this volume is bioanalysis, in this case specifically meaning the analysis of drugs and their metabolites in biological fluids.

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Drug Determination in Therapeutic and Forensic Contexts (Methodological Surveys in Biochemistry & Analysis, Vol 14. Subseries a, Analysis)

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Eric Reid , and Ian D. Wilson
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Explicit Stability Conditions for Continuous Systems deals with non-autonomous linear and nonlinear continuous finite dimensional systems. Explicit conditions for the asymptotic, absolute, input-to-state and orbital stabilities are discussed. This monograph provides new tools for specialists in control system theory and stability theory of ordinary differential equations, with a special emphasis on the Aizerman problem. A systematic exposition of the approach to stability analysis based on estimates for matrix-valued functions is suggested and various classes of systems are investigated from a unified viewpoint.

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I wer wonderin my levil bes', keepin a skin'd eye an' a open year fur trubbil ur a skeer, whan I hearn a tarin big fuss on tuther side, squawkin, cussin, hollerin, an' a gineral soun ove things a-smashin, an' seed people a-mixin tharsefs pow'ful, sorter like bees a-fixin tu swarm. Thinks I, Look out Sut, hit am cumin; hits mos' time; yu haint hed a skeer fur ni ontu three days--when yere cum roun the corner ove the market house, jis' a-tarin, a thuteen hunder' poun' black an' white bull, wif his tail es strait up in the air es a telegraf pole, an' a chesnut fence rail tied across his ho'ns wif hickory withs.

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Sut Lovingood Yarns Spun
George W Harris
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Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun By A Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool. Warped And Wove For Public Wear

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Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun By A Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool. Warped And Wove For Public Wear
Harris George W.
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Sut Lovingood: Yarns spun by a "nat'ral born durn'd fool." Warped and wove for public wear
George Washington Harris
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Sut Lovingood Yarns Spun By a " Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool Waarpeed and Wove for Public Wear

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Sut Lovingood Yarns Spun By a " Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool Waarpeed and Wove for Public Wear
George W. Harris
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Sut Lovingood Yarns Spun by a "Natral Born Durn'd Fool" Warped and Wove for Public Wear

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Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun By a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool.
George Harris
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The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. In this vibrant new biography, Mark Ravina, professor of history and Director of East Asian Studies at Emory University, explores the facts behind Hollywood storytelling and Japanese legends, and explains the passion and poignancy of Saigo's life. Known both for his scholarly research and his appearances on The History Channel, Ravina recreates the world in which Saigo lived and died, the last days of the samurai.

The Last Samurai traces Saigo's life from his early days as a tax clerk in far southwestern Japan, through his rise to national prominence as a fierce imperial loyalist. Saigo was twice exiled for his political activities -- sent to Japan's remote southwestern islands where he fully expected to die. But exile only increased his reputation for loyalty, and in 1864 he was brought back to the capital to help his lord fight for the restoration of the emperor. In 1868, Saigo commanded his lord's forces in the battles which toppled the shogunate and he became and leader in the emperor Meiji's new government. But Saigo found only anguish in national leadership. He understood the need for a modern conscript army but longed for the days of the traditional warrior.

Saigo hoped to die in service to the emperor. In 1873, he sought appointment as envoy to Korea, where he planned to demand that the Korean king show deference to the Japanese emperor, drawing his sword, if necessary, top defend imperial honor. Denied this chance to show his courage and loyalty, he retreated to his homeland and spent his last years as a schoolteacher, training samurai boys in frugality, honesty, and courage. In 1876, when the government stripped samurai of their swords, Saigo's followers rose in rebellion and Saigo became their reluctant leader. His insurrection became the bloodiest war Japan had seen in centuries, killing over 12,000 men on both sides and nearly bankrupting the new imperial government. The imperial government denounced Saigo as a rebel and a traitor, but their propaganda could not overcome his fame and in 1889, twelve years after his death, the government relented, pardoned Saigo of all crimes, and posthumously restored him to imperial court rank.

In THE LAST SAMURAI, Saigo is as compelling a character as Robert E. Lee was to Americans-a great and noble warrior who followed the dictates of honor and loyalty, even though it meant civil war in a country to which he'd devoted his life. Saigo's life is a fascinating look into Japanese feudal society and a history of a country as it struggled between its long traditions and the dictates of a modern future.

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The Life Behind the Legend.......2007-06-05

For those of you who like your reviews short and to the point: this book is just plain wonderful. I used it as an assigned text in a class I taught about modern Japan and will use it again. It is an academic book in that it addresses serious issues, but it is also exceptionally well-written. Those two qualities are usually mutual exclusive of one another. Ravina starts with an arresting sentence: "Where was Saigo Takamori's head?" and the story stays engaging throughout.

Ravina's purpose is to tell the story about the real man behind the Tom Cruise movie of the same name. Readers will discover that there are significant differences between what the film depicted and what really happened. Ravina might tell his story well, but also has an important one. While the Ken Watanabe's Matsumoto was a traditionalist opposed to change, the real Saigo Takamori was one of the Japanese equavilent of George Washington. He helped bring down the Shogun and was a founding father of modern Japan. He was also a learned, thoughtful man who studied the Confucian classics.

One of Ravina's strengths is showing that the many enemies of the Tokugawa family had an easier time agreeing to bring to bring them down than on what should replace their central authority. Saigo had fought against the shogun because they were the hereditary enemies of Satsuma, his daimyo or feudal province and/or lord. He was not prepared to create a modern, central state that abolished Satsuma altogether. Less than happy about the events that were taking place, he quite the new government. A few years later led a revolt against his former comrades. In an important point, Ravina shows that Saigo did a poor job of articulating a message about why he was rebelling, so people with a lot of different agendas who were unhappy at what was happening to Japan for any number of reasons. He literally was a rebel without a cause and has remained an enduring, modern folk hero in modern Japan.

Virtue to the End.......2007-01-06

Saigo Takamori is rightly remembered, despite being a traitor in some people's views. His life was one of ebbs and flows, being at the centre of power in Japan and also at the very fringes in internal exile. Knowing that a character from Cruise's movie was loosely, (very loosely, as it turns out), based on him, I had to read the book about the real man.

"The Last Samurai", (the book from here), is arranged quite well in broad phases of Saigo's life, from childhood to his final battle and campaign. The book focuses a lot on what drove and influenced Saigo, from the Confucian classics he absorbed through Oyomei learning and also Mito thinking. All of these influences profoundly affected Saigo, along with some important events in his life. I was interested in his emphasis on a lord-vassal relationship that took on a very personal nature for him, and was something that he craved.

The book is well referenced and has a good number of endnotes given for various sources and some details additional to the main text. Ravina has clearly written the book as an academic text that is still accessible to the lay reader. Not only that, Ravina manages to keep the interest and grip the reader to the very end.

I liked this book very much, both for the subject matter, but also for the way in which Ravina presents his subject. He keeps Saigo in context with the history around him, and also makes plenty of references to the wider issues that Saigo was involved in and why. This is a great book about a great man.

For me an interesting read.......2006-12-24

After seeing "The Last Samurai;" I was curious to read a little about what really happened with Saigo Takamori.

I was not surprised to see that the movie took the characters in different directions. In the movie Saigo was a defender of tradition and tried to fight against the Westernizing of Japan with the theme of the clash between the old ways of Samurai Swords against the modern ways of the Gun.

Saigo was more of a "rags to riches" story. He went from being the son of a clerk to one of the most powerful men in Japan. He was also instrumental in the dismantling of the Shogunite which ended Japanese feudalism and opened the doors to the 19th Century.

Guided by the principles of Confusism, he garnered such respect that the simple act of refusing to be involved in the Meijin goverment was viewed as a threat by the goverment.

His rebellion got volunteers simply because of a failed plot to assassinate him.

Saigo was a very complex man and the very fact that a great deal of myths were created about him and his rebellion makes the task of studying him almost impossible.

To Ravina's credit he mentions myth and lore several times rather then presenting them as fact.

Overall the book could be labeled rather dry for details rather then being guided through a story.

I would label it a worthwhile addition to a library about the Samurai.

Good Insight into the True life of a Samurai.......2006-11-25

While a true fan of the Samurai movies may enjoy reading about the life and times of the last Samurai, those looking for a "real life" account of the Characters found in the "last Samurai movie" will be sorely disappointed. The first chapter starts out alright, but gets pretty dry with a great number of names, places, dates, and facts, all of which also read pretty foreign to the average reader. Its not too unlike trying to read the old testament, book of numbers or book of kings. However, a fan of politics will certainly appreciate it. The life of Saigo Takamori was one of a civil servent - imagine reading about the life and times of your postal carrier. However, it improves if you get throught the first 2 chapters.

Agenst all odds.......2006-03-08

The plot involved a man who is a sword fighter. His name is Saigo Takamori which is a Japanese name. He would fight his opponents with a wooden boken or Japanese practice sword when they would have a real sword. He would bring his dog to his battles. There is a statue of him in Japan. I liked this book because it was filled with action. Saigo would go matrix sometimes. The thing I did not like was it was too long. I recommend it to people who like to read for long periods of time because it felt like you were hooked. You had to see what was next.

The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Charles L. Yates
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Mark Ravina
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Aside from the Peninsula and Napoleon's 1807 campaign, Austrian troops played some part in every major campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. Unable to mobilize its population fully for both political and economic reasons, Austria recruited from territories as diverse as modern Belgium, the Czech Republic, central Romania and northern Italy. These soldiers fought on terrains as diverse as the Po valley and the Swiss mountains. This book traces the life and experiences of both the ordinary infantry and the veteran elite of the Grenadier battalions, covering everything from basic training and equipment, to the tactics and horror of the battlefield.

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interesting book.......2006-02-04

Good reference for those interested in armies of Napoleonic wars. Text does not include any information on uniforms, arms and equipment, since few volumes from the "Warrior" series cover this subject. (For this I would recommend companion volume from Osprey "MAA" series, but this very volume had been published in 80s and does not cover the Austrian regular infantry in full, unfortunately). I was a bit surprised to find on page 6th the Author's "discovery" that the ethnic Russians had served within the Austrian Army. This is, of course, a mistake, since "Ruthenes" (Galicians) are modern Ukrainians, not Russians

Informative, Authoritive, Well-Documented.......2000-07-19

The author has done an immense amount of research on the Austrian Army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, most of it archival. Here, within the constraints of the Osprey series, he has written an excellent volume that illustrates, both pictorially and in writing, a subject that is both interesting and vital to the collective understanding of the period.

The Austrian army was full of good troops and units. Generally, it was in the leadership category, especially the senior leadership, that hampered its operations. If led by generals of the caliber of the Archduke Charles, it could and did perform more than adequately, Charles defeating Napoleon in 1809 at Essling, the Emperor's first battlefield loss; if not, it was usually beaten. Interestingly, the Austrian Army's best performance of the period was probably when allied to the French in Russia. It was commanded and led by Prince Schwarzenberg, one of the better Austrian generals, and repeately defeated the Russians in 1812.

Here, though, is a highly detailed, informative volume that I would highly recommend to everyone who is interested in the period.

It should be noted that the author and I generally do not agree on several Napoleonic issues, and have clashed over differing opinions on the author's book on Marengo. This review is not influenced in any way by that difference of opinion.

This volume, however, is everything the other is not. This excellent tome is peppered with first hand accounts of Austrian performance and its bibliography is first rate and extrememly helpful. I would go as far as saying that this volume sets a new standard for the Osprey Warrior Series, and is favorable comparable to the excellent volumes in the series by Rene Chartrand, whom I believe has produced the best Osprey books so far.

This book is informative, interesting, well-written and very well-documented. If you have any interest in the period, it should be in your collection, whether or not the Austrian Army is your area of concern or interest. Without at least a working knowledge of the Austrian Army (properly the Kaiserlich-Konigliche Armee-the Imperial and Royal Army), you may come up short in your reading and understanding. The Archduke Charles was probably the best of the Allied generals, and the Austrians fought the French longer than any other European power, except the English, and provided more troops to the Coalitions.

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Schrecker reaches back in history to examine the roots of McCarthyism in the activity of Communists in the 1930s, as well as the response to that activity; not nearly enough people today recall that the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the forerunner to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Army hearings, received its mandate back in 1938. She reveals the dishonest practices of McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and other professional anticommunists, and how the media often played--wittingly or unwittingly--right into their hands. One Washington-based journalist of the time would later say, "McCarthy was a dream story. I wasn't off page one for four years."

But Schrecker commands attention most when she writes of the effects of the anticommunist movement on men and women like union activist Clinton Jencks, one of the first men to be prosecuted under the Taft-Hartley Act, and of its stifling effect of leftist politics, particularly within the civil rights movement. The longterm consequences of McCarthyism, especially its proof of the ease with which a democratic government can adopt methods of political repression, are felt in America to this day. Many Are the Crimes is not only excellent history, but a powerful cautionary tale that should be required reading for any participant in modern politics.

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Ellen Schrecker's history of the American anticommunist movement provides a much-needed objective perspective on one of the most troubling periods in twentieth-century politics. While she refuses to excuse the flaws of the American Communist party or its individual members and leaders, she is also bluntly honest about the systematic persecution they experienced at the hands of conservatives--and more than a few liberals.Schrecker reaches back in history to examine the roots of McCarthyism in the activity of Communists in the 1930s, as well as the response to that activity; not nearly enough people today recall that the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the forerunner to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Army hearings, received its mandate back in 1938. She reveals the dishonest practices of McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and other professional anticommunists, and how the media often played--wittingly or unwittingly--right into their hands. One Washington-based journalist of the time would later say, "McCarthy was a dream story. I wasn't off page one for four years."But Schrecker commands attention most when she writes of the effects of the anticommunist movement on men and women like union activist Clinton Jencks, one of the first men to be prosecuted under the Taft-Hartley Act, and of its stifling effect of leftist politics, particularly within the civil rights movement. The longterm consequences of McCarthyism, especially its proof of the ease with which a democratic government can adopt methods of political repression, are felt in America to this day. Many Are the Crimes is not only excellent history, but a powerful cautionary tale that should be required reading for any participant in modern politics.

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Great book.......2007-08-04

A must read for anyone wishing to get a fairly synthetic view of the McCarthy era. Other good books on the period exist, but this one is a very good place to start.

Excellent Account - Troubling To Read.......2007-05-08

In one of the more elegantly written academic histories Ellen Schrecker kicks over all the stones in her thorough and balanced examination of one of the worst periods of political repression in US History. Certainly sympathetic to the left, Schrecker nevertheless does not allow the American CP off the hook. To the contrary, she is open and detailed about discussing their shortcomings. On the other hand, the tremendous repression directed solely at the far left ended up decimating it in the United States. It no longer existed after McCarthyism, which, by the way, Schrecker reminds us actually started under Harry Truman. The net result of annihilating the far left in America was and has been that the "middle" moved to the right. And so here we are...

Highly recommended.

The Enemy is our Protectors .......2006-01-18

Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America by Ellen Schrecker is truly a seminal work; in American history carefully researched she proves the use of power by the few and the carefully orchestrated fear over the heart of the many maintains power in the hands of the elite minority. National culture of irrational trepidation meant living in a closed society in which liberties were sacrifice for the sack of a phony concern for National Security. The end result was McCarthyism, which predates Joe McCarthy and continued after he was gone. Ellen Schrecker carefully documents the key players Truman, Tom Clark, Eisenhower, and J. Edgar Hoover in this national shame that still haunts us today

NeoCommunist crap.......2005-11-11

Don't waste your time on this one, unless you're one of those who like history being written with the same clichés over and over... Harvard is really a liberal nest, just like Richard Pipes wrote in his memoir...

I come from France, where we have an excellent book about this era:
Jean-Paul Török. Pour en finir avec le "maccarthysme" (to finish with "mcacarthysm").

I wish there was such a book in the US.

Facts about Soviet Spying disproves this book.......2003-09-22

Ellen Schrecker repeats the tired myths that have made "McCarthyism" a bogeyman term.

But she relies on a version of history that has been dramatically disproven by the release of KGB files and decrypted Soviet cables (the Venona transcripts). The recent evidence released shows that American Communists actively assisted Soviet intelligence efforts on a larger scale than imagined, with over 300 Soviet agents active in the US Government during WWII and thereafter. Much spy recruiting at the time was done through Communist Party (CPUSA) networks. Evidence proves Alger Hiss was indeed a Communist and a Soviet spy, the most senior traitor in the US Government since Benedict Arnold; yet the Left defended him and defamed his accusers for 50 years. The same with the Rosenbergs - their guilt has now been confirmed by both Venona and KGB files.

Senator Joe McCarthy confronted government officials concealing communist involvement and excessively lax security with regards to Communists in sensitive U.S. Government posts. In many cases he was on target, with over 81 of the names he gave the Tydings committee resulting in resignations or movement of security risks. Given that over 200 of the spies uncovered in the Venona decrypts were never identified, we can only speculate as to the national security impact of removing Communists from key DoD and State Dept posts.

Arthur Herman, author of "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator," says that the accuracy of McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of debate," that they are "now accepted as fact." And The New York Post's Eric Fettmann has noted: "growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial - McCarthy was a lot closer to the truth about Communism than were his foes."

I would recomment Arthur Herman's book for a MUCH more balanced and realistic portrait of what McCarthy the man was and what "McCarthyism" really was: An attempt to grapple with the serious and real threat of Communist and Soviet infiltration into Government at a time when American soldiers were fighting and dying against Communist powers in Korea (54,000 dead). The effort had flaws but it was by no means illegitimate or evil.

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A riveting account of the devastating effects of chemical contamination on people in dozens of communities across America. Examines the political, economic, medical and environmental sides of the toxic contamination issue. Documents the growth of a grassroots movement to demonstrate how communities can take steps to effectively change their lives. Includes fifty photographs.

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