Libya President Muammar Muhammad Al-Gaddafi (World Political Leaders Library)

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Read this before you settle down with anyone!!!.......2002-01-22

This story was so true to life. I hope women read this before they make a lifelong commitment to anyone. There all all kinds of warning signs that the main character should have seen. Hopefully readers will see them and it will keep someone else from living the same type life. I cried when the character couldn't and I just wanted to help her in some way. You really have to read this one!

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39 songs, including: All for Love * Almost Paradise * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Take My Breath Away * Tears in Heaven * When I Fall in Love * A Whole New World.

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96. Love Songs from the Movies

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This folio features 36 love songs from movies including The Three Musketeers, Endless Love, Out of Africa, Top Gun, Sleepless in Seattle, Love Story, Romeo and Juliet, The Godfather, and many more!

Love Songs from the Movies (Chord Songbook)

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Love Songs from the Movies (Chord Songbook)

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ASIN: 0711983313

Still for sale: love songs and prostitutes from La Traviata to Moulin Rouge.(Critical Essay): An article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)

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Still for sale: love songs and prostitutes from La Traviata to Moulin Rouge.(Critical Essay): An article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Grace Kehler
Manufacturer: University of Manitoba, Mosaic
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Title: Still for sale: love songs and prostitutes from La Traviata to Moulin Rouge.(Critical Essay)
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Publication: Mosaic (Winnipeg) (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2005
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Volume: 38 Issue: 2 Page: 145(18)

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Love Songs from the Movies
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Love Songs from the Movies
101 Strings Orchestr Cdmada 50296
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E-z Chart System Baritone Uke Chords
WM SMITH
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ASIN: B000TCDF4C

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18 PP 1964 6X9 UKE BOOK

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Mel Bay Uke Chord Chart
William Bay
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This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tunes for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, minor, diminished, and augmented, with relative minor I, IV, and V7 chords also shown. In addition, the chart includes a ukulele fingerboard with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. Unfolds to 17.5" by 11.75".

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Very nice........2005-01-29

This book is very nice, with some very good patterns. The only thing I don't like about the book is that it uses real feathers for the birds. For a book that's ecologicaly minded, that seems a bit ironic. For my projects I used feathers I made from a fringed 'tube' of matching fabric with pipe cleaners for the core.

The animals included are:
Chinese River Dolphin - A very nice and easy pattern.
Spotted Owl - A decent pattern. I used the wings from the Macaw for the wings here, since this is a feather pattern.
African Elephant - A GREAT pattern that I really loved.
American Alligator - Another great find! I adored this one.
Scarlet Macaw - Once again the use of real feathers bogs this otherwise nice pattern down.
Loggerhead Turtle - I can't wait to try and make this quilted turtle. Stuffed right he'd make a good pillow.
Panda - Not the best panda I've ever since, I want to alter this pattern.
Orangutan - The face here is really nice.
Bald Eagle - Another feather pattern. Other then that, it's a fantastic pattern.
Kangaroo & Joey - Very nice. The joey seems just a hair too large, however.
Wolf - Once more, a very nice pattern.
I don't plan on making the Windsock, House Banner, Pillow or Quilt, but they have some nice aplique designs.

All in all I was very pleased with this book. Like all of Jodie Davis' work the instructions are clear, easy, and well thought out. If you plan on making animals, I recommend this book, along with Stuffed Animals and All the Trimmings.

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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World.

These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives.

Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how?

In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.

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Shoulda/Coulda/Woulda.......2005-12-10

This book has lots of interesting little tidbits, but it falls way short of its promise. In a nutshell, Thackara rushes WAY too quickly to grind a variety of axes, and as a result skips over the basic drivers of the world's situations.

At best he's clever, but at worst he's completely clueless about some of the subjects he uses as "proof" of his claims. For example, consider the passage (p70) "proving" that the world does not need additional fiber optic bandwidth:

"Only a tiny fraction of these costly fibers are currently 'lit'--as little as 3 percent by some estimates."

This kind of thing is famous within the fiber optic industry as a flag flown by the clueless. Even though many fibers are unlit, this does nothing to alleviate the very real problems of fiber exhaust on the main long-haul routes. Moreover, where high wavelength-count Wavelength Division Multiplexing is available, it is much more economic to run traffic over a single pair of fibers in the form of additional wavelengths (rather than mutliple separate fibers), to fully leverage optical amplification.

After you've seen enough ramrods like this in the book, you tend to doubt some of his more basic points.

Come to think of it, what is that point? That growth is "bad" and should stop? OK, agreed. But unless the real impact and long-term costs are somehow "felt" by designers, merely attempting to shame the world into designing better and getting his message "into our heads" is going to be like pissing in the wind.

This is why Bruce Sterling's "Shaping Things" is a far better book. Sterling "gets" that most designers are not in a position to arbitrarily add costs to their own projects, no matter how important the consequences to world may be. Rather, he points to the notion of a "Spime" which may ultimately be a key towards "closing the loop" on the complete lifecycle of a product or design.

But, there are a number of epigrammatic phrases and interesting points that are made. So if you're interested in this book wait for the trade paperback to come out.

Technology or people?.......2005-08-03

In the Bubble

This is a very intelligent book written by a remarkable designer who is fascinated by the impact of technology on our lives. The author is neither a technophobe, nor a technophile. Techno wise would be a better description. The title of the book comes from an expression used by air traffic controllers when there are in the flow and in control of all the surrounding instruments.

Throughout the 10 chapters which cover as many aspects of, or approaches to technology, John Thackara shows a constant capacity to think "out of the box" about our complex artefacts and technical prosthesis. He never looses sight of what should be the centre of progress, namely the user.

His concern is clearly expressed in every angle from which he develops his observation. Using both the microscope and the macroscope, under criteria such as lightness, conviviality, smartness or flow, he maintains the interest of the reader through a fascinating journey of increased awareness into our everyday experiences.

If all designers and producers where able to listen to people as he does, we would indeed feel the full benefits of a more humane technology. It is not surprising that "Doors of Perception" where John gets people to share many intuitions reflected in the book, is a yearly conference held at the crossroad of different cultures.

This book is an absolute must for all of us who are deeply frustrated by an ever more complex world which so often fails to bring this feeling of being "in the Bubble" and yet who cannot put our fingers on how to change it for the better.

Perhaps the most important lesson learned is that most of those frustrations are not so much caused by the perversity of our fellow citizen, experts and leaders, than by initial flaws in the design of those systems and processes which we accept as normal and unavoidable.

The good news of this very positive book is that, if we put ourselves in trouble by bad design, the damage can be easily repaired by better design. This is of course a lot easier than to expect people to abandon their legitimate desire to obtain maximum benefits from our social tools.

This is the most challenging, thought-provoking and convincing of all the recent publications and "best sellers" about our technological civilization that this reviewer has read.

In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

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In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
John Thackara
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Claudel: Rodin's greatest student --.......2005-10-31

-- and greatest teacher.

Mme. Paris has written a brief but affectionate, even zealous book on the life and career of Camille Claudel. It summarizes her upbringing in a bougeois but emotionally austere houshold. Perhaps she was never encouraged in her art. At least she was never actively discouraged, and did find some creative kinship in her brother Paul.

Her rise was meteoric. By her twenties, she was producing major work of remarkable expressiveness. Art was a man's world then. With its physical demands of stone and foundry work, sculpture was considered the most masculine among arts. Still, Boucher and then Rodin took her on as student and muse. According to Mme. Paris, Rodin's style owes much to Claudel - perhaps acknowledged in his "Eternal Idol," where the male figure kneels in obeisance and passion before the female.

The passion was real. Claudel lived with Rodin for more than a decade, and it has been claimed that his art stultified when she left him. Rodin remained fond of her until he died, but her leaving may have marked the start of Claudel's tragedy. Her mind gradually turned against itself. Irrational fears took command of her life, and her ability to tend her own needs slowly failed. About age forty, she was committed to an asylum for the insane. She never recovered, and died after more than thirty years of custody. Part of this book reproduces the letters from her years of confinement, and correspondence relating to her care.

The small body of work she left documents that tragedy. There's no sign in it of her illness, but her ouvre shows what she was and hints at what she could have become. Her illness stole her talent, not only from herself, but from the world as well.

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Outstanding Biography About a Great 19th-Century Scuptor
Life.....If You Could Call It That!
Brilliant and fascinating
An excellent and intimate read!
"Camille Claudel-A Life" Odile A-Clause

Camille Claudel: A Life
Odile Ayral-Clause
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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ASIN: 0810940779

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Until now, the 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864- 1943) may have been best known for her much-romanticized relationship with sculptor Auguste Rodin, who has been erroneously portrayed as abandoning the fragile Claudel to a nervous breakdown. But this first fully researched biography of Claudel abolishes the myths attached to her life and asserts the brilliance of her art.

Drawing upon ample unpublished material, including family photographs, private letters, and medical records, Odile Ayral-Clause reveals the truth about Claudel's affair with Rodin and about her confinement and death in a mental asylum. Using Claudel's own words, she describes the crushing reproofs and prejudices the sculptor confronted — from her family, from society, from the male-dominated art world. For art historians and feminists, such issues are as relevant today as they were in fin-de-siècle Paris.

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Outstanding Biography About a Great 19th-Century Scuptor.......2005-10-25

I read this book last year after seeing the last half of the Isabelle Adjani/Gerard Depardue film on television. The film didn't give Claudel her due. She was a very tough minded woman trying to make her mark in the intensely competitive and 99.99 percent male French nineteenth-century art world. Aside from that her chosen (from childhood) form of expression was sculpture, considered to be purely masculine and financially extremely risky. She was barred from the best art school, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, because of her gender. Lesser schools accepted female students but charged them higher fees. At age seventeen Claudel began her studies at the Academie Colarossi, a new and equitable institution. Eventually she became Rodin's student and lover. When it became clear that Rodin would never leave his long-time partner and mother of his son in order to marry her, Claudel left him.

She lived and worked under enormous pressure -- not the least of which came from her mother and sister, very conventional and rather dreary middle-class people. No doubt Claudel was eccentric and nervous because of the difficulties of her life, but she was not insane. Her mother had her committed to a mental hospital after her father died and was no longer able to protect her. Claudel was not yet forty. She never sculpted again. Claudel died a pauper at seventy-nine after living the last half of her life with the insane and other inconvenient people. Her mother and sister never visited her. Her brother visited her two or three times during her incarceration.

Claudel was a genius. For a century Rodin's name overshadowed hers, but since a major retrospective at the Musee Rodin in 1984 and important exhibitions in the U.S. her work is known all over the world. Many of her pieces can be seen at the Musee Rodin in Paris.

Ayral-Clause's biography of Camille Claudel is a great gift to English speaking readers. It is deeply researched, beautifully written, and is enhanced with many photographs of Claudel, her milieu and her sculptures. I am very glad I read it.

Life.....If You Could Call It That!.......2004-10-27

Camille Claudel was an amazing Parisian sculptress who lived far before time was good to her and this biography does her justice...finally!

Born in 1864, Camille Claudel grew up with an ambition un-worthy of her sexual status. She held within her being an artistic fire that was only extinguished by supposed madness. I have the feeling that had this woman been alive today her art and her spirit would thrive. But during the 19th century women were still meant to be barefoot and pregnant with no ambition other than being a wife and mother. Claudel struggled to represent her art and her spirit was destroyed by those she loved the most. She fought against a mother who wanted to keep her quiet and reserved, she defied her brother's idealistic religious beliefs and she competed against the world renowned artiste, Auguste Rodin. Despite the odds against her she created many works of pure and exquisite beauty proving that women could surpass men if given a chance. But because of her spirited talent she was eventually relegated to a hospital for the insane due to her inability to deal with the pressures of a love not returned (with Rodin), financial ruin and a lack of respect for her hard honed works.

Camille Claudel captured the struggles of love, aging and sexism in her famous sculptures: Jeune Fille a la Gerbe (1887), Giganti (1886), Vertumme et Pomone (1905), La Valse (1905), Clotho (1893), L'Implorante (1894-1905) and the magnificent L'Age mur (1902). Her abilities were innate but fine tuned through her affiliation with Auguste Rodin. In this relationship Camille flourished at first, guided under the wing of a master (24 years her senior), but she soon succumbed to his jealous competitiveness and his inability to commit fully to her love. Comparing the two sculptors one finds Claudel to be the true master because she refines lines that Rodin tends to leave unbalanced. Their competitive natures are apparent in the similarities of ideas but in my opinion Claudel outshines her "mentor." Claudel created sculptures from many mediums some plaster, some clay, many marble and even onyx, jade and bronze as well as dabbling in other art forms such as charcoals and portrait paintings. Many of Claudel's best works remain lost due to her internment and her loss of ability to control her own work. She also destroyed many of her own pieces in her angry despair believing them to be under jeopardy of being stolen by "Rodin and his gang." Thankfully the art world has managed to retain most of her great pieces and they currently reside in (of all places) the Rodin Museum in Paris.

This biography is a wonderful read being both interesting and factual and additionally very well written by Odile Ayral-Clause. Camille Claudel lived a tragic life full of ups and downs eventually ending in complete despair. Her life is interesting because she was one of the forerunners for women's rights in that she refused to be dominated by male society and ferociously attacked anyone who attempted to destroy her dreams, unfortunately in 19th century Paris her actions labeled her insane, remember a woman who chose to wear pants was considered a criminal unless they obtained special permission from the police to do so and it was a popular thought at the time that talented women possessed genitalia very similar to men! I think society was more insane than Miss Claudel and I will forever wonder what she could have contributed had she been born in this century. The ending of this woman's tale is heartbreaking in itself but every page in between provides an eye-opening experience of what it must have been like to be an artistic woman during an age controlled by men.

Brilliant and fascinating.......2004-01-04

This book is the best, most meaningful work on Camille Claudel that I have read thus far. I highly recommend it as an accessible, informative, fascinating work that illuminates the life of one of the finest sculptors in France. Odile Ayral-Clause tells the truth, with unflinching honesty, drawing upon new documents that only came available in September 2000. She offers the details that make this woman's life come real for the reader.

An excellent and intimate read!.......2003-02-05

Odile Ayral-Clause's work is excellent! I read the book from cover to cover last year and as I am now planning a trip to Paris this Spring, I am rereading the book again and enjoying it even more!

A.C. captures so well the spirit of the woman, her social environment, and the city of Paris.

Thank you for bringing this beautiful artist to life!

"Camille Claudel-A Life" Odile A-Clause.......2002-12-02

I received "Camille Claudel-A Life" for my birthday this month.
I began reading it at noon and completed it by 4 pm. I could or nor would I put it down so to speak. The book is well written, excellent sources, index, bibliography. Unfortunately, the photo's are not of good quality but passable considering there are any left and the abuse of many photo's and her own work in itself which have vanished! I cannot blame the photographer who did his best! That in itself would be a photographer's dream to compile photoghraphs of her work and publish them as a book of photography of her work and places she lived.
I have studied Camille for years and sat through a relatively good film, "Camille Claudel" which made Rodin appear an outright monster and she a victim to the max. In analyzing the aforementioned I felt something was indeed amiss. In reading the book many if all of my questions were answered and I was delighted with the writers sensitivity and reality of what may have transpired. When I lived in Paris, by accident, I was standing outside of herlast atelier's before she was committed to an asylum by her family. This was 4 years ago and in asking questions about her at numerous bookshops the Sorbonne and communicating with noted people no one who knew more than I did about her! No one has completed such an intelligent, well documented and researched book as Odile A-Clause. Thank you, Ms. Clause, Thank You

Camille - The Life Of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse And Mistress

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Camille - The Life Of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse And Mistress
Reine-marie; Translated from the French by Tuck, Liliane Emery Paris
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Camille Claudel: A Life
Odile Ayral-Clause
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams, Inc
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Camille Claudel: A Life (Book Club)
Odile Ayral-Clause
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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ASIN: 0810990768

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Camille the Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse and Mistress

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CAMILLE, THE LIFE OF CAMILLE CLAUDEL
Reine-Marie Paris
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ASIN: B000GRB998

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Could we have a translation for the non-equestrian?.......1998-08-22

Hyland analyses what is known of Roman cavalry in a manner that will tell the expert or middling rider a lot, but she needed more summary for the non-equestrian to make this valuable to her supposed target audience: the historian who knows little about horses, and therefor dismisses their role. She goes over the cavalry display in Arrian in such great detail that, except for the javelin part, your drill team could set it up. In the end, she tells us, yes, the Romans could do just what Arrian describes: wow, big surprise. Only the crown-of-creationists, to whom all previous cultures must be inferior in all matters including horsemanship, would have thought otherwise; you know, the sort of people who say, "Even though this ancient authority says they did such and such, of course they could not have, being too crude." This book is most useful for its description of the construction details and use of reconstructed Roman tack, when one feels balanced or overbalanced in which actions, and that sort of thing. I also dislike her using her own books so often as an authoritative reference: I'd like to know where she got her ideas or information originally. Her Medieval Warhorse books are much better.

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This innovative study posits that myths in general, and Greek theogonic myth in particular, have a latent meaning that is responsible both for the emotional energy inherent in myths, and for the special attraction they have even to those who no longer believe in their literal meaning. Caldwell describes, in clear and comprehensible language, aspects of psychoanalytic theory relevant to the understanding of Greek myth, implementing a psychoanalytic methodology to interpret the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in Hesiod's Theogony. In reassessing this work, which tells the story of the world's beginning from unbounded Chaos to the defeat of the Titans, Caldwell addresses several unexplained problems-- why does the world begin with the spontaneous emergence of four uncaused entities, and why in this particular order? Why does Ouranos prevent his children from being born by confining them in their mother's body? Why is Ouranos castrated by his son, and why is Aphrodite born from the severed genitals? Why is it always the youngest son who overthrows his father, the sky-god, and what is the logic of the steps taken by Zeus to prevent the same thing happening to him? Presenting a new definition and analyses of the psychological functions in myth, this new study should appeal to a wide range of classicists, teachers and students of mythology, and those interested in the application of psychoanalytic methods to literature.

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Cool for mythology fans.......1999-01-24

This book was required reading for a college class I took given by Caldwell. I thought it was great, especially if you don't have any background in psychology. Hesiod's Theogony is a good reference for some of the stories, but it's not a requirement. Fans of Greek myth will enjoy the deconstructions and parallels in other myths. Caldwell's class was one of my favorite in college.

The Origin of the Gods : A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth

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The Origin of the Gods : A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth
Richard S. Caldwell
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a sustainable future [A book review from: Environmental Science and Policy]
R. Bawden
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR894K

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Science and Policy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a Sustainable Future [A book review from: Journal of Environmental Management]

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Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a Sustainable Future [A book review from: Journal of Environmental Management]
S. Daniels
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PDTYFY

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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