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A Jockey's Life
Dick Francis
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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A Jockey's Life - The Biography Of Lester Piggott
Dick Francis
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3I3CU

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Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood's most significant female players, well known in popular terms for films such as Point Break and Blue Steel, yet relatively unexplored in academia. Soundbites about women and guns and speculation about the role of ex-husband James Cameron ( Aliens, Titanic) in her career have often helped obscure rather than elucidate an understanding of her work. This collection explores how Bigelow can be seen to provide a point of intersection to a whole range of issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies and of the transformation of Hollywood into a post-classical cinema machine, with a particular emphasis on her most ambitious and controversial picture, Strange Days. Her place within new Hollywood is as a filmmaker that blurs genre conventions, reinscribes gender identites, and produces a breathless cinema of attractions.

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Musical Italy Revisited Monuments and Memorabilia: A Supplement to Guidebooks
Siegmund Levarie
Manufacturer: Macmillan co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J14BAK

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Musical Italy Revisited: Monuments and Memorabilia: A Supplement to Guidebooks
Siegmund Levarie
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Binding: Hardcover
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Very good, good new OCCs and adventures

Very good, good new OCCs and adventures

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The Palladium Rpg Book II: Old Ones (Fantasy Adventure, No 2)
Kevin Siembieda
Manufacturer: Palladium Books
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Very good, good new OCCs and adventures.......1999-09-02

This book is great because of the new OCCs the adventureful GM stuff. Old ones (Title) Is a nice twist to the book, showing and telling about "The Dreaded Old Ones."

Very good, good new OCCs and adventures.......1999-09-02

This book is great because of the new OCCs the adventureful GM stuff. Old ones (Title) Is a nice twist to the book, showing and telling about "The Dreaded Old Ones."

Great palladium supplement!.......1997-10-14

The Old Ones is important since it details the Kingdom of Timiro. All towns and cities are presented with maps and descriptions. The maps are very low quality (mostly squares in patterns) but it is very handy anyways. The adventures/campaigns are mostly dungeon crawling. I like it, and wouldn't hesitate to buy it...

The Palladium Rpg Book II: Old Ones (Fantasy Adventure, No 2)

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The Palladium Rpg Book II: Old Ones (Fantasy Adventure, No 2)

Manufacturer: Palladium Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GYD0W0

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This third edition of the classic "how-to" guide incorporates recent changes in policies and procedures of the NIH, with particular emphasis on the role of the Internet in the research proposal process. Completely revised and updated, it reveals the secrets of success used by seasoned investigators, and directs the reader through the maze of NIH bureaucracies. In addition to providing a detailed overview of the entire review process, the book also includes hundreds of tips on how to enhance proposals, excerpts from real proposals, and extensive Internet references. This book is essential to all scientists involved in the grant writing process.

Key Features:
* Considers the reviewer's perspective
* Detailed presentation of the review process
* All sections of the R01 proposal are reviewed
* Hundreds of tips to enhance proposals
* Includes the many recent changes in NIH policies
* Includes many excerpts from real proposals
* Provides extensive Internet references

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* Increased competitiveness
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* Increased award rates
* Uses the system to advantage
* Reveals strategies used by the "old pros"

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Best book for NIH style grants.......2007-05-27

"Research Proposals" is the best book I have found for teaching and/or writing research grants aimed at an NIH audience or related. I have used it for 10 years now in a grant writing class for graduate students and still take the book down and look over certain chapters before sitting down to write my own grants. The book is clearly organized into chapters dealing with each section of the grant and gives very solid and clear advise on the purpose of each section and ways to make each section strong and relate to the others. Later editions of the book have added to this basic information with more details on different types of grants and the grant process. This latest version is further strengthened with good examples. More such examples would further enrich the use of this book. Overall, it gives a perfect balance of depth, yet each chapter is short enough you can go through it quickly as a refresher and to help maintain your focus while writing. After reviewing about a dozen other titles in this area the Ogden book emerges as my clear favorite for teaching a grants class or for writing my grants.

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Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.

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touching and hilarious.......2007-05-30

This book is like Canada Dry Ginger Ale- dry, crisp, and refreshing. Beverley Nichols was a very arch and witty writer! A combination of Jerome K. Jerome and May Sarton. This book is about his cats, his friends, and his garden. There are some very funny parts and some very sad parts. Some are almost too sad to read, but that is the way it usually is with excellent books like this.

A Must for Fans.......2006-10-31

Sunlight on the Lawn is the third volume in the Merry Hall trilogy by Beverley Nichols. Where the first volume focused on the garden at Merry Hall and the second focused on the house, this volume focuses on the community, providing a humorous glimpse into English village life in the 1950's. Gardeners and fans of Mr. Nichols' spendthrift ways will be happy to know that large-scale projects continue apace in the author's garden.

It is a mistake to read the foreword first - it casts an elegiac tone over the rest of the book. Save it for the end. Also putting a bit of a damper on things is the fact that we realize in this book that Our Beverley is something of a coward - he touches so lightly on the death of one of the characters (real people - this is memoir, not fiction) that the reader is left gasping, and spends the rest of the book wondering if he has mis-read. For these reasons I have knocked one star off of my rating for this book.

Having said that, if you have already read and enjoyed the first two volumes, you will be eager to spend more time in the company of this author, and see what his friends and neighbors are getting up to. Mr. Nichols is a keen observer of people, and with his deliciously dry wit (and unsparing of himself) he turns everyday situations and relationships into real entertainment.

Highlights of the book include the escalating but ever "civil" fued between Our Rose and Miss Emily, and how Bob helps extricate Miss Mint from a very sticky situation involving the tenants from hell.

I'm off to order more books by Mr. Nichols!

Wonderful Read.......2006-02-25

Having read Trilogy1 and 2 of this series, I just had to get the third. It did not disappoint at all. A continuance of Beverley Nichols life with his beloved garden, and lifes ups and downs.Recommended reading.

Witty and Wonderful.......2001-08-16

Beverley Nichols had a rare talent. His writing is witty and humane and perfect for relieving the stress of life lived in the modern world. When you read this book you will be saddened that only two others of his sixty odd minor masterpieces are still in print. Buy this book if you love gardens, or old houses or simply reading well written stories, some of which are laugh out loud funny. Beverley Nichols writes like Oscar Wilde, except his subject is gardening and old houses and the curious people who dwell in them.

Bittersweet ending..........2001-01-07

Some readers of Beverly Nichol's books have found his writing hilarious, but I do not. I find him amusing, and have read the trilogy plus his GREEN GROWS THE CITY because they sustained my interest, but he is not P.G. Wodehouse or John Mortimer for that matter.

I cannot judge from Nichols books whether or not he had a particularly deep understanding of human nature. From time to time, he allowed himself to be drawn into odd misadventures with eccentric others, and he certainly had his conflicts with busy-body females, and as often as not he had charming female friends. His best friend in the world seemed to be Gaskin, his 'man' and his cats.

The central theme of MERRY HALL, the first book in his trilogy, is the restoration of the grounds and gardens at his old Georgian Estate. LAUGHTER ON THE STAIRS covered the renovation of Merry Hall--the Georgian Manor house. His third book, SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN, has people as it's focus--those who inhabited the area in and around Merry Hall when Nichols lived there in the late forties and fifties. First, there is the sad departure of Oldfield whose gardening days come to an abrupt end. Then, there are various episodes involving the ever meddling Rose, tea with Miss Mint, fractious neighbors, overgrown fields, and wells without water.

As always, in a book by Beverly Nichols, there are cats. Nichols had a great love of black cats, and the cats often play a role in one of his tales. Most of the time the story is funny, but sometimes a cat meets a sad end. If you are a cat fancier, you may find his cat exploits familiar and amusing. This is a nice book for bedtime reading and a fitting end to the series.

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SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN
Beverley Nichols
Manufacturer: Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HW9GPQ

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Sunlight on the Lawn
NICHOLS BEVERLEY
Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJXN6U

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Sunlight on the Lawn
Beverly Nichols
Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton and Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0000CJIDC

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Sunlight On The Lawn
Nichols Beverley
Manufacturer: E P Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDG3V2

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Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility.

"Herzfeld's book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutional control, symbols and their power, and social conflict. . . . Thoughtful and challenging."—Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist

Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy

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Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
Michael Herzfeld
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPQZCI

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This book discusses the utilization of water conservation-oriented rates (WCORs) to foster both sustainability of water provision and environmental stewardship, especially during periods of drought. WCORs are designed to promote conservation through such rate mechanisms as excess surcharges (ES), drought demand rates (DDR), inclining block rates (IBR), seasonal rates (SR), and time-of-use rates (TOU), and in a manner that is sensitive to regional, physical, and population/user characteristics. This report looked at statesÂ' experiences with water conservation-oriented rates under both normal and drought conditions, and showed how states and utilities have coped with the social and economic implications of their implementation.

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