Letters To His Son, 1753-54, 1756-58

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In a new era of peace, Nicaragua is being re-discovered for its world-class resorts, colonial cities where time stood still, its artisans, untouched rain forest, the world's most spectacular volcano park, and much more. Find out about all the attractions, along with accommodations, how to get around, where the bargains are, and how to get the most out of your trip. Hundreds of value-minded tips make this the premier practical guide to this little-known country, as well as a valuable reference source.

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Don't waste your time with this one.......2000-03-01

As an anthropologist working in Nicaragua, I found this book not only inaccurate in many regards, but offensive. To portray Nicaragua as a country "untouched" by change in which "time stood still" is ridiculous, especially given Nicaragua's political history and its contemporary linkages to structures of global finance such as the IMF and World Bank. If you want to visit Nicaragua, there are scores of books that offer a far superior understanding of Nicaraguan history and culture and Lonely Planet gives far more practical info for travelers in their Central America guide.

Fine as a suppliment -- but unexpectedly lacking........1999-07-23

Sorry to say, but living in Nicaragua convinces me that this book is fine as a suppliment, but don't rely upon it as your main guide. I feel Mr. Glassman has missed the mark and his opportunity. Its a good effort for a non-major travel guide, but I always had to refer back to Lonely Planet and the rough guide for reassurance.

A very non-specific book........1999-07-12

I used this book to travel through Nicaragua and found the information provided, or lack there of, to be very dissapointing. The book is full of useless chatter while giving no specifics such as phone numbers, exact directions, or prices. Save your money and buy the lonely planet book.

Well worth your money; comprehensive and fun to read.......1999-04-06

Finally,a book about Nicaragua that makes you want to visit the country, not avoid it. (Fodor could not have done it better). As a first-generation U.S. born Nicaraguënse,I have visited Nicaragua 8 times. Get it, you won't regret it.

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This unique study offers a comprehensive and invaluable account of television from the perspective of the programs themselves. From I Love Lucy to The Simpsons, from The Twilight Zone to The X Files, from the moon landing to the events of September 11, the book chronicles some of the most fascinating and influential shows and global events ever to hit the small screen. Each entry will offer a basic guide to the history of the show, its textual and thematic context, and its critical and popular reception, while also explaining and frequently reconsidering ways in which it may have been analyzed in the past.

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I bought this book used for $1.50 and regret it

A Blast From the Past.

A lighthearted, fun-to-look at book

If you were born in the 50's or early 60's it's a must have!

This book really brings back memories

Do You Remember TV?: The Book That Takes You Back
Michael Gitter , and Erika Glazer
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: B000IFS0BS

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I bought this book used for $1.50 and regret it.......2005-07-20

First, the content is not well-organized. TV programs and TV memories are generational, so it doesn't make sense to mix images from the 50s-90s together.

Second, the photographs have little impact. The book itself is rather small, and some pages contain clusters of small photos that compete for your attention.

Third, there is little interesting commentary. A good nostalgia book should describe how pop culture and society influenced each other.

This little book doesn't begin to do justice to the most powerful medium of our age.

A Blast From the Past........2003-02-17

I wasn't born in the 50s or 60s but I remembered about 3/4th's of the shows, commercials, jingles, names and other stuff found in this book. It was a nice little stroll down memory lane and a refreshing blast from the past. That's basically why this book was created: to give readers (and television viewers) a pleasant jaunt down memory lane in television land. You won't find much tv trivia here (though there are a few nuggets scattered throughout the pages), but what you will find are a lot of glossy photos, memorable phrases, and a wave of nostalgia. Great gift for any lover of television or student of popular culture.

A lighthearted, fun-to-look at book.......1999-08-26

This is a wonderful little book for anyone who likes TV, or even someone who doesn't. The cute, colorful design includes great pictures and a pop-art feel, and includes random photos and snippets of trivia from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," "Gilligan's Island," "All in the Family," and dozens and dozens more. It even includes pages devoted to classic commercials and news broadcasters, and classic news moments. A great, great book for families to look at together and remember.

If you were born in the 50's or early 60's it's a must have!.......1999-06-29

This book was the HIT of the latest 40th birthday party that I attended! What a delightful and refreshing walk down memory lane! You must purchase this book for all of your friends who were born in the 50's and early 60's. Do you remember PSSSSSST? This book did not forget a thing! What about green shag carpet? Thanks for the laughs and the memories!

This book really brings back memories.......1999-05-25

It is amazing. These guys really have their finger on the pulse of what I remember from my childhood. I think we must have been at home watching the same programs. I don't have the first book, but I surely recommend this one !!!

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Do You Remember Tv ?

Manufacturer: chronicle books / barnes and noble
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0760761574

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the book that takes you back.

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Textbook of American square dancing
Les Gotcher
Manufacturer: Les Gotcher Enterprises
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006AXDQ2

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Invaluable Guidance to Prudent Growth and Real Achievement

Nothing New

Very good book - down to earth examples

Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company
Jon R. Katzenbach
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812929233
Release Date: 1997-06-10

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This updated paperback edition offers a real blueprint for how to deal with the dramatic change in today's marketplace. An added feature, "Real Change Leader's Handbook for Action, " contains an assessment guide, ideas, checklists, and charts to help implement change.

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Invaluable Guidance to Prudent Growth and Real Achievement.......2001-03-17

There are several reasons why I think this is one of the most important business books I have read in recent years. Here are three. First, it is the best single-source I have as yet encountered which prescribes and explains a cohesive program by which create growth and high performance in an organization. Also, this program allows for all manner of adjustments and modifications to accommodate the specific, sometimes unique needs and interests of any organization. Finally, it is extraordinarily well-written. In fact, this edition combines two books in one volume because the original version has since been expanded to include "The RCL's Handbook for Action."

To gather the information they needed, Katzenbach and his associates at McKinsey & Company (the "RCL Team") examined more than 30 different change situations and interviewed more than 150 change leaders. In the Introduction, they discuss seven common characteristics among the RCLs and then cite three shared beliefs:

1. "Tough standards of performance, but not just financial performance; customer value and workforce rewards are important as well.

2. "A set of democratic principles that tap the creative power inherent in every person; but they also enforce consequence management, believing they can truly empower people only by requiring results in return.

3. "The essence of self-governance is joint accountability (among leaders and constituents alike) for creating new opportunity; the basic approach is open dialogue and interaction to resolve conflicts by working to obtain the best contributions from multiple points of view."

The material is organized within three Parts: People-Intensive Change, Engaging the Organization, and Leadership Capacity and Growth. Throughout the book, the reader is provided with immensely informative as well as convenient charts (eg "Differences Between `Good Managers' and RCLs) which feature key points. I have already noted "The Real Change Leader's Handbook for Action" (pages 341-391 in the softbound edition) which, in effect, gives each reader a template as well as a frame-of-reference to implement whichever combination of concepts, strategics, and tactics is most appropriate. The "Handbook" offers comments, suggestions, checklists and frameworks "for getting started in areas where change leadership help is needed."

For me, one of the book's greatest values is derived from its response to the question, "What distinguishes a real change leader from traditional managers?" The answer may in some ways surprise you, as it did me. For example, "Real change leaders do not care if the change effort is fast or slow, empowered or controlled, one-time or recurring, cultural or engineered -- or all of the above. They only care that it is people-intensive, and performance oriented....Simply put, real change leaders learn how to survive and win in the delta state, while traditional managers can only survive in the current state or the future state." The real change leader is committed to delivering results beyond the bottom line and instilling a working vision in the hearts and minds of associates while doing whatever is the right thing to do. They help others to perform above expectations (especially their own), constantly nourishing relations with customers while developing and applying the skills needed to remain flexible. Over time, they achieve results with a no-excuses mindset.

If you share my high regard for this book, I urge you to check out O'Toole's Leading Change and Hamel's Leading the Revolution as well as Buckingham and Coffman's First, Break All the Rules.

Nothing New.......2000-02-15

Reading the introduction, one is promised that the McKinsey team has hit upon a totally different type of leader: a real change leader (RCL). In reality, this book does not break any new ground. To be frank, much of the book concerns the difference between regular middle managers and RCLs. This can easily be rephrased as the difference between leaders and managers, a territory pioneered and well worn by Warren Bennis. Katzenbach does not add much to Bennis's past work. I agree that courage, clarity of vision, and risking failure are the heart of good leadership, but it is also nothing new. What is good about this book is two things: 1) It concerns middle managers and it is nice to read about people other than top managemers 2) The examples are good and should be helpful to any mid-level change leader. Otherwise, this one is skippable.

Very good book - down to earth examples.......1998-10-13

This is a very good book about the practical issues of Change Management. You should read it together with Smith's "Taking Charge of Change". These two books will give you advise about the "how to" side of Change Management. Highly recommended.

REAL CHANGE LEADERS: HOW YOU CAN CREATE GROWTH AND HIGH PERFORMANCE AT YOUR COMPANY.

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REAL CHANGE LEADERS: HOW YOU CAN CREATE GROWTH AND HIGH PERFORMANCE AT YOUR COMPANY.
Jon R et al. Katzenback
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Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance At Your Company
Jon R. Katzenbach
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An amazing book about God's never-ending forgiveness.

entertaining, heartwarming, and engaging

This book changed my life!

Making It Real--Bringing It Home

What an uplifting story.

70 x 7 and Beyond: Mystery of the Second Chance
Monty Christensen , and Roberta L. Kehle
Manufacturer: Prison Impact Ministries
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The Merriam- Webster Dictionary: Mass- Market Paperback (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

ASIN: 0961895403

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An amazing book about God's never-ending forgiveness........2007-03-12

I have to admit, I did not start reading this book voluntarily. However, once I began, it was so good that I finished it a day sooner than I needed to have it finished. I found the story to be very interesting for a few different reasons.
First, I have lived in Montana for nearly all of my life, and I have been to many of the places mentioned in this book. I have even been inside the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, where Monty served some time. Because of this, I found that it was a little easier for me to connect with the story.
Second, I am a Christian and thus was able to connect even better. It was very interesting reading about Monty's struggles with his faith and his repeated backslides. The book even gave me some information that I think will help with my own Christian walk.
For these reasons, and other more minor reasons, I really enjoyed reading this book. I cannot stress enough how true and how important its message of God's unfailing forgiveness is.

Overall, I did not find anything in this book that I would call a problem. It is a true story told from the heart with no motive other that to tell of God's forgiveness. It is very riveting and I highly recommend this book, especially to those who are or have been involved with drugs or are or have been in jail, as well as those with family members or friends in jail. As other reviewers have mentioned, this book can be very helpful in such situations. Please, if you are in such a situation, get this book and read it. It might change your life for the better.

entertaining, heartwarming, and engaging.......2005-05-23

Seventy Times Seven is a great book. The fact that it is a true story makes even better than if you thought it was realistic fiction. It is a great story about how the author, Monty, repeatedly makes horrible mistakes, trusts God to get him out of the consequences, and then turns his back on God again. The point of the story is to show us that no matter how bad we are, no matter how horrible the things are that we have done, God is waiting and willing to forgive us and to give us better lives. He finally gave in and decided to stay with God in the end and obviously he doesn't spend his time in jail or prison any more (unless preaching their) but instead in churches and such places to teach people that they can be forgiven for their mistakes and change their lives. Like most people who read this book I started reading it and didn't put it down. I finished it the day after I got it only because I started to read it at 12pm and I fell asleep at 3 something. It is a little redundant because he keeps getting in trouble, then preaches and has a good life, then gets in trouble, then preaches and has a good life, etc. But then again, we can be very redundant in our life too. We repeatedly ignore God and make decisions based on what we think is best for us (not others and not based on what God knows) and we end up in a mess. This book is about getting out of that mess. I strongly suggest reading Seventy Times Seven.

This book changed my life!.......2003-03-14

I read this book in one day while I was in jail, I really could not put it down. This book has really helped me see things alot clearer.

Making It Real--Bringing It Home.......2003-03-03

I first read Monty Christensen's 70x7 and Beyond soon after moving to Billings, Montana and receiving this free book from a fund-raising dinner the author spoke at. The fund-raiser was put on to raise money for the completion of the new Montana Women's Prison chapel that had just been built. This book is down-to earth and comes directly from one man's life and death struggle with alcohol, drugs and crime. The beautiful part of the whole book is the honest flavor of grace Monty is able express, proving to the onlooking world that God's grace is able to forgive even beyond 70x7 times. I just looked up this book on the web because I will soon send it to a friend who is now incarcerated. He, like me is not even 25 yet and he needs to know that his life is still just beginning and there is hope. I have been blessed by this book and recommend it to all who may be looking for a truthful dose of hope.

What an uplifting story........2002-07-04

I read 70x7+Beyond not expecting all that much. I had won 2 Frank Peretti books in an online auction, and the seller out of kindness sent me this 3rd book for free. It just happened to be this little book written by Monty Christensen. Well, a few months after reading the Perreti books, I decided I'd give the extra book a shot. Honestly, I don't even recall having put the book down for more than a few hours once I started! The feeling of abandonment while reading about Christensen as a child, the feeling of desperation for him to get out of the drug scene, the disappointment of going in and out of jail and prison, of treating his wife like someone he had just met on the street, and all in the middle of this, the mercy and forgiveness of the LORD just sitting there waiting for him to repent and change his ways.

Trust me, if you've never read this book, please go out and obtain a copy as quickly as you can. I guarantee you will luv it!

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For Sword Collectors, Dealers and Museums

Excellent reference book for swords used in the Revolution.

Swords and Blades of the American Revolution
George C. Teumann
Manufacturer: Scurlock Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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For Sword Collectors, Dealers and Museums.......2003-03-18

A wealth of information on edged weapons, from swords, sabers, rapiers, daggers, cutlasses and polearms. Interspaced with the photographs are excellent line drawings by George Woodbridge.
Even if you just like to browse through artifacts of the Revolutionary War, you'll find plenty of information. Historical artists and reenactors will enjoy this book tremendously.

Excellent reference book for swords used in the Revolution........1998-07-15

Nearly 750 individual swords, knives, axes (including tomahawks), bayonets, and polearms, shown in detailed photos with demensions, weights, and provenance of the weapons. I suggest getting the hard cover edition, becouse of the constant use in looking up facts before purchasing collectable weapons.

Swords & Blades of the American Revolution

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Swords & Blades of the American Revolution
George C. NEUMANN
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Swords & Blades of the American Revolution (ISBN:0883940418)

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Swords & Blades of the American Revolution (ISBN:0883940418)
George C. Neumann
Manufacturer: Promontory Press
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Swords And Blades Of The American Revolution

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Swords And Blades Of The American Revolution

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Swords and Blades of the American Revolution
George C. Neumann
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ASIN: B000OHALU8

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In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How it does so, how it develops, is a historical process-a process that Claudio Lomnitz exposes, explores, and theorizes in this book, which develops a distinct view of the cultural politics of nation-making in Mexico. Lomnitz highlights the varied, evolving, and often conflicting efforts that have been made by Mexicans over the past two centuries to imagine, organize, represent, and know their country, its relations with the wider world, and its internal differences and inequalities. Firmly based on particulars and committed to the specificity of such theorizing, this book also has broad implications for how a theoretically informed history can and should be done. A historical and theoretical exploration of Mexican national space by way of an analysis of nationalism, the public sphere, and knowledge production, Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico brings an original perspective to the dynamics of national cultural production on the periphery. Its blending of theoretical innovation, historical inquiry, and critical engagement provides a new model for the writing of history and anthropology in contemporary Mexico and beyond.

Claudio Lomnitz is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Public Worlds Series, volume 9

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Meta-X is a user-friendly computer program that allows students, teachers, and researchers to perform a metapopulation viability analysis i.e. to assess the extinction risk of (meta)populations on discrete, partially isolated patches of habitat, in a comfortable way. The CD comes with an extensive handbook which explains the basic concept of the program and takes you on a guided tour through a model experiment. It further provides the necessary scientific background on both metapopulation dynamics and population viability analysis.
A special feature of Meta-X is that it supports comparative analyses of alternative scenarios. This predestines Meta-X to serve as an aid for decision making in conservation management and landscape planning. Furthermore, handbook and software together provide an invaluable help in research and teaching.

Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation

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Development of rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics-that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall stability to a system that is chaotic at the level of the individual patch-offers an important new way of thinking about the conservation and management of populations dispersed among small habitat fragments. This approach is proving to be a rich resource for biologists hoping to arrest the current catastrophic loss of biodiversity.

An understanding of metapopulation theory and analysis is critical to the modern practice of wildlife conservation and management. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, addressing the needs of an applied professional audience for comprehensible information to integrate into their practices. Leading conservation biologists, ecologists, wildlife managers, and other experts consider the emergence and development of metapopulation theory and explore its applicability and usefulness to real-world conservation programs.

Introductory chapters provide background information on basic concepts such as models, genetics, landscape configuraton, and edges and corridors. Subsequent chapters present detailed methods of analyzing metapopulation structure. Case studies of an array of vertebrate species, including the Swedish pool frog, the northern spotted owl, Stephens' kangaroo rat, Florida scrub jay, Mediterranean monk seal, Steller sea lion, tule elk, and others, illustrate nuances of metapopulation theory analysis and its practical applications.

Contributors describe what metapopulation approaches bring to wildlife conservation and management, present models of how metapopulation thinking has been applied in specific situations, and suggest the analysis required in given cases. Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation is essential reading for anyone working in the field of wildlife conservation and managment.

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NEMESIS : conservation biology simulations: Process simulations of dynamics at the level of genes, individuals, populations and metapopulations
Michael E Gilpin
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Restoration of bighorn sheep metapopulations in and near 15 national parks conservation of a severely fragmented species (SuDoc I 19.76:99-102/V.1-)
Francis J. Singer
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