Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital: September 1992 Condensed Version

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A condensed version of the Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital, this version includes the full text of the September 1992 convention as well as the commentaries, but omits the historical notes and annexes.

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An international collaboration between one of the original Japanese Pokemon creators and a veteran American comic book writer, the Pokemon comic strip follows a completely original storyline with more humor than the animated series or games. The happy result is a link between young Pokemon fans and adults interested in one of America's largest media phenomena. This collection includes both the daily black-and-white strips and full-color Sunday comics and follows the adventures of Ash, Misty, and their friends, at home and on the road, in their quest to become Pokemon trainers.

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Pokemon - The Comic Strip!.......2001-12-10

I wasn't able to see the original run of the Pokemon comic strip (Stoopid Shreveport Times), but thankfully, they gathered the entire run into this book. As a semi-professional cartoonist, I can say this was a pretty good strip. Not in the ranks with Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts, mind you, but it's still a lot better than a lot of the comic strips in the newspaper today.
As for the strip itself, if you're expecting a strip version of the hit TV show, you'll be mistaken. It's kind of an alternate version of Pokemon. Instead of going out earning badges and getting into tussles with Team Rocket, Ash, Brock, Misty and Gary all go to junior high school, along with their Pokemon, which almost always cause mischeif. Ash's mom has a much bigger role in the comic since Ash is home now, and she's usually shown going slowly crazy from all of Ash's Pokemon wrecking her house. The art is kind of sketchy in places, as you get the sense some of the strips were rushed, but most of the time the art is pretty consistant and has it's own style from the cartoon and comic books and gives it an "American" sense of design.
Sometimes the strip doesn't make sense. In the beginning, Ash has a Metapod, then it evolves into a Butterfree, but later on, a few months later, he comes across another Metapod and catches it, claiming he's never seen one before. But the comic improves as it goes along, and it's a shame it ended when it did, since it was getting a lot better. Ash and Misty's exploits in the comic are pretty funny, especially the running gag where Misty attacks Ash with Starmie, but even funnier are when the Pokemon are by themselves and we can read their thoughts. Who knew Psyduck had such a deep train of thought?
Overall, this was a pretty good comic, and it was too bad it barely lasted a year. Pokemon fans, especially older ones, owe it to themselves to check out "Pikachu Meets The Press" if they haven't already.

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Why should humans be the only ones lucky in love? Dogs need a little devotion, too—and they’re barking up the right tree with these charming personals. They cater to canines of all types: sires or dams, purebreds or crossbreeds, altered or whole. Whether a doggie is hoping to hook up for a romp in the park, to prowl the back alleys for delicacies, or just to lounge lazily on the deck with the humans, there’s a match made in dog heaven right here. Featuring hilarious color photographs of pups of all shapes and sizes, it will help Fido and Fifi find their soul mates, companions, or flings. What a great gift for Rover…and his owner, too!

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Straight From The Doggie Personals.......2006-08-29

Many dog owner's give their best friend everything they think they want; however, this time Rover (or Roxie) speaks out about what they are really in need of, a partner! With creatively posed pictures and to the point portraits of their ideal mate, these "Hot Dogs" will win the hearts of every dog lover and a few hard core cat lovers.

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Pleasing Bette bio filled with facts.......1999-12-07

A lexicon of Bette Davis. Unique in its style, but thoroughly enjoyable. What's great about it is the fact that you can pick and choose which topics you'd like to read about, and skip over those that don't spark your interest. For example, it lists every street address and city in which Bette lived, and in what years. Unknown facts like those make this book exciting to read. And being from Boston, born and raised, anything on Bette Davis (especially since I can actually visit her homes in Lowell & Newton) is worth reading. In response to one of the previous customer reviews on this book, yes it's true that this author does bash and criticize nearly all of Bette's films. I heartily disagreed with some of his reviews, but just remember, everyone's entilted to his or her own opinion. What they say is not gospel. A great concise conpendium of facts perfect for the Bette Davis fan.

All you ever wanted to know about Bette.......1999-10-29

Randall Riese takes a different approach to the life of this legend than other authors have done in the past. The result is a virtual encylopedia of Bette's life and career. This book is a good reference tool for the begining davis fan. You can look up her films, her co-stars, directors, almost anything. The book is filled with info nuggets and photos that haven't been published before.

Hatchet Job by unsympathetic author.......1999-05-13

This book is good as a factual guide about la Davis' life. But the author sneers and blasts nearly all of Davis' movies, merely repeating what other uninformed hacks have critiqued. He misquotes all over the place. Instead of Davis saying in the movie "Beyond the Forest" the line: "If I don't get out of here, I'll die!", the author has her saying "I've got to get out of here!" His contempt for his subject makes him a very unlikely candidate to asess this great artist whose movies today hold up better than nearly any other star of the 30s and 40s. While he completely destroys Davis' films like "Beyond the Forest" and "In This Our Life," both films have generated tremendous re-evaluations for being the masterpieces they are.

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From genetically modified food to weapons of mass destruction, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. While the technologies have changed, these debates go back hundreds of years, and their assumptions have become deeply entrenched in our culture.

Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives.

This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the place of technology in our lives. It is a primer for beginners, and an invaluable resource for those who have pondered these issues before.

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A book that needs buying.......2002-10-31

This is a book of fantastic stereograms. Each page has a picture that initially seems like an intricate design. However, by staring intently at the designs in the book one sees amazing 3-d images that appear to come out of the book towards you, a lot like a good hologram. For example, a field of grass becomes a 3-d image of grazing sheep. The book is fun for all ages and makes you want to look at it over and over again.

A book that needs buying.......2002-10-31

3-D Planet: The World as Seen Through Stereograms

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3-D Planet: The World as Seen Through Stereograms

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In Search of Stupidity is National Lampoon meets Peter Drucker. In Search of Stupidity is a funny and well written business book that takes a look at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies of the last twenty years and, through the dark glass of hindsight, provides a educational and vastly entertaining examination of why they didn't work. And make no mistake, most of them did not work. Richly illustrated with cartoons and reproductions of many of the actual campaigns used at the time marketing wizard Richard Chapman takes readers on a hilarious ride through the last twenty years. Filled with personal anecdotes spanning Chapman's remarkable career (he was present at many now famous meetings and events) In Search of Stupidity takes a no holds barred look at the uncreative and hopeless marketing ideas surrounding the technology industry. It offers clear, detailed analysis of what happened, why, and what you can do to avoid acting stupidly in the future. This book offers unique insights into the avoidable mistakes made by some of the country's largest and best known high tech companies as well as succinct, to-the-point advice on how companies can avoid acting stupidly. It is aimed at people in the high tech industries, both software and hardware sides of the business. The software side is more heavily represented since software is more glamorous and highly covered than the hardware. Because it is a business book, I believe it also has appeal to the general business book market and the title should attract anyone interested in the various marketing disciplines.

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In Search of Stupidity is National Lampoon meets Peter Drucker. A funny and well written business book that takes a look at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies of the last twenty years and, through the dark glass of hindsight, provides an educational and vastly entertaining examination of why they didn't work the for many of the country's largest and best known high tech companies. Make no mistake; most of them did not work.

Richly illustrated with cartoons and reproductions of many of the actual campaigns used at the time, marketing wizard Richard Chapman takes readers on a hilarious ride through the last twenty years. Filled with personal anecdotes spanning Chapman's remarkable career (he was present at many now famous meetings and events), In Search of Stupidity is a no-holds-barred look at the best of the worst hopeless marketing ideas and business decisions in the last twenty years of the technology industry.

"The history of marketing and technology is riddled with cautionary stories that stick up like dung covered punji sticks. Read this, and avoid stepping on one."
Jeff 'Hemos' Bates
Director OSDN Online
Exec. Editor Slashdot.org

"Rick Chapman knows where the bodies are buried -- when most people have forgotten there was even a murder. This history of tech marketing disasters is well-written, enjoyable, and gets its facts straight."
Jonathan Angel
Senior Editor, West Coast
Adweek's TECHNOLOGY MARKETING magazine

"In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disaster" gives us an amusing (and sometimes embarrassing) array of anecdotes of how far we've come (and not come) in high technology, as well as the path we've tread along the way. This is a fun read, with many invaluable lessons."
Brenda Bennett South
Vice President
Weber Shandwick

"In Search of Stupidity is an invaluable history lesson in how to avoid monumental marketing mistakes that are unfortunately common in the software industry. Perhaps caused by the lack of institutional knowledge Rick points out that is caused by the youth of the industry, the only thing that would be stupid now is to not read the book! If you don't do it for your career, do it out of fear that Rick will highlight you in a sequel!"
Alyssa Dver
BusinessWeek special sections contributor

"'In Search of Stupidity' is a delightful and deceptively useful chronicle of what went wrong in the high-tech industry. Having followed many of these companies and products over the years, I'd often wondered why such smart people made such weird choices. Rick Chapman has many of the answers. Anyone who has ever yelled at the computer screen will enjoy this book."
James Fallows
Former editor in chief of US News and World Report and a regular writer for The Atlantic.

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Computer marketing explained in an entertaining way.......2007-05-27

As a techie, I find most marketing books boring. This one was lively enough to keep me interested. The author uses plenty of hyperbole and sarcasm, so it's sometimes hard to tell fact from opinion, but in general, his analyses ring true.

A grim, but highly instructive and entertaining story.......2007-04-04

I have been in IT since '79 and have seen all the companies Rick talks about come and go. The errors that were made, and still -are- made are mind boggling. All these proverbs about history repeating itself? They are right, when you don't learn from mistakes!

Reading what you already know but didn't realise.......2007-03-08

What I liked most about this book that it puts a lot of known "history" in perspective, especially with regards to Microsoft.
The author puts a lot of humor into this book and understands how to put things into perspective. I do hope that there will be a third revised edition in the coming years.

It's for anyone in marketing.......2007-02-08

The book is well-done and has some of the best software anecdotes... and discussions of marketing... that I have read in quite some time. I'm not in the software biz, but i have always been fascinated by it... and how its personalities can enhance, and in the cases you cited, undermine what are often very good products. I have been a marketer all of my career, and i felt that the paragraph on p 276 starting with "And then an awful realization..." was one of the best descriptions of what B2B marketing managers face and how difficult marketing management can be that i have ever encountered. I recommend the book highly for both entertainment and for marketing insights.

New, updated edition of a classic.......2007-01-15

This is the second edition of Merril R. Chapman's best-seller In Search of Stupidity. To the first edition's collection of episodes of strategic blunders, marketing disasters and outright hubris on part of various high-technology companies during the 80's and the 90's, the new edition adds a few notable episodes. Companies listed include: IBM, Digital Research, Apple, Microsoft, MicroPro, Ashton-Tate, Siebel, Borland, Intel, Motorola, Google, Novell, Netscape, and various dot-coms from the Internet bubble times.

Apart from being a fun and enjoyable read, In Search of Stupidity is also a valuable resource for high-tech entrepreneurs, marketers and geeks wanting to turn their technical prowess into a profit. There's nothing like learning from the mistakes of others in order to avoid repeating them, and one of the merits of this book is that it does not limit itself to making fun of clueless companies, but extracts and digests from their tales a number of immediately useful advice.

So you can expect to learn how to avoid the same sort of positioning mistakes that doomed MicroPro, how not to inimicate the developer community that constitutes the lifeblood of your products, like Ashton-Tate constantly did, how to avoid damaging your relationships with the press, and many other useful tidbits. In this respect, the Stupid Analysis chapter at the end of the book is especially useful, in case you missed some of the more subtle lessons that were contained in the narrative presented in previous chapters.

In summary, this books is valuable both to entrepreneurs and managers, and to geeks who want to enter marketing, management or start their own company. Even if you are content with keeping a purely technical role, should you start recognizing the signs of stupidity on part of your company, you could at least be prepared to polish up your resume.

To be honest, it could be argued that some of the most egregious screw-ups described in the book were, at least in part, due to sheer bad luck, and that hindsight is always 20/20. Still I think that the stories told here teach some extremely valuable lessons. External circumstances alone cannot account for all that happened; it takes much stupidity and arrogance to turn unfavorable events into total disasters.

If you want to be picky, there is a couple of instances where the message of the book sounds a bit off. The first one can be found in the story of Google's fight with [...] over the issue of privacy, and its supposed bowing to the censorship imposed by the Chinese government. You can argue how much you like that Google acted stupidly in these circumstances. Its behavior might have tarnished its ethical image--"Don't be evil", remember?. However, it doesn't seem to have affected Google in any serious way; few people remember the episodes and Google is going as strong as ever. Compared to the other examples found in the book, this is a case of very mild stupidity, if at all, and it looks like Chapman seriously wanted to pick on Google but couldn't find any real damning evidence.

The second point is in chapter 12, The Strange Case of Dr. Open and Mr. Proprietary, where the author traces the beginnings of the Free Software movement to the first hackers who started out by illegally copying Microsoft's Altair BASIC. If one didn't know better, one might start to think that Free Software pioneers were just a bunch of freeloaders, if not thieves. In the rest of the chapter, however, Chapman makes it abundantly clear that the only example of stupidity, in this case, can be found on the side of proprietary companies who failed to understand the Open Source/Free Software movement and its effect on the software industry.

To sum it up, In Search of Stupidity is a very good book, especially if you missed the first edition. Five stars are well deserved.

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Disaster on the labor front.......2006-09-11

This is a concise and well-illustrated account of the deadly strike at the Carnegie Steel works at Homestead, Pennsylvania, in July 1892. When workers' wages were cut despite huge financial gains raked in by the industry because of high tariffs, the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers called a strike at the Carnegie mill for July 1. Management decided to treat the strike almost as an outright war on their business, and when Pinkertons were called in to quell the strikers, violence broke out on July 6 in which a number of men were killed. Industrialist Henry Frick was nearly assassinated, and soon troops were brought in to restore order.

This book tells the story through contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles, congressional testimony taken after the event, excerpts from memoirs and other books - all accompanied by many illustrations and photographs. Short essays by modern historians dealing with the technology of steel making, political issues, foreign groups working in the mills, and changes in the laws, among other topics, put the events in perspective. These were dark days on the labor front, and this book captures the mood and immediacy of the strike magnificently. Highly recommended.

Great Firsthand Sources Make this Book a Fascinating Read!.......1998-12-30

The River Ran Red tells the story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 using firsthand sources (for example exerpts from Carnegie's speeches, local and national papers and even memos from H.C. Frick). This book comes alive more than any other book on the strike because it is told by firsthand sources, not a stuffy historian's view.

"The River Ran Red": Homestead 1892. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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"The River Ran Red": Homestead 1892. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Graham, Jr. Adams
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River Ran Red: Homestead, 1892. (Great steel strike)

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African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter opens with a vignette focusing on an individual involved in a dramatic moment or event. Personal stories are told throughout the narrative, as the lives and experiences of individuals provide the lens through which the story of African American history is viewed.

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To celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) has pursued the ambitious goal of publishing an atlas that depicts Louisiana's history through maps. The result of those efforts is Charting Louisiana. This book, THNOC's bicentennial gift to the public, offers a rich selection of historic and contemporary maps from various sources that collectively illustrate the region's diverse history, from its multinational colonial experiences to the modern American state.

Charting Louisiana presents 104 maps from THNOC's holdings, representing the full range of the institution's cartographic treasures. The atlas also features sixty-seven important works from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress--custodian of the largest cartographic collection in the world--and contributions from other United States repositories, including the Louisiana State Museum and Chicago's Newberry Library. Archives in France, Spain, Great Britain, and Mexico generously provided the balance, as befits Louisiana's international history.

The product of this cooperative effort is an unprecedented compilation of 193 high-quality reproductions of important maps illustrating the development of Louisiana from the early sixteenth century to the present, along with historical essays providing a broader context for understanding the maps. Complete with a detailed cartobibliography and list of selected readings, Charting Louisiana is a lush, captivating, and valuable source of information for history buffs, scholars, and map lovers, providing ample opportunities for new interpretations of the state's history as well as that of the nation.

Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps : The Historic New Orleans Collection

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Historic New Orleans Collection
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This DVD package captures the 2003 Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference held in New Orleans. Filled with stimulating presentations, this production is a valuable addition to historians' collections. Featured highlights include Joseph Ellis's keynote address, "Jefferson and the Purchase"; John R. Hébert's reflections on The Collection's Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps; Peter H. Wood on "African Americans in the Purchase Territory"; Light T. Cummins on "Spanish- and English-Speaking Peoples in Louisiana before the Purchase"; closing remarks by John Boles; and selections from the conference's concert, "A Tribute to Louisiana's Musical Heritage."

Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.(Book Review) : An article from: The Geographical Review

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Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.(Book Review) : An article from: The Geographical Review
Craig E. Colten
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Paul Gervais, Jr. Bell
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