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State Tax Policy and Senior Citizens
Scott R. MacKey ,
Karen Carter , and
Mitchell A. Zahn
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State tax policy & senior citizens: A legislator's guide
Mitchell A Zahn
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State tax policy and senior citizens : final report (SuDoc HE 23.3002:ST 2/6)
Mitchell A. Zahn
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State tax policy and senior citizens: Final report
Mitchell A Zahn
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- Great drills to develop as a player.
- Availibility problem solved
- Never read it!
- From stretching, teamwork, movements, mindset, tournament, and recreation. Must for all paintballers!
- Very Good
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Gun-fu: The Martial Art of Paintball
Terry Adams
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ASIN: 0971659702
Release Date: 2004-05-03 |
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Everything About Paintball Gun-fu: The Martial Art of Paintball is the complete guide to this exciting new sport. It is a solid education on every aspect of the game, and full of great training information. It speaks to every level of player, from armchair general to front line professional. Never has there been this depth on mental, psychological, and emotional training for Paintball , or a detailed analysis of body postures for playing specific cover, Zen and the Art of Paintball, and even strategy advice from masters like Sun Tzu and Musashi. This is the definitive work on Paintball and no player can be without one on the shelf.
Customer Reviews:
Great drills to develop as a player........2007-02-06
This book has excellent tips and strategies essential to the development of a tournament-ball paintball player. My younger brother has gotten the most out of its simple axioms, using the mindset and insight it provides to the reader to help push him to the next level of play -- division 3 tournament-ball. It alone is not enough; you have to practice and apply what the book talks about and fashion your own style that compliments your abilities as an individual player, but as as suppliment for understanding how to better your game it is top-notch. Comes with my recommendation.
Availibility problem solved.......2006-08-12
We had a little trouble with Amazon delivering copies on time that seems to be solved, sorry about any delays.
We hope you enjoy the only book on Paintball that covers the entire spectrum of Paintball performance from mental prep and drills to team management and on-field specific strategy.
Paintball is modern gunfighting and this book gives you nuts and bolts specifics on how to succeed in every aspect of the game.
In addition, we offer the perspective of Paintball as a legitimate martial art and show parallels to other combat sports, as well as timeless wisdom you can use immediately, from beginner to pro.
We do not pad our book with gear reviews or article reprints, just how to hone your most important weapons, your mind and body, working together as one coordinated unit.
Enjoy!
The author
Never read it!.......2005-12-24
I'm giving this book 5 stars only because I refuse to impugn its content in order to bring you this important message: The availability for this item has never been as advertised. Order at your own peril!
And Barry, I'm sorry this book never arrived for your birthday when I originally ordered it back in AUGUST. Them's the breaks, kid.
From stretching, teamwork, movements, mindset, tournament, and recreation. Must for all paintballers!.......2005-09-21
If you plan to be better in paintballing and would like some USEFUL information, this book is what you need! It will show you how to move in different scenarios with more than just point and shoot.
It has to do with HOW you move and WHEN to shoot. Crawling, pop-shooting, training drills, and team advancement formation (and strategies).
It also talks about the mindset of being a paintballer. Remember when you had that day when you felt like you were an action hero? Where everything that was and wasn't planned still worked for the best? This book will show you how to be in that 'state' all the time and the powerful advantage of having your mindset in the right direction. You'll be amazed to what you can do.
This is a great addition to your collection of books. He doesn't mention anything about markers and which one is better. The best investment you can make in the game of paintball isn't a $1200+ marker or all the accessories in the world. It's yourself as a player! SO START READING!
Very Good.......2004-04-24
This book is very good. No, it does not get all Zen on you, but it does help get into a better and more competitive mindset. It helps in your day-to-day competitions and in your team strategy. The drills are very good, even though they get a bit long. The photos are good, even though there might be too many photos of stretching. On stretching, make sure you do not over-stretch -- you can do more harm than good. There are some typos and such, but the content is worth five stars.
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Gun Fu
Howard M. Shum , and
Joey Mason
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The year is 1936, and Cheng Bo Sen - a Hong Kong cop - is enlisted as a secret agent by the English to help fight the Nazis. He also speaks hip-hop, which no one seems to notice.
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Gun Fu
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The guns of Kaifêng-fu: China's development of man's first chemical explosive : the Creighton Trust lecture delivered before the University of London on Monday, 26 November 1979
Joseph Needham
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The Outbursts of Everett True
A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper
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The Outbursts of Everett True
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- Great look at a still underrated filmmaker
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Clint Eastwood: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
Clint Eastwood , and
Kathie Coblentz
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Customer Reviews:
Great look at a still underrated filmmaker.......2005-07-14
The focus of this volume is Mr. Eastwood the director, and this book collects a good variety of American and international interviews with him discussing his process, from PLAY MISTY FOR ME and THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES to BIRD and UNFORGIVEN and up through MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD & EVIL (the book was published in '99, so of course it does not feature any of his works from this new century). If after MILLION DOLLAR BABY you're finally starting to come around and see Eastwood the artist, this book is a great negotiation of his career in the director's chair, in his own, laconic, well-chosen, unpretentious and to-the-point voice. Highly recommended for any budding or hardcore Clint Eastwood fans alike. Or any serious filmfan, for that matter.
DOA from boredom........2002-11-10
I had to read this book for an English class. It's just a collection of articles of people interviewing Clint Eastwood through the years. Want to know how he makes movies? He shoots the first take, moves fast and comes in under budget. His history is told over, and over, and over, and over. Nice to read if you run out of sleeping pills.
Boring.......2002-05-12
These interviews are dull and repetitive. Just buy the Schickel book.
Good book, but too pricey.......1999-08-04
An interesting book for serious Clint fans. However, the $45 price tag is a little steep, and unjustifiably so. Very few photos, only black and white. Save your $$ and buy the paperback instead.
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Clint Eastwood: Film-Maker
Daniel O'Brien
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Directed by Clint Eastwood: Eighteen Films Analyzed
Laurence F. Knapp
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Though best known as an actor, Clint Eastwood has been directing films for 25 years. In that time little has been written about his style or viewpoint. Eastwood has embraced personal projects that investigate the perils of being an artist (such as Bronco Billy and Honkytonk Man) or a misfit or loner (e.g., Breezy and A Perfect World). Eastwood's 18 films as director are analyzed here, showing that they are more a part of his stylistic or aesthetic vision and not merely a showcase for his formidable public persona.
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A Social History of Leisure Since 1600
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Ghost Dog Role-Playing Game and Resource Book
David L. Pulver , and
John R., Jr. Python
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Welcome to the only reference guide for Artisan Entertainment`s critically acclaimed motion picture, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, written by Jim Jarmusch and starring Forest Whitaker. Ghost Dog lives by the precepts of the 18th century warrior text, Hagakure, practicing the ancient disciplines of the samurai and applying them to his work as a modern-day contract killer. This role-playing game and resource book re-creates the gangster genre as a cross-cultural fusion of Eastern philosophy, mob drama, and urban darkness. Inside you`ll find an exhaustive analysis of the film, insightful bios for all the characters, and an engaging study of Mafia organized crime in America.
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- Great Book For Learning Autocad
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AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005: No Experience Required
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The First Choice for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Novices—from the Leading AutoCAD Publisher!
AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005: No Experience Required is your step-by-step introduction to the latest versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, the world's leading customizable CAD software. Inside this perfectly paced guide are the clear-cut explanations and practical tutorials that you need to complete even the most elaborate AutoCAD projects.
Discover AutoCAD 2005's newest features as you plan and develop a complete project. Follow the tutorials sequentially or begin at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the Sybex website. Either way, you'll develop a solid grounding in the essentials and learn how to use AutoCAD's productivity tools to get your work done efficiently.
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Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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It was ok........2005-12-06
I used this book to get proficient in autocad 2006. It was tedious going through the first four chapters ( 1 week and then another for the rest of the book). There are probably other books as good. The book has slight mistakes, but all books do(on p112 on a image, arc explanation confusing just experiment). I'm thinking that an instructional DVD would be better. Make sure you download the examples from the internet for the book. It will clear up the explanations.
Great Book For Learning Autocad.......2004-11-11
I moved to Autocad from another drafting program. I never really took the time to properly learn Autocad. This book has been very enlightening. I now finally understand how Autocad works and how to use it efficiently. The book has an excellent tutorial in which you construct a small cabin. As you draw the cabin you work with the basics of setting up drawings and drawing lines. As you work through the book you work with elevations, text, dimensions, and also some of the more esoteric features of Autocad. I also bought two other Autocad books and this was by far the most useful. I highly recommend this book to anyone desiring to learn Autocad.
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Facts on File Dictionary of Cultural and Historical Allusions: From the Middle Ages Through the 20th Century (Facts on File Library of Language and Literature)
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"I coulda been a contender." Molotov cocktail. Catch 22. Beatrice.Our language is chock-full of allusions: terms, names, and phrases that have been shorthanded for certain attributes or circumstances. This dictionary explains the current meanings and original contexts of more than 1,500 allusions of the past millennium drawn from history, literature, art, and mass culture. Eminently useful and fun to browse, this is an essential resource for writers, students, and general readers.
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* Wall Street: The location of the Stock Exchange brings to mind huge financial deals, insider trading, and greed.
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- fascinating reading
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- Excellent Account of a Dark Episode In French History
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Anne Somerset
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The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions resulted.
The 1676 torture and execution of the Marquise de Brinvilliers marked the start of the scandal which rocked the foundations of French society and sent shock waves through all of Europe. Convicted of conspiring with her adulterous lover to poison her father and brothers in order to secure the family fortune, the marquise was the first member of the noble class to fall.
In the French court of the period, where sexual affairs were numerous, ladies were not shy of seeking help from the murkier elements of the Parisian underworld, and fortune-tellers supplemented their dubious trade by selling poison.
It was not long before the authorities were led to believe that Louis XIV himself was at risk. With the police chief of Paris police alerted, every hint of danger was investigated. Rumors abounded and it was not long before the King ordered the setting up of a special commission to investigate the poisonings and bring offenders to justice. No one, the King decreed, no matter how grand, would be spared having to account for their conduct.
The royal court was soon thrown into disarray. The Mistress of the Robes and a distinguished general were among the early suspects. But they paled into insignificance when the King's mistress was incriminated. If, as was said, she had engaged in vile Satanic rituals and had sought to poison a rival for the King's affections, what was Louis XIV to do?
Anne Somerset has gone back to original sources, letters and earlier accounts of the affair. By the end of her account, she reaches firm conclusions on various crucial matters. The Affair of the Poisons is an enthralling account of a sometimes bizarre period in French history.
Customer Reviews:
fascinating reading.......2007-01-11
I knew nothing about this period of history, other than having a vague knowledge of Louis XIV ("the Sun King"), before picking up this book. It is remarkably easy to read, packing in a great deal of information without ever being dry or tedious. The author takes a simultaneously critical and sympathetic look at the passions that drove the nobility and hangers-on at court, and makes shrewd estimates about the validity of various contemporary and historical theories regarding the events in issue (including observations about the biases of the various letter writers and memoirists on whose writings she draws as sources). I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in this period of French history.
Also recommended: "Ridicule," a film about the French court under Louis XVI, which bears out many of the observations in this book about the period a century earlier.
well researched look at a dark era in french history.......2006-01-27
This was an interesting excursion into an area of French history I didn't know much about.The accusations and in some cases just hearsay,I found had similarities to a the hysteria Involving
The Salem Witch Trials.Would reccomend this for anyone with
an interest in life at french court/Louis XIV.
A very scholarly history that is also a very good read.......2005-07-18
I bought this book in the bookstore at Versailles. After my tours of the palace and the gardens looking for ghosts and wondering what life was like and what was in the heads of the people at courts of Louis XIV, XV and XVI. I was hoping that this history would help me with that and it did. This is a well footnoted scholarly history but it is also a very good read, a very unusually good read.
A good glimpse into Daily Life at Versailles........2005-04-01
Since reading Alexander Dumas novels as a child I have always been fascinated with the intrigue and byzantine plots of the French Court. I was first made aware of the accusations against the Marquise de Montespan in a history book by Jacques Barzun which made her out to be a female anti christ or the whore of babylon. Somerset's history of the events goes into more depth and paints Athenais to be more of an earlier version of the witless Marie Antoinette than a French Lady McBeth.
The whole affair of the poisons caused a paranoia that turned a criminal investigation into a Salem Witch Hunt or better yet a grassy knoll conspiracy that reached into the highest level of government. The fact that torture or the threat of torture and painful death were used to gain most of the 'confessions' was not seen as detrimental to the case by the public makes me glad in live in more modern times.
The court of Louis XIV was the height of decadance and its opulance eventually caused the bankruptcy of the French treasury during the reign of his descendants leading to Revolution, Terror, and the Rise of the First Empire.
Excellent Account of a Dark Episode In French History.......2004-12-04
Anne Somerset has done a fantastic job in bringing this bit of dark and forgotten history to the fore in the first serious work on this subject in decades.
"The Affair of the Poisons" relates how in 1680, Paris society was thrown into an uproar as details came to light of a rash of magical potions and poisons being circulated from the Paris underground into the highest ranks of the French high society. As the police investigated further into what they thought to be outlandish rumours of satanic rituals and child sacrifice, a strange story began to take form around a number of high profile individuals, notably the jealously obssessed and now out-of-favor royal mistress, the Marquise de Montespan, concerning a plot to assasinate the King and Queen themselves. The Marquise was said to have turned to the performance of satanic rites of the Black Mass, using the blood of child sacrifices, freshly killed by the self proclaimed abortionist and sorceress known as La Voisin. When her most desperate attempts to win the King back through black magic failed, the Marquise is said to have turned to murder, first of her competitors at court, and finally hatching a plot to poison the King himself. The details themselves are never truly know as the journals, testimonies, and eyewitness accounts taken down by the King's appointed investigators were locked away and later destoryed by the King himself, in a desperate attempt to avoid a potentially ruinous scandal that threatened to shake the very foundations of the monarchy.
The Affair of the Poisons is a fascinating look into the strange world of the French court and the lengths one woman went to maintain her exalted status among the glittering yet hopelessly vain and self-destructive upper eschelon of French society. Perhaps the truth of these dark events of history will never be known for certain, but whether or not the Marquise was indeed guilty of the miriad of vile crimes attributed to her, her name has come down through the centuries as synonymous with evil. Sommerset has done an excellent job of retelling this tale with attention to detail, particularly the chapters concerning the highly complex intrigues of the court of Louis XIV and the machinations of his many mistresses. It also provides an fascinating glipse into the dark underworld of Parisan society and the many shady characters who inhabited it.
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Jonathan Spangler
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2007-01-24 |
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Title: The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.(Book review)
Author: Jonathan Spangler
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The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68
Issue: 2
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
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The Affair of the Poisons : Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
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Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth
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