Taxation, information exchange : agreement between the United States of America and Peru, signed at Cartagena February 15, 1990 (SuDoc S 9.10:12060)

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Taxation, information exchange : agreement between the United States of America and Peru, signed at Cartagena February 15, 1990 (SuDoc S 9.10:12060)
U.S. State Department
Manufacturer: Dept. of State
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

International | Taxes | Accounting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00010QKSK

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A Pogo for Po-Mos and a Popeye for Punks, Underworld is flat-out funny.

It's the fifth collection of cartoonist Kaz's alternative comic strip, Underworld, which has created a cult audience in over ten major markets for over a decade now in papers like The New York Press and Seattle Stranger.

For the first time, this volume will include an all-new 8-page, full color comic story entitled, "A Slice of Eye." Starring Salvador Dalí, Kaz takes the painter's surrealist philosophies (paranoia critical method, edible beauty, etc.) and re-imagines them as a wacky screwball comedy. Kaz's use of Dalí will come as no surprise to longtime Underworld fans whom have fallen in love with Kaz's Dalí-like surreal and absurd re-invention of the classic American newspaper strip.

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Perennials behaving like annuals, dead and gone after just one season. Neighbors' tomatoes that always come in a week earlier than yours. Fickleness, hard work and ethical dilemmas (you've live-trapped the woodchuck -- now what?). It's gardening, Abby Adams loves it, and in a book as perceptive as it is funny she shares a lifetime's obsessions with its mysterious ways.

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Perennials that behave like annuals, gone within a year or two. Lettuce that bolts right when you're in the mood for a salad. Deer, hedgehogs, slugs, and bugs. And then, all the know-it-alls who tell you how easy it is. Gardening may be America's most popular leisure activity, but it is also the most frustrating, aggravating, and time-consuming-by no means the simple idyll-with-dirt sold by gardening gurus. As lifelong gardener Abby Adams points out in her tongue-in-cheek book, you can't trust the experts, nothing looks like it does in magazines and catalogs, trends change more often than hemlines, and Mother Nature always wins. Literate, funny, studded with quotes and ironic observations, here is a series of honest takes on dozens of subjects that all gardeners will relate to.

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Funny and practical too.......2004-07-23

For those who like a little humor with their labor, Abby Adams' wry tone strikes just the right note. With chapters titled "From Eve to Martha Stewart," Tree$" and "Enemies List," this self-proclaimed non-expert takes her reader through the anxieties and triumphs of taking a garden from seed to harvest, peppering her own hard won advice with extensive quotes (many hilarious) from the "experts."

She explores the question of lawns, quotes an Englishman on perennials ("A perennial is a plant, that, had it not died, would have returned the following year") shares what she's learned about soil ? "Good soil is like good looks ? something you're born with."

This is an enjoyable, readable little book which also happens to be packed with good advice and even better quotations. Perfect after a long day's hard gardening.

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A play to make you think........2005-04-15

The play may be a rough read for some but it is well worth it. The bare humanity displayed in this play is timeless. It points the finger at the viewer (or in the case reader), who was and is today mostly a middle class clientele. It focuses on the bigger picture, which is the "white man's denial of the Indian humanity." A play most everyone can sympathize with at some point, although I do admit this is best seen and not read.

Ecstasy of Rita Joe Rough Structurally.......2001-11-13

This play, though filled with poignant messages about the state of Native Canadian societies, is very rough structurally. There are great uses of light, and the setting Ryga proposes is excellent, but the play itself is so rough and deliberate that it is a less-than-pleasant read. It was written in 1967, so though perhaps groundbreaking in its time, this play is not really one to read for enjoyment alone.

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The ecstasy of Rita Joe and other plays
George Ryga
Manufacturer: New Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0887700713

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Ecstasy of Rita Joe
George Ryga
Manufacturer: Talonbooks Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QFMM1E

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Ecstasy of Rita Joe
George Ryga
Manufacturer: Talonbooks Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ONA8ZU

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The ecstasy of Rita Joe

Manufacturer: Talonbooks, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GYYKVK

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On the Road with Polly and Jane..........2003-12-19

Polly Brown and Jane Bernard are the Thelma and Louise of Documentary photography, shooting their way down the Mother Road with eyes and hearts wide open. Steinbeck, Kerouac, Mick Jagger, and Elvis would all love this book, and so do I.

Cameras On The Road.......2003-12-14

Jane Bernard and Polly Brown are accomplished, widely-published Santa Fe photographers who spent three years on American's most legendary trail. American Route 66: Home on the Road (172 p., Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003, $45) "winds from Chicago to L.A." These superb color and black-and-white photographs merge with their subjects mini-oral histories and the photographers' journal entries.

We discover that an elongated Lake Woebegone populated by people such as Charles and Gazelle Stewart, who have surrounded their petrified wood store with towering folk-artsy dinosaurs designed to make kids demand to stop the car. Gazelle recalls how Jerry Seinfeld came in one day with his bodyguard, "a little bitty man...with such a huge gun he could hardly keep his pants up." Seinfeld wanted a $3,000 meteorite, but the power was down, so they couldn't run his credit card. They trusted him anyway.

"We'd make more money," Charles says, "if I'd stop making so many dinosaurs."

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Tales Along the Way Home: A Story of Growing Faith
Virginia Tolles
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1424127408
Release Date: 2006-05-15

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Fiercely competitive colleaguesKristen, Elena, Frank, Bier, and Donhave worked together for 15 years, yet they hardly know each other and probably trust each other less. Together for a conference in Los Angeles, they aren't prepared for the disastrous event of 9/11 that is about to shake their self-reliance to the core. For the first time, they must depend on each other as they set out on a long and tiring drive home to their families nearly 3,000 miles away, in Virginia. Along the way, they wrestle with old demons and new ones as, little by little, they grow in ways they never imagined they ever could or would and develop a newfound respect for each other.

The loner, curmudgeon, and reformed alcoholicFranklearns that he will be his parents' caregiver as soon as he can get back East to meet their train. The feministKristenis routed from the security of her tenured professorship and thrust into an unexpected and unwanted leadership role within her community. The Vietnamese refugeeDiana, who joins the trip in Albuquerquefinds herself in danger of losing her husband and having to start her life all overyet again. The young assistant professorElenamust decide how to balance her personal and professional lives. The old guardBier and Donhave their challenges, as well; both are desperately needed at homenow!

With each passing mile, the travelers also discover America. They take in the scenery, which at every point and in its own way, is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring. They learn about the origins and histories of the towns they pass. Most of all, they learn about the people who settled and now inhabit the land, their reasons for going there and their reasons for staying. By the time they reach home, their experiences have given them a newfound appreciation of the land that is home to them all.

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Engaging, innovative, and insightful, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts, Eighth Edition will enlighten anyone from the computer novice to the computer savvy with its hands-on approach and cutting-edge learning technology.

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Excellent book, but too "materialistic" for me.......1999-06-17

I do not have this book at present, thus I can only write what I remember.

Overall I would say that anyone interested in history, particularly milleniarism, should read/buy "The Great Year." The book is an engaging, comprehensive survery of milleniarism along with a great deal of history to boot.

"The Great Year" and "The Great Week" are views of history that have been accepted by many cultures/religions - Hebrews, Christians, Platonists, etc. According to this view, history is predetermined and fulfills itself in phases of various lengths. In the Hebrew book of Jubilees a "year" is 49 years, for example. In another culture a 4-phase historical cycle may involve completely different time scales. The Hebrews tended to see their "Great Year" cycles as successive renewals with God's covenant through prophets like Moses, with alternating cycles where the covenant is broken and people suffer, the explanation given as not following God's laws. Everyone is certainly familiar with how Christians believe their destiny will be fulfilled!

The author of "The Great Year" argues that history is not predetermined, that human behavior and events are not so predictable, and that historians often bias their accounts using various filters, especially the theory that history and humanity are always progressing.

Very broadly speaking, what the author seeks to accomplish in this very large survey are three things: 1) To define "The Great Year" concept and pinpoint how and when it manifested itself in various cultures. Millenarian movements in Christianity and other cultures are discussed thoroughly. Some readers may be surprised at how widespread and pervasive milleniarism has been over time in many cultures and religions. 2) To show that historians who view history in terms of progress are in error. Karl Popper wrote a book called "The Poverty of Historicism" that Campion and others have cited to show that historical accounts are often biased by false preconceptions. 3) To demonstrate that a number of currents in history, such as Marxism, are actually millenarian movements themselves, describing history in their own terms of fulfillment of their predetermined goals.

I feel that the author suceeds very well with these aims. I was particularly impressed with his insight in observing that adherents of the more modern movements such as Marxism and Nazism indeed act exactly like those who claim that a select group of people will be "saved" because they believe in a "Saviour," that history is following their version of a predetermined conclusion.

In the end, however, I found parts of this otherwise excellent book unsatisfactory because the author, while accurately depicting the fallacies of other historical views, himself falls into what I would call the trap of reason, that reason and material "proof" are the sole arbiters of "truth."

In the first part of the book Mr. Campion critisizes Jung for the latter's writings which stated that excessive materialism had corrupted mankind and made it more bellicose, hence 2 world wars in an era of great technological progress. He claims that there is no "proof." It's a shame that Dr. Jung can't defend himself, as I'm certain he could. But let me say, if the lack of spiritual values - compassion, tolerance, humility, a bond with something Divine, etc., which have in no way kept up with our material development in this century - is not one of the major causes of our almost total preoccupation with materialism, then we might as well discard the timeless teachings of many teachers, theologians, and others, who have attempted to bring some civility and purpose into this often Godless, corrupted world. Personally I am not willing to do this.

I also found the author's attack on "New Age" thinkers, like Helen Blavatsky and others, only too typical of the trite criticisms of materialistic thinkers. I even checked out one of his sources, who wrote a trilogy debunking Blavatsky and others (I can't remember the author's name), and parts of the 2 books I perused were in my opinion sadly failed attempts to attack the messangers while not attempting to take on the far more difficult and important task of evaluating their messages. Not at all surprising, for how can we "prove" that there is a God, or that there are Masters of Wisdom, karma, reincarnation, etc., which would point to some spiritual meaning for life? There are those who try to prove these things, even doctors, scientists, etc., but from what I could tell from this book, to Mr. Campion and his sources it's doubtful that any proof would ever suffice. To me a purely materialistic reading of history, where there is no ultimate Purpose and meaning - which I would claim can be pursued by trying to grow spiritually, often through multiple physical incarnations - is itself in one important sense lacking in purpose.

A Challenging Read.......1997-11-07

Campion convincingly ties together the stands of historism, astrology, and millenarianism into a tapestry spanning time from Babylon to modern Marxism, seeking to explain how ancient beliefs about the cosmos have influcenced modern views of the future. The amount of material the author marshals is truly impressive.

The Great Year: Astrology, Millenarianism and History in the Western Tradition

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The Great Year: Astrology, Millenarianism and History in the Western Tradition
Nicholas Campion
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ7S3E

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Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the eighteenth century, and here the author examines travel on the continent, the so-called Grand Tour.

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Help Your Next History Project!.......2000-03-26

I absolutely adore this book! It is so thorough and will give you the most generic yet magnificent facts on whatever you need to know about the Grand Tour. You can definately use this if you're a history buff! It's easy to understand and fascinating...

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Donna T. Andrew
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 804 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. (book reviews)
Author: Donna T. Andrew
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1993
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v28 Issue: n3 Page: p587(2)

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The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century
Jeremy Black
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTC672

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There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects

Pharmacology Demystified covers the practical aspects of pharmacology that you need to master to become a healthcare or nursing professional. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.

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This author knows his stuff........2007-08-08

As a student, I found this book extremely helpful. It removes a great deal of confusion, enabling the reader to truly understand the concepts. I found this very helpful. I liked the fact that there were quizzes at the end of each chapter (great for review or just to get key points) and a final exam at the end.

Still Mystified.......2007-07-19

I bought the book with the intent to fill in gaps in my knowledge. When I recieved the book a few weeks ago, I glanced at it for ten minutes and noticed many spelling errors and what I consider to be a couple serious content errors. For example: On page 283, the phrase "fight or flight" has been split by the author to describe both sympathetic (fight) and parasympathic (flight) responses, (the author does indicate that this isn't entirely sensible). However, the physiologist, Walter Cannon, coined the phrase "fight or flight" in the early 1900's to describe just the sympathetic response of the autonomic nervous system (your body is stimulated to deal with danger -- to fight or run away). Likewise the phrase "Rest and Repose" can describe the parasympathetic response. If I had been unaware of this basic physiology this book would have confused me about the basic understanding of the autonomic nervous system.

Because I found content error in the information I do feel I know, I am hesitant to trust the content of the book which would be new to me.

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Pharmacology Demystified
Mary Kamienski
Manufacturer: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COM
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K3X69O

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3290 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arsenic and your playground: the 2004 voluntary phase-out of arsenic-treated wood is giving park and recreation departments nationwide new reason to evaluate their parks.
Author: Richard J. Dolesh
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Page: 60(8)

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