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RISK RUIN AND RICHES Powell Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Board book General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books Investments | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0025985302

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Risk, Ruin & Riches Inside the World of Big-Time Real Estate Jim Powell Manufacturer: MacMillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GQUBLQ

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RISK RUIN AND RICHES Powell Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8XHNK

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Angel Diary Volume 3 (Angel Diary) YunHee Lee , and Kara Manufacturer: Ice Kunion ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books | Alternate History | Anthologies | Arthurian | Contemporary | Epic | General | Historical | History & Criticism | Magic & Wizards | Series Similar Items: Angel Diary Volume 2 (Angel Diary) Angel Diary Volume 4 (Angel Diary) Angel Diary Volume 5 (Angel Diary) Angel Diary Volume 1 (Angel Diary) Bring It On! Volume 2 (Bring It On! (Ice Kunion)) ASIN: 8952744829

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Average customer rating: Yum, yum! An exquisitely photographed appitite inducing volume. Fine food pardody makes you wince & laugh at the same time.

Critter Cuisine Mary A. Clayton Manufacturer: Longstreet Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books Cooking | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books Parodies | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books General | Cooking, Food & Wine | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Cooking | Humor | Entertainment | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books General | Humor | Entertainment | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Parodies | Humor | Entertainment | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books ASIN: 1563523566

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Yum, yum!.......2007-01-04

An exquisitely photographed appitite inducing volume........1999-07-08

Fine food pardody makes you wince & laugh at the same time........1997-10-01

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Big Brother International: Format, Critics and Publics Manufacturer: Wallflower Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Movies | Entertainment | Subjects | Books General | Television | Entertainment | Subjects | Books History & Criticism | Television | Entertainment | Subjects | Books General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books General | Performing Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books ASIN: 1904764185

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Since its inception, Big Brother has been versioned in over thirty countries and reached an estimated audience of over two billion. The first of its kind, this book includes essays from international contributors that integrate the academic disciplines of cinema studies, sociology, cultural and critical studies. Additionally, it considers the reception and impact of the series, and how different regions adopt the format to suit local cultural concerns and achieve commercial success. The book functions not only as a discussion of one single television program but also as a reflection on the medium's history and future, and its impact on popular culture. It is useful for students, scholars, people involved in the planning and production of television formats, and everyone interested in the function of contemporary television in society.

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In Search of Ulster-scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603-1703 Barry Aron Vann Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | State & Local | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books South | State & Local | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books General | Colonial Period | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books General | Americas | History | Subjects | Books General | World | History | Subjects | Books Cultural | Anthropology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 1570037086

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Transatlantic Scots Manufacturer: University Alabama Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Popular Culture | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Cultural | Anthropology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Anthropology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Ethnic Studies | Special Groups | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books Scotland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books ASIN: 0817352406

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Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish Manufacturer: University of Alabama Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | 19th Century | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books General | Colonial Period | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books General | Americas | History | Subjects | Books Scotland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books 19th Century | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books Tudor & Stuart | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | Ireland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books Troubles | Ireland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books Civil Rights & Liberties | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Cultural | Anthropology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Emigration & Immigration | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books General | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Culture | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books Emigration & Immigration | Administrative Law | Law | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0817308237

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Mob Rule: A Lethal Game of Monopoly Ssi Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books Action & Adventure | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0671046632

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A real time strategy game with full simulation play.

Over 40 unique & upgradable buildings, from Saloons to Nightclubs to Brothels.

Microsoft compatible Mouse

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Mob Rule: A Lethal Game of Monopoly Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster (Software) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0671774891

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The Godfather helps those who help themselves!

A real time strategy game with full simulation play.

Over 40 unique & upgradable buildings, from Saloons to Nightclubs to Brothels.

• Three troops -- Thugs, Repairmen and Gangsters -- to realize your vision of criminal conquest.
• "Undesirables" ranging from ghosts to pool hall Hoodlums -- to chase your enemies out of their buildings and businesses.
• Ten quirky Tenants to run your businesses!
• Multiple resources -- from Cement Works, Brick Factories and Steel Foundries to Gadget Factories -- to manage and use in the construction of your evil empire!

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Minimum configuration:

• Windows® 95
• Pentium 166 Processor or higher
• 16MB RAM
• 2MB PC Graphics card
• 4x CD-ROM drive
• 50MB of free Hard drive space
• Soundblaster or 100% compatible sound card with Direct X Support
• Microsoft compatible Mouse

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• Windows® 95
• Pentium 266 Processor or higher
• 32MB RAM
• 2MB PCI Graphics card
• 8x CD-ROM drive
• 400MB Hard drive space
• Soundblaster or 100% compatible sound card with Direct X Support
• Microsoft compatible Mouse

Average customer rating: Wrong platform Excellent strategy guide! The extras to this guide make this guide EXTRA special Honestly, the best strategy guide I ever read -- EVER! Slightly flawed, but worthwhile

The Bard's Tale (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) Kaizen Media Group Manufacturer: Prima Games ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Strategy Guides | Games & Strategy Guides | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Video Games | Games & Strategy Guides | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books Video & Electronic Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books Look Inside Computer Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Entertainment Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: The Bard's Tale Bards Tale Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) The Bards Tale Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets ASIN: 0761545646 Release Date: 2004-10-26

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A legendary series returns . . . and gets the game guide it deserves!
·Combat tactics, puzzle solutions, Bard leveling tips, and more!
·Fully labeled maps of every area!
·Complete stats on weapons, monsters, and tunes!
·All unlockables and secrets revealed, including extra dungeons, bonus art, movie and song galleries, and Cheat Mode!
·Overview of the original Bard's Tale series!
·Extensive interview with the inXile production staff!

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Wrong platform.......2006-04-15

I have the XP version of "The Bard's Tale" on CD ROM. This guide is for the PS2/Xbox version. It's a completely different game.

Excellent strategy guide!.......2005-09-11

The Official Strategy Guide plays to the same snarky theme as The Bard's Tale game does. It's sarcastic, witty, very thorough and well-written.

The main part of the guide is a walk-through of the game, with maps of ALL areas, info on enemies encountered in each area, and full explanations of the way your choices affect the game. Also included in the appendixes are information on the various enemies and what "goodies" they drop when you kill them, info on all the weapons and armor in the game, and info on the tokens, artifacts, and tunes you acquire. There's a quick interview with the game's creators and a couple of pages about the original Bard's Tale PC games.

All around, it's a great guide, very easy to follow and set up logically. Well worth the low price!

The extras to this guide make this guide EXTRA special.......2005-01-30

As a fan of Prima for a long time, I was surprised how this guide did not have Prima's logo emblazoned on the top front cover. It looked more like a sacred tome than than a guide. I knew this guide was going to be special, so for only the third time in my life, I bought the guide before buying the game (Grandia II and Legend of Zelda Oracles of Seasons were the others!!!). It had all the great features that you'd expect from an Official Prima guide and helped me beat the game. But, what set it apart is how the writing of the guide complimented the writing in the game; both made me laugh. There were also interesting facts interspersed throughout...one of the few times I felt smarter from reading a strategy guide. Now, if there were just a strategy guide for current events...

Don't forget to check out the "know your ales" section at the end.

Honestly, the best strategy guide I ever read -- EVER!.......2005-01-30

This guide has really imprinted on my mind why Prima guides are the best. Seriously, this is the best written and most attractively designed and layed out strategy guide I have ever read.

I'm glad they didn't waste time including a lot of ridiculous extras, such as a world map, that every cookie-cutter guide throws in, but which don't really add anything in the context of a game. In this game, for example, a world map would have been a complete and ridiculous waste of time. Instead, this guide includes rich and textures features that are actually RELEVANT to the game! The lay out is fantastic, cream of the crop. The writing is crisp and clever, I absolutely loved it.

This guide actually made me more excited about owning and playing this game. This guide doesn't just supplement the game, it complements it.

I have read A LOT of strategy guides. I think with this edition, Prima pulls out ahead. I look forward to many more efforts with this great team of editors and craftsmen that it must have taken to put this book together.

My highest accolades, Prima.

Slightly flawed, but worthwhile.......2004-11-15

Prima's guides have saved me many a headache during a difficult portion of a game. That having been said, I was slightly disappointed with this guide. Several pieces of information were inacurate. I'm not sure if this is due to the fluid nature of the game or not enough product testing. A world map would have also been helpful. On the other hand, if you're stuck in The Bard's Tale, this guide is a worthwhile purchase.

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The Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to it's People, Places, History, and Culture Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover History | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Reference | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books General | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | Ireland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books Troubles | Ireland | Europe | History | Subjects | Books General | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books History | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0195216857

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Curious about Gaelic football? Ever wonder where the myth of the Leprechauns comes from or who the Molly Maguires are? Accessible, informative, and easy to use, the Encyclopedia of Ireland is a single-volume compendium of information about the Emerald Isle--its history, people, places, culture, heritage, and politics. An impressive list of scholars and writers have contributed clear and thoughtful entries on all aspects of the country--including more than 300 biographies of well-known and influential Irish people throughout history; 500 historical entries, 400 geographical entries, from towns to archaeological sites, including key sightseeing attractions; 15 chronologies on various developments in Irish history; and 200 quotations on the country and their way of life--more than 2,000 entries in all. In depth essays on key Irish themes comprise a unique feature of the encyclopedia, and provide the extra detail needed for a full understanding of Ireland's big picture. The selection of essay topics reflects the knowledge most interesting and valuable to readers, such as the "Troubles," tracing Irish ancestors, and the meaning of classic Irish symbols. Main entries on the nation's modern-day institutions, politics, and government add reliable information on today's Ireland and its place in a rapidly consolidating Europe. The book also places a special emphasis on the contributions of the Irish Diaspora, such as Irish Americans, to the rich cultural heritage of the country. Containing more than 150 historical photographs, several spectacular color-photography sections, and numerous maps and tables, the Encyclopedia of Ireland is a reference work without parallel and a necessity for everyone interested in the Emerald Isle.

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Kingdoms of the Lord: A history of the Hebrew kingdoms from Saul to the fall of Jerusalem David F Payne Manufacturer: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Asia | History | Subjects | Books | Afghanistan | Armenia | Bangladesh | Belarus | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | Central Asia | China | Far East | General | Georgia | Hong Kong | India | Indonesia | Japan | Korea | Laos | Malaysia | Maldives | Mauritius | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | Pakistan | Philippines | Russia | Seychelles | Singapore | South Asia | Southeast Asia | Sri Lanka | Taiwan | Thailand | Tibet | Turkey | Vietnam General | World | History | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0802835597

Average customer rating: Stroke of genius and other ironies

The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Science Peter Medawar Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback 20th Century | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Science | Subjects | Books General | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books Similar Items: Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought Advice To A Young Scientist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series) Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design ASIN: 019286193X

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Sir Peter Medawar was not only a Nobel prize-winning immunologist but also a wonderful writer about science and scientists. Described by the Washington Post as a `genuinely brilliant popularizer' of science, his essays are remarkable for their clarity and wit. This entertaining selection presents the very best of his writing with a new Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould, one of his greatest admirers. The wide range of subjects include Howard Florey and penicillin, J. B. S. Haldane, whom he describes as a `with-knobs-on variant of us all', and, in the title essay, scientific fraud involving laboratory mice. There is Medawar's defence of James Watson against the storm of criticism that greeted the publication of The Double Helix. A merciless debunker of myths, he reveals the nonsense to be discovered in psychoanalytic interpretations of Darwin's illness and launches devastating attacks on Arthur Koestler, IQ psychologists, and, most notably, Teilhard de Chardin. He raises questions about the nature of scientific endeavour - he famously defined science as the art of the soluble - and a common theme is his desire to communicate the importance of science to the widest possible audience.

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Stroke of genius and other ironies.......2007-03-04

In his introduction (written in 1996), Stephen Jay Gould calls Peter Medawar "our century's greatest spokesman for the power and humanity of science." Certainly, he should rank near the top, but Medawar has never been as popular as some others.

It may be that his fearsomely sharp tongue frightens people. We think, If Medawar can be so scathing about (insert famous name), what might he say about us? Well, we're safe now. He died in 1987.

Or perhaps he is not romantic enough for us.

As an example of the first: "Disputants so naïve should abstain from public controversy."

Of the second: "There is poetry in science but also a lot of bookkeeping."

This collection includes some of Medawar's most famous essays and debunkings, including his evisceration of psychoanalysis; "Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?"; and his review of Teilhard's "Phenomenon of Man," which exposed a lot of prominent and self-important people -- many of them editors of powerful publications -- to be fools.

Little wonder people were careful around Medawar.

However, he had a mild side. To me, "The question of the existence of God" is the least satisfactory. Medawar did not believe in a god, but he was (uncharacteristically, some might think) inclined to be somewhat wistful about those who did. One would have expected him to have brought them to book for their crimes.

Another reason Medawar's collections of essays may not have worn so well is that many were written for an occasion (often as a book review), which led him to restate his firm positions, such as that there is no such thing as a "scientific method." True, and it very much bears repeating to each new generation. But it does not bear repeating in the same volume so well.

It is too bad Medawar (a very busy man who won a Nobel for his research and was a director of important laboratories besides) never wrote a magnum opus. The collection of essays in "Pluto's Republic" is probably his most popular and solid. The essays in "The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice" do not hang together so well, although anyone who got to know Medawar through "Republic" will want to meet the man in person in "Son of Stroke" and "On living a bit longer," products of his long period of physical debility.

Medawar was among the first to expose the vapidity of Lacan and Foucault -- though in brief fashion -- and this is so surprising coming from an active scientist, who one would have thought had little time to be plowing through turgid tomes of dubious French "scholarship." But he was always interested in what C.P. Snow called "the two cultures," and he was not shy about lampooning the fatuities of overeducated scientific illiterates: "If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility."

He died before the global warming hoax took hold, but he identified one of its vectors when he wrote "reporters want clear stories without the cagey reservations scientists are always introducing." Well, they used to do, but Medawar lived in a more careful age.

Surprisingly, toward the end of his life he was so incautious as to make predictions, four positive ones and one negative one.

"I roundly declare that within the next 10 years remedies will be found for multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes and at least two forms of cancer at present considered somewhat intractable" and "the doctrine of genetic elitism . . . is not thought likely . . . (to) ever again become a major factor in the causation of wars on a global scale."

He was mostly wrong, and, given that he was half-Arab, surprisingly so about that last one.

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Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History) Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Bibliographies & Indexes | Publishing & Books | Reference | Subjects | Books History | Bibliographies & Indexes | Publishing & Books | Reference | Subjects | Books Science | Bibliographies & Indexes | Publishing & Books | Reference | Subjects | Books General | Reference | Subjects | Books General | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Ethics | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books General | Biology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books General | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0313273774

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At a time when human numbers and technological power pose major threats to life on this planet, the need to live with restraint and respect for other life forms and natural ecosystems is increasingly recognized. This bibliography documents the evolution of wilderness consciousness in the United States from a period when the wilderness was simply a resource to be managed and exploited to the more recent development of an environmental ethic, together with scientific concerns for the preservation of essential ecosystems and levels of biodiversity. The definition of "wilderness" in the Wilderness Act of 1964 has been modified in this work to take account of both earlier attitudes and the scientific developments and philosophical issues that have surfaced in the past two and a half decades. The bibliography covers more than 300 contributions to the wilderness debate, many of which are not treated elsewhere. Lengthy annotations serve as a review of the literature as a whole and provide information on writers, content, themes, and important passages for each entry. The compiler has included such diverse literary materials as poetry, fiction, and nature writing as well as history and philosophy, scientific research, and works advocating particular wilderness uses and policies. Offering easy access to a rich and varied literature, this bibliography will be an important reference for activists, educators, researchers, and policymakers.

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Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990: An Annotated Bibliography Joan S. Elbers Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTPXOU

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