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Changes in Leisure Time
World Tourism Organization , and World Tourism Organization Manufacturer: World Tourism Organization Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9284403162 |
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Recreation and Leisure: Issues in an Era of Change
Thomas L. Goodale , and Peter A. Witt Manufacturer: Venture Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 091025110X |
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Time Out, for a change: a program that helps reduce violence in youth sports programs.: An article from: Parks & Recreation
Greg Bach Manufacturer: National Recreation and Park Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FNG1W Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1044 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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Changes in time spent at work and leisure: The Swedish experience, 1984-1993 (Memorandum)
Lennart Flood Manufacturer: Gothenburg University, School of Economics and Commercial Law ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006F79PI |
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Day camping and leisure time recreation activities for the mentally retarded (Pursuit of change series, monograph)
Louis H Orzack Manufacturer: Parents and Friends of Mentally Retarded Children of Bridgeport ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DSST0 |
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Understanding United States Government Growth: An Empirical Analysis of the Postwar Era
William D. Berry , and David Lowery Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0275925099 |
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Understanding United States Government Growth develops and tests alternative explanations of government growth since World War II. It opens with an analysis of debate about the causes and consequences of government growth, including the excessive government view that the public sector has grown beyond the scope demanded by citizens due to its own structural defects, and the responsive interpretation that government has gown because it has reacted appropriately to external public demands. The authors review the major political and economic explanations for government growth and criticize earlier empirical attempts to test these explanations. In the second half of the book, they distinguish four components of government growth: growth in the cost of government and growth in the scope of government activities in three domains--transfer payments, domestic purchases, and defense purchases. Both responsive and excessive explanations of each of these components of growth are developed and tested to allow an evaluation of the validity of the two contrasting views about "big government".
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Understanding United States Government Growth: An Empirical Analysis of the Postwar Era
William D. Berry; David Lowery Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQU4JC |
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A Working Relationship: The Job Development Specialist's Guide to Successful Partnerships With Business
Ellen S. Fabian , Richard G. Luecking , and George P. Tilson Manufacturer: Brookes Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 155766157X |
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Life Is a Zoo: No Matter What Side of the Cage You're on
Gary Richmond Manufacturer: Servant Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0892837608 |
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1001 Blues Licks: For All Treble Clef Instruments
Manufacturer: Cherry Lane Music ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1575605368 |
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1001 Blues Licks presents 1001 riffs in a variety of blues styles to be played within the standard 12-bar format. This is the ideal book for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow encyclopedia of blues licks, as well as consummate professionals who want to take their knowledge of the blues to new heights.Customer Reviews:
Great Value.......2007-07-16
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The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
George Yúdice , and George Yúdice Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0822331683 |
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The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yúdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and instead develops an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where âhighâ culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries’ gross national products.
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Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era.
George Yudice Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M4OSQQ |
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Dynasty High: A guide to TV's "Dynasty"
Billie Rae Bates Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1594577137 Release Date: 2004-09-17 |
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How many rooms are in the Carrington mansion? And just how many last names DOES Alexis have? The classic primetime TV soap "Dynasty" enthralled millions of viewers over many seasons on ABC. Now you can have all the fun facts of the Carringtons and Colbys at your fingertips with this definitive reference guide, DYNASTY HIGH. The first printed edition of the BRBTV reference series on classic 1980s TV shows, DYNASTY HIGH includes an exhaustive cast list, character guide, episode guide, fun and useless information, birthdays of the stars, merchandise of the show, and much more. BRBTV has been a solid reference source on TV shows such as "Dynasty" since 1998. Don't miss out on this print edition of DYNASTY HIGH -- a must for any "Dynasty" fan! You can learn more about the author and her other fun-fact reference guides, which focus on "Dallas," "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Santa Barbara," at www.brbtv.com.Customer Reviews:
Billie Rae Bates has written an excellent book.......2006-04-09
Different kind of book.......2006-04-01
Not much bang for the buck.......2006-03-28
Very disappointing book.......2005-10-24
Clever.......2005-03-15
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Mastering AutoCAD 2002 Premium Edition
George Omura Manufacturer: Sybex ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0782129064 |
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The Classic AutoCAD Authority--Updated and Filled with Bonus CoverageCustomer Reviews:
Could be worse.......2003-09-23
Another major complaint is that this book is loaded with typos and errors. Clearly it was not proofread. Numbers in examples don't add up (example: last paragraph on p. 221: two times twelve is NOT forty-eight), assumptions are made about all settings being in their default positions (not safe if you're using someone else's computer) and commands that have not yet been covered are referred to. In the chapter on AutoLISP both the first and the second example programs have typos in them and if you don't have a programming background you could tear your hair out trying to figure out what you're doing wrong. I started to keep a list of all the errors I found, but it seems there's one every couple of pages. (Incidentally, I didn't find a single typo in David Frey's book, and I went through the entire thing.)
Finally I should mention the CD-ROM. The first thing this CD-ROM did was crash the computer I was using. After rebooting--twice--it still crashed when trying to run the installation program. This was running a recent installation of Windows ME with over 500MB of RAM. I was able to copy the example files off the disc manually, but this whole package clearly meets a very low standard of quality assurance.
Fortunately I'm about at the point where I'm able to find what I need in the online documentation, and this book was not completely useless in teaching me enough to reach that point. However, I find it hard to imagine there isn't something far superior out there that I could have used instead. This book could be worse, but it's far from ideal.
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The Auto Cad 2002 Workbook: A Complete Educational and Trainging Guide for Mastering 2d Applications of Autocad 2002
Manufacturer: Stipes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1588741516 |
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War For the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam
Ed Cobleigh Manufacturer: Berkley Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0425202445 |
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War-from 25,000 feet up.Customer Reviews:
Great 'no BS' account of the air war in vietnam.......2007-09-24
It was like my own diary.......2007-08-04
Red Badge of Courage redux..........2007-07-11
I concur.......2006-08-27
What the Captain means is..........2006-08-26
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One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (The Global Century Series)
David Reynolds Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393321088 |
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"Writing a global history of the second half of this century is, of course, an impossible task."You've got to give Cambridge fellow David Reynolds credit for such frankness, but it certainly didn't stop him from setting out to accomplish the impossible. Thankfully, Reynolds succeeds brilliantly, as becomes quickly clear from this marvelous, unbelievably readable 860-page survey, roughly bookended by the Berlin blockade and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The project is impossible, "of course," thanks to the subject's staggering size and complexity, but Reynolds takes this in stride, admits his limitations, and digs into a robust, good-spirited, and even-handed analysis, intimidating as a whole but approachable and engaging in its parts.
One World Divisible does tackle it all--the political, social, and cultural changes of an era that witnessed ever-increasing unity, interconnectedness, and globalization. All the usual suspects--the cold war, the decolonization of Africa and Asia, the rebirth of post-war Germany and Japan--get predictably thorough treatment, but Reynolds also takes on the "feminist earthquake" of women's lib and the pill, examines how advances in electronics and genetics far outweighed the impact of exploiting the atom, and even tracks the global spread of "Coca-colonization" and rock & roll. Through it all, Reynolds's readable voice and thoughtful organization keep you reading; discrete, intuitive chapters such as "Israel, Oil, and Islam," "Color, Creed, and Coups," and "Chips and Genes" give you just enough to chew on along the way. A fine beginning to W.W. Norton's ambitious Global Century series. --Paul Hughes
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Global change has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in the last half-century. The trajectory of change points in different directions, with the world growing at once more interconnected and more fragmented. Commerce and migrations, television and the World Wide Web suggest a story of growing interconnection, while at the same time the proliferation of nation-states and the divisions rooted in religion, race, and material inequality tell of separation and conflict. David Reynolds's brilliant history captures both themes and grounds them vividly in the people and events of the last fifty years. Reynolds captures the great political events: the Cold War, the Chinese revolution, independence movements, Vietnam, and the fall of the Soviet Union, and broader developments: economic and population growth, the spread of cities, vast technological change, genetic manipulation, and the creation of a digital world. Carefully avoiding an encyclopedic approach, Reynolds integrates these themes into a narrative with authority, vision, and style. A volume in the Global Century series, books by outstanding scholars on the history of the world in the twentieth century--general editor, Paul Kennedy. 24 pages of illustrations.Customer Reviews:
MAGNIFICENT SERVICE.......2007-04-07
well done book marred by bias.......2002-12-06
However, for all its utility and detail, Reynolds' political opinions appear far too often--enough that it detracts from the book. Certain words and phrases (such as family values) receive the scornful, mocking quotation marks that academics often use. The tobacco industry is attacked. The American gun lobby is also criticized, and their positions result from a "selective reading of the Second Amendment." The Reagan administration, among other things, is termed "fanatically antigreen." "Many" senior Republicans who sought to impeach Clinton were also adulterers. Samuel Huntington is reduced to an opponent of multiculturalism. Margaret Thatcher responded to the Falklands crisis not only with resolution but also "relish." Vietnam protesters were "dignified."
I am also not quite convinced that his linking of various fundamentalisms (the American Christian Right with Islamic fundamentalists, for example) is appropriate or accurate. And his paean to series editor Paul Kennedy was a bit overdone. Beyond the political bias and some minor flaws of analysis, the book functions fairly well at least as a timeline and also as a generally cohesive picture of the past 50 years.
Simply great.......2001-04-14
One World Divisible; idea of global society - risible.......2001-03-13
In steering away from focusing on cultural influences in world history Reynolds gives us his own personal cultural perspective. The book, he says, is "a limited and personal view"; personal being that of a white middle-aged English academic. The world view of many historians fitting this description sees the cold war as the fulcrum on which all latter 20th century history rests. Not so with Reynolds. He sees this as Western self satisfaction and a blinkered view of history and he certainly does not see victory in the cold war as any great portent for the West. There is a much broader view here, and a wealth of knowledge about the wider world; other worlds even, such as the 'Third World' or the developing world.
'One World Divisible' is encyclopedic; it's full of statistics, tables, dates and mini biographies of world leaders. The amount of data available, strangely enough, is one of the weaknesses of the book. Reynolds has an easy narrative style and a dry sense of humor that make reading enjoyable, but the humor is not able to hold out for the distance - over 800 pages, and the narrative can't quite bring all the data together neatly enough. In the end the book suffers from the same fate as Reynolds' history - coming together but also apart - one book divisible.
competent book but has significant flaws.......2000-07-17
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One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (The Global Century Series)
David Reynolds Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUBIUE |
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Cognitive Systems: Human Cognitive Models In Systems Design
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0805852913 |
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The leading thinkers from the cognitive science tradition participated in a workshop sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories in July of 2003 to discuss progress in building their models. The goal was to summarize the theoretical and empirical bases for cognitive systems and to present exemplary developments in the field. Following the workshop, a great deal of planning went into the creation of this book. Eleven of the twenty-six presenters were asked to contribute chapters, and four chapters are the product of the breakout sessions in which critical topics were discussed among the participants. An introductory chapter provides the context for this compilation. Cognitive Systems thus presents a unique merger of cognitive modeling and intelligent systems, and attempts to overcome many of the problems inherent in current expert systems. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, computational modeling, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.
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Cognitive engineering models a prerequisite to the design of human-computer interaction in complex dynamic systems (SuDoc NAS 1.26:193472)
Christine M. Mitchell Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010K1KS |
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Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem (Environmental Science)
Manufacturer: CABI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0851996337 |
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Currently there is great concern about over-fishing and the effects of fisheries on other marine organisms. This book addresses ecological and environmental issues associated with responsible and sustainable marine fisheries. It includes 20 chapters and has been developed from an international conference and concurrent symposium held in Iceland in October 2001. Contributors include leading international authorities from around the world.
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Reykjavik declaration on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem *: October 18, 2001. (Documents).: An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
Manufacturer: Kluwer Law International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IPAW2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, published by Kluwer Law International on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1420 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.Books:
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