The Canadian Ecotourism Market: Special Report #15 (Market Intelligence and Promotion Section - Sustainable Development of Tourism Section)

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This timely book provides an authoritative analysis of the pension reform process in nine countries, namely Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and USA, with Japan being covered in the introduction by the editors. The book draws on the work of experts from each of these countries to provide a picture of how the pension systems work in each country.

The contributors examine the policy reform process in each country, against the background of the fiscal stresses arising from the aging populations in OECD countries. They also analyze whether different types of pension delivery systems (e.g. the public-private mix) generate different standards of living. Each study is prepared according to a common template allowing meaningful analysis of pension delivery and outcomes across countries using similar macroeconomic statistics and microdata.

Pension Systems and Retirement Incomes across OECD Countries is an extremely valuable and empirically sound book on a highly topical subject. It will appeal to scholars of economics, public policy, political science and finance as well as being of great interest to policymakers and practitioners involved in pension fund management.

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This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date and thoughtful account of "work time reduction" which is being increasingly discussed and experimented with in many countries, particularly in Western Europe. The idea embraces an innovative range of possibilities, including a shorter working week, early retirement, and parental leave. The author argues that work time reduction can contribute to reducing ecological stress as an environmentally sound response to unemployment (some 35 million people are jobless in OECD countries) and by encouraging new notions of progress based on more free time rather than more material consumption. The author explores the political, economic, and cultural obstacles to be overcome.

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Saving Mother Earth.......2000-11-01

This book adds a powerful new dimension to the array of arguments for reducing hours of work. Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet stands out for that reason from the recent stream of books advocating cutting the hours of work. Hayden shares the concerns of many writers - job creation, improved quality of life for the employed, balancing work and family, and equity between North and South and men and women - but adds a compelling environmental basis for cutting working time. It is among the very best books on the subject of working time.

The stress that consumption in the North puts on the Earth's ecology is the main concern of the book but make no mistake: This book is about cutting the hours that we work.

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Excellent for Keeping a Record.......2005-07-03

It was a gift from my roommate when I was a music major in college. It definitely doesn't add up to simply buying staff paper when composing, transposing, and all that fun stuff. However, I found this book extremely valuable when I was just trying to organize all of my songs that I was recording at the time.

My only complaint - and one that I saw in another review - is that there is simply not enough room for some of my longer songs/lyrics. There is a lined area in the back, though, where I have been able to add additional verses to songs or notes.

Sorely Mistaken..........2005-02-05

I bought this because I thought it would be full of staff paper with little quotes on the side every now and then.

What I got was a book of fancy, overpriced lined paper with boxes for guitar chords. I bought two of them (Musicians and Lyricists, because I am a trumpet player as well as a songwriter) and now I'm losing money to ship them back!

If you are looking for a notebook with staff paper in it, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BOOK, NOR ANY OF THE SIMILAR BOOKS BY THIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. If I wanted lined paper, I would have gone to OfficeMax.

mike vocal.......2003-09-16

it's a full time job writing songs and watching kids and caring for scummy, so please buy the book!

Exellant!.......2003-01-21

This helped me write music so easily. I would simply give it five stars!

Fantastic.......2002-11-29

Don't listen to the other [people] who gave this a negative review, they were probably thinking that this book would teach them to play. What this book is, is simply a space to write out music with blank chord charts, treble clef lines, bass clef lines, and even room for tablature too. On each page is a quote from many well known musicians and the quotes were chosen very well. My only complaint is that the book is too small for the ammount of music writing I do but my handy photocopier can fix that in a jiff.

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Frantz Fanon was a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria's struggle for independence. Since his untimely death in 1961, Fanon's intellectual reputation has grown on the strength of influential works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth with their incisive insights into issues of race and colonialism.

Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives addresses Fanon's extraordinary, often controversial writings, and examines the ways in which his work can shed light on contemporary issues in cultural politics. With sections addressing debates around gender and sexual politics, contemporary cultural studies, and the possibility for a new cultural politic which embraces Fanon's work, this collection offers new directions for cultural and political thought in the postcolonial era.

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Four Jazz Lives (Jazz Perspectives)
A.B. Spellman
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book)

ASIN: 0472089676

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Black Recreation, A Historical Perspective

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Black Recreation, A Historical Perspective
Jearold Winston Holland
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Pastimes: The Context of Contemporary Leisure

ASIN: 0830415769

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While the black experience in America has been told in many ways, it has seldom, if ever, been substantially addressed from the play, recreation, and leisure perspective. That is the primary intent of Black Recreation: A Historical Perspective. Leisure and recreation activities are an important measure of quality of life of happiness, wealth, and health. Historical interpretation, accurately presented, can help give individuals a better sense of identity of who they are and how far they have come. Both minority and majority readers will benefit from broad-based analysis of the recreational activities and effects they had on American culture as a whole.

The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics

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The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics
Patrick Taylor
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Perspectives of Black Popular Culture
Harry B. Shaw
Manufacturer: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr
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It's official. Farscape is simply the most highly acclaimed sci-fi show on TV. Following the massive success of volumes one and two, Farscape: The Illustrated Season 3 Companion continues Titan's bestselling series with in-depth coverage of the show's most exciting year so far. With unprecedented access to the show's stars and production team (including Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon), the book takes an exclusive, detailed look behind the scenes, and also includes an episode guide to the whole of season three, with a look ahead to season four... It's a must for all Scapers!

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When it comes time to show off your digital photographs, you want them to look as professional as possible. No more portraits of Mom marred by bad lighting, no more of those baby shots of a lifetime ruined by a rumpled collar. This essential guide to Photoshop Elements 4 gives you the best techniques for enhancing and retouching your photos, and encourages you to unleash your creativity on your photo projects. Sample files downloadable from http://www.peachpit.com/50coolwaysPSE4 let you re-create effects and techniques relating to nearly every aspect of digital photography, including repairing old photographs, fixing lighting and color problems, producing professional-looking slide shows with music and pan-and-zoom effects, creating photo panoramas, and much more. This revised edition illuminates tools that are new to Photoshop Elements, such as the Adjust Skin Tone command, Magic Selection tool and Magic Extractor, and includes coverage on the more robust Organizer and Slide Show features. In just a matter of hours, award-winning photographer Dave Huss will have you producing better pictures than you ever thought possible.

Use professional techniques for quickly fixing your pictures: cropping, removing red-eye, sharpening, and correcting lighting and color problems
Create dazzling slide shows with Hollywood-style effects with the redesigned Slide Show Editor -Use the Photo Organizer to keep track of your ever-expanding library of digital images
Use a variety of tools and techniques to turn average photos into stunning masterpieces
Give photos a hand-tinted look, sculpt them into unique shapes, simulate natural-media paintings, and generally make digital scrapbooking more fun
Create glamour shots like a pro, using retouching secrets for removing wrinkles and unwanted pounds -Stitch several images together for dramatic panorama prints

This book is for Windows users only.

DAVE HUSS is a photographer with 40 years of experience. He has taught classes in digital photography and photo editing in the U.S. and Europe, and his numerous books on these topics have been translated into six languages. He has been honored frequently for his photo work, receiving awards in international competitions including the Grand Prize for his photo-montage work at the Corel International Design Contest. A contributing editor for Photoshop User magazine, he has also appeared on CNN and TechTV.

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50 Ways to Create Cool Pictures.......2006-08-28

I used the same book for Photoshop Elements 3 in a class this summer. It is easy to use with all the steps pictured nicely. I would recommend this for anyone who wants to understand Photoshop Elements.

BIG HELP........2006-02-25

Really a great book and speaks in laymans terms, not talking over my head as so many books do. Has been a really big asset in getting down to the basics of Adobe and in terms we can all understand. Thanks for a great book on the subject.

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The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skilfully edited primary source material for historians. The â€~Camden Miscellanyâ€™ collections contain a variety of shorter documents and papers. This volume contains texts from the eleventh to the early fifteenth centuries concerning the Conquest, the church and chivalry, together with a short chronicle. The texts are edited by Elisabeth van Houts, the late H. S. Offler (prepared for publication by A. J. Piper and A. I. Doyle), Jill Hughes, Maurice Keen and Mark Warner, Jeremy Catto and Linne Mooney.

CHRONOLOGY, CONQUEST AND CONFLICT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: CAMDEN MISCELLANY XXXIV

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CHRONOLOGY, CONQUEST AND CONFLICT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: CAMDEN MISCELLANY XXXIV
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ASIN: B000S8GN0K

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The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the 1910 census only seven percent of the metropolitan population claimed that they spoke primarily German. The study uses census returns, extensive police and bureaucratic records, newspaper accounts, and memoirs on local social and political life to show how the German minority and the Czech majority developed demographically and economically in relation to each other and created separate social and political lives for their group members. The study carefully traces the roles of occupation, class, religion, and political ideology in the formation of German group loyalties and social solidarities.

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This book presents the concepts needed to deal with self-organizing complex systems from a unifying point of view that uses macroscopic data. The various meanings of the concept "information" are discussed and a general formulation of the maximum information (entropy) principle is used. With the aid of results from synergetics, adequate objective constraints for a large class of self-organizing systems are formulated and examples are given from physics, life and computer science. The relationship to chaos theory is examined and it is further shown that, based on possibly scarce and noisy data, unbiased guesses about processes of complex systems can be made and the underlying deterministic and random forces determined. This allows for probabilistic predictions of processes, with applications to numerous fields in science, technology, medicine and economics. The extensions of the third edition are essentially devoted to an introduction to the meaning of information in the quantum context. Indeed, quantum information science and technology is presently one of the most active fields of research at the interface of physics, technology and information sciences and has already established itself as one of the major future technologies for processing and communicating information on any scale.

This book addresses graduate students and nonspecialist researchers wishing to get acquainted with the concept of information from a scientific perspective in more depth. It is suitable as a textbook for advanced courses or for self-study.

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physics approach.......2000-09-01

Self-Organization is not the function given to a neural net (although they have taken it) used for pattern recognition, nor is it a cult somewhere in Germany. After following Haken's work for 6-8 years it is good to see a summary of sorts. Haken was working with self-organizing similarities in the 80's when unification ideas were rampant. Haken uses this same analogy by equating the basic form to stochastic differential equations. It is somewhat easier to approach the differential equation as a dynamical system driven by random vector fields of which the Ito form (stuff Kalman filters are made of) is a special case. Without going into martingales Brownian motion ergodic theorems of Markovian processes Haken does give a convincing argument for what he terms MIP (max. information principle) and information gain in the system. Linguistically converted this means that the process may be likened to a diffusion process with thermodynamic stuff. This paves the way for the transfer of information from one organization structure diffusion (in the wave) front to another. It seems to me, however, that a much simpler proof would be; show the parallel between Haken's basic form and the Lax form of an evolution equation. Establish relationship to Hirota's derivatives. Usually represented and manifested as the Korteweg-deVrie equations the polynomials groups describing the equation easily convert to Hiroto derivatives. Show fundamental relationship to n-solitons and vertex operators, establish relationship to Heisenberg and Clifford algebras, show Fock representation of Bosons using Maya diagrams, show Boson-Fermion correspondence. Complex variables, infinite dimensional algebras, Fermions, and Bosons; The principle of superposition does not apply to non-linear waves, despite that there exists exact solutions containing an arbitrary number of parameters suggesting an infinite dimensional transformation group acting on spaces of solutions of integrable systems (Reaction-diffusion as one type shock waves as another). Because of this self-symmetry in scales of complex polynomials, transformational methods work well. If waves are information densities and an increase in entropy is an increase of information Hiroto's derivatives would give the mathematical link showing the degrees of information transfer between types of diffusion front (waves) and another. The similarity of scales, the repeating nature, then transfer of one wave front (diffusion) through another without annihilation.

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Controversy surrounding environmental issues is not a recent development in American history. Since the time of the early settlers, issues concerning the environment have plagued certain groups of Americans. In this exhaustively researched study, primary documents support different sides of various questions, such as the use of water as an energy source, deforestation, gold mining in California, and the emergence of wildlife conservation. High school and college students will not only find this book extremely comprehensive, but will also find its heated discussions exceptionally engaging. Some of the major topics covered include: BLDifferences between the way Native Americans and early settlers treated the land BLThe Land Ordinance of 1785 BLThomas Jefferson's views about the land BLThe commercial progress of New England river valleys BLAct establishing the Adirondack Forest Preserve in 1885 BLTheodore Roosevelt's thoughts on forest conservation BLThe pros and cons of hydraulic gold mining BLThe near-extinction of the North American bison BLThe Lacey Act Magoc's book will prove an essential asset for all American history students.

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