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The Italian Ecotourism Market: Special Report #13 (Special Report)
World Tourism Organization Manufacturer: World Trade Organization ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9284404967 |
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Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: National Policies Versus Global Interests
Patricia Munch Danzon Manufacturer: American Enterprise Institute Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0844739839 |
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The author examines the effect of existing foreign regulation on U.S. firms, the major producers of innovative drugs.
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Labour in the West Indies: The Birth of a Workers Movement
Arthur Lewis Manufacturer: New Beacon Books Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0901241253 |
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No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000
R. S. Gwynn Manufacturer: Story Line Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 188526691X |
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Hello to a Great Poet.......2004-05-24
He's a delight, a master, a brave soul in a world of timid poetasters. He has no fear in using traditional forms and regular rhytms to write his poems. And he is equally unafraid to skewer what Orwell called the "smelly little orthodoxies" which strangle both society in general and literature specifically. Read his "Narcissiad," the great center piece of NO WORD OF FAREWELL. It's a wonderful, dead-on swipe at the Lit Biz today, where poetry is a commodity and celebrity is preferable to excellence.
NO WORD OF FAREWELL is a generous compendium of Gwynn's work, dating back to 1970 and going up through 2000. The selections show that Gwynn is capable of most everything - satire, ballads, love poems, etc. He is a man of uncommon sense who nevertheless does not allow his level-headedness to obscure his heart. That his work is not better known is a commentary only on the present state of poetry and reading, not on R.S. Gwynn.
Nevertheless, I feel confident that when the rubbish of all the poet manques who currently crowd our magazines and college campuses is wiped away, Gwynn's work will finally emerge, a diamond in the rough finally revealed.
Please read this book and give copies to your friends. It is an inestimable source of pleasure and wisdom.
Giddy with Laughter and Wisdom.......2004-02-02
Poet Laureate of Lamar University.......2003-09-26
Wry, Intelligent, Powerful........2002-09-26
Wit and Compassion.......2001-07-31
One of the many pleasures of No Word of Farewell is seeing Gwynn's humorous poems side by side with the more serious ones. My short list of favorite poems--both funny and serious--includes "Cleante to Elmire", "The Classroom at the Mall", "At Rose's Range", "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins", "Body Bags", and "The Garden Parasol". And that's not to mention the hilarious "The Professor's Lot" (which can be sung to the melody of a certain Gilbert & Sullivan song).
This is a wonderful book of poems, filled with warmth, wit, and variety. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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David Nadien Performs Suzuki Violin School, Volume 3 (Suzuki Method Core Materials)
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 0874873487 |
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The SUZUKI METHOD of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that man is the son of his environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the mother-tongue approach. Suzuki Violin School Materials include: Violin Parts (Vol. 1-10) * Piano Accompaniments (Vol. 1-10) * Cassettes (Vol. 1-3 performed by Shinichi Suzuki, Vol. 4-8 performed by Koji Toyoda) * Compact Discs (Vol. 5-8, performed by Koji Toyoda) * David Cerone Performs Suzuki Violin School (Cassettes & Compact Discs, Vol. 1-4) * David Nadien Performs Suzuki Violin School (Cassettes and Compact Discs, Vol. 1-4). Suzuki Method Core Materials available for piano, violin, viola, cello, string bass, flute, harp, guitar, and recorder.Customer Reviews:
Great CD.......2006-08-05
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Work Quake: Who's Shaking Up Every Business Today
Liz Nickles Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0312305532 |
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=he digital age has created a self-empowered group who demandmore of their workplace and who are changing organizational behavior across the board. Based on unique and compelling research and hundreds of interviews, Work Quake is a clear-eyed look at what the workplace will be like for the rest of the 21st entury. Everyonefrom CEOs to mailroom employeesis affected by what Nickles discovered about a paradigm shift as wrenching as the Industrial Revolution. Nickles illuminates how companies and individuals react when the classic career arc has become a jgged line, the best employees are ready to walk away from it all, and convergence has blurred the line between work and personal life. Work Quake decodes the impact of a workplace generation gap and explains what that gap means for productivity, job security, and the future.
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Work Quake: Who's Shaking Up Every Business Today
Liz Nickles Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTFBFQ |
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I'm Proud To Call You My Friend: A Collection Of Special Moments Of Friendship From the Andy Griffith Show
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: B000H2MR9S |
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The Andy Griffith Show's Mayberry is America's friendliest town. "You gotta understand," says Barney, "this is a small town. The sheriff is more than just a sheriff. He's a friend. The people in this town ain't got no better friend than Andy Taylor."
I'm Proud to Call You My Friend is a gift book containing meaningful quotations and carefully chosen pictures from The Andy Griffith Show that celebrate the warmth and loyalty that comes with true friendship. And everyone is a friend in Mayberry - Andy and Barney, Goober and Gomer, Floyd and Howard Sprague, Aunt Bee and Clara, Helen Crump and Thelma Lou.
Goober: "A man's best friend is not his dog - it's people."
Floyd: "Ooh, you really get to the meat of things, Goober."
Goober: "'Course, I still love dogs."
I'm Proud to Call You My Friend is a wonderful gift for anyone you are proud to call your friend - and want to tell them so.
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"Oh, well, we're glad you think we're friendly"---Andy to the manicurist.......2006-01-27
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Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
Dan Appleman Manufacturer: Sams ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0672315904 |
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Quickly harness the full power of the Windows(R) 32-bit operating system using Visual Basic. This best-selling guide covers every key element of the core Win32 API--from Windows management and drawing operations to advanced process control and interprocess communication techniques. Dan Applemen shows you how to translate C and C++ based Win32 documentation to Visual Basic, how to port 16-bit applications to 32-bits, and how to design applications to run on different versions of Windows.Customer Reviews:
Must have for Professional VB/VBA Programmer.......2005-10-10
A must have book.......2005-01-28
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.......2002-11-20
Each chapter has at least 30% about porting from Win16 to Win32.
And book is filled with listings of forms and projects.
If you remove all this from book, the rest is less than 100 pages with confused explanations.
Do not buy this book. There are much better books around.
It's the Bible.......2002-04-24
Use this book FIRST. Then check with other sources of you need to.
dan appleman is the API god.......2002-04-03
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Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to the WIN32 API
Dan Appleman Manufacturer: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1562764462 |
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Now you can quickly harness the full power of the Windows 32-bit operating system using Visual Basic. This best-selling guide covers every key element of the core Win32 API-from window management and drawing operations to advanced process control and interprocess communication techniques. You'll learn how to translate C and C++-based Win32 documentation to Visual Basic, how to port 16-bit applications to 32-bits, and how to take advantage of new NT 4.0 features.This reference is set up so that Visual Basic is the only language you need to get the most from this book--but it does cover Win95, WinNT, Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0, and most VBA languages. In addition, save time and avoid input errors by using all the examples and sample code that is included on the disk.Customer Reviews:
Great reference book for Visual Basic programmers.......1999-07-29
Weak in Enterprise / Networking API Usage.......1999-06-12
The most part, it's a great source for reference........1999-04-16
Excellent refrence for Win32 APIs.......1999-03-27
Not at all recommended for novices.
Stuff.......1999-03-01
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Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
Dan Appleman Manufacturer: Ziff-Davis Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JJY2NI |
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Sketches of Mission Life Among the Indians of Oregon
Zachariah Atwell Mudge Manufacturer: Ye Galleon Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0877703086 |
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SKETCHES Of MISSION LIFE Among the Indians of Oregon.
[Anonymous]. Manufacturer: Published by Carlton & Phillips, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MZATTK |
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Mission To Civilize - The French Way
Mort Rosenblum Manufacturer: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1988 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NXMLBA |
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Mission to Civilize: The French Way
Mort Rosenblum Manufacturer: Harcourt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0151605807 |
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Nos Ancetres Les Gaulois (Our Ancestors, the Gauls).......2003-07-22
Rosenblum, whose experience as a journalist covers most countries and territories currently or previously administered by France, approaches this book as both critic and admirer.After cataloguing a list of French foreign policy stances which have drawn widespread outcries (including the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace movement), he writes: "But these characteristics of France, even the least admirable ones, reinforce amazing recuperative powers that allow the nation to spring back in full force from the deepest of defeats. France rests on the same old stones and slow-cooking sauces that have been survived war, occupation, and economic depression."
However, the relationship of France to its former colonies is not as simple as it might seem, as I have learned in over ten years of working in Francophone Africa. Mort Ronsenblum's book is one of the few in English and for the general reader, which attempts to describe this complex relationship. The actual extent of this empire in terms of people formerly under French administration does not come close to the former British empire. At the same time, the number of sovereign countries which today form part of "la Francophonie" is staggering, as is evident in this book, even if none of them comes close to the size of a Nigeria or India. Ronseblum notes that it is not the numbers, but rather the sense of outreach, that France seeks, quoting former President Mitterand, "We are the carriers of a culture that can have the ambition of being universal."
Rosenblum does a good job of trying to cover nearly all of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former colonies, without pretending to bring the depth and rigor of a historian. The first two parts of the book cover French history and institutions in order to provide a foundation for third part which covers la Francophonie on all continents - the Americas and Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia and the Pacific. His breezy style and chapters peppered with numerous quotes and anecdotes make for entertaining reading.
It would be interesting to speculate how this book would be rewritten in 2003. Developments since 1988 when the book came out,in France and its former colonies, have produced a new critique of France's relationships with its colonies. Sacred cows of the French establishment - including traditionally secretive abuse of public funds and influence peddling by senior politicians - have been dragged into court, all of which has also put a spotlight on the French relationship to Africa. - after other books in French such as "Francafrique" or by Africans "L'Afrique Sans La France" by a former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic. One wonders if Rosenblum would as tempted today,, as he was in 1988, to close his book with these last two sentences: "It is likely there will always be an England. It is certain there will always be a France."
Guidebook to French national character.......2003-05-18
So the existence of this overlooked gem is a boon to anyone unraveling the Gordian complexities of French national character. Rosenblum takes us through history and around the globe, from Gaul to the mid-Eighties, and from Paris to La France Profonde to her old colonies-turned-proteges to France's furthest island outposts.
With delightfully wry turns of phrase-English and French-he admires and skewers the genuine greatness and the overbearing pomposity of the French. (Of particular current interest are the doings of the then-Foreign Minister: Jacques Chirac.) He interviewed seemingly hundreds of people, relates many amusing and thought-provoking anecdotes, and generalizes aptly and fairly.
Here are a few excerpts:
"A string of crumbling French crusader forts rises from high ground across the Levant. They protect nothing and represent little power, but they are still there, after eight centuries. Like France. In North Africa, the French loom large, balanced precariously at center stage. But in the Middle East, they are nowhere and everywhere, moving within a hall of mirrors that only the architects of Versailles could have fashioned."
"The oldest [colonial] buildings show graceful, almost delicate facades; but gates are high, carved doors are solid as iron, stone walls are massive. They were designed to stay cool under the sun, remind civil servants of home, impress the locals, and withstand the odd volley of paving stones should things turn nasty. Not surprisingly, the cathedral and the university were built to last.
The British, in their outposts, leaned toward wood-frame
buildings and corrugated tin, as if they did not want the overhead to cut into profits. There were, in essence, camping out. Not the French."
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Atoms and Molecules (Building Blocks of Matter)
Louise Spilsbury , and Richard Spilsbury Manufacturer: Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1403493413 |
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The Atom Building Block of Nature
Pat Ward Manufacturer: Mark Twain Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1580370543 |
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Atoms & Molecules: Building Blocks of the Universe (Exploring Science) (Exploring Science)
Darlene R. Stille Manufacturer: Compass Point Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0756519608 |
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Pioneer Conservationists of Western America
Peter; Edward Abbey intro. Wild Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GLH5SI |
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Pioneer Conservationists of Western America
Peter Wild Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0878421076 |
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PIONEER CONSERVATIONISTS OF WESTERN AMERICA [M1]
P. Wild Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WQ4V48 |
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