General Guidelines for Using Data on International Air-Passenger Traffic for Tourism Analysis

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Offers a fair, realistic solution to the problems created by the $5 1/2 Trillion U.S. National Debt and its more than $400 billion annual gross interest load.

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In Alaska, just like anywhere else, the choices in life are simple: you can suffer, or you can laugh. "Of Moose and Men" examines the hilarious suffering of everyday life- kids, dogs, camping, gardening, moose, gold panning and more- in this collection set in the unique backdrop of America's Last Frontier. In the book, the reader will discover that life's little challenges are much the same wherever home is located, but the Alaskan environment offers a few twists to the ordinary.

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A.E. Poynor.......2001-09-07

I have read other articles by Alan Poyner, but nothing can compare with having so much of his writing in one handy place. When ever I need a pick me up and a laugh, all I have to do is read a chapter and I'm set.
Luv ya Alan!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work. I'm ready for the next one!

Great Short Story Reading.......2001-07-19

Very nice reading for anytime, especially if a few chuckles are needed. I liked the short story layout, and it made for a great read whenever I wanted to smile. I would recommend this to anyone who likes humor delivered in a delightfully dry yet enjoyable manner! Good reading for all ages. Where is Volume II?

laugh out loud.......2001-07-10

lots of humor and altogether enjoyable reading. I prarticur enjoyed the chapter where the moose stalked school kids on their way to the bus stop

This Book is NOT out of print!!!.......2000-09-13

I happen to be the author of this book, and I can assure you that it is NOT out of print. If you have an interest in Alaska, and like to laugh, this book is for you. It is a compilation of humor columns I have written for the Alaskan paper "The Peninsula Clarion." Most of the material appeared between 1991 and 1993, and pertains to the humorous side of living in Alaska. If Amazon won't order it for you, contact OMM Books, P.O. Box 7397, Nikiski, AK 99635

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'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. World Music is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories. The book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians - such as Bob Marley, Bartok, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - and attempts to account for world music's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Musical Globalism or Globalization?.......2007-05-22

Philip V. Bohlman is a professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, an institution reknowned for its foundational works in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. Being the nature of interdisciplinary ethnomusicologgical research, the book covers areas of study including Musicology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, Economics and Philosophy.

He begins by expressing the limitations inherant in approaching a global phenomenon with only 150, 4"x7" pages. The reader is consistently reminded of the authors initial disclaimer when reading two paragraphs into an intriguing topic, and finding that it ends there.

Nevertheless, Bohlman presents a myriad of ways of approaching and interpretating the global phenonemon known as "world" music. He focuses on topics including: the history of western musicology and ethnomusicology, music in tradition, music in nationalism, music in diaspora, music in mediation, and music in the era of globalization. He also provides the reader with a nice collection of further readings, references and listening suggestions in the bibliography, organized by chapter.

A constant theme for Bohlman is the notion of "encounter". He attributes that it is within the experience of the encounter that we attribute meaning to the music itself, and to the context in which it is experienced.

He also postulates that there is a concurrent tension in so far as the way we "encounter" world musics, being mediated by global capitalism and market forces. This can potentialy take a traditional music out of context, resulting in an extention of post-colonial cultural hegemony or "cultural imperialism made sonorous" (147). Conversly, it can provide a medium for identity formation, revival, and representation, while potentially bringing people together, fostering empathy and harmony. You make the choice!

Is it musical globalism?

-Is the current manifestation of world music a reflection of a global world, where cultural bridges are being reconciled?

or

Is it musical globalization?

-Is world music a reflection of an economically globalized world, mediated by market forces and economic manipulation?

This is a complex question that Bohlman poses, ever so succinctly, yet all too briefly.

Great introduction for the student, active musician or passive listener.

Anthropological/ Sociological view on World Music.......2004-11-06

The author examines the anthropological, sociological and ethnomusicological aspects of World Music. This is an essential text to the introduction of world music.

VERY ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES.......2003-03-03

This is a very academic study of the phenomenon of world music. As such it provides interesting theories and also some important facts, but I doubt whether the average world music fan would derive much enjoyment from it. The author includes worldwide music from the folk, art and popular traditions and mentions that it can be sacred, secular or commercial. So far, so good, but with sentences like: "As we encounter world music, therefore, it is important to recognize the need to reckon with different epistemologies and ontologies if we are to understand what world music can mean in its virtually infinite varieties," I nearly fell of my chair laughing. In its defence, the book does include informative albeit short pieces on the 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music, the great Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, Rai music, Leadbelly, Celtic music, the Eurovision Song Contest, Bob Marley, Manu Dibango from Cameroon and the musics of the various diasporas. Two maps are included: The Celtic Fringe in Europe and the Polka Belt in the USA plus there are illustrations, a bibliography, discography and an index. I picked up the book without properly checking the contents - it's great source material if you want to write a dissertation on music from different traditions, but not a text that reflects the rhythms of the rich variety of world music that is becoming more and more available to everybody in our current era of globalisation.

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World Music (A Very Short Introduction)
Philip V. Bohlman
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OK27F2

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Each chapter of this comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the social foundations of American education is followed by a companion chapter of readings designed to spark classroom discussion. The readings bring alive the social foundations topics and enhance understanding of the issues. Chapters that address human diversity, forming a national character, schooling and politics, educational reform, and the teaching profession are each immediately followed by a carefully-chosen set of journal articles and other key readings. Plentiful Discussion Questions after the readings link the readings to each topic chapter.

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Education, abstracted.......2006-12-16

Good,but not great book. Beware. If you think education is simple, don't read this the way it's written. Show's you how much MORE ground there is to cover in public education.

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As the brainchild behind the Cable News Network, Ted Turner revolutionized the television industry by introducing a 24-hour news station. Dubbed "Terrible Ted" for his apparent disregard for the rules, he turned sharp business savvy into a global communications empire that has made him one of the wealthiest-and most powerful figures in the business. This unique biography, the latest in the bestselling Speaks series, presents the different shades of this colorful personality by bringing together original Turner quotes from newscasts, interviews, and articles.

Janet Lowe (Del Mar, CA) is the author of the bestselling /Ispeaks/N series, including /IWarrenBuffett Speaks, Jack Welch Speaks, Bill Gates Speaks,/N and /IOprah Winfrey Speaks./N Shehas written for /Inewsweek/N, the /ILos Angeles Times/N, and the /IChristian Science Monitor./N

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Men or Boys?.......2007-05-03

The last review, sounds exactly like what Turner fought against, control freak zealots. He isn't mental, he is brilliant.

In a media world where people like Rupert Murdock are put on a boat for a photo op, people like Ted Turner actually support the crew and stay onboard for the whole race, all 31,000 miles of it.

Regardless of money my friends, that separates the men from the boys.

Who would you want to be behind in the battle field?

Needs a somewhat more critical eye of Ted.......2002-05-08

The book dishes out Ted Turner's wisdom, but leaves an important fact neglected: after becoming rich, Ted Turner's mind cracked and slipped away into bipolar disorder, and since then Turner has been running around making boneheaded comments about Christianity, concocting oddly New Age and semi-delusional programs like "Capt. Planet," and using his money to give himself a platform to be a [fool] in front of the United Nations (where he gave a speech about how monotheistic religions should be abandoned because, well, human beings put their pants on one leg at a time) and Brown University (where he extolled the Sept. 11 hijackers as visionaries and courageous men). The true story of Ted Turner ranks with the tragic tales of Howard Hughes and John Nash, once-brilliant men whose lives were ruined by mental illness. It's amazing that Ted Turner has been able to use his wealth to propogate bizarre ideologies that come straight from his diseased, psychotic mind, and no one has had the courage to point out that Turner is afflicted with a psychotic disorder and his New Age, so-called "humanistic" ideas are really just delusions brought on by a chemical imbalance. Of course, Fox News routinely lets us know all the [foolish] things Ted Turner says...

Ted Turner Speaks: Insights From the World's Greatest Maverick

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Ted Turner Speaks: Insights From the World's Greatest Maverick
Janet Lowe
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65GD2

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The ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit. Serving as both tutorial and reference, this all-in-one kit provides everything you need to begin creating Internet-based applications--including evaluation and developer versions of ColdFusion MX and its development environment.

Building on the tried-and-true formula of the four best-selling previous editions--but using lessons geared toward creating the next generation of Web projects--veteran author Ben Forta moves from the fundamentals of Web and database design to more complex topics like creating data-driven pages, implementing security mechanisms, and building complete applications. In the process, he covers new features in ColdFusion MX: a J2EE-based engine, a new development environment, additional debugging tools, Flash integration, business charting, XML manipulation, and more. Whether you're a recent ColdFusion convert or an old hand who's ready to learn some new tricks and best practices, you'll find answers to all your questions in the definitive and standard developer's reference-- The ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit.

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Amazon.com as Guilty as Bellesiles?

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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
Michael A. Bellesiles
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
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While gun supporters use the nation's gun-toting history in defense of their way of life, and revolutionary enthusiasts replay skirmishes on historic battlefields, it now turns out that America has not always had a gun culture, and wide-scale gun ownership is much newer than we think. After a 10-year search for "a world that isn't there," professor and scholar Michael Bellesiles discovered that Americans not only rarely owned guns prior to the Civil War, they wouldn't even take them for free from a government that wanted to arm its reluctant public. No sharpshooters, no gun in every home, no children learning to hunt beside their fathers. Bellesiles--whose research methods have generated a great deal of controversy and even a subsequent investigation by Emory University--searched legal, probate, military, and business records; fiction and personal letters; hunting magazines; and legislation in his quest for the legendary gun-wielding frontiersman, only to discover that he is a myth. There are other revelations: gun ownership and storage was strictly legislated in colonial days, and frivolous shooting of a musket was backed by the death penalty; men rarely died in duels because the guns were far too inaccurate (duels were about honor, not murder); pioneers didn't hunt (they trapped and farmed); frontier folk loved books, not guns; and the militia never won a war (it was too inept). In fact, prior to the Civil War, when mass production of higher quality guns became a reality, the republic's greatest problem was a dearth of guns, and a public that was too peaceable to care about civil defense. As Bellesiles writes, "Probably the major reason why the American Revolution lasted eight years, longer than any war in American history before Vietnam, was that when that brave patriot reached above the mantel, he pulled down a rusty, decaying, unusable musket (not a rifle), or found no gun there at all." Strangely, the eagle-eye frontiersman was created by East Coast fiction writers, while the idea of a gun as a household necessity was an advertising ploy of gun maker Samuel Colt (both just prior to the Civil War). The former group fabricated a historic and heroic past while Colt preyed on overblown fears of Indians and blacks.

Bellesiles, who is highly knowledgeable about weapons and military history, never comes out against guns. He is more interested in discovering the truth than in taking sides. Nevertheless, his work shatters some time-honored myths and icons--including the usual reading of the Second Amendment--and will be hard to refute. This fascinating, eye-opening account is sure to both inform and inflame the already highly charged debate about guns in America. --Lesly Reed

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How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles.

Basing his arguments on sound and prodigious research, Bellesiles makes it clear that gun ownership was the exception--even on the frontier--until the age of industrialization. In Colonial America the average citizen had virtually no access to or training in the use of firearms, and the few guns that did exist were kept under strict control. No guns were made in America until after the Revolution, and there were few gunsmiths to keep them in repair.

Bellesiles shows that the U.S. government, almost from its inception, worked to arm its citizens, but it met only public indifference and resistance until the 1850s, when technological advances--such as repeating revolvers with self-contained bullets--contributed to a surge in gun manufacturing. Finally, we see how the soaring gun production engendered by the Civil War, and the decision to allow soldiers to keep their weapons at the end of the conflict, transformed the gun from a seldom-needed tool to a perceived necessity--opposing ideas that are still at the center of the fight for and against gun control today.

Michael A. Bellesiles's research set off a chain of passionate reaction after its publication in the Journal of American History in 1996, and Arming America is certain to be one of the most controversial and widely read books on the subject.

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Michael A. Bellesiles' Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of our gun-toting forefathers. When questions rose as to details of his research in probate records, the politically motivated effort by the gun lobby and its supporters expanded to include a committee of scholars and historians who devoted months to checking Bellesiles's footnotes in the archives where he did his research--practice that is extremely unusual in historical scholarship--and found evidence of sloppy research in five pages. In this revised edition, Bellesiles answers his academic critics, providing updated research addressing their legitimate concerns, and finding that the underlying thesis of his book remains as solid as ever."

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Interesting topic.......2007-01-31

Many of the other reviews for this book focus on the validity and/or existence of the sources used by the author. As such, I will only comment on the flow and subject of the book itself. The author contends that the stereotype of near-universal gun ownership among Americans is mainly false until after the Civil War. To back this up, the author cites sources such as wills, probate records, court documents, tax documents, store receipts and other such records. In his opinion, the evidence points to a very low rate of gun ownership, even in the frontier, and a colonial lifestyle that was essentially independent of firearms. For example, most food was caught by fishing and trapping, and less by hunting. Likewise, colonial violence was less common than commonly portrayed. The author also suggests that this low rate of gun ownership was one reason the War of Independence took so long; i.e. the colonies did not have enough men equipped to fight on the battlefield.

The contentions of this book are provoking, and it is nice for someone to address such a topic. The text itself is easy to read and flows nicely. I cannot comment, however, on the validity of the references.

Look closely at author's sources..........2006-12-14

I read this book for a historiography class in college - the prof's entire intention was to show us budding historians what not to do. Bellesiles has either falsified some of his sources or had access to sources that do not appear to exist and which he himself cannot remember. This resulted in the loss of his position at Emory Univ. and the withdrawl of his Bancroft Prize from Columbia University...just thought people should know.

Amazon.com as Guilty as Bellesiles?.......2006-06-29

Michael Bellesiles work has been exposed by legitimate historians (not just by NRA "gun nuts") as poorly researched and inaccurate. That is a polite way of saying that the book is worthless because the author intentionally invented facts (okay, I'll say it, he lied) and faked research to support his hypothesis. After an independent academic panel came to these same conclusions, Mr. Bellesiles resigned his position at Emory University in disgrace and his Bancroft Prize was eventually revoked. For the most part, the only informed people who continue to support him or his "work" are rabid and venomous gun grabbers for whom the end (gun confiscation) apparently still justifies the means. Anyone who still believes in any of Mr. Bellesiles contentions after reading James Lindgren's thoroughly and properly researched article published in the Yale Law Review is in a complete state of denial. All that being said, I must ask why Amazon.com continues to promote this despicable piece of garbage masquerading as legitimate historical research using the glowing laudatory reviews written when the book was first published in 2000, and before Mr. Bellesiles was exposed. So much for ethics among book peddlars.

Raising the Rating, For Fairness' Sake.......2006-03-27

Through a combination of bad luck, forgetfulness and, yes, sloppy documentation, Michael Bellesiles's pathbreaking work could not sustain a prominent place in American historiography. The 2003 paperback edition of "Arming America" has now incorporated a number of needed corrections and revisions. Despite the abuse heaped upon the author, it once again stands as a significant contribution to colonial and early national US history. Its well-documented flaws were concentrated in a few passages and tables presenting quantitative data. But critics never really addressed the mass of qualitative data, much of it available for decades, supporting Bellesiles's thesis that our gun culture's historical "roots" exist largely as myth. They also ignored his first-rate earlier research, notably "Revolutionary Outlaws" on early Vermont, which made him a rising star among historians. His foes' success in derailing his career reveals their failure to accept contrary views, and the power of the NRA gun lobby. The most substantive critiques appeared in "William & Mary Quarterly." For a full account of the affair, read J. Wiener, "Historians in Trouble." Wiener notes that many well-regarded histories have more serious problems, and the controversy reflects the hostility of "Arming America's" enemies far more than the book's weaknesses. Wait and see: Michael Bellesiles will eventually regain a reputation as a fine historian.

Difficult to check.......2006-01-15

It is unfortunate that upon considering this book, that one should, if honest to themselves, undertake a study to see if Bellesiles' peer historians have "signed off" on it.

Having read the exhaustive 50+ page report: "Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal" by JAMES LINDGREN of Northwestern University Law School, one discovers that the all of the fifteen "major contentions of Arming America turn out to be false." (save that the militia was ineffective), in a well documented fashion. Also the work of Clayton Cramer document (often with actual copies of original documents from the period) what appears to be the art of historical revisionism at its highest.

This book is now regularly cited in University classes as an example of research and peer review failure.

If you are hoping to study the history of fradulent and unprofessional research, or failures in academic review, I should say you have found your book.

If, on the other hand, you wish to discover anything factual about guns and early America, you have no legitimate choice but to look elsewhere.

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Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Manufacturer: School of American Research Press
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In Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C. They radically reassess the chronological framework for the region, assemble the basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data in order to put local patterns and dynamics into their widest regional context. Their contributions have applications beyond the cultural history of Mesopotamia itself, reaching into the wider fields of anthropology, history, and political science. With its thorough documentation and comprehensive scope, this volume is an indispensable reference on the state of Mesopotamian archaeology at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Uruk, Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation.(Book Review): An article from: American Antiquity

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Uruk, Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation.(Book Review): An article from: American Antiquity
Mitch Allen
Manufacturer: Society for American Archaeology
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Antiquity, published by Society for American Archaeology on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 743 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: Uruk, Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation.(Book Review)
Author: Mitch Allen
Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Page: 152(2)

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Surfactants in Emerging Technology (Surfactant Science)

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