Cancellation & Non-Renewal Handbook: For the 50 States & District of Columbia

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Cancellation & Non-Renewal Handbook: For the 50 States & District of Columbia
Michael K. McCracken
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Fc&s Cancellation & Non-Renewal Handbook 2002: For the 50 States and District of Columbia

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ASIN: 0872183998

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This book, the result of an international collaborative project, provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. A chapter is devoted to each country, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. It aims to provide a text of statistical reference for those interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems.

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macroeconomic overview of major combatants.......1998-12-31

This book is a very learned overview of the macro-economic factors affecting the WWII war economies of major combatants. A certain degree of acquaintance with economic monetary theory is advisable. The fact that it includes all the major players is valuable (any article on Italy's war efforts is always welcome!), but the emphasis some of the articles give to econometric treatment is, frankly, irrelevant to understanding most of the war effort, especially when one is talking of survival. The book also tries to analyse how wartime experience helped shape the post war economy, a field in which it it quite successful. It is worth noting, by the way, that generally speaking all the authors seem to agree that wartime investment in capital formation and technical training schemes paid off for the vanquished, whilst in the case of the USSR, the amount of war destruction and the political predominance of the "industrial-military complex" led, ultimately, to economic stagnation.

Advisable for anyone with a serious interest in wartime economics.

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The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review) (book review) (book review): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Clair E. Morris
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ASIN: B0008GW4L4
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review) (book review) (book review)
Author: Clair E. Morris
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Page: 808

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The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review) (book reviews) : An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review) (book reviews) : An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
John T. Harvey
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1052 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: The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: John T. Harvey
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Page: 761(3)

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Betties -- you know the type! And if you're sitting up straight, legs crossed at the ankles, you're probably one yourself. These can-do types love whipping life's little problems as much as they adore beating egg whites. They place a high value on neatness, punctuality, and stylish but low-heeled flats.

Now, The Betty Book brings bettitude right into your very own home. Anyone can learn to embrace the joys of shoe racks, nonabrasive cleansers, and toast tongs, and to avoid un-betty-like activities like belching and trips to Vegas. Carefully organized so that you won't have to dog-ear any of its pages, The Betty Book features bevy of famous betties, from Betty Crocker to Betty Rubble to Betty White, classic betties with other names (Martha Stewart), betties who have strayed (Princess Di), and antibetties (Courtney Love). Betty hobbies (writing thank-you's), betty sports (synchronized swimming), betty foods (fondue, apple brown betty?recipe included), and betty words (spice rack, cardigan). Betty pop quizzes, games, horoscopes, and even a betty novelette!

So, settle down with The Betty Book and preserve the great American tradition of bettiness. (Speaking of which, if a betty were president, you can bet her cabinet would be as shipshape as her sock drawer!)

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Dust bunnies!.......1999-12-16

This is a funny and brilliant book. The satire goes deep. Clever beyond belief. I especially liked the anti-betty seek and find. Halitosis--the word says it all.

The Betty Book - A Celebration Of A Capable Kind O' Gal

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The Betty Book - A Celebration Of A Capable Kind O' Gal
Elizabeth 'betty' Albright
Manufacturer: Fireside / Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: B000JZHPFE

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Love were one of the legendary bands of the late '60s U.S. West Coast scene. Their masterpiece Forever Changes still regularly appears in critics' polls of top albums, while a new line up of the band has recently toured to mass acclaim.

Michael Stuart-Ware was Love's drummer and shares his inside perspective on the band's recording and performing career, and tells how drugs and egos thwarted the potential of one of the great groups of the burgeoning psychedelic era.

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Was Arthur Lee Love?.......2007-09-24

This book is an interesting first person perspective on the great band Love durings its heyday in the mid-60s. The author joined the group in time to play on Da Capo and Forever Changes, two of the greatest albums ever recorded. You get the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs of a band that refused to tour to support its music, and when it did tour, usually wound up late for gigs or without one member of the band on stage. The picture of Arthur Lee that emerges is most probably accurate, but not pretty. No one can question his musical ability as a singer and a songwriter, but as a bandleader, he clearly needed some direction. Drugs played an inevitable part in the demise of the band, as it did with so many others. The theme that runs through the book is whether or not Love was Arthur Lee or the combination of musicians who worked together to make such wonderful music. In the end, the answer is probably "yes", Arthur Lee was Love. Certainly, with his passing, the band has ceased to exist. I enjoyed the book and the first hand accounts of the life and times of one of my favorite rock combos. Be prepared for the all too well known sad ending, although Michael Stuart-Ware seems to have made a good life for himself after music.

laufdogpro.......2006-07-24

I was very sceptical when I first started the book, but as I continued to read it I found that it had a real sincerity about it. Considering is was written by Michael, drummer for love, it was a candid and warm reflection of the L.A. music scene. It talked about restaurants, clubs and even supermarkets in Los Angeles. An enjoyable read for me that I decided to read it again.

Rock group Love's drummer shares insights.......2006-04-13

Michael Stuart-Ware is drummer on two of Love's albums and here shares his insights on the rock group in a coverage of the band's recording and performing career. Love's frontman Arthur Lee has enjoyed much limelight but the group was far more than just his backup group: there were many incarnations and powerful musicians in the band, which Stuart-Ware explores in chapters packed with 'you are there' first-person experiences. LOVE: BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE PEGESUS CAROUSEL WITH THE LEGENDARY ROCK GROUP LOVE is a lively survey of a long-lasting, popular rock group which has played for decades.

Music business illusions.......2006-03-12

When I was about fifteen, I picked up the first love album. The picture of the band standing under a chimney with only the logo LOVE on the cover enthralled me and I had to have it. I have been a Love fan ever since. Michael Stuart-Ware does a very good job at exposing why Love never became a super group like the Rolling Stones or the Doors even though Love could have easily been more popular than both those groups if Arthur Lee hadn't shot the band in the foot. My only criticism of the book is the slight undercurrent of bitterness (maybe my imagination) about what could have been. Mr. Stuart-Ware could have made a career in music in spite of Love, but he chose not to. It was probably a good move for him to leave the music business and I'm glad he has given the world of an insider's look at an truly extraordinary band.

Sirens and Sea-Monsters Glimpsed Through the Glass Bottom of a Submarine.......2005-08-07

There isn't much I can say about this fabulous book that hasn't already been said by other reviewers here. Stuart-Ware is an exceptional storyteller, and though as one reader noted, his work lacks the polish of a professional writer's, I would read an exceptionally engrossing tale such as this one over a well-written doorstopper any day. And yes, I wish he had discussed the recording of *Forever Changes* in much greater detail, but what might be cited as a flaw in this instance points to a much greater overall virtue: this book leaves you wanting more, not because it isn't satisfying, but precisely because it is. As I see it, he could have written a book twice this long and, assuming it was as engrossing as what we see in *Pegasus Carousel*, it wouldn't take any longer to read because it would be that enthralling.

One hardly need be a Love fan to enjoy this memoir. Of course it helps, but on a much larger level, this book is for anyone who loves rock music and is fascinated by both the creativity of great musicians and their tendency toward dissipation. Likewise it's for anyone who appreciates modern American popular culture, because it gives a street-level view of a seminal time and place in the creation of that culture: the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles during the halcyon years 1965-68.

And if one should only discover *Forever Changes*, and Love's music in general, after reading this book, then not only is a great reward in store--I think FC is a very serious contender for the title "greatest rock album of all time"--but so is a great shock. To read Stuart-Ware's book is like looking into the kitchen of a five-star restaurant and seeing the piles of grease-laden dishes, the cook with a cigarette dangling from his mouth as he stands over the stove, the rats gnawing around the trash can out back--and then, when you enter the dining room, everything is all polish and pressed linen. In other words, to hear the breathtaking brilliance that is *Forever Changes,* and then to contrast that with the atmosphere of infighting, jealousy, laziness, and dangerous drug use that Stuart-Ware portrays, is to experience cognitive dissonance of a high order. And yet ultimately, of course, these revelations of self-undermining behavior only make the achievement that was FC all the more impressive.

With a book like this--especially given the great number of famous names that make cameos here, and the many extraordinary stories--there's always somebody who is going to question its veracity. Yet Stuart-Ware's account has an unmistakable ring of truth, and not just because of the extraordinarily evocative details it contains. Of greater importance is the author's attitude--his humility and his clear-headed perspective. He does not seek to make himself seem more important than he was, he has no axe to grind, and he's not reliving some mythical past that the rest of his life never equaled. In fact, as he makes clear in the preface, the really important things in his life are the ones that happened after his brief stint in the limelight. As for his portrayal of Arthur Lee, I think Stuart-Ware shows an impressive command over the age-old writers' dictum, "Show, don't tell": he never tells you what to think about this extremely troubled, enigmatic genius, but the portrait is clear enough anyway.

All in all, an extraordinary and enormously entertaining book whose greatest flaw is that it had to have an end.

Love : Behind the Scenes on the Pegasus Carousel with the Legendary Rock Group

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Love : Behind the Scenes on the Pegasus Carousel with the Legendary Rock Group
Michael Stuart-Ware
Manufacturer: Helter Skelter Publishing
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Visual Basic .NET and the .NET framework are radical changes in the evolution of Microsoft Windows and Web-based application development. Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques from the Shelly Cashman Series® will help you teach this new version of Visual Basic with confidence and will allow your students to learn this new version with ease. Following the same proven step-by-step pedagogy of our Visual Basic 6.0 book, the transition to .NET will seem effortless. Featuring a streamlined design, the book includes a greater emphasis on programming and coding, troubleshooting tips, and an updated and expanded Introductory chapter so students are sure to start with the basics.

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Worth every dime!.......2007-02-18

Product was as advertized and shipping was as promised. Great value for my money!!

It's a Shelly Cashman.......2006-01-10

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Microsoft Visual Basic .Net: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques- W/'02 DVD

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Microsoft Visual Basic .Net: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques- W/'02 DVD

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Description Visual Basic .NET and the .NET framework are radical changes in the evolution of Microsoft Windows and Web-based application development. Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques from the Shelly Cashman Series® will help you teach this new version of Visual Basic with confidence and will allow your students to learn this new version with ease. Following the same proven step-by-step pedagogy of our Visual Basic 6.0 book, the transition to .NET will seem effortless. Featuring a streamlined design, the book includes a greater emphasis on programming and coding, troubleshooting tips, and an updated and expanded Introductory chapter so students are sure to start with the basics.

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On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146—123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history until September 11, 2001. Harrowing yet compulsively readable, Triangle is both a chronicle of the fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. Waves of Jewish and Italian immigrants inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. Protesting their Dickensian work conditions, forty thousand women bravely participated in a massive shirtwaist workers' strike that brought together an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes. Von Drehle orchestrates these events into a drama rich in suspense and filled with memorable characters. Most powerfully, he puts a human face on the men and women who died, and shows how the fire dramatically transformed politics and gave rise to urban liberalism.

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Outstanding Read about 20th Century Fire.......2007-08-30

This is a great book about the economics and history of twentieth century America and how the sweatshops were a big part of immigrant life in New York. The Triangle Factory disaster still has a message for those modern day factory shops in other parts of the world who continue to ignore safety laws and concerns. as a similar tragedy could easily happen again. This book uncovers those safety issues, that today should be standard in all factories across the globe. Of the 250 workers in the building, only a little more than 100 survived the fire. The death toll marked 140 people dead (123 of them women, of which about a hundred jumped or fell to their death). It is shocking to know that the owners were found not guilty, and even collected $60,000 in insurance payments. I pray that this tragedy will continue to arouse public action and continued lobbying for workplace safety. This is an excellent book!

The Disaster and the Era.......2007-07-23

The New York Triangle fire of 3-25-1911 was the deadliest workplace disaster until 9-11-2001. About 100 workers died every day in the nation's workplaces then (p.3). Workplace safety was still a goal. Chapter 1 tells about that era. Tammany Hall was founded to support the Revolution against British rule, and the large landholders (p.21). Their function was to help people, and they collected from governmental operations (p.23). By the late 19th century they worked for the moneyed interests (p.24). William R. Hearst pushed municipal ownership (p.31). The immigrants made New York the ready-made clothes manufacturing capital. New loft buildings were an improvement over sweatshops and allowed improved productivity.

Changes began with the November 1909 election. All Tammany candidates lost to progressive candidates. The garment workers all went out on strike November 23, 1909 and soon won a pay raise, a 52-hour week, and a closed union shop from some manufacturers. Most factory owners formed an association to resist the workers. The help of rich society women was invaluable (their interest was in woman suffrage). Conflicts among the groups appeared (p.79). The workers wanted a union shop (p.81). The settlement saw higher wages and shorter hours, union membership was no longer prohibited (p.86). Chapter 4 has the history of that era, and tells why immigrants came to the golden land of America. The clothing trade was better than laundry or being a sales clerk (pp.113-114).

Chapter 5 tells about the fire. Scraps of cotton and tissue paper were very flammable (p.119). The water pails could not extinguish the fire. The water tank on the roof had no water (p.121). The scrap under the cutter's tables spread the fire rapidly (p.138). Fire-safe factories had existed for decades (p.160). The moneyed classes of New York did not choose sprinkler systems, fire-walls, fire doors, enclosed fire stairways as in other cities. Insurance companies made money selling policies, the higher the risk the more they made (p.161)! The Triangle Waist Company had repeated fires. A fire allowed them to collect on unsold inventory (p.162). Fashion changes resulted in arson. There were other fires at shirtwaist factories in 1911 (p.163). Why did some factories carry excess insurance? The fire was under control in just over 30 minutes (p.166).

In the aftermath everyone pointed the blame at someone else (pp.184-185). New laws for better fire escapes, enclosed fireproof stairways, automatic sprinklers, and fire drills were suggested. Pages 189-191 explain how Tammany Hall worked; also pages 198-199. The strength of the Socialist Party changed Tammany's policies (p.213). A series of new laws in 1913 remade NY labor law (p.215). Page 216 explains the legislator's trick of stalling a bill. In 1913 Tammany Hall chose a workingman-friendly platform and won its greatest statewide victory (pp.217-218). Locking factory doors during working hours was a misdemeanor. If this resulted in death it was manslaughter (p.220). Blanck and Harris were arrested and tried. Max Steuer was the greatest lawyer in New York. Did Judge Crain fix the trial (p.235)? Lawyer Steuer asked Kate Alterman to repeat her story so it seemed rehearsed and deceitful (p.249). Yet it was all true (p.250)! Many witnesses told of the movement of people during that day which implies unlocked doors (p.251). The judge's instructions were overwhelmingly favorable to the defense (p.255). There was conflict, but the jury heeded the judge's instructions. There was a secret in Judge Crain's life (p.257). His bias was with the defendants (p.258). The `Epilogue' tells what happened afterwards. The owners collected a huge amount over their actual losses (p.264)! Blanck was arrested and fined in 1913 for locked doors (p.265).

Heartrending, but change is overstated.......2007-02-12

In America it is assumed that market forces and the moral character of business owners will operate to protect workers from egregious safety issues. Of course, that defies historical fact. It has only been via government regulation that workers have ever achieved even a modicum of safety, and then only if government regulators do not turn a blind eye towards obvious problems. In the New York City of 1910 it was well known that factory lofts at the top of multi-story buildings, at a minimum, needed sprinkler systems, firewalls, access to stairways, functional fire escapes, smoking bans, unlocked doors, and periodic fire drills.

Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the owners of the Triangle Waist Company and makers of women's shirtwaists, ignored every one of those measures, which resulted in the horrific death of 146 mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women on Mar 25, 1911 when a discarded cigarette started a fire in cloth scraps on the eighth floor of their factory. The fire consumed that story and the two above it, consisting of 27,000 sq feet, in about 15 mins. The warning to the sewing machine operators on the ninth floor was delayed and then a locked stairway door was encountered. Over fifty leapt to their death; others fell down a shaft when the overloaded fire escape tore loose, and the remaining died on the floor, blocked from escape. Miraculously, about 350 escaped, some via the roof. Spectators watched in horror as the ladders of the NYFD fell short by thirty feet of rescuing those standing on the ledges.

The author makes the claim that this fire changed America, initiating a period of reform and ushering in urban liberalism, which is even today the basis of the Democratic Party. Actually, it was already an era of change and turmoil. The Progressive era of reform had started during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, due in large part to labor strife that had been occurring over several decades. The author begins the book by following Clara Lemlich, the firebrand leader of recently formed Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), in her very public efforts in trying to organize a strike among all shirtwaist workers and in being stalked by thugs hired to harm her sufficiently to stop her organizing. As a testimony to her resiliency, she overcame the beating to lead 20,000 workers out on strike in Nov, 1909.

Tammany Hall, the longstanding Democratic political machine in New York, was interdependent with the working class - especially in NYC; jobs and other benefits were exchanged for votes. But Tammany was not reformist; it generally supported businessmen and the status quo. The police department was a prime enforcer of their program including the harassment, if not brutal put down, of labor agitators. Tammany-beholden judges were more than willing to send picketers to the city workhouse for offences no greater than holding a sign. But many of NYC's newest immigrants, who were mostly Jewish, had been radicalized by being subjected to and escaping pogroms in Russia. Furthermore, upper-middle-class society matrons were aghast at the living and working conditions for these workers, and lent considerable support to those situations. Charles Murphy, the low-profile leader of Tammany, knew that this segment of the voting public would move in the direction of socialism if Tammany did not support reform.

In what is definitely its strongest part, the author devotes about one-third of the book to recapitulating what happened inside the factory as well as the public official response once the fire started. Though the fire consumed the factory in about 15 mins, the action the author describes among both the survivors and the doomed was fast and furious. Primarily from the testimony at the ensuing trial of the owners and from interviews of survivors by Leon Stein years later, he is able to personalize what happened in the factory on that fateful day. In addition, the author supplies in an appendix the most up-to-date listing of those who died in the fire. Six remain unidentified.

The owners of the factory retained prestigious lawyer Max Steuer to represent them against charges of manslaughter, based on illegally locking a stairway door. Steuer simply overmatched both the prosecutor and the immigrant women witnesses, easily finding holes in their stories and planting doubts. In addition, the author contends that the judge Thomas Crain conducted the trail in a highly prejudicial manner by disallowing much of the grim facts to be presented and instructing the jury that conviction was permitted only if the evidence could show that the owners specifically knew that the door in question was locked on that day at the time of the fire. The fact that there was evidence that the door was invariably locked at that time of day and that the bolted lock was found in the charred remains apparently carried no weight. Both Steuer and Crain had for many years supported Tammany constituents as the owners of Triangle Waist Company were.

Though the owners were acquitted, Tammany did not ignore the public clamor for some sort of reform. Tammany's chief representatives in the New York legislature, Robert F. Wagner in the Senate and Alfred E. Smith in the Assembly, were instrumental in forming the Factory Investigating Commission only three months after the Triangle fire, which embarked on passing sweeping safety legislation. That commission also included college-educated Frances Perkins, FDR's future Secretary of Labor and key player in the New Deal along with Robert Wagner.

Although reform measures were inspired by the Triangle fire, the author admits that the fire did recede from public memory fairly quickly. The author's claim that the strike "changed America" is certainly overstated. In 1912, not more than a year later, Lawrence, Mass was the scene of a huge textile workers strike led by the IWW in which local policemen resorted to clubbing children as striking parents attempted to put them on trains to Philadelphia. Though not the same deadly scenario as the Triangle fire, the overreaction of public officials towards striking workers was perhaps more egregious. A year after that, the striking silk workers in Paterson, NJ were subjected to massive arrests, which killed the strike. The huge reaction against labor unions after WWI, which decimated membership, undoubtedly was a major factor in the Great Depression as workers simply lacked the buying power to sustain the economy.

The author does not define "urban liberalism." It is clear that liberalism in all of its reformist variants has been severely rolled back over the last thirty years in the US. Median wages have been virtually flat throughout that time. Less than nine percent of US private sector workers are now represented by unions. More realistic statements can be made concerning the standing of workers and unions in the US. First, worker reforms are sporadic in nature, are often subject to rollback at some time, and are often unenforced. Second, the business class ultimately prevails in confrontations with workers; controlling information flow through media ownership is a huge advantage. Even if employment in the 21st century does not bring with it the same hazards as 100 years before, the world of work can still be highly contentious and difficult for employees.

The book is heartrending. It gives a flavor of the times: the immigration wave, the difficult living and working conditions, the forces arrayed against change, etc. But it is a snapshot. As those issues have unfolded over time, the story is often far more complex than the author intimates, and is not on a progressive climb.

a good story that was forgotten about.......2007-02-10

This is a very good story that was basicaly forgotten about (before the book). It tells the details of a horrific fire that killed scores of immigrant factory workers (mostly women). It also, touches upon the early suffrogett women's movement along with other political issues that went on in the early 20th century. It brings the reader to a time and a fire that seems to be forgotten

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.......2006-11-11

The star rating that I have assigned the book is based on your customer service. I have not had an opportunity to read the book as yet. I purchased the book based on an interview that I heard on a C-Span Book TV program.

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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Today over 2000 Palaung--a group of mountain peoples speaking Mon-Khmer--live in a handful of villages north of Chiang Mai in Thailand. They fled from Burma in the 1980s to escape the fighting between communist insurgents and Burmese army troops. Though granted sanctuary, in the late 1990s many of the Palaung in Thailand found themselves involved in a new conflict over land use in northern Thailandís environmentally degraded highlands.

This is the first book written on the Palaung in Thailand, a compelling collaborative effort by anthropologist Michael Howard and Thai artist Wattana Wattanapun. They introduce the Palaung culture and way of life, telling the story of the Palaungís flight from Burma and settlement in Thailand. Howard's photographs and Wattana's drawings enliven the account.

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The Palaung in Northern Thailand.
MICHALE C. & WATTANA HOWARD
Manufacturer: Silkworm Books
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PALAUNG IN NORTHERN THAILAND
Michael Howard
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N6MV80

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Good textbook for undergraduate students.......2006-04-28

This book is a good textbook for undergraduate and practicing engineers who are not so familiar with polymer processing, as it is written in plain English and easy too read. The volume is compact.
Introductions of more advanced topics are also given, and differentiated by shading. This is a good idea. If you were interested in more advanced topics, then you could learn from literatures cited.

Fundamentals of Computer Modeling for Polymer Processing

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Fundamentals of Computer Modeling for Polymer Processing
Charles L. Tucker
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Fundamentals of Polymer Processing
Stanley Middleman
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Fundamentals of Polymerization and Polymer Processing Technology

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Fundamentals of Polymerization and Polymer Processing Technology
M. E. Ryan
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Rheological Fundamentals of Polymer Processing (NATO Science Series E: (closed))

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Rheological Fundamentals of Polymer Processing (NATO Science Series E: (closed))

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ASIN: 0792337921

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Experts in rheology and polymer processing present up-to-date, fundamental and applied information on the rheological properties of polymers, in particular those relevant to processing, contributing to the physical understanding and the mathematical modelling of polymer processing sequences.
Basic concepts of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, micro-rheological modelling and constitutive modelling are reviewed, and rheological measurements are described. Topics with practical relevance are debated, such as linear viscoelasticity, converging and diverging flows, and the rheology of multiphase systems. Approximation methods are discussed for the computer modelling of polymer melt flow. Subsequently, polymer processing technologies are studied from both simulation and engineering perspectives. Mixing, crystallization and reactive processing aspects are also included.
Audience: An integrated and complete view of polymer processing and rheology, important to institutions and individuals engaged in the characterisation, testing, compounding, modification and processing of polymeric materials. Can also support academic polymer processing engineering programs.

Fundamentals of Polymerization and Polymer Processing

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Fundamentals of Polymerization and Polymer Processing
Ryan
Manufacturer: Gordon & Breach Science Pub
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Fundamentals of Polymerization and Polymer Processing

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Solutions manual to accompany Fundamentals of polymer processing

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Solutions manual to accompany Fundamentals of polymer processing
Stanley Middleman
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: B00071HXQ6

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Noted Canadian and American authors address important wildlife survival issues.

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WILD HUNTERS. PREDATORS IN PERIL.
M. & S. Pettigrew Hummel
Manufacturer: Key Porter Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WPGFJI

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Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril

Manufacturer: Roberts Rinehart Pub.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I324GC

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