Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment

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Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment
Diana R. Harrington
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This paperback text emphasizes the financial concepts and tools essential for understanding the financial impacts of business decisions. The author uses current examples of actual business situations to demonstrate how financial tools, concepts, and theories can be used by managers to improve decision-making and enhance business performance. The text has a global emphasis with an equal number of domestic and international examples. The author includes a discussion of international financial statements and the financial impacts of changes in foreign exchange rates. The book's major appeal is its direct, concise, and no-nonsense approach to understanding both the basics of finance and current financial concepts, which allows even non-financial managers to understand financial analysis.

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Great Introductory Book.......2007-06-29

This is a great book for beginners and non-finance people. It teaches you the basic principles in a straight forward manner with easy to follow examples and great discussions about the practical applications. The appendices at the end of the chapters are a good read as well.

Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment

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Corporate Finance for Dummies with an MBA

Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment
Diana R. Harrington , and Brent D. Wilson
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Corporate Finance for Dummies with an MBA.......2000-07-26

This book optimally combines coverage off all of the key fundamental corporate finance concepts with a brevity that makes it a corporate finance book used for something other than jacking up the '68 Beetle out in the garage.

Unlike my pc, the nice part about corporate finance is that most of the material never gets outdated. I used the second edition in business school in 1989 and I still find it very relevant. If you want concise coverage of key fundamental corporate finance concepts in under 200 pages - this is your book.

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Corporate Financial Analysis: Decisions in a Global Environment
Diana R. Harrington
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Corporate Financial Analysis provides the necessary tools to improve decision-making with practical, current examples of financial analysis in business situation. It focuses on today's global business environment to allow planning for the future.

Corporate Financial Analysis : Decisions in a Global Environment

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Corporate Financial Analysis : Decisions in a Global Environment
Diana R Harrington
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Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment
Diana R.; Wilson, Brent D. Harrington
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Corporate Financial Analysis: 6th In a Global Environment

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Corporate Financial Analysis: 6th In a Global Environment
Diana Harrington
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Corporate Financial Analysis: In a Global Environment
Diana Harrington
Manufacturer: South-Western College Publishing/ Thomson Learning
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ASIN: B000NY1NWW

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Before they can reach their goals, libraries need to define them--and plan how to achieve them. Guiding the reader through this process in precise, easy-to-follow steps, Long Range Planning covers the planning process; the planning committee; the library and the community; taking inventory; the public library's mission; the roles of the public library; setting goals and targeting objectives; and writing a plan that works. Concrete examples, timetables, worksheets, and checklists throughout support the text.

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A standard reference for chemists for 70 years, this new Sixteenth Edition features an enormous compilation of facts, data, tabular material, and experimental findings in every area of chemistry.Included in this massive compendium are listings of the properties of approximately 4,400 organic and 1,400 inorganic compounds. This Sixteenth Edition offers 40% new or extensively revised content and starting with this edition, the author includes equations that allow users to calculate important values such as temperature and pressure.

Contents: Organic Compounds * General Information, Conversion Tables, and Mathematics * Inorganic Compounds * Properties of Atom, Radicals, and Bonds * Physical Properties * Thermodynamic Properties * Spectroscopy * Electrolytes, Electromotive Force and Chemicals * Physicochemical Relationships * Polymers, Rubbers,Fats, Oils, and Waxes * Practical Laboratory Information

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Great Selection of Tables.......2005-07-05

This book has a great selection of tables of properties for inorganic and organic compounds, and so is a must-have for any chemist. However, the book is a bit weak in regards to solving chemistry problems--for this, purchase REA's The Chemistry Problem Solver.

Essential Tool for Any Working Chemist.......2005-02-09

Very few refrences works these days seem indispensable or can be easily found on-line. However Lange's Handbook is the essential tool for any working chemist.
Excerpt: This new edition, the fifth under the aegis of the present editor, remains the one-volume source of factual information for chemists, both professionals and students-the first place in which to "look it up" on the spot. The aim is to provide sufficient data to satisfy all one's general needs without recourse to other reference sources. A user will find this volume of value as a time-saver because of the many tables of numerical data that have been especially compiled.
Descriptive properties for a basic group of approximately 4300 organic compounds are compiled in Section 1, an increase of 300 entries. All entries are listed alphabetically according to the senior prefix of the name. The data for each organic compound include (where available) name, structural formula, formula weight, Beilstein reference (or if un- available, the entry to the Merck Index, 12th ed.), density, refractive index, melting point, boiling point, flash point, and solubility (citing numerical values if known) in water and various common organic solvents. Structural formulas either too com¬plex or too ambiguous to be rendered as line formulas are grouped at the bottom of each facing dou¬ble page on which the entries appear. Alternative names, as well as trivial names of long-standing usage, are listed in their respective alphabetical order at the bottom of each double page in the regular alphabetical sequence. Another feature that assists the user in locating a desired entry is the empirical formula index.
Section 2 on General Information, Conversion Tables, and Mathematics has had the table on general conversion factors thoroughly reworked. Similarly the material on Statistics in Chemical Analysis has had its contents more than doubled.
Descriptive properties for a basic group of inorganic compounds are compiled in Section 3, which has undergone a small increase in the number of entries. Many entries under the column "Solubility" supply the reader with precise quantities dissolved in a stated solvent and at a given temperature. Several portions of Section 4, Properties of Atoms, Radicals, and Bonds, have been significantly enlarged. For example, the entries under "Ionization Energy of Molecular and Radical Species" now number 740 and have an additional column with the enthalpy of formation of the ions. Likewise, the table on "Electron Affinities of the Elements, Molecules, and Radicals" now contains about 225 entries. The Table of Nuclides has material on additional radionuclides, their radiations, and the neu¬tron capture cross sections.
Revised material for Section 5 includes the material on surface tension, viscosity, dielectric con¬stant, and dipole moment for organic compounds. In order to include more data at several tempera¬tures, the material has been divided into two separate tables. Material on surface tension and viscosity constitute the first table with 715 entries; included is the temperature range of the liquid phase. Material on dielectric constant and dipole moment constitute another table of 1220 entries. The additional data at two or more temperatures permit interpolation for intermediate temperatures and also permit limited extrapolation of the data. The Properties of Combustible Mixtures in Air has been revised and expanded to include over 450 compounds. Flash points are to be found in Section 1. Completely revised are the tables on Thermal Conductivity for gases, liquids, and solids. Van der Waals' constants for gases have been brought up to date and expanded to over 500 substances.
Section 6, which includes Enthalpies and Gibbs Energies of Formation, Entropies, and Heat Capacities of Organic and Inorganic Compounds, and Heats of Melting, Vaporization, and Sublimation and Specific Heat at Various Temperatures for organic and inorganic compounds, has expanded by
11 pages, but the major additions have involved data in columns where it previously was absent. More material has also been included for critical temperature, critical pressure, and critical volume.
The section on Spectroscopy has been retained but with some revisions and expansion. The section includes ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, fluorescence, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray spectrometry. Detection limits are listed for the elements when using flame emission, flame atomic absorption, electrothermal atomic absorption, argon induction coupled plasma, and flame atomic fluorescence. Nuclear magnetic resonance embraces tables for the nuclear properties of the elements, proton chemical shifts and coupling constants, and similar material for carbon-13, boron-11, nitrogen-15, fluorine-19, silicon-29, and phosphorus-31.
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LANGE'S HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY 70TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

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JAMES G. SPEIGHT
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How to do your Essays, Exams and Coursework in Geography and Related Disciplines is written for students who need help doing their coursework and exams. The book focuses on the skills and techniques that apply to essay writing and also covers other types of assignment such as posters, talks, PowerPoint presentations and web pages. The basis of the book is that all of these different types of work are based on clear communication of well-supported responses to the questions or tasks that have been set.

The book is written in an informal style intended to make it user-friendly to students who want to improve their work throughout their university career and beyond. The book can be used to look up answers to specific questions as well as being worked through section by section as coursework projects are tackled.

It is a companion volume to the author's earlier How to Do Your Dissertation in Geography and Related Disciplines and like that book is organized in the form of a series ofquestions of the type that students might ask themselves at each stage of their work. Each chapter includes a brief summary of key points, and contributions from 'our friend Eric' provide a counterpoint to the main text.

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This book reviews some of the classic aspects in the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, which has a long history. Recently, these aspects are attracting much attention due to essential new contributions. The topics presented in this book include: mathematical theory of the Ising model; equilibrium and non-equilibrium criticality of one-dimensional quantum spin chains; influence of structural disorder on the critical behaviour of the Potts model; criticality, fractality and multifractality of linked polymers; field-theoretical approaches in the superconducting phase transitions.

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Nerds Among Us is a fun parody of spy and mystery novels. It has quirky characters, including Nerdfinger and Odd Bob, an exotic setting (Las Vegas), and, of course, intrigue, romance, and a car chase. What's the best way to describe the book? Well, imagine a Dave Barry column, a Seinfeld episode, and a Stephen Wright routine all rolled into one tangled mess. Then imagine something entirely different, and you'll have the essence of Nerds Among Us!

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An explicitly revisionist collection that takes the ground away from pro-Israeli historians and suggests a far more nuanced view of the issue, The Israel/Palestine Question assimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. Drawing largely on scholarly debates in Israel during the last two decades, which have become known as `historical revisionism,' the collection presents the most recent developments in the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a critical reassessment of Israel's past. The volume commences with an overview of Palestinian history and the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the conflict and the Intifada.

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Au Contraire! .......2006-08-04

I strongly recommend this book for all who approach life with open mind and the heart of a student. I suspect the "Shalom Freedom" commentator does not fall under that category.

There is an old Middle-Eastern saying: "One can learn a lot about a person by looking at his enemies." If Ilan Pappe's work is attacked because it takes a far more nuanced view of the bloody conflict between Palestinians and Israel, then that reason by itself warrants the study of its content. After reading this book, I wonder if some Israelies would still be so dismissive of political equality for Palestinians if it was the Palestinians who had the guns and the military might that Israel enjoys today. Please read this book even if you have already made up your mind about what you think it proposes.

How low can you go.......2006-02-17

The editor of this volume Ilan Pappe has devoted his academic career to deligitimizing the state in which he lives and works. He has slandered Israel at every possible opportunity, always denying and covering up the basic truth that the source of the conflict between Israelis and Arabs has always been the refusal of the Arabs to live in peace with a Jewish state, even in a small part of the Holy Land. Pappe ignores the daily propaganda of the Palestinians, the hatefilled rhetoric that has accompanied the conflict from its outset. Even more importantly
all his retellings ignore the part the Palestinians, and the Arab states have played in initiating aggression against Israel.
Pappe is a low- grade propagandist and Benedict Arnold.
Who reads him reads misinformation only.

The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

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The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

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By all accounts, the 1948 Palestine war was one of the most significant milestones in the modern history of the Middle East and remains one of the most intractable conflicts of modern times. Israelis call the 1948 war "The War of Independence" while Arabs call it al-Nakba or the disaster. The conventional Israeli version portrays 1948 as an unequal struggle between a Jewish David and an Arab Goliath, as a desperate, heroic, and ultimately successful battle for survival against overwhelming odds. In this version all the surrounding Arab states sent their armies into Palestine to strangle the Jewish state at birth and the Palestinians left the country on orders from their own leaders and in the expectation of a triumphal return. Since the late 1980s, however, a group of "new historians" or revisionist Israeli historians have challenged many of the claims surrounding the birth of the State of Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war. The present volume was conceived as a contribution to the ongoing debate about 1948. The War for Palestine brings together leading Israeli new historians with prominent Arab and Western scholars of the Middle East who revisit 1948 from the perspective of each of the countries involved in the war. The result is a volume that is rich in new material and new insights and which enhances considerably our understanding of the historical roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Eugene L. Rogan is a Lecturer in Modern History of the Middle East, Fellow of St. Anthony's College, and Director of the Middle East Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Frontiers of State in the Late Ottoman Empire (Cambridge, 2000) and co-editor of Village, Steppe, and State: the Social Origins of Modern Jordan (St. Martin's, 1995). Avi Shlaim is a Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, and he is also the Director of Graduate Studies in International Relations. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton, 1999). Professor Shlaim is a frequent contributor to newspapers and a media commentator on Middle Eastern affairs.

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Biased From Start to Finish.......2007-04-17

This book only quotes leftist Israelis and Arabs. No mainstream Israeli historians are considered. The book takes a side while claiming to be an unbiased historical work.

New History but decent History.......2006-01-31

Despite the fact that this book contains work of the 'New Historians' it contains their strongest arguments rather than their weaker ones. The New Historians have tried to examine the history of Israel in a critical matter, trying to re-examine key events and re-write portions of them due to new research. In some cases such as Pappe this has meant a distortion of the historical record, however in the case of Morris and Parsons this has merely meant a true excavation of the historical record.

This is a collection of short essays, most of which are in book form elsewhere. Parsons deals with the Druze relationship and efforts by both the Druze and the Zionists to craft a shared history, Morris examines the refugee problem and Shlaim looks at the 'collusion' with Jordan. A good taste of newish history of Israel, however some of the work is a bit dated today. This book does not stand alone, it examines a few key elements of the conflict, there are better books on the 1948 war, for instance O'Jerusalem, or Genises 1948.

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Standard Factless Arab Narrative..........2005-10-28

From King's College, London, Efraim Karsh wrote: "Rewriting the history of 1948" is rather misleading, for the essays in question do not so much rewrite history but rather endorse the standard Arab narrative - the one in which Palestinians and other Arabs are on the receiving end of predatory Zionist aggression. Israeli academics and journalists who call themselves the "New Historians" have been pushing this theme since the late 1980s and The War for Palestine adds little new or original to these efforts except that they have invited some sympathetic Arabists and Arab academics, including Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, to join in their efforts. The contributors whitewash the violent Palestinian attempt to abort the United Nations resolution of November 1947. They downplay the pan-Arab invasion of the newly-established state of Israel in May 1948 (euphemized as the "entry of Palestine" by Arab armies).

There seems to be a general consensus among the book's contributors (and also the publisher) that the Arab narrative needs no serious rethinking. Khalidi speaks for them when he justifies the absence of Palestinian "new historians" to shatter the "myths" on the Arab side: "It is not a myth ... that as a result of [Israeli aggression] the Palestinian people were victims, regardless of what they might have done differently in this situation of formidable difficulty, and of the sins of omission or commission of their leaders."

Most of the contributors are oblivious to the Palestinian version having little to do with reality, as best that can be reconstructed through contemporary accounts and reaffirmed by the millions of records in Israeli and Western archives. While the declassification of those documents constitutes the alleged raison d'être of the entire genre of Israeli "new history," little of this large body of evidence is tapped by the volume's contributors. Khalidi and Said make no use whatsoever of archival source material and instead engage in sweeping and misconceived assertions about the origin and scope of the Palestinian exodus; others, such as Rogan and Fawaz Gerges, quote the odd document in support of their case.

Avi Shlaim claims to have "overturned the myth of the Arab Goliath" during the 1948 War but there is nothing here from the archives of the Israeli Defense Forces or its pre-state precursor, the Haganah. Benny Morris makes the IDF and Haganah foremost culprits of the Palestinian exodus but has not consulted the archives of these two military organizations.1

1 There is more than meets the eye here. In The War for Palestine, Morris concedes that "when writing The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949 in the mid-1980s, I had no access to the materials in the IDFA [IDF Archive] or the Haganah Archive and precious little to first-hand military materials deposited elsewhere. Nonetheless, the new materials I have seen over the past few years tend to confirm and reinforce the major lines of description and analysis, and the conclusions, in The Birth and in a subsequent volume, 1948 and After, published in 1990." Morris inadvertently reveals the falsehood of "new historian" scholarly pretensions. This group insists on tracing its origin, indeed its raison d'être, to the opening of Israeli state archives in the late 1980s but now its foremost member admits to having written the single most influential "revisionist" work without the use of the most important archives.

To make matters worse, Morris also admits that "some of the material relating to the [Palestinian exodus] may have been open to researchers in the early and mid-1980s, when The Birth was written, but I was not then aware of its existence." In other words, Morris made no use of the Israeli archives due to his own ignorance.

Worthless.......2004-10-02

It has been a while since 1948, when five Arab nations launched an attack on Israel. The purpose of the attack was not to protect anyone. It was to obliterate human rights of Jews in the region. In effect, the Arabs were fighting for pride while the Jews were fighting for their lives. Not surprisingly, the Jews fought harder. And the Jews won.

Now some scholars have decided that the time has come to deny all this and rewrite this history, claiming not only that the Jews were arrogant aggressors, but that most Jews conspired to tell the same lies about it. It certainly serves no purpose to blame the victims of the Arab invasion in such a manner. If the cause the authors are fighting for loses, what will they have accomplished? If their cause wins, they will have struck a very counterproductive blow against scholarship, justice, and human rights.

Interesting material plodding book.......2002-09-29

Israel has won most of the propaganda battles over the story of its formation and its version of history has come to dominate current thinking. In recent years ironically a group of Israeli historians known to the world as the Revisionists have been exploring this history and suggesting that previous histories are inaccurate self-serving myths.

This book is an attempt to look at the war that gave rise to the creation of Israel as a state. The book is a collection of articles and with the exception of one article written by Benny Morris is rather leaden and academic never the less it raises some interesting issues. The last chapter by Edward Said moves away from academic objectivity and is a bit of pro-Palestinian propoganda but the other articles are interesting.

The basic foundation myth of Israel is that following the United Nations passing a motion supporting a partition plan, hostile Arab states invaded the area and were defeated by a heroic outnumbered Israeli army. Local Arabs reacting to calls from the invading powers left the area to become refugees. Their plight was self inflicted their claims to have their property returned were thus somehow illegitimate or irrelevant.

What the book shows is that most Arab states were reluctant to intervene and were not in a position to do so effectively. What in fact happened was that two wars occurred. The first prior to May 1948 saw the Haganah crush the local Arab forces. This led to strong pressure for the surrounding Arab states to intervene. However the surrounding states for their own reasons were reluctant to do so. Syria was more concerned about possible aggression from Jordan. Jordan had been busy negotiating a secret deal with Israel to occupy those parts of Palestine which were designated Arab. The Egyptians did not have the military capacity to launch a military action and it only occurred when Farouk overruled objections of his military commanders. At all times the Haganah had an advantage in numbers and was soon able to gain a decisive advantage in heavy weapons.

Benny Morris again shows that the flight of the Palestinians was not due to mythical broadcasts and his new essay is a significant departure from his earlier work suggesting that violence played a greater role than he previously suggested.

The book also makes it clear how the war altered the history of most of the Arab states. The failure of the Arab armies destroyed the legitimacy of those regimes who took power after de-colonisation. This in turn led to military coups in most Arab countries and started a tradition by which the military routinely became involved in politics. It also distorted the economy of these states as arming for further wars with Israel became a significant priority.

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The 1948 war led to the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, and to a conflict which has raged across the intervening sixty years. The historical debate likewise continues and these debates are encapsulated in the second edition of The War for Palestine, updated to include chapters on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In a preface to the new edition, the editors survey the state of scholarship in this contested field. The impact of these debates goes well beyond academia. There is an important link between the state of Arab-Israeli relations and popular attitudes towards the past. A more complex and fair-minded understanding of that past is essential for preserving at least the prospect of reconciliation between Arabs and Israel in the future. The rewriting of the history of 1948 thus remains a practical as well as an academic imperative.

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Paradise being lost.......2000-06-29

Maxwell's wonderfully meandering prose continues to outline the evolution of Camusfearna from the cocnlusion of the halcyon days of Ring Of Bright Water. The curse of the rowan tree and the powerful magic that invoked in Maxwell's life and those of his acquaintances. The epilogue is haunting and provides a sad precursor of later events, Teko was also to meet and unfortunate end and the author himself barely survived a year beyond the epilogue. Edal's tribute serves as a fitting message to those of us who ascribe to a paradise that never really exists.

Continuing tribulations of Gavin Maxwell and his otters........1999-09-02

God Bless Gavin Maxwell's soul. Always with the best of intentions, this book, continuing after his 'Ring of Brightwater' and 'Rocks Remain' chronicles Maxwell's increasingly depressing, tumultious life. The dream that Camusfearna was, grows tarnished, his otters resentful of any human contact, Mediterranean enemies from the past, come to haunt him, and a series of physically disabling accidents strike him.

On the good side, Maxwell's definite good knack for writing help pull the reader into the book. His visuals about the life on rugged but beautiful Scottish Isles, are absolutely appealing, making you want to be there, more than anything.

Tom Brokaw wrote about the American experience in his acclaimed 'The Greatest Generation' Gavin Maxwell is no doubt is a giant of the 'Greatest' British Generation. Those young boys who grew to responsibility, and manhood in the days of WWII, and the fading light of the British empire. You will be amazed at what these people went through, and what we would consider high adventure, they consider quite routine.

Anyway, read the book.

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Raven Seek Thy Brother
Gavin Maxwell
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A good book, but not like the first.

Raven Seek Thy Brother
Gavin Maxwell
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A good book, but not like the first........2007-09-23

This book is the third book of a series Maxwell wrote. The first, and by far the most well known, is Ring of Bright Water. This book continues the amazing account of a man's life in Scotland shared with otters. Maxwell's writing is engrossing. His descriptions and knowledge of the natural world create the idyll in its entirety in the reader's mind. As in the first, there are portions that are downright heart wrenching. This book does seem to dwell more on Maxwell's outside projects and troubles than the otters. He, himself, is a fascinating individual. He recounts episodes of health and financial problems that removes the cloud of fantasy surrounding his days at Camusfearna. Inserted in a chapter is an actual proposal written by him in an effort of win support of starting an Eider duck colony. This is a bit dry and doesn't lend much to the book. In researching these birds, however, he makes a trip to Iceland. The story of his trip is great. Even better are tales of poltergeists in his cottage. One does learn more of his life--writing for hours, smoking eighty cigarettes each day--and that is fine. As with the first book there are many terrific photographs of otters and deerhounds and some fine drawings, though the drawings in the first book are so spectacular that anything else pales in comparison. I am amazed at his life, impressed by his sincere love and concern of the creatures around him. While not of the same magical quality of the first book, this is a fine work in its own right.

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Raven Seek Thy Brother
Gavin Maxwell
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Raven Seek Thy Brother
Gavin Maxwell
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RAVEN SEEK THY BROTHER.
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Gavin Maxwell
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RAVEN SEEK THY BROTHER - sequel to Ring of Bright Water

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