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The 1990s will be a time of political, economic, social, and financial upheaval. But even in a time of crisis, prepared individuals can prosper if they know:
-- the secrets of megapolitics -- how technology will revolutionize economic and social institutions
-- which businesses will thrive and which will fail
-- how to build a financial foundation in a time of economic crisis
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Foundational Wisdom To Plan Your Future By..........2006-11-19
I first met James in 1993 when he was giving a lecture at Michigan State University. I was well acquainted with him through his newsletter and economic theories that were more than just that. I have the utmost respect for him and have earnestly recommended THIS book to friends who want to build as solid a financial future as they can.
I purchased and studied this book the year it came out - it is foundational wisdom. Imagine...what would you do on the day that note for our trillion dollar deficit comes due? The day the US goes up for grabs? It is not unfathonable. Why not work on a plan for protecting your wealth that CAN span through the ages?
The Great Reckoning dispells any myths. It is strong medicine for those who believe the gravy train will not end and a plan of action for those who know it is already ending. It helps you to better plan your future, your investments and grow your wealth. I only have RAVES to give for this book - and have referred it to any THINKING friend/associate who wants to better prepare themselves, their family and their finances for the future.
Companion books - it took me YEARS to find Blood In The Streets (it was out of print), written by James and Lord Rees Mogg. Buy it! Also Harry Figgie's Bankruptcy 1995 is a must read. You will be surprised by how many of the steps that OTHER countries have taken to prevent capital flight have already been taken by the US. An eye opener.
And...round it off with The Sovereign Individual. It actually takes one tenet from The Great Reckoning and expands upon it a little more. It is not the tome, like the prior 2. However if you are foreign to the idea of you as your own country, well, explore it in that book.
Great Insight and Durable Wisdom.......2006-02-19
It's been more than 20 years since I read the first edition which (at a time when most Americans believed that the USSR was here forever and Reagan's "Evil Empire" comments were irresponsible) accurately forecast the downfall of the Soviet Empire.
The next edition featured a new chapter, Mohammed Replaces Marx and included an extensive discussion of what we now refer to as asymmetrical warfare. The authors correctly saw Muslim fundamentalists filling the vacuum left by decline of the USSR and East European communist governments. In addition, the authors accurately identified the trends of technology as shifting the ability to manage and inflict large scale terror to small nations and stateless groups which would be difficult to track and which had no territory to defend.
Almost 20 years later it is sobering to realize that the proliferation of WMD, especially nuclear weapons, has far exceeded the pace predicted by most government officials years earlier.
Sadly most readers focused instead on the financial predictions which they saw as the most important to their self interests. Thus they were unprepared for either the fall of the Soviet empire or the continued rise of Muslim fundamentalist based terror, either state sponsored as in the cases of Iran, Iraq and others or that sponsored by leaders such as Bin Laden. Too many Americans still fail to realize that we are in a state of war and have never learned or forgotten the lessons of the early days of WWII when action instead of "Peace In Our Time" appeasement, might have prevented the slaughter to tens of millions of people.
Predicting the future is always a dangerous exercise. It is an interesting exercise to pull the book off the shelf years later and thumb through the early editions. As one author noted, the futurists and economists are always wrong and the science fiction writers usually right. Certainly recent history has shown that the author's predictions are not 100% right, but they understand some of the most important forces shaping the world of tomorrow. As a result the value of their thinking puts them at the top of the list.
It is interesting to note that while most books sell on the used market for a fraction of their original cost, the single copy available through Amazon's resellers is listed at 400%+ of the cost new.
The Great Book on the future.......2006-01-14
This book is not politically correct, and never made the talk show circuit in the US.
I first heard of it on Canadian TV 10 years ago.
What has stayed with me for 10 years, is the notion that the time between great depressions [~60 years] is the length of living memory. That memory is to not invest speculatively with borrowed money.
A window to the future.......2004-06-07
Absolutely prescient...
Although written in the late eighties, it rings a resounding bell today.
In my humble opinion, it's a window on the past, present, and future - a condensation of controversial, yet seminal truths.
It is a must read for any person with an inquiring mind. It is required mental luggage.
Read it!
Maybe timely now to read.......2004-02-04
Who would have expected that the Internet and Telecom bubbles would delay the 'great reckoning?' If this book is correct, we have only a short time to get our financial houses in order. This is a long read and yet a good one.
This is for those who wish to conserve and preserve what they have. Recommendations not to eat in certain restaurants and the like....interesting in light of the food poisonings of late.
Our national and international money woes. Economists, historians, business professional and the clergy would benefit from this book. The recommendations were too soon, so they sounded a little early and the 'cry wolf' scenario seems to creep in. Well, look at where we are today. We can rebound, if it is the right time.
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Knowledge—about customers, markets, core processes, how things get done, who knows what—is a core business asset. You may have heard of knowledge management. No longer a buzz word, it's becoming mainstream in companies large and small who want to strengthen core competencies in:
Responsiveness to the market
Innovation of new products and services
Competency of skill base
Efficiency of work processes
If you're ready to start the knowledge management process in your organization, this book provides a practical plan and roadmap. You'll walk through all the stages—assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation—and gain specific action steps for putting it all together to expand your core competency and win competitive advantage.
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Information is Power.......2002-03-22
This is a very intelligently written book and a must read for any manager who wants to remain competitive in the New Economy. You can easily read it in one sitting. Why should you read it? To quote the authors, "Companies are grappling with how to make the most of the Web, which replaces hierarchical information exchange with a dynamic, horizontal flow and enables fluid, team-based collaboration. You need to know how to leverage Knowledge.
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- I LOVE this book!
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I LOVE this book!.......2006-03-21
It's such an enjoyable book with lush and beautiful illustrations throughout. I keep mine on the coffee table because guests love to flip through it. A nice conversation starter for sure!
Excellent Picture Quality.......2005-10-03
Vivid colors true to actual. Very comprehensive on subject matter and well documented. Would highly recommend if interested in the subject matter or California history.
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Book lives upto it's notariaty .......2007-08-10
This book was a hard read BUT it was written by one of the best there is. It is packed with all the information one will need for research on Freud and his beliefs. It is an excellent book to have, especially if you are a psychology major.
A Good Introduction and Reference.......2006-03-08
The Brill translation of the basic early writings of Sigmund Freud, although arguably not the most accurate translation, provides a good introduction to Freud's early work. We can read the critics and followers, yet sometimes we just have to go back to Freud's actual work. I keep my copy handy for reference and review.
Sigmund and soul. A myth to dream by...........2005-03-16
While Ms."Oph" and her "behavorist friend" spar in the ring of modern man's thought, let's take a break while the round card girl walks the ring counter-clockwise for all to see, admire, and lust after. I say at this stage of the contest Ms. Oph is clearly the better of the two; except for her spelling. Blinkers must certainly mean blinders; yes? At least she has the thread in hand; while our behavorist friend is still holding firm to his boyish literalisms and denied (I suspect) search for a god; or an anti-god if needs be.
Bah; humbug to it all. Freud was a novelist, a writer, a teller of tales. A mythologist, he admits it; sought after it. Dismiss those who helped form western man's thought? Forget it. Despite his human follies, which were certainly no greater or worse than yours or mine, the old man was brillant. As were his peers and adversaries; Jung and Adler. Each has something to offer if we listen. Should what we consider to be real and that which we consider unreal change costumes behind the theater's veil and then re-enter the stage, would we know?
Basic Writings of Freud by Brill.......2004-05-28
This is an excellent work for Freud enthusiasts. The work discusses the theoretical underpinnings for behavioral characteristics popularized by Freud. For instance, the proclivity to forget is related to a personal motivation to
suppress unpleasant memories. Dreams tend to depict unfulfilled wishes. Pain and disgust are more frequent aspects of dreams than pure pleasure. The author explains how childhood experiences both good and bad may resurface in our dreams. Our memory can be challenged to recall things long dormant. Night hallucinations can be due to perceived rejected sexual impulses.
Freud explains how seemingly contradictory thoughts can coexist side by side. The concept of psychological tension may be related to a displeasure or aversion. Freud discussed sexuality.
For instance, he noted that bisexual tendencies could be interpreted within the context of a female brain in a male body.
The book brings out many aspects of human behavior that we rarely dwell on consciously. It is perfect for a class project in
science, psychology or medicine. Freud's theories tend to be very
complex. This work reduces some of the deepest complexities to
simple English.Finally, the book helps us to understand the dynamics of why we behave as we do. This book explains important strategies to the classic flight/fight phenomena and accomodative
strategies aimed at reducing behavioral tensions/conflicts.
Review of Freud by an electrical engineer.......2004-01-26
As so many scientifically minded people our behaviourist friend below is quick to condemn literature one could view as decidedly outside the realm science after submitting it to a scientific reading. The great questions of sanity and the pathological must be considered to fall largely outside the domain of science. How one answers these questions have important ethical implications which are often obscured by the blinkers of science. You wish to treat mental illness? I will ask you, then, to what end? And let me suggest that if you attempt to answer that question with an appeal to science you do nothing but shirk from the ethical dimension of the question. Dismissing the question by declaring the answer self evident and therefore not in need of elaboration amounts to the same.
Serious, extensive, criticism can be levied at the scientific treatment of mental illness. For considerations of brevity I raise only the most obvious one: To draw scientific conclusions one needs measurable quantities, and their determination must be anything but scientific since it unfailingly requires a choice, which I maintain, is an ethical one. Cracks can be seen to emerge, if not in the edifice of science itself, atleast then at the junction of science and our human experience, where the question of mental health must unquestionable be located. The answers one gets, and thus the conclusions one draws, depend on the questions asked, and the manner of asking. One is always in the business of putting words to science, engaging thus, as one must, the dimension of the symbolic, which defines us as humans, beings of language. There is value in reading non-scientific literature, not measured with the yardstick of science, but properly misunderstood on its own terms. After Freud, read some Lacan, see the graphs and schemas, and note specifically the conclusion that psychoanalysis is not a science.
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William Kittredge, the distinguished writer of the American West, revisits the ranch life of his youth, set in the remote Warner Valley, "a hidden world" in which "landlocked waters flow from snowy mountains to the west but don't find a way out to the sea." In that rugged landscape, won by violence against both humankind and nature, Kittredge's family constructed myths, stories of how they came to be in that faraway place. Through those stories, he learned that accepted notions of patriotism and loyalty were less important than the values of community and generosity, and that, as Emerson observed, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Kittredge turns from personal memoir to a consideration of a subject to which he has devoted much time since the 1960s: the reigning myths of the American West, myths of rugged individualism in a land governed by corporations, myths of wide-open spaces in a region ravaged by the economy of extraction. Against those myths he poses the West's realities, and what he finds is not comforting: Kittredge offers an antitextbook history, a narrative in which "endless ruination was visited on the land, indigenous people were left to lives of impossible poverty, and the money and power went off to the East."
Kittredge's essay seamlessly joins environmental polemic, history, literature, and autobiography to offer an ultimately hopeful view of a troubled region in search of itself. Editor Scott Slovic, a scholar of Western American and environmental literature, adds to it a bibliography of Kittredge's published work. --Gregory McNamee
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In Taking Care, William Kittredge relates his coming of age on a property his family transformed from a farm dependent on horses to a modern agribusiness. Painfully reflecting on the abandonment of old ways, Kittredge calls for new, radical stories about the West that will foster compassion and caretaking.
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More Kitteredge, please.......2000-05-17
I love Bill Kitteredge as a storyteller, thinker, and even as a prophet. His vision of how story informs ethics is among the most sane approaches I've read, both to the art and role of storytelling and to ethics itself. His applicaton of his ethos to life in the West is sage. I've read Kitteredge's previous books and this book, *Taking Care* is a well-wrought distillation of Kittredge's former books with some fine tuning.
I rate this book as I do because just over half the book is Kittredge's writing. The rest is an essay by Scott Slovic which reviews Kittredge and covers too much of the same ground I just read in Kittredge's own writing, followed by a helpful and comprehensive bibliography. Slovic does good work. But, I wanted more Kittredge.
I have one last complaint: the book is published as a *Credo* book, apparently part of a series. But, I'm not sure. Nowhere does this book say anything about other writers contributing to the series, whether in the past or the future. I would be excited to read other writers' credos, especially if they were writers I was unfamiliar with. But, if I were familiar with the writer and if the Credo book were like this one, a revisit to previously published stories and ideas, then I wouldn't buy it.
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Coaching Youth Tennis is an excellent introduction to youth coaching and teaching young tennis players valuable skills. It provides all the information you need to coach effectively and help 6- to 18-year-old athletes learn and enjoy the game.
This third edition features the games approach to coaching tennis, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach. Also included are chapters on communicating with athletes and parents, planning and conducting practices, and coaching during games.
Developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation's number one coaching education program, and with the USTA, Coaching Youth Tennis provides volunteer coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on fulfilling that role.
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A good baseline..........2000-03-29
I was interested in a book to learn tennis basics to help my daughter the love of the game that my wife and I both have. This is the one! Not only were the tips helpful to my daughter but we also learned a few things as well. This book should be in any tennis parents library.
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- A great reference for beginning players
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Youth Tennis (Spalding Youth Series)
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A great reference for beginning players.......1999-07-13
Youth Tennis is another great book from the author of Coaching Tennis, Total Tennis Training, and Winning Tennis, Chuck Kriese. This book provides all that a beginning player needs to know about improving thier game.
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- Explore a world of flavor
- Before you go to a restaurant . . .
- Intelligent, witty and entertaining!
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Nowhere is America's rich ethnic and cultural diversity more apparent than in its restaurants. Every city and region of the United States has a unique cultural heritage - whether it's Cuban, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Indian, French or German - reflected in its dining choices. So what do you order in an ethnic restaurant, and how do you eat? The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion provides all the information you need to make every ethnic dining experience a pleasant and memorable one. In this book you will find information about what to expect in any type of ethnic restaurant; detail profiles of each ethnic cuisine, including key ingredients, spices and methods of preparation; cultural tips to put you at ease with the customs and etiquette of each cuisine; representative dishes of each cuisine defined and described; recommended complete meals from appetizer through dessert and easy recipes you can prepare at home.
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Explore a world of flavor.......2007-01-08
Love trying new and exotic foods? Then this book is for you. This is not a recipe book per say, although there are a few recipes included in each chapter. This book is more of an encyclopedia of the foods of the world organized by country.
Each chapter includes a basic introduction to the foods of a specific region, a discussion of the country/region and it's history as it relates to food, the main ingrediants and dishes that dominate that regions cuisine, instructions on how to eat and order like a native and a few recipes.
You would have to go to another resource if you were interested in making the food yourself, but you can not beat this book for giving you a basic knowledge of all the different types of food and beverages that are out there to try.
The How to order and eat like a native sections are superb and cover and array of things including table manners, utensil (or non-utensil) usage (did you know that it may be considered less then polite to eat with your chopsticks in your left hand in China? I didn't) and intersting tips.
Love love love this book as will anyone with an interest in ethnic food.
Before you go to a restaurant . . ........2001-09-21
"The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion" is a great book if you like to go out to "ethnic" restaurants. ("Ethnic", i.e., "foreign food" restaurants). In easy-to-read chapters it gives you information about culture, gastronomy, and history for most of the world's great cuisines: Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Russia, etc.); Africa (North Africa, Ethiopia, West Africa); Middle East; Greece and Turkey; India; Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.) Asia (China, Japan, Korea); Americas (Mexico, Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, etc.). There are descriptions of typical flavorings, cooking methods, and dishes. Highly interesting and recommended.
Intelligent, witty and entertaining!.......2001-08-09
This book is a must-have for any lover of ethnic cuisine as well as all the "foodies" that enjoy the inside scoop on the American dining scene. Eve Zibart provides bacground, cultural tips, recipes, and recommended dishes from ethnic cuisine from around the world. Her writing style is intelligent yet witty and always accessible. The practical tips alone are worth the price of the book. How do you use chopsticks? How do you eat Ethiopian food? This book is a delight from cover to cover and a valuable addition to any food lovers library.
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On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1.6 million women. In her explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company:
Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance.
Relegates women to lower-paying jobs like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men.
Inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to discrimination.
Exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth.
Featherstone goes on to reveal the creative solutions that Wal-Mart workers around the country have found, like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options. Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it. A new preface to the paperback edition will reflect on Wal-Mart's response to this lawsuit and its critics-including this one.
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Incredulous.......2006-11-10
How is it possible that this book (and this class action suit) hasn't made a bigger impact in the American people? My eyes were opened and I accepted the Wal-mart propaganda and brainwashing for what it was. But I believe boycotting will only hurt these women- instead join the grassroots campaigns and unionizations Featherstone talks about. Once you've purchased this amazing book, pass it on to a friend. Or better yet, walk into a Wal-mart and hand it to a female employee. This *should* be required reading.
Unfortunately, this book is fabulous.......2006-06-25
It's so unfortunate that a book like this has to be written. It's even more upseting that every word is true. The book, strictly speaking, is awesome! Why isn't every newspaper and TV show talking about it? The situations in the book are true I'm sure. The reason I'm sure is because I'm an Assistant Manager and I've lived every one of those situations during my short term in management, and more. Oh the horror stories I could tell! I can't even count how many times my husband has had to be restrained from leaving the house to go have a "chat" with my Store Manager out back of the store. The treatment of women, actually associates in general and especially female managers, by this company is wrong. It's downright criminal. It's also why I'm resigning and giving up. Is Liza writing another book or an update? Is there a way to join the lawsuit? Is there a way to contact Liza? I would really like to know these things because I also have a story to tell. My email is walmartassistantmgr@yahoo.com.
Always Lower Prices - but at what cost?.......2006-02-01
This is the central question in Featherstone's treatment of the Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. class action lawsuit. Focusing on depositions, sworn testimony and direct personal interviews, Featherstone gets right to the heart of her subject in the first chapter. The anecdotal evidence, supported by ample statistics, demonstrates that something is, indeed, awfully wrong with Wal-Mart and the disparate ways in which it treats its workers.
As important as the gender discrimination issue is the consideration of how Wal-Mart has, and will continue to, build its fortune off the backs of the working poor. Given enough time, it is entirely possible that certain areas of the country will be economically drained, committed to an addiction of buying at and working for Wal-Mart. It is the low-price panties version of a Super Size Me world. Worst of all, however, is the company's documented practice of referring its own workers to social service agencies, to apply for benefits they need because Wal-Mart neither provides sufficient benefits nor pays employees enough to afford them. Puts a whole new spin on the phrase "corporate welfare." Where is the politicians' indignation over this abuse of the welfare system?
Well researched and well documented with references and notes. One latter chapter does tend to slow down with emphasis on legal citations and stats, but this is necessary to put a factual basis behind the personal stories. Whether you are against Wal-Mart, a Wally-World fan or a blissfully unaware consumer, you cannot read this book and remain unaffected in some manner. If it does not turn you completely away from shopping there, it should at the very least give you pause before opening your wallet.
informative and shocking.......2005-10-06
Anyone living in the 21st century will be amazed at the content of Selling Women Short; the anecdotes shared by current and former Wal-Mart employees are like something out of Gloria Steinem's worst nightmare circa 1975. Even in the current litigious climate of corporate America, Wal-Mart manages to succeed at completely indoctrinating its "associates" to believe in the "values" of the company, which are as "good ole boy" as they can get. Liza Featherstone's account of the Dukes vs. Wal-Mart class action lawsuit (now certified, still unresolved), the largest in U.S. legal history, makes up for in content what it may lack in an elegant writing style (it's a bit bare bones and stilted at times). The women involved in the lawsuit aren't the typical bleeding-heart liberals that would be easy for Wal-Mart to discredit; they are by and large very religious, relatively conservative women who are trying to get by on very low wages and zero respect. The consistency with which women have been kept to the lowest paying, lowest power positions within the company is nothing less than appalling; using both ample statistics as well as countless personal interviews, Featherstone assaults the reader with a barrage of terrible realities. Many of the employees at Wal-Mart cannot afford to spend 50% of their income on the company health plan, so they end up on state or federal assistance. Women are discouraged from applying to management positions. If this reading this book does not convince you to boycott Wal-Mart, it would be surprising.
Struggles for justice .......2005-07-20
"Selling Women Short" by Liza Featherstone is an engaging book about the historic 'Betty Dukes vs Wal-Mart Stores Inc' class action lawsuit that alleges Wal-Mart's institutionalized discrimination of its female employees. Skillfully weaving anecdotes and profiles of key plaintiffs and their claims of sexism with research about Wal-Mart and its Orwellian corporate culture, the book provides an excellent critique of the company's numerous illegal behaviors and a humane narrative of its female employees' struggle for justice.
Interestingly, Ms. Featherstone's analysis suggests that the company's paradigmatic success is attributable to its parasitical relationship with the declining fortunes of the working class. Wal-Mart cynically promotes itself as a pro-family, pro-American company even as it offers poverty-level wages and imports most of its wares from foreign, low-wage countries. In this manner, Ms. Featherstone explains that Wal-Mart both contributes to and profits from the exploitation of marginalized female laborers.
Ms. Featherstone is careful to discuss the limitations of the lawsuit as a tool to effect systemic change at Wal-Mart. She contends that it is probably equally important for the public to become educated about the inequities at Wal-Mart in order to create a media firestorm that might pressure the company to change its ways. However, Ms. Featherstone describes the difficulties that unions and interest groups have had trying to organize labor and shoppers in the struggle with Wal-Mart, contending that our consumer culture tends to set aside worker's rights issues in favor of shopping expediency. Nevertheless, as the lawsuit moves forward the author is hopeful that Wal-Mart may soon feel the need to make significant changes in order to avert a court-imposed solution and/or a public relations catastrophe.
I highly recommend this outstanding book to everyone.
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- The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why
- The Professional Guide: Dynamics of Tour Guiding
- The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives (Asia's Transformations)
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