Flora's Gems: The Little Book of Tulips (Flora's Gems)

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If you are doing business in China or just thinking about it, this is THE guide you cannot do without. The guide starts with an overview of China covering topics like history, culture, people, political system, education, agriculture, industry, science and technology, and transportation. Following that, a section is devoted to covering the in-depth business issues such as Import & Export, Technology and Service Trade, Banking Industry, Foreign Investment, Intellectual Property Protection, etc.

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The Story of Sitting Bull: Great Sioux Chief (Dell Yearling Biography)
Lisa Eisenberg
Manufacturer: Gareth Stevens Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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West | State & Local | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0836814657

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Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-91 (The Red Record of the Sioux). A Graphic Account of the Life of the Great Medicine Man and Chief Sitting Bull; His Tragic Death; Story of the Sioux Nation; Their Manners and Customs, Ghost Dances and Messiah Craze; Also, a Very Complete History of the Sanguinary Indian War of 1890-91.
W. Fletcher Johnson
Manufacturer: Edgewood Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NPZTZI

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Sitting Bull - Great Sioux Chief
Lavere Anderson
Manufacturer: Dell Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000X1H2F2

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Sitting Bull : great Sioux Chief
LaVere Anderson
Manufacturer: Garrard
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OFSC5Q

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Sitting Bull, Great Sioux Chief
Lavere Anderson
Manufacturer: Garrard Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | History & Historical Fiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
General | United States | History & Historical Fiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0811666085

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Sitting Bull, the great Sioux chief
George Fronval
Manufacturer: Odhams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0600722430

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Sitting Bull, War Chief of the Sioux
Richard O'Connor
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0070475822

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LIFE OF SITTING BULL and the History of the Indian War of 1890-91. A Graphic Account of the Life of the Great Medicine Man and Chief Sitting Bull; His Tragic Death; Story of the Sioux Nation; Their Manners and Customs; Ghost Dance and Messiah Craze...

Manufacturer: Edgewood Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I748LC

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The Story of Sitting Bull: Great Sioux Chief
Lisa Eisenberg
Manufacturer: Yearling Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P3FIWC

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On Time Technology Implementation presents technology implementation guidelines and lessons learned from over 30 years of successful, hands-on project experience.

Key Features
* How to prevent the top 10 reasons for implementation failure
* Over 200 specific guidelines and lessons learned
* How to implement electronic commerce
* Five example companies from banking, insurance, transportation, government, and manufacturing
* How to use intranet and object oriented methods for maximum advantage
* How to cope with the burden of maintenance, enhancement, and production support
* How to implement knowledge management and data warehousing applications
* How to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software
* How to develop and implement software on time and within budget
* How to effectively evaluate, select, and implement software packages
* How to control changing requirements and scope
* Critical success factors in system and business process implementation
* How to apply concurrent engineering to software development
* Experience and tips to develop intranet/Internet based applications

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Excellent coverage of system implementation.......2000-02-03

Covers software development, implementation of software packages, and knowledge management. A basic theme of the book is to relate the system to the business processes. There are many useful detailed lessons learned. We have found a number of these to be valuable in my department. The same applies to the checklists. There are two sections of each chapter that are also good. These are what can go wrong and how to speed up the implementation. The book is more in tune with the real situation that you find in IT with limited resources and time. The book also gives recognition to the fact that legacy systems will be around for a long time. Many other books assume that these can be replaced or ignored. We spend over half of our programmer time on legacy systems maintenance so that allocating the rest of their time is a major concern-which this book addresses. Another good idea is that in software package evaluation, you do not focus on software features, but instead on what capabilities the packages are lacking. We used this idea to select different accounting software than if we had used features. The book is easy to read and can be used by non technical people. Several of our business managers have found it informative. In the next version of this book, the authors should expand their guidelines.

Very interesting book.......2000-01-11

This book focuses on guidelines to implement software with the emphasis on time. It deals with software development, packages, and knowledge management as well as maintenance and enhancement. The book does not preach a specific method, but instead provides common sense guidelines for both users and system professionals. A useful chapter is the last one which discusses how to deal with a number of problems that you are likely to encounter. This was very valuable to my group. Some of these issues are top management commitment, managing multiple vendors, dealing with user expectations, handling changing requirements and creeping scope just to mention a few. The focus of the book is on systems rather than technology in general. There is a good chapter on outsourcing. The life cycle that is presented begins with assessing the current business process, defining the new process, and then deriving requirements and benefits from a comparison of the two. This is an improvement over the standard approach of interviewing and gathering requirements from a system rather than a process perspective. The book should be expanded with more guidelines, but is good as is.

On Time Technology Implementation: How to Achieve Implementation Success with Limited Time and Resources

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On Time Technology Implementation: How to Achieve Implementation Success with Limited Time and Resources
Kathryn P. Rea Bennet P. Lientz
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OH8I30

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Josh - not a ferret.......2005-12-06

Back in the early 80s, I had a friend named Josh. He was such a great friend to have, but he didn't have a ferret. He really is the ferret type though, so I gave him this book - which I'm certain he cherishes to this very day. He'd surely have a number of ferrets by now, and know All About Them, except that he lives in California where I think maybe they're still considered contraband.

Edison Ferret.......2002-02-02

Back in the middle '80's, I had a ferret named Edison. He was
such a great pet to have. Since I had no idea about how to care for such a "new" type of pet back then, this book was a life
saver in caring for my dear Edison.

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All About Ferrets -
Mervin F. Roberts -
Manufacturer: T.F.H. Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O0FARE

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GREAT BOOK

All About Your Ferret (All About)
Sheila Crompton
Manufacturer: Ringpress Books Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1860541712

Book Description

All About Your Ferret is a handsomely illustrated, fact-filled volume which instructs owners or soon-to-be owners on buying a ferret, training your ferret, feeding and housing your ferret, caring for ferrets, and health problems. The text is clearly written and easy for all readers to understand; and high-quality, full-color photos provide an added enhancement.

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GREAT BOOK.......2000-06-25

I LOVE THIS BOOK. I JUST GOT A FERRET AND I READ THIS ALL THE IME ( THAT WAS UNTIL MY FERRET STOLE IT SO I AM GETTING ANOTHER ONE!

All about ferrets and rats: A complete history of ferrets, rats, and rat extermination, from personal experiences and study. Also a practical hand-book on the ferret

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All about ferrets and rats: A complete history of ferrets, rats, and rat extermination, from personal experiences and study. Also a practical hand-book on the ferret
Adolph Isaacsen
Manufacturer: A. Isaacsen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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All about Ferrets: Animal Care Booklet

Manufacturer: Dimefast, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1888417706

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Trees for Every Purpose
Joseph Hudak
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P0PAYG

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Trees for Every Purpose (McGraw-Hill series in Landscape and landscape architecture)
Joseph Hudak
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Landscape | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Trees | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0070308411

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TREES FOR EVERY PURPOSE
Joseph Hudak
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFSCY2

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Trees for Every Purpose
Joseph Hudak
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O04PEI

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For Smart People Only.......2005-12-04

This is a "Hollywood" memoir, not a "Shirley MacLaine" memoir, so be advised. Yeah, she's in there all right, but you get more, so much more. It's one of the most intelligent of all the star bios. If you are looking for a lot of mindless tibits and giggly gossip, you won't find much of that here. But if you are looking for real insight into some of our star icons, like Sinatra, Dean, Mitchum, this is the place to find it. Further, if you have any interest in what making movies is like, if you want to be an actor, director, cameraman or marry one, this is the book for you. If you are a creative person who puts yourself out there for the public, you will love this book. No one else has nailed this experience like MacLaine has. I will never see the Oscars or star interviews the same way again. In fact, the writing is so exceptional and insights so wide-ranging that this book should be required reading in any film class.

Many Men and Many Movies.......2004-12-17

Is anyone's favorite star Shirley MacLaine? I doubt it. But she's spent a lot of time thinking about stardom and Hollywood and audience and appeal, and in MY LUCKY STARS she gives it to us without holding much back. Her love affair with Robert Mitchum is presented as a Romeo and Juliet folie a deux in which the two of them entered a private world out of which they never really found their way back out. When she became intimate with Yves Montand, even after knowing what he had done to Marilyn Monroe, his co-star on an earlier picture, you really have to wonder if Shirley has a masochistic streak. (I suppose co-starring with Jerry Lewis, you'd need one.) And frankly, her description of a sizzling sex affair with Danny Kaye didn't ring true.

Far more solid is her recounting of Debra Winger's acting out on the set of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and in one of the very last chapters, "SAY ANYTHING," Shirley really lets her hair down with a series of anecdotes about her fellow stars that are too hot to repeat; she protects their anonymity by not revealing their names, but their identities will be obvious to anyone who knows anything about Hollywood. The story about John and Bo Derek is far more graphic and gruesome than anything you could have imagined. Well, maybe it's not the Dereks, since Shirley doesn't name them, but hey, she does everything but draw their faces on the margins of the chapter. Read it if you're in the mood for a good shock.

By her own accounting, Mac Laine has now made three comebacks in the movies (with THE TURNING POINT, with TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and with GUARDING TESS). She might go on to do more, who knows? You may not like her any more than you did before you started reading this book, but you'll have gotten a grainier look at Hollywood life than anything since the last Bruce Wagner novel. Well done, Shirley MacLaine!

Unlucky Readers.......2002-09-09

What is MacLaine's book like? Like being at a party where someone corners you, and talks to you the whole night, all about herself and her psycho-analysis of everyone else, never knowing when to shut up. Sure, I knew it was a book all about her - I was actually looking forward to reading it. Still, endless drivel and psycho-analysis on the many famous people MacLaine has met does not make for an interesting memoir. Half way through the book I gave up! I got the picture in the chapter about Lewis and Martin: the world is filled with unhappy, complex people - even Hollyworld. Next time, Shirley, remember: Less is indeed More.

Lots of juicy tidbits... Mitchum and Montand a girl should.......2001-06-23

be so lucky. I have not read Shirley's other books and I am not sure exactly why I purchased this one other than I suppose I was feeling especially nosey and liked the gossipy aspect of the book. Shirley tells a lot of her business but I suppose at this point and time in her life she could really care less how people judge her.

I always knew she had an unconventional marriage but just how unconventional was made very clear as she sustained long term affairs with Robert Mitchum, Danny Kaye and little escapades with some of her leading men like Yves Montand. What is very noticeable is that Shirley doesn't go into any of the issues associated with having such an open marriage at the time she did it. Her escapades are told with dry humor and a sort of emotional detachment. I do, however, believe that Robert Mitchum could have been one of her great loves instead of a long term affair.

I did appreciate her attempts to provide insight as to how affairs can happen so readily when making a picture. How they are in fact aided and abetted sometimes by directors and other crew members. Some directors won't let spouses on the set, some do questionable things to provoke reactions to get you to do the movie their way.... It's all very enlightening in that you do see how insecure people such as a Marilyn Monroe type would get eaten alive by these sort of games.

I suppose Frank Sinatra was really p_ _ _ _d off when this book came out because for all her flattery of him she paints such a sad picture of him. It almost.... I said almost, makes you want to overlook his ego maniac, self centered, I am God attitude towards the rest of the people on the planet. I also found her description of Debra Winger's antics on Terms of Endearment to be totally revolting. I have to think that if behavior like this is found acceptable in order to get the best from an actor then the behavior we read about shouldn't be a surprise. The anything goes behavior that is tolerated while making the movie could in fact and does create serious behavioral problems in some stars. In other words they expect real life to be like on the movie set and it doesn't work that way.

All in all I enjoyed the book, it's very juicy gossipy bits and her insights into old Hollywood.

What a broad will do for a buck!.......2001-03-10

The reply he gave when told of the book,whose reply?, who do you think,all in hearsay of course, but i believe it.Maclaines current outing is quite enjoyable really, apart from when she takes of into phycobabble,boring,in other tomes,too serious to be a good storyteller,suprisingly in this she is different,couldve dropped a few more juicy titbits,she has probably seen it all,her tales of the mafia are fasinating,that dry detached realism of hers,really suits such a subject maybe she should write a book about them sometime,but her insights into sinatra are truly fasinating,actually they are confusing,was she cutting his throat,or what,this is what baffles me,on one page calling him god,on another icily tearing him asunder,for to sinatra disloyalty,was the greatest sin of all,what i would not have given to be a fly on the wall of a reasturent, when mclaine walked in and met him after this.

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The life and times of Charles I
D. R Watson
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006D7FUE

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES I, AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PLACES OF INTEREST
Unknown
Manufacturer: WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RZG0ZM

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES I.
D. R. Watson
Manufacturer: BCA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O8QBPQ

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES I.
DR. Watson
Manufacturer: BCA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O80JNQ

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The life and times of Theodora
Charles Marie Franzero
Manufacturer: A. Redman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Greece | Europe | History | Subjects | Books | Ancient | General
ASIN: B0007J1RPQ

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Of Sri Lanka I sing: The life and times of Devar Surya Sena, O.B.E., M.A., L.L.B., A.R.C.M
Devar Surya Sena
Manufacturer: Surya Sena
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006D2R0W

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The life and times of Alexander Henderson,: Giving a history of the second reformation of the Church of Scotland, and of the covenanters, during the reign of Charles I
John Aiton
Manufacturer: Fraser
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00086UZME

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Life and Times of Charles I
Watson D.R.
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSJHZC

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The life and Times of Charles I
D.R. Watson
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS4ZI6

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Life and times of Sir John Bankes, attorney-general and lord chief-justice of the common pleas in the reign of King Charles I: Born at Keswick, A.D. 1589; ... Keswick Literary Society, March 4th, 1872
J. Fisher Crosthwaite
Manufacturer: Printed and Published by R. Bailey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AYQGQ

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