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Venezuela: Paraiso de orquideas
Gustavo A Romero
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"Michelin The Green Guide Canada, "
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Experience fast-paced cities or laid-back frontier towns. Watch whales on either coast, polar bears up North or moose in the Maritimes. Canoe native waters or ride a back-country trail. Sleep in an igloo, or a teepee under the prairie sky. Go sugaring, dine on fresh lobster or dance a Scottish jig. Canada is the land of choices. THE GREEN GUIDE, the perfect travel companion: a discerning and up-to-date source of information. Practical and comprehensive, it offers suggestions on what to see and what to do, background on history and cultural heritage and a selection of hotels and restaurants. Ideal guides for the independent tourist, THE GREEN GUIDE explores destinations both near and far. Sights are rated - 3 stars "worth a journey", 2 stars "worth a detour" and 1 star "interesting". Map itineraries make planning easy, whether visiting the highlights or venturing off the beaten path. Travel with THE GREEN GUIDE for an exciting and memorable experience.
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Los Ases del Wildcat de La II Guerra Mundial
Juan Maria Martinez
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Gain a higher-level perspective on risk management. This third edition contains 35 tool-packed chapters focusing on a systematic approach to risk management. It highlights specific techniques to enhance organizational rish identification, assessment and management.
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Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, third edition, is an encyclopedia of risk management tools, practices and protocols. Its 35 tool-packed chapters cover the latest perspectives on risk, focusing on a systematic approach to risk management. It highlights specific techniques to enhance organizational risk identification, assessment and management, all within the project and program environments.
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A great blueprint for risk assessment and mitigation.......2000-06-22
When I began my Project Management Professional certification through George Washington University and Motorola several years ago, one of the first courses I took was one dealing with project risk analysis and response. The text for the class was Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, by Carl Pritchard, and has served as a blueprint for assessing and mitigating risk in many projects for which I was responsible.
Pritchard's emphasis is not on designing assessments and mitigation strategies for all circumstances, but on building useful information that can be applied toward a particular project situation. This book has a natural alignment with the principles and concepts of
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The book is divided into two major sections: Section 1 addresses risk processes and practices; Section 2 is concerned with specific risk management techniques. The four appendixes contain information on contractor risk management, list of risk sources, basic probability concepts, quantifying expert judgment, and special notes on software risk. The book concludes with a glossary of terms, bibliography, and index.
Of particular value in the book are the 50+ figures and tables that illustrate some of the more complex statistical/probability models used in risk assessment and mitigation. Each chapter follows a template that structures the same type of information. For example, each chapter in Section 2 contains the following subheadings:Technique Description; When Applicable; Input and Output; Major Steps in Applying the Technique; Use of Results; Resource Requirements; Reliability; Selection Criteria; Output; Summary
The 218-page book (softcover)is an easy read and a highly useful desk reference for any project manager concerned about planning for and mitigating risk to projects. My dog-eared, heavily highlighted copy has served me well over the past 3 years.
Excellent resource!.......1999-11-20
I used this text as part of a Risk Management course, and I expect to use it in practice. It's an excellent resource for risk managment tools. Especially for quantifying financial risks.
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Risk Management: Concepts And Guidance
Harold Schutt
Manufacturer: Diane Books Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0788147250 |
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heartwarming.......2000-01-21
heartwarming and sweet. A wonderful book for all pet and/or bird lovers
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Five novels condensed into one volume.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books are issued every two to three months. The typical volume contains four or five outstanding books in condensed form. None of the condensations in any volume has appeared in Reader's digest itself. Any reader may receive this service by writing the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, N.Y. 10570
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Caring for Your Collectibles: How to Preserve Your Old and New Treasures
Ken Arnold
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Extensive Tomato List & Suggestions.......2005-08-11
Although this author seems to have personal tomato growing experience, this book is primarily based on detailed questionnaires that the author had experienced tomato growers from around the nation fill out. This has the most extensive tomato variety listing that I have seen. Usually with insightful comments & often with ratings, from these tomato gardeners around the nation. Many times the ratings vary around the nation. The drawings are good. Many good suggestions.
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Gilgamesh Et La Mort (Cuneiform Monographs, 19)
Cavigneaux
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“Noir’s first bombshell”
—Entertainment Weekly
One of Hollywood’s sultriest sirens of the 1940s, Veronica Lake steamed up movie screens with her fragile beauty and exotic hairstyle. A heartthrob of millions during her heyday, she was the hottest ticket around starring in 27 motion pictures, including such film classics as This Gun for Hire with Alan Ladd and the Preston Sturges comedy, Sullivan’s Travels. Offscreen Lake’s life was a disaster—a controlling mother, three failed marriages, extramarital affairs, a secret abortion and downward spiral due to alcoholism and mental illness—ending up broke, destitute and forgotten. Fully authorized,
Peekaboo tells why.
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A Fascinating And Tragic Hollywood Tale.......2006-12-28
I knew very little about Veronica before I read this book and now I feel like I understand her a lot better. She was a flawed person and the author does not try to sugarcoat her life. He gives us all the details from her childhood, her rise to fame, her marriages, her battles with alcohol and mental illness, to her tragic end. Her mother was the main source for the book and maybe her memories are tainted but there's also a lot of Veronica's own words in here. There are quite a few unpublished photos too. This book has definitely made me a fan of Veronica and I hope more people read it to learn about her tragic story.
Hurtful rubbish ... the lady deserves better.......2005-08-30
I have the original hardcover edition of this book published in 1983 and it is one of the worst biographies I have ever read. It was virtually co-authored by Veronica's grasping stage-mother who used her as a meal ticket and who also sued her for support once the money dried up. Miss Lake's real problem was alcohol and this book's dubious (and central) theme that she was a paranoid schizophrenic does not seem based on medical fact. The authors provide no proof of this 'diagnosis' -- only hearsay -- with Veronica's redoubtable mother as the only reference. The real truth about this beautiful, tragic actress who was more sinned against than sinning remains to be told, and sadly, may never be. Miss Lake's own autobiography "Veronica", while glossing over a lot, gives a much better sense of her as a person -- flawed, alcoholic, but seeking only love and peace of mind in a much less enlightened world than today.
Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake.......2004-08-04
Apparently some readers who previously reviewed this title must have read a different book, or were too blindsided by their own misinterpretations to realize what a great book this actually is. Lenburg has done a remarkable job in writing this authorized and harrowing story. What some readers have failed to take into account is the historical context of Veronica Lake's mental illness and the era (the 1930s) in which she was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Back then, people were often institutionalized, and medical treatment was far more limited than it is today. Throughout history, many other notable figures, also ravaged by schizophrenia when little was done for their condition, managed to hide their illness and separate their public and private lives. Certainly, Lenburg did not create or fabricate the circumstances that Veronica Lake lived, and the fact she was tormented for years by mental and was a self-professed alcoholic, he did not rely on her "fuzzy" memory of the truth. Every fact and story were carefully corroborated and substantiated by Lenburg by Lake's mother, family members, and over 40 of her closest co-workers and friends. This includes those accounts as told by Veronica in her own autobiography, each corroborated and verified by the author for inclusion. This also includes many new revelations about Lake that she never revealed in her book, such as a secret abortion, spousal abuse, a possible lesbian relationship, extramarital affairs, and much more. In addition, Lenburg uncovers the truth about other stories told the national press by Lake or Paramount's publicity department that, for many years, were believed true by fans and the media only to turn out false. Unlike other "tell-all" books that don't always attribute the source of their information in the text or throughout, Lenburg does an admirable job in this case. He consistently provides testimonial evidence with actual quotes from Lake's mother and the people he interviewed who knew her best about many of the instances and stories described in his book. Similarly, Lenburg presents a fair, balanced, fully fleshed, true and accurate portrait of Lake without exhibiting any bias toward Lake or her mother. Final judgment of both, whether they were each crazy, or who was at fault is at it should be, it's left up to the reader to decide. The bottom line: "Peekaboo" is a fascinating read, well worth the time and effort about a voluptuous vixen who's life was a disaster from beginning to end.
An erroneous "look" for Veronica Lake.......2004-05-16
Jeff Lenburg, the author of this horrific tome, dedicates his book to: Constance "Veronica" Marios, Veronica's absolutely terrible mother (her comments and interviews make up a great deal of the "misinformation" about Ms. Lake. In the first place, Veronica Lake could NOT possibly have been a "paranoid schizophrenic" as the author (and mother) claim: no one with that level of mental illness could possibly remember lines; perform in any way before a camera; much less create an "image" which her studio bosses at Paramount Studios embraced. In additon, someone with illness of this type (during the time frame when Ms. Lake was alive), would have been subjected to shock therapy (the strong psychiatric drugs were not developed until much later (early 1950's); if Veronica had any kind of mental illness, it is much more likely that she was possibly a manic-depressive (many people with THIS diagnois have in the past, prior to the drug, lithium, utilized alchol to keep them "level" between the highs and lows of their condition. This author takes the position that Veronica drank simply for the sake of drinking--if she had been a paranoid schizophrenic, she would probably put herself into a catonic state and never could have performed in any movie, or done any of the later work which she continually attempted after leaving her movie career. Instead of reading THIS book, try to find the autobiography of "Veronica" written by Veronica Lake with Donald Bain, published in 1977 by The Citadel Press. A reading of this book supports the many inaccurate "statements" put into "Peekaboo" that obviously the author and her estranged mother (her mother not only sued Veronica during one of her most financially difficult situations in Hollywood, this "stage mother" did not even attend her only daughter's funeral -- apparently no one did, except her son Michael. If any more pertinent information relating to Veronica could have been given in "Peekaboo" it should have been supplied by her surviving children (although Veronica did not have the usual maternal relationships with them, as her "career" and unfortunate choice of husband(s) (as the old standard goes, "she looked for love in all of the wrong places")-- but the reader is advised to by-pass this book completely, and try to find a copy (libraries use inter-loan procedures, or one can purchase a "used and out-of print" copy of the much more "accurate" autobiography. As I have read both books, I can promise anyone who has seen any of Ms. Lake's movies, and seen the levels of her performances, the information contained in "Peekaboo" is extermely inaccurate at best. Ms. Lake's story is extremely sad at best; as another reviewer remarked: where were the residuals (apparently, Veronica did not have adequate managerial or financial advisors); however, one would think that she would have been given SOME type of support from the Hollywood System (unfortunately, she did not have a support-system network in Hollywood during the time she worked there, except some minor acting characters -- but it is important to note, the she attempted to keep on working in television(as an actress; a hostess for classic films); tried her hand at the stage (most of these ventures were of the summer-stock variety, but at least she persisted -- and these activities took place during the various stages of her alcoholism. Hers is a cautionary tale, and best told through her autobiography (the earlier book referred above) than to this shoddy and erroneous depiction of Ms. Lake written by Jeff Lenburg--in fact, it is the MOST hateful "biography" I have ever had the displeasure to read about any Hollywood "star. By all means, AVOID this book by Jeff Lenburg at ALL costs, and search for the earlier out-of-print "autobiography" instead.
Good, but not perfect.......2004-04-27
The book is worth reading and the pictures are great. The writing is good, but not perfect. Not enough or maybe too much time is spent on her relationship with her mother and her mental illness. Overall, a sad, but interesting read.
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Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction As Ira Terrorists
Anne Maguire , and
Jim Gallagher
Manufacturer: Court Wayne Press
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Great book... .......2007-03-12
Having read Gerry Conlon's Proved Innocent, I was very interested in the story of the Maguire family and their perspective on what happened to them. Annie Maguire does a very dignified job. It is amazing that even though it was such a traumatic experience for her whole family, she is able to relate stories and situations that really bring a smile to your face. She tells it like it is but retains her sense of humour.
The book is a very easy read and one that you will not want to put down. I highly recommend this book.
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