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Featuring the latest information on modern greenhouse methods and materials, this classic covers everything from construction to cultivation of hundreds of plants, including pest and disease control. Learn successful greenhouse management, from siting to design to the best building materials. Every plant is included: vege-tables, fruits, pot plants, shrubs, flowers, and more.

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Good book on a few parts........1998-12-13

This is a good refrence book with a few good points but the big directory is of all places in europe and the author speaks as he wrote it in england, which he probally did. If it was updated more, ( all old greenhouse pictures) and had new process it would get more stars.

The Complete Book of Conservatory Plants

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The Complete Book of Conservatory Plants
William Davidson , and Jane Bland
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The Complete Book of Patio and Container Gardening

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The Complete Book of Patio and Container Gardening
Robin Templar Williams , and Mary-Jane Hopes
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(The Pleasure of Gardening) Conservatory Gardening : A Complete Practical Guide

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(The Pleasure of Gardening) Conservatory Gardening : A Complete Practical Guide
Lynn Bryan
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Robin Williams , Mary-Jane Hopes , and Robin Templar Williams
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With today's emphasis on casual but elegant entertaining, an inviting patio has never been more essential than it is now. Whatever your personal style and demands, everything you need to know to create the patio of your dreams can be found in this practical, comprehensive gardening and design tool. Not only does it provide detailed and inspirational guidance on all aspects of construction and design--from making a layout to laying paving, building walls, and lighting and furnishing your patio--it also includes actual plans for a wide range of patio styles, shapes, and sizes. Add instruction on how to build and incorporate barbeques, pools, and other decorative features; superb color photographs and informative drawings and diagrams; and of course a wide variety of imaginative planting schemes and down-to-earth gardening advice, and this becomes the only book you'll ever need to make your patio dreams come true. A Selection of Garden Book Club.

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The Complete Book of Conservatory Plants

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The Complete Book of Conservatory Plants
Davidson and Bland
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A map and guide to Hong Kong's nightlife for the intrepid traveler. Bars, pubs, clubs, dining, night markets, culture, sites, more.

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pahty on.......2001-04-25

This is a very good Late Night city as this map makes clear and I had one those all nighters I have not had in years care of the HK Groovy Guide!

after dark and a lot more!.......2001-01-31

My first trip to HK and I didnt know the 'in' places to go, how to get there, where the expats hung out, where to find good cheap food, live music, whatever. I was there for 2 days only, but this map really helped me out.

groovy going in hongers.......2000-11-21

great stuff - i used it when i was there for a few days last month. tells you where to go for a fun night out in HK if you have no clue where to go and dont want to end up in a hell-hole and get mugged. good going!

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A succint summary of today's management dilemas

Stunning Perspective

good for beginners

Rich Compendium of Contemporary Management Theory

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The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
John Roberts
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ASIN: 0198293763

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Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility, revamping the mechanisms for motivating and rewarding people, reconsidering which activities to conduct in-house and which to out-source, redesigning their information systems, and seeking to alter the shared beliefs, values and norms that their people hold. In this book, John Roberts argues that there are predictable, necessary relationships among these changes that will improve performance and growth. The organizations that are successful will establish patterns of fit among the elements of their organizational designs, their competitive strategies and the external environment in which they operate and will go about this in a holistic manner. The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Finally the book explores why these developments are happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and changes in technology. Written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on business strategy and organization, The Modern Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in business today and will be of interest to academics, students and managers alike. The Modern Firm was the Economist Best Business Book of the Year 2004.

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A succint summary of today's management dilemas.......2006-10-15

The modern firm debates around the theme of organisation of companies.
Though not a long book it is rigorous and densely written taking more
time to read than just flipping through the pages.

The book has a simple structure in 7 chapters. The first two chapters
are a mere introduction to the book and to some general concepts. 3
and 4 are devoted to the core theory, and the last 3 are the practical
examples.

The two main topics of the book are: the nature and purpose of the firm
and the motivation of the firm. The first, discusses from a variety
of perspectives what is traditionally known as "make-or-buy", should
the company be more or less integreated; relating to the agency
problem and the Coase-theorem. Prof. Roberts does not give any
solution but a framework to decide depending on each ones case. Since
some activities cannot be externalised in a simple manner, the second
tackles the issue of motivation, exposing the main factors to be
accounted into motivating employees and linking those to the design of
a firm structure.

5 and 6 are the practical part of the book where the author divides
companies in two camps: those organised for performance and those
organised for growth. Whilst there are not that many examples nor
statistical relevant data, the author makes a strong point that both
goals cannot be achieved with the same structure since control
mechanisms, goal-setting, etc. might be completely different in each
onset. The last chapter reminds the role of management in the decision on
structure and its reponsibility.

The book manages in its last chapters to make a good balance between
readibility and structure analysis to bring its points home. Readers
prefering a more scholastic view on the subjects of chapters 3 and 4
might prefer a book like "Economics of Strategy" from Dranove et al.

Stunning Perspective.......2006-04-15

This book nicely mixes perspectives from economics, organization theory, and strategic management. The writing style is lucid and accessible, unlike many books by academics. It is clear that Dean Roberts has been thinking about these issues for many years.

Even though he was trained as a classical economist, he seems to have shed some of the baggage that the neoclassical paradigm imposes. That is important to the relevance of his ideas in this age of the resource-based view of the firm (see the collected readings edited by Nicolai J. Foss), the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation (Schumpeterian/Austrian economics), and evolutionary economics (An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change by Richard Nelson and Sid Winter, 1982).

In contrast to the traditional notion that firms within an industry are homogeneous and compete only on price, a stream of empirical research going back to 1991 (Richard P. Rumelt in Strategic Management Journal) has found that rates of return vary more within industries than across them. That makes the case for heterogeneity, not homogeneity. It also speaks to the importance of differentiation among firms. Most important, it opens up the discussion to such vital topics as a firm's unique capabilities, its routines, its culture, and its architecture, all of which Dean Roberts addresses in this remarkable book.

His perspective is not the final one, of course. What we know about that miraculous black box called the firm continues to evolve. But Dean Roberts has made a stunning contribution to what we know. In our own work valuing private equity, we use key precepts of this book every day. I recommend The Modern Firm without hesitation or qualification.

good for beginners.......2006-02-22

Roberts presents a useful primer on the modern business firm. In particular the chapter on "The Nature and Purpose of the Firm" gives a solid overview of the standard arguments and theories. The problem is that by sticking so closely to standard thinking Roberts misses an opportunity to broaden the discussion about what we call the firm. For instance: he hints at a disatisfaction at the severe limitations neo-classical economics places on anyone trying to integrate business strategy with broader economic theory [e.g. his brief critique of Alchian and Demsetz], but then quickly falls into line and refuses to break ranks with it. As a result the book becomes more a review of business school case studies than an attempt to theorize about the firm.

Even with this criticism the book is worth reading: because it is a solid introduction it highlights just how far we have to go to get a theory that can tie in with practise.

Rich Compendium of Contemporary Management Theory.......2005-10-29

This work sums up most of the salient advances in management theory and microeconomics of the last decade. Before you read it, you should have some understanding of game theory and strategic management, otherwise you may miss the significance of the arguments put forward. For the prepared reader this book is a compendium of thinking on creative management at the cutting edge of this discipline.

I have the habit of marking my books in two ways. First; I highlight passages to make important concepts easier to find again. Second; I mark my books with tags so that the most important of these can be accessed rapidly without having to page through the volume. The exercise of thinking about the choices I shall make for highlighting and tagging is a way of helping to consolidate the material in my memory; and - ironically - this exercise at times makes the highlighting and tagging redundant.

Now, what am I to do when the book is so rich in material, when it is comprised of such fertile intellectual soil, when so pregnant with insights and meaning, that almost every paragraph needs to be highlighted, and every second page tagged? Of course, I lower the threshold for highlighting and tagging. And, to ensure that much rich material is not forgotten for its quantity, or buried for its density, I read this book a second time.

Only one negative note: Roberts is given to outlandish Americanisms. Anyone sensitive to good English usage will find it difficult to prevent the occasional grammatical shocks from spoiling their reading pleasure. For example; "Absent efficient Coasian bargaining or complete contracting, coordinating across business to handle the externalities will require cooperation in the sense used in Chapter 3..." What he means is: "In the absence of efficient Coasian bargaining..." 'Absent' is not a prepositional phrase. It is an adjective. What a pity it is that the copy editors of the Oxford University Press didn't repair these mistakes. They give rise, however, to aesthetic problems for the most part. Once the reader becomes aware of Robert's idiosyncratic linguistic lapses, his meaning becomes clear.

For its content, the book is strongly recommended.

Book on Organizational Design.......2005-08-30

The Modern Firm discusses the interrelations between organizational design, competitive strategy, and the business environment. This book is a very very difficult read. If you have read Good to Great and expect the read to be anywhere as easy as that then you are mistaken. This book is very dense and most of the readers will not be able to finish it. Economist reviewer perhaps has a wonderful background to read such stuff with ease (for having given the book of the year award) or should have atleast known the author and his ideas well. It could be good college text book for detailed read or a week long course by the author - but as a self-read I would rate it very low.

The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)

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John Roberts
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What goes on inside the minds of other animals? Do they have thoughts and feelings like our own? To many people, particularly pet owners, the answers seem absurdly obvious. Others feel that the issue of animal consciousness is beyond the scope of science. In Through Our Eyes Only, Marian
Stamp Dawkins presents the exciting new evidence in animal behavior that points to the existence of higher consciousness in some species.
Here, Dawkins argues that the idea of consciousness in other species has now progressed from a vague possibility to a plausible, scientifically respectable view. Wild vervet monkeys seem to "know" which members of their group are reliable messengers of danger and which commonly cry wolf; vampire
bats often give food to starving companions--but only to those who have helped them in the past.
Through Our Eyes Only is an immensely engaging exploration of one of the greatest remaining biological mysteries: the possibility of conscious experiences in other species. Written in a lively style accessible to the general reader, the book aims to show just how near--and how far--we are to
understanding animal consciousness.

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How's that for a lecture?.......2005-04-15

Dawkins is a lecturer at Oxford, and this book reads like an afternoon in the classroom with her. She uses that annoying convention teachers have developed for dealing with hung-over, inattentive students where she first tells you what she's going to tell you, then she tells you, then she tells you what she just told you. It makes a short book longer, but the reader may not appreciate being treated like a 17-year old.

It isn't until the final chapter that Dawkins even begins to address the issue of what 'consciousness' is. She recounts the Behavioralists screed that if it can't be measured and counted, it can't be studied, and then goes on to say that what passes for consciousness can be inferred from behavior. If she had just taken this tone from the beginning of the book, instead of couching everything in terrified scientific caution, her book might have had the power of Kristin von Kreisler's "Beauty in the Beasts," which shares its cover and subject matter.

Dawkins is a student of (figuratively if not literally) Donald Griffin and Griffin's own "Animal Thinking" presents much the same argument in a tidier package.

Neither author however is willing to take the leap to assigning consciousness in varying degrees -- to them it's an all-or-nothing, black-or-white distinction. Either you have it -- or you don't.

It seems much more likely to me that consciousness is not a threshold, but a continuum, with some animals and humans being intensely self-aware and other animals and politicians having only the dimmest idea of their place in the world.

Consciousness is a difficult issue.......2000-01-27

The author does a good job of surveying a great deal of research involving animal cognition, but fails to go into deeper discussions about whether or not these animals are conscious. Of course, it is difficult to take any kind of stance when we're dealing with animal consciousness, but I wasn't really sure if the author believed that any nonhuman animals were conscious or not. All in all, there were lots of interesting anecdotes about what animals can do...

Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness

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Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness
Marian Stamp Dawkins
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKPYLQ

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This is an easy-to-use guide to selecting hundreds of perennial species. It is indispensable for growers and designers working in subtropical and warm temperate/arid climates, and also includes some cool-climate tolerant species. Permaculture Plants: A Selection details hundreds of common and unusual edible, medicinal, and useful plants.

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A translation of Ma Double Vie, the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.

My Double Life (Large Print Edition): The Memoirs

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My Double Life (Large Print Edition): The Memoirs
Sarah Bernhardt
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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ASIN: 1426434421
Release Date: 2006-09-27

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My mother was fond of travelling: she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; then she would come back, embrace me, and set out again for Holland, her native country.

My Double Life: Memoirs Of Sarah Bernhardt

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My Double Life: Memoirs Of Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
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ASIN: 143250052X

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

My Double Life : The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (SUNY Series, Women Writers in Translation)

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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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In the first full-length psychoanalytic biography of the brilliant playwright and novelist, Melissa Knox explores the link between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde`s creativity and his self-destructive heroism.

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Original and Provocative.......1999-12-12

I'm a graduate student studying Wilde, and really appreciated this thoughtful and challenging book. So much of the scholarship on the most interesting issues--gender, sexuality, identity--is original only in its jargonistic neologisms. This book is different: straightforward, solidly researched, beautifully written, and sympathetic to Wilde.

Freudian Fantasy, Not Wildean Scholarship.......1999-12-09

It is remarkable that this sensationalistic and inaccuate text has gained the respect and attention that it has amassed both among the scholarly and popular press alike. Knox's "research" is pure Freudian fantasy, and her thesis reliant upon hyperbole and a serious misreading of Wilde's work and more importantly (for the sake of her argument), his family dynamics. The success of this book is puzzling to me as a Wilde scholar; there are enough factual inaccuracies and flights of rhetorical fancy here to lead me to conclude that the educated, late-20th century reader, like his Victorian counterpart, loves a good scandal enough to ignore both logic and whatever overwhelming evidence may prove to the contrary. Scholarship this certainly is not; I recommend those curious about Wilde's life and work attend to Ellmann, Freedman and other scholarly Wilde critics and biographers for more factual and less trendy fare. As a Ph. D. candidate in Victorian Literature and long-time Wildean scholar, I was surprised and disappointed with both Knox's premise and her text.

Best book available on Wilde.......1999-10-20

This is simply the best book on Oscar Wilde that I've ever read. A must read for Wilde scholars and an enjoyable read for Wilde enthusiasts.

Excellent, readable, and scholarly.......1999-09-25

This psychoanalytic biography of Wilde explores more aspects of his life than many of the better known biographies, even Ellmann's. Well-researched, well-written, fun to read. Wilde's isolation, complicated relationship to his young sister who died and his parents, and terror of syphilis, are all explored in this interesting and enjoyable book

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OSCAR WILDE : A LONG AND LOVELY SUICIDE
MELISSA KNOX
Manufacturer: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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ASIN: B000KUM88M

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Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide.

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