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Sauvignon Boring.......2006-01-04

This book contains very little information on Chilean wines and not enough insight into Chilean culture. I don't want to call the author racist but I got the impression that he views Chileans as second class people. Like it was so much for him to ACTUALLY consider THESE people his friends.

I was also shocked when I opened the book and found it to be published in double space format, not very professional at all.

What a fun read!.......2004-04-28

It took me one night to read John's narrative about his adventures touring the wine country of Chile-- what a quick and entertaining read! I read it prior to my trip down to Chile and it deeply enhanced my experience: his depictions of Santiago, the wine country, the culture, and the peoople were so vivid that I felt like I had already been there when I got there. His journal entries capture his precise thoughts and enable the reader to relate to him on many different levels. I thought the book was, in a word, fantastic!

A wine enthusiast's first trip to Chile.......2004-01-30

The senses are engaged at every step of this midwestern wine enthusiast's first trip to mysterious Chile. What he found was that wine making in Chile is not so much different than wine making in the U.S. But the differences in culture, ah...THAT made the trip. Can you taste it in the wine? You bet. A lovely week's jaunt in a wineland of wonder. Refreshing with a hint of plum.

BAD, BAD, BAD.......2004-01-28

This was the worst travel book I've read in a long time. Its basically a simple diary of a travel junket sponsored by one of the 2nd tier wineries in Chile. The biggest insight was what the daily meal was.

I've been to Morande myself. I didn't feel the need to write a book about it.

The publisher has my money, so I guess I'm the bigger idiot.

No information on Chilean wines.......2004-01-25

This book is a thorough disappointment. The author visited one winery in Chile. He has no background in evaluating wine, he gives no description of the overall industry or wine regions of Chile, and no real discussion of Chilean wines. Given this lack of substance you might expect at least a charming travelogue. But alas, to add insult to injury, this journal reads like a high schooler's first trip, complete with descriptions of parking at O'Hare, hotel gym facilities, etc. It is hard to understand how this book got published.

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A very useful reference source

A solid foundation with a not so perfect house

Over 300 Successful Business Letters for All Occasions
Alan Bond , and Alan J. Bond
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764103229

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Despite e-mail, cell phones and other modern conveniences, an important place still exists for the written letter, especially when it is used as a means of business communication. This revised and updated book presents correct business formats, then offers instruction on writing clear and concise letters for every imaginable occasion. Among them are letters of inquiry, credit letters, dunning letters, congratulatory letters, business announcements, invitations to business functions, and many more. Readers will find many sample letters that they can adapt for their own uses. New in this edition is advice and instruction on effective e-mail correspondence.

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A very useful reference source.......2000-10-24

This book seems to cover just about any business letter that you might ever need. The book itself is divided into 16 chapters covering topics such as LETTERS OF INQUIRY, BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS, INVITATIONS, and COLLECTION LETTERS. In addition to providing many examples of letters the book also covers issues and approaches to creating letter for various reasons. This is helpful if you do not want to use the example, but still need guidance on how to compose a letter on a certain topic. The book also provides what it calls "useful sentences" that you can plug into a letter of your own design. There is also a "quick reference appendix" that show Forms of Addresses (if you're writing to a politician or dignitary), common spelling and grammar mistakes, and other helpful pieces of information. Overall I rate this book very highly and think that it should be on the bookshelf of anyone that writes formal business or personal letters.

A solid foundation with a not so perfect house.......2000-08-02

Alan Bond's book, OVER 300 SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS LETTERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS gives several examples of actual letters. Examples of just about every type of letter you will ever have to write can be found in this book. It was written as a reference for the business professional and home correspondent.

OVER 300 SUCCESSFUL LETTERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS does not have a lot of tutorials. It does little to teach you to be a better business writer but is a very good source of examples of actual letters.

This book is best when used with BUSINESS WRITING FOR DUMMIES by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts. BUSINESS WRITING FOR DUMMIES is just the opposite. It does a lot to make you a better Business letter writer but it has very few actual examples when compared to Alan Bond's OVER 300 SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS LETTERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS.

Used together, any person has a formidable arsenal to write a well-written professional letter regardless of the subject or circumstances.

I highly recommend that anyone interested in improving their business witting skills purchase both Alan Bond's, OVER 300 SUCCESSFUL LETTERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS and Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts' BUSINESS WRITING FOR DUMMIES.

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it's not REAL you crazy people!.......2004-07-24

First of all, after I read these reviews I was SHOCKED. This book is in the HUMOR section! there's absolutely no scientific basis... it's just all in fun! I give it 5 stars for the good laugh it gave me!

My Literary Cat.......2001-06-25

My cat tried to eat the book. Does this signal a voracious literary appetite?

Uh oh............2000-06-30

My dumb cat just tested 40 points higher than my IQ. Now what do I do?

I have dumb cats.......2000-02-24

This book was very interesting, but if you have an older, spoiled kitty, paid previously to just lay around, don't expect a lot. I enjoyed the book, but unfortunately I found that my cats' artistic abilities are limited to NOT looking at the pictures.

I REALLY throughly enjoyed your book........1997-04-04

The reason I enjoy your book is because I have a great facination in cats I havn't read the whole book yet but I am hoping to save up. I have five cats and enjoy there company. It would make such a lovely gift for family & friends. So go buy the book (test your cats intellagence) and go test your cats knowledge,you never know your cats IQ could just well be better than yours. By Louise Nicholls

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Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear, Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, became first a megastar of the exploding Yiddish theatre, and then all of Broadway. His memoirs, originally written and published in Yiddish and now translated (by his granddaughter) into English provides not only a compelling portrait of one of America's greatest actors but a fascinating social history of his time.

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A compelling and highly recommended social history.......2001-11-13

Translated with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, and enhanced with an informative introduction by Stella Adler, A Life On The Stage: A Memoir is esteemed Yiddish actor Jacob Adler (1855-1926) self-written autobiography. Acclaimed during his own lifetime as one of the great actors of his day, a time now more than seven decades gone. This candid and engaging memoir was originally composed and published in Yiddish and provides the reader with a kind of "window in time" to discover what life was like in the Yiddish theater and on Broadway. From his years with a troupe of Yiddish folk singers and theatrical productions in Odessa, to his journey to America and performances at the Union Theater on Lower Broadway, we are treated to a memoir that is as much a tribute to the development of the Yiddish theater in Russia, England, and America, as it is a compelling and highly recommended social history as lived through by a most remarkable and memorable man.

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A Life on the Stage
Jacob Adler
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0679413510
Release Date: 1999-11-02

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A rediscovery. A lost document of theatrical history written more than seven decades ago is now translated for the first time into English -- the autobiography of the great Yiddish actor Jacob Adler. It is, as well, a history of the Yiddish theater -- for which Adler himself was almost single-handedly responsible--in Russia, England, and the United States.

"The man's size -- I do not refer to his physique -- imposed a sense of peril," Harold Clurman said of Jacob Adler. "Grandeur always inspires a certain shudder at life's immeasurable mystery and might."

Adler's astonishing career as an actor took him from tsarist Russia in the late 1800s to London, and to New York at the turn of the century, where he was applauded and lionized (he was called Nesher Hagodel, "The Great Eagle") in role after role. We see Adler's powerful and revolutionary portrayal of Shylock; his Yiddish King Lear; his Uriel Acosta, from the Yiddish drama set in Spain under the Spanish Inquisition ("A classic dream, a truly great role . . . My soul was full of Uriel"); his great success in Tolstoy's posthumously discovered play, The Living Corpse.

The only son of an Orthodox Jewish wheat dealer, Adler was taught the Talmud by his rabbi grandfather, and introduced to the stage by his theater-loving uncle. We follow Adler from his school days in Odessa to his youthful boxing career, which lifted him out of anonymity, to his apprenticeship with "a hole-and-corner lawyer," to his chance meeting with a group of Yiddish folksingers whom Adler -- now an official of the Department of Weights and Measures -- brings to Odessa, thereby launching the Yiddish theater in Russia.

We see their first performance before a paying audience, their first production in which a woman appears, their first full-length play, called Schmendrick. And then on to the provinces of Minsk, Vitebsk, and Lodz, playing everywhere and anywhere -- in granaries and stables -- with stowaways who sneak up to the roof to watch between the rafters (as Adler says his lines "Birds in the heaven, tell me, pray, where is my beloved?" he looks up to see hens, roosters, and bearded men peering down at him).

We watch as Adler begins to understand the work of the actor, not to imitate but to play the part as he feels it ("The gifted artist will always give it another nuance because he lives it through in himself, in his temperament, in his life experience"). And always, in the background, the large Russian drama -- the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by the revolutionaries; Alexander III's coming to power and overturning the reforms of his father, denying the Jews due process under the law, confiscating their land, shutting down their schools, outlawing their press. Adler recalls the pogroms of his childhood. And, in his adult life, the mobs destroying the synagogues and houses of study, the thousands trying to escape at the railroad station, being pushed back as Adler and the other actors in their fine clothes are taken for Christians, while old men bend low and cry out to them to "save us from death."

We see Adler forced to leave Russia, immigrating to London, facing poverty and worse, with no place to perform . . . finding a theater in a Whitechapel club, and remaining for seven years, playing first to Russian immigrants, then to London Jews.

And coming to America in 1889, taking over the Union Theatre on Lower Broadway, now embraced by the whole population of the Lower East Side.

We watch as Adler is invited twice by the producer Arthur Hopkins to perform his Shylock on Broadway: the cast would be American; Adler would speak in Yiddish (he refused both times until a friend said, "Do it. You owe it to the Gentiles. Let them see how a Jew plays Shylock"). And finally the building of the Grand Theatre at the Bowery and Canal -- the first house specially built as a Yiddish theater for the more than half a million immigrants who came through Ellis Island from 1905 to 1908.

We follow Adler's passions, his three marriages to dramatic actresses -- only the last, Sara, his equal on the stage -- his many affairs, the lives of his children, his friendships, scandals, and rivalries.

His memoir is a revelation of a man and a world. It is brilliantly translated from the Yiddish with commentary throughout by his granddaughter, Lulla Rosenfeld.

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Religion and the English People: 1500-1640, New Voices and Perspectives.(Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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Religion and the English People: 1500-1640, New Voices and Perspectives.(Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
John R. Parnell
Manufacturer: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 632 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Religion and the English People: 1500-1640, New Voices and Perspectives.(Review)
Author: John R. Parnell
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 42 Issue: 3 Page: 572

Article Type: Book Review

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