Diplomatic passport: More undiplomatic diaries, 1946-1962

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In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder – as an advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; as a Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, where his friends celebrate Ritchie Week – to the city’s surprise; as Assistant, Deputy, and Acting Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs in Ottawa; as Canadian Ambassador to Bonn, where he finds himself reciting Little Red Riding Hood in German at a state dinner; and as Permanent Ambassador of Canada to the United Nations.

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This is the state-of-the-art reference for investors and professionals in all aspects of international equities markets. Approximately 5,000 terms and concepts, related to all aspects of international equities markets, are explained in clear and simple language. In addition to the most complete listing of global stock markets - addresses, telephone/facsimile, key market information and indicators - The International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market is completely cross referenced with international terms used outside of English-speaking markets. Pages of data, references, bibliographies and a host of other features makes these volumes unique among stock market books. About the Editors: Michael D. Sheimo, one of America's leading authorities on Wall Street and its permutations in other countries, has a varied and extensive background, including teaching, public speaking, securities/brokerage sales and research, and most recently, writing. Mr. Sheimo is the author of three books on the stock market and investing. Andreas Loizou is a financial columnist for London's Evening Standard newspaper. Features o Contains 5,000 terms and concepts o Explains all major terminology used worldwide o Lists global stock markets-with addresses, telephone/fax numbers, key market information, and indicators o Incorporates convenient cross-referencing with terms used outside English-speaking markets o Includes contributions from representatives of every major financial market worldwide Contents No TOC, its a dictionary, I can give you a sample page if you need it

International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market

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International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market

Manufacturer: Financial World Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0852976488

International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market (2 volumes)

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International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market (2 volumes)
Michael (editor) Sheimo
Manufacturer: Fitzroy Dearbron Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBOZ76

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Over thirty years and ten best-selling editions, Kieso and Weygandt have built a reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness. The latest edition, a personal milestone for the authors maintains the qualities for which previous editions have been recognized.

Intermediate Accounting Courseware Pre-Release Ver Sion for Instructors Adapted from Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield Intermediate Accounting, 10e Fasb Update

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Intermediate Accounting Courseware Pre-Release Ver Sion for Instructors Adapted from Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield Intermediate Accounting, 10e Fasb Update
Kieso
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Not well organized and incomplete listing

Useful reference for this niche collectable...

An important, seminal doll collector's guide.

Madame Alexander 2006: Collector's Dolls Price Guide (Madame Alexander Collector's Dolls Price Guide)
Linda Crowsey
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Madame Alexander 2007 Collector's Dolls Price Guide (Madame Alexander Collector's Dolls Price Guide)

Blue Book Dolls and Values, 16th Edition (Blue Book Dolls and Values)

ASIN: 1574324985

Book Description

Each year Linda Crowsey updates values and listings and adds new color photographs to produce a completely revised book. The alphabetical listings include nearly every Madame Alexander doll, and the newest store specialissues from Belk Legget Department Stores, Madame Alexander Doll Club Convention dolls and those exclusive to members only, Neiman-Marcus dolls, QVC/Home Shopping Network exclusive, United Federation of Doll Clubs, and many more. All of the Alexander favorites remain, with updated prices given for the classic Cissy, Little Women, Wendy, Scarlett OHara, Alexander-Kins, and Ballerina dolls, plus hundreds more. The sizes, dates, outfits, and current values given for every doll listed, as well as the representative sampling of sharp color photographs, assist the collector in identification. This book is sure to continue to be one of our most popular doll titles.

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Not well organized and incomplete listing.......2006-11-13

I purchased this book specifically to look up the value of my 1991 limited edition porcelain bride and the porcelain collection wasn't even listed. This listing is not complete and poorly organized.

Useful reference for this niche collectable..........2000-05-27

This book is full of good information. It has lists of (seemingly) every Madame Alexander doll ever made. It has relatively accurate pricing (although be aware that online auctions often make such price guides irrelevant). My only quibble is that I wish it had many more pictures than it does, so as to make identifying dolls easier. Other than that, it's a fine book.

An important, seminal doll collector's guide........2000-04-06

Linda Crowsey's Madame Alexander appears in a pamphlet-style booklet which may be lost without spine lettering, but which provides an important, specific doll collector's guide to this series.

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Whether you're thinking about stenciling something simple such as a floral motif around a doorway or have set your sights on turning your bedroom into a medieval castle, this guide will help. Stenciling, we learn, comes from an old French word meaning to sparkle, and the lively projects certainly do. Beyond good coverage of all the necessary basics (equipment, fixing mistakes, cutting your own stencils) and the usual candidates for rampaging stencil artists (walls, fabrics, home decorating accessories), the book offers information on advanced techniques (like airbrushing and trompe l'oeil) and adapting the process to unusual surfaces (ceramic tiles, ceilings, exterior walls). And if you've ever dreamed of becoming a professional stenciler, the no-nonsense advice on setting prices, finding clients, and other tricks of the trade will prove invaluable.

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For gardens of all sizes and aspects--the principles of good garden design made easy.

Practical Garden Companion: How to Design, Plan and Create the Perfect Garden

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Practical Garden Companion: How to Design, Plan and Create the Perfect Garden
Peter McHoy
Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Garden Design | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful: With practical hints on economical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, ... with coloured plates, engravings, and plans

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The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful: With practical hints on economical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, ... with coloured plates, engravings, and plans
Walter Page Wright
Manufacturer: Grant Richards
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008BAROA

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A life changing book!!!

Yikes! Preachy to say the least.

This book will transform your relationships!

It changed my life

AWESOME BOOK

Why Singles are not Married & the Married are Single: Getting to the Heart of Broken Relationships
Mike Marra
Manufacturer: To His Glory Publishing Company, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

ASIN: 0977426505

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I feel it's time to retreat from the intricate study of the human mind and theoretical case studies. We need nut and bolt insight into why we're still single, divorced, or remarried again and again. Both genders of "mainstream society" are being addressed with the intention of creating a balance of spiritual and emotional responsibility between a man and a woman prior to, and after, marriage or divorce. This writing addresses the subtle ruin of the once sacred family unit. It reveals why hopeful single men or women may never get to the altar. Vast majorities of people persist in holding great optimism for love and marriage to one person, yet they seem incapable of sustaining a relationship, or they maintain the wrong type of relationship. Even though division among men and women has surfaced within dating and marriage relationships, every heart continues to anticipate everlasting love. I am personally saddened by the increasing loss of women's femininity and their God-given roles, and the effect this loss has had on society. Concurrently, I'm dismayed with the amount of passivity, lack of masculinity, and the loss of God-given roles in men. Throughout this book, we will look at some repercussions of our actions regarding the haphazard use of our innate gifts. My hope is to help each gender realize how important it is to maintain specific innate roles, and to carry them out as God designed in our current marital status. We will look at copious truths, and at a variety of subjects regarding singles, and married, or divorced couples. This book advises the reader about family, community, and God. It encounters issues ranging from commitment, roles, finances, sex, femininity, masculinity, and "socially acceptable" practices, to the recognition of spiritual battles within us.

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A life changing book!!!.......2007-02-13

Wonderfully written; enjoyful and thought provoking. Each time I read this book I discover new insights that I wish to utilize in my current and future relationships.

Yikes! Preachy to say the least........2006-10-20

This book is full of religious views and dogma to understand relationships. Not exactly science here. My own fault for not looking a little closer before purchase. If your not "born again" read something else.

This book will transform your relationships!.......2006-06-13

The subtitle says it all: this author gets to the heart of broken relationships by effectively identifying the destructive patterns that erode our marriages, our friendships, and our families. He offers practical advice, spiritual truths, and healthy solutions to heal and strengthen relationships among husbands and wives, men and women, parents, children, and individuals.

As a 40-year old, never-married single, the title grabbed my attention. I have read other relationship books but this was an extremely valuable guide in gaining some perspective from a man's point of view. I only wish I had read it when I was in my 20's!

This book is written for men and women of all ages, married, single, or divorced. It is easy and enjoyable to read with a simple, straightforward message, yet full of profound wisdom.
You need to buy it and read it!

It changed my life.......2006-06-11

A common sense book that explains why our current values and lifestyles have confused and adversly affected our children and relationships...

AWESOME BOOK.......2006-03-01

This is a great book for anyone. It is not preachy at all. Every young adult needs to read this book. Mike is very insiteful in the gender rolls of how a man or woman is hardwired. The book provides a deeper insite to how we think differently and how our rolls are different in a relationship as a friend, a husband, wife, or in dating. This is by far the best book I have read and I wish I had this when I was growing up.

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A Pioneering Look.......2003-07-01

Hicks ventures where few have had opportunity to go. This well-documented, in-depth look at Cowell, his philosophically anarchistic parents and the young composer's formative years paints the portrait of an inquisitive youth raised by struggling authors from the San Franciscan Bohemian Club of the early 20th century.
Henry's wife, Sydney Robertson Cowell (also a musicologist), supressed much information surrounding Cowell, going as far as to suppress Joscelyn Godwin's 1969 dissertation for its critical approach to the composer's music. Archives in New York City's Library became available to public eyes for the first time in 2002. Hicks takes full advantage of this fortuitous event and assembles an entertaining, informative, and new look at one of America's most prolific and eclectic composers.

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Henry Cowell: A Biography
Joel Sachs
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Charles Ives and His Music (Da Capo Press music reprint series)

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Charles Ives and His Music (Da Capo Press music reprint series)
Henry Cowell
Manufacturer: Da Capo Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music
Henry Cowell
Manufacturer: McPherson
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0929701631

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Edited by Dick Higgins. Preface by Kyle Gann. Photos, index, discography.

Foreword Magazine "Book of the Year" 2002 Gold Medalion.

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It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music. John Cage once described Cowell as the "open sesame for new music in America." Of the thousand or so works catalogued by William Lichtenwanger, the majority are formally innovative single movement vocal or instrumental pieces, although there are 20 symphonies, five string quartets, and 8 suites of various kinds. Cowell was also innovative in his use of instruments from different cultures (jalatarang, dragonmouths, Japanese wind glasses, the shakuhachi flute) and in this book, Lou Harrison writes of Cowell's "adventurous promotion of automobile junkyards for the finding of new sounds." In addition, Cowell was a tireless advocate of new music in the West, and Musics from other cultures worldwide, as a teacher, lecturer, publisher, and performer. He founded New Music Quarterly in 1927, wrote the influential book Ne
In this major book of articles

Contemporary Authors: Biography - Cowell, Henry Dixon (1897-1965)

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Contemporary Authors: Biography - Cowell, Henry Dixon (1897-1965)

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0007SB0NQ
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Book Description

This digital document, covering the life and work of Henry Dixon Cowell, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 340 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
Family members
Education
Professional associations and honors
Employment
Writings, including books and periodicals
A description of the author's work
References to further readings about the author

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Never Published!

Henry Cowell
Higgins
Manufacturer: Music Sales Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 002864736X

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Never Published!.......2001-08-09

This book was never put to print. There was some hold up with the publisher, and so Higgins did a compilation of Cowell's writings instead. The best biographical information is in "Whole World of Music", a Cowell Symposium.

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