John Hay: American Statesmen Series Part 1 (American Statesmen Series)

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This is a personal biography and not a political history. John Hay was an ideal letter writer, he recorded his impressions so freshly and so vividly that he never leaves us in doubt as to what he thought of persons, political affairs, or life's experiences. Contents: Beginnings; Brown University, Poet in Exile; First Months in the White House; War in Earnest; Errands North and South; Great Companion; Roving Diplomat: Paris, Vienna, Spain; Washington during Reconstruction; Journalism; Authorship; Friendship; Politics. Illustrated.

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My uncles's adventures

My uncles's adventures

My uncles's adventures

Yukoners: True tales of the Yukon
H Gordon-Cooper
Manufacturer: Riverrun Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0920690025

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My uncles's adventures.......2000-05-24

This is a great book of tall tales and real life adventures. Harry Gordon-Cooper. As my mother called him a Jack of all trades. He led a remarkable life in the wilderness of the Yukon. From tales of wolfs tracking humans to the real life drama of child berth on a stricken bush plane. The book is well written with a great narrative style. You can almost picture Ira Biber and his clan. You can feel the call of the wild. A must book for all sourdoughs.

My uncles's adventures.......2000-05-24

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The work is designed as a single, comprehensive coursebook covering civil, criminal, and collection aspects of tax practice and procedure. This casebook is not intended solely for those who will spend their professional lives exclusively as "tax lawyers." It is equally adaptable to a course that seeks to provide students with a general overview of the administrative and judicial aspects of tax practice. The emphasis throughout the book is on providing a practical introduction to tax procedures and tax fraud.

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Good, though doesn't do what it says on the tin.......2003-03-26

I must say that this book takes a thorough approach to its subject matter, though perhaps rather more honest than I was hoping. Anyone looking for steers on how to avoid the heat from the IRS, better look elsewhere.

1996 Supplement to Accompany Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

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1996 Supplement to Accompany Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)
Marvin J. Garbis , Ronald B. Rubin , and Patricia T. Morgan
Manufacturer: West Group
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Binding: Paperback

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Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud: Cases and Materials (American Casebooks (Paperback))

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Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud: Cases and Materials (American Casebooks (Paperback))
Marvin J. Garbis Ronald B. Rubin Patricia T. Morgan
Manufacturer: West Group Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTX5NQ

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Changes in the business environment over the past twenty years continue to profoundly affect cost accounting and cost management. Cost Management captures the dynamics of cost management in today's organizations. This book emphasizes both the advantages and disadvantages of new and traditional cost management approaches. It thoroughly explores important new issues, balanced by complete, integrated coverage of traditional topics. In addition, examples are drawn from familiar businesses--The Gap, Pottery Barn, Birkenstock's, Starbucks and FedEx--among hundreds of others. A must for anyone presently or soon-to-be involved in the cost management of any organization!

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Contabilidad 1 Teoria y Practica

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9702700841

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Contabilidad Basica 1
Arturo Elizondo Lopez
Manufacturer: Ecafsa
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Binding: Paperback

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Guía de implantación del marco de normas de contabilidad para las EFS exposición y análisis de la dirección sobre informacion financiera, del rendimiento ... otras clases (SuDoc GA 1.14:AC 2/2001/SPAN.)

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Guía de implantación del marco de normas de contabilidad para las EFS exposición y análisis de la dirección sobre informacion financiera, del rendimiento ... otras clases (SuDoc GA 1.14:AC 2/2001/SPAN.)
U.S. General Accounting Office
Manufacturer: U.S. General Accounting Office
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Spanish | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000115N0K

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Practicas de Contabilidad Financiera 1
Martha Gutierrez Sierra , and Adriana Elizabeth Hernandez Gutierrez
Manufacturer: International Thomson Editores
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Binding: Paperback

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Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America by Catherine Thuro

Excellent History and Details

Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America

If you only own one book on oil lamps, this should be it!

Detailed Info. and A Value Guide - a Great Book!

Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America
Catherine Thuro
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Lanterns That Lit Our World: How to Identify, Date and Restore Old Railroad, Marine, Fire, Carriage, Farm and Other Lanterns

ASIN: 1574320971

Book Description

Hundreds of detailed photographs and illustrations are showcased in this beautiful guide ot kerosene oil lamps. Inspired by the process and the people involved in the manufacturing of these marvelous lighting devices, Catherine Thuro has documented extensive historical information in this wonderful hardbound volume with over 350 pages. Oil Lamps illustrates the broad range of kerosene lamps that exist today, places them as closely and accurately as possible to the period in which they were first used, and gives the area of original use and manufacturer as known. Readers may view numerous lamps that may have illuminated family gatherings, meetings, or other events that occurred hundreds of years ago. Years of research led the author to present this historical and informative book, which covers companies who manufactured oil lamps, materials, and the process used, and styles of different lamps. This first book in a three-volume series is essential for collectors. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Catherine Thuro is a researcher, lecturer, writer, and museum consultant in the field of early lighting. She has authored three volumes on oil lamps, which have become standard references in the field. She has lectured to museums and clubs in the U.S. and Canada, including the Sandwich Glass Museum, The Royal Ontario Museum, The Ford Museum, The Huntington Galleries, The Early American Industries Association, and The Early American Glass Club. REVIEW: This is the first volume in a three-volume series by author Catherine Thuro, one of Canada's leading authorities on early lighting. Her books are highly acclaimed and are considered required reading by collectors.

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Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America by Catherine Thuro.......2006-07-25

This is an updated printing of the original book. I have the older one and it was nice to review the new updated information. This is a great book for any oil lamp collector, and it has a very reasonable discounted price. Betty Lonsdale, Florida

Excellent History and Details.......2005-07-10

One book can't possibly cover every manufacturer, even the big names. However Thuro has provided history, research and extraordinary detail to offer well over 300 pages of pictures, descriptions, old advertising and assorted information that educates the individual on oil and kerosene lamps from North America.

Of particular interest the author delves into specific new patents such as adding handles or modest change in designs to demonstrate how improvements were made over the years. Thuro covers railroad lighting, ships lamps, whale oil lamps and provides an excellent chronological history of lighting as it progessed through the years.

In addition to dozens of color and black/white photographs, the author provides drawings and old advertisements to give the reader detailed information on dates and lamp design. Values are updated to 2004 but with the changing markets these become fluid rapidly. For education, collecting and identification this book will serve most collectors and dealers well.

Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America.......2004-07-09

This book was a big disappointment. I have several Bradley & Hubbard kerosene lamps, and there is not one word about them in this book. Bradley & Hubbard were one of the largest manufacturers of kerosene lamps during the 19th century, and are very popular with collectors today. The Smithsonian has a collection, with a curator and a web site, of B & H lamps and other items made by them. Strangely, there is one brief mention (with a photo) of a Rayo lamp, and the author fails to mention Rayo lamps were made by Bradley & Hubbard for the Standard Oil Co. I was considering buying Oil Lamps II by the same author, but I'm afraid it would be a disappointment also.

If you only own one book on oil lamps, this should be it!.......2001-06-01

Oil Lamps I has become the standard reference book on kerosene lamps. It is by far the most comprehensive and definitive book to cover the kerosene era. More than 1,000 kerosene lamps and accessories are shown in over 900 studio photographs. For the historian, student and collector, there awaits a carefully researched and organized visual record. First published in 1979, this newly released 1998 reprint is complete with an updated price guide. Often the first reference I choose.

Detailed Info. and A Value Guide - a Great Book!.......2000-06-17

This is a really great book on the history and value of antique oil lamps. Exceptionally well researched with a lot of photographs. If you are interested in this book you should also check out Oil Lamps II by the same author.

Oil Lamps - The Kerosene Era in North America

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Oil Lamps - The Kerosene Era in North America
Catherine M. V. Thuro
Manufacturer: Wallace-Homestead Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JOGS2Q

Value guide to oil lamps: The kerosene era in North America

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Value guide to oil lamps: The kerosene era in North America
Catherine M. V Thuro
Manufacturer: Wallace-Homestead Book Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00071PY08

1989 Value Guide to Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America

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1989 Value Guide to Oil Lamps: The Kerosene Era in North America
Catherine Thuro
Manufacturer: Wallace-Homestead Book Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0870692879

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Just adding it to the collection

Full-Color Egyptian Ornament CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design)
Dover
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486996794

Book Description

The beauty and exotic appeal of ancient Egyptian art is revealed in male and female figures, hieroglyphics, florals, and geometric motifs as well as plant and animal shapes such as papyrus blossoms, scarabs, geese, and cobras — all meticulously rendered from authentic sources. Ideal for a host of practical uses. 251 color illustrations.

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Just adding it to the collection.......2006-03-02

I love Dover's CD ROM & Book series. In fact, I would classify myself as a junkie. I have every Egyptian-related release that Dover has ever published, and while the illustrations in the book are very striking and crisp, if you look at the TIF's on the enclosed CD ROM, they are extremely amateurish and sloppy. If you are thinking about using them for any sort of web or book project, then without a doubt you will be spending a great deal of time doing cleanup and colour re-adjustment in Photoshop, Paintshop Pro or another graphics editor. The colours of items, glyphs and fleshtones are not at all consistent to Ancient Egyptian artistic canon and grammar. Also, there is an almost excessive use of the colour orange within the geometric patterns as well. One gets the feeling you have seen the same pattern over and over again with very few variations on a theme.

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The Ten Houses series makes the most important elements of architectural design available to a large and varied audience. Each infinitely useful volume presents one of the world's foremost architects and features 10 of his or her finest residential works-including presentation, drawings, sketches, and working drawings. These full-color, highly affordable volumes will enhance any library, providing an essential reference for architecture students and individuals looking for home design ideas.

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Nice book.......1998-07-09

The careful photographs compliment the equally fine details in the buildings of this excellent architect. After a year, I'm still looking at it often.

excellent for students and practicing architects.......1998-03-08

This is perhaps the best value in pictorial architecture books. For under $20., this book has great photos, straightforeward text, clearly reproduced drawings (including construction details!!), all superbly graphically designed. Even if the architecture doesn't appeal to you, the overall presentation of it in this book will. If you do like the architecture (which I think is a beautiful modern adaption of conventional New England vernacular), then this book is a must-have. You won't find this quality in books two or three times the cost!!

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Today, the mystery of MS is unraveling - and people need the most current information more than ever before. Multiple Sclerosis: A New Journey takes you through the newest research and treatments to help you find a "straight course" for your disease. Inside this one easy-to-understand, cross-referenced, and compassionate volume, you will find everything you and your loved ones need to know about diagnosis, symptoms, progression, disease-modifying therapy, rehabilitation, disability awareness and more. You will find, in short, everything you need to lead a better - more independent - life.

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The only entertainer besides Elvis Presley to be inducted into both the Country Music and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, Johnny Cash touched the lives of millions around the world with his distinctive style and classic songs that mirror the human condition. In I Still Miss Someone, more than forty people offer their remembrances of the Man in Black and provide an insider's view of the heart and soul of the friend they knew simply as John. Featuring contributions from a broad spectrum of persons from all eras of Cash's life, including his children, John Carter Cash; Cindy Cash; and Tara Cash Schwoebel; grandson Dustin Tittle, siblings Tommy Cash and Joanne Cash Yates; early bandmate W. S. Holland; country music icons Merle Kilgore, Johnny Western, and 'Cowboy' Jack Clement, I Still Miss Someone is a stirring tribute by those whose relationship with Johnny Cash was both deep and lasting. Hundreds of illuminating photos - many never before published - and a bevy of Johnny's handwritten notes, backstage passes, and other personal paraphernalia make this a one-of-a-kind tribute book that will appeal to everyone. The roster of those sharing their recollections of Cash include his booking agent, Lou Robin; Larry Murray, who wrote for Cash's ABC television shows and his CBS Christmas specials; devoted musicians Bob Wootten, Jack Hale Jr., and Dave Roe, who spent many years on the road with Cash; plus secretaries, publicists, farm hands, and many others, each of whom adds vibrant color and texture to the life portrait of their departed friend Johnny Cash.

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A BRIEF NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR/COMPILER.......2006-10-20

Greetings. May I congratulate you for finding your way to this book and to these few words.

This title, I STILL MISS SOMEONE, if from one of my favorite Cash-penned songs and the book was/is published by a very small mom/pop outfit in Nashville. They (the publisher) have no promotion or marketing or publicity savy, to speak of when promoting a book like this, so it has just layed here in obscurity.

This book, although it contains the input of over forty close Cash associates and a foreword by the Grahams (Ruth and Rev. Billy), has NEVER been reviewed by any press. In fact, the Nashville media didn't even give it one line. Small publishers suffer this snub, and in the end, so did this tribute book. Lost in the larger shuffle of all things Johnny Cash.

The only folks that know about this book are folks like you, that have searched, surfed and stumbled across it or maybe found it after hearing about it word-of-mouth.

To the point, if you get this book, I STILL MISS SOMEONE, and are not moved by it, touched by it, or feel it is more than worth the price, I will personally refund your purchase price. (hughwaddell@comcast.net)

Yes, I believe in this book with all my heart and soul!!!! In the few interviews about the book that happened last year (2005), I stated the same challenge, and have not been asked to refund one dime, yet. In spite of all the review snubs, the book stands on its own simple merit.

So screw the tiny publisher, the snubby-dub media and the self-serving Nashville "pompasses". This book does not need to be hyped or pumped by critics, anyway. I swear to you that you will enjoy this look at Johnny the Cash through the eyes and hearts of people who knew him best... his friends and family.

Thank you and God Bless!

The Johnny Cash few of us ever had the privilege to know........2006-04-15

All of us who followed the music and life of Johnny Cash;knew from the beginning of his musical career in the laste 50's that there was something special about this man. He came to most of us by his music and shows but we always knew he was a man who first of all knew and loved his God. The name Pilgrim was often associated with him;but the name Disciple would be just as fitting. I have followed ,listened to and read about him for about 50 years,but I can honestly say that the real truth about what Johnny Cash was really like is not any better shown than in this book. How he was seen and loved by those who really knew him,loved him,worked with him,family members,and people who considered him a friend and at the same time he considered a friend. Over 40 people got the honor to say what Johnny meant to them and what kind of a man and friend he was. One thing that is obvious from reading this book of over 300 pages and over 40 people,is that there must be thousands of others that knew him as well and if they had the same opportunity would have similar things to say.
It is so obvious Johnny loved life ,how much his family meant to him,and how much he respected those around the music business. If anyone in the public arena ever gave the impression that as he journeyed throuh life;his friend and Savior Jesus Christ was always by his side;it had to be him.
Millions of us admired Cash;but what a privilege it must have been to have been close to him. No wonder a great personal loss is seen in the stories each participant has to tell.
As we continue to listen to his music;this book will remind us what a Legend "The Man in Black" really was.
I am sure that when he finally met his God,he probably said something like;"Thanks Lord, for the privilege to have served you and my fellow man.I did the best I could ,and it's good to be home with you"
After you read this book,why not sit down and think or write about what Johnny Cash meant to you.

Everyday People write about the Everyday Man.......2005-12-01

OK, with all the hype about the movie, Walk the Line, and living in Nashville as I do...and hearing Johnny Cash's name everywhere you turn...I hesitated going to see the movie "just because". Well. I somehow ended up seeing it, (long story for another day.) And let me just say that much to my chagrin, I LOVED the movie. So now I've been on a Johnny Cash rampage, listening, watching, and reading everything I can get my hands on. Yes, I succumbed. Call me weak.

This title looked interesting to me because it's written by people who knew him on a day to day basis. There's a chapter written by the guy who kept his farm, for gosh sakes! You just feel the love seeping from the pages. I wept, I laughed, I've read it again, and again.

For readers who might be wondering what all the shoe size business is about here in the reviews (I know I wondered before receiving the book)...Hugh says in the book that Johnny always said he had "itchy feet". He always needed to be doing something and going somewhere different. Johnny said "Everyone has itchy feet, some just itch more than others." So at the beginning of everyone's chapter is that person's shoe size. Just one more quirky little reason why this book has earned a place on my 'favorites' shelf.

As a Nashvillian, I would like to say: We are proud of our 'Cash heritage' and this book lays it all on the line.

Thank you, Hugh Waddell for such a wonderful gift that I'm sure even JRC's family will treasure for years and years.

May
Nashville, TN
Shoe size: 7.5

The most compelling Cash book I have ever read.......2005-03-27

How do you come up with a way to tell the Johnny Cash Story that hasn't yet been done? There are countless biographies out there (disclosure: I have consulted, resourced and been interviewed on many), and the mythic history of this great man has been told many ways. But Hugh Waddell, JRC's friend and confidant of longstanding, has produced THE definitive portrait. He did it not by another retelling of the great Redemption story of our times (although that never gets old), or by a mere chronicle of John's achievements. Instead, he spectacularly tells the story through the eyes of John's family, friends, colleagues and fans. He wisely, and accurately, realized that it was John's effect on others which made him Mt. Rushmore-worthy. His life and music spoke to us, for us and with us, and the impact he made on people great and small continues to take the breath away. Johnny Cash walked with presidents (they fawned over him) and he sat with the people (who worshipped him). Hugh Waddell captures the qualities which allowed this by pointing the camera not at John, but at those he touched. The lens is reversed, and we see The Great Cash as a father, a farmer, a friend. His importance is told through the countless small interactions, the kindnesses and generosity, the human fraility and the soaring triumphs. He gave voice to our dreams and aspirations, taught us what it was like to run the mortal race, to fall greatly and rise back up greater. In these touching stories we see the real man, but more, we see ourselves. I did not want this book to end. The real people and their real stories about a real man are gripping. Johnny Cash was a giant, obviously. In this superb book we get to see how giants get that way. If I want someone to know what Johnny Cash was like, I give them this book.

Mark Stielper
Shoe size 11W

Essential Johnny Cash.......2005-03-15

If you're a Johnny Cash fan, a country music historian, a lover of Southern literature, or someone who just likes a great read, you'll love this book. Hugh Waddell has hit upon a brilliant biographical device. Instead of an anthology of recollections by Johnny Cash's peers in the entertainment world, this book is a compilation of reminiscences from plain folks, family members, business and music friends, who knew him close-up and personal.

Their insights and their informal photographs and private handwritten correspondences add much to the expanding canon of biographical works devoted to Johnny Cash.

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In her epic love story Susan Kaszas describes with touching directness, what it feels like to be taken from one's family, to be beaten, cursed at, poisoned, and to witness unspeakable, systematic cruelty. But the hardest aspect of her personal and collective hell was being separated from her one love, her husband, Alex. From Love to Triumph is a love letter to Alex.

It is this love that persists throughout her writing, as the unbreakable golden thread that binds her to life when she is tempted to escape into suicide. Her passionate commitment to her love permeates every day of fear and suffering. It is so strong, she is even more concerned about Alex than about herself, while she is forced into the cattle cars heading for the concentration camps. She says, "It made it easier on me that you did not get to see the long stretch of cattle boxcars we were herded into and I was spared of looking at the expression on your face."

The total devotedness of her heart to Alex gave her the strength to survive the Nazi death camps. The faithfulness of her undying love shines through: "My Dear Alex, you must know that I can't live without love and the only reason I am still alive is that I want to be with you again in this life. If you love me as much as I love you, then my suffering was not in vain."

But the cruelty of the Nazis was not as bad as the psychological torture she had endured while living with Alex's family before the holocaust. She says, "Here I knew the reason for my suffering -- I was a Jew. But it had hurt me so much more at home, when I couldn't fathom the reason for being tormented by your mother and her side of the family so savagely. I remember how hard I'd had to fight my mother-in-law and her ilk for my sanity, while here in Birkenau, Poland, in the midst of the worst concentration camp where people were being mass-butchered, the flames were always visible from the throat of the crematorium and bloodhounds ran rampant, I was in so much better shape emotionally than when she'd been around."

Love is something that cannot be killed. The body can be crushed, the psyche can be beaten down, but nothing can take love away from the human heart against one's will. That is the meaning and purpose of Susan's survival and triumph.

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