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Business Governance Handbook: Principles and Practices
Dr. John W. Hendrikse , and
Leigh Hendrikse
Manufacturer: Juta Academic
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The controversial issues of director liability and auditor independence are addressed with pragmatic solutions in this helpful guide to running a business. Vital strategies aimed at aligning the interests of shareholders, directors, and managers in the best interest of the company are included with tips for optimizing business earnings and cash flow to increase shareholder value. Nine universal governance principles drawn together from international codes of conduct such as the King II Code, the GRI sustainable reporting recommendations, and the Myburgh report demonstrate how to optimize shareholder value without compromising positive corporate and governance practice.
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South Africa Business Law Handbook
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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.
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Ultimate handbook on the South Africa competition laws and regulations.
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South Africa Investment Laws and Regulations Handbook: (South Africa Investment and Business Library)
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Ultimate handbook on the South Africa Investment Laws and Regulations. Selected government programs, investment and business opportunities.
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South African Customs Union Sacu Business Law Handbook
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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)
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South Africa Business Law Handbook (World Foreign Policy and Government Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Ultimate handbook on the South Africa Diamond and Mineral Industry laws and regulations.
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Ultimate handbook on the South Africa Export-Import and Trade Laws and Regulations. Government programs, investment and business opportunities.
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Daytrips Hawaii: 50 One Day Adventures by Car, Bus, Boat and Plane (Daytrips Series)
David Cheever
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50 one-day adventures exploring the lovely Hawaiian islands.
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The long quest for harmonisation of direct taxation among European Community Member States seems as far from its goal as it ever was. Indeed, many leading tax scholars have given it up. Yet it is clear that European tax law is undergoing some kind of integration. In The Impact of Community Law on Tax Treaties Dr. Pistone discusses such matters as: + how Member States must comply with EC law as they apply their tax treaties; + how EC law regulates cross-border tax issues within the Community; and + how EC law affects tax treaties between EU Member States and third countries. The analysis is undertaken in the context of the work of European tax scholars writing in most EU languages, thus bringing numerous important theories and proposals into the spotlight for the first time. The author provides expert commentary on 27 leading tax cases from the European Court of Justice, from Avoir fiscal (1986) to Hoechst & Metallgesellschaft (2001). He clearly delineates the legal framework built by these cases, and the repercussions on national, Community, and international tax law and practice. However, the major contribution of this book, above and beyond its full-scale analysis of a crucial European legal regime as currently constituted, is the author's proposed EC Model Tax Convention, presented in Chapter Five. This Model combines existing provisions of international tax law, as embodied in the OECD Model, with the principles of Community tax law as enunciated by the European Court of Justice, and at the same time converts the body of recent scholarship into viable action programs. The EU Commission itself has just come to support this solution to the conflict between tax treaties and EC law by stating - on 23 October 2001 in its document COM (2001) 582 final (pages 14 and 15) - that "the most promising way...is to agree an EU version of the OECD model convention and commentary (or of certain articles) which meet the specific requirements of EU membership" and that it shall "come forward in 2004 with a communication on the need to adapt certain provisions of double taxation conventions based on the OECD model to comply with Treaty principles. This will constitute a first step towards the possible elaboration of an EU model tax treaty". Chapter V already provides for a full draft of such model, thus placing the book among the most important and original works on European tax integration to appear in a long time. No tax official, practitioner, or scholar - even beyond Europe, as the Model is clearly applicable to other regions of the world - should be without it.
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The 1993 EC VAT System
Coopers & Lybrand
Manufacturer: Croner CCH Group Ltd
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Acquiring Companies and Businesses in Europe
Nigel Carrington
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A Business Guide to European Community Legislation
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The book is concerned with the main issues that arise for general commodity taxation in the internal market: the choice of a new international tax principle and the question of tax rate harmonization. The book provides a thorough discussion of these issues and evaluates the choices made by the European Community from a welfare-theoretic perspective by comparing them to feasible alternatives. The discussion integrates a large number of recent theoretical and policy-oriented contributions which have so far not been collected and summarized in a single volume. Special features of the book are that (a) the analysis combines elements of international trade theory and public finance, two economic disciplines which are rarely integrated; (b) a dual general equilibrium framework is used throughout the analysis, (c) a second-best setting is consistently employed, incorporating relevant policy constraints and integrating conflicting arguments in a single analytical framework, (d) part of the theoretical analysis is supplemented by a computable general equilibrium approach. The book shows that well-known international trademodels can be extended to model alternative principles for taxing international trade but also international differences in preferences for public goods and different views of government behavior - issues which are directly relevant for the discussion of tax rateharmonization but are rarely treated in an analytical way.
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- "A wonderful comprehensive overview of European Customs Law"
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Community Customs Law:A Guide to the Customs Rules on Trade Between the (Enlarged) European Union and Third Countries (Enlarged Eu and Third Countries)
Ben Terra
Manufacturer: Kluwer Law International
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ASIN: 9041100415 |
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Involvement in trade or the study of trade requires an understanding of the applicable rules and the ability to access them. When the rules become increasingly detailed and complex, however, understanding and access prove difficult. Community Customs Law brings together, in a single resource, a detailed description of the rules in force, with references to case law, preparatory texts, commentaries, and memoranda. This guide is based on the Community Customs Code (the Code'), which contains 253 Articles, accompanied by an implementing code of more than 900 Articles, 100 Annexes, and a separate implementing Regulation on relief from import or export duties. It offers an integrated discussion of the Articles of the Code and the implementing provisions. For clarity and cohesiveness, the book addresses implementing provisions under the main Article of the Code to which they pertain. Community Customs Lawt only deals with customs rules and the payment of the import or export duties as a consequence of violation, but also discusses the consequences for VAT purposes of the various customs-approved treatment or uses. Legal practitioners and businesses engaged in trade between third countries and the European Union, and academics examining these issues will appreciate the usefulness of Community Customs Law in navigating the complexities of these trade rules.
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"A wonderful comprehensive overview of European Customs Law".......1998-08-26
This is an unique book that brings together the entire European Customs Law, including implementation law and Jurisprudence. It is valuable guide for research and learning about the developments in Europe.
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Portfolio of Marketing Audits (Company Self - Assessment Audits)
Manufacturer: Cambridge Strategy Publications Ltd
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Prices are rising sharply for U.S. coins, and the collectors need to keep up on present values with the most respected resource for updated pricing, North American Coins & Prices. This extensive reference offers collectors complete listings and prices for all U.S. coins, as well as listings and prices for Canadian and Mexican issues.
More than 1,500 photos and easy-to-follow descriptions and specifications featured in this ultimate volume provide readers of all experience levels with important details for a solid collection. In addition, collectors get information on the state of the market, more than 45,000 listings for everything from early American copper coins to modern mint and proof sets, new issues and state quarters. Also featured is an error identification guide, which should prove handy with errors enjoying a resurgence in popularity.
-Complete coverage of all North American coins gives collectors a one-stop source for researching coins
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Atention: mexican coins information upgraded.......2007-05-14
I have ordered this book year after year for my dad for several years. This year he told me that the book has more information about the mexican coins, in fact, he order several books for all his friends.
If you had an older edition or you are interested in mexican coins, you should buy this book.
Crossing the border.......2007-01-05
Terrific little book, I use it all the time. If you have been collecting coins for years then you may not need this book but you are going to want it. It catalogs all (as the title suggests) the North American Coins (U.S., Canada & Mexico). On the other hand if you are just getting started in coin collecting then this book is an essential. Either way, it's well written and accurate, enough said.
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When J. Lo wears knit leg warmers in her "Flashdance" MTV special, it's official: knitting has gone Hollywood. But West Coast knitting diva Suss Cousins already knew that. In this highly anticipated sequel to Hollywood Knits, Cousins presents 30 chic, modern designs-along with just a little insider gossip about the stars who have made, bought, or worn them. In addition to Lopez's leg warmers, readers can create the ribbed cap donned by the sailors in the film Master and Commander; a funky purse with a big flower patch (très "Carrie Bradshaw"); even his-and-her sweaters for hipster pooches.
A passionate advocate of not only knitting but the good life in general, Cousins aims to share the love. She tells readers how to throw the best theme-based knitting parties, start a knitting circle, even fund-raise through knitting. To enhance the knitting experience, she includes some of the Swedish recipes she grew up with and now serves in her L.A. studio and at home. She describes her techniques for decorating a room with yarn, and even lists her preferred mix of CDs to knit by. Every page reflects her personal brand of joie de vivre. AUTHOR BIO: Swedish-born knitwear designer Suss Cousins is the owner of Suss Design, a studio, retail shop, and knitting school in West Hollywood. She designs extensively for television and film. Her fashion line is available nationwide. She is the author of Hollywood Knits.
Deborah Jaffe is a photographer based in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The New Beauty Basics and numerous magazines.
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Soo easy!.......2007-06-17
Suss Cousins makes it soo easy to knit new projects. Her directions/patterns are very easy to follow! Highly recommended!
Many errors in this book.......2005-08-20
I would not recomment this book to beginners because of the frequency of mistakes. I'm an experienced knitter, and had a hard time with some of the patterns. For instance, the cast on and number of stitches weren't even mentioned in one of her hat patterns. I eventually figured it out by counting the stitches that were in the rounds.
Suss Counsins...Knitter to the Stars! Please. This book looks all shiny, pretty, and hip. Upon closer inspection, the patterns are a bunk. I've tried to make several items in this book, and just about every pattern has a correction to it. To find the corrections for the pattern one must visit Suss Cousins's website. I find this frustrating, because I was expecting a level of quality that wasn't there. I will, however, grudgingly admit that the book does make knitting seem glamourous with photography. In the end, save your money, and check this book out of your local library.
Hollywood Knits Style.......2005-08-02
This is a follow-up to Cousins' first book, "Hollywood Knits" I thought the 2nd book was actually better than the first. Not only does Cousins include patterns and helpful tips and hints - she also includes lots of anecdotes and stories about each item she has knit. She has lots of ideas for knitting get-togethers and even recipes. This book is great to actually read and not just use for patterns. Also, the patterns are for very different and unique items. The book is very different from the usual knitting book - I love it!
Overly impressed with her fabulous customers--still!.......2005-07-01
This book suffers from the same irritating weaknesses as the first book-- self-involvement of the author, the directions are frequently unclear, the sizing unrealistic and the name dropping PATHOLOGICAL. On an anecdotal level, I have been to Suss Cousins's store in L.A. twice and found her to be rude, dismissive and unpleasant--apparently she saves her friendly demeanor for her fabulous celebrity customers. I wonder how THEY feel about her advertising her connection with them in order to increase her own sales...
be forewarned: sizes are unrealistic!.......2005-05-11
I agree with the reviewer who said that anyone who thinks a 32 inch bust is a Large has been in Hollywood too long.
I bought this book after flipping through it quickly at the bookstore. I liked the designs. Some are quite cute, for example: the bamboo-handled purse, the heart-shaped pillow, and the fuzzy baby booties.
I'm now kicking myself. I should've read some of the patterns more carefully. A skirt that I thought I could make for myself goes up to a size Large - a whopping 33 inches (and remember - that's the size of the FO, not the person wearing it)! GET REAL, SUSS!
Don't make the same mistake as I did. Take a pass on this one.
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Hollywood Knits Style: With 30 Original Suss Designs
Suss Cousins , and
Deborah Jaffe
Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
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ASIN: 1584796065 |
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Knitting has made a thoroughly modern comeback, and Hollywood knitwear designer Suss Cousins has had no small part in its stylish renaissance. In Hollywood Knits and Hollywood Knits Style—now in affordable new paperback editions—Cousins shares the creativity and panache that have helped inspire a new generation of hip young knitters.
Hollywood Knits features 30 offbeat and colorful projects—from adorable hats and scarves to gorgeous sweaters, throws, and a cell phone holder—that are both elegant and wearable, modeled by Hollywood icons such as Julianne Moore and Chanel model Kirsty Hume. In Hollywood Knits Style, Cousins presents 30 more chic and modern designs—including a funky purse, a Valentine pillow, and even his-and-her dog sweaters for hipster pooches—along with just a little insider gossip about the stars who have made, bought, or worn them. She also shows knitters how to host knitting parties, start a knitting circle, decorate with yarn, and fund-raise through knitting.
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How Old Is This House?
Hugh Howard
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
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ASIN: 0374173249 |
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Book contains the aforementioned stories and is from a reading program for children in the late 1950's and early 1960's. A staff of experts assembled a collection of the world's best children's literature, old and new. Each volume, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, is packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventure, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections....a wide variety of wholesome reading that makes this series America's finest children's book value!
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- Covers a lot clearly, succintly...and with real-world advice
- A poor value
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This Old House Sourcebook: Where to Find and How to Use Tools and Materials to Fix and Improve Your Home
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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ASIN: 0316839582 |
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Covers a lot clearly, succintly...and with real-world advice.......1999-11-01
If you want to understand the basics...and how some of the most celebrated pros handle them...this is the book. Nicely done. A great overview...and an ideal companion to the show or the magazine.
A poor value.......1998-01-16
Not enough detail on any subject, a lot of color pictures and not enough text. I sent my copy back, I suggest you pass.
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Guerra en las Aulas
Nora Rodrmguez
Manufacturer: Temas de Hoy
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Title: Dieta en las aulas: nuevas medidas para combatir la obesidad infantil: menús equilibrados en el colegio y en casa; guerra a las chuches y a la comida basura, y freno a su publicidad en horario infantil. La guerra contra el sobrepeso en los menores está en marcha.
Author: María Corisco
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Guerra En Las Aulas
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Title: Uniforme: adiós a la guerra de marcas; se ha convertido en su mejor arma. Para volver a llenar las aulas de la escuela pública o para acabar con la guerra de marcas, el uniforme vuelve a vestir los centros escolares. (sociedad).(TT: Uniform: goodbye to war over brands; has become its best weapon. To fill public school classrooms up again or to end with the brand war, the uniform returns to dress the classrooms.)
Author: Mayka Paniagua
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- Dearest Father
- How to love a parent and at the same time keep your sanity.
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Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception
David Schroeder
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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart (Cambridge Companions to Music)
ASIN: 0300075421 |
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Mozart`s father, Leopold, bombarded his son with advice-filled letters in the German style of the times; Wolfgang first responded angrily, but then evaded and dissimulated in letters similar to those of the French philosophers. In this provocative new analysis of the Mozart father-son letters, David Schroeder contends that Mozart subverted his father`s ambition to publish the letters by turning the correspondence into an epistolary game and making his own letters unpublishable.
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Dearest Father.......2006-06-22
For those of us with an obsessive curiosity about this extraordinary human being (yet one with whom we can so easily identify because of his many ordinary faults and trials), Mozart in Revolt illuminates a very revealing and rich aspect of his life: his correspondence. The author's main theme is that Mozart, in the course of his 1778 sojourn in Paris, and as a result of his friendships with sophisticated Parisian personalities, learned and developed a then-fashionable mode of correspondence based on concealment, subterfuge, half-truths and lies. In this way he was able to parry his father's moralistic and oppressive letters and avoid both rejection of the father he loved and the humiliation of having to introject the disrespect implicit in letters that might have been intended for a callow teenager, and not the early-20s young man that he was. Mozart continued to correspond in this manner for the rest of his life, adjusting his letter-writing personality for each correspondent and occasion. The author describes the importance of letter writing in 18th century Europe, its historical context and its significance in a developing popular culture. In the course of discussion we learn many interesting facts about Mozart's life, such as the practice of creating pictorial targets with timely and personal themes for the apparently highly enjoyable pasttime of shooting airguns in the parlor with one's friends and family. Mozart had a wide circle of correspondents besides his father -- his wife, his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, friends, possible/probable lovers, fellow Masons, et alii -- but the bulk of this book deals with contemporary letter writing in the context of the lengthy and ultimately sad history of his correspondence with his father.
How to love a parent and at the same time keep your sanity........1999-12-18
A refreshing examination of the interesting relationship between a father and son. This is a reinterpretation of Mozart's own words in light of the cultural "wit" of the time.
Amazon.com
Alhadeff's prose is so wittily precise and casually elegant it's hard to believe she didn't learn English until she was 10--in Tokyo, of all places. Born in Egypt in 1951, educated in Italy, Japan, England, and America, the author comes from a family of cosmopolitan, multilingual Sephardic Jews who "considered ourselves primarily free to be anything we wished"--including Catholic. (Her parents, whose difficult marriage is unsentimentally portrayed, converted.) Lovingly acerbic tales about various wildly individualist relatives combine with personal history in a colorful narrative that trenchantly declares independence from the constraints of "ready-made identity."
Book Description
For Gini Alhadeff, there was rarely a difference between feeling at home and feeling foreign. Born to an Italian family in Alexandria, Egypt, she lived in places as far-flung as Cairo, Khartoum, Florence, and Tokyo; raised Catholic, she did not learn of her Sephardic Jewish roots until she was living in New York in her twenties. In
The Sun at Midday, Alhadeff traces her unusual ancestral history, seeking the source of her chameleon-like skills of adaptation. Through the reminiscences of family members—among them cousin Pierre, a worldly priest and celebrity confessor who recalls the sumptuous lives of Alexandrian ex-pats, and her uncle Nissim, now a gynecologist in Queens, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust—she unearths a wealth of rich and strange stories. Woven together with exhilarating prose, they form an uncommonly affecting memoir of a family whose past defies summation, and of Alhadeff’s own life both in it and apart from it.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating family history.......1997-04-30
Fascinating history of a sephardic family from Inquisition days to modern times. Well told, if a bit self indulgent
History as Gossip.......1997-04-27
'The Sun at Midday' reviewed by Samir Raafat for the "Cairo Times" Thursday, April 17, 1997
IN HER BOOK, The Sun at Midday, the Alexandria-born Gini Alhadeff runs us through the different members of her family which means flashbacks from Tokyo, Northern Italy, Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Auschwitz, Rhodes, Greenville (Mississippi) and back. The habitats range from palatial villas in Alexandria to a two-room flat in Manhattan with a reference to the Italian fashion house of Krizia founded by the author's aunt, Mrs. Aldo Pinto née Mariuccia Mandelli.
Gardens are everywhere, all of them heavenly, the scent changing with each season and every repatriation.
With the help of a desk top computer and a `Family Tree Maker' software, genealogy buffs will love this book as they eagerly enter a collection of Byronic Mediterranean names belonging to the author's relations: Pinto, Piha, Menashe, Aghion, Tilche, Riches, Alhadeffs, etc., discovering in the process that most middle class Jewish families in Alexandria were connected and that they made good wherever destiny took them. And how, through marriage, they were also related to Lawrence Durrell!
Undoubtedly, these colorful relations is what makes Alhadeff's family worth writing about.
Of all her ethnic and national identities, the reader senses that Alhadeff is taken in mostly by her Jewish ancestry. Not unlike US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Alhadeff discovered her rabbinical roots - in this case Sephardi - in her adulthood. A consequence of this revelation is the Judaica which is palpable throughout `The Sun at Midday.' And just in case anyone overlooks the plight of her relations this century thinking it was simply a matter of colorful trips across five continents, Alhadeff gives extensive coverage of her Uncle Nissim's sojourn in several German-run WWII concentration camps.
Nissim's story is the longest recit allocated to any single member of the author's family. This lengthy chapter would have been five times as interesting had one not repeatedly stumbled on analogous passages in any of the thousands of books, novels, thrillers, articles, films and CD-ROMS that deal with the subject. And with Alhadeff's book appearing soon after Daniel Goldhagen's encyclopedic work on the subject (`Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'), Uncle Nissim's episodes seems somewhat parochial.
In her character portrayals, which takes up a good part of her book, Alhadeff is both amusing and direct. Yet, when it comes to describing geographic locations, facts and some of the zeitgeist surrounding the events, beware with a capital B. Alhadeff could have made sterling use of a beginner's Atlas and an Almanac. Some elementary cross-checking with regards her family's oral testimonials would have also helped.
On the other hand, if Alhadeff's representations of her relations are as spot on as her description of Father Pierre Riches, the Jewish dandy turned Catholic priest, then, Bravo Gini!
I met Riches three Springs ago, once at the Jesuit school in Fagalla and again for a beer at my Maadi garden and he is exactly as the author describes him, a man "who drops names the way certain women put on too many jewels."
While we accept that history is informed gossip, Alhadeff should have ascertained the accuracy of some of the statements made by her relations. The book is full of what would at first seem as irrelevant misrepresentations, yet looked at collectively, they could be misinterpreted as an attempt to dramatize, especially if the reader is Egyptian, a Japanese Samurai or a member of the Catholic deity.
For instance, Alhadeff's places the Egyptian coastal town of al-Alamein at 15 kilometers from Alexandria. While this - some would say extraneous - proximity lends credence to "panic in the city" of Alexandria or "Alexandria being bombarded" making it sound like Normandy or Dunkirk, it is of-course factually incorrect, for Alamein is over 120 kilometers away and the little bombardment that Alexandria sustained during WWII pales next to that received by the remotest European hamlet.
Stating that one of the leading cotton experts of Alexandria was German and thus by implication hostile to Alhadeff's Jewish cotton-trading grandfather, invariably projects that certain `je ne sais quoi' salable German-Jewish drama which became so literary delectable whenever discussing the 1930s and `40s. Sorry again Ms. Alhadeff, but Mr. Rheinhardt was Swiss, not German.
When Alhadeff's mother "finished school there was no question of her going to university, because there was none in Egypt, because she was a woman, and because of the war." There again, the contrived effects for drama. Yet, a cursory leafing through any contemporary Almanac could have enlightened Alhadeff on the existence of several universities including the co-ed American University in Cairo which closed for only a few months during WWII.
Saad Zaghloul (in this instance Alhadeff got his name right) was prime minister once and not five times. And as for old insignias and decorations being returned to the government when receiving new ones... funny yes, but incorrect.
Those seeking entertainment will find that `The Sun at Midday' abounds with it. Alhadeff has an engaging style and her stories are punctuated with anecdotes. As oral history goes, her book is informative and her continuous play with fast-back and fast-forward makes it even more compelling.
If you've read André Aciman's Out of Egypt and liked it, then I most certainly recommend Gini Alhadeff's book.
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