Djibouti Business Law Handbook

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Djibouti Business Law Handbook
Emerging Markets Investment Center
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739704478

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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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Djibouti Business Law Handbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739745484

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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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Classic reference describes in detail hundreds of implements in use in the American colonies in the 18th century. Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical in construction to ancient devices once used by the Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese, among them axes, saws, clamps, chisels, mallets, and much more. An invaluable sourcebook.

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The Seminal Work in Tool History.......2002-01-31

During his lifetime, Henry Mercer was a lawyer, archaeologist, museum curator, promoter of lost crafts, and collector of a museum's worth (literally) of assorted stuff. One of his many interests was early American woodworking tools.

Ancient Carpenter's Tools is a comprehensive look at 18th and 19th Century American woodworking tools. The book is divided into chapters by function (Measurement, Shaping, etc.) and then by type of tool. As American tools were heavily influenced by their European ancestors, Mercer also includes a history of each tool with references to Medieval and Classical tools. Each tool is illustrated with photographs and drawings.

While this book was originally published in the 1920's (and occasionally shows its age) it remains useful for any student of tool history.

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Ancient Carpenters' Tools: Illustrated and Explained Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner and Cabinet Maker in Use in the Eighteenth Century

Manufacturer: The Bucks County Historical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLRCGS

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Step-by-step instructions, full-size templates, and diagrams for 20 small quilts that work up quickly and easily: Barn Raising, Zig Zag, Courthouse Steps, Topsy Turvy Log Cabin, many more. Ranging in size from 14 1/2" x 18" to 16" x 20", these handsome quilts make wonderful wall hangings, doll bedcovers, tablecloths, more.

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From chimneys to gates, medieval cottages to Georgian crescents, this rich photographic introduction to five hundred years of British domestic architecture will delight anyone interested in the evolution of house design.

The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Details is a tribute to British ingenuity and style. Featuring high-quality illustrations, a beautiful layout, and a historical introduction, it takes individual architectural features and, through chronologically organized illustrations, shows how each detail has developed and changed under the influences of period, fashion, and technological advance. The book explores in detail the different elements that make the design of doors, windows, ironwork, ceramics, terracotta, stone and brickwork (among many others) so fascinating. Short texts and more than six hundred color photos highlight the trademark characteristics of each element, and readers are treated to gorgeous views of the most compelling examples.

Finally, Details includes an illustrated glossary providing anecdotal definitions of everything from almhouses to villas, helping readers identify styles quickly and easily by just a few characteristics. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book is an indispensable and truly exhaustive resource for anyone interested in discovering the real history of house design in Britain.

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Build a Co-Parenting Team: After Divorce or Remarriage (Stepfamily Information Series, V. 6)
Peter K. Gerlach
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 1401061982

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Literature suggests that over 60% of American stepfamilies divorce, psychologically or legally. This translates into millions of anguished, traumatized adults and kids, who form an invisible subculture on our continent. There seem to be five combined reasons for this tragic, unremarked epidemic: _ co-parents' psychological wounds from low-nurturance childhoods, _ blocked grief, _ unawareness of key stepfamily realities and relationship skills, _ courtship neediness and idealism, and _ little qualified community and media help.

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Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life. With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks," "Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and "Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to Grainger's autobiography, My Wretched Tone-Life, which he only commenced in his final years. Expertly shaping these sketches, the editors have created a "self-portrait" along the lines that Grainger himself had intended. The volume first introduces Grainger's forebears, parents, friends, wife, and himself before moving on to his views on composition, performance, and the musical world. In these sketches, Grainger addresses such topics as racial and national identity, the meaning of work, physical culture, language reform, sexual practice, and artistic patronage. Grainger also probes the nature of musical genius, discussing a broad range of composers including Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Edvard Grieg, Charles Stanford, Cyril Scott, Fritz Kreisler, Donald Tovey, Ferruccio Busoni, and Balfour Gardiner. Among the works of his own that Grainger most featured are his The Warriors --Music for an Imaginary Ballet, Colonial Song, the Lincolnshire Posy series of band pieces, his greatest "hit" Country Gardens, and his many settings of English folk-music. Written in Grainger's own self-created "Nordic English" as well as translated from Danish, the language of his most intimate confessions, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger sheds light on some of the most revealing details of the composer's life. The sketches trace Grainger's changing self-perception, from the romantically tinged, even lustful, views of his forties and fifties, through a period of wistfulness in his sixties, to the bitterness and self-loathing of his old age. The volume also includes several of Grainger's own drawings as well as both public and private photographs. A fascinating and revealing collection of vignettes, this extraordinary book will appeal to instructors, students, and enthusiasts in musicology, music history, cultural studies, and Australian, British, and American history.

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A valuable resource
The revised edition of THE Grainger biography by John Bird.

Percy Grainger
John Bird
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0571117171

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This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive and wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous `Blue-Eyed English'. A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work. In their Prefatory Note to the first edition, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears wrote: `In his sympathetic and tactful biography John Bird has beautifully balanced the brilliance with the turbulence of this unbalanced genius--we are grateful to him'.

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A valuable resource.......2001-07-11

As with many composers, to understand the man is essential to understanding how to interpret his music. My reserach on "Lincolnshire Posy" would have been incomplete without this book. There is a lot of persistence on the author's part to present an accurate and indepth portrayal of one of the more eccentric figures in music. A shame that all biographies are not constructed with such care.

The revised edition of THE Grainger biography by John Bird........1999-04-06

In this biography, John Bird masterly tells us about the live, thoughts and 'adventures' of one of the strangest music makers of all times, composer and pianist Percy Aldridge Grainger. A very complete book, which is special, for, as the author stresses in his preface, making an understandable view of the complicated life of Grainger, is not a simple task. Besides all important facts about 'Perks', the book contains lots of interesting backgroud information, letting us know under which circumstances and in what time the composer lived. Also an updated discography and a list of all places where manuscripts etc are to be found are included. The current edition is fully revised, the first print was released in the mid seventies. In one word: brilliant!!!

Country Gardens and Other Works for Piano

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Country Gardens and Other Works for Piano
Percy Grainger
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano

ASIN: 0486422410

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The energy, love of nature, and creativity of Australian-born American composer and pianist Percy Grainger shines through in this collection that includes 15 of his most popular piano works. Included are "Country Gardens," "Molly on the Shore," "Colonial Song," "Irish Tune from County Derry," "Shepherd's Hey," "Spoon River," "Mock Morris," "Maguire's Kick," "Handel in the Strand," and 6 others.

Percy Grainger: The Inveterate Innovator

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Percy Grainger: The Inveterate Innovator
Thomas C. Slattery
Manufacturer: Instrumentalist Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0686158938

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Thirteen Folksongs: Voice and Piano

Manufacturer: G. Schirmer, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0793511976

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Contents: Willow, Willow * The Twa Corbies * Died for Love * Six Dukes Went Afishin * The Spring Of Thyme * The Pretty Maid Milkin' Her Cow * British Waterslide (Or The Jolly Sailor) * Early One Morning * Lord Maxwell's Goodnight * Bold William Taylor * Hard Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen * Creeping Jane * The Pow'r of Love.

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Album for Flute and Piano
Grainger Percy
Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0793556686

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Album: For Clarinet & Piano
P. Grainger , and Percy Grainger
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0793522153

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Contents: Irish Tune from County Derry ¥ Dublin Bay (Lisbon) ¥ Horkstow Grange ¥ The Brisk Young Sailor ¥ The Lost Lady Found ¥ Australian Up-Country Tune ¥ Country Gardens ¥ Ye Banks and Braes OÕBonnie Doon ¥ Molly on the Shore (Oxley).

The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961

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The All-Round Man: Selected Letters of Percy Grainger, 1914-1961
Percy Grainger
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0198163770

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Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. As a pianist and largely self-taught composer he was feted in the 1910s and 1920s, and is probably still best known for the work he `dished up' in many different guises, Country Gardens. But Grainger aspired to the role of `the all-round man' and nourished ideas, some brilliant, others ludicrous, across the full range of human endeavour: race, nationality, sex, language, life-style, food, clothes, technology, ecology. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six uninhibited letters from Grainger's `American' years, 1914-61. These letters are fascinating to read: they are cultivated `rambles' (as Grainger actually called several of his compositions), not dissimilar to today's telephone conversations. Often written in Grainger's crunchy `Blue-eyed English', they explore uninhibitedly every corner of his public and private life. They reflect the magnificent attempts of a great but flawed mind to encompass the world. From the letters: `Personally I do not feel like a modern person at all. I feel quite at home in South Sea Island music, in Maori legends, in the Icelandic Sagas, in the Anglo-Saxon `Battle of Brunnanburh', feel very close to Negroes in various countries, but hardly understand modern folk at all.' `Music seems almost to have a "surface", a smooth surface, a grained surface, a prickly surface to the ear. All these distinguishing characteristics (roughly hinted at in the above silly similes) are to me the "body of music" are to music what "looks", skin, hair are in a person, the actual stuff and manifestation whereby we know it and recognize it' `You said that too much such treatment annoyed, nerveteased you. Then let me thus tease you while you punish me for the annoyance I give you: Let me lay my weight upon, momi-ing at yr heavenbringing uma, while you thrash my bottom, back and legs in rising annoyance'

British Waterside (the Jolly Sailor) for Symphonic Band

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British Waterside (the Jolly Sailor) for Symphonic Band
Grainger Percy
Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0793591562

'A Commonsense View of All Music': Reflections on Percy Grainger's Contribution to Ethnomusicology and Music Education

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'A Commonsense View of All Music': Reflections on Percy Grainger's Contribution to Ethnomusicology and Music Education
John Blacking
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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aking Grainger's views as his starting point and heading each chapter with a quotation from Grainger's writings, John Blacking restates and reflects upon observations and attitudes relevant to contemporary problems of ethnomusicology and music education. Professor Blacking discusses these issues in the light of his own research, musical experience and convictions. 'For those who wish to question current thought and practice in Western musical life and education, Blacking's testimony will be essential reading.' -- Music Teacher 'The first chapter ... evaluates Grainger's contribution to ethnomusicology ... through the succeeding six chapters Blacking discusses many philosophical and political points touching on the nature of art and art objects, the relationship of individual to universal musical experience, the task of ethnomusicology, the origins of musical ideas, the definition of music in terms of human behaviour rather than just an artifact of organised sound and, significantly, the extension of music education to cover world music ... [Blacking] comes close to the heart of all debate on the nature of musical art: from where do musical ideas come?' -- The Musical Times

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A very interesting thought- experiment .......2004-12-14

The book is based on an imaginary correspondance between the Rambam and his favorite disciple Yosef ben Yehudah ibn Shim'on. The disciple is miraculously taken to the twentieth century and from there begins to write letters describing the changes brought by time, and telling what has happened to the Jewish people and the world in this time. The territory covered is great and includes history, geography, anthropology, the economy, modern Jewish practices, thre branches of Judaism . The answers and aim are to in the words of the book jacket develop ' a new empirical worldview that incorporates the teachings of both the ancietn and the modern Jew. Yosef provides a clear conception of humanity's role as God's creation and of the role the Jewish people play as a light unto nations and as leaders toward the messianic age. "
This is a highly original work which I sense has never really received the attention it deserves.

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