Belarus Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook

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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Belarus Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Belarus Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Law Handbook Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739775901

Belarus Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)

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Belarus Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739712152

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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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Pretty Book, Not Enough Identification

Made in Japan Ceramics

Collector's Encyclopedia Of Made In Japan Ceramics: Identification & Values (Collector's Encyclopedia)
Carole Bess White
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574324454

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Carole Bess White Author Carole Bess White's four volumes of Made in Japan Ceramics have been bestsellers for many years. Her latest book features selections from all of these books, as well as hundreds of new pieces and photographs never before published - lots of luster ware and Art Deco, wall pockets, vases, kitchenware, a nice selection of Made in Japan spice racks, and a wide variety of useful and decorative objects appear in the book. Not only are there hundreds of beautiful pieces showcased, but there are detailed historical facts about Made inJapan ceramics. Among the categories are ashtrays, candleholders, condiment sets, salt pepper sets, toothbrush holders, pincushions, bookends, planters, wall pockets, Art Deco objects, figural objects of all sorts, and much more, including a section on Japanese Arts Crafts-style vases with all new photographs. Enjoy this sampling of old and new favorites from Carole Bess White.

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Pretty Book, Not Enough Identification.......2007-06-21

The book has clear vivid photos and a overview of all the catagories of Made in Japan collectibles but while she has the marks listed, far too many of them are not identified. There are 189 marks shown of which 101 are not identified. But nice pictures and well organized.

Made in Japan Ceramics.......2005-09-06

Rich in illustration, a mind boggling output of work from Japan which seems well documented and categorized.

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New gel candlemakers get a friendly greeting to the craft with plenty of basic projects and helpful tips on technique; as they gain more experience, more detailed and exquisite items await their imaginative touch. Add glitter, insets, fragrance, and layers of color—even vertical ones. Among the awe-inspiring projects: a polymer clay spider “weaving” its web in stylish clear gel; a patriotic Stars & Stripes design; and even a Gumball Machine candle.

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New gel ideas.......2003-08-05

I gave this book a five stars because of the idea/pics included. It starts out talking about safety,tools needed, and working with gel. It address containers,bubbles,coloring/ fragrances,adding glitter,nesting the candle in a water/flower arrangement,using embeds( wax,clay,glass,agates,beads,wire,sea glass,pins), selecting wicks,making cameos for embeds(very original),using gold leaf inside candles,silhouette candles,color swirling,and gel floating candles.

There are ideas about: sand/treasure candle,neat spider web candle,using flower pot holders,amethyst stone look,using vases in another vase,HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN GUMBALL MACHINE CANDLE(very original at very low cost),vertical striped or diagonal candles, desert candles,pizza candle,tuxedo candle,glass painted/clear candle, bamboo candle,and bonsai(handmade)in a candle. Even shows candle ideas for men!

Each idea comes with pics,instructions,materials list. Great pics and ideas for the beginner and the pro.

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The early Spanish colonial period in New Mexico provides an opportunity to explore both economic activity within a colony and the relations between colony and homeland. By examining the material remains of this era--from the founding of the colony in 1598 to its demise with the Pueblo Rebellion in 1680--Trigg reveals a more complete picture of colonial life.

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excellent, practical.......2003-11-24

This is a very practical, straight forward book with things to do to take charge and address what ails ya. Its quite comprehensive, covering topis such as: fatigue, spacticity, weakness, tremor, walking, sexuality, bladder symptoms, bowel symptoms, pain, speech difficulties, vision, numbness swollen ankles etc etc. Each topic is given its own chapter that first helps to further define the issue and then tips on what to do about it. When I had my last episode fatigue (among other things) was a killer - I only had a few good hours in the morning until I was exhausted. This book has a section on energy conservation tips which I found useful. Other setcions were good too in helping to take action, positive, forward moving action to help myself. Great book - I highly recommend it.

From a medical professional with MS.......2002-04-09

This book should be in the library of every person with MS. I have often recommended taking this book to the neuro or a GP when discussing a symptom and treatment.

Dr. Shapiro has long been considered a foremost authority on symptom treatment. Each time he has produced a new edition I have replaced my copy of this book. Though I am no longer a working medical professional, I keep up on MS research. And this man knows his business.

Truly useful suggestions.......2001-08-11

This book not only describes what the disease is "up to", but gives very practical, very useful, suggestions on how to deal with various tricks MS tries to pull. There's no "pity" in the book, just good descriptions and advice on how to handle what MS throws in your path. From the discussion on the new therapies, the disease modifying drugs, to how to utilize a cane... very useful information.

Very Comprehensive and easy to read!.......2001-01-28

This third edition is very up-to-date with the latest of the A-B-C drugs being discussed. Miriads of other prescription drugs used for symptom management are described. It is organized by symptom, each having its own specific chapter. There is a great glossary and appendix on stretching and transfer techniques. A great way to learn the things you need to know to have an intelligent conversation with your doctor. Very informative to anyone at any place along their MS path. I know...I've been puttin' up with MS for over 10 years.

An Excellent Synopsis.......1999-08-03

Do you or someone you care for have MS? Learn to DEAL with it without giving in to any 'victim'-mode. This little book very, very calmly deals with most of the wide-ranging symptoms that MS-ers are challenged by. In short, short chapters, it describes the 'what', the 'why', and then provides insights into various 'hows' to deal with each symptom. Where possible, it gives alternatives and progressive suggestions, and includes discussion of different medications with the positives and negatives included. There was a lot set out that I didn't know anything about, so it was very helpful. It does not purport to be an exhaustive reference work -- it is more like a brisk, informative conversation with a knowledgable physician. I think that, besides helping one understand the 'nitty gritty', it will probably be an excellent book to take to the next doctor's appointment as a springboard for better discussion. I was able to read this book in one sitting (while I was defragmenting my hard drive!) and I decided to light a candle of approval here at Amazon so that other readers would have an idea what this book is like. Again, it is not a textbook or tome; it is insight. It also has a great glossary of terms that you come across in "MS World", and even provides illustrated exercises and methods of moving around. And not a drop of pity or melodrama, just reality.

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Mabel Mercer's Life.......2007-03-12

I was lucky enough to see Mabel Mercer perform and this book captures her for those of us who are familiar with her work. There was an earlier biography of Mercer but this one has a slight edge on that excellent book.The photographs are good too and this book should make you run out to buy all of Mabel's recordings. Mabel Mercer was unique and this book effectively chronicles her life, music, and her very special qualities as a person and performer.

just the facts please.......2002-08-09

I have been a fan of Mable Mercer since i saw her perform at the Downstairs at the Upstairs in NYC in 1961. I jumped at the chance to buy this book, wanting to know more about her. I managed to plow thru it since I was really interested in knowing about her life - but it sure was a chore to do so. This is perhaps the worst written book I have ever read. Redundant, terrible uncalled for puns - you name it. If you are a fan, do read it - her life story is there. But be prepared for a tortureous journey.
I would have given minus stars, but that didn't seem to be an option.

Some thoughts on Midnight at Mabel's.......2000-09-25

The composer Cole Porter preferred her rendition of his "It Was Just One of Those Things" to any other singer's. A skinny blue-eyed young crooner named Frank Sinatra used to jot down notes on a cocktail napkin when he came to hear her perform at Tony's, a club on Manhattan's 52nd Street. Sinatra would later say, "Everything I know about phrasing I learned from Mabel Mercer." Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Bobby Short, even Edith Piaf and the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor discovered in Mabel Mercer an artist of incomparable style and eloquence. From the 1930s until her death in 1984, Mercer was a singer's singer-a consummate interpreter of the popular song. She launched dozens of songs by Porter, Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, Arlen, and others that have since become classics in the repertoire. Mercer was, however, relatively unknown by the general public because she shunned fame. For much of her career, she performed almost exclusively in small nightclubs in Paris and New York. Not just any nightclubs, it should be noted, but the legendary cabaret clubs Bricktop's and Le Boeuf sur le Toit in Paris, Tony's,the Café Carlisle, and the St. Regis Room in Manhattan. Margaret Cheney's marvelous biography, the first full-length study of Mercer's life and times, will introduce many music lovers to one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung vocal stylists and fill in the missing pieces for the aficionados. The life itself was eventful from its conception. Born 100 years ago, in Staffordshire, England, Mercer was the daughter of an Anglo-Welsh teenaged mother and an African-American father. The child--of light complexion, blue-eyed, freckled, with frizzy black hair--was essentially orphaned when Emily Wadham ran off with her future husband (emphatically not Mabel's father Ben Mercer) to the music halls of Australia. Though raised by a kindly grandmother in a cottage in North Wales, Mabel suffered as a child, and for her entire life, from feelings of abandonment. The beloved grandmother died when Mabel was nine. Far too early in her life, she was entrusted to a convent school in Manchester run by Italian nuns; there the little girls branded the vulnerable Mabel a golliwog and tortured her because of her unusual looks and her orphaned status. At the tender age of 14, Mercer graduated from convent school and entered the music hall world that was her family inheritance. She took to it like a fish to water. In the years after World War I, African-Americans began coming in appreciable numbers to England and the Continent to perform. Eventually Mercer found herself living and working among black artists who were welcomed by Paris-the Paris of the Jazz Age. Midnight at Mabel's is especially fine on this formative period in the young singer's life. It was at Bricktop's, the great cabaret at 66 Rue Pigalle, that Mercer arrived at her elegant signature style. And it was at Bricktop's that the world of popular music composers and performing artists took note. In the 1920s and 1930s, and mostly in the wee hours, Mercer played with the best of them: Cole Porter, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli. Even in the years of her early success a modest, very private and dignified person, Mercer was beloved of people in all walks of life. Among her many friends were British royalty, singular artists, like Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward, whom she met at Bricktop's, and adventurous tourists who had the wit to drop in at the Montmartre boite. In 1938, with the Nazi invasion of Europe looming, Mercer reluctantly, and with great difficulty, made her way to the United States. Several lean and lonely years passed before she reclaimed her rightful place as the toast of the cabaret world. But by the late 1940s, Cheney tells us of the New York music scene, "It became customary to say, `Let's go to Mabel's!' Any club she sang in was automatically `Mabel's.'" New York became the home she rarely left, except for weekends at her country retreat in the Berkshires. In the 1950s, Mercer occasionally appeared before enthusiastic audiences in clubs in Chicago and San Francisco. She annoyed club owners by refusing to book return engagements. However, Mercer's audience grew appreciably with the several albums she recorded for Atlantic, including two concerts with Bobby Short at Town Hall. But in the mid-1960s, rock music came to dominate the music scene on stage and in the recording studios. Club life in general, and Mercer's splendid career and the careers of her friends in particular, declined precipitously. However, near the end of her life, when she was prepared for poverty and obscurity, there came a final almost Dickensian turn of events. Mercer was discovered and celebrated by a new generation of fans, many of whom were gay New Yorkers. In her seventies and eighties, she was showered with honorary degrees and honorary appointments, television appearances and an award-winning documentary, concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Kool Jazz Festival, a triumphal return to London, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and so on. This was the kind of comeback, or vindication, a star performer might reasonably yearn for. Not Mercer, it would seem. For the first time in her life, and to her despair, she encountered autograph seekers. Cheney tells us that "biographers had often sought [Mercer's] permission to write her story but she wanted no part of them or it. After she was gone, she said, they could say whatever the liked, but while she lived she would have peace and privacy." In her knowledgeable, insightful and sensitive telling of her subject's life story, Cheney has succeeded in enlightening the grateful reader while managing to preserve a measure of Mercer's privacy. Mercer died of a heart attack in the early spring of 1984. Among the honorary pallbearers at her funeral mass were her good friends Bobby Short, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Johnny Mathis. One need hardly add that Mercer's legacy lives on in the great repertoire of American popular song.

Singing from the heart.......2000-07-02

Mable Mercer was the best...her voice, her style, her passion. All the great cabaret singers learned so much from her, about phrasing and interpretation. Few people know much about her life, so this biography is very welcome. She was of mixed race, and mixed cultures...she became a star very early, and then had a long career. Her fans were madly devoted. I was lucky enough to see her perform in her later years...powerful. A great, inspirational story; a terrific read.

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Mystery at midnight
Mabel Conklin Allyn
Manufacturer: The Dramatic Pub. Co
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The Rambam: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon : the story of his life
Jaacov Even Chen
Manufacturer: Haktav Institute
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ASIN: B0006F48MU

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Rambam: The Story of Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon
Rochel Yaffe
Manufacturer: Hachai Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Rambam: The story of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon
Yaacov Dovid Shulman
Manufacturer: C.I.S. Publishers
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ASIN: 1560622547

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