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

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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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A full guide to Richond, including its history, architecture, park, river and life today. A perfect gift for any visitor to the area.

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Year in the Life of Richmond Park
Joanna Jackson
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
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The Year of Fog (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)

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very good page turner
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the year of fog

The Year of Fog (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
Michelle Richmond
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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ASIN: 0786296771

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very good page turner .......2007-09-23

I really enjoyed this book;although I did take it slower than most books I;ve read lately.But it was worth the patience..A good ending even if it proves how men are!

loved it.......2007-08-28

I loved this book. We read this for our book club choice, and I think everyone enjoyed it. If it seems kind of slow in places, it is because if you were someone who lost a child, time would literally stand still. I think Michelle really captures the torment, anguish and guilt that would come in a situation like this. The ending was a surprise, but could only have ended in that way. A great read!!

Astounding.......2007-08-26

This was a fascinating, emotional rollercoaster of a novel. I couldn't believe it wasn't a New York Times Bestseller. I'm not going to recap the plot, just suffice it to say my heart was pounding at certain points, and the book contained the perfect balance of hope and reality. I cannot wait to read other works by this author and feel that the hardcover edition was worth every penny.

Thought-provoking and well written.......2007-08-15

I read this book a few months ago. While the subject matter doesn't make for easy reading, I have to say I found the book to be really well written. The author took me to the core of what the characters were going through. The book is a powerful example of how one little misstep in life, one little lapse of concentration, can change our lives forever.

the year of fog.......2007-08-09

As a librarian in small rural library in New Hampshire, my patrons and I
liked this book a lot. It as our vote for one of the best books of 2007.
It has a wonderfully intriguing title, is well-written and Abby who loses her sone-to-be step-daughter on a foggy beach is a great character. The suthor treats the subject of missing children realistically but with quiet dignity, getting the message across how devastating such a loss is to everyone involved. The meditations on menory add substand to the plot. I do, however, recommend that the reader not go to the ending ahead of time (you will be tempted!) or reveal the ending to anyone who hasn't read the book but plans to. This book is a great choice for book club discussion. I recommend it highly.

The life and letters of Lady Sarah Lennox, 1745-1826, daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and successively the wife of Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, ... political sketch of the years 1760 to 1763,

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The life and letters of Lady Sarah Lennox, 1745-1826, daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and successively the wife of Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, ... political sketch of the years 1760 to 1763,
Sarah (Lennox) Bunbury Napier
Manufacturer: C. Scribner's sons
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Southern prisons: or Josie the heroine of Florence: Four years of battle and imprisonment. Richmond, Atlanta, Belle Isle, Andersonville and Florence, a complete history of all southern prisons

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Southern prisons: or Josie the heroine of Florence: Four years of battle and imprisonment. Richmond, Atlanta, Belle Isle, Andersonville and Florence, a complete history of all southern prisons
Morgan E Dowling
Manufacturer: William Graham
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Supreme devotedness to Christ: A sermon, occasioned by the death of David I. Burr, for many years a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church; and ... the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va

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Supreme devotedness to Christ: A sermon, occasioned by the death of David I. Burr, for many years a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church; and ... the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va
William Jessup Armstrong
Manufacturer: W. Macfarland
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The uses and duties of life;: Being a series of nine lectures delivered before the young ladies of the Female Academy at Richmond, Texas, during the year 1852

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The uses and duties of life;: Being a series of nine lectures delivered before the young ladies of the Female Academy at Richmond, Texas, during the year 1852
Clarissa B Lemoin
Manufacturer: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co
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A Year in the Life of Richmond
Joanna Jackson
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N781EM

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Modern Accounting and Auditing Checklists

Manufacturer: Warren Gorham & Lamont
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0887126243

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Modern Accounting and Auditing Checklists
Paul Wendell
Manufacturer: Warren Gorham & Lamont
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ASIN: 0791332071

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Modern Accounting and Auditing Checklists
Wendell
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Organization

A great way to start collecting

Mercury Dimes: Collection 1916 to 1945 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
Whitman Publishing
Manufacturer: Whitman Coin Products
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0307090140

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Organization.......2000-06-19

These folders help keep all your coins organized. I enjoy seeing the progress of filling them up. As a beginner this is a great way to start.

A great way to start collecting.......2000-06-19

These folders are a great way to start coin collections. I have found that this is a great way to keep all my coins organized!

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Mercury Dimes Collection 1916 to 1945
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Manufacturer: Whitman Coin Products
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSZLFC

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Excellente

Well done; most enjoyable!

Bead & Sequin Embroidery Stitches
Stanley Levy
Manufacturer: Guild of Master Craftsman
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Binding: Paperback

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Beading on Fabric: Encyclopedia of Bead Stitch Techniques

ASIN: 1861083718

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Bead and sequin embroidery stitches give any garment or fabric accessory added glamour and pizzazz. Sparkling full-color photos and diagrams guide you through the basic stitches for this beautiful technique, including running, satin, and daisy petal stitches. There are more advanced procedures, too, such as making looped fringes, tassels, rosette motifs, and cut-outs to appliqué on any item. Full-size templates enable you to recreate a dozen stunning designs, including a starburst, a heart with pattern, and a variety of flowers. A gallery of spectacular pieces and numerous handy tips help you make the most of this rewarding craft. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

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Excellente.......2007-02-21

I'm beginning to understand why I bought this book. It works for me and it made my designs look great than before.. of course I have not explore all of it. The beginning of this book is all it takes for a wonderful adventure for me. Recommended.

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Well done; most enjoyable!.......2004-07-23

As an artist well-versed in bead-media from beading leather to stitching on frame, as well as cornaly needle work, I give an excellent rating to Mr. Levy's "Bead and Sequin Embroidery Stitches". His full-color, well-illustrated guidance for stitching beads and sequins on fabric is clearly stated with images supporting the wonderful variety of illusion possible with basic stitches. The many worked samples are a significant boon to advancing one's understanding of the properties (color and reflection) of beads and sequins on fabric - an aspect not often mentioned, but every beadworker (who ever had to tear out a line stitched against the grain) needs to learn. The book also includes delightful examples from Mr. Levy's students. This experienced beader enjoyed the book very much, and found both tips and inspiration. How well is it for a beginner? The text is straightforward and easy reading. The stitches are very well explained and have photographs and sampler examples. The rest depends on the reader: Levy explains his system, presents the path (and a materials list) to work his directions; it's up the budding bead artist to jump in and stitch!

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In this lavishly illustrated book, Christopher Christie explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Christie's clear and thoughtful analysis provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and servants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, sculpture, style, food, and entertainment.

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With explanations of over 3,000 names based on their astrological significance, including both old favorites and creative new choices, this baby-name book offers expectant parents suggestions related to their child’s astrological sign. If, for example, a baby girl is born a Leo, Laura, the feminine form of the word meaning “laurel,” is recommended, since laurel is a Leo’s lucky plant. The book also presents each sign’s mythological origin and its associated personality traits.

Hey Baby, What's Your Sign: The Astrological Baby Name Book

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Hey Baby, What's Your Sign: The Astrological Baby Name Book
Nancy Burke
Manufacturer: Berkley Pub Group
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ASIN: B000K6JW3K

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Vaslav Nijinsky spent the final six weeks before his permanent consignment to an insane asylum as something a madman in the attic. With his family--wife, young daughters and occasionally, mother-in-law--and household staff downstairs, the legendary dancer retreated to his room in a remote Swiss villa to tangle with his burgeoning psychosis. Fearful that his wife would (as she ultimately did) commit him, and highly suspicious of the physician-cum-amateur psychiatrist who daily came by to examine him, Nijinsky perceived the diary as the only safe haven for the rambling thoughts that were overtaking him. Throughout, the anxiety and anguish are palpable, as Nijinsky writes about his disillusionment with his mentor and lover, Ballets Russes director Serge Diaghilev; his alienation from and distrust of his closest family members; and his fear of insanity and its consequential confinement. His writing becomes more obscure as the weeks progress and he examines his relationship to God, writing "I am God" at one point, and later: "God said to me, 'Go home and tell your wife that you are mad.'" As his schizophrenia evolves, the pace and style of Nijinsky's prose changes radically--toward the end he writes in abstract verse--but he remains, with a dancer's sensibility, attuned to the cadences of his environment. The noises of the household, the ringing of the phone, footsteps down the hall, smatterings of conversations overheard are all registered as a sort of accompaniment to his dance with madness and function perhaps as a final tether to reality.

Nijinsky's wife stumbled upon the diary in a locked trunk some years after her husband disappeared into the abyss of madness and soon released it for publication to feed public interest in her famous mate--but not before she sanitized the manuscript to such a degree (removing references to his homosexuality, overblown ego, bizarre paranoia, and various obsessions with bodily functions and sex acts) that its essence was obscured. Now 80 years after it was written, 20 years after its renegade editor died, and six years after the copyright that Nijinsky's daughters held expired, the unexpurgated version of the diaries faithfully restores the fascinating record of a great artist's struggle for his life.

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With an Introduction by Joan Acocella

The astonishing diaries of the great dancer, at last available in their complete form.

In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot written account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis.

A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After a falling-out between the two great men--who had lived openly as lovers for some time--Nijinsky struggled to build a career on his own. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself as married to God, indeed as God, signing his entries "God Nijinsky." Although he lived another thirty years, he never regained his sanity.

Already a classic in its earlier, bowdlerized edition, the diary now appears uncut for the first time in English, together with its previously unavailable fourth notebook. It is Nijinsky's confession and his prophecy. At the same time, it reads like a novel, portraying the terror in the Nijinsky household as the dancer plunged into madness. In her Introduction, the noted dance writer Joan Acocella explains the context of the diary and its significance in the history of modernism.

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the insane can be highly perceptive..........2004-09-07

To understand this book, you must have a good background in psychology in order to be able to spot the philosophical insights made by this otherwise, very ill man. The duality between 'feeling' and 'thinking' as well as the perceptive remarks made about the nuances of various people in Nijinsky's life are highly intelligent.

At most times the book is full of amusing schizophrenic rants that make the diary an awesome source for learning about the everyday inner life of paranoid schizophrenics - of whom Nijinsky is a perfect example.

Beautiful and Prophetic.......2003-11-16

1. "God said to me, 'Go home and tell your wife that you are mad'."

Even if we are not ready to accept this assertion as a proof of Nijinsky's genius (i.e. him edging on God-Consciousness on his way to full enlightenment), we should at least be able to recognise that the author obviously did not view himself as insane, but, in his own eyes, consciously pretended to be such as the only means at hand to escape the harsh chilliness and cruelty of an insensitive world, handing over all responsibilities of the non-esoteric sides of life to those who feel they know such things better.

2. Neither the conclusion should be that the great Master of Choreography ended his life in a miserable demise, unworthy of a great genius and a potential role-model for generations to come.

On the last pages, as if to conclude the diary, Nijinsky speaks of a wonderful vision of his three years old daughter as she smiles at him: "I see what she is trying to tell me: it is not all about sadness and miserliness - there's also joy in life". Thus reminding of Tolstoy's famous formula "if you want to be joyful and happy, then just be that!".

The author's life has clearly been that of struggle and constant contemplations over the world's stubbornness in its reiterated refusal to accept the artist's message of love, despite its pure simplicity. And yet now on the verge of the sunset of life it all suddenly seems to have been nothing but a temporary, though little longer than usual, unpleasant dream, the remaining fogs of which are dispersed through a simple rearrangement of attention leading one to a life in a closer company with one's God. A life the fuller utilisation of the pleasures of which are not bound by the limits of life and death.

3. As for Nijinsky's main message, as it is contained in the diary itself, I think it is found in the place where the artist speaks of his discovery of the true nature of the phenomena of art criticism: the self-appointed critics of art are nothing but egotists who have never created anything themselves. They pinpoint and nit-pick on any flaws and draw conclusions where such cannot be drawn, causing the hearts of the sincere artists to bleed.

It implies that it is more than fair to observe that when it comes to art in general no judgements can be made whatsoever. An inspiration behind any artistic expression always comes from beyond oneself, out of a sincere desire to convey something to others. The only thing that is really alright to criticise is if the artist's motive is in question, that is if the original purpose is purely commercial and, thus, a con in its essence. Similarly judging is not the same as describing, just as to describe is not the same as to judge.

Interestingly, few other books and films have received as much subtle thrashing (along with appraisals) as Nijinsky's diary and Paul Cox' recent poetic documentary based on it. The point is that a truly worthless piece of literature, or other, never does. There simply seems to be something very provocative about innocence and tenderness to self-important people. And maybe the book CANNOT be appreciated fully by readers with a "lesser purity of heart" and large egos.

4. Other highlights of the wisdom in Nijinsky's diary (quoting freely from memory) are these: "I told my wife we had married for the wrong reasons and that we should re-marry, but this time in the spirit"; and: "People go to church and then drink wine because they have heard it said that it is the blood of Christ. How to explain to a fool that Christ's blood would make one sober rather than drunk?".

excellent presentation of difficult material.......2003-08-30

Nijinsky's unexpurgated diary is an important document both for dance history and for psychiatry. This edition has an excellent, insightful introduction and very thorough translator's notes. I found out fascinating details, such as the fact that Nijinsky began the diary the day he gave a deranged performance at a hotel, and probably meant it as proof that he was not as crazy as he seemed. (Sadly, it proved exactly the opposite.) A beautiful job has been done in presenting and contexting this difficult material. Anyone with an interest in dance and/or mental illness should read it.

fasinating dancers life.......2003-02-26

this book is highly through in it's full translation of Nijinsky's diary, but best part of this book are the inclusion of the never before published "fourth book" which included poems and letters written by Nijinsky as well as an introduction which helps to clarify not only the historical background but also delves into the mental state Nijinsky was in as he wrote his diary.

icono.......2002-08-03

Nijinsky, hombre posesionado por el genio, hace algun tiempo visiti en el museo de orsay, en Paris, la exposicion sobre él, de lo mejor al igual que su apasionada vida

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Joan Acocella
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VVXRBW

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav, edited by Romola Nijinsky by Nijinsky
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JWBYJK

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Romola Nijinsky
Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CN07H

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Romola Nijinsky
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWNTK8

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Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Romola Nijinsky; Editor
Manufacturer: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Joan, Editor Acocella
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Binding: Paperback
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THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY

Manufacturer: Farrar,Straus, and Giroux
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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky,
Romola Nijinsky
Manufacturer: SIMON & SCHUSTER @ TRADE
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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: To be sold as Lot 257 in the sale of valuable autograph letters, literary manuscripts and historical documents on 24 July 1979

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The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: To be sold as Lot 257 in the sale of valuable autograph letters, literary manuscripts and historical documents on 24 July 1979
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Manufacturer: Sotheby's
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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id you know that there are Jewish genealogies and family histories, both published and unpublished, for over 10,000 family names? Compiled from books, newspaper and journal articles, Jewish encyclopedia entries, family papers, and family trees, this bibliography attempts to include all Jewish collections in the United States and other countries, such as Australia, Netherlands, England, Germany, and Israel. Now genealogists and historians can determine primary sources of information on Jewish families in a variety of times, places, and backgrounds. Included are the contents of Volumes 1 and 2 of the highly acclaimed Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook for Family Histories and Genealogies plus thousands of additional entries compiled by David Zubatsky--three books in one. More than 22,000 sources are identified.

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