Grenada Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook

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

Grenada Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Country Study Guide Library)

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Grenada Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Country Study Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739776436

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Excellent book for diehard fans.......1997-09-14

This book is excellent if you are eager to seek out places Elvis frequented throughout his life. Not simply Sun Records or other well-known locations; rather, the non-traditional hangouts. I have brought the book to Memphis and used it as a guide to visiting some out-of-the-way places. Elvis was a lot more than Graceland and Sun. If you are interested in other locations which assisted in his formative years, take this book to Memphis and look up some of the addresses listed. You'll gain a better appreciation for the King.

The Elvis Atlas A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America

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The Elvis Atlas A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America
MICHAEL and ROGER OSBORNE GRAY
Manufacturer: Henry Holt
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K021Z2

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Secªs Proposed Auditor Independence Rules: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756733650

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1908 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, No. 117: The Great Pprice Maker
Roebuck and Company Sears
Manufacturer: Follett Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue

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1908 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue; A Treasured Replica from the Archives of History (1908 Catalogue No. 117)

Manufacturer: Gun Digest Co, Chicago, IL
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Replica of 1908 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. All items shown, most with illustrations. Includes original information regarding transactions, shipping terms, pricing policies, installment plans, freight and express rates and more.

1908 Sears Roebuck catalog (catalogue) on CDROM of Vintage Fashions, silware, jewelry, and plenty of other stuff for collectible text searching or clip art use.

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1908 Sears Roebuck catalog (catalogue) on CDROM of Vintage Fashions, silware, jewelry, and plenty of other stuff for collectible text searching or clip art use.

Manufacturer: Flameka.com
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Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000X0VAYC

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-----------Scanned in at 300 DPI (good enough for magazine printing) this catalog has been edited down to about 700 pages (from around 1100). The files are pdf text searchable, come on CD disks read by computer, and are portable. The individual images in the catalog are copyright free for clipart use. -----------Sears Roebuck and Co. catalog (Catalogue) were competitors to Montgomery Ward, J.C. Penny (Pennys, penney), Harmoney House, Stanley Rogers, John Wanamaker, Butler Brothers, Marshall Field, Eatons, and the Woolworth five and dime as SEARS WAS HUGE. Flipping through these files one can see why. Humorous, in your face, and everything, including quackery we still see today. -----------These disks are new, labeled, and come in a paper sleeve. It is suggested that files are transferred to the computer from the CD to prevent viewing delays.

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1908 Sears Roebuck Catalogue
J. Schroeder
Manufacturer: Dbi Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873490185

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Required Reading.......2004-04-05

I am ordering my second copy of this excellent reprint because my old one has finally fallen apart. The reader will become a nuisance in snooty antique stores (no, it isn't French Provincial, it came from Sears.) You'll get a feel for all of the early technologies, and in some detail: gas marine engines, early motion picture and magic lantern shows, phonographs (with discographies,) the first flashlights, the first spark plugs. Here's how horses were harnessed, diseases of animal and man treated, and life lived. The jewelry department abounds with badges of the fraternal organizations that every man belonged to back then. The tombstones feature those for children. Building a school or church? Here's where you buy a bell (please specify size.)
The social aspects of life are there, if you look sharp. There's a 'trade watch,' which has a fancy-looking movement and case, but is mostly imitation; designed for sharpster salesmen. There are cheap revolvers for the frontiersman, leftover Civil War muskets, and the overpriced hats and uniforms required of railroad employees. Dog fur coats were acceptable, there are several listed.

But life was hardly grim: there are two pages of mandolins and a fine assortment of German band instruments, several selections of hammocks, and perhaps the most tempting assortment of food I've ever gotten hungry over.

The descriptions of more expensive items are clearly worded to be read and re-read while money is saved for the purchase: the sewing machine, the bicycle, the boy's rifle, the cream separator, the improved kitchen stove. The advertising copy here has been imitated ever since.

There are details: the brass corners to be placed on oil-cloth kitchen floors. Oil cloth? That's what they used before linoleum.

Read through the book selection, especially the descriptions of the joke books (which _are_ pretty grim.)

Learn about the ultimate yuppie profession: telegraphy. Or, buy an entire rural telephone system. They're in there. Read the tutorials on windmills and home water systems and wells. Read through the description of straight and safety razors, and how every boy can run his own shooting range for profit. Or how anyone can run his own movie theater. Wanna be in show business? there's a magic-lantern-slide show kit, complete with handbills and a roll of tickets.

And finally, try to figure out the prices. The workingman's wage was around two dollars a day (look in the description of the concrete block machine.)

When you emerge from 1908 into the glaring light of the 21st century, you'll have become an amateur historian of sorts; with the understanding that while people's stuff has changed, people have not. Enjoy this book; I hope it stays in print forever.

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1908 SEARS, ROEBUCK CATALOGUE # 17 The Great Price Maker
ROEBUCK-Edited By Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr. SEARS
Manufacturer: Gun Digest Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SJZD1O

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Sears Roebuck & Co 1908 Catalogue No 117
Joseph J Schroeder
Manufacturer: DIGEST BOOKS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PV8TQG

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Sears Roebuck & Co 1908 Catalogue No 117
Sears Roebuck & Co
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ASIN: B000UCFCAQ

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Sears Roebuck Catalogue 1908

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ASIN: B000TZ03QC

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Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1908 Catalogue No. 117, The Great Price Maker
Roebuck & Co.; Schroeder, Joseph J., Jr. - Editor Sears
Manufacturer: Digets Books Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RJE9RE

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Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1908 Catalogue No. 117: The Great Price Maker

Manufacturer: Digest Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IE511G

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This book is a family guide and reference to the mineral localities with information on how to collect at each site. Each locality has a description of the locality and access, including a map for most. Other information includes recommendations for the equipment to use and sources for other information that the rockhound may find useful. There are many black and white photos of the minerals and a special section of color photos of the minerals. Collecting Arkansas Minerals is 149 pages long, contains black and white photographs, color photographs, maps and is softcover.

Field guide to the Magnet Cove area and selected mining operations and mineral collecting localities in central Arkansas (Guidebook)

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Field guide to the Magnet Cove area and selected mining operations and mineral collecting localities in central Arkansas (Guidebook)
Charles G Stone
Manufacturer: Arkansas Geological Commission
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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MP-19
J. Michael Howard
Manufacturer: Arkansas Geological Commission
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Rock and mineral collecting localities (MP)

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Rock and mineral collecting localities (MP)
J. Michael Howard
Manufacturer: Arkansas Geological Commission
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ASIN: B0006YA8UC

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Grand Hotels is the fruit of the many years Elaine Denby has devoted to travels and visits throughout Europe, North America, the Near East and the Orient; it is a fascinating architectural and social history that covers the globe from the 1830s to the 1930s, but which also takes note of the most recent refurbishments.The styles of architecture and decor have varied enormously for grand hotels: a French Renaissance château manner for the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 1880s; a fantastic Moorish-style confection for the Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast (1891); Art Deco for Oliver Hill's seaside Midland Grand at Morecombe in England (1933). And the services available were equally stunning: Turkish baths, rifle-ranges, even a fleet of vintage Rolls-Royces at Hong-Kong's Peninsula. To keep this illusory world glittering, the reality had to run like clockwork, with managers like César Ritz, king of hoteliers, monitoring every detail from ballrooms to basement boilers. Grand Hotels explores every aspect of this all-but-vanished world of opulence, from the entrepreneurs, architects and designers who made it possible to the ambitious individuals and dynasties that kept it going.

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Book review by Craig Davis.......2000-11-14

This book represents a good historic insight to hotels and their development in the worlds regions. As an hotel industry professional, I find the details of yesteryear a delight recorded in this well planned and illustrated volume. The book shows a slight bias toward the English tradition but as Elaine has clearly researched some of Englands older towns and cities, it is charming to see how grand the home market was. The selection of the international hotels misses many of those hotels that I would consider of the Grand genre but that gives Elaine a reason to write the next volume.

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Grand Hotels : Reality and Illusion
Elaine Denby
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUF83W

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Grand Hotels: Reality & Illusion
Elaine Denby
Manufacturer: Reaktion Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWBME8

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This book is for people who are about to have heart bypass surgery, those who have just been through the ordeal, and those who are to care for a bypass patient. Based on the experience of fourteen informants, the book tells of life before the operation, the decision to have heart bypass surgery, preparation for hospital life, and recovery afterwards. It blends the patient's widely differing experiences with the surgeon's expectations, advice and technical demands, and the work of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and other paramedical experts in the recovery from heart surgery. Most people are shocked the the thought that they must have heart bypass surgery. While some feel resigned to their fate, others put on a heroic front; sadness engulfs a few, others are relieved to know what their ailment is, and some become angry. Most want to know why. As a rule, the cost of surgery and hospitalisation is not important to them. They want to know if they are going to survive. Although there are signs and warnings of heart trouble, it seems that rarely do most people have much time to prepare for a heart bypass operation, and to make decisions about which surgeons and hospitals to employ. The bypass operation itself is major surgery. It is such a shocking surgical procedure that as one of the younger informants said, "you wouldn't want to know about it", but curiously enough the operation is not as frightening as you might think. Why? The decision to operate is swift, clear, and out of your hands; as one woman informant observed years later, "Whatever goes on, it's better than the alternative!" This book helps patients prepare for the operation and for the recovery by sharing the experiences of others, and by outlining the professional help and personal care that are readily available when required.

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All About Heart Bypass Surgery
Richard Trahair
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKXADU

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In 1919, the world stood at the threshold of the Jazz Age. The man who had ushered it there, however, lay murdered--and would soon plunge from international fame to historical obscurity. It was a fate few would have predicted for James Reese Europe; he was then at the pinnacle of his career as a composer, conductor, and organizer in the black community, with the promise of even greater heights to come. "People don't realize yet today what we lost when we lost Jim Europe," said pianist Eubie Blake. "He was the savior of Negro musicians...in a class with Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King." In A Life in Ragtime, Reid Badger brilliantly captures the fascinating life of James Reese Europe, tracing a critical chapter in the emergence of jazz through one man's remarkable odyssey. After an early start in Washington, Europe found his fame in New York, the entertainment capital of turn-of-the-century America. In the decade before the First World War, he emerged as an acknowledged leader in African-American musical theater, both as a conductor and an astonishingly prolific composer. Badger reveals a man of tremendous depths and ambitions, constantly aspiring to win recognition for black musicians and wider acceptance for their music. He toiled constantly, working on benefit concerts, joining hands with W.E.B. Du Bois, and helping to found a black music school--all the while winning commercial and critical success with his chosen art. In 1910, he helped create the Clef Club, making it the premiere African-American musical organization in the country during his presidency. Every year from 1912 to 1914, Europe led the Clef Club orchestra in triumphant concerts at Carnegie Hall, winning new respectability and popularity for ragtime. He went on to a tremendously successful collaboration with Vernon and Irene Castle, the international stars who made social dancing a world-wide rage. Along the way, Europe helped to revolutionize American music--and Badger provides fascinating details of his innovations and wide influence. In World War I, the musical pioneer won new fame as the first African-American officer to lead men into combat in that conflict--but he was best known as band leader for the all-black 15th Infantry Regiment. As the "Hellfighters" of the 15th racked up successes on the battlefield, Europe's band took France by storm with the new sounds of jazz. In 1919, the soldiers returned to New York in triumph, and Europe was the toast of the city. Then, just a few months later, he was dead--stabbed to death by a drummer in his own orchestra. From humble beginnings to tragic end, the story of Jim Europe comes alive in Reid Badger's account. Weaving in the wider story of our changing culture, music, and racial conflict, Badger deftly captures the turbulent, promising age of ragtime, and the drama of a triumphant life cut short.

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Jim Europe, The Founder of the International Jazz Movement.......2000-02-23

In a true sense of the word pioneer James Reese Europe, brought the only true American Art form to continental europe in the early part of the twentieth century. Reid Badger has captured the essence of a time in history that brought jazz and the cultural attitudes of black America to the international scene.

The very detailed text is a wonderful read, that gives you a sense of the push and pull of being an American Black living in the early 1900's. The book reads as if it were an adventure tale with all the action one could wish for.

The author has done a wonderful job of putting together facts and photos in a fast moving easy to understand academic work. His understanding of the contribution that Europe made to the growth of Jazz is clear and compeling. The details of the stature of the man that was Jim Europe reveals his human and sometimes non perfect personality.

Of particular interest to all should be his tenure as the Band Master of the famous 369th Infantry "Hell-Fighters" band during WWI in Europe.

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe.
Author: Lorenzo Thomas
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n4 Page: p1175(2)

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A Life in Ragtime, A: Biography of James Reese Europe

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A Life in Ragtime, A: Biography of James Reese Europe
R.Reid Badger
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press (N.Y.)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PS3GYY

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Jewish-American poetry and drama play an important role in contemporary American culture. These writings also reflect an enormous diversity of perspectives. Some poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, have attained fame and a large audience, while others have been recognized chiefly by scholars. Poets such as Howard Nemerov are more conservative, others such as Kenneth Koch are experimental, and still others, such as Ginsberg, are prophetic. Similarly, some Jewish-American playwrights, especially Arthur Miller, have acquired a worldwide following, while others continue to labor in obscurity. The spectrum of Jewish-American drama encompasses the liberated Jewish women of Wendy Wasserstein and Emily Mann, the gay Jewish persons who come out of the closet in the plays of Harvey Fierstein, and the satires of Arthur Kopit and Woody Allen. The rich experiences of Jewish-American drama and poetry are captured in this authoritative reference work. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 contemporary Jewish-American dramatists and poets, such as Paddy Chayevsky, Sarah Blacher Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, John Hollander, Barbara Lebow, Denise Levertov, Allen Mandelbaum, David Mamet, and Arthur Miller. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the critical reception of the author's writings, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The first part of the book includes entries for dramatists, while the second covers poets. Each part is introduced by a short overview essay, and the volume closes with selected, general bibliographies.

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN DRAMATISTS AND POETS: A BIO-CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK

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CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN DRAMATISTS AND POETS: A BIO-CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK
Joel Taub, Michael Schatzky
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Westport, CT
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