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Israel Environmental Technology Industry Export-import Directory
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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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- Living the Best of Italy
- Living the Best of Italy
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Villa d'Este Style
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Villa D'este Cookbook
ASIN: 0847822621
Release Date: 2000-06-03 |
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World-renowned for its sublime beauty and aura of enchantment, Lake Como in Northern Italy has inspired poets, writers, and artists from the time of Virgil, while luring travelers to its shores. For nearly five centuries, visitors of celebrity, fortune, and power have come to rest, revel, and marvel at Villa d'Este, the luxury hotel as spectacular as the lake it graces. Named the best hotel in Europe by Travel & Leisure magazine, Villa d'Este has dazzled an impressive array of guests, including King Leopold of Belgium, Caroline of Monaco, Evita Peron, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, and Alfred Hitchcock. Today, this top resort destination is famed for its breathtaking gardens, its unique floating swimming pool, its exceptional cuisine, and its gala celebrations. But Villa d'Este also boasts a fascinating history filled with intrigue, passion, murder and mystery.
Villa d'Este Style opens the doors of the celebrated hotel to reveal the secrets of its colorful past and luxurious lifestyle. Jean Salvadore, public relations director at Villa d'Este for more than three decades, delves into the estate's private archives to present an unprecedented guided tour. From its birth in 1568 as Villa Garrovo, a summer estate commissioned by a prominent cardinal; to its christening as Villa d'Este in 1815 by its most famous resident, Caroline of Brunswick-the estranged wife of England's King George IV; to its debut as a hotel in 1873, the early life of Villa d'Este unfolds through vintage sepia-toned photo-graphs and evocative line drawings. From its annual "Midsummer Night" extravaganza to its acclaimed cooking school; from its popularity with the Hollywood glitterati to its sensuous yet understated guest rooms, today's Villa d'Este comes alive in more than 100 glorious, full-color photographs. Throughout, engaging anecdotes capture the essence of the hotel-its splendor and grandeur, its devotion to the personal and its undercurrents of daring. The walls of Villa d'Este have many astounding stories to tell-including the truth about the notorious murder at the Biki fashion show and the elaborate ruse behind the erotic photo shoot for Helmut Newton's provocative illustrated book classic, White Women.
For armchair travelers, connoisseurs of Italian history, design, and lifestyle, and all enthralled by the inside scoop on the rich and famous, Villa d'Este Style is the ideal escape. With a preface by Jean Marc Droulers, Villa d'Este's C.E.O. for the last 24 years, and a foreword by Joseph Heller, acclaimed novelist, playwright, and author of Catch-22, this exquisite book stands as a tribute to a resort hotel truly in a class of its own.
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Living the Best of Italy.......2000-06-26
If you want a glimpse of the famed Villa & its beauty take a look inside this book. The pages are beautiful & you can feel the ambiance as if you were living it in the moment!
Living the Best of Italy.......2000-06-26
If you want a glimpse of the famed Villa & its beauty take a look inside this book. The pages are beautiful & you can feel the ambiance as if you were living it in the moment!
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Concursos. Digesto Practico
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Tired of looking around for all those receipts? Frustrated each year when it comes time to do your taxes?
This is the book to solve all of these problems!
The book contains all recordkeeping forms for one complete year of transactions for a home daycare business. Forms are sorted by month and each chapter contains a convenient envelope to store all receipts.
Inside this book you will find forms for tracking your time, income, direct expenses, indirect expenses, computer use, and so much more!
Annual forms are also included to summarize activity for the year.
Instead of searching for last minute deductions, you will have everything you need in one completely organized book!
2003 Edition
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HOME DAYCARE RECORDKEEPING JOURNAL: THE BOOK OF FORMS.......2006-02-23
EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR HOME DAYCARE. THERE ARE EVEN ENVELOPES INSIDE TO KEEP MONTHLY RECEIPTS. KEEPS THINGS ORGANIZED FOR TAX TIME.EVERYTHING IS IN ONE PLACE.I LOVE IT!!!
Get ORGANIZED!.......2003-10-10
Home Daycare Recordkeeping Journal: The Book of Forms, has provided me with a very IMPORTANT tool to keep my papers, forms and receipts in order! This journal continues to be my ultimate recordkeeping log and makes tax time a breeze.
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WannaB Horologist.......2007-04-18
This book is thorough. This book covers the topic of wheel and pinion cutting very well. I would like to have seen a chapter on CNC.
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Wheel and Pinion Cutting in Horology.......2006-08-05
One of the best books on gear cutting written so an average machinist can understand it.
Ultimate guide to gear cutting for the hobbyist, +clockmaker.......2004-12-10
Fanatastic book, and a bargain at the price. This book should be of interest to all clock makers, model makers, and home shop machinist. Anyone interested in the history of machine tools and clock making will also find this work of real interest. The first section covers the history of wheel cutting and the later part deals with all aspects of gear making in detail. Covers a wide range of gear cutting equipment, how to make cutters, and related watch and clock making operations. Absolutely the best book on the subject!!
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Knitted Rag Rugs for the Craftsman is an amazing compendium including more than 30 methods of creating knitted rag rugs from sleek to shaggy. Master Rugmaker, Diana Blake Gray guides beginning knitters through the steps of creating rugs from simple household materials. Experienced knitters will be astonished at the variety of techniques, variations and useful information. But to make knitted rag rugs, you don't even have to know how to knit! Mrs. Gray explains spool and rake knitted rugs so even non-knitters to create their own floor art.
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New Zealanders at Home: A Cultural History of Domestic Interiors 1814-1914
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Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives
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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
ASIN: 0897746481 |
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Childbearing is more than pregnancy and labor. It is the having and not having of children. It is a profound event in the lives of families-and in the lives and bodies of women. The feminist movement and the development of feminist studies have helped to rehumanize the subject of childbearing by removing it from the remote environment of institutionalized medicine. The multi-disciplinary Encyclopedia of Childbearing is a major contribution to this new accessibility.
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- barely adequate
- Worth a read, but put your critics hat on first.
- Whose biography is it anyway?
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Dialogues and Discoveries: James Levine: His Life and His Music
Robert C. Marsh
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James Levine, the legendary conductor and artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, is one of the most public and yet most private figures in classical music. In his more than twenty-five years as maestro of the Met, Levine has carried his musical message around the world. His appearances in the opera houses and concert halls of Europe and Japan have been greeted with a fervor that not only matches but sometimes exceeds the loyalty and adoration of his fans in America.
In Dialogues and Discoveries, eminent music critic Robert C. Marsh presents the man behind the musical triumphs. From a series of interviews and conversations conducted over a period of twenty-five years with the maestro, his family, his colleagues, and his friends, Marsh brings us the private, the personal James Levine.
Levine's musical gifts were recognized early and fostered by his loving and understanding family in Ohio. Both parents had had professional careers -- his father was a musician, his mother an actress -- and they indulged and encouraged their prodigiously talented son, whether he was memorizing opera scores during elementary school recesses or designing productions with a toy theater.
By the time he was in his teens, Levine was working with the remarkable George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, where he made his debut at the age of twenty-three. Four years later, he was at the Metropolitan Opera and also served as the director of the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony, for twenty-three seasons. Today he is truly, as New York magazine has said, "the Met's most valuable player." Under his guidance, the opera house has become the premier operatic stage in the world and the Metropolitan Orchestra one of the finest ensembles.
In Europe, he has been a regular conductor at the Wagnerian shrine, Bayreuth; the Salzburg Festival; and in Vienna and Berlin. In addition, he appears regularly on television and will conduct Fantasia 2000, the long-awaited sequel to the Disney classic Fantasia.
Robert Marsh has covered Levine in the concert hall, the recording studio, the opera house, and arenas and stadiums for the blockbuster Three Tenors concerts. He has produced a fascinating look at the world of classical music. Levine has known and worked with the famous musical figures of the past twenty-five years, and they all appear in Dialogues and Discoveries -- sopranos and basses, violinists and pianists, tenors and baritones.
One voice is dominant throughout, however -- that of James Levine. Here are Levine's opinions of famous colleagues, conductors, opera houses, and orchestras, as well as his assessments of the state of musical performance and the future of the performing arts. Dialogues and Discoveries is both a biography and an autobiography of one of the great musical artists of the twentieth century.
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barely adequate.......2001-01-03
Not exactly a groundbreaker in the biographical art, this book nonetheless gives an adequate account of the work of maestro Levine, if in the end very little of his real personal life. Why these books inevitably tend toward the mundane baffles me; Mr. Marsh plays the sycophant to the very end, and while controversy is not required to make interesting reading, it would seem to be a given, wouldn't it, that such unvarying adulation becomes a kind of flatulance after page 200-and-something. How often this kind of nonsense spoils what might have been an interesting look at a certainly worthy musician of our time! And Marsh is a relatively competent critic- one really expects more. This book however does manage to rise above the painful because of an extended interview section in the middle; Levine is a thoughtful and indeed a most decent chap, qualities that come through in his own comments, if not through his biographer's. Marsh is no David Dubal, however, and Levine is left pretty much to his own devices with respect to exploring his art in any substantive way. I should think he would be better served by an autobiography; Levine seems more inclined toward genuine experience than the fluff of Marsh's tiresome throes of ecstacy suggests. Not for the casual observer, but anyone with an interest in the history of the Met will find it at least not without some compensation for one's efforts.
Worth a read, but put your critics hat on first........1999-08-05
About a third of my way through this book, I double-checked the back flap of the jacket cover. Was the author Robert Marsh the Chicago Sun-Times music critic, or another Robert Marsh who happened to be James Levine's publicist? The question was prompted by the persistently adulatory tone of this book - which continued right up to the last page. Indeed, much of the book reads like an expanded version of blurbs on Maestro Levine's PR copy in record advertisements in Carnegie Hall programs - "Perhaps the greatest conductor of our century..." - "A concert to enter the realms of legend..." - "A legendary recording, an instant classic, sheer perfection..." - that sort of thing.
Now, James Levine is without question one of the leading conductors of our time, and certainly the most important musical force at the Metropolitan Opera since Toscanini. Whether one likes or agrees with everything he does is beside the point; his stature as a musician and an orchestra builder is beyond dispute. I have admired the maestro since I first began attending the Met in the mid-1970's, and his Ring cycle in New York was one of my great experiences in the theatre. But much though I admire James Levine, this book is a bit much. Avering (as Marsh does) that Levine is a greater conductor than, among others, Toscanini, Furtwangler, and Bruno Walter does service neither to Marsh's credibility or Levine's reputation. Marsh really lost me when he treated the "Three Tenors" circuses as serious musical events, and his judgment that Domingo is a greater tenor than Caruso will no doubt raise some eyebrows among voice afficionados.
Most of this falls in the category of critical opinion, and Mr. Marsh is certainly entitled to his. And, as one would expect from a critic of Marsh's reputation, his opinions are generally well-informed and articulate. But readers should be aware that this is not really a "critical" look as James Levine, in the sense that it considers his positives and negatives (yes, he does have them). Of negatives there is here nary a whiff, nor would one be aware, after reading this book, that there is a significant amount of critical dissent about some of Levine's work from other quarters. (For example, look at Gramophone magazine's review of Levine's recording of "Der Fliegende Hollander," or Kenneth Furie's review of Levine's "Parsifal" in High Fidelity some years back.) And for a completely different take on the 1996 "Cosi fan tutte" at the Met, one should read Manuela Holterhoff's "Cinderella and Company." No rosy glasses here.
The best parts of the book are the "dialogues" between Marsh and Levine. Levine is an articulate and insightful commentator on matters musical, as anyone knows who has heard him in interviews. I could have done with more Levine and less Marsh in these dialogues. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the book too often resembles press-agent puffery.
Worth a read. But put your critic's hat on first.
Whose biography is it anyway?.......1999-06-15
Robert Marsh does an excellent, if tedious, analysis of conductors. His prime focus is on the development and accomplishments of James Levine which are many and praiseworthy. Mr. Marsh is obviously a critic of extraordinary talents as well. (He tells you so.) The book is well worth reading.
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Music Man: The Story of Frank Simon
Michael Freedland
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- An excellent summary of the benefits of 401k investing.
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All About Your 401K Plan: Simple Answers to Securing Your Financial Future
Ellie Williams Clinton , and
Diane Pearl
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Aside from social security, 401 (k) plans are the most popular savings and retirement vehicle for the average American. All About Your 401 (k) Plan provides an easy-to-understand overview on how to take full advantage of a 401 (k) plan. This book provides the information needed to proceed with knowledge and confidence. Specific topics include: Advantages of 401 (k) plans; 401 (k) plan savings and investment strategies; How 401 (k) plans work; Pros and cons of after-tax investing; Investment evaluation.
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An excellent summary of the benefits of 401k investing........1996-06-12
A very straight-forward and easy-to-read book on the long-term financial benefits of investing in 401k's. This book would be very beneficial to share with employees in a situation where you want to improve participation in a 401k plan. The authors' thorough knowledge of financial planning definitely shows through in this book
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Nottingham Business Studies Project
David Needham
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Nottingham Business Studies Project for As
David Needham
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- Fascinating, highly recommended, informatively insightful
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Ichi Ban Outfit
E. Gerald Pires
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ASIN: 1930859392 |
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The Army Air Force began August 1, 1907 as the Aeronautical Division of the United States Army Signal Corps. Six months prior to Pearl Harbor it had been renamed to the Army Air Force. It wasn't until July 26, 1947 that the Air Force was established as a separate Service under the Armed Services Unification Act. At that time the USAF was not prepared, equipped, or trained to take over all of the duties of an independent Service. Certain Army units such as the Engineers that constructed and maintained air bases, Ordinance, Medical, and Signal were assigned to the USAF to aid its transition. These units became known as SCARWAF (Special Category Army with Air Force) and existed only during the few years 1949 to 1956 when the program ended. The 474th Signal Aviation Construction Company was one of these units assigned to the Far East Command. From the home base in Japan, highly skilled crews were sent to every part of the South Pacific, Japan and Korea on various construction projects frequently under extreme conditions. Much of the work involved building communications and surveillance antenna fields up to 110 feet above ground. The work was hard and often dangerous and the isolation away from the Company or among Air Force personnel led to a tremendous esprit de corps and appreciation for the skill and ability of other team members. The SCARWAF units in general, and the 474th Signal Aviation Construction Company in particular, will never again appear in military history. This is a story of the men who served in this unit during its most active period near the end of the Korean War. President Truman announced the end of the war between the United States and Japan on April 28,1952. Consequently, it is also a snapshot of Japan as it emerged from occupation.
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Fascinating, highly recommended, informatively insightful.......2003-02-10
Ichi Ban Outfit is the story of SCARWAF (Special Category Army with Air Force), a unit which existed in the United States military from 1949 to 1956. Focusing in particular on the 474th Signal Aviation Construction Company, a SCARWAF unit assigned to the Far East Command with its home base in Japan, Ichi Ban Outfit follows construction crews who worked, often under extreme and dangerous conditions, with a tremendous pride and determination. The men who served in this unit, and their views of Japan as it emerged from the post-World War II American military occupation, as well as the course of the Korean War, are all presented in this fascinating, highly recommended, informatively insightful contribution to twentieth century American military history.
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Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance Through African American Folk Studies
Lynn Moss Sanders
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Howard W. Odum (1884-1954), the pioneering social scientist and founder of the University of North Carolina's department of sociology, played a leading--and well-documented--role in the modernization of the South. Until now, however, there has been no book-length study of Odum's contributions to southern folklore, which had important but largely unappreciated consequences for his legacy of social justice.
Lynn Moss Sanders shows how Odum, as a collector of African American blues and work songs, anticipated some important precepts of modern folklore. Notably, Odum perceived the benefits of a collaborative and nonhierarchical approach to folk studies. By putting himself in a position to learn from a more tolerant former student and from one of his black folk informants, Odum became receptive to changing his paternal, segregationist attitudes about race.
Comparing Odum's two song collections, The Negro and His Songs(1925) and Negro Workaday Songs (1926), Sanders links the growing influence of his coauthor, former student Guy Johnson, to a decrease in instances of racial condescension between the first and second book. Sanders's comparison of the three "folk" novels in Odum's Black Ulysses trilogy (completed in 1931) reveals a progressive refinement of Odum's racial views. Sanders attributes this to Odum's ability to see John Wesley "Left-Wing" Gordon, the black, working-class model for the trilogy's hero, as a friend and not simply as a representative of "the Negro."
Odum's journey took him from authorship of Social and Mental Traits of the Negro (1910), now a relic of scientific racism, to his final publication, Agenda for Integration. His life and career form a remarkable story of how folklore changed the folklorist--a change felt by a whole generation of southern liberals whose work Odum encouraged and shaped.
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Title: Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies.(Book Review)
Author: Wayne Mixon
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Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 71
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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1993 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: Lynn Moss Sanders. Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies.(Book review)
Author: Sharon Masingale Bell
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African American Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
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Volume: 39
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California Residential Real Estate Manual
Peter Lewi
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California real estate practitioners should understand that their real estate license actually allows them to operate under an exception to the general rule that people are not allowed to practice law without being an active member of the State Bar of California. In other words California real estate licensees are in effect permitted to "practice law" within a narrow defined field covered by the California real estate licensing laws. This manual will address the scope of permitted activities and how not to cross over the line into areas where an attorney should be involved.
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Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
James E. Perone
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: 0313286442 |
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Howard Hanson details the career and works of a composer called by several critics "the most important figure in American music in the second quarter of the 20th century." Hanson's compositions elicited the broadest possible range of critical reaction. While early works from the 1920s were viewed as dissonant, avant-garde experimentations, within a decade his compositions in a similar style were viewed as solid, conservative works. Within this range, it was generally agreed that Hanson represented the best in solid compositional and orchestrational technique, and audiences greeted his new compositions with unquestioned approval throughout his 60-plus year career. As an important proponent of American music during his forty year tenure as Director of the Eastman School of Music, he conducted premieres of literally thousands of works by American composers and always encouraged young American composers.
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Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography.: An article from: Notes
Carl Rahkonen
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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ASIN: B00093QSD6
Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1995. The length of the article is 830 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: Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography.
Author: Carl Rahkonen
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Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1995
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v52
Issue: n1
Page: p112(3)
Article Type: Book Review
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A Jewish Life Under the Tsars: The Autobiography of a Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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ASIN: 0865980667 |
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