Lebanon 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.

Lebanon Business And Investment Opportunities Yearbook

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Lebanon Business And Investment Opportunities Yearbook

Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739732617

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

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Lebanon Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739712934

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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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Very good guide for scenic drives and hikes.......2006-08-01

This is a good book for travellers who like drive tours, walking and hiking and like to plan their own iteneraries. We had a very difficult time finding information about hikes around Costa Del Sol. On one hike, we met a group from the Marbella Walking club and asked them where we could get detailed information about hikes in the area and directions to trail heads. They recommended the book with the sunflower and told us it was the best. I agree. The book has car tours of the area, with pictures and information about trails from those routes. The trail maps have symbols showing highlights like scenic vistas and qaurry. It gives us elevation gain, loss, distance and trail conditions (Eg. wet, rocky, steep). The book is small enough to fit easily into a backpack. The picnic settings recommended in the book are good for enjoying mountain villages and the scenic beauty of the area. The information in the book takes you off the beaten path to areas the tour guides do not mention.

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Environmental accounts bring together economic and environmental information in a common framework to measure the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the environment. They enable governments to set priorities, monitor economic policies more precisely, enact more effective environmental regulations and resource management strategies, and design more efficient market instruments for environmental policies. Many industrialized countries compile environmental accounts, but progress in developing countries has been limited - even though the need for environmental accounts is perhaps more acute in these regions.

Environmental Accounting in Action studies the experiences of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, the core countries of a unique, regional environmental accounting program in Southern Africa. Covering minerals, forestry, fisheries and water, each chapter provides important lessons about sustainable resource management. As a whole, the case studies demonstrate how to overcome the many challenges of constructing environmental accounts and the mechanics of successful implementation. By providing a transparent system of information about the relationship between human activities and the environment, the accounts have improved policy dialogue among different stakeholders and have played a significant role in environmental policy design.

This book advances a powerful argument for the use of environmental accounts and is a major contribution to the environmental literature on developing countries. Environmental and ecological economists, resource managers, policymakers, NGOs and anyone concerned with sustainable development will find this an informative and valuable read.

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Environmental Accounting in Action: Case Studies from Southern Africa [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
G. Luck
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RQZICM

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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just okay

A must for the Engelbreit enthusiast

Collect Plates? Love this book!

Plates: Mary Engelbreit
Mary Engelbreit
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Mary Engelbreit's Winter

ASIN: 0740702017

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just okay.......2004-07-31

This books has beautiful pictures of groupings of different kinds of plates with a very brief history of each category (with limited samples of each kind). However, I thought it was a little thin. I read the book and looked at all the pictures thoroughly in less than an hour. Instead of a book, this item is more of a glorified magazine in small format

I wanted a more thorough book. I wanted something I could refer to over and over again. I'm going to go search for another book to use in addition to this one.

A must for the Engelbreit enthusiast.......2000-07-08

If you love Mary's magazine and books like I do, you can't get enough of the photographs of special collections. I really like plates, pottery and china and the photographs in this book illustrate the special ways a collector can display, group and use plates to add color and style to a home.

I especially like the photograph of the miniature Fiesta table - so darling. Where do they get the energy?

Loved it, can't wait to see "Collections" coming out this month.

Collect Plates? Love this book!.......2000-07-07

Many interesting ideas for displaying your plate collection. Colorful photos that are a delight for the eyes. If you know someone who collects plates, this would be a great, inexpensive gift...heck, throw in a plate too!

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look carefully

Glad I bought it

Expensive yarns, plain patterns

Pretty pictures, gorgeous yarns, somewhat boring designs

A perfect book for beginner knitter

Knitting Simple Sweaters from Luxurious Yarns
Marilyn Saitz Cohen
Manufacturer: Lark Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Knitting Simple Jackets: 25 Beautiful Designs

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The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges

Fitted Knits: 25 Designs for the Fashionable Knitter

ASIN: 157990744X

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Beginning and intermediate knitters who have little time or patience for complicated patterns, but who want to make something elegant and chic, will find just what they are looking for in these lavishly photographed sweaters. The designs are simple, but the wools are sumptuous. Imagine snuggling into--and showing off--a handmade, cozy white cardigan and matching scarf in a thick, chunky yarn; a black cashmere hooded design; or a buttery soft gray Merino wool cable sweater. Look graceful with a versatile ballet-neck style, or for an evening out, a silvery sweater that makes you shine. There are lightweight spring and summer fashions, too.

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look carefully.......2007-05-05

Most of these sweaters are in a previous book. Look closely, you may already have the patterns. Not worth buying twice.

Glad I bought it.......2007-01-11

I am glad I bought this book because it is exactly the kind of knitting book I looking for, beautiful classical designs. As for the yarns of course I will substitute; I am also happy with her other book that I bought at the same time "Knitting simple jackets". When I find time to knit one of these sweaters I will not be able to resist the temptation of making some changes to the finished sweater with the help of some of the other books I have like, Nicky Epstein's embellishment books and others to make them more personal. The instructions could be better since as the product description says she is targeting advanced beginner's for instance this famous phrase they all use and "for the other side reverse the shaping" this should have been omitted and she should have gone into the trouble to write at least one design with complete instructions so it can be used as an example for what she means by "reverse" the instructions. Thankfully there are other books like Sally Melville's Knit and Purl stitch books where she has full instructions for reversed shaping. And I have to look there to see if what I am doing is correct. So although I would give 5 stars for the designs but because of the instructions it's only 4 stars.

Expensive yarns, plain patterns.......2006-10-27

I like this book, but not for the designs. The author uses the word design throughout the book and I'm just not all that impressed with making a couple of simple squares and some drop sleeves and calling it a "design". There's little to no shaping in the sweaters and I've noticed that most, if not all, of the sweaters sag at the seams and ride up at the center front and back. I, personally, think that the word "design" is used too loosely here, but I didn't have the wherewithal to write a book, so I can't be too critical.

OK, all that being said, I like the photography and the simplicity of the sweaters presented. If less is more for you, then this book will fill the bill, especially for beginners. The sweaters open up unlimited options for embellishing after the fact and for adding your own little touches. I'm a terrific mimic, so pictures are great imagination starters for me and this book offers that very, very well. I also like seeing models that look like real people and are still beautiful. (Oh, I get so tired of distracted, bone thin models with pale faces, bad hair and hollow eyes who look like there's a bad smell under their noses!)

I absolutely will not pay the outrageous prices for the yarns suggested, especially for "designs" like these, so I just substitute my own, since gauge isn't all that critical with boxy garments. With a few short rows across the front to accommodate the chest width , some slight decreases across the back to take out the bagginess, and one of Nicky Epstein's books of knitted embellishments, you could have your very own "designer" sweater. That's what makes this book a keeper for me. I picked it up at a clearance sale for just a few dollars, so I don't feel like I spent a lot of money for nothing. I wouldn't spend $15 for it, but maybe a beginner should, and then read Elizabeth Zimmerman's books on how to do it yourself.

Pretty pictures, gorgeous yarns, somewhat boring designs.......2006-02-14

I just got this book for my birthday, and was excited about it, because at the first glance, the book looks nice, and the sweater designs seem sane and comfortable.

That is, until I actually looked at the patterns and instructions, and noticed a recurring theme in most of the designs.

In fact, many of the instructions in this book seem to more or less go like this:

1. Take 2km of hideously expensive yarn.
2. Cast on 120 stitches, using the biggest needles you can find
3. Knit two squares of garter/stockinette stitch.
4. Make two sleeves.
5. Sew together, leaving a small hole for your head.
6. wear your bulky shapeless sweater which only looks nice because the yarn is gorgeous.

A perfect book for beginner knitter.......2004-11-04

This book is perfect for beginner knitters who want to try out luxurious yarns. The designs are clearly written accompanied with diagrams. The sweaters are perfect for all season with its classic designs.

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This deeply researched and abundantly illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy.

Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice. The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.

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A comprehensive 'must' for any serious college-level architectural history holding........2006-11-07

College-level architectural collections serious about their in-depth coverage will want to look at the weighty The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. It catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions from interiors to exteriors, and even includes analysis of his training and career in both England and Europe, his design principles, and his methods. Analytical essays accompany sketches and vintage black and white photos, surveying changes in his thinking and approach, considering his contemporaries and influences, and examining the preservation of his structures. A comprehensive 'must' for any serious college-level architectural history holding.

Diane C. Donovan
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definitive study of early major American architect.......2006-10-17

THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE by Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD; www.press.jhu.edu. 2006. 769+xx pp. $75.00 hardcover, 9" x 11", ISBN 0-8028-8204-8. maps on endpages, color/black-and-white photographs, illustrations, architectural diagrams, notes, index.
Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality--for a definitive study of this important, but generally overlooked, American architect of the late 1700s into the early 1800s, the early period of the American Republic. A leading architect popular with the English royalty and gentry in their adaptations in a growing democratic society, Latrobe attracted the interest and commissions of the old and newly wealthy in the United States in the decades after the Revolutionary War for design of homes with many similarities to those he had done for the upper classes in his native England. And he attracted interest from government officials wishing to build impressive buildings representing the pride, the values, and the ambitions of the new Republic. Latrobe's architectural principles and designs went far in America as they had earlier in England because they characterized what he called his "rational house" based on ideas of the Enlightenment partly originating in England and embraced by America's Founding Fathers in their creation of the basics of the American political system and its institutions. Fazio is a professor at Mississippi State U.'s School of Architecture; Snadon is a professor of interior design at the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the U. of Cincinnati. The abundant biographical, critical, and analytical text with the hundreds of illustrations of all scales of architectural works are peerlessly informative standing alone. But also they work to render the authors' revisionist perspective that "perhaps only Thomas Jefferson...held a panoramic view over the international architectural scene comparable to Latrobe."

Houses and Money: The Domestic Clients of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design, Monograph, No 2)

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Houses and Money: The Domestic Clients of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design, Monograph, No 2)
Leonard K. Eaton
Manufacturer: William L Bauhan
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Binding: Paperback

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In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence.
The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France--sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges--all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships.

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Social History

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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Social History
Jack Censer
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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Title: The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book Review)
Author: Jack Censer
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Date: September 22, 2005
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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Charles H. Ford
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Title: The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book review)
Author: Charles H. Ford
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
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Volume: 67 Issue: 4 Page: 792(2)

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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(FORUM)(Book review): An article from: Journal of Social History
Jeremy D. Popkin , and Suzanne Desan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 6798 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: The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(FORUM)(Book review)
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Publication: Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
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Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Page: 991(13)

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supplemental to "Take Me Home".......2000-01-20

John's autobiography will be re-issued--this short tribute does fullfill some insights that J.D. did not reveal in his book...he was unduly concerned to "exorcise demons". The PBS feature --his Alaskan ecological foray--& last recorded song.."Yellowstone' will bring new adherents to Denver's belief in conservation..& healing powers of nature- untamed. Support Windstar..keep the eagles flying...

A tribute to John Denver: Poems, Prayers and promises........1999-12-17

I read this book about a year after John's death and it brought me to tears. The book was not what I expected but I enjoyed it just the same! It had a couple of poems that expressed my thoughts after his untimely death. The opening was dull but told of its backgound and comming to be,some of witch was interresting and nessary to explain the book. Its a nice book to add to a John Denver collection.

simply useless.......1999-04-23

Expecting a book about John Denver and his interests, I received a dismal collection of unimportant personal recollections, some of which hardly had anything to do with John. The book also contains a dreadful story about its coming into existence: apparently the author sort of received the 'poems' (which are just as bad as the rest of the book) by some kind of miraculous dictation. The author says the purpose of the book is to honour John and to support the causes he was interested in- I think he will hardly be honoured by such a bad piece of work. Readers- if you want to support John, support Windstar, Cousteau etc but do not even think or ordering this book!

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Leonard Fein struggled with some of the deepest and most difficult questions of faith while mourning the death of his daughter Nomi, who suffered a heart attack at age 30. "I understood from the start that the act of writing was a way both to keep her alive and to accept the fact of her death. And I needed to do both," he explains in the first paragraph of Against the Dying of the Light. Fein, a veteran Jewish social activist, teacher (at M.I.T. and Harvard), and writer, recognized in his daughter's early childhood that she was "among the most interesting people I'd ever known." In case you missed the point of that statement, he reiterates: "'People,' not 'kids.'" Among the most striking things about this book is Fein's ability to see his daughter as a whole person--empathic, intelligent, and generous, and yet sometimes haughty and defensive. The first part of this book is a memoir, describing his relationship with Nomi. The second part is a meditation on the significance of life and death, and the experience of mourning. The conclusion synthesizes memoir and meditation in the form of a letter to Nomi's daughter Liat, who was an infant when her mother died. Fein also writes that his daughter's death taught him a new emotion: "The terror: I can no longer take my children's lives for granted." But the central lesson of this letter is that, although bad things do happen to good people, every person is obliged make a difference in the project of helping to heal a broken world. --Michael Joseph Gross

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How do you explain a seemingly senseless tragedy? What does it mean to be an observer of your own life?

In this unusual exploration of heartbreak and healing, Leonard Fein chronicles the sudden death of his 30-year-old daughter and shares the hard-earned wisdom that emerges in the face of loss and grief.

With the rich support of his community, Fein anguished, questioned, and ultimately coped with the death of his daughter by wrestling with some of life's toughest questions. The answers he discovers in the course of his own mourning process provide not only comfort to others in “the company of the bereaved” and strength to those who face personal tragedy, but also wisdom for all who search for life's meanings.

Against the Dying of the Light leads us to a different, surprising understanding of the gifts that life and the quest for understanding have to offer.

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A personal loss deeply and movingly universal.......2002-01-19

The image evoked by the words on Nomi's gravestone led me into long ruminations about the ways to comprehend, and ultimatly tranform the sadness of, the death of a young life. How many of us have warded off the searing emotion of imagining the loss of a child? This is Fein's personal story as he tries to cope with his loss, honor his daughter's memory, and move foward with his life forever altered. The book is filled with a personal wisdom that is both deeply philosophical and searingly personal. To read this book is to vacillate between crying one's own tears for the loss of Nomi and being inpired by her own unique and powerful spark. The book is Fein's personal journey, but the story he tells is deeply and movingly universal.

Touched my Soul.......2001-12-07

I picked up Fein's book yesterday at the library and sat for an hour reading it without putting it down. Although I was familiar with Fein's writings within the Jewish community, I didn't know anything about him personally. I thank him for writing such a deeply personal story about such a tragic loss. I feel sorrow for his and his family/friends' loss, but also for all of those who never had the opportunity to know his daughter.

Honest and comforting.......2001-05-11

Leonard Fein finds words to express what I had thought were unexpressible thoughts and feelings. By doing so, he allows us to look at ourselves intimately, but without fear. His honesty with himself helps the reader consider and confront the difficult and painful. In the end, this book is extremely comforting.

A Must Read.......2001-04-24

Leonard Fein's story of a parent's unspeakable loss of a grown child and the grieving that follows it begins as his personal story, gradually becomes our universal story, and remarkably by its end even fills us with hope.

To Cherish the Moment.......2001-04-23

The power of Fein's book was felt by me most deeply as a parent. To be presented with the portrait of this daughter, to consider the poignant relationship she had with her father and with her community, is to be called to reflect anew on the way one cherishes one's own children and the unique contributions they make to their world. The book is a nuanced, searching presentation of life and loss and love. I am augmented for having read it.

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