Central African Customs and Economic Union Investment and Business Guide (World Business Intelligence Library)

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This international bestseller is the complete guide for anyone taking a cruise or cruisetour to Alaska. From Seattle and Vancouver to Fairbanks and beyond, Alaska By Cruise Ship provides readers with solid detail for this popular cruise destination. Interesting and historical background on the cruise routes complements practical detail on ports and shore excursions with numerous maps pinpointing attractions. All areas of interest on an Alaska cruise are included such as history, wildlife (with whale watching map), native culture, natural phenomena and much more. New edition includes best hiking trails in each port and updates on all shore excursions. Includes giant pull-out color map.

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Excellent !!!!!!!!.......2007-10-06

We are going on our dream trip...An alaskan cruisetour.We are investing a lot of time and money...we needed help with details...I am so grateful that we found this perfect guide book. It is helping us choose excursions and educating us to the opportunities available.We have such a little amount of time to see so much..we have to choose wisely..and with "Alaska by cruise ship" we can.Alaska by Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide to Cruising Alaska with Giant Pull-out Map (5th Edition)

Fanctastic Trip Planner.......2007-10-03

What a wonderful resource! Terrific information that helped us plan - and enjoy a wonderful trip.

A little ponderous for my taste.......2007-09-12

This book contains a ton of information. However, it's very "text-booky". I found it hard to stay engaged while reading it.

Alaskan Cruise.......2007-09-03

My business is travel and many of my clients enjoy cruising. This book was very helpful is assisting me with my clients in planning their Alaskan Vacations. My family and I do plan to go to Alaska in the near future, sounds like an exciting vacation!

Billy Wannyn

A little dry.......2007-06-26

The map is good, but overall, I didn't find the book very engaging -- a little bit dry.

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Convenient selection of federal taxation statutes and regulations, designed to provide up-to-date information for students and professors alike. Includes edited provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, and various materials prepared by the Internal Revenue Service. A staple text in law schools, this informed volume is relied upon for its consistent format and extensive coverage. Detailed section titles discuss: Internal Revenue Title Tables, Income Taxes, Estate and Gift Taxes, Employment Taxes, Miscellaneous Excise Taxes, Procedure and Administration, Treasury Regulations, and Generation Skipping Transfers Tax. Includes detailed appendixes, and Topical Index.

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If you have no background in taxation, this book is for you........2003-12-01

I took Tax as a 3L and was completely lost until I received my copy of this book. I used it to supplement my course readings and found that I was able to participate in discussion without looking like a fool. I got a very good grade in the course and I feel that the explainations provided by the book were probably why.

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While many texts characterize themselves as having either a “user” approach or a “preparer” approach, Williams, Financial Accounting, is written for faculty who want to strike a balance between these approaches. Business majors will find relevance in the “Management Strategy,” “Your Turn” and “Case in Point” boxes throughout the chapters while accounting majors will receive a firm grounding in accounting basics that will properly prepare them for their intermediate accounting course. Perhaps the most important new feature is the online companion, My Mentor. This text-specific online resource uses video clips, animated graphics and Excel templates to demonstrate accounting concepts, expressing accounting visually. This solves a problem that many introductory students have in accounting: It allows them to link concepts and numbers together in a interactive rather than print environment.

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Definitive, sort of.............2007-08-16

From the time I was a toddler close to 60 years ago, I was taught that Robert E. Lee was, except for Jesus Christ, the greatest man who ever lived. A lifetime of study has confirmed my parents' opinion...I am NOT unbiased about General Lee. If Robert E. Lee was the greatest man, Douglas Souhthall Freeman was the greatest Civil War author, and he's not unbiased, either.

Anyone reading this probably already knows Lee's story...born of a great mother and a useless father whose earlier greatness was long forgotten... raised in aristocratic poverty....West Point with no demerits...30+ years in the Army as an engineer, with brief combat in Mexico...offered command of the Union Army...a man who cried as he followed Virginia out of the Union...took over the Army of Northern Virginia a year into the war and made it, man for man, the greatest fighting force the world has ever known...held off a vastly larger, and better supplied, Army for three years...surrendered, then set the example for his men in becoming citizens of one nation...accepted the Presidency of a small college, and, in the five and a half years he had left, started it on the road to becoming the world-class school it is today...served God to the end, suffering his final heart attack while running a Vestry meeting at the Church pastored by one of his old generals.

In 1915, a young newspaperman named Douglas Southall Freeman accepted a contract to write a 75,000 word biography of General Lee. Born in Lynchburg, the son of one of Lee's troops, he had learned about the General at a young age. Twenty years after starting, Dr. Freeman finally finished his 1,000,000 word biography, and saw it published in four volumes; those four volumes ARE definitive, and the greatest biography in the English language.

Richard Harwell, who knew Dr. Freeman, made this one volume abridgment in the 1960's [and also a very fine one volume version of Freeman's "George Washington"]....it is very probably the best one volume study of Lee available, for which Harwell would give ALL the credit to Dr. Freeman. OK, what is lost in the abridging? Fair question if you're spending your money for this...I'm going to round numbers. Freeman takes 400 pages for the first 54 years [100 for Mexico], 1,600 for the war, and 400 for the last five and a half years. Harwell has roughly 100 [27 for Mexico], 400 and 100. Lost are the footnotes, the appendecies, the bibliography, much of the dialog, and most of the redundencies....

Should you buy, and read this? Definitely. There are a LOT of one volume biographies of General Lee, ranging from kid's versions, to good, bad, and indifferent. Two or three are by men who actually met him. Harwell has done a superb job. Now the real question....do you need to read the whole four volumes? If you are a poor soul like me, you already have. Your best bet would be a used set, but if affordable, they may not be in good shape, and if in good shape, they may be expensive. [I was lucky to find a decent set for $35]. ["Lee's Lieutenants" is easy to find at a good price, and "George Washington" is impossible]. There were badly overpriced paperbacks available, but I'm not sure they still are; there is a beautiful leather bound edition in print, but you can imagine the price. The four volumes are definitive, and very readable....while you're deciding, read this first...

Needs More Maps.......2007-08-13

I enjoyed reading this book but it was sometimes hard to figure out what happenned in each of the battles since there was typically only one map for each battle. In fact the map for gettysburg did not even show where any of the troops were at any time during the battle.

If you want to read this book I would recommend having maps of the battlefields that you could refer to. This would help you figure out what is going on better.

Lee.......2007-05-25

This was purchased for a book report. The book was a great source of information.

A Real American Hero.......2006-09-21

This book was a fantastic education on Robert E. Lee. General Lee was not just a Confederate hero, but an all-American hero. He had a character that all men would do well to emulate. It is too bad that his birthday is not a national holiday. Thank you for reading this review.

Abridgement good but is nearly all military details.......2006-07-10

This adridgement of Freeman's four-volume biography is certainly a popular necessity - it opens the work up to a much broader audience that would find the original too intimidating an investment of time or money. Freeman's elegant, descriptive prose is preserved and has aged remarkably well.

The chief failing of this abridgement is it's imbalance in focus. It has been reduced to a study of Lee's generalship rather than a true biography. Fully three-fourths of the book is a thorough, tactical description of his four years of battle in the Civil War, with the other 59 years of his life serving as mere bookends. While these military details are fascinating and are certainly required reading for students of the conflict, the end result leaves one feeling rather at a loss for who Lee was as a husband, father, and citizen.

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LEE (Lee an Abridgement Ppr)
Freeman
Manufacturer: Scribner Paper Fiction
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Lee an Abridgement
Douglas S Freeman
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Lee: An Abridgement By Richard Harwell
Douglas Southall; Harwell, Richard Freeman
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Lee: An Abridgement in One Volume (Easton Press)

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Lee: An Abridgement in One Volume (Easton Press)
Douglas Southall Freeman
Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound

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ASIN: B000M520Y2

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A marvelous, luxurious edition. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, spine has four raised bands, beautifully thick paper, gilt titles and decoration. Gorgeous!

Lee: An Abridgement in One Volume by Richard Harwell of the Four-Volume R E Lee.

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Lee: An Abridgement in One Volume by Richard Harwell of the Four-Volume R E Lee.
R E] [Lee
Manufacturer: NY: Scribner 1961.
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Lee: An Abridgement In One Volume of
Douglas - Freeman
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Shakespeare's life and work: Being an abridgement, chiefly for the use of students, of A life of William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare's life and work: Being an abridgement, chiefly for the use of students, of A life of William Shakespeare
Sidney Lee
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas/Running Blind (Reader's Digest Select Editions in Large Type, Volume 118: 2002)

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas/Running Blind (Reader's Digest Select Editions in Large Type, Volume 118: 2002)
James Patterson , and Lee Child
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
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Select Editions, LARGE TYPE, Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Suzanne's Diary: Truths about love lost and found at Martha's Vinyard. Running Blind: A Jack Reacher Novel. Serial Killer sought by the FBI. "A pulse-pounding thriller." This Large Print Book carries the Seal of Approval of N.A.V.H.

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Conran's Stylish Interiors
Elizabeth Wilhide , and Andrea Spencer
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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Binding: Hardcover

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Conran's Stylish Interiors
Elizabeth; Spencer, Andrea Wilhide
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Conran's Stylish Interiors
Elizabeth & Andrea Spencer, Illustrated b Wilhide
Manufacturer: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1986
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Conran's Stylish Interiors
Elizabeth et al Wilhide
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ASIN: B000O6B7BQ

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One in five Americans will develop osteoarthritis, the painful degeneration of joints associated with aging. But, osteoarthritis can destroy more than joints. It often leads to inactivity, obesity, depression, anxiety, and dependence on drugs with serious side effects,-and can increase the risk of developing life-threatening illnesses such as cardiovascular disease. Preventing Arthritis lays out a menu of powerful natural options for arthritis prevention:

* 10 steps for staying arthritis-free
* cutting-edge arthritis prevention research
* advice on supplements and nutrition
* yoga and exercise routines for healthy joints
* prescriptions for massage techniques

and if you already have arthritis...

* multiple natural strategies for relieving pain

"Provides an arsenal of safe, effective, and viable approaches that can stop arthritis in its tracks." (Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., author of Heart Sense for Women)

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Arthritis Techniques Great.......2001-06-12

This is the first book I have ever read that deals with joint protection. The recommendations make good sense and I have already started to incorporate them into my lifestyle. I was surprised when I read the information about how arthritis can be caused or aggravated by not drinking enough water. I have already stepped up my water intake. Lots and lots of good advice and eye-opening facts about how arthritis can cause many serious, and even life-threatening, conditions...

Preventing Arthritis.......2001-06-08

As a health-conscious and active individual in my early thirites, I am always looking for information that can help prevent illness later on in life. This is the first book I have ever seen that tells me how to keep my joints healthy for a lifetime. The recommendations are sensible and practical, and I have started to put them into practice.

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Family Matters, originally in the New Yorker, is about the Bernsteins — Sam, the father; Jennie, the mother; and their three children: Leonard, Shirley and Burton, the book's author. In this updated edition, Burton intimately recounts the family's roots, its trials, and the stunning success of his older brother, whose worldwide celebrity changed all their lives.

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