Ingush Republic Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)

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Ingush Republic Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739729683

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This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.

Ingush Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)

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Ingush Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Best guide to an incredible world of volcanoes, rainforests, and wonderful souls

Practical but imperfect travel guide

Fine, but there are better

Good book with great information

Good for solo backpackers

Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring
Danny Palmerlee
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Lonely Planet Argentina

ASIN: 174104443X

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From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has the experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.

Here is the ultimate budget traveler's guide to a continent that will never cease to stimulate the senses. From the Darién Gap to Terra del Fuego and all points in between, this is an essential travel tool. Lonely Planet's South America features 238 country, region, city, and town maps; safety and health tips; reviews of places to stay and eat; lively background on history, geography, and culture; practical outdoor activities including national parks and reserves; and coaching in Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, and Aymara languages. The book also covers Easter Island, the Galápagos Islands, and the Falklands (Islas Malvinas). --Kathryn True

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Challenging? Check. Rewarding? Beyond your wildest dreams. South America is made for travel-the gripping, spine-tingling, adrenaline-charged type of travel you live for. Tred the Cordillera Blanca, glide along the Amazon, explore lost cities and samba up a storm. For backpackers, by backpackers, this best-selling, unbeatable guide gives you the tools you need to create your own adventure.

GET OFF THE TRAIL-emerging hot-spots, overlooked attractions, alternatives to the Inca Trail-our authors go beyond the obvious, and show you how to do the same.

LIVE ON THE EDGE-the best spots for hiking, skiing, diving, surfing, rafting, paragliding, and other thrills.

STRAIGHT TALK-opinionated reviews ensure you won't waste a precious peso.

TREAD LIGHTLY-make a positive impact with sustainable-travel tips and volunteering opportunities.

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Best guide to an incredible world of volcanoes, rainforests, and wonderful souls.......2007-04-29

When I first headed to the Andes in 1997, an early edition of the book was my guide, and it guided me to my dreams. this new edition has led me to some great off-the-gringo trail gems in Venezuela and Brasil, where I recently was traveling. I'm very impressed with its improved thoroughness, commentary on history and culture, and highlights of special places off the beaten track. Each different travel guide has some recommendations that are better than another's, or worse, but compared to the others, I think this LP is the most consistently right-on. If you're looking for a guidebook to point you in the right directions in south america, and you're traveling on a shoestring, which is often the best way, this is one of the strongest editions available.

I will disclaim with pride that Thomas Kohnstamm (a collaborator on this book) is a companero mio ever since we both were both getting our masters in latin american studies, and he has since developed into such a strong travel writer, with a fantastic novel about travel writing to be published in 2008.

And if you are headed for that land of magical imagination, I recommend reading one of its greatest poets and personals, one of the world's greatest poets, as Gabriel Garcia Marquez called him, "the greatest poet of the 20th Century--in any language." Through his verse, you will appreciate the continent, its people, its tierra, its culture, on an even more profound level as your heart is stirred by the Chilean's lyricism. Please check out The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, as well as redpoppy dot net, a non-profit dedicated to furthering Pablo's commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the globe.

Paz, pan, flores, y amor,
Mark Eisner

Practical but imperfect travel guide.......2007-04-21

This is a useful if flawed guide for backpackers and other budget travelers. This thick book (1,150 Pages) covers lodging, conditions, airports, regulations, and other vital information for 13 countries. The information is practical, useful, and substantial, and one can travel South America with this guide. But in trying to cover 13 countries the book is unavoidably limited on information for any one nation, city, or place, and the maps are at times less than adequate. There is also some out-of-date information (Argentina's Peso is NOT equal to one U.S. dollar) so travelers are advised to check other sources.

If you will be traveling to only a couple nations in South America you would be better advised to buy a travel guide for each country. However, if you will traverse through many countries in this fascinating continent, this book is still a valuable reference tool.

Fine, but there are better.......2006-12-06

Used this book for a three month trip through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. A friend who travelled with me had Footprint's guide to South America. While Lonely Planet had far and away the better maps, everything else about the Footprint book was better -- more information, more current information, and most importantly, broader coverage! There were many small towns that were not even included in the LP book. Even in the major cities, Footprint covered more sights and did so with more detail. If you are picking up a second book for a trip, by all means get the LP. But if you are only buying one, go with Footprint until LP seriously expands this edition.

Good book with great information.......2006-11-05

A must have four the traveler people! The go to South America

Good for solo backpackers.......2006-10-30

Just traveled South America solo, glad I had it for those times I arrived at 3AM to a strange town and didn't know where to stay or how to get there. Other times, I just met people who told me where to stay or went with me as a guide. Overall I used the book about 15 times in 60 days but was glad to have it at those times. Not very detailed but overall enough to help. Of course, since 80% of backapckers use LP, you will constantly be around other people traveling which can be a good or bad thing depending on your goals. Fellow travelers call it the Lonely Planet route. I liked the route and felt safe the whole time.

South America: On a Shoestring (Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring)

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'Shoestring' is a must-have for ANYONE traveling in S.A.

South America: On a Shoestring (Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring)
Wayne Bernhardson , and Andrew Draffen
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'Shoestring' is a must-have for ANYONE traveling in S.A........1998-10-06

I have the first edition of this book. I have used it to aid my travel to several South American countries. The city maps are excellent. Each major city in each country is described in detail to include lodging, food and entertainment. They do an excellent job of ranking food and lodging based on budget restrictions that each traveler may or may not have. I found the descriptions of local museums, parks and other tourist attractions very helpful in making my decisions on where to go and how much time to alot for each attraction.

I'm very anxious to receive the newest edition, so I can prepare for my next trip!

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South America on a Shoestring
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The fiesta lands;: Through Mexico and Central America on a shoestring; what to see, where to stay, eat, and shop; how to say it in Spanish
Norman D Ford
Manufacturer: Harian Publications; trade distributor: Crown Publishers
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South America on a Shoestring including Mexico & Central America
Geoff Crowther
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International Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Analysis: A U.S. Perspective : Release 10
Allan B. Afterman
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Wonderful, Heartwarming Novel.......2004-08-05

I stayed up almost all night finishing this wonderful, engrossing novel. Ms. Keefer has truly captured the experience of the Ukrainian immigrant family! Highly recommended to anyone with Ukrainian roots!

Powerful, moving, evocative, poignant...........2000-10-26

When I found this book in the Amazon book store, I wondered if it was yet another autobiography by an English professor in a publish or perish bind at an obscure college, a New York off-off broadway author, or a BOBO with bucks restoring a mansion somewhere. WOW! what a pleasant surprise! HONEY AND ASHES by Canadian Janice Kulyk Keefer is as powerful as A BRIDGE ON THE DRINA, A WOMAN IN AMBER, SHATTERED SELVES, OR THE HAUNTED LAND. Don't they give out awards in Canada?

Kulyk-Keefer is Canadian of Ukrainian-Polish descent. (Keefer is her husband's last name.) She says the feeling of never "fitting in" with her Anglo-Canadian neighbors and classmates as a child inspired her as an adult to search out her own roots, thinking this might point her toward her "real" identity and her "real" home.

As part of the effort to constuct her "real" identity, she traces the geneology of her family, interviews the surviving members and others who knew them, and undertakes a difficult journey to the village of her mother's birth in the Ukraine. Since her father was of Polish descent, she visits her last known relatives in Poland on her way back from her mother's village. This may all sound fairly straightforward, but I have seldom seen such elegant and beautiful prose coupled with such tenacious research. The result is the resolution of a personal mystery, or at the least, the beginning of knowledge.

Anyone who has ever poured over old letters; dug through photo albums and other family treasures; searched Census, administrative, and other records; struggled with bureacrats to travel to a remote location will appreciate Ms. Keefer's efforts. She is a student of the history of her parent's bloody homeland. She is the ethnographer who waits with great patience while an old woman recalls with extreme pain and difficulty the day the Nazis shot many of her relatives, and the day the Russians collected the rest and sent them to the Gulag. She is the scholar pouring over old mouldering papers and notes in the archives. And above all, she is the poet who casts her story into a tale laden with rich metaphor....

"Are we, in the end only what we can remember? Or, are we also all that lies deep inside us, stored in the niches of a long, dark corridor whose door we shut behind us long ago? The painfulness of remembering--the physical process of recall. How we speak of triggering memory, as if it were a loaded gun."

Spellbinding!.......2000-06-23

Janice Kulyk Keefer explores her duel heritage as she is a Canadian by birth and a Ukrainian-Pole by blood. Keefer struggles to find a sense of belonging between these two very different worlds which act as threads that intertwine, weaving her identity. Keefer lyrically captures her memories and experiences while reflecting on her past in a manner that touches the reader for all time. A statement from the novel that has lingered in my mind is: "Belonging-a word that's both an outstretched hand and a fist clenched round your heart, a fist that won't let go." A truly magnificent read!

Honey and Ashes, A Story of Family. (Book Reviews/Recensions). (book review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal

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Honey and Ashes, A Story of Family. (Book Reviews/Recensions). (book review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Margaref Boe Birns
Manufacturer: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 969 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: Honey and Ashes, A Story of Family. (Book Reviews/Recensions). (book review)
Author: Margaref Boe Birns
Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Page: 153(2)

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Thirty-five different buildings with successfully installed solar air systems in wide-ranging climates from Canada and Norway to Italy are described and documented. The building types cover single family houses, apartment buildings, schools, sports halls and industrial commercial buildings with six different configurations of solar air systems used. Each example building is described over several pages, with plans, performance details and illustrations provided. This is supplemented by a summary of the types of system used. The accompanying product catalogue points out suppliers of the necessary equipment.

As well as giving invaluable advice and design suggestions to all architects and designers applying solar air systems, this book also illustrates clearly the wide range of applications and the many benefits that flow from the technology. It will therefore be of great benefit to anybody keen to see a wider use of solar technologies in the built environment.

The contents of this book, edited by S. Robert Hastings, represents the work of 17 experts from nine countries in Europe and North America, under the auspices of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Program Task 19.

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Focused equipment improvement provides long-term equipment reliability. While autonomous maintenance can eliminate sporadic losses, it is not until you perform focused equipment improvement that you can attain ongoing equipment reliability -- and eventually zero losses.

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A gripping novel of murderous secrets featuring homicide detective J.P. Beaumont.

The dead body discovered in a Seattle dumpster was shocking enough – but equally disturbing was the manner of death. The victim, a high school coach, had been lynched, leaving behind a very pregnant wife to grieve over his passing, and to wonder what dark and disturbing secrets he took to his grave. A homicide detective with twenty years on the job, J.P. Beaumont knows this case is a powder keg and he fears where this investigation will lead him. Because the answers lie on the extreme lethal edge of passion and hate, where the wrong kind of love can breed the most terrible brand of justice.

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Coach Who Didn't Win.......2007-09-11

A racial lynching (maybe, maybe not) -- a winning coach until the last game. J.P. Beaumont is on a case, working all the edges of a pregnant wife who's not bereaved and a woman scorned who is not his wife.
J.A. Jance draws the reader into the world of Beau, his friends, his partner and his life.
Beau drags his past around with him to complicate his work, but the gripper is just that. You like this guy who inhabits the Doghouse and drinks too much. A fast paced ending leaves major complications and expectations for the next one in this fine series. I found the first three Beaumonts in "Sentenced to Die" and read them rapidly one after the other.
Nash Black, author of "Sins of the Fathers" and "Travelers."

Trial By Fury.......2007-07-03

I wouldn't miss a J.A.Jance book...I have read both her character series and can't wait for the next installment to come out. You really get to know her characters in depth as they run from book to book, each one gives you just a little more insight into their backgrounds and what makes them tick.
I was born in Arizona and have lived in Seattle so it is fun to pick out things from the books that are familiar to me.
As you read these books Joanna Brady and J.P. Beaumont become the people next door, not just fictional characters in a book.
Give them a a quick read and you won't be sorry.

Move Over, John Grisham.......2007-03-06

Wow, if I had been on a plane while reading this book, I'd break a personal reading record, possibly finishing the book before the plane landed. This book is actually the second J. A. Jance book I've read, have found an author I absolutely adore. I did not put this book down until done. I love the characters in her books, they're all well developed and in this one, I was taken by the friendship between J. P. Beaumont and his buddy cop. I love how J. A. Jance tells a story, so suspenseful and surprising.

The moral of this one is don't get romantically involved with a possible suspect in the midst of a murder investigation.

Good start..........2006-04-04

I found this story more engrossing than the previous Injustice For All, in part because J. P. Beaumont doesn't immediately jump into bed with one of the victims. He is really at work on the case. I also notice more description of place than previously, putting me in a context, letting me visualize the setting better. If I can "see" myself on the scene, then I feel more involved. Author Jance's choice of crimes are realatively two-bit concerns, but I find myself stopping to avidly read another few chapters at end of day. That must be because of the good plotting and rapid pace of JP's investigation-no lingering over the fine points of forensics, or legal maneuverings, or boring witnesses and gumshoe drudgery. Det. J. P. Beaumont often makes cute comments but, you know, J. A. Jance is not a humorous writer. The jokes are sophomoric, cheap, or stupid asides to the reader--probably like my own would be. But here they jar me out of the tensions building in the story line, constantly putting me off. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the story for quite a time.

Then the story ran away from me. Quietly JP seems to be focusing on a suspect and for the life of me I still don't know why. What was suspicious? Things start rushing along and I'm thinking, he's after a red herring, he's been diverted, this is going to be a wild goose chase, oh why ever would his partner go missing? Then, to my surprise, the case is over and the perp is caught, accidentally. Where's the author's twist? Is that all to it? Isn't there going to be a final twist? The epilogue is sort of a Henri Poirot talk, "explaining" everything after the fact. So why couldn't Jance have worked that more cleverly into the plot; it's not like she dropped clues along the way. So that's it. This case is more a simple chase after one person than it is a procedural with clues, analyses, multiple suspects, and timely revelations.

I'm left still wondering, why should we be chasing that person, what's suspicious, how does JP know "there's no time left"? Could I have skipped two pages at some critical point? Am I completely "out of tune" with this author's intent and methods?Very strange, and displeasing.

J.A. Jance sticks to her winning formula!.......2003-12-30

This series keeps the ingredients that made it a winner from the start: a divorced detective that has lots of money and loves McNaughton's, a partner that only eats healthy food and lives with his two kids, a lawyer that was "inherited" together with the money and an obnoxious reporter that hates the detective's guts due to past rivalries. This mix makes the Beaumont series a highly enjoyable one. You can read each of these books in a few hours non-stop and be eager for more!

If you are not interested in reading the whole series you can still read this book alone, sine there is enough background information in it to fully enjoy it. Nevertheless, I would not recommend reading Injustice For All (if you are planning to read this one too) after Trial By Fury since the latter has information about the ending of the former.

It is hard to say which series is better, J.P. Beaumont of Joanna Brady. My recommendation is: READ THEM BOTH!

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Quirky characters and crazy plot!

A Horse's Patooty on the Cover, Laughter & Suspense inside

In short? Blow-snot funny.

"Quirky characters, bizarre twists and outrageously funny"

You won't be disappointed.

Shoveling Smoke: A Clay Parker Crime Novel
Austin Davis
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Reveling in outrageous shenanigans and hilariously off-kilter characters, Shoveling Smoke does for East Texas what Carl Hiaasen's novels do for South Florida. Burned-out corporate lawyer Clay Parker chucks it all and moves from Houston to a tiny firm in a dusty small town, searching for his lost integrity and a simpler life. Instead, he lands in the middle of a bungled fraud case defending the disreputable and downright nasty Bevo Rasmussen, accused of torching the stables housing his overinsured thoroughbreds. Immediately confronted with corrupt officials, crazed survivalists, an incompetent hit man, an emu, and a naked county clerk, along with an assortment of vengeful wives and great barbecue, Clay discovers that nothing is what it seems to be. By the end, our hero gets way more than he bargained for, justice (Texas-style) gets served, and the reader gets a laugh-out-loud first novel.

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Quirky characters and crazy plot! .......2006-06-09

When I finished the book I didn't know what to do. I wanted to find out more about Clay Parker, the protagonist , as well as the bizarre characters that inhabit this small Texas town. Having moved to this small town from the big city after disappointment in his personal life, he discovers that he landed in a Fellini movie. Well, maybe "Jenks" (town) isn't quite the insane asyllum of Fellini world, but it is nuts!

I didn't want to put the book down until I had finished it. I laughed out loud a couple of time, which I don't usually do. Actually chuckled about the book even after I had finished it. Just a fun ride. I may be forced to read it again unless the author publishes another book soon.

I highly recommend the book to anyone wishing to escape the perfunctoriness of this world for a few hours. To Austin, please publish another book as soon as possible.

A Horse's Patooty on the Cover, Laughter & Suspense inside.......2005-09-25

Houston Lawyer Clay Parker moves to the East Texas town of Jenks to go to work for the Chandler and Stroud law firm. This is a firm infamous for representing horse thieves, shady businessmen and crooks of every stripe. Chandler is a gravitationally challenged (PC for fat) man who never met a good looking woman he didn't like and Stroud has a fondness for the drink. Clay, the new blood, winds up knee deep in questionable and barely legal tactics to get their clients off. Jenks maybe be a Texas backwater of a town, but there are plenty of big city laughs in this story.

If you didn't know there was going to be humor here when you saw the cover of this book, a horse's patooty with its tail stiff and flying in the breeze, then you got bricks between your ears. This book will make you laugh. There is quite a bit of suspense here too. Laughter and suspense, what a terrific combination.

In short? Blow-snot funny........2005-01-13

"Shoveling Smoke" is Texan Austin Davis's first novel, and it is a doozy. As a Texan myself, I'm always leery of books (and films) set in Texas, because all too often they devolve into a rousing game of "laugh at the silly hicks." Fear not in this case, as Davis's novel, I'm thrilled to say, brings the laughs while refusing to reduce characters to caricatures.

The plot is deceptively simple: Big-city (Houston) tax attorney decides to move to a firm in the backwoods and escape the rat race; cue wacky rural hijinks. So how does Davis take this overdone stranger-in-a-strange-land storyline to another level? With good old-fashioned whip-smart writing, that's how. The dialogue crackles with cleverness, and it's an authentic clever, not some contrived ain't-they-a-hoot nonsense. Hilarious rural-speak flows from these characters so naturally you can hear the voices in your head, and Davis presents that speech almost reverently, as evidence of wit and command of language, never as ignorance. The pacing is spot on throughout. And as far as the plot goes, Davis doesn't simply walk the line between the hysterically unexpected and the ridiculously unbelievable, he redraws it. As wild as some of the circumstances get in this novel, I never felt the tightrope of verisimilitude wobble beneath me; I believed every word.

In addition, I was surprised, nasty old cynic that I am, to catch myself grinning on more than one occasion while reading this book. Sure, there were moments when I laughed out loud, but even a crappy book can get a zinger in here and there, so that's not necessarily a high compliment. But to discover yourself smiling with no knowledge of how long you've been doing it? That is something special. I am not just impressed by Davis but grateful to him, for I was having a bit of a downer week and reading his book was like having someone snatch a handful of sunshine and toss it to me.

Get this book and catch some of that sunshine for yourself.

"Quirky characters, bizarre twists and outrageously funny".......2004-09-01

This debut crime novel just came out, and the title is from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Lawyers spend a great deal of time shoveling smoke." The cover picture gives you a good idea of the kind of humor this book is full of. It's the story of a burnt-out Houston tax lawyer who heads to small town Jenks, Texas, to escape the rat race. Quirky Southern characters, bizarre plot twists and outrageously funny situations abound in Austin Davis' first novel.

You won't be disappointed........2004-06-10

This is a great summer-reading book, fast-paced and clever. Well worth the price. Hope there are more!

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So Ordered: Making Partner the Hard Way
Ann Branigar Hopkins
Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
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A riveting story blending social issues and mystery

Brown-on-Brown: A Luis Móntez Mystery
Manuel Ramos
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Brown-On-Brown marks the return of Manuel Ramos's character, Luis Móntez. A Denver defense attorney who is always just one step ahead of his creditors and not too particular about the cases he takes on, Móntez's next client is Dominic Santos. Santos has been charged with torching the property of a powerful Anglo San Luis Valley rancher and causing the death of a hired hand.

The backdrop of Brown-On-Brown is the ever-present Chicano/Anglo disputes over water rights in Colorado's San Luis Valley. Ramos effectively provides the Chicano perspective on water and land disputes while guiding the reader through a maze of multiple murders.

"Ramos succeeds brilliantly in marrying style and substance."--Publishers Weekly

"Ramos lays on the traditional hard-boiled angst as well as anybody, but [Luis Móntez] also knows how to get the job done well, as does Ramos."--Washington Post

For more information on Manuel Ramos, visit his web site at www.manuelramos.com

Brown-On-Brown marks the return of Luis Móntez, a Denver defense attorney who, in this edition, has been hired to defend Dominic Santos, charged with arson and manslaughter.

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A riveting story blending social issues and mystery.......2003-12-12

Denver defense attorney Luis is hired by a wealthy land-owner and rancher to defend his son, arrested on felony arson and murder charges, and also finds his case lies at the heart of water wars where private landowners go up against big water companies. When the son is killed in a jail riot, the plot thickens with unpredictable twists and turns in Brown-on-Brown, a riveting story blending social issues and mystery.

Crimes Of The Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

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Crimes Of The Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Stephan Landsman
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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ASIN: 0812238478

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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes. In the face of few historical and legal precedents for such war crime prosecutions, each legal action relies on the framework of its predecessors. However, this only compounds the problematic issues arising from the Nuremberg proceedings.

Meticulously combing volumes of testimony and documentary information about each case, Landsman offers judicious and critical assessments of the proceedings. He levels pointed criticism at numerous elements of this relatively recent judicial invention, sparing neither judges nor counsel and remaining keenly aware of the human implications. Deftly weaving legal analysis with cultural context, Landsman offers the first rigorous examination of these problematic proceedings and proposes guideposts for contemporary tribunals. Crimes of the Holocaust is an authoritative account of the Gordian knot of genocide prosecution in the world courts, which will persist as a confounding issue as we are faced with a trial of Saddam Hussein. This volume will be compelling reading for legal scholars as well as laypersons interested in these cases and the issues they address.

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Does God Care Who Wins Football Games?

Hard Fighting Soldier: Finding God in Trials, Tragedies, and Triumphs
Chette Williams , and Dick Parker
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The power of God is dramatically changing lives through college football.

A wide receiver scores an 80-yard touchdown, and instead of celebrating, he drops to his knee in prayer. A defensive end relies on the prayers and support of teammates and fans when his family's home in New Orleans is washed away by Hurricane Katrina. An entire team locks arms and walks onto the football field and becomes "Hard fighting soldiers bringing souls to Jesus."

In Hard Fighting Soldier: Finding God in Trials, Tragedies, and Triumphs, Rev. Chette Williams, full-time chaplain of the Auburn University football team, tells how God transformed his life and how God continues to use him to influence football players at Auburn and beyond. As a player in the 1980s, some of Williams' Auburn teammates said he "wasn't worth praying for." He was a mean, bitter, angry young man, and when Coach Pat Dye kicked him off the team, nobody was surprised. With God's help, Williams turned his life around and he vowed to help others to do the same.

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Does God Care Who Wins Football Games?.......2007-08-07

Does God help Auburn win football games becaue of the Chette Williams' ministry?

Is God an Auburn fan? Is God favorably inclined toward Auburn because of all the praying Auburn does? Can a person, team or coach pray its way to victory? Deep theolgical questions all.

Are we humans, messy mortals that we are, trying to manipulate the Almighty and get what we want when we want it? Are we reducing the Almighty to some kind of Santa Claus-God by some of the things we ask for, demand and expect to get? Is that true in the sport of football at Auburn?

All of these questions and more are firmly, simply and plainly addressed in Chette Williams' book. One may or may not agree with the answers and perspectives addressed, but one can not come away without a deep and abiding appreciation for the depth of Chette Williams' faith and the way he has put that faith into action at Auburn.

What has happened at Auburn can happen anywhere and that is one of Chette's goals in writing this book: to help other players, other coaches at other schools find that peace that passeth all human understanding that many have found at Auburn through his ministry.

No, prayer doesn't win football games...hard work and preparation do that, along with talent and ability,but a sense of peace enables humans to perform at their best, and that is what Chette has done for Auburn--helped players and coaches find a peace that the secular world does not understand and sometimes refuses to accept.

This is not a "preachy" book. Chette, ably assisted by Auburn alumn Dick Parker of Looking Glass Books in Atlanta, have successfully avoided that always looming pitfall in books of this type. This is a real life, down to earth, dirt under the fingernails, look at faith at work and in action. That it happens to be at Auburn is, in the end, immaterial.

It's a good read, a worthwhile read for football fans of any school and especially for persons wondering about and wanting to know more about God's role in the outcome of contests and competition in the secular world.

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Discover Hitler's secret sites in Munich. See where Eva Braun and Heinrich Himmler where born and grew up. Learn where the Nazi movement started in 1919 and how it was defeated in 1945. Gain first hand access to more than 100 historical sites of Third Reich Munich, described in short profiles and pinpointed on city maps. The book is illustrated with more than 60 archive images, some never published before.

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