Ireland Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Intelligence Report Library)

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Ireland Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
USA International Business Publications
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ASIN: 0739725777

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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

Ireland Business Intelligence Report (World Country Study Guide Library)

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A newly revised and updated guide to a classic fly fishing destination. This newly revised and updated guide to a classic fly fishing destination gives anglers the information they need to: • Fish legendary rivers like the Esopus, Beaver Kill, Neversink, Schoharie, and Willowemoc • Discover many lesser-known streams, with light fishing pressure and plentiful native brookies and other trout • Explore the cold, deep mountain reservoirs—Pepacton, Cannonsville, Schoharie, Neversink, Ashokan, and Rondout—with their miles of undeveloped shorelines and remarkable trophy fish • Fish the Delaware by canoe and find shad in season, as well as trout, bass, and walleye Dozens of maps and local hatch charts provide essential data for the region. 30 black and white photographs, 28 maps, index.

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Are you "at sea" when it comes to wills, trusts, probate, taxes? You are not alone. For the past ten years, lawyer and Honolulu Advertiser columnist David Larsen has provided sound answers and advice to thousands of people asking such questions as: "What happens if I die without a will?" "Does the State take it all?" "How can I avoid probate?" "Will the State pay for my stay at a nursing home?" "Will my kids have to sell the house to pay the inheritance tax?"

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This popular book on business ethics contains a diverse collection of readings and cases. It begins with an introduction to moral reasoning, and then provides readers with a wide range of opportunities to apply ethical theory to real contemporary managerial situations—including issues facing managers in the next century. Each section contains a case study and relevant theoretical articles that range from classics in philosophy to modern commentaries by business practitioners. Five sections cover general issues in ethics; property, profit, and justice; corporations, persons, and morality; international business; and contemporary business themes. For professionals in the business fields of accounting, finance, marketing, and more.

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Great book.......2003-07-31

Although I only purchased this book for an Business Ethics class, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject.

An enlightening Book.......2000-10-25

It is an excellent book for newcomers to the field of Business ethics.Being a new field the authors have given numerous examples of real life cases for the students to appreciate this field.The cases make understanding more easy.Its to be noted that this field has now drawn a roundtable among the giants of the corporate world.The book deals with the moral issues before going to the business front. Good reading.

Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach

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Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach

Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing
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Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach
Thomas Donaldson
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Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach (8th Edition)

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Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach (8th Edition)
Thomas Donaldson , and Patricia Werhane
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ASIN: 0131846191

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This widely used business ethics book begins by introducing students/readers to moral reasoning. A collection of readings and cases from both philosophical literature and business articles apply ethical theory to real-life business situations. Well-known scandals involving companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, and Parmalat have increased public awareness of business ethics, underscored its importance, and ushered in a new era of increased corporate regulation and governance.

Now, more than ever, a student planning on entering the business world, and anyone working for a corporation, investing in stock, or even interacting with businesses will benefit from a basic understanding of business ethics.

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Ethical issues in business: A philosophical approach
Patricia H. Werhane , and Thomas Donaldson
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Ethical Issues In Business - A Philosophical Approach
Werhane , Donaldson
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Ethical Issues in Business, A Philosophical Approach
Thomas and Patricia H. Werhane (Editors) Donaldson
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Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach
Thomas, Werhane, Patricia H., Cording, Margaret Donaldson
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Ethical Issues in Business: a Philosophical Approach - 4th Edition

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Ethical Issues in Business: a Philosophical Approach - 4th Edition
Thomas; Werhane, Patricia H. (Eds) Donaldson
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An engrossing eyewitness account of the Civil War..........2007-06-09

John B. Jones (1810-1866) was a proslavery Northerner who moved South when the Civil War began. A native of Baltimore, he spent most of his youth and young adulthood on the frontier in Kentucky and Missouri. He eventually made his way back to Baltimore and began a career as a newspaper editor. In the 1850's he lived in New Jersey, where he published and edited the "Southern Monitor", a proslavery newspaper which examined the growing crisis between the North and South from a "Southern Viewpoint". When Abraham Lincoln (whom Jones detested) was elected President in 1860 and several Southern states seceded soon thereafter, Jones decided to move South and give whatever support he could to the new Confederate government. He took his wife and children with him, and he soon found a job as a high-level clerk in the Confederate War Department in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederacy's capital. In essence, Jones became a top assistant to the Confederate Secretary of War, which put him in an excellent position to view the conflict from both the "High Command" perspective and the view of an ordinary government worker and city dweller. In April 1861 Jones decided to start a daily diary describing the historic events taking place around him. He faithfully kept the diary until April 1865, when Richmond fell to Northern troops and the Confederacy was destroyed. Jones died from a sudden illness in February 1866, but his diary survived and has become a classic of its kind. It is often used as a "primary source" document by Civil War historians who want a first-hand, eyewitness account of what it was like to live and work in the Confederacy's capital city during the war. Jones is a good writer, and his diary includes almost every aspect of life in Richmond during the war, from the grand to the mundane. Great battles (and the rumors that often accompany them) are mentioned, the elation of early Southern victories to the despair of knowing that "the cause" was lost by the spring of 1865, the petty infighting and personal jealousies that tore the Confederate government apart - all of these are described in detail by Jones. He offers insightful accounts of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the hated General Winder, who ineptly handled military rule in Richmond for most of the war; the long-winded and ineffective Confederate Congress; Stonewall Jackson's dramatic funeral in May 1863; and the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond and the burning and looting of the city before Northern troops could arrive and restore order. But Jones also includes "smaller" and more personal details about the growing struggle to simply survive in Richmond as the North's naval blockade cut off necessary supplies of food, medicine, clothing, etc. Rampant inflation, food rationing, overcrowding, starving mobs of women marching through the city demanding food, and a thriving black market are all described by Jones (often in biting and sarcastic detail). To be sure, some things written in this book are offensive (or should be) to modern eyes. Jones is a contradiction - in his diary he emerges as a devoted father and husband who worries about his family's safety and fortunes. Yet he is also an unabashed racist who loathes Jews (and often blames them for everything from food shortages to financial issues, with no evidence to support him), and he supports slavery as the "best method" of dealing with blacks. He claims that slaves are generally well-treated and even boasts that the slaves would prefer their condition to being freed and "left on their own, with no support" by Northern abolitionists. Yet at the end of the diary, as Richmond lies in ruins and the war is lost, Jones seems less bitter than simply exhausted and glad that his family has survived. "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" is still one of the best first-hand accounts of what it was like to live and work in the Confederacy's national capital by a government "insider", and it should be read by every Civil War buff. Recommended!

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B. Jones
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B Jones
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B Jones
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B Jones
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
J. B. Jones
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An engrossing eyewitness account of the Civil War...

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B. Jones
Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
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ASIN: 1425553788
Release Date: 2005-12-22

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

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An engrossing eyewitness account of the Civil War..........2007-06-05

John B. Jones (1810 - 1866), was a proslavery Northerner who moved South when the Civil War began. A native of Baltimore, he spent much of his youth and young adulthood on the frontier in Kentucky and Missouri. He eventually made his way back to Baltimore and started a career as a newspaper editor. In the 1850's he lived in New Jersey, where he was the editor and publisher of the "Southern Monitor", a proslavery newspaper that promoted the "Southern viewpoint" in the growing crisis between the North and South. When Abraham Lincoln (whom Jones detested) was elected President in 1860 and several Southern states seceded soon thereafter, Jones decided to move South and give whatever support he could to the new Confederate government. He took his wife and children with him; and he soon found a job as a high-level clerk in the Confederate War Department in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederacy's capital. In essence, Jones became a top assistant to the Confederate Secretary of War, and was thus in an excellent position to view the conflict from both the "High Command" perspective and from the view of an ordinary government worker and city dweller. In April 1861 he decided to start a daily diary describing the historic events taking place around him. Jones faithfully kept his diary for the next four years, ending it only after Richmond fell to Northern troops in April 1865 and the Confederacy was destroyed. Jones died from a sudden illness in February 1866, but his diary survived and has become a classic of its kind. It is often used as "primary source" material by Civil War historians who want to get a first-hand, eyewitness account of what it was like to live and work in the Confederacy's national capital during the war. Jones is a good writer, and his diary includes every aspect of life during the war, from the grand to the mundane. Great battles (and the rumors that accompany them) are mentioned, the elation of early Southern victories to the despair that occurred when it was obvious that "the cause" was lost, the petty infighting and personal jealousies that tore the Confederate government apart - all of these are described in detail by Jones. Jones offers insightful accounts of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the hated General Winder, who ineptly handled military rule in Richmond for most of the war; the long-winded and ineffective Confederate Congress; Stonewall Jackson's dramatic funeral in May 1863; and the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond and the burning and looting of the city before Northern troops could arrive and put out the flames. But Jones also includes more personal and "smaller" details about the growing difficulties of simply trying to survive in Richmond as the North's naval blockade cut off food, medicine, clothes, and other necessary supplies. Rampant inflation, food rationing, overcrowding, starving mobs of women marching through the streets demanding food, and a thriving black market are all described by Jones (often in biting and sarcastic detail). To be sure, some things written in this book are offensive (or should be) to modern eyes. Jones is a contradiction - in his diary he emerges as a devoted father and husband who often worries about his family's safety and fortunes. Yet he is also an unabashed racist who loathes Jews (in the diary he often blames them for food shortages and other problems, even though he has no evidence to support his claims), and supports slavery as the "best method" of dealing with blacks. He claims that slaves are generally well-treated and even boasts that slaves prefer their condition to being freed and "left on their own, with no support" from Northern abolitionists. Yet at the end of the diary, as Richmond lies in ruins and is occupied by the hated "Yankees", Jones seems less bitter than simply exhausted and glad that his own family has survived. "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" is still one of the best first-hand accounts of what it was like to live and work in the Confederacy's national capital during the Civil War, and it should be read by any Civil War buff. Highly recommended!

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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John B Jones
Manufacturer: Sagamore Press, 1958
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ASIN: B000JR6A80

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, in Two Volumes

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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, in Two Volumes
J.B. Jones
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A Rebel war Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Vol. 1

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A Rebel war Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Vol. 1
J B (John Beauchamp) Jones
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: 1432817876
Release Date: 1969-12-31

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A Rebel war clerk's diary at the Confederate States capital - Vol. 1 Gale Archival Editions: On Demand are digital copies of rare and out-of-print historical content. Delivered where and when you need them, Gale Archival Editions arrive complete with original fonts, marks, notations, punctuation and spelling, giving you the feeling of owning the original work. These images of original worksfrom the world's leading librariesinclude everything from books to pamphlets, many with original illustrations, indexes, maps and other annotations. Sourced from Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time (1868-1936), the Sabin American Civil War Collection includes thousands of titles on all topics related to the Civil War experience.

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Heavy Construction Cost Data- 14th Edition.......2000-05-20

This is a great reference guide in standard version. To avoid confusion, the ISBN number for the metric version is 0 87629 555 3.

Heavy Construction Cost: Data Metric Version 2002 (Means Heavy Construction Cost Data, Metric Ed.)

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Heavy Construction Cost Data

Heavy Construction Cost: Data Metric Version 2002 (Means Heavy Construction Cost Data, Metric Ed.)

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Heavy Construction Cost Data.......2000-05-20

This book is in metric version. To avoid getting the wrong book it is helpful to know which version is metric. The ISBN for a standard version is 0 87629 5537. Good content and helpful cost data.

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Early Nantucket and Its Whale Houses
Henry Chandlee Forman
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ASIN: B000J37LX2

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Early Nantucket and its whale houses
Henry Chandlee Forman
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Early Nantucket and Its Whale Houses.
Henry Chandlee. Foreman
Manufacturer: Hastings House
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ASIN: B000O3OPLS

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Covering every aspect of the menswear industry, retail merchandising, and manufacturing, this book instructs the fashion professional in assisting the customer in the purchase of menswear, including information on the make, quality, and fit of mens apparel. The book places the reader in "real-world" situations in which he or she must be able to solve problems and advise the customer. The book is suitable for fashion students, garment industry professional retailers, fashion writers, and wardrobe consultants.

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Useful, but starting to show its age..........2006-03-24

I recently used this text during my Menswear Marketing class. Pros: Quick and easy read; most concepts are clearly illustrated in line drawings. Cons: dated material; some concepts (such as personality types) seemed drawn out just to make the book longer. Suggestions: good if you like uncomplicated drawings as opposed to photos; works well if you have a professor to update the text verbally. For self study, check out: Dressing the Man : Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion by Alan Flusser.

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Menswear: Suiting The Customer
Suzanne Boswell
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000OIN14K

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Since its original publication, Composing a World by Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman has become the definitive work on the prolific California composer Lou Harrison, often cited as one of America's most original and influential figures. Composing a World presents a compelling and deeply human portrait of an exceptionally beloved pioneer in American music.

This paperback edition is an updated version of the highly acclaimed Lou Harrison: Composing a World. The product of extensive research, as well as seventy-five interviews with the composer and those associated with him over half a century, this new edition features an updated works catalog reflecting compositions completed after 1997, adds a brief description of the circumstances of Harrison's death, and corrects a few minor errors. It also includes an annotated works-list detailing more than 300 compositions and a CD featuring over 74 minutes of illustrative Harrison compositions, including several unique and previously unrecorded works.

Extending beyond simple biography, Composing a World includes chapters on music and dance, intonation and tuning, instrument building, music criticism, political activism, homosexuality, and Harrison's Asian influences, among other topics. This indispensable study of Harrison's life and works--currently out of print--will be welcomed back by performing artists, students, and scholars of American music.

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Enjoyable and informative.......2005-01-16

This is a good book about Lou Harrison that at least touches on almost all aspects of his life and work. I can't say it is a must have but it was enjoyable.

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Publish or Perish? The Latter, Please.
Lou Harrison Alive
Lou Harrison's stature continue to expand
A hard act to follow!
hackwork

Lou Harrison: Composing a World
Leta E. Miller , and Frederic Lieberman
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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"West Coast" composer Lou Harrison (born 1917) is another in a long line of individualist Americans including (primarily) Charles Ives, but also pioneers such as Henry Cowell and Harry Partch. Born in Oregon, Harrison came East after studying with Cowell and was briefly one of Virgil Thomson's stringers on the New York Herald-Tribune, while also editing some of Ives's music. He returned to the West Coast in the early 1950s, where he settled into a life of teaching and composing.

Harrison's love affair with the various musics of Asia began at this time and coincided with his affinity for dance rhythms in his music. With his longtime companion Bill Colvig, Harrison invented many sounding instruments (influenced by those in the Indonesian gamelan), which he employed in his symphonies and other compositions. Harrison's development of a tuning method (which he calls "just tone" in contradistinction to "mean tone" or "equal temperament") has become central to his compositional practice and receives in-depth discussion.

Miller and Lieberman (a musicologist/performer and an ethnomusicologist/composer, respectively) began this book as an oral history, but it evolved into a thoroughgoing study of the music as well as of the man. After a brief biography, there are a variety of discrete chapters (e.g., on dance, tuning, homosexuality, politics) with a plethora of music examples. Harrison's lifelong interest in typefaces is also addressed, with examples given. The book includes a catalog of his works and a CD of excerpts from his compositions.

In the last 10 years or so, Harrison has enjoyed many more performances of his music, and his position as one of the leading American composers of his generation has been solidified. This affectionate volume--if more for the specialist than for the casual listener--is an appropriate tribute. --Patrick J. Smith

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Lou Harrison, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 1997, has often been cited as one of the America's most original and influential composers. In addition to his prolific musical output, Harrison is also a skilled painter, calligrapher, essayist, critic, poet, and instrument-builder. During his long and varied career, he has explored dance, Asian music, tuning systems, and universal languages, and has actively championed political causes ranging from pacifism to gay rights. As an articulate and outspoken observer of the contemporary musical scene, he is frequently quoted in the media; yet until now no comprehensive study of his life and works has been published. The present book, supported by extensive archival research and nearly 70 interviews, examines the ideas that have shaped Harrison's creative output, as seen through the eyes of the composer and his his associates. A detailed biographical section is followed by individual chapters focusing on Music and Dance, Intonation and Tuning, Instruments, Asian influences, Gamelan, Music and Politics, Music Criticism, and Compositional Processes. In a separate chapter, the authors describe the historical background of the San Francisco gay community, Harrison's literary and musical statements on gay rights, and possible "gay markers" on his musical style. An annotated works-list details over 300 compositions, and an included CD illustrates the text in sound, including several previously unrecorded works. This engaging study of Harrison's life and works will be indispensible to students and scholars of American music and to performing artists and programmers.

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Publish or Perish? The Latter, Please........2005-08-20

Heartening to see how the authors's cronies have rallied to the defense of this tiresome and mindless random heaping up of information. Nevertheless:

If it were truly a "scholarly" work, I think the author's would have something reasonably intelligent to say about Harrison's acoustical "theories", which were, in fact, to cut to the chase, wack.

If more of the information heaped up were firsthand, this might at least be of some service to real Harrison scholars (if Harrison scholars we must endure). Instead we have, for example, a passage about Harrison's long-term stay at a mental institution lifted directly from John Cage's "Silence". Better to skip this and read the Cage.

Lou Harrison Alive.......2003-12-05

With the death this year of composer Lou Harrison, the West coast lost one of the most inventive and seminal figures who have ever graced its soil. Happily, Harrison's music remains, but, while enormously sensuous and attractive, it is also an enormously complex music--borrowing from the finest of avant-garde American traditions as well as from the East. Harrison has rarely been written about with such sensitivity and understanding as one finds in "Lou Harrison: Composing a World" by his friends Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman. The book also contains a wonderful CD-- itself worth the price of the book--which is a kind of chronicle of Harrison's development. "Lou Harrison: Composing a World" is a marvelous introduction to a great American composer whose work is only now beginning to be understood in its true range. The book is simultaneously excellent biography, fine musical criticism (both authors are musicians), and intelligent, shameless promotion for a great artist whose work deserves no less.

Lou Harrison's stature continue to expand.......2003-11-17

After the release of this volume in Autumn, 1998, I wrote a review that ran in Coast Weekly (see archives, 10/29/98, coastweekly.com) in which I expressed not only admiration toward authors Miller and Lieberman but amazement over the countless other details of Lou's life that I had not previously known. Amazement, because I knew the man for forty years, starting in 1963 when I was a student at San Diego State University and he was touring a program of Chinese music with Richard Dee, a long-time associate. Lou once descibed himself to me as a "glandular optimist," and so he was, in every creative and thoughtful way. His artistic example will continue to influence the music, and other arts in which he excelled, far into the future.

A hard act to follow!.......2003-11-16

In this book, Leta Miller and Fredric Lieberman have given the music-historical community a much-needed (and to be sure, a greatly appreciated) account of a composer who is essential to American art music of this century. Combining biography, aesthetic studies, music analysis and even newly recorded material in a thoughtful and clear manner, Miller and Lieberman have set a standard that later scholars will no doubt find a challenge to equal. Both worked closely with Harrison, yet their work is not a passive recounting of his words; both are trained scholars of contemporary music, yet their prose avoids all needless jargon for the sake of true communication. It is a book of tremendous importance, and has been and continues to be rightly admired by enthusiasts of American and/or contemporary art music. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

hackwork.......2002-05-15

There are other sources of information about Lou Harrison, such as "The Music of Lou Harrsion" by Heidi Von Gunden and "The Lou Harrison Reader". There are much better biographies of much better and more significant twentieth-century composers, such as "Gyorgy Ligeti" by Richard Toop. There are much better biographies of colorful American figures associated with twentieth-century music, such as "Woody Guthrie: A Life" by Joe Klein. In short, I don't think we ought to put up with this piece of clumsy mannered hackwork. (By the way, the chapter on Lou Harrison's sexuality is ridiculous and unnecessary: Take him at his word.)

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Lou Harrison: Composing a World.
Lou]. Miller, Leta E. and Lieberman, Fredric. [HARRISON
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Lou Harrison: Composing a World
Leta E.; Lieberman, Fredric Miller
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Awfully hard to read.......2002-05-28

I am reading "Pilgrim Among the Shadows" by Boris Pahor (Orlando, FL, 1995, Harcourt Brace & Co.), a translation by Michael Biggins from the Slovenian of "Nekropola." It appears to be the only work by Pahor to have been translated into English.

Pahor's experience was in Natzweiler -- and later in Dachau. He tells the
grisly tale of how Italy persecuted the speakers of Slovenian and
Serbo-Croatian in the areas it annaxed after World War I and expanded into after the outbreak of World War II. For Pahor, a Triestino Jew barred from speaking his own language and whose main memories are of gravestones on which the names were italianized and of the main Slovenian library in Trieste being burned to the ground by blackshirted fascists, Natzweiler (he does not explain why he ended in that camp high in the Vosges mountains of France) proved that the ties among "Yugoslavs" were strong despite the signs of breakup after the death of Tito.

This is a literary memoir -- awfully hard to read with constant flashbacks
from present to past and back again -- that does flesh out some horrors.
For example, the hot water in the showers at Natzweiler came from boilers placed above the crematorium ovens (something I did not find in
Buchenwald).

Peculiarly, Pahor hardly mentions his own Jewishness.

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Pilgrim Among the Shadows A Memoir
Boris Pahor
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
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ASIN: B000J0N8QY

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Pilgrim Among the Shadows: a Memoir
Boris/Biggins, Michael (trans) Pahor
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