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

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Kalmykiya Republic Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739729721

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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.

Kalmykiya Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

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Kalmykiya Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739790722

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The long-awaited update of a bestselling guide by the dean of Pennsylvania hikers. The hiking trails of western Pennsylvania offer both novice and experienced hikers a tempting variety of natural terrain and human history. Now veteran trailblazer and outdoor activist Tom Thwaites has updated his bestselling guide to reflect the improvement and expansion of western Pennsylvania trails since the first edition was published in 1983. This third edition includes hikes for all tastes and abilities: introductory walks of 1-5 miles; intermediate day hikes of 5-10 miles; and "bootbusters" of 10 miles or more, some suitable for backpacking. Thirty-one hikes are based in the Laurel Highlands and Allegheny National Forest, with the remainder grouped around Pittsburgh and Lake Erie. Each hike description includes information on access, trail conditions and regulations, mileage and rise, detailed topographic maps, and highlights of human and natural history you'll find along the way.

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Misguided at times.......2006-05-31

I agree with the above reviews. I've only hiked 5 trails listed in this book so far. I was not pleased with the directions for Raccoon Creek State Park. The Wetland Trail dead-ended into a cattail marsh. I resorted to bushwhacking uphill to reconnect to the Wetland Trail. Now I'll admit it was silly of me to not bring a park map along just in case the directions from the book were a bit off, but having rather good luck with previous hikes listed in the book, I figured I'd live dangerously. I ended up near the Pioneer campgrounds and declared myself lost. I called the park office and a handsome park ranger came to aide. Maybe I should get lost more often. :o)
Other than this isolated incident, this book is excellent! I suggest the Beechwood Nature Reserve and Raccoon Creek's Wildflower Reserve.

4.49 stars out of 5.......2005-10-21

This book describes 50 hikes in western Pennsylvania, which for this author means west of US 219. The hikes range in difficulty from a 1.8 mile stroll through a sculpture park in Johnstown to a 12.8 mile trek around Lake Wilhelm. Since 32 of the 50 hikes are drawn from the Laurel Highlands and the Allegheny National Forest, western Pennsylvania's premier hiking destinations, this book presents the best hiking western Pennsylvania has to offer. Several hikes are also drawn from greater Pittsburgh, so Thwaites does a good job of diversifying (geographically and in terms of difficulty) his hike selection.

Each hike contains an excellent trail map copied from a USGS topo map. The trail descriptions themselves are some of the best I have ever read. In addition to being thorough and frank, Thwaites frequently finds clever and humorous ways to communicate information about the trails, a quality you won't find in most hiking guides. I found myself saying several times, "I can't believe the editors actually let him write that!" The trails described here are excellent as well. In the trail summary at the front of this and most good hiking guides, I have a habit of drawing a star beside trails I really liked and might want to hike someday. Usually I have 5 or 6 stars after I am through reading, but for this guide I had 16: the hikes are just that good.

Despite all of these great features, this guide has one significant flaw: the driving directions to the trailhead. Most authors separate the driving directions from the trail descriptions so you can follow them easily as you drive: not here. The driving directions in this guide are presented as part of the trail descriptions, usually taking up a paragraph in the middle of the main text. This could present a real problem for someone who is relying on these directions to get to the trailhead. Because the driving directions blend in with the rest of the writing, you will either want to highlight the directions and/or have a really good idea where you are going before you leave home. Thus, having a good road map is essential to using this trail guide. Since many of these trailheads are located in rural, mountainous areas, you will need a detailed map showing the backroads: a Rand McNally USA road atlas or even a free Mapquest or other internet map simply won't do. The best backcountry map on the market is the Pennsylvania Atlas and Gazetteer published by De Lorme, and I highly recommend you buy that guide if you choose to purchase this one.

In summary, I had to think long and hard about how to rank this guide. While the contents themselves are easily worth five stars, a five star guide, in my opinion, should be excellent in every significant respect. Due to the issue with the driving directions, this one falls short of that mark. Having said that, there is a lot of good information in this guide, and this guide is fun to read. So if you are interested in Pennsylvania hiking, this guide probably belongs in your library.

A great source of suggestions.......2002-08-23

This book is by far the best trail guide I've ever used. (a) The directions to the trailhead are accurate to the tenth of a mile; (b) the directions on the trail are also very accurate; (c) each trail description has its own topo map; (d) the trails feature what the book says they'll feature; (e) the trails are fun!

The trail lengths in the book vary between 1-hour hikes to all-day affairs, with plenty of all types; also, the directions usually suggest other places to go or variations to shorter or lengthen the hike.

If you live in Pittsburgh or the area, buy this book.

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Is there a safe harbour for multinational enterprises operating in a global economy? This book assesses whether Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) constitute a suitable solution to the major problems and controversies in the area of transfer pricing. The 1980s brought increased confrontation between taxpayers and tax administrators and between jurisdictions implementing and enforcing diverging transfer pricing legislation. The author analyses the legal characteristics of APAs; practical problems regarding their implementation; and the benefits, drawbacks, and alternatives confronted by the parties to such agreements. This study is in large measure based on the U.S. procedures on APAs which make up the most advanced regulation in this field. In addition, the work describes the worldwide practice on APAs, the OECD guidelines, and the APA procedures of other jurisdictions which basically follow U.S. legislation. Its informativeness and extent of coverage make this work essential reading for practitioners, in-house counsel, and academics active in the area of international taxation.

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Good account of Army of the Tennesse.......2007-05-26

Like other accounts the battle details are sketchy, particularly Shiloh but all in all an interesting account of a soldier who served a long term of service in an elite regiment (by standards of the western theatre), the First Arkansas. The problems of supply and morale are well documented. The footnotes are very thorough and add alot to the enjoyment of the book I found.

Highlight of rebel soldiers travels.......2002-01-07

This book contain the highlights of a private's life in the Army of the Tennessee. It talks about Private Beven's travels and life in the army. If you are looking for details of combat, look elsewhere. Book contain a few details of a private's life. Book doesn't have many details, but over 40% of the book is footnotes by the editor informing the reader about event or people sited by Beven's.

Very detailed, engaging memoir.......2001-02-22

Readers who enjoyed Watkins' Co. Aytch will like this too. It doesn't have the absolute spark of genius that the latter shows, but it's an engaging, detailed account of Bevens' experiences in the Army of Tennessee. He includes many interesting and often humorous anecdotes; the only weak section is the very end of the war, because Bevens was lucky enough to be on furlough at that time. The editor has done an excellent job of annotating the text -- at first the format, with the footnotes on facing pages, is a little confusing, but it soon becomes very helpful. Sutherland fills in gaps and explains minor errors in Bevens' account while placing the events in their larger context. The only thing I have to complain about is the maps, which are useless.

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From Africa to Everest to South America and the Southern Patagonia Ice Cap, the enigmatic Eric Shipton's (1907-1977) adventures continue to fascinate readers. Drawing upon scores of personal interviews as well as Shipton's own correspondence, Steele draws a full-bodied portrait of the self-effacing explorer and mountaineering legend, offering new information about his public and private lives.

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A good read.......2000-12-21

This book is a competently written biography. It puts into an easily-grasped perspective the full gammut of Shipton's climbing and exploring career and it gives much on his personal life and what he did between expeditions that is not available from his own books. It deals dispassionately but sensitively with such issues as the leadership debacle that preceded the '53 Everest expedition, and shares Shipton's views of his climbing companions, Tilman's reticence, for example. One thing that tickled my interest was that it reveals the sources of many of the pithy comments and aphorisms that have passed into mountaineering lore, such as Tom Bourdillon's comment on food: "The main thing is that there should be some". I couldn't put this book down.

Must read book for Shipton fans!.......1999-01-07

This book together with Shipton's "The Six Mountain- Travel Books" and "That Untravelled World" let you fully understand the life of the great mountain explorer. Blanks in his life, never told in his books, are finally filled up!

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Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond
Peter Steele
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Print on Demand (Paperback)

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Eric Shipton Everest and Beyond
Peter Steele
Manufacturer: Mountaineers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HX0OS8

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Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond
Peter Steele
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NW6MCK

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Stuttgart's Weissenhof colony had not even reached completion?when in 1927 Werkbund architects in Breslau were already at work?on plans for yet another model housing exhibition - this?one with the aim of advancing the idea of "New Building"?in Silesia.??

Unlike the 1929 Stuttgart-Weissenhof exhibition which had attracted?such luminaries as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, J.J.P. Oud,?Peter Behrens and Mart Stam, there were no foreign architects?at the Breslau "Wohnung und Werkraum"[Living- and Work?Space] show, labeled WUWA for short. Nonetheless, Hans Scharoun?and Adolf Rading, both associated with the progressive Breslau?Academy, provided spectacular projects of international import.?But it was also the thoroughly modern building approach of Theo?Effenberger, Moritz Hadda and Heim & Kempter that turned the?WUWA into a major «New Building" manifesto which would,?however, fall to obscurity in the postwar period.?The catalogue is the first comprehensive publication on Werkbundsiedlung?Breslau. The extensive illustrations section contains photos,?plans and models of all buildings, some appearing in print for?the first time. The texts, written by field specialists, review?the planning phase and architectural history behind the WUWA,?cover technological, landmark preservation and urban planning?aspects and explain the importance of the Breslau Werkbundsiedlung?for the development of the modern movement.

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Rediscovering another Werkbund gem.......2000-05-09

Beginning with the Cologne exposition of 1914, the German Werkbund and its sister organizations in Central Europe undertook a program for disseminating the new 'radical' theories of architecture. This was particularly true when it came to disseminating ideas of how to design housing, an area that became an important mission for these Werkbunden, which proceeded to sponsor housing exhibitions in various cities prior to the Second World War. The best know of these was the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart, built in conjunction with the Werkbund exposition of 1927. With its master plan by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who also designed a seminal apartment building, the complex includes structures by Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut, Max Taut, Hans Scharoun, Adolf Rading, Mart Stam, J.J.P. Oud, Victor Bourgeois, Peter Behrens, and others. The Breslau Werkbund exhibition, "Wohnung und Werkraum" or WUWA-- the subject of this fine volume--did not share its Stuttgart sibling's list of contributing architects from the firmament of Avant Garde architects, rather it relied on practitioners from what was then Upper Silesia--Schliesen--and included professors at the Breslau Academy of Applied Arts--itself one of the institutions that benefited from Hermann Muthesius' appointment in 1904 as privy councilor to the Prussian Board of Trade and superintendent of schools of applied arts for all of Prussia. The focus of the 1929 Breslau Werkbund exhibition was the interrelationship of dwelling and workplace. The exhibition, on a site adjacent to the trade fairgrounds--a condition not unlike that at Stuttgart--permitted for concurrent exhibitions and other cultural activities to take place in conjunction with the housing exhibition. Buildings by Scharoun and Rading, as well as Hans Poelzig and others less-well known outside German academic circles but nonetheless significantly contributing to the theoretical explorations underpinning the WUWA. The projects range from the single family houses by Heinrich Lauterbach, Moritz Hadda, Ludwig Moshamer, or Emil Lange, row houses by Gustav Wolf or by Ludwig Moshamer, Heinrich Lauterbach, Moritz Hadda, Paul Häusler, and Theo Effenberger, to Paul Heim & Albert Kempter's apartment block with open hallway access and a kindergarten, to a wonderful collective residence by Rading, to Scharoun's magnificent building for singles that today is a guest house. The buildings are presented in period and contemporary photographs, plans, and detailed description. Also found are chapters placing the WUWA in the context of other Werkbund efforts, and other experiments in housing of the period. The book ends with photographs of models built by students at the University of Stuttgart for a recent exhibition, and brief biographies of the architects involved in the WUWA. As with the publication on the Bohemian Werkbund's 1932 exhibition in Prague on the Baba hillside overlooking the city center, this volume provides much-needed documentation in English (both exhibitions had been discussed in earlier publications, including a 1983 study analyzing housing from the 1920s then and in the 1980s by Liselotte Ungers, a publication unfortunately not accessible to the monolingual U.S. public).

Auf dem Weg zum neuen Wohnen: Die Werkbundsiedlung Breslau, 1929 = Towards a new kind of living : the Werkbund housing estate Breslau, 1929

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Auf dem Weg zum neuen Wohnen: Die Werkbundsiedlung Breslau, 1929 = Towards a new kind of living : the Werkbund housing estate Breslau, 1929

Manufacturer: Birkhauser
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0817654208

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This resource is packed with activities for the trainer or facilitator in business, education, or group work. This resource provides a blueprint for a new generation of Accelerated Learning methods, and has five key principles: Keep it real; Facilitate the flow; Honor uniqueness; Make it rich and multi-sensory; and State is everything. Includes a velar explanation of the theory behind Brain-Friendly learning from the inside out the concepts and learning models youll need to underpin your approach, along with an understanding of how your brain works. Youll discover a concise guide to Brain-Friendly training design along with tools that you can pick and adapt to help you create new training events or make over existing ones.

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The subjects are: Victoria Bond, Antonia Brico, Margaret Hills, Eve Queler, Rosalyn Tureck, Radie Britain, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Emma Lou Diemer, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Betsy Jolas, Barbara Kolb, Wanda Landowska, Pauline Oliveros, Marga Richter, Louise Talma, Nancy Van de Vate, and Thea Musgrave.

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"Toll of War/Vietnam" is a first hand account of this soldier's tour as an infantryman with B company of the 1st 327th infantry-101st Airborne Div. Screaming Eagles. The text is comprised of several short stories with contributions from other soldiers of the 101st and one from an ex-marine grunt in Vietnam. It is written in a humorous light whenever possible though dealing with the harsh realities of day to day life as an infantryman in a jungle war.

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A haunting account of death and survival the jungles of Viet Nam.......2007-07-02

This book is honest and painstakingly reveals the horrors encountered in the jungles of Viet Nam, as soldiers are pushed beyond human limits of endurance. It reveals the aftermath of war on the hearts and souls of so many of our soldiers. This book is for those who were there, those who waited for their soldier to return, or everyone who should know about these unappreciated heros who still are paying the price of war.

We are all so different.......2004-10-30

We are all so different,and that's what makes "TOLL OF WAR" a worthwhile read! Erick's style, brutal frankness and total honesty are trait's that have been lost by much of our society,this reader included.Thank's for your service to your country and your literary effort's.

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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United Stated to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic States.

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