Kaluga Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)

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Kaluga Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 073972973X

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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.

Kaluga Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Country Study Guide Library)

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Kaluga Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Country Study Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739790730

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Whether youÂ're skiing in Vermont, hiking the northern Appalachian Trail or exploring the back streets of old Boston, the Rough Guide to New England tells you all you need to know about this picturesque region. The 28-page, full-colour section introduces all of New EnglandÂ's highlights, from the beauty of the Berkshires to the windswept Maine coast, with two additional 4-page, full-colour inserts: Â`Literary History'' and Â`Food & DrinkÂ'. The guide includes a new Â`author pickÂ' section of the very best hotels and restaurants, plus in-depth reviews of hundreds of shops, bars and clubs to suit all budgets and tastes. The guide takes a detailed look at New EnglandÂ's history and literary past, with extracts from Thoreau and others. There is plenty of practical advice for exploring the region, from camping in Maine to cycling around Boston. The guide comes complete with plenty of maps and plans for the entire region.Â

The Rough Guide to New England 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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Good, Usable Guide

The Rough Guide to New England 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Rough Guides
Manufacturer: Rough Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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INTRODUCTION

The New England states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine often regard themselves as the repository of all that is intrinsically American. In this version of history, the tangled streets of old Boston, the farms of Connecticut, and the villages of Vermont are the cradle of the nation. It's a picture which has some truth to it, however, and, although nostalgia plays a big part in the tourist trade here, and innumerable small towns have been dolled up to recapture a past that can occasionally be wishful thinking, the appeal of New England is undeniable. It is indeed the most historic region of the United States; its towns and villages are often rustic and pretty, with white-spired churches sitting beside tidy greens and colonial churchyards; and its landscape can get surprisingly diverse - ranging from some of its stark coastlines to its green rolling hills and mountains further inland. Like most regions that have a well-developed tourist industry, the trick is to find the unspoiled corners, and to distinguish the bogus from the authentic.

Above all, New England packs an enormous amount of variety into what is by American standards a relatively small area. There are the region's literary connections - with well-visited shrines to Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, to name just a few New England writers. There is no shortage of inviting places to ski, hike, boat, or just watch the leaves change color and drop from the trees - which phenomenal numbers of people come to do each fall. And there are the historic sights, which manage to catalog all manner of New England architecture and design, not to mention Yankee pride and ingenuity.

Boston especially is celebrated as the birthplace of American independence - so many of the seminal events of the Revolutionary War took place here, or just outside, in Lexington or Concord; and, although the genteel seaside towns of Massachusetts and Rhode Island can seem a far cry from the first European settlements in New England, plenty of traces of those early years remain. This is, after all, the stretch of the United States where the Pilgrim Fathers and other religious sects put down their stakes, their survival aided by groups of Native Americans who themselves were eventually displaced, though their legacy remains, too, in place names throughout the region.

Later, as the European foothold on the continent became more secure, the coastline became increasingly prime real estate, lined with grand patrician homes, from the Vanderbilt mansions of Newport to the presidential compounds of the Bush and Kennedy families. Inland, the Ivy League colleges of Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, and others still embody New England's strong sense of its own superiority, and contribute to accusations of provincialism and snobbishness; in fact, the region's traditional role as home to the WASP elite is due more to the vagaries of history and ideology than to economic realities. Its thin soil and harsh climate made it difficult for the first pioneers to sustain an agricultural way of life, while the industrial prosperity of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is now but a distant memory. Indeed, New England has pockets, in Vermont and the other more northerly states, that are as poor as anywhere in the US; and the southern states have all the problems that are normally associated with long-established urban conglomerations.

Despite the apparent gulf between its interior and coast - and, too, its northern and southern halves - New England is compact and well defined, and quite easy to get around; only Maine, New England's biggest and most rural state by some way, takes any real time and effort to navigate. Most of its states offer the same mix (to differing degrees) of picturesque small towns and villages, and at times dramatic landscapes, though each has its own distinctive character. When you're working out where to go, plan to include coverage of at least parts of two to three states, in order to pick up on some of that difference. The southern states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are more urban and historic and, where nature intervenes, it is usually along the region's spectacular coastline. Here, the tourist facilities are aimed as much at weekenders from the big cities as outsiders - Cape Cod, the Berkshires, Martha's Vineyard, all are convenient (and very popular) targets for moneyed locals. Further north, the lakes and mountains of Vermont, New Hampshire, and particularly Maine, offer wilderness to rival any in the nation.

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Good, Usable Guide.......2005-07-20

I just returned from a first ever visit to New England. The Rough Guide served as a very good companion for this trip. The reviews and evaluations were straightforward, and the book was very simple to use. The one complaint would be that the general prices of restaurants are not included.

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The Rough Guide History of England
Rough Guides
Manufacturer: Rough Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1858287995
Release Date: 2002-11-21

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INTRODUCTION

England forms part of the present-day United Kingdom, along with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sometimes the union is called `Great Britain', sometimes just `Britain'. Formally it is known as the `United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. Within the UK, England is the dominant partner in terms of geographical size, population and influence. Some fifty million of the current United Kingdom's sixty million live in England; until very recently England's government and parliament provided the political hub for the entire UK; economically it continues to dominate its immediate neighbours.

But these modern details and distinctions belie the long history of the British Isles. In the beginning, of course, there was no England, no Scotland, Wales or Ireland. In the period of prehistory (about which little is known), first man's ancestors - the hominids - then homo sapiens sapiens, colonized the British Isles, creating settlements that were loosely and only locally confederated. The first tangible evidence of wider societies is provided by the remarkable remains at Stonehenge, whose scale and construction history suggest that it was a ritual centre for people living miles around. Yet despite Stonehenge's advanced design - first erected around 2000 BC, it is one of the great monuments of the European Neolithic era - its precise use and significance remain veiled, as does the identity of those who built it.

In all probability there must have been many waves of invaders and settlers over the centuries after the construction of Stonehenge. Of these many immigrants, it was the metal-working Celts who eased Britain out of prehistory into history proper. Although they left no early written records, they were observed, then overrun, by the Romans - who did. Following expeditions undertaken by Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, the Romans attempted wholesale subjugation under the emperor Claudius almost a hundred years later. But they were unable to tame the Scottish highlands, made only marginally greater progress in the mountainous territory that was to become Wales, and Ireland - known as Hibernia (`winter quarters') - was left largely untouched. In the fertile lowlands, however, the Romans succeeded in transplanting their advanced civilization, and it is from Roman times that England, known then as `Britannia', began to take shape as a territorial and political entity.

The same area formed the major part of kingdoms established by the Anglo-Saxons from the mid-5th century onwards. These soon converted to Christianity, and eventually became a single kingdom ruled by the House of Wessex. It is from this period that the name `England' (Land of the Angles) derives. But England's identity remained in near-constant flux. The Anglo-Saxons were invaded on numerous occasions, first by the Vikings and then, in the 11th century, by the Normans.

The Norman Conquest was critical to England's evolution. In the two centuries before 1066 England had been increasingly influenced by Scandinavia - indeed much of northern England was for a time a Viking kingdom known as the `Danelaw'. But the Normans realigned their new territories with a different area of the continent, and it was this involvement that would shape the next stage of England's history. Throughout the Middle Ages, English and French fortunes were closely entwined - politically, militarily, and through royal and aristocratic bloodlines. France sought to conquer England, and England France. The result was a patchy and uncertain conflict, the Hundred Years War, that extended the tug-of-war between the two powers over some four generations.

Gradually, though, the kingdom of England emerged as a clear force in its own right. It was this kingdom, which grew in prosperity and influence under the Plantagenets and continued to do so under the Tudors, that began to make headway internationally in both trade and military power. The eventual result was the acquisition of an extraordinary empire, which at its 19th-century zenith extended across Canada, India, the Far East, Australasia and Africa.

Closer to home, too, the English tried to establish colonies. Union with Wales was negotiated in 1536; Scotland joined in 1707; Ireland was brought into the fold in 1801. Despite some benefits for these three individual countries, England's own interests remained the reason for a united Britain. Divisions remained, and during the course of the 20th century separatist forces within the union began make themselves heard. Ireland was partitioned shortly after World War I, forming a southern (mainly Catholic) republic and six northern (mainly Protestant) counties that remained within the UK. Some eighty years later, regional legislatures were established in Scotland and Wales in an attempt to give people in both countries more control over their politics.

All this, it has been said, leaves Britain - and with it the dominance of the English - looking more fragile now than ever before. Some doubt that the United Kingdom will still be united, still less a kingdom, in years to come. By the same token, though, this fragmentation has encouraged some historians to concentrate their efforts on the study of national and regional identity, considering both ideals of Britain and Britishness as well as what it might mean to be English.

But who are the English? Racially as well as politically, the answer is complex. England is - and always has been - a melting pot. Today, the descendants of Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans and other European peoples mix with those from further afield - in particular immigrants from former colonies, many of whom arrived in the latter half of the 20th century to supply low-wage labour for the postwar British economy. England is now more multi-cultural and multi-ethnic than ever before.

This long assimilative tradition is just one of many that continues to influence life in 21st-century England. The monarchy, of course, still looms large. Despite criticism of it in sections of society, the royal family continues to provide a popular national focus and - its defenders often claim - a much-needed centre of political stability around which the country's parliamentary democracy functions. Though England is often accused of being hidebound, obsessed by history, perhaps it is truer to say that its culture is continually involved in a dialogue between the past and the present - especially as the nation struggles to adapt to a world in which it is no longer one of the most powerful players.

In many ways the ongoing debate over `Europe' - whether or not England should engage more fully with the European Union - embodies these kinds of anxieties, perhaps because it has such a long pedigree. England has always had a tempestuous and involved relationship with the rest of Europe, and the present-day arguments rehearse older ones too: whether it is better to function as a fully European country, or to remain in insular isolation (bolstered, of course, by a so-called `special relationship' with the United States and by remaining close to former colonies through the British Commonwealth). At the cusp of the third millennium, that decision looks like one of the most momentous England and its people have had to face.

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Self-Study Problems/Solutions Book to Accompany Financial Accounting (3rd ed.)
Jerry J. Weygandt , Donald E. Kieso , and Paul D. Kimmel
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From one of the hottest author teams in accounting comes a new edition of the highly-successful Financial Accounting! This edition retains the traditional procedural coverage of the previous editions along with a practical decision-making focus. Anyone who will ever be asked to prepare or use accounting information to make effective decisions will benefit from this best-selling text!

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Fascinating New Mexico history

Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journal of A.B. Peticolas
A. B. Peticolas
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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ASIN: 0826307736

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The 1862 Confederate invasion of New Mexico is a little known episode of Civil War history. In the Journal of A. B. Peticolas, however, the experiences of the Sibley Brigade come to life, beginning on 21 February 1862, the morning of the battle of Valverde, the first and largest Civil War battle in New Mexico, and ending with the company's marching back to Texas on 15 June 1862. The author has consulted every known journal, diary and memoir by both Confederate and Federal participants, so the journal is extensively annotated.

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Fascinating New Mexico history.......2007-01-10

The Civil War, you might think, belonged to the South, and to the North--but never to the West.
But the Civil War did make it to the West, and it made it to New Mexico, and one Confederate soldier in that war kept a journal.
Don Alberts has done fans of New Mexico's history an enormous favor by editing those journals into this insightful book--"Rebels on the Rio Grande"--a book that brings the war alive in all its fear, violence, tension, stress, and boredom.
From the days of fighting, to the men who led them, to the days of waiting around for something to happen, this book has it all, and is an essential purchase for any New Mexico (or Civil war) historian, whether amateur or professional.
Also, for residents of New Mexico's Sandia Mountains, this book is indispensable, as it contains firsthand 1862 accounts of what the communities of Tijeras and San Antonio (in Bernalillo County) were like, as well as a nice little sketch of what San Antonio used to look like.
It's great.

Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals of A.B. Peticolas

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Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals of A.B. Peticolas
A. B. Peticolas
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Fresh, enjoyable biographical portraits of distinguished and interesting Canadians: Scott Symons, James Houston, Emily Carr, Herbert Norman, Bishop William White, and Brigadier James Sutherland Brown.

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This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There
Terry Bookman and William Kahn
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ASIN: 1566993334
Release Date: 2006-12-31

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This one-volume guide to a healthy congregation combines the wisdom of a rabbi with the expertise of an organizational development consultant to demonstrate the power of positive relationships and show how to avoid some of the common traps that can lead to serious conflict. Using the life of the synagogue as its central illustration, this book gives vital lessons for congregations of any faith on how to be a healthy community of believers. Leaders and congregants alike are shown how to incorporate all their gifts for the creation and support of a healthy faith community. Synagogue life is considered through case studies--struggles over what to do with an endowment fund, a social action committee that no one joins, changing a worship service time, clergy transitions--which are examined for what they reveal about the strugglesof congregations and their leaders to create healthy institutions. Each chapter integrates organizational theory and faith values in the pursuit of a deeper understanding of synagogue lfie. For non-Jewish congregations, the book offers rich insights into Hebrew texts and culture and the common elements between synagogue and church life. This House We Build enables both clergy and members to learn more deeply about creating and sustaining communities of faith in the course of inevitable transitions and everyday challenges.

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Great Book .......2007-09-10

Prof. Kahn has written a very incisive and accurate portrayal of the tensions and relationships that exist and must be recognized in a modern synagogue or any religious organization. A great benefit to anyone trying to understand the interpersonal dynamics that can hinder the success of any religious organization.

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THE HOUSES WE BUILD
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Houses We Build
Lisl Weil
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The houses we build;
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A representative portfolio of Multifamily Housing projects : we build better neighborhoods : by developing affordable housing, making homeownership a reality, ... and quality service (SuDoc HH 1.2:H 81/90)

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A representative portfolio of Multifamily Housing projects : we build better neighborhoods : by developing affordable housing, making homeownership a reality, ... and quality service (SuDoc HH 1.2:H 81/90)

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Shall we build and maintain a naval establishment?: Speech of Hon. William McAdoo, of New Jersey, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, July 24, 1886

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Shall we build and maintain a naval establishment?: Speech of Hon. William McAdoo, of New Jersey, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, July 24, 1886
William McAdoo
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We build a house ourselves,
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We build a house: The furnishing of House Beautiful homes, no. 1,
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A memoir of Patricia Wolff's life on the road, from 1940-1947, as a saxophonist in the all-girl big band known as Freddie Shaffer and his Victory Sweethearts.

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I Ran Away with an All-Girl Band.......2000-05-17

This is a delightful easy-reading memoir of a young girl growing up in a very interesting time. Patricia Wolff's personal experiences are a joy to read and her descriptions of places and customs of that early forties period especially bring back fond memories for those who were also growing up at the same time.

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