The International Libel Handbook: A Practical Guide for Journalists

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Cruising is the perfect way to see America's last frontier--wildlife and wilderness abound along the state's breathtaking coastline, and are easily seen from the comfort of a deck chair or observation lounge.

Thoroughly updated every year (unlike the rest of the competition), Frommer's Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call is a compact guide that's on top of all the latest developments and offerings in the rapidly changing cruise industry. Our authors, both leading cruise journalists with years of experience, have compiled candid, first-hand reviews of each cruise line and each ship. The easy-to-use ratings, detailed drawings of each ship, and honest evaluations make it easy for you to find the cruise that suits your budget and your personal style, whether you want a luxury liner with fine dining or a small-ship cruise led by serious naturalists.

You'll also find a nature guide that helps you understand what you're seeing, complete with illustrations of glaciers and the various types of whales. We'll show you how to get the best deals and how to maximize your time in the ports of call--all in one concise, pocket-sized volume.

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Concise and informative.......2003-08-07

I bought several books before my Alaska cruise, and this was by far my favorite. It presents all the necessary information about the different cruise lines, ships, routes, and ports of call in an organized fashion without wasting space on glossy photos and rambling chatter. It was very easy to open the book right to the information I wanted. I don't mean to imply that the book is dry, however; the authors do express opinions and the whole thing is a pleasant read. There are nice sections with information about cruising and about the history of the area. This guide does not go into great detail about the larger cities, like Vancouver, but it gives a good overview while still being small and light enough to easily carry on your trip.

Frommer's Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call 2002.......2003-07-05

The book was shipped to me in very good condition and was here in 7 days. I find it very informative and am anxious to see Alaska. We have cruised before and Royal Caribbean is our cruise line of choice. I was interested in the book more for the suggestions for excursions, what the weather would be and what to pack. I would definitely order through amazon again.

Great resource.......2002-04-24

Wow, this is a great book! My wife and I are planning a trip and this book has been worth every penny we spent. It gives you tremendous insight into the various cruise lines, what to expect, do's and don'ts, excursion planning etc.

If you're spending the money to go on an Alaskan cruise, buy this book, it will help you pick the right one for you.

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Now in its Third Edition, Financial Accounting by Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso has been tested and approved in the classroom. This best-selling text has helped students hit the road with a practical set of tools, and the confidence they need to use those tools effectively in making business decisions.

Financial Accounting provides students with an understanding of those concepts that are fundamental to the use of accounting. Starting with a "macro" view of accounting information, the authors present real financial statements and establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information. They motivate students by grounding the discussion in the real world, showing them the relevance of the topics covered to their future career.

Student Workbook: This valuable study guide, written to use side-by-side with the Financial Accounting textbook provides the guidance and assurance you need to exceeed in the course. Included a re study objectives, demonstration problems, true/false and multiple-choice questions, solutions, to exercises, chapter outlines, and blank working papers.

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One of the few good biographies out there.......2005-05-19

At fourteen, I have to read many biographies about famous presidents, since I'm homeschooled and my dad is big on history. He gave me this book to read, and to my surprise, it was the only biography of Lincoln that I have ever read in which I found myself grieving that he was murdered. With every other biography, I was always glad when he finally got shot, just so the book would end already.

Timeless...Made me smile.......2002-05-16

I read this book nearly 7 years ago and still remember a few of the anecdotes with fondness. At the time I was 13 and could appreciate the simple logic of Mr. Lincoln and his sparkling wit. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a nostalgic read that won't confront you with questions about Lincoln's political ambitions or racial attitudes. It is simply about a man, famous though he may have been, he was also smart and funny. In an age when humor is all about hurtful, shock-value jokes, this reminds us that it takes far more to make someone laugh and be able to do so more than 100 years after you are gone.

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Sylvia Sidney fans beware!

Sylvia: A Memoir Of Hollywood Star Sylvia Sidney
Sally Miller
Manufacturer: Synergy Book Service
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0975858106

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Karen Penn- TCM Reviews.......2005-12-14

After renting a rundown house on acreage, the author discovers that it once belonged to a former Hollywood star. Her interest piqued, she starts to do some research on Sylvia Sidney, and via Ms. Sidney's publicist, makes contact.

Thus begins a friendship that lasts until the star's death in 1999.

Throughout this friendship the author comes to feel the true spirit of her new abode, and the run down house slowly evolves into a true home and retreat for not only the author, but also for recovering cancer patients.

This book is more than just a glimpse at the life of a 1930's starlet, it is a reflection of how a person's spirit can influence a home even years after they have left. It is also the story of the author's survival of ovarian cancer, and the difference that one person can make in the lives of many.

The author's sense of self really shines through, and the surprise ending will leave you not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Sylvia Sidney fans beware!.......2005-03-08

This book is a poor quality vanity press publication. Its author is a woman who, while I'm sure a pleasant and well-meaning person, has no connection with the actress beyond a few misguided phone conversations late in Ms. Sidneys life. The book is in no way a "memoir of...Sylvia Sidney" but, in fact, a personal memoir of a woman who has survived cancer and happened to rent a home purported to have once belonged to Sylvia Sidney. Little space in the very brief text is devoted to Sidney, largely concentrating instead on details of the authors experience renovating and/or living in a house, inviting her friends over to visit, opening the home (admirably) as a cancer retreat...but outside of those few phone chats, references to Sylvia Sidney are cursory at best. Periodically referring to "the spirit of Sylvia" in the home does not excuse the fact that this story and, as it turns out, the house itself, has nothing to do with her.

After slogging through the book in search of anything useful regarding Hollywoods most gifted, and neglected, emotional actress, there was at least one surprise: I had long since realized that this was just a book about a person who inadvertently moved into the former home of the star...but in the final pages "Sylvias house" is revealed to be the house next door to Sidneys!

The book illuminates virtually nothing about Sidneys life or career, and any connection the story claims to have to this great overlooked actress is false. I wish the author well, but felt compelled to return this book for a refund. After several decades of following the career of Sylvia Sidney and anticipating the day when a full study of her work and life might be published, this was a "memoir" whose arrival had me delighted...until it arrived.

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This collection takes forward the debate about nineteenth-century domestic space. Most studies tend to focus on the feminized, middle-class "sphere," often using domestic guides and fictional representations of domesticity to generate their arguments. Essay topics include: the Abolitionist interior, childhood space, the consequences of Victorian gas lighting, and much more.

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This book is about understanding, helping, and coping with teenagers through a difficult time of life. It is a book for anyone living or working with teens. What is adolescence all about? What do you do about drugs? How do you punish a teenager? How do you talk sense into their heads? How do teenagers perceive themselves? Each other? The world? Why are they so often angry and surly? Why are they so moody? How can you help teenagers grow up to be mature, happy, “together” people?

The basic idea of this book is that the more you know about the process of adolescent development, the more helpful you can be. It provides a general picture of the adolescent phase as well as specific how-to-do-it suggestions and anecdotes. It covers topics such as:

• The identity crisis of the teen years
• Sex
• Drugs
• Handling the anger of adolescence
• Setting an example of dignity and reason
• Defining tolerance limits
• Exerting control
• Coping with the teen's need for immediacy . . . and more

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The Turbulent Teens: Understanding, Helping, Surviving
James E. Gardner
Manufacturer: Oak Tree Publs.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQI79M

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At the center of Millicent Dillon's provocatively titled You Are Not I burns a mystery. The ever elusive Paul Bowles indirectly captured Dillon's attention. When in Tangier, Morocco, at work on her biography of Jane Bowles (A Little Original Sin, 1981), she was told repeatedly by friends of the Bowles that she bore an uncanny physical resemblance to Jane. For Dillon, this burgeoned into a compulsion, which she found "...unsettling, as if I am overstepping a line, violating that most rudimentary law of biography--not to confuse oneself with one's subject." Alas, in spite of the strong declaration implicit in the biography's title, one is made uncomfortably aware of the author's wavering boundaries. "To be a biographer," Dillon confesses, "meant that I was in the grip of an obsession."

Rejecting chronology as the chief organizing element of her biography, Dillon interweaves the "facts"--mundane and extraordinary--of Bowles's life with both of her Moroccan journeys (the Jane project of 1977; the Paul project of '91), constructing his portrait through their conversations and her subsequent reflections. Such a prismatic approach indeed celebrates Bowles's obliquity as a subject. But then, Millicent Dillon is herself "...in search of a different kind of knowing--one that is consonant with secrecy, one that ... is more akin to the knowing one has of a character in a work of fiction." That unique teasing out of the truth makes You Are Not I an exploration of the form, biography, itself.

Bowles was born on Long Island. As a child he leaned toward musical composition and short story writing. In young adulthood, he would study with Aaron Copland, and later, mingle in Paris with the likes of Gertrude Stein, who advised him to journey to Morocco with Copland to work on music. He married Jane (in 1938); she had had affairs with women only; he'd had bisexual attachments. Paul continued his involvement with avant-garde music; Jane struggled with her novel, Two Serious Ladies. As he helped her, his old love of fiction was triggered, and in 1949, he published The Sheltering Sky, which became an international bestseller. After Jane Bowles's death, Paul's work life receded. It would be Bertolucci's film of The Sheltering Sky (1987) that delivered Bowles back into the public eye.

By risking subjectivity, placing herself firmly in the "process" of biography, Dillon becomes unwilling to make absolute statements about her subject. An annoying cacophony ensues--of impressions, of contradictory and elliptical conversations, the contents of which refuse to be assigned significance. But it's not entirely annoying, for the utter foreignness of Bowles's world flashes through. Along with the accounts of the continuous smoking of cannabis and cigarettes, we're given vivid glimpses of a uniquely bohemian life, carved out of exile.You Are Not I has everything--the romance of the far away; on- the-scene reporting of a place at once sensuous and creepy. It's a guide for those intrigued both with the form of biography and with the life of the writer who would come to fear going out in public; who needed to smoke kif (cannabis) to relieve his almost continuous anxiety; who "abhorred directness." And it is nothing less than a quest to solve some fundamental mystery about the self, as if Millicent Dillon got entangled in a Paul Bowles story and is compelled by the force of the narrative events to ride them through to there exhilarating, perhaps fatal, finish.

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The famously enigmatic writer-composer Paul Bowles is the subject of Millicent Dillon's unforgettable new book. Her portrait of the chameleonlike artist is much more than an account of Bowles's life, however. It is also a meditation on biography that questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of "truth" in the telling of a life.
Millicent Dillon first met Paul Bowles in Tangier in 1977, when she was writing a biography of his wife, the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973. Dillon returned to Morocco in 1992 to work with Bowles on a book about his own life. In Bowles's book-lined apartment often crowded with visitors, Dillon observes the magnetism the aging artist exerts on anyone who comes into his circle. Bowles talks of his difficult childhood and of his grief over Jane's long illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. He is charming and evasive with Dillon, generous and devious. As the book unfolds, Dillon's own reflections and concerns surface alongside details of Bowles's daily life, his physical condition, his interactions with others. Her portrait of the artist is seen simultaneously with her construction of that portrait, and in a kind of literary legerdemain we are able to observe Dillon on the biographical canvas along with Bowles and his deceased wife.
Author of the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky and numerous other works, as well as an acclaimed composer, Paul Bowles has had an immensely rich creative life. Millicent Dillon seems to have been destined to write this unconventional biography of the artist, and the result is wonderful, disturbing, and strangely compelling, like Paul Bowles himself.

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A very revealing portrait of a very reclusive writer.......2004-01-08

Paul Bowles, probably best known for The Sheltering Sky, which arrived on the literary scene in 1949 signaling the impending arrival of that Pandora's Box better known as Postmodernism, was a living literary anachronism. He was the American expatriate artist non plus ultra, the bohemian incarnate, someone who had turned his back on America in a quiet gesture of rebellion to follow his true calling as a writer and composer, travelling the world and finally coming to rest in distant, exotic Tangier. The fact that he'd quit college and run away to Paris to rub shoulders with the literati and surrealists, and had managed to be received by Gertrude Stein, confirmed for many the non-academic view of how one could move up in the world. And the fact that it was Gertrude Stein who suggested to Bowles that he stop writing poetry, and that he should visit Tangier, sanctioned the belief in the life-altering powers of chance and synchronicity, endearing him to the Beats, the hippies, and generations to come.
Above all, it was Bowles' unique stance as an outsider in the otherwise clubby world of literature that appealed to many. Although frequently associated with the Beats, other than a few snapshots where he appears in the company of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, and despite the fact that Bowles was also an experimenter with drugs and their relation to creativity, he really didn't have much in common with the Beats. Bowles was too much the dandy and gentleman, travelling through North Africa in his Jaguar sedan with his Moroccan driver, complete with stacks of trunks and suitcases full of impeccable suits and ties and shoes, sometimes even accompanied by a parrot in a cage, about as far from On The Road as one could get while still being on the road. Bowles was Bowles wherever he went, which seemed to follow a course along the frontier of Western civilization, especially those places where it came into dangerously close contact with primitive or native cultures that had little respect or even understanding of Western ways, a sort of moveable confrontation which formed the basis of the majority of his literary work. His macabre and at time nihilistic stories and novels had more in common with post-war existentialism than anything Beat or beatific.
Despite numerous interviews and articles, as well as several full-scale biographies, the opaque and enigmatic nature of Paul Bowles was already legendary in his own lifetime. Even his autobiography, Without Stopping (dubbed Without Telling by William Burroughs), told the reader basically nothing. Millicent Dillon, an excellent writer in her own right, and editor of Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970, as well as The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles, already proved her acumen and talent for biographical writing with her highly acclaimed book, A Little Original Sin, The Life and Works of Jane Bowles. In You Are Not I, A portrait of Paul Bowles, Dillon pushes the envelope of biographical writing to new extremes. Much of this book is based on her visits to Tangier to interview Paul Bowles for her biography of his wife, Jane. Gradually, the idea for a book about Paul Bowles himself began to take shape, a project which began in 1992. Eschewing the standard chronological mode of biography, Dillon has opted for an innovative blend of factual material, conversations, and speculation, using her first meeting with Bowles in 1977 as a point of departure. Utilizing the intimacy of her relationship with Paul Bowles that was established during Dillon's research and countless interviews concerning his wife, it required only a subtle shift to put the focus on Bowles himself. What follows is an absorbing narrative which eventually becomes a self-reflexive consideration of the biographical process itself. The penetrative nature of Dillon's questioning and Bowles' frank answers sometimes pushed their conversations into the realm of psychodrama. The resulting "portrait" is astonishingly detailed and revealing, simultaneously expanding and deconstructing the existing parameters of biographical writing, a biography turned "inside out."
The Paul Bowles that emerges remains as enigmatic as ever, but thanks to Dillon's oblique line of inquiry and sensitivity to her subject, we are given a rare opportunity to peer behind the sphinx-like facade of one of the twentieth century's most complex and inscrutable writers.

A portrait of who?.......2002-08-01

I have to agree with another reviewer, I didn't think it was a radical new direction for biography either... I'm not even done with the book yet and I'm still waiting for Ms. Dillon to begin shifting the focus of her investigations away from herself and Jane Bowles.
Right now I'm thinking that perhaps I'd prefer reading The Invisible Spectator by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. Maybe that would be a better portrait of Mr. Bowles...

Was she had?.......1998-08-10

Just finished the book. Fascinating in its detail about Bowles' life in North Africa. But, a new form of biography? No, I don't think so. Rather, a series of extended interviews with Dillon's highly subjective and personal analytical apparatus attached to them. Or, simply a memoir. I think there is a great danger of loss of perspective when a writer admires his / her subject too much, as well as admiring too much his / her relationship with the subject. I had this uncanny feeling all throughout the book that Bowles, as he did with other people he knew, was stringing Dillon along, knowing he could hand here just about anything for posterity. The photograph on the back fold of the dust jacket speaks volumes, as Dillon gazes in what looks like rapture upon an apparently inert Bowles. He wasn't that good of a writer. And, I disagree with both of them. Sheltering Sky was a fine film....

Yes! Read this book........1998-06-20

Yes, read this book. I liked it because I felt I was in this exotic, strangely present yet distant place, with Paul & Millicent Dillon. And also Jane. Maybe you know what I mean if you like Paul Bowles.

This is a loving book. It is a pleasant place to be -- with elements of disturbance, as you would expect. It is an addition to what you already have.

Bowles insight, Dillon too interested in herself........1998-06-19

Having spent a good deal of time reading the work of Paul Bowles, I found it an interesting read for the fact that it gave insight to Bowles and his recollections of life in a fascinating time. A time of which he shaped a piece. He's a tremendously interesting character, all the more engaging because of his modesty and self effacing style.

I found Millicent Dillon's style to be rather annoying, however. Dillon constantly returns to a focus on herself. She writes endlessly about herself, how she feels, how she writes, how she fits into it all - and that's not why I bought the book. I wanted to read about Bowles, and found Dillon putting herself into way too much of the book. She'd never be mistaken for a fly on the wall.

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You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Allen Hibbard
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Allen Hibbard
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Page: 228

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You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: World Literature Today

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You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: World Literature Today

Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
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Title: You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.(Review)(Brief Article)
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74 Issue: 1 Page: 170

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You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.: An article from: American Scholar

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You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.: An article from: American Scholar
Steve Kellman
Manufacturer: Phi Beta Kappa Society
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ASIN: B00098ALBG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles.
Author: Steve Kellman
Publication: American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Volume: v67 Issue: n3 Page: p140(3)

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