Oman Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook Library)

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Oman Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook Library)
USA International Business Publications
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739722263

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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Oman Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

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Oman Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Oman Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)

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Oman Investment & Business Opportunities Yearbook (World Investment & Business Opportunities Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739713272

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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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Oman Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business and Investment Opportunities Library)
Igor Oleynik
Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00005R55K
Release Date: 2006-01-01

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Major investment, export-import and other Strategic business opportunities and contacts, basic info for conducting business in the country

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Major investment, export-import and other strategic business opportunities and contacts, basic information for conducting business in the country

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Smart, contemporary and compact guide helping travellers discover more from their city visit. Covers main attractions but also gives the freedom to escape the tourist trail.

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All you need in Naples.......2003-03-05

I bought this book based on my previous experiences with Footprint guides -- I love their South America books -- and it was perfect for my five-day visit to Naples. It provides a well integrated mix of historical and current city info, with useful maps and really stunning photos (though color would be nice; next edition, maybe?).

Plus, it didn't weigh down my bag. Unlike some pocket guides, this one really does fit in your pocket. It's all you need to get around -- no more, no less. I felt totally hooked in to what's going on in Naples -- hopefully they'll add lots more titles to this series.

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1998 Guide to Sales and Use Taxes (Serial)
RIA
Manufacturer: Research Inst of Amer
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0781101662

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1998 U.S. Master Sales and Use Tax Guide

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ASIN: 080800168X

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Now in its Fourth Edition, Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso's Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making has been tested and approved in the classroom. Whether you measure classroom success by improved grades, students who are better prepared for the Intermediate course and their future careers, or by student evaluations at the end of the semester, Financial Accounting delivers real results.

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No Code Included With Purchse Of "New" Text From Amazon
accounting
Good for its purpose -- learning
Great Book for Non-Finance Managers
simple and easy understanding

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Paul D. Kimmel , Jerry J. Weygandt , and Donald E. Kieso
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Diskette

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ASIN: 047137184X

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This exciting, practical introduction arms readers with a practical set of tools, and the confidence to use those tools effectively in making business decisions. It begins with a macro view of accounting information by presenting real financial statements. The authors clearly establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, operating, and investing activities of a business.

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No Code Included With Purchse Of "New" Text From Amazon.......2007-08-30

Potential Buyers,

If you are a student who is taking an accounting course and your instructor requires you to use the accompanying Wiley Plus website, do not expect to get a Wiley Plus, registration code with this product.

I purchased the text "new" directly from Amazon for an accounting class I am taking and I assumed that I would recieve the registration code I needed; I assumed wrong as there was no registration code included with my book.

If you do need the code for class and you do choose to buy this book from Amazon, you'll be best off buying the cheapest, used edition and going to the Wiley Plus site directly to get a standard registration code for around $60 dollars. Of Course keep in mind shipping costs may eat up any savings you'd get buying from Amazon in the first place!

The 1 star review actually reflects my dissatisfaction with the description of this product on Amazon's site, and not the quality of the text.

Happy Shopping!

accounting.......2007-07-17

the book arrived a little later than i expected; but, it's a very helpful book if you want to go for accounting. the book's website is extremely useful.

Good for its purpose -- learning.......2007-05-28

The authors have put together a text that is long on examples. It might seem redundant to some, but I think this is the right way to teach a process discipline like accounting.

Much of the book is problem sets, in fact.

Let's see, the chapters begin with study objectives. Then there are highlighted "key points." Then at the end of each lesson, there are demonstration problems, self-study questions, questions, a set of brief exercises, exercises, then problem sets A and B.

I bought the 3rd edition, although the 4th is now available. The fourth edition has different problems in the first two chapters. In many instances, only the names of the company and an occasional number are different. It would matter if you are taking this for a class where the homework is graded. If your purpose is to learn the principles that underly financial accounting, though, you are as well served by the 3rd edition.

Great Book for Non-Finance Managers.......2007-02-24

This was a textbook used in my Managerial Finance class. It was easy to understand, aside from just a few concepts not explained as clearly as I would've liked. My background is engineering, however, I learned a great deal from this book. Great job Kimmel.

simple and easy understanding.......2007-01-05

the book provides examples and graphs to help demonstrate the text.

it has a lot of details and online reviews if u want to learn more and deeper

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madhu.......2004-03-11

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In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house with its eight sides enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past, but now as a concept for domestic architecture it had a dedicated and convincing champion. Fowler's books, stressing the functional and stylistic advantages of the octagon house, found many readers and several hundred followers who sprinkled the landscape from New England to Wisconsin with eight-sided houses, barns, churches, schoolhouses, carriage houses, garden houses, smokehouses, and privies. Fowler's creative idea for an octagon house came to him while contemplating a design for his own home. He wondered why there had been so little advancement in architectural design, particularly given the preponderance of scientific advancements. Looking for a radical change in house style, Fowler questioned why the spherical form that is predominant in nature was not employed in architecture. The constraint of right angles for the framing of houses was the obvious reason. Fowler thought "Why not have our houses six-, eight-, 12-or 20-sided? Why not build after some mathematical figure?" The solution: the octagon. Since octagons enclose more floor space per linear foot than comparable squares or rectangles, Fowler claimed they cost less to build and reduced heat loss. He also insisted octagons allowed in more sunlight and had better ventilation than conventional houses; owners of these unusual homes found that the improved light and ventilation went into the triangular closets and pantries that occupied the octagons' angles.

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Home for All or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building
O.S. Fowler
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A home for all,: Or the gravel wall and octagon mode of building; new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor

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O. S Fowler
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A home for all or The gravel wall and octagon mode of building new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor: Showing the superiority of ... ; the working-man's dwellings, etc., etc
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Marketing That Never Goes Out of Style.

You can not find a better idea marketing book

Gave me more ideas than any I've read!

Spark a thought!

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301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies

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301 do-it-yourself marketing ideas developed-- and proven to work-- by the country's most innovative companies.

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Marketing That Never Goes Out of Style........2005-02-23

This book provides what most business and marketing books lack. It tells you HOW to incorporate real, practical, and useful ideas for marketing your business into your everyday operations. I have had this book since 1999 and I refer to it over and over again. Excellent book!

You can not find a better idea marketing book.......2002-12-24

If you do not file 20 or even a few more or a whole lot of ideas to bring profit to your business with this book, you never will.
You will find strange and wonderful ways and places to advertise with the ideas in this book:

49 techiques for inproving sales
48 Marketing ideas using new technology
60 Inventive ways to outperform the competition
57 unique tactics for direct marketing and distribution
31 tips for creating effective collateral
33 strategies for building your customer base

And an Introduction by none other than Jay Conrad Levison, The Guerrilla Marketing Genius.

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Gave me more ideas than any I've read!.......2002-06-29

This is BY FAR the best book I've read of marketing ideas. It contains not just the "ideas", but also actual case histories of the ideas and WHY they worked for that particular company. I have 4 solid pages of notes from this book of things I'd like to try....both for the home-based business I'm starting and for the marketing communications company I work for. Other books I've read (and there have been a lot) are too general and are not creative enough. There are dozens and dozens of ways to market, and this is the only book I've read that explores ideas that are off the beaten path (and work because of that). Examples: pay others in complimentary businesses a finder's fee to give you business; sponsor association site (offer discount to members); have defunct company's phone message refer customers to your business (with you paying balance of Yellow Pages fee in return). Just a sample of the simple but effective ideas found in this book.

Spark a thought!.......2001-07-06

This is a great book to get you thinking about all the possibilities that are available to you. It was exactly what I was looking for. As a small business owner, I am always looking for more ideas.

Nice approach.......2000-06-01

A real bargain for the price. For the small business person or someone who just wants to add a small twist to their marketing campaign, this is a reasonable and fun source.

301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas : From America's Most Innovative Small Companies

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301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas : From America's Most Innovative Small Companies
Sam (editor) Inc. Magazine Editors; Decker
Manufacturer: Thomson Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KP3P8E

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Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time. His music crossed boundaries of genre and form to include opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and film and incidental music. The result of twenty years of research, Benjamin Britten provides up-to-date and comprehensive details about Britten's life and music, including works, performances, and recordings--an effort never before undertaken. Certain to be of use to any scholar of British music or 20th century composition, this reference work is an invaluable addition to the literature on this important artist. Following a brief biography of the subject, author Stewart Craggs provides a complete list of works and performances, arranged by genre; a discography, and an annotated bibliography. Rounding out the volume are two lists of compositions, one arranged alphabetically and the other chronologically, and a general index.

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Fitting tribute to a great man...........2005-09-23

I feel duty bound to write given there is only one other review and it gives this book only one star! The editorial review by Marcia Posner is much more reliable than the reader review. This is an excellent book, don't be put off by a most unfair reader review.

SOMEWHAT MISLEADING TITLE...........2005-09-21

Weisenthal didn't track down anyone in the spy sense. He interviewed them and was a great man in this area of expertise. The author misleads you with the title.

I liked Simon Wiesenthal's own memoirs, "The Murderers Among Us", a whole lot more.

The best TRACKER story is the great PETER MALKIN! Read Malkins books: 1.) Eichmann in My Hands, 2.) Ultimatum PU 94 (aka Peter Mann) and the extremely rare collectible 3.) Carlos Must Die.

MALKIN and WIESENTHAL both died in 2005.

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Thought provoking
Not a work of scholarship
maybe a thriller, surely not a biography
Riveting...Then Boring
A great addition to Holocaust literature

Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File
Alan Levy
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 078671090X

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This is the remarkable story of a man who has become a legend in his own lifetime. Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Second World War. With the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeleton. Since then, he has achieved international renown for his tireless tracking down of Nazi war criminals—including his capture of Eichmann, the “desk murderer” who masterminded Hitler’s Final Solution, and Stangl the overlord of Treblinka—and for his pursuit of Mengele of Auschwitz, the dreaded “Angel of Death.” To this day his work continues, his motivation simply expressed in the words: “Justice, not vengeance.” The accounts of inspired detective work that lie behind Wiesenthal’s successful apprehension of the fugitives reads as excitingly as any thriller, but Alan Levy’s book is much more than that. It is an award-winning examination of the work of one of the greatest Jewish figures of the twentieth century. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs bring to life this gripping account of the life-long pursuit of justice by the man who declared “So long as the criminals are free, the war has not ended for me.” “Wiesenthal has played his part in a disturbing episode of post-war history. [A] readable and intelligent book.”—The Times (London)

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Thought provoking.......2007-04-12

This is an unusually well written book. The sections on Weisenthal's early years are fascinating, but ultimately, this is not a biography, as it is the story of Weisenthal's " clients " which is the most haunting. Don't agree with other reviewers that the book is non critical of Weisenthal - within a supportive framework, the author makes it quite clear just how hopelessly wrong Weisenthal got it on Mengele, and there are plenty of quotes from his detractors, including leading Jews.

One of the best books on the Holocaust and its aftermath I have read.

Not a work of scholarship.......2006-07-22

This book is well intentioned and should certainly be read, but it is not a work of scholarship. It is poorly written too. It is frustrating.

The book does not live up to its title. The author reveals little of Wiesenthal's files. For that, it is recommended you turn to Wiesenthal's books.

The book is poorly structured, bounding together several biographical entries, largely unconnected with one another. Some entries span a few pages, others span over one hundred. The main entries concern Eichmann, Wallenberg, Mengele, Stangl. Raoul Wallenberg the hero finds himself squeezed between mass murderers Eichmann and Mengele.

This is the sort of book that makes you want to read more, to look up details, to check facts, to find out more. It creates needs more than it satisfies them. It is a frustrating book.

The book is well intentioned, but poorly written. It consists of a string of assertions that are not backed up by references. It suffers from the weaknesses of an eyewitness account, except that the writer, Alan Levy, has not witnessed anything himself. And he does not tell us where his facts come from.

In several places, Alan Levy corrects Simon Wiesenthal. Wiesenthal's writings are full of mistakes, we are told. Alan Levy compares the two versions of Wiesenthal's memoirs to show how his views have changed over time. He corrects this or that assertion, but because he never tells us where his facts come from, this is a useless exercise bordering on the profane.

Simon Wiesenthal was not a scholar and he has often been wrong. But this is mostly because he relied on eyewitnesses' accounts and anonymous denunciations. It is also because, driven as he was by a desire to bring to justice nazi mass murderers, his strategy was to keep the hunt alive by publicizing believeable nazi spottings as well as not-so-believeable spottings. What reasons does Alan Levy have for writing such a sloppy book?

This is a frustrating book because it is full of facts we would like to check, but cannot because there are no references to the sources.

Turn instead to: Raoul Wallenberg, by Sharon Linnea. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, by Gitta Sereny (this is a biography of Stangl). Mengele: The Complete Story, by Gerald L. Posner. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt. The Sunflower, by Simon Wiesenthal.

maybe a thriller, surely not a biography.......2006-04-02

I was quite disappointed by this book (I hesitated between 2 and 3 stars, and finally opted for 2, to balance the enthusiastic reviews that this book gets)
When I started reading it, i had great expectations. Here was a book that would tell me the story of Simon wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust that swore to hunt Nazi around the world, and bring them in front of justice.
The description of wartime and the horror of concentration camps is quite good (although anything written by Primo Levi is much better). The wartime life of wiesenthal himself is well described, although it sounds a little romanticized. It could have set the ground to understand what drove this man in his postwar hunt. But that's where the disappointment comes : it doesn't. The book goes back and forth between a mere collection of facts and a blindly admirative account of Wiesenthal's life. Whatever Wiesenthal says is right, whatever Wiesenthal does is great. What this book lacks is independant investigation. The author seems to be satisfied with Wiesenthal accounts on pretty much everything in the book. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Wisenthal lied on anything. But a biograph should not rely solely on the testimonies of his subject. And when he does quote somebody else, the quote is not properly referenced (there is a certain flakiness in Levy's journalistic methods).
Rather than giving fuzzy criticism, let's look at one particular example:
Page 136 is symptomatic of the lazy writing in this book : the first part of the page is a long citation of Annah Arendt, explaining how Eichman got out of Europe after the war (Levy doesn't give the reference of the quote). Then he goes on to quote an ecclesiast who helped Eichman getting out, testifying how he didn't realized that the person he was helping was a Nazi (Levy also ironizes about the fake innocence of the priest). Here, once again, we don't know where the quote is coming from. Did Levy directly asked the ecclesiast ? I doubt. More probably Levy got this quote from Wiesenthal himself (probably from one of his books). This is symptomatic from this book : it comes so close from a direct testimony of Wiesenthal that he even forgets to remind us when he actually is quoting him. So then, why not just reading one of Wiesenthal's books instead?
This is just an example taken randomly. Other -more serious- points on which Levy doesn't take much distance from Wiesenthal include :
-when Wiesenthal proposed that Eichman be dressed a a Nazi during his trial (page 156, Levy qualifies this idea as "emotionally right", I personally find it grotesque)
-On the controversy between Wiesenthal and Israel's secret services as to who took the most important part in Eichman's capture (once again, all we have his Wiesenthal point of view, taken for granted).

The function of a biography (and this book is advertised as a biography) is to give a balanced, honest account on one man's personality, not trying to hide its complexity. On that regard, Alan Levy partially fails.
As I read again my comments, I realize that I have been a little bit harsh. The book is not bad, it is just that it is written more like a thriller than a book on history.

Riveting...Then Boring.......2005-02-03

First of all, I'd like to state the book (most of it) was quite riveting. Levy begins with a look at Wiesenthal's experience as a young Jew in pre-war Europe. He later chronicles Simon's life during the war in the camps and his search for his family after the war. The stories make for fascinating reading. Then, Levy writes how Simon got into the business of Nazi hunting.

The chapters describing the hunts for Adolf Eichmann (and the rivals between Mossad and Wiesenthal), Josef Mengele, and Franz Stangl were absoluting quality reading. After the chapters on these three Nazis, and the brief chapter on the concentration camp guards, the book takes a different path and describes the ordeal of Raoul Wallenberg. Although Wallenberg was not a Nazi, but a humanist dedicating to saving the lives of Jews, I had to ask myself what this chapter was doing in the book. Nevertheless, it was quite fascinating to read about the ordeal Wallenberg faced and to read what actually happened to him during the war, and especially, after the war.

At this point, you can quit reading the book. The next chapters dealt with Bruno Kriesky and Kurt Waldheim. I didn't have a clue who Bruno was. (I believe he became chancellor of Austria during the '70s). Why was he in this book? As far as I can tell, it was due to Simon and Bruno not liking each other. Bruno was a Jew who claimed that he was not a Jew and tried to distance himself from Jews during the war. He didn't kill any Jews, so why have his story in this book? It's wasted space.

As far as Waldheim is concerned, the jury appears to be out as far as his guilt is concerned. There never seems to be direct evidence pointing to Waldheim as to whether he was responsible for killing partisans (or at least KNEW some killings took place)
in Yugoslavia. Waldheim's superiors (during the war) say that he did not have the authority to kill or order killings; a sargaent who reported to Waldheim said that he did. Some say he was present at the time the killings took place; others said he was not. Some say that as part of intelligence, and as a lowly lieutenant, Waldheim would not have known about partisan killings. Others said how did he not know? If no one knows the truth, why read it about in this book? Even the Yugoslavian government has refused to prosecute. So, I may ask, why fill 150 pages of this book if there is no conclusive evidence that Waldheim is guilty? The later part of these chapters were very boring. The book was about hunting murderous NAZIS, not about people who were ashamed of being Jewish or about German Army officers.

The book should have included the hunt for Nazi Klaus Barbie and other Nazis who eluded capture for many years. Then, I would have rated this book 4 stars. But, to include chapters on Bruno Kriesky and Kurt Waldheim? A real time waster.

A great addition to Holocaust literature.......2003-07-11

Alan Levy does an excellent job documenting both the life of Weisenthal and of the killers he hunted. One of the most striking points is the change in the ideas and attitude of these war criminals from the pre- to post- war period. The continued complicity of governments in hiding these fugitives until today is unbelievable as is the existence of clandestine organizations such as Odessa, which directly assist them.

One of the most interesting parts of the book I found was about Kurt Waldheim and the struggle that former military personal have with admission of their involvement with the German army. Living in Europe, it is easy to assume the collective guilt of the older generation of Germans and Austrians, but much harder to imagine the choices they faced both during and after the war. We get to imagine it from both the side of master and slave in the course of this book. I am currently living in a former Communist country, where Stb agents (Czech KGB) and Communist party members were some of the first to profit from the change to capitalism, so I can clearly imagine in some ways how the post-war period was for both Germany and Austria. The inclination to forget the past and move on is great, and yet, at least here, the same "leaders" have managed to change outfits with such little protest. It is 12 years since the fall of communism and there have been so few investigations here of the crimes of former government officials, that the situation seems comic. The people of Czechoslavakia just as the Germans did before them, want to forget, and yet justice will only be done when people with Simon Weisenthal's courage and drive become involved.

Levy goes to great lengths to highlight the Weisenthal coda defining the difference between a war criminal and personnel who were aware and complicit during the time war crimes were occurring. Weisenthal placed a great deal of emphasis on both truth and morality in his work, but the author shows balance in pointing out that he didn't always get it right.

Book Description

Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal turned his personal pain into a tireless quest for justice. As the world's most famous Nazi hunter, Wiesenthal tracked the war criminals who planned and carried out the systematic murder of six million European Jews.

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"Please don't forget us!".......2000-09-01

"And don't forget our murderers!" These words from a Jewish woman about to be killed by Nazi soldiers were a battle cry to Simon Wiesenthal. After his miraculous survival of the death camps, he dedicated his life to tracking down war criminals. At times his ego and love of publicity undermined him; other times it was these traits plus his singleminded determination that resulted in successful findings and prosecutions. Altman does not use a dry textbook style but writes almost in novel form with chapters subdivided by catchy headings. There are boxed features on some of the more notorious, along with victims and others, black and white photographs, notes, bibliography, and index.

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Amazing book, a must read

Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal
Iris Noble
Manufacturer: Julian Messner
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Amazing book, a must read.......2000-04-18

"Nazi Hunter, Simon Weisenthal" is easily the best book I've ever read. It tells the cold truth about the Holocaust from a real persons' point of view. Simon was an amazing person who dedicated his life to finding S.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of innocent people during World War II. This book has truth, courage, strength and suspense. An awesome read.

Simon Wiesenthal.(Editorials)(Nazi hunter's motto was 'justice, not vengeance')(Editorial): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Simon Wiesenthal.(Editorials)(Nazi hunter's motto was 'justice, not vengeance')(Editorial): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Release Date: 2005-09-27

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Simon Wiesenthal.(Editorials)(Nazi hunter's motto was 'justice, not vengeance')(Editorial)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: A6

Article Type: Editorial

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Nazi Hunter - the Wiesenthal File - How Simon Wiesenthal Hunted Down the Nazi War Criminals

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Nazi Hunter - the Wiesenthal File - How Simon Wiesenthal Hunted Down the Nazi War Criminals
Alan Levy
Manufacturer: Robinson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VKJ9CY

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