Saint Vincent and Grenadines Business Intelligence Report (Us Regional Investment & Business Library)

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Saint Vincent and Grenadines Business Intelligence Report (Us Regional Investment & Business Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739781685

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Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Business Intelligence Report (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739726420

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

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Representation Before the Appeals Division of the IRS; Volume 1 & 2
Arthur H. Boelter
Manufacturer: Thomson/West
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: B000X9PSDC

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#40496063. This text analyzes how to work the Appeals Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), using the Internal Revenue Manual and the authors own extensive experience. It provides the practical how-to information needed to effectively represent your client on appeals and significantly reduce client debt. Supplies strategies to use at appeals, including discussion of statutes of limitations. This workbook also discusses how to prepare for and handle cases in the complex areas of TEFRA partnership and S corporation audits and appeals. Includes forms used by Appeals and Examination and illustrations of how these are completed.

Representation Before the Appeals Division of the IRS (Client Representation Workbooks)

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Representation Before the Appeals Division of the IRS (Client Representation Workbooks)
Arthur H Boelter
Manufacturer: Callaghan & co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9991764925

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This classic reference continues to serve as the ultimate guide for every professional and small business owner involved with business valuation. Beginning with the fundamentals, Shannon Pratt takes readers through the entire valuation process, with new information: Cash value analysis; Valuing minority interests; Court decisions affecting the valuation of specific types of professional practices.

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Required reading.......2007-05-22

Required reading if you are in the appraisal business, even though it is a little dated.

A Must Have for the Valuation Library.......2006-04-11

I open this book every time I do a valuation. It is a great resource when you need to refresh your memory. The example of a professional practice valuation has been especially helpful. It's probably a little much for the business owner wanting to estimate the value of his/her business, but I would definitely recommend it to a professional.

Worth every penny!.......2003-04-06

Business Valuation is the single largest niche practice area for the CPA today. Dr. Pratt covers an extensive amount of material in this text. No valuation specialist should be without this text in his or her reference library.

great reference book for valutions for beginners or advanced.......1999-01-03

This is a great book for a business library

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The definitive biography of Spain's enigmatic king, a riveting work of late-twentieth-century history.

Paul Preston, the author of the definitive biography Franco, explores the political and personal mysteries of the Spanish monarch's life in Juan Carlos, a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail. Handed over to the Franco regime as a young boy, Juan Carlos was raised according to authoritarian traditions designed to make him a cornerstone of the dictatorship. How then did he later emerge as an emphatic defender of the democracy that began to form after Franco's death? In his peerless voice, Preston provides the details necessary to answer this central question, examining the king's troubled relationship with his father and his vital work in consolidating parliamentary democracy in Spain. What begins as the story of one monarch becomes at once a history of modern Spain and an indispensable exegesis of how democracies come to be. 16 pages of b/w illustrations.

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Crucial Times.......2006-11-08

This is an immensely detailed account of the life of Juan Carlos. It's not a book to skip through quickly - the author goes into exhaustive detail, and much concentration is needed to absorb the casade of events and long list of characters. You cannot complain at the end of it that you have no knowledge of the life of Juan Carlos and no apprecation of the difficulties faced by the Spanish in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the death of Franco.

The story is told not just on a political level, but on a personal one too, particularly concentrating on the young prince's arrival in Francoist Spain at the age of 10, having been sent there by his father Don Juan with the aim of placing the boy under Franco's tutelage, thus supposedly increasing Don Juan's chances of eventually succeeding the Caudillo. Preston devotes a great deal of space to the uncertainties and machinations surrounding the subject of the succession and the re-establishment of the monarchy - it was no means certain that either Don Juan or Juan Carlos would succeed. Relations between Juan Carlos, his father and Franco were often strained.

Preston then describes the handling of the transition to democracy and the threat of coups by the army, culminating in the February 1981 coup attempt. The King's role in protecting the newly-born democracy seems to have been crucial.

Whatever criticism is made of the role of monarchies in other states, it seems that modern Spain found the monarch it needed.

G Rodgers

Good but a little hard to understand.......2006-11-03

I made the mistake of thinking this was just a biography on Juan Carlos but instead its a complex read on Spain during the dictatorship and how it became a democrarcy again. It was a good book and well written but a little difficult to understand.

masterful analysis, but a trying read.......2005-05-17

If I were rating this book on content alone, Preston would get 5 stars. However, his writing style hampers him somewhat. This unique biography traces what is supposedly the life of King Juan Carlos of Spain, a man for whom I have immense respect, from the fall of Alfonso XIII to the present, but it winds up being a historical analysis of the transition of Spain out of the Franco regime, similar to Preston's Triumph of Democracy in Spain, which I read for school, only longer and with more focus on Juan Carlos. I was initially disappointed because I wanted personal information about the king, [...]Or somehow get a copy of The King by Jose Luis de Vilallonga (good luck, I had to order it used from Australia). However, this book contains more information and analysis about Francoist and post-Francoist Spain than you will ever need in your entire life. Preston tells the tale largely with a mind for the role of Juan Carlos in it (the manipulation by his father, the restoration, the initial democratic difficulties, etc.) but this winds up being so complex that he constantly goes elsewhere. I liked the book but you need to read it in small chunks, because his writing is exhausting. It's very complex and dry and full of untranslated Spanish and acronyms, so don't read this while you're tired or you won't remember a thing. Preston obviously has a lot of enthusiasm for the subject, though, which comes across in his writing and the sheer volume of the work. Buy this book if you want a long, scholarly read!

Definitely a masterpiece!.......2005-02-21

The complete title of Paul Preston's book on the present Spanish monarch-- "Juan Carlos, Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy"--says it all. If you want to read about the king and his love of fast cars and beautiful women, consult the tabloids. Several biographies of his wife, Queen Sofía, a woman admired and beloved by most Spaniards for her strength, humanity, and dignity, have been written in Spanish. There are also many magazine articles about her in both Spanish and English. The author does assume that the reader has some knowledge of Spanish history. For those who don't, he has written a number of other books on the subject ("The Coming of the Spanish Civil War", "The Points of Revenge", and "A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War").

When I lived in Spain in the sixties, the prevailing opinion of most of my friends was that, when Franco died, the society would plunge in another civil war as Juan Carlos would never be able to stand up to the generals and lead the country toward becoming a democracy. Undoubtedly this is one of the reasons I found fascinating the abundance of details of how the king was able to do exactly that. Preston's book is a complete study of the process that does not cater to sensationalism. For that I also consider it a "masterpiece".

The Good King.......2004-09-26

Royalty demands sycophancy from its subjects, and this is especially the case for royal biography. Notwithstanding that it doesn't take too much for people to realize that most monarchs are deeply unattractive people. Whether it is the selfish, irresponsible house of Savoy so acutely delineated in Denis Mack Smith's Italy and its Monarchy, or the houses of Hohenzollern and Romanov leading their countries to disaster, or the fundamentally mediocre British monarchy as seen in the essays of David Cannadine, or for that matter Juan Carlos' irresponsible, shallow brother-in-law, Constantine II, the last king of Greece, monarchs are people who believe the rest of the world owes them a living.

In 1931 it seemed that the Spanish branch of the Bourbons had met its own well-deserved fate, as King Alfonso went into exile and his countrymen formed a democratic republic. As Preston puts it, the royal family does not take exile well. Hemophiliac uncles, morganatic marriages, adulterous affairs, a deaf and dumb uncle whose son will be used by Preston to make Juan Carlos' life even more miserable, it all looked most unpromising. One detail that comes to mind is a picture of a four year old Juan Carlos in military uniform. It was only after he had been standing in it for hours that people realized that his books were too small and his feet had been rubbed raw. But on the whole this is a picture of Juan Carlos that is fairly sympathetic to him. After he appears on the scene, there is little gossip of the Eurotrash aspect of things. (Although we do learn that Juan Carlos accidentally shot his brother to death.)

Juan Carlos, born in 1938, and his father Don Juan had to find a way to restore the monarchy after the Spanish Civil war. The problem was simple. Franco at the time made monarchist sentiments and many monarchists were among his followers. The problem was that he had no desire of sharing power with anyone, and himself had little respect for the previous monarchy which had tolerated a limited parliamentarianism. He suspected Don Juan might try to reconcille his divided country, and remove it from Franco's regime of divine vindictiveness. The problem for Don Juan, who spent most of Franco's reign living in Portugal, was that he had little to offer and little power to use it. Although much of the Francoist elite would have prefered to see a monarchy, they were not going to risk their power trying to force the issue. And so for until 1968 Don Juan waited, endured Franco's condescension and lies, occasionally got angry, was separated from his son for long periods of time at considerable psychological stress for both of them, and ended up doing what Franco wanted. Franco got the idea that Juan Carlos might be more ameneable to Francoist propaganda and so in 1948 he was sent to Spain and educated under Falangist tuetalage. Finally after two decades of toying with them, Franco made Juan Carlos, not his father, his heir apparent.

Juan Carlos' prospects were not promising. Being made heir was better than having to look over his shoulders at Carlist and other pretenders. But now he, although of generally liberal opinions, was stuck in a regime that was firmly reactionary. Franco had no desire to step down, and would remain in power almost until the very end. Consistently he and his entourage took the most reactionary path. Had his prime minister Carrero Blanco not been assassinated in 1973 by Basque separatists, the transition to democracy would have been much more difficult. And even when Franco grew less malevolent as old age, senility and death came upon him (the last a process that took months to complete) Juan Carlos still had to worry about the reactionary entourage of Franco's wife.

And then Preston discusses how Juan Carlos managed to ease out the more reactionary Francoists from the cabinet, got the more moderate Suarez to make a transition to power, and, most dramatic of all, stopped the coup of February 1981 by making his clear his unconditional oppostion to it. For this transition to democracy Juan Carlos is beloved by his subjects and the Spanish monarchy appears as stable as Britain, Scandinavia and the Benelux countries. There are some points I would like to mention here. For a start, although there is new detail, much of the storyline can be seen in Preston's earlier books "Franco" and "The Triumph of Spanish Democracy." Second, one should point out that Juan Carlos was assisted by the Spanish Socialist and Communist parties, who agreed to let Juan Carlos remain, instead of pointing out that he had no popular mandate to do so. Third, it does seem unfair that the Spanish monarchy should get the credit for Juan Carlos' bravery, since the same crisis is not likely to be repeated again, and the absence of republicanism in contemporary Spain appears less as an act of gratitude than the whole post-socialist failure of imagination.

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Composers give a unique and powerful voice to the stories we see on the big screen. Those who work principally with one type of film may leave a unique imprint on an entire genre. James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s he was one of horrorÂ’s definitive and distinctive voices, scoring many of HammerÂ’s best-known films, including Dracula. This critical biography details BernardÂ’s life from struggle to success. More than just a biography, however, it is also a meticulous examination of his music, including its intricate mechanisms and the many sources of BernardÂ’s inspiration. Movie scores examined include The Quatermass Experiment, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Reviews of BernardÂ’s work and reminiscences of the composer himself add depth and personal feeling to the biography. A music glossary and a filmography complete the work.

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With the story of one American family--the Vickerys of Unity, Maine--Andrea Hawkes tells the history of our country and explores the power of connections, beginning with the first generation of Vickerys from England who founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, then following the fifth generation to the District of Maine just before the American Revolution as they extended the family network from Cape Elizabeth, east to Calais, and north to Unity where succeeding generations thrived for the next two hundred years. In the late 1800s the ninth generation of Vickerys expanded the family network in Maine across the United States to the Montana and Wyoming borderlands, and their stories of pioneer ranching and mining mirror the entrepreneurial spirit of their colonial ancestors.

Drawing in part from the extensive genealogical research of the late James B. Vickery III, Hawkes shapes a continuum of family stories that is richly peopled and finely detailed. From peril and tragedy in Puritan fishing communities, to "following a trail of spotted trees through the woods" to Unity, to the experiences and attitudes of women on remote sheep ranches in Montana, Hawkes keeps a keen historian's eye on the facts while weaving a fascinating tale.

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American History told through a Family.......2006-08-21

Andrea Constantine Hawkes has done a wonderful job of describing New England social history through the lens of a family, the Vickerys. The Vickery history starts with fishermen in Massachusetts Bay who later settle in a farming community in mid state Maine, Unity. It is the most reader friendly geneology I've read as Ms. Hawkes weaves the events of the day into the story of 10 generations. I particularly enjoyed the "detour" to Montana, where one branch of the Vickerys ( and Unity, Maine) settled.
I recommend the book for non professional readers of New England history who want a glimpse into the life of our ancestors.

The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: A Paired Watershed Experiment - The First Decade (1987-1997) (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 55/1)

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The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: A Paired Watershed Experiment - The First Decade (1987-1997) (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 55/1)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792356284

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The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) is a long-term, whole-watershed study examining the effects of experimentally elevated N and S deposition on a treated watershed, in comparison to the adjacent reference watershed. The study is in a northern New England, USA, forested ecosystem, and focuses on soil and stream hydrological and biogeochemical processes, and chemical responses of vegetation. Relative to the reference watershed, the treated ecosystem has migrated biogeochemically towards N saturation, and soil and stream acidification. Some of the responses to N amendments were not expected nor predicted by available models.

Boating Almanac, 1997: Long Island, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine (Boating Almanac Vol 2: Long Island, Connecticut, ... Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts)

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Boating Almanac, 1997: Long Island, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine (Boating Almanac Vol 2: Long Island, Connecticut, ... Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts)

Manufacturer: Northeast Boaters Almanac
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1881064093

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Maine Health Care Perspective 1997

Manufacturer: Morgan Quitno Corp
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ASIN: 1566927188

Maine, 1997 (Census of Retail Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series)

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Maine, 1997 (Census of Retail Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series)

Manufacturer: Bernan Assoc
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ASIN: 0890594430

Maine, 1997 (Census of Wholesale Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series)

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Maine, 1997 (Census of Wholesale Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series)

Manufacturer: Bernan Assoc
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ASIN: 0890593825

The Sesquicentennial of Bath, Maine 1847-1997

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The Sesquicentennial of Bath, Maine 1847-1997
Bath Historical Society
Manufacturer: Penmor Lithographers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RABESU

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Tom Lieber: A survey 1975-1997
Tom Lieber
Manufacturer: s.n
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006R1SG2

County Business Patterns: Maine 1997 (County Business Patterns. Maine, 1997)

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County Business Patterns: Maine 1997 (County Business Patterns. Maine, 1997)

Manufacturer: United States Government Printing
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ASIN: 9990111413

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Maine Business Directory, 1997 (Serial)

Manufacturer: Info USA Inc
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ASIN: 156105920X

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Well, we have gotten you into a new year! Life and Fate and Time, all have managed to get you here. With many of you they had a hard pull to get you here. Some of you have been near to death; some of you so miserable you hardly wanted to try another year here, and the majority of you have shown the least interest about getting here. I don't reproach you; you are only following the perverse example of Human Nature. Did it ever strike you that the globe and the people who live on its surface, are always marching different ways?

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Rhapsody on a theme by CleÌment Marot: The Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values delivered at Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, April 20, 1995 (Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values)
Douglas R Hofstadter
Manufacturer: Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, Southern Utah University
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ASIN: 0910153116

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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 1995 (Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

Manufacturer: University of Utah Press
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ASIN: 0874804760

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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Volume 16: 1995.
Grethe B. [Ed] Peterson
Manufacturer: University of Utah Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JLJK3I

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 988 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: The World of Villa-Lobos in Pictures and Documents.
Author: David P. Appleby
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v54 Issue: n2 Page: p493(2)

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