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Diccionario de Comercio Internacional
Edward G. Hinkelman
Manufacturer: Cecsa
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ASIN: 9702403545 |
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Diccionario de comercio internacional
Cristobal Osorio Arcila
Manufacturer: C. Osorio Arcila
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: 9589553605 |
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Fodor's Skiing USA is a completely updated all-in-one guide to the country's 30 foremost winter resorts covering California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. Fodor's ski experts offer everything both novice and veteran skiers and boarders need for a perfect vacation. This guide is packed with candid descriptions of the top areas including the best lodges, hotels, and condos in all price categories; the best restaurants on and off the mountain; and apr?s-ski action ? from family-friendly to dance-all-night; and offers an insider's look at terrain, elevations, lift-ticket prices, runs, lifts, base facilities, other snow sports, and more.
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Excellent summary of top ski resorts, where to stay & go.......1998-09-14
The book has good overall background on each state's skiing, then goes into detail on each of the resorts it rates as the best in the US. Though I would have liked more than 30 places to be covered (Breckenridge, Kirkwood, Grand Targhee and some other very good resorts are missing) the areas that are covered have good detail about the background and history of the resort, the skiing (recommended trails are broken out by ability level) where to stay and where to dine. It is an invaluable reference when going to these places for the first time, and I have used it at many of these resorts to find the good trails and good bars and restaurants. It is very readable, and to the point, and generally matches what you'd hear from locals and people who've been there. There is also an introduction that includes general tips and information for planning a ski vacation. Well worth reading when planning a vacation, and referring to when there.
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Taxation of Mineral Enterprises (International Energy & Resources Law & Policy)
James Otto
Manufacturer: Springer
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Between 1988 and 1993 over fifty nations have either enacted new mining legislation, had such legislation pending adoption or were in the process of drafting new or revised legislation. In almost every case, this legislation carried with it changes in the fiscal regimes. The ability to attract mineral investment, be it in either a developed or a developing country, is partly dependent on the legislative and fiscal systems which regulate the industry. In the light of the changes taking place, this new reference work is timely and provides essential reading for those with an interest in mining taxation. The first part of the book analyses general topics which are applicable to understanding the taxation of mineral enterprises, while the second part provides a comprehensive and detailed account of actual taxation systems and methods.
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Journalist Mary Gabriel hews more closely to the particulars of Victoria Woodhull's life than Barbara Goldsmith does in Other Powers, but in its more focused way her traditional biography is just as revelatory of larger issues in American society. Gabriel prompts new respect for the feminist who was so scandalous that she was erased from traditional feminist history. Woodhull was an intrepid go-getter who rose from a wooden shack in Ohio to a manor house in England, pausing along the way to become America's first female stockbroker (in 1870) and the first woman to run for president (in 1872).
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She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress, the first to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the first to run for president. She's the woman Gloria Steinem called "the most controversial suffragist of them all." In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel has written a comprehensive account of one of American history's most unusual and fascinating women, who, in an era of Victorian morality, was the loudest and most radical voice for women's equality. "One of the most controversial American women of the late nineteenth century springs to life in this study that leaves no stone unturned."--Publishers Weekly; "Deftly written biography . . . of a hell-raising visionary."--Mirabella; "A meaty slice of feminist history peppered with Victorian drama."--Civilization; "Remarkable . . . warrants a spot on every serious American history student's bookshelf."--Kirkus Reviews, pointer.
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Victoria's life unbiased without slanders or exaggerations.......2006-04-03
Victoria Woodhull was one of the boldest, most renowned, and most villified woman of the United States in the 19th century . Yet today many people have never heard of her. Also, what has been written about her has been so biased by attempts to either deify her or demonize her. Thus today's reader is well-served by this factual and chronological presentation of what can be known of the life of Victoria Woodhull. Mary Gabriel puts her background in journalism to good use in putting together this unbiased account of the woman and her times.
With chapter titles that consist of place names, months and years Ms. Gabriel takes the reader on a trip through Victoria's live from her birth in Homer, Ohio to her last days on her country estate in Glooucestershire, England. More than half the book is focused on the years 1971-1973 when Victoria, with her sister Tennie C. Claflin, rose to fame in a meteoric fashion. In this brief time they opened a brokerage house on Wall Street and published a news weekly on topics of social and political reform. In addition Victoria was the first woman to address a committee of Congress; she ran for president of the United States with Frederick Douglas as her running mate; and she presided over the women's suffrage movement, a New York chapter of the International Workingmen's Association, and the American Spiritualists Association.
Her stated goal was to rescue the women of America from sexual slavery and guarantee their rights to their own sexuality. When she found out that the famous minister Henry Ward Beecher was sleeping with members of his congregation during the week and condemning her politics from the pulpit on Sundays, she exposed his hypocricy. He was never condemned for his duplicity, but she was hounded into jail and ruin until her only recourse was to leave the country.
Mary Gabriel does a wonderful job of presenting the complex story, picking through the slanders and exagerations, and creating a readable history of this social reformer and her impact on her times. This is the best account of the life of Victoria Woodhull that I have read and I recommend it highly.
Woodhull deserves widespread recognition!.......2005-01-21
Victoria Woodhull's fight for women's equal rights surpasses that of the other women involved in the movement at that time in its boldness and intelligence (read the previous review). Unfortunately, her modern views on human rights earned her many enemies within the feminist movement, some of which later expunged her from the movement's history. It seems that even today Woodhull hasn't the merit she deserves.
She was an amazing woman! Her life story would perhaps make a great movie, far greater than HBO's "Iron jawed angels".
Mary gabriel delivered a very well documented account of what truly happened in the second half of 19th century feminist movement.
Very inspiring and frustrating book at once.
The Life of a Colorful & Controversial 19th Century Reformer.......2003-07-22
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, the first woman to run for President, and the first woman to address Congress, to whom, in 1871, she declared that, pursuant to the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, women had the right to vote. Yet Victoria Woodhull has been all but excised from the popular political and social histories of the 19th century America. With "Notorious Victoria", author Mary Gabriel has written a meticulously researched biography which attempts to establish Victoria Woodhull's importance as a social reformer while presenting a balanced picture of this most controversial and outspoken feminist. Unlike her more respectable and more revered contemporaries, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull had roots in poverty and was intimately familiar with the plight of the average American woman of the day. It was her conviction that freedom and equality for women would only be achieved when women had equality in marriage and in economics, and that the right to vote, although inalienable, was somewhat immaterial. This set her apart from the mainstream feminists who chose to concentrate narrowly on the less controversial agenda of suffrage for women and who eventually rejected Victoria wholesale for her radical advocacy of free love, workers' rights, and her talent for attracting scandal. The platform on which Victoria ran for President, representing the People's Party, would be radical even today in its call to prohibit government from enacting any law that would interfere with any individual's freedom "to pursue happiness as they may choose". Victoria Woodhull was a fascinating, colorful, and flawed woman who lived in a time of social upheaval and media frenzy, which rightfully secured her a place in American history. My only criticism of Mary Gabriel's book is that it offers very little comment on Victoria Woodhull's startling change in attitude when she reached middle age. For twenty years she made a career out of exposing society's hypocrisies, and then suddenly she seemed to embrace hypocrisy with gusto. It is very possible that no one has any idea why Victoria so viciously turned against her former husband, Colonel Blood, and tried to rewrite her earlier life. But I found the absence of comment on this puzzling behavior conspicuous. Nevertheless, "Notorious Victoria" is a fascinating and sometimes scintillating account of one frank and gutsy 19th century social activist and the tumultuous society in which she lived. And since Victoria Woodhull was a passionate "free lover", not a dry spinster feminist, her story is sure to intrigue and entertain an audience well beyond feminist historians, including many men.
Difficult going.......2000-03-24
My book group chose _Notorious Victoria_ as one of our monthly selections. To a woman, we all found it a very hard read, even those of us who much prefer nonfiction works. While the subject matter was certainly interesting, the writing style did not do it justice. A great source if you are doing research, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise.
Gabriel is a talented writer.......1999-12-16
Mary Gabriel (who I met last spring) has a way of bringing Victorial Claflin Woodhull to life and drawing the reader into the true story of a little known woman in history(even Women's History). Gabriel's extensive research and knowledge about the subject matter is truly impressive. Five stars for both of these remarkable women!
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Title: Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored.(Review) (book review)
Author: Carol Kolmerten
Publication:
Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Page: 245
Article Type: Book Review
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Doorway in Time, A
Herbert O'Driscoll
Manufacturer: Image
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0385419635
Release Date: 1991-06-01 |
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Doorway Into Time
Manufacturer: Manor Books
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ASIN: B000H7GG2W |
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Doorway Into Time
Sam Moskowitz
Manufacturer: Macfadden Books
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Doorway Through Time
Bertman
Manufacturer: Tarcher
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ASIN: 0874776228 |
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Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share -- or fear -- and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers
-- Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian
-- Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by lesbians
-- Susie Bright on the sexual dance between lesbians and straight women
-- Guinevere Turner on the pain of reconciling one's sexual orientation with past relationships
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Honest authors.......2002-06-29
Covering everything from first relationships, to tension between gay and straight friends, to conceptual lesbianism, to the lesbian phenomenon of being attracted only to straight women, this collection of essays by both famous and not-so-famous authors is a great read. The book does have a few duds, but the excellent writing of Grace Paley, Martha Southgate, and Elizabeth Wurtzel, to name only a few, definitely makes up for it. All the authors write honestly and openly about women, friendship, relationships, and lesbianism. It is refreshing to see a book that pulls its authors from such varied backgrounds (including different sexual orientations). Some essays make you nod your head in agreement, thinking, "I know exactly what she means, I've always felt that way," and others make you think about things from a new angle: "I'd never even thought of that before"--which is something that ultimately promotes understanding. I'd recommend this book to ANY woman.
You understand, don't you?.......2002-03-09
This book was incredible. I would recommend it to any women, straight, gay or bi. It puts things into perspective, that you didn't even know were out of perspective. I love this book!!!
This is an amazing book!.......1998-09-07
I would buy any book that has an essay by sarah schulman in it! However, this book is worth it for many other reasons. Beautifuly written essays, stories, and excerpts from books make Surface Tension a good book to read. I found it moving, thought provoking, and fullfilling. I was not disappointed. All the authors had very different ways at looking at the same thing. One essay (The FeMale Gaze) mentions the popular folkrock band, the Indigo Girls.
This is a great book for women, gay or straight! I couldn't put it down, you won't be disappointed!
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Between 1876 and 1960, nearly 100 northeastern Pennsylvanians played, managed, coached or umpired in the major leagues. Many were the sons of immigrant coal miners and living and working conditions in America were quite different from what they had been used to. Baseball became an important part of the assimilation process and it thrived as a church-sponsored form of recreation and entertainment for the coal miners and their families.
This work explores the childhood, and minor and major league experiences of Christy Mathewson, Stan Coveleski, Stanley "Bucky" Harris, Hughie Jennings, Ed Walsh, Nestor Chylak, Joe Bolinsky, Jake Daubert, John "Buck" Freeman, Mike Gazella, Pete Wyshner, John Edward Murphy, Steve O'Neill, John Picus, Joe "Lefty" Shaute, Steve Bilko, Harry Dorish, Bob Duliba, Joe "Professor" Ostrowski, and Stan Pawloski—21 players, managers, and umpires who exemplify the great talent, dedication, humility, and hardship that many northeastern Pennsylvanians experienced.
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Diamonds in the Coalfields.......2002-04-03
"Diamonds in the Coalfields" is a documentary of life in the 1920's, 30's, and 40's. William Kashatus has done an excellent job of organizing the history of the mining communities, from a perspective of how baseball affected everyone's lives in those happy, glorious years. You can get an estimate of his effort by looking at his detailed reference notes and bibliography at the back of the book. He has devoted a huge amount of time in research and interviews in the writing of this book.
The accuracy of his descriptions is uncanny, for a person who did not "live it", except vicariously, through the eyes of others. My father pitched for the Glen Lyon Condors, in the 1920's. I lived through the era of Zig Najaka, Stan Pawloski, and Bob Duliba, at Newport Twp. High School. This is a personalized view of early baseball history, a meaningful picture for all baseball fans. My complments to William Kashatus for giving us such an accurate picture of those happy times in our lives. He has done a great job of documentation with an entertaining accent to this portrayal of life in the coal towns. I am purchasing additional books for my uncle, brother-in-law, and three sons, who also share an interest in the nostalgia for sports in the Wyoming Valley. (Pennsylvnia)
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Taylor Made: The Life and Music of Billy Taylor
William F. Lee III , and
Billy Taylor
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard
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Taylor Made is the extensive biography of living jazz legend, Dr. Billy Taylor. Equally university professor, band leader, playing manager, jazz ambassador to the world, and professional pianist, Dr. Billy Taylor is a "walking history of jazz." Taylor's compositions, which combined together jazz and classical into a new, bright, and complex form, made a lasting impression among today's jazz composers. William F. Lee III is a university administrator, educator, composer, pianist, conductor, researcher, and teacher, with a career spanning more than thirty-five years. As a professional composer-arranger, Lee has won more than twenty ASCAP awards for the quality and frequency of performances of his serious compositions. His more than 100 publications include biographies of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. Dr. Lee resides in San Antonio, Texas.
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Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism
Marc Lee Raphael
Manufacturer: Holmes & Meier Publishers
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ASIN: 0841910596 |
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The biography of a dedicated Zionist leader .......2007-01-23
Abba Hillel Silver was one of the leaders of the American Jewish community in the thirties, forties, and early fifties. A Reform Rabbi in Cleveland he was considered one of the great orators of his day. An impressive imposing figure he played a key role in promoting the Zionist cause in the United States. Unlike his elder counterpart Stephen Wise who strongly supported Roosevelt, Silver advocated a bipartisan approach in rallying Americans to the Zionist cause. This political biography tells in great detail the story of the struggle to forward the Zionist cause.And this when the strong State Dept. Saudi connection was already well in place.
Silver was a man of no small ego, but as Raphael makes clear of very great courage and devotion. This book makes a convincing case for the significance of Silver's contribution in helping the Jewish state come into being, and survive in its early years.
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This digital document is an article from American Jewish History, published by American Jewish Historical Society on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 8479 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: Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism. (book reviews)
Author: Rafael Medoff
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American Jewish History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: American Jewish Historical Society
Volume: v86
Issue: n1
Page: p117(18)
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