Russian Electronic and Telecommunications Equipment Producers Directory (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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Strategic info for conducting business, products, contacts

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Detailed description of regulations for registering and operating a business in Russia

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Russian Telecommunication Directory
Russian Information , and Inc Business Center
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ASIN: 1577516001

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Complete directory on the Russian telecommunication system. The directory provides detailed information on Russian regional telecommunication companies, names of officials and managers in 89 Russian regions and in Moscow. Updated annually.

Russian Telecommunication Directory (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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Russian Telecommunication Directory (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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ASIN: 0739789309

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The classic bestseller on estimating the value of small businesses and professional practices is fully updated and enhanced. While continuing to take readers step-by-step through the valuation process, it now features timely new or significantly revised chapters on valuation for estate plans, employee stock ownership plans, and corporate partnership dissolutions/buyouts. Along with case studies, it also offers greatly expanded coverage of data sources and their availability to small businesses.

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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

Gems & Jewelry Appraising: Techniques of Professional Practice

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Gem & Jewelry Appraising, Techniques of Professional Practice

Gems & Jewelry Appraising: Techniques of Professional Practice
Anna M. Miller
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ASIN: 094376310X

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The premier book of its kind, now updated and expanded. Gems & Jewelry Appraising, 2nd Edition covers all the standards, procedures, and ethics of appraising gems, jewelry, and other valuables.

Each step involved in conducting an appraisal is fully explained, with photos, case studies, key documents, worksheets and pricing data included. Registered Master Valuer Anna M. Miller gives professional guidance and step-by-step instructions on how to:

Build a clientele
Set fees
Get publicity
Handle insurance replacement claims
Photograph gems and jewelry
Research and write reports
Test metals
Research provenance
Master the different approaches to valuation
Use price guides
Understand legal and ethical aspects of appraising
And more!

This resource offers all the information that practicing or aspiring appraisal professionals will need to establish an appraisal business, handle various kinds of appraisals, and provide an accurate, verifiable estimate of value.

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Gem & Jewelry Appraising, Techniques of Professional Practice.......2005-08-13

The material was as advertised. No problem!

Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice: Applying the Standards

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Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice: Applying the Standards
Dennis S. Tosh , and William B. Rayburn
Manufacturer: Real Estate Education Co
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Gems and Jewelry Appraising: Techniques of Professional Practice
Anna M. Miller
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Business Valuation: A Primer for the Legal Professional

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Business Valuation: A Primer for the Legal Professional
Jeffrey M. Risius
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ASIN: 1590317467

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Written by valuation experts, this guidebook will provide the fundamentals of business valuation. It will serve as a reference for lawyers who deal with business valuation and appraisal issues in their practices but with a less technical approach, which is especially helpful for professionals who do not have an in-depth financial background.

'Silly, soft and otherwise suspect': doctoral education as risky business. : An article from: Australian Journal of Education

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'Silly, soft and otherwise suspect': doctoral education as risky business. : An article from: Australian Journal of Education
Erica McWilliam , Alan Lawson , Terry Evans , and Peter G. Taylor
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This digital document is an article from Australian Journal of Education, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6951 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: 'Silly, soft and otherwise suspect': doctoral education as risky business.
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Date: August 1, 2005
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Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Page: 214(14)

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Determining the value of closely-held businesses and professional practices: A professional approach

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Determining the value of closely-held businesses and professional practices: A professional approach
James A Dosen
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Professional Practices in Business Valuation

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Professional Practices in Business Valuation
Scott Gabehart , and Kenneth R. Ferris
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Professional business valuators and appraisers deal with a vast range of parameters in assessing the market value of business ventures. This book is the first to offer both a thorough review of generally accepted valuation principals, procedures, and techniques, and a focused, in-depth analysis of the "hot topics" in today's rapidly evolving valuation environment. Subjects include:

* Applicability and calculation of minority/marketability discounts * Impact of new standards on the treatment of mergers and acquisitions * Valuation procedures for "post-Enron" employee stock option plans (ESOPS) * "Fair value" versus "fair market value" in settlement calculations

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Valuation of a closely held business or professional practice
Arthur L Crandall
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Valuation of closely held businesses and professional practices
Arthur L Crandall
Manufacturer: Iowa Law School, Continuing Legal Eduation [sic.]
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ASIN: B0007BNH3O

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On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and his triumphant reentry into the world. It also captures the spirit of a remarkable man: his enormous optimism, his commitment to social justice, and his joyous wonder at the life that surrounds him. In a new epilogue, Sachs gives a gripping insider's view of the major public events of the last decade--the election of Nelson Mandela, the formation of the Constitutional Court and Sachs's appointment as judge, and his own role with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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The "redinking" of British Columbia History.......2000-05-22

Of all the individuals that have served in the premeirship of British Columbia, it is Dufferin Pattullo that Fisher feels was the most significant. He places hime above the likes of WAC Bennett, John Oliver and Richard McBride. The book is a chronological account of Pattullo's life, starting with his early childhood, moving through to his time spent in the Yukon. Next, the entering of politics and Pattullo's appointment as the Minister of Lands where he helped to implement the South Okanagan Lands Project. The book continues with Pattullo's time as leader of the BC Liberal Party and beyond.

In writing the book Fisher states that he set out to prove that the medium of the Biography could still be used in historical writing as a successful means of conveying the history of a region. As Fisher points out, Biography had once been the grand tradition of Canadian historical writing (see Creighton's biography of John A. MacDonald), but with the shift to a more "social" history in the 1960 s and early 1970s Biography fell out of fashion. This is because the emphasis that a biography placed on the individual, who was usually tended to be male, white and a politician, was not seen as representative of the larger society. The result was a shift to some of the more marginal aspects of society that had been ignored in past historical works. This is a trend that Fisher has argued against elsewhere (see the 100th issue of BC Studies). Pattullo is therefore meant to show that biography is still a useful method that can be used to highlight a regional history. To quote Fisher; "for this historian, the individual matters as much as the group. And some people are more important than others." (p. X).

A final note about "Pattullo", in that Duff Pattullo came to view the Canadian federation differenty than most of his counterparts is indicative of the trend in BC historiography at the time. It is my understanding that in presenting his views to the Rowell-Sirios Commission Pattullo was very much influenced by the work of UBC historian Walter Sage. Sage was attempting to apply the concept of Turner's frontier thesis to Canada at this time and had come to see the country as possessed of five distinct regions. With each region having more in common with its neighbours to the south than with the other regions of Canada. Which, of course, ran completely contrary to the centralist bias that was prevelant at the time (again, see the work of Creighton).

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"I seize this fleeting hour of leisure to write and tell you how much I liked our long talk on Sunday," Winston Churchill wrote to Clementine Hozier in April 1908, shortly after their third meeting, "and what a comfort and pleasure it was to me to meet a girl with so much intellectual quality and such strong reserves of noble sentiment." They were married by September; he was 29, she 19. They would remain married--though, due to political circumstances, they were not always together--until his death in 1965. During that time, their daughter Mary Soames remarks, some 1,700 items of personal correspondence passed between the two. Winston and Clementine is far from a complete collection, but it does offer a comprehensive overview of their epistolary relationship and the deep love and mutual respect upon which their marriage was based. It may be somewhat disconcerting to see the man who stirred a nation to war with "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" and other memorable phrases sending "kisses to my sweet and beloved Clemmie cat," yet it also makes the imposing statesman seem more human.

Sometimes Clementine would send written messages to Winston even when they were together; it was an opportunity to gather her thoughts, or avoid taking up her husband's time with arguments when he was busy managing the war. In June 1940, for example, she told him that "there is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues and subordinates because of your rough sarcastic and overbearing manner.... I cannot bear that those who serve the Country and yourself should not love you as well as admire and respect you." A few of the letters are accompanied by little cartoon animals that they would draw for each other: she always drew the posterior view of a sitting cat, while he would sketch pug dogs, and later pigs. Even toward the end, when they both had to deal with increased infirmity and tragedies among their children, they still found time to send "little love messages" to each other. Looking back at their marriage, with Soames's edifying commentary sprinkled throughout (as well as a quite well-done biographical dictionary), is an experience both revealing and touching.

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Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming exchanges of their courtship until the year before Winston's death in 1965. Their letters provide rare and revealing insights into both the great political and social events of a turbulent century and the intimate world of an extraordinary partnership. Mary Soames, the only surviving child of this remarkable couple, has brought her parents to life as no biographer could. In moving detail we hear of Churchill's dramatic career and his final, deeply felt reflections on the fading of his enormous powers. And we hear Clementine, responding with her love and advice, and her belief in his destiny. Bringing these letters together for the first time, WINSTON AND CLEMENTIME is a surprising portrait of one of history's most significant figures.

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Lesson of Life Behind an Extraordinary Partnership.......2002-02-13

When I considered buying that book, I first felt quite uncomfortable about the idea of reading an exchange of private letters between Winston and Clementine. Fortunately, I overcame my discomfort fast. I quickly enjoyed reading that thick epistolary volume about their political and personal matters. The personal letters of the Churchills revealed to me how influential Clementine was on Winston across the board. Their deep love and trust was the secret of their successful marriage, even if Winston was not always an easy husband and politician to deal with. Corresponding by written messages (today perhaps by email) with each other on a regular basis, even when they were together, proved to be an excellent way to help them keep their enduring flame for each other intact. Today, too many marital and extra-marital relationships get dissolved prematurely because of a lack of enough communication between both players. Life is after all a comedy in which men and women play their part and need to know or rediscover how to communicate their joys and pains to one another in order to increase the odds that they will be successful in their relationship.

An intimate insight.......1999-10-29

This book was introduced to me through a friend and, quite frankly, my first reaction was to cringe at the idea of reading such a bulky historical book. But from the first letter I was transfixed by the dialogue between husband and wife on both political and personal matters. This book brings with it a new aspect of Churchill's personality - he was not only a great statesman but he was a passionate man who loved his wife dearly which is seen clearly in the letters that were intended for her eyes only.

I often wonder how he would have felt to know millions would one day read the letters he wrote to his "clemmie-cat". In any case, its a great read :)

Cheers, Meagan.

Facinating look into the private life of a great statesman.......1999-09-05

The real service that this book performs is to remind the reader that great historical figures are not one dimensional. Chuchill was a renaissance man, warrior, journalist, historian, memoirist, politician and statesman. He was arguably the single greatest personage of this century and his name has become a symbol for the indominitable spirit of a free people. The collection of letters sent to and received from his wife are entertaining as well as educational. They provide a feel for the time in which they were written and place many of Churchill's famous accomplishments (and failures) in proper context. Amazingly, unlike today when the more we know of a public figure, the smaller they seem, in Churchill's case one comes away convinced that this was a great man in the truest sense, and that much of his greatness is due in no small part to his marriage to Clementine.

Churchills: Not Just a Political Partnership but a Marriage.......1999-05-01

Winston and Clementine: Happily Ever After

This is the story of a political marriage. In some ways it will be familiar to the contemporary reader, though it began and ended a long time ago.

Both husband and wife in this marriage were interested in politics. The husband was elected again and again over decades to high office. For decades his wife fought at his side, entertained at his table, offered her judgment to him and his colleagues and his enemies. She took his place in his absence, and sometimes in his presence. She became an international figure. She had power, and she used it. Always she had a mind of her own.

Sometimes this couple would quarrel. Once a serving dish was thrown. There was a period, not too long, when one of the partners was out of sympathy with the other, or anyway in sympathy with another.

They knew trouble. They lost a daughter and many friends to death, and some friends to betrayal. They fought political wars at home in which their own party tried to deprive them of office. They fought shooting wars abroad-including the worst ever. More than once, they seemed down and out. Their livelihood as much as their career was threatened. After decades of struggle they reached the summit of power and they knew the adoration of a nation and a world. By then they had grown old together.

Readers of this story will find that wives did not enter politics yesterday, and private lives were influential in politics before last week. But in other respects this story is unlike anything we have known in this time. Here are two people who won every honor that human affairs can offer, and they won them together. Meanwhile they operated upon those natural and traditional lines that involve that deepest of partnerships. Their division of labor augmented the strength of them both beyond what either could do, apart or together, if they both had done the same parts of the job. True, this is the story of a political partnership. More than that, it is a marriage.

The editor of this book is the youngest child of Winston and Clementine, Mary, now Lady Soames. She brings to the work care, intimacy, and insight. She has adopted some of the best devices of Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, to make the book available to the reader unfamiliar with the times and the people. Her notes are useful. She lets the letters themselves convey the story.

One sees right away the amazing pace at which these people lived. Winston Churchill was a soldier whose bravery and judgment in battle were beyond doubt. He wrote every line of every speech he ever gave, save perhaps one, and they are not surpassed in eloquence or impact or amplitude. He wrote serious books, nearly forty of them. He served in the British House of Commons, and mostly in the Cabinet. Meanwhile he made his living writing and speaking in publications and before audiences all over the world. Their house teemed all day and much of the night with secretaries, researchers, and colleagues. He wrote once that statesmen should exist in a condition of "stress of soul." Ever he took that advice for himself.

And necessarily, then, he imposed it upon his wife.

Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier were married in September 1908, and they remained so until parted by death in 1965. Martha Washington, wishing to keep her relations with our Founding Father private, burned most all of the letters that passed between them. The Churchills' letters are preserved intact in their remarkable abundance. Partly because they were so busy, and partly because they took many vacations apart, occasions to write were frequent. In their day the post traveled rapidly-Fed Ex was not necessary; e-mail was unavailable; the telephone came along, but its frequent use developed later. And so they wrote, and well they wrote.

Nuggets are found in every shaft of this mine. Sir Winston is candid with his wife as with no other, especially in times of triumph or stress. When the first war begins, he unveils his character: "Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? ...Yet I wd do my best for peace, & nothing wd induce me wrongfully to strike the blow." Another time, in a very different mood, he writes: "you have seen me very weak & foolish & mentally infirm this week...." And then the man of unbreakable will proceeds: "I cannot tell you how much I love & honor you and how sweet & steadfast you have been through all my hesitations & perplexity."

Clementine often bears the burden of saying to her husband what others cannot. When the first war begins, she cautions him about the feelings of a dismissed Admiral: "there only remains the deep wound in an old man's heart. If you put the wrong sort of poultice on it, it will fester." When the second begins, she writes: "...there is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues & subordinates because of your rough sarcastic & overbearing manner.... Therefore with terrific power you must combine urbanity, kindness and if possible Olympic calm."

The letters of Winston are often more abstract and reflective than those of his wife. Sometimes they are effectively first drafts of things he will later publish. His life is saved once in the trenches by an annoying general who makes him walk two miles under fire just for a little chat; when he returns his dugout and all in it are destroyed. He reflects: "it is all chance or destiny and our wayward footsteps are best planted without too much calculation. One must yield oneself simply & mentally to the mood of the game: and trust in God which is another way of saying the same thing...."

At the same time, one sees in the husband a sharp need for his wife. It is he who is "lonely among crowds." It is he who has no one but her "to break the loneliness of this bustling existence."

History has more to say of Winston than of Clementine. He saved his country and more in a desperate crisis, and he leaves behind him a written account of prudential wisdom that is not surpassed. Both his words and his deeds exhibit a longing for honor. He fought for it. He met its demands with utter resolve and lifelong resilience. But of course there was more to his life than that. Honor itself is limited by the high purposes that define it, including the promises and affections that make a family. So he could write to her, at one of the lowest points in his life: "the nearer I get to honor, the nearer I am to you."

Churchill ends My Early Life, his explicitly autobiographical work, with the passage: "Events were soon ...to absorb my thoughts and energies at least until September 1908, when I married and lived happily ever afterwards." And so together they did. And do.

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A fascinating wide-lens perspective

Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
Winston Churchill
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A fascinating wide-lens perspective.......2005-11-02

I ended up importing this book from the UK and was very glad I did; Churchill especially reveals himself quite candidly in these letters to his wife, especially in his years out of government before WWII. Of particular interest to me were Clementine's roles and reactions to Churchill's political and military life, and what they suggest about womenof that time, class and place, etc. (Suffragettes were violent & violently handled protesters, eg) As someone who reads history partly as a way to frame with (I hope) some intelligence the events of today, this was a deeply interesting 1st person x2 account of Britain in 1st half of the century.

Winston and Clementine Churchill , The Personal Letters of ... Speaking for Themselves ... Edited by daughter Mary Soames

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Winston and Clementine Churchill , The Personal Letters of ... Speaking for Themselves ... Edited by daughter Mary Soames
Mary , ed. / Winston Churchill / Clementine Churchill Soames
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Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege -- one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side -- pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books.

Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on the transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passions, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s.

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Doubly delightful
Great read!
Two incredibly superficial lives in the 1950's
Two incredibly superficial lives in the 1950's

Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York

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Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passion, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s.

Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.

Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era.

This vibrant, balanced memoir offers an indelible portrait of postwar New York -- exhilarating, hospitable, and affordable. A striking collaboration by two prominent figures in American letters, Back Then surprises and delights as Bernays and Kaplan recall their youthful pursuits, the merging of their lives, and the city's underlying influence on them.

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Doubly delightful.......2002-08-01

This memoir is doubly delightful because it's written by two of the wittiest and most interesting contemporary writers. We see two visions of New York City life in the 1950's--one male, one female--and have the fun of watching how these two separate lives end up intertwining. (The authors are husband and wife.) The writing is bright and rich--you're in the hands of masters of style from start to finish.
Although anyone interested in the world of publishing will find the book riviting, BACK THEN will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. It's an intriguing record of what the working world was like for educated women in the 50's (it's easy to forget today how things were before the Women's Movement!) and it's also a charming love story.
The two authors grew up wealthy and privileged, but in spite of this, they were clearly not spoiled. They knew and rubbed shoulders with a dazzling array of famous people (Bernays, for instance, is a great niece of Freud; Kaplan got to dance with Marilyn Monroe at a party,) and they bring us into their world with warmth and openness. There's no arrogance here. Both authors are able to smile at themselves and able to make us smile along with them. And smile we do! This is the kind of book that will keep you up reading late at night and make you want to wake your spouse so you can read aloud your favorite sections (if you haven't woken him or her already with your laughter.)
BACK THEN creates the best kind of reader dilemma: youll want to gobble up the story and at the same time you'll want to savor every line.

Great read!.......2002-06-18

This is a fascinating look at a world most of us never get to see, by two people who know it intimately and write about it with both love and a highly refined sense of the absurd.

Glimpsing this world is like window-shopping on Fifth Avenue at Christmas. I couldn't put it down...

Two incredibly superficial lives in the 1950's.......2002-06-14

For two people who both began their professional lives in editing and publishing, it is striking how this book, which describes that very beginning, is in need of a heavy editorial hand (Wachtel -- your hand ain't that merciless). The kind of repetition that is regularly encountered (how many times, and in how many pithy formulations do I have to be informed of the cliche that, "this generation" was the generation of freud fans) is not of an interesting artistic kind produced due the fact that there are two alternating narrative voices. Rather, each writer, repeats him and herself within his and her own narrative.

Stylistic quarrels aside, I was struck by what the authors say in their joint introduction about their first collaboration on an article; the piece, about walks in New York, they say, conveyed, "... too much immersion in fashion magazine prose." While, the authors' claim that they are intent on trying to not let "hindsight, regret and reconsideration" distort their account is too ridiculous to even critique, I do believe that they have successfully conveyed the extent to which the people that they were "back then" (if we are to believe them, this has no bearing on the authorial voice which represents these people!) were "too much immersed" in a certain kind of fashion magazine prose, or at any rate, a certain kind of "let's talk about shoes, hair and makeup and throw in a heavy dose of literary names and references for good measure"-prose.

It has to be admitted that Bernays and Kaplan err on different poles of this prose continuum. Bernays treats us to more excitable detail about socio-fashion related facts, Kaplan leans heavily on name-dropping, french-literary-phrase-dropping and posh-literary-gossip. Bernays tells us more about sex (hers and others'), divulges more about familial structures (though where, oh where, has her sister gone, and for that matter, how come I only find out close to the end that Kaplan has an older brother!). Essentially she's very much the charming hostess of this work, while Kaplan lives up to the character created (by both him and her) of being the somewhat taciturn but serious/serial literary insider (the sense of humor which both he and B claim he has, is something which he keeps very much under wraps in actually formulating his account.)

This book (as laid out in the intro) sees it self as being not in the memoire genre, but rather, as a glimpse into "lives" of a certain kind (class?) "back then." However, perhaps due to the authors' insistence to not let hindsight in, a potentially illuminating critical account is blocked (though to give her credit, Bernays slips up, and occasionally tries) -- such that I am given neither "two lives" (in the sense of two strong personal narratives) and nor am I really given the tools to understand the "everyman" of the world which K and B portray. So, basically the book reads to me like a peep into a cocktail party to which I'd never be invited (wrong class, wrong age, wrong clothes, wrong interests etc.); I can smell the delectable food, glimpse the martini glasses, and discern some muffled conversation and laughter -- but it's all to fuzzy to make anything out, the people seem artificial, out of date, and frankly, not all that interesting, and there's a better party going on round the corner.

Two incredibly superficial lives in the 1950's.......2002-06-14

This book (as laid out in the intro) sees it self as being not in the memoire genre, but rather, as a glimpse into "lives" of a certain kind (class?) "back then." However, perhaps due to the authors' insistence to not let hindsight in, a potentially illuminating critical account is blocked (though to give her credit, Bernays slips up, and occasionally tries) -- such that I am given neither "two lives" (in the sense of two strong personal narratives) and nor am I really given the tools to understand the "everyman" of the world which K and B portray. So, basically the book reads to me like a peep into a cocktail party to which I'd never be invited (wrong class, wrong age, wrong clothes, wrong interests etc.); I can smell the delectable food, glimpse the martini glasses, and discern some muffled conversation and laughter -- but I can't quite make it out, the people seem artificial, out of date, and frankly, not all that interesting, and there's a better party going on round the corner.

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Girl In The Rose: A Musical Affair In Georgian London
Peter Hobday
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORV0QW

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Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties.

And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community within the Jewish world in these troubled times. What unified these men and women was their commitment and allegiance to the Jewish people.

Here we find Hayim Greenberg, Henry Hurwitz, Marie Syrkin, Maurice Samuel, Ben Halperin, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ludwig Lewisohn, Milton Steinberg, Will Herberg, A. M. Klein, and Mordecai Kaplan, and many others. Divided into 3 sections--Opinion Makers, Men of Letters, and Spiritual Leaders--the book will be of particular interest to students and others interested in Jewish studies, American intellectual history, as well as history of the 30s and 40s.

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An Excellent Introduction.......1999-08-30

An excellent introduction to many lesser-known figures inJewish American thought and letters. Of course, the volume sacrificessome depth for the sake of breadth, but each essay gives plenty of suggestions for further reading. An important addition to scholarship in this field.

The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History Ser.)

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The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History Ser.)
Carole S. (editor) Kessner
Manufacturer: New York University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O9B2WC

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