Russian Military Aviation Directory: Strategic Bombers, Maritime Aircraft, Special Operations Aircraft, Trainers, Airborne Weapons, Organization

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The second of two volumes examining the air assets and operational military units assigned to Russia's air and naval services. This staggeringly detailed and up-to-date work describes every aircraft in military service, every carrier, every airborne weapon, every operational base, and every flying unit. Incredibly well researched, it will serve for years as the most comprehensive guide to modern Russian air power ever published. This volume completes this full and very detailed two-volume analysis.

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Russian Transportation Directory
Russian Information , and Inc Business Center
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The directory provides detailed information on Russian transportation companies located in Russian regions. Listing includes information on automobile companies, railways, aviation, sea & river transportation. Updated annually.

Russian Transportation Directory (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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Russian Transportation Directory (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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Gifts of closely held business stock may sacrifice future savings.: An article from: The Tax Adviser

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Gifts of closely held business stock may sacrifice future savings.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
Albert W. Liguori
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 937 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.

From the supplier: IRC section 6166 provides for deferral of estate tax liability related to closely held business interests held by the decedent, and section 6601(j) provides for a 4% interest rate on those deferred payments. The value of the business must exceed 35% of the adjusted gross estate. To ensure that the deferral is available and to maximize the deferral amount, lifetime gifts should be made from nonbusiness assets. Pres Clinton has proposed that the allowable business valuation be increased from $1 million to $2.5 million and the interest rate reduced to 2%.

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How owners of closely held businesses can use minority valuations to lower estate taxes. (Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser

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How owners of closely held businesses can use minority valuations to lower estate taxes. (Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser
Larry Rabun
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3867 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: How owners of closely held businesses can use minority valuations to lower estate taxes. (Brief Article)
Author: Larry Rabun
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1994
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Interest on deferral of estate taxes.(Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser
David S. Rhine
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Title: Interest on deferral of estate taxes.(Brief Article)
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Mind your own business: use an agreement. (The 2002 Law Journal).(business and estate planning for closely held companies): An article from: Business North Carolina

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Mind your own business: use an agreement. (The 2002 Law Journal).(business and estate planning for closely held companies): An article from: Business North Carolina
Guy F. Clerici , and Adam L. Shealy
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Publication: Business North Carolina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2002
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Volume: 22 Issue: 10 Page: 68(2)

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The first complete guide to taking advantage of the huge and growing market for Internet accounting services for small businesses
The Internet provides accountants with exciting new opportunities for expanding their practices by affording them unprecedented access to the huge small business market. The first comprehensive book on the subject, this book describes proven strategies for creating a thriving virtual accounting practice. Expert Jack Fox presents in-depth coverage of the various accounting and consulting services that accountants can offer to small business owners via the Internet. He describes successful techniques for identifying potential clients and packaging and marketing services, and arms readers with a complement of valuable tools for helping them get started in virtual accounting, including detailed business plans, numerous tables, forms, checklists, and connections with leading virtual accounting service providers.

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Junk! see my review for the 3rd Ed & save your $$$.......2004-04-26

Please see my review for the 3rd Edition ISBN 0471351601 and save yourself some money. My review has my initials scg on it; It currently is the second one down.

Profit!.......2001-03-13

The way our profession will service our clients in the future is taking a dramatic turn for the better. Jack Fox understands this new paradigm of service and, like a coach, takes you step-by-step through how to prepare your firm to profit in this new age of online services.

Accountants' Guide.......2001-03-01

Jack Fox literally wrote the book on building your own accounting practice. No one is better qualified to guide accountants into developing an accounting practice in the digital age. This book is a roadmap for trail-blazing accountants.

The New Paradigm of Service.......2001-03-01

A Message from the Author.......2001-01-30

There can be no business without clients. One of the key things I have learned in my more than twenty year accounting business journey is that the type of clients you attract and serve, and the caliber of associates with whom you partner,determine the kind of accounting or consulting business you build.

With the success of my first edition of Starting and Building Your Own Accounting Business, I sold my then six-year-old accounting practice to concentrate on providing accounting practice development services. After conducting more than a thousand seminars and workshops, I continued to search for ways to share my extensive practical knowledge utilizing the personalized, in-depth attention so beneficial to new and experienced accountants, alike. Each and every accounting and consulting professional has specific skills, interests, personality traits, hopes, and dreams that no seminar, boot camp or book, no matter how good, can completely address.

This latest book shares the current developments of Internet-based, application software providers and what and what does not work in relation to the threshhold of opportunity and prosperity that had never been imagined in the past and now within our grasp.

I appreciate your readership. For just as there can be no business without clients, there can be no purpose for books without readers. I wish you Godspeed on your exciting journey.

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MP Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis w/ Online Learning Center w/ PW Card
Edward Blocher , Kung Chen , Gary Cokins , and Thomas Lin
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Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Chen/Cokins/Lin is the first cost accounting text to offer integrated coverage of strategic management topics in cost accounting. The text is written to help students understand more about management and the role of cost management in helping a firm or organization to succeed. This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, and how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their company's competitiveness. In teaching these key management skills, the text takes on a strategic focus. It uncovers issues such as: How does a firm compete? What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed? How does the management accountant develop and present this information? This text helps students learn why, when, and how cost information is used to make effective decisions that lead a firm to success.

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Online Financial & Managerial Accounting
Belverd E. Needles
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Wonderful Book

Awesome!

nice pictures (and text)

A treasure of a book!!

Nicely Done

Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963
Carl Sferrazza Anthony
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B00006B5XG

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Packed with never-before-seen photographs, The Kennedy White House reveals the world's most famous family, unstaged and as they were, both behind White House doors and in their private homes in Virginia, Palm Beach, Newport, and Hyannis Port. Carl Sferrazza Anthony's fascinating narrative brings new insight to the Kennedy story, in the first book to place the family within the context of 1960s culture and view historical events uniquely from the personal perspective of their family life. A candid and compelling tour, The Kennedy White House "takes you inside the world's most famous goldfish bowl for a glimpse at life in the White House as you've never seen it before" (Julie N. Eisenhower).

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Wonderful Book.......2007-06-17

This book was a wonder to read and the pictures in it were amazing. Defentitly recomment it!

Awesome!.......2007-06-15

This book is great. I love the pictures, but some of the text was too boring for me. I was only interested in the parts of text that had "Caroline" or "John, Jr." in them. A lot of the pictures I have never seen before and it was a joy to see them in this book!

nice pictures (and text).......2005-12-22

This book is primarily worth it for the mnay great photos of JFK and Jackie, especially of the White House rooms themselves. That said, the text is pretty good, as well. Two items of interest--that isn't J. Edgar Hoover behind Jackie on the front cover but lookalike Secret Service agent Stewart G. "Stu" Stout, Jr. Also, I like the picture of Marilyn Monroe with Secret Service agent Floyd M. Boring (wearing glasses) in front of her on the steps!
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A treasure of a book!!.......2002-10-30

What a classy book that one is! The White House as it was at the time of the Kennedys... and looking at some of those never seen before pictures, we can relive the elegance, charm and grace of that unique period. Two thumbs up Mr. Sferrazza!!

Nicely Done.......2002-02-13

While the pictures are, for the most part, fantastic, the author does tend to make outlandish claims about some of them...The ONLY picture of JFK holding one of his kids, or the ONLY picture of him with Dr. Max Jacobson. Simply not the case! A little more care with details like that would have been nice!

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Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his assassination in Dallas on 22nd November 1963, this is a celebration in photographs of the life of John F. Kennedy (1917-63), the 35th president of the United States. A collection of photographs, many previously unpublished, together with campaign memorabilia and personal notes, tell the behind-the-scenes story of the youngest man to be elected president. It Illustrates the glamour and success of his life from childhood and student days to congress, fatherhood and the presidency, revealing the tragedy of his untimely death. It also offers a unique insight into the family man, as well as the world leader who held firm when the country trembled on the brink of nuclear war and whose economic programs launched America on its longest sustained expansion since World War I.

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Good book about JFK .......2007-07-09

This is not the best book about JFK I have ever read, but it is up there. I like the pictures on pages 16 (all) 20, 173, 192-199, 268-275, and 242-258. This book is recommended for any Kennedy fan of all ages.

Kennedy Must Have.......2006-09-12

This is a great picture book. I have almost every Kennedy family picture book available. I just happen to come across it in a bookstore near my home. I paid $19.99 for it, pretty good price. You can get here for about $16-17 but remember you have to pay shipping. So it comes out to more but it is soo worth it. When you are going through these pics its like being taken back in time. I'm pretty young my mom was born in 1957 so she was about Caroline's age when these pics were taken.

Outstanding pictures, good text.......2005-12-21

I highly recommend this book, primarily for the great picutures of JFK. This 40th anniversary volume succeeds in presenting many rare and never-before-seen photos. I especially like the ones depicting Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine on the rear of the limousine in Italy 7/63. Get this!
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A Nice Way to Remember President Kennedy.......2004-02-13

"John Fitzgerald Kennedy:A Life in Pictures"is a great way to remember President Kennedy.I'm a young,strong admirer of President Kennedy,and not only are there great pictures of Kennedy,there is a biography of Kennedy with speeches he made,including the speech he was going to make on November 22,1963.The best pictures are of Kennedy with Herbert Hoover and a picture of Jack Kennedy with his daughter Caroline and his niece Maria Shriver.I have seen a bunch of great Kennedy photos,and if you ever want the best Kennedy photo,buy Robert Stack's autobiography "Straight Shooting"and see the picture of Stack and Kennedy. "John Fitzgerald Kennedy:A Life In Pictures"is a must read for all Kennedy fans and even all non-Kennedy fans.

All pics, few words........2003-12-04

This collection of over 300 pages of the usual suspected photographs, as well as many unseen or rare ones, was published to commemorate the passing of 40 years since our 35th President was vicously cut down in his prime.

The layout of the photographs is great. You see JFK throughout his life, from childhood, to Presidencey and every passing moment between. The photos are powerful, moving, show glamour and fun, you see a politician throughout his political career, you see a loving father, son, brother and husband. I have had quite a few photo books on JFk, but this is by far the best and most desirable one I have seen.

This photograph book would make a wonderful and truly appriciated gift for anyone who has any respect, love or interest in JFK. My sister is a huge JFK fan, she had a bust of him on our dresser growing up.

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An impressive photographic gallery .......2004-12-10

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life In Pictures is an impressive photographic gallery and the collaborative effort of Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac in celebration of JFK. Very little text is present; almost all of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life in Pictures is dedicated to allowing the black-and-white and color photographs speak for themselves, with only a brief introduction leading into the compilation and a quick byline for each image to clarify the photograph's setting and the people it depicts. A visual treasury, moving to page through and recommended for any truly interested in seeing President Kennedy's life revealed, from early years to his untimely death.

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The picture life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martha Shapp
Manufacturer: F. Watts
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From his boyhood days through his adulthood as a trapper, guide, naturalist, and outdoorsman, Andy Russell lived a lifestyle that would be near-impossible today. Growing up in the Northern Rockies in a "land of boots and saddles, guns and fishing rods, and the smell of pines and grass," he observed the ways of animals wild and tame, braved rugged mountaintops and freezing rivers. He forged friendships with the local Indians and with the "remittance men," second sons of British aristocracy who left their stamp on the new country with ready cash and a zest for high living. Here are thrilling and humorous tales of breaking horses, hunting bears, and living proud and free, told in a naturally eloquent voice. (51/2 X 81/4, 320 pages, b&w photos)

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A GREAT ADVENTURE.......2001-11-01

I don't usually write book reviews, but as I came across this book for sale on Amazon, it brought back wonderful memories. I purchased this book back in 1973. I loved it then and I love it now. I re-read it for maybe the fifth time. I decided to write this reveiw.
I am not well educated or well traveled, but I know adventure when I read it and this book is of a great adventure. It is a group of short stories written by Andy Russell, who was born in 1915, more importantly at the foot of the Great Rockies mountains in southwestern Alberta Canada.
He describes his childhood growing up on a farm there, where he learned very young how to take care of himself. Fishing, hunting and trapping in a country of great beauty, that he describes as no one else could. Some stories are of breaking, riding and training horses. This is a book for someone who loves animals and the great outdoors, and especially for someone who loves adventure. His travels take him from the farms of the great plains to the beautiful mountains of the west and north to the cold of the frozen tunda. It is also about animals small and large, from weasels and minks to bears and elk, as well as fishing, the kind of which is very hard to find these days. There are stories told around camp fires, of cowboys and of the English Remittance men. Thrills vary from forest fires to the stalking of a trophy elk.
He went on to become a great guide of the Rockies, both for hunting and for those who hunt with a camera. This is a great adventure and a must read. If you read this book you should also read another book by him called "Grizzly Country". It is said by many to be one of the best books ever written about bears, both from the scientific point of view and by someone who was a conservationalist and a naturalist. I love bears and I loved that book also. I loved them both. I hope to read other by him. Enjoy and thank you Andy Russell.

True stories from the West.......2001-04-29

Trails Of A Wilderness Wanderer are true stories from the West blending the autobiography of an outdoorsman with accounts of living in the wild places of the Rockies, following old trails and meeting hunters and explorers. An absorbing outdoorsman's diary filled with nature and observations of the wild.

Outstanding storyteller of the Canadian Frontier.......1998-10-23

Mr. Russell takes you back to the early days when only Indians and bears roamed the land, through his youth and adulthood as an outdoorsman in the wilds of early Canada. He tells of living a life we can only dream of now. The people he writes of were real and made Canada what it is today. I have reread this book almost yearly since it came out in 1971. You will feel as if you have walked his trails with him and love the life he led. An excellent gift for the city-bound outdoorsman!!!

Good book. Why not publish a complete set of his works?.......1998-01-02

Good book. Would like to see a complete set of his works as well as a biography written by one of his cronies, or an outdoor-life chronicler.

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Trails Of A Wilderness Wanderer
Andy RUSSELL
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Russell. Andy
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Andy Russell
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TRAILS OF A WILDERNESS WANDERER
Andy Russell
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Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer
Andy Russell
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Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer
Andy Russell
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Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer
Andy Russell
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Herzen in Brief

Some Observations

Herzen is the Culmination of Russian Romantic Thought

Another great writer than Americans never get exposed to....

It's lucid and evokes an era

My past and thoughts: The memoirs of Alexander Herzen
Aleksandr Herzen
Manufacturer: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
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Herzen in Brief.......2007-10-10

There is no question that it is good to have this edition of Alexander Herzen's autobiography, "My Past and Thoughts," though it is considerably abridged. The work is deservedly praised as one of the great autobiographies of the West. Well written and colorful, it acquaints us with the mind and spirit of one of the most important political figures of the nineteenth century. Herzen, darling of radicals and nemesis of conservatives (wrongly, I believe), is a seminal thinker and activist of his time.
Herzen, a Russian by birth but an internationalist in spirit, knew most of the radicals of the era, Bakunin, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Louis Blanc. Yet he was in a way not one of them. He was too hardheaded and too reasonable--he knew what worked and what didn't. Raised in autocratic Russia, he had experienced prison, exile--and fame as a writer.
This edition has been abridged by Dwight MacDonald, unfortunately leaving out some crucial parts, for example his relations with his wife, Natalie, and other more domestic issues. However, the original appeared in five volumes, and something had to be excised to make this edition manageable. Those who wish to read the complete autobiography should look up the Knopf four-volume edition of 1968. Nonetheless, this edition will do for most of us. It's a gem.

Philip Brantingham
Chicago, IL

Some Observations.......2007-01-28

One finds oneself drawn to Herzen. He comes off as urbane, generous, strong, empathetic to those suffering under the Tsar (and all tyrannies), dedicated to the cause of bringing freedom to his homeland and a wonderful writer. He seems to have known, or at least bumped into, all the luminaries of the Russia and the Europe of his time.

This abridgement by Dwight McDonald, dating I believe from 1968, is of its time. The editor tells us that he excised those portions of the narrative dealing with Herzen's marriage, his wife's affair with a close friend of Herzen's, the loss of his mother and son in the sinking of a passenger boat and the death of his wife shortly thereafter. I wish that material had been included. I suppose an abridgement done in 2007 might include only those portions and nothing else, as we have less high seriousness and more interest in scandal and tragedy. In any case, I would have loved to read Herzen on these more personal topics.

I should add that it may be my spotty background in 19th Century European history but I was lost any number of times as I read. Herzen is telling us about contemporary men, events, controversies and schools of thought. There are numerous footnotes identifying the people he refers to but I needed more--no doubt the references would have been understood by any educated reader at the time but that was then.

That said, I'm glad I made the effort and I wish I could have met him.

Herzen is the Culmination of Russian Romantic Thought.......2002-02-02

In the years before Lenin and the harsh, bleak application of socialist thought to autocracy there existed a group of philosophers who believed in the beauty of the commune and its cooperation with a Republican government. Britain had Robert Owen and his factory town, the French had Fourier (the phalanstery) and Proudhon among others, and the Russians had Herzen. Here existed a time where the leading academics saw folly in violent revolution, and Herzen was by no means a demogogue willing to mobilize the Russian peasants in a siege of Moscow like a simple Pugachev or a Decembrist.

This perhaps explains Herzen's stern dislike of Marx and Engels, for he saw too much of the Robespierre in them and their ideas.

Herzen believed in democracy almost in a modern American sense. Indeed, much of the work is laced with arguments in disfavor to the flowering of socialism in Europe, citing particularly the cruelty of the police in France during 1848: "The Latin world does not like freedom, it only likes to sue for it." Certainly the tendencies of the Germans were no more progressive either. Instead at one point in the text the author suggests that those who "can put off from himself the old Adam of Europe and be born again a new Jonathan had better take the first steamer to some place in Wisconsin or Kansas."

The selections and abridgement of the text emphasize Herzen's basic belief about reform: revolution is gradual. One has to breed engrained stupidity out of the ruling class and make laws that better everyone, like the English and Americans. Laws make a better society, not people: "The Englishman's liberty is more in his institutions than in himself or his conscience. His freedom is the 'common law.'"

The text covers the demise of Herzen, culminating in his rejection on his deathbed by the new revolutionary ("terrorist") camps in Russia, headed ideologically by Chernyshevsky and best seen in the widespread incendiary and murderous practices of Sergei Nechaev. These are all topics of the years after Herzen's death, the tragic history of the latter half of the nineteenth century and the prelude to the pall of 1917.

Another great writer than Americans never get exposed to...........2000-10-19

Herzen is one of the many authors whom Americans never are exposed to and rightfully should be. He was a great thinker; he writes lucidly (although tending toward personal speculation.... you've got to remember-- he was living at a similar time to Tolstoy who does the same thing....) and CAN BE surprisingly contemporary for someone so long dead....

It's understandable why Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzenitzen (sp?) are much more widely read than he is: they are better novellists and never got cursed by the fact that they were socialists (such a dirty word in the US!) BUT, Herzen is definately someone whom anyone trying to pawn themselves off as a psuedo-intellectual should read.

One problem with this book: some of his best stuff is obviously just not in here (as it is his memoirs....) His philosophy is brilliant; some of his letters to his son are as moving as any I can think of (excepting perhaps Rilke's to the young poet...)

His memoirs are a definate must-read.... for whomever is reading this review.... Just buy the book!

It's lucid and evokes an era.......2000-03-23

A worthwile read for anyone with an interest in 19th century history - or Russian thought. Herzen's narrative begins with Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and winds on through Nichlos II's reign to the larger events of Napoleon the III's Europe. At times a witty and fascinating account of both Russia and Europe during a crucial era, Herzen occasionally drifts off into somewhat tedious personal speculation.

My Past and Thoughts The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

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My Past and Thoughts The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen
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My Past and Thoughts The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen Four Volume Set

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Alexander Herzen
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My past and thoughts,: The memoirs of Alexander Herzen; the authorised translation;

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Aleksandr Herzen
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My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen (4 Volume Boxed Set)

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Alexander; Garnett, Constance Herzen
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My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen - 4 Volumes

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Alexander Herzen
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My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. (FOUR VOLUME SET COMPLETE)

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My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen. (FOUR VOLUME SET COMPLETE)
Alexander Herzen
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IXW3KY

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1453 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: Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas.(Book Review)
Author: Jennifer Oates
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 61 Issue: 2 Page: 433(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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