Swiss Securities Regulation:An Introduction to the Regulation of the Swiss Financial Market with a Translation of the Stock Exchange Act of 1995 (SESTA) and Implementing Ordinances

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The scope of Switzerland's laws and regulations applicable to banks, investment funds, and, most importantly, securities trading has changed significantly since the late 1980s, and even as recently as 1997. Businesspeople and their advisors need to understand the new legal framework created by the recent amendments. Swiss Securities Regulation clearly and concisely sets out the new regulatory framework for the Swiss financial market and provides English translations of the Stock Exchange Act, the Stock Exchange Ordinance, the Stock Exchange Ordinance of the Federal Banking Commission, and the Takeover Ordinance. The wide range of topical coverage includes + lawmaking in Switzerland, + regulation of financial institutions in Switzerland, + issuing securities in Switzerland, + scope of application of the Stock Exchange Act, + regulation of exchange in Switzerland, + regulation of securities dealers in Switzerland, + disclosure of substantial share holdings in listed Swiss companies, + tender offers for the listed Swiss financial market, and + criminal provisions in the listed Swiss market. Swiss Securities Regulation also compares the regulation of the Swiss financial market with the corresponding regulation of the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Legal and financial advisors in and outside of Switzerland will appreciate the comprehensive coverage of this informative work. The comparative approach and range of questions addressed will also appeal to those in academia.

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Investors need access to high quality investment information and they need a process for how to use it to manage their stock portfolios. While the quantity of investment information is vast, much of the quality is lacking. Both individual investors and financial advisors are short-term focused, neglecting long-term strategies. The results have been excessive financial damage during volatile markets. Hagenbuch and Capalbo recommend a step-by step approach to building portfolios using different types of securities research from a variety of sources. Their approach focuses first on the portfolio, and second upon the choice of individual stocks.

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The book for the Smart investor!.......2003-05-23

There is no other book like this on the market. It teaches a person how to use complicated research to invest, yet it is easy to understand. I would recommend this book for the beginner investor as well as the seasoned vet who may need a refresher course. Every broker should have to read this book. It is filled with information that is hardly ever taught only learned through trial and error. It will definitely give a broker or an investor a leg up in the market.

HOW TO...For the lay person.......2003-05-22

The only stocks I've owned ---up until this point---are ones that I inherited when my father passed away. Lacking any further inclination to investigate the subject of investing, I have relied on advisors. Virtually 100% of the time, I have taken their advice without question, simply because I didnt know enough to even articulate a question.
This book changes all that. Written in concise prose and including lots of example to illustrate points, this book is eminently readable, providing simple and logical explanations of what to look for when considering investment. It provides numerous portfolio models based on one needs, objectives and perspective.
Does it contain all you need to know? I can't say. But I can tell you it has provided me in one read enough information to become a nuisance to my advisor. Hey, the fees I pay buy me that license. Read this book no matter how much you know!

Unparalleled Educational Resource!!!.......2003-05-12

As a marketing professional who has little time to research investment opportunities, I was seeking a guide to educate myself about using investment information effectively. Investment Survival is an expansive educational resource that uses pertinent examples applicable to the laymen to provide a comprehensive guide to constructing a well-balanced portfolio. I will refer to this valuable guidebook for years to come when making decisions about my stock portfolio.

Investment Survival Is Packed with Useful Suggestions.......2002-12-27

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What I liked about Investment Survival is that I learned practical things I have never found in any other investment book. It is especially helpful about how to use the information and opinions I hear on TV, read in the newspapers and in research reports my broker sends me. In other words, this book is packed with "news you can use."

It explained to me how to figure out how risky my portfolio is by going to a free website and putting in the ticker symbols the stocks I own. The book also explains how I can decrease the risk in my portfolio or increase it, if I care to. I realized as a result that I was overloaded with technology and communications stocks and, perhaps, I should reduce my holdings in these two areas.

It also explains what I should do next when I read or hear an opinion I agree with. For example, when somebody says, "You should overweight retail stocks" and I want to do that. Now I know what "overweight" or "underweight" means in terms of dollars and cents in my portfolio.

It also explains how to check out my own opinions. By that I mean, how to figure out if analysts, investment strategists and other just plain investors agree with my thinking or not.

I liked the fact that the book doesn't preach. Instead, it gave me some simple ways to clarify my thinking and simplify the job of monitoring my portfolio and figure out when I should do more research and when to ignore the advice I am getting. It's also easy to read and it explains clearly whenever it uses a technical term.

I would recommend this book to somebody who isn't new to the game and believes that she or he can do better in the market. Someone who has been investing for a while and owns at least a dozen different stocks. If you are willing to spend a few hours a month working on getting more profits from your stocks, I think you will thank me for recommending this book.

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The student CD-ROM contains four items to help students pass their managerial accounting class: 1.) Tutorial - contains true/false questions, multiple choice exercises, and interactive exercises; as you answer each question the software provides feedback for questions answered incorrectly and provides a running tally of the percentage you have answered correctly. 2.) NetProphet III Demo - activity-based management software created by Sapling Corporation. Corporations such as Amoco, Ralston Purina, etc., use this software to help them manage costs. 3.) NetScore Demo - a performance measurement software product developed by the Sapling Corporation. Corporations such as Barclays PLC use this product to help them identify problems with their performance. 4.) Video Clips - are included to help you visualize selected managerial accounting concepts. Exercises for the video clips are found on the text's web page.

Student CD-ROM Software for use with Financial & Managerial Accounting: A Basis for Business Decisions

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Student CD-ROM Software for use with Financial & Managerial Accounting: A Basis for Business Decisions
Jan Williams , Sue Haka , Mark S Bettner , Robert Meigs , and Mark Bettner
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The student CD-ROM will incorporate Spreadsheet Applications Template Software (SPATS), General Ledger Applications Software (GLAS), and the tutorial software. This CD-ROM comes packaged free with every text.

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An important roadmap for fundraising in today's multicultural communities

Raising money in today's diverse communities is a growing challenge for fundraisers and philanthropists, requiring thoughtful strategies, successful collaborations, and a respectful understanding of people's differences.

In this groundbreaking new book, the author examines today's four major ethnic groups-African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American-in terms of their diverse histories, traditions, and motivations, and then applies this information to the proven components of successful fundraising. The result is a timely and important look at how fundraisers can use an understanding of ethnic differences to create a vibrant and balanced nonprofit center through both individual and collective efforts.

In clear, easy-to-understand language, Cultivating Diversity in Fundraising answers the following critical questions:

Who are diverse donors?
What are their charitable traditions and interests?
What fundraising methods will be successful in diverse communities?
What can fundraisers do to include more diversity in fundraising efforts?

Designed as a guide to fundraising as well as a strategic update for existing fundraisers, this book should be required reading for anyone working in today's nonprofit sector.

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This will help a lot.......2002-12-04

This book came along just in time. I want to congratulate Jancie Gow Pettey for tackling this subject and for doing it in a way that is readable and helpful. This book came to my attention just as I was accepting a new job with a nonprofit institution that serves an extremely diverse (both ethnically and economically) community. One phrase stood out to me: "Diversity means adjustment."

Summary: Get this book for your development library.

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Fundraising in a Multicultural World.......2002-01-11

In this latest publication in the AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series, author Janice Gow Pettey contends that, to be successful, fundraisers must understand diverse ethnic cultures in America. While philanthropy in America mirrors the rapid shifts in technology and culture of the 21st century, giving practices in many ethnic communities draw on ancient cultural and religious traditions. Pettey looks at four major ethnic groups, African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino and Native American, explores their charitable traditions, then applies this background to recommended fundraising techniques.

The book provides interesting historical perspectives on these four groups, and offers insights into specialized giving practices. Cultural pitfalls are addressed as well: how do you bring up planned giving in a Chinese community, where death may be a taboo subject? How do you measure philanthropy where much of the flow of funds is back to communities in immigrants' home lands?

Also included are demographic data from the 2000 census, as well as observations gleaned from interviews with professionals in the philanthropic sector on family, personal and cultural giving patterns within their respective cultures. (This survey is ongoing, and the author gives information in the book on how to participate.)

"Cultivating Diversity in Fundraising" is well-organized and clearly written. While giving nonprofit professionals the tools to succeed in successful fundraising among these major ethnic groups, the book also promotes a greater understanding and respect for the role of minority communities in American philanthropic life.

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Financial Management for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
Raymond Sanchez Mayers
Manufacturer: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
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Financial Management for Nonprofit Human Service Agencies
Raymond Sanchez Mayers
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Internal control: A self-assessment workbook for not-for-profit social welfare and human service agencies (Financial management series)
Peter C Paquette
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The Lessening Stream reviews the changing human use of southern Arizona's Santa Cruz River and its aquifer from the earliest human presence in the valley to today. Michael Logan examines the social, cultural, and political history of the Santa Cruz Valley while interpreting the implications of various cultures' impact on the river and speculating about the future of water in the region.

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The right book at the right time.......2003-09-05

There is increasing interest in, and concern for, the status of water not only in the U.S.but throughout the world. Some scholars contend that water could well be the flash point for a world war in this century. A cascade of books are arriving in stores that del with the issue, but most discuss the current threat of dwindling water supplies and the impact such scarcity is having on various locales throught the world.
This book is different. Michael Logan, an Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, has written an important book that is the first to review the history of a river with a focus on the place within which it runs. That is, he has written a history of the entire Santa Cruz River rather than focusing on any particular segment within which the river flows. To be sure there is much discussion on the Tucson Basin, which contains the greatest population in the river valley and where significant changes have occurred during modern times. But the emphasis is on the entire river and its watershed and the social, cultural and political history that have all contributed to making it a "Lessening Stream."
Using three eras-archaic, modern and postmodern-Logan combines hydrology, anthropology, geology, archaeology and history to argue the relationship between fresh water and humans that is applicable to this particular watershed also has significance to national and international water issues.
The lessons learned from diverting surface flow to pumping down aquifers and the never-ending quest for economic development in the Tucson Basin will be ignored at great risk by other locales similarly situated.
There is also an interesting discussion of the effects of the Central Arizona Project and the continuing efforts to divert more water from the Colorado River than is available.
This is an unusual book. It is a scholarly, meticulously researched environmental history that is highly readable and will be of interest to readers regardless of scientific backgroung or training.
Highly recommended for those interested in what some consider to be "blue gold."

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Taking piano lessons at three years of age and composing by five, William Mathias became one of Britain's leading 20th-century composers. (He was invited to compose the wedding anthem for the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer). This work provides, for the first time in one volume, up-to-date and comprehensive details of the composer's life's work. It includes a biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of sound recordings, and an annotated bibliography, along with useful appendixes and an index. This book will be of interest to musicologists, students, and 20th-century music buffs alike. Mathias was a prolific and versatile composer whose works included opera and music for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments, organ, brass ensembles, choral, church, and children's groups. His wedding anthem for Prince Charles and Lady Diana was heard by over 750 million people around the world on television--probably the largest audience for any first performance of a new work.

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Money and Me is a radical shift from other money books in that it declares there are a multitude of creative ways to successfully manage money. Written in a clear and personable manner, this book invites readers to participate in a process of teaming their beliefs about money and defining a new way to be in a relationship with money. Readers are offered an opportunity to discover their ability to manage money so it flows in and out of their life in a way that matches their intent and values. Many concrete examples and exercises are given to assist this process. Money and Me is designed to encourage readers to believe that they have the ability to embrace money into their lives and in doing so, they will enhance their personal power and experience a new sense of freedom.

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Over time, Tim O'Brien has used both art and artifice to shape his fictional accounts of Vietnam. Award-winning novels such as Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides to walk to Paris, leaving only a trail of M&M's in his wake; a young man who imports his high-school girlfriend to his base camp high in the jungled mountains, only to lose her to a shadowy squad of Special Forces Green Berets and to "that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure" that was Vietnam. O'Brien's first account of the war, however, was written in the raw, unfiltered months following his return from Southeast Asia in 1969. If I Die in a Combat Zone has all of the eloquence and attention to language and detail that are a mark of the author's work; what is different about it is its straightforward, unembellished depiction of his personal experience of hell.

"When you are ordered to march through areas such as Pinkville--GI slang for Song My, parent village of My Lai ... you do some thinking. You hallucinate. You look ahead a few paces and wonder what your legs will resemble if there is more to the earth in that spot than silicates and nitrogen. Will the pain be unbearable? Will you scream or fall silent? Will you be afraid to look at your own body, afraid of the sight of your own red flesh and white bone? You wonder if the medic remembered his morphine."

O'Brien paints an unvarnished portrait of the infantry soldier's life that is at once mundane and terrifying--the endless days of patrolling punctuated by firefights that end as suddenly and inconclusively as they begin; the mind-numbing brutality of burned villages and trampled rice patties; the terror of tunnels, minefields, and the ever-present threat of death. Powerful as these scenes are, perhaps the most memorable chapter in the book concerns his decision to desert just a few weeks before he was sent to Vietnam. "The AWOL bag was ready to go, but I wasn't.... I burned the letters to my family. I read the others and burned them, too. It was over. I simply couldn't bring myself to flee. Family, the home town, friends, history, tradition, fear, confusion, exile: I could not run." Tim O'Brien went into the war opposing it and came out knowing exactly why. If I Die in a Combat Zone is more than just a memoir of a disastrous war; it is also a meditation on heroism and cowardice, on the mutability of truth and morality in a war zone and, most of all, on the simple, human capacity to endure the unendurable. --Alix Wilber

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Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.

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An informative memoir on the Vietnam War.......2007-08-30

This memoir brought me closer than I had been before to the Vietnam War..it was interesting. Another perspective on the Vietnam War.

The first step.......2007-08-09

If I Die...is Tim O'Brien's first book, and his first of many inspired by his tour of duty as an infantryman in Vietnam, 1969-70. Later, more successful books, like Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, deliberately smudge the line between reportage and invented story (and, in GAC, he takes it all the way to outright fantasy) but this debut is intended as a soldier's field memoir, the facts as O'Brien saw and remembers them, although with much brooding personal commentary added.

More than 30 years after its publication, the book is still quite powerful, reviving the sights and sounds of a war that America decided a while ago not to forget, but rather to remember in a way it finds most convenient. There are still too many people who believe we could easily have "won" Vietnam if we hadn't been "stabbed in the back" by politicians and hippie protestors at home; that is nonsense, much of which O'Brien's book helps disprove. Indispensible works like The Best and the Brightest, and of course The Pentagon Papers, prove how various US administrations allowed themselves to be deluded about the progress the US military might make in solving the political problems of a small SE Asian country. By the time O'Brien arrived as a foot soldier in early 1969, the war had reached a high-level stalemate, was essentially over, and the Vietnamese simply had to wait us out. LBJ and Nixon knew this but they continued to send our soldiers over to be killed and mangled; too precipitous a withdrawal would have hurt their administrations politically.

What O'Brien does so well is dramatize this fatal stall at the personal level. His book is loaded with stories of ranking officers, brave men with Army careers, allowing their commands to ease off in the field, avoid pointless enemy engagements, even file fake patrol reports, especially at night. O'Brien's tour commenced a year after Tet and My Lai occurred, and in their aftermath, as O'Brien tells it, Army morale at even the officer level had sunk so low, and the failure of US goals was so evident, that few Americans wanted to get killed for a misadventure.

What lingers most in my mind is O'Brien's struggle with his own self-loathing: he believed even before being drafted that the war was wrong, and made serious plans to desert the Army, but found himself unable to make that great break, fearful of the reaction he would eventually encounter from parents and the small Minnesota town of his birth. He gave in to tradition, rather than do what he felt to be right, and it seems he has never forgiven himself.

A Good Time To Revisit the Vietnam Experience .......2007-08-02

Tim O'Brien is one of our more gifted, living writers in the genre of war literature, and although IF I DIE IN A COMBAT zone isn't his strongest book, it is certainly worthy reading, especially in the echoing din of George Bush's Iraqi adventure.

A straightforward account from a soldier's point of view, O'Brien's book includes the before, during, and after of his Vietnam experience -- especially the daily grind of soldiering (during) and the soul-searching and debate about fleeing (before) instead of answering the call of the draft. He had a rather quixotic escape plan to Sweden (of all places), but ultimately did his "duty," all along meditating on the nature of sanity, obligation, and patriotism. There are frequent excerpts from Plato, even, as O'Brien explores that ancient philosopher's take on "courage." As his fellow soldiers are killed, O'Brien details the nature of fate and chance, along with the more realistic details of the many ways "Charlie" (the VC) could arrange for you to die.

Here is a typical excerpt in which O'Brien compares Vietnam to the Trojan War:

"But losing [Captain Johansen] was like the Trojans losing Hector. He gave some amount of reason to fight. Certainly there were never any political reasons. The war, like Hector's own war, was silly and stupid. Troy was besieged for the sake of a pretty woman. And Helen, for God's sake, was a woman most of the grubby, warted Trojans could never have. Vietnam was under siege in pursuit of a pretty, tantalizing, promiscuous, particularly American brand of government and style. And most of Alpha Company would have preferred a likable whore to self-determination. So Captain Johansen helped to mitigate and melt the silliness, showing the grace and poise a man can have under the worst of circumstances, a wrong war. We clung to him." -- (p. 145)

Philosophical riffs like this are frequent -- as are accounts of the soldiers' lives (and deaths), their nicknames for killer devices, their fear and superstitions, and their ways of surviving in a strange land where even women and children could, and often did, mean death. The literary weave of abstractions on war and history with specifics on Vietnam itself make for a potent read. You will come out of it not only feeling better educated about what Vietnam was like, but sensing that many of the arguments of the American government and the officers in charge ring as familiarly hollow now (in Iraq) as they did then (in Vietnam). If I could, I'd buy a copy for the President. But I know he wouldn't read it or, if he did, seek meaning from it.

Pro or anti-war, Vietnam or Iraq, you, however, can glean something from this early effort of Tim O'Brien's. Check it out.

Good, but not his best.......2007-04-28

Having read O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" first, this book seemed a bit dry and journalistic in comparison. It started out slow, and never really pulled me in the way the other did. In this book there are flashes of O'Brien's lyrical, dream-like brilliance, but never as consistent or as seemingly tangible as in "The Things They Carried."

In this book, O'Brien brings the reader along with him from the moment he first learns that he is to be drafted until he is on a plane heading home from Viet Nam. He shares his fears, doubts and political views of the war. The book is mostly about O'Brien's experience in the war, and how it changed him and matured him.

Overall, a good book. Probably of particular interest to anyone interested in a personal, almost documentary-style account of O'Brien's experience in Viet Nam. In a purely literary sense, however, the stories in "The Things They Carried" are far better examples of Tim O'Brien's skill as a writer.

A good book.......2007-01-11

A little too in depth for me. But i do recommend that it be read. A good book.

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home

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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home
Tim O'Brien
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Fear and Courage in Tim O'Brien's if I Die in a Combat Zone, Going AfterCacciato, and the Things They Carried

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Fear and Courage in Tim O'Brien's if I Die in a Combat Zone, Going AfterCacciato, and the Things They Carried

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A667053. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: After serving a tour as an infantryman in Vietnam (1969-1970), Tim O'Brien returned to the United States and began a career as a writer. He has since published six books and numerous short stories and has distinguished himself as an accomplished author in the process. Three of his books, If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), Going After Cacciato (1978), and The Things They Carried (1990), deal specifically with the Vietnam war. In these works O'Brien clearly establishes fear as both a dominant aspect of the experience and an essential component necessary for the display of courage, one of his most significant considerations. He portrays bravery as an individual's ability to perform acts and make decisions despite apprehension, and he reveals the difficulty of demonstrating fortitude in the morally ambiguous environment of Vietnam where the horror of death was often secondary to that of cowardice. Ultimately, however, although the arena of armed combat provides a unique setting in which to display human conduct and consciousness, the link between courage and fear that O'Brien illustrates is not a war issue but rather a universal one. The strength of his writing lies in his ability to depict this intricate relationship in a manner that is relevant to humanity as a whole. furthermore, his vivid presentation of the Vietnam conflict, without anti-war protest or political agenda, makes its own case for the prevention of a similar sacrifice of human lives and innocence in the future.

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If I Die in a Combat Zone
Tim O'Brien
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If I Die In A Combat Zone
Tim Obrien
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IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE Box Me Up & Ship Me Home

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IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE Box Me Up & Ship Me Home
TIM O'BRIEN
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If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

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If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien
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If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'brien
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Shuip Me Home

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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Shuip Me Home

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IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE
Tim OBrien
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A GENTLE TRIBUTE to the Georgia island that the best-selling author called home. The millions who have read Eugenia Price's novels know that central to each of her stories is a strong, deeply rooted sense of place, and readers quickly fall in love with Price's settings. For thirty years, faithful readers followed Price to the vivid worlds of her Georgia trilogy, her Florida trilogy, her Savannah quartet, and her many other novels. Her stories of local people and the homes where their stories unfold easily become familiar, loved places. "That a house, a locale, is central to all my novels, makes good sense," Ms. Price believed. "I am and have always been almost overly sensitive to the house, the place in which I live. Finding St. Simons Island changed my very life--its tempo, its basic simple quality, even my own capacity for lasting relationships." In this book, Eugenia Price shares with her worldwide reading public some of what life was like during the first years in which she and her best friend and fellow writer, Joyce Blackburn, were becoming Islanders. "These short pieces," she said, "include my observations day by day of what it was like at last to be at home on St. Simons. We were learning how to be neighbors, after so many years of complex life in the huge northern city of Chicago; learning how to care deeply for people with whom, at first glance, we had little in common. We were understanding what it really meant to come home." Eugenia Price, called by many St. Simons' own "beloved invader," here shows readers those early years as they were being lived. Her cherished St. Simons Memoir was written from memory and notes in old desk calendars, but At Home on St. Simons illuminates some of the experiences which most shaped and changed Eugenia--written as they occurred.

AT HOME ON ST. SIMONS: Life on the outer Island.

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AT HOME ON ST. SIMONS: Life on the outer Island.
Eugenia Price
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An island newcomer's diary: Answers the question "why did you choose St. Simons?"

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An island newcomer's diary: Answers the question "why did you choose St. Simons?"
Carita Dawson
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This is the first English-language edition of Leopold's acclaimed 1982 study of Claudio Monteverdi. Avoiding a standard life-and-works approach, Leopold examines Monteverdi's music as a whole, focusing on the technical details of his style as they appear throughout his oeuvre and illustrating
them with numerous musical examples. This approach not only offers fascinating insights into the connections, links, and interrelationships in Monteverdi's works (many of which are not apparent in a discussion by genre), but it also illustrates how a major musical figure approached composition at a
time when musicians had rejected polyphony and turned to a monodic style.

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