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Simplified Personal Financial Planning: A Revolutionary Approach to Money Management
Seth Cummings Manufacturer: Authorhouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1414002092 |
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County Business Patterns Vermont 1999 (County Business Patterns Vermont)
Manufacturer: United States Government Printing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0890595542 |
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Natural Relief for Your Child's Asthma: A Guide to Controlling Symptoms & Reducing Your Child's Dependence on Drugs
M.D., Steven J. Bock , and M.D., Kenneth Bock Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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There's nothing more frightening than witnessing a child's asthma attack, listening to her wheeze and cough and fight for every breath--and sharing her panic. Fortunately, pharmaceutical advances have resulted in a whole new class of drugs that prevents or relieves asthma flare-ups. But do you want your child on drugs, with their potential short- and long-term side effects? Besides, asthma drugs treat the symptoms without treating the underlying condition. Are there alternatives that can lessen an asthmatic child's drug dependency? Yes, say authors Steven J. Bock, Kenneth Bock, and Nancy P. Bruning. "It is our belief that asthma rates continue to soar because of our increasingly toxic environment," they write. "Our children are assaulted from every direction with indoor and outdoor air pollution, poor food, and stress." The cumulative toxicity makes children more susceptible to diseases. In this book the authors present a natural asthma program to complement your child's conventional care and help to reduce asthma attacks and drug dependency. This includes reducing asthma triggers (including advice for "saying goodbye to Fluffy"); eating a cleaner, more nourishing diet (emphasizing plant foods); taking supplements, herbs, and homeopathic remedies; and learning to cope with emotional stress. The book ends with three case studies of children who used the program in various ways and dramatically improved their health. --Joan PriceBook Description
From two physicians with fifteen years of experience in treating asthma comes the only book for children with asthma that supplements conventional approaches with effective and proven natural remedies. Parenting a child with asthma is often scary, unpredictable, frustrating, and expensive. Through controlling symptoms, decreasing attacks, and eventually reducing the need for prescription drugs, the Drs. Bock will help you and your child regain control of your lives. This book will show you how to:
This medically up-to-date, practical, and supportive book focuses on stopping asthma symptoms and attacks before they start. It is a must-have reference for any parent of a child with asthma.
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Powerful information for parents!.......2000-06-11
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Public Management in Lean Years: Operating in a Cutback Management Environment
James L. Mercer Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0899303579 |
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Cutback management is a way of life for most public and private sector organizations today, and the factors leading to its presence are expected to be felt well into the 1990's and beyond. At the same time, organizations are being faced with a changed internal culture where employees want and need to be involved in decisions that affect them. The author, who has been at the forefront of assisting organizations in effectively managing both external and internal change, explores the trends impacting state and local governments in the next decade and beyond, describes the cutback management environment that policy and decision makers face, and lays out effective approaches to deal with this environment from the bottom of the organization upward. In this manner, organizations that identify techniques to improve revenues and reduce costs can find lasting solutions that are accepted at all organizational levels. After reviewing the 15 major trends expected to impact state and local governments during the 1990's and beyond, the author describes the cutback management environment being faced by most state and local governments. He then describes in detail how to set a direction to address the cutback management environment through the application of strategic planning and goes on to describe how to organize around critical success factors in order to focus resources on achievement of the organizational mission in light of external and internal environmental factors. He explores various techniques for improving employee productivity, ranging from the use of new technology to better management systems to various types of employee involvement. He then discusses the importance of values in the achievement of a shared organizational vision and describes various employee involvement processes that can be used to secure buy-in by employees at all levels where organizational changes are underway. Among other issues explored in depth are the use of matrix management to improve productivity in a project-oriented environment and contingency planning to deal with unforeseen events. The book culminates with a description of how to use strategic management as a day-to-day tool for effective bottom-up cutback management, and provides real-life case situations of how state and local governments are effectively dealing with the cutback and involvement processes. This book is aimed at state and local government policy and decision makers.
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Community Associations: The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
Donald R. Stabile Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 031331571X |
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Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly. Today a new type of community is emerging--one planned from the start regarding housing location, style, and governance. These Community Associations (CAs) have increased in number from 500 in 1960 to 205,000 in 1998. This book explores the issues surrounding this housing innovation and provides a history of community associations and their membership organization, the Community Associations Institute (CAI). The book explores the process of trial and error in the design of CAs and how the CAI was set up to help them work. It opens with a consideration of the economics of land, housing, and community associations; explores the social, intellectual, legal background for CAs; and surveys their development in the United States. After considering the FHA's role, the book focuses on the development of the CAI .Customer Reviews:
Lambda Alpha International (LAI) recommended reading........2001-09-11
Community Associations traces the historical roots of common property from medieval feudalism, the New England town, various communal and utopians ideas and examples to earliest contemporary prototypes in England and the United States. It then explores the decades after W.W.II, when rapid suburban growth made the provision of common areas and facilities a desirable and much needed part of large scale communities that outstripped the capabilities of the public sector to provide parks and ballfields, swimming pools, other recreation facilities, and, perhaps most critically, common open space to preserve woodlands, streams, historic structures, that were envision by land planners and developers as a better living environment that could be created if there were a means to commonly and privately own and maintain such features.
Unlike most previous literature that advocate the use of community associations, this book seeks to dispassionately explore the rise of community associations, their economic impact on communities, their strengths and weaknesses, and their evolution from a means to ensure maintenance and operation of common ownership elements into a private governance system that both protects the common interests of property owners and restricts their freedom of action beyond those restrictions imposed by local, state, and national government.
An invaluable resource for all professionals in the related fields of land economics.
Recommended reading from Frank Spink and Jo-Ann Neuhaus of George Washington Chapter of LAI in Washington, DC
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Community Associations: The Emergence and Acceptance of a Quiet Innovation in Housing. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Paul Jorgensen Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008F1BDM Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 964 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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Bob Gibson: I Come for to Sing: The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend
Bob Gibson Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1565549082 |
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The life of Bob Gibson, the unsung father of commercially popular folk music, whose influence is still being felt in today's music, is celebrated in "Bob Gibson: I Come For To Sing", by Carole Bender and Bob Gibson. Included with the book is Bob Gibson's CD "Stops Along the Way".The book is autobiographical as much as possible, but his importance to his contemporaries is emphasized by original contributions by such legends as Shel Silverstein, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton, Hamilton Camp, Gordon Lightfoot, Glenn Yarbrough, George Carlin and many others.
Bob Gibson is largely responsible for the revival of folk music in the late 50s and early 60s, as well as its elevation to a more widely-accepted popularity througout the country. In addition to his own musical contributions, Bob also wrote or co-wrote many of the more popular folk songs of the era, some of which were recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, and many others. His influence, his music, and his impeccable mastering of the 12-string guitar influenced an entire generation of performers.
This book is a tribute to Gibson's contribution to music, as well as a heartfelt tribute to the man himself, exploring his life and his career, the triumphs as well as the trials, including a dark look into his battle with drug addiction. Additional features include the most comprehensive Bob Gibson discography ever compiled, Gibson's complete song-writing textbook, the script of his play, "The Courtship of Carl Sandburg", numerous photos and illustrations, and of course, the CD "Stops Along the Way."
Proceeds from the sale of this book through this website go to the Bob Gibson Trust.
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"No! Not the Baseball Pitcher!".......2000-03-14
There is certainly nothing simple about my endeavor, just as there is nothing simple about the subject. He was far more than just a folk singer. He had as much charisma as Elvis, as much innovative talent as Chuck Berry, as much potential as Buddy Holly, and as phenomenal as it sounds, somehow managed to stay hidden in the shadows. He never achieved any wide spread general recognition.
The author recognized the importance of her subject's contributions, the scope of his talent, the scale of his influence, and with probing tenacity shone her light into those shadows, so we the reader might discover a true American troubadour, Bob Gibson.
The book paints the picture of an artist who reached the zenith of his profession, a world class entertainer, a man who literally changed forever the entire genre of folk music. To paint this portrait the author delineates the man in the shadows with the words and stories of his friends, fans, family and of course the musicians, singers, and songwriters of the 50s and 60s whom Bob Gibson affected.
Only after you read the book will you understand why she chose to tell the story in this manner. Simply put, of the many talents Bob possessed, his most amazing attribute was the positive manner in which he affected virtually everyone whose life he touched. The dichotomy was he still somehow managed, in his own enigmatic way, to remain virtually unknown.
Without this book, Bob Gibson, might never have received his final encore, one he richly deserves and one we readers can be thankful that the author provided. The amount of effort it took to compile this heretofore "untold story," could only have been powered by the energy derived from working on a true, "labor-of-love."
Like the dichotomy that was Bob Gibson's life, this book will make you happy and sad. Sad that you weren't aware of him earlier, and happy that the author persevered in her quest to illuminate and thus honor this dynamic individual. This book is Bob Gibson's last spotlight.
P.S. Better than apple pie the book comes a la mode. Tucked neatly into the inside back cover of the book there is a full length compilation CD of some of Bob's best known music and songs. Get it and enjoy the story and music of a little known legend.
An excellent read with a bonus!.......2000-01-14
Finally Someone Tells Bob's Story!.......2000-01-14
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Bob Gibson I Come for to Sing The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend
Bob Gibson Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N7KRWQ |
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Michalina: Daughter of Israel
Rachel Sarna Araten Manufacturer: Feldheim Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0873064127 |
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A Difficult Topic that deserved more.......2001-08-07
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Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: And Other Financial Wisdom, Theories, Nostrums, and Outright Lies
Breck Speed , and Mark Dutton Manufacturer: Cumberland House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1888952172 |
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Entertaining yes, useful no.......2000-03-31
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Money Doesn't Grow on Trees - And Other Financial Wisdom, Theories, Nostrums, & Outright Lies
Breck & Mark Dutton Speed Manufacturer: Nashville: Cumberland House, 1996 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NVCS10 |
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Safety and Health Requirements Manual, November 3, 2003
Manufacturer: Dept. of the Army ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0160680190 |
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requirements for all Corps of Engineers activities and operations This manual prescribes the safety and health requirements for all Corps of Engineers activities and operations.
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Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (Southern Classics Series)
Allen Tate Manufacturer: J.S. Sanders & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Rapidly paced biography of the Confederate general by a major literary figure.Customer Reviews:
Disappointment.......2004-08-28
Stonewall Jackson: A Hero of America.......2004-06-01
Stonewall Jackson: Hero of America.......2004-06-01
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Good History about a Good Man.......1999-02-13
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Stonewall Jackson the Good Soldier
Allen Tate Manufacturer: Minton, Balch & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NQ6I70 |
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Stonewall Jackson the Good Soldier
Tate A Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0472060090 |
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Stonewall Jackson, the Good Soldier.
Allen. Tate Manufacturer: Ann Arbor Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000L1WLUU |
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Stonewall Jackson, the good soldier: A narrative
Allen Tate Manufacturer: Cassell & company ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00086YQPQ |
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Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier A Narrative
Allen Tate Manufacturer: Minton Balch & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ONZODG |
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STONEWALL JACKSON: THE GOOD SOLDIER. A NARRATIVE.
Manufacturer: Minton, Balch & Co., 1928., NY: ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I9SWNA |
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The Illustrated Beast: The Aleister Crowley Scrapbook
Sandy Robertson Manufacturer: Red Wheel/Weiser ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1578632587 |
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Who was Aleister Crowley? Magus, poet, sexual athlete, mountaineer, traitor, drug fiend, and Prophet of a New Aeon he has been described as all these things. Dubbed "The Wickedest Man in the World" by the British press, Crowley and his story have captured the imagination of occultists, rock stars including The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, who included his portrait on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band free spirits, and science fiction aficionados for decades.Compiled from Sandy Robertson's extensive personal collection of Crowleyana, The Illustrated Beast includes a short biography, black-and-white photographs of Crowley and his contemporaries, excerpts from his writings, and commentary on the Wanderer of the Waste.
From his paradoxical childhood to his stormy involvement with The Golden Dawn, from his adventurous travels and published works to his controversial Italian Abbey and lifelong heroin addiction, this scrapbook offers readers a glimpse of the man, his works, and his lasting impact on the occult.
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MR. CROWLEY.......2002-11-20
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Aleister Crowley Scrapbook
Sandy Robertson Manufacturer: Weiser Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0877286892 |
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Nonprofit Management & Leadership, No. 4, Fall 1999 (J-B NML Single Issue Nonprofit Management & Leadership)
Dennis R. Young Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0787915092 |
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The Common-Sense Guide to Successful Real Estate Negotiation: How Buyers, Sellers and Brokers Can Get Their Share--And More--At the Bargaining Table
Peter G. Miller , and Douglas M. Bregman Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Common-Sense Guide to Successful Real Estate Negotiation: How Buyers, Sellers and Brokers Can Get Their Share--And More--A the Bargaining Table
Peter G. Miller , and Douglas M. Bregman Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0060156384 |
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The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828) (Sociology of Music)
John Marsh Manufacturer: Pendragon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0945193947 |
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Satanta: The Life and Death of a War Chief
Charles M., III Robinson Manufacturer: State House Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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This biography details the life of Kiowa Indian chief Satanta from his birth in 1815 to his suicide in a Texas prison in 1878.Customer Reviews:
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A window into the life of a Great War Chief.......1999-02-02
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