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El Significado Oculto Del Dinero
Claudio Madanes , and
Cloe Madanes
Manufacturer: Ediciones Granica, S.A.
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ASIN: 8475774997 |
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Reminiscences of expatriate life in Nigeria, West Africa, during the days of the Biafran War. Neither coups d'etat, curfews, capture by rebels, evacuation in a German boat full of beer, nor lack of imported booze and luxuries, placed restrictions on the hedonistic lifestyle enjoyed by many of the several thousand expatriates in the country at the time.
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Shallow story about tans, parties, and servants.......2004-11-25
I feel somewhat bad about reviewing this book. It wasn't what I expected yet the book wasn't really intended for me. It's a vanity press print written by a former expat who lived and worked in Nigeria during the late 60s. Its intended audience is small- friends and family of the author. Because of this I have a hard time reviewing the book properly as I really should hold it to a different, lower standard. On top of this, I also used to live in Nigeria, albeit much more recently than she did (late 90s, early 00s), so I'm a little closer to the story being told than most people.
But I'll do it anyway. The main storyline of the book is: British husband and wife move to Nigeria. Woman falls in love with the fact that she has servants and can live like royalty. Woman spends her days tanning and her nights partying. She experiences major events in Nigerian history like the Hausa-Ibo riots in the north of the country, several coups, and the Biafran civil war. All of these events are serious bummers because they stand between Ms. Meier and a good tan. Much is said about how wonderful it is to have servants who do everything for you. Ms. Meier is aghast at learning that she must carry her own suitcase when being evacuated from the country by sea at the start of the civil war, but fortunately finds willing German sailors to help her (she's probably one of only a few women on the planet who wears her best dress and heels to be evacuated from a war, causing some German sailors to take pity on her and help her onto the ship). When she returns to Lagos from three months away in the UK, she discovers that her steward has died of stomach cancer. This is fortunate for him, as she points out that she would have raked him over the coals for the bad packing job he did. You end up with the feeling that she's a little spoiled.
Again, I feel bad judging this book. It's obvious that Ms. Meier has written it for her friends, making the casual and sometimes flippant tone of the book understandable (we tell our friends things in a different way than we would strangers). That being said, she did publish this book, it is for sale on Amazon, and I bought it. On the plus side it's obvious that Ms. Meier is a great storyteller and has an excellent memory. It can be difficult to explain to Westerners what its like living in Nigeria, and Ms. Meier makes a valiant (but rose-colored) attempt at this.
If you're looking to learn about Nigeria and its history this isn't the book for you (I highly recommend "This House Has Fallen" by Karl Maier). If you know Ms. Meier personally then this is almost certainly the book for you. Otherwise your mileage may vary.
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That gimp-legged, liquor-swigging, tobacco-spitting Hopalong Cassidy couldn't have been more different from his creator-or from the William Boyd movie archetype. Clarence E. Mulford visited the West once, yet drew from a rich imagination, using continuing characters (such as Cassidy, Johnny Nelson, Buck Peters, and Mesquite Jenkins) who went from youth to midlife to old age in his stories. Uniquely blending detective story ingredients and Arthurian and Darwinian motifs, he remained faithful to his vision of the Old West. Seven original stories are reprinted.
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World Guide to Foundations: Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceana
Manufacturer: K. G. Saur
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 3598222696 |
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Written in an entertaining style, Buying or Renting a Home in London 2006-07 covers everything a prospective buyer could wish to know including buying for investment, renting, the best places to live, finding your dream home, finance, the purchase procedure, moving house, taxation, insurance and much, much more, including a comprehensive survey of all 33 London boroughs. It is packed with vital information and insider tips to help readers avoid disasters that can turn their dream home into a nightmare. Buying or Renting a Home in London 2006-07 is essential reading for anyone planning to buy or rent a home in London and is designed to guide readers through the property maze and save them time, trouble and money!
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Useless.......2007-09-25
Unless you don't know how to buy or rent a place AT ALL, like--don't know how to negotiate something--this book it useless. you'd be better off with a phone book with vague descriptions of each region. It doesn't help you as a newbie figure out the best place to live. It's more of just a passive reference--an accumulation of random data. Do not buy--I returned it.
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Guide to buying a home in Great Britain, including information on financing, mortgages, real estate agents and utilities.
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Sadly incomplete.......2005-09-01
The problem with this otherwise well-written book is that it only covers part of London. Of the 32 London boroughs, 7 are missed out altogether and others are only partially covered. With just one or two exceptions, only areas with an inner London postcode are included. So areas in outer London such as Kingston-upon-Thames and Sutton in the south; Ruislip in the west; and Barnet in the north are in effect deemed not to exist. Especially with the outer London boroughs now starting to enjoy something of a renaissance, I think this guide needs to rethink its policy. It really needs to give readers a full and complete picture. It would be a good start if it covered the outer areas in a little less detail than the better-known central ones, rather than not cover them at all. Buyers not familiar with it should bear in mind that London does not suddenly end where this guide leaves off. I'd suggest they investigate the outer area - it's often possbile to buy an identical property for virtually half the price of the inflated inner-London level by moving just three or four miles further out - ten miles out, say, rather than six. Local restaurants and coffee bars will often be branches of exactly the same chains as found in the inner areas (eg Pizza Express, Cafe Nero). Meanwhile, schools will be better and crime lower.
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Vaslav Nijinsky spent the final six weeks before his permanent consignment to an insane asylum as something a madman in the attic. With his family--wife, young daughters and occasionally, mother-in-law--and household staff downstairs, the legendary dancer retreated to his room in a remote Swiss villa to tangle with his burgeoning psychosis. Fearful that his wife would (as she ultimately did) commit him, and highly suspicious of the physician-cum-amateur psychiatrist who daily came by to examine him, Nijinsky perceived the diary as the only safe haven for the rambling thoughts that were overtaking him. Throughout, the anxiety and anguish are palpable, as Nijinsky writes about his disillusionment with his mentor and lover, Ballets Russes director Serge Diaghilev; his alienation from and distrust of his closest family members; and his fear of insanity and its consequential confinement. His writing becomes more obscure as the weeks progress and he examines his relationship to God, writing "I am God" at one point, and later: "God said to me, 'Go home and tell your wife that you are mad.'" As his schizophrenia evolves, the pace and style of Nijinsky's prose changes radically--toward the end he writes in abstract verse--but he remains, with a dancer's sensibility, attuned to the cadences of his environment. The noises of the household, the ringing of the phone, footsteps down the hall, smatterings of conversations overheard are all registered as a sort of accompaniment to his dance with madness and function perhaps as a final tether to reality.
Nijinsky's wife stumbled upon the diary in a locked trunk some years after her husband disappeared into the abyss of madness and soon released it for publication to feed public interest in her famous mate--but not before she sanitized the manuscript to such a degree (removing references to his homosexuality, overblown ego, bizarre paranoia, and various obsessions with bodily functions and sex acts) that its essence was obscured. Now 80 years after it was written, 20 years after its renegade editor died, and six years after the copyright that Nijinsky's daughters held expired, the unexpurgated version of the diaries faithfully restores the fascinating record of a great artist's struggle for his life.
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With an Introduction by Joan Acocella
The astonishing diaries of the great dancer, at last available in their complete form.
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot written account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis.
A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After a falling-out between the two great men--who had lived openly as lovers for some time--Nijinsky struggled to build a career on his own. When psychosis struck, he began to imagine himself as married to God, indeed as God, signing his entries "God Nijinsky." Although he lived another thirty years, he never regained his sanity.
Already a classic in its earlier, bowdlerized edition, the diary now appears uncut for the first time in English, together with its previously unavailable fourth notebook. It is Nijinsky's confession and his prophecy. At the same time, it reads like a novel, portraying the terror in the Nijinsky household as the dancer plunged into madness. In her Introduction, the noted dance writer Joan Acocella explains the context of the diary and its significance in the history of modernism.
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the insane can be highly perceptive..........2004-09-07
To understand this book, you must have a good background in psychology in order to be able to spot the philosophical insights made by this otherwise, very ill man. The duality between 'feeling' and 'thinking' as well as the perceptive remarks made about the nuances of various people in Nijinsky's life are highly intelligent.
At most times the book is full of amusing schizophrenic rants that make the diary an awesome source for learning about the everyday inner life of paranoid schizophrenics - of whom Nijinsky is a perfect example.
Beautiful and Prophetic.......2003-11-16
1. "God said to me, 'Go home and tell your wife that you are mad'."
Even if we are not ready to accept this assertion as a proof of Nijinsky's genius (i.e. him edging on God-Consciousness on his way to full enlightenment), we should at least be able to recognise that the author obviously did not view himself as insane, but, in his own eyes, consciously pretended to be such as the only means at hand to escape the harsh chilliness and cruelty of an insensitive world, handing over all responsibilities of the non-esoteric sides of life to those who feel they know such things better.
2. Neither the conclusion should be that the great Master of Choreography ended his life in a miserable demise, unworthy of a great genius and a potential role-model for generations to come.
On the last pages, as if to conclude the diary, Nijinsky speaks of a wonderful vision of his three years old daughter as she smiles at him: "I see what she is trying to tell me: it is not all about sadness and miserliness - there's also joy in life". Thus reminding of Tolstoy's famous formula "if you want to be joyful and happy, then just be that!".
The author's life has clearly been that of struggle and constant contemplations over the world's stubbornness in its reiterated refusal to accept the artist's message of love, despite its pure simplicity. And yet now on the verge of the sunset of life it all suddenly seems to have been nothing but a temporary, though little longer than usual, unpleasant dream, the remaining fogs of which are dispersed through a simple rearrangement of attention leading one to a life in a closer company with one's God. A life the fuller utilisation of the pleasures of which are not bound by the limits of life and death.
3. As for Nijinsky's main message, as it is contained in the diary itself, I think it is found in the place where the artist speaks of his discovery of the true nature of the phenomena of art criticism: the self-appointed critics of art are nothing but egotists who have never created anything themselves. They pinpoint and nit-pick on any flaws and draw conclusions where such cannot be drawn, causing the hearts of the sincere artists to bleed.
It implies that it is more than fair to observe that when it comes to art in general no judgements can be made whatsoever. An inspiration behind any artistic expression always comes from beyond oneself, out of a sincere desire to convey something to others. The only thing that is really alright to criticise is if the artist's motive is in question, that is if the original purpose is purely commercial and, thus, a con in its essence. Similarly judging is not the same as describing, just as to describe is not the same as to judge.
Interestingly, few other books and films have received as much subtle thrashing (along with appraisals) as Nijinsky's diary and Paul Cox' recent poetic documentary based on it. The point is that a truly worthless piece of literature, or other, never does. There simply seems to be something very provocative about innocence and tenderness to self-important people. And maybe the book CANNOT be appreciated fully by readers with a "lesser purity of heart" and large egos.
4. Other highlights of the wisdom in Nijinsky's diary (quoting freely from memory) are these: "I told my wife we had married for the wrong reasons and that we should re-marry, but this time in the spirit"; and: "People go to church and then drink wine because they have heard it said that it is the blood of Christ. How to explain to a fool that Christ's blood would make one sober rather than drunk?".
excellent presentation of difficult material.......2003-08-30
Nijinsky's unexpurgated diary is an important document both for dance history and for psychiatry. This edition has an excellent, insightful introduction and very thorough translator's notes. I found out fascinating details, such as the fact that Nijinsky began the diary the day he gave a deranged performance at a hotel, and probably meant it as proof that he was not as crazy as he seemed. (Sadly, it proved exactly the opposite.) A beautiful job has been done in presenting and contexting this difficult material. Anyone with an interest in dance and/or mental illness should read it.
fasinating dancers life.......2003-02-26
this book is highly through in it's full translation of Nijinsky's diary, but best part of this book are the inclusion of the never before published "fourth book" which included poems and letters written by Nijinsky as well as an introduction which helps to clarify not only the historical background but also delves into the mental state Nijinsky was in as he wrote his diary.
icono.......2002-08-03
Nijinsky, hombre posesionado por el genio, hace algun tiempo visiti en el museo de orsay, en Paris, la exposicion sobre él, de lo mejor al igual que su apasionada vida
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From the Publisher In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and started to go insane. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot account we have by a major artist of the experience of entering psychosis. Nijinsky's diary was first published in 1936, in a heavily bowdlerized version that omitted almost half of his text. The present edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, is the first complete version in English, and the first version in any language to include the fourth notebook, written at the very edge of psychosis. It contains Nijinsky's last lucid thoughts- on God, sex, war, and the nature of the universe, as well as on his own broken life.
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Potter eloquently tells the story of Sheheke, the Mandan Indian who traveled from North Dakota with Lewis and Clark to meet President Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C., in 1806. The story of Sheheke's life has been too long untold. Sheheke was an ambassador for the Mandan Nation, a consistent friend of the United States, and an important part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In sharing his story, his legacy of kindness, friendship, and courage lives on.
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American Indian Hero Recognized.......2005-02-03
Finally, the first biography of the best friend Lewis & Clark, and the American government, had among their Indian hosts, Chief Sheheke of the Mandan. "White Coyote" was mis-named "Big White" by Lewis & Clark, and is known better by that name. He is the chief who returned with Lewis and Clark to Washington to be greeted by Jefferson himself. It was the delayed and troubled return of Sheheke to the Mandan Villages that ultimately led to Meriwether Lewis's death. A fascinating new angle on the Lewis & Clark Expedition, with keen insights into the amazing Mandan Indian culture. You won't be disappointed.
An impressively informative biography.......2003-11-17
Sheheke: Mandan Indian Diplomat By Tracy Potter (Executive Directory, Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation, with the responsibility of administering interpretation of the On-a-Slant Mandan Indian Village) is an impressively informative biography recognizing the role that the Mandan Chief Sheheke played in Lewis and Clark's trailblazing expedition. A meticulously researched accounting, memorializing the often-overlooked contribution of a unique Native American and offering a welcomed and much appreciated additional perspective to the growing body of literature and historical reference materials concerning Lewis and Clark's famous voyage, Sheheke is an exceptionally well written contribution to the growing body of Native American History reference and Native American Biographical resource publications.
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