Retiring in Arizona: Your One-Stop Guide to Living, Loving and Lounging Under the Sun (Arizona and the Southwest)

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Retiring in Arizona: Your One-Stop Guide to Living, Loving and Lounging Under the Sun (Arizona and the Southwest)
Dorothy Tegeler
Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Company
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Moving to Arizona: The Complete Arizona Answer Book (Moving to Arizona)

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ASIN: 0935182896

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Gain the "Native" edge. Retiring in Arizona is an indispensable resource that will tell you who, what, where, why and how Arizona operates. Within its pages you'll find: profiles of more than 40 Arizona communities; housing advice; community resources; facts and figures; consumer assistance; and important addresses and phone numbers. A detailed introduction to Arizona for the veteran and newcomer alike, this book takes you from the daily details to weekend escapes, from the Grand Canyon in the north to the desert in the south. Whether you are just visiting, have recently moved to the state or are dreaming of the day when you can call Arizona home, Retiring in Arizona is an invaluable guide to the Grand Canyon state. The author, Dorothy Tegeler, has written two previous works about Arizona, Moving to Arizona and Retiring to Arizona. She has also written a children's activity book, Hello Arizona, and co-authored the cookbook Arizona's Favorites. Her own experience relocating to Phoenix heavily influenced how this book was written.

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Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Although much of the story concerns the famous "iron triangle" of big business, national bureaucrats, and conservative party politics, Maclachlan takes a broader perspective. She points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. These mild social strategies have resulted in a significant amount of consumer protection.

Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims

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Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
Maris Gillette
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ASIN: 0804736944
Release Date: 2000-10-30

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Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government’s official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi’an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as “backward” in comparison to China’s majority (Han) population. Though these Hui urbanites, like the vast majority of Chinese citizens, accept the assumptions about social evolution upon which such labels are based, they actively reject the official characterization of themselves as less civilized and modern than the Han majority.

By selectively consuming goods and adopting fashions they regard as modern and non-Chinese—which include commodities and styles from both the West and the Muslim world—these Chinese Muslims seek to demonstrate that they are capable of modernizing without the guidance or assistance of the state. In so doing, they challenge one of the fundamental roles the Chinese Communist government has claimed for itself, that of guide and purveyor of modernity. Through a detailed study of the daily life—eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death rituals, religious practices, education, family organization—of the Hui inhabitants of Xi’an, the author explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology of progress on an urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood.

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Consumer Asia 1998 (Consumer Asia)
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Consumer Asia 2000 (Consumer Asia)

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Consumer Asia 1999 (Consumer Asia)
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Directory of Consumer Brands and Their Owners 1998: Asia Pacific

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The journalistic profile is one of the most popular, widely read types of magazine feature writing. Helen Benedict, a master of the genre, has collected for Portraits in Print nine of her best pieces, and provided a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the art of portrait journalism.

Among the persons profiled here are Joseph Brodsky, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Paule Marshall, Bernard Malamud, and Beverly Sills. In a general introduction and in lively discussions after each profile, Helen Benedict describes how she selected the subjects, got them to agree to be interviewed, convinced the magazines' editor's to assign her the pieces, prepared for the interviews, and set about writing each one after the research and interviewing were complete. Benedict also discusses how much confidence to betray, how personal to get, what to leave out, and the writer's power over the profile subject. This is fascinating reading, especially for aspiring writers who hope to learn more about the skills and practices of this popular genre.

Portraits in Print concludes with an Afterward by the famous muckraker and author of The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford. Mitford takes the opposite tack, in an amusing essay about what it is like to be an interviewee.

PORTRAITS IN PRINT: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them

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PORTRAITS IN PRINT: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them
Helen BENEDICT
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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ASIN: B000OPZ78Q

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Whether you're a seasoned Realtor® or a first-time homebuyer or seller, this lighthearted guidebook is certain to inform and entertain you!

Buyers are Liars & Sellers are Too! is a delightfully informative book that will put anyone who's buying or selling a home at ease about the whole, crazy process.

After a quick romp through this fun-filled collection of anecdotes, hints and sound advice, sellers will be prepared to realize better gains from the sale of their homes, and buyers will have discovered ways to save on their purchases. Buyers and sellers alike will learn how to work with their own real estate agents, as well as those of their counterparts.

Along the way, you'll meet the Greedledees, the Greedledums, and the Ogres of Fizzboland. All this, while being serenaded by Budding Hollies and the Crickets.

Arm yourself with Buyers are Liars & Sellers are Too today!

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Accurate, FUNNY and Informative, Richard Courtney nails it!.......2006-06-15

How much are people willing to pay for those online and TV real estate courses? Richard Courtney, gives you ALL the information to make informed choices in buying and selling ANY real estate. The knowledge Richard has learned from 1000 transactions is priceless. Learn about "the deal" from a funny but also expert source. Richard Courtney is a great real estate agent and best selling author. This book is a not only a fun read it is worth ten thousand times the cost. This book will guide you through your next purchase or sale. Pick up one for your local REALTOR!

Buyers Are Liars & Sellers Are Too.......2005-08-27

This title is so true. No one tells the truth. How much can you afford? How much will you accept as the final offer? The buyer will go higher and the seller will go lower. But then that depends on the situation and this book tells it all. It is great! LuLu Finamor author of, What I Did For Money

Filled with humor.......2001-07-26

I loved this book-what a great approach to buying or selling your home-this author goes beyond the frustrations of a home purchase and sheds a new light on what home selling should be...buying a home? Buy this book!!!

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This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892–1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet whose revitalistic teachings swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack is from the generation following the collapse of the Ghost Dance religion, a generation of Nomogweta or “half-breeds” (also called “stolen children”)—Paiute of mixed ancestry who were raised in an increasingly bicultural world and who fell into virtual peonage to white (often Italian) potato farmers.

Around the turn of the century, the use of opium became widespread among the Paiute, adopted from equally victimized Chinese laborers with whom they worked closely in the fields. The story of Corbett Mack is an uncompromising account of a harsh and sometimes traumatic life that was typical of an entire generation of Paiute. It was a life born out of the turmoil and humiliation of an Indian boarding school, troubled by opiate addiction, bound to constant labor in the fields, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.

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Not what I thougt it was..........2000-01-10

This is the story of Corbett Mack, a "Stolen Child" (half blood) of the Northern Paiute of the late 1800's. It tells the story in his own words of what it was like to be unaccepted in the white world nor the Indian world. The plight of the Notrhern Paiute after the arrival of the whiteman. He became an alcohol and opiate addict, and lead a tragic life that was somewhat typical of Native Americans during that time.

Judging the book by it's title I had hoped it was about the life of the Northern Paiute prior to white man's arrival. A good book for this purpose is "Indians of The Plateau and Great Basin" by Victoria Sherrow.

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Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute.

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Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute.
Corbett Mack
Manufacturer: Mack, Corbett. Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute. As told by Michael Hittman. (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians.) University of Nebraska Press, 1996. 390pp. Quality paperback. VG+ condition.
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Age Shock And Pension Power How Finance Is Failing Us
Robin Blackburn
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N7KS66

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Architects of Our Fortunes is the first publication of the Civil War letters and journals of Eliza A. W. Otis and her husband, Harrison Gray Otis, who went on to become the publishers of the Los Angeles Times. These intimate letters and journal entries reveal an earlier and simpler chapter in their lives, when he was a printer who joined the Union army and she was a poet and teacher who traveled through the Upper South to stay close to her soldier husband. Their writings reflect their love for each other, the fears aroused by the war, and the shaping of their ambitions and moral purpose by the forces of history in a tumultuous time.
The book is divided into three parts. The first documents are letters written from Harrison to Eliza just after their marriage in 1859. Eliza's journal, which she kept from 1860 to 1863, forms the second, much longer, section. The journal draws a highly readable portrait of this young newlywed, whose thoughts and experiences tell us much about the women of her era. Her candid comments on the people around her are especially revealing of her own character and of Victorian sensibility. The final section, a brief Civil War diary written by Harrison in the field from 1862 to 1863, provides a common soldier's view of that great struggle.
The three sets of documents shed light not only on the Otis family but also on the experience of ordinary Americans during the Civil War. They also suggest the widespread impact of the war on the development of the West. Harrison and Eliza Otis were but two of the thousands of soldiers and their families who resettled in California after the war to begin a new life. The experience and ideals expressed in the documents in this book were widely shared. The emergence of the Otises as major public leaders in Southern California and the success of the Los Angeles Times grew out of their struggle during the Civil War years and the values they forged as a consequence of that conflict.

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The Civil War through the eyes of two literary stars.......2001-07-14

My review may be somewhat prejudiced because Ann Condon and I collaborated on our books. Ann has taken the diaries and correspondence of two literary figures from southern California whose writing efforts may have started in the mountains of West Virginia during the Civil War and put them together in a fine book. Dr. Condon sets the stage for the works of Harrison Gray and Eliza Otis with an introduction to this husband and wife team. The diary of Eliza Otis is particularly well writen and a wonderful insight to a woman's view of the Civil War. Her descriptions of the wild country of the Kanawha, New and Gauley River country of West Virginia are exceptional. What is sad from a historian's perspective is that these writers did not continue their diaries beyond the summer of 1863 or that they are not available. This wonderful book provides a view of the Civil War beyond battles and campaigns giving a wonderful insight of the time.

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Cops, Crooks, and Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement
Alan Axelrod , Charles Phillips , and Kurt Kemper
Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
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This encyclopedia doesn't play favorites, capturing personalities from both sides of the law in brisk thumbnail sketches. From Jane Addams, a leading social reformer who helped establish the first juvenile court in the 1890s, to Fernando Wood, one of 19th-century New York's most corrupt mayors, the cast of characters runs the gamut of the good, the bad, and those caught in between up to the present day. Janet Reno, who became the first female attorney general of the United States in 1993, is here, along with her troubles connected to the siege on the Waco, Texas, compound of David Koresh's religious cult, the Branch Davidians. There are the usual notorious suspects--Bonnie and Clyde, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Meyer Lansky, among others--as well as a wealth of lesser-known notables like William Peist, a turncoat cop who supplied information to Mafia crime boss John Gotti, and John A. Larson, a former police officer and practicing psychiatrist who invented the polygraph "lie detector" test in 1921. The bulk of the passages cover the past two centuries, but there are significant contributions that date further back, including Hammurabi, king of ancient Babylon, whose legal code embodied the idea of "an eye for an eye."

The dictionary is accessible and tightly written, with a sophisticated style that belies the brevity of its passages. Many of the entries come with suggested books and further reading on the personalities, along with a wealth of historical photos and drawings. An extensive index allows for easy searching, not just for the 600 people profiled but for subjects such as "autopsies," "fingernail scrapings," and "self-incrimination," which in turn link to notables in those areas. And a thoughtful introduction delves into the difference between morality and legality, and the evolution of today's police system. Like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Black's Law Dictionary, this book deserves a place on a well-stocked reference shelf. --Jodi Mailander Farrell

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Cops, Crooks, and Criminologists features more than 600 of the most colorful criminals and crime-stoppers the world has ever known. From Ur-Nammu, who set down the Sumerian system of legal codes around 2100 B.C. to present day law-breakers, this is the ultimate guide to the history of crime and law-enforcement. Easy-to-read entries introduce the reader to the perpetrators of groundbreaking crimes and the agents and officers who brought them to justice. Also featured are the significant figures behind landmark achievements in law enforcement techniques and technology as well as historic figures who laid the foundations of modern legal theory. Coverage includes recent changes made to Miranda laws by new Supreme Court rulings; jury nullification of the O.J. Simpson trial; Barry Scheck's attempts to free those wrongly convicted of crimes based on advances in DNA testing; and new laws surrounding child abuse and abduction.

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Choosing Your New Home - New Jersey (A Consumer Guide to Living Styles for Retirees)

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This book provides information on the financial, health, and housing issues for both the active and the frail retirees. It offers descriptions of living arrangement options from the independent house/apartment to the skilled/custodial nursing home.Worksheets are provided to aid in the evaluation of one's lifestyle, housing, location preference, and financial and health conditions so that intelligent housing decisions can be made.

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Planning Your Retirement Housing
Michael Sumichrast , Ronald G. Shafer , and Marika Sumichrast
Manufacturer: Amer Assn Retired Persons
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Where will you live tomorrow?: The complete guide to planning for your retirement housing

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Where will you live tomorrow?: The complete guide to planning for your retirement housing
Michael Sumichrast
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Fast, fun, and incredibly well researched, Las Vegas Weddings is the ultimate guide to getting hitched, Elvis style. Covering everything from the rise of the town to legendary star marriages and an entire section devoted to "The King," it even has a chapel guide to help budding young couples plan their own Vegas wedding getaway. Filled with rare photographs and never-before-heard stories, it also includes:

Colorful descriptions of the town's funky stand-alone chapels and the Strip's swankiest resorts
A unique look at Elvis impersonators
More than fifty celebrity weddings, from Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thorton to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Theme weddings, like Star Trek, Camelot, or Elvis's Blue Hawaii
And much, much more

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Some good info.........2006-03-25

This book gave me some good information about places to get married. It had a little bit more "fluff" that I had to sift through to get the information, but it was useful.

VERY CONVINCING.......2005-01-02

My fiancée is a huge Vegas fan. He tries to go there once a year with the guys. He gave me this book as a joke, hoping that I might consider Vegas for our nuptials. Well, guess what? I'm thinking about it. Like most people, I think, I have always considered Las Vegas weddings a bit cheesy, but that's all in the past. As the author points out, Vegas stands for fun with glitz and glamour thrown in. Well, I probably won't get married in Vegas (although I now know where to turn for chapel-shopping), but I can certainly see why so many people visit Las
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GREAT POP CULTURE BOOK.......2004-12-16

Last March my wife and I had a renewal of vows ceremony at a Las Vegas wedding chapel with an Elvis impersonator. This book perfectly captures the fun and excitement of our experience. This book makes a perfect souvenir of the occasion. We are giving copies to all our guests who had joined us. For all pop culture buffs this is a perfect book for their personal libraries.

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