The Manual of Business Italian: A Comprehensive Language Guide (Languages for Business)

Book Description

The Manual of Business Italian, like all the manuals in this series, is the most comprehensive, single-volume, reference handbook for students and professionals using Italian for business. Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, each volume is comprised of five parts: a 6000 word, two-way Glossary of the most useful business terms; a 100 page Written Communication section giving models of 50 letters, faxes and documents; an 80 page Spoken Situations Section covering face-to-face and telephone situations; a short Reference Grammar outlining the major grammatical features of the language; and a short Busienss Facts section covering essential information of the country or countries where the language is used.

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nice book.......2007-09-27

it is qutie nice book for italian language learning, however, the big shortage is lack of audio materials, if the audio file could be attached, this book would benefit more to the italian learner

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The business world is brimming with new and original concepts, but few entrepreneurs possess the tools to fully realize success. How to Start a Business in Michigan is your complete guide to taking your business from concept to a full-scale, booming enterprise.

How to Start a Business in Michigan walks you step-by-step through the process of forming your business. It explains vital procedures like licensing, financing, advertising and promotion, simplifying the start-up process while saving you time and money. Written by attorneys, this book uses simple language to detail practical and legal issues involved when starting and running a business.

If you dream of starting your own business in Michigan, this book is your companion for success.

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A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary.

How to Start a Business in Michigan (How to Start a Business in Michigan (Etrm))
Entrepreneur Press
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How to Start a Business in Michigan: With Forms (How to Start a Business in Michigan)

ASIN: 1932156453

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This series covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small businesses, with concise, friendly and up-to-the-minute advice on each critical step of starting your own business.

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A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary........2007-03-04

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!

How to Incorporate and Start a Business in Michigan (How to Incorporate & Start a Business)

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How to Incorporate and Start a Business in Michigan (How to Incorporate & Start a Business)
J. W. Dicks
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Over 30 books covering individual states!

How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... covers every essential topic you need to understand to start a business right. Protect yourself and your business with expert knowledge provided in this book. The easy-to-follow steps and worksheets guide you through every aspect of incorporation and starting your own business. This book discusses in detail:

Selecting an operating entity-which one is best for you? Learn the pros and cons of each type:
Sole proprietorships
Partnership-general and limited
"S" corporations
Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

The five necessary steps to incorporation-five essential moves you must know and follow:
Choose a name: learn the legal ramifications of this simple step
Prepare the Articles of Incorporation
Write the bylaws
Hold the organizational meeting
Issue the stock

Raising Capital-Avoid costly mistakes and financing pitfalls that leave other business owners behind:
Identify potential investors
Sell stocks, notes, bonds, or convertibles
Borrow money from banks, credit unions, and venture capital firms

Dealing with the law-Legal issues always come up, so be prepared:
Learn how to arm yourself with knowledge
Handle disputes
Tips to keep you out of court

Preparing Contracts and Leases-Learn the tricks of the trade to save you time and money:
Identify the essential elements
Master unique aspects of your business
Negotiate a lease for maximum benefit, minimum risk

Understanding copyrights, trademarks, and patents-How does this apply to you?
Learn how to copyright material
Identify the key elements of a trademark
Navigate the patent process

Mastering your taxes-Save money by following advice outlined in this chapter:
Choose an accounting method
Keep accurate records
Learn what you can deduct, and what you can't

How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... will also each you how to hire the best employees, extend credit to your customer, acquire the proper insurance for your business, and maximize corporate and executive benefits.

Don't be left out in the cold! How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... will guide you past common snares and pitfalls that hamper the efforts of many new business owners. This book contains dozens of profit strategies engineered to maximize your profit and prevent common mistakes. Plus, this book outlines specific laws and procedures you need to be aware of to do business in your state. It's specifically designed for you. How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... is easy to read, informative, and will save your business both time and money. Use its expert advice to get you started and keep you business on the path to success!

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Start a Business in Michigan (How to Start a Business in Michigan)
Edward Haman , and Mark Warda
Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing
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How to Start a Business in Michigan (Legal Survival Guides Ser.)
Edward A.; Warda, Mark Haman
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Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed, many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while organizations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, various programs aimed at removing inequality, such as gender equality of managing diversity programs, may actually promote it by making differences visible and stabilizing them. Management, under these circumstances, comes to refer to the management of appearances which take the place of more radical acts to change the 'status quo'.

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Helps you sort out the seed catalog offerings

Helpful tips for difficult crops. Focus: China and Japan

Great Source of Ingelligence on Growing and Using Veggies

first rate guide to growing Chinese vegetables

Oriental Vegetables: The Complete Guide for Garden and Kitchen
Joy Larkcom
Manufacturer: Kodansha International (JPN)
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ASIN: 4770016190

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Helps you sort out the seed catalog offerings.......2007-03-25

This book has really helped me understand the wonderful variety of Asian plant seeds offered by Johnny's and Fedco Seeds. It has an emphasis on the brassicas, probably because the author lives in Britain, and those crops can grow there all year. Keep her climate in mind when you read this book (average of 60 degrees in the summer, minimum low of 20 degrees in the winter, and plenty of rain).

Oriental vegetables, especially the brassicas, seem to be easier to grow and hardier than the traditional cabbages, broccoli, etc., that I've grown side-by-side with them. It is great to have a book that helps sort out the confusing names. For example, I learned that Senposai (a seed I bought from Fedco - called "one thousand treasure vegetable" in Japan) is a cross between ordinary cabbage and komatsuna, and tastes much like ordinary cabbage. Then there is a lot of information on komatsuna, chinese cabbage, pak choi, mibuna mizuna, choy sum, etc., with a chart to help you sort them all out.

In the back, there is all the obligatory information on gardening techniques that is covered better in other books, but with helpful some references to Asian techniques and tools. She speaks with authority on plant protection, telling you specifics on what works for her. There is a nice, but small section of recipes. The growing information and plant name charts are VERY helpful. And finally, the index is thorough.

If you are planning to grow Asian vegetables, especially brassicas, this book is worth consulting.

If it were updated, I would give it five stars.

Helpful tips for difficult crops. Focus: China and Japan.......2006-09-29

The author focusses on China and Japan, paying far less attention to Korea, Southeast Asia and the South Asian region. This probably accounts for the omission of galangal (as noted by one reviewer above) and for the omission of important herbs such as rau ram (Polygonum odoratum), alluded to only vaguely by a Polygonum entry which says (roughly) "there are many oriental polygonums; you can find them sold in stores".

However, she goes into *exhaustive*, blinding detail on a whole range of arcane Japanese and Chinese vegetables. I learned critical things about okahijiki and yomogi from reading this book, as well as the procedure for blanching mitsuba, and read about a veg I had not heard of before - Chinese artichoke - when I've reached a point where few things surprise me. On the better known vegetables - edible chrysanthemum, gobo, ong choy, Chinese celery, celtuce - she gives helpful information and detailed growing instructions, and an overview of actual Asian growing practices, which I have not found elsewhere. Sadly it is not possible for Kitazawa Seed to cram all this information onto the back of seed packets and into its catalogue headings; if it had, several prior sowings of mine would have grown better.

Finally, the author includes information on the CORRECT method for sprouting mung beans, which people (like me) who have been cursed with ratty bean sprouts will welcome!

Great Source of Ingelligence on Growing and Using Veggies.......2005-02-23

`Oriental Vegetables' by English gardening writer Joy Larkcom is the real deal. For foodies like myself, the most important thing to know about the book is exactly what deal it is real. I bought it with a bunch of other books on Asian ingredients without paying attention to much about the book except for the title, being lead to it by Amazon's cleverly surfacing books related to the books you have already chose to buy. Especially do not be deceived by the very nice blurb on the cover from Alice Waters and play extra attention to the subtitle, `The Complete Guide for the Gardening Cook'.

This book is much more about gardening than it is about cooking, and it tackles the subject of gardening very, very well. It does an exceptionally good job on detailing for us the ins and outs of growing the primary subject of the book, oriental vegetables.

The very best news about this book is that it was published 14 years ago, just as commerce between the West and China and Indochina was warming up. This trade has had these 14 years to mature into something that makes the access to unusual seeds even easier. A corollary to this is the fact that the book also predates the blooming of the Internet, so most of the sources Ms. Larkcom gives from the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan will probably be joined by others and be themselves more accessible.

Ms. Larkcom began her inquiry into her subject already an expert on growing vegetables. She enhanced her credentials by making long trips to China and Japan and by enlisting the assistance of a large stable of translators. All of this linguistic help was probably even more necessary for Oriental plants, as the systematic naming of plants in China and Japan is probably far behind that in the west, plus the fact that there are simply so many different species to deal with. I have seen in other horticultural books that China is the source of far more plant species than any comparable region on the earth. Even a cursory look at Ms. Larkcom's table of contents gives weight to this observation. This lists 77 species or groups of species by `common name'. This is substantially less than Elizabeth Schneider's approximately135 species covered in `Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini', but this book is limited to less than a quarter of the world's land mass while Schneider covers the entire world (as seen from western Europe).

If you already own Bruce Cost's classic `Oriental Ingredients', you have not touched the surface of what Larkcom's book can offer. Cost gives us the culinary and economic scoop. Ms. Larkcom focuses on the horticultural.

Ms. Larkcom's favorite subject may very well be the cabbages, as they are her first subject and she lovingly describes them as being very easy to grow in western soils and climates. In her general introduction to these brassicas, she covers climatic factors, stages of use, fitting the oriental brassicas into Western gardens, cultivation, pests and diseases, grouping the oriental brassicas, and specific hybrid brassicas. The introductory section finishes up with an excellent diagram of how oriental brassicas are related. This may do nothing to improve your salads or stir-frys, but it's great in helping to choose substitutes when one species is out of season and a related species is in full bloom.

For each individual species, Ms. Larkcom follows Bruce Cost's practice by giving the most common English name, the biological family, the two part Latin name, other common English names, plus names in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese. Even among the Mandarin and Cantonese speakers, some plants may have several different names. After this linguistic heading, there are paragraphs on background, use, characteristics, types, climate, soil, cultivation, intercropping, pests and disease, harvesting, storage, and varieties. Whew! All this information includes a culinary aspect I have simply not seen elsewhere. This is the fact that several plants go through different stages and while some stages may be commercially less desirable in western eyes, they are really quite highly prized by Oriental users.

After Brassicas, the other major groups of plants are beans, cucurbits (gourds and melons), onions, radishes, water vegetables, tubers, and herbs and wild plants. If I were to take away one plant from this book and give it a shot at growing in my back yard, it would probably be the radishes. The rich assortment of oriental radishes is in strong contrast to the variety available in even a better than average American megamart.

The biggest surprise I found was that ginger received a light coverage as an herb and its relative, galangal is not mentioned at all. I am certain this is because neither of these two plants is easy to grow in home gardens, and growing is what this book is all about. This reinforces the fact that for the foodie with a black thumb, this book needs a companion with a culinary focus to fill out one's picture of Oriental veggies.

The main body of the book dealing with individual plants is supplemented with an excellent chapter on growing techniques. I am not as familiar with the soil as I am with the stove, but from what I can see, this chapter is first rate, covering techniques which you may not find in your average Better Homes and Gardens title. This is followed by a chapter on cooking which is even better than what I saw in other books on vegetables where the emphasis was more on cooking than in this horticulturally slanted book.

The appendices to this book alone are worth the price of admission with its excellent tables of gardening terms, growing calendars, plant names, and bibliographies. While there is some danger that the references to suppliers may be out of date, I do recognize several current major players such as W. Atlee Burpee and Johnny's Selected Seeds.

If any of this interests you, this book is for you!

first rate guide to growing Chinese vegetables.......1997-06-02

Joy Larkcom's excellent introduction to growing Asian vegetables is informative, well-designed, and ably illustrated by Elizabeth Douglass. The section on vegetable cultivation and technique in China is particularly interesting. The recipes are helpful to Western gardeners exploring the savoury variety of Chinese greens, peas, and beans for the first time.

Havi Hoffman

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WFT: Individual Income Taxes, 2000, is designed for the first course in introductory taxation found primarily at the four-year undergraduate level. May also be taught at the graduate level and in the school of law. Hoffman, et al., provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the relevant code and regulations as they pertain to the individual taxpayer, as well as coverage of all major developments in federal taxation. No other tax book conveys the complexities of tax concepts and individual tax codes as clearly!

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Makes the mundane readable........2002-05-04

One of the better written tax textbooks. Will actually NOT put you to sleep when you read it. Easy to understand examples.

I'd rather read the Tax Code.......2001-12-21

This book was difficult to read, often wandering off on a tangent. I know the subject of taxes can be difficult but this text made topics that I was already familiar with seem confusing again. Each chapter has several examples, many of which were helpful. But many were also not clearly explained and a few made me wonder if the paragraph was truely finished. If you have a choice, pick up some tax software and a quickfinder guide to go with this class.

Great tax information.......2001-11-26

I am using this book in my Federal tax accounting class. I have more about taxes from this book than I have ever in my whole life. Great tax examples and many resources to solve each problem.

West Federal Taxation With Individual Income Taxes 2000

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West Federal Taxation With Individual Income Taxes 2000
Hoffmann
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West Federal Taxation: Individual Income Taxes 2000 (West Federal Taxation, 2000)

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West Federal Taxation: Individual Income Taxes 2000 (West Federal Taxation, 2000)
James E. Smith, Eugene Willis William H. Hoffman
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing
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ASIN: B000OUAFBU

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Concise and organized for quick reference, The Individual Investor's Guide to the Top Mutual Funds provides thorough and up-to-date information on over 400 of the best no-load and low-load mutual funds. The 26th edition of the Top Guide features year-end data and fund information including 10 years of returns, NAVs, distributions, and expense ratios; 10, 5 and 3 year average annual returns; performance during bull and bear markets; fund returns and rankings by investment category; fund managers and portfolio composition, and much more.

THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO LOW LOAD MUTUAL FUNDS

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THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO LOW LOAD MUTUAL FUNDS
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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds
American Association of Individual Investors
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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-load Mutual Funds
Editors
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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds (16th ed)

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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds (Individual Investor's guide ) 18th edition

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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds (Individual Investor's guide ) 18th edition
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The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds (Individual Investors Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds, 20th ed)

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Investing in Mutual Funds
Great for First Timers!

The Individual Investor's Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds (Individual Investors Guide to Low-Load Mutual Funds, 20th ed)

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Investing in Mutual Funds.......2006-01-28

This is a long reference guide, with more than 1,000 total pages. The American Association of Individual Investors publishes this guide every year, and it's now up to (I believe) its 24th edition. I have owned different editions in the past and my oldest one is edition number seventeen.

Most all of this guide is comprised of fund information, with charts of financial information and contact data. There is very little in the way of actual reading about funds. Only 56 pages contain actual reading material, and it's all very brief. Therefore, you shouldn't look at this book as a guide to understanding mutual funds, because there just isn't that much wisdom to be found here. This is really a reference guide, designed for individuals who already have a solid understanding of the basics of mutual funds and want a good, comprehensive guide to individual funds so that they can pick and choose some good places to invest their money.

The data in this book becomes outdated rather quickly. The quoted average returns for each year are still useful, but the contact information, minimum required investment, fees, etc., are constantly changing. Even if you have a recent edition of this book, you should still call or consult the fund's web site first, to see if anything has changed.

This guide can prove to be useful if you want to find some high- performing mutual fund companies. You can save quite a bit of cash if you manage your portfolio yourself, and this guide can help you find the winning funds to add to your investment portfolio.

Overall, this is a decent guide to fund performance, but it's not a good guide to understanding mutual funds in general. If you want a book to read, rather than a reference guide, then you should consult another source. The overviews provided in chapters 1 through 8 are too short for a novice investor to gain a solid understanding of mutual funds.

Great for First Timers!.......2000-06-16

This is a good reference book for beginners and long time investors. There are so many books in the market place and it was hard to choose one to rely on. I have borrowed the 17th Edition many times from a friend and decided it was time I bought my own. Now I will probably have my friend borrowing my newer edition.

THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS GUIDE TO LOW LOAD MUTUAL FUNDS THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INVESTORS 13TH EDITION

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This volume examines the social and ethical issues raised in genetic counselling, testing and screening. It includes contributions from health professionals engaged in genetic counselling as well as observers and critics from the fields of philosophy, law, biology and social science. The book therefore examines both the immediate questions raised by individual clients and the broader social implications of genetic counselling. The essays explore issues such as when genetic tests should be used to predict future health, when children should be tested for genetic disorders and how we should guard against possible abuses of genetic knowledge.

Contributors: David Ball, Caroline Berry, Paula Boddington, Don Bradley, Matthew Griffiths, Peter Harper, Helen Hughes, Abby Lippman, Jonathan Montgomery, Benno Muller-Hill, Evelyn Parsons, Maureen Ramsey, Lydia Sinclair, Audrey Tyler, Margaretha White-Van-Mourik, Ann Williams.

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The Complete Internal Revenue Code: December 2005 (Complete Internal Revenue Code January)

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If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Not only did Henderson arrange the music that powered Goodman's meteoric rise, he also helped launch the careers of Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, among others. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of this pivotal bandleader, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it. Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings, obscure stock arrangements, and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness and performing popular dance music that reached a wide audience. Magee reveals how, in Henderson's largely segregated musical world, black and white musicians worked together to establish jazz, how Henderson's style rose out of collaborations with many key players, how these players deftly combined improvised and written music, and how their work negotiated artistic and commercial impulses. And we see how, in the depths of the Depression, record producer John Hammond brought together Henderson and Goodman, a fortuitous collaboration that changed the face of American music. Whether placing Henderson's life in the context of the Great Migration or the Harlem Renaissance or describing how the savvy use of network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Jeffrey Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era.

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What a jazz book should be.......2007-06-29

In this world of mass-market trade publications on jazz, it is really refreshing to read such a musically literate book. This fascinating and engaging text is in no way beyond the general reader (i.e., one without an extensive musical background) but it is refreshing to actually see written music in a book on music, and an important jazz volume not written by a critic or journalist (not that there isn't room for the latter too, of course).

The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz

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The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
Jeffrey Magee
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The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
Jeffrey Magee
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Just Across the Fields
Humphrey. Phelps
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Just across the street
Rachel Field
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