The National Register of Apparel Manufacturers: Women & Children's Wear, Seventh Edition

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This directory gives full company information on nearly 4,000 apparel manufacturers in the United States. Detailed information includes: company details and officers, fax numbers, year established, dollar volume, number of employees, price range, type of activity including whether the company sells licenses, what type of garments produced, the fabrics used, and other labels affiliated with the company. The directory is fully indexed for easy cross-reference.

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The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making the rules. Approaching policy issues from the point of view of rule circumvention provides a perspective that illuminates a wide variety of phenomena:
* implicit tolerance of extensive illegal behaviour, treadmills of reform, delays of major policy changes
* the complexity of rules
* potential for perverse outcomes from policy reforms
* corruption of enforcers
* trade-offs between a rule-based and a discretionary policy.
This ground-breaking new book is written in a clear readable style and is replete with a wide variety of examples, including case studies on zero tolerance policies, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the ongoing transformation of firearm regulations in Britain and the US.

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Comfort Desserts - 3.5 Stars

Delicious and Delightful

The Best Baking Book Ever!

My Personal Favorite

Best baking book ever !!!

Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book: Recipes from an American Childhood
Jim Fobel
Manufacturer: Lake Isle Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Bakers everywhere will treasure the unfailingly delicious recipes. One of the Best Cookbooks of the Year. --The James Beard Foundation

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Comfort Desserts - 3.5 Stars .......2006-10-19

I bought this book in the late 80s and have used it steadily through the years. The book was out-of print but recently made a comeback as a paperback. By today's cookbook standards, this isn't a very sophisticated work - and that's fine by me. The recipes come under the heading of "comfort desserts" and the dozen or so that I have used have always turned out well. The Oatmeal Cake with Crunchy Oat Topping is my favorite - a great old-fashioned cake to take to informal gatherings. The Irish Soda Bread, Russian Tea Balls, Applesauce Cake, Cardamom Cookies, Date Crumble Bars, and Pecan Pie are all delicious. Think elementary school bake sales.

The recipe for Cardamom Bread (Nisua) is huge and unwieldy (five braided loaves!) - unless you're the proud owner of an equally hefty Viking 7-Quart mixer. Fobel said he was not able to successfully reduce the recipe to a more mangeable size - perhaps he just didn't try hard enough. My own recipe for Swedish Cardamom Bread makes three braided loaves - as much as anyone would want to handle at one time in a home kitchen. The "1933 Glory Cake" is tooth-achingly sweet and the "Maraschino Cherry Cake" just isn't appetizing - but I prefer sour cherries for baking.

These are easy recipes delivered in a straighforward and friendly manner - and the price is right. Comparable to Marilyn Moore's "Wooden Spoon Dessert Book" and Lee Bailey's "Country Desserts". I give it 3.5 stars.

Delicious and Delightful.......2006-08-27

The format of the cookbook is simple and without airs, like the old-fashioned American desserts represented throughout. There are no elaborate photo spreads of artsy kitchen-work, just the occasional black and white photo from Fobel's family album. The font is reasonably large, so you won't have to squint even if your vision is getting a little fuzzy. Ingredients are set apart visually from instructions, and instructions are divided into short, convenient numbered steps that make the recipes easy to follow.

And as for the recipes--oh, my, the recipes! There's a marble cake that's hardly any more difficult to make than a boxed cake mix, yet infinitely more moist and delicious. There's a raspberry cream pie that we picked up the ingredients for on the spur of the moment (the raspberries looked too good to resist that week), and I can still taste its exquisite sweet-tartness. You'll find recipes for traditional favorites such as coconut cream, pecan, and pumpkin pies, but you'll also find things like banana meringue pie, Mrs. Paasanen's cheese pie, and a glazed strawberry pie. Cakes range from a golden fruitcake to burnt butter cupcakes, chocolate coffee cream roll, and a maple layer cake.

There are coffee cakes, sweet rolls, yeast breads, cookies of all kinds, and of course cobblers, crunches, etc. Whether you want something simple that mostly uses dry ingredients and a few things you probably already have around the house, or you're in the mood for something that uses the best of the season's fresh fruit, you'll definitely find it here!

Mr. Fobel started from a pile of crumbling, yellowed recipes that inevitably left out changes and whole steps that his family members knew by heart, and recreated the nostalgic wonders of his childhood for us to enjoy in our own kitchens. These are painstakingly tested recipes that come out beautifully and result in absolutely delicious foods, and this is a cookbook well worth purchasing!

The Best Baking Book Ever!.......2005-08-17

I received this book as a gift in 1989. It is the BEST baking book I've ever owned. I need a new one because it is falling apart. The "Almond Ring" pastry is the best - it has been a Christmas morning tradition in our family since I first made it in 1989. The "Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting" is the most incredible chocolate cake I've ever made. If you want to learn the basics about baking from scratch, this is the book for you. I will buy this book for each of my kids when they move out - they have learned to bake from scratch over the years by making recipes from this cookbook. Anyone who loves old fashioned baking needs this book!

My Personal Favorite.......2004-07-30

I bought this book several years ago and still use it weekly. It is my absolute favorite cookbook! The recipes are easy to use and kid friendly. My entire family loves the sweet treats I bake using Fobel's recipes. What a wonderful cookbook. Thanks for sharing Jim!

Best baking book ever !!!.......2002-06-14

This book makes a good reference.Especially for someone who is just starting out in the world of baking ! I like the precise and accurate measurements he provides without a lot of fuss on decoration or exotic ingredients like so many other books. The receipies are simple and delicious- come out perfect everytime. I have tried the pound cake and carrot cake recipies -- delicious ! A must buy for beginners.

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Now is the time to start those mutual-funds investments you've been planning to look into someday, much better than tomorrow, or next week, or similar future dates that never materialize. Kirk Kazanjian's book is the place to start. A funds expert who's written six investment books, who appears regularly on TV and radio, and who bought his first stock at age 5, Kazanjian details the history of mutual funds, explains why they're hot, why you should invest in them, what their drawbacks are, and how to get started, demystifying more than 8,000 mutual-fund choices (through 130 pages of performance data), and explaining how to create an investment plan targeted to your individual goals and risk tolerance. He then writes about index funds, stocks, and bonds, plus how to go about putting together your portfolio.

There are guidelines on when to buy and when to sell, the advantages of retirement plans, and the secrets of high-yield, low-risk money-market funds. Kazanjian describes a day in the life of a fund manager, indicates the 25 best Internet sites for investors, and reveals his personal picks of the 100 most promising funds for 1999. With a glossary of fund-investment terms, and a strong index, the Finance Guide provides a baseline of understanding. After that, it's up to you to avail yourself of Kazanjian's expertise. As he says, the average investor, through bad timing and a lack of discipline, performs poorly. What you need is to gain 20 years' worth of experience magically, or take advantage of the research from someone who already has it. Kazanjian says that "without question, mutual funds are the investment of choice among today's smart consumers." Then he shows you how to become a successful, savvy member of that club. --Stephanie Gold

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For the first time ever, the two highly respected brand names of NYIF and Value Line are paired together in the 1999 edition of a new guide to investing in mutual funds.

With more than 8,000 mutual funds available, few investors feel confident about making specific fund selections. The average investor has neither the time nor the expertise to compile the necessary data to make informed decisions. This new annual guide, which includes the Value Line Mutual Fund Survey's ten-year performance evaluation of virtually every mutual fund available, takes readers through the entire process of building a winning investment plan. Complete with rankings for easy comparison, it also contains:
Detailed profiles on 100 of the year's most promising stock and bond funds
Specific portfolio-building advise, including several model portfolios for a wide range of ages and investment objectives
The most economical methods of investing in funds through "no-load, no-transaction-fee fund supermarkets" offered by discount brokers, and how each of these brokers stacks up
How fund managers operate, and what investors should find out about a manager before investing
The 25 best Internet sites for fund investors, along with timesaving tips for using the computer to effectively track investment performance
And much more

It's like having the services of a trusted investment adviser at your fingertips, backed by the enormous research power of Value Line.

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Excellent Book on Fund Investing.......1999-03-05

If you're a fund junkie like me, you'll love this book. It's packed with information on selecting mutual funds and is very fun and easy to read. Kazanjian is an excellent and very accessible writer. He's done all of the research for you, so the book makes picking great funds a breeze.

Great primer for fund investors.......1999-01-30

I am new to fund investing and found this book to be very helpful. It shows you how to build a portfolio and gives specific picks, complete with information about the fund and performance graphs. It's very easy to read. Also has model portfolios and Internet sites for fund investors. I highly recommend it.

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This text explores the field of media ethics from a South African perspective. Grounded in ethical theory, it provides guidelines for individual ethical decision-making to media practitioners and media groups. The South African normative context under the previous and present political dispensations is analyzed as are current contentious issues, such as racism in the media, the plans for media development in South Africa, the reporting of violence and crime, the right to privacy, and the media and advertising. Included are rules of procedure and the code of conduct of the Press Ombudsman of South Africa; the constitution, code, and procedures of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa, and the code of conduct of the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa.

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This revised edition of Robert V. Andelson's Land Value Taxation Around the World is the first title in the new series 'Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice', sponsored by The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.Andelson has provided an interdisciplinary, international collection of essays, which has been in the making for twenty years. This is not a book on the history of economic thought but rather a book about the theory and practice of land reform and an historical summary of efforts to apply land value taxation in different countries around the world.The collection is built around the premise that to tax an activity is to discourage it, and that when people improve land that is under their control, governments should not tax those improvements. Only when land appreciates through no effort on the part of those who manage the land should the government impose a tax. Since land is inelastic in supply, such a tax will have minimal distortionary effects on the economy. These insights are not well understood around the world but they do sometimes guide tax policy and often when they do, they produce salutory effects on economic development. Contributors to this collection argue that patterns of economic behavior are similar regardless of race, religion, or geographical location.

Land-Value Taxation Around the World; Reports on current and historical efforts to apply the principle of collecting the community-created value of land for community benefit.

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Land-Value Taxation Around the World; Reports on current and historical efforts to apply the principle of collecting the community-created value of land for community benefit.

Manufacturer: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I9RY5C

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"Youthful political reporters are always told there are three ways to judge a politician," write Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose in Shrub. "The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." The record under scrutiny in this brief, informative book belongs to one George W. Bush--dubbed "Shrub" by Ivins--governor of Texas and 2000 presidential hopeful. These two veteran journalists know how politics are played in Texas and they've done their homework, writing a comprehensive examination of Bush's professional and political life that's a lively read, to boot. And if the title alone doesn't convey their particular slant, perhaps the following caveat from the introduction will: "If, at the end of this short book, you find W. Bush's political résumé a little light, don't blame us. There's really not much there. We have been looking for six years."

Beginning with his admission to the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War (where he bypassed a waiting list of about 100,000), the authors go on to deconstruct his losing congressional bid, his failed career as an oil executive, and his role as managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, revealing how he was helped every step of the way by wealthy and influential friends of the family. Ever popular, Dubya has always been good at rounding up powerful players to bankroll a variety of ventures, including political campaigns. For this reason, explain the authors, along with his lineage and social status, Bush's primary allegiance is to the business community. While his speeches may deal with the "entertainment issues" of "God, guns, and gays," Bush is a "wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America," they write. They further point out that Texas ranks near the bottom of the nation in terms of a number of social categories, such as poverty, health insurance for children, and pollution, spearing the governor for his less-than-compassionate conservatism.

Shrub is not a complete Bush whacking, though. The authors laud the governor's record on education, in which he has managed to raise standards, push local control of schools, and launch a successful reading campaign. They also cite his wooing of the Hispanic vote and his ability to bridge the gap between the Christian right and the economic conservatives within the Republican party as evidence of true political acumen, though they maintain he lacks a penchant for actual governing: "From the record, it appears that he doesn't know much, doesn't do much and doesn't care much about governing." Bush has admitted that he dislikes reading, particularly about policy issues, and that he hates meetings and briefings, causing the authors to wonder, "The puzzle of Bush is why someone with so little interest in or attention for policy, for making government work, would want the job of president, or even governor."

Love him or leave him, Shrub leaves much to consider about the man who would be president. And it can be read in about a day. --Shawn Carkonen

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When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger.

A candidate of vague speeches and an ambiguous platform, Bush leads the pack of GOP 2000 presidential hopefuls; "Dubya" could very well be our next president. What voters need now is an original, smart, and accessible analysis of Bush--one that leaves the "youthful indiscretions" to the tabloids and gets to the heart of his policies and motivations. Ivins is the perfect woman for the job.

With her trademark wit and down-home wisdom, Molly Ivins shares three pieces of advice on judging a politician: "The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." In this book, Ivins takes a good, hard look at the record of the man who could be the leader of the free world. Beginning with his post-college military career, Ivins tracks Dubya's winding, sometimes unlikely path from a failed congressional bid to a two-term governorship. Bush has made plenty of friends and supporters along the way, including Texas oil barons, evangelist Billy Graham, and co-investors in the Texas Rangers baseball team. "You would have to work at it to dislike the man," she writes. But for all of Bush's likeability, Ivins points to a disconcerting lack of political passion from this ascending presidential candidate. In her words, "If you think his daddy had trouble with 'the vision thing,' wait till you meet this one."

Witty, trenchant, and on target, Ivins gives a singularly perceptive and entertaining analysis of George W. Bush. To head to the voting booth without it would be downright un-American.

From Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

"        The past is prologue in politics. If a politician is left, right, weak, strong, given to the waffle or the flip-flop, or, as sometimes happens, an able soul who performs well under pressure, all that will be in the record."

¸          Bush's welfare record: "Texas pols like to 'git tuff' on crime, welfare, commies, and other bad stuff. Bush proposed to git tuff on welfare recipients by ending the allowance for each additional child--which in Texas is $38 a month."

¸          Bush and the Christian right: "Bush has learned to dance with the Christian right. It has been interesting and amusing to watch the process. Interesting because it's sometimes hard to tell who's leading and who's following; amusing because when a scion of Old Yankee money gets together with a televangelist with too much Elvis, the result is swell entertainment."

¸          Bush's environmental record: Since Governor Bush's election, Texas air quality has been rated the worst in the nation, leading all fifty states in overall toxic releases, recognized carcinogens in the air, cancer risk, and ten other categories of pollutants.

¸          Bush's military career: "Bush was promoted as the Texas Air National Guard's anti-drug poster boy, one of life's little ironies given the difficulty he has had answering cocaine questions all these years later. 'George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed,' reads a Guard press release of 1970. 'Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics.'"

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Anyone can be President.......2007-09-15

No matter your political beliefs, it is interesting to read about the background of our elected leaders; even though it is freightening and sad at times.

Molly Ivins' Shrub'.......2007-05-30

If I was an American voter and I wished to for information about the Republican candidate prior to the 2000 election I would have bought the first edition of Ms Ivins' book. A read would have been enough to ensure that I would not have voted for Mr Bush even though Ms Ivins paints quite an attractive picture of him. She emphasises his campaigning abilities and the undoubted fact that unlike the present crop of Republican candidates he was able in his gubernatorial elections to unite the two quite separate parts of the American right, the fundamental Christians and the old time Republicans. However she also hands out low marks for ability and honesty. Bush does emerge as a Daddy's boy with Bush Senior's friends only too willing to hand out loans to shaky business enterprises and later to election expenses. I amazed that this book did not attract that much attention when the first edition was published.

An apolitical book with a political agenda.......2006-02-15

First and foremost, the book was enjoyable from cover to cover. 'Fun' and 'politics' are not two words that usually go together when you are speaking about casual reading. Surprise. This book hits the sweet spot.

That is not to say that Ms. Ivins and Mr. Duboise don't have a political agenda. It seems pretty clear that they don't like Mr. Bush or his policies very much, but they don't dwell on it. However, this is not a character assassination. They don't cast aspersions about Mr. Bush's social life, religious life, the clothes he wears, his 'youthful indiscretions' etc. They simply point to his political history and draw conclusions about where he stands politically. They also don't take pains to paint themselves as totally objective. What they do do is let the record speak for itself and let you draw your own conclusions.

The book is written in a very colloquial style and with a great degree of humor--both self-deprecating and acerbic at times. Despite a loathing for Mr. Bush's policies, they do paint a picture of him as the ultimate hands-off administrator who cleverly avoids conflicts by deliberately not defining himself, has a transparent agenda behind the opacity of his language, can defend his strengths with his weaknesses and always manages to raise his own capital. Political or monetary. Public or private sector. Whether the venture succeeds brilliantly or fails. Oddly, there is an aspect of the book that is almost a paean to the man...

However, the main attraction of this book isn't in its rhetoric or even its style. The bang for the buck is evident when you realize that this book was written in the year 2000, when Dubya was merely a presidential hopeful and had yet to be elected. Whether you like their treatment of Mr. Bush or not, the authors presciently and absolutely nail the policy issues and priorities of this Bush presidency. And that's why this volume is still a good read today.

minding bush's 'bidness'.......2006-02-11

In "Shrub", columnist Molly Ivins offers amusing anecdotes paired with grim statistics that make it necessary to reread them to make sure they're really true. She delves into Bush's laissez-faire attitude toward education, health, law and prison reform among others. Even those well versed in Bush's misdeeds will likely find something new and/or surprising here. The book is not a no-holds-barred attack on Dubya, however; credit is giving to him for his accomplishments, however minor. There is, however, a definite liberal bent.

Molly Ivans is smart in funny in this critical biography of George W. Bush.......2005-10-14

Molly Ivans is funny from start to finish she understands Bush and understands his thinking or lack of. From the Republican state convention to the Bush policies she tells all. She is a writer who actually has evidence to back up her stories. Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians, and Independents alike should read this book.

5 MOLLY IVINS Books - 1) Molly Ivins Can't Say That Can She? / 2) Nothin' but Good Times Ahead / 3) You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years / 4) SHRUB: The Short but Happy Political Life George W Bush / 5) BUSHWHACKED (Unboxed Set of Political Humor Books)

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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush. (Back to the future, again: Reagan, Bush, and Nader: a review article). (book review): An ... Australian Journal of Politics and History

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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush. (Back to the future, again: Reagan, Bush, and Nader: a review article). (book review): An ... Australian Journal of Politics and History
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Title: Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush. (Back to the future, again: Reagan, Bush, and Nader: a review article). (book review)
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Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
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In 1988, Marianne Paget published the Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work (Temple) in which she argued that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine—an experimental and uncertain activity. Her subsequent research focused on medical negligence and on miscommunication and silence a as cause and product of error in medicine. While pursuing her research on negligence, she found out that she was an example of it. Chronic back pain that had been misdiagnosed as muscle spasms turned out to be a symptom of a rare and fatal cancer that claimed Paget's life in December 1989. This collection of her personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine chronicles a young scholar's courageous struggle to make sense of a tragic coincidence.

Discovering that she was living the charges and painful topic that she had studied so deeply, Paget write poignantly and analytically until the last week of her life about this uncanny parallel. "It is very tricky to come to terms with the reality of death without becoming trapped in that reality," wrote "Tracy" Paget to her friends. In this book, she describes "the odd way my life began to mirror my work"; her search for "life rites" when face with tasks involving wills, last rites, and farewells; and her indomitable and forthright attempt to remain intensely alive in the face of death.

A Complex Sorrow, her final project, comprises essays, letters, and a journal recording her last year. Ever critical of the distanced and dispassionate stance taken in much social analysis, Paget had experimented with performance as a form for enlivening social science research. The script for her play, "The Work of Talk," about communication problems between a physician and his cancer patient, is also included. Her compelling life-text speaks to those living with illness and those who care for and about them, as the investigation and representation of lived experience.

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