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Uk/Us Trade Directory 1997 (Anglo-American Trade Directory)
Kogan Page Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0749424516 |
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A comprehensive guide to over 18,000 British and American companies and their transatlantic business links, 60 this directory provides a wealth of information for companies wishing to set up operations on either side of the Atlantic.
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UK/US TRADE DIRECTORY 1997
Manufacturer: American Chamber of Commerce (UK) Surrey ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IARPS2 |
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Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation (2-volume Set)
Manufacturer: Aspen Law & Business Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: 156706339X |
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Venture capital and public offering negotiation
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Law & Business] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0130308919 |
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Venture Capital and Public Offering Negotiation (With Supplement)
Michael J. Halloran Manufacturer: Law Distributors ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0150042825 |
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Venture Capital and Public Offering Negotiation
Michael J. Halloran Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: B000MBPQ4M |
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Empresas Que Perduran
Porras Collins Manufacturer: Norma ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9580430667 |
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Empresas Que Perduran
James C Collins Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9580467277 |
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Empresas que perduran : principios básicos de las compañías con visión de futuro
Jerry I.; Collins, James C. Porras Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidós Ibérica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8449302323 |
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Williams-Sonoma Simple Classics Cookbook: The Best of Simple Italian, French & American Cooking (Complete Series (San Francisco, Calif.).)
Chuck Williams Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1892374358 |
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From the creators of the best-selling Williams-Sonoma Complete Entertaining Cookbook comes a wonderful addition to the Complete Series. Williams-Sonoma Simple Classics Cookbook, a guide to Italian, French, and American favorites, offers a wealth of delicious and, more importantly, simple recipes for cooks who favor foods with international flair.Combining the best of Simple French, Simple Italian, and Simple American Cooking, this beautifully photographed and incredibly valued book is a must for people who love to cook.
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Delicious Recipes, Great Photographs and Detailed Descriptions.......2006-07-16
SUPERIOR SERVICE AND QUALITY.......2004-08-05
The One I Always Pull Down from the Shelf.......2003-11-29
I went from Novice to Gourmet!.......2003-02-19
I went from Novice to Gourmet!.......2003-02-19
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Business Statistice of the United States, 2000
Manufacturer: Bernan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0890592829 |
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A fine compendium of American business statistics........2000-03-03
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The Quilting Bible: The Complete Photo Guide to Machine Quilting
Creative Publishing international Manufacturer: Creative Publishing international ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589232283 |
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The expanded edition of the classic guide to machine quilting. Original paperback edition has sold 140,000 copies. Not just a technique book. Includes 40 complete projects. 1000 color photographs and diagrams. The Quilting Bible, the classic, complete guide to machine quilting, has sold over 140,000 copies. Known for its more than a thousand photographs showing every detail, The Quilting Bible is both a technique book and a project book. It covers all the techniques that beginning and intermediate quilters need, such as quick cutting and piecing methods and both machine-guided and free-motion quilting. It also contains 40 complete projects including traditional and contemporary full-sized quilts as well as garments and home dcor accessories. This expanded edition adds 64 pages of embellished quilts featuring such popular techniques as decorative threads, beads, embroidery, and appliqu. More than ever, The Quilting Bible is the foundation resource for traditional machine quilting.Customer Reviews:
Machine Quilting.......2007-08-07
Best Quilting Book.......2006-06-26
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The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II
Giles MacDonogh Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312305575 |
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Praised for a thoughtful reassessment of Frederick the Great in his previous book, Giles MacDonogh tackles another controversial figure in German history, Kaiser Wilhelm II. William (as his British biographer calls him throughout) has often been dismissed as an anti-Semite and a reactionary whose policies, particularly the buildup of the German navy, inevitably led to World War I. MacDonogh's readable and thorough synthesis of current scholarship depicts a more complex man with far more in common with his English mother, Queen Victoria's daughter Vicky, than is usually acknowledged. "He had inherited her memory, her lack of snobbery, openness, vivacity, moodiness, over-estimation of her own importance, her cleverness without wisdom," writes MacDonogh, characteristically listing both good and bad traits without moralizing. William's mixed feelings about his mother indelibly shaped his attitude toward Great Britain: he strove from the moment he became emperor in 1888 for an alliance with England, yet seemed compelled to undermine it due to "a combination of admiration and envy, animosity and affection." Born in 1859, his botched delivery resulted in a withered left arm, the first in a lifelong series of painful physical and mental ailments that may well have been responsible for the intemperate outbursts that have damaged his posthumous reputation. MacDonogh reminds us that William's worst threats--to tear up the German constitution, to have his enemies shot--were never carried out. After Germany's defeat in 1918, he abdicated and retired to a manor house in Holland; he may have disliked Jews, but he viewed the Nazis with distaste and until his death in 1941 gave no indication he supported the Third Reich. MacDonogh's detailed account of William's life and times doesn't so much revise the conventional portrait as add nuance, and it will be welcomed by aficionados of old-fashioned narrative biography. --Wendy SmithBook Description
Wilhelm II, Prussia's last king and Germany's last Kaiser, was born in Potsdam on January 27, 1859, the son of Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest child. Al-though he is widely perceived as a warmonger who seemed to delight in victory, bloodshed, and the belligerent aims of his staff, he carved out an image for himself as the 'Emperor of Peace.' Historically, he has been blamed for World War I, although he made real efforts to prevent it. He has been branded an anti-Semite, yet the Nazis wrote him off as a 'Jew-lover.' In this fascinating, authoritative new profile, MacDonogh takes a fresh look at this complex and contradictory statesman and the charges against him.Customer Reviews:
Pretty good -- he has many characteristics of G W Bush.......2007-09-24
Rick Utt.......2005-05-12
Politics with No Personality.......2004-10-31
A revisionist work that may be too forgiving.......2003-03-14
Good biography of the last major monachist tyrant........2003-02-04
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The Kaiser : A Life of Wilhelm II Last Emperor of Germany
Joachim Von Kurenberg Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GP0RZM |
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Kaiser a Life of Wilhelm II Last Emperor
Joachim V Kurenberg Manufacturer: SIMON & SCHUSTER ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000Q9Q1QM |
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The Kaiser: A Life of Wilhelm II Last Emperor of Germany
Emperor of Germany) Von Kurenberg, Joachim Wilhelm II Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K5P5O6 |
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The Kaiser;: A life of Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany
Joachim von Kurenberg Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AU7CK |
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The Kaiser;: A life of Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany
Joachim von Kürenberg Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DRXN2 |
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Tha Last Kaiser, the Life of Wilhelm II.
Giles. Macdonogh Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTDQYY |
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The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
Kathleen Finneran Manufacturer: Mariner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618340742 |
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This sensitive, restrained memoir searches for answers to the most painful of questions: Why would a bright, athletic, seemingly well-adjusted boy like Kathleen Finneran's 15-year-old brother want to take his own life? Sean Finneran's 1971 suicide is the pivotal crisis in The Tender Land, but not the only one. References to a family strain of depressive mental illness sound a warning note; Finneran's maternal grandfather probably killed himself, and her mother is subject to severe bouts of depression that may also have afflicted Sean, whose suicide note reveals a self-hatred that the love of his parents and siblings could not assuage. The author frankly relates her own problems with weight, an inexplicable but irresistible urge to shoplift, and uncertain sexual orientation. But Finneran's precise prose, rich in evocative physical details, convincingly limns an ordinary, generally happy Midwestern family: five children spread over 16 years; a devout, nature- and animal-loving mother; a father who communicated best without words, rooted in "his faith in materials men make of the earth." There are no villains and no answers in this heartbreaking book, which respects the essential mystery of a shattering tragedy and closes with an affirmative message to Sean: "I want to call out your name and tell you, across the tender land, that we have gone on living." --Wendy SmithBook Description
"The Tender Land" is a love story unlike any other. In her remarkable debut, Kathleen Finneran renders powerfully the emotional, spiritual, and physical terrain of family relationships--their closeness and disconnection, their intimacy and estrangement, and their ultimate resilience. The Finnerans--parents and five children--are a seemingly ordinary family until their lives are forever altered by the death of the author's younger brother. His suicide at fifteen serves as a focal point for Finneran's spare and elegant portrait of her family, its sorrows and its joys. "With subtlety and grace and a heartbraking compassion for the truth" (Book), Finneran pays tribute to the enduring love between parents and children, brothers and sisters.Customer Reviews:
It will move you........2005-08-18
Extremely Moving.......2005-05-18
Truly unforgettable.......2003-11-16
Kathleen Finneran is probably one of the bravest of authors as she lays bare many personal feelings and experiences of her own, along with the family tragedy that the Finnerans lived through when they lost 15-year-old Sean to suicide.
She portrays her family, separately and wholly, as tight-knit, strong, extremely loving, but tragically touched by depression and suicide.
I highly recommend this beautifully written, heartrending, precious memoir. It is one-of-a-kind.
Lovingly Revealing.......2003-11-12
"I realized I needed to write about my brother's death in a way that was more intentional than tangential. I started out in the form I was comfortable with, writing an autographical essay that was submerged in more objective prose, in this case an essay that explored my mother's real belief that my brother was an angel by comparing his qualities to those angels that exist in literature - Thomas Aquinas on angels, Dante Milton," explained Finneran. "The end result was something that seemed very artificial, and I felt my brother deserved better from me. So I just started writing what I wanted to remember about him, free from any form or genre constraints; in doing that, in taking the simplest and mot direct approach, I learned to write about his death, I had to write about his life, and to write about his life, I had to write about my whole family."
Finneran was born in 1957 into an Irish Catholic family. She and her four siblings, an older brother and sister, Michael and Mary, and a younger brother and sister, Sean and Kelly, had a comfortable life in suburban St. Louis. Depression and suicide ran in the family. Kathleen suffered from depression and her sister, Kelly, tried to overdose at age 28.
Finneran's first sexual experience coincided with the night Sean died, making sex and death forever inextricable for her. She slept with a man. "How could I tell Mary what that weekend was for me, making love to a woman the next."
She later found comfort with a woman lover, Ellis, who was her best friend, despite her mother's cautious warning about being "different." "'There's something about Ellis,' Sean had said once. 'When you are with her, you always feel safe.' And it was true. She lived simply, straightforwardly, as if life required nothing more than mastering a series of survival skills. And she had mastered them. I marveled at the shallowness of her breath as she slept, her blond hair falling across her face, her body's no bigger than Sean's. Her arms were stretched out above me as if she were trying to shield me from something, as if I were a child whose body was precious and small and in need of her protection."
Throughout "The Tender Land," I wondered why Sean had committed suicide. Finneran eventually divulged the reason.
"...On the day he died, Florrisant Junior High was winning by a large margin. With little time left on the clock, the coach felt it safe to send in the second string. In those final few minutes, Sean made his first shot of the season..."
"That night at home he didn't mention it. At dinner, he never said a word about the game. After he finished doing the dishes, he went upstairs, made a timid attempt at slitting his wrists, then opted to swallow a fistful of the pills that keep my father's heart beating at a regular rhythm. 'I hate basketball and am no good at it,' he wrote in a letter he left. In the few minutes that he had been sent into play, he had taken the ball down the court the wrong way. The shot he made was to the other team's basket."
I understood Sean's frustration. I was in my freshman year as Sean, and the gymnasium was filled with people yelling, "Shoot it!" I made a basket for the other team. I broke out laughing. My team won the game.
"They (Finneran's parents) don't understand why I would want the world to know some of the things I've written about myself (in "The Tender Land). Well, it's not that I want the world to know things about me that most people would consider private. It's not that at all. In many ways, I would have preferred not to have revealed myself to the extent I felt necessary. But the book revolves around my bother Sean's suicide, and however many reasons or causes can be attributed to someone's suicide, I think, in the end, people kill themselves because they despise themselves deeply, even if for only a moment. They can't continue on in the world being who they are; they can't fathom ever being different from how they are in that moment, and they can't conceive of there being anyone else in the world who is like them," said Finneran.
I sympathized with Finneran throughout the book because my cousin, who is a year older than I, committed suicide two months before I moved to Seattle. I understood how Finneran felt; however, it wasn't my kid brother, who is alive and well and living in Indiana.
Finneran's "The Tender Land" has been written, as a personal essay extended at length yet has remained a quality piece of work.
Tribute to Finneran.......2002-08-16
I highly recommend this book. If this world had half a brain, it would be on the bestseller list.
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Tender Land, The : A Family Love Story
Kathleen Finneran Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin and Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O6471S |
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Games Businesses Play: Cases and Models
Pankaj Ghemawat Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262071827 |
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Game theory has come to dominate industrial organization economics, but business strategists continue to debate its usefulness. So far, empirical work on the application of game theory to business strategy has been too limited to force a consensus. As a (partial) remedy, Games Businesses Play uses detailed case studies of competitive interaction to explore the uses and limits of game theory as a tool for business strategists.Customer Reviews:
Not user friendly.......2001-08-03
My backgound is that I have roughly 50 academic credits in economics (mostly financial) and I have read some introductory level game theory texts, and I was at a loss when looking at the game theoretic models that Ghemawat uses. I understood most of the analytics though and there is some pretty interesting material covered in this book. But I don't think the general reader of strategy literature will get that much out of it.
If you have a strong background in micro economic theory/game theory and like seeing it applied on business, you'll probably get a huge kick out of reading this book. Ghemawhat is very careful to report how the models are set up and adapted to the situation. Great stuff if you happen to like that sort of thing.
Before reading it, I had a huge over-belief in what game theory could accomplish, but after reading this book I have a much more realistic view of its limitations (in applied business strategy at least).
Games Busineses Play : Cases and Models.......1999-12-28
Applied game theory for managers and economists.......1997-11-17
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Games Businesses Play: Cases and Models
Pankaj Ghemawat Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OR0T3W |
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Tax Ratios: A Critical Survey (Oecd Tax Policy Studies, 5)
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Manufacturer: OECD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9264195459 |
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