Corps Sonore Suisse (Swiss Sound Box)

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Die Schweiz präsentiert sich auf der EXPO 2000 in Hannover mit einer ungewöhnlichen Holzstruktur des Architekten Peter Zumthor. Dieser »Klangkörper Schweiz« beherbergt keine Ausstellung im herkömmlichen Sinne: der Pavillon selbst und das, was in ihm geschieht, ist das Ereignis. Architektur, Musik, Wort, Modedesign und Gastronomie sollen sich zu einem Ort der Entspannung, des Genießens und Entdeckens verbinden. Da es im Schweizer Pavillon nichts gibt, was die sinnliche Intensität dieses Gesamtereignisses beeinträchtigen könnte – keine Erklärungen, keine Beschriftungen, keine Verweise – wurde für die Gäste dieses Begleitbuch zum Pavillon entwickelt. Es gibt Auskunft über nahezu alle Fragen, die sich dem Besucher des Pavillons stellen können, und wirkt so als Bindeglied zwischen dem unmittelbaren »Erlebnis Klangkörper« und der Realität jenseits des Pavillons. Durch die alphabetisch geordneten Stichworte und dem dadurch erzielten lexikalischen Charakter erhält das Buch aber auch einen eigenständigen Wert: Es entwickelt sich zu einem außergewöhnlichen »Vademecum der Schweiz«, das einen aktuellen Querschnitt durch die Schweizer Kultur präsentiert.

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Thank you for a fast delivery. .......2004-08-19

I got this book today!
It was just like a new.
Thank you for a fast delivery and a good condition of the book.

Relief Printmaking: A Manual of Techniques

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Relief Printmaking: A Manual of Techniques
Colin Walklin
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A Pictorial Guide to Making Videos.......1999-12-15

This book provides many useful tips for using that camcorder. The novice camcorder user with even the most sophisticated new camcorder could benefit from some of the tips given by the author. My copy was found in the discounted section of my bookstore.

Basic Camcorder Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started & Have Fun! Packed With Information-Fully Illustrated!

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Steve makes technology phobia free!!!!!!!!
A Great Learning Tool

Basic Camcorder Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started & Have Fun! Packed With Information-Fully Illustrated!
Steve Bryant
Manufacturer: Amherst Media
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Binding: Paperback

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Steve makes technology phobia free!!!!!!!!.......1999-02-06

This book is easy to read, easy to follow and easy to understand. Steve gets the fact that not eveyone is a technowiz and therefore talks to his readers as ordinary people--he's one of us. Besides losing the fear factor, he also gives great advice on how to use the new camcorder for the readers' fun and profit. Job well done!

A Great Learning Tool.......1998-04-02

This book is great for new camcorder users. Before buying or after buying a camcorder READ THIS BOOK! With Steve Bryant's creative and fun approach to this subject this book is second to none!

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Awesome guide.
I Didn't Know [Nothin'] Before Reading The Guide

Video Production: A Basic Guide
Miriam S. Jersky
Manufacturer: Msj Multimedia
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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"Video Production: A Basic Guide" is an 84 page, 5.5x8.5, wire bound, easy to read, comprehensive reference that quickly becomes an indispensable video production tool for both the new camcorder purchaser and the more advanced videographer; the adult and the younger reader. The Guide is an excellent introduction to video production as it describes, in plain language, how to use a camcorder and how to create professional looking videos.

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Awesome guide........2003-03-24

This guide is comprehensive and the only book out on the market that really showed me how to make a video. It also explains how to buy a camcorder and the different formats--the difference between Hi-8 and VHS, as well as digital still cams and digital camcorders. I recommend this guide most highly!

I Didn't Know [Nothin'] Before Reading The Guide.......2003-02-07

I was actually afraid to use my video camcorder. This book encouraged me to shoot a real program. It was easy to read and understand. I really liked the sections on video awareness and composition. And the chapters on how to buy a camcorder and accessories are outstanding. I have progressed from a true beginner to a "semi-pro". Watch out Steven Spielberg. And thank you Miriam S. Jersky for writing this book. I highly recommend it to everyone who has a camcorder. Or is about to buy one.

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The understanding and use of customer information as gathered through retail frequent shopper programs has forever changed the retail playing field. Yet many retailers are not using this information strategically, putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage and leaving untold profits on the table. And many packaged goods and private label manufacturers have yet to grasp the powerful implications of this information for their own businesses.

In this groundbreaking book, Gary Hawkins, a worldwide authority on information enabled retailing, takes you step-by-step through the concepts and techniques of building a customer specific enterprise. He shows you how your frequent shopper program can become a powerful vehicle to segment your customer base, target your marketing efforts and maximize your profitability. Key strategies such as Customer Category Management and Yield Management are discussed, complete with charts and graphs to illustrate key points.

Examples of world-class customer specific retailers are used throughout to demonstrate these strategies at work.

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Implement this book!.......2001-08-11

This is a fabulous resource for "mining" your best customers.

We have a great customer specific marketing system now with over 80% of our dollars coming from our "preferred customers" who have a card. We are a specialty high end retailer, not a supermarket. We are an independent, with only two stores in our market, and this type of marketing is great for us!

This book can take someone just starting to a new level. The book is heavily about supermarkets, but there are valuable lessons to be learned if you are not a supermarket. For example, we began to mail to our best customers, as this book recommended, and had a good increase in sales.

If you study this book, you can find out which customers bought from you in the past and have dropped off. You can pinpoint the "gold" customers and find ways to reach them.

This book takes customer specific marketing to a new level. The comments and practical resarch in the book are great.

There are many other points that this book brings out. For example, if a Walmart or other very price competitive store comes in your area, what do you do? You don't just depend on the data based marketing procedure you have. We learned this lesson the hard way last Fall, before I read this book.

I highly recommend this book to retailers.

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Arianna Huffington, popular pundit, columnist, and author, is not known for her polite criticisms or her carefully worded complaints. In the course of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, the corporate CEOs, accountants, politicians, and lobbyists at who she takes aim receive little relief from their porcine characterization first intimated in the book's title. And while she is full of invective for Enron's Kenneth Lay, Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski, Dick Cheney, and others, she backs up her outrage with dollar figures, dates, names, and specific information. The voluminous research is made more digestible by Huffington's direct and often amusing writing style (she characterizes a CEO's process of getting a loan approved by a corporate board as being akin to Tony Soprano getting a loan from Paulie Walnuts). Interspersed between chapters are entertainingly informative sidebars, including quizzes on executives' avarice and games where you match the CEO to his yacht. Occasionally, Huffington's anger gets mired in name-calling, which deflates her points. And while she spends ample time and space outlining the particulars of a flawed power structure, she dedicates little time to offering practical solutions toward remedying the problems. But Huffington is not trying to write a political science textbook or a party platform. As a highly readable indictment of corporate and governmental excess, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America is highly successful. --John Moe

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Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?

Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in the office cubicles and on the factory floors. As she puts it:

“The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.” Yet it has been, allowing corporate crooks to bilk the public out of trillions of dollars, magically making our pensions and 401(k)s disappear and walking away with astronomical payouts and absurdly lavish perks-for-life.

The media have put their fingers on pieces of the sordid puzzle, but Pigs at the Trough presents the whole ugly picture of what’s really going on for the first time—a blistering, wickedly witty portrait of exactly how and why the worst and the greediest are running American business and government into the ground.

Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski, Adelphia’s John Rigas, and the Three Horsemen of the Enron Apocalypse—Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andrew Fastow—are not just a few bad apples. They are manifestations of a megatrend in corporate leadership—the rise of a callous and avaricious mind-set that is wildly out of whack with the core values of the average American. WorldCom, Enron, Adelphia, Tyco, AOL, Xerox, Merrill Lynch, and the other scandals are only the tip of the tip of the corruption iceberg.

Making the case that our public watchdogs have become little more than obedient lapdogs, unwilling to bite the corporate hand that feeds them, Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington. We need, she argues, to go way beyond the lame Corporate Responsibility Act if we are to stop the voracious corporate predators from eating away at the very foundations of our democracy.

Devastatingly funny and powerfully indicting, Pigs at the Trough is a rousing call to arms and a must-read for all those who are outraged by the scandalous state of corporate America.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Pigs at the Trough.......2007-04-26

Pigs at the Trough is a fantastic look into corporate greed. Not only does the book expose the unfair buisness practices of crooked CEOs but also the great gap between them and thier workers. The book explains that what happens upstairs at a large corporation is much different. Huffington shows how the upper one percent of the world is getting away with murder and still making more than the lower eighty percent of the entire world.
Overall Pigs at the Trough was an excellent read. You will find yourself repulsed by the leaders of Walmart and Tyco but at the same time will not be able to put it down. Inform yourself and read this book.

I swear, she's got ADD..........2006-11-12

This book exposes nothing. There are way-better books out there, better written and better researched. I bought it after watching her much needed bashing of these retarded Neo-Cons on Bill Maher's show. Here's the lowdown: She grabs one subject and repeats it dozens of different ways, adding new twists, puns and jokes. The book has no cohesive structure. Like an ADD-sufferer on coffee. Worst of all, she was part of that system. She gets divorced, and boom. Her politics take a 180 degree turn. How's that supposed to work? If the payoffs from these interest groups are providing for your cushy life, it's good. But if you divorce your Neo-Con husband, then, all of a sudden it's bad. Honestly, I see a lack of integrity here. So, if tomorrow she marries a communist, will she be singing Lenin's praises? Or how about a devil-worshiper? Will she go satanic? Then, I watched her devolve on Maher's show, constantly doing nothing but vent her anger at her ex-husband in a thin veil of politics. She ran for Cali governor and her points were high. Then, she started opening her mouth, and her points plumetted. For good reason. Because she ran a negative campaign against the Governator. (Which is exactly the same thing she acuses Neo-Cons of doing in this worthless book). But, of course, knee-jerk liberals love her, because they see her as a repented sinner who sees the error of her ways. LET ME SUM UP THE BOOK FOR YOU: A party holds on to power too long, it becomes corrupt. Campaign reform is needed. End of story.

good book.......2006-05-25

i just had to read this book for my pol sci 1 class. it was actually very interesting. i really had no idea how much corporations were affecting america but now i do. there are so many facts in this book that make it very interesting. this is definitly a must read!

Keeping the (other) Elites on the Run. Sorry, Laura. I just had to use it........2006-03-25

This was the book that started me reading more and more about politics, and the political influence that afflicts our country. I highly recommend it, and here's why.

In a hard-hitting, almost cynical style that I did appreciate, the author attacks companies that have raped the public and their employees because of their own greed. She names them like a littany of indictments that followed their wake: Adelphia, Tyco, Arthur Andersen, Enron, World Com, to name a few. Huffington shows how these once respected companies, their greed, and the relaxation of regulations have allowed them to virtually alter standard principles of accounting so they can hide money and cheat the government, taxpayers and employees.

Unlike one reviewer here who found her style sarcastic, I didn't mind. After all, these greedy little folks who walked away with millions after stranding customers and leaving employees pensionless, can take a little sarcasm their way. However, I agree with him the quizzes got in the way of the pace of the book, and seemed a little childish. (I always carry a highlighter for books like this one anyway.)

The most important thing Arianna makes clear is that politicians no longer seem to represent the people who elect them, but the interests of the corporations with the largest contributions. (It's called bribery outside of Congress.) This administration has given their blessing with their silence, and has a huge following of people who still believe their gospel while they are getting their own pockets picked. The repudiation of the pension for United Airlines is a perfect example. What did the administration say? Nothing, not a word! But let the poor, little guy declare bankruptcy, and Senator Orrin Hatch and other congressmen of his ilk will be after them on behalf of MBNA, forever.

It's strange that neocons who worship at the holy grail of unrestrained capitalism, have little to say about this book, or challenge its contents. For once they cannot retort with that tiresome, insipid lament, "Well, Clinton did...." It's about the greed that this administration, corporate CEO's, and congressmen have fostered and encouraged with sweetheart deals, no-bid contracts, tax breaks, loopholes, secret meetings, and even corporate protection laws.

It's about people who never seem to have enough, no matter how much they already have. They will always want more.

Change requires more than anger.......2005-12-06

Pigs at the Trough brings up all kinds of problems that present serious complications to American democracy and to the honest running of the market system - corporate corruption, conflicts of interests, tight connections between business and politicians, the lack of a tie between executive compensation and company performance, the malfeasance of the big four accounting companies.

Unfortunately, rather than analyzing these problems in a serious manner, she has written a harangue, full of name-calling, insults, and anger. She seems to hope that inciting a listener's outrage will inspire action. In this sense, she seems to have underestimated her audience - as though she'd lose their attention if she toned down her arguments and delved into the substance. The audio CD was read in a breathless and sarcastic manner, which quickly became tiresome.

Everyone seems to be evil in her opinion - from politicians to lobbyists to corporate executives to pharmaceutical companies to mutual funds - the big and rich against the rest of us. The suggested solutions, which take up a small section near the end, focus on what should be done, without little depth on who should take the steps and how this can be made to happen.

The benefit of the book is the bringing to light of issues that affect many Americans but are not often discussed in depth in the general media. One can hope that someone else will pick up where Huffington started and provide a more sober analysis.

Pigs At The Trough - How Corporate Greed And Political Corruption Are Undermining America

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Pigs At The Trough - How Corporate Greed And Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Arianna Huffington
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers, Inc
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Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America.(Book Review): An article from: Multinational Monitor

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Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America.(Book Review): An article from: Multinational Monitor

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America.(Book Review)
Publication: Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
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