Beach Houses of South America

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Provides a unique look at beach-side residences in South America.

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Application of heat to clay transforms it into a ceramic, and thus the history and technical features of structures supplying that heat - kilns - are of considerable importance. The 14 chapters in this volume discuss ancient and historic kilns from the viewpoint of their excavation, their operational principles, and their contributions to an understanding of ceramic production within ancient economies.

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Some 30,000 children are homeless in Bombay; living on its streets, under bridges, in railway stations, anywhere they can to escape harrassment by both police and criminals. Considered a nuisance and with no rights, they are at best ignored by the majority of people. Sexual exploitation, drug addiction and criminal gangs make this a cruelly hazardous background for these young people.

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Touching, thought provoking book about Bombay.......2004-01-19

Captures the harsh life on Bombay streets that most of us deny
the existence of.

The following hindi movies "Salaam Bombay" and "Chandni Bar"
on same theme are worth watching.

Living on the Edge.......2003-10-16

The children of Bombay who live on it's streets will strike a note deep to your heart if you open it to the pain and joy of their daily LIFE.

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Nice illustrations, but factually incorrect
Wonderfully written, colorfully illustrated
Wonderful!!
Call it the adventurous road to Mumbai
a lot of fun

The Road to Mumbai
Ruth Jeyaveeran
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0618434194

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Along the road to Mumbai, Shoba and her monkey, Fuzzy Patel, make many new friendsmysterious monks, a curious camel, and a snake with a sensitive stomach, just to name a few. Shoba and Fuzzy are on their way to a top-secret monkey wedding. But you shouldn't expect an invitation. According to Fuzzy, it will be the most boring wedding in the history of the universe. But magical things can happen on the road to Mumbaiand when trouble threatens to ruin the big event, unexpected friends come to the rescue. In vivid paintings filled with color and light (and more than one uninvited guest!), Ruth Jeyaveeran brings the beauty and excitement of India alive for children everywhere to enjoy.

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Nice illustrations, but factually incorrect.......2006-01-18

The author needs to fact check before publishing. Gujarati is not the major language of the people who live in Mumbai. It is Marathi.

This carelessness mars the otherwise nice illustrations in this book.

Wonderfully written, colorfully illustrated.......2005-08-24

The Road to Mumbai is a wonderfully written, colorfully illustrated children's book, which adults can enjoy too.

It is a cute and humorous tale of a little girl named Shoba and her monkey, Fuzzy Patel (insert smiles here) and their journey to Mumbai, via her bed and various other modes of transportation along the way. The story and pictures capture the essence of the people and animals they meet on the road to Fuzzy's cousin's wedding.

Ms. Jeyaveeran has accomplished much in her first book. I look forward to her next one.

Wonderful!!.......2005-03-12

This is a delightful little romp for the younger than Harry Potter set, but it will also cheer grown-ups seeking refuge from the white-bread po-faced world.

It's wonderful when story-telling ability and drawing ability are present in the same author; Jeyaveeran has spades of talent.

Libraries and parents (and probably a few Wall Street investors in need of lightening up) should buy this book, and Ruth Jeyaveeran should get to work on a sequel!

Call it the adventurous road to Mumbai.......2005-02-08

Little Shoba is on her way to a wedding in Mumbai but will she ever get there? With her pet monkey Fuzzy Patel, she sets out on her journey and discovers one interesting thing after another. A camel ride, a line of elephants, an over-crowded bus, laddos, jalebees will all help bring India to little book lovers. The illustrations are very colorful and add to the overall effect of the book.

a lot of fun.......2004-11-22

My sister gave my 4 year old (and 9 mos old) this book. My 4 year old loves it and we have talked about the book alot. I like the illustrations as well. Recommended.

Hardy Boys 49: The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys)

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Below Average
The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys, No 49)
The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys, No 49)
A must read

Hardy Boys 49: The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys)
Franklin W. Dixon
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0448089491

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Mixed Opinion.......2003-01-17

Not sure what to say regarding this book. The scene with the accidental phone number mixup always sounded a bit far fetched to me. The cover art was poor, but yet the book was a decent read. The brothers seemed to limit their travelling somewhat in this one. Worth reading but far from the series elite. Give it a weak 3 star rating. RATED C

Below Average.......2002-10-16

Mr. Hardy asks Frank And Joe to help him with his case concerning a gang that is stealing mercury. He asks them to call a shipping company in New York; however, a mistake with the area code causes them to reach the Pentagon, instead, just at the precise moment that a robbery occurs. These events lead Frank and Joe to Baltimore, where they attempt to track down the gang. The premise for this book is rather ridiculous considering that the area code for New York is 212 and that for Washington D.C. is 202. The 0 and the 1 are nowhere near each other on either a touch tone phone nor a rotary dial phone, so I don't see how a mistake like that could happen if you know the number you are calling. If your willing to accept this and just read the book, it's not that bad. The mystery is fairly well paced and there is quite a bit of action. The ending is somewhat silly, but mostly the book isn't that disappointing.

The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys, No 49).......2002-05-28

I really enjoyed reading this book because the story makes you think about what is happening to the boys and figure out what is really happening. As you read the book, you discover many clues that you have to use to act like a detective and try to solve the mystery. You also have to figure out what the criminals are doing and planning. You really have to learn to think like a detective to solve the mystery.

The Bombay Boomerang (Hardy Boys, No 49).......2002-05-28

A must read.......2000-11-26

The Hardys make a routine mistake when they dial 212 instead of 202 or vice versa and they get the Pentagon. They hear BOMBAY BOOMERANG. This mystery leads them into danger. They believe jockey Teddy Blaze and his dog Balto may be involved. Chet prevents the plane from going off by...

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Mumbai (Global Cities)
Jen Green
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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Slave, Brave, and Free

Slave, Brave, & Free
Cal Bombay , and Margaret Sharpe
Manufacturer: Loyal Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1929125410

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Three Countries, Three Cultures, One Wish…
They all want to belong—somewhere, to someone.

Okot (pronounced "Oh-Coat") Deng knew no other world than the African savannah where his Dinka tribesmen lived a peaceful existence—until he was captured and sold as a slave to the owner of a Virginia tobacco plantation. His hatred for white men and their God grows as he is punished and starved, until he knows he must be free or die. Can he find a home with other runaways in Upper Canada?

Chipagawana is the proud son of Onondaga Chief Thunder Arm. He lives for the day when he will take his place beside his brothers as a brave of his tribe. He has learned to hate white man, whose whisky makes fools of the wisest braves, and whose God-houses anger the Great Spirit. But then he is mauled by a bear and finds himself lost in the bush, alone and dying. If he wants to get home, he needs help—from a white boy.

Paul Brentwood is the son of a circuit preacher who left England to bring God's Word to the Iroquois in Upper Canada. But Paul has begun to hate the Indians, who massacred his best friend's family and now have ambushed his father. Lost and alone, Paul longs to know if his father is alive. But how can he find his way home through hostile Iroquois territory?

The three would never have met but for a strange twist of fate—or is it the hand of Providence?—which brings them together in a way that changes their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever.

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Slave, Brave, and Free.......2005-01-29

Our whole family enjoyed reading this together. We would highly recommend this book!

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A thought-provoking, insightful novel
A sad story told with humour
It's brilliant.
Not his best
A Silver Castle With Golden Prose

The Silver Castle
Clive James
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Sanjay is a Bombay street child who scales the dizzying heights of the "Silver Castle," the Indian film world, to stand at the parapet of success.                          Unfortunately for Sanjay, he is required to jump.
           Told with Clive James's trademark dry wit, The      Silver Castle is a tragicomic morality tale for our time. Part Candide, part Oliver Twist, part Huckleberry Finn, The Silver Castle defies its reader to remain aloof from the suffering of the world's swarming poor while it inspires laughter over the human condition generally. It is a novel of wonder despite its unrelenting realism--      indeed, only wonderment is possible in the face of Sanjay's knack for survival and more than occasional good fortune.
           In his astonishing odyssey from the gutter to the soundstages and salons of Bollywood, Sanjay meets up with every variant of sinner and would-be savior, and along the way he trades on his "heart-breaking" physical beauty and canny lingual facility to grab at luck wherever it may be had--in the pocket of a tourist, as a guide for the Western news crews who regularly descend on Bombay to update their stock footage of grinding poverty, or in the bed of an older male protector or a past-her-prime cinema princess.
           Throughout, Sanjay's spirit is sustained by the movies, and by his first behind-the-scenes glimpse,
as a young trespasser on the set of the Silver Castle, of the magical artifice of filmmaking.
It is a true vision of an utterly false reality, the source of Sanjay's subsequent triumphs and of his ultimate
misfortune. But what happens to Sanjay in the end is not a singular event. As this deeply humane novel
convincingly argues, Sanjay's fate is the world's.

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Perhaps it would have been better for [Sanjay] if he had never seen the Silver Castle, never felt a guiding hand, never blinked at an unstained smile. Then he would not have missed these things. It is just possible, however, that the memory of his first visit to Long Ago sustained him. Imagination and energy are part of each other, and few of us, even though we live in circumstances far more favourable, would ever get to where we are going unless a picture of it, however inaccurate, was already in our minds. If we had to, we too would have to dodge the rain between rubbish dumps, on the long journey back to the taste of a cheese roll, the tang of sparkling water, trumpets that crackle and toe-nails stained with plums. We don't have to, but Sanjay did.

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A thought-provoking, insightful novel.......2000-04-04

The sad and moving story of a young life lost. Told with wit and grit, the tale at first engenders the reader's sympathy for the young, precocious Sanjay growing up under deplorable conditions. And then by some curious trick, James allows the reader to distance himself/herself from Sanjay just enough to accept the "return to roots" ending without tears. Perhaps the trick is that you never really know what is in Sanjay's heart. Perhaps he doesn't have one: he is simply an opportunist who climbs the shakey ladder of success by any means possible. And perhaps the saddest indictment of all is that this may be the only hope for the bright sparks among India's poorest people. A thought-provoking, highly-readable novel written with insight and style. Recommended.

A sad story told with humour.......1999-11-05

This was my first Clive James book. I loved it. I've not yet been to Bombay, or any part of India, but having read the book, I feel like it's a place that I must (but not necessarily want to) visit.

It's a sad story about the life a young boy growing up in poverty in Bombay. It is tragic, but it is told with such objectiveness that you cannot cast judgment upon any of the characters involved.

This is a brilliant display of James' talent of telling things how they are, without imposing a moralistice slant. You'll even laugh a lot.

This book is definitely worth reading.

It's brilliant........1999-09-11

I was amazed to find his knowledge of India, the film industry and the politics of the streets so authentic. The story is like an off-line movie story while hovering around the film industry itself. I've read Clive James's other books but none touched me so much as this. Read it!

Not his best.......1999-09-06

Clive James' best novel is probably the third book of his autobiographical trilogy. If you want to laugh out loud, I'd recommend "Brilliant Creatures". "The Silver Castle" is funny, but I feel that Clive should stick to writing about Australia or the UK. When I read the book, I was left with the impression that he doesn't know India that well.

A Silver Castle With Golden Prose.......1998-09-30

Forget Patrick White; Clive James is the best writer to ever emerge from our post-colonial back woods. Like Joseph Heller who has never been able to match his stunning debut Catch 22 (possibly the greatest novel of the century) it appeared as though Clive James would have trouble living up to the genius of his autobiographical trilogy, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week was in June. If Brrrmmmm Brrrmmmm, The Remake, and Brilliant Creatures however saw the emergence of a talented novelist, then The Silver Castle has seen the birth of a great one. Clive James sent us a Postcard from Bombay and stayed around long enough to really capture the taste, smell and feel of the place. He gives us a sense of this wonderfully vibrant yet equally appalling city from the dirt up - you can literally feel the grit between your teeth. From the poorest slums where having a deformity is a career, to the glass sparkle of the ludicrous Bollywood, The Silver Castle is an absolute gem of a novel.

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Bombay Cats (Cats Set III)
Julie Murray
Manufacturer: Checkerboard Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 1577658620

The Bombay Deaths Incident (Unexplained)

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The Bombay Deaths Incident (Unexplained)
Terrance Dicks
Manufacturer: Piccadilly Press Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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CHILDREN OF BOMBAY
Dario (photos), text by Firdaus Kanga & Peter Dalglish Mitidieri
Manufacturer: Dewi Lewis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KBDTKC

The children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay (Pavilion)

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The children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay (Pavilion)
Schifra Strizower
Manufacturer: B. Blackwell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 063113820X

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Lasalle Bank Guide 2002-2003: Major Publicly Held Corporations and Financial Institutions Headquartered in Illinois (Lasalle Banks Guide)
David Scholl
Manufacturer: Scholl Communications, Incorporated
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0912519258

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LaSalle Bank Guide 2002-2003 Edition now available.

The 38th annual edition of this respected guide to publicly held corporations and financial institutions headquartered in Illinois profiles 234 corporations and financial institutions.

Each profile contains: company name, address, phone and website; a descriptive paragraph on the business; lists of directors and key officers, with titles; a condensed balance sheet; five years of operating results and stock price ranges; facts such as numbers of employees and stockholders, auditor's and general counsel's names, heads of Human Resources, Investor Relations, Information Technology; and stock symbol and exchange.

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During the last two decades many governments have allowed private companies to offer infrastructure services which were previously provided only by state-owned businesses. In some cases they have privatized state-owned business and in others, they have permitted private firms to invest in and operate those businesses under lease contracts or long-term concessions. In still other instances, private firms have been allowed to compete alongside former government monopolists.

Infrastructure for Poor People examines the data on infrastructure and the poor in developing countries, and discusses how policies, centered on private provision, can address their needs. It focuses on the design of government policy for the provision of infrastructure services by private firms, highlighting the rules determining which firms can sell infrastructure services, the prices they can charge, the quality of service they must offer, and any subsidies provided by the government.

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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison.(Book review)
Author: Carol Agocs
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 62 Issue: 2 Page: 377(3)

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