20th Century garden and landscape architecture in the Netherlands

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Following on the succesful heels of 20th Century Architecture in the Netherlands and 20th Century Urban Design in the Netherlands comes a third survey focused on highlights and developments in the field of garden and landscape design--in the Netherlands, obviously. Decade by decade, themes discussed include: the transition from utilitarian greenery to greenery for consumption; the Zuiderzee Works; changes in agriculture; the role of the Rijkswaterstaat (Director-General for Public Works and Water Management); the Ecological Master Plan; garden design on country estates, the transformation of managed nature into "new nature"; and the development of public gardens and parks. Projects are illustrated through historic and contemporary photographic material, plans, and design drawings, and are discussed throughout in light of broad social developments, fashionable trends, and changing recreational demands.

20th Century Garden and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands

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20th Century Garden and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands

Manufacturer: Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/
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During his life, Elvis Presley was idolized; since his death, he has become immortalized.Now, drawing from LIFE magazines unrivaled archives, Charles Hirshberg and the editors of LIFE chronicle in pictures and text Elvis transformation from shy teenager to superstar.It is a story best told in the details, and this singular collection of unforgettable pictures reveal all those detailsthe sad, the funny, and the passionate.

Elvis a Celebration In Pictures :PRESLEY

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Elvis a Celebration In Pictures :PRESLEY
Charles Hirshberg
Manufacturer: Warner Books> C/o Little Br
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ASIN: 0446160687

Life a Celebration in Picutres (Elvis Remembered Twenty-five years later)

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Life a Celebration in Picutres (Elvis Remembered Twenty-five years later)

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Pictures of Elvis

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Elvis - Celebration In Pictures
Charles; Editors Of Life Magazine Hirshberg
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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ASIN: B000IY881G

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Elvis a Celebration in Pictures
Hirshberg Charles
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While the secret powers of the antiques still haunt the owners, it is time to take a look into the mysterious past of Bun-Nyu and Mr. Now, the destiny of becoming a shaman is laid upon Bun-Nyu. While her grandmother does her best to protect Bun-Nyu from this destiny, Mr. Yang appears and makes a special offer...

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Economía: el primer libro editado por el Fondo de Cultura Económica.(TT: Economics: first book published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.)(Reseña): An article from: Siempre!

Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
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ASIN: B0008FGWC2
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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Title: Economía: el primer libro editado por el Fondo de Cultura Económica.(TT: Economics: first book published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.)(Reseña)
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 28, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49 Issue: 2567 Page: S3(1)

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En Busqueda de Lo Posible
Luca Meldolesi
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
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Here is the first and most authoritative book on S&P's pioneering index of small company stocks-the power performers of the 1990s. Carefully chosen by S&P experts, the SmallCap 600 companies are smaller and more entrepreneurial than those covered in the other S&P indices, offering greater potential for growth. The SmallCap 600 index has quickly become the benchmark against which all investment in small companies is measured-and this guide will quickly earn benchmark status as well.

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Great resource for the value investor.......2001-01-14

All 3 books from Standard and Poors (the S&P 500, the mid-cap 400, and the small-cap 600) are fantastic resources. You get the last 10 years of financial data for each company (those that have been around that long), including pre-computed values for things like profit margin, return on equity, debt-to-equity, and other ratios that are essential to making value-based investment decisions. Note that these are reference books, not "how to" books.

A good method for using the S&P600 Guide can be found in:.......1999-03-01

chapter 3 of the book Investing in Small-Cap Stocks by Christopher Graja. Microcap companies too small to be included in the S&P 600 Guide can be researched on the Internet.

Standard & Poors Smallcap 600 Guide 2001 Edition

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Standard & Poors Smallcap 600 Guide 2001 Edition
Standard & Poor
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Estimating the impact of job-search assistance: assessment of a Russian programme targeting very low-income families.: An article from: International Labour Review
Raymond Struyk , and Kirill Chagin
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000NQD7SS
Release Date: 2007-02-23

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This digital document is an article from International Labour Review, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 7915 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: Estimating the impact of job-search assistance: assessment of a Russian programme targeting very low-income families.
Author: Raymond Struyk
Publication: International Labour Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
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Volume: 145 Issue: 3 Page: 221(19)

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Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Series in Russian and East European Studies)

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Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Kenneth M. Straus
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Gender differences in the Russian labor market.: An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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Gender differences in the Russian labor market.: An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Susan J. Linz
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
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ASIN: B00095N558
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on March 1, 1996. The length of the article is 7241 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.

From the supplier: The difference in earnings and employment between men and women in the Russian labor market is caused by their different attitudes toward work. Based on data from Russian emigrants to the US indicate that Russian men work for longer durations than Russian women of the same age. Men are less choosy while women opt for jobs which are provides convenience. Women are also less likely to be promoted because they usually get positions with lesser chance of promotion. Moreover, they tend to forego promotion opportunities to maintain their current job location.

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Title: Gender differences in the Russian labor market.
Author: Susan J. Linz
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1996
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v30 Issue: n1 Page: p161(25)

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Innovating for Profit in Russia: Summary of a Workshop

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Innovating for Profit in Russia: Summary of a Workshop
Committee on Innovating for Profit in Russia: Encouraging a Market Pull Approach , Office for Central Europe and Eurasia , National Research Council , and Russian Academy of Sciences
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
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Job Rights in the Soviet Union: Their Consequences (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)

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Job Rights in the Soviet Union: Their Consequences (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)
David Granick
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521332958

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The book is concerned with the right of an employee of a Soviet state enterprise to keep his existing job, unless he/she voluntarily quit it to search for another, and with the maintaining of overfull employment in all regional labor markets of the Soviet Union. The author hypothesises that over most other objectives to preserving these conditions favorable for labor. This hypothesis is contrasted with that which explains the low unemployment and low dismissal rate in the Soviet Union simply by the oberheating of the economy, finding a parallel here with capitalist economies in high-boom periods. The novelty of the book is twofold. It is the first examination of the Soviet economy from the theoretic viewpoint described above. Second, it is a full length treatment of labor markets in the Soviet Union and is the first study of such markets since that of Abram Bergson published in the 1940s. Indeed, no similar treatment of labor markets exists for any centrally planned socialist economy.

Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)

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Comparative Politics Studies (June 1999)
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Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Jeffrey Burds
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Comparative Politics Studies (June 1999).......1999-07-19

"Jeffrey Burds's _Peasant Dreams and Market Politics_ is an original, insightful interpretive study of the Russian peasantry confronting new challenges and opportunities during the late-19th century. The book focuses on peasant outmigration in the Central Industrial Region (encompassing the 300 kilometers around Moscow) in the period between the abolition of serfdom (1861) and the first significant rebellions against the tsar (1905). This was a period when an expanding commodity economy provided new opportunities for migrant peasant workers to gain supplemental incomes to offset the redemption taxes that their families and villages were collectively obligated to pay in exchange for taking possession of land formerly owned by the gentry. But, peasant outmigration also brought with it new threats for the traditional Russian peasant commune, which had to guard against the permanent resettlement of productive individuals or whole families who could place the remainder of the commune members under greater economic hardship as they endeavored to meet their tax obligations. The commune's efforts to contain these threats, and the manner in which the commune and individual peasants adapted to changing opportunity structures and outside influences, represent the most original and illuminating features of this book. . . . This book is an extremely interesting, informative, and well-researched ideographic work by a skilled historian. It is based on 3 years of archival research and analysis of ethnographic material, ranging from police records and peasant memoirs to written agreements among peasant households and their communes. It is written in a language accessible to specialists as well as nonspecialists. For area specialists familiar with the story of industrialization and peasant outmigration in prerevolutionary Russia, this book will offer a needed corrective for some of the more simplified, conventional characterizations of Russian peasant behavior. Valuable insights also can be gained from Burds's original treatment of the significance of reputational concerns in village life and his analysis of how commune norms and practices were influenced by, and deployed to contain, an expanding commodity economy." - Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania

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"Brilliant, subtle, and richly documented, Burds's study of how the village and urban worlds remade one another puts the study of the peasantry, of urbanization, and of industrialization in Russia on a wholly new footing. His eye for the telling details of social relations, consumption, reputation, and the principles of navigation between two worlds illuminates subject after subject." - James C. Scott, Yale University

"The book contributes in fundamental ways to the historical debate about Russian development before the revolution. . . . It is original, brilliantly researched, and fascinating reading." - Lynne Viola, University of Toronto

"This excellent book . . . makes an important contribution to the fields of peasant studies, Russian history, and historical anthropology in general. Burds' analysis is original, lucid and convincing. . . . A pleasure to read. His main argument is that the village community dealt with the threat of change by anthropomorphizing it. The village community responded to the threat of modernity by anathematizing the most vivid symbols of modernity: agents with contact with the outside world. And the peasant migrant workers embodied this contact in the eyes of villagers. . . . While most historians have long tended to focus on high politics, Burds' work presents a strikingly new view of Russia's `grand failure' from below. . . . Burds analyzes the `culture of denunciation' as a process of constructing the enemy other out of the new forces threatening traditional village relations." - Hiroaki Kuromiya, Indiana University

"Jeffrey Burds' excellent study of the distinctive patterns of entrepreneurial activity, market strategies, and a commodity culture among nineteenth-century Russian peasants can serve as an important `usable past' for post-Communist Russia, as it strives to find historical precedents and native roots for today's market reforms." - Brenda Meehan, University of Rochester

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"The strength of [Burds'] presentation is [his] rich, well-informed description of specific cases, often with long quotations from primary sources new to the literature, together with a complete command of the modern literature in peasant Russia." - James T. Flynne, College of the Holy Cross [Choice, November 1998]

"Using archival and published sources, Jeffrey Burds examines the impact of peasant migratory labor (otkhod) on villages of the Central Industrial Region. As he notes, this study is a "needed corrective" to previous treatments of otkhod which have been focused primarily on the impact of peasant migrations on urban development. Instead, Burds offers an interpretation of how familial and communal institutions incorporated increasing contact with town life and the market into their survival strategies during the onslaught of post-emancipation socioeconomic changes. Analysis begins by examining the threat of increasing otkhod in the village. Given krugovaia poruka (collective guarantee) the departure of entire families resulted in increased fiscal burdens for others. Futhermore, sons frequently found factory work easier and more rewarding than life on a farm. This threatened the ability of fathers to control sons and posed a challenge for communal elders seeking to extract urban earnings by binding migrants to the village. Finally, migrant laborers who returned to the village with changed tastes were potential sources of "moral corruption"--another threat to traditional social structures. Chapters 3, 4, and 7 discuss strategies communes and parents used to meet these challenges. A key strategy involved the control of passports. Otkhodniki remained responsible for assessments on their allotments. The commune ensured that it got some of this money up front as a "departure fee" before issuing of a passport, and often included a contract stipulating additional payments. Occassionally, communes arranged to have employers garnish otkhodnik wages. Communal and parental pressure to marry also served to tie otkhodniki to their rural roots, as did communal involvement in rural hiring. There were also legal options: refusal to issue another passport; threatened auction of property; and forcible recall to the village under police guard. Moral transgressions were checked by a "culture of denunciation"--the practice of labeling as "heretics" those migrants who seemed too attached to urban ways. To avoid any or all of these problems otkhodniki relied on "benefactors" (the maligned kulak) and the preservation of their village reputation. Migration, Burds notes, was a two-way street. Many migrants failed, and most became sensitized to fluctuations in the business cycle. Urban earnings could be just as uncertain as harvests. This helps explain why the majority of those with no allotment sent wages home. Maintaining a place in the village was a prudent hedge against an uncertain market. At the same time, urban contact encouraged a "culture of acquisition" in the village. This discussion constitutes the most original part of the book. The culture of acquisition meant not only new consumer tastes but also the gradual development of a café and shopping culture. As otkhod earnings invaded the village, the increased demand for goods led to the creation of fixed shops and taverns (which, through the sale of franchises, also provided a way for the commune to siphon urban earnings). The most significant consequence of this was not the fact that peasants now had a more convenient source of drink, but that they now interacted in a new way. The saloon became the center of village life, a source of news about a variety of topics, a place to make deals, and a place to show off new acquisitions. This infusion of otkhod earnings and newly acquired tastes created higher consumer expectations--an increase in the "break-even point" peasants used to evaluate their standard of living. Burds suggests that any "rural crisis" at the end of the last century must be assessed against this more dynamic conception of peasant needs. . . . . Burds's book is essential reading for all those with interests in the peasantry and economic development." --David Darrow, University of Dayton [The Russian Review, 1999]

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Russian Labor Market
Vladimir Gimpelson
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0742509125

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Labour markets are a central element of any transition from planned economy to market-oriented system. This groundbreaking book examines the plight of Russian workers and employers during the first decade of post-Soviet reforms, providing the first integr

Russian reform: for women, it's not working.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Russian reform: for women, it's not working.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Sarah Johansson
Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
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ASIN: B00092KV0S
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 607 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.

From the supplier: Women in the labor force prior to the fall of the Soviet Union were able to find jobs but were generally devoid of ambition or a work ethic. Under the new free enterprise labor market many cannot find jobs although they do have dreams of becoming wealthy.

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Title: Russian reform: for women, it's not working.
Author: Sarah Johansson
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v50 Issue: n4 Page: p5(2)

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Russian Unemployment and Enterprise Restructuring: Reviving Dead Souls (Ilo Series.)

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Russian Unemployment and Enterprise Restructuring: Reviving Dead Souls (Ilo Series.)
Guy Standing
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0333668723

How Russian firms make their wage and employment decisions =: Kak rossiiÌÂ†skie predprii¸ a¸¡tii¸ a¸¡ prinimai¸ u¸¡t reshenii¸ a¸¡ po voprosam oplaty truda ... policy and enterprise restructuring)

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How Russian firms make their wage and employment decisions =: Kak rossiiÌÂ†skie predprii¸ a¸¡tii¸ a¸¡ prinimai¸ u¸¡t reshenii¸ a¸¡ po voprosam oplaty truda ... policy and enterprise restructuring)
Simon Commander
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