Barra and South Uist, Vatersay and Eriskay (Landranger Maps)
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    Ordnance Survey
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    L/R Map 031 Flat Barra & South Uist Vat (Landranger Maps)
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      L/R Map 031 Flat Barra & South Uist Vat (Landranger Maps)
      Ordnance Survey
      Manufacturer: Gardners Books Ltd
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      ASIN: 1847430309
      Uists and Barra (Islands)
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        Uists and Barra (Islands)
        Francis Thompson
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        Uists & Barra (Pevensey Island Guides)
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          Uists & Barra (Pevensey Island Guides)
          Francis G. Thompson
          Manufacturer: David & Charles
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          Barra and South Uist, Vatersay and Erisk
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            Barra and South Uist, Vatersay and Erisk
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            The beaches of Barra and the Uists: A survey of the beach, dune and machair areas of Barra, South Uist, Benbecula, North Uist and Berneray
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              The beaches of Barra and the Uists: A survey of the beach, dune and machair areas of Barra, South Uist, Benbecula, North Uist and Berneray
              William Ritchie
              Manufacturer: Dept. of Geography, University of Aberdeen
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              The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Machair of the Uists and Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996 (Statutory Instruments: 1996: 1962 ()
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                The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Machair of the Uists and Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay) Designation (Amendment) Order 1996 (Statutory Instruments: 1996: 1962 ()
                Great Britain
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                The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Machair of the Uists and Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay) Designation Order 1993 (Statutory Instruments: 1993: 3149 ()
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                  The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Machair of the Uists and Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay) Designation Order 1993 (Statutory Instruments: 1993: 3149 ()

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                  Hebridean Folksongs: Volume 3: Waulking Songs from Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, and Banbecula
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                    Hebridean Folksongs: Volume 3: Waulking Songs from Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, and Banbecula
                    John L. Campbell , and Francis Collinson
                    Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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                    ASIN: 0198152159

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                    This volume presents forty-seven waulking songs recorded in South Uist, Barra, and the adjacent smaller islands between 1938 and 1965. Intensely evocative of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Highlands and Islands, these songs are one of the most interesting folk survivals of western
                    Europe. Documenting a remarkable oral tradition of folkmusic, this work contains an analysis of the motifs found in the older waulking sounds, musical notes by Francis Collinson, and a chapter listing the songs in the three volumes.
                    History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, and Barra)
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                      History of the Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, North and South Uist, Benbecula, and Barra)
                      W. C Mackenzie
                      Manufacturer: Mercat Press
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                      ASIN: B0006CVWCW

                      Les cedrieres du Quebec (Etudes ecologiques)
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                        Les cedrieres du Quebec (Etudes ecologiques)
                        Bertrand Blanchet
                        Manufacturer: Laboratoire d'ecologie forestiere, Universite Laval
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                        Insight Pocket Guides Florida Keys (Insight Pocket Guides)
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                          Insight Pocket Guides Florida Keys (Insight Pocket Guides)
                          Joann Biondi
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                          Insight Pocket Guide Florida Keys
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                            Insight Pocket Guide Florida Keys
                            Joann Biondi
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                            Pocket Guide Florida Keys includes a chapter detailing Florida Key's history and culture, 9 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from the coral reef at John Pennekamp State Park to idiosyncratic Key West City Cemetery, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and maps, including a detailed pullout map. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
                            Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide
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                              Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide
                              Joann Biondi
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                              Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide (Insight Pocket Guides)
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                                Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide (Insight Pocket Guides)

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                                Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide
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                                  Florida Keys Insight Pocket Guide

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                                  Exploring the Non-Western World Teacher's Resource Manual
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                                    Exploring the Non-Western World Teacher's Resource Manual
                                    Globe Fearon
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                                    Exploring the Non-Western World Teacher's Resource Book
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                                      Exploring the Non-Western World Teacher's Resource Book
                                      Globe Fearon
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                                      Small Molecule - Protein Interaction (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings)
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                                        Small Molecule - Protein Interaction (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings)

                                        Manufacturer: Springer
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                                        Based on the international workshop on 'Small Molecule - Protein Interactions' held in Berlin, April 24-26, 2002, researchers from industry and academic laboratories describe novel and efficient ways selecting promising new drug targets and developing small molecule inhibitors against them. The structure of the book corresponds to the different aspects of the drug discovery process. All chapters are written by leading experts in the field, who present and discuss the most recent state-of-the-art tools and techniques for the development of novel drugs. The value of the book lies in surveying and summarizing the approaches taken by different companies and institutions giving the reader a balanced view on the use of the latest techniques on the one hand and experience-based assistance in selecting appropriate tools for their own work on the other hand.

                                        Free Radicals and Coals in Synthetic Fuels (Coal science and technology)
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                                          Free Radicals and Coals in Synthetic Fuels (Coal science and technology)
                                          Leonidas Petrakis , and David W. Grandy
                                          Manufacturer: Elsevier
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                                          ASIN: 0444422374

                                          Partial Differential Equations on Multistructures (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
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                                            Partial Differential Equations on Multistructures (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

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                                            ASIN: 0824705653

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                                            This text is based on lectures presented at the International Conference on Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on Multistructures, held in Luminy, France. It contains advances in the field, compiling research on the analyses and applications of multistructures - including treatments of classical theories, specific characterizations and modellings of multistructures, and discussions on uses in physics, electronics, and biology.

                                            You 2: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps
                                            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                                            • Simple language.
                                            • The key in the approach
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                                            • "You 2" For Me
                                            You 2: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps
                                            Price Pritchett
                                            Manufacturer: Pritchett & Associates
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                                            ASIN: 0944002048

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                                            Promotes an unconventional, quantum leap strategy for achieving breakthrough performance. This powerful new method replaces the concept of attaining gradual, incremental success through massive effort. Instead, it puts forth 18 key components for building massive success while expending less effort. Your staff learns to multiply their personal effectiveness, leverage their gifts, and leap beyond ordinary performance expectations.

                                            Customer Reviews:

                                            5 out of 5 stars Simple language........2007-04-10

                                            Great little book for learning how to take the leap of faith needed in business ventures.

                                            5 out of 5 stars The key in the approach.......2006-05-29

                                            This is an excellent book which will help you multiply your effectivness. The key is not in trying harder but in changing your approach by focusing on the ends rather than the means.

                                            1 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2005-06-29

                                            I was very impressed with Pritchett's book "The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World" so I purchased this one. I didn't find it worthwhile. It seemed like it was simply a few pages of advice like take more chances which had no value.

                                            5 out of 5 stars "You 2" For Me.......2000-12-07

                                            This book is the ultimate book for individuals who value success. Easy reading but it is quite powerful in it's message. "You 2" explains how to make quantum leaps in your personal and proffesional life. This is a must have selection for people who are in sales or self employed.

                                            After reading this book I took a new understanding to the powerful message of getting "uncomfortable" to take things to the next level.
                                            Personal Velocity
                                            Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                                            • Quick, fast read but...
                                            • Let yourself be taken away
                                            • Pretty good collection... (3 1/2 stars)
                                            • Nothing there
                                            • Personal moments in seven women's lives
                                            Personal Velocity
                                            Rebecca Miller
                                            Manufacturer: Grove Press
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                                            ASIN: 0802139183

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                                            Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity offers a wry take on work, sex, and relationships in the lives of seven people in search of what it means to be a 21st-century woman. Sharp and intimate, these stories are a capsule wardrobe of contemporary American femininity, from off-the-peg urban identities prepackaged by a designer label to battered, homeless survivors whose lives are held together only by their own emotional stamina. Greta, a cookbook editor, dumps her husband for fame and pointy alligator flats; Louisa, an artist, squeezes out her lovers faster than paint from a tube; and pregnant Paula picks up a young hitchhiker on a rainy night.

                                            Miller brings a clear and unsentimental eye to her characters, and pleasing brevity of style and compressed drama to her prose. Flawed and admirable, terrified and fearless, cavalier and overanxious by turns--the vagaries of personality are encompassed in this poised debut. Many a reader may catch a fleeting glimpse of her own contradictory reflections in Miller's intense snapshots of modern women. --Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk

                                            Book Description

                                            A Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Rebecca Miller's powerful debut, Personal Velocity, is the basis for her Sundance Festival award-winning film by the same name. Acclaimed by The New York Times as "the work of a talented and highly visual writer," the vibrantly fresh and lustrous stories in Miller's collection explore the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. From within the secret self of each character we see the surprising shape of her life created as she hurtles through it. Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive. We meet Greta, a cookbook editor who is chosen by Tavi, the hottest writer of his generation, to edit his new book. The book becomes a best-seller and Greta is propelled out of her marriage by her own ambition and success. The story, however, ends with a poignant flashback to the moment when one morning Greta realizes that ambition has grabbed her as she looks down at her kind, lackluster husband's wing-tip shoes. She suddenly knows she is leaving him and that their marriage is effectively over. Other characters include Paula, a pregnant twenty-one-year-old, who is on the run from the horror of a man who was hit by a car and died walking her home from a club the night before; Delia, an abused, working-class wife who goes into hiding with her children; and Louisa, a painter who moves rapidly from one lover to the next, acting out a self-perpetuating drama over which she has no control. Edgy, fearless, and beautifully spare, Personal Velocity marks the emergence of a singular new voice in American fiction. "Personal Velocity ... remind[s] us that good material is everywhere. [Miller is] a wonderful writer." -- Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World "Rebecca Miller's debut story collection is a series of eye-opening portraits of women ... humane, always honest and always entertaining." -- Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times "Personal Velocity is a gutsy, striking debut." -- David Daley, The Hartford Courant "Each story is crafted with a cunning and precision that explores and often explodes the lives of Miller's subjects...." -- Laura Anderson, American-Statesman "Miller tackles her topics, and ours, with wisdom, sophistication, and guts." -- Glamour "If I were still teaching high school English, I'd order class sets of Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity." -- Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes

                                            Customer Reviews:

                                            3 out of 5 stars Quick, fast read but..........2006-06-23

                                            This book is a quick and easy read. However I feel her characterizations of the working class people are stereotypical and incompletely realized. She does much better with her portraits of those who lead more privileged lives. I have to agree with other reviewers in that her stories just stop as if she doesn't really know how to end them. I can't help wondering if this book would have gotten less attention if Ms. Miller did not have a very famous father (Arthur Miller) and husband (Daniel Day Lewis).

                                            5 out of 5 stars Let yourself be taken away.......2004-12-24

                                            This is an opportunity to feel everything these vividly developed and diversely portreyed women feel and experience. This book is it's own adventure into the lives of an excentric artist, a tragic victem of passion and domestic abuse, an ambitious intellectual and her change of life on the way to the top, and many more. All very real and very compelling, you will feel this book.

                                            3 out of 5 stars Pretty good collection... (3 1/2 stars).......2004-08-16

                                            Personal Velocity is a collection of 7 stories by the author Rebecca Miller. (daughter of playwright, Arthur Miller) All of the stories have women at their center. Most of the stories are independent, but there are a couple that share characters. I have seen the movie, which only included three of the stories. This may have made me biased, since I got a visual of those three stories.

                                            Greta was about a woman who was planning on leaving her husband and has always had a problem with infidelity. She is always trying to impress her father, who left her mother when she was young. She is a cookbook editor who gets to edit a very popular authors book, and gets involved with him as well.

                                            Delia is a woman who leaves her husband, finally, after continued beatings. She goes from a woman's shelter to an old acquaintence's house. She grew up very promiscuous and hasn't changed that much.

                                            Louisa, who is also promiscuous, (I'm starting to notice a theme here) goes from lover to lover, and leaves when she starts to feel comfortable.

                                            Julianne and Bryna go hand and hand, as Bryna is Julianne's maid. Bryna imagines being interviewed and often talks to herself. She looks at Julianne as being this perfect woman who is married to a poet/writer 15 years her senior. Bryna always wanted to be glamourous, but instead, marries a farmer and lives with him and his strange mother.

                                            Nancy is a child who always has a nanny looking after her, but this nanny is also observing her, to see if she has anything wrong with her, because she once locked another girl in a closet.

                                            Paula is a woman who picked up a hitchhiker after being with a man who traded places with her on the street and got hit by a car. She thinks that this will change her karma.

                                            I liked the way this author writes, because she shows rather than tells, and she writes very simply to tell a deep story.

                                            I liked certain stories more than others, some just grabbed me more, which is why it didn't receive a higher rating.

                                            Basically, it was a little better than ok, but I have read some collections that I like more.

                                            1 out of 5 stars Nothing there.......2004-06-30

                                            I had been looking forward to reading this book for a while, it was well reviewed by many and I was so excited to get my hands on it, so you can only imagine my disapointment when I opened it up to find nothing really there.

                                            The book consists of 7 short stories about women who have some sort of pyschological ailment or another. The stories are just not that good. In seems in her attempts to make these women interesting or enigmatic she forgets to give them a soul. Secondly, these women are not likable, they are weird, self indulgent, self pitying, and mopey. One previous reviewer said it best when she said that the stories don't end, they just stop. Thats so true. Just when you think you may be getting interested in one character the story stops.

                                            This book was such a disapointment. If this is supposed to be a commentary on modern women, we should all be insulted and concerned.

                                            5 out of 5 stars Personal moments in seven women's lives.......2004-01-21

                                            After watching the excellent movie by the same name I just had to read this book.
                                            I believe this is one of the few rare cases where a movie, based on a book, does not fall in standard and is a good addition to the written tale, sort of making it a fuller, richer experience. Only after reading the book do I understand what a good movie it was and how faithful to the book. The narration in the movie is actually a word by word reading of several parts of the story, usually these parts which reflect the character's thoughts or inner feelings ("she was embarrassed to be seen because she had recently grown breasts" - Delia).
                                            The movie is amazing, but it can be such only due to the tale it draws upon.
                                            These are seven stories of women in different ages, geographical regions and social status. These are stories of revelation - of a certain understanding that comes in a brief moment in time.
                                            The beauty of this book is first of all the amazing writing. On the one hand the accounts are very readable, condensed, using everyday language ("and, as was her custom, got up to go to the john"...Bryna) and on the other hand, somehow the way this language is put together, can sometimes make it sound like poetry ("She kept the two narratives distinct in her mind; they coexisted as if in twin universes separated by a vast field of space. The only trouble was that Greta was exhausted ... the fittings...the dinners, the bachelorette party, and the cold that Max had given her" - Greta). It does not matter who you read about, you are drawn to the story and to the insides of the heroine's mind and feelings until you can accept all her actions and remain totally unjudgemental. This is also true of unpleasant accounts, where the characters (Nancy is a good example) could not have won the reader's heart in any other setting.
                                            It was interesting to read how other reviewers interpreted or understood the stories and to see the diversity in the points this book is given. Since the views are not similar, I take it as a proof that this is a story that has you thinking about, analyzing, and reflecting. Not all is clear and your interpretation relies on your life understanding as well. The stories are indeed cut short as one reviewer commented, but I felt that what I read was enough to guess further and to make the point the author intended. The stories sort of give you a glimpse of our heroine's lives and how one event affects another. Bryna, which is able to avoid hate towards her mother in law (explaining to herself that the woman is mad), and actually reaches (at the end of a long hard day) a very intimate feeling and closeness to her husband and Nancy, whose future does not look promising, but the reader can understand that this is a lonely lost child.
                                            I enjoyed each and every one of the characters and could relate to all of them, which is the accomplishment of this great author.
                                            Escape Velocity: 50 True Poems
                                            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                            • Escape Velocity: 50 True Poems
                                            • Poetry that speaks to my heart
                                            Escape Velocity: 50 True Poems
                                            Richard Peres
                                            Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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                                            ASIN: 0595360998

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                                            Despite our best efforts to control our lives, the people we happen to meet often direct our sails, affecting how long we live, whom we marry, the children we have and the lives of others.

                                            In Escape Velocity—50 True Poems Richard Peres pulls us into the lives of his past friends and family with passion, wit and irony.

                                            He describes flashing moments whose impacts are lifelong and relentless, encapsulating a lifetime in a few chosen words: “Lacking creativity he did nothing not making the connection nor the intersection with her life…” We identify almost immediately with our own lives, making us reflect on how we arrived to this point and how it all happened.

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                                            5 out of 5 stars Escape Velocity: 50 True Poems.......2005-08-08

                                            Great first book of poetry! Easy to understand. Easy to relate to. Everyone will see something of themselves here. Really like very short non-fiction that covers the gamut of emotions.

                                            5 out of 5 stars Poetry that speaks to my heart.......2005-07-01

                                            I have never been much of a poetry reader. Then I discovered Richard Peres. His poetry speaks directly to my heart. In particular, I love "That Day in 1932." How many times have I thought back to the string of coincidences that have shaped my life? But my thoughts are always clunky and prosaic; Peres, in this poem, makes that string of events in his life seem both pre-ordained, and impossibly fragile. I love this book. I hope you will, too.
                                            Lectures on Ion-Atom Collisions: From Nonrelativistic to Relativistic Velocities (North-Holland Personal Library)
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                                              Lectures on Ion-Atom Collisions: From Nonrelativistic to Relativistic Velocities (North-Holland Personal Library)
                                              Jörg Eichler
                                              Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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                                              Atomic collisions offer some unique opportunities to study atomic structure and reaction mechanisms in experiment and theory, especially for projectiles of high atomic number provided by modern accelerators. The book is meant as an introduction into the field and provides some basic theoretical understanding of the atomic processes occurring when a projectile hits another atom. It also furnishes the tools for a mathematical description, however, without going deeper into the technical details, which can be found in the literature given. With this aim, the focus is on reactions, in which only a single active electron participates. Collisional excitation, ionization and charge transfer are discussed for collision velocities ranging from slow to comparable to the
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                                              Personal Velocity
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                                                Personal Velocity
                                                Rebecca Miller
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                                                Personal Velocity
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                                                  Fitness chain looks to stretch into Armonk.(Velocity Sports Performance Inc) : An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
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                                                    Fitness chain looks to stretch into Armonk.(Velocity Sports Performance Inc) : An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
                                                    Alex Philippidis
                                                    Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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                                                    This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on October 24, 2005. The length of the article is 1043 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: Fitness chain looks to stretch into Armonk.(Velocity Sports Performance Inc)
                                                    Author: Alex Philippidis
                                                    Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
                                                    Date: October 24, 2005
                                                    Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                                    Volume: 44 Issue: 43 Page: 10(2)

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                                                    Mary Kay's Youthful New Line: Velocity.: An article from: Household & Personal Products Industry
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                                                      Mary Kay's Youthful New Line: Velocity.: An article from: Household & Personal Products Industry
                                                      Kerry Pianoforte
                                                      Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc.
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                                                      ASIN: B0008I8NI0
                                                      Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                                                      This digital document is an article from Household & Personal Products Industry, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 574 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: Mary Kay's Youthful New Line: Velocity.
                                                      Author: Kerry Pianoforte
                                                      Publication: Household & Personal Products Industry (Magazine/Journal)
                                                      Date: August 1, 2001
                                                      Publisher: Rodman Publications, Inc.
                                                      Volume: 38 Issue: 8 Page: 135

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                                                      Personal Velocity
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                                                        Personal Velocity
                                                        Rebecca Miller
                                                        Manufacturer: Grove Press
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                                                        ASIN: B000VYL5NQ
                                                        Personal Velocity
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                                                          Personal Velocity
                                                          Rebecca Miller
                                                          Manufacturer: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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                                                          ASIN: B000R9Y0JG

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