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Thought Provoking and Inspiring.......2003-01-04

If there was ever a book that inspired me to quit the city job and follow my wildest ambitions, then Lost Lands is it. To take an idea so outrageous and make it happen, despite all the set backs and dangers, makes me believe that anyone can do anything if they put their minds to it.

What started out as the retracing of a historical expedition became something much more intrepid and thought provoking. From the lyrical descriptions of a wild and beautiful country, the insightful and tactful dealing with the plight of our native peoples and the interwoven stories of 3 journeys seperated by time, there was never a dull moment.

Read Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories and be inspired.

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Lost Lands Forgotten Stories a Womans Jo
Alexandra Pratt
Manufacturer: HARPERCOLLINS CANADA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q11S2W

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Forgotten Friends; Why are there no Arab names at Yad Vashem?(Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands)(Book review): An article from: The Weekly Standard
Roger Kaplan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MM0J4I
Release Date: 2007-01-11

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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1737 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: Forgotten Friends; Why are there no Arab names at Yad Vashem?(Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands)(Book review)
Author: Roger Kaplan
Publication: The Weekly Standard (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: NA

Article Type: Book review

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LOST LANDS, FORGOTTEN STORIES
Alexandra PRATT
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PYJ1FG

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Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories
Alexandra Pratt
Manufacturer: Harper Flamingo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UF40LA

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The blockbuster Sit & Solve series spins off to the delight of puzzle lovers on the go. Just like the originals, these portable collections feature the highest-quality brainteasers compiled by the top creators--such as Matt Gaffney, the author of dozens of puzzle books. And with these eye-catching shapes--including a coffee cup, subway, bus, and bagel--a trip to the office will never be the same.

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Thumbs Down.......2007-08-20

I did not like this at all! These are list of things, not quotes or grams as it should be. I would not recommend this to anyone.

Sit & Solve Cryptograms #2 (Sit & Solve Series)

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Won't buy this book

Sit & Solve Cryptograms #2 (Sit & Solve Series)

Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402713096

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These cryptograms, from the National Puzzlers' League, won't be easy because the creators have taken pains to remove the easiest steps usually available to solvers. Regularly occurring articles and conjunctions are gone; the sentences often don't even have the rhythms of ordinary speech. But that will make the reward even sweeter once the answers are found.

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the puzzler.......2005-12-30

I loved Sit & Solve Cryptograms, but I was very disappointed with S&SC#2. The authors were more interested in finding quotes that didn't contain words like "the" than they were in finding interesting and meaningful quotes. Most were just a bunch of jibberish. Also, the font used is very small and close together, making it very difficult to read what you've solved.

Won't buy this book.......2005-01-15

Although I love to do cryptogram puzzles, I won't be buying this or any other book of puzzles with a toilet seat on the cover. For this puzzle-doer, an instant turn-off. Sorry!

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Lots of Fun

Sit & Solve Cryptograms
Leslie Billig
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0806988657

Book Description

Simple substitutions--that's all you have to do to come up with a solution! Just figure out which letter stands for another and you'll be able to read fantastic quotations from famous people. Don't worry, you'll get hints on how to begin and narrow down the choices. Remember that a one-letter word is always A or I, and that in a two-letter word, one must be a vowel. Apostrophes can also eliminate lots of possibilities. Some words--like AND--occur over and over, so look out for them. Keep an eye out for -ed, -ing, and -tion endings, too. In every cryptogram the code is consistent, but it does change from puzzle to puzzle. So, now you know how to go.give this a shot!

AV KVS SCI PVFS PVUDKY PVPIKSF VM VTG BDUIF MDKA TF RDSCVTS RVGAF?
--PJGZIB PJGZIJT
Answer:
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?--Marcel Marceau

Customer Reviews:

Lots of Fun.......2005-12-30

If you love cryptograms you'll love this book! Each cryptogram was a quote by a famous person. The letter spacing was perfect making it easy to read and solve. Each puzzle provides one clue. If you're diligent you shouldn't need the clues. Only one draw back, the author should not have put the clue pages next to the answer pages. Every once in a while I'd go to the answer instead of the clue. This was a bit frustrating.

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Sit and Solve Cryptograms
Leslie Billig
Manufacturer: ANOVA (CHRYSALIS)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K4MHJS

Book Description

Who can resist two people who can't resist —or can't stand— each other? The history of film is dominated by movies in which romantic and platonic pairings provide drama, mystery, comedy, and distraction from life's less romantic realities. From the beginning of cinema to the present day, "Happy Together" looks at forty-five of the most memorable movie couples and duos in an amusing and colorful collection of images and text.

Happy Together : Hollywood's Unforgettable Couples

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Happy Together : Hollywood's Unforgettable Couples
Sabine; Engelmeier, Peter W. (editor) Behrends
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLSLHO

Book Description

“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...”

Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.

Decoding the Bullshit: A Few Choice Phrases

•astroturfing: the fabrication of phony grassroots concern by PR firms

•Capra-corny: see Tom DeLay’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington spin on his conversion to politics from his previous calling (bug murderer)

•increased productivity: business-speak for getting rid of the people who produce things

•kakistocracy: government by the worst citizens; see also plutocracy, Republican Revolution

•the Lady Hal: the recorded female voice that says things like “Your call is important to us”

•think-of-the-childrenism: the ultimate equal-opportunity piety; see No Child Left Behind Act

•The War on Some Drugs: the prohibition of venerable old substances for the benefit of the manufacturers of newfangled patented ones

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant, Funny, Clever, and, Sadly, Deadly Accurate.......2007-10-01

One of the many unarguable observations here concerns how pathetically easily "we," as what's left of a nation, are, these days, cajoled into supporting the very cause which is sinking us. Genuinely sad, if predictable, to see the one-star review folks crawl out from under their Limbaugh rocks just long enough to type their little starry-eyed drivel condemnations. Substitute "I'm right, dammit, and I won't be shown otherwise" for each of their comments, and move on to the thoughtful reviews. This is an uncommonly sharp little volume focusing on the dupers and the duped who combine with such effect and regularity these days to diminish our once great country and dangle over our--and our children's--heads the very real prospect of forever losing what was good. Ms. Penny is a terrific--and terrifically well informed--writer of great perception and delightful style, who makes me laugh out loud not infrequently. This ability and approach helps greatly when taking on a subject guaranteed to make the reader want to shriek. Five stars only because the choice of a sixth is not offered. A brilliant, clear, horrifying, funny and eminently readable book on an absolutely essential subject. Write on, Ms. Penny. I'll be waiting.

Great Book, An Eye Opener!.......2007-01-03

Penny's book is a great eye-opener. While works like these aren't great literature, they are great in being recent and refreshingly common-sense. Laura Penny makes no bones about being a "leftie" but she is more common sensical than hippie-dippie, and boy does Western culture need a massive dose of that.
The book just totally reinforced the world-changing words my cousin told me years and years ago: "Don't watch TV. TV is a wasteland." I realized he was right, and with this hyper consumer culture we live in today he remains right.
A great commentary on the bankrupt/vapid times we live in. I now dislike Wal-Mart even more. Great, great book!!!

good book.......2006-05-30

a good, easy read on the subject of corruption, greed and exploitation. if you're new to the subject, this is a worthwhile investment. but if you are aware of how we are being exploited by corporations and government, the book offers nothing new. different singers, same song. there can always be books written on the injustices of political/corporate greed and power. ms. penny does acknowledge she has no solutions to the problems. maybe at this stage of the game, there isn't. i hate to be cynical, but i don't see anything that will bring balance to a culture and society so out of balance. i recommend the book if you're not familiar with the topics, otherwise, skip it because you've heard it all before.

"Just because you're paranoid...".......2006-02-04

"... it doesn't mean that they're not after you", the saying goes.

This seems like an appropriate sentence to go with this book, particularly considering some of the less positive reviews it received. Meaning: yes, Laura Penny might seem brash, offensive, even ideologically biased (who isn't?) - but that doesn't mean that any of her contentions and arguments are false.

Quite the opposite. Her book is a refreshing incursion into modern Western societies (with the U.S.A. in the foreground, something which seems to offend some people - though a hegemonic and imperialistic nation should hardly be expected NOT to be the centre of attention and criticism at shaky times).
Claiming that most (if not all) of the supposed information delivered to us via the media, politicians/government, big corporations, institutions and bureaucracies, is a distortion of reality - and therefore a blunt attempt to bull***t the public, - Laura Penny proposes to look at what is happening behind the glitzy appearances and fancy speeches. She succeeds to do this with elegance, wit, and a straightforward discourse that clearly contrasts with the bogus messages and ideology she is criticizing.

Penny calls our attention to the unbelievable amount of bull***t we are confronted with every day, to the point that reality tends to be obliterated by a sham surface of propaganda slogans. An important distinction is drawn between lying and bull***ting: while the first is a clear falsification, the latter is a "mere" twisting of facts - whereby unimportant bits of information get blown out of proportion and the actual relevant issues are buried under heaps of platitudes or incomprehensible verbosity. However, because this distortion is so ubiquitous these days (in fact, the author convincingly argues that never before have we been so overwhelmed by fibs and hoaxes, hypocrisy and swindles), our reactions range from annoyed incredulity to sheer indifference, but rarely ever is there an outcry of indignation. Which is understandable, since even concern and indignation have been successfully appropriated by groups or institutions with dubious interests, so that many people (particularly the young) end up simply sneering with suspicion at everyone and everything.

Penny's book goes on to show how this is connected with socio-economic developments of the past decades. She explores the causal relations between the rise of monopolistic mega-corporations, government policies supporting the interests of those corporations, and the (mostly somewhat negative) effects of this on employment, living conditions, consumption, information and entertainment in North America. In the end, we have here another depiction of the impact of globalized capitalism and neo-liberal politics on everyday life. In the several chapters of her book, Penny looks at the appearances promoted by advertisers, PRs, CEOs, broker dealers and banks, pharmaceutics and health industries, insurance companies, government officials, the so-called service industry (particularly retailers and call centres), advertinfotainers (or whatever one is supposed to call the news media these days) and even academe, - repeatedly (and very amusingly) contrasting them with the more crude reality of their actions and implicit interests. The end-result is an informative and well-founded confirmation of many people's discontents (with references to a great number of websites, articles and books to support the data and statistics).

Of course, none of this is really new - and the author is the first to recognize that her topic is all but a "revelation" to most readers. However, Penny insists on pinpointing the sheer absurdity of most current events, campaigns and slogans, not for the sake of simply complaining, but to actually prove how deeply some actions and words end up affecting people. And how much those same actions and words are in contradiction with the (really somewhat idealistic) supposed principles of democracy and enlightenment.

Ah, well. Here we go again. The point being: yes, we all know (or at least secretly suspect) that we are being misinformed and cheated more often than not - but who cares? And if someone does care, so what?

Penny certainly gets excited every now and then - but her writing talent saves her from drowning in self-pity or reprimanding. She is mostly able to overcome that with humorous remarks and endearing self-mockery. In that sense, her cynicism appears to me more rewarding than Michael Moore or Naomi Klein, who easily become boringly moralistic or idealistic. Penny promises no revolution. She doesn't even have many demands.
Sure, she doesn't make a secret of her humanistic ideals and leftish leanings, which might be to her own disadvantage in the end - after all, the world really hasn't been as "humane" as most of us would expect. Ever. Most things happening to our species (now globally, so we're all in it together - including the CEO in his neat and expensive Manhattan penthouse, breathing in all the smog and worrying about his money) are actually rather discouraging.

But we ARE constantly being promised "paradise on Earth" - at least for the past 200 years or so. In fact, now more than ever we are surrounded by millions of messages promoting bigger, better, brighter, faster, safer, nicer everything - even though unemployment or (at best) underemployment rates are shooting up in the West, millions of people and entire nations are appallingly indebted, health and living conditions in the supposedly "affluent" West are steadily declining, the planet's environment is in a shambles, and "terror" is looming from every corner of the world. No wonder some of us are beginning to feel resentful!

In the end, Penny invites her readers to openly admit the bull***t they are surrounded by, but also to laugh about it, and to become a conscious crank - which is to say: "if others can endlessly spread around so much humbug, why shouldn't YOU, friend and neighbour, go ahead and grumble about it?"
All in all, this book may become a consoling companion for those who feel disturbed enough by what they see and hear and experience - but don't necessarily have much hope or faith in overwhelming solutions. Particularly when so many "solutions" being sold to us turn out to be... just more bull***t.

I know Lewis Black and your no Lewis Black.......2006-01-12

As an obvious fan of Tomas Pain, the author is no Tomas Pain either. She rants on a scholarly level then recedes back to teenage speak: like, you know, totally. This is a book with a thinly veiled premise of Dr. Harry Frankfurt "ON BS" but it turns out to be a political rant on the United States by a Canadian. It is painfully evident that the author has no business or political training other than from The Daily Show.
She does, however, briefly mention that the Canadian government does some BS things but it is apparently more fun to drone on about the US. She would have benefited from a facts checker. Maybe this book was supposed to be in the spirit of Lewis Black but it fails from the start. It was neither funny nor very entertaining and riddled with half truths and far reaching facts. She comes across as just being bitc**y. But then this was a book about Bull****. What you see is what you get, BS.

Your Call Is Important to Us : The Truth about Bullshit

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Your Call Is Important to Us : The Truth about Bullshit
Laura Penny
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PB64YA

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Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
Laura Penny
Manufacturer: CROWN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLMVHA

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Great Book for SAP Workflow

Sharpen your workflow skills

Very Good!

Excellent cook book for professionals

really a good book you will be happy to buy ..I'm not the author...

Practical Workflow for SAP - Effective Business Processes using SAP's WebFlow Engine
Alan Rickayzen , Jocelyn Dart , Carsten Brennecke , and Markus Schneider
Manufacturer: Galileo Pr Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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Workflow Management with SAP® WebFlow®: A Practical Manual

ASIN: 159229006X

Book Description

In addition to giving you in-depth knowledge of the standard features of the WebFlow Engine, this explains all of the new Internet-based possibilities. It also shows you how process management fits into your organization and helps you improve the speed, quality, and consistency of everyday business proceses.

You will learn how to deploy and extend SAP workflows, create your own, and make your project a success. Of particular interest is the use of new technologies such as XML messaging as well as the insight you gain into the use of workflows in mySAP.com (for example, mySAP SRM and mySAP CRM). Additional tips and tricks, checklists, guidelines for administrators, custom programs, and debugging techniques make this book an indispensable reference for everyday use.

Key topics include...

- Setting up an SAP Workflow
- Agent Assignment
- Workflow Administration
- E-Process Interfaces
- Using Forms
- Custom Programs

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Great Book for SAP Workflow.......2007-05-07

This is the Book for those who wanted to learn SAP workflow..
This Book is very usefull and it is right choice for beginner's. Overall i am satisfied.

Sharpen your workflow skills.......2007-02-17

This book is very detailed, and is a good offline reference, however with 16 years SAP experience I felt the book laboured theory and lacked examples. SAP workflow is an area in which I have seen many a seasoned sapper struggle and remains to date under utilised in even the broadest implementations. After reading once I do not expect to use this book as a reference as the content is available trawling SAP help.

Very Good!.......2006-05-08

This book was an excellent read - It really helped me in understanding a lot of the basics as well as solving difficult problems later on... If you want a "Workflow Bible" this is the book!

Excellent cook book for professionals.......2006-03-09

Certainly the book is not for beginners. But it was a real help in my recent practical work. Lots of tips and tricks. Highly recommended for the SAP Workflow consultant desktop.

really a good book you will be happy to buy ..I'm not the author..........2006-02-11

This book gives a really great help in understanding the architecture of Sap Workflow and its development.
In addition it really helped me on the field whe I was to fix a difficult technical problem on a workflow implemented by other people giving to me all the escalation steps to find what it was wrong in that case.

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