Kibbutz Volunteer, 7th (Kibbutz Volunteer)

Book Description

A working stay on a kibbutz in Israel has long been one of the classic stopovers for the working traveller. This unique guide to kibbutz life gives their historical background and lists comprehensive details of 200 kibbutzim including the types of work available, working hours, leisure activities, facilities and how to apply whether in advance or on the spot; it also conveys the special atmosphere of these unique working communities.
Kibbutz Volunteer also covers the other short term work to be found in Israel, both paid and unpaid, including working stays on Moshavim, voluntary conservation work, joining archaeological digs, fruit picking, jobs in the tourist industry at Eilat and other resorts, au pair and hotel work etc. In addition the book includes a detailed visitor's guide to Israel giving all the information a visitor needs from entry and visa regulations to where to stay, the main sites to visit, how to travel, beaches, bargaining, etc.

Customer Reviews:

THE resource for kibbutz volunteer work........2000-05-03

A great book! Packed full of great information for planning volunteer duty in Israel. I am planning my trip with a full understanding of the culture and facts of kibbutz lifestyle, all based on what I learned from the book. I highly recomend this book to any one planning on spending time in the middle east!

the definative kibbutz guide.......1999-10-23

thinking about kibbutz? this is the book to get

one of the best books on kibbutz volunteerism........1998-02-06

gives a great overview on what to expect on any particular kibbutz you've been thinking about volunteering on.

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When contrasted with their dramatic strike victories of 1972 and 1974, the shattering industrial defeat suffered by British miners in 1985 has been seen as evidence of the further weakening of working-class solidarity. Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 brought the miners substantial material gains, contributed to the downfall of a government, and reinforced the National Union of Mineworkers' position at the core of the British labour movement. In contrast, 1984-85 saw the miners racked by internal division, and their attempt to resist the pit closure programme of the Thatcher government end in bitter defeat.

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This kit is packed with the tools and easy-to-implement insight needed to invigorate one of the most neglected parts of the body'tired and aching feet. Includes pumice stone, toe spacers, red nail polish, and foot cream.

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Major Proofreading Error.......2007-03-23

This thing should be called "Pedicure (5 Cents)".

This is the first time I've ordered something online and wanted to seriously hurt someone after receiving it: and I'm a Buddhist.

Its a little jewelry box w/ some kiddie pedicure items followed by a few pages of recipes for foot care recommendations (e.g. soak feet in cayenne pepper, don't wear same shoes twice per day, a few scrub concoctions) you can find online faster than I've typed this review.

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Great standard!

Excellent Service

Very useful and not boring!

TIMELESS VALUE

This book is awesome

Melodious Etudes for Trombone Book 1

Manufacturer: Carl Fischer Music Dist
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Melodious Etudes for Trombone

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Art of Trombone Playing (Art of)

Jazz Solo Series for Trombone (Book/Audio CD)

ASIN: 0825801494

Book Description

Marco Bordogni (1788-1856), a celebrated tenor of the 19th Century, wrote these vocalizes during his later career as a voice teacher. Transcribed and adapted by Joannes Rochut in three books, these became the cornerstone of the trombone repertoire. Book one offers the trombone student the first sixty etudes in the series and promotes musicianship, flexibility and technique. A must for all trombone students!

Customer Reviews:

Great standard!.......2005-11-01

Few lesson books carry this much use! I've been using this to help students for quite some time. A great buy.

Excellent Service.......2005-10-29

We received the book in excellent condition in an expected timeframe. Thanks for the wonderful service. Janis Pressley

Very useful and not boring!.......2005-08-10

This book teaches great technique, particular tonguing, but my favorite part of the book is the studies sound great when played correctly and it is not monotonous like other books.

TIMELESS VALUE.......2005-08-04

I have purchased this series [3] three times over the past 40 years because there just isn't any better way to sharpen your legato tonguing technique and improve your artistry. Did I mention that these etudes just plain sound great when played well. Some things are classics and this book of melodious etudes is surely one of them. By the way, I did not misplace them, I repurchased them [twice] after literally wearing them out.

This book is awesome.......2002-04-30

This book helps trombonists work on their tone, their legato tounging, sight reading, and playing in general. There is always a new etude to play and when you are done there is another on the next page!

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Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Book 1
Selections from the Vocalises of Marco Bordogni
Manufacturer: Carl Fischer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VB30IC

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Nearly essential for Elvis fans.......2001-03-23

This book has several very interesting photos through the years...most, I've never even seen anywhere else; very, very little repetition to other books. Rare photos in the blue '70 jumpsuit with oriental trim, a rare photo in the white '69 karate gi, excellent photo in his '72 Conquistador suit, one of the best pics in the Burning Love red suit, Elvis in his funky western style mod cowboy garb (arriving in Houston for shows at the Dome in '70) etc. etc. Also has by far the best detailed photos I've ever seen of the orange target, bear claw, and aloha suits on display. Very neat room to room Gracelend pics. What a find. I absolutely love this book, among the best values around, too. Long live the King.

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Sicilian : Lasker-Pelikan
Robert Graham ; Boackstock, Povah L. S. Wade
Manufacturer: B. T. Batsford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MFT5CC

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Sicilian Lasker-Pelikan
Robert Wade
Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0713416343

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A historic piece of magnificent understanding and chess wit.

The Sicilian Pelikan (Macmillan Chess Library)
Evgenny Sveshnikov
Manufacturer: Collier Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0020298218

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A historic piece of magnificent understanding and chess wit........1999-03-09

After having played the Sveshnikov variation since 1980, I finally came across this book a few months ago. It didn't look much at first. The binding is tacky, typographically so-so. It had its fair portion of wear and tear as well. If the sayings about judging a book by its cover etc were all gobbledegook they are true now. It turned out to be an incredible work of knowledge, far exceeding any other book on openings in historical value. The way Evgeny Sveshnikov searches for truth in dazzling variations, never losing sight of the big picture, is most instructive. This book is obviously the fruit of enormous creativity, hard work, and a large dosis of perfectionism. If anybody is thinking about a reprint and thinks I may be of help, contact me by e-mail. I think this is the best opening book in existence and it will stand out in chess history.

Developments in the Sicilian Keres Attack: 1981-86

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Developments in the Sicilian Keres Attack: 1981-86
Robert G. Wade , and Les Smart
Manufacturer: Makluk Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000W4477G

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SOFT COVER STAPLED PAMPHLET. B&W diagrams. Indexed. 100 selected games.

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The Sicilian Pelikan

Manufacturer: Collier Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0713455640

Sicilian, Lasker-Pelikan (Batsford algebraic chess openings)

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Sicilian, Lasker-Pelikan (Batsford algebraic chess openings)

Manufacturer: Batsford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0713416335

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects
This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available
Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development
Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions
U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects
This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available
Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development
Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions
U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems

Customer Reviews:

Waste of time and money.......2007-08-30

I actually took the time to find this title on Amazon just to write a review (and hopefully save people money).

I'm not a professional designer, I'm not even a very good hobbyist designer.
I only know what I need to know to get the result I want on the page.
So I figured it might be time to actually understand what I'm doing and not copy and alter existing code, and this is the first book on CSS I read.
And it was not at all helpful.
I learned a lot more from occasionally googling to an online free tutorial, and looking at the source code of free CSS templates that I liked.

This book is a very basic intro into CSS, pretty much only targeted to IE users (because, who uses anything else, right?! *hmpf!*) and I really struggle to try and find something nice to say about it after plowing through it all for 4 hours.

And if you're using Dreamweaver this whole book can be summarized in 5 pages
(or heck, let me try 1 line: open the CSS Rule definition box, adjust the value, and see what it does).

This book did not explain things clearly, and there was a lot of useless information to sift through.
For example: who on earth would want to use those very very ugly default image borders/bullets/horizontal lines in the first place (and the book says nothing at all about customizing those, which I think should be possible with CSS?? )

Also I really want to mention the website layout/design samples in the book,
text over a too busy background so that it becomes very hard to read: Bad!!

So, in short, stay away from this one, even if you can get it for free you're wasting your time.

Poor explanations; instructions violate fundamental CSS concepts........2007-06-09

This is, perhaps, the worst instructional web design text I have ever come across. I came across a copy for free but I still paid too much.

I am familiar with CSS but for the reader that this book is clearly aimed toward, this text would be a disaster for several reasons:

Explanations of basic concepts are unclear and sometimes appear to trail off in the middle of a concept. (See "Controlling Layout with Offsetting", for example.)

Extremely "un-sound" advice is given, such as using descriptive words for colors rather than hex codes (called a "bizarre RGB equivalant" Whaaa?").

The book is about CSS. About cascading style sheets, that is, standards compliant design, and yet at every turn the author is advising the reader to use proprietary code. One of the most central issues of web design is the awareness of the number of different browsers used and cross-platform issues, and yet at every turn the author seems to be portraying a web where everyone uses IE and where IE is some kind of gold standard of how a browser should behave (cough). This flies in the face of the entire basis of CSS.

I saved the best for last, the part where my eyes nearly fell out of my head, page 79, and I quote: "But my advice is to just assume that pretty much everyone who'll see your Web page uses IE. Why? Because most everyone *does* use IE.

Where can I go from that? I have never felt so compelled to write a review. For the experienced designer, the book is funny enough to laugh about over lunch. For the novice designer taking this as a source of reliable information, the book is an unmitigated disaster. Stay away.

Pretty easy Intro to CSS.......2007-03-26

This book is pretty good for getting you introduced to CSS. It makes it fairly easy and fun. I started building my new web site just before I started reading this book and I used the info in it to add CSS features. It helps a lot to learn CSS if you practice it on your own web page while you're learning. Some of the code has errors in it, which took me a few minutes to figure out and fix. If you're smart, you should be able to figure it out without too much problem. If the author makes fun of W3C, he's probably right. I heard from other sources that the W3C is much too academic and too slow and uncaring to keep up with the needs of the real world. I guess the thing I like the most about this book is that it lets me start using CSS features without getting bogged down into a huge long learning ordeal. I don't have months to learn CSS. I need to know it right away. It might not be perfect, but it works for me. I test my code in IE7, Firefox, Homesite, and Dreamweaver. If it looks correct in all four of those, then it's good enough as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I would be more critical of this book if I paid for it, but I got it for free :)

Generally bad.......2007-02-12

This book does not live up to the typical well thought-out insightful new user tutorial that most of the other Dummies Tech books have established. I've read the Javascript, Ajax, Wireless Networking and various other dummies books and I was impressed. Most of the authors in those books referenced other OS's, mentioning at least differences and possible ways to work around incompatibility.

This author blatantly ignores the growing number of people who prefer secure browsers being developed by the open source community. Possibly the most annoying thing is the statement (without reference) that 95% of all people on the internet use Microsoft IE. Which is interesting because the author also references lots of people using things which are not MSIE (cell phones, PDA's, etc).

If you want to start into CSS, you probably know some HTML or JavaScript already, just go to the W3C website and download the references.

Read it don't skim it!.......2006-11-12

Up until page 49 you're not dealing with multiple declarations or even writing your own code yet.

Page 49 states:
"The things to remember when using multiple declarations is to separate them with semicolons. Spaces are simply ignored by CSS here, so you can't count on a space as a way of separating declarations from each other.

Many other computer book authors don't bother with the final semicolon, leaving it off just before the closing brace."

Remember this book is aimed at a targeted audience. Dummies. Most people browse with IE because it's there. This book deals with most people. People that use IE.

This book deals with people that don't care about mozilla, netscape, and all the other browsers out there. People that just want to start with an easy foundation.

If you are looking for a simple starting place for CSS then this is the book for you. The author doesn't completely ignore other browsers he actually tells you what code may not work with other browsers. The same goes for code that works in other browsers but not in IE. He gives you a great starting point for CSS. Once you get the hang of CSS upgrade to a book not designed for dummies that cares about all the little browsers and compatibility issues.

By the way... EVERY code in this book works. You need to read the part that states "this code assumes that you have a graphics file called (file name), If not substitute another graphics file and name it (file name) so the following code will work."
You people need to READ the book rather then skimming it!

Once again this book is for the basic css dummy that only cares about the browser on the computer purchased from the store.

-Rob

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CSS Web Design for Dummies

Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS (TWLD)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GS9FFW

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CSS Web Design for Dummies

Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1417676736

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