The Future of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in European Tourism Faced With Globalization: Budapest, Hungary, 23 and 24 May 2001 (World Tourism Organization Seminar Proceedings)

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This book aims to explain China's development strategy and its underlying forces, and the success of this strategy.

Globalisation, Transition and Development in China; The Case of the Coal Industry (Routledgecurzon Studies on the Chinese Economy)

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Globalisation, Transition and Development in China; The Case of the Coal Industry (Routledgecurzon Studies on the Chinese Economy)
HUAICHUAN RUI
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Binding: Hardcover
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A Guide's Guide Book

A terrific spoof on duck hunting guides

A great book about the humor of duck hunting, great art too

fresh! Informative but entertainingly irreverant too.

Very WEAK!

The Compleat Waterfo(u)wler
B. R. "Buck" Peterson
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1558213910

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From the moral base camp of the Valhalla Lounge deep inside Buck's Duck Lodge and Advanced Plucking Center on Big Babe Lake, B. R. "Buck" Peterson, master-guide-to-all-that-is-wild-in-the-outdoors, and his hunting pig Dorothy provide the latest skinny on calling waterfowl, identifying individual game species such as the rare Jemima Puddle Duck, identifying flight patterns of the Flying Blue-winged Devils, a duck's interpretation of the near-death experience, and measuring trophy ducks using the well-ignored Boom and Crockpot standards system. Also, at great personal and professional risk, Buck pulls the tarpaulin off the canine conspiracy to dominate the retriever world, and guides the serious waterfowler to the advantages of owning a hunting pig.

The Compleat Waterfow(u)ler is Buck's last word on duck hunting, with a little goose on the side. We hope.

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A Guide's Guide Book.......2002-10-28

Being a duck/goose hunting guide, I don't very often read guidebooks but a client gave me a this book for Christmas. I think ol' Buck has spent maybe a little too much time in the blind at times but his book is very funny, especially when he describes why its better to use a pig than a dog as a retriever.

A terrific spoof on duck hunting guides.......1998-10-08

Buck has knocked the stuffing out of the serious stuff about waterfowling. He prefers to hunt with a pig, wonders about the same goofy things all duck hunters do when the birds aren't flying and shows that good humor is key to any enjoyment of a field sport. Buy this book - there are spoofs in this book that will make a serious hunter laugh out loud. My dad did.

A great book about the humor of duck hunting, great art too.......1998-10-01

I have bought this for all my hunting partners and we laugh about it every time we are out. It is a very funny look at a sport that if you step back and look at you might question your sanity. Here is guy that some how gets to the humor of the sport and reminds us not to take it to serious. Now my Yellow Lab is still miffed about the idea of a pig and would like to say a few words if he could type! Lets face it we have all hunted with dogs that were not to smart! I learned a few things form it as itJoe well research and has enough humor to make it a good read. The art work is great too! This is goofy look at a sort of goofy sport. This is the type of guy you would like to spend time in a blind with on slow day! What a laugh.

fresh! Informative but entertainingly irreverant too........1998-09-25

Amidst a sea of similar books I had to scan as part of some research, this one stood out like plant in bloom. I ended up buying it (along with just two others from the shelf) because I laughed out loud at the first page I saw. The idea of developing a pig as one's waterfowling hunting partner was a lovely (if irreverent) touch. It wouldn't know where to put it on a bookstore shelf. It's a legitimate guidebook to the sport. It's also funny enough to be in the humor section. I guess the author's "tongue-in-cheek" humor caused problems for amazon's listers too. He called it a "Compleat Guide to Waterfowling" but added a correction that lets one read "waterfowling" as "waterfouling" as well. There's a guy who's obviously been in more blinds than I ever will ...and who's not afraid to call his dog a pig! (Actually, the more I think about a pig for a gundog, the more I wonder if he's actually done that.) I have the impression that, because of my limited personal experience with waterbird hunting, I actually missed noticing some of the jokes that he has sprinkled throughout his text and illustrations. The indication here at amazon is "out-of-print"; but I found my copies on a bookstore shelf. (One was a "keeper"; the other two were gifts.) I ended up here looking for a similar piece he's apparently done on deer-hunting; but I'm having trouble finding it. (If Mr Peterson or his publisher read this, perhaps one of them will tell me how to get a copy.) Maybe there should be one like it for book-hunting as well!

Very WEAK!.......1998-09-02

This was boring and chaulk full of dumb jokes. Save yourself the grief of having to return it by avoiding it. If you must spend you money on this paperback then be prepared to read a humor book with little information about the sport of duck hunting.

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is an idiosyncratic, well-produced, and relatively cheap introduction to a quintessentially American musical invention. With much of the material consisting of excerpts from other sources, and the lack of an index, the tome seems more like a fluffed-up set of liner notes for the accompanying DVD set and CD series than a book--and that's probably the best way to approach it. The book is loosely constructed around the seven films, and there are great writers involved, including Stanley Booth, Hilton Als, Robert Palmer, Richard Hell, Luc Sante, and Robert Gordon. These selections are for the most part inspired, though one wonders why there's not even one page from Alan Greenberg's brilliant Love in Vain screenplay, or anything from LeRoi Jones' classic Blues People. Unlike similar collections, the book gives real props to gospel-blues pioneer Bind Willie Johnson and rightfully places fife and drum patriarch Othar Turner at the top of the blues pantheon. But very little print is given to political, racial, gender and social issues surrounding the music. Not that one wishes it were some heavy academic tome. But, like the celebrated PBS series itself, an aura of missed opportunity hangs over the entire endeavor. Overall, this book makes a fine gift for casual fans of the music and is recommended for those who really enjoyed the series. --Mike McGonigal

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Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today's most popular sounds owe an incalculable debt to that uniquely American musical creation -- The Blues. But the powerful influence of the blues, with its dramatic, artful storytelling about the elemental experience of being alive, is found in the works of some of our most important literary voices as well.

This volume -- a companion to the groundbreaking seven-part documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues -- represents a literary sampler every bit as vibrant and original and diverse as the films and music that inspired it. Included in this stunning collection are newly commissioned essays by David Halberstam, Hilton Als, Suzan-Lori Parks, Elmore Leonard, Luc Sante, John Edgar Wideman, and others; timeless archival pieces by the likes of Stanley Booth, Paul Oliver, and Mack McCormick; evocative color illustrations and rare vintage photography; illuminating and in-depth conversations and portraits of musicians, ranging from Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith to John Lee Hooker and Eric Clapton; lyrics of legendary blues compositions; personal essays by the series directors Martin Scorsese, Charles Burnett, Richard Pearce, Wim Wenders, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis, and Clint Eastwood; and excerpts from such literary masters as James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and William Faulkner.

The result is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them. In these pages one not only reads about the blues, one hears them, feels them, lives them. Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues is more than a timeless collection of great writing to be savored and shared: it is an unforgettable initiation into the very essence of American music and culture.

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The Blues...........2004-06-23

"The blues - it's kind of like religion, really." - Peter Green

In this companion book to MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY, a PBS/DVD series, numerous music historians and period writers take on the task of capturing the very essence of the genre that gave birth to rock and roll. Peter Guralnick says in his introduction that the purpose of the companion book was to "reflect and refract the spirit of the blues" and to compile "something deeper and more spiritual than a mere recitation of the facts."

Mainstay blues historians such as Christopher John Farley, Peter Guralnick, Alan Lomax, Paul Trynka, and Robert Gordon have their place in the companion book by contributing their biographical and historical research as well as adding some new information to the blues arsenal. Excerpts from Gordon's CAN'T BE SATISFIED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MUDDY WATERS and Trynka's PORTRAIT OF THE BLUES are included alongside new entries such as Christopher John Farley's "Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress?" Present day fiction writers like Suzan Lori-Parks and Toure also offer their contributions on the blues and the legacy it left behind.

While the usual historians are included in the book, there also are many mainstream writers who have come across the blues at times in their lives. Among others, there are excerpts from Ralph Ellison's acclaimed INVISIBLE MAN, James Baldwin's FIRE NEXT TIME, and Faulkner's SOLDIER'S PAY. All of these pieces relate to the blues within their own context, and the result is a first hand account of how the blues have affected many.

The blues is an element of American culture that has spawned the genesis of many things from R&B to rock and roll and everything in between. Although the televised version of Martin Scorsese's chronicle of this genre is excellent and informative in its own right, this book affords an experience that can only be garnered by turning pages, scrutinizing photos, and reading and re-reading the bottom line, which turns out to be the blues.

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Title: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey.(African Music Everywhere)(Book Review)
Author: Edward Komara
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Page: 104(3)

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues A Musical Journey
Peter, et als, eds Guralnick
Manufacturer: Amistad
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OERUI2

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This book defines and analyzes the content, structure, and values of three predominant types of public discourse, which are labeled Doublespeak, Salespeak, and Sensationspeak. These media messages are examined to determine how they are constructed and how they influence individuals, ideology, and culture. Discussions are illustrated with a diverse range of examples from popular culture, magazines, Internet sites, politics, television, and film. Fox argues that the Information Age has replaced actual reality with representations of reality. He states that electronic media dominates our lives. Together, these three voices saturate media and technology, profoundly influencing American culture. Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages. This lively and informative discussion will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how print and electronic media manipulate both individuals and society as a whole. The extensive research will appeal to media, communications, journalism, and cultural studies scholars alike.

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How to Know What They're REALLY Saying!.......2001-01-12

This book is a fascinating read for anyone curious about the ways that language (including both words and images) is being used and abused in society today.

The first part of the book sets out some guidelines for analyzing and interpreting "mediaspeak," using some basic principles from rhetoric, logic, and general semantics, but presenting them in a lively, readable discussion with lots of current examples. This sets the tone of the whole book, as it shows how to "read between the lines" of current media messages and images.

MediaSpeak would be a great textbook for advanced high school or college classes in composition, speech, linguistics, social psychology, applied logic, or cultural studies. Using the methods Fox presents, students could examine the many, MANY examples of "doublespeak," "salespeak," and "sensationspeak" that surround and bombard them every day. Nothing could be more important to citizens in a democracy than the kind of logical literacy that such a study would promote.

I especially like the way the author melds stories-current, historical, and his own personal ones-into a thoughtful yet entertaining mix. For instance, discussing the history of Doublespeak, Fox observes that "by the mid-1700s America's landowning aristocracy mainly feared that those groups they were exploiting the most-the poor whites, the Indians, and the slaves-would somehow unite against them. . . . The ruling class resolved this dilemma by creating a wondrous invention-not liberty and equality, but the language of liberty and equality-not the real thing, but a representation of the real thing. The flaming prose of Thomas Paine and others was perfect for keeping poor whites, Native Americans, and black slaves off the backs of the ruling class. The patricians' patriotic rhetoric galvanized just enough poor whites to fight against Britain." (65)

In addition to such historical background, Fox names and discusses the unexamined assumptions that allow doublespeak to work its magic so effectively on the American psyche, such as a belief in "rugged individualism," "newer is always better," and various questionable myths about technology. In the latter discussion we learn that Microsoft technicians have been instructed not to use the term "bugs" in conjunction with computer malfunctions but to call problems, instead, "known issues, undocumented behaviors, and design side effects." (77) Along the way, Fox cites his own experiences, such as discovering Sartre and Warhol in the Kansas City Public Library, as well as referring to research he has conducted on the effect of TV commercials on school-age children.

MEDIASPEAK, it seems to me, would appeal to any reader who is interested in making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion of our new electronic world. Thumbs Up!

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MediaSpeak: Three American Voices
Roy F Fox
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR2CN2

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The wild life of T.V's Keith Partridge.......2007-06-09

I am a Partridge Family fan, so when I heard that David Cassidy wrote a book about his experiences being Keith Partridge I wanted to read about it.

David Cassidy is very candid about his life. he starts off talking about his childhood as the son of Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward. Then for the majority of the book he goes into the teen/adult years of his life spend having sex with MANY woman and doing alot of drugs. I was not happy because by the title I thought he would spend more time talking about the Partridge Family, but hwe did not. It was an interesting book though, and if you want to know more about David Cassidy this book is for you

Go back in a time-warp and wander around a bit in a strange land that used to be the USA.......2007-05-21

Skimmed over a few chapters of this book while I was re-selling it from a garage sale pick up and it was yet another pretty interesting reminder of how things used to be and how much they've changed and regressed for the worse rather than better, not to mention a somewhat unintentional complete laugh riot in spots.

Despite his teeny-bopper image and music, Cassidy had pretensions to being a real `artist' (hey, at least he put in an effort!) and wants you to know very early on in the book that though the 'coolness' never transferred to his music, he's really the guy-man-dude ultimate hipster of the 60s & 70s, really even more like Hunter S. Thompson in real life than the ten-times-more-talented drug-casualty similarly-shag-haircutted Gram Parsons, going as far back as when he was 17 (Davy-boy's drug-use from the time he was in junior-high is introduced very early on in the book in a very straightforward style, as a way of establishing his `street-credentials' to interest a wider audience that would respond to the marketing device of using the instant drug-connected cultural-pavlov-symbol of the phrase "Fear & Loathing" which he borrowed from Thompson who made it famous but who had himself borrowed it from Kierkergaard). Just to mention one of the more hilariously unabashed boasts of the book. According to Davy boy (nicknamed "the Donk" for his similarity to a Donkey in a certain part of his anatomy), he used to last about 2 minutes with most of the girls he met. Girls who would actually just walk up to him and say "Hi, want to f --- ?" This was BEFORE he made it big on the Partridge family during the now legendary 'summer of love' love-ins. According to him, this had nothing to do with his pretty boy looks and it was not at all unusual. The times were different. Magic was in the air. Well, after the 2-minute boy-wonder soaked up some Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and granted he was having a good trip and not a bum one, he was able to go for 4 to 5 hours. The girl begged him to stop at 2 in the morning and then had to limp home! When he called her later, she thanked him for the most unusual night and said she had a hard time walking. Way to go, Davy boy! The machoest of real rock stars will have a tough time topping that one!

Cassidy went from making 8 million dollars in the 70s, from having more people in his fan club than Elvis to less than a 1000 dollars in his bank account and crashing in the extra room of friends in the mid '80s. Where were all his loyal fans? Did they all move on to Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls? According to him, the studio made over 500 million dollars from merchandising his image alone. Everyone wrote him off and forgot about him. Even his old friend that big hole Don Johnson snubbed him when he was riding high on Miami Vice. When a guy goes from such a total success to such a complete crash, you can't help but KNOW he was blacklisted from the industry for some dark and mysterious reason.

Maybe there will be clues to the mystery in the other bio book he wrote. Good fun read, this one, much more than you would expect from an ex TV star.

I wonder what David Cassidy's life was like.......2007-03-14

I am an long lost David Cassidy fan, lol, 48 now. I saw this book, bought, and read it. I am so sorry to hear of his financial misgivings. I think I could have handled his money better. I don't understand why he didn't get a lawyer to help with his financial affairs. Alas, so goes. Anyway, interesting to learn a teen idol's life isn't all so interesting. I was sorry to read Susan Dey never keeps in contact with him. The part in the book, was silly teen stuff. You'd think she'd grown up and want to keep in touch with old friends. Maybe, she still has a crush on David. Who knows. Interesting book, not recommended for children, written by David Cassidy, himself. Remember, he is writing an autobiography, not Gone With the Wind.

MANY STORIES IN ONE.......2006-10-07

This book is more than the story of a once mega star. It is the story of a heartbreaking father/son relationship. It reveals the struggles of a young artist and well as the madness of becoming a pop icon. It speaks to unfullfilled dreams and achieving the highest level of success, but not in the area/realm that once actually dreamed of. It's about corruption in the entertainment industry and finances mismanaged. It's the story of coming of age in the wild late 60's and 70's with hippies, sex and drugs. It's the story of a television show that will forever be a part of America's history. Reading it, I found myself rooting for Mr. Cassidy to find a lasting and meaningful love interest and a once again successful, though more personally meaningful, career. I also loved that Mr. Cassidy reveals Don Johnson to be the arrogant, shallow person I always assumed him to be. It was nice to learn that Shirley Jones was such a warm and caring person.

I was only 6 years-old when the Partridge Family first aired and I always thought him to be the handsomest of men. I was unaware of his concerts while the show was airing or his fan clubs. I was also unaware that he had written a biography unitl I saw him concert this past Summer. A concert which I learned about more or less by accident. I was mostly interested in seeing that famous smile for old times sake. But I have to say that I was quite impressed with Mr. Cassidy's singing voice and his entertainment capabilities. I have a new view and sense of respect for him. This guy is way more than Keith Partridge (whom I always remembered him as). He can REALLY sing. His life story is a turbulent one and at times a tearfully sad one, but it is also one of ultimate success as a person.

David is Updating his autobiography!!!.......2006-06-11

I have read David's book when it first came out, and loved it! I learned alot about the experiences on and off The Partridge Family set. A definate must-read for any David Cassidy fan.

David Is Updating His Autobiography! David has just signed a book deal with Headline Books in the UK to update his autobiography. The book is due for publication March 5, 2007.

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New to Photoshop Elements? Learn everything you need to know to make your pictures perfect with Absolute Beginner's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. The book covers all aspects of the software (including the new features "borrowed" from the new Photoshop 7), offering you quick and easy explanations on controlling the software for the results you want. Photoshop Elements provides easy access to powerful editing tools and connects users to online output services as well as options for Web and print output. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 shows the beginning user how to maximize all these features and more!

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Tells What You CAN Do But Not How To DO It!.......2003-12-23

I just bought this book at a local Border's yesterday. I figured with the title of the book it would be exactly what I needed since I just got Photoshop Elements 2. However, once I got it home and sat down at my computer with it, I realized it is not helpful at all. It tells you a bunch of neat things you can do with the program, but never tells you HOW to do it. I would recommend the book by Phillip Andrews instead.

Don't buy this book.......2003-08-11

This book is full of "You can easily do..." verbiage with very little "how to" or examples. Anyone who is reasonably familiar with software can click and mouse-over to find out what the buttons do. That's about all the book covers. I wish I could recommend a better book but I'm still searching.

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