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Tourism & Society: A Guide to Problems & Issues
Robert W. Wyllie Manufacturer: Venture Publishing (PA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1892132168 |
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Evaluating Social Funds: A Cross-Country Analysis of Community Investments (Regional and Sectoral Studies)
Laura B. Rawlings , Lynne Darling Sherburne-Benz , and Julie VanDomelen Manufacturer: World Bank Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0821350625 |
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Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. A departure from traditional government-sponsored approaches, social funds encourage communities and local institutions to take the lead in identifying and carrying out small-scale investments, generally in social infrastructure such as schools, health clinics, and small-scale water supply and sanitation. The social fund model has proved to be a dynamic, replicable approach, easily adapted and scaled up in diverse countries around the world. In Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Asia, social funds have now absorbed close to $10 billion in foreign and domestic financing. Despite their popularity, the effectiveness of social funds as a mechanism for improving welfare has remained largely unmeasured. This study is the first systematic cross-country impact evaluation of social funds using survey data and accepted evaluation methodologies. The research, carried out in Armenia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Zambia, addresses four fundamental questions: Do social funds reach poor areas and poor households? Do social funds deliver high-quality, sustainable investments? Do social funds affect living standards? How cost-efficient are social funds and the investments they finance, compared with other delivery mechanisms? The result of important new World Bank research, this book will be of interest to social policy practitioners and analysts, to academics and students of development, and to anyone interested in current thinking on poverty reduction strategies.
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Sorel: Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521559103 |
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Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence (1908) remains a controversial text to this day. It unashamedly advocates the use of violence as a means of putting an end to the corrupt politics of bourgeois democracy and of bringing down capitalism. It is both dangerous and fascinating, of enduring importance and interest to all those concerned about the nature of modern politics. This new student edition of Sorel's classic text is accompanied by notes, chronology, and bibliography, as well as a concise introduction to the context and content of this work.Download Description
Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided inspiration for Marxists and Fascists alike. Developing the ideas of violence, myth and the general strike, Sorel celebrates the heroic action of the proletariat as a means of saving the modern world from decadence and of re-invigorating the capitalist spirit of a timid bourgeoisie. This new edition of Sorel's classic text is accompanied by an editor's introduction by Jeremy Jennings, a leading scholar of political thought, both setting the work in its context and explaining its major themes. A chronology of Sorel's life and a list of further reading are included.Customer Reviews:
Brilliant! .......2007-10-18
A book that influenced our time.......2007-09-09
The power of myths, the importance of choosing wisely.......2003-07-07
Fascinating Museum Piece.......2002-03-08
The book advocates syndicalism (a system in which industrial workers' unions are the vehicles of political power), but it eschews the pseudoscientific rhetoric favored by Marx and Lenin. Sorel is not particularly strong on economics, and he knows it.
What he does know is cultural history and he advocates political rebellion through violence and mythmaking. The book is essentially a broadside against Jaures and the calculative, creeping parliamentary socialism of fin de siecle France. He finds Jaures and his methods to be too meek and compromising. He characterizes parliamentarism (accurately) as a system of endless debate, dealmaking and "selling out". Sorel advocates revolutionary violence as a means to both power and the creation of a new mythic order. He correctly observes that the Jacobins were violent and bloody, yet they managed to create a mythology for the French Revolution which still held a strong cultural resonance in his day.
Direct action, mythmaking and ruthless bloodshed were the means Sorel recommended for revolution. His ideas went largely unacted upon in France, but the anarchosyndicalists of Spain took him quite seriously.
His greatest disciple however, was a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's Fascist movement was based upon direct action and inspired by a myth of a resurgent Roman Empire. Mussolini made explicit reference, again and again, to the importance of myth in revolutionary struggle.
Sorel inadvertently became the prophet of revolutionary Fascism.
Two asides: (a) there is no reason for corporate executives to keep this book by their bedsides - it contains nothing of economic value, and its ideology is thoroughly exhausted and devoid of contemporary relevance; (b) Sorel is one of the few French intellectuals besides Tocqueville who seemed to have a healthy respect for America and the American economic miracle.
Acceptable Violence - ?.......2000-02-14
This book should be required reading of anyone who aspires to a pro-active approach to conditions surrounding work and Labour.
It would be useful for corporate executives and polticians to keep this book permanently by their bedsides.
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Reflections on Violence. Trans. By T.E. Hulme. Intro. By Edward A. Shils
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: Collier Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000J0R8EM |
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Reflections Of Violence
Sorel Manufacturer: Collier Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JFAB46 |
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REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE
SOREL Manufacturer: ALLEN ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S3UFM2 |
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Reflections on Violence
GEORGES SOREL Manufacturer: Collier Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PC95ZO |
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Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: COLLIER-MACMILLAN BOOKS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WE3556 |
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Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: FREE PRESS OF GLENCOE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SN6EV8 |
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Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: FREE PRESS OF GLENCOE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UD95L2 |
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Reflections on Violence. Authorized Trans. By T.E. Hulme.
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: George Allen & Unwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VSCXLK |
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Reflections on Violence. Authorized Trans. By T.E. Hulme.
Georges Sorel Manufacturer: Peter Smith ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0NVKC |
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Amazing but True Bird Tales (Amazing But True)
Mara Bovsun , and Allan Zullo Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0740754971 |
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With estimates by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that over 60 million Americans are birdwatchers-it's the fastest growing outdoor hobby-books on birds have a ready audience. Allan Zullo's newest book, Amazing but True Bird Tales, documents nearly 200 outrageous shenanigans and surprising feats performed by our feathered friends. For example, the mockingbird who snuck into a conservatory evading the staff for two weeks while he dined on over $1,000 worth of rare butterflies. Or the very social chicken who received a lifetime achievement award from the ASPCA for her work with senior citizens and traumatized children. And the humorous account of the fractious parrot who constantly mimicked the sound of a circular saw.
Drawn from factual accounts from the Audubon Society, news accounts from the United States and the United Kingdom, and numerous Web sites, each story further convinces us that these birds aren't birdbrains at all. Zullo's true tales will be irresistible to any birder whether it's the up-before-dawn-binoculars-in-hand fanatic to the person who occasionally throws out their morning toast to enjoy watching the birds gobble it up.
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Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies
George Grove Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0543973220 Release Date: 2001-05-30 |
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by Novello, Ewer and Co., London & New York.Customer Reviews:
Great analyses of Beethoven's symphonies.......2006-03-17
A Classic Of Music Analysis.......2004-01-05
The author's knowledge of the scores of the symphonies is extraordinary. For anyone with more than a passing interest in the symphonies of Beethoven, I can't think of a better book for the money. While it is impossible to name any composer as the greatest, Beethoven must be acknowledged as one of the great architects of musical form and expression. George Grove's book underlines the genius of this composer, and is highly recommended
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Beethoven & His Nine Symphonies
George Grove Manufacturer: NOVELLO & COMPANY LTD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SH8174 |
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BEETHOVEN AND HIS NINE SYMPHONIES
GEORGE GROVE Manufacturer: NOVELLO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S6CVFI |
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BEETHOVEN AND HIS NINE SYMPHONIES
GEORGE GROVE Manufacturer: DOVER ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000SDZ36A |
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Beethoven and his nine symphonies
Pitts Sanborn Manufacturer: Philharmonic-symphony society of New York ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AOQI6 |
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BEETHOVEN AND HIS NINE SYMPHONIES Third Edition
George Grove Manufacturer: Dover ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000SU3NXI |
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Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies.
George GROVE Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MX9H8G |
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Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies. 3rd Edition.
George. Grove Manufacturer: 1962 Dover ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MFJI42 |
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Beethoven: A critical appreciation of Beethoven's nine symphonies and his only opera, Fidelio, with its four overtures
Hector Berlioz Manufacturer: Crescendo Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 087597094X |
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A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies, With a Few Words on His Trios and Sonatas, a Criticism of Fidelio and an Introductory Essay on Music
Hector Berlioz Manufacturer: W. Reeves ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0403015081 |
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Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Nandi Bhatia Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0472112635 |
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How Underdog Was Born
Buck Biggers , and Chet Stover Manufacturer: BearManor Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1593930259 |
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The creators of Total Television, the brains behind Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and many classic cartoons, reveal the origin of one of cartoon's greatest champions - Underdog! From conception to worldwide megahit, the entire story of the birth of Total Television at last closes an important gap in animated television history. Includes * Original sketches for this biography by artist/creator Chet Stover * Unused story ideas for the 25th anniversary Underdog series * Storylines and summaries for The World of Commander McBragg, Underdog, Go Go Gophers, Tennessee Tuxedo, and King Leonardo and His Short Subjects * And more!Customer Reviews:
Good, but Could Have Been Great.......2006-08-15
Total Waste of Time!.......2006-01-04
The Creative Process, History Lesson and Superhero Insights.......2005-01-24
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HOW UNDERDOG WAS BORN
BUCK/ STOVER, CHET BIGGERS Manufacturer: BEARMANOR MEDIA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KVEH80 |
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Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense
Stuart McClure , Saumil Shah , and Shreeraj Shah Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0201761769 |
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Great Book for Web Developers or Administrators.......2005-04-03
Excellent.......2004-09-14
Rehash of basic web technologies.......2004-08-06
If you are responsible for a web site, get this book.......2004-03-29
The general premise of this book is that no one is safe from attack, and if you're not already a victim, that's only a matter your good luck so far. Read this book. Study it carefully. Keep it on the nearest, most convenient bookshelf. New kinds of attacks are being developed all the time. But this book will prepare you for what's out there so far, and give you some insight into the kinds of things to watch for in the future.
Good Overview Of Attacks & Defense.......2003-10-12
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Web Hacking ; Attacks and Defense
Mcclure Stuart Manufacturer: Pearson Education (Singapore) PTE Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8178087847 |
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Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense & Hacking Exposed Web Applications: Web Application Security Secrets and Solutions. (Reviews).(Book Review): An article from: Security Management
Ben Rothke Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FZFH0 Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 344 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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Web Hacking - Attacks and Defense
Shah,Shah, McClure Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OP3R5Q |
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Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense
Stuart Mcclure Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N66SBQ |
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