An Integrated Approach to Resort Development: Six Case Studies (A Tourism and the Environment Publication)

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This volume presents recent developments in urban geography, club theory and local public finance, and international trade that contribute to the explanation of the modern opposing trends of integration and segregation. Part I explores the role of transportation costs, crowding, and preferences for a large variety of goods in shaping the main features of urban geography. Part II contains four contributions on fundamental issues associated with the provision of collective goods (club goods and local public goods) using a game-theoretic approach. Part III investigates features of the production, pricing, and consumption of congested public goods. Part IV covers key tax issues arising in a world where economic borders are gradually being removed.

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Worldwide obesity rates have skyrocketed in recent years, particularly in the United States where two-thirds of the population is classified as obese. The authors of this anthology debate the causes and seriousness of the obesity epidemic, consider where responsibility for obesity lies, and discuss ways to reduce it.

Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints - Civil Liberties (Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints)

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The 2001 USA Patriot Act is a recent example of how free societies constantly struggle to balance civil liberties with other concerns, such as national security. This timely anthology will introduce students to the heated debate that surrounds this controversial topic.

Opposing Viewpoints Series - The Family (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)

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Opposing Viewpoints Series - The Family (paperback edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)

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In this anthology, authors examine the state of the family. Issues discussed include marriage and divorce, alternative families, adoption, and family policies.

How Does Work Affect Family? (Chapter 4 from Male/Female Roles- in Opposing Viewpoints) (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)

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How Does Work Affect the Family Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)

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How Does Work Affect the Family Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)

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Opposing Viewpoints Series - Work (hardcover edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)

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Opposing Viewpoints Series - Work (hardcover edition) (Opposing Viewpoints Series)

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The American economy has undergone a rapid transformation in recent years brought on by the technology revolution, the Internet, and globalization. Contributors debate the impact of these changes on workers in the following chapters: How Should the U.S. Workforce Be Educated? Should the Government Intervene in the Job Market? What Role Should Labor Unions Play in the Workplace? How Should Equality in the Workplace Be Achieved?

Religion and Human Experience: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing viewpoints series)

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Religion and Human Experience: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing viewpoints series)

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Will the Information Revolution Transform Work?

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Will the Information Revolution Transform Work?
Opposing Viewpoints
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Work: Opposing Viewpoints
Scott Barbour , and Karin L. Swisher
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Legal System (Opposing Viewpoints)

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Shelley II :The middle of my century

Bravo Shelley

INDOMITABLE STAR CAN REALLY WRITE.

Shelley II: The Middle of My Century
Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0671442104

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Shelley II :The middle of my century.......2005-02-16

I absolutely loved this book. Shelley tells her wild and crazy story of an actor's life in the 1950's. This includes the intense and gratifying work of being an actress and the world famous people she worked with, socialized, lived with and loved. I can say that there is drama, tragedy, humor and love on almost every page. What an exciting life she lived and she's still a young beautiful woman at the end of this book. Buy this book today!!!

Bravo Shelley.......2003-08-17

I liked this even more then the firt memory book.
It makes a light on all of a period and point of view, I do like to read about words different of mine.
She is (was?) a hard worker, a survivor, and as she recognises in her book not always a nice person to be with. But I like her and was very interested in how she sees the world.

INDOMITABLE STAR CAN REALLY WRITE........2003-05-08

Though it can be argued that Shelley Winters has assisted in creating her own legend (her ego is the real star of both highly entertaining autobiographies), there is a real flair to her writing and her memory for details (even allowing for the usual embellishment) is impressive. Her place in cinema is probably in question; two Oscars was a bit generous and her seeming insistence that she deserved to win Best Actress for "A Place in the Sun" over Vivien Leigh's Blanche in "Streetcar" is merely laughable today. But she did produce an impressive body of work (and relationships) on screen and stage and deserves credit for being larger than life, a trait that some actress of today could take a lesson from. Ms. Winters takes pride in her work and the craft of acting, which is to also be applauded, and she never paints herself in an angelic light when not appropriate. Overall, these are among the very finest autobiographies of any kind, celebrity or non-. Is it too much to hope for a third act to these treasured volumes?

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SHELLEY 2 THE MIDDLE OF MY CENTURY

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Shelley II : Middle of My Century

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Shelley II: Middle of My Century
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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters
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Shelley II: The Middle of My Century
Shelley Winters
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Combining a high-spirited history of country music's roots with vivid portraits of its principal performers, Don't Get above Your Raisin' examines the close relationship between "America's truest music" and the working-class culture that has constituted its principal source, nurtured its development, and provided its most dedicated supporters.

Widely recognized as country music's ranking senior authority, Bill C. Malone explores how the music's defining themes (home and family, religion, rambling, frolic, humor, and politics) have emerged out of the particularities of working people's day-to-day lives. He traces the many contradictory voices and messages of a music that simultaneously extols the virtues of home and the joys of rambling, the assurances of the Christian life and the ecstasies of hedonism, the strength of working-class life and the material lure of middle-class aspirations. The resulting tensions, Malone argues, are a principal source of the music's enduring appeal.

Country musicians have often been people from undistinguished blue-collar backgrounds who have tried to make their way as entertainers in a society that has little respect for the working class. From this ambivalent position, they have voiced the sometimes contradictory values and longings of their culture while also attempting to fulfill the romantic expectations of outsiders.

"For every Garth Brooks," Malone says, "there are a thousand country musicians who perform in local bars, taverns, and American Legion halls and who have never been able to Ôgive up their day jobs.' These are musicians whose middle-class dreams are tempered by working-class realities." A powerful and honest expression of the hopes, longings, frailties, and failings of ordinary people, country music increasingly resonates with listeners beyond its core constituency as they struggle with a complex and uncertain world.

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A brilliant, beautiful work.......2002-03-11

Mr. Malone, whose long and distinguished career has secured him a place as the world's foremost country music historian, has once again hit one straight out of the park. Rich with both remarkable detail and cogent analysis, the book is a tresure for anyone who cares about country/bluegrass, roots music, or the general American experience. Truly an outstanding work.

Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Michael T. Bertrand
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 671 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: Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class.(Book Review)
Author: Michael T. Bertrand
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
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Volume: 69 Issue: 4 Page: 996(2)

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Don't get above your raisin': in country music the greatest sins are pretense and snobbery. (Culture). (book review) : An article from: Sojourners

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Don't get above your raisin': in country music the greatest sins are pretense and snobbery. (Culture). (book review) : An article from: Sojourners
Danny Duncan Collum
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This digital document is an article from Sojourners, published by Sojourners on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 756 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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Don't Get above Your Raisin' Country Music and the Southern Working Class

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Don't Get above Your Raisin' Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Bill C. Malone
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Bill C. Malone
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This fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions, as well as our entertainment and recreation, are based on the visual experience. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, this book argues that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.

Introduction to Visual Culture: A Curriculum Developed for AD 101

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Introduction to Visual Culture: A Curriculum Developed for AD 101

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A MUST FOR ANY FLINTSTONES FAN.......2006-02-02

This book is a must for any major fan of The Flintstones.Everything you want to know about the series is all here.Including"The Honeymooners"take off controversy.Plus all kind of colourful pictures of Fred,Wilma,Barney,Betty and the rest of their clan.Not to mention a complete episode guide of the original 1960s prime time series that started it all.

A page right out of history!

A satisfying bronto-burger, not a steak........2004-01-14

People who are already quite familiar with Hanna-Barbera and the genesis of The Flintstones will probably not find this book very interesting. However, aficionados and students of animation who have not already studied the cartoon will certainly find the book interesting, though perhaps a bit insubstantial. On a positive note, the book touches on every aspect of the show: conceptual development, character animation, background art, music, voice acting, producing issues, and all the major contributors (including reminiscences from several of them). Memorabilia collectors will like the second half of the book, which includes descriptions and color photos of an amazing volume of Flintstone kitsch. (It's hard to believe anyone would have bought some of these things when they originally hit the market - like the gruesome Fred and Wilma hand puppets or the Tiki-like statuettes of what are probably intended to be Fred and Barney.) And, happily for practicing animators and students, it includes a couple revealing reproductions of Ed Benedict's character animation notes; a number of illustrations that depict the evolution of the characters in pre-production; and a page of storyboard illustrations. However, there's really only enough technical material here to whet the curious reader's appetite for a meatier exploration of the character animation, music scoring and story writing, each of which, in my opinion, attained to a degree of brilliance. The book also suffers from a lack of critical analysis. The unfortunate introduction of the Gazoo character, for example, is not even addressed. (I'm sure I'm not alone among fans, writers and critics in viewing this development as a strategic error, a poor attempt to breathe more life into the show after the first season.)

In many respects The Flintstones was very innovative (it was the first cartoon sitcom), clever and polished, and it really deserves a deeper treatment than this or any other book has given it. Nevertheless, fans should get a copy of this book, along with _Hanna Barbera Cartoons_ or the out-of-print _Art of Hanna Barbera_. For more on William Hanna and Joe Barbera, check out their respective autobiographies, _A Cast of Friends_ and _My Life in Toons_.

Finally, Betty Rubble gets a little well-deserved attention!.......2002-06-10

No matter who your favorite Flintstone character is (for me, it's Betty Rubble nee McBricker...but Baby Puss is underrated and underused, too!), you will find him/her in this wonderfully illustrated book---no Flintstones fan should be without it. A treasure for your collection and a tribute to the enduring appeal of the Hanna Barbera Bedrock denizens. Nostalgia never looked so good! And since you won't find it even in this book, here are the "unknown" lyrics to the SECOND verse of the FLINTSTONES theme song...hum the melody and give it a go!
"Rubbles! Meet the Rubbles! They're the other stone-age fam-i-ly! Barney! And his Betty! They're as neighborly as they can be! (Barney sings:) Barney, I'm Fred's bosom buddy friend! (Betty sings:) As long, as he has a buck to lend! When you're with the Rubbles, have a Scooby-Dooby-Doo time, a Dooby-Doo time, we'll have a gay old time!"

Someone Give Dino This Book So's He Can Bury It!.......2000-03-25

Full of glaring misinformation, hackneyed stories Bill & Joe have told a thousand times over, and recycled publicity materials, this book's only saving grace is the rare artwork they've unearthed. There's a good reason why this book features a great big 'F' on its cover!

Not quite worth a "Yabba Dabba Doo".......2000-03-02

As a cartoonist, I love animation, and want to know all I can about the behind-the-scenes shennanigans of our favorite toon makers. That's why this book was something of a disappointment.

I will say this--it has GREAT illustrations, including some early model sheets of "The Flagstones" (yes, that's what they were originally called, until someone found it sounded too similar to the name of the family in the "Hi amd Lois" comic strip). Not to mention some priceless background drawings, which give the reader a fairly good idea of the evolution (faintly appropriate term here) of a classic. There are even some drawings of aborted Flintstones-related projects, such as "The Blackstones", a black "Modern Stone Age family" who would have been Fred's new neighbors. Imagine Sherman "George Jefferson" Hemsley and Isabel "Weezy" Sanford voicing the leads..oh, well.

It even contains the oft-repeated (though I suspect apocryphal) story of how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera tried all sorts of unusual sitcom family types before arriving at the Flintstones and the Rubbles--Pilgrims (!), Romans, hillbillies, and even gypsies. And it tells in nerve-wracking detail how a frantic Barbera pitched the show to a roomful of unsmiling Phillip Morris executives, whose idea of approval was the comment, "At least there's no blood running in the streets.."

Trouble is, there are too few stories like that--I wanted to read more. So what could have been a brontoburger-sized feast ended up a small snack.

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good book... good information... but not real advanced

great book

3rd edition of a great book (smaller yet bigger)

SAP Performance Optimization Guide, Third Edition
Thomas Schneider
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Book Description

This exceptional new edition (released in July 2003) gives you step-by-step instruction to optimize the performance of your SAP system and ensure it operates as cost-effectively as possible. Learn quickly how to systematically identify and analyze performance problems, implement appropriate tuning measures, and evaluate their effectiveness.

Completely revised and expanded, the Third Edition has also been significantly improved with the addition of an all-new chapter focused on internet access with SAP Web Application Server (Business Server Pages and Java applications).

SAP Performance Optimization Guide covers both technical optimization as well as the monitoring of applications. Each potential performance pitfall is highlighted along with corresponding instructions and valuable tips, provided directly from support professionals at SAP. Also included are the most important answers and clear illustrations generated over many years via two remote services provided by SAP: EarlyWatch and GoingLive Check.

Highlights include:

- Best practices for performance management
- Techniques for monitoring hardware, database and SAP BASIS
- Tips for central monitoring and workload analysis
- Performance analysis for ABAP programs
- Insights on workload distribution
- Expert advice on interfaces
- SAP GUI, BSPs and Java implementation
- How to configure memory areas
- SAP Table Buffering, Locks, Optimizing SQL Statements
- much more!

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good book... good information... but not real advanced.......2007-03-12

Lots of basic info in this book, but no advanced topics that you will be faced with in SAP optimization. Would love to see something more advanced from SAPPress

great book.......2004-11-10

My favorite on performance tuning SAP. Just got the latest edition, will share the older one with a colleague (still useful in its own right). So useful, it's hardly ever on the shelf. Great stuff, would like to see the author write for SAP Press on other topics, i.e. SAP BW performance tuning.

3rd edition of a great book (smaller yet bigger).......2004-02-17

Audience - Technical staff such as Basis and Database administrators, system administrators, developers and their managers, though primarily for experts in those areas - not for lightweights!

This book is extremely useful, being chock full of words of wisdom, with both a cookbook and flow chart approach for diagnosing performance issues in a staggering number of areas with the SAP enterprise application, given that it contains less than 500 pages. I have the 1st edition, which now seems to be going for a premium on Amazon. There is new material in this edition, but not really enough new material on some of the older topics. There is some mention of transactions available now that were not in SAP "way back then."

The English is extremely clear, concise and descriptive throughout the book -- kudos to the author and the translators. Those who have read SAP notes will know exactly what I mean.

The chapters are logically divided into focus areas, and within chapters, further divided into narrower focus areas, so that, for example, table buffer tuning is confined to pages 301 - 330 of Chapter 9. Other cross-references to that topic exist in other areas of the text to direct you (usually) to the right section for the problem at hand.

Some subjects are scattered in several places (by necessity), being introduced early and dealt with in detail later. One example is memory management, which is introduced in Chapter 2 via SAP transaction ST02, then the book turns to work process analysis. Chapter 8 deals more fully with memory management. If you look up memory management in the index, however, only 4 pages are referenced (267, 277, 450 and 483), skipping the crucial introductory material from pages 98-106, and the majority of the chapter devoted to the topic. Some of the later index references for memory management are marginally interesting, such as which parameters need to be set and which Online Service System (OSS) notes are relevant to the topic.

The 3rd edition is physically smaller than the 1st edition than I have, having 494 numbered pages now, compared to the original 545, and a different form factor of 165 x 240 mm, vs. 185 x 225 mm in the 1st edition. Some redundant content seems to have been edited out, the typeface is smaller, the pages are denser (less whitespace) and it fits better in my backpack. One gripe I have with the refactoring is the omission of chapter numbers on the page borders, so that skipping to a specific chapter often involves a detour to the table of contents.

Some Errata and Ambiguities

Page 100; Program Buffer; the statement "approximately 10,000 swaps per day represents an acceptable number of buffer displacements" is presented without a meaningful context such as whether this is dependent on system up time, number of users, number of new vs. changed programs, and whether this is acceptable because it is unnoticeable to users or what.

Page 163; The caption to table 4.5 should read "Enqueue trace" rather than "SQL trace".

Page 319; Monitoring Table Buffers, mentions an "invalidation rate" without defining it. In the 1st edition, this was defined on page 278 as "the ratio of invalidations to total requests." While this may be obvious to the authors, beginners need this formula to continue.

What I'd like to see in the next edition:

Some improved graphics!

Figure 9.2 has shrunk to near uselessness; the original figure (7.2) occupied more than half of the larger page, while this one is less than one-fourth of the now-smaller page.

Figure 11.2 has also shrunk, plus it still relies on several shades of grey to make a point about relative percentage that could be reinforced with some simple numbers ("the pale rectangles, some of which contain the data bars").

Page 400 talks about index fragmentation and suggests delete and recreate, while Oracle (and presumably other DBMSes) can use online index rebuild to avoid the delete step. This could be useful to some readers.

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