Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism: Tourism Training Module for Future Tourism Professionals
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    Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Tourism: Tourism Training Module for Future Tourism Professionals

    Manufacturer: World Trade Organization
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    The Devolution Revolution Can the States Afford Devolution?
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      The Devolution Revolution Can the States Afford Devolution?
      Harold A. Hovey , and The Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund
      Manufacturer: Century Foundation Press
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      ASIN: 0870784250

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      One underlying premise of the move toward devolution is that states are more capable of successfully managing various tasks than the federal government because they are better able to adapt to the particular challenges within their borders. The resources available to states to carry out those duties, however, are also limited to their ability to raise revenues from their own residents.

      In this report, Harold A. Hovey explores the constraints that states face in collecting taxes and assesses which states are best and least prepared to finance any added responsibilities. Among the forces Hovey examines that affect state fiscal capacity: competitive pressures among states to keep taxes low, tax systems that may or may not collect revenue at the same rate that incomes rise, the impact of local and national economic cycles, the economic resources within each state, and mismatches between revenues and needs.

      Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men
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        Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men
        Barbara Bagilhole
        Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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        ASIN: 0333929268

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        This book examines common issues and concepts concerning women in non-traditional, male dominated occupations. It explores the question of whether these women are the agents of change or are instead changed themselves. It provides a statistical examination and theoretical analysis of occupational sex segregation in the UK, the rest of the EU, and the US. It provides a more in-depth understanding of women's work lives through the experiences of the women themselves in four occupations; management, academia, engineering, and the priesthood.
        Barbara Bagilhole, Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
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          Barbara Bagilhole, Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
          Nancy Jurik
          Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History
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          ASIN: B000ALPN8S
          Release Date: 2005-07-25

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          This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1229 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: Barbara Bagilhole, Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men.(Book Review)
          Author: Nancy Jurik
          Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
          Date: March 22, 2005
          Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
          Issue: 55 Page: 317(3)

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          How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy (How to Be a Working)
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • VERY cool book if you want to learn how to be a stand up comic!
          • Valuable but not not concise
          • How to be a working comic
          • One hell of a businessman
          • Does not offer much
          How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy (How to Be a Working)
          Dave Schwensen
          Manufacturer: Back Stage Books
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          ASIN: 0823088146

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars VERY cool book if you want to learn how to be a stand up comic!.......2007-08-15

          I'm taking his one-day workshop so I bought the book to prepare for it-the book is very cool, down-to-earth, tells it like it is. It's more for 'intermediate' comedians who already have an idea about material but want to branch up and out to more than 'open mikes' or bringer shows.
          I recommend it to anyone who wants to make comedy a bigger part of their life.

          3 out of 5 stars Valuable but not not concise.......2007-01-15

          I believe this is probabaly an obligatory book for any person aspiring to become a professional comic and/or writer. Personally I found it cumbersome and a tiring read.

          5 out of 5 stars How to be a working comic.......2006-10-19

          It made me laugh, it made me cry...

          There are many books out there on the subject, but I've found this one to be the most concise and detailed one out there to date. Not only does it tell you what works and what doesn't in your pursuit to becoming a working comic, but it also brings you insight from some of the top working comedic minds of our generation.

          If you're looking to write comedy, great, they're many books out there on the subject, but this is not what this book intends to do. No, this one puts on a platter for you, what you need to (and what it takes) to make it in the business.

          If it works you use it; and if it doesn't you don't.

          I'm a working stand-up comic and I love this book, and use it. I've been fortunate to work with some really great individuals out there who all share with one another. Be it advice, tips and/or recommendations with the intent of helping you get better, while you help them get better.

          This book won't make you a great stand-up comic (you have to do that for yourself), but it will point you in the right direction, and provide you with a solid foundation on how to make it in the business, from headshots to resumes, and how and where to do what you do that makes others laugh.

          I give this book "FIVE BANANAS!"

          Keep smiling and laughing,

          Joey Z

          4 out of 5 stars One hell of a businessman.......2006-01-08

          Schwensen's business-like nature is sometimes annoying. He name-drops a lot and fawns over the genius of Carrot Top, offering as evidence of his creativity the fact that he makes money. But if you can supply the artistry, Schwensen definately knows the business. He has a lot of direct, useful information about how to market your act at all levels of competition, from novices to headliners.

          2 out of 5 stars Does not offer much.......2005-08-12

          This book deals exclusively with the business side of stand-up. It tells you what you need and what is important but only gives simple suggestions on how to achieve it. Also there is advice from comedieans at the end but none of the comedieans are headliners or big. Overall, this book is not for stand-up tips but basically a listing of what is needed to succeed in the business.
          How to Be a Stand-Up Comic
          Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
          • Very disappointed
          • You'd expect more from a man with only one testicle.
          • You won't learn how to be a stand up comic reading this book
          How to Be a Stand-Up Comic
          Richard Belzer
          Manufacturer: Citadel
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          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars Very disappointed.......2001-10-13

          I was disappointed at all the four letter words, vulgarity and the mention of one night stands while he is married. I felt it was also degrading to women. I love Richard Belzer as an actor but as a writer I was disappointed in the book. Does he want his two daughters to read his book?

          3 out of 5 stars You'd expect more from a man with only one testicle........1999-03-05

          First of all, I had a terribly hard time locating this book... For good reason it turns out. Although published in 1988, 'How To Be a Stand Up Comic' appears to be a remainder from an earlier, long forgotten era. Shoddy production value, crappy packaging and all together amateur layouts do little to improve this book's allure - once opened it can be read in a single bowel-movement. Not to say that this book is entirely disappointing, it isn't. Richard Belzer is a master of his craft. Being a Stand Up Comic. Writing and assembling a book which captures his celebrated, irreverent wit proves daunting. Entirely devoid of substance this 208 page collection of cheap, grainy B&W photos masquerades as a `book,' containing no more than 6 pages of text. What fills up the remaining 202 pages are a serious of poor-quality black and white photographs of `The Belz' in a series of `comedic' skits. Whereas these pictures could ideally have served to coincide and reinforce the text, Belzer uses them as a way to replace his written word leaving the `reader' cheated. This is basically a scrappy attempt at a half-hearted and entirely unrealized premise. Rarely do you see a talent such as Richard Belzer's so blatantly betrayed. I anxiously await the publication of his next work `Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe' which will hopefully ameliorate my current feeling of betrayal.

          2 out of 5 stars You won't learn how to be a stand up comic reading this book.......1998-03-17

          While reading this book is mildly amusing, you will not learn how to construct a joke or bring out your funny side by reading it. In short you won't learn much about "how to be a stand up comedian". I was disappointed because I do think Belz is a funny guy. I just didn't think the book was very instructive.
          How to Do It Standing Up: The Friars' Club Guide to Being a Comic, a Cut-Up, a Card, a Character or a Clown
          Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
          • Life on the comedy club circuit, not a guide to being funny
          • Now Am I Funny???
          • Yeah. I wanna do it standin up, sittin down, on the phone...
          How to Do It Standing Up: The Friars' Club Guide to Being a Comic, a Cut-Up, a Card, a Character or a Clown
          Barry Dougherty , and Friars Club
          Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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          ASIN: 157912254X

          Book Description

          No one knows more about being funny than The Friars Club, and now they reveal their personal tricks of the trade-and give away their favorite material--in this easy-to-use manual for aspiring comics, comedy writers or just plain show-offs.

          The funniest men and women in showbiz discuss the art of being funny, and author Barry Dougherty puts it all together in the first and last Friars Club manual for anyone who wants to be a comedian--or just act like one. The book covers such important matters as What's funny--and what's not; the many forms of comedy: jokes, one-liners, anecdotes, stories, impressions, puns, ad-libs, wisecracks and more; choosing material and putting together a routine; developing a personal style; writing your own material--and much more.

          In-depth, personal interviews with a host of well-known comedians punctuate the text, along with lots of examples of their funniest material.

          Customer Reviews:

          1 out of 5 stars Life on the comedy club circuit, not a guide to being funny.......2004-06-17

          First of all, what this book is not: It is not about how to be funny, nor is it an analysis of what humour is. The title is blatantly misleading. The book itself is not funny, because these are comedians describing things that happened to them, not attempting to get the reader to laugh.

          This is a collection of first-person narratives in which comedians reminisce about performing in comedy clubs, especially at the beginning of their careers when they were unknowns. Their stories are surprisingly similar - struggling for stage time, desperate for money, honing their craft, and so on. The stories are repetitive and, after awhile, seem interchangeable. At times the narrators engage in a bit of introspection about why some things are funny and some are not, but one has to search for those analytical moments. To a large extent, these comedians just kind of "wing it" and have trouble articulating why one joke is hilarious while another leads to dead silence.

          Of the 30-plus comedians interviewed for the book, I've heard of about one third of them. The most famous participants are Richard Belzer, Phyllis Diller, and Lily Tomlin.

          5 out of 5 stars Now Am I Funny???.......2003-01-17

          Let's get this much straight: this book will not make unfunny people funny, but it will certainly provide an entertaining read. The comics whom Dougherty interviews are all successful and, ergo, extremely amusing. The author manages to capture their anecdotes and reflections in a tight framework which could, conceivably, provide a useful blueprint for the novice comic. It's a fun, zippy read, even if you aren't looking for a future in stand-up. I am a fan of Belzer, Pat Cooper, and Susie Essman to name a few of those profiled, so it was fun to read their responses to some of Dougherty's queries about their backgrounds, their missteps, etc.

          5 out of 5 stars Yeah. I wanna do it standin up, sittin down, on the phone..........2002-11-01

          I have a friend who thinks she is funny. She isn't. I think one of the hardest things to do is teaching someone how to be funny. This book comes very close. It's more than just "timing" (that trite often used excuse some use in explaining how to amuse others) and it's more than just having that innate natural ability. Through the many interviews with those that are professionally funny, Mr. Dougherty manages to highlight and tie together the lessons that these jokemasters, prop comics and humorists relate. With their varying comedic styles, Mr. Dougherty successfully documents these truths in a way that they make sense. Comedy is hard. Teaching it is harder. Will this help my comedically-challenged friend? God...I hope so. But it's a good book and I liked it.
          What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Comic Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • What Sedaris, Lebowitz and Dave Eggers should aspire to.
          • We need more from Margaret Smith..
          • Very Funny, Sometimes Dark, Laugh out Loud
          • Not funny at all, unfortunately
          • so funny I read it twice
          What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Comic Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother
          Margaret Smith
          Manufacturer: The Crossroad Publishing Company, Inc.
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          Margaret Smith, blithely disregarding the conventional wisdom that female comics must labor within proscribed borders, has gone her own way. What the New York Times wrote about Smith's award-winning stand-up routine is also true of Smith's new book. In this hilarious romp, one of America's senior comedic writers describes what she thought it would be like--and what it was really like-- to become a single Mother.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars What Sedaris, Lebowitz and Dave Eggers should aspire to........2005-12-21

          Margaret Smith is a one-of-a-kind comedian. Her off-kilter worldview and dry-as-dust delivery is fresh and real in a world of grinning comedy clones. My favorite Margaret Smith-ism goes something like "I saw my mother today. (long pause) Its okay, she didn't see me." I'm not always able to catch her on tv like I used to, so I was delighted to hear she'd written a book.

          The cover says the book's about becoming a mother, but you won't find overly sweet sentimentality here. Smith makes looking on the dark side into an art form. Her story is dark and horrific, and she pulls no punches when writing about, violence, abuse, racism, tomatoes, and her calling plan. Only Margaret Smith could make comedy of this. But she pulls it off astonishingly well - deftly balancing tragedy and humor. Ultimately, it's not a story about adopting a baby, it's a heartfelt tale of spiritual redemption. I know that doesn't sound very funny, but it really is.

          5 out of 5 stars We need more from Margaret Smith.........2005-11-19

          I had overheard some people talking about this book and how much they liked it, so I decided to see if Margaret Smith was as good a writer as she is a comedian. She is. The book is poignantly funny and sad at the same time. Margaret Smith is a great comedian and I admire her for the way she takes sadness and turns it inside out to find the humor in it.

          5 out of 5 stars Very Funny, Sometimes Dark, Laugh out Loud.......2005-11-05

          I heard the Author on an NPR Radio Show talking about this book. The interview was funny and it motivated me to buy the book. It was an easy an enjoyable read. Laughed many times out loud. It felt alot like a David Sedaris style of writing. The humor sometimes dark. I especially liked her childhood stories. If you grew up with Mary Poppins and Ward Cleaver as parents you might not find this humorous, but I didn't, and I did find this book very funny.
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          1 out of 5 stars Not funny at all, unfortunately.......2005-11-03

          I bought this book thinking it would be filled with zippy one-liners and good-humored stories about raising a happy kid on your own while keeping on top of a successful career. The title made me expect I'd be entertained. I had hoped for something in the style of Erma Bombeck as a Single Mom. This book is not that at all.

          Instead, it's the story of the author's tragic childhood in a family that was dysfunctional and brutal. The author spends pages and pages describing her relationship with her mother, beatings by her stepfather/uncle and years of therapy. It's heartbreaking stuff. Margaret Smith also weaves in chapters about her failed artificial insemination and her success at adopting her beloved baby boy. None if it was at all humorous.

          Margaret Smith writes well and her story is honest. It's just not one I felt like reading after I put my daughter to bed after working all day. If anyone knows of any books about the funny side of single parenting, please post the titles. In the mean time, I'll just reread Ariel's Gore Hip Mama Guide.

          5 out of 5 stars so funny I read it twice.......2005-10-26

          I don't know if it's because I feel like a single mom or if just anyone with children or wanting to have children would appreciate it but this book was hilarious. It reminded me of reading Anne Lemott only more dry and painful. At times I was embarrassed that I was laughing and grateful that no one was in the room so I wouldn't have to explain what was so funny, because part of me was sure it was wrong to be laughing. Any way this was a great read!
          How To Be A Stand-Up Comic
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            How To Be A Stand-Up Comic
            Richard Belzer
            Manufacturer: Villard Books
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            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000NUNURM

            Picture This: Debbie Harry and Blondie by Mick Rock
            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
            • The Marilyn Monroe of Rock'N'Roll
            • Great Picture collection. Debbie Harry is the most beautiful woman in Rock...
            • Deborah Harry is not a big icon here
            • She Looks Good In Blue
            • Debbie forever
            Picture This: Debbie Harry and Blondie by Mick Rock

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            Blondie's emergence at New York's CBGB's and other haunts with lead singer and front woman Debbie Harry brought an instant glamour to punk and made superstars of the band. Harry, an ex-Playboy bunny, also made rock star wannabes of many fans. In this large-format book, famed international rock photographer Mick Rock documents the beginnings, the highs, and the lows of the group - with particular emphasis on Harry - in 150 powerful never-before-published images of Blondie at work and play. Included is a DVD that features an exclusive interview with the photographer and the lead singer. A foreword by Debbie Harry gives an insider perspective on the images and the heady times they portray.

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            5 out of 5 stars The Marilyn Monroe of Rock'N'Roll.......2006-12-07

            I was more than impressed when I first looked through this book. Included are countless pictures, all stunning and gorgeous, of Deborah Harry from her many photo sessions with Mick Rock. I never knew many of these photos existed because I had never seen them before, almost as if Mick himself saved many of the photos and figured he could release them some 25 years later when the blonde from Blondie becomes an icon symbolizing image and beauty. He was right. Deborah Harry is the most beautiful woman in music history and the pictures contained within this book prove that she is a natural in front of the camera. Would there be a Madonna without her? Hardly. Gwen Stefani? Unlikely. Touched by her Presence? Absolutely.

            5 out of 5 stars Great Picture collection. Debbie Harry is the most beautiful woman in Rock..........2005-08-03

            Deborah Harry was the first and Ultimate bleached blond bomb shell of rock music.She influenced every white female singer who later followed her steps, from Madonna to Gwen Stefani. Her beauty is legendary, and no Britney Spears and no Christina Aguilera have a chance competing with Harry's face.In addition to this, Debbie is an amazing song writer and singer.She was an American cultural icon from the late 70's and early 80's, having 5 number 1 hits in the US and 6 number ones in the UK.She was in her early 30's during the time of her success, so what? NICO, Tina Turner,Cher, Madonna were all over 30 while they peaked their careers!
            This book is a pictural hommage to one of the most talented and beautiful artists that America has given to the world...

            2 out of 5 stars Deborah Harry is not a big icon here.......2004-12-05

            Debbie Harry just isn't that big an icon in the United States, maybe outside NYC vintage punk and gay circles. As someone else said she has a big head and a figure like a teenage boy, and she was in her mid-thirties when the rock media started treating Blondie as if they were The Who with a female Roger Daltrey. Mainstream rock fans and U.S. rock radio-AOR-never bought into it at all. And while I agree she has some acting talent, the fact is she needed to be out there twenty years before she was, at the very least ten.

            Age isn't the only issue: Blondie's music just didn't fit in, and rock success in America-almost as much as in country, where it's everything-is about fitting in and being there, touring like a dog in towns like Cleveland, Cincinnati, St.Louis, Dallas, on and on. And going over in those towns. Blondie gigged heavily in NYC, Boston, LA, San Fran, and college towns-punk band territory-although Debbie's Doris Day pipes were sorely out of place there. In arenas, Blondie the band were variable in performance (as were the Grateful Dead-but they had a throng of fans for whom they could do no wrong that went with them) and even on good nights they lacked what more successful female acts-Heart and Pat Benatar-had: loud riffing or shredding guitars, the main obsession of arena rock audiences.

            Mick Rock was a leading rock photographer and I can see where having a decent looking girl-especially one being so openly compared to Monroe and Bardot as she was back then-would have been a welcome change of pace from the short pasty Englishmen and longhaired, smelly, codpiece-stuffing American hard rockers. But that doesn't change the fact that his subject just isn't of all that much interest. Overseas sales will probably exceed those in the U.S. by such a wide margin that they will probably wonder why they didn't just let the few hardcore "Debheads" import their own from UK or Euro Amazon.

            4 out of 5 stars She Looks Good In Blue.......2004-06-13

            As the song says, Deborah Harry looks good in blue-or wearing about anything, or, as shown in other photo essays but not this one, nothing at all.

            Within the first few pages, Mick Rock discusses one key aspect of the Harry iconography: although their facial structures are almost utterly different, Debbie manages to almost eerily evoke the image of her idol, the late Marilyn Monroe. Indeed, she does so far better than does Madonna (who made a much more conscious and public effort to do so) or Gwen Stefani, both of whom have more similarity in facial shape. Debbie has an unusually large cranial structure and an extremely wide face, factors that make her universally admired looks even more remarkable. Unfortunately, Rock fails to effectively deal with the issue, but this is of tertiary importance in a book that could as easily have no words at all.

            Rock is a thoroughly competent photographer by the standards of rock journalism, but he's no Sam Shaw, Cecil Beaton, George Barris, Eve Arnold, or any of the other classic era Leica/Rollei wielding pre-papparazi photographers, who made enduring idols not only of MM but so many of the other Classic Era actresses. As a result, a hundred years from now these images will probably be reviewed with interest, but not the unadulterated awe one might give to classic images of MM,Cyd Charisse, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor or others, none of whom-even the now-canonized Monroe-were objectively "more beautiful" than Harry.

            These images-taken from too few photo shoots-are fine photographs on their own, and a fine document of Deborah Harry, who is a first-rate vocalist and a fine character actress who, unlike a lot of rock-and-roll stars, might have been as successful as _almost_ any of her childhood idols in the worlds of film and music in the pre-rock-and-antihero 40s and 50s and early 60s, before an awful August night in Brentwood and an equally bad November afternoon in Dallas turned a decade-and a nation-disillusioned and sour.

            Deborah Harry is, almost everywhere except her own country, a major league rock star, and this book is a decent exposition of part of the reason why: she's a stunning-looking woman who can effectively employ everything she's got. The other lies in her music, both the "classic five" Blondie albums and her daring and eminently competent modern jazz and standards work with the Jazz Passengers, Stewart Copeland, and others. If you have a backward cousin in, say, Kansas City, who thinks that rock and roll means boring and dopey AOR warhorses like REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Rush, this book and a couple of Blondie albums might do him, or her, a lot of good next holiday season.

            5 out of 5 stars Debbie forever.......2004-06-02

            Beautiful work. Immortal and rare photos of Debbie Harry and her band in the late 70's. And amazing pictures of Miss Harry in 2003. A must-have for every fan around the world.

            Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture: A Sourcebook for Modern Readers
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              An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop -culture, alternative, underground, or subversive.

              Updated and revised from the pages of the critically acclaimed Headpress journal, this is an enlightened and -entertaining guide to the counter culture by way of its books and zines, with contact information accompanying each review so that readers may find out more.

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              Ballykissangel: The New Arrival
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              Hugh Miller , and Kieran Prendiville
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              Ballykissangel is a small parish in rural Ireland where life is anything but humdrum. Peter Clifford, an English curate, has been posted in Ballykissangel and his arrival comes as something of a shock both to him and the local residents. Not at all fitting his expectations, the misty little town is by no means the sleepy backwater he had envisioned. He is faced with the local scam-artist, Brian Quigley, who has just installed an automated confessional--complete with fax machine--in the church, and his daughter Niamh who asks Father Peter for advice about premarital sex. There is also Father Mac, the parish priest, who is known to be fond of the bottle and far less fond of the English. And, perhaps his most difficult challenge is presented in the form of Assumpta Fitzgerald, the beautiful, fiery, and fiercely anti-clerical owner of the local pub, who proves to be a very attractive sparring partner on issues of all sorts.

              Father Clifford is quickly forced to come to terms with idiosyncrasies of the various local characters of Ballykissangel, and to do so he will shake the foundation of their beliefs and the very bedrock of Irish Catholicism. Consequently, finding a foothold in the community proves to be harder than the youthful priest bargained for.

              This book is a companion to the series Ballykissangel, a 14-part drama that began airing in the United States on public television in January 1998. Wildly popular with British audiences, the series stars Steven Tompkinson (star of the recent film Brassed Off) as Father Peter Clifford, Dervla Kirwan (voted the most popular actress on British television last year) as the feisty Assumpta Fitzgerald, and Tony Doyle as the mischievous Brian Quigley.

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              4 out of 5 stars A pleasant escape.......2001-09-05

              If you have seen all the first year's television episodes nothing is new here. However, when the daily routine is too much it is nice to be able to sit and visit at our leisure with friends in Ballyk. Humor and drama without blood or recreational sex. I liked it enough, even after having seen all the tv episodes, to want the 2nd volume.

              4 out of 5 stars You Will Love It If You Loved the Series.......2000-01-26

              That says it all. And I loved the PBS series. Very funny, very good at capturing life in a small village in Ireland.

              5 out of 5 stars ballykissangle;the arrival.......1999-12-04

              a warm and wonderful book for all ballykissangle fans. I love to read this book when the show is not the air. I recommend the second volume; a sense of place as well. I only wish they would write another volume!

              3 out of 5 stars Ballyk fans - stick to the programme........1999-06-16

              Ok. I absolutely adore the programme and I love and respect all the actors and actresses and the writers etc. but the book was a letdown. That's all I have to say. There was not at all enough detail, not even when explaining the whole of the sexual tension thing which was going on.

              I advise evryone to just stick to the tv programme. It was a lot more descriptive. But, hey if you are a true fan like me you would enjoy the book anyway. I would not advise the book to anyopne who hasn't watched the seiries.

              5 out of 5 stars Totally delightful!.......1999-02-11

              Based on the series with the same name, Ballykissangel is a wonderfully delightful book. The characters are comical but real, interesting and so very likeable. I look forward to each coming installment although, unfortunately, I do know how the story ends. I would encourage anyone who does not know the whole storyline to purchase each subsequent edition of the book- the ending is absolutely shocking! I cried for hours! It would be good if more stories like Ballykissangel were written - stories with real characters that you learn to love.
              NEW ARRIVAL (BALLYKISSANGEL S.)
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                  The new edition has been brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office XP release of Excel 2002 but can be used alongside any previous version of Excel, with new Excel 2002 features clearly indicated throughout.

                  * Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office XP release of Excel 2002.
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