Sport and Tourism: First World Conference, Barcelona, Spain 22-23 February 2001

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This study focuses on the status of local government finance at the subprovincial level. Fiscal reforms over the past decade have not kept pace with the rapid changes in demand for government services at lower levels. Wong examines the composition of revenue and expenditure at city, country,
and township levels, and provides recommendations.

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This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenco Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was less about skills, wages, or productivity than it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity. African attempts to improve their lives through hard work were frustrated time and again by white employers determined to keep them in their place. Brutal forced-labor policies made it difficult for rural Africans to survive despite their continued access to agricultural land and family labor. Thus the majority of African men living in southern Mozambique spent their adult lives in wage labor, whether they worked in the South African mines or took low-paying jobs in and around the port city of Lourenco Marques. This lively and balanced analysis brings the voices of African workers to the foreground. By detailing the individual experiences of gang laborers, stevedores, domestic servants, and petty clerks, the author focuses our attention on t

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“…as I speed along the two-lane blacktop lined with joshua trees, I open my sun roof, crank up a live version of Take Five and think that, as far as women are concerned, I finally did something right.”

Memories of a fair and just childhood, from age eight to 48 and beyond, explain Why Stevie Can't Date, a collection of puckish tales about good and bad women; trying to cultivate the Playboy image at 17 and suddenly meeting a celebrity father who writes for Penthouse; and growing up straight while straddling a line between California and Nevada, the Golden State and Hollywood, the Silver State with its open roads and attitudes, and panorama of entertainment, from Jack Benny to blackjack to bull riding to brothels.

From the drudgery of a low-level casino job to the perks on the next rung; from hitchhiking across the country to meeting the mayor of New York City; from romances that didn't work to romances that did…for a while. Sardonic remembrances of subtle adventures by a man who is “in varying degrees, agoraphobic, alcoholic and misanthropic”, probably from having lived the reasons Why Stevie Can't Date.

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'.as I speed along the two-lane blacktop lined with joshua trees, I open my sun roof, crank up a live version of Take Five and think that, as far as women are concerned, I finally did something right."

From the drudgery of a low-level casino job to the perks on the next rung; from hitchhiking across the country to meeting the mayor of New York City; from romances that didn't work to romances that did.for a while. Sardonic remembrances of subtle adventures by a man who is 'in varying degrees, agoraphobic, alcoholic and misanthropic", probably from having lived the reasons Why Stevie Can't Date.

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Stevie will have more dates........2006-04-10

Stevie will have more dates. He's witty, urbane,and blessed with a wry and dry sense of humor. His everyman seventeen short chapter observations on life transcend the cliche and the hackneyed. Lighthearted, refreshing, WHY STEVIE CAN'T DATE is a must read inspiration for all of us who have ever wondered why we can't date, either.

A picaresque for our times.......2005-11-02

The classic picaro (think Roderick Random) has uncertain origins that propel him into a series of humorous and often outlandish adventures that serve as commentary on his times. Robinson's wry take on his own life displays the keen eye and unerring ear for human foibles that mark him as a worthy heir to Tobias Smollett, with this signal difference: unlike Smollett, Robinson doesn't have a meanspirited bone in his body. This is a book that warms your heart as it tickles your funnybone.

Painfully funny from beginning to end.......2005-09-26

Steve puts in print feelings that we have all felt and makes them humorous.
The blatant honesty is refreshing and enlightening. This is one of those books that you pick up and do not put down until you have reached the final page.

This book is well worth your time, your money. Your smiles and warm heart upon completing the reading will last as you remember various segments over and over.

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When it comes to the world of hip-hop, nothing shines brighter than glorious bling. A fascinating look in words and pictures at the stars of hip-hop and their fabulous jewelry. elcome to the rarified world of hip-hop royalty, where mega-stars from Jay-Z to J. Lo flash brilliant rocks to signify status and express personal style. In Bling Bling, writer and radio show host Minya Oh takes readers deep inside this star-studded world, exploring the wild appetite for flashy adornment that typifies the contemporary rap scene. See how the other half sparkles in this fascinating photo-filled book devoted to the history and culture of rappers and their jewelry from the last 25 years. Run DMC, Slick Rick, Ludacris, and Puff Daddy are just some of the rap legends who show and tell, as the author travels from East Coast to West to discover the world's most fabulous accoutrements and the stories behind them.

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The Fourth Mid Term Conference of Heads of Universities was hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and took place between November 12th and 14th 1997. The occasion brought together heads and representatives of universities and of major national, regional and international bodies whose concern lies with higher education world-wide and in all its manifestations. The purpose of their meeting was to debate the general theme The Universities' Responsibilities to Society.

It is a theme which over the past decade has been gathering weight and momentum. Higher education is taking on more students, employing more teachers and researchers and is advancing the frontiers of knowledge at an ever-increasing pace.

Included in this publication are all the keynote and plenary addresses which dealt with the three broad sub-themes of the Conference. These are: University and Development: anticipating change; Universities and the International Knowledge Enterprise; Academic Freedom and University Autonomy: pre-requisites for the University meeting its Responsibilities.

An address on the responsibilities of men of genius, delivered before the members of the Union Literary Society of Miami University, Ohio, United States

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An address on the responsibilities of men of genius, delivered before the members of the Union Literary Society of Miami University, Ohio, United States
Alexander Campbell
Manufacturer: Hall
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Anniversary oration before the New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Delivered at Union University, June 23d, 1874

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Anniversary oration before the New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Delivered at Union University, June 23d, 1874
Charles Jones Jenkins
Manufacturer: The Society
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ASIN: B0008ARW12

Corporation and society: The search for a paradigm (Discussion paper / Center for Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo)

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Corporation and society: The search for a paradigm (Discussion paper / Center for Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo)
Lee E Preston
Manufacturer: Center for Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
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General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00072DZVC

Government and broadcasting in a free society: Background working paper for sessions on "Freedom and responsibility in broadcasting" at the 30th Institute ... the Ohio State University, May 4-7, 1960

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Government and broadcasting in a free society: Background working paper for sessions on "Freedom and responsibility in broadcasting" at the 30th Institute ... the Ohio State University, May 4-7, 1960
Walter B Emery
Manufacturer: Ohio State University
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Our responsibility as Christians for higher education in India

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Our responsibility as Christians for higher education in India
William Adams Brown
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College Guides | Education | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0008D47K8

The purpose of life, its objects and pursuits, and its duties and responsibilities. An address delivered before the Agatheridan and Erosophian societies of the University of Nashville,

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The purpose of life, its objects and pursuits, and its duties and responsibilities. An address delivered before the Agatheridan and Erosophian societies of the University of Nashville,
Gideon J Pillow
Manufacturer: Cameron & Fall
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General | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B00089KY1I

Responsibility in society [4 lectures delivered at Heriot-Watt University 1969-1970]

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Responsibility in society [4 lectures delivered at Heriot-Watt University 1969-1970]

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Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there’s too much violence and not enough education on children’s television. Current solutions range from the legislative (the Children’s Television Act of 1990) to the technological (the V-chip). Saturday Morning Censors examines the history of adults’ attempts to safeguard children from the violence, sexism, racism, and commercialism on television since the 1950s. By focusing on what censorship and regulation are and how they work—rather than on whether they should exist—Heather Hendershot shows how adults use these processes to reinforce their own ideas about childhood innocence.
Drawing on archival studio material, interviews with censors and animators, and social science research, Hendershot analyzes media activist strategies, sexism and racism at the level of cartoon manufacture, and the product-linked cartoons of the 1980s, such as Strawberry Shortcake and Transformers. But in order to more fully examine adult reception of children’s TV, she also discusses “good” programs like Sesame Street and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Providing valuable historical context for debates surrounding such current issues as the V-chip and the banning of Power Rangers toys in elementary schools, Saturday Morning Censors demonstrates how censorship can reveal more fears than it hides.
Saturday Morning Censors will appeal to educators, parents, and media activists, as well as to those in cultural studies, television studies, gender studies, and American social history.

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A must read for anyone serious about children and the media.......2004-04-27

If you are interested in the topic of children and the media, this is an important book to read. You'll learn about the regulatory politics and tv production practices that gave rise to classic children's tv shows like Sesame Street, Strawberry Shortcake, and GI Joe--and that have continued to influence the content of children's tv in important (and often deeply problematic) ways. It is a serious read, but well written and compelling. I have used chapters from the book in classes I've taught (university level) on children and the media, and the discussions that have followed (about deregulation, commercialism, gender, cultural imperialism...) have been very lively. In many cases, students have continued to refer back to concepts raised in the book throughout the course.

I'd rather be doing anything else..........1999-11-09

This book is entirely too complex to understand. It tends to jump from topic to topic without ever clearly explaining the various factions involved in regulating children's television content and programming. Hendershot succeeds in being both condescending and boring in her approach to the study of children's television.

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Building on the popularity of this book's first edition, PRACTICAL STANDARDS FOR MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC, the author shows developers and teams migrating to Visual Basic .NET how to save valuable time and resources-and writer faster, more manageable programs-by incorporating programming standards into Visual Basic .NET coding. Readers learn best practices for object-oriented programming, file operations, solution distribution, and more-with advice on how to apply these standards to their own projects.

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Instructor.......2005-05-12

I have used both the VB6 and VB.net versions in my classes. In fact I require this as a additional text for all my classes. I believe very strongly that Hungarian notation should be part of a program.

It sounds like these reviewers that don't like Hungarian notation program in a vacuum. It is alright if you program by yourself to through out notations but if you have ever been a code reviewer and had to try to figure out what datatype or control type was being used, you learn to appreciate good use of notation, any notation to decipher the code.

Also while self documenting code style is what you want to try to acheive, it is very important to have a comment that points out the intent of the structure is, not just that it is an if/then construct. Why is this here. It is important to make this decision.

I think James has done an excellent job with this book and I look forward to his next edition.

Dennis

Very disappointing.......2004-11-10

This book might be good for a total novice, but (a) most of the advice in here will already be familiar to VB6 coders (b) some significant areas with major changes from VB6 are completely overlooked (i.e., database), and (c) though this is subjective, some of the advice seems completely wrong-headed (my particular beef: advising against procedure "fan-out", which is one procedure calling many subprocedures. This is in direct contradiction to Martin Fowler's advice in Refactoring, and the key to writing self-commenting code - I'll trust Fowler over Foxall any day).

Did you say VB.NET or VB6?.......2004-04-20

I bought this book, because I had the VB6 one and was wondering a similar material, but adapted to .NET. If fails short and it's just decorating my desk. The author keeps the same guidelines, for example it recommends using Hungarian when Microsoft guidelines says DO NOT USE IT (even though it's a Microsoft Press book!). Take a look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconNETFrameworkDesignGuidelines.asp

Those guidelines are more PRACTICAL and useful than this book. And you know what? IT'S FREE!!!

A Good Guide For All VB.NET Programmers.......2004-03-10

This is a good book for both the experienced and beginning Visual Basic .NET programmer.

The purpose of this book is not to show you how to write a program in VB.NET but to provide a style template on how you should write a program; not only for readability but also for maintainability. To that end Foxall provides many examples of "bad" programming practices and styles along with a suggested "good" one.

The whole argument about using Hungarian notation (HN) or not is really irreverent. The very fact that this book exists and is hopefully read by more than a handful of people means more consistency and more error-free code.

One of the things I appreciate in this book is the use of color (various shades of blue-green) to mark things like comments in code, section headers, etc.

Overall this book was an easy read and can easily be grasped by entry level VB.NET programmers and functional enough for more experienced programmers to reference.

Somewhat rehashed VB standards book.......2003-01-08

After seeing the author jump in for a review, I decided I would add my two cents into this fray. While I do not agree with the 1 star "slam" that the author set out to counter, I think 3 stars may be pushing it, however.

There is a lot of practical advice in this book. While it should be obvious that a developer needs to set up templates without hard-coding and make all procedures perform very specific duties, we find that this is not the case in code. The book has quite a few good pieces of advice around the basic nature of programming. I will disagree with the author, however, on some points. For example, you should certainly minimize fan out (calling many procedures) for all but control functions, fan-in (multiple procedures using the same procedure) is a sign of very specialized functions, which he advised only two pages earlier.

This book has a whole chapter on naming conventions, using Hungarian. While this is not a cardinal sin, it should be noted that Microsoft has deprecated Hungarian in .NET. The inclusion in the book (chapter 4) suggests that the author has simply updated some of his material from his VB 6 book.

The suggestions for enumerators, commenting, looping and code flow are fairly decent and may help your coding efforts. Mr. Foxall falls a bit short on exception handling taking the tried and true route (see Richter's book for a better methodology). One item of contention is the idea that you handle unexpected as well as anticipated exceptions. In general, handle what you can and catch what you wish to log. Let the rest get handled on the UI to ensure the user does not get an ugly exception message. Most books on the market advocate catching everything, and then rethrowing the same error; what a waste of CPU cycles. In VB 6, you had to handle every exception, and pass it up the stack if you caught anything. In VB.NET, exception handling gives you the ability to catch those exceptions that you can handle or log for debugging a live application. Using finally, especially with objects with a dispose method, is a much better option.

I would agree with the 1 star reviewer on the coverage of modules before objects. Modules are a sloppy method of programming in Visual Basic .NET. They are placed in for VB 6 developers that miss their .bas files. On the other hand, this is not enough reason to kill the chapter, as some of the other advice in the chapter (2) is very useful.

A 2.5 rating would be a bit better as there is some bad advice in this book, but I have to choose between 2 and 3 and would rather give the author the benefit of the doubt. I hope Mr. Foxall has a chance to make a second version of the book that moves completely into the .NET paradigm, as it would be much more useful to developers.

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