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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005
Leonard Maltin Manufacturer: Signet ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0451212657 Release Date: 2004-08-03 |
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The movie guide that has been a staple for decades and has made Leonard Maltin a household name is back with all the essential information every movie lover wants-completely updated, and bigger and better than ever.Customer Reviews:
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005.......2005-10-04
One of the best Movie Guides.......2005-09-13
Must have reference.......2005-09-06
not good for international movies.......2005-08-13
The industry standard.......2005-08-08
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Leonard Maltin's 2005 Movie Guide
Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 1417663944 |
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Fighting For A Living Wage (ILR Press Book)
Stephanie Luce Manufacturer: ILR Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801489474 |
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The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a critical evaluation in which Stephanie Luce, a national expert on living wage campaigns, assesses the strengths and shortcomings of various campaigns and their resulting implementation.Although many local governments have been convinced to pass living wage ordinances, the movement has had less success in ensuring that these ordinances are fully realized. Some cities have consistently enforced their ordinances after passage. In other communities implementation is weak or nonexistent, and thousands of workers do not benefit from laws designed to ensure that they are paid a living wage.
Luce provides in Fighting for a Living Wage the first serious examination of the reasons for implementation failure, as well as an analysis of the factors that lead to success. Luce argues that citizens can play a significant role in implementing and monitoring living wage policies, even where governments oppose the movement or are reluctant to enforce the laws in question. Luce finds that the nature of the campaign to formulate and pass policy can influence the likelihood of successful implementation. Surprisingly, the chances for thorough enforcement are greater in communities where living wage campaigns caused more, not less, conflict.
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Fighting for a Living Wage.(Book review) : An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Ken Jacobs Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000F9T1PQ Release Date: 2006-04-04 |
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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1187 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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Oil Wealth and the Fate of the Forest (Routledge Explorations in Environmentaleconomics, 2)
Sven Wunder Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415278678 |
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Oil-related activities damage tropical rainforests, but this is just one side of a complicated story.
This book, a study of oil producing countries, looks at the linkages between macroeconomic trends and how policies affect the environment. In a balanced and comprehensive review, Sven Wunder, shows that oil revenues can indirectly come to protect tropical rainforests using case studies based on eight countries including Cameroon, Ecuador, Gabon, Papua New Guinea and Venezuela.
This topical, accessible and readable book has immediate and direct implications for policy formulation that help decide what can be done to diminish deforestation without jeopardizing economic growth. This book needs to be read not only by students and academics involved in environmental economics, but also by all those involved in policymaking.
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Explorations in Pragmatic Economics
George Akerlof Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0199253900 |
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Akerlof illustrates how his 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology of using 'tailor-made' economic models to solve problems differs from the standard, benchmark, all-encompassing general-equilibrium-perfect competition-based methodology.
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Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance (Explorations in Sociology)
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312218826 |
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Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture (Explorations in Anthropology)
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 185973149X |
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For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives.Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. They also describe extensions and practical applications of the Market model in policy-making in the United States and in explaining how firms work, show its political strengths and conceptual limitations.In bringing rigor and sustained critical analysis to a topic of growing global significance, this truly interdisciplinary study represents a coherent and incisive contribution to anthropology, sociology, politics, history and economics, as it challenges these disciplines to come to grips with one of the most potent cultural symbols of postmodernity.
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The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813320550 |
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Creating Capitalism: The State and Small Business Since 1945 (Explorations in Social Structures)
Linda Weiss Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0631157336 |
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Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 17)
R. Backhouse Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415174708 |
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Is methodology fruitless? Intense controversy has resulted from attempts to understand economics through philosophy of science. This collection clarifies and responds to the issues raised, arguing that methodology is an essential activity.
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Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology and this collection of his essays both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by recent literature that methodology is a fruitless exercise.
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Explorations in Macroeconomics
James F. Willis , Gloria Hom , and Martin L. Primack Manufacturer: Cat Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1562263463 |
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Wonderful Text, Brilliant Writing.......2001-05-23
Outstanding Economics Narrative.......2000-03-25
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Explorations in Macroeconomics
George Quansah Manufacturer: Cat Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1562264168 |
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Explorations in Macroeconomics
Manufacturer: North West Pub Llc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0971101744 |
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Life's Least Important Questions
Jim Paillot Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0806980745 |
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Funny, funny, funny!.......2003-04-01
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Rock and Roll: Introduction with 2 CDs
Manufacturer: Thomson Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0534708439 |
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Rock and Roll: An Introduction
Michael Campbell , and James Brody Manufacturer: Schirmer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0534642950 |
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ROCK AND ROLL: AN INTRODUCTION, 2ND EDITION takes advantage of online delivery of recorded music. For your study of a playlist of 115 rock-era songs discussed in the text. The extensive book companion website, includes timed listening guides, a multimedia-enhanced glossary, links to chapter playlists on both iTunes and Rhapsody for those songs not included on the CD set, and clearly organized recommendations for further listening.Customer Reviews:
Good survey of the sprawling genre.......2005-09-03
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2-CD Set for Campbell/Brody's Rock and Roll: An Introduction, 2nd
Michael Campbell , and James Brody Manufacturer: Schirmer ProductGroup: Book Binding: CD-ROM Similar Items: ASIN: 0534642977 |
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A "heritage" CD Set that includes not only 27 excerpts of pre-rock music, but also a decided majority of the musical examples discussed in the first half of the book.
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Collecting the Beatles: An Introduction and Price Guide to Fab Four Collectibles, Records and Memorabilia (Rock and Roll Reference Series)
Barbara Fenick Manufacturer: Pierian Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0876501765 |
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I am selling a 1968 Life Mag. with the Beatles on the cover........1999-05-08
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Collecting the Beatles: An Introduction and Price Guide to Fabulous Four Collectibles Volume 1 (Rock & roll reference series)
Barbara Fenwick Manufacturer: Pierian Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876501471 |
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Grease. A New '50's Rock 'n' Roll Musical
Jim, & Casey, Warren, Book, Music and Lyrics By. Introduction By Michael Feingold Jacobs Manufacturer: Winter House Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ND36T6 |
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Rock and Roll
John and Peter Frame / introduction by Elton John Tobler Manufacturer: Exeter, 1980 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TBJY6G |
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Record Art: Limited Edition Rock 'N' Roll Art Prints; Introduction by Jimmy Page (The Record Art Collection)
Record Art Manufacturer: Record Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LG2Z4C |
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Rock And Roll: An Introduction
Michael Campbell Manufacturer: Schirmer Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O92ZWI |
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Women, Sex and Rock `n' Roll : In Their Own Words (A Pandora Book)
Introduction-Liz Evans Manufacturer: Pandora Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OA9I3Q |
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Killing Time: Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History)
Scott C. Martin Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0822939169 |
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The Book of Rudy: The Wit and Wisdom of Rudy Boesch
Rudy Boesch , and Jeff Herman Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1580626130 |
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Rudy. You've seen him on TV. You've heard his catch phrases repeated at home, in the office, and even from total strangers sitting next to you on public transportation. You know Rudy is a popular television personality, a retired Navy SEAL, and a beloved curmudgeon. But who is Rudy Boesch? What are his real thoughts on the issues we face today? And, most important, what does a snake really taste like?Now, for the first time, here are Rudy's words - unrehearsed, uncensored, and unabashed. Rudy speaks out on sudden fame, politics, the military, social issues, sex, and so much more. In THE BOOK OF RUDY, we can read his direct, often controversial thoughts on topics such as: Abortion Family Life Guns in America Survival Presidents John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and George Bush Jr. World War II, The Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War
Sometimes abrasive, often hilariously funny, THE BOOK OF RUDY uncovers the heart, mind, and soul of a true American hero.
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Nice to learn about Rudy - but not nice TO him.......2005-06-23
Rudy endures questions and answers on just about everything.......2002-02-03
However, I was surprised to discover this was ot the case. What we have here is Rudy Boesch answering questions about basically every controversial topic that interviewers Jeff and Deborah Herman could come up with, from abortion to gun control and from Vietnam to George Bush, Jr. Some of the answers are brief, to the point, and probably surprising to anyone expecting standard conservative rhetoric (e.g., Rudy thinks abortion should be up to the woman). Others are more involved, evidencing that the man does not spout off about everything at the drop of the hat. He only talks in detail about things he has thought about it depth.
There is obviously some sort of agreement regarding the publication of books that Rudy Boesch signed when he did "Survivor," because the show is never mentioned, just the idea that we have seen Rudy of TV. A chapter on "Survival" is conspicuously barren of anything regarding living on an island in the South China Sea for a month. However, Rudy is here to talk about bigger and better things than some television show. I would have liked to have read more about Rudy's live in the SEALS, but you know the man is not going to talk about that, right? This one is quite simple: if you enjoyed listening to Rudy's abrasive comments on "Survivor," you will find more of the same but with considerably more depth and heart than what we say edited for television.
That's the Rudy I knew...........2001-10-27
Steve Waterman, author of JUST A SAILOR
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Gnu Octave Manual
John W. Eaton Manufacturer: Network Theory. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0954161726 |
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This manual is the definitive guide to GNU Octave, an interactive environment for numerical computation.GNU Octave provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems using vectors and matrices. Its language will be immediately familiar to users of other matrix environments.
GNU Octave is free software --- the complete source code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). All the money raised from the sale of this book supports the development of free software. For each copy sold $1 will be donated to the GNU Octave Development Fund.
The author of this manual, John W. Eaton, is the original developer of GNU Octave.
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