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On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex
Manufacturer: Alyson Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1555838057 |
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World-renowned authorities on lesbian sexuality explain it all for you.This remarkable volume showcases the best writing on lesbian sex and desire in the 20-year history of On Our Backs magazine. Illustrated with stunning photographs by Phyllis Christopher, Michele Serchuk, Christine Kessler, and Rebecca McBride, The On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex provides expert advice on virtually all topics related to women's sexuality, including gender, BDSM, body-image issues, polyamory, fisting, strap-on use, topping and bottoming, and anal sex. Even basics such as kissing, cruising, and flirting are covered.
Contributors include: Tristan Taormino, Patrick Califia, Michelle and Joan Nestle
Diana Cage served as the assistant editor and the associate editor of On Our Backs magazine before taking on the position of managing editor. She lives in San Francisco.
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More political and cultural than anything, but worth a look.......2006-07-16
A little bit of everything.......2005-02-17
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Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-1945 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 13)
Henry Sakaida Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1855325292 Release Date: 1997-04-15 |
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Little has been published in English on the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF), let alone its most successful fighter pilots - no less than 150 of them achieved ace status during eight years of near-constant war, and they are all listed in this volume. From the arid plains of the Mongolian border region to the lush jungles of New Guinea, the JAAF was more than a match for the many opponents it fought against for control of the skies. Indeed, even when the mighty Allied war machine proved almost overwhelming from early 1944 onwards, the elite fighter pilots of the various sentais within the JAAF fought on with near-fanatical loyalty in defence of the Home Islands.Customer Reviews:
First-ever study of the JAAF in English.......1999-12-28
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application, 10th Edition
Walter Nicholson , and Christopher M. Snyder Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the economic study of markets, focuses on managerial and algebraic approaches, includes relevant applications and strong examples, and gives you activities that allow you to learn by doing. Your purchase includes two time-saving resources: access to InfoTrac College Edition's online university library and online study tools through Economic Applications! With Economic Applications, you'll have online access to study guides and review materials that will help you succeed in the course. And with InfoTrac College Edition, you'll save time, save money--and eliminate the trek to the library. Log in and access a library of more than 5,000 academic and popular magazines, newspapers, and journals.
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application with Economic Applications Card
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Applications provides a clear and concise introduction to the ways in which economists study the operations of markets. This well-known author's signature is to provide a text that is accessible to the students, but still enables them to learn "the real thing." This text is appropriate for students who are taking a second level microeconomics course with an algebra focus.
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Intermediate Microeconomics and its Application (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
Nicholson Manufacturer: AIPI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1428809791 |
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
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Computer Problems and Excercises for Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application: To a Company Walter Nicholson's Fourth Edition.
FRANK G., & WALTER NICHOLSON WESTHOFF Manufacturer: The Dryden Press, Chicago ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0030078032 |
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Intermediate Microeconomics & Its Applications
Walter Nicholson Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0030179181 |
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After a rigorous update of Problem Sets and Applications, Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application is now available in its Eighth Edition. As with previous editions, this text still offers the most clear and concise introduction to economic analysis of how markets operate. The authorÆs streamlined approach to the material, and lively new discussions offer students a textbook that is easy to learn from and interesting to read. Instructors will like the additions to the "Further Topics" section, which offer an up-to-date presentation of new topics in microeconomics.Customer Reviews:
Very good detailed textbook.......2001-12-16
Intermediate Microeconmics.......2000-04-04
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Intermediate Microeconomics And Its Application
Walter Nicholson Manufacturer: Saunders College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0324174527 |
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application
Walter Nicholson Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application
Walter Nicholson Manufacturer: Dryden Press, Chicago ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K8WMA8 |
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Intermediate microeconomics and Its Application
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application 8th Edition
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Cowpokes Rarin to Go
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Cowpokes rarin' to go: Cow country cartoons
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The Brad Mehldau Collection
Brad Mehldau Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Awarded Berklee College of Music's Best All-Around Musician award while still a junior in high school, young star Brad Mehldau has been rising ever since. This collection features note-for-note transcriptions of six songs brilliantly interpreted by this jazz piano man: Bewitched - I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Nobody Else but Me - Prelude to a Kiss - Sehnsucht - Unrequited. Includes a biography and a discography.
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Fools' Names, Fools' Faces
Andrew Ferguson Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0871136511 |
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Lands a few bullseyes amidst a barrage of cheap shots.......2007-07-29
A Very Good Book from a Very Good Writer........2007-05-05
a Fun look a society.......2001-11-03
buy an extra copy for your spouse.......2001-03-19
Ever since I heard David Brooks praise his colleague so effusively on Booknotes last Summer, I've made a particular effort to search out Andrew Ferguson's stuff in The Weekly Standard. Brooks is absolutely right : Ferguson's essays for the magazine are extremely sly and they conclude with a distinctive kick, as he forcefully drives home a point you may only have been mildly aware he was making. An excellent example is Christianity, Clinton Style (Weekly Standard, September 11, 2000), in which he discusses the then President's pre-Convention public confessional at Willow Creek Community Church. This was the event at which Clinton was supposed to apologize for the Lewinsky mess with sufficient clarity that it would remove the subject as an issue for Mr. Gore in the fall campaign. In his column, Ferguson does not spare Clinton for the transparency and insincerity of the event, but it is only as you read the last sentence that you truly realize that Clinton is only an incidental target : Ferguson's real ire is directed at the brand of New Age Christianity which allows itself to be used in such a manner by a clearly unrepentant serial sinner. But when the realization finally dawns it is all the more devastating precisely because the equation of the obviously repulsive Clinton and the theoretically sacred Church is so surprising.
Fools' Names, Fools' Places is a collection of earlier pieces and it seems as if Ferguson had not quite perfected this technique when some of them were written. They are however very funny and they do reflect several of the concerns which he returns to again and again in his writing : the intellectual poverty of those New Age beliefs and the increasing divergence between celebrity and substantive achievement in American culture. At times these concerns fuse brilliantly as in the devastating portrayals of Bill Moyers and Mikhail Gorbachev, both of whom have made the long strange trip from Left Wing hatchetmen to sort of self-help gurus. But in most of them, it is merely the callowness and vapidity of the rich and famous that is on display. A couple of the funniest ones are on Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra (Sinatra at 80 : Ring-a-ding-don't). In fact, I started laughing so hard at a line in the Streisand profile :
With her cavernous sinuses, her inexhaustible lungs, she doesn't so much sell a song as wrestle it to the ground and kneel on its throat. She should try this with her songwriters.
that my wife made me let her read the essay, right away. After that, we kept stealing the book back and forth from each other, the one grabbing it from the other while they were convulsed with laughter. (This is what passes for entertainment in your average conservative household--sharing a collection of vituperative columns like dissidents used to pass around samiszdat in the old Soviet Union.) In fact, my wife got so carried away, in the midst of the essay about Peter, Paul and Mary being arrested (Puff the Magic Dragon Goes to Jail) at an anti-apartheid demonstration, that our four year old son ran upstairs to tell me that, "Mommy isn't breathing." I think it was this line that did it, about how the years haven't been kind to Mary, particularly poundagewise :
As she belted out the songs, she wagged her head and threw her body from side to side, while the other celebrities struggled to anchor themselves against the assault of her weight.
We both enjoyed the paired essays about Ferguson appearing on a talk show as the designated Gennifer Flowers defender and the trouble this got him into with his wife. What wife after all wants her husband defending a harlot on national television ?
And lest you assume that all the book consists of is scurrilous right wing screeds, there are plenty of equally acerbic glances cast at Republicans and conservatives--Newt Gingrich, Bill Bennett and David Gergen among them. More importantly, Ferguson is toughest on himself and his profession. This is the other major theme of the collection, and of much of his other writing : the pomposity of the press. Whether belittling himself for appearing as a talking head on cable television, or hilariously dissecting the modern GQ/Esquire/Vanity Fair-style personality piece--the ones that all seem to start : "I met (insert name of star) for lunch at (insert name of trendy restaurant)..."--the authors of which all seem to labor under the delusion that they are themselves integral to the story, Ferguson holds up a rather harsh light to journalism as it is practiced today.
In a culture which is increasingly dominated by celebrities, politicians and the press, he happily skewers all three. He does so in a series of essays which are as funny as any you'll ever read. You should definitely read the book, but in the meantime keep an eye out for his current writing. By himself he makes it worth checking out the Weekly Standard every week.
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Not in P.J.'s league........2000-01-04
His 1993 (i.e. pre-WWW) essay on the Internet, which takes the general tone of "this contraption will never amount to anything" was way off base, maybe because he wandered into alt.sex (desperately searching for some grist I guess but coming away with his usual pedestrian non-insights) instead of looking at the comp.* newsgroups.
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FOOLS' NAMES, FOOLS' FACES. Introduction by P. J. O'Rourke.
Andrew. Ferguson Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MYU9DW |
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Broadcasting in the European Union - The Role of Public Interest in Competition Analysis
Ingrid Nitsche Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9067041319 |
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This book explores whether and to what extent EC Competition law promotes media pluralism and how broadcasting's public service and commercial interests can be reconciled in Europe, where public and economic competition have traditionally been defined as distinct concepts. It offers the first comprehensive application of competition analysis to European broadcasting and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the challenges facing European broadcasters as they seek to redefine their role in an open market while at the same time retaining their public interest function.
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Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
John Hagel III , and Arthur G. Armstrong Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Building relationships with customers has been a buzz phrase in many business circles for years. Now John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong declare that's not enough. They make a strong case that business success in the very near future will depend on using the Internet to build not just relationships, but communities. The payoff, they maintain, will be phenomenal customer loyalty and high profits. But, they warn, this race will definitely go to the swift. Here's a cyberspace book that could make your business future. Not everyone agrees with Hagel and Armstrong, but with stakes so high they deserves a serious reading.Book Description
Net Gain identifies where the next level of value lies on the Internet and lays out the first economic model to quantify the revenue potential and the investment required to build a successful virtual community. From the offerings of commercial online services such as the Motley Fool Investment group to Internet communities of book lovers, Net Gain offers a multitude of real-world scenarios and lessons for building value and creating competitive edge. The authors clearly show that in order to compete in the online economy, you must establish an entirely new approach to product development, marketing, customer service, and distribution, and rethink your company's relationships to customers, suppliers, and competitors. And they show you how to do it.Download Description
Hagel and Armstrong argue that a new business model is emerging in cyberspace, constructed around the notion of "electronic communities" whose value lies in their aggregation potential--the ability to recognize, configure, and collect seemingly disparate groups into communities with particular commercial and collaborative interests. Not only do these electronic communities constitute a new way to structure the profusion of information that characterizes the Internet, but they force organizations to rethink their approaches to a whole host of business processes--product development, brand identity, customer service, advertising and marketing, merchandising, and channel management--and the organizations' relationships to their customers, suppliers, and competitors.Customer Reviews:
Prospering in the Virtual Community - Where Are We Going?.......2006-06-20
Amazon.com.......2006-05-10
A forerunner on how to create profitable on-line communities.......2003-08-01
It has been nearly six years since I attended a seminar organized by the consulting company McKinsey at which the two authors (both McKinsey consultants)presented their book and what seemed, at that time, to be its somewhat radical proposition about profitably developing self-organizing on-line communities around the passionate interests of their memberships.
As I become more familiar with Amazon and how it is organizing the community through which you are reading this and other reviews, I am reminded about the fundamental concepts that Hagel and Armstrong laid out in their book regarding the economics of virtual communities. Amazon attracts member-generated content which is a key part of its business model which uses the passionate interests of its own customer base to increase its business value. Many doubted the vailidity of this proposition when this book came out, but the evidence does appear to increasingly support it.
Arguably, many might now say that this book is dated, on-line businesses having mushroomed and failed since this book appeared, yielding new lessons that this book could not have foreseen. Many of its claims now seem overhyped.
While this and other criticims may all be well and true, I suspect that this book will come to be regarded in future business histories of the on-line business as one of the seminal pieces of strategic business thinking in the late 1990s. I shall keep it for posterity, if not profitability. In any case, there must now be enough second-hand copies for you not to have to make the investment at the full original cost!
Virtual Communities = Real Prosperity.......2002-03-05
In the Preface, Hagel and Armstrong acknowledge three inevitable limitations in writing Net.Gain: "The first arises from the profound uncertainties associated with evolving electronic networks and the myriad business models emerging in the primordial brew known as cycberspace....Second, the need to be concise has led us to make some generalizations about the likely evolution of virtual communities and the key principles for success....Third, we do not expect virtual communities to be the only 'form of life' on public networks. Indeed, many other commercial and non-commercial formats (including dictionaries, market spaces, 'web'zines,' corporate sites and game areas) will thrive on these networks as well." Working within these limitations, Hagel and Armstrong succeed admirably when describing the power and potential of the virtual community concept. Also, when explaining (a) how to target the kind of community to start-up; (b) the principles of a successful entry strategy, emphasizing the need to generate, engage, and lock in traffic over time; (c) characteristics of community organizations; and (d) criteria by which to select the right technology. Then in Part Three, Hagel and Armstrong shift their attention to explaining the fundamental ways in which the emergence and spread of virtual communities will alter traditional business.
My strong recommendation is that this book be read first, then Net Worth. My further recommendation is that both books be used to formulate the agenda for a workshop or what is generally referred to as an "executive retreat" (preferably for two days and located offsite) with all participants required to read both books in advance. In their Epilogue, Hagel and Armstrong suggest that "the most radical potential impact of the virtual community may well be its impact on the way individuals manage their lives and companies manage themselves. Communities will serve to connect, much like the postage system and telephone before them. But they will go several steps further than the telephone or fax, as they help the individual to seek out and find. Souls in search of relationship, colleagues in search of teamwork,, customers in search of products, suppliers in search of markets: the virtual community might have a place for them after all." Those who share my high regard for Hagel's two books (co-authored with Armstrong and Singer, respectively) are urged to check out Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline as well as O'Dell and Grayson's If Only We Knew What We Know. Both can also help with the planning and implementing of the off-site workshop recommended earlier.
Good Ideas that can hold in 10 pages.......2000-10-16
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NET GAIN: EXPANDING MARKETS THROUGH VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
John III and Armstrong, Arthur G Hagel Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OFKG5A |
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