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Simplistic.......2007-05-14
I work in a CPA firm and found this book to recommend simplification in writing to the point of absurdity. It is a fact that there is a 'language' for business, and this book spends far too much time advising the reader to take complex or wordy phrases and simplify them to an almost moronic degree. While I agree that business writing is often overly and unnecessarily convoluted, this book seems to ignore a business-like paring down and instead invite the reader to return to elementary-school quality writing. I definitely did not feel that the book was a worthwhile investment, especially at the inflated price for which it retails. It is possible that it would benefit those in the accounting field whose clientele are completely non-business oriented or have little business knowledge.
Excellent for College Students in Business.......2007-03-08
I'm an accountancy major at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This has greatly helped me on my group cases where I write memorandums and other professional communication. Writing hasn't come easily for me (like numbers have) but this book helps me find my weaknesses and gives me suggestions for them. At first I wondered why such a small book was so expensive, but the price is definitely worth it!
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The book is designed to help accounting students and practitioners improve their communication skills. The book guides you through all stages of writing: planning, analysis of audience, purpose, generating ideas, writing a draft, revising, etc.
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Practical Quantitative Investment Management With Derivatives
Frances Cowell
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0333926218 |
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The book is divided into three sections plus detailed appendices and glossary and accompanying CD-ROM. It provides a description of the investment management process providing a context for quantitative techniques,addresses different quantitative techniques as applied to investment management, and brings together issues such as currency management, performance measurement and appraisal and performance analysis.
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Legal Rights of Prisoners: Cases and Comments
Anderson James F.
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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ASIN: 0761819630 |
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Legal Rights of Prisoners is a timely book that addresses the constitutional rights of people in places of confinement. More specifically, it examines the amendments that inmates use and the case law that has developed to address their concerns.
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Look at a Calf
Dare Wright
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Baby Calf (Look Look)
Patricia Mignon Hinds
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Primates of Colombia (Conservation International - Tropical Field Guide Series)
Thomas Richard Defler
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Colombia is a one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world: although it takes up slightly less than one percent of the Earth's surface, it is home to approximately ten percent of the world's plants and animals, with a rich variety of flora and fauna and a diversity of primate species that is only superseded by Brazil and Peru in number. This vibrantly illustrated field guide is the result of a wealth of field work conducted on Colombian primates both in and out of the country.
The volume illustrates and describes twenty-eight primate species comprising forty-three taxa, of which fifteen taxa are only found in Colombia. The field guide also includes comprehensive chapters on primate classification, fossil history, and conservation, and each is augmented by a wealth of finely detailed drawings, photographs, and maps. Primates of Colombia will be an invaluable resource for primatologists and naturalists alike.
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Comprehensive and well-illustrated.......2007-08-07
This is a comprehensive review of the species found in this primate-rich country. The illustrations by Stephen Nash are outstanding.
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Primates de Colombia
Manufacturer: Panamericana Formas e impreso, S.A.
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This digital document is an article from Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4162 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: Informacion cariologica del genero callicebus en Colombia.(Zoología)
Author: M.L. Bueno
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Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
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Volume: 30
Issue: 114
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901-1982) Selecta: 2 Volumes (Contemporary Mathematicians)
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Intensivtherapie angeborener Herzfehler
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Der klare Aufbau dieses Buches setzt folgende Schwerpunkte:
- Besondere Grundlagen der Herzfunktion bei angeborenen Herzfehlern;
- Konzepte für eine Basistherapie und die spezielle Therapie nach operativen oder interventionellen Eingriffen;
- Darstellung sämtlicher kardiovaskulärer Monitorings, ohne die ein frühes Erkennen von Komplikationen und hämodynamischen Entgleisungen nicht möglich ist.
Eine besondere Berücksichtigung findet die echokardiographische Diagnostik der Herzfunktion. Ausgerichtet auf die praktische Arbeit des Arztes im Intensivbereich bietet dieses Manual konkrete Hilfe für Diagnostik und bei angeborenen Herzfehlern.
Neu in der 2. Auflage: Teil II Perinatales Management
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Pädiatrische Kardiologie
Thomas Borth-Bruhns , and
Andrea Eichler
Manufacturer: Springer
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Pädiatrische Kardiologie für Einsteiger!
Kinder und Jugendliche mit Herzerkrankungen brauchen eine spezielle Behandlung und spezielle Pflege. Kleine Patienten stellen Ärzte und Pflegende immer wieder vor ganz besondere Herausforderungen.
Pädiatrische Kardiologie – das bedeutet kompaktes Wissen ohne überflüssigen Ballast.
Welche Grundlagen sind unverzichtbar?
Was muss bei Diagnostik und Therapie beachtet werden?
Hier finden Sie gut strukturierte und leicht verständliche Antworten auf Ihre Fragen.
Das Einsteigerbuch in die Pädiatrische Kardiologie bietet Ihnen
Grundlagen, die sich auf die wesentlichen Informationen beschränken Alle Herzerkrankungen inklusive anschaulicher Herzschemata Eine übersichtliche und prägnante Darstellung nach einem einheitlichen Schema Detaillierte Behandlungspläne mit Angabe der einzelnen Therapieschritte Abstimmung mit den aktuell gültigen Leitlinien der Deutschen Gesellschaft für pädiatrische Kardiologie
Lernen – Wissen – Erfolgreich behandeln
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Pädiatrische Kardiologie: Erkrankungen des Herzens bei Neugeborenen, Säuglingen, Kindern und Heranwachsenden
Manufacturer: Steinkopff-Verlag Darmstadt
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ASIN: 3798513228 |
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Die pädiatrische Kardiologie befasst sich mit der Erfassung, Diagnostik und Therapie angeborener und erworbener Herzfehler bei allen Altersgruppen der Pädiatrie, vom Früh- und Neugeborenen bis zum Adoleszenten. Dieses bewährte Standardwerk in der 2. überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage ist ein zuverlässiger und unerlässlicher Ratgeber für jeden Kinderkardiologen. Es bietet eine schnelle Orientierung über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Diagnostik und Therapie.
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- Rather dull but enlivened in second half
- I want more!!!
- A great summer read in a suburban wasteland
- Hilarious assortment of geeks and pretentious yuppies!
- Stella kicks it up a notch
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Unimaginable Zero Summer: A Novel
Leslie Stella
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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The Easy Hour: A Novel of Leisure
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Fat Bald Jeff
ASIN: 1400081025
Release Date: 2005-04-26 |
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Perhaps you too have experienced the nausea brought on by the arrival of an invitation to a high school reunion.
Bookstore clerk and culture junker Verity Presti will soon attend her fifteenth reunion with her boyfriend, the unfortunately but aptly named Charlie Brown, who lives with his parents while training to be an urban shaman—a modern-day medicine man somewhat capable of exorcising ghosts from apartments and cubicles, predicting baseball scores, and channeling lost pets. Verity, angst-ridden and burdened with fifteen years of magnificent failure, will be reunited with Craig and Carolyn, sickeningly perfect high school sweethearts, married now and perfectly sick of each other; Verity’s former crush Stan and his wife, Laurel, a frustrated author of angry haikus; and Will, a rage-aholic KJ (that’s “karaoke jockey”) whose only soft spot is the one he still has for Verity. A growing anxiety permeates the round of cocktail parties that precedes the reunion, causing old affections and animosities to boil over and threaten the dubious complacency of these seven lovable losers.
With her trademark sarcasm and uncanny ability to skewer the oddities of contemporary hipster life, Stella has created a cast of endearingly eccentric characters who embody the insecurities and foibles that all of us—former prom desperados, band nerds, the burnout brigade, and loner stiffs—have and hope nobody else will notice.
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“An uncompromising, darkly comical, and insightful look into the lives of thirty-something friends gearing up for their high school reunion.” —Laura Caldwell, author of The Year of Living Famously
“With a cast of quirky characters, a wicked sense of humor, and razor-sharp writing, Leslie Stella reminds us that the only thing worse than a mauve taffeta prom gown and carnation corsage is the trip down memory lane for your high school reunion.” —Jennifer O’Connell, author of Bachelorette #1 and Dress Rehearsal
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews:
Rather dull but enlivened in second half.......2005-10-26
The attempt to write about a group of characters who have been sleepwalking through life since they left high school fifteen years ago was intriguing. How on earth was Stella going to make such a very common phenomena-the tale of the non-career driven, stuck in teenagehood nerd- interesting. Well, therein lies the problem ...
Stella is not that great a writer and her descriptions (1st half of book) of people sleepwalking through life is not dissimilar to, well, sleepwalking. Firstly, as to the so called 'hilarious' quotes mentioned by another reviewer: "She had not drunk like this in years. Her stockpile of 'I was so wasted' stories remained archived and smoldering, a black box recording retrived from a wreckage of shame."
How is that observation original never mind hilarious? Isn't that everyone working outside Wall Street's story of their twenties? But I digress.
Half way through this self-pitying slacker tale the characters wake up and decide to do something with their lives. Hurrah for that, because I must admit I was about to toss this - actually I lie, I took it out from the library so I couldn't exactly toss it. Instead I kept reading and the last bit ain't bad. Maybe the sleepwalking bit could have been shortened to a chapter ... just a thought.
I want more!!!.......2005-08-02
I absolutely LOVED this book. I am not kidding when I say I laughed out loud! It was clever and quirky without trying too hard to be. The idea that a shaman would use Glade Plug-ins in place of incense because it gives his mother a headache!! I am going to start Leslie Stella's book Fat Bald Jeff tonight!!
A great summer read in a suburban wasteland.......2005-06-09
The story revolves around a bunch of 30-somethings in Chicago preparing for a high school reunion at Downers Grove South High School.
You may have heard of Leslie's first two books - the subvert-from-within classic debut Fat Bald Jeff, and her hilarious tribute to lowering the upper class by bringing a bit of Bridgeport to the Gold Coast- The Easy Hour.
I think with UZS, Stella really shows how much she honed her craft. Her dialogue has always been "laugh out loud" funny, and it is here as well, but the sentences are even tighter. She tells a great story at a perfect pace. In UZS, she creates her most interesting characters to date.
A lot of her content is familiar stuff, as she weaves music and pop culture into Chicago area settings. Among the long forgotten bands she mentions are the Psychedelic Furs, Ulravox, the Young Fresh Fellows, the Replacements...
Here's a sample of some of the commentary, out of context of course, from one of the book's best characters, a bitter Vietnam vet bookstore clerk named Bob:
On Dr. Phil: "I'd like to kick that mustache into the back of his skull."
On 'Chicken Soup For the Soul': "I'd like to take a pot of boiling chicken soup and shove it down his *** throat."
Another character, Charlie, taking about his haunted apartment in Rogers Park: "Did you ever think a three-flat in Rogers Park would be the afterlife? How depressing. But I guess its better than haunting the south side. Can you imagine spending eternity in Bridgeport? Your soul would be floating around 35th street thinking 'Oh my God! I've been sent to hell."
Some more great quotes:
"I'm not broke just because I'm Polish and grew up in Westmont."
"Are you getting 'mommy urges'?"
"Does craving alchohol count?"
"...he found he could not forgive her for liking the Dave Matthews Band."
"I'm not ready for the Cubs and Red Sox to face off in the World Series. I have a lot of things I want to do before toads rain upon the land and the earth spins into the sun."
"She had not drunk like this in years. Her stockpile of 'I was so wasted' stories remained archived and smoldering, a black box recording retrived from a wreckage of shame."
"Downers Grove may suck, but its almost like home to me."
Highly recommended!
Hilarious assortment of geeks and pretentious yuppies! .......2005-06-02
I've been a fan of Leslie Stella since Fat Bald Jeff, with her believable, well-written oddballs (except maybe not so odd- they are like the dork in you and me!)
The story is basically this:an impending high school reunion with a mid-30's crowd, full of unresolved issues in the group. The heroine, Verity, is a bookstore clerk with a nice boyfriend stuck with the name of Charlie Brown. She feels like a failure. After all, what has she really done with her life, except become an excellent thrift shopper with a keen eye for cool? Her boyfriend lives with his parents and the ghost of a murdered (but sartorially savvy) tenant with an inexplicable attraction to Mrs. Brown's meatloaf.
Verity and Charlie meet up with Verity's old friends and make some entertaining career changes that will make you smile. Her father and his vampire-lifestylist girfriend are gems who go through some changes of their own.
She skewers character's pretensions, and then turns around and gives us something to like about them. Her books have a kind heart in disguise.
Stella kicks it up a notch.......2005-05-01
This is certainly her best book so far. While maintaining that distinctive Stella style (i.e. sarcasm and wry humor loaded into every word, but without any distasteful mocking), she's managed to ratchet it up a notch and infuse better character development and some real tension into this one. Fat Bald Jeff and The Easy Hour are pleasant warm-ups, but Unimaginable Zero Summer is the full-tilt Stella novel her fans have been slavering for.
Wow! Holy crap! I was getting very anxious reading through the subtle relationship interplays-the tension was more palpable than Stella has attempted before-hoping that there wouldn't be some painful betrayal! She really twisted the knife in there, but layered it with enough honest-to-goodness sweetness that by the end you're rooting for everyone and when the "happy" ending finally does arrive, it seems appropriate and earnest (as opposed to trite and contrived, like most of 'em). Also, the constant switching of POV (another new element for Stella) worked very well, and was very smooth and effective. It helped develop the characters a LOT.
Whenever I've read her other books, I'm usually sitting there grinning like an ape the whole time in amazement at how she so deftly captures the subtext of "my" life. Stella has a keen eye for the absurdity of the mundane, and the unique ability to translate it into some funny stuff, too. I haven't felt a book speaking to me so directly since High Fidelity!
This book made me, a 35-yr-old, well-read and intelligent (but sort of hopelessly unambitious and bewildered) guy feel better about my own aimless existence, even elevating it to a level of acceptance I never thought possible. I am going to force my mother to read this book, just so I can stand over her shoulder as she reads the last page and say, "See? That's what I'm talking about!"
Good shout-outs for Rogers Park and elotes, and a thousand other things that I'll only be able to remember when I buy a copy expressly for the purpose of highlighting stuff with yellow ink. However, one thing I recall vividly is that I burst out laughing at her description of a mobile hanging above one of the character's child's crib as "playing instrumental Phish"! Maybe some people won't even get that joke, but that's why Stella's books are so great-she peppers all her work with little nuggets of scene-specific goodness that are not necessarily broad enough for legions of Oprah followers to immediately appreciate. Her characters and uncanny ability to zero in on the fundamentals of relationships of all sorts, however, give all her work-and particularly this one, with its themes of family and the changning nature of friendship-a familiarity that resonates with almost everyone.
Kudos to Stella for making her Charlie Brown character a "hero." I AM CHARLIE BROWN! And there are a LOT of us CB's out here, you know? We thank her, for at least once demonstrating that we, too, can win.
I know it's absolutely premature, but I can't wait for the next one.
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