Property-Liability Insurance Accounting and Finance (4th ed)(Item #11103)

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This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 7204 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: Avoiding liabilities downstream. (flood insurance determination)
Author: Mark Hamlin
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: v55 Issue: n2 Page: p111(10)

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Buying property and liability insurance for your business.: An article from: CPA Client Bulletin

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Buying property and liability insurance for your business.: An article from: CPA Client Bulletin

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This digital document is an article from CPA Client Bulletin, published by American Institute of CPA's on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 829 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: Buying property and liability insurance for your business.
Publication: CPA Client Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Page: 3(2)

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Check your D&O insurance: make sure you've read the fine print as well as the exclusion clauses so you won't be hit with any surprises. .(directors and ... Story): An article from: Strategic Finance

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Check your D&O insurance: make sure you've read the fine print as well as the exclusion clauses so you won't be hit with any surprises. .(directors and ... Story): An article from: Strategic Finance
R. Mark Keenan
Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2019 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: Check your D&O insurance: make sure you've read the fine print as well as the exclusion clauses so you won't be hit with any surprises. .(directors and officers insurance)(Cover Story)
Author: R. Mark Keenan
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Volume: 84 Issue: 11 Page: 36(5)

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CPAs outsource HR paperwork to free up valuable time.(Practice Management) : An article from: Leader's Edge

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CPAs outsource HR paperwork to free up valuable time.(Practice Management) : An article from: Leader's Edge
Tom Shehan
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This digital document is an article from Leader's Edge, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1224 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: CPAs outsource HR paperwork to free up valuable time.(Practice Management)
Author: Tom Shehan
Publication: Leader's Edge (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
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E&Y settlement saps E&O mkt. for accountants. (Ernst and Young, executive and officer liability insurance): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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E&Y settlement saps E&O mkt. for accountants. (Ernst and Young, executive and officer liability insurance): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
L.H. Otis
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on December 7, 1992. The length of the article is 1138 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.

From the supplier: Risk insurers have become hesitant about marketing professional liability insurance to accountants, following the $400-million settlement of suits related to Ernst and Young's (E&Y) accounting and auditing of failed savings and loan companies. E&Y insurers have already paid $300 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and Resolution Trust Corp as part of the settlement, and the accounting firm will pay the remaining $100 million in four annual installments. The insurance companies involved agreed to the settlement to prevent additional lawsuits.

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Title: E&Y settlement saps E&O mkt. for accountants. (Ernst and Young, executive and officer liability insurance)
Author: L.H. Otis
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 7, 1992
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n49 Page: p1(2)

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Fiduciary liability insurance: a necessary means of protection.: An article from: Leader's Edge

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Fiduciary liability insurance: a necessary means of protection.: An article from: Leader's Edge
Thomas Welbourn
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This digital document is an article from Leader's Edge, published by Michigan Association of CPAs on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 912 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.

From the supplier: The Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) has made fiduciary liability insurance a necessity. The law created new responsibilities for fiduciaries of employee benefit plans and holds them personally liable for noncompliance. A fiduciary can be a manager, human resource staff or any individual with control over managing and administrating employee benefit plans. Examples of fiduciary liability claims and other factors creating the need for fiduciary liability insurance are discussed.

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Title: Fiduciary liability insurance: a necessary means of protection.
Author: Thomas Welbourn
Publication: Leader's Edge (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Michigan Association of CPAs
Volume: 1 Issue: 4 Page: 3(2)

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Preferred habitat, taxable/tax-exempt yield spreads, and cycles in property/liability insurance.: An article from: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking

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Preferred habitat, taxable/tax-exempt yield spreads, and cycles in property/liability insurance.: An article from: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking
Karlyn Mitchell , and Michael D. McDade
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, published by Ohio State University Press on November 1, 1992. The length of the article is 8815 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.

From the supplier: Several theories seek to explain the spread between the yields on taxable and tax-exempt bonds of comparable maturity. This paper reconsiders the market segmentation theory by focusing on property and liability insurance companies (PLICs). PLICs can provide evidence on the market segmentation theory both because they are major participants in the market for longer term tax-exempt bonds and because of their industry's pronounced profit cycle, which causes wide variations in PLICs' need for tax shields. If investors have "preferred habitats" as per the market segmentation theory, their preferences should cause PLICs' purchases and sales of tax-exempts to have different impacts on taxable/tax-exempts yield spreads at different maturities. This paper finds strong evidence of market segmentation during the 1972-84 period, when the industry experienced two extremely pronounced cycles, and weaker evidence of market segmentation during the 1959-71 and 1985-89 periods. (Printed by permission of the publisher.)

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Title: Preferred habitat, taxable/tax-exempt yield spreads, and cycles in property/liability insurance.
Author: Karlyn Mitchell
Publication: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1992
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: v24 Issue: n4 Page: p528(25)

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A number of critical issues since 9/11 has significantly affected importers and their inbound supply chains. This book looks at compliance, regulatory and security issues with the most current U.S. and Foreign Government Laws and Practice. It focuses on the skill sets necessary for managers and employees to follow to successfully understand all the issues surrounding global business and a solutions approach to make import trade and the supply chain management functions work more profitable.

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"I doubt there is a wetland environment anywhere in the Americas inhabited, used, and modified as long as San Juan Basin, and by as many cultures with different technologies. This story needs to be told." --William E. Doolittle, Professor of Geography, University of Texas at Austin The wetlands of the San Juan Basin in Central Veracruz, Mexico, have been a favored place since the fifth century A.D., when Prehispanic people built an extensive network of canals and raised fields that allowed for almost year-round agriculture. Alfred Siemens' discovery of the remains of this network in the 1970s led him to uncover fifteen centuries of land-use history in the region. This book contains a full record of his findings. Siemens organizes his history of the San Juan Basin around the question: What relationships exist between Prehispanic agriculture and the production systems of the tropical lowlands in our own time? This focus allows him to chart the changes in human perceptions and uses of the landscape, from the Prehispanic wetland agricultural system to the drained pastures of today's cattle ranches. Amplified with air oblique photography, maps, and tables, and enriched with data from archaeology and colonial archives, this is an authoritative historical geography of a wetland landscape. Or, in the author's more modest words, "It seems to me that what I have here is a biography of a swamp."

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A geographer takes new look at 'unfavourable' wetlands........1998-09-25

'A Favored Place' is a highly complex analysis of wetland history, tracing its development through pre-Columbian times to the present. This is no easy task. Siemens' book guides us through detailed archaelogical aspects, how Spanish conquerors 'read' the land they found themselves in on the Mexican Gulf coast, what a nineteenth century German colonist saw, and how twentieth century planners thought and proposed to do with 'unfavourable' wetlands. Siemens presents us with a rich and elaborate text, which will be obliged reading for specialists (especially historians, and geographers), but also a delight for a more general public interested in the way perceptions diverge over what is desirable and/or feasible when we come up against such troublesome concepts as traditional and modern. Even though the book abounds in complex technical and methodological questions, amply backed up by maps, illustrations, photographs, and diagrams, Siemens has an enviable command of language, thus permitting the lay reader easy and enjoyable access to the mysteries of what has so often been considered 'unfavourable', but after this re-reading turns out to be 'favourable': that is, flooded bottom-lands. At the end of the day, no preconceived view of the subject escapes Siemens' scalpel.

A Favored Place: San Juan river Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D.500 to the Present.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review

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A Favored Place: San Juan river Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D.500 to the Present.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
Andrew Sluyter
Manufacturer: American Geographical Society
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Binding: Digital
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 989 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: A Favored Place: San Juan river Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D.500 to the Present.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Andrew Sluyter
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 88 Issue: 3 Page: 450(3)

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An extensive update of the classic reference on organic reactions in water

Published almost a decade ago, the first edition has served as the guide for research in this burgeoning field. Due to the cost, safety, efficiency, and environmental friendliness of water as a solvent, there are many new applications in industry and academic laboratories. More than forty percent of this extensively updated second edition covers new reactions. For ease of reference, it is organized by functional groups. A core reference, Comprehensive Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media, Second Edition:

* Provides the most comprehensive coverage of aqueous organicreactions available
* Covers the basic principles and theory and progresses to applications
* Includes alkanes, alkenes, aromatics, electrophilic substitutions, carbonyls, alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyls, carbon-nitrogen bonds, organic halides, pericyclic reactions, photochemical reactions, click chemistry, and multi-step syntheses?
* Provides examples of applications in industry

This is the premier reference for chemists and chemical engineers in industry or research, as well as for students in advanced-level courses.

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Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media
Chao-Jun Li , and Tak-Hang Chan
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From cost and safety to synthetic efficiency and environmental friendliness, water has many potential advantages as a solvent for organic reactions. This book examines different aspects of organic reactions in water, enabling readers to gain an essential understanding of current thinking on a range of reaction types and techniques.

Beginning with basic theory and progressing to synthetic applications, Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media is an ideal platform for both advanced-level study and practical research. It covers these key areas:
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* Oxidations and reductions
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Organic Synthesis with Enzymes in Non-Aqueous Media

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Closing a gap in the literature, this comprehensive book examines and discusses different non-aqueous systems from organic solvents to ionic liquids for synthetic applications, thus opening the door to new successful methods for biocatalytic reactions. It gathers into one handy source the information otherwise widely spread throughout the literature, combining useful background information with a number of synthetic examples, including industrial scale processes for pharmaceutical and fine chemicals.
Extremely well structured, the text introduces the fundamentals of non-aqueous enzymology, before going on to new reaction media and synthetic applications using hydrolases and non-hydrolytic enzymes.
The one-stop reference for everyone working in this hot field.

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Improves one's mind.......2004-08-26

"Kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond bracelet lasts forever." So says Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes." With the emergence of Lorelei, Anita Loos invented the chick-lit genre as we know it, with witty looks at love, jewelry, and gold-digging in the sparkling 1920s.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is the diary of Lorelei Lee, a pretty young flapper originally from Little Rock. Since she has managed to get engaged to a married man, and might be hit with a scandal, Lorelei goes overseas. She cuts a gold-digging swathe through Europe, dazzling wealthy men, seeing the "Eyefull" Tower, and recording thoughts both witty and vapid.

Loos followed up her hit novel with "But Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes." The sequel is the story of Lorelei's travelling buddy Dorothy, as told by Lorelei. Dorothy has led a more colorful life -- she started off in the circus before heading to NYC. There, she became a Ziegfield Follies Girl, and then a "companion" to wealthy men.

Anita Loos's "Gentlemen" books first started when Loos encountered a starlet who had men tripping over themselves to help her with her things. Loos was as pretty, as young, and much smarter, but nobody helped her. What was different? Loos was a brunette, and the starlet was a blonde. You do the math.

Loos had a fun, deft sense of humor. She skewered flappers and/or gold-diggers, wealthy men, and the social mores of the 1920s. She also deliberately litters her books with misspellings and run-on sentences, adding to the feeling of overal ditziness. At the same time, her books are such good light fun that they can be read without taking note of the satire.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" gives a wink-nudge look at the flapper era, while giving us the origins of the present-day lite chick-lit genre. Fun, fluffy and amusing.

Utterly entertaining.......2004-06-22

This is a great little book (actually, two books in one). I laughed put loud throughout it and hoped that it would never end. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is rightly considered a classic, its sharp and bitingly witty insight is something one never seems to see in a book today (indeed, humour in a book today seems to be rare - sometimes it seems that all new fiction books are depressing and morbid; and if you feel this way too then you should read Loos' clever and refreshing novels). This is a classuc that you will want to read over and over.

Wry, funny and timeless.......2003-09-12

If you appreciate wry humor and satire, wonderfully written, this is the book for you. A quick read that never disappoints. Every gentleman should read this by the time he turns 25.

What a star.......2002-07-03

Which came first, Damon Runyon or Anita Loos? Whatever, this is a brilliant book that gets funnier as Loos hits her stride. By the time she gets to Dorothy's adventures she's well away. It's not just the language and the gags but the concrete observation - Dorothy isn't just discovered sitting in the doorway of Pearl Lo Vino's tent, she's found sitting there watching Pearl crochet a boudoir cap. Writers, take note!

Classic humor!.......2001-06-13

I adored this book! I purchased it because I'd seen both of the movies, but the book is so much wittier! I'd recommend it to anyone with an extremely sophisticated sense of humor, otherwise it would be hard to understand - not for lightweights!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

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Funniest book ever
Blondes DO have more fun
Lorelei will make you laugh!
Forget feminism and deep meanings - just enjoy it!
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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The delirious 1925 Jazz-Age classic that no less an authority than Edith Wharton called "the great American novel." If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she's been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose, good-hearted gold digger, with an insatiable appetite for orchids, champagne, and precious stones. Here are her "diaries," created by Anita Loos in the Roaring Twenties, as Lorelei and her friend Dorothy barrel across Europe meeting everyone from the Prince of Wales to "Doctor Froyd"--and then back home again to marry a Main Line millionaire and become a movie star. In this delightfully droll and witty book, Lorelei Lee's wild antics, unique outlook, and imaginative way with language shine.

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Funniest book ever.......2007-02-02

I've read "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" more times than I can recall. It's taken me through good and bad times, and it's never stopped making me laugh. Next to "Pride and Prejudice," it's the definition of "chick lit."

As her friend, Dorothy, says, Lorelei is a like a radio. You listen to end for days on end and just when you want to throw it out the window, something smart comes out.

Giggles and diamonds all around!

Blondes DO have more fun.......2004-08-14

You could say that author/screenwriter Anita Loos invented the chick-lit genre. Her entertainingly fluffy satire "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" certainly fits the bill, with its love-seeking heroine and amusing jokes. It never dips far below the surface, but its lightness is part of its appeal.

"A gentleman friend and I were dining at the Ritz last evening and he said that if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a book." Meet Lorelei Lee, a pretty blonde socialite with a love of jewels, men, and luxury. She has a married boyfriend, but is convinced to go abroad so her name won't be "smirched."

So Lorelei and her pal Dorothy head off to Europe, bumping into exalted people (like "Dr. Froyd") and winning the hearts of wealthy men, in between days-long parties. Gold-digging, millionaires, money and love all get wrapped up in the tangle of Lorelei's everyday life...

Lorelei first appeared in Harper's Bazaar, and a short story stretched out into a full-length novel that appeared in serials. A first edition sold out almost instantly. Now Lorelei has countless descendents -- sure, those determined gals have been updated for the twenty-first century, with jobs and Web access. But light women's fiction could be seen to stem from Loos's novel.

A satirical edge runs through "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," poking fun at the jazzy gals whom Loos had to deal with regularly. Loos doesn't spare anything -- the book is riddled with intentional typos, like "encyclopediacs," "safires" and "maskerades" (yet she can spell "champagne"). The shallowness of the flappers is best shown in straight-faced jokes about the latest Parisian styles of buttons. Loos's satire doesn't bite down to the bone, but it does scratch lightly in a deliciously catty way.

Lorelei has an entertaining mix of determination, idiocy, and a constant belief in her own towering intellect. She's so much fun it's hard not to like her, in spite of the fact that she's an utter airhead. She talks matter-of-factly about how she has "almost one of everything" (diamond-wise), and tries to reform the entire world (without success, needless to say).

Gentlemen may prefer blondes, and people seeking a fun light read may prefer "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." If you are in the mood for vintage chick-lit, Loos's witty little novel is a fun diversion.

Lorelei will make you laugh!.......2004-05-17

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has long been one of my favorite movies, so I was tickled to discover that it was a magazine serial first. Until I stumbled across the book, I had just assumed that Loos wrote it for the screen.

Lorelei is a beautiful blonde with a conflicting amount of predatory logic, downright dumbness and a deep conviction of her own intelligence. The book is the journal she kept during the few months she was traveling abroad (Mr. Eisman is "educating" her) with her friend Dorothy, who "really does not care about her mind and I always scold her because she does nothing but waste her time by going around with gentlemen who do not have anything".

Mr. Eisman (never called Gus, because "when a gentleman who is as important as Mr. Eisman, spends quite a lot of money education a girl, it really does not show reverence to call a gentleman by his first name") makes the mistake of not going with Lorelei, and so with just Dorothy to chaperone, she makes conquests of kind rich men all across Europe.

Loos has written an amusing story, and though at times I got tired of the purposeful misspellings and grammatical errors, I enjoyed it from beginning to end. The few not-as-interesting parts were completely forgotten as soon as I read another one of Loos' little gems such as "Well, it's been three days since my debut party started but I finally got tired and left the party last night and went to bed because I always seem to lose all of my interest in a party after a few days" or "So, she found a box of liqueur candies that are full of liqueurs and she was really very delighted. So I finally got dressed and she threw the empty box away and I helped her down stairs to the Dining room."

If you've seen the movie, you should definitely read this as it gives a little more depth to Lorelei. If you've not, the book will still be a fun trip back to the 20's where bootleggers, gold diggers and millionaires party side by side.

Forget feminism and deep meanings - just enjoy it!.......2001-08-02

This book is on my list of all-time favorites, not because of what it may or may not say to or about society (I think if you're going to get that deep about it you're missing out), but because I've read it four or five times and it still makes me laugh out loud. I, too, saw the movie first, and liked it, but the book is fantastic. I love the irony, the misspelled words, the subtle humour that sometimes makes me do a double-take before cracking up (even after four readings I still do this). It's a great book to read if you want to kick off your shoes, hang out on the deck in the sun, and just lose yourself for a few hours in Lorelei's adventures. Gentlemen: it was a male friend who recommended it - I think you guys would get a kick out of it too. Enjoy!

Stereotypical Humor.......2000-12-16

The novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos is an entertaining story about Lorelei Lee, a beautiful blonde woman who has every man in the palm of her hands. She is portrayed as a conniving gold digger who can receive diamonds and jewels at the snap of her finger. The journal entries by Lorelei Lee, which make up the novel, make it easier to know Lorelei's character. The saying "dumb blonde" has been a stereotype for as long as I can remember. I was not really sure where the stereotype came from until I read Gentleman Prefer Blondes. It is very humorous in the way that Lorelei is portrayed as a "dumb blonde." There is a lot of irony in the story that makes you wonder who the "dumb" characters really are. The story makes fun of sex in many ways and tries to portray blondes as being unintelligent and brainless, but I think that this novel portrays men as being stupid and foolish. I really admired Lorelei's character because she knew what she wanted and she was very good at getting it. I would recommend this novel to women that enjoy humorous stories about a woman's triumph over men. Gentleman Prefer Blondes was a very good novel, and I really enjoyed reading it.

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"Gentlemen prefer blondes": The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: Boni & Liveright
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0006AJM9E

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: FOLIO SOCIETY LTD (ENGLAND)
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TRKQJE

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"GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: Boni & Liveright
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H40DGA

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos Ralph Barton
Manufacturer: Boni And Liveright
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VAQ04Y

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"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: Boni & Liveright
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J47H9E

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"Gentlemen prefer blondes": The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Anita Loos
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita, Illustrated by Barton, Ralph Loos
Manufacturer: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NX2SVI

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Blondes DO have more fun
Read "for real" which made it even funnier

"Gentlemen prefer blondes,": The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Anita Loos
Manufacturer: Liveright Pub. Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0871408880

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This is a brilliant satire of the Jazz Age, featuring the funniest Bad Blonde in American literature. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was considered a shocker when it was first published in 1926. The film based on this title was recognized as one of Marilyn Monroe's best as well as an all-time great humor classic. A refreshing, politically incorrect portrait of a blonde with a mission, glamorous Lorelei Lee always gets what she wants. Eavesdrop on her immortal diaries and learn how she does it in this new complete and unabridged audiobook. Anita Loos was primarily a playwright and a screenplay writer, and so the dialogue lends itself perfectly to audio adaptation. The reader, Marni Webb, with her expert comic timing and charm, enhances the humor of what The Times Literary Supplement called a "masterpiece of comic literature." 3 cassettes.

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Blondes DO have more fun.......2005-05-21

Read "for real" which made it even funnier.......1998-09-30

The reader tells Lorelei's diary-story with an openness, a directness that charms the listener. This is a real Lorelei, not a cartoon, and therefore even funnier.

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