Basic Accounting for Small Groups

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Oxfam's step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques was originally published in 1992. In this newly updated edition, each chapter contains training materials which may be used either with groups or for individual self-instruction. The book is written in a clear and accessible style, aiming to build up expertise systematically through examples and case-studies. The text is suitable for learners whose command of English is limited: the activities and exercises use multiple-choice and group-discussion formats, avoiding the need for long written answers. Solutions are provided for all the activities.

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Great food, but accurate?

My new favorite cookbook!

Fast, Healthy, Delicious...and You'll Shed a Few Pounds Too!

NO LOW FAT COOKING FOR ME!!

A must buy for the busy new cook

Pillsbury: Fast and Healthy Cookbook: 350 Easy Recipes for Every Day (Pillsbury)
Pillsbury Company
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Pillsbury Fast and Healthy Cookbook: 350 Easy Recipes for Every Day

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Great food, but accurate?.......2007-05-08

I've had this book forever.
I cooked out of it for years and then in my last move, lost the book. I came across it again recently. With me being on weight watchers, the nutritional information is really handy....or is it? I have found several of the recipies to be way under the actual calories and fat.

It's still a really awesome little book, but if you are concerned about the nutritional information, you may want to double check the values.

My new favorite cookbook!.......2006-12-10

After searching long and hard for a quick and healthy cookbook, I purchased this one. This pillsbury cookbook is just what it states; "fast and healthy". However, it is so much more! First of all I love all the pictures. As a somewhat inexperienced cook, I really like to know how something is going to look before I make it. Once I discovered how delicious and easy the recipes were, I ventured into making the non-pictured recipes as well. And to my delight, they turned out great!
Another thing that I like about this book is that each recipe doesn't have a million ingredients listed nor are the ingredients weird or difficult to find in the stores. I have found almost everything I needed in Walmart Supercenter which is where I do the majority of my shopping.
Finally, this book is different from other "healthy" cookbooks out there in that the recipes are not only healthy, but they have some actual "taste" to them as well. Sometimes I forget that I'm actually eating a low-fat meal!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to keep their diet under control but does not want to spend all day in the kitchen slaving over the stove!

Fast, Healthy, Delicious...and You'll Shed a Few Pounds Too!.......2003-07-24

I have owned this book for several months now but not until recently have I taken it out and actually used some of the recipes. Well actually, I have taken up Weight Watchers again and I was looking for some recipes that wouldn't remind me that I was dieting. I just finished a Garden-Fresh Tuna Salad Sandwich (4 points) that was just packed with flavor with just a scant 3 grams of fat. The photograph of the sandwich is what caught my eye and that is one of the big selling points of this and other Pillsbury cookbooks.

The book begins with a comprehensive discussion called, 'A Guide to Healthier Eating'. Here you will find information about the soon to be amended Food Pyramid and just what is meant by a 'serving'. The authors then give the reader the 'Seven Steps to a Healthy Diet' which include suggestions for improving your food intake. Additionally, there is a glossary of health and food-related terms, some suggestions for using the nutritional information included in the book and some suggested menus combining some of the recipes.

Like many cookbooks, Fast and Healthy covers the culinary experience from Appetizers to Desserts. Aside from the many beautiful photos, the book is replete with many sidebars. These give the user tips that will enhance not only the recipe, but the expertise of the cook as well. Nutritional information for each recipe is provided and dietary exchanges for diabetics are also included. Weight Watchers clients like myself can easily calculate the Winning Points from the information provided and most of the recipes will fall into weight loss plans. For the chocolate lover, who can resist Cocoa Mocha Brownies or Double Chocolate Chip Cookies....two and one point respectively???

As you can tell, I like this book. I am a big fan of Pillsbury's cookbooks and this one is going to be a good friend over the next three months...and well beyond!

NO LOW FAT COOKING FOR ME!!.......2003-04-05

Why do you keep inserting low fat and diet books into my lifestyles and favorites???? That's a real no-no for a fat man who enjoys his food and is happy being fat!

A must buy for the busy new cook.......2003-02-25

This book is a must buy for the new cook who wants to make GREAT meals that are also FAST and HEALTHY. This book has changed my family's life, we use it every time we cook to make a delicious meal that anyone in the house can make in minutes. Move over Betty Crocker, Pillsbury is in the house!

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The Healthy Company
Robert H. Rosen , and Lisa Berger
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Campbells Healthy Request, Healthy Cooking Made Easy (Recipe Booklet)
Campbells Soup Company
Manufacturer: Meredith Custom Publishing
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44 Delicious Recipes, Dozens of Healthful Tips and Menus! Easy How-To Guide for Using Herbs and Spices! UPC # 014005142771

Cholesterol in Children: Healthy Eating Is a Family Affair: Parents' Guide

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Cholesterol in Children: Healthy Eating Is a Family Affair: Parents' Guide
Diane Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Diane Books Publishing Company
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Entertaining Light: Healthy Company Menus With Great Style

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Entetaining Light - Healthy Company Menus with Great Style

Entertaining Light: Healthy Company Menus With Great Style
Martha Rose Shulman
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Martha Rose Shulman is famous for her supper clubs, where she entertains up to 25 paying guests at a time in her apartment in Paris. But, as she points out, if she has even one guest for dinner (and he's not trying to sell her something), she's entertaining. An enthusiastic advocate for healthy eating, Shulman describes her attitude towards entertaining as "light on the pocketbook as well as the arteries."

With years of catering, teaching, and grand-scale entertaining behind her, Shulman is the perfect person to turn to when you have company coming. The key, as she explains in her introduction, is organization. Every recipe includes an Advanced Preparation note, in which she describes what part of it can be made ahead and when. And her instructions are so precise--down to the number of minutes to sauté the first ingredient before adding the second and how many minutes to do this before your guests arrive--that you'll always feel confident that you are prepared. The first section of the book is dedicated to hors d'oeuvres, and it begins with a list of "aperitifs," basically a terrific list of recommended wines for pouring while your guests are nibbling. To keep the party moving, Shulman suggests that all hors d'oeuvres should be able to be eaten with one hand. The almost 50 recipes that follow ensure that your guests will never need to put down their drinks. And with recipes such as Spicy Zucchini Purée on Red Pepper Pieces, Tuna or Salmon and Horseradish Tartare, and Crackers with Goat Cheese Spread and Sun-Dried Tomatoes, your guests won't know that they're watching their fat and calories.

Shulman follows generally accepted healthful guidelines, but notes that this is not a diet cookbook. Rather, she keeps fat to a minimum--with the emphasis on flavor--avoids rich meats, and serves a lot of fish and fresh vegetables. Her menus are well-rounded and there's no chance that anyone will leave hungry. Some of her menus are more elaborate, such as An Elegant April Sit-Down Dinner, which starts with a Pinot d'Alsace, then Dried Porcini Soup with Tarragon Bruschette, followed by Asparagus and Herb Lasagne, Savory Baked Tomatoes, and Simple Salad of Arugula and Lamb's Lettuce. For dessert, there's Rhubarb, Honey, and Blood Orange Sorbet and a bottle of Tokay Pinot Gris d'Alsace. For those of us easily intimidated, she has wonderful, friendly menus such as A Simple Menu for Friends, which starts with a Piperade au Basilic (a Provençal dish of peppers, onions, eggs, garlic, and basil) and Christine's Baked New Potatoes, followed by a Tossed Green Salad (with a wide array of vinaigrettes to choose from), and then Apricot Tart for dessert. Whatever your occasion, Shulman has a menu for you that will leave both you and your guests smiling. --Leora Y. Bloom

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Imagine orchestrating an elaborate sit-down dinner fgor twenty-five, serving an elegant, unforgettable, and genuinely healthy meal and enjoying the whole thing as much as your guests do. Now, in Entertaining Light, Martha Rose Shulman, award-winning author of Mediterranean Light, shows you how to make any get-together the kind of pleasurable, palate-pleasing experience you'll want to repeat again and again.

With the know-how gleaned from years as a professional caterer and hostess, Ms. Schulman offers invaluable guidelines for composing a menu and getting organized - the two keys to easy and successful entertaining. And whether you prefer large cocktail parties, intimate dinners for two, festive holiday buffets, or last-minute unformal suppers, she provides more than three hundred low-fat, low-calorie recipes for dishes that are sumptuous, deeply satisfying, and always brimming with authentic flavor.

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Entetaining Light - Healthy Company Menus with Great Style.......2000-06-21

I have LOTS of cookbooks. This is without a doubt - the best. Recipes range from very simple to a little more elaborate, but worth the effort. Nothing is really difficult. I have prepared many recipes and never have had a problem with any of them. If you are looking for one book to buy - this is it. Note: Try the tapenade: always impressive, and very simple to make. I take it to parties, and everyone loves it (I'm vegetarian, so I omit the anchovies - and it is still tasty). I made the poached pear and red wine sorbet last week - simple and impressive to serve.

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Fiber for a Healthy Life
Kellogg Company
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Binding: Paperback
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Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy

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Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy
Atlantic Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Atlantic Pub Co
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Healthy Baking
Pillsbury Company , and Pillsbury
Manufacturer: Viking Penguin Inc
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ASIN: 0140469761

Healthy Companies: A Human Resources Approach (Ama Management Briefing)

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Healthy Companies: A Human Resources Approach (Ama Management Briefing)
Robert H. Rosen
Manufacturer: Amacom Books
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The Healthy Company

Manufacturer: Jeremy P. Tarcher
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HNBH7K

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Success with Medical Words covers general health and medical words that international health professionals and medical students will find helpful.

Featuring hundreds of key words and exercises designed to help you practice your growing vocabulary, Success with Medical Words is an essential tool to help you communicate more clearly in English.

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This reference book is inadequate and not worth the money.......1999-10-25

I was very dissatisfied with this book. There are scarce amount of terms, and the definitions themselves are not impressive.

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This book presents Einstein's theory of space and time in detail, and describes the large-scale structure of space, time and velocity as a new cosmological special relativity. A cosmological Lorentz-like transformation, which relates events at different cosmic times, is derived and applied. A new law of addition of cosmic times is obtained, and the inflation of the space at the early universe is derived, both from the cosmological transformation. The relationship between cosmic velocity, acceleration and distances is given. In the appendices gravitation is added in the form of a cosmological general relativity theory and a five-dimensional unified theory of space, time and velocity. This book is of interest to cosmologists, astrophysicists, theoretical physicists, mathematical physicists and mathematicians.

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A comparative examination of electron-deficient species -from leading researchers in the field.

The Borane, Carborane, Carbocation Continuum explores the emerging understanding of the similarities of properties and behavior shared by these electron-deficient species. Based on the work presented at a trailblazing symposium held at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute of the University of Southern California, it brings together the contributions of distinguished scientists from around the world, including Nobel Prize winners George A. Olah and William N. Lipscomb, to illustrate the results of research on the structures and bonding characteristics of boranes, carboranes, and carbocations.

As electron-deficient compounds find a place in today's high-field NMR systems and other cutting-edge areas, this unique volume contains important information for advanced students as well as professionals working in organic, inorganic, or physical chemistry, with sections on:
* Patterns of structure in boranes and carboranes -including vertex homogeneity, boron cluster patterns, and seco-systematization of boranes and heteroboranes
* The carborane -carbocation continuum -from boron super-electrophiles and their carbocation analogs to cage systems
* Untangling molecular structures -mechanistic patterns in carborane reactions, advances in metallacarborane sandwich chemistry, and other topics
* New species of boranes and carboranes -such as isoelectronic borane, hydrocarbon, and carbocation metal complexes, and cyclic organohydroborate anions.

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Sound Reference.......2007-01-10

Been around a long time, this book is a quality reference for the mechanic or junkie who wants a little more from his experience around engines and cars, or, who wants to expand their ability and knowledge. Clear and easy to find what you're looking for.

A reference for those with weak math skills........2005-08-22

While this book does appear to have a good coverage of topics, there is little to be found here that wouldn't be considered trivial by anyone who has completed a math course at the junior high level.

Simple, too simple.......2005-04-16

If your looking for something beyond gradeschool math (read:algebra/geometry)then I wouldn't recommend this book. The formulas would be usefull in modifying from an already set or measured value (tire size,mph,mpg) but would not be usefull when trying to design, analyze or mathmaticaly model anything. Use of English units nice for laymen.

I was dissapointed at the lack of truely usefull equations, most seem to be shuffling of equations.

Conversion tables are nice however.

Basic formulas for novice enthusiasts.......2004-07-25

This book is not for experts. It lack in-depth attitude. Rather, this book turned to be novice oriented. Formulas are basic and there are no graphs. I liked detailed conversion table to metric units.

Its ok.......2004-05-26

Its nice cause it has alot of formula's, but it lacks the ones I was really after so for me it was a bit of a waste, nevertheless I can see it being usefull and its cheap so its a worthwhile investment.

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An easy to understand approach to Automotive Math
Math Handbook with Math Errors

Automotive Math Handbook
Forbes Aird
Manufacturer: Motorbooks
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This easy-to-use and comprehensive reference explains and illustrates in laypersons terms virtually every automotive math equation the shop pro, or race driver needs to know. Included are formulae and calculations for: Gross vehicle weight; center of gravity; gear and final-drive ratios; tire pressure and temperature; alignment; fastener strengths; air flows; tensile strength; cam timing; lap timing; noise; and much more.

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An easy to understand approach to Automotive Math.......2007-01-18

First off for someone like myself who failed algerbra in High School, I understand the information presented in this book. The Author writes as if he himself was sitting in front of you explaining the formula's, uses and relations. For anyone that wants to know that much more about everything about cars, this is the book to read and keep close. If two technicians sat infront of me with identical acomplishments and credentials, but one cared to take it to the next level and mathamaticaly know WHY a ram air induction is nothing more than an intake with a snorkal going directly to outside air, I think I would pick him

Math Handbook with Math Errors.......2004-01-10

I love math and I love cars, so I was looking forward to a concise book on the topics. Within reading the first few pages, I found several mistakes. Some were simple mathematical mistakes in converting and others were more serious assumptions about vehicles and others were just due to poor editing, eg. diagrams that were unclear or stating that "9/12" converts inches to feet. These first few pages were enough to prove the book shouldn't be taken seriously. There are still some decent formulas and ideas if you keep your eyes open and know enough to catch the rest of it.

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The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday. The Love of the Last Tycoon is now available for the first time in paperback.

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All the Hollywood hypocrites.......2005-06-30

The book edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli is a work in progress, left with various kinds of incompletion at F. Scott Fitzgerald's death. The narrator, Cecilia Brady, is on planes frequently. She attends Bennington. She is the daughter of a producer. Monroe Stahr is someone who was born sleepless. He has no talent for rest. Pat Brady, Cecilia's father, and Monroe Stahr are partners. Wylie White, one of the travelers on the plane, is a writer.

There is never a time when the studio is absolutely quiet. There are always technicians present. There is an earthquake and a small water main bursts. Stahr's work is secret in part, devious, slow. He seems ready to shelve a work the writers have labored over to bring to the screen. He notes that when he wants a Eugene O'Neill play he will buy one. If a director disagrees with Stahr he does not advertise it. The writers are people who are employed because they accept the system and manage to stay sober.

Stahr sees a girl who resembles his deceased wife. He has her found in order to see her. He has difficulty explaining his interest to her and she is troubled by people fawning for reason of his power and, in general, the notoriety of being seen in his company. Sustained effort is difficult in California it is asserted. It is Monroe Stahr's ability in this area that accounts for his success.

F. Scott Fitzgerlad chased ghosts, evanescence. Stahr pursues a girl, Kathleen Moore, because she is the image of his dead wife. The author pursued the following idea obsessively--when did his life derail. The Kathleen Moore character shares some of the attributes of Sheila Graham. She lived in England previously and was tutored in classical literature by her live-in companion.

It is reported that Fitzgerald had a life-long capacity to hero-worship. A writer character in the novel compares Monroe Stahr to Lincoln carrying on a long war on many fronts. At the end of the volume there are working notes and a brief biography. Revisiting the bright, shining world of F. Scott Fitzgerald, even with the melancholy features, is lots of fun.

Incomplete is incomplete.......2005-06-06

I have no doubt that The Last Tycoon would have warranted at least one more star if Fitzgerald had lived to finish it. But like it or not, we have no way of knowing what he would have written and can only judge the merits of what he did write. And that, in any case, is still pretty good. It is definitely a departure from his earlier works, and a tantalizing taste of what he might have continued to do with his talent later on. The images of Southern California back when it was a nice place to live are wonderful, as is the behind-the-scenes look at the movie industry during its golden era.

This is also the only Fitzgerald work I know of in which the narrator is a woman, and it's defnitely fascinating to see how he went about that exercize. Cecilia Brady is just about as egotistical and cynical as most of his other protagonists, but her innocence is refreshing. Also, telling the story through the eyes of one just outside the loop of the movie industry (she's the daughter of one producer, and hopelessly in love with another) was a very clever move. It allowed the plot to develop around the personal life of Cecilia's crush, Monroe Stahr, with only a bit of the bitterness from his work-related troubles seeping through.

But the sad truth is that that plot had only begun to develop. We know far more about Monroe Stahr from the notes and sketches Fitzgerald never intended for publication than we do from the "finished" part of the novel (which wasn't entirely finished either). If nothing else, though, this was a great start. As long as you don't expect more than that, it's worth reading.

Betrayal of a Demigod.......2005-04-02

Fitzgerald's last novel--left unfinished due to his heart attack--presents darker themes than his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Told by Cecelia, the 18-year-old daughter of a studio hotshot,and alternately by an omniscient narrator, this story depicts the glory days of the Hollywood studio system, where producers were America's new royalty. Egos collide, budgets quail and the earth quakes at the dawn of the Forties, when the country was threatened by the red menace of Communism. Not even Hollywood was immune from the birth pangs of unionism and pre- McCarthy era political paranoia over the secret revolution of the masses.

The protagonist is 44-year-old Monroe Stahr, a successful and powerful producer whose insight re movie-going America usually proves correct. Having a hopeless crush on this associate of her father's Cecelia gradually realizes that her workaholic idol has fallen in love with a mysterious lady--a British Cinderella raised completely outside the glittering purviews of starlets and gossip columnists. The tragic affair between the mogul and the lovely Kathleen (who resembles his beloved dead wife) is doomed by her prior commitment to an American man, her humble past and Stahr's own failure to take decisive action at critical moments in their poignant relationship.

The completed storyline may be deduced from Fitzgerald's extensive notes for each chapter,plus his conversations with associates. Health concerns plagued both Stahr and ultimately Cecelia--presaging the author's own private medical battle. How frustrating for him (and his alter-ego) to be snuffed out while yet so productive and mentally alert. It would be curious to see how contemporary Hollywood might finish this story if made into a movie. Like rats caught in a maze of their own devising, the characters are trapped by weakness and vanity, while naively convinced of their own personal or business power. As evil schemes corrupt backstage Hollywood, filth and crime trickle down to ultimately contaminate even the once idealistic Stahr. Tragically he did not live long enough to impress the man on the beach: that movies Were worth attending. THE LAST TYCOON proves a starkly grim but gripping tale of searing emotions at the end of the Depression era.

There will never be another F. Scott Fitzgerald.......2003-03-09

No other author in history has so astutely penned such profound and sublime novels with such amazing social insight as has Scottie(as his contemporaries called him) - all the while doing it with such amazing and unparalleled grace and lucidity. While The Love of the Last Tycoon may not be finished, I can easily discern that F. Scott was well on his way to achieving his goal -penning a novel on the level of The Great Gatsby and not as "depressing" as Tender is the Night.

What makes this so amazing, yet so painful, is the extraordinary potential that this work exudes. The Last Tycoon does seem to be like Gatsby moreso than any other Fitzgerald work in its endearing and sympathetic characters such as the self-made Monroe Stahr, the young Cecilia, & tragic Kathleen. As usual, Fitzgerald recreates and tells of his life experiences - this time of his tumultuous years in Hollywood as a screen writer. Although hardened somewhat at this stage of his career, Fitzgerald, like his hero Stahr, still purveys his characteristic idealism laced with a latent hint of foreboding tragedy inevitably awaiting on the horizon. Stahr, like Fitzgerald, is forever viewed as a boy wonder, despite being a seasoned veteran at this stage of his career, due to his overnight success at age 23. So, Fitzgerald, who had the splendid This Side of Paradise published at age 23, and who also was known for his propensity to turn a sickly pale white just as Stahr does, ingeniously incorporates himself into his work one last time.

The incredibly insightful notes, outlines, and revisions written by Fitzgerald shown at the conclusion of the book open an amazing new world of intropection to the reader. I give it 5 stars not for what it is, but for what it would have been. I just finished reading all of his works chronologically and I must say, unequivocally, that this very well could have eclipsed his other works of fiction, all of which are truly sublime.

"It is an escape into a lavish, romantic past that perhaps will not come again into our time." - F. Scott on The Last Tycoon

The Last Achievement.......2002-06-03

This work derives part of its importance from what it says about Fitzgerald at the untimely end of his career: fans of his earlier work will be pleased to see that this final tome showed all the hallmarks of becoming another masterpiece. By 1940, when "Tycoon" was written, FSF hadn't written a book in six years. But the familiar voice, though muted, had not been lost.

The lapse provides welcome proof of the endurance of Fitzgerald's talent over time. We can only imagine what biting, incisive insights he would have come up with if magically sent to chronicle the 1990s.

Fitzgerald's "Unfinished Symphony" is presented in this Scribner paperback edition in a way that will appeal to both casual readers and serious students. Leading Fitzgerald expert Matthew Bruccoli has assembled the fragments of this book into a gripping and highly readable narrative, and the publisher has included a detailed preface exploring FSF's thoughts at the genesis of the work, as well as a selection of working notes which will delight writing students looking for some insight into the workings of a great mind.

This book tells the story of Monroe Stahr, an early Hollywood producer who makes his mark on the industry almost at its very inception. Stahr's word is law within his studio, and a single order from him is enough to reshape, delay or outright kill a film in process. Since the death of his wife, actress Minna Davis, Stahr's job is his life - a life that illness and overwork threaten to cut short. But a chance sighting of englishwoman Kathleen Moore brings back a flood of old memories and new desires. Stahr's pursuit of Moore leads him briefly into the world outside the studio, and then her actions leave him reeling from the blows just when his rivals gang up against him.

The book is truncated at a very unfortunate point, Episode 17 of 30 - the precise point at which events begin to turn against Stahr. To finish the book in our minds, we can visualize the ending put forth in Fitzgerald's surviving notes, though we have not his words to shape it for us. But even in unfinished form, this book is still worth reading, if only to revisit one last time the mind that produced phrases such as this, in describing loops of unedited film hanging in a projection room: "Dreams hung in fragments at the far end of the room, suffered analysis, passed --- to be dreamed in crowds, or else discarded."

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The never ending unfinished novel

Love of the Last Tycoon (Scribner Classic)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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The never ending unfinished novel.......2000-04-05

While I am not really a Fitzgerald fan I am not sure how relyable this review is, but I had to read the book for a class. I think if you like his style the book is good, and many say that it would have been his best work had he been able to finish it. Because there is no ending, and the plot is not that enticing you really must read the book for readings sake and not to get a great adventure from it. If you have the time check it out and hopefuly it will do more for you then me, but otherwise this would not be my first choice of books.

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LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: Scribner
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