Pattillo Quality Control and Peer Review - A Practice Manual for Cpa'S (Modern Accounting Perspectives & Practices Series)

Pattillo Quality Control and Peer Review - A Practice Manual for Cpa'S (Modern Accounting Perspectives & Practices Series)
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Pattillo Quality Control and Peer Review - A Practice Manual for Cpa'S (Modern Accounting Perspectives & Practices Series)
JW PATTILLO
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0471869864

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This book examines how organizations can best develop and manage a creative environment and creative potential. The authors argue that organizations consist of people who have creative potential to think in new ways and yet are often denied the opportunity to do so. The goal of the organization should be to create a structure and culture that encourages the conditions in which creativity can flourish. This will generate significant competitive advantages for the organization by offering clear differentiation, by communicating positive brand attributes to stakeholders that will strengthen the organization's intangible assets and by providing a creative and challenging environment that will attract and retain the best staff.

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Inspirational!.......2007-07-10

An excellent book that highlights some less than mainstream firms and their internal processes that help them produce exceptional products and services. A great book for business students, puzzled managers and beleaguered executives in any industry in search of inspiration and creative ideas.

Fish the Chair If You Dare: The Ultimate Guide to Giant Bluefin Tuna Fishing
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Good Book for Technique, not Entertainment

Very Nice

Some good information but poorly written

TUNA-RIFFIC

A REEL HOW TO !!!!

Fish the Chair If You Dare: The Ultimate Guide to Giant Bluefin Tuna Fishing
Greg Beacher
Manufacturer: Dawn Pub Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963584308

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Good Book for Technique, not Entertainment.......2001-09-12

New to Giant Tuna, I have been searching for books/articles that describe this sport. This is the ONLY book that describes the fishing methods used by top charter boat captains for bluefin tuna fishing. If you are a tuna fisherman, buy this book.

If you are simply looking for an etertaining read, do not buy this book. It is poorly written and you may grow tired of the constant PENN, LEES, and ANDE commercials by the author.

Very Nice.......2001-02-13

This is a book written by a Fisherman, just the way it should be.

It is very complete book on Bluefin as far reading goes but a few coloured pictures would make it more desirable. However, let this by no means put you off buying it. If you are interested in catching the bluefin, go for it, you will not regret it,

Some good information but poorly written.......2000-01-05

This book was a bit of a disappointment. While there was some good information in it, there was much too much boasting on the part of the author. It almost seems he is trying to sell his ideas and techniques. In addition, it was very poorly written. There is no evidence of any participation of an editor or professional writer. Poor sentence structure, including unfinished sentences abound. I give this three stars because the book provides information that is otherwise uncovered in books and also because there are some good photos.

TUNA-RIFFIC.......1998-09-21

BEST BOOK I EVER READ ON FISHING FOR THE GIANT BLUEFIN. THE PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS LEAVE NOTHING TO THE IMAGINATION VERY DETAILED . I WAS AMUSED AND ASTONISHED TO LEARN THAT MAPLE SYRUP WAS USED FOR MORE THAN JUST PANCAKES.

A REEL HOW TO !!!!.......1998-09-21

AN EXCELLENT BOOK! SHOWS THE SECRETS OF THE TRADE WHICH I HAVE NEVER READ BEFORE IN ANY OTHER BOOK. I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE VERY INFORMATIVE AND EASY READING , ALONG WITH THE AUTHORS GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR.

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a fine read
riveting book about tuna and the harpoon fishery
ONE STRONG AND AMAZING FISH
Giant Bluefin
A treat for a Cape Cod reader

Giant Bluefin
Douglas Whynott
Manufacturer: North Point Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865474974

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This elegantly written and compelling work portrays the way the Japanese demand for giant bluefin tuna has altered the lives of Cape Cod fishermen. In telling the story of one man's passionate hunt for giant bluefin, Douglas Whynott details the competition and camaraderie in the bluefin fishery, the pressures of a conservationist movement seeking to limit the bluefin harvest, and the struggle of the fisherman himself against "the wild horses of [the] fish species."

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a fine read.......2007-06-27

so well-written and in-depth coverage of a dying and classic method of fishing for the richest fish in the sea.

riveting book about tuna and the harpoon fishery.......2004-02-02

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it surprisingly engrossing. It introduced me to a whole other world, the world of commercial fishing, one I knew little about, a world filled with rivalries, friendships, a long history, a world I think most Americans don't appreciate. Though focusing primarily on the harpoon fishery of the giant bluefin tuna or "jumbo bluefin" (known by the scientific name of _Thunnus thynnus_) of New England waters, the author Douglas Whynott discusses fishermen who use other methods (such as trolling or using a purse seine) as well as problems that the fishing industry and that individual fishermen face in general as well as some topics in marine biology.

The giant bluefin fishery is a lucrative market, with individual fish often worth $40 or more a pound (when fat after having feed all season on local prey fish), some fish bringing in at market prices as high as $50,000 per fish (though often much lower than that). The highest prices are obtained in Japan, where red tuna meat (maguro) is highly prized. Individual fish are packed in ice and air-lifted over to Japan, each specimen analyzed there at market in a method not unlike a raw diamond is regarded by professional jewelers so that the best cuts could be made, all so Japanese restaurant goers can pay upwards of $75 for a single serving of raw fish.

Whynott relates how the bluefin tuna fishery has come a long way; the bluefin was once called the "horse mackerel" and worth a mere five cents a pound, generally being served as cat food. In fact in the early 20th century they were even thought to be poisonous and were primarily caught so that the fish could be boiled to produce lamp oil. Fishermen who specialized in bluefin have often had to get other jobs when the fishing season was over, whether fishing for cod or other fish, shrimping, harvesting mussels, or even working non-fishing jobs, something that has been slowly changing as the market for bluefin has become more lucrative though not still quite prevalent.

The fish obtained for the sushi market are provided by the harpoon fishery of New England, an industry that while using spotter planes to locate schools, sophisticated devices to measure water temperature, and a knowledge of esoteric regulations in international committees and national organizations that govern quota size for each season's catches (regulations that are often the subject of intense debate, a topic well-covered in the book), Japanese market preferences (to properly grade fish often takes year of experience, as each fish taken to market is graded on freshness, color, fat, and shape), and even currency fluctuations (as upward or downward exchange rates of the yen versus the dollar can mean large differences in prices received), still relies on a single man hand-throwing a bronze-headed harpoon at a fast moving fish (albeit a harpoon rigged so that a powerful 800-volt electric shock can be delivered to the animal). No other method will do, as purse seining damages the fish and no other method can reliable catch the giant bluefins that the Japanese so highly prize. The harpooners operate from boats that are often called "stick boats," constructed with long pulpits built off the bow and out over the water, the pulpit sometimes more than 25 feet in length (designed so that they could be cranked up while in harbor), a stand at the end of which is where the fishermen hurls his 12 foot harpoon.

What made this book so interesting in part was the portrayal of individual fishermen, the author following their trials and tribulations over several seasons. Whynott focused mainly on two fishermen - Bob Sampson, captain of the _Scratcher_ and his son Brad Sampson - and a spotter pilot, Fred Brooks or "Brooksie," going out with them in all manner of weather, relating their hopes and aspirations and the many problems that they have faced. It was not hard not to root for them after a while.

The tuna themselves are of course well-covered in the book, a fish species that arrives every year to the Gulf of Maine to fatten on the locally abundant schools of mackerel, sand eels, and herring, a rich feeding ground that attracts all manner of marine life including several species of sharks, whales, and porpoises, throughout the summer increasing their body weight by more than 7.5 percent per month. The bluefin is a fascinating animal, the largest of the finfish (up to ten feet in length and a thousand pounds in weight), among the fastest (which can swim in 50 mile an hour bursts, able to beat their tail fins at frequencies of thirty cycles per second, providing 90 percent of their locomotive power), and one of the most migratory of all animals (with some tagged individuals known to have made 8,000 mile round trips feeding and spawning forays through the Atlantic). Bluefins have a very sophisticated physiology, having large blood volumes and the highest proportion of oxygen among fishes, concentrations of hemoglobin as high as that of humans, their gill surface area the highest of any fish species, producing what is the metabolically active of all fish species; an animal that is "warm-blooded" or endothermic, able to maintain body temperatures of between 77 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit while swimming in waters between 45 and 86 degrees from Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean to Norway. The bluefin is truly one of the ocean's top predators, essentially a tropical fish that has evolved to take advantage of underutilized food resources in subpolar waters.

An absolutely excellent book, one I would highly recommend.

ONE STRONG AND AMAZING FISH.......2002-10-03

I thought this was a great book to learn about the bluefin and the fishng for them. It is crazy the amount of money these fish go for. These fish hav incredible power I believeit states in here that if you tied a bluefin to a marlin tail to tail the blufin would win. great book give it a try.

Giant Bluefin.......2001-11-21

Excellent book In depth behavior of fishermen for this fish and of the fish

A treat for a Cape Cod reader.......2000-12-20

As a life-long Cape Cod reader it was a treat to read of people and places I recognized. From the familiar trip out of Barnstable to"Nick" Nickerson, who taught my drivers education class in 1973 before going back to fishing full time. I gained a new regard for my neighbors who work on the sea. A very good read.

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This workshop was attended by leaders in the field of astronomical instrumentation from over a dozen countries. Papers describe not only instruments in operation at most major astronomical observatories but also plans and detailed designs for the next generation of instruments. Subjects discussed include spectrographs, sensors, telescope and instrument control, computer support, optical components, adaptive optics, and data acquisition techniques. This book will be of great interest to those who plan or design new instruments for astronomy.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory & Technique
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Resurection of the Gracie Gift

Excellent and to the point

exellence

Excellent

Progression in Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory & Technique
Renzo Gracie , Royler Gracie , and John Danaher
Manufacturer: Invisible Cities Press
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ASIN: 1931229082

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During the last decade, the martial arts world has looked to innovative mixed martial arts competitions such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship to determine which fighting style is the best. These contests have repeatedly shown the grappling style of martial arts, headed by Brazilian jiu-jitsu, to dominate. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu style stems from the premise, garnered from analysis of actual street fights, that the outcome of any fight is decided on the ground. While most martial arts deal only with the initial punching and kicking stages of combat, Brazilian jiu-jitsu concentrates on ground combat. This guide shows how to use Brazilian jiu-jitsu to increase combat effectiveness. Photographs and step-by-step instructions show how to master the techniques used in this exciting new form of combat.

Customer Reviews:

Resurection of the Gracie Gift.......2007-07-05

Overall i think the book is very good and worth buying. However there are a few baffling decision made by the authors in the book. Escape from half guard for instance, where much is made of how common a position it is, and then they include it in the Black belt syllabus?? I would have had it in the blue belt section, personally, seeing as it is so commonly used. Also the Gracies continue to churn out the very useless standard guard pass in this book, a pass nobody in their right mind would try and use if their opponent has even heard of the triangle choke. Surely they could have put a more useful guard pass in? To their credit at least they mention its limitations. (Unlike Rorions instruction video!)

Excellent and to the point.......2007-06-21

I liked the step by step narative with pictures. I liked how the art is explained in the first few chapters. The writers didnt talked over my head and it was easy enough to understand. I get a distinct feeling that the Gracie family actually cares that this art is passed along correctly, which shows in this book. Not alot of "extra" garbage, They get to the point and do a great job of teaching it.

Being a student of BJJ, I found this very helpful in understanding the art and the techniques presented. Well Done.

exellence.......2007-05-13

very good manual, seems to be useful in the practice, which is what i desperatelly needed:)

Excellent.......2007-04-26

This book is excellent for many people looking to start out, or taking breaks, with 107 differnt techniques that are well illustrated. As a blue belt myself, Im rather happy with it.

Progression in Jiu-Jitsu.......2007-04-10

Expand your technical skills with these clear directions you'll be able to apply on the mat. This book is well-organized with new techniques for each belt level.

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"Often plagiarized by other guide writers, Blue Guides have always been a gold standard for accuracy and depth."—Daily Telegraph

This guide offers excellent coverage of an endlessly intriguing destination, from earliest antiquity to the present. Detailed walks, unrivaled art history, and the most up-to-date practical information on where to stay and eat make this a necessary guide. Color photographs, maps, floor plans, diagrams.

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Not really practical for a short visit to Crete
Indispensible for the island
Blue Guide Crete, 7th ed.

Blue Guide Crete, Seventh Edition
Pat Cameron
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393321347

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Completely rewritten and reorganized, with an array of new maps and plans, Blue Guide Crete is carefully arranged by province. Filled with detailed descriptions of villages, towns, churches, archaeological sites, and walks, and useful practical information on transportation, lodgings, and food, this is an indispensable guide to Crete. Color map, 11 maps and plans. 20 illustrations.

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Not really practical for a short visit to Crete.......2007-05-14

First off, this book is written for an British audience so it's not quite right for a U.S. audience.. I found the book a little too verbose and not something i carried around with me. It is full of information about Crete but not really for use 'on the go' during my 3 day stay.

Indispensible for the island.......2006-07-14

We used this guide at the exclusion of several other guides on Greece/Crete. We found it indispensible. Not only for the cities, beaches, towns, foods, and general area, but for a piece by piece exhibit guide for the Museum (they don't give you any informational handouts at the Museum in Iraklion), but for the MANY ruins, monasteries and historical sites throughout Crete. This was the single best guide we had for Crete. Highly recommended.

Blue Guide Crete, 7th ed........2006-03-20

This guide gives the information you need to know about traveling in Crete: history, current information, food and lodging.

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Great book for more in-depth information
Blue Guide Greece
The Indispensable Companion for a Trip To Greece
A Traveller's Dream Book

Greece (Blue Guides)
Robin Barber
Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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ASIN: 0713627719

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A library of Greek art, culture, and history in one book? If what you seek is the erudite be-all, end-all in "everything you wanted to know about Greece," Blue Guide has collected it here. With complete academic-style descriptions of the major classical, Byzantine, and medieval sites; more than 70 itineraries covering villages, market towns, cities of the mainland, and islands; and more than 70 site and town plans, this is a comprehensive tome. As independent travel expert Rick Steves writes in his book, Europe Through the Back Door:

With the Blue Guide to Greece, I had all the information I needed about any sight in Greece and never needed to hire a guide. Scholarly types actually find a faint but endearing personality hiding between the sheets of their Blue Guides.

A full complement of essays written by experts in Greek history and culture introduces the text; these include: "Monuments of Ancient Greece," "Byzantine Art and Architecture," "Post-Byzantine Monuments," "Greek Vernacular Architecture," "Modern Greek History," and "Greek Folk Art." A color atlas of the mainland and islands is included at the back of the book. No accommodations are listed. (Note: Crete is covered in a separate volume.) --Kathryn True

Customer Reviews:

Great book for more in-depth information.......2006-03-21

This is a great book to find information about archaeological sites around Greece. It gives very thorough information and descriptions. Great book to use with other guides. I didn't give it a 5 star because it has not been updated (e.g. it still has the location of the old Athens airport).

Blue Guide Greece.......2006-03-20

For a general view on traveling in Greece, this is a fine guide. The necessary current information, the eateries and lodging advice, the important historical guide are here. The book is as big as you would want for carrying around. Read up about small details before you leave.

The Indispensable Companion for a Trip To Greece.......2002-01-20

For more than 30 years, this book has been an indispensable companion for anyone traveling to Greece who wants to get the maximum out of the experience. The comprehensiveness and depth of research this guide reflects is simply astonishing. That is partly a function of sheer individual effort -- how many other guidebooks incorporate the results of the authors' reading of more than a hundred archaeological reports? -- and partly a function of the fact that this guide has been polished, updated, improved and fine-tuned over three-and-a-half decades by a very able succession of individual authors.

But why, more specifically, should you buy and rely on the Blue Guide? I would suggest the following reasons.

1. Armed with this guide, you won't miss anything of significance at any place you visit. When you visit the Museum at Olympia, you'll know to look out for the helmet that the Athenian general Miltiades wore at the Battle of Marathon and later dedicated at the Temple of Zeus. You'll know to look out for the clay cup found in the ruins of the sculptor Pheidias's workshop, which is inscribed with his name on the bottom. If you want to find the site of the cobbler Simon's shop in the Athenian agora, where Socrates is said to have spent much of his time hanging out, this guide will get you there. It'll tell you the spot on the road between Delphi and Thebes where Oedipus is believed to have murdered his father. If you go to see the Menelaion near Sparta, the Blue Guide will alert you that at the back of the hill on which it stands are the rooms and corridors of a little-known Mycenaean palace that may once have been the home of Helen of Troy (assuming she was actually a historical person). And when you visit the fortress at Methone, it'll tell you the tragic story that lies behind the little islet with the lighthouse at the very end of the cape.

One side benefit of having this book is that you can save on hiring local guides when you visit places like the Agora in Athens. If you've got this guide, you'll know more than they will.

2. Another good reason to buy this guide is that it'll save you from getting lost. There are no fewer than 70-plus (count 'em) city plans and archaeological site plans in this volume. Inner Athens is covered in a very comprehensive series of maps -- you should even be able to get through the maze-like warren of the Plaka with the Blue Guide. And the route system used in the guide comprehensively explains how to get to every point of interest, even when a detour off the main route is called for. In particular, if you've got any interest in visiting fascinating but somewhat obscure sites like the Menelaion near Sparta, this book is a must.

By the way, this guide is also quite good on scenic wonders and tracks into the wilderness. It's not just for marble ruin nuts.

3. Don't know much about Greek history? Or art? Or architecture? This is the volume for you -- as long as you really want to learn. The section of introductory essays on these topics are wonderfully comprehensive.

4. Personally, I love the way the Blue Guide is written with this marvelously restrained British narrative voice. It makes it all the more fun when the authors actually break out of character, take you by the shoulders, and say 'don't miss this' -- as when they advise that "The view at sunrise [from the summit of Mount Parnassus], before the mists gather, exceeds in grandeur and interest almost every other prospect in the world."

Is there any reason you might not want to buy the Blue Guide? Well, you should be aware of the following.

A. This guide isn't for people who only want to travel with a single guidebook. It doesn't cover hotels, restaurants, shopping, or nightclubs. So you'll need to pair this guide with another, more standard one that addresses those more functional concerns.

B. It doesn't include Crete. The Crete chapter ultimately grew so big that it was hived off into a separate Blue Guide all its own.

C. This guide isn't for the "once over lightly" tourist. If that's where you're coming from, you won't need this book. This book is for the traveler who likes to be challenged and have their horizons broadened, who is willing to come back from a trip fired up with ideas for further reading.

A Traveller's Dream Book.......2000-10-31

This book, which is part of a larger series, covers Greece. And it is the best book of its kind. When I went to Greece this book gave me all the pertinent information about all the sites, musuems, and other general information. This is the book Archaeologists use in Greece, so should anyone who goes. Not a tourist book, but the most comprehensive site book with maps and addresses and phone numbers, along with information. If you go to Greece, you must get this one.

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Better than going on a tour.
Athens Guide Book

Blue Guide Athens
Robin Barber
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 039331930X

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Athens is a unique, ancient city, surrounded by countryside rich in Byzantine churches and monasteries as well as the awesome Acropolis. As a major cultural destination for anyone interested in classical history, this guide provides up-to-date and in-depth details on museums, churches, monasteries, and archaeological sites, accompanied by many plans. There is also a detailed street map, color maps of Attica, and suggestions for excursions out of the city.

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Better than going on a tour........2007-03-21

I just returned from spending a week in Athens and used this guide the entire time. It is a fantastic personal guide for the whole city, taking you to all the ancient sites as well as the more different places. The book explains the history of the sites, and then tells you almost stone-for-stone what you are looking at for each site. There are wonderful parts of Athens I would have missed had I not had this book with me. It also goes through places outside Athens, such as the sites at Sounion and Eleusis.

If you're interested in ancient history (and especially archaeological sites), then you can't do better than to take this guide with you to Athens.

Athens Guide Book.......2000-10-31

This book is so pertinent for those people who are going to Athens, the capital of Greece. It is much more comprehensive about the city than the Blue Guide to Greece, which is great if you plan to stay in the city for awhile. Its commentaries are easy to read and understand and give you a full view of what to expect. Get it if you can.

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Blue Guide Greece
Stuart Rossiter
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0528847287

Blue Guide Rhodes and the Dodecanese (Blue Guides)

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Blue Guide Rhodes and the Dodecanese (Blue Guides)
Robin Barber
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Athens and Environs-Blue Guide
Stuart Rossiter
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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The Blue Book Guides Athens and Environs with 16 Maps and Plans 1962

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The Blue Book Guides Athens and Environs with 16 Maps and Plans 1962
Blue Book Guides
Manufacturer: London Ernest Benn Limited 1962
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The Blue Guide to Athens and Environs, a new addition to the series, will be welcomed alike by scholars and by the many travelers who visit the city with no time to tour the whole of Greece. While purposely not attempting an exhaustive (and exhausting) description, it avoids descending to a superficial level. Classical Athens, 'the eye of Greece, Mother of Arts and Eloquence', is of fundamental importance to the Western way of life and as such is of perennial interest. The recent work of archaeologists enables the traveler, as never before, to savor the atmosphere and detail of the ancient world. This volume is not limited, however, to the historical aspect of Athens. Though its surviving monuments receive full descriptionRoman, Byzantine, Prankish and Turkish impartially taking their rightful place, according to worth, with the remains of Mycenaean and Classical Greeceno aspect of life that may aid the traveler's appreciation of the city has been intentionally ignored. The growing popularity of the Attic coast as a summer playground is reflected in the description. Like the other volumes in Muirhead's series the Blue Guide to Athens summarizes the various approaches from Britain, while full information about hotels, restaurants, tips and local customs is given, together with a section on Greek food and wines. The equipment of maps and plans has been specially prepared for this edition, and much of the editing has been done in Athens in close co-operation with archaeological schools in Greece

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Crete (The Blue guides)
Stuart Rossiter
Manufacturer: Rand MacNally
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Greece (Blue Guides)
Stuart Rossiter
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0393000923

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Here is Rainbow Jordan: too brave to be a child, too scared to be a woman. "Powerful, eloquent, revealing...the memory of this exceptional heroine is likely to linger a long time."

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Better than her first book, I think........2002-06-13

Alice Childress's second novel for children, and written in the same sort of Harlemese as A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, this is the story of fourteen-year-old Rainbow Jordan. Her single mother, Kathie, is a go-go dancer and flighty. Every couple of weeks she'll take off on a gig and leave Rainbow alone in their apartment. Usually when this happens Rainbow goes to say with Miss Josie, her foster mother, who cares a lot about Rainbow but is preoccupied with the breakup of her twenty-year marriage. On the street Rainbow's got a girlfriend, Beryl, who earns spending money with casual prostitution, and a boyfriend, Eljay, who keeps pressuring her to go all the way.

The story is told from three points of view: Kathie, Rainbow, and Miss Josie. Kathie does love her daughter in her own way, but as Rainbow says, "her way don't weigh much". A good example of this is when Kathie went out and bought Rainbow some new, pretty clothes. But she had to use the babysitter money to pay for them, and because of this she had to leave Rainbow, then five years old, alone in the house for several hours. Miss Josie on the other hand cares about Rainbow in a much more mature way. Rainbow thinks little of either of them.

I thought A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich was good, but I think I liked Rainbow Jordan better. The situations in the book -- irresponsible parents, boyfriends that keep nagging you to have sex with them, men that abandon their families -- are real and just as applicable today as they were back in 1982 when the book was written.

Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress.......2000-04-19

This book is very good for teens to read. This will allow them to see that maybe they are not alone in their journey also it will allow other children who are blessed to have good parents to see how it could be. I'd recommend this book to be read by everyone.

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