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Line of Vision
David Ellis Manufacturer: Berkley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0425183769 |
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Penzler Pick, February 2001: First-time author David Ellis captures the imagination from the very first page with the voice of Marty Kalish, an investment banker in a tony company. Marty recounts the night that led to the murder of Dr. Derrick Reinhardt, the abusive husband of Rachel, with whom Marty is having an affair. The highly original premise of this story is masterful. Although Marty tells us his involvement in the murder, we don't know exactly what that involvement is. Did he murder or did he cover up?Marty is a hard guy to believe. Like most people, he doesn't always tell all there is to know, so when he is charged with murder and employs the best defense lawyers in the city, he changes his story more than once to insure that he comes out in the best light possible. This both exasperates and earns the respect of his lawyer (as well as the reader), because every story that Marty tells is plausible. He tells us that he meets with a PI, but we won't know why until the last page, and indeed the story does not come together completely until that moment.
In the meantime, Marty takes us on quite a trip. The courtroom scenes in this novel are among the very best. From jury selection to witness interrogation to sidebars with the judge, the scenes and dialogue crackle with authenticity. The only false note in the story is that although Marty is charged with murder, he remains free on his own recognizance both before and during the trial. There must be precedents here, but it seems odd. However, I was happy to overlook that for the sake of an otherwise convincing and spellbinding story. --Otto Penzler
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Marty Kalish has been accused of murdering his lover's husband. He had a motive. He was at the scene of the crime. He manipulated evidence to hide his guilt. He even confessed. But that's not the end of the story. That's only the beginning.Customer Reviews:
Very entertaining!.......2007-10-10
great first effort but ending ruined it for me .......2007-08-17
Different - in a good way.......2007-01-15
Pretty Good!.......2006-11-13
Unique Legal Thriller.......2006-06-19
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Holland America Line Zaandam III 3 Cruise Ship Vision for a New Century
Weller Rhodes Manufacturer: Holland America Line ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KEIVIE |
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Power Lines: U.S. Domination in the New Global Order (Voices & Visions)
Alejandro Bendana Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 156656168X |
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The American Vision (Unit Time Line Transparencies, Strategies, and Activities)
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0078728436 |
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An Analysis of the Effect of Quantitative and Qualitative Admissions Factors in Determining Student Performance at the U.S. Naval Academy
Manufacturer: Storming Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1423520351 |
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A596724. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis analyzes the effect of quantitative and qualitative factors used in the admissions process at the U.S. Naval Academy in determining the performance of candidates admitted. In determining student performance, graduation, Order of Merit (OOM), cumulative academic Quality Point Ratio (QPR), cumulative military QPR, and striper selection are used as performance outcome measures. The data is from Naval Academy graduation year groups 1995 through 2001. The analysis separates the Naval Academy's Whole Person Multiple into quantitative and qualitative inputs. The Candidate Multiple (CM) is the quantitative input to the admissions process derived from a statistics-based scoring model anchored in proven high school performance measures such as the SAT and high school GPA. The Recommendations of the Admissions Board (RAB) are the qualitative input, which awards points for subjective traits not captured in the CM or that are from various other subjective measures, such as student interviews and essays. This research highlights the properties of the two admissions factors and their estimated impact on student performance. The results show that student performance increased as CM and RAB increased, revealing the importance of a combined quantitative and qualitative admissions process, and emphasizing qualitative input as the value added factor that provides an increased predictability of student success. (26 tables, 22 figures, 26 refs.)
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An Analysis of the Effects of Participation and Perseverance in High School Non-Athletic Extra-Curricular Activities on the Ascent to Higher Leadership Positions at the U.S. Naval Academy
Manufacturer: Storming Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1423538803 |
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A144773. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis attempts to answer the following research questions: (1) Does participation or perseverance in non-athletic extra-curricular activities in high school (defined as attaining membership or persisting in the same activities throughout high school) result in better leadership performance at the Naval Academy? (2) Can a measure be devised to predict leadership performance at the U.S. Naval Academy based on demonstrated participation and perseverance in high school non-athletic extra-curricular activities? To analyze these questions, a quantitative analysis of the Naval Academy classes of 1994 through 1998 is undertaken to determine if there is a significant relationship between perseverance in extra-curricular activities in high school and leadership ascent at the Naval Academy.
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The Application Service Provider Market: A Guide for Navy Line Managers
Manufacturer: Storming Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1423533828 |
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A882483. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This study explores the use of application service providers (ASP) as an alternative to the traditional practices of procuring, managing and maintaining software applications and the associated hardware infrastructure. The ASP model is a method of outsourcing that calls for an ASP to manage in one concise service the acquisition, and management of all hardware and software required to meet the end-user's needs. This includes all elements of support including configuration management and maintenance. The customer purchases this service on a subscription basis. The findings show that ASPs have the potential to be a viable and financially stable solution in meeting the Navy's and the federal government's need of reduce the complexity and cost of delivering software applications. However, a cost and benefit analysis should be performed to verify the final costs prior to any implementation. Further, the enabling thin client and server-based computing technologies all show they can provide benefits for an organization interested in centrally managing and maintaining applications.
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Building Line Officers into Financial Managers: An Analysis of the Process and Recommendations for Improvement
Manufacturer: Storming Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1423518799 |
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A618424. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: With a FY 2004 budget of $114 billion, there is no question that the Department of the Navy is involved in big business. If compared to the sales revenues of the Fortune 500, the Navy would rank sixth. After having weathered a prolonged drawdown through the 1990's, Naval leadership must recapitalize its aging legacy systems. The plan to accomplish this task is the Sea Enterprise component of the Navy's Sea Power 21 strategy. In order to reach these goals, the Chief of Naval Operations needs a cadre of business-savvy line officers who can properly allocate scarce resources. The core of this group is composed of line officers who hold the Financial Management (FM) subspecialty designator. This thesis applies a managerial control system approach to the process of filling Financial Management billets with properly qualified FM line officers. Complex and miltifaceted, the process contains three distinct components: promotion, assignment and education. After examining levers of control that can be accessed by the FM community manager, this thesis identifies system weaknesses. Recommendations to solve the weaknesses include improved control and tailored incentives. The combination of control and incentives could improve the qualification rate of the Navy's FM officer positions and, ultimately, allow the Navy to meet its Sea Enterprise goals.
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Career Intentions of Junior Unrestricted Line Naval Officers
Manufacturer: Storming Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1423569962 |
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A573333. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the factors affecting the career intentions of junior unrestricted line (URL) naval officers. Data were taken from the 1992 DoD Survey officer and Enlisted Personnel and their Spouses and were matched with the 1996 Active Duty Military Master File by the Defense Manpower Data Center. The sample was restricted to Navy URL officers in pay grades 01-03, within their minimum service requirement. The data were divided into three sets: single male officers, married male officers, and female officers. A conceptual model was developed which grouped explanatory variables of career intentions into three broad categories: personal, internal work related, and external work related. A multivariate logistic model was estimated for each data set to determine the relative importance of these variables on an individual's intent to make the Navy a career. Results indicated that the factors influencing career intentions differ between male and female officers and married and single officers.
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Color, Line and Space: the neuroscience of spatio-chromatic vision
Baingio Pinna Manufacturer: Brill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NDL6IE |
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Lyon's Pride (Rowan)
Anne McCaffrey Manufacturer: Ace ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0441001416 |
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The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge.Customer Reviews:
Boring.......2007-01-01
Great Read!.......2006-08-24
Lyons too Proud.............2003-12-03
Pet peeves: Personally, I found the parents (and grandparents) meddling and matchmaking to be annoying. I also thought the gifts of the t-1's and how they manipulated the emotions of the lesser talented to be manipulative, and downright scary. Who says the t-1's have a right to mess with people's emotions? It was quite intrusive of Zara, to mess with the mind of Kincaid while he was sleeping, even if her intentions were good. Such powers can quickly become abusive and Damia's children seem to have no boundaries, despite their motivations.
Also, I liked the character of Kincaid, but nothing was really resolved with him. We never really found out the details about what happened to him on the deep space mission, and the character seems to be dropped halfway through the book. Other romances seemed flat to me. Roger's romance with his cousin Asia was tepid. Asia was just too timid, and Roger too self confidant. Plus there was the cousin thing...Errr, sorry, Anne, that didn't work for me.
Overall, despite these peeves, I liked Lyon's pride. It just didn't go anywhere; and the assumptions and liberties the 'talented' made towards those with lesser gifts were supercilious and grating.
A good read worth the time........2003-03-26
An exciting, character-driven tale........2003-03-23
All eight of Damia and Afra's children have Talent ratings of T-1. All are destined, as adults, to be known as Primes. Some, like eldest daughter Laria, will operate commercial transfer towers - a prestigious and powerful position, but one that can take a young Prime far away from home. Some, like sons Thian and Rojer, will carve out new roles for Talents in service aboard naval vessels. Second daughter Zara's strongly empathic Talent fits her for the career of healer - after it enables her to do what no one else can manage, by communicating (on however rudimentary a level) with a captured Hiver queen. The Lyon's Pride is, indeed, formidable. Its four eldest are reaching adulthood just in time to play key roles, as the Human-Mrdini alliance begins to solve the Hiver threat that first loomed when their grandparents were young.
An exciting, character-driven tale, which only occasionally bogs itself down with shipboard protocols and politics. If you can get past those pacing problems, you'll be glad you did; because "The Tower and the Hive," the next volume in the Talent series, provides a worthy conclusion to the long-running Gwynn-Raven saga.
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The Lyon's Pride (Stainer, M. L., Lyon Saga, Bk. 3.)
M. L. Stainer Manufacturer: Chicken Soup Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Similar Items:
ASIN: 0964690489 |
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Third in The Lyon Saga series of historical novels for young-adults. Jessabel Archarde, fourteen years old, continues her story as one of the Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island, 1587, who were abandoned and mysteriously disappeared after three years. When Eleanor Dare and a group of colonists decide to head inland in search of others, Jess and her friends offer to guide them part-way through dangerous and unknown territory.Customer Reviews:
A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO CULTURES.......2000-02-28
This book chronicles her marriage and maternity; we witness a newcomer to the mixed community and a 2nd interracial marraige. The animal population increases and Jess amazes even her stern father-in-law by trying to raise 3 wolf cubs. This book shares her introspective musings on life, death, motherhood, and living at peace with nature--human and animal. A subtle plea for human understanding in these times of racial tension.
Stainer presents a peaceful version of the fate of some of the survivors of the Lost Colony of Roanoak. As if to compensate for the decrease of violence in the first two books, she closes PRIDE with a deliberate cliff hanger--teasing us to read on! Those traditional enemies of England, Spanish sailors and pirates, scour the Virginia coastal islands for English prey. But something good comes ashore all the same. Bravo for the way Stainer blends spiritual and Christian values as an underlying theme of the brotherhood of man and the will to survive.
What happened to Eleanor Dare?.......1999-08-14
Painless learning about the Roanoke Colony!.......1999-03-29
A wonderful,and historical childrens book!.......1998-11-24
lots of action romance and adventure........1998-09-18
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The Lady of Lyons Or Love and Pride
Bulwer Edward Lytton Manufacturer: IndyPublish ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1428077189 |
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Lady of Lyons or Love and Pride
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 076610804X |
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1838. Having long had a wish to illustrate certain periods of the French history, so in the selection of the date in which the scenes of this play are laid, I saw that the era of the Republic was that in which the incidents were rendered most probable.
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The Lady of Lyons; or, Love and Pride
Lord Lytton Manufacturer: Samuel French (French's Acting Edition) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IXSB8C |
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The lady of Lyons; or, Love and pride. A play, in five acts. By Lord Edward Lytton [Bulwer]
Michigan Historical Reprint Series Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425500358 Release Date: 2005-12-20 |
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Lyon's Pride
Anne McCaffrey Manufacturer: Diamond Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000GRL93E |
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Lyon's Pride
Maris Soule Manufacturer: Thorndike Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1560547383 |
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Lyon's Pride - Volume 4 in the Tower and the Hive Series
Manufacturer: Bantam Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HKHV0A |
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Lyon's Pride 1st Edition, Signed
Anne McCaffrey Manufacturer: ACE/PUTNAM ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TSGQT2 |
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