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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Beasts, Heroes, and Rogues
Mark Bowden Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 087113876X |
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From the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down to the acclaimed Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden has been praised for his unique, novelistic ability to put his reader in the heat of the story. Road Work collects Bowden's award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer to his most recent high-profile pieces in The Atlantic. Road Work takes us everywhere from a small town in Rhode Island where one of the largest cocaine rings in history is uncovered, to the Luangwa Valley in Zambia where a bold team of antipoachers fights to save the fate of the black rhinoceros. Bowden's high-profile look at Saddam Hussein, nominated for a National Magazine Award, shed such new and dramatic light on one of the world's most notorious figures that it has been optioned for film. And his shocking exposé on the dark art of interrogation, also nominated for a National Magazine Award, offers an insider's eye into the unique and controversial ways in which we are fighting the war on terrorism. The stories in Road Work are powerfully gripping, elucidating, and often wryly humorous.Customer Reviews:
Fantastic..........2006-06-22
Masterful storytelling........2004-11-12
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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
Mark Bowden Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0143036734 |
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Anyone who has read Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down or Killing Pablo knows that he is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work gathers the best of his award-winning writing, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his influential pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to Zambia, where a team of antipoachers fights to save the black rhino, to Guantánamo Bay to expose the controversial ways America is fighting its war on terror, or to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate the largest cocaine ring in history, Bowden takes us down rough roads previously off limitsand gives us another gripping read.
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Texas Iconoclast
Maury Maverick Manufacturer: Texas Christian University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0875651720 |
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With the Hammer of Truth: James Thomson Callender and America's Early National Heroes
Michael Durey Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813912784 |
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Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools & Heroes, Lost Cities,Vanished Friends..
Pete Hamill Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0316341045 |
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A New York newspaper veteran of more than 30 years and a contributor to such magazines as New York, Esquire, and Vanity Fair, Pete Hamill has collected his best articles in this stunning collection illuminating his insights and his grasp of the vital issues of our times. As he puts it in Piecework's subtitle, it's "Writings on Men and Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Friends, Small Pleasures, Large Calamities, and How the Weather Was." And it's much more: evocative visits to Northern Ireland, Mexico and Vietnam; time spent with Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Madonna; and thoughts on race, drugs, and the mob.Book Description
A New York newspaper veteran of more than 30 years and a contributor to such magazines as New York, Esquire, and Vanity Fair, Pete Hamill has collected his best articles in this stunning collection illuminating his insights and his grasp of the vital issues of our times. As he puts it in Piecework's subtitle, it's "Writings on Men and Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Friends, Small Pleasures, Large Calamities, and How the Weather Was."And it's much more: evocative visits to Northern Ireland, Mexico and Vietnam; time spent with Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Madonna; and thoughts on race, drugs, and the mob.Customer Reviews:
Valuable perspective.......2000-10-22
The situation is made worse, Pete Hamill says, by television, which allows people to have deep emotional experiences without "earning" them. This attitude is summed up most effectively in two essays, "Letter to a Black Friend" and the disturbing "Endgame."
When Hamill isn't shaking his head at our collective mistakes, he is shining the spotlight on individuals -- as he does in solid features on Mike Tyson and Frank Sinatra -- or examining a city gone wrong, the Miami of the 1980s. Here, and throughout you see the keen observation skills, dogged research, and common sense that made Hamill a top-flight reporter first, an insightful columnist second.
Whether or not you share Pete Hamill's old-fashioned, hard-nosed worldview, you won't be able to deny that he expresses it brilliantly here.
Words in the hand of a master craftsman.......1999-09-10
Throw out your j-school textbook!.......1998-11-10
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When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age
Bruce J. Evensen Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0870499181 |
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American Heroes in a Media Age (Hampton Press Communication Series : Mass Communications and Journalism)
Manufacturer: Hampton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1881303209 |
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Madonna Scholars take note.......2001-11-12
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Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter As Mythmaker in the 1920s
Mark Inabinett Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0870498487 |
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Heroes
Joe McGinniss Manufacturer: Touchstone Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671695118 |
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Underrated and too soon forgotten.......2000-08-29
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Heroes of Journalism
Elizabeth Daniels Squire Manufacturer: Fleet Pr Corp ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0830301143 |
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Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions, Third Edition: From Brownfields to Green Buildings
James B. Witkin Manufacturer: American Bar Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1590312872 |
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This is a comprehensive and practical resource to the range of environmental issues that arise when real estate is developed, operated,sold or financed.
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Product Liability for Professional Paralegals
Kathleen Reade Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0766848485 |
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Product Liability for Professional Paralegals is a practical, hands-on book for legal professionals working in the field of personal injury and product liability litigation, as well as for students of personal injury litigation. Case management and practice tips assist the paralegal in learning and perfecting the professional skills, organizational techniques, and perspective to be an integral part of the professional team. Examples include sample questions to encourage an analytical approach, because thorough fact investigation is key to successful case preparation. Broken into two parts, part one details case management, new case evaluation, determining correct parties, investigation, and customizing discovery. It also discusses the interesting history of product liability law. Expert witnesses are essential in product liability cases, and there is extensive information regarding locating, evaluating, and working with expert witnesses. Part two addresses specific types of products including medical devices, toxic substances, household and consumer products, childrens products, vehicles, and machinery. Included is information regarding warnings, manufacturing and design defects, standards and regulations, and many sample forms, including pleadings and discovery. This information allows the paralegal to know what questions to ask to solicit information most helpful to the trial team. The book is analytical and is written in a clear, concise manner that is interesting and understandable. Practicing paralegals, paralegal students, and any legal professional interested in personal injury and product liability litigation will benefit from the content of the book.
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Institutional and Procedural Aspects of Mass Claims Settlement Systems (Permanent Court Papers of Arbitration/Peace Papers)
Manufacturer: Kluwer Law International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 9041114068 |
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This volume is the first of a new series edited by the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) -- The PCA/Peace Palace Papers -- which contains the papers emanating from the semi-annual seminars organized by the PCA in the Peace Palace. Each seminar focuses on a topical issue of international law. The first seminar was held on December 9, 1999, and dealt with Institutional and Procedural Aspects of Mass Claims Settlement Systems. Four speakers from Europe and the United States, recognized experts in their field, shared their practical experience with the respective systems dealing with mass claims.
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How to Form a Limited Liability Company
Mark Warda Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1572482222 |
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(Sphinx Publishing) Self-help law book covers advantages and disadvantages of an LLC, types of LLC, start-up procedures, selling interests in the company, running a LLC, amending a LLC, and dissolving a LLC. Softcover. DLC: Private companies--United States--Popular works.
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Commercial General Liability (7th Ed)
Donald S. Malecki , and Arthur L. Flitner Manufacturer: Natl Underwriter Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0872183963 |
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Limit Your Legal Risk: Issues and Action Plans for the Business Manager
Susan S. Jarvis Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0324222319 |
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In today's litigious climate, concerns over legal matters pre-occupy managers at every level. And with good reason. Even companies with the best intentions can be slapped with lawsuits leading to exorbitant attorney's fees, courts costs, and potential damages. The best defense is prevention. An excellent reference on business practice and preventive law, Reducing Business Risk provides an easily accessible guide to the basic elements of business law. It explains what is required to bring a particular type of lawsuit, describes the responsibilities of the parties involved, highlights red flag situations within an organization that may lead to litigation or other problems, and makes suggestions for reducing risks - and therefore costs - of lawsuits. It covers such potentially combustible topics as age discrimination, software copyright, non compete, e-contracts, family and medical leave, implied warranties, intellectual property, partnerships, privacy rights, sexual harassment, trade secrets, wrongful discharge, and much more.
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The GMBH: A Guide to the German Limited Liability Company
Klaus J. Muller Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9041124446 |
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The limited liability company the GmbH dominates the German corporate landscape. It is particularly attractive to those who want to give their business a legal form that can be flexibly structured. This book explains the legal rules pertaining to the GmbH, covering almost every aspect from incorporation to liquidation. Particular emphasis is placed on issues that are of practical importance for GmbHs that are part of a group of companies. The book includes an outline of the law of mergers, conversions and de-mergers, and relevant types of transformations covered by the German Transformation Act (Umwandlungsgesetz). Additional chapters address the particularities of the GmbH & Co. KG and the question of whether the English Ltd is a viable alternative legal form for doing business exclusively in Germany. The book is primarily designed for the legal practitioner, whether an in-house counsel or in private practice, and whether educated in German law or not. Written in plain English, it is also suitable for the interested layman.Klaus J. Muller is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP.He works primarily on cross-border acquisitions, the changing of group structures, and on other corporate matters, predominantly involving GmbHs.
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Commercial General Liability
Donald S. Malecki , and Arthur L. Flitner Manufacturer: Natl Underwriter Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0872187209 |
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The Alpha Arizona Limited Liability Company Kit: Special Book Edition with Removable Forms
Kermit Burton Manufacturer: Alpha Publications of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0937434639 |
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The complete do-it-yourself Arizona Limited Liability Company Kit provides all the forms required to legally organize and maintain either a General or Professional Limited Liability Company under the Laws of the State of Arizona. Includes completed examples of each form.
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Alpha Limited Liability Company Kit Special Book Edition
Kermit Burton Manufacturer: Alpha Publications of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0937434612 |
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The complete do-it-yourself Limited Liability Company Kit with Articles of Organization, Operating agreements, Minutes of all the Meetings, Consent Forms and Membership Certificates for a regular Limited Liabilty Company under State Laws. Includes completed examples of each form.Books:
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