Around the World in 40 Feet; Two Hundred Days in the Life of a 40FT NYK Shipping Container

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Around the World in 40 Feet; Two Hundred Days in the Life of a 40FT NYK Shipping Container
Richard Cook , and Marcus Oleniuk
Manufacturer: NYK Logistics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9889739232

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Consisting of 216 pages of photographs and documentary narrative, Around the World in 40 Feet" details the 200 day journey of an NYK Logistics blue container as it transports goods from Hong Kong to Japan via ports in six continents. The narrative embraces the diverse people, lifestyles, cultures, and technologies of the various ports, terminals, and warehouse. Written in a style that combines boldness with sensitivity, it is certain to appeal to the general reader.

At Christmas and on Rainy Days: Transport, Travel and the Female Traders of Accra (Perspectives on Europe)

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At Christmas and on Rainy Days: Transport, Travel and the Female Traders of Accra (Perspectives on Europe)

Manufacturer: Avebury
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Coastal West Africa | Africa | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1859721729

Aviation and Tourism Policies: Balancing the Benefits (World Tourism Organization Publication)

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Aviation and Tourism Policies: Balancing the Benefits (World Tourism Organization Publication)

Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0415109876

General Agreement On Trade In Services: Examination Of Major Trading Partners' Schedules Of Commitments

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General Agreement On Trade In Services: Examination Of Major Trading Partners' Schedules Of Commitments
Julie Throne
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Exports & Imports | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0788136453

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Examines the schedules of service commitments of the European Union, Japan, Canada, & Mexico. Explains the commitments in non-technical language, & identifies the potential benefits & limitations of the commitments. Covers: distribution (wholesaling, retailing, & franchising); education services; communication services (telecommunications, courier, & AV); health care services; professional services (accounting, engineering, construction, architectural, advertising & legal);

A Practical Guide to Fares and Ticketing

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Great training tool for the travel agent
The best on the market-detailed and up-to-date

A Practical Guide to Fares and Ticketing
Jeanne Semer-Purzycki
Manufacturer: Delmar Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0827360886

Book Description

This comprehensive book is written in an easy-to-use, understandable manner for professionals in the travel industry. The text adheres to the "ARC Industry Agent's Handbook," the industry standard for the sale of airline transportation in North America. It includes the most current information and practices, including sales, promotion, booking, pricing, and ticketing of airline travel. It also addresses the changing role of the retail travel agent as well as the effect of technology in the workplace. This is a useful guide for the practicing professional as well as for the growing number of individuals interested in operating a home-based travel agency. It provides all the information required to sell and book airline travel.

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Great training tool for the travel agent.......2001-06-21

"Every thing you ever wanted to know about booking a flight" This book is easy to follow with diagrams,charts and self tests.I am a new travel agent and this book covers all the aspects of booking a flight. A Must have for for all the newbie travel agents.

The best on the market-detailed and up-to-date.......1999-10-09

This book is excellent for students studying travel and tourism. Also makes a wonderful self-teaching tool for independent learners at home. It is so detailed and clear that it is like having a "teacher sitting right next to you!"

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Wonderful detailed travel guide for all over the road travel.......2000-07-18

This is the best version of the popluar Rand McNally atlases. The plasticized pages are nearly indestructable and the detail is great. All major city maps are large enough to read even small details. I recommend this atlas to anyone who is travelling over the road.

Great Trucker's companion.......2000-05-26

If you're a long-haul heavy equipment driver and want to know where those inspection and weigh stations are located along the interstates, this is definitely for you. Need quick info on how to mark your rig for hazmat? Need restricted clearance locations? Want to listen to a "clear channel" AM radio station as you drive down the highway at 3AM? This atlas has all this and more. Some of the information in this atlas won't apply to the casual driver heading across country on a vacation trip, but the maps are well marked and detailed enough to still be useful. Definitely worth the money.

Transport, trade and travel through the ages, (Understanding the modern world)

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Transport, trade and travel through the ages, (Understanding the modern world)
Reginald William Morris
Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

The World Market for Vehicles Specially Designed for Travel on Snow, Golf Carts, and Similar Vehicles: A 2007 Global Trade Perspective

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The World Market for Vehicles Specially Designed for Travel on Snow, Golf Carts, and Similar Vehicles: A 2007 Global Trade Perspective
Philip M. Parker
Manufacturer: ICON Group International, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Econometrics | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0497598027
Release Date: 2006-09-28

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying vehicles specially designed for travel on snow, golf carts, and similar vehicles? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of vehicles specially designed for travel on snow, golf carts, and similar vehicles vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of vehicles specially designed for travel on snow, golf carts, and similar vehicles? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing the regional markets for imported and exported vehicles specially designed for travel on snow, golf carts, and similar vehicles. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for each region, is based on a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the shares that countries are likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information for strategic planning purposes.

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Travel Trade and Transport (Tourism)
Lesley Pender
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Air transport and the Bay Area economy: Crisis in air travel : weathering the downturn

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Air transport and the Bay Area economy: Crisis in air travel : weathering the downturn
R. Sean Randolph
Manufacturer: Bay Area Economic Forum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006S01L4

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The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music-how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers-and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean musics; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors.

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Bounce!.......2004-01-29

American music didn't get hot suddenly in the 1950's with the arrival of Rock 'n' Roll. It didn't get sexy when Jazz provided the soundtrack to hi-jinx in the back seat of a Model A Ford in the 1920's. American music, with serendipitous blend of African and Celtic influences, has been scaring church folk and turning good girls bad since the 19th century. David Wondrich, with great wit and careful research, tells the quintessentially american story of our funky popular music.

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Very Funny!
Reckless observations of a postmodern girl, indeed!
so funny!
Self-Swerving
Reckless, Indeed

Swerve
Aisha Tyler
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Essays | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Self-Help & Psychology | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Popular Culture | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Personal Transformation | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0452286328
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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In this rowdy collection of pop culture essays, Aisha Tyler brings her razor-sharp wit and sweet irreverence to bear on everything from light beer, dating strategies, and music videos to women's self-image, the Ms. Foundation, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Both comical and scathing, Aisha uses hilarious stories from her own life to investigate the mysteries of platonic friendship between men and women, compare male and female strip-club behavior, and answer, once and for all, whether size matters. Swerve is fresh, ambitious, and shocking—a “Gordian knot” of pop culture observations that will fascinate and engage postmodern girls and guys alike.

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Very Funny!.......2006-12-09

Ok, not the best book ever written, but very funny. I realize it was aimed at women, but if you can overlook that as a guy, you can still get some fun from it. Worth reading if you're bored and want to listen to someone just talk about their views on nearly anything.

Reckless observations of a postmodern girl, indeed!.......2006-02-25

Aisha's Swerve is a cornucopia of advice for with-it women, women who ascribe to be more liberated and self-empowered. Swerve is also a book chock-full of Ms. Tyler's random thoughts about everything from beer, one-night stands, music videos, The View, marriage, strippers, to so much more.

Aisha's got a big mouth and a wicked sense of humor and is unafraid to use either. I liked that. She's sassy (a word she abhors in a chapter dubbed "The Uppity Bitch Paradox," but it fits), intelligent (she has a government degree from Dartmouth, for God's sake) and able to debate about any subject (and she will). Her ranting is all about women taking charge of their lives and not being objectified by society's standards of beauty or sex.

Aisha's observations aren't all that reckless - just down-to-earth, honest sentiments from a woman who's not afraid to be herself...which is what she wants every woman to be.

So go on! Get your Swerve on!

so funny!.......2005-08-20

Have seen the lady in F·r·i·e·n·d·s..she is so adorable and funny. It's usually hard for a girl to come out this funny..but she does and she's really good!

Self-Swerving.......2005-06-16

This is one of those half-assed books by a demi-celeb who's been served up a publishing deal on a platter. It reminds me a lot of Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo's "Feel This Book" -- a thrown-together assemblage of unpolished, unedited anecdotes, strung into some sort of theme just before deadline. The unifying topic here is how to be cool, with advice like go to the gym, get pedicures, drink water to appear disciplined and mysterious, and don't act desperate. A few pop culture references here, a few Dennis Miller-caliber obscure allusions there, some self-effacing humor, some self-aggrandizing asides -- all coming off like the first draft any latter-day Gen Xer with any wit would write if compelled by the promise of fame and a cash advance to put her perspective on paper. There's some potentially good stuff, but it needs shape, form, refinement, context. Right now we have a compendium of not bad Jane Magazine humor/advice columns.

Particularly off-putting: ostensibly guileless mentions of the author's sexy magazine spreads; her belief that she should have been able to hold her grade school teachers and classmates hostage with her non-stop opinions; the egregious omnipresence of "I'm not advocating"-type caveats; the deja-vu similarity of all the chapters.

Reckless, Indeed.......2005-03-18

Poor Aisha Tyler. You'd think that with a degree from Dartmouth she'd at least learn how to string together small morsels of hilarious observation.

And it's unfortunate that she doesn't.

Tyler has some really good points and her similes are often funny, but what she lacks is a focus. If one sets out to write a book, one should establish some kind of crux to center said book on, not arbitrarily rant, rave, and repeat herself, each time with a new historical reference to freshen the material.

The book's biggest error is the redundancy. It's rampant. She skips around from topic to topic and each time summarizes a chapter in the process. This makes Swerve a bit unbearable.

But I'm not to say that it's utter garbage, because it isn't. If you're into articulate stream-of-consciousness writing from the Blog Revolution and the Self-Help Kingdom, Swerve is for you. However, for those of us who are even somewhat able to formulate an opinion and one that, oh, happens to match Tyler's, the book will feel like a transcription of your thought process, granted that your mind is disorganized and prone to reiteration.

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Zone Books / Swerve Editions)

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Inhuman History (In Spanish)
A Thousand Re-Readings
Gibberish
Understand the BwO!

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Zone Books / Swerve Editions)
Manuel De Landa
Manufacturer: Zone Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0942299310

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Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is a novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semistable forms: cities, economies, technologies, and languages.

De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.

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Very deep.......2007-01-09

it is a very interesting way of looking at european history and it presents very well researched and explained arguments. a MUST for anyone interested in philosophy, anthropology and to some extent urbanism

Inhuman History (In Spanish).......2006-03-24

En Thousand Years of Non-Linear History, podemos diferenciar tres aspectos para tratar la historia:

1. El campo de la reflexión histórica se amplía de la humanidad a los materiales brutos, no-humanos, el papel que juegan las rocas, las bacterias, las palabras en los procesos históricos, como materia que espontáneamente producen formas.
2. Al considerar estas nuevas variables "inhumanas", la historia humana se aprecia como la realidad frente a la virtualidad que representa lo inhumano y
3.La vieja diferencia humanista entre naturaleza e historia desaparece.

DeLanda describe tres campos que han jugado un importante papel en la historia humana y que amplía su enfoque en el sentido de considerar como algunos procesos históricos que anteriormente explicábamos mediante causas históricas son realmente expresiones de procesos no-humanos auto-organizados que han influido en el crecimiento de las ciudades de los últimos mil años. Estos campos son la geología, la biología y la lingüística (esta última considerada como humana pero que en realidad posee todas las características de los sistemas auto-organizados que encontramos en la naturaleza). La interacción de estos tres elementos como virtuales es lo que producen los eventos en la historia humana. DeLanda considera el urbanismo como el campo privilegiado de reflexión puesto que las ciudades en rápido crecimiento se asemejan mejor a los sistemas termodinámicos lejos del equilibrio que cualquier otra cosa en la historia humana. El isomorfismo entre los sistemas geológicos, biológicos y lingüísticos con la historia humana, se centra en tres perspectivas concernientes a las ciudades: primero, la perspectiva geológica se centra en el crecimiento de la economía urbana desde la interacción espontánea entre individuos e instituciones, así como el magma y la metereología determinan el crecimiento geológico de la Tierra. En segundo lugar, el punto de vista biológico que considera las ciudades como complejos super-organismos que viven de sus recursos ambientales y originan complejas interacciones entre humanos, animales y bacterias, así como los ecosistemas funcionan de igual manera autorregulándose. En último lugar, la historia lingüística de cómo los diferentes dialectos compiten y circulan de manera espontánea para dar lugar a las distintas lenguas nacionales y grupos étnicos. Estas interacciones no son explicadas desde un sistema clásico lineal sino desde dos claves importantísimas: la auto-organización espontánea y el evento impredecible, nuevo pero contenido en la forma histórica y no en sus propiedades materiales. En los tres casos, podemos ver que se trata de la interacción de diferentes intensidades dinámicas (individuos-instituciones, ciudad-ambiente, dialectos-lenguas nacionales) que producen diferencias espaciales y territoriales mediante eventos específicos claves. En biología, al igual que en historia, podríamos decir que se trata de antievolucionismo que reconoce al igual que Darwin o Spencer la competencia, pero que no es de ninguna manera homogénea y lineal. En vez de ver como la humanidad ha usado su ambiente para manipularlo según su voluntad, DeLanda revierte el enfoque en como lo humano ha sido determinado por lo inhumano en el acontecer de la historia:

"Desde el punto de vista de la dinámica no-lineal de nuestro planeta, la delgada capa rocosa en la cual vivimos y que llamamos nuestra tierra y hogar es tal vez el componente menos importante. En realidad, si esperamos lo suficiente, si podemos observar la dinámica planetaria en escalas geológicas de tiempo, las rocas y las montañas que definen las características más estables y duraderas de nuestra realidad, se disolverían en la gran lava subterránea de la cual aquellas son nada más que endurecimientos temporales. De verdad, dado que es solo una cuestión de tiempo para que una roca o montaña sea re-absorbida en los flujos auto-organizados de lava que controlan la dinámica de la litosfera, estas estructuras geológicas representan una desaceleración temporal de esta fluida realidad. Es casi como que cualquier parte del mundo mineral, pueda ser definido al especificar su composición química y su rapidez de flujo: muy lento para las rocas, más rápido para la lava... Similarmente, nuestros cuerpos y mentes individuales son meras coagulaciones o desaceleraciones en los flujos de biomasa, genes, memes y normas. Aquí también estaríamos definidos tanto por los materiales que temporalmente enlazamos y encadenamos en nuestros cuerpos orgánicos y mentes culturales, como por la escala temporal de dicha operación. Si se da la escala de tiempo suficiente, es el flujo de la biomasa a través de redes de alimentación lo que importa, así como el flujo de genes a través de las generaciones, y no los cuerpos o especies que emergen de estos flujos. Dada una escala de tiempo suficiente, nuestros lenguajes son también momentáneamente desaceleraciones o endurecimientos de un flujo de normas que dan origen a una multitud de estructuras diferentes. La visión de mundo totalizante que dicha "geo-filosofía" genera se pondría en una camisa de fuerza si se introduce una terminología especial".

La historia humana son mineralizaciones de flujos, simbiosis y competencia de la biomasa misma. Desde un punto de vista geológico -que es el más extenso- los fósiles humanos así como las ciudades extintas pertenecen a este flujo geológico, así como las extinciones por epidemias o las desapariciones de grupos lingüísticos como parte de una historia infinitamente superior a la humana. Todas estas cuestiones son irreversibles, como vimos, puesto que lo que se repite es el cambio, y la historia es el más perfecto sistema -además de la termodinámica- de un sistema lejos del equilibrio y autoorganizado. Precisamente, la ausencia de tiempo en las ciencias físicas y sociales se debe a la presencia de esa escala temporal infinitamente superior a la nuestra que es confundida por nosotros como repetición inerte. Lo que pasa es que el flujo infinitamente lento (geología) o infinitamente rápido (virus y bacterias) no son medibles por nuestra humanidad. Por ejemplo, como dice DeLanda: "Los centros urbanos, los organismos vivientes (y la historia geológica no son homeostáticas) no existen en un sistema de equilibrio interno sino que lejos del equilibrio, son atravesados por diferentes flujos de energía-materia que da origen a sus metamorfosis únicas" En este nuevo concepto de historia, la no-linealidad (bifurcaciones complejas), el evento único producido por un flujo de masa energía virtual pero real da campo a una nueva concepción de tiempo y de humanidad, donde no es la identidad sino la intuición de la diferencia de cada momento como "repetición" de algo nuevo. La implicación epistemológica de la diferencia y la virtualidad da cuenta de un nuevo tipo de conocimiento que, además de explicar el mundo independiente de las esencias abstractas, no es representativo o espacial sino también producto de la actualización de las intensidades.

A Thousand Re-Readings.......2005-03-20

Just re-read this for the third time straight through (I've dipped in and out many other times). This is indispensable work. The sections on the growth of cities, creoles and the history of language, and the Body Without Organs still dazzle me.

Gibberish.......2003-12-20

The author is trying to communicate with us, but
by using Klingon Battle Language he'd be more intelligible.
The terms and concepts in the book appear not to have
ordinary meaning, but follow a lexicon inspired by someone who had too much graduate level deconstructionism. I gave it an honest try, on recommendation of Terence McKenna and Mark
Pesce. It would seem that the author is writing for
an audience with IQs above 200, or I'm hopelessly out
of touch.

Understand the BwO!.......2003-05-13

The pot of gold at the end of this rainbow covered book is De Landa's explanation of Deleuze and Guattari's Body without Organs. Worth it for that alone.

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To Leveling Swerve
Rodrigo Toscano
Manufacturer: Krupskaya
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

By Swerve of Shore: Exploring Dublin's Coast

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By Swerve of Shore: Exploring Dublin's Coast
Michael Fewer
Manufacturer: Gill & MacMillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Travel | Writing | Reference | Subjects | Books

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Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action (American Classical Studies)

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Get it. You won't be sorry!
Impressive!
Wally Englert is a great guy
Wally Englert is God (or Jupiter)

Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action (American Classical Studies)
Walter G. Englert
Manufacturer: Scholars Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1555401236

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Get it. You won't be sorry!.......2002-05-06

Unlike too many other books on the subject, Englert's book is readable, hitting the right balance between assuming the reader's background knowledge and explaining the roots of the school of thought.

Impressive!.......1999-06-09

Knew the author as a lad swinging through the "Little Everglades" at Stinson Beach and am not surprised he has come up with such a scholarly work.

Wally Englert is a great guy.......1999-04-23

While I have not actually read THIS book by Wally, I have read his Bryn Mawr commentary on Cicero's "Pro Caelio" and his version of "The Republic --" oh, I mean C.D.C. Reeve's version (wink, wink). Wally is my adviser at lovely Reed College in Portland, OR, and he has helped me a lot in my development as a human being and a student.

Again, I haven't read this book exactly, but his writing style is very fluid and easy to follow; his sense of humor shows through in his writing. So buy this book. You won't regret it

Wally Englert is God (or Jupiter).......1999-04-23

Wally Englert is the greatest writer of all time. He has personally seen to it that the first line of "The Iliad" was recited by over 300 people. This may seem like a small task to you, but did you know "The Iliad" is recited in Ancient Greek? This is an impressive task. Big Wally Englert is also the nicest man I know. He is a friend to bicyclists everywhere, and always wears his bicycle helmet. He pretty much wrote the English version of "The Republic." Classicists everywhere are lining up to copy off of him -- imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Come on, read this book! It'll make you feel good!

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Swerving of the Arts

Swerve
Sheri-D Wilson
Manufacturer: Arsenal Pulp Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

A collection of poems and performance pieces, Wilson unveils a new feminine/feminist panorama of erotica, a subject area reclaimed from the realm of male writers. Swerve is a smart, pulsating, and very funny collection by this post-hippie, pre-Generation X Mama of Dada—a poet for the 21st century.

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Swerving of the Arts.......2000-08-28

Out of all of Sheri-D Wilson's four published books of poetry, my most loved is her second, Swerve. This work is purely transendental. It merges both her brilliant talent for rhythmical poetry , alive with action and sparks, and her obvious internal knowledge of the stage. The continual metaphors of this book show a dedication to the oral tradition in poetry, taking the reader inward in a burst of colorful motion, then spewing out the dynamics in gesticulation of the written word. Minds who claim that poetry is purely for academic stiffs, prepare to be taken where the lyrical sounds of a modern day female writer will take you, --the stillness in between pulse beats is only a momentary illusion--but swift enough to make the open minded among us dance with the power of poetry. Recommended to those looking to explore both poetry, and acting.

Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl

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Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl

Manufacturer: Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HYX3L2

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short and sweet
New Book is Great!!

Swerve: Short S.F. Stories
Gabriel Bellman
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1413429505

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short and sweet.......2004-05-12

lots of short pieces.
some of them just really awesome.
others funny.
some depressing.
quite a virtuoso display.
seems like the voice of an ADD era- in a good way.

New Book is Great!!.......2003-12-23

I saw the author of this book read during one of his performances,
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On drunken driving bills, lawmakers swerve.(Commentary) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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On drunken driving bills, lawmakers swerve.(Commentary) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on September 27, 2005. The length of the article is 797 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On drunken driving bills, lawmakers swerve.(Commentary)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 27, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: A13

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