Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection written by New York Public Library. Slavonic Division and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Countries of the World written by Thomson Gale (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains reports from the U.S. Department of State on approximately 200 countries around the world, discussing issues such as politics, geography, defense, and trade. Includes information for travelers on health and disease, immigration requirements, transportation, and other topics.
Download or read book The Czech and Slovak Federal Republic written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-10-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is based on an internal report prepared by the IMF staff in connection with the application of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (Czechoslovakia) for membership in the IMF. The paper surveys the economic system that had developed up to the time of the reforms begun in 1987 and outlines the economy's performance during 1945–1985. It then discusses the economic developments of 1985–1990, with separate sections on output, prices, public finance, money, and the balance of payments. Prices served mainly as an instrument of central planning: each price was set independently and a change in one price had no influence on other prices. The annual foreign exchange plan, derived from the state plan, strictly controlled foreign exchange transactions. It specified imports and exports of goods and services by enterprises for the convertible and nonconvertible area. The exact modalities of the denationalization scheme have not yet been determined. However, consideration is being given to a scheme whereby state enterprises would be transformed into joint stock companies, and “ownership vouchers” would be distributed to the population which would entitle their holders to purchase stock in these companies.
Download or read book HIV and AIDS written by Karen McElrath and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the spread of HIV and AIDS, as well as public responses to them, in Australia, Brazil, central and eastern Europe, China, Haiti, Ireland, Kenya and Uganda, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, sub-Saharan Africa, Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S.
Download or read book 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out written by Josh Pahigian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles America’s greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture landmarks and ballpark sites. From sandlots and skyboxes to TV rooms and sports bars, America’s love for baseball has inspired countless memories, discussions, and tributes. Josh Pahigian takes us across America to explore the places where the game’s history, culture, and lore come to life. Whether we travel by car or sit in the comfort of our favorite armchair, the book guides us to 101 amazing baseball places—including Ted Williams’ boyhood home, the Field of Dreams movie site, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Chicago bar where the Cubs’ “Curse of the Billy Goat” was born, Babe Ruth’s grave, and scores of other captivating landmarks and curios. Replacing the now-extinct sites from the previous edition, updating entries for attractions that have moved, re-assigning coveted chapters to more inspiring baseball venues that have since opened, and including stunning color photos for nearly all of them, Josh Pahigian has created the perfect gift for any baseball fan.
Download or read book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America written by Monroe Nathan Work and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limited edition facsimile reprint"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Ethnic Modernism written by Werner Sollors and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.
Download or read book The Orientalist And The Ghost written by Susan Barker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaya 1951, a jungle resettlement camp: young colonial adventurer Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with a Chinese nurse Evangeline - a fierce flame that ends in tragedy when their camp is attacked by Communist guerrillas and Christopher is violently beaten up. London: half a century later the ghosts of that time return to haunt Christopher, triggering vivid memories of colonial misconduct and lost love. Forced to confront his past, Christopher agonises over the fate of his beloved Evangeline and the disappearance of their daughter, Frances. Moving from present day London to the heart of the Malayan jungle in colonial times, THE ORIENTALIST AND THE GHOST is a stunning portrayal of human frailty and lost love.
Download or read book Burgoo Stew written by Susan Patron and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this variant of "Stone Soup," old Billy Que tames a group of rough hungry boys.
Download or read book Taking the Risk Out of Democracy written by Alex Carey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Carey documents the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesse, and its export to and adoption by Western democracies like the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection, drawn from Carey's voluminous unpublished writings, examines how and why the business elite successfully sold its values and perspectives to the rest of society. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone
Download or read book Children of Paranoia written by Trevor Shane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like The Bourne Identity turned inside-out.”—Christopher Farnsworth, author of Blood Oath This is a war. It’s been going on for generations. If you’re lucky, it will be your generation that ends it… At least that’s what the young ones are told before they turn eighteen. At that age they become fair game, and must kill or be killed in a secret war between two distinct sides—one good, one evil. The only unknown is which side is which. Hidden in plain view, the battles are fought through assassinations disguised as accidents or the work of senseless thugs. Joseph has a particular talent for such killings. Never questioning an order, all he needs is a name. But when a job goes wrong and he’s sent away on a punishingly dangerous assignment, he meets a girl. Her name is Maria. And for the first time Joseph has a reason to live…outside the war. Now Joseph must run from those who fought by his side, quickly discovering that the only thing more dangerous than fighting the war is attempting to leave it.
Download or read book What Do You Say Dear written by Sesyle Joslin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-09-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you say when: you bump into a crocodile on a crowded city street? a nice gentleman introduces you to a baby elephant? the Queen feeds you so much spaghetti that you don't fit in your chair anymore? This is the funniest book of manners you'll ever read!
Download or read book Swatchways and Little Ships written by Maurice Griffiths and published by Sheridan House Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over fifty years Maurice Griffiths cruised a variety of small yachts amongst the rivers and creeks of the Thames Estuary and round the coasts of Suffolk, Essex and Kent. In this classic book he tells of the boats he has owned, and shows how the experience gained turned him into a dedicated yacht designer.
Download or read book Sayonara Bar written by Susan Barker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other 'economy gelshas' are employed by the enigmatic Mama san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing drinking games and taking turns in the karaoke booth. Mary is in love with Yuji, Mama san's handsome son. But Yuji's loyalty is to the petty Yakuza gangster for whom he works. Watanabe, the introverted cook, watches Mary from the Sayonara Bar's kitchen. He exists in his own manga-fuelled fantasy of the fourth dimension, and believes he can see into other people's souls, as well as into the gurgling viscera of their bodies. When he perceives the danger of Mary's growing obsession with Yuji, he resolves to protect her whatever the cost. Mr Sato works for the Daiwa Trading Corporation. Obsessive overwork cannot cover the emptiness of his solitary life. Lured against his will to the Sayonara Bar by his boss, he finds himself returning there to escape his dead wife's ghost. Edgy, sly, and often very funny, Sayonara Bar spins a kaleidoscopic, genre-crossing tale of people cut adrift in a shrinking, globalized world.
Download or read book Hidden Fires written by Manjula Padmanabhan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five powerful, hard-hitting monologues in which the playwright tackles head-on issues of violence, intolerance of others, narrow concepts of community and nation, each with a twist that lifts it into the realm of real drama. Award-winning playwright Manjula Padmanabhan, in her attempt to come to grips with the violence of these times, excels in this suite of short one-handers which leaves the viewer both shaken and thoughtful. Manjula Padmanabhan is a playwright, writer, illustrator and cartoonist living in New Delhi. Her play Harvest was awarded the Onassis International Cultural Competition Prize for Theatrical Plays in 1997.
Download or read book How to Get Suspended and Influence People written by Adam Selzer and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2008 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.
Download or read book International Smoking Statistics written by Barbara Forey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important reference for all those interested in the epidemiology of smoking and smoking-related diseases. The coverage of the first edition has been extended to 30 countries, and now includes sales of cigarettes and all tobacco products over the years 1920 to 1995.
