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This concise supplement to Adams' The Education of Henry Adams helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. ... Read more

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A guide to all the obscure references in Adams's masterpiece
In "New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams" (a collection published by Cambridge UP), literary scholar John Carlos Rowe admits that "The baffling multitude of historical characters, significant events, and political currents has generally been the first obstacle to the reader's involvement in this narrative.... it still amazes me that readers helped turn a book of such difficult historical references into a classic."

And so I was about two-thirds of the way through "The Education of Henry Adams" when I threw in the towel and admitted that, if I hoped to finish the work, I too needed a guide to all the obscure events and even more obscure personalities referred to by Adams in his otherwise remarkable book. This purchase was actually my first-ever exposure to the CliffsNotes series--and I was pleasantly surprised.

Written by Stanley Baldwin, this short handbook offers a chapter-by-chapter overview of the "Education," delivers the necessary historical and biographical background, and highlights the work's important themes. This is no condensed version, however; you won't feel like you've read "The Education of Henry Adams" after you're gone through this booklet. Instead, Baldwin gives the reader just enough information to understand Adams's work, and he wisely leaves many of the most interesting episodes and all of Adams's clever observations and witty quips for readers to discover on their own.

Although some of the presentation is a bit repetitive for a 100-page booklet (and this approach, I gather, is emblematic for the titles in this series), this is a solid, useful, and inexpensive introduction for readers like myself who might otherwise enjoy the "Education" if they weren't constantly flummoxed by the insider references and historical arcana Adams tosses along the way. ... Read more

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Jeffrey Wigand had it easy
This is the ultimate account of a corporate whistleblower whose life was torn to shreds as a consequence. Not only did the European Commission successfully prosecute HLR as a result of Adams' information, but they stood by as both his and his family's lives were systematically destroyed. I read this book seven years ago and I still grit my teeth at any thought of Roche, the EC, and especially those god awful Swiss.

You MUST read this book. The more people who know the story, the better. Pharmaceutical cartels aren't as sexy as Big Tobacco, but Stanley Adams' ordeal blows even the dramatised Hollywood account of Big Tobacco's "Insider" completely out of the water.

A book that must not be missed.
I read the book more than three years ago. Even though I have forgotten most of the details of Mr Adams's story, I am deeply impressed by this man's courage and ability of not showing even the slightest sign of grudgeagaisnt those who have played him out. This shows that he is a veryforgiving and loving guy. I admire him for the way in which he reacted tothe whole incident. It's a very touching story, undeniably. May he live inpeace and happiness forever.

A real life thriller that leaves fiction a long way behind
This book has left a mark on my life and despite reading it over ten yearsago I can still remember the tale in some detail. I recommend it to anyonewho wishes to understand the true power of the multinnational

Destroys all faith in the European Community
A most distrurbing tale of what happened to an executive of a Swiss pharmaceutical company after he had left the organisation.

Doing what he felt was right for the good of consumers and the EC, he passed cartel and shady dealing information to the European Parliament.

His subsequent arrest, the 'suicide' of his wife, and his ensuing struggle for freedom will bring a genuine tear to the eye of even the hardest reader.

I have tried to contact Stanley Adams and John Prescott (who assisted him in his plight) but to no avail.

All in all a gripping read - at times you will not beleive it is NON-fiction. ... Read more

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In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women necessarily filled men's roles in factories and other jobs during the war, those who continued to lead active working lives after World War I risked being called "modern women." Far from a compliment, this derogatory label encompassed everything society found threatening about women's new place in public life: a smoking, working woman who preferred independence and sexual freedom to a traditional role in the home. Society felt threatened by the image of the "modern woman," yet also realized that conceptions of femininity needed to accommodate the cultural changes brought about by the Great War.

In Modernizing Tradition, Adam C. Stanley explores how interwar French and German popular culture used commercial images to redefine femininity in a way that granted women some access to modern life without encouraging the assertion of female independence. Examining advertisements, articles, and cartoons, as well as department store publicity materials from the popular press of each nation, Stanley reveals how the media attempted to convince women that--with the help ofnewly available consumer goods such as washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners--being a mother or a housewife could be empowering, even liberating. A life devoted to the home, these images promised, need not be an unmitigated return to old-fashioned tradition but could offer a rewarding lifestyle based on the wonders and benefits of modern technology. Stanley shows that the media carefully limited women's association with the modernity to those activities that reinforced women's traditional roles or highlighted their continued dependence on masculine guidance, expertise, and authority.

In this cross-national study, Stanley brings into sharp relief issues of gender and consumerism and reveals that, despite the larger political differences between France and Germany, gender ideals in the two countries remained virtually identical between the world wars. That these concepts of gender stayed static over the course of two decades--years when nearly every other aspect of society and culture seemed to be in constant flux--attests to their extraordinary power as a force in French and German society. ... Read more

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This book is a compilation of lecture notes that were prepared for the graduate course ``Adams Spectral Sequences and Stable Homotopy Theory'' given at The Fields Institute during the fall of 1995. The aim of this volume is to prepare students with a knowledge of elementary algebraic topology to study recent developments in stable homotopy theory, such as the nilpotence and periodicity theorems. Suitable as a text for an intermediate course in algebraic topology, this book provides a direct exposition of the basic concepts of bordism, characteristic classes, Adams spectral sequences, Brown-Peterson spectra and the computation of stable stems. The key ideas are presented in complete detail without becoming encyclopedic. The approach to characteristic classes and some of the methods for computing stable stems have not been published previously. All results are proved in complete detail. Only elementary facts from algebraic topology and homological algebra are assumed. Each chapter concludes with a guide for further study. ... Read more

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Charles Partridge Adams was a major Colorado landscape painter during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.More than any other artist who has adopted the Centennial State, Adams came to be regarded by the public and critics alike as the preeminent interpreter of the Colorado landscape.

• Includes 90 striking reproductions of Adams’s paintings of Colorado, California, New England, the South, and Europe• Provides preliminary sketches and selections from his journals and memoirs ... Read more

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A lively tribute to Adams and his life's work
Charles Partridge Adams was a major Colorado landscape painter during the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the mountains and plains of his area and producing Colorado landscapes which earned him acclaim. The collaborative effort of Dorothy Dines, Stephen J. Leonard, and Stanley L. Cuba, The Art Of Charles Partridge Adams reproduces some ninety of his works of Colorado, California, New England and Europe alike, including some preliminary sketches and journal selections to round out the offerings. A lively tribute to Adams and his life's work

Rocky Mountain High
This book is the major source for both artistic and historical information about Adams, widely considered to be Colorado'sfinest impressionist landscape painter.Adams is best known for his stunning views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous twilight and sunset paintings of the river bottoms near Denver. For sample photos from this book, photos of his paintings, and additional information, see the Adams website, charlespartridgeadams.com

Rocky Mountain High
This book is the major source for both artistic and historical information about Adams, widely considered to be Colorado'sfinest impressionist landscape painter.Adams is best known for his stunning views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous twilight and sunset paintings of the river bottoms near Denver. For sample photos from this book, photos of his paintings, and additional information, see the Adams website, charlespartridgeadams.com

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado
Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) is widely considered to have been Colorado's finest landscape painter, best-known for his stunning views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous twilight and sunset paintings of the riverbottoms near Denver. His paintings are best characterized asimpressionistic and subjective. This lavish book contains 92 full-colorillustrations of his work in both oils and watercolors, as well as threehistorical essays about Adams' life and work. A unique feast for those wholove the Rocky Mountains and impressionism.

This is a good overall view of his work.
My wife and I have one of his watercolor paintings.It was in an old antique shop.It is a mountain stream painting with mountain background. ... Read more

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He's tracked down bad guys. He's saved the world (several times). Pick up the line, Adam Sharp! It's . . . "London Calling"!Who would steal Big Ben, the most famous clock in the world? Superspy Adam Sharp jets off to England to find out. But when he gets to London, it's overrum with cowboys and cowgirls. They're having a hoedown in the House of Lords. They're square dancing in Buckingham Palace. Has England gone hog-wild? ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Frank Craven, Channing Pollock, Alan Bergman, Alan Jay Lerner, Bruce Geller, Glen Ballard, Marilyn Bergman, Stanley Adams, Hal David, Yip Harburg, Jack Brooks, Joe Darion, Sheldon Harnick. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Frank Craven est un acteur, dramaturge, librettiste, lyriciste, metteur en scène, producteur, réalisateur et scénariste américain, de son vrai nom Francis Henry Craven, né à Boston (Massachusetts) le 24 août 1875, décédé d'une crise cardiaque à Beverly Hills (Californie) le 1 septembre 1945. Durant sa carrière, Frank Craven est très actif au théâtre ; il débute à Broadway en 1907, comme acteur, et y joue dans des pièces et comédies musicales jusqu'en 1944. Il est également l'auteur de plusieurs pièces représentées à Broadway - dont certaines adaptées au cinéma (entre 1925 et 1934) - ; l'une de ses plus connues est The First Year, créée en 1920, représentée 760 fois jusqu'en 1922, puis adaptée au cinéma (en 1926 et 1932) et à la télévision (un téléfilm diffusé en 1946). Pour la scène new-yorkaise, il est aussi metteur en scène, producteur, lyriciste et librettiste (de comédies musicales) - voir la rubrique "Théâtre" ci-dessous -. Au cinéma, Frank Craven apparaît dans 41 films américains entre 1928 et 1946 (son dernier film, tourné peu avant sa mort en 1945, sort l'année suivante). Durant cette période, il contribue également à quelques films comme scénariste et en réalise trois (voir sa filmographie complète). Un de ses rôles les plus connus à l'écran est celui de M. Morgan ('Stage Manager'), dans Une petite ville sans histoire, film de 1940 auquel il collabore, en outre, comme scénariste ; il s'agit de l'adaptation au cinéma de Our Town, pièce à succès de Thornton Wilder, créé...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Roman Polanski, Stanley Adams, Peter Friederich,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roman Polanski (Polish: , Polish pronunciation: ) born 1933 in France is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, to where his family relocated in 1937 and later became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left the People's Republic of Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to Britain, where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polanski's Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polanski returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures, with Robert Evans serving as producer. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critica...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25428 ... Read more

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This collection explores the political philosophy and theory foundations for educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. The first section, "Political Philosophy: The Foundations," discusses the work of such writers as Machiavelli, Kant and Hegel, Hayek, Habermas, and Bourdieu as their theories apply to the educational context. The second section, "Political Analysis: The Critique," examines various types of political analyses, such as the politics of the policy process, minority politics, civil society, micro-politics, community politics, and cosmopolitan theory. The last section, "Current Political Controversies: The Practice," addresses current topical issues of a political nature, including the serving of the state economic agenda, the democratisation of educational organisations, the neo-conservative agenda, and globalisation. The broad international perspective from which these topics are covered makes this volume an excellent addition to the fields of educational leadership, organizational studies, and educational administration theory.

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aethetics and its significance to the field of leadership studies
This book is well written with multiple perspectives on the aesthetics and educational leadership.Writers such as Hodgkinson, C. (1978, 1991) and Greenfield T.B. & Ribbins, P. (1993) have been calling for alternate ways of knowing and understanding the field of administration.Samier has contributed to that request by focusing on the aesthetics.The authors write from a perspective that views administration as being fluid and dynamic.For them, there is no quick fix, no one best way to define educational leadership and administration.Instead, the book provides a multiple aesthetic lenses through which one can look at the many paradigms of leadership.For anyone interested in the field of leadership and administration, it is a book worth reading. ... Read more