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The island of Bali encompasses a wide range of natural habitats and this book offers a general introduction to the natural history of Bali.Watercolor panoramas and illustrations of significant plants and animals from each type of habitat accompany the text. ... Read more

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Very informative
This is a nice little book, suitable for both older children and adults. The text is interesting, and the illustrations are lovely. However, I can't believe the price it's being sold for! I just bought it in Bali 2 weeks ago for about $3. You might as well buy a ticket to Bali and buy it there yourself. ... Read more

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Davison’s Textile Blue Book is the "Bible" of the textile industry. It has been published every year since 1866. This annual directory is an extensive compilation of mills, dyers, finishers, converters, jobbers, fiber, fabric and yarn resources, machinery, and other various suppliers and textile-related companies placed into approximately 2,000 different headings. It is the book that textile-related companies rely on when making purchasing decisions. ... Read more

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Chapters: Auntie Mame, Angela Lansbury, Beatrice Arthur, Christine Baranski, Rosalind Russell, Bruce Davison, Robert Preston, Emily Skinner, Harriet Sansom Harris, Gene Saks, Sab Shimono. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. 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: Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned eight decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight (1944) as Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). She expanded her repertoire to Broadway and television in the 1950s, and she was successful in Broadway productions of Mame, Gypsy (revival), and Sweeney Todd. She is best-known to many for her television role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the long-running U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote (1984 to 1996). She most recently appeared on Broadway in a revival of Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati, for which she won her fifth Tony at the age of 83, tying her with Julie Harris's record for most Tony wins. Lansbury has been appearing since December 2009 in a well-received revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music as Madame Armfeldt (for which she has been nominated for a Tony as well). The production stars Catherine Zeta-Jones. Lansbury is scheduled to leave the role on June 20, 2010. Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards. Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, England, to Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Co...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=165527 ... Read more

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Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In his Introduction, Mr. Schulberg writes: The film's concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to the camera eye, made it esthetically inconvenient, if not impossible, to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective.suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York. ... Read more

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The Classic 'On The Waterfront' Account.
This book contains the twenty-six front page articles of Malcolm Johnson printed in 'The New York Sun' in 1947 and '48.Budd Schulberg wrote the introduction and added some articles of his own.He had previously written THE DISENCHANTED.

Mainly, though, it is almost totally Malcolm Johnson, a reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for these articles which shook the United States as he exposed organized crime on the New York waterfront.This was the basis of the movie 'On The Watrefront' starring Marlon Brando.This exposure led to the Tennessee Senator Kefauver hearings and changed labor laws which influenced America.D. A. Thomas Dewey led the charge and Budd Schulberg followed through by producing the award-winning movie directed by Elia Kazan.It won five Oscars including best picture, best director and best actor.It is one of the Top Ten films of the century.

The articles and resulting movie reveals to the world how organized crime had infiltrated the New York Harbor, the world's busiest port. The '40s photo looking down on New York City shows hundreds of piers at the height of the waterfront's extent and power.The interconnnected piers were the richest in the world.

This book shows America and New York at the pivotal time when shipping ruled the world.Back then, "money was more important than life itself."It still is sometimes and some places.Corruption and violence on the waterfront were commonplace, as they were on the street of New York ('The West Side Story').Pictures are interspersed throughout the book; one of them is of the Hudson River, showing the West Side piers at their peak in the '30s.

Haynes Johnson also won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism.He wrote THE BEST OF TIMES: AMERICA IN THE CLINTON YEARS, which I already reviewed.

Handsomely Reproduced Time Capsule
Reading this book is like stepping into another era, and the shocks are everywhere.First of all, the material is from an olf time New York daily newspaper, the SUN, a paper long vanished into the annals of journalism.Thank goodness someone kept some old copies of this scandal-making series of articles by SUN reporter Malcolm Johnson, many of which took up the first page of the old SUN, and filled the paper with an expose on union activities along the piers and docks of old New York.Johnson's son, nonfiction specialist Haynes Johnson, contributes context for his father's Pulitzer-Prize winning scoop.

Budd Schulberg, who read these articles and worked with Elia Kazan on the screenplay of the film, pays tribute to Malcolm Johnson like one craftsman to another.But he's no dummy, Schulberg.The first thing you realize when reading these articles is what a great job Schulberg did bringing life to what is essentially a pretty dry tale of graft, without any real heroes or plot.In presenting this old journalism, Schulberg insures that we appreciate his artistry.There aren't any Terry Malloys in the pages of the SUN, and there are definitely no Eva Marie Saints looking on wistfully.

What you'll take away from what was once the expose of the decade is now merely a case of mutatis mutandis.I'm sure things along the docks have not changed an iota.Prices have, though!Johnson presented as a shocker the annual salary of the corrupt union head--$20,000!That wouldn't get you very far in today's New York.You might be able to buy a life buoy but I doubt it.And yet to his readers, that salary must have repesented the equivalent of a million bucks today, and been instantly a suspicious red flag as though to scream out in 24 pt type, RYAN'S A CROOK.

And what a prescient picture of the Mafia!It was an organization only dimly visible through the underground fog, yet one that extended its tentacles into every arena of modern urban life.Johnson must have been one of the first reporters to dig into it with any depth or understanding.It's a surprise he lived!I would have thought after three or four days of this serial, the boys would have put his shoes into concrete and sunk him under the pier.Instead he lived for another 30 years, with the Pulitzer on his mantel and a grin across his face. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on May 31, 1999. The length of the article is 711 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: A primera vista.(TT: At first sight.)(Reseña)
Author: Pedro Crespo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 31, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same. ... Read more

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I believe that California Suite is one of the funniest plays that i have ever read. I am fairly new to Neil Simon, but I have enjoyed everything that I have read from him so far.

A Neil Simon comedy classic!
Comparable to his later success, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers, California Suite is a set of four playlets set in one hotel room.They feature A- A divorced couple meeting to decide on their daughter'sfuture

B- A man with a hooker in his room tries to hide her when his wifecomes

C- A neurotic actress and her homosexual husband come to town forthe Oscars

D- Four friends really get to know what it's liked going onvacation together.

The first and third are the best, because theycombine wit and emotion.The other two are hilarious, but somewhat hollow. Overall, it is worth reading, and certainly ranks as one of Simons best inthe past 25 years. ... Read more

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Spanning more than two decades, Cakewalk dramatizes the tempestuous relationship between the writers Lillian Hellman and Peter Feibleman - she a famous legend, he 20 years her junior. The play tells a story timed to the rhythms of the human heart, ricocheting between bouts of tenderness and rage, humor and woe, sex and death. ... Read more

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No border between stage and audience
Elaine Stritch is Lillian Hellman herself, showing her stubbornness and fragility very well. I'm touched by Bruce Davison's calm narration with passion reserved inside.

What I like "Cakewalk" best is no border between stage and audience. Listening to this audio, I feel like I've been living with two writers in the very same place and time, sharing their joy, anger, pain and struggle as a writer and human. All scenes with full-color appear before us, then we are not an observer any more. This will invite you to consider what real relationship is. Peter Feibleman is the greatest natural born artist.

A fabulous find.
Elaine Stritch is incredible in this recording. Though I have only minor familiarity with Lillian Hellman, this play is simultaneously light and dark, humorous and serious, and a perfect portrait of two artists together through time. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone.

LILLIAN HELLMAN - OFF STAGE
Elaine Strich becomes legendary novelist/playwright Lillian Hellman inthis sometimes scathing, often tumultuous, frequently poignant account ofHellman's long term relationship with a man 25 years younger than she. There's wit, there's passion - all delivered by an A-one cast performinglive in Los Angeles. ... Read more

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Want a Yellow Pages for Textile's Who's Who!
This is an invaluable source of information for all those who are in any way connected to the US textile industry. And for anyone who is constantly in need of contacts and lists of products manufactured by a certain compay, this is the who's Who!!

A one stop shop for all theconcise information related to a company and updated every year this yellow pages will not dissappoint you. A must have for anyone in the Textile industry! ... Read more

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Four cassettes / five hours
Read by Bruce Davison

"TheCentral America was as sensational a shipwreck in its century as theTitanic was in ours."
--The WashingtonPost

Bestselling author Gary Kinder tells, for the firsttime, an extraordinary tale of history, maritime drama, heroic rescue,scientific ingenuity, and individual courage. Ship of Gold in theDeep Blue Sea is the riveting true account of death, danger, anddiscovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America'sgreatest lost treasure.

In September 1857, the side-wheelstreamer S.S. Central America, carrying 500 passengers and21 tons of gold from the mountains of California, sank in a hurricane offthe Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, thetragic story resurfaced in 1989, when Tommy Thompson, a brilliantocean engineer, sailed into Norfolk harbor with more than 10 tons ofpioneer old. Using a combination of oceanography, computer science,and information theory to sift through historical records andpenetrate the deep sea, Thompson's team had recovered the mint-statecoins, antique bars, and sparkling gold dust from 8,000 feet below thesurface of the sea--proving wrong everyone who said it couldn't bedone and establishing mankind's first read working presence on thedeep ocean floor. It was, as Life magazine proclaimed "Thegreatest treasure ever found," and its dollar value has currently beenestimated in the hundreds of millions.

This AudioBook is acopiously historical record of the disaster, rendered in chillingdetail with diaries from the survivors and eyewitness accounts, aswell as newspaper reports from the worst peacetime at-sea disaster inAmerican history. It is a chronicle of the technological breakthroughin which deep-sea robots were developed to perform complex work.Antit is an incredibly exciting adventure story of how a team ofscientists and engineers, the Columbus-America Discovery Group,battled massive storms, technological challenges, and intrusivesalvages on the open seas to find the lost treasure.

It is afascinating story both of the power of the human will to succeed andof technological triumph.
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The full horror as the mighty Central American, a shipcarrying almost 600 people and a wealth of gold, sank in a"perfect hurricane" in 1857 is brilliantly re-created in theaudio version of Ship of Gold. Gary Kinder's book cries outfor audio interpretation due to its abundance of dramatic descriptionsfrom that hellish night. "The hoarse screams of 500 men rose asshe began a slow watery spin--the water turning faster and faster andfaster until the swirling vortex sucked the men into a suffocatingdarkness with the once majestic steamer." Bruce Davison deliversKinder's rich, descriptive narrative with appropriate drama andflair. It is truly a delight to hear this incredible story read outloud. The chilling testimonies of passengers and crew are alsoconvincingly re-enacted by Davison, who assumes the voices offrightened young women, exhausted crew men, and the steadfast voice ofthe brave Captain Herndon as he fights to keep his shipafloat. Davison is rather soft spoken, which makes for a pleasantlistening experience, especially because the tapes run for fivehours.

It really is impossible not to become fully engrossed inthis fascinating story of a ship's demise, and the subsequentoperation to recover her treasure some 130 years later. (Running time:five hours, four cassettes) --Naomi Gesinger ... Read more

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Fails to deliver
This book seems like it should have it all: a dramatic tale of a ship sinking in a storm, sunken treasure, pushing the technological envelope, extensive research and legal battles. And the story of the sinking of the SS Central America is pretty gripping reading. But in the end, it just fails to deliver on that promise. Much of the book felt like the author was saying "well, I've done all this research, so I ought to put it in somewhere". For much of the book, I found myself reading a quarter of the page and skipping to the next page, hoping the story would move on. In the end, I found it a book that I slogged through, not one that pulled me along with the story. I won't be reading it again.

Ship of Gold in the deep blue sea
The books arrived in perfect condition.The order was delivered promptly.Thank you for the great service.Cheers, Debi.

Exciting modern day adventure into the past...
I am an engineer and this turned out to be a fantastic read not only from the "Treasure Hunt" angle but from the problem solving skills of an engineers view. This is a well laid out overview of what it takes to accomplish a Herculean task. It is a good history story, a modern day adventure story, and a tale of challenges at every turn, that were meet with the good ole' American way of hard work and never give up enthusiasm, which paid off in the end.

Wow - an incredible story, fabulously written!
If this were fiction it might be hard to believe but given the fact that this really happened makes it all the more exciting.I could not put the book down!

Can I Take a Breath Now???
Well.....lets just say it takes a lot to excite me..........
Golf does not do it....I am not that DEAD YET!!!!!!!!!
This book starts off SLOW...BUT I gave it a chance and then realized Gary was just building a baseline of characters to draw from later.
AND WOW does he ever.
Lets just put it this way....I was flying home from Florida and it was a 2 hour plus flight and I had no idea how long I was in the air until the wheels hit the ground on the other end and I found myself with a wet shirt.
Yes it gets that intense and involving........!!!!!!!!!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
Insert this into my top 10 BEST OFF BOOKS LIST ... Read more