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Chinese edition of Journey of a thousand miles : my story. The celebrated pianist Lang Lang tells the story of his life. Behind every genius, there are stories of family and personal sacrifice, endless practice, determination, and truer to Lang Lang's story, love. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of David Marshall Lang, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 568 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Great illustrations-----wooden text
Georgia may be famous in the former Soviet Union as a land of wine, poets, filmmakers, and beautiful scenery.Some Georgian words seem to have circulated among all the republics of that now-vanished empire---tamada, Kinzmarauli, chacha, khachapuri, and so on, but outside that Soviet world, few people know much at all about Georgia.Certainly English-language books on the country are far and few between.In all my life, I've only ever seen one coffee table book on Georgian art and architecture.I found it in a most unlikely place---a weekly country fair on the forested outskirts of Melbourne, Australia---and I traded an original photograph for it.This is it, THE ARTS OF ANCIENT GEORGIA, published in the 1970s with a foreword by the doyen of Georgian studies in the Anglophone world, David Marshall Lang, and with a large number of most excellent photographs by Rolf Schrade.If you are interested in Georgia or its arts, I believe this book is a must.It is thorough, it is incredibly detailed, and very well-organized.It is a book for professionals, for art historians, or for those wanting an extremely painstaking description of Georgian architectural treasures.

Before you rush right out and buy it, let me add one more thing.I don't know if the original were written in Georgian or Russian, but it was translated into German, and this book is the English translation of that !If you think that might make for a wooden style, you are right.Reading this text is like swimming with your boots on.Not only that, but the authors had to toe the line of political correctness then prevalent in the USSR.That meant looking at the world through spectacles of social Darwinism and Marxist-Leninist theory.Phrases such as "levels of development", "standards of achievement" and "progress made by the Georgian people...in the development of cultural life in their country" pepper the text---all kinds of terminology that implies a hierarchy of cultures in the world (with Europe no doubt at the top).The endpiece map has no boundaries of any kind on it to avoid stimulating the kind of ethnic nastiness that sprang up after 1991.If you want an example of both wooden language and Soviet vocabulary, here is a quote from p.47"Certain variations emerge in the historical development of these installations [fortifications] which were determined by the particular features ofindividual stages in the evolution of the feudal system."If you can hack a lot more of this, you are ready to read THE ARTS OF ANCIENT GEORGIA.Otherwise, look at the pictures and use it as a reference book.You won't be sorry.

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Written by experienced authors who share academic as well as real-world practices, this text features exceptionally comprehensive yet manageable coverage of a broad spectrum of E-commerce essentials from a global point of view. The new edition pays special attention to the most recent developments in online behavior in our business, academic, and personal lives.
Introduction to E-Commerce and E-Marketplaces; Internet Consumer Retailing; Business-to-Business E-Commerce; Other EC Models and Applications; EC Support Services; EC Strategy and Implementation; Application Development
Perfect for anyone looking for a brief or supplemental text on EC. Ideal for busy executives.

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Thanks for the prompt shipping!It really helped me out since my class was only 8 weeks long.Great seller & honest!

E-commerce is alive and well
$400 billion or 16% of the total retail sales are directly influenced by Web.Consumers today are very savvy. They do the research, compare prices online and may not go to the stores to purchase.

Web 2.0, 3.0, E-marketplace, E-tailing, online consumer behavior, online market research, B2B, E-supply chain, corporate portals, E-government, E-learning, social network, mobile commerce, E-security, E-payment, were covered in depth. Definitions and examples are good.

The drawback of this book, is too much theory. There are few real-life cases.

No coverage of global e-commerce success stories, is a major flaw of this book.

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This digital document is an article from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, published by Bibliographical Society of Canada on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 1414 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: David Miller and Richard Price, comps. British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines.".(Book review)
Author: David McKnight
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of Canada
Volume: 47Issue: 1Page: 134(5)

Article Type: Book review

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