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Good filter book
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Subjects:  1. Analog electronic systems   2. Electric Filters   3. Electric filters, Active   4. Electric filters, Passive   5. Electronics - Circuits - General   6. Technology & Industrial Arts   7. Electronics & Communications Engineering   8. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

Subjects:  1. Brownian motion processes   2. Markov Processes   3. Mathematics   4. Probability & Statistics - General   

Subjects:  1. Age Factors   2. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy   3. Athletic Injuries   4. Disabled Persons   5. Medical   6. Sports & Recreation   7. Sports Medicine   8. Training   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics   2. Business / Economics / Finance   3. Business/Economics   4. General   5. Industrial Management   6. Information Management   7. Business strategy   8. Management decision making   9. Organizational theory & behaviour   10. Systems management   

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Reader from the Colorado Mountains
What complete focus on the kitchen where no other feng shui books have gone. The authors share their own unique insights accumulated from the vast wisdom of their teachers for the past 30 years, experience in owning their own restaurant in London (among all places) called the Immortals and being masters of Chinese marital arts where natural energies and wisdom pearl out of our bodies in the gentlest form.

In a clear, step by step, slow pace each aspect of food and the kitchen is harmoniously discussed. From food cultivation to transportation to preparation to cooking and finally consumption on the table; kitchen landscape and design including placement of electric appliances, storage of foods, selection of flooring, counters and cabinets; eating with nature of the four seasons, and brilliant explation of balancing of five elements of fire, earth, water, air and wood. Also includes easy to follow healthful and easy to obtain recipes.

When the USDA is questioning the food pyramid that has collapsed before us Americans, may they be inspired to look at the root cause of our imbalances which lie heavily in the food we consume.

A reader from New York
I found the book fun and interesting. I saw it in a friends kitchen picked it up and found it very informative. In a world of so many toxins, genetically engineered food we need more books like this. I have since bought the book myself, it has opened a new way of looking at food for me and made me do more research into what I eat! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery, Chinese   2. Cooking / Wine   3. Feng Shui   4. General   5. Philosophy   6. Regional & Ethnic - Chinese   7. Remodeling & Renovation - Kitchens   

Subjects:  1. Applied ethics   2. Ethics & Moral Philosophy   3. Multiculturalism   4. Philosophy   5. Philosophy / General   

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One of the best
This has to be one of the best, most colorful books about cars
and other forms of transportation for toddlers. I have two boys, ages 18 mos and 3 yrs. I can read this over and over and over again. At night when a sleepy dad is tired, it's also an easy, quick read before bed. I bought one for my nephew's 2nd birthday, and they say it's become a favorite of his too.
We especially like the cable car page. Go, go, go! My youngest one says. A great addition to our collection of books.

What A Find!
I wish I had found this book sooner. My two year old
will sit and look at this one by himself for much longer
than he does any other book. All about transportation and all the ways we can get around from a taxi to a trolley. The illustrations are so good! Chunky and bold and kid-friendly. There are few words on the pages, which is nice for this age, and the language is simple fun:
"Ready to go? Let's go by golly! On a taxi. On a trolley."
My son giggles when I read that part.

Can't go wrong with this one.

SHE SMILES
Each time we read this book with a 2 year old girl who visits our library in a wheelchair she smiles. She points. Smiles again. She sees herself among, and in between subways, planes and trains. Finally, a simple, bright, colorful book that includes a wheelchair so easily as part of the text simply because it is the way many children must move to get from place to place. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Baby - Boardbooks   2. Children: Babies & Toddlers   3. Fiction   4. Juvenile Fiction   5. Readers - Beginner   6. Stories in rhyme   7. Transportation   8. Transportation - General   

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Knowledge Management
The authors have reworked the first edition of the book and imroved the content of the second edition with the latest developments and researchs in knowledge management. The Fraunhofer Framework for Knowledge Management suggests a very helpful basis for developing KM solutions. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics   2. Business / Economics / Finance   3. Business Mathematics   4. Business/Economics   5. Case studies   6. Europe   7. Information Management   8. Knowledge management   9. Management - General   

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Cool! Exiting!
Kai: A Mission For her Village was cool! When famine strikes kai's village she is sent by the king of her village to go to oyo with her sister to get food. Will they get to oyo? Read and find out!

Kai
Well this book is bassed on a young girl who has to go on a mission it is very fun and full of adventure!!!!

Predictable and boring, except for a brief exciting part.
This book had one brief, exciting moment, but for the most part it was slow moving, predictable, and boring. It is about the adventures of a young girl in 15th century Africa; in spite of the plot faults, it is extremely well researched. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa   2. Brothers and sisters   3. Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General   4. Children: Grades 3-4   5. Fiction   6. Historical - Africa   7. Sisters   8. Yoruba (African people)   9. Juvenile Fiction / General   

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Circuits - General   2. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic   3. Microwave Circuits   4. Microwave Electronics   5. Microwave antennas   6. Microwaves   7. Science/Mathematics   8. Technology   9. Technology & Industrial Arts   10. Electronics & Communications Engineering   11. Technology / Microwaves   

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Great book !!
A very good and in-depth look at one of the most contraversial men in Modern Chinese history.
Chiang was a typical Chinese of the past generation.
He was vicious, authoritarian, inflexible and narrow-minded. He had brought a lot of miseries and sufferings to China and the Chinese people. But I am inclined to believe that the Chinese people were partly to blame. Up until recently the ideas of democracy and equality never entered the China mind depite appreciation of Western ideas and philosophy. I understand that F.D. Roosevelt considered getting rid of him but the Chinese people could not have a leader replaced unless death or convulsive revolution took place.

I do give him credit for letting his son run the country in his later years without interfering. The younger Chiang worked hard in economic development and made Taiwan one of the tigers of South East Asia.

I would urge politicians of both China and Taiwan to read this book carefully so as to make China a true modern and democratic state.

Mao and Chiang killed more Chinese than Japanese did.
OK, China was seriously ill. Here is the prescription, Three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen and supplement with General Tseng Kuo-fan's Letter to His Family. It is like the snake oil, cures all and no alternative. Three People's Principles was a two-semester course in Taiwan high school. It was the same weight as math, physics in college entrance examination. One core course in all the university is Political Theory of Sun Wen. I do not think the instructors knew what they were talking about. I believe that CKS and KMT just use Three People's Principles to demonstrate that they are the legitimate rulers of China. There are many ambitious people like Mao and Chiang in China. They are like the pests. I do not know whether CKS loved China but I do know he loved himself more than China. In Taiwan he placed "Lin-show" (supreme leader) ahead of nation in slogan. I do not think he understood democracy at all (even the US educated Mme. Chiang Kei-shek, as commented by Mrs. Roosevelt). A mystery is he never set feet on the soil of western Europe or United States (may be he must have 1,500 Blue Shirt agents to protect him). He initiated the New Life Movement to improve personal moral virtues, but he was a frequenter of brothel. It is like the Confucious said to be a leader you should tell the people what to do but not to tell them the reasons. Basically the purpose of the New Life Movement was to blame the Chinese for their failure but not because of his leadership.
As it is mentioned in John Fairbank's book CKS enjoyed in reshuffling the power shares among party, military and civic government to solidify his control. Real secret of Chiang's power was his manipulation of rival groups. Besides that any of his subordinates overshadowed him will be suppressed. He dispatched the anti-Japanese resistance hero 19th Route Army to Fukien and hope they would destroy themself against the communist rebel. Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang was asked to fight communist and suffered a huge loss. That is why General Stilwell gave him the nickname of "Little rattlesnake". CKS's leadership is the mob or Mafia style. Assassination or "White Terror" is one of options to achieve something. He attempted to kill Wang Ching-wei by sending a police officer to Vietnam to carry out the assassination. His mob character was shown in his pursuit for his 15 year old 2nd (or 3rd) wife. He threatened to cut off his own finger if Jenny Chen did not accept him.(Jonathan Fenby book) This is more like the Japanese style mob. He said you should be punished as a communist if you did not report the authority the communist you knew. The student to be registered in the college must accompany an assurance certificate by someone who insures your loyalty to the government. Because of his mob mentality he distrusted the subordinates. Chiang desired to hold as many strings as possible in his own hands, so that his own position could not be threatened (comment by Stilwell).
In order to demonstrate that CKS is Dr. Sun Yet-sen's legitimate successor CKS changed his name to simulate Dr. Sun's name. He even pursued Dr. Sun's young widow. What a guy! Chiang had the habit to alter the name of the cities, mountains, lakes and streets. Every city and town in Taiwan the major streets are named after him since 1945. The boulevard in front of the gorgeous Japanese built presidential mansion is named "Honorable Longevity". A beautiful lake in Kaohsiung was named "Giant Clam Lake" in Taiwanese, but because it sounds like "Huge Loss Lake" in Mandarin, he had a lakeshore resort there, so the name becomes "Clean Lake".
Stalin and Roosevelt betrayed Chiang in Yalta Summit and the American failed to honor any of Roosevelt's Cairo commitment to Chiang Kai-shek. The San Francisco Treaty detached Taiwan from the Japanese Empire but left its future status undefined.
There are three major weak points or mistakes of CKS. 1. He was lacking the exposure to the other culture or civilization. Shortage of the knowledge of the western philosophy. 2. Shanghai is China in his eyes. He disliked Canton, Peking. He has no real understanding of China in culture, economy, people and geography. He never unified China at all, it was just superficial. He ignored the majority, the farmers. As it is mentioned in Fairbank's book loss of revenue because of Japanese occupation of Shanghai created a tremendous financial burden on the Chungking government. 3. His reluctant to cooperate with Russia. Russia asked him to chose sides. Russia or America? (book by Jay Taylor) Russia abandoned him after 1941. His treaty with Russia to exchange Mongolia for Manchuria was a disaster and he would be sorry for not bringing Young Marshal Chang back to Manchuria.
The success of Taiwan economy should not be credited to him. Without him Taiwan can do better. The elite Japanese educated Taiwanese were retaliated and suppressed. The surge influx of his armies, party agents and civil followers played the role as conquerors, they took the houses left by the Japanese. They took the positions of the school principles and teachers. Not to mention the government posts. Taiwanese has to feed the 2 million mainlanders despite 60% of the budget went to the military. CKS did not lose China, because he never own it.

A balanced look at the man who united China
If you believe the Chicom stooges, Chiang Kai Shek deserves to be villified. Crozier balances both KMT and CCP sources to get a balanced look at the man who attempted to bring the Sun Yat Sen's democracy to fruition. Crozier traces Chiang's life from his boyhood in Chekiang to his death on Formosa. Chiang was vain, surrounded himself with corrupt yes-men, but he did care about China and would have united it had not his American allies sold him out. No matter what your assessment of the KMT, you cannot deny that given the results of the Cultural Revolution, that Chiang is the lesser of the two evils. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chiang, Kai-shek   

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Helpful Book
I purchased this book before I moved to Victoria and found it was a very helpful book. All the advance contacts I made in Victoria was due to this book.

I also found it was very helpful when I arrived and had to go through the motions of getting health care Insurance and vehicle registartion.

Can only recommend it highly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Personal & Practical Guides   2. Reference   

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combines theory with practice
"Searching for Peace: the Road to TRANSCEND" is an indispensable guide for "peaceworkers". It combines theory (e.g. "on the psychology of the TRANSCEND Approach") with concrete examples of 40 conflicts from around the world, based on 40 years of practical experience in helping conflict parties find nonviolent solutions. Instead of seeking to bring the conflict parties to the negotiating table from the beginning, which can often result in a stream of mutual accusations that exacerbates the conflict, this approach first holds extensive dialogues separately with each conflict party, to gain their trust and understand their grievances and fears, needs and desires. By presenting the parties with a richer repertoire of possible approaches, and by showing them how similar conflicts have been successfully solved elsewhere, this often helps them see a way out of a seemingly intractable situation in which they feel themselves trapped. Johan Galtung, who founded the academic discipline of peace research, and has always applied his insights to help people suffering from conflict, like a good doctor, has joined forces with Carl Jacobsen, Finn Tschudi and Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen to share with us his rich experience. This book ought to be required reading for all international relations scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and peace activists. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Case studies   2. Conflict management   3. Peace   4. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur   5. Political Science   6. Politics - Current Events   7. Politics/International Relations   8. War   9. International relations   10. Peace studies   11. Peacekeeping operations   12. Political Science / International Security   

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Not your average tale!
Stunning first novel, a unique and dark tale. Probably the most stunning thing about this book is that it is said to be pseudo-autobiographical. I could not put this book down, I had to know what happened to Con and Lordie. From Europe, to Chicago, to Boston you will follow the lives of these children with the obsessive desire to discover what's around the next corner! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bildungsromane   2. Brothers and sisters   3. Fiction   4. Fiction - General   5. Popular American Fiction   6. Sagas   

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Enchanting!
A lovely book to read aloud to child, to give as a gift to all the Mamas you know... Don't miss the magic as Rebecca Kai Dotlich's charming, musical words cavort with a family of lovable pigs created by Kathyryn Brown. A *must have* for Mother's Day and all the other days of the year as well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Pigs   2. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks   3. Children: Preschool   4. Family - Parents   5. Family life   6. Fiction   7. Juvenile Fiction   8. Mother and child   9. Mother-child relationship   10. Pigs   11. Preschool Picture Story Books   12. Social Situations - General   13. Juvenile Fiction / Family / General   

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Painful, Dated and Inaccurate
I am an enormous fan of Japan, widely interested in it's politics, economy and culture. Perhaps that is why this book disappoints me so much. The text is hard to read - much more appropriate for an academic journal than a general text. (There are 40+ footnotes in each chapter, making it seem like a list of quotations rather than anything real) This would be forgivable if the conclusions were either clear or accurate. (Example: The comment that Japan is on the verge of inflation. I'm sure most policy makers in Japan wishes this were true, but it's been stuck in a quagmire of deflation for quite some time) Lastly, the book just is not timely. For a work with 1st and 2nd editions in 2000 and 2003, most of the references are from the 1970s and mid 1980s. There has been a lot of post-bubble scholarship that is missed.

I am wholly dissatisfied with this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - Japan   2. Economic Conditions   3. Government - International   4. Political Science   5. Politics - Current Events   6. Politics/International Relations   

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General   2. Social Situations - Emigration & Immigration   

Subjects:  1. Anesthesia   2. Anesthesiology   3. Face   4. Medical / Nursing   5. Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery   6. Science/Mathematics   7. Surgery   8. Surgery, Plastic   

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library book
Me and my friend Angela love poetry so much. We write it
all the time, even when she spends the night. We went to
the library and this was sitting on the shelf of new books.
Mrs. Johnson (at the library) said it was really good, so
we took it out. I wish I could ask the author of this book
why she didn't write a poem about riding bikes. That would
have been good. But we like the one about the broom.
And the roller coaster. Yay rah for poems! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Poetry / Plays   2. Children's poetry   3. Children's poetry, American   4. Children: Grades 1-2   5. Juvenile Nonfiction   6. Juvenile Poetry   7. Motion   8. Poetry   9. Poetry - General   

Subjects:  1. General   2. Mathematics   3. Science   4. Science/Mathematics