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The Elfin World of Mosses and Liverworts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale
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I lichen this book (bad pun).......2000-06-26
The book is full of great pictures of the lichens found in Michigan. The author's descriptions are concise and informative, even tossing in the occassional bit of history. My only problem with the book is the lack of a key, so one has to search through the pictures to find the correct lichen.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Imagine living in Ireland. Author Steenie Harvey left her life as an office clerk to make a home there, and shows readers how to make their own dreams take shape. With Steenie's expertise, future expats will get the information they need on visas, money, jobs, housing, health, language, culture, and history. Whether it's a bungalow in verdant County Kilkenny, a flat in Dublin, or a rustic cottage in the undiscovered Lakelands, there's a place that matches their budget, needs, and dreams. With Living Abroad in Ireland, it's easy to make the dream become a reality.
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Written in an entertaining style with a touch of humour, Living and Working in Ireland is designed to provide newcomers with the practical information necessary for a relatively trouble-free life. It contents include finding a job, permits & visas, health, accommodation, finance, insurance, education, shopping, post office and telephone services, public transport, motoring, TV and radio, leisure, sports and much, much more. It is packed with vital information and insider tips to help minimize culture shock and reduce the newcomers rookie period to a minimum. Living and Working in Ireland is essential reading for anyone planning to spend an extended period in Ireland.
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Provides an indispensable source of knowledge for anyone hoping to move to Scotland, whether to the Borders and the great cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow or to the Highlands and Islands. In addition to giving all the facts on where the jobs are and how to get them it gives essential information on the customs, laws, regulations and way of life that will be encountered there. Special features include regional employment guides, directories of major employers and personal case histories from people who have made the move.
Packed with information on matters from crofting law to the Scottish Parliament, the book provides essential insider information and advice to help the reader secure a residence permit, find their ideal home, open a bank account and get the right health care. For those looking for work it lists the skills and trades most in demand and is packed with useful contacts to help find the right job, as well as explaining how to start or buy your own business.
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Good read.......2007-01-10
Very comprehensive guide to relocating to Scotland. It is disappointing that it is so hard to get into the U.K. to work and experience a different kind of life - unless you are highly educated, sponsored by a company that wants to hire you, or rich. It is still a good read, and the writing is very easy to follow.
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A comprehensive guide for Irish emigrants returning home and for people from the U.S. and elsewhere who are plannng a move to Ireland, with chapters on employment, living costs,work permits, finance and taxation, an family and social welfare.
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Super thanks to review from Dublin.......2003-04-10
Many, many thanks to the reviewer from Dublin. For future ex-pats from US (and other countries), does anyone have any recommendations?
Should be called "Moving to Ireland from England.".......1999-04-09
This book would be valuable for someone moving from the U.K. to Ireland, especially if he/she is retiring and has money to invest. It provides facts and advice that I believe to be accurate in that context. The information is much less useful for those moving from other countries. There is a presumption that one understands U.K. culture and law, and only needs to have Irish differences pointed out. The bias toward England is not obvious from the promotional material. Potential expats from the U.S. etc should look elsewhere.
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A detailed survey of the opportunities for those wishing to live and work, whether temporarily or permanently, start a business or retire in Ireland.
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Buying a Property: Ireland (Cadogan Guides)
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If readers are thinking of buying a property in Ireland, whether for personal use or investment, then Cadogan's comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide has all they need to know.
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A good place to start.......2007-02-18
This is a good basic review of the laws regarding property purchase in Ireland. It covers all the steps you need to take in enough detail to help you decide whether this is something you really want to do. If you decide to go ahead, it will help you in your dealings with the various professionals and authorities.
Especially if you are American, buying and developing property in Ireland is different, very different. You will need all the foreknowledge you can get. This book is a good place to start.
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This is a handbook of contemporary Spain and the Spanish language. Packed with essential information on politics, economy and institutions, it covers the basics that are taken for granted by most Spaniards. Intended for readers without specialist knowledge in any of the subjects concerned, this is a valuable handbook for English-speaking students of Spanish. Each chapter contains a suggested reading list and a Spanish-English glossary in context. Covering Spanish history, power structures and Spanish society, the handbook provides a vast amount of information, geared to students' needs.
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Excellent Guide to Spanish Institutions and Modern History.......2000-01-19
The strength of this book is that it provides a detailed overview of Contemporary Spain in modern context.
Obtaining a copy of this book saves busy people time in finding specific information regarding the legal framework of the Spanish state and institutions, political parties, media, regional subsidiarity, economy, environment, education, social welfare and even law and order.
If you then find you have the time and the need for greater depth, viewing the indispensable list of books for further reading, as suggested by Professor Ross at the back, will provide you with ample choice of information sources.
Ideal for busy people, pressed university or college students on busy overloaded courses, and anyone with an interest in learning more about the way Spain is run.
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P.Q.: Rene Levesque and the Parti Quebecois in Power
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Brian Wells, Esquire, reviews Graham Fraser's book "P.Q.".......1997-12-15
This is a delightful and informative book on the first round of the movement for an independent Quebec. The razer-thin margin of victory on October 30, 1995 of the opposition to an independent Quebec has most assuredly meant there will be another vote on the subject in the near future. Accordingly, the subject matter of this book will take on even more importance and cogency as time passes.
The referendum held on October 30, 1995 was actually the second referendum held in the province on the question of independence. The first was held on May 20, 1980. The defeat of the movement for independence in that first rederendum marked the end of an era--the first upsurge of the Quebec independence movement. Graham Fraser's book tells the story of that era.
Fraser begins with environment of disenchantment that had been felt by the French-speaking public of the province which resulted in the split in the Liberal party of the province of Quebec. Then on July 24, 1967, President de Gaulle of France came to Canada on an official visit to Montreal's Expo 67 and during a speech from the Montreal City Hall shouted "Long-live Free Quebec" in French. That statement caused a scandal in world diplomatic circles, but in Quebec it electrified the French-speaking public and set them on a course toward independent nationhood.
In 1968, the political party called Parti Quebecois (or P.Q.) was formed and began running candidates for the provincial legislature on the platform of an independent nationhood for Quebec. Rene Levesque was elected President of the P.Q. and became head of the legislative delegation of the party as the P.Q. began to pick up a number of seats in the succeeding elections. In 1976, the P.Q. became the majority party in the Quebec legislature and Rene Levesque became premier of the province of Quebec.
The major portion of the book then deals with the rule of the P.Q. in Quebec through the defeat of the referendum in 1980 and the internal stresses and dissentions within the P.Q. that followed as the P.Q. sought to keep Quebec nationhood as a live issue on the political scene. The book ends with the P.Q. still in power in Quebec in 1985. In order to understand the second upsurge of the movement for an independent Quebec which began in 1990 and led to the most recent 1995 referendum and most certainly will lead to a third referendum on Quebec independence, it is necessary to understand the roots of the movement. This book provides that understanding in a clear and inciseful way.
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A Short and Violent Life.......2003-01-25
Author Jeffery King has provided us with an interesting account of the short and violent life of Charles Arthur Floyd. Floyd was one of many depression-era desperadoes who focused on bank-robbing as a way of life. One of the things that struck me was the relative ease of breaking out of jail or prison during this time. Another was the putting on display of the dead bodies of gangsters during this time period for the curious public. Floyd was defended by his mother who claimed he didn't do as many things as he was accused of. He apparently agreed to surrender to authorities if he could be assured of life in prison and not get the death penalty. When no such deal was forthcoming, Floyd realized that his time was short and he would be shot to death. Also of interest in this story is the jealously of F.B.I. Director John Edgar Hoover towards officer Melvin Purvis. Hoover had Purvis leave the scene of the shooting of Floyd immediately to minimize the credit given to him. Maybe Hoover should have been focusing on big time mobsters instead of small time hoodlums like Floyd. There also is controversy regarding the death of Floyd and if it was, indeed, necessary to kill him after he had been wounded in an Ohio field. The author has done an excellent job researching this book, and it is worth your time to read it if you are interested in depression era gangsters.
The Truth About Pretty Boy.......2001-07-11
At last an author has examined the documentary evidence of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd's extensive criminal career, rather than simply relating family and "good ole boy" fables of Floyd's Robin Hood qualities. Or relying on the fantasies of "Blackie" Audett, a minor bank burglar and later Justice Department stool pigeon at Alcatraz who invented tall tales of having known or worked with Pretty Boy, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, the Barker-Karpis gang and just about every other major criminal of the '30's. Audett claimed to have witnessed the crowning achievement of Floyd's career, the Kansas City Union Station massacre--except that by his account Floyd wasn't there and someone else did the shooting. Various other authors--Lou Louderback, Michael Wallis, and Jay Robert Nash (who also bought Audett's tale of having helped Dillinger make a permanent escape by having a double slain in his place!)--have accepted Audett's story of Floyd's innocence. Many of us who have researched the massacre with more care have long been skeptical of Audett's claim but only Jeffery King has bothered to ascertain just where Audett was at the time of the massacre. He was in Leavenworth until July 1933, a whole month after the Union Station killings! King makes a good case for the complicity of Floyd in the massacre and does an equally admirable job of tracking down the elusive details of Floyd's early career in crime, including the fabled Akins post office burglary, which did not involve the theft of $350 in pennies, the probable true origin of the famous nickname, and the many bank robberies. He also nails down the often-doubted but very probable (and brief) association of Floyd with Dillinger and "Baby Face" Nelson and gets us as close as we'll probably ever be to the real story of Pretty Boy's death at the hands of the FBI. This is investigative journalism at its finest and also displays an objectivity sadly lacking in the thicker sweeping bio offered earlier by Michael Wallis.
Compelling Reading!.......1999-09-27
Jeffrey King has produced a well-researched biography of Pretty Boy Floyd, one of the most infamous bank robbers of the 1930s. Although filled with documentation, this book reads like a novel. I appreciated King's historical analysis of the evidence regarding Floyd's life and death and I had a hard time putting the book down. I found the book to be especially gripping in the section dealing with the final hunt for Floyd by the FBI and Floyd's demise in a rural area of Ohio. The book is reminiscent of John Toland's "The Dillinger Days," which is another fine volume about famous bank robbers of the Depression Era. My only criticism of the book is that King failed to emphasize sufficiently the self-centered, sociopathic character of Floyd. For example, on the last page of the text of the book, King stated that Floyd "had many virtues, such as courage, loyalty to his family and friends, and compassion for those who struggled to survive during the bleak days of the Depression" (p. 210). On the contrary, Floyd cheated on his wife (he often lived with another lover, Beulah Baird, and was known to frequent brothels), and stole from, expoited, threatened, harassed, kidnapped, or killed many innocent victims, including many poor and middle class people. Today, Floyd would be diagnosed as an antisocial personality disorder and he was a sinister man whose criminal deeds, including numourous murders, reaped havoc on dozens, if not hundreds of people. This shortcoming does not overshadow the rest of King's fine work, however. In conclusion, I commend King on completing an excellent book and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a compelling read.
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