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Investment Guide for Uzbekistan (1996)
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A comprehensive, independent review of the Uzbek foreign investment climate conducted by the OECD in collaboration with the UNDP. The guide contains information about the country and its economy, describes the legal framework for business activities, and identifies investment opportunities.
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Basic information on foreign and domestic policy, national security, political system, parties and elections, government and administrative structure. Participation in international organizations, treaties and regional unions. International and foreign policy and more.
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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.
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Ultimate handbook on government and business contacts in the country. Government agencies, strategic, business contacts, international representations and more...
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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The Rough Guide to Goa 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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Lonely Planet Goa
ASIN: 1843530813 |
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INTRODUCTION
If any word could be said to encapsulate the essence of GOA, it would have to be the Portuguese sossegarde, meaning "carefree". For Goan expatriates, the term conjures up memories of long, lazy evenings on pillared verandas, surrounded by tropical vegetation and the heady scent of cashew and frangipani flowers, with the crash of surf drifting periodically through a curtain of coconut palms. The pace of life in this former colonial enclave, midway down India's southwest coast, has picked up over the past twenty years, but in spite of the increasing chaos of its capital, beach resorts and market towns, Goa has retained the laid-back feel that has traditionally set it apart from the rest of the country. Its 1.4 million inhabitants are unequivocal about the roots of their distinctiveness; while most of the subcontinent was colonized by the stiff-upper-lipped British, Goa's European overlords were the dissolute Portuguese, a people far more inclined to enjoy the good things in life than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
Goa was Portugal's first toehold in Asia, brutally carved out by the explorer Alfonso Albuquerque in 1510, and served as the linchpin for a vast trade empire for over 450 years. However, when the Portuguese colonial mission began to flounder in the seventeenth century, so too did the fortunes of its capital. Cut off from the rest of India by a wall of mountains and hundreds of miles of unnavigable alluvial plain, it remained resolutely aloof from the wider subcontinent. While India was tearing itself to pieces in the run-up to Independence in 1947, the only machetes being wielded here were cutting coconuts. Not until 1961, after an exasperated Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, gave up trying to negotiate with the Portuguese dictator Salazar and sent in the army, was Goa finally absorbed into India. A decade or so later the overland travellers' trail wriggled its way south down the Konkan Coast from Mumbai, ensuring that this hitherto remote enclave of Latin-influenced culture would never be quite the same again.
Those visitors who came here back in the late 1960s and 1970s found a way of life little changed in centuries: Portuguese was still very much the lingua franca of the well-educated elite, and the coastal settlements were mere fishing and coconut cultivation villages. Relieved to have found somewhere inexpensive and culturally undemanding to recover from the travails of Indian travel, the blow-ins got stoned, watched the mesmeric sunsets over the Arabian Sea and partied madly on full-moon nights, giving rise to a holiday culture that soon made Goa synonymous with hedonistic hippies.
Since then, the state has largely shaken off its reputation as a drop-out zone, but hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors still flock here each winter, the vast majority of them to relax on Goa's beautiful beaches. Around two dozen stretches of soft white sand indent the region's coast, from spectacular 25-kilometre sweeps to secluded palm-backed coves. The level of development on them varies wildly; while some have ritzy Western-style resorts, the most sophisticated structures on others are palm-leaf shacks and old wooden outriggers that have to be heaved into the sea each afternoon.
Goa's beaches, however, are only a part of the picture. A short foray from the coast will take you into the state's real heart, the densely populated strip inland - a lush patchwork of paddy fields, coconut and areca plantations, and gently meandering rivers. Further east, the jungle-covered hills of the Western Ghats separate Goa from the drier Deccan plateau, scattered with tiny thatch-roofed settlements and isolated communities of forest-dwelling farmers - direct descendants of the region's aboriginal peoples.
Wherever you travel in Goa, you'll find traces of former Portuguese domination, creating an ambience that is at once exotic and strangely familiar. Gabled Baroque church facades nose tantalizingly above the tropical treeline, padres in long cassocks cycle to Mass, fishermen wear crosses and Madonna medallions, and on Sunday evenings Christian families take a leisurely stroll in their best clothes, the women in carefully tailored dresses, the men in slacks and shirts. Blending the Latin love of meat and fish with India's predilection for spices, Goan food, too, is quite unlike any other regional cuisine in Asia, as is the prevalence of alcohol. Beer is cheap, and six thousand or more bars around the state are licensed to serve it, along with the more traditional tipple, feni, a rocket fuel spirit distilled from cashew fruit or coconut sap.
Outside the Christian heartland of central Goa, the temples, rituals and exuberant festivals of Hinduism, the religion of more than two-thirds of the state's population, mingle easily with more recently implanted traditions. Unlike many parts of India, religious intolerance is a thing of the past here; faced by the threat of merger with neighbouring states, Goans have always put regional cohesion before communal differences at the ballot box, and some of the state's principal religious festivals - notably Christmas, Carnival and Diwali - are celebrated by adherents of both faiths.
However, the debate over statehood and identity has gradually come to dominate the political agenda in Goa over the past decade or so. Following New Delhi's recognition of Konkani, spoken by the vast majority of Goans, as the official state language in 1992, the press platformed calls for greater autonomy, as well as curbs on immigration from other Indian states. Goa is considerably more prosperous than adjoining regions, and this has stimulated a vast influx of economic refugees, the poorest of whom live in shanty settlements around the construction sites where they work. Among the main employers of migrant labour in recent years has been the Konkan Railway, completed in 1997 to form a super-fast land link with Mumbai - another stimulus for economic growth that has already brought with it lasting changes.
Fuelled by remittance cheques from expats working in the Gulf and North America, and by the hard-currency receipts from tourism, the recent boom has placed a great strain on Goa's fragile natural environment, and green issues nowadays feature prominently in any talk of the region's future. Much anger, in particular, has been directed towards a handful of purpose-built luxury hotels, which have been accused of ignoring environmental laws. We have tried to reflect such concerns in the Guide, indicating which hotels have been taken to task by the green lobby and what you can do to minimize the impact of your presence in this part of the world.
If you've never travelled in Asia before, Goa may come as something of a shock. Its beaches certainly conform to the glossy holiday brochure image, but once outside the tourist spots many first-time visitors are surprised to find themselves in workaday rural India, where bullock carts far outnumber cars, rice is planted by hand, and the majority of villagers subsist on an average annual wage that is far lower than the cost of a flight from Europe. Don't, however, let this deter you from venturing off the beaten track in Goa. The little-frequented corners of the state are likely to yield some of the most memorable moments of your trip, combining beautiful scenery with the chance to encounter a way of life that is worlds away from the headlong commercialism of the beach resorts.
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Incredibly useful travel guide.......2000-12-11
This little book is probably the best of it's kind and is invaluable for the budget travellor. It contains accurate descriptions of accomodation and restaurants in different price ranges. My only comment is that the writer is a little harsh on Calangute, yes it's a busy, bustling tourist town - but I didn't see 'heaps of garbage' and the town starting to 'stew in it's juices'. However generally I loved this little book, the photos were great and I would have been lost without it!
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A practical, down-to-earth guide for rightsizing: the buzzword for streamlining your possessions and making time for the things that matter most in middle age. Millions of midlife Americans are starting to reevaluate their surroundings as their kids begin to leave the nest and they themselves start to think about retirement. Whether theyre going from the multi-bedroom suburban house to a condo in the city, or downsizing from two homes to one, or making room for grandchildren to visit or an elderly relative to join the family, the trend for people in their 50s and beyond is a shift to well-planned living quarters that suit their age, stage, and situation. And in making this transition, theyll face the daunting task of paring down a lifetime of possessions while furnishing their new lives with things that have meaning. This simplification of surroundings and stuffcalled rightsizingwill liberate people in midlife to pursue their passions and hobbies without the responsibilities of a big house weighing them down. RIGHTSIZING YOUR LIFE will be the first comprehensive, practical guide to this winnowing process, providing a six-step plan to get startedas well as tips on how to deal with the emotional factors (an attachment to your possessions, nostalgic mates, reluctant kids) that can stall the process and sabotage sensible decisionmaking.
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WELL WRITTEN BUT NOT THE BOOK FOR ME.......2007-06-15
I got this book because it was highly recommended. It is a good book if you are 55 years old or older and ready to move out of your house, contemplating retiring or have had a major change in your life. The book is well written and gives good examples throughout it. The author writes about how to go about making a decision about where to move when you are contemplating retiring and when your kids move out. She also explains how to get rid of items in your house that you don't need or use any more.
I am in my mid forties and like to think about my future, but I do not think this book is the right book for me now. I am still working and have kids in school. Once I have an empty nest I might go back to this book for information since it has a lot of valuable information and I do recommend it, but not for someone my age yet.
Timely information for Boomers and beyond.......2007-06-09
Whether members of the Sandwich Generation or in the midst of a family in flux, our cohort is facing major transitions - often emotionally charged with the responsibility of letting go. Ciji Ware fills a gap in the literature by providing a practical guide to this often difficult process.
It is obvious that she has done her homework. Although some readers may not identify with the lives of the people Ciji interviews, she tackles universal themes that relate to all of us. The pop-out boxes - complete with principles, top ten reasons, tips and timetables - help the reader focus on the specifics of what needs to be done. And, for the purpose of moving forward, the resource directory at the end of the book is invaluable. Through research, interviews and her own personal experience, we get a clear picture of situations that may very well include our own changing priorities, the potential obstacles and the freedoms that action can bring.
Ciji engages her readers through storytelling, yet cautions them to concentrate on what's personally important as they find their way toward creating change. This book affords us all the opportunity to clear the way, both physically and psychologically, to explore our passions and choices in the next chapter of our lives. As Ciji says at one point in her book, give yourself the gift of dreaming.
The book speaks to me.......2007-06-08
My husband and I have talked about what we need to do to get organized but this book really set goals for us. We also have been trying to decide about if we want to move into a smaller house now that the kids are grown and it clarified this for us. This book really was needed and it seemed like the author was speaking to me and really understood our concerns and had answers for us.
lots to think about.......2007-05-26
This is a small book with a lot of information and suggestions on how to find the right balance for you where you are today. And, as the author states, sometimes a person or couple does not need a smaller house - perhaps they need a larger home, or one laid out for their lives today, not their lives twenty years ago. She also shows, with many examples, how to keep on top of what is in your home, discarding items no longer useful to one's present life and circumstances. In addition, she leads the reader to the realization that many times "stuff" in our lives is really representing something else - maybe we do not want to give away a cabinet, for example, because it was "mom's" - we have to understand we can have the memory, which does not take up space, yet we can learn to let go of the actual object. Or we keep something no longer useful because it makes us remember a dream we do not wish to relinquish. Understanding why we hold on to things is crucial for learning to let go and no longer be weighed down by them. In the process, we can lighten not just the load in our homes, but in our spirits. Anyone who is not already an actual monk in a monastery can learn something about themselves and their all-too-human tendencies to acquire more "stuff" and then learn to deal with what they find out! This book should be given to anyone just starting out on their first home or apartment - it is a lot easier to start out life knowing what to keep and what to shed, rather than wait until 50 or more years of living has piled on the possessions. I recommend this book highly.
I Wish I'd Had This Book a Few Yers Ago.......2007-04-05
Being a bit ahead of teh baby boomers I went through this process a few years ago.
At the beginning of the process I had: a big suburban house and a wife; a car and a truck; a boy and a girl; a dog and a cat. Then the pets died, the children moved on to their own lives, wife wanted a divorce and the car. Sold the big house. Got rid of an incredible amount of junk, but still have more stuff than I need. Bought a quite small house one quarter the size.
I wish I had had this guide at the time. Although I did most of what she says, it took me a lot of thinking to do what she's already thought about. And she pointed out that there were a few things that I wish I'd done differently. The real key is exactly as she says is 'keeping what matters most,' and if I had had her advice, I'd have kept a few other things, gotten rid of some of the things I kept.
Well thought out, and worth the small cost.
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Keeping It Simple describes a step-by-step program to help people whose lives are over-stressed, over-burdened and over-complicated start to simplify their lives. Particularly it focuses on four major areas of life: Possessions, Thoughts, Relationships and Spirituality. It is written in an entertaining style of twenty-one sessions between a therapist and a patient. There are touching moments, humor and strong therapeutic material that bring the reader right into a psychotherapy session. It reads like a short novel, with each chapter ending with exercises to solidify the principles being taught. Keeping It Simple has been utilized by people from all walks of life, but has especially has been endorsed by law enforcement officers and federal agents as a program that can help them meet the high stress demands of their jobs.
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Super book!.......1999-12-10
I've tried a lot of these different self-help books from time to time but this was the first one that really made a difference for me. It's easily read and written without a whole lot of technical language meant only to impress the reader. It's a very friendly book that becomes more of a three way dialogue with you the reader and with the Dr. and Mike, his patient. It gives concrete things you can do to simplify your life, which is becoming more and more important in today's world.
Maybe the only self-help book you'll read cover to cover........1999-01-31
This author has done the impossible, made me read a self-help book cover to cover. In the process I was entertained, laughed and thought a lot about the direction of my life. The brillance of this book is the style of following a very likeable funny therapist as he treats a patient through a number of sessions. There were times I couldn't wait until the next session just to see how the characters were doing. Yes, I loved the characters, and still it's self-help! The advice is so sound and the exercises just make you really consider what is the important part of your life and re-focus yourself on making your life better. If I ever need a therapist in my life, this is the shrink I want to see. Everyone talked simplicity a while ago, and God knows many people need it, but this author is the only one I know that has put together a step-by-step program to really accomplish simplifying your life. I would have given it five stars, but it's self-help and I reserve that for classics of the novel world. What a find!
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- Amazing book with life changing message
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Blind Spots: What You Don't See May Be Keeping Your Church from Greatness
Bill McCartney
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McCartney issues a clarion call for church leaders to check their spiritual vision and engage men in the quest to make great things happen in the church. Citing statistics showing that only one percent of churches are growing, McCartney argues that the ineffectiveness in many of today's churches is due to blind spots that hinder explosive evangelism. It is McCartney's passionate belief that if church leaders were to see and address the need for reconciliation throughout the body of Christ--inspiring and equipping men to work together with all believers--the church in America would see the biggest revival in its history. Along with ideas for overcoming blind spots, McCartney offers principles for reconciliation and success stories from actual churches.
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Amazing book with life changing message.......2007-02-09
This book is terrific. In my church we stick with eachother like a true family. We found this book and after it so radically impacted several of us, now our whole church has read it. It's amazing that when you surround yourself with trustworthy people who love you, they can recognize blind spots in your life that you desperately want to know about but cannot see on your own. This is why Psalms said God sets the solitary in families...and many other verses that refer to convenant friends and spiritual family. This is exactly the message the Apostle Paul believed so strongly in, and he dedicated his entire life to teaching it.
"Blindest" Spots Actually Belong to Author.......2003-03-10
Bad theology, odd story illustrations, delusions of grandeur, etc. This is an extremely bad book. It's hard to recall any recent book by a "Christian leader" that was so out of control theologically.
Any sane reader of the Bible, especially the NT, would never come up with the wild interpretations Bill McCartney does. There are too many examples in this book to list. Suffice it to say, the author has obvious personal guilt over the issue of racism--which he in turn projects onto the entire Christian community. McCartney's "racism complex" (mostly the black/white issue but some others are thrown in) goes back to his football coaching days when he would take advantage of the athletic talents of countless young African American men. He now, obviously, feels quite guilty about it.
The author spends an inordinate amount of time seemingly trying to justify his close friendship with Raleigh Washington--a man who McCartney even details carries himself around with a huge racial chip on his shoulder. To the reader, there is no takeaway--you feel like all you're reading is a man's diary as he's working through some personal torment or something. Bill McCartney and Raleigh Washington have said they expect this book to be another PRAYER OF JABEZ in terms of popularity. Yeah...right.
In a previous book, SOLD OUT, McCartney boldy predicted (everything about McCartney is bold, even when he's boldly wrong) that racism in the church in America would be wiped out by the year 2000. So here we are, in 2003, and another McCartney book focused mostly on the same topic and the same goals has been released.
If he was right previously, what would be the need for the same message again? If he wasn't right, why would we still listen?
It's sad to see the once-good message of Promise Keepers has descended to this.
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- very informative
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What's Keeping Your Customers Up at Night?: Close More Deals by Selling to Your Client's Pain
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Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
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A groundbreaking approach to selling to your customer's "pain"
PR guru Steve Cody and sales consultant Richard Harte team up to bring readers a revolutionary methodology for discovering what customers really need and using that knowledge to build stronger, more profitable relationships with them. The evolutionary next step in the "trusted adviser" approach to selling that has taken the sales world by storm, the system successfully combines public relations strategies with consultative sales techniques in a strategic framework.
Among other important lessons, salespeople learn to uncover a client's deepest concerns --"what keeps them up at night"-- and to position their products or services in light of those concerns, using message points and other traditional PR tactics to help them successfully sell to the customer's "pain."
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PR guru Steve Cody and sales consultant Richard Harte team up to bring readers a revolutionary methodology for discovering what customers really need and using that knowledge to build stronger, more profitable relationships with them. The evolutionary next step in the "trusted adviser" approach to selling that has taken the sales world by storm, the system successfully combines public relations strategies with consultative sales techniques in a strategic framework.
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very informative.......2003-10-24
This book, while consistantly informative, was quite a page-turner. I learned many things previously unbeknownst to me. I recomend this book to everyone, regardless of occupation.
This book should come with crayons........2003-10-16
For a couple of purported "pros," Cody and Harte certainly have assembled a collection of facile, redundant, patronizing and almost completely irrelevant advice for the business professional. Read it for entertainment purposes only. Don't quit your day jobs, guys.
VERY IMPRESSED WITH THEMSELVES.......2003-09-16
This is an excellent book for anyone in sales (as far as the authors are concerned) Then again they did manage to convince me to buy it! I've been in sales for more than ten years and have attended some of the best seminars in the company at my employers expense. I get the impression the only research these two did was attend a few seminars and take tape recorders. There is not one original idea in this book....I'm not sure what planet they think this concept is succesful on but it is not earth....
For Anyone in Sales..........2003-07-03
Wow! This is an excellent book for anyone in sales or anyone thinking about going into sales! I've been in sales for more than five years, and the last two years have been very rough for everyone in this industry. This book provides the tools and strategies you need to gain your confidence back as a salesperson and teaches you how to be successful again in sales. This book is a MUST! It's also a great and quick read!
Are these guys kidding?.......2003-06-10
I too have read a great many books on the art of the sale, but this one is the clear winner for the presentation of recycled nonsense. There isn't a single idea in this book that hasn't been presented before by writers both more talented and more credible than Cody and Hart. Save your money -- if you're looking for a quick fix to help your sales force through a tough economy, this is most definitely NOT it. The authors should address my pain and refund the purchase price.
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McCartney, former head football coach at the University of Colorado, author of Ashes to Glory, and founder of Promise Keepers, believes that God wants greatness for the church and revival for its pastors. But what hampers the church and its male leadership (there is no other kind in McCartney's world) is blind spots: areas of spiritual ignorance or neglect that most pastors aren't even aware of. The most important of these, according to "Coach Mac," is "the growing divide between Christians of varying ethnic, theological and socioeconomic communities." In a folksy, half-time-pep-talk kind of way, the book's chapters spell out the importance of humility, justice, integrity, prayer, relationships and teamwork in the service of reconciliation. It spells it out, in some cases, literally: McCartney employs acrostics and other gimmicky tools, including apt aphorisms, quotable quotes (including many from the Bible) and illustrations from his own football days. For a powerful white Protestant evangelical leader to be shouting about economic justice and racism and unity in the body of Christ-this is bold and right. But the book has a few blind spots of its own. The self-declared emphasis on reconciliation between believing Jew and Gentile seems tacked on, not woven throughout the book. And the spiritual warfare language characteristic of right-wing evangelicalism is off-putting to many, as is its hyper-patriarchy. However, fans of Coach Mac and collectors of all things PK will appreciate this rather surprising book.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Auditor's Talk: An Oral History of the Profession from the 1920s to the Present Day (New Works in Accounting History)
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This book is an oral history of the auditing profession in Britain from 1920s to the present day based on extended extracts from interviews with 77 past and present practitioners. Those interviewed ranged from a nonagenarian who qualified in the 1920s, to active contemporaries, and from sole practitioners to the present day heads of the Big Five accounting firms. The often candid interviews uncover a surprising variety of experience and opinions and allow a group of often fascinating individuals to tell their own stories. What emerges from this unique exercise is evidence and opinions not found in the textbooks or other sources. The interviews reveal among other matters: The typical social background and training of the chartered accountants; the nuts and bolts of the audit and the changes seen in the process over years; private matters such as the formation and internal workings of the partnerships; how clients were acquired before advertising was allowed; how fees were set and what was the relationship with clients. Respondents were also asked their opinions on the thorny issues of auditor independence; the uncovering of fraud; the commercialization of the profession; the role of the I.C.A.E.W; self-regulation, the proliferation of accounting standards and the current threat of litigation. Many had highly original views on the question "What went wrong?" in the recent audit failures like Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell Empire. Indeed, many of the respondents played leading roles in the notorious scandals either being implicated themselves or involved in the regulatory procedures.
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