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Peter Dorman
Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life

— y.
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Description: This book provides a critical survey of conventional economic approaches to occupational safety and the analysis of environmental risk in general. The author concludes that unsafe work is not voluntary, that markets do not compensate workers for risk, and that attempts to put a monetary value on life and health are futile. He attributes the shortcomings of economic orthodoxy to its underlying approach to human decision-making and social interaction, and demonstrates that useful alternative approaches areavailable. The analysis is used to identify policies that combine effective regulation with democratic values. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521553067
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Eric A. Schutz
Markets and Power: The 21st Century Command Economy

— y.
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ISBN: 0765605015
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Nick Adnett, Peter Davies
Markets for Schooling: An Economic Analysis (Routledge Research in Education)

— y.
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Description: In recent years many countries have experimented with extending the role of market forces in their state schooling systems. These changes have often produced fierce debates about their rationale and consequences, not least because of their origins in a specific political and economic philosophy. The basis of this philosophy is economic liberalism: a belief in the efficiency of the market as a rationing and allocative mechanism. This book examines the appropriateness of this belief for schooling markets. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415253330
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Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardela
Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy

— y.
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Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella
Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy

— y.
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Description: The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development with activities such as production, marketing, and distribution. Today firms are forming joint ventures, research and development alliances, licensing deals, and a variety of other outsourcing arrangements with universities, technology-based start-ups, and other established firms. In many industries, a division of innovative labor is emerging, with a substantial increase in the licensing of existing and prospective technologies. In short, technology and knowledge are becoming definable and tradable commodities. Although researchers have made significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for intermediate… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262011905
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K. William Easter, Mark W. Rosegrant, Ariel Dinar
Markets for Water: Potential and Performance (Natural Resource Management and Policy)

— y.
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Description: Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world. It is possible, for example, for a water market to fail, and for the transaction costs in water markets to be excessive. Too often water trading is banned because the water resources have been developed with public funds and the water agencies do not want to lose control over water. There is alsoa concern that poor farmers or households will be disadvantaged by water trading. These concerns about public resources and the poor are not very different from those that have been voiced in the past about land sales. The problem is that in many cases the poor already have limited access to resources, but this limit is not due to water trading. In fact, water trading is likely to expand the access to water for many small-scale farmers. Markets for Water: Potential and Performance… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0792382560
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Harrison C. White
Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production.

— y.
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Description: In Markets from Networks , one of America`s most influential sociologists unveils a groundbreaking theory of the market economy. Arguing that most economists use overly abstract models of how the economy operates, Harrison White seeks a richer, more empirically based alternative. In doing so, he offers a more lucid, generalized treatment of the market models described in his important earlier work in order to show how any given market is situated in a broader exchange economy. White argues that the key to economic action is that producers seek market niches to maximize profit and minimize competition. As they do so, they base production decisions not only on anticipated costs from suppliers and anticipated demand from buyers, but also by looking at their competitors. In fact, White asserts, producers act less in response to actual demand than by anticipating it: they gauge where competitors have found demand and thus determine what they can do that is similar and yet different… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691088713
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Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World

2004 y.
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Description: Presenting a much-needed corrective to the model of the `free market`, authoritative contributors make historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the nature of market involvement in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organizations and the ways in which they have influenced market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume recreates those critical traditions and reform movements which sought to negotiate a path between the free market and the Marxist utopia of a society without markets. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521833558
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Ned Davis
Markets in Motion

2005 y.
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Description: Markets in Motion is a graphical overview of the economic conditions and events that have influenced the U.S. stock market since 1900. Decade by decade, you`ll examine how different economic and policitcal environments can be directly correlated to stock market movements. Each decade features graphs displaying the performance of the Dow Jones Average, the Dow Jones price to dividend ratio, industrial production, money supply, consumer price index, T bill rate, and the Discount rate. Embedded on the graphs are short descriptions of important political, economic, and historical events. Use this information to reference similar environments today and gain an edge in determining the future direction of the market. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471732818
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Julia Elyachar, Julia Elyachar
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Politics, History, and Culture)

2005 y.
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Description: What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account of the consequences of these initiatives. Julia Elyachar studied the efforts of bankers, social scientists, ngo members, development workers, and state officials to turn the craftsmen and unemployed youth of Cairo into the vanguard of a new market society based on microenterprise. She considers these efforts in relation to the alternative notions of economic success held by craftsmen in Cairo, in which short-term financial profit is not always highly valued. Through her careful ethnography of workshop life, Elyachar explains how the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0822335719
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James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph Pine
Markets of One: Creating Customer-Unique Value through Mass Customization

2000 y.
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Description: What does it mean `to dell?` This newly coined business verb means to mass-customize, making products only in response to actual demand. This allows a product to `go direct` to a customer, and it`s what Dell Computer does instead of forcing mass-produced computers on its customers. And Dell`s not alone. As Editors Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine point out in their introduction to Markets of One, mass customization is a trend that has caught on among consumer and business-to-business companies alike - think of Levi`s jeans, Aramark`s hospital services, Select Comfort mattresses, and Peapod or Streamline grocery delivery, to name a few. Companies customize their offerings to meet the unique needs of individual customers so that nearly everyone can obtain exactly what they want at a reasonable price. It`s a paradigm shift away from the one-size-fits-all way managers have thought about markets over the past century- today, every individual customer is a market of one. This… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1578512387
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Yuri M. Kabanov, Mher Safarian
Markets with Transaction Costs: Mathematical Theory (Springer Finance)

2009 y.
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Description: The central mathematical concept in the theory of frictionless market is a martingale measure. The authors argue that for financial markets with proportional transaction costs this concept should be replaced by the concept of consistent price system which is a martingale evolving in the duals to the solvency cones. The book presents a unified treatment of various problems arising in the theory of financial markets with friction. It gives a succinct account of arbitrage theory for financial markets with and without transaction costs based on a synthesis of ideas from the finite-dimensional geometry, functional analysis, and stochastic processes. For practitioners working with low-liquid markets the chapter on Leland’s approximate hedging strategies will be of especial interest. The book is supplemented by an appendix that provides a toolbox containing auxiliary results from various branches of mathematics used in the proofs. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540681205
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Ben Crow
Markets, Class and Social Change: Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia

— y.
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Description: At the beginning of the 21st century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. This book uses a detailed study of thegrain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. The book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its division, identities,and directions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0333946006
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John O`neill
Markets, Deliberation and Environmental Value (Economics As Social Theory)

2006 y.
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Description: What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory there is a straightforward answer to those questions: it is because environmental goods and harms are unpriced. They come free. This position runs up against a view which runs in entirely the opposite direction, that our environmental problems have their source not in a failure to apply market norms rigorously enough, but in the very spread of these market mechanisms and norms. The source of environmental problems lies in part in the spread of markets both in real geographical terms across the globe and through the introduction of markets mechanisms and norms into spheres of life that previously have been protected from markets. In this book, John O`Neill conducts a thorough examination of these two opposing viewpoints. O`Neill is the author of The Market, also published by Routledge. [detailed...]

ISBN: 041539712X
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Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Graciela Chichilnisky
Markets, Information, and Uncertainty: Essays in Economic Theory in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow

— y.
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Description: Markets, Information and Uncertainty is a collection of essays by leading theorists offering powerful new insights on the role of uncertainty and information in today`s market. This book features Kenneth Arrow on information and the organization of industry, Roy Radner on new technologies, Graciela Chichilnisky and Frank Hahn on human-induced uncertainty, Geoffrey Heal and Walter Heller on the creation of new markets and Edmund Phelps on unemployment. It is an authoritative collection offering imaginative and fresh approaches to economic theory. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521553555
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David L. Prychitko
Markets, Planning and Democracy: Essays After the Collapse of Socialism (New Thinking in Political Economy Series)

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Description: The essays contained herein span over a decade and reflect David Prychitko?s thinking about the role of the market system, and its relation to planning and democratic processes. The collection consists of previously published and unpublished articles written not only for economists but also for an interdisciplinary audience. Prychitko extends the Austrian School?s criticism of central planning to include the decentralized, self-managed and democratic models of socialism - those that were supposed to distinguish Yugoslav-style socialism from Soviet socialism. He critically evaluates the socialist and market-socialist proposals of contemporary advocates including Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, Ted Burczak, Branko Horvat, and Joseph Stiglitz. A younger Austrian economist, Prychitko has also emerged as an internal critic within that tradition. He questions the Austrian School?s claims that the unhampered market maximizes social welfare, that any actions of the state… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1840645199
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Nikolaos Zahariadis
Markets, States, and Public Policy: Privatization in Britain and France

— y.
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Description: The past decade has witnessed a worldwide and more-or-less irreversible shift away from state ownership. This `megatrend` is expected to last well into the next millennium. Given policymakers` previous strong inclination towards nationalization and state ownership, one must ask: Why change now? Markets, States, and Public Policy concentrates on the experience of Britain and France, two pioneers of privatization, and draws specifically on detailed case studies of three sectors: oil, telecommunications, and railroads. The book shows that privatization is brought about by the interplay of three factors at critical junctures of time: available policy alternatives, the ideological complexion and strategy of the governing parties, and widening government budget deficits. Thus privatization is a politically forged decision to forego direct control over markets, in favor of indirect control. Zahariadis applies the multiple streams approach, extending… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0472105426
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Melissa Cicetti
Marking The Land 1

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionA road trip from Santa Fe to Santa Monica was the genesis of Marking the Land 1, which presents photographs taken on highways and byways that cut through the vastness of the American Southwest. In documenting sites separated from one another by hundreds of miles, Melissa Cicetti sought to explore and expand her understanding of the concept of place. She characterizes sites that have been made specific by the interaction between various areas of the land and the human-made forms imposed onthem. Cicetti`s interest in architecture is reflected in many of the photos, which include abandoned structures?barns, churches, gas stations, Anasazi ruins. Fences and wires impose human patterns on the desert landscape even though the photographs never include people. `A sequence of documented, personal moments through which the viewer can come to terms with the photographer`s concept of place and the role humans have played over the centuries and always will play in… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0826332382
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Dag Hammarskjold
Markings

2006 y.
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Description: Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag HammarskjA¶ld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964. Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of `the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa .` It reflects its author`s efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For HammarskjA¶ld, `the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.` Markings is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0307277429
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Martin L. Puterman
Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming

2005 y.
Publisher: Wiley
Description: The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. Формат: 15,5 см x 23,5 cм. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-471-72782-2
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Etienne Pardoux
Markov Processes and Applications: Algorithms, Networks, Genome and Finance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

2009 y.
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Description: `This well-written book provides a clear and accessible treatment of the theory of discrete and continuous-time Markov chains, with an emphasis towards applications. The mathematical treatment is precise and rigorous without superfluous details, and the results are immediately illustrated in illuminating examples. This book will be extremely useful to anybody teaching a course on Markov processes.` Jean-Francois Le Gall, Professor at Universite de Paris-Orsay, France. Markov processes is the class of stochastic processes whose past and future are conditionally independent, given their present state. They constitute important models in many applied fields. After an introduction to the Monte Carlo method, this book describes discrete time Markov chains, the Poisson process and continuous time Markov chains. It also presents numerous applications including Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Simulated Annealing, Hidden Markov Models, Annotation and Alignment of Genomic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0470772719
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Stan Z. Li
Markov Random Field Modeling in Image Analysis (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

2009 y.
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Description: Markov random field (MRF) theory provides a basis for modeling contextual constraints in visual processing and interpretation. It enables systematic development of optimal vision algorithms when used with optimization principles. This detailed and thoroughly enhanced third edition presents a comprehensive study / reference to theories, methodologies and recent developments in solving computer vision problems based on MRFs, statistics and optimisation. It treats various problems in low- and high-level computational vision in a systematic and unified way within the MAP-MRF framework. Among the main issues covered are: how to use MRFs to encode contextual constraints that are indispensable to image understanding, how to derive the objective function for the optimal solution to a problem, and how to design computational algorithms for finding an optimal solution. Easy-to-follow and coherent, the revised edition is accessible, includes the most recent advances, and has new and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1848002785
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Barbara J. MacAdam
Marks of Distinction : Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, 1769-1969

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe sterling collection of drawings and watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art is highlighted in this scholarly and engaging publication. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1555952755
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Dimitrios Zikos
Marks of Identity: New Perspectives on Italian Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century

2009 y.
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Description: The human face had never before received the scrutiny it was given during the Renaissance. Nor would any subsequent period sustain a comparable culture of countenance. Treatises of the 15th and 16th centuries analysed physiognomy, poets and dramatists of the epoch described the face as at once a mirror and a mask of inner truth, and countless works of art recorded the likenesses of individuals. Many of these portraits have achieved lasting fame as masterpieces. But this book of essays reveals how much more there is to learn about bronze portraiture, the form of commemoration valued above all others by Renaissance patrons. Benvenuto Cellini`s portraits of two important Florentines - the banker Bindo Altoviti and Cosimo I de`Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany - are revealed to be triumphs of both technique and insight into character. The essays chosen for this volume delve into other issues of patronage and practice, offering a wide range of new findings on sculpture of the late Renaissance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1934772879
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Markus Benesch

2009 y.
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ISBN: 3866540671
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Eckhard Schneider, Markus Schinwald
Markus Schinwald

2009 y.
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Description: Austrian-born, Berlin-based Markus Schinwald, born in 1973, is known for mixed-media installations and films that investigate the psychological relationship between space and the human body. This monograph focuses on Schinwald`s solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, in which he creates unique film-viewing spaces that challenge our sense of perception. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3865605362
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Jean Jacques Naudet, Maria Riva
Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories

2001 y.
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Description: Marlene Dietrich never threw anything away, from her good-luck black rag doll to the letters she received from her lovers. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and Hollywood costume designers. After Dietrich`s death, the articles were gathered together: 25,000 objects and 18,000 images. The major pieces of Dietrich`s vast collection were assembled in an archive and given to the Film Museum Berlin, and are now on permanent exhibition there. This book brings together 370 photographs from her own collection as ell as photographs taken of her fabulous dresses, accessories, Vuitton trunks, along with letters from lovers and friends (among them Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, William Randolph Hearst and Douglas Fairbanks Jr). [detailed...]

ISBN: 0500510717
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Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations

2008 y.
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Description: One of the top-selling female artists in the world, Marlene Dumas is a young painter whose works deal with the cycle of life as well as issues of gender, sexuality, pleasure, and pain. This is an intimate look at her life—and the intellectual, ethical, an moral questions that stimulate and absorb her—as well as a comprehensive catalog of her drawings and paintings. Essays by prominent South African artists and her curator shed light on Dumas as a person as well as her creative work and its perception in te art world. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1770093818
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Marlene Koch
Marlene Koch`s Sensational Splenda Recipes: Over 375 Recipes Low in Sugar, Fat, and Calories

2008 y.
Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.
Description: With over 375 delectable fool-proof recipes for every day and every occasion Marlene Koch has created the ultimate healthy low sugar cookbook! Featuring 16 pages of beautiful color photographs and 125 brand new mouthwatering recipes along with all of the critically acclaimed recipes from Unbelievable Desserts with Splenda and Fantastic Food with Splenda, with sensational revisions and fabulous new updates, this is the best-tasting, biggest Splenda inspired cookbook ever! With 20 amazing chapters packed with recipes for everything from drinks and smoothies, to your favorite foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner, special occasions and holidays, Marlene`s crowd-pleasing recipes are guaranteed to be loved by the entire family. Looking for a sweet treat? You`ll find all your favorite recipes and more, from tender muffins and coffeecakes, to creamy puddings and custards, to sensational cookies, pies, cakes, cheesecakes, toppings and even cocktails. Most of all, because these… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1590771389
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John Grogan
Marley &, Me

2008 y.
Publisher: Hodder
Description: The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Формат: 11 см х 17,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-340-97781-1
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James Henke
Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley

2006 y.
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Description: Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Marley Legend celebrates the life and work of Bob Marley in an authorized and fully illustrated biography. In the same interactive format as the best-selling Lennon Legend, this innovative book features rare photographs and 20 removable facsimiles, including Marley`s handwritten lyrics and concert memorabilia, even a private sketchbook. The package also includes a 50-minute spoken word CD featuring archival Marley interviews. Rock journalist James Henke relates the dramatic story of Marley`s life, from his impoverished childhood in Jamaica`s Trenchtown to his spiritual awakening through Rastafarianism, his multinational musical success, and his death from cancer at age 36. In addition to interviews with Marley`s family and associates conducted especially for this book, Henke includes thoughts on favorite Marley songs from such diverse artists as U2`s Bono, Sean Paul, Ben Harper, and Chrissie Hynde. Marley`s message… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0811850366
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