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Internet Marketing Tips for Busy Executives: Simple Ways to Improve Your Internet Presence
Published in Paperback by Writers Club Press (2000)
Authors: Peter Alexander and John Nobrega
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From the Author
We strived to keep this book simple, current and pertinent to real world Internet marketing scenarios, and I believe we have succeeded. Our on-line book update has proven to be a great way to keep the book current between editions. A link is provided to a Web site which is updated regularly with new tips. Much of our material comes from our industry experience through our Web development company Raydiate (raydiate.com) and through speaking engagements with Silicon Valley executives.

We hope you enjoy this book, and find the tips useful for your Internet marketing endeavors.

Sincerely,

John Nobrega Co-Author and President of Raydiate, Inc.


The Investigation: Oratorio in 11 Cantos
Published in Paperback by Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. (1996)
Authors: Peter Weiss and Alexander Gross
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unforgettable
One of the most powerful readings of my life. I'd never heard of Weiss though I knew about the holocaust. Thinking of the death of millions of jews, gypsies, communists, mentally retarded and other 'undesirables' is always hard. A Series of Cantos from the transcripts of trials of Nazis in Germany after WWII. Weiss focuses on inviduals from this mass of innocent victims producing a tale to chill the heart, make any human cry and fill up with rage at the same time. The monstrous nazis have no shame or sense of guilt. Those who have survived the butchery give their case to the derision of those in the dock. Prosiac in language, overwhelming in tragedy. The sadistic ... Nazis are exposed. The simple humanism of their victims is eloquent and the reading is unforgettable


Little League's Official How-To-Play Baseball Book
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (01 April, 1990)
Authors: Peter Kreutzer, Ted Kerley, Alexander Verbitsky, and Peter Kruetzer
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A "must have" for anyone involved in youth baseball.
This is an extremely useful book for anyone involved in youth baseball. Not only does it go through the basics of the game, it offers a huge amount of information concerning the role that each player/position has on the field.

As an added bonus, it includes the complete "Official Little League Rules" as well. The only drawback is that because it was printed in the early 90's, you will have to dig a little to find the revisions to make it current.

Whether you're a parent, a coach, an asistant coach or a league director, this book is well worth the price.


Nature's Thumbprint
Published in Paperback by Columbia University Press (15 April, 1996)
Authors: Peter B. Neubauer and Alexander Neubauer
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Fascinating book
Genes determine our eye color, blood type, and tendency toward certain diseases. That much is clear. But when it comes to our psychological traits-who we are and what we can become-few people would credit genes with a major role in human development. For most of this century, we have considered parents and the general environment to be the primary sculptors of personality, and have bestowed on them all the credit for our triumphs and the blame for our failures.

Now, in a book that will change forever the way we think about ourselves and our children, Peter B. Neubauer, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and his son Alexander Neubauer, right the balance in the nature-nurture debate. They show how our genes affect the way we react to the world, interact with it, and behave in many situations. The authors delineate the genetic roots of our personalities, even as they remain faithful to Freudian psychology.

Based on Peter Neubauer's fifty years of clinical practice as a psychoanalyst and researcher, and on studies of identical twins, Nature's Thumbprint explores the range of inborn inclinations upon which personality is later built: individual timetables of maturation; adaptation to the family and the environment; reasons why some children are more vulnerable to environmental obstacles than others; and why some parents are stymied by children who do not match their expectations, while others respond in positive ways. Sure to redefine thinking in psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy, Nature's Thumbprint will also give parents a new understanding of their children. It offers a hopeful message to us all, for only when we understand the biological as well as the psychological underpinnings of personality can we come to a genuine understanding of ourselves and our lives.


Recreating the American Longrifle
Published in Paperback by George Shumway Pub (1999)
Authors: William Buchele, George Shumway, Peter A. Alexander, and William Buchele
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Review of Recreating the American Longrifle
I bought this book some 20 yrs ago and find it to be the absolute authority for those wanting to build their own longrifle.My copy is right next to my gun bench and is referred to many times during the construction of one of my rifles.If you must decide between two or more books to buy on the subject , this is the one. Tim Hamblen- Secretary, National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association


The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia (New Russian History)
Published in Hardcover by M.E.Sharpe (1993)
Authors: Evgenii V. Anisimov and John T. Alexander
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Well written, informative, eye opening.
This is a well written book, linking Peter's reforms to the political culture of Russia and the USSR. Anisimov is in agreement with Voloshin in describing Peter as the first Bolshevik. If you love Russian history, and if you want to understand the people of this fascinating country, this book is a must--have!!!


Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (15 December, 2001)
Authors: Gerhard Knolmayer, Peter Mertens, and Alexander Zeier
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Absolutely Recommended !!
As leader of a customer dervice dept. in a company who just implemented SAP, I can only recommend this book. Not only because its relevance to SAP users, but also because it is a very easy to read and excellent written introduction to modern supply chain management and it's basic functions and challenges. No matter if you use SAP or not, you will like this book if you are beginning to deal with supply chain improvements from a basic level. Read this before any other supply chain book and then compare. I am sure you will come back to this publication over and over again.


Tchaikovsky's Last Days: A Documentary Study
Published in Hardcover by Clarendon Pr (1996)
Author: Alexander Poznansky
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"A Much needed contribution to Tchaikovsky studies"
As a youngster I read some generic collection of composer's lives that was meant to be inspiring and edifying. Tchaikovsky's story ended with a strange tale of suicide committed by intentionally drinking a disease tainted glass of water in a restaurant. I was only about eleven years old and I distinctly remember thinking that the story was totally unbelievable, ridiculous and outrageous. What an inane theory. Many years later in the Nineteenth Century Music journal I read a brilliant article by Alexander Poznansky. With the thrilling determination and detail of a Grisham mystery thriller, using Petersburg medical statistics and even coroner's reports Poznansky pieces together Tchaikovsky's final weeks and establishes to any jury's satisfaction that the suicide theory is complete fantasy. Over the next few months the magazine was a maelstorm of scholarly discussion with Poznansky always taking the day. Even the new Grove Dictionary supports this suicide by water glass theory this time with a dash of arsenic, which is patently ridiculous on face value, except they add a "top secret" judicial tribunal from Tchaikovsky's high school that supposedly orders his demise. The theory being that Tchaikovsky, a world travelled, rich, renowned, and successful man, was so attached to his high school that even thirty five years later their poor opinion could precipitate his willing suicide. How could Grove's publish such nonsense? So is this book necessary? Absolutely. This book takes those original articles as its kernel with a great deal of expansion and refinement. It is a vital piece of Tchaikovsky scholarship and is a wonderful reading experience. It has a wonderful array of Tchaikovsky photos and documents not available elsewhere. There are not many scholarly books that are page turners, but this one is.


Workers, War & the Origins of Apartheid: Labour & Politics in South Arica, 1939-48
Published in Hardcover by Ohio Univ Pr (Txt) (2000)
Author: Peter Alexander
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Excellent history
This book is the best that I have read on the origins of apartheid in South Africa. It is a carefully-written and quite lucid explanation of the politics and unionism of black and white workers during World War II. Alexander illustrates how the degree and kinds of racial unity among South African workers during this period have been drasticaly underestimated by historians, but his analysis of the complex phenomena of working-class racism is full and nuanced. He has done an amazing amount of research into the political economy of the South African state at a number of different levels, and smoothly integrated this with a subtle and interesting social history of workers. This book serves as an excellent example of this kind of analysis for US historians of labor.


Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography
Published in Paperback by University of California Press (1992)
Author: Peter Green
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Excellent Read! Great details and insights
This was an excellent read. I really enjoyed the treatment of anchient history given here by Mr. Green. Although, at times I found his writing style a bit thick, he does keep the story moving as Alexander thunders across the known world. He keeps things balanced and, although praising Alexander's political and military skills, doesn't leave out all the people he crushed in the process. Green provides details in Alexander's military movements and how he learned them. He provides stories of Alexander's mercy, and his brutal slaughters. I learned a lot more about Alexander's father here (and his importance) than from other sources. I also learned a lot more about some of Alexander's closest advisors including the one's he betrays... An excellent and well presented story.

The Finest Biography on Alexander
It has been thirty years since Peter Green wrote his masterful biography of Alexander the Great. I first read this great book when I was in 9th Grade doing a report on Alexander. Years later I am still captivated by the thoroughness and detail that Green gives to Alexander.

What makes this book great is not just the immense amount of information that Green has presented. Professor Green whisks the reader away to the time of Philip and Alexander, and gives a excellent portrayal of the friction between Greece and Macedon at the time, until King Philip took power and set the stage for Alexander's conquests.

This book also contains an amazing number of characters. From Aristotle to Parmenio, Green throws in the players who shaped Alexander's life. The only problem with this is that many of the characters have the same name, and it was hard for me to sort out the names.

Green's biography almost reads like a novel, and is full of action and romance. Peter Green has written the best biography of Alexander. Hopefully, this fine book will be the definitive biography of the young man who conquered two million miles of territory and brought Greece, Persia, and India together.

Exciting, well documented, educational account!
Green's work on Alexander, begins with the legends about his conception, the family and culture he was born into, his early education (I learned alot here about how small the Greek world was in relation to the great minds of the era), his rise to power, the intrigue, and ultimately the military genius of such a young man.

Green does an excellent job of explaining what is known as fact, what is conjecture and what the competing opinions are. He takes historical data, legends and myths and weaves them into a comprehensive study of a historical Alexander who at times was bigger than even his legends and at times was much smaller. Green provides enough information to comprehend the world in which Alexander lived, which makes understanding the man easier.

It is truly amazing to read about these events so long ago in such a refreshing style. It amazed me at times how much Alexander's campaigns sounded like accounts of the U.S. Civil war or other "recent" military events. Alexander and Green's masterful study of the man are both GREAT!


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