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Developing Clarion for Windows Applications/Book and Disk
Published in Paperback by Sams (1995)
Authors: Ross A. Santos, David Harms, and Ross Santis
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I want to learn to use the Wizatrons
I need a book that help me to learn quikly y easy how to use the wizatrons of Clarion 5.0 or More.

If is Posible, If you have an spanish book from this type is better for me


Doing Business: The Art of David Ross
Published in Paperback by Andrews McMeel Publishing (1996)
Author: David Ross
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Humor is the Prism of Reality
David Ross has one of the most unique, humorous, and honest views of the business world that I have ever seen. I found myself in an endless state of laughter with each new drawing and even more laughter as I reflected on the overall artistic content. David can create the situation, mood, and laughter in a single drawing that Scott Adam creates in a set of cartoon frames. David's humorous views of the business world should be mandatory reading for every member of every board of directors in corporate America, it would give them a great perspective of how many employees see the corporate enterprise.

I cannot recommend the book highly enough, not just for it's humor, but more for it's accurately humorous views of the convoluted practices of corporate America.


Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement
Published in Paperback by Noble Pr (1990)
Authors: Rik Scarce and David Ross Brower
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great book - this man is dedicated to saving the environment
Eco-Warriors was written by Rik Scarce, a journalist who lives in Washington. This book attempts (and succeeds) to help readers understand why such grups as Earth First! and such "radical" environmental groups take the actions that they do. Scarce presents as much as an objective view as possible, he stresses his sympathy for the "front-line warriors" in the battle to save the earth. Well-told stories of activists doing the only effective thing to save the environment - get to the root of the problem and stop the individuals/governments/companies that are polluting the environment or needlessly killing endangered animals for profit or lack of responsibility. The people he describes are bypassing the ineffective routes of petitioning and organizing local recycling groups, and making major impacts on international policy.


Foundations of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 1935-6 (Oxford Scholarly Classics Series)
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (2000)
Author: W. David Ross
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A classic in its field.
In this volume Sir W. David Ross expands on his earlier (and much shorter) work _The Right and the Good_, developing his views and replying to criticisms from e.g. Charlie Dunbar Broad and other contemporary philosophers. Over the course of some three hundred pages, Ross provides penetrating analyses of the concepts of right, obligation, and good, arguing among other things that the meaning of "right" is not simply reducible to "whatever maximizes the good." Probably his best-known contribution to ethical theory is his notion of a _prima facie_ duty, introduced in his earlier work and explicated here with Ross's usual workmanlike thoroughness.

Ross was a solid representative of the rationalist-intuitionist-deontologist axis in twentieth-century ethics; influenced by Prichard and Moore and a first-class Aristotelian scholar to boot, he was a profound and thorough thinker who deserves to be more widely read. For example, his discussion of determinism (and why determinism doesn't undermine ethics) in chapter ten is, to my mind, one of the finest of its kind.

I have occasionally seen Ross's prose style criticized as somewhat plodding and tortuous. I see no foundation for this criticism. Ethical philosophy, at least as Ross himself treated it, is not a flashy affair; like all philosophy, it is a matter of trying to think clearly and well. This Ross does like a master, and readers who prefer clarity and substance in their philosophy will find Ross's style eminently suited to his material. Readers who would rather subject themselves to declamations, rhetoric, and dogmatic asseveration in the service of nothing much are advised to look elsewhere -- to Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Ayn Rand, for example.


The Illustrated Treasury of Poetry for Children
Published in Hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap (1970)
Author: David Ross
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A true keeper that I've had for 20 years.
My father gave me this book over 20 years ago, and it has been literally around the world with me. I read it when I am feeling good or bad and I now share the poems with my 3 year old son. We always find something to cheer us up and make us laugh. I hope to instill a love of poetry in him and this book is essential.


Life Lessons
Published in Audio Cassette by Books on Tape, Inc. (05 January, 2001)
Authors: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Everyone Should Read This Book
This is not so much a book about death and grieving as it is about learning to live a more meaningful life. The authors help us to sort the important from the unimportant in our lives by sharing stories about their experiences and the experiences of their patients. Many people (especially Americans) become so caught up in our own schedules and "things" that we sometimes fail to get our priorities straight. This book will provoke re-evaluation of of your life, and your deepest feelings about what is really important.


Museology
Published in Hardcover by Aperture (1989)
Authors: Richard Ross, Marcia Tucker, and David Mellor
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One of the Best phototographic books I've owned.
I owned this book back in the early nineties and never got tired of looking through it! It inspired my own photography time and time again. Unfortunately it was destroyed in a flood 3 years ago, and I've searched in vain to find another.

The book is comprised mainly of a series of iconic photographs taken in the back rooms of museums from around the world and in several Edwardian-era museums, now closed, but still quite haunting in the way they still stand just like the day when they closed up shop years ago. Photographs of cobweb-covered stuffed lion, birds and rhinos in poses they've held for maybe 100 years TOTALLY absorb the viewer. What an eye this Ross guy has! If you can see a copy, you'll want to own it. If you own it, you'll show it to your friends like a trophy.

I hope to find another copy someday, because I nearly wore out the pages on the first one before the water took it first.


Not Man Apart
Published in Hardcover by Arrowood Press (1994)
Authors: Robinson Jeffers and David Ross Brower
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Jeffers' poems create pleasant pictures
The verse in this magnificent book is typical of Jeffers. I believe that they are most likely some of his best poems. His words will make you think about humanity's struggle to be free like the flowing sea that Jeffers so avidly describes. The metaphors and similes that he uses make me anxious to visit the Big Sur region, which is the topic of interest on the "California Poet's" mind.


Plato's Theory of Ideas
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (1976)
Author: William David Ross
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A must-read book for a Platonist
This book by Sir David Ross is, for me, the best account of Platos's famous theory of Ideas. The author goes back to Plato's earlyer dialogues and gives a detailed exposition of how the doctrine developed all through the dialogues, how were took the teachings of Socrates and how Plato gave to it full consistence. Especially fine is his account of the Parmenides, one of Plato's mature works. This is, may be, the most difficult of all the dialogues and Ross sheds real clarity on it. This is the book if one wants to get to know Plato's philosophy through his central root. It really helped me in my first readings of the divine Plato.


The Skills of Management
Published in Paperback by International Thomson Business Press (1996)
Authors: W. David Rees and W. David Ross
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an excellent read
One of the best accounts of real life management skills I have ever read, exactly what someone will need to succeed in the turbulent world of modern management.


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