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English-Ukrainian Dictionary of Business: Anhlo-Ukrainskyi Slovnyk Dilovoi Leksyky
Alexander, Ph.D. Krouglov ,
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Current terminology used in all business sectors, translated from English to Ukrainian. Entries include various translations, interpretations, and useful phrases.
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This timely guide includes the most up-to-date text and comments of Revised Article 9 of the UCC, including all Year 2000 amendments.
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Do UCC article 9 here; I don't CC Article 9.......2001-11-06
If you are reading this chances are good that you are either:
1. An attorney; or,
2. A law student; or,
3. A paralegal; or,
4. A law professor; or,
5. Just interested in secured instruments under the new revision
to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
This book is best suited to group 4. The editor, a former law professor, sister of the first female head of the American Bar Association and given to wearing mismatched earrings, has done as fine a job as any editor can do on the virtues of Article 9 of the UCC and still have a book to publish.
I suggest that all groups but 4 read their state's implementation of the new Article 9 in their state statutes and avoid the commentary.
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Accelerated Project Management: How to Be First to Market
James P. Lewis ,
Louis Wong , and
James Lewis
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ASIN: 0071423249 |
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Speed-to-market is the most critical factor determining the success of new products. James Lewis and Louis Wong, one of today's most accomplished project management author teams, discuss often-overlooked principles that can make the difference in the never-ending race to be first and best. They give project managers, engineers, and top-level decision makers the needed tools and techniques to:
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- Great for Kicking Off a Project Quickly
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Accelerated Project Management
Michelle A. Labrosse
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Great for Kicking Off a Project Quickly.......2006-11-29
Nothing is more painful than gathering a group of technical minds to develop requirements for a project. This book teachs you how to build all the basics of a project plan quickly (schedule, costs, risks, likelihood of risks, mitigation plans for risks, work breakdown structure with dependencies, etc.). Depending on the size and complexity of the project, you can probably complete your plan in one day using the method in this book. For small projects, I've done it in half a day. The first time, the team looked at me like I was strange, but once they got the hang of it and saw the results, the whole company was hooked on this method. Buy this book or take the Cheetah course, learn the method first hand and you get the book to help you through the process when you get back to your job. I cannot think of a quicker way to gather and compile all the necessary information for kicking off a project. I guess that's why it's call Accelerated Project Management.
Good, straightforward methodology.......2002-03-10
Anyone who has worked in a modern corporate environment knows that convening teams for special projects can be like herding cats. This is a good book for getting relatively small teams, especially where the team members don't have much experience working together, to plan and execute projects. The book may be a bit basic in the early chapters and a little technical in the Tracking a Project chapter, but overall I found it very helpful.
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Accelerated Systems Development (Bcs Practitioner Series)
Susan Folkes , and
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Unquestionably unique, demonstrably delightful, Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine is the culmination of one of the most extraordinary careers in the world of wine. Michael Broadbent quite possibly knows more about fine, old wines than anyone else alive, and he writes about them with unparalleled expertise.
Hired by Christie's in 1966 to revive their wine auctions, Broadbent threw himself into his work, searching out great collections of the world's finest wine--and keeping meticulous tasting notes. Here are evocations of Chateau d'Yquem from 1784--one of Thomas Jefferson's favorites--and hundreds of vintages and thousands of wines right up to the present.
Years of "cellars visited and pillaged, involving the checking and packing of dust- and grime-laden bottles in distinctly dank and chilly conditions," jet-set auctions around the world, legendary tastings and society events, have all helped to create an unrivalled store of vinous anecdotes as well as an unsurpassed wine-tasting history.
EXCERPT
From a tasting of 1784 Chateau Yquem:
"The most renowned vintage of the late 18th century and well-documented thanks mainly to the original copies of the letters and orders of Thomas Jefferson. . . . Jefferson did not trust wine merchants and insisted on bottling at the chateau. . . . The wine has a warm mahogany-amber colour with a pronounced yellow-green rim. Initially, the nose, unsurprisingly, was creakingly old but after fifteen minutes settled down to reveal a remarkably rich, tangy, honeyed scent."
Customer Reviews:
the ultimate vintage book.......2006-12-18
Simply stated this is the best vintage book ever published. I am ordering a second copy as I keep the first in the wine cellar for making selections and need a second for my library so my guests can see what they are drinking. There is none better!!!
One note of caution.......2006-10-31
Michael Broadbent is a justifiably legendary critic whose perspective is especially valuable in a Shanken/Parker-dominated world. This book is great.
However, one word of caution on this book -- a non-negligible fraction of his tasting notes from old wines are likely inaccurate, because the wines in question were likely fake. Namely, Broadbent (and many other critics) relied heavily on a German dealer/collector named Hardy Rodenstock for samples of the oldest wines noted in the book (by which I mean pre-WWII and especially pre-1900). For example, if you look at MB's tasting notes on pre-1900 Chateau d'Yquem, it appears that one-third or more of the TN's are attributable to Rodenstock-sourced bottles. Rodenstock is now the subject of lawsuits filed by two prominent collectors, Bill Koch and Russell Frye, as detailed in a recent WSJ article. He is steadily developing a reputation as one of the bigger [...] in the history of the fine wine business. This is not to say that most of the old wines tasted by MB weren't genuine, but because Rodenstock was such a major source of old wines, it is now difficult to know which were fake and which were real.
MB was likely a victim of Rodenstock's chicanery, pure and simple. But the responsible thing to do at this point would be to issue a new edition down the road with known Rodenstock-sourced bottles stripped from the book.
One of Wine's Grand Old Men.......2003-04-17
By Bill Marsano. We can divide wine drinkers into three classes. Ordinaire Joe, who'd rather drink wine than talk about it, is here advised to flee: This book will bore him stupid. The Wine Geek is just the opposite; for him wine is an excuse to prattle about clonal selection and hints of toffee on the nose. He'll love this book--will take it to bed with him. It is a gold mine of tasting notes covering many decades and innumerable wines from most regions of the world. The emphasis is on France, with Germany a distant third (there is no second), Italy a distant fifth (there is no fourth) and everybody else reduced to odds and ends. There's lots of stuff on champagne and port, too--a quintessentially British slant.
Never mind: The author, Michael Broadbent, is British, and the British have always leant that way. He is also one of the Great Men of Wine: revitalizer of Christie's wine auctions since 1966, writer, advisor, globe-trotting taster and collector of anecdotes and memories. In Japan such a person is officially labeled a Living National Treasure.
That makes this book of value and interest to the third class of wine drinkers--the Sub-Geek (or perhaps wannabe) who recognizes that his enjoyment of wine can be enhanced by a little more knowledge of its history and traditions, its lore and learing, its famous places and personages. There's a lot of that in this book, and it's always modestly and charmingly delivered. The reader must patiently winkle it out, however. It's all wrapped up in sidebars among those endless pages of tasting notes (about 500 of them) and is sometimes hidden inside individual tasting notes themselves.
This is the sort of book that will grace a shelf for a long time. There's no possibility of reading straight through it, and that's the wrong approach anyway. This book sits and waits for those late evenings with a last glass and an inquiring mind. It is to be leafed through for the pleasure of Broadbent's company.
--Bill Marsano is a wine and spirits writer who has won a James Beard medal and other awards.
A reading indulgence........2003-03-24
Even if you haven't / will not try most of the wines tasted by MB, the mere description of the wines in his unique British style will make your taste buds shiver. A pleasure for all wine lovers - everything else put excellently well by the previous reviewer.
Sweet Dreams are Made of These.......2003-03-17
I first fell under Mr. Broadbent's spell during my earliest days as a fledgling sommelier. His slender volume, Michael Broadbent's Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars (1982) has long been, like they say about middleweight boxers, pound-for-pound the best book I've ever read about appreciating wine. When the wine auction scene arrived in Chicago in the mid-eighties. I can still remember attending some of the first few events at the University Club, sponsored by Christie's and conducted by the legendary MB. I was overwhelmed watching him lead auctions, but way too shy and in awe of him to introduce myself.
Because MB is a wine tasting hero. He's quite possibly the most accomplished wine taster in the world, certainly when it comes to Bordeaux, and heir to centuries of Britain's dominance as the arbiter of European and thus the world's best wines. This book, Vintage Wines, is a compilation of tasting notes spanning his career. It presents notes on thousands of wines in MB's impeccable, staccato style in which he is often able to elucidate the innate character or value of a wine in a few succinct phrases, along with his 0-5 star rating system. It also weaves in wonderful details of vintages, wines, and people he has known and loved.
Mr. Broadbent is a classicist, by which I mean his definition of quality predates Robert Parker's arrival on the wine scene. Inconceivable as it may be to many Americans, good wines were both made and enjoyed before Parker redefined the terms. Which is not to say that Parker adds no value to the debate, it's just that more modest authorities like Mr. Broadbent advocate a traditional style of wine making in which the individual character provided by soil and climate is given its expression rather than the creation of souless fruit-bombs. Finesse, breed, elegance, typicity, potential to improve with age, but most of all drinkability and compatibility with food are the hallmarks of great wines for Mr. Broadbent.
Nothing illustrates the comparison better or helps you understand why you would want to consult MB's notes more than a look at the ratings of the same wines presented by MB's Vintage Wines, the Wine Spectator, and the Wine Advocate.
Chateau Pavie, 2000. Very deep, velvety; tobacco-like, sweaty tannins;sweet ,full-bodied, charred and tarry taste. Impressive, but I much prefer the late Jean-Paul Valette's Pavie, which was so much more drinkable. For me. **. For wine competitions and our American cousins, (*****). (Michael Broadbent)
"2000 Chateau Pavie (St.-Emilion): This is a super model of a wine. Super grapey, with red licorice and perfumed aromas. Full-bodied and very tight, with racy tannins and a sleek finish. Best wine of the hillsides of St.-Emilion. Lasts for minutes." 95-100 Points - Wine Spectator, March 30, 2001
"2000 Chateau Pavie (St.-Emilion): With no shortage of confidence, Gerard Perse feels the 2000 is the greatest Pavie ever produced. Premature you say? Don't discount the proprietor's rhetoric. A blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, it is a backward, super-concentrated effort displaying an inky purple color, and a thrilling bouquet of minerals, black fruits, vitamins, and toast. It possesses a wealth of fruit, glycerin, and extract as well as high levels of tannin, and a finish that lasts nearly a minute. It will undoubtedly close down after bottling, and not be close to prime time drinking until 2010 or later. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2050." 96-98 Points - Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s, The Wine Advocate, Issue 139
Are they all talking about the same wine? Who is right? Only you can be the judge. While this happens to be a wine that MB doesn't much care for, you can get a good feeling for how his notes work. It's important to point out that he is definitely willing to call a spade a spade when he doesn't like a wine and the book has many such graceful and witty putdowns.
Back to the book itself. The book is arranged by wine growing region, and while it touches all corners of the wine world, the pages devoted to each area are a telltale sign of where Mr. Broadbent's passion and experience lie. For example, here are the regions with the most notes, with pages in (): Red Bordeaux (150), White Bordeaux (46), Red Burgundy (58), White Burgundy (29), Germany (50), Italy (18), California (35). Each chapter starts out with a few paragraphs of background and then presents the notes, all arranged by vintage from the oldest to the most recent. Fortunately, the book was published in time to allow him to include some notes from the heralded 2000 Bordeaux vintage.
I think it would be fair to say that Mr. Broadbent has access to and gets to taste a lot higher quality of wine than most of us, so many of the reviews are probably for wines that we will never see let alone get a chance to try. He starts each Bordeaux vintage with the first growths and the Burgundy vintage with DRC wines, such that if I bought a single bottle of each in one vintage it would cost more than I spend on wine in total in a good year.
So that brings us to the downside of this wonderful compendium. What is it good for? If you're a die-hard MB fan like me, it's a treat to enter his world and vicariously taste yourself through his lifetime in wine. For others, it will prove valuable if you've got the money and inclination to buy great wines at auction (and avoid some over-rated clunkers). Even then, it's not by any means exhaustive, and if you're buying anything but the best of the best you can't always find what you want. For many of us it's a little like having your nose pressed against the glass, wishing that just once we'd get to taste (or even smell!) the 1945 Latour that MB has tasted and dutifully logged 28 times.
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All the tasting notes in the world.......1997-02-12
Tasting notes. That's what this is. One huge book filled from cover to cover with thousands of wine-tasting notes on wonderful old wines that most of us will never get to enjoy. If you really like reading about wine, though, you can spend hours browsing through this volume vicariously tasting with Broadbent. And if you're a collector, you'll find his observations indispensible
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This fully revised edition of Wine Vintages contains completely up-to-date information from one of the world's most experienced and meticulous winetasters. Michael Broadbent clearly and succinctly answers the basic questions about what a vintage is and what conditions create a good or poor vintage, as well as how the vintage makes the wine and just why it is so important. He explores the effect of vintage not only on the wine’s style and quality, but also on the quantity produced in a given year.
More than a century of wine vintages are covered in this compact and chronological guide—which goes district by district and by wine type—while quick-reference quality ratings for each entry make it indispensable. Everything from classic French and other European wines to the forward-moving New World countries is covered, with crucial background on the character and readiness to drink of a wide array of vintages.
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Pocket Vintage Wine Companion is an updated, edited version of Michael Broadbent’s classic and award-winning Vintage Wine. It presents his most recent tasting notes—including hundreds of new notes on the best wines he has tasted since Vintage Wine was published—in a portable format that puts his unrivaled expertise at your fingertips.
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The Great Vintage Wine Book
Michael Broadbent
Manufacturer: Knopf
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ASIN: 0394510992
Release Date: 1980-10-12 |
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- My first book about wines
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Michael Broadbent's Pocket Guide to Wine Vintages
Michael Broadbent
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My first book about wines.......1999-12-11
I lovr this little Book, has great information about how to enjoy wines, lots of information, tips, wine colors, how to rate wines. etc.
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