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The Office Ergonomics Tool Kit With Training Disc
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Computers revolutionized the office, and employees in many workplaces are still making adjustments... hunching their shoulders, tilting their necks, and sitting in awkward positions. When bright screens and bulky equipment can't be moved or shifted, it's the user who makes the compensations. Relief from "desk discomfort" is possible, through a science that not only solves that immediate problem, but also holds substantial benefits for employer and employee alike. Ergonomics is the science (and art) of workplace design for maximum physical comfort, maximum efficiency-and prevention of injury at the workplace. Its potential results: greater productivity, heightened morale, and reduced compensation for work-induced injuries. Keep in mind: most worker's compensation costs are for Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD). The Office Ergonomics Tool Kit: With Training Disc provides a sensible step-by-step method to bring Ergonomics and its wonders to your workplace. Written for facilities managers, office managers, small business owners, office managers, and other non-professional ergonomists alike, its comprehensive and clear instructions enable managers to "fit" ergonomics principles to the exact needs of any office/workplace. Every bit of advice in Office Ergonomics Tool Kit: With Training Disc is already in practice at offices that have consulted author Dan MacLeod. Many Fortune 100 companies in both offices and general industry have saved millions of dollars through guidance. Industrial Hygiene and Safety News names MacLeod "one of the key players influencing both government and ergonomic standards and industrial control strategies."
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A practical, easy to understand, how-to guide that works........1998-12-04
Finally, a practical, down-to-earth, common sense ergonomics guide for business. Written for the layman, Dan MacLeod's Office Ergonomics Kit is just that. It's a kit with all the essential parts to get a company's ergonomics program up and running.The book provides ample support and guidance for every aspect of managing an ergonomics program.
It's easy to get a program started with this manual. Employee and management training is a breeze with the slides that are provided on a floppy disk. You can tailor the Power Point presentation to your company needs. Another disk is full of helpful planning and program management aids. What a bonus!
As manager in corporate safety of the world's leading express freight company, I have found this guide to be invaluable. We use this kit as the basis for our ergonomics program.
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Banking is an essential industry, and one with many regulations as well as frequent, important changes. Like previous editions, the Fifth Edition is designed to help students understand the field of banking from the perspective of both a bank customer as well as a bank manager. The author provides a well-written description of the banking industry while keeping the text as current as possible.
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New technology has revolutionized the nature and threatened the existence of traditional stock and futures exchanges. This book analyses how they have responded to developments in automation, what strategies they should adopt, and whether their actions both are, and should be a matter of public concern. The operation and management of exchanges in the current competitive environment is studied. Three aspects of their role as providers of trading systems are examined: their governance structures, the way in which they compete and cooperate with each other, and their policies towards the dissemination of prices and quotes. The law and regulation affecting market structure, the governance and self-regulation of exchanges is then identified, interpreted, and evaluated. Finally, some policy recommendations concerning information and competition, and the classification and governance of exchanges are presented. The book applies knowledge, experience, and analytical techniques from the fields of business, economics, law, and regulation. Pre-publication endorsements `Ruben Lee's book provides an impressive analysis of exchanges using all the latest tools of economic theory. The book contains a wealth of interesting material about how exchanges are structured and the problems they face in a changing world. I recommend it very highly to anybody with a theoretical or practical interest in organizations.' Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University `The author contributes a most exhaustive compilation of definitions, functions, and structures of exchanges around the world, from a governance, management, and regulatory perspective. Technological change has made possible the globalization of trading, especially in financial products, and as a consequence the structures of exchanges have become more fluent. This book provides an important reference point on the recent development of exchanges.' Dr Rolf E. Breuer, Chairman of Deutsche Bank and Chairman of Deutsche Borse `Ruben Lee has long been a thoughtful student of securities trading markets. In What is an Exchange? he brings together years of careful research and analysis, extracting from that work many useful insights into the evolving relationship between technology, market structure, and regulation. In doing so he provides helpful guidance towards achieving the Jeffersonian ideal of a 'wise and frugal government' when it comes to striking a balance between regulation and market forces to meet the needs of investors and issuers.' Edward Waitzer, Partner, Stikeman Elliot; Former Chairman, Ontario Securities Commission; Former Chairman, Technical Committee, International Organisation of Securities Commissions. `I highly recommend Dr Ruben Lee's book. The analysis is an intellectual tour de force of the various issues surrounding the business, and regulation, or financial markets and professionals. Dr Lee combines organization theory, securities law, microeconomics, and information theory in order to separate the essential from the superficial. Moreover, as a former trader himself, his work reflects the institutional trading practices which are crucial to understanding markets. Finally, all of this erudition is placed within a global comparative framework. Indeed, even when I disagree with him, Dr Lee makes me think he might be right.' Brandon Becker, Partner, Wilmer, Culter and Pickering; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Director, Division of Marketing Regulation, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission `Deregulation and technology is rapidly changing the nature and functioning of investment exchanges. Increasing competition forces what have long been protected national member-driven institutions to become professionally managed businesses. The trend among European exchanges is to demutualise, operate for profit and even strive for public listing. This comprehensive theoretical and empirical study covers a large number of relevant aspects on the ongoing structural changes of the investment exchange industry. The book is extremely valuable for all those concerned with the behaviour, organisation, management and regulation of exchanges now and in the coming years.' Bengt Ryden, Chairman of Stockholm Exchanges, Former President of the Federation International des Bourse de Valeurs (International Federation of Stock Exchanges)
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Transparency and Fragmentation: Financial Market Regulation in a Dynamic Environment
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This is the first major treatment of the effects of increased transparency on financial markets: an important and highly controversial issue for both traders and regulators. Focussing on three main themes - market transparency, the consolidation-fragmentation of trading systems, and the scope of regulation (i.e. which markets, and which traders within those markets, should be subject to regulation), the book highlights the importance of these issues to all markets throughout the world. The authors draws on research from eight UK-based investment exchanges, Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt, and documentary evidence from the US markets and their regulators.
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The Regulation of the Power Sector in Africa: Attracting Investment and Protecting the Poor (African Energy Policy Research)
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Attracting private investment and delivery of services to the poor majority are priority goals for reforming and regulating the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. The licensing process and the tariff regime are important determinants of new investment in the electricity industry. For the licensing process to attract private investors, the procedures must be clear and must function efficiently and transparently, while the tariff regime must reflect actual costs. This book examines the extent to which the twin goals of attracting investment and providing energy to the poor are addressed by the existing legal and regulatory framework. By studying six countries in the east and southern African region, some helpful lessons worth sharing with other African countries are learned.
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Asset management is a major industry playing an increasingly important role in economic activity around the world. Traditionally, it has been primarily associated with the 'stock market' economies of the UK and the USA, but as this book shows some of the most spectacular growth in activity of
recent years has occurred in continental Europe. This has presented opportunities and challenges. New forms of financial instruments and institutions have emerged in countries that have traditionally relied on debt and non-market forms of intermediation. Competition has intensified and entry has
occurred both within and across national markets. However, this growth has been accompanied by potential problems; will investors enjoy a wider range of products and services, they face more complex instruments and transactions. Therefore, the potential for failures, such as misdealing and fraud,
may have increased. The natural response is to strengthen regulation, but there is a fine balance to be struck between in adequate and excessive regulation of asset managers. This is particularly complicated in the context of European capital markets. European countries have traditionally had very
different financial systems and asset management businesses, therefore it is no surprise to discover that they have many different approaches to regulating asset managers. How should the European Commission respond to this diversity? Should it seek to create greater uniformity via common regulatory
rules? The particular focus of this book is financial resource requirements. There is currently an active debate about the role which capital requirements should play in asset management, particularly in the European context. In order to address this issue, the authors argue that it is necessary to
understand the nature of the asset management business in different countries and the risks that it faces. They therefore discuss how the asset management business operates; how it is organized; the nature and size of risks in the business, who bears them and ho they are financed; and what the
alternative forms of investor protection are, together with their associated costs and benefits.
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Exchange Traded Funds: Structure, Regulation and Application of a New Fund Class
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The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual
ASIN: 3540241248 |
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The main objective of this book is to present a comprehensive in-depth survey of the past development in the area of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as well as to put forth the most recent advancements in the field of that investment class. An important aspect is to bridge the gap between the traditional fund industry and innovation practices. New Market developments in terms of application of ETFs within a strategic asset allocation are presented in a thorough manner. The book also discusses the overall trends affecting the ETF industry and provides statistics and developments.
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Don't buy this.......2007-04-11
I don't write reviews, it usually bores me but this time i thought i had some responsibility in writing my impressions about this book.
I'll be brief, this book is simply useless. It talks about a lot of worthless details which don't get you anywhere but never explains the basis mechanisms of ETFs. I am writing a thesis on ETFs so i read a lot of ETF manuals and I can honestly say this book was the worst by far. I'm not saying it doesnt give you any info, but I think you can find every info of this book in any other ETF book. Moreover, it's the most expensive, I really don't get how the author dare asking so much for such an incomplete and irrelevant work.
Now this was my contribution to the Amazon community, I hope i prevented some people of wasting 50$ ...
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United States: Initial Public Offerings (Ipo) Regulations Handbook (World Business Library)
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- Globalization---Myths and Realities
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The End of Globalization: Why Global Strategy Is a Myth & How to Profit from the Realities of Regional Markets
Alan M. Rugman
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Globalization has been both lauded as a glorious solution to economic disparities and criticized as the malign cause of financial upheavals in developing nations. But, according to the noted economist and scholar Alan Rugman, globalization was never more than a myth, and the controversies it has spurred are based on the fictions of a homogeneous marketplace.
Instead, Rugman argues, international economic activity has been driven by just 500 multinational enterprises operating in the triad of North America, the European Union, and Japan. Neither globally monolithic nor politically powerful, these companies produce and distribute goods for highly competitive regional markets (for example, 90% of cars produced in Europe are sold in Europe).
Scholarly and researched-based, yet eminently readable, The End of Globalization explores this new concept of multinational enterprises as regionally based and locally operated. And the book helps managers and executives develop successful "regional/triad" strategies that are responsive to local consumers--complete with concise summaries of 20 strategies from major multinational companies.
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Globalization---Myths and Realities.......2002-10-03
Alan Rugman does yeoman service in dispelling the myths of globalization as an omnipotent and omnipresent force in international business. Drawing on a myriad of recent cases, such as Disney and Saatchi and Saatchi, Rugman presents a thorough, compelling and provocative argument that regional markets and intra-firm transactions and relationships within those markets (particularly the triad of Asia, North America and Europe) and not a globalized, cast-the-net-widely juggernaut approach to multinational corporate strategy will continue to rule the day.
An Excellent Read.......2001-12-30
Alan Rugman is one of the top business school researchers in the world. In this insightful book he takes a different view of globalisation than most. It is very useful and thougt provoking.
Brilliant Injection of Realism into Fog of Controversy.......2001-03-26
Rugman's "End of Globalization..." is a superb analysis of the international trade of product and services and the nature of foreign investment. He effectively shows how, in reality, international trade and investment needs to be understood in terms of firm and not market activity, and in particular, in terms of the activities of 441 of the Fortune 500 companies. Rugman's work shows how most globalization activity is, in fact, based within a triad of Europe, Japan and the U.S., Foreign Direct Investment is largely intra-firm and industry, and that the key driver is regional and local based economic activity, not a global free-for-all.
Rugman provides examples of how globalization fails (Disney, Saatchi and Saatchi) as well as success stories (ACER) and an analysis of how 20 of the world's multi-national corporations actually operate - i.e., with a strong regional and local presence.
We covers the role of the WTO (demise imminent), protectionism (NAFTA and EU), health and evironmental restrictions, and positions the dot com dream of internet-driven wealth as being one of media hype. There is no single global culture he says, and the new mantra really should be "Think Regional. Act Local. Forget Global".
This book is a brilliant demolition act on the false promises of globalization and also a stinging riposte to the doom-mongering paranoia of the Starbuck's trashers of Seattle and the McLibel crybabies.
Well written, clear, forthright, and with relevant examples this book is a must for students of globalization and international economics everywhere
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Act draft on insurer investments. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners, act promoting financial stability by diversifying investments): An ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 5, 1993. The length of the article is 708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: The National Assn of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model investment law working group is reviewing a draft of a law submitted to it by an Allstate Insurance Co-led insurance industry group. The industry advisory group's model law limits amounts for single entity and other types of investments that insurers can make and establishes conformity to the law as a criteria for acceptability of investments as admitted assets. NAIC will make copies of the draft available after Aug 1, 1993. The proposal will assist insurers achieve financial stability by requiring diversification of investments.
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Title: Act draft on insurer investments. (National Association of Insurance Commissioners, act promoting financial stability by diversifying investments)
Author: Cynthia Crosson
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 5, 1993
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Handbuch Facility Management für Immobilienunternehmen
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Das umfassende Nachschlagewerk für Immobilienentwickler, Immobilienverwalter, Dienstleister und Makler beschreibt die Grundlagen und Werkzeuge professioneller Bewirtschaftung von Liegenschaften, Gebäuden und Anlagen. Es beschreibt die Praxis nachhaltiger Werterhaltung, Einsparungen im Betrieb und in der Kostenkontrolle, die nicht nur bei Großobjekten erfolgreich zum Einsatz kommt. Relevante technische, organisatorische, rechtliche und wirtschaftliche Aspekte werden für die Praxis aufbereitet und detailliert behandelt.
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Title: Benchmarking your portfolio. (Special Advertising Section).(monitoring investment performance)
Author: Bob Williams
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Benchmarking Portfolio (Company Self - Assessment Audits)
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Benchmarkorientierte Portfolio-Optimierung: Zum Benchmarking in der [mu]/[sigma]-Portfolioanalyse und dessen Anwendung im Asset & Liability Management ... und finanzwirtschaftliche Forschungen)
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Wolfgang Puck -- Charlie Palmer -- Todd English -- Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger -- Tom Colicchio: These are men and women who were not content merely to run a great restaurant; they wanted to create multinational food empires. And they did. In Super Chef, veteran journalist Juliette Rossant takes you on an unprecedented tour inside the business of the food business, one of the world's most glamorous -- and little-known -- industries.
You catch glimpses of them everywhere: on television, in tabloid gossip columns pictured at glitzy parties with Hollywood stars and power brokers, in national magazine stories about their latest business projects. You buy their products at your local supermarket or online, or maybe even stay at their hotels. Traditional chefs may have stayed in the kitchen and rarely ventured into the public eye, but a growing number of today's top chefs are utilizing skills seldom taught in cooking school -- trading anonymity for celebrity and rising to build culinary empires.
Juliette Rossant goes behind the scenes with these new moguls to reveal the key ingredients that go into making a Super Chef. Culinary talent remains the base component, but today's Super Chef must be a whole lot more -- equal parts entrepreneur, realtor, fundraiser, publicist, and media star.
In Super Chef, Rossant profiles six of the hottest names in the industry today. From Wolfgang Puck's Spago Beverly Hills to his pizza in your freezer, from Charlie Palmer's Microsoft-powered eWinebook to Todd English on the QM2, from Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger's appearing as the Food Network's Too Hot Tamales to New York's most recent contender Tom Colicchio of both Gramercy Tavern and Craft -- Rossant spins their tales of haute cuisine and corporate conquest. Each of these culinary magnates has taken a unique path to the top, and Rossant adds up the variations in their experiences to offer a gripping and astute look at what it takes to become the cream of the crop.
Juliette Rossant knows food, celebrity, and business. She has covered extensively the empire-building celebrity chefs for Forbes, and has been granted unfettered access to her subjects, their staffs, financiers, and families. The result is a rollicking culinary adventure that food lovers, celebrity watchers, and business fans cannot miss.
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Super Informative.......2006-02-04
I found this book to be quite informative. It essentially covers the trials and tribulations of 6 `super' chefs in the pursuit of their eatery empires. Like you and me they have their share of personal challenges and I thought this book covered it quite well. Definitely worth a read, might just give you insight on some things you need to be aware off while building your restaurant empire.
Studies in Food Business. Good Read. No Food Talk.......2004-06-24
Juliette Rossant, a business and travel journalist who also writes about the food business writes `Super Chef'. And, this is entirely a book about business, business people, and food people rather than a book about food. While it is good journalism, it has little in common with the culinary journalism of Michael Ruhlman, Robb Walsh, or Calvin Trillin.
The subject of the book is the business careers of five restaurateurs and talented chefs who have been successful in starting and running at least two different restaurants. The subtitle is `The Making of the Great Modern Restaurant Empires' which brings to mind Emeril Lagasse, Jean George Vongerichten, Nobu Matsuhisa, Daniel Boulud, and Mario Batali, all of which are known as great chefs who have opened several different haute cuisine restaurants in major venues. Three of the five chefs featured in the book, Wolfgang Puck, Charlie Palmer, and Todd English, certainly belong to this group, but two, Tom Colicchio and the team of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, seem somewhat out of place.
Wolfgang Puck is by far and away the poster boy for the American Super Chef prototype. More than any other, he has turned his name into a brand. The fact that no one except Emeril Lagasse even comes close to Puck's celebrity is simply a measure of how clearly he stands out from the crowd. His business concerns include a `fine dining' company with its flagship Spago restaurants, a `fast casual' company with restaurants in the mold of Chilis and Bennigans, a foods marketer handling his trademark frozen pizzas and other foods, a line of cookware Wolfgang hawks on QVC, a series of cookbooks, and headlining appearances on Food Network shows and specials such as the `Master Iron Chef' series of shows. Last but by far not least is his Hollywood catering gigs where he wines and dines the Academy Awards celebrants and other high profile events. Since Wolfgang's career is so visible, it is easy to verify some of the author's impressions of Puck against other appearances.
Two things about Puck are well known and are echoed in this book. The first is his great modesty in the face of a backbreaking schedule that can turn less well-tempered people into people whose company you simply do not want to share. Watching any Puck appearance on TV in a quiet atmosphere can see this. The second is his great skill under pressure. On the Food Network `Master Iron Chef' segment where Puck was competing against Masaharu Morimoto, Puck's dishes were so clearly better at using the theme ingredient that the competition didn't even seem fair. Other evidence is his behavior on specials about the Oscar catering gigs where his assistants comment that Puck seems to have ice water in his veins, as he simply never looses his cool while standing back and letting his team get the job done.
The truly odd thing about the forty-two (42) pages about Wolfgang Puck in this book is that I recall but a single sentence about his cooking, where the author offers the opinion that Puck is not a great chef, but he is very good. The book says as much about Lagasse's cooking talent, and Emeril is not even the subject of the book.
The book says much more about contracts, leases, locations, and partnerships, and the extent to which these things take the empire building chef away from the kitchen. I really regret that Daniel Boulud was not a featured subject in the book, as he is one of the very few chefs I know have written on the challenges of switching from cooking to creating a chain of high end dining restaurants. The author accurately reflects Boulud's observation that one needs a very different set of skills to pull this off. The author's main contribution to this insight is that the chef who does it must, like Wolfgang, have and maintain a relatively pleasing personality in order to build up a team of people who are willing to stay with you and embrace your vision and level of food and service quality.
In spite of the very large cast of characters, the book gets close to none of the supporting characters and does not get very close to the featured chefs. One of the most revealing anecdotes was the encounter between Charlie Palmer's Las Vegas employee Andrew Bradbury and a very tired and pallid Microsoft founder Bill Gates where Gates took an unexpected half hour quizzing Bradbury on how the sommelier planned to use Microsoft products in selecting wines at Palmer's Mandalay Bay Aureole restaurant.
One story which shows just how much a restaurateur changes from chef to businessman when they open multiple restaurants is the fact that Charlie Palmer spends a lot of time and energy setting cost thresholds for food purchases at his various restaurants, varying levels to meet local conditions, cuisine, and clientele. This immediately illuminates some of Rocco DiSpirito's weaknesses as a restaurateur when he seemed to ignore both the kitchen and the books at Rocco's on 22nd, as seen in the second `The Restaurant' series.
This book is a good read whether you are interested in business or in restaurants. If your interest disappears if there has been no mention of garlic in the last two pages, this may not be the book for you. On the other hand, if you really like all aspects of the food business, you will get a major dose from this book. You will find it especially revealing if you have the slightest interest in going into the food business. The chapters on the two girls and Colicchio are interesting, even if they don't fit the book's premise as well as Puck, Palmer, and English.
I almost wish the author would do a book featuring the non-chef restaurateurs who have, for example partnered with DiSpirito in New York and Morimoto in Philadelphia. Recommended reading.
super book!.......2004-06-11
The author uses a wealth of detail to give real insight into the personalities of super chefs and the key to their success. A fascinating and entertaining read!
surprisingly entertaining read!.......2004-05-11
I'm what you call a foodie, but I was never that interested in the business side of fine cuisine...until I picked up Rossant's book. After reading it, I finally understood that people like Puck and the others profiled in its pages really transformed the way we eat in restaurants across the country and at home, too. The entertaining anecdotes on the super chefs reveal just how tenuous success is in the wacky restaurant world, and how passionate and motivated these men and women (especially the women!) must be to become stars. I found it more fascinating than to read about a basketball superstar or a movie heart throb. I especially like the introduction, which narrates the story of influential chefs from the 17th century on. It's clear, easy to absorb, and really makes sense of how haute cuisine came to this country. A page-turner.
top of my list.......2004-05-07
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Super Chef by Juliette Rossant is real find for all of us who love food (and who doesn't?) It's fun, informative and no calories! It makes the top of my list for gifts from a good summer read into the holidays.
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Write on, Ms. Rossant!
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