Berlitz Los Angeles Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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The Los Angeles Pocket Guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Must-see famous attractions, cultural sites, fun in the sun, the Los Angeles Zoo, Botanical Gardens, Griffith Park Observatory as well as lodging and dinging options and recommendations for shopping and nightlife are all packed into this handy, user-friendly Pocket Guide.

Berlitz California Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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ASIN: 283157689X

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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! In this compact guide, our writers help you plan itineraries for short and longer stays. Complete with must-see sights on and off the beaten track as well as current hotel and restaurant recommendations. And the convenient size of the guide allows you to take it along in your pocket or handbag. Take the world in your pocket next time and travel with this handy Berlitz guide.

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Inc. Berlitz International
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ASIN: 9812465235

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The world's best-selling Pocket Travel Guide series. Packed with stunning photographs and detailed, easy-to-use maps, Berlitz Pocket Guides feature expanded, updated hotel and restaurant listings, destination-specific language tips and phrases, and unique cultural notes. And, with more than 40 million copies sold worldwide, they are the perfect choice for today's travelers.

Berlitz California (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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Berlitz California (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
Neil Wilson
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ASIN: 2831525527

Berlitz Los Angeles Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guide)

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Berlitz Pocket Guide: California (Berlitz Pocket Travel Guides)

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Berlitz Pocket Guide: California (Berlitz Pocket Travel Guides)
Berlitz Publishing Company
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ASIN: 2831522668

Berlitz San Francisco Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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Berlitz San Francisco Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
Paula Tevis
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ASIN: 2831577063

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California (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
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Disneyland Pocket Guide
Berlitz Publishing , and Fred Mawer
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ASIN: 2831507251

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Far from being stuck in the 1960s, a decade when half its members were still children, the Baby Boom has not only continually transformed itself but has also brought epic change in society. My Generation is the collective biography of the millions of Americans born between Pearl Harbor Day in 1941 and the 1963 assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Here are nineteen quintessential boomers, ranging from the admired to the notorious, from the expected--a Vietnam War hero, an antiwar activist, an LSD chemist, an author of the Macintosh computer graphic user interface, a spiritual celebrity--to the less-so--a Jesus freak turned Queer Theorist, an ultraconservative congressman, a billionaire builder, a hip-hop impresario, and the Studio 54-bred AIDS activist who inspired Broadway's Rent. Through their stories and his own, Michael Gross takes us on the wild ride from Yasgur's Farm to Silicon Valley and into the twenty-first century.

My Generation puts the tumultous history of the baby boomers in context and makes sense out of the storm. The compelling narrative brings to life all the defining moments--the civil rights, antiwar, and identity struggles, the highs and lows of drugs and the sexual revolution, retreat and rentrenchment, the rediscovery of faith, the rise of conservatism. The book ends with the cyber revolution, the Boom's best expression of itself, and the reign of First boomers, Bill and Hillary Clinton, who, a surprising number of their age peers think, represent them at their very worst.

For half a century, for good and ill, baby boomers have been the most powerful generation in the most powerful nation on earth. This remarkable book is a chronicle of its conflicts and its achievements, the unprecedented changes it caused, the brilliant hopes of its early days, the awful traumas of its adolescence, and how it has struggled ever since to make good on its unfulfilled promise.

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great book.......2006-11-27

I had read Michael Gross' book Model and I was so impressed by it that I bought his other books and this was the next one I read and I was totally blown away by it for all the same reasons. Gross is a master of a flowing prose which just effortlessly moves the reader along with a sweeping reach which is perfect for a book like this. Minor details just hit home on every page. I worked at Studio 54 and I think I learned more about the club from this book than I did by working there! For instance I had always believed that Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager had been college friends but reading My Generation I learned that in fact Ian had early on been Steve's lawyer and suddenly the relationship made sense. I am moving in on the 740 Park book now with full anticipation. My Generation is a fantastic book.

Get back to where you once belonged.......2001-02-20

The author chose the playing field on which to analyse the Sixties---through the lives of 19 influential and somewhat well-known "Boomers," as opposed to the average Joe or Judy. Fine. So you can't really complain that Donald Trump doesn't belong here--sure he does, he was born in 1946--but in the end his chronicles tell you less about the Sixties and more about himself, more than he'd probably care to admit. Several of the other life stories are much more interesting than Trump's, but in the end they also don't tell me much more than I'd already ascertained; that when people grow, they change. Some here haven't change much except idealogies; conservative Barbara Ledeen apparently still sees heinous conspiracies in everything, only they're left-wing conspiracies now instead of the right-wing ones of her former Marxist incarnation. Others, such as Doug Martlette, Marianne Williamson and David McIntosh, did major overhauls in their outlook and POV. But none of these chronicles really tells me anything about what made the Sixties more influencial than, say, the Fifties or the Eighties. This makes Michael Gross' book a qualified sucess as a cultural history of America, but a very engrossing collection of people's lives---the good, bad, ugly and lovely.

Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution

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Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution
David A. Laws
Manufacturer: Windy Hill
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ASIN: 0972387412

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Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution is a photo essay and souvenir guide to the Santa Clara Valley landscape and communities where scientists and engineers learned how to turn sand (silicon) into gold (computer chips).

The new alchemists: Silicon Valley and the microelectronics revolution

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The new alchemists: Silicon Valley and the microelectronics revolution
Dirk Hanson
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The Invention of the Silicon Chip: A Revolution in Daily Life (Point of Impact)

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The Invention of the Silicon Chip: A Revolution in Daily Life (Point of Impact)
Windsor Chorlton
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Creating the Revolution: Stanford and Silicon Valley

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Creating the Revolution: Stanford and Silicon Valley
John Hennessy
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The Dynamics of Silicon Valley: The Story Behind America's On-going Revolution

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The Dynamics of Silicon Valley: The Story Behind America's On-going Revolution

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Long live the information revolution. (Front Lines).(Brief Article): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)

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Long live the information revolution. (Front Lines).(Brief Article): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)

Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 451 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.

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Title: Long live the information revolution. (Front Lines).(Brief Article)
Publication: Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
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My Generation - Fifty Years Of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, And Silicon Chips

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My Generation - Fifty Years Of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, And Silicon Chips
Michael Gross
Manufacturer: Cliff Street/Harper-collins
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The NEW ALCHEMISTS. Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution.
Dirk. Hanson
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A Silent Revolution in Silicon Valley.(LiTran): An article from: Advanced Imaging

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A Silent Revolution in Silicon Valley.(LiTran): An article from: Advanced Imaging
Charles Reis
Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media
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ASIN: B0008HY8RG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Advanced Imaging, published by Cygnus Business Media on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2803 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.

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Author: Charles Reis
Publication: Advanced Imaging (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
Volume: 16 Issue: 5 Page: 44

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Here is a hilarious compendium of ways in which the high and mighty have fallen-straight from their own mouths. In the spirit of The Darwin Awards, and drawing from leaders in the business, political, and sports arenas, Slip of the Tongue provides a painful panoply of remarks that have derailed careers and soiled reputations. Reluctant contributors include Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Shaquille O'Neal, John Rocker, and Gary Hart. Each quote is accompanied by information about the speaker and the dire consequences of his or her verbal indiscretion.

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Don't People Think Before Opening Their Mouths??.......2007-05-20

Reading this little book brought back memories of some of the wonderful gaffs that have occurred in public over the last 25 or so years. Some of the featured "speakers" are perennial favorites that misspoke almost every time they opened their mouths, and some are one time wonders. Either way, the people featured here had a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease and suffered the ultimate penalty....banishment from the public eye.

I really enjoyed the book and thought it was a lot of fun for a quick read. Just don't expect a long read or a lot of explanation. Do expect to chuckle!

Sometimes it does pay to think before you speak, especially when your career is on the line.......2006-06-30

As human beings, we all say things that we regret ever opening our mouths to say in the first place. However, if your job is in the public eye & you have millions reading, hearing or seeing what you say, it goes double to watch your mouth or the fame you worked so hard to build can go down in flames. A SLIP OF THE TONGUE not only shows just how badly loose lips can sink a famous person's ship, but may even make the average reader glad their verbal gaffes are not captured for all to see.

Even I admit I speak before I think sometimes, but reading the anecdotes in A SLIP OF THE TONGUE certainly makes my slip-ups seem tame & merely laughable. I can apologize for speaking wrong & move on. When you are famous, though, apologizing is not enough to save your career, image or self-respect. The public has come to expect something from you, and one little stray remark can turn someone from an ally to an adversary. Reading this book has even made me thankful that I am not a celebrity.

Most of the misspeaks in A SLIP OF THE TONGUE are of the politically incorrect variety that some people may deem examples of political correctness gone berserk, but I rather deem as just failures to practice simple common sense. Naturally, things said by John Rocker, Marge Schott, Trent Lott & Earl Butz (to name just a few) still go down in history as racial insensitivity, ne plus ultra. In the case of the first two, they apologized (how sincere was a matter of debate) for their remarks & got to keep their jobs, at least until their next verbal misstep. The last two seemed to show no remorse for their thoughtlessness (again, sincerity was questionable at best), and fell from grace faster than a stone. In particular, Butz's remark is still jaw-droppingly racist & shortsighted 30 years after it was first uttered, and I will certainly not recount it here (the fact he is from Indiana is enough to make me ashamed to be a Hoosier; in fact, I would like to apologize myself on behalf of Indiana for Butz's "masterpiece" of racial nearsightedness). But it is safe to say that even Butz's fellow Republicans began to disown him overnight.

Even slips of the tongue involving sex are enough to stop a promising career dead in its tracks. A SLIP OF THE TONGUE recounts those still infamous to this day (presidential candidate Gary Hart) & also those the public may have forgotten (CBS golf announcer Ben Wright & U.S. Congressman Martin Hoke). No amount of apologizing could redeem them, and they quickly became professional pariahs overnight. These stories in particular demonstrate the authors' fearlessness in proving just how foolish the speakers were in letting their lips do the thinking for them. Whether or not you like political correctness, you have to admit being sensitive to one's feelings is probably the best way to keep one's job, and yourself away from a sexual harassment suit.

Other stories A SLIP OF THE TONGUE recounts involve misspeaks that were just plain inappropriate, either for the time of their utterance or the situation at hand. Whoopi Goldberg's famously salacious joke about George W. Bush is documented early in the book, and while she may have not suffered permanently for her brashness, one can bet it took a while for the dust to settle in order to make her employable again. To her credit, though, she does make a valid point about being yourself & whoever decides to hire you for an engagement should keep that in mind.

In the foreword, the authors remind us that while sitting presidents like Bush & Reagan may have provided standup comics with years of great material with their gaffes, nothing they said ever cost them an election. However, Michael Dukakis may be an exception, with his legendarily glib, businesslike response to a question posed to him during the 1988 presidential debate. His failure to break down an icy, unsympathetic front literally gave George Bush, Sr. the election with just a few (or as the author points out, much more than that) misguided words.

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE is not afraid to report the facts behind the choice words that meant curtains for a celebrity's career. But the fact the authors are unafraid to irreverently comment on the situation & those involved is what makes this book a fast, entertaining read. After all, this book is in the humor section of your local bookstore for a reason. If there is only one thing lacking, it is that there are many, many more famous tongue slips in history, that A SLIP OF THE TONGUE is a little on the short side. Then again, that is what sequels are for.

Marvel at the fast falls from grace that A SLIP OF THE TONGUE recounts, but if you are not famous, be thankful you can misspeak & atone for it in peace.

Richard Beckerman's illustrations make this book.......2006-04-04

"A Slip of The Tongue" is great fun...I'd highly recommend it. The writing is clever and funny, but what really made this book for me were the wonderful caricatures done by Richard Beckerman. Beckerman's playful and beautiful portraits have a richness and quirkiness, which is the perfect compliment to the text. If the stories don't have you laughing out loud, the art work will.

This book is a hoot!.......2005-11-23

I love this book, and I'm getting a bunch to give out as Christmas and birthday presents. Highly recommended.

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