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.Culture Shock! Saudi Arabia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides)

by: Peter North, Harvey Tripp

February 15, 2007
This is a useful and detailed reference.

Most other works on the cultures, culturally-influenced national dress, and customs in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region re superficial dreck by comparison.

Hope this helps.

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California
[Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2006-2007,
1990-1991, and 1970-1971]
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.The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind

by: William Lane Craig, Paul M. Gould

October 05, 2007
In September 1980 Charles Malik gave a powerful talk on the need for evangelicals to reclaim the mind, and to reclaim the universities. It was published that year in a brief book called The Two Tasks. A century after his birth, a number of Christian scholars, including his son, commemorates Malik and his stirring address. Thus this book.

Seven Christian thinkers, including Peter Kreeft and William Lane Craig, remind us of the crucial importance of what Charles Malik said on that September day. And it was indeed a vital message. I have pulled from my shelves that quite thin volume (a mere 37 pages) and reread that incisive message.

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.The Best of Cold Blood

from: Mosaic Press (NY)

1998-06
This is one of the best book I've ever read!
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.Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements

by: Peter North

April 30, 2007
This is one of the best book I've ever read!
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.Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law

by: James Fawcett, Janeen Carruthers, Peter North

September 15, 2008
This is one of the best book I've ever read!
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.Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications (2nd Edition) (Yourdon Press Computing Series)

by: Peter Coad, David North, Mark Mayfield

October 20, 1996
This book seems to me the notes of a college professor hoping to create a standard in modeling and chartifying object orientation. It's about 80% charts (his format, often complex and useless without study), endlessly repetitive simplistic strange outlines, and loads of tedious chatty faux-dialog with lots! of! exclamation! points!!

If they gave me this book as a textbook in college, I'd drop the course. If I spent too much time with it, I'd give up programming. BORING, TEDIOUS, and unreadable. I ended up skimming this book. Frustratingly, every 40 pages or so, there's a couple paragraphs that are relevant and useful. Fortunately, they're easy to find because there are so few spots where he bothers to write whole paragraphs.

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.Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

from: Duke University Press

1998-12
This book puts a useful perspective on the cult of Elizabeth I. During her own reign (1568-1603) she was praised to her face for her brilliance and lauded in the courtly terms of the day, but certainly resented and "dissed" by the ambitious men she frustrated. Although numerous poets praised her, blazing her beauty, brilliance, and blessedness as God's Protestant champion, other men resented her and tried to find a way to destroy the culture of devotion she inspired and encouraged.

The book itself respects Elizabeth a great deal, but expands usefully the context in which she was seen in her own time and immediately thereafter. A very fine and useful collection, certainly for scholars, but also for anyone interested in the Elizabethan ... Read More:
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.Cheshire and North's Private International Law

by: Peter North, J. J. Fawcett

February 17, 2005
Germans authors apart, this is the best academic book in this vast subject in the English speaking world. The Publisher should seriously consider making it available again in a new, revised and updated edition.
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.Culture Shock! Cambodia (Culture Shock! Guides)

by: Peter North

2008-12
Germans authors apart, this is the best academic book in this vast subject in the English speaking world. The Publisher should seriously consider making it available again in a new, revised and updated edition.
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.Success Secrets to Maximize Business in Australia (Culture Shock! Success Secrets to Maximize Business)

by: Bea Toews, Peter North

October 05, 2000
Germans authors apart, this is the best academic book in this vast subject in the English speaking world. The Publisher should seriously consider making it available again in a new, revised and updated edition.
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