The Trip Not Taken

Author : Amy Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578850427

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The Trip Not Taken by Amy Ross Pdf

In 2020, during the Covid Pandemic, casual travel, travel purely for pleasure, ended abruptly. The Trip Not Taken is a well-pictured story of a vacation that existed only in the traveler's imagination. Touring in a world without Covid, the author explores the culture and history of the Baltics. Beginning in medias res, the story opens in Riga, Latvia, after breakfast, on a cloudy day. The tour group follows the day's itinerary of visiting museums, churches and restaurants. Through pictures and words, the narrator shares her experiences. For the most part, the tour group interactions remain in the background. From Riga, the tour continues to Tallinn, Estonia and St. Petersburg, Russia where the story takes an unexpected turn. The tour is ending and the author considers whether she is ready to go home. With increasing independence, the narrator extends her trip in the Baltics, forgoing the safety of the tour group. She chooses her own path out of Russia and back to the European Union, and experiences the Baltics on a more personal level, making friends and learning how to live like a local not a tourist. As Covid restrictions ease and the vaccine is widely available, this book will be followed by The Trip Taken in which the narrator experiences the journey she only imagined.

Author : Max Boot
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871409430

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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War. Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a “judicious and absorbing” (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2632610

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Transit Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Steffen,Hans O. Lobel,James Haworth,David J. Bradley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642737725

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Travel Medicine by Robert Steffen,Hans O. Lobel,James Haworth,David J. Bradley Pdf

Almost 50 million persons visit another continent each year. It is mainly those 15-18 million travelers from industrialized nations who visit or reside in developing countries that are at increased health risk. To develop effective health protection advice, the health risks of travel and the benefits of prophylaxis (vaccines, new and old drugs, behaviour modification, etc.) should be assessed systematically. The purpose of this book is to improve the protection of the travelers' health by more effective and more uniform recommendations. It contains many data on recent research and represents the first comprehensive account on travel medicine for professionals.

Author : Camilla E. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199750320

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Federal Income Taxation by Camilla E. Watson Pdf

Tax law is a daunting subject for many law students. It requires a firm grasp of the Internal Revenue Code provisions, the reasoning behind them, the way they interact, and the way courts have interpreted them. Students must also acquire a brand new vocabulary of tax terms. For the first time, Oxford University Press equips students with an accessible guide to acing this most challenging of law school tests. In Federal Income Taxation: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Camilla E. Watson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of federal income tax law in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book includes clear introductions to the major topics in tax law, provides hypothetical's similar to those that students can expect to see on an exam, and offers model answers to those hypothetical's. Professor Watson then gives students the opportunity to evaluate their own work with a comprehensive self-analysis section. This book prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the best way to express an answer on law school exams.

Author : Chaudhuri, Ananish
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802205671

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Nudged into Lockdown? by Chaudhuri, Ananish Pdf

Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on the role of cognitive biases in decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic. The extensive use of, and support for, stringent social distancing measures in particular is explored in depth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007222102

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Deposition Transcripts from the Committee Investigation Into the White House Office Travel Matter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fishing surveys
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133453014

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Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Farm Credit Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Banks and banking, Cooperative
ISBN : UOM:39015076037749

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Cooperative Saving with Federal Credit Unions by United States. Farm Credit Administration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858033604038

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The Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020215682

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Outlook and Independent by Anonim Pdf

Author : John B. Lansing,Ernest Lilienstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Consumers' preferences
ISBN : UOM:39015021229110

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The Travel Market, 1955 by John B. Lansing,Ernest Lilienstein Pdf

Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Tax administration and procedure
ISBN : OSU:32437121028811

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Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin by United States. Internal Revenue Service Pdf

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780525558941

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How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan Pdf

“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Civil service
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092671514

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Federal Pay and Benefits Reporter by Anonim Pdf