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Lightness and irony, pleasure and happiness, inventiveness and energy: Keith Haring had them all. And so did his art. With thick black lines, bright signs, and striking symbols, he created unmistakable, vibrant pictures that tell of friendship, fun, feelings, and the imagination.
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The Science Fiction And Fantasy World Of Tim White
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Tim White’s paintings give shape to the fantastic, to the might-have-been and what-still-could-happen. With its frequently optimistic tone and obsessive attention to detail, White’s art offers a convincing landscape of the imagi-nation. “A collection of White’s vivid commercial works spanning a decade....the captivating paintings that transport the viewer from the outwardly familiar to the alien skies.” —Publishers Weekly.
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Worlds Indeed!.......2002-06-05
A creative mind will soak in the images within this book. Tim White's art covers a massive variety of fantasy and science fiction ideas. The paintings are bold and vibrant. they catch the eye and force you to examine each one in detail. This is an excellent book for a collector or for anyone who simply enjoys creative artwork.
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Philip Trager, New York
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Donald is assistant guard in the museum at Duckburg and finds a map in an old ship on display in the museum. Donald wasn't the only person interested in the map.
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Great Adventure, Quality Barks Work again.......2006-03-31
The Golden Helmet is a classic work. It's fun, its funny, its dramatic, and its packed with the typical set of funny references in Carl Barks work. In this edition you actually get five stories, including the main adventure, there are also two short stories and two one pagers. The Golden Helmet is well researched, and in the inside cover, you have a superb little mini-guide to the work.
The one element that please me, is that this edition deviates very little from the original strip format as published in a bound format in 1980-81; mostly unknown to current collectors, but known to collectors of my vintage, the bound versions are half way between the top of the line Collected Works of Carl Barks, and the edition in this case; all are good, but will be more tailored to/for different budgets. I just wish that the Collected works was out at a more accessible price.Whatever edition you get, or can get, if you are a Duck fan, you will love these beautifully crafted, and lovingly written works.
Whilst I love getting these editions, with superb quality paper, and it is good, qualifying for a library standard low acidity specification. The one production caveat is that the main inside comic tends to easily separate from the cover. It's not a major problem, but you will need to consult a collectors repairer for a basic fix, or check with a binder to get a more longer term solution.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.......2005-02-27
Donald Duck works as a museum guard. He yearns for the adventures of the old vikings. Suddenly it is discovered that a golden helmet is buried somewhere on inhospitable eastern Canadian seaboard. Possesion of the helmet will make the holder the rightful lord of North America. Obviously, the bad guys are after it, so it is for the good guys to try and beat them to it. However, when they arrive after having fought the elements, time, and each other, they must face the most difficult task of all - their own secret desires. The true horror of the helmet is
while it does make the wearer the ruler of North America, it also makes the wearer insane... One buy one the brave fighters succumb to its lure, both the good and the bad, and they outline their weird vision of their new North America.
This is on the surface just a comic book for kids, but it has an epic format that makes it stand out. Both the drawings and storyline are more reminiscent of Prince Valiant than of pulp comics.
The underlying ideas of the story are that power corrupts, and that the helmet is in no ways magical - the insanity is part of all of us: "Hold up a mirror to your soul, and tell me what you see - if you dare..."
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A revealing look at the influences and aspirations of today's hottest filmmakers
A new era has dawned in Hollywood, with a wave of innovative filmmakers redefining the art of big-screen entertainment for modern audiences. Entertainment journalist Josh Horowitz provides an in-depth look at twenty directors on the leading edge through a series of candid interviews.
Horowitz covers a full range of styles and sensibilities—revealing both the points of agreement and the sharp distinctions among this eclectic group:
• Kevin Smith's do-it-yourself aesthetics in Clerks and Chasing Amy
• Michel Gondry's surreal dreamscapes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Trey Parker's love of fart jokes in South Park
• How Jon Favreau's teenage obsession with Dungeons & Dragons helped make Swingers
• Todd Philips' journey from documentary filmmaker to box-office success with Old School
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Review from Arizona Daily Star.......2006-03-23
Budding filmmakers looking for inspiration should check out Josh Horowitz's interview anthology, "The Mind of the Modern Moviemaker: 20 Conversations With the Next Generation of Filmmakers" (Plume, $15).
Horowitz, a writer and TV producer, takes a simple concept - sit down with some of cinema's emerging directorial greats - and elicits eloquent, investigative pieces that truly provide glimpses into some fascinating storytellers.
Interviewing the likes of Michel Gondry, Kevin Smith, Richard Kelly and Neil LaBute, Horowitz has each filmmaker explain his big break, work process and philosophy. He asks surprisingly blunt questions, querying the subjects about significant failures and insecurities.
The author isn't in search of an overwhelming zeitgeist. The interviewees emerge as disparate personalities, all after distinct goals. Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour," "X-Men 3"), for instance, proves to be a business-oriented company man who cares most about making money, while Smith ("Clerks," "Chasing Amy") seems to be content with catering to his small yet devoted audience with his uncompromising fare.
The book is an excellent specimen of entertainment journalism, and the thoughts, hopes and fears expressed by the directors in the book will make for just as interesting a read 10 years from now, when some will be giants while others will surely have faded into obscurity.
Phil Villarreal
Great Book!.......2006-02-18
This book is a really good book! My only complaint is that he had to cut some of the interviews down. The book is really well constructed and has a lot of interesting interviews which show you how hard it really is to get into the moviemaking industry. My favorite interviews were Richard Kelly and the Weitz twins. As an aspiring film maker, I recommend this to anyone who wants to go into the movie business or anyone who likes movies. It's really like getting a back stage pass into the lives of some of today's hottest directors.
Enjoy!
Interesting look at the next generation.......2006-02-16
I really enjoyed this book. There are some new filmmakers on my radar.
Great for film fans.......2006-02-16
If you have even a passing interest in film then this book is a must-have. I collect books on television and film and this one is as good as anything I've read in recent years.
An interesting mix of storytelling, humor, and info for wannabe filmmakers, the author of this book does a fine job of asking informed questions that both fans and students of film want to have answered. What made it really stand out, in my mind, was the selection of filmmakers interviewed. Specifically, it's a group of men and women just reaching the top of their craft. This isn't a book full of old timey Hollywood stories from Robert Evans or even Martin Scorsese - these are the people making films that people are talking about today, and will be talking about for the next fifty years.
I just finished reading it and then ordered another copy for my nephew in film school. A really fun book. Hope this helped.
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Gustave Mahler: Memories and Letters
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Essential Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Excellent outline of Einstein's life and work.......2007-01-22
This is a sort of Cliff Notes version of Einstein's life and science. I do not mean this to be a disparaging comparison. Rather, it refers to the clarity and completeness of the presentation, with a lack of pomposity and excess verbiage. This book presents the essentials of Einstein's life, his science and its impact on science and society. It is not the book for you if you want a very detailed, dense, biography. This book does, however, cover all of the essential facts, including those (such as the birth of an illegitimate daughter) that are often neglected - even in much more extensive biographies. The essentials are given in almost an outline form, with "essential facts" highlighted as separate entries. His whole life is covered, from birth, early childhood and schooling, his family life (including his step children and grandchildren), jobs held, and his various moves (from Germany, to Italy, to Switzerland, to Prague, to Berlin and finally to the US). There is an appendix that gives a timeline that summarizes all of the important events of his life that are discussed in the book.
As noted, his science is also covered, but not in as detailed a fashion as is found in a modern physics text. There is a discussion of all of the 1905 papers, including the one that he used for his doctoral thesis. This paper is often neglected in discussing Einstein's work, even though the authors point out that it is cited more often than his more famous papers on Relativity of the Photoelectric Effect. His work on General Relativity and Unified Field Theory is also discussed. All this science is presented in a clear manner and is put in the context of what preceded it and how it impacted science and society. All of his work is discussed, including his patenting of a noiseless refrigerator and a hearing aid. While the science is accessible to anyone who has taken high school physics, there are discussions that people with a more extensive physics background should find interesting. (I never knew that he calculated Avogadro's number, before it was even designated as such.) The text is augmented with diagrams and some mathematics (again nothing requiring more than high school physics and math). His work is clearly put into the context of the 19th century physics that he drew upon and on the 20th century physics that he dominated. Brief, one or two paragraph, biographies are given of those scientists whose work influenced his and those whom he influenced.
A complex picture is painted of Einstein the scientist, the husband and father, and the icon of science and the 20th century (he was voted as the man of the 20th century by Time Magazine). His pacifism and religious beliefs are discussed, as are his reactions to Nazi Germany and his attempt to help other Jews fleeing the Nazis. He work on the atomic bomb (or more correctly his lack of this sort of work) is also discussed.
All in all, this is a great review of the man, his science, and his influence on society as a whole.
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39 score samples to demonstrate text tour through musical history. 1984 is guess for publication date as informaion is unavailable.
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
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"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."--Albert Einstein
Best-selling author and physicist Stephen Hawking assembles the most groundbreaking works by Albert Einstein together into one volume. From the text that revealed the famous "Theory of Relativity"--renowned as the most important scientific discovery of the 20th Century--to his significant works on quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and the photoelectric effect, here are the writings that changed physics, and subsequently, the way we view the world.
Einstein also thought deeply on both political issues and religious thought, so many of Einstein's philosophical essays are included. Hawking provides introductions to each work, which provides both historical and scientific perspective. From the papers that shaped modern scientific thought to Einstein's later musings on his landmark findings, A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion is a collection of Einstein's most important work, with commentary from our greatest living physicist.
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This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard Feynman's landmark work,
Lectures on Physics--specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader--with the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the chapters are based. The six compact discs are "music" CDs, not CD-ROMs. Nobel Laureate and genius-at-large Richard Feynman gave these lectures just once, to a group of Caltech undergraduates in 1961 and 1962. He is a startlingly lucid, agile, contagiously enthusiastic communicator, and hearing him deliver these lectures himself in his broad New York accent is a great experience.
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Interesting historical perspective.......2007-09-03
This is the kind of book to pick up from the library out of curiosity, as opposed to buying it. I am a big Feynman fan and wanted to see what he said all those years ago about these basic topics, as opposed to wanting to learn much from the content. If you are pretty informed about basic physics, then you won't find much you didn't know. Feynman's approach to the problem is certainly interesting, and he manages to given six different overview chapters with almost no mathematics. He also offered some insights that I had either never thought of or had long forgotten.
One nice benefit is how often Feynman says, "we don't know this yet" or equivalent, and to compare that to the reality 40+ years later. For several items, we of course still don't know. He could have covered much of basic physics without wandering into the "don't know" explanations, but that wouldn't have been Feynman then, would it?
I can also understand why many of the Cal Tech freshman didn't appreciate the lectures and attendance faded, according to the introduction. The work of actual problem solving techniques with gravity and the other topics was offloaded to the sections with other staff.
The book is short and not difficult to read, so it may be worth a look. I'd rank it back of various other books by Feynman as far as pleasure for the casual reader who is not himself or herself a teacher.
Reads very quickly.......2007-07-29
I have heard of Feynman's collection of physics lectures for a long time and had intended reading them "one of these days" but never seemed to get to it. When a couple of friends and I formed a book club to discuss science and other types of expository prose, and one of them suggested this book, I decided "this is the day."
In reading Six Easy Pieces, I had a distinct sympathy with Feynman's undergraduate students. The man's mind must have run at the speed of light, ideas just firing off like gunshots. For a decade that had only reel to reel tape recorders, and big ones at that, the only resort for the student taking notes would have to have been a strong skill at shorthand.
I had expected a more difficult and thorough book, but the author presents a very simple, almost too brief, analysis of basic physics in this volume, which is a section of a larger text based on his lectures. In it he illustrates the close association, even a basic underpinning, of other sciences by physics. He notes relationships with earth sciences, particularly geology, with astronomy/cosmology, biology, and chemistry in particular. What he doesn't do is go into very great detail on how these areas relate to one another, his discussion of chemistry being the most thorough of them.
The book is very short, and the author spends much of it on the history and relationships of physics as a science. It is more like a general introduction written to preface material presented later in the course. He does a nice job of explaining the issue of particle/wave duality in electromagnetic and other waves in the final chapter of the book, which also suggests that the bulk of the book is "introductory" in nature and that more is to come later.
Athough the author presents some equations and graphs, those who are math-shy needn't be daunted; they are straight forward and helpful in understanding the points the author makes. Furthermore, Feynman's narative style goes very rapidly. He jumps from topic to topic, intercalating brief stories and amusing comments to put his message across in an entertaining manner, rather than in a ponderous discussion or chalk boards full of formulae.
Although the reader who has no physics background may enjoy learning something of the field through this book, I suspect those with a science background may find one of the more recent books on the subject more informative.
Comments on Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces".......2007-06-08
The book is relative short, but all Feynman writings are excellent. Dispite holding a degree in Physics, I did not find the "pieces" all that easy, but very worth-while reading. The lectures increased in difficulty, but all helped me understand the subjects better. (I'm only bitter about not being aware of Feynman and his writings / lectures when I was an undergrad in college.) I expect to re-read this little volume multiple times, because dispite it's claim to be "easy", the material is very rich, and mostly Feynman leads you from the known to the unknown. I certainly recommend this book to all students of physics, from high school students to graduate students. Other science and medical students will probably benefit from it also. Interested layman may find it worth attempting.
Outstanding book.......2007-01-11
This is an excellent book. Feynman uncovers very intricate issues in most simple terms. A must read for both students and teachers of science.
Addresses those nagging questions I've always had.......2007-01-04
I took three semesters of physics to complete my undergraduate degree; I'll never forget the dumbfounded look on my instructor's face when we were studying electrical force and I asked, "so, why *do* protons attract electrons, anyway?" The professor sputtered and said, "it's just a force of the universe. Shut up and stop asking stupid questions." Or when the instructor presented Newton's third law ("every action has an equal and opposite reaction"), and I asked, "So why is it that when I push against a wall it doesn't push back and fall apart?" The answer was, "Well, the wall doesn't fall apart does it? So that's that. Shut up and stop asking stupid questions." Dr. Feynman addresses *exactly* these types of questions, over and over again. (If the earth and the moon are attracted to each other, why don't they crash into each other? Why are snowflakes shaped the way they are? Why does blowing on soup cool it down?) I only wish this book had been 1300 pages rather than 130 - every page answered some nagging problem I've had with the physics explanation of the universe. I don't think you can learn physics from this book, but you can get excited enough about it to start digging around and discovering more, like I did.
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