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FOUND magazine editor Jason Bitner has made it a habit of picking up after us, walking down the back alleys of our lives, and accumulating all that we've thrown away or mislaid. One afternoon not long ago, after lunch at a small Midwestern diner, he stumbled onto a forgotten archive. In the back of the restaurant were box upon box of studio portraits of the townspeople of LaPorte, Indiana—over 18,000 in total.
Taken over four decades, the photos marked important milestones—a sailor in uniform, a graduate in cap and gown, a couple newly engaged—while others simply made modest attempts at posterity. Each in their unique way reveals both a public and private face, a story untold, a secret to reveal. They are admittedly brief moments and ones in which people have purposefully posed for the camera. Smiling. Caring. Loving. Pensive. Serious. These are pictures of all of us in a way, reflections in a mirror of the everyday moments and events that define all of our lives. LaPorte, Indiana is a major cultural excavation and an opening into these lives, into this town, and into the heart of our nation.
"These are real people. The grace and dignity one sees in their faces should be a source of hope for us all."
—John Mellencamp
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You don’t have to be a straight “A” student or gifted athlete to get college scholarships. This guide will assist parents and students find small scholarships offered by organizations and institutions in their own communities. Many of these scholarships will help fill in the gaps that may be left by other financial aid sources.
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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1233 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: Indiana paging network: mobile communications are changing, but the LaPorte-based company is still thriving.(Profile)
Author: Steve Kaelble
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Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
Volume: 47
Issue: 12
Page: 39(2)
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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 551 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: LaPorte: like the "Maple City" downtown improvements, LaPorte's economic-development picture is brighter. (Spotlight).(LaPorte offers small-town atmosphere)
Author: Rick A. Richards
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Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
Volume: 47
Issue: 5
Page: 69(1)
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post graduate student.......2007-09-12
My daughter needed this book for gross anatomy class in medical school. She says it is the perfect study book.
Good guide...needs more pictures though.......2006-06-26
It has been a very good guide to our dissection though it would be nice to have more pictures to aid in identifying the different muscles.
Anatomy lab couldn't be explained any worse.......2006-05-01
This book is just awful. It does a bad job in pointing out the structures you need to identify, and has many inconsistences. Although it tries to walk you through the dissection procedure, you will end up finding out that reading through it is a waste of time, especially if you're a medical student like myself. It's actually a step down from the 12th edition, which did not mix all the anatomy with the dissection instructions. I really don't understand why many medical schools choose to follow this book with dissections (maybe because it's the only one out there). If you had the choice between buying an atlas or buying this book, BUY THE ATLAS!
Review of Grant's Dissector.......2005-09-04
This text is very helpful for cadaver dissections in anatomy courses.
Grant's Dissector.......2004-02-15
The literature in this book is captivating, as it captures your attention and mental imagination of gross anatomy. It is clear, concise, and a work of art. The pictures are simple and memorable, and each serves its purpose well. There are some clinical correlations in the book, but another source is needed for this specifically. This book is the best way to study and review your anatomy, quickly and painlessly. It brings its reader a holistic view of each body section, and helps to tie everything together. It is indeed, the best way to understand anatomy, and is the tool to help you dissect a body mentally. For the next addition, I recommend adding cross sections and more clinical correlates, as it would make the perfect USMLE and lifetime review book.
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EAES Guidelines for Endoscopic Surgery: Twelve Years Evidence-Based Surgery in Europe
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Leading European laparoscopic surgeons have compiled the recommendations of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) in this book. All statements are based not only on the experts' opinions, but also on a formal assessment of the scientific literature. This work allows readers to gain an overview of cutting edge surgical research. All recommendations describe exactly the proven benefit of each surgical procedure and technique. Most guidelines contain key statements. All chapters follow a structured format to allow quick identification of all recommendations. In summary, this work provides a perfect overview of the achievements in laparoscopic surgery throughout the last decade.
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Excellent Set.......2001-07-22
Used for 1St semester Anatomy. This is a must Have and saves you money by buying the set. Very detailed and should be used alondside the Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy.
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Bilder zur Ur- und Fruhgeschichte des Sauerlandes
Torsten Capelle
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Clinical Anatomy by Prosections and Models
Eberhardt K. Sauerland
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Das Hakenkreuz im Sauerland (Veroffentlichungen des Schieferbergbaumuseums zur Landesgeschichte)
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Das Sauerland
Grobbel
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The Puffins Advice: Drawings and Verse by Simon Drew
Drew Simon
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A provocative and dynamic force in American culture since the early twentieth century, movies have presented several generations of American writers with a new, fascinating, and challenging subject. How writers rose to the challenge, and in the process created an extraordinary body of work-passionate, contentious, restlessly curious-makes for a dazzling and constantly entertaining volume. "I have focused," writes editor Phillip Lopate, "on film criticism as an art in itself-the magnet for strong, elegant, eloquent, enjoyable writing."
American Movie Critics is an anthology of unparalleled scope that charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Beginning in the silent era-with poets Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg hailing the new medium and Edmund Wilson paying tribute to Chaplin's Gold Rush-the collection traces the rapid evolution of the medium in an age of tumultuous political and social changes. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful vernacular idiom for talking about the new art: Otis Ferguson in the 1930s finding in James Cagney "the dignity of the genuine worn as easily as his skin"; James Agee in the 1940s on American war films and the advent of Italian neo-realism; Manny Farber, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, Vincent Canby, and others from what Lopate calls "the golden age of movie criticism" from the 1950s through the '70s, a period when enthusiasms ran high, and arguments over style and content often took on a larger-than-life quality. Here too are the finest film reviewers on the contemporary scene, including Richard Schickel, Roger Ebert, and Manohla Dargis.
Joining the full-time film writers are many distinguished American authors weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences, including Ralph Ellison, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, Brendan Gill, and John Ashbery. Together they define an often underappreciated genre of American writing, a tradition filled with the "energy, passion, and analytical juice" that for Lopate mark the best in movie criticism.
Phillip Lopate, editor, is an essayist, novelist, and poet, whose books include Bachelorhood; Against Joie de Vivre; Portrait of My Body; and Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan. He has edited The Art of the Personal Essay and, for The Library of America, Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. His selected film criticism appeared in Totally Tenderly Tragically, and he currently serves on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.
The proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to support the mission of The Library of America, a nonprofit organization created in 1979 to preserve America's literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing.
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Great book, but where's the index?.......2007-01-28
I was surprised not to find an index in this otherwise excellent book.
Screen Tests.......2006-10-25
I wanted a book that would cover a wide array of reviews and struck gold with this one. Though now that I think of it, maybe I should have held out for one that included non-American writers in it. I'm such a dunce, I didn't see until too late that, on the title page, clearly marked, it reads, "A special publication of the Library of America." No wonder it's so America-centric, but I picked up the book and opened it by happenstance to Penelope Gilliatt's scintillating review of Fassbinder's Petra Von Kant, and naturally I took the book to be more international in scope than it actually is. In what universe do people think of Gilliatt as a US writer? It doesn't really matter because what remains deserves four stars.
Lopate doesn't go just for the simple nobrainer essays by each of the authors, but he actually spends time thinking of new ways to showcase their skills. Thus for James Agee we don't get the old Silent Clowns piece, or the one onm MONSIEUR VERDOUX nor Val Lewton. He goes for the unfamiliar nearly every time, which is nice. (The only exception I can see offhand is Molly Haskell on "The Woman's Film," but that's nice in a quite different way since Haskell's essay is so lengthy and comprehensive hat it is only occasionally reprinted anywhere, despite its historical significance.
Bell Hooks and John Ashbery have certainly written better work elsewhere. But it is nice to see James Harvey and Stuart Klawans, both so underrated, here given pride of place. And having Libby Gelman-Waxner in a book of this kind is certainly a victory for gay incursion into the canon. James Baldwin on LADY SINGS THE BLUES and Paul Schrader's "Notes on Film Noir" would alone make a great book, and there are literally dozens of others of equal quality. Gee, that Renata Adler could sure bite back, couldn't she? I don't remember her as so aerbic as she is here about Richard Brooks' film of IN COLD BLOOD. Talk about cold blooded, she's the kind of writer about whom I used to think, admiringly, "She's so New York," when I meant, acidic.
Fast and reasonable.......2006-07-06
I was surprised, first of all, that the book was available. It had been published the day before. I was also surprised at how fast it came--only about 3 days. And, of course, the price was terrific!
Gift for a grandchild.......2006-07-05
The book was selected as a gjft because it seemed to be an excellent choice for a grandchild (age 19) who is very interested in all aspects of film.
Movies are our(US) great cultural form.......2006-06-06
A popular entertainment that sometimes aspires to...and occasionally achieves the status of art. Criticism has always been a stressed and intricate exercise, something that few reviewers manage to excel at ...and those who do may come to regret it.(Just ask a few of Ammie's top reviewers)
The problem is, (stated in AMC) "the job of the American film critic is complicated by the fact that virtually all Americans regard themselves as astute judges of movies." This is because we've all seen so many films in theaters and on TV, but moreover it's really because reviewing combines an activity that almost everybody does...watching movies. And with an activity that almost everybody thinks they can do...writing. The truth is that almost nobody has seen as many movies of such widely varying quality as film critics have, and writing turns out to be harder than it looks..
The movies have been a prime subject for successive generations of American writers who, in response, have produced an extraordinary body of work--writing known for its craft, passion, restless curiosity, sparkling wit and, often, defiance of accepted conventions. Edited by renowned essayist Phillip Lopate is joined on the panel by film critics Richard Schickel, Kenneth Turan and Manohla Dargis....for a roundtable discussion of film criticism as a vibrant art form.
The daunting task of how do we give constructive criticism without appearing phony or cushioning the criticism to a point where the buyer does not take it seriously? Its not easy. Being critical takes time and practice...that is, if you want your criticism to be presented in a positive way and used effectively.
All of this and more are discussed within the binding of AMC.
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American Movie Critics: From Silents Until Now
Manufacturer: Library of America
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1394 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: American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now.(Book review)
Author: Robert Sklar
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Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31
Issue: 4
Page: 89(2)
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union these changes were linked to the activities and philosophies of political figures such as Václav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Mikhail Gorbachev. In Bulgaria, however, these changes were first heralded and even facilitated by particular musicians and shifting musical styles.
Based on fieldwork conducted between 1988 and 1996 with professional Bulgarian folk musicians, Donna A. Buchanan's Performing Democracy argues that the performances of traditional music groups may be interpreted not only as harbingers but as agents of Bulgaria's political transition. Many of the musicians in socialist Bulgaria's state folk ensembles served as official cultural emissaries for several decades. Through their reminiscences and repertoires, Buchanan reveals the evolution of Bulgarian musical life as it responded to and informed the political process. By modifying their art to accommodate changing political ideologies, these musicians literally played out regime change on the world's stages, performing their country's democratization musically at home and abroad.
Performing Democracy and its accompanying CD-ROM, featuring traditional Bulgarian music, lyrics, notation, and photos, will fascinate any reader interested in the many ways art echoes and influences politics.
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Visions and Revisions: Women in Italian Culture (Berg European Studies Series)
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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ASIN: 0854967109 |
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This book analyzes the ways in which women were viewed by men through a variety of literary and other discourses, from the Divine Comedy to the 20th century. A further dimension is provided by tracing the evolution of the cultural and social identity of women as perceived by women themselves.
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Farm Broadcasting: The First Sixty Years
John C. Baker
Manufacturer: Iowa State Press
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