Art Deco Ornamental Ironwork

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Nearly 200 beautiful examples of wrought iron gates, screens, balustrades and other architectural adornments.

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Fantastic plates from original portfolios with examples of 1.......2002-01-25

It is difficult to find an original porfolio full of plates illustrating the work of the French "ferroniers" in the twenties. This inexpensive booklet lets one admire these marvelous and rare examples, many of which no longer exist.

Art Deco Ornamental Ironwork.......2000-04-01

This book is a collection of 670 illustrations. No text is included with the illustrations, but could be a good resource for someone interested in seeing the various types of design used in what was mainly cast iron. The books groups the ironwork into handrails, window balconies, railings. banisters, drapery screens and door panels etc. For someone looking for a copyright free set of graphics this would be a good choice. For those interested in finding out how this ironwork was made and by who it would be a bad choice. These is no explanation of who, when or how in this book - just a collection of detailed illustrations.

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Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork
Theodore Menten
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486239861

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Full range of Art Nouveau ironwork. 137 photographic illustrations of railings, gates, balconies, doorways, staircases, more.

Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork: 137 Photographs

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Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork: 137 Photographs
Theodore Menten
Manufacturer: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0844659045

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Nuts and bolts survey of the world of non-linear editing.......1998-04-28

Filmaking is at a unique point in time where the previously independant and separate realms of images are merging into a forced compatibility. Video, film and computer graphics are struggling to coexist and fit into some sort of standard. It can be very confusing and challenging to apply all this fresh emerging and changing technology into flowing art to deliver an esthetic message. This book brought me out of darkness and into the world of nonlinear editing. It is a perfect survey course for anyone having the need define clearly the technology available to the filmaker. Leon Rodriguez Writer/Director/Filmaker

Digital Nonlinear Editing: New Approaches to Editing Film and Video

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Digital Nonlinear Editing: New Approaches to Editing Film and Video
Thomas A. Ohanian
Manufacturer: Focal Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZCO1W

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Is There a Doctor in the House?

Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .

•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?

•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?

•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?

•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?

•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?

•Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true?

. . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.

Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.

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Mark Leyner is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written scripts for a variety of films and television shows. His writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, Time, and GQ.

Billy Goldberg, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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All padding, no substance........2007-08-19

I just listened to this on audiobook and was very disappointed. For some reason (most likely to pad the tiny amount of actual information) they felt the need to couch the whole book in a ridiculous and lame cocktail party scenario. It was obviously intended to be funny but was just pathetic. Many questions had the answer of "gee, even doctors don't know that." Wow, thanks! Also, some were so obvious I don't know why they were included (does anyone really NOT know that poppy seeds cause a positive test for opiates because opium comes from poppies? Really?) If you love entertaining bits of info, read "Freakonomics" instead.

Mike Smith needs to lighten up.......2007-08-18

This book is funny, there are some silly questions we may have one time or another wondered about but never asked. Mike Smith seems to think we must be morons if read this book, but in fact the person that reads this book has a sense of humor and light heartedness and sense of wonder. This book is not intended to be an acedemic scholastic educational tool, it's intended for entertainmaint. Geeez Mike, lighten up!

Great gift idea.......2007-08-09

I purchased this for a friend of mine for his birthday. He's a bit of a brain, and I figured this would peak his intrest. Great value.

Typical.......2007-08-03

This book is fun for anyone who doesn't read these much. However, if you are a fan / collector of imponderables, this is one may be a little redundant of many you've read before. Goes on tangents and narratives a lot rather than addressing many questions directly.

Great fun to read.......2007-06-15

I love to read books with interesting facts like this book had. It did have the messenger transcripts between the two guys that kind of take away from the book and I felt were just put there as filler. The tidbits of info they put in this book was interesting, and I read through the book with breeze b/c I couldnt put it down. Id definitely tell others to read it, and have passed my copy around to some of my friends to browse through.

Why Do Men Have Nipples? Page-A-Day Calendar 2007 (Page a Day Calendar)

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Somewhat Funny
pretty funny and interesting, too

Why Do Men Have Nipples? Page-A-Day Calendar 2007 (Page a Day Calendar)
Mark Leyner , and M.D., Billy Goldberg
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0761142819

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Imagine buttonholing a really smart doctor at a cocktail party and asking every odd, icky, or embarrassing question you can think of. And getting the answers! Introducing the WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES? CALENDAR, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name, with 570,000 copies in print. Here is a truly fascinating year of questions you’d like to ask your doctor but never could (at least not before your third martini). With wit and irreverence, the authors answer: If you are stranded on a desert island, should you drink seawater or your own urine? Why do you laugh when tickled? What is a food coma? And the ever-popular “Beer before liquor, never sicker/Liquor before beer, never fear”?

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Somewhat Funny.......2007-02-09

It can be funny and interesting most days, but sometimes you think, "what in the world were they thinking?" My husband thinks it's funny, too. However, the base of the item is pretty flimsly. It doesn't take much to knock it over.

pretty funny and interesting, too.......2007-01-20

I bought this for the hubby for Christmas, and he loves it...he calls me during the day to share funny bits of information from the calendar

Why Do Men Have Nipples? Page-A-Day Calendar 2008

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Why Do Men Have Nipples? Page-A-Day Calendar 2008
Mark Leyner , and M.D., Billy Goldberg
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0761145818

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The Why Do Men Have Nipples? Calendar returns for 2008. Based on the #1 New York Times bestsellers Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? this truly engrossing calendar features hundreds of answers to those odd and embarrassing medical questions you just can't bring yourself to ask the doctor. Such as: Why does the bed spin after a long night at the bar? And Can you actually explode from eating too much? (It's rare, but stomach rupture from overeating has happened.) Plus pop quizzes, jargon, On This Day, quotes, Disease of the Month, DIY medical procedures, and more.

Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Other Low-Life Answers to Real-Life Questions

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Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Other Low-Life Answers to Real-Life Questions
Katherine Dunn
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Por Que Los Hombres Tienen Pezones?/ Why Do Men Have Nipples? (Los Otros Libros)

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Por Que Los Hombres Tienen Pezones?/ Why Do Men Have Nipples? (Los Otros Libros)
Mark Leynard , and Billy, M.D. Goldberg
Manufacturer: Peninsular Publishing Company
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Vicar Michael
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 1434316106

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Why Do Men Have Nipples? has been written to uncover the truth about human creation and thought processes. The book provides interesting facts and asks thought provoking questions which in many cases makes the reader discard the programming in their computer brain and take a new look at life and re-program the brain. The book contains some points that will make the reader laugh and ask the question why do humans behave the way we do and think the way we think? The book uncovers the human being as an electronic device capable of mental and physical actions associated with human made electronic devices. Enjoy the read. Love thy neighbour Michael

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Why Do Men Have Nipples? (Unabridged)
Goldberg, Mark, Billy Leyner
Manufacturer: audible.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B000C1X8F6

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Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Mark Leyner
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFJ1YC

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This is the definitive fan's guide to the outrageous and bizarre Ghoulardi TV show. Who was Ghoulardi? If you grew up watching TV in Cleveland in the 1960s, you definitely remember. If you live in Cleveland today, you hear about him still. In early 1963, months before the Beatles arrived in America and years before Howard Stern hit the radio airwaves, Cleveland TV actor Ernie Anderson pioneered the modern counter-culture media celebrity: Ghoulardi. His offbeat late-night movie show was so popular locally that it got ratings higher than the Tonight Show, and the Cleveland police department reported a significant decrease in crime during its broadcast. Ghoulardi continues to capture the hearts and minds of Cleveland's first TV generation and is riding a wave of nostalgia. Ghoulardi creator Ernie Anderson's recent obituary was the page-one feature in both of northeast Ohio's major dailies and the lead item on all local TV news shows. Ghoulardi memorabilia are regular set props on the popular TV sitcom The Drew Carey Show. Ghoulardi tee-shirts still sell even though the show has been off the air for more than 30 years. This book tells the on-screen and behind-the-scenes story of the Ghoulardi show and its unusual creator with biographical sketches, trivia, photos, original scripts, and other memorabilia. A national Ghoulardi convention is planned for October 1997 in Cleveland.

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A wild romp through Cleveland Urban History!.......2006-10-13

If you ever lived in Cleveland in the 1960s, Ghoulardi was your man!! The best movie host in history!! His rowdy, delinquent, irreverent stage persona and his infamous B movies were so popular that the crime rate actually dropped noticibly when he was on the air! This book is the first history of that legendary show...lots of cool vigenettes, like the time when he almost blew out the windows of the sound stage and got the city fire marshal on his case with his pyrotewchnic antics. Its amazing that most of Cleveland's movie hosts in the 60s and 70s were all tied in to the original Ghoulardi show. Clevelanders, at least those of the 60s and 70s, will love this book....for those outsiders, well, its a Cleveland thing....you wouldn't understand!

Now for somebody to assemble Ghoulardi's best (or at least most infamous) into a DVD or two....I'll be first in line!! Meabwhile, at leat we have this book!

A book all "Purple Knifs" will love!!!.......2006-02-25

Did you ever wonder who the man was on Drew Carey's t-shirt? This book will tell you all about him. Ghoulardi was so popular in Cleveland that the crime rate actually went down when he was on. He made Parma so infamous that their high school basketball team was once pelted with white socks when they took the court! He even managed to infiltrate the hallowed Severence Hall with his irreverence, much to the consternation of maestro George Szell. My personal favorite, though, is the story of Ghoulardi's erstwhile pet, Oxnard the crow, who--not being content to merely "redecorate" the set of "Jim Doney's Adventure Road" (I hated that d*mn show!)--decided to augment the appearance of Doney himself!!! (I knew I liked that bird!!!)

When this book came out, I was working in a Youngstown, Ohio bookstore. Youngstown being a little far from Cleveland, my manager was reluctant to stock many of the book. When we got the first few copies in, they went so fast that the manager was in shock. We sold so many of them that we ended up having a signing that drew a line of customers that extended almost to the back of the store! It was one of the biggest sellers of that fall. I loved it, and so did my customers--lots of them. I predict you will love it, too.

PARMA PLACE.......2002-03-24

If you are from the Cleveland area this is a nice book. Ghoulardi, Hoolihan & Big Chuck....Holy Perogie! I would like to write a long review, but I've got to put on my white socks and watch Lawrence Welk..

Ghoulardi: A man who used comedy to host horror........2001-02-20

I bought this book for a Cleveland transplant friend of mine, Dennis. Dennis had affectionately mentioned Ghoulardi to me many times, so I was able to find this book about Ghoulardi on Amazon. Well, I bought this book for Dennis as a gift, but since he only stops by my house about every six months. I got tired of waiting for him to drop by, so I decided to read his "gift" in the meantime. I grew up in Los Angeles with horror movie hosts, such as Jeepers Creepers, Seymour, and Elvira, and no matter what movie they were showing, good, bad, or as often was the case terrible, I always tuned in, more for the hosts funny antics than the movie itself. Most major cities had television horror hosts during the late fifties, early sixties, to show the science fiction/horror movies that the movie studios had put together in bulk packages to recycle on television. Even though I have never seen Ghoulardi, this book was a lot of fun to read, and I know that he was very similar to the horror hosts that I grew up with. Another great book about horror movie hosts is titled, "Television Horror Movie Hosts," by Elena M. Watson, this is the definitive book on the subject affectionately researched by Ms. Watson, also an excellent enjoyable book to read. Her book also has a section devoted to Ghoulardi. Do I worry about Dennis finding out the truth about his slighly used present, or reading this review on the web? Nawwww, it's been over fifteen years since I showed Dennis how to use a cheese slicer, and he still hasn't figured out how to use it. My secret is safe!

Blaming Big Chuck.......2000-08-23

Many people blame Big Chuck for loosing film and video tape of the Ghoulardi show. The fact is that in the early sixties, video tape and film were very expensive, and there was no budget at the time for archiving tape or film. All of the Parma Place episodes were video taped on old quad machines that no longer exist. Some video tape still exists that has not been restored,and many people have audio recordings of the "KING" that they do not want to part with. So "HANG IN THERE GROUP", the remaining Ghoulardi material is "Ova Deh", just this side of Parma!

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Entertainment Industry Economics

Insightful!

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Best used as a reference

Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis
Harold L. Vogel
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521302129

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From the perspective of an investment analyst, portfolio manager, and economist, Harold Vogel presents the first comprehensive guide to the business economics of the entertainment industries. In a thorough, systematic manner, the author examines the financing, production, distribution, and marketing of a wide range of entertainments that include film, music, broadcasting, cable, hotel and casino gaming, the performing arts, and amusement parks. The book is written in a style that is accessible and interesting to the general reader as well as the specialist. Entertainment Industry Economics will prove to be an invaluable reference for executives, analysts, investors, and legal advisors, and a useful guide for students of arts administration, hotel management and other entertainment-related professions. It includes a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading.

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Great Information.......2006-08-02

The book is rather dry, although it does offer great pieces of information for referencing covering virtually every facet of the ent. industry.

Entertainment Industry Economics.......2005-07-28

A very clear explanation of the history, issues, rationale and economic flows of the entertainment industry. The book includes a comprehensive list of sources of information as well as details the sources for every bit of information it provides. This is very useful as it familiarizes the reader with the gathering of information in relation with the industry and the relative authority of the sources.

Insightful!.......2004-10-25

Author and entertainment industry analyst Harold L. Vogel sheds valuable light on the growing importance of fun in the American economy. His book shows surprising versatility, sometimes reading like an economics textbook, and other times providing an engaging and easily readable overview of the entertainment business. Vogel provides exhaustive sources and an authoritative perspective, linking the entertainment industry's technology-driven increase in productivity to the public's increased expenditures on music, movies, sports, games, theme parks and other forms of entertainment. The relatively modest attention he pays to the performing arts reflects their unfortunate status as a poor stepchild we find this book's breadth and depth impressive, and strongly recommends it to analysts, scholars and students who seek a clear picture of the economic role of entertainment.

Want a book to Put you to Sleep????.......2004-09-14

Then I'd recommend this book. It wouldn't be that bad if it were to exclude devoting a lot of time to basic principles of Macro and Microeconomics. If I wanted to study Macro or Microconomics, then I would have just bought a textbook on that subject. The author seems more inclined to impress us with his knowledge of economics in general than to focus on the entertainment industry. Very dry book.

Best used as a reference.......2002-10-03

This book is the most complete available dealing with the various industries that make up "entertainment " in our society. It has many nice figures and tables that can be used to illustrate a point if you're a student doing a report, or a teacher covering this area in a lecture. But, it is a very dry read otherwise. It works best for me as a reference text to be used in companion to other texts on the various subjects. It'll have to be updated anually to be a valid reference in this age of the internet... it could use a website to go along with it maybe? Good book to keep on the shelf and refer to when you need a stat.

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Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis
Harold Leslie Vogel
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K3VONO

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Jeopardy! has become a cultural icon of the 20th century. Its popularity transcends all media - from TV to board games to video games to Jeopardy! Online. An now, for the first time, Jeopardy! answers and questions are presented in a quiz-book format for fans to enjoy anywhere. Each book contains 700 entries, composed of Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy clues.

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What is study from this book?.......2007-08-03

What is Quiz Book 2? contains material compiled by the Emmy Award-winning writers of America's Favorite Quiz Show.

When you purchase this book, brush up on the frequent categories that appear in the book as they do on the show, such as "Crossword Clues", "Before & After", as well as "Stupid Answers". This will provide perfect preparation for a tryout.

Tons of great questions!.......2007-01-10

My company hosts game-show-style trivia parties and this book was very useful as a resource.

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