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Young Marc Chagall defied family tradition by leaving his Russian village to pursue his art in Paris and the world beyond. Exploring the magic of Chagall's paintings, the author shows how Jewish life and folklore influenced his work, filling it with the spirituality that made Chagall one of the 20th century's most beloved artists.
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Four Pairs of Boots
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Klik! : Showcase Photography
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A great photographic source book packed with lots of visual solutions. A great reference book for photographers, teachers, designers and students.
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Klik - Showcase Photography 7
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Klik - Showcase Photography Volume 6
Ira Shapiro
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Klik Showcase Photography
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Klik Showcase Photography
James Kravitz
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Klik Showcase Photography
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Photography book.......2007-02-24
This book makes me dream about the pictures I'll be able to take one day... But the info about what kind of camera they used, what kind of lenses, is not available.
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Klik Showcase Photography
American Showcase
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Fotos Maravillosas.......2000-04-06
He comprado todos los volumnes de los Klik y cada vez son mejores y mas logradas las fotografias que incluyen, son de gran utilidad en mi trabajo diario. Lo recomiendo.
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Klik Showcase Photography
Ann Middlebrook
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Klik Showcase Photography - Volume 10
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the first best-selling BITCH book, THAT'S QUEEN BITCH TO YOU! is a saucy collection of fiercely feminist declarations paired with vintage advertising images in an easel-backed book that demands to be displayed. Tackling sex, love, betrayal, ambition, menopause, motherhood, pets, housework, diet, and hairstyles, this feisty little flipbook walks a thin line between vulgarity and hilarity with brazen humor and a daring dose of bitchiness.
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Laugh till you pee..........2007-04-09
Cousin sent this to me for xmas- Immediately passed it to my daughters' stocking from me (just way too perfect for her attitude at 25)She's been looking for xtras to send to her buddies-- I just emailed her the page from Amazon. Really funny stuff. The whole family from Dad to the 6 yr. old (who didn't really know why he was laughing but had to join in cause everyone else was roaring)cracked up reading them aloud at the table. Way too many familiar thoughts that applied to our womenfolk & their buddies. Recommend Highly as a fun treat for all Women of Attitude.
LMAOROTF!.......2007-03-16
A DEFINITE MUST HAVE! How can you not laugh at this book?! (One MUST HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR!) I read it when I'm not feeling so "hot". It doesn't matter how many times I've read it, I am always LMAOROTF! "I am only as strong as the coffee I drink and the hairspray I use!" Buy it, you will be glad you did!
Things you wish you could say out loud!.......2007-01-10
Irreverent and hilarious! A must have for the female with a quirky sense of humor! Things like "I have no idea what I'm doing out of bed" warn your fellow co-workers what mood you're in on a certain morning! Not all of the "sayings" are for public consumption, but they are very funny. I also own the first booklet that they published called "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing". It is just as funny and irreverent!
Highly recommended if you like this kind of humor!
Queen Bitch.......2006-11-19
Very funny photos and sayings. I bought "You Say I'm a bitch like It's a Bad Thing. I then saw this and ordered it too. They both have vintage photos and very funny sayings with them. Each book has different pictures and verses. Both a must have. Great for a girlfriend gift.
More therapeutic reading.......2006-08-27
Hopefully the second book from these two talented men will not be the last.
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From Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence in popular culture. From films we have learned that scientists are either evil maniacal geniuses or bumbling saviors of society. Mad, Bad and Dangerous? puts this dichotomy to the test, offering a wholly engaging yet not uncritical history of the cinematic portrayal of scientists.
Christopher Frayling traces the genealogy of the scientist in film, showing how the scientist has often embodied the predominant anxieties of a particular historical moment. The fear of nuclear holocaust in the 1950s gave rise to a rash of radioactive-mutant horror movies, while the possible dangers of cloning and biotechnology in the 1990s manifested themselves in Jurassic Park. During these eras, the scientist's actions have been viewed through a lens of fascination and fear. In the past few decades, with increased public awareness of environmental issues and of the impact of technology on nature, the scientist has been transformed once again—into a villainous agent of money-hungry corporate powers. Mad, Bad and Dangerous? also examines biographical depictions of actual scientists, illuminating how they are often portrayed as social misfits willing to sacrifice everything to the interests of science.
Drawing on such classic and familiar films as Frankenstein, Metropolis, and The Wizard of Oz, Frayling brings social and film history together to paint a much larger picture of the evolving value of science and technology to society. A fascinating study of American culture and film, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? resurrects the scientists of late night movies and drive-in theaters and gives them new life as cultural talismans.
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How the Movies Made Our Image of the Scientist.......2006-09-06
In this book, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema, Mr. Frayling has put together a fascinating study of how public perceptions of the scientist have been molded by movies. As a long time physics and math teachers well as a movie-lover, I am familiar with much of the background material he goes through. Still, I was impressed by the wide scope of Mr. Frayling's work and the well-drawn conclusions he makes.
One of the techniques I sometimes use in my classroom is to have students identify math and science mistakes in the movies. This book opens with a classic--the Scarecrow's recitation of "the Pythagorean Theorem" in The Wizard of Oz. But this book really isn't concerned with such obvious mistakes. It is much more powerful is piecing together how mistakes and simplifications have led to a shorthand stereotype of the scientist we see in the movies: lab coat, glasses, disheveled hair, etc. This scientist may be the classic "mad" scientist, the distant pronouncer of hard to understand ideas, the nerd, as so on. And yet, this shorthand, often necessary for the success of a film, has become how people often actually view scientists.
After briefly looking back to the classics of stage and fiction that will heavily influence the earliest silent films (Faustus, Frankenstein, etc.), Frayling digs deep into one of the most influential characterizations of a scientist on film: Rotwang in Metropolis. Half alchemist, half scientist, Rotwang is the prototype of the impossible to understand, yet powerful man who made decisions that impact all those around him. This characterization and the graphic style of Metropolis had a huge impact on the movies that followed up to the present day (see Flash Gordon to Dr. Strangelove). If you've never seen the movie Metropolis, watch it (it is excellent) and then go to chapter 3 of this book. It will open your eyes.
Starting in the 1930's, there is a split. The "mad" scientist movie, which have their first peak in Frankenstein countered by the more "true" science movies like Things to Come. Both styles are still with us, though the first probably peaked with the sci-fi/horror films of the 60's while the second (a harder sell) probably peaked with the bio pics of the 40's (Madame Curie, Louis Pasteur, etc.). Frayling shows how these movie styles impacted each other and influenced our view of the scientist, particularly in the aftermath of WWII, with the arrival of the boffin movies in England and the Nazi rocket scientists in the U.S.
All of which influences we still see today, as Frayling reminds us, in movies like A Beautiful Mind, Contact, The Relic, etc. There is a ton of information and analysis in the pages of this book. Insight into a number of movies as well as, more importantly, insight into our understanding of the scientist. Anyone interested in either would be foolish to pass up this book.
"You're Fu Manchu, aren't you?" "My friends call me DOCTOR.".......2006-01-05
Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema is about scientists in the movies, but not just about MAD scientists in the movies. Christopher Fraying covers not only fictional new Prometheuses like Dr. Frankenstein and Andre Delambre (the scientist whose malfunctioning teleportation device turned him into The Fly), but "real" scientists like Madame Curie and Louis Pasteur.
Somewhere on the seesaw between "mad" movie scientists and "good" movie scientists are what you might call the "political" movie scientists - - sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're good. (A lot depends on which side of the year 1945 it is, and whether the scientists work for the Soviets or the US.)
In any event, whether they're mad, good, or political, it's important to remember these are movie scientists, and even their so-called true life stories are full of half-truths at best. They have what Frayling (referring to The Story of Louis Pasteur) calls "surface realism with a formulaic plot about the triumph of common sense."
It shouldn't be surprising that a lot of twentieth-century scientists whose work intersected with the political realm were German. Frayling's chapter about the "biography" of Wernher von Braun, I Aim at the Stars, is one of the best parts of the book. (A British review of the movie biography starring Curt Jurgens was titled "I Aim at the Stars - - But Sometimes I Hit London." Even by 1960, when the movie came out, Londoners hadn't completely forgotten the V-2 rockets.)
World War II affected actors and filmmakers in a similar way to the way it did scientists. In a parallel to von Braun, who first built rockets for the Nazis and then for the Americans, Jurgens himself as an actor had different identities depending on whether he was working in European or American productions. In European movies he often spoke German and was credited as Curd. In American war movies like The Longest Day, where he played "honorable" German officers, he could speak English and was known as Curt. (Jurgens wasn't a Nazi. My only point here is that European, especially German-speaking, actors - - for instance Maximilian Schell, who played the defense attorney in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg - - had to speak English and "act" a kind of foreigner that American movie audiences would recognize.)
Later movies continued the fiction that once Hitler committed suicide the morality of German military scientists changed. In The Right Stuff one of President Lyndon Johnson's advisors says, "Our Germans are better than their Germans." But a director as perceptive (and cynical) as Alfred Hitchcock was unable to let his audience off the hook. He knew the lie he had to perpetuate in order to update a thriller like Notorious to the Cold War. (The "lie" being that there is much difference between the two sides.) So Hitchcock rubbed the audience's nose in it. In Torn Curtain the scene everyone remembers is Paul Newman as a handsome young (of course) American scientist holding a communist agent's head in a gas oven, taking an uncomfortably long time to kill him.
Frayling shows that British war movies didn't put accuracy first any more than American scientist-as-savior movies like did. Movies like Spitfire and The Dam Busters made heroes of the "boffins." And you can see how the "real" scientists portrayed in these movies by Leslie Howard and Michael Redgrave turned into the heroes of later British sci-fi and horror movies like Quatermass and the Pit and the recent British TV miniseries Invasion: Earth. (Invasion: Earth is an old-fashioned British end-of-the-world story in the style of John Wyndham, updated to the age of terrorism.)
It's too bad Frayling wasn't able to write about "their" Cold War scientists. "Ours" might be good (the Disneyfied Wernher von Braun) or monsters (Dr. Strangelove), but scientists on the other side of the Iron Curtain are nonexistent. There may be Soviet films about hero scientists from the post-Stalin era, but I'm not aware of any. Soviet scientists in American movies are usually trying to escape to freedom.
In American movies the scientists are avuncular prophets whose warnings about the dangers of technological progress ultimately support the military-industrial complex by giving us the delusion that individual Americans could stop the Pentagon and Lockheed if we chose. Like Edmund Gwen's speech at the end of Them!, a movie about ants turned into giant monsters by nuclear testing.
This phony dystopianism hasn't changed. Hollywood is still lulling us to sleep, telling us we have control. When The Day After Tomorrow (a movie about ecological disaster brought on by ignoring the effects of global warming) came out in 2004, the character of the vice president was made to look and act like Dick Cheney, and to be responsible in large part for the catastrophe. Publicity made it seem like the film was a risky slap at the Bush administration for not signing the Kyoto Accords and for its energy policies in general.
But at the end of the movie the fictional vice president (now president) apologizes to the American people for his mistakes and expresses gratitude to the foreign country (Mexico) that has taken in American refugees fleeing the new ice age. Who believes our present leaders would do anything like that? In that situation they would probably declare war on Mexico and confiscate its oil industry. Then they would build concentration camps for anyone who dissented.
As the reporter warns us at the end of The Thing from Another World, we should "Keep watching the skies!" But it might be a good idea to pay attention to things a little closer, too.
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A must Guide to Awakened Society.......2007-05-22
This book is indispensible in understanding not only the place where Mages dwell (their sancti) but in understanding their political culture and society. It is written well and clearly and concisely to help you understand these two main topics.
Prologue is the obligatory introductory fiction that describes the book. The book is then divided into 4 chapters. One covers Awakened politics; two covers sanctums and defenses for the places that Mages call home; three discusses cults and various antagonists including the Seers of the Throne and the Banishers. Finally chapter four is for storytellers to help them understand how to introduce Mage politics and sample cabals to help players model theirs.
Overall this book is more a tool and reference book for Mage storytellers, its not ideally suited for players (look at Tome of Mysteries and Tome of the Watchtowers for that). However, it is ideal in helping to craft and fleshout a good story or chronicle that is set in awakened society. It is beautifully illustrated and the rules for helping build sancti are well done.
A LITTLE TOO DRY..........2007-04-30
As the previous reviewer noted, SIGIL AND SANCTUM can be pretty dry. It is a supplement for MAGE: THE AWAKENING and deals with the laws and practices of Awakened society. At times it reads as interesting as the corporis jure of most countries. The main sections are on the rights and duties of cabals to Mages in general, Consilia laws, courtly etiquette, sanctum security, etc. It's hard to imagine getting much use out of this unless it's important to the ST to create an illusion that his/her NPC's have an historical, detailed tradition that the PCs must follow in order to fit in. Otherwise, it seems like overly involved information that either will never come up or could be invented on the fly as need arises. It's about as banal as finding out whether Mages prefer Wheaties or Cheerios for breakfast. Of course, some people will need precisely this kind of book for a specific scenario they have in mind. More power to ya, buddy, but it seems like an awfully small niche. Plus, you could choke on the number of specialized, narrow-use merits introduced. There's a merit for sanctum security, with dots distributed between locks, doors, walls, windows, etc.
The most interesting part of the book is on the structure of Seers of the Throne pylons and Banisher cults. Now this is interesting, but it seemed unrelated to the rest of the theme. Very interesting stuff and very useful as potential antagonists. So even if you don't like the first part of the book, maybe you'll like the second.
A great book, though a little dry.......2006-09-18
This supplement for Mage the Awakening is an excellent resource for understanding the dynamics of Concilium politics, the various roles and makeups of cabals, how Banisher cults work/what they do, and how some of the Seers of the Throne are organized.
It gives quite a few suggestions for bonuses for cabal symbols and also suggests how you can decide what your sigil and name will be.
However, you do have to sort of slog through this book. It's not very easy reading- the whole tone is very intellectual and a bit on the dry side, so you do have to sort of try to pay attention. Despite that, though, I highly recommend this book for either players or storytellers.
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GREAT!!!.......1999-06-10
Even though I've only been watching Star Trek for about three years, (considering I'm only twelve) I did well on most of the questions. I thought the book was very entertaining, a must-have for any Star Trek fan!!!!
I loved it.......1998-11-04
THREE WORDS: A TREKKIES MUST-HAVE
10 =GREAT!!.......1997-04-28
The StarFleet Academy Entrance Exam is a great book for all Star Trek Fans to test their how well they know Star Trek. It is a simple book with questions and answers. It has loades of triva packed in one book. If you think you know a lot about the Star Trek Universe get this book and test yourself
Great fun for true trekkies!!!.......1997-02-25
My husband and I have had loads of fun quizzing each other on this great collection of Star Trek Trivia!! One of my favorite parts is where you have to match up the episode title to certain events, or characters, or planets, etc. ( Only the true geeks of trek, myself included, can even scratch the surface of this one!!) Overall, lots of fun for all Trek fans
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