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This book asks serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching. In this context the authors explore the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect. With these ideas in mind the authors explore a course the team taught on "High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste." As the course began the "Sensation" controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. The authors trace both how the controversy shaped their course and its implications for the larger concerns with art, culture, and education in the twenty-first century.
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Beelden van Behnasa: Egyptische kunst uit de Romeinse keizertijd 1e-3e eeuw na Chr
Hans D Schneider
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Bloemen uit de kelder: Negen kunstenaressen rond de eeuwwisseling (Kunst-historische reeks)
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Byzantijnse kunst uit Roemenie: De Byzantijnse erfenis in de Roemeense kunst uit het Nationaal Museum van Schone Kunsten van Roemenie
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Daubigny, van Doesburg, Daniels--: En 88 andere hoogtepunten uit de collectie moderne kunst van het Centraal Museum
Carel Blotkamp
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A Pop Ink Book by Charles S. Anderson Design Company
From Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to B horror movie icons to The Addams Family and beyond, macabre misfits have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. Brought to Abrams by the creators of the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Goth-icky celebrates the American goth, their culture, and the vampires, zombies, skeletons, and other mutants that inspire them.
Containing more than 200 images from the print and advertising archives of Charles S. Anderson Design Company in combination with a sharply hilarious text by Michael J. Nelson, the main writer and host of the legendary Mystery Science Theater 3000, Goth-icky is a kitsch and campy testament to America's love of horror. So break out the black lipstick, curl up in your coffin, and get ready for some freaky fun!
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Bland and uninteresting.......2007-01-09
This is essentially Pop Ink graphics that have been altered to look 'gothy' with the pithy and boring comments of Michael J Nelson of MST3K fame. I like Nelson - but this is not his best medium.
Can one complain about "bad" kitsch?.......2007-01-05
It may sound odd--I was indeed looking for kitsch, but this turned out to be _bad_ kitsch, if that even makes sense. It looks cheap and kindergarten-ish, not lurid or ambivalent. It's empty, no buzz. The images remind one of bad wrapping paper or greeting cards--not billboards or packages or advertising, the sort of thing I had in mind. Well, it might be your sort of thing, but it wasn't what I was looking for.
Just ok........2006-10-12
Of the 3 Pop ink-Mike Nelson collaborations I've read, this one disappointed me and seems to be the weakest. Mike's humor is there, and the art is ok, but not really the same quality as the others, and it just seemed off-target from what I was expecting. Only the first couple pages are anything to do with taking swipes at Goth culture, and the rest are just Halloween art and horror comic illustrations. It is a good book for getting into the Halloween mood, but it just seemed a bit too blah, especially compared to Happy Kitty Bunny Pony. I still recommend it for Halloween art fans and Mike Nelson groupies, but I don't think anyone else would get much from it.
More obviously photoshopped this time.......2005-12-25
I was very delighted to find this one, while trying to show Happy Bunny Kitty Pony to a friend while at a bookstore. As a fan of macabre and kitsch I value the graphics and was ready to read the silly comments from Michael J. Nelson.
I did however, notice in this volume that some of the graphics appeared more photoshopped than Happy Bunny Kitty Pony. Too many nose rings and eyebrow rings. However all images are wonderfully presented in a vintage style and quite frankly "rock my socks."
Iconic nasties and pulp comic imagery, this is a damn good volume of the hopefully ongoing series.
Smarmy and sophomoric.......2005-12-02
I have a feeling that is what it's supposed to be. Mike, keep up the good work.
Jo Jo
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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies.
While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema illuminates the many questions that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism.
Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles, technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of topics—from the dangerous sexuality of the urban flâneuse to the childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films—looking along the way at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman, alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive exotic.
Contributors. Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie, Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar, Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White, Zhang Zhen
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This digital document is an article from Resources for Feminist Research, published by O.I.S.E. on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1498 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: Feminist film theory: A reader. (Book reviews / comptes rendus).(includes review of 'Gendering the Nation') (book review)
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The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
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Informative articles on Didgeridoo history and culture.......2002-04-23
First: If you are looking for information on how to play the Didgeridoo, don't buy this book.
However, if you are looking into the culture and history of the Yolngu and other Indigenous peoples of Australia that developed this musical instrument, look no further.
Very informative with interviews of many of the current key people in the Didgeridoo world.
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Title: The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet.(Review)
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This book is a common sense, step-by-step guide for low to medium limit players to win consistently at both casino and home games. Players learn the latest strategies for winning at $1-$4 spread-limit up to $10-$20 fixed-limit games. Covers starting hands, 3rd-7th street strategy for playing most hands, overcards, selective aggressiveness, reading hands, secrets of the pros, psychology, and more. The 42 lesson informal format is both easy-to-read and powerful. Includes bonus chapter on 7-stud tournament strategy by World Champion Tom McEvoy who calls West's advice, "down home and clear¿ and right on the money."
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Good Book to get started with 7 card Stud.......2007-01-20
This is my first book at 7 card stud.
The book had 42 lessons and it will improve your game at the low and medium level.
The language is very simple.
It will give you good understanding of the game.
Good buy.
Good foundation for 7 card stud play........2006-11-12
I found this a great book to build a solid foundation for people getting into seven card stud. Written in a way that's easy to grasp, but contains a lot of important information for the up and coming player.
Not well written but useful for a beginner.......2006-07-07
This is the first book I've read on 7 card stud, and I found it helpful for giving me the basic concepts. It's easy to read and you can get through it in a few hours. The concepts aren't particularly deep. It's in "42 lessons" although some of the "lessons" are less useful than others: Lesson 1, for instance, is one page that says "It takes the right 'stuff' to win at poker".
Things do get better, but I found the concepts a bit high level and could have done with much more illustration. There is one lesson (17) that has some examples of 3rd street hands but it's not enough.
For a book published in its present form in 2004, I would have expected to see some mention at least of internet play, but it is entirely focused on live play. In fact only on live play in Las Vegas - no information how to adapt to European card rooms for example.
Another ommission (and maybe this is to prevent confusion, as starting hands are quire different), is there is no mention of Hi-lo, which is quite popular these days.
The book encourages you to play in a "straightforward" way at these limits (medium and low)... however this means that it doesn't tell you how really good players play. I found the advice fairly sound in the $1/2 room (the second lowest) on PartyPoker, but anything above that and the players are far more aggressive and you'll probably start losing.
Importantly, there's little mention of how to vary your starting hand requirements depending on the size of the antes. This makes a big difference because for example on PartyPoker the antes are the same size on the $.5/1 tables as for $2/4 and you have to vary your play accordingly.
Editing is sloppy and I found quite a few glaring mistakes. For example in Lesson 8 it talks about an increase in antes from $1 to $3 and calls it a 300% increase (actually a 200% increase). And lesson 42 has 2 whole paragraphs from earlier in the chapter repeated at the end clearly by mistake.
Despite the ommissions and sloppy editing it does contain some good ideas and I'd recommend beginners read it. I haven't read any other books on the subject so I can't say if this is any better or worse. ;)
A Classic.......2006-02-24
This is the must read book for novices on 7 card stud. Other poker authors have said this is the best poker book they have ever read. Roy West writes in an easy style and, most importantly, presents his material in a way that sticks. This is in sharp contrast to the Sklansky books that are so difficult to wade through. What a shame Roy West didn't write Sklansky's material for him! This book makes it fun to study 7 card stud. It's a no-brainer that it rates 5 stars.
Surprisingly good & helpful.......2005-11-28
No, this is not one of those technically spot-on mathematical works. Instead, Roy West gives you a lot of good, solid, easy-to-remember practical advice on how to play. Both at the table, and on your way to the table.
Maybe you're a holdem player looking to take up stud? This one's a real good start.
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- A logical puzzle in the best English mystery tradition
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- A tightly written story that is extremely cunning.
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The Remorseful Day
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"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter."
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Morse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THE TIMES. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, young, and traveling alone, the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play. But without a body, and with precious few clues, the investigation ground to a halt. Now it seems that someone who can hold back no longer is composing clue-laden poetry that begins an enthusiastic correspondence among England's news-reading public. Not one to be left behind, Morse writes a letter of his own--and follows a twisting path through the Wytham Woods that leads to a most shocking murder.
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poetry puzzles.......2006-06-18
A young, beautiful Swedish tourist is reported as missing when she should have been at the home of her relative in Wales. A year later, there is still no trace of her and no report of anyone finding her body, even though the woods where she was last seen, were thoroughly combed by the Thames Valley police. Chief Inspector Morse is only semi enjoying a holiday at the seaside resort of Lyme Regis where he reads a tantalising account in the Times, about the missing tourist, now christened the Swedish Maiden by the press. An anonymous writer has put forward a collection of verses which purport to offer clues to the girl's whereabouts. The subject becomes a matter of huge interest to the general public, with different people all contributing their theories. Morse and Sergeant Lewis plough their way stolidly through the maze of supposed clues to a final solution, with lots of red herrings along the way and even a touch of romance for Morse to brighten his days.
A logical puzzle in the best English mystery tradition.......2005-11-08
This book has its flaws, but for those who like the English tradition of mystery novels, it's perfect. Inspector Morse is an enigma that grows on us like a new puppy, and he is the perfect vehicle for a labyrinth of clues and intimations leading to a conclusion only an architect of human psychology could create. The writing is crisp and generous with the main characters, although the people who comprise the mysterious events are necessarily given somewhat shorter coverage. All the clues are on the page far before the solution is given. While sometimes it seems as if soap opera narration of the lives of the police takes center stage, it contributes to an understanding of their progress and its hangups, and helps add momentum to a relatively realistic discussion of the plodding process of uncovering clues. Where this book falls down is its uneven dramatic events and its sometimes obvious shifts of narrative to hide vital data, causing a sudden "gotcha" at the end, that's part of the riddle and the joy of seeing this one conclude. I would recommend this to anyone who likes the mind games of British detective authors.
So disappointing!.......2005-06-24
I have enjoyed the dramatizations of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, and decided to read the books. Being a bit of a print snob, I assumed that a book is always better than a television adaptation. Now I am not so sure. This detective novel had a fair share of suspense, and I enjoyed the author's deftness at word play. Literary allusions, epigraphs, puzzles and fine quotations abound. If you love Hardy and A.E. Housman, you will feel a kinship with Inspector Morse and his creator. However, in the end the story had nearly enough flaws to make me feel that I had wasted my time reading it. There are some good plot twists, but some bad ones too. Minor characters are developed up to a point where they become interesting, and then they drop out of the story as if the author had forgotten they were there. False clues in a mystry are part of the game, but in this case I think there were a few too many. They seemed to clog up the narrative rather than advance it. Of course, it would be wrong to give anything away that would spoil the experience for a potential reader. I'll just say that some of the red herrings were a bit too obvious, and at least one of the big surprises seemed not all that surprising when revealed. The final resolution seemed cobbled together, but that is a fault common to most mystery stories. The fun is in the pursuit-the capture is always a letdown.
A tightly written story that is extremely cunning........2005-05-11
As all the books in this series, this one is extremely well-written. The plot is tight and the mystery will keep you guessing until the end. Dexter's writing and his Morse series are top drawer.In this book we have the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish student. (Quite a beautiful Swedish student to all accounts). Morse is on holiday, but finds that he can't just relax and take time off. His agile brain needs something to work on and the appearance of some strange verses in the Times appear to fit the bill. The verses are a riddle about the Swedish student that disappeared in Oxford about a year ago. These books are so intricately written that it is difficult to write a review without giving away some of the surprises, so I will say no more about it. I will recommend though, that you read this series from the beginning. As good as the television series was, these books should be read in order for us to appreciate fine writing in the detection genre.
one of mystery's great curmudgeons.......2000-10-13
The history of the mystery is replete with examples of detectives who tread a fine line between the amusingly eccentric and the downright boorish (Sherlock Holmes being the archetype; Poirot, Nero Wolfe, and others following in his footsteps). Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse fits squarely and delightfully in this tradition. If you've never seen the TV series on PBS and A&E, or better yet read one of the books, you're really missing out on something special.
Morse, whose first name wasn't revealed for years, is an Oxford-educated, beer-drinking, Opera-loving, vintage Jaguar-driving, Crossword puzzle maven and also one of the biggest curmudgeons in all of literature. He does not suffer fools gladly, other than his much put upon but continually bemused partner Lewis. His superiors are forced to tolerate his idiosyncrasies and his bibliousness because he also has a uniquely intuitive mind and a knack for solving the most puzzling crimes. In an interesting symbiosis, John Thaw's television portrayal of Morse bled over into the novels and took some of the harsher edges off of the character and Kevin Whatley's Lewis helped to make the character less of a dolt and more of a naïf in the books too.
In this Gold Dagger winning installment in the series, Morse is on an unwelcome holiday when he gets drawn into the case of a year old disappearance of a Swedish girl who is assumed to have been murdered and ditched in the local woods. The largely moribund investigation is reinvigorated when The Times receives a cryptic letter with tantalizing but ambiguous literary clues to the dead girl's whereabouts. As the story unfolds Morse finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation that includes everything from pornography to ornithology. As always, the book offers both a satisfying mystery and the great pleasure of watching Morse and Lewis interact with one another and with suspects, superiors and the various ladies who inevitably tweak Morse's heartstrings.
After a highly successful run of 13 novels, Dexter killed Morse off earlier this year in The Remorseful Day. On the one hand, it's nice to see an author finish a series while he still has his fastball, but Morse and Lewis will be missed. Try one of the books and keep an eye peeled for the show, both are outstanding.
GRADE: A+
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6 Titles By Colin Dexter Inspector Morse Series : Last Bus to Woodstock Last Seen Wearing Service of All the Dead The Way Through the Woods The Daughters of Cain Death Is Now My Neighbour. six mmpb books.
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