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Introducing the brand-new, extremely visual BASICS series, which will eventually incorporate 5 titles, each representing a fundamental aspect of graphic design. Format, the first entry, concerns the physical dimensions of a product and the space one has to present the graphic elements of a design: the size of a book, the scale of a poster, the folds in a brochure. This instructive handbook examines in detail books, magazines, posters, direct mail, brochures, and Web pages to see how effectively they communicate, how appealing they look, and how strong an impact they make on the user. The original ideas showcased throughout are inspirational.
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A laugh a day.......2006-03-20
I love everything Dave, and this calendar is no exception. I look forward to tearing off a page everyday.
Dave Barry is a pretty funny guy!.......2006-02-25
This calendar has some very funny and honest insight into the crazy things Americans do! The structure of the tidbits is great, alternating subjects every other day, and changing to a new topic after a couple of weeks or so. The reason it is not five stars is that compared to his "Wit's End" column from the Washington Post magazine, Dave isn't quite as funny on this calendar (so far).
What a hoot !.......2006-02-17
Because I have this calendar, I know I will laugh out loud at least once a day.
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Mae West is one of the best-known celebrities of the 20th century; she is a cultural symbol that, 65 years after her heyday, continues to be remembered, imitated, and mocked. Yet how is it possible to know Mae West? She left no diaries, no letters. Her ghostwritten biography is inaccurate. The image she created in interviews and in plays and movies offers only slanted insight into her personal life. Acknowledging all of this, Marybeth Hamilton has created a unique biography that focuses as much on the impact of West's public persona as it does on speculations about her private self. Hamilton's take on Mae West is particularly interesting when she focuses on West's appeal to gay culture and the idea, which originated as long ago as the 1930s, that West was a female impersonator.
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In a world of trendsetting film icons, few are more familiar than Mae West. Yet for all her public controversy, West is also a mystery. Marybeth Hamilton combines elements of biography, cultural analysis, and social history to unmask West and reveal her commercial savvy, willpower, and truly shocking theatrical transgressions.
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Excellent description of those vaudeville days .......2007-03-27
Made me wish I was there back then to see some of those (now) obscure and (now) little-remembered performers!
Although the book follows Mae's career, and reveals her exceptional talent and her extremely creative ability to be able to Think On the Run and/or In the Paddy Wagon, (so to speak) it does not give us the essence or the character of Mae the Woman. In many places it bogs down with critical analysis instead of narrative.
However, I DID find it interesting enough to read through to the end, AND the book piqued my interest enough to make me go to my local library and pick up other books on Mae West that have more of her "personality" in them.
"When I'm Bad, I'm Better" by Marybeth Hamilton.......2003-06-16
My recent interest in Mae West started while viewing the play "Dirty Blonde" It led to watching her films, listening to her archival music, reading her autobiography, her "Wit and Wisdom" and her rewritten version of "Pleasure Man". From childhood I had viewed "Myra Breckinridge" and "Sextette" as well as listened to her albums "Way Out West" and "Wild Christmas". Marybeth Hamilton Ph.D. in history from Princeton University, has written the missing link in the West saga. Describing in accurate detail the origins and influence of a well known and well loved pioneer. "Her sheer inventiveness with materials makes her a percursor of the likes of Madonna and a forerunner of comic performers like Bette Midler and Sandra Bernhardt, women who deliberately manipulate camp humor rather than remaining naive objects of it. West rewrote her past in the service of her marketability and reputation. Crafted and recrafted by a shrewd judge of audiences who knew what she was doing at every step." This is a brilliant historical study, well researched and informative. Hamilton deserves honors for bringing Mae West and her career into the film history and gender studies perspective. Highly recomended!
NASTY, INNACURATE "FICTION!".......2003-01-27
Atrocious is the word for this horribly researched, terribly written piece of "fiction." This book in no way reflects anything very accurate about the true Mae West. It is totally unfair, and amounts to a vicious attack designed to assassinate the character of the legendary film star Mae West. No fan should read this disastrous hodge-podge of disinformation, and for that matter, no one should read such an unfair book at all. Having known Mae West and knowing a tremendous amount of information about her career and her life, I found this diatribe completely without any kind of merit. The "author" (if that is what one would call this nasty writer) has no sense of balance at all. This is one of the most unfair, one-sided, pathetic excuses for a "biography" I have ever had the displeasure of reading. It is no wonder than when this piece of crap was released it was stillborn. It was and is a colossal failure both in sales and in what it set out to do.
Very early in West's career in this book, the author loses all credibility by her constant and horrendous assault (and that is exactly what it is) on West. The whole second part of the book is nothing but an angry, bitter attack against West, which leaves out so much about West, but delves up nothing but one constant, angry attack after the other. It is NEGATIVE beyond comprehension!
When I finished reading this mess, I felt like I had been assaulted myself, and was ashamed that I even read anything so negative to the extreme. The "author" attacks West on ALL levels, for any and ALL reasons, and guesses at alleged "facts" rather than revealing anything new here. The entire book is just a simple-minded rehash of other previously published material and ALMOST entirely in the negative. No fair-minded person could give any credibility to a "work" so vicious, so obviously full of just plain hate! I was offended to the 9th degree. Never have I read a book full of such venom, untruths, and consistently inaccurate information. Anyone could have performed better research than this 4th rate writer. This mockery of an autobiographical account is submerged by the bitter, twisted and demented mind of the pathetic excuse for an author (not to mention human being). A TRULY, uncompassionate, possibly insane witch wrote this nasty piece of crap!!!
You won't find out anything that is true or accurate about the great Mae West here, but you will find distortions, countless information about other plays and actors (that have nothing to do with West) and an appalling lack of feeling and humanity. One of the LOWEST, CHEAPEST pieces of trash ever written, and one of the most UNSUCCESSFUL too!!!
Early Mae.......2001-09-04
This book uncovers every detail of Mae Wests early career. Though Hamilton seems to accent on the negative, those who love Mae West will relish in the new details and great photos. The author is the exact opposite of Mae West, one can easlily surmise, so every triumpth of West's is quickly dashed with a failure, indicating an almost peciliar jealousy on behalf of the author towards her subject! THAT is what makes this book so interesting.
read this book!.......2000-07-03
If you are interested in films, plays, censorship, New York, street life, sexual politics, life, oh yes, and Mae West, you just have to read this amazing book.
Witty, savvy, sophisticated, informed, nuanced, and in parts, just plain brilliant, this is a not-to-miss literary treat that emulates the style of its subject. Changed my life.
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This core text provides choral music educators with a well-organized and concise introduction to directing choirs and managing choral programs at the junior-high through high-school level.
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Expensive but worth every penny.......2002-07-24
This book is filled with quality hints and tips on how to organize a choral program at school! For the beginning teacher, it is an essential guide to help them understand what is needed to be a successful choral teacher and run a successful program at school, or as an extracurricular activity. Adversely, I find the book focuses on after-school choirs too much, but if this is what you need information on, you have a great book. The book has some very interesting suggestions on discipline within the choral group. There are also excellent musical suggestions and an excellent section on how to present choral pieces to a variety of group levels from beginner to advanced.
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Fun and interesting.......2005-08-02
This book is the most ambitious expansion yet on the Exalted Core setting. Though at first the idea of robot-Exalted living inside a planet-sized machine god (and who regularly use lightsabers, no less) seems more than a little hokey, once you actually sit down and read a few chapters, it all makes a lot of sense and is quite elegant. I was most impressed that this book came up with a believable and enjoyable system for building machine Exalted using the standard charm mechanics that are featured in every other book (excepting the mess that is Fair Folk), while simultaneously making them exotic and unique. Most importantly, you can pick up this book and bring it directly into a normal Exalted game (using the Alchemicals as party members, antagonists, or just shadowy background types) if you're so inclined - though perfectly capable of being a stand-alone, it can also be meshed without much work into an on-going game, even without using the massive Locust War scenarios presented in this book and Time of Tumult.
This time, the Deus is the Machina.......2005-05-28
Exalted: The Autochthonians deals with the people that live within the Primordial, Autochthon - their lives, philosophy, and their heroes, the artificially-created Alchemical Exalted. Originally introduced in the supplement Time of Tumult (WW8821), the servants of the Machine God are fully detailed in this well-presented treatise.
A (Very) Brief History of Autochthon
After the Primordial War, Autochthon swept up several thousands of human volunteers and refugees and departed for the Void, knowing full well that his presence as the last Primordial was going to aggravate the gods and their Exalted lackeys. These people founded nations within the Great Maker's body, and lived by his bounty in the form of Essence conduits, nutrient paste, and power taps. In time, the god's mysterious mechanical body processes caused these nations to drift apart, and alliances between them were made and broken as the continent-organs moved away from vital resources.
Autochthonian society is rigidly stratified into a ruling clique, known as the Tripartite; a massive workforce, the Populat; and a scrim of exiles, slaves, and criminals called the Lumpen. As there are no fields or herds within the Great Maker's mechanical self, the Populat labors at the engines of industry, mining or building at the Tripartite's command, while the Lumpen eke what living they may in the dark and echoing reaches between nations.
To lead his people, Autochthon brought forth the ancient, prototypical Exalted: artifical humans, composed of clay and Essence and instilled with a human soul. With milennia to refine and redesign them, these alchemically-synthesized heroes were optimized for leadership, combat, management, intrigue, and engineering, using a familiar caste system based on the five Magical Materials - orichalcum, moonsilver, jade, soulsteel, and starmetal.
Yet something has gone wrong during Autochthon's self-imposed exile; over the millenia, his store of human souls has grown dilute, with the result that many children are being born soulless (which is to say, dead). The nations within him drift farther every year from vital resources of water, power, and Magical Materials. In desperation, the technomystical seal that keeps Autochthon isolated in the Void is breached, and a small force enters Creation in hopes of salvation.
The Crunchy Stuff
Alchemical Exalted have some interesting game-mechanics differences that separate them from their Celestial and Terrestrial cousins. Firstly, an Alchemical's caste defines his primary Attributes: for example, an Orichalcum-caste Exalt has Strength, Charisma, and Intelligence as her caste Attributes. These Attributes get 9 dots to split between them. Then three other Attributes are chosen to receive six dots, and the remaining Attributes get four. As one may guess, this breaks the neat organization of Physical-Social-Mental, and it seems like a system open to a bit of player abuse. Not difficult, but not the most intuitive arrangement either.
Alchemical Charms, then, are all Attribute-based, leading to a situation similar to Lunars. Unlike their fleshly counterparts, Alchemical Exalted are modular and can actually swap Charms out with relative ease. This is because each Charm is actually a piece of Autochthonian technology, with an obvious physical component. Perception Charms might replace a character's eyes with Essence-charged optics, and extra Health Levels may be betrayed by armor plating. This modular design allows Alchemicals to have Charms standing by to be installed, bought with the Artifact or Vats backgrounds. Each Charm has a commitment cost that is paid out of a character's Personal Essence pool, limiting the number of Charms a character can wield at once. Charms are kept in slots, of which a starting character has eight: four General and four Dedicated. Dedicated slots must be filled with Charms based on Caste or Favored Attributes, while General slots are open to any Charm. Alchemicals can learn Celestial-level martial arts through the implantation of a special Charm, and Autochthon's peculiar metaphysics allows his Exalts to use a specialized version of sorcery.
Alchemical Exalts have animas, as one might expect. Their anima effects are reflexive and range from dice adders to soak boosts. As they spend Peripheral Essence, they begin to shed ephemeral traces of their Caste magical material in increasing quantities, until in full iconic splendor they display phantom images of machinery or billowing clouds of smoke and steam.
Rather than Limit, Alchemical Exalted suffer from Clarity, which works with a mechanic similar to an Abyssal's Resonance. Clarity measures the degree to which an Alchemical is attuned to the metaconscious hum of the Great Maker's mind: high Clarity means a character takes on a cold, ruthlessly efficient aspect, becoming in effect a free-willed extension of the Machine God.
The Book, Itself
Interestingly enough, the book opens with a statement to the effect that the entire following material is experimental in nature, and outside the "core" rulebooks of the game. So rather than a core book, what we have here is essentially a hardbound "fatsplat," with background material and Storyteller resources, rather than a canon addition to the game.
The first two-thirds of the book is dedicated to the Machine God and its minions. The last third is split between three adventure scenarios. The first is a recap of Time of Tumult's "Locust Crusade" updated to reflect the fuller understanding of the Alchemicals, called "The Locust War." This is a sprawling, high-powered campaign that ranges from the southern deserts to the shores of the Blessed Isle, with more gods, Deathlords, Exalts, mass combats, and First Age devices than you can shake a daiklaive at. The second adventure, "The Quest for the Great Source," is more oriented towards Alchemical Exalted characters, and deals with the diminishing number of souls within the Great Maker. He is dying, and either using up or losing the souls - if more are not found, Autochthon will pass on into the Underworld and become a new Malfean. The third adventure, "Engines of Extinction," examines the impact of Creation on life inside Autochthon, specifically that of the Great Contagion. As hundreds of thousands of human Autochthonians die, exposed for the first time to this terrible disease, shadowlands open within Autochthon, and a mighty Deathlord invades with dire consequences for all Creation.
The art is by and large well-done and relevant. The binding is moderately good, though after a week mine is making suspicious creaky noises. The prose and fiction is of quality (especially considering some of the editorial abominations White Wolf has released upon the gaming community in the past), and for the most part editing and proofing was spot-on.
Overall, I'd recommend this book to the Exalted completist. Nothing in it is vital to a chronicle that features Alchemicals as foes: in a way, this book destroys the mystique of the Alchemical Exalted in the same way that the Abyssals and Fair Folk books revealed, perhaps, too much about things better left to the Storyteller's and players' imaginations. Nevertheless, the setting is a rich one and any number of (steampunk? Essencepunk?) gritty, Orwellian games could be set within the Great Maker's world.
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A facted filled call to action, which Steve Forbes will use to lobby the President and Congress for real reform.
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Good idea, and surprisingly well written.......2007-02-08
Like any politically charged book this one (along with corresponding reviews) will likely get mixed reviews right along party lines. Conservatives will love it, progressives will hate it, blah-blah-blah. I think we've all had enough of it. So I figured it would be good to get a traditionalist's point of view, the opinion of a moderate, an independent.
First, the current tax code isn't working, so I welcome any idea for changing it. Steve Forbes proposes a flat tax, or what he calls a "fair tax", in which anyone over a certain income pays 17% income tax. We all pay the same percentage, but obviously different amounts. The rich pay more, the poor pay less, and the really poor don't pay at all. The interesting part is that Forbes uses strong, compelling evidence to support his contention that this will increase (rather than decrease) federal government revenues, that the poor will not suffer under the plan, that the rich will not squeeze through the cracks, and the economy will soar. He cites several other countries who have implemented similar measures and how well their economies have done afterward.
In addition, tax loopholes are closed so the rich can't use accountants to avoid paying their share, the IRS is disbanded, and we all pay our taxes with a simple 5 minute postcard. Sounds great. I'm sure there will be naysayers and "boos" and "hisses", but Forbes makes a strong argument here, at least one strong enough to be heard.
Helpful.......2007-01-10
My Dad gave this book to me for Christmas after I had been complaining all year about trying to do my own taxes. This book just makes you wonder why we have such a complicated tax code and who really benefits from keeping it so complicated; certainly not us the taxpayers. Thanks Steve - hope that you or another person working within the real world, i.e. not the political arena, makes a run for 2008!
We need a flat tax.......2006-12-21
The Flat Tax is very controversial idea that has sparked Steve Forbes to run for the presidency in the past. It is a very interesting idea and one that would do this country a lot of good. Sadly it will never be implemented due to political pressures but it is still fun to read about. This is a very quick book to read that lays out why we need a flat tax and what the oppositions says about it. Steve Forbes addresses some of the big objections and the book is very interesting to read. Highly recommend if you are interested in public policy and want a fresh approach. Especially nice if you think the AMT is useless.
Use the time you saved doing taxes to read a map of Europe.......2006-03-19
Paraphrase from one of the book's highlighted sections:
"In dramatically lowering taxes, Slovakia and its fellow Baltic states...." Since when is Slovakia (hint: small country, east of Austria, north of Hungary) a Baltic state?
This book contains the usual nonsense about doing your taxes on a postcard. We all know that the hard part is not in computing your tax, but in calculating your income. That's what all those IRS forms are all about. The only way to make it so simple would be to tax only reported wages - shifting all the tax to those who work for a living.
The Flat Tax is rearranging the deck chairs on theTitanic.......2006-02-28
I supported Steve Forbes Tax reform 10 years ago when he was trying to become president. I now support H.R. 25 the FairTax. It is a grass roots effort to reform our nations tax code from an income based tax to a consumption based tax.
Everyone keeps 100% of their paycheck without any deductions and it strips all of the embedded taxes out of the supply chain to provide the consumer with a set of tax free goods and services to be taxed only one time by the final consumer.
Simple, flat, fair, completely transparent, no winners, no loosers, and most importantly no tent for the camels to stick their nose in.
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