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Painting the Changing Seasons in Pastel.......2001-06-19
Of all the pastel books out there, this is the keeper!I cannot believe it is out of print! Elizabeth Mowry is well known in the Pastel world and in this manificently detailed and illustrated book, she demonstrates why. This lady writes well,and unlike most artists who write books, has no vague generalities concerning what to use and how to use it to achieve the results that she demonstrates. Elizabeth Mowry's talents are in the use of pastels in the landscape and her work is stunning!As a professional portrait artist, I have utilized her pallet and techniques in combination with my portrait work and would recommend ANY of her books to any level of artist!
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Comics Junkie.......2007-07-31
Grew up reading this series. Now I have a permanent copy of my own. Good price and great product for comics junkies.
Nostalgia.......2007-02-06
For anyone who grew up with Pogo and Walt Kelly, this is a fun way to recall child-hood memories. It is also an excellent reminder of truly good cartoon drawing and writing. Much of the humor is as sharp today as it was when it was written, 40-50 years ago. Read, remember & enjoy.
I Go Pogo.......2006-11-10
It's an excellently printed anthology of the Possum. Long absent from bookstores - at least as far as I can tell - these early Pogo's are actually better than I had remembered. Now - for the other volumes ...
Gloriously subtle satire, but I miss the color........2006-08-14
'Pogo' by Walt Kelley was one of the highlights of our Sunday rotogravure comics pages back in the 1940s and 1950s, right alongside 'Mandrake the Magician', Prince Valient', 'Little Orphan Annie', 'Mutt and Jeff', 'Alley Opp', 'L'tl Abner', 'Nancy', and 'Henry'. In my early years, I usually gave it no more than a quick bewildering glance, with no more interest than I gave to 'Mary Worth', since I generally found the language to be just a bit 'ODD'. At that time, I had little appreciation that the dialect was all part of the joke, and I especially didn't appreciate the cleverly veiled references to current politics and culture. This way way more subtle than 'Doonesbury' is today. But then, with McCarthy and the HUAC, you had to be just a bit guarded.
While there is no question that this volume gives us material before the satire really kicked in, I still find it, unlike some other reviewers, to be at least as entertaining as 'Doonesbury' and 'Dilbert' combined.
By the way, it took me almost 10 years of reading this column as a pre-teenager to realize that Pogo was an opossum. But there is no 'playing possum' on these pages.
Still developing, but still great..........2005-05-08
Fans of Kelly's political satire won't find much to chew on in this volume. But that doesn't mean it's not a collection of great comics from the middle of last century. Kelly was apparently still developing his characters and his animal-infused "town" of Okefenokee Swamp in 1949. But the principle characters appear: of course Pogo and Albert, and Howland Owl, Porkypine, and the Rackety Coons. Along with innumerable transient characters such as the short lived Abou Ben Franklin (an electric eel that helps run the radio), Gopher Yerguns the rowdy gopher cowboy and his comedy team of Caterpiggles, the scheming Jacques Frost who impersonates a government agent and convinces Albert and Pogo to paint the tress and themselves, and the annual thanksgiving turkey (in disguise for obvious reasons).
Even without the politics, Volume 2 has plenty to offer. It all begins with the hunt for Beauregard. A lady bug hides in Albert's police hat and causes confusion; Albert and the bloodhound trade roles which gives Albert a chance to showcase his dog impersonation skills ("Birch! Birch!"); Porkypine figures out what a banjo is for after Boll Weevil serenades him; Porkypine tries out another fabulous joke while Churchy LaFemme gets mistaken for a lady (worms were dumped on his head); Howland Owl and Churchy LaFemme try to abscond with Albert's cigars (which involves Pogo dressing in drag); the first World Series; Wiley Cat and Seminole Sam try to cook Pogo for dinner - this sequence is insane - Pogo escapes by imitating a goat (with a magazine that reads "Bock is Back"), and by putting the kettle over his head and being mistaken for a turtle - this sequence ends with what might be the best strip of the volume: Churchy LaFemme attempts to summarize the plot while eating a "san'witch" ("Then -- mlfgob glf - haw wobs goolop - hug rotksplk"); Porkypine then tries to comfort Pogo by telling him "We never know who's next" and "if I was there an' they cooked you, I would not of eaten any."; the volume ends with Albert's run-in with a moose. There are plenty of good strips here.
The introduction contains information about Walt Kelly's tenure at Walt Disney studios. R.C. Harvey (who also wrote "The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History") gives a rundown of some of the politics of the day: Truman won re-election, the red scare scared the pants off of Americans (Kelly, like others, chose to remain silent about it), Mao came to power in China, Alger Hiss gets convicted for spying, etc. All of this while Pogo slowly developed into one of the best comics ever to grace newsprint. Great things take time. Walt Kelly wasted none of it, even in Pogo's formative years. Dive in and witness the development of a great comic strip.
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The sequel to the best-selling ANGRY LITTLE GIRLS!
The girls are back and angrier than ever! The sequel to the best-selling ANGRY LITTLE GIRLS features the hilarious return of this beloved cast of characters: Kim, the angry little Asian girl; Deborah, the disenchanted princess; Maria, the crazy little Latina; Wanda, the fresh soul sistah; and Xyla, the gloomy girl.
Now also an internationally successful merchandise license, ANGRY LITTLE GIRLS has attracted a dedicated following of thousands of fans. Filled with Lela Lee's culturally-charged, wry humor, this clever collection of new comics proves that there's an angry little girl inside of everyone.
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ALG are just so cute.......2007-04-01
This calendar is so cute. They have a picture for each month. The calendar was actually very professionally made. I thought it was going to be cheap paper but it is actually a real calendar.
Great Gift for my Angry Little Teenager :-}.......2007-03-17
I purchased this book as a gift for my 16 year old and she absolutely loved it. The 'Angry Little Girls' books help to bring a lighter side to the very roller coaster life of a teenage girl. Even though they are silly and fun, they really created a common iterest between me and my daughter. Also, she loves sharing the books with her girlfriends. They make great gifts. :-}
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Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks
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An unparalleled reference source in its field, this book offers a consumer guide to movie soundtracks, plus a rich history of composed film scores, movie musicals, and song-compilation scores created for motion pictures over five decades.
In addition to the engrossing historical text are biographical sketches of the many composers who have written film music, followed by a discussion of the best work of each and its availability on long-playing records or compact discs.
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older than i thought.......2007-01-15
I wish a bit more info had been given on the site, but it was in pretty good condition considering it was 10 years old
An indispensable, seminal, very highly recommended reference.......2001-02-21
In Sound And Vision: 60 Years Of Motion Picture Soundtracks, Jon Burlingame has created an indispensable, seminal, very highly recommended reference guide featuring a detailed history of Hollywood film music on record and compact disc. Also included are up-to-date biographical sketches of soundtrack composers from the inception of the movies down to the present day. Annotated listings of the best-selling, award-winning, or otherwise memorable soundtracks of the past and present (original film scores as well as movie musicals and song-compilation scores) further enhance this marvelous compendium. Of special note is the "user friendly" and comprehensive index so that the reader can quickly reference whether a particular piece of movie music is commercially available.
A love of film music and its composers.......2000-12-03
Although clearly a labour of love by the author, this is also an entirely professionally written and produced book. Perhaps wisely, it doesn't set out to be a comprehensive, definitive guide to film music composers and their recordings - this would have been impractical both in terms of the writing and the eventual weight of the tome! But what Jon Burlingame has done is to include a mini-biography of just about every important film music composer there has been up to the present day, plus a selection of what he considers to be their best works. This provides both an invaluable reference guide not only to composers but also an interesting debating point as to which of their scores should have been included.
It was pleasing to see a large number of photos of the composers and some record sleeve reproductions. Many potential readers will doubtless be familiar with the likes of John Williams, John Barry, Henry Mancini and Elmer Bernstein, but they'll also get the opportunity to see some 'golden age' composers, like Miklos Rozsa, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin and Franz Waxman, as well as relatively unsung heroes such as John Scott, Christopher Young and Rachel Portman, and those more associated with classical music, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The author's enthusiasm for the subject is very apparent and no stone has been left unturned in order to ensure this book becomes an essential purchase for all lovers of film music. An excellent effort, which is thoroughly recommended, not just to film music aficionados, but also to anybody with an interest in the cinema.
A Wonderful Book.......2000-11-24
This is a wonderful book. It's lovingly researched and was obviously put together by someone who cares about film music. It's recommended for reference and pleasure alike. Plus, the book has the courage to discriminate---we don't waste our time reading about plagiarists,..... who are not included at all.
An exceptional guide by an exceptional writer.......2000-11-22
Jon Burlingame is nothing short of a hero to many film composers, because in addition to the astounding depth of his knowledge about composers and their work, he shares a tremendous passion for what they do and effortlessly conveys that to his readers. "Sound and Vision" is an essential book for anyone interested in film music, not only because it contains fascinating information that can't be found anywhere else, but because it's written by a greatly respected and dedicated journalist whose enthusiasm for his subject is unparalleled.
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A mixture of the dire and the inspired.......2003-11-07
Gerard Hoffnung died in the year I was born -- 1959 -- at the absurdly young age of 34. Today he is best known for his cartoons and THAT speech to the Oxford Union, recorded a year earlier, where he tells the story of the bricklayer & the pulley and reads out some alleged replies from Tyrolean hoteliers to his wife's request for a room.
If you didn't know his age, you'd assume from his manner that he was a rather portly fifty or sixty-year-old. In his eccentric interviews with the North American Charles Richardson on CD1 of this collection, Richardson remarks more than once on Hoffnung's weight and diet. It is regrettable that Hoffnung, who died of a stroke, didn't take more notice of this warning.
The Oxford Union speech has long assumed classic status. I can remember in the 1970s my Dad playing me a recording of the speech on his reel-to-reel tape machine. His material wasn't entirely original -- versions of the bricklayer's tale have been known since the 1920s. But Hoffnung clearly had a fantastic, endearing rapport with his audience, who didn't seem to care that the stories he included in that speech had nothing to do with the motion that was being debated. The full speech is included in CD2, and in the last two minutes, Hoffnung brings his talk back to the matter that he was supposed to be debating -- giving a very earnest, personal view.
I have to say that, on the evidence of the rest of these two CDs, Hoffnung was overrated as a radio humorist. CD1 consists of 12 interviews with Charles Richardson which were broadcast by the BBC. The BBC must have been desperate for fillers in the 1950s! The sleeve-notes proudly declare that the only preparation for each interview was a quick chat in a nearby coffee shop, and my goodness, it sounds like it. Much of the time, Richardson is funnier than the bombastic Hoffnung. Now I understand why none of today's comics cites Hoffnung as a major influence. Roll on 'The Goons', 'Beyond the Fringe', and even the 'Carry On' series!
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In this easy-to-read guide, chess players go back to the basics of the Ruy Lopez, studying the key principles of its many variations.
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Starting Out: the Ruy Lopez (Starting Out - Everyman Chess).......2006-03-16
A good book to begin your exporation toward Master play in the Ruy Lopez. This book should be supported by another book on the Ruy Lopez that covers your favorite Ruy Lopez Varation in greater detail once you begin playing it.
Good start up book .......2005-02-07
The book was simple and straight to the point. Pretty good book to help a beginner understand the ruy lopez. If you already use it as part of your repertoire then you might want a more advance book. On the downside I will say that it could use more detail explanations on some of the lines covered - then again Im no beginner. However, its my belief that we should not rely on books to do all the work for us - memorizing countless variations and openings from books is never a good idea unless you are well above class A level. The book is exactly what it says on the cover.
A valuable introduction to the Ruy Lopez.......2005-02-02
This is an excellent book about the Ruy Lopez (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5).
It is for a range of players, but it is primarily for those who want to learn something about one of the most important openings in chess. And that includes near-beginners. It teaches the reader some of the characteristics of the opening, so that one can get a feel for how one would like to play it for White or Black. And it has plenty of recent games as examples. Shaw starts by telling us that if Black doesn't do something to stop it, White will simply play 0-0, Re1, c3, and d4 to dominate the center and bring her Queen Knight to the Kingside (from b1 to d2, f1, and g3).
In the chapter on third-move alternatives for Black, the book concentrates on the Berlin Defence (3...Nf6) and the Schliemann defence (3...f5). The Berlin Defence is popular these days (World Champion Kramnik has played it frequently) and it often gives Black a good endgame, so it merits plenty of space. The Schliemann is not a very sound line. However, the problem is that Black may play it anyway. Tame White responses generally give Black a chance to castle, play d6, and then launch a dangerous kingside attack. Aggressive play by White leads to complicated lines. So this is where Shaw quite properly spends some valuable pages.
Then there is a section on the Exchange Variation with 3...a6 4 Bxc6 dxc6 5 0-0. That's a good idea because White may very well want to play it, if only to avoid all the later defences. In addition, White generally gets an easy endgame out of it. This is a valuable line to learn for both sides!
Yes, Shaw barely mentions 3...a6 4 Ba4 d6 5 c3 f5 (the wild "Siesta Variation"). That's fair. He recommends 5 0-0 here, and it is unlikely that you'll get into it from either side.
Next comes the Open defence with 3...a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Nxe4 6 d4. This is a popular and very instructive line for Black, so it gets a few games. Right now, White has been doing well against it, but that could change as defenders do a little more studying. Here, Shaw mentions that Black can almost get away with 6...exd4 (the "Riga Variation"). This is an unsound but wild line that might even deserve an illustrative game.
There are seven games covering two very interesting sixth-move sidelines after 3...a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 b5 6 Bb3, the Archangel defence (6...Bb7) and the Moller defence (6...Bc5 or 5...Bc5). These are very active defences, so White will be in trouble if she faces one of them unprepared. And, of course, since they are active defences, plenty of club players will be playing them.
Now we come to the Marshall attack (3...a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 0-0 8 c3 d5 9 exd5 Nxd5 10 Nxe5 Nxe5 11 Rxe5). This is a very dangerous countergambit for Black, and it used to be very popular among club players and grandmasters. It is still popular, but less so, given that most folks with White (including Kasparov) now opt for the anti-Marshall with 8 a4. The Marshall is given four illustrative games. In all of them, Black plays 11...c6. Maybe 11...Nf6 (a weaker move) deserved at least a mention, since it is dangerous too, but it did not get one. I was glad to see the line with 11...c6 12 d4 Bd6 13 Re1 Qh4 14 g3 Qh3 15 Re4 included, along with the claim that Black can force a draw with 15...g5! 16 Qe2 f5 17 Bxd5+! cxd5 18 Re6 f4! The Anti-Marshalls also get four illustrative games.
That leaves only 19 games (out of 80 in the book) for the main line closed Ruy (3...a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 d6 8 c3 0-0 9 h3). And I think that is the proper balance. Main lines are worthless if one does not understand what to do if they are avoided. We see the four most popular versions: the Zaitsev (9...Bb7), the Smyslov (9...h6), the Breyer (9...Nb8), and the Chigorin (9...Na5). All are roughly equally instructive at the club level. I was glad to see four games with the Breyer, given that it gives Black very little active play but makes a White breakthrough difficult.
This is a wonderful introduction to the Ruy, and I recommend it.
Useless.......2004-11-30
I play the Lopez as black only, and was stunned to see that in the exchange variation, white wins all nine games in this book! 9-0! What could Shaw be thinking? He starts out the section by saying the Exchange isn't as good for white as the Ba4 lines, and then he show nine games where white wins all nine. And he doesn't really show improvements for black. Too many writers of opening manuals present one-sided results like this, and it presents a very skewed view of an opening's efficacy. By contrast, he has black winning a couple of games in the Schliemann, and everyone agrees that black should do better in the exchange than the Schliemann. I couldn't get past this stuff, as this was enough to make me forget about this book.
Impossible task done very badly.......2004-07-19
First I would like to say I have bought two other starting out books: Kings Indian Defence and The English. Both books were insightful and were very good primers for an opening repertoire. So I thought I would buy this book too, since the Spanish is pretty standard. The first thing that put me off was that the English and KID books were between 180-190 pages long, and considering one is a book on a defence and the other is a book on a less theoretical opening, I would expect the Ruy Lopez which is loaded with theory and can deviate into numberous setups that this book would atleast be equal in legnth. But it is a paltry 140 pages! Now the meat of the book. I was first dissapointed when I noticed that he only covers 6...dxc6 but not at all 6...bxc6 for the Berlin defence which results in much more interesting games, but I figured maybe 6...dxc6 is more fashionable since Kramnik plays it all the time, still it would have been nice... But the next major, huge, blunder of this book that is unforgivable, is at the very end where he puts the Chigorin defence, the most common defence in the ruy lopez. He dedicates 6 pages to it! The Berlin defence got 12, the friggin Schliemann Defence got 10!! He should have dedicated atleast 20 pages to the Chigorin alone (again the missing 50 odd pages), and the six pages he did cover are so sparse in covering the moves played its practically useless. The notes throughout the whole book aren't too insightful and aren't of much help in explaining the first few moves of a given variation (the point of any starting out opening book!) This book was already on an uphill battle craming an opening like the Ruy Lopez in one book, but it certainly could have been done a whole lot better, a good start would have been adding 50 more pages! So, if you want to learn the ruy lopez do NOT buy this book.
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Set the bar for outstanding performance
A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports. A timesaving job aid for any performance review or plan, the book:
- Makes it easy for managers to set high performance goals for executives, management, or non-managers employees
- Includes many categories of goals, from revenue and productivity goals to quality and personal development goals • Facilitates the goal-setting process across the organization
- Includes a guide to writing a performance plan for any employee
Featuring hundreds of ready-to-use performance goals, this practical job aid makes it simple for managers to set the bar for outstanding future results.
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Set Effective Performance Goals for Your People--Just Look Up the Right Phrase! In their previously published, top-selling book Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, Robert Bacal and Douglas Max described past employee performance. In Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals, Bacal and Max go a step further with hundreds of precisely-worded future performance goals. Use these "perfect phrases" in the context of an annual performance review to let your people know what is expected of them in the coming year, or use them in regular "performance planning" meetings to: Focus your people on the most important parts of their jobs. Clearly communicate your expectations Align employee goals with organizational priorities Improve productivity and morale in the workplace Reduce disagreements during performance reviews Raise the bar for performance You will find ready-to-use performance goals for both managers and employees, in many categories including sales and profit goals, quality and productivity goals, on-time performance personal development goals, and much more. This practical job aid makes it easy for managers to raise the performance bar, and focus their people on the organization's top priorities.
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An Effective Management Tool For Managing Right.......2007-10-05
I am a business consultant for client companies whose business size is $30-50 million sales.I have been consulting for 27 years.I continue to find department heads and general management lacking the experience or know-how in establishing goals for their departments, associates or the over-all organization.
The subject tool, provides a common sense method for jump-starting management in the establishment of departmental and organization goals.I use this tool as a instructional approach. I have found that clients improve their communications and specific action. The tool gives the manager confidence.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals.......2006-02-23
Lots of great ideas and thoughts to better express a behavior.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals - not so perfect.......2006-02-17
My reason for purchasing the book was to have a resouce for our employees to use as they are writing their goal statements based on the SMART goal matrix. I did not find it as helpful as I was hoping in demonstrating what a good, specific, measurable goals looks like. I think it gives you a few beginning words but should have expanded more within the examples.
Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals.......2004-08-07
When I order this book, I thought I will get lots of ready-to-use "Goals" which I can esay to set my subordinate's Goals. But I am very disappoint. Lots of Goals listing in the books are actually the working items not goals. Like "Deposit completed backups...", "Schedule all planned shutdown...". Therefore this book help me to setup the work items of my subordinate not set the goals.
Sam
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