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Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
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Long overdue is this look at a centuries-old love affair: the close relationship between art and fashion. From the Renaissance, when painters first sought to accurately capture the form, color, and texture of clothing, to today, when models strut down the runway in virtual works of art, the influence has flowed both ways. Illustrated throughout with paintings, designer sketches, and fashion plates, this groundbreaking study includes a chronology of art movements and appendices of fashion designers and fashion houses. It will provide a wealth of eye-opening insights to those who visit showrooms and galleries, and a treasury of creative inspiration for workers in studios and ateliers.
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Edited volume explores new technologies' effects on human beings. For scholars & adv students in communication & technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, design, and other areas.
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Fantastic Four By J. Michael Straczynski Volume 3 Premiere HC
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Collects Fantastic Four #540-545.
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Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.
The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.
Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter),
Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Customer Reviews:
Very funny bad verse.......2007-07-12
What sets this anthology apart from others on bad poetry is the quality and tone of the short editorial commentaries preceding each poet. These witty and elucidating notes enhance the enjoyment of the poetry. This anthology also seems to include the largest selection of what the editors of The Stuffed Owl anthology would call bad bad poets. Fred Emerson Brooks, for example, was noted for his partiality for writing in dialect, a crowd-pleasing late nineteenth century device. The Petras siblings include his "multicultural masterpiece" "Foreigners on Santa Claus" and his "particularly nauseating" baby talk poem "The New Baby." The latter qualifies for "The Worst Baby Talk Poem." Such stunningly awful examples of special bad poems are highlighted, labeled, and scattered throughout the text. Highly recommended even for serious readers!
Talented? No. Funny? Yes........2007-05-14
Let's qualify this review with how much I love bad things. I spend most of my free time wondering incessantly about what the creator of such inconceivable nonsense had in mind. Why did you, Ms. Parrington, think it was okay to write a poem about a 'dissected dog'? Why, William McGonagall, do you think your "mastery" of poetic license should have no meter, no forward movement and incredibly bad rhyme schemes? And, what the heck do you say to "Ode on a Mammoth Cheese"??? All in all, the Petras did a magnificent job of putting this compendium of what-not-to-do-if-you-want-to-be-a-poet. And, don't we all want to be poets? Keep trying and maybe you will be in volume 2 of this excellent awfulness.
Harmonious Hog Draw Near!.......2004-05-06
Great poets have their weak moments, but they tend to produce only the occasional bad line - say, for example, when William Wordsworth, one of England's greatest poets, wrote the unintentionally bawdy "Give me your tool, to him I said."
Very bad poets, however, "are perpetrators of a unique and fascinating kind of writing. Unlike the plainly bad or the merely mediocre, very bad poetry is powerful stuff. Like great literature, it moves us emotionally, but, of course, it often does so in ways the writer never intended: usually we laugh."
This book is dedicated to those writers, mostly from the 19th century, who excelled at very bad poetry with astonishing consistency. Those who were blessed, if that is the word, for their entire career with "a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, a bullheaded inclination to stuff too many syllables or words into a line or a phrase, and an enviable confidence" that allowed them to write despite absolute appalling incompetence.
Here we find the awful metaphor ("the dew on my heart is undried and unshaken") and the tortured rhyme ("Gooing babies, helpless pygmies,/ Who shall solve your Fate's enigmas?") next to one of the most unappetizing titles for a love poem ever ("I Saw Her in Cabbage Time").
Some of the most hilarious effects are created by the attempt to dramatize the pedestrian, as in the "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese", aptly subtitled "Weighing over 7,000 pounds":
We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize. (there are five more delicious stanzas)
Not quite as riotously funny, but interesting as a phenomenon of the 19th century, is the preoccupation of very bad poets with death. It produced tasteless marvels of what the editors labeled "tabloid verse" like:
Oh, Heaven! It was a frightful and pitiful sight to see
Seven bodies charred of the Jarvis family;
And Mrs. Jarvis was found with her child, and both carbonized,
And as the searchers gazed thereon they were surprised.
Another favorite of very bad poets is the use of bizarre words in blissful ignorance of their meaning or the common readers' associations. One of the most talented in this respect was one Amanda McKittrick Ros, "a writer with a gift for (as she puts it) 'disturbing the bowels.'" To her we owe the following lines written on the occasion of her visit of Westminster Abbey:
Holy Moses! Have a look!
Flesh decayed in every nook!
Some rare bits of brain lie here
Mortal loads of beef and beer
Some of whom are turned to dust, [only some?]
Every one bids lost to lust.
The editors' favorite worst poem ever written in the English language bears the title "A Tragedy" - which, indeed, it is. But I don't want to spoil the fun by quoting it here. My own favorite is an excerpt from "A Pindaresque on the Grunting of a Hog." Nothing describes the voice of a very bad poet better than the sounds this animal makes:
Harmonious Hog draw near!
No bloody Butchers here,
Thou need'st not fear.
Harmonious Hog draw near, and from thy beauteous Snowt,
Whilst we attend with Ear
Like thine prik't up devout,
To taste thy sugry Voice, which hear, and there,
With wanton Curls, Vibrates around the Circling Air,
Harmonious Hog! Warble some Anthem out!
Pindar, by the way, was the most famous lyric poet of ancient Greece. He lived in the 5th century BC and saw himself as a poet dedicated to preserving and interpreting great deeds and their divine values.
Another famous ancient Greek author ("Sing, o muse, the wrath of Achilles ...") inspired a very bad poet to what is perhaps the worst line of poetry ever written without satiric intent: "Now, Muse, let's sing of rats." In fact, the poet changed the last word from the original "mice" to "rats" because he found "rats" more dignified.
The most delightful drivel ever.......2002-02-20
I stumbled across this book, and immediately bought it, along with several copies for my friends as well. Taking it to a nearby coffee shop, I laughed so hard other patrons were staring, and somebody actually came up and asked me what was so funny. They seemed to think I was crazy for deliberately buying a book of bad poetry. Finally, I began laughing so hard I was crying, and had to leave to coffee shop to save some sense of dignity! With such gems as "Ode to a Ditch," and "Elegy for a Dissected Puppy," this book proves more interesting and entertaining than I expected, and is also a testament to the indomitable human spirit, which warbles the strangest of verses.
Ha ha.......2000-10-28
Bad poetry is one of life's greatest illicit joys, and there are some real gems here, along with much commentary by the editors who help explain why this stuff is so terrible in case you somehow can't figure it out. For my taste, there are too many little excepts here and not enough complete poems. For fans of this sort of thing, I also strongly recommend two other books. The first is "Pegasus Descending," an earlier collection of bad verse that was among the first of its kind. (I think it may come back into print in 2001?) Hilarious. The other is the catalog of "Moba," the Museum of Bad Art in Massachusetts. Lord, are those paintings funny.
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Mad, Bad and Dangerously Haddock: The Best from the Very Tall Poet
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The Honeymooners is one of most popular and widely syndicated shows ever, with fervent fans who can mouth every delicious zinger along with the characters. But how well do they really know the show--its background, its tiny details, its actors, its trivia? With this collection of more than 100 challenging, hilarious, and well-illustrated quizzes about Bensonhurst's best-loved foursome, they can finally find out. What is the full birth name of Art Carney? What are some of the more amazing properties of the Handy Housewife Helper? Can you name the Honeymooner who was born in China and spoke English as a second language? Do you know which episode showed the jacket of a Raccoon uniform for the first time? Filled with thousands of multiple choice questions, word scrambles, fill-in-the-blanks, and much more, this fantastic compendium will confound readers as they rack their brains and try to come up with more than "a mere bag of shells."
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Lost episodes.......2005-06-02
A true lover of the Honeymooners (Originals) would notice that this book contains mostly lost episode trivia.
The book is very well put together. The fact finding and pictures must have been a tremendous task.
My search is still on for a trivia book that contains only the original episodes.
Have you created a household utensil to do the work of all of these?
Humman a humman a humman a.
Can it core A apple?
Long live the Honeymooners. (the new movie will not do the show justice.)
New York's most famous bus driver.......2004-06-16
With the recent passing of Art Carney, I found myself reviewing all those episodes of The Honeymooners that I had taped over the years. I've always considered myself an "expert" of the show, and even as I laughed again at the antics of Ralph and Norton, and their long-suffering wives, Alice and Trixie, I discovered new things. Then a friend of mine told me about this book, "To the Moon!: The Honeymooners Book of Trivia" and discovered I was I mistaken about my expertise.
John Katsigeorgis has compiled a great list/quiz of Honeymooners trivia and created a thoroughly enjoyable book that any Kramdenophile will LOVE! The questions range from the obvious to the "I should have known!" to the real tough. An extra bonus is the sprinkling of dozens and dozens of photos throughout the book, many of which I had never seen. No lover of the show should be without this book, and it makes a great gift for anyone you know who is.
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Introducing America's Folk Music with free audio CD
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Introducing American Folk Music examines folk and closely related grassroots music, such as gospel, western swing, and folk-rock.
The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of these musics in the United States. Each new copy of the text comes packaged with a free audio CD containing recordings to accompany all the listening guides.
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Newly revised and expanded, this best-selling classic includes the latest rule changes and shows players how to adjust and maintain an edge on the casino. New update includes strategies and advice on playing blackjack on the internet and the 6-5 insurance rule-how it affects the odds and winning chances-plus a new section on strategies professionals use to beat the casino. The secret advantage strategies include shuffle tracking, front loading, back counting and more.
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Winning Casino BlackJack For The Non-Counter.......2007-05-12
This is a good reference for non-counting BJ player.
Fantastic beginner's guide!.......2005-12-07
Winning Casino Blackjack for the Non-Counter is a great strategy book for blackjack beginners. It gives comprehensive charts detailing which moves to make, but more importantly, explains the charts in understandable language.
I've tried other blackjack books, but they all just gave charts with no explanations. This one explains each move so you understand exactly why you make it, which makes it easier to remember at the casino!
This is the first blackjack book I ever used and it was a great starting point. Since then I've gone through a few more books and at my times at the casino, I made a killing! I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to start playing this game.
A rip-off..........2005-01-09
Nothing more than an advertisement for his expensive mail-order non-counter strategies. The strategy he claims to present in this book is misrepresented as a non-counting strategy, when in fact it is (he basically says estimate the number of high cards remaining by watching which cards have been played, which is the definition of counting). If you want the actual non-counter strategy, you have to shell out $50 for a mail-order packet. Stay away.
Buy it!.......2004-08-19
This book helped me incredibly understand the odds and help beat the casino at their games. I recommend it.
The best beginners/intermediate book around!!!.......2004-01-16
When I made my first trip to Las Vegas over 10 years ago, I was lucky enought to find this book in the bookstore, insightful enough to buy it and terrified enough of losing money to read it and put it into practice. Since that time I've play tens of thousands of hands of blackjack in casinos all over the Western Hemisphere. I've also bought and read lots of other books on Blackjack. This one is without question the best.
It gives good introductory information on how to play winning blackjack. It covers basic strategy, money management and other fundamentals in a clear, concise way. He explains the strategy in such a way that it's easy to understand and REMEMBER. And he leaves out a lot of the non-sense and self promotion garbage you get in a lot of other books.
Even though I have a rather large library of blackjack books now, I still find myself throwing this one into my bag to read as a refresher on the plane trip to Vegas.
It's not meant to be the be-all-end-all book on blackjack and it shouldn't be judged as if it were. There will come a point, if you get serious enough about the game, that you'll want a more advanced book. This is the best book I've found however to give you the "blocking and tackling" fundamentals of blackjack.
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Driving strategy through workforce performance In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm’s survival. Yet in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resource practices hinder employees’ ability to contribute to strategic goals. To maximize the power of their workforce, organizations must meet three challenges: view their workforce in terms of contribution rather than cost; replace benchmarking metrics with measures that differentiate levels of strategic impact; and make line managers and HR professionals jointly responsible for executing workforce initiatives. Building on the proven model outlined in their bestselling book The HR Scorecard, Mark Huselid, Brian Becker, and coauthor Richard Beatty show how to create a Workforce Scorecard that identifies and measures the behaviors, competencies, mind-set, and culture required for workforce success and reveals how each dimension impacts the bottom line. Practical and timely, The Workforce Scorecard offers crucial lessons for leveraging human capital to achieve strategic success.
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Hard to understand.......2006-11-10
The book has some good information but it assumes you have read the other companion books and can be hard to understand sometimes.
How to increase the ROI of human "capital".......2006-02-26
It is more important now than ever before to measure human performance accurately and consistently, especially given the rapidly increasing use of outsourcing which requires effective supervision of those to whom important tasks are entrusted. Although this book was written primarily for HR executives, I think it can also be of substantial interest and value to other senior-level executives as they are challenged to determine organizational priorities and then to formulate strategies by which to achieve specific objectives. I agree with countless others that is it difficult (if not impossible) to manage what cannot be measured. I am also convinced that appropriate metrics must be selected, and, that primary importance must be placed on measurement of those initiatives on which success (however defined) depends. The authors of this book provide a cohesive, comprehensive, and cost-effective program by which workforce success can be monitored and measured.
According to Huselid, Becker, and Beatty, their analysis "begins by being clear about what we need to know. If we don't know what we need to know, we will never know it. Too often we measure what is easy rather than what is right....Second, knowing a lot about the wrong thing not only is unhelpful, but can be misleading. The Workforce Scorecard points out that not all customers, strategies, or products are equal, [nor are all employees or workforces]...The harsh reality of managing people is that differentiation must occur, with some employees more equal than others." I agree while presuming to add that those who add the greatest value to the given customers are those who add the greatest value to the given employer. This is what the authors have in mind when noting the difference between equity and equality: "Equity means that those who give more will get more; equality means that all will be treated equally."
In this context, I am reminded of Carla O'Dell's discussion of many of these same issues in If Only We Knew What We Know in which she asserts that there are in almost all organizations what she calls "beds of knowledge" which are "hidden resources of intelligence that exist in almost every organization, relatively untapped and unmined." She recommends a number of strategies to "tap into "this hidden asset, capturing it, organizing it, transferring it, and using it to create customer value, operational excellence, and product innovation -- all the while increasing profits and effectiveness." This is precisely what Huselid, Becker, and Beatty have in mind when explaining the importance of identifying and then obtaining the information needed for managing human capital effectively to execute strategy.
I wish it were possible to reproduce within this brief commentary Figure 1.1 (on page 4) and Figure 1.2 (on page 7) which brilliantly illustrate the essential components of "Managing Human Strategy" and "Workforce Success: The Impact of Workforce Strategy on Business Strategy Execution." In fact, all of the Figures which supplement the narrative facilitate and expedite frequent review of the authors' key points after the book has been read.
With rigor and eloquence, Huselid, Becker, and Beatty examine three separate but related Challenges: Perspective (with an emphasis on differentiation), Metrics (and their relationship to strategy execution), and Execution (which holds senior executives and line managers accountable for workforce success). The authors suggest that all organizations which successfully meet these three challenges (i.e. those which "do it right") have these six characteristics in common:
1. HR professionals spend less time on employee performance than they did five years ago
2. The relationship between workforce success and strategy implementation defines the ROI of new HR initiatives.
3. Creating a shared mind-set is not taken for granted.
4. The HR function has a staffing structure that effectively balances the tension between being a strategic partner and delivering efficient and effective HR services.
5. Strategic workforce measures are "owned" and coordinated by a single individual or task force.
6. Senior executives, line managers, and HR professionals consider the results of the measurement system worth the implementation effort.
Although it may seem to some who read this brief commentary that this book will be of substantial value only to large organizations, I hasten to reassure them that, after appropriate modifications, what Huselid, Becker, and Beatty recommend can help any organization (regardless of size or nature) to improve the quality of their strategy execution by developing the right perspective on the contributions of its workforce to its success, and, by developing the right execution strategy to ensure that its managers are ready, willing, and able to use workforce metrics to drive business success.
I presume to add two additional points of my own: First, whatever the given metrics may be, they must be applied consistently so that variances can be identified and then addressed in a timely and effective manner. Otherwise, it will be impossible to measure accurately, for example, the discrepancy (if any) between what is expected of an individual and her or his performance. The same applies to departments, divisions, and business units as well as to the entire enterprise within which they are located. Also, while agreeing that what cannot be measured cannot be managed, I think that some measurements are more important than others. Hence the importance of setting priorities and then adjusting their order of importance when circumstances change.
A must read for every HR and Business Leader........2005-10-27
Workforce Scorecard is an awesome addition to the Strategy collection focussed on HR.
The authors clearly drive home the message that one of the key's to Business success is the focus on HR Strategy and Execution of the same.
Helpful for my conceptual way of doing.......2005-09-01
I have a rather intuïtive, conceptual way of thinking , working and talking. This book helped me to translate my ideas and feelings about wrong and right into a very clear approuch. It will surely help me doing my job as a consultant ! In our bussiness we're already much into BSC en HR-SC. This WF-SC was the missing link for me, when I am helping organisations and leaders to be succesfull in the execution of their strategy.
The only thing that frighten me was the "A"-player, "C"-player logic. I meet to much people that do not feel responsable for their own carreer (employability) ... what must we (organisations, society, coaches ...) do to help these people to become "A"-players again. If they don't feel the need ... no one can help them ! And what if one day, I become a "C"-player ?
Philippe BAILLEUR
HR-Consultant
SD WORX - BELGIUM
Covers both academic principle and the needs of practical reality.......2005-07-04
Two Professors of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University and the Chairman of the Department of Organization and Human Resources of SUNY-Buffalo combine their knowledge in The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy, a guide written especially for business leaders and CEOs looking for a means to accurately assess their human resources and capital. Chapters address how to build an evenhanded and objective "workforce scorecard", the role of line managers, workforce metrics, ideal communication and learning programs for the workforce scorecard, how to focus on the goal of a more productive workplace through expert selection and management of human capital, and much more. A slightly general but solidly written treatise that covers both academic principle and the needs of practical reality.
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