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This first book in English to focus on Boucher for nearly twenty years is an invaluable contribution to the study of eighteenth-century art. Boucher has cried out for reassessment, and here, at last, his work is seen at its very best in numerous beautiful reproductions. Jo Hedley brings new insights into Boucher's art, explaining both his stylistic development and his cultural context; she also examines his legacy, both in a survey of the influence of his imagery in many media and in a deconstruction of the myth of his libidinous personality, based on his art, not his life. Boucher's artistic legacy is also analyzed, demonstrating how the mythology surrounding the painter's so-called libidinous private life have continued to undermine serious consideration of his ability. "Splendidly written and lavishly illustrated, Jo Hedley's book on François Boucher is a pioneering publication . . . Hedley's book abounds in new information, fresh insights, and suggestive analysis."—Colin B. Bailey, The Burlington Magazine
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It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.
Crane compares nineteenth-century societiesFrance and the United Stateswhere social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups.
Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's designers operate in a global marketplace, shaped by television, film, and popular music. No longer confined to elites, trendsetters are drawn from many social groups, and most trends have short trajectories. To assess the impact of fashion on women, Crane uses voices of college-aged and middle-aged women who took part in focus groups. These discussions yield fascinating information about women's perceptions of female identity and sexuality in the fashion industry.
An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture.
Customer Reviews:
A scan read.......2006-01-08
overly distracting language, which constantly repeats itself in several chapters. There are good points within the book it just takes a while to reach them!
no class.......2002-01-31
this author has a serious misconception of class. this book is also extremely american-centric.
A superbly written, scholarly survey of fashion history........2000-09-09
Clothes choices and fashion style often dictate the creation of the self and its image: but how? Crane offers a somewhat scholarly exploration of fashion trends from 19th century France to modern America, drawing important links between style and social change. This approach will interest not only art libraries, but schools offering social science studies.
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A game of power, treachery, and violence plays out over possession of advanced alien technology discovered buried on the Moon. These "Emblem Seeds" can unleash incredible power, but only a few are capable of wielding that power, and those who can are as valuable as the technology itself. Separatist corporate terrorists have hijacked a shuttle to Earth with the intent of kidnapping one such paranormal, Kei Heidemann, but U.N. agents, led by the beautiful and deadly Attim M-Zak are out to spoil their plot. But if the agents fail, not only will Kei fall into enemy hands, but the crippled shuttle will collide with Earth's orbital elevator, cutting off the moon colonies and setting the stage for the Moon's independence... and potential war with Earth!
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Great action.......2006-06-29
The seperatists have hijacked the orbital shuttle on which Sunao, Kei, and Attim are riding. Also Dr. Heideman, Kei's adoptive father is there as well, and both the serpartists and the UN agents seem to think he makes a great hostage. There are some great fights between Attim and the hijackers. Sunao's power continues to grow. And we learn more about the reasoning behind the lunar revolutionaries plot. The artwork is, as always, amazing. The characters, the fights, the backgrounds are all beautiful. The writing is okay. The character interactions are good but some of the bad guys talk too much (but then isn't that what villains are supposed to do). Just like the previous five books, this book amazing to look at and fun to read. It ends on a "to be continued" note, so I'm eagerly awaiting the next volume.
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- Exellent!
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Simpsons Comics Barn Burner (Simpsons)
ASIN: 0060748192
Release Date: 2005-05-31 |
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The newest comic book compilation in a bestselling series dedicated exclusively to the exhilarating and extraordinary extracurricular exploits of Bart Simpson!
Bart Simpson is back with a brand–new collection of comics and stories loaded with headless dolls, evil aliens, impatient apes, crossing guards, chocolate laxatives, dreadlocks, loincloths, merit badges, computer viruses, juice boxes, bubble gum, greedy gold diggers, school pictures, parking tickets, time machines, Squishees gone bad, obsessive sailors, SWAT teams, and one big ugly fish.
It's all here in one 'beefy' book that is 100% Grade–A Bart Simpson.
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Exellent!.......2007-04-21
This book rocks! I think some parts of the book are weird and gay. For example, there is a part with Smithers being gay. But it rocks! And Halarious! So go buy this book right now! Yes, I'm talking to you. Go
buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
windsor Jr High - Nat.......2006-03-22
this is a very good book . it is very funny. i liked it alot
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Nice Illustrated Edition of the Most Famous Dracula Play........2005-04-20
This is a nice edition of the "Dracula" play that entertained audiences in the 1920s before being transformed into a classic film in 1931. The book contains two plays, in fact: The 1924 version adapted from Bram Stoker's novel by British actor/manager Hamilton Deane and the later 1927 American version adapted by John Balderston. The plays are illustrated with black-and-white photographs of performances from the 1920s to 1970s, the people involved in the productions, promotional posters, and miscellaneous items related to the plays. Interesting information about the plays, including quotations from old press notices, are found in the margins. David Skal, the book's editor and author of "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen", has written an informative introduction outlining how "Dracula", the play, came to be written and found enormous popularity in Great Britain and the United States.
Touring actor and manager of a theatrical company, Hamilton Deane was the first person licensed by Bram Stoker's widow to write an adaptation of her husband's popular novel -for a paltry percentage of the profit. First performed in 1924, Deane's play found popular success in the provinces before traveling to London. Deane took the role of Professor Van Helsing himself, and Raymond Huntley was the stage's first Count Dracula. This is a three-act play whose dialogue is unnaturally verbose and repetitive. As every adaptation is compelled to mess with the characters, the Texan Quincy Morris has been transformed into a woman. No one could call it good, and no critic did. But Deane's "Dracula" found wild success with audiences.
American producer Horace Liveright commissioned journalist John Balderston to rewrite the play for Broadway in 1927. Raymond Huntley reprised his role as the Count in America, and Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi took on the role as well, although his limited facility with English compelled Lugosi to learn his lines phonetically. The 1931 Universal film of "Dracula" was adapted from Balderston's play and starred Lugosi. John Balderston would find more success in Hollywood as a screenwriter, including an Academy Award nomination for 1944's "Gaslight". John Balderston's play is longer, more polished, and generally more effective than Hamilton Deane's. The character change in this version has Lucy and Mina exchange roles. The play received mixed reviews, but audience's loved it. After the 1931 film made him a star, Bela Lugosi retuned to the role on stage. The Balderston/Deane play had a very successful revival as late as the 1970s -resulting in another film- which featured sets designed by Edward Gorey and Frank Langella in the role of Count Dracula.
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- the rich and LOST art of conversation illuminated...
- Too Much of a Mixed Bag
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Conversations With Menuhin
David Dubal
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the rich and LOST art of conversation illuminated..........2005-12-26
Conversations with Menuhin is a bountiful book, fully engaged, intelligent, and important. It contains a lengthy conversation between two men - Yehudi Menuhin, by every standard one of the 20th century's greatest artists and thinkers, and David Dubal, a provocative writer and musician. I repeat: this book presents a CONVERSATION. It is not a smacking little knock off of injudicious tidbits, and not a glitzy, pre-packaged, hit-the-gossip points tv interview. Granted there are few enough Americans who any longer have even a vague notion of what conversation consists, but one finds in these pages what one may have lost. The vitriol often concocted against Dubal is simply fantastical, and displays an unfettered prejudice never explaining itself. Dubal is completely engaged as a full partner in a conversation with Menuhin, nothing less. The conversation takes place during the course of a number of sittings, and fully states so. Yes, one of course reads the book to absorb the thought of Menuhin, yet Dubal-- to his credit--respects Yehudi Menuhin sufficiently to engage himself fully as a worthy partner, enabling a wonderful conversation between two thinking people to ensue. And it's a beautiful conversation we're lucky to have. Both men are by turns humorous, unafraid, and knowing. Certainly the insights with which the book abounds lay waste to the regrettable idea that musicians should talk about Beethoven and play their instruments and leave engaged thoughtfulness to others. For those with such views, A Current Affair and Entertainment Tonight should remain your intellectual source, and more power to you. Don't be misled. I will turn to this book again and again to this thoughtful book over the years, finding in its richness and concision a poignant and vital antidote to a culture saturated to the point of delirium with the gross flimsiness of the worship of so-called entertainment values. Buy it, read it, be encouraged and renewed.
Too Much of a Mixed Bag.......2005-05-17
Editorial reviews are not always fair. Very often they are ambivalent and when they are not, it is because they are biased. Not so on this occasion. It hits the nail right on the head.
One should also take note that Menuhin is not the author, not at all! For the first part on musicians, there is some sort of balance between the interviewee and interviewer. Coming to the second and third part, the author alone is taking the lead, asking questions which Menuhin had obviuosly not given much thought to, and wouldn't care much about. Many of them are framed in a way that appears bizarre to any intellectual.
The most disappointing thing would rather be, there is not much on music and musicians. Who cares about what the author says anyway, if he was not talking to Menuhin? But if the author intended to eclipse Menuhin, what is the point of talking to him? That must be the reason why the book is titled Conversations With Menuhin: for this isn't even an interview as such!
In any event, the most detailed coverage Menuhin made was on his own mentor Enescu. That was apparently not to the interest of the authour. So the coverage was brief and is restricted to a few words of compliment on what a great violinist and musician he was. In response to the author's extremely leading questions, Menuhin also touched upon Kempff the pianist. Again, that was restricted to how his approach-- and approach only-- in interpreting Beethoven is different from the other less established pianists. He also mentioned about his admiration for Furtwangler, particularly the latter's relationship with Karajan and vice versa. Again, very brief. There is almost nothing beyond common knowledge.
Instead, the author at variuos points, instead of drawing from Menuhin's strength as a topmost music maker-- probabaly because of the author's inadequacy in making any genuine music -- verged onto exposing Menuhin's weakeness as a musicologist by showing himself off! The author at one point suggested that music after the Classical Period, be it Chopin or whosoever, is sensuous and devious... despite the fact that the author is so blind worshipping the sexually oozing Horowitz; and yet he is so quick in rediculing the childishness of the great modern composer and pianist B. Britten!! Fortunately, Menuhin avoided many such naive questions. How could anyone expect Menuhin, as a top performing artist, to comment on this, however true the assertion might have been? What kind of conversaton is this, when his guest has to resort to avoid the questions?
In the third part, what the author even roamed into politics and life and philosophy etc. He was in fact making a ridicule of both the interviewer and interviewee (and also the readers).
There isn't much substance in the whole book, not just the third part. And yet, with regret, that is about the breadth and depth of this book! This books should fairly and squarely be renamed "One-sided Conversations With Menuhin" a books that is engineered to boost the author's own fame in a rather reckless way. All stars given should go to Menuhin alone and for those taken away all, it was all because of the ulterior-motive and deficiency of the author and him alone.
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A solid sourcebook with good potential.......2001-10-20
Mercenaries gives the GM an outline of what merc companies are like in Rifts North America and gives you some new OCCs and (of course!) a lot of new hardware, including some pretty new things, like ships, retrofitted SDC weapons, and ultra-cheap power armor. It's not just new Wilk's, Triax, and NG product lines.
The character classes fill out the basic set pretty well: we now have forgers, spies, and bounty hunters, to name a couple, and while I have yet to put one of those OCCs through a campaign, I think they look pretty good. The Coalition military OCCs in the original Rifts book were very limited, and this gives you some needed depth.
My biggest gripe is the big mercenary companies that they profile. As they did with Carnivals in World Book I, or with spy organizations in Ninjas and Superspies, Palladium presents a point-based system for designing mercenary companies. They also give you about 5 of the chief mercenary companies in North America as example units. I think that some of them get pretty cheesy, especially when some of the chief NPCs for those merc companies cross-over from other Palladium games, such as a couple super-heroes from Heroes Unlimited, and a ninja (who is a mega-damage creature!) from Ninjas and Superspies. Yes, the nature of Rifts lets you blend many things into your campaigns, and that's cool, but if you abuse it, the system is no longer a tight story but a random pastiche of leftovers from other campaigns.
But a GM is not forced to use those things, and I would definitely edit the merc companies before placing one in one of my campaigns. Otherwise, this sourcebook is a good return to the atmosphere of the first few Rifts books, with dusty adventurers and gritty frontier towns. I like it a lot.
Good but not good enough.......2001-06-05
Rifts Mercenaries would have been good if it wasn't for the numerous amounts of mercenary non player characters. Their were too many of these, everything else including the character classes, weapons, mercenary group creation guidelines were excellent including Naruni Enterprises, Golden Age Weaponsmiths, Wellington Industries, Iron Heart Armaments, Smuggler O.C.C., Special Forces O.C.C. etc. Overall get this book if your a tech-head and like mercenaries, but if your looking for something more in-depth and adventurous get Rifts:Canada or the Siege on Tolkeen series.
Possibly the best book if you have all the others.......1999-12-15
This book is a great book, However, you should nnot consider buying this unless you have a fair selection of worldbooks etc. It has some excelent adventure ideas and is a quick way to obtain easy money (although this is not neccesarily good). It does have some equipment that is too good (mecha-knight power armour) but gm should use their common sense and not allow such vehicles to enter the games. Overall definitely worth buying
Good if you like mercenry group descriptions.......1999-09-01
Firstly let me say I disagree totally with the first review. If he can write better mercenery group description then work for an RPG company. You can't expect worldbook info on a book about mercenerys. I really liked the optional point system for making mercenerie groups and the weapons were cool.
A waste of time!!!.......1999-08-04
This book contains almost NO world information (and without world information, a book is purely worthless!), a few pages on mercs (which i could of pulled out of my arse myself and done a better job), painfully long descriptions of a buncha' mercenary groups (worthless, unless you enjoy reading character bios), and WAY too many weapons (we have enough guns already!) that are pretty darned overpowered, if i do say so myself! A munchkin's wet dream, and a GM's nightmare. DON'T BUY IT!
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Take an ordinary business. A bike shop. An auction company. An ice cream parlor. A sock manufacturer. In thoroughly mundane businesses like these, an entrepreneur must outsmart the multitudes of competitors, leap to the head of the pack, and become a dominant Alpha Dog.
Exactly how does an everyday company distinguish itself in the marketplace, generate much higher sales than its competitors, and earn the lasting loyalty of customers and employees? Is it cutting-edge products? Brilliant service? Ingenious branding?
Donna Fenn, a twenty-year veteran of
Inc. magazine, has discovered the people who have the answers. In a personal and probing style, she introduces you to eight Alpha Dogs. These men and women share their solutions and insights on how to rise to the top, despite multiple competitors, from Chinese manufacturers to Wal-Mart.
Readers will meet:
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Chris Zane, an intense, ambitious father of three boys. His Branford, Connecticut, retail bike shop has flourished among Wal-Mart, Sports Authority, and independent bike stores. He's done it by seeking out new markets and perfecting the art of customer service.
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Deb Weidenhamer, a tough woman in a male-dominated industry who transformed a traditional auction company with cutting-edge technology. While her competitors were still fretting about eBay, she was using the online auction giant as a training ground for her own innovative Web site.
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Amy Simmons, a former premed student who fell in love with the ice cream business in Boston and then founded her own ice cream parlor in Austin, Texas. With twelve Amy's Ice Creams stores in Austin, Amy's is the Austin hometown favorite, despite her deep-pocketed rivals, Ben & Jerry's and Cold Stone Creamery.
In accessible, conversational style, Donna Fenn tells each entrepreneur's personal story, shares their winning formulas, and offers nuts-and-bolts advice and practical tips. Alpha Dogs is a lively handbook for every current and aspiring entrepreneur.
Customer Reviews:
One of the few business books that is more than an expanded magazine article.......2007-07-30
This was a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring book, one of the few of its kind not marred by the author's huge ego, bad writing, or unfounded claims.
Because the profiled businesses are not in glamorous fields, their creativity is easy to see and quantify. I also enjoyed the way each chapter highlighted a different strategy.
It's a brilliant piece of work by an outstanding author. A must-read!
A neat little book for entrepreneurs to read when they want to be reminded that they can always improve the way they do business.......2007-05-17
I thought this was a wonderful book. Just about any president of an LLC or CEO of a corporation should want a copy of this book. It will help them do their jobs so their companies will be successful and not get overtaken by the competition. If their company is not the leader in its market, then this book can help inspire them to make their company a leader!
There are eight companies profiled in this book:
1. PR Firm (Service)
2. Auction Service Provider (Service)
3. Bicycle Retailer (Retailer)
4. Local Supermarket Chain (Retailer)
5. Motorcycle Retailer (Retailer)
6. Ice Cream Shop Business (Manufacturer, Retailer)
7. Sport Sock Manufacturer (Manufacturer)
8. Baking Company (Manufacturer)
I thought it was very nice that the profiled businesses were not all retailers or all service companies. The mix was just right for me.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the different businesses profiled, what made the book special to me were the tip lists at the end of each chapter. And what made the tip lists especially special was the way the author not only included tips from the profiled company, but also related tips from the other profiled companies. Everything in the book was interrelated and that's the way business is, too.
I would have liked the book better if the cover had not included the following statement: Eight Strategies for Success. I don't think it is an accurate statement. I think the book really includes just one strategy that is kind of complex. And that is: do things at your business so you beat the competition and make good profits. 5 stars!
A GOLD NUGGET IN EVERY CHAPTER.......2007-04-11
Having come from a 28+ year career in corporate America as a senior exec, I found this book to be SPOT on in theory and in practice. The book is full of thought provoking concepts with practical, concise, clearly laid out action steps that every small business can use. It's findings cut across most any industry and can be adapted to most functions within larger businesses. A quick and easy read full of BIG ideas.
Learn How To Create Fire In Your Business.......2007-03-30
It's like finding a mythical city - it's well known, but no one can tell you where it is or how to go about finding it.
This book leads the reader to that elusive success that seems to exist in large firms, but so often escapes the smaller ones. Ms. Fenn weaves tales that are as captivating as they are educational. They clearly detail what company owners have made key to their operations, why, and how they've executed it. Crafting extraordinary customer experiences, creating powerful employees, leveraging technology, mastering product innovation - all threads in a fabric of fantastic companies that separate themselves from the others in their industries.
If you aspire to unusual success in business, you won't be able to put this book down - unless it's to act on the million ideas you have as you read.
It's a real rush to see companies that have risen by capitalizing on commonsense ideals. Nothing fancy (except the technology), no MBA required. The principles are accessible by everyone regardless of background or experience. Our company actually introduced Alpha Dogs into its employee training and points to the book as a signpost to show people who we are, where we want to be, and how we plan to get there. Thanks, Ms. Fenn, for a launching a movement in our corner of the world.
Carla Morelli
President, FreyerMartin
Relax. Your bills are our business.
Differentiating Your Business Takes Guts.......2007-03-22
Donna's book highlights the fact that owning a business is not a perfect science. She confirms that combination of talent, discipline, knows-how, gut instincts, and risk are foundations for success. The entrepreneur's stories are fascinating, yet Donna summarizes each story with business axioms worth pondering and applying. Donna's approach to the "lessons learned" made this a book worth reading twice. The first read provides some "ah-ha's". The second read inspires note-taking. I've already given or recommended this book to clients struggling to differentiate their businesses.
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- Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- Health Hazards Manual for Artists: Fifth Revised and Augmented Edition
- Henri Rousseau's Jungle Book (Adventures in Art)
- Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
- How to Scrimshaw and Carve Ivory
- Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
- In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters
- Irish Dancing Costumes (The Irish Treasures Series)
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