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Barbra Krugeer Rules.......2001-01-26
I ordered this am awaiting it's arival. I went to the Barbara Kreuger exibit at the Whitney and It's the best art show I've ever seen. Her work is topical and cutting and an accurate criticism and contempt of societial standards in the Western world. If you want to be smart understand Barbara Kreuger.
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Although the Victorian white wedding dominates western bridal dress and large portions of former colonial empires, marriage rituals vary significantly throughout the world. The Japanese, for instance, combine both traditional ceremonies with receptions utilizing western approaches to dress. In the Andes the bride will personally create a multi-layered dress to showcase her weaving skills. Berber brides in Morocco wear binding clothing that covers their faces, a notable contrast to Canadian prairie-province brides whose stylized gowns individualize and enhance body shape.
This engaging book examines the evolution and ritual functions of wedding attire within the context of particular cultures. It raises questions as to the relationship between contemporary wedding attire and traditional values. It discusses the changes international migrations have had upon the wedding dress of several ethnic groups. It provides insights into numerous societal relationships to weddings, such as the ban on bridal-produced embroidery in dowries in India, the challenges individual values have to larger societal ones in themed weddings, and the relationship between the return to pre-western attire and identity politics. Exploring these issues, the authors provide unusual insights into the centrality of dress in shaping individual identity as well as its importance in reflecting cultural values and ideals.
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An Investor with over 30 years of experience in Real Estate and 25 years as an Income Tax Accountant tells how he profited with Real Estate Partners. Included are detail instructions on how YOU can set up and profit from your own Real Estate Partnerships.
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Life changing!!!.......2006-05-31
This book and this man's wisdom has given me and my family an oppurtunity to truly thrive in life!! The ability for the average person to obtain wealth seemed very distant to me before studying this workbook. Now I know there is a logical, realistic way to make wise decisions concerning real estate to put myself and my family on the right track to a successful and productive future! It is so much easier and safer than I could have imagined. I am very thankful for finding it!!!!!
Excellent Book!!!.......2005-02-23
This book was exactly what I needed. It was very informative and very easy to understand.
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Valuing Undivided Interests in Real Property provides real property appraisers with a working knowledge of the requirements of business valuation and business appraisers with insight into the underlying real property and its appraisal techniques. The text explores family limited partnerships and common tenancy and demonstrates the methods applied to value these business relationships.
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Real Estate Limited Partnerships (Real Estate for Professional Practitioners)
Theodore S. Lynn ,
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THIS IS ABOUT MY LIFE AS A STOCK MARKET SPECULATOR. AND MY GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION FROM A CONSERVATIVE BLUE-CHIP INVESTOR INTO A STEELY EYED, RIVERBOAT GAMBLER WITH NERVES OF STEEL. WHO FOUND WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR IN THE STRANGE AND WONDROUS WORLD OF MICRO-CAP INVESTING. ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU INTO MY WORLD. A WORLD WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A FORTUNE ON A CHUMP-CHANGE INVESTMENT.
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How to make a killing on a chump-change investment........2007-05-30
My pen name is Big Al. I am also the writer of this book. When you self - publish a book if you don't review and promote it, then no one will. Which is what I am doing now. I have read dozens of investment books and they all ignore the almost unknown world of small-cap and micro-cap investing. Not to mention my specialty of penny mining stock investing. And yet this is precisely the world where the small investor of limited means can make a killing. Once you make your first killing in my world you will be in it for life. Just like I am. Let me introduce you to my world. A world where you can make a killing on a chump-change investment.
The most exciting thing about my world is that anyone can afford to enter it. You can become a player for an investment as low as $500.
A "must read" for any investor!.......2007-04-12
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced investor this book is a must read. The stock market can be very complicated, but Fred's forty years of knowledge and experience gives you the insight needed to invest correctly and make big returns on your money. The book is easy to read, a mixture of intellgent writing with humorus anecdotes. I highly recommend this book!
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Getting started in real estate syndication: A practical guide to forming, operating & profiting from limited partnerships
Richard R Solem
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How to Evaluate Real Estate Partnerships
Robert A. Stanger , and
Keith D. Allaire
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Limited Partnerships: How to Profit in the Secondary Market
Richard Wollack , and
Brent R. Donaldson
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Partnership Power: How to Profit and Reduce Taxes Investing in Real Estate Partnerships
Robert P. Gerend , and
Christopher Piper
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superior (in every way) to the movie.......2007-07-23
Books usually are. This is the one to get--if you're interested in The Ed Wood Story.
I read bits and pieces of Wood's prose on the internet--and the funny thing is, or maybe I should say the INTERESTING thing is, he was far better at writing prose, than he was at writing movie dialogue and directing.
The problem with Eddie's paperbacks is that the guy was so damn obsessed with crossdressing. Why? Why couldn't he stay away from it for a while, at least long enough to write a paperback or two or three (even) without having the male lead dress up in a bra and angora sweater?
Sheesh. Stuff gets old after a while.
It's easy enough to relate to him for wanting to do something in the creative realm (as a filmmaker, etc.), and not be able to pull it off.. I mean, whose heart doesn't go out to him for that? Better yet, to anyone? Who couldn't get that?--other than the typical businessman who is solely focused on the bottom line, making a profit?
Anyway, this book has the whole story. It's a sad tale--with a downer of an ending. What can you do? The cards had been dealt--and poor Eddie's hand did not show much promise.
And the biggest BUMMER OF ALL is that people out there are making tons of money off this guy's hard work and sweat!
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Ed Wood Through The Eyes of Those Who Knew Him.......2006-12-16
This is a labor of love, taking ten years and many interviews, as well as research, to give us the best hope we'll ever have of getting an understanding of maverick Ed Wood.
The structure is mostly clips from interviews, letters, and some of Wood's works, mostly interviewes. Thus one gets a sense of Ed Wood that in no way tries to be objective - instead it's about people who knew him, and their statements stand on their own (even when they conflict). There is actual research done as well - filmographies, book summaries, a small history - but most of the book is interviews.
The style however actually works - someone like Ed Wood may not always leave a very good trail. In addition, being very much a unique person in the unique culture of bargain-basement hollywood, personal testimony is just about the only way to have a hope to comprehend his stories.
The result is a fascinating, personal, and respectful book on a surprisingly complex man. Don't expect any punches pulled either - Ed Wood for all his likeability and charm (which he had in spades), was an occasional conman, and as his life degenerated, he fell into alchoholism, poverty, and domestic violence. Do expect a very personal portrait.
This book is an absolute must for any fan of Wood, B-movies, and the underside of Hollywood. As I write this it is out of print, but I gladly shelled out the money for a used copy. May it return to press soon - but you owe it yourself to get it.
Touching bits and pieces of a fascinating person........2006-06-08
Rudolph Grey has interviewed many of the people who knew and worked with Edward D. Wood Jr, and the entire book is compiled of quotes from these people. This non-narrative style may at first seem boring, but it's not. It is fascinating and touching, sometimes funny and tragic and gives a good understanding of several aspects of Ed Wood.
It also contains many pictures and a detailed list of Wood's films and books, including plot descriptions. This definately is a must-have for everybody who is interested in Ed Wood or old Hollywood independent films in general.
Bitter Truths of Personal Failure, Pornography, and Alcoholism.......2005-10-16
Born in 1924, Wood was a highly decorated WWII Marine with an itch to wear women's clothes, make movies, and drink to excess. During his lifetime he would be notorious for transvestitism and alcoholism; he would also be involved in some twenty films, all of them cheaply made, all of them remarkable for their ludicrous incompetence. At the time of his 1978 death he was a raving drunk scratching out a living by writing pornography, and his film career was considered so trivial that not a single industry trade paper bothered to run an obituary.
But time does strange things. Within a few years of his death, Wood's films began to gain a cult-following, and in 1992 Rudolph Grey published NIGHTMARE OF ECSTASY, a loosely structured "oral history" of Wood's life as related by those who knew him best: his various wives and girl friends, his actors, his employers, his friends. The book would form the basis of Tim Burton's brilliant 1994 film ED WOOD.
Wood comes off as considerably less likeable here than in Tim Burton's bio-pic, which stopped short of detailing some of his more unsavory antics--including fraud, vicious alcoholism, the occasional fit of wife-beating, and his work in pornography. The Ed Wood of the 1950s might have been fun to know, at least so long as you didn't have any money in his ventures; the Ed Wood of the 1970s, however, was someone you would might have crossed the street to avoid.
Although a number of Wood's acquaintances led solid lives and attempted to help Wood as his life spiraled out of control, by and large Wood seems to have acted as a magnet for Hollywood hustlers, riff-raff, and trash--and before too long Wood himself became indicative of Los Angeles lowlife scene. While the interview subjects give conflicting accounts of specific events in Wood's life, the end result is the same: a tremendous sense of wasted effort, futile dreams, and unending pathos. This is some seriously bitter stuff.
NIGHTMARE OF ECSTASY concludes with a fairly solid chunk of factual data, including biographical notes on interview subjects, a chronology of major events in Wood's life, a bibliography that includes passages from Wood's novels, a comprehensive filmography--and even an annotated list of projects Wood was never able to get off the ground. I recommend the book, but I do so with a warning: if you're looking for a restatement of Tim Burton's film, you'll be significantly disillusioned.
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Sobering Look at the Dark Side of Hollywood.......2005-08-06
I first heard of Edward Wood Jr, the so-called 'Worst Director of All Time', when the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood" was released in 1995. Although the film is excellent, it does paint quite a rosy picture of Wood's life. The story in this book is much grimmer.
The book itself is a collection of interviews with the people who knew and worked with Ed Wood, copiously illustrated with black and white photographs, and covers his life and career. There are many entertaining stories here, covering the making of such films as "Glen or Glenda", "Bride of the Monster" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and the reader encounters a wide variety of eccentrics, losers and dreamers, who Wood met living on the fringes of Hollywood.
Sometimes the recollections of interviewees contradict each other, but that is memory. Grey doesn't give his own opinions on the interviewees and their remembrances but wisely stays outside and avoids judgement. The book is a fairly comprehensive account of Wood's life, but it is let down by mispellings, and often the phots are quite hard to see. It is however a must for anyone interested in Wood, 1950s "B" movies, or Hollywood.
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Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations Between Poetry and Music
James Anderson Winn
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Character sheets created especially for the Eberron Campaign Setting.
Encased in a handy pocket folder featuring a beautiful piece of Eberron artwork (never before seen in its full glory), these character sheets contain all the information from the D&D® Deluxe Player Character Sheets, with modifications and additional material appropriate for game elements unique to the Eberron setting. In addition to the standard D&D classes, a sheet is included for new class introduced in Eberron-the artificer. Each character folio is four pages long and includes not only extensive space for a character record, but space for roleplaying information and campaign progress as well. Spell sheets for spellcasters are also included.
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From noted Six Sigma consultant and author George Eckes, Six Sigma for Everyone explains the underpinnings of the revolutionary quality assurance methodology, offers in-depth examples, and outlines the impact and desired end result of implementation. Whereas, most Six Sigma books are written for executives and practitioners of Six Sigma and tend to be overly technical or strategically focused, this book is written specifically for employees of organizations thinking about or already attempting implementation.
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Great Six Sigma Book.......2007-05-30
This Is a good book for anyone wanting to understand Six Sigma a little better. I had a basic overview of the Six Sigma concept but this book helped explain it in much more detail. I would recommend this to anyone looking to learn more about Six SIgma.
A good introduction, but an introduction only.......2006-11-06
For anyone who even doesnt know what Six Sigma stands for (say, 3.4 unhappy customer experiences per million opportunities), this is a good book for him/her, especially if his/her company is not yet a practitioner of Six Sigma and he/she just doesnt want to appear ignorant in front of other business executives. It's short, but has covered, though briefly, the key tactics and tools. The "key learnings" section in the end of each chapter and Chapter Six "The 10 common questions about Six Sigma" very much are definitely pluses. However, if one really has to work it out, I am afraid this would not be the optimal choice.
p.s. I am obliged to deagree with the author, a Six Sigma Consultant's descripton of Six Sigma as the "Most popular management philosophy in history" and a surefire weapon for business warfare.
Six Sigma for Everyone .......2006-03-17
This is an essintial book for those leading the initiative in lean. Recommended for all quality and managerial personel
Excellent descriptive of Six Sigma.......2004-08-06
This is a good book for the person that may be involved in Six Sigma. It instructs you about how the process works and what is required of you. A book that I highly recommend.
Highly Recommended!.......2004-06-10
George Eckes has written a concise, thorough introduction to the theory and practice of Six Sigma, the management philosophy that Jack Welch called the most important initiative of his entire career at General Electric. The book provides a look at every aspect of Six Sigma. In some places, it seems a bit too detailed for so short a book - particularly when the author introduces the variety of statistical charts, graphs and tables used in the analysis phase of Six Sigma. But that is a quibble. Eckes also gets a bit self-serving when, in the question and answer chapter, he takes a swipe at consultants who agree to work on a contingency basis, for a percentage of the savings a client achieves, instead of for a fee. In fact, we, where we are always glad to avoid a squabble, note that managers who use this book may achieve some level of business improvement without hiring any consultants at all.
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