Book Description
Children will find artistic inspiration as they learn about iconic artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in these imaginative and colorful activities. The art and ideas of Kahlo and Rivera are explored through projects that include painting a self-portrait Kahlo-style, creating a mural with a social message like Rivera, making a Day of the Dead ofrenda, and crafting an Olmec head carving. Vibrant illustrations throughout the book include Rivera's murals and paintings, Kahlo's dreamscapes and self-portraits, pre-Columbian art and Mexican folk art, as well as many photographs of the two artists. Children will learn that art is more than just pretty pictures; it can be a way to express the artist's innermost feelings, a source of everyday joy and fun, an outlet for political ideas, and an expression of hope for a better world. Sidebars will introduce children to other Mexican artists and other notable female artists. A time line, listings of art museums and places where Kahlo and Rivera's art can be viewed, and a list of relevant websites complete this cross-cultural art experience.
Customer Reviews:
Latin American Culture and Art.......2007-07-12
Great resource for teaching about Latin American artisits and culture. The project ideas were original and the background information was very helpful.
Book Description
To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.
Throughout the ages, the stripe has made its mark in mysterious ways. From prisoners' uniforms to tailored suits, a street sign to a set of sheets, Pablo Picasso to Saint Joseph, stripes have always made a bold statement. But the boundary that separates the good stripe from the bad is often blurred. Why, for instance, were stripes associated with the devil during the Middle Ages? How did stripes come to symbolize freedom and unity after the American and French revolutions? When did the stripe become a standard in men's fashion? "In the stripe," writes author Michel Pastoureau, "there is something that resists enclosure within systems." So before putting on that necktie or waving your country's flag, look to The Devil's Cloth for a colorful history of the stripe in all its variety, controversy, and connotation.
Customer Reviews:
An ode to stripes.......2006-10-04
Within western history, clothing fashion changes century to century as various styles go in and out of vogue. One of these styles is the stripe, whether it be vertical or horizontal. This book covers the use and misuse of stripes in clothing of all sorts from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Concentrating mainly on Western Europe with some forays into the Middle East and the US, this author tells a brisk tale of how stripes went from being a mark of outcasts in the high days of the Catholic Church, to its triumph in fashion by the late 1800s, to its now universal presence around the world in the 20th century. The book is written in chronological order, and the author shows how stripes were present or used to identifiy various individuals as belonging to certain castes, groups, professions or religions. Likewise, the words for stripes in various European languages are inter-related, and share interesting relationships with other words. The central point of the book is that stripes went from being a perjurative symbol hundreds of years ago to now a commonly used symbol in everyday fashion and style. Overall, a quick and interesting read.
Way Short of its potential.......2006-08-19
This book has great potential but doesn't quite live up. Perhaps something is lost in the translation. In reading, I felt the author was referring to things but didn't completely explain himself. Here's a sample, p74: "The relationship between the child and the stripe is very old. Some medieval pictures already show infants wrapped in strips of cloth forming a striped structure meant to hold on their diapers. Later, under the ancien regime, in aristocratic circles, when striped clothes are the fashion among adults, they are also the fashion for children." So we've gone from medieval swadling clothes to the seventeenth century with the blink of an eye, and no explanation as to what he's talking about! How about some evidence? Maybe more explicit references in the text of the book and not in footnotes. Absolutely more illustrations. How can a book about a visual experience get by with no pictures?! I'm glad this was a library check out, because if I had purchased this book I'd be very disappointed.
Lost opportunity for ILLUSTRATIONS.......2005-05-20
Informative, well researched little book. I so wished for more pictures of the many stripes and striped items described!
A unique and unusual history of stripes and striped fabric.......2001-10-15
Michel Pastoureau's The Devil's Cloth is a unique and unusual history of stripes and striped fabric will appeal to the interested needlecrafter, costumer and quirky artist, as well as anyone else who would receive insights into fashion, styles or changing clothing. From a medieval scandal revolving around striped habits to national stripes and displays of stripes in clothing, The Devil's Cloth is an impressive and scholarly work which is informative reading and an enthuiastically recommended survey.
Lingering Questions.......2001-10-12
Prostitutes, bastards, traitors, Beelzebub, Cain, jugglers, clowns, hangmen, lepers, heretics, adulterous wives and non-Christians were all depicted as wearing and sometimes actually required to wear stripes in the Medieval era. A Middle Ages black hat designation as it were, striped clothing served as a visual shorthand judgement of the person donning such garb. Before eyes could discern more subtle notations, stripes announced a lack of cherished virtue(s), marking the wearer as a person at best on the fringes of the mainstream social mores. Such were stripes-barres.
What did striped cloth and clothing mean? Why, indeed, would it mean anything?
In the first chapter, Pastoureau muses `The problem of the stripe does indeed lead to pondering the relationship between the visual and the social within a society. He then poses the questions `Why does the West, over the very long term, have the majority of social taxonomies expressed through visual codes? Does the eye classify better than the ear or sense of touch? Is to see to classify? Why is the derogatory sign system-the one that draws attention to outcast individuals, dangerous places or negative virtues, more heavily stressed than the status-enhancing systems?' The questions are disquieting, staccato, sometimes painful.
About 225 years ago, the American Revolution's use of stripes was adopted in Europe's changing fashion and social mores. But the pejorative striped garment remained alongside the playful and fashionable stripe as a mark of the social outcast, the inmate, the madman, the thief. What does that say about Western culture? Did we, and do we continue, to use stripes to hold at a safe distance the questionable? Do we use barred barriers to allow us to peer safely onto the unclean, the disturbed without being subject to the reach of their conditions? Is the stripe a visual sign of our attempt to control our surroundings?
While pondering the author's questions, the notion of sacred geometries and M.C. Escher returned time and again. Try as I did to expel the distractions of what seemed only marginally related, the nebulous concepts persisted. The unsettling truth is that stripes are an "uncontained," open-ended geometry. Escher's birds and lizards were closed systems, stripes have no end, even when severed, the stripe marches beyond mere visual boundaries. A geometric renegade, stripes defy enclosure in any manner. And we react to them with both caution and delight.
This beautifully designed little book falls short only in its visual delivery once opened. I was left wanting full-color plates of the black and white given examples of striped clothing since about 1240.
This is a book worth reading and adding to one's library, worth mulling over the questions it asks. Again and again.
Book Description
"From first line to last, Speak of the Devil moves with a rare combination of intrigue and intensity. Its engine runs on high octane adrenalin. Richard Hawke delivers a winner."
--Michael Connelly
It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving morning in New York City. Perfect day for a parade, and Fritz Malone just happens to have drifted up Central Park West to take a look at the floats. Across the crowd-filled street he sees a gunman on a low wall, taking aim with a shiny black Beretta. Seconds later, the air is filled with bullets and blood.
Fritz isn’t one to stand around and watch. A child of Hell’s Kitchen and the bastard son of a beloved former police commissioner, Fritz is all too familiar with the city’s rougher side. As the gunman flees into the park, Fritz runs after him. What he doesn’t know is that he is also running into one of the most shocking and treacherous episodes of his life.
Though Fritz assumed that chasing down bad guys is perfectly legal, the cops hustle him from the scene and deliver him to the office of the current commissioner, who informs Fritz that someone dubbed “Nightmare” has been taunting the city’s leaders for weeks, warning of an imminent attack on the citizenry. What’s worse, Nightmare has already let the officials know that the parade gunman was a mere foot soldier and that there’s more carnage to come unless the city meets his impossible demands. The pols don’t dare share this information with anyone–not even the NYPD. What they need for this job is an outside man. And in Fritz they think they’ve got one.
Racing against the tightest of clocks, Fritz finds himself confounded by Nightmare’s multiple masks and messengers. The killer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. But as Fritz’s frantic investigation takes him from a convent in the Bronx to a hookers’ haven in central Brooklyn, the story behind the story–complete with wicked secrets on both sides of the law–begins to emerge. As Fritz zeroes in on the terrible, gruesome truth, the killer retaliates by making things personal, forcing Fritz to grapple with his deepest fear: sometimes nightmares really do come true.
In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes. It’s literary suspense that doesn’t let go until the last page.
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"From first line to last, Speak of the Devil moves with a rare combination of intrigue and intensity. Its engine runs on high octane adrenalin. Richard Hawke delivers a winner."
--Michael Connelly
It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving morning in New York City. Perfect day for a parade, and Fritz Malone just happens to have drifted up Central Park West to take a look at the floats. Across the crowd-filled street he sees a gunman on a low wall, taking aim with a shiny black Beretta. Seconds later, the air is filled with bullets and blood.
Fritz isn’t one to stand around and watch. A child of Hell’s Kitchen and the bastard son of a beloved former police commissioner, Fritz is all too familiar with the city’s rougher side. As the gunman flees into the park, Fritz runs after him. What he doesn’t know is that he is also running into one of the most shocking and treacherous episodes of his life.
Though Fritz assumed that chasing down bad guys is perfectly legal, the cops hustle him from the scene and deliver him to the office of the current commissioner, who informs Fritz that someone dubbed “Nightmare” has been taunting the city’s leaders for weeks, warning of an imminent attack on the citizenry. What’s worse, Nightmare has already let the officials know that the parade gunman was a mere foot soldier and that there’s more carnage to come unless the city meets his impossible demands. The pols don’t dare share this information with anyone–not even the NYPD. What they need for this job is an outside man. And in Fritz they think they’ve got one.
Racing against the tightest of clocks, Fritz finds himself confounded by Nightmare’s multiple masks and messengers. The killer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. But as Fritz’s frantic investigation takes him from a convent in the Bronx to a hookers’ haven in central Brooklyn, the story behind the story–complete with wicked secrets on both sides of the law–begins to emerge. As Fritz zeroes in on the terrible, gruesome truth, the killer retaliates by making things personal, forcing Fritz to grapple with his deepest fear: sometimes nightmares really do come true.
In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes. It’s literary suspense that doesn’t let go until the last page.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Give Me A Million Dollars.......2007-08-31
Here's an idea. Why not write a novel about a wisecracking PI? Sound fresh to you? I didn't think so. Maybe if we inaugurate a distinct writing style. Let's have the author. Write in. Short. Incomplete sentences. And let's wow the audience with some really snappy language. You and I get up in the morning, and put on our clothes, but PI Malone "worked my way into some fresh skins." These linguistic tics aside, RH writes a passable mystery story in which shoe leather investigation still rules. Forget the science fiction world of CSI, Malone hits the streets and digs up clues.
There's some good fun and suspense here as he tracks down a bad guy who shoots up parades, and demands some serious money from the city of New York. What do our tough police commissioner and our tough mayor do when he requests a million bucks? They say sure, no problem, and pack up the funds in a backpack (will 10,000 hundred dollar bills fit in a backpack?), and have our guy Malone bring it to a shopping mall.
About this time a believability alarm starts ringing in my head. Why would the city involve a PI to do all of their detective work for them? Why would the city immediately acquiesce to the demand for money? Why does the killer want the money to go to a group of nuns, one of whom is a lush? Why does he keep cutting of the fingers of the deputy mayor, and finally why does this tale have an unbelievable, outrageous ending? This book is a real wall bouncer, meaning that when you finish the thing you toss it against your living room wall.
On the plus side, it is reasonably well written, and some of the dialogue is funny.
Oh what a tangled web we weave..........2007-07-18
PI Fritz Malone just went out to get some bagels. When the shooting starts, he becomes involved, attempting to chase down a gunman. He becomes involved in a complex case that is not going in the direction that anyone wanted. When he starts turning over stones, there are a lot of surprises.
The case is interesting, at least enough to keep me reading. The main complaint that I had was that the author, at points, started sounding like the driver of a tour bus giving tourists a description of the city with historical footnotes added in. There was, perhaps, a little too much background color.
The novel has some amount of violence and language, about what you would expect in a PI type novel, with minimal sexual content (mostly by reference). It tends to be written as a thriller novel.
NYC based crime thriller.......2007-06-24
Richard Hawke's initial novel "Speak of the Devil" was a memorable effort containing ample doses of suspense and intrigue with an array of heroic and depraved characters on both sides of the law. Hawke's fuzzy demarcation between good and evil in his characters helps establish the unpredictable nature of his storyline.
Hawke's sarcastic protagonist Fritz Malone a gumshoe and illegitimate son of the ex-NYC police commisssioner unwittingly gets drawn into drama while performing a typical morning ritual for Big Apple denizens, buying bagels. It happens to be Thanksgiving morning and Malone decides to espy the parade. Without provacation a crazed gunman takes aim at actress Rebecca Gelpin dressed as Mother Goose and begins firing. Malone miraculously manages to save the actress who happens to be superstud NYC mayor Martin Leavitt's girlfriend. Others are not so lucky as a trail of slain victims are left in the aftermath.
It turns out that the mayor and Malone confidante police commissioner Tommy Carroll had been forewarned about this gutless attack via a noted penned from a faceless villain known as Nightmare. Malone who single handedly apprehended the suspect named Diaz was brought in for questioning and stunningly learned that Diaz was killed while in police custody.
So begins a reign of terror orchestrated by Nightmare who increasingly ups his monetary demands to desist with the violence. Malone gets recruited by authorities to find this madman and soon finds that there are some curious connections to the 95th precinct based in Brooklyn's Fort Peterson. This group of cops was scandalized by massive amounts of graft and corruption. Malone is also steered to an order of nuns who recently were at the center of controversy themselves. One member, Sister Margaret was found to have committed suicide, her body found in Prospect Park.
Malone advised by his mentor and girlfriend Margo's dad Charlie is led through the seamy underbelly of Brooklyn looking for a notorious criminal prince of the streets Angel Ramos who is suspected of being Nightmare. While in pursuit he unveils a much more convoluted plot than he expects as he strives to thwart further mayhem conceived by the devious Nightmare.
Boring.......2007-06-10
Very procedural, no emotional connection to any of the characters, if you are a fan of the genre avoid this, very dissapointing.
Couldn't put it down........2007-05-09
I am always thrilled when I discover a new author whose story line and unique writing style keeps me turning pages.
Customer Reviews:
Others are better.......2002-08-13
Some of the other books are better.
Never a DULL moment.......2002-03-18
In the spirit of MADD, you KNOW the editors will never let you down.
The Laughs are enless, the satire is diehard and the art is truly amazing
FOR MADD FANS ONLY>>>>
I'm a huge MAD fan, but this book is disappointing!.......2001-07-06
I consider myself one of the biggest MAD fans in the world, but this book is a bit lame to the high standards of MAD. Maybe I just can't relate to all the movies because I'm not a big fan of the movie spoofs. Tha reason the book got two stars was merely because of the comics about movies in general, and a few good jokes by the likes of Dick DeBartolo and other great MAD writers.
Isn't It Ironic?.......1999-12-09
The satires are tremendous. The artwork and dialog are right on.as they once said. I only regret that the editors (both are MAD blue pencil people) and Time-Warner's marketing/merchandising machine took advantage of this material to promote themselves and their 75th anniversary (who cares?). I'll bet that they didn't spend a lot of money on this particular promotion, since MAD is owned by these mega-moguls. No, Time-Warner guys are mega-moguls. Meglin is simply a mega-Meglin and Ficcarra is, well, misspelled.
Cool magazine, cool book!.......1999-07-19
I love Mad magazine and I love all movies, so this book was the BEST thing that combines the two!
Book Description
Tony Millionaire grew up in the seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts where his grandparents taught him to draw ships and old houses. After spending thousands of Sunday afternoons gazing at his grandfather's collections of old newspaper comics, he picked up a pen and started drawing monkeys with striped tails and top hats. He now writes and draws the comic book Sock Monkey as well as the weekly strip "Maakies," which has won him three Eisner Awards and has been animated for Saturday Night Live. He lives in Pasadena, California with his wife and daughters.
Customer Reviews:
perhaps the best sock monkey story yet..........2007-06-06
wow! tony millionaire sure knows how to pull the most wonderful surprises out of his hat. not that is surprising to find a cleverly written and brillantly illustrated book by him, but nonetheless, this book is something else. sad and poetic and utterly wistful, children of all ages, and particularly children who have suddenly discovered that they have mysteriously gotten older and things have changed, will find this book quite appealing (and maybe even disturbing, in a good way of course...) i would give this book 5 stars for the last page alone...what can i say...BUY IT!
Customer Reviews:
Fetishism haunts cinematic apparatus, then and now,.......2003-12-19
and this lucid and caustic study gets fetishism just right, in revealing close studies of works like Citizen Kane and Imitation of Life, revealing the cover up of labor and the will to domination, as well as the pleasures in the narrative drive to see/not see. Curious spectacles that allow the cinema-goer to keep going, even as the US power of fetish covers up exploitation with glamour and sheen and fashion and sublimity, not to mention the recent drive to romanticize imperial fascism in works like Hero. Gladiator, and The Last Samurai. Laura Mulvey is necessary reading, still.
Inspirational Sparks.......2001-11-23
One should read this collection of essays, not for answers to the great philosophical questions in art, but for inspiration. Mulvey's polemics, filled with unsupported assertions and often strange conclusions, are not philosophically sound. These essays, however, are provocative and one cannot help but respond, either in sympathy or in rejection to her works. A risk taker, she gives birth to ideas that have transcended the boundaries of third-wave feminist criticism and have found their way into mainstream theory. Mulvey is a must read for feminist theorists and critics in the visual, literary, theatrical and filmic arts.
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Most books about the Beatles reveal the big picture first and ask questions afterward. This book reverses that approach. Revolution takes a fresh and often funny look at the magnificent and sometimes idiotic career path of the Beatles through the prism of one vital album-a record considered by many (including John Lennon) to be the one on which they reached their peak as songwriters. It focuses not just on the intimate recording details and creative process, but on the politics, music, and culture of the era, as well as the band's individual development amid increasing dissolution. In crisp and witty prose, the inside stories behind the making and release of the album are revealed: how the White Album got its look and name; why it included the most experimental track the Beatles ever recorded; how it inspired the bloody massacres of Charles Manson and his "family"; why Ringo Starr walked out on the sessions and who replaced him; the actual identities of "Dear Prudence," "Sexy Sadie," "Martha My Dear," "Julia," and "Bungalow Bill"; on which song Yoko sang lead; which song is about Eric Clapton's teeth; what songs were left off the album; and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Waste of time.......2007-04-16
One would have a hard time believing that this was author David Quantick's most beloved album, as he spends a good deal of the book making snide and sinister comments regarding the band members songwriting styles and personalities. "Revolution" reads like most any Pitchfork Media review; pompous and arrogant. And really, that's all the book is... one painfully long album review. The factual meat of the book is spotty at best and comes from the most commonly recycled Beatles tales.
This book will only amuse the most casual of Beatles fans, and even then may border on unreadable with Quantick's snobbish tone. "I Will" a throwaway? Come off it.
While George Harrison's Ghost Gently Weeps..........2007-01-28
So you say you want to read about Revolution? Well you know, this book ain't gonna change the world.
A title from Acapella's "Vinyl Frontier" series, Revolution is more along the lines of an extended album review than it is a "behind-the-scenes" blow-by-blow (a turn of phrase which wasn't much off, judging by how the Fab Four began to go off each other by the late 1960s). Mr. Quantick always seems to be two or three steps removed from the source material when he regales stories of the Beatles' disputes and conversations in and beyond the studio, giving the book as a whole a decidedly unfamiliar feel.
The majority of the book is devoted to a highly subjective editorial-charged rundown of the 30-some songs on the two-LP set known popularly as "The White Album," but in reality titled The Beatles. There are some deliciously snarky remarks offered with no apologies about tunes for which the author apparently didn't care (of George Harrison's masterpiece "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the author describes a "big bloaty thing" which "inadvertantly invented '70s rock, which is arguably a bad thing but ensured the sale of small cigarette lighters for the next decade." Get it?), however they feel somewhat forced as if the author - with his tone of studied hipness - wanted to be Bigger Than The Beatles with his narrative presence in the title.
If a person wants to know absolutely everything there is to know about the famed British rock group, then this would be a nice starting place, as the material is neither fresh nor innovative. It is a brief read, best enjoyed with a copy of the album in question playing in the background. As a stand-alone piece, the book barely works at all.
Though for all its faults, the book looks almost as cool as the actual album cover of The Beatles when placed on an otherwise bare coffee table.
A worthwhile and interesting book........2006-09-12
I'm not sure exactly why some of the other reviewers were so harsh in their reviews. I found this book to be very interesting. It is fairly well detailed and presents a good overview of the Beatles' White Album. I love the White Album and I thought that this book was very interesting.
What rubbish!.......2006-09-08
I am trying to find alternate uses for this book. It doesn't make a good coaster or frisbee. I thought about giving it to the dog instead of a new chew toy but he is not interested in it either. Frankly, who is interested in the author's opinion of his favorite White Album songs? I'm not. Personally, "Helter Skelter" and Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" are my favorite songs on the album. So the author doesn't like those songs. So what. Who cares? You don't need to write a book about it...
Interesting but Flawed Insight into a Classic Album.......2006-03-22
I read this book cover to cover in 5 days which is quite rare for me. I found it to be a pretty good read with a couple of minor flaws which include some factual inaccuracies. What's annoying about these inaccuracies is that the correct versions are pretty much common knowledge that have been previously documented in numerous & more authorative tomes. One glaring example being that Jimmy Nichol temporarily replaced Ringo for the tour of Holland & the Far East (including Australia & New Zealand) in 1964 NOT 1965 as stated by the writer...sheesh most Beatles fans knew that one. Also for the record the Band's debut LP was not "The Band" which came out a year later but was in fact "Music From Big Pink" and it's interesting that this much revered LP didn't merit a mention in the author's list of "Significant Rock Albums of 1968" despite being lauded by such luminaries as George Harrison & Eric Clapton!! I was also rather bemused with the 10+ page profile of Yoko Ono, particularly reflecting on the "influence" she had on the Beatles. While I don't totally discount it, she got one page more than the space given to their Producer George Martin, a man who probably had 10 times more influence & effect on their overall careers.
The one effect the book has is that it makes you listen to the album with "new ears" especially wher little noticed things are pointed out. Overall it's an enjoyable insight to a rather great LP.
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What's more fun than a crossword puzzle and more addictive than Sudoku? It's Kakuro of course - the latest puzzle craze to sweep the nation. Puzzle Master Timothy E. Parker, known in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the world's most syndicated puzzle compiler," offers 150 brand new puzzles to tickle your brain and transform you from a number-stumbling novice into Kakuro Master.
*Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles
*Five extra-large Bonus Puzzles
*Rules, Tips and Strategies
*A list of "unique sums" which are the key to unlocking the logic of Kakuro
*A "Complete Sum Chart" listing every possible answer (Kakuro's answer to the crossword puzzle dictionary)
HOW TO PLAY: Kakuro is a crossword with numbers that serve as the clues. The numbers you are given in the black cells represent the sum of that row or column. The goal is to enter digits 1 - 9 in the white cells to add up to the number stated. You cannot enter any number more than once.
Warning: Kakuro may cause you to forget reality, lose all sense of time, miss your bus stop, and wear out all erasers in a three mile radius. Use with caution!
Customer Reviews:
My favorite Kakuro book ever........2007-05-25
This little book has it all. Easy to follow instructions. Several levels of difficulty and, most importantly, a COMPLETE SUM CHART. I love it.
Book Description
Whether you’re a CEO or a file clerk, it’s important to understand Sarbanes-Oxley, the post-Enron legislation aimed at keeping corporations honest and ethical. However, with over eighty pages of dense, wordy language in the statute and thousands of pages of related congressional hearings, getting a firm grip of SOX can fluster even the most well-informed businessperson.
Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies is the no-nonsense, plain-English guide to this new law that leads you through its rules and pronouncements, giving you a sense of how to anticipate future trends and traps in this area of the law. With this trusty book, you’ll get a handle on the important aspects of the legislation, how it affects you and your company, and how companies can comply more cost-effectively. It provides you with the knowledge to:
- Understand why SOX was created
- Determine what aspects of SOX apply to your company
- Develop meaningful standards for your company
- Institute cost-effective compliance with SOX
- Manage and streamline Section 404 compliance
- Find specific SEC laws and pronouncements
- Interpret media accounts, court cases, and economic projections
- Avoid lawsuits and regulatory actions
- Anticipate future SEC rules and PCAOB pronouncements
This book also shows you how to build an effective audit committee and makes suggestions on sensible precautions that every manager should take in order to avoid legal troubles. Complete with the entire Sarbanes-Oxley act and sample documents, Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies helps you discover how to follow the law and protect your business.
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A simple guide to the complex new accounting rules under Sarbanes-Oxley Accountants, lawyers, business owners, and corporate managers of all kinds are currently dealing with the biggest change in corporate governance since the 1930s. As full implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act gets under way-bringing large changes in corporate accounting and disclosure-managers everywhere need a plain-English guide that explains the legislation simply and practically. Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies provides an implementation framework for firms as they struggle to come into compliance; explains key provisions in the legislation; and identifies specific actions needed to achieve compliance. In addition, this straight-to-the-point guide presents a summary of best practices, smart business policies, and invaluable compliance checklists. Jill Gilbert, JD, CPA (Milwaukee, WI), is an accountant, a former tax consultant, and an attorney who runs her firm's Sarbanes-Oxley consulting division. She is also the author of two For Dummies technology titles.
Customer Reviews:
Soxcess!.......2007-08-25
The provisions for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance are only mandatory for
public companies that file a Form 10-K with the SEC - however, more and
more companies are being encouraged {pressured?} to voluntarily
comply with SOX - a good example of which is the United States Postal
Service. Why is this? Because in a free market capitalistic society,
there exists a need to bolster investor confidence in the reliability of
publicly reported financial information. No one wants another Enron.
This book does a great job of laying out - soup to nuts - the SOX
landscape and its key provisions. Everything from the AICPA checklist to
WorldCom misconduct, and everything in between (Arthur Andersen
[remember them?], COBIT, COSO, Enron, Kenneth Lay [departed], and Sox
Sections a plenty - presenting an excellent and at times compelling
picture of Sox, how we got here, and where we're going.
SOX was enacted July 30, 2002 - so if you feel the need to rapidly
graduate off the "SOX dummies list" [their title, not mine], then by
all means get this book!, and be a Soxcess!
It's All There.......2007-08-03
Great book. Simple and complete. Sox is explained in easy to understand language. I recommend.
Great for non-financial executives.......2007-06-08
I am a CFO of a public company as well as a partner in a CPA firm. The book was very informative but for me it was 75% stuff I already knew. The software chapter was heplful but seemed biased. The book has several minor technical errors but nothing that would really mislead a novice. I bought 5 more copies to give to my controller, board chairman and a division president, as well as to two clients. My six year old son gets a real kick out of the title and exclaims "Sarbanes Oxley for Dummies!" every time he sees it on my night table (could he be a budding SOX consultant??).
Publisher should read "Printing for Dummies".......2007-06-08
The introduction was good ... then about 30 or 40 pages into the book, the subject suddenly changed to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Yes, somehow the printer put about 40 pages from a different book into this one! Amazon easily accepted the return. But from now on, I will need to touch a "(Fill in the Blank) for Dummies" book before I buy it.
SOX for Dummies.......2007-02-13
This book is great.....very easy read, interesting and informative. It gives you a background on how the stockmarket got started and all the insight since the great depression and the crash through to the scandals of today. It too bad that history does repeat it self.
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- How to Draw Knights, Kings, Queens & Dragons (How to Draw (Watson Guptill))
- If You Lived Here : The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism : A Project by Martha Rosler (Discussions in Contemporary Culture , No 6)
- Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
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- Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Commun
- Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
- May I Feel Said He
- Mulligan Stew
- Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
- Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
- My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
- Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement
- Maybe You Know My Kid ù 3rd Edition: A Parent's Guide to Identifying, Understanding, and Help
- Magnificent Percheron
Study & Teaching
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Frida Kahlo: The Artist who Painted Herself (Smart About Art)
Salvador Dali and the Surrealists: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities (For Kids series)
Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities
Diego Rivera (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
