William Bailey: Studio Fictions

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It is commonly known that fashion is big business, yet given its global significance, little has been written on the phenomenon of the fashion system. Instead, books have tended to focus on dress history, although recently the discipline has taken a more theoretical turn, with a spate of books appearing that analyze the underlying forces motivating fashion. This pioneering book unites theory and practice to provide an integrated series of snapshots taken from different perspectives of the fashion business in the second half of the twentieth century.

Featuring contributions by leading experts in three main areas of important debate within the industry - the theory and culture of fashion; design and industry; and image and marketing - the book will be an essential reference for students, practitioners and theoreticians. It addresses such key issues as: the relationship between culture and clothing; the intersection of fashion and modernity; the origins of glamour; the role of creativity and the power of design; the chain store challenge; the age of the thinking designer; retail concepts; and minimalism in fashion. It is certain to be required reading on fashion courses and in related disciplines, including media, cultural and consumption studies.

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Better comic than calendar.......2006-02-25

This selection is not nearly as funny as the Non-Sequitur books and strips that I am used to seeing.

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Philosophy Goes to the Movies is a new kind of introduction to philosophy that makes use of the movies to explore philosophical ideas and positions. From art-house movies like Cinema Paradiso to Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix, the movies we have grown up with provide us with a world of memorable images, events and situations that can be used to illustrate, illuminate and provoke philosophical thought.

Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An introduction to philosophy, Second edition

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a popular approach

Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An introduction to philosophy, Second edition
Christopher Falzon
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415357268

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From Metropolis to The Matrix, from Gattaca to Groundhog Day, films can help to illustrate and illuminate complex philosophical thought. Philosophy Goes to the Movies is a new kind of introduction to philosophy, that makes use of film to help us understand philosophical ideas and positions. Drawing on a wide range of films from around the world, and the ideas of a diverse selection of thinkers from Plato and Descartes to Marcuse and Foucault, Christopher Falzon introduces and discusses central areas of philosophical concern, including:

*the theory of knowledge

*the self and personal identity

*ethics

*social and political philosophy

*critical thinking

Ideal for beginners, this book guides the reader through philosophy using lively and illuminating cinematic examples including A Clockwork Orange, Mulholland Drive, Blade Runner, Modern Times, Wings of Desire and The Lord of the Rings. This fully revised and updated second edition features an expanded introduction providing guidance on teaching and discussing philosophy through film, as well as new material on notable philosophers such as Rousseau, Aquinas and Nietzche, and discussion of a wide range of recent films.

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This is a new kind of introduction to Philosophy that uses the movies to explore philosophical ideas. Ideal for the beginner, this book guides the student through philosophy using lively cinematic examples including Total Recall.

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a popular approach.......2007-06-01

Every author wants as large an audience as possible. Given his field of philosophy, Falzon takes the approach that teaching this via popular movies is one way to get attention. Hence, by looking at examples like Star Trek: The Next Generation, he segues into discussions of self and personal identity. Bringing in luminaries like Locke and Kant. Probably a far easier approach than traditional philosophy texts that invoke these people and their writings.

It also affords some lighthearted ways to raise serious issues. By considering Groundhog Day or High Noon, the book brings in questions of morality and justice. At a level made comprehensible by these common cultural references.

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A Good Introduction to French Baroque

The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau (The New Grove Series)
H. Wiley Hitchcock , Edward Higginbottom , Graham Sadler , and Albert Cohen
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A Good Introduction to French Baroque.......2000-04-05

This is a very good introduction to the most famous French baroque composers: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin and Rameau. The book gives an account of each of the composers' lives, lists all their works and comments on their style and major achievements. It is easy to read and one quickly gets a basic overview. However, if you are interested in a deeper exploration of the composers' opus, you may find yourself wanting more details. In that case you may want to read "Marc-Antoine Charpentier" by Catherine Cessac for more information on Charpentier or "Jean Baptiste de Lully and his Tragedies Lyriques" by Joyce Newman. Both books are very informative and detailed.

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Ambitious idea, mixed results

One of the poorest adventures I've yet seen!

When authors are paid by the pound.

Prophecies, Good or Bad

Sprawling Epic

The Wheel of Time: Prophecies of the Dragon
Aaron Acevedo , Evan Jamieson , Michelle Lyons , James Maliszewski , Charles Ryan , and Paul Sudlow
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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ASIN: 0786926643
Release Date: 2000-01-01

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The Shadow Looms Ever Nearer

The events leading up to Tarmon Gai'don have long been foretold. Treacherous Darkfriends conspire to permanently sever the Dragon Reborn's link to the One Power. Brave, new heroes must emerge from the Great Pattern and discover those insidious plans to give the forces of Light a chance to prevail over the Dark One.

The first adventure based on Robert Jordan's New York Times bestselling fantasy series.

The Wheel of Time: Prophecies of the Dragon comes from one of the most successful fantasy novel series ever. This game uses the d20 system as a base mechanic, giving it direct and immediate accessibility to the entire Dungeons & Dragons network. It is playable with The Wheel of Time campaign setting or a D&D player's personalized campaign.

Prophecies of the Dragon is a stand-alone adventure of epic scope for The Wheel of TimeTM Roleplaying Game. Designed to serve as the foundation of an ongoing campaign, it weaves the players into the storyline of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

To use this accessory, a Gamemaster also needs The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game.

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Ambitious idea, mixed results.......2003-05-16

What this is: an epic adventure. It would be imappropriate to review the WOT series when speaking of the Prophesies of the Dragon book; it's also not really a supplement akin to, say, The Monster Manual for D&D--the only extra skills, feats, backgrounds, etc are those directly related to NPCs in the campaign. What Prophecies is designed to do is take a party of characters through their first six levels of adventuring, which correspond roughly to the first six books of the series of novels. The players are allowed to play a key behind the scenes role in the story of the novels and cameos have been scripted for many of the book's key characters. It's a really ambitious undertaking; players have to be given a compelling storyline, feel like they're making a difference in a campaign that covers over a year of game time, without letting them change what happens in the novels.

Does it work? I am currently GMing this adventure. On paper, it looks really good. Some of the scenes, especially in the later parts of the story, look exciting, moving even. Faile's cameo is perfect, for example. In practice, though, it's been an extremely frustrating experience. First, the early encounters (as pointed out by another reviewer) are unnecessarily difficult and add nothing to the plot. As things progress, the authors presume too much on the goals and motivations of the players. There is one chapter, for example, where the introduction says something along the lines of, "Upon entering the city, the players will want to find (a certain NPC) as soon as posible and will definitely want to investigate the actions of (another NPC)." The players in my campaign knew they wanted to talk to one of these guys eventually, but the other one was off their radar completely. Throughout, I've had to improvise ways to keep them approximating the plot line of the campaign and by chapter 3, they're feeling very manipulated.

The campaign assumes the party wants to do nothing more than hunt down dark friends and expose evil plots and will take great personal risk and go through great hardship (including, at one point, a monthlong trek through a winter wilderness without adequate provisions) on the chance of thwarting same. Characters with any other motivations (say, a character modeled after Mat or Nynaeve in the books) will feel forced into situations unnaturally. There has been more than one point where one of the players saying, "I *think* this is where the plot wants us to go."

So, in conclusion, while this adventure is excellent in its dreams and scope--and it's definitely better than something I could have designed myself--but it will fail often fail as a game. If you are intending to run a WOT campaign, buy this adventure, read it so that you thoroughly understand its scope BEFORE you even let your players make up characters. The characters need to be created to fit the story or the story won't work.

One of the poorest adventures I've yet seen!.......2003-01-20

It's not a supplement. That'd've been useful. It's a big adventure set. That could've been useful.

Then we met the Demon-Bear.

Allow me to explain. In d20, animals don't get feats. One of the early mini-adventures has a BIG bear that has lots of bonus feats...and a party of first and second-level PCs is supposed to defeat it. When it can kill a PC with one swipe of its paw. Right.

That's emblematic of the problems with this adventure set. It's written with little attention to rules or game balance, or even party survival. Some adventures throw opponent after opponent at the PCs, but with such poor healing capability, you'll inevitably have PC casualties. While those aren't necessarily bad, having the odds stacked so heavily against you isn't fun.

Another flaw is that, in many instances, PC decisions don't matter. You are, in fact, on rails in a good many adventures, and that's BAD. The adventure in Falme, in particular, comes to mind.

It could've been good. Really. Almost anything would've been better than the ... introductory adventure included with the main book (1st-level PCs...against 3rd-level trollocs that outnumber you, and, oh yes, have high strength and high-crit-range weapons!)...save this.

If you're intending to GM Wheel of Time d20 adventures, save your money and look elsewhere. You can come up with stuff that's easily better.

When authors are paid by the pound........2002-12-30

The Wheel of Time saga is an uninspired, hardly original, badly written pile of junk. It is difficult to see a plan into its development, and the story sounds like a free association of words at the psychanalist's office. If The Lord of the Rings had not been around may be the Wheel of Time would have had a shot...but, to be honest, if the Rings had never been written, Robert Jordan would have had nothing to (badly) copy.

Prophecies, Good or Bad.......2002-04-04

At first this book looks promising for everything supposedly contained within. Fighting along side Rand al'Thor definitely has its appeal. But when looked at closer, it has a few problems. First, there are only 3 new weaves. For a new expansion book, this is very few. They do not list new Ter'angreal, Angreal and Sa'angreal in the back of the book, but the few(only one that I have seen so far) they have are listed during the adventures. This book mainly has adventures in it and aims at gaining the heros their first few levels. This is definitely not a book for players. If the characters are higher than 5th level, the adventures must be adapted because they are far too easy. With low level NPCs, only low level characters will be challenged. They also forgot many important things, especially when making NPCs. One major thing they forgot was to put number of weaves per day for the channelers. Another was the fact that they did no research on the classes. For instance, one NPC with 2 levels of armsman has the armor compatibility feat, where 3rd level armsman is required to get it. Some more armsmen have will saves above +3 with no wisdom bonus and all other modifiers only equalling +2. The list goes on but I feel that this is enough. All in all, the book looks good, but beware of its downfalls. I give it a 2.

Sprawling Epic.......2002-04-04

This a great sprawling epic of a module, with the heroes crisscrossing the Westlands in pursuit of the Black Ajah. Many characters from the series appear, and many of the events of the series are highlighted for the players enjoyment. The Cairhein section is especially good. A very worthwhile book.

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Great book for a primer on commercial real estate

Informative

Superb !!

Should be titled "How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate BROKERAGE"

Definitely worth the Read

How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate
John L. Bowman
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How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate is a comprehensive, practical book for those considering entering the field of commercial real estate, those just beginning in the business, as well as experienced brokers and sales managers who want to evaluate and strengthen their current strategies—especially those related to listings, negotiations, contracts, and sales.

The author provides a straightforward overview of the business of selling commercial property, including coverage of the four main specialty areas -retail, office, industrial, and investment—as well as crossovers and emerging specialties. Rather than pumping a "get rich quick" approach to selling, the author shows brokers that they don't have to sacrifice integrity and ethics to remain competitive and deal oriented. The book includes detailed coverage of

• Choosing a company and a specialty that's a good fit for you.
• Sales strategies and sales points specific to commercial real estate, including practical suggestions for countering other brokers.
• The importance of focusing on exclusive listings, how to find and get the best prospects, and the most effective strategies for marketing the property.
• Standard parts and points of negotiation for contracts and forms, including earnest money agreements, leases, options, listings, counter offers, and fee schedules.
• Rent and how it is calculated and quoted, including triple net, modified net, gross, and full service leases.
• Technical knowledge including agency, law, appraisal, taxation, zoning, surveys, environmental investigations, investment analysis, risk comparison, exchanges, financing, and property management.
•The pros and cons of going independent and how to decide if it's the right move for you.

Written in an engaging, straight-talk style, the author shares a wealth of other practical knowledge reaped from 30 years in the business.

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Great book for a primer on commercial real estate.......2007-09-01

Don't be mislead by the introduction to the author at the start of the book. The author appears to have been a professional student in his younger days, who had no idea what he wanted to do in life. He has two liberal art undergraduate degrees from two different colleges with a major in philosophy, then he started to work in his dad's commercial real estate firm. I thought oh boy! Do I really need to waste my time on this book?

The book is an excellent primer for those who might be interested in selling commercial real estate. It would even be a worthwhile read for most residential RE agents. It covers many areas which could transfer knowledge to residential agents. While I can see some of the reviewers would be disappointed because it includes many basics in real estate a person considering entering the field should know and gives them a feel for what it's like to work in the field. The author has a variety and good understanding of the entire field of commercial RE, as has had many management positions within the field. What more this isn't book written by someone who has never been in real estate. There are plenty of those books in the market place. Likewise this is not a book about how to get rich quick, which are plentiful in the market place.

Is the book general - yes! Is it informative - yes! Is it interesting reading - yes! If you're a pro in commercial real esate with over ten years experience it's not the book for you.

Informative.......2007-08-24

I would say the book was pretty informative and relatively insightful. It seems there are very few good books on commercial real estate brokerage - and I would recommend this one.

The book is a good broad brush of concepts...if you hunger for knowledge about commercial real estate, this is a good book.

Superb !!.......2007-03-02

As the title and description clearly indicates , this books teaches you the way to make it to the top in commercial real estate brokerage by someone who "has been there" in the ultra competitive (and many times cuthroat) world of commercial brokerage ; This type of education is a must if you expect to make it. As a mid level producer , i already started to use some of his advice and it has helped me to jump to the next level and if you want to make the best of it i recommend you read it twice.You will grow your career by leaps and bounds !!

Should be titled "How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate BROKERAGE".......2007-02-12

I was disappointed with the book. I expected a book that would describe how to succeed in commercial real estate for someone wanting to buy and lease out commerical properties. This book hardly touched on the topics I wanted to learn about, such as what makes a property a good investment, how to do due diligence on a property when considering it for purchase, tips on finding a good investment and why it's so hard, pros and cons of development vs buying an existing building, etc. I would have appreciated if the front cover would have made the target audience clearer. Read the table of contents carefully before making the assumption I did!

Definitely worth the Read.......2007-01-26

This book maintains a no-nonsense strictly business approach to commercial real estate. The author has some *VERY* good points on countering your competitions sales pitches, and this alone is worth the read. Aside from the fact that the book has well developed chapters, clear concise writing, and few if any mistakes.

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