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Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Ski Mask Way
K Elliott , and 50 Cent Manufacturer: G-Unit ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1416531017 |
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HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS.
HARD DEALS. HARD TIME.
Back in New York City, Seven was the seventh child. But here in Charlotte he's number one on every ladies' list. Even behind bars, he managed to sex a female corrections officer, who lost her job and found herself pregnant. Now Seven is out of the pen and back on the streets. A small-time dealer with big-time dreams, he's ready to take care of business -- for his baby, his baby's mother, his slammin' girlfriend, and his empty wallet. But first, he's got to play the game with the biggest pushers in town. He'll be a soldier for The Man. Then he'll rob the suckers blind before they figure out what's going down. Sure, it could get him killed. But Seven knows there are things in life worth living for -- and things worth dying for. And sometimes you can't tell the difference.
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Living Hard.......2007-07-05
Nice Read.......2007-05-31
Off the Chain .......2007-05-27
G-Unit Book strikes Gold with K. Elliott collab.......2007-04-01
HEAVEN FOR SEVEN.......2007-03-22
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The Living Tradition of Yup'Ik Masks: Agayuliyararput : Our Way of Making Prayer
Ann Fienup-Riordan Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0295975016 |
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Un veramente "grande libro.......2007-03-09
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Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-Ilu = Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'Ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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A Yup-ik discovery..........2000-04-11
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The Living Tradition of Yup'Ik Masks: Agayuliyararput, Our Way of Making Prayer
Ann Fienup-Riordan Manufacturer: Univ of Washington Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0295975237 |
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The Way of the Masks
Claude Levi-Strauss Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Man of the Mask: A Study in the By-Ways of History
Arthur Stapylton Barnes Manufacturer: Smith, Elder & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NUIYB4 |
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The Man of the Mask: A Study in the By-Ways of History
Arthur Stapylton BARNES Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MXJ08S |
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Naked Masks - 5 Plays - Liola; It Is So! (if You Think So); Henry Iv; Six Characters In Search Of An Author; Each In His Own Way
Luigi; Edited by Bentley, Eric Pirandello Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000IWXO12 |
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NAKED MASKS Five Plays: Liola, It Is So! (If You Think So ), Henry IV, Six Characters in Search of an Author , Each in His Own Way
Luigi Pirandello Manufacturer: Dutton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J0BQR2 |
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NAKED MASKS: FIVE PLAYS BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO. LIOLA, IT IS SO! (IF YOU THINK SO), HENRY IV, SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, EACH IN HIS OWN WAY.
Luigi Pirandello: Edited By Eric Bentley: Manufacturer: E.P. Dutton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000LY6FBS |
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Agency relationships in real estate
John W Reilly Manufacturer: Real Estate Education Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Complete Buying Process - For Agents
Robert J Williams Jr. Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412064023 Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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There has never been a book more informative, more complete or more enjoyable for any real estate professional, whether you are new to the business or a seasoned agent.
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Agency relationships in California real estate
Martha R Williams Manufacturer: Real Estate Education Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0884626571 |
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Agency Relationships, Duties, Disclosures and Confidences in a Real Estate Brokerage Practice (California Assn of Realtors Audio Home Study Series, DRE-Approved 3 Hours Mandated CE Credit, C.A.R. Course #218: Publication Date 9-21-91)
Manufacturer: California Assn. of Realtors ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000F2UHQA |
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Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children's Home Adoption Scandal
Linda Tollett Austin Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0275945855 |
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In 1950, the Governor of Tennessee called for an investigation of the Tennessee Children's Home black market baby operations, said to have grossed $1 million for Georgia Tann, the superintendent of the local branch of the home. Tann was accused of fraudulently persuading pregnant mothers to relinquish their children. A number of Hollywood celebrities adopted children through the home, namely Joan Crawford, June Allyson, and Dick Powell. During the investigation, local attorneys and justices were found to be part of the scandalous network of adoption that allowed adoptive parents to be out-of-state residents. The story is dramatic and shows southern politics at its worst--congenial, respected public figures running shady deals in the back room. Thousands of children were placed in adopted homes during the agency's operation. Each case is a fascinating story involving the search and reunion of adopted children with their natural families.Customer Reviews:
A disappointing effort.......2003-01-04
Selling babies for profit by goverment and charities.......2001-05-18
BABIES FOR SALE.......2000-01-08
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Optimal agency relationships in search markets (Working papers - Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics)
Christopher Curran Manufacturer: Bureau of Economics, U.S. FTC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RICVG |
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The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
Lary May Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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One of the finest film studies of recent years.......2002-03-03
Before I move on to the considerable praise I want to heap on this book, let me dwell briefly on a couple of negatives. I think this book has a much broader appeal than the author might believe. The book takes an essentially popular subject, and couches it in an overly academic style. As someone with a strong graduate school background (albeit in philosopher rather than cultural studies), I managed to always make sense of his argument, but sometimes only with difficulty. There was also a too-heavy reliance on statistical data for my taste. Clearly he feels that the data gives greater force to and to a degree validates many of his arguments. But I feel that it also caused the book to drag at points.
But overall, this book is a stunner. The thesis of the book is a complex one, and any attempt to state it briefly will distort it to a degree. I will try to minimize my distortion. May begins by arguing that there was a radical shift in social and political outlook in Hollywood in the 1940s. The effort in Hollywood to eliminate political dissent and to promulgate a monolithic vision of America is well known. May argues that this was a break with the legacy of the thirties, in which the Hollywood talking film had developed as a mode of expressing an egalitarian, anticapitalist, and multicultural affirmation of the New Deal. Thirties films were highly critical of big business, with representatives of big business frequently appearing as villains in films. As America entered WW II, however, and began to unify in order to oppose first Hitler and Japan and then the Red Menace, movies reflected a different order, which was nonegalitarian, pro-big business (with big business disappearing as a villain in films), and nondissenting.
May attempts to tell this story in several ways. His brilliant first chapter dwells at length on the movie career of Will Rogers, who articulated a vision of America that varied greatly from the Anglo-Saxon dream that looked to Europe for models of success and social ordering. As May quotes on several occasions, in response to the New England social elite, Rogers, who identified with his Cherokee heritage, wrote, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat." The second chapter of the book continues this to display many example of multicultural republicanism that permeated 1930s filmmaking. He then proceeds, in perhaps my favorite chapter in the book, to demonstrate how this egalitarian vision of America profoundly influenced American movie theater design. Rejecting the theater palaces that dominated 1920s theater design and which represented an affirmation of the social layering of the European model--with different prices of admission for various areas and separate entrances--American designers moved to a conception where all viewers paid a uniform price and seating was not restricted, with all viewers entering through the same entrance.
The second half of the book deals with the undermining of the egalitarianism of the thirties by a new vision of Americanism in the forties. The first of two chapters devoted to this displays this by articulating the vision of a white consumer culture, where individuals look for freedom in a private realm emphasizing family and material comfort. The second chapter deals with the politics in Hollywood to help eliminate all those who dissented from this vision or who had a political history that did not conform to this vision. These were painful chapters to read, with the ruthless suppression of political dissent. May deals in some degree with the history of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), which in the 1930s strongly affirmed the ideals of the New Deal and egalitarian ideals. In particular, the career of the first appointed president of the SAG (in the 1930s, the president of the SAG was elected by the membership), Ronald Reagan (i.e., he was not elected by the membership at all) is dealt with at length. May ends his book with a discussion of film noir and its attempt to express dissent from the accepted and sanctioned cultural norm.
Anyone interested in cultural studies, the political climate and culture of the US in the thirties and forties, or the history of Hollywood should read this book. Easily one of the more compelling books I have read on film in the past two or three years.
..includes controversial strikes, & (SAG) walkouts..........2001-02-26
A great overview of Hollywood from the 1930s to 1950s.......2000-07-31
"The Big Tomorrow" depicts Hollywood as a 'populist and progressive world that offered a vision of an egalitarian and humanitarian world in film' before the 1950s. The author demonstrates this on the example of actor Will Rogers, a Cherokee Indian, director Frank Capra, and others. May shows that not only film content had changed but the theatres as well. The central themes were gangsters, fallen women and ribald comics while the language and dialects of the folk were used. The theatres underwent a change from lavish, sumptuous ones, where seating was divided between the high-paying and low-paying, to democratic movie houses. The author uses several photographs to illustrate the changes. Inside Hollywood actors, directors etc. formed unions that supported New Deal reforms. The second part of the book explains why World War II and the Cold War reshaped politics and moviemaking in Hollywood. May discusses censorship and the role of CIA agents in Hollywood. Films presented a 'new' woman now. Female characters focused ultimately on a home life that preserved traditional gender roles, symbolized in the rise of 'patriotic domesticity' while during the Depression female characters of 'empowered women' fulfilled themselves. May also points out the change in the portrayal of African Americans and Asians. The rise of anti-communism and its effects are dealt with. Those who wouldn't or couldn't prove their belonging to the communists were suspended. However, they found a new market for a dark 'film noir' that challenged the consensus and set the stage for a youthful counterculture in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way.(Review) (book review): An article from: Cineaste
Paul Buhle Manufacturer: Cineaste Publishers, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JAHT2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on December 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1986 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Big Tomorrow - Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
L May Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPG06O |
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The Big Tomorrow Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
Lary May Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QXPRLI |
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Histoire Du Soldat and Renard in Full Score
Igor Stravinsky Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0486285251 |
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Stronghold 2 (Prima Official Game Guide)
David Knight , and Michael Knight Manufacturer: Prima Games ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761551794 Release Date: 2005-05-03 |
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Build. Battle. Become a king.
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Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships
Ellen A. Ensher , and Susan E. Murphy Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Written to reflect the realities of today’s business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and protégés, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or protégé. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy’s own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a “power mentoring” network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and protégés in a variety of fields including technology, politics, and the media.Download Description
Written to reflect the realities of today's business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a prot or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and prots, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or prot. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy's own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a power mentoring network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and prots in a variety of fields including technology, politics, and the media.Customer Reviews:
Welcome to Modern Mentoring.......2006-07-12
New mentoring strategies for new business environments.......2006-04-20
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Best mentoring book you could find!.......2005-11-15
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