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Unscientific Americans by Roz Chast.......2002-02-14
There is a very good reason Roz Chast is always mentioned as a cartoonist featured in The New Yorker magazine: She is brilliant. From the twists she puts on familiar phrases to the eye for detail as shown in the wallpaper she draws, Roz Chast books are a delight on every level! "Unscientific Americans" continues her streak of fall-down-laughing cartoons including my personal favorites: Supermarket Hell, Not So Vital Statistics, and Unpopular Mechanics. The world needs more of Roz Chast!
kooky cartoons done just right.......1999-12-02
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has some of her finest moments in this volume. Her bizarre wit complements her plain figures well. Sort of like a highbrow Gary Larson, only stranger and more suburban.
Understated but frightfully clever humor.......1998-11-08
The cartoons in this book aren't the sort that tickle your funny bone with a tire iron. Instead, they start with an idea that you think has been hackneyed to death, give that idea a slight twist, and take that twist to its logical conclusion. The results are such cartoons as "Lunatic Fringes" and "Unpopular Mechanics."
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A prominent and influential Black American filmmaker.......2003-07-31
Even with my interest and vast reading of pioneers in the arts, I was surprised by what I found when I read The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux. The book (non-fiction) about one of the leading Black American pioneers in the filmmaking industry, starts with a commentary from renowned actor Ossie Davis. After reading the commentary, I settled in for an unexpectedly revealing and unforgettable read. I had no prior knowledge of Oscar Michaeux. The book starts out during what was often referred to as America's "Darkest Period", the years just after the Civil War.
Oscar Micheaux was born January 2, 1884. He was the son of former slaves, a couple who had twelve other children besides Oscar. Not much is written about Oscar's childhood. The book focuses on Oscar's young adult years, when he began to bud into a talented movie producer, and the remainder of Oscar's professional career in the arts. The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux is well researched. Memos, promotional write-ups and other correspondence between Oscar, business partners and the media are found throughout the book. It is obvious that both the author of the book, Earl James Young, Jr., and the book's editor, Dr. Beverly Robinson, did their homework when compiling the facts and other pertinent data found in The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux.
The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux is a biography written in a style and with an intent unlike many of today's celebrity biographies. Except for mention of Oscar's relationship with his father-in-law, the book sticks to the facts. It does not give weight to rumor or assumption. Laymen and students of the theatre alike will gain valuable knowledge from reading The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux. Readers will learn about this pioneer in the arts whose work speaks for itself. Oscar began his career at a time with silent films were in vogue. He was one of the most prominent and influential Black American filmmakers of his day. He worked with legendary actor Paul Robeson and created his films with all Black casts, one of the only filmmakers to do so at the turn of the 21st century. His films were so well received despite effective efforts to limit the distribution channels for his films, his movies were popular with the public and allowed Oscar's company, Michaeux Film Corporation, to be successful for several years, this at a time when race riots and discrimination were blatant and rampant.
Anyone wishing to know more about the beginnings of Black Americans in the film industry, should read The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux. As the book states in closing, "This work on Oscar Micheaux is but a first step upon which, it is hoped, other scholars may build the path to a fair place for Micheaux in the history of American films, and African Americans. This much he is due." I agree.
Ahead of His Times.......2003-06-07
Oscar Micheaux was born in 1884 and from childhood seemed to be driven to be different. Throughout his life he wore many professional hats; he was a successful farmer and author. But perhaps his most well known accomplishments were as a filmmaker. There is a fair amount of misinformation about Micheaux which this book clarifies and corrects. For example, he was not the first Black filmmaker; however, he was one of the most prolific Black filmmakers of his time with an impressive number of silent films and quite a few sound films. He was able to accomplish this in spite of a national recession and eventual depression, harsh and uncooperative censor boards, limited venues in which he as a Black filmmaker could show his films, financial hardship, and harsh criticism. Still Micheaux's innovative promotion skills, coupled with his tireless efforts helped him survive and continue producing films.
The most fascinating aspect of this book was the fact that many of the issues being faced by Micheaux and other filmmakers during his time are quite similar to those of filmmakers today. Debates about how it is the responsibility of African American filmmakers to produce quality work depicting African Americans only in their most positive light were perhaps more heated in the 1920's than they are today. This heated debate was a particular issue to Micheaux because much of his work included controversial themes and not so positive images of African Americans. While the masses of African Americans seemed to enjoy and support his work and the themes he discussed, the critics and intellectuals of his day often took issue with it.
This book paints a historical overview of the times in which Micheaux lived as well as broad overview of his life and accomplishments. For the most part, this book was an easy read packed with lots of information, but there were times when some of the technical jargon was difficult for a person who has not studied film to understand. Still I highly recommend this book for anyone that would like to learn more about a pioneer in Black film.
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The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux: Pioneer Black Author an.......2003-05-04
Decades before film directors Spike Lee, John Singleton or even Gordon Parks showed audiences that blacks can be more than just cut-out characters and racial punch lines, visionary film director Oscar Micheaux had made movies featuring African-American cowboys, adventurers, detectives and millionaires --- more than 70 years ago.
"The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux" became the subject of late author Earl James Young's graduate thesis because he was an admirer of Micheaux's pioneer spirit. Micheaux was the first filmmaker to offer his audience a range and diversity of African-Americans in film. Micheaux became a controversial figure raising the ire of blacks as well as whites for filming what he wanted, not what others felt he should.
Micheaux fought an uphill battle to get his films shown. White distributors would not market films by blacks, so Micheaux was only allowed to show his films at African-American theaters. In addition, Hollywood jumped on the African-American band wagon and created African-American films superior in quality to Micheaux's and other Indy filmmakers. Micheaux stayed with it but struggled until his death in 1951.
Young dedicated his research to Micheaux life, because he understood the pain of having a gift, but lacking the opportunity to give one's all to a career. However, Young died in 1993 of a brain tumor before publishing his thesis into a book.
With the permission of Young's family, Dr. Beverly J. Robinson has edited Young's thesis into a compelling and essential book for up and coming filmmakers and movie buffs about Micheaux's 40 plus films which made him hero to some and a victim to others. "The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux" includes a complete filmography of Micheaux's films and bios of the actors who appeared in Micheaux's films --- some such as William Fountaine and Evelyn Preer who went onto star in Hollywood productions.
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Napoleon Hill.......2007-09-16
Napoleon Hill was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time.
In America, Hill stated in his writings, people are free to believe what they want to believe, and this is what sets the United States apart from all other countries in the world.
Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions.
How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the promise of Hill's books.
Hill called his success teachings "The Philosophy of Achievement" and he considered freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony to be important contributing elements.
For without these, Hill demonstrated throughout his writings, personal beliefs are not possible. He contrasted his philosophy with others, and thought Achievement was superior and responsible for the success Americans enjoyed for the better part of two centuries.
Fear and selfishness had no part to play in his philosophy, and Hill considered them to be the source of failure for unsuccessful people.
The secret of Achievement was tantalizingly offered to readers of Think and Grow Rich, and was never named directly as Hill felt discovering it for themselves would provide readers with the most benefit.
Hill presented the idea of a "Definite Major Purpose" as a challenge to his readers, to make them ask of themselves "in what do you truly believe?" For according to Hill, 98% of people had no firm beliefs, putting true success firmly out of reach.
Hill's numerous books have sold millions of copies, proving that the secret of Achievement is still highly sought-after by modern Americans. Hill dealt with many controversial subjects through his writings including racism, slavery, oppression, failure, revolution, war and poverty.
Persevering and then succeeding in spite of these obstacles using the philosophy of Achievement, Hill stated, was the responsibility of every American.
According to his official biographer, Hill was born into poverty in a two-room cabin in the town of Pound in rural Wise County, Virginia. His mother died when he was ten years old. His father remarried two years later. At the age of thirteen he began writing as a "mountain reporter" for small-town newspapers. He used his earnings as a reporter to enter law school, but soon had to withdraw for financial reasons. The turning point in his career is considered to have been in 1908 with his assignment, as part of a series of articles about famous men, to interview industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who at the time was one of the most powerful men in the world. Hill discovered that Carnegie believed that the process of success could be elaborated in a simple formula that could be duplicated by the average person. Impressed with Hill, Carnegie commissioned him (without pay and only offering to provide him with letters of reference) to interview over 500 successful men and women, many of them millionaires, in order to discover and publish this formula for success.
As part of his research, Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time, including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, John D. Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, F.W. Woolworth, William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Allen Ward and Jennings Randolph. The project lasted over twenty years, during which Hill became an advisor to Carnegie. As a result of these studies, the Philosophy of Achievement was offered as a formula for rags-to-riches success by Hill and Carnegie, published initially in 1928 as the book The Law of Success. The Achievement formula was detailed further and published in home-study courses, including the seventeen-volume "Mental Dynamite" series until 1941.
From 1919 to 1920 Hill was the editor and publisher of Hill's Golden Rule magazine. It was during this time he wrote a letter to Charles F. Haanel in which he praised his book The Master Key System. In the letter he writes: "..I believe I ought to inform you that my present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master Key System."[1] In 1930 he published The Ladder to Success. From 1933 to 1936 Hill was an unpaid advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1937 Hill distilled the Philosophy of Achievement and produced his most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, which is still in print in several versions, and has sold more than thirty million copies. In 1960, Hill published an abridged version of the book, which for years was the only one generally available. In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised (Second Printing 2007), which restored the book to its original content, with slight revisions, and added the first comprehensive endnotes, index, and appendix the book had ever contained. (The Cornwell-Hill "collaboration" resulted from the former's service as editor-in-chief of "Think & Grow Rich Newsletter," published for the Napoleon Hill Foundation.)
In 1939 Hill published How to Sell Your Way through Life, and in 1953 How to Raise Your Own Salary. From 1952 to 1962 he worked with W. Clement Stone of the Combined Insurance Company of America to teach Stone's "Philosophy of Personal Achievement", and to lecture on the "Science of Success". Partly as a result of his work with Stone, in 1960 he published Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. He died in 1970 in South Carolina, and in 1971 his final work, You Can Work Your Own Miracles, was published posthumously.
Hill spent most of his effort on describing to his readers and students the paradox that "thoughts are things".
In fact, the subtitle of the introduction chapter of Think and Grow Rich is "The Man Who 'Thought' His Way." The ability of people to share thoughts underpins achievement, and Hill stated that this allows the success-oriented individuals to attract like-minded people in order to accomplish anything. Most of the examples in Think and Grow Rich concern the great difficulty of creating and maintaining like-mindedness, and Hill termed this concept "The Master Mind". Hill's numerous examples of racism, prejudice, war, poverty, discouragement, and fear illustrated the significant barriers that existed in his time (and still exist today) as the road-blocks to Achievement through the coordination of like-minded individuals.
Hill stated many times in his writings that the success formula required a complete and total understanding of the spirit of giving. He named this concept "The Golden Rule". Many times he was quoted as saying "There is no such thing as something for nothing". Hill was a devout Christian, and did not see any conflict between his success philosophy and his religious faith. Acquiring the Carnegie Secret of Achievement, Hill said after his own books were in wide circulation, could only be had by those "ready" for it; this meant understanding the entire Philosophy including elements such as the Golden Rule, Faith, and Desire. Once ready, anyone could go on to acquire great wealth as it required only application of the formula.
The Golden Rule concerns the teachings regarding the power of giving. Hill challenges the reader to ask of themselves "what can I truly give to others?". As Step Two in the Six Step "road to riches" described in Think and Grow Rich, this is the critical step in wealth creation that eludes 98% of those who try. To help focus the picture you cannot "give" anything away unless you don't need it anymore, or don't have to pay for it in the first place. Of course, the true interpretation of the Golden Rule is a function called The Success Formula, and is based on the key elements that were present at the birth of the USA itself.
Hill is also credited with coining the phrase 'Master Mind' (more commonly, Mastermind). The 'Master Mind' may be defined as: "coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose." In Think and Grow Rich, Hill discusses his creation of Master Mind groups and how these groups could multiply an individual's brain power and continually motivate positive emotions. However, the Master Mind was a deeper and more powerful connection than mere synergetic cooperation would suggest, and requires an understanding of Hill's belief's about the brain and the nature of energy (particularly thought energy) within Thomas Edison's cosmological understanding of matter and energy. In describing the Philosophy of Achievement, Hill was careful in his writings to examine the brain as a sending/receiving station for thought; and for the first time in history explained to the world that like-mindedness had a physical basis. Hence the Master Mind, governed by the laws of mutual attraction, could only exist if like-mindedness was achieved between individuals. Scientists had only recently (in Hill's time) shown that the brain was the true source of thought, and hence like-mindedness could now have a true physical underpinning from the point of view of science.
Hill states there are two characteristics of the Master Mind principle; one is economic, the other psychic.
Economic advantages arise from sharing and cooperation with others utilizing the Philosophy of Achievement.
As to the other, Hill states: "No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."
This force, Hill reasoned, was tremendously valuable and ultimately the source of true wealth. Hill also believed that the human mind is a form of energy, part of it spiritual in nature.
He states that when the minds of two people are coordinated in a spirit of harmony, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity, which constitutes the "psychic" phase of the Master Mind. For his development of the Master Mind concept and other principles of success, Hill was awarded an honorary doctor of literature degree (LittD) by Pacific International University. The Litt.D. is awarded for an original contribution (or contributions) of special excellence to linguistics, literary, philosophical, social or historical knowledge.
Not Complete, nor Unabridged.......2007-09-09
I just received my copy a couple of weeks ago. Part of an assignment for my mentoring group was to gather with a group and read the first lesson aloud. I was stopped several times during my reading because my version read differently than the versions of several others (their versions were from the Napoleon Hill Institute) I soon began to see a trend: It seems that BN Publishing has seen fit to remove every reference to Jesus Christ in their "complete & unabridged" single volume. So, do not expect to read all of the author's words in this volume. Napoleon Hill has been censored.
So You Want to Be a Success?.......2007-08-23
This is a necessity if you are a serious about becoming a success. This book helps you define what success is. You should read this book, then read it again, then again the 3rd time. After which you should get the CD's and play them 3 times until every once is instilled into your brain. I know without a doubt, if your serious, if your determined to be more and have more than you have right now...Napeleon Hill and his Laws of Success will do the trick...Absolutely Wonderful!. You must have patience because it is a thick book. Every step is detailed and outlined. Once you start reading it, you won't be able to put it down.
Great Read.......2007-07-22
I must admit this is one of the greatest books written on business. I applied a few of the teachings and recieved a 12% salary increase after just one year of employement,our normal salary increase is 4%. The teachings work I was able to direct positive attention to myself at all times. Clients kept noticing me and informing upper managenmet of the great customer service I provide to the point upper management became tired of hearing it. I must admit if you apply the teachings you will develop jealously among fellow co-workers however upper mangement will like the fact you are pleasing the clients but deep down may not care for you on a personal level. The key teachings which worked for me are. 1) Always Do More Then Paid For - Arriving early to work espically before the boss will impress him / her but may anger him or her as well. The key in this teaching is to show you're dedication to the job. No boss wants a lower level employee arriving to work before he or she, but this teaching if you apply it will increase your salary 2) A Pleasing Personality - Act kindly to your customer is the key to good business espically if you are well dressed. Women dig a well dressed man and are like putty in your hand once you smooth on the charm they will surely buy your product. 3) Imagination- If you come up with creative and funny emails it will put a smile on a fellow employee's face and help them make it during a hard week a good email which offers something to your fellow co-workers like a snack will win you favor in the office. 4) The Habbit of Saving - If you save at laest 20% of your salary and do no appear as if you need the job but the job needs you will make you more money in the longrun. When upper managent thinks you're doing well you can demand more money then if it appears like you need the job to make ends meat 5. The Golden Rule / Giving - I find that when I gave something to my fellow employees snacks, food you get the idea and did not seek reinbursement from management good things kept comming my way. Many people do not care for co-workers but doing acts of kindness to fellow employees will remain in the minds of upper management and cause them to act kindly during your review period for a pay increase.
Awesome construction and format for the $$.......2007-06-20
I'm not commenting as much on content as quality of the actual book construction (because we all know it will be great once we/I get the guts to begin reading a book this long!). I own a number of NH's books in print and audio and have only begun to read this one as it is intimidating in length, but will be the best yet I'm sure,... HOWEVER, if you've looked at all the formats for this book and are wondering which one to buy, this one is awesome! It is a paperback, which is a strike against, but it is the best quality paperpack you could hope for. The paper is tight and smooth and super white, the text is absolutely crisp, down to magnifying glass level. There is lots of breathing room on the page also. In short, this book is beautiful to look at and thumb through (unlike some cheap paperpacks that make me feel cheap to even be reading them.) I've even thought about how I might try to make this a hardback as I am crafty like that and do wish I could protest the pages from curling up as the cover is starting to do. Glad I bought this version for the money even though I have only thumbed through it and read here and there.
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