Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision (Evergreen)

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Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision (Evergreen)
John Hedgecoe
Manufacturer: Taschen
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3822841625

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A beautifully designed book-a true gem

A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore
John Hedgecoe , and Henry Moore
Manufacturer: Stewart Tabori & Chang
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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A beautifully designed book-a true gem.......1998-07-15

John Hedgeoce's amazing eye has captured the essence of Henry Moore's work. It is so difficult to reduce the size and shape of such monumental work to paper but for those of us who do not own one we can share them on a daily basis by way of this superb work.

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The multiple award-winning The Complete Crumb Comics series—the definitive, comprehensive series reprinting the entirety of Crumb's oeuvre—enters the mid-1980s with this 16th volume, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume focuses on the years 1985-1987 and includes the seminal "Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse," from Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine. Also featured are Crumb's gorgeous "Pioneers of Country Music" color portrait series, and such Weirdo classics as "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," which chronicles the last years of the highly-regarded science-fiction writer who experienced an intense vision of the apocalypse and believed that he was possessed by the spirit of Elijah.

Also included is Crumb's first issue of Hup, his acclaimed solo series of the 1980s and 1990s. The book is rounded out with a new cover and introduction by Crumb and a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period. Crumb is the most revealing of all artists, and The Complete Crumb Comics leaves no stone unturned.

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Batman and the world's most famous vampire--seems like a perfect combination. Except for the fact that Dracula wants to turn Gotham City into his personal kingdom of the undead. Batman is left with no choice but to side with a renegade band of vampires and face Dracula face to face. Kelley Jones brings his creepy, exaggerated Wrightsonesque artwork to this clever story. A big favorite with the fans, the first edition of this graphic novel was out of print within a month.

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Someone was going to do it sometime, Batman versus Dracula. Luckily, it was someone that did it reasonably well. Batman had fought vampires before, even one that was sneaky and kept his heart in a clock to prevent the usual stakes or crossbow bolt tricks working, but this one is a whole different story and feel to that sort of 70s thing.

Dark Batman tale thrills, but Dracula deserves better.......2005-10-20

"Batman & Dracula: Red Rain" offers a unique take on the Caped Crusader. More Dark Knight than Adam West camp, this tale plops Bruce Wayne into an apocalyptic Gotham (even more so than usual), as the very sky weeps tears of blood.

Wayne's dreams are tortured by haunting images of beautiful-yet-doomed women, but even more disturbing are the mysterious scars on his back when he awakens. Soon, as the title subtly hints, Batman is matching fists (and to a lesser extent, wits) with good old Dracula himself.

This is a very violent take on the Batman saga, with more emphasis spent on blood and carnage than Batman's detective skills. Several panes offer horrifying visions of Batman's world, and it's safe to say that this is a story for older Batman fanatics.

While the look of this pulp is fantastic, the story lacks a bit of heft. After all, we're talking about the leading comic hero taking on one of the leading villains in Western Civilization . . . and yet Dracula comes across as a rather pedestrian nasty than world-class. There's also an unsatisfying clank of deus ex machina in Batman's climactic fight against the Old Count Dracul, and is not worthy of either our hero or our villain.

Still, "Batman versus Dracula" is an entertaining, if brief tale, and is sure to thrill fans of Batman to their core. Worth a read, but not worthy of the pantheon of great Batman tales.

Quite possibly one of the best Batman tales ever.......2005-03-02

Sure, Killing Joke, Year One, Arkham Asylum and Dark Knight Returns are the best, but this book, an Elseworlds, deserves to be ranked up there with it. Kelley Jones is by far the best Batman artist and though the late Malcom Jones III inked it (vs. his usual inker John Beatty), the pencils and inks are perfect.

Doug Moench took a rather cheesy idea and made it great! It honestly scared me when I was younger, about 12 years ago when I first read it, esp. the scene when Bruce shows Alfred why he won't be needing the car anymore. SCARED ME, folks!

The first sequel was all right, but the final book in the trilogy was great, but not quite as good as Red Rain.

awesome: batman + dracula = wicked good elseworlds crossover.......2004-02-29

if you like vampires and are a batman fan then you will love this book. It's written by one of the all time best batman authors, Doug Moench, and illustrated by the outstanding Kelley Jones. kelley's art in this book is absolutly fantastic as is all his other art. The story and plot could not be any better. Dracula comes to gotham to feed and build up his legions with a vampire huntress hot on his heels. batman befriends this vampire killing chick and aids her in her battle. During the book batman actually becomes a vampire which is awesome. And, again as i said before, Kelley Jone's art is amazingly good and chilling and sometimes even gory. This book is the first in a trilogy of batman vampire stories and i highly suggest you pick all of them up they are great reads and the art is, i can't stress this enough, fantastic.

Batman: For Real.......2003-07-07

Batman and vampires. It seems an obvious match. Who better to take down creatures of the night than the Dark Knight, himself? Of course, in Gotham, things are always a little more complicated than they appear at first. I really enjoyed this book, once I got past the artwork. It can be too stylish at times. But the idea and the story are nicely done.

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BATMAN & DRACULA: RED RAIN

Manufacturer: DC Comic
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000GON3N6

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Deeply connected to Japanese anime, manga, music, and film is . . . Japanese TV. This encyclopedic survey of the next cultural tsunami to hit America has over one thousand entries-including production data, synopses, and commentaries-on everything from rubber-monster shows to samurai drama, from crime to horror, unlocking an entire culture's pop history as never before. Over one hundred fifty of these shows have been broadcast on American TV, and more will follow, perhaps even such oddball fare as a Japanese "The Practice" and "Geisha Detective." Indexed, with resources for fans, couch potatoes, and researchers.

Jonathan Clements is contributing editor to Newtype USA Magazine and coauthor of The Anime Encyclopedia.

Motoko Tamamuro is an art historian and contributor to Manga Max.

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A fun book for English speaking J-dorama enthusiasts.......2006-05-24

This is a really entertaining book for native English speaking J-dorama enthusiasts. It suffers a bit from deculturalisation, going so fas as to invent English titles for shows that have never been translated either officially or as fansubs instead of using romaji and parenthesized English.

I also find it a little irritating that fansubs are nowhere mentioned in this book, since there are many more J-dorama that have been fansubbed than there are officially authorised translations. I am sure the authors realise that without the fansub community there would be no market for their book, making the omission doubly baffling.

Excellent fan produced subtitle sets for J-Dorama series that will never see official release outside of Japan can be downloaded from D-Addicts.com.

A unique and useful resource.......2005-12-21

Thank you for the Dorama Encyclopedia. I am an avid fan of Japanese dorama and have been watching them subtitled in English for over 20 years. I was very excited to find out about this book. It really is the only "hardcopy" reference resource I know of for dorama.

It's true the doramas are listed by their English titles, but the Japanese title is also given and is referenced in the index. I've used this guide to look up descriptions of a show and information like the original broadcast station, year it was broadcast, cast, number of episodes, theme song etc.

True, you can find a lot of this information on the internet, but even an internet junkie like me can look up information a lot faster with this guide. And there are many, many entries in this book that you will just not find on the internet.

One thing I would like to see in future guides are category lists. For instance, shows categorized as comedies, romance, horror, family drama, etc. Or by favorite actor, actress, or producer. It would help someone find shows in a genre they like or avoid ones they dislike.

This book is an interesting supplemental reference guide for the dorama fan.

Great content but useless to the Japanese.......2005-10-06

I recently purchased the book after hearing about it the last couple of years. A little about myself... I'm an active drama researcher and contributor to the English-speaking Japanese drama community on both the Internet and in my home state of Hawaii. I'm very active on the DramaWiki, a drama-specific wiki system where we try to document as many trendy and other types of dramas as we can. This DORAMA book is a great resource if you're looking for detailed information on a given drama. But, I find the book very weak when it comes to retaining the original Japanese feel. For example, virtually all the drama titles used are the English versions. It would be much more valuable to the purists like myself if the writers at least included a cross-reference appendix listing the Romaji and English names (ex: "Hoshi no Kinka" is "Heaven's Coins".) Also, the book is very weak on NHK dramas, such as the Asadora and Taiga dramas. And, I really don't know why tokusatu and sentai shows were included in the book. For me, I'd rather have a separate book focusing on kids shows, and keep this book's focus on the REAL dramas you would coin the phrase DORAMA with. To be honest, you'll find much more accurate and complete data on the Internet, via systems like JDorama.com or D-Addicts.com, rather than reading 2nd-rate collected data from two anime writers.

Comprehensive, but..........2004-05-03

This is an interesting concept. I'm a big drama fan, and I never thought there'd be an English language book about them. I like how detailed and comprehensive this book was. The main gripe I have is that series are listed under the English translations of their titles. You can look up the original Japanese title (in romaji) in the index, but it's an extra step you shouldn't have to take, especially since translations of the titles can be inconsistent. I rarely see series listed by their English translations online too.

Finally a book for Japanese dorama fans!!!.......2003-12-29

This is the book that Japanese drama fans have been waiting for. As a fan and also a creator of the online J!-ENT Japanese Dorama Database, it is a real pleasure to see a book not only covering Japanese drama but also sentai and including anime references for the anime fans who have discovered Japanese dramas. Within the last five years, there has been a significant Japanese dorama boom in many countries thanks to the growing popularity of anime, Japanese music and Japanese/Asian entertainment. Although Japanese drama is not readily available as Japanese animation or Asian cinema on DVD, there is a growing fandom for dramas thanks to the International channels, Japanese rental stores, fan-trading/subbing, BT and VCD's. What I like about this book is that it has something for everyone. For fans looking for information on trendy Japanese dramas, the very long duration NHK and TBS dramas (especially those samurai/historical dramas), sentai and of course, dramas within the last fifty years, I was very impressed how the authors handled and included them in this book. What I worried about the most was the translation or the titles that would be used for the drama because what other countries have used as their English title for a Japanese drama has nothing to do with the translated title and thus, I was happy by the way this book handled that. One thing that also impressed me is the author and Stone Book Press's dedication to update the encyclopedia (there are dramas missing and a few errors but they are not as numerous and can be fixed in the next version especially with the input from readers). For a freshman book, it actually surpassed what I was expecting and I highly recommend the purchase of this book. So, may you be the trendy drama fan like me or the fan who just watched the live version of GTO or You're Under Arrest and are hooked and want more! This book is THE ONLY SOURCE that you will find this much information on Japanese dramas.-KNDY

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The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression, published in 1980 and now out of print, was concerned with the question of how music comes to have the emotional properties that have been perceived in it and ascribed to it since antiquity. In that book, Peter Kivy argued that music possesses expressive properties, not as powers to arouse emotions in us but, rather, as perceived qualities of the music itself. In Sound Sentiment, he augments his previous work with four entirely new chapters. Incorporating the complete, corrected text of The Corded Shell, Kivy brings his earlier arguments up to date in light of recent work in the field, and discusses and answers various criticisms.

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Why Customers Don't Do What They're Supposed To and What Sales People Can Do About It
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