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Kara Walker (b. 1969) has emerged as one of her generation's most important artists. Best known for her provocative black paper cutout silhouettes, she confronts stereotypes, sex, violence, and power relationships through Civil War-era parodies, narratives, and a mastery of craft and installation.
This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Williams College Museum of Art, presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work, beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994). Other highlights include the 1996 series of twenty-four watercolor drawings, Brown Follies, which is reproduced in full as an artist's book within the book, and installation views of many of Walker's exhibitions. Recent drawings and projections are also featured. Throughout the book are a selection of the Walker's writings reproduced as they were created typed on index cards. These writings reveal a rarely seen side of the artist, whose words are as provocative as her installations and drawings. The essays discuss Walker's place in art history, formal and narrative readings of her work, her relation to culture at large, and issues of race, sexuality, and representation addressed in her work.
Copublished with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and Williams College Museum of Art.
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Ecclesiastical Dress in the Medieval Near East (Studies in Textile Costume History, Vol 1)
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Christianity in the Near East shows a variety in rites and churches, each with its own traditions. Ecclesiastical dress is an important part of these traditions. In the course of the centuries liturgical and monastic vestments have developed from basic -- often civil -- clothes into a most complicated system where symbolism has been mixed with practical purpose. Ecclesiastical Dress in the Medieval Near East provides the reader with a survey into the liturgical and monastic dress of the most important Near Eastern Churches. The motive and starting-point for this investigation were the questions surrounding the liturgical costume of the Nubian Church. Through a method of comparison of Nubian dress with Coptic, Syrian, Armenian and Byzantine costume the author not only throws light on the Christian culture of Nubia, but also traces influences, similarities and differences between the costumes of these churches.
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This book reprints The Savage Dragon #s 1-6, but with some pages in a rearranged order. New pages are included, featuring scenes where The Dragon first meets Rapture, where he battles WildStar, and where Debbie Harris' mother is brought to the Police Department for questioning. It also includes numerous pages and notes from Erik Larsen's personal sketchbook. The TPB also comes packaged with a comic book (pictured below left) called "Back-Up Stories," which reprints the backup stories that were featured in various issues of #1-#6, and features an all-new cover by Jeff Matsuda. Stories include "Star" by Rob Haynes & Tony Harris, two "Mighty Man" stories, one by Victor Bridges & Terry Austin and one by David Williams & Karl Kesel, and "Rapture & Ricochet" by Adam Hughes & Karl Kesel.
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
The Dragon gets involved with a team of super powered operatives that help him deal with the increasing levels of superhuman crime. He meets Rapture, for one.
This trade has the start of the actual Savage Dragon series, and also has some of the backup stories from those books, including some Mighty Man fun.
Why aren't you reading this comic?.......2002-08-16
Savage Dragon is the best funnybook on the market. If you're tired of all comic book characters being clones of the Authority, try this title. It's reccomended for fans of Top Ten, The Hulk, cheese fries, and that chewing gum you can only get with baseball cards.
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Ewan McGregor: A Force to Be Reckoned With
Laura Jackson
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Ewan McGregors Well Gorgeous.......2001-08-17
This book is well good, i read it in like a day, its hard to put down, The pictures of ewan inside are well nice, hes sooooo good looking!!!!
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A Force to be Reckoned With! is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to unlock the mysteries of prayer and enter into a deeper relationship with Jesus. Author Giovanna Caponiti couples her 30 years of study of the Word of God with the experiences of her personal life to bring the revelation of how to become a force to reckoned with in prayer and in life. In understandable language, she presents the revelation of the five anointings of prayer and explains how to flow in them. Giovanna guides you through the process of understanding and maintaining intimacy with Jesus Christ, coupled with insight on praying in Spirit and the power of fasting. She also addresses the hard question of why a loving Father allows bad things to happen. It is a book of concise revelation from cover to cover by the grace of God. “I have read your book [and] after reading only the first couple of sentences, I simply was not able to stop. I am humbled that God has positioned me to ingest the very Spirit of life in His Word on these pages… Although this is a book on prayer, it is profoundly all-encompassing. You are teaching Kingdom principles in each sentence.”—Terry Arnone, Great Falls, VA
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Title: Beavers a force to be reckoned with in Pac-10 race.(Columns)(Column)
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Title: College spending course.(Business)(University students are increasingly a consumer force to be reckoned with)
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The coming Chinese century: big, rich, and a force to be reckoned with. (growing Chinese economy): An article from: The Futurist
Andy Hines
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From the supplier: China could emerge as the world's biggest economy by the 21st century. This can be achieved if the government can manage effectively its economic and international policies. Some of the issues that can affect its economic development are discussed.
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Title: The coming Chinese century: big, rich, and a force to be reckoned with. (growing Chinese economy)
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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Age, published by Cygnus Business Media on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 756 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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Title: The Doughboy chills out: new products and national resources make General Mills a force to be reckoned with in the freezer case. (2002 Category Captain: Frozen Food Age Kenosia).(Brief Article)
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Title: Employers play benefits card: employers intent on cutting or capping employee benefits costs are finding organized labor still a force to be reckoned with, despite shrinking membership.(BENEFITS)
Author: Peter Mead
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A force to be reckoned with. (workforce development): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2393 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.
From the supplier: Corporate leaders should foster a new relationship with their workforces that is suitable to an emerging environment where lifetime job security is no longer an option. Such a relationship should help employees prepare to survive and succeed in a globalized economy that is characterized by accelerated technological innovations, deregulation and international integration. Business executives can help people prepare for the new environment with a three-pronged course of action. The first step requires initiatives to increase employer training and career development. The second involves the improvement of schools to prepare students for work. Finally, the third step is the development of social policies that foster employment. Business leaders can accomplish the first step on their own and can provide their support to the two other steps.
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Title: A force to be reckoned with. (workforce development)
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A must for fans of weird news stories, this timely collection of the year's oddest events is both informative and very, very funny. It includes information about oddball celebrities, dumb criminals, amazing animals, romantic hijinks, and ordinary people doing extraordinarily wacky things. Some of the top stories include:
* The thieves who stole an entire house, brick by brick
* The dog that was called as a witness in a murder trial
* The town that wanted to build a landing strip for UFOs
* The Bruce Willis impersonator with an Australian accent
* The winning lottery number that came in a fortune cookie
* The dessert shop that sold fish-flavored ice cream
* The zoo where you can kiss bears on the mouth
* The new "sex resort" for women
Written in a way that highlights the most entertaining parts of each story and leaves out the rest, The Year in Weird is perfect reading for news junkies, students of human nature, and anyone who just wants a good laugh.
About the author:
Ben Kallen is a journalist, humorist and magazine writer whose work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Movieline, Men's Fitness, Shape, Natural Health, Playboy, L.A. Style and the Los Angeles Times. He keeps a constant eye out for weirdness from his home base in Santa Monica, California.
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Great Service!.......2005-12-22
The only thing I can really say is, "Great service!"
Up-to-date humor.......2005-12-06
I always enjoy "weird news" stories, and this book has a full year's worth, from reminders about what happened to people like Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson to obscure local items (who knew there actually was a zoo where visitors could kiss the bears?). It's also amazingly up to date, with articles about events that only happened recently (in fact, the book itself has the look of something that's been rushed into print). The writing style is the same throughout: a funny headline that comments on the story and acts as an early punchline, followed by a few sentences describing the highlights of what happened. I laughed out loud at some of those headlines, but more than that I found a lot of the bizarre-but-true items quite fascinating. When you read this book, you'll realize that 2005 really has been a strange year.
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Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies:
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Cinema--invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed--primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian dream theories to their art to make the public aware of "modern" ideas about dreams. Most of our current cultural consciousness about the psychological value of dreams is traced to classical and contemporary cinema. This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today. Scholars and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cinema, medicine, and religion may find this volume useful. The book also examines academic psychiatry's increased emphasis in dream study on neuropsychiatry and psychopharmocology, as well as managed care's decreased compensation for dream therapy.
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Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works
Anne Walters Robertson
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Guillaume de Machaut, fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets, and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, the coronation site of French kings. From this penetrating study of his music, Machaut emerges as a composer deeply involved in the great crises of his day, one who skillfully and artfully expressed profound themes of human existence in ardent music and poetry.
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Guillaume de Machaut, fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets, and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, the coronation site of French kings. From this penetrating study of his music, Machaut emerges as a composer deeply involved in the great crises of his day, one who skillfully and artfully expressed profound themes of human existence in ardent music and poetry.
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An Extremely Important Volume.......2006-09-05
I am just finishing up this book in preparation for presenting new insights into Machaut's Motets to my colleagues in a doctoral level choral literature seminar. In short, this book is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of the works of Machaut, and a must have for any serious student of the Middle Ages, especially musicologists.
Dr. Robertson's strikingly clear and original points are firmly supported by her familiarity with an exceptionally large and significant number of sources from that time. It is abundantly clear that she knows what she's talking about, and, indeed, what she knows is a great deal.
Additionally, it is apparent that Dr. Robertson possesses that rare gift found in only the finest of scholars: the ability to organize and convey her ideas with a clarity and vitality that is both riviting and a delight to read.
One hopes this is only one of several such landmark offerings in the history of music and culture that this exceptional scholar is capable of bequeathing the world.
For a whole host of reasons, this book belongs on your shelf.
Douglas Thompson
Tucson, AZ
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An exciting poster map product!
Fantastic Locations: Dragondown Grotto features two double-sided poster maps. Three maps are suitable for RPG and skirmish use, while one is an RPG exclusive. An accompanying 16-page adventure is suitable for any mid-level compaign. Enemies include creatures from the War of the Dragon Queen miniatures expansion releasing in the same month. The two poster maps can be put together to form a dragon's lair, while the reverse sides feature more fantastic locations that players can explore.
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Great addition to the Fantastic Locations.......2007-01-03
Like the other Fantastic Locations, this one has two battle maps (double sided) and an encounter booklet. The art is uniformly well done and the maps can be easily flattened and laminated at your local office supply store to increase their durability.
These are some of the nicest accessories published by WotC, in my opinion. They get plenty of use in DDM Skirmish and my home RPG campaigns.
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Writing for nonprofits is a juggling act. One's job might entail writing grant proposals, newsletters, thank-you notes, case statements, and Web-site material--each for a different boss. The most successful development writers take the time to both experience their causes firsthand (sleep in the shelter, go to rehearsals, visit the wilderness) and cultivate personal relationships with their donors ("people give to people"). You'll give yourself an amazing head start when applying for a grant, say Joseph Barbato and Danielle Furlich, just by following an organization's guidelines and getting your math right--it's surprising how many fundraisers do neither. Make your point once, clearly, and don't forget the human element. "You aren't just asking for money," say the authors of Writing for a Good Cause, "you are asking to help people." Barbato and Furlich, both veteran fundraisers, interviewed both grants administrators and development writers for this guide. The result is an inside view of the arcane workings of the world of fundraising that would make any novice feel more proficient immediately. Their "gotta-get-it-out-right-now, how-late-is-FedEx-open? Down-and-dirty proposal kit" is a terrific tool when there isn't time to write the "knockout, beguiling, exciting, can't-put-it-down, and surely can't-turn-it-down fundraising proposal." And keep in mind: when a donor gives your proposal the nod, say thank you. Twice. In fact, say Barbato and Furlich, "It is almost impossible to thank a donor too much." --Jane Steinberg
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Filled with tips and survival skills from writers and fund-raising officers at nonprofits of all sizes, Writing for a Good Cause is the first book to explain how to use words well to win your cause the money it needs. Whether you work for a storefront social action agency or a leading university, the authors' knowledgeable, practical advice will help you:
- Write the perfect proposal -- from the initial research and interviews to the final product
- Draft, revise, and polish a "beguiling, exciting, can't-put-it-down and surely can't-turn-it-down" request for funds
- Create case statements and other big money materials -- also write, design, and print newsletters, and use the World Wide Web effectively
- Survive last-minute proposals and other crises -- with the Down-and-Dirty Proposal Kit!
Writing for a Good Cause provides everything fund raisers, volunteers, staff writers, freelancers, and program directors need to know to win funds from individual, foundation, and corporate donors.
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From storefront social action agencies to leading museums and universities, organizations across the country are seeking funds for good causes. But even the best cause doesn't stand a chance when proposals and other materials are badly written or deadly dull. Writing for a Good Cause is the first book to explain how to use words well to win the support of funders.
The authors, who have applied their writing talents to a variety of good causes, address the full range of challenges writers in development offices face. Their knowledgeable, practical advice covers:
-- Writing the perfect proposal -- from the initial research and interviews to the final product
-- Drafting, revising, and polishing a "beguiling, exciting, can't-put-it-down and surely can't-turn-it-down" request for funds
-- Creating case statements and other big money materials -- including how to write, design, and print newsletters and use the World Wide Web effectively
Filled with tips from writers at nonprofits and suggestions from top foundation funders, Writing for a Good Cause provides everything volunteers, staff writers, freelancers, and others need to know to fashion persuasive presentations for individual, foundation, and corporate donors.
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Writer Writing For Writers.......2007-07-13
Immensely "Readable" guidelines for writing all types of fundraising materials. Barbato has written a timeless, easy to follow handbook that holds a special place on my reference bookshelf.
Writing for a good cause!.......2006-04-25
Excellent book with very practical tips on writing to get funded. There are many grantwriting books and resources available, but this is one of the better that I've found for writing persuasively for major gifts. Great practical advice on formulating winning proposals, concept papers and other grant writing tools. Definitely recommend to grantseekers of all levels.
Not just a guide to writing proposals - a guide to life.......2002-08-12
Not surprisingly, this book provides advice that -- if applied literally -- will assist you in writing excellent proposals to fund your non-profit organization's ventures.
Surprisingly, the advice contained herein -- if made more generic in your mind -- is excellent advice for entire areas of your life. Sounds hokey, true. But honestly, boiled down the advice can be listed as:
1. Identify what the problem is. Do your research until you really understand the causes of the problems and their many effects.
2. Identify how you will know when you have made the problem better. How will you know when the problem has been alleviated? What intermediate steps need to be taken? How will you measure your progress along the way?
3.Identify what tools are available, and which are still needed, to move towards a resolution, or diminution, of the problem. Be specific here. Vague generalities are useless, but the brass tacks of a solution are absolutely priceless. Who has access to these tools? Who can make difficult things easy?
4. If you are asking for someone to help you with this problem, present the whole equation to them in a light that makes the most sense to *them*. This doesn't mean to lie, or exaggerate. It only means to focus your proposal in a way that makes them see it most personally.
5. Proofread what you have written, to be sure it says what you want it to say. Then proofread it again. And again. Get it right, because it is a hard and fast representative of you. This should be true in everything concrete you put out in the world with your name on it.
Now, all of this can be applied to writing a grant proposal. And much of it can be applied to the other things in life. Filling a job position, finding a home, working out a deteriorating relationship, educating yourself or your children ... you name it.
It's so rare that a book directed at an audience of specialists resonates with so much broadly applicable truth ... and it was such a delight to find it. I plowed through this book last night, reading every word, applying its advice mentally to all sorts of issues in my own life. I am pleased to report that it opened my eyes to solutions that had eluded me until now.
Wonderfully written, amusingly told, full of great advice to writers of all persuasive materials, this book is a gem.
I put sticky notes on half the pages.......2002-08-09
I took this book, along with many others on fundraising, out of my local library. Though I'm new to raising funds, I've made much of my living writing articles and books; I wasn't sure it would have much to teach me.
This book was so startlingly useful that I had to buy it. It will likely become your most dog-eared fundraising guide.
Puts the Fun in Fundraising.......2002-07-11
When I am on deadline and desperately in need of help, "Writing for a Good Cause" is where I turn first for guidance, solace, or inspiration (seeing as how our office manager objects to open containers of alcohol at one's desk). Not only is this book full of incredibly practical writing tips in handy list form, it is also very funny and a page turner.
The heart of the book is a clear guide to how to write a great proposal, but other valuable topics are covered, including newsletters, case statements, interviews, and the like.
In one section, the authors mix genuine examples of great fundraising writing with an imaginary proposal to fund the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. They not only convince you to help build the Brooklyn Bridge, you're ready to buy it.
The bridge is not for sale, but this book is. It is well worth its price of two fast food lunches. Buy it, read it, and be happy.
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