Label-Design.Be: Design In Belgium After 2000

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Interest in Belgian design- be it furniture, fashion, graphics or products has exploded in the last five years. Label-Design.be, Design in Belgium After 2000 presents the recent work of some 130 jury-selected designers and showcases at least four designs from each making it the most comprehensive overview of design in Belgium today. Here, function meets beauty and more! Included in the book are also designs of furniture, cars, trains, and bathrooms. Preceding this unique overview are essays by Lise Coirer, Johan Valcke, and Francis Smets. Designers featured here include Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens, Colombo, Jo Crepain, Dark, Durlet, Extremis, Xavier Lust, Maximal Design, Modular, Quinze & Milan, Annick Schotte, Piet Stockmans, Vincent Van Duysen, Maarten Van Severen, and many, amnt others.

Label-design.be: Design in Belgium After 2000

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Label-design.be: Design in Belgium After 2000
Lise Coirier
Manufacturer: Stichting Kunstboek
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65DIA

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Crammed into this slim volume are a dozen basic techniques and about two dozen project ideas for unusual and colorful neckwear. Incorporating various fabrics, ribbons, buttons, beads, cording, and other embellishments, projects--which are more like soft-sculpture pieces than traditional necklaces--include an elaborate shawl collar laden with French-wire ribbon flowers, chokers of embroidered fabrics arrayed in layers, and shaped collars of satins and metallics pieced into a vivid crazy-quilt look. Though a few items appear to be a bit dated, most are wonderfully innovative. A large tear-out sheet bound into the back of the book provides full-size patterns for the projects.

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Paranoia: the surreal, twisted vision of an Orwellian future where players are positively encouraged to betray each other merely to survive, and the most unique roleplaying game on the market today. Paranoia is destined to once more provide roleplayers with the sort of frantic gaming experience that proved so popular at the games inception - there has never been a roleplaying game like it! Extreme Paranoia is an essential gaming supplement for Paranoia, perhaps the most unique roleplaying game ever produced. Filled with the same black and ironic humour, Extreme Paranoia is a valuable gaming tool introducing new play styles, new mandatory duties, adventure/campaign materials for characters at all levels of security clearance and more!

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A Fun Read.......2006-03-01

I've always loved the dark humor Paranoia offered, even if as a game player I never get to play Paranoia (the rest of my group play non-fun games). The book is a joy to read and a good value if you'd like to see how gaming could work when your not consumed with game mechanics running your life.

Extreme Paranoia: Nobody Knows the Trouble I'Ve Shot!

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Classic Paranoia from one of the original game developers!
Not the Paranoia I know and love

Extreme Paranoia: Nobody Knows the Trouble I'Ve Shot!
Ken Rolston
Manufacturer: West End Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0874311624

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Classic Paranoia from one of the original game developers!.......2002-03-21

First of all, for anyone who hasn't played the Paranoia RPG, I have some homework: go play the game. I can't imagine what this book is like for someone who hasn't played the game, but I can't help thinking it's much more enjoyable for someone who has.

The author, Ken Rolston, was part of the development team for the original Paranoia RPG (1st and 2nd editions) as well as a writer of several of the original adventures, most notably "Orcbusters" and "HIL Sector Blues." His excellent imagination and writing style come through in his novel, and his unique understanding of the setting definitely make this book a must-read for Paranoia GMs. Homer-R-ICK-2 is the main character at the beginning of the book, and suffers from amnesia since the memory transfer from his original clone (Homer-R-ICK-1) wasn't successful. This sets the stage perfectly for an outsider's introduction to the setting, since clone 2 knows nothing of the world in which he lives (which he doesn't, not for long, at least). In true Paranoia style, Homer and his band of erstwhile troubleshooters encounter myriad obstacles in the course of their mission, and run through several more clones in the process. Although I think Rolston missed the opportunity to showcase the backstabbing and infighting that characterize a RPG session, the classic elements of the game were all there: the great characters, crazy bots, hazardous R&D equipment, outfitting SNAFUs, etc. Rolston also includes a number of footnotes (in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett) which are helpful to those who aren't as familiar with the game.

Ken Rolston's view of Alpha Complex and the world of The Computer focuses mostly on its "humorous" aspects and less on the "dark," which made for a thoroughly enjoyable book. Although the book leaves out the typical Troubleshooter backstabbing and blackmail (and indeed, because it does so), the characters manage to achieve their mission goals and receive their just rewards (well, sorta). A fun book...by no means meant to be taken seriously.

Not the Paranoia I know and love.......2001-06-18

Well, I sure hate to be so critical, but this book just could not get the job done. For those who have played the Paranoia rpg, the setting is a humorous one in the near future, in which a Big Brother-like Computer controls the human populace. When things go wrong beyond the Computer's ability to control, a Troubleshooting team is sent in to rectify the problem. The results are usually quite amusing, as every team member is secretly a subversive, trying to overthrow the computer, and either do away with or frame his companions in the process.

This book, however, fails in attempting slap-stick humor. Too many things happen at once, and the nature of the setting is not explained in an effective manner. All the quirky machine screw-ups play as just plain stupid. And the dialog between the team members and the citizens they encounter is worse than even the worst Paranoia session I ever played.

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Making Sense of Movies is a film appreciation text that focuses on the Hollywood style of moviemaking to examine the aesthetic, historical, and theoretical aspects of film studies. The text focuses on a limited number of significant movies to provide greater depth of knowledge and understanding, gradually expanding the number of films with each chapter.

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Great Hollywood Films Study Guide !.......2003-01-18

The book contains a lot of information about how Hollywood films became the way it is today. Very informative. Very fun to read. Tells you what elements makes American films "Hollywood".

Although the some movies he uses for example are very old (Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Birth of a nation, King Kong, Psycho, etc) and sometimes its really hard to get on DVD, nevertheless they are all important & significant films that all film buffs should watch.

Stanley was my professor when I was in college. He used to be a judge for Emmy Awards. He's been teaching films/media for over 30 years. By reading this book you can really tell that he really love movies!

This book is recommended for beginner to novice film students. Or just normal people can enjoy as well. Many diagrams and pictures.

It is also a great book if you are making a movie.

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Making Sense of Movies: Filmmaking in the Hollywood Style
Robert Henry Stanley
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFZS08

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Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, Wilfrid Mellers offers a set of diverse reflections on how western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world. Beginning with two turn-of-the-century operas--Frederick Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet and Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- that present humankind as lost in a tangled wood that is at once internal and external, Mellers develops the theme of wilderness in sociological, psychological, ecological, and even geological terms. He discusses Leoš Janá ek's Cunning Little Vixen ("the ultimate ecological opera") as a parable of redemption and explores the delicate yet dangerous equilibrium between civilization and the dark forest in works by Charles Koechlin and Darius Milhaud. Elements of wilderness and the city combine to infuse the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Carlos Chávez with a blend of primitivism and sophistication, while a creative tension between desert landscape and industrial mechanization inspires the works of Carl Ruggles, Harry Partch, Steve Reich, and Australia's Peter Sculthorpe. The volume culminates in a discussion of two American urban folk musicians, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. By suggesting how the "musicking" of ecological issues articulates twinned perspectives on music and our place in the world, Mellers raises intriguing questions about the links among tradition, talent, learning, and instinct. Brimming over with fresh ideas and unexpected cross-pollinations, Singing in the Wilderness is a stimulating addition to the oeuvre of a distinguished and inventive scholar.

Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century. (Diverse Topics).: An article from: Notes

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Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century. (Diverse Topics).: An article from: Notes
Nico Schuler
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1026 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: Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century. (Diverse Topics).
Author: Nico Schuler
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 58 Issue: 4 Page: 856(3)

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Singing in the Wilderness : Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century

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Singing in the Wilderness : Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century
Wilfrid H. Mellers
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBMS7K

Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century / Wilfrid Mellers.

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Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century / Wilfrid Mellers.
Mellers
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ18K6

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4 different border stencils on three clear blue 7 1/4" x 10 3/8" plastic sheets are laser-cut for sharpest detail, greatest durability. Elegant Victorian floral and foliated border patterns will add decorative accents to walls, furniture, fabrics. Instructions included.

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Stencils - Good Quality & Very reasonable price.......2005-08-21

Like these Dover heavy stencils "booklets". You get a ready to use selection of a few stencils as illustrated on cover of the "book" produced with good, heavy mylar and registration, unlike many flimsy stencils in other how-to stencil books. Be aware that this is not a how-to book but a theme based stencil booklet that delivers good quality stencils with not a lot of instruction.
Good for getting started with stencil art to produce some good learning-curve experience and results; you can move on to the more expensive stencils from specialized companies once you get the hang of it all. In the mean time, you can get a good inexpensive start with Dover produced laser-cut stencils.

Wonderful!.......1999-11-11

There are three heavy white plastic sheets of 4 borders. Two sheets contain only one border design each. The other sheet contains two borders. All designs are just beautiful. Some designs can be isolated from the border and used separately. I want more. I wish Charlene would do a Volume II.

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A recent Fortune poll cited General Electric Company as America's most admired company. Much of the credit went to Jack Welch, GE's chief executive for the past 17 years. During his tenure, GE's revenues and profits have grown enormously. Its share price has soared, making GE the world's most valuable company. And the key to GE's success, according to Jack Welch and the GE Way, is Welch's fanatical devotion to a personal philosophy of leadership. Author Robert Slater has made a growth industry of his own out of Welch, penning two previous books on him, The New GE in 1992 and Get Better or Get Beaten! two years later. The same territory was plowed in 1993 by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman in Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will.

In this book, Slater draws extensively on Welch's own words to deliver his now familiar message: keep it simple; face reality; embrace change; fight bureaucracy. Bromides these may be, but Slater's account of Welch's fierce efforts to lead a global, multifarious organization of 270,000 people does inspire admiration, even if it does not enable emulation. The book provides fresh insights into GE's shift toward service businesses, as with its takeover and transformation of NBC. Most timely are Welch's closing thoughts on trends in the global economy. Jack Welch and the GE Way is a must for the legions of "Welch-heads" out there and for anyone else interested in this brilliant leader's perspective on the future of business. --Barry Mitzman

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Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO

Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What emerged is a brilliant portrait that tells you what makes Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market.

Get details on Welch’s far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars...how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well)...and all the other Welch "midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!

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Jack Welch is indisputably the most effective CEO in America today and has been for the past two decades. Robert Slater concentrates on Welch's present-day business strategies and his vision for the future in Jack Welch and the G.E. Way.

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A Good Book But I Prefer Jack's Own.......2005-12-24

I bought this book before reading Jack's "Straight from the Gut". When I read this book I thought it was 5 stars and I re-read this book at least once looking for clues to help my own business. Then I read Jack's book and realized his was better. In any case this covers all the basic aspects of Jack's methods including the educational meetings at the GE "university", cleaning house, picking winning companies, eliminating small market share companies, and promoting top performers and eliminating underperformers. It shows how he is hands on.

Good if you want to read two books on Jack Welch.

Disappointing.......2005-06-07

When I read a book I expect to learn something I don't already know or at least revisit something I already know from a new perspective or explain it in a uniquely articulate way. This book fails on all three measures. Walsh shares no secret insights -- he only discusses his introduction of a number of standard business practices to GE. This include 6-Sigma, downsizing, A-B-C rating of managers, etc. -- The usual mix of management science, art and business fad typical in pop management books. And even the discussions of how these management tools were implemented at GE is filled with extrainious details about the meetings at which these policies were introduced and other non-value added story telling. This only leads me to believe that it was added as filler to get the page count up to the size required for a book.

For all of Jack Welsh's insistence that his business units be 1st or 2nd in a market it is pure hypocrisy for him to be publishing this book. Your time and money is better spent reading Peter Drucker.

Author Paid By The Word.......2004-04-06

Good overview of the Jack Welch way, including a variety of innovative business ideas that brought GE forward.

However, as a book goes, it would appear the author was paid by the word. Each of the "secrets" is presented, reviewed, repeated, and presented again in a 300+ page book that would better be summarized in about 20. I kept reading after the first two chapters thinking I would learn somthing new, but honestly, save your money, read chapter one at the library, and go home with just as much insight.

To the publisher, I'd recommed an "executive summary" version for the next edition.

Absurd.......2003-10-06

I've worked as an engineer for GE under Jack Welch and I have also worked as a (civilian) naval engineer.

GE's bureaucracy makes the government look like a paradigm of efficiency. GE is probably the most politicized, bureaucratic, inefficient and bloated organization on the planet.

Jack Welch is incompetent. Read a comic book instead: You'll find more truth in one.

Obsolete.......2003-02-21

This book has some nuggets but you do have to overcome some meandering. The author jumps from format to format sometimes turning the book into a Jack Welch biography and at other times acting as if the book were a serious business analysis of GE and the changes Welch brought. It fails as a biography and the business analysis is lightweight at best. It's not clear what this book is trying to deliver but what I got out of it were a cursory understanding of the challenges that GE faced and some sense of why Jack Welch succeeded. Now that Jack Welch is retired and has an autobiography "Straight from the Gut" this book is almost obsolete.

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