Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography

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Over the past few years, Le Book has become the bible for the fashion and advertising industries. Le Book has become an international key to the creative world: a guide to more than 10,000 professionals from the best photographers, art directors, stylists, and model agencies, to location finders, rental studios, caterers, record labels, magazines, advertising agencies, fashion designers and public relations firms. In short, everything and everyone that is important in these industries can be found here. Displaying the work of some of the best photographers of our time, Le Book serves not only as a reference, but also as a time capsule for photography and design. With thousands of images, it is a virtual who's who of creative talent, including work by photographers such as Juergen Teller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Paolo Roversi, Terry Richardson, Michel Comte, and many others. It is a source of inspiration for creative people worldwide, and has truly become the global meeting place for everyone in the fields of visual communication.

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Pikkkaaaa! As further testament to the global domination of Pokémon, Electric Pikachu Boogaloo collects the contents of four Poké-comic books originally released in late '99, all based on episodes from the enormously successful TV series. "Boogaloo" follows 10-year-old Ash Ketchum and his first, best, and cutest Pokémon partner, Pikachu, through all sorts of adventures, from trying to track down a mysterious seed Pokémon guardian spirit atop the Venusaur Tree to investigating whether Clefairy really come from outer space. The action reaches its peak when Ash qualifies for the Pokémon League in "Days of Gloom and Glory" and then takes on his friend and rival Richie in the high-stakes Indigo Finals. The dastardly misfits of Team Rocket, of course, keep things interesting along the way. (The book comes with four perforated, pull-out pin-ups.) --Paul Hughes

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Here is the smash-hit Pokemon comic series in a single-volume graphic novel for readers of all ages. The Pokemon sneak away from their masters to visit Bulbasaur's secret garden; Professor Oak, Clefairy, and Clefable help a little girl protect her pet Jigglypuff from Team Rocket; Ash helps a girl find the Leaf Stone to evolve her Vileplume; Meowth makes a friend; and the great Pokemon Tournament ends with Ash holding one last Pokemon - the out-of-control Charizard!

Customer Reviews:

Best Pokemon merchandise out here!!!.......2003-04-13

Although this US version is quite censored, I can recommend it to any Pokemon fan, but it is absolute must have for any Rocketshipper! It is quite Ash-bashing despite the title. And there are also the most beautiful pictures of Jessie and James! The art style is marvelous and Mr.Ono's humour is great, too!!!
I like The Electric Pikachu Boogaloo the best from all 4 manga books by Toshihiro Ono. This series is one of my most favourite mangas (beside Cardcaptor Sakura and Gunsmith Cats).
Read it and you will see why! If you are manga fan and want quality, try this Pokemon manga series. It it not childish, I'm 20 and I enjoyed it very much!

this cover's the best!!.......2002-09-08

i'm very happy ^_^ i managed to get the book with the three characters on front, if your worried by the title and hot it says, pokemon comic series three? just ignore it. the book's the same as the other 4. it was gorgess seeing meousy and all the stuff underwater, a must have...

Pikaaa...Chuu!!!.......2001-12-10

This Pokemon tradepaperback is the best Pokemon item ever made! The stories are more interesting to read especially better than the television series. Once I got the book in my hands I was amazed at Toshihiro Ono's artwork. This guy can draw! I like good american art and more so manga art. Mr. Ono's work is outstanding story and art both. If you are a lover of good art and enjoy Pokemon this is the book to get ( along with all the othe TPs from his other 3 Pokemon books). Hope this review is helpful.

Mature Pokemon??.......2001-09-17

Well, we've all seen those cute and cuddly little freaks hogging the pages of TIME, and completely obliterating the trading-card market. But even a veteran Pokemon fanatic gets tired of Pokemon's general appearance [cute and child-friendly]. Well, that's where this book comes in. The Pokemon and characters are drawn in a much more manga way, and seem either more silly, serious, or enraged! Whoever this guy is, he needs to start working for Microsoft, because their website needs more than a little work! [visually, that is]

I briefly browsed through this thing in my local Waldenbooks, but I was blown away by the strangely realistic look of Venusaur and Blastoise [in mountain-form, nonetheless!]. Hell, I expected vulgar language and nudity on every other page, that's how Manga it looks!

Simply Incredible (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of).......2001-05-01

There are two things I somewhat pride myself on not being: 1)The first is a Pokemon fan (Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo, but I won't be sad when they finally stop producing Pokemon games) 2)The second is a comic book fan. I gave up comic books for many good reasons, the first of which is that I simply couldn't understand the piecemeal plots of the works. Look at it this way: Once a month, you either buy at a store or receive in the mail a small book of approximately 20 or 30 pages with decent art printed on lousy newsprint, it took you approximately 10 or so minutes to read, and then you had to wait a whole month to find out what happens next! That is why I turned to the trade paperback, and then ultimately turned to Manga. Not only did trade paperbacks keep my attention and immerse me in a fictional world for at least 10 minutes, but they usually contained whole stories. I came across Electric Pikachu Boogaloo in the book section of Target, I flipped through the pages and immediately fell in love with Toshihiro Ono's rather interesting take on the Pokemon Omniverse. What really grabbed my attention was the way in which the Pokemon were drawn; they were not quite the cute, cuddly cartoons of the orignal Nintendo games, but were something more: They looked like Animals! Real, living, breathing animals that could very well exist (cases-in-point: Meowth really looks like a cat and Gryados really looks like...well, a Gryados, but still the scariest looking Gryados I'd ever seen). What also made me fall in love with Electric Boogaloo was the story of the Clefairy's Off-world origins, and their effect on an adorable little girl and her pet Jigglypuff. The absolute best illustration in the story is presented to us when the little girl is awakened to the sounds of someone (or something) in the kitchen and creeps downstairs, heart racing. The next panel is possibly the most strangely eerie and yet amazingly alluring illustration I have ever seen: A seemingly innumerable amount of Clefairy all gathered around the refrigerator, foraging for whatever food they can find. I found myself staring at the panel for what seemed like hours as memories of times when comics were actually able to create moments of suspense and were able to pull the reader into a strangely foreign world with an all too haunting familiarity. I also found myself practically on the verge of tearing up during the little girl's monologue to the Clefairy about her long lost mother. And I couldn't help but smile when she first greeted her strange visitors ("Nice ta meetcha!"). Toshihiro Ono is an artistic genius, and of all the books in the series, this stands as the absolute best. Even if you're not a pokemon fan, and especially if you're not a comic book fan, you can find solace in the fact that this book embodies none of the things that make Pokemon or comic books so esoteric, alienating, and generally unenjoyable.

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This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of the Bay State.

Massachusetts Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series)

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Massachusetts Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series)
Bruce Gellerman , and Erik Sherman
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
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This is an expanded edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's long out-of-print Heretical Empiricism. It includes a new Introduction by Ben Lawton that discusses the relevance of the book on the 30th anniversary of the author's death. It also features the first approved translation of "Repu- diation of the 'Trilogy of Life'," one of Pasolini's most con- troversial final essays.While Pasolini is best known in the U.S. as a revolutionary film director, in Italy he was even better known as poet, novelist, playwright, political gadfly, and scholar of the semiotics of film. "New Academic Publishing should be commended for making this expanded version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Hermetic Empiricism once again available to the English-speaking public, especially in the light of the fact that the important essay, "Repudiation of the Trilology of Life," has been added to its contents. Thirty years after Pasolini's violent death on 2 November 1975, the appearance of this excellent translation and edition of his major writings on Italian film, literature, and language is most welcome. No figure has emerged in Italy since the writer/director's death that has aroused such passionate opinions from all sides of the political and cultural spectrum. The translations by Ben Lawton and Louise Barnett render Pasolini's sometimes complex prose accurately with ample explanatory notes to guide the reader without a firm grasp of the original essays in Italian. This book represents an important work to have in every library devoted to cultural criticism, cinema, and literary theory." -- Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, Indiana University "One of the greatest cultural figures of postwar Europe, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is already widely known as a revolutionary filmmaker, was an equally important writer and poet. Pasolini's numerous works are published in some 50 volumes, which include poetry, novels, critical and theoretical essays, verse tragedies, screenplays, political journalism, and translations. With this successful and complete translation of Empirismo eretico (a collection of Pasolini's interventions on language, literature, and film written between 1964 and 1971), editors Barnett and Lawton have made a wide sample of Pasolini's most significant theoretical work available to the English-speaking reader. Essays on the screenplay, on the commercial and the art cinema, and on film semiotics make the collection of special interest to American film scholars and students. This volume is further enriched by an excellent introduction, carefully edited notes, a useful biographical glossary, and a thorough index. Given the contemporary interest in studying film, together with other cultural forms, within a broad social and historical context, Pasolini's "extravagantly interdisciplinary" writings beckon as a promising source of insight. A potentially seminal text that could contribute to the further evolution of interdisciplinary humanistic studies, Heretical Empiricism is highly recommended for university and college libraries." -- J. Welle, University of Notre Dame, CHOICE (1989)

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Contains 78-card Crowley Small Thoth Tarot deck and Tarot: Mirror of the Soul by Gerd Ziegler. Packaged in plastic bookcase box. Book contains 144 pages, illustrated. Spread sheet not included.

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Why I'd like to sell mine back.......2007-08-19

I bought this copy again for nostalgia. I had it when I first got my first Thoth deck. I was 18. It was a long time ago. There were no other books short of AC, which I read but that is a huge undertaking. The Tarot cannot be grasped in isolation. You need Qabalah and Astrology to really "get it". The Mirror of the Soul is good if you want to skip all of that. But then what is the point?! After I got it again, the only reason I didn't send it back because it was only $10. I figured shipping would cost more than a $10 credit is worth. Compared to the Banzhaf (Keywords for the Crowley deck) and Duquette (Understanding the Crowley deck), it is wholly unnecessary. For those who want to do more than divination, or want to do divination on solid ground, read Duquette, read the Book of Thoth and Equinox (AC). Bhanzaf is a very useful little book to accompany simple readings while you integrate the cards into your mind-spirit. Duquette prepares you for AC. And only He can take you farther.

trade paperback = quality ?.......2007-05-29

....Others have covered the content, in that regard...I will only say: if you don't mind "New Age" stuff (ie. each interpretation ends with 4, 1-3 sentence notes: an "Indication", a Question, a Suggestion, and an Affirmation); it can be good fun. I enjoy it... Lot's of interesting positive ideas...
....As regards the BOOK, the paper is cheap, and the illustrations are in black and white, many so fuzzy that important detail is lost. ( of course, this is not a problem if you have your deck out while reading). The text is about 1 page per card. This is an advantage for those who like quick results.
....At the end are 7 spreads (including a relationship spread for 2 people to do together).Also a 1 page glossary of commonly occurring symbols, and 1 on finding "your personal" card. The book starts with 7-11 pages of introductory material on the use of the tarot. 3 stars because of the cheapness of the publisher: Weiser Books

Great companion to Tarot deck.......2007-02-06

The Angeles book is good but a bit too happy in its interpretations. This one is more real, less fluff.

Good place to start.......2007-01-18

If you use the Thoth deck, this book is a good place to start and much more accessible than Crowley's writings. Some of the interpretations are too new agey and vague -- the book's emphasis is very much on interpreting the cards in terms of psychological and spiritual development and some of them start to sound too much the same-- but I find it especially helpful in its treatment of the court cards.

Best all-around book for the Thoth deck.......2006-02-10

After purchasing the large size Thoth deck, I knew that I needed a solid book to refer to during readings. Trust me, I checked them all out. From the original Book of Thoth to numerous other attempts to explain the deck.
I can tell you this, Gerd Ziegler has come out with the perfect companion to the Thoth deck. In fact, I carry the deck and book around together as a set.
Anyone who has Crowley's deck will probably agree with me when I say you were most likely "drawn" to this deck. It appears to have very straight forward designs but the more you use the deck, the deeper it gets.
That's why I simply love this book. Since the Thoth deck is very psychological it can be a very "personal experience" to do a reading. In fact, I usually save the Thoth deck for my own readings due to it's inherent complexity.
But, Ziegler gives a great introduction on making "friends" with the cards. Understanding the underlying truths is of great importance. He points out the obvious and sublime with ease. From advice on learning the cards' meanings, to activities that help bring the cards to life, Ziegler not only gives you the symbolic insight but he also asks probing questions that if answered honestly, will lead to a deeper understanding and relationship with the cards.
This book is really all you need to get a deeper insight into the amazing cards Crowley designed. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to further "understand" the Thoth tarot.

El Tarot/ The Tarot: El espejo del alma/ The Soul's Mirror

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El Tarot/ The Tarot: El espejo del alma/ The Soul's Mirror
Gerd Ziegler
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Esoterismo

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Mirror of the Soul
Aleister Crowley
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A Defining Business Book

Practical guidance for budding enterpreneurs

Good thesis, contained in too many pages

How To Make Your Business Dream a Reality

Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own
Bruce Judson
Manufacturer: Collins
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Most people dream of becoming their own boss but fear the enormous risks of starting their own businesses. Perhaps the greatest obstacle for most of these would–be entrepreneurs is the enormous amounts of money even the smallest start–up businesses require. Yet it has not been widely recognized that we are in the midst of a business revolution that makes it possible for individuals to start their own businesses with a minimal investment of capital, and to build those businesses through outsourcing and organic growth without ever having to look for more funding.

Through his own experiences as an entrepreneur––and numerous case studies–Judson illustrates this growing trend. Going It Alone will be a practical guide to lead the aspiring entrepreneur from corporate dependence to business independence.

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There is an epidemic of unhappiness in the American workplace. A full 70 percent of workers in the United States report that they are disengaged from their jobs. When asked, ""Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?"" only 20 percent of nearly 2 million employees said yes. It is no wonder that 56 percent of all Americans dream of starting their own business. So why don't they do so? Because starting one's own business is seen as difficult, expensive, and risky.

In this extraordinary book, successful Go It Alone! entrepreneur Bruce Judson explains that the conventional wisdom about starting your own business is stunningly wrong. Using the leverage of technology -- e-mail, the World Wide Web, and the remarkable array of off-the-shelf business services now available -- it is dramatically easier to start your own business. Magnified by these new services, it is also possible to create, for the first time, a highly focused business.

Bruce Judson shows you the practical steps that will allow nearly any individual to create a business, often using job skills that seem to require an entire corporation for support. It is no longer necessary to spend time on the tasks that don't add value. It is now possible to stay small but reap big profits. Go-it-alone businesses allow the individual the freedom to concentrate on their greatest skills. After reading this book, your motto will be ""Do What You Do Best, Let Others Do the Rest.""

Customer Reviews:

Same old song and dance.......2007-08-11

This is nothing new. If you are at a point where you want to start your own business. Use the free stuff that you can get from the small business administration. There are also non-profit organization to help. This book might amp you up a bit. But bottom line? Just do it!

A Defining Business Book.......2007-04-29

I picked up this book more than a year ago after hearing an interview with Judson on NPR's weekend financial show. His ideas on the radio seemed very logical so I picked up his book at the store. Could not have made a better purchase.

Over the past two years, almost all industries (including my own) are headed exactly in the direction that Judson predicted - small firms that do ONLY what they do best and outsource the rest. Products like web services and ASP model applications are making this type of firm not only possible but inexpensive and efficient.

The basic premise of his book is this: today's entrepreneur doesn't need to have lots of employees or a vast network to be successful. Today's entrepreneur needs to do one thing really good and outsource everything else. For example, if you're good at giving financial advice, give financial advice and outsource everything else: accounting, customer service, taxes, etc to people who do THOSE services best. Inexpensive web services and telecommunications networks make this not only possible but inexpensive and easy.

Essentially, on an economic level, Judson reflects on the lowering of market barriers by information technology; open networks, commodity hardware, and inexpensive software can lead to new ideas and information technology which continues to lower the barriers for small firms to compete. Judson applies these ideas to the entrepreneur (in laymans terms) in his concise and succinct book.

Practical guidance for budding enterpreneurs.......2007-01-04

For all of you who are solo entrepreneurs or who have ever thought of starting your own business, Bruce Judson's book "Go It Alone!" will help you turn a kernel of an idea into a solid entreprenerial business strategy. In my work with mothers, I recommend "Go It Alone! as a top resource for women who are in the midst of career reinvention after taking time off to raise children.

Bruce provides practical guidance and explains distinctions such as the difference between being a "go-it-alone enterpreneur" and a "free agent." Being a free agent is great in theory but subject to boom-and-bust employment cycles. If you are an underemployed freelancer, he can help guide you toward a more sustainable and expandable business model.

Good thesis, contained in too many pages.......2006-12-05

I should begin by saying that I am quite in sympathy with this book's thesis, which can be boiled down (to oversimplify a bit) to one phrase: Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Bruce Judson, the author, brings out some great reasons for pursuing "light footprint" entrepreneurship (my term, not his). So many functions and so much technology can now be outsourced, via web-enabled communications and applications, that a world of opportunity is now open which could not be dreamed of a decade ago.

One of the effective marketing approaches employed by Judson was to make the entire text of the book available on the web. If his bet was that this would entice a serious reader to buy the book after sampling some good content, then it worked in my case. I'd far rather read a printed book that scan a monitor.

If you're thinking about starting a one-person or very small business, I think the content here will be quite helpful and a needed boost of encouragement. However, the book (and accompanying website) are not without flaws.

First of all, the book is over 200 pages. It could easily have been 80-90, with better editing. There is a lot of repetition, including using the same examples over and over again. The overall structure is not tight - too sprawling. And, in various places in the book, various resources are offered on the website - but when you go to the site, no such resources are to be found.

That said, I'd buy the book over again, because it has been an encouragement and affirmation for my chosen course of entrepreneurship. Despite the less-than-optimal execution, Judson is onto something, and that's the main thing. If you're going to "Go it Alone", you'll derive some serious value from this book.

How To Make Your Business Dream a Reality.......2006-08-18

I share a dream with 56% of other Americans -- if the study reported in the book is accurate -- of running my own business. In my dream I'm also doing what I do best and creating something of value and meaning in the world. The beauty of Bruce Judson's book is that it shows why this dream is now achievable by most people, given sufficient determination. In fact, it has never been easier, and Judson shows us exactly how to do it.

He starts, appropriately, with some conclusions from Buckingham and Clifton's book, "Now, Discover Your Strengths," which points out that over 70% of people are disengaged from their jobs, and goes on to describe how you can identify your strengths.

Knowing your strengths and building on them is the central idea. It's not a new idea, but Judson develops it, showing how it can be used as a guiding principle for building a solo business. Judson has prodigious energy, having built two successful business, written two books and taught at the Yale School of management. He clearly has some uncommon strengths and abilities, but his point is that anyone can take the strengths they have and build a successful business on that foundation. And he makes a compelling case for this argument.

It's a flat earth. The world has shrunk, as Thomas Friedman points out in his recent book, "The World is Flat." Judson capitalizes on this shift with an "extreme outsourcing" model. The Internet and the growth of Application Service Providers (ASPs) has opened up a world of possibilities and made it possible for anyone to build a business that leverages the expertise of others at a very low cost, with almost no up-front capital investment required. Judson points to the big four: eBay, Google, Amazon and Yahoo! For some, there is no need to look further than these four -- but there are thousands of other business service providers, and any business function can be outsourced to another business, large or small, somewhere in the world. There is a limitless network of businesses out there -- and infinite possibilities for starting new ones.

Judson shows us exactly how to build a solo business based on our strengths. It's all about choosing a business with a core competence that aligns with your strengths and outsourcing everything else. He provides a useful set of principles and a useful checklist to make sure that your business concept is viable, but the central idea is simple: focus with intensity on your core competence -- what you're passionate about -- and get started, constantly innovating and staying ahead, but not too far ahead, of the market.

If there's a weakness, it's a lack of cohesion in the structure and writing of the book. There is a profusion of Judson's own ideas, and a wealth of ideas drawn from books he has read, but they are not well organized. The examples are relevant and often drawn from Judson's own experience, but are limited and repetitious. This is not surprising, given that Judson was running two businesses during the writing of the book. If writing were his core competence and main goal, Judson would have followed his own advice and focused only on the research and writing of the book, outsourcing the parts in which he was less interested to others (as Collins did in the making of "Good to Great.")

This may not be a great work of literature, but Judson succeeds in the goal he sets himself. He successfully refutes the conventional wisdom that you need to raise a great deal of money, take enormous risks, and expect -- as likely as not -- to fail. He effectively mows down these myths, demonstrating how to build a business based on some sound principles of his own invention: extreme outsourcing, right metrics, constant innovation, and constant focus. He uses well thought-out examples and presents much useful information in a form that's easy to read.

So, in the end this is an excellent and inspiring book. Judson shows -- at least to my satisfaction -- that it is indeed possible for almost anyone to build a strong solo business with limited capital. We may not all have the prodigious energy that Judson has, or his particular strengths, but in a world that is open and teeming with opportunity, we, too, can discover our strengths, find our own niche and set out in business. We have only to follow-through on our goals with relentless determination and make good use of the many services available to small businesses and we will likely find success. No small task. But with this prescription and this focus, we too can make our dreams of independence and meaningful employment a reality and join the many thousands who are now venturing out to build strong, sustainable solo businesses of their own.

Graham Lawes

Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own

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Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own
Bruce Judson
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