The Boris Vallejo Portfolio

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Boris Vallejo’s exotic, sensual imagination has long placed him in the first rank of “heroic fantasy” illustrators. Here are 28 of his most dramatic paintings, each so intensely powerful it seems like a dream—or nightmare—come to life. Among the included works: Egyptian Warrior, a vision in bronze; Tattoo, where the dragon etched into a power-fully strong and veined arm morphs into the real thing; and Discus Thrower, which shows a silvery, robotic man in outer space.

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Pokemon ahoy! In the fourth volume of the Pokemon Adventures series, Red climbs aboard the seagoing St. Anne. But the ship holds unexpected dangers, including the hardheaded Lt. Surge and his team of electric Pokemon. Red's adventures climax in a wild bicycle race, and in order to win he has to get past the enormous Snorlax!

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Red, AKA Ash, takes on Pokemon Kidnappers.......2007-06-23

This was the first Manga I'd ever bought for my 8 year old child. It was inexpensive when I bought it (has gone up considerably now) and I was worried it wouldn't be one of the most compelling. Have no fear, Snorlax is a gas! The book is divided into chapter including a kidnapping from a Pokemon fan club and a race. It was a huge hit with my child, and I found my introduction to the world of Manga compelling as well. The adventures are less preachy and more compelling than those in the novels, though perhaps not as good as a chapter book for developing reading skills. It makes a nice change for me to read this with him at bedtime, but I do get tired of reading the action and Pokemon sound effects. Warning to Pokemon neophytes...check out the Wikipedia explanation for Pokemon Manga before embarking on these "Adventure" stories. The characters have different names and histories in these original black and white comics.

Trouble on board.........2003-06-15

This Pokemon manga, called Pokemon Adventures, is drawn out more like the Pokemon RPG videogame. In this issue, the Pokemon Fan Club sends Red on a mission to free some Pokemon from a ship called the S.S. Anne. Unfortunately for Red, the person responsible for all this is actually Lt. Surge, the Gym Leader of Vermillion City. Getting past his Electabuzz won't be so easy. Also, Red enters a race, which leads him into many comical hijinks, including a run-in with Snorlax, one of the largest Pokemon that ever existed. If you liked the Pokemon game, or liked the anime but didn't like Ash, you should get this manga, especially since it's at such a [good] price.

Excellent Series.......2001-07-14

This series is the best of any pokemon series because the hero is not a dork. he actually trains and captures pokemon that are very strong. if you are a fan of pokemon this series is for you!!!

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All days of the week.......2006-03-11

I liked the way they didn't try to cut corners in publishing this calendar by combining Saturday and Sunday into one page. It is a 365 day calendar. The sayings are very funny.

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Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking. The Web provides filmmakers with a new option for distribution, exhibition, and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality, and ease of use. QuickTime for Filmmakers shows filmmakers and videographers how to utilize this industry standard tool and offers advice on how best to shoot a film for Internet delivery. Other topics include: Editing and converting video, adding and editing soundtracks and using text in QT movies, compressing media, and preparing movies for http and RTSP streaming or a combination of both. A chapter on virtual reality explores QuickTime's unique feature for creating 360 panoramas, immersive cubic VR, object movies and VR scenes. A companion CD-ROM demonstrates topics covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.

*Details the most powerful and popular streaming software available.
*Focuses on the needs and concerns of the filmmaker and videographer.
*Companion CD-ROM demonstrates techniques covered in the book and provides samples of film prepared for web delivery.

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Extremely useful for anyone interested in digital media!.......2004-03-17

A great book! Lots of useful examples to follow and a very good description of the technology for both beginner and advanced students of filmaking and visual artists of all kinds. I'm a multimedia artist and I thouroughly enjoyed this book for its indepth look at QTVR and digital image making for both still and video. Rich in detail and great in practical advice and examples that helped me immensly. A great book reference book for everyone!

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QuickTime for Filmmakers
Richard By (author) Ferncase
Manufacturer: Focal Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPXJDQ

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Long before Puccini wrote his masterpiece, the tale of the poor Japanese girl abandoned by her foreign lover had been taken up by numerous Western writers as part of the wave of Japonisme in late-19th-century Europe. But was there a "real" Madame Butterfly? Following the tragic trail back to its roots in Nagasaki, Jan van Rij believes he's found the answer. Opera lovers will delight in the revelation, and learn not only about the cultural forces and personal fixations that inspired this popular work but why many Japanese remain unconvinced.

A long-time opera buff, Jan van Rij served as an E.U. diplomat in Japan, highly regarded for his intimate understanding of Japanese-European relations.

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informative, comprehensive easy to read........2007-01-19

This book is based on extensive and thorough research. It's analytical, yet not dry. I got much more out of seeing the opera on stage after reading this book. This book helped me a lot writing my college paper.

Kami Sarudahiko.......2005-06-29

We were interested in seeing how historically accurate Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly was, so we purchased Van Rij's book. However, in his section entitled "How Japanese is it" he speculates that "Surandasico" might be a garbled reading of "zurugashikoi" meaning cunning, an adjective. First of all, he misspelled "sarundasico" as it occurs in the opera librtetto and somehow never discovered that there is a Shinto kami named "sarudahiko" which we found via Google. If this one detail is so far off, how can the rest of the book be much better?

Additionally his assessment of the character, Butterfly, is unbelievably dismissive. It should not take a great deal of imagination to figure out why she would want to marry an American, considering her station and the lack of true and binding marriage rights for women of her station in Japan at that time. Nevertheless, the other parts of the book were interesting and the photographs from the Meiji Restoration Period were helpful in our research.

Regards - Adam and Tami

Mme. Butterfly Story Marred By Omissions & Errors.......2002-10-16

The book is a very interesting study of the whole Mme. Butterfly story written by a highly educated career diplomat who, like many of his profession, had a lot of the free time necessary to pursue his pet research topic. As an opera buff and linguist the author is able to gain many interesting insights into the Butterfly story. For example, he approaches the opera from the angles of Pierre Loti and Siebold and examines the phenomenon of Japonisme which swept 19th century Europe. Unfortunately, despite the author's meticulous research, the book is marred by spelling inconsistencies (for instance, the personal name and honorific O-Kiku is rendered correctly but Oine (sic) is not). The book also suffers from not having made full use of Japanese sources (including a book written by a descendant) as the author does not read or speak Japanese (this last point was confirmed by the author himself).

Who was the Real Madame Butterfly? A Fascinating Study.......2001-03-28

If you've ever seen Miss Saigon on Broadway, David Henry Hwang's postmodern play, M. Butterfly, or Puccini's original opera, Madame Butterfly, you'll love this book. This is a fascinating, thorough re-telling of the Madame Butterfly story... answering the age-old question, "Was there a real Madame Butterfly who inspired Puccini's opera?" A meticulous, nonfiction detective story of a book, the author goes back to Puccini's earliest historical and cultural sources, debunking old myths and identifying earlier incarnations of the story, and discovers the tragic, real-life love story behind the opera. A great read for any opera buff or anyone who's interested in Japanese culture! Great photos, too. Highly recommended.

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Al'Kabors Arcana (Everquest)
Scott Holden-Jones , Anthony Pryor , Owen Stephens , Richard C. Stratton , Stephanie Smith , and Stephan Wieck
Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1588461300

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In this fast-paced companion book to Robert Greenwald's explosive documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, author Greg Spotts takes you behind the scenes of the making of this controversial film and the grass-roots pressure campaign challenging one of the world's largest and most powerful companies.

The story of a wide-ranging investigation that was kept secret from its target, this book describes Greenwald and his crew on a nine-month journey filled with breakthrough moments and unexpected challenges. Given unlimited access to the filmmakers, Spotts reveals the new tactics and technologies that are revolutionizing political filmmaking, offering inspiration for aspiring filmmakers and activists.

Director Robert Greenwald shares his filmmaking goals in an exclusive introduction. Revealing behind-the-scenes photographs and stills from the film "Filmmaker's Toolbox" sidebars provide inside knowledge on how to make and market a political documentary.

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Not What I Expected.......2007-01-17

I learned of the subject matter through my brother, who advised me that I "had to" learn about this information. I went to Amazon to buy the book, admittedly not scanning the reviews first. Big mistake. This book involves a behind the scenes at the "making of" the documentary film. It does not discuss with any great detail the issues or criticisms of Walmart, which is what I was really looking to know. As anxious as I was to receive and read the book, I am disappointed now. If anyone is interested in these issues, it would be my advice to get and watch the film---do not buy this book.

The making of the film - with unlimited access to the filmmakers.......2006-03-18

This companion to Robert Greenwald's documentary WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE provides a behind-the-scenes focus on both the making of the film and the grass-roots pressure campaign challenging the world's biggest business. Greenwald and his crew went on a nine-month underground investigation kept secret from Wal-Mart as they put together their film: Spotts received unlimited access to the filmmakers and reveals their tactics, objectives, and how political filmmaking is changing businesses and the film world alike. It's hard to easily categorize this book - it could just as easily have been featured in our film column - but businesses shouldn't miss the discussion of the film methods and focus, which hold wide-reaching implications for future political film surveys of business inner circles.

Fantastic Insider's Look at the Top Doc of 2005.......2005-12-24

Wow - what a great window into the new docs that seem to be springing up like mushrooms in response to the political and social issues of the day. Along with Michael Moore, there's no doubt that Robert Greenwald is the leading director in the genre and this book provides a fascinating insider's account of his process, both on the making of the film and the making of the grass roots campaign promoting it and the larger effort to push Wal-Mart to change its business practices. Top Marks - Highly Recommended!

The Wrong Book.......2005-12-18

Usually, when a book is published to coincide with the release of a documentary film, the book contains details and information that serve to flesh out the synoptic look that the documentary format provides. If you're looking for that sort of book here, I'm sorry, my friend. This is the wrong book.

Instead of looking at the information stored in the movie, this is a making-of document. It goes point-by-point through initial research and primary shooting up to about halfway through post-production. Also there are little pointers interspersed through the film on how to make politically motivated documentaries, in case the reader wants to be the Cecil B. DeMille of political harangues.

I'm sure there are people who are interested in the internal controversies that accompanied designing the poster for this film. I'm sure some people are interested on why one of the principal interviews, with a former Wal-Mart manager, takes place in a car and looks so incredibly cramped. But that's not why I bought this book, and that's probably not why you're considering it. This is E! True Hollywood Story stuff, not the content of a companion volume for a political diatribe.

Where this should be a book of hard facts that can be used in arguments against the continued invasion of the Wal-Martians, instead we get backlot gossip and pelf. Perhaps another book is in the offing in the near future, containing a more detailed look at the information in the movie. In the meantime, unless you hope to be a documentarian yourself, save your money. This isn't the book for which you're looking.

Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America

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Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America
Anthony Bianco
Manufacturer: Currency
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0385513577
Release Date: 2007-02-20

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The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week. But Wal-Mart’s “everyday low prices” come at a tremendous cost to workers, suppliers, competitors, and consumers.
The Bully of Bentonville exposes the zealous, secretive, small-town mentality that rules Wal-Mart and chronicles its far-reaching consequences. In a gripping, richly textured narrative, Anthony Bianco shows how Wal-Mart has driven down retail wages throughout the country, how their substandard pay and meager health-care policy and anti-union mentality have led to a large scales exploitation of workers, why their aggressive expansion inevitably puts locally owned stores out of business, and how their pricing policies have forced suppliers to outsource work and move thousands of jobs overseas.
Based on interviews with Wal-Mart employees, managers, executives, competitors, suppliers, customers, and community leaders, The Bully of Bentonville brings the truths about Wal-Mart into sharp focus.

Enough to send you up the Wal-Mart.(Going Local)('Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price'): An article from: Town and Country Planning

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Enough to send you up the Wal-Mart.(Going Local)('Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price'): An article from: Town and Country Planning
David Boyle
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 780 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: Enough to send you up the Wal-Mart.(Going Local)('Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price')
Author: David Boyle
Publication: Town and Country Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 75 Issue: 7-8 Page: 219(1)

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Watching Wal-Mart: four documentaries, four perspectives.(Is Wal-Mart Good for America?; The Age of Wal-Mart; Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price; Why ... An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Waste of money

Watching Wal-Mart: four documentaries, four perspectives.(Is Wal-Mart Good for America?; The Age of Wal-Mart; Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price; Why ... An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Liza Featherstone
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000FTJ88Q
Release Date: 2006-05-22

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1690 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: Watching Wal-Mart: four documentaries, four perspectives.(Is Wal-Mart Good for America?; The Age of Wal-Mart; Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price; Why Wal-Mart works (and Why that Makes Some People Crazy))(Television program review)
Author: Liza Featherstone
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 44 Issue: 5 Page: 58(5)

Article Type: Television program review

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Waste of money.......2007-03-10

Not a good article. Read one of the many excellent books on Walmart.

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