Your Mother Is a Remarkable Woman (Penguin Graphic Fiction)

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Canalises Wrath.......2001-08-16

The only way to safely express the feelings Bill Clinton's conduct produces is the editorial cartoon. The man just defies words. So this was a vintage year for cartoonists - and it shows. The cartoons in this book are just great. They canalise wrath into laughter, but also - on social issues - create the awareness that some matters are too serious to be laughed at.

Support your local editorial cartoonist.......1999-11-03

A very good reason to buy this book: it features some of my own work. Really, this is reason enough to buy this excellent volume. Trust me.

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We didn’t always eat the way we do today. It was only at the advent of the early modern period that people stopped eating with their hands from trenchers of bread and started using forks and plates, that lords stopped inviting scores of neighbors to dine together in great halls and instead ate separately in private rooms, and that Europeans started worrying about dining à la mode, from the most refined nouvelle cuisine.

Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put into words these complex and evolving relationships between cooks and diners, hosts and guests, palates and tastes, food and humankind. Named after two memorable characters in Twelfth Night, this lively history of food and literature draws on sources ranging from cookbooks and medical texts to comic novels and Renaissance tragedies. Robert Appelbaum expertly weaves such sources together to show how people invented new genres and ways of speaking to express interest in food. He also recounts the evolution of culinary practices and attitudes toward food, connecting them with contemporaneous developments in medical science, economics, and colonial expansion. As he does so, Appelbaum paints a colorful picture of a remarkably conflicted culture in which food was many things—from a symbol of happy sociability to a token of selfish gluttony, from an icon of cultural life to a cause for social struggle.

Peppered with illustrations and even a handful of recipes, Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup looks at our basic staple of daily existence from an entirely fresh perspective that will appeal to anyone interested in early modern literature or the history of food.

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did not receive the book.......2007-01-16

I never received this book. please send another immediately.
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Shakespeare on Food and Drink (Shakespeare On...)

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Shakespeare on Food and Drink (Shakespeare On...)
Elizabeth O'Mahoney , and Katherine O'Mahoney
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Ron Suppa's The Business of Screenwriting is intended as a survival guide to help writers through that crucial process when art meets business. Suppa conveys a taste of what the real world of professional screenwriting is like.

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All You Need to Know for Surviving as a Screenwriter.......2000-07-18

Wonderful book on the business of screenwriting, contains everything you need to know and then some. Tips on what pros look for in scripts they want to buy and sell, info on the business, points to make in the deal. Ron Suppa is a screenwriter, producer and teacher, and what he's learned can be transformed into valuable lessons for you. It's a great book for professional writers as well as beginners, to understand more of the process of selling not only your scripts but yourself in Hollywood.

Best book on this subject in print.......1999-10-23

Do yourself a favor, READ THIS BOOK and forget all the junk telling you platitudes and wishful thinking and not hard, business reality, which is what we all need. I work in the business and I read scripts for almost 2 years and I've written 3 specs and I know stardust when it's being blown in my face. Not this book. This is the truth, like it or not, but it really tries to help you find a way into this closed club. Practical tips fill every page, conveyed in the clear, assured, tight prose of a working screenwriter-- with an easy, conversational style that probably came from all the teaching experience. About a third of the book covers the art of actually being a writer and surviving in Hollywood and crafting the kind of script that will attract industry attention, and the rest tells you how to protect your work (goes way beyond the register or copyright advice most books offer) in submission, all about agents and writing partners and the WGA and gives you a whole war chest of inside info that can really turn someone from a novice to a working writer. At least you'll know what the business is really all about. God, I'm sorry, but just flipping through the pages now, I have to tell you: I LOVE THIS BOOK!

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The question one inevitably asks when considering the life of composer Amy Beach is this: How much greater might she have been if she'd had the same opportunities given male prodigies such as Mozart or Beethoven? As it was, Beach's talent was prodigious and widely recognized in her own time. Born in 1867 to a musical family, the young Amy was playing the piano by ear by the time she was four. Had she been a boy, no doubt a brilliant career as a concert pianist would have followed; instead, Amy married a much older man and mostly confined her musical genius to once-yearly concerts and to composing. Beach was prolific and eclectic, writing a Mass, a symphony (her "Gaelic" Symphony was the first work by an American woman composer to be performed by an American orchestra) and chamber music. In later years, after her husband's death, Beach toured the world as a performer.

In her extensive biography of Amy Beach, Adrienne Fried Block examines both the composer's life and work. Excerpts from various pieces are included in the book, giving readers an opportunity to study her music. Block does an admirable job of explaining to those less musically knowledgeable just what Beach was attempting to accomplish in each piece. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian is an excellent biography for anyone interested in the life of a remarkable woman; for those who are also interested in music and composition, it's a real treat.

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, given its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first work of its kind by an American woman to be performed by an American orchestra. Almost all of her more than 300 works were published soon after they were composed and performed, and today her music is finding new advocates and audiences for its energy, intensity, and sheer beauty. Yet, until now, no full-length critical biography of Beach's life or comprehensive critical overview of her music existed. This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Born into a musical family in Victorian times, Amy Beach started composing as a child of four and was equally gifted as a pianist. Her talent was recognized early by Boston's leading musicians, who gave her unqualified support. Although Beach believed that the life of a professional musician was the only life for her, her parents had raised her for marriage and a career of amateur music-making. Her response to this parental (and later spousal) opposition was to find creative ways of reaching her goal without direct confrontation. Discouraged from a full-scale concert career, she instead found her metier in composition. Success as a composer of art songs came early for Beach: indeed, her songs outsold those of her contemporaries. Nevertheless, she was determined to separate her work from the genteel parlor music women were writing in her day by creating large-scale works--a Mass, a symphony, and chamber music--that challenged the accepted notion that women were incapable of creating high art. She won the respect of colleagues and the allegiance of audiences. Many who praised her work, however, considered her an exception among women. Beach's reaction to this was to join with other women composers of serious music by promoting their works along with her own. Adrienne Fried Block has written a biography that takes full account of issues of gender and musical modernism, considering Beach in the contexts of her time and of her composer contemporaries, both male and female. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian will be of great interest to students and scholars of American music, and to music lovers in general.

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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian.......2000-05-24

At last, a full-length biography of the "Dean of American Women Composers." Engaging and thorougly researched. The only thing lacking is a discography of Beach's music. Highly recommended.

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944.(Review): An article from: Notes

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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944.(Review): An article from: Notes
Juanita Karpf
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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: the Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944
Adrienne Fried Block
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Before the Dactyl Awoke the world of Corona was at peace. Its people went about their business in serenity, and worries of goblin raids or powrie attacks were seemingly a myth from days of yore. But when the Demon Dactyl awoke, it unleashed a darkness unlike anything seen before. At its core, the story of The DemonWars Saga is one of good vs. evil. This is your chance to take part in an epic struggle to free the world of Corona from the grips of the evil Dactyl and its armies of dread and chaos. You can join with the heroes of The DemonWars Saga, Elbryan and Jilseponie, or venture forth on your own to battle the goblins, the powries or even the darkness gripping the Abellican Order. There is more than enough adventure for you. The question is, do you have what it takes to survive?

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As Mr Fox writes: "Early to bed, early to rise,Sell hard and dollarize!"

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Dollarization Is (Common) Sense

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As Mr Fox writes: "Early to bed, early to rise,Sell hard and dollarize!".......2007-08-09

In The Dollarization Discipline, Jeffrey Fox explains in detail what was explained briefly in his previous book "How to Become a Rainmaker". The idea of "dollarizing", which is translating to the prospect the value received in dollars, is a powerful idea. If you are running a business, selling a product or service and are NOT using this principle I can guarantee you are loosing sales. Successful companies know that although people often buy emotionally, they tend to justify their purchases intellectually. Leaving the scene of a sale without leaving the customer with the "dollarization" value (intellectual justification) is, in my opinion, a big mistake. The concept is powerful and the book is worth reading. My only complaint is that Mr. Fox could have explained the principle in half the pages. Buy this book and begin dollarizing like so many successful companies and salespersons are already doing. Enjoy!

Worth reading.......2006-10-24

How to sell anything, and what kind of market is out there in the 21st century. Dollarization is all about "the financial impacts a product or service has on its buyer." In other words, how to express your product's value in customer's dollars so s/he sees that the purchase saves or makes money for the customer.

Read together with Mass Affluence by Nunes and Johnson.

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Financial application/study for sales and marketing managers in business markets.......2006-02-14

The concept/main theme of the book is simple: "To convince your customers of the benefits or edges of your products, you have to quantify and communicate those values in monetary terms, and let them know that your higher priced and differentiated products truly cost less than your competitors'." The authors give a lot of business cases, ad samples and even calculation tables to elaborate the usefulness and the techniques of it, though most of them are for the business market only. The difficulties or scarcity of it in the consumer market, per the authors, is that businesses are implicitly profit driven. It is hard to dollarize the "psychic income" from consumers' feel good purchases.

Anyway, for those sales and marketing people well experienced in dealing with their accounting/finance colleagues for endorsement of business proposals, and for those working in consumer markets or commodities markets (which the authors dont agree so re the later, which they paraphrase Harvard Business School Professor Theodore Leavitt: "There is no such thing as a commodity, only lack of marketing imagination), they wont be satisfied by this book.

You gotta read this one!.......2005-06-11

This book is not a difficult read but it requires some homework to convert the principles to your business. Trust me - this is no Book-Of-The-Month. It might just be the Book-Of-The-Year for professional salespeople.

Dollarization Is (Common) Sense.......2005-06-10

As Fox and Gregory clearly demonstrate, it really does take rigorous discipline to "dollarize" one's impact on a business relationship, both directly with a customer and indirectly with that customer's own customers. They have devised a concept, Dollarization, which they define as "the translation of the benefits a product or service delivers to a customer into the dollars-and-cents financial impact to that customer." They assert that the primary objective of a company should be to create value for its owners, and, that the best way to achieve that objective is to create maximum value for each customer. In other words, marketers and sellers tend to talk "value" but few actually understand and then sell their true financial value. Most marketers allow customers to make price the most important factor in a purchase decision. On the contrary, price should be considered as just ONE of the many costs involved in buying a product. For example, the purchase price of a car is obviously one factor to consider. However, fuel economy, maintenance costs, resale value, insurance, etc. should also be taken into full account while making the purchase decision. Those who master the Dollarization Discipline are prepared to explain all this to each prospective buyer.

In Section 1, Fox and Gregory introduce the Dollarization concept (e.g., Why Dollarize?); in Section 2, they identify and explain correlations between Dollarization and selling (e.g. How to shorten the sales cycle?); in Section 3, they do the same for Dollarization and marketing (e.g. How to price new products?); and then in Section 4, they recommend a number of strategies and tactics by which to apply various Dollarization techniques (e.g. constructing the Customer Value File). Once having read these separate but interconnected Sections, the reader is then introduced to "The Dollarization Doctrine: Ten Rules to Successful Dollarization." I presume to recommend that this Appendix (pages 249-251) be read before Section 1 and then re-read before reading each of the following three Sections. Presumably careful readers will highlight or underline key passages for purposes of review later. So I also presume to recommend that each review begin with a re-reading of the Appendix. The Rules which Fox and Gregory offer can -- and should -- guide and inform application of the Dollarization Discipline to any competitive marketplace.

Throughout the narrative, Fox and Gregory include specific advice. For example, when beginning to determine the value created for a single customer or for an entire population of customers, follow these five steps: Identify your direct competition, articulate what differentiates you from the competition, identify all the ways your differentiating features benefit your customer, determine how to quantify those benefits, and then determine how the quantified benefits result in dollars-and-cents savings for the customer. (See Table 20.1 on page 207).

Here is another example of how the Dollarization Discipline can be beneficial. During a recent conversation with one of his most important customers, the CEO of one of my client companies learned that relatively minor adjustments of the delivery schedule would enable that customer to process much more quickly his own customers' orders. (The details are unimportant.) Certain adjustments reduced the sales cycle while accelerating receivables but they also strengthened relationships between the OEM (my client), its customer, and its customer's own customers. One of the most significant and yet least appreciated realities of business is the dollar-and-cents value of time. It is important to quantify the value of reducing a vehicle's fuel consumption, for example. It is also important to quantify the reduction of first-pass yield and cycle time within the process by which that vehicle is produced. Really, applications of the Dollarization Discipline are limited only by one's ability to recognize them.

Warren Buffett once said something to the effect, "Price is what you charge but value is what others think it's worth." Fox and Gregory agree. The single greatest benefit of their Dollarization Discipline is that it allows both seller and buyer to calculate accurately and (yes) verifiably the total value of a given product or service. Granted, making that determination may require substantial time and effort. So what? Use the Dollarization Discipline to calculate the ROI. You may well be very surprised by what you learn...and perhaps regret that you haven't used the Dollarization Discipline until now. Cheer up! Many (most?) of your competitors will never read this book. Just make certain that all of your associates do.

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