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Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
Steven A. LeBlanc Manufacturer: Peabody Museum Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873654021 |
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Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions--the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s--Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.
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A Year in Hats 2002 Calendar
Paul Shaw Manufacturer: Stewart Tabori & Chang (Cal) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Calendar ASIN: 1584790768 |
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Hats of all types!.......2001-10-26
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Courtney Crumrin, Vol. 2: Courtney Crumrin & The Coven of Mystics (Courtney Crumrin (Graphic Novels))
Ted Naifeh Manufacturer: Oni Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1929998597 |
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Courtney Crumrin is back in a new adventure that pits her against the town's most powerful warlocks and witches, the Coven of Mystics! When the night things of Courtney's community start causing trouble, it's up to the girl to find out why. The coven blames the hobgoblin initially but quickly turns its ire to Skarrow, a night thing in service to the town's most reclusive witch. Uncle Aloysius doesn't believe the disturbances are that easy to explain. His dismissal of the Coven's alleged culprit starts Courtney down a twisted path that leads to the true mastermind behind all the horror! But does Courtney stand a chance against a being that powerful and manipulative?Customer Reviews:
Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics.......2006-11-11
Cute!.......2006-03-13
Brilliant On Every Level.......2004-09-27
More wonderful tales........2004-04-11
Even better than the first one.......2004-01-01
Basically this story is about love, whether romantic or familial. The story takes many turns, some of them can be terrifying and bad things sometimes happen to good people. It's a very rewarding graphic novel and one well worth your money.
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Coven, Vol. 3 (Gallery Girls Collection)
Various Manufacturer: SQP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0865620997 |
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Get out the pentagrams and light the sacred candles, its time to enter the ancient circle of Wicca and tap into the power of nature herself! Covens back, and filled with even more pretty practitioners of the dark arts! In this third volume of the series, we get some really outstanding artwork by such super-talents as Arantza, Pelaez, Sosa, Greco, DeSimone, Giorello, Maraschi, Meriggi, and many more!Customer Reviews:
Coven,vol.3 common quality artwork..........2007-09-06
THE EROTIC ART OF WITCHES.......2005-07-09
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J. Crewd
Justin Racz Manufacturer: Main Street Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0385492804 Release Date: 1998-10-20 |
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J. Crewd is a wickedly funny satire on J. Crew, the twenty-something clothing catalogue for yuppies, preppies, and Winona Ryder-in-Reality Bites wannabes. Illustrated with 90210-ish models sporting leisure wear that would work equally well at a New Canaan barbecue, a night at the Viper Club, or a screening of Quentin Tarantino's latest film, this parody of today's fashions and fetishes is a hilarious social commentary on consumerism and contemporary taste.Customer Reviews:
I unexpectedly enjoyed it!.......2002-11-22
Very funny...and enviable!.......2001-05-05
Justin Racz is a satirical genius!.......1999-02-19
Funniest book I've ever read........1999-02-02
REALLY GOOD.......1999-01-09
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The Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion (KINOfile)
Richard Taylor Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1860643930 |
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Thought by many to be the greatest film ever made, "The Battleship Potemkin" directed by Sergei Eisenstein is a key film in the history of Russian and world cinema. Based on a mutiny in Odessa during the 1905 revolution, the film is noted as a pioneering milestone in the development of world cinema-especially Eisenstein's breathtaking editing.
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The Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion.(Book Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
David Gillespie Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009FXT22 Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 799 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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2000 Billboard Music Yearbook (Billboard's Music Yearbook)
Joel Whitburn Manufacturer: Record Research Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0898201446 |
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This is the complete guide to the music on Billboard's charts in 2000, from Backstreet Boys to Baha Men, Britney to Madonna, Santana to Savage Garden, Jay-Z to SheDaisy. Thousands of the year's songs and CDs are chronicled with unmatched detail and accuracy, from the hottest hits to the most obscure, across all genres. It's the ideal annual supplement to ten Record Research books with comprehensive chart data (peak position, debut date, weeks charted, label and number, etc.) appearing for each charted recording, and once again includes the Pop Annual and Country Annual rankings. Y2K is further explored with rankings of each chart's top artists and top hits, the #1 hits for dozens of other Billboard charts, each week's top 5 movies and top 5 videocassettes in rentals and sales, a time capsule highlighting the year's notable events, and entertainment obituaries.
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This Is Not A Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming (2nd Digital Edition)
Dave Szulborski Manufacturer: Lulu.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1411625951 |
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Imagine a world of mystery and excitement, adventure and fantasy, waiting for you to explore. A world that reacts to your every move, with characters and companies that talk to you, send you messages, and even give you items to help you in your quest. A world so immersive that you can no longer tell where the reality ends and the fiction begins. Welcome to the world of Alternate Reality Gaming. This Is Not A Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming by Dave Szulborski is the perfect introduction to the unique and exciting world of Alternate Reality Games. Written by the creator of five successful and critically acclaimed ARGs, This Is Not A Game features detailed sections on the theory and history of Alternate Reality Gaming, as well as a "How To Guide" for aspiring game creators. The book also includes Dave's personal reflections on creating some of the most popular ARGs ever developed, and essays on gaming and cooperative writing by award winning authors Ben Mack and Joseph Matheny.Customer Reviews:
ARGs: Internet's Psycho-Masada Goes Corporate.......2005-06-23
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Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, Relate
Bernd H. Schmitt Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684854236 |
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Experiential marketing, a decidedly turn-of-the-millennium form of corporate persuasion that strives to elicit a powerful sensory or cognitive consumer response, is rapidly superseding the stodgy features-and-benefits approach generally in vogue since the gray-flannel '50s. In fact, says Bernd H. Schmitt, a professor of marketing and director of the Center on Global Brand Management at Columbia Business School, leading enterprises ranging from Gillette and Martha Stewart to Amtrak and Oprah Winfrey are already using such emotionally loaded techniques successfully to develop new products, communicate with customers, create business partnerships, build innovative cyberspace and brick-and-mortar sales outlets, and boost profits. Experiential Marketing presents Schmitt's insightful and thought-provoking examination of this growing trend, along with a series of suggestions (for example, how to create an "us vs. them" atmosphere) for implementing similar efforts. By dissecting a series of relevant campaigns undertaken at the leading-edge firms mentioned above, along with those at other major players such as Harley-Davidson, Volkswagen, Celestial Seasonings, and Taster's Choice, Schmitt demonstrates its effectiveness while deftly pointing out salient techniques that readers might adopt. --Howard RothmanBook Description
Engaging, enlightening, provocative, and sensational are the words people use to describe compelling experiences and these words also describe this extraordinary book by Bernd Schmitt.
Moving beyond traditional "features-and-benefits" marketing, Schmitt presents a revolutionary approach to marketing for the branding and information age. Schmitt shows how managers can create holistic experiences for their customers through brands that provide sensory, affective, and creative associations as well as lifestyle marketing and social identity campaigns.
In this masterful handbook of tools and techniques, Schmitt presents a battery of business cases to show how cutting-edge companies use "experience providers" such as visual identity, communication, product presence, Web sites, and service to create different types of customer experiences. To illustrate the essential concepts and frameworks of experiential marketing, Schmitt provides:
SENSE cases on Nokia mobile phones, Hennessy cognac, and Procter & Gamble's Tide Mountain Fresh detergent;
FEEL cases on Hallmark, Campbell's Soup, and Häagen Dazs Cafés in Asia, Europe, and the United States;
THINK cases on Apple Computer's revival, Genesis ElderCare, and Siemens;
ACT cases on Gillette's Mach3, the Milk Mustache campaign, and Martha Stewart Living;
RELATE cases on Harley-Davidson, Tommy Hilfiger, and Wonderbra.
Using the New Beetle and Sony as examples, Schmitt discusses the strategic and implementation intricacies of creating holistic experiences for customers. In an intriguing final chapter, he presents turn-around techniques such as "Objective: To Dream," "Send in the Iconoclasts," and "Quit the Bull," to show how traditional marketing firms can transform themselves into experience-oriented organizations.
This book will forever change your perception of customers, marketing, and brands -- from Amtrak and Singapore Airlines to Herbal Essences products and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Very disappointed.......2004-02-26
Resonating and Relevant.......2002-08-15
Old & Obvious News.......2002-05-10
Not to mention that every possible brand tactic under the sun can fall under the wide umbrella of "experiential marketing" -- and Schmitt attempts to make examples from virtually any good marketing idea of the last decade in a cluttered and undisciplined format.
I guess I wouldn't be so peeved if I were brand new to the world of mass marketing, and maybe this book wouldn't be such old news. But even for the neophyte, it's nothing more than a collection of neat marketing ideas with little of a distinct theme to hold them together.
If you want to read about accepted marketing tactics of top brands, it's an OK read, but those examples are all around us anyway. If you want to learn how these ideas originated or how you can think about your brand in a new way, it's of no help.
Frog dissection in marketing.......2002-04-05
THE NAME - What does the name "EXPERIMENTAL Marketing" suggest to an average practi-tioner of the trade? I've tested it on a dozen of businessmen and students of marketing and they were all unanimous - the name suggests staging experiments in marketing. (This accounted by the way for the decision of my associate to buy the book.) As a matter of interest, the name has been translated into Russian as "empirical" marketing, perhaps because the Russian editors found out that the book has nothing to do with experimentation. By the way, there is another book "Experimental marketing", by E. J. Davis. What's it about?
SUBHEADING (How to Get Customers to SENSE, FEEL, THINK, ACT and RELATE to Your Company and Brands) - Behold, vendors of nuts, bolts, bricks, furniture, hardware, apparel, station-ery, and of millions of other mundane, commoditized products. If your customers can neither sense, nor feel, nor think, nor act, nor "relate," this is a book for you. A minor point of grammar - what's it to "sense to your company," "to feel to your company," etc.?
TRADITIONAL MARKETING - The author arrogantly dismisses the so-called traditional mar-keting: "The history of all hitherto existing marketing is the history of functional features and bene-fits. Advertiser and audience, seller and buyer, strategist and client - in a word, marketer and cus-tomer--stood in constant opposition to one another, a fight that each time ended without any deliv-ery of true value." Really?
According to Prof. Schmitt, traditional marketers, those nitwits, view consumers as rationally think-ing robots. For instance, a buyer of lipstick is allegedly concerned solely with its chemical formula. (We'll have to excuse the marketing ignorance of psychologist Schmitt - he hasn't heard of Revlon's famous motto "In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope." )
Schmitt: "Let the traditional marketers tremble at the experiential marketing revolution." If we want to continue in one piece, we should scrap the old-fashioned ideas of meeting a client's needs, how-ever sophisticated and subconscious (see Maslow pyramid), customer satisfaction, "outside-in think-ing" (Trout), partnersell, WIN-WIN, platinum rule, and a host of other time-tested "US-made" marketing wisdoms? We must concentrate on how to entertain a harassed housewife in a supermar-ket - previously she was mostly locating on the shelves her habitual products and mechanically put-ting them into her cart. Now we must expose her to a wide spectrum of "consumer experiences."
RESOLUTIONIST - "We are in the middle of a revolution. A revolution that will render the prin-ciples and models of traditional marketing obsolete. A revolution that will change the face of mar-keting forever. A revolution that will replace traditional feature-and-benefit marketing with experien-tial marketing." A new Marx prophesies: "A spectre is haunting the marketplace - the spectre of ex-periential marketing."
FROG DISSECTION - "Experiences may be dissected into different types, each with their own inherent structures and processes." And so are marketings: the SENSE marketing is not to be con-fused with, say, THINK marketing. I admire that military style thinking - if your drill sergeant (say, Prof. Schmitt) tells you that yours is SENSE marketing, stick to it. And don't THINK or, God for-bid, RELATE - VERBOTEN!!!
In the conformable world of Prof. Schmitt's "strategic experiential modules (SEMs)" everything is clear and convenient, everything has its slot, everything takes care of itself. And... "The customers have nothing to lose but their boredom. They have a world of experiences to win."
Needless to say, that prodigy of revolutionary thinking is being received with much acclaim. However amidst much official appraise one finds on Prof. Schmitt's site his condescending reference to those who are too stupid to be converted: "The old school of marketing makes its retort against Experiential Marketing, Schmitt, and everything he stands for...
I am sorry to say, I found myself rather subscribing to the opinion of those "stone-age marketers" and wondering at the origins of the acclaims.
"A New Model".......2000-02-03
Epilogue
In his Preface, Schmitt introduces his reader to someone he identifies as "Laura Brown." At the end of each of the 11 chapters, Laura Brown reacts to the material presented. Often, she responds with questions which the reader may be tempted to ask. For products but what if a company is an industrial firm? What if it is a consulting firm or a medical practice? How does experiential marketing come into play for these kinds of companies?" Or at the end of Chapter via a brand? What kind of communities are the 'brand communities'? What about communities of real people?"
Obviously Schmitt is a clever fellow. He includes Laura Brown (who turns out to be a real person) to respond to his material with questions such as these so that, in effect, he can say "I am so glad that you asked me about that!" Of course, he then answers the questions. This interaction is playful, adding humor; it is also a brilliant device by which to expand and enrich the flow of Schmitt's ideas.
They are very important ideas indeed. Simultaneously, Schmitt establishes a rock-solid conceptual infrastructure while examining a number of different companies (eg Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Apple Computer, Volkswagen, Siemens, Martha Stewart Living, and SONY) which demonstrate the fundamental principles of Experiential Marketing. One of the book's most valuable contributions is provided in Part Two as Schmitt focuses on what he calls Strategic Experiential Modules (SEMs), each of which has its own distinct structures and principles which must be understood by each manager. SEMs include sensory experiences (SENSE), affective experiences (FEEL), creative cognitive experiences (THINK), physical experiences and entire lifestyles (ACT), and social-identity experiences (RELATE). Schmitt examines each, explains how to achieve the effective integration of all four.
In the Epilogue, he reveals Laura Brown's identity (no surprise there), suggesting that the experience-oriented organization is a "Dionysian organization and focuses on creativity and innovation...it takes a broad, helicopter view focusing on long-term trends, pays attention to its physical environment, and views its employees as human capital." Indeed, he hastens to add, "the experience-oriented organization is keenly interested in promoting its employees' experiential growth." Schmitt thus offers an alternative to the traditional organization which is oriented toward order, structure, analysis, and short term.
If you read Experiential Marketing and then share my high regard for it, I urge you to read also (if you have not already done so) The Experience Economy and The Entertainment Economy.
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