Earthtoons, the First Book of Eco-Humor.

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Wish it would get reprinted soon.......2000-03-23

It's a fabulous book, cartooning some of the major problems with today's society.

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If it's good enough for the legendary Hollywood film editors, it's good enough for you! This guide is aimed squarely at Final Cut Pro users just like yourself--at corporate, commercial, and independent post-production houses--who want to move beyond simple Final Cut Pro installations for their film and video masterworks. Through project-based lessons and step-by-step instructions, this self-paced guide shows you how to integrate high-end capture cards, storage systems, and other industry-standard hardware into a Final Cut Pro workflow, as well as how to install and configure Final Cut Pro to make the most of your professional non-linear editing system. This is the technical information most frequently requested by Final Cut Pro users, pulled together into one book that is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Apple Pro Training and Certification Program. The guide covers everything from system configuration, storage, and device connectivity to the intricacies of SAN solutions, and includes special sections on optimizing short-form/broadcast workflows and long-form/HD workflows. It offers troubleshooting advice at every turn: for dropped frames, mismatched audio and audio distortion; imported graphic file issues, media management, file recovery and archiving strategies, and much more. DVD with lesson files and media included.

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A must-have FCP book for Editors, Assistants and Techdorks.......2006-08-07

I picked up a copy of this book just after Walter Murch and Sean Cullen's appearance at a LAFCPUG meeting last October. At the time I thought I was buying a techdork's guide to FCP that would help me optimize my system and get it flying, but it turned out to be so much more ...

Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System is a far more comprehensive book than its title would imply. It his a handbook of how-tos and valuable get-it-done information that make it a must-have for anyone assisting on a show using Final Cut Pro, or whose job involves supporting FCP and integrating FCP workstations into Networked environments.

That the book has the feel of an Assistant's reference should come as no real surprise. Sean Cullen, one of the lead authors of the book, has been Walter Murch's Assistant (now Associate Editor) for about a dozen years. During this time he has been responsible for convincing Murch to make the leap over to Final Cut Pro for Cold Mountain, and taking up the mantle of Final Cut Pro evangelist to the editing community at large. (The struggles and successes Murch, Cullen, and the rest of the Cold Mountain editorial team are chronicled in Charles Koppelman's book, Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema. An excellent read that is also available from Amazon.) This successful effort lead to the Murch and Cullen using FCP on the 2005 Sam Mendes film, Jarhead.

The first six chapters of the book are called "Using Final Cut Pro in Real World Workflows", which details offline and online workflows for both film and video projects including project setups, organization, and project distribution. This section is loaded with helpful bits of information that can help the assistant avoid many common project mishaps.

Chapter four has a very good, hands-on, Cinema Tools tutorial, which takes you through the process of importing a Flex file into the Cinema Tools Database, Importing Clips, Synching Media with the Cinema Tools database and cut list generation.

The rest of the book's eight hundred plus pages address topics ranging from system configuration and optimization to networking and Xsan Implementation, and concludes with over a hundred pages of information on troubleshooting your Final Cut Pro system.

Although I strongly endorse Peachpit's Apple Pro Training Series (having learned the fundamentals of DVD Studio Pro and Shake from other books in the series) in general, Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System is a must-have for any professional editor or engineer using FCP on the job.

How to cram years of experience in 888 pages.......2006-02-07

First off, finding everything contained in this book will take you on a
very long surfing safari, plus many trips to your friendly
neighborhood post facility. Save yourself some time and money,
learn how to be an expert in your field, and spend more time doing
what you love.

Second, this is Apple-certified courseware, which means that it
comes in the regular APTS lesson-based format, with lesson reviews
at the end of each chapter, and material on the DVD-ROM. There are
now instructor-led classes devoted to the subject, as more and more
facilities switch from another platform to Final Cut Pro, or move up
from miniDV to the broadcast world. Now's your chance to learn from
the masters and become one yourself.

All in all, this is one of the best books of its kind that I've read. It fits
right in with the Apple philosophy of giving power to the users. I
recommend it to all you editors who not only need to know how the
system works, but why it works that way.

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Harlan Draka travels to Africa, where the South African Himba tribe revere the undead. With the help of Mujaive, a clairvoyant, our three vampire slayers - Draka, Tesla, and Kurjak - get involved in a no-holds-barred war in the diamond lands of Namibia. On the track of Omulu, the monstrous God of the Plague, the Dampyr finds himself besieged in the ghost town of Brandenmund by the Lost Legion of cruel Jan Vathek. Will this be the end of the road for Harlan?

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The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee, the jury as an ultimately fair body of decisionmakers, the lawyer as hardworking and passionate fighter for the underdog. In this new and comprehensive study of this understudied category of film, author Ross D. Levi argues that, contrary to popular belief, legal movies show us a system that is far more fair than our actual one, with corruption downplayed and greed made subordinate to compassion and compromise. These are films that have affected as much as reflected the American justice system, as we enter the courts hoping, often against hope, that they will be something like what we've seen in the movies. With a comprehensive filmography, penetrating analysis--both legal and cinematic--and engaging and enlightening discussion, The Celluloid Courtroom is an indispensable guide to a key aspect of American movies and American justice.

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A new way to interpret the musical design underlying the music and choreography of Sophoclean theater.

Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 23)

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Technology, Guilds, and Early English Drama (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 23)
Clifford Davidson
Manufacturer: Medieval Institute Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 187928880X

Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (Hellenic Studies)

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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (Hellenic Studies)
Gregory Nagy
Manufacturer: Center for Hellenic Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0674009630

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The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey by professional reciters or "rhapsodes." The works of Plato are our main surviving source of information about these performances. Through his references, a crucial phase in the history of the Homeric tradition can be reconstructed. Through Plato's eyes, the "staging" of Homer in classical Athens can once again become a virtual reality.

This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.

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Nomai dance drama, an artistic expression combining sacred, communal, economic, and cultural spheres of community life in the district of Higashidorimura, is a performing tradition that provides an identity to agriculturally based villages. It has retained features characteristic of the music, drama, and sacred practices of medieval Japan. Nomai singing exhibits traits linked to Buddhist chanting. The instrumental music originates from folk Shinto. This study highlights the social and cultural value nomai has for the residents in villages that perform it by providing the historical context in which it is examined, as well as its current performance practices. As this work explores the aspects of agricultural Japanese society, revealed through a dance drama, it will appeal to music and drama scholars as well as students of Japanese culture and history. After establishing the historical lens from which to view nomai drama, the theatrical and musical aspects are discussed in detail. Photographs and musical examples enhance this thorough, well-organized study.

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Performing Medieval Music Drama
Audrey Ekdahl Davidson , Clifford Davidson , and Mich.) Society for Old Music (Kalamazoo
Manufacturer: Medieval Institute Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1879288966

Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft (Early Art, Drama, and Music Monograph Series, 14)

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Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft (Early Art, Drama, and Music Monograph Series, 14)

Manufacturer: Medieval Institute Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0918720397

Theater & Drama of the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries

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Theater & Drama of the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries
Muata Ashby
Manufacturer: Sema Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1884564143
Release Date: 2005-11-15

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Details the Secrets of Mythic Ritual Reenactment of the Sacred Mysteries- Theater and Drama of the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries. How to practice reenactment of the rituals of the temple and the true philosophy of acting out the mysteries to make them effective, bring them alive in life to attain the goal of the mysteries and become the hero or heroine of the mythic teaching. Featuring the Ancient Egyptian stage play-"The Enlightenment of Hathor' Based on an Ancient Egyptian Drama, The original Theater -Mysticism of the Temple of Hetheru

Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (Early Drama Art and Music Monograph Series, No 16)

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Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (Early Drama Art and Music Monograph Series, No 16)
Clifford Davidson
Manufacturer: Medieval Institute Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0918720478

Customer Reviews:

Costumes from everyday items...this book delivers!.......2006-05-25

This book is a great, and I can't believe it's gone out of print. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a copy second-hand. It truly does allow kids to create costumes from stuff that is just lying around the house. Grocery sack cowboy (or girl) vests...you bet. Bath towel genies...check. Trash bag caped vampires...yep. (The only costume that's a bit outdated is the cheerleader one that used tractor-feed printer paper ends for pom-poms.) My personal favorite costumes were the Muscle Man, the Island Dancer, and The Equestrienne.

A must for kids who like to play dress up and for parents who don't want to spend a fortune on dress-up or Halloween costumes for their kids.

A true must have and prefect gift for every child!.......1998-10-23

What a great book! I have given it to countless children as a gift and it has always been received with rave reviews! This book truly stimulates imagination and fun for both children and parents.

Make Believe: a book of costume and fantasy

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Make Believe: a book of costume and fantasy
Doggett Heinser Fox McDonald Nicoletti Young
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ON077Y

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Effective managers know that timely coaching can dramatically enhance their teams’ performance

Coaching and Mentoring offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals.

This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching.Managers will learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

Customer Reviews:

Good Overview.......2007-01-10

Overall, I enjoyed this book. It is well-organized so it makes for an easy read. Gives you some helpful information and a good overview of what is involved in mentoring and coaching. However, you will need other books for more detailed skill building.

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