Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Music Illustrations (Dover Cliff-Art Series)

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Selections from rare 19th-century sources depict stringed instruments — from lyre to grand piano — plus drums, bagpipes, metronomes, more. Violinists, pianists, guitarists, other instrumentalists, as well as conductors and singers. Portraits of major classical composers from Bach to Wagner. 356 illustrations.

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Pretty

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not useful. very average photos

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Inspiring images and instructions

Fine Art Nature Photography: Advanced Techniques and the Creative Process
Tony Sweet
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811727505

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This book of nature photography instruction and inspiration features striking full-color images and concise, informative text. It includes the author's stunning nature images from across the United States. The text offers specifications on equipment used, when and where the photos were taken, details on why the image works, what the photographer was looking to accomplish, how the image was shot, and unique lighting or compositional challenges the image illustrates.

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Pretty.......2007-08-31

Tony has done beautiful photography in nature, great for calendars, greeting cards. If that is what you want, Tony covers with many photograhphic treats.
I want more serious landscape photographic examples, so will look elsewhere for more profound content. It is a matter of taste and philosophy.

Not very informative........2007-02-27

The shots are nice enough and Sweet certainly has his technique down pat. However, I really learned nothing from the book.

Perhaps I was expecting too much. I've been a serious photographer for nearly 40 years. Not to pat myself on the back, but I know the basics as well as anyone and was hoping for a bit of insight into Sweet's reasons for making certain shots.

All this book provides is an explanation of what equipment was used. If you're into using filters for every shot you might learn something here.

I think that the money would be better spent on one of John Shaw's books. "Focus on Nature" comes to mind as Shaw really explains his thinking behind each photo and doesn't just list the equipment that he used to make it.

not useful. very average photos.......2006-11-10

not very useful. a much better book is "understanding exposure"

For Inspiration.......2006-05-08

This is not a book that explains how to use techniques. Basically there is a picture on the right page and an explanation of why the picture was taken on the left page. It does tell what equipment was used along with the descriptions, but mainly this book should be used for inspiration. If you already have most of the technical aspects of your equipment figured out but are still left wanted something more, this book is a nice break from the typical photography book that talks about shutter, aperture, rules, etc. This book also makes a nice coffee table book since you don't have to know anything about photography to appreciate the photos.

Inspiring images and instructions.......2006-02-05

I bought this book after browsing Tony's Sweet's excellent images in his web site.

I like most, but not all, of the images in this book.

I especially like Tony adds the camera/lens/shooting information, plus some tips for composition equipment selections like lenses, extension tubes filters. All these are important issues for making fine photo images.

I learned quite a few things from this book. And it's only cost less than $14.00 in Amazon.com.

The only lack is that most of the photos are taken in the film days. So there is no Photoshop tips. But it still teachs many photographic tips. And I'd recommended to anyone who is learning to make fine natural photos.

Great book to buy and very inspiring!

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Since 1979, Sanctuary has been the nastiest, ugliest, and grittiest city in fantasy fiction. This summer, Sanctuary returns to roleplaying for the first time in over 20 years and the excitement begins with the Thieves' World Player's Manual. This book includes a detailed overview of the city in the classic and current eras, a culture and background system to customize your adventurer, over twenty core and prestige classes, a unique magic system, and a brand new Thieves' World short story by Lynn Abbey herself. Explore the Maze, enjoy the delights of the Street of Red Lanterns, or take part in the fight against Dyareela's cultists. The Thieves' World Player's Manual is your gateway to adventure.

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Thieves World Player Manuel review.......2007-04-11

I have been reading this for about a week now and I love the book. I was a huge fan when I first read the novels many years ago and was a bit worried by the reviews I had read. But, those worries were laid to rest after picking this up with some of the other material for this gaming system. I highly recommend it to any who enjoyed or think that they might.

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The one favorite book I can share with friends and family

The Ultimate Book of Bathroom Etiquette and Humor
Larry A. Glanz
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0738825794

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The Ultimate Book of Bathroom Etiquette and Humor covers everything from whether men should lower seats after use to courtesy flushing. With offbeat humor, Larry Glanz uses prose, poetry, and song to relate observations made while visiting hundreds of bathrooms and witnessing all kinds of conditions and habits.

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The one favorite book I can share with friends and family.......2003-01-20

A friend gave me a copy of this book as a holiday gift. I read the book and was in tears laughing so hard. I do love bathroom humor and this is truly the ultimate bathroom book. My friends and I sing the bathroom etiquette song parodies in Chapter #9 for karoake parties and they're absolutely hysterically funny. Many of us have kids, wives, friends and even ourselves, can be bathroom abusers, and thus can relate to the books material. I encourage anyone wanting to help others with bathroom etiquette issues or just to give a great gift, that this is the perfect gift. Every one of my friends, family and colleagues now has received a copy from me as a gift.

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Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect.

Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film.

Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.

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Sound and representation.......2005-02-04

This is a very well researched, well written, lucid account of how sound came to be born into cinema and how it evolved the way it did to modern sound practice. The timeline Lastra presents is crystal clear and it reveals why sound and picture had an acrimonious relationship, and the manner in which sound practice evolved.

Lastra tackles some very difficult notions of representation, including questions of 'truth', sound perspective, space and ambience and much more. Several scholars have dealt with this in one way or another, but Lastra does so with confidence and courage, cutting through to core issues of perceptual aesthetics.

For example, from his introduction (regarding photography):

"Nearly every contemporary newspaper image is digitized, and many are manipulated for purposes of clarity or rhetoric. We have not, however, consequently given up on the idea of photographic reliability since, in spite of our doubts about the medium, we still believe in the institution of journalism and the practice of journalists, which guarantee our faith far more than the simularcra produced by the computer. So, while it is all well and good to argue that every photograph is ideological to its core ... such arguments only go halfway. Indeed they lead to a kind of cynicism. No one today can be unaware that photography can be faked, yet that fact alone does not rule out the possibility that under some conditions a photograph might, indeed, tell the truth. And that is a possibility worth defending."

I found this statement refreshing, when too much writing on aesthetics gets bogged down by unanswerable questions of hegemony, ideology and the like. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... or, a door slam is just a door slam.

It also helped defend my thesis, for which I'm grateful. :)

Beauty is not necessarily truth...........2004-04-11

Lastra's book definitely makes for an interesting read but in the end is rather problematic. Of course the degree to which you choose to see this work as flawed depends mostly on whether or not you fall into the (post-)modern camp of Derrida, Blanchot, Barthes, etc...I often enjoy the works of such authors but in this particular case the majority of Lastra's arguments rest on similes and analogies that while making for beautiful text fall short of making a definitive point. Lastra also has the tendency to float the terms and ideologies of previous centuries down stream into a modern discourse and analysis where I don't believe they necessarily fit or at least he doesn't support such a move textually (Oops! There I go with one of my own similes that mean little or nothing). In part this belief may be due to Lastra's research which while thorough seems decidedly one sided and leans too heavily on certain critics. Another downside to his insistence on the taking (post-)modern perspective and interpretation is that he treats "sound" as some sort of reflexive, self-perpetuating Ouroboros. He does this to such an extent (and with too little support) that one almost feels that the whole world sat in the stomach of this Ouroboros and that meaning was therefore elusive and somehow beside the point. In which case one is right to ask: "What's the point of writing this book?" Also the author has a rather annoying style of re-stating or re-phrasing certain notions within the same paragraph to appear to be the next step in a logical continuity, which makes for both tedious and confusing reading at times. However, like I said in the beginning the work has its beautiful moments and the first and second chapters are absolutely fascinating.

Sound Technology and the American Cinema

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Sound Technology and the American Cinema
James Lastra
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ8066

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This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The story is a fascinating case study of a small society of immigrants and refugees who
established an internationally recognized professional musical establishment against the backdrop of two world wars, the absorption of successive waves of immigrants, local skirmishes, and a full-scale national war. Though under Ottoman and later British rule, Jewish society in Palestine was
virtually autonomous in cultural matters; its musical culture struggled for a balance between a transplanted European heritage and a powerful, ideologically driven desire to find inspiration from the East. Hirshberg opens with a description of music in Palestine under Ottoman rule, and then proceeds
to chart the momentous history of the next seventy years in a broadly chronological framework. His final chapters center on the broad array of ideological and social polemics which dominated the musical scene for the entire period.

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Everything is found, "In my book".......2006-01-11

I took Jehoash's class during my first year at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. It was a great class and I'm glad to know Jehoash. His passion is great and one can always find answers, "in my book."

Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1880-1948: A Social History.: An article from: Notes

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Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1880-1948: A Social History.: An article from: Notes
Irene Heskes
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on March 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1016 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.

Citation Details
Title: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1880-1948: A Social History.
Author: Irene Heskes
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n3 Page: p818(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History

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Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History
Jehoash Hirshberg
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLK6XQ

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If you work in a business, a nonprofit organization, or for the government, chances are you’ve considered getting a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree. If you want to get ahead in your organization or just do a better job, obtaining an MBA is one of the best ways to do just that. But is it the degree that makes a difference, or is there something else at work here? Although that piece of paper with your name and the words “Masters of Business Administration” mean a lot, what’s even more important are the things that you learn during the course of your MBA studies.

The Complete MBA for Dummies is full of useful information, tips, and checklists that you can use to lead, manage, or participate— at a high level of competence —in any business. And if you already have your MBA, you’ll find that this book is a handy refresher and reference that can be used wherever you go.

Written in a fun, easy-to-access format, The Complete MBA for Dummi es presents and explains the very same information that you would encounter in a typical MBA program in any high-quality business school today. Whether it’s strategic planning, management, accounting, finance, marketing, negotiation, or any other core MBA topic, you’ll find it here. For a fraction of the amount you would pay to get your MBA, this book provides you with an easily understandable road map to today’s most innovative and effective business techniques and strategies, including how to:

Motivate employees and build great teams
Understand financial fundamentals
Create effective marketing plans
Come out ahead in negotiations
Examine management trends
Make the Internet work for you
Apply effective risk management techniques in business

Business isn’t just for managers anymore. The Complete MBA for Dummies provides you with the very best ideas, concepts, and tools taught in today’s top business schools. Apply them, and you will see a noticeable difference in your everyday business dealings.

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SmallBizBargains.com gives it a moderate thumbs up........2003-10-05

As mentioned in other reviews, this is not the reference that will substitute for doing an MBA program. However, for those of us that need a quick reference to a variety of topics, this book fits the bill. We at SmallBizBargains.com often refer to it when giving simple advice for basic business issues. It definitely covers a broad range of topics - from Accounting and Finance to Marketing, and even Negotiation Skills. Again, not for the advanced academic, but a good resource for a lot of basic information.

Does not cover basic cocepts from an MBA program.......2002-07-15

I have an MBA and I was looking for a basic reference book that would cover some of the information that I had learned. This book does not cover two of the most basic concepts that every student learns during their MBA program: NPV & IRR (net present value and internal rate of return)

I recommend "the complete idiot's guide to MBA basics." That book covers more of the calculations that one learns during an MBA program.

Another thing to note: the above-mentioned books should only be used as a quick reference book. If you really need to understand a concept, then you need to find a subject matter book for that topic. For example, there is no way to truly understand the 5 p's of marketing by reading 3 to 5 pages. You need to grab a marketing textbook and read couple of chapters that cover the 5 p's of marketing. Then, you can use "idiots" or "dummies" books as a reference guide.

Great business resource - One of the best!.......2001-07-06

I suspect that trying to jam everything you ever wanted to know about business but were afraid to ask is a difficult task, even when you've been given 400 or so pages to complete your task. One thing I know for sure, the authors of The Complete MBA for Dummies have done a far better job completing this task than any other business book I've ever read (and I've read a LOT of business books!). Kathleen Allen and Peter Economy really know their stuff, and it shows loud and clear on every page of this extremely well-written and comprehensive book. While the tone is humorous (fun, actually), it never veers onto the thin ice of sillyness that plagues other books of this type.

If it's covered in a typical MBA program, you'll find the topic you're looking for here: dealing with change, information technology, global business, strategic planning, management, leadership, motivating employees, recruiting and retaining high quality employees, building teams, accounting, finance, marketing, negotiation and much, much more. Lots more interesting (and up to date) than any textbook you'd ever buy in an MBA program, and far less cost. This book packs a heck of a bang for the 16 or 17 bucks you'll pay to buy it.

Highly recommended.

Agree with other about being over-rated.......2001-06-21

I find that there are some good points to be made within the book, but the overall rating is only about a 3.5 (I gave them the benefit of doubt with the 4 stars)

The only truly good information came in at the sales and marketing, but I have yet to see the idea of the customer is the boss in any business course (I have three degrees in business related fields). And I have never seen any manager or executive with this philosophy. Even here in the book I think they could have done this simple idea more justice.

I also have to say that I have read about 20 of the "For Dummies" books, and this one is in the bottom few for quality.

Does not Live Up to the 5-STAR Rating.......2001-03-26

This Book is overly rated with 5 stars. So far, I have read the 10-day MBA, this book and the Idiot equivalent. I read these introductory books because of my job and before going into more advance books. I have found this book less useful than the ten-day MBA and the Idiot equivalent. Moreover, I believed that some of the chapters are long-winded. I will only give it 3 stars.

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