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he power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time. Robert Capa's dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthal's photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did-in quite an opposite way-Eddie Adams' and Larry Burrows' searing imagery from Vietnam.LIFE thinks outside the box in this book: Did Marilyn Monroe's pinup change the world?Did Harry Benson's photography of the Beatles deplaning in New York in 1964 alter our cultural focus?The pictures in this book are sometimes beautiful, often striking-and undeniably powerful.
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Makes you think.......2007-05-12
I found this book really interesting and the fact that it has the full photos but also has a blurb about each of them makes it more interesting than some of the National Geographic books which only have the photos.
Some of the images will be well known to all generations who pick up the book, and some I found myself learning about for the first time. One particular photo which stood out for me was one in Jackson, Mississippi where a crowd of white citizens are abusing and taunting a black girl who is sitting at the counter of a cafe. The pain in her face is amazing and it is interesting to think how far we have come from 1963 when that photo was taken.
There is of course the Tiananmen Square and the fall of Iraq, but there are also photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the first ever moving picture.
Overall the book is a great keepsake if nothing else, but I'd recommend it as a coffee table book because a lot of the photos will definitely get people talking.
Good Book.......2007-02-17
A good general book of famous photography. The pictures are, of course, famous, but not of the highest quality. A nice book to sit and browse through.
Buy This Book!.......2006-04-20
100 Photographs that changed the world can only be described as an intimate and emotional view of our world over the last century. The book was created by Time magazine, many of the photos coming straight from their covers. Many of the pictures are published elsewhere and have no doubt been seen by many people, but having them put together in this fashion is amazing. Complete with date and description, you find yourself having a little history lesson without even knowing it. Every page is readable and interesting, it will definitely keep your attention.
There are pictures from "The Arts", "Science and Nature", "Society", and "War and Peace". Beginning with the first photo ever taken and moving on to amazing things like the ex-ray that allowed to discovery of the double helix in our DNA. There are also many controversial issues such as lynching in the south, and young black students being sprayed by a fire hose; showing just how horrible slavery and racism really has been in America. There are pictures of the many starving children from other countries with their tiny arms and legs and huge bellies created from the horrible conditions that they live in every day. There is no question that many of these photos are hard to look at, but they force you to face the reality of our unjust world. They document some of the many mistakes we have made in the last 100 years and all that we have learned from them. It also includes groundbreaking photos such as the first picture taken of a baby inside of a mothers womb, the very first photo of the earth from the surface of the moon, and JFK's assassination. They are undeniably breath taking, heart breaking, and thought provoking. Even if all of these pictures did not actually change the world. They definitely changed the way we view the world. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, there are simply not enough words to describe the power and emotion contained in these photographs.
This book is simply a must have for any library. Young or old, it is a book that you will undoubtedly pull from the shelf many times. Definitely the kind of book that parents should look at with their children to help them learn about history. I'm sure the pictures will provoke questions and curiosity from both sides, and it is a great way to learn together. It is the kind of book that you can pass on through generations of your family and it will be just as valuable to them as it is to us. We are so lucky to have to opportunity to be able to document our lives with pictures, which has only been possible for about the last hundred years. We need to take advantage of such a wonderful opportunity. Don't pass up the chance to own a book that is this powerful.
Wonderful book!.......2006-03-24
As a keen buyer of photo books I could not miss the opportunity of possessing this collection of immortal shots. I already had many of them in other books, but at such a budget price I simply could not resist the temptation! It was also the occasion to get to know the names of some professionals that made the type of photos that you look at and say "Wow! I saw this 100000 times and it is a pleasure again... but... any clue about the author?". Good starting book for people naive of photo history, avoid buying it if you already have a good collection of photo books and are not afraid of navigating them to find out that immortal shot.
Great Images.......2006-03-17
These are many of the most memorable photographs ever taken. The images and stories are inspiring. I found myself reflecting on what I was doing the first time I saw each of these images. This is an essential book for all photographers.
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Much more than a book of pictures, 100 Days in Photographs is a compelling visual journey through our age—an odyssey that's personal and universal, immediate and timeless. To create it, Getty Images and National Geographic identified 100 days that represent defining moments of the past 150 years... and crystallized them with photographs that leap from the page to evoke joy and anger, triumph and despair. Supporting the visuals are firsthand journal excerpts, photographers' on-site notes, and insightful text by photography historian Nick Yapp.
From the Getty Images archive, astonishing images depict major world events: revolution in 19th-century Europe, President Lincoln's assassination, the Eiffel Tower's construction from 1887 to 1889, Bleriot flies the English Channel in 1909, the Wall Street crash of 1929, Germany's Kristallnacht, the British quit India in 1947, and more. National Geographic's contributions illustrate scientific, cultural, and geographical topics—including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees, Chernobyl's nuclear disaster, the cloning of sheep, the attacks of September 11, 2001, and today's global warming debate. Page after eye-catching page reveals the emotion of an entire event or age captured in a single image—whether of a peasant's tears, of world leaders sharing a secret, or the triumph of an Olympic champion. Politics, war, crime, technology, achievement, fads, and fashion all figure into the life and legacy of these 100 days.
Featuring scores of rare and unpublished photographs uncovered during its creation, this remarkable book provides new perspective on key events and personalities of the past 150 years.
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It's a Pikachu luau as Ash and Pikachu set sail on a Lapras to visit the Orange Islands. In a series of zany adventures inspired by the new season of Pokemon TV episodes, they battle tropical seas and wild jungles while they help protect the islands from a hungry Snorlax. Along the way, Ash continues his quest to become the world's greatest Pokemon trainer by seeking out new Pokemon - and new challenges.
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...the last book *sniff*.......2002-09-08
What a great way to end the series... a huge slowpoke, while the book is halariusly funny,and full of humour it wasn't what i was lead up to believe, Jesse and James are cute but they didn't really show much romance between the two, although a lot better than what the tv's doing. there wasn't much AAML but i can live with that.
Yaaaaaaay!!.......2001-11-11
I basically can say I agree with all the other positive reviews here, I just wanted to add another good review. And TRUST ME, this book is the number one must-have for Rocketshippers! You will not be disappointed! It has everything- humor, romance, excellent illustrations, a good story (based off the anime), and there is a GREAT battle between Ash and Drake at the end!
Gotta Collect Them All!.......2001-07-19
Surfs Up Pickachu graphic novel, (part of a series) is by far the best reading material I've found out of all other Pokemon reading out there and comes highly recommended for good clean entertainment value and excellent illustrations! If you don't buy into any other Pokemon merchandising or reading materials buy into this! It has the sickeningly sweet critters children the world over have come to adore, but I feel is also apt to capture older readers interests as well compared to other books based on Pokemon because it actually has a decent plot and some quality behind it. Recommended if you are checking out Pokemon for the first time or already an avid fan!
Good for older fans.......2001-05-04
If you like pokemon but are sick of the juvenile dumbed-down tv series and movies, I highly recommend this and other Japanese Pokemon manga. Though young pokemon fans can enjoy this too, it's a great treat for teenaged and older fans. Unlike the show, it actually assumes the reader has some intelligence. Even though there is a lot of censoring, the level of american content editing is considerably lower than the series. The art is very good too. The pokemon are more realistic and less cartoonish than in the tv series. Highly recomended to Pokemon fans of all ages.
THE BESTEST ENGLISH POKEMON THING IN EXISTANCE!!.......2001-03-05
I would like to recommend the entire manga series by Toshihiro Ono to *ANY* older Pokemon fan. It seems to be more mature than the show, and the stories and art are adorable, funny, and very enjoyable. SURF'S UP, PIKACHU- the final book in the series- is definitely a great ending to an excellent series. It ties up the story with a nice relationship between Team Rocket (who Toshi makes absolutely kawaii), and Jari-booi (the twerps are actually likeable in Ono's series! ^__^). I'm sure all Rocketshippers (J&J romance supporters) are buying this for a very specific reason, but that's not the only cute part. There's basically nothing bad about this manga- even though it's very censored, it's still completely enjoyable. Buy it! It's worth the very small amount of money amazon.com charges!!
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An Actor's Revenge (Bfi Film Classics)
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An Actor's Revenge is one of the masterworks of the modern Japanese cinema. Visually stunning, with some of the most imaginative widescreen camera-work ever seen, the film exemplifies director Kon Ichikawa's self description: 'I was trained as a painter and I strill think like one'. How Ichikawa transforms a melodramatic tale into a total cinematic experience is vividly analysed in fellow artist Ian Breakwell's sympathetic study.
An Actor's Revenge tells the bizarre story of Yukinojo, a nineteenth century Kabuki female impersonator who employs his theatrical skills to deceives and destroy the merchants who caused the death of his parents. Ichikawa's film is a remake, thirty years later, of Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1936 box-office smash, using the same actor, Kazuo Hasegawa, in the twin roles of transvestite Yukinojo and virile thief Yamitaro.
What might have been a mere gimmick proved an inspired stroke of casting. Breakwell acclaims Hasegawa's dual performance as one of the cinema's greatest displays of acting, in which the highly artificial conventions of Japanese theatre are mobilised in a dazzling play on the mysteries of identity and sexuality.
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Great movie, o.k. book.......2004-03-11
If you're reading this review, you surely have seen Ichikawa Kon's film "Yukinojo Henge" -- you probably will enjoy reading this small essay on the film. For anyone interested in exploring a new film from the BFI series, then by all means see this film (readily available in DVD in the UK, sadly only VHS here in the US) and read this book.
Breakwell's approach is somewhat standard: he discusses the arty look of the movie, its incredible design features, and the paradox of the gender of the actor (playing a double+ role). I wish this book had been better researched -- adding more insight about Ichikawa Kon, his scriptwriter Wada Natto, and the actor Hasegawa Kazuo (or at least a more thorough comparison with Kinugasa's earlier film trilogy from which Ichikawa based this remake on). Despite its lack of scholarship, the book is infused with the author's renewed appreciation for the film -- that being said, he does a good job reconnecting one with the film. I definitely want to see it again after reading the book.
Problems with the book: the photo reproductions of film stills are somewhat poor -- it's like someone took a photo of a t.v. showing the film. Sad.
If you want to read a GREAT BFI film book, try Salman Rushdie's "Wizard of OZ" -- that should be the standard for every book in this series. Sadly, Breakwell's book doesn't measure up (although Ichikawa's film is superior to Oz, hands down).
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Entertaining songs in French teach conjugations of high frequency verbs in the present, passe compose and future tenses including irregular verbs. The accompanying lyrics/activity book includes very good exercises.
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Learning French Through Song.......2007-03-08
The songs are catchy and easy to follow. The only problem I found was the booklet is only in French. I would have liked an English translation as well. I wish the description would have included that fact.
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An essential Ravenloft Book!.......2004-08-14
This book is one of the Best Books you can buy for Ravenloft. In it are some cleaverly created domains full of lycanthropes (including a newly edited werepanther), banshees, undead treants, and all the other terrors of Ravenloft. This book gives incredible detail about groups of people living in the domains and also the the rulers (darklords) over these domains.
This book itself contains Alfred Timothy and Baron Urik von Kharkov and many more. The domains it primaryly focuses on are Borca, Invidia, Verbrek, Valachan, and Sithicus. While each of them are unique and full of terror I think that the forest of Verbrek make the book the most. I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys Ravenloft, Werewolfs, Vampires, or Roleplaying in a heartbeat.
A Good Buy.......2004-01-29
I've been waiting eagerly for details on the new darklord of Sithicus ever since I read "Spectre of the Black Rose." My only problem with the book was that the elven vampire Lady Adeline, who was mentioned in the section on Valachan, wasn't given an entry of her own in the DM's Notes section. Her entry in the old 2nd Edition accessory "Children of the Night: Vampires" made her out to be a generic elf vampire -- no class specified, just a summary of the old Ravenloft Mostrous Compendium stats. In third edition, *no* vampire who's more powerful than a vampire spawn (or minion, to use a term from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has no character class. Based on her background, I could see Adeline as a ranger, probably at least seventh- or eighth-level. After all, in third edition being undead doesn't mean you can't be a ranger anymore. I mean, considering she's Urik von Kharkov's tax collector, she's one of the most likely evil NPC's for PC's to butt heads with in Valachan after they've finished trashing a few Black Leopards.
Gave me what I wanted.......2003-06-12
Some people are bashing this book. It gave me what I expected plus some nice extra tidbits. The only valid complaint is it gives an unfair amount of space to one domain while shortchanging the other two. It still does the job of giving you a lot of flavor to add to whatever you do in these domains.
Bottom line: I bought it and got what I wanted out of it. It could have been better, but so can all the other books.
Old-school Ravenloft... Exactly what is needed!.......2002-10-17
I love Ravenloft, ever since it first came out as a module.It's brooding, dark atmosphere and mixture of tension and dread makes it one of the most unique and engaging settings ever concieved in the entire gaming industry. I was receptive to Ravenloft 3E, but wasn't very impressed. Until now.
The Ravenloft gazetteer combines alot of esoteric trivia from countless supplements and adventures and compiles them into a single sourcebook. I've just only gotten a chance to skim through the Barovia chapter, and it's packed with material from the old boxed sets, the adventures House of Strahd and Roots of Evil, and the Monstrous Compendium appendices. It's terrific! For the old-school DM like me who just wants 3E stats of the older material, it's exactly what I needed. I run an I6 game every year, and this year I'll finally be able to do it in 3E without having to dedicate a week or two to converting the module. Great job, Sword & Sorcery Studios!
So why only 4 stars? Two major reasons. The artwork isn't exactly the most gothic in the world, I miss the older illustrations with alot of blackness in the illustrations and alot of shadows and darkness. The new art is mostly line drawings with alot of "white space." Secondly, the book has no maps of the towns it discusses. A rather crude pencil sketch on page 37 shows the area around Castle Ravenloft itself, but maps of the towns really should have been included. SSS makes great maps, as anyone who has seens the Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad hardcover can attest to. If such maps of the towns had been included, the book would be a straight 5.
But it's still a great buy, even essential I would say, to run canon adventures in Barovia.
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“Competition is the bane of the free enterprise system.” —Anonymous business mogul
What people on the front lines—making, marketing, and selling products and services—really want is to be alone in the marketplace, to have a space that they own for a long enough period of time so they can make some real money. In this short, powerful book, Milind Lele shows you how.
Conventional wisdom attributes winning to having the best products at the lowest prices, a great brand, superior management, and the lowest overhead. All are obviously of great importance, but in actuality anyone can achieve them. Dr. Lele shows that winning comes from focusing on these monopoly rules:
• What patch of open market space does this business own—or could it own?
• Is the space really open or is it wishful thinking?
• Are there enough customers whose needs are not being met and are they willing to spend money to have those needs met?
• How long will this space remain open and why?
• What do you have to do to capture it and wall it off?
• When will the party end and what do we do next?
For example, for many coffee lovers there is no one but Starbucks. The moment people found out what coffee could, and should, taste like it was as if a giant lightbulb went off inside their heads—and Starbucks had a monopoly. The best monopoly opportunities are situational, often soft and intangible. They’re segments, not the mass market, and often in the customer’s mind. For the customer there is no one but you, since what you provide can’t be easily copied, duplicated, or ripped off.
Monopoly Rules couldn’t come at a better time, as an almost perfect storm seems to be hitting every business. Customers are changing and the homogenous mass market has gone the way of the nickel soda. Now the game is winning market segments. In this world, Monopoly Rules provides a new way to think and take action and stay ahead of the game.
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easy to read and comprehend.......2007-08-06
The author explains his view via cases and dialog, making the book highly smooth and easy to read. The comparation of monopoly with SCA is early mentioned, and the point is: "SCA cannot guarantee profit, but monopoly can." Whether this idea is convincing or not, it does challenge the old strategy school. You can definitely gain something new with this book. That's why I praise this title.
Monopoly Rules Charisma.......2007-05-17
Why does Apple Computer hold a different kind of monopoly over Microsoft? Why should businesses and companies strive to become monopolies over merely capturing market share? "Monopoly Rules" tells you why and it goes against conventional wisdom.
Businesses that become monopolies touch consumers at a logical and emotional level. To find out how, read the book.
Edward Brown
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Its a Paradigm-shift.......2007-05-16
Out-of-the Box!
Truly a MUST-READ! Competition is never a dull moment again.
A Clear and present danger for other companies!
Buy it! and you will know why :-) Thanks Milind!
Relevant and useful.......2006-05-05
Monopoly Rules is an outside-the-box view of success strategies in an increasingly complex and fast moving economic environment Lele suggests that "situational monopolies," that is, businesses that recognize a market need ignored by others and develop a commanding presence in that market, are a paradigm for the future by which to maintain clear competitive advantage and high profit margins
This book is highly readable, and cogently lays out a step-by-step process for analyzing potential monopolistic opportunities, with plenty of examples of current business enjoying such advantage (e.g., Starbucks, Enterprise Rent-a-Car) and how they did it.
A thinking person's version of Blue Ocean Strategy.......2005-11-16
Monopoly Rules takes an entirely new attack at the age old question, "Why are companies successful?" Traditionally we've all focused on finding what a company's competitive advantage is. Instead, Lele focuses on trying to understand the company's "monopoly" i.e. areas where the company is de facto the only provider to a group of costumers.
Lele provides compelling examples that truly inspire. As the Financial Times promised, the book is full of powerful and innovative concepts coupled with practical guidance.
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