Running Awry: Cartoons and Words

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In the 19th century, the object was to collect and to classify, whether the subject was a foreign landscape, a war, the surface of the moon or the manufacture of bread. Conversely, 20th-century photobooks are often frankly subjective, drawing on movements ranging from surrealism to the Beats. Yet a quasi-scientific approach could result in poignant imagery (as in Facies Dolorosa, a study of the faces of seriously ill people), and artistic subjectivity could yield bitter truths (Helen Levitt's A Way of Seeing, images of poor children in New York). Describing photobooks of the polemical 1930s as "the great persuaders," Parr and Badger remark that the best documentary work demonstrates an awareness of the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the medium. Although we tend to think of propaganda solely as the product of totalitarian regimes (see "Long Live the Bright Instruction," a Chinese tract featuring unnervingly happy workers), the authors remind us that photobooks celebrating the American way of life often naively ignored the complex socio-political forces that underlie a sentimental or cheerful scene. The final chapter, devoted to postwar Japanese photobooks, vividly illuminates the cocktail of hedonism, rage and despair that makes these volumes extraordinary visual documents. --Cathy Curtis

Book Description

From Street Life in London to Hiroshima, from The Royal Mummies to Perspective of Nudes and The Sweet Flypaper of Life, photobooks encompass a tremendous diversity of subjects and styles. While some of these illustrated volumes are famous (Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Robert Frank's The Americans), many others are known only to specialists. The Photobook: A History offers an engrossing survey of this art form, beginning with early experiments in photography in mid-19yh-century England and ending with raucous Japanese photo-diaries of the 1990s. The scope of this handsomely designed book#151;the first of two volumes#151;is so broad that only a few pages of each photobook could be illustrated, and some of the 750 color and black-and-white reproductions are quite small. But the incisive commentary by British photographer Martin Parr and photo critic Gerry Badger opens up new worlds of visual information. The authors provide essential grounding, not only in the history of photography, but also in the artistic and social movements that influenced the look and content of photobooks. In the 19th century, the object was to collect and to classify, whether the subject was a foreign landscape, a war, the surface of the moon or the manufacture of bread. Conversely, 20th-century photobooks are often frankly subjective, drawing on movements ranging from surrealism to the Beats. Yet a quasi-scientific approach could result in poignant imagery (as in Facies Dolorosa, a study of the faces of seriously ill people), and artistic subjectivity could yield bitter truths (Helen Levitt's A Way of Seeing, images of poor children in New York). Describing photobooks of the polemical 1930s as "the great persuaders," Parr and Badger remark that the best documentary work demonstrates an awareness of the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the medium. Although we tend to think of propaganda solely as the product of totalitarian regimes (see "Long Live the Bright Instruction," a Chinese tract featuring unnervingly happy workers), the authors remind us that photobooks celebrating the American way of life often naively ignored the complex socio-political forces that underlie a sentimental or cheerful scene. The final chapter, devoted to postwar Japanese photobooks, vividly illuminates the cocktail of hedonism, rage and despair that makes these volumes extraordinary visual documents. --Cathy Curtis

Customer Reviews:

Creating a Canon For Selling Collectible Books.......2007-03-16

This volume, along with its companion volume, offer little in the way of useful or intelligent commentary (it is otherwise recycled pabulum wasted on a body of books that, for the most part, were treated to celebrity status by Roth). Instead, we're treated to an obscure and incomprehensibly limited canon which is sold as if it were created in a vaccuum with only the purest of intellectual and aesthetic intentions and aspirations (please look at Parr's actual photographs before buying this book--you can get a better appreciation of his specific photographic style). The reality--both of these volumes (and the books contained therein) seem to have been selected primarily for their price in the rare book world (Roth is guilty of basing his selection process on the market as well, but at least he's tranparently a rare book dealer). This wouldn't bother me so much except that there are glaring omissions from both Parr/badger volumes (Misrach's Bravo 20, anything from John Pfahl, anything from Helmut Newton, Frank Horvat, Andres Serrano, Jan Dibbets, Ken Schles, James Van Der Zee, Jerry Uelsmann, Richard Prince, etc...) It is also troubling because up until perhaps even a year ago the rare photobook market was dominated by a handful of collectors (whose ability to judge photography, as far as I can tell, is somewhat suspect). The general proposed intent of the project is noble (cataloging the important photobooks of the world), but I don't think that these authors are qualified in any way to be the critics of what photobooks have actually been important (can we get Irving Penn, William Klein, Araki,and a panel of actual legends to make some selections?). And so, we are treated to a very strange mixture of blue chip photobooks, some of which are obviously important, and some of which are just expensive cult favorites with the collectors. Buyer beware--most of the books within have catapulted even higher in value almost exclusively based off of the premise that they were included in these books. There are plenty of photobooks worth collecting (perhaps even more worthy than most of the books included herein) and there are lots of little-known volumes from the greats (also not treated here) worth pursuing and, more importantly, viewing and enjoying. Photobooks were being produced before this list was assembled and will continue to be created long after these forgettable volumes are replaced with more academic and more interesting attempts. These books are not a terrible point of departure for the neophyte collector but be advised that these books repeatedly confuse monetary and artistic merit without apparently being aware of their own confusion. If you are interested in serious collecting, I'd advise either finding a copy of Roth (if you are interested in collecting a canon of well-established books that are unlikely to shift in value significantly) or, more simply and elegantly, spend some time at your local library learning who Mapplethorpe, Lartgiue, Saudek and rest really are (you can find the names on the internet fairly simply and looking through the actual books beats reading these surveys any day). It's free and you'll be able to craft your own tastes before you begin the process of investing in your won photobook collection.

Superb undertaking, despite some conceptual flaws.......2005-12-21

This is a marvelous volume that can be enjoyed by book and photography lovers alike. As an object in its own right it exhibits a level of refinement in conception and execution that has become rare in our age of mass-produced books. Of course, there are many specialist photobook publishers but they seem to focus exclusively on print quality to increase the perceived value of their publications, whilst neglecting the vital contribution of design in a book's overall appearance (and desirability). In the Phaidon-volume, the exquisitely judged rhythm of layout and typography complement the vivid reproductions of vintage photobook material into a very exciting whole.

To be sure, the care spent on the production of this book is not gratuitous. To the contrary, it is a statement that reinforces the basic conceptual tenets held by Badger and Parr. From the introductory pages we learn that not every and any book that has been conceived around a collection of photographs merits to be included in the class of "photobooks". A photobook - as Badger and Parr understand it - is more than just the sum of its parts: pictures, words, design, and choice of subject all contribute to something which transcends the meaning of a photographic portfolio. This is all illuminating and one could certainly say that the "Photobook" is an instructive example of this synergy between various elements.

However, I wished that the editorial team would have left it at that. I think Badger and Parr are moving onto much more controversial ground when they hold forth that the emblematic photobook is a kind of dramatic event, "comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film" in which the individual photographs lose their own character as things in themselves. Apart from being theoretically doubtful, I believe this criterion is simply too stringent and many vintage photobooks featured in this survey do not comply with it. For example, many of the early books were photo albums in the true sense of the word: bound collections of original prints glued onto white pages. Similarly, it is difficult to see in some of the modernist books - such as Erhardt "Das Watt" or Mendelsohn's "Amerika" - anything more than an expertly produced photographic portfolio. In each of these examples there is coherence, but it does not derive from some kind of dramatic or narrative logic. It can simply be a unity of style which holds a photobook together. Positioning the photobook "between the novel and film", therefore, raises more questions than it provides us with answers. It doesn't really help to make sense of "a ragged and sprawling subject, with more than its fair share of anomalies".

It is perhaps more useful to investigate how Badger and Parr have tried to organise their material within the confines of this volume (and the next). They seem to have relied on three different lines of thought. The first is chronological (it's a history after all). The survey starts with the very first publications, early on in the history of photography and will end with a section on "The Photobook and Modern Life". In this sense, the book can be studied as a remarkably lively and varied panorama of how photographers have engaged with their craft over the last 150 years.

The second organising principle is geographical: some of the individual chapters focus on a distinct area of cultural production (the US, Europe and Japan; the next volume features a chapter on "The Worldwide Photobook"). Finally, there is "intention" as a structuring element. Photobooks have been produced to serve a variety of purposes: to tell a story, to tell a non-story (stream-of-consciousness-like books), to non-tell a story (to deconstruct), to document, to persuade, etc. Indeed, a valuable photobook can even limit itself to simply showing. Most of the chapters in the two volumes put some kind of "intention" at the center of the discussion.

I think Badger and Parr's conception of their own book is to a certain extent at odds with their conceptual emphasis on the dramatic nature of photobooks. If there is drama in "The Photobook", it is mediated by the words that accompany the various chapters, not by the visuals. In other words: it is a conceptual not a photographic narrative that unfolds. As regards the visuals, curiously enough the daring use of white space and drop shadows around the book and page reproductions really make them stand out as preciously unique. Leafing through the book is akin to walking between carefully presented museum exhibits. In this sense, "The Photobook" clearly `shows' and, therefore pulls us away from the dramatic sweep of history.

Despite these theoretical misgivings there is not a shade of doubt in my mind that this book deserves five stars. It is a fabulous book and I look forward with keen anticipation to the second and final volume.

Through the lens with print.......2005-02-19

This book (and the next volume) will surely become the standard reference for anyone wanting to know about photobooks and in creating a new word for photographs in a book perhaps this will create a new publishing genre too. The author's rightly point out that photography is a printed-page medium and the four hundred and fifty titles examined, with just over two hundred in this first book, probably represent the best (or most interesting) titles ever published.

The nine chapters give a lucid in depth review of photobooks to the 1970s with Anna Atkins 1843 'Photographs of British Algae' taking the first photobook prize. I particularly enjoyed chapter six, Medium and Message: the photobook as propaganda, basically dealing with Soviet books in the Thirties and the examples shown are quite extraordinary in their use of images and design. Reproducing the pages from these books would easily make a separate title. The other fascinating chapter was nine, dealing with postwar Japanese books, again the reproduced jackets and spreads show amazing creativity and vision, not only in the choice of photos but also in the use of printing and binding techniques.

Stunning though this book is I thought there was one particular weakness, in so many of the books there are not enough pages shown. Many of them have two pages, for instance 'An American Exodus' by Lange and Taylor, there are fifteen spreads so it is possible to follow the flow of images or Avery Brodovitch's 'Ballet' with eighteen spreads to capture the feel of the subject. Most of the titles though are two or three to a spread allowing mostly a cover plus four or six pages from inside the book but annoyingly there is easily room for more pages had there been a slight adjustment to the book detail text that accompanies each photobook. The excess white space really should have been put to better use. Despite this the paper and printing of the book is first class, the images are reproduced in a fine screen as cut-outs with a drop shadow and run of varnish to really make them sparkle.

Parr and Badger have almost created a unique book but Andrew Roth's 'The book of 101 books: Seminal photographic books of the twentieth century' (ISBN 0967077443) published in 2001 must be regarded as the first attempt to capture the essence of photobooks and in both titles the editorial concept is the same, reproduce the covers and pages rather than show individual photographs. As a designer this makes both books come alive for me but I prefer 'The Photobook' for its exhilarating coverage in both words and images.

Book Description

The Compleat Cannon reprints the entirety of cartoonist Wally Wood's classic sex and violence strip from the 1960s. Super-spy John Cannon is the American's answer to James Bond, fighting the Cold War with a license to kill.

Wally Wood is of course the legendary cartoonist known for his contributions to the original Mad magazine. Always regarded as one of comics' great craftsmen, Cannon is simply one of the most beautiful strips ever produced. Featuring outrageous parodies of pop culture icons of the time, the Cold War, and the secret agent genre, Cannon is Wood at his most gregarious and incisive, working on one of the few projects in his career where he had no editorial constraints.

Like Fantagraphics' The Compleat Sally Forth, also by Wood, this oversized collection includes a section of never-before-seen Cannon ephemera in the form of sketches, notes and annotated information about the strip.

Customer Reviews:

Fun, trashy and politically incorrect masterpiece.......2003-09-02

I have mixed feeings about this. I don't want to like it, but I do! Canon doesn't appeal to your intellectual side and doesn't pretend to. Women are shown in the nude for no aparent good reason, the politics makes no sense and, as the introduction states, Peter Canon as a character never develops much throughout the strip. It also ends rather abruptly as if someone pulled the plug on it and Wood was forced to bring it to a close prematurely. There are many sub-plots which are left dangling.
Basically Canon is a James Bond-type character, only much less glamerous and more mentally screwed up. He gets involved in fighting the communists from China and Russia and in fictional Middle East politics. Anyone who knows anything about history can tell you that the politics is basically bull, but you just have to go along with it. Its a plot driven rather than a character driven story and Wood does surprise with some very unexpected plot twists. The book is about 130 pages long but you'll probably find its best taken in small doses of around 15 pages.
No complaints on the art front. If you like old school comic art, this is for you. He draws amazing scenes, usually in small panels, and gets in a lot of detail.

Joseph MacDonald's Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe

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Joseph MacDonald's Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe
Joseph, Roderick D. Cannon, Editor MacDonald
Manufacturer: The Piobaireachd Society
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1898405417

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A great book, for certain people

one of the few worth reading

A blend of useful information and sophmoric humor

Very funny approach to fatherhood

You look like a [flop] to me...

Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers
Quinton Skinner
Manufacturer: Dell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

It takes a baby to turn a guy into a man.

Hard-won lessons of a first-time father — the good, the bad, and the big-time changes.

"When I used to see a father holding a baby, I thought he was either a poor sap or else an übermensch possessed with talents and levels of forbearance that I would never attain. Now I live on the other side. I'm someone's daddy, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me."

From pregnancy and childbirth through the whirlwind first year of fatherhood, Quinton Skinner shares the adventure of a lifetime: becoming a daddy — and loving it. Nobody said it would be easy. But if imminent fatherhood made Quinton sit up and take notice, baby Natasha's arrival was the making of the man.

Here, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight, is his survival guide for first-time fathers everywhere, filled with hilarious anecdotes and practical advice on how to negotiate that critical first year of your baby's wonderful life.

After a year of on-the-job training, Skinner explores:

• Dealing with the pride — and panic — of your wife's pregnancy (see page 7)
• To be or not to be (in birthing class) (see page 57)
• The moment of truth in the delivery room (see page 77)
• Finding romance after parenthood (see page 102)
• Being the perfect dad while spacing out in front of the TV (see page 112)
• The joys of sleep deprivation (see page 192)
• Becoming a baby chef (see page 177)
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Customer Reviews:

A great book, for certain people.......2007-05-25

I thought this was a great pre-father book. It probably shouldn't be the only one you read, but it may be the most important.

Many of the critics of this book don't seem to understand the point. This book is especially for someone nervous, even scared, about becoming a father. It doesn't cover how to change a diaper, bathe a baby, or get them to sleep through the night. The book discusses, and tells the story of, preparing emotionally for fatherhood. If you want to and expect to become a Dad, but don't know if you are ready or able, then this is the book for you. It addresses the emotional rollercoaster that is expecting and actually becoming a father.

Other books will tell you how to care for the baby, but they are all instruction manuals. Very useful, but not getting to the heart of the experience. "Do I Look Like a Daddy to You" addresses the emotional experience, fears, and joys. No other book does that.

I was excited about having a baby, and wasn't really worried about the responsibility, or I didn't think so. But this book still made me much more comfortable with upcoming fatherhood.

If you are a little or a lot worried about fatherhood, read this book. If not, you'll still enjoy it, provided you're not expecting an instruction manual. Highly recommended.

one of the few worth reading.......2005-01-04

There are a limited number of books available for first-time fathers; this is one of my top two (out of the five I read while preparing). The other is "The Expectant Father", which takes the fairly opposite approach of referentia full of authoritative advice.

Skinner doesn't come across as someone pushing an agenda or trying to tell you what to do -- both problems I found with the other books available to would-be dads. It's a clear, honest walkthrough of his experience, making note of the advice received and his own lessons learned along the way.

By the time you get to your fourth "how to be a dad" book, his levity is very refreshing.

A blend of useful information and sophmoric humor.......2003-05-19

This book should probably be subtitled "Arrested Adolesence Contemplates Impending Fatherhood". The book is really a memoir of two years of Skinner's life (9 months prior to and one year after the birth of his daughter) that also contains useful parenting tips. If you're like me then you'll gloss over parts in which he assumes that the reader is as flippant and irreverant as he is. Useful information that he presents includes:

What to pack for your stay at the hospital
Recipes for your solid-food eating infant
Medicines to have on hand for Junior
Daycare selection criteria

Yes, yes, yes, other books contain this as well, but wouldn't it be irresponsible for Skinner to leave this out?

Here are the drawbacks that come to mind:

Trite humor
No recommendations for other books

I was happy to read that Skinner at least raises the possibility of a husband not being present with his wife during the delivery. The presence of the husband during delivery is not a rule, but a choice to be made by the couple. Contrary to what a previous reviewer wrote, Skinner's absence was not the result of a last-minute decision. Skinner and his wife decided it well in advance of the birth. Skinner's description does give much food for thought (some of it not very complimentary), but it's clear that he and his wife made the correct decision for themselves.

To sum up, I found this book to be a good read. It's not without its flaws, and most certainly is not the only book a father-to-be should read, but the information is sound and the writing solid.

Very funny approach to fatherhood.......2003-01-30

I bought this book for my husband and I laughed throughout the book. It is a very realistic approach to Fatherhood for the corporate jet setter.

You look like a [flop] to me..........2002-11-20

I'm sorry, but what this guy is selling is just one blinding flash of the obvious after another. As a first-time expectant father, I thought I'd get some useful information from this book, especially since my wife's cousin (also new parents) recommended it to me. Quinton Skinner comes across as a very immature, self-centered man whose answer to everything is to stick his head in the sand like an ostrich. As was the case with another reviewer, I only made it halfway through the book before his whining drivel got the best of me. Avoid this book at all costs if you want to learn anything about being a real dad who participates in- and helps with his wife's pregnancy and labor and in raising a happy and healthy child.

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The lessons to be learned from this helpful guide show aspiring screenwriters, television writers, and novelists how to catch a agent's eye and develop a successful scriptwriting career. Step-by-step instructions reveal how to get around the “Catch 22” of the trade—but you can't get an agent until you've sold a script. Interviews with prominent agents and managers disclose how the power brokers choose material, what kinds of writers command their attention, and what they expect from the writers they sign on. Tips on how to write a winning spec script, how to word an effective query letter, how to forge a sound relationship with reps, and other invaluable advice fill this insider's guide.

Customer Reviews:

Just a bunch of interviews.......2003-01-23

There's not a lot of meat here, mostly just the transcripts of the author's interviews with a very limited number of people in the business. Most of the interviewees take extra care to promote themselves and berate the people off of whom they make their living, and very little of what they do in making a deal is revealed. 94 pages are contact lists, boilerplate, appendices and indexes with information that is mostly out of date or easily obtained elsewhere.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Making $1,000,000.......2001-04-12

Mr. Lewinski has done his research. Discussing the "how to's" with industry professionals, the author has gone straight to the jugular . . the topic on every aspiring screenwriter's mind: HOW DO I GET AN AGENT? HOW DO I GET A MANAGER? AND WHAT IN THE HE[ck] IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO!?

You've punched out 120 pages of heartfelt goodness onto 8 1/2 by 11 white paper. Now's the time to get serious.

A readable how-to.......2001-04-11

I found John Lewinski's book to be very pertinent to the questions I had as a hopeful screenwriter. His very readable style makes me recommend it highly.

Sell Your Screenplay Today: The 2003 Screenwriter's Guide to Literary Agents, Managers and Producers

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This book is crap
Not worth your money
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It's All In There!
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Sell Your Screenplay Today: The 2003 Screenwriter's Guide to Literary Agents, Managers and Producers
J. Parenti
Manufacturer: Philly Girl Productions
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Sell Your Screenplay Today is the ultimate guide to finding a literary agent, manager or producer to represent your work. Featuring over 1,200 industry contacts, 390 e-mail addresses and 165 web sites, Sell Your Screenplay is the most comprehensive resource on the market. If you're serious about selling your screenplay, the 2003 Screenwriter's Guide to Literary Agents, Managers and Prdoducers is just what you need.

Find the names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and web sites of the biggest names in the business. Also find out what they're looking for, what they've sold, and most recent film credits.

So don't let your screenplay sit on your desk another day! Take the first step in getting your literary work sold. Find an agent, manager or producer from our comprehensive directory of idustry contacts. Don't wait another day; Sell Your Screenplay Today.

Customer Reviews:

This book is crap.......2003-10-21

Just a listing of companies with little in the way of guidelines or actual names of people at the companies. The positive reviews below are obviously either the author himself or friends of the author.

They are all written in the same 'breezy' 'informative' style that most reviews on Amazon do not contain. They are also the same length and tone. Also check out the dates- all written the same week (2 each on both separate days). These fake reviews are easy to spot.

I especially like "Mr. And Wouldn't you know I found an agent" - yeah right. A scant three months after publication of this useless book someone finds an agent from it? I don't think so. Save your money and buy Skip Press's book instead.

Not worth your money.......2002-10-25

If you buy this book on speculation that it might help you, you're probably wrong. Not to say that some have been helped by it, but most of you (I presume) will be sorely displeased. Of the hundreds of listings, there are less than five that include contact names. And do you know what that means? That means if you send your query to these studios it'll probably end up in the trash., or at least take several months to get into the right hands, if ever. There are better works in the world.

Not much help.......2002-09-26

This book did not live up to its hype. It parades as a helpful guide for screenwriters looking for an agent or management company. In fact, it's a giant list of names and addresses, with occasional one-line explanations of whether the agency is looking for new material or not, and even rarer one-line notations on what kind of material they're looking for. There's no table of contents, no index, almost no help at all for a screenwriter trying to match his or her work with an agency. It's a compilation of names, not a guide.

It's All In There!.......2002-09-18

It's really all in there. Everything I needed. A truly wonderful resource which saved me the time and trouble of agonizing research. I highly recommend it.

Very helpful.......2002-09-17

I had been searching and searching for some sort of compilation of contact people in the screenwriting industry. This is it! The book included names of production companies, agencies, and management teams. I found this very helpful. Also, I found that the book was written in an easy-to-follow format. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in selling his/her screenplay.

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Ian Maxwell's sophisticated story of Australia's hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney's Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of the white musicians to define Australian hip-hop, showing how discourses of nationalism and community are played out in everyday life. Whether describing composition in a bedroom, confrontation in a radio studio, tagging in a subway line, or breaking in front of a stage, Maxwell evokes the intensity of feeling and the complexity of these key experiences.

Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes looks at the many practices of hip-hop--graffiti, rapping, break dancing performances, compositional process, lyrics, music, and fanzines--and captures the fluid contradictions along with the bodily pleasures that make up the scene. With acute sensitivity, Maxwell shows how these young men negotiate issues of identity by imagining themselves within an international hip-hop nation. The book is rich in detail and theoretically innovative, A glossary of terms is included.

Customer Reviews:

a tough read!!.......2004-07-29

As an Australian and huge fan of Aussie hip hop, I was really excited by the release of this book. Its an indepth look at the Sydney hip hop culture in the late 80's- early 90's. But its not an easy read. Its an academic book, written for university culture studies students, rather than a fan. An interesting book, but you'll need a dictionary to read it. Good Luck

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Everything you need to make bloody pedestrian sushi
Detailed maps of all racetrack environments
Bone-jarring tactics and steel-shredding strategies
Breakdowns of every driver and car, including the new combine harvester and wingless airplane
Covers "kill or be killed" multiplayer mode
Locations and tips for all neck-breaking power-ups
Descriptions of every head-splitting weapon and accessory

Customer Reviews:

OK book for a great game.......2004-07-02

I'm not thrilled with the book, but so far as I know, its the only book available for Carmageddon II.

I noticed Carmageddon 2 has FAR better reviews than Carmageddon 3. I think Carmageddon 2 is a good game. Carmageddon 2 is one of the only games I've ever played in my life.

It was very hard to learn for me. Some things about games and computers that I now take for granted had to be discovered by tedious trial and error. I'm no great shakes at this game, a lot of times I go back to previous levels, just to play around and create mayhem. Its a good game.

In book's beginning, lotsa pages are wasted on pics of the available cars. While I'm not that good at the game, I know the cars that are available to buy. The book actually lists some vehicles that u can supposedly buy -but some of them aren't even in Carmageddon!

They give some cool ideas for strategies. But no battle plan survives unexpected when facing the enemy. U may be forced off course if too many other drivers try to zero in on u.

Carmageddon 2 is a cool game in the sense that there is much to explore off the course. Try taking different turns, going places just for the heck of it. U'll discover a lot of stuff that'll get u big points. U'd never have known that if u hadn't done independent exploration. (and this book might help, too)

I actually played Carmageddon 2 with a game pad for a long time, til I got a steering wheel.

I know the game runs under WinME. This is a very old game, it must have been released in the days of Win98. Don't know if it runs under XP.

Bought the game from Amazon when it was heavily discounted (cause it was an old game).

I have maybe 10 games, most of which I've barely touched. Carmageddon seems to me to be a game that u should hold on to.

I think the game gets a bit crash prone at the higher levels. Somewhere around level 8 or 9, its a touch crashy and also, the nature of the game changes. U'd better have saved a lot of points, because u'll need a BIG vehicle. The old tricks of destroying enemies start to fall flat at these higher levels. No matter what u do, u can't destroy the other huge vehicles with a little car.

I gave up and began the game all over, using some of the tricks from the book. I don't care, I like the game. Like the book sez, u can replay levels to get lotsa extra points. (this book mentions that tip)

Also, u'll find that at the higher levels, u'd better buy a BIG vehicle, the choice of car duznt make that much difference at lower levels. Just keep the red one they give u-and buy all the armor,offensive and power u can for the car. Otherwise, save your points for a later level where u'll need to buy more expensive and larger vehicles.

The on-disk documentation for Carmageddon won't explain how the missions are won. Get explanations off the net and/or this book.

I guess, if u're like me and want to stick with an old favorite, u may as well buy this book. I've learned a few things from it. I had already learned a lot from experimentation.

Since, for me, this game has long term potential, I say spend a few bucks and get a few little tricks that u might not figure out on your own. Carmagedon is a rich game, with lots of stuff to explore. U might not catch it all on your own.

Buy the book if u think like I do. I think it would have been even better had I bought it a few years ago.

Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now : Carpocalypse Now.......2000-04-04

This is a very good book, because it has very good explanations, and also it has a lot of images and illustrations, and you can understand it better, you can play better because with this book you know how to play, and they tell you tips so you can play better.

Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now : Carpocalypse Now.......2000-04-04

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Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures
Stephen Page
Manufacturer: Process Improvement Publisher
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Binding: Paperback

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"Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures" is a primer for both the novice writer and the experienced writer wishing to revamp a policy or procedure system. This is the only book of its kind as it focuses on research, writing, reviewing, publishing, communicating, training, and revising policies and procedures. His competitors focus on editing and finding the best word to use. While Stephen covers this area he doesn't spend an entire book on editing. He thinks that you must learn how to do research, network, flowchart a business process, obtain reviews of policy and procedure drafts, publish, communicate, train, revise, and even measure the effectiveness of a policy or procedure document. Stephen also introduces a method of writing called the Writing Format that helps the writer lay out the content in a logical sequence for easy reading and understanding. Stephen's second book, "7 Steps to Better Written Policies and Procedures" focuses entirely on the Writing Format with exercises and answers. Stephen's third book, "Best Practices in Policies and Procedures," focuses on the best of the best policy and procedure authors of the policy and procedure industry. Stephen's fourth book, "Achieving 100% Compliance of Policies and Procedures" helps you make improvements to your business processes as you write your first policy or procedure draft and then to help make improvements to the published policy or procedure document.

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"Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures" is the first book of a four-part series on policies and procedures. This first book focuses on setting up a foundation for a system of policy and procedure documents whether printed or electronic. This book leads you step-by-step to the development of a system of documents and/or company manuals. Each step in the development process is detailed including: Researching, Writing, Reviewing, Approving, Publishing, Distributing, Training, and Revising. A method of writing called the "Writing Format" is introduced in this book for both policy and procedure documents and it becomes the hallmark method of writing for each of the related three policy and procedure books. Examples for each section are provided. Sample policies and procedures using this format are also provided. This book also covers many subjects not found in most books including: How to Hire a Procedures Writer, How Forms Management is closely integrated with Policies and Procedures, How to Develop a Writing Style, and how to Convert Printed Policy and Procedure Documents to either an Online Format or a Web Format. The methods presented in this book are the result of a tried-and-proven system currently at multinational companies such as State of Ohio, Boeing, Eastman Kodak, Litton Industries, and Dataproducts. Thousands of companies have adopted these techniques over the past 5 years including more than 92 countries. Novice and experienced procedures writers will benefit from this book. Use this book to build a foundation for your policies and procedures and then use the other three policy and procedure books to enhance what you have learned in this book. Refer to the Accreditation section for a listing of the other three books.

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A must have for any procedure analyst.......2007-04-27

This book is clear, concise and easy to follow, whether you are starting from nothing or you are bringing your current policies and procedures up to standard. This is a must read for the procedures analyst and for the CEO who believe in continual improvement.

For optimal result buy the set of 4 books:
1. Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures
2. Achieving 100$ Compliance of Policies and Procedures
3. 7 Steps to better Written Policies and Procedures
4. Best Practices in Policies and Procedures

You will not be disappointed. This set is well worth your time and money.

Good for Beginning and Intermediate Users (3.5).......2005-12-30

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE ELECTRONIC EDITIONS OF "ESTABLISHING A SYSTEM OF POLICIES AND PROCEDURES" ... AND ... "7 STEPS TO BETTER WRITTEN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES".

As a technical writer, I had mixed feelings about these books.

On the one hand, I thought they did an excellent job of presenting a simple, structured approach for developing and maintaining policies and their associated procedures in a systematic and consistent way. I think people who are new or relatively new to the work of developing such documentation should find these books to be valuable aids.

On the other hand, as someone who has been developing administrative and technical documentation for a number of years, I didn't find much here that was new to me. In many ways, I felt these books were an excellent presentation of "what I already know".

I felt the strongest points of the books were:

1) "The Writing Format" - The author makes it clear that the structure he uses for developing documents (which he calls "The Writing Format") is the core of his entire approach to developing policies and procedures. This simple, effective structure will be VERY helpful to those who've never had to develop standardized documentation before or for those who have yet to find a systematic approach for developing consistent documents.

2) Policies and Procedures in Support of Business Goals - All too often, policies and procedures are developed without the required connection to the ideas and realities that define the businesses for which they are being developed. Mr. Page does an excellent job of making it clear what a big mistake this is and suggests some ways to avoid this pit fall.

3) The Development Process - Many managers I've worked with over the years seem to think that good policies and procedures are something anyone can sit down and write in a few minutes. NOT true. Mr. Page does an excellent job of outlining the overall TEAM process by which good policies and procedures must be conceived, researched, drafted, reviewed, approved, published and continually revised and updated.

All in all, I think Mr. Page's books make excellent documentation development reference guides. But, as someone who has been developing administrative and technical documentation for several years, there were a few things I found disappointing:

1) Formatting - The visual formatting of Mr. Page's documents is VERY simple and, in my opinion, does not take very full advantage of the enhanced visual tools available in today's word processing programs. Designing documents that are visually simple to follow and help the user immediately recognize the logic of the document they are using is much easier with some of today's enhanced word processing capabilities. I would have enjoyed seeing examples of more sophisticated yet still straight foreward approaches to presenting information.

2) Editing - Especially in "Establishing A System of Policies and Procedures", I was surprised by the number of editing errors I found. They were not the sort of errors that make the book ineffective, but they detracted from the professionalism of the presentation.

I think for MOST people tasked with developing policies and procedures for a corporate or professional environment, these two books will be very good reference guides. But, if you've been developing successful documentation for a number of years and doing so with considerable skill and creativity, there may not be much new for you here.

Nasty Reviews.......2005-10-24

I love these procedure books and they are the most comprehensive on the web. To see nasty reviews from a reviewer that is ranked 1,065,501 on Amazon's reviewers list is atrocious. Take it from me, a seasoned policy and procedure writer, this book is truly a landmark for both beginners and seasoned writers like me. Think about it. The book is short and takes about 2 hours to read. Believe you me, you'll be glad you gleaned so much information in such a short time. You'll soon be on your way to writing clear and consise policies and procedures. I did.

Ron Fisher

Good for Beginners Only.......2004-11-06

It is a well written and organized book. However, as the title states, "Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures", it's about creating a new system not improving an existing system of policies and procedures. It goes through all the basic steps of establishing a new system (including several paragraphs on the selection of the type of binders to store the documents). For those who already have a system in place, only half the book is useful. It's good to see if you have all the basics covered.

blew my mind and my procedures.......2004-09-18

This book was absolutely incredible. Mr. Page is a God of procedures and policies. I write policies and procedures for a company that writes policies and procedures for improving other companies policies and procedures. He writes so clear and concise and concise and clearly, about policies and procedures and policies about precedures and vice versa, that my policies and procedures improved to become better policies and procedures about policies and procedures and...phew, got a little excited! thanks dr. P, you have a true gift from god. Some people are good at writing about policies, and some about procedures, but you're a double threat. You're like the bo jackson of policies and procedures. Keep up the great work, and i look forward to the sequel, cuz I want to buy the box set! snort! ;)

Establishing a system of policies and procedures: Setting up a successful policies and procedures system for printed, on-line, and web manuals

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Establishing a system of policies and procedures: Setting up a successful policies and procedures system for printed, on-line, and web manuals
Stephen Butler Page
Manufacturer: Process Improvement Pub
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