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In this original and wide-ranging study, Michael Leja argues that Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other Abstract Expressionist artists were part of a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. Leja demonstrates that the interests of these New York School artists in tapping "primitive" and unconscious components of self aligns them with many contemporary essayists, Hollywood filmmakers, journalists, and popular philosophers of the period.
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Presenting advances in infrared photography, which has long been an artful alternative to traditional color or black-and-white photography, this guide provides tips for creating vivid infrared prints. Previsualizing the effects of infrared light on a subject, successfully using Adobe Photoshop to heighten the effects of infrared images, and creative toning and framing strategies are discussed. The savings from shooting digitally and using imaging programs during development are also detailed. Before-and-after photographs paired with instructive text provide a visual approach to this ethereal photography form.
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DIGITAL INFRARED MUST HAVE !!!.......2007-08-24
ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS TO DATE. PATRICK REALLY HAS THE KNOWLEDGE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL DREAMLIKE PHOTGRAPHY. I HAVE LEARNED ALOT OF USEFUL INFORMATION FROM THIS BOOK AND EVEN BOUGHT A MODIFIED COOLPIX TO SHOOT INFRARED ON 4 MYSELF.
Great Book!.......2007-08-04
This book is a great book to get alongside "The Complete Guide to Digital Infrared Photography". Both books compliment each other. The book is full of great Ideas and information.
one of few resources.......2007-05-07
There are not many options for those of us interested in infrared photography. Found much invaluable reference material. Also purchased Complete Guide to Digital Infrared Photography by Joe Farace which made a good companion book.
Very Good Overview.......2007-03-09
Digital Infrared Photography by Patrick Rice is a good overview on the topic, but if you ware wanting an in depth understanding of infrared photography, you are going to have to buy more than this book. As a new eye to the art of infrared photography this book provided me with just enough answers to get started with my camera (though I was disappointed with the lack of discussion on DSLRs)and a good outline to head towards the web to find more information. This is not a book I regret having in my library.
Not quite what I had hoped for.......2006-12-31
The book has some lovely images, and it is true that looking at great images will help improve your skills.
I was disappointed, however, and primarily because the title led me to believe that it was a professional-level book about infrared techniques. In actuality, it gives a cursory introduction to a narrow swath of ideas about infrared. If you are interested in using infrared in wedding photography, this is a terrific book, as about half of the images are of weddings.
What I didn't learn was how infrared technique differed from traditional digital. What of histograms readings? Photoshop work? or how to adjust the sometimes odd result from the camera into a beautiful print.
In the slim, 123-page book, the author presents a history of infrared, film photography with infrared, the difference between film and digital, and info about cameras and lenses. This takes you to page 64. The next chapter -- finally -- is "Shooting Techniques," pages 65-78. This chapter has fifteen images associated with it, twelve of which are wedding photographs. The remainder of the book is dedicated to how "infrared sees" and -- you guessed it -- a chapter on weddings. That means, pages 65-78 include the "professional techniques." These are items such as the need for longer exposures when using a filter (duh), and that you can use the manual RGB or B&W setting on the camera (making a correction that otherwise would have been done in Photoshop, and with more control.) His reasoning for shooting in RGB? A wedding couple loved the "edgy look" on the camera's screen. Might there be a technical reason?
So, sadly, I didn't learn anything I hadn't already gleaned from a quick trip around the Internet. On the other hand, if you want to learn about digital infrared wedding photography, this would be a great choice. Took bad that wasn't what was advertised.
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- What an amazing concept
- " A World Class Hero"
- Blackjack Oh My!
- A Graphic Novel for Mystery, History, and Adventure Readers
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Blackjack: Blood and Honor, The Graphic Novel (Blackjack)
Alex Simmons
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Arron Day, aka Blackjack, is an African-American soldier of fortune battling powerful enemies, the ghosts of his past, and the bigotry of his times. It is the 1930s. A good time for a dark hunter.
In Tokyo, 1935, Blackjack has taken on a dangerous mission. His assignment is to protect a Japanese dignitary who is haunted by a terrible secret and marked for death by those who are driving his country toward world war. Blackjack is soon pitted against spies, rebels, lies, bigotry, a secret order of warlords, and an elite force of the Japanese army. Before long Arron is battling not only to save his client, but also an innocent who will change his life, forever. This is an beautifully illustrated, nonstop action-adventure tale rich with history, human drama, and some exciting extras! Cover by Brian Stelfreeze. Full color. 104 pages.
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What an amazing concept.......2003-11-23
Mr. Simmons has done it, an action hero in the 1930's who is an African American. The book captures everything a good action book should and is a nessesity in any good collection
" A World Class Hero".......2000-04-15
My comic book days are about over, but I remember them fondly. I remember some of my enduring favorites. The Spirit; The Green Lantern; The Blackhawks, to name a few. Now, my friend Alex has brought forth one who fills a deep void in the pantheon of world class heroes pitted against an evil force. BlackJack is one on a par with The Blackhawks, full of daring adventure in exotic places in the world. Bravo!
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Blackjack Oh My!.......2000-03-28
Someone please make this into a film right now!
A Graphic Novel for Mystery, History, and Adventure Readers.......2000-03-24
Alex Simmons's "Blackjack: Blood and Honor" is fresh and exciting, thoughtful and informative, and incredibly well-written. Yes, this is a graphic novel, and you are thinking, "I'm only into real books, man." Here's the bottom line, pal: This is a real book, just done in a fresh, thrilling way.
Blackjack is an adventurer-for-hire, who takes a contract to protect a Japanese official opposed to the pre-World War II build up in Japan, circa 1938. I never even knew any leading Japanese were opposed the war! I found it great to learn something new while reading a strong action tale.
Simmons writes more words than usually show up in graphic novels, and does it in such a way that this is, indeed, a very good thing. I forwarded my copy to a friend who commented that he didn't need the visuals to follow this tale; that is how clearly Simmons spins his yarns.
But the art is wonderful to behold as well. From the intense cover painting to the frequent action sequences, the illustrations deliver the back up punch to the intelligent, intriguing prose. And additional pages such as "Shades of History" serve as exquisite desert to this hefty reading meal.
So pick order it, sit on down, enjoy, and bon apetite!
Indiana Jones With An Edge.......2000-03-24
What I love about Blackjack is the character. Blackjack is a wealthy, well educated, world-travelled black man at a time (the 1930's) when many people felt that wasn't a good thing to be. He is a complicated man--and no, he's not Shaft, and he's not Indiana Jones, he's a complex, three-dimensional character who I find utterly fascinating. Another plus is that the writer's historical settings are so accurate it almost feels like you're reading a true story about a person the history books forgot. A great book for anyone who loves well-written, well-drawn adventure in the grand tradition.
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- Great book for you men that want to understand women!
- The Best Way to Find the Love You Know You Have
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Why Men Don't Get Enough Sex and Women Don't Get Enough Love
Jonathan Kramer
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Great book for you men that want to understand women!.......2002-04-29
One of the few books that had CONCRETE examples that
explain why you can't understand your spouse. It helped
me understand women who can't say what they really mean
better!
The Best Way to Find the Love You Know You Have.......2000-10-18
After five years of misunderstandings, miscommunications, and suffering from a lack of 'love', I took it upon myself to find out why and repair this hole permanently. I found this book and it has changed our lives in so many ways. We communicate much better, verbally, physically, and emotionally. We are still in repair mode, but a long way from where we were a few years ago. I recommend this book to Everyone with relationship problems. If you take it seriously, you will reap the benefits always.
Tis There -0 points.......1999-11-18
This book is full of nothing but gender myths and sterotypes,and worst of all this writer is trying to base the behavior on the questionable and controveral gender studies,which can be deemed incoclusive at best,due to everyone's own unique and personal makeup as an individual. I read this book out of curiousity,to see how trully gender specific we as a society have become,and this is just another book trying to spew out questionable theories and present them as facts.Instead,I suggest you read books about how society polarizes the sexes culturally to behave differently in relationship.
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The Films of Gloria Swanson
Lawrence J. Quirk
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The Complete Films of Marlene Dietrich
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One of the finest FILMS OF entries.......1998-08-07
Fantastic! Hard to believe the author could find so many super-rare photos of these early Gloria Swanson films - a large number of these films are sadly lost forever - and he is obviously a Swanson partisan (Cheers - tired of reading books by jealous writers belittling their subject's accomplishments.) Swanson was famous for saying in SUNSET BLVD - "In my day, we have faces." This book shows over and over how true that statement was.
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Illustrated with black and white photographs from the Gloria Swanson film.
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Grand Sonata (Kalmus Edition)
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For guitar with violin or piano accompaniment. An advanced level piece suitable for concert performance.
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20-page sheet music composed in commemoration that Glorious Day.
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Grand Sonata, Op. 25" (Kalmus Edition)
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For violin and guitar. As recorded by Itzakh Perlman and John Williams.
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Schubert, often considered master of the piano duet form, created two classics in the F minor Fantasie and the B-flat Sonata for piano duet. These two magnificent pieces are cornerstones of the duet literature. This edition presents the recorded secondo piano part—you supply the primo part of this beautiful sonata. (Both parts are supplied in the included printed music score)
Includes complete printed music score with both primo and secondo piano parts, and a compact disc featuring the duets in minus primo format: the secondo part is recorded, and you play the primo part.
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Grand Sonata No. 1, Op. 11 (Kalmus Edition)
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This Chanterelle Paganini series for violin and guitar aims to present the composer's works in an integral and accurate edition. this composition, structured in A major, consists of 3 movements. Within the context of Paganini's guitar output, the Grand Sonata undoubtedly represents a work of major amplitude and solidity, in which formal conception, creative fancy and instrumental virtuosity achieve their highest form of expression
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A widespread misunderstanding concerning leveraged buyouts (LBOs) is the belief that they accomplish little but the ruin of companies and the loss of employment. How else could it be? Until recently, journalists, including much of the business press, have depicted LBO specialists as generally greedy, if not sinister, forces whose activities compound the dislocations of modern American economic and social life. This kind of criticism reached a crescendo in the press and in Congress at the end of the 1980s, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts found itself in the middle of the controversy. Based on interviews with partners of the firm and on unprecedented access to KKR's records, George P. Baker and George David Smith have written a definitive account of how KKR has approached LBOs in a book that will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. The authors focus on KKR's founding, evolution, and innovations as ways to understand issues in modern American business. In examining KKR as a unique form of enterprise--one that subscribes to a set of alternative perspectives on business and value creation--the book bridges the gap between public perception and academic knowledge of how financial innovation impacts economic life. The firm's approach to leveraged buyouts was an important aspect of the corporate restructuring and governance reforms in the American economy from the mid-1970s through 1990 (the years of what some have called the "leveraged buyout movement"). KKR and other companies fundamentally altered the prevailing perception of the role of debt in the modern American corporation and established an alternative model for organizing and managing corporate enterprises. KKR financed the companies it acquired with high levels of debt, while linking their ownership to management. It then imposed rigorous monitoring by the board of directors over the companies in its portfolio. This combination of factors forced managers to concentrate not on growth but rather on how to achieve value through whatever means was most appropriate to the company's circumstances. The purpose of the leveraged buyout was to realize, or "create," value in companies by reforming their management systems. KKR's approach to restructuring the relationship between owners and managers in a highly leveraged firm rested on a basic principle: Make managers owners by making them invest a significant share of their personal wealth in the enterprises they manage, and they will have stronger incentives to act in the best interests of all shareholders.
Customer Reviews:
Good primer/introduction to LBOs.......2007-03-15
If you're relatively new to the subject and want a good primer/introduction to LBOs, as well as some background history on the leveraged buyout and on KKR, this is a good read. It's reasonably quick and easy to read without being too dumbed down. I think that, among others, one group that would really benefit from reading this book are college students (or even MBA students) who are interested in eventually working in private equity but who don't currently know much about it.
As a brief summary, this book includes:
1) A discussion of the rationale for leveraged buyouts - from the standpoints of both the economics (to the buyer) and corporate governance (LBOs as one solution to the classic principal-agent problem)
2) A history of KKR and of the leveraged buyout in general. It goes back to the founding of KKR and to very early LBOs.
3) A discussion and brief analysis of a number of real world LBOs - both successful and failed. This is probably the most useful part of the book, as it gives you some feel as to the factors that can lead to a successful (or failed) LBO and helps you learn from some of the mistakes of the past.
I was interested in the subject from the perspective of an equity analyst interested in identifying potential LBO targets. The book, naturally, doesn't provide a framework for identifying LBO targets (nor did I expect it to), but it was a very good introduction/primer on the subject that, when combined with other reading and research, helped me develop my own framework for identifying potential LBO candidates.
A fine book on the LBO philosophy of KKR.......2006-08-05
The book, The New Financial Capitalists, provides the reader with more than just a cynical rant of corporate America, management, corporate finance, and corporate restructuring. It is a refreshing read in that it offers the reader with a logical understanding of the problem(s) facing corporate America and the solutions provided by KKR - i.e. the LBO - which attempt to remedy the problem(s). The book is well worth the price.
Hey, MBAs! This book is for you!.......2005-07-12
When I thought about buying this book, I was looking for several things. First, the technology of the private equity business--comprehensively discussed case studies of real buyouts, successful and failed. Second, the history of the business-I wanted to understand hidden laws and tendencies. Finally, I wanted to learn about other great players on the market.
Well, I found all the above plus much, much more. What's more, it took me just two weeks to go through the book-the language and style are light and interesting.
Finance Capitalism and Corporate Excess.......2004-05-28
KKR is a truly unique institution. Are they merchant bankers, acting as fiduciaries in behalf of their clients? Or is it accurate to derisively call KKR takeover specialists, rapacious and always on the lookout for corporate prey? It is indeed difficult to pin a generic label on what KKR is doing--it depends on which side of the political fence you are in--but what we do know is that KKR is the acknowledged leader of the leveraged buyout, a branch of private equity investing which allows investors to profit from sizeable anomalies between a company's potential value and its current value, in part through the introduction of substantial levels of debt in a company's capital structure. As Baker and Smith explains: "By employing high levels of debt...they minimized the cost of buying the equity, which they shared with the target companies' managers. Assuming that the cash flows of the acquired businesses would be more than sufficient to repay the borrowing, [KKR's] success depended on a combination of timely debt reduction and the promotion of longer-term efficiency."
"The New Financial Capitalists" is by far one of the best books dealing with KKR and LBO finance in general. Apart from providing an inside track with regard to understanding the raison d'etre behind buyouts and their critical success factors, this book has a wealth of information regarding specific transactions led by KKR, of which the $31 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco is undoubtedly the most well-known. The authors conclude that LBOs and, by extension, the existence of private equity takeover specialists such as KKR, yield long-term benefits to the economy which are far in excess of the intermediate costs such as employee dislocation and onerous debt servicing.
KKR sought to break new ground in enhancing shareholder value: it compelled investees to maintain a focused business strategy and to divest or spin off underperforming operations, and it was highly instrumental in making corporate America realize that capital is a scarce resource which must be judiciously employed. As an instrument of financial and managerial reform, KKR helped reconcile the interests of corporate managers and shareholders, by requiring senior executives to have a direct economic stake (i.e., become stockholders) in the companies they manage.
The analysis of some of KKR's failures underscores that, by using leverage as its weapon of choice, KKR is in effect a high-wire act. However, the presence of debt in the capital structure is also extolled as a disciplining force for managers who have become used to high free cash flow levels and low debt. Thus, what KKR and other LBO practitioners are in effect saying is that a company's operating and investment decisions are not completely independent of its debt-equity ratio.
This book deserves to be read because it is an absorbing study of leveraged takeovers seen through the lens of a pioneering firm.
any interest in lbos, this is your guide.......2002-12-31
KKR was the first name I heard while researching the Private Equity marketplace for a college paper. It also became the name heard mostly afterwards and rightfully so. Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis and George Roberts are obviously extremely smart and confident guys, fortunately the book exhibits moments of vulnerability; which is helpful for any financial entrepreneur. The only shortfall is that the book isn't longer. I was excited while reading some of the chapters, keep in mind that this is a finance book not the Lord of the Rings. This book is terrific. Enjoy
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