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From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs.
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Masculist review.......2007-05-22
I am pretending this book was written by a man. That's why I gave it three stars, which doesn't include the extra star or two women writers of non-fiction usually automatically get.
Depending on the author, reading their book can make the reader feel like he (the reader..that's right, HE) is being intelectually stimulated, while at the same time getting muddle-headed and confused. That is definitely the case with Sexual Personae. Oh well, I guess it's just me, but I like to have the material presented in a more organized manner. (maybe organized books are usually written by men, you know, the linear thinkers who always leave the toilet seat up).
But still, I found the book to be informative, at many levels - historically, artisically, philosophically..maybe not that great a source on psychology though. Paglia seems to take a gynocentric (woman-centered) view of men's psychology, like when she says that the reason men create is because of some issue they have with their mothers. (Testosterone's a driving force..what's the problem? No need to psychologize). Oh well, at least she comes out against man-bashing, and hateful feminist ideologues. In fact, those are the best parts of the book, where she speaks against these. Feminists hate her so much, they have sent her bomb threats (that must be their way of obtaining "equality").
I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes Harold Bloom. Paglia's writing style seems to me at least, to be somewhat similar to his (I never said men can't write disorganized books!).
Stunning.......2007-04-16
The pages of this book crackle with brilliance, audacity, egomania, exaggeration, wit, half-truths, whole truths, breath taking insights, razor sharp criticisms, etc. It is as much about the titannic intellect of Paglia as it is about art. Her feminism, deeply rooted in biology and nature, rather than absurdly elitist women's studies departments, is all you need to know about feminism that really matters. An amazing book.
The Attack of the 50 Foot Lesbian.......2007-02-17
Paglia is a hard read. She is everything you love to hate and as a practicing lesbian she stands out in the field of feminists railing against their vulnerabilities. Personally, I thought the interview she gave Playboy years ago was much much more telling.
She is 'absolutely miiltant' about much of her stand against various aspects of the Feminist platform of ideals. She supports the belief that strippers have ultimate power over hapless males, and that prostitutes enjoy their work. She maintains that the more a woman takes off her clothes, the more powerful she becomes, and that the bulk of oppression against 'erotic dancers' comes from the suit and briefcase class of rising woman stars who are repulsed by the realization that a woman with animal instincts finely honed can with no college training at all make as much money on a hopping weekend in a strip club as they with their pedigrees make all week in an office.
It is not a book for the weak of senses nor the uneducated. Camille Paglia is a professor of humanities and profess she does! She is a 'take no prisoners' crusader. Her book is her battle plan.
An Erotics of Art.......2007-02-02
Way back when Susan Sontag was still an important critic, she said, "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." Well, here it is.
The basic thesis of this book is simple, though its consequences are far-ranging. She maintains that aesthetic principles are rooted in the artist's perception of and ideas about nature, sex, and women, (which are inextricable because, as she says, "sex is a subset of nature," and women have always been identified as a kind of avatar of nature). Men are nature's exiles and subjects, and therefore have had to create science and art as protections against it. But art also serves as an important link to nature; much of it serves in a religious capacity. She maintains that the Pagan cults of earth-worship were not exterminated by Judeo-Christian monotheism, but were rather transmuted into aesthetics. This pagan strain in art is what she traces, from classical antiquity in Greece and Rome to its rebirth amid Christianity's domain in the Renaissance, and again in the so-called Age of Reason, where we know it as Romanticism. Paglia believes we are still in the Romantic age (and not the Postmodern), though we know it mainly in popular culture, especially Hollywood films and rock music. (Movie stars are frequently referenced, and she notoriously compares Lord Byron to Elvis Presley.) She also convincingly demonstrated that some of the most revered works of art are chock full of perversity, a fact to which we remain blind, even in our sophisticated, cynical age. Moralism, both conservative and liberal, is not only a constraining influence on the arts, but causes us to misunderstand them.
Needless to say, these ideas are not popular in the academic world. The brilliant first chapter is called "Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art" and it overturns the bulk of modernist and postmodern ideas about each of those.
What I love about Paglia is that she does not process art in a purely intellectual way, which is a temptation (or deficiency) for the critic, and would be suicide for an artist. She is keenly attuned to the spiritual aspect of art, and can articulate the experience of it with a lucidity that is frequently awesome. Paglia reasserts the primacy of aesthetics in an academic milieu which understands nothing except through ideology (called, in academe, "theory"). She also combines both Romantic and Classic sensibilities. She is clearly sympathetic to Romanticism, but much of Sexual Personae details the ways in which the Romantic desire for infinite freedom is inevitably thwarted by the reality of nature.
Paglia's criticism is at her best here in her chapter on Emily Dickenson, whom she calls "Madame de Sade", and who seems to have been misunderstood even by her admirers for over a hundred years. This is the book's final chapter, and it is so incisive and revelatory that it makes "deconstructive" criticism look like bloated, impotent sophistry.
Over the top..........2007-01-01
and largely wrong-headed, yet worth reading. Now that this book has been around for almost 20 years, it is possible to assess it. In my humble opinion, it mistaken in most of its arguments, but a lot of fun to read. Remember folks, "the duty of the critic is not to be right or wrong, but rather, interesting." Buy a used copy and live it up.
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Great Book Available for low price at real listing page.......2007-09-07
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This book was a bestseller, yet there are no other reviews here!
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May this seller have all the success he deserves!
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Photographer.......2007-08-14
The best "how-to" book I have ever read. Rohn does not miss a detail and hands out consistently useful advice.
Excellent for the new photographer!.......2007-07-30
I am new to photography and I want to make money. This book is filled with a wealth of information. I highly recommend it!
Stock mentality.......2007-07-24
I was about to forray into stock photography when I borrowed this book. After a couple of hours I decided to preserve my sensibility and returned the book. The only reason why this book got a three star instead of a 1 is that it made me realise how stupid the whole idea of getting into stock was, perhaps more strongly than is actually warranted by the genre of stock photography. This book starts of with a boisterous principle with the authors name. Such simplified ideas are good but they should be served simply; not in the form of some corny equation. For me, it indicates the shallowness of the author which is again amply proved but the innumerable unimaginative photos which were critiqued and made to look like they were compositional masterpieces. Well if you did not really know that background, theme etc make a good photo then by all means dig it but if you have even an inch of respect for your creativity and sensibility then just run. Having said that, if you are really keen on selling photos this way no matter what, then this might be a good book for you especially with all the information on how to get tax benefits from your business of stock photography; I am pretty sure though that if you dig this book and can be with it till the end then tax and accounting should be your forte and you won't really need much of the information in the book.
Sell & Resell Your Photos-The Ultimate Photographers Bible.......2007-01-10
I received this book 3 months ago, and it never leaves my side. As a budding would-be professional photographer,I learned more about the Photography business than I ever imagined. Just what I was looking for in the first place. eg: What photos sell,and what Photo buyers are looking for - Surprise! Surprise. How to get started professionally - a real eye-opener. Resources to search out etc. Excellent!
My only criticism - I am left with all these questions that need answers and maybe that was the idea, so that me, the reader, will reach out for more information and spur me on to find more keys to moving forward. Please write another book Ronn Engh
Blinded by pre-conceived notions?.......2006-01-11
Engh has, apparently, made a good living in the field of "environmental portrature" -- people in their own natural surroundings. Unfortunately, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; and it seems that Engh's advice is for his readers is that their only chance lies in adopting the exact same approach.
In Engh's view, there is only one type of photo sure to sell: one which shows, in front of an appropriate and uncluttered background, a person involved with a symbol of the subject matter in question. He even reduces it to a formula of "Photograph = Background + Person + Symbol + Involvement." Anything else, according to Engh, is merely a "pretty scene" with little or no commercial potential.
Now, that may or may not be the case. However, I can't help but notice a glaring discrepancy in Engh's book. Just after enumerating his "P = B + P + S + I" formula, he gives a case study of "John," who goes through the book's recommended program of determining one's areas of marketable photographic interest. At the top of "John"'s list is gardening, and Engh notes approvingly that there is a highly-profitable market in stock photos for gardening magazines and books. After reading this, I decided to research some of these gardening publications. What did I find? That the vast majority of photos in these publications were of flowers, plants, and scenics -- the very subjects that Engh advises his readers to avoid! Furthermore, no matter how many such publications I checked, I failed to find even a single photograph fitting Engh's "Background + Person + Symbol + Involvement" formula. Given this, I can't help but suspect that Engh's approach might be a little too dogmatic.
Finally, I would note that, although this edition of the book is barely three years old, it is already quite dated in terms of technology. Engh is (was?) dismissive of digital photography, asserting that photo buyers will only consider submissions shot on film. Hence, any coverage of digital is restricted to providing quick previews of film-based work, and much time is spent discussing concerns such as the filing, packaging, and labeling of transparencies. Judging from the most recent Photographer's Market, this film-only approach is no longer the standard with publications, and Engh may wish to further revise his work with digital photographers in mind. But perhaps not. Somehow, I would suspect that an approach as rigid as Engh's when it comes to subject matter may well extend to not being able to see any other methods of doing business, either.
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Di Gi Charat has inspired a TV series, CDs, and videos. In this episode, when they're not scheming for fame, or demanding everyone call them by their stage names, or arranging each other's demise, Digiko and her rival Usada work at the local Gamers store. Meanwhile, Digiko's plans to become a teen idol on planet Earth go awry when she's faced with a pair of obsessed, overweight boys.
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Hooray for Di Gi Charat!.......2004-01-31
Another Di Gi Charat masterpiece. Join Dejiko and her friends from a whole other world on crazy adventures when they crash land on Earth. Dejiko soon finds herself working as mascot for Gamers, an anime store, where she soon finds competition and a new rival. Can Dejiko cope with her new situation and her rival's plot to out do Dejiko?
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Shameful!.......2004-11-17
Released in 1993, this book is a written collection of some of the most shameful, outrageous, and often hilarious happenings in the sport of golf.
From an escaped circus lion who made himself at home on a Bahamas' golf course, to a caddie who lost his golfer's clubs while searching for a lost ball, to a crane operator who conned his way into the qualifying competition for the 1976 British Open, this book will show you the bad, worse, and worst that golf has offered over the years.
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When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity--national, political, personal, and sexual--music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a curious oversight given its importance to German culture and nation formation. Caryl Flinn's study reverses this trend, identifying styles of historical remembrance in which music participates. Flinn concentrates on those styles that urge listeners to interact with difference--including that embodied in Germany's difficult history--rather than to "master" or "get past" it.
Flinn breaks new ground by considering contemporary reception frameworks of the New German Cinema, a generation after its end. She discusses transnational, cultural, and historical contexts as well as the sexual, ethnic, national, and historical diversity of audiences. Through detailed case studies, she shows how music helps filmgoers engage with a range of historical subjects and experiences. Each chapter of The New German Cinema examines a particular stylistic strategy, assessing music's role in each. The study also examines queer strategies like kitsch and camp and explores the movement's charged construction of human bodies on which issues of ruination, survival, memory, and pleasure are played out.
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You Wrote My Life explores country lyrics through perceptive essays by leading historians, sociologists and observers of American culture. Essayists including Charles Reagan Wilson, James C. Cobb and Ruth Banes consider the country music audience and many of the social issues featured in the songs by looking deeply into our culture, these commentators reveal the heart and soul of America's favorite popular music.
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Customs, traditions and activities of daily life in ancient Mexico — revealed in 41 authentically detailed drawings. Dramatic scenes of mysterious religious rites, warriors in battle, depictions of Mayan sculptors at work, astronomers taking sightings, an Aztec wedding, panoramic views of cities, much more. Descriptive captions.
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WONDERFUL LEARNING TOOL AND SIMPLY FUN TO COLOR!.......2007-09-15
I like coloring books. Being an old man, this may sound strange, but I have found that good coloring books, ones that encompasses learning along with skills and amusement, are a rather valuable tools. I did look at the inside of this particular book and indeed, colored some of the pictures along with the grandsons. I love coloring books that address natural subjects and/or historical subjects. This work, by John Green, is a collection of very well done drawings taken from and about the Olmec Civilization, Maya, Toltec, Zapotecs, Oaxaca and Aztec Cultures. There is a great text with each picture. The drawings are quite detailed in nature and rather pretty when finished. This is not a coloring book for the wee ones, rather one that that older children will enjoy and be very able to do a good job on. I would suggest colored pencils be used rather than crayons as the details of the pictures call for some very small work. I find this one to be quite useful when teaching lessons on these cultures...they add some visual references for the young student. Now I certainly do not claim to be an expert in this field, but, on the other hand, I do know just a bit about it, and as far as I can tell the drawings are quite accurate in thier detail and the text certainly is. Room is left for the young girl or boy to use their imaginations as to the colors to be used, but I find a bit of adult guidance is most helpful. Recommend this one highly. It is a great learning expierence and simply fun to accomplish. Nice job here Mr Green.
life in ancient mexico coloring book.......2004-04-24
I could see the inside of the book so I cant tell how the book is
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When it was first published in 1995, Mel Silberman's 101 Ways to Make Training Active became an instant bestseller. Now this revised and updated second edition offers the same dynamic approach and several completely new case examples. The examples support each exercise and highlight real-time uses of the highly successful Active Training method. In addition, the book includes 200 training tips that form the nuts-and-bolts of successful active training. These tips incorporated in the book's top ten lists show how to build quality, activity, variety, and direction into your training programs.
For the first time 101 Ways to Make Training Active features a CD-ROM containing all the original "Top Ten Trainers Tips and Techniques" lists for easy reproduction and distribution.
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Cute short kick off games for a meeting.......2007-06-13
See above....some are very good...most are to fill up the book
A good guide for most trainers.......2007-01-23
I found this book to be a useful reference for me in terms of adding some activities to the training routines that I regularly deliver.
The author is obviously a very experienced trainer and I have been able to easily take some of the techniques and integrate them immediately.
Some of the information is really only suitable to certain training environments within certain disciplines and I have had to avoid them as I find them a bit questionable from a credibility point of view. Some also do have the effect of forcing people who do not like interacting to be interactive. (Always an uncomfortable thing to watch)
All in all this is a good book and I would recommend it for people who are beginning in training as well as for those who are looking for a few areas that they can use to revitalise their older training routines.
Increase Learning - Train Actively!.......2005-12-14
As a professional trainer and coach I know my subjects well. That's my problem! It's too easy to stand up and lecture. The trick is to involve participants in meaningful ways. "101 Ways to Make Training Active" is just the ticket.
Silberman begins with 20 "top 10" lists of training tips. For example, "Ten assignments to give learning partners" and "Ten suggestions for activating a lecture" and "Ten options for role playing", etc. Each of the 200 tips are written in brief bullet-point style that stimulates creativity. Every list gave me ideas of how to improve my training - and that's the point!
The bulk of the book, 244 additional pages, are 101 ways to make training active. The activities are grouped together into 15 sections according the flow of a training program: How to Get Active Participation from the Start, How to Teach Information, Skills, and Attitudes Actively, and How to Make Training Unforgettable.
I love these ideas! These are some of my favorite.
Actively engage participants early on by handing out a "quiz" on the training topic. Have them work individually then compare answers with others. This allows participants to share information, build team work, and engage in the topic. Another idea with similar objectives is "Go to Your Post". Place 3 or 4 dichotomous choices around the room and ask participants to go the the post they most relate with. Groups at each post discuss why they relate to that choice, or characteristics of that choice, or how to use that choice, etc. Groups report back to the main group with their learning.
Do you have a lot of information to get across? Try lecture Bingo. Randomly arrange your main speaking points on a 3 x 3 grid, or Bingo card. As you speak, listeners take notes and mark the speaking points until they get a Bingo (3 marked squares in a row). Acknowledge the Bingo and keep going allowing others to Bingo using your speaking points. Sounds chaotic, but it's fun!
As a coach trainer, skill development is the main focus of my courses. Silberman includes some excellent variations on role plays and skill practice. "Show, But NOT Tell" is when the training demonstrates a skill before explaining it. Participants are asked to observe and then explain what the trainer did. Another non-threatening activity places the trainer in the key role and involves the group in providing responses along the way. For example, in a coaching role play, the trainer stops and asks the group, "What question might I ask next?"
Reviewing learning through the use of memorable methods will further increase the impact of learning. Fun, creative, and above all memorable methods of reviewing learning include Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire game show reviews. Silverman gives instructions make either activity easy to create and to lead.
I've seen a lot of books on training games or activities. Most has a couple of "winners" but this one just doesn't quit. Buy it, use it, and watch participation, learning, and your course evaluations improve!
Must Have!.......2005-08-23
This is the best collection of games, activities, tips and ideas ever. Very useful and applicable to many situations. If I could have only one training book, this would be the one. This would be a great asset to any training library and a great gift for anyone in the training field, especially a new trainer.
The Best Guide To Active Participation Teaching.......2005-06-18
The standard old lecture followed by test has been around for a few thousand years. And it's probably still the most common training method used anywhere in the world.
But the technology has really moved on. Active participation on the part of the students has been proven over and over to result in both greater understanding and retention.
Ten years ago when the first edition of this book came out it clarified how to create an active learning environment And Dr. Silberman has finally revised his ten year old classic. It's updated, and now includes a CD with some 200 hints and tips covering everything from how to organize a classroom to forming groups that will work together on a project.
We can only wish that the teachers for our children could use some of these techniques and make the public school system less of a tiresome chore. No, that's not totally true, we can also wish that the teachers of the next training class that we take will have read this book.
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