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Outdated.......2007-06-25
I was really looking forward to this book. It appeared to be the ideal book designed with assignments to increase knowledge of methods of animation. Twenty years ago, this was probably a good book. Does ANYONE animate using acetate cels anymore? Does anyone want to? Maybe if I had been looking for a history of animation, I wouldn't have been as disappointed as I am.
In general, I've gotten great books from Amazon, and this book isn't their fault. It just proves that sometimes, being able to browse through the book in a real bookstore will give you a better idea of whether the book is what you're looking for. Being able to search inside the book (as is possible in this case) doesn't always give you enough of the book to really see.
I just don't understand all the 5-star reviews that don't mention any of this. Are they not drawing with computers or Wacom drawing pads? I honestly don't need to know the methods they used on Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willy. If I buy a book on printing, I'm not presented with a description of Gutenberg's press. Sigh.
EXCELLENT ANIME .......2007-01-12
Bought for my 19 year old. This book is awesome and really brings out the artist in the person drawing/sketching/using the book. You will love it too and it's suitable for most ages.
Great book for the beginning animator!.......2005-06-08
I just ordered this book. Many flash animators have recommended "The Animator's Workbook", "Cartoon Animation", "Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair (HT26)" or "The Animator's Survival Kit" in order to create flash cartoons.
I also have "Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair (HT26)". I have browsed through Richard Williams' "The Animator's Survival Kit" and that seemed too much for me to handle. I'm not an animator by trade but a wannabe. I look forward to improving my animation skills with this book! I also got this book for an excellent price!
6/14/05 - I just received my book. I will be using flash to create web based cartoons! This book is very appealing to me and doesn't intimidate me. I need a book like this because I'm not an animator by trade. You must pick this book, "Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair (HT26)" or "Cartoon Animation" if you are a beginner. All three books are excellent choices if you want to create flash cartoons! I prefer "Cartooning: Animation 1 with Preston Blair (HT26)" more than the other books.
Not bad, but there are much better options.......2005-04-11
I bought this book a while ago, but recently got my hands on Richard Williams' "The Animator's Survival Kit" and it is astonishingly stronger in every way. I just bought that one tonight actually. Skip this one and go straight to Williams' book, it is strong for beginners, and even stronger for people like myself who need something more detailed and insightful than "The Animator's Workbook." I didn't know there was more that I could learn about the basics and subtleties for a great foundation until I read "Survival Kit." Please learn from my mistake and do yourself a favor by buying that one. You'll be way ahead of the curve.
Perfect :).......2004-05-18
OK.. So this is a bit bias.. But I have the pleasure of working with Tony in my 2D animation class. He is a great teacher and his book gave me a great understanding of animation and how I can apply these concepts to 3D. This is a great book to get started with! Good for 2D and 3D artists. :)
It's more than worth the price.
I just can't wait till his new book get published!
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"A must read for anyone interested in understanding and developing assessments that can demonstrate the efficacy of their programs and services. A perfect sequel to Assessment in Student Affairs."
--Charles C. Schroeder, vice chancellor for student affairs, University of Missouri Columbia
"Upcraft and Schuh tell us when, where, how, and why we should conduct assessments differently within a wide variety of student service departments. Read and apply!"
--Gary R. Hanson, professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University
When Assessment in Student Affairs first appeared in 1996, readers found a practical context for viewing the power of assessment across the domain of student services. Since then, John H. Schuh and M. Lee Upcraft have received numerous requests for more specific guidance to assessing and communicating the value of student affairs. This manual continues the work begun in their earlier book and provides a full range of tools for conducting effective assessments.
The authors begin with an overview of the assessment process and then detail a range of methodologies, approaches, and issues--explaining how to use them and when to recruit expertise from other campus sources. Drawing from the latest practice and a wealth of case studies, they discuss:
- Qualitative assessment, including how to conduct focus groups
- Quantitative assessment, including how to select and design instruments
- Data collection and analysis, including mailed questionnaires, telephone surveys, and Web-based surveys
- Assessing diverse needs, satisfaction, outcomes, environments, cost effectiveness, and accreditation
- Specialized assessment studies, including how to review dropouts, graduates, academic success, and group educational programs
- Select programs in student services, including first-year programs, recreation programs, financial aid, admissions, residence halls, college unions, health services, career services, counseling services, judicial affairs, and Greek life
- Organizational and ethical approaches to assessment
To read the first chapter from this book, please click here.
Customer Reviews:
Great condition, great service.......2006-08-07
Everything I expected and fast delivery. I would definitely order again.
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Assessment Practice in Student Affairs: An Applications Manual. : An article from: Journal of Higher Education
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Title: Assessment Practice in Student Affairs: An Applications Manual.
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Whether you're lying around outside on a lazy summer day or shut inside in any season because of the rain, you'll love the endlessly diverting mazes, mind-expanding mystical tricks, time-wasting treasure hunts, stupefying rain twisters and tomfoolery, zany zoetropes and feckless flipbooks, and pointless yet unforgettable trivia that fill the problematic and puzzling pages of The Simpsons Untra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book.
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Wow........2000-11-20
This was a great book packed with fun stuff for simspsons fans!
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The Irish American Pub Quiz
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A review by an Irishman.......2000-06-23
This is exactly the book your looking for if you are trying to put a section called Irish America in your Pub quiz / Trivia night.
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On the first anniversary of her death, a deliciously far-ranging conversation about the movies and more with the most influential film critic of our time-Pauline Kael. Who else but Pauline Kael would have said: "It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin." On September 3, 2001, the movies and those who love them lost one of their greatest friends-a friend who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer and didn't shrink from taking to task any film, director, or actor she thought deserved a taste of her famously acerbic wit. Kael's insight, spirit, and straight-shooting won her singular respect in both movie and literary circles, as well as a passionate following for her New Yorker columns and her inimitably titled books such as I Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Shortly before her death, Kael sat down with Francis Davis for a series of conversations about her life and work-and, of course, the movies. Among many, many things she talks here of her early days as a critic, her career at the New Yorker, the directors she knew (for better or worse), her disappointment with recent cinema, and her renewed interest in television. It's funny, it's controversial, it's right-on-the-mark-and time and again you realize that no could would have dared to say that, in just that way, except Pauline Kael.
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Kael was great, but biased against European film.......2004-05-10
A few short comments about Pauline Kael's movie criticism.
Like most people who are serious about film, I, too, believe Pauline Kael was a brilliant and irrreplaceable critic -- but this does not mean that she didn't have her flaws. Kael was a superb critic in any number of ways. She was outstanding in her ability to write about screen acting, today one of the most neglected areas of film criticism. (Stanley Kauffmann writes better about acting than anybody else around; but then, he is the best serious film critic writing today.) Kael was superb at detecting new and important talent, at understanding the ways in which movies reflect and interact with cultural currents, at conveying her ardor and passion for directors and actors, at the potentiality of film for exploring human sexuality. She was also simply a hell of a good writer, and the depth of her knowledge of film, books, theatre, dance, etc., all played importantly in making her a great critic.
But Kael was not perfect. Some of her reviews simply run on long after she has made her point; and although I love the hyperbole of her writing, sometimes it seems hyperbole for hyperbole's sake.
Also, and I think this was her chief flaw as a critic, she displayed a bias against certain non-English-language directors and their work. In this regard, the brilliant Penelope Gilliatt was Kael's superior. Gilliatt was a brilliant film critic (part of the great team of Ken Tynan and Gilliatt at the Observer [London] before she moved to The New Yorker), a dazzlingly talented writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, television and radio plays, and profiles; she was also an opera librettist and writer of nonfiction (her books on movie comedy and on Tati and Renoir are invaluable), theatre criticism, book reviews, and essays. (Her IQ was higher than Einstein's!)
Gilliatt had a far deeper understanding of that elusive element in the arts -- style. Her criticism is vastly better than Kael's on films from Europe (she was notoriously better at writing about films from Eastern Europe), Asia (Ozu, for a supreme example), about science fiction (Gilliatt was the "only" major critic to stand up for 2001), about directiors experimenting with stylistic devices (Fassbinder, for another supreme example), and simply had a wider view regarding the possibilities of film as an art form. Gilliatt also was better at writing about the films of Godard (though, Kael, too championed his work of the 60s, Gilliatt's criticism today stands higher), Bresson, Bergman, Fellini, and many, many more foreign-language directors.
Of course, no critic is perfect. Even Agee had a severe flaw --he couldn't write worth a damn about acting, and often contradicted himself. So, Kael, in perspective, was a great, if deeply imperfect critic -- and god knows I miss her writing terribly. Denby and Lane, compared with Gilliatt and Kael, are but pale comparisons to The New Yorker's once great women thinkers -- Gilliatt (whose talents were panoramic) and Kael, who could make your pulse race with excitement.
Kael never lost her edge.......2004-01-30
Afterglow gives Pauline Kael fans a chance to hear her opinions on the big films that were released after she stopped reviewing them. You miss her great long prose in an interview like this, but you still get the insight in little capsules.
Most surprisingly is her love of the television show, Sex and the City. She makes a good point about how TV shows filmed in New York like Law and Order and Sex and the City have better actors and guest stars because they can easily get them from New York theatre.
There's a funny moment in the story where the author tries to convince Kael to watch the independent movie CROUPIER. He can't admit that he has already seen it, because Kael wouldn't hear of him watching it twice, she herself being famous for watching a movie just once. Kael does later admit that she has seen just a few movies twice but it's rare.
Like always, Kael's movie taste surprises you. She's always been good at pointing out the flaws of movies that you like, and sometimes forgiving of movies that you didn't get. Here she sums her thoughts up with a sentence or two. The book acts as a nice epilogue to an enjoyable career.
A Short, Fascinating Glimpse at the Queen of Film Critics.......2003-10-10
In September, 2001, film critic Pauline Kael passed away. She had written and spoken with sometimes brutal honesty on actors, directors, and all types of movies. Kael didn't really care who she offended or upset. It's not like she tried to offend or upset, she just called them as she saw them. She unflinchingly says of Stanley Kubrick's `Eyes Wide Shut,' "It was ludicrous from the word go." She calls Spielberg "uninteresting" and melodramatic.
But she also handed out glorious praise when it was due, especially when other critics were ignoring good films and performances. She states that "Paul Mazursky hasn't been given his due," and that actresses such as Debra Winger have been wrongfully overlooked. Kael mentions several wonderful films that have all but fallen into obscurity, all because most critics are afraid to take a stand and swim upstream against the tide of their colleagues.
If the book concerned film criticism only, it would be worth purchasing. But interviewer Francis Davis also asks Kael to address writing, her days at The New Yorker, television, and the reason why so many awful films are made these days. `Afterglow' is a fascinating look into the thoughts of Pauline Kael, but it's far, far too short at 126 pages.
An absorbingly written memory of wit, wisdom, and wonder.......2002-11-14
Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael by Francis Davis (Contributing Editor of Atlantic Monthly magazine) is an absorbingly written memory of the wit, wisdom, and wonder of a truly great actress, and the memorable chat she had with author Francis Davis shortly before her unfortunate death. Written in question-and-answer format, Afterglow preserves this remarkable woman's keen insights on movies, television, literature and much, much more in her own words.
She was one of the finest American writers..........2002-10-05
This little book is well worth the read. Pauline Kael is not someone you feel lightly about - you either love her or hate her (there's a website called die-critics-die that gets my blood boiling...). I adore Kael; she is quite simply my favourite writer, and the wonder of her interviews (there's another book containing a whole pile) is that she wrote how she spoke, so a conversation with her is like discovering a new review. Sure enough you get to find out which recent movies she likes ("Three Kings"), but the book is intellectual and moving as well. Few writers ever fused analytic thought with passion the way Kael managed - reading her made you more fully human, made you expand.
This book, slight as it is, gives fresh insight into her writing methods, her tastes, and her wit. It's not as flowing as it might be; Davis's questions seem sometimes to be deliberately elaborate for the unknowing reader (like the explanation about Richard Stark). This is a problem because the fun of Kael is a sharp and fast mind, so a conversation should be a break-neck brain tease among other things. Still, Davis's introduction is wonderful, and he's a fine writer (one I'll look up now I know about him). If you're a Kael fan, read this soon. If you don't know who she is, she's the most important commentator on the popular arts there's been. And she's great, great fun.
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A Voice Reborn
Kyra Vayne
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Vayne was born in Petrograd in 1916. After an early career has an opera singer working with Gigli, Gobbi and Janet Baker, she was forgotten but emerged triumphant to sing at the Bolshoi in her 80s.
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How to win when playing darts.
Customer Reviews:
Beginner Text.......2004-12-30
As an intermediate player I learned little from reading this book. However, I passed it to a beginning player and he learned alot from this publication.
Book Description
A timely follow-up to What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World
Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But ever wonder who's pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World spells out exactly who to watch and what they've done (and are still doing).
Get the lowdown on:
* Pfizer
* Halliburton
* Monsanto
* Oprah Winfrey
* WTO & IMF
* Wal-Mart
* Rupert Murdoch
* Al Qaeda
Filled with hard facts, global issues, and profiles of the heavy hitters, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World is essential reading for all Americans who want a handle on the movers and shakers behind the headlines.
Customer Reviews:
"the have and the have mores..".......2007-08-11
While Melissa Rossi does an excellent job of introducing several intriguing arguments about the nations ruling class, the book seems a bit shallow. Are we really surprised to find that elected officials are corrupt? It was if Ms. Rossi had an axe to grind. As a right leaning Democrat, I was secretly pleased that in her eyes the Democratic Party seemed so pristine; however, I'm no fool. I hardly think the Democrats have grasped the moral high ground; which is why I'm surprised that there is very little dirt on the Democrats in this book. Although What Every American... lacks depth, it was a worthy purchase. This probably won't be the best book you've ever read but it is intriguing.
Informative.......2007-08-03
This book has a lot of truth in it and does, in my opinion, correctly identify some of the organizations which do have a big part in running the world, the Council on Foreign Relations and Walmart for example. However, I disagree with the constant bashing of the Bushes, the Right and the Christian Right. It seems to me that over the last 50 or 60 years the USA has as a society moved considerably in the liberal direction so I am not too sure that the Christian Right has wielded a strong power. Furthermore, I do not believe those of us who have a real concern about the power and intentions of China deserve ridicule. Neocons (I assume this means New Conservatives) are attacked throughout the book. Bush is accused of using the threat of North Korea with Nuclear missile capability as a reason to build the National Missile Defense System. I seriously doubt that Bush was the first president in history to use such tactics. Overall, the book was interesting to read and I believe quite informative.
Insightful but one sided.......2007-08-02
The author provides some truly amazing information on who controls much of the world. Unfortunately she argues that all the bad guys are right wingers as she never accuses the left in any of her expose. Therefore her credibility is questionable in my opinion.
Should be titled - Political Economy for dummies.......2007-07-17
I like the idea behind this book, but it's just too light on the facts.
If you read the paper or blogs or listen to Air America, you know most of the stuff in here. It reads more like the summary of a hundred political thrillers than a factual book that could help you to a deeper understanding of how the elite manipulate politics and the economy.
The author gets an A for effort, but a C- on execution. A fine introduction for people who don't know much about who's running things but would like to know more. For those who are aware of these kinds of things already save your money, or buy it for your relative who watches Fox news and thinks their learning something.
good for random reading.......2007-02-07
I like to have it around the house for the short breaks that I have in my busy day. There are a lot of interesting points in the book. definitely makes one wonder what is really going on in our world and who is behind it. Warning: this book can upset some people. If you are a Bush follower, you might not want to read this! I hate Bush so I found it rather interesting.
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A guide to the politicos, money men, lobbyists, and deal makers who really run America
What foreign country has the power to send America crashing into a recession? Why is the USA still dangerously dependent on oil, when viable energy alternatives have existed for decades? Who made the call that we should return to nuclear energy—and then took a high-paying position with a nuclear company? Which youth group was a spawning ground for many contemporary power mongers? What lobbyists and special-interest groups are running the show on Capitol Hill—and exactly what tools of persuasion are they using?
Melissa Rossi answers these questions and more in this timely and topical guide to who's pulling the strings behind the scenes of American politics. This latest edition of Rossi's popular What Every American Should Know. . . series puts the spotlight on our own backyard, covering topics like:
• Which groups ensure that Americans pay more for drugs than any other nation
• How our immigration laws are damaging the U.S. economy
• Who's telling the school boards what your child will learn
• Who really benefits from U.S. foreign policy
• How corporations and government agencies are spying on us
• Why we should avoid electronic voting
• Who killed the electric car and who exposed it
Organized by topic for easy reference, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America shows Americans what is going on behind the scenes and how they can counterbalance the influence of a small, powerful elite to put the power back where it should be—in the hands of the people.
Customer Reviews:
Better Title: How Republicans Are Screwing Up America.......2007-08-09
I'm not a conspiracy freak, but i expected this book to delve into the forces that are behind the scenes, working against America's historical interests. What you get here is a somewhat amateurish indictment of both political parties with a not too well hidden anti-Republican slant. If you are looking for anti-Republican propaganda, there is an abundance of better choices. Do yourself a favor, breeze through this at the bookstore while you have a cup of coffee. You'll learn, as I did, that this book does not deliver on its title.
Great book.....great tools to go and learn for yourself.......2007-07-14
I do not know this author's background, since this is the first book of her's that I have read. I always thought something was wrong with our government but hadn't spent the time to learn much about it. Very insightful read.....but please use it as a tool to go and learn about the issues on your own. She gives great websites to check out so you can create your own informed opinion. Think for yourself and happy reading!
Heavy on ad hominem attacks, light on evidence.......2007-07-11
There is a disturbing trend -- on both the left and right -- of books that simply scream, rant, and peddle conspiracy theories. These paranoid books offer up a simplistic "scapegoat" to blame for all the World's problems. And sadly, the rhetoric is not matched with any evidence or research. Think Ann Coulter & Sean Hannity on the right, and Michael Moore and Al Franken on the left.
Rossi's book is one of those. If you already believe all the world's problems are caused by a grand underground conservative conspiracy -- and do not require any actual evidence -- this book is for you. If you seek more than assertions, but actual *evidence*, then this book is not helpful.
Rossi briskly moves from subject to subject, with each short section limited to substanceless assertions. Her tactic is to list a conservative theory, and then ridicule it as "silly" "ridiculous" "ludicrous" or "implausible." These assertions are followed with no argument, no data, no evidence, and no footnotes (footnotes are reserved only for background information). Instead, she simply says "everybody knows" conservative ideas on the environment, economics, immigration, and geopolitics are wrong. And on a personal level, conservatives are purposely destroying America, and are too stupid to understand economics or work in think tanks (what a classy book). Again, this is substanceless and sloppy writing.
I'd add that the book is poorly researched, but honestly, It does not seem researched at all. Her criticisms of conservative organizations and individuals (for whom mere political participation is portrayed as scandalous) do not cite the actual people/organizations themselves, but rather, cite some other liberal organization's critique. In other words, she relies exclusively on (very biased) secondary sources for her information. That is not a trait of a serious book.
It is interesting that Rossi relentlessly attacks conservatives' academic and intellectual credentials. For the life of me, I cannot find what academic credentials Rossi brings to economic, foreign, environmental and immigration policy. She's a travel journalist, not an economist or political scientist. Her lack of substance conveys the impression she is in well over her public policy head.
In short, this book is another in the line of partisan hit pieces -- high on namecalling, light on evidence. Liberals seeking a brisk reiteration of their conventional wisdom may get some innocent laughs (while hopefully acknowleging the book's lack of research and evidence). Anyone else seeking an intelligent, articulate, fact-filled explanation of liberal public policy should look elsewhere (such as Matt Miller's "The 2 Percent Solution").
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- The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers & the Politics of Modernism (New Modernisms Series)
- The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: First Edition
- The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
- The Book of Proverbs and Sayings : Cartoon of Everyday American Language
- The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television
- The Cloisters Cross Its Art and Meaning
- The Collage Handbook
- The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity
- The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook
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