Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur

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Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur
Melanie J.; Dearmond, R. N. Mayer
Manufacturer: Swallow Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBVIQW

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Staking Her Claim: The Life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska Entrepreneur
Melanie J.; Dearmond, R. N. Mayer
Manufacturer: Swallow Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WYT2K8

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WHAT MAKES AN ATHLETE REACH BEYOND PAIN AND HEARTACHE FOR A SPORT? WHAT PRICE WILL HE PAY TO PURSUE DESTINY? GOLD! THE TODD ELDREDGE STORY IS THE EXCITING BIOGRAPHY OF CHAMPION SKATER TODD ELDREDGE, WHOSE DEDICATION THROUGH TRIUMPHS AND SORROWS WILL INSPIRE READERS TO NEVER GIVE UP ON A DREAM.

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todd is gold.......2001-11-04

MY SON HAD TO READ A BOOK ABOUT A MALE SPORTS STAR THAT HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT, WELL IT TOOK AWHILE TO FIND A MALE ATHLETE BUT MY SON LOVED THIS MOVING BOOK AND FOUND IT TO BE VERY INSPIRATIONAL AS WELL.

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The author, who served as one of the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission for several years, explains why this and other government agencies that are not set up with separation of powers in mind end up undermining the rule of law.

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Why an agency with combined powers to legislate, execute, and judge its own rules are bound to poor results.......2006-05-17

As the Federal Government has expanded its powers and interference in the private economy (for good or ill depending on your point of view), it became clear that not everything Congress was trying to do could be handled in the political process and still get done. So, they created agencies, commissions, and whatever office they felt like creating in order to do the work they did not have the political courage or efficiency to handle.

One of those creations, in 1934, was the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC). It is the contention of the author of this book, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth (FCC commissioner from 1997-2001), that it was the way the FCC was designed, with combined powers to legislate its own rules, execute them, and the judge the outcomes, that has led to the many problems over many decades that led to the attempt to reform the FCC in 1996.

He presents clear arguments for his thesis and shows how the FCC got into trouble before 1996 and how the nature of this kind of bureaucracy is to exploit ambiguities in the rules given it by Congress, end up using is power of discretion as a kind of favoritism for or discrimination against constituents for whom their stance should be neutral.

If you want to understand how government bureaucracy can lead to poor results even with the best of intentions of very good people, this is an excellent guide. If you want to see what is going on at the FCC and why the popular notions about its failures are not valid, this book makes an excellent case.

Obviously, not everyone will agree with the author, but I find his position quite persuasive given my experience with bureaucracies of all types over the years.

Tough Acts to Follow: One-Act Plays on the Gay/Lesbian Experience

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Tough Acts to Follow: One-Act Plays on the Gay/Lesbian Experience
Noreen Barnes
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Tough Acts to Follow: 75 Monologs for Teens

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Tough Acts to Follow: 75 Monologs for Teens
Shirley Ullom
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Tough Act To Follow (Harlequin American Romance, No 135)

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Tough Act To Follow (Harlequin American Romance, No 135)
Anne Henry
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Act For Health! Teaching Tough Topics And Sensitive Personal Issues: Secondary Students

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Act For Health! Teaching Tough Topics And Sensitive Personal Issues: Secondary Students

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Act for Health: Using Theater to Teach Tough Teen Topics

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Act for Health: Using Theater to Teach Tough Teen Topics
R. William Pike
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Communist Leadership. Tough Guy Takes Charge. Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws ...

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Communist Leadership. Tough Guy Takes Charge. Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws ...
Gus. Hall
Manufacturer: Washington: GPO,
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O'Dwyer & Grady Starring in Tough Act to Follow

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O'Dwyer & Grady Starring in Tough Act to Follow
Eileen Heyes
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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Binding: School & Library Binding
ASIN: 0613664655

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New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1932.

Kid actors Billy O'Dwyer and Virginia Grady are taking an intermission from the fast life in New York City, where they helped solve a murder but managed to shut down the movie studio they worked for. While living with Billy's family, they plan to put on a show for the neighborhood kids. But things don't unfold according to their script. Enter, stage right: a creepy skeleton, a missing treasure, and two squabbling would-be heirs.

When Billy and Virginia set out to locate the treasure, they find themselves center stage in a tangled family drama of rivalry and deceit. The cast of characters includes a hobo with big ambitions, a crooked cop gone straight, and a "fisherman" who hauls ashore something much more valuable than fish. They know somebody's putting on an act. What they don't know is that a repeat performance as detectives could bring down the final curtain - on themselves....

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Parnell: A play in three acts
Elsie Tough Schauffler
Manufacturer: Victor Gollancz
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089YP90

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Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too far”: “One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all.”

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Sciamachy during a total eclipse.......2004-05-19

Anyone familiar with Ronell?s name would probably not be reading this review. You either hate her or ?
But if you do not already know her work, no review is really going to help you because a true review would have to be almost as complex as Ronell?s own writing to say something meaningful, and this is not the place for such an attempt. So I?ll pass, but say only what can be said in everyday language and include the content of the book below.

Ronell is to scholarship what Bruce Lee was to (traditional) kung-fu: 2 good-lookin? people exceeding the limits of standard practice after undergoing the rigorous training of the prerequisite discipline. Bruce did not disdain hitting below the belt, biting and scratching even: the point is to win the fight if you?re in one. Avital is the same when it comes to fighting the enemy: stupidity marinating in the warm formaldehyde of ignorance. The essays collected here are from the early 80?s to late 90?s, previously published in various journals. Her references are, well, everything ? from canonic texts (Kant, Freud, Goethe, Heidegger, etc) to Headline news. The richness of her ?multi-media? work using words (sentence?collages) alone is quite something: proof that only smart people can really art (used as a verb). And to enjoy her work, you really do need to read her stuff as a ?thinking artist? yourself.

Her writing is ferocious, fast, feline, fanged; and?friendly--not. She fences with a pen. Her language moves with the jaguaresque prowess of the English language at full throttle. She confesses she is writing, out of necessity, for those who fly more-or-less at her altitude of discourse. She also explains why she (or any writer) thinks/writes the way she does: she is, as a writer, not so much a manipulator of language so much as a medium by and through which language dictates what it wishes to say (think). She says, ?A text?s gotta do what a text?s gotta do.? Like Derrida, Ronell is interested in acts of questioning that do not necessarily take recourse to discursivity. If this makes no sense, then you might want to pass on Ronell.

Freud, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Hegel, Lyotard, etc ?you?ll need to have at least a cursory familiarity with their work to know what Ronell is saying. In other words, the book is inhospitable to the average undergraduate.
But she is not out to show-off or intimidate. It?s just her way of thinking that requires this kind of language and speed. She rarely loses clarity in order to achieve some pointless cleverness the way 2nd rate academic obscurantists so often do. (Okay, so lost me on a couple of essays.) Hers is the thought of one who has experienced the fire of her material, and understands the impossibility of ?mastering? it.

Some say she represents the best of the new scholarship. Yes and no. She is neither a product of a given system nor a representative of future education. She is just a rare bird, a brilliant comet, an exceptionally intelligent and insightful scholar who also has the uncommon ability (and balls) to use her OWN language which is a mellifluous m?lang(e)uage of all styles of speech.

She is, as always, all style. And that offends a lot of people, apparently. But in her case, there is no division between style and substance ? and there is a lot of it. Such is the sweet fruit of years of intensive knuckle-bruising cultivation and practice of literary kung-fu.

By ?finitude,? Ronell means the sense of humanity as shaped and delimited by our mortality, which is to say the ethical struggles to define our fragile humanity. She speculates whether ?we have gone too far this time, as terrestrials? in the process of pushing the Western logos to its potential (but logical) extreme. The one general concern that ties all these disparate essays together is the immanent problem of the ubiquity of the police: even without their physical presence, they are everywhere with their surveillance from afar. She has some very interesting things to say about technology as the field of infinite Tests and Testing, whereby the real is by necessity deferred, waiting for ?confirmation.? And when the entire world has become a testing ground, what becomes of our ability to experience that which makes us human?

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1. Finitude?s Score
2. 2. Queens of the Night
3. Hitting the Streets: Ecce Fama
4. Street-Talk
5. The Sujet-Suppositaire: Freus, And/Or, the Obsessional Neurotic Style (Maybe)
6. Taking it Philosophically: Torquato Tasso?s Women as Theorists
7. Namely, Eckermann
8. Doing Kafka in _The Castle_: A Poetics of Desire
9. Starting from Scratch: Mastermix
10. The Worst Neighborhoods of the Real: Philosophy ? Telephone ?Contamination
11. The Walking Switchboard
12. The Differends of Man
13. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm
14. Activist Supplement: Papers on the Gulf War
15. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle

UBER HIP.......2000-10-09

Avital Ronell strikes again!! With this marvellous book of essays she forays where so few critical thinkers venture: the precise confluence between low&high-brow thinking. Smoothly switching gears from literary to street-wise to philosophical to pop-cultural registers without losing depth, force or velocity, this author encourages the kind of radical thinking that virally invests itself into consciousness, producing more of the same. The Experience of reading Ronell is not always encouraging, or "safe". There is a real-time risk taking in terms of what tracks your train of thought will switch on (the text taking nothing from you, still, being so rich you can only follow various threads of its labyrinthine deconstructions @1time). An absolute thrill.

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finally got my hands on this sucker.

An engaging look at a fascinating story.

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The First Quarter : A 25-year History of Video Games
Steven L. Kent
Manufacturer: B W D Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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The First Quarter: A 25-year History of Video Games is an insider's look at the entertainment novelty that drove the evolution of high-technology. The book was compiled from more than 500 first-hand interviews with such people as Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari), Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Donkey Kong), Toru Iwatani (designer of Pac-Man), etc.

Above all, this book provides an intimate look into the lives of a group of brilliant and quirky people, and the sometimes serious and sometimes wacky way they ran their business.

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finally got my hands on this sucker........2006-02-01

As books on gaming history goes, this one is excellent. It does an extremely good job of meshing together concise narrative with compelling quotations from industry luminaries. Mr. Kent does a good job of distilling the chaotic early days of Arcade games and the eventual boom of home video game systems. His gift is for making connections between seemingly disperate events. I have read several books that chronical the early days of Atari, but few of them provide such a rich background as to the influences on Nolan Bushnell and his band of pot smoking, hot tub soaking programmer-savants.

My only caveat is that this book has been entirely reprinted as "The Ultimate History of Video Games". So closely do these two books resemble each other that there are a number of typos that passed from one book to the newer edition.

Had I known that "The Ultimate History of Video Games" was a reprint I wouldn't have had this so high on my Wish List. My girlfriend search and searched and picked this book up for 75 bucks on ebay. The bonus for me is that it was signed by Mr. Kent...and the signature is vague enough that I can go...oh yeah...I saw him at E3. I don't mind having both this book and the reprinting in my collection and if you to are building the definitive video game history library, you should get it otherwise...I'd say track down the "Ulitimate History of Video Games" and be confident that you aren't missing out on anything in this book.

An engaging look at a fascinating story........2002-05-09

Not being able to find "The First Quarter" I emailed Mr. Kent. He told me that the book he wrote being published by Prima, "The Ultimate History of Video Games," was was a rewrite of "The First Quarter" with a little added material. (So if you're loooking for this one and can't find it there you go.) This was the most interesting book I've read in a long time. Reading the stories and history from an insider's perspective was truely fascinating. If you're a gamer I highly recommend this title.

The Best in the Field.......2001-12-11

This book is one of the most comprehensive tellings of the history of video games. The author puts you right in the middle of the discoveries and events that shaped how we view games today. I have read about a half dozen different books about video game history and this one is hands down the best written so far on the subject. So even if you are not a huge fan of games or havent picked up a controller in years, this is still the book for you!

A word from the author.......2001-10-29

I want to thank the people who were so kind in their reviews.

The First Quarter has been re-released as The Ultimate History of Video Games by Prima Publishing. This new version of the book includes an additional chapter, a time line, the oft-requested index, additional art, and above all--PROFESSIONAL EDITING.

As stated in many reviews, The First Quarter suffered from my lack of editing skills. I self-published that book. While my writing skills may be questionable, my editing abilities are indisputably bad.

Finally, I want to thank the people who bought my book and read it. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing my enthusiasm for video games.

De Facto Standard.......2001-10-17

I've been reading Steven Kent's articles in Next Generation magazine for a few years, patiently waiting for his book to come out. As soon as it was released, I purchased it and read it the next weekend. All I can say is I enjoyed the interviews, articles and historical information so much it inspired me to write a paper on the history of video game heroes for my Business Communications course! Good work!

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At last! All the tricks of the top recording engineers revealed at mixdown! With this book you'll learn: the evolution of mixing; mixing styles such as L.A. vs. New York vs. London; the six elements of a mix; rules for arrangements; and from where to build your mix. This handy book also teaches the secrets of EQ and magic frequencies; how to add effects and EQ'ing reverbs; sonic layering of effects; how to calculate delay time; and much more. Includes an expansive chapter on mixing in 5.1 Surround, plus an incredible section filled with interviews with the top engineers in the field, such as George Massenburg, Allen Sides, Bruce Swedien, and over a dozen more.

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weak sauce.......2007-06-16

This book is a very lame read. There will be a few paragraphs on a topic that just skim the surface/common sense aspects of the equipment, and then have 12 more paragraphs of different engineers agreeing with what was just said. If you want a real book that will teach you everything you might want to know about mixing and recording, get Total Recording by David Moulton (author of the Golden Ears listening training series). Total recording: The complete guide to audio production

Simple and Informative.......2007-03-09

Great book! Very concise and packed full of interviews with top engineers. Very recommended.

Mixing Engineers Handbook.......2007-02-20

This is probably the most helpful audio book that I own. There are a lot of helpful hints for mixing. It doesn't just go over one mans techniques, it discusses many common techniques used in the industry.

Just for posterity.......2007-02-18

A historical documentation of how it used to be before everything went virtual.

Mixing Engineer's Handbook.......2007-01-11

Pretty much what the title says!!! A piece of standard equipment in any home studio dreaming of delivering some work of industry quality.

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