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Howard Powerless: The Rise and Fall of the Howard Savings Bank
Paul A Luscombe
Manufacturer: Pal Publishing Company
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In December 1989, the Howard Saving Bank shocked the financial world when it reported that it expected to report a $63 million loss for 1989. Prior to the report, the bank had reported strong earnings every quarter since it went public in 1983. In 1982, the Howard Savings Bank elected a chief executive officer, Donald McCormick. Howard Powerless tells the story of the years leading up the McCormick administration.
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Awesome Book.......2000-04-29
This book has everything you would want to know about the marathon. Has wonderful pictuers that made me want to put on my shoes and run a marathon. Has background information on past races and winners. A very good book!
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Blood, Sweat and Cheers
Ian Fraser
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ASIN: 0727902466 |
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- Neat idea, great plot, horrible execution
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Blood, Sweat and Cheers
Charlotte Mijares
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ASIN: 0595098088 |
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The story of what happens outside of the ring; what the fans don’t see. It is a "not too pretty" look at the world of a sick, sadistic, man who will sink to the lowest depths to attain what he wants. This story is taken from behind the scenes of today's world of professional wrestling, this book is not for the faint of heart.
Customer Reviews:
Neat idea, great plot, horrible execution.......2000-12-06
The book's premise was fascinating to me (prolly because I'm a longtime pro wrestling fan with a huge interest in all the backstage stuff). And the book started off well too. But by page 20 the writing (specifically the dialogue) had sank to a sixth-grade level and it was growing tiresome to read page after page of poor writing. I'd like to see what someone like Dean Koontz, Stephen King, or someone else with a good level of writing talent could have done with the plot...this could have been great. But as it is, this book is sadly, medicore. Don't waste your money.
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For pure spectacle, passion and tradition, nothing in sports beats a college football rivalry and the Big Ten has some of the best. Whether it is Wisconsin and Minnesota renewing their ancient battle for Paul Bunyan s Axe, or Ohio State and Michigan scrapping for conference dominance, you will discover the history, ritual and color of some of football s oldest and greatest blood feuds.
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Blood, Sweat, and Cheers looks at the contribution of sport to the making of the Canadian nation, focusing on the gradual transition from rural sporting practices to the emphasis on contemporary team sports that accompanied the industrial and urban transition. The book also analyzes sport's pre-eminent place in our contemporary consumer-oriented culture, and the sometimes ambivalent contribution of sport to a sense of Canadian identity.
Intended as an introduction to the way in which social historians approach the history of sport, rather than as an exhaustive narrative of our sporting heritage, Colin Howell introduces readers to a number of important issues, including amateurism and professionalism, race and ethnicity, regionalism and nationalism, the impact of British and American sporting traditions upon Canadian sporting life, and the contemporary meaning of sport in a globalizing capitalist economy. He also investigates discourses about respectability and the display of the body, gender construction and sexual identities, the changing nature of the sporting marketplace over time, as well as the involvement of spectators, the media, and the state in the production of our national sporting life.
While theoretical in approach, Blood, Sweat and Cheers also looks at the accomplishments of individual athletes, including Ned Hanlan, Maurice Richard, Barbara Ann Scott, Wayne Gretzky, and Donovan Bailey, as well as major sports teams, and covers a wide array of activities from hunting, rodeo, and native sporting traditions to those associated with the Olympic Games.
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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modem Canada. (Book Reviews: Sociology).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: David Vaught
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American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 32
Issue: 3
Page: 508(2)
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Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Sandra Kirby
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Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1031 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Sandra Kirby
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Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Page: 297(3)
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Screenplaying
John Scott Lewinski
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Finally, an instructional on-line e-book for the beginning screenwriter! Take advantage of this all-purpose guide for newbie screenwriters.
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From the author..........2001-04-07
I hope this book is a valuable resource and first step for the beginning or aspiring screenwriter.
Just a brief note from the author...Due to an error in the printing stage of this first edition, the chapter on screenplay formatting underwent some misallignment. Please refer to other style guides or actual production scripts (available at many on-line stores) for optimum screenplay formatting.
Otherwise, break a leg!
John Scott Lewinski
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- Very satisfying
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Despite Everything
Aaron Cometbus
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ASIN: 0867195614 |
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Initially a showcase for underground music reviews, Cometbus has evolved to include interviews, essays, short stories, and reader forums. Covering everything from travel adventures to dumpster diving, Cometbus forms a literary soundtrack for the lives of its readers. Despite Everything contains dozens of photos, illustrations, and the best material from all 48 issues of Cometbus, one of the original punk zines. "One of the finest examples of self-publishing in the United States today.... [Cometbus] could be the best-loved zine ever." — San Francisco Bay Guardian
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Very satisfying.......2006-04-13
This book spans many years of the Berkley zine "Cometbus". If you liked Jack Kerouc's book "On the road" this will be easy to relate to. If you are often bored by a mall punk or neo punk-emo-whatever, give them this book and tell them to shut up and read it. Aaron's handwritten adventures show not only the towns and places he visits, but the people and the mood. Enjoying a freedom to go where ever he wants becouse he can live on next to no money and other people's garbage, he is still at the mercy of his doubtfulness, saddness, joy, and depression. This is a good book to leave and come back to several times. As this is a collection of his zines- it makes a great bed stand, bathroom, or back pack book.
Incredible.......2004-02-06
Even writing a review of this book seems a little strange to me. I can't imagine what Aaron would say about someone writing a review of his book in the service of a big company, but I guess this is a venue to get the word out and let people know what a great experience reading Cometbus is.
If you're a person like me who has radical beliefs and politics, but who also enjoys living a quiet, straight-laced, lifestyle; if you worry about things, and have episodes of social anxiety, and if you're a worrier in general and like to stay at home and hang out with your close group of friends and sometimes have trouble meeting new people or think people enjoy being left alone, than this book can sometimes make you feel bad about your life choices and the decisions you've made. This happens mainly b/c Aaron just went out and lived this crazy hand-to-mouth existence in the service of experiencing the world and the people in it, challenging the very existence of social norms as a concept. And that's why the book is so great. It's filled with great stories and anecdotes and is totally imbued with this sense of freedom and wonder. The world that Aaron lives in is so real and vibrant, populated by people dealing with real struggles and real issues. And Aaron is totally tapped into his own empathy and sympathy for those people. He totally loves life, and is lucky for it. And readers are lucky that he put it on paper over and over again in Cometbus.
This book, like the 'zine, is, IMO, a classic piece of American writing, and hopefully, someday, it will get more recognition. It is a document of an ethos and way of living that is still totally marginalized in our society. And Aaron challenges his readers to confront how their own lives keep them from seeing that world and experiencing it.
When Aaron was Young.......2003-12-30
I remember him selling little tiny issues of Cometbus in front of clubs he wasn't even old enough to get into, so I've been reading his stuff for many years. To say that Aaron has grown as a writer is an understatement. He such an awesome individual and his stories are especially meaningful to me because he and his contributors, in writing about their lives and the punk rock community in the bay area over time, have written about my life as well, and I couldn't have written it any better than them. His stories are poignant, funny, sad and wonderful. Get this and try and read everything else he's written!
destined to be a legend.......2003-12-20
I've lived in Berkeley the past ten years, so I sadly
arrived "too late" for its punk scene, instead hearing
the stories of my old landlord and well-known punk-scene
photographer, Larry Wolfley. I got the rave scene instead
and have my own stories.
Anyway, I saw Despite Everything on the bookshelves in
all the local bookstores, but didn't know what it was,
until a friend and coworker ** who just so happened to
be Aaron Cometbus' brother ** gave me an autographed
copy as a gift. Well, shoot, gotta read it, right?
I was completely hooked-- doubly because the in-credible
stories were actually true (you can imagine that my
friend added some "color"). You can practically feel
the trudge of the ten mile walks back to town, the
mosh pits, cops, thugs, etc. -- but you can also feel
the excitement of the time and the bands. Imagine
being there on the road with Green Day when they
were the local band... ok, it's more pot than I can
handle but you get the idea. and it's not my politics,
I'm more likely to wear a "smash capitalism" t-shirt
to a board of directors meeting, where aaron's more
of a kvetch about the commercialism type, but hey,
what's berkeley if not for bizarre political statements?
oh, and the writing is brilliant-- might of course
sound dated, but that's only because this is the
original and everybody else ripped them off.
Cometbus is a Jack Kerouac that lives up to the hype.......2003-11-17
Yeah, Jack Kerouac...over-rated, Aaron Cometbus...Check it out if you haven't. Al Burian of Burn Collector fame is good too.
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I Believe, Despite Everything: Reflections of an Ecumenist (Unitas)
J. M. R. Tillard
Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
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Title: Image isn't everything: despite national rap and a city in crisis, business offers a positive forecast.
Author: Pat Broderick
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Date: February 14, 2005
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Volume: 26
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Title: In the Black; Despite everything, Black Friday was a roaring success this year.(retail sales)
Author: Irwin M. Stelzer
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Date: November 26, 2005
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This digital document is an article from NewsInc, published by The Cole Group on February 10, 2003. The length of the article is 987 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: OUTLOOK FOR 2003: NO WAR, KICKED-UP ECONOMY, IT MAY BE OK Some publishers predict 'double-digit' growth despite everything.
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Date: February 10, 2003
Publisher: The Cole Group
Volume: 15
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on November 13, 1997. The length of the article is 630 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Pese a todo nos llevamos bien. (Joan Manuel Serrat y Víctor Manuel, cantantes españoles)(TT: Despite everything, we get along well) (TA: Joan Manuel Serrat and Víctor Manuel, signers from Spain)(Interview)
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Date: November 13, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44
Issue: n2317
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Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick have been collaborating on puzzle construction for 25 years. Each of these contemporary puzzles is filled with humor, wit, and plenty of puns. Casual solvers and serious puzzle addicts will find common ground here.
[Difficulty: Medium
Style: Contemporary]
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Learn by doing! Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source provides a comprehensive, working introduction to the most powerful Web design and development suite available. Starting from the ground up, you’ll build two Web sites. In the first half of the book, you’ll combine the strengths of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver to create an attractive, yet maintainable site. In the second half of the book, you’ll focus on building a powerful and dynamic user experience by combining Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, FlashPaper, and ColdFusion. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the projects, plus completed files for you to compare with your results and use as models for future projects.
You learn how to:
- Optimize graphics in Fireworks, balancing quality and file size
- Design in a standards-compliant, all XHTML-CSS workflow
- Insert and format text, images, and CSS layers in Dreamweaver
- Master multimedia concepts, such as timelines, libraries, and file architecture
- Create Flash animations, using frame-by-frame and tweened animation techniques
- Create functional buttons using Flash symbols and ActionScript
- Integrate video into Flash projects
- Use ColdFusion to display live database data on a Web page
- Send data in and out of Flash movies to server scripts and databases
- Leverage the power of Contribute to maintain, distribute, and control Web content and FlashPaper to create, share, distribute, and use documents in a secure, universal format
Customer Reviews:
Shows you how everything works together, but not a good place to start.......2007-04-05
This was the first book I read when I was learning Dreamweaver, and I still felt a bit lost afterwards! If you don't have prior experience with Dreamweaver, I would recommend first reading a book dedicated to just Dreamweaver. Once you are comfortable with Dreamweaver, read this book, which covers Dreamweaver plus the other components of Studio 8: Flash, Fireworks, and Contribute, and shows you how they can all work together.
Training straight from the source.......2007-03-29
524 page book also comes with a CD filled with chapter projects that you work on throughout the book. Walk-through's, explanations, photos and screen-shots are all very helpful. Book is thorough and concise as you would expect coming straight from the source. Shop around though; I bought my copy on eBay for $18.
If you have the Studio 8 software suite, you almost NEED this book! Language is NOT high tech and easy to follow.
The missing Studio 8 Manual.......2007-03-28
Another must have book from what is now Adobe Press. You can pretty much forgo the small book that shipped with S8, and or if you bought S8 through a download you wouldn't miss much. This book is what every S8 user should be budgeting for and getting as a get started and whats new. This is a great starter and refresher course material book that offers up great lessons.
Each section starts with an overview, followed by a time estimate, expected outcomes and anticipated time for the lesson. Some you may want to skip over, others covering newer material with the S8 release, you will want to get more involved with. Each lesson has associated materials in the accomanying CD so you wont have to waste time on creating items to learn with.
If you're a one person studio, you might want to have this on hand as it deals with many areas that all producers have problems with. Let's face it, a good programmer is seldom great with a graphics tool and vice versa. This book shows how to use Fireworks, Flash and integrate items (beautiful or not) with common code elements and interface with Contribute and ColdFusion.
Great for self starters and single or multi subject educational material.
Basic.......2007-03-21
Very good book. Shows all the fundamental required to create websites. Very easy to read and understand. I would recommend it to anyone starting out in web design.
Too many errors.......2007-02-16
There are tons of errors in the book. From the simple -- giving the wrong information to input -- to the inexcusable -- providing a CD with tutorials that don't have the same information as the tutorials in the book. How are we supposed to learn a program if we can't depend on the information from either source provided?
Do these books have editors and fact checkers? Assuming they do, shouldn't the priority be on getting the information in the book perfect?
Having said that, I have run into this problem before with books of this type. They try to rush them into the bookstores to get the first-mover advantage with not much regard for the accuracy of the information contained in them. In all honesty, I've seen worse examples of this than the Studio 8 book.
If you're a true beginner, I can't recommend this book because you'll never know if you're doing something wrong or if the information in the book or on the CD is wrong.
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Macromedia Director is the best-selling multimedia authoring program and the leading tool for creating interactive media for the Web, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, corporate presentations, and more. Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, the latest upgrade, now includes Intel Internet 3D Graphics Software, which means that for the first time, developers have an easy way to deliver interactive 3D content over the Web. Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio includes Director 8.5, Fireworks 4, Shockwave 8.5 Player, Shockwave MultiUser 3 Server, and more.
Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio for 3D covers the new 3D capabilities added to Director with the release of Version 8.5. This book uses the same step-by-step instructional method that has made the Director 8 Authorized book so popular and which gets the tasks done with the least amount of frustration for the reader. Whether you're a seasoned Director user looking to extend your Director movies into the third dimension or a 3D graphic artist using Director to propel your models into Shockwave and onto the Web, this book gives you practical, hands-on training from the source. The included CD-ROM holds all the files and models you'll need to work through the lessons, plus sample files you can compare with your own results.
The book consists of two tracks for the two types of people who will be using Director 3D. One track is for current Director users and Lingo programmers and covers in detail the elements of 3D programming, from vector math and creating 3D primitives through lights, shaders and textures, animation (including bones) and the creation of 3D objects using meshes. The other track is for 3D people who are not Director users, such as 3ds max (formerly known as 3D Studio Max) designers. That track gets 3D graphic artists up to speed with Director, allowing them to import a 3D file and output an interactive Shockwave movie that can be dropped onto a Web page. No Lingo programming is required for this track as it is done entirely through use of the Library Palette behaviors, all you need for many e-commerce applications.
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