Taxation, reimbursement : agreement between the United States of America and the International Telecommunication Union, signed at Geneva January 19, 1990 (SuDoc S 9.10:11710)

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Taxation, reimbursement : agreement between the United States of America and the International Telecommunication Union, signed at Geneva January 19, 1990 (SuDoc S 9.10:11710)
U.S. State Department
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Flash Gordon : Volume 2 : Dailies 1940-1942
Asutin Briggs
Manufacturer: Kitchen Sink Press
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`Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a `Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting.' The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency. Both celebration and critique, The Diary of a Nobody has often been imitated, but never bettered. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and is complemented by an enjoyable introduction discussing the book's social background and suburban fiction as a genre.

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I don't often make jokes..........2007-07-16

I first heard of George Grossmith from the movie "Topsy Turvy." He created most of the comic baritone roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, such as Ko-Ko in "Mikado" Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore, Sir Joseph in "HMS Pinafore" and Jack Point in "Yeomen of the Guard." Aside from the Savoy Operas, his biggest contribution to entertainment was the book "Diary of a Nobody."

Written from the standpoint of Charles Pooter, "Diary" follows the lead character's adventures in the lower middle-class Victorian suburb of Holloway. Pooter has brushes with surly tradesmen and friends, maintains his relationship with his wife Carrie, and struggles to talk sense into his son Lupin, who can't seem to find out what he wants out of life, and who is plunging into an ill-advised marriage engagement. Grossmith manages to critique suburban Victorian society while maintaining the greatest respect for the characters that inhabit it. In drawing humor from Pooter's everyday mishaps and excessive self-importance, Grossmith paved the way for the modern sitcom and humorous narrative novel. Furthermore, the main character has become an adjective in the Oxford English Dictionary- "Pooterish." "Diary of a Nobody" has had a wide influence in popular culture, though few today realize it.

Diary of Mr. Pooter.......2006-09-01

This is actually more entertaining than one would think. I was a bit apprehensive about reading the diary of a nobody, and a fictional diary nonetheless. But it actually turned out quite well. with some nice subtle humor, and thankfully no gratuitous humor. Highly recommended!!!

Loved it!.......2006-07-19

What can I say? This old fashioned humourous book inspired me so much I took the "nobody"s name and made it my on-line pseudonym.
It's a humourous book, quite touching and with a lot of warmth.

The good news is, someone wrote a satirical sequel, the same story from Carrie's point of view, which does incredible justice to the original.

By the by, Mr. Pooter is quite a wit. . . ........2005-12-20

First published in book form in 1892, after an earlier appearance in Punch (where else?), this deadpan classic is a brit-humor masterpiece. Charles Pooter is a honest, honorable clerk in a City firm, a hard-working member of the lower middle class, and this is his diary for some fifteen months. He's careful of his dignity, loyal to his employer, always tries his best, and sometimes he even succeeds in whatever he's trying to do -- like finding gainful employment for his semi-ne'er-do-well twenty-year-old son, Lupin, whose slang he never understands. Of his two best friends, one is resolutely dull while the other often oversteps the bounds. He worries a lot, has trouble dealing with the family's maid-of-all-work, and is frequently put upon by tradesmen and strangers, and you'll suffer with him. If you loved _Three Men in a Boat,_ you'll love this, too.

Laughed.......2002-01-21

I laughed till the bed shook

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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith
Manufacturer: Penguin
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The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics)

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Very enjoyable and still timely

The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics)
George Grossmith , and Weedon Grossmith
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Very enjoyable and still timely.......2007-01-06

I grabbed this at a used book sale because the cover reminded me of a P.G. Wodehouse book. I wasn't really off the mark with that superficial assesment. This book is charming. Mr. Pooter (what a wonderful name!) is a hapless middleclass nobody, as the title suggests. He works in an office, has a wife he loves dearly and a rather useless son.

He decides at the begining of the book that since it is so fashionable to publish one's diary he will try his hand at keeping one. The humour is more subtle than Bridget Jone's Diary or P.G. Wodehouse, but it is still there. Especially with Mr. Pooter's love of puns.

He takes us through about a year of everyday absurdities which are hard not to sympathise with, trying to impress the boss, trying to rub shoulders with the more important, etc.

Added to the fun of the story are the neat little illustrations that accompany each chapter and the plot summary that proceeds each chapter as well. Very fun overall, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before honestly.

The Diary of a Nobody (Classic Literature with Classical Music)

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Fantastic audio recording!

The Diary of a Nobody (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
George Grossmith , and Weedon Grossmith
Manufacturer: Naxos of America
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Three Men In A Boat: (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) (Classic Fiction)

ASIN: 9626344032

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Fantastic audio recording!.......2007-07-16

I have already reviewed the print version of The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics), so there's no need to repeat it here. Martin Jarvis has such a jovial British voice and really makes Grossmith's classic comic novel come alive. I would highly recommend this audio recording for fans of the book, or for those who have never read it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this would be an instance where one could listen to the audio recording without reading the book- Jarvis is that good. 5 out of 5.

The Diary of a Nobody (Essential.penguin)

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The Diary of a Nobody (Essential.penguin)
George Grossmith , and Weedon Grossmith
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Diary of a Medical Nobody
Kenneth Lane
Manufacturer: Severn House Pub Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0727808974

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THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
George and Weedon (illus by John Lawrence) Grossmith
Manufacturer: Folio Society
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ASIN: B000H8A2EE

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THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
GROSSMITH GEORGE & WEEDON
Manufacturer: PAN BOOKS
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ASIN: B000S8I600

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The Diary Of A Nobody
George Grossmith , and Weedon Grossmith
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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ASIN: 1419159259

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December 24. - I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning. I never insult people; why should they insult me? The worst part of the transaction is, that I find myself suspecting all my friends. The handwriting on the envelope is evidently disguised, being written sloping the wrong way.

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DIARY OF A NOBODY
GEORGE GROSSMITH
Manufacturer: PAN BOOKS
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ASIN: B000KVLQ1Q

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Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film—and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship—during a period of abrupt transition to democracy.

According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.

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National Identity and Europe: The Television Revolution (European Media Monographs)

Manufacturer: British Film Inst
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ASIN: 0851703828

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European Cinema after 1989: Cultural Identity and Transnational Production
Luisa Rivi
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0230600247
Release Date: 2007-12-10

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This book brings post-Berlin Wall Europe and European cinema to full visibility and into the fray of current debates on cultural identity, transnational cinema, and postcolonialism. It presents new ways of reading post-1989 European film policy in relation to culture, ways that are crucial to rethinking Europe in its geopolitical and symbolic configuration. In particular, it addresses how the neglected strategies of coproduction articulate a supranational Europe and redefine European identity. By drawing on contemporary political, cultural, and philosophical discourses, Rivi offers pointed analyses of some of the recent most significant European films like Nostalghia, Underground, Land and Freedom, No Man’s Land, Lamerica, La promesse, Code inconnu and Caché.

European Identity in Cinema (European Studies)

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European Identity in Cinema (European Studies)

Manufacturer: Intellect Ltd
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Heroines Without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51 (Women Make Cinema)

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Heroines Without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51 (Women Make Cinema)

Manufacturer: Cassell Academic
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Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

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Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom
Diane Negra
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Off-White Hollywood investigates how the "ethnicity" of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Embodying national fantasies and "assimilation myths," ethnic female film stars symbolized the promise of American multiculturalism and proved the desirability and reliability of the American Dream. Through case studies of stars spanning cinema's history, Diane Negra examines Hollywood films and promotional material as a vehicle through which American culture expresses and negotiates gender and ethnic identities. Tracing processes of transformation, containment and resistance, from the assimilation imperatives of the early twentieth century to the current ethnic revival, Off-White Hollywood shows how star personae have reflected the changing meanings of whiteness in US culture.

Possessions: Essays in French Literature, Cinema, and Theory (Modern French Identities, V. 24)

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Possessions: Essays in French Literature, Cinema, and Theory (Modern French Identities, V. 24)

Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Remembering the Occupation in French Film: National Identity in Postwar Europe (Studies in European Culture and History)

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Remembering the Occupation in French Film: National Identity in Postwar Europe (Studies in European Culture and History)
Leah D. Hewitt
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Screening Europe: Imaging and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema (Bfi Working Papers)

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Screening Europe: Imaging and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema (Bfi Working Papers)

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Heroines Without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51 (Women Make Cinema)
Ulrike Sieglohr
Manufacturer: Cassell
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ASIN: B000ORZOMS

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Now available for the first time in paperback, Jon Stratton's The Desirable Body lays a solid foundation for cultural and gender studies of the body by explicating the links, both historical and philosophical, between commodity culture and cultural fetishism.

Proceeding from the theories of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, Stratton delineates the structures of consumerism and desire that, since around 1850, have brought about the fetishization and spectacularization of the female (and more recently the male) body. Stratton ties spectacularization to the primacy of the visual, as evinced in grand expositions, photography, the cinema, and clandestine surveillance techniques. He examines the lolita complex--male desire for unsexed yet seductive adolescent females--in conjunction with a discussion of a historical tendency to attribute incestuous behavior to working-class (but not middle-class) fathers. He explores an enduring fascination with man-made women (both méchaniques and mannequins) in literature (Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Tomorrow's Eve, E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman) and film (The Stepford Wives, Mannequin). He also explores female patterns of consumption (from "shop till you drop" to anorexia) and, concomitant with a more public homosexuality, the fetishization of the male body (e.g., Arnold Schwarzenegger and ads for Calvin Klein underwear).

By focusing on the way bourgeois capitalism works to structure those who live within it, Stratton helps explain why destructive patterns of consumption and desire persist in our purportedly enlightened age.

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Stratton's onto something--unfortunately, he doesn't know what.......2007-04-16

Writing from what is clearly a Freudian perspective, he nevertheless acknowledges two forms of commodity fetishism: the first he describes as the passive Marxist view--commodities appear to have value all their own which operates as a blind to the real social labor process by which that value is created; and, second, the active Freudian view: rendered powerless by the watchful eyes of others, but especially the state, first female, then male, consumers invest commodities with a phallic significance, hoping to become powerful through the act of their consumption (surely the Romans did something similar.) While Stratton artfully describes the way consumerism has become sadomasochistically fetishized, culminating in, for example, a celebration of man-made women, such as those found in Pygmalion to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (should we count Madonna among their number?); and there are certainly analogies which can be made between the worker-capitalist relations and the sadomasochistic scene; and doubtless purchases are made on advertizers' promises of sexual prowess; nevertheless casting feelings of psychosexual powerlessness as the engine of consumerism, not only fails to consider who has the means to consume, but utterly fails to answer whether wealthy men do in fact consider themselves powerless?

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Young and old alike will discover hours of brain-teasing, mind-stretching, vocabulary-building fun in this puzzle-packed collection.

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Forget school math class, Flash math is about fun. It's what you do in your spare time - messing around with little ideas until the design takes over and you end up with something beautiful, bizarre, or just downright brilliant. It's a book of iterative experiments, generative design; a book of inspiration, beautiful enough to leave on the coffee table, but addictive enough to keep by your computer and sneak out while no one's looking so you can go back to that Flash movie that you were tinkering with 'til 3 o'clock this morning. In "New Masters of Flash" the designers told us about themselves and deconstructed their finest effects. This time we've gathered the best in one book and simply asked them to go away and do what they do best: play. We give you the code and explain the essence, then you take your inspiration and run with it.

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Great book.......2007-05-26

Though it's in ActionScript 2.0, this book is very good if you're into creating visualizations via programming (not only ActionScript). It shows the creative and logical process behind the code (I think that's much more important that the code itself). And it's also a beautiful book to add to your collection :-)

And you can also download all the .fla used in the examples.

Math and Flash combine to provide interesting animations.......2006-10-30

This book is stunning visually and is just overflowing with inspiration. This is a book intended to show us what the Flash community has been able to come up in terms of creation and allows us to tinker around with the code. If you like to take a basic principle and see it evolve given enough time and interest, then this is the book for you. If you enjoy seeing "how" things function rather than "why" they work, you have the opportunity to tinker and toy with the variables to see exactly "how" it changes the overall look of the final piece. To get the most from this book the reader is expected to understand the basics of ActionScript as well as the techniques common in most projects. This is not intended to deter the beginner, as you will surely learn much.

The book is laid out pretty straightforward. There are 15 chapters with each one dedicated to a certain individual who goes through each of his creations and iterations.Suggested reading by the people at "Friends of Ed" is to grab the source files, run them, and then read the chapters. Some of the source files are adequately commented so in some, the book isn't even needed. That is not to say, however, that this book is not necessary to understand what's going on. The book gives you quick insight to the authors' mindset and thinking, and each chapter begins with an overview of where they are from, what they do, how they have come to do this, and interests.

There are actually two parts to the book. The second part consists of the last three chapters and has what you'd consider an "application" or an "engine" for viewing the creations and being able to manipulate them directly. The first part of the book is dedicated to finding a variable, which for the most part is explained in the book, changing it to your liking, viewing the results, and reviewing the code. At the end of the book there is a Tangents page which provides 54 links to explore.

In case you are wondering where the math fits in, it's scattered throughout the book. However, sometimes, we are not presented with the reasons for using "128" for variable "p" to multiply by var "b" which has the value of "14". You may often be left scratching your head and asking why, but that isn't the point. Sine and Cosine are presented quite clearly in the first chapter and there is a terrific example from Gabriel Mulzer, but if you are looking to the find the mysteries behind using atan2 to get an angle, then this book will not answer that question. It is up to you to play the part of explorer to find those answers. You are presented with a wealth of methods that people use, inspiration for them, and experiments that the reader is encouraged to break. You are given a chance to use these methods to have fun and use them as springboards to access that creativity that lurks in each and every one of us.

In conclusion, if you enjoy going through code with a fine toothed comb and if you want to pick up valuable techniques for doing certain things with Flash, as well as be dazzled by some of the innovators of our time, get the book. It is the perfect culmination of what Flash ActionScripting can do. I would show the table of contents at this point, but all of the chapters are named after the innovators themselves, and would provide little insight to the contents.

actionscript and Math.......2006-08-21

I appreciate the book and it helps to understand how to create nice animations by using maths.
I think it needs more Classes writing and not only timeline.

People, it's called flash math CREATIVITY.......2005-10-13

The Flash Math books are great. But not if you want an O'Reilly cookbook of answers to your design problems. It's all about inspiration. Being able to look at something and say "wow, that's so beautiful" and either need to make it yourself just on principal, or see that maybe one day you can use the idea yourself on all those practical things you're so worried about. If you get all juiced up creatively from the things you see around you, this is a perfect book. It's 4 instead of 5 because it doesn't come with a CD. But you can go to the website for the book and see things in action.

That probably appealed to the left brain folks.

For the right brain ones among you. No, this will not teach math. No it won't explain much in the math department at all. It does give the code, it allows you to experiment with what Flash will do, it might renew your interest in Flash. Kind of like watching one of the a-lister Flash kids talk at a Flash Forward conference, it might do that more than looking at a Hockney photo collage (both work for me). If you don't work that way, buy it and give it to one of your left brain Flash friends.

It will be great fun for them, they will get to feel like they remember their math and are much better at it now. And it will make pretty things.

Some Assembly Required.......2005-10-07

The book is great. I find the negative reviews puzzling because this book is like a $30 kit for a working spaceship, but you have to weld the wings on yourself. Big deal. What's wanting in so many Flash books are examples of the astonishing things you can do with Flash. This book shows what can be done, then hands you the code on a platter. I guess if you're more the designer type and you want to do great stuff using the math functions in Flash, you, um, er -- need to learn some math. But don't complain that every author hasn't lined up to correct your particular brand of ignorance. Read a book.

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