Successful Real Estate: Investing for the Single Person

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Equally adept with airbrush, arcylic paints, colored pencils, and pastels, Brian Rood's multi-media approach to illustration has rendered a multitude of iconic subject matter. His work for Chaos! Comics and portrayals of characters like the Crow, Vampirella, G.I. Joe, and Masters of the Universe have impressed art directors and the public in general, but it's his love of the pin-up that has set this artist apart. This collection of Brian Rood's finest pieces has been assembled with a particular eye to the glamorous and erotic pin-up.

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THE FIRST ROOD COLLECTION!.......2005-09-15

In a relative short time Brian Rood has accelerated himself near the top of the pack when it comes to fantasy/erotic illustrators. Just approaching his 30th birthday, Rood has already built up an impressive list of credits including work in comics, feature films, collectible card games, magazines, and more. This is his first collection of art from the great people at SQP, simply the best publishers of fantasy and erotic/pin-up art in the business. This 48 page book presents an eclectic collection of Rood's pin-up and fantasy art featuring everyone from Bettie page to Lady Death.

What I love about Rood's pinup art is the soft, warm tones of his art. The result is a very photo-realistic look. A perfect example is the piece entitled simply "The Bombshell" depicting a hot blonde in a leather corset and lace stockings. The other quality I love about Rood's work, almost in contrast to the first, is the shine and glare effects he achieves while still working in softer colors. An example of this can be found in "Pink Caddy" as model Stacy Walker is decked out in leather boots and a metallic bikini while a freshly waxed and shining pink Cadillac is in the back ground.

Rood also takes a turn at the women of Chaos Comics with several Lady Death and Purgatori pieces in the book. "Purgatori Trick or Treat" features the sexy demon dressed in a Catholic school girl outfit, holding a pumpkin candy collecting basket. Lady Death is pictured with another one of Brian's favorite subjects, James O'Barr's The Crow.

You'll find more than just beautiful women in the book though. Rood also includes some samples of his superhero work as well as a magnificent rendering of the late guitar God Jimi Henrdrix in a painting called "Voodoo Child". It's quite a outstanding first collection by Rood and produced with the same outstanding care that SQP does on all of their books.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

good art poor publishing.......2005-05-19

Brian Rood is a very good pin-up artist, and this is a nice selection of his work. However, this is a magazine and not a paperback. SQP has cut corners with thin paper pages and covers. Search the web for the hardback though it is quite expensive.

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The trip of a lifetime, or a life sentence?

Disasters that can't wait to happen are guaranteed to make you unfasten your seatbelt for the belly laugh of the travel season. As you try to figure out why your wallet just disappeared, relax and be glad you weren't along for the ride with...

Marius Bosc as the entire waitstaff of a New York restaurant began attacking him after he tried to send back his lo mein.

Claudia Capos as she sat down to a splendid anteater served for a Tasmanian Thanksgiving.

Brooke Comer hitching a ride through Upper Egypt on top of a pickup bed full of unripe melons.

Matthew FIke when a coed in one of his English classes in Bulgaria announced "I need to be with you in your bed."

Nadine Payne when she was kicked off Romania's "Orient Distress" on a rail line in the middle of nowhere.

Cameron Burns on his honeymoon as his wife discovered a poisonous eight-inch long scorpion crawling down her blue cotton t-shirt. Zona Sage as she and a flight crew worked feverishly to track down a putrid smell that makes a jet's interior smell like a sewer.

Larry Parker as a stream of overnight freight trains rolled past the window of his Oregon bed and breakfast.

Carole Dickerson shipwrecked with her family on a dream vacation.

William Douglass as monkeys danced about his Kenya lodge room in his wife Jan's nightgown.

A welcome addition to the literature of the damned, this book rolls up the welcome mat as it makes you rethink those vacation plans. Yes, in this outragenously funny anthology of vacation horror stories you'll spend one too many nights in Tunisia and flee nightmarish holidays that stretch from Harare to Eternity.

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Pretty dull.......2002-05-21

This book is a third sequel to a book of established writers' travel horror stories. Here, amateur writers share their travel woes. It is, clearly, an attempt to milk a cash cow. While the writing is adequate (certainly not great), it's the content of the stories that really makes this a useless anthology. They're the quality of story you might tell your friends at dinner, but are in no way deserving of publication. Examples include: I was on a plane that was delayed; I couldn't find my car after the Super Bowl; we rented a boat and wrecked it; the service at this restaurant in England was very slow; we went to a hotel and damned if it wasn't a fairly shabby hotel; we ate some food and got sick. There are a few stories as interesting as, say, getting hurt and experiencing Vietnam's standard of hospital care. But mostly this is very dull, and pretty close to worthless.

Better still, don't even get out of bed.......2002-03-27

The principal attraction of I REALLY SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME is that its collected tales of road woe happen in non-exotic places to Ordinary Joes. I've been entertained in the past by compilations of such stories, some of which might perhaps stretch the credulity of those whose idea of a journey is flying to Phoenix to visit the mother-in-law or, at best, spending a couple of weeks on a package cruise of the Med. You know the kind of stories I mean: road warrior loses laptop to headhunters in the Amazon outback, spelunker falls into pit of bat guano in a remote Siberian cave. I mean, whom do you know does this stuff?

In this book, whether it's being seated on an international flight in front of someone secretly carrying an eye-wateringly stinky package - durian, in this case - or stupidly parking the car on the tram tracks in Brussels and bringing city traffic to a complete halt, I can relate without too much a stretch of the imagination. Then there's the story by the man whose experiences in a provincial Vietnamese hospital having sea urchin spines removed from his foot remind one of medieval torture. Or the one about having to chaperone "Ugly Californian" relatives through the backwaters of Central Europe. The first chapter relating a couple's encounters with various creepy-crawlers, including a scorpion found in a hanging shirt, during a trip to Costa Rica is particularly relevant to me because my wife wants to visit the country. (Oh, sweetie, come and read this!)

I won't pretend that all of these 43 stories are terrific. The monodrone - not a proper word, but it ought to be - by the college professor congratulating himself on having resisted the persistent sexual advances of a female student enrolled at the American University of Bulgaria was a piece of self-serving claptrap. And the one by the adventurer who decides to dribble a soccer ball across 15 miles of Colorado wilderness was simply contrived and silly. And a few more were just so-so. However, after finishing each chapter, I looked forward to the next with expectant curiosity and was rarely disappointed...

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LiveStage Professional 3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, media professionals will learn how to create, produce, and deliver impressive broadband and interactive wired movie content in a cross-platform environment. Beginning with a basic overview of LiveStage 3, the book goes on to cover advanced features such as static visuals, moving visuals, text tracks, sprite tracks, animations, audio and much more. The format of this Visual QuickStart Guide makes it easy for beginners to learn LiveStage while more advanced users will find the book a handy quick-reference for specific features. With its illustrated step-by-step style, this book is ideal for developers creating content for e-commerce, advertising, entertainment, learning, and education.

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Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery--in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations--plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination.
Moving beyond American borders, Chidester considers the religion of McDonald's and Disney, the discourse of W.E.B. Du Bois and the American movement in Southern Africa, the messianic promise of Nelson Mandela's 1990 tour to America, and more. He also looks at the creative possibilities of the Internet in such phenomena as Discordianism, the Holy Order of the Cheeseburger, and a range of similar inventions. Arguing throughout that religious fakes can do authentic religious work, and that American popular culture is the space of that creative labor, Chidester looks toward a future "pregnant with the possibilities of new kinds of authenticity."

Customer Reviews:

Too much breadth, too little depth.......2006-01-06

This is a book that tries to do too much. Its goal of exploring religion and popular culture is a good one, but that's territory that has been covered in many texts before, and with much greater insight than you'll find here. Check out Chidester's earlier books on colonialism and the Jim Jones suicide for better scholarship. Look elsewhere for better books on religion and American popular culture.

Cool and interesting.......2005-12-07

This book deals with something I've wondered about for a long time: the seemingly religious aspects of (pop) cultural ideas, images, totems, rituals, etc., and in particular, the role of human imagination, and in many cases, deliberate fraud, in creating a backdrop of meaning for life.

While the book is a pleasurable read, it does maintain a certain level of erudition, stylistically. It also manages to remain focused and serious while allowing in just the right amount of good humour and whimsy.

I especially liked the discussions on baseball and Jim Jones; after reading this, I'll be ordering Chidester's book on the Jonestown suicide.

Thumbs up.

Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book Review) : An article from: Church History

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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book Review) : An article from: Church History
David Morgan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Church History, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1052 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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Author: David Morgan
Publication: Church History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Charles K. Piehl
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 463 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: Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book review)
Author: Charles K. Piehl
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 831(2)

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To thine own self be true.

The world of Might and Magic continues to change. Change with it or perish. Be a hero or be a villain, be true or be a traitor, but be a victor with these game secrets.
Inside Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty–The Official Strategy Guide you get:

• Grand Strategy–Overall plans and specific opening gambits for the expansion pack scenarios
• Game options–Tips for building the perfect hero and exploiting other game features to the hilt
• The world of Might and Magic–Crucial information on all the heroes, events, and artifacts
• Gameplay–The latest on player capabilities, scoring, single-mission play, campaigns and multiplayer modes, and more!

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Animation Presets, an advanced Clone tool, scripting support, and a powerful new color correction system are just a few of the reasons you're chomping at the bit to get down to work with After Effects 6.5. In these pages, a master of the medium allows you to do just that, presenting a series of projects that explore every aspect of Adobe's animation and effects powerhouse. By focusing on the areas that can be troublesome for professional users--whether because they present thorny issues or because they draw on completely new features--this volume provides the focused, practical instruction you need to maximize your After Effects productivity. Each lesson provides need-to-know tips, proven techniques, and best practices for a variety of After Effects 6.5 functions: from importing and managing footage to viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more. The companion CD includes QuickTime instructional movies, source code, and files for all of the book's projects.

Customer Reviews:

Not What I expected........2007-01-10

I am a fan of the "MAGIC" series. I was thoroughly impressed with the previous version that actually had some compelling content. There is nothing that special in this book. The tutorials are rather bland. I will keep looking for a good After Effects book that has some creative and more relevant content. I am usually pretty passive in my reviews but this book just didn't do it for me.

The best book for a fast course!! Didactico y Sencillo .......2006-08-19

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Este libro tiene la particularidad de llevarte al siguiente nivel y aprender a usar plugins correctamente, ideal para autodidactas o si quieres un curso nivel intermedio de AF...
PERO OJO... no es facil de leer, de hecho requeire de tiempo y unas 3 vueltas de cada capitulo para entender el ejercicio.
INGLES:
This book has the particularity of leave you to the next level and learning to use plugins correctly, ideally for autodidactic people or if you want a course(year) only for aAF's intermediate level...
WARNING ... it is not easy to read, in fact requeire of time and approximately 3 reads of every chapter to understand the exercise.

Adobe After Effect 6.5 Magic.......2006-08-13

Easy to follow instruction. Interesting special effects, something we, as beginners, would like to try. Well lay-out formats with illustrations and photos, all in color.
I would recommend it for anyone who use Adobe After Effect 6.5 Magic first time users.

Good.......2006-06-04

Projects shown in this book are commercial--- like sales advertisements, which is ok. If you have other Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and 3D Zaxwerks, you will enjoy this book better.

Best book on After Effects you ever find.......2006-05-24

Just buy this one. I'm so glad that I did.

After Effects 6.5 / Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic: Proyectos Profesionales/ Proffessional Projects (Medios Digitales Y Creatividad / Digital and Creativity Mediums)

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After Effects 6.5 / Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic: Proyectos Profesionales/ Proffessional Projects (Medios Digitales Y Creatividad / Digital and Creativity Mediums)
James Rankin , and Anna Ullrich
Manufacturer: Anaya Multimedia
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Binding: Paperback

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Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic. Mit CD-ROM

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Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic. Mit CD-ROM
James Ullrich, Anna Rankin
Manufacturer: New Riders Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUFZO2

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