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Freaks Of Mayfair
E. F.; Illustrations by Plank, George; New Introduction by Hawtree, Christopher Benson
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The Freaks of Mayfair
E.F. Benson
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New Introduction by Christopher Hawtree

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Mayfair Bestiary
for Benson diehards only.

The Freaks of Mayfair
E. F. Benson
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The creator of Mapp and Lucia introduces us to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Edwardian high society.

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Mayfair Bestiary.......2007-08-16

Benson fans should rejoice in this release which chronicles the "freaks"--strange fauna--who haunt the fashionable drawing rooms of the Mayfair microcosm of Edwardian Society. As a collection of "entries", the style does not require a sustained plot--so don't expect one. Benson chose a form that allowed for publication in the satirical magazines of the day and each entry has its share of droll wit.

I bought the book specifically for the "Aunt Georgie" piece, suspecting that it would prefigure the character who became Georgie Pilson. I had hoped for a really early look at how Georgie hired Foljambe, his peerless parlor maid/caregiver. This is not the case: Aunt Georgie is the wealthy head of a "good" British family with plenty of sisters and so on to support and a large house in the country where he houses his dependent relatives. He has "serious" interests in poetry and music but is not the artist that Benson makes of his "immortal" Georgie. Read the book to learn more...but rejoice also that Benson later developed Georgie Pilson.

In other chapters, Benson goes on to lampoon the social fads of his day, familiar to readers of the "Riseholm" period of his Lucia books: Yoga, Spiritualism, Christian Science Healing, Vegan lifestyles and so forth. Of course he chronicles a typology of "climbers", finding room for chapters on "verticle" ones and "horizontal" ones. Not one prefigures the highly developed skills Lucia displays in her social mountaineering but they make for a cozy evening read--perhaps at bedtime, just before dropping off.

This book is well worth buying.

for Benson diehards only. .......2005-09-03

This is a series of short character sketches; social climbers, cats, snobs, faddists. They are very well-wrought. There is information on "grizzly kittens" --those that keep on acting like young things--frolicking & using old, out-of-date slang when well past their prime; several chapters on the important differences between vertical and horizontal social climbing, and how it is done; some cold words about gossiping and what an absolute waste it can be...twelve or so outlines of people and who they are and what they do.

There is no plot, no story--just sketches of "types" that you might find in upper-class London at the end of the Edwardian era.

Perceptive, thoughtful, intentionally a little cruel; these are certainly good essays and the illustrations by George Plank, which were contemporaneous with the pieces are appropriate, if a little bizarre (take an Aubrey Beardsley drawing and make the figures middle-aged and stocky).

These short pieces strike me as a novelist's workbook; he plans to use this character or that one some day in a "real" book--and meantime they were polished up a bit for publication...

I certainly enjoyed reading this book; but would not recommend it to someone who's never read this author before.
I would tend to say start with "Secret Lives" and the Mapp and Lucia novels; and if you are crazy about them (which I was), then FREAKS OF MAYFAIR will give you some insight into what sort of world Benson pulled the characters in those books from...

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E.F. Benson
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Best book about Biggie

From notting to something

CHRISTOPHER WALLACE A.K.A. THE REALEST

A Fascintating Read

And Unbelievable Is What He Is!!!

Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.
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From the same people who brought you vibe magazine’s New York Times bestseller tupac shakur comes the other half of the story that rocked the world: unbelievable, the larger-than-life biography of Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.

In this riveting account of Biggie’s remarkable life, hip hop journalist Cheo Hodari Coker tells the story you’ve never heard about the dramatic, tension-filled world of Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, and Suge Knight, tracing their friendships and feuds from the beginning to the bitter end. Despite the clash of personalities and styles, all four were key players in a volatile and creative era of hip hop, a time when gangsta rap became popular music.

Before he rocketed to fame as Biggie, Christopher Wallace was a young black man growing up in Brooklyn with a loving single mother. An honors student who dropped out of school to sell drugs, Biggie soon discovered that he had a gift for rocking the mike. Coker’s narrative is based on exclusive interviews with Biggie’s family and friends, some of whom have never spoken publicly about Biggie before.

Compellingly written and brilliantly illustrated, with rare color and black-and-white photographs from VIBE’s archives and Biggie’s family, this is an in-depth look at the life and afterlife of an icon whose music is as powerful and prevalent as ever. A virtuoso of flow as well as a master storyteller, Biggie was arguably the greatest rapper of all time. We’ve heard a lot of speculation about Biggie’s death. Now it’s time to remember his life and celebrate his work.

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Best book about Biggie.......2005-09-03

Coker has written a readable, entertaining, and comprehensive biography of the man who became, rather improbably, the greatest rapper of all time. Focusing on his life, his titanic talent, his character, and the intrinsic grace of his storytelling, this book does not dwell on the petty rivalries that engrossed the media and dominated most discussions about Biggie Smalls. This book is overwhelmingly positive; in fact, the author seems somewhat infatuated with the subject, and this is the only reason I do not give the book 5 stars. For instance, Coker does not dwell on how Biggie exaggerated the poverty and depravation of his childhood to a great degree. But overall it is a great book that gives a solid feel of the life and times of the King of N-Y, although it is a bit of a puff piece.

From notting to something.......2005-05-04

Book Review: The Life, Death, And Afterlife of Notorious Of Big

By: Cheo Hodon Coker

The Notorious B.I.G. aka "Biggie" has left the rap game in body, but his music lives

on. Unbelievable; The life, death, and afterlife of The Notorious Big which was written

By: Cheo Hodon Coker. I gave it a five star rating; because it gave a better

understanding of Biggie problems and emotion that he faced on the streets of Brooklyn,

New York to the Hills of Hollywood, California. Coker makes it clear that Biggie

conquered the music industry with his street rhythms to win number of awards. Never

the less he come short to explain why when Biggie saw his wife Faith they did not talk to

each other for the last time.

The book was a good Biography of Notorious Big. It rest; fill with a lot of street

talking just as know Biggie to talk on a day to day bases. The book makes it seem as if

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Biggie was the person telling the story that how good the book is. It also explores a lot

of interesting issues that not many people are willing to talk about. Biggie had attended

Catholic School and getting a lot of things from his mother, who was a teacher, young

Biggie did not have much to do.

By the age of 16 he had dropped out of High School and had become a crack dealer.

Coker often said in the book that biggie just wanted more. Sean Combs, a Music

Producer, who pay Biggie money to stop selling crack. Biggie would not stop

because he had just had a baby and the music was not giving him the money he wanted

Combs one time had to went down south to get Biggie, because Biggie was down there

selling crack. Biggie often says that he did not think that he could make it in the rap

game.

Then come the war "East Coast" VS "West Coast", which the Media put a lot of

paper to the Fire and made it bigger. It ended up with the death of Tupac death, and then

soon it would be Biggie turn.

Over the entire book was a success I would recommend that people take out of there

busy life and read this book, most of all the rappers in the music busy now. It would also

help to stop the "Beefing" of rappers.

CHRISTOPHER WALLACE A.K.A. THE REALEST.......2004-07-11

This book is Big as biggie smallz, i always respected Biggie smallz and i always wanted to know who really was Christopher wallace and when you read it you just fell pain for his mother, cause christopher was the son every mother want to have, this nigga could have done everything to see the people around him happy, when you read this you see how Biggie would never done nothing whrong to 2pac ,every hip hop fan have to buy this cause we all know many things about 2pac life but finally we don't know nothing about Biggie smalls , before reading this i was taking Big as the best flow hip hop will never had, after reading this book i thing that this fella was the realest hip hop will never have , i want to tell all the 2pac fan who take Biggie as the so called greatest to never forgot that 2pac has 6 lps before his death and Biggie got 2 only, this nigga was at the begining of his career and he was on his way to be the mike anyone jordan , jackson of hip hop!at the reading of this book you see that the 2 dearly legend of hip hop was two friend with nothing in common but with everything complementary, so enjoy cause this may not be the best biography i've read it's arleady one of the best ... it's 25 years full of love, pain, drugs,sex, guns , talent,women and many more!

A Fascintating Read.......2004-06-04

A must read for anyone interested in the history of hip hop. Before I read it, I had only heard of the Notorious B.I.G. Now I feel as though I know him - personally.

During the 90's, when gansta rap and the East coast vs. West coast fight broke out, I was too busy working on my Bachelor's and Master's degrees to pay much attention to anything else.
I had also heard of Suge Knight and Sean Combs, but only from newspaper reports. Reading this book really filled in a lot of the details for me. Suge Knight is portrayed in a postive light as really caring for his artists and seeing to it that they were treated right. He became violent only when he thought that those artists were being taken advantage of, and that they (as well as he) were losing part of the money they were entitled to. I had always wondered what had prompted this violent streak of his. I remember the newspapers would only report the latest incidents, never try to explain them. The book also explains what it is, in fact, that Sean Combs does. I had always wondered: Is he a rapper? A producer? An executive? And, how did he amass so much money? Combs had always been a mystery to me. To some extent, he still is, but the book goes a long way toward solving this riddle too.

This book explores many interesting puzzles like these and shows how intricate relationships within the hip hop community had become, even by the 90's. Biggie Smalls is portrayed as a flawed yet sympathetic character. At first, he's a child attending Catholic school in uniform, who feels different from all the others hanging out on the corner. His mother is a teacher, he's fatherless, and while not rich, he's by no means poor. His mother gets all the latest gear for him so he doesn't go out and get in trouble. As he grows older, however, the lure of quick profits grows stronger, so that by the time he's 16, he's dropped out of school and become a full-time crack dealer. The book wants us to believe this is so he can buy even more of the latest gear, and that he's never statisfied with what he's got. I'm not sure that that's the whole story, but surely his life was never as bleak as what he depicted later in some of his songs. One gets the feeling that somewhere along the line, something just isn't right - either with the world, or with Biggie. Then, once Biggie becomes a rap star, he says in the book that he never expected to, that rapping was just a hobby and that the profession he had actually chosen was that of the crack dealer. So, we're expected to believe that this rap star thing just happened as a fluke, and came just as much as a surprise to him as to the rest of the world. Maybe all this is so, but if it isn't, the book makes no alternative explanations, nor even attempts to. All we're left with, instead, is an incomplete portrayal of the man who would later become known as the Notorious BIG. All in all, despite the inadequacies in the portrayal, one is still able to admire and respect the genius and charisma of this man. This is both a tribute to the man and to the author. It makes us aware that even legends have character pitfalls, yet we're still able to remember and love them for who they were.

And Unbelievable Is What He Is!!!.......2004-05-30

I am so glad that I read this book. This book glorified Biggie as a everyday fella not a superstar. How good of a person he was and what he did for others including the ones that hated on him, which were many.

This book gave a first account on how he went for "ashy to classy" and how hard he tried to keep it once he found out that he really had talent for music rather than talent for selling crack.

What I didn't know, but really didn't surprise me was how much of a playa Biggie was. He had his wife Faith, Lil' Kim and Charlie Baltimore and I am going to say that it was more than that. It bugged me out him and Faith never even spoke to each other when the saw each other on the night he died. I guess it is true that you never know that last time you may see someone for good.

I love the loyalty of his true friends from St. James, mainly Lil' Cease. This book also showed you how grimey Lil' Kim really is. What devastated me that most was how his relationship between him and Tupac just crumbled over bullsh--, straight bullsh--. If you ask me my opinion and this is just my opinion, I think Tupac what just in the wrong place at the wrong place, just like the rest of his situations. Now, don't get me wrong that's my boy too, he just makes bad judgements, just like Biggie staying out in Cali, like everything was cool.

Overall, this book was the best biography I ever read. It was straight up real, it made you feel as if Biggie was telling you the story of his life himself.

Later!!!

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Unbelievable, Life, Death and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.

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Primary Source Material.......2000-08-18

This book is fabulous primary source material for those interested in the emergence and maturity of the punk subculture. Jon Savage's book (England's Dreaming) tells the history of the scene nicely, but THIS reprint gives some real insight into the attitudes and motivations of the kids who were involved, and adds the American perspective. Some of the characters from the 70's punk scene were just into looking cool and partying, and some were really interested in music or politics, but the common theme here is youth's feeling of alienation from the rest of society. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

No Deadbeats?.......2000-06-29

This is a reprinting of an amazing San Fransico 'zine from the late Seventies. There is incredible, otherwise unavailable coverage here of many obscure West Coast Punk groups, with helpful scene reports from around the US and the world, essays on early Punk culture and politics, and impressive artwork and photos. The interviews are unique and far from obvious, providing insights into the personalities (and record collections!) of many important musicians. Impressive interviews with Pere Ubu, Dev-o (before they signed to WB), and the Screamers, among many other groups. This book also provides a detailed look into the S.F. and L.A. Punk scenes (who partied where with whom and what happened). I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the wild west Coast Punk culture of the late Seventies. Flaws? No info on the Deadbeats, Pink Section, The Units, or Los Microwaves (though it has pictures of Pink Section and the Units in #'s 7-11).

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Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions from "Scientific American"
Martin Gardner
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Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American
Martin Gardner
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Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American

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Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions from scientific american
Martin Gardner
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The everlasting challenge!

New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American.
Martin, Gardner
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The everlasting challenge!.......2005-10-08

The whole materialization of this book was due the kind permission of Scientific American based on a smart and very antique idea: to recreate and diffuse all kind of ingenious problems, challenging riddles and daring enunciates from the most lucid minds around the world. From the sagacious inventive of Lewis Carroll all kinds of creative problems will put you in action and magnificent good mental shape to resolve a wide gamut of several and clever problems.

Geometry, elemental physics, advanced logic will defile and bet for its eventual resolution, through a series of funny stories and suggestive anecdotes as the famous device employed by Kant to set the appropriate time once his watch disarranged.

The pleasant style of Martin Gardner in his role such master ceremony constitutes a splendid opportunity to let you to invade for the most astonishing and smart questions.

Go for this!

MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS FROM "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN"

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MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS FROM "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN"
Martin Gardiner
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MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Martin Gardner
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MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Martin Gardner
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Now updated to cover the latest program version, this is the ultimate full-color guide for Photoshop Elements users want to get the most out of the program
This new edition features a tighter organization and new and enhanced content based on reader feedback
Practical solutions, stunning full-color images, and a reader-friendly design take readers to a new level of image-editing expertise
Now bargain-priced at under $30-$10 less than the previous edition!

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Photoshop.......2007-05-08

A pretty good resource book, however some topics are not described in enough detail.

Best Photoshop Elements 4 Book.......2007-01-06

Excellent book. Down to earth with easy-to-follow instructions. None of the distracting and annoying comments and attempts at humor in some other Photoshop books. Clear writing, many color illustrations. Reasonable price.

If you're new to Photoshop and want to learn how to use Photoshop Elements 4, this is the book for you. Buy the book; take the time to read it carefully, and you'll soon become a Photoshop Elements expert.

Thanks to Mikkel Aaland (the author) and Sybex (the publisher) for such an excellent book.

To take advantage of all the information Aaland provides, you should be serious about photography and be beyond the stage of using a typical point-and-shoot camera.

Gordon Padwick

Where's the Mac (version)??.......2006-12-10

Aaland is an excellent writer, since he simplifies somewhat complicated procedures and gives specific examples the reader can try with his own program and computer, and in the process learn how to deal with similar problems with his/her own photos. However, there are differences between the PC and the Mac versions of PSE 4, and (especially for beginning image editors) confusion of terms (or missing terms - for the Mac) will not prove helpful. Michael - how about the Mac version of the book??? Why stop with #3? Bainbridge did the same thing with her "Missing Manual". The Mac is still the platform of choice for creative and scientific work, and the numbers are increasing. Where's the beef (book) for Mac users??

A good starting phot for digital photographers with PS Elements.......2006-04-14

Digital photographers find digital editing software an essential key to producing professional-quality photos, and Photoshop has emerged as the program of choice for such editing routines. The original Photoshop was cumbersome and expensive, however, so Photoshop Elements, at a fraction of the price, is of more appeal to general users, and PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4 SOLUTIONS: THE ART OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY is an excellent starting point for photographers who would get the most from the program. From sharing photos via TV to producing high-quality slide shows, using Photomerge for panoramic scenes, and new templates for advanced organization, PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4 SOLUTIONS is a top pick.

Very Minor Update.......2006-03-16

This edition of Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions is a disappointment. It is basically the same book as the Elements 3 book without the Mac information. There is little new. Even some new features of 4 are not covered at all such as "Defringe" even though it is mentioned on the back cover. If you have the 3 edition do not waste your money on this one.

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