Average customer rating:
|
China's Return to Expansionary Fiscal Policy (Eai Occasional)
Lin Shuanglin
Manufacturer: Singapore University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Economic Policy & Development
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Public Finance
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Debt & Deficits
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Finance
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
| Banks & Banking
| Corporate Finance
| Foreign Exchange
| Inflation
| Interest
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Non-US Legal Systems
| Perspectives on Law
| Law
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 9810241003 |
Average customer rating:
|
Labor, State and Capital in Nigeria's Oil Industry
Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Workplace
| Organizational Behavior
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Job Hunting & Careers
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
| General
| Guides
| Interviewing
| Job Hunting
| Job Markets & Advice
| Resumes
| Vocational Guidance
| Volunteer Work
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Labor & Industrial Relations
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Production & Operations
| Management & Leadership
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Industrial Relations
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Oil & Energy
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Nigeria
| Africa
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Labor & Industrial Relations
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0773498427 |
Average customer rating:
|
Ruby Gloom's Keys to Happiness 2005 Wall Calendar
Mighty Fine Inc.
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar
Children's Books
| Subjects
| Books
| Baby-3
| Ages 4-8
| Ages 9-12
| Animals
| Arts & Music
| Books on Cassette
| Books on CD
| Authors & Illustrators, A-Z
| Computers
| Educational
| History & Historical Fiction
| Issues
| Literature
| Obsessions
| People & Places
| Popular Characters
| Reference & Nonfiction
| Religions
| Science, Nature & How It Works
| Series
| Sports & Activities
General
| Humor
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
Calendars
| Formats
| Books
| Block Calendars
| Engagement Calendars
| Advent
| Animals
| Architecture
| Arts
| Astrological
| Automotive
| Boats & Ships
| Business
| Children's
| Cooking
| Crafts
| Diet & Health
| Family & Relationships
| Flowers
| Foreign Language
| Games
| Garden & Home
| General
| History
| Humor & Comics
| Inspirational
| Lighthouses
| Maps
| Movies
| Multicultural
| Music
| Nature
| Photography
| Pop Culture
| Quotations
| Readers & Writers
| Regional
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Sports
| Television
| Trains
| Women's Interest
Writing Stationery
| Book Accessories
| Our Favorites
| Gift Ideas
| General
| Thank You Cards
ASIN: 0810979624 |
Book Description
Meet Ruby Gloom, the "happest girl in the world." Sweetly goth, and cheerfully gloomy, Ruby is already a best-selling icon in the 'tween and teen fashion markets. Includes temporary tattoos.
Customer Reviews:
VERY COOL and FUN.......2005-01-09
I got this with my Christmas money and I think it is very cool. Ruby Gloom is fun, weird, and just scary enough that my little sister doesn't like it. But my mom and I really think she's funny. The tattoos it comes with are very pretty.
Average customer rating:
- The spirit of the 19th century
|
Classic Bel Canto Technique
Laure-Cinthie Damoreau
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Classical
| Musical Genres
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
Voice
| Instruments & Performers
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
Techniques
| Theory, Composition & Performance
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Entertainment Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
General
| Music
| Entertainment
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
Voice
| Instruments & Performers
| Music
| Entertainment
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
General
| Classical
| Musical Genres
| Music
| Entertainment
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
Techniques
| Theory, Composition & Performance
| Music
| Entertainment
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
All 4-for-3 Deals
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal Method
-
Caruso's Method of Voice Production
-
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing
-
How to Sing
-
Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti
ASIN: 0486299848 |
Book Description
An indispensable guide for modern singers, this rare resource offers exercises and instructions for attaining the absolute breath control, vocal sheen, evenness of tone, agility, and elegance of the 18th-century Italian vocal technique. Includes studies for scales, turns and trills, vocalises, solfeggio studies, more.
Customer Reviews:
The spirit of the 19th century.......2007-01-05
This book is just a delightful pedagogy, and a voyage in what was probably the nicest in the spirit of music in the middle of the 19th century.
However, let the author talk, and imagine you're told this not only by your singing teacher, but by any performing art teacher: "Keep on studying...my dear students (...) My wish for you is that you will feel the urge to excel, that you will be on guard against rivalry, and that very soon you will give me the great joy of applauding you".
Average customer rating:
- Slowing down life's pace is necessary: here's how and why!
|
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Re-Reading the Canon)
John P. Robinson , and
Geoffrey Godbey
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Time Management
| Skills
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Popular Culture
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Anthropology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
| Cultural
| Ethnobotany
| Ethnology
| Evolution
| General
| History & Philosophy
| Physical
| Primitive
| Religious
| Sociobiology
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Leisure
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Philosophy
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Modern
| Philosophy
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Stress Management
| Self-Help
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Entertainment Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0271019700 |
Customer Reviews:
Slowing down life's pace is necessary: here's how and why!.......1999-03-29
I have been preparing lectures on stress management and came upon the work of the authors' Use of Time Project which has tracked Americans expenditures of time over decades. This book has caused me to re-think all of my assumptions, and fits in beautifully with some of the brand new books coming out in the wellness field, including Dean Ornish's Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy and Paul Pearsall's The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, To Work and To Play. Time for Life shows, in methodical yet eloquent thoroughness, that the sense of hurry sickness and time famine is illusory and unnecessary: we in fact have ENOUGH time and money to be happy, yet we think we do not. The final chapter is worth the price of the book: called Brother, can you spare some time? it points out that the pace of life is a political issue, and that the commercialization of leisure can be critiqued and questioned, that while most of us lead lives of unbelievable privilege, happiness eludes us. This does not have to be the case. This is a scholarly book, yet accessible to the lay reader, particularly if you skip around some. The cross cultural stuff is fascinating (eg., Japanese people work longer hours yet don't feel the time famine like Americans do.) It is well worth the careful reading this important topic warrants. I am indebted to Mr. Robinson and Godbey for this expression of their life's work. I am deeply grateful, in fact.
Book Description
Re-reading Popular Culture is a key guide to understanding the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture. It includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity.Joke Hermes tackles a variety of media forms and texts, including sports, detective fiction and police series, and children 's television and games. This is a fascinating and illuminating study of popular culture and its audience.
Book Description
All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective the top-grossing film melodramas of that decade, including A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life, and Picnic.
Stereotypically viewed as a complacent and idyllic time, the 1950s were actually a period of dislocation and great social change as Americans struggled to regain their equilibrium in the wake of World War II. Jackie Byars argues that mass-media texts of the period, especially films, provide evidence of society's consuming preoccupation with the domestic sphere—the nuclear family and its values. The melodramas included in her study appeared in theaters just as women were leaving their homes for the workplace. Some films challenged and some reinforced previously sacrosanct gender roles. Byars shows how Hollywood melodramas participated in, interpreted, and extended societal debates concerning family structure, sexual divisions of labor, and gender roles.
Byars's readings of these films assess a variety of critical methodologies and approaches to textual analysis, some central to feminist film studies and some that previously have been bypassed by scholars in the field. She specifically questions the validity of readings grounded solely on the premises of psychoanalysis, arguing that the male norm inherent in the psychoanalytic viewpoint may well prevent us from hearing, let alone understanding, the female voices that make their way into the most patriarchal of films. Byars thus critiques earlier approaches to the study of women's films and offers fresh readings, emphasizing from several important perspectives the suppressed female voice.
Book Description
After a decadelong hiatus, African Americans once again began appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. Bill Cosby costarred on I Spy, Sammy Davis Jr. briefly hosted a variety show, and in 1968 Diahann Carroll debuted in the title role of Julia, the first television series to star an African American since the cancellation of Amos ’n’ Andy. Over the next ten years, shows with African American casts became more common; some, like Sanford and Son and Good Times, were hits with both black and white audiences. Yet many within the black community criticize these programs as perpetuating demeaning stereotypes and hampering the political progress made by African Americans.
In Revolution Televised, Christine Acham offers a more complex reading of this period in African American television history, finding within these programs opposition to dominant white constructions of African American identity. She explores the intersection of popular television and race as witnessed from the documentary coverage of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the personal politics of Flip Wilson and Soul Train’s Don Cornelius, and the ways in which notorious X-rated comic Redd Foxx reinvented himself for prime time.
Reflecting on both the potential of television to effect social change as well as its limitations, Acham concludes with analyses of Richard Pryor’s politically charged and short-lived sketch comedy show and the success of outspoken comic Chris Rock. Revolution Televised deftly illustrates how black television artists operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and ultimately shape the mass media’s portrayal of African American life.
Christine Acham is assistant professor in African American and African studies at the University of California, Davis.
Customer Reviews:
Cool Book.......2005-12-11
Props to the Author for Bringing to Light Black Images&the battle on Network tv then&Now. I Love Sanford&Son&to this day ain't nothing on touching it for my eye balls. I miss Tv challgeing people to think&reflect. Major Tv networks have not done right by Black People on the Tv Tube since back in the day.everything has Been recycled or watered down.glad this Book came out&put it there. RIP to Redd Foxx,Esther Rolle&Richard Pryor.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Black Issues Book Review, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 351 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.
Citation Details
Title: Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power.(Book Review)
Author: Todd Steven Burroughs
Publication:
Black Issues Book Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Cox, Matthews & Associates
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 57(1)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thompson Gale
Book Description
The world of 3D modeling and animation is a complex one. Lucky for you, with
Inside 3ds max 7, you get not just one instructor but a team of expert developers and trainers who cover the newly revised program from every angle. Using case studies to uncover real-word solutions as well as hands-on tutorials to help you arrive at practical answers to everyday issues, this all-in-one reference is the answer to your 3ds max prayers. You'll find out how to use 3ds max's production tools (plus the whys behind their use) and be exposed to informative, inspirational examples of varying artistic styles. And when you're ready, you'll also find complete coverage of advanced topics: camera matching, character rigging, rendering, compositing, and more. To complete the learning package, a companion CD includes all of the book's lesson files. Whether you're a game designer, Hollywood effects wizard, or industrial designer you'll soon be creating out-of-this-word worlds with 3ds max 7 and this guide.
Customer Reviews:
wonderful max reference book.......2006-04-08
This book is simply amazing. 800 pages of pure greatness. If you have gotten your feet wet a little bit in max, and you are looking to step your skills up to the next level, this is a must have book.
I think it would be worth the $35 for just the thorough particle effects chapters alone. But you get so much more, character studio info, compositing, environment modelling, and even scripting (which i still haven't touched in max, but the info is there when i need it nonetheless)
A deeper look into 3ds Max 7.......2005-09-25
Before I started reading the Inside 3ds Max 7 book, I had read the authors biography. Most of them got a long history with 3ds Max, which makes this book a must-read experience.
The authors described each tool in the program and showed its strength without focusing on a specific production process, which makes this book suitable for all 3ds Max users in many fields.
The Inside 3ds Max 7 is for intermediate and advanced users. So, if you are new with 3ds Max, try to get a basic background before start reading this book to be able to acquire all the experience included in the book. The 3ds Max 7 book gives you a great experience with the program features that make you able to do professional tricks and effects.
The first part of the book shows what is new in 3ds Max 7 concerning each feature. And the following parts go deeper in program features to fully cover the program tools.
The 3ds Max book is a great book and will surely give you a solid experience with the program and its features.
Fantastic Book.......2005-09-02
The author obviously knows his subject matter and is able to communicate it to his audience very effectively. While I am neither an expert with 3ds max, nor a professional, I find the examples in this book to be concise, clearly written and easy to follow. As other reviewers point out this book is a great resource for intermediate to professional users.
Just Right for Intermediate Users.......2005-08-22
This book is perfect for the person that is comfortable with 3ds max basics and is ready to move on to the juicy treats the program has to offer. What I like most is how the example projects are based on real word examples. You wont have to suffer through boring generic concepts that don't show how the tools can be really used.
Advanced topics such as scripting, particles, rendering and compositing are presented in a way that let you put the ideas to work in your own projects quickly. For example, the scripting section shows you how to make the most of a few scripting terms so you are not overwhelmed and can start using maxscript right away.
The example walkthroughs are just right... very clear and concise but don't insult your intelligence by telling you what to click to create a box primitive.
I agree with a previous reviewer about the advanced rigging tutorial on the DVD rom. It is the best written tutorial on the subject I have seen.
Even though 3ds max 8 has been announced, this reference is still very current and definitely a "must buy".
Poor book!.......2005-08-07
I have 7 years of experience on max. This book is really poor. If you read max help (or search for tutorials) will find best resources. I really was disappointed with this book. Poor (and some cases WRONG )modeling tecniques, basic particles, all is poor. NOT EVEN A SINGLE CHAPTER IS GOOD!! If you need help try google or max official site [...]
Product Description
The latest installment of the Inside series. The goal is to go beyond the shipping tutorial s, to show you how to take advantage of each tools strength, avoid weakness, and bring you up to speed on the latest tips, tricks & battle tested techniques in use by the CG artists today. This is not a beginers book.
NOTE: as this book went to press, the parent co. of discreet and 3ds max7 announced a name change which is; Autodesk Media & Entertainment, & Autodesk 3ds Max 7.
**This book is "Safari enabled". This gives you online access to the book for 45 days
Books:
- Principles of Corporate Communication
- Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy)
- Recovering from a Disaster: How to Process Your Own Insurance Claim
- Revising Tax Treatment of Employer Provided Health Insurance (Aei Special Studies in Health Reform)
- Risk, Information and Insurance: Essays in the Memory of Karl H. Borch
- Senior Needs Planning, 2E
- Social insurance in Germany 1883-1911: Its history, operation, results and a comparison with the National insurance act, 1911
- Social Security in the United States: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act
- Survey of Advanced Sales, 8E
- The 100 Best Annuities You Can Buy
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- History: Fiction or Science
- History: Fiction or Science
- Finding a Job After 50: Reinvent Yourself for the 21st Century
- Functional Ultrastructure: An Atlas of Tissue Biology and Pathology
- History: Fiction or Science
- Heaven
- Guess How Much I Love You
- Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
- Computer Accounting with Peachtree for Microsoft Windows Release 5.0 Package
- Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire : The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan
Modern Actuarial Risk Theory
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Second Edition
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics
Insurance Risk and Ruin (International Series on Actuarial Science)
Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition
