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"Please" and "thank you" are fun and easy to remember with Excuse Me!. Simple and repetitive, it's the perfect way to introduce those magic words that all little ones should know. From burping to breaking a sibling's toy, toddlers will love seeing these appealing babies in situations they know all about, and they'll have fun lifting the flaps to discover the right words to say-"Excuse me!" and "I'm sorry!"
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My son just loves this book!.......2007-10-21
My son loves answering the questions in this book. Whenever he burps, he says, "Jacob burped. Excuse me." When someone offers him something, he says, "No, thank you," or "Yes, please." It's just so cute!!! We love it because it's a short, easy book. Just right for our son! God bless!
My Two Year Old Loves It.......2007-10-19
My two year old daughter loves this book. The illustrations are bright and colorful, and the lift-the-flap stuff is right up my toddler's alley. this is a great introduction to manners.
GOOD MANNERS BOOK.......2007-10-14
GOOD MANNERS BOOK. HOWEVER, THERE'S A PAGE ABOUT NOT WANTING PEAS FOR BREAKFAST. WE JUST CHANGE THE WORDS WHEN WE READ IT TO HER. THE REST OF THE BOOK IS GREAT. MY DAUGHTER ENJOYS READING THE BOOK OVER AND OVER!
good start.......2007-09-15
we learned the book by heart and have been using the words in our daily life, beautiful book, awsome drawings, very interesting, and is on our daily reading list.
Positive reinforcement.......2007-08-22
I agree that there is nothing more heart warming than a polite little toddler. The illustrations are a colorful blend of good behavior. Although I believe the best way to teach a child is to lead by example, this book is a fun reminder of good manners!
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The founding fathers vision of democracy was transformed into a one dollar, one vote democracy. Wall Street and corporations own all the money and thus all the votes. A clash of civilizations is promoted as a scapegoat for capitalisms systemic failure
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Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
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Great book but too short!.......2007-04-16
If only this book were longer. When it arrived I was rather taken aback - just 60 pages? Surely not! What can I learn about the Germans in 60 pages?
Quite a lot, as it turns out. This book launches straight in with a very amusing look at the Germans, giving a brief discussion of their history and how the German nation came to be and then detailing many of the quirks and habits of this fascinating nation. The authors give a few ideas how the Germans have been so successful, particularly in terms of literature and music (Goethe, Bach, Kant) but also show some of the angst and problems that the German nature can cause for the people.
The authors are both German although I wouldn't know that from their writing which is excellent, funny and seems to understand the Brits very well. They are also very able to poke fun at their own country (although they say this isn't something at which Germans are very adept).
With such a short book you can only really get a very brief introduction to German people but it's a very amusing overview and certainly made me think a number of times. We tend to think of the Germans as probably the closest to Brits in terms of personality and nature than other Europeans - this book shows that we might well be wrong in that opinion and it might just help us to understand them more when we visit.
Oh, and if you want a view of the Brits (and a much larger book) I can heartily recommend Kate Fox's "Watching the English".
Excellent, funny and on the ball (almost).......2002-03-07
I have read a few of the Xenophobe's Guides, and this so far is the best and the funniest. Maybe because I have lived here for the last two years, and experienced all the wonderful quirks and traits of the locals that I could relate to this book, but really, it is for everyone who plans to visit or live here, and of cause for the Germans themselves.
Natually, I didn't agree with all of it, especially the working atmosphere... It's really not as formal as written in the book, at least not these days, but much of the rest runs true.
A bit expensive for only 64 pages, but worth it for the laugh.
Informative and interesting.......2001-03-04
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans is a small and concise paperback that I've read more than once. It talks about many aspects of German society. It's been written by two authors: Stefan Zeidenitz and Ben Barkow. This useful, gratifying guide is 64 pages long and covers a total of 17 topics--examples of some of these are beliefs and values, leisure and pleasure, culture, conversation and gestures, custom and tradition, health and hygiene, government and bureaucracy, and business. Subjects discussed that I especially find to be engaging are the ones dealing with Christmas, television, and eating. Anyone who's interested in learning about Germany, or planning a trip, should find this book to be worthwhile and helpful. The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans is a good reference publication that I'm glad to have; it's one that I plan on reading again.
Not even finished but already worth the purchase.......2000-12-24
It is concise, funny and true for the most part. I can recommend it to foreigners as well as to my own people. A visitor/tourist can use it as a valuable supplement along with a regular travel guide. For someone knowing Germany and Germans well enough some examples seem to be out of date, inaccurate and do not reflect the current situation.
concise, true and very funny.......1999-08-26
I'm a German working from time to time abroad (often in the UK). The book is written by two Germans working now for decades in the UK and explains the culture difference from a british point of view. I think it is a great insight on the attitudes, implicit policies and main motivations of Germans. Furthermore, it is very funny (I had to read it in one session and was laughing out loud most of the time). A must read if you plan to go to Germany!
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This valuable supplement has been written to present essential scales and scale studies for the beginning student. The scales are presented in various rhythms and patterns, including arpeggios. All of the various patterns presented can be used with each scale. The fingerings included present viable ways to approach the scales, but other fingerings can be explored. Various rhythms and bowings may also be applied to practicing the scales. All major scales are presented in two and three octave patterns. All minor scales are presented in three octave patterns. Chromatic scales of two and three octaves are also included. These scales can form an important part of any violin student's practice.
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Essential Techniques 2000 for Strings is a book of studies to help the intermediate player develop the skills necessary for playing in an orchestra. The various sections of the book are organized so that you may use them in the way that best suits your individual needs. Includes Three Major Sections: I. Higher Positions and Shifting II. Keys and Scales III. Bowings, Rhythms, and Vibrato. Includes a Play-Along CD.
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In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled—often both—but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back on itself to chronicle the many writers who have helped define how we listen to and how we understand jazz. That is, of course, until now.
In Blowin’ Hot and Cool, John Gennari provides a definitive history of jazz criticism from the 1920s to the present. The music itself is prominent in his account, as are the musicians—from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and beyond. But the work takes its shape from fascinating stories of the tradition’s key critics—Leonard Feather, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Dan Morgenstern, Gary Giddins, and Stanley Crouch, among many others. Gennari is the first to show the many ways these critics have mediated the relationship between the musicians and the audience—not merely as writers, but in many cases as producers, broadcasters, concert organizers, and public intellectuals as well.
For Gennari, the jazz tradition is not so much a collection of recordings and performances as it is a rancorous debate—the dissonant noise clamoring in response to the sounds of jazz. Against the backdrop of racial strife, class and gender issues, war, and protest that has defined the past seventy-five years in America, Blowin’ Hot and Cool brings to the fore jazz’s most vital critics and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping jazz’s significance in American culture and life.
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Incredibly Pedantic and Poorly Written.......2007-04-28
I bought this book based on hearing a NPR interview. Although Gennari sounded distant and aloof, the interviewer did a nice job of making the book sound interesting. Aside from tidbits of history not in some of the other books on jazz, the bulk of the book contains the most convoluted prose I have ever come across. Here is one of innumerable sentences that boggle the mind:
"As Baraka aligned himself with the community-oriented goals and methods of the black power mjovement, drenched his writing and public performaces in the rhythms and tonalities of the black urban vernacular, and hoisted him self up as an arbiter of black authenticity, his quest for what Werner Sopllors has called a 'populist modernism' involved a tricky effort to reconcile collective political imperatives with the individual aesthetic freedom he prized as both a poet and a champion of the jazz avant garde."
Good grief, that sentence contained 81 words! Where was the editor? Since the first couple of chapters are fairly digestable I am guessing that the editor simply ran out of gas and conceded the last five chapters of the book. I am also guessing that the interviewer did not read more than the first or second chapter of the book.
Admittedly, his research is exhaustive but unfortunately his style is exhausting.
At the risk of using double negatives, this is not a book you can't put down.
Jazz Critics' Critic.......2006-07-27
Mr. Gennari spent many years writing this extremely well documented book, one that needed to be written. Generally he is on the mark with his history of and comments about most of the major critics who've written about "America's classical music." He spends the bulk of his time on the expected figures, including Rudi Blesh, Leonard Feather, Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Ralph Ellison, Dan Morganstern, Stanley Crouch, and Albert Murray, but the amount of space devoted to John Hammond, who, although a major player as talent scout and record producer for jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, is not a name that rolls off one's lips as a critic.
Gennari's one major misstep is the section in which he features Ross Russell and Albert Goldman. Russell, the owner of Dial Records who recorded some of Charlie Parker's greatest sessions, write a novel based upon Parker's life and a full blown biography as well. Both efforts remain highly controversial and hardly qualify Russell for as much attention as he receives here. And Goldman, another controversial writer best known for sensational bigraphies of Lennie Bruce and Jim Morrison is at best a marginal figure as a jazz critic.
In spite of that one major lapse, a highly recommended study of jazz criticism.
Like Dancing About Architecture.......2006-07-11
Thelonius Monk once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. If you nevertheless enjoy reading about jazz as much as listening to it, this is a great read. On the other hand, if you think jazz critics are a bunch of navel-gazing wannabes who use music as a platform to expound their pet social or political views, you may yet find this book interesting. It's not a breezy book by any means, but Gennari succeeds in not getting caught up in academic discourse-speak. "Liminal" appears only once, books and magazines aren't "texts," and they're read, not "interrogated." Whew!
Gennari starts with Leonard Feather and John Hammond, two critics with serious conflict of interest issues, both from a business perspective and from the standpoint of their strong social beliefs. Feather largely overcame his, while Hammond gave in to his temptation to judge a record by whether its label allowed unions in its pressing plants. Genneri spends much of his book focusing on the post WWII critics: Martin Williams, Nat Hentoff, Ralph Gleason, Gene Lees, Whitney Balliett and Marshall Sterns. He devotes a chapter to the radicals Amiri Baraka and Frank Kofsky and closes out with the new kids, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddins and Albert Murray. There are some odd digressions: the cult of the (mostly British) record collectors; the Newport Jazz festival; Dial records producer and author Ross Russell's posthumous obsession with Charlie Parker.
There is something of a leftward slant. While the radical leftists such as Baraka and Kofsky are dismissed when they eventually wander away from music criticism for pure politics, Baraka is taken seriously for his work up to about 1964-65. On the other hand, hard conservatives such as Richard Sudhalter and James Lincoln Collier simply get the back of the hand. Gennari doesn't wear his politics on his sleeve, however; up to the last chapter you really have to read between the lines to get a sense of his drift. There is, however, a blast near the end when he slams the conservatives for their assertion that jazz historians have inflated the role of black musicians and ignored whites.
As I said above, this is a fascinating book for anyone who enjoys reading about jazz and an indispensable item for those interested in the history of jazz literature.
entertaining read .......2006-07-05
This is a very interesting book. The topic essentially concerns the perception and canonization of jazz among a select group of critics. This process of the canonization of jazz intersects with perennial questions about the nature of art, America, democracy, and race...lots of fuel, as you can see, and the author gets a lot of mileage from these questions.
The book hits a few speed bumps along the way (I thought, for instance, that discussions about gender and jazz were stretched and the discussion of the psychosexual motivations of jazz collectors was overwrought). And the author's even tone throughout is lost at the end as he doesn't hide his contempt for certain 'conservative' critics But, overall, a very fine book and highly recommended.
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Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life
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Do soap opera fans deserve their reputation as lonely people, hopeless losers, or bored housewives? No, according to C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby. These authors—soap fans themselves—argue that soap fans are normal individuals who translate their soap watching into a broad range of public and private experience. People who cut across all categories of age, gender, race, ethnicity, income, education, and ideology incorporate a love of the soaps into their day-to-day leisure activities.
Interviews with soap opera viewers, actors, writers, producers, directors, the daytime press, and fan club staff members reveal fascinating details about the inside world of fandom and the multitude of outlets for fan expression—clubs, newsletters, electronic bulletin boards, and public events. Numerous examples illustrate the pleasure fans derive from critiquing characters, speculating on plot twists, and swapping memorabilia.
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George Maestri broke new ground with his first book, Digital Character Animation 2: Essential Techniques, which quickly became a fixture on the recommended reading list of just about every contemporary digital animator. It demonstrated solid methods for building characters and preparing them for animation, and touched on animation itself, all the while staying away from hardware and software specifics. Maestri explained the "why" of doing something. It was up to you to know "how."
The second volume, Digital Character Animation 2: Advanced Techniques, delves deeper into the art of animation itself without losing its digital perspective and yet while still maintaining some distance from hardware platforms and software applications.
The book cuts right to the chase; there are no chapters on modeling, lighting, or rendering. Every chapter focuses on character motivation, character movement, framing a story, preparing a character for animation, and acting itself. As the animator, you are also an actor, and the more you know about acting, the better you can animate.
As if one section about motion isn't enough, there are separate sections on "human motion," "animal motion," and "anthropomorphic animation," each with some powerful visual examples and demonstrations on ancillary topics such as rigging the underlying skeletal structures and creating morph targets.
This book may not be the massive tome that something like Inside 3ds Max 4 is, but in its 200-plus pages is more information designed to help animators of any level take their careers up one notch. --Mike Caputo
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As soon as George Maestri's classic (digital) Character Animation was released, people began asking when he was going to do on edition for trully high-end users with the most advanced skill sets. Here it is; George writes directly to CG professionals, with more non-software-specific approaches to character animation.
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This book doesn't go into anything in depth........2003-09-05
This book doesn't go into anything in depth, teaches you very little about actual character animation, tries to cover to much in a short time, and most of the images are very unprofessional looking. You'd be much better off getting The Animator's Survival Ki, Inspired 3D Character Animation, or Cartoon Animation.
Doesn't go into anything in depth........2003-09-05
This book doesn't go into anything in depth, tries to cover to much in a short time, and most of the images are very unprofessional looking. You'd be much better off getting The Animator's Survival Ki, Inspired 3D Character Animation, or Cartoon Animation.
Pretty good i liked it.......2002-12-16
I think that this book was worth the money. It gave a good look on how to become the character, act the character and more. It didn't really tell you how to make the characters but that is in the first book. I would definetly buy these two books at the same time.
Tad Scheeler MyMac.com Book Review.......2002-12-12
With Digital Character Animation 2, volume 2: advanced techniques, the maestro of animation, George Maestri picks up where he left off in volume 1 and delivers an amazing amount of knowledge in 218 easy to read, well illustrated, full color pages. Every page is short, sweet, to the point, and packed with tips that any aspiring digital animator needs to know. It is full of essential information that will help the reader turn out effective, believable animation.
Digital Character Animation 2, volume 2: advanced techniques is written from a software-neutral perspective and focuses on fundamental concepts that can be applied in any program. It begins with chapters on real world production and story development from an animator's point of view. The heart of the book contains chapters on rigging characters, tips and tricks, human and animal motion, acting, and anthropomorphic animation (animating the inanimate). It ends with a chapter on animation for games.
George Maestri's credentials are impressive. He has worked on projects for Nickelodeon (Rocko's Modern Life), CBS (The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) and was the original animation producer of South Park.
Whether you are a student of animation, a hobbyist or a professional, this book should be in your library right next to Digital Character Animation 2, volume 1: essential techniques. I consider both volumes required reading for any person interested in character animation. My copies are already dog-eared from constant use.
The only negative comments I will make are the lack of an accompanying CD to augment the text and the relatively high price tag for the book. At $50 (US), I would expect a CD, especially with a book on animation. Volume 1 of this series did come with a CD and I found it very helpful in understanding the concepts presented in the text.
MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5
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Tad Scheeler
Some bad information.......2002-08-10
I bought this book hoping to get a good understanding of animation fundamentals. However, after getting into an actual studio and starting production I found many of the topics that were discussed are incorrect. He does a good job of skimming the surface of animation, but falls short on actually teaching hard core animation skills.
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