Fratsex: Stories of Sex in College Fraternities

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Like an Abercrombie catalog come to life (and minus the token girl) this collection of testosterone-drenched gay erotic fiction reads like a kegger-turned-orgy. Pledge Week has never been this hot!

Greg Herren is the editor of Full Body Contact and the author of Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Bourbon Street Blues. He lives in New Orleans.

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Have Your Full.......2006-11-28

It isn't one of the greatest collections, but it definitely isn't bad either. A series of pretty okay to pretty good stories. Explicit. The stories are very short, but after reading three or four stories, I felt like I had enough fratsex to last me a life time. Chocked full of hot sex. If you like never ending college boy sex...Welcome to Nirvana!

Just like "A Million Little Pieces".......2006-09-19

I am so disappointed. I really thought I was reading an expose on college fraternaties. I don't know where authors come off doing this to their readers. This was a huge issue last year when James Frey wrote his "memoirs" "A Million Little Pieces." Oprah was so p***ed off at him. I thought she was going to smack him right in the keister! Well, Oprah didn't choose this one as one of her novels of the month and now I know why. I really thought I was getting some dirt on what college fraternity guys do, turns out THIS BOOK DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL COLLEGE FRATERNITIES!!! And where do I get MY information you want to know? Well, I have a friend who WAS in a fraternatity and he denied everything in this book. He said he didn't have anything against gays, but that he didn't do any of the acts spoken about in this book. I don't know when publishers are going to get their acts together and do some research before they print up these loads of lies. My friend told me that fraternity life was secretive, so much for getting the inside scoop! I guess I'll have to go join a fraternity.

OK read.......2005-08-14

This was an Ok book. I wasnt super drooling over it like: F.U. by mickey skee. All in All it was an okay read some stories super sizzzlin 5 star hot while others... werent.

its like GUYS GONE WILD!!!.......2005-07-04

My #1 pick this summer! Truly fun anthology about sex in college frathouses. Great cover, great selection. I think my favorite is Davem Verne's "Tucker the Spy". Brought back some delightful memories. College isn't nearly as fun if you're not spying on your peers.

Disappointing.......2005-05-27

I purchased this book with great enthusiasm only to be utterly disappointed. First, this is a book of FICTIONAL stores; there are no true stories or first person accounts to be found. Second, the stories are awful. Not only is there very little sex in some, they seem to go on and on and on.... I'm also not into torture or rape and that seems to be the main course in this text. Overall all I found this book to be truly a wast of time and money. Don't buy it unless you want to waste your money.

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Korean Enterprise presents a comprehensive look at Korea's business culture, the country's efforts to become a global player, and the challenges that lie ahead. Korea's economy has become the eighth largest in the world, yet Korean enterprises face numerous threats. The authors outline seven key imperatives in the areas of industrial policy, technological innovation, management practice, organizational design, entrepreneurship, and human resource investment that Korea must achieve if it is to be capable of competing. The book is an original exploration of the relationships among national culture, management practice, and government policy and an insightful evaluation of Korean management and development practices.

Korean Enterprise: The Quest for Globalization

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Korean Enterprise: The Quest for Globalization
Gerardo R., Richard M. Steers and seung-Ho Park Ungson
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application with Economic Applications Card
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application with Economic Applications Card
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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Applications provides a clear and concise introduction to the ways in which economists study the operations of markets. This well-known author's signature is to provide a text that is accessible to the students, but still enables them to learn "the real thing." This text is appropriate for students who are taking a second level microeconomics course with an algebra focus.

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Sweetie (author of the popular Sweetie: From the Gutter to the Runway) knows what it takes to make a man sit, roll over, and beg for more. In her follow-up tell-all, lavishly illustrated by acclaimed artist Ruben Toledo, this "hairy heartbreaker" offers a virtual alphabet of dating dos and don'ts.

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Witty, Clever, and Charming.......2002-09-29

The ABCs of love. A collection of delicious bon-bons, each morsel a tidbit of love advice from a voice of experience - a cute canine who (seemingly) has been around a few blocks a few times. "On the menu of love, not all men are main courses." So true. The illustrations are wonderful, too. I loved this book. I got it as a gift from my sweetie. A great gift. A little treasure.

the perfect xmas or valentine's day book.......2002-09-29

i loved the first book but this one is even better. sweetie gives funny, tongue-in-cheek advice about love, sex and puppies. amazing illustrations. she's the new eloise. great gift for my three daughters. my husband bought this for me as a gift.

A Sweet Treat.......2002-09-26

This is the follow up on Sweetie's "From the Gutter to the Runway". (Sweetie is a dog who somehow found her way to being a darling mutt of the fashion world.) I really enjoyed that book and was happy to see she had more to say. When it comes to love advice, she seems to have a pretty good-humored head on her shoulders! Very cute. The illustrations are a treat, too! Loved it.

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Probes the conflicts between the artistry of Black musicians and the control by largely white-owned businesses of jazz distribution—the recording companies, booking agencies, festivals, clubs, and magazines.

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General Observations and really great vignettes.......2003-05-21

This book is a useful expose of how the music business scams and exploits all artists, not just Black artists. It is vitally important at a time when the Wynton Marsalis/Albert Murray school of Jazz history is trying to claim that Jazz is a "celebration" of American capitalism. Kofsky shows Jazz musicians have been and continue to be victims of capitalism! And as someone with a background in studying the history of country music and western swing, I can agree with another reviewer here that the same tales of exploitation can be told about white musicans as well.

Kofsky is most effective in the individual stories he tells in the separate articles in this book where as has already been pointed out he "names names." Kofsky unmasks a lot of people who have manufactured images that they were friends of the jazz musician like Blue Note Records.

One of his most interesting vignettes is his exposure of Vanderbuilt heir, self-praising liberal, and paternalist interferer with Jazz John Hammond. He exposes how Hammond's phoney story about Bessie Smith's death was part of the legend that helped net the already-wealthy Hammond scores of thousands of dollars, back when a dollar was a dollar, while Smith and her estate got zilch. Just the Bessie Smith story is worth the price of the book!

While this book is not always available on Amazon, it is always available from BooksfromPathfinder, an Amazon Z store that you can get to by clicking on New and Used further up this page!

An important illumination of the way jazz has worked.......1999-01-02

As the pithy title suggests, African-American culture has been the primary source of jazz music -- and folks who hail from that culture have had prescious little influence over where the profits from the music have gone... and, even, over who has gotten work and who has been heard.

This book illuminates that ugly side to the jazz world. The first three chapters get things rolling in fits and starts without adequate evidence to demonstrate that the explotation of black musicians has been markedly different from that of other musicians. If this were the bulk of the work it would be interesting reading but would not do much more than preach to the choir.

The rest of the book builds on those chapters, deepens them, broadens them, and creates an inarguable portrait of exploitation that goes so far as to names names *and* provide well-researched explanations that refute, for example, the notion that race is what one should focus on when exploring the history of jazz.

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This work is a collection of the best research reports and essays gathered globally by the editors over a three-year period. World-renowned experts from the Arab region as well as the West have authored most of the chapters. Seven sections divide the text, and each investigates compelling, timely questions for today's communication professionals. Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume may be used at colleges and universities worldwide. It will impact numerous academic disciplines and the professional world as well. A wide range of curricula may adopt the text as supplementary reading for courses in political science, speech and rhetoric, public relations, sociology, communications, journalism, diplomacy and government.

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An eclectic variety of learned authors draw upon ideas presented in Star Trek.......2005-08-05

Edited by an assistant and an associate professor of their respective Departments of Criminal Justice, Star Trek Visions of Law & Justice is a unique collection of essays that speaks both to fans of the "Star Trek" television series and to serious-minded students of the evolution of law and justice codes in a rapidly transforming modern world. An eclectic variety of learned authors draw upon ideas presented in Star Trek as a model of the future, and scrutinize the possible fallout for all-too-prevalent legal dilemmas of today and tomorrow. Essays include "The Law of the Federation", "What Color is an Android?", "Star Trek as a Pedagogical Vehicle for Teaching Law and Justice", and much more. Extensively researched in law codes as surely as episode references, Star Trek Visions is thoroughly serious in its examination of evolving human law systems and may even appear a bit dry to television fans, but applies just the right mix of popular culture to as a very effective metaphor and illustration for issues whose universality that far transcend even the most widespread TV show.

Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology (Master Minds Series)
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Beauty is truth- so far as I can understand it

Marriage of simplicity and power

Wonderful reading

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The machine may be beautiful, but . . .

Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology (Master Minds Series)
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Gelernter's lyrical rant on the critical role of beauty and aesthetics in computer technology comes just in time. Computer engineers and designers, who create software that is bloated with seldom-used features and that intrusively draws our attention to it rather than the task at hand, could greatly benefit from the pursuit of what Gelernter calls "deep beauty," the marriage of power and simplicity.

Gelernter suggests that the dichotomy between art/beauty and science/technology has led to inadequate academic training of computer-science students. He points out that the greatest minds in science and industry have always pursued beauty. "Machine beauty is the driving force behind technology and science," he says, and yet "beauty bothers us." Somehow it's perceived to be softer and less rigorous to train computer scientists in art, music, architecture, and design. However, Gelernter sees these disciplines as closely aligned with the mathematics and science that are the foundation of technology. Because of this lack of aesthetic education, much user interface has been poorly designed.

Gelernter's persuasive arguments are far-reaching as he casts a shrewd eye on everything from postmodernism to architecture to the nature of beauty itself. This short, often witty book is written by someone who has paid a price for his opinion--Gelernter was a target of the Unabomber and was critically injured in a mail-bomb attack in 1993.

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Beauty is truth- so far as I can understand it .......2007-05-08

This book finds Beauty in a place where it is not ordinarily thought of as being- in the design of machines. It attempts to show how beauty 'drives the computer revolution' "how lust for beauty and elegance underpinned the most important discoveries in computational history and continues to push research onward today." As Gelertner defines it beauty comes of the combination of 'simplicity and power'. And the experience of it can be found even if one is not an engineer . He gives examples like hitting 'with one graceful hammer stroke ' a nail into a board, or making a beautiful catch in baseball, with ease and grace. He says that in such beautiful actions there is no 'superflous motion'. He gives examples from a wide variety of fields to illustrate this principle. "Vigorous writing is concise" he says quoting William Strunk".
If I understand him 'beauty' is a kind of rightness in the way a thing is done or designed .
This seems to me an interesting definition though of course far from an all- encompassing one of 'beauty'.
However when Gelertner began actually comparing computer programs and designs, Apple vs. Microsoft for instance. I did not really get what was going on. I did not have the knowledge and experience to really understand or evaluate this.

Marriage of simplicity and power.......2007-03-10

As David Gelertner points out, most of us implicitly hold that scientists and artists are radically different by craft and by the very nature of their work. In fact, the scientific and artistic personalities seem to overlap more than they differ. Beauty and simplicity are the ultimate defense against complexity, and all the greatest discoveries are usually both simple and powerful - they are beautiful. Whether it is software, or product design, or even theoretical physics, best solutions have an aura of elegance and beauty that is often overlooked by our schools and colleges; as David Gelernter points out, our sole focus on analytical reasoning is leading us down the wrong path, and we need to address this issue on an emergency basis.

Wonderful reading.......2004-06-05

I am reading Gelernter in backwards order, also recommend Muse in the Machine

The Mirror Worlds Companion.......2002-03-14

What is beauty? Gelernter, in a work that is more an
essay than full-blown book, does a wonderful job of
drawing the reader into exploring that question. He
asks, "...could a mathematical proof, scientific theory,
or piece of software be 'beautiful' in the real, literal
way that a painting or symphony or rose can be beautiful?"
The answer, according to Gelernter, is a resounding "Yes".

Machine beauty, a simple elegance that resonates in its
observer, is the subject of the work. But, how might one
sense this? Gelernter offers this: "You might experience
something resembling machine beauty, even if you are no
scientist or engineer, when you drive a nail into a
board with one clean, graceful hammer stroke." Precisely!

"Deep beauty, 'resonant beauty' in which many types of
loveliness reinforce one another, is a principal topic
of this book" according to the author. He then explores
the following two claims: (1) "...machine beauty is
the driving force behind technology and science", and
(2) "... machine beauty bothers us. We act as a society
as if our goal were not to nurture or celebrate it but
to stamp it out."

Gelernter, a computer scientist and sometimes artist,
applies his many observations to the sad state of today's
computer software. "The hell with mathematics; let's
teach of our programmers about beauty" he exclaims!

There are long running comparisons between the WinTel
PC and Apple Macintosh in the work. It isn't a "sales
pitch" for one or the other; just a set of observations
on how the emphasis (or deemphasis) of beauty and
elegance drove both efforts.

The work is easy to read yet fully researched. A "Notes"
section appears at the end of the 144 pages of prose to
provide all of the references to the other works Gelernter
drew upon. I thought the effort made to keep the meat of
the book uncluttered was well worthwhile.

This book is an excellent companion to Gelernter other
work "Mirror Worlds". Read Mirror Worlds first and then
eat this for dessert--you won't be disappointed.

The machine may be beautiful, but . . ........2002-03-12

The author seems to have started out with a premise I have held to since I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" when I was in college. My first computer teacher, Ted Nelson, turned me on to the intrinsic beauty in things computerish with his enormously quirky "Computer Revolution/Dream Machines". My wife is a designer and I am in computers. We have had many long conversations about the false division drawn between art and science. So I thought I might have found a new soulmate when I picked up this little (176 pages) book. Too bad it wasn't so. Oh, Gelernter seems to be going the same way initially, even if I found the prose, and especially the examples, a little rough. But he just couldn't hold me. I found him spending too much time defending from his soapbox rather than illuminating. He seemed to be trying to write the textbook for a college course he wants to teach instead of reaching out to the reader. I don't think I could wholeheartedly recommend this book to my personal friends, so I can't recommend it to you either. Maybe next time.

Li yü mei : tian nao ko ming yüan tung li: Machine beauty : elegance and the heart of technology / by David Gelernter (MasterMinds)

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Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology

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