The Lord of the Rings 2005 Calendar

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Nice pictures, not very functional.......2005-02-23

When I get a big calendar, I expect it to be functional. There are lots of okay pictures, but if I had my pick I don't know if I would have picked half of them. And the actual calendar area is not white, but a dirty sand color, and is not all that big (taking up a little over half of the area it could take up), so I can't write as much as I'd like.

Get it Now before they Sell out!!.......2004-10-11

This is one excellent calendar, with Beautiful Pictures from all Three of the movies! I found mine at Barnes and Noble (in store, not on line), I went back the next day to get a second one for my brother, and they were already sold out, my next stop was the Calendar shop that set's up in the local mall evey winter, sold out again already! + they don't know if they will get anymore!!
The price I paid was 13.99 at B&N, so It's definately cheaper here on Amazon! Enjoy + Get it while it lasts!

The Lord of the Rings 2005-2006 Student Planner

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The Lord of the Rings 2005-2006 Student Planner
Cedco Publishing
Manufacturer: Cedco Pub (Cal)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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LOTR Student PlannerCalendar.......2005-09-16

If you are a student or work in an academic environment, student planners - which run in on our professional calendar, August to August - are the way to go. This planner features week at a glance scheduling, with 3 month calendars in the margins. The design is nice, great for LOTR fans, fine for others. I picked this planner because its sturdy, interesting looking, and designed for adults. Most other student planners look like they're designed for children and young teens and are not suitable for college students and faculty.

Tolkien Calendar 2005: The Lord of the Rings 50th Anniversary Calendar

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Tolkien's eye
Tolkien's Own Vision

Tolkien Calendar 2005: The Lord of the Rings 50th Anniversary Calendar
J. R. R. Tolkien
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0060722983
Release Date: 2004-08-17

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The Tolkien Calendar 2005 features 13 paintings and illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, some of these not appearing in print for many years. The paintings are based on Tolkien's classic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and provide a fascinating insight into how Tolkien himself imagined the world of Middle-earth would look. The images are accompanied by text which explains how they relate to the story and offers information on their content and history.

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Tolkien's eye.......2004-12-13

This is by far the most satisfying of all Tolkien calendars, because it is the most real and personal rendering of Middle Earth by any artist.

Alan Lee and others have done some good work, but this was Tolkien's world and these are his images. Sure, Orthanc is less severe in Tolkien's imagination than in Jackson's film, but Orthanc was never intended to be portrayed as an evil fortress? Originally built by Men of Gondor, Orthanc served as an impregnable fortress. In Sindarin, it means `Forked Height', in reference to the four pinnacles of `hard, glossy black stone, welded into a single tower five hundred feet high'". It was later deserted as the Dứnedain moved north, and Saruman - ever in need of feeding his ego - took up residence there. For those familiar only with the movies, this drawing might seem like a let down. I hope that I've squared this away somewhat. The movie overdid it.

I have always admired Tolkien, revered him with a sense of awe. He wrote a classic children's novel (The Hobbit) and another less well known children's book, Letters from Father Christmas (which he also illustrated). He wrote one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, The Lord of the Rings, which was not only a remarkable work of literature but spawned an entire genre (and, unfortunately, some rather poor imitators). Beyond that, he wrote remarkable poetry, much of which can be found in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and in The Lays of Beleriand. But wait - there's more. He wrote mythology. Mythology that is to me, at least, more interesting than any existing "real" mythology. I'm referencing The Silmarillion, of course. As if that isn't enough, Tolkien was an accomplished artist, an Oxford don, translated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and held various chairs throughout his illustrious scholarly career. (Where in the world did he find the time to do all of this?)

As to the calendar, Rivendell's beauty is captivating; Lothlorien is as it should have appeared in the movie; Fangorn, with its dark, oppressing watercolors is frightening and foreboding, a forest one would be wise to avoid; Helm's deep, while less impressive as a work of art, is unique as it offered Tolkien a visual image from which to work while planning this massive battle; the leaves from the book of Mazarbul were perhaps my favorite inclusion, if for no other reason that it caused me to admire Tolkien even more; Minas Tirith, though unfinished, showed signs of grandeur; and the covers that Tolkien himself drew for the three books are better than any I have seen. The drawing for the Two Towers ends the debate of exactly which towers Tolkien was referring to in the title. He drew Minas Morgul and Orthanc. I think he's the expert on this.

Honestly, I'm not sure why The Brother's Hildebrandt bothered to put out a LOTR calendar. I'm sure it had to do with milking the 50th anniversary for all its worth, and that I haven't seen their names on anything of merit in years until the LOTR movies were being made, but their art doesn't come close to depicting the depths of Tolkien's work. They were best served as artists for The Sword of Shannara - which was derivative and shallow. If you're thinking about which calendar to buy, stop thinking right now. This is the real thing - the other is simply Parkay.

Tolkien's Own Vision.......2004-09-13

The 50th Anniversary of The Lord of the Rings' publication is being suitably celebrated with this 2005 Tolkien Calendar. All of the illustrations are by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, created while he was working on the book in the 1930s and 1940s. The illustrations have been published before, some in the first few Tolkien calendars in 1972 and 1973, others in Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien in the late 1970s, and all of them in Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond's classic J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator.

Tolkien was a gifted artist and draftsman. Even his doodles, like Shelob's Lair (drawn on a page of manuscript) in October, display a high degree of talent and precision. He was famously finicky about his drawings, insisting that each one should precisely mirror the story. (This led to his cropping some elements of some drawings, like March's Moria Gate, which displays both the full picture and the part that was trimmed off; and totally discarding others, like the abortive cityscape of Steinborg shown for September.) This perfectionism led to some absolutely beautiful productions. I am particularly fond of April's Lothlorien, showing the mallorns in full flower, and of February's view of Rivendell looking east: a tumbled landscape of stone, water, and trees.

Those who have become used to the artwork of others in previous Tolkien calendars, and those whose primary view of Middle earth was shaped by the Peter Jackson films, may be a bit put off by these drawings by Tolkien himself. July's Orthanc, for example, provides a rather modest view of Saruman's tower compared to that seen in the movie. Those of us who are true lovers of Middle earth, however, will find that these drawings are especially beautiful, regardless of any intrinsic aesthetic value, because they allow us to see Tolkien's own vision as it unfolded in his mind and flowed from his pen and brush.

The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King) 2004-2005 Student Planner (Lord of the Rings)

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Too beautiful to use!
Excellent addition to your LOTR collection
Attractive, but disappointing
Beautiful Planner for fan and student alike

The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King) 2004-2005 Student Planner (Lord of the Rings)

Manufacturer: Cedco Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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12 month student planner. 7" x 9" softcover, wire-o bound. Student planner has a weekly page layout with images from the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Ring movie. Student planner includes grids for scheduled classes, grade keeper, year at-a-glance page and plenty of room for notes.

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Too beautiful to use!.......2005-01-12

If you buy this to actually use, buy TWO! One to keep and one to save. For if you get one, then you will see you want to keep it in it's pristine condition.

It have monthly calendars, a place for class schedules. Then August 2004-August 2005 it have a page for weekly appointments. On the left side, you get a full color picture of ROTK.

For LOTRs fans, it's a must. You just won't want to do anything but save it!

It's worth every penny as a collectors item, but I would cry actually using this beautifully produced planner.

Excellent addition to your LOTR collection.......2004-10-15

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2004-2005 Student Planner" is a definite must-have! I am an absolute lover of the Lord of the Rings books, not to mention the movies. I have used the two previous versions of this student planner, so I was so pleased to see them come out with another planner for this school year! This student planner is a terrific addition to my Lord of the Rings collection. One of the best things about this student planner must be mentioned, which are the wonderful photographs!

This is a 12 month student planner, 7.30" x 8.86", and is wire-o bound. Includes:
*GENERAL INFORMATION* - Insert your general info.
*EMERGENCY INFORMATION* - Insert you emergency info.
*YEAR-AT-A-GLANCE PAGE* - Includes all special dates.
*CLASS SCHEDULE* - Fill in class schedules for the 5 school days, including space for the times for the 7 classes. There are 4 blank schedules for the four school quarters.
*WEEKLY PLANNER* - Plenty of large movie stills from the hit-movie and plenty of room to put all information you need to write down.
*GRADE KEEPER* - Put in your grades for up to 11 subjects, includes a chart on 'Grade Point Average'.
*COMMONLY MISUSED WORDS* - 45 sets of commonly misused words.
*WEIGHTS & MEASURES* - A complete chart for both the Metric System and the U.S. Customary System.
*CONVERSIONS* - I must say this will be VERY helpful to me! Seems very complete.
*COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS* - 321 different words.
*ADDRESS/PHONE* - 2-pages to fill with friend's and family's info.
*BIRTHDAYS & SPECIAL OCCASIONS* - Fill in special events and their dates.
*NOTES* - Only 1 page to fill with your notes. I had hoped there would be more.

One thing is that there is some sort of confusion about the front cover. In Amazon it shows the picure of Legolas and Gimli on a horse, while my front cover is the main poster used to promote "The Return of the King". In either case, both are spectacular pictures. The whole book is in beautiful faded parchment colors of light brown and yellowish brown. All pages have the faded background of the White Tree of Gondor and a red vine edge near the center. All of this gives the book a beautiful touch. The pictures are not particularily clear images but are given a textured effect.

Only one complaint... there are no pictures of Faramir! I mean, even Galadriel gets a full page picture, why doesn't Faramir? *sniff sniff*

Attractive, but disappointing.......2004-08-29

The Lord of the Rings-Return of the King Student Planner would have been more accurately called a date book/appointment book. The illustrations are lovely, and it does contain a lot of nice extras such as: Calendar pages, class schedule for 4 quarters, grade keeper, lists of commonly misused and misspelled words, weights & measures, and an area for phone numbers and addresses.
Unfortunately, the main body of the planner falls short. Each week has a full-page photo from the movie. This leaves only a one-page area, into which is squeezed seven days, each day having just four lines in which to write. Also, there are no subject headings, or time slots.The poor layout and limited space renders this planner inadequate for my son's busy schedule, so now I'm in search of a better planner. I'm keeping this one,simply because he is a huge Lord of the Rings fan. He will use it for appointments,special occasions, etc. But for a student planner, it just doesn't fit the bill.

Beautiful Planner for fan and student alike.......2004-08-06

With its high gloss, full color illustrated cover of the beloved LOTR RTK characters, this planner draws you into the LOTR world. With authentic fonts and gold swashes of color throughout, this planner offers ample room for writing, excellent page layout, strong quality pages, better than average spiral binding and is drilled with two holes so it can be attached into a three-ring notebook binder. Each week offers a full-page, full color movie still, many which I have not seen used in other print products. The back section of the planner offers tools including a grade recorder, lists of commonly mispelled and misused words, math conversions, and pages for notes, birthdays, and addresses. It's even printed on recycled paper. Best product I've seen for this price and even a few bucks more. This durable and attractive planner is an excellent choice for kids and adults alike. This teacher gives this planner, "two thumbs up!"

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Lord of the Rings 2005-2006 Datebook

Manufacturer: Cedco Pub (Cal)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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Technological change has created a dazzling array of new products and media for the enjoyment of entertainment and transformed the economic structure of production and distribution. Simultaneously, it has produced difficult new challenges for workers and managers in the entertainment industry. The contributors to this volume suggest that an understanding of the art and entertainment industry's experience may offer useful insights into the problems in other rapidly changing industries.

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Bar Guide.......2006-09-25

This book is a great resource if you find yourself traveling thru Wisconsin. It lists taverns by city that are worth stopping at.

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Led Zeppelin Classic Album Edition Box Set (I, II, III, IV, Houses Of The Holy) Authentic Guitar Tab Editions

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Led Zeppelin Classic Album Edition Box Set (I, II, III, IV, Houses Of The Holy) Authentic Guitar Tab Editions
Led Zeppelin
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing
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ASIN: 0739046160
Release Date: 2007-01-17

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Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Lyrics, Chords & Chord Frames. This set comes with 5 books with accurate transcriptions of the first 5 Led Zeppelin albums. All of the solos, fills, mandolin, alternate guitar tunings, and in some cases organ/synth parts are transcribed as well. From album III - V (Houses Of The Holy) there are detailed notes on each song in the beginning of the books that give insight into how the band recorded the song and sometimes some pointers on how to play the song when there are guitar parts being played through several tracks at once. This collection comes in a beautiful slip cover box. A true value and must have for all Led Zeppelin fans!

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Classic Led Zeppelin III & IV

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ASIN: 0769205577

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LED ZEPPELIN III includes: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp * Celebration Day * Gallows Pole * Immigrant Song * Out on the Tiles * Since I've Been Loving You * Tangerine * That's the Way. ^Led Zeppelin IV} includes: Black Dog * Four Sticks * Misty Mountain Hop * Rock and Roll * Stairway to Heaven * When the Levee Breaks.

Led Zeppelin IV (Alfred's Classic Album Editions)

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Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this book provides a counter-narrative of travel-worlds shaped by divergent legacies: of colonialism, crusades, migration, diaspora, displacement, tourism, ethnography, political insurgency and transnationalization. The issues addressed include: north-south traffic in hip hop, Kung-Fu and sex tourism; missionaries in India, academics in the west; Saint George as an Arab soldier in The Crusades; the Indian-Pakistan border, displacement and defiance; mobile resistance to nation-state hegemonies in Bangladesh; the international market value of dead tourists; pop personalities, MTV and souvenir culture; diasporized Mirpuri youth on travel; touring black women, pleasure islands; and ethnographers abroad. Such diverse journeys are plotted using counter-hegemonic perspectives on the politics and practice of travel.

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Essential reading for any journalist who works - or wishes to work - in radio. It covers every aspect of the profession, from journalistic practice to media law and gives detailed instruction on the techniques of editing and using equipment, and on the basic skills of writing, reporting and producing. A legal section outlines the pitfalls of libel and contempt, and shows the main restrictions on reporting, particularly during elections. There is also a whole chapter dedicated to advice on court reporting.

Written from a practitioner's standpoint, this is the perfect handbook for anyone involved at any level in commercial or local radio. A classic training manual in the profession, the book was originally written by Linda Gage, former Head of Training for LBC. This edition has been fully revised and updated by Marie Kinsey, Head of Broadcast Journalism at the Northern Media School, Sheffield Hallam University, and Lawrie Douglas, a freelance producer, editor and trainer. Marie has had over 20 years experience in broadcast news both in the commercial sector and with the BBC. Lawrie has worked in both BBC Radio and Television, helped establish Reuters' Audio Department and has taught in the Communications Studies Department of Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.

The techniques described in the book now cover the latest in commercial radio production and show how working practices have been affected by the new technology including:

· digital recording and editing
· use of minidisc portable recorders
· using the Internet as a source
· effect of digital radio on the World Wide Web

The book also includes:
· the latest on legal practice, including Scottish and European law
· advice on court reporting
· more on programme production: phone-ins etc

Ideal starter for anyone contemplating a career in radio
Includes essential legal information
Written by experienced professionals and trainers

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With its dazzling transitions, dozens of professionally-designed themes, and wide selection of typefaces, Keynote—Apple's top-notch presentation software—lets anyone create elegant, attractive presentations with ease. Now, to help users deliver high-quality presentations even when they're short on time, is this smart, concise guide designed to take them from standing start to stellar finish with their first presentations. Rather than cover every last option Keynote offers, author Tom Negrino steps readers through on a single, basic presentation, showing them the quickest, easiest, most effective way to communicate their ideas. Each short lesson builds a component of a basic presentation, from creating slides, formatting charts and tables, incorporating sound and video, creating transitions, and adding a bit of polish to their debut presentations. Friendly, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible.

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Great Fire Starting Material.......2006-01-01

I am an avid Mac user and I have purchased other "Visual QuickProject" books from PeachPit Press that I found very useful training tools. That was until this one which was an absolute waste of money. The book starts out good and you believe that the book is going to walk you through the actual process of creating a nice Keynote presentation. At the end of Chapter 2 you are left high and dry with only 2 slides created. You are never given any more information to create the rest of the slides. Really sad !

Then thoughout the book you are shown a mutitude of other products that are suggested to you to buy. Really sad ! None are needed to use Keynote !

Save your money and do not buy this book which is a total waste of money !

If ZERO stars were possible..........2005-11-14

The only honor this book is worthy of is that of the fireplace... Here's why:

1) This book provides virtually ZERO hands-on training for the reader. The only hands-on exercises that you will get to try out is found in chapter two, in which you create a blank, Keynote presentation file (for the first time), and type in five lines of text -- and that's IT!! No, I am not joking... That's it.

2) The book focuses upon a "show and tell" (with zero practice or hands-on exercises) approach. It uses 3rd party templates, which don't come with either the software [Keynote] or the book. This keeps you from being able to try any of the concepts presented.

3) The book focuses mainly upon the "theory" of creating a presentation, rather than on teaching you how to use Keynote. I wanted to learn Keynote, not the theory of public speaking.

4) The book's chapters are filled with commerials, prompting you to purchase 3rd party products. This book (at times) looks more like the classifieds section of a newpaper than a training publication. If you don't want to believe me -- please go and check it out for yourself! Page numbers are included!!

a) Page 18 -- Asks you to buy OmniOutliner. (Which is not needed. Keynote provides this same functionality, but he doesn't take the time or effort to teach you how to do it.)

b) Page 25 -- Use (and purchase) Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, so you can use their clipart.

c) Page 26 -- Buy sounds and music from soundrangers at $1.50 per song, etc.

d) Page 27 -- Buy more stuff from Hemera, NovaDevelopment, and DigitalJuice, etc.

e) Page 28 -- Buy Garageband from Apple, etc, etc, etc. You get the idea.

Normally, I like to give books a positive rating -- as a college-level, computer science teacher for more than 10 years, I have dealt with many of such book publications. However, I honestly cannot give this book even one star -- it has failed to even begin to meet its' stated objectives on the back cover.

My advice, if you truly want to learn, PLEASE LOOK TO A DIFFERENT BOOK. This is not the one you are looking for.

Readable, well designed, and entertaining.......2005-07-03

In the 20 years I have been using Macintosh computers, I have always been leery of third-party Mac books. So often they are no more than laundry list recitations of a product's features. I am sure for some users that's a useful way to learn and a useful reference, but it's a lousy book to read for me, and of very little use. For that reason, Negrino's book is a welcome anomaly in this field. Written with an engaging style that is neither too familiar nor too dry, this book presents a wide range of capabilities of Apple's Keynote 2 in a manner that encourages exploration, emphasizes application, and rewards curiosity.

Negrino's enthusiasm comes through clearly, and that is a welcome trait among Apple users, where enthusiasm for Jobs & Co. and their creations is a prerequisite. He is not dogmatic, however, so his advice includes a healthy dose of caution regarding some oddities and shortcomings of Keynote. I found his examples to map easily to decisions I make in my presentations.

The book itself is slim, but not in a bad way. I think it reflects focus on the part of the author and his editor, Nancy Davis. I admired the evident effort in crafting the book, along with the layout that avoids being dull but shys away from being distracting, as well.

As a side note, Negrino's interactions with the Keynote user community online reflects his genuine desire to learn how to derive the most benefit from the program. His openness to suggestions and ideas from those who seek to extend Keynote as far as possible allows him to write in a very authoritative manner about a program that can dazzle when wielded skillfully.

I really look forward to my next presentation - between Keynote and this book, I have no doubts it will be my best yet.

Great overview for Beginners!.......2005-06-08

Even though Negrino's book is over 130 pages, I was able to read through it rather quickly. I think the best way to use this book is to read through it quickly away from the computer to get an overview, then go back, book in hand, and sit in front of your machine with Keynote2 launched.

This book takes you through an actual presentation, and shows a lot of pictures as well as being easy to read.

Although I am not a beginner (this book is geared toward beginners), I learned a few tricks that will be valuable to me down the line.

I would highly recommend Negrino's other Keynote title, Visual Quickstart Guide once it comes out for Keynote2. If it is as good as his VQSG for Keynote1, it will be a purchase well made.

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