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MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE! Whether you want to get into movies, pose for magazine covers or walk a fashion show runway, 2002 Guide to Talent & Modeling Agents has all the information you need to find the representation that right for you. This one-of-a-kind directory provides you with the most detailed and current listings available for talent and modeling agencies, schools, conferences and scouts.

Insider information details the age, size and "type" that each agency is looking for, what sort of work they specialize in (print, catalog, advertising, film or runway), which agencies charge, and if so, how much.

You'll learn how to contact an agency, avoid scam artists, submit headshots, work with an agent, read a contract and locate legitimate agencies that don't advertise. All this, plus illuminating interviews with agents, bookers and scouts, and a resource guide for Web sites, magazines and newsletters makes getting "discovered"--and getting work--easier than ever before. It's the how-to, where-to guide you've been looking for!

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When Gianni Versace was shot dead outside his Miami villa on July 15, 1997, few believed that his fashion empire would survive. The chutzpah and flamboyance of Versace the fashion house seemed inseparable from Versace the man. And yet, a year later, Versace remained buoyant, its reputation and market position if anything enhanced by its creator's tragic fate.

This book goes some way toward explaining why. From his first 1980 collection, Versace cannily engaged a great photographer, Richard Avedon, who stylishly wedded his designs to a potent blend of celebrity, beauty, flesh, sex, and humor, which became instantly identifiable as Versace--poised, pansexual, tongue firmly in sculptured cheek. Whether in trademarked group shots of intricately entangled supermodels, Stallone nude and stone-faced, Elton gleeful in drag, or Bon Jovi proudly strutting his buff bod, Avedon equals Versace--to the extent that he can show Kate Moss, without a stitch of Versace (or anything else), and we know that she is thinking Versace. This gorgeous volume collects more than 170 photographs, and gives us, as it justly proclaims: "A glimpse of the impassioned shameful opulent titillating sewmanship of that daredevil magician of art and artifice who was and will always be Gianni Versace." --Alan Stewart

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This book is almost completely full-bleed photographs taken by Richard Avedon of the Versace collections. The book is divided into 8 sections, by themes: Rembrance of Flings Past; Lust & Found; That Obscure Object of Desire; Gathering Moss; Rocks and Other Hard Places; The Way of All Mesh; Look Homeward Angel; and A Quick Stitch in Time. The sequencing of the photographs makes for an amusing, sexy presentation.

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Nostalgic and somewhat delightful.......1999-05-10

This is an archive of the advertisments and editorials for Versace. His pictures, like his clothes are refreshing, and surprising. Those who buy this book will encounter some director's cut images. However, "The Naked" lacks the better Versace campigns. Those familiar with Versace photographs will wonder why they did not include the better shots... Some pictures are amazing, yet, some didn't have the luster. And unfortunately, the bad outnumber the good. With the price, it is still a good buy but leaves you craving more.

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In Make the Right Move: Buying and Selling Your Home Successfully, which accompanies the major new BBC series Safe as Houses, you will find everything you need to know about the property maze, helping you to avoid possible pitfalls and maximize the opportunities open to you. It explains what to look for when you first see a property, demystifying agents’ jargon and abbreviations, understanding what your solicitor should be doing for you, and choosing the right mortgage for your lifestyle. Once you’ve finally moved in, this book explains all you need to know to capitalize on your investment and make your property as attractive as possible to future purchasers.

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Selling Your Home Successfully
Don Turner , and Donald L. Turner
Manufacturer: American Literary Press
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Why farmers go to farmers' markets. (excerpted from Jeff Ishee's 'Dynamic Farmers' Marketing: A Guide to Successfully Selling Your Farmers' Market Products'): ... from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal

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Why farmers go to farmers' markets. (excerpted from Jeff Ishee's 'Dynamic Farmers' Marketing: A Guide to Successfully Selling Your Farmers' Market Products'): ... from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Jeff Ishee
Manufacturer: Countryside Publications Ltd.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 641 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.

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Title: Why farmers go to farmers' markets. (excerpted from Jeff Ishee's 'Dynamic Farmers' Marketing: A Guide to Successfully Selling Your Farmers' Market Products')
Author: Jeff Ishee
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: v82 Issue: n3 Page: p63(1)

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The Complete Guide to Home Video Marketing: Successfully Selling and Distributing Your Video

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The Complete Guide to Home Video Marketing: Successfully Selling and Distributing Your Video
Glenn Ross
Manufacturer: Acrobat Books
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How to successfully sell your own home
Adam Collins
Manufacturer: Adam Collins Publications
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006YIN8Q

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This brilliant history of warfare is the first to approach the modern era from a global perspective. Investigating both land and sea warfare, Jeremy Black examines weaponry, tactics, strategy, and resources as well as the political, social, and cultural impact of conflict.

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Highly Recommended!.......2005-05-31

I'll begin by saying that I don't understand how anyone can award this book anything less than 5 stars. Some books you read simply to get information but this is one book that is a pleasure to read. Aside from being well-researched and well-written it is pleasing to the eye as well, with many interesting illustrations. The book covers warfare around the world in the period from 1450-2000. It's meant to be a survey rather than a comprehensive account of the history of warfare over the past 550 years. If it were comprehensive it would probably require something like 10 volumes at a thousand pages each! Instead what Black manages to convey to the reader is the idea that while Europe was evolving, there were major developments taking place in other continents and regions around the world. He also demonstrates that for much of this period European nations were not the pre-eminent military powers around the world. The Chinese, and the Mughals in India, were both expanding and conquering neighbouring territories as were the Ottoman Turks. It has the effect of enlarging your point of view and understanding that the military supremacy of the West was not the foregone conclusion that some historians have made it out to be. Well worth getting if you come across it.

The Evolution not Revolution in Military Affairs.......2002-10-19

First of all this is not a book for the casual reader of military history. Although it reads as if it was designed to be used in a university history course, it assumes a fairly extensive knowledge of major world military events throughout the period under review. For the more knowledgeable reader of historical and contemporary military affairs, Jeremy Black offers a less radical view of the Revolution in Military Affairs based on a European-centric view of events. The strength of this book is that is broadens the scope of major military evolutionary trends to address the impact of geography, political, scientific, and demographic influences. Mr. Black strives and generally succeeds in bringing a "balanced" view of why military "revolutions" did and did not occur. I highly recommend this book to readers who have extensive background in both military and general world history. For more casual readers I recommend having a copy of R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy's Encyclopedia of Military History and a good historical atlas for ready reference. Well done and recommended.

quantity but not quality.......2001-12-12

I read this because of a History of War class in college. Black does a remarkable job of making mention of lots of conflicts that most people have never heard of before. But he jumps around alot, mentioning some people and wars very briefly and totally out of nowhere and often jumping around a bit. If you a want a very summarized look at military history in the last 550 years, this is it. Just don't expect details or alot of coherency.

The best book on military history I,ve read thus far........1998-08-24

War and the World is an extremely well researched and informative account of military history that is truly universal in scope. Jeremy Black has wisely expanded his focus beyond the constricting binds of Eurocentrism to produce a work of scholarship that douments, in detail, military developments in parts of the world ignored by conventional military history. His assertion that future domination by Europeans of most of the world after the fifteenth century was by no means a foregone conclusion is a legitimate one in light of the opposition they would receive from equally determined, aggressive and expansionist non-Europeans. He explores the limitations of European power, expounding on their powerful naval capabilty, but emphasizing their inabilty to be more then a significant presence beyond the coastal regions of places like West Africa. Expansionist peoples like the Dzhungars of central Asia, the Fulani of west Africa and the Moroccans (notably in the context of their little known, but spectacular defeat of the Portugeuse at the battle of Alcazarquivir in 1578) are mentioned, their successes or failures examined. In other military history texts, they would have been outright ignored. It is because of this kind of depth to the author's research that War and the World was a far more satisfying read then John Keegan's A History of Warfare. While War and the World spans a period of history from 1450-2000, I hope that Jeremy Black, should he decide to write another book on world military history, will extend his chronological scope to encompass warfare from the dawn of man onward. It would be interesting to read his perspectives on the Romans, Mongols and other aggressive peoples who forged bloody niches in the pre-modern age.

War and the World Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-2000

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War and the World Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-2000
J. Black
Manufacturer: Yale
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H2472S

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War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-2000
Jeremy Black
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UYF5LK

War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Hubert C. Johnson
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1114 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.

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Title: War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000.(Review) (book review)
Author: Hubert C. Johnson
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Page: 512

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WAR AND THE WORLD : Military Power and the Fate of Continents : 1450-2000
Jeremy Black
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORTN1Q

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Relentless

You will be controlled by only the most civilized warfare...

An excellent historical review (the book, not the review)

Men will have war.

Diezmo, The: A Novel
Rick Bass
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0395926173

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The Diezmo tells the incredible story of the Mier Expedition, one of the most absurd and tragic military adventures in the history of Texas -- a country and a state, as Rick Bass writes, that was "born in blood." In the early days of the Republic of Texas, two young men, wild for glory, impulsively volunteer for an expedition Sam Houston has ordered to patrol the Mexican border. But their dreams of triumph soon fade into prayers for survival, and all that is on their minds is getting home and having a cool drink of water. After being captured in a raid on the Mexican village of Mier, escaping, and being recaptured, the men of the expedition are punished with the terrible diezmo, in which one man in ten is randomly chosen to die. The survivors end up in the most dreaded prison in Mexico. There they become pawns in an international chess game to decide the fate of Texas, and with their hopes of release all but extinguished, they make one desperate, last-ditch effort to escape.

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Relentless.......2006-12-23

Bass recounts the story of a troop of sometimes reluctant, but always relentless men ostensibly fighting for their new nation of Texas. The historical incident, obscure to most of us, is well known to Texans, the retaliation for the Battle of San Jacinto. We come to know what drives some of them and the regrets of others. Mostly, we marvel at their capacity for survival. When everything is taken away from them; when they live day after day in toil and torture, infested with an army of lice and tested by disease after disease, they still have the ability to experience the small joy that comes with the minutest reprieve.

There is little joy in reading the book, though the author presents the story as well we could expect. Like castor oil, though, it may be good for us to see those so eager for war get their wish, then regret it for every minute of their lives.

You will be controlled by only the most civilized warfare..........2005-09-19

I was reluctant to continue after hearing some of the horrific deeds commited by the men who (after reading the dustjacket) I thought to be Texas heroes. But just as I was appalled I was mesmerized into reading throughout the night in hopes of learning how their fates played out. And as I write this just a few minutes later I am wondering how the survivors fared, the ones that were less critical to the story at hand but may have played a more powerful and less publicized role. Overall I recommend this to anyone with an interest in Texas...or history... or man in general.

An excellent historical review (the book, not the review).......2005-08-19

I found this book to be an excellent historical novelation (or is it a novelation of a historic event)? Anyway, as someone who is familiar with Texas history, I still found much to admire about this novelisation (novelization?) of the Meir escapade, which I learned a lot about, in spite of my (supposed) knowledge of the story. It is made more interesting by the centering of the story on one fictional character, intermixed with real, historic figures. I would recommend the book highly to anyone wanting to learn about this tragic event in Texas history, as well as anyone wanting to read an exciting, bloody story in its own right.

Men will have war........2005-05-30

An absorbing account, written with much foreshadowing of an old man looking back upon the foolishness and stupidity of war. Comparisons with BLOOD MERIDIAN are natural, and here the message is quite the same, that men are addicted to war, that there is no glory in it, that stupidity and violence will continue to prevail.

Bass structures his narrative on the historical memoirs left us, which were biased and conflicting, but perhaps, as Cormac McCarthy might say, the truth of what did not happen may be about as true as what can be documented, the memories of men being uncertain and biased.

Some of the characters and scenes are imagined, but some characters such as Thomas Jefferson Green and William Fisher are historical. There is violence and gore in here, but it is not laid on. The author has an eye for the telling detail, as in this paragraph describing the commanders planning the invasion into Mexico:

"They sat in a circle of mismatched chairs. Green and Somervell's chairs were turned backwards so that they straddled them like horses. They leaned forward in the chairs, resting the weight of their torsos against the backs, as if even here they intended to somehow charge into battle."

The prose is nothing like McCarthy, of course, but is sparkling and fresh and goes down like a clean drink of water. Typical Rick Bass prose. The title refers to the black bean lottery that Mexicans used to determine which prisoners were shot and which survived. This may seem too obscure for browsing bookbuyers, but the attractive dustjacket may encourage them to look more closely.

Rick Bass lists his sources on the Acknowledgments Page in the rear of the book, so as to alert scholars who hunger for more details. The author says that he wrote it as our troops were charging into Baghdad--suggesting that his emotions then may have influenced the book.

However he came to write it, I'm glad that he did. This book is short, just 208 pages, but exactly the length needed to tell the story of these soldiers of misfortune. It is a treasure. Bravo!

The Mexican Side Of The Texan Revolution

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The Mexican Side Of The Texan Revolution
et. al. Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna
Manufacturer: Scholar's Bookshelf
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Binding: Paperback

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2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. Gathers five central documents, all translated with notes by Carlos Castaeda, and written by Mexicans presenting their views of the Mexican War. Included are Santa Anna's Manifesto Relative to His Operations in the Texas Campaign and His Capture, Ramon Martinez Caro's account of the battle of San Jacinto, Vicente Filisola's account of his operations as General-in-Chief of the Army of Texas, Jos Urrea's diary of his command in Texas, and Jose Maria Tornel historical account of relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico since the beginning of the new nation. Reprint of the 1971 edition. Softcover.

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The Mexican Texans (Texans All)
Phyllis McKenzie
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1585443077

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With vivid descriptions of the language, music, values, and celebrations that enrich Mexican Texan life, Phyllis McKenzie explores how time has shaped the identity of Mexican Texans and their continued contribution to the Lone Star State through more than six generations.

Studies in Texan Folklore-Rio Grande Valley: Lore 1 : Twelve Folklore Studies With Introductions, Commentaries & A Bounty of Notes (Salzburg Studies: English & American Studies)

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Studies in Texan Folklore-Rio Grande Valley: Lore 1 : Twelve Folklore Studies With Introductions, Commentaries & A Bounty of Notes (Salzburg Studies: English & American Studies)
Thomas Meade Harwell
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
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Early Tejano Ranching: Daily Life at Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo (Published in Cooperation With U.T. Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio)

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Reflecting the history and heritage of Texas

Early Tejano Ranching: Daily Life at Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo (Published in Cooperation With U.T. Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio)
Andres Saenz
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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ASIN: 1585441635

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Reflecting the history and heritage of Texas.......2002-08-08

Early Tejano Ranching: Daily Life At Ranchos San Jose And El Fresnillo by Andres Saenz (Professor of History, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas) is the story of the author's family (the Saenzes and the Lopezes) who established San Jose and El Fresnillo during the 1850s and 1860s. Drawn and composed from interviews, historical records, visits to historical sites, and more, Early Tejano Ranching presents a fascinating picture of life in the past, the daily work of ranching, the labor of self-sufficient families who struggled to surviving against drought, wild animals, and even Indian attacks. Early Tejano Ranching is solid and highly recommended representation reflecting the history and heritage of Texas. Also highly recommended is Professor Saenz's earlier work, Tejano Empire: Life On The South Texas Ranchos (0890968349)

Bibliophiling Tejano Scholarship: Secondary Sources on Hispanic Texans (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papers No. 8)

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Bibliophiling Tejano Scholarship: Secondary Sources on Hispanic Texans (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papers No. 8)
Bruce A. Glasrud , and Arnoldo De Leon
Manufacturer: Sul Ross State University, Center for Big Ben
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Kendall of the Picayune : being his adventures in New Orleans, on the Texan Santa Fe expedition, in the Mexican War, and in the colonization of the Texas frontier

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Kendall of the Picayune : being his adventures in New Orleans, on the Texan Santa Fe expedition, in the Mexican War, and in the colonization of the Texas frontier
Fayette Copeland
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0806108517

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The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
Chief Mexican Participants
Manufacturer: P. L. Turner Co.
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Binding: Library Binding
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The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
Castaneda Carlos
Manufacturer: P.l. Turner
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Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
Carlos E. Cortes
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Ducks & Geese of Minnesota Field Guide: Includes Swans & Other Water Birds
Stan Tekiela
Manufacturer: Adventure Publications
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ASIN: 1591931339

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Learn about and identify Minnesota waterfowl using Stan Tekiela's field guide. The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book. Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about ducks, geese, swans and more.

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