Don't Just Applaud-Send Money!: The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the Arts

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Practical Tips on Audience Building and Fund Raising.......2007-03-27

This book is a very extensive list of quick tips on fund raising for theatre and arts organization. It presents brief and informative case studies on what organizations are doing to successfully appeal to different audiences, build relationships, and raise funds. While not all of the case studies will appeal to everyone, you should be able to find some that are applicable to your situation. Don't expect this to be a "how-to" guide for audience building and fund raising, rather a good book to use if you are brain-storming on different ideas that you can use in your situation.

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Kings Landing: Country life in early Canada
Wayne Barrett
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MERV06

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A complete guide to gnomes for Dungeons & Dragons. The first major release detailing the gnomes is sure to grab the attention of players and game masters alike. This supplement further enhances the gnome race and increases the options for anyone considering using gnomes in their games.

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A Must-have for Less-than-Perfect Days

A very true insight into the experience of high school.

Miscellaneous Philosophy: The Underclassman Years
Stefan Koski
Manufacturer: Hats Off Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1587364115

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Stefan Koski takes us on a guided tour of confused adolescence. Using extreme logic, keen observation, and knife-sharp sarcasm, he combines his unique rationalism with anecdotes from his day-to-day life as a high school sophomore.

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A Must-have for Less-than-Perfect Days.......2007-04-03

This book is just "frickin" hilarious! Right from when you first turn the cover page over to the very end. Stefan is a brilliant writer; he makes high school life sound like a war - and there are always his sarcastic remarks that will never fail to make you LOL - laugh out loud!

A very true insight into the experience of high school........2005-02-17

Stefan Koski's, Miscellaneous Philosophy: The Underclassman Years, takes us into the eyes of a student at Terryville High and tells of the strange, horrible, and sometimes hillarious events he witnesses in his everyday experiences. Koski brings us through an average day that begins with the grueling task of waking up and ends with the always exciting bus ride home. With his use of sarcastic observations and entertaining "one liners," Koski delivers a very realistic outlook of attending Terryville High School. I should know because I go there.

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Money Chords is a comprehensive reference book of popular chord progressions. It identifies the eighty most popular chord progressions that have been used time and again to write hit songs and twelve tools to create them. The book is the result of the compilation and analysis of a representative sampling of over two thousand popular chord progressions that took several years to compile. Chord progressions are categorized both chronologically and by progression type. Chronological listings identify progression types common to a specific time period and the evolution of various progression types. Progression type listings compare how the best songwriters and performers have utilized similar chord progressions. Money Chords is intended to be a songwriter’s tool box to help stimulate the creation of many more great songs in the new millenium.

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Great waste of paper!.......2005-03-29

This book is thick! And there probably is good stuff within. Well hidden though. Problem is that more than anything it is like reading some statistical analysis of pop music the last 50 years.

I bought this to get ideas for new chord progressions. Hmm, no frankly I'm not very happy with it. The website www.moneychords.com is great however - and the information there is free!!

Logic-Defying Presentation of Progressions. Disappointing........2002-06-06

Just got my copy. Wish I had taken a look at the book before I bought it. Sure, it's a hefty 450 pages but once you scan through the book you come away with the same thought you do as a guitarist thumbing through a book promising 20000 guitar chords (realizing that there are, at most, 20 different chord forms that are mechanically and unnecessarily incarnated in every key): What's the point?

Here, the author does a similar thing by presenting all of the progressions with respect to specific keys (E for _half_ of the book and then a retelling of a subset of those progressions in the other keys). What's the point? It would have been MUCH more useful -- and, frankly, obvious -- to present each chord progression in the key-independent numeric form (e.g., "I-ii-V-I"). The publisher would have killed 50% less trees going that route and would have produced a book with immediate and lasting value.

And if not purely that approach, the author could have at least accompanied each progression with the key-independent equivalent. That's a no-brainer. And given that each page is 80% white-space it's not like the publisher was scrambling for content space!

Had I known that I could have charged [for] a book for reading off and reprinting the exact verse and chorus chord progressions from a bunch of different songs (granted, hundreds) I would have gone to the library and done so myself.

I had very high hopes for this book but it falls way short of what a songwriter/composer REALLY needs--of what I need. I wanted a book that facilitates spontenaity and fuels the creative spark. That's what the book promised, but not what I received.

Despite the sheer volume, it's a lazy effort. The book lacks the level of exposition, analysis, and insights that 450 pages would seem to indicate. And, content aside, the book's design, presentation, typography, and organization are EXTREMELY poor (I'll go so far as to say stark, ugly, sophomoric, and unusable as well considering the powerful desktop publishing tools available to anybody with a computer; one would think by this book that Writers Club Press only has a single manual typerwriter at its disposal). Bottomline is these deficits successfully short-circuit the promised usefulness of this book. The book is a disappointing effort and I cannot recommend it to anyone.

Good Stuff.......2002-06-02

The introduction alone was worth the price of admission. What separartes this book from others I've seen is the discussion of descending, ascending, and static (pedal point) progressions. The appendix included nine pages of common and uncommon descending bass lines alone. These were categorized by bass note runs so any budding songwriter can review what has been and can be done with this type of progression that is used to create romantic moods. Good Stuff.

A big dissapointment!!.......2002-05-30

This book is more about listing pages and pages of title songs and the years they were published than anything else. I believe you can get more instructive info on chord progressions from other books.

Create More Interesting Chord Progressions.......2001-10-23

Say you're working on a new song or arranging an old one that uses a Basic I-IV (E-A) progression and you want to see how the best songwriters have used and dressed up this progression, the "Money Chords" book is your place to find out. There are at least forty examples of chord embellishments including E-A6; E-Amaj7; E-A11; Emaj7-Amaj7; Emaj7-A13; etc. The book shows you variations on the most popular progressions including the Folk (I-V7); Rock (I-IV-V7); Rock Ballad (I-VIm-IV-V7); Standard (I-VIm-IIm-V7); Ragtime (I-VI7-II7-V7); Classic Rock (I-bVII-IV); Blues progressions as well as Ascending, Descending and Static (Pedal Point) progressions. This book should help you create more interesting chord progressions for your new songs but also breath new life into other songs as well. I rate "Money Chords" a solid Four Stars.

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Informative and Eye-opening!.......2003-12-12

The media can do so many things that affect our everyday lives. The news does more than just report the news. Often the news is created with sound bite and quick clips of enduring images that tell a story, but not necessarily the real story.

After reading Fry's carefully constructed book, based on seemingly endless hours of research, I realized how TV news is shaping our opinions of events and perhaps misrepresenting the truth. Although the book is about media coverage of the great floods of the early '90s, Fry's sharp conclusions can be applied to current media coverage of the war in Iraq, or even the events of 9/11.

Now, more than ever, Constructing the Heartland is a must read for anyone who wants to know why and how the media spins real events to fit into TV friendly packages. After a while, you'll catch yourself switching from newscast to newscast finding many different glimpses of the same event, all based on real facts and all told in unique voices.

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The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending. As it became clear that these horrifying acts had been committed in the name of religion, the media, the government, and ordinary citizens alike sought answers to questions about Islam and its adherents. In this level-headed and authoritative book, John L. Esposito, one of the world's most respected scholars of political Islam, provides answers. He clearly and carefully explains the teachings of Islam--the Quran, the example of the Prophet, Islamic law--about jihad or holy war, the use of violence, and terrorism. He chronicles the rise of extremist groups and examines their frightening worldview and tactics. Anti-Americanism (and anti-Europeanism), he shows, is a broad-based phenomenon that cuts across Arab and Muslim societies. It is not just driven by religious zealotry, but by frustration and anger at U.S. policy. It is vital to understand, however, that the vast majority of Muslims are appalled by the acts of violence committed in the name of their faith. It is essential that we distinguish between the religion of Islam and the actions of extremists like Osama bin Laden, who hijack Islamic discourse and belief to justify their acts of terrorism. This brief, clear-sighted book reflects twenty years of study, reflection, and experience on the part of a scholar who is equally respected in the West and in the Muslim world. It will prove to be the best single guide to the urgent questions that have recently forced themselves on the attention of the entire world.

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Short, Clear and Bias.......2006-11-24

Esposito do not blame the fundamentalists only for the conflict but also he blames the misunderstanding of America and its policies toward the Muslims world for escalating the conflict.
Esposito has his own agenda, as he is the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, he want to see a dialogue between the West and Islam. Interestingly that the center he founded is funded by a Saudi Billionaire Prince, a connection which makes Esposito judgments questionable somehow.
Also he tries to present liberal Islam (he calls it reformed) as a strong candidate to defeat the terror creed embedded in fundamental Islam. While he forget that most of the Muslim figures he is referring to have little weight in the Muslim religious arena.

Don't Wast Your Time..........2006-07-27

Instead of spending the time to read this book you could engage in an activity that would be more entertaining and/or more worth your time...like sleeping or donating blood through a collapsed vein!

Now, I can definitely appreciate Esposito's attempt to offer some solutions. There are a surplus of folks who write books or give speeches about problems and why they are problems, but there are too few offering solutions. This was the only aspect of the book I found useful and respectable. The rest of the book was hard for me to swallow.

It was stated that: "One cannot overstress the fact that Islam does NOT condone terrorism. In point of fact, Islam strictly prohibits killing of innocent civilians. Those who perpetrate these abhorrent atrocities are hijacking Islam. It is imperative to understand that an overwhelming majority of Muslims abhor terrorism and the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians." Well...if the OVERWHELMING majority of Muslims were so adamantly against terrorism and murder then WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THEY? This is the major obstacle that anyone who writes a book on this topic must face. Where are the masses of Muslims protesting what Al Qeada did to America? Why were there hundreds of thousands of Muslims dancing in the streets just hours after September 11th, 2001? If a Muslim man (living in a Muslim nation) decides to leave Islam for a Christian faith then why must he fear for his life?

You know, I really hate to say it because it's a pensive outlook on the world in which we live, but Islam just isn't the religion that Mr. Esposito claims it to be. It's not irresponsible, immature, or warmongering to say that Islam isn't happy with the existance of Isreal because the evidence is on the news and in the papers almost every single day!

It would be a great day in my life if I could recant the things I've just written because it would mean a complete reformation of Islamic nations, but I fear such a change simply will not happen because of the inherrent nature of the religion that is Islam. I applaud Mr. Esposito's attempt to dumb-down the nature of Islam in an effort to paint it as a peaceful, funloving way of life, but in life...if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck...well, then...it must be a duck, right?

One last thing...why is it considered provincialism to even remotely say that Islam is not a religion, state of mind, or way of life that is peaceful and centered around love and honor? I think the social-liberals have hijacked thinking in a way that is not their own, thus making it nearly impossible for a man to be taken seriously if he doesn't already march to the beat of their drum. I tend to call a spade a spade and until I'm proven otherwise I will continue to hold the opinion that Islam is a religion of oppression and antipathy. I do, however, look to the day when hoards of Muslim people gather together to dispell the malevolence of their religion and culture that has taken a stranglehold of how they should be living and what they should be practicing in way of religion.

Don't buy the book if you don't want to be spoonfed the idea that Islam is a religion of peace and beauty. Go ahead and buy the book if you're unsure what to believe because it might give you some ideas to think about. Definitely buy the book if you truly believe Islam is a cultural and religious beacon of love, peace, and gentle nature that is simply just misunderstood.

A great Book.......2005-10-27

when brainswashed people like insidous from Fresno used ad-hominem to attack this book,you know this book is a must read.

A tour de force in every respect!.......2005-08-30

John Esposito, a noted authority on Islam, has written an eloquent defense of Islam. Extensively researched, this book completely dispels many of the prevailing misconceptions about Islam. Esposito argues that Islam must not be looked upon as monolithic. Needless to say, only an imbecile can argue otherwise given that over 1 billion Muslims inhabit this world, many of whom speak different languages, have different cultures, traditions, mores and histories. Christians, Jews, Hindus and others are different even though they share some common characteristics. No matter how many things members of any given group have in common, they can never be the same.

Esposito astutely observes that the root causes of fundamentalism are social and economic grievances. Contrary to popular belief, Islamic fundamentalists do not target the West because of its wealth and prosperity. This is a convenient albeit simplistic and flawed explanation. Here are the reasons why this explanation falls short. First and foremost, virtually all fundamentalists come from the countries where despair and abject poverty are commonplace. Second, they initially emerge as resistance groups opposing the authoritative regimes and/or struggling against oppression. A case in point is Hizbollah, an organization which was created following the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Another example is Hamas, which was also created following the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. However, not all organizations arise in response to an external threat; many organizations fight against the autocratic regimes.

Esposito differentiates between a Jihad which is waged in self-defense and the "expansionist" Jihad which is waged against atheists and non-Muslims, the latter being strongly rejected by a vast majority of Muslims. Esposito further asserts that many Western commentators use quotes from Quaran to prove that the religion Islam condones and even encourages terrorism and violence. The problem with this method is that these quotes are frequently taken out of their proper context and the period in which they were written. For example, Esposito shows a quote often used by the Western experts to demonstrate that Islam encourages a conflict with Christians and Jews. Nonetheless, he then shows a verse immediately following this quote which explicitly states that the Muslims should seek peace if that is what the Christians and Jews also want. Paradoxically although unsurprisingly, the Western experts deliberately overlook this verse.

One cannot overstress the fact that Islam does NOT condone terrorism. In point of fact, Islam strictly prohibits killing of innocent civilians. Those who perpetrate these abhorrent atrocities are hijacking Islam. It is imperative to understand that an overwhelming majority of Muslims abhor terrorism and the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians. Only if one's life is threatened is murder permitted. While Esposito acknowledges that certain elements of the Quaran may be obsolete and controversial, he also says that the same holds for Christianity, Judaism and every other religion. More importantly, Esposito correctly observes that unless we acknowledge the root causes of terrorism and fundamentalism it will be almost impossible to win the war against terror. For instance, if I am seriously ill I cannot possibly expect a recovery unless my doctor finds out what is wrong with me. If misdiagnosed, I will never get well again.

So, in order to win the war against terror, Mr. Esposito suggests that the following must be done:
- The moderate Muslim populations must confront the extremist elements within their communities and strongly condemn terrorist attacks.
- Respected Muslim scholars must offer their interpretation of controversial verses in order to explain to the Muslims that Islam does NOT teach violence and terrorism. Islam preaches empathy, peace and piety.
- The U.S. must reevaluate and alter its extremely flawed foreign policy. The U.S. must stop supporting autocratic regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere. The unconditional support for Israel must come to an end; the U.S. must start judging the actions of Israelis by the same standards it applies to all Arab countries. When Israel violates human rights it must be punished just as Iraq, Iran and other Arab countries get punished.
- We must do everything to bridge the gap between Islam and Christianity.

Only when we understand that living in peace and harmony is for the benefit of all will we have a decent chance at obliterating terrorism. After all, the only thing that really matters is the content of a man's character. Whether one is Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu is completely irrelevant but I guess that is only a utopia. I hope not!

This extraordinarily well written book is strongly recommended to all who wish to gain a more complex and nuanced analysis of the Islamic fundamentalism.

P.S. Unfortunately it seems that the only way for the people of this earth to unite is in face of a threat from the outer space. Have not we human beings learned anything from the history?

don't beleive gnossie.......2005-02-22

This person "gnossie" is a friend o Danial Pipes or Daniel Pipes himself hiding as "gnossie". Stay way from his review, It is just another Islamophopic broken record. Americans are not ignorant,as gnossie assumes, and CAN tell the difference between A Scholar like John Esposito and cheep rhetoric produced by the likes of Freedman, Pipes and others in their class.

Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
Charles McDaniel
Manufacturer: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam.(Book Review)
Author: Charles McDaniel
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 45 Issue: 2 Page: 384(3)

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Unholy War Terror in the Name of Islam
John L. Esposito
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKSF7G

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