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101 cartoons
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A small book with a few gems.......2007-05-06
First off, the book is tiny. I mean really tiny. It's about 3 inches square. You can't discern the mini size from the Amazon picture, so be prepared. And, correspondingly, the cartoons are very small and may be hard to read if your eyes are over 45 years of age.
The editors have culled together what are ostensibly the most humorous of the doctor-related cartoons from the New Yorker. Because humor is in the eye of the beholder, I can't say if they succeeded. All I can say is that there were a few gems for me, principally those by Gahan Wilson and Charles Addams. The average entry made me smile a little on the inside, but not much more than that. (By comparison, I found the cartoon collections by New Yorker contributor Roz Chaste consistently amusing. Search Amazon for "The Party After You Left")
The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons can be useful if you are in the position of needing doctor related visual humor on a regular basis. I could see this book of value to people who give presentations about health care, doctors, or medicine. I could also see this book as a nice (but did I mention TINY) gift to give to the doctors in your life. Doctors who can laugh at themselves will appreciate the humor. I know. I laugh at myself all the time (and yes, I'm a doctor).
What Can I Do for You in the Next Three Minutes? - HMO Stall.......2000-07-03
I first discovered The New Yorker when I was a teenager. When I saw how many people subscribed to the magazine, I started asking people why they did. Inevitably, the answer was, "For the cartoons." Since then, I have come to realize that The New Yorker is like the hall of fame for cartoonists.
I became interested in this book after reading the excellent The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons. I was a bit disappointed in this book by comparison, which explains the four star rating. While the cartoons are terrific, the book would have benefited from having a great introduction like the one that Christopher Buckley wrote for the money cartoons.
There are 86 pages of cartoons and over 90 cartoons in this book. Almost all of them are outstanding.
The humor is aimed at both physicians and psychiatrists. Somehow, the humor about the latter seemed funnier than the former. "Does the doctor hug?" was one of my favorites.
The strong conservative bent of many physicians was well captured by one cartoon that said, "Doctor, you must stop addressing your Medicare patients as Comrade."
Lawyer humor, and the physician's usual conerns about law suits are here, too. "The doctor's lawyer will see you now."
The questionable bedside manners of some physicians and the quirks of patients were equally well represented in the cartoon that said, "Well, Phil, after years of vague complaints and imaginary ailments, we finally have something to work with."
The ever-growing specialization of medicine came in for comment in this cartoon: "I'd like you to see a botanist. You exhibit many of the symptoms of Dutch elm disease."
Finally, some humor was aimed directly at the profession. In a group of ducks, one says "Let me through. I'm a quack."
A strength of this book is that it will definitely appeal to patients and nurses. I also think that many physicians will like it, as long as they have a sense of self-deprecating humor.
Physician, heal thyself!
The book is excellent in pointing out that personal habits, the training of the physician, and philosophical opinions can interfere with delivering good medicine. Humor like this can be a tonic to help bust the stalls that those sources of misconceptions and miscommunications help create. Laughter is not only the best medicine, it can bring about better medicine.
A book full of cartoons based on medical mishaps!.......2000-02-14
I like to read a whole lot of all kinds of cartoon books, I have always enjoyed the funny papers, and now here is a collection of funny situations based on the numerous kinds MD's that people deal with. I'm thinking of showing this book to my own psychologist. He would get a kick out of this sort of thing, as he has got a great sense of humor to speak of himself, which helps a great deal during our sessions. Anyway, like the rest of the "New Yorker" series, get this cool compilation soon. Each doctor's office should have one for the amusement of the patients! Hey, how about one for dentists or veternarians as well?
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LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold! !
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Conan: To Save A Kingdom
Vincent Darlage
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Conan: The Roleplaying Game has been widely accepted by gamers as the most dramatic advance in gaming since the arrival of the d20 system. Filled with innovative ideas and exciting concepts, it is the most talked about RPG of the year.
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For nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. Now journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and subtlety of their stories, and the impact their aspirations had on themselves, their families and their relationships. It is an intimate look, complete with an up-to-date epilogue on the latest developments in their lives.
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A nice story for young men of any ethnicity.......2007-10-04
This book is a story of a basketball player who makes his dreams come true with persistence and a ambitious will. It does have some profane words that come about sporadically as your read but the story is not consumed by them. They are in there though so beware if a young child wants to read this story.
Greater Insight into the Hoop Dreams Movie.......2007-06-22
This is excellent reading if you enjoyed the movie. It just gives the reader a deeper look into the lives of Arthur and William. There is so much detail we didn't get in the movie. In the book, we learn about additional family members and best friends. Who knew William lived with his sister when he started attending St. Joes? We found out more about race relations at St. Joes and that William had janitorial duties at the school to offset his financial obligations. There's more to how William felt about Coach Pingatore. We learn more about Arthur and his relationship with his father. Best of all, there is more about their lives once they begin college. It's a must read for everyone who enjoyed the movie.
Hoop Dreams.......2007-06-13
Summarized by, Isaac Sarate
Two kids dream of playing basketball is offered a chance to shine. Who will succeed, and who will fail? It all begins in the city Of Chicago; two young athletes are offered to play basketball at a private school. This school is known as a basketball powerhouse. The often required pay for enrollment but since these gifted athletes play basketball and play it well the school pays for the expense. The only requirement to get this scholarship is to maintain a passing GPA.
The young boys by the Name of William Gates and Arthur Aggee are in a documentary of the life in the hood trying to succeed at basketball and life. Arthur comes from rough life of abusive, drug dealing, never there dad. He struggles to adapt to the private school. He soon is released due to failing grades and no money to maintain him enrolled. Arthur returns to his former high school. He never gives up his dream and works on every aspect of his life school, family, basketball, and most importantly his belief in himself. While all the hard times in his life he becomes stronger at basketball proving many wrong.
While Arthur was struggling at the beginning William gates was competing highly at the varsity level as a freshmen. He played 3 strong years for the school school. Offered many scholarships William comes to the point where the S.A.T.S gets in his way of his dreams of playing college ball. His final year as a senior playing basketball was cut short with injury to his knee. Rehabbing his knee while his teams try's to return to state. Will William Gates be able to play again in high school let alone play in college?
The most inspirational part of the story was when Arthur's father really distracts Arthur's focus on basketball and school, with abuse and violent drug dealing lifestyle. He took money from the family and left them with out electricity for weeks. Many troubling times was brought to Arthur but the never gave up or even gave in on his lifetime goal. He studied in the dark and took care of his family. Arthur rose above all negatives in his life and managed to stay focused. He completed his goals. That really inspired me! It taught me no matte what the situation is make best of it and never give up.
The main theme of this book is clearly to never give up. Like what I wrote in the above paragraph, many obstacles might get in your way but, if you're positive and focuses things will workout. Hard work and dedication does pay off in the end.
This book is a book I really encourage people to read. It teaches you the lifestyle of kids in the hood. The troubling time many of those young kids go threw really show you in this book. Life lessons are addressed in many different ways. The kid's choices, the downfall in family, grades, collage, and how it affects you and others. People who have trouble in believing in them selves should read this, and it would make them stronger.
this book is off the hizzy.......2007-01-18
this story is about two young boys the grew up off the street playing basketball. They both went to the N.B.A. to play basketball and were very good and this was my favorite book of all time and i havent seen the movie but it looks good
Great Book.......2005-12-14
Hoop Dreams was probably one of the best books I've ever read. I don't think I would have liked it so much if it hadn't been based on a true story. This book is about two inner city kids from Chicago who aspire to play in the NBA. Although the odds aren't in their favor (only one out of every 7,600 high school players make it to the NBA) they still live for basketball. Without basketball these two boys would have nothing to them. Ben Joravsky does a good job of re-telling the story and showing all the problems these boys faced in there life. If it wasn't for basketball they probably would be out on the street trying to make a living. Throughout the story you feel as if you get closer and closer with the characters, and since it's spanned out over four years, it's as if they are growing and maturing right in front of you. Listening to Arthur's part of the story always kept me amused because he's a funny kid that everybody seems to like. William's story is focused more on the St. Joseph basketball team because that's pretty much all he cares about. This book was definitely a good read and I recommend it to anybody who likes books. Not just sports books either because this book goes beyond the boundaries of sports and is a compelling story about two inner city kids who defied the odds.
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Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship & Triumph
Ben Joravsky
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Note-for-note transcriptions with tab, in a handwritten jazz-style font and supervised by Metheny himself. Includes all the songs from this 1989 album that the All Music Guide describes as "nine tracks of sheer jazz joy," calling Pat's playing "modernistic, highly fluid, almost liquid lightning." Songs: All the Things You Are * Change of Heart * H and H * Law Years * Never Too Far Away * Old Folks * Question and Answer * Solar * Three Flights Up.
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Metheny Turning Point.......2006-09-07
He practicality invented a new language in this recording from 1989. Having all these notes as accurate as they seem is a realized dream,good luck!
From the Genius Himself.......2006-08-20
You can't go wrong when the composer himself does the transcriptions. The music is one of his greatest collaborative works. The recording itself is rare and hard to get a hold of. But it is truly a brilliant album. As a guitarist, I found it extremely helpful in not only learning Metheny's great playing, but also in the development of my humble studies into Contemporary Jazz.
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Sport and Play in American Life, Third Edition, studies play, sport and professional athletics in the United States from a sociological perspective. The authors inquire about the psychological, historical, and economic impact sport has on American society.
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Projects future growth in chinese defense expenditures, evaluates the current and likely future capabilities of China's defense industries, and compares likely future defense expenditure levels with recent expenditures by the United States and the U.S. Air Force.
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Documents the way political and military realities in the region are twisted into novel shapes before they reach the newspaper and television screens of Europe and the United States.
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An amazing analysis on the media war in the Middle East.......2007-01-09
Stephanie Gutmanns book should be read by a wider audience, especially as anti-Israel views are now expressed on a daily base in many Western news outlets. It is an important work which exposes the complexities of Middle East reporting. Jimmy Carter should have read this book before he wrote his slanderous "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" book. Even Jimmy might have learned a thing or two...
Even More Relevant Today.......2006-09-18
This book was published a year ago, but it has even more powerful resonance today in light of the recently concluded (for now, anyway) hostilities in southern Lebanon. That conflict was widely deemed a PR "loss" for the Israelis, an outcome that author Stephanie Gutmann cannily anticipates in her review of media coverage of the Second Intifada.
She presents in copious detail the international (especially European) media's favoritism toward the Palestinians. One acclaimed photojournalist won't take pictures of armed Palestinians because "he would not want me to." The Middle East correspondent for the BBC (a news organization singled out for particular anti-Israel bias) wept openly over Arafat's death. More distressing is media complicity in allowing terror groups to control news coverage: children throwing rocks is okay; but an adult goading the kids to do so is off-limits. Often, the control is through intimidation. The AP cameraman who videotaped Palestinian celebrations of the 9/11 atrocity had his film confiscated at gunpoint. The Italian TV crew that filmed the mob lynching of two IDF soldiers in a police headquarters violated an unwritten "understanding" prohibiting such coverage -- revealed through another Italian journalist's public apology for the incident. He did not want his network blamed for the coverage.
Gutmann also sharply criticizes Israeli (especially IDF) media relations efforts, which can charitably be described as "ham-handed." The initial press conference after the seizure of the Karine A was conducted in the late afternoon before the Sabbath in a remote port location far from the media centers. International journalists who bothered to attend were kept far away from the munitions (no "photo-op") and had to cope with a press briefing conducted in Hebrew only.
Two years into the intifada, Gutmann credits the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Government Press Office with improving its ability to fight the Media War, facilitating media access to images that make "good television." However, the IDF has been slower to improve communications, as recent events in Lebanon underscore.
Deception can be comforting.......2006-06-26
It's interesting how Israel can become a military base of the global hegemon (the US), occupy and brutalize a people for years on end, and so-called "supporters of Israel" come rushing to the defense of this perverted state. To the extent that Israel "looks bad" in the media, it's because it's doing hideous things, like killing men, women and children on a regular basis. There are plenty of websites to give a person the gory details, including those of Israeli peace groups. Maybe those Israeli Jews who see the blood on their hands are somehow dismissed as "self-hating Jews" or some other ridiculous charge.
Fortunately for the defenders of Israeli militarism, and its subservience to the American Empire, Israeli oppression of Palestinians is systematically marginalized by our conglomerate media. There are excellent documentaries on the issue, like "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land." But fans of Gutmann's deceptions won't look at that sort of material. There appears to be too large an emotional investment in convenient fairy tales about the righteousness of the Israeli military. Their self-deception is only harming Israel, and the country's current aggression is making matters worse for everybody. Twenty-four Palestinian civilians killed during this month of June, and the economic warfare intensifies, as do the house demolitions, the land theft of the Wall, and other disgraceful acts.
It's the Palestinians who need to do the media work. For instance, having a single radio personality to counter the deceptions of Michael Medved, Dennis Prager and others would be helpful. In the meantime, journals like the "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs" provide a much needed dose of reality for anyone whose interested. I'd also recommend the film, "The Inner Tour," which is about a group of Palestinians taking a tour bus through Israel, a bus that is driven by an Israeli. It provides a more humanizing view of all people involved, instead of this good vs. bad framing of complex issues that US demagogues constantly utilize.
Riveting account of how media lies, distortions, & bias mishape public opinion.......2006-05-29
The author has done her research and writes well. The picture on the cover sums up the whole story: that's a wall of media photographers on a "photo op" taking staged pictures of a Palestinian boy throwing rocks. Ms. Gutmann reveals the truth of what happened to news footage of ecstatic Palestinians celebrating 9/11. Remember, we saw a brief flurry of it and suddenly there were no pictures? Withdrawn to keep Palestinian officials from murdering newsman held at gunpoint. The PLO has long used strongarm tactics to bully and threaten any sense of independent Arab media in areas under their influence. There's so much more. This book is an important opening to the reality of media lies, distortions and bias in shaping public perception of this conflict.
it answers so many questions.......2006-03-02
I have wondered for years how the media could get reporting on Israel so wrong. Here is the explanation, told by a reporter who was on the ground and saw the process in action. As a freelance, she was able to see clearly how images were manipulated, reporters came in with pre-set attitudes, agendas, and viewpoints, and the Palestinian AUthority intimidated and tightly controlled what could be said. I recommend this gritty first person account to anyone who wants to understand how AP, CNN and others manipulate our view of the world.
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Birds of Indianapolis: A Guide to the Region
Charles E. Keller , and
Timothy C. Keller
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