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Several famous fantasy and science fiction authors had their beginning in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, including Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury (not to mention Dashiell Hammett and Tennessee Williams). There were also crime fighters so popular they had their own magazines, such as the still-popular Doc Savage and the Shadow. But besides the writers and the series heroes, there was yet another element for which the lurid pulp magazines (called "pulp" in reference to the cheap grade of paper they were printed on by the millions) are fondly remembered to this day: the cover art. Robert Lesser offers a fascinating history from the perspective of the commercial artists who produced this often less-than-respectable work, thereby bringing the acclaim that these now mostly forgotten artists richly deserve. The author also includes 18 essays about various aspects of the long extinct industry, from such legendary SF scholars as Forrest J. Ackerman and Sam Moskowitz. Needless to say, the book is also stuffed with some amazing artwork. Pulp Art is a perfect introduction to a once nearly lost aspect of pop culture, which just now is being properly appreciated. --Stanley Wiater
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This exclusive collection reproduces in full color the rare, original paintings that enhanced the pulp magazines popular during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Also included are artists' sketches, interior illustrations, and lively text that offers the first complete history of the artists and their unique accomplishments. Chock full of action-packed, gorgeous--even shocking--color paintings for such popular pulps as American Stories, Weird Tales, and The Shadow, this volume is likely to become the definitive reference on a rare and highly collectible art style.
Customer Reviews:
Art that goes pop!.......2000-08-22
Pulp fiction is an acquired taste these days; although I was born in the sixties, long after the death of these magazines, the paperback boom in science fiction and fantasy following the explosion of popularity due to Tolkien and "Star Wars" put much of the classic pulp series in my hands. I still love the stuff, much in the same way that I enjoy sitting down to a childhood meal of Captain Crunch or a chocolate Sundae. This book provides the graphic counterpart to the words I know so well, in gorgeous reproduced color. The pop culture of the thirties is to this day some of the deepest and most endearing, from Fred and Ginger to the Marx Brothers to the Wizard of Oz movie to hard-boiled detectives to golden age science fiction to the westerns to...well, you probably get the point by now. This is an art that was never intended to do anything more than sell a magazine, but it shows a vitality and craft sadly missing from the same kind of art today. Granted, some of it is misogynistic, sadistic, and racist, but then almost everything in western society is, even to this day. Taken with a little salt, the paintings reach out and bash you between the eyes, daring you not to pick up the magazine they advertise. The book provides an introduction to the topic unmatched elsewhere, and makes suggestions for follow-ups to the fan. The pictures alone are worth the price: they range from N.C. Wyeth to J. Allen St. John to Margaret Brundage to Rafael de Soto (whose use of light, darkness, and bright colors is perhaps the most striking in the whole book, at least to my uneducated eye -- regardless, his paintings in particular leap off the page). All in all, a most enjoyable volume.
"Good Typography Sells!".......1998-12-09
However, with all due respect, a book about the pulps without at least one typo would not be true to its subject. That is to say, a hallmark of the pulps is the speed and verve with which the books were produced -- mispellings, tygos, broken fonts and printing blemishes included.
Pulp Art is not perfect but satisfying!.......1997-11-07
_Pulp Art_ contains a varied collection of wonderful cover art from the pulp fiction of the early 1920's through the 1940's. The paintings are nicely reproduced, crisp and colorful. Intended to encourage the viewer to buy the book, all the cover art is sexually suggestive, menacing, or mysterious. The art also reflect the attitudes and prejudices of their times. The whole spectrum of different genres are represented here, including Science Fiction, Tarzan, Mysteries, Westerns, Heroic, Romance, and War. I found several spelling errors in this book, some of them quite obvious. _Pulp Art_ could have benefited from a decent proof reading, to be sure. Still, the beautiful art is fascinating to view and speaks louder than the printed text inside.
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When Disney/Pixar teamed up to create A Bug's Life, they brought a whole new perspective to the tiny world of insects. Now you can join in the fun of learning how to draw all your favorite characters from the film--from the industrious ants to the bumbling circus bugs to the evil grasshoppers. Learning to draw has never been this much fun!
Customer Reviews:
"A Bug's Life".......2003-09-24
"A Bug's Life" is about an ant, named Flik, who tries to save his colony from the grasshoppers that come every year to get food from the ants. Flik accidentally knocks over the whole pile of food for the grasshoppers and they all get into deep trouble from this. He is then sent out to go and get people/other bugs to help protect the colony. Thus begins the war between the ants and the grasshoppers. This book teaches us to face our fears and stand up to whosoever may challenge us and face them with no fear. This would be for children of the grades of 1st - 3rd. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to read an adventure story.
how to draw a bug's life?.......2000-06-23
erm...not really good ...but it's do needs some improvement
Create Disney Bugs from the movie!.......2000-01-05
This is a wonderfully informative book that explains the colors chosen for the movie, how to mix colors, how "A Bug's Life" was created, how to draw your own bugs and fill in realistic settings from a bug's point of view. I had never thought about facial expressions for bugs so it makes you think. I loved this book and it is NOT just for kids. I learned a lot and highly recommend it for creative drawing techniques. Have fun!
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Dictionnaire des photographes
Carole Naggar
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Dictionnaire des artistes de langue francaise en Amerique du Nord: Peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfevres
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A Great Book Restoring Great Memories.......2005-10-16
So far I have only located three of the color Sunday comic strip books on Terry and the Pirates from the war years. The two I have on hand are for 1943 and 1945. 1942 is on the way. '41 and '44 are the hardest to locate. I just want those five years as they relate more to when I read the series in our newspaper and listened to the radio show.
There were black and whites, Monday through Saturday, however you can read these books from the Sundays and not miss a beat. What is surprising is that I actully remember certain Sundays, that stood out in the back of my mind.
They make you feel you are watching some of the better World War Two movies. Action, beautiful heroines and bad girls like the famous Dragon Lady, and a dialogue that convinces you Milt Caniff could have written for the great films during the golden age of Hollywood. There must be more characters than I recall from the radio show, but the favorites are alive and well in these pages, aging as in real life. Terry Lee goes from the naive kid to pilot trainee to fighter ace. There also is Flip Corkin, Pat Ryan, Connie, Big Stoop, more gals than I can name, and a favorite, Hot Shot Charlie.
Charlie, or Charles Charles, is a smart wise cracking guy from Boston (you'd think Brooklyn) who is Terry's closest chum for a couple years. The one Sunday strip I have never forgotten involved him.
Hot Shot is trying to act like the "old pro" for new guys and he is at the army cleaners. The guy doing the cleaning holds up a beautiful officer's cap and asks Charlie how can a guy have a hat as beat up, battle worn, and looking like a real ace owns it as is Hot Shot's. Charlie takes it and throws it under a bull dozer, kicks it in the mud, beats it up, and hands it back telling the fellow he has a real experienced look now. The cleaner then tells a Charlie, who turns green, that it wasn't his hat, it belonged to the general.
The comic is better than the radio show as I recall it now. If I was a kid again I might differ. Caniff is an outstanding artist indeed.
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A VCR, a great movie, a tub of popcorn and a Management Goes to the Movies Study Guide . . . management training doesn't get any better, easier or more fun than this!
"MOVIES FOR LEADERS: MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM FOUR ALL-TIME GREAT FILMS" is the first volume in a series of self-study guides aimed at helping managers cope with difficult situations and improve day-to-day performance. This guide uses the movies "Hoosiers," "The Wizard of Oz," "Moby Dick" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" to help managers sharpen their leadership skills, train their staffs to lead, think through key leadership issues and enliven their business presentations. The guide also contains references to online quizzes from moviesforbusiness.com where, after reading the book, readers can take an online examination and earn a Hollywood MBA (Master of Bijou Advice) in Leadership.
Based on a corporate-training program developed by Shaun O'L. Higgins and Colleen Striegel and used in their companies for more than 15 years, "Movies for Leaders" also features an introductory essay on business as portrayed on screen from the 1930s to the 1990s.
"Movies for Leaders" presents reel business lessons for real business performance. Among the lessons in its pages:
* Why "The Wizard of Oz" is one of the greatest leadership training films ever made.
* How minor strengths can blind you to a manager's major weaknesses.
* Why you can't afford not to train every member of your team.
* How to develop a mission statement employees can march to.
Each chapter is filled with practical lessons on the keys to leadership, including motivational skills, decision making, judgment, planning, competitive strategy, ethics, communication and team building. Each chapter also features helpful sidebars with information about the movie, illustrative examples from actual businesses and elaborations on key concepts.
Customer Reviews:
A magnificent and brilliant idea!.......2004-12-19
Regardless of the era , some business sectors seem never to receive a fair shake in the movies . Their seems to be an internal process of restriction in which the movie is simply evasion and it does not exist the power of will to go beyond the message exploring just only the boundaries .
The authors present us an interesting set of movies related with the Management . Undoubtedly you may argue the proposal is not enough and you are right but the important is the first step , because never before no one saw the enormous world of possibilities hidden a simple movie ..
Hoosiers, Wizard of Oz , The Bridge on the River Kwai and Moby Dick were in this case the selected ones .
This initial release might be well the enormous gate to explore another items in different topics .
I would suggest from hawk gaze three different sets of them .
First set : Bounty mutiny , Rashomon , King Lear (believe or not , there is a huge lot of issues) the authority never be delegated only the responsibility and Tunes of Glory
Second set: Master and Commander , Twelve o clock high , Command decision and Das Boot .
Third set : China Syndrome, L'argent des outres (The money of the others) , Blow up and Character .
The idea is extraordinary and very original . In my personal case i `ve shown some particular issues who illustrate widely different approach to teach the organization in different levels , specially the High , Media and Low Management .
Excellent initiative which I expect keeps and acquires a major impulse and importance to the Managers because if it is certain the movies do not reflect the same life , this reasoning may be valid for films with low scope but never can be accepted to foot letter .
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This book describes and illustrates the basic anatomy of more than 70 muscles and their use in playing specific musical instruments. It identifies corrective massage points for these muscles, holding points, and appropriate nutrition. It also depicts the many postural and emotional reasons for muscular problems with reference to the Alexander Technique.
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Become a Su Doku master with hours of brainteasing new puzzles!
It's official! Su Doku is the hottest puzzle craze in years, featured daily in hundreds of newspapers nationwide, and reported on by Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, and CBS' The Early Show.
Not for the faint of heart, The Big Book of Su Doku #3: Extreme takes Su Doku to a whole new level. Here are 200 brand new "extreme" puzzles, ranging from difficult to diabolical, for Su Doku fans looking for a challenge. Also included is a special section with tips on the best solving techniques, so you too can be a master of Su Doku.
200 brand new puzzles of increasing levels of difficulty:
• Difficult Puzzles
• Challenging Puzzles
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Customer Reviews:
Great, HARD puzzles!.......2006-04-24
I have gotten other so called hard Sudoku books and found them too easy. This one will keep you going for a long time. It has lots of different types of puzzles with the ultimate being the 16x16 grid. I would give 4 1/2 stars because I wish it were on better paper. I make copies of the hardest puzzles on better paper that can take LOTS of erasing!
Not for beginners.......2006-03-25
Wonderful. No fluff in this book. It begins with some tricky ones that actually require several minutes to finish and gets downright hard after that. Some take hours, and often I just quit one puzzle and come back to it another day.
The various shapes/styles are a great break from the 9x9 norm. The 6x6 puzzles are absolutely vicious. Nothing like kids 6x6 sudokus that take an advanced puzzler seconds to complete. And I love the jigsaw shapes. Watch out for the 9x9 jigsaws!
There should be more advanced sudoku books like this. As recommended by others, this should not be your first foray into sudoku. But once you are hooked on the light stuff, this is a nice challenge.
This books makes Sudoku even more fun.......2006-02-25
If you like Sudoku but the puzzles seem to be getting dull, try the variants in this book. Different sizes and arrangements make new puzzles out of an old game.
Excellent book for the advanced Sudoku solver.......2006-02-02
First of all, I would definitely say that if you are just beginning to learn how to solve Sudoku puzzles, I strongly suggest that you do not buy this book. Instead, I would suggest a book which focuses almost entirely on the standard 9x9 Sudoku puzzles, and which starts with easy puzzles before progressing to more difficult ones. The Big Book of SuDoku 3 starts right out with difficult puzzles, and the puzzles only continue to get harder and harder as you continue.
If you are an experienced SuDoku solver who is able to solve all but the hardest 9x9 SuDoku puzzles without too much difficulty, or if you have grown a bit tired with the standard 9x9 SuDoku puzzle, this is a great book. For me, the most appealing feature of this book is that half of the 200 puzzles in this book are different from the familiar 9x9 Sudoku. While the Maxi (12x12) and Super (16x16) puzzles are just larger versions of the 9x9 puzzles, the Jigsaw, Duplex, and Triplex puzzles actually require the solver to use different solving techniques than are used for the regular puzzles.
Overall, I give this book 5 stars as long as you're up for the challenge. While this book may not contain quite the volume of puzzles as some others, the harder puzzles can take well upwards of an hour to complete, so this book will keep you occupied for a long time.
For the above average Sudoku Puzzler.......2005-12-15
I started doing these puzzles over a year ago and I became hooked. This book is for people who have been doing them a long time, or who know they will become addicted. If you are a true beginner I would suggest the second book in this series (has a bit easier puzzles to start with up to the mega challenging. You can spend hours on some of the hardest ones, but if you are a true puzzler, that is what you want.
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She's Charmed and Dangerous Locker Calendar
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She's Charmed and Dangerous! This hip new license embodies the spirit of today's teen lifestyle, featuring a cast of multicultural girlfriends who have a passion for fashion. 7" X 10"
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On a November day in 1895, crowds of curious sightseers gathered outside St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York, intent on spotting a small dapper bridegroom whom they knew to be a great English aristocrat awaiting his bride-to-be. When she arrived, twenty minutes late, anyone who caught a glimpse beneath Consuelo Vanderbilt's veil would have seen that her face was swollen from crying.
When Consuelo's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society. She was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage, and the underfunded Duke of Marlborough was just the thing. It didn't matter that Consuelo loved someone else; as Alva once told her, "I don't ask you to think, I do the thinking, you do as you're told."
However, the story of Consuelo and Alva is not simply one of the emptiness of wealth, of the glamour of the Gilded Age, and of enterprising social ambition. This is a fascinating account of how two women struggled to break free from the deeply materialistic world into which they were born, taking up the fight for female equality. Consuelo threw herself into good works; Winston Churchill encouraged her to make her first public speech, and her social and political campaigns proved an antidote to loneliness. Alva embraced the militant suffragette movement in America, helping to bring the fight for the vote to its triumphant conclusion and campaigning vehemently for women's rights until she died. In this brilliant and engrossing book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart suggests that behind the most famous transatlantic marriage of all lies an extraordinary tale of the quest for female power.
Customer Reviews:
Consuelo and Alva.......2007-07-12
Fascinating story well presented. This well-researched book has clarified several misconceptions about the Consuelo and Alva story.
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age.......2007-01-04
I liked the book, some of what the author had placed in her book was from other books.
Fascinating Glimpse Into Two Lives.......2006-12-20
I didn't read this book for a while after I bought it, as I found its heft daunting. However, once I started it, I was totally absorbed. Mackenzie Stuart combines two stories in one. I refer not to the stories of the mother and daughter, but the combination of describing lifestyles that seem almost medieval and then telling the story of the women's suffrage movements in the US and UK from Alva and Consuelo's vantage points.
I can't speak to the few factual errors pointed out by one of the earlier reviewers. However, as for the subejct-verb error cited, although the phrase is incorrect in American usage, I believe it is correct in British usage.
I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in 20th-century social (in both senses of the word) history in the US and UK.
Marvelous subjects, excellent research.......2006-09-20
I'll admit to a certain partiality towards the history of the American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, subsequently the first wife of the 9th Duke of Marlborough.
Growing up on Long Island as I did, where her parents had their original summer estate, the story of Consuelo's marriage to the Duke was well-known. Some referred to her bethrothal as a sale, a fabulously wealthy American girl traded off to be the bride of a titled Englishman who was close to destitute.
On a personal basis, my family was among the founders of the incorporated country club which, decades later, bought Consuelo's own Long Island estate; I married my first husband in Consuelo's beautiful English-style garden. Therefore, while I feel no sense of commonality with her, I do feel a connection.
Having said this, it will be no surprise that I have read most of the biographies and autobiographies of Consuelo and her mother, Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. From this vantage point, author Amanda Mackenzie Stuart has done an excellent job in her book, CONSUELO AND ALVA VANDERBILT: THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER AND A MOTHER IN THE GILDED AGE. Not even Consuelo's own autobiography gave as clear a sense of her humanity as Stuart does here; similarly, none of the books about Alva and her dedication to the women's suffrage movement gives as good a picture of that lady herself.
Without question, these were two extraordinary women, sharing at least three stories. In fact, three stories may have been one story too many for easy integration into a combined biography that is manageable in scope.
The prose used by the author, while adequate, never crosses that important line to engaging. While the subject always is interesting, the book sometimes fails to be.
There are a number of niggardly flaws, admittedly minor at best, yet the quantity of these flaws, in such a serious work, disrupt the flow of the history. And I cannot understand why the foreign phrases with which the book is peppered never are translated. Surely not every reader of an English-language publication can be presumed to talk French.
Alva was a complex woman; by modern standards, probably one who was disturbed. In the simpler times when she ruled society, money easily smoothed over one's glaring peculiarities.
After the death of her second husband, she lost herself in the suffrage movement. That the cause was important and worthwhile, there is no doubt. This importance does not explain Alva's allegiance to it, however, which almost bordered fanaticism. Nor does this explain her self-centered vision of a movement that, ultimately, impacted the rights of women across the globe.
Her daughter seems to have been a kinder, more generous, personality, just plain nicer all around. Consuelo obviously had the greater capacity to love and be loved. Blessed with a very long life, she had close and loving relationships with friends, servants and, most importantly, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The part of the book about the suffrage movement does not sustain the pacing of the biographical sections, even though the juxtapositioning of the gilded age with the disenfranchised lower classes does provide food for thought.
Overall, this remains a work of the highest level of scholarship.
Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter & Mother in the Gilded Age.......2006-06-07
I found this book to be interesting overall, but somewhat laborious to read at times. I mistakenly thought this book was about the Vanderbilt twins' older sister, but after purchasing the book, I discovered that it is about another Consuelo Vanderbilt, from a different branch of the family. Nonetheless, I found it interesting because I'm fascintated by extreme wealth and the families who have connections to European royalty. However, this book focuses on the feminist roles that both Gloria and her mother, Alva assumed in their lives and this is not a subject which particularly interests me. Therefore, it was tough going for me at times and I had to force myself to finish the book. But this is just my own taste. I'm sure others might think differently about this book.
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With an abundance of new essays reflecting the ever-changing landscape of world politics, the eighth edition of this renowned reader provides students with comprehensive coverage of the most important IR concepts, trends, and current issues.
Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this best-selling collection places contemporary essays alongside classics of the discipline and includes divergent views to ensure a balanced perspective. The presentation of alternative perspectives provides students with challenging material in the language of the field. The anthology presents clear, theoretical works that inspire a deeper understanding of the forces that shape today's world.
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Philosophy in disguise.......2007-04-04
To say that this book is somewhat impenetrable is a bit like saying space is slightly chilly. There certainly are foundational theories that need to be explored in IR, but this book approaches it in the most condescending and repellent way possible. If you enjoy overly-complex, and self-aggrandizing prose, definitely pick one up. If not, there are likely better sources for this material.
International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues (8th Edition).......2007-02-20
Everything happened as they said it would.
Good for class.......2007-02-12
I got this book because it was required for my international politics class. It isn't terribly hard to read, and it isn't excruciatingly boring so all in all this isn't a bad book. I probably wouldn't buy it if I didn't need it for class, but it's a good book to go along with the class
Extremely Informative.......2002-11-15
A must read for any new-comer to the subject of international relations. Topics covered are varied and relevant. Very applicable to today's world.
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- Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
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