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The Renaissance Coloring Book includes images of many of the most famous paintings of the Renaissance and will delight and educate children and adults alike.
-45 renderings of Renaissance paintings for you to color
-space on the opposite page for creating your own masterpiece
-informative and educational introduction
Customer Reviews:
Not exactly what I expected.......2007-09-14
I'm an art therapist at a nursing home and was looking for adult coloring pages for my residents. While the attention to detail is beautiful, the images were a little complicated. The contour lines are confusing and unnecessary at times. But if you are an artist who can't draw or want someone else to define the contours than these are you books.
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Book Description
Chickens show off their human side in Sloane Tanen's irresistible dioramas.
With more personality than most people have to spare, New York artist Sloane Tanen's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, and annoyingly crowded yoga classes. They perch amid doll furniture, in scenes photographed in glorious color and brilliantly captioned- and their lives will strike you as strangely familiar...
Charming, spiky with off-kilter wit (or waxing jobs gone terribly wrong), and somehow larger than life, these chickens win the hearts of all who behold them.
Customer Reviews:
the chicks are SOOOOO cute.......2007-05-20
My new favorite animals are now chicks because of this book.
Really funny, fun book.......2007-01-10
This is such a great coffee table book. Sloane Tanen is really ingenious with her creative work. Each little vignette has fantastic details, many of which you only see the second or third time you've looked at the book.
A great girlfriends present or birthday gift... after you've bought one for yourself!
You really will enjoy Tanen's chicks!
i love mini chickens with feelings.......2007-01-06
this is a great book, good gift..
highly reccommend it.
does have adult humor, which makes it great.
but i imagine it could be used as a children's picture book too, so the parents have something interesting to read.
Bitter with Baggage boring.......2006-11-06
Sorry, but I bought this book with quite high expectations of being intrigued and entertained and I found it really boring.
Not great to show a first date..........2006-07-07
I learned the hard way. He was late..and I popped into the local bookstore and spotted this. I like chickens..so I had to pick it up..and I couldn't put it down! Hysterically funny! So I bought it. Naturally when "he" showed up he asked what was in the bag..not thinking about the title...I showed it to him. He didn't get it..or a second date for that matter. I went home and drank wine and laughed my rear-end off! A must have for men or women. Has nothing to do with being bitter or having baggage..just funny life and times of some chickens...
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Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind and simple people. In 1995 Disney created a beautiful, peace-loving ecologist and called her Pocahontas. Only occasionally have Native Americans been portrayed as complex, modern characters in films like Smoke Signals.
Celluloid Indians is an accessible, insightful overview of Native American representation in film over the past century. Beginning with the birth of the movie industry, Jacquelyn Kilpatrick carefully traces changes in the cinematic depictions of Native peoples and identifies cultural and historical reasons for those changes. In the late twentieth century, Native Americans have been increasingly involved with writing and directing movies about themselves, and Kilpatrick places appropriate emphasis on the impact that Native American screenwriters and filmmakers have had on the industry. Celluloid Indians concludes with a valuable, in-depth look at influential and innovative Native Americans in today’s film industry.
Customer Reviews:
A disappointing book on a necessary topic.......2007-03-15
I teach a cultural studies course that examines representations of native peoples in American film, so was searching for a text that would provide a critical apparatus for analyzing films by and about indigenous people. Partly based on the glowing reviews here (and partly due to the dearth of full-length studies on this topic), I opted for Celluloid Indians. This book is a letdown, and the disappointment is amplified by the necessity for serious critical work on native peoples and American film. Basically Kilpatrick summarizes films from Griffith to Alexie, with a few withering editorial comments about stereotypes sprinkled here and there. The critical orientation is puzzling, moreover, a reliance on thinkers like Bakhtin, who was a theorist of the modern novel, not cinema. I might concede that applying Bakhtin to film could be successfully achieved, but not here. I'm waiting on a better book than this, and hope that a scholar of American Indian cultures and film will write one.
Contributes Nothing New to the Field.......2004-04-12
Celluloid Indians offers on overview of the history of Indians in the movies but rehases much of what has been done before. The author cuts and pastes long previously published excerpts from other articles and calls them her own. She adds merely a few comments to issues that have already been thoroughly discussed elsewhere. She knows little of Hollywood history, which makes her book nothing more than a superficial study of Native American images in the motion picture business. But perhaps the most annoying aspect of this book is that it's so one sided and determined to fault everything on Hollywood that it gets tiresome after a while. Isn't it time for this field to move beyond that stereotype?
An important scholarly contribution.......2001-09-17
Celluloid Indians is book that makes an important contribution to the discourse of representations of Native Americans in the dominant culture. In Celluloid Indians, Jacquelyn Kilpatrick considers the combination of the misrepresentations and the displacement of native peoples, the use of popular stereotypes to rewrite history, as well as the gendering of this activity. Furthermore, Kilpatrick's Celluloid Indians examines stereotypes in twentieth-century films as she posits that popular images of Indians speak more importantly to the Euro-American agenda and history of conquest.
Lets me be more specific. Celluloid Indians, examines the importance of native voices (or the lack thereof), of "the represented subject" Kilpatrick posits that the Indian, "must be able to talk back" (p. xvi). Kilpatrick argues that twentieth-century Hollywood films create and re-enforce stereotypes that were first made popular in the 19th century by dime novels and Wild West shows. She engages in a number of films, including "shorts" produced early in the century by D. W. Griffith and Thomas Edison, conventional and counterculture Westerns released from the 1930s through to the 1970s, and even some (or what might seem to be) pro-native films of the 1980s and 1990s, like Dances with Wolves, Powwow Highway, and Pocahontas. The book mentions that these works pretend to show, contrary to the claims of some Hollywood filmmakers, popular images of native peoples have changed little during the last century.
However, while it is indeed the case that these images of Native Americans seem predictable, they have been used for different ends and sometimes diametrically opposed purposes depending on the time and context. Over time, as values and government agendas change, the film industry becomes co-conspirator to fostering its agenda at the expense of the misrepresentation of the Indian. The book ends with a discussion of several popular films and documentaries by contemporary native media and filmmakers. One thing I have to give Kilpatrick credit for is the flirting with women's issues despite having to pull back because it does not really seem to fall under the rubric of her argument - but in reality - it does. She brilliantly places in context the discussions of little known movies by juxtaposing the key historical events affecting the landscape of Native America, like the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the termination and relocation policies of the 1950s, and the activities of the American Indian Movement during the 1960s and 1970s.
What we have here is a compelling book that requires a read and a re-read. It breaks down the stereotypes of the savage and noble Indian as well as the romantic notion of the mystical Indian as close to the land. The discourse is wide and this is only a subtopic. For a more expansive examination, kindly consider reading Robert F. Berkhofer's "The White Man's Indian" for which Kilpatrick prepares you. Prepare to look at things differently from here on in.
Miguel Llora
An Inside Look.......2000-01-04
This book is an absolute must for anyone...student, teacher or other interested people who might have wondered how and why Native Americans react like they do to the stereotypical images that we see everyday in the media. The author...rooted in the Chicago Indian community... echoes the heart felt sentiments of her people. As an Indian person, I found myself at times cheering...saying 'YOU DAMENED RIGHT MOMMA...YOU TELL EM' and at others I could only stop to wipe away a tear because I realized this woman had actulized what I could never say. In no uncertain terms Ms. Kilpatrick did our community proud. I recommend this book to any teacher who is interested in presenting students with a clear view of how we have been cast and more important why! A good read folks..ya gotta check it out.
Informative and compelling read.......1999-12-12
Dr. Kilpatrick's new book, Celluloid Indians, is a breathtaking account of Native Americans as portrayed in film. Her solid scholarly work is made accessible to readers of varying backgrounds. The subtle humor, sprinkled thoughout the book, enhances its appeal and makes this one very good read. I highly recommend Celluloid Indians to anyone who is even remotely interested in gaining an increased understanding of the misrepresentation of Native Americans in film. Thank you Dr. Kilpatrick!
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A complete, yet pocket-sized, foundations course in the art of Turntablisnm and DJing. Produced with and accredited by Point Blank London, this pint-sized pocket guide contains everything needed to fully master turntables and put together a storming crowd-pleaser of a set. Packed with advice, anecdotes and clear diagrams, this book provides everything needed to start developing a reputation as a superstar DJ.
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Jumble fans everywhere will jump for joy at this new twist on the perennially popular jumble puzzles! Offering the same scrambled word fun as their classic cousins, these new puzzles will also test your knowledge of geography, history, science, and much, much more. Brain busters will keep your noggin hoppin' and your pencil moving with hours of challenging , enjoyable puzzles. Jumble fans won't be able to resist this fun new way to maintain your brainpower!
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gigantic jumble.......2007-08-23
I was amazed at the number of puzzles in the book(over 500),so many puzzles at such a reasonable price. GREAT
Great way to keep your mind active.......2007-07-19
I always loved doing jumbles in the newspaper. Now with these books you can have a great time and keep your mind active at the same time. My mother also loves them. If you want to stay sharp, pick up a few of these books and keep them around the house.
FUN BOOK.......2007-03-25
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE OR LOVE DOING WORD JUMBLES THIS IS THE BOOK TO ORDER- IT HAS PLENTY OF FUN PUZZLES. I DO SOME OF THE PUZZLES ALMOST EVERY DAY, IT RELAXES ME. I WOULD DEFINITELY ORDER OTHER JUMBLE PUZZLE BOOKS.
Gigantic Jumble: A Colossal Collection for Dedicated Jumblers.......2005-10-25
A paradise for jumble fanatics! The book is a bit heavy on the lap, but it's a wonderful way to pass time on a car trip.
Would recommend for anyone who loves jumbles.
Customer Reviews:
Oh such fun!.......2007-09-15
Jumbles keep my mind active! I am so happy that these books are available from Amazon!
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Sex. After. Baby.
These three words are whispered by mothers everywhere who find themselves stumped and shocked by the state of their sex lives. Naughty Mommy Heidi Raykeil has been down that road and chronicles her experiences in her online column Sex in the Suburbs. Raykeil knows firsthand that there are still plenty of things our mothers (and friends, and doctors) don’t tell us about motherhood, but that every mother should know.
While the media continues to bombard us with images of sex everywhere we turn, the reality for married couples with children today is much different. Do-it-all-moms seem to be doing everything except IT. Raykeil is out to change that.
Confessions of a Naughty Mommy is a funny, honest, and sexy account of Raykeil’s search for her missing libido—lost in action after she gave birth to her daughter. She takes readers along on her journey from mystified and frustrated new mom through the bumpy awkwardness of reigniting the home fires during naptime and date night to a newfound discovery and appreciation of sex after baby. With humor, grit, and style, she shares what has worked for her and her husband, as they balance their dual roles of parents and lovers.
Customer Reviews:
Love it.......2007-04-01
I hope I get that libido back and keep it long long time. lol
Confessions of a Naughty Mommy.......2007-03-09
It was honest, blunt and to the point. It shed light on alot of things that "housewives" feel. I like that in this modern day "sex" book, it focused on how honest we should be with our feelings. And it also showed that even if we are not "feeling" sexy or great about ourselves, it's still important to try to see our partners point of view. Be honest, but not selfish. Be true to yourself, understanding that your partners feelings are important in that relationship. Also I liked that she spoke of the phases that we have in our lives, that the "mommy - prudish" stage, is only that.... a stage and that after the children get older, we can get the romance back into our relationship.
Grab a babysitter and run after your former sex life.......2007-01-29
I loved this book! A person really can relate to the character in the book. Many of us just get so overwhelmed with the demands of parenthood that it is impressive how many families actually go on to have more than one child! The book does not offer a clear solution, but it is rather a diary of one woman's journey to revive her sexy self. It ends a bit unresolved, but leaves plenty of possibilities for one's own resolutions.
Accurate, and therefore depressing.......2006-06-13
I've been through this from the husband's perspective. We had three kids, and despite being physically fine, my wife just checked out sexually. Although she's a decent writer, Raykeil is also, like most mommies, incredibly self-centered. Pretty much the entire world revolves around her and her daughter, and her husband is left to fend for himself, which she even finds sort of amusing. It isn't. I never felt more alone, more lost, more desparate and more in anguish than when I was suddenly reduced to an ATM and an assistant in my own home. She doesn't, in the end, seem too concerned with what kind of damage this did to her husband, how unfair it was, how hurtful or how cruel. And, like mommies everywhere, she uses her status as a potent guilt-weapon. When her husband tells her that condoms reduce some of the sensation and pleasure of sex, she instantly retaliates with that time-honored "Well, try CHILDBIRTH buster!" She found hundreds of ways to make sure her husband knew she didn't care, she didn't want to be touched, she didn't need him. The dead giveaway for me was the line that she had spent something like a thousand nights with her daughter in bed with them. You cannot find a much clearer way of telling your husband that he is your absolute last priority -- and that how that makes him feel isn't really too important. Hit a nerve.
so much more.......2006-03-22
I was a fan of Raykeil's column on the Literary Mama website, so I was looking forward to this book, and I was not disappointed. It is a wonderful mix of humor, despair, sexiness, and insight, and left me feeling very motivated to try to reactivate my own post-baby sex life! While having a baby around the house can be the catalyst for some sexual and relational upheaval, I don't agree with the reviewer who said that the issues just magically resolve themselves once the baby is more independent (and no longer nursing or co-sleeping.) I don't think Raykeil comes to that conclusion, either, and I appreciated Raykeil's honesty and her willingness to go deeper in order to really help her relationship grow along with her family. No, it isn't an instruction manual, but I think many couples can be helped and inspired by Raykeil's journey.
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Bayerlein:From Afrikakorps to Panzer Lehr.......2005-12-03
Outstanding work went into this book.Very easy to read,great of publisher to make room for many pictures,instead of the obligatory 12-16 most have in the center of the book.The author dug well and deep to aquire pictures and many personal facts one ordinarily would not find.Most readers of the African and Normandy campigns discover Fritz Bayerlein as a footnote for someone else's exploits extroidinaire.This book illustrates the degree that General Bayerlein enhanced the careers of such luminaries as Rommel and Guderian, as well as being a field commander in his own right.Major props to P.A. Spayd,keep us posted for the next work of this author.
Excellent Work on a German General's Life.......2004-01-30
Ms. Spayd has done a tremendous job of putting together the life of one of Germany's most accomplished generals. If a person is wanting to see a micro-study on the life and times of a German commander during WWII, then this book has much to offer. And last, anyone who is interested in the Afrika Korps must have this book since it closely looks at Rommel's command and warfare in Africa. Ms. Spayd has significantly contributed to the body of knowledge on the operational level of warfare during World War II and she has done so by putting a human face on it.
An excellent view of one of Rommel's principal generals........2004-01-03
This book gives an in depth look at an important German general we have heard little about. General Bayerlein was a key participant in the North African, Russian and European campaigns. Of special interest to me was his role as commander of the Panzer Lehr Division during the Normandy invasion. His personal views of the orders he received to advance to the front in daylight while being attacked by Allied aircraft was especially interesting. A German officer who served in all of the major Euopean theaters of WWII and survived had to be someone special. The author, through her use of Bayerlein's own words and unpublished photographs gives a unique view of the man and the soldier.
Life of a Panzer General.......2003-12-22
What would it be like to be Rommel's leading German panzer general in World War II?
This new biography tells us with the first comprehensive biography of Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein. Bayerlein was Rommel's former Chief of Staff and commander of the elite Panzer Lehr Division. The biography covers his life from birth in 1899 Wuerzburg, Germany, to his experiences in the invasion of Poland, France and Russia along with North Africa, Hungary, Normandy, the Ardennes and the Ruhr. The book is the result of over five years of pains-taking research. What do we know of one of Rommel's favorite panzer generals outside of the much told story of the Blonde nurse at Bastogne? The author has unearthed unique documents and photographs in both military and personal archives. Bayerlein's nephew has reluctantly opened expansive archives to the author - including many family and wartime photos. Further, a personal friend, Mr. Manfred Rommel, provides personal insight into Fritz Bayerlein, the man and family friend.
The biography is further buttressed by interviews of Bayerlein's friends, comrades and neighbors. Fellow officers and soldiers describe his battles - both in victory and defeat with Bayerlein's personal correspondence serving as the core narrative. He tells us in his own words of the thrill of the early victories to the frustration and venomous feelings emerging from fighting a war of useless bloodshed. Dashing the image of a cold-calculating panzer general, Fritz Bayerlein emerges as a tank leader with feeling: raging anger over poor decisions passed down by superiors, slothful lethargy from a war lost, the lust for young nurses and even a gentle kindness with children caught in a terrible war.
Over 340 photographs (many never before published) and 20 war maps hand-drawn by Bayerlein himself, make this book an important addition to a military or biographical collection.
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Sure, many of us in this modern world are cynical. The most cynical may even suspect that the news is manipulated and massaged by sponsors, that corporations act in their best interests, that political campaigns are determined not by votes, but by bucks, and that we don't get "all the news that's fit to print" but instead, "all the news that gets the ink". But even the most media-savvy amongst you will be awed by the behind-the-scenes descriptions of the Public Relations industry in action so masterfully described in this book. If you want your eyes to be opened, open them upon the pages of this book. (But remember: there are some very important people counting on you, and they really would prefer that you didn't ever hear about this book, much less buy it.)
Book Description
Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire with lobbyists and politicians.
Customer Reviews:
Lies, damn lies, and PR.......2006-11-25
It's hard to be an idealist in an age of corporate spin, where everything bad is now good for you. Fortunately for the public at large, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton have written a meticulously researched, hard-hitting, cynical look at the PR (public relations) industry and how its influence sometimes works against the public good. I found myself particularly surprised at the duplicity utilized by The Body Shop (a store I used to frequent), as well as other notable American corporations. I also highly recommend their other book, "Trust Us, We're Experts!"
Beware of Experts -- Follow the Money .......2005-07-02
Once again, John Stauber has written a book that tells it like it is, and this one ought to be a bestseller. Readers who can accept these truths may also want to read a couple highly detailed yet fascinating exposes of toxic sludge that is supposed to be good for us. First, "Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson. Yup, that fluoride in your water and toothpaste is a poisonous wasteproduct turned to profit through shrewd public relations strategies. Secondly, read "The Whole Soy Story" by Kaayla Daniel. This is even more of a shocker. It's on how we've all been sold on the idea that soy is good for us. Did you know that soy protein and lecithin are waste products -- toxic and sludgy leftovers from vegetable oil and margarine making that the soy industry decided to make profitable? Because no one other than a few vegetarians and hippies wanted to eat that toxic sludge, we all had to be manipulated into believing that they are good for us. And now soy's in so many foods that it's hard to escape it. Thanks to John Stauber's books including "Trust Us, We're Experts,"I'm wary of experts and now know enough to follow the money.
This book is phenomenal.........2004-10-03
In addition to the fact that this book reads like a thriller, the content and specific examples that are used in this book are so eye opening that it might make you depressed or even nauseated.
Americans are flooded with a propaganda campaign so efficiant that it would make the NAZIs jealous. This book expalins in vivid detail the actual manipulation tactics that are used by the energy, pharmacuetical and tobbaco industries (among others) to blind us into submission and hypnotize us into believing their products are not only safe but are intimately tied to your youth and vitality.
An earlier post for this book made the comment that the authors shouldn't explain the actual manipulation strategies, but the dangerous PR firms allready know how to use them. The rest of us should know these strategies so we can recognize their tactics when we are confronted with them.
Highly recomended book.
These Guys Are Good, and Fighting the Good Fight!.......2004-06-09
Where oh where do I begin? Toxic Sludge... takes a jaded look at the public relations industry, and exposes more than a few objectionable practices perpetrated on behalf of (mostly) corporate America's pursuit of the Almighty Buck.
I say 'mostly' because, however distressing it may be to informed and intelligent citizenship, even the United States Government and more than a few foreign regimes solicit the services of these most nefarious snake oil salesmen. Let's face it, you really do not consume the services of PR firms in order to foster good relations with your customers, you go to them when you have done something bad, and you want it covered up, or at least 'spinned' in the 'right' direction. You solicit the help of PR flacks and keep them on juicy retainers in order to look good, and not to be good. When the doo-doo hits the fan, whose a corporate ne'er do well gonna call? The PR company, that's who.
Toxic Sludge... contains twelve chapters of absorbing reading. From countermeasures directed at censoring information thoroughly in the public domain, keeping books off the bookshelves and dissenting voices from being heard, to infiltrating shoe-string activist organizations, fomenting criminal insurgency and subverting (and ultimately perverting) any and all attempts to relay the facts, the authors provide example after example of very well-financed government and corporate interests actively frustrating (and quite often foiling) intelligent and inormed democratic participation in the political and economic process. As Mark Dowie, the author of the introduction says, in an environment rife with PR, facts can not survive, nor can the truth prevail.
Some of the strategies and tactics PR firms used with giddy abandon on often unsuspecting targets truly shocked me, for many tools and tricks from the PR Playbook share an eerie resemblance to CIA methods and operations. In fact, more than a few PR players and heavy hitters get their inspiration from millitary strategists such as von Clauswitz, and cross-fertilization between PR firms and the upper levels of government and corporate America impart a uniquely acidic aggressivity and practiced slickness to their campaigns against their opponents. Some of their more colorful operations reminded me of the FBI's use, via its infamous COINTELPRO initiative, of agent provocateurs against student groups, anti-Vietnam war protestors and civil rights activists during the late sixties and early-mid-seventies. This unholy alliance between government, corporations and PR firms, combined with their incestuous linkages to the ad industry, make for one formidable and thorougly intimidating opponent.
The book contains a veritable smorgasbord of eminently quotable quotes and delightful (and very distressing) anecdotes. In this vein, my personal favorite is the story of how PT Barnum, of circus fame, got his start. He put on display an old, black slavewoman, and billed her as 'George Washington's childhood nursemaid', and get this- he claimed that she was one hundred and sixty years old. Barnum made certain that he got the woman in the news as often as he could, and it did not matter what the papers said, as long as his name was spelled right. Of course, Barnum made a killing, the woman died, an autopsy was performed for the benefit of more than a few skeptics, and gee whiz, it turned out that she could not have been more than eighty.
Barnum, of course, handled the situation like the PR pro he was. When the truth was finally revealed, he went public, and said he was shocked, truly shocked, at the way the woman had deceived him!
And that anecdote, in essence, describes the modus operandi of the PR professional. PR pros turn the truth inside out. While they greatly prefer subtlety, they will stoop to other, more brutish tactics in service of their cause. PR groups can obtain favorable coverage of their worldview, much like Barnum did, and can readily obtain the willing cooperation of government agencies, as well as current and former high ranking government officials and politicians to do their questionable bidding.
The PR firm has proven itself to be at times a sinister, vicious octopus with many tentacles in some of the most unlikely places. As such, it behooves any concerned citizen to read this book and take notice of this beast as he or she participates in the marketplace of ideas.
I have three words: beautiful, researched, moving........2004-01-15
See, long ago (how long? More than one hundred years...) advertising, and not circulation (that small fee you pay when you buy a magazine or daily newspaper) was already the number one source of income for most newspapers. Is it too difficult to predict that advertisers can exert power over publishers?
And when you learn from this book that 10 out of the top 15 Public Relations firms (already back in 1994) are owned by advertising firms, and you do the math, I believe you'll then find easy to understand why some unpleasant news don't find their way through the "free" press...
This book is extremely well researched; it pushes you to think twice at problems; it is a good handbook on how to spot deceit; it is a source of hope.
It is also somewhat scary and somewhat difficult as well (many quotations save the authors from lawsuits but slow the reading speed; there are topics on international politics; there's some reasoning about chemistry...) so I don't recommend it to the average reader (choose "Trust us, we're experts" by the same authors and "Influence" by Robert Cialdini first, then come back and dig this one).
Quotations follow:
"The radioactive waste from nuclear power plants contains the deadliest substances known. It consists mostly of spent fuel which, although it is no longer suitable for generating power, will remain radioactive and lethal for over 100,000 years."
"The business class dominates government through its ability to fund political campaigns, purchase high priced lobbysts and reward former officials with lucrative jobs."
"When an issue is actually coming up for a vote, [this direct-marketer] turns to his phone banks: 'Phones are for speed. Another advantage of phones is that it's really flexible. You test mail, get results in three weeks, and make adjustments. With phones you're on the phones today, you analyze your results, you change your script and try a new thing tomorrow. In a three-day program you can make four or five different changes, find out what's really working, what messages really motivate people, and improve your response rates'. "
Everybody hates junk mail and junk phone calls. Problem is, this stuff works...
"Every day 20 million Americans tune in and turn on to the Limbaugh talk radio show, which is aired on 650 stations across the United States. However, few people realize the degree of technologically sophisticated orchestration behind Limbaugh's power. [Someone] explained how his coalition used paid ads on the Limbaugh show to generate thousands of citizen phone calls urging legislators to kill health reform. First, Rush would hip us his 'dittohead' fans with a calculated rant against the Clinton health plan. Then during a commercial break listeners would hear a anti-health care ad and an 800 number to call for more information. Calling the number would connect them to a telemarketer, who would talk to them briefly and then 'patch them through' directly to their congressperson's office. The congressional staffers fielding the calls typically had no idea that the constituents had been primed, loaded, aimed and fired at them by radio ads on the Limbaugh show, paid by the insurance industry, with the goal of orchestrating grassroots opposition to health reform".
One wonders (might I add?) how naive and unfit for the job American congresspersons are! They just don't know a trick played on some 20 million fellow citizens!?
Do you know SLAPP lawsuits? They are Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, their goal is to force the defendant to run up huge bills: and shut up, of course. And what happens if lawsuits fail?
"And if lawsuits fail, some anti-environmentalists urge even stronger tactics. Former Interior Secretary James Watt (who in 1996 pleaded guilty to trying to influence a Federal grand jury) told a gathering of cattlemen in June 1990, 'If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used.' ".
There are tens of quotable lines in this book, I just think those above are enough to give you some clue about its relevance.
I tried to imagine how to describe a country where less than half the citizens bother to vote, politicians get massive amounts of money from corporations (why? and what's the compensation?), consumers lemmingly follow what the media tell them. I have three words: apathy, greed, gullibility. This book is a very effective antidote.
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Title: Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. (book reviews)
Author: Bill Lueders
Publication:
St. Louis Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1996
Publisher: SJR St. Louis Journalism Review
Volume: v26
Issue: n183
Page: p13(1)
Article Type: Book Review
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Solitary Goose
Sydney Landon Plum
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0820329665 |
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In the fall of 1996 Sydney Plum encountered a solitary Canada goose on a pond near her home in New England. Caring for the animal became a way for her to reconnect with nature. Walks to the pond were daily rituals-- reflective times during which Plum thought about the relationships between humans and animals. Mixing memoir with closely observed nature writing, Plum searches for a deeper understanding of what was changed by the experience with the solitary goose she named SG.
In the tradition of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Plum writes lyrical lessons on the life cycle of geese, the mystery of their great migratory patterns, and their amazing adaptability. Canada geese were not always so plentiful in the United States, she explains, nor were they always denigrated as "flying carp." Plum shows how species-management programs reestablished the birds outside their previous range at the same time as golf courses, office parks, and suburban ponds began dotting the countryside, providing them with prime habitats where they were unwanted.
Memories of breaking holes in the ice for SG to escape predators turn Plum's thoughts toward what it means to nurture. Coming to terms with how SG thinks leads Plum to examine anthropomorphism in nature writing. In contrast to the metaphors through which we commonly view nature, Plum argues that science combined with metaphor is a better way to understand animals. Though Plum's focus is generously outward toward nature, this book also reveals an inner journey through which, as she describes it, "the enclosures of my human life had been opened. I had become more susceptible to the kindnesses of birds."
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Wild Goose Country
Michael Furtman
Manufacturer: Northword Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1559716320 |
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Wycliffe’s home overlooks a peaceful West Country estuary—but even in his own sanctuary, he can’t get away from crime. While taking a morning walk along the shore, he comes upon a service revolver with one recently-fired chamber. In recent years, Wycliffe has often regretted the fact that his rank cuts him off from the early stages of an investigation—but here he’s in from the very start. The case takes Wycliffe into the world of art theft and crooked dealers, to a suicide that might be a murder, and a search for a missing yacht. As the investigation intensifies, Wycliffe begins to wonder exactly where all the clues are leading.
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