Ghislaine Wood uses a wide range of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, photographs, and more-many from the superb collections of London's Victoria & Albert Museum-to illustrate the risqu, often shockingly explicit content of many works from a time of sexual license and decadent extravagance. Visually arresting and well-priced, this complement to the main exhibition catalogue is not only for lovers of Art Nouveau but also for the vast audience for books on erotic art.
GHISLAINE WOOD is assistant curator of the major exhibition on Art Nouveau at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and a contributor to the book Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. She lives in London.
Unlike other pop stars, Orbison was a constant presence on the Top 40, but virtually invisible in the media during his heyday. Ignoring the conventions of pop music, he wrote complex songs and sang them with a startling vocal range and power. Wearing black clothes and glasses and standing motionless on stage, he rejected the macho self confidence and strutting that characterized the male rockers of his time. He sang about a man lost in a world of loneliness and fear, one who cried in the dark or escaped into a dream world, the only place his desires could be fulfilled. This was a man who reveled in passivity, pain, and loss.
Lehman traces Orbison's development of this alternative masculinity and the use of his music in films by Wim Wenders and David Lynch. Widely admired by fellow musicians from Elvis to Jagger, Springsteen and Bono, Orbison still attracts new listeners. As a devoted fan and insightful scholar, Lehman gives us a fascinating account of "the greatest white singer on the planet," and a new approach to understanding individual singer/songwriters.
I believe Roy knew what listeners of the time liked and wanted. I believe the dark glasses and dark clothing were just the way he wanted to market himself....to stand out from the crowd....not because of some deep dark pain as Mr. Lehman suggests.....
But, then again, I thought (mistakenly) this book was going to be an biography, not an analytical writing.
In this hands-on guide, author, poker dealer, and expert poker player "Big" John Wenzel guides you on everything from bluffing like a pro to measuring the odds to placing bets. Whether you're a beginner or an expert looking to pick up a few tricks, this book has something to help you win some big pots.
Turn things around after losing a few hands in a row
The Everything(r) Poker Strategy Book is your essential reference for mastering poker and learning that it's not a gamble if you know what you're doing.
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Great first book for aspiring poker players........2006-01-25
This book starts by assuming you have no knowledge of cards or poker. Walks you through the hand rankings, into the basics of table play.
Transitions well into mid level tactics like determining odds and probablities of hands, including pot odds and bluffing.
Follows up with advanced topics like classifying opponents, mentally preparing for play, and knowing when to quit.
Not really a "system" book, just a solid primer for poker play.
Money well spent.
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THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLASSIC-REVISED AND EXPANDED
Now Includes Downloadable Forms and Worksheets
Projects are becoming the heart of business. This comprehensive revision of the bestselling guide to project management explains the processes, practices, and management techniques you need to implement a successful project culture within your team and enterprise. Visualizing Project Management simplifies the challenge of managing complex projects with powerful, visual models that have been adopted by more than 100 leading government and private organizations.
In this new Third Edition, the authors-leading thinkers and practitioners in the field-keep you on the cutting edge with a sophisticated approach that integrates project management, systems engineering, and process improvement. This advanced content can help take your career and your organization well beyond the fundamentals.
New, downloadable forms, templates, and worksheets make it easy to implement powerful project techniques and tools.
Includes references to the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge and the INCOSE Handbook to help you pass:
- The Project Management Professional Certification Exam
- The INCOSE Systems Engineer Certification Exam (CSEP)
"I recommend this book to all those who aspire to project management [and] those who must supervise it."
—Norman R. Augustine, former chairman and CEO Lockheed Martin Corporation
"The importance of this excellent book, able to encompass these two key disciplines [systems engineering and project management], cannot be overemphasized."
—Heinz Stoewer, President, INCOSE
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THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLASSIC-REVISED AND EXPANDED Now Includes Downloadable Forms and Worksheets Projects are becoming the heart of business. This comprehensive revision of the bestselling guide to project management explains the processes, practices, and management techniques you need to implement a successful project culture within your team and enterprise. Visualizing Project Management simplifies the challenge of managing complex projects with powerful, visual models that have been adopted by more than 100 leading government and private organizations. In this new Third Edition, the authors-leading thinkers and practitioners in the field-keep you on the cutting edge with a sophisticated approach that integrates project management, systems engineering, and process improvement. This advanced content can help take your career and your organization well beyond the fundamentals. New, downloadable forms, templates, and worksheets make it easy to implement powerful project techniques and tools. Includes references to the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge and the INCOSE Handbook to help you pass: The Project Management Professional Certification Exam The INCOSE Systems Engineer Certification Exam (CSEP) ""I recommend this book to all those who aspire to project management [and] those who must supervise it."" Norman R. Augustine, former chairman and CEO Lockheed Martin Corporation
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Pretty Good PM Resource.......2007-03-09
I am fairly new to the PM role where I am responsible for other's work, so I purchased this book as a reference tool and so far it has helped in terms of having examples that I can start with instead of starting from scratch.
Other than that, I have relied on my leadership and team building skills to meet deadlines which proves to be more important that having the pretty models, charts, etc.
Good Textbook.......2007-03-08
This book was assigned as THE textbook for my graduate Level Project Management class. It is a good read, great at presenting its ideas, and easy to understand. It unfortunately talks only of a couple of project management techniques vaguely and what examples are included are very short with little or no good background. I'd sell this book as a good starter for those looking to gain understanding in PM, but with the understanding that other books would be needed for true enlightenment in particular areas.
On-time delivery.......2006-07-20
product came in good condition and on-time.
that was all that I wanted.
Advancing the industry standard.......2006-02-17
I've followed the maturation of the VPM books now up to version 3 and continue to be impressed by the straight forward approach to project management the authors use. The dual V takes the industry standard to a thrid dimension and truly captures systems of systems development. A must read for any technical project manager.
Visualizing Project Management 3rd Edition.......2006-02-17
Visualizing Project Management, 3rd Edition is an excellent read! Throughout my career I have led or have been part of projects whereby risk management was defined as risk statusing. Real risk identification and their impacts to projects were ignored. In Visualizing Project Management 3rd Edition, the book focuses on the technical aspects of projects which is critical to project succcess and has a whole chapter dedicated to risk Management (chapter 13, Opportunities and their Risks). This was extremely valuable to me. Now that I have read this book, I am eager to tackle my next project.
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In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country’s children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means “gift,” would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo’s true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve.
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Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She'd been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor's orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them.
Still an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the postgenocidal conflict in Rwanda. He witnessed heartbreaking scenes of devastation and violence, steeling him further to take a personal role in helping anywhere he could. At home in Harare, Vita was nursing Chipo back to health. Soon she and Tucker decided to alter their lives forever -- they would adopt Chipo. That decision challenged an unspoken social norm -- that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children.
Raised in rural Mississippi in the sixties and seventies, Tucker was familiar with the mores associated with and dictated by race. His wife, a savvy black woman whose father escaped the Jim Crow South for a new life in the industrial North, would not be deterred in her resolve to welcome Chipo into their loving family.
As if their situation wasn't tenuous enough, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was stirring up national fervor against foreigners, especially journalists, abroad and at home. At its peak, his antagonizing branded all foreign journalists personae non grata. For Tucker, the only full-time American correspondent in Zimbabwe, the declaration was a direct threat to his life and his wife's safety, and an ultimatum to their decision to adopt the child who had already become their only daughter.
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love -- and dogged determination -- can sometimes achieve. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant, this family memoir will resonate throughout the ages.
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how can I get you to read this book?.......2006-06-20
Fabulous from the start. So much intermingles in this book - history, politics, personal struggle, life in Africa, bi-racial familes, adoption - that to narrow it down to a memoir wouldn't be doing it justice.
Following the writer as he pushes you through each page, you find yourself involved in the world through the eyes of this family. It's one of those books that you rush to get through and then you regret what you've done once you see there's only a few pages left.
When I find an author of this caliber, I stick with them. And Neely Tucker sure can write.
Three cheers for Chipo!!!!!!!!!.......2006-06-11
This memoir goes to show on how faith and love can conquer all odds. It has opened my eyes on the issue of AIDS and the politically unstable country of Zimbawiae. A very touching love story of father and daughter.
Makes you wake up.......2006-05-23
In dealing with their personal frustrations, the author shows us the hurdles and challenges of wanting to help in nations that need it the most. It is a good read, heartwarming. But unlike most books, it left me in search of an organization that can break through and really offer help to children touched by AIDS.
Great book.......2006-03-06
"By noon, the ants had found the girl-child."
From the first paragraph, this book had us hooked. Not only is it a great story, but very well written. My wife and I are in a similar situation, living in Africa and trying to adopt a child we've had for years, and the book seems pretty realistic to us. Of note, the author is neither cynical nor romantic about his family's experiences, and gives us a very good picture of the struggles of his heart as well as the external struggle for adoption.
Mixture of Love and Adventure.......2006-01-27
A mixture of love and adventure fill the pages of Love in the Driest Season.
Neely Tucker, an American reporter, tells the story of how his family was formed. While based in Zimbabwe as a reporter he and his wife, Vita, take in an abandoned infant. Tucker tells the story of how he and Vita pursed adoption, facing insurmountable levels of bureaucracy, paperwork, and prejudice. Tucker seamlessly integrates this family-love story along with some modern history and politics of Africa.
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This outstanding, very well-researched book gives valuable insight into the art of surprise and small-unit training and tactics.--Military Review
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Good Early Special Ops Book.......2004-04-02
I think the author, who himself served in WWII as a glider infantry author, was the right one to write this book. If you looked toward the end, on page 167 (of the hardbound book), you see what this is all about. Mrazek starts with a great Victor Hugo quote, "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Then you see the accomplishment of the German glider assault on the fort: "Seventy-seven boldly led men, ten gliders costing about 77,000 Deutsche marks, and fifty-six hollow-charge explosives defeated 780 men defending the world's strongest fort."
I think the author does a good job of giving the background of how this strong fort, Eben Emael, fell due to two new military developments: the glider and the hollow charge. This is a limited and small book, but Mrazel does show us how Germany, denied an air force, took to gliders. With necessity the mother of invention, it stands to reason the Germans would find a way to make the glider a weapon. This they did in front of Hitler in 1936. Mrazek shows how Hitler remembered this and was the one who gave the order to take Eben Emael with gliders. There is a reason for this decision. German paratroopers could not control their descent as their risers were not steerable, which strung them out on a drop (forget the Hollywood nonsense). Weapons were dropped separately. The glider put the men on the ground together with their weapons. The one complaint I have is that the author does provide a photo of a German paratroop drop, which would have helped show this tactical problem of theirs.
Mrazek devotes some time, with drawings, to explain the significance of the hollow charge. This explosive was so powerfull it scared not just the Belgian defenders when used, but the German attackers as well. Take a look at the photos in the book and you see what I mean. The cupolas look like they were hit with smart bombs from an air strike.
The author uses drawings to show where each German unit attacked, which I think adds an interesting dynamic to the telling of this story. (The units and names of each man are provided at the back.) Some authors can be very general and skip the facts that some soldiers would find more interesting, such as just who attacked Cupola 30. I actually took the time to compare the diagrams to the photos and then back to the attacking unit.
This is pretty much the definitive book an this amazing attack. Note that the author personally interviewed nine attackers and defenders, including German General Student, the man told by Hitler to attack the fort with gliders.
Static defenses lose out to stealth, mobility and daring........2001-03-19
This is a good book but not a great one. Mr Mrazek could elaborate a bit more on the tactics of the glidermen. Also, his writing style made it somewhat difficult to track the timeline of the various units. Overall, this is a good book about a very daring raid.
Decent (if short) account of a daring and innovative attack.......2001-02-09
This book handles the telling of the operation in a decent manner. I would liked to have seen a bit more depth in all of the areas, especially the attack, where the author seems to lose control of the chronology. There were some great pictures included but never a comprehensive map of the fort in diagram. Other than these personal preferences, I'd rank this book with the two short masterworks ,"Pegasus Bridge" and "Band of Brothers".
Decent (if short) account of a daring and innovative attack.......2001-02-09
This book handles the telling of the operation in a decent manner. I would liked to have seen a bit more depth in all of the areas, especially the attack, where the author seems to lose control of the chronology. There were some great pictures included but never a comprehensive map of the fort in diagram. Other than these personal preferences, I'd rank this book with the two short masterworks ,"Pegasus Bridge" and "Band of Brothers".
Worthy.......2000-08-04
This is a good book that covers one of the most daring small unit actions in WWII. The reader is introduced to the operation from its planning phase, and continues to the operation and the impact it had. The coverage prior to the raid is first rate. The actual mission itself became a bit dis-jointed with all the Airborne teams spliting up. With few books covering the subject, this work is a must for those who are interested in this op.
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The 2004 Election Was a Circus, and Matt Taibbi enjoyed a Front-Row Seat.
As a correspondent for the New York Press, The Nation, and Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi scoured the political landscape for hard-hitting news stories. But the closer he got to the politicians, the more pompous and vapid they appeared. How could he write anything meaningful about these puffed-up martinets, much less vote for them? Nevertheless, Taibbi forged on and continued his responsibilities as a serious campaign reporter—though not without frequent bouts of blind panic, drug use, and donning a gorilla suit.
Spanking the Donkey indicts the surreal irrelevance of today’s mainstream politics with barbed wit and caustic intelligence. Follow Taibbi as he covers the primary for the 2004 presidential election, joining him for a spot on John Kerry’s campaign plane, face-to-face encounters with John Edwards’s pancake makeup, enough Howard Dean press conferences to memorize the good doctor's stump speech by heart, and—just to spice things up—a two-month stint working undercover in a Republican campaign office in Orlando, Florida. Brimming with uncensored opinions and total truth, Taibbi captures the real American political mind; as a patron at Flo’s Bar in Manchester, New Hampshire, eloquently puts it: “They all suck . . . who’s running?”
“Gonzo journalist Matt Taibbi will do anything . . . to bring political reporting back to life. Spanking the Donkey is all the more necessary in the aftermath of an election that harnessed enough liberal outrage to light the Vegas strip, cost more than a billion dollars, absorbed hundreds of hours we will never get back, and achieved absolutely nothing.” —Salon
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-09-02
This is a great book. A must for anyone interested in the workings of America's elections.
Frustrating and scattered.......2007-04-11
I'm pretty liberal, so I don't object to Taibbi's politics or disappointment with the system, but I still found myself powerfully frustrated with this book. I saw him on "The Colbert Report" and found him delightful, and expected the same from the book. He's insightful about the public-appearance apparatus behind politicians-- examples of Dean's behavior compared with Kucinich's were really interesting-- but mostly I felt the book to be a well-sourced diatribe. Taibbi seems very angry (with good reason, granted), and I found it hard to slog through so many pages of his rants without any sign of hopefulness or direction. The book was more like a blog of his campaign trail experiences than a fully structured book with a conclusion. I'd rather watch him on Colbert again.
The most astute observations ever to emerge from a gorilla suit. .......2006-11-05
There's little I can offer that hasn't been said in other reviews here. But I want to add my voice to those championing Taibbi.
Readers not paying attention might mistake his writing for sophomoric rant, but it's actually eloquent. Having read his book I read the "news" differently, running everything through new and improved filters.
If I ran the world, Spanking the Donkey would be required reading for every voter. Guerilla journalism at its best.
Funny, insightful, thoughtful and immature..........2006-09-29
I'm a middle-aged Republican who hates the trivialization of the English language (and in particular the overuse of the "f" word) and so I suppose that I should have hated this book. But it's too funny, and in parts too insightful, to dismiss it that easily. Although some of the articles of which the book is a compilation seem forced and artificial, others more than make up for it. I do wish that he had avoided the Hunter Thompson-like drug trip bits, which say more about him than they do about the candidates he covers. This immaturity aside, I have to, with some reluctance, recommend this book. I'm just sorry I missed his Daily Show appearance, which sounds like it captured the best aspects of the book.
Enjoyable, with some good insights.......2006-09-18
Matt Taibbi is a very energetic writer. This book is a compilation of his articles covering the 2004 presidential campaign in the New York Press and Rolling Stone, with some expansion, where indicated. He strives to write in the gonzo journalism tradition of the late, great Hunter S. Thompson, with the same kind of cynicism, drug-induced tirades, and contempt for politicians, the working press who cover them, and the system as a whole. He's got a ways to go to match HST, though, especially his classic work, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, which chronicled the 1972 campaign and which ranks among the very best books ever written about campaign politics.
Taibbi's columns are somewhat uneven in quality. Often, though, he has incredible insights and candid views of many in the political process that we know all too well as bulwarks of the traditional media, and the politicians they cover. He came to admire Dennis Kucinich for his quixotic quest, with his sincerity, uncompromising pursuit of issues, and strength of character in a political process that has very little of any of those qualities on display.
Taibbi is at his best when he offers critiques of the stories of journalists like Howard Fineman, Karen Tumulty, et al., and shows how they are far less concerned with enlightening the reading public than they are with pleasing the politicians they cover, sticking to formulas, attention to irrelevant distractions, and using language to obscure rather than reveal.
I hope that Taibbi keeps writing about the political process, and that he will give the public more information about how journalists think and work. I also would like to see him discuss how candidates for president, such as John Edwards, Wes Clark, and John Kerry may change their approaches, or offer a more mature and thoughtful approach, and how he will discuss potential candidates like Russ Feingold, who is rather Kucinich-like in his views on issues, but more appealing as a candidate.
I also thought his chapter on work as a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign in Orlando, Florida, was at times sympathetic, at times frightening, and often hysterical. He made a great point in talking about how the Republicans are more sincere and less "hip" or wisecracking in temperament and attitude than Democrats. Still, I found fascinating his discussion of how the Florida Republicans, virtually all white, scrambled around to find black faces to make appearances at campaign stops and in their headquarters.
All in all, the book is fairly even-handed and worth reading. He attacks Democrats and Republicans alike. Upon finishing the book, one will come away with the conclusion that he absolutely loathes the journalists who cover the campaigns. They, it is implied, are responsible for a good deal of why our political system is in the mess it's in. I tend to agree.
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