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Just what does the average gallery-goer know about Neo-Dada, Nouveau Réalisme, or the other art terms and movements that have followed close upon one another particularly in this century? If the ideas behind those works are unknown, then an understanding of the different historical moments becomes difficult and at times arbitrary. It occurred to me that a small vademecum was necessary, a pocket manual that would serve as an introduction handbook rather than a volume of serious art criticism. A valid instrument for the viewer to walk, without feeling lost, through the field of contemporary art.
Therefore, I spoke first to Loredana Parmesani, a young and attentive art critic, about my idea, and she agreed to write such a book. That is how this volume came about. (Giorgio Marconi)
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This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the lore and symbolism fragrance enjoyed in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe. By the early twentieth century, perfume's place as one of France's most important luxury industries was recognized and celebrated, and timeless fragrances—such as Chanel No. 5, Shalimar, Arpeges, and Joy—were launched. The distinctive bottles for these new essences and the art movements that inspired their design are detailed throughout the book, as are paintings, poetry, and literature that reveal the power of perfume and its ability to recall the past and evoke sensuality. According to nineteenth-century perfumer Eugene Rimmel, "the history of perfume is, in some manner, the history of civilization." Through fascinating text accompanied by gorgeous imagery, including packaging, labels, and advertisements, Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin explores perfume's impact on history, culture, society, art, and attitudes.
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Gray is back, and the first thing on his agenda is the elimination of a certain pesky bounty hunter named Rally! With her shop robbed, her house ransacked, and Minnie-May taken hostage, Rally has to use every scrap of her skill and daring to take out the very dangerous Gray.
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The Race Is On!!.......2001-09-10
This is volume 3 of the Gunsmith Cats series.
The continues the Gray storyline from volume 2: Misfire. Although Gray is behind bars, he is making plans that involve Rally and Minnie May. Rally is forced into the hospital after breaking her ribs in the last volume. Bean has an extended appearance here - about a third of the book at least. Ken Taki makes another brief appearance.
The action sometimes borderlines on believeability, but hey, it's fun. Most of it is possible, just not likely and involve a ton of skill and luck. There seems to be more humor in this volume than in the previous ones. My personal favorite involves Becky walking in while May is a little preoccupied. Becky seems to be a focus of most of the humor this time - just a few moments here and there. Either she does something or something happens to her that's funny. The focus of this manga is action though, and there are plenty of shootouts. You also have a nice, long chase involving Bean.
As I've stated in other reviews, this manga is not for kids. Recommended for mature audiences. Treat this as a good R-rated action story.
If you're a fan of Gunsmith Cats this is one of the best yet.......1999-11-03
I've just finished reading The Return of Grey, and it has all the classic Gunsmith Cats features - sexy stars, edge of the seat action, car chases, gun battles and a pace that doesn't let up. I found it hard to put this one down, and can't wait to start the next book, Goldie vs Misty. I highly recommend The Return of Grey to any GSC fan.
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Manga Comic. 30 pages. Published in December, 1996.
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This definitive collection will be a great read for Maine residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
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been there seen that.......2005-09-21
This book has the unusual landmarks we drive by every summer and wonder "What's that all about?" Questions answered!!!
Can Maine be this plain?.......2004-06-19
I am planing a trip to Maine and thought I would read-up on the state. Tim Sample is billed as a sort of Down East Dave Barry. The book is vaguely cute but certainly not humorous. Unless this is what passes for humor in Maine (I hope not). The book presents curiosities that are only mildly curious and quirky characters that are not very quirky and wouldn't get a second glance in California or Florida. Its main subject matter seems to be large road-side advertising constructions. As someone who has driven through more than half the states in the Union, I find that the highlighted Maine road-side advertising constructions in this book are nothing out of the ordinary, and hardly rate the write-ups devoted to them here. Disappointing.
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Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus, Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of women in film, enabling us to see individual films in new ways, and to ask new questions of other films.
Using Sadie Thompson (1928), Blackmail (1929), Rain (1932), The Spiral Staircase, Sorry,Wrong Number, Notorious, Sunset Boulevard (1950) and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Lawrence illustrates how women's voices are positioned within narratives that require their submission to patriarchal roles and how their attempts to speak provoke increasingly severe repression. She also shows how women's natural ability to speak is interrupted, made difficult, or conditioned to a suffocating degree by sound technology itself. Telephones, phonographs, voice-overs, and dubbing are foregrounded, called upon to silence women and to restore the primacy of the image.
Unlike the usage of "voice" by feminist and literary critics to discuss broad issues of authorship and point of view, in film studies the physical voice itself is a primary focus. Echo and Narcissus shows how assumptions about the "deficiencies" of women's voices and speech are embedded in sound's history, technology, uses, and marketing. Moreover, the construction of the woman's voice is inserted into the ideologically loaded cinematic and narrative conventions governing the representation of women in Hollywood film.
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Explores the conception of psychedelic rock music during the trippy sixties and the impact it continues to have today.
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ok guide.......2004-05-21
jerry lucky's psychedelic guide is, overall, a mixed bag... while lucky seems quite passionate about the topic, the work has some factual errors in it. it includes a decent historical overview, and it is able to present a fairly good look at the regions that produced the various bands that comprised local scenes of psychedelic rock in the u.s.a. and abroad. it is also helpful if you want to know what band was playing where during the 1965-1971 period. it's not an exhaustive look at tour dates and venues. that being said, it's still pretty useful. the section devoted to the bands themselves contains only a very brief and incomplete summary of the bands. it's a decent enough book for beginners, but people who desire more info will probably be disappointed in the work.
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One brief acrostic poem for each letter of the alphabet from acorn to zero follows the fall season from end of summer to chilly conclusion.
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A+ for Autumn.......2003-11-13
I got this book from the library - it is recommended in the book called "Books Children Love" - and I would add it to mine because I like it as much - if not more than - my 3 year old. Totally makes you experience autumn - pure poetry, and that includes the illustrations which are marvelous.
Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic.......2000-06-22
These twenty-six acrostic poems are wonderful. I use this bookevery year in my third grade classroom. Each poem tells about anaspect of the autumn season with such detail. The pictures are amazing and very well done. This book is a keeper!
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International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition, 10th Edition, by Ball, McCulloch, Frantz, Geringer, and Minor continues to be the most objective and thorough treatment of International Business available for students. Enriched with maps, photos, and the most up-to-date world data, this text boasts the collective expertise of five authors with firsthand international business experience, specializing in international management, finance, law, global strategy, and marketing - a claim no other text can make. Only Ball, McCulloch, Frantz, Geringer, and Minor can offer a complete view of International Business as diverse as the backgrounds of business students.
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review.......2006-11-18
well organized text, dialogue is slightly "elementary" over all text covers a large range of subjects, online access is very helpful.
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Dianna Narciso, in an effort to address the questions and misconceptions of believers, offers her perception of religion as from the outside looking in.
What do Christians say to atheists? What does Christianity look like from an atheist's perspective? Why don't atheists believe in God?
If you ever wanted to know what makes an atheist tick, this book will offer you fascinating insight.
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To the point.......2007-08-10
Dianna Narciso does a good job of explaining wht the label "atheism" is and why Christians like to use their own definitions. An easy read.
Excellent Summary of Atheism vs Christianity.......2007-05-14
Very heartfelt, concise, and forceful putting forth of the atheist position. A recommended read to believers and unbelievers alike.
Supportive, not deep.......2007-03-29
This book is a best seen as a collection of essays in defense of atheism; or at least, that's how it felt to me. The essays appear to have been written at different times, and there is a fair amount of overlap between them, so that if you read the book front to back, you get an impression that the author is repeatedly hammering away at the same set of points. You will come away with a more favorable impression if you sample individual chapters and let the book rest between.
I thought the following chapters (or essays) were useful. Chapter 3 is on the different misapprehensions believers have of atheists, that they hate God, have no purpose, etc. Some of the same misapprehensions, and some new ones, are refuted in Chapter 12; these two could be combined, or should be read together.
Chapter Five is a clear summary of the reasons that religious practice is satisfying and attractive to people. Narciso is exceptional among atheists in understanding and sympathizing with these underlying reasons for religion's popularity.
Chapter Four ("There's no such thing as a true Christian") and Chapter Nine ("Morality") are summaries of the many ways that current Christian practice deviates from its supposed sources in the Bible, with emphasis on the contradictions, cruelties, and peculiarities of that book.
The book purports to address believing readers, trying to explain to them how atheists are really decent people and have sound reasons for thinking as they do. But it is hard to imagine how it will reach that audience. What Christian would buy it? You might suppose that a new atheist might buy it to give to her Christian friends, as a way of saying "Here, this explains how I feel." But that would not be a good idea, because so much of the book consists of sharp attacks on every aspect of Christian belief. Yes, it does say "this is how it feels to be an atheist," but it also says, repeatedly and at much greater length, "...and here is how you are fooled, deluded, duped and generally wrong in so many ways." Which is not a way to earn, or keep, a friend's sympathy.
Probably the best audience is a believer whose faith is shallow and tottering: the comprehensive survey of the contradictions of belief, delivered in a breezy, non-academic tone, should be reassuring and helpful.
Disappointed........2007-01-04
I was disappointed in this book. I thought it was going to be a personal account of the author's life as an atheist, I wasn't really even looking for a case for atheism. I was hoping it would focus on her experiences "coming out" and telling her family, friends, and co-workers about her beliefs; a story about the day-to-day dealings of an atheist in a generally religious environment. Something to help those of us facing challenges in social interactions with the religious members of society. It struck me as a little disorganized, it did not have enough of the author's own experiences, and seemed to focus too much on presenting a case against Christianity, in my opinion.
It just wasn't what I expected. YMMV.
Pretty good.......2006-11-23
I just finished this one & was all & all pretty pleased. Like many other reviewers have said, it's more of an introduction of or primer to atheism. However, it is a fantastic start for anyone curious about the topic. The information included is good enough to warrant 4 stars, but I didn't give it 5 because it wasn't entirely well organized & sometimes rambled. Additionally, the author sometimes sounded like a wonderfully compassionate, intellectual person, & other times she just sounded mad (without necessarily making an intellectual argument). I have to "deduct" points for that, because we don't need to push religious-followers any further into their mystical closets than they already are. (I'm just suggesting that our writings on the topic be more dry, fact based material...without the insertion of great emotion. Let's leave that tradition to the religious people.)
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The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. The contributors chose France, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States as focus countries because their military institutions endeavored to develop both the material capacity and the conceptual framework for the conduct of modern industrialized warfare on a continental scale.
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"Polo Step" is secret Pentagon code for classified material that is more sensitive than "Top Secret." When veteran military-affairs journalist William Arkin first publicly mentioned "Polo Step" in a 2002 column in the Los Angeles Times, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was apparently furious and ordered an investigation into the leak. Over 1,000 officials, military personnel, and contractors were ultimately interviewed, and the investigation even had its own code name, "Seven Seekers." Such is the zealousness, Arkin writes in his book Code Names, with which secrecy is protected in the 9/11 world. Arkin, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and long-time military commentator for NBC News, has come out with a fascinating retort to Washington's secrecy obsession. His 608-page tome is an encyclopedia of 3,000 U.S. national-security code names, some revealed for the first time, that tell a tantalizing hidden story about the American war on terrorism and operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the code names in the book, listed in an alphabetic section that makes up the majority of the book, are "West Wing," a sensitive program to deploy 5,000 troops to Jordan to support the war in Iraq; a U.S. Air Force cyber-attack capability called "Project Suter," which is managed by a secretive unit called "Big Safari"; a CIA remote-viewing project called "Grill Flame"; and "Thirsty Saber," an ultra-secret project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a sensor "that would replicate human reasoning."
Arkin has a specific goal. He believes the post-9/11 drive for secrecy has imperiled American security and democracy. Information is often classified, he writes, not because of the danger of passing information to those who would harm the United States, but in order to close down public debate about controversial activities. The intelligence failures that allowed 9/11 to occur, Arkin writes, show that safety is better achieved when the national-security establishment is subjected to oversight and scrutiny. His book caused a small sensation even before it came out and is essential reading for understanding the mechanics of the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus. --Alex Roslin
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The war on terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to a secrecy explosion. In the 9/11 world the U.S. military and intelligence organizations have created secret plans, programs, and operations at a frenzied pace, each with their own code name. In a perfect world, all of this secrecy would be to protect legitimate secrets from prying foreign eyes. But in researching Code Names, defense analyst William M. Arkin learned that while most genuine secrets remain secret, other activities labeled as secret are either questionable or remain perfectly in the open. The sheer volume and complexity of these operations ensures that the most politically important remain unreported by the press and shielded from the scrutiny of the American electorate. Despite the intelligence failures of 9/11 and the questionable assumptions that led to the war in Iraq and govern the war on terrorism, the U.S. government argues for massive amounts of funding and resources, while at the same time claiming that public accountability would compromise their missions. Arkin didn’t accept this argument during the Cold War – when he published two books that revealed U.S. nuclear “secrets” and led directly to a healthier public discussion of a “nuclear warfighting” emerging in the Reagan era – and he is challenging it again today.
From “Able Ally” to “Zodiac Beauchamp,” this book identifies more than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for which they stand. Code Names is divided into five distinct parts:
Introduction: Will explain to the American public, for the first time, just what the explosion in the creation of secret code names after 9/11 reveals about overall strategies in the war on terror.
Cast of Characters: A brief description of all relevant federal departments, agencies, commands, and organizations. For each there is a discussion of their missions, roles, and activities, their contingency plans and their secret bases of operations. The emphasis is on what is not readily known to the public.
Country-by-Country Directory: Details worldwide U.S. military and intelligence operations and relations and briefly describes each country’s recent cooperation or discord with the United States in the war on terror.
The Code Names Dictionary: An alphabetical listing of more than 3,000 code names. The emphasis will be on names that are current since the end of the Cold War, are of historical importance, and are not otherwise in the public domain.
Acronym List and Glossary.
Code Names offers stunning revelations and its publication is sure to cause a major stir. But Arkin knows where to draw the line. The information in his book will not jeopardize individuals or operations. His intention is to inform the debate and to give people information they ought to have. Arkin has written Code Names firm in the belief that an informed citizenry is a prerequisite to wise decision-making by world leaders.
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Arkin is a traitor.......2007-02-07
"Intelligence?" That's what every office pogue says he did. No matter. Some of those ops are still current. To reveal their existance is treason.
Excellent Reference.......2006-03-12
Only a smidgen more charming than the telephone book, but just as accurate and useful, this is a groundbreaking contribution to "truth in government." I don't how how anyone could attempt to learn anything about national security without it.
Interesting reference.......2005-09-12
"Code Names" doesn't provide any major breakthroughs in pulling the veil off the secret world of Federal black programs. There are no UFOs, antigravity projects or Terminators here. What "Code Names" provides is a comprehensive list, by country, of the legal framework of the military/intelligence relationship between that country and the US, as well as the definitions of a lot of code names, 70% of which appear to be already-public names of war games of the past 30 years.
So what, you may ask? On its own, this is pretty dry stuff. As other reviewers have noted, this is more of a reference book than something you pick up and read like a novel. However, what "Code Names" does is put some meat on the bones of Chalmers Johnson's concept of the "empire of bases" from his book "The Sorrows of Empire." The agreements, the exercises, the cooperative activities - the mechanisms of imperial control are laid right out in "Code Names," as dry as they are.
You might wish to check this out from the library before you buy it, just to make sure it's something you would be interested in or could even use.
Excellent reference work.......2005-06-26
This book must be considered in its correct context: that of a reference book. If you're not interested in reading what is basically a dictionary of covert ops codenames and current operations, don't read this book. Otherwise, pick it up, it's fascinating. If you can track it down, Arkin's first book, Nuclear Battlefields is great too.
Good reference, not so good to read straight through..........2005-05-30
Through some source which I've now forgotten, someone recommended the book Code Names - Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World by William M. Arkin. As a reference book, it's OK. As a reading book, forget it...
Arkin is a journalist and analyst who has spent a great deal of time dissecting and interpreting U. S. military and government operations and structure. As a result, he's far more knowledgeable than most on what the military is up to. His stated purpose in writing this book is to give the reader a chance to see and understand the incredibly large number of alliances and operations that make up U. S. military might in today's world. The book is broken up into four sections after the initial introduction of why the information matters. The first section lists the cast of characters... the listing of all the military and government groupings that come into play here. The next section examines the military relationship between the U. S. and every country in the world. You can easily look up any country alphabetically and see what type of aid or operations we might be carrying on there. The third section, and the biggest by far, covers every single code word or code phrase that the author has uncovered in his research over the years (and we're talking thousands). Most of these you'll never have heard of, and reading the description of each operation gives you some insight as to what matters. The final section serves as a glossary of all the military acronyms that you might ever run across.
From an analysis standpoint, you'd be hard-pressed to find all this information in a single location anywhere. It just doesn't exist. This is probably required reading for every foreign analyst studying U. S. military actions. From the viewpoint of a book that is interesting to read, it suffers quite a bit. Granted, it probably wasn't written with the view towards reading it straight through. Still, the mind starts to go numb after awhile. I also have to question the "wisdom" of making all this information available in one place. Yeah, I know the argument is that in a democracy we should be able to have access to this information. In reality, this just makes it easier for foreign interests to gain intelligence without working for it. I'll also admit a certain bias to the fact that Arkin is heavily involved in Greenpeace activities. Since there's some philosophical differences there for me, I'm probably less inclined to give the guy a break...
I'll give the book an "average" review and let you draw your own conclusion. If you need reference material, you'll like this book and rate it higher. If you want reading material with discussion and analysis, you won't find much of it here. And your political leanings will definitely flavor your attitude towards the book...
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