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Uneasy Pleasures: The Male As Erotic Object
Kenneth MacKinnon
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This book deserves attention.......1999-08-18
When Laura Mulvey wrote her essay on 'Virtual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' she put down what was common sense in the 70s and 80s: In dominant narrative cinema and in society woman is constituted as image, or the looked-at, while man is the bearer of the look. The 'spectacle' is feminine or at least 'female', whereas the 'spectator' is masculine or at least 'male'. In contrast to this thesis Kenneth Mackinnon encourages attention to the very possibility of a male object. Tentatively written the book directs the reader's eyes to the eroticisation of the male which is offered within current media, by considering three social categories as spectators: women, gay men and non-gay men. And by considering various media-stars as sexual objects (examples are ranging from Valentino to Sylvester Stallone and Don Johnson, from Robert Mapplethorpe's photography to the Chippendales and British football-star Paul Gascoigne). Being shown, being seen and being considered as a 'spectacle' they all can gain and re-gain new forms of self-consciousness and self-expression. And yet a lot of 'uneasiness' has remained: distancing devices counteract the possibility of too frank an exhibition, penile erections, if ever shown, have to be 'pallic' etc. Though the author seems to be a bit too pessimistic about current consumer society which now sells male objects as commodities (thanks to that) and though he sometimes seems to intermix 'passivity', 'masochism' and 'penetration', I would strongly recommend this book. It goes beyond some sort of 'frontier'.
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very helpful........2005-10-03
For those of us who want to go on in photography and learn in depth techniques, I think this book is pretty good. I have Horensteins book Basic Photography. I appreciated all the indepth coverage of the elements of basic photography. Beyond Basic Photography continues with more detailed coverage. I don't like the illustrations this time around, they seem more cartoony--but the content is very detaile.
The book is very specific about teaching you how to get good negatives, which will in turn, help you make better prints. That's always a good thing.
May be useful for those married to the darkroom.......2005-01-31
"Beyond Basic Photography" is indeed a technical manual, in the sense that it focuses on things you can do in the darkroom and in lighting setup. It does feel outdated for those of us who have left the bad-for-health-and-environment chemical world and adopted the digital revolution. There's also nothing about how to take pictures; the emphasis is how to light and how to process the film.
Not very Technical or Up to Date.......2004-07-14
This book is really surprisingly still in print. It's from the 70's and it looks like it. Some useful information can be gleaned from it to be overgenerous. I find it rather amusing in fact. The photos inside are absolutely ridiculous. They are clearly examples of "just let me take your picture for this ass of a book I'm writing..." -- the fat couple in lawn chairs is pretty funny (pg. 21). The discussion of the zone system is laughably short and comprises only 5 pages. Most of the discussion centers around mixing various chemicals in various ratios. I wonder if all of these are still available on the market. The drawings in the text are third grade level, and someone actually gets credit on the cover! This is a very poorly done text and I don't recommend it with so many other books out there on this subject matter.
Great read.......2003-06-05
As a student of Henry's at the Rhode Island School of Design I read the book BEFORE I attended RISD I was captivated by the simple ways he explained the "sometimes" complexity of photography.
Such as Henry's way - making life easy and fun for everyone.
I suggest checking out his other books too.
A clear guide to B&W photography technique.......2001-10-11
This is an ideal text for a photographer who wishes to advance his/her understanding of black & white photography methods. Without excessive detail, the steps that go into the making of a print, and the reasons that justify these steps, are clearly discussed. As the author points out from the start (in the subtitle), this is a technical manual. Those who are looking for a book on the "creative" and "inspirational" aspects of photography should look elsewhere. However, a prerequisite to "creativity" is a solid technical background, and you probably cannot learn "creativity" from a book if you haven't got it to begin with. If you think the techniques of photography are "dull", do not try this book. But for a photographer who wishes to understand them, rather than merely follow them as a cookbook recipe, this is a superb intermediate textbook.
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Masca 1
Young Hee Kim
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Asarella is the clumsy apprentice of the great white mage Elywho. Elywho cares for her, perhaps even more than she is aware, but things become more complicated as the prince of darkness falls in love with her. A sexy goth fantasy in the tradition of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. The Devil's Castle is a dark and somber place, until the good hearted apprentice ASARELLA stumbles into this abode on a goodwill mission, against the wishes of her master, the Arch-Mage, ELIWHO. Things sour quickly, and soon Asarella is bound in a blood pact with The Devil. Little does she know that the mage harbors a secret love for her, which will only complicate her training to prepare her for the apocalyptic battle to come, and which sets up the most unusual love triangle of any place or time.
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A DARK, ROMANTIC FANTASY.......2005-11-29
Masca is a dark, romantic fantasy by artist/writer Young Hee Kim. A modern day fable set on the old premise of a love triangle. Asarella is the apprentice to the centuries old and mysterious arch-mage Eliwho. Eliwho finds great potential in his apprentice if he can only curb her brash and impetuous ways. Asarella's recklessness quickly gets herself in trouble as the story opens. She's concerned about the people held captive by the devil of Sibilla in his gloomy abode, including the young, and handsome prince Mizyar. When Eliwho refuses to aid them, Asarella decides to go off on her own.
The devil she finds is not what she expected. No horrific beast but a darkly handsome man who is prim and proper and amused at this upstart young girl who seeks to challenge him. When a love potion goes awry, Asarella finds herself now a prisoner by choice in the castle and now herself the object of affection by the Devil himself. Soon trouble comes to call on Eliwho in the form of another devil, the Devil Rakne who has a long-standing grudge with the arch-mage. Force to flee, Eliwho soon makes his way to the castle where his apprentice is and the two rival forces of darkness find themselves engaged in a battle that neither can win. And what's more, the Devil Rakne now seems to have become infatuated with Asarella himself. The young apprentice now is trapped between the two devils and her master.
Masca seems to have been a bit influenced by the work of Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Death characters with their young, good-looking, yet modern gothic look and overtones. Kim however, infuses the tale with a degree of humor not found in Gaiman's work. Asarella is certainly the most intriguing character in the book. The fact that everyone becomes infatuated with her would definitely point to there being more to the young apprentice than meets the eye. Kim has a lush, detailed style of art that seems well-suited to the subject matter. I found the story moved really well and was quite easy to follow, something I can't say for all Manga I've read. A good start to the series and I certainly look forward to seeing much more.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
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Never Wanted to Set the World on Fire But Now that I'm 50 Maybe it's a Good Idea!
Bob Basso
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I Never Wanted to Set the World On Fire, but Now That I'm 50, Maybe It's a Good Idea could well be the battle cry of the baby boomer generation today. In his entertaining and motivating book, author Bob Basso, America's Number One Fun Motivator, takes the reader along on the wild, wacky adventure of a middle-age dropout halfway up a tree in the South Pacific. A healing and hilarious journey into modern maturity, this book is food for the soul of anyone in the vicinity of 50.
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"IT'S GOING TO BE A FUNNY, FUNNY MOVIE".......2000-07-30
A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS AMERICA IS GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET AND WOULD LIKE TO RUN AWAY TO AN IDYLLIC SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND LIKE THE AUTHOR. BASSO PAINTS INCREDIBLY FUNNY WORD PICTURES OF HYSTERICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE COLORFUL INHABITANTS OF BEAUTIFUL MOLOKAI, EACH ONE OF WHOM AFFIRMS THHE KIND OF HOPE WE ALL NEED IN THIS NEW UPSIDE DOWN WORLD. EACH CHAPTER IS A GEM, SOMETIMES PROFOUND, SOMETIMES JUST PLAIN FUNNY BUT ALWAYS INSTRUCTIVE NEVER PREACHY. BASSO HAS CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF ALL OF US OVERSTRESSED, "WHATDAHELL IS GOING ON " OVER FIFTY CROWD LOOKING TO REGAIN THAT ELUSIVE BALANCE IN OUR LIVES. I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN, VERY INSPIRATIONAL. WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE WITH STEVE MARTIN IN THE LEAD.
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Melodrama and Asian Cinema (Cambridge Studies in Film)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. Exploring the various ways that melodrama operates with theoretical sophistication, the various essays contained in this volume shed light on the different traditions of Asian cinema, as well as on the wider cultural discourse in which they participate.
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Selections from Motetti de la corona libro primo (Flossombrone, 1514)
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The best magic system ever........2005-08-24
The idea of racial levels is great, although some of the races I didn't like so much. But the spells and the magic system is why everyone should buy this book: heightened, ladened, and diminished spells. As well as spell templates, balanced, working fighter-mages, and the witch class that is infinitely better than the Adept class.
Anyone who plays a Magic-User or runs a game with NPC Mages should buy this book.
This book is awesome!.......2004-09-12
While I was perusing through the "d20" section of my local Border's store, I stumbled across this book. I pulled it out of the shelf, thinking, "Okay, the art seems cool; does it have the content to back it up?" I quickly found that it did. First of all, I must say that Monte Cook is a pure genius! He really knows how to make a fantasy campaign setting (if only he had also worked on Forgotten Realms - that's already sweet, and he would have made it even better...).
After being a player and a DM a million times in the standard 3rd (or 3.5) edition settings, looking through this book really got me excited. Everything in it is so new, so fresh, so creative, while still retaining the original "D&D spirit", that it makes the game so much better. The races are extraordinarily awesome, especially because it takes you away from the standard elves, dwarves, halflings, and so on. The classes have the same effect; they're much more in-depth and personalized, and again are a digression from the standard classes (fighter, rogue, wizard, etc.). I could go on and on (the magic system, the new feats, truenames, etc.), but that would take too much time.
Now, I'm not saying I don't like the 3rd edition or 3.5 set of rules from Wizards of the Coast. I still love that too - I just really like Monte Cook's version as well. I highly recommend this item if you are already familiar with 3rd edition and are willing to try out something new - it's really sweet!
Intriguing.......2004-03-13
The 5 stars are for the original-yet-not-too-original setting, the great races and classes, the rethinking of the magic system, and the dumping of many of the most annoying d20 concepts. However, those 5 stars are mostly "in comparison to D&D." If rated more dispassionately as just another RPG, I'd have to give it 4 stars, or maybe even 3, for the rule system. But then I think d20 is a very clumsy system--if you love it, cool by me, and this product rates the 5 stars easily.
Races Good, Classes Good, Spells Bad.......2003-12-26
I was very excited about this expansion as I read it. The races were interesting, particularly because the authors suggested that you could level up in your race to gain benefits like spells and stat increases. The classes were cool new ideas. And then I got to the spells. The spells were uniformly weaker than those in the players handbook. I was very disappointed because of the 3 components, these seem the easiest to come up with. I suspect it was because they didnt differentiate between the different types of casters and spells available. Its still a good expansion, but you will need to supply your own spells.
Excellant book, on its own or with others.......2003-11-17
I had two complaints with this book. The first was the treatment of alignments/religions - there aren't any, and the section on alignments contains a three paragraph lecture on moral relativism. I don't mind not having alignments, but I can do without humanist content in my games, especially when they're about pre-industrial revolution type societies. The other complaint is the copyediting/proofreading, which doesn't appear to have been done.
OK, with those out of the way -- this book is great. Many of the concepts are familiar enough that players can visualize them, but not so much that you think they're generic. No generic Tolkien-esque Elves here, no dwarves, either. You can always add those from the standard Player's handbook, but they aren't essential.
The concept of Talents - feats that may only be taken at first level - prevents some of the feat lawyering that I've seen happen with munchkin type players. The non-mechanic descriptions are also good at making the feats, classes, and races seem real.
The best concept here, though, is the repeated concept of templates, which may be applied to weapons (Dire, Masterwork, etc.), spells (Holy, Sanctum, Psion), or characters (Runechild). All of these work to make the world seem more rich, solving one of the problems of generic D20, where every wizard casts fireball. I've seen this addressed previously, for example with Fantasy Hero or some Dragon articles back in 2nd edition, but never so comprehensively.
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The first book to offer a comprehensive framework for conducting the venture capital due diligence process
Venture capitalists and other professional investors use due diligence to uncover all of the critical aspects of a company in which they are considering investing in an attempt to estimate the ROI of this decision. The state of the market, management expertise within the firm, legal concerns, location, and environmental issues are just a few of the factors investors include in their due diligence analyses. This book is the only guide to provide investors with a rigorous due diligence framework that can be customized to fit the practice of the firm. The book provides readers with a clear and complete understanding of the due diligence process and formalizes the process for the VC community. The book is structured around key criteria presented in the form of questions. Each question is followed by in-depth explanations and analyses that incorporate the best practices of today's top VCs, including John Doerr, Don Valentine, Kevin Fong, and Ann Winblad.
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Great book on due diligence.......2007-05-31
This is a great book on venture capital due diligence.
Don't waste your money.......2006-10-24
I was tremendously disappointed in this book. The cost of $35-50 is definitely a complete rip-off for what you get from the author. All you need to do is refer to pages 227-246. Those are the pages that represent the bibliography. I actually was so pissed off after reading this book that I counted them. In total the author referenced the words and work of 488 author people. There are only 223 pages of text and 6 chapters in the book. I am certain you can do the math but I'll do it for you.
There are on average more than 2 references per page and over 80 per chapter. It's as though the author has never had an original thought of his own. If I wanted to hire somebody to go out and look up the work of other people I would have done that. I was expecting the author to use his own first-hand knowledge and experience in order to help educate and inform others such as myself about the process. Instead, what I got was something a high school student would do while trying to complete a report for homework. My only question is who is less ethical: the author or the publishing company that let this slide through the screening process. For all of those that gave this book 5 stars I can only guess that you don't enjoy actually reading.
Better than most but incomplete.......2006-08-01
This book gives a good survey on the due diligence process and attempts to teach the reader other important aspects of venture capital by connecting it to the due diligence process. However, the author comes up short in addressing some of the more important subject areas.
Overall it is a pretty good book but you will need to by a few more if you want a really good understanding of the entire process. "The Startup Company Bible for Entrepreneurs" is the best book I've come across on the topic of venture capital and it is almost three times the size of this one and contains a lot more material and topics. This book would definately fill in the gaps in "Venture Capital Due Diligence." You might want to get both since there aren't too many good books on the topic.
Great Overview.......2006-07-30
The book provides a great overview of the process, and is a tool I used in my decision making.
Good.......2006-06-23
This is one of the very few genuinely good and resourceful books on venture capital because it not only discusses a broad range of topics, but it does so in detail. I especially enjoyed the thematic approach Mr. Camp used to tie in venture due diligence for entrepreneurs. However, it comesup short on discussing other important topics like in-depth valuations, prospecting for money, and how to grow your business.
However,this book does deliver in certain areas and should be on the reading list of all entrepreneurs and should be used in conjunction with
"The Startup Company Bible for Entrepreneurs" (the best book on VC) and
"Term Sheets & Valuations"
In my view, after reading and studying these three books, any high-technology entrepreneur will be adequately prepared to face the challenges of raising venture capital and leading their company to success.
Finally, the knowledge gained from these 3 books will no doubt impress venture capitalists and demonstrate a level of confidence that should encourage venture funding. I continue to read books on start-up companies and venture capital and these 3 are by far the very best of the large bunch out there.
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Absolutely Amazing and Inspiring.......2005-12-30
This is an incredible book! It is extremely well researched and very thorough. I was not at all familiar with this phenomenon until I bought this book, and I found it so fascinating.
The book goes through all the [surprisingly] many Saints whose bodies have remained incorrupt - it tells a bit about their lives and about their burials. It details the finding of their bodies incorrupt and the current state of the bodies. Mrs. Cruz goes into some detail on the science behind what makes this phenomenon so utterly amazing [and obviously of Supernatural origins], but she does it in a way that remains interesting and easy to understand.
This book is very faithful to the teachings of the Catholic faith and I found it incredibly faith strengthening. I think it would be difficult to maintain doubt when faced with such compelling evidence.
This book is almost 30 years old now. I would LOVE to see a revision with better photography and some information on how the incorruptibles may have been investigated with modern scientific measures.
Regardless, this is a fantastic book that I highly recommend to every Catholic and anyone else who is interested.
Fascinating.......2005-11-07
This is an excellent book. I have had the grace to see first hand two of the incorruptibles whose stories are detailed here by Joan Carrol Cruz (Saint Catherine Laboure and St. Bernadette Soubirous), and not even this wonderful book can prepare you for the experience.
While her research is sound, even first rate, Cruz has an easy to read prose that does not descend to the dry and academic. Although Cruz's style is reverent, at times even bordering on devotional, this is an excellent book for Catholic and non-Catholic alike, skeptic and believer.
Heart-breaking!!!!!!.......2005-07-30
If it does not break your heart, you need self-examination. Badly. To see proof of God and his love and promises to this degree, is such a gift of love. PLEASE get this book if you've EVER had doubts about eternal life or the resurrection of the dead on the last day. What a wonderful, quiet little gift from our father...that says "I keep my promises".
Even for the skeptic an interesting study.......2005-06-06
This is quite an amazing book and one of my favorites. I personally believe it is bad science to try prove or disprove religious truths and religion is still smarting from trying to use religion to dispute scientific truths. That being said this book in a way makes for an exception to that adage.
The book is about the saints and the beatified whose bodies have not decayed and whether you are a religious person or not I think you will find it a quite interesting phenomena.
The book starts by discussing the natural decay of buried flesh, mummification and certain natural conditions (such as in peat bogs) in which the bodies of the dead will be preserved.
After this discussion Cruz presents a case by case study of the bodies of the saints and the beatified who escaped corruption despite the conditions in which they were buried. With each case there is a brief biography of the individual.
The number of cases in which the bodies of saints escaped decay is actually very remarkable.
Included in the book are some astounding photographs.
A very thought provoking read.
Jim Connell "Hallstatt Prince"
You Will Be Amazed........2003-06-09
You Will Be Amazed.
"The Incorruptibles" by Joan Carroll Cruz, Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford, Illinois,
On the very first page of her introduction, Joan Cruz specifies that she understands that she is treating a very special case in the preservation of the bodies of saints. First, she notes that there are three classifications of preserved bodies: (1) deliberately preserved, (2) accidentally preserved and (3) the incorruptibles. Ancient Egyptian mummies are probably the most familiar examples of deliberately preserved bodies; many of us have seen them in various museums. In her introduction, Ms. Cruz presents more details than most of us want to know about the modern techniques of embalming and its impact on the body of the deceased.
(Pages 27 to 32).
Accidentally preserved bodies include the more or less well known cases of bodies found in peat bogs in Denmark, Ireland and Scotland (page 32). Ms. Cruz presents the interesting case of Bremen Cathedral, Germany, where the cellar burial place tends to mummify any body left there. Experiments were run using the bodies of animals or fowls, hung in the open-windowed cellar, and the bodies of these animals became mummified.
The incorruptibles, however, are those bodies which have been preserved only since Christian times and their preservation is ..."even more baffling..." since it "...seems to be neither dependent upon the manner of burial nor on the temperature or place of interment". Joan Cruz makes a case for the intervention of God as a sign of favor to His saints. The mystery is "...further compounded ... (with) ...the observance of blood and clear oils" which flow from these incorruptibles. (Page 27). Her introduction to the book is a clear and pressing statement as to why the 100+ cases she presents are different from mummifying the bodies or from accidental preservation.
After her excellent introduction, Joan Cruz then presents, in chronological order, slightly more than a hundred documented cases of individuals whose bodies had been preserved from corruption after their death. In many of the cases, she provides photographs of the dead bodies, with, perhaps, the most striking and the most beautiful being that of the nun and saint, St. Bernadette Soubirous, (1844-1879), whose body has been preserved intact, "...without embalming or other artificial means", since 1879. This is a wonderful book, which will make anyone think again on his mortality, if the book is read with an open mind.
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Journey to Compostela: A Novel of Medieval Pilgrimage and Peril
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Secret of Santiago: A Novel of Medieval Spain (Medieval Military Library)
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On a pilgrimage through medieval Spain, a knight and a peasant play a cat-and-mouse game that grows deadlier with each passing day. Professor Bernard Reilly has once again used his deep historical knowledge to write a gripping novel about medieval Spain. In addition to a tense narrative about a pilgrimage through dangerous territory, this is also a novel of ideas, and will be read by many for the moral and psychological issues it raises. Professor Reilly knows medieval Spain very well and presents a realistic but colorful picture of Compostela and its pilgrims.
Stylistically, Professor Reilly's vigorous prose only gets better with each new novel. This book will interest several different audiences. On the literary level, Journey can be read as a sort of anti-Canterbury Tales, in which the pilgrims are miserable products of the harsh realities of medieval life, in stark contrast to the more idealized portrait found in some other works. On the historical level, the book serves as a capsule portrait of early feudal relationships, under which most of the population was subservient to brutal and capricious warlords. Psychologically, the book addresses universal themes of dominance and submission, and the ambiguous character of interpersonal relationships. Bernard Reilly is Professor Emeritus of History at Villanova University and the author of several works of distinction on medieval Spain.
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Most private investigators are ordinary citizens just like you - except they know how to locate information and people. And so will you after you read this book. A PI is only as good as his techniques,and PI School teaches you everything you need to know: surveillance, paper trails, interrogation and more.
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Really disappointed.......2007-10-01
I expected more of a course, this is indeed just a brief overview. Some of the information seemed a bit outdated given the world of information available on the Internet.
Too late for me.......2007-05-06
Fifteen years ago I worked for a period of time as a PI. I was thrown into it with limited training, and I can tell you, just from the "Surprise me" excerpts I read, there is some pretty good stuff in this book. I learned things in just a ten-minute perusal that I guarantee would have been useful to me back then in avoiding/escaping some embarassing/potentially dangerous situations in which I found myself, not to mention more efficiently collecting information. I long ago got out of the PI game (mostly because I was uncomfortable deceiving people for a living, even when it's for a "good" cause), so I probably won't be purchasing this book, but I most certainly would recommend it to someone who wants to learn about or get into the PI business, or maybe just brush up on skills.
It's more than adequate.......2002-10-29
Did we read the same book. I learned how to tail people, work undercover and pick a lock. How-to's are laid out in chapters. It was well worth what it costs.
The Worst Book on the Subject I've Read Yet!.......2001-06-28
To refer to this mini-book as a PI School, referencing it as a course is ludicrous. There is almost no information on how to really become a PI. There is some information on the industry, and the writing style is good and straight forward, but just no real meat. If you're looking for a BRIEF overview then this little book is excellent. But if you want real USABLE information that can help you acquire at least a basic WORKING knowledge, forget it. I've read several books on this subject and most are inadequate, but some at least offer some usable real world information. This work is greatly lacking!
The Worst Book on the Subject I've Read Yet!.......2001-06-28
To refer to this mini-book as a PI School, referencing it as a course is ludicrous. There is almost no information on how to really become a PI. There is some information on the industry, and the writing style is good and straight forward, but just no real meat. If you're looking for a BRIEF overview then this little book is excellent. But if you want real USABLE information that can help you acquire at least a basic WORKING knowledge, forget it. I've read several books on this subject and most are inadequate, but some at least offer some usable real world information. This work is greatly lacking!
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- William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent
- 864 Humorous Cuts from the Twenties and Thirties
- A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis
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- Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics
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