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REACH BEYOND THE BREAK The Avery Johnson Story is far more than a book about a poor, black boy,with a love of the game, that grew up in the New Orleans projects, and went on to become a champion NBA Basketball player. It is that, and more!

It is about perserverance, hard work, faith, and lots of love...love, from parents, family, friends, and countless others along the way. Perserverance when all the odds were stacked against him, he had to persist with patient effort and hard work. (That's the hardest...that patient part!)

Avery Johnson gives his best, on and off the court, and that makes him a winner in anybody's book!

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Has "self-published" written all over it.......2002-11-15

While I'm a big Avery Johnson fan, this book (writing quality, typos, organization) is simply not at the professional level. The writer--and editor, assuming there actually was one--did Avery a huge disservice. It's actually quite an embarrassment.

It's not as if the book contains nothing of interest to readers...it does. Good basketball info and behind-the-scenes content (most from his days with the Spurs) is included.

I'll continue to hold Avery Johnson the basketball player and person in high regard. But Avery "the author" needed more help than this.

Reach Beyond the Break/The Avery Johnson Story.......2002-09-18

Great story of courage and faith. Everyone should read this book!

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"This book offers a historical, formal analysis of video games that no other book to date has provided in such detail.... Wolf also effectively investigates the scientific and market forces that aligned with the development of video games to create a powerful cultural force."

—Heather Gilmour, Executive Producer, American Film Institute New Media Ventures

Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation 2, generates great excitement and even buying frenzies. Yet, until now, this giant on the popular culture landscape has received little in-depth study or analysis.

In this book, Mark J. P. Wolf and four other scholars conduct the first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium. The book begins with an attempt to define what is meant by the term "video game" and the variety of modes of production within the medium. It moves on to a brief history of the video game, then applies the tools of film studies to look at the medium in terms of the formal aspects of space, time, narrative, and genre. The book also considers the video game as a cultural entity, object of museum curation, and repository of psychological archetypes. It closes with a list of video game research resources for further study.

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... upclose and thorough view of personal cyberspace.......2003-02-17

Mark Wolf presents a ground breaking and thorough examination of the video game as artistic medium, cultural phenomena, and a meaningful portal for understanding the context of what has become our new digital lifestyle.

A "Popular Electronics" January 1975 cover picture of the Altair computer kit prompted the founding of the Homebrew Computer Club, another milestone in history as we know it, which preceded the surge of features and utilities that characterized personal computers with recordable cassette tape drives in the late '70s and early '80s such as Atari, Apple and Commodore. Thus making it relatively easier for individuals to expand creative boundaries, soon to be seen as an inescapable irony allowing some early dark shadows such as "Custer's Revenge" and "FireBug", beginning a long list of collateral, ghastly underworld currents there are now. While we can trust our emerging philosophical inquiries will, in good conscience, examine the pressure to balance those freedoms with responsibility, our generation may so far have not completely charted moral consequences for a healthy society. Obviously video games are not just a fantasy theater, as some might fear, for the furious expression of male adolescent rage fueling new ideologies of terror, misogyny and brutalization throughout the modern world. "First person shooters" can visually and mentally exercise ethnic biases and assorted prejudices that assault human sensibilities and continually challenge the boundaries of those creative freedoms. And we cannot ignore some underground travesties that mimic other "unthinkables" like Columbine, Oklahoma City and Ground Zero.

Now, some groundbreaking museum venues are beginning to provide a quiet, safe harbor for contemplating and celebrating the best of this new American media, even while acknowledging the fears emanating from among its dark shadows that can be millions of times more [exponentially] powerful than the limitations we've known of the Gutenberg effect. For example, the chapter "Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade" by Rochelle Slovin, longtime creative spirit and Director of the American Museum of the Moving Image, presents insightful path markers while continuing in celebrating the best in American media history. AMMI's brilliant series begins with "Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade" 1989, distinguished by its marvelous gallery (and online, ammi.org) presentations continuing through "Expanded Entertainment" 1996, "Computer Space" 1998, and " Digital Media" 2002, marking a significant place on an historic trail of kinetic luminism preceded by other remarkable mile markers such as Wilfred's "Lumia Suite" at MOMA in the '60s, and Nam June Paik's debut at NYC's New School in the early '60s (foretelling his magnificent AMMI installation today). The history of man's cultural kinetic lightworks and precursors harkens back even to the to the magic lantern Phantasmagoria of the Renaissance and the Shadow Puppetry Theatre in Bali 1000 years earlier. As signaled in the AMMI companion essay here by poet and critic Charles Bernstein "video games are the purest manifestation of our computer consciousness", and with their engagingly playful and peculiar allure, "We've started using them as culture" observes Ms. Slovin.

The reader may find additional perspectives by looking at "Video Games: A popular Culture Phenomenon" by Berger, 2002 for a social context of sexuality, and at the "Ultimate History of Video Games" by Kent, 2001 for putting David Grossman's fiery challenge to video game violence (Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill) into an expanded context.

So, "what-if" my new digital appliance today is one thousand times more powerful, at the same price, than my PC ten years ago -- and then my next digital tool ten years from now is again one thousand times more powerful than today, at the same price ...will that million times more powerful tool routinely do things not previously thought of? What-if kids were to spend more time on their computers than watching TV? What-if "...the first primitive versions of the next PC interface have already been delivered ...and they're called video games." What-if we "put more computing power in a video game at the finger tips of a 9-year-old kid than NASA used to put a man on the moon"? What-if that 9-year-old kid in 20 years, comfortably uses a personal digital tool that is yet again a million times more...? Our new digital lifestyle is no more unnatural or less humanistic than book reading of the "Gutenberg Effect" has been. As presented here in "The Medium of the Video Game", AMMI's "Hot Circuits" and sequels elegantly mark a new path for those of us whose lifetime understanding of present reality would have more nearly fitted a society of thirty, forty or fifty years ago. Our historic environmedia landscape and our culture have shifted beneath our feet.

a problematic book worth browsing through.......2002-03-30

The Medium of the Video Game is an anthology edited by Mark J. P. Wolf. However, to say that Wolf is only the editor is really an understatement, Medium of the Video Game is really his baby. Of the nine essays in this book, five of them are his.

Wolf is coming from a film theory perspective. Hence he is emphasizing the video part of the term videogame (a notion I disagree with. I feel the fact that they are games is more important than the fact that they are video).
More than this, however, Wolf is concerned with categorization. He lists eleven different types of spacial structures and forty-two different videogame genres. One of the problems with this is that some of his categories are questionable. Amongst his genres he lists diagnostics, demos and utilities. While it may be argued that demos are a distinct genre as they are trying to make you buy the full game (an argument I do not buy), I fail to see how diagnostics or utilities can be classified as genres of games of any sort. His rational seems to be that they come in cartridges or CD-ROM's like games and some game collectors collect them too, so they are the same as games. If you do a web search for his name and the book title you will find this chapter online, so you can make up your own mind about this issue.

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Title: Birth of a medium: video games, art, and moral panic.
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Publication: Reason (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Reason Foundation
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 57(4)

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When did delivering mediocre client service become acceptable? It didn't! Then why do so many professional service firms fail to deliver excellent client service? Craig gives you 21 reminders that will make your clients say "wow!"

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An Inspiring Call to Action

Inspiring story

A model for uplifting our youth.

Using A Common Sense Approach For Life

Everyone should read this book.

The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
Oral Lee Brown , and Caille Millner
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In the bestselling tradition of The Pact and The Freedom Writers Diary—the inspiring story of one woman’s extraordinary promise and steely determination to make a difference in the world.

One morning in 1987 Oral Lee Brown walked into a corner store in East Oakland, California, to buy snacks for work. A little girl asked her for a quarter, and Brown assumed that she wanted to buy candy, but surprisingly she bought bread and bologna—staples for her family.

Later that day Brown couldn’t get the little girl out of her mind. Why wasn’t she in school? Why was she out begging for money to buy food for her family? After several weeks of not being able to sleep, Brown went to look for the girl at the local elementary school and soon found herself in a first-grade classroom. She didn’t find the little girl, but before she left she found herself promising the kids that if they finished high school, she would pay for their college education.

At the time, Oral Lee Brown made only $45,000 a year.

But years later, after annually saving and investing $10,000 of her own money and establishing the Oral Lee Brown Foundation, this remarkable woman made good on her promise: after nineteen of the original twenty-three students graduated from high school, she sent them all to college. And in May of 2003, LaTosha Hunter was the first of Brown’s “babies,” as well as the first person in her family, to graduate from college.

This marvelous and inspiring book is the amazing story of one woman's unending desire to make a difference. And if once was not enough, in 2001 Brown made the same promise to three new classrooms of first-, fifth-, and ninth-graders. Brown and her foundation are now committed to adopting a new crop of kids to send to college every four years.

Brown’s pledge to the students was not without great personal and public sacrifice. Her promise turned her life upside-down—it strained her relationships, and at times required her to work several different jobs. Brown also developed a strong emotional attachment to the children—for many of these students Brown was the one consistent adult in their lives.

In a world short on heroes, altruism, and dedication, THE PROMISE shows that it is still possible to change lives for the better. This book will encourage, uplift, and inspire every reader.

A portion of the proceeds from the book will go to the Oral Lee Brown Foundation. To learn more about the Oral Lee Brown Foundation please visit www.oralleebrownfoundation.com.

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An Inspiring Call to Action.......2007-04-16

An inspiring memoir of a woman who pledged to pay for the college education of a class of impoverished first graders. The author not only commits her own meager financial support, but all the resources she can muster to ensure the success of "her" kids.

This very accessible book should be read by everyone who cares about the education of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Inspiring story.......2007-04-05

Purchasing this book new helps the author continue her mission to ensure a college education for disadvantaged inner city children.

A model for uplifting our youth. .......2005-10-02

More than anything else, our youth need people to be there for them for the LONG-TERM. Not for 1 day, or 1 week, or 1 month, but as Oral Lee Brown shows us, for years. Imagine how our next generation would be impacted if adults nationwide reached out in just 10% of the way that Oral Lee Brown did? Go Ms. Brown for inspiring us all and go Caille Millner for doing such a wonderful job capturing this story. You're both heroes!

Using A Common Sense Approach For Life.......2005-08-03

After reading this book and having met Ms. Brown in person during a family situation in June, I was totally impressed and influenced by this Woman of courage. Ms. Brown happens to be the God Mother of my step-son who lives in Tulare, Ca. She and I started our conversation about this new generation of young people. It finally led to her being a book writer. One thing I can say about her during the 30-minute or so meeting is the need for properly educating our youth. If everyone cared as much as she does about education for all on the same level, then maybe more of our children would realize how important it is. The parents, neighborhood, and the churches should take a more visible interest in seeing that all kids, poor and rich would get these tools for enriching their lives.
I would say, Ms. Brown is most humble and not a star-struck person. She has truly been blessed by God. I can't imagine how she did all this and kept her sanity. God Bless this beautiful woman. I recently retired as a Job Counselor/Placement and mentor for young job seekers from the State of California/EDD. I share in her need to impress upon our children the importance of getting an education, it is the substance needed for a successful and stable lifestyle .
Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express how much Ms. Brown has influenced me. I am hoping to get her to autograph my book someday.
Bettye Sullivan, Fresno, CA.

Everyone should read this book........2005-05-01

This book is written the way that an average person speaks, which is to say that it rambles a bit and frequently repeats things; but it's an easy read that I think every reader (both young and old) should find very approachable. As literature goes, it's not a great work of linguistic mastery. That being said, this is an excellent book that I wish everyone would read, because there's an extremely important lesson for all of us here.

Oral Lee Brown first recognized the very root cause of the brutal cycle of poverty that persists in America (it's the education system, people!), and then she tackled that problem in one of the most extraordinary ways I've ever heard of. Her story is brilliant and inspiring. And as I said before, I hope that it reaches as many people as possible, and will serve as an inspiration to us all. Great story, great lady, 5 stars.

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A study of operational warfare in the Habsburg old regime, 1683-1740, which recreates everyday warfare and the lives of the generals conducting it, this book goes beyond the battlefield to examine the practical skills of war needed in an agricultural landscape of pastures, woods, and water. Although sieges, forages, marches, and raids are universally considered crucial aspects of old regime warfare, no study of operational or maneuver warfare in this period has ever been published. Early modern warfare had an operational component which required that soldiers possess or learn many skills grounded in the agricultural economy, and this requirement led to an "economy of knowledge" in which the civil and military sectors exchanged skilled labor. Many features of "scientific warfare" thought to be initiated by Enlightenment reformers were actually implicit in the informal structures of armies of the late 1680-1740 period. In this period, the Habsburg dynasty maintained an army of more than 100,000 men, and hundreds of generals. This book might be called a "labor history" of these generals, revealing their regional, social, and educational backgrounds. It also details the careerist dimensions of another neglected aspect of the early modern general's work, the creation of "military theory." Theory arose naturally from staff work and commanded wide interest among both high-ranking officers for professional reasons, and for its significant impact on service politics.

War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740.(Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740.(Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Hubert C. Johnson
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Title: War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740.(Review)
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Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
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WAR FOR EVERY DAY. GENERALS, KNOWLEDGE & WARFARE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE 1680-1740

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WAR FOR EVERY DAY. GENERALS, KNOWLEDGE & WARFARE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE 1680-1740
E.A. Lund
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Child Welfare and Family Services, Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to child and family welfare policies and practice in the United States. The text examines important issues and ongoing controversies surrounding child welfare, and innovative practice methods. Offers comprehensive coverage of the latest changes in welfare policy and its effects on children and families. Reflects current trends and incorporates the latest demographic data. For anyone with an interest in or working in child welfare.

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Child Welfare and Family Services: Policies and Practice, Seventh Edition by Susan Whitelaw Downs [Hardcover] .......2005-09-26

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Child Welfare and Family Services: Policies and Practice, Seventh Edition
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Klamath Heartlands introduces the unique-in-the-nation plan by the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon to restore the "remembered forest" of their former reservation, an area that Oregon governor Tom McCall called "the greatest single stand of ponderosa pines to be found anywhere in the West." Part of the Tribes' effort to regain lands they lost in 1954, the Klamath Reservation Forest Plan offers a vision of ecological and cultural restoration that will change the way we think about Western forests.

Klamath Heartlands combines photographs, maps, and text in a sturdy and engaging field guide. A series of fold-out and fold-up map pages leads each reader into the forest itself to discover the Tribes' vision and the significance of achieving it.

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