The Silver Queen: Her Royal Highness Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff 1859-1942

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Through illustrations and text, the authors provide a window on the social ambitions, resplendent lifestyle, and foibles and excesses of a nouveau riche socialite in the twilight of the Gilded Age.

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HE KILLED HER.......2003-10-14

THIS BOOK WAS A GOOD BOOK BECAUSE IT TOLD ALL THE FACTS ABOUT WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AND THEM SOME. I LIKED HOW DON DAVIS INCLUDED THE FACTS AND THEN GAVE YOU MORE THAN U NEEDED. WHAT I DIDNT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK WAS THAT DON DAVIS DIDNT INCLUD MUCH ABOUT OJ'S LIFE AFTER WE LEFT FOOTBALL, BUT OVER ALL IT WAS A GOOD BOOK AND A GOOD READ.

HE KILLED HER.......2003-10-14

This book,Fallen hero, was a good book. It told the points of his football life and then what he went through when we was charged for killing his wife and her friend at her house. Don Davis wrote improtant facts and then some. I liked the fact that he told more than needed because the reader gets an look on wat really happened and not just what the news said. What i didnt like about the book was that they spent so much time on his football life and then didnt tell much on his life after he retried from football and then went right to his trial on begin convicted of murder.

Fallen Hero/the Shocking True Story Behind the O.J. Simpson Tragedy

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Fallen Hero/the Shocking True Story Behind the O.J. Simpson Tragedy
Don Davis
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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The Art of A Bugs Life.......2007-01-16

Nice Book. A little bit of damage. But what do you expect from a second hands book?

Visual insights, art & insider's info abound!.......2000-08-16

This collector's edition of A Bug's Life deserves ongoing mention is a fun accompaniment to the film, requiring good reading skills or parental assistance but pairing film clips with an outline of the story. Visual insights, art and insider's info abound.

The book for every animators........1999-05-02

This book is very much to own for animators and who that love this movie

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-01-07

A hardcover and full color book on the making of a bugs life.Absolutely wonderful!!Interviews with the directer and clips from the movie.Also encludes many of the story-boards they used.I loved it !!!!!!!

great pictures, atrocious writing.......1998-12-28

A very handsome book that doesn't appear to've been copyedited at all. The first five pages have more grammatical errors than any ten randomly selected novels. Plus, author Jeff Kurtti's tortured prose stylings seem better suited to a grade 12 english class than a "quality" mass market publication. Still, excellent pictures, an attractive layout, and some good and interesting quotes from the key creatives, albeit rammed bone-headedly in between all the intermittently coherent Kurtti-text. Buy it to look at, not to read.

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Hardcore Zen is not your typical "Zen" book. Brad Warner, the young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one — just like Reality itself. This bold new approach to the Why of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary: Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear. The subtitle (and the cover!) say it all: there has never been a book like this one.

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The Truth is Not in This Book.......2007-10-04

I bought this book because I wanted to hear someone break down the basics of Buddhism. Brad does a good job of that. I've read other books about Buddhism, but they're not told in a way that stays with me. Brad's point of view is easier for me to relate to than the Dalai Lama's...

Sometimes I didn't wanna read the little excerpts about his life, I wanted him to go back to talking about Buddhism, but in retrospect, they made the book a lot more fun to read. So what the hay. I could've just skipped them, I guess. But they helped give his explanations a little more context, and an edge. And that's why I'll remember them.

"The truth cannot be found in this book, or any other book." That was one of the main points of the book that stuck out for me. It's very funny when an author makes you question why you're reading their book.

Overall, I'm glad it's on my bookshelf. I'll read it again someday.

Not Boring.......2007-09-18

Fast-paced, irreverent view of Buddhism - how long it takes, what problems a self-declaration it doesn't solve, how it can attract a certia kind of societal fringe-dweller. Won't really teach you the contents of Buddhism but it's a rollicking story of how one rebel fell onto the path and found relevance in a media-obsessed world.

Zen is not something you can write about.......2007-07-02

I have been a student of Buddhism since the age of 12, over 34 years ago. When i was in my early twenties I was at Naropa around Trungpa and allen Ginsberg. I spent some 25 years suffering tremendously on the cushion because I misunderstood some aspects of the teachings. This is not the case anymore. I am also a professional musician and student of Life. Zen is a very direct teaching about the nature of experience. Not a psychological dialectic. That is why I found Mr. warner's book so entirely refreshing as it is about HIS experience and transmission of the ineefable nature of Zen. Plus, while I normally would not write a review, I am somewhat taken aback by the harsher reviews here because I don't see the point If you are not capable of writing about something that is almost impossible to write about, why criticize someone else's attempt? Mr. warner took action. This, to me, is the very nature of Zen action/non-action, no duality. this book is a great introduction to Zen and also a no BS straight from the hip Zen dialog. Buddhism is about examining the nature of experience. It is a constantly evolving critical examination of reality, unending. If this is not so then why the quote, "If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him." Not to be stuck in the conveyances of language and to actually speak about a way to end suffering and be more fully present in Life is a good thing and I believe Mr. Warner succeeds admirably!!!

Enlightenment is for sissies!.......2007-06-12

"Enlightenment is for sissies. Living ethically and morally is what really matters."
This is the book that converted my girlfriend to Buddhism. I've never read a more practical guide to Zen before. The author was in the punk band Zero Defex, released five Syd Barrett like albums under the name Dimentia 13, and worked for the Japanese company that makes Ultraman. Yet he's also recieved Darma Transmission, essentially being ordained in Buddhism. He's a cool guy and he writes like we talk; no preaching. In fact, one of his main messages (also espoused by Buddha himself) is that you question absolutely everything, including his book. Even if you hate everything you've ever heard about Zen Buddhism, you should read this book.

Clear and candid.......2007-06-10

Before reading this book, I had only a superficial acquaintance with Zen Buddhism through martial arts training. It showed me that what little I thought I knew was filled with misconceptions. For this reason alone I found it valuable. At first it seemed that the title and style were too deliberately edgy, perhaps simply to market itself to a younger generation of readers. This skepticism only deepened after the first few chapters: for someone arguing against the existence of "self", the author seems determinedly autobiographical. By the end, though, it is clear that he is not selling anything, just trying to tell us the "real deal" as he has experienced it. As he points out, the popular Western image of Zen is of wisdom received in opaque language from charismatic gurus. His unpretentious approach and language demolish these stereotypes and set this work apart from many others available on the subject. I found his irreverent but incisive remarks regarding enlightenment, reincarnation and the relationship of the individual to God to be profoundly clear and insightful. His no-nonsense enthusiasm for his subject is inspiring. Five stars for accomplishing all this in a slim, easily-read volume.

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Great instruction guide

Add this to your collection - you won't be dissapointed!

Complete Book of Embroidery: Includes Crewelwork, Goldwork, Ribbon Embroidery, and Embellishments
Melinda Coss
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The Embroidery Stitch Bible

ASIN: 076210273X
Release Date: 2000-01-10

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Here are more than 100 embroidery stitches to learn, all with step-by-step directions, grouped in stitch families. Includes 20 projects, a special techniques section covering crewelwork, beads, monograms and more, plus over 75 design motifs.

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Great instruction guide.......2002-11-14

This book is wonderful for any embroiderer. It shows in excellent detail how each stitch is made. Colour photos and diagrams make this book easy to use. You'll come back to it over and over again. Wonderfully laid out and catagorized. A must for any needlecrafters library. Although this book is a wonderful reference for stitches, it is not a good pattern book. The patterns given in this book are more for examples of how to used many of the stitches. Still, I recommend this book as a reference to needlearts.

Add this to your collection - you won't be dissapointed!.......2001-06-11

In the past couple of years, there have been some great books written for those who are just learning to embroider. This is one of them.

Each stitch technique is well set out, with great illustrations, and an example for you to sitch using the techniques you learn. It has specialist chapters, and some good designs for you to use in your own work.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced embroiderer, you will not regret adding this to your collection.

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The Complete Book of Ribbon Embroidery
Heather Joynes
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Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market microstructure. This book discusses the best mathematical models and tools for dealing with such vast amounts of data.
This book provides a framework for the analysis, modeling, and inference of high frequency financial time series. With particular emphasis on foreign exchange markets, as well as currency, interest rate, and bond futures markets, this unified view of high frequency time series methods investigates the price formation process and concludes by reviewing techniques for constructing systematic trading models for financial assets.

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modelling financial instruments.......2007-03-08

The book gives an indepth statistical modelling of important financial events, that have time dependency. It is suitable for the financial analyst who wants a semi-empirical approach.

For some quantities, like foreign exchange data, there is a comparison between fully empirical results and various theoretical models. What is investigated are such behaviours like scaling laws, for the absolute returns as a function of frequency. Here, it has been empirically observed that scalings do exist for FX rates.

Whenever possible, the book gives rigorous results, often encapsulated in theorems relating to distributions of independently distributed random variables. The reader should have a background in statistics, with the equivalent of several years of undergraduate courses.

good analysis on data error........2007-01-16

Many type of error the book list are frequently occur in FX data.
This book give good guide on how to filter them.

From the experts in the field.......2002-06-06

Michel Dacorogna and the team at the former Olsen & Associates are well-known experts in the field of foreign exchange rate data analysis, and their book provides us with a vast, useful source of information. Unfortunately for students and other beginners, the book is written like a compilation of papers and review articles, the opposite of pedagogical, and with an awful choice of 'computerese' notation (MA(t,n)=sum(EMA(t',k)... etc) that makes Boudhaud-Potters look easy in comparison. More to the point, even their noncomputerese notation is difficult to follow. I hope for a very different second edition written pedagogically for students of this growing and important field. On the positive side, data analyses are performed using logarithmic returns, not price increments. Workers in the field who consult this text will find it helpful.

For the new millenium...that's what we need........2001-07-23

The book covers a wide range of topics related to high-frequency data in Finance. There is a very detailed approach to tackle a huge amount of data and to deal with its based stylized facts. The book triggers the reader's desire to update his knowledge in the field of finance.

More Than An Introduction.......2001-05-28

This one of the few books on high frequency finance is a most welcome to the literature. The book is useful not only for people who are new to the subject but also for researchers in the field since it is a most uniform treatment of many topics. From adaptive data cleaning (chapter 4) to intraday and weekly seasonality (chapter 6) and real time trading models (chapter 11), it covers a broad range of topics specific to high frequency financial time series analysis. Chapters on volatility modeling (Chapter 8), forecasting (chapter 9) and correlation and multivariate risk (chapter 10) are enlightening especially for risk exposure analysis and risk management purposes. Finally, the the extensive bibliography is a precious source for those who would like to explore certain topics in detail. I highly recommend it for practitioners as well as researchers in the field.

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Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. Indeed, galumphing around stages across the country, joking his way through one grotesque thermonuclear scenario after another, he came frighteningly close. In telling the story of Herman Kahn, whose 1960 book On Thermonuclear War catapulted him into celebrity, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi captures an era that is still very much with us--a time whose innocence, gruesome nuclear humor, and outrageous but deadly serious visions of annihilation have their echoes in the "known unknowns and unknown unknowns" that guide policymakers in our own embattled world.

Portraying a life that combined aspects of Lenny Bruce, Hitchcock, and Kubrick, Ghamari-Tabrizi presents not one Herman Kahn, but many--one who spoke the suffocatingly dry argot of the nuclear experts, another whose buffoonery conveyed the ingenious absurdity of it all, and countless others who capered before the public, ambiguous, baffling, always open to interpretation. This, then, is a story of one thoroughly strange and captivating man as well as a cultural history of our moment. In Herman Kahn's world is a critical lesson about how Cold War analysts learned to fill in the ciphers of strategic uncertainty, and thus how we as a nation learned to live with the peculiarly inventive quality of strategy, in which uncertainty generates extravagant threat scenarios.

Revealing the metaphysical behind the dryly deliberate, apparently practical discussion of nuclear strategy, this book depicts the creation of a world where clever men fashion Something out of Nothing--and establishes Herman Kahn as our first virtuoso of the unknown unknowns.

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On Thermonuclear Intellect.......2006-01-30

A confession from the reviewer, it has been almost 40 years since I sat in a university library and read "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn cover to cover. A child of the cold war, then 18 years old and contemplating inevitable military service,that book more than anything else, crystalized my perception that nuclear war was probably inevitiable, probably within my lifetime. With fresh recollections of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the incessant coverage of above ground nuclear weapons testing at various sites in the American West and the South Pacific, "On Thermonuclear War" seemed to answer any remaining questions about the probable trajectory of future events.

Despite his role in terrorizing at least the well informed segment of my generation (the "Baby Boomers")and my parents' generation as well, it is entirely feasible that the brutality of his insights and speculations, as well as his brilliance in communicating them, powerfully, perhaps decisively, influenced the conduct of the Cold War. Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi examines the cultural millieu and analyzes the historical context that allowed Herman Kahn, propelled by his thermonuclear intellect, to rise to such influence.

As the author clearly establishes, Herman Kahn was simultaneously hated and revered. "The Worlds of Herman Kahn" fills in the background that is essential to an understanding of one of the giants of strategic thinking in the modern era. It is not a quick read, but it is GREAT stimulation. If you have memories similar to mine, this book will refresh both the good and the frightening. If the date of your birth denied direct experience of those decades, "The Worlds of Herman Kahn" will greatly expand your understanding of the cold war and perhaps contribute to a deeper appreciation of our current psychological predisposition to being "terrorized".

From The Master of the Possible Future.......2005-05-01

In today's new age of nuclear terrorism, it is vital that those responsible for security understand how yesterday's "Cold War" thinkers viewed the possibility of nuclear war. The most important of those Cold War thinkers was Herman Kahn.

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi has written an absolutely brilliant profile of the oversized multifaceted personality of Kahn, a personality so powerful that he brought out the very worst in the military and academia. Kahn authored the ground-breaking work "On Thermonuclear War" (1961) a book which, in exquisitely painful detail theorizes how such a terrible war might be fought, and even "won." It was a book and a thesis which provoked
remarkable response. From the left there was the vituperation of James Newman in the pages of the prestigious magazine Scientific American who could viciously ask, "Is there really a Herman Kahn?" There were plaudits from the left as well, including A. J. Muste, Socialist Norman Thomas and, Betrand Russell. Mostly, alas, brickbats and hate mail from the "liberal establishment," which Kahn considered himself a card carrying member. The right didn't know what to make of him. Kahn loved hanging around (and tormenting) top military brass, and at the same time spend time with Abbie Hoffman and take -- and enjoy LSD. He was World War Three's Lenny Bruce.

Ghamari-Tabrizi has entitled her book "The Worlds..." and added a subtitle which incorporates the idea that developing scenarios for a nuclear war was, at heart, intuitive. She expands this profile of the man, into a full and thoughtful investigation of the scenario, the war "game" based on the role playing war games. War gaming as it is known -- allows the players to imagine how nuclear war would develop, to use simulation to think about how it might be fought, and yes, how it might be won. (And yes, Kahn went so far as to conceive the possibility of a "Doomsday" bomb -- immortalized in Stanley Kubrick's film, "Dr. Strangelove."

Kahn's huge genius lay in his ability to stare directly at and analyze anything, "When [U.S. military] officers objected that Kahn was ill-equipped to speak on military affairs," Ghamari-Tabrizi writes, "he'd shoot back, 'How many thermonuclear wars have you fought recently?' Aside from war games, they admitted, they had no actual experience with these weapons. 'O.K., Kahn would grin, 'Then we start out even.'"

Ghamari-Tabrizi also provides social and psychological contexts in which to evaluate the man and his work.

This book belongs on the book shelf of anyone today worried about nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism, which is to say any sentient adult. The same can be said of the rest of Kahn's work -- most especially "Thinking About the Unthinkable," "On Escalation," "Things to Come," and "The Year 2000" stunning in its insights when you realize it was published in 1967!

I had two occasions to visit the think tank he created, the Hudson Institute, from which he developed all of his work following "On Thermonuclear War" as well as some occasions in which we just met and talked. He delighted in challenging any unthought out shibboleth. One left his company with a headache and a desire to rethink everything you had previously believed.

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi deserves our heartfelt gratitude for her 387 page work bringing this man, his theories and his personality to life. Herman Kahn has been too long forgotten.

Book review. The worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War [A book review from: Technological Forecasting & Social Change]

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Book review. The worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War [A book review from: Technological Forecasting & Social Change]
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Nuclear philosopher: big thoughts from a big man about big bombs.(The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War)(Book Review): An article from: The Weekly Standard

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Nuclear philosopher: big thoughts from a big man about big bombs.(The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War)(Book Review): An article from: The Weekly Standard
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Title: Nuclear philosopher: big thoughts from a big man about big bombs.(The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War)(Book Review)
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum's The Lobbyists exposes the world of Washington's most influential players -- the more than eighty thousand who descend upon our national government, informing and bartering with Congress and blocking legislation on behalf of the richest business interests in the country. This acclaimed work -- now with a new introduction that analyzes the changes in lobbying in 1990s -- provides a shocking view of how our government really works.

The Lobbyists : How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington

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The Lobbyists : How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
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The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington

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The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington
Jeffrey Birnbaum
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First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as "one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke -- yes, and Mark Twain."

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very goood book.......1999-12-11

This is a very good book to read. a classic. IF you like his other stuff you will love this book. It even has beer in the title.

The Beer Can By The Highway - Essays on What'sw "American" About America

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The Beer Can By The Highway - Essays on What'sw "American" About America
John A. Kouwenhoven
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