Riding West: An Outfitter's Life

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A big city boy with a university education, Jim Greer was haunted by the kind of dreams that afflict people like Thurber's Walter Mitty: dreams of running away from respectable careers to live intensely, on the edge, by the sweat of your brow and the skin of your teeth. At age forty, Jim Greer fled the conventional middle-class life in Denver he believed was killing him to operate a guide and outfitting service on Colorado's Western Slope. {Riding West{ is the story of his adventures.

Some of Jim's stories of outfitting--the business of taking men and women into the wilds and supplying them with the necessities of life--are grim, others hilarious. He tells how he reinvented himself as "Doc" Greer, a cross between Holywood's rhinestone image of a cowboy and the real thing; how he struggled with the dangers posed in the high country; how he fought for his authority, and sometimes his life, with headstrong horses and mules; how apparently trivial mistakes he made while hunting bears nearlly got him killed. And how the winter comes--when clients go home and snow closes the roads--the bone-weary, dead-broke, and out-of-work outfitter retreats to town to live by his wits and dream of spring and another year in the high country.

A unique and engaging look at the life of a contemporary outfitter, {Riding West} should appeal to those interested in fishing, big-game hunting, the American West, or to city slickers who want a taste of life in the great outdoors.

Jim Greer is a graduate of the University of Denver, a former teacher, state official, and college administrator, whose heart is still in the great outdoors.

Charles Miller is a professor emeritus at Western State College, where he taught English, journalism, and film studies for thirty years.

Scott Yeager (illustrator) is a Gunnison wildlife artist and sometime guide whose work is displayed in various Western Slope galleries.

Customer Reviews:

Riding West is a real keeper!.......2000-02-04

Ordinarily I skip or only skim prefaces, but that would have been a big mistake in this book which starts right out with a hilarious account of Jim Greer's encounter with Jack Nicholson, the famous actor immediately recognizable to everyone but clueless Jim. Riding West is always entertaining and frequently moving. Greer's description of his metamorphosis from performance auditor for the Colorado legislature to outfitter in the rugged high country of Gunnison County should be of interest to anyone who has ever contemplated reinventing himself in the midstream of life. Greer emerges as a fascinating (if somewhat eccentric) personality and a superb storyteller. I hated to see this book end. Someday, I suspect, it will be made into a film. It has all the earmarks of a classic, one that belongs in the distinguished company of other such classics as A River Runs Through It.

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Though Elvis Presleys music is widely credited as starting a sea change in American popular culture, his films are often dismissed as superficial. Beyond the formulaic plotlines and the increasingly weaker songs, however, the films are rich with resonance to the changing times in which they were produced (roughly 19551970). They were also a means by which Elvis communicated deeply felt autobiographical material to his fan base, although in the guise of lighthearted escapist fare. This work takes a new stand, maintaining that Elviss 31 Hollywood features and two documentaries reveal a profound statement from the star and auteur. Analyzing each film in detail and exploring the body of work as a whole, Brode reveals the Elvis persona as a contemporary Candide, attempting to navigate an ever changing social and political landscape.

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Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture.......2007-01-11

Save your money! This author can't be serious! I laughed through most of what he thinks is a serious topic. I have never read such psychobabble in my life. Throughout the entire book he is hung up on the same 2 subjects which are certainly part of the dumb Elvis movies but nothing that any reasonable person would take seriously. The movies were meant to be just fun & nothing more. There is no underlying message in any of those movies. Except for Jailhouse Rock & King Creole, the movies are about the same, just meant for young kids to be entertained by a good looking guy who can sing. This author is just trying to impress readers with his supposed knowledge & his vocabularly. If he sees underlying sexual perversion in an Elvis movie, I'd hate to see how he reacts to the movies of today! He needs to get a life, some movies are just meant for one thing only - entertainment. They don't have to mean anything. Poor guy.

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The Films and Career of Elvis Presley
Boris Zmijewsky , and Steven Zmijewsky
Manufacturer: Citadel
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Elvis And Marilyn: 2X Immortal

Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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Elvis Presley: Silver Screen Icon: A Collection of Movie Posters

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Awesome Elvis Book!

Elvis Presley: Silver Screen Icon: A Collection of Movie Posters
Steve Templeton
Manufacturer: Overmountain Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Awesome Elvis Book!.......2002-10-12

This book is a must for any Elvis fan. Just read the foreward by actress Yvonne Craig who co-starred in two of Elvis' movies. This book talks about his movie career like no other book has done. The information is fun and educational. The book is illustrated with magnificent, unique international posters. When reading the book, it is as enjoyable as your favorite childhood storybook because the illustrations describe what has been written. The collecting section gives the novice and experienced collector useful and valuable information. This section is unique in that it describes many of the U.S. movie posters but also features information about collecting foreign posters which is not readily available to the collector. Finally, there is a special pricing section for the American movie posters which shows the increase in prices from 1983 to 2002 for the Elvis posters.

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As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemorative ceremonies and festivals, watch historically based films, and reconstruct family genealogies. The question is, Why? What are Americans looking for when they engage with the past? And how is it different from what scholars call "history"?

In this book, David Glassberg surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their history: the building of a pacifist war memorial in a rural Massachusetts town; the politics behind the creation of a new historical festival in San Francisco; the letters Ken Burns received in response to his film series on the Civil War; the differing perceptions among black and white residents as to what makes an urban neighborhood historic; and the efforts to identify certain places in California as worthy of commemoration. Along the way, Glassberg reflects not only on how Americans understand and use the past, but on the role of professional historians in that enterprise.

Combining the latest research on American memory with insights gained from Glassberg's more than twenty years of personal experience in a variety of public history projects, Sense of History offers stimulating reading for all who care about the future of history in America.

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Sense of History: the Place of the Past in American Life. (book review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Anne M. Valk
Manufacturer: Oral History Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FC2O4
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1014 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sense of History: the Place of the Past in American Life. (book review)
Author: Anne M. Valk
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Page: 147(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today’s top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Adobe Illustrator CS2 in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses lavish, four-color images of real-world Illustrator CS2 projects to show what’s possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You’ll find comprehensive coverage of all of Illustrator CS2’s most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features, including the new drawing tool, Live trace, Live paint, SVG-T and much more. On the CD, you'll find many examples of artwork from the book, third-party software, demos, samples, and more.

Customer Reviews:

The only Illustrator book I'm willing to buy.......2007-08-14

No offense to Mordy Golding, but this is the only book on Adobe Illustrator I've ever seen that is actually worth the amount of money you pay for it. It's not something I would recommend to a person with reading comprehension issues who'd never touched the pen tool in their lives, but if you learn well through unstructured independent study, it's pretty hard to beat Sharon's work. There aren't any epic tutorials that drag on for pages and pages, so you can either read it cover-to-cover or flip through it randomly until you see something that catches your eye with equal degrees of ease and the text will tell you everything you need to know about what you're looking at. In the very few instances where the words fall short (the section on knockout groups has always felt a little murky to me), the example files serve as ample gap-fillers, allowing you to drill down as deeply as you feel comfortable.

A WOW! of a book.......2007-07-06

The Adobe Illustrator CS2 WOW! Book has been a great resource during my first foray into computer illustration. First of all, as it says on the cover, the "Wow" book contains tips, tricks, and techniques from 100 top Adobe Illustrator artists. But most compellingly for me, it has beautiful examples of a wide variety of artwork printed in full color both in the book, and on the CD which comes with it. The CD has a dimensional advantage by providing access to the "layers" within each illustration, so you can see how the artist created, or "built" the illustration. The "Wow" book also says it is the definitive book on mastering Illustrator, which may give you the impression that is only for the advanced user. However it has a surprising amount of really good Illustrator basics wedged into 400-plus pages. It has an overall summary of what Illustrator is, system requirements, setting up your page, and how to use each tool, along with great exercises for beginners.

The "Wow" book goes on to explain the basics of drawing and coloring, using brushes and symbols, managing and using layers and appearances, working with type, making compound paths and shapes, and finally, using Live Trace (which turns raster images into editable vector paths) and Live Paint (which allows you to paint those vector graphics as if you are painting them by hand). And then, the "Wow" book just rockets off up the steep learning curve of using blends, gradients, transparency, masks, 3D effects, mesh, and beyond, which I admit, I am not anywhere near understanding or managing, much less mastering! But along the way, there are those great illustrations to lead you on and make you want to learn, practice, and become an Illustrator (with a capital "I").

More than I expected!.......2007-04-22

This book is beyond question appropriately titled: Wow! What you get:

1. Full color presentations throughout the 400+ pages of text, from the sample art to the tutorials and other tips.
2. A CD with 542 MB worth of files! That alone is probably worth the price of the book.
3. Detailed, and well thought out, tutorials that will quickly get you up to speed on Bezier curves, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
4. So many examples of truly stunning artwork that the book itself is a work of art!

I have looked at other Illustrator books and quickly devoured the contents which left me wanting more. No doubt this book will take some time to digest, and I will be revisiting many of the examples again and again!

WOW is not so wow........2007-04-11

The reason why i got this book was because i thought it would be the same as the Photoshop WOW book. I was mistaken although a very good book as to what people can do with Illustrator it is not good at explaining it. This book comes with a CD and they put finished artwork on it so people can go through it and see what they did. I think that is garbage, because how m i suppose to understand it. The only good tutorials it gives is for way beginners. The Photoshop WOW book is the best book i ever read for Photoshop. The only reason i give this book 4 is because it is the only one I can find with advanced techniques, but garbage at explaining it. It is like they want to keep it a secret and you have to figure it out on your own.

Not as great as everyone says.......2007-03-18

Great examples, but a limited explanation of how to get them. I need the steps laid out for me. More detail please.

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The Adobe Illustrator CS2 Wow! Book
SHARON STEUER
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000OUDPQ2

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Business as Unusual

Business As Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits With Principles
Anita Roddick
Manufacturer: Anita Roddick Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0954395956

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Anita Roddick is one of the worldÂ's most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of the age. Her autobiography, Business As Unusual, charts the story of Roddick and her company The Body Shop through all the highs and lows since 1990. It also examines the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicts how businesses can evolve in this millennium.
Roddick tackles a wide range of personal and political issuesÂ—from self-esteem to human rights abuses associated with globalizationÂ—and offers her own vision for dealing with the demands of an ethical economy. She proposes that the power of public pressure to create change must never be underestimated and argues that waves of public consciousness are steadily forcing corporations to re-evaluate their actions. By expanding the role and responsibility of the entrepreneur, as well as the definition of business ethics, the corporate world will be compelled to change. In this new edition Roddick brings the story up to date.

Customer Reviews:

Business as Unusual.......2007-09-29

The continuation of Body and Soul, the amazing and inspirational journey of The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick and her unwavering quest to make the world a better place. Reading Anita's approach to business and "profits with principles" is contemporary and sustainable.

Looking after the communities with which you do business and ensuring that you are giving back in great and small ways. Retailing is a wonderful way to connect with the world, your neighbors and community. "Feet on the ground, heart in the business, and head in the clouds"

This is a MUST READ for anyone who works or is thinking of working. READ IT OUT LOUD.

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An Excellent World History Primer

Great Homeschool Material for Classical Learning

History for children

the story of the world

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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages
S. Wise Bauer , and Susan Wise Bauer
Manufacturer: Peace Hill Press
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ASIN: 0971412936

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This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world's civilizations.

Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives—and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages weaves world history into a story book format. Who discovered chocolate? What happened to the giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows? Why did the Ottoman Turks drag their war ships across dry land?

The Story of the World covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas—find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, The Story of the World includes each continent and major people group. Volume 2: The Middle Ages, is the second of a four-volume series and covers the major historical events in the years 400 to 1600 CE, as well as including maps, illustrations, and tales from each culture.

Customer Reviews:

An Excellent World History Primer.......2007-09-21

There is no doubt that this series is well written. My son read each of the four books in the span of less than a week. They really piqued his interest. These books will let you know what really turns on your child, but you'll need to go on for further, more in-depth review.

Can't recommend this series enough for the pre-teen set!

Great Homeschool Material for Classical Learning.......2007-09-12

This is a great history curriculm for homeschoolers doing classical education or not. The material is listed very well and very user freindly for the facilitator. Highly recommended.

History for children.......2007-09-04

Was an excellent review. It is designed for parents to read with their children. It provides a good overview of major events in history as well as other information that makes history fun for children, such as recounting folk tales. However, it is a watered-down version of history...it does not go into details about anything in particular so if you are looking for something in depth about something specific, then you need an additional source.

the story of the world.......2007-08-23

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised Edition ... the World: History for the Classical Child)

See other review.......2007-07-24

See my review for Vol. 1 as the concerns expressed towards that book apply to this as well.

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2 Audiobook: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised ... the World: History for the Classical Child)

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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2 Audiobook: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised ... the World: History for the Classical Child)
Susan Wise Bauer
Manufacturer: Peace Hill Press
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The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is "liquid gold" (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as "timeless and intelligent" (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume in Bauer's history series bring to life the stories and records of human history from ancient times to the present.

Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, this volume of the popular Story of the World series weaves world history into a storybook format. This revised edition of the second volume covers the Middle Ages.

This audio CD edition may be used along with the print books, as a supplement to a traditional history curriculum, or independently. 8 audio CDs.

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Tests for Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Story of the World: History for the Classical Child)

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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Tests for Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Story of the World: History for the Classical Child)
Elizabeth Rountree
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History has been taught in a boring way for far too long.

A subject as moving and powerful as humanity's past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love with her narrative history, The Story of the World, and its accompanying Activity Book.

Now teachers and home educators can take advantage of a new and valuable learning tool.

These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style questions gives students a chance to show what they've learned.

Used with the Activity Book and The Story of the World, the tests give educators a complete history curriculum for their elementary school students.

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This long-awaited revision of a bestseller provides a practical discussion of the nature and aims of software testing. You'll find the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases, including information on psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects, test tools, high-order testing, code inspections, and debugging. Accessible, comprehensive, and always practical, this edition provides the key information you need to test successfully, whether a novice or a working programmer. Buy your copy today and end up with fewer bugs tomorrow.

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The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition is a revision of the bestselling guide from a leading computer expert and author. It provides a practical discussion of the purpose and nature of software testing, offering the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases.

Customer Reviews:

I can imagine how difficult it is to write short and good..........2007-05-13

I read about a dozen of books about testing, and I put this one into a reference for my workers. This is short and very robust. My highest rank.

Very good reference for Testing Software.......2006-11-11

This book is very interesting to learn or to progress (I have 10 years of experience in software developpement) in Art of Testing. The only tedious point is that the author are not really integrate the new principales of Test Driven Development in its book. So, I advise to read a book on this subject before or after.

Benoit, a French Programmer ;-)

Updated classic--Inadequate Value for the Money.......2006-06-29

It's hard to give the appropriate number of stars to this edition. On the one hand, this is one of the classics of the field, and deservedly so. In it's first edition, this may have been the first great book on testing, and there is something about the "first great book" on any topic that makes it a lasting value decades later: DeMarco on Structured Analysis, Brooks on the wicked complexity of software project management, Booch on object-oriented design, K&R on C. And so I think it goes with The Art of Software Testing. It's a short book, and full of good ideas that will stay with you.

But.

This revised edition is simply a terrible value. At the full list price, you'd be paying something like fifty cents a page...and, let me tell you, a book had better revolutionize my life for that kind of money. I'm a dedicated capitalist sell-out software developer, but this kind of pricing arouses even _my_ hacker sensibilities. Also, the value of the revision is questionable: there may be a chapter on Extreme Programming, but it seems to me that the best material in this book is still the classic text that survives from the 1st ed. So, my recommendation is that you simply _buy_ the first edition, new or used, at a fraction of the price. Then, you get nearly all of the benefit, plus the cachet of having the "classic" on your shelf. You can put it right next to "The C Programming Language" and "The Mythical Man-Month." Then, your visitors will know you're a serious software developer...and, you know what? They'll probably be right.

I also like and recommend Kaner, Falk and Nguyen, "Testing Computer Software," for a more in-depth and up-to-date treatment of testing issues.

Excellent value for money.......2006-03-15

This book is expensive, however it is well worth its price. A top 10 book for IT professionnals.

The Bible of Software Testing.......2005-09-15

This should be the first book anyone should read about software testing. Having read it, all other books become mostly immaterial. To put it in another way, if there is ONE book you should read about software testing, then this should be the ONE.

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The ongoing battle over old-growth logging in the Pacific Northwest remains a hot environmental issue. At the heart of the conflict are the individuals who are deeply committed to preserving the last stands of wilderness.Tree Huggers is their story. From grassroots campaigns to congressional lobbying,Tree Huggers offers an insider's view of the Northwest's environmental movement, its changing roles, and the lessons learned thus far.

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