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The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur
Teruko Craig Manufacturer: University of Tokyo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0860085023 |
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Football Legend: The Authorised Biography of Tom Finney
Paul Agnew Manufacturer: Milo Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0953084795 |
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Nikita Mikhalkov: The Filmmaker's Companion 1 (The KINOfiles Filmmaker's Companions)
Birgit Beumers Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1860647855 Release Date: 2005-01-13 |
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Adored by Russian audiences for his commercially-oriented films, and loathed by the Russian intelligentsia for the same, Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most successful, ambitious and controversial directors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. Revealing and discussing the key themes explored in his work, Birgit Beumers follows his career from his 1974 debut At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home; to the French co-productions: the award-winning Urga and 1994's internationally renowned, Oscar-winning Burnt by the Sun.
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Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds
Gary Alan Fine Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0226249441 |
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An excellent treatise on role playing games.......2003-05-31
An excellent treatise on role playing games.......2003-05-31
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Shared Fantasy : Role Playing Games as Social Worlds
Gary Alan Fine Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OOR99C |
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Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds
Gary Alan Fine Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OOSBIU |
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The Tessellations File (Mathematics Resource Files)
Chris Decordova Manufacturer: Tarquin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0906212804 |
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Illustrator CS2 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Elaine Weinmann , and Peter Lourekas Manufacturer: Peachpit Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0321336569 |
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If you're looking forward to using cool new tools like Illustrator CS2's Live Trace or Live Paint in your vector artwork, or eager to take advantage of its more than 200 professionally designed templates, you'll need to get up to speed on every aspect of Illustrator CS2 now with this Visual QuickStart Guide! As the standard Illustrator text in many design schools, this popular, task-based best seller has taught a generation of users how to make the most out of Adobe's vector-graphics powerhouse. Now it’s back--revised and updated--to teach the next. Using simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and an array of time-saving tips and tricks, this volume represents the quickest route to Illustrator CS2 proficiency. Clearly marked locators indicate new and improved features (such as enhanced type capabilities, powerful 3D graphics tools, enhanced PDF support, and more), a 24-page color section, and highly readable text create a winning combination for every level of Illustrator user.
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An up to date Illustrator guide.......2007-07-23
Best Illustrator Book for the Money!.......2007-05-09
Great Book.......2007-03-18
A Great Way to Learn About Illustrator Quickly.......2007-03-08
Excellent bible for the bumbling novice.......2006-07-15
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Stonewall Inn Editions (Paperback))
Randy Shilts Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: B000KGGPAI |
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All politics is local.......2007-05-22
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Randy Shilts Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312019009 |
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When Randy Shilts's The Mayor of Castro Street appeared in 1982, the very idea of a gay political biography was brand-new. While biographies of literary and artistic figures (both living and dead) were a popular genre, there had been no openly gay political figure who merited a full-length book. Harvey Milk--a gay political organizer who became the first openly gay city supervisor in San Francisco and was then assassinated (along with liberal mayor George Moscone)--was the obvious choice for such a book. And Randy Shilts--a young reporter who had risen up through the gay press to become the first openly gay reporter with a gay "beat" in the American mainstream press--was the perfect person to write it. While his later works such as And the Band Played On and Conduct Unbecoming were based on hard-hitting, fact-driven reportage, Shilts's tone in The Mayor of Castro Street is softer, more focused on the narrative of Harvey Milk's political rise from running a small business on Castro Street, to organizing local gay men and lesbians around grass-roots issues, to winning an elected office. But in many ways this is also a forceful and engaging story of the gay rights movement in the second half of the 20th century. Thus, Shilts follows the growth of the Castro as a gay neighborhood and the growth of San Francisco's gay community from a ragtag collection of people who socialized and sexualized together into a vibrant and political force. --Michael BronskiBook Description
The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.Customer Reviews:
"If a bullet should enter my brain...".......2004-01-17
One of the best-written bios I've ever read.......2002-04-25
impassioned and exhaustive.......2002-02-12
The assassinations are reported in graphic detail, as is the reaction of the people. Intial shock and grief turn to righteous indignation when, on May 21, 1979 White is convicted on two counts of "valuntary manslaughter" with a maximum sentence of seven years, eight months. The city explodes. Justice is thwarted. A martyr is born. Milk's murder galvanizes the Gay Community to stand up and take their rightful place in society. A great book.
Gay History Well Worth Reading.......2001-12-11
Shilts is a meticulous reporter. In his section on source material he details how he extensively interviewed Milk's former lovers, including Scott Smith and Joe Campbell. Many of the dialogues for the biography come directly from the personal diary of Michael Wong, a longtime Milk supporter. According to Shilts, dialogues with others who knew Milk virtually always corroborated those in Wong's diary. Shilts's history of the Castro area came from over one hundred interviews he conducted with area residents.
One of the best qualities of the biography is its astonishingly objective posture. Achieving something like objectivity is a tremendous challenge for the author of any modern-day history, and nowhere is this more true than in histories of the gay liberation movement. The living participants in that history inevitably portray it in a range of ways and often fight vigorously for placement of credit where they feel credit is due. Shilts allows those participants to speak for themselves, and focuses on telling the details of the story, rather than interpreting that story for the reader. It is this author's unique degree of commitment to researching and conveying all the details that allows him to present such an apparently unbiased account.
It is also Shilts's attention to detail that makes the book so tough to put down. It reads more like a novel than a history, and each segment leads into the next with a sense of a tremendous plot unfolding. In a style that would come to characterize his later books, such as And The Band Played On, as well as Conduct Unbecoming, Shilts manages to draw the reader into multiple stories of individuals that end in cliffhangers, only to be picked up again in a later chapter. It is these stories that make up the fabric of gay history in San Francisco and a portion of that larger tapestry called gay liberation.
Want to understand the gay rights movement? This is for you.......1999-04-24
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Randy Shilts Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0312523319 |
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The MAYOR Of CASTRO STREET. The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Harvey]. Shilts, Randy. [Milk Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MZE85G |
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THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
Manufacturer: Stonewall Inn Editions/St Martin's Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HAU51C |
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Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Randy Shilts Manufacturer: PENGUIN USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WSVI6U |
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Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
E. J. Hobsbawm Manufacturer: New Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1565845617 |
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An updated edition of the classic study of the Industrial Revolution by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic). Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two-hundred-and-fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory on the lives of its ordinary citizens. This new edition includes a fascinating summary of events of the last twenty years, and an illuminating new conclusion.Customer Reviews:
Good introduction to the econonomic history of Great Britain.......2006-06-21
The Cause of Progress.......2004-03-13
Hobsbawm is probably as well equipped as anyone to try to answer this question, and does a pretty good job of it, I think. At least his method, to concentrate on the antecedent macro-economic setting, and to compare its more or less unique features with other competing regions, rather than such vague and elusive possibilities of a superior political system or a certain theological proclivity toward work or something, appears to be sound. His focus seldom refers to personalities, nor, surprisingly, the technological inventions that were so important--he seems to assumes that they were made as a matter of course, given the business climate of the times.
The book covers much more than the industrial revolution-- it carries the narrative into the last half of the twentieth century, and covers the same ground in Wales and Scotland, too. His writing style is a pleasure to read and the book is accompanied by 52 graphs in an appendix that brings some additional meat to the table. This is quite possibly the best book around for understanding this critical period in the progress of man, and rewards time well spent.
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Based on the authors' discovery that connectedness in relationships is a major source of women's psychological health, The Healing Connection offers ways to transform relationships-with family members, friends, and colleagues, as well as in therapy-for growth and health.Customer Reviews:
Not a psychology book........2007-10-10
An exciting new perspective in psychology.......2007-08-23
An approach to psychology that women will embrace.......2000-12-19
This book demonstrates how traditional psychology is based on a male point of view, and it reveals some of the unknown about healthly "life-giving" attitudes. Read this quickly, before you buy into an archaic model once again. Amazing, in this day and age, that this light has not been shed on us before.
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The Healing Connection: How Women Form Connectiosn in Both Therapy and In Life
Jean Baker and Irene Pierce Stiver Miller Manufacturer: Beacon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OAG1KE |
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An Affair with Africa: Expeditions And Adventures Across A Continent
Alzada Carlisle Kistner Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1559635312 |
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In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the United States Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya where they continued their field work.
Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience-the five expeditions they took beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1972-73 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and humor-filled account of the human side of scientific discovery. Her wonderfully detailed stories clearly show why, despite hardship and danger-and contrary to all of society's expectations-she could not forsake accompanying her husband on his expeditions, and, to this day, continues to find the world "endlessly beckoning, a lively bubbling cauldron of questions and intrigue.
In the spirit of Beryl Markham's West with the Night and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, An Affair with Africa shares with readers the thoughts and experiences of a remarkable woman, one whose unquenchable thirst for adventure led her into a series of almost unimaginable situations. Readers-from armchair travelers fascinated by stories of Africa to scientists familiar with the Kistners's work but unaware of the lengths to which they went to gather their data-will find An Affair with Africa a rare treasure.
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Not a very politically correct book.......2005-03-07
A Family in Africa.......2000-02-04
One of the best reads about Africa.......1999-08-26
Great in many ways, great for my African curiosity.......1999-01-22
Captivating true-life adventures in Africa in turmoil........1998-06-03
Hurry, get this on talking books so that my blind parents can read (hear) it! .
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