100 Most Popular Business Leaders for Young Adults: Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths

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A must-have reference book for school and public libraries, this compilation of profiles and professional paths illuminates the lives of business people who made it to the top of the business world either as entrepreneurs or by climbing the corporate ladder. Photos, key date lists, professional advice, and resource lists for further research accompany profiles of successful business leaders such as Laura Ashley, Stephen Covey, Bill Gates, Quincy Jones, Wolfgang Puck, Martha Stewart, and Oprah Winfrey. An excellent first step for students starting research papers or looking to pursue business careers.

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an Umpire's life without a theme

one great read

Should Have Been a Lot Better

30 years of an umpires' perspective on MLB

Center Field on Fire: An Umpire's Life With Pine Tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities
Dave Phillips , and Rob Rains
Manufacturer: Triumph Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1572435690

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Former MLB umpire Dave Phillips was at the center of some of baseball's most unforgettable moments - Comiskey's infamous Disco Demolition Night, Gaylord Perry's spitball ejection, Albert Belle's confiscated corked bat and George Brett's pine tar bat debacle - and he shares with baseball fans the untold stories behind those incidents and many others, giving baseball fans a complete perspective on the life of an umpire.

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Not the most interesting book.......2007-09-10

I struggled throught this book. I would recommend almost any other book by any other umpire over this one.If I had not have read Ron Luciano's book beforehand I would have been lost a couple times in the stories Mr. Phillips attempted to tell.Really nothing in here but whining.Save your time and read "You're out and yer ugly too".It is much more entertaining.

an Umpire's life without a theme.......2007-01-01

Dave Phillips is a funny man, and he has many amusing stories, but Rob Rains, the person who should have been helping him write this, doesn't seem to have had any luck in shaping them into a book.
The chapters are almost organized chronologically and are almost organized thematically. Instead the anecdotes, comments, and history of Phillips's life are left splayed across the margins of meandering transcription that appears not to have been edited at all.
I remember Dave Phillips as an excellent umpire- one of the few AL umpires whose name a fan can easily recall who wasn't 'known' to be overly pitcher friendly, overly hitter friendly, or just plain 'on fire' to show-up a player or manager. He brings forth many names and images from one of Baseball's past, and it is clear that he loves the game and the people who have made it. His stories are not "kiss-and-tell" violations of trust, nor are they bland retellings of stale legend, but the lack of organizing principle makes the book painful to read. That is a shame because the great stories seem to be there, just trapped in a melange of unedited recollections, and the missing background and flawed structure of this book really hamper the reader's quest to share them.

one great read.......2006-03-15

if u love baseball this book is for u, from laughter to seriousness this book has all the greatness of baseball in a different perspective, the umpires, i recommend this book to all baseball fans or anyone interested in reading about baseball.

Should Have Been a Lot Better.......2005-01-14

I had so much hope for this book. There are so many problems with this book, I can not possibly recommend it. It is riddled with errors and omissions. How can a publishing company produce something so flawed. There is a reason this book has a low review score, it is bad.

I do not know where to start with the inaccuracies in this book. Phillips says Reggie Jackson's last game was in Boston, when I distinctly remember it being in Chicago. If Phillips thinks he is the greatest clutch hitter he ever saw, you would think he would remember seeing that. He only devoted four pages to "Disco Demolition Night". I know he could have devoted a whole chapter to it. It is just irresponsible to say "the stands were empty" and "center field was literally on fire" when neither is true about the infamous game. It makes me wonder if umpires are blind. Other exaggerations exist, but there is a word limit in these reviews.

The good points of the book include an inside look at the life of an umpire and a number of humorous antidotes. Although I enjoyed this part, I felt many of his stories were very self serving and told to project him in a good light. I do not question whether Phillips is a good man for baseball, but I question his ability to write an accurate book. That being said, I wish I never would have bought this book.

30 years of an umpires' perspective on MLB.......2004-06-19

Many books have been written on sports, some by the players, some by those who watch and some by the people whose job it is to write about them. However, the people who officiate the games have the most unique perspective on the game, how it is played and how it is managed, in the sense of the on-field manager up to the level of the executive. Dave Phillips was an umpire in the major leagues for 32 years and has witnessed many changes in the game.
Two points really stand out in the book. The first is how the umpires get along between themselves, which in many cases, is not very well at all. The stories about members of a crew hating each other so much that they refuse to even speak to each other or making bad calls and blaming others for it were disturbing. The idea that the umpires often do not work well together is a disturbing one, for even-handed officiating is the one thing that no sport can lack.
The second is that baseball really has some serious problems that must be corrected. As Phillips notes, there has been a serious drug problem in baseball for over a decade, with an adverse affect on many careers. The focus has now shifted from cocaine to steroids, but there still appears to be no stomach for tackling the issue. Which is silly, because allowing the players to continue using drugs damages their careers and ultimately their health.
Phillips recounts many of the most memorable events in the last three decades, from Gaylord Perry finally being kicked out of a game for using grease on a ball to George Brett being called out on a home run because there was too much pine tar on his bat. All are presented from the perspective of the umpire, which is an interesting one.
The most disturbing point in the book is when Phillips discusses George Steinbrenner and an incident where Steinbrenner was asking for "special consideration" from the umpires. I found the description disgusting, I have never been a fan of Steinbrenner, but now I loathe him, a position all who care about the game should have.
At the end of the book, Phillips goes over what he considers the fundamental problems baseball now has, from high ticket prices, to the lack of a commissioner tasked with "acting in the best interests of baseball." Clearly, the powerful owners seem unable to learn from other sports. Basketball and football have salary caps with revenue sharing and the popularity of both has soared in the last two decades. In this time, baseball has entered into a state where two players on the Yankees earn more than all the players on some of the other teams. In this environment, some teams simply cannot be competitive, and that destroys a sport.

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From the beginning of the sound era until the end of the 1930s, independent movie-making thrived. Many of the independent studios were headquartered in a section of Hollywood called "Poverty Row." Here the independents made movies on the cheap, usually at rented facilities where shooting was limited to only a few days. From Allied Pictures Corporation to Willis Kent Production, 55 Poverty Row Studios are given histories in this book. Some of the studios, such as Diversion Pictures and Cresent Pictures, came into existence for the sole purpose of releasing movies by established stars. Others, for example J.D. Kendis, were early exploitation filmmakers under the guise of sex education. The histories include critical commentary on the studio's output and a filmography of all titles released from 1929 through 1940.

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solid information source but..........2006-06-20

This book provides solid filmographies of poverty row studios
active in the 30s' and good but brief histories of the studios. However Pitts omits coverage of perhaps the three most famous poverty row studios in this period: Republic, Monogram and Mascot. The book remains a good source for obscure but interesting companies like Majestic, Tiffany and Grand National.

Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: 55 Independent Film Companies

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Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: 55 Independent Film Companies
Michael R. Pitts
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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The histories include critical commentary on the studio's output and a filmography of all titles released, 1929-1940.

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Good, not necessary, but useful........2004-01-21

Chaining the Beast was an ambitious undertaking by WW. They attempted to take all of the before listed Paths of Enlightenment and update them for the newer Revised Edition of Vampire. They are successful in doing so, and they even resurrected a few from the Dark Ages games that come in handy for those interested.

Personally, I found all of the above to be interesting, and handy to have in one book. The real gem for me was in the first chapter. Here the authors sought to explain the experiences of changing from a (basically) "human" vampire into a truly alien being.

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This digital document is an article from Ploughshares Monitor, published by Project Ploughshares on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1825 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: Chaining the nuclear beast: nuclear abolition.
Author: Lee Butler
Publication: Ploughshares Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Project Ploughshares
Volume: 17 Issue: 4 Page: 16-18

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Excellent resource - all you need to know!

The Dirty Tricks that Clean the Plate!

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Digital Food Photography

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Digital Food Photography
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ASIN: 1592008208

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Great food always elicits strong reactions-the smell of freshly baked bread, the taste of a perfectly prepared steak. The job of a food photographer is to elicit that same mouth-watering reaction, but without the benefit of scent or taste. A well-shot photograph can send crowds flocking to a new restaurant or boost the sales of a culinary magazine. Capturing the perfect image requires a trained eye, finesse, and photographic skill. Digital Food Photography gives you the ingredients to cook up your own recipe for success-with professional lighting techniques, composition, food and prop styling, retouching, and tricks of the trade. You'll learn how digital photography combines teamwork, creativity, and technology, and how to make money creating delectable works of photographic art.

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Excellent resource - all you need to know!.......2007-03-11

I am new to food photography and was looking for a how-to book to help me educate myself without having to take formal classes. This book is it! It has a wealth of information, well-laid out and very clearly explained. In the words of a professional photographer friend, food photography makes most photographers break out in a cold sweat. This book will help you get over that fear. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning the ropes in food photography, which is a very different animal from all other types of photography.

The Dirty Tricks that Clean the Plate!.......2007-01-26

Okay, when you were a kid playing video games, were you a purist or did you love learning the cheat codes right off the bat? When you read a mystery, do you read as you should or do you ever flip ahead to preview what happens next and how the story ends?

If you went with the second option in either of the above than this is the food photography book you've been waiting for. Sure, some define the techniques here as cheating. I personally define them as smart.

Soapy water to make coffee look fresh, mashed potatoes in the cherry pie to make the cherries stay in place under the lights and glue those sesame seeds down baby! You can use these techniques and spend a few minutes with a camera, or not use them and spend a couple hours or days in Photoshop. (Actually, that's an exaggeration. You will have to spend time in Photoshop either way, but at least you can get a step ahead with these technique.)

So I say bring on the dirty tricks and thank you, Mister Manna!

Good, but..........2007-01-20

The first 82 pages are un-necessary. The real 'meat and potatoes' of the book is the last two thirds. I learned form this part of the book.

Digital Food Photography.......2007-01-10

Received my copy of this excellent book today. I am impressed with the book and the speedy service. It covers information for the beginning as well as the more professional photographer. My only issue, although a small one, is the fact that many photos are not marked with pertinent information. This is a valuable learning book and I would like to know just exactly how the image was made, i.e. f/stop. lens, etc. Lou Manna is quite knowlegable. I also might hope there will be a companion CD like the Adobe Photoshop training CDs. It would be an invaluable help.

dissapointed.......2006-12-18

I wanted to know more about setting up to shoot food photos. More about the strobes and less about cameras and fstops. If you have made it to the point that you are doing this type of photography, you already know about those things! Half of this book was wasted on stuff people of this level already understand

2003 buyers' guide: equipment & services.: An article from: Ink World

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2003 buyers' guide: equipment & services.: An article from: Ink World

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: 2003 buyers' guide: equipment & services.
Publication: Ink World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Rodman Publications, Inc.
Volume: 9 Issue: 9 Page: 60(7)

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Cutting the fat with electric eyes.: An article from: Food Processing

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Cutting the fat with electric eyes.: An article from: Food Processing
Pan Demetrakakes
Manufacturer: Putman Media, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 528 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.

From the supplier: Electronic sensors may be used to guide cutting machines to slice and chop meat with greater accuracy, efficiency and speed. Automation at this level allows a meat processing plant to process 2,500 lbs. of meat per hour with a shift of eight workers. Computers are used to guide ultrafine jets of pressurized water around fat or in configurations with a specific weight or weight range. The trim leftover from the process may also be used in a variety of other products.

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Title: Cutting the fat with electric eyes.
Author: Pan Demetrakakes
Publication: Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1994
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: v55 Issue: n6 Page: p78(1)

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Measurement of children's food intake with digital photography and the effects of second servings upon food intake [An article from: Eating Behaviors]

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Measurement of children's food intake with digital photography and the effects of second servings upon food intake [An article from: Eating Behaviors]
C.K. Martin , R.L. Newton , S.D. Anton , and H.R. Allen
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This digital document is a journal article from Eating Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study tested the reliability and validity of measuring children's food intake with the digital photography method and the effects of second servings upon food intake. Food intake was measured in a school cafeteria for 5 days. Adiposity was assessed with body impedance analysis and body mass index, expressed as percentile rank. Mood and self-esteem were assessed with questionnaires. Estimates of food intake were highly reliable between two registered dietitians who independently estimated food intake. Boys ate more food than girls. A significant association between food intake and adiposity supported convergent validity. Non-significant correlations between food intake and depressed mood and self-esteem supported discriminant validity. When second servings were available, more food was selected and discarded, but mean food intake did not increase. Children who returned for second servings, however, ate more food when second servings were available, and a trend suggested that they also ate more food when second servings were not available. These findings support the reliability and validity of measuring children's food intake using digital photography and demonstrate its utility for studies of food intake and body weight.

Photographing our flower garden through the season.: An article from: Prairie Garden

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Photographing our flower garden through the season.: An article from: Prairie Garden
George H. Gerber
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Title: Photographing our flower garden through the season.
Author: George H. Gerber
Publication: Prairie Garden (Magazine/Journal)
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Volume: 2005 Page: 22(2)

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PMA salutes Distinguished Service Award winners.(Photo Marketing Association 2004): An article from: Photo Marketing

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PMA salutes Distinguished Service Award winners.(Photo Marketing Association 2004): An article from: Photo Marketing

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This digital document is an article from Photo Marketing, published by Photo Marketing Association International on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 951 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: PMA salutes Distinguished Service Award winners.(Photo Marketing Association 2004)
Publication: Photo Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Photo Marketing Association International
Volume: 79 Issue: 3 Page: 14(2)

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Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.

Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.

In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.

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Delivery took longer than expected.......2007-05-14

The book was in very good condition, but it took longer than expected to receive it.

In Conversation About the Origin and Intellect of "Black" Expression.......2006-10-16

Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness begins with a clear problematic. Prevailing historical authority subscribes to racial, ethnic, or national essentialism in analyzing "blackness." This reduces the cultural and political history of "black" people to a physics of isolated particles. Instead of unrelated national histories, Gilroy seeks a postnational account of the black Diaspora. Gilroy's effort involves searching for common modes of reason across hybrid black Atlantic cultures. He believes that the academic endeavor of African studies, when framed by the nation state as a mode of inquiry (e.g. "African-American studies") can not engage the African Diaspora as a liquid phenomenon that is in constant dialogue with itself. For Gilroy, this Diaspora does not "fit" in the compartments of national boundaries. These boundaries impair present-day political resistance because they deny an alternative to European cultural hegemony in articulating the black relationship to modernity. Moreover, these boundaries obscure the hybrid legacy of prevailing "western" civilization.

Importantly, Gilroy diverges from a number of other thinkers (in fields as diverse as Communications, Anthropology, and History) as to the origins of "black" artistic expression. Scholars like Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Lawrence Levine would contend that black culture maintains an essential orality in the midst of modernity. Each has a way to avoid the tendency of this contention to exoticize blackness. (McLuhan concludes that modernity is oral and that technology is an extension of sensation in his "Gutenberg Galaxy" and "Understanding Media." Ong systematizes the cognitive aptitudes of oral and literate worldviews in his aptly titled "Orality and Literacy." Levine concludes that black expressive forms have been gradually inscribed by modernity in the century following the Civil War in his seminal "Black Culture and Black Consciousness.") These thinkers embody the idea of "latent orality" which framed the prevailing academic status of black cultural expression in the 1960s and 1970s.

A major figure who broke this paradigm in the 1980s was Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates articulates a sophisticated and literate intellectual tradition through the way in which black vernacular signifies upon itself. The result is a critical conversation on political subjectivity within black expression. This resists the reduction of black cultural texts to latent orality or the reduction of black intellect to assimilation of Western knowledge aesthetics. Gates shows that black expression has a sophisticated textual criticism that predated and survived European hegemony. But for Gilroy, this does not go far enough.

Gilroy sees "textuality" itself as a problematic instrument in analyzing black music. He ties the moral basis of black music to a critique of modernity in what he calls a "politics of transfiguration." In contrast to Gates's critique of black vernacular, Gilroy sees in black music an invocation to literacy (critical discourse that is abstract from present circumstance) that is morally constituted of a critique of the shortfallings of modernity. In other words, whereas Gates sought a distinctly African means of achieving critical thought as rooted in European knowledge aesthetics (a mind-body split--Gates's signification is a sophisticated life of the mind above the body), Gilroy sees the counterculture of modernity as negating this split between "ethics and aesthetics, culture and politics (page 39)." Whereas Gates shows that literacy and reason are not solely European genealogies, Gilroy shows that black vernacular is not necessary for black reason. For Gilroy, black expression ("counterculture") is a moral signification upon modernity. This counterculture does not reify textuality because it objects to knowledge as something abstract to the human lifeworld, a hallmark of European thought. Gilroy's counterculture is thus a "post-literate" mode of reason, an engagement with the intellectual future rather than the intellectual present (Gates) or the intellectual past (McLuhan/Ong/Levine).

a textual odyssey of rethinking black political culture........2001-09-03

In "The Black Atlantic" Paul Gilroy constructs an excellent text based on the black diasporic experience. His views of black culture as being a dynamic networked construct based on the idea of the diaspora derived from Jewish culture, is an illuminating concept that contains great substance. Gilroy's underlying transnational humanism (that can be read in his latest pseudo-utopian work "Against Race") and vital rethinking about the perils of cultural nationalism and the urgent benefits of a unique hybrid culture is a thoroughly needed breath in the stasis of linear monocultural thinking. The book functions in an excellent manner in addressing the complex dynamics of slavery, colonization, and their inherent residual effects on black political culture. In addition the method in which Gilroy weaves Adorno, Hendrix, hip-hop culture, Du Bois, Wright, Hegel and a host of others in a clear and eloquent manner is cause for reading in itself. In a nutshell, this is a valuable sociological and philosophical work that creates a rupture in linear, absolutist views of history, sexuality, identity and other various elements in relation to black particularity. In this book Gilroy composes the dynamics of intercultural exchange (whether artistic, political, social, moral etc.) as well as attributing to socialized historical memory through its brilliant text.

Disavowal of Double Consciousness.......2000-09-09

The Black Atlantic is an attempt to call to attention the contribution of the slaves to the progression of modernity. Submitting himself to the operation of Western modernity, Gilroy recognizes that there exists a double consciousness in the black flesh, that is, the black sees his own image through the 'other.' However, as to me, we should find the third term--denegation to revolute against the metaphysic difference and cultural strength instead. Denegation in its very essence is not to break down the established but rather to hold a critical eye on the contigent cultural transformation and has the self recognize the alterity.

An insightful look at black transglobal culture.......1999-01-15

Paul Gilroy brings a fresh eye and mind to the challenging task of examining black cultural and political manifestations as they affect the transglobal community. Gilroy, unlike some cultural theorists, sees the interconnectedness between those discourses around race, class, gender, and sexuality and its impact on the black and world communities. It is his articulation of how these entities are intertwined that makes for a fresh and insightful examination of contemporary black diasporic experience.

The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-Consciousness

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The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Paul Gilroy
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Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Volume 2, Since 1660
Dennis Sherman
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and hundreds of years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Volume 2, Since 1660

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Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Volume 2, Since 1660
Dennis Sherman
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Thorough, Generous, Beautifully Illustrated.......2004-02-11

This book is unique in its balance of primary sources and their interpretations. All the figures you'd expect are present: Macchiavelli, Luther, Locke, Paine, Engles, Freud, etc. And with secondary sources coming from Fromm, Ulam, et. al, the data is clearly and comprehensively analyzed. What readers will appreciate are the generous illustrations throughout the text which give you some idea how the philosophies/theories/values of the times are reflected in visual media. What some readers won't appreaciate is the single-spaced type that changes font and styles so often that one might get motion sickness. It's a minor point that has nothing to do with the value of the texts presented, but it does interfere with the pleasure of reading. Still, this is a great history book to teach from or just as a casual read/refresher for the history fan.

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In the tradition of The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, The Anti-Gravity Handbook and The Free-Energy Device Handbook, science and UFO author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the incredible world of Nikola Tesla and his amazing inventions. Tesla's rare article "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy"-originally published in the June 1900 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine-was the master blueprint for his fantastic vision of the future, including wireless power, anti-gravity, free energy and highly advanced solar power. Also included are papers, patents and material collected on Tesla at the Colorado Springs Tesla Symposia, including papers on:
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the secret history of wireless transmission
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Tesla and the magnifying transmitter
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electrostatics: a key to free energy
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Tesla's particle beam technology An eccentric visionary and one of the greatest scientific innovators,Tesla's created inventions that power today's world. What was his vision oftomorrow? Find out in The Tesla Papers!

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they should've hired a graphic designer!.......2003-12-19

Nothing to complain about as far as the contents; it's an interesting hodge-podge of articles by or about Tesla. What I didn't like about the book was the bizzare typesetting and the poor reproduction quality of the photos. The photos are noticeably pixelated and low resolution; it almost looks like the photos were badly scanned jpegs taken off a website! Over half the book is set in ALL CAPS using a monotype font. Weird.

SADLY LACKING.......2001-03-09

Lately, I have been trying to read everything I can on Tesla. I was intrigued by a special on one of the television networks. I had heard of Tesla before but didnt realize that he had accomplished so much in his life, or that he was fascinated with the signals he claimed to be receiving from outer space (possibly the planet Mars he thought). For this reason, you can imagine my disappointment on trying to gain any new knowledge from the pages of this tome. There is absolutely nothing new here. Its not even put together in a presentable format.Oh well, maybe others will get into this work. I guess I just could not!

A disappointing book on Tesla.......2001-02-28

This is not a very good book. It is simply a reprint of Tesla's early writings with some added comments and packaged to look like a new book. If you are interested in the subject, look for The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, which is a much better book with a lot of good info.

A "must" for Tesla enthusiasts and students........2001-01-23

In The Tesla Papers, David Childress has compiled the writings of Nikola Tesla into a comprehensive, informative, and down right fascinating volume of material that provides background and insight into Tesla's amazing inventions. Divided into seven parts the reader is treated to Tesla: Humanitarian; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy; The Wireless Transmission of Power; Tesla's Electric Car; The Tesla Papers; Tesla's FBI Files; The Marconi-Tesla Trial Transcripts. The Tesla Papers is enhanced with some of the papers on Tesla's thoughts and work regarding wireless power, anti-gravity, robotics, free energy, advanced solar power system, patents, and material collected on Tesla at the Colorado Springs Tesla Symposium. The Tesla Papers is a "must" for all Nikola Tesla enthusiasts, as well as students of alternative science, iconoclastic technology, and suppressed history.

The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy & Wireless Transmission of Power

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The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy & Wireless Transmission of Power
Nikola (Childress, David Hatcher, editor) Tesla
Manufacturer: Adventures Unlimited Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBSJAA

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