Mark Anthony Cooper: The Iron Man of Georgia

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Title: Mark Anthony Cooper: the Iron Man of Georgia: A Biography.(Brief Article)
Author: Edward J. Cashin
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 445(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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This work contains the heretofore unpublished memoirs of Xaverian Brother Gilbert (a.k.a. Philip F. Cairnes), who is generally credited with being the mentor who steered the Babe to his first professional contract. Ruth was raised by the Xaverian Brothers, a Catholic religious order, at St. Mary's Industrial School from 1902 (when he was only 7) until 1914. These reminiscences begin with Babe Ruth's departure from St. Mary's and concentrate on his early playing years. An historical introduction by the editor of these memoirs, Harry Rothgerber, details the history and relationship that existed between this organization of Catholic educators and the man who was to become the most influential baseball player and greatest slugger who ever lived. Brother John Joseph Sterne, the book's forewordist, recounts a St. Mary's band fundraising trip in which they accompanied the Yankees through the American League cities at the end of the 1920 season. Several heretofore unpublished photos from the Xaverian Order complement the text.

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From 1940 to 1944 the French cinema thrived both economically and artistically under the Nazi occupation. Despite the harsh and grim conditions of defeat, the French film industry produced many good films and a few enduring classics, including Carne's Children of Paradise, one of the most beloved of all French films.

Cinema of Paradox reveals, for the first time in English, the difficult course of French filmmaking from the declaration of war in 1939 through four years of misery to France's liberation in 1944. Evelyn Ehrlich examines the conditions of filmmaking as they reflected the larger political, cultural, and social context within occupied France. And, using previously unexamined German documents, she also looks at the French film business from the occupier's perspective, showing how the Nazis actually encouraged the French to maintain their high cinematic standards to achieve German economic and propaganda goals. Cinema of Paradox goes beyond the old cliches about resistance films versus collaborationist films and in doing so is very much in line with new sophisticated methods of viewing the French experience in World War II.

The book is filled with the famous names of the French cinema: performers such as Jean-Louis Barrault, Simone Signoret, and Harry Baur; directors including Bresson, Carne, and Clouzot; and the films themselves, including Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne and Le Corbeau.

Based on interviews with French filmmakers of the period and on considerable research into French and German sources, Cinema of Paradox will be of interest not only to film historians but to those interested in the history of modern French and Jewish studies as well.

Paradox and wonder: the cinema of Peter Mettler.(Reprint): An article from: Take One

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Paradox and wonder: the cinema of Peter Mettler.(Reprint): An article from: Take One
Tom McSorley
Manufacturer: Canadian Independent Film & Television Publishing Association
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ASIN: B000ALTXM0
Release Date: 2005-07-25

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This digital document is an article from Take One, published by Canadian Independent Film & Television Publishing Association on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1921 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: Paradox and wonder: the cinema of Peter Mettler.(Reprint)
Author: Tom McSorley
Publication: Take One (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Canadian Independent Film & Television Publishing Association
Volume: 14 Issue: 50 Page: 42(5)

Article Type: Reprint

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Cinema of Paradox: French Cinema Under the German Occupation

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Cinema of Paradox: French Cinema Under the German Occupation
Evelyn Ehrlich
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPW84W

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Dynamics of Paradox
Steve King , and G. Keith Gurganus
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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ASIN: 0870949349

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A bittersweet journey into the lives of women who have worked the rodeo circuit from the 1930s to today.

Rodeo has always been considered a supremely masculine sport, a rough and tumble display of macho strength and skill. But author Joan Burbick shows us the other side of rodeo: the world of rodeo queens--part cowgirl and part pageant princess--who wave and smile and keep the dream of the ideal Western woman alive.

So who are the women behind the candy-red chaps, Farrah Fawcett curls, and rhinestone tiaras? Burbick traveled the backroads of the rural West for years, trying to find out. She interviewed dozens of queens, including rodeo royalty from the 1930s and 40s, women who grew up breaking wild horses, branding calves, and witnessing the sad decline of the ranching life. Stories from white and Native American rodeo queens in the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of rodeo, reveal the conflicts over gender and race that shaped the rodeo and the Cold War politics of small Western towns. Finally, rodeo queens from the 1970s to the present describe a more fiercely commercial rodeo, driven largely by TV ratings and sponsorships, glitter and hairspray.

Illustrated throughout with wonderful photographs, this rich tapestry of women's voices echoes and challenges our clichés of the rural West. Their combined stories of fulfilled dreams and lost hopes reveal the tenacity of the myth of the American West, a place of muscled men, golden-haired women, relentless beauty and tragic limits.

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I was disappointed, but it wasn't the author's fault........2005-06-10

The mistake I made here was judging the book by the cover. I picked it up because I thought the topic was interesting, and I thought it would detail the lives and personalities of the kind of sassy, salty, almost defiant cowgirls like the ones depicted on the cover. I knew next to nothing about the rodeo and never heard of a rodeo queen before, so I thought she was a sort of cowgirl, not a beauty queen. I expected to be taken on a wild ride through the rodeo circuit. But instead I found myself reading a pseudo-feminist treatise on the shallowness of rodeo and the empty mythos of a West that never existed. I found myself disappointed in the subject matter, much as I imagine the author became disappointed when she delved into it. The only thing I wish the author could've done differently was to view the rodeo more as a community of characters and personalities, rather than as an abstract construct.

the real deal.......2005-05-05

As the great-granddaughter of one of Pendleton OR.'s first rodeo queens, and the daughter of a former Wa-Hi Farmerette, I believe Burbick hits the bull's eye with her exploration of western women. Only those so entrenched in the false mythology of the west would take offense at these incredibly sensitive essays. Burbick uncovers yet another way in which women participated in the real west - a place of hardship and hard work.
Anyone who thinks that this region is the result of anything but violence, hardship and heartbreak is delusional - and the sense of entitlement whites have with regard to what the west really is is a load of horse manure.
My mother learned from her mother, and her grandmother, how to be a strong woman, and this message was passed along to me. We are cancer victims, alcoholics, intellectuals and damn hard workers. Burbick knows this about these women, and portrays them with respect. Her critique is not that these women, or women who are now involved in the rodeo queen circuit are the problem - rather the commercialized, capitalistic society that has perpetuated the wrong and bad idea that women are for show is at fault.

Book is Falls into Stereotype Trap.......2004-12-09

Burbick may have done considerable research, but for the most part relies on sterotypes. Any sport or pasttime can fall victim to stereotyping (think cheerleader, football player, chess player, etc.), but an author should search beyond the stereotypes. Burbick may have her historical facts in order, but fails to recognize that today's rodeo queens are intelligent marketing representatives for their organization, their western heritage, and the sport of rodeo. Most rodeo queens are professional, talented, poised, gracious, and competitve young women who take their job as rodeo's face to the public very seriously. In addition to riding well, they must be knowledgeable in current events, horsemanship, and rodeo. If you look at the bios of many queens, especially state queens, you will find college students or graduates with aspirations in the fields of law, medicine, and business.

I also found some of Burbick's descriptive phrases very offensive. I don't understand why she thought that "shocking" us would make for a better book.

Here's the reality of the "myth" of the cowboy West.......2004-12-06

By all standards, this is a superb book about a seemingly innocuous weekend sport that inspires young girls throughout the western states; by the same token, it's also very unfair and elitist in its approach.

It could be the basis of a superb film about life west of the Mississippi. Think of rodeo queen version of 'Friday Night Lights' and similar football films over the years. Becoming a rodeo queen is about beauty and and those who are merely pretty, which in a world of images and make believe of the modern West rates far higher than just a bikini and a smile.

"Borrrrrring" is the first term that comes to mind to describe the West, in fiction and reality. It's "boring" in terms of the daily drudgery; for many girls, being a rodeo queen will be the only real excitement in their dull lives. Football has a few stars, as do cheer and pom and basketball and homecoming queen and even the chess team. For most westerners, devoid of any of the culture or intellect of eastern states, even little excitements are welcome.

Burbick nicely describes this intensity and commitment; rodeo queens are the daughters of successful entrepreneurs who can afford the considerable expense. They know success came from working 16-hour and longer days when necessary; the girls do the same to become a queen; just as Burbick consulted more than 150 sources, plus dozens of interviews of rodeo queens from as far back as the 1930s to write her short but astute book.

Burbick is a "queen" in terms of her commitment to this topic and the quality of her book. Although she's superb in linking the rodeo sport to conservative attitudes in the west, her weakness is not linking it to the intense competitive spirit that produces excellence in academics, in sports, or on the dark side in the form of juvenile crimes and mindless rebellion -- all of which characterizes the West.

She deftly outlines the Western myth of rugged individualism and self-sufficiency; but fails to understand that such myths create the limited acumen expressed in Western social and political attitudes -- even if they are more fiction than practical. Anyone who reads this book will understand why the West is solid Republican in politics, as well as the "Texas" attitude now in the White House.

Granted, rodeo queens won't regard this book as the best thing since chili and beans, or cold beer in longneck bottles. But, anyone interested in the relentless competition of life which shaped the daddies of these precocious queens (the academic experience is very similar and is based on just as rich a background of myths and dreams), it's a superb look at one of the crown jewels of the western experience.

Women's stories tell of their successes and failures.......2004-03-04

Joan Burbick's Rodeo Queens And The American Dream examines the women of the rodeo: those who traveled the rural West for years and who became 'rodeo royalty' from the 1930s onward. Women's stories tell of their successes and failures riding the rodeo circuit in this involving guide.

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No other AutoCAD® reference guide on the market is more up-to-date or provides details for as many commands and functions as this comprehensive resource. Ideal for beginner through advanced students, as well as programmers and managers alike, The Illustrated AutoCAD® 2006 Quick Reference catalogs all standard AutoCAD® commands in alphabetical order, briefly describing the function of each command and its options. Every listing includes cross-references to related commands, system variables, and/or files, taking the guesswork out of executing AutoCAD® commands to their potential. All methods of accessing each command are featured, as well as commands not documented by Autodesk®.

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Can't have too many references.......2006-05-01

As with any sophisticated application AutoCAD 2006 has many hidden depths. This book is not here to teach how to apply AutoCAD or even understand the disciplines that it applies to. This reference is and does what it says. For the seasoned AutoCAD user 2006 can be quite a shocker, especially with its robust choices on how to use the tool quickly and effectively. 2006 is a great leap over previous versions. 2007 is ion the cusp however other than expanded solids improvement most of the commands have just been made easer to repeat. This reference will be good for some time.

CAD 06 QR.......2006-03-21

This book was deeply informative and easy to use. I can find any command just by knowing my ABC's.

Not for me.......2006-03-09

I'm a new AutoCAD user. This was one of two books I purchased.
This wasn't a good to use to get started learning AutoCAD but may come of use in the future.

Must Have for the 2006 user.......2006-02-21

When the 2006 version of AutoCAD was first installed, Autodesk sent no instructions or guides (that's what HELP is for). This user-friendly quick reference is an excellent resource for anyone exploring this ever-evolving program.

Some experience required........2005-11-01

For users with some experience this is the book you want beside your computer. It is a clear cut break down of each and every command AutoCAD 2006 has. Don't look for a step by step lesson on using 2006 here, but you find all the command (a few undocumented) info you'll ever want. This has become my go to book for AutoCAD.

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Best of ye Best Pirate Book

17th century world portrayed vividly.

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Captain Kidd Comes Alive in this Portrait of Pirate History

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PIRATE HUNTER, THE: THE TRUE STORY OF CAPTAIN KIDD
Richard Zacks
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aptain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, even many respected scholars, have the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure galley pitted him against arrogant Royal Navy commanders, jealous East India Company captains, storms, starvation, angry natives, and, above all, flesh-and-blood pirates. Superbly written and impeccably researched, The Pirate Hunter is one ripping good yarn.

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Three hundred years after his adventures at sea, Captain Kidd is still the best known pirate in the English-speaking world. But what historians, novelists and the general public do not know is that Kidd was not a cardboard-cutout villain, a Blackbeard with firecrackers in his hair. In fact, he wasn't even a pirate. He was a successful NY sea-captain hired by the Lords of London to chase pirates, and the man he wanted to capture more than any other was a long-forgotten rogue by the name of Robert Culliford, who dogged Kidd throughout his career, and who was, in many ways responsible for Captain Kidd's reputation as a rogue, as a pirate. Zacks takes readers from an execution by hanging in London to the home of William Kidd, master mariner, at 56 Wall Street in Manhattan, and then to the high seas with Captain Kidd, on a covert mission to go after the bounty of five pirate ships, a mission cooked up and later disavowed by England's King William. Zacks brings to life the real story of Captain Kidd, a man who met a tragic end for crimes he did not commit, and who led another life on land, with a beautiful, wealthy wife and daughter in New York. Set in England, Madagascar, the Caribbean and many other exotic locations including the quite uncivilized Wall Street of 300 years ago, this is a tale of adventure, betrayal and courage, a book that will stand both as biography as well as with such classic tales of adventure as IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. The writing is quite extraordinary - you are with these men on their adventures. The reason for this is that Zacks followed Kidd's trail around the world, from libraries in England to remote villages in Madagascar, and the result is a tale that is more fantastic than fiction.

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Best of ye Best Pirate Book.......2007-08-05

I was unable to put it down. You will love this "Pirate Book". A word of warning, when you begin reading make sure you don't have anything planned for a while because it is VERY hard to stop once you start!

17th century world portrayed vividly........2007-07-23

The true story of Captain Kidd is first of all a totally believeable work of nonfiction. The historical era of life at sea and the blurred and flawed objectives between the East India Trading Company, the Royal Navy and the privateer at sea as well as life within the pirate world is amazing. Equally amazing is the world of the legal system in the English colonies in America and back in London. The power politics alone is worth the price of admission.
In this case fact is much stranger and makes a far more harrowing story than fiction.

A Page Turner.......2007-05-13

Very readable right from the start. Historically enlightening and brilliantly researched- a very strong insight into the blurred boundaries of privateering V piracy....Kidd becomes flesh and bone with a strong beating heart - all due to a narrative which is highly personal. It's not often with historical works that one can feel right There not only in the Place but in the Mind. Through great story telling but also through Kidd's own words from historical documents one truely gets a sense of what drove Kidd and his actions.

Captain Kidd Comes Alive in this Portrait of Pirate History.......2007-03-19

"The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd" by Richard Zachs is an incredible work of nonfiction. He truly makes history come alive in this detailed account of Captain William Kidd's ill-fated scheme to capture pirates in the waters off of Africa, India, and the Middle East to make (illegal) money for his rich English backers, including the King of England himself.

Here is a pirate story that blows away all sorts of pirate myth and cliché. The major argument made is that Captain Kidd was no pirate himself, though he died a pirate's death and lives in history as one of the most notorious pirates ever. Poor Kidd was the victim of mutiny by real pirates, double-handed dealings, hurt pride, vicious gossip, and his own tragic mistakes. You can't help but feel sorry for the man as he drunkenly awaits his legendary fate with the gallows.

Zachs uses all sorts of historical documents, including Kidd's own writings, to retrace Kidd's incredible 3-year voyage, imprisonment, trial, and death. Along the way, we learn in vivid detail about life in colonial America and Britain, life at sea, and the many different cultures and customs the sailors (or pirates) encounter in different parts of the world, from Africa to Indonesia and back. It is almost exhausting in its detail, but it makes for a good story that you can practically see, hear, and smell.

The most fascinating aspect for me were the sections regarding Kidd's trial and the ridiculousness of the British court system. Even more fascinating was the crowd's take on public executions. I couldn't stop giggling at the horrible thought of people throwing dead cats and dogs, covered in feces, into the crowd for the fun of it. Truth, it turns out in this story, is stranger than fiction.

Anyhow, I recommend this book for anyone interested in pirates or for those of us who just want to read a good story from our past. It is history as it should be read - informative, intriguing, and fun.

Excellent!.......2007-03-11

This book is an excellent read. I couldn't put it down. Captain Kidd and the other characters in the book come alive in this book. You feel the emotions of the characters. Unlike many books telling real history, Mr. Zacks doesn't get the reader bogged down in rote facts, but rather engages with action and suspense. The reader comes away with a sense of what it was like to live in Captain Kidd's time, and the forces shaping the history around him.

Highly recommended.

Pirate Hunter - True Story Of Captain Kidd

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Richard Zacks
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The Pirate Hunter : The True Story of Captain Kidd

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In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that, at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion with profound implications for theories of black liberation and for the future of race relations in America. Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in this century.

Slave culture; nationalist theory and the foundations of Black America.

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Slave culture; nationalist theory and the foundations of Black America.
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In todays information age, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze extremely large sets of data. One of the best tools to accomplish this is Interactive Data Language (IDL®), a programming and visualization environment that facilitates numerical modeling, data analysis, and image processing. IDLs high-level language and powerful graphics capabilities allow users to write more flexible programs much faster than is possible with other programming languages.

An Introduction to Programming with IDL enables students new to programming, as well as those with experience in other programming languages, to rapidly harness IDLs capabilities: fast, interactive performance; array syntax; dynamic data typing; and built-in graphics. Each concept is illustrated with sample code, including many complete short programs.

·Margin notes throughout the text quickly point readers to the relevant sections of IDL manuals

·End-of-chapter summaries and exercises help reinforce learning

·Students who purchase the book are eligible for a substantial discount on a student version of the IDL software

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A Book for Beginning IDL Users.......2006-01-27

Nothing is more intimidating to a new user of IDL than to sit down at a computer with an empty command line prompt and a stack of manuals on their desk and be told to write an IDL program. Where to begin!? And the experience is especially frightening to a new user with little or no programming experience in any language, let alone IDL.

Ken Bowman has written an IDL book specifically for this user. It is intended as an introductory computer programming course for the research user with little or no training in any computer language, and it evolved from notes Ken uses in his own undergraduate IDL programming courses. It is meant to get the new IDL user analyzing and plotting data as soon as possible.

It is a narrow path he treads, because it is just as easy to offer too much detail as it is to offer too little information to the beginning user. Ken, for the most part, gets it exactly right in covering a broad selection of topics. I quibble with just two chapters. He sweeps aside the complexity of PostScript output by offering the new user two utility programs he fails to explain in the text, and his theoretical explanation of the FFT function left me gasping for breath and lamenting I hadn't paid closer attention in those long-ago math classes.

This is a book that will get you started, but probably won't answer all your questions when you turn your attention to more difficult research problems. Ken doesn't pretend it is anything other than what it is, however, and provides generous and helpful suggestions for where you can find additional information as you become ready for it. Readers already familiar with another programming language will appreciate this introduction to IDL, but might become frustrated with the slower pace and lack of specific detail on many topics.

The book has an associated web page, where you can find, among other things, the source code for all the programs mentioned in the book. Pay particular attention to the Errata section, especially if you are interested in structures in IDL. A printer glitch removed all the curly brackets from Ken's IDL code in the structure chapter and none of the examples will work as written in the book. A software problem, no doubt. (The example programs for the chapter are correct.) It serves as a reminder to me of how complex a topic software programming can be. This friendly book will be a welcome introduction to the subject for many a potential IDL programmer.

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The last three decades have brought extraordinary changes to the forests and people of Borneo. Borneo in Transition provides glimpses into particular villages and shows people have responded to some of the most important changes in their social and physical environments.

Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation, and Development.: An article from: American Scientist

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