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- This Book is No "Wooden" Bazooka--It's the Real Thing
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Wooden Bazooka
Karl Heinz Johannsmeier
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This autobiography, Wooden Bazooka, is a story of manifold drama too vivid, improbable, and intensely personal to have been conjured up by a novelist. From orphanage to battle front to prison camp to board room and beyond, Karl Heinz Johannsmeier spins a fast-paced narrative of incredible span and trajectory, a testimony to the power of optimism and tenacity to outwit death, overcome defeat, and engineer triumph.
Few individuals have proven so dramatically that the American Dream of success is indeed alive and well.
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This Book is No "Wooden" Bazooka--It's the Real Thing.......2000-08-28
Read it. This a riveting eye witness account of life in eastern Germany during Hitler's rise, World War II and the post war Communist years. It is a valuable historical memoir of these times as well as the early years of Silicon Valley. But it is much more. The author was captured twice, tortured, "tried" and imprisoned for over two years for nothing more than trying to escape the oppression of an insane government. A fascinating mix of risk-taking free thinker and meticulously trained optical and mechanical engineer, the author fought his way to the United States and pursued his fortune in start-up electronics ventures. Whether or not you agree with everything he has to say, this is a brilliant man with a direct and fast-moving writing style. You will not be able to put it down.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
Naomi Greene
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Heretical Empiricism
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The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made him one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time. Greene presents Pasolini's films to the English-speaking world in full detail and in a rich critical context, using them to trace the evolution of his ideas and the details of his troubled personal life from 1950, when he settled in Rome, to 1975, the year of his brutal murder, apparently at the hands of a young male prostitute. "In her concise and sympathetic book, Greene intelligently explicates the political and social context within which Pasolini became both a leading figure and a significant heretic. He was an atheist who directed one of the few genuinely profound biblical films in the cinema, a communist who severely criticized many of the radical movements of modern Italy. Though he publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, he privately referred to it as his "sickness." As the book well documents, Pasolini was not a rebel but rather an authentic heretic who worked in contradiction to both his medium and milieu."--Choice
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Satisfying survey of Pasolini's works.......2003-12-31
This book is a decent analysis of Pasolini's works, including both his major films and writings on film theory.
It starts by examining the director's early neorealist films which the author, Greene, frames within the Marxist beliefs Pasolini was enthusiastic about early in his life. She says Marxist critics had issues with these films for being too "decadent." Pasolini's growing disillusionment with Marxism led to his later movies having different styles than his earlier ones: instead of reaching his audience through dramatic social tales of Italian peasants, he tried to convey his themes by playing up the subtle "decadence" of his earlier realistic films with more over-the-top metaphor and myth.
Films that the author discusses include such varying titles as "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" and the highly controversial "Salo." The later films are all quite interesting, as most of them deal with some sort of taboo or controversial topic.
A lot of the author's commentary on Pasolini's works deal with his Marxist beliefs and struggles with his religious convictions and sexual orientation.
The chapter dealing with Pasolini's film theory writings is not for the beginner in this subject looking for an easy read. Greene gets into things like free indirect discourse, semiology, and linguistics, which can be a little tough to grasp if you haven't studied film theory before.
The book also includes a section of 24 pages of B+W photographs, mostly from Pasolini's movies. Overall, this is a good introduction to a complex director, but the chapter on his theoretical writings gets a little technical for the beginner.
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The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on Americans' understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial. Williams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization.
The racial sympathies and hostilities that surfaced during the trial of the police in the beating of Rodney King and in the O. J. Simpson murder trial are grounded in the melodramatic forms of Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Birth of a Nation. Williams finds that Stowe's beaten black man and Griffith's endangered white woman appear repeatedly throughout popular entertainment, promoting interracial understanding at one moment, interracial hate at another. The black and white racial melodrama has galvanized emotions and fueled the importance of new media forms, such as serious, "integrated" musicals of stage and film, including The Jazz Singer and Show Boat. It also helped create a major event out of the movie Gone With the Wind, while enabling television to assume new moral purpose with the broadcast of Roots. Williams demonstrates how such developments converged to make the televised race trial a form of national entertainment.
When prosecutor Christopher Darden accused Simpson's defense team of "playing the race card," which ultimately trumped his own team's gender card, he feared that the jury's sympathy for a targeted black man would be at the expense of the abused white wife. The jury's verdict, Williams concludes, was determined not so much by facts as by the cultural forces of racial melodrama long in the making. Revealing melodrama to be a key element in American culture, Williams argues that the race images it has promoted are deeply ingrained in our minds and that there can be no honest discussion about race until Americans recognize this predicament.
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Written on the Body.......2001-07-05
This is Film Studies of the first order. Williams takes the idea of melodrama as a mode and intersects it with issues of race and its representation. According to her, in conjuction with the popularity or in the legitimization of a particular medium in American society, the representations of the black male and female bodies take on center stage and gain new significations. The book starts out with Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and shows how it stays and strays away from the conventions of the Victorian novel. It then focuses on the Stowe's characterization of the black bodies and how they elicited the sympathy of the readers. Next, it shows how Dixon, with his novel "The Clansmen,' either changes or reverses Stowe's characterizations and themes to elicit another kind of response. However, it is D.W. Griffith's adaptation of the novel, "Birth of the Nation" that had a powerful influence in the society's imagination. Not only did the film legitimize the medium as an art form, it also gave the public a new way of understanding race relations in America. The book covers both the novel and the movie adaptation of "Gone With the Wind" and other cultural texts and ends with the televised trial of O.J. Simpson while keeping on the other eye issues of representation. Linda Williams' project is both multi-disciplinary and multi-media and she weaves them together in a rich study of melodrama as a cultural mode and the ever evolving nature of race relations and representations in our society. She wittily uses Henry James' imagery of the 'leaping fish' to show how melodrama dynamically moves from one medium to the next. Each time it makes an appearance in a big way, it also entails a recasting of black and white or racial representations. Williams achievement lies in her ability to pull together a variety of texts and approaches to engage upon the central issue of race. And she does this in clear, well-written prose. Although this is more like a work of cultural criticism, the book also opens up the possibilities of film studies as a powerful lens or a way of approaching cinema-related queries and dealing with socio-historical matters.
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Title: Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson.(Book Review)
Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Date: June 22, 2003
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Volume: 65
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This digital document is an article from The Journal of African American History, published by Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1016 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: Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Author: Benjamin Justesen
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Volume: 89
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2260 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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Author: Thomas Cripps
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Volume: 27
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Solid compendium of lore for major netherworld adventures.......2000-05-02
This book will add amazing depth to your campaigns, by providing you with exhaustive information on caverns and the depths of the Underdark. Included are rules on the Underdark, swimming, climbing, bridges, falling, spelunking, fatigue, skills, combat underground, BattleSystem wars underground, cave-ins, mining, new equipment, and much more!
Extensions of the rules.......2000-02-20
I can't say that this out-of-print book is important, necessary or even interesting for the AD&D player, but it does contain a relative wealth of rules and information about underground locales (water, cave-ins, etc.) and also presents a not-too-badly done version of the Underdark (the one prior to the existance of Menzoberranzan).
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Your step-by-step guide to digital media fun - no experience required! Share your movies, create a music library, or preserve important records What do you want to put on CDs or DVDs? Whether you need a backup archive for valuable business data or a personalized video library that rocks, you can do it with Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. Follow this handy guide to find the task you want to perform and make it happen, quickly and easily. Discover how to Quickly navigate the Creator 8 suite Copy data with Drag-to-Disc Schedule regular backups Produce slideshows with background music Build media projects with task Assistants Create DVDs with audio, video, and photos
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Roxio to the Rescue.......2006-08-10
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Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)).......2006-08-02
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This is Volume II of THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, covering since 1400 (includes chapters 13-29 of the main text). THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY presents a balanced picture of world history that pays respect to the richness and diversity of the tapestry of the human experience. Based on the Fourth Edition of Duiker and Spielvogel's comprehensive WORLD HISTORY, this critically and popularly acclaimed text balances a thorough global approach with attention to the unique character and development of civilization in divergent parts of the world. The text covers individual civilizations such as China, India, and Europe, with due attention paid to the rise of the West, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations. A wealth of primary documents, maps, and supplements enhance students' experience with the material. THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY is available in the following volume options: THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, Second Edition (Chapters 1-29) ISBN: 0534627129 THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, Volume I: To 1800, Second Edition (Contains Chapters 1-17) ISBN: 0534627137 THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, Volume II: Since 1400, Second Edition (Contains Chapters 13-29) ISBN: 0534627145 THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY TO 1400, Second Edition (Contains Chapters 1-12) ISBN: 0534627455.
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The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru: Volumes II
Jawaharlal Nehru
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This anthology of Nehru's writings, edited by S. Gopal, is a comprehensive and first rate selection. It has been compiled mainly from his speeches and writings. The compilation indicates the evolution of his mind and personality and gives some idea of his enormous range of interests.
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This text will appeal to instructors who want a brief, balanced text that integrates the social as well as political history of western civilization. The many historical documents and statistical tables incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of everyday life among rich and poor and men and women, and children through all periods of European history. As they learn about kingdoms, intellectual movements, and the fine arts, students will also discover much about famous and ordinary people, their family life, sexuality, life expectancy, and daily concerns.
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Knowledge of pre-Islam Arabia is essential for anyone seeking to understand how Islam arose and the shape it took. Further, knowledge of the cultures, commerce, and conflicts of the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to Muhammed is fatally incomplete without the inclusion of the Arabs and the vital role they played. Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one volume survey of the region and its peoples during this period.
Using a wide range of sources--inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence--Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the desert oases of the north. He meticulously traces the major themes in the:
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The text is supplemented by over 50 photographs, drawings, and maps.
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Shallow.......2007-04-01
I keep looking for books about the history of Arabs giving a pure academic point of view, unfortunately without success. This book certainely doesnot go deep intothe history of Arabia, nor of the origins of its people or the origins of people who migrated out of Arabia.
It is a big dissapointment.
elagabal ?.......2005-01-10
Why the author does not speak about the emperor Elagabal
and his black stone ?
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Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis. Beginning with an identified accident scenario, LOPA uses simplifying rules to evaluate initiating event frequency, independent layers of protection, and consequences to provide an order-of-magnitude estimate of risk. LOPA has also proven an excellent approach for determining the safety integrity level necessary for an instrumented safety system, an approach endorsed in instrument standards, such as ISA S84 and IEC 61511. Written by industry experts in LOPA, this pioneering book provides all the necessary information to undertake and complete a Layer of Protection Analysis during any stage in a processes' life cycle. Loaded with tables, charts, and examples, this book is invaluable to technical experts involved with ensuring the safety of a process. Because of its simplified, quicker risk assessment approach, LOPA is destined to become a widely used technique. Join other major companies and start your LOPA efforts now by purchasing this book.
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Layer of Protection Analysis.......2007-03-15
I have not yet received this item, and is because of this is impossible to make any book review. I'm waiting to the next delivery of the book.
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Conservation on Private Lands: An Owner's Manual
World Wildlife Fund (U. S.)
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