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Long adventures and short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Uncle Scrooge, Goofy, Gyro Gearloose, and other Disney characters. "Donald's Lighthouse" is imperiled by nasty pranks from a pelican squatter in a new story by fan favorite Daan Jippes. Gyro Gearloose stars in "Washday Washout," by Dutch masters Frank Jonker and Sander Gulien. Gyro invents an easier way for Grandma Duck to do her washing... or does he? In "Mickey's Inferno," a feature-length Dante send-up by Guido Martina and Angelo Bioletto, Mickey and Goofy are hypnotized by a fakir and transported to a very silly version of Hades, where they find their friends and enemies rubbing elbows with demons and monsters! Finally, Donald and Scrooge get into Formula One racing in "The Wonder Down Under," inaugurating a new miniseries by Per Hedman and Flemming Andersen. Over six months, WDC&S will be showing you the Ducks' ongoing four-wheel competitions... with the ruthless Flintheart Glomgold!

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Too bad it's out of print!

Too bad it's out of print!

Because of this book, I actually conducted a live symphony!

You'll Love this Book!

The Armchair Conducter delivers. DO try this at home.

The Armchair Conductor: How to Lead a Symphony Orchestra in the Privacy of Your Own Home
Dan Carlinsky
Manufacturer: Dell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0440504155
Release Date: 1991-11-01

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This little book--packaged complete with baton--is a trifle cutesy in places. But along with the whimsy it provides a surprisingly good basic course in conducting, from its history through "How to hold the baton," and simple conducting patterns. It's chock full of illustrations, jokes, telling anecdotes, and conductor biographies. If you've ever waggled a finger in time to the music while listening to the radio or a compact disc or secretly yearned to lord it over a symphony orchestra, you'll find something here to enjoy.

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Too bad it's out of print!.......2003-01-08

I'm a music student, and one of the courses we must take to complete our studies is conducting. This book is a great way to learn the basics, so anyone, and I mean anyone, can lead a symphony orchestra, on TV or on audio recording, in the privacy and comfort of their own home. But be warned: you'll want to conduct the minute you get to a real live concert! It's an absolute shame this book is out of print!

Too bad it's out of print!.......2003-01-08

Because of this book, I actually conducted a live symphony!.......2002-08-13

This book will not teach you to read music or follow a musical score, but it WILL teach you to hold a baton. It will also show you in detail how to conduct the various tempi (plural for tempo). It will educate you about the various conductors and their styles. I won an opportunity to conducted a live symphony. This book gave me the confidence I needed to actually do it! Good Luck! Have Fun!

You'll Love this Book!.......1999-04-21

If you have ever conducted to the music playing in your CD player, or you went to a concert and dreamed of being the one up on the podium, then this book is for you. It's humorous and very instructional. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys conducting as much as I do.

The Armchair Conducter delivers. DO try this at home........1998-06-06

A music how to, that students and fans will enjoy. NOT altogether serious, pure FUN, yet very instructional. If you have the itch to conduct, scratch it. The Armrchair Conductor will have you conducting your favorite music in a matter of minutes. Well written, suprisingly humourous & accurate.

In less than 100 pages the reader will gain practical and clever insites into the mysterious profession/art of orchestra conducting.

Stretch your listening, stretch your arms out and conduct. Resistance is futile, just buy/try it.

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The Armchair Conductor: How to Lead a Symphony Orchestra in the Privacy of Your Own Home/Book and Conductors Stick
Dan; Goodgold, Ed Carlinsky
Manufacturer: Dell Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WAZLOI

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The Armchair Conductor: How to Lead a Symphony Orchestra in the Privacy of Your Own Home/Book and Conductors Stick
Dan; Goodgold, Ed Carlinsky
Manufacturer: Dell Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NZU4XA

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Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization of the Beats, juxtaposing them against Chicano nationalists like Raul Salinas, Jose Montoya, Luis Valdez, and Oscar Acosta and Mexican migrant writers in the United States, like Tomas Rivera and Ernesto Galarza.

In an innovative rereading of American radical politics and culture of the 1950s and 1960s, Martinez uncovers reactionary, neoromantic, and sometimes racist strains in the Beats' vision of freedom, and he brings to the fore the complex stances of Latinos on participant democracy and progressive culture. He analyzes the ways that Beats, Chicanos, and migrant writers conceived of and articulated social and political perspectives. He contends that both the Beats' extreme individualism and the Chicano nationalists' narrow vision of citizenship are betrayals of the democratic ideal, but that the migrant writers presented a distinctly radical and inclusive vision of democracy that was truly countercultural.

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Call it a control thing, but until recently--or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formats--you simply weren't ready to make the move to digital photography. Raw formats, however, changed all of that by allowing you to retrieve images before any in-camera processing has been performed. Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw plug-in makes that process even easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives in your favorite image-manipulation software. In the first volume devoted exclusively to the topic, best-selling author Bruce Fraser shows you how to take advantage of Adobe Camera Raw to set white balance, optimize contrast and saturation, handle noise, correct tint, and recover lost detail in images before converting them to another format. After learning about the raw formats themselves, you'll discover hands-on techniques for exposing and shooting for digital raw, using the File Browser to preview images and automate tasks, and building a workflow around the digital raw process.

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Good book - I just wish the underlying software was better.......2007-07-15

The book does a good job explaining how to use Camera Raw. That said, most of what it covers, you can pick up on your own once you learn how to run Camera Raw for the first time (much like HDR, Photoshop does a great job of hiding it). If you are a pro or very serious about your photography, you will find suggestions on how to calibrate and speed up your workflow.

All that said, I find PS + Camera Raw slow and underpowered even compared to Canon's own Digital Photo Pro that comes bundled with each SLR. No wonder Adobe developed Lightroom as a separate product.

Last but not least, do not order this book used from indie sellers with cheap shipping -- it took almost a month to deliver mine from East to West coast!!! I wish I had bought it slightly more expensive from Amazon directly and saved time.

Time Saver.......2005-08-10

This book enabled me to learn the benefits of shooting in raw. The Photoshop raw image plug-in and all of its controls were described in just the right amount of detail. Since I read this book, I've been able to squeeze every last bit of color and tonal range out of my photos with a better understanding of what I'm actually doing. This book has just the right amount of tech-talk. This is the perfect book for advanced-photo-hobby people that want to get straightforward instruction on how to make the best of using the raw image format.

Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS.......2005-08-09

I am not a professional photographer, rather an interested hobbyist. I just finished studying Camera Raw by Bruce Fraser. I use the term study, because it is a very "readable", but very technical manual which does a great job of explaining the basics of Camera Raw theory and implementation. I took this book with me on a vacation (it is not for vacation reading)and it honestly took me full week to read, re-read and re-read a third time to begin to fully grasp the beauty of a small book which goes from general theory, narrows the focus down to the working detail and then steps back and ties it all together at the end of each chapter and at the end of the book. Bruce Fraser is clearly a very talented writer and teacher. In addition to covering Camera Raw he also explains the use of the File Browser, Metadata, Workflow and Automation better than any other author I have read. If you are "baffled" by the Adobe Photoshop "Help" files explanation of the above, then just give this book a chance and you will come away feeling very much more in control of your Photoshop CS, your camera and your own "style" of using the above mentioned tools. The "clinical" examples are explained step-by-step with visuals of the actual photos and the computer displays to go along with each step in the production workflow. It is just filled with clinical "pearls" of information which all got highlighted with my yellow magic marker. In fact, when I finished, the whole book was one big yellow page, because it is all there with no wasted verbage.
My only critique is one of the printing format. To explain, I have to tell you that if you use bifocals (like I do) it is very difficult to actually see the small print in some of the displays of the actual Adobe menu boxes that are used as examples on at least every other page. So maybe, if this book is updated and re-published, Mr. Fraser could use larger type size in the examples. The type size of the narrative is perfect.

William E. Weddle, MD

A gifted author?.......2005-08-01

The reviewer that gave this book only 3 stars described Bruce Fraser as a gifted author. The description is good. Fraser is always a pleasure to read.
The book deserves the highest rating, even though you might find something to quibble about.

Camera Raw, a very inforamtove photography book.......2005-07-22

It reveals lots of mysteries about using RAW format in digital photography. This book is easy to read, I enjoy it tremendously.

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Great introduction to a fascinating culture.......2003-02-26

This is a wonderful book written for a wide audience which includes high schoolers, educators, and anyone interested in Korea. Ms. Connor, who is a high school teacher herself, covers history, culture, politics, economics and more. Every high school library should have 'The Koreas' in stock. The book is well researched, well written, and serves as a great platform from which to begin study of North and South Korea. Bravo!

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China: A Global Studies Handbook

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ASIN: 1576072843

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Prepared for students by renowned professors and noted experts, here are the most extensive and proven study aids available, covering all the major areas of study in college curriculums. Each guide features: up-to-date scholarship; an easy-to-follow narrative outline form; specially designed and formatted pages; and much more.

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Excellent Review.......2007-01-10

Comprehensive, excellent review if you wish to take the SAT II world history exam or the AP.

Great Overview of World History for Beginners.......2002-02-09

Used as a textbook for general world civilization classes in college, this is a great beginner book. Very easy to understand and the selections are very interesting and relative to understanding basic world history. The authors are both very qualified historians and teachers (I have had them both in college and have greatly enjoyed them). Recommended for teachers and students of history.

HarperCollins College Outline Western Civilization from 1500 (Harpercollins College Outline Series)

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HarperCollins College Outline Western Civilization from 1500 (Harpercollins College Outline Series)
Walter Kirchner
Manufacturer: Collins
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Science Trivial Pursuit Intermediate Level
Karen Jacome , and Felipe Jacome
Manufacturer: Good Apple Inc
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ASIN: 0866536493

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 457 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: South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability.
Author: Geoffrey B. Hainsworth
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: v69 Issue: n2 Page: p280(2)

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