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Cowboy Bebop has quickly become one of the most popular anime series of all time. With the series currently running on Cartoon Network!, now is the perfect time to learn the details about Spike, Faye, Jet, and Ed (and let's not forget Ein!) that you might have missed in the fast paced action. Volume 6 features supplements on the series' background art, information on the music, and a bonus pullout poster featuring the mysterious and beautiful Julia. This volume covers the episodes: "Hard Luck Women" and the final two part episode "The Real Folk Blues."

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A study of the relationship between American film and American politics and society, by examining directors such as Orson Welles, Elia Kazan and Jules Dassin.

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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition (The Open University Studies in Film, Television and the Media Series)

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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition (The Open University Studies in Film, Television and the Media Series)
Brian; Aldgate, Anthony (editor) Neve
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: B000MAUK8A

Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition.: An article from: Cineaste

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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition.: An article from: Cineaste
Anthony (African American musician) Williams
Manufacturer: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: B00092URBG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on March 22, 1993. The length of the article is 589 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: Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition.
Author: Anthony (African American musician) Williams
Publication: Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 1993
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: v20 Issue: n2 Page: p60(1)

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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition

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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition
Brian Neve
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPXIDQ

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The title of this mélange of journalism, cultural critique, and pop art comes directly from the mouth of the only man who has ever traveled close to the speed of sound without a vehicle. In 1960, Captain Joseph Kittinger jumped from a helium balloon almost 20 miles up, with 99 percent of the earth's atmosphere beneath him. He plummeted at 614 mph, but strangely, felt nothing. Until his senses reoriented themselves, he thought he was floating.

Right now, according to the creators of this intriguing book, acceleration is the main event. It is "the prime physical, technological and even spiritual engine of this moment." The question the book tries to answer is, How do we experience speed? To find out, the author and photographer went on-site to document 10 subcultures that particularly embody the strategy of constant movement as an effort to get outside of time. Probing essays and photo collages examine public auctions, which feed on the increasing frenzy of consumerism, and the infamously speedy Japanese youth culture, where individualistic critique is emerging for the first time and identity is up for grabs. Truckers become a rolling metaphor for America as they constantly fail to escape from time. Demolition derby drivers look for raw catharsis. And in clock-free Las Vegas, "no time is good time and good time is lucky." Then there is the pandemic of gangs on the Sioux reservations in South Dakota, an idea introduced through media bombardment. This is not necessarily easy reading (the typeface itself is often tiny), but it does offer fascinating insight into the American mythological terrain of becoming (which requires perpetual motion) and the consequences of "constantly treading water at the surface of change." --Lesley Reed

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I Am A Bullet is about people transformed by an accelerating world. These stunning essays combine on-site research and penetrating images as they investigate unique individuals in raw and open engagement with speed. From the literal velocity of breaking the sound barrier in a car to the consumerist purity of Tokyo youth to the violence of Native American gangs, this book delivers an essential understanding of how the speed of change is shaping your life right now--and tomorrow.

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speed freak.......2000-09-13

Dude, this book is the bomb. I saw it on my friend's coffee table, and first started just looking at the pictures. I especially liked the stuff about the demolition derby, because those people are like Springer material, but you get the feeling that they have real lives and stuff, which is a perspective I was totally into. When I started reading the essays, at first I didn't get that it was all interconnected, but by the end I understood that there is a lot in common between say, teenage chicks in Tokyo and gangbangers in South Dakota. Even if you're too lazy to actually read it, you'll look a lot smarter just having it around.

text at the speed of sound.......2000-09-04

It seems Aitken and Kuipers have taken the best lessons from their association with "Raygun" and left behind the more Sprockets- like habits that often made that publication frustrating, if not plain unreadable. We not only know exactly what Kuipers is talking about in each essay, but get involved enough in these disparate and exotic locales to want to make the thematic stretches that are sometimes required. The text style is something I found especially interesting, and be it genius or accident, placing all text in caps accelerates the rate of comprehension in an almost imperceptible way. Given the theme of acceleration and the speed of culture, I found myself part of an experiment I quite enjoyed. The piece about the Lakota boys in Wanblee forsaking the warrior culture of their ancestors for that of TV sensibility gangland posturing is chilling and unbearably sad. Aitken's photos are exceptionally moving in this piece, especially that of a boy around 16 leaning against a tattered babyseat with an aluminum Louisville Slugger, waiting in his res grotto of chaos, diapers, and abject boredom for something to move him. I like very much that Kuipers refrains from editorializing about their lives, and he seems to have an unfailing sense about when to let the subject speak for him or herself. An outstanding effort.

bullet proof.......2000-08-30

I Am A Bullet is an amazing book about the state of pop culture. Its scope--these guys go all over the world and find the same obsession in 10 totally different forms--makes the text incredibly lively, a real page-turner. But you'll slow down to look at the images, which make the ideas here all the more vivid.

Do rayguns have bullets?.......2000-08-01

I'd actually give the photography and design of this book 4.5 stars, but feel the book is let down by the text. It reads as a series of magazine articles which skim over the subject matter without saying much that is particularly insightful. I can't help comparing the text to the work of someone like Paul Virillio on speed and contemporary life, although obviously Virillio writes from the other end of the cultural spectrum.

Doug Aitken's photography is superb as usual. I'm amazed at how he doesn't seem to get locked into one particular style, yet can still pull his imagery together into a cohesive whole. The design of the book is definitely from the Raygun school, where they make you work to get the words. That works in this context, and does not feel too overworked.

Overall this book stems from an interesting idea, the notion of different versions of "speed" in global culture. If you enjoy magazines like Raygun, The Face, Dazed and Confused etc, you'll like this.

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A good teaching vehicle.

Semi-Closed Openings In Action (Intermediate)
Anatoly Karpov
Manufacturer: Touchstone
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A good teaching vehicle........2000-11-19

I am a U.S.C.F. LIFE - Master. I teach chess for a living. I do a lot of teaching nowadays on the Internet. One of my former local students got this book. We spent a lot of time going over the lines and explanations in it. This is one of the better books of its type in the field. The author, a former World Champion, tells you about the opening. You get a brief history of the line, and often he will tell you about some of the general plans in key positions. If you are looking to play these types of openings from either side - or you are just looking for a general book on openings of this type; I can not help but think you will benefit from a careful study of the material presented in this book. Get it! Study! And get better!!

Semi-Closed Openings In Action (Intermediate)

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Semi-Closed Openings In Action (Intermediate)
Anatoly Karpov
Manufacturer: Collier Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8QG0G

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Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP .NET technology in popularity. Not surprisingly, this surge in usage has resulted in a number of PHP books hitting the market. Only one, though, takes the language beyond traditional Web programming and into mapping, graphing, multimedia, and beyond: PHP Hacks.

In PHP Hacks, author Jack Herrington wrings out his 20 years of code generation experience to deliver hands-on tools ranging from basic PHP and PEAR installation and scripting to advanced multimedia and database optimizing tricks.

On the practical side of things, PHP Hacks helps you develop more robust PHP applications by explaining how to improve your database design, automate application testing, and employ design patterns in your PHP scripts and classes. In the category of "cool," Herrington explains how to upgrade your Web interface through the creation of tabs, stickies, popups, and calendars. He even examines how to leverage maps and graphics in PHP. There's also a bounty of image and application hacks, including those that show you how to:

Integrate web sites with Google maps and satellite imaging
Dynamically display iPhoto libraries online
Add IRC, SMS, and Instant Messaging capabilities to your Web applications
Drop the latest Wikipedia dictionary onto your Sony PSP
Render graphics and user interfaces with SVG, DHTML, and Ajax

Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in PHP Hacks, the only PHP guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.

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Solid, Quality Reference For Many Possible Uses.......2007-05-14

It's very packed full of php solutions that, instead of having you thinking: "I might need this particularly obscure thing later, but then again probably not", like a lot of other books, you'll very likely consider getting a lot of use out of at least 75% of the "hack" recipes eventually.

They're not really hacks by the way, in the negative sense of the word. (Maybe the Recipes book came out first and "Hacks" was the next best word for the title, who knows). But these hack/tips are based on fundamental technologies such as reading/writing XML, preventing double submission on ecommerce sites, making use of design patterns in PHP, great UI tips ( I immediately put one of them to use, which had a url to a popular dhtml library I didn't even know of).

A major portion of the hacks involve excellent user interface advice such as dhtml menus, generating images, etc..

Excellent real-world MySQL tips that include a basic login system, or a PHP recipe that you can use over and over to auto-generate sql CRUD (create/read/update/delete) PHP code. And the other way around. Auto-create mysql code from xml files that contain the schema for the tables.

Also recipes that involve basic knowledge in adding a paypal buy button, php unit testing, testing with simulated users. I shouldn't even attempt at trying to be specific with the types of tips. There are so many of them, varying through different levels of categories

I'd consider it a must-have for all PHP coders. And the reason why I say this, is it's very likely that you will find value in your situation, in at least 2 or 3 of the included "hacks", that would easily cancel out the price of the book. But that's a worst case scenario

Not a tutorial, a reference, or PEAR.......2007-02-16

The hacks (PHP scripts) may be good ones, but who is this book for?

If you need to learn PHP, get a tutorial book. There are several. This is NOT one. Strangely, it walks you through installing PHP as if you were a beginner, but then it dives right into the hacks with no real discussion of the language. And there are no details about the lines of script within each hack -- you're essentially being asked to take each hack as a wonderful black box from on high.

If you already know PHP pretty well, then you know you can find nearly an infinite supply of great scripts for free on the web (for example, at PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository). Many of them are updated based on feedback and have detailed explanations and discussions to go along with them. Why pay for a small sampling from a book?

And if you're a PHP programmer and want a reference book for looking things up quickly, well, this certainly isn't THAT either.

So I'm again left wondering, who does that leave?

(Edit: I think O'Reilly is a great book company. I own several other O'Reilly books, recommend them highly, and use them all the time. I just have reservations about this particular book's value given that PEAR is free, has user feedback, and is constantly updated.)

quick "How to's ...".......2006-10-20

When trying to figure out how to implement something, do you ever wish that the examples you find would just 'cut to the chase'? ... skip the theory & just show me a rough idea of how to go about it?

This book contains 100 hacks/recipes, satisfying the above need. Each is 2- 3 pages, which can (mostly) be run right from their folder (~100 folders in the downloaded code samples, of course). A hack-folderName cross-refernece would have been nice, but, hey ...

They put you on the track in moments - no need to read the whole book for any hack/recipe - just jump right in (to the problem of your day) ... and you can modify/enhance, as your needs dictate.

Code documentation is non-existent and explanation is sparse; but, they do, indeed, satisfy the need for quick examples in 2 - 3 pages!

`lovin it! NICE format ...

Great resource.......2006-08-27

If you've worked with PHP for a while, you probably already know some of the hacks in this book - I did. But it did give me several ideas and I definitely picked up some new tricks and tips from it, so it was worth the buy for me. I love the "hack" books - I always learn something new!

good examples and good source code..........2006-08-14

This is a very real world book, and gives some good examples with accurate working source code.

The XML feed handling with Regular Expressions, I was able to put to good use within a matter of minutes.

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America and Its Peoples: A Mosaic in the Making, Volume II, Study Edition (5th Edition)
James Kirby Martin , Randy Roberts , Steven Mintz , Linda McMurry , and James H. Jones
Manufacturer: Longman
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· SOCIAL EMPHASIS

· The Study Edition is loaded with additional features -- like expanded chapter reviews and perforated practice tests for each chapter -- designed specifically to enhance students’ performance, save them time studying, and help them perform better on exams.

· “The People Speak” documents include a brief headnote that identifies and contextualizes the piece. The documents have been chosen to highlight the book's emphasis on diversity, multiculturalism, and social history.

· Critical Thinking Review Questions focus on major ideas and broad themes, rather than on incidents or individuals, inviting students to reflect on and think critically about the material covered in the chapter.

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Well Written.......2007-10-15

This book isn't too dry to read, the chapter review/quizes makes it easy to study for a test.

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The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days
David Bodanis
Manufacturer: Touchstone Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671657186

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A fascinating book, not for the squeamish

A compelling and comprehensive overview of the minutiae

The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Days and Nights
David Bodanis
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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A fascinating book, not for the squeamish.......2005-07-06

I don't think that I will recommend this to someone I know who already washes his hands twice before dinner, but if the omnipresence of microbes doesn't freak you out, this is a fascinating book.

This covers the minutiae of daily life, the slight shakings of the entire house when one walks across the floor, the dust mites, the drift of particles around the world, the rain of particles from outer space.

Bodanis also reviews the ingredients and creation of common items: potato chips, toothpaste, lipstick, deoderant, cake mixes, explaining not only how they work, but how much of the processing is purely advertising hype.

The book includes some fantastic special slow-motion, electron-microscope and heat-sensitive photographs.

One of the most enlightening and educational books that I have ever read!

A compelling and comprehensive overview of the minutiae.......1999-06-09

Author David Bodanis shares with the reader through easy to comprehend prose and compelling electron microscopic slides the world of an average couple through a complete day cycle. Topics range from the examination of the very small (dust mites), the complex (how do things work?), the ordinary (what exactly *is* in toothpaste?) and the obscure (slime molds). A thoroughly enjoyable and informative read.

The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Days and Nights

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The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Days and Nights
David Bodanis
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NU2TMO

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I can only echo Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' praise.......2007-05-22

Mr. Meacham offers a pragmatic, fact-filled presentation and I have to agree with everything he writes. Having read everything on tigers from Barnes to Zwaenepoel, were I to read "Tiger-Wallahs" again by Geoffrey Ward, in the next edition I would add Mr. Meacham on that list. He interviews tiger conservationists and discusses would-be healers and gurus and their medicine (Aryuveda, e.g.), poachers and sellers of tiger parts in traditional eastern medicine. His book compelling journey into the workings of tiger farms for slaughter, its cooperation with the tiger part trade, and surprisingly he reveals that an inadvertent degree of coziness is involved between the Save the Tiger Fund and the practice of tiger farming! Meacham makes no pretense to be a zoologist but does inspire one to want to BE one. And no, as he begins his book, the tiger is not endangered--zoo and captive tigers, that is. The wild tiger in his glory is endanagered. He goes into more detail about CITES and the validity of the tiger-saving organizations. This guy is "not ready to make nice" and he's telling it like it is.

Articulate, insightful read.......2006-06-02

Meacham's book presents the issues of tiger conservation articulately and objectively. He does not rely on sentimentality or easy answers. He asks the questions that may be unsavory to some, but in an effort to examine options for the tragic and dire situation of wild tigers. Meacham's writing style flows and each sentence is packed with information. Highly recommend.

A book how not to do conservation.......2003-09-22

This is a waste of time for anybody who really cares about tigers.I recommend Schaller's "The deer and the Tiger", Sy Montgomery's "Spell of the Tiger" and "Tigers in the snow" by Peter Matthiessen for some good tiger books. DONT BUY THIS BOOK, if you want to read it take it out from your library, its not worth the money.

Excellent book albeit disturbing.......2001-07-13

A book that doesn't give us any easy answers. Because there aren't any. Conservation unfortunately is against the rising tide of our population, given that Meacham tries to detail the options, some of which aren't so romantic but they are options none the less.

If you have your heart set on rhetoric don't buy this book. If you are more open an objective view of the reality of conservation, buy this book.

Well.....?.......2001-01-28

The first thing you must notice when you are reading this book is that Cory J Meacham is a journalist, not a zoologist. In the book he constantly talks about killing, euthanizing and even hunting the tigers, that the book (in my opinion) starts to get a wee bit morbid. He dosent talk about planing the birth of tigers in zoos, in a sort of conservation sence but rather that births just happen. So his solution was insted of puting a little effort in and planing the births of the tigers we should just let them mate whenever and then euthanize the cubs. He dosent talk abut collectivising the villages and settelments around tiger reserves,and land distribution issues concerning tiger reserves. Also he talks very little about anti-poaching patrols and how effective they can be as we have seen with rhinos in Kaziranga.

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