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The Cold War was the war that never happened. Nonetheless, it spurred the most significant buildup of military contingency this country has ever known: from the bunkers of Greenbrier, West Virginia, to the "proving grounds" of Nevada, where entire cities were built only to be vaporized. The Cold War was waged on a territory that knew no boundaries but left few traces. In this fascinating--and at turns frightening and comical--travelogue to the hidden battlefields of the Cold War, Tom Vanderbilt travels the Interstate (itself a product of the Cold War) to uncover the sites of Cold War architecture and reflect on their lasting heritage. In the process, Vanderbilt shows us what the Cold War landscape looked like, how architecture tried to adapt to the threat of mass destruction, how cities coped with the knowledge that they were nuclear targets, and finally what remains of the Cold War theater today, both its visible and invisible legacies. Ultimately, Vanderbilt gives us a deep look into our cultural soul, the dreams and fears that drove us for the last half of the 20th century.
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The fading ruins among us.......2007-06-28
Author Tom Vanderbilt takes us around the country examining the evidences left by the Cold War, a war which did and yet didn't happen. From missile silos being destroyed to ones being turned into homes, from "proving grounds" to backyard bomb shelters, Mr. Vanderbilt uncovers sites which often sit right in front of us and simply blend into our landscape in spite of their obviously militaristic features. But he goes beyond the aging and disappearing signs indicating "fallout shelters" and discusses how the threat of nuclear annihilation shaped our cities and our thinking. Cities became the targets, and today's suburbs, often denigrated under the label of "urban sprawl," were a reaction to and a defense against the calamities which befell the densely packed cities of Germany and Japan which proved so fatal during the firebombing raids of WWII. Attempts to fortify buildings, strategies for minimizing casualties, underground cities, interstate highways, early warning systems, NORAD, massive retaliation... it all walks a fine line between critical and absurd, interesting and boring.
I can't help imagining the puzzlement the younger generation must feel at seeing some of these things. Growing up in the 70s and 80s I only saw the end of the Cold War, but the Reagan years witnessed an increase in tensions with the USSR (do younger people even know who that was or what it stood for?) and I recall some events like the local opposition which prevented the deployment of MX missiles in the Utah desert in the late 70s. It also reminded me of movies I saw as a teenager like "War Games" and "The Day After," or music by Sting ("Russians") or Frankie Goes To Hollywood ("Two Tribes") which reflected the contradictions of a peace maintained by the ability of two nations to assure "mutual destruction" of each other within minutes. And yet that seemed to be the reality of the world we lived in, and I thought this book captured that sense very well. Mr. Vanderbilt ends with some sobering observations on how September 11th relates to this struggle to protect ourselves without falling into a "bunker mentality." Overall, an interesting and reflective look at a fading time, a look at the darker side of the optimism and technological advances of the 50s and 60s, with lots of great pictures (all in stark b&w) although maybe not quite 4 stars.
A Haunting Tour of America's Cold War Ghost Towns.......2006-04-06
Tom Vanderbilt's Survival City is a sociological survey of a forty year war that never happened. Rummaging through the modern ruins of Cold War America, Vanderbilt's haunting travelogue takes the reader into old and derelict Altas II and Minuteman missile silos, past deserted radar stations and along the broken desert landscapes of weapons proving grounds. The Cold War was an invisible conflict that most of us somehow learned to live with. But, the Cold War had a visceral reality for those technicians that watched the radar screens for the "hand of god," the massive missile attack expected from the Soviets, which would appear like a skeletal hand reaching down from the North Pole towards North America. Mid-twentieth century architects weren't speculating if a nuclear attack would occur...but when. Fallout shelters and bunkers were integrated into some public and corporate buildings, but for the most part, urban and military planners had written off cities as indefensible. This, in part, explains the growth of suburbia -- the last defense against urban decapitation attacks.
Vanderbilt's writing is crisp with the right combination of horror and moral shock at appropriate times.
Survival City charts the emergence of the city as a war machine, its subsequent elevation to a military target in World War II, and the overall effect weapons of mass-destruction have had on our urban conscience. This book is a great read that even includes a postscript written on Sep. 17, 2001 that eerily reinforces the message of the book.
I found this book to be a fairly short read, with lots of pictures of the various places the author is visiting along the way.
Good stuff.
Final grade: B+
A Fantastic Storyteller Explores the Cold War.......2005-12-21
Tom Vanderbilt's book is not only factual, but provides a riveting adventure through the remnants of America's Cold War. His writing is compelling. What he reveals is astonishing, and the pictures placed through out the book give the story crucial details that portray the reality of the Cold War in a way that words simply cannot articulate. The book draws you in and changes your perspective on and knowledge of history as well as the residue that coats America today.
Heady stuff, very smartly written.......2004-05-16
I'm usually a rather tough grader, but this is the best book I've read in quite some time. Vanderbilt takes us on a lively and diverse tour of cold war America's remaining architectural artifacts (the interstate highway system, bomb shelters, missile silos, misc. military installations - some still in use, nuclear waste sites, etc.) and weaves an analysis of same into an interesting and often surprising commentary on the historical period and the society which gave rise to these structures. For me, the novel perspective of looking at things from an architectural standpoint worked quite well at making the history and those times come alive.
The style is part documentary, part story-telling, part travelogue, part cultural anthropology, and part essay on topics in architecture (generally) which I previously would not have thought about, or thought I had any reason to think about. The approach was successful enough that I found myself frequently being simply and skillfully led to surprising and profound insights, which were a delight. I came away from the book thinking Vanderbilt was an excellent writer with many new and important ideas on the fascinating subject of nuclear weapons, the cold war, and national security generally -- subjects which can easily be made drole, heavy, boring and/or tedious. For many, the so-called atomic era seems long gone and forgotten (and slightly silly in many aspects), but Vanderbilt makes the issues faced then seem relevant to many similar problems facing us today by placing them in a context of continuity. Highly recommended to a broad audience.
Boring - should have been much better.......2004-03-20
Tom Vanderbilt would love to be an architect. He's constantly critical of 1950's architecture - wherever he finds it.
With surprisingly little technical knowledge, he tours testing grounds and bunkers. But it's not all Atomic America: he has the same commentary towards Arcosanti and Biosphere. Where I yearn for a storyline, he delivers watered down architecural critique.
Vanderbilt's writing seems to follow this algorithm: Begin a paragraph using a sentence with an odd phrase in quotations. Then refute this with an academic argument. The first dozen times are fun. A whole book written in this style is tedious.
The 1950's nuclear crazyness presents a rich lode for research. The subject (and readers) deserves much more.
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Title: Bunker down.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Stephen I. Schwartz
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- So close to being the perfect resource for facial expressions...
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- i love this series, its sooo helpful!
- This book helped a lot!
- not a 2 star yawn like vol.1,(yea, that was me)
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How to Draw Anime & Game Characters, Vol. 2: Expressing Emotions
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In this series, the author who has helped new talent to develop, including GHIBLI and MAD HOUSE, explains character design step by step using his own expertise and teaching materials. In the second volume, learn to master character's emotions and facial expressions!
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So close to being the perfect resource for facial expressions..........2007-07-31
I took a chance on this book because its title, "Expressing Emotions", promised to reveal the content I've been seeking for so long: a book that shows how to create facial expressions for a range of emotions. And this book really does that, and does it well.
Another book by the same artist, Tadashi Ozawa, offered a similar promise, but failed to deliver. Let's Draw Manga: Bodies And Emotions doesn't focus on faces at all; it focuses only on expressing emotion by posing the body in certain ways. Indeed, half the drawings don't have faces at all. Another book, Manga Moods, shows a huge range of emotions, but with only a single picture for each emotion and no advice on drawing.
Half this book is dedicated to facial expressions, and the other half gives corresponding full-body versions of some of these expressions. Everything is very well-annotated, with a number of notes on each drawing explaining exactly what was done to achieve the emotive effect. The drawings are clean and well-done, and the text is very clear.
But what could be a strength for this book turns out to be a weakness as well. Fourteen characters are used, a broad range of male and female characters typical of various styles of anime and games. Each character is shown with 14 facial expressions, then later with eight full-body poses. But pretty much the same 14 expressions are used for all the characters, and it just doesn't feel like it's enough to express the full range of emotions. Consider that Manga Moods has 40 expressions, and very few of them are redundant.
It's a nice touch to see the differences between how the emotion of anger is expressed by the young male detective and by the catgirl, or how smugness is expressed by the schoolgirl and the male giant-robot pilot. But I really rather would have seen more emotions reflected in this book, even at the expense of showing fewer characters.
This is still the best book I've found for learning how to draw emotions, and I'm sure I'll use it for reference quite often. I only wish there was more focus on a wider range of emotions -- how to differentiate between gloom and discomfort rather than just "unease", or defiance and confidence rather than just "smugness", for example.
Wonderful.......2007-01-22
This is a great book that provides drawing instructions on expressing emotion in anime and game characters. Helpful illustrations.
i love this series, its sooo helpful!.......2006-07-27
excellent! i was very pleazed w/ the first volume, and couldnt wait to get the second...and now i cant wait to get the last 3, this set is just plain awesome!
it starts off simple, like the previous, showing just smiley face expressions...then he shows u a varity of MALE and FEMALE characters using just their heads and faces to portray emotion. continue on, and he will explain how each individual character uses his/her body to express emotion. he even shows u a couple of "do's and dont's", depending on which character ur drawing...
an example would be the male game character...when sad, he doesnt cry, but when angry he forms fists and is shouting...for another male character, anger is portrayed more as protest, and when upset he actually shows it...
he gives u a small but helpful section on how to put ur new characters into a comic too, giving helpful tips on where the "camera" should be in a particular scene, and who should or shouldnt be in the shot, etc...neat.
its a great book, and can be used by beginners who have the basic idea of the body down, and experts, of course!
happy sketching! :-D
This book helped a lot!.......2005-12-01
I am 14 years old, and I got this book a year ago. It really helped me to figure out how to draw some of the basic expressions for people. I have been drawing manga for about 2 years now, but for a while, all of my characters had the same poses and basiccaly the same faces! And another note: not every character will express the same emotion in the same way. This also helps you to think about your character's personality and what kind of facial and body expressions they will use. I recommend this book for anyone who has the basics down, because it doesn't explain any of that. It will help anyone from a novice level, even experts could use the tips.
not a 2 star yawn like vol.1,(yea, that was me).......2005-06-04
Vol.2 is ALOT better and more helpful than its predecesser.the emotions are varied and there are no more clich'e characters too,they are in fact, believable.The drawings are nice and you wont find typos or any engrish,nor will you find bits of info paired with tons of pics.You wont find much trouble applying the examples's emotions to your own original creations.I couldnt give this book 4 stars though because I just couldnt get into it for some reason,maybe cuz i'm still trying to get rid of that bad after-taste that was volume one(yea,i was the one person who didnt like vol.1).This is one of those books you have to read to really judge.....
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Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!
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Based on Merriman's popular retirement workshops, Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! offers ten straightforward steps to creating and maintaining the perfect retirement portfolio. From determining how much you will need to live on after retirement to recognizing and controlling the expenses of investing, the easy-to-understand strategies outlined within these pages can help you regain confidence in your retirement plan.
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How to make sure the golden years aren't lean years In the coming years, more than 70 million people will enter retirement. But even as people live longer and stay active longer and with Social Security's future in jeopard, theyhave saved less than any previous generation. Baby boomers are hungry for sound, time-tested advice about how to reinvigorate their retirement portfolios with less risk so that they can live the comfortable retirement they've promised themselves. Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money! is the road map that people are looking for. Based on the author's popular workshops, this plain-speaking book gives readers simple, low-risk strategies to get the most out of their retirement without running out of money. Paul Merriman is President of Merriman Capital Management in Seattle, which manages more than $600 million in investments for more than 1,200 clients. Merriman hosts "Sound Investing, a weekly Seattle-area and Internet radio show and is a retirement and mutual fund columnist at CBSMarketwatch.com. He is the publisher and editor of FundAdvice.com, an online newsletter and investment advisory service rate Best of the Web" by Forbes in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
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The Guiding Merriman.......2007-08-16
The most complete book for understanding the whats and hows of retirement planning and investing for retirement. Complete with data to support the ideas the author presents.
Review of overall subject matter .......2007-05-30
One of the best references on the subject of retirement & Investing I have read so far. Step by step method for securing income during retirement. Intruduces a number of strategies Investors don't want you to know about. I have recommended this book to several of my friends who are also close to retirement. For those close to retirement, it should be front and center in their libraries. A lot of facts backing up recommendations. Short read.
Easy to Read and Excellent Advice.......2007-03-21
I found Merriman's writing style easy to read. He does an excellent job of covering the basics of investing including asset allocation.
Merriman's suggestion of holding 50% foreign stocks and 50% U.S. stocks was a little surprising to me. I was not expecting such a high allocation to foreign stocks. Vanguard, for example, suggests no more than 20% foreign stocks. Merriman makes a compelling case for holding 50% foreign stocks, but past performance of foreign stocks relative to U.S. stocks does not necessarily mean future performance will be the same.
Another surprise was no mention of REITs. For a book published in 2005, I expected to see at least a 10% allocation to U.S. REITs.
The last surprise was his recommendation of DFA funds compared to Vanguard funds. He tries to make the case the 1% of assets fee per year to a DFA advisor is more than offset by the superior performance of a DFA fund portofolio compared to a Vanguard portfolio. Most of the extra return is not due to lower DFA expense ratios, but the fact that DFA offers more asset class choices than Vanguard. I'm a big Vanguard fan, plus manage my own portfolio.....so I'm not sold on the DFA approach.
Over-all an excellent book.
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Better Book Than Most Books Offering Financial Advice.......2007-01-21
Merriman's book offers readers a review of different portfolio options with a focus on the risk of each portfolio. Most books and discussion of investment options fail to consider risk and thereby mislead readers into thinking that one can simply repeat the strategy that produced spectacular investment returns in a prior year.
This book provides example portfolios that were constructed using the most convincing economic theory to-date developed by leading financial and economic scientists at the highest regarded economic schools in the world (Chicago, Stanford, Yale). The probability of having greater portfolio returns than most people by receiving the average return of many asset classes (financial markets) is higher when investors follow the relatively low risk options Merriman provides.
I highly recommend this book to readers of all knowledge levels. I also highly recommend the firm Merriman Capital Management for its low fees, excellant customer service, and access to the mutual funds of Dimensional Fund Advisors. The portfolio returns of DFA funds have far exceeded the portfolio returns of most actively managed funds and even passively managed funds from Vanguard and Fidelity in all of the last 5 years including 2006.
Understanding the importance of Asset Classes.......2006-04-21
This book, written by a money manager with 40 years of experience in the field, makes it crystal clear how diversification using asset classes can increase your return while reducing risk. It offers fundamentally sound advice while rejecting the "get rich quick" mentality. If you want to sleep better when you retire, read this book.
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Combining the aesthetic and the technical, this sourcebook provides the fastest methods of reaching thousands of people with your portfolio of digital images. Photographers and designers who have published their works on CDs and websites offer invaluable creative tips, while art directors and art buyers suggest ways to show, organize, and promote your images for maximum effect.
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Style Over Substance.......2004-03-08
The book has no cohesive message. It doesn't provide any guiding principles or other ideas that help photographers or web designers to build digital porfolios. Too much of the text is spent defining basic terms like JPEG and Photoshop and too little teaching relevant principles of design or any other topic that can further various artists understanding of the subject. Furthermore, nearly 1/3 of the book is spent asking the same five interview questions (how many hits do you get a week, how effective is your website at generating clients,) to a series of photographers, web designers, etc. This would be fine except the questions do not help advance any overarching messages in the book either. They seem to just hang there as an interesting side note. It appears that the author was far more interested in designing a interesting looking book than a interesting learning book. Additionally, the page layout varies so significantly from page to page that readers will find it difficult to maintain focus and follow the point.
It is as if the author wrote the book freehand and never sat down to create a outline of the message that he wanted to convey. This shines through from the first page and doesn't stop until the last page. Unfortunately, this means that readers will learn very little on how to build "the perfect digital portfolio."
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How does a professional photographer find his or her niche and rise above the competition? By presenting a dynamic portfolio. But how do you clarify your direction--the crucial first step? "Look inward," advises Brackman. Ask yourself not "What will sell?" but "What do I really want to do?" The author, a top consultant in the field, explains precisely how to put together the essential marketing tool; she combines lucid nuts-and-bolts prose with dazzling examples of advertising, corporate and editorial illustration by clients like W. Eugene Smith, Pete Turner and Nancy Brown.
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Not Quite the "Perfect" Guide.......2001-07-12
It was good, but spent more time discussing specialization and career direction rather than actually how to make your portfolio. I was expecting more of a guide on presentation and content, not a guide on what to shoot and why you should or should not specialize with a glossing over of the physical building of a portfolio for the purposes of presentation.
There aren't many definites presented. Most things are treated several ways, leaving the reader to decide often without a clear idea of what is "recomended". (Example: tray of slides, yes or no? Answer in the bood: well, some people expect to see that. Others don't. You should have it. But a lot of places don't have the equipment to project it, etc., etc.)
In short, it was good information, but the author simply refused to take a stance on what works and what doesn't. Instead, the popular options were presented.
The Perfect Portfolio.......2000-09-15
"Perfect" This book was incredibly helpful. I am just beginning to put my portfolio together and this book helped immensely. I found out what type of photos I should have, how they should be displayed, etc. Great Book!
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good book, needs newer version.......2001-10-12
I recently read this book and thought it was very helpful. It gave great information and kept it simple. She is a good writer, but she needs to write an updated version. In this book, the Internet hasn't been invented yet and sending copies of things by disk sounds like going to the moon. Still, it's worth the money if you're not interested in digital portfolios and it still has good information in it.
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This is one of the seven numbered collections of Walt Disney comic albums published by Gladstone. Each volume represents from two to four albums that were part of Gladstone Publishing's regular and giant monthlies that came out during the years 1988-1990. This volume contains the 4 albums; Uncle Scrooge:Hawaiian Hideaway, Donald and Daisy, Mickey Mouse: The World of Tomorrow,and Donald Duck Adventures: Ancient Persia.
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