Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000

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Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time that public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April – 17 September 2000, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, from 27 September – 10 December 2000, Defining Features brings portraiture and science together. Ludmilla Jordanova's lucid text reflects on the nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries. Illustrated with likenesses of such notable personalities as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Hodgkin, and encompassing a variety of media from paintings and medals to bookmarks and key rings, Defining Features charts changing attitudes towards medical practice and scientific investigation, as well as exploring how notions of gender, heroism, popularization and celebrity have affected the public's understanding of how researchers do their work.

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Uno de los mejores........2007-04-14

Creo que es muy bueno para la gente que se inicia en el ámbito de la investigación. Además de darte unos generales de estilo, ortografía y demás, cumple la funición de darte las explicaciones para el aparato crítico. Es curioso pero yo no he visto algo así para algo como la normativa UNE de Europa.

Excellent guidelines.......2005-07-20

Es un buen libro para la redacción de documento en una forma profesional.

Manual de Estilo de Publicaciones de La American Psychological Association: Version Abreviada

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Manual de Estilo de Publicaciones de La American Psychological Association: Version Abreviada

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Manual De Estilo
Alberto Gomez Font
Manufacturer: Libros Sin Fronteras Inventory
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El Nacional Manual De Estilo
Miguel Henrique Otero
Manufacturer: Nacional El Editorial
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Libro de estilo universitario (Signomas)

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Libro de estilo universitario (Signomas)
Carlos Arroyo Jimenez
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Manual de Correccion Gramatical y de Estilo

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Manual de Correccion Gramatical y de Estilo

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Manual de estilo de TVE (Coleccion Labor)

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Manual de estilo de TVE (Coleccion Labor)
Salvador Mendieta Torres
Manufacturer: Editorial Labor
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Manual de redacao e estilo

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Manual de Redação e Estilo: o Estado de São Paulo

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Manual de Redação e Estilo: o Estado de São Paulo

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Even my wife is interested

The Corebook for the "Angel" Role-Playing Game

Angel RPG
Various
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1891153978

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This book contains: An introduction to roleplaying and the Angelverse; a guide to character creation, including pre-constructed Heroes and White Hats, as well as the entire Angel Investigations Cast, for your quick-play pleasure; the Angel Unisystem, streamlined for cinematic action and adventure; a primer on not-so-normal abilities, from magic and psychic arts to demon and supernatural powers; rules for creating special organizations - anything from law firms to detective agencies to hunter societies; a guide to the people and places of the City of Angels; a rundown on the wicked, including vampires, demons, zombie cops, and other critters; blow-by-blow instructions for creating Angel roleplaying Episodes, Seasons, and Series; and a complete Episode to hit the streets and start investigating right away.

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Even my wife is interested.......2004-07-11

My wife and I spent the past couple months watching the first three seasons of Angel on DVD. After we got Season Three finished, I wanted more Angel stuff, so I decided to get the RPG as I like RPGs. The corebook is very good, though only covers up to season three. Hopefully they will soon do a supplemental for it, but it isn't listed on the angel rpg web site yet.

My wife is interested in playing it with me and she is not a RPG fan, but the unisystem that the game uses is very strait forward. The book is well laid out and easy to follow.

I love the Angel quotes that fill almost every page. If you are Weldon fan, or just enjoy Angel and like to game or would like a different take on the Angelverse then this is the book for you.

The Corebook for the "Angel" Role-Playing Game.......2004-01-24

It might take you a while to notice that this is the "Corebook" for the "Angel" roleplaying game, because fans of the series will be taken by some of the gorgeous graphics on the opening pages and the opening chapter, which translates "Angel's Path" from the television series to the game. While what gamers find here will be compatible with the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" roleplaying game, it is clear that "Angel" has a different flavor. The evil of Los Angeles is decidedly different from what you find in Sunnydale with the Hellmouth. The basic game playing structure is the same, but the characters lean more towards humans and demons than vampires, and understandably so for anyone who watches the show.

Chapter Two is devoted to the Chosen Champions, which lays out a list of archetypes (e.g., Psychic Supermodel, Rogue Demon Hunter), along with the Original Cast: Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne, Doyle, Kate Lockley, Connor, and the Groosalugg. A section of Seasonal Adjustments covers the first three seasons of the series. Chapter Three, Helping the Helpless covers the game mechanics on how to roll, move, research, and fight. Chapter Four, Arcane Approaches, is all about the magical arts, teaching you how to both cast and create spells. Chapter Five, Cabals, Covens, and Agencies covers the organizations that you will encounter in L.A. Chapter Six, City of Angel lays out the haunts, sights, and suspects of the city as well (including minor allies like Anne Steel and David Nabbit). Chapter Seven, Something Wicked, presents the bad guys, organized by vamps, demons, and others (this is where you find Darla and Drusilla). Chapter Eight, Episodes, Season and Drama are guidelines for Directors on how to create storylines and run games. Chapter Nine, Blood Brothers, is a fleshed-out adventure for the "Angel Roleplaying Game," which does not involve any creating.

The back of the book contains an Appendix that provides a guide to Angelspeak, conversion notes for other Unisystem games, a glossary, character sheets, and other game aids. By this point C. J. Carella has made it very clear that he takes both this game and the television series on which it is based as seriously as the fans, which is exactly what we want. When Carella describes Darla's character motivation as "Pure self-centered evil, return Angelus, be a good mommy (very briefly)" and Drusilla's as "Whimsical nutjob, re-unite the "family," you know he is on target. I have been picking up these Eden Studio volumes because of my devotion to these shows, but I can see where playing one of these games would be a lot of fun as well.

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Angel RPG: Limited Edition
Various
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Angel: Investigator's Casebook (Angel Rpg)

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There are a lot of people out there that need help, but are you up to the challenge? Crime, corruption, poverty, drugs, Hollywood starlets, and, oh yeah - a whole lot of demons. This is the book that shows how it all fits together in the City of Angels. In it, you will find: An introduction to running adventures on the mean streets. Details about Angel Investigations - the cases they solve and the locations they haunt. New character options, plus new weapons and equipment. Rules and guidelines for solving cases, collecting evidence, conducting forensics, profiling, interrogating, gambling, and more. A detailed look at the world of private eyes - what they do, and how they do it. Police work made easy, including a run down of the LAPD, a primer for catching bad guys, and notes on how the federal authorities fit into it all. A quick guide to the court system, whether you're prosecuting or defending, and details on prisons in case it all goes wrong. A look at life in the urban wasteland, from ladies of the night to gangsters, and the people trying to make things better. A ready-to-run adventure taking it to the streets.

Neon Genesis Evangelion-RPG The Descent of ANGEL

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Neon Genesis Evangelion-RPG The Descent of ANGEL
Mitsuhiro Nakazawa
Manufacturer: Kadokawa Shoten
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Binding: Paperback

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Hardcore Collector need apply........2000-12-11

Excellent item to have, despite my average rating, it is not something I would go out and buy to get a group of friends to play; however, it would make a neat addition to anyone who is actually serious about collecting anime items, especially those of more unique or lesser known variety.

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From the author of THE PORTABLE CURMUDGEON, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world.

Customer Reviews:

an A to Z guide to neurosis.......2007-05-30

There is plenty of cynical humor here as Winokur debunks the self-help trends of our times: celebrity "sufferings"; Freud and his discredited theories; various disorders and anxieties; psychobabble; various addictions; guilt and hypochondrias; neurosii and manias; phobias and rages; delusions and victimhoods - No one or thing seems to be spared from Winokur's dissecting sarcasms.

There are also biographical sketches of Howard Hughes, Alfred Hitchcock, Larry David (Seinfeld's writer), E.M. Cioran, and Woody Allen that are revealing and entertaining.

This collection of quotations and commentaries is not as compelling as previous collections from Winokur - Zen To Go and The Portable Curmudgeon are his best books. Still, an overall entertaining read.

Extracts: A Field Guide for Iconoclasts

Great gift.......2007-01-09

This book is great fun. I bought one for myself and have given it as a gift.

For Seinfeld, Richard Lewis, Lewis Black and Kathy Griffin fans.......2005-08-03

Jon Winokur has previously written or edited such books as 'The Portable Curmudgeon' and 'A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love' so it's no surprise that he came up with the encyclopedia arranged alphabetically with definitions and quotations on topics and eccentrics like

Carrie Fisher: 'Instant gratification takes too long.'
to
adolescent: 'One who suffers from hormone-induced dementia'
to
political correctness: "intellectually challenged" (stupid) and "economically disadvantaged" (poor).

This is a sort of Book of Hours with quotations that are guaranteed to have you laughing, or shaking your head in agreement, or thinking anew about too-generally accepted notions of our modern American society. It's all good humored - well, mostly - in the manner of 'Seinfeld.' (One of Winokur's heroes is Larry David, the writer of the first several seasons of that hit show.) He skewers the pretensions and group-think of our times with a light heart, but all with a barely suppressed growl. Irony and sarcasm abound, but also empathy (oh, he'd hate my using that word!) for those of us who are trying to make our way in this vale of tears.

This is the sort of book that you want to keep at your bedside for dipping into for a few minutes now and again. I will admit, though, that I read it through from beginning to end and had some difficulty putting it down.

Scott Morrison

wonderfully neurotic.......2005-05-18

Call me a geek, but I like reference books: almanacs, atlases, thesauri, dictionaries and, yes, encyclopedias. I am also a student of psychology (although one who is procrastinating with the final step towards becoming a psychologist, the dissertation, instead writing book reviews for a blog). What a delight, then, to stumble across Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica, a compendium of Winokur's own entries and notable quotables on historical psychological terms, the latest pop "psychobabble" (see pps. 184-186), and brief biographies of eccentric folks

Between "the Absurd" and "zero-tolerance" (interesting bookends, to say the least), one can learn about traditional psychological terms, like the "id," and "conversion disorder," to new-fangled terms like "affluenza," or an illness characterized by a presence of or desire for wealth;" "cyberchondria," or the illness one gets from seeing one's symptoms on medical websites; and "mouse terror," the fearful belief that what scientists learn from mice in the lab, including susceptibility to disease, can be adequately translated to human beings.

Winokur also presents brief biographies of a number of wonderfully eccentric people, like Howard Hughes (an obsessive compulsive personality) and Larry David (Hollywood writer and co-creator of Seinfeld). The inclusion of these biographical entries in the Encyclopedia fits in line with Winokur's premise that we are all wonderfully weird and should embrace our own unique character quirks and personality defects. The autbographical sketch by Richard Lewis in the preface is as appropriate as it is funny as at is concise.

All in all, I thought the book was great and had a good balance of wit, humor, and sarcasm. Some brief entries could have been omitted. And maybe its my personality quirk, but the absence of sources for many of the entries was disappointing (Winokur asks us to take his word for their integrity, which I do, but its good to have the reference).
Finally, these probably just got past the editors: in the index, "abuse abuse" (not a redundancy) comes before "Absurd, the," and "sexual addiction" is transformed into "sexual addition" (which I am sure many would prefer to addiction). Maybe hypervigilance is just another character quirk of mine.

I would recommend it to all of my neurotic friends and colleagues.

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Encyclopedia Neurotica
Jon Winokur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTJIWS

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Encyclopedia Neurotica
Jon Winokur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTEMVU

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