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Brokeback Mountain exploded the myth of the American cowboy as a tough, gruff, and grizzled loner. Queer Cowboys exposes, through books by legendary Western writers such as Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Owen Wister, how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before Brokeback's 1960's West, and well before the word "homosexual" was even invented. Chris Packard introduces readers to the males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians, and vaqueros who defined themselves by excluding women and the cloying ills of domesticity and recovers a forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in the fiction, photographs, and theatrical performances of the 1800's Wild West.
Customer Reviews:
Not quite the ticket.......2007-09-06
An intersting little anthology of the queer and not so queer which suffers from too much hindsight on occasion. Sure there were male-to-male relationships between these types but they do not necessarily constitute 'gay' in our terms. Some individuals just want to have too much neatly in their corner and claim the past too. I read this with interest but was neither convinced or persuaded that all is what it seems according to this author.
It is cashing in on the 'virility' factor assoicated with cowboys.
I suggest you reading this book in tandem with "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean"
Lonesome Cowboys.......2006-10-03
Chris Packard puts together an entertaining, and intellectually stimulating tour of some "cowboy literature" of the 19th century, emphasizing everywhere its homosocial qualities, and finding the erotic under every set of chaps. Comical, sometimes suggestive period photographs dot the text, cowhands hugging each other, holding hands, or even standing "too close" to each other, dancing, or swimming nude. Packard begins his survey of American lit with the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper (and his sea stories too, which share some of the same tropes of white man + "othered" man finding love where no woman dare go). Cooper's always good for a few laughs, but the intensity of same-sex feeling that Packard finds in these novels might make you momentarily confused--might he be writing about DENNIS Cooper's books? On a broad level, was homosexuality encouraged "on the trail" as a way of avoiding children of mixed race? So it seems.
Owen Wister's THE VIRGINIAN was a famous novel written by a contemporary of Henry James who actually was a cowboy himself, briefly, in youth. Its narrator, an Eastern newcomer, is in love with the Virginian, that's pretty obvious from Packard's canny precis. This chapter is the highlight of Packard's discussion and the one that comes closest to furthering his thesis. Succeeding chapters descend into writing's netherworlds, of softcore porn, lockerroom ballads, and Mark Twain's obscene smoking room talks, to show that American men were not above appreciating same-sex love as a basis for comedy, though it is a pity Packard couldn't find any cowboys doing so.
The book feels oddly foreshortened at the end, as though the publisher were punishing him for running overtime and stopped the argument, arbitrarily, at a certain number of pages. But I enjoyed myself thoroughly and could definitely see an expanded edition.
I DON'T THINK THE COWBOYS WERE ALL GAY.......2006-05-15
This author examines (mostly) 19th century fictional stories about cowboys and tries to make the case that the relationships between the cowboys described in the stories are in fact homosexual sexual relationships. That the (mostly) Victorian sentiments in the stories which describe the love, admiration, attachments, and living arrangments between the cowboys are, in reality, describing cowboys who are homosexual and who can't keep their eyes or hands off each other. That the reason all these cowboys sleep in their bedrolls in pairs, live together in wilderness cabins just like married straight couples, and find children who are orphans to raise as their own, is that all these cowboys are gay. That the hundreds of novels and short stories about cowboys published in books and in pulp magazines and read by millions of straight boys and men for the last 200 years and who thought that they were simply adventure stories about cowboys, were really gay love stories drenched in erotic language and imagery. I'd really love to believe this is true, that cowboy stories are really gay romances. But this book Queer Cowboys doesn't convince me. Characters in fiction don't have real lives the way people who are subjects of biographies have real lives. The cowboy stories NEVER say that the cowboys have sex with each other. I think the author of Queer Cowboys is misinterpreting the over-the-top Victorian sentiments about admiration and platonic love in these stories. I don't believe that the stories are revealing that cowboys were all gay. But the book is thought provoking, and the author has courage, and I think it's worth reading since there isn't a lot else on the subject.
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Music Managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management in this timely guide to the popular music business. The book presents scenarios from a manager's work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. Through stories of real-life famous artist-manager teams, the authors analyze, criticize, and detail what a manager ought to learn to be an effective advisor and representative. Co-written by a performing arts manager and an actress/journalist, the book teaches future music managers and artists how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop and image, administer taxes and finances, and deal with promoters, media, attorneys, and unions. A special chapter tells artists what to look for in a manager, how to sign fair management contracts, and how to avoid career manipulation. Packed with industry guidelines, sample contracts, sure-fire career tips, and photos of acclaimed industry icons, this book is a professional springboard for music managers, recording artists, singers, and rock bands alike.
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Discover the real story through a "week in the life of a music manager" in this guide to success! Through entertaining, real-life stories of famous artist-manager teams, this book details what a talent manager must know to become an effective advisor and representative.
Customer Reviews:
Neds improvement but good.......2006-05-20
This is a useful book but unfortunately only relates to pop music and the other genres are left alone. If you don't know which style you should choose and promote you should first read something more general like "Ty Cohen's Secrets to Making Money in the Music Industry" by Ty Cohen which is a valuable book for those who want to make a hit into the music business. This book reveals the most important secrets to succeed and you will start making profit in no time! Buy this book now if you want to find out the secrets from the pros.
A terrific guide, cleverly laid out---artists take note.......2003-07-07
Hard to imagine a book doing a better job than this one does of walking someone through the world of pop music management. The authors have hit on a clever way to provide a wealth of detail, wisdom and rules, while keeping things entertaining: The narrative follows three days in the life of a manager of a band, using that story on which to hang the nuts and bolts. That way, you not only learn the tricks of the trade, but you get a sense of the life as well. This book would by no means be of interest only to someone who wants to get in strictly on the management side--I'm a (hopefully up-and-coming) musician, and almost everything in the book seemed potentially helpful to me, both in understanding what I can expect in a manager, and in learning approaches to self-management as well. This book is a tremendously valuable addition to my career-development library.
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Dixy Lee Ray's prescription is a sound one. --The Wall Street Journal
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Required Reading!.......2006-05-26
I keep this book handy to educate clueless people who just listen to the "news" each night.
It is loaded with earth facts, and dispells the popular myths of today, that man has the power to change the climate.
We don't.
We are arrogant for thinking we can. The environmmental movement if a home for Socialists, just follow the money.
But this book and prepare to be angered by how manipulated you have been. You are taxed to death for the "environmental good" that has no meaning. What dopes we all are.
no science in the book, propaganda of large corporations.......2005-07-21
This books has no science behind it and is basically a screed against environmental action of any sort.
I would reccommend as a great book The Future of Life by Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor at Harvard University, who has been recognized by many as an authority on the Environment, and has put together an excellent, very readable book, without hype, but clear lucid Science, thoughtfully presented.
An impossible task.......2003-05-13
The review of this book states that the authors claim that "nuclear power is a safe and cheap source of energy; that acid rain is a vastly exaggerated problem; that chemical pesticides are not as dangerous as they have been made out to be; and that worry over the ozone hole is just an environmental scare tactic". To even attempt to claim these assertions as fact in a book of 206 pages (that don't source refernces for information!) is completely rediculous.
Insightful, Common Sense Book.......2002-06-05
Read this book if you want to look at environmental issues from common sense standpoints rather than from standpoints of people preaching gloom and doom!
Insightful, Common Sense Book.......2002-06-05
Read this book if you want to look at environmental issues from common sense standpoints rather than from standpoints of people preaching gloom and doom!
Customer Reviews:
Green Truth or Consequences.......2005-10-11
A good number of environmentatlists lie big and lie often. If more effort was made understanding the dynamics of our environment, and less effort was made in fabricating hyperbole, the world would truly be a better place.
This book details a number of the "big lies" that have been and still are being told about the environment.
Science should not be agenda driven, nor should public institutions cave to pseudoscience presented as fact.
Taking advantage of your ignorance..........2003-11-21
Come on, people! Simply put, believing Dixy Lee Ray's conclusions is like thinking professional wrestling is real. Through a series of half-truths, bad science, and a willful misrepresentation of atmospheric chemistry, Ray makes the case that global warming isn't happening, acid rain isn't real, and that pesticides really aren't all that dangerous...all in 200 odd pages! Well, at least she doesn't include any meaningful footnotes or references to hinder the readability of her text. Don't be fooled by this piece of pro-business, pro-corporate, irresponsible propaganda. If you're really interested in this sort of thing, head on down to your local college or community college and sign up for an introduction to geology class. Just about anywhere you go (with the possible exception of Bob Jones University), you'll find that what much of what Ray proposes isn't taken the least bit seriously by any scientist in any field. Ray knew that if you're buying this book, let alone reading it all the way through--that you really don't know that much about geology or atmospheric science, and even less about the whole concept of backing up your work with foot notes, end notes, and peer review-and that you will just go along with it. "Why would she make THIS up" you ask? Well, by getting you to go along with weakening or elimination of environmental regulation, huge polluters stand to make BILLIONS off of your land, your water, and your air. Go back to sleep, America, The Corporation is in control.
Trashing the Enviornmental Zealots.......2002-02-12
I first came across this book in 1994 when I was a liberal leaning college student concerned with the environment. I am now a conservative college graduate concerned with the environment, and this book had much to do with my transformation. Dixy Lee Ray is a breath of fresh air speaking on a subject many of us are ill-informed on.
If you are concerned with the environment, you will find much in this book that interests you (as long as you can handle truth). Miss Ray debunks much of the dogma the enviro-nazis shove down the publics throat. She takes on the issues of global warming, ozone depletion, nuclear medicine, acid rain and others. Using scientific methods (something the leftist leaning environmental zealots ignore because they fear the outcome of true scientific discovery) she intelligently and unemotionally discusses how water is naturally acidic; the benefits of x-rays and other advances in radiation therapy; the benefits of pesticides in our ability to grow more food using less labor and land.
Throughout her book Ray uses the statistics and predictions of the environmental movement's leaders against them to show how out of touch with reality and normal society they are. A Stanford University Biologist, Paul Ehrlich is quoted as predicting global famine in 1985 and a shrinking of the US population from 250 million to 22.5 million by 1999. Here is another quote, "Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace: 'I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.'"
The list goes on and on. The best part of the book is the final chapter, in which Ray presents a sound and logical formula for having both a clean environment and a technologically advanced society. This book should be read by all high school seniors so they can understand the truth about the environment rather than the dogma they are spoon feed in public schools and the liberal media.
The truth about mankind and the environment.......2001-04-09
I have read Trashing the Planet by Dr. Dixie Lee Ray several times. This book should be required reading for introductory classes on the environment in both high school and college - however, that will never happen. The leftist environmental movement does not want anyone to read this book - it is concise, well researched, thoroughly footnoted, and, I feel, gives an accurate report on the status of humans and their impact on the environment. I recently sent copies of this book to President George W. Bush and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News to help them understand what they are up against.
Finally! A Scientist Using the Scientific Method!.......1998-06-09
It's about time someone spoke the truth about what really motivates the environmental movement: money. It has nothing to do with any real danger to plants, animals, the earth, or the human race. The lies Ray exposes are atrocious, and the truth is so poignant that one can't help but be astonished that anyone actually believes we are in any danger. The evidence provided here goes to show how little people mean to the environmental whackos who perpetuate this arrogant, anti-human campaign of scare tactics and other subterfuge. Anyone who is scared of losing this planet can rest assured after reading this book.
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How to Deal with the Media: A Practical Guide
Dennis Barker
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Almost anyone at some stage in their work or personal lives may find themselves being questioned by a journalist or group of journalists. This is an insider's guide to the media, which tells you how not only to survive but also to profit from such contact.
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Ever feel like you've been screwed over, ripped off, cheated, or treated badly by some company or organization? No? Then don't bother buying this book. If, however, you endure the routine ill treatment one gets in auto repair facilities, tax offices, or with airlines that the rest of us encounter with great regularity, this book will show you how to complain effectively for best results, when to complain and maybe when not, what companies tend to respond to, and, if all else fails, some wonderful examples of consumer revenge when all legitimate attempts to get satisfaction bear no fruit. Useful book, quite funny in places with lots of true case histories of successful complaining.
Customer Reviews:
No Good.......2005-01-17
This book wwwwwas extremely ineffective in geting companies to listen to my parents. Definitely a huge waste of money
Bear's book is interesting: of some use, but obsolete.......1999-07-24
This book, evolving, it appears, from a dissertation, is wellwritten and moderately interestng as an intellectual excursion. Italso provides insights into the contempuous ways in which some companies treat complaining customers, the laws, regulations and recourses that are available to dissatisfied customers, and offers a few useful suggestions. However, the book must now be considered long in the tooth. There are more useful books out there, e.g. by Phillips. Also Bear and his spouse have a more recent book that is more likely to be useful to people who really want to complain. That complaints often wield powerful effects is certain.
One last piece of review and advice. Before entering into a course of customer, read lots of books about the topic(s).
Bedbug Letter.......1999-05-19
I chose this book because I was mad and I was not going to take it anymore so I decided to write a letter of complaint to the object of my "affection" (my employer). I thought this book would teach me how. I mean, part of the title reads "How to be a more effective complainer". Unfortunately, the book turned out to be endless in its compilation of data and statistics but falls far short on the very job it's supposed to do: it does not tell you exactly HOW to complain and the examples it gives are very few and far in between. The contents seem more like a boring executive report not expected to be read by anyone.
Excellent, in-depth and effective.......1998-07-29
This book is incredible! It tells you what works and what doesn't, when and how to complain, be persistent, etc, all written quite humorously and with case studies.
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How to Deal With Disk Disasters
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This revised and updated second edition explains how to set about recovering lost data with a minimum of fuss.
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Title: Coping with jerk swarms: how should the mainstream media deal with abusive posts?(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
Author: Barb Palser
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American Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Page: 70(1)
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 6, 1992. The length of the article is 1053 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.
From the supplier: Gerber Products Co acted in several different ways to manage a Feb 1986 crisis when one consumer complaint of glass in a jar of baby food escalated into 400 similar complaints nationwide. Besides working with the authorities, Gerber invited three prominent newspapers to review the facts and provided personnel interview opportunities and plant tours to the television networks. Wire services were given full cooperation as the source for local stories. Companies should have an effective media relations program that acknowledges the influence the media wields over a business's future.
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Title: The Gerber glass scare: how to deal with media. (crisis management)
Author: Steven Poole
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Date: July 6, 1992
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Title: Risks associated with transporting storage media & how to deal with them.(Disaster Recovery & Backup/Restore)
Author: Nathan C. Thompson
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Computer Technology Review (Newsletter)
Date: August 1, 2005
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Volume: 25
Issue: 5
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5719 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: Salt Lake blues: a behind-the-scenes look at how an ill-fated deal with a tabloid cost two Salt Lake Tribune reporters their jobs, toppled the paper's editor and caused the Tribune major embarrassment.
Author: Rachel Smolkin
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Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 25
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Customer Reviews:
A genre sleeper .......2005-02-12
Seems this book needed to be published, this time around authored by one Robert Anderson, who obviously was dissatisfied
with his predecessor's book. Mr. Anderson gives us a good indication that three sources can be written about a spy show that started and ended as a serious espionage thriller, and more than just a small-screen copy of 007. This is politically correct: the show was only a spoof for two annuals, including the spinoff starring a female lead--cocreator Sam Rolfe hated the campy approach and diehard followers would swear in agreement. The fact the show lost its magic touch were the lighter scripts that eventually bored even the leads. Dissatisfication with one's childhood isn't a required to despise a good half of the episodes along with its short-lived spinoff bomb. Some of the third year's episodes are definitely comparable with Michael Myers' Austin Powers. Buy Anderson's book if you like the show.
An honest tribute by a humble fan .......2004-12-24
Robert Anderson brilliantly takes over where his predecessor leaves off, knowing fully well he was meant to close the door on the topic, grown tired perhaps. There is no need for elaborate, unrequired details; therefore he gets direct to the point over the essential facts without the addition of endless pretty photos. (He has no desire to fuel his own ego, therefore he doesn't include a photo of himself posing with anyone or any collectibles. To do so would be too glamourized, too egocentric.
This book, while plain-looking in appearance, deserves to be read especially if his predecessor's book is. It's right on the money and won't disappoint in the least.
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