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Although the number of budding filmmakers and the availability of digital video technology are growing, there are currently no books that encapsulate the process of creating a feature-length film using only a video camera and a home computer. Whether you are an amateur filmmaker or a computer enthusiast, "Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on a Home Computer" shows you how to create a feature or short film from start to finish using only home computer technology. Using his own film, "Able Edwards," as a model, the author illustrates step-by-step each stage of the filmmaking process, covering story, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. This book shows you how to explore and use the readily available software and other technology tools effectively. The author's use of his own film makes the processes involved seem realistic and attainable and allows you to really see what works and what doesn't. An accompanying CD/DVD that features both the "Able Edwards" trailer and green screen reveals make "Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on a Home Computer" a comprehensive guide to digital filmmaking.
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MovieMaker Magazine - Issue No. 63, Volume 13, 2006.......2006-07-26
Serving as proof that even the most inauspicious of beginnings, i.e. the dreaded "viral video," can lead to great success (author Graham Robertson co-wrote and directed the hugely popular online spoof Superfriends Wassup!), Robertson's Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on a Home Computer is exactly the kind of user-friendly moviemaking guide that most directors strive to write (and read), yet rarely do.
The book is a pleasure to read and packed with all sorts of useful information (you never notice just how much you've actually learned until you've moved on to the next chapter).
Written from the perspective of someone who knows what it's like to struggle as an independent moviemaker, it's therefore chock-full of do-it-yourself tips and a handy CD-ROM that includes the first 17 minutes of Robertson's all-digital, sci-fi feature, Able Edwards, as well as storyboard templates and other forms that will definitely come in handy in your own moviemaking endeavors.
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Centrifugation: Essential Data
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Centrifugation D. Rickwood, T.C. Ford and J. Steensgaard Centrifugation is at the center of most fractionation methods in a wide range of disciplines. This volume provides the core data required by researchers carrying out any centrifugal separation, whether working with cells, organelles or macromolecules. The Essential Data Series provides rapid access to the core data required by researchers on a daily basis, in convenient pocket-sized volumes.
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Thorough but disorganized.......2007-01-01
This book has a LOT of information, especially for the price, and its convenient size makes it easy to keep near the computer and the keyboard while one is working on an arrangement.
However, it is so poorly organized that I almost gave it only three stars; it's somewhat alphabetical order (but only somewhat), it's not in commonest-in-the-orchestra order, it's only vaguely grouped into a few related clumps. For example, the bowed strings come first - logical enough. But within their section, they are in this order: Contrabass, Viola, Viola d'Amore, Violin, Violincello (Cello). OK, that's alphabetical within section, but makes no sense in terms of what people would actually want to use. Next after Bowed Strings are Clarinets, Double Reeds, Flutes... yes, that's alphabetical order - IF you think of regular orchestral strings as specifically Bowed Strings, and IF you think of Oboes and Bassoons as Double Reeds and look them up that way.
Recorders are included under Flutes. As if that's part of "essential" orchestration. And the double reeds include Heckelphones. Hello, anyone who is going to write for a heckelphone these days is going to be using a far more specialized reference than this book.
After flutes come Fretted Strings - starting with the Banjo. Another item I wouldn't have said was "essential" in a book on orchestration. Then after Fretted Strings are Harps, Horns, Keyboards - starting with the Accordion. Then: Non-Pitched Metals. Now, honestly, is that the phrase you'd think of first in order to look up percussion equipment? After all the various Percussion categories, we get to Saxophones, Trombones, Trumpets, Tubas. Why do each of the brass get their own section, instead of being grouped as Slide Brass and Valved Brass? And why, if double reeds are going to include Heckelphones, doesn't the tuba section include Helicons and Serpents, let alone the frequently-used Sousaphone?
Best way to use this book: invest in stick-on colored tabs, to make it easy to find the most common instruments and to be able to flip right to the index, which is the first thing you're going to need.
ESSENTIAL DICTIONARY OF ORCHESTRATION.......2006-11-04
Unless you are a genius, you could not possibly remember all that was taught in orchestration class. I had an instructor that said: knowledge is not the ability to know everything; knowledge is the ability to be able to find everything (in the literature). ESSENTIAL DICTIONARy... is one of those books in the literature.
Very Concise, quick reference.......2005-09-04
Although many thick, expensive text books are available covering this same information, this book provides enough information to be useful, but not too much to change it from a reference to a study text. It thoroughly covers techniques of each instrument (what each instrument can do), their range, how they sound in each register, technical considerations, and how they are generally used inside of the score. As other reviewers have pointed out, this text is indespensible.
An indispensable guide.......2005-07-12
To quickly get an answer to questions about the ranges of instruments, best practical ranges, different tones and all special peculiarities, this book is an entirely indispensable guide.
Dag Lundin
Excellent quick-reference.......2005-05-23
A sharp little book that is capable of quickly and concisely answering the most common questions about western instruments. The book is laid out in a simple and easy-to-navigate manner giving you quick access to ranges, timbres and dynamic contour of the most commonly used instruments. While it's not exhaustive as the authoritative Adler text, it's easier and quicker to browse through, and provides an excellent desk-reference. The book does not cover principles of orchestration, but it doesn't pretend to and even suggests seeking out other texts for information on this subject. Highly recommended.
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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This highly practical, illustrated guide continues to provide an up-to-date introduction to anaesthetic equipment and its use in clinical practice. An invaluable resource for all those who work with anaesthetic equipment, including anaesthetists studying for the FRCA examinations, nurses and operating department practitioners, this new edition has been completely updated to reflect current equipment and training requirements. Lavishly illustrated throughout with colour photos and clearly-drawn line illustrations, Essentials of Anaesthetic Equipment, third edition, retains the superbly organized and easy-to-read format that has made the previous two editions such a success.
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Essentials of Instrumentation
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Chess
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Typical Pandolfini.......2006-04-04
Well, lucky us! Finally, there's a COMPLETE guide to the game of chess, "from history to strategy"! One might think that, perhaps, Murray's History of Chess, or the MCO, or Euwe's books on chess strategy, or Fine's basic endgames book, might be a bit more complete on their respective subjects. Apparently we were wrong. It is this 120-or-so page tome which is the MOST comperhensive guide to all those fields. It says so right on the cover, so it must be true!
In reality, of course, this book is anything but "complete". As most of Pandolfini's books, it is nothing but rehashed trivialities for beginners. Three chapters deal almost with nothing but the rules of the game. Once this is done, a couple of more chapters (about 40 pages or so) deal with some very basic tactics and strategy (on the "make sure your pieces are defended" and "rooks belong behind passed pawns" level). Add a chapter of a smatterings of history, and the book is done.
If you aren't an absolute beginner, there would be nothing new for you in this "complete" book, and no reason to but it.
But even if you are, there are MUCH better books out there. Try Purdy's books for beginners, or Capablanca's "Chess Fundamentals". While far older, those books have quite a few advantages: they were written by FAR better players who put FAR more effort into their books, and are available for less than Pandolfini's tomes are.
Too General to be very useful.......2004-08-25
This book does what a fortune teller does by being very general. And too general to be of much use. This book doesn't contain examples using real chess positions. Just a lot of written words and no exact examples of how to use them. You are better off buying another chess book.
I have a question..........2003-03-18
Ever been asked a stupid chess question? or a chess question you know the answer to but don't know how to explain it? or how about a chess question your just not sure of? belive me I've been there.
Well here's the answers simply explained.
I'm not a fan of Pandolfini's book by any means, But this is one of his books I really liked.
545 questions in 13 chapters, like having a masters brain to pick 24/7.
A very good Ref........2002-05-24
Well guys to tell you the truth when i first had the book it seemed like a big waste of money but after giving it a chance ,i was realy happy to buy it becuase you can benfit from every page in it ,when i was teaching my brother the game ,he almost asked me all those bloody QQQQs so i went back for things that i couldn't have the right words to describe.I think it is a good Ref,and it is better than a lot of claimed chess books...
Chess Complete Garbage..........2002-01-04
Basically this book isnt worth the trees that were killed for the paper. If you really wanna throw your money away, why not donate to charity. Do not give money to some bogus over rated no talent coach who writes book after book. As you read the stupid questions asked, you ask yourself what was I thinking. The final question in this book is "What is born every minute?". You can answer this question two ways, buy this book, or realize the truth...
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Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind – and offers ways to influence that process.
Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it happens in gradual stages that can be powerfully influenced along the way.This book provides insights that can broaden our horizons and shape our lives.
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Leadership for Change.......2007-03-20
Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of intelligence, has written a thought provoking and intriguing book. The title of the book is somewhat misleading, as it deals more with leadership and communication, than with changing the behavior or personalities of individuals. Thus, if you are looking for a self-help book, a book on personal change, or a text on psychotherapies, then this is the wrong book for you. The book is more appropriate for political leaders, corporate leaders, or new supervisors, looking for some non-traditional ideas on the leadership process and on how to influence others. It may take some work to convert the ideas offered here into practice, but Gardner's book should prove interesting to those looking for some creative concepts that are not found in the typical business text on leadership.
Changing Minds: The Acadmics Viewpoint.......2007-03-09
A very boring book written by a true academic trying to help hands on people. I would suggest reading a book written by someone who actually influences people on a daily basis rather than this book which is written by someone who read about it somewhere else.
Start at the end.......2007-01-06
I recommend you skip the first part of the book and go straight to the epilogue. The book seems well researched and annotated. Gardner seems even handed about the subject, with no axe to grind. Mainly he presents a set of stories, and classifies the events in them according to frequently recurring phenomena (his 7 Rs) that inspire people to change their minds. I feel it's a step forward, but I had hoped for more. It's an old problem domain (one thinks of Aristotle's "Rhetoric"), and it remains mysterious. Most of the stories seem to revolve around faculties and universities and Harvard and Harvard alumni, sufficiently that I think Harvard Hubris taints it. Even if the ideas are good, and even if the stories support them, I'd prefer that Gardner get further out of the ivory tower, out of the Harvard parochialism, and into the real world. The ideas do seem valid, and I get the feeling Gardner knows much about how people think. But you probably should get "Selling for Dummies" if you wish to set sales records this quarter.
A Perceptual Map for Changing Minds.......2006-12-15
Whenever I meet new clients, they tell me that if they can just get those who disagree with them to agree they will have no more problems. Embedded in that observation is a belief that they have all the facts and have correctly interpreted those facts. A corollary is that anyone who disagrees is either misinformed or an idiot.
Usually, what I find instead is that my new clients have listened very well to what people have been telling them and haven't explained their own point of view very well. The right solution is usually to create a new solution together and implement as a cooperative team.
Somewhere along the way, the new clients forget the "us" and "they" mentality and wonder what in the world I did to help them. The eventual solution seems obvious in retrospect . . . and they forget that there was ever disagreement. That's how subtle the process of changing minds is. Except for the most self-aware, we just wake up one day with a new set of ideas. I'm reminded of the advertisement for FedEx where the leader asks for ways to cut costs. A shy man quietly suggests using FedEx. Everyone ignores what he says until the leader repeats the idea . . . and then everyone applauds. The shy man challenges the leader who defends himself by saying that he changed the hand gestures used to make the pronouncement . . . and that made all the difference.
In other words, we love to be in charge . . . even when someone else has changed our mind.
The whole process remains mysterious. After reading Changing Minds, those who find the process mysterious will continue to find it so. But those who have some insight into the process will find meta-models for structuring their strategies and tactics of persuasion and education.
The first 67 pages of the book encapsulate Professor Gardner's valuable work on cognitive thinking, including multiple intelligences, mental representations, and their interaction in six arenas of mind changing. At this point, many eyes would roll at the thought of such a complex matrix.
But Professor Gardner provides relief for the reader by using incredibly subtle stories to capture the primary ways to use multiple intelligences and mental representations to good effect in various mind-changing arenas.
To give you a sense of how subtle these stories are, Changing Minds has a precise example that I can apply to a mind-changing problem that I perpetually face, helping people appreciate the potential for 2,000 percent solutions (20 times better results from the same time and effort). Yet, I had to read the example a number of times before its power sunk in for me. I'm sure at some subconscious level I got the point sooner, but my conscious "aha" took a while. And I've read many of Professor Gardner's earlier books involving some of the same examples.
Professor Gardner is well known for having been the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the so-called "genius" award. With this book, I began to see for the first time the full range of his genius. It's impressive.
What's my advice for you? Read this book several times. Put it down and read it again in a year. In the meantime, read some other books about changing minds (on topics like negotiation, persuasion, story-telling, and so forth). Then, it'll all come together for you.
Seemed to be more interested in academics than practicality..........2006-11-14
I had pretty high hopes for the book Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner. It looked like it would be a good book for learning the art of, well, changing peoples minds. Instead it was an academic journey that I found difficult to draw applications from...
Contents: The Contents of the Mind; The Forms of the Mind; The Power of Early Theories; Leading a Diverse Population; Leading an Institution - How to Deal with a Uniform Population; Changing Minds Indirectly - Through Scientific Discoveries, Scholarly Breakthroughs, and Artistic Creations; Mind Changing in a Formal Setting; Mind Changing Up Close; Changing One's Own Mind; Epilogue - The Future of Mind Changing; Appendix; Notes; Index; About the Author
Gardner puts forth his theories of mind change based on three factors... four "entities" of mind change (stories, theories, concepts, and skills), six "arenas" of mind change (from nations down to one's own person), and seven "levers" of mind change (all words that start with "re", like reason, resources, and resonance). He uses a number of examples from history to show how ideas and people were able to move others from one mindset to another. On the surface, it sounded like an interesting premise that I could apply in my day-to-day activities. And at times, the writing almost succeeded. There'd be glimpses of the person behind the writing, almost as if there was a conversation going on. Then there'd be a retreat to academic analysis and pacing that made it a chore to slog through. His attitudes and preconceptions are also quite evident. For example, he seems to hold Darwin and his theories in high regard, while denigrating "fundamentalist" Christianity. Granted, this wasn't a book on keeping an open mind, but I didn't quite want to be labeled as ignorant if I don't happen to agree with him or hold the same views in life.
Someone who is heavily into academic theory or the study of the human mind might well find this interesting. But if you're a busy professional looking for practical insights to work with, this is going to be a real stretch...
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