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He had many names: Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Sultan of Swoon, the Voice. Ultimately, we will all remember Frank Sinatra as the World's Greatest Entertainer. The Voice lives on in this commemorative pictorial tribute to the life and 50-year career of the man who changed the face of music and movies from a humble beginning in Hoboken, New Jersey to his death on May 14, 1998 at age 82. In addition to being written by Nancy Sinatra, Frank's first-born daughter, this is the ONLY book done with the full cooperation of the Sinatra family. Reviewers rave "priceless," "a visual knockout," "a must-have for any Sinatra fan." Rare or previously unpublished photos and dozens of private stories told by his most intimate friends separate myth from the real deal and make this an extremely revealing--and truly poignant--testament to the legend who did it his way. Also features a complete discography and filmography.
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The ideal family album.......2003-07-23
No wonder this book is so thick- it's filled with numerous photos of Frank Sinatra, his family, and friends over the years. I love looking at these pics, and so will any other Sinatra fan. There is detailed info throughout the book as well. This is one worth having in your collection.
Sinatra-Viewed Naked & Still Beautiful.......2003-07-14
Here is Sinatra stripped of everything who leaves me knowing he has deserved my love and admiration all these years. With Sinatra, he drove himself through life going after whatever he wanted and risking the consequences. We get to look at his ups and downs and his prides and his falls. We see him suffer at love and sing about it. We see him finally, after all the aborted tries, finally sink himself into a relationship with his last wife that kept him happy until he died.
Life for Sinatra was all or nothing at all and he did life his way and fell into lots of tender traps and led some into his own tender traps, like one famous movie star I will let you discover on your own.
What so special about Nancy's book is that she is amazingly organized and objective in her account of her father's life. And the CD, well the CD is everything. You get to hear Sinatra on Sinatra, unabashed.
Everyone on the planet needs to buy and read this book to learn what life can be when you go for it all every day!
Kudos to Nancy for a biography well, well done.
The Review.......2003-02-26
This book has excellent pictures with the most vital information for a biography project. A great buy and great read for interested fans of Ol' Blue Eyes.
A MARVELLOUS SCAPBOOK.......2001-03-07
This scrapbook is a real treat to any true SINATRA fan.It is full of pictures of everybody who was important in his life from his parents to collaborators like arrangers NELSON RIDDLE; all his wifes from NANCY to BARBARA;the legendary LOUIS B. MAYER etc.Better than most biographies because it is based on facts not rumours.The early pictures from his beginnings are alone worth the price.I was fortunate enough to get this book at the third of it's price and i went through it very fast because once you open it, you simply can't take your hands out of it.If FRANK became the singer of the past century, it's not by accident, he worked hard at it.I was particulary touched by his loyalty to his true friends.FRANK SINATRA is a mirror of his country. He was the son of immigrants who lived the AMERICAN dream to the fullest.Where is the AMERICAN dream today now that it's last legend is gone?Let's not complain too much ,because everything that FRANK SINATRA ever recorded is now available on cd.Nostalgia when you think of it is a very good thing.SATURDAY is not the loneliest night of the week anymore thanks to the chairman of the board.If you are not already a fan, this book should do the trick.
Everything you want to know about Frank is in this Book.......2000-08-29
I had to get this book after seeing how low the price came down.The original price was 40 dollars. Nancy Sinatra's book on her Father has everything in here.I couldn't believe Frank weighted 13and a half pounds when he was born on December 12,1915.The Doctor ripped and scarred his ear,check,and neck,plus puncturing his eardrum.Frank wasn't breathing,so his grandmother Rose held the baby under cold running water until he gasped his first breath and cried.This book is like a Diary.It goes from year to year,sometimes month to month.All of Franks movies,records,concerts,TV shows,songs,and the name of the songwriters are in here,plus hundreds of pictures,starting with Frank's baby photo, ending with a touching family photo taken in 1996.There's a wonderfull picture of Marilyn Monroe taken with Dean Martin sitting ringside at the Sands..All of the stars are in here,and family pictures we've never seen before.If you are a Frank Sinatra fan,you have to get this Book.Its huge,and the pictures are fantastic.
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Legend: frank sinatra and the american dream
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FRANK SINATRA: An American Legend
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Nat Hentoff does it again....WOW!.......1999-01-23
I am always searching for a new perspective of life. For me jazz is life! This book opened my eyes to a new perspective of jazz. This book has been my guiding light to jazz music and a passage way through life.
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- Excellent for Beginning Players
- Single best choice for beginners
- Great For Newcomers
- the book taught me the basics
- the book taught me the basics
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An Invitation to Chess: A Picture Guide to The Royal Game,
Irving Chernev , and
Kenneth Harkness
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Excellent for Beginning Players.......2003-01-23
I used "An Invitation to Chess" when I taught a grade school course in chess fundamentals. Of all the chess books I have seen geared purely toward the beginner, I found this to be the clearest, best organized, and, just as the subtitle claims, it is "A Picture Guide to The Royal Game."
Lots of pictures help explain the moves and motions of a piece in the context of a larger strategy. Chernev and Harkness used photos of the board as well as standard board drawings. They require modernized, as the photos are a bit blurry, and the drawings have an old newspaper keyline look. The copy is succinct, but not dry. As a reader, I found it less clinical than many of the chess books with dozens of lines per opening.
This is a long way from anything Lasker or Fischer wrote, but the audience intended here is looking to play the game effectively, unworried about becoming a grandmaster. At least, not yet.
The content list breaks things down to subsections like "How the King Moves and Captures," and "How the Pawn Captures 'en passant.''" They provide a special section cautioning the new player of common mistakes, like "Premature Attacks," and "Pawn Grabbing with the Queen." This is invaluable because young players routinely shoot for point control over game control.
I fully recommend "An Invitation to Chess" by Irving Chernev and Kenneth Harkness. Use this to teach your children, or use it to study up when they start to beat you.
Anthony Trendl
Single best choice for beginners.......2000-11-29
Though this book is getting a bit old, a better beginners book has yet to be written. Getting into the habit of asking yourself "what does he threaten?" is crucial to the beginning player. They really should update it to algebraic.
Great For Newcomers.......2000-04-14
When I first learned the rules of the game, I found this book to be of great value, if only for the simple advice of "always ask yourself why your opponent played a certain move. What does he attack?" and "before your make your move, ask yourself what your opponent's best reply would be." You can find more comprehensive books, but this is my choice for a useful, friendly, quick guide to better chess. I'd buy this for a younger player or newcomer in a heartbeat. Why intimidate someone with a huge tome when you can painlessly improve with this volume?
the book taught me the basics.......1998-06-16
this book helped me go from a person not caring about chess to now being a very big part of my off duty time i take my magnetic set with me to all my appointments or anywhere i might have a waiting period,i get valuable time on my set and i also refer to the games in the book and try to learn from the great games illustrated in the book ,now i am trying to teach my family and friends how to play ,i am 30 yrs old if i had learned when i was younger i would be who knows,playing deep blue in a series :) ,i dream big . i also beat my friend i have been only playing for 1 year and he has been for 8years or more ,but he told me that i will never beat him in chess ,i love when someone tells me i am never going to do something i stayed with what i learned in the book and he underestimated my abilities and the day i beat him i will never forget the surprised look he had on his face. since then i have won matches 3 to be exact and counting i hope i can get more training from on line because i will be better than him or at least get to the point where we are splitting games, he has alot of chess books and he knows i am closing the gap real fast and i like the fact that he opened me up to this wonderful game.
the book taught me the basics.......1998-06-16
this book helped me go from a person not caring about chess to now being a very big part of my off duty time i take my magnetic set with me to all my appointments or anywhere i might have a waiting period,i get valuable time on my set and i also refer to the games in the book and try to learn from the great games illustrated in the book ,now i am trying to teach my family and friends how to play ,i am 30 yrs old if i had learned when i was younger i would be who knows,playing deep blue in a series :) ,i dream big . i also beat my friend i have been only playing for 1 year and he has been for 8years or more ,but he told me that i will never beat him in chess ,i love when someone tells me i am never going to do something i stayed with what i learned in the book and he underestimated my abilities and the day i beat him i will never forget the surprised look he had on his face. since then i have won matches 3 to be exact and counting i hope i can get more training from on line because i will be better than him or at least get to the point where we are splitting games, he has alot of chess books and he knows i am closing the gap real fast and i like the fact that he opened me up to this wonderful game.
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AN INVITATION TO CHESS
Manufacturer: SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Preface: "For this second volume of the 'Caissa Limited Editions' we have chosen a facsimile edition of the tournament book for the City of London Chess Club Tournament in 1900. Though this tournament is not of the very first rank, the tournament book itself is scarce and the games little known; yet with an entry of Teichmann, Gunsberg, Mason, and England's greatest player, Blackburne, it was certainly not an insignificant event...."
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To David Friedman (son of Milton Friedman), economics explains everything. In a way, that's an odd thing for him to say: Friedman Jr. has never taken an economics course in his life (by training he's a physicist). Yet he defines economics broadly and uses it as a tool to understand all aspects of human behavior, from selecting a mate to picking a grocery store line to switching lanes in rush-hour traffic jams. If you like the economics-for-everyman approach of such writers as Steven E. Landsburg, then Friedman is for you.
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David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to voting or not voting, from negotiating the best job offer to finding the right person to marry.
Hidden Order is an essential guide to rational living, revealing all you need to know to get through each day without being eaten alive. Friedman's wise and immensely accessible book is perfect for amateur economists, struggling economics students, young parents and professionals--just about anyone who wants a clear-cut approach to why we make the choices we do and a sensible strategy for how to make the right ones.
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It's an excellent book!.......2007-07-28
It's an excellent book. Although I enjoyed reading Freakonomics, "Hidden Order" is a much deeper and broader book in terms of issues discussed.
What I really like about it that in additional of covering existing issues, it helps to learn how to approach new problems.
The sad thing is although the book was written in 1996, we(and politicians, and TV/Radio talk heads) are still using the same uninformed reasoning during the discussions.
It would be great if the book became a required reading in the high schools and colleges.
After getting it from a library, I bought it for my friends.
Good micro-economics primer, but not of the "popular" genre as it claims..........2007-01-31
What David Friedman has written here is a good, but very serious, micro-economics book in a relatively conversational tone. In a number of places on the back cover and in the early text, the book makes the claim that it is a "popular" economics book along the lines of Freakonomics; it isn't. It is a far deeper dive into the nuts and bolts of the tools of micro-economics rather than a light read about fascinating applications of those tools.
That doesn't preclude this from being a good book; for the most part it is, but a lot of people are likely to feel like a victim of a bait-and-switch if they read this book expecting another Freakonomics.
Hidden Order lays out the micro-economic theories of the Chicago School, a n approach to economics originated largely by David Friedman's legendary father Milton Friedman. The economics of the Chicago School are proving to have far more validity over time than the main rival, Keynesian economics which makes reading a book like this very worthwhile for someone willing to invest the time to understand economics better.
This book can make you a better thinker, voter and judge of information from the media. Recommended for anyone who values such things.
Not Recommended.......2006-06-27
Having read (and thoroughly enjoyed) Levitt's Freakonomics, I picked up "Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life" looking for more of the same. Unfortunately, I was sadly disappointed.
I get the impression the author intended to write a Freakonomics-type book, but was only able to come up with 40 pages of material (located at the end of the book). Facing an irate publisher, he then filled in the initial 290 pages with his old Economics lecture notes. As a result, readers who have taken an elementary economics course will find much of the material repetitive, while those who have not will most likely find the material too confusing to be of any real use. (Despite the glowing accolades on the cover, the author's explanations are no better than those available in a standard textbook.)
The author also posits end-of-chapter questions for the reader to ruminate upon, but does not provide any answers. Aside from formal textbooks where such questions are intended to be assigned to students, such tactics are unconscionable. Of course, the author may be priming the pump for sales of a "Hidden Order Supplement".
A final negative point is the author's tone, which is frequently condescending towards the reader (e.g. telling the reader they would not understand the math behind a given theory, so it will not even be presented). While this may be true for a layperson reading the book, being talked down to certainly does nothing to build their confidence or cultivate their interest in the subject matter.
Overall, if you can borrow a copy from a friend or a library, the last 40 pages are worth reading. Otherwise, save your time and money.
Reviewer's background:
B.Sc. (Computing Science & Mathematics)
M.B.A. (Finance & Marketing)
Ph.D. (Finance)
Shaped my life (not kidding).......2006-02-06
This book shaped my life since i picked it up in 1999 while browsing. I found it fascinating and adept - see the other reviews. I did an MBA, changed careers, worked in strategy consulting, and now have a VP-level job in a $6B enterprise. (Well, besides reading this book, the MBA helped...) This book is really eye-opening and you'll see the world around you differently, and how all kinds of people, organizations, and forces respond to incentives that can be subtle to figure out. For example, I'd known since junior high the Brits wore Red Coats in the Revolutionary War, and that made them easy to shoot at. It had never dawned on me, the British management felt the risk of Brit infantry fleeing AWOL was greater than the risk of the same, getting shot. They took the risk of getting shot, to avoid the risk of their troops fleeing (too obvious in bright red coats). Fascinating. Their are apparently some typos in the book which you can correct via the author's website, but I hadn't known that and was impressed by the book anyway, as is.
U of Chicago economics theory meets the real world, mostly succeeds.......2006-01-06
Despite what I am about to say about the downsides of Friedman's approach, this is a book well worth reading. It's just a bit too sure that it has revealed all we need to know about motivations behind behaviors. On that point, I'm unconvinced. More on that in a moment.
As noted by most reviewers, he does a credible job in the first part of the book explaining the basics of economics. The graphs are a bit difficult if it is the reader's first exposure to economics, but I found his verbal explanations to be clear and compelling.
He then goes on to apply this knowledge to a panoply of real world situations. His discussions on taxation, pollution, and product liability are quite thought provoking. If the reader isn't rethinking some cherished beliefs by this point, then he is either is already a U of C economics diehard or didn't pay enough attention. Capital stuff!
I wish he had left out the very last section of the book. There he applies the same rationalistic approach to behaviors such as gift giving or punishing drug users. He fails to satisfy in both cases.
He's largely puzzled why people choose to give gifts to people they like rather than money. He offers 'paternalism' as a possible explanation, but since paternalism's rewards seemingly can't be measured in terms of value, he gives up the topic, moves on, and leaves the reader hanging. Well developed theories of the basis of social power from psychology offer more well developed and satisfying explanations of gift giving and are also borne out in well run experiments.
Similarly, it would seem that his beliefs applied to the question of drugs would make legalization the most rationale path. Surprisingly, he only wants to discuss the punishment alternatives for hard drug usage because he assumes that all hard drug users steal to support their habits. This then enables him to analyze the cost to society which then enables him to examine a range of punishment alternatives. That's fine as far as it goes, but it begs the discussion for the vast majority of illegal drug users who stick to so-called soft drugs. It also leaves unspoken whether all illegal drugs ought to be legal for people wealthy enough not have to steal to support their illegal purchases.
There's a whole range of widespread human behaviors which cannot be explained satisfactorily by this type of analysis. Using hard drugs, participating in extremely dangerous sports, and masochism come to mind.
So the 'uber-explanation' of all human behaviors in the last section of the book takes away substantively from the rest of the book. Since this train of thought in the first 80% of the book has lept from economics to the theory of law over the last 25 years via scholars such as Posner and Coase, it now influences much public policy discussion and judicial thinking today. For that reason alone, this book is worth reading. This is not 'just about economics' just as it is not 'all you need to know about what motivates human behavior'.
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