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How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam
Albert Auster , and Leonard Quart Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0275924793 |
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One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to analyze Vietnam War films, beginning with China Gate and ending with Hamburger Hill. Included are analyses of all the major films about the Vietnam War, including Green Berets, The Deerhunter, Apocalypse Now, The Killing Fields, Rambo, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket, and others. Auster and Quart create a typology of these films based on their connection to sociohistorical currents such as the "Wounded Hero," "Superman," "Hunter/Hero," and "Survivor." They also combine aesthetic analysis with a social, cultural historical critique.
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America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a generation remembered fifty years of independence
Andrew Burstein Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0375410333 Release Date: 2001-01-16 |
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On July 4, 1826, the United States celebrated its fiftieth birthday with parades and speeches across the country. But what ultimately sanctified the national jubilee in the minds of the celebrants was an extraordinary coincidence: the nearly simultaneous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the last pillars of the original republic, already venerated as legends in their own time. It was a watershed in the nation's history, a bright moment when the successors to the Revolutionary dream examined their own lives as they took inspiration from and found nostalgia in the accomplishments of the founders.Customer Reviews:
Survey of 1820's American View of Revolution........2003-05-19
The author focuses on 10 or so personalities great and small to paint a picture of how America reflected the glory and promise of the Revolution through nostalgia, politics, arts and letters.
We see LaFayette on his triumphant return tour to America as the last living connection to the military high command that won our freedom. This description I found fascinating as the old general visited the sons and daughters of his contemporaries (and a few remaining in their own right such as Adams and Jefferson).
Wiley Henry Clay, destiny's child Andrew Jackson and the unfortunate John Quincy Adams all make their appearance as they dominated the stage during the mid-1820's. America's canal boom is described, particularly as it crisscrossed Ohio, a state transformed as water highways joined New England, the Great Lakes economy and the lower Mississippi within its borders.
The quintessentially American drama of Jefferson and Adams expiring on the same day, the exact date of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration, and their famous correspondence is explored. Here the author is able to capture some of the magic and "smile of providence" that from time to time has seemed to settle on America. The effect of simultaneous death that these two brothers of independence (who were to leave that state of grace as fierce political enemies only to make up and join forces for to the benefit of posterity through their rediscovered admiration late in life) was great on our still young nation. The author recounts well the glow that settled on the nation upon discovering that Adams and Jefferson had been called back to their creator together on the anniversary of their great historical moment.
We also learn of the wife of a Massachusetts minister and the ambitious attorney general -- both authors of the time -- as they contemplate the glory of the revolution through popular writings.
This book is a survey -- disjointed and with a lot of background information not necessarily focused on the Year of Jubilee. Its strong points are the fascinating vignettes like Lafayette's tour, the Jefferson-Adams passing and President J.Q. Adams's troubled administration. Weaker, in my opinion, were digression and dissections of the romantic writing of the two authors. Our author dissected their work in a literary analysis that struck me as overdone and not in keeping with the flow of the rest of the book.
Perhaps this book would have been more accurately described as a snapshot of America as it approached its Jubilee rather than as the story of how America celebrated the event. As a survey it has many interesting chapters and the focus on a time immediately following the "Era of Good Feelings" gives some depth to a period often glossed over in other histories. Not bad, overall.
The first 50 years of Independence.......2001-07-11
Lost in the primary materials.......2001-07-05
Provides the words and experiences of ordinary citizens.......2001-03-16
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Fighting Them Over: How the Veterans Remembered Gettysburg in the Pages of the National Tribune
Manufacturer: Butternut & Blue ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 093552360X |
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Bood Description.......2001-02-07
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How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam
Albert; Quart, Leonard Auster Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQXMEQ |
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The Irish Songbook (Vocal Songbooks): 75 Songs (Songs collected , adapted and have been sung by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem ; The Irish Echo)
Joy Graeme Manufacturer: Oak Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0825602378 Release Date: 1979-12-31 |
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Includes 75 all-time favorites, best-selling hits, old traditional songs - many in Gaelic and not to be found anywhere else - lavishly ilustrated with Irish art, design and anecdotes. Lyrics, full piano scores and guitar chords.Customer Reviews:
Classic Clancy Brothers.......2006-09-28
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The Joy of Folk Songs (Joy Of...Series)
Music Sales Corporation Manufacturer: Music Sales Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0825680069 |
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This is a comprehensive collection of popular American work songs, cowboy songs, play and dance tunes, lullabies, spirituals, and folk songs from other lands. All are in easy piano arrangements, with complete lyrics and chord names included.
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The Joy Of Folk Songs (Joy Books (Hal Leonard))
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Manufacturer: Yorktown Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0711901244 Release Date: 1998-12-31 |
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The Joy of Folk Songs: Easy Piano Arrangements with Words and Chord Names (The Joy Books)
Manufacturer: Yorktown Music Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FOTXHM |
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The Joy of Organ Music - Easy Arrangements for All Organs with Chord Names and Lyrics - An Effective Collection of Favorite Pieces, Themes, Folk, Popular and Standard Songs
Nelson Varon Manufacturer: Yorktown Music ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N2XAXE |
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Black American folk song encoded in CLEFS
Ella Joy Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007C5J8E |
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Black American folk song: A computerized data base
Ella Joy Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007C5J8O |
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Ode to joy
Nana Mouskouri Manufacturer: Philips Music Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006S71L2 |
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Modern Chess Self-Tutor
David Bronstein Manufacturer: Everyman Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1857441362 |
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Bronstein and Feynman.......2007-04-12
The best book on chess strategy.......2004-10-22
Original, Memorable, and Useful.......2004-05-16
The text is a joy to read (by chess book standards), the games illustrate key points in memorable, often startling ways, and his explanation of conducting a game in stages marching foward rank by rank and invadind with pieces through pawn structure quite unique, logical, and simple.
This book, along with a book on tactics and endings, would get a player far indeed if s/he puts in the hard work chess demands.
Fun writing; not much tutoring.......2003-05-11
However, I am not sure that anyone can learn much about chess from this book. He takes a paragraph, or even a page, to say what could be said in five words.
The games do not really illustrate his points. More often, they are simply sources of amusement, as when Petrosian blundered away his queen in a winning position while Bronstein had only 30 seconds left for 10 moves! Petrosian had plenty of time, but until he left his queen hanging he could find nothing better than to shuffle his rooks aimlessly while Bronstein let his knight bounce back and forth safely. Fortunately for us, translator Ken Neat added the actual moves; otherwise, we would have only Bronstein's description to go by.
Of course, not all the games contain such amusing mistakes. More often, Bronstein shows us positions which are interesting for a startling, somewhat tactical move overlooked by the opponent. So the games themselves are quite interesting.
And the prose is undeniably compelling:
"... every player believes that with the help of imagination and knowledge, tenacity and steadfastness, boldness and caution, sooner or later he will enter the headquarters of the opposing king and will be fortunate enough to utter the sacred words 'check and mate'."
But the words are not actually instructive. Sure, Bronstein has a way of bringing attention to an easily overlooked strategic element of a position. He also provides much advice, as in his section on the opening. (He advocates the Evans Gambit for amateurs.) But more often he simply gives a voice to the chess pieces, as if they could think.
Bronstein reminds me of Feynman writing on physics. You love to listen to him. You think you've been bequeathed a rich trove of wisdom. But when you sit down at your desk, you realize that you cannot actually apply any of what you thought you'd understood.
You may very well enjoy reading this book. Just do not expect to learn from it.
For real chess instruction, try his Zurich annotations.
A good book.......2002-08-09
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The Modern Chess Self-Tutor
David Bronstein Manufacturer: Cadogan Chess ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MFT176 |
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The Modern Chess Self-Tutor
David Bronstein Manufacturer: Everyman Chess ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKRXN8 |
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Presentation Skills For Managers
Jennifer Rotondo , and Mike Rotondo Jr. Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071379304 |
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This reader-friendly series is must read for all levels of managers
All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.
The ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.
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All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well-established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Boooks Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.Customer Reviews:
Tons of Great Information.......2004-03-02
Best of both worlds.......2001-12-14
I was very impressed with the wisdom of the two authors. This book doesn't gloss over its topic but rather provides very important information in a readable format. It starts by explaining how you should prepare from the outset and then explains the process of converting your research and outline into a PowerPoint presentation.
While this book does not cover PowerPoint in detail, it does explain the necessary steps for using PowerPoint to create a presentation. This combination of theory and practice is unique and very useful because the actual process involves both the conceptualization of the presentation's structure and the execution in PowerPoint. (Microsoft PowerPoint owns about 90% of the market for presentation software.) Clear steps for designing a presentation in terms of layout, consistency, and color guide you through the creation process.
Finally, Presentation Skills for Manager explains in detail how to deliver your great presentation, including a guide to dealing with questions, your own nervousness, technical disasters, and much more. After you read this book once, you'll refer to it again and again, whenever you need to create and deliver an important presentation. And hey, aren't all your presentations important?
Ellen Finkelstein
Author of PowerPoint 2000 Professional Results
A great guide for presenters at any level.......2001-10-31
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Communication Skills for Effective Management
Owen Hargie , David Dickson , and Dennis Tourish Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0333965752 |
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The Manager's Guide To Business Writing
Suzanne D. Sparks Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070718679 |
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In today’s fast-action business world, you are often required to write accurate, hard-hitting letters, memos, and reports—all at a moment’s notice! The Manager’s Guide to Business Writing contains practical guidelines for writing business correspondence and materials with speed, precision, and power. Designed to provide maximum impact to your everyday work performance, this intense short-course in persuasive writing contains examples of concise yet complete letters, memos, and e-mail, strategies to use headings and white space, and more. Use this concise manual to immediately target and improve your business writing, and ensure that it always works to your advantage.Customer Reviews:
Pretty Good Piece Work.......2000-10-09
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Powerful Telephone Skills: A Quick and Handy Guide for Any Manager or Business Owner (Business Desk Reference)
Career Press Manufacturer: Career Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1564141071 |
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Obsolete.......2001-04-09
I found that the book is obsolete and does not cover modern-age telephone techniques including the following :
- Effective Conference Calling - Effective Technical Presentations on telephone - Effective 'Bridge Calling' - leaving effective voice mail messages - Telephone Etiquettes - Mobile Phone techniques - Controlled Gossiping - Getting past the secretary to the Boss
Instead, the book digresses into normal sales techniques and telemarketing techniques, contradicting with the book cover : 'guide for manager or business owner'.
The book can better be retitled as 'elementary telephone skills for telemarketers'
I am disappointed.
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I Hear You: Listening Skills to Make You a Better Manager
W. Eastwood Atwater , and Eastwood Atwater Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0134506847 |
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Communication Skills & Strategies: Guidelines for Managers at Work
Jerry A. Dibble , and Beverly Y. Langford Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0538835206 |
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Writing Skills (Essential Managers)
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0751333646 |
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The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)
Duane Sparks Manufacturer: The Sales Board ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 097535695X |
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The Action Selling Sales Training and Selling Skills Book Series includes: - Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one. -Selling Your Price: How to escape the race to the bargain basement - Questions: The Answer to Sales - Masters of Loyalty: How to turn your sales force into a loyalty force The Action Selling Book Series will dramatically improve the sales behavior of your sales force. Action Selling: Are your salespeople "Winging It" during calls? With Action Selling, they`ll learn the Five Critical Sales Skills that really matter and how to follow a proven process that has helped over 300,000 become top selling producers. Selling Your Price: Do your salespeople rely on old habits, manipulative tricks or price concessions to close the sale? With Selling Your Price, salespeople learn how to sell value and protect margins while winning more business. Questions: The Answer to Sales: Do your salespeople depend on the gift of gab to win sales? With Questions, they`ll know how and when to ask the best-questions that lead to gaining commitment. Masters of Loyalty: Do your salespeople sell loyalty? With Masters, they`ll learn how to create real loyalty; loyalty that makes customers stop shopping and be forever deaf to competitor`s appeals.
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Breaking the Barrier to Upward Communication: Strategies and Skills for Employees, Managers, and HR Specialists
Thad B. Green , and Jay T. Knippen Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1567202004 |
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Much has been written about communicating within organizations but relatively little on the critical skill of communicating upward. Green and Knippen, experts in employee motivation and performance, show how essential it is to the success of an organization, public or private, for employees to get their ideas up the ladder and into the hands of the top decision-makers. Their book outlines more than 40 specific upward communication needs and offers a structure that will ensure that the movement of ideas upward actually takes place. Unique in that it provides concrete advice for executives, managers, and employees alike, the book is especially important for human resource specialists, people engaged in training and developing the managers of tomorrow and contributing to the organization's success today. Green and Knippen are quick to identify the barriers to communication of any kind, and particularly the special barriers that inhibit the flow of ideas upward. They provide readers with concrete advice, not only on what to communicate upward but the essential skills of how to do it. They maintain that knowing both what to communicate and how to communicate are the most crucial talents that one can have, and yes, they can be taught. But not only do they help people in their careers, they also help people take control of their lives off the job as well. Those who want to improve these essential skills and in doing so get along better with people in higher level positions will find much wisdom here, in a readable, engaging presentation, and a thoughtful look at what they must do first, and do now.Customer Reviews:
expensive for what it has to offer.......2003-11-22
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Effective Communication for Managers: Getting Your Message Across (Management Skills)
Chris Simons , and Belinda Naylor-Stables Manufacturer: Cassell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0304331201 |
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