Customer Reviews:
"for all the B-Western & "A" Western film-buffs to savor".......2005-09-07
Empire Publishing presents "The Round-up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years", reporting in one short paragraph the profile on each page with a photograph, synopsis of their films, career, birth dates and date they left us...compiled and edited by Donald R. Key featuring 300 cowboy stars, sidekicks, heroines, villains and character actors.
Tables of Contents with page numbers:
A Word From the Publisher - 8
Acknowledgments - 10
Foreword by Monte Hale - 12
Art Acord - 14 (first actor on the roster)
Tony Young - 312 (last actor on the roster)
Let's Not Forget - 313
Afterword By Neil Summers - 316
Many of the stars within this publication gave us hours of entertainment...their careers of excellence and dedication to the craft of acting...the audiences who were so faithful for several decades...all the cast members took their job very seriously and the audience would not settle for anything less than the best...and it showed up there on the big screen.
Would like to close this review with a thought from Monte Hale, it goes something like this:
Life is Like a Journey,
Taken on a train
With a pair of travelers at each window pane,
I may sit beside you the whole journey through,
Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you,
But if fate should mark us to sit here side by side,
Let's be pleasant travelers, because it's such a short ride.
Those are some touching words from Monte Hale, thank you Donald R. Key for printing this verse.
Great reading in the days and weeks to come...I guarantee it!...now appearing on Amazon and Empire Publishing ...many tidbits I never knew...if you're a TV and Movie western fan, this one's for you, don't let it pass you by...so saddle up and let's get started on the drive, move 'em out!
Total Page: 320 pages ~ Empire Publishing 0-944019-12-9 ~ (10/01/1995)
Excellent gift for the Western movie buff!.......2001-08-13
I bought this gift for my Dad. He is extremely difficult to buy for and hardly ever gets excited, but he LOVED this book! He couldn't put it down!
Book Description
The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to consider seriously the historical meanings and functions of the Western film genre. In Westerns, leading scholars unpack the ways in which the form has embellished, mythologized, and erased past events. Contributors explore the mythic "Wild West" envisioned by "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the revisionist aims of recent westerns like Posse, Lone Star, and Dead Man, and how the genre addresses key issues of biography, authenticity, race, and representation. Included is an introduction by Janet Walker.
Book Description
Owning and operating a recording studio presents the same challenges faced by other businesses. Successful recording studio owner Tom Volinchak reveals the ins and outs of how to turn your musical passion into a profitable venture. In this enlightening book, he covers in detail: sales and marketing techniques; promotional tools; adding value to your business; finding new business; making your studio demo; equipment tips; studio profiles; resource listings; and much more. "If recording means more than a hobby to you, get this book - it'll pay for itself in spades." - Lorenz Rychner, Editor, Recording magazine
Customer Reviews:
Not enough information.......2007-01-15
It's a good book but I expect more. The tips are good but too basic, everyone with common sense should have figured it out. I need more tips on on how we can make a sound overall investment from the studio and how we can sell the studio and employee the operators. It's OK but should be more elaboration on the experience.
Good Book On The Basics.......2006-10-25
I thought this book and the author did a good job addressing the fundamentals of running a Recording facility, from simple explanations about contract agreements to how to potentially deal with different customer recording needs, I've glanced at other books on this topic and believe me, I literally fell asleep in the bookstore, this is a one of a kind on the subject, like my other reviews, I like to keep things simple to understand and to the point, keep this book nearby while you take a nap in your studio, because when you wake up, you'll fell better about conducting business and better understanding your client's recording needs. GOOD WORK TOM IN KEEPING IT SIMPLE !!!!
This book delivers........2006-07-09
I wanted to trun my home studio into a money maker. I didn't know the first thing about running a studio, although I do own three pizza shops. The tips in here even helped with my Pizza business.
The guy who rated this book three stars must be illeterate. CLEARLY this book is aimed at the beginner and intermediate who wants to turn his dream into a reality. The fact that this reviewer admits to having TEN YEARS experience as a studio CLEARLY tells you just how good this book is.
Even though this guy has TEN YEARS experience, he STILL learned something. Maybe if he bought this book in the first place he wouldn't still be searching for ways to make money with HIS studio?
Here is what I can tell you, if left to my own devices I would still be focusing on musicians and bands as my only source of studio income. I am not exactly going to put MCA out of business but in the 6 months I have owned this book and practiced the principles inside, my own studio now routinely brings in about $6K a month.
Not bad for a Pro Tools LE home studio. Tom's book has enabled me to rent commercial space, upgrade my gear and now spend a little bit of cake on some advertizing. I even learned how to get some free advertizing for myself.
As you will read, even the pros admit to learning from this book. I recommend MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR STUDIO very strongly.
Guidelines for beginers.......2006-06-15
The book got a lot of good tips about the theme, but for someone that has more that ten years in the music bussines is so basic. Beware, i may tell you by experience that the book has only guidelines, hell would be if you follow by the line the things that it says
Great and to the Point !!!!.......2006-03-20
This book is short and to the point. If you would like start up information on how to make money with your home studio then this is the book for you. This book gives you everything from suggested pricing to sample invoices. This book is informative, easy to read, and cheap. What more can I say?
Customer Reviews:
This book is an excellent source for teachers........1999-04-13
I have used this book as a source for a workshop I do for early childhood educators. It has excellent ideas and ways of presenting musical concepts. The book content leans a little to the older ages (6-8), rather than the early childhood population. However, it is still valuable for early childhood educators.
Book Description
Music videos are a necessity if you want to take your musical career to the next level. But how do you create one without breaking the bank? This book delivers the answers. Written by two acclaimed recording artists who've been producing their own award-winning music videos for several years, it shows you step-by-step how to get from an idea to an MTV-worthy result on a shoestring budget -- even if you've never worked with video before. Packed with easy-to-understand instructions, hands-on exercises and fascinating road diaries that illuminate the inspiration behind video concepts and special effects, it's all you need to become a music video star.
- If you are a music lover and have always thought that you could make a music video if only you had the right tools, this book is for you.
- If you or someone you know is in a band, and you want to make a video for your website, a cable TV channel, or as a promotional tool, this book is all you need.
- If you have great stacks of pre-video vinyl, and you always wanted to make your own video for your favorite song, youve come to the right place.
- If you saw a video on TV and said, "I could make a much better video than that," heres your chance.
- If you want to become a professional music videographer, this book is a great place to start.
Customer Reviews:
Generic.......2004-12-31
I bought this book and returned it after I saw that it had nothing to teach the more learned users of Premiere. I was really dissapointed when I saw that it couldn't tell me how to sync a fast-paced video with multiple scenes, just the usual scrubbing technique.
Simply Informative.......2004-01-03
I read this book thinking okay this is a good book just like some of the other adobe premiere books I own, but it's not that it's a good read it's a great reference. I come back to this book time and time again.
It's great, and the CD actually works! (gasp!).......2003-10-31
If you want to actually learn Premiere, get this and you may forget all the rest. Not only will you learn Premiere , but you'll learn much more about pragmatic video production. Great book! Thanks Kennedys whoever you are.
videography for mortal, musicians, and non-techies.......2002-07-12
This book provides guidelines for producing a music video in a cost effective yet aesthetically pleasing way. It examines other videos from major artists, and provides the average mortal with information and techniques so that they can accomplish the many technical details needed to make an original music video. Chapters on preparing content for the web and for distribution make this book a very complete treatise on the many facets of adobe premiere. highly reccomended.
Book Description
For children ages 3-8
* 21 Easy-to-follow music activities that kids love!
* Activities include coloring pictures to enjoy the music!
* Delightful music for you and your child on the enclosed CD
* Adorable photographs
* Appealing patterns for puppet making and felt board visuals
* Engaging ideas for movement and instrument playing
* Special instrument-making sections
Customer Reviews:
All Kinds of Weather..........2006-08-21
This has great ideas and the kids love the music activities.
Average customer rating:
- A book for noobs.
- Not quite what I expected.
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Make Music with Radiohead
Warner Bros. Publications
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Book Description
Radiohead is considered one of today's great UK bands, and is known worldwide. The new book Make Music with Radiohead brings a whole host of extra features to the traditional chord songbook, making it a great value an a must for collectors and true fans of the band. Also included is an exclusive foreword by music writer Stevie Chick, tracing the history of Radiohead, plus a full discography. Titles are: Airbag, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Creep, Everything in Its Right Place, Fake Plastic Trees, High & Dry, Just, Karma Police, Knives Out, Lucky, My Iron Lung, No Surprises, Optimistic, Pyramid Song, Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Customer Reviews:
A book for noobs........2007-09-05
This book was alright but comes off to be very lazy. There is basically 0nly a place for cords, no picking tabs, and there was also a typo on one of the songs. If you're a beginner this could give you a good concept of what to play to get the general sound of the featured radiohead songs... but if you are intermediate or advanced with your guitar skills I would recommend steering clear of this unofficial book. Street spirit didn't even have tabs and for the most part the cords seemed incorrect. There are no strumming patters written out with the music either. So yeah... I was not very impressed by this particular book. If you want to play Radiohead songs I would recommend any of their official song books.
Not quite what I expected........2004-02-21
The book has several innacuracies in the chords, and I am not generally pleased with the setup on the music. The chords are presented at the beginning and then are called out by letter name. There are also several typos and other errors, it was cheap so I do not regret the expense, but I would not recommend it.
Product Description
This subliminal CD is designed to help you conquer money management as well as to melt away the stress and uncertainty you may feel. Keep the money you have and be empowered to spot good financial opportunities. Be able to take care of financial responsibilities and still have money left over for emergency savings and retirement! Listen while resting, sleeping, working or playing. Meanwhile, your subconscious mind soaks in the powerful subliminal suggestions that will begin transforming you into a better money manager. This Subliminal CD was produced & created using the most sophisticated digital recording & processing available today. The background provides ocean waves & beautiful synthesizer music to enhance your relaxation. You hear no audible words or voices. You can allow this recording to play over & over again while you sleep, relax or prepare for sleep. This subliminal product contains hundreds of positive affirmations recorded onto one relaxing CD. Although the words aren't audible, they are there and they are powerful! The affirmations are masked by beautiful music & soothing ocean waves. Meanwhile, as you focus on something else, or just while relaxing, the subliminal affirmations take hold in your subconscious mind. The affirmations are powerful & designed to bring about safe, healthy & permanent changes in your life. With so many subliminal products on the market, be cautious to purchase only REAL subliminal recordings with NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) affirmations. Proper production, recording, scripting, & duplication are vital in creating such a powerful product. Use only the BEST! Trust Mind Design technology & expertise.
Product Description
Spiral-bound Book with Cartridge to be used with the Piccolo Interactive Discovery Center. In Hard Plastic Case.
Book Description
Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore.
"The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand.' This is a lie."—from the introduction by Bill Moyers
Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitarianism and middle-class opportunity, America has become the most unequal of developed nations—a land where corporate leaders earn hundreds of times the pay of average workers, and the only population group growing faster than millionaires is the uninsured. Statistics aside, this quarter-century-long trend has changed the texture of American life in ways that threaten our deepest values.
Drawing on the best and latest research, the contributors explore issues such as the real story the numbers tell about how America has changed; dimensions of inequality (education, health, and opportunity); causes of inequality—looking past the usual suspects of technology, trade, and immigration; the persistence of racial disparities; the erosion of democracy and community; and inequality as a moral and religious problem. Not just a catalog of inequality's ills, the book concludes with a plausible and hopeful policy path—beyond redistribution—to a more just and humane economy.
Contributors include: Barbara Ehrenreich, Robert M. Franklin, Stanley B. Greenberg, William Greider, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Christopher Jencks, David Cay Johnston, Robert Kuttner, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Judith L. Lichtman, Meizhu Lui, Miles Rapoport, Jonathan Rowe, Theda Skocpol, Eric Wanner, David Williams.
Customer Reviews:
Inequality is worldwide. Is it human evil or human nature?.......2006-06-10
The message of "Inequality Matters" is that inequality is a man-made phenomenon, especially egregious in the United States, that demands to be redressed through public policy.
There are several questions at play here. Is the observed inequality a result of moral failings - greedy rich or lazy poor - or simply of the way society functions? Are inequalities inexorably tied to issues of minority status? Is it peculiar to the United States, or is it a theme that plays itself out, albeit with different nuances, in every society? Was Jesus' observation that "the poor will always be with you" simply a reflection on the dynamics of the way society works? Have public policy solutions been tried, and how have they fared?
Inequality can be observed in every ethnically diverse society worldwide. The caboclos of Brazil, the criollos of Argentina, the North African immigrants of the French banlieus, the Turks in Germany, and the West Indians in Great Britain manifest the same kind of economic inequality as Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans in our society. Though the authors do not attempt to do so, it might be more instructive to analyze societies in which there is relative equality.
Tribal peoples experience equality in material goods. There are very few to go around. However, any time a source of revenue such as oil, casinos or tourism appears, inequality seems to rear its head. Chiefs get rich. It has happened all over the Americas and Africa where westerners have introduced money to pay local people for resources. I saw it first hand living among the Kayapo Indians in the state of Para. The cash income the tribes got from gold and mahogany went to airplanes, junkets and prostitutes for the chiefs, and the rest of the tribe complained bitterly about the inequality.
The Europe of the fifties and sixties was quite socialist and egalitarian. There were, of course, the rich, but the social safety net provided adequately for the poor. That safety net has frayed, as has the societal consensus, with the influx of immigrants and the observation that the taxes of the Caucasian rich were flowing to social benefits for the non-Caucasian poor.
America has elevated individualism, or rather, narrow self interest, to be acknowledged as our greatest virtue. Perversely, these writers see self-interest to be a virtue in those who do not succeed but a vice in those such as the owners of Wal-Mart, everybody's whipping boy, who do. They cheer the Horatio Algers as they rise from the slums, but condemn them for being rich.
It is no surprise to me that on average the groups within society who do better than mine, namely the Jews and the North Asians, have longer histories of civilization than mine. They learned (or evolved) to succeed in highly complex societies. Today, members of every traditional society on earth are being asked to play the Western European economic game. Is it any surprise that we, with thousands of years' practice, do a bit better than the newcomers? The tragedy is that the world is too connected for Africans and Native Americans to remain tribal. An anthropologist friend laments that missionaries in the Amazon are training "princes of the forest to be peons in Manaus." But they are, and the Indians voluntarily emigrate to Manaus. For what it's worth, New York Times' science writer Nicholas Wade provides an insightful account of how the tribes of mankind have evolved since the dawn of agriculture in his recent "Before the Dawn." It is also worth mentioning Amy Chua's analysis in "Worlds on Fire" of those minorities such as the Chinese and Jews who seem always to do better than their host societies.
Communism was relatively egalitarian. Chinese all wore Mao jackets. Most people were poor. Walt Kelly had his Russian character claim "the shortage will be divided among the peasants" and his Castro character say "they will dine on the Cuban delicacy, azucar y tobaco." The disappearance of egalitarianism has been one of the most traumatic transitions since the end of the Cold War. East Germans have had difficulty adjusting to a society in which there are more profound differences. Russia and China now have billionaires, affluent middle classes, and hoards of left-behinds. Inequality may be inevitable in a market economy.
Marxism, European socialism and our own Great Society were valiant attempts to curb social inequality. Marxism failed everywhere it was attempted, Europe is becoming more polarized by inequality, and in 1994 a Democratic President signed legislation to undo much of the welfare state that had been put in place twenty years earlier by another Democrat. Why is inequality so intractable? This book touches on a couple of theses.
Free people operate in a free labor market. The level of compensation a person's labor will command is a function of that person's education, ability, and personal attributes such as congeniality and attractiveness. Race, class and gender may also play a role, but such a role could only be statistically proven by controlling for the first-mentioned factors. Liberals have not attempted this statistical analysis, and conservatives who have (not surprisingly) find that race, class and gender play little role.
The poor assume the burden of children more often and at earlier ages. Given that in every society these fecund poor are more likely than others to be minorities, some degree of inequality is built in. This isn't "blaming the victim." It is an observation of fact.
Education is supposed to be the great equalizer, the facilitator of social mobility. Bill Moyers is certainly correct in his observation that the schools that the poor attend are certainly worse than those of the affluent. They are worse materially, as he acknowledges. Their teachers have less preparation. As almost any teacher will tell you, there is more to the story. Poor kids more often don't want to be in school, are disruptive, are violent, and don't learn. They are served by a legion of teachers whose skills are not adequate to get them transferred to better schools, and a handful of saints who feel a social mission. I know many of those saints. They labor long and savor their few victories, kids rescued from poverty. And I know saints who have left disillusioned, scared and physically injured. The collapse of school discipline (read "Judging School Discipline") has done the poor inestimable harm. The great disruptions of school busing (read "Forced Justice") and decades of bipartisan programs in the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act, the latest incarnation of which is NCLB, have made almost no statistically measurable impact. New York City is now throwing billions of dollars at the problem. Will it work? History says, probably not.
It is amusing to find one author, Robert Frank, complain that the middle class must commute in unsafe, 2500 pound Honda Civics which can be ground under the wheels of a Navigator or Excursion. He is allied with Rush Limbaugh in advocating "for sheer self defense, you might want a bulkier - and costlier - car." I write this as a guy who drives a 2800lb Prius, the object of Limbaugh's constant derision.
The bottom line is that the inequalities documented here are very real. They are certainly not unique to America. They are probably a function of how complex societies work, certainly not the mere result of a malign self-interest on the part of the rich.
Unequal Representation but Good Essays .......2006-02-11
"Inequality Matters" is a collection of 22 essays by different authors about the growing gap between the rich of America and the rest of us. The best is Bill Moyers' opening -- and passionate -- shot at the "plunder of public trust" and the "spectacle of corruption" that is the present day situation of the United States.
All of the essays which follow are convincing on the growing gap betweeen rich and poor in areas such as education, retirement, wages, taxes, and health. This is perhaps the most important long-term issue facing American society.
The weakness of the book is that it is one-sided, a liberal feast on the faults of the conservatives and corporations. I agree with the liberals, but I would like to see some responses from conservatives. (Not that any conservative would venture like a Christian into this arena of leonine liberals. And, would that liberals were a bit more like lions and a little less like liberals!) You won't find any attempt at balance. It illustrates another problem in the U.S: the liberals talk to only liberals and the conservatives talk only to conservatives. But without an opportunity for the other side to answer back you can't be sure how biased or incorrect the essays may be. So read the book because it's good, but also read a conservative book before you take to the street promoting "class warfare" and a crusade against the rich. After reading both sides -- you'll take to the streets.
Smallchief
Inequality Matters -- and How!.......2006-01-04
Midway through 2004, veteran journalist James Lardner, with the help of the Demos think tank in New York, put together the first national conference directly focused on economic inequality - the gap between America's rich and everyone else - since that gap started widening in the late 1970s.
This Inequality Matters conference drew several hundred people to New York University for a weekend of robust discussion and debate. But few outside NYU's conference rooms ever noticed. America's ever more unequal business as usual rolled on unabated.
Here's hoping that Inequality Matters the book can do what Inequality Matters the conference could not - trigger a long-overdue bit of national introspection over the incredible concentration of income and wealth we Americans have witnessed ever since Jimmy Carter begat Ronald Reagan.
Today's conventional wisdom, of course, simply denies that this concentration of wealth makes any difference. So long as "even a have-not can have a VCR and a cellphone," argue the apologists for inequality who saturate our politics and our media, what possible reason could we have to worry about whether our richest are getting fantastically richer?
Inequality Matters the book takes on this question, in a series of essays inspired by Inequality Matters the conference. Ably edited by James Lardner and Demos senior fellow David Smith, this book's pages abound in insights - on everything from housing and health to happiness - that even regular readers of progressive books and periodicals will find fresh and provocative.
One example: Communities with the widest income gaps between top and middle, Cornell economist Robert Frank points out in his contribution, turn out to display "significantly higher personal bankruptcy rates, divorce rates, and average commute times."
Apologists for inequality, beware! With the publication of Inequality Matters, your case - that we need not worry about the wealth of the wealthy - has never seemed more dim-witted. Or dangerous.
Excerpted from a longer review that appears in the January 2, 2006 edition of Too Much (www.toomuchonline.org)
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