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The blockbuster book that sent Hollywood running for cover in the 1990s is back for the new millennium, with all-new girls and all-new stories of celebrity misbehavior in the book that is not afraid to name names.
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HOTTEST BOOK TO HIT IN A DECADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-01-30
I highly recommend this book. This was a great read, very informative and lots of fun. I especially loved the Hollywood insiders input of Jennifer Young the daughter of an Oscar winning actor. The first kiss and tell with a life's lesson to be learned. This book is definitely not shy, it names names but hey if you're left out how hot is your career?? How much closer can you get into Hollywood. I know buy this book.. you will NOT be disappointed. Worth every penny and then some!!! Could not put it down!! Great plane read or even cancel a date read...
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The Best Read!.......2007-01-11
This book is a third in a series of women hooking up with Hollywood Entertainment and sharing their stories. Gave me a clearer insight into how decadent Hollywood really is.
Is that it?.......2006-12-25
I was very disappointed in this book. Yes its a fast read, yes it is trashy, but truly a disappointment. I read the first book, "You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again" and really enjoyed it, loved the name dropping of male celebs that use call girls. I was expecting the same type of book when I saw this one, but NOT. Chapter 2 in the book is written by a publicist of a porn company, a totally wasted chapter, since I had no idea who she was talking about and no pictures to identify people. The last chapter is written by Jennifer, daughter of a hollywood actor and real estate agent. It basically dealt totaly with Heidi Fleiss. The only big names were Brad Pitt and Matt Leblanc, both before they were famous.
If you want to read a fast trashy read, then buy it, if you want substance, dont.
Don't pay full price.......2006-12-12
Quick, trashy read, but holy cow was it poorly written. The second chapter (the publicist for the porn company) was a total waste of time. It was fun finding out about some of the Hollywood hot shots who hire hookers (Dan Ackroyd?? Matt LaBlanc? GEORGE LUCAS????!) but mostly it makes me glad I'm not part of that world.
Total waste of money.......2006-12-08
I read (skimmed) this book in 2 days- if you like reading about self-absorbed,spoiled shallow people,go for it. Wish I had waited and read the reviews before spending money on this.
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Wild, graphic, sometimes funny, ultimately sad -- this is the book that had Hollywood hiding behind closed doors and "no comment". Four beautiful young women tell the stories of the famous, the sexy, the rich, and the sadistic.
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Wild, graphic, sometimes funny, ultimately sad -- this is the book that had Hollywood hiding behind closed doors and "no comment." Four beautiful young women tell the stories of the famous, the sexy, the rich, and the sadistic.
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Conflicting feelings.......2007-04-14
I walked away from this book with conflicting views about it and its contents.
On one hand, I felt very sorry for the girls about some of the experiences they had, but one of the girls still seemed somewhat smug about the sexual experiences she had with certain celebrities and considering the fact that she said she had suffered so much , that kind of dampened the effect of the horrific things she went through.
Another thing is that 3 of the girls kept going on in their sections about how sexy and beautiful they were or how hot their bodies were or how hot and sexy they looked at any given moment.
I'm sure that they are all beautiful girls-I think its a given that prostitutes to the stars would have to be very attractive-it got kind of grating hearing it repeated over and over again.
I think its sad the way they allowed themselves to be used and degraded for so long , but I do admire them for writing this book as a cautionary tale for young women though.
Although every girls story was a sad one,Liza stirred my sympathy the most.
I hope they are all doing well now.
A quick read, somewhat sensational but fails in the end........2007-02-09
I didn't buy this book, but read it quickly at the local thrift shop. I felt sorry for these girls when I started reading this book, but the feeling mostly left me near the end of it. These girls wanted to be famous,rich and successful in Hollywood. I believe one should follow his or her dreams, but do so wisely. The key word here is wisely. To make it in Hollywood or anywhere else you need talent, hard work and persistence. Hollywood is a buisness and they are not going to hire people who will not make them money. Thats the bottom line truth. You dont make it in Hollywood or anywhere else by offering sexual favors and being used. All you end up with is a loss of dignity, anger and mental scars. What is telling about this account is how these girls seemed to enjoy what they were doing. They endured some traumatic situations but they never left doing sexual favors. This is what makes me think it was written more for sex appeal than truth. No one is stopping these girls from getting out of this nightmare. They could have packed up and left town, gone to school, gotten help from drug rehabs in L.A. and other alternatives. Instead they go from one rotten experience to the other. I dont buy their claim they couldnt get out because they were feeding their drug habit. They eventually got out. So why not sooner than later? Their stories come out as mostly self indulgent. That is, I can't get what I want, so I'm going to turn to prostitution and drugs. Its only after a lot of horrible experiences that they decide to lead a normal life. This implies they would do anything to make it in Hollywood and when all else fails, they stoop to lead a normal life. This is why it comes off as sounding mostly pathetic. What stunned me somewhat is the arrogance of these "celebrities." Its ironic that these celebrities are used by groupies and the media among others for their own ends. Groupies sleep with them for example, to get bragging rights. They couldn't care less about them. Thats why they're one night stands. I know about Hollywood, having been involved with it in one way or another. I won't say more than that. If you can't make it in hollywood then do the smart thing and GET OUT! At least you will save your dignity and sanity. You won't waste your time in dealing with bottom feeders and sharks.
disturbingly fascinating!.......2006-11-10
This is not something I would have chosen to read--my book club picked it. It was disturbingly interesting. It was like passing a car wreck--you hate that you want to look. It's gossip about the sex lives of celebrities we see regularly on TV. The women telling the story took lie detector tests and private investigators back up their stories. If I read more books like this, I will have a hard time watching TV!!
Before there was Superhead.......2005-10-19
...there was these girls. It was a very sad story about "regretful" hoes who don't in the end seem truly sorry for having been hoes. Some girls are born to be hoes and that's just a fact. They tell us about who's good in bed and who's wierd/nasty and who's wack. Its not a book you'd go looking to buy but if you walked by it in a store and saw it you'd want to check it out. I read this when I was young and i learned a lot about the ways of the world. I do believe at least one of the girls who had a section in this book seemed upset with herself for her past, but I got the feeling the others would do it all over the same way.
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i'd like to change this to 3.5 stars
Victims?.......2005-05-12
I don't know. Am I really supposed to feel sorry for these girls? Sure, one of them was definately abused as a young teen, but for the most part these girls were not victims of men. They were their own worst enemies. They chose to become high priced call girls. They brag about the perks, the money, the drugs. And then they complain b/c the men didn't have "feelings" for them. Uh, they are call girls. It IS all about sex. It IS all about their sexy bodies. This book is supposed to make us aware of the pitfalls of prostitution. I just see the pitfalls of stupidity. They willingly spent their money on drugs. No one forced them to blow (literally) their money. They weren't beaten/forced into prostitution by sick fathers/boyfriends. They were beautiful young girls who willingly used their bodies to gain entry to celebrities, money, parties, drugs. And now I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? Whatever. It was entertaining reading, but didn't dredge up the sympathy that it was supposed to.
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Once More With Feeling: You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, Again
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Definetly good!.......1999-05-20
I love this book. Hey, I am a teen-ager, and loved it. It is really descriptive, so uh--reader discretion advised, but otherwise...great, great, and marvelous, darling!
Very Interesting, Yet Disturbing.......1997-12-29
The young women in this book are all very troubled. They all have slept with some of the most important men in Hollywood. Most of the stories are quite interesting and it makes for a quick and good read.
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Couldn't Put It Down.......2005-11-30
This was a really fun read and a real page turner. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know the dirt. Well written, story flows, no boring parts here.
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Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Bonnie Gordon
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Monteverdi’s Unruly Women examines the composer’s madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi’s music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic and expressive statements. At a time when singing was not entirely acceptable for respectable women his music allowed women to use their voices to gain power. Bonnie Gordon also explores the social and musical environment in which the singers lived and worked. Using key primary source material such as singing treatises and Renaissance writings on medicine and acoustics, Gordon contributes to two distinct disciplines: she brings an increased engagement with medical and literary representations of the female body to the growing field of scholarship treating gender and music, and adds to a well-established industry of scholarship devoted to the perception of gender and the body in early modern Europe.
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The way Music History should be written.......2005-07-03
This book was a pleasure to read: deftly written, informative, and full of interesting facts and well-argued ideas. Gordon examines both Monteverdi's music and the performance of his music from feminist and history-of-science perspectives. She demonstrates that both views enhance our appreciation of his music. Unlike some other people in her field, she uses these theoretical frameworks to help the reader understand the music, rather than using the music to make dogmatic statements about theory. I can't wait to read her next book.
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Conventional economics is often criticized for failing to reflect adequately the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists overlook problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources.
Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this flaw in much economic thought. The book defines a revolutionary "transdiscipline" that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences, and it offers a pedagogically complete examination of this exciting new field. The book provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity.
Introducing the three core issues that are the focus of the new transdiscipline -- scale, distribution, and efficiency -- the book is guided by the fundamental question, often assumed but rarely spoken in traditional texts: What is really important to us? After explaining the key roles played by the earth's biotic and abiotic resources in sustaining life, the text is then organized around the main fields in traditional economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The book also takes an additional step of considering the policy implications of this line of thinking.
Ecological Economics includes numerous features that make it accessible to a wide range of students:
- more than thirty text boxes that highlight issues of special importance to students
- lists of key terms that help students organize the main points in each chapter
- concise definitions of new terms that are highlighted in the text for easy reference
- study questions that encourage student exploration beyond the text
- glossary and list of further readings
An accompanying workbook presents an innovative, applied problem-based learning approach to teaching economics.
While many books have been written on ecological economics, and several textbooks describe basic concepts of the field, this is the only stand-alone textbook that offers a complete explanation of both theory and practice. It will serve an important role in educating a new generation of economists and is an invaluable new text for undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological economics, environmental economics, development economics, human ecology, environmental studies, sustainability science, and community development.
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best textbook ever.......2006-03-13
And I'm not just saying that because I like ecological economics. Before this I used to hate even the idea of textbooks...mostly the fault of high school I guess, but also many college courses. In fact that is the reason why I hesitated to buy this book, but I'm glad I did. This is the only textbook I have been able to read straight through (though slowly and critically) and maintain my focus, interest, and energy. It's very well written and organized, and it's honest and upfront, highlighting debates and differences in opinions, as well as their implications. It is even entertaining on a fairly regular basis.
No prior knowledge of economics or natural sciences is necessary, though of course having some helps to make it an easier read. The 2nd edition should take care of some of the minor typos and other editing mistakes. I have seen no serious flaws in the book.
If you
1) Have an open mind
2) Respect solid, provocative arguments that challenge the status-quo
3) Are interested in the nature of the relationship between humans and our environment, economics, ecology, sustainability, social justice, or democracy
You will probably enjoy this book.
I also suggest getting the companion workbook, especially if you are
1) A student (of any age, shape or form)
2) Interested particularly in the fields of environmental policy/management, economics, or ecological economics or
3) Interested in the education system and education reform.
It has valuable supplemental information as well as suggestions on how to advance your knowledge and possibly put you into a career path. The pedagogical philosophy espoused in the book is great from my perspective--a student frustrated with the hypocrisies and contradictions of academia and our current education system. Farley makes it clear that fundamental education reform is necessary in order to advance democracy and for us to continue to develop into our greatest human potentials.
Great book.......2006-02-25
Bring ecological economics to every day life will be the greatest defy of this century. The autor writes brillantly how we can, now, change our economic view and achieve sustainable development. Every student must read this book...
At last what we needed.......2004-10-13
Here at last is a book that sees ecological economics not as a branch of economics or a school of economics but as a broader and deeper system of ideas that includes the sound elements of conventional economics. Herman Daly, the Grand Old Man of the steady state economy, and Joshua Farley, his able younger follower, have produced a comprehensive and very readable synthesis. Traditional economists see natural resources as a subsystem of the world economy. This book presents the economy as a subsystem of the global ecosystem. The effect is like that of climbing a tall tower and seeing that a familiar city was all along part of an island whose fields and forests are in danger of disappearing under the advancing suburbs. The authors have not shied away from including controversial ideas, and there are some that I do not agree with, but that just adds to the stimulation. Not only have I adopted this as the textbook for a course in ecological economics, but I would like to see it read by all economists. This is not a specialist branch of economics; it is the only kind of economics appropriate to the new century.
A Solid Text on an Increasingly Important Science.......2004-08-16
Ecological economics is a relatively new field that I believe will be central to economics in this century. This text book presents the basics. It is more comprehensive than most other works in this area, and also has greater depth. (If this is your first expedition into ecological economics, though, you might want to try instead "Beyond Growth", by one of this book's co-authors.)
This text book points out that ever-greater material consumption provided by never-ending economic growth is the agreed-upon end for traditional economics and most of modern society. The problem with this conventional approach is that it is impossible to achieve, and probably would be undesirable anyway even if we could achieve it.
The text offers a fresh approach to one of the most important economic problems of our time. Conventional economics papers over the problem of just distribution of wealth by buying off the poor with the offer of a larger slice of an ever-growing economic pie. Unfortunately, using conventional economic measures like GDP, the pie may look larger even as it is actually shrinking. This ultimately helps no one, least of all the poor. The book argues convincingly that a steady-state economy offers hope of real progress in this area.
I don't agree with some of the author's points. The authors spend a lot of time arguing about determinism, relativism, and nihilism, and state that rejection of all these doctrines is necessary for someone to have any opinions on policy. Their argument seems to be that belief in an ultimate end such as God is necessary to believe that anything matters at all. The book's logic here strikes me as a lot less airtight than the authors seem to think. I know plenty of Christians who believe that due to the imminent Second Coming of Christ, humanity's future isn't likely to extend more than a few decades into the future. This belief understandably leads to a certain disregard for the whole concept of sustainability. Many believers in God also think that what we do to the earth doesn't matter very much, because it is all part of God's plan, and anyway the afterlife is what really counts. The atheists of my acquaintance tend, on average, to be much more concerned about humanity's long-term future, since they can't count on God to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
The text's authors criticize the idea that sustainability can be achieved by internalizing all external costs and benefits. Such internalization has problems, certainly, but I think the problems are more solvable than the authors do. I very much liked the text's analysis of goods as excludable or non-excludable, and rival or non-rival. For nonexcludable rival goods (such as fisheries) the authors state that rational self-interest creates an invisible foot that kicks the common good in the rear--one of the many memorable phrases in this book.
I was glad to see a discussion of the positional nature of welfare--meaning that above a certain subsistence level our sense of well-being is largely dependent on how we compare to those around us. I think this is a very important subject that is entirely ignored by conventional economics. What's the point of trashing the planet to achieve higher incomes, if we're not actually any happier as a result of those higher incomes? (After all, even a glance at People Magazine is enough to show that it's possible to be very rich and utterly miserable.) The text's authors admit that quantifying what really makes people happy is difficult, but point out that on something as important as this, it is better to use an economic measure that is vaguely right rather than precisely wrong. Bravo!
I disagree with much of the authors' discussion of monopolies. I think that monopolies under certain circumstances can be helpful in achieving sustainability. Since this is the subject of some of my own research, though, I won't discuss it here.
I especially enjoyed this book's chapters on policy. The nutshell here is that sustainability is the proper criterion for the overall scale of the economy, and that justice is the proper criterion for distribution. The authors make a good case for the necessity of using input quotas to restrict depletion of resources, which I hadn't realized before. I would have liked to have seen more discussion of population issues, though.
Overall, a very good book for someone who is interested in ecological economics and wants to go in deeper.
Revolutionizes the traditional approach to a social science.......2004-02-09
The collaboration of academicians Herman Daly (University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs) and Joshua Farley (Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, University of Vermont), Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications is a scholarly economics textbook that also incorporates the critical importance of such factors as clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. An introductory-level resource ideal for both students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in economics and ecology, Ecological Economics revolutionizes the traditional approach to a social science while retaining a tight grasp upon core driving principles of macroeconomics and microeconomics alike. A seamlessly integrated, holistic approach to understanding and appreciating the tangled complexities of the modern world.
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