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"The 1970s have been largely neglected in film scholarship. Lev's book is just what the field needs. . . . [Indeed], the entire field of cinema studies needs to see more publications of the quality of this one—conscientious, thorough, well-balanced, and insightful. . . . It's the kind of book that will become increasingly important in the next century."
—Paul Monaco, author of
Society, Culture, and Television
While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's
Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's
The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book, the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be—open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.
Examining forty films thematically, Lev explores the conflicting visions presented in films with the following kinds of subject matter:
- Hippies
(Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant)
- Cops
(The French Connection, Dirty Harry)
- Disasters and conspiracies
(Jaws, Chinatown)
- End of the Sixties
(Nashville, The Big Chill)
- Art, Sex, and Hollywood
(Last Tango in Paris)
- Teens
(American Graffiti, Animal House)
- War
(Patton, Apocalypse Now)
- African-Americans
(Shaft, Superfly)
- Feminisms
(An Unmarried Woman, The China Syndrome)
- Future visions
(Star Wars, Blade Runner)
As accessible to ordinary moviegoers as to film scholars, Lev's book is an essential companion to these familiar, well-loved movies.
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Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Kenneth Gloag
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Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of "man's inhumanity to man." This Handbook discusses the significant musical and literary features of this remarkable work within its specific historical, social and stylistic context. Attention is given to the shaping of Tippett's own text as well as its musical representation. Also of importance is the initial critical reception of the work, a reception that defined certain responses that still surround the work today.
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The Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques
Arnold Whittall
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In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. In addition, new information on the Britten repertoire and an updated bibliography are also presented.
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Michael Tippett (Contemporary composers)
Meirion Bowen
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Michael Tippett: A Bio-Bibliography (Music Reference Collection)
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An important new reference source for students of western musical culture, this volume directs the user to all pertinent, substantive, and accessible information concerning the life and works of Sir Michael Tippett, widely recognized as one of this century's most significant composers. The book is divided into four main sections: a biography, an annotated list of works and performances, a discography, and an extensive bibliography. Five appendices provide additional information for the researcher including a chronological list of compositions, a classified list of published compositions, honors and awards won by the composer, ballet and television productions, and resources available. The brief biography which begins the volume provides a convenient source for basic factual information about Tippett's life. The works and performances section presents in one alphabetical sequence all known musical works by Tippett, including early unpublished compositions. Each citation includes information about year of composition, duration, genre, instrumentation, additional statements of responsibility, commissions and dedications, location of existing manuscripts, published editions, and a selected list of performances. The discography contains all known commercial recordings of Tippett's music along with information about performers, date and place of recording, and a chronological listing of all issues of the performance. Divided into three sections, the bibliography covers writings by Tippett, books and articles about Tippett, and reviews of his works culled from the Times (London), the New York Times, and a variety of major and local newspapers around the world. Taken as a whole, this is a masterful contribution to the reference works available on the great composers of the twentieth century.
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In The Canting Crew, volume I of the Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Gygax explores the underworld of city life. Theives, their guilds, organization, a complete dictionary of the language they speak, the signs they use, everything a player or DM may want or need to know about the underclasses, new weapons and more this book is a must have.
Customer Reviews:
A useful resource with some flaws.......2002-10-22
I was very excited when I saw this book was becomming available, because it seemed to be exactly the type of hard-core historical reference - resource that I'm always looking for and rarely finding for my D20 campagins. In addition, it's based in a subject (the medeival underworld) which I find fascinating, partially because of the insight provided into it by the first, original DnD game.
Gary Gygax is obviously pursuing a subject here that he was interested in from those old days. Overall he succeeded but this book could have been better. The first thing I noticed was
the type and the paper used. The type was large and funny looking and the paper is cream colored, I'm not sure if it's really cheap paper or not, I've had the book for a while now and it hasn't ripped nor has the binding fallen apart or anything, but it kind of looks cheap and unprofessional. It seemed like the type was big to fill up space, maybe. The illustrations didn't help either. Some were ok, and many of the ideas in them were interesting, but the execution was poor and looked crude.
The basic source material here though is quite interesting. Basically the core of the book is an itemized breakdown of all the very many various vocations available to the criminal underworld in a large mediaval urban center (scalable to country and small town locations as well) The "canting crew" is the entire criminal underworld, with the various types of assasins forming the elite, the beggars on the bottom, and the thieves in the middle. There is also a complete Cant-to-english and english-to-cant dictionary, and even a list of hobo signs and sign language used by the underworld, which I found particularly useful.
For his source, mr Gygax seems to have borrowed liberally from the non gamers (historical) book of the same name, also available on Amazon. To be honest, I'm not sure which would ultimately be the better resource, since I haven't seen that book, but certainly Gygax doesn't have a whole lot of D20 information here.
The majority of the book, the short descriptions of the various underworld vocations, and the fairly complete overview of the social and policial order of a large medieval town, all contain little if any D20 rules. In the end there are two gamers sections, a D20 section with a few prestige classes (pretty good ones, especially the urban ranger) and a few spells (also good, kind of subtle spells, though not many) followed by a section for Gygaxes own "Lejendary Adventures" which I haven't ever played.
Overall, I liked the information here but I felt the book was disapointing in the way it was printed, the illustrations were bad, and there wasn't enough D20 material here. Maybe Gygax is leery of second guessing the Wizards of the coast people but I think he could probably have helped a lot in tightening things up a bit for Rogues in particular.
I wish they would redo this book as a soft cover with small, dense type, a little more D20 translation on each of the Assasin, thief and NPC type entries, better illustrations, and a lower cover price. Some new thief and Asssasin feats and skills would have been nice, a few more prestige classes, and a little discussion of how some of the existing thief and assasin related prestige classes fit in here to the canting crew would have been appreciated. But I do like the book and it will help me in my next campaign.
nice map of the psuedo-london city
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The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700 (Crime, Law, & Deviance Series)
John L. McMullan
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Practical pre-sales demo advise.......2007-03-06
This is an excellent how-to book for improving your discovery and demo skills for enterprise software sales.
Chapter 4 (Demo Crime Files) and Chapter 5 (Discovery Process) more that justify the price of the book.
I sincerely wish that all presales engineers would read this book before presenting to customers.
Just what my sales force needed.......2007-02-20
I read Demo2Win and fell in love with the concept. After years of demonstrating software, I always felt like I could have done better if I had more tools. Robert's book gave me those tools. The tools I remember from the book were simple. Just be a little different than the other person or company. The Discovery Phase in the long run will save you and your customer time. You will find out if you can supply what the customer needs or leave it to someone else to fulfill their needs. Why waste time. The Demo Crimes made me cringe because I know I've committed a few of them over and over. Now I won't commit those crimes because it's been brought to my attention by Robert.
After I read the book I asked my boss to read it. He read it and ordered about 30 copies for all of our salesforce to read. Each and every person that read it then praised it. It was kind of like the lights went on in everybody's head.
I'd recommend this book to any salesperson. I've already read it more than three times. I take it on each flight I make and read at least a few pages each time.
Thanks, Robert.
realistic demo experiences.......2006-01-03
Excellent Book!!!
Since 1988, I have conducted many system software demonstrations!!
Demonstrating to Win touches all of my experiences from small client engagements to some one pulling out the plug of a mini AS/400!
By reading this book, I felt like you were a spider on the wall recording my many demo successes and failures.
Good Job.
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Showware - Showing Them Your Soft Wares.......2005-01-24
Demonstrating To Win is an exhaustive book on the topic of demonstrating software by experienced hand Robert Riefstahl. The author delves into the subject at hand with precision and detail through chapters like Demonstrating Is Not An Art!, Important Demonstration Concepts, The Demo Crime Files! and Your Demonstration Setting. There can hardly be a better resource than Demonstrating To Win for professionals in the industry. The book covers the obvious, mundane and elementary to the detailed nuances and tricks of the trade and aims to articulate the author's main thrust that in order to win the day the presenter has to build a bridge that the prospect wants to cross in order to reach you (and your software product).
Each chapter is augmented by a brief summary which offers a synopsis of the topic covered and the author practices what he preaches by offering his experience in plain language. There certainly are a couple of instances where the reader will notice the book's age and its year 2000 publication date, most notably during the technical discussions, but Riefstahl's guide is comprehensive and advantageous all the way through and still relevant to those demonstrating software to potential customers.
Good advice on demos, but methodology is dated .......2004-12-01
Riefstahl 's book is all about doing demos; what works and what doesn't for doing software demos in front of prospects. You won't find a lot about the overall sales process found in so many other books, just giving good demos and closely related information.
The author is analytic, but is able to explain ideas in plain language. The compelling value behind this book is Riefstahl 's real world experience giving lots of demos, in different settings, with a few different products he's sold. He urges us to not think of great software demos as a mysterious art, but rather as the result of good preparation and smart tactics.
A recurring theme, and indeed the unwritten theme of the book, is to build a "bridge" for your prospect to cross over from their world of comfort (usually no change) to the one you are presenting. Things seeming trivial or obvious to us as demonstrators can be confusing or offensive to a prospect. The author fills the book with practical ways to put yourself in the clients' place, then design and execute a demo to show why the customer should trust you across the bridge they are so uncertain about. It's all about the prospects' needs, not just features the sales person likes to show.
The chapter called "Demo Crime Files" is about 20% of the book. This detailed list of 28 "what not to do's" such as bad PowerPoint slides, arguing with the prospect, how to make a boring/irrelevant demo, etc. helps make the book well worth the price.
Another 20% of the book is on "Discovery". Throughout the book, Riefstahl stresses the need to perform a deep and thorough discovery of your prospects' business, personnel, etc. before designing and presenting the demo for the buyers. He has successfully used this approach, but this is a topic where I have to get off his bandwagon somewhat. I don't disagree that at least some discovery is necessary, but my limited experience has been that the Discovery methodology of this book may not be feasible. I just don't think many customers today will give as much access to key personnel (and especially not executives) as the author assumes. Prospects will invest some personnel time (with a vendor they don't know very well) on the phone and some in person, but not a lot in either case. Riefstahl offers some good guidelines on how to get the most out of discovery and how to pitch it so it won't seem like an imposition. It's very important to him, so I should probably be more open-minded, but I am skeptical. What he advocates as a sunk cost Discovery could otherwise be billable as pre-sales professional consulting - it's that detailed. I think Riefstahl is tech savvy and experienced enough to pull this off for his deals, but I'm not sure it's a feasible approach for most of us.
One other assumption made is that the demo is very important to the prospect so they will give it a lot of their time. One and two day demonstrations just don't seem to happen anymore as far as I can tell, but the book is written as if they are common. In fairness to the author, I think the business climate has changed for software evaluation since this book was written. Today, the demo (especially an initial one) is just one more meeting in a process the prospects' key personnel have to work through (with multiple vendors) while trying to get their regular job done at the same time. My goal is for a product demo to be compelling enough to get a lot more of their time after they've first seen it; I can't assume this before they have.
I like the book and being relatively new to the sales field (as a tech sales engineer doing demos), I got quite a bit from it. There are several take-aways I can definitely improve upon. The book is an easy read and has a good index. I'm tempted to give it a higher rating, but I can't because of the assumptions about the initial demo being so long and important to the prospect (it's often not the case) and the access/skill required to do the full Discovery Riefstahl insists is vital. These assumptions are woven throughout the book and its method. Nevertheless, I have benefited from the book.
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Title: And the winner is ... Houston wins the first urban education prize for having clear goals and demonstrating dramatic student achievement.
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