At the Movies: Behind the Big Screen: the History, Scandals, Directors, Studios and Stars

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At the Movies: Behind the Big Screen: the History, Scandals, Directors, Studios and Stars
Don Shiach
Manufacturer: Southwater
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1844761630

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A compelling insider's sourcebook covering the powerful pwesonalities and magical movies that shaped a century of the film industry around the world.

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In a distinguished 43-year recording career that began with the recording of two duets by Blangini and Leguerney in 1944, this remarkably versatile artist recorded more than 750 titles in at least 15 languages. These recordings, appearing on nearly 50 labels (more than 535 different catalog numbers) on 78s, 45s, LPs, prerecorded open reel tapes, 8-track cartridges, cassettes, and CDs, earned Souzay numerous awards. Souzay won the prestigious French Grand Prix du Disque on three separate occasions for performances of a Handel aria, Ravel songs, and classical arias with orchestra. Except for operas and cantatas, Souzay rarely recorded joint programs: his only recorded duets were with his sister, soprano Genevieve Touraine, Germaine Lubin, and Elly Ameling. This three-section discography has been meticulously researched and organized by Manuel Morris and includes cross-referenced indices to facilitate easy access to needed information. Separate sections present a chronological list of all Souzay's recordings; an alphabetical list by composer and title of work; and a list of all the recordings that have been assigned catalog numbers. Recordings of an archival nature such as radio broadcasts and privately recorded concert performances that were not released for sale are not included in the discography but virtually all information relating in any way to a listed recording has been included. Following the work's introduction, the discography is organized into principal sections: Chronology, Composers and Titles, Recordings, and Indices. The Chronology lists all of Souzay's recordings, including, when known, recording dates and matrix and take numbers. When located, data on rejected takes has been included here. The Composers and Titles section provides an alphabetical list by composer of the title of the recorded work. All recordings that have been assigned catalog numbers, including those not published, are listed in the main entries of the Recordings section; this is divided into four subsections based on recording companies. Within groups, recordings are listed alphabetically by label. Data on the availability of the recording, its release, and deletion are usually provided with each listing. Two indices consist of an alphanumeric listing of all known labels and catalog numbers (cross-referenced to the recording section) and a listing of all artists who appear in recordings with Souzay. Morris's systematic and comprehensive discography will make this an indispensable resource in the musical reference section of libraries at universities and conservatories. It should also prove useful for professional singers, vocal teachers and their students, collectors, and musicologists.

The Recorded Performances of Gerard Souzay A Discography

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The Recorded Performances of Gerard Souzay A Discography
Manuel (COM) Morris
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTN8LA

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Investigating Biological Systems Using Modeling describes how to apply software to analyze and interpret data from biological systems. It is written for students and investigators in lay person's terms, and will be a useful reference book and textbook on mathematical modeling in the design and interpretation of kinetic studies of biological systems. It describes the mathematical techniques of modeling and kinetic theory, and focuses on practical examples of analyzing data. The book also uses examples from the fields of physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, agriculture, pharmacology, and medicine.

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* Contains practical descriptions of how to analyze kinetic data
* Provides examples of how to develop and use models
* Describes several software packages including SAAM/CONSAM
* Includes software with working models

Ethics And Law in the Study of AIDS (Scientific Publication)

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Ethics And Law in the Study of AIDS (Scientific Publication)
Pan American Health Organization , n Fuenzalida-Puelma">Hern <160>n Fuenzalida-Puelma , and a Linares Parada">Ana Mar <161>a Linares Parada
Manufacturer: Pan Amer Health Org
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9275115303

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Tras La Honorable Fachada
Juan L. Linares , and Carmen Campo
Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
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Binding: Paperback

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LA conquista de Mexico/Conquest of Mexico

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LA conquista de Mexico/Conquest of Mexico
Fernando Orozco Linares
Manufacturer: Giron Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Cuentos de Fantasmas (Coleccion el Pozo y el Pendulo)

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Cuentos de Fantasmas (Coleccion el Pozo y el Pendulo)

Manufacturer: Panamericana Editorial
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Binding: Paperback

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Book in Spanish

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Linares! Linares!
Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam
Manufacturer: New in Chess
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9056910779

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Once a year some of the world's sharpest minds gather in the Andalusian town of Linares. In the splendid isolation of Don Luis Rentero's hotel Anibal, the leading grandmasters of chess decide, as Garry Kasparov puts it 'who is who for the coming year'. The Linarese proudly speak of the Wimbledon of Chess. Linares! Linares! is the engrossing evocation of the games, intrigues and conflicts that have made the supertorneo a unique tradition. Meet the players and the aficionados. Why does Vassily Ivanchuk have trouble praying when he is thinking of God? Was Gata Kamsky's orange juice really poisoned? Why did Judit Polgar exclaim 'How could you do this to me?', when she confronted Kasparov in the lobby of the Anibal? Was it a coincidence that general Juan Perea's son got married in Mexico on the day when Manolete was killed in the Linares bullring? And perhaps the most intriguing question the author tries to answer: why does time come to a standstill in this provincial Spanish town when the chess players arrive?

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wonderful and passionate
Beautiful literature

Razor Edges of My Tongue
Leticia Hernandez-Linares
Manufacturer: Calaca Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0971703507

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wonderful and passionate.......2006-03-15

This is real life poetry, spoken like a friend to a friend. The author opens up her life and uses the richness of language and culture to question the structures that separate us. Great spoken word poetry but also very alive on the page. Definitely worth the money.

Beautiful literature .......2005-04-27

I received my copy of this book, "Razor Edges of My Toungue". It is a beautiful collection of literary peices by the author of this book. The language is transcending & evocative! Takes you on a journey! Intense artwork also by the illustrator! Excellent!!! Viva la tierra de Cuzcaltan!

En Calavera: The Papier-Mache Art of the Linares Family

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En Calavera: The Papier-Mache Art of the Linares Family
Susan N. Masuoka
Manufacturer: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0930741412

Adaptive Radiation (Peabody Museum Monographs No. 5)

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Adaptive Radiation (Peabody Museum Monographs No. 5)

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips - Circuit Design Techniques (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

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ART Model down to Earth.

Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips - Circuit Design Techniques (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona , Bernabé Linares-Barranco , and Andreas G. Andreou
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792382315

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Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips describes circuit strategies resulting in efficient and functional adaptive resonance theory (ART) hardware systems. While ART algorithms have been developed in software by their creators, this is the first book that addresses efficient VLSI design of ART systems. All systems described in the book have been designed and fabricated (or are nearing completion) as VLSI microchips in anticipation of the impending proliferation of ART applications to autonomous intelligent systems. To accommodate these systems, the book not only provides circuit design techniques, but also validates them through experimental measurements. The book also includes a chapter tutorially describing four ART architectures (ART1, ARTMAP, Fuzzy-ART and Fuzzy-ARTMAP) while providing easily understandable MATLAB code examples to implement these four algorithms in software. In addition, an entire chapter is devoted to other potential applications for real-time data clustering and category learning.

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ART Model down to Earth........2000-09-30

Congratulations to the authors! It is a really good book on Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) Neural Networks. It worth it each dollar you pay for and might be read by every student or professional interested in applications aimed to datamining with unsupervised ANN. Well written and very practical, this book presents all the knowledge the computing professional needs to bring the ART models down to Earth and enjoy a lot with examples of applications on MATLAB code. After almost 1.000 trials on ART1 and Fuzzy-ART codes presented by the authors, the euclidian space of the resulting domain and image parameters comparison which I came to was the same one presented in the book, proving the solid author's background and the code's value. In fact, a lot of MATLAB background is required to test the codes (unfortunatelly, the Fuzzy implementation performs two dimensions input vectors only). The book do not get a "5" degree, in my opinion, because it do not present ART2 algorithm. I have made some modifications on the original codes (ART1 and Fuzzy-ART) to run input vectors with unlimited dimensions, which proved its value when tested with a lot of data (in fact, I am using the codes for my IT Master thesis).

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5 STARS WITH ONE RESERVATION

More useful for project leadership than personal

Packed With Knowledge!

Zest as a decisive element in successful implementation

A guidebook for the manager who must get things done

Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal on Time and On Budget
Robert Neiman , and Robert Neiman
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Deadline Busting: How to be a Star Performer in Your Organization

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ASIN: 0071438882

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Breakthrough ways to keep your business goals on target and on deadline

A practical job aid for any manager who needs to get an organization to execute better, Execution Plain and Simple provides a proven 12-step plan to get results, overcome delays, and achieve tough goals faster. This short book will help you generate momentum toward critical goals and achieve performance breakthroughs--no matter what the goal or project.

Reveals how to execute a goal on time and on budget
Shows how to cut through off-target diversions, flagging enthusiasm, and active resistance
Explains how to cultivate change and support growth
Features case examples from clients, including General Electric, Motorola, and many others

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5 STARS WITH ONE RESERVATION.......2007-08-07

Robert Neiman has worked closely for decades with the quintessential management consulting 'guru' Robert Schaffer... and this shows in this very helpful book... for that reason alone it deserved a 5-Star rating at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ ... where it is a standard recommendation to all our clients.

We have one reservation. This does not invalidate Neiman's Twelve Steps to success with projects, but should be kept in mind by the readers when they come to applying Neiman's 'Twelve Steps' in real-live projects.

What is Neima's One Big Idea ? What is the one, single 'plain and simple' action that makes up the 20-80 Pareto.

Robert Schaffer has One Big Idea that runs through every article,Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking every book, every seminar, every consulting assignment that he has ever touched. He may add a twirl here or a twist there; but inevitably Robert Schaffer has taught us all to focus on one predominant under-pinning in every consulting project ... viz. Never ever persuade or push the client to attempt any change that he or she is not 'ready' for.

For Schaffer 'readiness' is the magic key to project success. When a client is truly deep-down 'ready' to tackle a change, it is very hard to fail... and the consultant has done the 20% of input that will trigger 80% of the achievemnt.

'Readiness' is tricky and requires artful diagnosis and prognosis and infinite patience and intuition, much more than sigma-six number- crunching and swamps of spread-sheeting and dazzling powerpoint flash.

Consulting is all about facilitation and not about persuasion. A gung-ho consulting style is very likely to do more harm than good when all is said and done. Neiman could have placed a tad more emphasis on this in his Twelve Steps process that are still quite sound overall.

This book is recommended with 5 Stars, with one reservation. Does it alert and concentrate the reader to focus predominantly on 'readiness' and to measure it very carefully when treading each of Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Changethe plain and simle Twelve Steps to successful projects?

More useful for project leadership than personal.......2005-03-10

Vision, purpose, defining the scope of the work, and gaining the critical mass needed to get execution within a normally stagnant company are all covered well in this book. For somebody in a large company (like myself), this book provides a lot of guidance to leadership on how to bring small-team energy to a culture of slow-moving big teams. In that respsect, this is a great book.

The only failure I see is that I didn't notice much attention paid to individual performance. A failing of large companies is that they tend to load so many roles, side-responsibilities, and conflicting priorities on their employees that enabling some folks to break free, focus on a small but impact-laden project, and really deliver it are a separate set of issues that need to be addressed as well. This book provides great information in an immediately-useful form-factor, but beware of using it alone, paritcularly if you're new to a company and its culture.

Packed With Knowledge!.......2004-12-22

Has your corporation or department misplaced its vision, purpose or spirit? Relax. Author Robert A. Neiman provides an effective path out of the lost-and-found department. Neiman's 12-step program offers practical solutions and political advice for even hardcore bureaucracy addicts. The text features true-to-life scenarios, worksheets and instructions for a full menu of corporate activities, ranging from dreaded employee reviews to awards ceremonies. The author's portrait of corporate life is like an excellent still-life painting, with realistic details, highlights and shadows. The text is enhanced with actual snapshots from testy workplace situations. These insertions, however, would work better with a bit of pruning and, although the vignettes are helpful, it is tempting to skim these little corporate dramas. But don't skip the charts and worksheets. These features are excellent tools. What's more, the author's insistence on honesty, integrity and personal responsibility is a business wakeup call. We recommend this book to every ambitious worker, manager or executive on the corporate ladder.

Zest as a decisive element in successful implementation.......2004-07-09

To understand what has to be done is one thing. To mobilize an organization to implement is another, more complex task. The most productive and satisfying experiences for me and I expect most people have been those there the "zest factors" were prominent. Mr. Neiman has provided a disciplined way of thinking through how these conditions can be replicated in the more ordinary circumstances that over time spell the difference between success and failure in this competitive, intreguing world.

A guidebook for the manager who must get things done.......2004-07-09

Bob Neiman's book unravels the mysteries of how to make things happen in organizations. Any manager who has been tasked with a challenging assignment will find a generous helping of practical, useful advice in this book. Going beyond the technical dimension of project management, Execution Plain and Simple lays out a step by step approach that blasts through the psychological, interpersonal, and political obstacles that can sink even the best planned efforts. And the author shares his experience with simple, direct language and useful case examples. If you are responsible for getting something done - or you advise someone else who is - you will find this book extremely useful.

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