Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen: A Guide to More Than 100 Years of Opera Films, Videos, and DVDs
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  • Marjan Kiepura
Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen: A Guide to More Than 100 Years of Opera Films, Videos, and DVDs
Ken Wlaschin
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0300102631

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This bountiful book is a comprehensive guide to the thousands of films, DVDs, and videocasettes featuring operas and opera singers from 1896 to the present. From ABC Television to Franco Zeffirelli, the encyclopedia is a storehouse of fascinating information for film and opera aficionados and casual browsers alike. Find answers to such questions as: * What were the first operas filmed? * Why did they make silent films of operas? * Why was a pseudo-opera written for Citizen Kane? * What was Maria Callas' only film? Organized alphabetically with more than 1900 fully cross-referenced entries, the book casts a wide net that covers not only expected topics-operas, operettas, zarzuelas, composers, singers, conductors, writers, and film directors-but also the unexpected and offbeat--animated opera, first operas on film, puppet opera films, silent films about opera, and many other lesser-known topics. The Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen illuminates the many intersections between opera and film as never before.

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5 out of 5 stars Marjan Kiepura.......2004-11-08

This book is a "must buy" for any person interested in opera, operetta, singers, conductors, writers and numerous related topics and its profound effect on the film medium. Whether a connoisseur or professional in the field of opera or screen, this book has it all. You may use this book as a definitive reference, but you will also find it fascinating, entertaining and brilliantly written. There are lots of illustrations. Buy it. You'll love it.
Opera on Screen
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • "Must" reading for opera fans and film buffs.
Opera on Screen
Marcia J. Citron
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0300081588

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For many opera fans, a live performance is a rare luxury. Film and television are infinitely more accessible, with new productions out on video all the time. How do we square a long, slow art form with the agitated media of the 21st century?

Marcia J. Citron, a musicologist at Rice University, finds a richly varied field. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal exploits film's ability to produce cognitive gaps, such as a man's voice emerging from a woman's mouth. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Tales of Hoffmann uses a cast of dancers while unseen singers carry the vocal line; the split between sound and image gives it a silent movie's abstractness. Looking at Peter Sellars's productions of Don Giovanni on video, Citron shows how the camera enhances these contemporary settings of 18th-century works. Sellars rethinks Mozartian ensemble numbers--which normally function to bring characters onto common ground--by trapping his performers in isolated close-ups. A good deal of Citron's analysis of Sellars, though, pertains to his original staging, not the video treatments as such, begging the question of exactly when a screen version can be considered a distinct work. The blurry line between a screen opera and the mere opera it originated from is one she crosses repeatedly.

Citron, whose prose is marred by academic jargon, is at her best when she's enthusiastic. Discussing Francesco Rosi's Georges Bizet's Carmen, she documents the way the nonnaturalistic conventions of opera fit into an "everyday" film context: the layer of nonmusical sounds that grounds the story in a recognizable world; the score that at times recedes from the foreground, like a soundtrack; the dusty palette that undercuts the "idealizing travelogue" effect of the Andalusian settings.

Rosi's movie may not be part of a separate discipline but simply an interpretation that draws on the techniques at its disposal. Still, if film and video offer new ways of conceiving opera, of bringing it to more people in an evening than fit into La Scala in a year, who can complain? --David Olivenbaum

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Opera on Screen is both a historical survey of this hybrid genre and an illuminating analysis of its conventions. The book focuses on such issues as how the original works are altered in the process of adaptation, the relationship between sound and image, how film directors manipulate time through techniques such as updating ahd flashback, and how we as spectators adapt our patters of listening to (and looking at) opera on screen.

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5 out of 5 stars "Must" reading for opera fans and film buffs........2000-06-04

How does an opera change when it becomes a movie or a video? Opera on Screen examination is the first to explore how opera is treated on the screen, blending musical with film analysis and including ideas from gender studies and other disciplines to examine connections between art and its reproduction and depiction in other media.
Nixon on Stage and Screen: The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in Films, Television, Plays and Opera
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Nixon on Stage and Screen: The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in Films, Television, Plays and Opera
Thomas Monsell
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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ASIN: 078640163X

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This chronologically arranged reference work annotates all films and plays that contain portraiture-favorable and unfavorable-of Richard Nixon as well as material about Nixon in documentaries, audio tapes, television panel discussions, interviews, and more.

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1 out of 5 stars Not what I was looking for........2003-12-31

Richard Nixon still fascinates us- probably because no one knows who the "real" Nixon was. I was looking for a book that outlined Nixon as "depicted" in Films, etc. Monsell unfortunately considers Nixon's own personal appearances in TV and films as "depictions", which they are not. For example, he includes the infamous Checkers Speech. These are not "depictions"- which would be portrayals of Nixon by others. There are 4 basic schools of thought re: RN- the "Tricky Dick" school - the man who could say with a straight heavy jowled face that "If the President does it, it's not illegal", the "He was hounded out of office" school (which conveniently overlooks the fact that it was a bi-partisan effort that dislodged him), the grudging admiration group (who don't exonerate him, but found that they have to admit they like the man) and the "Everybody does it" apologists-defenders school (which overlooks the fact that while lies and manipulation come with politics, nobody before Nixon had ever gone so far as to sanction breaking and entering, or illegal wiretaps, or using the IRS to punish enemies, or obstruction of justice). Monsell falls between the second and the last groups. He comes across as an unabashed supporter and far from impartial reviewer not only of Nixon in Film, etc, but Nixon the man. It's easy to see that he's willing to gloss over Nixon's crimes by the way he reviews the different "depictions" of Nixon. This book was a disappointment. A far better read is the recently released "Nixon's Shadow".

5 out of 5 stars brilliant editing.......1999-05-15

A must for political readers as well as theater and movie buffs. Donald G Pile, Shawnee Mission, Ks.

5 out of 5 stars brilliant editing.......1999-05-15

A must for political readers as well as theater and movie buffs. Donald G Pile, Shawnee Mission, Ks.

5 out of 5 stars Not only comperhensive, but very witty..........1998-06-27

The information is fascinating... production background, interviews with directors and actors who have played Richard Nixon.... anything that is relevant to the interpretation of RNix as a character in plays and films.... Great to nibble away at over time or feast on right away!
Gian Carlo Menotti on Screen: Opera, Dance and Choral Works on Film, Television and Video
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    Gian Carlo Menotti on Screen: Opera, Dance and Choral Works on Film, Television and Video
    Ken Wlaschin
    Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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    ASIN: 0786406089

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    Born in 1911 (and still working), Gian Carlo Menotti created the first television opera (Amahl and the Night Visitors), made opera successful on Broadway while winning two Pultizer Prizes (The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street), and founded the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and the United States. Menotti has had a magnificent career: 21 of his operas and stage works have been filmed, taped or telecast. Each chapter of this reference work covers one opera or stage work and includes a history of the work, a description of its primary screen adaptation, and a chronological listing of screen and audio versions with cast and credits. Additional chapters are devoted to Menotti's screen biographies and screen collaborators, the Spoleto Festivals, and his unfilmed operas. An annotated bibliography completes the guide.
    Opera on Screen: A Guide to 100 Years of Films and Videos, 1997
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      Opera on Screen: A Guide to 100 Years of Films and Videos, 1997
      Ken Wlaschin
      Manufacturer: Beachwood Press
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      ASIN: 1888327006
      Scene Design for Stage and Screen: Readings on the Aesthetics and Methodology of Scene Design for Drama, Opera, Musical Comedy, Ballet, Motion Pictures, Television and Arena Theatre
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        Scene Design for Stage and Screen: Readings on the Aesthetics and Methodology of Scene Design for Drama, Opera, Musical Comedy, Ballet, Motion Pictures, Television and Arena Theatre

        Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
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        Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes
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          Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes
          C. Brunsdon
          Manufacturer: Routledge
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          ASIN: 0415121558

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          Screen Tastes brings together Brunsdon's key writings on film and television criticism, with introductions which contextualize and update the arguments and new work on the "post-feminist girly" in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television--and by feminist criticism.

          Screen Tastes documents an important contribution to the development of a feminist cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s with concerns ranging from "shopping films" to the deregulation of public service broadcasting, from feminist teachings to the aestetics of television.

          My secret heart: songs of the parlour, stage and silver screen: Ben Heppner.: An article from: Opera Canada
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            My secret heart: songs of the parlour, stage and silver screen: Ben Heppner.: An article from: Opera Canada

            Manufacturer: Opera Canada Publications
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            ASIN: B00098IUIM
            Release Date: 2005-07-28

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            This digital document is an article from Opera Canada, published by Opera Canada Publications on December 22, 1999. The length of the article is 441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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            Title: My secret heart: songs of the parlour, stage and silver screen: Ben Heppner.
            Publication: Opera Canada (Magazine/Journal)
            Date: December 22, 1999
            Publisher: Opera Canada Publications
            Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Page: 42-3

            Article Type: Sound Recording Review

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            Novela-soap comparison: more than meets the eye. (Latin-American soap operas challenging U.S. exports on foreign screens): An article from: Video Age International
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              Novela-soap comparison: more than meets the eye. (Latin-American soap operas challenging U.S. exports on foreign screens): An article from: Video Age International

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              Release Date: 2005-07-28

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              This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on March 1, 1992. The length of the article is 722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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              Title: Novela-soap comparison: more than meets the eye. (Latin-American soap operas challenging U.S. exports on foreign screens)
              Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
              Date: March 1, 1992
              Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
              Volume: v12 Issue: n3 Page: p24(1)

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              Opera on Screen.(Review) (book review): An article from: Notes
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                Opera on Screen.(Review) (book review): An article from: Notes
                Raymond Monelle
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                Title: Opera on Screen.(Review) (book review)
                Author: Raymond Monelle
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                Date: March 1, 2001
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                Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • A powerful, well organized and presented collection.
                Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends

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                5 out of 5 stars A powerful, well organized and presented collection........2000-05-04

                This collection of Edvard Grieg's letters is highly recommended to the most avid of classical music collectors or collections; the readers will here find a virtual treasure trove of source material, translated by William Halverson and packing over five hundred letters from Grieg to over a hundred addresses. A powerful piece of Grieg scholarship, well organized and presented.
                Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends & Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches. (Book Reviews: Letters).: An article from: Notes
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                  Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends & Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches. (Book Reviews: Letters).: An article from: Notes
                  Carl Rahkonen
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                  This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1023 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                  Title: Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends & Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches. (Book Reviews: Letters).
                  Author: Carl Rahkonen
                  Publication: Notes (Refereed)
                  Date: September 1, 2002
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                  Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Scandinavian Studies
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                    Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Scandinavian Studies
                    Melissa Dalton-Bradford
                    Manufacturer: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
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                    This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1157 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends. (Reviews). (book review)
                    Author: Melissa Dalton-Bradford
                    Publication: Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
                    Date: December 22, 2001
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                    Emanuel Lasker: The Life of a Chess Master
                    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                    • This is a nice collection of Lasker's games.
                    • An Excellent Biography and Lots of Great Games
                    • A great book about the greatest player
                    Emanuel Lasker: The Life of a Chess Master
                    Jacques Hannak
                    Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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                    ASIN: 0486267067

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                    4 out of 5 stars This is a nice collection of Lasker's games........2001-11-18

                    This book is a combination of a biography and game collection. There are 102 games in the book. The games are given in descriptive notation. The annotations were collected. Many of them are from the original book of the tournament that they were played in, however there are alot of games annotated by Reinfeld and Reti. Most of the annotations are light, and there is only one diagram per game. For about 60% of the tournaments that Lasker played in, full results are given. The theory in the book that Lasker played pyschological chess was Reti's theory.
                    The biography side of the book is pretty interesting. For the sake of those who aren't Yiddish speakers, the term 'chammer', which appears in the beginning of the book, really should be 'chammore', and means donkey. For some reason, this is the Yiddish phrase used to insult someone of less than average intelligence.

                    5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Biography and Lots of Great Games.......2000-07-25

                    Emanuel Lasker was one of the four or five greatest chess players of all time, an outstanding player of many other games, and an outstanding mathematician and philosopher. The biography is a good read, but the games alone are worth the price of the book. They are in descriptive notation. I know a lot of players don't like descriptive notation, but there is a mountain of low-priced classic chess literature in descriptive notation, of which this book is just one of the many outstanding examples. Take my advice: Learn descriptive and read the classics. You won't regret the experience.

                    5 out of 5 stars A great book about the greatest player.......1999-01-06

                    Another Dover reprint! You know I rate Dover books highly. This one is top notch too, reaching their usual high standards for binding etc. The original print is retained which is good as the diagrams from the hardcover edition were excellent. [For computer users they are the Hastings font ] The translation to English was done by Heinrich Fraenkel ('Assiac') and is excellent. The games are typical of Lasker - all fighting games ( there are losses) and all show his grim determination to win. But the best part is the biography. Lasker was a highly intelligent man, who only played chess out of necessity. We are treated to a description of his youth, his relationship with his brother, Berthold, who became a famous Doctor. But the real story is his romancing of Martha his wife. Great human interest, great chess, and we also get the crosstables for the events that Lasker played in. A must buy for all players no matter their strength.
                    EMANUEL LASKER:  LIFE OF A CHESS MASTER
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                      EMANUEL LASKER: LIFE OF A CHESS MASTER
                      Dr. J. Hannak
                      Manufacturer: McKay
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                      ASIN: B000NRG1QM
                      Emanuel Lasker, the life of a chess master: With annotations of more than 100 of his greatest games
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                        Emanuel Lasker, the life of a chess master: With annotations of more than 100 of his greatest games
                        Jacques Hannak
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                        Earned Value Project Management, Second Edition
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                        Earned Value Project Management, Second Edition
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                        Fleming and Koppelman's goal remains the same with this update: describe earned value project management in its most fundamental form, for application to all projects, of any size or complexity. Writing in an easy-to-read, friendly, and humorous style characteristic of the best teachers, Fleming and Koppelman have identified the minimum requirements that they feel are necessary to use earned value as a simple tool for project managers. They have also witnessed the use of simple earned value on software projects, and find it particularly exciting. Realistically, a Cost Performance Index (CPI) is the same whether the project is a multibillion-dollar high-technology project, or a simple one hundred thousand-dollar software project. A CPI is a CPI … period. It is a solid metric that reflects the health of the project.

                        In every chapter, Fleming and Koppelman stick with using simple stories to define their central concept. Their project examples range from peeling potatoes to building a house. Examples are in round numbers, and most formulas get no more complicated than one number divided by another.

                        Earned Value Project Management—Second Edition may be the best-written, most easily understood project management book on the market today. Project managers will welcome this fresh translation of jargon into ordinary English. The authors have mastered a unique "early-warning" signal of impending cost problems in time for the project manager to react.

                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars Earned Value Simplified.......2007-08-11

                        I wish I had had this book much earlier in my project management career! The authors of this book are able to bring the esoteric aspects of Earned Value to the masses. Reading this text is easy - not like a reading text book - and the authors provide (somewhat) "real life" case studies to back up their examples.

                        One author claims to be an expert in Earned Value, and I believe it after reading his explanations - he is able to cut to the essence of the idea without leaving the important details behind. This book is worth the money, especially if you've read other text about Earned Value - you'll appreciate the simplicity of this one.

                        5 out of 5 stars Brings EVMS into perspective.......2007-03-23

                        Fleming and Koppelman have done a decent job of bringing the complex subject of Earned Value Management into perspective. Starting with an interesting history of the subject from its beginnings in 1965, they have broken the subject down into its components and given a clear explanation of the fundamentals. If you're planning on working in the EVMS field any time soon, I would recommend this as a good starting point to familiarize yourself with the subject.

                        3 out of 5 stars Where is the rest?.......2004-08-16

                        So far I have found two books dedicated to the topic of earned value: this book by Fleming and Koppelman and another book entitled `Using Earned Value' by Alan Webb. Note that I am not listing the earned value `Cliff notes' entitled `Project Management: The Commonsense Approach" by the Lamberts, which will not add to your understanding of earned value management or analysis, and serves, at best, as a memory jogger on the basic concepts.

                        "Earned Value Project Management, Second Edition" by Fleming and Koppelman provides a good treatment of the history of earned value and of the calculation methods of its core measurements. However the book falls short in terms of methods of analysis and interpretation of these measurements, which is really where project managers need guidance and expertise. Indeed calculations are automated by the scheduling packages (e.g. Microsoft Project, Primavera, etc.), in other words getting the numbers is never the problem (although some packages have had their share of problems doing this), or let's just say it's the easy part. Obviously one needs to understand how the numbers are calculated and what they mean but this part of earned value does not require a whole book about it. The true challenge in earned value management is the analysis part. Once you have the numbers, you need to understand what they mean to your project, how they trend, how they relate/influence one another and most importantly how you should use them in gauging the health of your project. This information then needs to be translated in either corrective actions (which are hopefully proportional to the problem at hand) or inaction (provided that you have made the conscious decision, based on the data, to keep things as they are). I believe that this is where this book falls short. It gives the reader an understanding of the concepts but lacks in the guidance that is required for a true, practical, and day-to-day application of earned value on projects. In another words, it's a good start but not quite enough.

                        5 out of 5 stars One of the best books on Earned Value!.......2004-07-19

                        The reader that is familiar with Project Management Institute books will find it extremely useful and connected to real life. Presents Earned Value definition and how is possible to organize your projects based on Earned Value principles. If you're interested to have results oriented projects, or if you're interested in project performance, or project monitoring, this book is really helpful. I highly reccomend you to read and use it. If you like "not so academic" books, you might find it a little bit too condensed, and probably you'll need to search for something else. Microsoft Projects offers very good definitions of Earned Value, Cost Performance Index and Schedule Performance Index that you might learn as first steps.

                        4 out of 5 stars Just Enough.......2003-12-20

                        Earned Value Project Management provides project managers with "just enough" to understand and begin using earned value analysis on projects. Koppelman and Fleming have distilled a complex and often intimidating subject and have made it immediately applicable to projects in any industry. I use this book to explain EVM concepts to my students and find it an invaluable tool in my own work as a project manager.

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