Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival

Average customer rating:
Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival
Cari Beauchamp , and Henri Behar
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Movies | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Industry | Movies | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Performing Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books | Dance | General | Reference | Theater
General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
General | Foreign Languages | Reference | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Cannes: Fifty Years of Sun, Sex & Celluloid : Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Famous Film Festival

ASIN: 068811007X

Average customer rating:
Hollywood on the Riviera The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival
Cari and Genri Behar Bearchamp
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0S99A

Average customer rating:
Hollywood on the Riviera: Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival
Cari & Henri Beauchamp & Behar
Manufacturer: Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQGUX2

Book Description

Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs.

Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of music and music-making in Siena. After detailing the history of music and liturgy at Siena's famous cathedral and of civic music at the Palazzo Pubblico, D'Accone describes the crucial role that music played in the daily life of the town, from public festivities for foreign dignitaries to private musical instruction. Putting Siena squarely on the Renaissance musical map, D'Accone's monumental study will interest both musicologists and historians of the Italian Renaissance.

The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

Average customer rating:

The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Don Harran
Manufacturer: Renaissance Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1049 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.

Citation Details
Title: The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Review)
Author: Don Harran
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Page: 860

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Average customer rating:

Keeps you focused on long term success.

Great Insight but Reads Like an Infomercial for Harvard Business School

Excellent guide to those starting out or early in their careers

Valuable insights

must read if you are serious about your career

The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction (Crown Business Briefings)
James M. Citrin , and Richard Smith
Manufacturer: Crown Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Business Life | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Guides | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

You're in Charge, Now What?: The 8 Point Plan

Your First 90 Days In A New Job (How To Make An Impact)

Right From The Start: Taking Charge In A New Leadership Role

ASIN: 1400047943
Release Date: 2003-08-05

Book Description

What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks?

Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary careers—while others equally talented never reached their potential or aspirations?

Jim Citrin and Rick Smith of Spencer Stuart, the world’s most influential executive search firm, set out to explore this question. The result—based on in-depth, original research—is sure to be the most important and useful book for anyone seeking to crack the code of how to build a rewarding, personally satisfying career.

Like weather systems and financial markets, careers contain patterns. What Citrin and Smith found from their research and extensive experience is that people with extraordinary careers are guided by five straightforward patterns that can be harnessed and used by everyone. These individuals:

• Understand the value of you by translating their knowledge and experience into action, building their personal value over each phase of their career
• Practice benevolent leadership by not clawing their way to the top but by being carried there
• Solve the permission paradox, the dilemma of not being able to get a job without experience and not getting the experience without the job
• Differentiate using the 20/80 principle of performance by storming past their defined jobs to create breakthrough ideas and deliver unexpected impact
• Do not micromanage their careers, but macromanage them by gravitating toward the things they are best at and have a passion for, and working with people they like and respect

No one manages your career for you. But with Citrin and Smith as your guide, you’ll be able to understand—and act on—the root causes of success. And what better source for strategic career advice than Spencer Stuart, the firm that over the past ten years has conducted more than 60 percent of the searches for Fortune 1000 CEOs?

Customer Reviews:

Keeps you focused on long term success........2007-09-08

It can be easy to feel insecure about your performance in a highly competitive environment. Failure to receive immediate and visible affirmations of success, such as bonuses, promotions and awards, may lead to the belief that you have not succeeded.

This book helps to keep you focused on things that lead to long term success. The idea of "detached impact" suggests that creating real value for yourself and your organization will always lead to reward, but not always immediately.

Great Insight but Reads Like an Infomercial for Harvard Business School.......2007-01-05

This book offers great insight into behaviors that create an extraordinary career. However, it would have been nice if Mssrs. Citrin and Smith had come down from the ivory tower long enough to do more research in fields other than business.

All of the examples in the book are taken from the business world but, contrary to reviewer Chuang's opinion below, I believe these principles work equally well in technical and artistic fields. Most of the examples are Harvard Business School alums who started in consulting (Bain, McKinsey) or investment banking and then moved over to the client side.

There are far more examples that could and should have been explored other than the execs the author's firm handles.

Excellent guide to those starting out or early in their careers.......2006-11-17

To be clear, 5 Patterns is not a job hunting guide, nor will it help you figure out what career is right for you. What the book does offer are approaches/ways of thinking about your career that are valuable for those early in their careers.

This book is aimed at those in the business world, as all of its examples and much of its guidance focus on success stories in business (like Lou Gerstner of American Express/IBM fame). The themes are general enough to be applicable in other fields, but I don't think the book would have the same impact for someone pursuing other types of careers, such as the arts, teaching, or research.

The book explains the value of choices early in your career - the importance of going "blue-chip" with highly recognized and respected companies in early jobs, the value and costs associated with advanced degrees such as an MBA, focusing on culture fit and passion for the work in a job rather than just looking at the short-term compensation issues, and how to stand out and guide your career as a leader.

For those in mid-career, it's helpful to review it now and then as a reminder to keep thinking about what things to be doing to be happy and successful, and what kinds of oppportunities should be next.

Valuable insights.......2006-03-30

If you are looking for step-by-step handholding, this book will not provide that. Rather, "5 Patterns" identifies 5 patterns, as you might gather from the title, that are common to successful leaders. I prefer that approach to the all-too-common connect-the-dots approach of the typical management/leadership book that attempts to shoehorn you into the "one true formula" for success. "5 Patterns" provides a good balance between personal histories of successful leaders and the lessons that one can learn from those histories.

While the book sets forth suggestions based on the 5 patterns that may help you in your career, it is ultimately up to you to decide what lessons you wish to draw from this book. Particularly if you are feeling stalled in or dissatisfied with your career, you should at least get this book from your library; you will likely be impressed enough to add it to your personal collection.

must read if you are serious about your career.......2005-04-21

I wish I had read it five years ago - I found this book more powerful than any course I have taken in career management at business school 5 years ago. Hard to belive it took so long for me to figure out the tricks, but at least it is not too late yet. I read in average 1-2 books on business/management every month, and this one is definitely on my top 5 favorite list

Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art

Average customer rating:

A Record of Achievement

Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art
Karin Breuer , Ruth E. Fine , and Steven A. Nash
Manufacturer: University of California Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Museums & Collections | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Arts & Photography | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Home & Garden | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Reference | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0520210611

Amazon.com

Over the course of the past 35 years, California-based fine art publisher Crown Point Press has established one of the finest reputations in the printmaking and publishing world. Founded by Kathan Brown, the press is most renowned for its innovative and experimental uses of the oldest and most traditional printmaking processes: etching and woodcut. Under Brown's direction, Crown Point's master printmakers have worked on an astonishingly broad array of projects, including those of John Cage, Tom Marioni, and Pat Steir. The press has also printed and published important minimalist and conceptual graphics, as well as editions by such painterly painters as Richard Diebenkorn, Francesco Clemente, and Helen Frankenthaler. More than 200 full-color, beautifully reproduced prints in this softcover volume document the entire history and development of Crown Point, confirming its unique and enduring contribution to the transformation of 20th-century printmaking.

Book Description

Crown Point Press in San Francisco, founded in 1962 by Kathan Brown, is a world-renowned center of contemporary printmaking. It has published work by such major figures as Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, and Wayne Thiebaud, while bringing to attention prints by many younger artists, including April Gornik, Anish Kapoor, Eric Fischl, and Francesco Clemente. Crown Point Press is known for presenting social and political issues in a range of printmaking media, from hard- and soft-ground etching to drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquired the Crown Point Press archive in 1991. This collection of nearly 800 works contains one impression of every print the Press has ever produced. Also included are over 2000 working proofs and preparatory sketches. Now, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has organized an exhibition of these distinctive prints. Chronicling Crown Point Press's dedication to artistic quality and commitment to innovation in printmaking technique and subject matter, this book also presents Kathan Brown's notable contributions in transforming the printmaking landscape of the twentieth century.
Published in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Customer Reviews:

A Record of Achievement.......2002-06-02

Crown Point Press is one of the leading American printer/publishers of original fine prints, emphasizing intaglio (etching) techniques (although at various periods it has also sponsored woodblock projects). This book is a celebration of 35 years (as of 1997) of printing at Crown Point, and consists of three essays, plus the catalogue of the exhibition that followed the acquisition of the Crown Point archive by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco.

The first essay is a history of Crown Point Press, and particularly of the unique vision and direction given to the Press by its founder and first printer, Kathan Brown. Although occasionally tedious (as when it lapses into lists of the artists who worked at the Press during a particular period), this essay provides interesting discussions of Brown's evolving philosophy, her interactions with artists belonging to various art movements, the different goals of the artists, and so on. You also get a small glipse into the economics of print publishing.

The second and third essays were what I found most interesting. Karin Breuer shows how the working proofs contained in the Press's archive document the artist at work, and the very different working methods that can be effective for different artists. Steven Nash discusses the interrelationships between an artist's work in printmaking and his or her work in other media.

Two-thirds of the book is the exhibition catalogue, which shows the truly amazing breadth and quality of the work done at Crown Point over the years. Although Brown has had a particular affinity for Minimalist and Conceptual art, she has invited interesting artists across a wide spectrum of "isms" to work at the Press, and the list of participating artists reads like a "who's who" of American art in the second half of the 20th Century. Particularly significant artists at Crown Point have included Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Wayne Thiebaud and Sol LeWitt, all of whom are well represented in the catalogue.

This is certainly not a "how to" book, and it is probably still too soon to be able to look back and really say "yes, this artist or movement was significant," or "this Press made a difference in American art," or even "this is the lasting contribution made by the post-WWII resurgence in printmaking." This book provides an important record, however, of 35 years at one of the most important American printer/publishers, and as such makes it easier to think about these questions and begin to glimpse answers.

Average customer rating:

Deeply annotated. Excellent book for advanced players.

A modern classic!

Five Crowns
Yasser Seirwan
Manufacturer: Intl Chess Enterprises
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Chess | Board Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Mastering the Chess Openings: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings, Volume 1

ASIN: 1879479028

Book Description

Five is the number of world chess championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990. Yasser Seirawan deeply analyses all 24 games of the 1990 New York/Lyon World Championship Match. Yasser answers all the big questions: who was brilliant, who was belligerent, who blew it, and why. Jonathan Tisdall reports all the news from ringside. Also includes every game (unannotated) played between Kasparov and Karpov, as of June 1991, by opening. Yasser Seirawan, one of the top US grandmasters was a match commentator in New York and Lyon. Jonathan Tisdall is a chess correspondent for Reuters. Algebraic notation, 256 pages. (I.C.E., 1991).

Customer Reviews:

Deeply annotated. Excellent book for advanced players........2003-07-24

Bobby Fischer likes this book. What greater recommendation do you need?

But beware. This book is not for sub-master players. You might still enjoy it, but following along will be challenging.

Strangely, there are tons of diagrams, nearly 500 for only 24 games. Normally, I would expect lots of diagrams for a beginner's book, but this is for advanced players. Well, it turns out that the diagrams ALWAYS go with the move immediately preceding, not necessarily the bold-faced game move. Seirawan has diagrammed the variations! Once you get used to this, it's actually a great boon. It means that a player advanced enough to understand the variations can read this book without a board.

However, I am only about 1500, and I simply cannot follow Mr. Seirawan without a chess board. I'm not sure I can follow him at all. The variations are much more extensive than in his Winning Chess Brilliancies, which I highly recommend to intermediate players.

Do not buy this book to learn chess strategy. You won't. Buy it for the dramatic history of the match. Buy it to have some fun seeing the relative strengths and weaknesses of these 2 great players. Buy it for serious study. And buy my copy from me, because it's way over my head.

A modern classic!.......2000-08-26

Simply put, this is one of the finest chess books of all time. Yasser Seirawan analyses all the games of the 1990 New York/Lyon World Championship Match between Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, two of the greatest players ever. The deeply annotated games bring to the reader the creativity and depth of chess thinking at the highest levels. Many strong players have praised this book, including Bobby Fischer (see the book `No Regrets'). This book is a must for all players who want to master the game or discover what chess is like at the top.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Book (1) One: I Knock at the Door; Book (2) Two: Pictures in the Hallway; Book (3) Three: Dreams Under the Windows; Book (4) Four: Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well; Book (5) Five: Rose and Crown; Book (6) Six: Sunset and Evening Star

Average customer rating:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Book (1) One: I Knock at the Door; Book (2) Two: Pictures in the Hallway; Book (3) Three: Dreams Under the Windows; Book (4) Four: Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well; Book (5) Five: Rose and Crown; Book (6) Six: Sunset and Evening Star
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: Pan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NRT1AA

Average customer rating:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Book (1) One: I Knock at the Door; Book (2) Two: Pictures in the Hallway; Book (3) Three: Dreams Under the Windows; Book (4) Four: Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well; Book (5) Five: Rose and Crown; Book (6) Six: Sunset and Evening Star
Sean O'Casey
Manufacturer: Pan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NP9VZM

Christ, the Crown of the Torah/Christ in the First Five Books of the Bible

Average customer rating:

Good tie in for Old and New Testaments

Christ, the Crown of the Torah/Christ in the First Five Books of the Bible
Edward Earl Burgess
Manufacturer: Zondervan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Judaism | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books

Customer Reviews:

Good tie in for Old and New Testaments.......2007-06-20

This was a very interesting book that shows how Jesus fulfills certain passages of the Torah. It does a good job of presenting Judaism in Jesus' time as well as some current Jewish practices. I found this at my local library and I would love to purchase it if it comes back into print.

Clerks of the Closet in the Royal Household: Five Hundred Years of Service to the Crown

Average customer rating:

Clerks of the Closet in the Royal Household: Five Hundred Years of Service to the Crown
John Bickersteth , and R. W. Dunning
Manufacturer: Sutton Pub Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Average customer rating:

Five Crowns
Oliver B. Greene
Manufacturer: The Gospel Hour, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WH9VYM

Five plays: A dance of the forests, The lion and the jewel, The swamp dwellers, The trials of Brother Jero, [and] The strong breed (Three crowns book)

Average customer rating:

Five plays: A dance of the forests, The lion and the jewel, The swamp dwellers, The trials of Brother Jero, [and] The strong breed (Three crowns book)
Wole Soyinka
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Lucifer's Crown (Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy)

Average customer rating:

a pleasant surprise
original good vs. evil tale

Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Lucifer's Crown (Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy)
Lillian Stewart Carl
Manufacturer: Five Star
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Historical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Epic | Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books

General | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0786253487

Book Description

Lives change drastically when they enter myth-haunted Glastonbury. Over them looms Robin Fitzroy, formerly Robert the Devil, father of William the Conqueror. Now immortal, he serves Lucifer himself. Only Thomas Becket, the great English saint, knows who Robin really is. Now, he discovers that it's up to him to save the souls of mankind from Robin's clutches.

Customer Reviews:

a pleasant surprise.......2004-07-02

Before I bought this book, I must have picked it up and put it back on the shelf at least on ten different occasions. I normally don't read contemporary fiction, let alone ones with a religious background. However, I'm glad that I gave it a try after all, because it was probably one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a while.

Stewart Carl's strongest point by far is her character creation and development. Thomas Beckett, the sinful saint who let someone else die in his place and has lived with this moral flaw for centuries, is simply fascinating. He is sinner and saint, scholar and warrior, human and angelic ... all in one. The author manages to combine all these traits into what has become one of my favorite fictional characters ever.

Her skills also become apparent in the rest of the cast. A middle-aged university instructor, who is deicated, smart, and witty, but who is also thoroughly disappointed with life and men. A young girl who embodies goodness and purity while still being human and likeable. And so son.

The plot is fascinating as well, a classical good vs. evil story set in modern-day Britain. The author manages to include enough new ideas, interpretations, and twist into this 'old' story that it is a joy to read it all over again. Every page is a pleasure to read, and I could not put the book down until I was done in one night.

original good vs. evil tale.......2003-10-01

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury did not die a martyr's death in 1170 as the history books proclaim. At the last minute, he decided to escape and an innocent monk named David willingly gave up his life for the cause. As his punishment for his overwhelming pride, Sir Becket was granted eternal life so he could atone for his sins.

In the present, he is living in Temple Manor in Glastonbury guarding one third of the Holy Grail. His path crosses that of Maggie Sinclair and Rose Kildaire who, along with Scotsman Mick Dewar, are the key to finding the stone, the second part of the grail. On the eve of the new millennium these four reluctant warriors are enjoined by the Lady to unite the book to the stone and the cup to ensure another millennium of life for humanity. Trying, to stop them is Robin Fitzroy, a being who long ago allied himself with the dark principalities. If Robin can stop them, the world will enter the End Times.

LUCIFER'S CROWN uses the archetypes from many different cultures, legends, and myth to create an original good vs. evil story line. The characters are what make this plot so unique because all the protagonists are fatally flawed yet reject evil again and again even when they are tempted beyond measure. Hearts will go out to Becket, a man who has lived eight centuries and never loses faith even though he has yet to find his own ease of heart.

Harriet Klausner

Book Description

Featuring a general equilibrium framework that is both cohesive and versatile, the Second Edition of Public Finance: A Normative Theory brings new and updated information to this classic text. Through its concentration on the microeconomic theory of the public sector in the context of capitalist market economics it addresses the subjects traditionally at the heart of public sector economics, including public good theory, theory of taxation, welfare analysis, externalities, tax incidence, cost benefit analysis, and fiscal federalism. Its goal of providing a foundation, rather than attempting to present the most recent scholarship in detail, makes this Second Edition both a valuable text and a resource for professionals.

* Second edition provides new and updated information
* Focuses on the heart of public sector economics, including public expenditure theory and policy, tax theory and policy, cost benefit-analysis, and fiscal federalism
* Features a cohesive and versatile general equilibrium framework

Customer Reviews:

Great textbook for graduate and undergraduates.......2006-11-06

This is a great college textbook. It treats the Public Finance issues in a very accessible way for both graduates and undergraduates. I deeply recommend it.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books