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Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
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- An important contribution
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Taking the Train
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Crimes Of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality
ASIN: 0231111436 |
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth created a new form of expression built around elaborately designed names and initials displayed on public walls, vehicles, and subways. Critics called it "graffiti," but to the practitioners it was "writing."
Taking the Train traces the history of "writing" in New York City against the backdrop of the struggle that developed between the city and the writers. Austin tracks the ways in which "writing" -- a small, seemingly insignificant act of youthful rebellion -- assumed crisis-level importance inside the bureaucracy and the public relations of New York City mayoral administrations and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for almost two decades. Taking the Train reveals why a global city short on funds made "wiping out graffiti" an expensive priority while other needs went unfunded. Although the city eventually took back the trains, Austin eloquently shows how and why the culture of "writing" survived to become an international art movement and a vital part of hip-hop culture.
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An important contribution.......2002-10-07
For anyone who is seriously interested in all aspects of the Graffiti Culture, Joe Austin pulls it all together in this scholarly, but easily readable, excellently researched new book.
The author has spent the necessary time to know many of the important writers, to review the major material written in the last thirty years and to organize it in a way that helps the reader develop a more comprehensive understanding of this unique art form. "Taking the Train" joins a very select list of books that make up the "Graffiti Book Hall of Fame"
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An easy to use guide for either the first time gun dog owner, or for the veteran dog owner. LEARN:
How to Socialize, expose and condition your gun dog during the first 12 months of his life.
How easy it is to cultivate your gun dog's natural hunting talents the easy, painless, fun way.
How to utilize the young dog's critical developmental months.
How to avoid mistakes that can ruin a good gun dog.
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Great for Novice Birddog owners.......2003-12-21
This is an awesome book for novice birddog people. I highly recommend it, and give it to my (Pointer) puppy buyers. My favorite feature is that at the back of the book there are lists of things to remember to expose your puppy to by a certain age so that you'll end up with a stable dog. I pull it out every time I raise a pup as a sort of checklist. I agree with the majority of what the author has to say, and the author tends not to take sides (like on the issue of force retrieving). The book does have some info that is geared towards versatile birddogs rather than just Pointing dogs, which is fine as long as you are able to seperate what your dog needs to know. This book is geared towards the first year of puppyhood, not training... which is great as there are not a whole lot of books out there for this. Helps you to remember they are just pups and to just let them grow up for a while.
This book covers the important fundamental basics........2003-01-13
This book is different from the other hunting dog training books I've read. It covers a puppy's early development as a whole dog. Joan Bailey takes you from your puppy's first day in your home, through adolescence, to early adulthood. It will show you how to help your dog become both a member of your family and an excellent hunting companion. This book explains why a particular training method might work and how to develop a cooperative relationship with your dog.
No bad,...not good, but not bad........2002-04-07
This book is fine for the average person who has no experience with dogs. But for the average gun dog owner, the first half of the book is a waste of time. The last half does have some good ideas, but I would rather spend my money on something more informative such as the writings of Bill Tarrant, especially the Delmar Smith method. It's hard to argue with success and Smith's training methods earned him many national champions. As for this book, I found myself in disagreement with a couple of the training methods, especially gun conditioning. Overall, it's a good book with many great ideas for the beginner.
Overall, an excellant book!.......2001-06-16
There are (too) many "how-to" sporting dog training books available, but I found this one to be different in how it focuses on first year conditioning of the pup rather than training, per se. I didn't agree with everything - not that you would - but I followed about 90% of the author's thoughts and found my dog's second year training to be MUCH EASIER. I think this is important if you have a sensitive breed that won't tolerate heavy handed training, such as mine. It also explained in considerable detail that way in which the puppy learns and this allowed me to sort of 'get inside' my dog's head to better understand how to do the conditioning and training so that he would be successful and the process would go faster and better.
Great book on dog training whether gundog or family pet.......2001-06-15
This book is a far reaching work that not only addresses the training of Gundogs but also any family pet...of importance is the sections on crate training to facilitate housebreaking and teaching the dog that there are restrictions on his activities...I also enjoyed her views on conditioning and letting the dog learn at its own pace with firm and consistent training by owner...and letting the dog learn to be a dog before pulling from its littermates and throwing it into a new environment. I have trained two dogs with her methods and let 4-5 friends borrow it when training their pets...all have been great successes. My copy is dog-eared (no pun) and hilighted throughout...but a great book for those that want to try a softer method with great results.
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Shirley Neitzel and Nancy Winslow Parker are back with what may just be their best picture-book rebus yet.After all, who can resist a ride on a train? And with words like locomotive, boxcar, tanker, tunnel, trestle, and caboose, the cumulative story invites imaginative play while building vocabulary and basic reading skills. Pure fun for young engineers.
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Great for little ones too!.......2005-08-11
We discovered this at the library as well. My son (an early train lover) already responded to it at 15 months, and by 18 months was asking for it. At 20 months now, he knows words like "caboose" and "signal" because of this book! (Ok, maybe not the world's most useful words, but for a train lover...) The book is repetitive in a way kids seem to love, and has pictures for words in places so they can "read" along with you. The ending is also very cute, connecting train-world to the real world of baby's life. My husband is not a big fan of the illustrations (the cover gives a good indication of what they are like) and I agree they are somewhat cutesy and with little artisitc merit, but my son doesn't seem to care!
#1 on our 3 yr old's request list!.......2000-11-29
We discovered this book at the library and it became a favorite. After returning it our 3 year old kept asking for "the train book" and we couldn't remember the title. Her persistance drove our detective work (do you have any idea how many juvenile train books there are?) and it is now a bed-time, back-seat, grandma's lap, any-old-time-favorite. It is also the first book our little girl "read" back to us! This book has great rhymes, details to rediscover, and new vocabulary leading to more new vocabulary. Special memories..and a big thumbs up from our little engineer!
Great repetition that gets my son yelling out the words.......1999-11-10
This book is a rhyme that repeats itself adding a verse at a time. It uses pictures of various train cars, etc. that my son shouts out as we get to them. Great for 3-4 year olds.
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Taking the train
Nancy Parent
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Taking the Train: A Tribute to Britain's Greatest Railway Photographers
Michael H. C. Baker
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Taking the Train: Poems
Elaine Fowler Palencia
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ASIN: 0962366692 |
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A very brave and honest book.......2000-04-20
Elaine Fowler Palencia is a fine fiction writer who has said that she had to find a new language to write about her handicapped son Andrew. That language was poetry. Palencia speaks it like a native, and she pulls no punches in telling the truth of what it's like to watch you child's body outgrow his mind. A sad experience, sometimes ugly, sometimes terrifying, but with moments of odd and poignant beauty.
Excellent poetry on a difficult subject.......1999-11-24
Elaine Palencia has given us 15 masterful poems on the subject of mothering a son who suffered brain damage in infancy and will never grow up. The poems are devastatingly honest but without a shred of self-pity or self-righteousness. There is no morbidity or sentimentality here, but we are shown the constant struggle (as in the title poem (Taking the Train) and grief (The Empty Street of Children), and the occasional moment of joy (The Locked Trunk). Everyone should read When Speaking with the Family of a Retarded child and Rock, Paper, Scissors. From that poem: But I cannot stop/Trying to catch/His life in words,/ Cannot stop trying/ To touch the beating/ Heart of why./ Someone else will/ Know this much/ Because I have/ Written it down.
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Taking tree trains
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This digital document is an article from Sojourners, published by Sojourners on November 1, 2002. The length of the article is 980 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: Long train runnin': `the work isn't over until we close our eyes and die.' Ruby Sales knows all about taking risks--and about persevering.
Author: Rose Marie Berger
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Date: November 1, 2002
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Volume: 31
Issue: 6
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Got a few minutes? Sit down and tackle 60 perplexing brainteasers, from math stumpers to mini crosswords, that will challenge your intelligence.
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Solid book on Java Enterprise architecture.......2007-09-03
It is a MUST-HAVE J2EE architect/developer book. It provides the most important and relevant patterns in J2EE design and development based on Gang of Four. The architecture guidance and best practices described are very valuable.
This book needs an update for Java EE 5. Not sure, those updates are posted on their web site.
A must have for J2EE architects.......2007-01-04
I bought this book for preparing for SUn Certfied Enterprise Architect assignment( part II). I am very happy with this book. It gives examples for all J2EE patterns in a very lucid way and this book has helped me a lot.
This is the most important and comprehensive J2EE design pattern book.......2007-01-03
Do you know GoF ? Do you know basic 14 design patterns ? Do you know Java ? Do you know J2EE ? Do you know EJB ? Are you an architect of Java based applications ? OK. But if you do not know the book Core J2EE Patterns you are not taking designing and implementation of J2EE applications seriously. The book describes all the details, consequences and other aspects of J2EE design patterns. I recommend to read book sequentially and to make a lot of bookmarks and lot of skips into related links in the book.
You get clear picture of overall architecture possibilities in J2EE world. Also thanks to this book I became a certified architect.
It is outdated........2006-12-21
This was the bible I used for a project, I loved the ideas and I named the classes after the names in this book.
However, 3 years later, after reviewing this book, I would say, many ideas in the book are already outdated and over emphasized in the past. Just remember the good old days when EJB was glorious and almost every company went for it.
After the EJB rush, now when we are back to basic, we realized that many Plain Old Design Patterns are real gold. I would suggest you don't rely heavily on J2EE, focus on domain design instead.
Many books provide this advice on domain driven development, such as Design Patterns, Refactoring, Domain Driven Design.
After you read those books, then read this book again. You will agree with this review.
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An essential guide for the professional and experienced J2EE developer.......2006-12-02
This book is about using patterns for the J2EE platform, using best practices to design applications that use JSP, Servlet, EJB components, and JMS technologies, preventing reinvention of the wheel when it comes to design and the J2EE platform, and finally identifying bad practices in existing designs and refactoring those designs. This book assumes the reader already knows how to program with J2EE technologies and is familiar with UML. Each pattern presented has a problem it addresses, forces involved (what you want to accomplish), and a solution. Also included are related patterns and even some sample code, though the code is by no means complete.
This book is organized into two parts. Part 1, "Patterns and J2EE" covers an introduction to J2EE and patterns. It deals with design considerations for JSP, servlets, and enterprise beans. This part also includes bad practices and refactorings for the J2EE platform.
Chapter 1: "Introduction" is a brief discussion on various topics, including patterns, J2EE platform, defining a pattern, and pattern categorization. It ends by introducing the J2EE Pattern Catalog.
Chapter 2: "Presentation Tier Design Considerations and Bad Practices" and Chapter 3 "Business Tier Design Considerations and Bad Practices" discuss the design considerations and bad practices for the presentation tier and business/integration tiers respectively. The design considerations are issues that a J2EE developer needs to consider while working with the J2EE platform. The topics presented in these chapters point the reader to other sources (such as official specifications and well written books on these topics) for more detailed information on these issues.
Chapter 4: "J2EE Refactorings" includes some of the refactorings the authors have experienced in their work that has enabled them to move designs from a less than optimal solution to a better solution. The refactorings provide another way to think about the material in the rest of the book, providing what the authors believe to be valuable companion material to the pattern catalog. This chapter shows how the authors have been influenced by Martin Fowler and his book "Refactoring". For those readers who are familiar with the Refactoring book, the format of this chapter will be very familiar. However, the content of this chapter is entirely in the context of J2EE technologies, whereas Martin Fowler addresses refactoring at a different level.
Part 2, "J2EE Pattern Catalog" presents the J2EE pattern catalog which contains the patterns that form the core of this book.
Chapter 5, "J2EE Patterns Overview" provides an overview of the J2EE pattern catalog. This chapter begins with a high level discussion of the pattern ideas and explains the way the patterns are categorized into tiers. It also explains the J2EE pattern template, which is used to present all patterns in this book. The chapter discusses all the J2EE patterns and uses a diagram to show their inter-relationships. It also provides a roadmap to the pattern catalog. This roadmap presents common J2EE design and architecture-related questions with references to patterns or refactorings that provide solutions to these questions. Understanding the pattern relationships and the roadmap is key to using these patterns.
Chapter 6, "Presentation Tier Patterns" presents eight patterns that pertain to using servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, and custom tags to design web-based applications for the J2EE platform. The patterns describe numerous implementation strategies, and address common problems such as request handling, application partitioning, and generating composite displays.
Chapter 7, "Business Tier Patterns" presents nine patterns that pertain to using EJB technology to design business components for the J2EE platform. The patterns in this chapter provide the best practices for using the EJB and JMS technologies. Where relevant, these patterns include discussion on other technologies, such as JNDI and JDBC.
Chapter 8, "Integration Tier Patterns" presents four patterns that pertain to integrating J2EE applications with the resource tier and external systems. The patterns deal with using JDBC and JMS to enable integration between business tier and resource tier components.
Finally, the "Web Worker Micro-Architecture" discusses an advanced topic of using multiple patterns to solve a larger problem. It specifically discusses the Web Worker micro-architecture which illustrates how to combine multiple patterns to integrate a J2EE application and a workflow system.
I found this book very enlightening, although I would not say it is an easy read, since this is not an easy subject. Some things have changed since it was published back in 2003, primarily the advent of EJB 3.0 which changes the need for and structure of a few patterns. However, it is still a very good book on design and I would still highly recommend it for the experienced J2EE developer. The book's preface recommends it for managers too, but quite frankly unless the manager is well-versed in J2EE to begin with, I think it would just confuse him/her since the discussions and explanations can get quite technical.
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