Allan King: Filmmaker

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Published by the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

Allan King, Filmmaker.(Book Review): An article from: CineAction

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Allan King, Filmmaker.(Book Review): An article from: CineAction
Janice Kaye
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Allan King, Filmmaker.(Book Review)
Author: Janice Kaye
Publication: CineAction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
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Del Negro focuses on the passeggiata - the ritual evening stroll - as the centrepiece of social life. Sassani from all segments of society (older women, teenage girls, motorbike boys, and established professionals) use the passeggiata to depict themselves as modern. Del Negro's evocative descriptions of dressing, walking, courting, and socializing in Sasso's piazza reveal how the Sassani pride themselves on their urbane sophistication, half jokingly referring to their town as "our little Paris." Examining everything from Sassano interpretations of tabloid television and soap operas to community games and postcards, Del Negro casts her net wide and gathers powerful insights into the local culture. Richly sophisticated, this innovative study speaks to anyone interested in folklore, cultural studies, anthropology, or Mediterranean culture.

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal

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The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Gloria Nardini
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Title: The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review)
Author: Gloria Nardini
Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
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Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Page: 203(3)

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The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review): An article from: Folklore

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The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review): An article from: Folklore
Mikel J. Koven
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This digital document is an article from Folklore, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1144 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: The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review)
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Publication: Folklore (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
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Volume: 117 Issue: 3 Page: 352(3)

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Includes an illustrated history of magic and magicians, from the origins of the art in Egypt, through the nineteenth and twenthieth centuries to the magic of today, featuring magicians such as Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield and David Blaine.

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How to Do Magic Tricks.......2007-01-19

I purchased for a friend for Christmas and he loved it.

The Book of Magic Being a Simple Description of Some Good Tricks and How to Do Them, with Patter

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The Book of Magic Being a Simple Description of Some Good Tricks and How to Do Them, with Patter
A. Frederick Collins
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The Book Of Magic: Being A Simple Description Of Some Good Tricks And How To Do Them With Patter
A. Frederick Collins
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How Did You Do That?
J. Richard Schlichting
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How to Do Balancing Tricks and Stunts
Bruce Fife , and Dr. Dropo
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great book

How to Do Tricks With Cards
Bill Turner
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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ASIN: 0020298900

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great book.......2007-07-11

A wonderful brief introduction to sleight of hand with cards. First published in the 1940s, it doesn't have up-to-date moves, but it's valuable for what it does have. The book does a good job emphasizing presentation. Perfect for someone who wants to try out card magic but doesn't want to spend much money at first.

How to Survive the Seemingly Impossible: Juggling, Magic Tricks, Illusions, and Other Feats You Really Can Do

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How to Survive the Seemingly Impossible: Juggling, Magic Tricks, Illusions, and Other Feats You Really Can Do
Robin Epstein
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Magic Everywhere!: How to Do Absolutely Incredible Magic with Totally Ordinary Things

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Simple, easy and very clear

Magic Everywhere!: How to Do Absolutely Incredible Magic with Totally Ordinary Things
Matthew Costello
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ASIN: 0609803573
Release Date: 1999-04-20

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Make magic everywhere! For endless family fun and astonishment, this book teaches you seventy-five magic tricks to perform using spoons, playing cards, rubber bands, thread, coins, and other common household items.

The easy but amazing feats of legerdemain in this fun-filled book include many tricks that are rarely revealed outside of professional magic circles:
card tricks fit for a king
rubber band tricks to stretch one's imagination
uncanny predictions
supernatural forces
brain-twisting rope tricks
coin tricks you'll flip for
number tricks that just don't add up
don't-believe-your-own-eyes vanishings
and much more

Every trick is rated for difficulty, and all are easily managed by kids ages seven and older. You'll also be fascinated by bits of magic trivia,amusing anecdotes about how magic works, and stories from the lives of famous magicians such as David Copperfield and Houdini .

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Simple, easy and very clear.......1999-05-12

A very simple, easy and practical magic book for begginers. His format really makes it "grabbable" and understandable with a quick reading. I love it

Popular Science Monthly (August 1966) What's Best for you- Disk or Drum Brakes; Cold War in Space; How They Do Those Magic Tricks on TV

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Popular Science Monthly (August 1966) What's Best for you- Disk or Drum Brakes; Cold War in Space; How They Do Those Magic Tricks on TV
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THE BOOK OF MAGIC - BEING A SIMPLE DESCRIPTION OF SOME GOOD TRICKS AND HOW TO DO THEM, WITH PATTER
A. Frederick Collins
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Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to equipment and information, or deny use of those resources to the people who are meant to have access to them. The characters, though sometimes well described, are not the stars of these stories. That honor belongs to the tools that the black-hat hackers use in their attacks, and also to the defensive measures arrayed against them by the hapless sysadmins who, in this volume, always lose. Consider this book, with its plentiful detail, the answer to every pretty but functionally half-baked user interface ever shown in a feature film.

One can read this book for entertainment, though its writing falls well short of cyberpunk classics like Burning Chrome and Snow Crash. Its value is in its explicit references to current technologies--Cisco routers, OpenSSH, Windows 2000--and specific techniques for hacking them (the heroes and heroines of this book are always generous with command-history dumps). The specific detail may open your eyes to weaknesses in your own systems (or give you some ideas for, ahem, looking around on the network). Alternately, you can just enjoy the extra realism that the detail adds to these stories of packetized adventure. --David Wall

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"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" is NOT intended to be a "install, configure, update, troubleshoot, and defend book." It is also NOT another one of the countless Hacker books out there. So, what IS it? It is an edgy, provocative, attack-oriented series of chapters written in a first hand, conversational style. World-renowned network security personalities present a series of 25 to 30 page chapters written from the point of an attacker who is gaining access to a particular system. This book portrays the "street fighting" tactics used to attack networks and systems.

Not just another "hacker" book, it plays on "edgy" market success of Steal this Computer Book with first hand, eyewitness accounts
A highly provocative expose of advanced security exploits
Written by some of the most high profile "White Hats", "Black Hats" and "Gray Hats"
Gives readers a "first ever" look inside some of the most notorious network intrusions

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"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" is NOT intended to be a "install, configure, update, troubleshoot, and defend book." It is also NOT going to be another one of the countless Hacker books out there now by our competition. So, what IS it going to be? "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" is going to be an edgy, provocative, attack-oriented series of chapters written in a first hand, conversational style. World-renowned network security personalities will present a series of 25 to 30 page chapters written from the point of an attacker who is gaining access to a particular system. This book will portray the "street fighting" tactics used to attack networks and systems.

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Fiction that hits too close to home.......2007-01-09

While they present this as a work of fiction, there is a large amount of information that can be immediately applied to your own situations. The authors mention that the stories come from real-life experiences or observations, and it is very easy to believe them. This is a great read for any network engineer or network administrator though don't read it at night, case some of the stories can be a little frightening, and you don't necessarily want the nightmares in your sleep.

Entertaining in it's own right..........2006-08-16

The Stealing the Network series of books is in a catagory on it's own. Thrilling, entertaining, and fun to read just scratches the surface of these books. I'll recommend this book to anybody, from joe sixpack who only uses the internet for games and pr0n to mitnick himself.

The highly detailed accounts immerse the reader in a truly fantastic series of stories of hackers and their techniques. Remember, the game is a mental one...

Useful, readable illustration of computer security concepts.......2005-10-31

_Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box_ has 10 stories with a first person narrator, who is either an attacker, or in two cases, a defender. While the characterization isn't up to the standards of (good) commercial fiction* in most cases, it makes the technical medicine go down easier and gives a picture of who and why people do this stuff. That picture is useful in making an abstraction feel more like a concrete threat.

I think this would be a good intro for a non-technical manager of security staff who needs to know why we have to worry about these things. It's a faster read than Bruce Schneir's admirable _Secrets and Lies_, which is a straight discussion of how to think about security, and probably more rigorous and complete. This offers specific examples and leads to many similar lessons. I will read the next one, How to Own a Continent, when its turn comes up in the queue.

One quibble: for a book published in 2003, with a chapter that mentions Snort a couple of times, I was disappointed in the Laws of Security Appendix. Specifically, the Law that "Any IDS can be Evaded" contains some material that is way out of date. To state that "free ones are starting to come available" at least a decade after Shadow, and at least a couple of years after Snort surpassed proprietary intrusion detection solutions, is a bit, well, weird. Snort is big time - Checkpoint just bought the company that writes it. The two chapters telling a defender's tale refer to Snort.

Also, I'm not convinced of the law's validity. The escalation between intrusion evaders and detectors is an interesting one but I think IDS has the advantage in this go-round. We can detect it, if we're watching the right things. Many of the evasion techniques are themselves alertable!

Apart from that, I found myself nodding in agreement with most of what was said. This taught me some things, and I've read pretty widely. This title is available cheap if you look at used. Check it out.

*It's at least better than Tom Clancy, whose plots are the only thing separating him from pure cheese, the male equivalent of a romance novel.

Rough writing, but interesting.......2005-10-11

The writing needs some help -- I understand the newer books are edited by an actual writer to smooth out the prose a bit.
Overall I liked it, there were useful concepts in each hacker's exploit.
The story relating to "H3X", the female hacker was one of the better ones, but had a glaring problem: seeing as I'm not a lonely 14-year-old boy and have had romantic experiences of my own, I really didn't give a crap about the gratutitous, albeit vague, descriptions of her romantic nights out -- it would've been better to just stay on topic.

Making Technology and Security a Fun Read.......2005-05-16

You may be asking yourself why I am writing a review of "Stealing The Network - How to Own the Box" (Ryan Russell, Tim Mullen, et al, Syngress Press, 2003, 429 Pages) two years after it came out in 2003. The reason is that next month, the third book in this series, "Stealing The Network - How to Own an Identity", is being released by Syngress. So in anticipation of this new title, I wanted to read this book, as well as "Stealing The Network - How To Own a Continent" (review to be written later this week). I did not expect to be drawn in as quickly as I was by this book, but I found myself being drawn in by the totally unique style in which technical content is presented and the fast pace the narrative took.

Each chapter presents a mini-scenario that demonstrates how specific network vulnerabilities can be exploited, causing potential problems and losses from organizations. What sets this apart from many of these books that I have read is that is kind of set up in the style employed by the television serial "Law and Order: Criminal Intent": a focus on narrative and knowledge from the point of view of the bad guys. While this is a work of "techno-fiction", the level of detail suggests that only the names were changed to prevent the innocent (or the guilty system administrators who fail to lock systems down as well as they should or could).

Another interesting point throughout this book is the emphasis on "social engineering", an oft overlooked weakness that has only started gaining true visibility in the evaluation and education of system administrators, managers, and end-users through highly visible incidents. It is kind of refreshing to read a detailed tale of what led a hacker to jump in a dumpster to find out information, and what led him to that point.

It is the unique approach the authors take that may make the book a more palatable read for true "uber-geeks", rather than these people not wanting to read a dry book presenting technical material in the typical dry approach, which for sure puts me asleep any day of the week. It may also make the topic more readable for non-technical managers to get a better understanding of their risks and vulnerabilities without getting buried in technical detail. However, this also is one big weakness of the book: there is no index of keywords or topics to go back to for easy reference, which would make the book a more used reference than just a good "summer beach book".

Who Should Read This Book

This book should be read by students starting out their formal education in computer information systems. It can teach them lessons without beating them over the head. The book should be read by system administrators so they can see that technical information can be presented in simpler ways, encouraging them to work on their "soft skills". Finally, it should be read by non-technical management so they can understand that the risks and vulnerabilities are very real, and need to be addressed.

Scorecard: Par on long Par 4

Note: When you read my review for "Stealing The Network - How To Own a Continent", you will hopefully understand why I only gave this book 4 stars.

Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent

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Fun, Fun, Fun
Fun, Entertaining...
How do you make a how-to-hack book into a compelling read?
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Good Book

Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent
Ryan Russell , Jay Beale , and Tim Mullen
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ASIN: B0001KJFM8
Release Date: 2006-04-06

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The first book in the "Stealing the Network" series was called a "blockbuster" by Wired magazine, a "refreshing change from more traditional computer books" by Slashdot.org, and "an entertaining and informative look at the weapons and tactics employed by those who attack and defend digital systems" by Amazon.com. This follow-on book once again combines a set of fictional stories with real technology to show readers the danger that lurks in the shadows of the information security industry... Could hackers take over a continent?

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This is a book that will create enormous debate within the technical and the counter-terrorism communities. While there will be the inevitable criticism that the material contained in the book could be used maliciously, the fact is that this knowledge is already in the hands of our enemies. This book is truly designed to inform while entertaining (and scaring) the reader, and it will instantly be in demand by readers of "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box".

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Fun, Fun, Fun.......2006-08-01

I read a lot of technical books and also a lot of spy books. This mashed both of my favorite types of books. The authors who are hackers themselves did a great job of creating a story. I would recommend, and have recommended this book to a lot of people.

Fun, Entertaining..........2005-10-26

but the writing certainly isn't the best. They're a bunch of computer geeks writing about what they know best, and they make it entertaining as heck. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys computers.

How do you make a how-to-hack book into a compelling read?.......2005-09-21

Well, you can make a novel out of it.

Which is precisely what the folks at Syngress Publishing have done. The MO here is to gather a group of experts in the 'hacking' field. Then, have them each write a chapter that focuses in on their sub-area of expertise. Finally tie all the chapters together with an overriding thread, in this case an uber-geek villian looking to make a final score.

And it works quite well. If you are going to pull this off, then there is a balance between the techno-speak portions and the traditional elements of a novel (plot, characterization, etc). Granted, given this books target audience, it can pile on plenty of the technology and be just fine. But you can't igonre the story.

Most of the contributing authors are able to hold up the 'story' side as well as the 'tech' side. Some do not, and this is why I gave it 4 stars. In particular, one chapter so muddles the character motivations, plot lines, and timeline that the novel is not quite able to recover with a wholy satisfying ending.

I never expected Dickens, though. I did hope to broaden my knowledge of hacking - the hows and whys while being entertained. And 'How to own a continent' delivers the goods in a unique and fresh way. Kudos, and thanks.

Nice!.......2005-09-08

Nice book, seemed with hacker's novel!!
Pretty good read for fun. :)

Good Book.......2005-07-19

How to Own a Continent is the first Stealing the Network book I have read and although it kept me on the edge of my seat I was displeased with the ending. The book uses real tools and real methods on how these "hacks" occur but the end just leaves you hanging with no closure. While reading the book you think there is no better book for hacking theory and what it takes to pull hard hacks. But this book does leave you with a little bit of a bad taste in your mouth. Forthe most part the book was great but the ending was lacking.

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