Shakespeare On Film: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks)

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This collection of contemporary criticism highlights the ways in which recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, generating a radical reappraisal of Shakespearean cinema which has itself experienced a revival in the last decade. Ranging widely across the canon of Shakespeare films, from Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the essays address the cultural politics of film adaptation from a variety of angles, offering readings of individual films--Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest --but also raising larger questions about the nature, purpose and future direction of Shakespearean cinema.

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Willie Weaver used to be a hero.
Now he's nothing.

Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of his once-amazing physical talents.

Betrayed by his family, his girlfriend, and his own body, Willie's on the run, penniless and terrified on the streets, where he must fight to rebuild both his body and his life.

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Redefining Self.......2007-02-18

Willie is a high school kid, the star of his baseball team and a town hero. His life is great and everyone is proud of him and his athletic abilities. Then he is in a water-skiing accident, an accident that leaves him partially paralyzed. He walks with a limp and can't play sports anymore. His parents are fighting and their marriage is falling apart because Willie's dad can't deal with his son's new disability. So Willie runs away.

After some bad times and a few dangerous situations, Willie ends up at a California high school full of kids who dropped out or were thrown out of regular high schools. The people at the school are kind to Willie and they help him get himself back together again. This story is about him coming to terms with his new identity and figuring out that his life will not always be perfect.

I liked the secondary characters, and I liked the way Chris Crutcher showed Willie's progress both pysically and mentally. I thought it was pretty weak that Willie would run away from his parents like he did, but without that part of the plot he would not have been able to go on this journey of self-discovery.

QH.......2006-06-08

this book is really interesting and gets you hooked as early as the first page and doesnt let you go till the very end. i love baseball and this book has a lot of baseball content and action scenes. i hard about this book from my friend and he told me that it was just ok, but i think that its great, anybook with baseball and gangsters is good for me. i would recomend this book to anyone who likes an action based fast moving book with some baseball scenes.

Crazy Horse Electric Game.......2006-04-07

Page turning! The Crazy Horse Electric Game, by Chris Crutcher is a great book that teaches the reader a life long lesson: you may only get one chance to do something and if you fail to fulfill that opportunity, it may be gone forever. If you let that chance pass by you may regret it because you could have let something keep you from going through with it.
When seventeen year old Willie Weaver, gets injured in a water skiing accident, he begins to have problems physically, with his friends, family, and also with his emotions. Willie's was an average boy, who was also the all-star baseball champion back at his hometown in Coho. Willie thinks that all of his problems would become non- existent if he runs away, so decides to do just that, but when he returns his problems are still there but in a different twist.
Chris Crutcher writes The Crazy Horse Electric Game so that the reader can easily understand the whole morale of the story, and it is attention drawing and is able to keep you interested from beginning to end. The language and book itself, is more for seventh to tenth grade students, because of the character, language and it's also something they can easily relate to. I think that this book will attract this age group to stay intoned with The Crazy Horse Electric Game, easily understand the morale, and will keep reading until the book is finished because they will want to know everything that happens from beginning to end.

The Crazy Horse Electric Game.......2006-03-18

Willie Weaver was an all star athlete before he was in a terrible boating accident. After the accident everything seemed to go bad for Willie, he lost his girlfriend, his parents started fighting, and he cant play sports. Willie tries to get help from counclers and theripests, but he keeps on getting worse. Willie runs away to California, where he is taught many valuable lessons. Willie strugles, but with help Willie tries to get over his accident.

The crazy cool electric game.......2005-12-10

The Crazy cool electric game

The story The Crazy Horse Electric Game is a good story that teaches you a life lesson about how to not give up in what you like to do even though a handicap might slow you down a little. It starts out this boy named Billy is a Jock kind of guy and he is good at everything and just when he has it all WHAM! He has a skiing accident and it leaves him where he cant do the old stuff he used to, like sports.

After all this happens to him, he is starting to notice that everyone is starting to slowly drift away from him and no one is hardly ever around him. So he runs away to a school to in Chicago to try to find himself and try to regain his old self, there he fits right in with everyone and feels like a part of a group again.

I think the author Chris Crutcher gets the morale of this story across to the reader really well, and from right off the bat the story gets your attention and it just draws you in from the beginning. It's a good read for all ages but preferably for kids in the 9-10 grade because that is how old Billy is in the story and he thinks a lot like teenagers think today and it speaks more to this age group.

I really enjoyed this book it was recommended to me by my English teacher and as soon as I read the first chapter I was hooked to this book and couldn't wait to find out what happened next in the story.

I hope all you out there will enjoy this book as much as I did and I also hope that you pick this book up at your nearest library or bookstore.

Baseball Drills for Young People: Over 150 Games and Activities

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Baseball Drills for Young People: Over 150 Games and Activities
Dirk Baker
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Little League Drills and Strategies : Imaginative Practice Drills to Improve Skills and Attitude

ASIN: 0786412631

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Practitioners of America's pastime at the youth level are often criticized for encouraging kids to dream big when they have little chance of playing professionally unless they have great ability. But working on baseball and softball skills can teach kids the importance of such social values as effort, competition, sacrifice, work ethic, teamwork, desire, discipline, confidence, hustle, sportsmanship, and having fun.

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Young Jackie Robinson looses to his older brother Mack in just about any game they play -- Chase the Fox, running and jumping contests -- you name it. One day Jackie gets so frustrated he runs home, stomps up to his room, and takes his anger out on Mack's stuff. But when Mack invites Jackie to play baseball with his friends, Jackie decides to give it a try -- and that is when the score really starts to change!

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My son can count thanks to this book
A book that should never have gone out of print
Great pictures and story
whacka whacka hoo boys - tie 'em with a rope!
Hilariosly Illustrated--A Home Run!!

The Jungle Baseball Game
Tom Paxton
Manufacturer: Morrow Junior
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0688139795

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It's a marvelous mismatch: the humble hippos versus the magnificent monkeys, the slickest ballplayers around. Though the primates are poised for an easy win, the hippos buckle down and teach their opponents a thing or two about true grit! Brightly colored pictures feature rip-roaring action and high jinks that will keep little sluggers laughing all the way to home plate. Music based on Tom Paxton's song: "The Monkeys' Baseball Game" is included on the endpapers.

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My son can count thanks to this book.......2007-08-16

My 2/3 year olds can count now thanks to this book. They ALSO love the baseball song that is at the end of the book.

A book that should never have gone out of print.......2006-03-24

As a media specialist who has worked with K-5th graders for years, I have a really good sense of which books are keepers and which books are crap. I've used this book for years as a read-aloud during baseball season, tied in with "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "Casey at the Bat." My younger students love the humor in this book. They really "get" it. I don't like to re-read books over year after year because there are so many good books kids ought to hear, but I do give in to repeated requests for this one because my kids look forward to it so much.

We're always trying to buy another decent copy to add to the shelves for our students, but it's getting tougher to find. I'm mystified by why publishers and booksellers discontinue good, fun books like this--while continuing to give prime shelf space to inane books like "Walter the Farting Dog."

If you are lucky enough to find a nice copy of this book, buy it! Added bonus: the music and the lyrics are in the book for the original song. You'd really hit jackpot if you could find both the book and the Tom Paxton recording of the song.

Great pictures and story.......2004-05-15

I fell in love with this book when I stumbled across it in a bookstore, and had to buy it "for my daughter." Luckily, she LOVES it (she's almost 3), too!

The other reviews give a good summary of the plot, so I'll just add that I've found this book to be a good conversation-starter about all kinds of topics, ranging from winning and losing, giving your best effort, not giving up, baseball rules, different kinds of monkeys...all kinds of things, and it changes over time.

All in all, it's been a very rewarding and refreshing book that I don't mind reading over and over, and my daughter loves coming back to.

whacka whacka hoo boys - tie 'em with a rope!.......2001-08-04

A delightful baseball book about trying hard and overcoming obstacles. The slow, fat hippos put their patience and weight behind a baseball game and beat the monkeys in this jungle game. Enjoyed by my 10 month old son, who comes running whenever I read a passage from the book...whacka, whacka hoo boys - monkey, monkey, monkey,

Hilariosly Illustrated--A Home Run!!.......1999-10-29

This second of the Paxton--Schmidt combo (Going to the Zoo was the first) was a real winner in our family! The lush illustrations hilariosly depict the underdog hippos in a valiant fight to the finish. With a pathos that made my kids as well as myself cheer out loud at the ending, Jungle Baseball hits a home run--we loved this book!!

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Web Site Features the Author
Great Stories About Baseball!

Baseball: The People's Game
Harold Seymour , Dorothy Z. Seymour , and Dorothy Jane Mills
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0195069072

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Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the "Edward Gibbon of baseball history," Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, Seymour offers the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professional leagues, revealing how, from its early beginnings up to World War II, baseball truly became the great American pastime. He explores the bond between baseball and boys through the decades, the game's place in institutions from colleges to prisons to the armed forces, the rise of women's baseball that coincided with nineteenth century feminism, and the struggles of black players and clubs from the later years of slavery up to the Second World War. Whether discussing the birth of softball or the origins of the seventh inning stretch, Dr. Seymour enriches his extensive research with fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes as well as his own wealth of baseball experience. The People's Game brings to life the central role of baseball for generations of Americans.

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Web Site Features the Author.......2001-05-19

Baseball: The People's Game is the third volume in the series of this famous work and the best of the three books. It's about the way people played amateur and semipro ball all over the country, in schools and colleges, on sandlots, even in prisons and on reservations. It includes five chapters on early women's baseball and of course material on the black clubs and leagues. I'm the wife and assistant of the late author, Dr. Harold Seymour, the historian of baseball. To read more about his baseball books, visit my web site, http://www.DorothyJaneMills.com. Soon I will be opening a new web site about his work: www.HaroldSeymour.com

Great Stories About Baseball!.......2000-04-07

Harold Seymour made the right move as a kid when he waited on Bedford Avenue outside the right field fence at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to catch home runs hit off the bats of Dolph Camilli and Pete Reiser. Thus began a love affair with the game that has blossomed into three great books including "The People's Game," maybe the best. Seymour goes into great detail about aspects of the game as they relate not to the big leagues or even to the bushes but to stories and anecdotes that anybody who has ever played the game can relate to, especially us old timers. If you're my age, you probably remember continually taping up the .35 ball after the cover came off, generally about the second inning. If it was a really big game, you probably used white medical tape that you had purloined from the medicine chest. But in all likelihood, you used the much more utilitarian black friction tape from the garage.The ball had to last the whole game as no one had another thirty five cents for a second one. And do you remember when there just weren't enough gloves to go around and you had to share a mitt with your opposing player? A myriad of rememberances await readers of this love letter to our National Pastime. But they are six hundred of the liveliest, most interesting pages any player or fan of the game will ever read. Go read this home run of a book! It's a gem.

Dickson Baseball Dictionary: 5000 Terms Used By Players, The Press And People Who Love The Game

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Dickson Baseball Dictionary: 5000 Terms Used By Players, The Press And People Who Love The Game

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0756778271

Games, asterisks, and people;: Memoirs of a lucky fan,

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Up your Asterisk

Games, asterisks, and people;: Memoirs of a lucky fan,
Ford C Frick
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0517503468

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Up your Asterisk.......2002-12-10

In theory, who wouldn't want to read the memoirs of a former Commissioner of Major League Baseball? Especially those of Ford Frick (1949-1964), who also put in a number of years as sportswriter, Babe Ruth's ghostwriter, and President of the National League.

Frick wrote in 1972, a watershed year for baseball. Labor strife was on the rise -- baseball experienced its first work stoppage -- but the owners had won a big victory by turning Curt Flood's challenge of the reserve clause, and certainly no-one expected free agency to impact the game as much as it did. The designated hitter was still in the future, as was the utter elimination of daytime World Series games. There was no interleague play, no international baseball, no George Steinbrenner. In that sense you can read his book as the last of the "old guard": Commissioners are now executives working on behalf of the owners, a job description not held by Frick.

"Games, Asterisks, and People" is not a biography, however. Frick mostly wrote grandiose statements about baseball's future, and we learn very little of Frick's career, except that which the reader presumably knows going in. What few personal anecdotes there are are usually told anonymously. Even though the word "asterisk" is in the title of the book -- an allusion to Frick's ruling which denied, for many years, sole status to Roger Maris as baseball's single-season Home Run king -- Frick devotes merely one peevish page to brushing off complaints. "No asterisks, no apologies," he states. Certainly no apologies to Maris.

When Frick talks about what he sees as the future of baseball, he's fairly good at predicting details. When he names cities he thinks are ripe for expansion, he correctly identifies Toronto, Phoenix, Miami, Seattle, and Denver. He narrowly avoids endorsing interleague play and the DH rule, both of which are here to stay.

Less prescient were Frick's gloom-and-doom predictions about TV money and the elimination of the reserve clause. Certainly he didn't see the rise of free agency or the astronomical salaries that resulted. He believed that the TV bubble will "burst", which turned out to be funny in retrospect (to be fair, there were 3 channels in Frick's day and 500 in Bud Selig's).

More poignantly, Frick seemed to realize that he was writing from a watershed moment, and that the old guard he represented was going to vanish forever. In that respect, most of his book is a glowing tribute to baseball from its rural mid-American roots, to the golden age of Cobb, Ruth, Johnson and Mathewson. It's a history of the sport told by one who loved the game practically from birth, speaking to an audience far removed from Frick's time. While his writing style is distant and dry, one can almost feel the urge to sit by Frick's armchair and listen to more stories about the old days, as told by a really distant uncle.

Frick served baseball for half a century, and during his time saw baseball evolve from Babe Ruth to Hank Aaron. If you draw a list of the 20 most influential non-players in baseball history, Frick is on your list. However, his memoirs are not a tribute to his legacy and certainly not as detailed as other biographies of that era ("Veeck as in Wreck", "Ball Four"). One day, Bud Selig will author a book of similar quality. If we're not lucky.

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The People's Game (Baseball Hall of Fame Library)
Harold Seymour
Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000KW6H0U

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Brand new! LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold!

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Baseball : The People's Game
Harold Seymour
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKDJ2C

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Baseball: The People's Game
Harold Seymour
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MHTRG4

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mensa ain't what it's cracked up to be.......2001-08-27

This is an average puzzle book with some fatuous, silly remarks about the true nature of genius thrown in. If this is the best that the high IQ crowd can come up with, God help us all.

Mediocre.......2001-01-08

The above poster sounds a bit disgruntled...

The book is not as bad as he seems to imply (although it is no masterpiece). It is no better than an average puzzle book, and that may be the most disappointing part. On the back of the book it states, "Intelligence and genius are often confused, and in truth many people have difficulty accurately defining what genius menas." However, the book is mainly comprised of a series conventional I.Q. and knowledge tests--little more than half of the written material is devoted to defining genius and unique styles of testing.

As a result, the book does not contain enough testing material to be a sound puzzle book, and the genius-related information is too broad to be insightful.

Disappointing.......2000-04-21

This is the first book I have ever seen that includes a "spatial" section with questions that involve arithmetic, the alphabet, and other logical classification questions that involve no spatial abilities. It's really quite sad.

As a book revealing genius, it's a failure, and, as my previous comments indicate, the included tests are inadequate.

It's actually quite disturbing that a society like Mensa has developed such a poor thinking/I.Q./puzzle book like this (amongst a few others as well).

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Mensa: The Genius Workbook
Josephine Fulton
Manufacturer: Carlton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1858687837

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Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1 is the next major release of Check Point's flagship firewall software product, which has over 750,000 registered users. The most significant changes to this release are in the areas of Route Based VPN, Directional VPN, Link Selection & Tunnel Management, Multiple Entry Points, Route Injection Mechanism, Wire Mode, and SecurePlatform Pro. Many of the new features focus on how to configure and manage Dynamic Routing rules, which are essential to keeping an enterprise network both available *and* secure. Demand for this book will be strong because Check Point is requiring all of its 3rd party developers to certify their products for this release.

* Packed full with extensive coverage of features new to the product, allowing 3rd party partners to certify NGX add-on products quickly
* Protect your network from both internal and external threats and learn to recognize future threats
* All yuou need to securly and efficiently deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain Check Point NXG

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THE BULLETPROOF FIREWALL!!.......2006-05-22

Are you getting ready to take your Check Point certification exam? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Robert Stephens, Barry Stiefel, Stephen Watkins, Simon Desmeules and Eli Faskha, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that is the perfect reference for anyone migrating from earlier versions of Check Point's flagship firewall/VPN product; as well as, those deploying VPN-1/FireWall-1 for the first time.

Stephens, Stiefel, Watkins, Desmeules and Faskha, begin by discussing the various methods that are deployed among different firewall vendors and open source solutions. Then, the authors discuss the significant changes between NG AI and NGX and partitions these changes into eight major categories. They continue with a review of what must be done prior to the actual installation and configuration of a Check Point environment. Next, the authors guide you through the necessary steps to perform the NGX upgrade. Then they take you on a tour of the interface used to configure your NGX installation: the SmartDashboard. They also discuss the need for tracking and walk you through a few configuration examples. Then, they discuss both basic and advanced concepts for network security and reveal how Check Point's technologies supply relief for current threats. The authors continue by showing you how to enable or disable Network Address Translation for a single host, for a range of addresses, or for an entire network. Next, they address the best way to authenticate users so they can access privileged resources. Then, the authors show you how Check Point FireWall-1 can integrate with third-party products. They continue by focusing on configuring site-to-site VPNs and the different design considerations that are involved. Next, the authors discuss the increasing number of employees that are either working comfortably at home or just simply away from the office, who need corporate access as if working locally. Then, they examine the functionality of SmartUpdate as a SmartConsole client in your Check Point environment. They also take you on a tour of SecurePlatform with the different operating system capabilities and the Check Point supported add-ons to SPLAT. Next, the authors demonstrate how to set up SmartView Monitor in a way that will allow you to view all your security components that your SmartCenter manages. Finally, the authors show, first the reason why VoIP should be secured and, second, how it is done.

The goal of this most excellent book is to cover all of NGX's dramatic changes and new, enhanced features. More importantly, you will learn how to secure the integrality of your network's data, communications, and applications from a multitude of blended threats.

All the new NGX features.......2006-03-17

Any familiar with prior versions of Check Point's firewall program and newcomers to CheckPoint alike will find CONFIGURING CHECK POINT NGX VPN-1/FIREWALL-1 an important overview of all the new features in NGX. From working with the SmartView Tracker tool and understanding how a Check Point VPN-1 Pro Gateway administrator evolves to work into network security to handling authentication and integrity issues globally, everything from building the platform to licensing is covered in detail. An excellent survey of all the enhanced features and changes.

Good Reference Book.......2006-02-17

'Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1' by Robert Stephens is another good book by Syngress for IT Professionals. Syngress has really focussed on IT setup and configuration for it's latest releases of books and they have done a solid job. Packing over 600 pages of material into this guide, if you use Checkpoint at your job, you would be wise to pick up a copy of this book for your desk at work.

***** RECOMMENDED

Near the official courseware.......2006-01-25

This book is written by many respected authors and security professionals. Among them there is Barry J. Stiefel, the man who founded the first Check Point User Group (www.cpug.org).

I'm a Check Point Certified Instructor (CCSI) and can assure this book covers a lot of topics included in official Check Point VPN-1 NGX coursewares.

On Chapter 13 about Check Point VPN clients solutions it includes a Integrity technology discussion, acquired from ZoneLabs and to be merged with SecureClient.

On Chapter 14 it also includes a lot of details from the official Check Point SecurePlatform courseware.

The last chapter, Chapter 16 about VoIP, is even better than on the official course manual.

The book misses more details on some covered product features, coverage of some excluded features, OPSEC 3rd party interoperability examples, architectural problems discussion (like logging strategy, rulebase optimization, etc.), but it's a good book.

I strongly recommend it to anyone didn't take the course and want to have a wide coverage of many VPN-1 NGX features.
Who already attended the official course won't find here anything new.

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