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Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
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Customer Reviews:
byron is a hack - "them that can't create or write, hack".......2004-01-02
the male kitty kelley - who makes his rise on the ashes of others... a lot of talented editorial went into TV CABLE WEEK and came out of it (notably Lorenzo Carcaterra - SLEEPERS author - incredible book, devastatingly incredible movie... not to mention Graydon SPY/ VANITY FAIR Carter) -
What The World Needs a lot less of... is these folks who [Wayne's World] "aren't worthy" to evaluate, judge or even (so subjectively) report on others' endeavors or lives until they take a closer look at their own... sad, but true.
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Book Description
This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1468 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: Looking at perks: employees are buying their own benefits.(EMPLOYEE BENEFITS)
Author: Kathy McKimmie
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Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 50
Issue: 5
Page: 26(5)
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This digital document is an article from Sarasota Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1686 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: Looking into our eyes: if you're approaching 50, you should know about macular degeneration.(VITAL SIGNS)
Author: Su Byron
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Sarasota Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
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Volume: 29
Issue: 10
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Book Description
Determined to see the city crippled by random violence, the dastardly El Furioso has crafted a new weapon of destruction: gold fury dust that enrages every person it touches. When El Furioso and his evil hencemen target middle-schooler Jordan Downey with their despicable dust, Bibleman and his courageous-but-inexperienced new sidekick-in-training, Cypher, come to the rescue. But our hero falls prey to the fury dust and loses his cool. Will the world get stuck with an angry Bibleman? Can they trust God to lead them to victory?
Customer Reviews:
I love the Bibleman Series.......2007-01-09
I ordered this video and it arrived in the shrink wrap. The DVD had never been viewed. I will order more DVDs from Amazon in the future.
Very Funny, Very Cool, Very Well-Done.......2006-06-21
This was my first dive into the BibleMan stuff and it was a very pleasant surprise!
The show kind of makes fun of itself and its mid-level budget and "corniness" without compromising the show's goal - to teach kids some Christ-centered values. Like the box says, ages 6-10. Probably more effective on having a positive impact on kids that are 5-8, but that's my opinion. Hat's off to Willie Ames for putting out an in-your-face, pro-Christian, fun, learning tool.
My son actually whipped out a Bible quote the other day in an appropriate situation. It was a Proverb so it really made sense and it fit the situation. I know where he learned it too!
Book Description
For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative.
Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington.
Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows.
Customer Reviews:
Very interesting.......2007-09-03
A well written book, full of information! Another must read for anyone serious about understanding terrorism.
Updated material strengthens Sacred Rage.......2003-05-08
Middle Eastern terrorism almost became white noise after hostage taking, embassy bombings, hijackings, and other violent acts lost their novelty. That changed, of course, when the volume was cranked way up on September 11, 2001.
There were those who anticipated the crescendo long before it sounded. Los Angeles Times correspondent Robin Wright covered the Iranian revolution, the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, and other regional violence and issues in the Eighties. She eloquently documented these events and their larger meaning in her seminal work, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam, in 1985. Yet in attention span-challenged United States--even among those who read Sacred Rage--the spectacular attacks 16 years later still seemed to come as a complete shock.
Many books on Islamism were updated after September 11. The revised editions often consisted of rehashed material with new introductions and a few topical chapters tacked onto the end.
This is not the case with the trade paperback version of Sacred Rage. In fact, a very good book has achieved near greatness. Author Robin Wright's groundbreaking exploration of the rise and spread of Islamic fundamentalism does more than give tremendous context to what happened years later in Washington and New York. In a sense, the diverse material now coalesces as Wright explores the recent trend towards democracy among the same militants whose terror she covered in the Eighties. The recent edition even offers plausible solutions to conflicts between the West and the Middle East; glimmers of hope even manage to appear now and again, which should be counterintuitive.
The new chapters that involve Osama bin Laden and his view of the future are striking and fit in naturally with the other material. Wright contrasts al-Qaeda's reactionary attempts to turn the clock back to 700 with the yearning among many Iranians and Lebanese for true democracy. This different world view is, to a large degree, the product of the repression of the Shia. This suffering helped give birth to the rage and wrath Wright chronicles, and in an ironic twist the author seems to think these Muslims might be the ones to embrace a democratic and pluralistic Middle East.
There are a few problems with the new version. Wright defines the terms "fundamentalism" and "Islamist" differently from some other authors. She uses the former in an almost negative sense, and the latter favorably. Of greater concern, Wright doesn't adequately explain why an Islamist Lebanon would be so radically different from the Sudan or Saudi Arabia. Also, her comparisons between America's Religious Right and Islamic fundamentalists are way over the top in 2003.
These are only minor gripes, though. Sacred Rage is more relevant today than it was when first published. Also, Wright has softened her near-apologies for the more extreme behavior she documented. This version sheds light on the struggle between those Muslims who want both democracy and Islam, and those who only want theocracy. That struggle inevitably involves the United States and the West. Sacred Rage suggests the West's interaction with the Muslim world can be constructive. This is preferable to the suggestion of an inevitable clash of civilizations. That gloom and doom scenario usually is offered by those whose knowledge of the region pales in comparison with others who always heard the background noise of potential violence and reported it years before the first plane slammed into the World Trade Center.
Informative, leaves the judgment to the analyst.......2002-12-29
At first glance, I figured that this would be just some anti-Islamic ranting by some silly Western infidel. (What would you expect with such a title and cover photo?) Frankly, I was surprised and impressed with what I read.
The tone seemed very inviting to me, and probably to all others interested. Page by page, Robin puts forth great detail with seemingly no pressure to please any point of view.
However, she did maybe commit an overkill on the "fundamentalist extremist militant fanatic" vocabulary. But still, her tone forces the reader to accept the terms literally, and not with the hate-filled spirit as seen in other publications.
I recommend those interested in the topic to check this one out.
God bless, and strive for peace and justice.
Easy read , informative.......2002-12-14
In todays geo-political climate , its hard to get balanced views on an issue that has touched us all deeply in the past year . Passions run high and impassioned and reactionary responses from many quarters make the subject matter difficult to dissect , let alone understand and digest .
While written in the 80's and covering mainly events occuring from the birth of Islam to the 80's , I think the book is still very much applicable in the present day context . It will shed light on why we are seeing a virtual groundswell of antagonism toward the West and all things Western from our Middle east bretheren . Additional chapters on recent events were also helpful in updating the information up to present day .
You never get the feeling that the author has taken sides but this in no way translates into an academic lack of passion she feels for her subject . The book basically approaches the subject matter from the standpoint of trying to understand the roots of this groundswell but leaves the reader with ample room to formulate their own conclusions .
For the armchair political scientist interested in current affairs .
Recent History.......2002-08-26
Sacred Rage covers mostly recent history in the Middle east, from the 1980s forward. But this is the time period of the rise of militant Islam which this book seeks to address. It covers most of the Islamic countries, their leaders and their dissidents.
The book talks of the many terrorists attacks and their reasons, the perpetrators and the affects. Has the U.S. position in the Middle East hurt our standing? What has our military done in the Middle East in the last 20 years? How did the U.S. Governments miscalculations hurt us in Islamic eyes? What has Iran's role in world terrorism been? What are the differences between Shia and Sunni Muslims? Why do the Middle Eastern countries and people hate the west so much? For some insights and answers to these and many more questions, read this book.
This book goes a long way to explaining the many questions just asked. It explores the sometimes strained relations among the countries of the Middle East with each other. How do Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia get along? This book is insightful and provocative. I recommend it as a start to understanding what has been happening in our world in the last quarter of a century.
This book is a good starting place.
Book Description
This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War—killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice.
Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He shows subsequent retaliation by black soldiers and further escalation by the Confederates, including the execution of some captured white Federal soldiers, those proscribed as cavalry raiders, foragers, or house-burners, and even some captured in traditional battles.
Further disproving the notion of Confederates as victims who were merely trying to defend their homes, Burkhardt explores the motivations behind the soldiers’ actions and shows the Confederates’ rage at the sight of former slaves—still considered property, not men—fighting them as equals on the battlefield.
Burkhardt’s narrative approach recovers important dimensions of the war that until now have not been fully explored by historians, effectively describing the systemic pattern that pushed the conflict toward a black flag, take-no-prisoners struggle.
Book Description
The biggest, meanest, dumbest race in d20 is back for another round. The orc has long been a punching bag for fantasy gamers, but not anymore! The orcs (and half-orcs) of Wrath & Rage are stronger, more savage, and more cunning than anything you've faced before. This toolkit for GMs and players is packed with new feats, prestige classes, templates, spells, clerical domains, pantheons, magic items, and weapons. Whether you intend to use orcs against your players, or to play one yourself, Wrath & Rage guarantees that you'll never look at this ancient race the same way again.
Book Description
* Essential for those who know basic Excel and want to explore the full potential of the program
* Teaches how to manipulate data to suit specific needs and achieve more by doing less work
* Self-contained two-page lessons, featuring high-resolution screen shots and minimal text, show how to create custom functions, retrieve data from databases, use value chains, and slice and pivot information from the Web with Excel's PivotTable utility
* Covers data analyzing techniques for statistical functions, financial functions, data sharing, PivotTables and PivotCharts, Solver, and BackSolver
Customer Reviews:
Blueprint for Excel Data Analysis Follows Through.......2007-07-06
In regard to content and functionality, Jinjer Simon's book is a more than adequate text that takes the reader from the rudimentary to the intermediate/advanced techniques in each of the areas of Excel data analysis that is covered. For the most part, the format is concise and clear. The association between text and spreadsheet illustrations is well done. Appendixes A and B in the back are helpful in quick referencing: Excel functions (B) and VBA statements, VBA functions, and Excel Events. The CD does an adequate job of providing some but not all the examples that I would have liked to see. I do appreciate the data analysis software trial tools offered on the CD. Its always nice to be able to kick the tires before purchasing or recommending additional software.
In regard to real world application, I have found Chapters 5: Working with External Data , and Chapter 11: Using the Analysis Tool Packs Add-ins as a good reference guide to small business auditing in Excel. The definitions, concepts and instructions are easy to communicate to the small business user and staff..
AWESOME.......2007-05-12
This is the best book I have found for excel. Quick, with just enough information to find almost anything to get you on the right track. Not for the beginner but more for the intermediate.
The Joys of Excel.......2006-09-05
This book has mixed qualities. It is 'good' from the standpoint of being succinct in the explanations it does give.
It is 'not good' from the standpoint of being cluttered by the meaningless effort to make it appear as a series of blueprints. This is simply more 'cutsie' than helpful.
The chapters have no identifiers; the various statistical tests -- certainly more powerful than the average person needs --are not explained with any depth.
The entire book gives the appearance of having been thrown together.
Charles Justice
Bloomington, Indiana
A good reference, but not for "anybody"; allow me to explain.......2003-09-20
First of all I have to confess that this book was acquired under the conditions that I probably know 90% of the materials covered in the book. Thus my interest is in the 10% I am not aware of and the other 10% if there are alternative ways to solve problems better than I am doing now.
In this regards, I am satisfied. However if you are looking for learning simple "how-to"s like conditional formula, creating a chart, you would be disappointed since this book covers too much depth for beginners and it becomes easy to get lost in the sea of information.
Quick and Dirty- but Immensely Practical.......2003-09-18
The "Read Less - Learn More" trademark on the cover encapsulates the essence of what any reader can get out of this very non-traditional software user's guide.
Although I am an MBA grad and am knowledgeable of data analysis techniques, I had always considered myself a novice user of Excel. I recently found myself in a predicament where I had to quickly learn the more complicated Excel features of data analysis in preparation for an interview for a position with a market research firm. In a panic, I went to the local B&N bookstore and bought a copy of the old stand-by Dummies Series- "Excel Data Analysis" (I'll refer to it as "DS"), as well as the book in this review (I'll refer to it as Visual Blueprint, "VB").
The thing about this book that really appealed to me was the logical and clean (uncluttered) explanation of each of the topics presented. It's a very user-friendly manual to follow along with the use of a computer (to go through the exercises).
Progressive screen-shots are always located at the bottom half of each page, in successive order from left to right with clearly labeled numbered steps to follow. The examples that are shown in the screen shots are simple but very illustrative.
On the top half of each left page is an introduction of the topic being covered and what the main processes are to accomplish the particular task. On the top half of each right page are additional methods of application and extra hints and descriptions of the syntaxes for functions that can be used.
The arrangement of the graphics and the text work very well together and allow the reader to efficiently grasp each of the concepts being presented. What would normally be covered by a traditional user's manual in five to ten pages (reading from top to bottom- large text sections interspersed by graphics), this reference does the same in either two pages or four pages maximum. The way the editors have laid out this manual was very clever; not only does the reader have a lot less pages to get lost in (especially when trying to work through the examples with a computer) but also the topics are presented concisely and as simply as possible.
I relied heavily on this book to prepare myself for an Excel test given by the company I was interviewing with. I spent at least 90% of my time referring to VB, and where necessary, I spent 10% of my time referring to DS for supplementary information. I studied over a period of one week and passed the test well enough to be hired!
As enthusiastic as I am about this book, it is far from perfect with regards to being an ultimate and comprehensive manual for Excel. (That said, however, the Appendices are full of useful information...keystroke and navigation shortcuts as well as a handy reference for VBA and function syntaxes / commands....much more than is included in DS.) Additionally, as another reviewer had written previously, I can corroborate that I had found a few minor errors (formula calculations in examples, syntaxes), but not in such a large amount as to dissuaded one from using this book. My other negative is that the examples provided on the included CD were poorly referenced in the Manual; some examples, I couldn't find on the CD. Again, this didn't happen often.
I gave this book a perfect score, not because it is an authoritative and fully comprehensive manual on Excel Data Analysis (it isn't), but because it delivers on empowering readers to learn the software in much less time than traditional manuals can deliver. VB is quick and dirty- but it works!
Book Description
Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:
* Identifying trends in your data
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Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists
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Creating, editing, and checking formulas
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Calculating interest rates and depreciation
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Performing simple sorts and filters
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Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable
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Adding and removing chart data
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Querying an Access database
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Assigning digital signatures
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Solving a formula with a data table
"I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss."
-Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)
* High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
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Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
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Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
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"Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
Customer Reviews:
good for the Excel novice.......2007-08-08
Unlike some other books on various versions of Excel, Etheridge's presentation accentuates a strong visual pedagogy. She has also hewed to a style where every 2 facing pages discusses some operation you can do. Those of you who read the O'Reilly books will recognise this as analogous to the O'Reilly Hacks series.
So what Etheridge offers is really a set of bite-sized tasks. Easy to learn and immediately apply. The tasks are diverse. Like doing date computations. Or using the built in future value function. Or the interest rate, compounded over several payment periods. Some tasks relate to the visual display of the tables. As in changing a table's style. Or making a PivotTable.
The tasks are not comprehensive. The book should not be considered as such. This is not an official Excel manual, per se. Instead, enough is shown to be useful, of common activities that you are likely to perform.
Well suited for an Excel novice.
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