Seattle on Film : From the Jet City to the Emerald City Through the Movies

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Seattle on Film reviews the major motion pictures filmed on location in Seattle since 1963. It humorously focuses on the locations, local color, and bloopers to describe each film, and to show how they portray a changing Seattle.

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Rise of the professional critic.......2005-01-21

Music Hall And Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery Of Popular Culture by Barry J. Faulk (Ohio University Press) The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. At the same time, these social arbiters were devotees of the spontaneous culture of "the people?'
In examining fiction by Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism by William Archer and Max Beerbohm, and late-Victorian controversies over philanthropy and moral reform, Barry J. Faulk argues that discourse on music-hall entertainment helped consolidate the identity and tastes of an emergent professional class. Critics and writers legitimized and cleaned up the music hall, while allowing issues of class, respect, and empowerment to be negotiated.
Music Hall and Modernity offers a complex view of the burgeoning middle-class, middle-brow, mass culture of late-Victorian London and contributes a new perspective to a growing body of scholarship on nineteenth-century urbanism.
Excerpt: At the turn of the last century, London music hall crossed class lines, drawing a substantial middle- and upper-class patronage along with its core working-class audience. When culture forms cross over in this way, they acquire a spate of interpreters, with a range of interpretations, for crossover elicits interpretive diversity, and the social work of interpretation further enhances cultural mobility. Observers disagreed over the significance of music hall's popular success; public debate exposed some core late-Victorian beliefs regarding class and gender identity. The movement of the music hall into the dominant culture unsettled the confidence of some middle-class observers that taste and class could serve as a natural divide between social groups.
It also enabled a new group of observers to speak on behalf of a different En-gland.
The greater diffusion of music-hall culture raised significant questions about the secure fit between class and taste. In his magisterial work Distinction, Pierre Bourdieu provides powerful evidence that taste claims are the indirect but inevitable expression of class status, and thus sustain class difference and hierarchy. Bourdieu provides a synchronic view of the relations between social rank and taste preferences that verges on positing direct causal links between an individual's taste and affect and his or her status. He de-scribes the habitus of culture as "a structuring structure" and "also a structured structure"-forceful efforts to overleap structure by compounding what structure means, and to consider the relation between taste and status as a process.' Nevertheless, these compound terms inevitably leave us with a stable notion of taste as it relates to class hierarchy: and when culture forms break out to larger audiences, the connections between taste claims and various forms of belonging, whether racial, classed, or gendered, shift in unpredictable ways. Like any elite, intellectuals can and do work to naturalize their class position through taste statements; they can also serve as sensitive registers of changing relations between cultural preferences and social position.
We can better map social relations between class and taste if we treat taste making as a dialogic process, diachronically as well as synchronically. In tracing the changes that late-Victorian music hall made to the dominant culture, I join a conversation in cultural studies with, among others, Stuart Hall, An-drew Ross, and Janice Radway. These scholars attend to the many ways in which the circulation of culture forms expands the very categories that enable cultural flow, so that, for example, Janice Radway, in A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire, draws attention to how the production of the middlebrow unsettles the divide tastemakers established between high- and low-culture product. Andrew Ross, in No Respect, details how the reception of discourses like erotica or bebop depends on the mutual labor of both culture producers from various class strata and aspiring intellectual, predominantly bourgeois, tastemakers. Stuart Hall, in "Notes on Deconstructing the Popular;" forcefully argues that scholarly at-tempts to recover the popular as pure vernacular expression obscure the very processes by which the popular is constructed. The historicist attempt to re-cover the real vernacular, like the purist search for culture as authentic product, cannot register the subtle but pervasive changes that occur in producers, audiences, and conceptual categories when cultural forms travel.
My claim that fin-de-siècle language of the popular should be read as a professional discourse builds on Hall's argument. For example, in the process of packaging proletarian comedy and dance to middle-class spectators, music-hall theater owners and promoters often watered down the variety fare they packaged. This compromise, however, was not well received by some of music hall's middle-class critics. These bourgeois observers some-times interpreted the conscious effort to sanitize the music hall as an at-tempt to neutralize it, an appropriative gesture that revealed the greed and sterility-the worst qualities-of the culture of their class. These critics were angry that music hall's success situated it in the cultural middle; they were also upset with the apparent satisfaction of bourgeois audiences with this state of affairs. The middle-class patron of the halls insufficiently esteemed the low, according to critics like Max Beerbohm, a feature of whose "high-brow" taste discourse was hatred of the middle. The move of music-hall entertainment toward the middle of the road caused Max Beerbohm to treat conventional tastes more skeptically, rather than relinquish his positive response to the earlier, déclassé music hall. The inevitability of the bourgeois co-optation of vernacular culture spurred Beerbohm to imagine music hall as the culture of the opposition, even if that opposition included only him-self and an elite corps of observers.
The transformation of the music hall into middle-class culture had myriad consequences. For example, the diffusion of the form made it more difficult for middle-class observers to distinguish their own culture from that of the working class. The ambiguity of the music hall, the puzzling nature of its hold on a broad English public, made it an ideal talking point for intellectuals seeking to flex their muscles as culture definers and interpreters. In the process of becoming dominant, a subaltern culture form clarified the practice of its "other": a professional cultural criticism that often used music-hall analysis to address broader national and cultural concerns.
This new professional critic no longer worked according to the assumption of the critic's exclusive, privileged relation to culture. The very success of the music hall had made apparent the double-voiced, composite nature of English culture, and the stance of the aficionado shared this synergy. In this fashion, the accounts of the middle-class observer of the halls mirrored the form of the late-Victorian halls, which mingled bourgeois and working-class modes of thinking in an effort to hail the broadest possible audience.
When late-Victorian intellectuals assumed the mantle of culture legislators, articulating the music hall as the popular, they often produced a trope that alienated the people from the popular. But the growing social prominence of the music hall also provoked professional middleclass observers to assume complex spectator positions, like Arthur Symons's pose of the aficionado. He assumed a shifting, hybrid perspective on the entertainment that melded the disinterested view of the trained culture critic with the view of the passionate advocate.

The Music Hall & popular culture.(Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture)(Book review): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

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The Music Hall & popular culture.(Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture)(Book review): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Roger Luckhurst
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Title: The Music Hall & popular culture.(Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture)(Book review)
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
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Believe it or not, math doesn't have to be a torture device teachers use to punish their students. In fact, with a few simple tricks, math can become--dare we say it?--fun! Greg Tang, creator of the popular The Grapes of Math, bestows his considerable wisdom on a slightly younger audience (ages 5 to 8) with Math for All Seasons. This collection of rhyming math puzzles encourages kids to think through problems, rather than relying on memorization and formulas. Each of illustrator Harry Briggs's computer-generated, color-saturated spreads features seasonal treasures such as clusters of tulips or spikes of icicles. Readers study the verse and picture, strategizing and looking for patterns in order to add up the objects without counting one by one. Soon, their eyes and minds will open to consider many ways of problem solving, not just the obvious ones. Solutions and explanations are provided in the back of the book. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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Your challenge is to find the sumWithout counting one by oneWhy not count? It's much too slow --Adding is the way to go!Make clever groups before you start --Then add them in a way that's smart! MATH FOR ALL SEASONS will challenge every kid -- and every parent -- to open their minds and solve problems in new and unexpected ways. By looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations within eye-catching pictures, math will become easier, quicker, and more fun than anyone could have imagined!

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Wonderful but only for a time.......2007-04-22

This lovely story book is filled with beautiful illustrations and rhyming poetry. Each poem gives a clue to a mystery; the math problem illustrated on the facing page. This book deals mostly with addition and subtraction, making it a useful book for kindergarten and 1st grade level children.

Once my 6 1/2 year old daughter understood how she was to figure out the math problem she began to really enjoy finding the correct answer. Just having to figure out the problem creatively was good for her. She's having a hard time in math, and so I have been looking for fun ways to help her with the subject. This book is the best one I've found so far. But now we've finished all the problems, and therein lies the problem.

Once your child has solved the mysteries there really is no reason to continue reading the book. It's hardcover and presented as a storybook - a creative solution to all the boring math workbooks out ther and the endless repetition of math equations that children find so dull. But gosh I wish it was longer or that it was a workbook. Being able to draw on the pages would really have helped my daughter figure out the problems.

Like the other reviewers I highly recommend this book. The quality is high, the illustrations are cute and the poetry lovely. But plan on giving it to friends, a local library, or your child's school after your child has solved all the problems.

Highly recommend!.......2006-09-05

I have been waiting for any books from this series. This one is another wonderful, innovative counting book that's ready to challenge children who just start their math thinking. Each thoughtfully designed problem, posed as a riddle, and told in engaging rhyme is presented together with eye-catching and mind-stretching illustrations. No more boredom in counting the old way. The authors help kids think creatively by looking for patterns, relations and recognizing groupings. Young children will feel a real sense of accomplishment as they begin to develop the problem solving skills and tactics they'll use for the rest of their lives. With a helpful hint at the end of each rhyme to perk up the interest, and a straight forward, easy to understand answer key at the end, many kids don't even know they're working on math problems. They're just having fun!

This book is particularly useful for gifted and talented children, who are ready to learn math very early. It instills natural and intuitive math thinking without the requirement of a formal textbook learning. When later on I do need a more formal and systematic math for my gifted child, we use Beestar online GT programs at beestar.org. Similar to this book, they are innovative and thoughtful.

Overall, this book is as good as I have hoped. Highly recommend.

Beautiful Book.......2006-06-11

This is a beautiful book, an important factor to consider when attempting to interest a child in working with numbers in general and solving equations in particular. The illustrations are eye-catching, the colours are bright, the paper is thick and glossy, and the book is a nice size for parent and child to read together at bedtime. My child has no interest in math, and I found that appealling to her more imaginative side as this book does sparked her curiosity. The method the author has used to pique children's interest in solving basic mathematical problems is creative and engaging.
The reason I have given this book 4 stars rather than 5 is that after going through the book twice or three times and, more importantly, solving the problems, the book no longer held my child's interest. It has been sitting on the shelf untouched for months.

Early Number Sense.......2006-03-26

I just went through this book with my six year old son and he absolutely loved it! It shows different ways to think of counting objects by grouping them in easy multiples. I think it's a wonderful opportunity for kids to learn that there are many ways to solve a math problem, too. My son enjoyed explaining 'his way' and hearing 'my way'. It's a great book for early number sense (mental math) and has beautiful illustrations, too.

Riddles, Patterns, and Problem Solving.......2005-07-15

This is a great book for introducing a gifted child to using patterns to quickly solve math problems. The riddles guide you to the author's solution. However, another valuable lesson is that there are many ways to solve a math problem.

I gave this book to my gifted five year old son the summer before he began first grade. He loved the rhymes and the pictures. He especially liked finding clever ways to count the objects without counting one by one. We made a family game of solving each riddle, working to see who would solve it first. Then we shared our strategies and reviewed the author's strategy which is presented in the back of the book.

I highly recommend this book! It provides opportunities for great mental math practice. Gifted children love patterns. This book builds on that and helps them to see additional ways in which finding patterns could be useful.

American Idol Season 3: All Access (Prima's Official Fan Book)

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!!!THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!!!
American Idol Rocks with This Book
Way better than the Season 1 book!
What about season 2???
Every fan MUST have this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

American Idol Season 3: All Access (Prima's Official Fan Book)
Jason Rich
Manufacturer: Prima Games
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ASIN: 0761545433
Release Date: 2004-06-08

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A must-have for all fans!
·Exclusive pix of the audition process, set, and contestants
·American Idol explained! Everything you wanted to know and more!
·Weekly recap and personal profiles of the Top 12 contestants
·The Best of the Worst: Profiles of William Hung, Scat Girl and others
·Behind the scenes gossip from the sound stage to the red carpet
·What the judges had to say

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!!!THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!!!.......2004-11-13

I got this book in the U.S.A. while visiting my cousins, because they didn't have it in Canada. When I first got this book, I couldn't stop looking at the book and I still can't!!! "American Idol Season 3: All Access : Prima's Official Fan Book" has everything about American Idol Season Three!
It has . . .
-Bio of the Judges
-Bio of Ryan Seacrest
-Quick reviews on the worst but remembered auditions
-Bio's of the top 32 contestants
-Bio's of the top 12 contestants
-Review on what the top 12 did during the competition
-and MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERY AMERICAN IDOL FAN MUST GET THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

American Idol Rocks with This Book.......2004-07-30

Being a huge Idol fan I love this book!! It has a ton of pictures, bio's, behinde the scense stuff and ton's of other stuff. I love this book!! Being a a fan of American Idol and completly obssesed this really helps bring along American Idol where ever I go. Also if someone hasn't seen the show you can show them the book and then they can sort of know what the whole seaon was like. Great guide and book for and handy for American Idol fans/freaks.

Way better than the Season 1 book!.......2004-06-30

This book is GREAT for the American Idol fan, documenting the whole season into one book! From the first auditions, to Fantasia being crowned the new American Idol!

This book features the Top 12 AND the Top 32, with info/bio and interviews and pictures with each contestant. I thought that was really cool to talk about the whole top 32. Then the book goes through each week on the show, including who sung what, who was voted off that wekk and behind the scenes pictures. The behind the scenes pictures and info are really cool!

I think this book was VERY well documented and written! This is a must have for American Idol Season 3 fans!

What about season 2???.......2004-06-19

A book on season 3! What happened to season 2? As good as season 3 was, season 2 was way better. I'm still waiting for books to come out for that season! And a dvd set too.

Every fan MUST have this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-06-16

I have to say i truly enjoyed reading this book. I just could not put it down. I've been a fan of the show since the beginning, but this has been by far my favorite season. And for less than $10, you definitely get your money's worth. This book takes you behind the scenes to show you what each of the potential american idol's go through each week. There schedule is very hectic. You also get a backstage pass of the set, as well as the mansion that they live in during the show. This book takes you from the beginning at the audition process, and continues with a breakdown of each show all the way down to the finale. Breaks down every performance, what the finalists sang, the judges comments, and the audience reaction. Included as well are profiles for the top 32, as well as profiles for all the judges,(Randy,Simon, and Paula), and the host(Ryan). Find out what they're hobbies are, favorite foods, horoscope sign, hometown, etc. And find out what they had to say about this whole experience. All that and more are included here in this 144 page book, much, much, bigger than the 62 page book for season one. So relive all the great performance, drama, memories, and surprise vote offs from this season. Order today!

The Triathletes: A Season in the Lives of Four Women in the Toughest Sport of All

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If you are in any way into endurance sports....
A inspirational biography

The Triathletes: A Season in the Lives of Four Women in the Toughest Sport of All
Jeff Cook
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If you are in any way into endurance sports...........2000-12-13

I love this book. I was amazed to learn it is out of print. Jeff Cook does an amazing job of taking you inside the life and minds of the greatest athletes in the world. If you are looking for inspiration or motivation of the athletic sort, read this book. I was awestruck at Jeff's ability to extract the emotion and intensity of these athletes. This book was part of an Olympic display at my local library, at the time I was training for my first marathon and thought it would be a great way to boost my motivation, boy did it ever. I found myself having to find seats on the train to work that were out of the way due to my constant tearing, it is that good. I have never competed in a triathlon but since the reading of this book have purchased 3 Ironman videos (I'm addicted) and one day plan to do one. If you are in any way into endurance sports and love to read stories about those who push the body to the physical limit, this one's for you!

A inspirational biography.......1999-02-22

I loved the book and felt Jeff Cook did a wonderful job in details,emotions, and the true meaning of women triathletes. As a triathlete myself I have read this book many times and always feel like I could read it again. Very inspirational.

Winning the Investment Game: A Guide for All Seasons

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very quick and beat expectations

Winning the Investment Game: A Guide for All Seasons
James H. Gipson
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0070232962

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very quick and beat expectations.......2005-09-13

i live overseas.. the book comes much earlier than my expectation. good seller.

All Season Fun and Frolic: Indoor and Outdoor Activities for Toddlers to School Age

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All Season Fun and Frolic: Indoor and Outdoor Activities for Toddlers to School Age
Audrey S. Robertson
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All Seasons' Craft Book

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Bears for All Seasons
Rosemary Volpp , and Paul Volpp
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The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter

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The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter
Dan Aadland
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Since first learning to handle a Winchester .22 as a kid, Dan Aadland has exulted in hunting—not as a sport but as a calling. In this book he takes readers to Montana’s prairies and mountains in search of antelope, whitetail deer, moose, and the occasional upland bird as he vividly describes the rituals and camaraderie of hunting culture.

In fifteen essays recounting a lifetime of adventures, Aadland spins tales of a hunter whose years have been enriched by pursuing game under Montana’s big sky. He conveys the drama of stalking elk in deep snow, when sometimes just the chance at a shot is enough, and describes the tricks of bowhunting. He tells how hunting with horses was “the real deal”: planting one’s foot in the stirrup and sensing an affinity with great hunters of the past. Underlying his memoir is a deep respect for wildlife and appreciation for the West.

Sometimes nostalgic, often humorous, Aadland’s book recounts the highs and lows of the hunt while revealing why the pursuit of game remains so important to so many people. The Best of All Seasons depicts hunting as an essential part of the good life, suggesting that in our civilized age it yet remains a fundamentally natural act. In allowing readers a glimpse into that life, this book simultaneously shows that for Dan Aadland, fine writing comes just as naturally.

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read this book.......2007-07-09

this book is a window into an American lifestyle that few today still experience or understand. adventuresome, humorous, and informative. excellent book!

The book of manly games for boys: A practical guide to the indoor and outdoor amusements of all seasons

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The book of manly games for boys: A practical guide to the indoor and outdoor amusements of all seasons
George Frederick Pardon
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Children's games for all seasons,
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This newly revised Deluxe Edition expands a Microsoft Press customer favourite with more content, more tools on CD-ROM, and more cool things to learn and experience. With Step by Step, you work at your own pace through the book's easy-to-follow lessons and skill-building exercises on CD-ROM. Youll learn how to customize the way your PC looks and works; use new Windows XP Service Pack 2; set up your Internet connection and e-mail; configure privacy and security settings; hook up printers, multiple monitors, and other devices; manage programs, files, and folders; burn CD-ROMs and DVDs; share digital photos and create slide shows; troubleshoot common problems; and more.

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Basic Hardcover Textbook w/CD.......2007-08-12

Has a Quick Reference section for straight-forward questions. Also, goes into depth regarding other functions of Windows XP. Looking forward to utilizing the CD training program.

Setting the record straight!.......2006-08-24

The previous review posted for this book is so negative and completely misleading. The book is full of practical examples, tips, and tricks for working smarter with Windows XP. It's especially useful for people (like me) who learn visually--there are a lot of graphics to help you find your way along, and to make sure you've done It's certainly a lot more than the 500-page printout of a Help file the previous reviewer would have you believe.

Save your money.......2005-11-14

If you can read English, follow a wizard, and have access to the Internet you do NOT need this book. This book simply repeats the information found in Help and in the Wizards. There are no troubleshooting tips on what to do when the Wizard does not work.

There is a reason why this book has a used price of $3 soon after it hits the market.

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