The Portfolios of George Hurrell

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The Portfolios of George Hurrell
George Hurrell , and George Thornton
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Hollywood Legends, Print Portfolio; Photographs by George Hurrell (8 high quality duotone reproductions)
George Hurrell
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The Portfolios of George Hurrell
George Hurrell
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'The Portfolios of George Hurrell.'' Santa Monica: Graystone Books: 1991. First edition. Introduction by George Christy. Handsome tome loaded with large full page atmospheric black and white photo portraits of glamorous film stars including Gene Tierney, Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart and Marlene Dietrich. All celebrities were photographed between 1932-46.

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THE PORTFOLIOS OF GEORGE HURRELL
GEORGE). Thornton, Gene. Introduction By George Christy. Edited By Susan Martin (HURRELL
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The Portfolios of George Hurrell
Gene Thornton
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In The Best of Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson follows his illuminating, bestselling overview of the Reagan years, Sleepwalking Through History, with a chronicle of America in the '90s, a time he finds both highly consequential and infuriatingly paradoxical.

Johnson divides his ambitious social history of an America at its "zenith" of power and influence into four intertwined sections. "Technotimes" opens with the Kasparov/Big Blue chess match, and quicksteps through the dizzying advances in computer science and bio-technology, including the Human Genome Project, cloning, and genetically modified crops. "Teletimes," easily the strongest and most disturbing section, uses the "scandalous spectacle" of the O.J. Simpson trial to illustrate the inescapable influence of the mass media and the metastasizing cult of celebrity. "Scandal Times" is primarily an extended retelling of the Monica Lewinsky affair and its squandering (in Johnson's eyes) effect on the Clinton presidency, while "Millennial Times," calling on polls and interviews with a crosscut of college students, is a statistical and personal- opinion snapshot of America in full end-of-century stride. Johnson juxtaposes narrative summary with capsule biographies of the famous (Bill Gates) and the obscure (Vannevar Bush and J.C.R. Licklider--visionaries of hypertext, the World Wide Web, and the Internet). Johnson's methodology is commendable. He inserts personal biases lightly (sometimes too tepidly), preferring to present many sides of issues and ask questions rather than opine. One serious weakness is the book's woefully inadequate endnotes.

Though The Best of Times has a tendency to overreach, sometimes scurrying past subjects rather than studying them, it is an informative, worthy, and accessible summary of contemporary American society. Johnson has created a literate time capsule, one whose value will increase greatly with each passing year. --H. O'Billovitch

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We were awash in money and spellbound by celebrity and scandal. It was a time of breathtaking strides in science and unprecedented possibility. A time of squandered opportunities and grave distraction. A time of tragic complacency and belief in our invulnerability.

In The Best of Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson looks back on the decade that defied anyone's expectations, for better or worse. With a sharp eye for the quote or detail that perfectly captures a moment in time, Johnson tells the whole story, no holds barred, of the roller-coaster, self-indulgent nineties when America paid no attention to gathering foreign storms or looming economic collapse.

The product of four years of interviews with the decade's most influential players, this is in the best tradition of timeless social history--a memorable portrait of the entire wonderful yet woeful decade that ended in the cataclysmic flames of September 11.

A James H. Silberman Book
National Bestseller

Now with a New Foreword, Afterword, and Postscript

In offering this paperback edition of the bubble years, I hope the stories I tell of that newly old America will illuminate how in a few short years we went from the best of times to the worst of times. In my Afterword, I suggest what lessons we must learn from that experience to avoid further disasters and close the circle on some events that typified the period.
--Haynes Johnson
From the new Foreword

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Y'Know, I'm Starting To Think The '90's Will Be Remembered As A Weird, Superficial Decade.......2005-12-29

If one lived in the distant future and had no other source material with which to educate one's self about the 1990's, I shudder to think of the conclusions that might be drawn based on Johnson's selective reporting. I know few writers are so gifted as to become crystal clear channels of information, and that selecting a theme for a book is the typical practice, but why did Johnson lead the charge so far in the front, of making the 20th century's final decade out to be the land of scandal and fluff and easy money spawning shallow, sybaritic beings? If I believed what I read in this history of the last decade, I'd think nothing at all went on then except Presidential hedonism and TV tabloid coverage of salacious events. I'd get the impression the world was run by bloated mega-corporations that rose and fell in the space of hours along the information superhighway, each having the substance of a cumulus cloud. Give us some credit! The 1990's also saw the end of Communism in Europe, legislated racial barriers legally abolished in South Africa, the peaceful handover of Hong Kong by the British to the Chinese, and it witnessed (in contrast to the lurid tales of bloodshed in this book) the most drastic drop in US crime rates in generations. In the 1990's, Americans became more prosperous, more contented, and dwelled in relative peace. I suppose what I'm getting at is that both here and in his 1980's remembrance, Sleepwalking Thru History, Johnson confines his observations and explorations to a distressingly narrow field, and in so doing creates an impression of times as they truly were not. A perspicacious reader will find motivations to challenge a lot of what's given central importance in this book, and for those who might come later or who lived thru the 1990's and are led astray into condensing a dynamic ten-year period into a series of dot-com booms, domestic slayings and Oval Office trysts, I'd say if you need to balance this work with better and more serious sources.

The Aliens will have The Best of Times, not us........2004-06-06

The song goes, "The best of times is here." I know it was not written during the Clinton years as President of this fine country. The title of this book is deceptive (I think that Haynes Johnson did a bit of 'sleepwalking' himself through these turbulent years) as he admits later on that it was a time of lost opportunities. How then, could these have been the 'best of times.'

Far from the best, for some it was the worst. Take for instance the debacle of the OJ trial which kept me and thousands of others tuned in to Court TV instead of getting on with our lives. He tells in great detail starting with the stupidity played out with tv cameras showing the white Bronco merely going from one place to another. There was no race or attempt at escape. It was just dumb reporting. On hindsight, I think how stupid OJ was and the millions of his fans who tried to stand by him. I too was stupid to sit day after day to learn all the details, only to be deceived with all the coverup and the final payoff when he is let go scot free. What a country! How could this possibly be ever a good time, certainly not a 'best' time. It was a tragedy laid on the conscience of a country who should have let the man have his day in court without all the hoopla.

Why Mr. Johnson even included Clinton in the title is mind boggling as he tore down all the man's image and laid out the dirty laundry. Weren't we all told to keep one's sins to himself and not include innocent bystanders? He may be a university teacher, but I wonder if he has morals of his own.

He is trying to persuade us commoners that there has been a confirmation of the existence of extraterrestrial life somewhere out there. I'm not sure my son believes that anymore, as he once did when a grad student in astronomy at the University of Chicago. It seems we have enough intelligent life here on earth. Why brain wash the public when nothing is confirmed?

Who cares anyway whether we are alone in the vast universe? Maybe they are true (these rumors) but suffice it to say, they (whoever, whatever they are) will not be like us.

The Jet Propulsion Lab at Pasadena will not have the last word. If you believe in God, you know that He has us here for a reason -- to love one another and to help your fellow man -- not to spend enormous sums to determine if aliens exist. They are already here amongst us.

More power to Bill Clinton who did the best he could with what he had to work with. If these were the best of times, perhaps they were for him. He had a ball there in the White House. This commentator whom I have never heard or seen is clearly pro-Bush.

Readable and interesting.......2004-05-24

Had to read this for a History class-- it was totally interesting, highly readable. I hadn't closely followed the OJ trial, nor the Monica Lewinsky scandal, so this was fairly refreshing for me, to find out what those were all about. There was more to the book, though-- it was an interesting assesment of "our times".

Hard to put down.......2003-02-11

As a big fan of Bill Clinton, Johnson did justice in pointing out that Clinton had more potential. People who like Clinton will be reminded that he was human, and a politician that can be trapped by the office and power. It's not what he did, it's what he could have been. The Clinton years were good for me and this book reminded me that it's not what you are but what you could have been that gets under your skin. Bet we all wish we bought eBay on day 1.

review of the 90's.......2002-11-25

Interesting to revisit the 90's but I felt that the section on the Clinton Presidency was too long and that Johnson is somewhat biased. Very interesting sections on technology development and the youth of the 90's. I learned a lot of detail that I missed because I was too busy living!

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Serene, beautiful, inviolate.

Rich in magic and treasure, to those who hear of its legends it is the ultimate paradise. To the beleagured elves of Toril it is the ultimate refuge. But to many it is the ultimate prize.

At the heart of its story is Amlaruil, Queen of All Elves. When Evermeet comes under massive, devastating attack, her sacrifice holds the last hope of saving the elven homeland.

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Epic journey to the past!.......2007-05-23

Very rich and ancient, the Elven world of Toril unfolds within these pages that are easily readable, thanks to this author. She is the best this publisher has to offer. Her stunning debut in 1991 was Elfshadow. This gives the reader a thorough background filled with the magic that one comes to expect from Elaine C!

Using her "magical sight", Elaine gives the reader a rare glimpse of King Zaor and his grand kingdom. In her voice, it seems she is an eyewitness. The story is a little dry at times. These elves live thousands of years, so its not action packed. When the action does pick up, it does so dramatically. There is a sinister plot that started several novels ago.

This grand tale says much about this fantasy world, that it carries over into our world as well. Social idealism, racial bigotry, internal terroism. Yes, Elven towers get destroyed by evil terrorist factions. Remember, this novel was first published in 1998. Food for thought!

Fantastic!.......2007-01-10

I'm not a fan of Elaine Cunningham's novels, apart from Counselors and Kings Trilogy, which was very good. I always find her main characters more or less annoying (Danilo Thann and Liriel Baenre, in that order), and that usually takes her traditionally excellent plots and style out of the spotlight. This book has no such characters and it is plain brilliant, speaking in FR terms, of course.
The book itself is rather different from other FR novels, since it follows the island kingdom of Evermeet from its very creation to the present time (Faerun's present time, that is). It touches not only every major event in the history of Evermeet, but also in the history of Faerun's elves as a race. (Crown Wars, Moonblades...).
The book hasn't got a single main character, but instead it follows a number of important characters through Evermeet's history. Motivations differ greatly from character to character, but all of the "main" characters had an impact on the island kingdom.
The book covers a HUGE span of time, and the writer uses that in an excellent way, so you understand the importance of some events considered minor only later on in the book. For example, the way certain items pop up time after time over a 15000 year span.
I'm trying to think of something I didn't like in this book, but really nothing is coming into my mind. Really.
Whoever liked Tolkien's "Silmarilion" is going to like this book as well. It's not as complex, or to put it more plainly - confusing as J.R.R.'s book, so those who didn't like "Silmarilion" for that reason should give this book a shot. Wizards (or TSR as they were known back then when this book was published) put the writing of this book in real hands.
A must-read for every FR fan, and a sincere recommendation to every fantasy reader.

This is a textbook..........2005-10-09

When reading this book, the format of it reading more like a history than a fantasy left me not wanting to read more of it. I found myself skipping entire sections of text just to move further into the book and get it done with. Perhaps if I had read more books in this particular series, I would not have been so confused and otherwise uninterested.

I have read other books by this same author and found those titles very interesting, which was the primary reason I decided to read this one.

Evermeet is the modern version of the Silmarillion........2004-06-24

Along the lines of JRR Tolkien's classic, the Silmarillion, and with a slight touch of Spelljammer and Planescape, comes Elaine Cunningham's Forgotten Realms novel, Evermeet: Island of Elves.
It deals with the Elves and their long journey through the eons up until the present (as far as the Forgotten Realms world is concerned).
It does bring to mind Ed Greenwood's and Jeff Grubb's Cormyr, and one could easily claim that Evermeet deals with the Elves in a similar way that Cormyr presents the history of the Cormyreans, or Cormytes as is more common within the Kingdom.
The book is so incredibly well written that the reader feels that they have been transported to another universe and are actually present among the characters, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, sensing what they sense. Elaine Cunnigham has truly outdone herself once again and has presented us with a masterpiece of literature the likes of which we have seen only in JRR Tolkien's work, RA Salvatore's The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale trilogies and in authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends trilogies.
She has done a FANTASTIC job of both acquiring vast knowledge relevant to the People as well as presenting this material relating to the customs, the religion and the history of the Elves, efficiently and successfully! Her solid grasp of factual detail makes her very capable of providing the necessary background needed to carry out the difficult task of writing Forgotten Realms novels, especially one as complex as this, which is something often missing from the work of many Fantasy authors. Do keep in mind though, that Evermeet is not a book for the light-hearted, instead it is more tuned to the needs/taste of the Forgotten Realms die-hards (like myself...)
Gods, Elves, Dragons, Magic, Honor, Love and swordfights are all about. Elaine Cunningham's Elfshadow, Elfsong, and Silver Shadows make up for a great trilogy and are a "must read" together with Evermeet, especially for all those who have a soft spot for everything Elven!

a fast paced and wonderful read.......2004-03-15

After Reading through Daughter of the Drow I dove head first into this book to find out more to boost my knowledge of the Realms Elves and their deep history.
I must admit there where times when the story jumped and I found myself flitting back through pages to work out what was happening (though I am pretty new to the Realms books so maybe that's just me)
But just like Elaine's other book I mentioned I found myself thrown into the story and after a short while found myself enjoying the who's related to whom and how side of the book.
The story itself is wonderful if you can keep up with its speed. The characters are a bit of a mixed bag but most are well very written and wish there was more story written of them.
If you were interested in looking into the history of the elves of the Forgotten Realms, I'd say you need not look anywhere else.

Elves of Evermeet (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms)

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A very interesting, engrossing book
Wonderful glimpse of a land beyond time
Mystical
The secrets of Evermeet revealed.

Elves of Evermeet (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms)

Manufacturer: TSR Inc.
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A very interesting, engrossing book.......2000-08-31

A good product about the elves of the Forgotten Realms. However, if you want information about the elves, get Complete Book of Elves first, as that is the BEST regarding their information! This is THE book to get for information about the elves on the Forgotten Realms. The reason this source book did not get a five star is that they kind of cheated within the source itself. For a lot of the information, they said that we could look up the information in other products (this especially the case for kits!) They give a one paragraph description, and we learn that the rest of the information can be obtained from another source. They also did this with some creatures (like Baelnorns, which are originally found in Ruins of Myth Drannor).

However, that does not mean that this product is not good on its own. Being the second of my Forgotten Realms products, I got along just fine without some of the information. It does well in describing Evermeet, the lifestyle, the major differences between the various subraces of elves (except for the drow!) They introduced new creatures, two of them (for me at least) being VERY intersting (including the lythari - the lycanthrope elves; and the elves that come back from Avador to help the "mortal" elves!). Don't expect any adventures from this product.

If you're interested in elves, and the Forgotten Realms setting, then I recommend this source book. But if you don't like those source books that mention that most of the information can be found in other source books (especially Player Supplements), then this is a warning, that this source book has that!!

Wonderful glimpse of a land beyond time.......2000-06-14

In a respective nod to Tolkien, the elves of the Forgotten Realms, when too many centuries of pain and desire have passed, journey into the farthest west, to a misty isle where elven lords and ladies rule in a majestic, eternal realm of Faerie. But wouldn't you love to explore such a place? Now you can! This spectacular book makes Evermeet a living, breathing world - details are given on the land, the cultures (strongly influenced by Celtic mythology), the wondrous spells and magic items unique to the isle, the great heroes, possibilities for grandiose adventures (dragons abound!), and even, far below, the sinister machinations of the Drow. If you love elves and high fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read this book!

Mystical.......1998-11-16

i think anyone, and everyone who use Forgotten Realms Elves, this is a must have.

The secrets of Evermeet revealed........1998-06-19

The reason I gave this book such a low score is this. You really don't need it to run a AD&D campaign. It is really interesting, especally to elf nuts like me, but really it is completely unneeded for any AD&D campaign. This is manily because it is rare for any race besides elves to go to Evermeet, and if elves go there they normally don't leave.

Evermeet Island of Elves - Forgotten Realms

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Evermeet Island of Elves - Forgotten Realms

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Elves of Evermeet, The
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Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KXZ4TY

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Useless for developers.......2007-04-16

Book doesn't contain any technical information but introductory basics - no code, no details, nothing.

Not for programmers.......2006-08-27

I hoped that this book, being a "Technical Introduction", would get me up to speed as quickly as possible on the nuts and bolts of web services. As a programmer I had a real world requirement to build web service client functionality into one of my programs immediately ("yesterday") and bought this book to put me in the picture about the web services framework from a technical point of view.
But after having ploughed through the first jargon-laden five chapters at no time did I feel I was getting any closer to completing my task. Not until Chapter 6 does Deitel introduce SOAP, but still with no crystalline description of the client-server interaction.
I abandoned the book at that stage and sought out magazine and web articles, dedicated to my programming language of choice, that gave examples and background descriptions of hands-on building of SOAP clients. Ultimately that's what enabled me to get the job done. What I'd read in Deitel didn't put me in much better position than if I'd never read it.
For example Deitel covers the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit in less than one page. I feel programmers of all persuasions would have benefitted from a detailed description of what it does and how it is used, even if they ultimately don't end up using that specific tool.
I'm not saying this book wouldn't be useful for non-technical people who want some sort of clue about what web services are, how they can be used, and vaguely how the operate.
Perhaps it's not Deitel's fault I was misguided by the word "technical" in the book's name, and thought this book would be orientated towards programmers.

Great introductory book.......2005-04-21

This is an excellent book. I enjoyed reading it. I especially like the flow of the book. Unlike other books I read, this book initially provides an over view of web services as a business model. This is especially helpful for those, who would like to develop web services and later sell it. This book has good introductory coverage of Service Level Agreements, ways to market web services, and a good number of examples. The book then covers XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Web services examples using .NET and Java is clean and descriptive. The book covers recent development in web services security, but does not provide any example in Java or .NET code to implement security. This topic is covered in more advanced book on web services. If you are interested to learn about web services and its business advantages, this Deitel book is very good to keep in your collection.

Ejaz Jamil MSEE MBA, Jence Incorporated http://www.jence.com

Just right.......2002-10-16

This is an extremely thorough, well-written book that covers web services from the ground up. Not tied to any one company's philosophy or implementation of web services standards, this book approaches the subject at a high level yet full of detail. Unlike most technical books, this books reads like a novel. I give it my highest recommendation for those of you that want to understand the underlying web services standards and framework.

Outstanding book --- Comprehensive and Example- rich book........2002-08-29

I have been functioning in this web services world for the past one plus years. I go through various articles, engaged in real time web services projects etc. This book provides the reader all the in-sight into web services. Web Services is a buzzing word around the software world as a next generation of distributing computing. This well organized book covers all the realistic topics starts with what are web services, need and different business models including B2B, B2C scenarios. It also states how web services are different and advantageous from present technologies and the core web services technologies (XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) the building blocks of web services. It discuss in detail about the implementation of web services in both .NET and Java.
Absolutely, Web Services transfigure the software world, but it has yet to ripe out to use it in enterprise systems. Still web services are maturing. At present, web services are excellent for plain message transaction from one program/application to other. That is Web Services can be used in non-critical applications where security, reliability are not significant. One of the major concerns, we take notice of in Web Services is security. If there's one thing that has slowed the widespread acceptance and implementation of Web Services, it's their lack of security standards, reliability issues and Transaction Processing etc.
I take pleasure in reading the Web services Security chapter. It explores all the security issues such as Basic security issues, SSL, XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS, SAML, XACML and WS-Security in a comprehensive manner. Appendices contain VisualBasic.NET and Java Live-code implementation of web services based applications.

Microsoft and IBM have produced a road map outlining the additional Web Services security specifications along with WS-security. This book explained Microsoft's GXA, a series of specifications, which address the various problems faced by the web services in depth along with .NET MyServices, and Mappoint.NET. The two things, I enjoy very much in this book are the employing of abundant case studies and the vast Internet and Web Resources. All the case studies provide the reader a realistic knowledge. The chapters of this book walk around a wide range of recommended reading lists. All these resources help one for further reading.

Written for IT managers, software developers and business professionals alike, this guide explains the business and technology of Web services.

"This Outstanding book arrived at the exact period, which provides all the details about the Web Services in Comprehensive, realistic and practical manner."

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Introduction to Web services and their security [An article from: Information Security Technical Report]
K. Beznosov , D.J. Flinn , S. Kawamoto , and B. Hartman
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Information Security Technical Report, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Web services enable access to data that has previously been locked within corporate networks and accessible only by using custom-built software. Along with the benefits of Web services comes a serious risk of security breaches. This article gives a brief overview of the key technologies in the arena of Web services and the relevant security technologies. It briefly describes Web services building blocks-SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL-providing more details on SOAP. The focus of attention, however, is on the technologies for protecting SOAP messages and communicating security-relevant information with Web services, XML security, WS-Security, and SAML.

Web Services: a Technical Introduction (Deitel Developer)

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Web Services: a Technical Introduction (Deitel Developer)
Harvey M. Deitel
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Ptr
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