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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The Enjoyment of Management
The Enjoyment of Management is concerned with how a good manager can bring out the best in his people by recognizing their contributions to the company, by turning their negative qualities into positive forces, by motivating them instead of browbeating them, and in many other ways.
The authors use interesting and colorful examples and terms to make their points - "Turnip Reaction" describes how employees are turned into turnips by restricting their areas of responsibility too much; the "Rumpel Theorem of Management" demonstrates that, just as in the fairy tale in which Rumpelstiltskin did all the work but got none of the credit for it; "Algren's Doctrine Applied to Management" takes novelist Nelson Algren's three rules (never eat at a place called Mom's, never play cards with a man named Doc, and never sleep with anyone who has more trouble than you have) and shows how these rules apply to management. The book is packed with so much excellent material on the human relations aspects of management that it will be useful to all management levels.

Typical advance comment on the The Enjoyment of Management is that of Spencer Denison, Regional Manager, Station Relations, National Association of Broadcasters, who said: "This is MUST reading for all who manage or are managed. Not a dull page in the book. Every chapter hits home. I recommend it enthusiastically."
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Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career.Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger's essays are absolutely central to it. Many of the ideas of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing were presented first in essays published in New Society. Polemical, reflective, radically original, Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement. Viewed chronologically they add up, in fact, to a kind of vicarious autobiography and a history of our time as refracted through the prism of art. Edited by Geoff Dyer, and published on the occasion of his 75th birthday, this is an essential collection by one of the world's greatest writers. ... Read more

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high level reading
I was introduced to Berger's writings by an artist and art department chair. These are high-level reading, not fluffy, essays. I love his up-front, no-nonsense writing style. Berger writes about life and art. His essays are primarily art philosophies and critiques, and even when he writes of his daily life, art is still the point. There are wonderful lessons in his writings, some academic lessons and some life lessons. I find these readings enhance my studio art classes.

Art writing of the first order
Berger is a truly great art writer - one from whom you can really feel the love for and fascination with art, the struggle to make sense of the ineffable effects art has had on him, and whose genuine goal seems to be helping the reader (and perhaps himself) understand art better (as opposed to more recent criticism whose raison d'etre seems to be maximizing obfuscation).Berger's gentle, ruminative style is pleasurable but can at times seem a bit wispy, giving him a somehow old-fashioned feel - I found myself at times wishing for a little more 'tooth' - but the breadth and depth are such to make that a fleeting concern.

Attention must be paid!
Most of us, most of the time, are satisfied to be awed, intrigued, excited, even enraptured by art without developing any critical understanding of it. John Berger takes an addional step. A thoughtful critic and an excellent writer, he has been sharing his understanding with readers for more than 40 years. This book collects in one place nearly 600 pages of his essays on painting, architecture, photography, drama, and literature.

Berger on Pollock: Imagine a man brought up from birth in a white cell. And then imagine that suddenly he is given some sticks and bright paints. He would want to express his ideas and feelings. He would have nothing more than the gestures he could discover through the act of applying his colored marks to his white walls.

Berger on Picasso: The romanticism of Toulouse-Lautrec, the classicism of Ingres, the crude energy of Negro sculpture, the heart-searchings of Cézanne towards the truth about structure, the exposures of Freud. All these he has recognized, welcomed, pushed to bizarre conclusions, improvised on, sung through in order to make us recognize ourselves in the parody of a distorting mirror.

Berger on Joyce: Deep down, beneath the words, beneath the pretenses, beneath the claims and the everlasting moralistic judgment, beneath the opinions and lessons and boasts and cant of everyday life, the lives of adult women and men were made up of such stuff as this book [Ulysses] was made of: offal with flecks in it of the divine. The first and last recipe!

Four decades of thoughts such as the above: the accreted insights and enthusiasms of a restless intellect steeped in the arts. Berger began commanding attention in the 1950s. With this book, he commands it still.

John Berger is what politically engaged criticism should look like
This book is what politically engaged leftist art criticism should look like. This is what American art criticism WOULD look like if we could wrest it away from the academic theory cliques and their exclusionist jargon (in which they, without a hint of irony, frame a discourse of 'inclusion'). A left-wing pirate's treasure chest of golden ideas and silver sentences, this is a book to read, re-read, admire and argue with. Berger is the art critic other critics should learn from.

Indispensable
I happened to pick this book up in a store because I had read one novel of Berger's, Pig Earth, which I thought was very good.I knew he was an art critic, but I never had any particular urge to read art criticism; I didn't think visual art needed a lot of explaining.Just reading the three page essay on Jackson Pollock convinced me that, at least regarding the type of criticism that Berger writes, I was wrong.In a few sentences, he seems to capture the essence of what an artist has accomplished (or is trying to accomplish) in his or her work, and makes the work more vivid and meaningful than it was before.Here is clear proof that finding words for one's experience of a work of art doesn't devalue it but makes it richer.

One of the things that makes these essays so gripping is that Berger is interested in something that seems to have fallen out of fashion in criticism: using art to identify the predicament of a culture. I remember, even before I picked up Pig Earth, being worried by the fact that Berger is a lifelong Marxist.But there is nothing doctrinaire or repetitive about his explanations of phenomenon; he is a free intellect, and I would argue that just because Marx's solutions have been widely discounted does not necessarily mean that his diagnoses are also invalid.In any case, Berger's priorities are always first exploring his subject, not imposing an orthodox framework on them.

The book, also, is not just about art.Berger is a real man of letters; his essays range over every art form and subject, and in the space of a few pages he can marshall support for his points from a novelist, painter, poet, photographer, and historian.He is never pretentious, because his primary objective is always communicating his argument with urgency.I bought this essay on the strength of the Pollock essay alone, and I've discovered so many more that I could read again and again; this is really one of my treasured books (a good measure of which is the frequency with which it comes into the bathroom with me).

The tight construction of Berger's essays makes it hard to quote a section and have it make sense as an argument, but here are a few samples: "Nobody who has not painted himself can fully appreciate what lies behind Matisse's mastery of colour.it is comparitively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture either by allowing one colour to dominate or by muting all the colours.Matisse did neither.He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby."

Or, in the essay on our changing relationship with animals: "Public zoos came into existence at the beginning of the period which was the see the disappearance of animals from daily life.The zoo to which people go to meet animals, to observe them, to see them, is, in fact, a monument to the impossibility of such encounters.Modern zoos are an epitaph to a relationship which was as old as man."The essay on animals had a passage on nearly every page which made me want to put the book down and think for a few minutes, and I hope I'm not doing it a disservice by quoting a fragment.Buy the book and read it all; there are few other collections that contain such a breadth of knowledge and insight.Seriously, this is value for money. ... Read more

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The Vaquero was in Texas before there was a Texas. They came north from Mexico with the big Spanish land grants of the 18th century. Descended from a long, illustrious line of mounted riders, the Vaquero can trace his ancestry many hundreds of years ago to the North African riders of Morocco to the original Vaqueros in Spain, and to Mexico.

When Captain King and other early ranchers came into South Texas and began amassing huge swathes of land, it was the Vaquero who enabled him to go into the cattle business.

It was the Vaquero who taught the Anglo cowboy everything he needed to know about cattle and horses. We all know that the Anglo cowboy has been celebrated endlessly.The Vaquero, unfortunately, has often been overlooked.

There are still Vaqueros on the ranches large and small who make it possible to document the life of these tough, proud, knowledgeable men.Many of these Vaqueros are third and forth generation, fiercely proud of their skills and heritage. But fewer and fewer of their children are choosing this life and profession that founded and shaped the ranching industry.

The world of the Vaquero may be moving from the realistic to the mythic. El Vaquero Real is a mosaic of images, impressions, and history, of the life that was and life that is, a tribute to the Vaquero: history; heritage; style; equipment; factual data; numbers in their heyday, how many there are today, the importance to the Latino culture and the larger culture of America.

Dyer's photographic content is as much a product of the border life experience as it is an expression of his sincere interest in honoring the Vaqueros and their unique contribution to South Texas (indeed, American) ranching. This book will be accompanied by a museum exhibition which will travel the region. ... Read more

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Over the last thirty years, the study of medieval rural settlements has been completely transformed. The origins and expansion of settlements are now as much the focus of interest as their decline. This interpretation evinces a much fuller appreciation of the role played by the lords of the manor and other individuals in the history of settlement. These very considerable changes in interpretation are fully reflected in this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by a distinguished team of archaeologists, historians and historical geographers. Its authors use documents, aerial photography, fieldwork, excavation, and the analysis of botanical remains to reconstruct the medieval landscape. The first part of the book examines the history and geography of settlements; the documentary evidence for early medieval estate and settlement patterns; initiative and authority in settlement change; the growth and decline of medieval rural settlements, and the significance of the Wolds in English settlement history. Part two combines regional fieldwork studies with more detailed case studies.These include studies of deserted settlements in the West of England; deserted medieval settlements in the South-West Midlands; the archaeology of medieval rural settlement in East Anglia; medieval settlement remains and historical conservation, and field systems and township structures. The final section is concerned with excavation, and again combines regional with more detailed case studies. It contains chapters on the excavation of dispersed settlement in medieval Britain; peasant houses, farmsteads and villages in North-East England, and environmental archaeology. The book closes with a consideration of the relationship between archaeological and historical method, and its application to the study of rural settlement. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. [4],156p. ; 4° ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: I Told You I Was Freaky, Deliver Us, Red Album, Phantom Limb, Blue Record, Beyond the Permafrost, a Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk, Second, First, Static Tensions. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: I Told You I Was Freaky is the second studio album by New Zealand folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords. It features 13 songs. Out of those 13, 10 were released as singles on the American iTunes Store following their debut on TV. The release date of the album was October 20th, and November 2nd in the UK. One of the songs, "Demon Woman", was released as part of a downloadable track pack for the video game, Rock Band. All songs written and composed by Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie except "Carol Brown" written by James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, and Bret McKenzie. ...http://booksllc.net/?id=21744606 ... Read more

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Picking up where Skywatching left off, here is an invaluable, advanced observer's primer and field guide to the night sky. ... Read more

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Born again Astronomer
Great book for anyone wanting to go deeper into amateur astronomy. Many background topics are covered in the first portion of the book leading into the observational delights in the last chapters. I use this book for light reading and to plan observing lists for clear nights to come. The breakout of objects by category is great. The objects are listed by what instrument will be necessary for best viewing, ie binoculars, small telescope...

What Is With All The Negativity?
If you are interesting in astronomy, or just bought your first telescope, buy this book (or its soft cover twin A Guide to Backyard Astronomy). Period. It is a perfect launching point to explore the stars.Some may complain that the maps are not complete, but the entire point of this book is to start you on the road to stargazing, and it has plenty for a budding astronomer to work with without being overwhelmed. Heck, I still use it and find it much more user friendly than many other books. Ignore the negativity and enjoy the book. For the price there should be no argument. I suggest looking up the reviews on its softcover identical twin, A Guide To Backyard Astronomy, for a more honest review.

Buy it!...unless,
Ten years ago, if you were someone who had never looked into a telescope, or couldn't find the North Star even with the Big Dipper emblazoned on the clear night sky right in front of you, one might question the wisdom of your decision to buy this type of book.After all, it includes instructions to navigate a telescope to a number of obscure Messier objects that you can't even see with the naked eye.The fact is, today anyone willing to invest a considerable chunk of spare change, say $1500 plus, can go out and buy a motorized telescope equipped with an internal computer that, along with a compass and a GPS system, automatically aligns the entire rig with the push of a button.From there, viewing these same Messier objects is as simple as programming your coffee maker.Needless to say, what was yesterday's advanced technology is today's ..umm, coffee maker.
This book is a pleasurably condensed beginning astronomy course, with each short section covering a broad range of subjects - from the birth and development of astrophysics and the state of exploration in the solar system (Voyager and Hubble) to some technical considerations, such as a brief synopsis of the electromagnetic spectrum and the physics of red-shift.From here it more than briefly covers the tools of the trade, from binoculars to telescopes (including "Go-To" technology) to astrophotography, and includes a very informative section on buying a telescope.Then follows an ample chapter on the Solar System covering the Sun, Moon, and the planets and their satellites.All this fairly light reading is wrapped up with a chapter covering all the other lights in the sky, including meteors, asteroids, double and variable stars, clusters, nebulas, novae, etc., and discussing with some detail their technical aspects. Somehow, each page, though jam-packed with information, still manages to include at least two relevant pictures or graphics.The deep space pictures are simply gorgeous.
The last 98 pages of the book are my favorite part - a `starhopping' guide highlighting some twenty selected sections of the sky (each generally covering the area of an average constellation).Each section has a comprehensive map and a number of photographs to aid the aspiring astronomer.With each destination is a recommendation of how to view it (i.e. naked eye, binoculars, or telescope) and includes considerations such as necessary field of view, recommended power, and required aperture.After all, you don't want to waste your time trying to discern the arms and dust lanes of M61 (a face-on but dim spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo) armed only with a 6 inch reflector.
The inclusion of the word `Advanced' in the title of this book will likely scare off a number of potential buyers.The decision to use it certainly involved a calculated risk by the publishers.I consider myself a knowledgeable beginner at best, (I'm purchasing my first telescope as I write this review) and I found this book to be almost spot-on for my needs.In fact, it played no small part in inspiring my purchase, and this in the face of my dear wife's protests.
Bottom line:If you're an armchair wannabe astronomer who's susceptible to the occasional weakness for impulse buying, and your unsympathetic spouse has imposed a moratorium on larger purchases for the foreseeable future, don't buy this book.On the other hand, perhaps spending a punitive night or two "sleeping on the couch" might not seem so bad if you happen to wake up in the middle of a starry night.

Advanced Skywatching is good, but there is one better
Advanced Skywatching is a good book. But the book "Practical Skywatching" gives you two books for the price of one. It literally contains the best of the books "Skywatching" and "Advance Skywatching" in one reference

Very Nice
Time was, the Nature Store was everywhere in Canada, and you could depend on them for just the right Xmas gift or whatever. That's gone now, but they left the excellent Nature Company Guides behind.

This is the book ofthose who have gone beyond "the stars are up there" stage butaren't at the Hawking level yet. I loved the crispy photos and the straightfrom the shoulder directions (not pretentious or dumb). I recommend ithighly if you want something with a little more meat to it. ... Read more