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This Magazine has Ceased Publication . Only Four or 5 Issues Exist. This was the 2nd and Most Famous Issue Featuring the TV Show (That Also Only Had one Season) TILT Starring, Michael Madsen. Truly a Collector Issue. ... Read more

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The Updated Second Edition contains materials about recent world events triggered by the September 11th attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. KEY FEATURES:This book covers numerous topics, including Cultural Geography, The Geography of Languages and Religions, A World of States, and an examination of world affairs after the events of September 11. For those in the field of geography. ... Read more

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According to an email being circulated in Brazil in Portuguese, this book is an American junior high school text claiming erroneously that the Amazon basin has been internationalized because the USA needs to preserve the Amazon from "primitive and violent" people (!). The email warns about American designs on Brazilian resources.Brazilian readers of this site should be aware that this email is a total fabrication and a complete hoax. This text is a legitimate textbook. It would not be used by geography teachers in the USA if it made such outlandish comments.

People should note the differences in English style between the excerpts from the real textbook (which we can preview here) and the faked excerpts accompanying the junk email. The real textbook has a good style, typical of an educated native speaker of English, while the "excerpts" attached to the email are full of the kind of grammatical mistakes foreign learners of English often make.

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I ordered this book for school and expected to get the book within a few weeks.I received the book less than a week later!The book was in the same condition that was listed.I would recommend this seller to anyone needing textbooks at a good price.

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Intro to Geography: People, Places, and Environment (4th Edition)
I used this product for my World Geography course in college.A decent text book and a lot cheaper than what the college store was asking for.A few typos and a few wrong facts but other than that a pretty good text book. ... Read more

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A treasure worth killing for.Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics.A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers.Amazon.com Review
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective,is more noir than L.A.Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels(including The DainCurse and The GlassKey), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold offthe police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for hishelp, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the nextmoment.

Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for thekilling; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears anddisappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; andeveryone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created astribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will ittake to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives ofthe seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a coldcomfort indeed.

Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and hisMephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knowshow to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets withoutleaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" andconvince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, witha wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. Ifyou're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets hiscomebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper ... Read more

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An american (seedy) classic!
How good of a writer is Hammett? In the movie version of this classic '20's detective thriller, Peter Lorre steals the movie from Bogart in his role as the sneaky, sly, ambiguously sexual lowlife criminal Cairo.Lorre's performance is nuanced and edgy and brings a sexual edge to a film that was way beyond the social norms of the time.Reading this book after having basked in Lorre's brilliance for years, one finds that the sexual nuance, the ambiguity, the sending up of sexual norms in the face of a conservative society- are all here in Hammett's original work.Lorre was simply channeling the words of a master.
"The Maltese Falcon" is a gritty, sexual, violent, suspenseful, and at times quite funny, thriller.The infamous Sam Spade is the focus of the book- a private eye walking the fine line between being a self-preserving criminal himself and a outlaw extension of the law.He is not above lying, fighting, and loving in order to get what he needs, and though his ends usually align themselves with the law, the means are not as neat.
Without giving too much away, this story involves a mysterious statue- the Maltese Falcon- that a handful of shady characters are all seeking.Where alliances truly fall and who is telling Spade the truth and who is using him to further their own ends are the plot points that make this book a page turner.As can be expected, nothing is as it seems and it is up to Spade to figure out what is really going on.
If you have seen the movie, read the book too.It will be well worth your time.

The Best of Hammett
Of the Hammett books I've read (Glass Key, Thin Man, and now this), this is by far the most engaging and contains the most interesting characters. It reads almost like a play, with the core cast of Spade, Effie, Brigid, Gutman, Joel Cairo, and Wilmer. All but Effie periodically regroup for a convention to push things forward and unravel the complex plot.

A couple of things that relate to the John Huston/Bogart movie version (actually the third movie made of the book, according to the notes to the book).

The final scene between Brigid O'Shaughnessy and Sam Spade is as good as it gets. Spade, driven maybe by cynicism to the core, sees his predicament as requiring either his taking the fall or his giving up O'Shaughnessy, who is the actual murderer. That she is in fact the murderer seems less important a factor than you'd think -- remember that Spade was just as happy to offer Wilmer as the fall guy whether he deserved it or not (mainly because he just didn't like him). He does decide of course to give her up, but it seems mainly because she never played straight with him, not because she committed the murders. That he (may) love her only matters, because it makes it hard to give her up -- an unavoidable pain in the circumstances.

The other thing is the surreal feel of Spade's character in the book. It's surreal because the character's mannerisms, e.g., letting his cigarette hang from his lower lip while he talks, are what we take to be Bogart's mannerisms -- Bogart the person, not Bogart as portraying Sam Spade. Spade was Bogart before Bogart was Spade.

Hard-Boiled Yet Subtle - Superlative Detective Fiction
A girl in trouble. Deceit at every turn. An assortment of villains. And a hero who draws a fine, frayed line between professional loyalties and personal infidelities. The Maltese Falcon represents the hard-boiled detective mystery at its best.

The novel seethes with threats and danger, while dodging cliches of predictable action sequences and tough guy bravado. Surprisingly, both in the book and in the Humphrey Bogart version of the movie (There were two early film renderings, both forgettable.), protagonist Sam Spade exudes an air of menace without ever drawing a gun. He calibrates his dialogue to the audience and situation, knowing when to talk and when to hold back. Best of all, he never lets anyone else see all of his cards. This gives him the maneuvering room he needs to solve the mystery of the falcon's value while smoking out the murderer behind the case.

Dashiell Hammett, himself a former private investigator and Pinkerton man, translates the gritty reality of crime and its surroundings into a first class novel made immortal by the Bogart movie whose best dialogue was pure Hammett through and through. Today as back then, the Maltese Falcon stands in stark contrast to the heretofore criminal genius stories that gave us Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. With Sam Spade, we get a tough guy who has more depth and resolve than visible on the surface. Antagonists are ruthless and no strangers to bloodshed. Their plans may be sophisticated, but they aren't complex. People get killed for getting in the way. They don't get talked to death. The adventure comes in discovering all of this for ourselves, making this a classic detective story without peer.

"Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be."
One of those rare and flawless novels whose merits and satisfactions seem magically to multiply with successive readings. Ditto Dash's stunning Red Harvest by the way, which if anything packs an ever heftier punch each go-round. Still, The Maltese Falcon springs downright eternal and I'd be greatly surprised if in a couple of centuries from now amateur readers still weren't getting the biggest bang out of the priceless palaver of that pleasant blond satan, Samuel Spade. Must be about a dozen times now over something like twenty odd years that I've read this crisp and crafty caper and not a single line yet has let me down or failed to pay off. Dash may not be quite as hilariously snarky, sharply incisive or lyrically bittersweet as that colossal mahubba bubba waiting right round the corner--there was always ever going to be just the one and only Raymond Chandler--but he can stop you dead in your tracks just the same. After Sam is woken up at five minutes past two in the AM by a phone call informing him that his partner Miles Archer just got plugged there's this little sentence: "He scowled at the telephone on the table while his hands took from beside it a packet of brown papers and a sack of Bull Durham." Fair enough you suppose but then Hammett slips in this startling paragraph:

"Spade's thick fingers made a cigarette with deliberate care, sifting a measured quantity of tan flakes down into curved paper, spreading the flakes so that they lay equal at the ends with a slight depression in the middle, thumbs rolling the paper's inner edge down and up under the outer edge as forefingers pressed it over, thumbs and fingers sliding to the paper cylinder's ends to hold it even while tongue licked the flap, left forefinger and thumb pinching their end while right forefinger and thumb smoothed the damp seam, right forefinger and thumb twisting their end and lifting the other to Spade's mouth."

Can't and won't speak for any of you punters out there but me I like that just fine. Or what about that Flitcraft yarn Sam tells Brigid while they're waiting for Cairo to show up? Now there's a sneaky and pleasingly teasing little pebble in the gumshoe of any attentive reader's mind. Then of course the Dash can crack you up too when you least expect it. Here's Sam in his crowded apartment late in the novel, trying to wangle a fall-guy out of Gutman and associates and getting more than a little exasperated with the assembled oddballs: "He scowled at Gutman and burst out irritably: 'Jesus God! is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You're a fine lot of lollipops! What are you going to do next--get down and pray?'" That's almost as good as Spade telling Casper Gutman earlier that a crippled newsie took Wilmer's pistols away from him! I guess you can't really talk about The Maltese Falcon either without mentioning John Huston's stupendous movie version so all I'll say is the 1941 film adaptation by Huston IS stupendous. Huston wrote AND directed this screen classic and what's more the movie was his directorial debut which gives you some idea of why this dude is generally revered by a slew of folks. Plus that astonishing cast he had to work with! Magnificent movie, any way you cut it. So by all means watch this wonderful film repeatedly but do yourself a favour and read Hammett's deft and dandy little book an equal number of times. This particular dingus first soared off the page roundabout 1930 and is assuredly flying high still.

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I read this for a class and it was really great, but I'm biased because I love film noir. The writing style is fantastic, reads more like a movie than a book. ... Read more

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The authors offer practical advice to novice and experienced administrators on the day-to-day duties and responsibilities of organizing and administering successful programs in adult, community, and continuing education settings. Administering Successful Programs for Adults is designed to assist administrators in understanding various approaches to the administrative process, assessing clientele needs and interests, securing financing and developing budgets, selecting paid and voluntary staff, creating effective marketing and public relations strategies, evaluating learning, instructors, and programs, understanding legal and ethical administrative issues, and finally mapping out a professional development plan for remaining effective. Throughout this book, many practical and useful strategies, approaches, forms, and tips to assist the administrator to be more effective are provided. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for administrators who work in community-based adult, community, and continuing education organizations, deans and directors of continuing higher education, directors of adult and community school programs, trainers in business and industry, and educational consultants. ... Read more

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Beneficial Book
This book was very beneficial to the graduate class that I participated in during the summer semester.

Administering Successful Programs
Galbraith, M.W., Sisco, B.R., & Guglielmino, L.M. Administering Successful Programs for Adults: Promoting Excellence in Adult, Community and Continuing Education. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL, 1997. Pp. vii + 187. When the opportunity to review a book written by three acknowledged professionals, in not only adult educational instruction, but also in research and publication, the expectation of quality would seem foreseeable.In this case, the expectation was a reality.From the "Preface" to the final chapter, the student is presented with a clear, concise, and literary explanation, of a relevant and timely topic, the administration of programs. To often, authors of scholarly texts, find it necessary to use professional language, understandable only by experts in the discipline or subject matter. This is not the case with this publication.The text was written and published with current, or "would be", administrators in mind.The primary goal of the authors is to convey a basic understanding of the administrative process. The authors of Administering Successful Programs for Adults, include in their "Preface", an excellent synopsis of the book.The text has nine chapters. Chapter 1 is concerned with and titled the "Administrator".This chapter "...examines the settings and contexts in which the administrative role is carried out", and includes "...a self-assessment inventory that allows", students to discover pertinent knowledge about themselves (p.viii).Chapter 2, "Approaches to Administration", is just that.The authors examine, "The classical, human relations, organization behavior, contingency, and systems perspectives..." and "...their appropriateness for adult, community, and continuing education" (p.viii).In Chapter 3, "Determining Program Content", they address "...the administrator's role and involvement in the process of determining program content", with an emphasis on the macro approach."Budgeting and Financing" are the topics of Chapter 4.Different types of budgets are discussed, along with "...useful tips on how to develop a successful budget..." and "...and how to augment funding..." (p.viii).Chapter 5, "Selecting and Developing Staff", explains that this "...is an essential function of administrators in adult, community, and continuing education agencies and organizations" (p.viii).A plan is presented which includes ideas on role identification, selection, and development, of staff."Marketing and Public Relations", "Chapter 6, is dedicated to the understanding of marketing and the essential elements of a marketing plan and promotional strategies" (p.ix).Chapter 7, "Evaluating Programs", "...is devoted to the process of evaluating programs for adult", and includes suggestions on "...the design and application of an evaluation plan" (p.ix)."Legal and Ethical Considerations", is the subject of Chapter 8.These include, "...affirmative action and equal employment opportunity guidelines..." as well as information about "...the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990..." and "...ethical dilemmas confronting the administrator..." (p.ix). Chapter 9 is concerned with "Maintaining Effectiveness As an Administrator", "...through professional development of yourself and others" (p.ix).It "...concludes with a brief annotated listing of resources found to be particularly helpful in ensuring administrative and organizational success" (p.ix). This content summary presents a view of the explicit and concise style of this text. Administrating Successful Programs for Adults was written as an introductory text or primer, to be used and perused by "would be", new, or existing administrators.It will not replace Niccolo Machiavelli's, The Prince.It will, because of its condensed or abbreviated style, be a useful tablet.The theme of each chapter is clearly developed and the included "Summary" is a definite plus.There are an adequate, not an overpowering, number of explanatory tables, models and charts.The numbering system for these items, at the bottom, rather than the more common placement at the top, seemed awkward. The documentation and referencing of source and contemporary or companion literature is complete and aptly supplemented by the brief but sufficient annotated listing included in Chapter 9.Fortunately, which is not always the case in referenced material, the authors documentation, in this text, does not interrupt or detract from the intended subject matter.There is nothing unique about the organization or presentation of the information available, or the written prose, in Administrating Successful Programs for Adults, except that the style and substance could be used as an example of plain English.This style, one of clarity, not circumlocution, is not found, often enough, in academic publications. We live in a world of administrating and administrators.In order to progress and prosper, we must continually create and implement compromise.It is extremely difficult to reach a position where compromise is a possibility, much less a reality, without administrative assistance.The use of this text can assist in making compromise a possibility. I fear that the authors have, unwittingly, underestimated their audience. They have proposed, that "...adult, community and continuing educational programs for adults"(p.x), might benefit from this publication.These are, for me, the underestimated audience.The general resource nature of this volume, its ability to present the administrative process in broad strokes, and in clear and plain vocabulary, make it a viable and usable document, for this every growing and demanding group of learners and activists.These groups, adult, community and continuing educational organizations, must have access to the administrative expertise that will lead them in the direction of compromise, if they are to be the positive and productive force they should and intent to be. Many adult, community and continuing educational texts address the concept of the "Critical Thinker". The essence of "Critical Thinking" is very clear explained in Administering Successful Programs of Adults.I consider the process of "Critical Thinking", a clear and detailed road to reaching compromise, a result desired by any progressing administrative program.Although administering compromise, is only one of many important concepts included in this text, I find this example, a sterling explanation of why, I believe the authors attained their goal, of publishing a book and thereby providing a primer for, easy access to knowledge of the administrative process. ... Read more

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A collection of poetry from Elaine Madsen, a multi-talented woman with a strong love for poetry
There are some colors that simply aren't visual. "Crayola Can't Make These Colors: ...From the Palette of a Life in Verse" is a collection of poetry from Elaine Madsen, a multi-talented woman with a strong love for poetry. Her verse is simple and moving, and does well to fit with its title of painting vivid images unique to the English language. "Crayola Can't Make These Colors" is a strong choice all around for poetry fans. "Dandelion Dusted": I climbed to the top of a dandelion,/ and found you hiding there./We lolled all over the golden fluff/and came down/to find people stare!/I don't know why they act that way,/but on the other hand, I've never seen/any other fuzzy, yellow ones like/ me and thee. ... Read more

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Title: Beatrix y Bill arreglan cuentas: Quentin Tarantino.(Kill Bill: Vol. 2)(Reseña de película)
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This digital document is an article from Argumentation and Advocacy, published by American Forensic Association on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1017 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: Teaching and Directing Forensics. (book reviews)
Author: Arnie Madsen
Publication: Argumentation and Advocacy (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: American Forensic Association
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