City Smart Guidebook Kansas City (1st ed)

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With fascinating information on the best in sightseeing and attractions, this guide will help travelers discover what makes Kansas City America's best-kept secret.

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Great Book.......2005-07-08

CITY SMART: KANSAS CITY is a great book about the Kansas City area. It contains information on all the malls on both the Missouri and Kansas sides, as well as neighborhoods, eateries, museums, theater, and other stuff to do in the area. However, one part of the book that should be taken like the humor in AMERICAN WEDDING, SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS, HARVARD MAN, DRIVE ME CRAZY, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, 13 GOING ON 30, GARFIELD: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES, DATE MOVIE, or CAN'T HARDLY WAIT is the radio listings. Many of the area's major rock stations (KQRC, KCFX, KZPL, KYYS) are not listed, KXTR (classical) is now KRBZ (alternative), KCIY (smooth jazz) is now WDAF (country), and KNRX (new rock) is now KMJK (vintage soul) and is in fact located about 45 minutes away, in Lexington MO. Other than this minor quibble, though, the book deserves five stars.

Good guide to the area.......1999-06-10

We used this guide in our recent visit to Kansas City and found it to be helpful. Not as helpful as our friends in the area, who knocked themselves out showing us things, but it even gave them some ideas.

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A practical guide for individuals and men’s groups designed to help you win the war on sexual temptation…the comprehensive workbook you’ve been waiting for: the companion workbook to the liberating message proclaimed in Every Man’s Battle.

Every Man’s Battle Workbook guides you through serious Bible study, intense examination of your personal life, and an honest application of biblical truth. In these practical, real-life lessons–easy to use by individuals or groups in both 8- or 13-week tracks–you’ll find:
• Realistic help straight from God’s Word to actively train your eyes and your mind.
• A special focus on the standard set by God in Ephesians 5:3: “There must not be even a hint of sexual immorality.”
• Highlighted excerpts from the best-selling book, Every Man’s Battle.
• “Personal Journey into God’s Word” sections including reflective explorations of topics such as God’s holiness, your power for victory, God’s view of true manhood, God’s gift of purity, your deepest desires, and many others.

Let Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker guide you through self-discovery and Bible study, equipping you with a practical battle plan to live a pure life God’s way–even in the midst of a sexually soaked culture.

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Awesome book.......2007-06-29

It is a really thoughtful and understanding book. Very relative to this sort of situation. Highly recommended. It is lifechanging.

Every Man's Battle Workbook.......2006-08-28

This workbook, coupled with the Every Man's Battle book, provides an excellent base for small group discussion (irregardless of whether or not the group is a follow-up to an EMB conference).

Great book , Thanks-.......2005-09-08

I recieved this book in a very timely manner. I was able to send it to my husband in Iraq and he says it is a great book. Thanks.

Men's Bible Study.......2002-06-02

All Christian men should do at least one Bible Study through this material. It would benefit their marriage and premarital relationships greatly.

Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here

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Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here
Jeremy A. Rosenau , and David L. Wilson
Manufacturer: Fairchild Books & Visuals
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ASIN: 1563674483

Start Here: Kingdom Essentials for Christians

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A great foundation

Start Here: Kingdom Essentials for Christians
Don Williams
Manufacturer: Regal Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0830742972

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A great foundation.......2007-03-19

Don Williams offers an excellent beginning point in many important areas for newer Christians. At the same time, even the "oldsters" can be refreshed with some of the author's insights, particularly with regard to the context of our lives--leaving one kingdom behind in full pursuit of one much better.

Start Here: Movie-Making with iMovie 2 (Movie-Making With Imovie)

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The Best iMovie Book
Excellent 'get started' guide...

Start Here: Movie-Making with iMovie 2 (Movie-Making With Imovie)
Muir , and Rory O'Neill
Manufacturer: OnWord Press (Acquired Titles)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0766845850

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Apple's iMovie is revolutionizing the home movie market, bringing professional quality digital video (DV) editing into the American household. Learning how to creatively edit digital video footage, and combine it with soundtracks, titles, and special effects, has never been easier! Movie-Making with iMovie 2 shows beginners how simple it is to create their own fun short films to document events, including birthdays, vacations, parties and more. An excellent introduction to digital film making, this book provides opportunities to gain firsthand experience in every aspect of the movie-making process - from purchasing equipment and gaining a working knowledge of photography and film basics through sketching a storyboard and developing an original movie idea. Starting with tutorials designed to guide readers through the steps required to produce movies, readers are then given instructions for transforming their own unedited home movie footage into entertaining and enjoyable movies. Fun and extraordinarily easy to use, this book inspires creativity while providing the technical know-how needed to launch into a rewarding new hobby or to take the first steps toward a professional digital film making career.

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The Best iMovie Book.......2001-11-20

I just got this book and it's the best of all the iMovie books I've used/read. Like "iMovies2 For Dummies," this book includes a very good DVD that includes visual/iMovie examples of the techniques and strategies that it explains in the book. For me, this the DVD is the selling point of the book--even though it is somewhat expensive.

I've always felt that a book talking about video/film production must have an accompanying CD or DVD. It's not just about visual learning, but moreso about providing effective examples of what is being explained about visual techniques. I mean...it only makes sense to talk about video technigues by using actual video examples. It really doesn't make sense to keep using a traditional form of communication (writing) to talk about an emerging and developing form of communication (digital video).

Besides the DVD, I also appreciate how the writers of this book provide strategies for different types of video productions--instructional video, music video, documentary video, home video, and short fictional movies. It's the only book I know of that talks about these types of video productions using iMovie. Thus this book (along with another one titled "The Little Digital Video Book, by Micheal Rubin) to me is for the serious/intermediate digital camera and iMovie users.

Finally, I would just like recommend another new book for those like me who want to one day move beyond iMovie to something more professional: Micheal Wohl's "Editing Technqiues with Final Cut Pro" (Peachpit Press) is a very good book on video editing--no matter what editing software you're using. All three of these books should be on your library reference shelf.

Excellent 'get started' guide..........2001-10-18

Eden and Rory have provided us beginners with an excellent introduction into learning to use our Macs to keep those home movies and vacation videos from rotting on the shelf. The dialogue is clear with just enough technical information to give the 'newbie' a comprehensive picture of how to edit video on the computer with confidence. Most notable are their tutorials, which unlike most books of this nature, go beyond covering the use of the computer and provide excellent pointers on movie-making in general. After reading the book, not only have I been able to make entertaining videos through the editing techniques they describe, but my original footage has improved as well through their guidance on how to use my DV camera to get the best results. Thanks guys!!

America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler

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Unprejudiced Father and Stepmother

America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler

Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0262012286

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During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most influential conceptual art projects of the time. Among their witty and stimulating installations and outdoor projects was Camouflaged History, a house painted in a U.S. Army-designed camouflage pattern using 72 commercial paint colors included in the municipally-approved "authentic colors" of historic Charleston, South Carolina. The commercial name of each paint, commemorating an aspect of the city's history, is also painted on the house, revealing and illuminating the lingering Civil War-era past of the region. Like the Earthwork pioneers, Ericson and Ziegler took the whole country as their working space; but rather than impose a conspicuous work of art upon a site or situation, they devised projects that altered sites subtly, creating a patchwork of poetic narratives and histories to be excavated. The windows rescued from the old National Licorice factory in Philadelphia in the title piece America Starts Here--which takes its name from the slogan used to promote Pennsylvania tourism during the 1980s--are hung according to the location of the original windows in the factory; the cracks in the glass echo the famous cracks in two of Philadelphia's tourist attractions, the Liberty Bell and Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass.

Kate Ericson's death from cancer in 1995 at age 39 made the body of Ericson and Ziegler's collaborative work finite. America Starts Here offers a generous selection of Ericson and Ziegler's work, with much of it reproduced in color, and provides a critical analysis of the artists' still under-appreciated position in the history of twentieth-century art. It accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Ericson and Ziegler's work.

Copublished with The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College and List Visual Arts Center at MIT.

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Unprejudiced Father and Stepmother.......2007-02-18

An incredibly fine documentation of the work of two amazing conceptual artists whose work was devoted to exploring the basics of American life and history and exploding them into amazing works that forced one to look at the American world in new and engaging ways. Every project was the result of faithful research, interaction with the community, respect for tradition and their own personal contributions to the community at large.

The quality of the publication itself is a monument to Mel and Kate's work. Tang and MIT are to be lauded for their accomplishment.

Start Here: Teaching and Learning With Adults

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disappointing

Start Here: Teaching and Learning With Adults
Barbara Bruce
Manufacturer: Discipleship Resources
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0881773034

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disappointing.......2007-07-20

I was hoping I could find something useful for a college level course entitled Teaching Adults that represented the Christian perspective on adult learning theory and practice. I found this book quite shallow. Perhaps it can be used in a church setting--which is unfortunate to say. We expect so little in terms of academic rigor from fellow Christians.

The Pain Didn¿t Start Here: Trauma, Violence and the African-American Community

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The Pain Didn¿t Start Here: Trauma, Violence and the African-American Community
Denyse Hicks-Ray
Manufacturer: TSA Communications
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ASIN: 0975367706

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A WAKE UP CALL TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

"The Pain Didn't Start Here: Trauma & Violence in the African-American Community" by Denyse Hicks-Ray, Ph.D., B.C.E.T.S connects the clinical definition of psychological trauma and its affects of violent and maladaptive behaviors presented in the African-American community.

Revealing painful truths about African-American trauma, this important, cutting edge book takes the reader on a psychologist's perspective of the journey of intergenerational pain and suffering. It explains how the affect of untreated pain has created a community that lacks cohesiveness and the skills to move forward in a society that would much rather have its citizens clean, safe and doing much less harm to children.

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Web Design (Start Here!)
Nick Nettleton
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Start from Here
Sean French
Manufacturer: Picador
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ASIN: 0330419749

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Mark Foll is someone you might have spoken to, although you wouldnt necessarily know it; he might have called you in the middle of your favourite television programme to ask if you could take part in some market research, or you might even have called him to sort out your mobile phone contract or to find out where your airline tickets are. Mark has been drifting from terrible job to even worse job when he washes up at Wortley Insurance, working as claims adjuster. It is only when he is sent to Marson Greem, a Norfolk village, to investigate what might or might not be a cancer cluster caused by a waste management company insured by Wortley, that life beging to become something Mark might believe actually involves him. Start from Here is a social comedy, a love story, and a novel about patterns, randomness, and the patterns we see in randomness---in love, in life, and in insurance.Already a best selling author as one half of Nicci French. Name guaranteed to ensure widespread reviews and media coverage. A topical novel in current political and environmental climate.

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I'm sorry I bought this book!
Excellent Depp and film resource!
An Unusual Love Affair Revealed
Tedious!
Excellent Study of Depps Acting, NOT intended as a biography

Johnny Depp Starts Here
Murray Pomerance
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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ASIN: 0813535662

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"Pomerance is the inimitable lyric poet of cinema scholars, bringing the imagination of a creative artist and the rigor of an exacting intellect to these masterly riffs on Depp's complexities and conundrums. The protean actor could not have found a commentator more in tune with his mercurial career and elusive, mesmerizing self."—David Sterritt, author of Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

"Johnny Depp Starts Here offers an important contribution to the field of star studies. . . . Pomerance's passion is highly contagious."—Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University

From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window.

The actor's image is studied in terms of its many strange nuances: Depp's ethnicity, his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic, the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist painting, and other ambiguities. In a series of treatments of his key roles, including Rafael in The Brave, Bon Bon in Before Night Falls, Jack Kerouac in The Source, and the long list of acclaimed performances from Gilbert Grape to Cap'n Jack Sparrow, we learn of Johnny onscreen in terms of male sexuality, space travel, optical experience, Roland Barthes, nineteenth-century American capitalism, Orientalism, the vulnerability of performance, the perils of sleep, comedy, the myth of the West, Scrooge McDuck, François Truffaut, and more.

Both deeply intriguing and perpetually elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself.

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I'm sorry I bought this book!.......2006-03-26

This idiot believes he can write, but he is very good at using big words that makes him think he is intelligent, but he's not! He sounds stupid and he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about! Of course, none of his readers do either!!! He is obviously a fan of Johnny Depp's (aren't we all?), but that's the nicest thing I can say about Mr. Pomerance. Sorry.

Excellent Depp and film resource!.......2005-10-10

'Johnny Depp Starts Here' is definitely an excellent resource for the serious film scholar. Pommerance synthesizes multiple strands of theory with the multiplicity/performativity of identity and works of Johnny Depp in an engaging and accessible manner. Having done previous film projects on Depp, I tend to be skeptical about texts purporting to address the actor and his works as what I have found up to this date, for the most part, more resembles an extended issue of 'Teen Beat' than an address of film, theory, or any scholarly engagement. This book, however, does not disappoint -- easily the best book-length text on Depp theory and film I have found so far.

An Unusual Love Affair Revealed.......2005-10-05

Murray Pomerance's book is nothing one can be prepared for. It is not a filmography, not a biography. It's not an analysis of Johnny's films, nor of his characterizations. Yet it is partially all of these - Pomerance's book is a love letter to an illusion - the screen presence of Johnny Depp. Pomerance is in love with that elusive vision and raptures about the hidden and lyric meanings of that image. He could as well have written about Garbo's screen presence.

The book is not for everyone and definitely not for simple fans of Mr. Depp's screen work. It is a book written by and for film scholars, not film fans. The book is esoteric and complicated - Mr. Pomerance loves stringing descriptive words together (and the more obscure words the better). One is sent to one's dictionary almost at every paragraph. Sentences must be re-read (like poetry) to capture the images and meanings of Mr. Pomerance's words.

That said, it is a great book and Johnny -if he ever reads it - should be right proud that he has evoked such a serious, thoughtful and well felt tribute.

Tedious!.......2005-08-30

I was very disappointed in this book. I found it tedious, rambling, and disjointed. There were a few interesting facts thrown in for good measure, but you have to slog through so much drivel that the trip just isn't worth your time.

Excellent Study of Depps Acting, NOT intended as a biography.......2005-07-20

I highly recommend this unusual study of Johnny Depp's ability to disappear into character. By using specific examples from some of Depps finest roles (Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood..etc...), the author illustrates the art behind the mask, without destroying the mystery. Interesting reflections on Depps refusal to be catagorized or defined, combined with an innate talent, reminds me more of Bob Dylan everyday!!

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