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Thanks!.......2007-09-23
Thank you for sending the book. It was in very good condition, like you promised and I received the book much earlier than I originally had thought.
Another School Algebra text.......2005-12-28
AAAAAARRR!
It's really linear pre-algebra, except that its appropriate for high school students. I thought it was a "high school only" book the whole time I owned it, too.
To be fair, I bought it after reading the Dutch Book, -Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd Edition-by M. de Berg, et al. The Dutch Book was great, but I thought I needed a stepping stone before more dedicated linear programming. Still, this linear math book was unspeakably filthy. Am sorry?
While I have endured through college algebras and other such forms of applied analysis before, I never seen anything this baaaad before, either. Sorry.
Believing it to be a college textbook, I bought it right alongside -Introduction to Linear Optimization-, by Dimitris Bertsimas and John N. Tsitsiklis, an Athena Scientific book. Surprisingly, the Athena Scientific bests it hands down!
By the way..."Introduction to Linear Optimization" remains one of my favorite book, while I donated the pre-algebra to Goodwill some weeks ago (Just to compare).
The book deserves at two stars for being readable. However, I posted this review so that others would be forewarn and so not wastes the resources which they could better use elsewhere.
Use other textbook!.......2005-02-12
This book was poorly written and organized. It might be OK if you only use it as a reference. But if you have to use it for your class, you'd better find another textbook for your second source.
Santa Clara University's linear algebra text.......1999-12-03
This review is of the 2nd edition printed in '89. I bought this book off the shelf at SCU as a review source. The texts chosen at SCU have a tendency to lean toward the practical applications side and away from the theoretical. Johnson's text was no exception. Practical aspects of limitations of solution methods implimented on computers are discussed. A bit dry or lacking in motivation but otherwise a good coverage of the subject matter with answers to odd numbered problems at the back. My only real criticism of the text was the authors' tendency to introduce some important concepts in the problem sets themselves rather than covering them in the main body of the chapter. This is awkward if you want to use the book as a reference.
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A beautifully written memoir, candid and definitive, that tells the story of Bast's five year relationship with the charismatic actor and American legend--James Dean.
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Surviving James Dean.......2007-07-20
Even someone with a mediocre interest in Hollywood's rebel will find Bast's account intriguiing. There's something more than a biography hidden in the pages of "Surviving James Dean." It's almost much more like a memoir of William Bast's, and it allows the reader to get a sense of longing that one can easily relate to. "Surviving James Dean," is as much a love story as it is a recount of the icon-formation days of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic figures. The book honestly portrays the lonely, the erratic, and the very honest side of James Dean in a way that neither flatters nor harms a golden reputation shrouded in foggy dust.
One of the best lines in the novel regards a hug shared between the "teammates," (Dean's reference for the friendship) on the New York streets before James flies off to LA to begin filming "East of Eden." Bast references the warmth the hug left on him that day and even now, while writing the book, the warmth is remembered. Reading this book is much like the warmth from a good, meaningful hug. Even now, writing this review, I can feel the warmth left by an honest and intriguing memory of one of America's notable figurines.
James Dean Forever.......2007-05-03
This book was very dissapointing to me. As a James Dean fan, I was hoping to know more about James Dean's short and tragic life. I probably should have learned more about "Surviving James Dean" before I bought it. When I got to the center of the book, around page 179, I wondered who this book was supposed to be about. Was it supposed to be about James Dean or William Bast? Very dissapointing, indeed. If you are interested in learning more about James Dean, then avoid reading this one. Also, an interesting point that came out of this was that William Bast was open about his sexuality in "Surviving James Dean", and he mentioned how he kept his sexuality to himself due to the prejudice of that time period, but for some reason, Mr. Bast seems to think that it was ok for him to refer to James Dean as a "hick" from Indiana.
Age passes.......2007-03-09
Some time ago I met a gentleman who said he knew the roommate of James Dean (I was an Ensign USPHS at the time). He told me a number of things which at the time I thought were a little far fetched. But when I read this book I find that the things told to me were in fact "MORE THAN TRUE". This book is well written and has some very true to life facts that make it very memorable. To the point and very truthful as well as believeable. After all these years, reading this book, I realize that I really indirectly met and knew the James Dean and am grateful to read it.
Great book.......2007-02-16
As a worshipper of James Dean this was so informative, like he is still alive
The Bad and The Beautiful.......2007-01-15
Some people kvetch because Baxt, now nearly 80, has already gone to the James Dean well twice before (three times before if we count his famous teleplay about a James Dean-like actor caught in a web of celebrity license, "The Myth Makers".) First he wrote a quickie book in the immediate wake of Dean's horrific death (the first biography of the perished actor) and then years later he was instrumental in a TV version of Dean's life that was aired during our nation's bicentennnial and starred strangely vacant Stephen McHattie as Dean, while a handsome Michael Brandon played Bast himself as the 'best friend.' It was a weird production featuring such quintessentially 70s female stars as Amy Irving, Brooke Adams, Candy Clark, Heather Menzies, and Meg Foster all in one movie.
But here in 2006 all of a sudden it's time for Bast to show us what he could not reveal before, that Dean was gay and that his romance with Pier Angeli was a matter of wishful thinking on his part and on the part of the paparazzi and the movie moguls who were wary of scandal. Bast was there from the beginning, and was Dean's roommate for a year or more, and so he saw him literally with his pants down. And he describes their occasional romantic fumblings with each other, though it strikes me that the James Dean he describes wasn't really all that sexually driven. He had a yen for the dark side, which explains his liaison with Vampira and with Rogers Brackett, but that was just to help him act and to further his career. His strange posture was that of Quasimodo and many of his contemporaries would be startled to find out that in afterlife he has attained this sex god status. In retrospect, Bast's book is more interesting when Dean is off stage and Bast is able to focus on peripheral figures, like the Hollywood comedy genius Joan Davis, whom both Bast and Dean knew well (both were engaged to her daughter, Beverly). Someone should make a movie about Joan Davis and Beverly's relationship--it would be like Norma Desmond plus daughter, sort of like that Charles Busch play DIE MOMMIE DIE. (Now that we have all of Dean's screen work on DVD, surely it's time to pay attention to the magnificence of Joan Davis? Let's roll those babies out soon!) I also enjoyed finding out much more than I have ever known before about Alan Young of Mr. ED fame. I didn't even know he was Canadian, but now it all makes sense.
After Dean's death, Bast tells the story of being at the eye of the hurricane as a cult explodes around him and everywhere he goes, esepcially in England and France, people like Jean Cocteau want to shake his hand, or a body part somewhat lower on the anatomy, as a chance to touch the man who held James Dean in his arms. It was a heady period in European history, and Bast tells the story as it has never been told before.
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- bittersweet love story...a story that will warm your heart
- its just love
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Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life with James Dean: A Love Story
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Book Description
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in
New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean
and he fell in love with me.
So begins this beguiling memoir of Liz "Dizzy" Sheridan's passionate yet ill-fated romance with the young, magnetic, soon-to-be-supernova James Dean. The year was 1951. Dean had recently arrived in Manhattan in search of Broadway stardom. Sheridan was a tall, graceful aspiring dancer. They met one rainy afternoon in the parlor of the Rehearsal Club, a chaperoned boardinghouse for young actresses -- and before long Dizzy and Jimmy were inseparable. Together they hunted for jobs, haunted all-night bars and diners, and gloried in the innocent rebellion of early-'50s bohemian New York. Dizzy Sheridan and James Dean were lovers; they lived together; as even ardent Dean fans may be surprised to learn, they were engaged to be married. But when Dean began to find success on the Broadway stage and then was lured to Hollywood, the couple parted amid tears and broken dreams -- dreams that would be dashed forever when Dean died in a car crash in 1955, not long after seeing Dizzy for the last time.
Dizzy & Jimmy marks the first time Liz Sheridan has written about this joyous yet ill-starred romance. She brings us closer than we have ever been to the vibrant young actor before he became a Hollywood icon, capturing his unstudied charm, his complicated psyche, the spontaneous delight he took from the world around him, and the passion he invested in his work and life. It is a journey that takes in many locales, from Dean's boyhood home in Fairmount, Indiana, to Sheridan's recuperative travels through the Caribbean after their breakup. But at its heart Dizzy & Jimmy is the story of a love affair with Manhattan -- of nights spent stealing kisses in Times Square, sharing a walkup in the Hargrave Hotel, dancing after hours beneath the stars in Grand Central Station. And in Sheridan's bittersweet, embraceable telling, it becomes a story no reader, Dean fan or otherwise, will soon forget.
Customer Reviews:
bittersweet love story...a story that will warm your heart.......2007-07-07
I bought this book online because I couldn't wait for it to come to the nearest Borders store. I received it earlier than expected and I was very excited. Elizabeth Sheridan describes to us a man who did not always appear to others the way she knew him. Many other books describe James Dean as being an angry, introverted, and selfish young man. All this may have been true about him, but he also had a sweet side to him which was not always seen. From this book, it is clear that it meant you meant something to him if he expressed his feelings, thoughts, and emotions to you. It portrays a young man who had a sense of humor and who was a hopeless romantic. Reading what Elizabeth Sheridan has said about him shows his fans that he was capable of love and that other books about him aren't 100% true, that he wasn't a cold-hearted person. This is a firsthand account of James, before he became a star and it truly captures the essence of who he was, who he was when he let his guard down and trusted others. By the end of the book, I started to tear up when they parted from each other because I myself wouldn't have been able to do that with someone I loved. I then broke down crying when it described how Sheridan found out about his death. Just reading the words about it made me feel so empty inside, as if I had known him personally, as if he had once been a part of my life. It's as if I had been there. This book is truly a heart-felt account of a misunderstood young man, who in the midst of all things, really wanted to love and be loved. I love this book and whoever reads it shouldn't be disappointed.
its just love.......2005-05-18
Its just love, thats all it is. Its not ment to BE a story about the great James Dean. Its truly about a girl named Dizzy and the boy named Jimmy who she fell in love with. Somehow you can drift into this book and become the characters, you can feel the love, you can remember how it feels to be in that kind of love, where nothing else matters and reality is just something other people talk about. I read this book over and over. I bought it because it was about James Dean and i am a fan. I love it because its about the kinda of love that everyone should get to experience at least once.
I Feel Like I Know James Dean Now!.......2005-03-24
This book by Liz Sheridan (known to many as Jerry's mom on "Seinfeld") is by far the best personal account about James that I've found. It was an engaging read with no dry spots. I could perfectly imagine what their life was like in New York in the '50's. After reading this book, I feel like I have a better idea of what James Dean was really like in real life, not how he is depicted by biographers who never knew him personally. This is not a romanticized view of James Dean, though. There are some pretty intense arguments between he and Ms. Sheridan throughout the book! For anyone who loves memoirs and James Dean, buy this book right now!
Poignant Love Story.......2004-08-30
This is the love story of James Dean and Liz Sheridan (she played Jerry Seinfeld's mother on "Seinfeld.") They met in New York when he was barely scraping by and not yet famous and she a dancer. She was quite a looker with a long ponytail and he was of course scruffy and hunched over with the ever-present cigarette hanging from his lips. I enjoyed reading about their short-lived romance as it shows a side of James Dean that I'm sure he did not reveal to too many people - very sweet and tender. If you are a James Dean fan you will enjoy this book.
Reliving history.......2004-08-05
I grew up in Hollywood acting in plays and met my own James Dean lookalike, actalike in 1968. His name was also "Jim". Like Dizzy, I fell in love first, asked questions later or, like Dizzy, ignored those same questions and loved Jim in spite of his bisexuality. I met Jim's older silver fox gay lover too (whose birthday by chance was the same as mine). He needed this guy for the brakes or the security? Know just what she went through. My relationship ended just as suddenly and tragically when he slipped from my grasp and I could not be a part of his world.
Book Description
When James Dean's life was cut tragically short by a high-speed car crash, a legend was born. Three decades later Dean is still idolised by a generation that hardly knows him and he has become a potent symbol of rebellious youth - an eternal teenager.
Now, for the first time, Jimmy Dean in his own words speaks out, and, with the comments of friends, family and contemporaries, a talented, complex and tragic figure is revealed.
Illustrated with a wealth of rare Dean memorabilia.
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Jimmy.......2002-03-26
This book is excellent. It is presented as abstract, creative, and genious as it's subject. It also includes some of the rarest pictures of Jimmy, and unlike some other Dean Biographies keff keff ("Boulevard"...) the writing is as engrossing as the pictures themselves. This is an excellent addition to any JBD library, along with "Rebel" by Spoto and "The Mutant King". This book is more refference of Jimmy as a person, than a straight-forward bio, but that's what makes it great.
This is a wonderful book of quotes from and about James Dean.......1998-02-01
This book taught me so much about Dean's real feelings, what he was really like. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in his life. It is by far the best book ever published about James B.Dean.
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- More dramatic than comedic...but wonderful.
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Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean
Ed Graczyk
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More dramatic than comedic...but wonderful........1999-12-19
"Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" is one of the greatest dramatic pieces ever written for the stage. The story revolves around Mona who is just returning to McCarthy, Texas, for the 20th anniversary of James Dean's death in a tragic car accident. She was a founding member of the Disciples of James Dean and they all agreed to "come back to the five and dime" for a reunion. Juanita, the owner of the five and dime is still around. Other members such as Sissy, Edna Louise, and Stella May come back as well. In wonderful flashback sequences that are played by younger actors we see how the relationships of Mona, Sissy, and Joe have deveoloped in time. We also learn of the traumatic lives that these character have undergone such as Sissy's bout with cancer, Mona's feeling that James Dean is the father of her child, and Joe's assaults by other boys in his town. At the end of Act I a visitor comes that no one can recognize...but she insists she is a member of the Disciples. This is such a wonderful piece that it was brought to the big screen with Cher playing the role of Sissy. I recently played Joe in a production of this show and saw many tears and just plain shock from what was happening. There are some funny moments but they come no where near the dramatic content of the this piece. A must for any dramatic theatre group.
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From "one of the great icons of country music" (Mel Tillis) comes an inspiring American success story filled with anecdotes about the legends who crossed his path, including Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Roy Rogers, and George W. Bush. It's also Dean's incredible story of the multimillion-dollar venture that made him a household name-and the "deal from hell" with the Sara Lee company that became one of the most challenging periods of his life. Brimming with good will, folksy humor, nuggets of wisdom, and down-home philosophy, this is a story of a life well-lived that will charm, enthrall, and surprise Jimmy Dean's legion of fans.
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Candor U: Class in Session
Jimmy Dean Roth
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True success in life comes about through commitment to integrity, compassion, fairness, and those characteristics that naturally follow. Candid action is both the classroom and the proving ground for that success.
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Fantastic.......2006-04-03
Mr. Roth uses real life experiences to reveal lessons of wisdom, honesty and integrity. His stories serve as a basis for everday living and as a foundation for sucessful living. There is a story or lesson for everyone in this book. A must read.
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Chilton's Chevrolet Blazer/Jimmy/Bravada, 1982-91 Repair Manual (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual)
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Customer Reviews:
Basic.......2007-09-07
While this book contains some great photos (which is what i was really after)the content is fairly basic and perhaps aimed at people who have not yet entered the world of body mod.
It would be a great book to present to young high school kids when attempting to teach them that people are different but that it's all good :)
Like i said, some of the pictures were great but i am otherwise disappointed with this purchase
Not the best, but definitely worth owning!.......2004-05-07
"Return Of The Tribal" is a book that delves into body adornment cross-culturally and throughout history. The book is relatively short, but is packed with great photos and content.
If you don't already own Modern Primitives, you might want to start there first. This book doesn't have as good of written content, though I personally found it to have better and more varied photography.
Overall, the book is a must-have for the library of anyone interested in body modification (either on a tribal level or in Western culture). "Return Of the Tribal" could work as a (small) coffee table book or a reference text. Short, but very sweet.
a wonderful book.......2001-10-24
if you want to research body modification I would suggest this and Modern Primitives. This book is rich with color photographs and indepth discriptions. A must buy for fans of the modification of flesh
Great photography and very informative.......2001-07-23
I've got many books on tattooing and body piercing and I consider this one of my favourite. It looks at the possible reasons why people in the west get body decorations and compares them to the ritualistic purposes there are in tribal cultures. I like it a lot because it focuses on the ancient and traditional aspect of body piercing, tattooing and scarification. It contains excepional photographs(all colour) and goes into great depth and detail. It doesn't talk about body art in a superficial stand point but considers it as an art with a very ancient history. I feels its a very worthwhile read which i constantly reread and refer to and it never is boring.
Content not as good as pictures.......2000-02-26
This book offers little more to the reader than a collection of full color photos of various forms of body art. It is nice to look at, but the content is very biased and non-scholarly. The author oftens voices his opinion about what is 'acceptable' or 'attractive', and questions people who use body modification to "take things too far". There IS a wide variety of body modification discussed and shown in the book, however, the author often repeats things he had previously stated in the book, making for very little content of value. Overall, not one of the better books on the subject. Check out Bodies of Subversion by Margot Mifflin, or The Art of the Tattoo by Ferguson & Procter for better histories of tattooing, as well as any Modern Primatives issues.
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