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Texas Hold'em on the Net: How to Maximize Your Winnings gives you an in-depth look at today's most popular game. From initial registry to playing for a living, enclosed is everything you will need to access, evaluate and dominate your competition. Included are tried and true moneymaking techniques as well as how to avoid potential pitfalls and cold streaks. David “Maximum Dave” Bradshaw has worked his way through online tournaments to compile your road map to Internet poker success. “Maximum Dave” has been dominating online poker rooms for over 2 years and is embarking on his World Series Championship quest. You will get a first hand account through a professional's eyes of how to outsmart and outlast the competition. For short or long term results, Maximize Your Winnings delivers everything you need to become the next great poker force.
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This book works.......2006-08-28
I have been playing off and on for a year with no tangable results.
I read this book and followed it exactly and in the 1st 4 days I went from $1000 to $4280 (Play Money). In 17 single table(9 seats) games I have 2 Firsts 4 Seconds and 6 Thirds. I play very tight until there are only 6 players which allows me to follow the strategy that is discussed in this book.
I have been in the money 70% of the time.
This book works......
Very Good Book For getting Started.......2006-07-23
Why is a noted gambling expert buying a book for beginners? Anyway, I thought the book was great for beginners.It gives you the basics and some good common sense logic. Also,has some clever ideas for managing your money when you start winning. I'm not a high limit player so this book was good for getting started. I made 50 bucks the day I read it. So I guess it paid for itself.
For the most basic of beginners only. .......2006-03-24
I found this book to be a waste of time and money. If you have ANY OTHER book on Holdem, everything here will be repetition. My personal thoughts were that this was a waste of time and money, but perhaps I am too harsh. If you are giving someone their very first book, and they are a beginner, well, perhaps this is the book. Otherwise, not. But this is just basic stuff. Very basic stuff.
For beginners only.......2006-03-23
If you just getting started this book will be very helpful. Very basic. Has some good points/insights related to on-line play.
Great advice!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-17
I am new to the game and found "Maximum Dave" to be insightful and funny. His approach to the game made me confortable and confident. I would recommend this book to all new players even GIRLS!!!!!!! My computer is in my bedroom and he taught me things that even my husband could not.
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The Edwardian age (1904-1914) was the last time the rich could afford to build enormous country houses surrounded by formal landscaped gardens. These homes, where the owners often entertained guests at week-long house parties, were run by an army of servants working nearly round the clock. What happens when modern people volunteer to live in such a mansion - either as the owner and his family or as their servants - under the watchful eye of video cameras in every room? The Edwardian Country House, the companion book to the TV series of the same name, chronicles the experiment. The participants re-create the daily life of the time, both upstairs and "below stairs," with the help of authentic historical diary extracts, letters, advice manuals, and recipes. With color photos throughout, projects are also included to help readers re-create the period at home with a range of authentic Edwardian activities and crafts.
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More information about Manor House series.......2004-08-20
If you share my opinion that Manor House is one of the best reality series, you'll enjoy this book. As thorough as the series was, there are reams or reels or whatever of footage that never made it onto TV, so this book provides more information about Edwardian life, the participants and events of the series. It's an oversize book which unfortunately makes for awkward reading -- and it does have a lot of text that you'll want to read. However, the size makes for good display of photos, including many taken in Edwardian times and even at Manderstone, the house where the series was shot. So you see that they really did dress up in a thousand items of clothing just to watch cricket on the lawn or stroll around the grounds. A fascinating addition to a well-made series. I loved the series and could have watched ten times what they showed on TV and therefore really appreciate this book.
Good companion piece to the PBS series........2003-11-04
I missed most of the series on PBS, but what I saw looked very good, much better than the earlier 1900 House. This book is the companion to the TV program and is really better suited to those who have seen it as I found some parts a little confusing due to not having watched most of it.
The book gives a good background on the house itself but is skimpy on the program, reads almost like it is about a real Edwardian family, no details on family selection or what happened after their stay was over.
All of the photographs are very good, the little extra sections on the cast I found interesting (likely would've been better if I'd actually seen the show), the side bits on foods and other items were even interesting.
I did notice that, as in 1900 House, the experts setting up made a surprising blunder, here they forgot to check the possibility that a decades unused chimney might be blocked (which it was). Another thing I found little mention of was the Silver stair railing (does the show mention it?), something so unusal and only a couple of photo captions about it.
Not enough to be a time travelers textbook but a very good companion to the series.
Manor House Backstage.......2003-07-15
This is an excellent companion to the Manor House series on PBS. It combines the historical background of the Edwardian period, information about each of the participants in the project, recipes and instructions for making items seen in the series, and information that was not shown during the series, such as the story behind the pig's head (and whether Monsieur Dubiard was trying to gross out the Oliff-Coopers) and more about Guy's education (a surprise there!). I only wished it had information on the selection process and what happened after the series ended.
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Sensibly eschewing any attempt to emulate the inspired lunacy of Monty Python's Flying Circus, this excellent oral history offers instead a straightforward but fascinating peek behind the scenes. Extensive interviews with the team of madmen who created the legendary British television series and four feature films (except Graham Chapman, who died in 1989) give a vivid sense of the dynamic interplay of personalities that revolutionized contemporary comedy, disdaining punch lines and blackout skits in favor of something much weirder and more free-form. The writing duo of Cambridge grads Chapman and John Cleese favored confrontational, deliberately shocking pieces like the infamous Undertaker sketch ("I think we've got an eater!"). Oxford alums Terry Jones and Michael Palin took a more surreal approach to writing ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"). And Eric Idle, who preferred to write alone, was the cheeky one ("nudge, nudge") as well as a respected sounding board for others' ideas. Terry Gilliam, the sole American, provided the wacky animation that gave the show its visual style. It was, as Gilliam remarks, "this amazing chemical balance... I don't think you could invent a group that would work better." All the Pythons are frank about personal and creative differences, making this a thoughtful assessment rather than a hagiography. --Wendy Smith
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Monty Python, the genius comedy troupe from Britain, single-handedly revolutionized sketch comedy and paved the way for everything from
Saturday Night Live to
Austin Powers. Now, in their official oral history, founding members John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin take readers behind the scenes in this no-holds-barred look at their lives and unforgettable comic works like "The Spanish Inquisition," "Dead Parrot,"
Monty Python's Life of Brian,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspiration for the hit Broadway musical
Spamalot), and many, many more, with never-before-seen photos and rare interviews from friends and collaborators.
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Monty Python from the inside out........2007-04-07
Everything you ever wanted to know about the phonomenon known as Monty Python is here, told by the ones who lived it. You get inside information only they could know. Everyone gets a chance to comment, or gripe as the case may be. Even though Graham Chapman is still dead he is represented through the people who knew him best. They were co-workers, cohorts, enemies at times and pals. They were (and still are) Monty Python. I love the book!!!
Monty Python Speaks.......2005-12-20
"Monty Python Speaks" is about the influential comedy sextet known as Monty Python. This book consists of intervies with the Monty Python members, excluding Graham Chapman, due to the fact that he's "bleedin' demised! He is no more! This is an ex-[Python]!" There are also interviews with Carol Cleveland, Douglas Adams, Ian McNaughton, and more, compiled similarly to "The Beatles Anthology" book.
I personally enjoyed this book. I particularly liked Terry Jones' story about one particular scene in "Life of Brian." Apparently, Mr. Jones was trying to direct the crowd of Tunisian extras to laugh at Michael Palin's Pontius Pilate's speech impediment, but to no avail. He then told the translator to tell the crowd to do what the director did. Jones then fell on his back and proceeded to laugh hysterically. Fortunately, on the first take, the extras did it perfectly. Unfortunately, they couldn't use that take, for reasons forgotten by me, so they used the second, slightly sub-par, take.
I reccomend this book to Monty Pyhton fans as well as random trivia buffs, of which, I fall into both categories. This has so many facts that you probably couldn't find elsewhere, except from the interviewees themselves. You can discover what happened behind the scenes of somme of the funniest TV shows and movies of the 70s and 80s. Why was the Undertaker sketch nearly cut? Where did the dead parrot come from? Who had to eat mud during the filming of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Find out here.
Python at a Glance.......2003-11-10
While this book will not reveal anything earth-shattering to the average Python fan, it is a fun and witty look at one of the most influencial comedy teams ever. As a fan of Python fan, I really enjoyed it.
The five surviving members of Python and the partner of the late Graham Chapman were interviewed on a variety of topics including the origins of Python, writing the shows, making the movies, and the disbanding of the Pythons. David Morgan also catches up with the surviving members of Monty Python at their most recent reunion in 1999. The retorts to the questions are the informative yet witty replies you would expect from these comic legends.
The book gives a solid history of Monty Python in the words of the men themselves. Readers get an excellent idea of what was going on behind the scenes. Everything is discussed including the parrot sketch.
great book.......2003-06-07
I loved this book. It is a great buy for any python fan. It obviously doesn't have any comontary by Graham Chapman, but that was the only bad part.
The Best Monty Python Book on the Market.......2003-03-04
Monty Python Speaks!
To this date, the best Monty Python resource available, it consists of interviews with the five surviving Pythons, along with some interviews with folks close to the Pythons (Graham Chapman’s partner David Sherlock, leading lady Carol Cleveland, Chapman’s friend Douglas Adams). There are interviews for the films, the TV shows, Chapman’s death, and an invaluable section about the future of Python (which looks pretty bleak.)
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Spyscreen: Espionage on Film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s
Toby Miller
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Spyscreen is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches - from textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, through auteurism, imperial history, class, and governmentality, to genre, cultural imperialism, and gender. Beginning with an overview of the social and political background to the history, production, and analysis of spy fiction, topics discussed include the first canonical espionage movie, The 39 Steps, key film noir texts such as Gilda and The Third Man, the figure of popular spies, including James Bond, and the importance of women to the genre. The result is not just an insightful new study of key texts in this popular genre; it is an important intervention in the methodology and practice of Screen Studies.
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Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts
Peter Haining
Manufacturer: Carol Pub Group
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A Must Have Compendium.......2006-08-09
Hard to get hold of volume published to mark Agatha Christie's centenary back in 1990, with an indescribably irrelavent foreward by Sir John Gielgud. Gielgud wasn't a friend of Christie's and never acted in any of her plays, but he says that after her death, her husband Max Mallowan asked him to speak at her funeral because she loved his voice so. Indeed it is one of the curiosities of her canonical writing that he seems almost to appear in one of her greatest novels, SLEEPING MURDER. Its heroine, Gwenda Halliday, has what we would now call repressed memories of childhood abuse, and the fossilized memories now come alive when, as an adult woman, she is taken to the theater to see Gielgud acting all Grand Guignol as Ferdinand, the incestuous villain in Webster's Jacobean horror show THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. "Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle: she died young," he intoned, whereupon the young woman stood and ran screaming from the theater. I take it that Christie did actually attendance a performance of Gielgud's actual revival of MALFI (though who knows, she might have read about it in the newspaper.) People have said that Christie wrote SLEEPING MURDER in wartime but in fact WWII must have been almost over when she saw (or read of) the famous Gielgud/Leslie Banks revival at the Theater Royal., Haymarket, for it opened in mid-April 1945.
It is just this kind of trivia that makes Haining's book such a great gift for the Christie fan in your household. The "four acts" of the title should really have been called "four genres" or something, since the book treats Christie's plays, her work in the cinema (and movies made from her books), her work on the radio (including adaptations made by others) and "Death on the Small Screen," a survey of the TV work. Okay, well, this is the only book I know of in which such incredibly elusive Christie works as "Fiddlers Three," "Personal Call," and "Butter in a Lordly Dish" are dealt with, sometimes described in an intriguing fashion that made me literally ache to experience them. When will the Christie estate authorize the publication of any of them? Please send Tony Medawar or some other researcher into the vaults and pull those babies out!
Fiddlers Three (1972), Christie's last play, written when she was 80!
Personal Call (1960), a 30 minute radio play written for the BBC. Read Haining's description, it will make you weep with longing!
Butter in a Lordly Dish (1948), written to benefit the Detection Club, broadcast January 1948, the Biblical legend of Jael and Sisera brought up to modern times!
Buy me those, Daddy!
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Tying in with the 8-part prime time Channel 4 series, Regency House Party follows 5 men and 5 women as they meet, flirt, and court within the same strict protocols as Jane Austen's heroes and heroines. Each chapter focuses on a particular character or couple, and the houseguests take part in popular pastimes of the era, such as attending a public dissection, amateur dramatics, fencing and, of course, dressing up and attending balls. They are all looking for a suitable marriage partner, whose wealth and social standing will enhance their own.
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Days of Vision: Working With David Mercer : Television Drama Then and Now
Don Taylor
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British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You
Su Holmes
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Children's Television in Britain: History, Discourse and Policy
David Buckingham ,
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The rise of more commercially-based, global media has significant implications for the child audience. Many are concerned that the traditions of public service, quality and diversity in children's television are under threat. Based on an extensive research project, this book provides a critical review of the history of children's television in the UK, and a realistic assessment of its future prospects. It looks at how broadcasters have defined the child audience; at the changes in children's programing; at the impact of competition and new technologies; and at the role of audience research. The book intervenes in contemporary debates about the regulation of children's television.
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Cult TV: The Comedies
Jon E. Lewis , and
Penny Stempel
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Avoid.......2004-02-02
As with all the books from these authors from The Ultimate TV Guide onwards, this book exhibits a total lack of engagement with or affection for the subject matter. As such many entries are sloppily researched and even more sloppily written - it's quite entertaining to try and spot the bits where the writers were obviously winding up for the day, or maybe moving on to some other collection of hackery, and wound up the paragraph they were on with a perfunctory flourish, in the manner of a schoolboy running out of time in an exam. And as that seems to be how this exercise was treated by the writers, that's how it feels to the reader ploughing through its dreary text. Presumably this series of books, with their bright and breezy covers, are intended as stocking filler entertainemnts rather than all-encompassing works of scholarly reference, and that's fine. It's just that they're about as much fun to read as a half-arsed essay on Romeo and Juliet by a hyperactive child who's desperate to go out and play in the snow. There are far better books of this type out there, both serious and light-hearted in intent. Look elsewhere.
basically OK.......2002-03-05
This is cult TV from a British perspective. It is a good overview of comedy programmes shown on UK TV including many US imports. It does exclude some US shows like "Three's Company" which weren't shown there but does have "Man About the House" which was the UK series from which it was copied, and hence adds a new perspective to some US shows. Good basic information on screening dates, writers, etc. There's a short description of each show, some photos - but it leaves you wanting more of both. The style is not conducive to cozying down to a nostalgia fest but worth having on the shelf as a reference.
Quite readable, if not completist........2002-02-05
Written from a distinctly British point of view, "Cult TV" describes situation comedies both American and otherwise. I think inclusion in the book was based on British broadcasts, but then again, how can a behemoth USA ratings hit like "Three's Company" not be detailed? Was it not seen in Britain? Man, are they missing out! Anyway, for me, the book has been useful in discovering new and exemplary series like "Black Adder" or "Father Ted" that I'd never heard about. Have you ever seen "Father Ted"? It's insanely good! Interestingly, current series are written about in the past tense, as if they'd already ended.
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