Life After Television

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amazing.......2000-02-19

Fiber and wireless, he is amazingly correct in predicting the technology trends, can't wait to see what he is going to talk about in his next book.

More than a TV treatise! Better prognosticator than Popcorn!.......1998-04-03

George Gilder has been hailed as one of the foremost science and technology writers for Forbes Magazine. His book, Wealth and Poverty, was one of the "Bibles" of '80s supply-side economics. Although I may not totally agree with his economic views, his extensive research of telecommunications and how this vast and intertwined conglom of industries affects humanity is unquestionably thorough, thought provoking, intellegent, and timely. Some craggy rocks which potentially ground Gilder's predictions of a tidal wave on the technoscape are FCC auctions; mis-directed consumer advertising; lack of consumer education on what cell phone towers "really" are (you know, fear of radiation, cancer scare, etc.), and the inability of competing telecoms, cable companies, computer megopolies, etal to install fiber-optic cable and satellites at a break-neck enough pace. All I know is, wherever TCI has tried Internet services, the "Alpha Test" consumers not only wouldn't give it up after the test was over, some people would not move to an area where they couldn't purcase the service! So readers: Ride premiere prognosticator Gilder's technowave, and be one of the first to hang ten in a prospective post-Mellenium promised land! And be sure to pick up his other books, such as Microcosm. I believe he is updating this for 1998, and he's "write-on" in his first edition. Surf's up!

Gilder is the best in predicting technology / economy........1998-03-30

As former Director of Broadcast Engineering for Alabama Public Television, (America's oldest PBS Network) I can say that my 38 years of Telecom, Technology, and Broadcast experience strongly suggests that everthing I've ever read by George Gilder is excellent. George's books and Forbes /ASAP articles are an excellent reference for anyone concerned in how technology has and will continue to affect the economy of the U.S. and the World. James Foley -- Alpha Communications & OMNI Telecom

Lost: Signs of Life - Book #3: SIGNS OF LIFE (Lost)

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Lost Money Maker
Worst book EVER
That was pretty bad.
This is just bad
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Lost: Signs of Life - Book #3: SIGNS OF LIFE (Lost)
Frank Thompson
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Lost Money Maker.......2006-08-21

This book is a nice filler between seasons, but there are a few things that don't necessarily follow the storyline from the show. A major event and location is discussed in this story that, to believe, the location should have been "in" the show. The caves that are mentioned in this book are not the same as the caves the survivors live in as another reviewer stated, but they had a profound effect on some of the regulars like, Locke, Michael, and Hurley, that you would think that we would know more about this place.

It is nice to find out a little background about some of the other survivors of the flight, I just hope that the stories do not stray too far from the main theme and that as more information is released in the series, it coincides with these books as well. (i.e. descriptions of where people sat on the plane, names of passengers, and locations listed.)

Nice attempt at a story, but I think more research and closer ties to the series may be needed. If this is just a way to make some dough with the LOST stamp on the cover...then Bravo.

Overall, I would rate the overall story "ok" with a "needs improvement" in the relate to the series category.

Worst book EVER.......2006-06-18

This book is one of the worst books I have ever read, the author has no idea what's going on in LOST the portrayal of the characters is so off the mark that's it laughable I was so disappointed in this book that I actually threw it out in the rubbish bin. If you like LOST and need something to do in-between seasons or episodes bang you head against the wall it would be a far better use of your time

That was pretty bad........2006-04-27

I am not sure why there are so many spinoff books of the show like this, or better yet why they get published. This book kept me fairly interested in the beginning, but it just fell very, very flat.

The ending is extremely STUPID, and absolutely corny.

Don't bother with this book, it wont fulfil your need for the show between episodes.

This is just bad.......2006-04-21

These things are just getting worse. Why do I buy them?

The first hint should be that the back of the book names the main character as "Nick Hadley" and throughout the actual novel the main character's name is "Jeff Hadley". Is the publisher paying any bit of attention to these books?

The book is about a man who is stranded on an island after Oceanic Flight 815 crashes there. The characters names are the same. However that is where the simularity with the show of Lost ends. None of the characters act or talk like themselves and the author can't decide if the caves are somehow an evil place where no one goes or if some of the castaways live there.

There really should be a rule that if you write a Lost novel you need to actual watch the show. It's a popular show, how hard can it be to find a halfway decent author to write these things?

I don't recommend buying this book. The only reason why they can get away with such poor quality is because they stamp the word "Lost" on it and stupid fans like me buy it. Don't be like me.

Books Ok.......2006-04-14

I love the TV show Lost and watch it faithfully every week. I turned to these books as a filler when the reruns are on, and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. They're interesting, but the show is constructed in such a way that so much of what you see means something and hints at what is to come, and there just isn't a way to do that in the books without messing up the series. A similiar book I enjoyed, that reads kind of like the show, is An Actor's Nightmare. If you like the show, you should check it out. It's better than these books. Still, I'll probably keep reading the Lost books too. Fans are fans. :)

Life After Lucy: The True Story of "I Love Lucy'S" Little Ricky

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WRITTEN STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART AND TRULY INSPIRING!
Little Ricky's Point of View
A truly wonderful book!
Great reading!
exceptional read and a real inspirational book!!!!

Life After Lucy: The True Story of "I Love Lucy'S" Little Ricky
Keith Thibodeaux , and Audrey T. Hingley
Manufacturer: New Leaf Press (AR)
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WRITTEN STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART AND TRULY INSPIRING!.......2005-10-20

I have been wanting to get a copy of this book for a long, long time. It was written back in 1993 and I just now got around to getting a hold of a copy through Amazon used sellers. I wish I would have gotten a hold of it sooner. Keith Thibodeaux makes no apologies for his troubled life after "Lucy". He cuts to the chase and gives us a rare glimpse into what it was like to be on the most famous sitcom of all time with the queen of comedy and her pioneering husband. Anyone who knows anything about Lucy knows that the driving force behind her success was Desi Arnaz. Keith paints a flattering picture of both stars in his book but is particularly partial to Desi. As a child star he tells of his relationship with his domineering father and submissive mother (whom he divorced for a younger woman)which led to Keith's low self-esteem and foray into sex and drugs. Then, without being oversentimental and sugary, Keith takes on his journey to his conversion and finding the Lord! This book is certainly a true testament to courage, faith and overcoming obstacles! Its a true happy ending and God Bless Keith Thibodeaux and his beautiful family!!

Little Ricky's Point of View.......2002-01-12

This book was great! It started out teling how he was a wonderful drum player to the death of Desi and Lucy. It tells some how he truly loved Desi and all the time he spent at their house. It also talks about his drug problems to his faith in Christ. This truly is a wonderful book to read! Also, thanks Lucy and Desi for making I Love Lucy so funny. And thanks Keith (Lil' Ricky) for putting so much hard work in I Love Lucy!

A truly wonderful book!.......2001-09-01

I really highly recommend this book by "I Love Lucy's" little Ricky , Keith Thibodeaux. He talks of his days of working on the "I Love Lucy show" and about finding Christ. He talks a lot about his faith as well, which I think is wonderful. I really enjoyed this book and would give it ten stars if I could.

Great reading!.......2001-08-01

My sister got an autographed copy of Keith's book and loaned it to me. I live in Japan and began reading it. I find it to be very informative and just good story reading. It's not a book to keep you on the edge of your seat but keeps the imagination going about what it would've been like to be a "child star", starring on the most famous sitcom during the last century. Also, what it would be like to continue on with life after such a famous sitcom. I'm buying more copies for myself and friends. All I can say at this point is...read it! You'll love it!

exceptional read and a real inspirational book!!!!.......1999-06-03

Keith Thibodeaux effectively communicates the truth about the real meaning of life and the facades that the public believes about celebrities is brought to light. A must read that will guarantee you insight into the human experience.

Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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Television Theory Rewritten

Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Richard Dienst
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking, as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages, as a fantastic construction of time. Richard Dienst engages each of these possibilities as he explores the challenge television has posed for contemporary theories of culture, technology, and media.
Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it.
From the earliest theorists who viewed television as a new metaphor for a global whole, a liberal technology empty of ideological or any other content, through those who saw it as a tool for consumption, making time a commodity, to those who sense television’s threat to being and its intimate relation to power, Dienst exposes the rich pattern of television’s influence on philosophy, and hence on the deepest levels of contemporary experience.
A book of theory, Still Life in Real Time will compel the attention of all those with an interest in the nature of the ever present, ever shifting medium and its role in the thinking that marks our time.

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Television Theory Rewritten.......1998-09-25

Television Studies is now booming institutionally if not intellectually. The banality of many of the cloned analyses of particular shows or the remedial narrative accounts of available approaches to television texts has unwittingly contributed to the naturalization of the technology itself. This text is the antidote. Dienst's book provides a series of fresh, beautifully written re-readings of the work of key thinkers (including Marx, Heidegger, Raymond Williams, Deleuze, and Derrida) in terms of television theory. His re-examination of Marx's theory of value "after television" shows us the continuing explanatory power of Capital and Grundrisse. Never reductive and always stimulating, this book offers more starting points for critical students of television than any recent text. What is more, this is "theory" at its best, opening up new ways of thinking about the ownership, value and significations in contemporary culture. This is a "breakthrough" book -- read it!

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Life After Television
George Gilder
Manufacturer: Whittle Direct Books
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Life After Television
George Gilder
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Life After Television the Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

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Life After Television the Coming Transformation of Media and American Life
George Gilder
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Life After Television, the Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

Manufacturer: Knoxville, TN: Whittle Direct, 1990
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Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus

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A good source of informations. Useful !

Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus
Kim "Howard" Johnson
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A good source of informations. Useful !.......1999-03-25

It's a detailed and exhaustive guide to the "solo" careers of the Python's members. More than a biography, this is a sort of diary, recordering their pre- and post-Python works (movies, tv shows, books,etc...) It can be useful, especially for those who (like me!) live in places in which the Monty Python are not so famous, and can't easily find material regarding them !

Television and children's life: A before-after study

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Television and children's life: A before-after study
Takeo Furu
Manufacturer: Japan Broadcasting Corp
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Assuming only an elementary background in discrete mathematics, this textbook is an excellent introduction to the probabilistic techniques and paradigms used in the development of probabilistic algorithms and analyses. It includes random sampling, expectations, Markov's and Chevyshev's inequalities, Chernoff bounds, balls and bins models, the probabilistic method, Markov chains, MCMC, martingales, entropy, and other topics. The book is designed to accompany a one- or two-semester course for graduate students in computer science and applied mathematics.

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Advanced probability topics without measure theory.......2007-08-18

This book is underestimated by two reviewers below. I totally do not agree with them. This book covers a wide range of topics in a very readable style. The contents in this book is complementary to the book of Motwani and Raghavan (but this book is much easier to digest).

It, without requiring any knowledge on measure theory, contains excellent introductions to many difficult topics in probability including

- concentration bounds (Chernoff, Azuma-Hoeffding, etc.)
- applications of stochastic processes such as queuing theory
- martingale (Wald's equation)
- coupling of Markov chains and their mixing times
- Shannon's source coding and noisy channel theorems
- Erdos' probabilistic method
- etc.

All of these topics are provided with excellent applications in computing.
The authors illustrate many clever tricks for proving theorems, and these tricks give insights to the readers as well.

Just unnecessary.......2007-05-17

This book, while written by two renowned computer scientists, is truly disappointing. In trying to discuss randomness and computation, this book just does a mediocre job on discussing randomized computation and also an equally poor job discussing relevant aspects of probability theory. Their approach is not novel and many of their examples can be found in other texts. If you really want to learn randomized computation, get Motwani et al's book on Randomized Algorithms. If you want to learn probability theory, get any advanced probability theory book like Spencer and Alon on the probabilistic method, one of Sheldon Ross's books, or even Grimmett and Stirzaker. Whatever you do don't get this weak hybrid of a book that will require you to get another book at some point to supplement your understanding.

Another poorly written text book.......2006-03-19

The authors must be smart guys. They obviously understand alot about this subject but make the mistake that you do too! As a result, the book is inadequate as a teaching tool.

They use only half to a third of the narrative they need to adequately explain a subject. They also like to leave out proof steps or not explain them. The problems at the end of chapters are poor as well, since the authors seem to have forgotten to teach the techniques needed to solve most them in the chapter they belong to.

I am sure to them it is intuitive.

Good Introductory Textbook.......2005-03-16

It's pretty easy to get computers to do things where the answer is yes or no, or 4 or 6, given that the inputs to the problem are known. It's much harder to get an answer to a problem where the answer is that their is a 62% chance that the answer is yes. Unfortunately, in real life it's this second class of problems that predominates.

This book is oriented to solving these kinds of real world problems. The exercises in the book are chosen from real world examples -- what we used to call story problems. This tends to give the student a better understanding of not only the mathematics and programming involved but experience in looking at problems with a view to understanding this approach to solving the problem.

This book is suitable for a one or two semester introductory class at the upper undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

Just a word about the illustration on the front of the book. At the end of the book Alice in Wonderland the queen is about to order Alice beheaded. Alice says, "You're nothing but a pack of cards." At this, the whole pack rose up into the air and came flying down around her. This illustration is by John Tenniel from the original book of 1899. A deck of flying playing cards is a good way to illustrate random and probability.

Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems (Communications and Control Engineering)

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Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems (Communications and Control Engineering)
Roberto Tempo , Giuseppe Calafiore , and Fabrizio Dabbene
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The presence of uncertainty in a system description has always been a critical issue in control. Moving on from earlier stochastic and robust control paradigms, the main objective of this book is to introduce the reader to the fundamentals of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of uncertain systems. Using so-called "randomized algorithms", this emerging area of research guarantees a reduction in the computational complexity of classical robust control algorithms and in the conservativeness of methods like H-infinity control.

Features:

• self-contained treatment explaining randomized algorithms from their genesis in the principles of probability theory to their use for robust analysis and controller synthesis;

• comprehensive treatment of sample generation, including consideration of the difficulties involved in obtaining independent and identically distributed samples;

• applications of randomized algorithms in congestion control of high-speed communications networks and the stability of quantized sampled-data systems.

Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems will be of certain interest to control theorists concerned with robust and optimal control techniques and to all control engineers dealing with system uncertainties.

The present book is a very timely contribution to the literature. I have no hesitation in asserting that it will remain a widely cited reference work for many years.

M. Vidyasagar

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