I had the pleasure of listening to this author lecture to in class during my senior year of college. Having the opportunity to discuss this book with the author made Slave Counterpoint come to life. Slave Counterpoint makes the topic of Antebellum slavery captivating for those interested in learning about the early days of slavery in the Cheasapeake Bay region. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has a sharp curiosity about early colonial history and wishes to be engaged in an honest account of events(I would recommend reading this book a couple of chapeter at a time).

I had to read this book for my History of Slavery class, thought by the author. Dr. Morgan gave excellent insight in addition to his book. I would suggust this book to anyone for anytype of reading, pleasure and required.

I have read no better detailed study than this book. Long but worth it due to the rich detail.

Spin" is not a dirty word. What matters is the integrity of the "spinner"... Robert Bray manages to bring the idea down to earth with short, spicy examples, written in accessible language...By honing their media skills, community organizers will have more success saving the world, perhaps literally. Let's hope this message spreads through the nonprofit community and inspires activists to do a better job communicating with the public that they serve so well.

Over the past few years, media-savvy community organizers have written a handful of books aimed at activists who want to get more media coverage but do not know how. This is the best of the bunch.

Jason Salzman, author of Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists, is president of Denver-based Rocky Mountain Media Watch, a nonprofit organization focused on pressuring journalists to meet the highest standards of professional journalism.

As a non-profit community manager, relations with the media is one of the toughest, but absolutely essential, parts of my job. It's not something I like to do. I didn't start working for community organizations to get my face on camera. But I believe in our mission and, in order for it to be heard beyond the walls of our office, I have to talk to the media. Even if I don't like doing it. Even if sometimes, I feel about as photogenic as a dish towel.

That's why I can't stress enough what an invaluable book Robert Bray's Spin Works is. It lays out, precisely, how to make your organization media savvy, from how to write a press release, to how to stage a full scale news event. It's not loaded down with silly jargon and doesn't tell your organization to be slick, pr-mongers. It's a direct, honest, easy read. And it's written from the activist's point of view. This book knows us and what we're up against.

It's made a ton of difference for my organization. Now the entire city knows who we are and the great work we do. Get this book, read it, have your staff read it, keep it around. Your organization and the people you serve will notice the difference.

As someone who works in the nonprofit sector, I found this book very useful. It contains handy checklists and easy-to-read information for folks who find themselves cast as the media expert in their organization. Broad range of information for varying skills levels. Definitely one of the most useful media guidebooks for nonprofit organizations & activists.

The collaborative editorial effort of David Travis, Elizabeth Siegel, Keith F. Davis, Taken By Design: Photographs From The Institute Of Design, 1937-1971 is the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalog which was a jointly published project with the University of Chicago Press. Showcasing the photography that arose out of The Institute of Design during some three and a half decades, Taken By Design chronicles and documents a fascinating sidebar in the history of American photography. Enhanced with essays, articles, biographical sketches, course curricula, and more, Taken By Design is a welcome, original, and highly recommended contribution to personal, professional, and academic Photography historical reference and resource collections and reading lists.

Much more than a catalog

This book is not just a catalog of the show now at San Francisco's MOMA. It is a rich source that chronicles the evolution of the Chicago Institute of Design (ID) and its photography program. With 6 written essays and articles, biographies, course curricula, and other background it places the ID's photographers rightfully in the middle of the late twentieth century art revolution.

The writing is authoritative, revealing and thought provoking. Some is understandably enthusiastic, by authors named Moholy-Nagy and Siegel, some is analytical/critical, illuminating the difficulties and disagreements that resolved themselves into a program like no other. Any student of photography or modern art must know about this controversial and audacious adventure that was spun off from the Bauhaus by Moholy-Nagy, Arthur Siegel and the other subjects of this chronicle.

The authors explore some of these subjects. Why was the this such an important project and why was it controversial? What effect has it had? What does it teach us today? These are important questions simply because a large number of prominent and influential students passed through it.

No serious collection of late 20th century photographs can be without 20 or so of the prints from this group. Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Ken Josephson, Ray Metzker, Linda Connor, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh and many others all studied and taught there. Many went on the teach at places like R.I. School of Design, San Francisco Art Institute and many places in between. The influence of this group is much more extensive than its size and longevity would suggest.

At a time when the "giants" of the medium were devoted to "pure" photography, Moholy-Nagy appeared from Europe and proposed that photography be treated as a tool of graphic design. Light, texture, volume, rhythm, contrast and other elements were worth studying for their own sake in order to apply the unique strengths of photography to the art of design.

They produced something akin to Jazz. Painters like Motherwell, Johns, Rauschenberg were producing strikingly similar imagery. Paul Strand, Man Ray, Lartigue, Rodschenko and a many others had explored the same issues. The Bauhaus and the Chicago ID were an attempt to formalize the earlier experiments. Strand, Weegee, Winogrand, Blumenfeld and others contributed to the ID at various times.

The ID photographers showed how purely graphic aspects of the medium could be used to express a vision, used to dig subtle meaning from the mundane, used to reveal things in synthetic abstract that weren't visible. They expanded and elevated their medium in a very short, intense time. There is little in today's published graphics not already in the photographs of the students in this show.

An unintended consequence of this book is to have produced a key to much of abstract expressionist painting, and modern poetry. The photograph always contains an insistent link to "reality" that seems more obvious than it is in a painting, but it is no less a subject of the painter than the photographer. This show might be the trigger that makes other modern artists accessible to some people. I've recommended this book to some art teachers for this reason.

I have long been a fan of the work that came out of the Institute of Design from the 1940s-1960s. It was a highly creative and experimental time and environment. After fleeing Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, many Bauhaus design and photography educators set up shop in Chicago. They started a new school and a new method of teaching photography that emphasized experimenting with abtract forms and understanding the process of imagery through intense creative study. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy was the driving force for the early successes, along with Gyorgy Kepes and Nathan Lerner. After Maholy-Nagy died, Harry Callahan took over the job as photography head, and moved away slightly from the early experimentation period by trying to challenge his students into creating their own thesis statements. Some of the other artists that also attended or participated in this important school were Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Arthur Siegel, & many others.

The book in in conjunction with the exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago of the same title. The exhibition should not be missed if you are in the Chicago area, but if you cannot make it to the exhibition (which closes May 12, 2002), this book is a great representation of the exhibits masterpieces. Inside are hundreds of fine-art images from ID, along with interviews, quotes, in-depth commentaries, and a lot of really great candids of the artists. It is really worth it. And I would certainly suggest buying this book at Amazon...

If you have any interest in modern art or photography, this book is a fantastic history lesson on the impact of these innovators on the entire possibilities of the medium. The Institute of Design helped shape photography into an art form of its own, and to push the boundaries of the medium at the same time. What a great time it must have been!

This book did a great job in teaching you how to read technical charts. Each chapter builds on the one before and it gives you an opportunity to test out your knowledge before moving onto the next chapter. The graphs are easy to follow and the terminologies are well defined. This book does not waste time giving long winded explanations, it simply shows you what it is, what it does, and how it affects your decisions. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to learn to read technical charts effectively.

This book did a great job in teaching you how to read technical charts. Each chapter builds on the one before and it gives you an opportunity to test out your knowledge before moving onto the next chapter. The graphs are easy to follow and the terminologies are well defined. This book does not waste time giving long winded explanations, it simply shows you what it is, what it does, and how it affects your decisions. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to learn to read technical charts effectively.

As a futures broker, from time to time, I find it difficult to explain the different methods of technical analysis to my novice customers. This book does a great job teaching the fundamentals of Technical analysis. I now recommend this book to all of my customers who need help understanding the basics. (I have, on occasion bought it for them) Another excellent book by the same author is called "Futures: A Personal Seminar". Both books are great for beginners. If you are looking for a broker who can help you in this area of trading, send me an e-mail at the above address.

An excellent resource book. I use it every day and it has improved my writing. Or, maybe I just confuse everyone with the multitude of words I appear to have at my command. Recommend this book.

It's right on my desk between my dictionary and thesarus where it belongs. When I can't think of the right word - which happens - it's there. I've used it as much as the other two.

Those who study English literature or are involved in translations need to widen their terminology and constantly improve their linguistics. I personally achieved this with numerous dictionaries and one of them was certainly the 21st Century Synonym and Antonym Finder. With its concise and accurate definitions one easily finds the perfect term and also keeps it in mind - and that is also of great importance. With finishing my studies of foreign languages and their literatures, I have been mostly involved in translations and thus been forced to rummage considerably through books and dictionaries - believe me you will find this book indispesanble once you have it.

I bought this book for my husband last year as a Christmas gift.. it is STILL in our bathroom. We have read and re-read it time and again. This year I'm getting another one. It makes a great gift and believe it or not.. very interesting conversations. Oh ya, and tons of laughs! definately 5 stars.. if not higher.

Highly entertaining. This book is filled with more pedantic and esoteric material than you can imagine. I couldn't recommend it higher. In fact, I recommend it to all my friends as a great book for airplane trips, waiting around, and even a coffee table book.

I have all the bathroom readers and this one, in my view, is the best one so far. If you liked the others, you'll like this one. And if you don't have any of the others, this is a good place to start.

The Wellness Book has been extremely helpful to me and is one of the best investments I have made in myself. I first used this book 10 years ago and was able to establish some healthful living goals and actions for myself that improved my physical conditioning immensely. I continue to use it today. What I really like about this book is that it enables each reader to really focus in on their individual lifestyles, needs, and habits and develop specific, realistic, and individualized action plans for improved and healthful living. The improved physical condition that I realized as a result of focusing on a plan and actions enabled me to climb mountains in the Sierra Nevada. I have also used techniques in this book to successfully address anxiety. This week I pulled the book off of my shelf and am going at it again. I am having fun with this exercise because I can compare my "10 loves" from 10 years ago to my "10 loves" of today and put a plan in place to realize them. Many thanks to the authors for such insightful and all emcompassing work. This book is as useful and current today as it was the day it was written.

The Wellness Book has been the standard in Stress Management and Mind/Body Medicine for both the general lay public and health care practitioners for a decade, and continues to be head and shoulders above other such publications! . . . Gary L. Flegal, Ph.D., Professional Stress Management Services.

This book is by far the best guide to mind/body techniques to healing and recovery of the body and spirit. Dr. Benson's Mind/Body Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital in Boston is widely respected and uses all the techniques made available here. Indispensible.

So many of the people I care about have heart disease, and this book was a terrific explanation in layperson's terms of all the things that enter into and are a part of heart disease. The illustrations are especially good in helping with the explanations. Dr. Sauvage also provides simple means to help prevent/correct problems. This is a terrific book for patients to read and then ask any follow-up questions about their condition with their doctors/cardiologists.

I especially like Dr. Sauvage's including his opinions within the book about what has worked for him in his experiences. For example, he includes serving others as an important aspect of life.

I knew nothing about heart disease until my father had a heart attack. I always deal with tramatic situations by trying to understand the problem. I purchased about 14 books on heart disease, and "You Can Beat Heart Disease" was by far the best. This book was written for the average person wanting to understand what happened to someone they love and how to move in the right direction to improve the situation going forward. An added bonus to the book is that I am changing the way I manage my own health for now on. Thanks go to the author, Lester R. Sauvage.

Dr. Sauvage's newest book, The Better Life Diet, is a simple diet that anyone can follow. It answers questions that we all have about diet and health. The meal plan is practical (any busy person can follow) and has lots of variety/flavor. I appreciate the fact that Dr. Sauvage has evaulated all the competitive (and conflicting) diets on the market and pulls "the best points from each of them".

I have the AFI's 1931-1940 Catalogs set. I have also been an AFI member for 4 years. The catalogs are for any serious film buff! You can literally find any American actor or actress in movies you never knew that person played in. The researchers have watched the films or read the production notes and found so many unbilled extras that later became famous. I look forward to the volumes 1941-1950 which I just ordered. The wealth of knowledge is AMAZING!

This AFI Catalog is an absolute must for the serious film student, movie buff or collector. The first two volumes contain an alphabetical listing of every single feature film produced in the United States from 1931-1940. All the information you could need to know is given for each film. Everything is included: production dates, studio, director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, the entire cast, a brief synopsis of the film, production notes, genre, subjects and more. Nothing is left out. The third volume contains an extremely extensive index. Every personality, studio, subject and even shooting location is methodically indexed. It costs a pretty penny but is well worth it. It is truly one of a kind. Nothing else comes close!

Tired of the beginner stuff? This is the best book ESRI has ever published outside of the texts provided for those expensive training sessions (I wish they made their training manuals available for sale...oh well!). There are good script examples and a good data set to use for training on the CD provided. I didn't know squat about AML until I picked up this book. Although ESRI is moving towards a COM based language in ArcGIS, they didn't get rid of AML and there are some tasks in GIS that are more suited for a scripting language like AML. Now, if they would only come out with a decent manual for MapObjects....

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