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Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy?Until You're 80 and Beyond
Chris Crowley, M.D., Henry S. Lodge
Workman Publishing Company, 2007
Excellent overview for healthy living...I bought it for my Dad
I bought this for my 73 year old father. He really enjoyed it and it has helped him make some needed dietary and exercise changes in his life. I have recommended this to other friends and family.
It is clearly written with a striaght-forward style. It is great for ...
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When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus)
Sue Monk Kidd
HarperOne, 2006
Waiting in the Dark
Sue Monk Kidd's book is a beautiful reflection of her journey through a time of waiting for discernment in her life. It is full of images that can help anyone who is struggling with a time of dryness in his or her spiritual journey. I highly recommend it for anyone ...
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Scorsese by Ebert
Roger Ebert
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Scorsese became one of the greatest Artists of the 20th... And Ebert knew it from the beginning
One thing Ebert shares with his subject is burning passion. Ebert has reviewed films for over 40 years while Scorsese has made films for that long. What has sustained them is a passionate love of movies. Ebert called it from the beginning and Scorsese fulfilled his ...
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iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
David Pogue
Pogue Press, 2007
AWESOME!!!!!
EVERY book in this series of writers is SUPURB! Fantastic easy to understand excellent for a beginner to moderate.
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Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes
Elizabeth Zimmermann
Scribners, 1971
Really enjoyable read
This is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Elizabeth Zimmerman has such a distinctive way of writing - you feel like you are listening in to one of her workshops. An absolute bonus were the many tit-bits of insightful and clever ways of dealing with many day-to-day knitting ...
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Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices
Brian D. McLaren
Thomas Nelson, 2008
Inspiring
In "Finding Our Way Again" by Brian McLaren, he argues that we have forgotten many of the old practices of Christianity. The emergent church movement is rediscovering many of these practices which have not been communicated or presented by the postmodern protestant ...
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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
New Directions, 2007
The poetry of obsessive uselessness
Sartre's "Nausea" is a gripping, twitchy little novella confirming the ways one person of unpleasant station can make them self sick , nervous, an odious presence by lingering long on the ambivalent shrug .No one else could write a better tale of an intensely ...
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Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know
Jennifer Van Sijll
Michael Wiese Productions, 2005
Spectacular
To call me a newbie screenwriter would be to insult newbie screenwriters. I'm a fledgling, nascent, inchoate, and very bad screenwriter. And if you would read the mere one-page script I wrote yesterday, you'd call me some choice names but I daresay 'screenwriter' will ...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999
Superb, Heartfelt Classic
This classic tale by Tennessee Williams captures the reader's emotions by so forcefully displaying those of its main characters. This is a story of longing and frustration, set in a frustrating time (The Great Depression). The story is narrated by Tom, who hates his ...
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Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez
Plume, 1996
Inspiration for film makers
As has been mentioned, this is a memoir about how Robert Rodriguez made his film "El Mariachi". I just finished it and was thoroughly fascinated by it. This is not a technical manual (although there is plenty of technical knowledge and "pearls of wisdom" to be gleaned ...
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Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
Hans Bacher
Focal Press, 2007
Student
As a student of animation and illustration Dream Worlds is a must have. The book is full of useful information about compostition, color, and lighting as well as fun anecdotes about the author's experience working in the Disney company.
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Spring Awakening: In the Flesh
David Cote
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008
If you love the show, you wil LOVE this book !!!
Spring Amakening: In the Flesh is a fabulous guide to the broadway show, from conception to casting and beyond. It has lots of wonderful pictures of the cast, as well as interivews with original cast members, replacement cast, ensemble and the minds behind it all; ...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004
The Glorious Bird's iconic melodrama
This is probably the most famous piece of literature from the US that I hadn'd read yet, until now. Nor watched as a play or movie. And still I seemed to know everything about it.
Having just read Gore Vidal's memoirs, where he calls TW the 'glorious bird', I was ...
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Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
Steven Katz
Michael Wiese Productions, 1991
Chicken scratches vs. Detailed Storyboards
I have used this book numerous times for my teachings in which students go through the process of making a short film with certain limitations being imposed. It is part of a process that I call "fast filmmaking". I like the examples that Katz presents, specifically ...
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The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and ...
Ron Brinkmann
Morgan Kaufmann, 2008
Amazing - no other text compares
I started my career in visual effects around the same time the first edition was published and have referenced it constantly through out the 9+ years. I bought the 2nd edition for two reasons, my copy of the first edition was falling apart and nostalgia. I was not ...
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