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Invaders Classic, Vol. 1 (Marvel Comics, Avengers)

5 reviews
Roy Thomas, Frank Robbins, ...

Marvel Comics, 2007

A completely worthwile reprint from the '70s
It's no lie that writer Roy Thomas is a fan of the Golden Age of comics. He's proven it time and again on titles like All-Star Squadron, Infinity Incorporated, Alter Ego, and even in the Avenger's Kree-Skrull War. But these all pale when it comes to the Invaders, Thomas' ultimate tribute to the Marvel Comics heroes of the Forties. INVADERS CLASSIC VOLUME 1 collects Giant-Size Invaders #1, ...

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

63 reviews
Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

Disney Editions, 1995

Great Book For Animators!
Anyone who loves Disney animation and anyone who is learning the process of animation needs to get their hands on this book. It is long, it is detailed, but it is well worth it. This book mainly covers the essential Principles of Animation such as Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, Follow Through, etc. Go get it!

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler

23 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Insiteful and funny
This collection of essays provides a gutsy, incisive, and energetic critique of American consumer culture that surpasses and even ridicules the limp, flaccid, self-referential verbiage that academics try to pass off as a "radical", and "critical" examination of culture and power. "Commodify Your Dissent" is a series of critical essays, or "salvos" as the authors prefer to call them, that were ...

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy

51 reviews
Thomas Frank

Anchor, 2001

Solid thoughtful, nails our national policy failures in a big way
This is a very serious book, one that any candidate for President would do well to read, especially so the centrist candidates willing to announce that both the Democratic and Republican parties have sold the public into slavery to corporate fascism. In summary, the author documents in detail how the Reagan Revolution, and especially the firing of the air traffic controllers and the wrongful ...

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

378 reviews
Thomas Frank

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

there is a lot wrong with Kansas
Author explores how Kansas has been dumbed down enough to vote against their own interest. The big media will shove footage of two female pop stars kissing at an awards ceremony: The folks in Kansas will vote to lower their taxes and the taxes of the media executives. How did Americans get so gullible? the way people communicate eventually changes the way they think and process information. ...

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

36 reviews
Thomas Frank

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Must Read Muckraking for 2009
One of the pomo lessons of the Bush era is this: A corruption scandal can ruin an administration; a corruption scandal every two days will only make your administration stronger. It is so hard to wrap your head around it all, especially when disbelief and outrage are blowing all your fuses. Frank gives us the intelligent encapsulation every American needs. His book should be sold at the ...

The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

16 reviews
Thomas Frank

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

Great Book
An excellent examination of consumer culture and the way that corporate America has tried to deal with, understand, and co-opt youth culture (or did youth culture co-opt advertising?) Frank gets to the bottom of it all in an always entertaining look at advertising from the Madison Avenue years through the sixties. His examinations of various ad campaigns - such as Volvo who insisted in their ads ...

Just Hit It

4 reviews
Frank Thomas with Jeff Neuman

Frankly Publications, 2008

Science Wins
On page 117, Frank Thomas states, "Standard clubs will do fine until you shoot consistently in the mid to low 70s." "Until then, work on improving you instead of your clubs." Finally, someone with substantial technical knowledge of the evolution of equipment and the history of golf has finally come out and said it. The job of manufacturers is to market and sell their products, but it matters ...

Polity, Practice, And the Mission of the United Methodist Church

2 reviews
Thomas Edward Frank

Abingdon Press, 2006

Great companion to the UMC Discipline
Extremely useful resource for pastors, seminarians. Also for lay leaders mystified by the church's polity and practices.

Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler

5 reviews
Tom Frank, Dave Mulcahey, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

it takes a sick person to laugh out loud
When my husband and I recently moved cross-country, he protested me wanting to keep my old copies of The Baffler. "Come on," he cajoled, "You're never going to read those things again." I read to him aloud from this collection as we were driving to Atlanta last week, so I think my magazines are off the chopping block for awhile. Boob Jubilee contains my all-time favorite Baffler article, ...

How to Write the Story of Your Life

5 reviews
Frank Thomas

Writers Digest Books, 1989

A Must Read For Autobiographers
I've worked most of my adult life as an actor. One of my grandchildren was watching television and saw an old movie in which I appeared. "Grandpa, is that you?" After having to explain what I did for a living, it occurred to me that I was no different. I knew very little about my ancestors. At the time, I didn't know what my own grandfather (who died before I was born) did for a living. I ...

Baffler Magazine No. 16, The

The Baffler, 2003

Down with the regional pundits! We all know how much Rush Limbaugh, Gordon Liddy, Bill O'Reilly, and Ann Coulter suck. The bafflers have, hoever, and they launch a full frontal assault on the small time grippers, professional cynics, and wel paid bitter men of Omaha, Indianapolis, Denver, St. Louis, and Kansas City.

The Baffler: No. 12
Thomas Frank

Baffler, 1999

Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Art. Also, special to this issue: Blood, Sweat, and Tailfins. Edited by Thomas Frank, and featuring work by Rebecca Bohrman, T.C. Frank, Christian Viveros-Faune, Pieree Bordieu & Loic Wacquant, Jim Arndorfer, Sandy Zipp, Christian Parenti, Stephen Duncombe, Brishen Rogers, Bryant Urstadt, Berlatsky, Milelt, Newrith, Mike O'Flaherty, Jay Rosen, Patrick Welch, Lisa Haney, Hunter Kennedy, Le Mule Brian ...

The Baffler Magazine Spring 2001 #14: The God That Sucked

1 review

Baffler, 2001

BEST dissenting, counter-culture JOURNAL IN AMERICA
If you believe that Newsweek, ABC News, and (yes) National Public Radio are good ways to stay on top of things, skip this and buy a book by Al Gore. If, on the other hand, you would like to read a remarkable journal, you've arrived. The Baffler has no corporate advertising, is well-edited (thank god), and offers scintilating critiques of the mass media/corporate/industrial/advertising/idea ...

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

15 reviews
Thomas Pynchon

Penguin Classics, 2006

The Mother of All War Novels
If you have not experienced Pynchon before, getting ready to have your life taken over for a while. I bought this book when I was a freshman in college at the suggestion of my Political Science professor and, after several unsuccessful initial attempts, it remained unread for more than 25 years. Awhile back, I got sick of the thing sitting on my bookshelf mocking me and so I finally started and ...

They Like to Never Quit Praisin' God: The Role of Celebration in Preaching

4 reviews
Frank A. Thomas

Pilgrim Press, 1997

A Mountaintop Experience
Frank Thomas has developed a methodology for the kind of preaching that moves the congregation from the pew to the "mountaintop." Although this book is spiritually based, it contains steps to follow throughout the entire preaching process. One of the things I really liked about the book is that it the powerful treatment of the subject of "celebration." Whereas, most authors of preaching ...

Sherlock Holmes, Bridge Detective Returns

7 reviews
Frank Thomas

Baron Barclay Bridge, 1999

A must read for all serious 2/1 bidders
Max Hardy's book is considered, by most bridge teachers and experts, to be the bible for the 2/1 game force bidding method. It comprehensively covers every aspect of an entire bidding system encompassing 2/1 GF, 1NT forcing and all of the supporting conventions necessary to make up a bidding system to address all hand possibilities. Quite frankly, it isn't easy to read, because each paragraph ...

What's the Matter with America?: The Resistable Rise of the American Right

1 review
Thomas Frank

Secker & Warburg, 2004

Indeed, what is the matter with America?
As far as I understand, this is the European edition of Thomas Frank's book "What's the matter with Kansas?". Since this is the edition I've read, I'll review it rather than the US edition. But I suspect both editions are pretty similar. The author Thomas Frank attempts to explain two things. First, why do American workers and other low-income people vote Republican rather than Democrat? ...

The Soul of the Congregation

2 reviews
Thomas, Edward Frank

Abingdon Press, 2000

Connecting the Pastor's Heart with the Congregation's Soul
In a sea of books focusing on church growth to megachurch proportions, "The Soul of the Congregation" reminds us of the human element - the individual - that is an integral part of all churches. Dr. Frank presents episodes of real life congregations to which all pastors can relate. He provides a model for pastors and church leaders to connect their stories with those of the congregation - thus ...

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