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Kana Pict-o-Graphix: Mnemonics for Japanese Hiragana and Katakana

36 reviews
Michael Rowley

Stone Bridge Press, 1995

Believe the hype- it's really a great little book.
When I saw reviews for this book, I was worried that too many of the reviews sounded canned, but I thought for $6, there wasn't much to lose. After getting the book, I think all the enthusiasm might just be genuine. Please note- this is a *very* little book, as in measuring perhaps 5"x3", and consisting of 73 pages. This is beyond pocket-sized, it's micro. But for what you get, this book (er, ...

Pictish Warrior AD 297-841 (Warrior)

4 reviews
Paul Wagner

Osprey Publishing, 2002

Woad Warriors
A fine book. The author uses a combination of Roman historians, Welsh and Gaelic mythology, and archaeology to paint a believable picture of the fearsome warrior culture today called 'Picts'. He examines their origins as a people, the origin of their name (it may well be a tribal name in their own tongue, rather than from Latin 'painted'), and their history with the late Romans, the ...

The Pict

16 reviews
Jack Dixon

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

Rome's Greatest Enemy
Jack Dixon has written a story that Michael Curtis Ford should pay attention to since it makes a mockery out of the title to Ford's, The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy. After reading The Pict it is easy for me to say that Ford may have to change his title to Rome's Second Greatest Enemy. After all, in Ford's book, Rome wins in the end. It is obvious that Rome's greatest enemy is really ...

The Picts & the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome at All (Godine Storyteller)

3 reviews
Arthur Ransome

David R Godine, 2003

Perhaps my favorite in the series
It's hard to pick a favorite -- all the Swallows and Amazon books are good, and I'm sure everybody has their own favorite -- but I particularly like the character of the Great Aunt in this book. She is so...PROPER and so...INTIMIDATING, and the interactions the other characters have with her make for a good story. There is plenty of intrigue, plenty of almost-crisis, plenty of devious scheming by ...

Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics (Zzz)

20 reviews
Michael Rowley

Stone Bridge Press, 1992

Featureless faces form firm figures from Fuji-land
Why should a picture of a misshapen person, eye, heart and ear make you remember Kanji #549 "Listen"? Or one man beating another with a stick, Kanji #400, "Industrious?" For the same reason King Philip Came Over For Good Sax*, I suppose - who knows why and how mnemonics work, but in this cleverly (sometimes, fiendishly so) illustrated volume, Michael Rowley provides memorable mind-helpers for ...

Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS 50D (Magic Lantern Guides)
Russell Graves

Lark Books, 2009

Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

19 reviews
Robert E. Howard

Del Rey, 2005

Beyond Sword and Socery, This is Literature!
Beauty and savagery, sorrow and violence, such is the song of Bran Mak Morn. These are violent fantasy tales, but written with such literary flare you cannot put them down. Robert E. Howard captures the emotion of rage like no one else. As an exploration of rage and the things it can drive men to do, this is a superlative work. As compelling adventure stories, nothing is better.

Creative Native American Beading

5 reviews
Theresa Flores Geary

Sterling, 2005

Creative Native American Beading
I have a Master's Degree in Museum Studies, and have devoted much of that study to the care and well-being of beadwork from all over the planet. I also interned at the Bead Museum in Glendale, AZ during the summer of 2000, where I learned much of this knowledge, but also I have worked for the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where I learned preventive conservation ...

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books)

5 reviews
Slavoj ?i?ek

The MIT Press, 1992

This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns
Jacques Lacan's theories are completely, utterly undecipherable. The only way to begin to understand the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory is to read somebody else writing on Lacan. And thank God Zizek does that for us. To understand Lacan, I've always had to turn to film theory critism--Laura Mulvey--but none of that ever goes beyond theories of the gaze, neglecting to dispell the mystery ...

The Well of Shades (Bridei Chronicles)

5 reviews
Juliet Marillier

Tor Books, 2007

Best Juliet Marillier book yet
Juliet Marillier's The Well of Shades combines poetic writing with strong character development in this third installment of the Bridei Chronicles. The two main characters, Faolan and Eile, are among the most realistic characters Juliet has ever portrayed. Both of these characters share tragic pasts, but with the help of each other, work to overcome them. Juliet Marillier did an excellent job at ...

On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script

1 review
Budd Schulberg

Samuel French Trade, 1988

Reading the script let's the reader be a contender.
Of course, I saw the movie first; in fact, before VCR's and DVD's, we showed the 16 Mil. film to our regular English classes as a reward, usually at the end of the year. One year,however, I had a particularly unmotivated special ed. English class. I remembered the film, and found the book at a college bookstore. I figured it was worth a try, so I persuaded the Chairman of my department to order ...

Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies

5 reviews
James Sanders

Knopf, 2001

Brilliant and fascinating!
If there was ever a book that really needed to be written, and was then executed nearly flawlessly, this is it. Documenting the multi-threaded releationship of New York City and Hollywood (the movie biz began in NYC, and the studios' financial offices remained there; much of the writing/directing/acting talent came to Hollywood from NYC; Hollywood's backlot NYC was the setting of thousands of ...

How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film
Erin Runions

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

How Hysterical reads scenes from the films Light It Up , Remember the Titans , Three Kings , Paris is Burning , Boys Don't Cry , and Magnolia alongside biblical texts from Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Micah, Matthew, and Revelation. An innovation in studies on Bible and film, How Hysterical is less centered on direct citation of the Bible in film than on analyses of hypostasized biblical influence in culture. Here, ...

The Birth of a Nation (Rutgers Films in Print)

1 review

Rutgers University Press, 1994

Script After The Fact
Dr. Robert Lang takes David Wark Griffith's un-scripted film (The Birth Of A Nation) and breaks it down shot by shot.

Scottish Witchcraft & Magick: The Craft of the Picts

1 review
Raymond Buckland

Llewellyn Publications, 2005

Well Done!
As a daughter of a MacLeod I was thrilled to find this book. I have searched for a book such as this. This is well written,detailed and not bogged down with so much technical background information one looses interest after the frist chapter. Many books on Magick are geared for the novice and it is refreshing to find that this book addresses the practioner. I have learned a great deal about the ...

Tales of the Picts (Luath Storyteller)
Stuart McHardy

Luath Press Limited, 2005

For many centuries the people of Scotland have told stories of their ancestors, a mysterious tribe called the Picts. This ancient Celtic-speaking people, who fought off the might of the Roman Empire, are perhaps best known for their Symbol Stones ? images carved into standing stones left scattered across Scotland, many of which have their own stories. Here for the first time these tales are gathered together with folk memories of bloody battles, ...

Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts (Llewellyn's Modern Witchcraft Series)

21 reviews
Raymond Buckland

Llewellyn Publications, 1991

A Ficitonal and Manufactured Tradition, but Exceptional and Worthwhile
Buckland, from all evidence, has manufactured this so-called "secret" tradition. Pulling from various sources, he invents the "true and secret" Pictish faith of the Scottish highlands. It's all a work of fiction, and a hodgepodge of numerous Shamanic and Wiccan traditions culled and compiled to form a more hard-core, nature based Wiccan faith and add another feather to Buckland's cap in a perhaps ...

The Tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

LeClue22 [Kindle], 2008

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th century Middle English alliterative chivalric romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this Arthurian tale, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin. The "Green Knight" offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a ...

L.A. Confidential (BFI Modern Classics)

1 review
Manohla Dargis

British Film Institute, 2003

Insightful book vs. movie commentary
Dargis obviously likes the original novel at least as much as the film. Great analysis of the period, the style, and the content of both the film and the book. You don't have to have read the original James Ellroy book to get your time and money's worth out of this Dargis commentary. Of the 6 or so BFI film books I have read so far, this one by far is the most interesting one yet.

The Picts and Their Symbols

2 reviews
W. A. Cummins

Sutton Pub Ltd, 1999

Picts and Their Symbols
One of the best books on deciphering the Pict symbols I've encountered in recent years. He is systematic in his approach and very clear when he proposes a 'guess' for an interpretation. Several very clear photos and drawings help you understand his conclusions. Read this AFTER you read The Age of the Picts, also by W.A. Cummins

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