Hit the Job Running: Because landing the job is the easy part

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Should Be Required Reading for All College Seniors!

Great read for recent college grads!

Hit the Job Running: Because landing the job is the easy part
Andrea Dolph , and Ray Sarnacki
Manufacturer: Rise & Shine Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0977409902

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How do you increase the new hire success rate? By teaching new employees the skills required for success! Employees don't learn these skills in college, and once they transition into the workplace, their managers often lack the time to teach them. Now you can give new hires the tools to jumpstart their success and yours in one of the most comprehensive and compelling guides available for new employees today. Hit the Job Running is a goldmine of real world, actionable advice that provides new hires with a roadmap for successfully transitioning from student to professional. With both big-picture context and step-by-step instruction, it hits on key workplace principles unlike anything else on your bookshelf. Topics include: Written & Verbal Workplace Communications: Often cited by employers as the most desirable attribute of an ideal candidate in the NACE Job Outlook each year, it is, ironically, also the skill most lacking in new college graduates. Hit the Job Running discusses the elements of and barriers to effective communications, and provides a timeline for improved performance. Learning the Ground Rules & Developing Business Acumen: Understanding the language of business and factors affecting decision-making are both crucial to professional success. Yet, it is difficult for new employees to succeed when they are focused on deciphering the world around them. This discussion demystifies the workplace and imparts knowledge often expected from new hires, yet rarely addressed in orientation. Perhaps Nido Qubein, President of High Point University and Chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company, puts it best: "If you don't have time to develop your recent college graduates to the extent you'd like, use Hit the Job Running to train your new hires. This one-stop reading gives them the power to succeed!"

Customer Reviews:

Should Be Required Reading for All College Seniors!.......2006-12-13

I've just read "Hit the Job Running" by Andrea Dolph & Ray Sarnacki and can't say enough about this book. I've been in the workforce for over thirty years and do firmly believe that every college student, especially graduating seniors, should be required to read it.

It has invaluable insights into how the "working" world functions and would definitely be an asset to young adults wading into the "real" world for the first time.

I would highly recommend it.

Great read for recent college grads!.......2006-06-06

I must confess: I had to read this book for work as part of an assignment. And while I did expect to find it useful, I had no idea just how useful it would be!

First of all, the advice in the book is very actionable. The authors are able to simplify complex information and clarify the steps required to achieve critical skills. For example, in Chapter 5, Planning Your Assignment, the authors provide sample project plans and outline the steps required to develop and execute a plan of your own. No one ever provided this kind of information to me, but I wish they had!

The chapter on performance feedback and compensation is also very helpful. There's even an actual performance appraisal, and the authors do a good job of explaining how this process works in many organizations, including how to prepare for your own evaluation, different forms of compensation, and what to do when the appraisal is disappointing.

My favorite section is titled Developing Business Acumen. Neither my parents nor my older sibling worked in a corporate setting and finding a mentor early in my career was pretty difficult (Hit the Job Running addresses this, too!) - so business acumen was an elusive term for me. I knew there was much I didn't know as I made the transition from student to wage earner, but I wasn't quite sure how to learn it, or even what it was I was missing. I don't know another book that addresses this area at all, and the authors do a good job of setting context and providing a corporate landscape for the recent college grad.

Although I have been working quite a while, I do remember what it was like in the beginning of my career. Most of the time, my managers assigned projects without really ever explaining how to go about accomplishing the tasks. It never occurred to me at the time that perhaps they didn't really know. I think it's safe to say we would have both been better off - and more confident earlier on - if we had had this book!

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Takes reader into naval air combat off Japanese Home Islands
Landing Was the Easy Part
About a fighter bomber pilot

Landing Was the Easy Part
Edward Pappert
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Military & Spies | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Memoirs | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1403327424

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Takes reader into naval air combat off Japanese Home Islands.......2003-02-23

Vivid eyewitness account of carrier based naval air combat and shipboard life off the Japanese Home Islands in the last months of the War in the Pacific. Ed Pappert, a fighter bomber pilot flying off the Essex, brings it all to life in ways never described in most other accounts. What great heros these young pilots were.

Landing Was the Easy Part.......2003-01-23

I felt like I was in the airplane with the author on strikes against the Japanese homeland. The information of life aboard an aircraft carrier was most informative. The pictures were outstanding.

About a fighter bomber pilot.......2003-01-15

As a USS Essex history,and Navy history buff this book was right up my alley. Air Group 83 boarded the Aircraft Carrier The Essex on March 11, 1945. They stayed till the war ended. Lt.(jg) Edward Pappert writes about life aboard the carrier. He takes you with him on strikes against the Japanese homeland.

His description of the sinking of Japans, first and last,super battle ship The Yamato, the invasion of Okinawa, and other events help fill in a lot of the gaps in events in history that I am interested in.

In this book Edward Pappert describes what it's like living aboard. He talks of late evening snacks of hot chocolate and toast with strawberry preserves and playing Acey Duecy. About take offs and landings, about flying in miserable weather; friends shot down, flying combat air patrol and air strikes. The book is written in a diary format, and reminiscing and reflections, the way it was for a fighter-bomber pilot. I enjoyed this book - a very good read.

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Losing a child is the worst pain a parent can ever feel. Gerald Lishka recounts in the poignant story of a father's loss of his child as well as the transformation and triumph of life over death, of spirit over body. Painfully powerful, Jenny is rich with love, understanding, and inspiration destined to change lives. This story will touch your heart and warm your spirit.

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Me, the Missing, and the Dead
Jenny Valentine
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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Being a Teen | Social Issues | Teens | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0060850698
Release Date: 2008-04-01

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Low Calorie, Complex Carb, Low Glycemic Diet Book

Lots of info, not enough good recipes

If anyone eats 1300 calories...

Yes Carbs and yummy foods even my kids like eatting!!!

antiquated

Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love
Denise Austin , and Amy Campbell
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1594862338
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Yes, you can have the carbs you love and lose weight-and it's healthier for you, too! Just follow this revolutionary, satisfying eating plan from beloved fitness guru Denise Austin. If you love carbs, you've looked at the low-carb diets that are all the rage and despaired of ever finding a program that works for you. Denise knows the feeling. As an active person, Denise knew she had to keep carbs in her life-they gave her power and endurance for her demanding days. Daunted by low-carb diets, she searched for a diet that would allow her to eat carbs and not gain weight. Instead, she discovered a diet that helped her lose weight.

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Low Calorie, Complex Carb, Low Glycemic Diet Book.......2006-05-23

Denise Austin's book, if you follow her plan, will help you lose weight. It comes from keeping calories very low (fewer than 1500 a day), eating complex carbs and protein, and exercising. There is nothing here that a person cannot get off the internet for free or in a fitness magazine from the grocery store. Austin has "daily dozen" exercises, which are a cross between yoga moves and calisthenics, and she says 30 minutes of walking a day is also necessary. Duh. She also points out the the Daily Dozen are really for people who are sedentary and not those who already are pretty fit. Another thing that bugged me was that she "tried" the low-carb diet for ONE day and it made her tried and cranky so she KNEW that it was bogus. Well, I'm not saying Atkins is the way to go, but when I went off sweets for a month I wanted to die either by my own hand or someone else's -- I was so miserable with headaches and mood swings that I thought I was hitting early menopause, yet no one would tell me that I should keep eating Hostess Ding Dongs if they make me feel better.

My biggest complaints about the book are the repetition (most of the book seems to be filler) and the way the author frequently refers to her "fans." It just got on my nerves, but that is a personal dislike and other readers may never even notice it.

Lots of info, not enough good recipes.......2006-03-16

Denise is great with providing a ton of useful information in this book. The recipes weren't as appealing as I thought they would be. I read the book for the first couple days that I had it, but haven't opened it since. The recipes really did nothing for me to actually attempt to make them.

If anyone eats 1300 calories..........2006-01-21

you are going to lose weight. I don't care what you eat. I was initially attracted to this book because I agree that eating "no carbs" is a gimmick and nutritionally unsound. But to claim that diabetics can eat small portions of white flour and sugar is like telling an alcoholic they can just have one glass of wine. Irresponsible!

Yes Carbs and yummy foods even my kids like eatting!!!.......2006-01-17

I borrowed this book from the library as I wasn't sure if I would like it. I like Denise Austin and use her tapes but I wasn't sure about her diet, plus I was considering the glycemic diet as well. I liked the fact that this diet is very simliar to the principles followed in the glycemic diet, except it uses the glycemic load of the food (a more updated version based on newer studies), which allows more foods I personally like and are extremely health beneficial to be eaten like watermelon, pineapple, etc. This diet doesn't leave me feeling hunger or having cravings like other diets I have been on. I have read the entire book and have been following the diet plan for 11 days and have lost 7 lbs in the first week! I like it so much I am going to buy the book something I never do, because this diet suits me so well.

I tried south beach and did lose 30 lbs while on it (which over the course of the holidays was regained), but now finding myself being a single mother of 2 children, I wanted less time consuming recipes with afforable foods that my children would like eatting too, this plan has that.

If you don't want to or can't cook all your meals Denise gives you guidelines for substitutions, eatting out, how to maintain once you reach your goal weight. She does suggest you follow her plan as written for the first 28 days but she is reasonable and even advises if there is something you don't like, have a food allergy, or is simply not to your taste substitute it with another meal from the plan you do like or with a food from the substitution list.

Denise also gives guidelines for exercising which is stressed as key for life long health, steady weight loss, and maintenance.

The only thing that would of made this book better is a shopping list for each week of the plan since she would like you to follow the plan exactly during that time. I understand way she didn't after the first 28 days you can mix and substitute rendering the lists useless, but it still would of been nice.

That said I would highly recommend this diet to anyone who loves carbs and enjoys cooking healthy tasty meals.

antiquated.......2005-10-20

I have read a few of Denise Austin's books. Frankly, I think her methods are a bit antiquated. The Glycemic Load index that she bases her entire book on is really just a reinvention of the glycemic index diet. Despite the fact that the glycemic load is an improved version of the glycemic index it simply isn't enough to base an entire book on. Frankly, books that do this better are the LA SHAPE DIET or WINNING BY LOSING. All in all, I think Denise is outdated and derivative. Wouldn't waste money on this one.

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A feast of 200 hearty, easy-to-prepare recipes from the kitchen of New York City's "Cooking Fireman"

John Sineno, a twenty-eight-year veteran of the fire department and an award-winning cook, is known as "Mama Sineno" because he looks after his firefighting "family" as if he were their mom. Though his days of putting out fires are over, he hasn't hung up his apron and continues to satisfy the appetites of his hardworking colleagues. In this new edition of The Firefighter's Cookbook, John shares old and new favorite recipes from his own kitchen and the kitchens of other firefighting chefs. Ignite your creative juices with dishes like:

* Shrimp and Sun-dried Tomato Sauce

* Corcoran's Irish Soda Bread

* Chicken with Walnuts

* Firehouse Pot Roast

* Italian Spinach Pie

* Chicken Enchiladas

* John's Famous No-Bake Rice Pudding

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FIVE ALARMS.......2007-05-07

Quick easy and tasty recipes------try the rice pudding ( Sineno's )--don't cut the recipe won't be the same--suitable for a big crowd.

Good Eats.......2006-11-11

Great, simple recipes from the men and women of the fire service. Get ready to start eating good!

A great cookbook.......2006-01-25

"I don't know how to cook" is no longer a valid excuse. This book offers easy and tasty recipes that anyone can make. I have personally served the Irish Stew (p.140), Enchilada Casserole (p.141) and Soda Bread (p. 211) to the guys in my firehouse and they absolutely loved each dish.

Cooking made simple.......2001-03-05

This cookbook is one of my favorites. It has good recipes, simple to follow directions, and great for large families. The variety of meals is wonderful and easily adapted for special diets. Firefighter's are known for their ability to cook, and this is some of the finest. I also like the stories included about the recipes themselves, some are very touching. I could go on and on about this cookbook!

Excellent..Easy..Tasty.......2000-03-02

John Sineno has put together an excellent book filled with recipes that are easy to follow and more importantly great tasting! His little side stories and captions give great insight as to where Mr. Sineno passion for cooking and firefighters comes from. Having used his cookbook and also having the pleasure to meet the author, it is easily understood why firefighters have come to know him as "Mama Sineno".

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The Firefighter's Cookbook
John Sineno
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0394744292
Release Date: 1986-08-12

New Firefighter's Cookbook: Award-winning Recipes From A Firefighting Chef

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New Firefighter's Cookbook: Award-winning Recipes From A Firefighting Chef
John Sineno
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0756779669

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Great - with some caveats

Hands Down the Best

Polyhedron Origami for Beginners (Origami Classroom)
Miyuki Kawamura
Manufacturer: Japan Publications Trading
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Binding: Paperback

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An innovative approach to origami craft, polyhedron origami. introduces you into a new world of many-sided solid figures. This book is a comprehensive collection of polyhedron origami from tetrahedron to icosahedron. Each solid object is formed from simple folded units. Each process is
illustrated with clear step-by-step diagrams for beginners. Start with simple works such as titles, bricks, prisms, pyramids, cubes and then follow the advanced courses, which include regular polyhedrons, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons and so on. A variety of stars, flutter wheels and
windmills are also presented as applications. It is not an easy task to make many units, but the joy and gratification are great when the works are completed. They reward the effort.

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Great - with some caveats.......2006-05-13

I'm not really an origami fundamentalist, but I prefer modulars that hold together without glue. Miyuki's models are wonderful, but many of them do require glue. I've overcome my aversion and enjoyed them greatly, but you should be aware of the fact that it takes a little more than simple folding for these!

Hands Down the Best.......2004-07-03

This is hands down the best book about making modular origami polyhedron I have ever encountered (I own about 6 or so books on the topic). The text does an excellent job of presenting three different ways (solid, skeletal, and outline) to make each of the five platonic solids. Towards the end there are also sections about how to make some stellated polyhedron and polygon tiles. Two things make this text wonderful for the beginning folder. Each fold is lucidly diagrammed and includes a well written explanation. The full color text is an added bonus. If you're interested in getting started as a polyhedron folder, this is the best place to begin. Happy folding. :)

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Polyhedron Origami for Beginners
Miyuki Kawamura
Manufacturer: JAPAN PUBLICATIONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N799I4

Polyhedron Origami for Beginners (Origami Classroom)

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Polyhedron Origami for Beginners (Origami Classroom)
Miyuki Kawamura
Manufacturer: Japan Publications Trading Company
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ASIN: B000N7BB30

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The mid-Atlantic region is fortunate to have an abundance of houses and buildings that date to the eighteenth century. Fine examples of the furniture, paintings, and other objects that filled these houses survive in museums and private collections. But what of the gardens that surrounded these early homes? Virtually all of them have been reclaimed by wilderness or altered by later residents.

In Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, Barbara Wells Sarudy recovers this lost world using a remarkable variety of sources -- historic maps, travelers' accounts, diaries, paintings (some on the backs of Baltimore painted chairs), account ledgers, catalogues, and newspaper advertisements. She offers an engaging account of the region's earliest gardens, introducing us to the people who designed and tended these often elaborate landscapes and explaining the forces and finances behind their creation.

Many of Sarudy's stories concern the gentry and their great estates. She tells of Charles Carroll of Annapolis, who spent the 1770s fretting about revolutionary politics and designing geometric landscapes for his home -- and who died in 1783, the result of a fall in his beloved garden. She describes Charles Ridgely's terraced garden at Hampton, one of more than seventy geometric gardens that dotted the hills around Baltimore in the 1800s. And she recalls Rosalie Stier Calvert's quest for beauty and utility in her garden at Riversdale, where at great expense she ordered the installation of an ornamental lake to improve the view while also providing ice for the kitchen and fish for the table.

Beyond the gentry, Sarudy tells the less familiar stories of the gardeners, laborers, nurserymen, and seed dealers whose skills and efforts transformed the Chesapeake landscape. In Virginia, royal gardeners arrived from England to maintain the grounds of the Governor's Palace and the College of William and Mary. In Maryland, the Jesuits paid independent garden contractors to maintain their kitchen and medicinal-botanical gardens. Most Chesapeake gardeners, of course, relied on indentured servants or slaves to install and maintain their gardens -- or did the work themselves -- and Sarudy tells their stories, as well.

Throughout, she relates gardens and gardening to the larger forces that lay behind them. During the Revolution, for example, attempts to demonstrate republican simplicity and independence helped to create a distinctly American garden style. William Faris, an Annapolis watchmaker and innkeeper, went so far as to describe his improved varieties of tulips as symbols of the new nation -- and took particular pride in naming them to honor national heroes such as President Washington.

From the favorite books of early gardeners to the republican balance between table and ornamental gardens, Sarudy includes details that give us an unprecedented understanding of Chesapeake gardening from settlement through the early national period. Her postscript describes the ultimate fate of the region's eighteenth century gardens -- some of which survive (in more or less authentic form) and can still be visited and enjoyed.

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No one wants to forget those precious memories of your child as he or she progresses through their first five years. With this beautiful interactive book, you can keep track of your child's development from his or her first few moments in this world to their fifth birthday. There are spaces for hand and feet prints, first photographs and envelopes for locks of hair. With recording charts to note weight and height as well as those magical first moments, this is a truly wonderful document for parent and child alike.

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Great baby book!.......2006-09-08

If you don't have much time to spend recording your baby's 'first time' milestones and need a place to put important photos and baby momentos, then this is the baby book keepsake for you! If you are like me, and could never find the time while caring for your newborn but wanted to have something in place to remember all the precious memories then this is an easy solution. Just fill in, glue in and place in envelope, as easy as 1-2-3.

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Fascination with the Bloomsbury group continues unabated. This famous circle of friends-Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, and others-has become synonymous with devotion to the arts, acerbic wit, liberal ideas, and outrageous sexual frankness. In Bloomsbury at Home, for the first time, readers can experience this group visually-through their paintings, sketches, family photographs, and new photography of their homes and studios.

Pamela Todd takes readers inside this notorious circle of British writers and artists for an intimate look at their private lives, their elaborate parties, and their unconventional homes and domestic arrangements. Using generous quotations from their diaries and letters, Todd re-creates life among this memorable group of individuals who dared to defy the restrictions of polite London society at the turn of the 20th century-and who still arouse interest and curiosity today.

100 illustrations, 80 in full color, 8 1\8 x 10 1/2"

PAMELA TODD began her working life at Punch magazine in England. Throughout her career-as journalist, editor, author, and literary agent-food and art have been recurrent themes. Bloomsbury at Home is her tenth book.

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Bloomsbury at Home by Pamela Todd.......2001-01-12

This is a truly wonderful book. Todd describes the homes of many of the people who participated in the Bloomsbury group, in addition to the complex interrelationships of the people involved, their parties and their artwork. She is one of the most focused biographers I have read: always interesting, always to the point. Considering the number of people she has to write about, it is amazing that she never strays from her focus. The book is beautifully designed and illustrated. It is a book that I will go back to over and over.

Bloomsbury in Your Home.......2000-06-24

Bloomsbury at Home is a welcome addition to the bibliography of titles about the very interesting, influential and eccentric group of artists who flourished in England and France during the early part of the twentieth century. These multitalented poets, writers, painters and thinkers lived life enthusiastically and shared ideas, activities and loves with each other and the world. Pamela Todd's extended essay on the Bloomsburyites, including Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant captures their individuality, and sometimes irrationality, while celebrating their devotion to freedom of thought. The really spectacular and original contribution of Bloomsbury at Home, however, comes with the reproduction of a number of paintings and drawings by the Bloomsbury group, which are otherwise difficult to find gathered in one place. This book is a treasured and inexpensive addition to my library of literary and artistic movements, and I highly recommend it to others interested in the relationship of the visual and literary arts to modern society before the Second World War.

Bloomsbury in Your Home.......2000-06-24

Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell

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Intimate and stylish
I'm in between

Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell
Maggie Humm
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0813537061

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Intimate and stylish.......2006-08-08

I really enjoyed this book. I could pore over the fashions, the interior decoration - it satisfied my desire to see all the details! At the same time, I got a sense of the passage of time in Virginia and Vanessa's lives. Read as a companion to any of Woolf's novels, I think the book would also convey a sense of the writing process.

It evokes the time and place beautifully, and the text is not intrusive: the images are allowed to take centre stage as works of art in their own right.

Fine choice, Sweetpea!

I'm in between.......2006-04-17

Nutty yet poignant

Have we found the smoking gun here? I doubt it

Bloomsbury has a posse!

Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema

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Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema
Maggie Humm
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Book Description

This volume presents an original study of the visual and literary aesthetics of influential modernist women writers, in particular Virginia Woolf, HD (Hilda Doolittle), and Dorothy Richardson. Maggie Humm focuses on the neglected (often intimate) domestic photographs of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; on Woolf's essay "The Cinema" in the context of cinema journalism by other modernists; and on the influence of photography on Woolf's Three Guineas, her short visual fictions (particularly "Portraits"), and her modernist essays. Humm examines how modernist women explore a freer range of aesthetics than their male counterparts by looking at not only what has been called women's work at the margins of modernity, but also at what might be called the even more marginalized material within those boundaries-photo albums and image-texts.

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As children, Virginia Woolf, sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their own family newspaper. Published here for the first time ever, the Hyde Park Gate News also includes their original drawings. Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children—Virginia, Vanessa, and Thoby—present a charming and candid portrayal of the day-to-day events at the family home in London and at their holiday home in St Ives. Gossipy, playful, and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures while also proffering their own fictional, poetic, and artistic creations. Virginia Woolf is one of the most important figures of the Modernist Movement; her sister Vanessa Bell was a painter and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.

The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

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The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Curtis
Manufacturer: Robert Hale
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The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell is an in depth look at the places that inspired these two famous members of the Bloomsbury Group, from 1882-1908. The book contains many original unpublished archive photographs of Woolf and Bell as they visited houses, mansions, villas, and lodging houses all over England, with their father, assorted pets, servants, and visitors.

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Jane Dunn
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury

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A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury

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The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cézanne in the Hedge brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity—and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and of their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The finale is a childhood spoof written by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond."

Flush: A Biography with Illustrations by Vanessa Bell.

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The Moment and Other Essays
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BIG FAN OF BAND, small detractor of book.......2004-02-27

This book may only be good to the simple-minded, short attention span folks, as it was a waste of time for me (and I'm not in MENSA). Don't waste your money, give it to the drunk homeless guy instead.

thoughtful and literary with indispensible interviews.......2003-01-16

This work aims to trace and muse on the experience of being Irish as reflected in the work of U2. As such, it is not an easy-read band bio, and is written at let's say college level. However, the long interviews, especially of Bono, cover material that is just not found anywhere else; U2's remarks here have an uncensored, just-between-Irishmen feel that is rare.

The book, as hard as it is to find, is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in U2's Irishness, in their literary/cultural connections, or in their spiritual history -- it's full of amazing insights on all three. Generalist fans of the band should, of course, look elsewhere.

boring.......2002-12-11

There are only specious connections to U2's music in this book. Don't be fooled by the nice cover.

It's all laid out plain and simple........2002-05-08

This book is an accessible biographical work. It doesn't get bogged down too much in the details which is good for people who have short attention spans (like me).

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Title: Race of Angels: The Genesis of U2.
Author: Michael Tolan
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v53 Issue: n2 Page: p483(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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