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Just One Citizen: A Recipe for Positive Change Review

Just One Citizen: A Recipe for Positive Change
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This is a book well written. It deals with America's working men and women and their concerns for today's economy and leadership. Whether you agree or disagree, it touches base with so many who are faced with the trying times of today's America. Rich or poor, this is the book you need to read. You will find yourselves nodding in agreement much of the time. A copy needs to be sent to Washington.

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"Dave Fennesy is a man who has worked in the Auto Industry at the dealership level his adult life. He has paid his share of taxes over the years and is frankly, disgusted with how these taxes are being spent. The Greed, dishonesty and sheer incompetence of our politicians is, in Dave's opinion, a threat to the very existence of the United States of America as we know it. Tired of yelling at the Television, Dave points out the events of history to give us insight into solutions to this country's problems.This book is a wealth of information for patriotic Americans everywhere to gain the verbal advantage on issues that in many cases won't even be discussed by our government officials. Aside from pointing out things that always worked in the past and how they are no longer now, Dave points out some new ideas that are also never even talked about, things like alternative energy development, re-building this country's economy and protecting its citizens. He feels that unless new people are elected to congress that the all powerful lobbyists in this country will maintain their stranglehold on our government, and therefore our pathetic slide into socialism and political correctness will continue. A possible Tea Party platform is laid out at the end. Arm yourself with these ideas and facts and Enjoy!"--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Review

Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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Robert Venturi's study of the Las Vegas signage phenomena and it's impact on "architecture" is brilliant in it's scope. While written almost twenty five years ago, this book gains more and more pertinence as we as a society progress further into a "reality" of symbols, reproductions and representations. These words and thoughts are basically essential to the understanding of any city anymore, not just Las Vegas. Where this book misses the mark though is in the execution, as shown in Venturi's work, of these ideas. The projects put forth seem to pale in comparison to the implications the text actually has. These notions of architecture are by far some of the most relevant and important in modern theory today, it is unfortunate that their full potential could not be realized in these projects.... but maybe that is for you and I to do.

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Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearancein 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of"common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizingmonuments.This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on theLas Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the DecoratedShed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism inarchitecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the firstedition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included inthe revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and aconsiderably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by ScottBrown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and aboutthe firm's work.

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Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum Review

Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum
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This is a great introduction to species counterpoint. It has been in use for many years and was studied by many great composers. It still engages the modern person today because it is concise, imaginative and teaches concepts in a digestible and easy to follow manner.
The form of the book is a relationship between a teacher and student. The student is not the brightest bulb on the tree, but the teacher shows him concept by concept how counterpoint works. This story format is entertaining, but also serves as a way to anchor concepts.
If you are looking for something that is a quick, easy read with lots of good content and historical interest, you will enjoy this. I feel it is a must have for any serious student of music.

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The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work Gradus ad Parnassum.
Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J. S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference.

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Meditations in an Emergency Review

Meditations in an Emergency
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If you wondered what Don Draper was reading and why he got that far away look in his eye then your curiosity is much like mine. I had to know. Meditations In An Emergency is that book. Frank O'Hara was the voice that spoke to the madness, the chaos, and the contradictions in the cultural transition between 50's and 60's America. He was one of the best poets of the twentieth century and along with writers like Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry.
O'Hara's poetry is vital, raw, gritty, and extremely moving.
And Don Draper is thinking:
Now I am quietly waiting for
the castastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.
It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.

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Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition."Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an associate curator. O'Hara's untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, "the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed." This collection is a reissue of a volume first published by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the flawless rhythm underlying O'Hara's conviction that to write poetry, indeed to live, "you just go on your nerve."

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