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The Gifted Kids Survival Guide II
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Spanning a century of warfare in Europe, this bold study shows how war and preparations for war have exerted a tremendous influence on European society since 1870 and how, in turn, civilian society significantly shaped the nature of armed conflict. Written in clear, lively prose, this book sheds new light on European history during one hundred eventful years.
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An Excellent Ovverview of the Subject.......2001-06-21
In this survey of the interaction between military, political and social forces in the hundred years that started with the rise of Bismarkian Prussia, a good overview is provided of the major trends and developments, these being well-anchored in the main historical events. A strength of the book is that it preserves the correct balance between detail and overview - enough detail to maintain interest and colour, enough overview to ensure that developments are always seen in the wider historical, cultural and political context. A criticism of the book is however that by an excessive focus on the European scene it underplays the extent to which developments elsewhere - most notably the American Civil War and the Russo-Japanese War - could have profoundly influenced the course of European Military and Political thinking, had they been better analysed, with incalculable consequences for the conduct of World War One. One also notes how the indications as to the global potential of the United States which arose from the Spanish-American War seem to as much ignored today as they were at the time. These minor criticisms aside, the book would provide an excellent introduction to anyone undertaking a study of Modern European history and seeking pointers for further areas to explore as regards the impact of military developments.
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One hundred political cartoons you wanted to see, but weren't allowed to: all were banned for being too hot to handle.
Think you live in a society with a free press? These celebrated cartoonists and illustrators found out otherwise. Whether blasting Bush for his "Bring 'em on!" speech, spanking pedophile priests, questioning capital punishment, debating the disputed 2000 election, or just mocking baseball mascots, they learned that newspapers and magazines increasingly play it safe by suppressing satire.
With censored cartoons, many unpublished, by the likes of Garry Trudeau, Doug Marlette, Paul Conrad, Mike Luckovich, Matt Davies, and Ted Rall (all Pulitzer Prize winners or finalists), as well as unearthed editorial illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Edward Sorel, Anita Kunz, Marshall Arisman, and Steve Brodner, you will find yourself surprised and often shocked by the images themselves—and outraged by the fact that a fearful editor kept you from seeing them. Needed now more than ever because of a neutered press that's more lapdog than watchdog, Killed Cartoons will make you laugh, make you angry, and make you think. 100 illustrations.
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editorial cartoon hell.......2007-10-16
Wherein you find examples that the press within the USA is timid and still serves the whims of people who pay the advestisements and those who own the papers and whose leaning in the political spectrum often rule over sensibilities.
A previous complain that there is too much text is irrelevant. The substance is in the illustrations and the text. They go hand in hand.
As a sidebar to this book I'd recommend the combined collections of Stephan Pastis PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, where he has written of censorship on his own little morbid strip, showing that the fears of offending any audience still rides high.
As this book is pretty good. It's funny, the land of the free still cowers at offending the guys who advertise, when a little bit of truth pokes its ugly head upright.
And the Philadelphia Inquirer was the only place USA wise that printed some of those "Muhammed" political cartoons that caused an uproar in Europe.
Boo!
None of those here though.
Antidote to editorial timidity .......2007-05-30
If you're disheartened by pusillanimous publishers who lack the sand to back up their writers and cartoonists when they come up with controversial material, David Wallis is your man. In his previous work, "Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print," he championed journalists whose articles were decommissioned by their fearful overseers; now in KILLED CARTOONS he's back with a book that does the same for editorial cartoonists. Clever, thoughtful, and brave.
Kartoons that did not see print.......2007-05-13
What a shame these weren't printed. All were to the point, and pertinant.
Wrong choice.......2007-05-13
The Book was good enough it just wasnt quit what I was looking foward to
Funny, but you don't want to laugh.......2007-04-28
I enjoyed KILLED CARTOONS immensely. The work illustrates beautifully why political cartoons are important. (And why they're capable of generating real controversy.) What Wallis understands is that cartoons have a contradictory function. One the one hand they have to amuse the reader, and on the other, they have to upset his/her equilibrium--ideally to the boiling point. Cartoons reach us on a visceral level, which is why I found Wallis' commentary (captions, if you will) a perfect complement to them. Wallis is a witty intelligent and apparently well-informed writer. This book came to me as a gift, I just bought his KILLED: Journalism To Hot to Print, with my own money.
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Great Book of Canadian Editorial Cartoons!.......1999-02-03
This compilation includes the work of many of the best Canadian cartoonists, such as Aislin, Bierman and Rosen. The subject - impending work destruction is serious, but at least you may be able to laugh at the stupidity of mankind (or Homo Politicus).
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- 1979 in "the village of the damned"
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My War With Brian
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Outrageous Ted recounts his junior-high years in the hands of a merciless bully who just wouldn¹t let up. Ted, now a strapping fella over 6 feet happily lost in the Big Apple, was at the time a wimp egghead lost in the middle of Nowheresville, Heartland, USA, and hated it with a passion. This no-holds-barred recollection begs the question: was his attitude such that maybe he deserved it?
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1979 in "the village of the damned".......2006-08-22
A short graphic novel about parents and school personnel too lazy enforce, let alone teach, basic standards of civilization. Somewhat based on real life, Rall casts himself as an outsider in a bland late 1970s Midwestern suburb. A small kid, "too smart" and ethnically different, he was not considered important by either the adults or kids, and soon becomes the constant target of one angry and very violent kid.
That there are bullies and nasty people is never unusual, but this book is unusually telling in that it exposes succinctly the blasé nihilism of late-`70s middle America. Early on, Rall responds to another bully in a history class by sneaking up on the cretin and cracking him over the head with a desk. "Mr Bradford took the roll call, marking the unconscious student absent." (p.9) Rall shows how the unmotivated, middleclass school teachers cared not about violence, learning, nothing...just getting by. The administration, the community just saw extreme violence and intimidation as "what boys do". Rall aptly calls this "a Darwinian nightmare of benign neglect."
I can testify that Rall's vision of that time and place is the correct one, and further that Rall's illustration of the consequences of adult nihilism is spot on. For 40 or so pages Rall shows how violence, vandalism, and youthful fighting are the ultimate effect of adults brushing their charges off with a stupid "you just have to learn to handle yourself". Like any war or feud, the battles escalate into something with little relation to the initial "cause", all because no one wanted to be responsible or be blessed as a peacemaker.
Like many a Rall cartoon, the "background" comments are brilliant. In BRIAN the kids who witness the violents offer only a mind-numbed "oh, cool"; the attempt by kids to be in control is contrasted nicely to the stone indifference of adults.
In the end of the tale, Rall allows people to escape death so he can show how the kids grow up to carry resentments and hate all their lives. (Rall says the kid who inspired the book actually killed himself.)
This book is yet another part of Rall's general theme found in all his work: the indictment of today's institutions as cover for the most short-sighted and stupid bureaucratic mindset possible. It therefore fits Rall's jarring cartooning.
personal tale of woe.......2006-05-22
Ted Rall is nothing if not a masterful teller of his own story. If you've suffered from bullying, pick it up - worth the green.
True enough to be theologically astounding.......2005-07-17
Ted Rall is so outrageous that I would consider him the political writer whose comic supernatural powers allow him to do things that I can only talk about. Until we get to philosophy, of course, where the intellectual death wish sweepstakes rears its ugly head in ways that are as intense as the feelings described in the 66 pages of MY WAR WITH BRIAN, an episode in junior high school that reflects American politics so well, you can forget the adults. They haven't got a clue about anything.
The theme is MY WAR WITH BRIAN is bullies, but Ted Rall seems outraged that Americans live in a society in which others rarely have the opportunity to do anything to help victims. Close to the end of the book, Rall summarizes the situation with, "Actually, most conflicts are stupid and pointless, but they're impossible to avoid. Given that hard reality, I figure that pacifism is impossible." And on the next page, "I guess I still believe in God." It establishes his opposition to hyper-masculinity so effectively, that his young age hardly subtracts from the wisdom of a supreme being allowing the right people to get revenge on the haughty, which might be the highest ideal our society will ever achieve.
One of the characters who was under the most pressure is only in the introduction, shortly before Rall admits "reading the newspaper at age 5, Sartre at 8":
"He had troubles with bullies, but his biggest problem in life was his father. Dad was a Protestant minister, and he insisted that Bill follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, Bill thought . . ."
You really don't want to know that part, and the most exciting part of the intellectual death wish sweepstakes was the awareness on the side of young people who have questions that no one can answer of all the things Bill and Ted Rall would be willing to put down on paper and publish, especially after Bill ends up in the one dead buddy category, which certainly seemed queer to people who thought that killing other people made more sense than self-destruction. My dad was also a Protestant minister, but American society had made that such a simpleton's role that being "doomed to a life in the clergy" seemed a bit lame for anyone who was capable of accomplishing anything. Like most intellectual death wish sweepstakes observations, this attempt to clarify the nature of American society is unlikely to be considered a major accomplishment, but it magnifies my admiration for Ted Rall. He has paid his dues at the hemlock for Socrates altar, and all you have to do, to see how he did it, is to buy this book.
Shocking and savage yet rings with truth.......2004-11-04
Just when you think Ted Rall's, "My War with Brian," is going to be another run-of-the-mill victim story about bullying, this autobiographic tale takes a surprising shift when the misfit geek decides to fight back in shockingly savage fashion. And thus begins a full fledged war spanning the eternal length of time during Junior High and High School where Ted Rall learns to be a man, standing up for himself and exacting due punishment to those who strike at him, consequences be damned. At times, laugh out loud funny, this book will also shock in reminding you how brutal kids/teens can be to one another - the physical cruelty that Ted and Brian exact on one another is frightening in its murderous intent but just past that initial layer of shock comes a somewhat disturbing reminder of the cruelties adolescents face as they transition to adulthood.
Revenge of the Cartoonist: Ted Rall explained.......2003-09-13
Although Ted Rall "draws like he's using a Sharpie stuck in his armpit," I still have to admit his graphic novel is still very interesting despite the amateurish illustrations.
Rall's recollections of his encounters with the Brian ring true to me. High school bullies can attack without rhyme or reason. They may be provoked by the appearance alone of their target. Their abuse can go on for as long as the bully cares to indulge his hatred - or until he learns their are costs to his actions.
My War With Brian is an interesting novel for creating discussion
on bullies; but I wouldn't recommend any of Rall's methods - though I suspect much of Rall's "revenge" isn't as sweet as he would like it to be.
Off topic: having seen and read Ted Rall's political cartoons and books, I am compelled to say that if the adult Rall is anything like the boy Rall, then maybe Brian did have a reason for his actions. The ugliness of Rall's personality as expressed in his cartoons, tv appearances, and books is disgusting. So much so, that if I could go back in time, I might hold Brian's jacket while he pummelled Rall - and I fought bullies!
Rall states that Brian "made me what I am today" so in that sense, if you want to know who made the monster that Ted Rall is today - and I've rarely met an uglier one - read My War With Brian. Maybe Rall was paying in advance for the "sins" of his adult life. Read the book.
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Between the Wars 1919-39: The Cartoonist's Vision
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The years between the wars were the great age of the cartoon character. The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Popeye, and Donald Duck were followed avidly by millions. Even the political leaders of the era were known to millions as cartoon characters--gawky, bespectacled Woodrow Wilson, balloon-like Mussolini, and the moustache men--Hitler, Stalin, Neville Chamberlain, and Ramsey Macdonald.
Comic, mordant, and irreverent, political cartoons reveal more about popular concerns in this period of rising nationalism and aggression than most official documents or journalism. Published in newspapers and magazines with wide circulations, they "made sense" to the ordinary reader. Over fifty years later, that sense of immediate identification has been lost, and these political cartoons now need detailed explanation.
International in scope,
Between the Wars covers all the great political and social issues of the interwar years, as they were revealed through the cartoonists' eyes. Roy Douglas's greatest gift is for concise, clear explanation, placing each cartoon into its historical context.
Douglas traces the decay of hope in the 1920s as it became fear of war in the early 1930s and determination that Fascism "must be stopped" at the end of the decade. These cartoons, intended for the man and woman "on the street" in Europe, North America, the Soviet Union, and Asia, mirror changing attitudes and beliefs as these nations prepared for war.
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The Great War, 1914-1918: The Cartoonist's Vision
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World War One was the landmark event of the first quarter of the 20th century. In
The Great War, 1914-1918, Roy Douglas tells the history of the period through an international collection of over 100 cartoons, many of them previously unknown. This pioneering pan-European approach offers new perspectives of key themes, events and figures, forcing a new reinterpretation of the familiar. Both "establishment" and "subversive" cartoons demonstrate the real concerns of all participants from the governments of the combative powers, to the soldier to those at home.
This unique collection will inform in a fresh way the continued historical debates surrounding the Great War and the implications which reach to the present day.
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Albert Bigelow Paine
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To identify all the air-breathing offshore wildlife potentially encountered on birding, whale-watching, or sport fishing trips at sea, you could take along a stack of field guides—or this one comprehensive guide to all the birds, whales, dolphins, seals, and sea turtles of the Northern Atlantic. Written by a recognized authority on seabirds and whales and illustrated with his finely detailed color paintings, it provides both previously unknown and common field marks to help you identify and enjoy all the offshore wildlife in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Tropic of Cancer, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, and the Bay of Biscay.
Michael Tove offers a general introduction to each group of animals, followed by concise accounts of every species found in the Northern Atlantic. He particularly highlights previously undescribed field marks and behavioral patterns that make identification at sea much easier than before. He also includes range/abundance graphs for twelve locations in North America and six in Britain and Europe to help you plan where and when to view particular species. To enhance your day(s) at sea, Tove includes tips on how to dress properly and avoid seasickness and sunburn.
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A Wonderful Comprehensive Guidebook for Pelagic Buffs.......2001-03-17
As an enthusiastic birder and observer of nature, I have found that some of my most memorable moments occur during pelagic (i.e. on the open ocean, away from land) trips. There are many creatures out there that one could spend a lifetime without ever seeing from shore. Until now, if you wanted to try identifying the wildlife you might encounter at sea, you needed a stack of guidebooks - one for mammals, one for birds, one for turtles etc.
Michael Tove's terrific guide has just made things a lot simpler.
Mr. Tove is a well known North Carolina birder, naturalist and organizer of Gulf Stream pelagic trips who has had articles published in various journals on identification of pelagic creatures, including birds and whales.
His guidebook is very comprehensive and well organized. It covers both sides of the North Atlantic, from Greenland to the Caribbean on the west side and Iceland to North Africa on the East.
The wildlife covered includes all the air-breathing vertebrates one might encounter anywhere in the territory covered.
There are separate sections on pelagic birds, whales and dolphins, seals and sea turtles. For each species, there is at least one illustration, excellently done by Mr. Tove, along with information on measurements, identification, behavior, range, distribution and preferred habitat.
Where appropriate, species names from both sides of the Atlantic are given, as with "Dovekie" - North America, "Little Auk" - Europe.
For birds, there are illustrations of different plumages and ages, for whales and dolphins, there are diagrams of surfacing and blow patterns and for every species covered, notes on how to distinguish that species from others with which it might be confused.
There is data on a number of popular pelagic destinations e.g. the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Hudson Canyon off New York harbor, North Carolina's Outer Banks, Scotland's Outer Hebrides plus a half-dozen oceanic islands - The Dry Tortugas, Canary Islands etc. The data sets consist of monthly abundance charts for each species that is reasonably regular at that particular location.
In addition, there is information on oceanic ecology, regions and currents. He also includes tips on how to dress for a trip and how to avoid or cope with seasickness.
There is even a section on how to plan your own pelagic trip, and how to factor in such variables as wind, weather and surface conditions.
There is something in this book for current or would-be pelagic enthusiasts of all levels of experience from novices to "old salts."
I recommend it highly.
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