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By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a distinctive book about race and, in particular, the failures of integration in the United States. American University communications professors Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown document and discuss black-white relations, drawing upon social science scholarship, the media and popular...

Restrictor Plate THIS: An Unapologetic Look At Stock Car Racing Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Concise and brilliant, Jerry's book proves to be an entertaining, informative, and persnickety look into the world of NASCAR, from the perspective of a man who is far from the stereotypical fan. Highly recommended.Click Here to see more reviews about: Restrictor Plate THIS: An Unapologetic Look At Stock...

Mastering MultiCamera Techniques: From Preproduction to Editing and Deliverables Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book, MASTERING MULTICAMERA TECHNIQUES, is a thoroughly comprehensive look at cinematography and the digital editing process. This is NOT one of those cheesy how-to-lighting books that seems to be given away with every camera ever made. No! This is cameramen and camerawomen taking you within inches...

Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jeffrey Lane scores big with this riveting look at how the sport of basketball has evolved into something many of us do not recognize from it's heyday of the 1980's. It is a fascinating read that will enlighten even the non-basketball fan amongst us.Click Here to see more reviews about: Under the Boards:...

Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Neal Karlen was a writer for Rolling Stone, sent to St. Paul, Minnesota to "get the dirt" on Bill Murray, iconoclastic actor and part owner of the St. Paul Saints. The Saints are a minor league baseball team, part of the independent Northern...

The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is not a subject I would normally think of as intriguing enough for me to read a whole book about it. But I was wrong! Not only is this a fascinating story about Mesoamerican sport, but the writing makes the subject, the people, and the culture come alive. This is about real people playing a real...

The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As the subtitle might indicate, this is not a book for the faint of heart, nor is it a straight-up history, though the portrait it paints of post-Soviet Russia from the early '90s to 1998 is pretty vivid in all its pornographic, bloody, vomitous, sexist glory, making it a pretty damned good history anyway.The...

Moon Baja: Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We traveled in Baja for two weeks using this guidebook almost exclusively and were extremely pleased with it. The hotel and restaurant reviews gave an excellent feel for the atmosphere of the locations and the authors did a great job of including attractions and activities for a variety of tastes. Their...

The Best of Rock & Ice: An Anthology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I could have devoured five times as many of the fine stories written here as I had the good fortune to read. The variety of subject matter, coupled with the strong voices of the authors, make this book wonderfully appealing.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Best of Rock & Ice: An AnthologyFor...

Youth Basketball: A Complete Handbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the best in-depth instruction geared toward youth basketball that I have read. It gives parents and coaches step by step instructions for teaching the fundamentals of basketball to young players.Click Here to see more reviews about: Youth Basketball: A Complete HandbookWith over 325 illustrations...

Rottweilers For Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I just got a seven week old Rottweiler puppy and I needed a reference to help me learn about the breed and to learn basic information to teach the dog certain rituals. I found this book and it is a true gem. This book will teach you about the breed, whether or not the dog is right for you, and a plethora...

Programming for TV, Radio & The Internet, Second Edition: Strategy, Development & Evaluation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a very solid job at describing a constantly moving target. The authors (the first and third are at California State University-Fullerton, while Brian Gross teaches out in Jakarta and has enjoyed extensive experience in all three media) help to bring ever more important Internet content into the...

Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What are the connotations when you hear or see the word "Hope"?Is it an intangible concept? An esoteric notion?Razeghi, a writer,educator, and innovator demonstrates through illustrative storytelling, research from neuroscience and behavioral psychology, the wisdom of such folks as Marshall Nirenberg...

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If everyone learned at a young age the importance of true compassion, understanding and empathy for other human beings- our world would be very different.Teaching children information is very different than creating an experience to find out how others feel.This critically helps us realize our common...

Frommer's Thailand (Frommer's Complete Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Frommer's Guide to Thailand is an easy to use and accurate guide to Thailand. Its recommendations on accommodation and what to in various areas of Thailand was accurate and enjoyable. I would recommend this book to anyone travelling to lovely Thailand.Click Here to see more reviews about: Frommer's...

How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm no business-head. I find modern consumerism more disturbing than exciting. But I read this book as part of a study on public relations and I must say Holt's passion for the subject is contagious.First of all, his writing style is superb. He alternates nicely between anecdotes, charts and philosophy,...

Word Filled Families Walk in Truth Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A very readable, refreshingly biblical perspective on the family and parenting that has a fine balance between helpful principles and the practical realm. If there is one book to have in library regarding parenting, this is it. A 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being excellent. It provides encouragement...