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Conglomerates and the Media
Published in Hardcover by New Press (1997)
Authors: Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Schatz
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How To Create A Media Conglomerate From Scratch!
Many have watched with dismay as conglomerates have gobbled up an increasing number of media companies. This collaborative effort between the New Press and New York University's (NYU) Departments of Culture and Communications, Education, and Journalism addresses that concern. Experts ranging from practitioners to academics were invited to participate in a lecture series hosted by NYU in 1996. Edited versions of their talks appear in this volume. An introduction by media scholar Todd Gitlin is followed by nine individually authored chapters covering media activities from radio and television to newspapers and book publishing. Surveying changes in telecommunications, Aufderheide (communication, American Univ.) calls for public vigilance and a middle ground between the apocalyptic doomsayers and those who believe the new age of communication has dawned. This book will be of value to media scholars as well as to citizens following this issue.

How To Create A Media Conglomerate From Scratch

This book is quite insightful, especially for a Southeast Asian media professional like myself. I recommend this book to everyone, even to those who work in the upper regions of the power sturcture of the media conglomerates critiqued in the collection.

For starters, it is a wonderful overview of how the media economy is shifting all over the world. The US market is saturated, as the book said, and the rest of the world is ripe for picking, especially my country, the Philippines.

This book is a tool to launch our own media analysis of what's happenning in our own countries. And from an analysis, we launch a critique, and from a critique, we launch steps to face the situation.

This book, published by New Media, is invaluable. I first read about it in an issue of Utne Reader. I took down the title and hunted it down in Amazon. I found it, bought it, and consumed it. I loved it because it gave me useful insights to work with.

This is a book I will dog-ear in my attempts to understand what to do in my field, and how to start my own media conglomerate from scratch. I already have my ideas, which I hope aren't just soundbites in my head.

Essays providing insight into a growing area of concern.
It is difficult to read Conglomerates and not be alarmed at the growing media control by a few major companies. The book begins with an insightful introduction by noted scholar Todd Gitlin and includes essays from Mark Crispin Miller (Johns Hopkins scholar and author of Boxed In) and David Leiberman (USA Today), among other prominent writers. One discrepency occurs with Lieberman's piece: it is listed in the table of contents as "Conglomerates, News, and Children", but in the chapter it is referred to as "Conglomerates, News, and the Media," leaving the reader to decide the correct version. This book is a must have if you want to gain an understanding of what's happening with media monopolies; Bagdikian fans rejoice! However, it is not chalk full o' references, so students looking for cites to follow may be disappointed. In the introduction, Gitlin echos an earlier statement by Niel Postman (author of Amusing Ourselves to Death): "Big Brother isn't looming, Brave New World is."


The Hepatitis C Help Book: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing
Published in Paperback by Griffin Trade Paperback (2001)
Authors: Misha Ruth Cohen, Robert G, Md Gish, and Kalia Doner
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A must read for anyone with hepatitis C
The Hepatitis C Help Book is a collaboration between two of the best known and most knowledgeable practitioners working in the hepatitis field today - Misha Cohen O.M.D.,LAc. and Robert Gish, MD. This is a well-rounded and comprehensive guide that should be in the personal library of anyone dealing with hepatitis C, and can easily be used by both patients and health care providers. Highly Reocommended.

One of the best books available on Hepatitis C today...
I have read all of the other books on Hepatitis C. This book is wonderful, informative and easy to read. The Hepatitis C Help Book is the first guide that offers comprehensive programs that include both Western and traditional Chinese medicine treatments for hepatitis C. The book is designed to inform people who are infected with the virus, as well as health care practitioners, about how these two medical systems can be used together to achieve the most effective treatment possible. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Must Have
Misha Cohen's expertise in providing specific ways in which to improve your quality of life when dealing with Hep C and other viral diseases, is a relief for the soul.


Acting Power
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (01 January, 1978)
Author: Robert Cohen
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Simply the Best
The above reviewer was probably an acting student at The Boston Conservatory. There, the standard text for senior year is Acting Power. That aside, the reviewer is correct. The book is the best you'll ever read on the techniques of acting. Forget Uta, forget Stanislavski, this book puts you in the mindset that what your scene objectives are are playable. You don't worry about what's behind you, you focus on what's ahead. Read the book and you'll see what I mean. Having written that, realize that you cannot really learn to act from a book. You have to work at it. This book just helps you come from a realistic standpoint.

Just the Best
"The best book on how to act yet written" is how this book is described on more than one "recommended books for actors" list. Aimed at the College Senior/Conservatory level. Some find it easier to follow if read backwards -- starting with the Appendix, then Chapter Six, then Chapter Five, etc.


Eat It: A Cookbook
Published in Paperback by Bellerophon Books (1976)
Authors: Dana Crumb, Robert Crumb, and Sherry Cohen
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A tasty blast from the past!
When I first heard about this book, I bought it only for the Crumb comix. But I began to experiment with really using the recipies. I never thought that I would ever create something in the kitchen that was edible. However, I could no longer resist, I had to get cooking! I agree with the first review of this book, the three joint soup is great. As for the other book, "The Food Stamp Gourmet", it gets two big thumbs up from me as well.

Great food, Excellent Illustrations!!
Be sure to try the three joint soup! This book has been in our family for many years some of our favorite recipes are from it. does anyone know where I can find the prequel The Food Stamp Gourmet?


House of Guilt: An Avram Cohen Mystery
Published in Hardcover by Scribner (1996)
Author: Robert Rosenberg
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Another great Avram Cohen story
I have to admit I'm an Avram Cohen fan. And House of Guilt is great because while it's fictionm it's really about what's relly going on in Israel. Highly recommended!

Incisive, timely and smart
Well written, hugely timely, and a real page turner, House of Guilt is about Israel between the Hebron Massacre and Rabin's assassination. A story that takes the reader from the seediest sides of Tel Aviv night life to the strange minds of the fanatic settler movement, and all through the journey, Avram Cohen, the author's detective over four books, gives the reader an insider's view of what makes Israel tick. This book is a must read not only for mystery lovers -- and there's a geat mystery in it -- but for anyone who wants to understand what's going on in Israel.


Level of Detail for 3D Graphics
Published in Hardcover by Morgan Kaufmann (22 July, 2002)
Authors: David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan D. Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson, and Robert Huebner
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well written, clearly illustrated
This book gives an excellent overview of the problems and solutions to level-of-detail rendering. Few books in the computer graphics field are this well written.

A few things to note:

- Though there's plenty of material on simplification of polygonal meshes, there doesn't seem to be much on volume (tetrahedral) simplification. My impression is that volume simplification is kind of hairy, though, and might require its own textbook.

- If you wish to do your own level of detail rendering, you may end up reading the papers referred to in the book. Most of those papers are available online (try google).

- The terrain chapter is great, and even deals with real-world issues (geospatial file formats, terrain data on the web, what a geoid is, etc) in addition to an overview of different approaches to terrain simplification.

If you're doing level-of-detail stuff, it is basically your duty to buy this book. I only wish I'd bought it eariler.

Luebke
This is clearly one of the most outstanding Level-of-Detail-for-3D-Graphics-algorithm-survey books currently in print. However I find Luebke, et al.'s choice of a subtitle puzzling. Clearly it should be "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Theory and Application", rather than "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application and Theory". If Luebke, et. al. wanted to emphasize the applied nature of their work, it would've been more appropriate to title it "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application, then Theory, and finally some more Application".

Frankly this oversight ruined the whole experience for me.


Reconcilable Differences : 7 Keys to Remaining Together from a Top Matrimonial Lawyer
Published in Hardcover by Pocket Star (2002)
Authors: Robert Cohen and Elina Furman
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Puts the "what to do" behind the "I do"
There are few times more miserable in life when the person who once made you feel best ab out yourself and your life, becomes the one who now makes you feel worst about both. Like it or not, human beings often learn more from what they do wrong than what they do right. What better vantage point to identify what goes wrong in a marriage and what can make it go right and how to prevent the mess in the first place than from a compassionate, plain-talking (vs. psychobabbling) matrimonial lawyer who has seen them all and who is honest enough to talk about his own personal shortcomings from his own marriage. Buy, read and re-read "Reconcilable Differences" so you never have to hire a lawyer like Mr. Cohen.

great advice
i read a clip of this book in a magazine and knew i had to have it....i live with my boyfriend ( we are in our mid 30's ) and i realize all the mistakes ive made in the past...i am confident that we will always work through out struggles...thanks a million...susan torres


The Americanization of the Jews (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History)
Published in Paperback by New York University Press (1995)
Authors: Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen
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This covers some of the current ideas about American Jews
This is a first rate collection of thinking and analysis of contemporary American Jewry and what makes it what it is. Includes articles by such important thinkers as: Feingold, Wisse, Whitfield,, Glazer, S.M. Cohen, Heilman, Liebman, and Eisen. A mist for anyone interested in the trends and developments among American Jews at the close of the 20th century.


Coercion (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (1990)
Authors: Alan Wertheimer, Robert Wuthnow, and Marshall Cohen
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A seminal work on American religious history
Wuthnow's book is a thoughtful and well-researched monograph on major trends in American religious experience since the end of World War II. Wuthnow sees the most significant change as being a decline in the denominational divisions that were once so important in American religious life, and their replacement by a huge chasm between liberal and conservative religious sensibilities, a division Wuthnow points out often cuts as much through denominations as separates them. Perhaps his most important contribution is his effort to place this restructuring in the context of larger trends in American society, notably the divisive politics and cultural innovation of the sixties, the changing role of women and the trememdous expansion of higher education that occurred after World War II. He also notes a degree of continuity between the conservative versus liberal division and the early twentieth-century fundamentalist-modernist conflict within American religion. He is careful, though, to explain and contextualize the greater success the evangelical Christian movement has had in building a movement and mobilizing followers than did the earlier and in many ways similar fundamentalist camp. Perhaps one's only caveat here might be that the book raises many questions it does not fully address about the extent to which American culture is becoming genuinely secular, if it is doing so. Written at a high level of generality, the book also leaves one wondering about how the division of religious life into polarized camps of liberalism and conservativism affects the subjective spiritual experience of Americans. In brief, this book is a major and analytical treatment of a topic that remains very germane to how Americans now live and worship; those desiring to understand how American religion got where it is today should read it.


Crimes of the City (Detective Avram Cohen Mystery)
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1992)
Author: Robert Rosenberg
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Jerusalem syndrome at its most gritty.
Avram Cohen is a believable guy. His people and his milieu come across as modern and as troubled as the newspapers, yet with a fully developed sense of reality. Here are characters you can understand, and an entrance into another culture and a whole set of problems that make daily life a hazardous occupation. Avram is a policeman and a good one, and he is also a man bothered by the insensate world of his surroundings. To be along on the pathways of his solution to a series of brutal crimes is to be invited into Israeli life as it is today. The beauty of timeless scenery set against the fanaticism of zelotry makes you want more of Rosenberg's Cohen series.


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