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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."


Careerxroads 4th Edit : Career (Cross) Roads : The 1999 Directory to the 500 Best Job, Resume and Career Management Sites on the World Wide Web
Published in Paperback by IEEE (1999)
Authors: Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler
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It doesn't get any better than this!
Thanks to the techniques and websites contained in CareerXRoads, results that are hard-to-match were achieved in diversified staffing environemnts. Representative metrics include: number-of-hires (75% of all hires were from the Internet), time-to-hire (avg. 48 days), cost-per-hire (avg. $3,800), and customer satisfaction (avg. 89%). Free e-mail updates increase the value of this user-friendly candidate sourcing tool for the serious Internet recruiter.

very easy to use guide to finding a job on the internet
This book highlights the very best sites for your 1999 job search. I have found it most helpful in sourcing candidates for my clinical research client, and also as a guide to posting the job searhes that I am doing. It guided me to the best healthcare sites; Also, I was able to find the most cost effective sites

I have used previous editions of Careerxroads, but the latest, 1999, edition is the best one yet.


Oak-Mot
Published in Hardcover by Volcanic Eruptions (1991)
Author: Crispin H. Glover
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Crispin Hellion Glover is perhaps the Burroughs of the 90's.
This book sometimes makes you wonder, am I really reading this or am I stuck in some bizarre dream. From "Back to the Future" to "Rubin and Ed" to "The big solution" to "Oak mot" Mr. Glover repeatedly proves to us his sub-genius standings.

Nazi ridden, bizarre, depraved, twisted, gothic, wonderful!!
Adry is a simple, bizarre individual, adoringly twisted and possessed of perverse and loathsome passions. A blatantly screwed up tale of inverted desires, nazis, and spooks, told in a high victorian, disjointedly gothic prose. Not for the politically correct - savor Oak Mot and its macabre illustrations like a fine abisinthe.


Silent Songs (Starbridge, Book 5)
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1994)
Authors: Kathleen O'Malley and A. C. Crispin
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A truly thought provoking novel
This fifth novel in the Starbridge series was one I had eagerly anticipated... and it disappointed me the first time I read it. Because I had rejoiced in the "IDIC" like atmosphere of the other books and the idea of bringing war and bloodshed into this universe distressed me. But, I read it again. And again. And I've come to respect and admire the idea that even the most peaceful of people may someday have to fight to preserve their peace and their way of life. I admired also the idea that nothing comes without price, and when one makes the hard choices, one has to live with the consequences of those choices. I recommend reading it with an open mind, and someone to discuss it over with afterwards:)

Great sequel to Silent Dances
If you liked Starbridge: #2 Silent Dances, then you'll love this.

I can't say much more, go look at the review for silent dances :)


Star Wars the Han Solo Omnibus: The Paradise Snare, the Hutt Gambit, Rebel Dawn (Star Wars)
Published in Audio Cassette by Bantam Books-Audio (07 March, 2000)
Authors: David Pittu and A. C. Crispin
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OUTSTANDING, FANTASTIC AND FUN
I do not have the tape. I have the book (book club edition that put all three books in one hard back. I remember the ending of Paradise Snare but the other two ran into each other so well - I can't say. I can say that this author did the homework and weaved in cameo appearances, bits and pieces of actions in Daley's books and ultimate result was a smashing success. I stayed up all night with Paradise Snare and (learning I need sleep I did better with the rest). It was so hard to put down and parts I would read and re-read. It was wonderful to come to this book after Phathom Menance and Vector Prime. I could enjoy the characterizations, the story and the universe. I felt like I had come home to SW again. Thanks Crispin - a fantastic job. This will be one well read and well loved book. I am going to get another copy to keep in case this one falls apart.

Great History of Han Solo
This set of books was a wonderful to read. The story of Han Solo's life before the events of episode IV explained a lot of unanswered questions. The book takes you from the time before Han went into the Imperial Academy to him walking into Episode IV. It is a great book and I recomend it to anyone that likes Star Wars.


Swan Song
Published in Mass Market Paperback by (1990)
Author: Crispin
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Alternate title: "Dead and Dumb"
The British mystery author, Michael Innes a.k.a. John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote the introduction to "Swan Song," wherein he claims that Crispin solved the dilemma of the 'Great Detective versus the bumbling police' scenario that many Golden Age mystery authors had to contend with. The dilemma in a nutshell: why would a twentieth-century policeman, who was much more adept and scientifically trained than his counterpart in the late Victorian era of Sherlock and Mycroft, call in an amateur (no matter how intelligent) to help him with his inquiries?

According to Innes, "The Great Detective was, curiously, often a person of title, like Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, or at least the familiar of persons of title. It is never easy to render plausible the acceptance of a meddlesome private investigator by a group of professional policemen standing round a corpse, and novelists appear to have felt that a lord will be better received..."

Innes himself wrote a series of mysteries starring the titled Sir John Appleby.

Crispin avoided the 'blue-blooded detective' solution. His detective, Gervase Fen is part of the same social milieu as the police. He is a professor of English literature at Oxford, but his cherished hobby is criminal investigation. His detective counterpart (Sir Richard Freeman in "Swan Song") has a passion for literary scholarship. Their dialogues (mainly disagreements) keep "Swan Song" swimming right along. It's definitely not a 'Great Detective versus bumbling policeman' relationship---it's more like two crotchety friends with mutual interests who keep running into each other in various Oxford pubs and murder scenes.

"Swan Song" starts out rather unpromisingly:

"There are few creatures more stupid than the average singer. It would appear that the fractional adjustment of larynx, glottis and sinuses required in the production of beautiful sounds must almost invariably be accompanied---so perverse are the habits of Providence---by the witlessness of a barnyard fowl."

I would have thought that the above statement applied to tenors and sopranos only (singing in such a high register seems to destroy their brain cells), but it is the bass in "Swan Song" who sets himself up for murder. Several members of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" cast have good reasons for wishing Edwin Shorthouse dead, in spite of his voice and its drawing power.

Even his composer-brother has a motive for killing the bass, and after a meeting with him, Fen is also made to question the intelligence of composers: "As a general rule, composers aren't the brightest of mortals, except where music's concerned."

Since Crispin himself composed music, it might be better if the reader did not take his commentary on the intelligence of musicians too seriously!

One of my favorite characters from "The Moving Toyshop" shows up in "Swan Song"-the deaf and (according to Fen) senile Professor Wilkes who makes a habit of stealing Fen's whisky. He and Fen are always good for a round or two of acrimonious repartee whenever they meet.

A third dialogue element that threads merrily through the book is a crime writer's attempt to interview Fen about his most famous cases. Every time Fen clears his throat and begins, "The era of my greatest successes..." someone is bound to interrupt him.

We never do get to learn what Fen considers his greatest successes, but surely the outcome of "Swan Song" must be counted among them.

NOTE: "Swan Song" was also published under the title "Dead and Dumb."

Fantastic story with twists and turns of the first order!
The ubiquitous Gervaise Fen finds himself literally "on stage" and proves again that his powers of observation and deduction are second to none. The language and style of Crispin are reminiscent of Dorothy Sayers and are fully as entertaining. Great vacation reading, as it is very hard to put down.


Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968-1978
Published in Hardcover by Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Txt) (2003)
Authors: Josh Ozersky and Mark Crispin Miller
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a tour-de-force survey of the 70s
If you love the 70s, especially all the great cheesy TV shows of the time, this books is for you. It's super smart and funny, as the author, Josh Osersky, takes you on a guided tour of the times, and how shows like Three's Company and the Love Boat tell us the true story of America in the 70s. One of the best books I ever read!!!!


The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions
Published in Paperback by State Univ of New York Pr (1995)
Author: Crispin Sartwell
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Lots of good ideas...
It is unfortunate that Sartwell's book has received so little attention since he really did an excellent job of demonstrating what modernism has done to aesthetics and life in general. And really, what doesn't come down to aesthetics for meaning?

Sartwell develops the concept of art in many contexts including Zen, Taoism, Hinduism, Native American, African and African-American traditions. He then moves into reintegrating aesthetics into its true position in life - the core - as opposed to the scrap heap where modernism would like to have it stay.

Sartwell's chapter, "The Art of Knowing", is, I believe, the pinnacle of the book. He carefully demonstrates what has been done to "knowing" and how modernism (and scientific realism) have attempted to slide a number of incoherent positions into our general framework and proclaim them to be some sort of truth.
Highly recommended along with Bogdan's "Minding Minds", Faber's "Human Objectivity and Perception" and Flemons' "Completing Distinctions".

I'm surprised it has never been reviewed before now...


Basic Karate Katas
Published in Paperback by Talman Co (1998)
Authors: Crispin Rogers and Hirokasu Kanazawa
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One of the best Karate-Books I know
This is one of the most exiting books of the techniques, the philosophy and the history of the modern Shotokan-Karate. And the author is one most famous karateteachers of the world and in my opinion every karateteacher should have read this book before teaching his people. Kanazawa had a very good style to explain the Shotokan. And i think this book is better then the books of Nakayama.


Buried for Pleasure
Published in Paperback by Pan Books Ltd ()
Author: Edmund Crispin
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