Monday, October 10, 2011

250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 2: Revised Edition

250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 2: Revised Edition Review



More than a simple update, 250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 2 offers 250 more characters in the extremely useful learning format that learners and teachers alike continue to praise.

Following in the footsteps of the newly released Volume 1, it includes everything that today's learners and teachers want: tips for mastery throughout; special exercises in AP-exam format; progressive review sections; and several indexes.


Sunday, October 9, 2011

Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character

Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character Review



In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the Rhetoric. He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the Rhetoric for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue, and character, Garver has written the first work to treat the Rhetoric as philosophy and to connect its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. Garver's study will help put rhetoric at the center of investigations of practice and practical reason.


Saturday, October 8, 2011

Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Traditional & Simplified Character) Character Workbook (Chinese Edition)

Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Traditional & Simplified Character) Character Workbook (Chinese Edition) Review



The Character Workbooks are designed to help the student learn Chinese characters in their correct stroke order. In the Level 1 workbooks, stroke order for each new character is displayed, along with its pinyin pronunciation and English translation. Character boxes allow students to practice writing the characters. The Level 2 Character workbook, in addition to stroke order, presents example sentences to illustrate word usage in context. The Level 2 Character workbook includes both simplified and traditional character forms. Four useful appendices are included in the Level 2 Character workbook: A list of proper nouns and measure words; an English-Chinese glossary that includes all vocabulary in Levels 1 and 2; a Chinese character index that lists all characters appearing in Levels 1 and 2; and the simplified-form example sentences that appear in traditional characters throughout the bookÂ’s text.


Friday, October 7, 2011

LightWave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation, Volume 1: Modeling & Texturing

LightWave 3D 8 Cartoon Character Creation, Volume 1: Modeling & Texturing Review



Character design, modeling, and texturing are the fundamental building blocks of character animation. LightWave 3D [8] Cartoon Character Creation Volume 1: Modeling & Texturing includes both general theory and comprehensive tutorials for every aspect of modeling and texturing 3D characters. Learn how, why, and when to use the most efficient techniques so you can have fun creating your own fantastic 3D characters. Find out how to configure LightWave 3D for character creation, and learn the necessary steps of the character concept, design, and planning stages. Discover multiple methods for modeling characters and clothing using subdivision patches. Understand the techniques for creating complex UV mapping. Learn about surface attributes and surfacing characters. Enhance the appearance of your characters through the use of gradients and procedural textures. Explore a variety of techniques for creating image maps and applying them to your characters.


Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Cultural Studies of the United States) Review



In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman—and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities.

Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s—against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music—Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The W Characters, Wisher, Washer, Wishy-Washy

The W Characters, Wisher, Washer, Wishy-Washy Review



Character Building for Children
How do you Build It?

To achieve goals, you will have to either:

* Build a Washer character and achieve your goal.

o Wash away obstacles
o Polish your skill
o Forge new roads of discovery and possibility
o Give sustenance to those in need
o Cleanse and maintain yourself in a dignified manner
o Carry responsibility
o Flow through with commitments

* Let a Wisher character keep your dreams alive or…

* Become less than you could achieve by letting a Wishy-Washy character take you in many directions.

This book helps build character in the minds of young children!


Saturday, October 1, 2011

Yellowstone To Denali: Bears, bison, poachers, thieves and other characters

Yellowstone To Denali: Bears, bison, poachers, thieves and other characters Review



His book is intended to help those desiring a career as a National Park Ranger by providing some of his experiences as a field ranger and park superintendent. He also gives a brief history of the ranger profession, the qualifications required today to become a ranger, makes recommendations for future ranger qualification standards, and provides information to effectively compete and become a temporary or permanent National Park Ranger.