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Excellent reference book for beginners through experts
The best thing about the Singer books are the photographs.All the designs and techniques are accompanied by photos, not drawings or cartoons, making it easier to understand the instructions.The projects are shown ingreat detail and the colors are bright and contrasty so you can see exactlywhat the text is describing.I can't say enough about thephotographs--they are of National Geographic quality. ... Read more

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In this timely collection, some of the world's leading ethicists grapple with the variety of issues posed by human embryonic stem cell research.

• Investigates the moral status of the embryo including the creation of chimeras and paying for gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos for research purposes


• Provides a thorough evaluation of the ethics and politics of regulating hESC research, and the privacy, confidentiality, and informed consent in the conduct of research and clinical investigations


• Essential reading for scientists, philosophers, policy makers, and all who are interested in the ethical conduct of science


• Contributors include David DeGrazia, Lori Gruen, Elizabeth Harman, John Harris, Jeff McMahan, Don Marquis and Peter Singer

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Singer Sewing Reference Library's Quilt Projects by machine show you how to create the many patterns and designs of traditional and modern hand quilting on your sewing machine. A must-have for your reference library. ... Read more

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Young Profiles biography on Christina Aguilera. ... Read more

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Young Profiles biography on 'N Sync. ... Read more

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*Nsync
When I read this book I was like cool. I was so into this book I finished this book in one day. the pictures are great and justin oh my god he is sohott!that is why I got engaged to him.

N'Synch diary.
This book has a ton of photos and is so tiny! It's like having your own diary about them. It says all sorts of stuff about there lives and what they do in there free time. AHHHHH. I love it!

**N Sync**
I just got done reading this book. It was great, it had all this new stuff about N Sync I didn't even know!!!@ It was great I would recommened anyone to read it!!!

Great Things Come *N Small Packages
I have to say this is a great little book. I don't want to give too much away because the element of surprise is always the best. What you see is what you get. I love it so much, it made me laugh and I'm getting a secondcopy of it for my collection. If you are a serious NSYNC Fan this is a musthave. NSYNC FOREVER, Love you guys! ... Read more

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i love this book!
yes it's a good book, not as good as some books i have on bsb but i love this book, it gives you alot back!it's a must for a bsb fan!

great
This book was really good the pictures were great. If you are a real backstreet boys fan you will buy this book.It is deffinatly worth the money. ... Read more

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A brief biography of the award-winning young singer who is also the star of the television series, "Moesha." ... Read more

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This book is the bomb!
I realy like this book I bought it for me and my freind who is a crazy brandy fan she said she loved it and i agree.I like Brandy too I realy recomend this book to everyvbody who loves Brandy and those don't youshould realy get this book GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!!! ... Read more

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Her instincts: honed for survival. Her psyche: primed for anarchy. Her body: sculpted for action. She's Aeon Flux, a lethal, leather-clad spy who cuts through a brutal swath of subterfuge through Bregna, a hi-tech society controlled by her nemesis, Trevor Goodchild. But Trevor's and Aeon's bond is deeper than that of assassin to tyrant, and the mystery that drives their twisted relationship has remained as impenetrable as Aeon's padlocked chastity belt -- until now.

This explosive file of classified intelligence reveals Trevor Goodchild's chilling plan to consolidate power by erasing history -- and the hiring of mercenary agent, Aeon Flux, to transform his plan into an Orwellian reality. Crammed with transcripts, surveillance, and memos, the file explores the dark corridors of Aeon's mysterious life, bringing into question her ultimate allegiance. Is Aeon truly loyal to Trevor's vision of Bregna? Or is she stealthily subverting his plot from the inside out? This stunning file tells a story of intrigue and treachery, of domination and submission, of love and hate so perverse, it could only spring from the otherworld of Aeon Flux.

The television series, Aeon Flux, is a Colossal Pictures Production in association with MTV Networks. ... Read more

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Perfect companion piece to the greatest series ever animated...
Aside from presenting a more detailed view of life in the fueding nation-states Monica/Bregna, and providing additional insight into the complicated relationship between Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild, this book will teach you how to write effective inter-office emails and the dire importance of injecting creativity into professional presentations.

A better $2.50 you will never spend...

Good book, bad movie
It's unfortunate that the cover art was redone by MTV as a movie tie-in because this book has nothing to do with the movie of the same name. No offense to Charlize Theron, but the original Aeon is the topic of this book. As an insane Peter Chung fan, I had to have it but anyone interested in material resulting from this movie should probably pick up the recent Aeon Flux graphic novel instead if they liked the movie.

A good tie in to the animated series
In a weird way, this book actually made the Æon/Trevor Love-Hate relationship make more sense.While the animated series did present that Bregna and Monica were quite obviously once one, this book filled in the plot hole of what happened.Learning more of Æon's specifications was nice, though I could have done without some of the specification information on her victims.Oddly, this book makes the muddled AF time line actually make some sense.Especially if the episode regarding President Clavius immediately follows the Herodotus File.

Imagination in Overdrive
Graphic novel based on the MTV series.Intriguing pictural novel with incredible imagination.Graphics terrific, and plot good until the end, which seemed too abrupt.Always sexual undertones.Fascinating page turner, as almost every page is different in format.Supposed to read as if it were a file.The idea of rewriting history to suit the victor is certainly not a new one.The Civil War is perhaps one such example.The futuristic technology envisioned here is as good as the graphics that depict it.I came upon this cold, read it in 24 hours.Enjoyed it immensely.

Precious
There is never enough Aeon. Ever. I have the pvc statue, the 3 vhs set and the DVD. I've dressed as her for halloween 2 times and probably will again some day with improvied outfits. This is a must for any Flux fan, lots of cool pictures, it's a case file on her and gives a little insight into the story, but not too much. ... Read more

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Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock `n' roll revolutionized the world of British pop. As an increasingly pugnacious solo artist, too, he consistently adopts the outsider's perspective and dares us to confront genuinely uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant and original book, Gavin Hopps examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence, humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around the world for the last 25 years.

Hopps traces the trajectory of Morrissey's career - from its beginning in the early 80s with the Smiths to the release of his latest album Ringleader of the Tormentors - and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer's elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey's coyness (how can he remain a mystery when he tells us too much?), his dramatized melancholy (surely more of a radical existential protest than the gimmick some believe it to be), and his complex attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his intriguing sense of the religious.

In the course of this penetrating study of Morrissey's oeuvre, Hopps offers close readings of individual lyrics and illuminating comparisons with a range of literary figures - such as Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan and Philip Larkin. Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart, at once erudite and accessible, argues convincingly for Morrissey's inclusion in the pantheon of literary greats. ... Read more

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Squeezing My Skull
Any true Morrissey fan knows he's brilliant, and that the majority of what he does or says is definitely well-calculated or has hidden/double meanings.However, this book has some definite over analyzation leaving it quite dry as a whole.It is written like an extremely long dissertation, which makes it a bit boring, and at times strays onto different topics. Some points made in the book seem a real reach, and I was often thinking "What would the Man say to this?Perhaps that moment was completely off the cuff, yet the author is TRYING to extricate all this hidden meaning behind it?"If you are looking for a book about Moz, definitely stick with Len Brown, as Hopps has no direct interviews he's conducted that make me relaxed and confident that his meanings and interpretations about the songs are spot on. Besides, Mozza wants us to think and feel the music on an individual basis, not via others analysis.

An Excellent, Much-needed Look at Morrissey's Lyrics
If you want a further rehash of Morrissey's collaboration with Johnny Marr and the Smiths or another speculative inquiry into his love life, then this book is NOT for you.If, however, you have been longing for a thoughtful, respectful reading of Morrissey's lyrics in terms of theme, word choice and strategy, as well as an analysis of his work in the specific context of Britain and Ireland's literary greats (Wilde, Larkin, Rossetti, Joyce, Betjeman, Beckett, Joyce), then you should buy this book immediately and prepare for an enjoyable read. "Morrissey: The Pageant of his Bleeding Heart" adroitly brings together many observations of Morrissey's work (its simultaneous emphasis on despair and levity; its tendency to dwell on the eccentric, the infirm, the monstrous; the attempts at finding a way to live and love in a world beset by categorization, failure and embarrassment, etc.) and weaves them into a coherent whole. What is most striking is how Hopps is somehow able to articulate what many Morrissey devotees have felt (ok--what I have felt!), sensed or loved about his work but have as yet been unable to express in so eloquent a fashion.Hopps' work, with its judicious use of literary criticism and passionate emphasis on always going back to the source--Morrissey's words--, makes one long for a print edition of Morrissey's complete lyrics."The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart" is an intelligent examination of the artist--one that Morrissey very much deserves and one that we have been needing for a very long time. ... Read more

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still hasn't arrived but they asked me to review it
You'd think a month would be long enough for most forms of transport to Europe

A rare intimate look...
I really got into this book.It was kind of neat to see all the thought, decisions and ideas that went into creating this collection of music.Where else would you get this intimate a look at the process involved in this project.I really liked the insight into not only how the decisions were made for the list music to be used, but how the music impacted and/or had meaning to Roseanne's life.It made for a great story that I did not expect to find.

Save Your Money, Save Your Cash
You're interested in this book because you're a fan of Rosanne Cash.So is the author.And that's the problem.

You wanted to learn about the making of the CD.He wanted to make a documentary about it.It's a good thing his funding dried up, because reading his account of the early sessions suggests what Ms. Cash and her husband and producer/musical partner John Leventhal seem to know -- it's as hard to capture others' inspiration as it is to be inspired and creative in the studio.

Or when writing.What we get from those sessions is the dry dialogue that characterizes the creative process.It's rarely interesting, and there are no epiphanies here.That should surprise no one who's been to a recording session or a rehearsal for almost any performing art.But it's something artists know all too well.It's hard to be inspired, even harder when you're being observed, and particularly hard when your observer is an omnipresent puppy whose observations ultimately reveal that he knows little about your craft.His fandom gets in the way.There's no insight in his accounts.They read as a transcript.

Think about it.How honest would you be with your spouse trying to be creative and efficient in a small studio in front of a crew and writer observing everything for posterity?

The book deterioriates as the project progresses.Rather than distance himself and offer some kind of objective look, Streissguth insinuates himself and becomes a palpable figure, detailing his travel preferences and foibles when you considered the book wanting to know about their journeys, not his.Buyer beware, he will become as much of a character as Cash, Leventhal, and her manager.In a laughable moment, he worries that helping them take their luggage off a German train will compromise his journalistic integrity.He lost it long before.

That's not the end of the world.Clearly, Cash and Leventhal figured their project might benefit from the publicity he'd bring and let him in.But not totally.One gets the sense that they, particularly Leventhal, became wary.Streissguth following them across the Alps reminds of a guest who doesn't know when to leave.Were he a skilled writer (he isn't), possessed of a good eye (he isn't), or knew more about music than you do (he likely doesn't), he might be an entertaining guide.

But he isn't.You wouldn't want the window seat with him in the middle.His writing is often clichéd and burdened by forced images that pass for imagination.And you didn't buy it to learn about him.You wanted to learn more about her and what she thinks.Instead, buy Cash's new autobiography, "Composed."Somehow she's more objective.

The worst book I've read in years.Well-intended as he is.

Not Horribly Satisying
I was expecting more from this book - a lot more.I'm a guy who loves process especially on how an album is being made, and in theory this proved to be a great idea.The execution? Not so much.

Michael Streissguth I think had the right idea about documenting the history of the list, the thought behind it, to the finished product and what it all meant to Rosanne Cash, but he seems to have gotten distracted along the way.

Streissguth seems more enamored of traveling w/Cash and her husband, John Leventhal, than he is about either recording the process of what is going on, to what he thinks is going on in the psyche of both Leventhal and Cash. And even with both the thought and the actuality, he kind of gives up mid-stream.

If there is a highlight to the book, it is some of the revelations that Cash herself lets us in on: her relationship with her mother, with June Carter and with her father. It's more of an insight than I had heard from her ever and it is a little jarring, in a voyeuristic kind of way.

Of course, there is no resolution to finding 'the list', which Streissguth made a big focus on for two-thirds of the book, but doesn't follow through on. There is either an assumption that it was found after the book was put to bed, or Cash, in her PR interviews, is stretching the truth that the original list is put away for safe-keeping.Either way, not addressing it with any finality in the book is a dis-satisfier. Yes, it could be a metaphor for the actual feeling of Americana music, but it's not working for me.

I struggled with the rating here.I wanted to say 2, but it somewhat short-changed it, but 3 might be shooting high.

my list about The List
1. I enjoyed learning about Rosanne Cash. She comes off as part zen-master (not impacted by her potentially jarring surroundings), part feminist hero, and the present and future of country music. She is a New Yorker, for God's sake. Who knew that?!?
2. Readers should know going into this that Rosanne Cash LOST the list that her father had given her! It remains lost at the close of the book. They use this as some sort of metaphor, but I find it absurd and frustrating.
3. The author is NOT a musician. One tale in the book tells of the record producer getting frustrated with the author's questions when he assumes that the work in the studio would be completed by the record executives. Of course, I think, the record company is sent the finished product. They merely are responsible for distribution and marketing. As a musician, the author's non-musician ways permeate this book, as does his fanhood of Ms. Cash. Being a fan may be necessary for a work such as this, but it may also get in the way of treating the subject objectively.
4. This book is easy to read. I read most of it in one extended sitting; it is enjoyable. ... Read more