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Afterglow
Catherine Coulter
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What do Chelsea Lattimer and David Winter have in common? Aside from both being single, attractive and successful--absolutely nothing! She's an outspoken, free-spirited romance novelist. He's a physician, with a blue-blood pedigree and all the proper seriousness of his profession.
But there is this incredible chemistry that won't go away. And when David decides to mold himself into one of the heroes in Chelsea's novels, they discover they actually do have something very magical in common….
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Matchmarkers' Victims..........2005-09-01
What were their friends thinking of? Chelsea Lattimer and David Winter couldn't have been more different. Chelsea was a writer. She lost herself in the past to make up for the inadequacies of the present.
David was a doctor, a man of the here and now, with no time for the flights of fantasy he was sure writers indulged in.
But the passion they shared was no fantasy - it was so real, even Chelsea couldn't deny it. Could the matchmakers have been right after all?
Catherine Coulter's worst book!!.......2004-02-22
I'm a big fan of Catherine Coulter, but this is the most gawd-awful book she has put out. It's a good thing this wasn't the first book I'd read by her or else I'd never touch another of her books. For starters, minus the fact that Chelsea has black hair, her life parallels that of the author and the book read like an autobiography. Chelsea is from California, she's a romance writer (Catherine even has Chelsea writing stories from her Star and Song series), she likes to workout, and David is a physician (like Catherine's husband), the list goes on and on... In truth, this book was just plain blah and very cookie-cutter. Catherine has put out some great stuff, but this just wasn't one of them.
not one of coulter's best but definitely worth the read.......2002-09-27
Cute book, coulter has always been great about making her character's really likeable and I espescially like the heroine, george's, obsession with bizarre kneesocks. Ignore the other review, it was a good book.
Leave this bk on the shelf where you found it!.......2002-01-23
This had to be one of the biggest stinker bks I have read in a long time! The bk is severely outdated (first published in 1985 and then re-issued in 1992), not only are the clothes out-dated, so are the thoughts and idea for the story.
I could have overlooked that but the part the really got me was that George the heroinne was supposed to be so mature at 23yrs old but I kept thinking she was acting like a 15 yr old! What did Eliot see in her besides a pretty face and a knack at investing??! An example of out dated writing is when the author wrote about a six mth pg where the mother decided to take up smoking and go on a drinking binge and the Dr. thinking that since it was only a wk of debauchery the baby would be okay. HELLO! Ever heard of fetal alcohol syndrome?? I thought this was poor thought by the author to have written this into the story. It left me disgusted with the bk.
Do yourself a favour and don't buy this bk.
What A Nice Change of Pace From Ms. Coulter - Very Nice Read.......1999-09-24
I did not expect to like this book, due to the fact that the author did a 360 degree turn in her writing. But, I really enjoyed the book. The characters reminded me of friends I know, so it was like reading about their crazy,sometimes complex and definitely hillarious lives!! This book truly shows that opposite do attract!!! Looking for something different, contemporary, from Ms. Coulter - Try basking in Afterglow.
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Hal Leonard is proud to present the matching songbook to the first album in six years from this gifted Nova Scotian singer/songwriter. Includes: Answer Dirty Little Secret Drifting Fallen Perfect Girl Push Stupid Time Train Wreck and World on Fire, plus a page of great photos.
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Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow.......2006-10-02
I loved it the instant I started playing it, what else can I say? The transcriptions are quite accurate and sound good on the piano. The vocal part requires that you listen to the CD to know what it is actually supposed to sound like on the verses, as Sarah changes them a bit. The piano part is a good mix of the original piano part plus some of the synth and guitar parts, a mix that is very pleasing to the ear. Enjoy!
A Wonderful Transcription of Afterglow.......2004-12-03
Includes: Fallen* World on Fire* Stupid* Drifting* Train Wreck* Push *Answer* Time* Perfect Girl* Dirty Little Secret
Really nice transcription of Sarah's Afterglow. The songs, when played on the piano, sound just about right, except for the fact that the melody line is always there. They definitely need a little interpretation here and there, but all in all this is great. The music is wonderful to play in itself, and singing to it is also fun (as long as you don't compare yourself to Sarah!). I haven't tried many of the songs with the guitar chords, but they also seem to be in line.
A perfect gift for any musician who's a fan of Sarah-even the not-quite-so-fanatics will enjoy. The piano is not too advanced, and the guitar chords are diagrammed along with the music. This is really a wonderful book of music.
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This is the story of the cosmic background radiation, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born. Fifteen billion years after the event, the afterglow still permeates all of space, making it the oldest relic in creation and providing an imprint of the Universe as it was in its infancy. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe. Beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and what it found, this book uncovers the secrets of the Universe.
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best plact to start.......2001-09-12
Very little math, but very carefully written. This is the first place to start if you want to get a perspective on the whole range of experiments that led up to the Cobe data. I am particularly impressed with the quality and clarity of the writing. This book is so carefully written that you can actually understand much of the physics involved
An excellent introduction to the Big Bang.......2000-07-26
This is an excellent book for laypeople about the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, and its discovery of ripples in the radiation from the Big Bang.
Electrons jiggling around generate radio waves. Temperature is just a measure of the average speed with which the atoms of a body are moving, vibrating and spinning. So any body, at any temperature above absolute zero, emits radio waves. Cool!
Why tell you this? Well, when they say the Background radiation is at a temperature of 3 degrees what they mean is, it's of the type of radiowaves that are emitted by a body at a temperature of 3 degrees.
-- and that's something I didn't know, before I read the book.
It's the least of what you'll get:
1. You get a history of the theory.
2. Details about radioastronomy, and how astronomers work around their problems (since everything -- the ground, the air, the dust in the galaxy, the cables on a balloon carrying a detector -- glows with radio waves, it's a bit tricky seeing the backround radiation of the Big Bang)
3. Peeks into how science works: you propose a theory, and then chuck it if it doesn't fit the data, except that sometimes it's the data that's at fault not the theory
4. The importance of confirming your results, so that scientific discovery's a community effort despite all the pushing to get there first
5. The importance of looking at all the ramifications of a theory: gas clouds in interstellar space are warmed by the background radiation, and people measured their temperature, and wondered why they weren't stone cold, long before the radiation itself was observed
6. Why that famous photo of pink and blue patches is both the truth and not
7. Interesting tidbits on cosmology
8. the personalities involved
... and more, and more, in only 170 pages.
Students doing London A Level Astrophysics will find this an exceedingly useful read. (Though no mathematical equations at all, you get a load of physics, painlessly)
And to top it all, some neat rhetoric:
" ... COBE had reached its orbit 900 kilometres above the Earth. It was now circling the Earth every 72 seconds as it turned on its axis. It could be seen in the night sky, going from south to north a little after sunset, or from north to south a little before dawn.
COBE awakened, opening its eyes to the microwave Universe. "
The bit at the end's the best, though.
Read, enjoy, learn.
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The mist-covered mountains are a haven for four women who have been bruised by the pace of the modern world: Hester is drawn to the town of Afterglow to seek answers to her past. Amy hopes a small community will be her refuge from painful mistakes. Ellie has gone home to the mountains in hopes of healing her broken heart. Anna is drawn to her granny's rustic home as a solace from the demands of her career. But, when faith starts to heal their hearts, can these women hide from the reach of romantic love?
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On the first anniversary of her death, a deliciously far-ranging conversation about the movies and more with the most influential film critic of our time-Pauline Kael. Who else but Pauline Kael would have said: "It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin." On September 3, 2001, the movies and those who love them lost one of their greatest friends-a friend who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer and didn't shrink from taking to task any film, director, or actor she thought deserved a taste of her famously acerbic wit. Kael's insight, spirit, and straight-shooting won her singular respect in both movie and literary circles, as well as a passionate following for her New Yorker columns and her inimitably titled books such as I Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Shortly before her death, Kael sat down with Francis Davis for a series of conversations about her life and work-and, of course, the movies. Among many, many things she talks here of her early days as a critic, her career at the New Yorker, the directors she knew (for better or worse), her disappointment with recent cinema, and her renewed interest in television. It's funny, it's controversial, it's right-on-the-mark-and time and again you realize that no could would have dared to say that, in just that way, except Pauline Kael.
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Kael was great, but biased against European film.......2004-05-10
A few short comments about Pauline Kael's movie criticism.
Like most people who are serious about film, I, too, believe Pauline Kael was a brilliant and irrreplaceable critic -- but this does not mean that she didn't have her flaws. Kael was a superb critic in any number of ways. She was outstanding in her ability to write about screen acting, today one of the most neglected areas of film criticism. (Stanley Kauffmann writes better about acting than anybody else around; but then, he is the best serious film critic writing today.) Kael was superb at detecting new and important talent, at understanding the ways in which movies reflect and interact with cultural currents, at conveying her ardor and passion for directors and actors, at the potentiality of film for exploring human sexuality. She was also simply a hell of a good writer, and the depth of her knowledge of film, books, theatre, dance, etc., all played importantly in making her a great critic.
But Kael was not perfect. Some of her reviews simply run on long after she has made her point; and although I love the hyperbole of her writing, sometimes it seems hyperbole for hyperbole's sake.
Also, and I think this was her chief flaw as a critic, she displayed a bias against certain non-English-language directors and their work. In this regard, the brilliant Penelope Gilliatt was Kael's superior. Gilliatt was a brilliant film critic (part of the great team of Ken Tynan and Gilliatt at the Observer [London] before she moved to The New Yorker), a dazzlingly talented writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, television and radio plays, and profiles; she was also an opera librettist and writer of nonfiction (her books on movie comedy and on Tati and Renoir are invaluable), theatre criticism, book reviews, and essays. (Her IQ was higher than Einstein's!)
Gilliatt had a far deeper understanding of that elusive element in the arts -- style. Her criticism is vastly better than Kael's on films from Europe (she was notoriously better at writing about films from Eastern Europe), Asia (Ozu, for a supreme example), about science fiction (Gilliatt was the "only" major critic to stand up for 2001), about directiors experimenting with stylistic devices (Fassbinder, for another supreme example), and simply had a wider view regarding the possibilities of film as an art form. Gilliatt also was better at writing about the films of Godard (though, Kael, too championed his work of the 60s, Gilliatt's criticism today stands higher), Bresson, Bergman, Fellini, and many, many more foreign-language directors.
Of course, no critic is perfect. Even Agee had a severe flaw --he couldn't write worth a damn about acting, and often contradicted himself. So, Kael, in perspective, was a great, if deeply imperfect critic -- and god knows I miss her writing terribly. Denby and Lane, compared with Gilliatt and Kael, are but pale comparisons to The New Yorker's once great women thinkers -- Gilliatt (whose talents were panoramic) and Kael, who could make your pulse race with excitement.
Kael never lost her edge.......2004-01-30
Afterglow gives Pauline Kael fans a chance to hear her opinions on the big films that were released after she stopped reviewing them. You miss her great long prose in an interview like this, but you still get the insight in little capsules.
Most surprisingly is her love of the television show, Sex and the City. She makes a good point about how TV shows filmed in New York like Law and Order and Sex and the City have better actors and guest stars because they can easily get them from New York theatre.
There's a funny moment in the story where the author tries to convince Kael to watch the independent movie CROUPIER. He can't admit that he has already seen it, because Kael wouldn't hear of him watching it twice, she herself being famous for watching a movie just once. Kael does later admit that she has seen just a few movies twice but it's rare.
Like always, Kael's movie taste surprises you. She's always been good at pointing out the flaws of movies that you like, and sometimes forgiving of movies that you didn't get. Here she sums her thoughts up with a sentence or two. The book acts as a nice epilogue to an enjoyable career.
A Short, Fascinating Glimpse at the Queen of Film Critics.......2003-10-10
In September, 2001, film critic Pauline Kael passed away. She had written and spoken with sometimes brutal honesty on actors, directors, and all types of movies. Kael didn't really care who she offended or upset. It's not like she tried to offend or upset, she just called them as she saw them. She unflinchingly says of Stanley Kubrick's `Eyes Wide Shut,' "It was ludicrous from the word go." She calls Spielberg "uninteresting" and melodramatic.
But she also handed out glorious praise when it was due, especially when other critics were ignoring good films and performances. She states that "Paul Mazursky hasn't been given his due," and that actresses such as Debra Winger have been wrongfully overlooked. Kael mentions several wonderful films that have all but fallen into obscurity, all because most critics are afraid to take a stand and swim upstream against the tide of their colleagues.
If the book concerned film criticism only, it would be worth purchasing. But interviewer Francis Davis also asks Kael to address writing, her days at The New Yorker, television, and the reason why so many awful films are made these days. `Afterglow' is a fascinating look into the thoughts of Pauline Kael, but it's far, far too short at 126 pages.
An absorbingly written memory of wit, wisdom, and wonder.......2002-11-14
Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael by Francis Davis (Contributing Editor of Atlantic Monthly magazine) is an absorbingly written memory of the wit, wisdom, and wonder of a truly great actress, and the memorable chat she had with author Francis Davis shortly before her unfortunate death. Written in question-and-answer format, Afterglow preserves this remarkable woman's keen insights on movies, television, literature and much, much more in her own words.
She was one of the finest American writers..........2002-10-05
This little book is well worth the read. Pauline Kael is not someone you feel lightly about - you either love her or hate her (there's a website called die-critics-die that gets my blood boiling...). I adore Kael; she is quite simply my favourite writer, and the wonder of her interviews (there's another book containing a whole pile) is that she wrote how she spoke, so a conversation with her is like discovering a new review. Sure enough you get to find out which recent movies she likes ("Three Kings"), but the book is intellectual and moving as well. Few writers ever fused analytic thought with passion the way Kael managed - reading her made you more fully human, made you expand.
This book, slight as it is, gives fresh insight into her writing methods, her tastes, and her wit. It's not as flowing as it might be; Davis's questions seem sometimes to be deliberately elaborate for the unknowing reader (like the explanation about Richard Stark). This is a problem because the fun of Kael is a sharp and fast mind, so a conversation should be a break-neck brain tease among other things. Still, Davis's introduction is wonderful, and he's a fine writer (one I'll look up now I know about him). If you're a Kael fan, read this soon. If you don't know who she is, she's the most important commentator on the popular arts there's been. And she's great, great fun.
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Afterglow in the Desert: The Art of Fernand Lungren
Elizabeth A. Brown , and
Jane Dini
Manufacturer: University Art Museum University of Californi
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This examination of Fernand Lungren, Santa Barbara's most important early 20th century artist, includes over 70 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. They trace Lungren's career from early rainsoaked depictions of London and New York to sun-drenched and windswept vistas of the American desert. Afterglow in the Desert is a revelation of the artist's remarkable use of color to capture the grandeur and variety of the Southwestern landscape. In his own words, Lungren sought to portray the landscape's "unfathomable mystery, its solitude, its unspeakable thrills . . . and the subtle caress of its feverish winds."
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Afterglow or Adjustment
Mark R. Brawley
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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With the end of the Cold War, politicians and pundits spoke of a peace dividend as well as a glorious new world order. But now, the United States seems entangled in more international obligations than ever before. Does the U.S. have the resources to maintain its numerous and growing commitments? Or is it bound to suffer from "overstretch"? What choices does a nation burdened with international responsibilities have to avoid becoming over-extended?
Mark R. Brawley argues -- against the orthodox view -- that the problem is not that policymakers fail to recognize overstretch, but that they fail to adjust to it. He details how hegemonic powers respond to overcommitment with "afterglows," maintaining leadership obligations long after such policies have ceased to be rational from a national, or domestic, perspective. Afterglow or Adjustment examines differing responses to overstretch in modern history, focusing mostly on military and economic policies in the U.S. and Britain over the past century.
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Afterglow
Ori Gersht ,
Mordechai Omer ,
Daria Kassovsky , and
Richard Flantz
Manufacturer: Princeton Arch
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One of the most talented artists of his generation, Ori Gersht is a photographer whose images provide us with a poignant record of the journeys he has made through different territories. here Gersht's photographic odysseys are brought together for the first time in Afterglow, published in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum.
Ori Gersht travels to places where our memory of what has happened dominates the experience of being there. From the uninhabited Judea desert on the outskirts of Jerusalem to the snowy grounds of the concentration camps in Poland; from the 360 degree views of empty International soccer stadiums to the colourful modernist facades of English schools, Gersht's images negotiate memories of past events with the actual reality of the present.
Published to coincide with exhibitions at Tate Britain in England and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, Afterglow contains all of Gersht's most important photographs, documenting his journeys over the past five years.
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wonderful.......1998-07-18
enjoyed it very much. read apiece in the paper that lavyrle spencer was going to quit writting. please say it not so.
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