July 2012 | Built In Entertainment Center

Hit and Run Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book three years ago and I'm still laughing. Griffin & Masters have created THE required reading book on everything that is wrong with Hollywood. They were able to tell the inside stories of multi-million dollar deals and make them understandable. Jon Peters, a barely literate hairdresser...

Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2011Text By TOBIAS GREY 'Let us Hurry to love the little train," wrote the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. And, with first class tickets en poche, a cozy apartment in Paris to return to and a Pulitzer Prize-winning husband to bounce ideas off at the end of each day,...

Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is essentially a book of social history, although it brings together the disciplines of economic history, gender studies, architecture, and popular culture. Hurley discusses how diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks reflected the social values of the 1950s and 1960s. The chapters on the three...

Worship and the Reality of God: An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Evangelical / reformed worship can easily be reduced to a few songs, some prayers and the sermon; the sermon being the main focus of the Church gathering. While not neglecting the importance and value of good preaching John Jefferson Davis exhorts the church to rediscover the value and importance of...

Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Peter Hall (Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley) has written many books on urban planning, and this 1988 book is a wonderful summary and history of various progressive "new cities" movements from 1880 to the present.Hall includes chapters on such subjects as "Cities of Imagination,"...

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I feel like I had never really seen a Hollywood picture before, now that I have read Donald Bogle's marvelous study of black life in Hollywood on and off screen. The other day for example I saw a inconsequential Fox comedy of the 1950s written by Nunnally Johnson, Oh Men, Oh Women, and in it a spoiled...

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)All around the world, especially in those domains inhabited by readers of Lonely Planet publications, a fine (or sometimes not so fine) distinction is drawn between "tourists" and "travellers". Almost always, "tourists" are "them", while "travellers" are "us". Tourists are somebody you can look down...

Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)...from the corporate media, and from Project Censored. The team has delivered another volume of the most important stories of the year, which have been ignored or covered up by the mainstream media. In an insult to American traditions of a free press and an informed citizenry, the corporate news industry...

Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The strength of this book, which is my reason for giving it four stars, is that provides a positive perspective on Africa that stresses just how much innovation is underway there, a valuable counterbalance to the general bleak evalations of its economic growth, and that it adds to a major and, for me,...

What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book should be a requirement in every home. It is wriiten for a teen but shoul dbe read by both parent and child. The concept of the 40 assets is fundamentally simple. The book defines the assets and then gives advice on how the adolescent, parent(s), community,school, and congregation can help...

Hollywood Cinema Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I purchased this book as part of a university course. I took the rather radical liberty of reading it right-through before the start of the course. It was not difficult. Packed full of insight into insight Maltby's text has proven to be a real source of enlightenment.Nearly seven hundred pages make it...

Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Kellner's research examines the construction of social reality by exploring and analyzing contemporary media culture. His work on understanding how cultural identity is shaped by media is an extremely useful and fascinating critique on modern society. In addition, Kellner offers a well-written overview...

SoulTsunami Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Unlike many books on postmodernism, SoulTsunami gives most time to dealing with ministry implications rather than analysing postmodernism. This practical bent is welcome. However, Sweet is prone to 'go with the flow' in terms of doing anything to accommodate ministry and church life to the cultural shift....

Traveling Paris: A Complete Travel Guide to the Finest Vacation Getaway in Europe's 2nd Largest City Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is a good guide for traveling to Paris in a limited budget on a limited time. It tips for getting discount vacation deals, practical tips for packing, tips on getting around Paris and tips on must-see and must-not-see local attractions all to help you plan out a hassle-free itinerary on a tight...

Yanni in Words Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Yanni. For as well known as his music is, until now no one has known much about the man. He's given many interviews over the years but has revealed precious little about the events that have shaped his life and set him on a course to unparalleled success in the instrumental music industry. Let's face...

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Christian Parenti's "Lockdown America" is one of many excellent recent books on crime policy. As do David Cole and Elliott Currie, Parenti contributes to showing the failures of the one-dimensional crime policies of the past 20-30 years, during which time the only acceptable variation on "get tough"...

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The long-awaited fifth edition of an LA guide that's often called "the bible" is a major disappointment. Robert Winter is a perceptive scholar of Victoriana and arts and crafts, but he sensibly left modernism to his collaborator, the late David Gebhard. Now he has attempted to do it all, by providing...