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Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy – Live From Bakersfield

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:59 +0000

Gabriel Iglesias is one of the fastest-rising comics today! With his unique brand of humor, lovable stage presence and wide range of voices and impressions, it’s no wonder that he already has a huge fan following. He’s been seen on Last Comic Standing, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and now you can see Comedy Central’s “Comic of the Year” in his sold-out performance at the historic Fox Theatre in Bakersfield, California!

This DVD includes Gabriel Iglesias’s ALL NEW show, as well as many exclusive extras that were not included in Comedy Central’s broadcast!

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Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:58 +0000

Winner of four Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture! The inspiring true story of British athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson head a sterling cast of newcomers and veterans. The story told in flashback of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society.

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:57 +0000

In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:

� Apply the “do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it” rule to get your in-box to empty
� Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
� Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
� Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
� Feel fine about what you’re not doing

From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists–all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed “the personal productivity guru,” suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)

As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen’s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can’t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant “in-basket”

That’s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen’s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen’s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there’s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It’s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). –Timothy Murphy

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Solo – Leroy Jenkins

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:56 +0000

Leroy Jenkins plays violin and viola in a concert recorded live at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe

“Among improvising violinists, Leroy Jenkins is preeminent where innovation, imagination and individualism are considered. Not only has he expanded the improvising violinist’s palette via extended technique, but his sound and approach are unique. This solo concert recording can be seen as a follow-up to the much-admired 1977 India Navigation (IN 1028) LP, “Solo Concert.” Leroy Jenkins is an artist to be treasured. He makes music of great depth, passion and intellectual substance. The Santa Fe audience experienced the special magic of a Leroy Jenkins solo concert on October 24, 1992. Now, with this compact disc, you can too.” — Carl Baugher

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The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:55 +0000

When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can�t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there�s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book. A police consultant and private investigator, Dresden has to walk the dangerous line between the world of night and the light of day.

Now Harry Dresden is investigating a brutal mauling at the Lincoln Park Zoo that has left a security guard dead and many questions unanswered. As an investigator of the supernatural, he senses that there�s more to this case than a simple animal attack, and as Dresden searches for clues to figure out who is really behind the crime, he finds himself next on the victim list, and being hunted by creatures that won�t leave much more than a stain if they catch him.

Written exclusively for comics by Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle is a brand-new story that�s sure to enchant readers with a blend of gripping mystery and fantastic adventure.

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Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society Series)

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:54 +0000

While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community’s social and economic development. Civic agriculture embraces innovative ways to produce, process, and distribute food, and it represents a sustainable alternative to the socially, economically, and environmentally destructive practices associated with conventional large-scale agriculture. Farmers’ markets, community gardens, and community-supported agriculture are all forms of civic agriculture.

Lyson describes how, in the course of a hundred years, a small-scale, diversified system of farming became an industrialized system of production and also how this industrialized system has gone global. He argues that farming in the United States was modernized by employing the same techniques and strategies that transformed the manufacturing sector from a system of craft production to one of mass production. Viewing agriculture as just another industrial sector led to transformations in both the production and the processing of food. As small farmers and food processors were forced to expand, merge with larger operations, or go out of business, they became increasingly disconnected from the surrounding communities. Lyson enumerates the shortcomings of the current agriculture and food systems as they relate to social, economic, and environmental sustainability. He then introduces the concept of community problem solving and offers empirical evidence and concrete examples to show that a re-localization of the food production system is underway.

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Digital Photo Editing for Seniors: Learn How to Edit Your Digital Photos with Arcsoft PhotoStudio (Computer Books for Seniors series)

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:53 +0000

Written specifically to acquaint seniors with the many features of digital photo editing, this handbook also includes instructions on using scanners, printers, and photo CDs. Subjects such as scanning old photos and slides and repairing damaged photos are covered in detail. Photo retouching and cloning, working with special effects such as selections and layers, and everything related to paper and printers is also explained. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the full version of the digital photo-editing program ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.

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The Invisible Touch

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:52 +0000

The latest from Beckwith, a renowned marketing expert and bestselling author of Selling the Invisible, outlines the four keys to modern marketing.

The beauty of marketing is that it happens when we’re looking but not noticing. Before you know it, we’re using Yahoo! as a search engine, even though serious researchers will tell you that Alta Vista and Dogpile are better. We’re buying products that cost more and perform worse, simply because the marketing and branding of those products tells us there’s a value there, even if objective analysis tells us otherwise. In The Invisible Touch, Harry Beckwith tells us the obvious–what was right in front of our faces. But because of the blinders we wear, because of the way we’ve been educated, socialized, or just plain bamboozled, we can’t see it as clearly as he can. Thus, in each of his “four keys to modern marketing”–price, branding, packaging, relationships–he offers counterintuitive information that could make or break a business plan. For example, he explains in great detail why a higher price is better than a lower one; why every business, from Apple Computer to the U.S. Army, is a brand-name to be cherished and nurtured; why the orangest orange sells better than the least orange orange, even if both pieces of fruit taste exactly the same; and why the best service providers always remember your name and what you like to drink. This is a business book, but one that everyone who works for a living should read. Pick any page, and you’ll find insights that could make you a better teacher, a better salesperson, a better employee in any trade. Beckwith drives home the idea that we’re all in the business of marketing ourselves, and we’re in that business every waking hour. –Lou Schuler

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Locomotion

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:51 +0000

When Lonnie Collins Motion�Locomotion�was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he�s eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn�t so bad after all. Jacqueline Woodson�s novel-in-poems is humorous, heartbreaking . . . a triumph.

�Its simple yet honest poetry gives you a clear look into the feelings and emotions of Lonnie as he takes what he is given and makes poetry out of it. Locomotion gives you a point of view not often told and takes you on a journey to remember.� �VOYA

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David Walker’s Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World

hhotpick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:51:50 +0000

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America’s most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his ‘afflicted and slumbering brethren’ to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on ‘incendiary’ antislavery material. Although Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years to come, anticipating the radicalism of later black leaders, from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this new edition of the Appeal, the first in over thirty years, Peter P. Hinks, the leading authority on David Walker, provides a masterly introduction and extensive annotations that incorporate the most up-to-date research on Walker, much of it first reported by Hinks in his highly acclaimed biography, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren. Hinks also includes a unique appendix of documents showing the contemporary respons�from North and South, black and white�to the Appeal itself and Walker’s attempts to distribute it in the South.

Historians and political activists have long recognized the importance of Walker’s Appeal. At last we have an edition worthy of its persuasive immediacy and its enduring place in American history.

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