A Scion of the Times: Leon Schwartz, Volume I

Biographies & Memoirs

Schwartz, Leon

Memoirs

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A Scion of the Times: Leon Schwartz, Volume II

What is the Public Trust Doctrine-and why should you care?    You'll find the answers in a new, comprehensive Technical Review from The Wildlife Society titled "The Public Trust Doctrine: Implications for Wildlife Management and Conservation in the United States and Canada."    The Public Trust Doctrine is an essential element of North American wildlife law, establishing a trustee role for government in the management of natural resources. Fundamentally, the PTD suggests that natural resources are universally important and collectively owned. The public therefore has a right to access these resources for hunting, fishing, trapping, recreation, and other legitimate purposes including non-consumptive uses such as boating and wildlife viewing. The PTD is also a cornerstone of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, a collection of seven principles that evolved over time and that underpin most modern and historic wildlife legislation in the United States and Canada.    Ideal for scholars, students, or professionals, this review synthesizes current research on the PTD, coordinated by 11 scientists and professionals from The Wildlife Society, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the Wildlife Management Institute. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of North America's rich tradition of wildlife management and conservation.

The Public Trust Doctrine: Implications for Wildlife Management and Conservation in the United States and Canada

Science & Math

The Wildlife Society

Biological Sciences

If you are lucky enough to have Home Movies from the 1930s to 1980s shot on 16mm, 8mm or Super 8 film you might be in a conundrum as to how to move these treasures into your digital life. GET "REEL" ABOUT YOUR HOME MOVIE LEGACY.... Before It's Too Late! offers practical tips on how to evaluate the condition of your aging library, best practices to preserve the original film, what a professional transfer facility offers that a consumer facility does not, options to edit and create a story, how to share footage on social media, watch on a smart phone, iPad or HD TV, and options to sell clips as stock footage. Rhonda's insight into the emotional value of home movies offers an important "call to action" to do something with your home movies before it's too late! Learn how your films can help to shift your focus and transform your understanding of family dynamics, sometimes resulting in a breakthrough to help move you forward in your life. With over 30 years experience, Rhonda Vigeant has worked with the home movie libraries of dozens of the world's most famous faces. Her company, Pro8mm, has scanned millions of feet of personal cinema and legacy footage using state of the art equipment to put new life and vibrancy into each frame. This footage has been used in documentaries, at museums, Presidential Libraries, and for personal legacies of film industry moguls and the general public. Rhonda Vigeant is co-owner and Vice President of Marketing at Pro8mm in Burbank, California, a company dedicated to the professional use of Super 8 film for both production and archiving for 40 years. Over 20 million feet of legacy footage in 8mm, super 8 and 16mm film of the world's most famous faces, her company has transferred places and events.

Get "Reel" About Your Home Movie Legacy: Before It's Too Late!

Vigeant, Rhonda

Reference

The author, a professor of French at California State University, Los Angeles, has chosen fifteen poets as representative of their times and their stature in French poetry, remaining as faithful as he could to the particular schemes of rime and meter, as well as the sound play, imagery, and meaning of each poem.. Three themes stand out in them: the themes of life's beauties; the emotions of love, paternal or romantic; and the pain of loss. There are also in these poems a variety of parallel or sub-themes, as, for example, aging in Ronsard and Desbordes‑Valmore, patriotism in Du Bellay, exoticism and "correspondences" in Baudelaire, and war in Rimbaud and Aragon. Most of the poems were taken from Henri Clouard and Robert Leggewie's Anthologie de la littérature française, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press: 1975).

Poems That Sing by French Masters

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The proprietor of the present "The Bookstore" in Lenox, MA, the author reflects on working early on at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, "I am very fortunate to have found Frances Steloff, founder of The Gotham Book Mart, when I was a very young man, and she turned me into the bookman that I have since become. . . . to speak of Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart is to remember the entire twentieth century in belles-lettres."  Tannenbaum provides anecdotes and vignettes of Steloff as well as some of the many literary figures he met after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam war, including Tennessee Williams, Galway Kinnell, Anne Sexton, Archibald MacLiesh, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, J.D. Salinger ("a guy I almost tripped over one morning"). Steloff opened the Gotham in 1920, starting "a literary salon in the middle of New York City in the most wonderful time of its own history." Among those there: Martha Graham, Christopher Morely, Mencken and Dreiser, and Anais Nin. Steloff had her "battles with the censors, the court dates, the time she was actually arrested and only an 11th hour phone call to Bennett Cerf of Random House kept her out of prison." This charming memoir is enriched by the author's wonderment, drinking it all in with such memories as the weekend he "walked all over Manhattan . . . wearing e.e. cummings' fedora."

My Years at the Gotham Book Mart With Frances Stelloff, Proprietor

Tannenbaum, Matthew

Arts & Literature

The Effects of Viewer Involment and Experience on Judgements of Photographic Picture Quality

Arts & Photography

Zwick, Daan

Photography & Video

<p>Deems Taylor wrote in 1953, "In a Paris bookshop about twenty-five years ago, I ran across a volume entitled "Anthologie Libertine, ou La Fleur Francaise de la Satire Galante," a collection of upwards of two hundred pieces of light verse devoted mainly to that subject so dear to the Gallic heart, l'amour. . . . the majority were written during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries." <BR> "Those were the times of Henry IV, of Louis XIV and Louis XV; of Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard; of Pompadour and du Barry. Society centered about Fontainebleau and Versailles. It was an era not much more dissolute than our own, but very much more outspoken. Marriages were generally contracted for any but sentimental reasons, and it was taken almost for granted that husbands and wives would cheerfully cuckold one another. <BR> "The love poems of the day might be low on morality, but they abounded in imagination and good humor. Their day ended when nineteenth-century romanticism wiped the smile from the face of l'amour.. . .I have chosen what seemed to me the best fifty-odd out of the two hundred. The translations are as literal as I could make them, and for those who would like to check their degree of literalness, every English version accompanies the French original--including the archaic French spelling.""</p>

The One Track Mind: Love Poems of the Xviith and Xviiith Century France

Taylor, Deems

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