Author: Scott Nygren
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: unfolding, history, cinema, japanese, frames, time
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-14
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816647089
ISBN-13: 9780816647088

Until 1951, when Kurosawa’s Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored. In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central question of which, and whose, Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country’s cinema—an issue complicated

Authors:Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey, Bruce Nygren,
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: preteen, teen, years, traps, avoid, adolescent, helping, child, parenting
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0785265104
ISBN-13: 9780785265108

Normally confident moms and dads grow weak-kneed when their children enter--gasp!--puberty. Barbara and Dennis Rainey, parents of six teenage or older children, map out the unfamiliar, demanding landscape of both pre-adolescence (ages 10-12), as well as the teen years that follow. "Preadolescence is when convictions are shaped; adolescence is when convictions are tested," they advise parents. In Parenting Today’s Adolescent the Raineys help children and parents build a satisfying relationship while forging a vision for a productive, God-honoring life-before, during, and after adolesce

Authors:Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthri
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, wrox, mvc, net, asp, professional
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2009-04
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0470384611
ISBN-13: 9780470384619

This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You’ll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you’ll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry support, implement efficient data paging, reuse UI using master pages and partials, secure the ap

Authors:Scott B. MacDonald, David Leith Crum, Scott MacDonal
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: game, 1990s, development, elephants, tigers, old, new
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 2000-07-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765806339
ISBN-13: 9780765806338

Which factors identify "winners" (tigers) in the development game and which characterize "losers" (elephants) are described in this original and comprehensive approach to understanding economic development in a post-cold war environment.

Authors:Jon Galloway, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guth
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, wrox, mvc, net, asp, professional
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2010-06-28
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0470643188
ISBN-13: 9780470643181

Top-selling MVC book from a top team at Microsoft—now fully updated! ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now available and shipping with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. A new update to Microsoft’s Model-View-Controller technologies, MVC 2 enables developers to build dynamic, data-driven Web sites. Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 shows you step-by-step how to use MVC 2. You’ll learn both the theory behind MVC 2, as well as walk through practical tutorials, where you’ll create a real-world application. Topics include transitioning from ASP.NET development, as well as an overview of related tools and t

Authors:W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis, W. Scott Morto
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: culture, history, china
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071412794
ISBN-13: 9780071412797

This brilliantly lucid and concise study traces China’s history and culture from Neolithic times to the pr

Authors:W. Scott Morton, J. Kenneth Olenik, W. Scott Morto
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: culture, history, japan
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071412808
ISBN-13: 9780071412803

Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of the popular work, Japan: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition, documents and explains these changes. Seamlessly blending current events, politics, and cultural elements, the authors provide a riveting account of a nation often misunderstood by the West.