Author: Harris Katleman
Publisher: RosettaBooks
ISBN: 0795352247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A studio executive’s “superb memoir” of his years in the industry, filled with hilarious stories and hard-earned wisdom (Library Journal). From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful TV studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. A classic account of the business side of entertainment, this book shares what really happened in the early careers of Hollywood stars and the development of iconic programs. Through a number of funny behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman. This memoir goes beyond the story of a life in Hollywood. It is the story of crucial developments—how motion picture film libraries were opened for television licensing, how The Simpsons was birthed, and much more. “Not only does this book show his leadership in the television business, it shows how strongly he fought for groundbreaking shows that transformed the industry.”—David E. Kelley “A worthy entry in the lexicon of books chronicling Hollywood of yesteryear.”—Booklist
Why Do I Have to Eat Off the Floor?
Author: Chris Hornsey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802796176
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
When Murphy the dog asks his child-owner a barrage of "why" questions, she patiently answers each and every one, until she must reveal to him that he is not a person, but indeed, a dog.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802796176
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
When Murphy the dog asks his child-owner a barrage of "why" questions, she patiently answers each and every one, until she must reveal to him that he is not a person, but indeed, a dog.
Off the Floor
Author: David Dellanave
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492933250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Off The Floor is the most comprehensive deadlift manual ever written, which will give you the tools and knowledge to finally put pounds on your deadlift and pack muscle mass on your body. Off The Floor was written by consummate deadlift coaching professional and world record holder David Dellanave to be the ultimate guide to the ultimate strength builder, the deadlift. In addition to being a comprehensive manual on the king of all lifts, Off The Floor includes several deadlift strength programs, including the renowned Off The Floor program. Here are some of the secrets revealed in the program: How the common mantra of "core training" is costing you pounds and risking your back health. What type of deadlift will widen your back, blow up your traps, and give you erectors like tree trunks. Not doing these lesser-known variations is easily costing you 25 to 50 pounds on your best deadlift. The truth about lifting straps - and it's probably not what you expect it to be. Deadlifting for high volumes - the piece you're missing. The one cheap thing you should add to your gym bag to nearly instantly give you jacked forearms. The deadlift variation you least expect is the one most likely to help your back pain. The weird-looking deadlift that might be exactly what you need to unlock greater strength. The key to perfect form that multiple world champion and freak of nature Dimitry Klokov knows, and you think is wrong. Why you must change your form when you progress from beginner to a more advanced deadlifter. How to deadlift more often - and put on more muscle - than you ever thought possible. The manual is as comprehensive as they come, and includes information on: Biofeedback Training 101: Everything you need to know to start implementing Biofeedback Training for yourself. You're going to learn how to use the most advanced piece of training technology on the planet to tell you how to train smarter. Hint: it's not a Tendo, an OmegaWave, or an iPhone with a gadget attached to it. Deadlift Training Guide: Lessons I've learned on my quest to become a human crane - and coaching hundreds of people along the way. Beginner Section: New to deadlifting or strength training in general? This section will get you off on the right foot, so you DON'T make the mistakes I made when I was new. Deadlift Exercise Library: Every critical deadlift variation you need to know. Think the deadlift is as simple as conventional or Romanian? Think again. These variants of the deadlift are the key to unlocking faster gains and unlimited progress. The Off The Floor Program: I'm going to be honest, in the end I want you to use Biofeedback Training to become the master of your own programming, but before you're ready to do that you need a stopgap. The Off The Floor program is going to outline exactly how to implement all the concepts I lay out in the book for maximum results. Accessory Exercise Library: I would sign up for a program that involved nothing but deadlifting, but unfortunately you'd be shortchanging your results. Carefully chosen accessory lifts will round out your strength and speed up your deadlift progress. Special Topics Section: Want to know how to destroy the competition at your first (or next) meet? Have a nagging weak spot in your pull? Curious about the core controversy? This section will finally answer these questions for you once and for all.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492933250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Off The Floor is the most comprehensive deadlift manual ever written, which will give you the tools and knowledge to finally put pounds on your deadlift and pack muscle mass on your body. Off The Floor was written by consummate deadlift coaching professional and world record holder David Dellanave to be the ultimate guide to the ultimate strength builder, the deadlift. In addition to being a comprehensive manual on the king of all lifts, Off The Floor includes several deadlift strength programs, including the renowned Off The Floor program. Here are some of the secrets revealed in the program: How the common mantra of "core training" is costing you pounds and risking your back health. What type of deadlift will widen your back, blow up your traps, and give you erectors like tree trunks. Not doing these lesser-known variations is easily costing you 25 to 50 pounds on your best deadlift. The truth about lifting straps - and it's probably not what you expect it to be. Deadlifting for high volumes - the piece you're missing. The one cheap thing you should add to your gym bag to nearly instantly give you jacked forearms. The deadlift variation you least expect is the one most likely to help your back pain. The weird-looking deadlift that might be exactly what you need to unlock greater strength. The key to perfect form that multiple world champion and freak of nature Dimitry Klokov knows, and you think is wrong. Why you must change your form when you progress from beginner to a more advanced deadlifter. How to deadlift more often - and put on more muscle - than you ever thought possible. The manual is as comprehensive as they come, and includes information on: Biofeedback Training 101: Everything you need to know to start implementing Biofeedback Training for yourself. You're going to learn how to use the most advanced piece of training technology on the planet to tell you how to train smarter. Hint: it's not a Tendo, an OmegaWave, or an iPhone with a gadget attached to it. Deadlift Training Guide: Lessons I've learned on my quest to become a human crane - and coaching hundreds of people along the way. Beginner Section: New to deadlifting or strength training in general? This section will get you off on the right foot, so you DON'T make the mistakes I made when I was new. Deadlift Exercise Library: Every critical deadlift variation you need to know. Think the deadlift is as simple as conventional or Romanian? Think again. These variants of the deadlift are the key to unlocking faster gains and unlimited progress. The Off The Floor Program: I'm going to be honest, in the end I want you to use Biofeedback Training to become the master of your own programming, but before you're ready to do that you need a stopgap. The Off The Floor program is going to outline exactly how to implement all the concepts I lay out in the book for maximum results. Accessory Exercise Library: I would sign up for a program that involved nothing but deadlifting, but unfortunately you'd be shortchanging your results. Carefully chosen accessory lifts will round out your strength and speed up your deadlift progress. Special Topics Section: Want to know how to destroy the competition at your first (or next) meet? Have a nagging weak spot in your pull? Curious about the core controversy? This section will finally answer these questions for you once and for all.
Book from the Ground
Author: Bing Xu
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.
Tricks of the Floor Trader
Author: Neal Weintraub
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9781557389138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Every trader will want to explore these practical, easy-to-use money-making tips from a 10-year veteran of the trading floor. Neil Weintraub describes the strategies and tactics used by floor traders and how to incorporate them successfully. Throughout, Weintraub unveils an extraordinary amount of information on how pros make money in today's fast-paced trading pits.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9781557389138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Every trader will want to explore these practical, easy-to-use money-making tips from a 10-year veteran of the trading floor. Neil Weintraub describes the strategies and tactics used by floor traders and how to incorporate them successfully. Throughout, Weintraub unveils an extraordinary amount of information on how pros make money in today's fast-paced trading pits.
Taking the Floor
Author: Daniel Beunza
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204772
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today’s financial system Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations? Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations. Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204772
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today’s financial system Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations? Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations. Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.