Office 2000 Essentials
Author: Robert Ferrett
The Essentials series is conceived as a 'learning system' that combines graphics, instructions, experience, reinforcement, and problem solving. It consists of modular lessons that are built around a series of numbered, step-by-step procedures that are clear, concise, and easy to review. Explanatory material is interwoven before each lesson and between the steps. For anyone interested in learning Microsoft Office 2000.
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New edition of a learn-by-doing guide that helps the student to grasp application-related concepts while expanding skills through hands-on tutorials. Modular lessons built around step-by-step procedures are interwoven with explicatory material. Icons match the Microsoft Office theme. Computer specialists Ferret and John Preston (both of Eastern Michigan U.) and Sally Preston (Washtenaw Community College) present five sections that cover basics, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook and Publisher. The included CD-ROM contains data files for use with the text. Wire spiral binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and Masochistic Aesthetic
Author: Gaylyn Studlar
In a major revision of feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference, Studlar's close textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich probes the source of their visual and psychological complexity.
Borrowing from Gilles Deleuze's psychoanalytic-literary approach, Studlar shows how masochism extends beyond the clinical realm, into the arena of artistic form, language, and production of pleasure. The author's examination of the von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations shows how these films, with the mother figure embodied in the alluring yet androgynous Dietrich, offer a key for understanding film's "masochistic aesthetic."
Studlar argues that masochism's broader significance to film study lies in the similarities between the structures of perversion and those of the cinematic apparatus, as a dream screen reviving archaic visual pleasures for both male and female spectators.
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Originally published by University of Illinois Press in 1988. Reprinted here unaugmented. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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