In an amusing, playful tone, with charming candid examples of this own children, photographer Arthur Elgort provides a plethora of wonderful advice on getting the best photographs of children. Offering strategic hints on how to keep a subject's attention and setting up shots, Elgort also gives practical advice on storing film, keeping track of negatives and prints, types of cameras, and more. 250+ photos and illustrations.

As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in the seventies, Arthur Burns had a unique view of the Nixon administration. Burns first joined the Nixon administration as an advisor in 1969 and was privy to the dynamics of the president's coterie over the course of six tumultuous years. Now the recently released secret diary of this top-level economist offers a surprisingly candid inside look at Richard Nixon's fall. The diary tracks Burns's growing awareness of Nixon's behind-the-scenes maneuverings and worrisome behavior (such as "insane shouting") and reveals how such things undermined his respect and enthusiasm for the president. Perhaps even more telling, Burns's evaluations of his colleagues provide piercing insights into the president's inner circle, including Henry Kissinger ("a brilliant political analyst, but admittedly ignorant of economics"), George Schultz ("a no less confused amateur economist"), John Connally ("a thoroughly confused politician"), and the "vulgarians" H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman-the only people he thought Nixon felt relaxed around. The Burns diary also offers rare and telling glimpses into the era's economy--particularly an account of how Nixon exerted political pressure to shape monetary policies that helped to fuel the stagflation of the 1970s. The administration sought to close the so-called gold window, an approximate valuation of dollars with gold bullion, by floating the dollar, and the consensus over many years has been that Nixon himself arranged this-speculation now confirmed by Burns's diary. It also underscores the growing pressure Burns felt to serve the needs of Nixon's reelection bid rather than the economic welfare of the nation. Sequestered for decades and unavailable until 2008, this document reveals an honest and relatively apolitical man surrounded by partisans in top administrative positions who were dishonest, inept-or both. "The President has many shortcomings," wrote Burns. "He has few convictions, but now and then he gets into a euphoric mood where he wants to persuade himself that he's a statesman. But his sycophantic advisers cannot even recognize that." Deftly annotated by distinguished historian Robert Ferrell, who provides effective historical context and perspective, the Burns diary is a potent-and poignant-testament to the Machiavellian and often Byzantine world of American presidential politics.

The office of tomorrow is already with us. You can see it in coffee shops, airport lounges and hotel lobbies across the world. It's called the mobile office and in some instances consists of only a laptop and a wireless broadband card. Even now mobile office options are evolving rapidly and the bewildering range of add-ons is growing every day. Ironically, the choices meant to make your life simpler and more productive are in fact becoming more and more complex. Arthur Goldstuck has once again come to the rescue. This vital roadmap guides you through the jungle of competing products and connectivity options, and helps you to decipher the hard-sell you are bombarded with daily. Should you upgrade now? Should you wait for the next version? Are you being led down an electronic dead-end? This book answers such questions with insights into older technologies that are still viable, practical advice on current office options and predictions on what will arrive in the near future. Whether you are self-employed, an entrepreneur looking to start up a small business or a corporate looking to become more efficient, this book could hold the key to your streamlined success.

Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion, the opening of the human heart to God’s presence, to be the purpose of its entire edifice of praxis, liturgy, and way of life. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism’s biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Arthur Green’s own quest for such a Judaism—as a rabbi, as a scholar, and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green’s scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man’s attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, and an array of voices both past and present while always focusing on the essential questions: “What does it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach us about how to be one?” This, the author considers to be the heart of the matter.

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(Amadeus). A full biography of a composer whose work extended far beyond the operettas for which he is known today.

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This selection of essays, book-reviews, broadcast talks and papers delivered to learned societies reflects the extraordinary breadth of Arthur Koestler's interests. From the trial of Galileo to the pleasures of canoeing down the Loire, from a detailed examination of the 'memory' of flatworms to an equally detailed examination of the futility of quarantining dogs, the author writes about a vast range of subjects which occupied his attention in the twelve years (1955-1967) covered by this collection. Those were the years that saw, among many other works, the publication of his great trilogy about the mind of man: THE SLEEPWALKERS, THE ACT OF CREATION, and THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE. It is not surprising therefore, that many of these essays elaborate certain aspects of arguments which occur in those books. They could, as the author says in his Preface, 'be called variations on certain themes', and the selection of books reviewed also reveals a certain thematic coherence. There is, however, a great deal of miscellaneous material, quite different in nature from Koestler's scientific preoccupations, with which he has been so closely associated in recent years. This includes the subjects of his 'crusades', such as the campaign for the abolition of hanging, the scandal of our quarantine laws, some escapist travel essays, and some controversies in which he became engaged. Like everything Koestler writes, DRINKERS OF INFINITY not only stimulates the mind, but gives the greatest pleasure to the reader while doing so.

First published in 1963, this is an enquiry into the state of Britain. It was edited by Arthur Koestler and contains essays by contributors who include Henry Fairlie, Malcolm Muggeridge, Goronwy Rees, Michael Shanks, Andrew Shonfield, Austen Albu, Aidan Crawley, John Cole, Hugh Seton-Watson, John Mander, John Grigg (Lord Altrincham), Cyril Connolly, Marcus Cunliffe, Alan McGlashan, Elizabeth Young and John Vaizey.

In Myself When Young, Arthur Krock returns to a way of life only briefly explored in his Memoirs, to a time and a place long past, yet here richly and fully recaptured. From 1887 to 1910, Krock grew up in the fields and streets of rural and urban Kentucky, learning about the world around him, and eventually, about the particular world of newspaper journalism. With a keen eye and a clear prose, Krock brings back those days — the lazy summer afternoons and sense of community of rural Glasgow, the bustling excitement and activity of Louisville. He recreates the big brick house he lived in, surrounded by uncles and aunts and ruled by the strict but gentle hand of his grandfather; the rituals of country courting and of melon-patch raiding in August; the pleasures of a very infor- mal type of fox-hunting, in which the hounds and handlers went chasing while the "hunters" sat on a hill and drank bourbon. He recalls fiery camp meetings, led by Negro preachers and filled with spirituals; tumultuous Saturday nights, when normally peaceable citizens displayed a "special inclination to violence under the influence of alcohol"; breezy stagecoach rides to near-by villages; and the exciting process of learning the "three useful things" — how to ride, shoot, and draw a bow. And then he moves to Louisville and the picture changes to the rough-and-tumble world of newspaper reporting with its legendary figures like editor Henry Watterson, with his one blazing blue eye, and cartoonist Fontaine Fox, creator of the Toonerville Trolley. He creates a penetrating portrait of the fierce newspaper competition in 1907 and of Louisville in general: its atmosphere, social life, and entertainments, its prominent personalities and characters, like Mother Savage, the proprietress of Louisville's famed theatrical boarding house. And Krock talks about his initiation into politics, his stories resounding with the likes of William Jennings Bryan, William Taft, William Randolph Hearst, and local figures like the "mountain of a man," Senator Ollie James. The book ends with Krock's triumphant arrival in Washington, D.C., in 1910, the beginning for him of a "new and awesome phase of national journalism that was to post me twice in Washington: for the Haldeman papers (1910-1915) and for the New York Times (1932-1966)." This is a warmly nostalgic memoir of another age, a book both entertaining and informative about the details of Arthur Krock's personal life — and about the whole way of life of the simpler American society that preceded World War I. "There have been localities in a span of history in which the conditions of living seem to have overbalanced the human bent for destruction and the day-to-day problems were minimal in comparison with the pleasure of existence. This was true of the region where one individual, myself, grew to young manhood."

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