Bernstein Books

Absolute Wilson by Katharina Otto-Bernstein is a definitive must have document covering the work of Bob Wilson, one of the great geniuses of Avant Garde theatre. It accompanies the film of the same name. It covers his early work from the sixties going right through and giving valuable, frank and honest insights with contributions from many people close to him and the evolution of his extraordinary work from original creations like 'Deafman Glance', 'Einstein on the Beach' to his interpretations of classic operas including Mozart's Magic Flute' and Wagners 'Ring'. Inspiring, Beautifully illustrated and impossible to put down. A must have for anyone interested in his work which touches theatre, dance, opera and defies all categorisation

Enhanced with some 400 color illustrations and photographs, Absolute Wilson: The Biography showcases the life and work of avant-garde visionary, artist and stage designer Robert Wilson. Documentarian, filmmaker, and producer Katharina Otto-Bernstein was provided with complete access to Wilson and traces his career from his Texas childhood to his present-day studio at the Watermill Center on Long Island. Absolute Wilson reveals the artist's creative process, his unconventional techniques, how he chooses his collaborators (documenting their often turbulent relationships), and Wilson's famous "think Tank". Enhanced with interviews with family members, friends and colleagues ranging from Philip Glass and David Byrne to Susan Sontag and John Rockwell, Absolute Wilson is a definitively informed and informative, 288-page introduction to one of the most influential and talented men working in the arts today.

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From Billboards to Street Furniture, this book covers it all. I got my start building Billboards and ideas gleemed from this book. The information is "pound-for-pound" a great guide to the history, present and future of outdoor advertising. If just one person with vision would read this book, you might find he'll be the next Ted Turner, Wayne Huizenga BOTH took it outdoor to make a fortune. Way to go David!

the text is informative, & put in an manner that makes following & remembering the info, very easy.

I read this book and find it is an exccellent guide to the care of our emerging elderly. I understand that it is also very popular with the Youth In Asia and russia.

Dr. Bernstein has impressive credentials and years of experience; experience not only in the deductive abstracions of statistics but a great deal of research where statistical formulae were put into use. Thus he brings a knowledge of how statistics can be meaningfully used. This book can help avoid the tendency of many researchers to plug numbers into a formula they do not understand in order to appear "scientific."

This is undoubtedly one of the best texts written on the topic.

This is an excellent book for those thinking of entering into the practice of bankruptcy. It is a no frills practical approach to chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy. Definitely recommended.

Bankruptcy in Practice is an excellent overview of US bankruptcy law. If you are new to the field, it is probably the best single book you can read to develop an understanding of the banrkuptcy laws and how they operate in practice. The book provides many examples, so you learn not only what the law says but how it works in the real-world. Although this is an introductory book, it also provides valuable strategic insights that more experienced professionals will appreciate. And, unlike most law books, Bankruptcy in Practice is clearly written, using plain language. You don't have to be a lawyer to understand it. This book would be ideal for new bankruptcy lawyers but also for general practice lawyers, law or business students, bankers, finance professionals, fund managers, distressed debt investors, financial advisors, and any individuals or companies that are contemplating a bankruptcy filing.

ok, full disclosure, i have a story in this anthology, so when i say "it's so good you have to buy it right now!" i am acting partly out of self-interest. (meaning if you DO buy it, check out the story "Depression Halved Production Costs.")

BUT i also think this anthology is absolutely amazing in ways that have nothing to do with my story, probably largely because Mattilda was the editor, and Mattilda does not f*ck around, but also because it has writers like Dennis Cooper and Alexander Chee in it, whose work is reason to keep on living.

SO if you're thinking to yourself, 'i should buy an anthology of gay erotica,' well, there's billions to choose from, and i think this should be the one.

I don't usually read Best Gay Erotica, but I saw that Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore was the editor this year and I rushed out to get a copy (he wrote Pulling Taffy, which drove me wild). On the back cover, Sycamore says, "this book is dangerous and lovely, just like you," and he does not disappoint. I was surprised at the amazing variety of stories, from a teenager having sex with Allen Ginsberg to bathroom cruising that takes on more meaning than you can imagine, to military sex with a TV screen. Be sure to check out stories by Kirk Read, Trebor Healey, Thorn Kief Hillsbery, and Steve Zeeland, and Sycamore's incredible introduction. There's so much variety here, and what's especially impressive is the high quality, creativity and nonstop energy of the writing.

I've used this cookbook for family dinners, entertaining, holiday cooking, and more. I've never been disappointed! From simple to moderately complex, the recipes I've tried have always produced good results.

Even better, the recipes use every day ingredients to achieve their results.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in reliable food for any occasion.

As its title suggests, this cookbook presents both tried-and-true and updated recipes that will appeal to kosher and non-kosher cooks alike. The type is clear and easy to read and the recipes are realistic for today's cook, both in terms of ingredients and time involved. There are no gorgeous photographs of what the finished dish should look like - but then again, it never does! My daughter uses the recipes to impress her new boyfriend, and I use them to relieve the terminal boredom of preparing yet another meal

What do poetry slams have in common with traditional poetry readings?
More than one may think.

Close Listening, edited by Charles Bernstein, offers 17 perspectives on how contemporary poetry has been practiced as a performance art. Nearly ten years after its initial publication, this book remains fresh and stimulating.

Much literary criticism has neglected the auditory and performance aspects of the poem, Bernstein writes. But a poem's sound and its meaning are aspects of each other, neither prior, neither independent.

This collection of essays argues against the assumption that a poem's text is primary, while a poet's performance of the poem is secondary, and fundamentally inconsequential to the "poem itself." Bernstein observes that, in a poetry performance, explicit value is placed almost exclusively on the acoustic production of a single unaccompanied speaking voice.

Contributors include Bruce Andrews, Marjorie Perloff, Ron Silliman, Susan Howe, and others; some performers in their own right.

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From the publisher:

Close Listening and the Performed Word brings together seventeen essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sounds of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been negligible. This collection opens many new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry, with special attention to innovative work. More important, the essays collected here offer wide-ranging elucidations of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art. The contributors cover topics that range from the performance styles of individual poets and types of poetry to the relation of sound to meaning, from historical and social approaches to poetry readings and to new imaginations of prosody. Such approaches are intended to encourage new forms of "close listenings"--not only to the printed text of poems, but also to tapes, performances, and other expressions of the sounded word. With readings and "spoken word" events gaining an increasing audience for poetry, Close Listening provides an indispensable critical groundwork for understanding the importance of language in--and as--performance.

Contents: Charles Bernstein, Introduction

Sound's Measures

Susan Stewart, Letter on Sound

Nick Piombino, The Aural Ellipsis and the Nature of Listening in Contemporary Poetry

Bruce Andrews, Praxis: A Political Economy of Noise and Informalism

Marjorie Perloff, After Free-Verse: The New Non-Linear Poetries

Susan Howe, Either/Ether

Performing Words

Johanna Drucker, Visual Performance of the Poetic Text Steve McCaffery, Voice in Extremis

Dennis Tedlock, Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability

Bob Perelman, Speech Effects: The Talk as Genre

Peter Quartermain, Sound Reading

Close Hearings / Historical Settings

Jed Rasula, Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding

Peter Middleton, The Contemporary Poetry Reading

Lorenzo Thomas, Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement

Maria Damon, Was that "Different," "Dissident" or "Dissonant"? Poetry (n) the Public Speak: Slams, Open Readings and Dissident Traditions

Susan Schultz, Local Vocals: Hawai'i's Pidgin Literature, Performance, and Postcoloniality

Afterword

Ron Silliman, Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading

Rare texts, and very useful for any psychologist. Bernstein should be taught in any psychological program, especially describing behavioural acts.

This book is an extraordinary combination of a piece of history with the state-of-the-art research in the field of motor control. It contains a translation of a popular-science book by the Russian physiologist Nicholai A. Bernstein, and then a few commentaries describing the current state of the research in the field of motor control. Bernstein is one of the pioneers in the research of motor control and his book describes in a simple language the main properties and problems that are to be solved in order to understand the amazing dexterity of human motor control. Dexterity is in finding a motor solution for any situation and in any conditions. Bernstein describes many nice tails and legend to illustrate this ability, such as the Bible legend about the giant Goliath and young David, who defeated the giant with dexterity. Then he describes the origin and construction of movement and the problem of the excess degrees of freedom, which is referred to in the scientific literature as the Bernstein problem. This problem is due to the biological system being redundant. Redundancy is by no mean redundant, it contributes to the flexibility and reliability of the system, therefor I prefer to relate to the redundancy as a virtue rather then a problem. Bernstein considers redundancy as the main distinction between the motor apparatus in man and the higher animals and artificial devices, and after half of a century this problem is still open and we keep trying to understand and imitate the great dexterity that nature developed in controlling redundant systems. This book is recommended for the general scientific oriented public, such as the readers of Scientific American and especially to students in engineering and in medicine that are interested in the field of motor control

Good practical advice for a healthy way to cope with the obesity epidemics. So cool how to see that modern research like e.g. Gary Taubes' excelent "Good Calories, Bad calories" tend to support the conclusions of these early authors.

"Plenty of whole food and plenty of fresh air are not only the reliable treatment for overweight, but also the means to a full, happy, and long life" (p.11). This book is about dieting, and a guide to energy, food, fitness, and health. It explains why calorie counting and unbalanced diets do not work, but often lead to fatigue, depression, and malnutrition. Energy expenditure and balanced food intake will allow you to stay thin.

Chapter 8 "All you Need To Know" sums up this book in thirty short paragraphs on 6 pages. You can read this first as a quick guide to the rest of this book. It will give you the knowledge to eat wisely. The first ten points tell the effects of dieting on the human body. The next ten points tell why people in Western countries tend to get fat. The last ten points tell how to lose fat and gain health.

Following are some interesting quotes from this book. Page 26 notes those insurance company weight tables created during the Great Depression. (Were they ever proven to be valid?) When he added up the calories in the diet books he found their reasoning to be preposterous (p.34). Measurements showed that fat people ate less than thin people (p.35)! So the answer is "metabolism". After the author started running as a hobby, he lost weight and fat, and could then eat and drink what he wanted (p.43). Activity, not dieting, reduces weight and fat. Dieting causes a loss of glycogen and water, and low blood sugar levels. The result is weakness, depression, irritation, tiredness, and sometimes faintness and dizziness. Dieting is like famine or starvation, and causes involuntary changes (p.50). Dieting slows down metabolism, a fact that makes "most diet books so much waste paper" (p.59). Overfeeding causes a person's metabolic rate to speed up when asleep of at rest (p.62). Your metabolic rate determines whether you'll stay slim, or get fat easily. Activity will change your metabolic rate, exercise will build lean tissue.

Eating a lot of sugar is bad because it contains no vitamins or minerals. Its digestion subtracts nutrients from the body. The most nutritious parts of meat (blood and guts) are usually discarded (p.81). Heart disease and obesity become epidemic about twenty years after a population starts to consume more than seventy pounds of sugar a year (p.102). Be aware that many processed foods are high in sugar (Table I, p.115). Pages 127-8 tell of a painless and effortless manner to lose weight: eat four slices of whole wheat bread before each meal. If you want to lose fat and gain health, do not go on a diet and do not eat processed foods, especially sugar (p.129).

Some food of animal origin is exceptionally nutritious: fish, game animals and game birds above all. Their flesh is lower in fat, and their fats are high in essential fatty acids (p.15). (Another argument for hunting?) He tells of a study that compared runners to sedentary people; the former were lighter than the latter, yet ate more. "Lose weight, eat more. Gain weight, eat less" (p.175).

So what about all those "fast days" promulgated by some religions in the springtime? I think it was an attempt to modify people's metabolisms so as to extend dwindling food supplies. A true "miracle of the loaves and fishes"?