Critics, Ratings, and Society is the first comprehensive study of the review as social institution. Its theories and data encompass reviews of all types of products--including the arts (e.g. theater, books, and music) and consumer products (e.g. cars, software, and appliances). According to Blank, the core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. The connoisseurial-procedural distinction describes the production of credibility and its assessment under different types of rating systems.
Food & Wine Wine Guide
The magazine's bestselling guide is back with new features and even more advice. Topics include buying wine online, South American wines, winery tours, and at-a-glance ratings for nearly 1,500 wines from throughout the world.
Food & Wine Wine Guide
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Critics, Ratings, and Society of Reviews: The Sociology of Reviews
Critics, Ratings, and Society is the first comprehensive study of the review as social institution. Its theories and data encompass reviews of all types of products--including the arts (e.g. theater, books, and music) and consumer products (e.g. cars, software, and appliances). According to Blank, the core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. The connoisseurial-procedural distinction describes the production of credibility and its assessment under different types of rating systems.
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Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3a
The fundamental skills and essential information necessary for piloting airplanes are introduced in this beginning aviator's guide. Pilots wishing to improve their flying proficiency and aeronautical knowledge, flyers preparing for additional certificates or ratings, and flight instructors engaged in the instruction of both students and licensed pilots will benefit from the information in this pilot resource. The official FAA reference for the aviator-in-training, many test questions for the FAA Knowledge Exams for pilots come directly from this guide.
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3a
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My Dog, The Thief
Join all the fun as Dwayne Hickman and Mary Ann Mobley star in Disney's hilarious canine caper that will steal your heart. As ratings for Jack Crandall's (Hickman) lifeless airborne traffic reports plummet, a super-size St. Bernard on the lam stows away in his chopper. Crandall's new co-pilot helps send ratings sky-high, but the canine's chronic kleptomania generates girl trouble, jewel thievery, and loads of laughs. Also featuring favorites Elsa Lanchester, Joe Flynn, and Roger C. Carmel, your whole family will howl as the big dog learns some clever new tricks.
My Dog, The Thief
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Food & Wine Wine Guide
The magazine's bestselling guide is back with new features and even more advice. Topics include buying wine online, South American wines, winery tours, and at-a-glance ratings for nearly 1,500 wines from throughout the world.
Food & Wine Wine Guide
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Consumer Reports Buying Guide
The all-new 2005 edition of "The Buying Guide" from America's most trusted shopping source contains updated product reviews and comparisons, test results and ratings. With more than 900 product ratings plus exclusive brand repair histories for many product categories, the experts identify the best products.
Consumer Reports Buying Guide
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Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda, ISBN 0689824297
A physician and a Christian priest in a time when Christians were persecuted, Valentine miraculously restores a blind girl's sight in "this retelling of a story about a saint martyred in A.D. 270. . . . Using thousands of tiny rectangular pieces resembling tiles, Sabuda replicates the effect of Roman mosaics. . . . An unusual and attractive rendition".--"Kirkus Reviews". Full color.
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Crime Fiction
"Crime Fiction" provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:
*presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
*explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as "Rational Criminal Investigation," "The Hard-Boiled Mode," "The Police...
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