retrospective

Vietnam: A Retrospective
$39.99
If you approach this collection for what it is - U.S. government information, documentary, and propaganda films, you will find it fascinating. Remember the Army "Big Picture" television series from the 1960s? Several of those Saturday morning made for TV information films are here. How about Hollywood filmmaker John Ford? Here is his controversial USIA documentary that he produced, "Vietnam, Vietnam" from 1971, narrated by a gung-ho Charlton Heston. This hawkish view of the Vietnam War was withdrawn before it was distributed because the tide of public opinion about the war had changed by the time of its release, so the USIA canned it. What was the average soldier shown? How about a very campy and hilarious information film on VD titled "Where the Girls Are"? Blood and guts - see the classic "Battle of Khe Sanh", or how it was for the average soldier in "Another Day of War". Remember Jack Webb in the movie "Drill Sergeant", well here is the U.S. government version that tells the story of a hard-nosed drill sergeant who instructs, shapes, and molds new recruits and draftees into soldiers preparing to be sent to Vietnam. All in all, if placed in context of the times, there is much to learn and admire from this varied collection of archival film preserved in the National Archives.

Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield
$11.98
Heroes that set the mood of the young in the Sixties to inspire all that country-rock developed into later...A Collector's item to listen to and in the future to be kept in the Museum....

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
$29.95
Does your team tune out during retrospectives? Is your team bored from weekly sessions of "what did we do well?" and "what could we do better"? This book can help.

Agile is really about building learning teams. It doesn't matter where you are at today. The crucial thing is to strive to do better next week. And the week after that. Retrospectives are the key tool we have to critically review where we are at and what we can do, as a team, to continually improve. Diana and Esther give us both a powerful structure for facilitating effective retrospectives and excellent activities to slot into that structure. The books is extremely well laid out with activities grouped into sections that provide concise descriptions of activities that you can use right away.

Using this book you can plan effective, fresh retrospectives in ten to twenty minutes.

Every agile team should have a copy of this book!

Retrospective
$11.94
By far the best overview of one of America's Greatest Musicians. To take parts of Classical, C&W, Rock, Blues, Jazz, blend them together so in most cases you can't really classify to a single style. If you are a person who trys to order one CD of your favorite musicians, this is the one. By the way, ever wonder why you don't hear more Leon on the radio? Most Radio Stations are owned by large conglomerates that provide playlist to their radio stations. The lists include Artist with contracts with Major Labels that play the Conglomerates large sumes of money to play songs by artist the record companies pay lots of $$$ to have played.
Leon is no longer a contracted Artist. I recently promoted a show for Leon with the local 70's and 80's station. when I asked if they cold play some of his music even before or after ads for his concert, The Program Director almost cut e off and yelled, "NO!, He's not on our play list!"