A Master Course in Feng-Shui

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This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal useâto choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as a reference manual. The text and exercises proceed in systematic fashion from basic principles to specific projects, covering the following lessons: Evaluating the landscape and external environment by using the techniques of the Landform School Using the geomantic compass to chart patterns of energy within a building Planning the usage of space Matching occupants to a house Deciding on the placement of furniture Improving the feng-shui of a building with countermeasures, enhancers, and renovations Building a new house Choosing or designing an apartment, business suite, or retail space

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Good.......2007-09-12

There are not many good books on classical feng shui in the market. This is one of them. This book is very detailed and informative. Feng Shui is a very sophisticated art and many books out there either over-simplify the subject or the just do not have a clue. However it can get a little dry sometimes but if you are serious enthusiast, this is a minor problem. Eva Wong should write more books.

Finally!.......2007-08-24

Finally, someone has decided pull the veil off of feng shui and make its "secrets" available to all of us. This book is an invaluable tool to architects, designers, and other building professionals who wish to incorporate the principles of feng shui into their new construction or remodel projects.

After two books that promised much and delivered little (leaving me very frustrated), I can't say it enough:

Thank you Eva!

A Master Course,,,indeed..........2007-03-08

It is an excellent book. At least for a person like me, who doesn't have any experience or knowledge about this topic. Great book...

Review by CK Cheng, Singapore.......2006-11-23

This book is probably suitable for Xuan Kong Flying Stars Feng Shui fans. The materials covered are significant and vastly different from the other titles e.g. abridged books. It devotes two sections to structures and land forms and explores in depth, the facing of buildings and proper usage of a compass or geomancer luopan to set up flying star charts before touching on flying stars topics proper. Therefore it is a serious book for true Fengshui fans or students who wish to gain more knowledge and information of authentic Feng Shui.

However readers who have an immediate-advanced knowledge of the Chinese metaphysical systems will probably have a better time understanding some of the concepts e.g. conditional interactions (see He-Tu combinations).

Furthermore, using a 'cook-book' format, there are little details regarding the theories (recipes) and their formulation. It is more suitable for practical and results oriented readers. As the book is not a treatise, rather a textbook, concepts are favored over critical reasoning regarding formulas and their derivations.

There are however, important assertions made by Ms Eva Wong regarding certain tricky and controversial topics. For example, for apartments, she stated facing may vary according to units and proceeds to provide clear illustrations. The topic on houses with competing facings was covered. These are topics shunned by other 'popular' books.

Great book!.......2006-08-17

I've bought several book on Feng Shui and this one is my favorite - illustrations, explanations, very user-friendly and interesting. I would recommend.

Curso Avanzado de Feng-Shui/ A Master Course in Feng-Shui: Una Guia Avanzada Para Escoger, Disenar Y Resaltar Los Espacios Donde Vivimos / An In-Depth ... Enhance the Spa (Cuerpo - Mente / Body-Mind)

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Curso Avanzado de Feng-Shui/ A Master Course in Feng-Shui: Una Guia Avanzada Para Escoger, Disenar Y Resaltar Los Espacios Donde Vivimos / An In-Depth ... Enhance the Spa (Cuerpo - Mente / Body-Mind)
Eva Wong
Manufacturer: GAIA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Un programa completo para aprender a escoger, diseñar y embellecer los espacios donde vivimos y trabajamos.

Master Course in Feng-Shui: An in Depth Program for Learning to Choose, Design, and Enhance the Spaces Where We Live and Work

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Master Course in Feng-Shui: An in Depth Program for Learning to Choose, Design, and Enhance the Spaces Where We Live and Work
Eva Wong
Manufacturer: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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"Because death belongs to all, so too should life," observes Portuguese writer José Saramago in a preface to this remarkable volume of black-and-white images. But death is easy and life is hard in Sebastião Salgado's native Brazil, where exploitation of labor and mechanization of agriculture have combined to paint a bleak future for the country's rural population. Even the faces of small children are clouded with despair in this book, which is at once a testament to human courage and a powerful argument for agrarian reform--a long-promised and long-delayed reform that has led to a bloody struggle to take possession of unused land in private hands.

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A lesson in empathy!!!.......2003-03-27

A poignant illustration of the landless plight in Brazil! As evidenced by another reviewer, this book has the ability to thaw the heart of even the most ultra conservative (e.g. "Most of the people in these photographs have extremely difficult lives, due to a twist of fate rather than a personal choice.") They are landless because most middle-class Brazilians view the landless as making horrible life choices as opposed to being pushed by the wind of fate...and ironically they think descendents of Africans in the United States have much to teach "their" Amerindians and African populations about success. The irony! Yes, read it, see it, and see yourself.

Will blow you away, you will not know yourself..........2002-12-19

I took a look at this book in a book store, here in Berkeley Ca. The people you meet as you flip thru the photos make you want to re-examine your own life. Most of the people in these photographs have extremely difficult lives, due to a twist of fate rather than a personal choice. Salgado has not photographed them for pity or to gain sympathy from you, as much as he has shown you a side of yourself... and I am not talking about a "mirror" either. (I am talking about the side that you CAN'T see without Salgado's camera)

These people struggle and may suffer personal tragedies, but there is dignity in their souls. When you see these people, they may not be in control of their fate, whatever terrible fate it may be, but they are in control of their hearts. The blood that runs through the veins of the people Salgado introduced me to, in the photos from the other side of the globe, flows deeper, and redder, and richer than does the blood in my world...

Their lives are fleeting and so is yours my friend, but I believe they have wings; we do not. While you and I are burdened with the weight of unfunny jokes and political scandals, they are free, burdened only with broken hearts and bones that heal fast and clean...

I could not afford the price of the book myself, I could barely afford to stand there as long as I did reading the book; I mean how long can one view a side of oneself so rarely llumiminated?

Once I thought, all I needed to know was God, or to know a beautiful woman, or maybe just smile to bystanders... but I realize I KNOW NOTHING... and that leaves a lot for me to want to know, still. Good luck to you if you should get this book.

A mirror pointed at our soul.......1997-09-02

Once again, Sebastiao Salgado is back, and with two heavy weights by his side: Jose Saramago (preface) and Chico Buarque (poems).
Like all his previous works, the camera that made `Terra' points to the heart of all human being worthy of that classification; with Chico's poems pointing at each ones soul and Saramago's pen pointing at our conscience (and that of God), if this book does not make us see the world in a whole different way, then we better worry before looking at the mirror...
Fernando Gouveia (fgouveia@marao.utad.pt), Vila Real, Portugal

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Lawyers and More Lawyers

Just great

irreverent and hilarious!

The Non Sequitur Survival Guide for the Nineties
Wiley Miller
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Lawyers and More Lawyers.......2006-08-01

Wiley likes lawyers. Or no, actually maybe not.

It's interesting to see how much this has evolved into something of a daily New Yorker panel written for the Washington Post from its origins as a relatively (logical.. pro-sequitur?) series of little picture stories played out in the Sunday papers. I remember when the life cycle of a mosquito (or dragonfly, or just bug?) was first printed. Interesting to note he draws all his dailies twice (long and square formats) and I think maybe some of the Sunday panels too.

It's worthwhile to check out Homer and Danae as well, but expect to do a lot more thinking. Those strips harken back to the days when people used to READ the comics. I think I might use that line in another review now.

Just great.......2001-03-26

This book is incredably funny. It will make your day.

irreverent and hilarious!.......1999-07-30

This is my kind of humor - often reminds me of G. Wilson (Gaham - sp?) style... I want to buy a collection of his "Homer" adventures. Wiley, you're a genius!

The Non Sequitur Survival Guide for the Nineties

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Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Air War in the Words of the Men Who Lived It.......2001-03-04

'B-17's over Berlin', edited by the respected British air historian Ian Hawkins, is a collection of stories told by the men of the US 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group, about their experiences in World War II. It is a labor of love of the men of the 95th Bomb Group and a fitting tribute to their contributions to the Allied victory over Hitler in the skies over Europe. The 95th is known as the first bomb group to bomb Berlin. Early in the war, Hermann Goring boasted that if Allied bombers ever appeared over Berlin, his name would be Meyer-an obvious anti-Semetic snub. Of course, by the time the B-17's of the 95th appeared over Berlin, Goring had pressing problems of a more serious nature--how to stop the Allies from bombing his cities into submission and how best to produce and allocate his own air resources. This story is told by many different men, divided more or less chronologically and following their progress from training through war's end. The result is an excellent portrayal of life in the 8th, from terrifying missions over Europe to the occurances of everyday life back on the base in England. The book is full of photos carefully chosen by Col. Ed Charles, the 95 Bomb Group's able historian. If a reader wants to get a feel for life in a bomber group during the war, this is the book to read, and I recommend it without reservation.

It's a great read !.......1999-06-21

This was a true tale of history. As you read this book, you are drafted into active duty serving prouduly in the (ETO). Good bless every member of the 8th Air Force 95th Air Group. They are truly America's Best!

B-17s Over Berlin: Personal Stories From the 95th Bomb Group (H)

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