Bungalow Bathrooms (Bungalow Basics)

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The hands-on sourcebook for creating or restoring a stylish bathroom in the Arts & Crafts spirit. In this sequel to the best-selling Bungalow Kitchens, Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen turn to the second most complex room in the house. As reflected in these pages, the bathroom can-and should-be a beautiful extension of the home style-and what better examples than those from the Arts & Crafts era. Though it may seem a self-evident feature of the Arts & Crafts style, bungalow bathrooms are truly artistic endeavors. They go beyond the traditional pedestal sink and claw-foot tub to some of the most beautiful tile work, woodwork, fixtures, and decorative elements available. Bungalow Bathrooms is a guide to restoring or designing a period-style bathroom for a bungalow or other early-twentieth-century house. It provides a wealth of information about flooring, cabinets, countertops, fixtures, faucets, and all the other elements that make up a bungalow bathroom, as well as advice on how to integrate modern technology while maintaining the bungalow look. Jane Powell, the author of Bungalow Kitchens, is the proprietor of House Dressing, a business dedicated to renovating and preserving old homes, particularly bungalows. She is the former president of the historic preservation organization in her hometown of Oakland, California. Linda Svendsen, a graduate of Music and Art High School and Parsons School of Design in New York, specializes in architectural interior and exterior photography. Her work has been seen most recently in Camps and Cottages, Bungalow Kitchens, Old House Journal, Old House Interiors, Victorian Decorating, and Lifestyles Magazine.

Customer Reviews:

Great Pictures.......2007-08-05

In the midst of planning for the remodeling of my bathroom in the Arts & Crafts style, I found this book filled with plenty of pictures and examples of bathrooms from that time period. Arts & Crafts magazines rarely show pictures of bathrooms. So it was great to have a book that was filled with such a variety of pictures as well as giving the history of this time period and tips for those who actually want to restore their bathrooms. Better money spent than trying to buy a huge amount of magazines hoping to get one picture here and there.

Not useful for building my new bungalow home.......2007-03-10

If I were restoring an old bungalow, this book probably would have been useful. The author gives explanations of "Obsessive Restoration" and a "Compromise Solution" for each part of a period Bungalow bathroom. For my new Craftsman bungalow, I merely want to bring in a few period touches, so the examples in this book were too extreme for me. Also, the author wastes too many pages discussing the history of bathrooms, which is irrelevant to me. Her companion book, "Bungalow Kitchens" is much the same.

Great for Remodels & Restorations.......2007-01-11

This book was very helpful for selecting the tile, fixtures, and faucets needed to achieve a bungalow-look for my bathroom.

No bungled bathrooms with Bungalow Bathrooms!.......2007-01-10

This little book is a goldmine for anyone who wants to put together an early 1900's bathroom. Almost everyone has seen the beautiful tiled baths of the past, but when one is trying to recreate such a room it is often hard to recall exactly what it was that made it so special. This richly illustrated book leaves no doubt. I recently wanted to put together one of these baths in my home, and finding this book made it possible beyond my wildest expectations. Anyone who has a similar project, or just wants to learn more about this style of room, will find Jane Powell's book worth its price - many times over.

best bungalow book.......2006-03-24

Together writer Jane Powell and photographer Linda Svendsen create the best bungalow books on the market. Whether you are thinking of remodelling your bathroom, changing a few details, or just want to understand the history of your bathroom, this is the book to buy.

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Nice, but 6" x 6" size is problem

Bungalow Basics: Bathrooms
Paul Duchscherer
Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764927779

Book Description

Bungalows of the early twentieth century were pleasantly small, well designed, and affordable. The same can be said of Pomegranate's Bungalow Basics books. Each book in the series spotlights a different aspect of bungalows, those charming and efficient homes that came to epitomize the Arts and Crafts style in American residences. Douglas Keister's photographs capture the results of meticulous restorations, while Paul Duchscherer's text provides concise information about bungalow design and history.

Titles in the series: Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Dining Rooms, Doors, Fireplaces, Kitchens, Living Rooms, and Porches.

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Nice, but 6" x 6" size is problem.......2004-08-08

A nice book with examples of bungalow kitchens new and old, but some of the images are too small due to the tiny size of the book, about 6" x 6". Some of these images have been used before in an earlier bungalow CD. Book offers little more than pretty pictures; a minimal list of suppliers, no details, no how-to's. If you have technical questions, such as how to integrate a 1915 cast iron kitchen sink into a new counter top, you won't find the answers here.

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Los Angeles is the home of the largest public art program in the country. The City's commitment to the arts was affirmed in 1989 by landmark ordinances that defined the meaning of public art and created a mechanism to foster the creation of art throughout the community that is unparalleled in its scope and quality. Urban Surprises invites its readers to explore the hundreds of public works of art in Los Angeles: some awe-inspiring, some poignant, and some controversial. Enhanced with neighborhood maps and beautifully-reproduced color images by photographer Dennis Keeley, the book also contains a list of program sponsors and an index to the artists themselves.

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Every day, thousands of young Asian women go to work in the sex industry, a marketplace where any desire can be satisfied for a price - despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through this sexual underworld, visiting nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for money. Orientalia: Sex In Asia reveals the concealed, yet readily available industry that thrives by fulfilling fantasy. From Thai sex emporiums and Japanese images clubs to Philippine dance halls and Taiwanese betel nut stands, Louie's travels through this undergroung subculture expose a world where the mythical archetypes of female Asian sexuality - from the submissive Madame Butterfly to the dominating Dragon Lady - are maintained. The women depicted here are at times seductive and playful, entertaining their clients with sex, massages, or simple companionship; but they can also be desperately sad or indifferent as they finish with one client and pass hours before their next encounter. At once alluring and unsettling, intimate and acute, Orientalia also features Louie's narrative of his journeys, revealing the context in which these photographs were shot, and providing further insight into this exotic, sometimes erotic, and far from quixotic industry.

Customer Reviews:

Was hoping for a little more.......2004-03-17

This book consist up a couple short essays/comments at the beginning and end with photos taking up all the inner pages. All the captions are at the back of the book instead of aligned with each photo as I would have hoped. I was looking for these captions, for more of a mix of photos/text to provide a little background into these womens lives. How or why they decided upon this lifestyle--families to take care of, survival, more money to enjoy the finer things in life, abuse, etc. Perhaps a third of the photos are nudes or partial nudes. Some are pretty good but overall I couldn't see into these womens lives without a little background help. A little more depth than photos was what I wanted, but this book is a photo book, not a graphic novel. So if you want the photos and details you might want to pass.

Orientalia: Tourist View Of The Underground.......2004-03-01

My expectations of this book was to have access to the vast dimensions of the asian sex world that expands from passion to the sad reality of sexual slavery.
I had hoped that Tracy Quan could bring this distant world to me through photographs that infiltrated beyond the surface into the very core of this interesting subject.
What I found instead was a mediocre account of various Asian women involved in the sex trade of several countries.
Quan seems to lack depth in her vision of portraying the essence of human suffering behind the scenes.
What I see is a snap shot collection of boredom amoung women in a world that seems to have few doors. There is nothing intriguing about these pictures. No sense of having any access beyond what might be considered the surface images of women at work..
The book lacks mystery. The images are simplisticly selfish
in the sense that there is nothing to wonder about beyond these subjects sitting around over lit rooms, talking on the phone, staring in mirriors, or just sleeping..

One does get a glimpse of sisterhood, of some unifying force that keeps these women from total isolation, but again it is so borderline uncommited to anything substantial, that it fades with my interst from page to page..

Overall, this is a very weak viewpoint into a world that conceals far more drama and suffering than the artist was able to capture..

prostitutes are people!.......2003-11-29

This book helps us to see that prostitutes are daughters, sisters, mothers, too. Some of the women are beautiful, some are plain. Some are posing erotically, others are sitting fully clothed, some happy, some sad --yes, prostitutes are people, too. As you can see from other reviews, this message is still needed, this is a very moving and meaningful book.

Asian Woman - More than Prostitutes?.......2003-10-29

My first reaction to Reagan Louie's photographs was that of fascination. As an American male, there is a conditioned sexual response to a photo of a prostitute. The tinge of desire fueling an intense fascination for these hyper sexual photos, and there are elements for intellectual rapture as well, the surreal normalcy of the brothel, the digging into the artist intentions...but ultimately my response is still an illusion... the compelling illusion of lust and desire. Like the morning after a drunken one-night fling, Reagan leaves me empty and wanting something deeper. Photographs are the result of a series of conscious and subconscious choices made by the artist (ala Diane Arbus), and the greater an artist awareness the greater her freedom to chose.... resulting in better art. It's too bad that SFMOMA devoted an entire exhibit to (and thus drag an audience through) an Asian American man going though an identity search through the brothels of Asia. Surely there are Asian woman who are mothers, lawyers, activists, farmers, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, political revolutionaries, economists, daughters, sisters, and wives. I have no doubt that Asian woman are more complex than an exotic sexual delicacy to be consumed by fine art enthusiasts. But perhaps that will be the work of a real artist.

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The first great Dredd saga is now available in an awesome paperback!

When a lethal plague devastates Mega-City Two, Judge Dredd volunteers to deliver the vaccine that will save its last remaining inhabitants. But first, he and his crew have to cross 1,000 miles of the Cursed Earth, the radioactive wasteland which separates the cities. With cannibals, dinosaurs, mutants and insane robots of every stripe between the Judges and their goal, it's not going to be a smooth journey...!

Featuring work by fan-favourite Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke) and Mike McMahon (Sláine, A.B.C. Warriors ), this deluxe paperback edition is a must for every Judge Dredd and 2000 AD fan!

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

There are enough problems in Mega City One for one man to deal with, but Dredd is Dredd. When a deadly disease happens in Mega City Two, Dredd volunteers to help out and take them the vaccine.

The only problem with this is it means crossing a huge stretch of Cursed Earth terrain, full of mutants and monsters. Dredd is much more likely to make it than most, so he grits his teeth and goes.

Just got to love Dredd.......2007-06-10

Classic stuff, nicely drawn and with a humor that trancends comic book lore. Very entertaining.

Jess

Complete Judge Dredd in the Cursed Earth

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dredd's best history!!

Complete Judge Dredd in the Cursed Earth
Pat Mills , and Mike McMahon
Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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dredd's best history!!.......2004-10-13

This is dredd in all glory!! megacity 2 is contaminated with a mortal virus that transform normal people in deranged cannibals before killing them, the airport is taken by the crazes, leaving only the land route as an only way to deliver the vaccine, but the cursed earth is between megacity one and megacity 2, Dredd must assemble a team to cross the cursed earth and save megacity 2, but this trip means travelling trough the devastation let by the nuclear war, a stretch of land that houses mutants, monsters, aliens,crazy robots, even dinosaurs, but this is dredd and he will make it!!
This story introduces you to the future world of judge dredd showing you everything along the way, if you want to know what dredd is all about, start with this one and be ready to be hooked on Dredd, perps!

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Bang
Dredd vs. the Cursed Earth!

Cursed Earth Asylum (Judge Dredd)
David Bishop
Manufacturer: London Bridge (Mm)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Deathmasques (Judge Dredd)

ASIN: 0352328932

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Bang.......2000-04-05

As a post-script, this appears to be the US take on the original 'Necropolis' (for which see amazon.co.uk).

Dredd vs. the Cursed Earth!.......1996-11-18

Judge Dredd and his fellow cadets enter the Cursed Earth only to meet with a variety of ominous creatures and must battle a psychic nemesis to prevent him from destroying Mega-City One.Based on the 2000 A.D. comics series. It's worth the money!

The Chronicles of Judge Dredd (Cursed Earth Part Two, Part Two)

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The Chronicles of Judge Dredd (Cursed Earth Part Two, Part Two)

Manufacturer: Titan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000C0OV4Y

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One Small 1/2" Corner Crease On Upper Right Front Cover Corne

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Cursed Earth Asylum - Judge Dredd
David Bishop
Manufacturer: London Bridge (Mm)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVRTRC

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JUDGE DREDD IN THE CURSED EARTH
Pat, Mike McMahon, Brian Bolland Mills
Manufacturer: Titan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M0J9VY

JUDGE DREDD: Deathmasques; Wetworks; The Hundredfold Problem; Dread Dominion; Cursed Earth Asylum; The Savage Amusement

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JUDGE DREDD: Deathmasques; Wetworks; The Hundredfold Problem; Dread Dominion; Cursed Earth Asylum; The Savage Amusement
Dave; John Grant; Marley, Stephen; Bishop, David Stone
Manufacturer: Virgin Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5NAJK

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The fourth most common cancer, colon and rectal cancer is diagnosed in 130,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. As with many other cancers, the treatment environment is evolving. As a patient (or the family researcher) you need up-to-date and in-depth information to participate wisely in treatment decisions. Colon & Rectal Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients & Families includes:

Characteristics of colon cancer, staging, suspected causes, and factors in prognoses
Current treatment options
Clinical trials and promising future treatments
Coping with medical tests, symptoms, and treatments
Recognizing and minimizing the impact of treatment on sexual function, libido, and fertility
Caring for and adjusting to an ostomy, whether temporary or permanent
Emotional responses to diagnosis, treatment, remission, and all other aspects of dealing with the condition. Stories from those living with colon cancer are included.

Author Lorraine Johnston, with her background in life sciences, emphasizes using knowledge to dispel fear. Those who read this book will encounter medical facts simply explained, advice to ease their daily life, and tools to be a strong advocate for themselves or a family member.

Customer Reviews:

Invaluable Reference.......2002-10-30

Within a week of my diagnosis of colon cancer, I had this book, along with "What to Do If You Get Colon Cancer" by Paul Miskovitz and Marian Betancourt, in hand. Together they provided critical information on the illness, on finding a surgeon and what questions to ask about treatment. While recovering from surgery, and now in the early stages of chemotherapy, I have kept these books by my side to guide me step-by-step. Information is presented clearly and compassionately, so that I know what might be expected as I progress through treatment. Without these guides, I would be muddling through instead of being able to take charge of my illness. They are invaluable!

very highly recommended for patient and spouse.......2001-08-09

I was recently diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer stage 3 and looked for a single specific reference. I thought this book was excellent. I am a medical doctor with a specific background in critically assessing medical evidence but learned of a lot of resources I had not been aware of, including cancer question list servers etc. I would buy it as early on in your treatment as possible -, things like choice of treatment center, surgeon, pre vs post surgery radiation are all things to try to become knowledgeable about as early on as possible. I think the tone of the book is exactly right, combining technical and lots of humane/quality of life advice (including how to talk with friends and younger family members) . My spouse who is a teacher but has no clinical background has also found the book excellent in answering her questions. I feel Lorraine Johnston has performed a real public service. Good luck to any patients and family, this book will definitely help you give quality survival its best chance!

From one who has had colon cancer.......2001-06-17

After being diagnosed with colon cancer, I started my research by reading books on the subject.

I found this book was well wriiten, but seem to focus more on explaining the disease for family or somebody wanting to provide support for a person with colon cancer. In this respect, it does a good job in explaining the disease and giving points to consider, i.e., the type of hospital, the way to reference doctors, etc.

The book did not fit what I was looking for. I wanted a more technical explanation about the disease and what to expect during the operation and post-operative period. I did not get that comfort level from this book.

extremely informative book!.......2000-03-29

This book is designed for the newly diagnosed patient with colon/rectal cancer. My mother is in this position, so I just read this book. It answered just about every question imaginable,in easy-to-understand language. It is a very comprehensive, thorough, up-to-date resource.It is set up in an easy-to-follow format. It has an outstanding appendix with tons of information, including how to further research this illness. It gives dozens of web sites for the patient/family to explore fully all of their options. It even has a cardboard fold-out booklet to keep medical notes in as treatments proceed. Just about the only thing it doesn't address in full are ways to make the patient more comfortable during chemo, etc. but it does refer to many other books that cover additional topics.

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The "real" Robert Gould Shaw is in these pages.......2006-04-02

If, like me, you have seen the film "Glory", where Matthew Broderick plays Col. Robert Gould Shaw, white commander of the black 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War, you will see only a brief a glimpse of who Shaw was in his short life. Broderick does a masterful job of capturing some of Shaw's personality, but if you want to get inside this young man's head and find out who he really was, I highly recommend reading the book, "Blue Eyed Child of Fortune", ed. by Russell Duncan.

This collection of Shaw's letters shows a far more complex and conflicted young man than Broderick was given a chance to play. While his parents burned with the abolitionist spirit of Boston's intellectual elite, Shaw struggled with his own prejudices and his own self doubts throughout his short life. Never an exemplary student, he dropped out of Harvard to work in his uncle's New York firm, but rapidly found the work boring and unsuited to him. Struggling to find his place in the world, the Civil War came along and gave him a sense of purpose and direction.

Enlisting first in the 7th New York Guards, he served until his enlistment was up, and then joined the 2nd Massachusetts, gaining position as an officer. He "saw the elephant" at Winchester, Antietam and Cedar Mountain, was slightly wounded in two of those engagements, and found out first hand about the horrors of war. During winter camp in 1862-63, his father visited with word that Shaw had been tapped by Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew to command a new black regiment. At first, Shaw refused this offer on the basis that he felt a strong bond with the men he had fought and bled with, but then changed his mind and accepted the position of Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts.

Returning home to Boston to take command of his new regiment, he was deeply conflicted over whether these men would pan out to be good soldiers, but as time wore on and they proved their worth, Shaw's respect for his men grew, as did their respect for their commanding officer. After three months training, they left for duty in South Carolina after a grand parade down Boston streets. Shaw chafed for some action for his men, and the first that they saw was the tragic raid and burning of Darien, Georgia under the command of Kansas jayhawker Col. James Montgomery. Shaw was outraged at this action and very nearly refused his orders from his commanding officer, but reluctantly had to obey and ask his men to do what he felt was utterly immoral and against the codes of war. He would write letters of protest to his father and to others.

Eventually, in his quest for real action for his men, they were assigned a diversionary action on James Island to allow Union troops to land on nearby Morris Island for a planned assault on Fort Wagner a few days later. Sustaining light casualties in a skirmish, Shaw was impressed that his men were indeed up to snuff as soldiers, and so, a few days later, after a long exhausting march in a storm to Morris Island during which they got no rest, they were assigned to the lead attack column on Fort Wagner on the evening of July 18, 1863.

Sadly, Union intelligence on Ft. Wagner was badly flawed. It was originally thought that the fort held a complement of only 300 men and that after days of relentless shelling by the Union navies, that the fort would be softened up enough to withstand a frontal Union assault. However, most of Wagner's nearly 1500 men were in a massive bombproof riding out the shelling, and so, when the Union assault began with the 54th leading the attack column, they took the heaviest casualties, including the young Col. Shaw, who foresaw his own demise while speaking to Lt. Col. Edward "Ned" Hallowell, his second-in-command, while on a steamer on the way to their assignment: "If I could only live a few weeks longer with my wife, and be at home a little while, I might die happy, but it cannot be. I do not believe I will live through our next fight."

Rather unfortunately, Shaw was right. He was killed upon reaching the parapets of Wagner, a bullet through his heart killing him instantly. His body was stripped and thrown into a common grave with his men, and his father asked, when the Union finally took the fort a few months later when it was abandoned by the Confederates, that his body be left there with his men. Shaw's burial spot now lies somewhere under the Atlantic Ocean, the island having eroded significantly in the past 140 years since Shaw's demise and burial there.

This book will give you a great insight into a very conflicted, complicated and yet reluctantly heroic young man who was just coming into his own at the time of his tragic death. I am sure that he would have shunned the limelight had he survived the war to live to old age and would have been content to live life with his beloved Annie, to whom he was married a mere two months before his death. Annie would never remarry and lived the rest of her life as his widow, dying in 1907. The war would doubtless have made Shaw and given him the potential to focus his life and go on to great things had he lived to do so. Having lived so much of his young life with such rebellion against his mother's domineering apron strings and not quite sure what he wanted out of life, the war gave Shaw a brief opportunity to find out what it was he was made of. In so doing, he achieved the one thing he never dreamed of, immortality.

Read this book if you are eager to know the "real" Shaw. Letting him speak for himself is the best way to know this fascinating man who died so tragically young at the peak of his life. Follow it up with "Where Death and Glory Meet", Russell Duncan's excellent biography of Shaw. By the time you finish these two books, you will feel as if you know Shaw quite well. If you want to know a few of his men, read "A Brave Black Regiment" by Capt. Luis Emilio, a regimental history of the 54th, "On the Altar of Freedom" by Cpl. James Henry Gooding, a black soldier in the 54th, and "A Voice of Thunder", the letters of Sgt. George E. Stephens, another black soldier in the 54th. I just hope that more letters and diaries from this regiment surface and are published someday. Doubtless there are more hiding in attics and other unknown places.

This book comes highly recommended for good Civil War reading of a primary source, along with the other books mentioned that are by Shaw's soldiers. Together, they beat any historian's account of this historic regiment. Read them all if you are interested in Civil War or black history.

best buy.......2000-10-20

it's must have book I love this book

A hero by default.......2000-06-22

Russell Duncan's compendium of letters both exalts and puzzles.The job of editing the letters and setting them in the context of war, family ties, friendships, etc. is thorough and, for the most part, makes them accessible. Let's not forget, though, that the editor omitted some letters that don't support his main thesis: that Col. Shaw was a rich young pleasure-lover who fought to get back to his privileged existence, never changing this outlook throughout the war; he "never fully understood nor dedicated himself" to the cause of Black freedom (pp.1-2). So here we are presented with a young man raised by abolitionists who went to all the hazards of preparing and leading something new, a black regiment, before dying in the middle of it, without understanding what he was about, or dedicating himself to it. It's fashionable to "debunk" the heros of yore, but even those letters we have tell us otherwise, and Duncan reverses his appraisal, back and forth, several times. We should also beware of measuring citizens of other times against a modern baseline on classism, racism, etc. Apart from these problems, found in the introduction and some footnotes, the book lets Shaw speak for himself (he does it eloquently and enjoyably) and the reader can draw his/her own conclusion on ideas, events, and character development.

Bringing War to Life.......2000-03-03

Robert Gould Shaw's letters home are a very realistic look of the Civil War battles by a unique individual with many perspectives. The brutality of battle along with the emotional turmoil from such a young officer bring the war to life. The authors have given us a true picture of a brave officer and the war. As you read the letters of Shaw you want to pull the blankets closer on the cold winter nights he spent in the field. You can share the suffering along with Shaw at the loss of friends. The courage and love of family and devotion of country are evident throughout his premature adult life. God bless the 54th and may Robert Gould Shaw and all that served with him and under him never be forgotten.

Wonderful Insight Into Shaw's Mind.......1999-12-23

The movie Glory is one of my all-time favourite movies, and I've wanted to buy this book for some time but have always put off doing so. When I finally took the plunge I found myself unable to put it down. The amount of research that must have gone into this work is astounding and I commend the author on his effort! Reading these letters (and the introduction) give the reader a profound insight into the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts and the mind of Robert Gould Shaw. He is a much different person than was portrayed in the movie and in this book we can see his apprehension and uncertainty about the role which seemed his destiny. I recommend this book to anyone who loves the movie or is a Civil War buff. It is a great read and a wonderful education.

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune : The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

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Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune : The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Russell (editor) Duncan
Manufacturer: Hearst Book Group of Canada, The
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPEIOY

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needs index

At Issue : Politics in the World Arena
Steven Spiegel
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0312058799

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needs index.......2007-07-08

Written in 1994, in the immediate aftermath of the ending of the Cold War, the book's authors discuss the implications of the new political system that was then emerging. There is speculation on the stability of the Commonwealth that was the Soviet Union's official successor. Some of the conjecture proved accurate, concerning the unviability of this construct. Which has really gone nowhere since its inception.

Another topic was the ongoing Yugoslav breakdown. Possible ways to tamper down the conflict were suggested. Needing American and western European involvement.

A 2007 reader will notice the relative lack of concern about terrorism, and about Islamist-inspired conflict. Through the lens of hindsight, several of the book's topics do not seem as much of a concern nowadays.

The book's biggest problem is a lack of an index.

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At issue: Politics in the world arena

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: 031203721X

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At Issue: Politics in the World Arena
Steven L. Spiegel
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ASIN: B000UEKV1E

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At issue: Politics in the world arena

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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At Issue Politics in the World Arena
Steven L. Spiegel
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ASIN: B000O5YVRY

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At Issue: Politics in the World Arena
David Pervin Steven L. Spiegel
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
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ASIN: B000OTF58O

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At Issue: Politics in the World Arena
Steven L.; Becker, Carol L. Spiegel
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: B000OTHKEG

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At Issue: Politics in the World Arena
Steven Spiegel
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: B000KPDVSS

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A Good Revision and Self Assessment Guide.......2001-06-20

An excellent book for the preparation for Part 1. The sections on basic sciences, are really helpful as candidates are confused as to how to proceed with these topics in context to the MRCP exam. It does not go astray and confuse candidates as a lot of MCQ books do. In short it is a very helpful,and informative MCQ book, and provides the aspirant with a fair idea as to where he stands !

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