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- Good Reference for Building First Log Home
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Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice
Robbin Obomsawin
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Book Description
Whether you're planning a starter home or a lifelong retreat, Small Log Homes is an indispensable idea book for planning, building, and outfitting your cabin in the woods or on the prairie. Lush photographs show how log-home owners, builders, and contractors around the country have achieved the richness and warmth of cabin living within the bounds of economy and space management. And all without feeling cramped or hamstrung. For more information about log home building please visit the Author's Website.
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Good Reference for Building First Log Home.......2007-08-18
This book is a great reference for the first time log home buyer. Many links to take you down other paths. Robbin outlines a few things that many new buyers should look out for in a compact way. There are also several nice photgraphs that will add to your idea database. The floor plans in the back of the book are great general floor plans to start and modify in your own way. I nearly used the entire book to plan my cabin project. Many thanks to Robbin for a great reference.
General Overview of Log Homes.......2007-05-17
This book is a nice little overview of small log homes. It's not meant to be a "how to" manual, or provide detailed information. It's just a starter for those dreaming of building a log home.
Some of the positives are that the book itself is high-quality, the photos are very good for the most part, and it does provide enough information to help determine if a log home really is for you. Some of the negatives for me are the photos are unrelated (there will be photos of the exterior of two log homes, followed by a photo of a kitchen, followed by a photo of a porch, followed by a photo of another kitchen . . . interspersed with text that may or may not have anything to do with the photos shown); I would have preferred groups of photos of one home at a time so I could understand the house better. And the plans and elevations at the back of the book are "stand-alones" for the most part; they are unrelated to the photos shown earlier in the book. It would have been nice to have plans and photos of homes actually built.
It's a nice "starter" book, so I gave it four stars. For me personally, I would have given it three stars for its usefulness.
Good but not great!.......2007-05-13
I'm trying to design some sort of floorplan for my future log home and I thought this might give me some ideas....it's not that great. In fact I'm disappointed from what I thought it would be and should have taken more of the reviews to heart. It basically goes over building a log home...ok - well I thought it would be focused more on its title: Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice. The advice it gives is probably stuff you've already heard before...and the plans are just more of the generic ones you see from all the log home manufacturers.
Just pictures and a few undetailed floor plans.......2003-09-30
The pictures are beautiful, and there are a few floorplans at the back. The text however is useless, unless you need to be told that putting in lots of options will raise the price, create the floorplan based on your family's interests and that you shouldn't spend more than you can afford. It really isn't anything more than you could get with a 10 minutes trip to the website of a log home manufacturer, except that it has much less info!
It tells you, for example, that you should make careful and deliberate use of all the space by planning it carefully, but does not show examples of good planning, give you thought provoking questions to ask yourself, or anything that could help you do it.
The book mentions that there are 2 types of log cabins, names them and gives a few uncaptioned photographs, without even one word to tell you what the advantages of one over the other might be.
It tells you that a complicated roof is more expensive than an uncomplicated one. Did you need to be told? It does not tell you what the choices are in roof styles, the advantages and weather reasons you might want one more than the other, dispite the cost, and it certainly does not tell you what the price differences are (even an approx % difference would have been a start).
It does not suggest anything useful and should only be bought by someone who is on their way to the log home manufacturer in their area so that they can point to the pictures in the book and facilitate the teaching the company will then have to provide. This is for a person buying a finished, installed product, not building a home.
I was very disappointed and would never have bought this book if I had seen it in a bookstore. It is meant for someone who buys magazines exclusively for the pictures and does not read the articles. This will not help you build a house.
Concise, to the point.......2003-08-03
A good, usable well-illustrated book for the everyday person..the middle class "dreamer". Not focused on millionare showplaces, but homes for the average family, homes under 2500 sq ft. Cozy photos and a nice selection of floor plans. A good working tool if you are considering a log home in your future.
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Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offers readers exercises to improve their work.
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Amazing book for an amazing price.......2007-09-20
I bought this book for my drawing class, then I realized this book is my drawing class! The book is the most amazing art how to book I've ever read. Reading it is like having your own one on one lesson with a master artist. Not only is it a great tool but it is so reasonably priced that I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to draw!
will keep you busy.......2007-09-09
this has tons of useful exercises for drawing, in case the figure drawing ever gets boring. It does have many exercises for beginners but also nice to revisit for professionals too. excellent book.
This book is what I need .......2007-07-23
for planning my next sketch. This book is a guide to making better drawings and to get inspired.
Great for study.......2007-07-15
Has been helpful to me in my art studies but need more time to devote to it.
One of those Baby Boomer's Getting Back to Art in Aiken a town of Artists.......2007-05-21
If you have worked your whole life or been a stay at home mother, never getting the opportunity to go to Art School....here is your book. This book shows you the correct way to observe and draw using all your senses...not just your eyes...You will be instructed chapter by chapter and then at each end be given your exercises to complete in your own time...but it is the "practice, practice, practice" that takes you through the paces of one of the best how- to books on drawing and seeing art you will ever read. This book verifies exactly what I am doing with life drawings in Augusta at a studio.....the fast gesture drawings...the concepts....and styles will loosen you up to start to feel the drawing rather than tightening up and being restrictive.....This is not an overnight how to book......but it will guide you through instruction as you might have had at an Art School.....I can't recommend this enough....As an Aiken Artist back to the craft she loves.....I am using this book and it is swiftly moving me along the road back to a comfort of drawing you will use in all your mediums of art....Buy it...you won't be sorry...Carolyn's by Design of Aiken Art Guild
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The best book available about drawing!.......2002-10-13
This book was given to me by a friend around 1961 when I was starting out my art studies...it was so inspiring I followed its excercises about gesture and contour drawing, and ignored my regular art school classes!. The great thing about this book is that it teaches you to SEE with the eye while simultaneously DRAWING with the hand. The excercises both free your vision and give you the necessary discipline to draw without forcing you to adopt any particular style or technique. Good luck!
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Not impressed.......2007-03-30
Expected alot more. No comparison to Brian Peterson books. Photograhy just wasn't that exceptional considering the great locations. Mostly film. Gave it to my daughter before finishing it.
Exactly what I was looking for!.......2006-01-07
This book is exactly what I was looking for when searching the shelves for a good portrait photography how-to. I am an ameteur photographer with a digital slr camera and wanted something to help me with lighting, lens and filter choices for various scenarios to help me expand on the quality of my portrait photography. The primary thing I was looking for when choosing a book was that it had to be a photographic guide (not just a bunch of text) and contain lots of beautiful and inspiring pictures.
This book definitely delivers. The book contains page after page of gorgeous, glossy full-color photos, with brief how-tos for each.
As far as the complexity of the book: I believe both beginners and amateurs can get a lot out of this book. I think it is best if one has a basic knack for composition, but even if you don't you can get some great ideas here. The books is very easy to understand, shows lots of examples in different lighting scenarios, and is beautiful just to peruse and get ideas for your own photography.
I absolutely love it and would most definitely purchase it again. In fact, I am going to give a copy as a gift to my father when he gets his digital slr next month.
Pity.......2005-06-26
This book came highly recommended, and while it does have very good photos and decent examples to guide the beginner into taking better portraits, the typography is actually quite bad. Half the time, when there is more than 1 picture on a page, the way it's designed it's hard to tell which photo is being referred to. Also, ever couple of words they change sizes to emphasize a word or two in a sentence. while this is cool for say chapter introductions, when this is done on every single page, it makes for very difficult and slow reading. I am very dissappointed.
Extremely useful and very professional.......2003-08-23
This is an excellent book for all levels. Every single page of it contains at least one wonderful photograph with very useful "creative" and "technical" comments on what was the artistic intention of the author and how the picture was done technically including the type of lens, film, lighting, etc. Many of the "technical" comments also include schematic view of the scene and the sources of lighting. I have read many similar books on this subject and consider this one to be the best. Honestly, I was looking for such a book for very long time. The photos in the book are depicted with great taste and each represents a unique approach and vision in portrait photography.
Excellent!.......2003-05-12
I thought this book was excellent. It is very concise and to the point. The photography is superb and it tells you exactly how each shot was composed and what equipment was used. The book is smaller than most but I believe this is because it does away with the "fluff" and simply sticks to the essentials.
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Ramba Book 2
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Manufacturer: Eros Comix
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The original gun-toting bad girl is back for more and rarin' to go in this hot collection.
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Schools for Slander: A True Story
Ruth Barrett
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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It wasn't hard for the author to record her horrendous experiences as a teacher in England. Every episode was as clear in her mind as if it had happened the previous day. She had repeated for months, every word that had been said to her -- over and over again, during the day and when she lay awake at night. And in writing it all down here it proved to be the best therapeutic treatment she could ever have wished for. She purges her system of the whole horrific episode in her life. "Such corruption sickened me," she concludes. Perhaps for many teachers this book will also prove to be a cathartic experience!
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Pele: A Biograpy
James S. Haskins
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Works Everytime!.......2005-09-18
This is a wonderful book. I am a child therapist and use it frequently to help children beleagured by nightmares and bad dreams. The plentiful drawings are done by children and illustrate well the simple technique for confronting the images in the dream. I like especially that the technique does not use violence to attack or destroy monsters, but emphasizes much more creativity.
A SOLUTION.......2005-02-08
Overall, the book borders on genius for its simplicity.
It includes two of the most thoughtfully profound and literarily expressed sentences I've come across in years; ". . . our projections are the limitation of our understanding. ... [W]e each have our own answers, it is just a question of how to get at them." and they're back-to-back.
But the book unequivocally clarifies that interpreting a nightmare's meaning is not necessary to getting relief.
Instead, relief can often, in the writer's observational experience, be obtained through a describe-and-share process whereby the analysand visual re-creates his dream and the "guide" helps him describe and elucidate it.
Nightmare Help taught me how to help my child with her fears.......1999-12-15
This book helps a child learn to defend and empower herself. Instead of being the victim of the dream, she can use her day mind to negotiate with the fears of the night mind. Instead of changing the subject or creating a fantasy solution,this book helps children confront their fears and envision workable resolutions, to better understand the position the dream has put them in, and the message to be gained from the dream. I have not seen any other book that really helps as well as this book does. Just reading the dreams in the book will show your child that he or she is not the only one that has such frightening dreams. I invited this author to my child's preschool to do a workshop with the children, some of whom were having trouble with nightmares and they really responded to the methods outlined in this book. Also, you don't have to be a therapist to understand how to help your child!
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In Colonial Conscripts, Myron Echenberg traces the social history of a large and diverse group of West Africans who served in Senegalese regiments of the French colonial army. Examining both how the soldiers and veterans lived out their lives in service and how the military institution functioned, Dr Echenberg also reviews the African military within a framework bounded by such issues as labor, migration, and demography. The main focus is on how rank-and-file African soldiers, officers, and veterans responded to their ambiguous and often contradictory position within the colonial social formation.
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Human Cost of Imperialism.......2003-10-24
When one usually thinks about imperialism, the common image is of imperial powers taking natural resources from colonized peoples for the benefit of the metropolitan power. In his book Colonial Conscripts, Myron Echenberg delves into the even more insidious practice of conscirpting a nation's young men for the colonizers' army.
The Tirailleur Senegalais fought and died for France during two World Wars and numerous colonial adventures. Unlike the British and other colonial powers, France did not recruit mercenaries from their African possesions. Instead they built a complex system of conscription that touched every village and hamlet under French control. Peasants were drafted into African units of the French Army, given rudimentary training in French culture and military tactics and then sent around the world to fight in French wars. Thousands of Tirailleurs died in trenches and fox holes of northern France.
Unlike the English, France created a fiction that their African subjects were French. In turn,they had the same rights and responsibilites as all other French citizens and this included going to war to defend the French Republic. This sort of droll cynacism was so beautifully French in its conception and implementation.
This book is not a military history of the Tirailleur Senegalais. Its focus is on the politics and experience of conscription in West Africa. This book is a detailed chronicle of French imperial cynacism.
The New Military History As African Social History {****1/2}.......2003-03-05
"New Military History" refers to scholarship which explores soldiers' lives away from the battlefield, and the broader impact of warfare on society. This prizewinning study is a concise but thoroughly-researched look at the military experience in 19th and 20th-century West Africa, largely based on archival materials but making effective use of key oral interviews. France's empire was the most militarized in all Africa, with universal male conscription during much of the 20th century. By withdrawing labor from the rural economy and deploying it elsewhere, this draft had a heavy impact on the region. Echenberg's analysis thus is central to understanding West African life under colonial rule. He further demonstrates the importance of the slave origins of soldiers, many of whom attained freedom by joining the Tirailleurs Senegalais (recruited throughout West African territories, not just Senegal). Tirailleurs, or "sharpshooters," fought with distinction in France's colonial conflicts and both World Wars, suffering heavy casualties on the Western Front, and imprisonment and discrimination during 1940-45. Echenberg also examines the significant contribution of veterans to postwar nationalist movements. Overall, this is a highly readable and succinct book, perhaps too succinct. The account of the epochal 1944 Thiaroye soldiers' uprising is overly brief, and Echenberg could also say more about the domestic and social life of army families. On Thiaroye, see his chapter in P. Gutkind ed., "African Labor History," and Ousmane Sembene's memorable film "Camp de Thiaroye." Cf. also N. Lawler, "Soldiers of Misfortune;" J. Lunn, "Memoirs of the Maelstrom;" and J.M. Thompson in "The International Journal of African Historical Studies" (1990).
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Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia
Bruno Giberti
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Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind the scenes look at the planning of America's first important world's fair—the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The conflicts between the players—scientists and engineers, planners and politicians, organizers and their audience—demonstrate wider cultural clashes between a traditional view of things as object lessons and our more current understanding of things as commodities.
Bruno Giberti uses the official reports of the US Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to examine the concept of world's fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on world's fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display—what people were looking at and how they were looking.
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Anthroposophy as a creative method.......1999-08-09
I am close to anthroposophy for more than twenty yaers. I felt steps of some wisdom in this teaching and admired e.g. Waldorf schools. But I was afraid of the personality cult of Steiner. Whatevere query the replay was as such: Doktor Steiner hat gesagt (Doctor Steiner said). This book shows anthroposophy as a method not a doctrine. Nowhere in this book is said: It is so and so as Dr. Steiner said it. It looks like a smart and creative reading of nature and humane world.
A gracefully written introduction to the philosophy of scien.......1997-06-20
_The Marriage of Sense and Thought_ is by a team of science teachers headed by Steven Edelglass. It's a philosophical (and experimental) attack on the assumptions ("secondary qualities," "res cogitans," "mechanism," "objectivity," etc.) that lead people to those epistemologies that remove the human body from nature and cause utter bafflement in the face of things like wave-particle complementarity and quantum vacuum potentials - not to mention something as everyday as color. These same mi
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