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Jamie Drake's New American Glamour
Jamie Drake Manufacturer: Bulfinch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0821257161 |
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No one has a better understanding than award-winning, veteran interior designer Jamie Drake of American high styleor as he dubs it, the New American Glamour. Jamie Drake, the man behind some of this countrys most dynamic, distinctive, and livable interiors, and voted one of the Top American Designers by House Beautiful and New York magazine, knows how to create seriously delightful environments. Equally comfortable in traditional and contemporary styles, he is known for his flair with bold, fearless color. JAMIE DRAKES NEW AMERICAN GLAMOUR captures Drakes signature lush, high-wattage eclecticism with 175 full-color imagesthe majority of which have been photographed especially for this book by William Waldron. The book covers Drakes take on making an ordinary room extraordinary using five basic principles: Luster, Texture, Color, The Curve, and The Mix. The chapters discuss such design methods as using a single item as inspiration, planning around that focus with a color scheme, and adding finishing touches on the final room. Also included are an introduction about Drakes influences and education and several amazingly detailed childhood drawings of Jamies that demonstrate his early talent for creating gorgeous interiors.Customer Reviews:
Elegant, yet Lively!.......2007-09-18
An Exuberance of Color.......2007-05-26
VERY, VERY COLORFUL; LIKE MR. DRAKE MUST BE.......2007-03-19
very colourful indeed.......2006-02-25
Hollywood Decorating.......2005-11-13
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Jamie Drakes New American Glamour
Jamie Drake Manufacturer: BULFINCH PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N65QPU |
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New American Glamour
Jamie Drake Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K2SVSG |
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14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes
Barbara Nuss Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1581803850 |
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When it comes to capturing the beauty of the great outdoors, it's the composition that really makes or breaks a landscape painting. Accomplished artist Barbara Nuss takes all the guesswork out of the equation with this indispensable guide.She shows artists how to simplify, arrange and refine what they see in the natural world to create a truly great painting. The book is divided into 14 chapters to cover each of the core design formats for landscape paintings.
Within each section, readers will find easy-to-follow exercises, thumbnail sketches, photos and other helpful tools. Many of the composition topics are accompanied by complete painting demonstrations. Readers will come away with all the knowledge they need to link real-world nature scenes with these 14 essential compositions.
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Truly a most wonderful book ........2006-11-05
Excellent Advice on Landscape Painting.......2006-05-04
A Must-Have for Landscape Artists!.......2004-04-01
NOT ONLY does it break composition down into 14 loose suggestions that will help you organize your paintings and bring your viewers into them, BUT it also tells you what to pack for plein air sketching, how to photograph the setting once you're there, and how to simplify, simplify, simplify and rearrange what it is you see so it will translate onto the canvas.
Landscape painting isn't about painting what you see. That's why God created cameras. A painting instructor once told me: "You don't paint a tree; you paint a symbol of a tree." Therein lies all the difference in the world, and Barbara goes into the same thing from a slightly different direction here. LIGHTBULB MOMENTS ABOUND!
In addition, there's Barbara's paintings on display. Though she paints more realistically than I do, I would still turn the pages and say, "Oh!" because it's gorgeous stuff.
And she shows you how you can do gorgeous stuff, too. Thank you, Barbara Nuss!!!!
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The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts
James Smalls Manufacturer: Temple University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1592133053 |
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Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was perhaps the most notorious white patron of the arts of black America, particularly during the Harlem Renaissance. In 1932, he gave up a career as a theater critic and a novelist of light fiction to become a full-time amateur photographer. His photographs of the era's celebrated African American cultural figures are well-known, but until recently his private, homoerotic interracial photographs were sealed in an archive.Author James Smalls considers how these images relate to Van Vechten's public persona and private desires. He discusses the interracial photographs in the context of white privilege and exotic tourism, primitivism's relation to modernism, camp sensibility and theatricality, and the vibrancy of underground gay visual culture during periods of political oppression. He also considers contemporary viewers' conflicting responses to the eroticized black male body in Van Vechten's and later twentieth-century photography. This original and provocative book embraces transracial voyeuristic pleasure while acknowledging the negative political implications of that pleasure.
Amply illustrated with 60 pioneering duotones, The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten celebrates the sensual nude male form with both candor and reverence, offering a rare glimpse into the private domain of the master photographer and his handsome subjects.
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Disappointing.......2007-01-23
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Do Not Disturb Any Further
John Callahan Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 155710011X |
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Best to have a Medic available. . . .......2007-04-03
laugh oiut loud .......2006-06-12
Vulgar, grotesque, and hilarious!.......2002-06-10
Callahan may be the ultimate politically incorrect cartoonist. Nothing is taboo in this book. He mines humor from the following subject matter: AIDS, blindness, obesity, hell, baldness, suicide, anal sex, eating disorders, demonic possession, crucifixion, homelessness, and evolution, among others.
Callahan's subject matter is well served by his ultra-crude drawing style. His grotesque human figures are ugly and misshapen (but oddly endearing!).
I'll describe two typical cartoons from this book. A female Grim Reaper, accompanied by two Reaper children, encounters a man giving away free puppies. The little Reapers excitedly ask, "Mommy! Mommy! Can we kill the puppies?" In another equally warped cartoon, a man is confronting his topless wife, one of whose breasts has been replaced by a pirate hook. He exclaims, "You're going back to that surgeon and demanding a more attractive prosthetic device!"
Is Callahan the most depraved and offensive cartoonist of all time? I don't know, but I do think he's one of the funniest. If you've got a strong stomach and a thick skin, enjoy!
Rude, Tasteless, and Priceless!!! Challenge your views!.......1999-09-23
John Callahan is brilliant!.......1999-03-03
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Seattle's Historian and Promoter: The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany
George A. Frykman Manufacturer: Washington State Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0874221781 |
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Sir Alex, United & Me
Andy Pacino Manufacturer: Empire Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 1901746313 |
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Manchester United fans have a fickle reputation. Players are often singled out for criticism while others can get away with murder. This was never truer than in the late 1980s when Ferguson, following a stuttering start to his Old Trafford career, was scapegoated by supporters. Here the author, one of the few to have actively supported United's manager during this bleak period, details his remarkable relationship with United's legendary manager.Customer Reviews:
best in years.......2003-04-02
ManUnited Fans. Don't miss this!.......2003-03-29
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Saving the Heart: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease
Stephen Klaidman Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0195112792 |
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Though still the leading cause of death, coronary heart disease is now killing half as many people in the U.S. as in the 1960s, partly because of innovative treatments like bypass surgery, balloon angioplasty, and thrombolytic drugs. This book tells the stories of the bold researchers who developed such treatments and explores the tough ethical questions raised by the big money being made in modern cardiology. Klaidman shows how clinicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs have devised radically new ways to treat a diseased heart. He examines the startling extent to which financial ambition has shaped the dynamics of cardiology--now a multi-billion dollar medical/academic/industrial/governmental hybrid--and the inevitable conflicts of interest such ambition creates. Can a patient's needs come first when market share and profits skew the focus away from medical prudence? Can clinical trials be both free of bias and fast enough to keep up with the flood of new drugs and high-tech devices? Klaidman tackles these questions using real cases, often in the context of wrenching bedside decisions. Immensely readable and packed with vivid detail, Saving the Heart explores the past, present and swiftly developing future of a high-stakes medical specialty. And it weaves into the fast moving narrative advice on how to make the right treatment choices and identify the best cardiologists and surgeons. If you are one of the 14 million Americans who suffers from coronary disease, Saving The Heart could save your life.Customer Reviews:
Good read, but..........2001-04-17
HEARTily recommended.......2000-04-12
All major surgical developments, most of which occurred in the twentieth century, are explained in detail. The struggles of medical pioneers to gain acceptance of what at the time were radical innovations are amply explored. Among these innovations are angiography (imaging technology), heart-lung machine, coronary bypass surgery (with and without the heart-lung machine), angioplasty, and minimally invasive bypass surgery.
Hi-tech heart surgery-an extremely complex and difficult subject-is explained for the layman to understand. The benefits and problems of each of the current procedures are explained.
Klaidman explores hi-tech surgical instruments, a highly profitable multi-billion dollar business. His biographical profiles of some developers (doctor-engineer-inventors) and entrepreneurs disclose how the competitive race of developers to market first and the rivalry of entrepreneurs for market share may be detrimental to the best interests of patients.
None of the many present sophisticated treatments provide a cure! They just alleviate symptoms. The pioneers of today are searching for cures. Their approaches are described and are not only fascinating but also innovative.
The final chapter discusses the ethical questions raised by our current medical system: conflicts of interest between practitioners with financial stakes in various treatments; competition between advocates of various treatment options; competition between various surgical equipment manufacturers for market share; the pressure to reduce costs by HMOs; etc.
If there is one fault to the book, it is that the title "Saving the Heart: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease" led me to believe that it would be more comprehensive. The drugs-nitroglycerin, Coumadin, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, statins--were mentioned only as they pertained to a topic then being explored, not in the detail the surgical treatments were given. Not even mentioned are life style changes--diet, exercise and meditation--that Dean Ornish has proposed. A book on these topics written as well as this one would definitely be welcomed.
But for what this book does it does it so well a five star rating is most appropriate.
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The Emma Gees
H. W. McBride Manufacturer: Lancer Militaria ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0935856145 |
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Accessible work--but not his masterpiece..........2006-08-01
A definitive work on Machine Guns and Snipers in WW I........1998-12-31
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Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman
Emma Gee Manufacturer: University of Exeter Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0859896625 |
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In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman's past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman his
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Counterpoint, Perspectives on Asian America
Emma, Editor Gee Manufacturer: Breene Lithograph ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NV7DL0 |
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Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America
Emma Gee Manufacturer: Univ of California La Asian Amer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0934052034 |
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The Emma Gees
W. Herbert McBride Manufacturer: IndyPublish ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1435300521 |
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Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Emma Gee Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521651875 |
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This book explores how astronomy and power were linked in the early Roman Empire. This is achieved by careful study of the Fasti by the Roman poet Ovid--a poem about the Roman calendar that contains many references to and stories about the stars. The author does not study Ovid's stars by using the techniques of mathematical astronomy but aims to combine the methodology of recent genre-based readings with a broad cultural perspective.
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The Emma Gees
McBride Herbert W. Manufacturer: Lancer Militaria ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDRBX6 |
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Proseminar on Asian women: A selected bibliography
Emma Gee ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072XD50 |
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The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840
Joseph Jablow Manufacturer: J J AUGUSTIN PUBLISHERS CORP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V6CSKI |
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The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840
Joseph Jablow Manufacturer: J. J. Augustin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JF20KE |
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The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840 (Bison Book)
Joseph Jablow Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0803275811 |
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Polymer Processing: Principles and Design/Book and Disk (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Chemical Engineering)
Donald G. Baird Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0750691050 |
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Polymer Processing: Principles and Design presents the background required to design processes for thermoplastics. Often engineers are hired by the polymer industry to develop and design processes for thermoplastics, to design polymer processing machinery, to develop processes for new polymers, and to optimize existing processes. However, at best, they receive only a little training in polymer science and no training in the design of polymer processes. This book emphasizes the fundamental concepts that allow the student and the practicing engineer to carry out practical design decisions. While most books leave the student with equations only, Polymer Processing: Principles and Design provides the numerical methods required to solve the equations using the personal computer and easy-to-use IMSL numerical subroutines, and ensures a solid foundation in the principles underlying the design of polymer processing techniques.Customer Reviews:
Excellent!.......2000-09-20
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