Jamie Drake's New American Glamour
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Elegant, yet Lively!
  • An Exuberance of Color
  • VERY, VERY COLORFUL; LIKE MR. DRAKE MUST BE
  • very colourful indeed
  • Hollywood Decorating
Jamie Drake's New American Glamour
Jamie Drake
Manufacturer: Bulfinch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0821257161

Book Description

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:

5 out of 5 stars Elegant, yet Lively!.......2007-09-18

This elegant tome beautifully tells us how to think through design in all it's aspects from color to shape, form and texture. It is not only visually stunning, but a very worthwhile read. Love his drawings as inspirations.

5 out of 5 stars An Exuberance of Color.......2007-05-26

The images in Jamie Drake's New American Glamour are fabulous. I have been fortunate enough to be in one of his rooms. I particular like the fact the he included a lot of colored sketches of his ideas for rooms and then we get to see the finished room. This is a fabulous picture book for interior inspirations.

4 out of 5 stars VERY, VERY COLORFUL; LIKE MR. DRAKE MUST BE.......2007-03-19

MR. DRAKE MUST BE A FUN PERSON TO KNOW....HIS INTERIORS ARE VERY, VERY COLORFUL AND FUN TO LOOK AT ..I WOULD NOT WANT TO LIVE DAY TO DAY WITH ALL THAT BUT IT'S FUN TO KNOW HIS CLIENTS LIKE TO LIVE THAT WAY....THE COVER OF THE BOOK IS VERY CREATIVE JUST LIKE THE MIND OF MR. DRAKE ...LOOK AT THE BOOK ON A CLOUDY,RAINY DAY AND YOUR SPIRITS WILL BE LIFTED.......

4 out of 5 stars very colourful indeed.......2006-02-25

Jamie isn't fond of beige or bland interiors and it shows in this new book. Very well executed and photographed. The cover is made of vinyl in a shagreen look. Very nice. I wish more publishers would do this.

4 out of 5 stars Hollywood Decorating.......2005-11-13

The Orlando Sentinel called this "a study of sophisticated style with touches of what we see as Hollywood Glam." Think gold and satin and curves. I like adding a few glamour touches to a room, but guess I'm not ready to redecorate the whole house like a Hollywood scene. If you like oversized accessories and bright colors, this is the book for you.
Another book to consider is Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected Style by Kelly Wearstler.
Jamie Drakes New American Glamour
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    Jamie Drakes New American Glamour
    Jamie Drake
    Manufacturer: BULFINCH PRESS
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: B000N65QPU
    New American Glamour
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      New American Glamour
      Jamie Drake
      Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000K2SVSG

      14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Truly a most wonderful book .
      • Excellent Advice on Landscape Painting
      • A Must-Have for Landscape Artists!
      14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes
      Barbara Nuss
      Manufacturer: North Light Books
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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      ASIN: 1581803850

      Book Description

      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.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Truly a most wonderful book ........2006-11-05

      As a recent beginner to painting I have found it difficult to find a suitable subject to paint and have suffered from the "White Paper" syndrome on many occasions. After studying "14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes" I am enjoying my new found ability to construct a painting by composition, rather than trying to find a scene that suits. I have been making "photographs", not paintings, but that has now stopped, thanks to Barbara Nuss and her wonderful book of design and composition.
      As I am fairly new to oils, having painted in watercolour for a while, I
      was especially attracted to this book by the stunning paintings I saw when I first opened it.
      I just hope that one day I can produce work like hers, as every painting in this book is absolutely beautiful.
      Highly recommend it for beginners and experts alike.

      5 out of 5 stars Excellent Advice on Landscape Painting.......2006-05-04

      I was somewhat surprised with this book as I don't usually care for the X number of steps for a perfect life type books. However, Barbara Nuss has some very good advice for the beginner and intermediate landscape painter, and even for the advanced painter. She actually does list 14 "formulas" or, as I'd classify, compositions, of landscape painting. Each formula is addressed with samples and step-by-step demonstrations. Some of these are addressed in other books (see my review on Edgar Alwin Payne). However, I think the greatest value in Ms. Nuss' advice is how she gives the viewer confidence to change things. If you don't like the actual landscape in front of you, change it! Ha! How simple is that? But most artists are so consumed with the idea of depicting things exactly as they see them, that they forget that they are the creator and can change the landscape to make a stronger composition and a stronger painting. Most outdoor painters will find value in this book. I will add that Ms. Nuss' oil paintings are much stronger than her watercolor paintngs. If you are looking for W/C, then perhaps another book would suit you better.

      5 out of 5 stars A Must-Have for Landscape Artists!.......2004-04-01

      "Formulas" is such an unfortunate word to put on anything creative. Disregard it. This book is a treasure!

      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!!!!

      The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts
      Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
      • Disappointing
      The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts
      James Smalls
      Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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      ASIN: 1592133053

      Book Description

      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.

      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2007-01-23

      As a photographer, Carl Van Vechten was no great shakes. The author seems to realize this, and pads the somewhat thin photo selection with works by Mappelthorpe and others. The book's text is dull and uninteresting.

      Do Not Disturb Any Further
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Best to have a Medic available. . .
      • laugh oiut loud
      • Vulgar, grotesque, and hilarious!
      • Rude, Tasteless, and Priceless!!! Challenge your views!
      • John Callahan is brilliant!
      Do Not Disturb Any Further
      John Callahan
      Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Best to have a Medic available. . . .......2007-04-03

      . . .when you first open this book. Be especially careful not to
      eat or drink as danger of choking during a laugh spasm increases.
      Also, if you find yourself cutting cartoons out of this book to
      send (pointedly) to friends, try not to cut yourself. In fact,
      sharp instruments aren't such a good idea either, so maybe it's
      best to just send them their own copies which are, heaven
      knows, cheap enough.

      What makes Callahan so ridiculously funny is that he apparently
      spends a lot of time thinking and not very much drawing. What
      he thinks about are things like dogs reserving their seats in
      the movies by urinating around them, the exotic dancer vomiting
      up cake at the bulimia convention and of course the sherrif's
      posse that finds the fugitive's abandoned wheel chair in the desert
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      The best way to use this book is to leave it in the bathroom
      when you have guests and listen for the howls of laughter
      followed by the gasping sounds as your company struggles to
      catch its breath.

      --Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
      the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books. ISBN 9781601640005

      5 out of 5 stars laugh oiut loud .......2006-06-12

      I've shown this book to many friends. Watching as they look through it, I have yet to find one person who does not laugh out loud, usually within the first few pages, and then it gets louder. Callahan spoofs holy cows others dare not touch.

      5 out of 5 stars Vulgar, grotesque, and hilarious!.......2002-06-10

      "Do Not Disturb Any Further" is a collection of one-panel cartoons by John Callahan. In a cover blurb, "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson says of Callahan, "[H]e makes my own work look normal."

      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!

      5 out of 5 stars Rude, Tasteless, and Priceless!!! Challenge your views!.......1999-09-23

      This man knows no limits, and lets you know it. His biting social commentary gives you no choice but to laugh and think - a winning combination for the best of authors, let alone a cartoonist.

      5 out of 5 stars John Callahan is brilliant!.......1999-03-03

      John Callahan is nothing shy of brilliant. The title "Digesting the Child Within" demonstrates in itself the amazing sense of humor of the author. He has the keen ability to take issues and situations that seem humorless, and with his witt, make them really funny. Not unlike Larson he has the remarkable ability to think of the most absurd things and makes them hysterical. Everyone I have shown his books to has enjoyed them. Bar none.

      Seattle's Historian and Promoter: The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany
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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

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        ASIN: 0874221781

        Sir Alex, United & Me
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • best in years
        • ManUnited Fans. Don't miss this!
        Sir Alex, United & Me
        Andy Pacino
        Manufacturer: Empire Publications
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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        ASIN: 1901746313

        Book Description

        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:

        5 out of 5 stars best in years.......2003-04-02

        This is a great story and I had to read the book from cover to cover. It's funny, insightful and shows just what it is that a real fan goes through. I had tears in my eyes from the despcriptive narrative and it also had me crying with laughter. Very funny indeed. Go buy it if you're a true fan.

        5 out of 5 stars ManUnited Fans. Don't miss this!.......2003-03-29

        I loved this account, and felt I was right there with the writer. Anyone who has stood on the terraces, especially ManU fans, should read this book. A funny, emotional, graphic record of this 'love-struck' guy for his team, even when they were at rock bottom. I couldn't leave this book, and will read it again before too long.

        Saving the Heart: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Good read, but...
        • HEARTily recommended
        Saving the Heart: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease
        Stephen Klaidman
        Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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        ASIN: 0195112792

        Book Description

        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:

        3 out of 5 stars Good read, but..........2001-04-17

        I am a medical student/researcher with plans to become a cardiac surgeon or cardiologist. I enjoyed learning some of the history of the Cleveland Clinic and am personally involved in some of the new developments that the author mentioned in the last chapter. My only problem is that the book was not representative of american cardiology or cardiac surgery as a whole. It seems that the author did all of his research in Ohio and the Northeast, whereas significant advances have taken place in other parts of the country (U. of Alabama, Mayo, Texas Medical Center). Two of the most famous cardiac surgeons the world has known - Michael Debakey and Denton Cooley were only mentioned in a few short sentences. The reader gets the impression that some less important surgeons (that happen to work at the Cleveland Clinic) invented cardiac bypass surgery when it was actually the work of hundreds. In the last chapter, the author mentions a technique called OCT. Yes, this technique shows promise (I work with it) but it was only mentioned because someone at Harvard is working on it. I can think of 10 examples of techniques that show as much promise. I wish writers that wanted to tell the world about American medicine would search all of America before they sat down to write. In sum, it was readable but had some holes that made me feel incomplete after I read it.

        5 out of 5 stars HEARTily recommended.......2000-04-12

        Stephen Klaidman has provided us with a very interesting, easy reading book that I recommend to anyone who has a heart condition or is interested in the subject. The major portion of the book discloses chronologically how heart conditions were treated from its earliest practitioners to the present day. Biographical sketches of medical developers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, etc. provide human interest to the emerging history.

        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.

        The Emma Gees
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Accessible work--but not his masterpiece...
        • A definitive work on Machine Guns and Snipers in WW I.
        The Emma Gees
        H. W. McBride
        Manufacturer: Lancer Militaria
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback

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        ASIN: 0935856145

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Accessible work--but not his masterpiece..........2006-08-01

        McBride's "The Emma Gees" is a solid work which is engaging and accessible and has the unmistakable gritty texture of authenticity. There is no doubt that McBride 'went there' and 'did that' and, even more remarkably, loved nearly every minute of it. The book briefly details his personal voyage to become a Canadian infantryman in the Great War, touches lightly on his training, and then concentrates on his experiences in the trenches as a machine gunner and occasional sniper. The book's length, large type, and generous margins make a short and easy read--though the horrific details are often hard to take.

        However, the book is essentially a slimmed down 'first' version of McBride's true masterpiece "A Rifleman Went To War", and nearly everything in The Emma Gees was later expanded and enhanced for inclusion in that second book. If you're only going to read one of McBride's books then read the other one. If you've already read that one and you're looking for more of the same (and after all, who wouldn't be?) then this book makes a nice follow-up companion.

        One notable topic of this book which was not completely included in the second book details McBride's slow but steady decline into war-weariness. Although his second book does somewhat touch on this, it does not use the same frank language used here.

        This edition of the book also includes a several-page biography of McBride which was, for this reader, enormously helpful.

        4 out of 5 stars A definitive work on Machine Guns and Snipers in WW I........1998-12-31

        This book is a copy of H.W. McBride's lecture notes as he toured after the war. He is somtimes rare, but this makes the book more alive. It is not a publishers dream for read-ability and flow of chronological events, but it give very graphic first-hand experience in WW I trench warfare. The authors experience as a machine gunner, machine gun section leader, sniper and sniper section leader helps the reader visualize the horror of trench warfare. The author is sometime funny and light which is not misplaced amidst the terrible experience he and his fellow veterans lived in the trenches. The definitive work on machine-gunnery and sniping in the First World War. The U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School has made this book mandatory reading for its would-be snipers along with Carlos Hathcock. The tactical view in this book is fresh compared to most of the writing about warfare, which is normally more strategic in nature. Down and dirty, to borrow a phrase.
        Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman
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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

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          Book Description

          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
          Counterpoint, Perspectives on Asian America
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            Counterpoint, Perspectives on Asian America
            Emma, Editor Gee
            Manufacturer: Breene Lithograph
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback
            ASIN: B000NV7DL0
            Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America
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              Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America
              Emma Gee
              Manufacturer: Univ of California La Asian Amer
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              Binding: Hardcover

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              The Emma Gees
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                The Emma Gees
                W. Herbert McBride
                Manufacturer: IndyPublish
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                Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti (Cambridge Classical Studies)
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                  Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti (Cambridge Classical Studies)
                  Emma Gee
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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.
                  The Emma Gees
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                    The Emma Gees
                    McBride Herbert W.
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                    Proseminar on Asian women: A selected bibliography
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                      Emma Gee
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                      The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840
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                        The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840
                        Joseph Jablow
                        Manufacturer: J J AUGUSTIN PUBLISHERS CORP
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                        The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840
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                          Joseph Jablow
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                          The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840 (Bison Book)
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                            The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840 (Bison Book)
                            Joseph Jablow
                            Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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                            ASIN: 0803275811

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                            In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and with whites. Joseph Jablow follows the Cheyennes, who by the beginning of the nineteenth century had migrated westward from their villages in present-day Minnesota into the heart of the Great Plains. Formerly horticulturists, they became nomadic hunters on horseback and, gradually, middlemen for the exchange of commodities between whites and Indian tribes.
                            Jablow shows the effect that trading had on the lives of the Indians and outlines the tribal antagonisms that arose from the trading. He explains why the Cheyennes and the Kiowas, Comanches, and Prairie Apaches made peace among themselves in 1840. The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations is a classic study of "the manner in which an individual tribe reacted, in terms of the trade situation, to the changing forces of history."

                            Polymer Processing: Principles and Design/Book and Disk (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Chemical Engineering)
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                            Polymer Processing: Principles and Design/Book and Disk (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Chemical Engineering)
                            Donald G. Baird
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                            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.

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                            4 out of 5 stars Excellent!.......2000-09-20

                            This book is great for a student or a practicing engineer. It starts with the fundamentals of polymer science and ends with more specific processing problems. There are design problems at the end of each chapter for which solutions are not provided. This is great for a college textbook, but is not very useful for the practicing engineer. Overall, this book is well worth it.

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