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Tile has been transformed in the popular imagination from a pedestrian material to a sought-after design element. Home centers, specialty tile shops, and Internet sources offer the average homeowner an amazing range of mass-produced, handmade, and custom tile types made of materials including ceramics, natural stone, metal, and glass.
Organized by room, with chapters covering kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces, entries, and mudrooms, Tile Idea Book presents hundreds of photographs showing the effects created by all the major types of tile available today when installed in different settings: large rooms, such as kitchens, and small ones, such as bathrooms and entryways. It shows how color, pattern, and texture can be used to create special effects on floors and walls and provides specific information on how to recreate these effects. Also covered is the decorative use of tile in fireplaces and hearths, wainscoting, stairs, and halls, as well as in exterior settings such as terraces and patios.
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Great book for my customers!.......2006-04-10
The Tile Idea Book by Andrew Wormer is my favorite book to show to my customers when they're struggling with what they want to do design-wise for their next tile job. We flip through the pages and get great ideas for kitchens, bathrooms -- just about any space where tile is the answer. This book was a very good investment. Grout Girl
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Tile trends have changed dramatically since 1998, which is why were confident that this new 2006 edition will again prove to be an Ideas for Great best seller. Why? Designers and do-it-yourselfers alike will benefit from this informed resource. It lays outin typically clear, concise, and informative Sunset fashionall the new options available today, and the many innovative and clever ways theyre being put to use for floors, countertops, walls, and other dcor elements. Features nNew, expanded photo gallery features tile in architectural settings ranging from easy to elaborate nInspiring special sections offer up-to-date guidance on tile for floors, countertops, and walls, and as dcor accents nInformative buying guides cover patterns, colors, inlays, and grout nNew features on estimating, tile care, and maintenance nGlossaries throughout help readers become fully informed shoppers
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Great Tile Book.......2003-01-29
Very inspiring book with beautiful pictures! Also provides good shopping guidelines and basic tile facts. Good overview of the different kinds of tile from man-made to natural. Also covers maintenance. Very helpful tool for anyone in school, in the business, or looking to improve their home!
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The Idea Book of Tile (1950)
Manufacturer: American Olean Tile Company
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Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000ES0JYA |
Book Description
A practical guide to painting and designing with tiles, and using them creatively in the home.
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hands of fury.......2007-06-10
Like other Hogarth works, the hand is represented as stylized, over muscled, and predominantly masculine. If you expect that from the beginning, then you will find no disappointment in this book. I loved this book, as the stylization helps with understanding the shape and movements, the anatomical structure of the hand. It gives you an idea of how to draw proportions, angles, forshortening, etc. without the use of a model. As I prefer to draw from memory, this book was just my style.
Drawing Dynamic Hands .......2007-01-19
Dynamic Hands is the ideal book to learn how to draw hands and understand the structure of the hand and how it works in all positions. Well drawn hands and feet are extremely important for finished paintings and illustrations. I am a commercial artist and designer, but have worked for many years on non-figurative projects. I am focusing on figurative work again, primarily in the game, fantasy and science fiction field. My goal is to draw entirely from imagination without having to use reference material, and this book by Burne Hogarth and his Dynamic Anatomy is helping me to reach this goal. The illustrations are very well done with several important hand positions and range of motion diagrams. I highly recommend it.
Excellant Work!!.......2007-01-15
This book is very detailed and gives a wonderful view of the human hand. There is help for different ages and different ranges of art experience. Would recommend this book to anyone wanting help drawing the human hands!
A helping hand.......2006-08-14
Good book, when trying the hard art of drawing a human hand.
One of my Top 3 Burne Hogarth books.......2006-05-07
...Right along with his famous, incredibly excellent Dynamic Figure Drawing, and the *original* version Dynamic Anatomy.
While this is certainly an attractive, *amazingly* detailed effort, I personally find The Book of a Hundred Hands by George Bridgman to be an easier & more effective work in its entirety. Both books deal with drawing from memory- drawing hands completely without a model.
Here's a brief overview of Drawing Dynamic Hands, including common praises(+) & criticisms(_):
+ ...amazingly detailed- in pictures & anatomy.
+ ...*crystal clear*, small-to-large sized, black & white drawings.
+ ...best-ever coverage of proportions & measurements.
+ ...the most comprehensive book on this subject to date.
+ ...helps a person discover many hidden aspects of hand construction.
+ ...covers all main actions, angles & views involving foreshortening.
+ ...males, females, kids, occupations & the aging process are depicted and described.
_ ...maybe *too much information*, too overwhelming & not all of it necessary.
_ ...hands often look too overly detailed, exaggerated & stylized. Maybe best for illustrators- not fine artists.
_ ...barely any coverage of female hands (just a few pictures).
_ ...*might* inadvertently make drawing hands more complicated than it needs to be.
Commercial & comicbook artists in particular *love* this book- It's not necessary for everyone though- definitely worth considering!
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Drawing Dynamic Hands
Hogarth
Manufacturer: WATSON GUPTHILL (WIB
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The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide comprehensive and accessible coverage of the techniques and technologies of photography.
The Manual has aided many thousands of photographers in their careers. The ninth edition now brings this text into a third century, as the first edition dates from 1890.
Major new updates for the ninth edition include:
Coverage of digital techniques - more emphasis on electronic and hybrid media
Greater coverage of colour measurement, specification and reproduction - illustrated with a new colour plate section
Dealing with the fundamental principles as well as the practices of photography and imaging, the Manual topics ranging from optics to camera types and features, to colour photography and digital image processing and manipulation.
The authors write in a reader-friendly style, using many explanatory illustrations and dividing topics into clear sections.
The authoritative text on virtually every technical aspect of photography and digital imaging
If you are serious about photography you can't afford to be without this book
New colour plate section illustrates the chapters on colour techniques
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A book that will out live you........2007-08-09
This comment was made to me by a very talented photographer, and now I know what he meant!
There is so much info here, it will never expire....
Encyclopedic Text Utterly Incomplete and with Many Errors .......2007-06-06
I have bought this book based on the prior two reviews. Read it with a pen and paper a few times. And the overall impression is "indifference bordering on disappointment".
Let me though first mention the positives that I found about this book. It covers a lot of topics on photography. It can provide the first (more technical) understanding of photography. It provides references that you can research if you want a greater in-depth understanding of photography. It is what I would call an encyclopedic, i.e. reference, text, albeit quite inadequate.
Yet, it is incomplete and some sections are inaccurate. Subject that are incomplete include photographic flashes, densitometry, color film development chemistry (not pre-mixed Kodak solutions), color reproduction with negative films, and many many others. When different sections of the book are interrelated, they are not even cross-referenced within such sections. If they use formulas, such formulas may have even different designations for the same quantities.
The section on electronic flash is especially troubling. Let me tell you what bothers me here. The book is written by two PhD's, one MS and one BS, i.e people that should supposedly know basic physics. Yet they use a term W-s^(-1) [sorry, I cannot reproduce exponents here: the term reads Watt-second to the minus 1, i.e. W/s Watt per second). Originally I thought that this was just a typo, but they use it throughout this section. They even go farther to say that this quantity is "often STILL called Joules" (quote). Watt/s is not a Joule. Joule is a basic SI measure of energy or work and nobody, to my knowledge, has replaced the SI metric system. So the usage of words "often still" is completely inappropriate. Watt is the SI measure of power, i.e. the rate of change of work or energy. Watt per second measures a rate of change of power. Watt per second is related to energy like acceleration is related to distance. The proper formula for Joule is: J = W x second. So everywhere, when you see Ws^(-1), you should replace it with Ws (i.e. Watt-second)
Let's go farther to formula 11 of this chapter. It uses "J" designation in it. But J is never defined. NOWHERE. After spending many hours on the Internet, I still could not find what J is suppose to represent. The only thing I could deduce is that if flash efficacy is measured in lumens per Watt as the authors define on page 24, the J must be a unitless constant, provided however that the flash tube efficacy formula is correct (but can I trust it now?)
The basic rating formula for a flash relating BCPS or ECPS to the Guide Numbers is not given at all. I can only guess that it can be deduced by equation 12 if BCPS (beam candle power-seconds) = R x P x E-sub-i of the formula if GN is measured in meters. You need to research this outside of the book. GN is never derived and it is not mentioned that it is dependent on the units of measure (i.e. meters or feet) - pretty basic information I would say.
I can go on and take apart the majority of sections of this book that I consider inadequate. I will not do that - it is too time consuming. I will only mention as my final comment, the book is written in an inconsistent manner. Some topics are replete with mathematical formulas and derivations, from basic to complex. A great number of chapters, though, that beg for more detailed information, derivations, formulas, and descriptions are very rudimentary.
My grade for this book is "two stars" and only for its compilation of topics and its limited references. I spent too much money on this book and so will you if you buy it.
I have been looking for a book like this a long time..........2005-08-06
I don't normally take the time to write recommendations, but I thought I would take the time to comment on this book. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who are frustrated, like I was, because they can't find a comprehensive and technical piece of literature that explains in great detail the many laws, properties, and techniques that comprise the field of photography. If you are one of these people then this is your book.
I have been searching for months and all I had found was an endless list of simple self-help books geared toward amateur photographers. This is all fine and dandy, but what I wanted was a book written for the professional photographer that explained all the education that I learned back in college, but then forgot. If you want to learn in great detail about topics that other books just gloss over, briefly mention or skip altogether then this is your book.
Be forwarned, however, that there is probably more information in this book than you can wrap your head around. It delves deeply into physics, chemistry, and mathematics. You don't need to know all of this stuff to understand the book or photography for that matter, but if you want to learn the underlying principles of what makes photography possible it is all here.
I highly recommend this book as a complete reference manual for the advanced amateur or professional photographer.
Scientific and comprehensive.......2003-11-25
This book is simply wonderful. It is a detailed and comprehensive treatise on the physical, optical, chemical and otherwise scientific theory behind photography (the authors all have a bevy of these wonderfully quaint British learned society titles, in addition to a hefty list of PhDs and graduate degrees). Also distinctive is that the first edition was published in 1890 and thus it spans three centuries!
That said, the coverage of the latest developments like digital photography is impressive, and this is one of the first photography textbooks that have been updated completely for the coming migration to digital, rather than treating it as an afterthought.
I've been looking for a long time for such a book, that explains the theory without patronizing a scientifically literate reader. For instance, the book explains how ISO ratings are defined for film and for electronic sensors, how depth of field is computed, the diffraction limit on sharpness at small apertures and so on. If you are afraid of equations, this is not the book for you.
Book Description
More crazy short stories chronicling the lives of comic writers and artists, and the characters they create.
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COSPLAY SAVES THE DAY.......2005-07-19
I liked this episodic volume, as the individual stories referenced all sorts on anime in-jokes. There's a lengthy cosplay adventure, as well as a few digs at the cosplayers themselves.
As with the previous book, you'll probably like some stories more than others, and that's part of the charm with an anthology title like this.
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An Anglo-Welsh Teaching Dynasty: The Adams Family from the 1840s to the 1930s
William Marsden
Manufacturer: Routledge
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My Autobiography: An Englishman Abroad
Bobby Robson
Manufacturer: Macmillan UK
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Release Date: 2003-03-01 |
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Bobby Robson's road to success has been marked by his determination and love for soccer. Starting his working career as a Newcastle miner and amateur, he rose from the ranks to play for England. After his playing career was over, he made the natural progression towards management, building Ipswich up from a struggling side to championship contenders. He took England to the 1990 World Cup semis, only losing on penalties, a feat that earned him the respect of the nation.
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- An eye watering journey down memory lane. Enjoy.
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Bobby Robson
Sir Bobby Robson , and
Paul Hayward
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books
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An eye watering journey down memory lane. Enjoy........2007-03-20
For a lover of the game this book was just awesome. Sir Bobby is not yet done, though his days in the limelight are certainly past, this book captures many of the times, and goals, and games, that led to establishment of one of the games most brilliant and well respected managers. Watching Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United Manager, chew his gum and spit it into his right hand just a second before he shakes your hands, shows the vast difference between the two men. Both are brilliant football/soccer tacticians but only Sir Bobby is a gentleman. One of the last. An eye watering journey down memory lane. Enjoy.
A huge disappointment .......2005-12-28
You might think it would be hard for a former manager of the England soccer team (and a good one at that), a former England player as well as one of the best club managers of his generation to produce a boring book about his exploits, but Bobby Robson has done just that. This has all the hallmarks of a work which was slapped down onto paper with no planning at all. We jerk around from his playing career (we never learn how he became a player) to management of Ipswich, then a backwater club in England. He wins a major European soccer title (something little short of astonishing) but gives us no idea how he did it, how he managed to inspire a collection of largely obscure players to great heights. Instead we have a boring list of "We beat this side, and then that side, and then another side" and before we know it he's in Holland, then Spain and then a chapter later he's back in England, always whining on about money. The man must be a millionaire many times over but we're treated to endless paragraphs about how he fought for the money he felt he was entitled to. In short, this is an awful book.
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Bobby Robson: An Autobiography
Bobby Robson
Manufacturer: Hutchinson
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Diabetes is a way of life, one that no one chooses but that some people are obligated to live nonetheless. Newly diagnosed people are required to follow all kinds of rules, change the way they've always lived, and struggle to retain their identity despite the new things that dictate the way they live. Mastering Your Diabetes is a "you can do it: here's how" book that helps people with diabetes adopt their new way of life with a sense of humor.
In this book, written by a diabetes health care professional who has also lived with diabetes for more than 25 years, readers gain valuable insight (and inspiration) from someone who understands.
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No Waisted Words, Just Understanding.......2007-09-24
I want to recommend this book to anyone who has diabetes or is involved with someone who has it for the very simple reason that it makes understanding the disease and what to do about it something that everyone can read.
The no-nonsense approach spells out just what is going on, why it is happening and how you can easily take back control of your life and your health. The writing of the book takes the guess work out of understanding where other books I've read seem to go to deeply into the science of the problems without relating them to everyday experience.
If you are in this situation and you need someone to talk plainly to you about it, give this book a try. Ithink you will be glad you did.
Exceptionally handy for daily living.......2003-05-17
Janette Kirkham's Mastering Your Diabetes Before Diabetes Masters You tells how to manage the many emotional and practical aspects, from learning about new terminology and avoiding complications to understanding treatment options. Exceptionally handy for daily living.
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The overall goal of this book is to educate and motivate diabetic patients to become active members of their health-care-team. The text provides advice to help patients take control of their diabetes, improve their quality of life, and delay the onset of complications. Taking Control of Your Diabetes is a truly unique book that will educate and enlighten you on how to live happier and healthier with diabetes.
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Should be in every diabetic's library.......2002-03-28
Has lots of very important information that EVERY Type 1 Diabetic needs to know. Book is easy to read. Highly recomended.
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The battle for Cassino was probably the most bitter struggle of the entire Italian campaign. The dominating peak of Montecassino crowned by its magnificent but doomed medieval monastery was the key to the entire Gustav Line, a formidable system of defences that stretched right across the Italian peninsula. This position completely dominated the Liri valley and Route 6, the strategically vital road to Rome. Between January and May 1944 the Allies struggled amid inhospitable terrain and dreadful weather to dislodge the German paratroops that tenaciously defended the vital mountaintop. Ken Ford’s book details the dramatic events of the battle to break the Gustav Line.
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Good summary of the Monte Cassino campaign, but..........2005-07-06
This book is a decent summary of the Battle of Monte Cassino -- actually a campaign of four battles, whose strategy interlocked with the landings at Anzio to seize the defensive approaches to Rome. Monte Cassino is where the Germans under the command of Kesselring chose to make a defensive stand, recognizing the defensive advantages given by the ancient monastery. The Allies weren't able to capitalize on the Anzio beachhead to break out behind the German lines - the Allied commanding generals made timid by high initial losses did not press the Germans enough to worry Kesselring into retreating from the Cassino position.
On the Allied side, twelve nationalities fought including Moroccans, French, Algerians, Ghurkas, New Zealanders, and Australians. The Polish II Corps was the unit eventually capturing the monastery proper. The book does a good job covering the efforts of all nationalities, and implies that on occasions the contributions by smaller nations were not only downplayed, but their successes not properly taken advantage of by American and British commanders.
Other than the Anzio landing, there was not much strategy to speak of in this campaign beyond seizing the high ground. The battles were dominated by the defensive advantages given to the Germans by the topography - particularly the high ground of the Monastery (although the Germans were to use rivers defensively as well).
The biggest limitation of the book shows up in the discussion (or lack of it) of the destruction of the monastery. Monte Cassino was a monastery with a rich cultural heritage, having been built in the 8th century AD. Not only was it an important architectural monument, but most critically it housed a library of priceless, unique Latin and medieval manuscripts. The decision by the Germans to defend it places the blame for the loss of this cultural treasure squarely on them. However, the idea that there were other options available to the allies other than saturation bombing of the monastery (for example, bypassing the route by expanding the Anzio beachhead) is what of the great what ifs of the war. It is also unclear that the Allied bombing of the monastery didn't actually make their task far more difficult by turning the building into highly defensible rubble. That this book bears this central question only a passing mention is, I would have to think, a great fault.
A useful reference for future reading. .......2004-12-09
Having walked the battlefield twice this book is something that I will carry with me on my future, third sojourn. The maps in the book, while less numerous than others, are certainly more than you get while reading a general overview of the battle. This book should be read, or consulted when reading some of the old classics of this battle such as Madjalay's, "Cassino."
I had been to the village of Cairo (where the American's successfully crossed the Rapido) and saw the bullet-pocked houses but had no real idea of scale until I read this book.
The fighting was confused to say the least, but with the high ground commanded by the Germans and the allies need to capture it, the strategy is quite straightforward.
The outlines of the four major battles fought here (two on the ridge, the one in the town, and the final crushing overwhelming offensive are outlined and should serve as a jumping off point for later reading.
The one thing that this book does well is to set the battle in its general strategic setting. It well describes Cassino and its relation to Anzio. It also describes the composition of forces for the last offensive.
I think it is balanced with an appreciation of the fighting capabilities of the French and Morrocans, and also details the forces following up the offensive such as the Canadian Armoured Corps, and the Gurhkas -- all of whom are hardly mentioned in the main histories concentrating only on the three forlorn battles to crack the line.
A useful reference for future reading.
Lacks Detail Needed for a Proper Study.......2004-06-12
Ken Ford's Cassino 1944: Breaking the Gustav Line, which is Number 137 in the Osprey campaign series, probably attempts to bite off more than can be reasonably summarized in a 96-page format. The author's decision to include a substantial amount of coverage on the Anzio landing - certainly worthy of its own Osprey title - detracts from space available to cover the Cassino battles. Furthermore, the author fails to provide the kind of critical analysis or detail that would enable serious military readers to evaluate a lengthy and controversial campaign; for example, important details on troop strengths involved and casualties are often omitted. Overall, this Osprey volume on Cassino falls short of the type of summary that a reader might reasonably expect from such a well-known battle.
Ford begins the volume in the standard fashion, with an introduction that sets the strategic background to the Cassino campaign and the operational background, sketching the Allied advance to the German Gustav Line. The chronology that follows is inadequate, since it only mentions "start dates" for Allied offensives at Cassino, with little mention of actions on specific days. The section on opposing leaders is threadbare, listing only operational level commanders (theater, army and corps), showing only photos of two German division-level commanders. Ford also slights French General Juin who played a critical role in the first and fourth battles of Cassino, but gets only a nod here. This section is unfortunate, because Cassino was a very tactical battle and the division-level leadership counted far more than remote operational commanders. The section on opposing armies is inadequate. First, Ford should have mentioned that there were over 700,000 Allied troops in Italy facing about 412,000 German troops, giving the Allies an almost 2-1 edge in manpower. Second, Ford spends little effort mentioning important differences, such as the fact that the 2nd New Zealand Division was an over-size unit with almost 25,000 troops but most of the German divisions had only about 6-7,000 men. The order of battle appears to be a complete muddle, and Ford lists most Allied and German brigade and higher units that were involved in the Cassino battles at various times, but it also includes Darby's Rangers who did not fight at Cassino but omits the entire Polish II Corps which actually seized Cassino Monastery (whoops!). No artillery units are mentioned - like the German 71st Nebelwerfer Brigade that so ably supported the 1st Parachute Division or the US 240mm batteries. Ford's section on opposing plans fails to note that the first Allied offensive against the Gustav Line in January 1944 failed to actually designate any specific units to seize the critical Monastery position, nor was any special air or artillery support arranged to breach a known fortified line. Nor does Ford note the operational-level incoherence introduced by the Anzio landing: which was the Allied main effort in Italy - 6th Corps at Anzio or US 5th Army on the Gustav Line?
The maps are also a bit skimpy in this volume, with only five 2-D Maps: advance to the Gustav Line; US 5th Army's attack on the Gustav Line; US VI Corps landing at Anzio; New Zealand II Corps attack; Operation Diadem. Unfortunately, there is no map depicting the link-up between the Allied forces that broke through the Gustav Line and the Anzio beachhead - a crucial omission. The three 3-D "Bird's Eye View" maps depict: the US II Corps attack north of Cassino; the third battle of Cassino and the Polish II Corps captures the monastery. The three battlescenes by Howard Gerrard depict: the American attack across the Rapido river; German paratroopers defending Cassino town and Polish infantry advancing on Snakeshead Ridge. The bibliography provided is modest and the notes on the battlefield today are rather terse.
Ford's description of the US 36th Infantry Division attack across the Rapido river on 20-21 January 1944 is decent and this was one of the most botched US military actions of the entire war, on a par with the action at Sidi bou Zid in February 1943. The attack was an incredibly bad plan that was made in the style of Passchendaele in 1917 - without regard to terrain, weather or the enemy - and it failed miserably. The awful plan was also made worse by faulty execution due to very poor coordination between infantry, artillery and engineers. However, there is a tendency to exaggerate the significance of the 36th Division's defeat, which incurred 1,681 casualties in a 48-hour period. While this attack failed, the adjacent 34th Infantry Division successfully carved out a bridgehead on the western side of the Rapido and captured terrain that provided the vital jumping off positions needed to encircle Cassino. Furthermore, while these two US divisions suffered about 4,500 casualties in this first battle, the French Expeditionary Corps (FEC) also seized vital terrain north of Cassino but at the cost of 7,800 casualties (facts omitted by Ford). Put in proper perspective, the 36th Division failure to cross the Rapido was a tactical setback, but the success of the 34th Division and FEC attacks more than outweighed that defeat.
Ford's description of the second and third battles for Cassino has odd omissions, like he fails to note that the third battle was known as Operation Dickens. Readers might also miss the fact from Ford's description that the New Zealanders committed only a handful of their battalions to this set-piece battle and thereby eschewed any kind of numerical advantage over a dug-in defender. Oftentimes, Cassino is presented as an "Italian Stalingrad" but this is just not apt. If Ford had provided casualty figures for the actions around Cassino, they would have been surprised to see that the Allies suffered only 287 killed in action in the third battle, versus 315 German KIA. All told, the Cassino fighting cost the Allies about 25,000 casualties in five months of fighting; significant, but certainly not crippling.
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Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
Charles Issawi
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Charles Issawi's collection of essays, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts, has been written in the belief that a study of the past encounters and conflicts between the world's major cultures can shed light on their nature and importance. Though the emphasis is on the Middle East, of which Issawi is one of our foremost scholars, the subjects covered here range in scope from the great ancient civilizations to Shelley's passion for the Middle East, from the failures of the Greeks as empire builders to the preeminence of English as an international language today. Other essays examine either the way in which certain cultures were formed, or the effects of the direct control of one culture over another, or cross-cultural perceptions, most notably the dramatic change in the Western perception of the Orient between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this age of multiculturalism, conflicts between the world's cultures have become a dominant feature of the international landscape. This excellent collection is a much-needed exploration of their historical nature.
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A disappointment!.......2003-01-12
I found this work to be a superficial treatment of a very complex topic. The study of Muslims in the West has been studied in great detail by Dr. Sami Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh. This work pales by comparison.
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Contact and Conflict in Intergroup Encounters (Social Psychology and Society)
Miles Hewstone
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Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
Geraldo U. de Sousa
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Description
A study of tragedies, comedies, romances, and histories, this book examines the dynamic interplay of three concepts--gender, text, and habitat--as metaphors for cross-cultural definition. The book focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and the caricatures that cultures create of one another. Writing in an accessible, compelling style, de Sousa recovers a wealth of information on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.
Customer Reviews:
Great book -- unique viewpoints.......1999-07-08
Having been in his class while he was working on this book, I especially loved reading it. It's an interesting way to look at the plays, and keeps you reading...
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Inventing Modern America profiles thirty-five inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century. The range of their contributions is broad. They have helped transform our homes, our healthcare, our work, our environment, and the way we travel and communicate.
The inventors profiled include such well-known figures as George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Steve Wozniak, as well as unsung technological pioneers such as Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar, and Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the first implantable cardiac pacemaker.
Inventing Modern America is designed to create excitement about invention through the personal stories of these American scientists, technologists, and researchers. It is accessible enough to engage high school students yet wide-ranging and interesting enough to appeal to anyone who has ever wondered where microwave ovens and traffic lights come from.
The book was developed by the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation, whose mission is to inspire a new generation of American scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
Customer Reviews:
Great Way To Inspire Young Inventors!.......2003-02-26
If your child is heading off to higher education, or is just looking for a book that has some great information for a middle to high school book report, a parent can't go wrong with the book "Inventing Modern America: From The Microwave To The Mouse" by David E. Brown (2002, MIT Press, 209 Pages).
One of the features that grab the reader right off the bat is the fact that the book centers upon modern innovations, such as that friendly little gadget that makes home computer use such a joy--otherwise known as a `mouse'. Another great inclusion is the contributions of Black inventors, such as Dr. George Washington Carver and Garrett Morgan. No, we are not talking about just a `paragraph or two', we are talking about royal treatment of each of the inventors contained within its covers--including glimpses at other inventions by featured inventors.
Of course, to a real info-junkie, the book is too short. However, it does provide a lot of inspiration to those who have the talent and the drive to invent. It is an encouraging work, as it talks not only about the successes of each inventor and innovator, the book is full of diagrams, photos, and pictures of many other inventions by those selected for discussion.
If you are looking for a book to encourage and uplift your future inventor, you can't go wrong with presenting a copy of this work to your son or daughter--or even as a gift for yourself, if you have that hidden desire to want to create a better mousetrap; or even improving upon something that already exists. It is a reference book that will keep on giving, and inspiring long after its purchase. I highly recommend it.
Mike Ramey
Best book ever!.......2001-12-03
this was the best book i have ever read in my entire life! it really made me think about were all this stuff we use in our everyday life comes from. 3, no 4 thumbs up!
Best book i ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2001-12-03
this was such a cool book. i mean, i never really thought about the beginnings of these famous things before, but now this book got me thing. 3 thumbs up!
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