Traditional Mexican Style Interiors (Schiffer Design Book)

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Nice book, wonderful pictures, But not the best of Mexican Interiors.......2007-07-25

This is definately a well layed out book, with really nice high quality pictures, my only question is why are at least half of the picture in this book of houses in the United States? Granted they are in the Southwest where there is a obvious Mexican influence, but I refuse to believe the best examples of Mexican interiors are found in Tucson Arizona! And of the interiors in this book most of the ones from Mexico are from San Miguel de Allende, or Guanajuato which are two towns a hour apart from each other. There are extraordinary colonial gems in Zacatecas, Oaxaca, Puebla, México City, ect, ect, that could have easily been included in this book instead of some American's house in the Southwest... I would have liked to have seen a book on Mexican interiors that were 100% Mexican. The book MEXICOLOR, though not entirely consisting of interiors is a far more authentic book.

Great idea book.......2007-01-12

We were looking for ideas for our outside patio area, especially colors, and this book is great for various decors with vibrant colors. You will find yourself looking through it again and again.

Exactly what I was looking for........2006-07-29

I was looking for a reference book to guide my Mexican-style remodeling and redecorating efforts, and this is the best I've found yet. (I have about a dozen!) Gorgeous pictures, and plenty of them. Each section discusses a particular room type (kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms etc.) and each room type gets a good amount of attention. Something I dislike about other books is their tendency to look only at the courtyards or living rooms of Mexican or adobe-style houses -- not so useful if you're considering how to tackle your kitchen. This one covers it all, including touching on gardens and indoor-outdoor spaces that are such an integral part of Mexican living.

Definitely pick up the companion volume, "Traditional Mexican Style Exteriors", while you're shopping. Together they paint a vivid picture of the colorful and vibrant style of Mexico.

Great ideas for learning about Mexican .......2006-03-23

This is a great resource if you want to get an idea of traditional Mexican-style decor. The book contains beautiful examples of homes in Mexico and the US. If you're looking for ideas and inspiration, this is a wonderful tool!

Great photos of mexican homes.......2005-08-02

I bought this book to give me decorating ideas for a home that I am building in the Yucatan. This book is filled from cover to cover with great photographs of Mexican home interiors. From furniture to paint colors, it has given me many ideas that I have incorporated into my home.

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Modeling the Head in Clay, Bruno Lucchesi

modeling the head in clay

Faces of Clay

Excellent!

IT COULD BE BETTER

Modeling the Head in Clay (Practical Craft Books)
Bruno Lucchesi , and Margit Malmstrom
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823030997

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Modeling the Head in Clay, Bruno Lucchesi.......2007-07-16

A step by step tutorial showing how the artists creates the most life like head in clay. Another great sculpture technique book . Highly recommended.

modeling the head in clay.......2007-05-13

The artist hands block some of the view of the work that needs to done.

Faces of Clay.......2007-01-05

This book is the best instruction tool and reference for everyone wanting to learn to form a realistic bust in clay. I keep going back and further " seeing" forms I didnt recognise previously.Highly recommended for all sculptors.Thank goodness for Bruno!

Excellent!.......2006-12-28

I bought this book during some downtime after surgery and I was thoroughly impressed. My first project was a bust of my daughter and it turned out well enough that the neighborhood kids all wanted their own!

I've been sculpting ever since.

You won't believe how easy, how enjoyable and how little time it actually takes to create your own masterpiece!

Highly recommended.

IT COULD BE BETTER.......2006-09-10

Bruno Lucchesi's book is interesting though it could be better if it were in colored photos. I also wonder how he removes the newspaper inside after the sculpture is ready - he doesn't show. While making the hair, he doesn't claim the attention to the serious problems of the bubbles which can explode the piece... Despite all this, it's a good book.

Sculpting & Making a Toddler Doll-Head to Toe in Water Based Clay & Sculpey or Cernit

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Still Have Questions.
Guide for sculpting in water clay, not Cernit -Sculpey.

Sculpting & Making a Toddler Doll-Head to Toe in Water Based Clay & Sculpey or Cernit
Susan Dunham
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ASIN: 0875884571

Book Description

Finally the ultimate how-to book! Easy step-by-step instructions, profusely illustrated, to sculpt a 20" toddler doll in water clay. Including chapters on: detailed sculpting and jointing of the head, torso, hands, and feet. Sculpt an entire 10" toddler doll. A chapter on fun, quick projects. Bonus: also included is a dress and hat pattern for the 20" toddler complete with simple instructions for French Ribbon embroidery anyone can do. Over 90 b/w photos and numerous color photos. 128 pages.

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Still Have Questions........2001-07-18

I agree with the previous reviewer - this is definitely a better book for people making porcelain dolls than dolls from polyclay. I am fairly disappointed and still have a lot of questions. However, it was very helpful regarding sculpting over an armature and gave me some what of an idea of how to then proceed to make a mold from my polyclay piece. I also have Rotraut Schrott's book and I honestly don't find that one all that much more helpful for my purposes. I am really trying to figure out joints and making mold at this point and I am having a difficult time finding a book that will help me as they are all geared towards porcelain. And the polyclay books all assume you are making one of a kind dolls. The pictures are good in this book though and I feel I have a little more grasp on what I'm shooting for now - so I give it 3 stars which to me means average. I wish I had thought twice before buying it. There must be a better book out there.

Guide for sculpting in water clay, not Cernit -Sculpey........1998-08-24

This book shows how to model a toddler doll from head-to-toe as the title suggests, but the sculpting techniques presented are more appropriate for clays used in large masses, i.e. not polymer clays like Cernit and Sculpey. A better book for sculpting young children using polymer clays is Rotraut Schrott's "Making Original and Potrait Dolls in Cernit".

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Modeling the Head in Clay
Margit Malmstrom
Manufacturer: Watson Guptill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRP0W6

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Some time ago, while at a New York flea market, inveterate collectors Michel Hurst and Robert Swope discovered a large body of snapshots: album after aged album of well-preserved images, taken roughly between the mid-50s and mid-60s, depicting a group of cross-dressers united around a place called Casa Susanna, a rather large and charmingly banal Victorian-style house in small-town New Jersey. The inhabitants, visitors, guests, and hosts used it as a weekend headquarters for a regular "girl's life." Someone-probably "Susanna" or the matriarch-nailed a wonder board on a tree proclaiming it "Casa Susanna," and thus a Queendom was born. Through these wonderfully intimate shots-perhaps never intended to see the light of day outside the sanctum of the "house"-Susanna and her gorgeous friends styled era-specific fashion shows and dress-up Christmas and tea parties. As gloriously primped as these documentary snaps are, it is in the more private and intimate life at Casa Susanna, where the girls sweep the front porch, cook, knit, play Scrabble, relax at the nearby lake and, of course, dress for the occasion, that the stunning insight to a very private club becomes nothing less than brilliant and awe inspiring in its pre-glam, pre-drag-pose ordinariness and nascent preening and posturing in new identities. It is not glamour for the stage but for each other, like other women who dress up to spend time with friends, flaunting their own sense of style. There is an evident pleasure of being here, at Casa Susanna, that is a liberation, a simplification of the conflicts inherent in a double life.

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How The Other Half Lived, before Tapestry and WWW came along.......2007-04-10

The authors come upon a box of anonymous photos at a flea market. The pictures are of transvestites and crossdressers, dressing up- apparently - in sixties garb, and commune in an isolated home in New York State. The photos are mediocre, and the girls look like, well, what everyone tend to conjure in their minds when the term transvestites enter a conversation: sad, middle-aged to older men in bad wigs and over-applied makeup. As a photography book (which was the section I found this book under), it was highly unsatisfactory. I would give it one star.

As a conceptual photo art book, the subtext comes to life. The metaphor of men appropriating women's clothes, images, identity and making it their own, is repeated in a mirrored universe by the act of the authors anonymously "acquiring" someone else's photos and creating a book from it. This, for me, is the saving grace of Casa Susanna, and earns it two extra stars.

To be fair, a rudimentary knowledge of the lifestyle and its accompanying consequences: castigation, social ostracization, prejudiced, and loneliness, multiplied by the less accepting decade of the sixties, will add greatly to the appreciation of this visual case study. Viewed in this light, the sense of isolation amidst passing thoughts in washed out kodacolor quietly fades into focus.

Those were the days.......2007-02-15

What an amazing portrait of a bygone time. The book is respectful and honors cross-dressers of a less open-minded time.

A historical first .......2007-01-03

Fascinating. By trade, I'm a professional clinical psychologist, and I was alerted to Casa Susanna by the NY Times. It's unexpectedly and refeshingly uplifting -- It is NOT at an expose about a seedy subculture of mifit crossdressers. Rather, Casa Susanna was a modest and friendly country getaway for men in the 1950s and 60s who needed a weekend or two crossing the gender line and then return to their professional lives. The photos are understandably snapshot and Polaroid quality, and I would have liked more narrative from the actual guest-participants. Recommended reading for any crossdresser and transgender group.

Great Funny Pictures.......2005-07-17

This is a wonderful book.
Great selection of pictures.
Marie Antoinette don't be jealous of those Dress and Hairs styles just keep your head on your shoulder.

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El camino a casa
Susanna Tamaro
Manufacturer: Atlantida
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Binding: Paperback

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Verso Casa. Heimwege.
Susanna Tamaro
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 3629016235

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Casas y Cuerpos (Coleccion Actas)
Alex Susanna
Manufacturer: Fundacion Jorge Guillen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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No matter where you are, no matter what's going on in your life, Ziggy has been there. For the past 35 years, readers around the world have picked up newspapers, opened greeting card envelopes, or caught sight of T-shirts and there's Ziggy, unfailingly showing how to appreciate life and find the silver lining in any cloud.

Tom Wilson's character-an admirable mix of Ben Franklin, Dale Carnegie, and Forrest Gump all rolled into a little bald icon-strikes a chord in everyone. And that's why so many will cherish A Little Character Goes a Long Way, a celebration of Ziggy himself. After all, it's the character of this character that's earned Ziggy such a special place in our hearts.

This treasury includes many classic Ziggy frames and strips, each highlighting the traits that make Ziggy the upbeat, hopeful, and unflappable optimist that he is. There's Ziggy generally making molehills and wrinkles out of life's highest mountains and lowest valleys; Ziggy and his menagerie of pets; and Ziggy taking the time to appreciate nature's beauty at its best. This little Everyperson reminds us all of what's really important, and this treasury will undoubtedly do the same.

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The first illustrated celebration of the life and times of Sir Bobby Robson, one of the most successful managers ever. For over fifty years he has been involved in soccer at the highest level, as a player, coach, and international coach. He was sacked from his first management position at Fulham, he was hounded by the press while England's coach, and has twice recovered from cancer. Bob Harris, a close acquaintance of Sir Bobby's, tells the football manager's own story, which is interlaced with stories and anecdotes from many of the most famous names in football.

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SIR BOBBY ROBSON LIVING THE GAME
BOB HARRIS
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OROU7I

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quotes and pictures capturing the essence of motherhood.......1999-10-17

I bought this book for a new young mother-I thought it conveyed the true spirit of motherhood-rich in tradition and profound in love. Wish I bought more!

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HISTORY WITH AN EDGE.......2006-11-15

As part of my research for a novel, I have studied numerous books about the War of 1812. There are several excellent books that cover the whole war, but Amateurs to Arms! stands out as my favorite. The title fairly depicts the author's approach to the subject. But after all, without an adequate army or navy, and without adequate fortifications or funds, the States declared war on the mightiest military power in the world. For readers in need of only one book about the War of 1812, or in need of a book to get a good overview before delving into more detailed coverage, I whole-heartedly recommend Amateurs to Arms!

Great history? Oh, please!.......2002-09-17

IN my opinion, this book is no where near the great piece of scholarship as claimed by some on this site (why does this high school teacher named Kiley write two reviews? What is it with him and his hero worship of Elting?). It has some merits, but the scholarship is very slanted (typical Elting)and the biased conclusions by Elting rob the reader of the overall impact of what was going on (another Elting trait), especially along the Canadian border and Sir Isaac Brock's influence there.

Elting shots from the hip for War of 1812.......2002-02-09

John Elting was reknowned for his up-front, no-nonsense style of military history writing. In this book, which presents a military perpective of the war of 1812, Mr. Elting shots from the hip in describing how silly America's preperations for the war were. Elting writes with a disdain for the meddling politician in the affairs of the military. Cherished American presidential ideals like Jefferson and Madison come across as ameteurs and niave in this book. For sure America did not plan adequately for this war, and we payed a heavy price for it. There are lessons to be learned here for today. Also, Mr. Elting's views on the Indians
in the conflict do not come across as flattering either. Its time perhaps that we take a less picturesque view towards the Indians and see them in a more accurate light as Elting presents for us. One of the many lessons the US needed to learn was that militia could not win the conflcit. This assumption was a notion held over from the Revolution, which should have long dispelled that idea. In essense the country had to learn the lesson again that only a professional standing army could win battles. As a former US army colonel Elting certainly disdains how our foundinmg fathers treated the army. In his descriptions of the war itself, Elting is decidely pro-American in his outlook. This is not surprising from a former soldier of the US army. His main complaint is that poor leadership and bad politics robbed the American soldier of victory in the war. While there may be truth in this idea, he tends to dismiss what the British and Canadians accomplished in the war. Eltings glosses over the brilliance of Maj. Gen Issac Brock who saved Britsh Canada from being overrun in the first year of the conflict. In several actions he seems to inflate British losses while deflating American ones. While we can't blame Elting for this, the reader might do well to balance this book with other works on the subject. Read this book for its amusing narrative style and in memory for the passing of Mr. Elting who was a noted military historian on the Napoleanic period.

An American View.......2001-07-10

The book, overall, is a good description of the tactics, battles and problems encountered and sometimes overcome in this wasteful and pointless war. John Elting weaves present day overview well with comtemporary accounts. The book does have an American bias, however. Canadians supporting the USA are given better press than Americans supporting Britain and Canadian/British Irregulars (particularly the Indian) are depicted as little better than rapists and murderers (American Irregulars are, of course upstanding heroes). I certainly found enough in the book to make it worth reading but would make sure a new reader had other sources to compare with. Some sweeping generalisations and two-dimensional characterisation spoil what would otherwise be a very good book.

Excellent.......2001-01-09

This is a most excellent treatment of "America's forgotten war" (also the war the British would like to forget). It was a complete waste of time. It all ended up where it started and a lot of people killed!

John R. Elting has done a very good job of describing this waste of time and energy. It is an in-depth look into the cast of characters - their personalities, political greed and incompetence and how this resulted in the loss (or gain) of insignificant patches of of land. He pulls no punches! He is not biased in this regard.

Everyone who wants an example of the futility of war should read this book!

By the way - this was a real war - the United States declared war on the British, the most powerful nation in the world. America had no army or navy at that time - stupid? John R. Elting goes into great detail on all that.

A must read for students of American (and British) history.

Mick Jolley

British, born and bred.

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Amateurs, To Arms!: a Military History of the War of 1812 (Major Battles & Campaigns)
John R. Elting
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7HO5Y

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Good writing and wonderful history.......2002-10-19

This is a extremely well researched book. While not a "can't-put-it-down" book, it is written in a style that keeps one interested. It doesn't have the more exciting style of, say, The Frontiersman by Allan Eckert, but it is a good read non-the-less. There is plenty of history here, plenty of information about the Indians of the time, politics, characters, etc. However, so much history is covered that it is impossible to cover any part in great depth which makes it difficult to feel that one is part of the action. Instead, the book is more of the typical history book where one feels to be on the outside looking in.
I live near where much of this history takes place in Ohio, so I find the history of this area more interesting than some, and I don't understand why David Zeisberger doesn't get more mention in history. This is a fascinating person. Fascincating enough that his history could be written in a more exciting style by the right author. However, this isn't a put down, as this is the best book on the subject I have read.
The book starts out with the childhood of Zeisberger, which is a little slow reading. This information is important, though, as it shows what environment Zeisberger grew up in and how it affected his life later.
However, I was more interested in the years between 1740-1782. This is a wonderfully exciting time in Ohio history, and Olmstead covers it well. Because of the focus of the book, Olmstead covers events such as Braddock's Massacre in only a page or so, whereas there are entire books written on just this one battle. However, the book is about Zeisberger, and Olmstead relates how events such as these affected the lives of those around Zeisberger and the Moravian missions. The book takes us through the French and Indian War, into the Revolutionary War, and ends with the massacre of Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio in 1782. Olmstead's history shows us how these peaceful (and not so peaceful) Indians' lives were affected by the events happening around them and to them.
This is a very "neutral" book. By that I mean, the book doesn't offer a slanted judgement of one side against the other; it simply tells what happens. For example, both the good and the bad of the Indians are pointed out, giving us a true view of the Eastern Woodland Indians as real people, not just some distorted image of the "noble savage" fighting against the evil white men trying to steal his land.
Another book by Olmstead, "Blackcoats among the Delaware" covers Zeisberger's life after the period of this book, but I really think this is the better written book (of course, since I am more interested in the 1750-1780 time period, this may just be prejudice on my part).
Even forgetting David Zeisberger, this is a decent book on "Indian-Colonist relations," and how one event could influence another event many miles away. I don't think anyone could be disappointed in this book if they are interested in either the time period or David Zeisberger. As a book on Zeisberger, this should be a 5 star, but as a book in general, a 3 is about it.

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Where Does the Sun Sleep?: First Questions and Answers About Bedtime (Time-Life Library of First Questions and Answers)
Time-Life Books
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