Treasury of Ironwork Designs: 469 Examples from Historical Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great reference
  • Very interesting reference
  • Beautiful Work
  • Great for Designers
  • A MANUAL FOR DESIGNING YOUR OWN "CASTLE"
Treasury of Ironwork Designs: 469 Examples from Historical Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486271269

Book Description

Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great reference.......2005-10-01

This book is chock full of illustrations! It has gates, doors, door arches, stair railings, and fence sections. It runs the gamut from simple to very intricate designs. If you are a designer, this is a great resource. If you just appreciate design, you will enjoy browsing through it.

4 out of 5 stars Very interesting reference.......2002-04-19

I enjoyed this very much. I wish there could have been more photographs, but that would have been a different book. This is almost exclusively line drawings.

Very helpful and informative. Warning: trying to duplicate these in decorative metal today is *expensive*. Architectural salvage might be more affordable than starting from scratch.

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful Work.......2001-12-12

I have a different use for this book than perhaps the typical buyer. I bought it because I love adapting these iron designs into borders or patterns for my pen and ink drawings and paintings. Each page was such a delight when I discovered this book I bought it immediately. You need not use it as a home furnishings book. It works just as well as an inspiring art book.

5 out of 5 stars Great for Designers.......2001-03-15

I've worked in the Ornamental Iron business for 3 years as a designer and business manager. I use this book more than any other for generating some fresh, usually more elaborate design ideas. There are a number of styles represented in the many drawings. If you are interested in seeing unique and interesting wrought iron designs you will not be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars A MANUAL FOR DESIGNING YOUR OWN "CASTLE".......2000-08-30

This is the most comprehensive collection of beautiful designs for gates, rails, fences, walls, pillars etc. From my personal opinion, there are some designs within the book that might be even more beautiful than the ones shown on the front cover. The various styles range from quite simple to very complex (flowery type). With over 400 designs, one is sure to find a few that matches his or her own tastes. A great book for homeowners and others. Probably some of these designs could even be used in graphics and other works apart from architecture.

Watercolor and Collage Workshop: Make Better Paintings Through Mastery of Collage Techniques
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Add collage watercolor for intersting & beautiful results
Watercolor and Collage Workshop: Make Better Paintings Through Mastery of Collage Techniques
Gerald Brommer
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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ASIN: 0823056430

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Add collage watercolor for intersting & beautiful results.......1999-10-25

This book delves into the fascinating technique of adding collage elements to watercolor paintings. Basically, this is adding bits of paper of various shapes, textures & colors to the surface to enhance the painting over them.

Experimentation to develop a personal style is stressed here. Basic principles of texture, layering, contrast and color are explored first. Then you see how these elements are incorporated into finished paintings.

The author is an accomplished master of this technique. Many examples of his work are shown in progress & completed. He emphasizes throughout how artists of any level in any medium can apply these concepts to their work.

Whether or not you decide to emulate Brommer's work, this book is a great springboard of ideas and ways of looking at the painting process. It is filled with solid and helpful ideas.
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    ASIN: 082305652X

    The Mississippi : and the Making of a Nation
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    The Mississippi : and the Making of a Nation
    Stephen E. Ambrose , and Douglas Brinkley
    Manufacturer: National Geographic Society
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    ASIN: 0792269136
    Release Date: 2002-10-01

    Book Description

    From northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River runs its course along the borders of ten states and cleanly bisects the nation. But the Mississippi is more than an imposing natural landmark; it is embedded in every facet of America's national identity.

    Stephen E. Ambrose, renowned author of Undaunted Courage, historian Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Unfinished Presidency, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Sam Abell traveled the entire length of the Mississippi—from its mouth at Delacroix Island, Louisiana, to its source at Itasca, Minnesota—to bring readers the full, rich history of AmericaIs great river. In 11 chapters, each covering a length of the river, readers will witness the early explorations of DeSoto and the momentous signing of the Louisiana Purchase; they will meet Jim Bowie, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert Johnson; they will relive the Civil War and the Great Flood, the Underground Railroad and the Trail of Tears; and they will discover the immense impact of the Mississippi on American arts, from the birth of the Blues to the literature of Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot. To expand the book's visual dimension, each chapter of The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation is illustrated with period paintings, lithographs, artifacts, and maps, and features unique photographic essays by Sam Abell.

    The result is a lively, comprehensive, and beautiful work that panoramically explores and celebrates the American icon that is the Mighty Mississippi as it celebrates America itself.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Missing parts.......2003-07-17

    I was disappointed that the accomplishments and contributions of French, Spanish, Swedish, German, etc., ethnic groups to the Mississippi story was not told. I think the book gave excellent coverage of the contributions of the black ethnic groups that I was unaware. Is this a 'politically correct' version of the Mississippi story?
    Mississippi & the Making of a Nation
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      Mississippi & the Making of a Nation
      Stephen E Ambrose
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      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000SIEA5K
      The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation
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        Mississippi and the Making of a Nation From the Louisana Purchase to Today.
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          AMBROSE STEPHEN E. & DOUGLAS
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          The Mississippi and the making of a nation: From the Louisiana purchase to today
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            Bless This Home Office... With Tax Credits (An Adam Collection)
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              In and Out of the University and Adversity
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                Edward Lecomte
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                In In and Out of the University and Adversity, Edward Le Comte abandons the professorial impersonal for a candid and confessional look back from the vista of 84 years and a marriage (to a Czech refugee artist) that has lasted – what a miracle these days! – fifty-five years.

                Much of the surrounding book is a mordant critique of the present-day cultural and educational scene. But Le Comte’s love of teaching and for his teachers loom large in a book so rich in anecdotes and personalities that it reads like a novel.

                Gazza Agonistes
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                  Ian Hamilton
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                  Gazza Agonistes (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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                    Manufacturer: Penguin Books / Granta
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                    Granta 45 Gazza Agonistes
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                      Granta 45 Gazza Agonistes
                      Granta
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                      ASIN: B000JPCIH4
                      Granta 45, Autumn 1993 - Gazza Agonistes
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                        Granta 45, Autumn 1993 - Gazza Agonistes
                        Bill - Editor; Hamilton, Ian Buford
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                        ASIN: B000IWI7ZU
                        Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes (Granta (Viking))
                        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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                        • Aptly Titled, Well Worth Reading
                        Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes (Granta (Viking))

                        Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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                        ASIN: 0140140654

                        Customer Reviews:

                        2 out of 5 stars Misleading Title.......2000-11-06

                        The title of Gazza Agonistes pretends to a pitch of literary ambition that the text itself does nothing at all to bring into fulfilment. There is nothing special about the writing here - not even judged as journalism, much less as what I hoped (especially from an established poet) might be an attempt at contemporary mythopoeia. Having said that, it is very readable. I just got the wrong idea about it from the title. I only read it because of the title. Not that I regret reading it, now that I have read it.

                        4 out of 5 stars Aptly Titled, Well Worth Reading.......2000-06-22

                        The title piece, "Gazza Agonistes" is 112 page mini-biography of English soccer superstar Paul Gascoigne. What makes it more than an expanded sports or style section profile is the author. Ian Hamilton is a well-known biographer, poet, and essayist, and reading someone of his caliber write about soccer as a fan is always a nice departure from the norm. Gascoigne's story--the sort of rise and stumble of a mercurial and talented boy--ends a little abruptly as he was still in the prime of his career at the time of the writing, even so, it's worth reading.

                        The rest of the issue includes some arresting photo portraits of WWI veterans, 30+ pages devoted to the consequences of the end of the Soviet empire, a long piece by Jonathan Rabin about the Mississippi flooding which didn't look that interesting, a 40 page short story by Ethan Canin that I also skipped, and more intriguingly, an 18 page story by Nick Hornby called "Fourteen and After." This story is basically an early draft of the earliest parts of "High Fidelity", in some areas word for word. Neat.
                        Gazza Agonistes
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                          Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes
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                            Bill, editor Buford
                            Manufacturer: Granta Books Autumn 1993
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                            ASIN: B000ONA9SQ
                            Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes
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                              Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes
                              Bill (editor) Buford
                              Manufacturer: New York, NY: Granta Publications
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                              ASIN: B000NR8RAU
                              Granta: Gazza Agonistes.
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                                Granta: Gazza Agonistes.
                                Bill and Ian Hamilton. Buford
                                Manufacturer: Penguin Books / Granta
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                                ASIN: B000OIV8AY

                                Embarazo, parto y primeros meses de vida
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                                  Embarazo, parto y primeros meses de vida
                                  F. J. Akerman
                                  Manufacturer: Librerias Sanchez S.a.
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                                  Para las primerizas., saber cuidarse es lo más importante que enseña este llibro con ilustraciones y direcciones paso a paso.
                                  Embarazo, Parto y primeros meses de vida/ Pregnancy, Birth and The First Months of Life (Medicinas Alternativas)
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                                    Embarazo, Parto y primeros meses de vida/ Pregnancy, Birth and The First Months of Life (Medicinas Alternativas)
                                    F. J. Akerman
                                    Manufacturer: Editorial Libsa Sa
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                                    Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces: Uniforms and equipment 1937-45 (Men-at-Arms)
                                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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                                    Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces: Uniforms and equipment 1937-45 (Men-at-Arms)
                                    Gary Nila , and Robert A. Rolfe
                                    Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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                                    Release Date: 2006-06-27

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                                    The spearhead of Japan's assault landing operations both in China pre-Pearl Harbor, and in US and British territory post-Pearl Harbor, was provided by the Special Naval Landing Forces - 12 numbered battalion-size Imperial Japanese Navy units. They garrisoned a number of the islands which the US Marines then had to re-claim in some of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. These included the infamous battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the elite force which has be never before been examined in such detail in English, covering weapons and equipment as well as uniform and insignia.

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                                    5 out of 5 stars "Two Thumbs Up!" .......2007-02-09

                                    For such a small volume, it is packed with useful information, and vivid pictures, many of which have never been published before. Not only will this book be a useful reference tool for the historian of the WAr in the Pacific, but also useful for those who create wonderful masterpieces in the scale modeling community. Mr. Nila has placed amazing color picutures of uniforms and equiptment used by Japan's elite Naval Landing Forces. This book is a must have...
                                    Keep up the GOOD Work Mr. Nila

                                    The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
                                    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                                    • Not about the Bushmen
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                                    The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
                                    Rupert Isaacson
                                    Manufacturer: Grove Press
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                                    Book Description

                                    Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last groups of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Little by little he is drawn into the fascinating web of ritual and prophecy that make up the Bushman reality. He hears of shamans who turn into lions, sees leopards conjured from the landscape as though by magic. He attends trance-inducing dances and witnesses incredible healings. But he also sees the heart-wrenching social problems of a dispossessed people. What follows is an adventure of an intensity he never could have predicted. The Healing Land records Isaacson's personal transformation amid these extraordinary people, and his passionate contribution to their political struggle. It captures his enchantment with the character, corruption, kindness, and confusion of a place that has wrenched itself from the Stone Age into the new millennium.

                                    Customer Reviews:

                                    2 out of 5 stars Not about the Bushmen.......2005-12-10

                                    If you want information about the culture, politics, history, and future of the Bushmen, do not bother with this book. If you want a frequently dull personal memoir, try it. Mr.Isaacson is not Robert Kaplan, nor Paul Theroux. That is, he is neither knowledgable nor capable of bringing vivid perspective to new places. In a single word, he is sophmoric.

                                    1 out of 5 stars Wow what a piece of crap!.......2005-12-02

                                    What bunch of [junk],(...) ive been to kalahari and it truly is not like he says,Read a map before you read this,a total waste of my time.

                                    5 out of 5 stars MUST READ.......2005-03-06

                                    A PIERCING INSIGHT INTO ALL DISPOSED AND/OR INDIGINEOUS PEOPLES. A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO WISHES TO UNDERSTAND THE LOSS AND PAIN AND RAGE BEING EXPRESSED ON THE PLANET TODAY.

                                    THE READER IS INVITED TO WITNESS AS IN UNEXPECTED MOMENTS RUPERT HIMSELF TOUCHES WHAT GLEAMS AT THE HEART OF THIS CULTURE - AND WITHOUT DIATRIBE OR RANCOR REVEALS WHAT HAS BURIED IT ALIVE. NOTES OF HOPE REST IN THE PROPHECIES AND ARE ECHOED IN THE PROFOUND RESPECT THAT ABIDES IN ALL HE DESCRIBES.

                                    5 out of 5 stars Not just a book, a fight against genocide.......2004-09-28

                                    Rupert Isaacson took an amazing journey when he went to the Kalahari to re-discover the colonial roots of his anscestors and found what he didn't expect--that his family had unwittingly contributed to the demise of a great and important people--the Bushmen. Upon meeting this hidden and displaced culture, he began a crusade to to right his inherited Karma. This book is the beginning of his journey of discovery of a remarkable people and their fight to survive in a world, that like many others, would choose to eliminate their indiginous peoples for money and power. He now, as I understand it, runs an organization called "The Indiginous Peoples Fund", helping the Bushman to reclaim their land rights and their culture. This book was the beginning of that journey. I hope h e writes a follow up book as he fight grows more successful. The book is written with great heart and love and remarkable insight into a culture so misunderstood. I have never been to South Africa and because of the book's in depth description, I felt as if I now can taste some of what it must be like. Truly a journey worth taking.

                                    5 out of 5 stars This author knows his subject.......2003-05-15

                                    After getting used to mystical experiences over the past 12 years in Botswana's Tsodilo Hills and in Bushmanland, in north-eastern Namibia, I can attest that this author has been there and seen a world that's magical beyond most Westerners' imaginings. Anyone who wants to know the real Southern Africa - that is, the incredibly harsh yet enigmatic environment that thrived prior to both the Bantu and Colonial influences - will find this book a most satisfying introduction.

                                    Reach of the Mind: Nobel Prize Conversations (Mind Age Series)
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                                      Reach of the Mind: Nobel Prize Conversations (Mind Age Series)

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