Living in Morocco: Design from Casablanca to Marrakesh

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Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. Berber, Arab, French, English, and Spanish: the country's rich mixture of heritages is matched by its geography, which ranges from coast to mountain to desert. This revised edition of Living in Morocco celebrates the indigenous arts of a country at the height of a cultural renaissance. Morocco is known for fine leather and for pottery that dates back a thousand years. Berber rugs are justly famous, and there is a thriving tradition of woodworking, especially in the native thuya wood. Most extraordinary, though, is Morocco's decorative painting and tilework, where, forbidden by religion to depict human figures, craftsmen have developed a vocabulary of pattern and ornament. The book is filled with brightly colored ceilings, decorated courtyards and walls, plaster of Paris carved and painted in intricate geometrics, tiles so small that 150 could fit in a matchbox. Lavishly illustrated chapters on decorative and folk arts alternate with chapters on Moroccan life today. We visit Chaouen in the Rif Mountains (a city only recently open to Westerners), where the town's undulating surfaces are painted a bone-chilling blue-tinted white. We peer into an abandoned kasbah in the Sahara, and absorb the sights, sounds, and smells of the frenzied souk. We take time out in the shady blue-and-pink environs of the Majorelle Gardens, laid out by French painter Jacques Majorelle, and explore the story behind La Mamounia, the famous hotel that has welcomed such guests as Winston Churchill. Most important, we see Morocco's arts brought to life in its homes—from former harems to traditional Hispano-Moorish houses. Glorious photographs make this a treasure for the armchair traveler, while the documentation of Morocco's houses, arts, and crafts make it an invaluable resource for decorators and designers. Published in hardcover under the title Morocco: Designs from Casablanca to Marrakesh. 346 color photographs.

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LIVING IN MOROCCO.......2007-08-24

BOOK ARRIVED IN POOR CONDITION WITH THE BACK UNGLUED. OTHERWISE IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO ESSAY

Aboslutely Stunning.......2007-06-13

The photography is inspirational -- whether you are a shutter bug or trying to grasp the details that make this part of the world's interiors so beautiful. Striking colors, well-chosen compossions -- this book is a must have. My only regret is the lack of printed information that would educate me on the fine details and intricate subtilies of this design form.

Still, a must have for anyone with interest in photography or the striking vistas on can create for their home or garden.

A completely different take on interior design.......2007-05-14

This book is really very beautiful. I have transgressed Asian and southwestern design and this book is just what I wished for.

Wonderful Examples.......2001-09-04

I really liked this book, as well as Moroccan Style. I felt this book was a little more comprehensive on the styles by region of Morocco and showed more traditional design.

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A teacher for over 60, painter Hensche placed great emphasis in his classes on Monet's Impressionist tradition of seeing and painting color under the influence of light. Hensche taught students to "see the light, not the object," says Robichaux, who, in this book reveals the basic painting philosophy and methodology of a great teacher.

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An Excellent Read.......2007-01-25

Very informative. I agree with his feelings about professors telling you to go get 'm tiger without providing enough basic information and that we need to get back to drawing as a basis for painting.

Some useful painting pointers and a few historical insights but..........2006-08-17

I found this book far less useful for practical painting pointers than those based on the treachings of Hawthorne, William Morris Hunt, Henri and Sloan. Granted, those are tough acts to follow, but there it is. What I did find fascinating was Hensche's perspective. Clearly, he greatly admired Charles Hawthorne as he should. He even went as far as to suggest that Hawthorne in some ways eclipsed Monet and bridged the gap to the abstract expressionists ... maybe in some ways. What I found absurd was Hensche's suggestion that he had gone beyond Hawthorne (and therefore beyond Monet!). Hey, I've heard from some of his students that Hensce was a great teacher and a nice guy ... and I don't doubt that, but in my opinion, as an artist, he never painted anything of tremendous merit. On another topic, the book shed some fascinating, although brief, insight on a rivalry between Henri and Hawthorne that I had never heard of before. Also, there are some refreshingly blunt statements that Hensce made summing up a couple dozen artists from Rubens to Andy Warhol at the end of the book. So, the book is worth a quick read if this sort of thing interests you. I'm glad I bought and read the book (it is brief and inexpensive) even though I don't think it was outstanding.

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Beyond the Renaissance

The Art of Seeing and Painting
Henry Hensche
Manufacturer: Portier Gorman Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0962138207

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Beyond the Renaissance.......2002-04-27

Fifty years in the making, this book covers subject matter never before completely understood by the academies. As a pioneer in the "art of seeing and painting", Hensche's dogmatic approach is one that is appreciated and realized only after the student painter begins to understand the possibility and limitations of his painting through the constant study of light keys and weather conditions. Surely destined to be a classic for the striving Color Visualist painter, "The Art of Seeing and Painting" dispells many misunderstood and misrepresented facts about painting, the Old Masters, Impressionism and Claude Monet. An excellent source of solid information on a subject which has heretofore never been adaquately taken to such a degree of analysis and criticism.

Hensche on painting: A student's notebook

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Hensche on painting: A student's notebook
John W Robichaux
Manufacturer: Morris Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0962138215

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Maxon's Cinema 4D is arguably the most underrated computer 3-D animation application available. It is hardly known outside its own user base and yet offers a broad and deep feature set and tremendous flexibility. Maxon Cinema 4D 7 is perfect for the beginning user as well as the intermediate and somewhat advanced user. It introduces many important basic concepts and techniques, and goes deeply into the more advanced features as well.

The author wastes no time in getting past the interface introduction and into a working example. The best way to learn is by doing, and sculpting a fairly complex model is exactly what gets done before the first 50 pages are over. Subsequent chapters cover organic and mechanical modeling, radiosity and caustics, Hypernurbs, and an invaluable tips and tricks section.

By far, the chapter on expressions is worth the cost of the book. Expressions and the COFFEE language used in Cinema is one of its most powerful features, and the 50 pages of examples and description in this chapter shed light on this powerful tool. Need to make a hose attached to two different objects (one at each end)? The example is here, as are things like properly deforming a spring (its length changes, but the diameter of the wire itself doesn't) and automating the movement of the nested sleeves of a piston.

The only complaint is the lack of color pictures throughout the book. While heavily illustrated, the chapters on radiosity and materials sorely lack the necessary accompanying examples. They are on the CD, along with the project and data files, but that isn't quite the same as having them on the page next to the words.

For anyone who's used or is planning to use Cinema 4D, this book is as important as the manuals that come with the application. --Mike Caputo

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Maxon Cinema 4D is a flexible and powerful modeling, animation, and rendering tool. It's used to create a wide variety of images, including special effects, broadcast titles, character animations, and more.

Maxon Cinema 4D 7.0 provides a thorough introduction to the software, while the companion CD contains a demo version of Cinema 4D, as well as sample scenes and animations from the book. Readers will learn how to use Cinema 4D to create special effects, character animations, and 3D modeling. Project examples in each chapter illustrate key features of the software. The last chapter in the book dissects and fully deconstructs a full-featured animation.

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All-original collection of bound, gagged, pierced, whipped, chained and otherwise compromised young vixens that began it all.

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Amazing hardcore bondage illustrations.......2000-04-11

Dementia is the king of his genre. His drawings project an amazing understanding of anatomy in that some artists put bodies in completely impossible positions, while his are physically possible and very appealing. His sense of humor is something to be enjoyed as well.

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Story-telling at its Best.......2002-02-10

I truly enjoyed this book of yarns. Most people would probably
like the book, however, it was a nostalgia trip for me. I was
born and grew up in the same area, just a few years later. Many
of the sites and names were quite familiar. I am purchasing
another one to send my brother.

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Informative! Interesting! Easy to Read!.......1999-11-07

It's about time women are recognized for their outstanding sports achievements. This book hightlights the top women sprinters in history. It describes the hardships and triumphs these magnificent athletes endured. The author does an excellent job of keeping the readers interest.

Great book enjoyed by my students!.......1999-10-21

This book not only tells about sprinters, but tells about the obstacles which these sprinters overcame to reach their goals. Many important lessons about perseverance are learned by the readers.

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War by Other Means is a clarion call to those in important industry and policy positions in the United States to consider the very real risks of economic espionage. Companies cannot ignore a horizon crowded with challenges such as how to maintain security over operations in an age when information products--from patents to software--can be lifted at the speed of light and reproduced at virtually no cost. John Fialka, who writes for the Wall Street Journal, here records the true spy stories of foreign intelligence operatives penetrating U.S. industries to gather valuable information ranging from trade secrets to military technology. Fialka tells his story in the strong language of battle and delivers a barrage of supporting facts: names, dates, numbers, and the procedures foreign countries take to gain restricted information. This lively story will raise fresh concern about the nature of competition among international businesses as well as national intelligence agencies.

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In this action-filled journey through tomorrow's headlines, award-winning journalist John Fialka reveals a secret war that jeopardizes the economic security of the United States and the livelihood of millions of Americans. The battlefield is now economic rather than ideological, but espionage in the 1990s springs directly from the ruins of the Cold War spy regimes. Newly configured, the covert operations of America's enemies-and friends-threaten to hollow out the U.S. economy and siphon away the jobs and technologies we need to remain competitive in the twenty-first century. From Russia's brazen shopping tours for U.S. secrets to the subtle art of technology "tunneling" by the Japanese, this book illuminates a loss that is widely felt, but not often seen or understood. Fialka's incisive reporting and trenchant analysis expose an attack on the American economy so deadly as to constitute a time-lapse Pearl Harbor; his book outlines the hard choices we must make if we are to survive.

Customer Reviews:

A somewhat paranoid view........2002-01-17

I read this book when it first came out and have had some time to consider the viewpoints espoused. I believe the dissimenation of information and know how is inevitable, albeit this author does point out examples of unmitigated stealing of ideas, intellectual properties, etc. from U.S.-based businesses that should be curtailed.

In my view, the leaky bucket theory of developing technology and know-how described in the book does not give enough consideration to the rate of innovation in the U.S. Instead, a somewhat paranoid view of losing all the goodies to the bad guys comes across.

The people and money behind the innovation seem to be the real keys, not the specifics of any implementation. Most of the examples of copy cats or rip-offs the author uses to illustrate his point are technologies that have lived their life cycle and near zero margins anyway. Although the margins might have been diminished in a less timely fashion had better controls been in place. Innovation moves on to the next better thing with higher margins. Its natural -- get over it.

A reader.......2001-12-28

Fialka' work is an excellent primer on yester-year industrial espionage(The book is a little out-dated). In fact, it still goes on, and it is just as it has been described by the title - it goes on silently.

There are various incidents that are described in great detail about the Chinese, French, and the other "Allies" who constantly spy on their friends and other industrialised nations, and this book will serve as a jolting shock to anybody who runs a Company in a competitive economy.

Great book, lucidly written, and highly recommended!

A good book in a subject area with mostly bad books.......2001-04-02

Since first popularized by Winn Schwartau, the concept of Information Warfare has tantalized and titillated. It is a fascinating idea that the wars of an information society would be fought on a digital playing field. Certainly the practice of economic espionage is not new. Reduced political tensions worldwide means that cold warriors need something to do for a living, so today, it appears that resources that were formerly applied to defense-related targets are now being redeployed against American corporations.

Hitting so close to home, and being such a morbidly fascinating subject, it has tended to attract a lot of crank authors with populist approaches. While Fialka doesn't really pull his punches, his approach is much more even-handed than many writers. This well-researched and competently written book stands well above the junk being currently produced in this subject area.

Although this text is now over four years old, it is still relatively current. For example, one who has read this book could not have been surprised at the amount of Federal attention paid to a nuclear physicist of Chinese extraction with strong ties to his native land, which has a long-standing pattern not only of economic espionage, but also of using and abusing non-professional spies. The author also gives convincing evidence to support the consistent rumors that the French have a ongoing tradition of government-sponsored economic warfare against their 'allied' partners. (As someone who has benefited from the character-building experience of a long-term relationship with a Peugeot, I remain convinced that although the French undoubtedly engage in economic espionage, Gallic pride prevents them from actually applying anything that they learn.)

This is an excellent text for helping build a mental picture of one particular class of Information Security threat. Those involved in Infosec topics will also find value in the chapters "Virtual Justice," which explains why corporations are so reluctant to report incidents of espionage, and "Surviving" which describes the lack of attention that corporations are willing to pay to security issues. As someone who has been involved in the field for over ten years, I can attest that this attitude is pervasive, and that security failures do occur. But without a greater willingness to report incidents to the authorities, the true statistics will never be known.

Given that virtually all large corporations are highly-vulnerable to attack, and given the author's supportable contention that both motivated and resourceful adversaries exist, it seems imprudent to write this book off as mere scare mongering. Since the writing of this book, the problem has only worsened.

Excellent Overview of Allied and Other Economic Espionage.......2000-04-08

John is a distinguished correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, their lead reporter during the Gulf War, and an award-winning investigative journalist in the fields of national security, politics, and financial scandal. The Chinese, Japanese, French and Russians are featured here, together with useful cross-overs into criminal gangs doing espionage on U.S. corporations, as well as overt data mining and other quasi-legal activities that yield far more economic intelligence than most business leaders understand.

Very good........1999-07-18

I just finished War by Other Means. My background includes some Information Security work for the armed forces, an MBA and pretty good exposure to various parts of the world (having lived in Germany about 5 years during the height of the Cold War, but not the Far East).

My background includes the knowledge and life's experience from a number of diverse points of view, including one that involved my graduate education which took place at Central Missouri State University -- yes, the Chinese Communists were there, and so were others from Thailand, Taiwan, FSU, and so forth.

Let me tell you, if you are one of the 'commoners' (I mean that in a humourous way- it is part of the vernacular for those who are not practioners, and is not meant in a disparaging way) this book makes absolute sense. Yes, our brain pool is being examined and drained by foreign governments. No longer do we have warfare conducted in military terms on a vast scale such as WW II, but the massed hordes are now within our borders, slowly leaking our country dry (I'm surprised that Fialka didn't include the analogy of the frog being boiled alive, not realizing what was happening to itself). Reverse engineering and other methods are alive and well.

May God help us!

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War By Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Melvin A. Goodman
Manufacturer: National Academy of Sciences
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00096Q6O4
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on December 22, 1996. The length of the article is 1573 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: War By Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. (book reviews)
Author: Melvin A. Goodman
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1996
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Volume: v13 Issue: n2 Page: p93(3)

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War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. (book reviews): An article from: Security Management

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War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. (book reviews): An article from: Security Management
Howard Keough
Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097J8V6
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on February 1, 1998. The length of the article is 722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America. (book reviews)
Author: Howard Keough
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1998
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v42 Issue: n2 Page: p92(2)

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The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Brett L. Walker
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0520248341

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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago--at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspired by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life--not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment--had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century.
Walker takes a fresh and original approach. Rather than presenting a mere juxtaposition of oppression and resistance, he offers a subtle analysis of how material and ecological changes induced by trade with Japan set in motion a reorientation of the whole northern culture and landscape. Using new and little-known material from archives as well as Ainu oral traditions and archaeology, Walker poses an exciting new set of questions and issues that have yet to be approached in so innovative and thorough a fashion.

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(UF)O, say, have you seen?

The Spaceships of the Visitors: An Illustrated Guide to Alien Spacecraft
Kevin Randle , and Russ Estes
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0684857391

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The first comprehensive field guide to alien spacecraft, complete with illustrations of more than one hundred spaceships

In the last decade, the number of reports of alien spacecraft sightings has skyrocketed. However, the phenomenon of alien encounters is not new. Here, for the first time, two UFO experts, Kevin Randle and Russ Estes, cover the history of UFO sightings, from the ancient to the modern, using research from many different sources, including the Air Force and private UFO groups. Each of the more than one hundred entries is based on actual eyewitness accounts and includes:

A detailed drawing of each spaceship based on photographs or drawings made by the people who saw it with their own eyes
A concise summary of the facts: where the sighting took place, names of the witnesses, craft type, and such specifics as each craft's dimensions, color, sound, and exhaust mechanism
A unique reliability rating, on a scale from 0 to 10
A gripping you-were-there narration of the encounter, along with meticulous documentation of source material

Spaceships of the Visitors is a fascinating and essential reference for anyone curious about alien visitation.

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(UF)O, say, have you seen?.......2002-03-11

This absurd "field guide" to UFOs presents nothing in the way of evidence beyond laughable photos and allegedly suspicious details in various military documents, neither of which prove that Earth is being visited by super-intelligent aliens from other worlds. The photos, entertaining as they are, show nothing more than what appear to be airborne plastic submarines, out of focus rubber balls, floating vaudeville caps, streaks of light, and so on. And the numerous document passages quoted (along with a history of personnel changes in Project Blue Book and similarly exciting details) prove nothing except that the military likes to maintain a measure of security. This is part of the military's job, to best of this reader's knowledge.

Actually, "Spaceships of the Visitors" offers a third body of "evidence"--pre-UFO sightings from ancient times to the World War II "foo fighters." Problems abound with this approach. How reliable, for example, are centuries-old woodcuts or pre-Christian oral accounts? Certainly, the book's chapter on the famous 1897 airship sightings works against the probability of UFO visitation inasmuch as it quotes modern-sounding accounts of alien beings and Roswell-style alien writing--accounts long since proven to be hoaxes. If such stories were fraudulent in 1897, why should we believe similar stories today?

The book reminds us, repeatedly, that not all UFO sightings can be explained, that a significant number remain unaccounted for. This is often offered as a pro-UFO point by UFO believers, but nothing is proven by default, at least in the absence of other evidence. It is also highly implausible that the military would be the sole proprietor of any material evidence relating to alien craft. If saucer fragments, alien bodies, or discarded alien snack food bags really existed, how would one entity or organization have these under lock and key? In the absence of actual evidence for alien visitation, this reader remains a skeptic. And he sends a warning from Earth: Avoid this book!

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