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Cowboy Chic
Chase Reynolds Ewald Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0879059621 |
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Western furnishings today range from meticulous leather-wrapped armoires to hand-carved mantelpieces depicting a trout stream or local wildlife. An extraordinary commitment of time plus a pure passion and singular creative vision are the hallmarks of the fine furnishings of the contemporary West. Today's artisans are creating works that are fresh, beautiful, meticulously crafted, sometimes nostalgic, often humorous, and always celebratory of both the region and its traditions. This is COWBOY CHIC. Hardback; 150Customer Reviews:
Showcase of Contemporary Western Design.......2006-10-16
Beautiful Book!.......2003-04-22
Cowboy Chic.......2001-06-28
Great pictures, though.
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Cowboy Chic : At Home in the American West
Chase Reynolds Ewald Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KOZI6C |
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The Jewelry Repair Manual
R. Allen Hardy Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486291618 |
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Too Old.......2007-07-14
Heal the Jewelry.......2007-01-10
Another Dover reprint that is a good idea.......2006-04-12
A Hobby Beader's Opinion.......2006-03-21
An Excellent First Book On The Subject!.......2002-09-09
This book proved me right. It's a wonderful
reference and text. It's not too much, it's not
too little, it's not too technical. Jewelers
tools are shown and explained. If you want
to build a jewelry repair set up in your home
this will show you how to make one that's just
right for you.
Someone said it's "dated", which I would rephrase
by saying it's a good, time tested and true basic
source of reliable up to date information. The
tricks they use out there and charge top dollar
for amazed me. I'm a smarter shopper now too.
If you want one book on the subject, this really
is a great choice.
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Pearl inlay: An instruction manual for inlaying abalone and mother-of-pearl
James E Patterson Manufacturer: Stewart-MacDonald ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Similar Items: ASIN: B0006F59TG |
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From the Introduction:.......2006-01-25
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The Jewelry Repair Manual
R. Allen Hardy Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MRHVZ8 |
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THE JEWELRY REPAIR MANUAL
R. Allen, Hardy Manufacturer: D. Can Nostrand Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0000CJI23 |
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Jewelry Handbook: Repair department procedures
Archie D Henderson Manufacturer: Archie D. Henderson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072NX5A |
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THE JEWELRY REPAIR MANUAL
R. Allen Hardy Manufacturer: D. Van Nostrand Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0000CNNXM |
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The Jewelry Repair Manual
Hardy R. Allen Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDC6CW |
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The Jewelry Repair Manual
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster (Paper) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0685504506 |
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Chris Verene
Chris Verene Manufacturer: Twin Palms Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0944092756 |
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I like it.......2000-12-09
Best new photography book.......2000-11-14
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Lady Tottering's Journal (Diary)
Annie Tempest Manufacturer: Orion Books Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0752841084 |
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William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
John B. Judis Manufacturer: Touchstone Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671695932 |
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might be worth your while.......2007-03-28
Buckley at 80.......2005-11-25
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William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of Conservatives
John B. Judis Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0517076039 Release Date: 1991-09-03 |
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David Beckham; Portrait of a Superstar
Fergus Kelly Manufacturer: Scholastic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0439981735 |
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The Brightwork Companion : Tried-and-True Methods and Strongly Held Opinions in Thirteen and One-Half Chapters
Rebecca Wittman Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071422773 |
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A hands-on handbook for the do-it-yourself refinisher
From the author of the revered classic Brightwork: The Art of Finishing Wood comes this lifeline for the weekend warrior with a brush, a can of varnish, and two days to show results. As elegantly written, photographed, and color printed as its predecessor, The Brightwork Companion provides a stripped-to-the-essentials, topicby- topic presentation of procedures, bulleted lists, and summary tables.
Rebecca Wittman helps readers evaluate the condition of their boats' wooden elements and provides easy-to read, two-page spreads that minimize page turning with varnish-coated fingers. This completely practical guide makes every brightwork project easier with:
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Gospel on varnishing.......2007-08-09
don't be varninshinig without........2005-01-10
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Principles of Accounting Ninth Edition Volume One Chapters One Through Thirteen, Custom Publication
Needles Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618496440 |
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The Karma of untruthfulness, volume one: Thirteen lectures given in Dornach 4 to 31 December 1916 and Basel 21 December 1916
Rudolf Steiner Manufacturer: Anthroposophic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007BOP8A |
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One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism
Marvin Kalb Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684859394 Release Date: 2001-09-25 |
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When Marvin Kalb was a CBS News correspondent in 1963, he had an opportunity to cover a presidential scandal. President John F. Kennedy was staying at a hotel in New York City when Kalb accidentally stepped into a private elevator and was thrown to the ground by a secret service agent. "I looked up just long enough to see the back of a woman with stunningly attractive legs entering the elevator," he recalls. She was on her way for a rendezvous with JFK. It was the scoop of a lifetime, except for one thing: Kalb didn't report it. "As I write about this incident more than thirty-seven years later, I am amazed not by my decision to do nothing but by the fact, quite undeniable, that never for one moment did I even consider pursuing and reporting what I had seen," he reflects.That was another era, of course, and quite different from the one Bill Clinton found himself in at the start of the Monica Lewinsky ordeal. How that scandal went public--and the media's role in making it happen--is Kalb's controversial subject. "I decided to focus tightly on thirteen days of Washington coverage: the eight days leading up to the breaking of the story, the day it broke, and the next four days, when journalists focused on the scandal as if nothing else in the world mattered," he writes. The result was "journalism run amok." In One Scandalous Story, Kalb treats the whole episode with open scorn: "It took only a few days in January 1998 for journalists to realize that they were in uncharted waters. Faced by a scandalous story involving a president and an intern, a competitive twenty-four-hours-a-day news cycle, and a coldly demanding economic imperative, many found themselves violating just about every rule in the book." Kalb offers a detailed chronicle of how the scandal unfolded in the press, filling his tale with a cast of familiar characters, such as Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff (accused of an "unhealthy collaboration" with his sources) and Internet impresario Matt Drudge ("the young man with the Walter Winchell fedora, the cocked eyebrow, and the unshaven chin"). Yet these individuals, in Kalb's telling, were merely following the new economic imperatives of their industry, "one linked to titillation and profit." This resulted in "the most intrusive press invasion of presidential privacy in the history of the nation." Kalb focuses almost all of his fire at the media and largely refrains from criticizing Clinton's actions. No matter what one thinks of how a president ought to behave, though, it's hard to disagree that the media's own behavior might have been much improved during this unseemly episode in American political history. --John Miller
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In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove headfirst into the scandal of President Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, disclosing every prurient detail. How and why had the journalistic landscape shifted so dramatically?
One Scandalous Story seeks to answer this critical question through the inside story of thirteen days -- January 13-25, 1998 -- that make up a vital chapter in the history of American journalism. In riveting detail, Kalb examines just how the media covered the Lewinsky scandal, offering what he calls an "X-ray of the Washington press corps." Drawing on hundreds of original interviews, Kalb allows us to eavesdrop on the incestuous deals between reporters and sources, the bitter disagreements among editors, the machination of moguls for whom news is Big Business, and above all, the frantic maneuvering to break the story. With fresh insight, he retraces decisions made by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, Internet renegade Matt Drudge, Jackie Judd of ABC, Clinton-basher Lucianne Goldberg, Susan Schmidt of The Washington Post, Jackie Bennett of the Office of the Independent Counsel, and other key players in this scandal that veered from low comedy to high drama.
Through the lens of those thirteen turbulent days, Kalb offers us a portrait of the "new news" in all its contradictions. He reveals how intense economic pressures in the news business, the ascendancy of the Internet, the blurring of roles between reporters and commentators, and a surge of dubious sourcing and "copy-cat journalism" have combined to make tabloid-style journalism increasingly mainstream. But are we condemned to a resurgence of "yellow journalism"? Painstakingly documented and sobering in its conclusions, One Scandalous Story issues a clarion call to newsmakers and the American public alike: "Journalism can change for the better -- and must."
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One great storyteller.......2003-05-11
Kalb's dissection of journalism's treatment of the unfolding drama in its earliest days is what this book is really about. Kalb explains early on that he was looking for a subject to use as the centerpiece of a discussion about a number of observations he's made over his career about the impact of the press on public policy, how television affects politics and related topics. As the name of the book implies, the developments over the past 30 years, culminating in the Clinton-Lewinsky story, are not good.
Kalb's account explains how coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky story drove the sequence of events. He demonstrates how poor sources, reporting of rumor, and saturation coverage magnified the significance of what was actually happening. Kalb does not justify Bill Clinton's bad behavior, but he makes the point that coverage of that behavior was all out of proportion to what else was going on in the world - and how that coverage wasn't very good anyway. (An interesting "other" development was the US-Iraq showdown of 1998. The thought occurred to me that the Clinton-Lewinsky story could have derailed the American public's preparedness for a larger confrontation - sort of a reverse `wag the dog' phenomena.)
Kalb is at his very best when he picks apart specific reports and bring a magnifying glass to the transcript of actual stories covering the Clinton-Lewinsky tale. My only criticism of this book is that there isn't enough of that. Where ONE SCANDALOUS STORY replays what happened between Clinton, Lewinsky, Ken Starr, etc. it takes away from its exploration of how the story was actually covered.
I also don't think that the end of ONE SCANDALOUS STORY is the end of the story. If coverage of Clinton-Lewinsky represented the culmination of the press's degeneration, it also hastened the subsequent further decline. Coverage of the 2000 election results, if anything, one-upped Clinton-Lewinsky in terms of bad journalism, and in a different but important way, coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq represented the complete meltdown of the kinds of journalistic standards Kalb is so concerned with.
Hopefully, Kalb is thinking along the same lines and another book is forthcoming. His point is too important to be made once.
doc in Louisiana.......2002-09-16
Another attempt to rationalize Clinton's scandals.......2002-01-01
Summary: The Nasty Press Forced Clinton to Commit Perjury.......2001-12-19
Interesting study.......2001-10-23
I suspect when future historians look back at Monicagate they will be writing quite a different story from what has been written so far. The real story has to be written by people who don't have an investment in it. Unfortunately the entire Washington Media Elite is so invested in this story that I don't trust any of them to write an objective account of it. They can't tell all without revealing their own complicity in it which is why Michael Isikoff's book was so disappointing. He had gone out of his way to erase his own fingerprints.
Kalb's book is disappointing in one regard. He doesn't examine the implications of what happens when the press trades access for silence. The press kept quiet about Starr's collusion with Jones lawyers for fear he would cut off leaks. Unfortunately this kind of quid pro quo happens every day across the country. Reporter keep quiet about prosecutorial abuse in exchange for illegal leaks from prosecutors, Police, the FBI. Any discussion of this is treated as taboo by the press.
Kalb also doesn't discuss the Grand Jury laws broken by Starr's office in the name of "the rule of law". But in fairness that is an altogether different book.
Overall Kalb's book is helpful in understanding the hysteria that gripped the press in 1998.
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One in Thirteen
Jessica Portner Manufacturer: Robins Lane Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 1589040015 |
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One in Thirteen offers a sobering examination of the teen suicide epidemic in America. This frank portrait of -coming-of-age in contemporary American society examines why more children are killing themselves now than in any other time in recorded history.Customer Reviews:
great research and explanations.......2005-10-04
Every parent and counselor should read this book.......2004-07-29
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Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of the Celebration of the One-Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of Stephen A. Douglas: April Twenty-Third Nineteen Hundred Thirteen Springfield, Illinois
James W. (Arranged for publication) Garner Manufacturer: State of Illinois ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PRUXRS |
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Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society: September 1981, Volume Thirteen, Number One
Dr. J.M. Plowman Manufacturer: The Antiquarian Horological Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IDE2TO |
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College Accounting One Through Thirteen + Working Papers One Through Thirteen 8th Ed
Douglas McQuaig Manufacturer: Not Avail ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 061849653X |
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Connecticut as a Colony and as a State, or One of the Original Thirteen. In Four Volumes
Forrest Morgan Manufacturer: The Publishing Society of Connecticut ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SL2SOC |
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Connecticut, As a Colony And As a State, or One of the Original Thirteen. Vol III.
Forrest Morgan Manufacturer: Publishing Society of Connecticut ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000P0PVYA |
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Civil War Battlefields, Revised Edition: A Touring Guide
David Eicher Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589791819 |
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This new edition of a popular travel guide provides a detailed, accurate and modern approach to touring these national treasures.Customer Reviews:
Don't Leave Home Without It !.......2006-04-17
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The Star Creek Papers
Horace Mann Bond , and Julia W. Bond Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 082031904X |
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THE WILSONS OF YESTER YEARS(THE LYNCHING OF JEROME WILSON).......2000-10-24
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A riparian intervention/management plan for "Star Creek": A tributary of Wickiup Creek in the Crooked River drainage, Crook County, Oregon (MHR research paper)
Kathleen Simpson Myron ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007BWYBK |
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The Star Creek Papers: Washington Parish & the Lynching of Jerome Wilson-
Horace Mann Bond & Julia W. Bond- Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press- ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O04PQQ |
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A Colour Atlas of Diseases of Small Grain Cereal Crops
Timothy D. Murray , David W. Parry , and Nigel C. Cattlin Manufacturer: Manson Publishing, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1874545391 |
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