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Italian Country Living
Caroline Clifton-Mogg Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1841728004 |
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The familiar image of the Italian countryside - hills crowned with groups of tall cypresses and rambling stone houses - dates back to early medieval times. But all the main features of that landscape are still there, particularly in the countryside of Tuscany, where many of the houses featured can be found. The first part of the book explores the essential ingredients of the style, taking in colour and texture and looking at the inimitable mixture of simplicity and comfort evident in furniture and fabrics, and going on to admire the innate gift the Italians have for living outside. The second part looks in more detail at the individual country houses. Whether Rustic, Contemporary, Exotic or Traditional in character, these homes offer myriad ideas for interior decoration that are easily incorporated into other lives and cultures.Customer Reviews:
Book was so interesting, I accidently purchased one that I already had.......2007-05-31
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Italian Country Living
Caroline Clifton-Mogg Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1845976207 |
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Italian Country Living (Style Book Series)
Catherine Sabino Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0500235309 |
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Fisher-Price: Historical, Rarity, and Value Guide, 1931-Present (Fisher-Price: a Historical, Rarity & Value Guide)
Bruce R. Fox , and John J. Murray Manufacturer: Krause Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873416430 |
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This must-have book written by the two foremost Fisher-Price historians and collecting experts is a comprehensive look at the colorful history and even more colorful playthings produced by the world's largest manufacturer of preschool toys.Features more than 150 color photos of toys made from 1931 to the present, as well as detailed information on more than 3,000 toys, including toy names alphabetized by year, toy identification numbers, number of years made, special remarks, and a value range from good to mint condition. Includes comic characters, vehicles, dolls, Little People®, and more!
Also includes a special dedication by company president, authors' toy stories, company milestones, authors' picks for top 10 toys in 20 categories, founders' biographies, year-by-year historical and toy line descriptions with decade summarization, catalog covers, and more.
Co-authors Bruce R. Fox and John J. Murray have been employees of Fisher-Price for a combined 52 years and are collectors themselves.
Detailed listings for more than 3,000 toys
Accurate, up-to-date values ranging from good to mint condition
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Excellent resource book.......2002-10-17
Everything you want to know about Fisher-Price toys.......2002-10-08
It is by far the most thorough book I've found related to Fisher-Price. It has a complete company history, product catalog and price guide for all the toys made by Fisher-Price (and even some never released).
I am a novice toy collector and bought this book because I've always loved my FP toys. I found every toy I've ever had (or at least can remember) in the book along with some amazing facts about them. Unfortunately, I learned that my Jalopy prized #724 Jolly Jalopy is probably not worth more than...
The authors were obsessive in their attention to detail, pointing out all the nuances that make certain products more valuable than others and providing a detailed history of the company and how some of their favorite toys were born.
My only disappointment was that the book is not available in hard cover.
Have fun!
Great book.......2002-09-19
EXCELLENT.......2002-08-27
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Mysterious Manatees
John Elliott Reynolds Manufacturer: University Press of Florida ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813026377 |
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Mysterious Manatees is a synergistic partnership between photographer Karen Glaser and writer and scholar John Reynolds, two of the nation's leading interpreters--one artistic, one scientific--of the life and underwater habitat of the manatee. This union of science and art makes for a compelling exploration of the manatee through two independent essays--one textual, one visual--in a book addressed to both specialists and a general audience.To some, an emblem of the tranquility and beauty of natural Florida, to others an obstacle to fast-track growth and good times, the endangered Florida manatee arouses the passions of those who have encountered it and the curiosity of those who have only heard about this huge, enigmatic inhabitant of Florida's coastal waterways.
The book opens with Reynolds's scientific account of the interactions between people and manatees, describing the history of manatee hunting, relating what is known about their early distribution and survival, and clarifying the debate about whether manatees are native to Florida.
Reynolds also discusses manatee biology and the features that make the animal especially vulnerable to human activities. Reynolds's complete and authoritative account of manatee biology, management, and conservation concludes with a gallery of plates featuring Glaser's remarkable panoramic photographs. Glaser's 52 beautiful duotone prints capture an intimate, distinctively natural vision of manatees in their own environment, an underwater world illuminated only by the sunlight above. The manatees were photographed in all the diverse conditions that comprise their environment: mud, muck, clear water, rain, sunny or cloudy weather--all illuminate the forms of these magnificent animals. Mysterious Manatees will appeal to wildlife professionals, amateur naturalists, environmentalists, and lovers of fine photography as a unique combination of fact and image that provides a compelling sense of the mysterious presence of these large yet gentle and graceful sea creatures.
Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places.
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Magical Pokemon Journey Part 4, #3: Incredible Shrinking Hazel
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1569316767 |
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Hazel is the guinea pig for Gramps's new shrinking potion. Soon Hazel is knee-high to a Pikachu and no one knows the antidote!
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Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South
Curtis Wilkie Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684872854 Release Date: 2001-09-25 |
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Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals.
Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact.
Wilkie had left the South in 1969 in the wake of the violence surrounding the civil rights movement, vowing never to live there again. But after traveling the world as a reporter, he did return in 1993, drawn by a deep-rooted affinity to the region of his youth. It was as though he rejoined his tribe, a peculiar civilization bonded by accent and mannerisms and burdened by racial anxiety. As Wilkie writes, Southerners have staunchly resisted assimilation since the Civil War, taking an almost perverse pride in their role as "spiritual citizens of a nation that existed for only four years in another century."
Wilkie endeavors to make sense of the enormous changes that have typified the South for more than four decades. Full of beauty, humor, and pathos, Dixie is a story of redemption -- for both a region and a writer.
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Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals. Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact. Wilkie had left the South in 1969 in the wake of the violence surrounding the civil rights movement, vowing never to live there again. But after traveling the world as a reporter, he did return in 1993, drawn by a deep-rooted affinity to the region of his youth. It was as though he rejoined his tribe, a peculiar civilization bonded by accent and mannerisms and burdened by racial anxiety. As Wilkie writes, Southerners have staunchly resisted assimilation since the Civil War, taking an almost perverse pride in their role as "spiritual citizens of a nation that existed for only four years in another century."Customer Reviews:
Familiar story, but interesting.......2007-07-10
Best of the "American South" Studies.......2003-07-22
What a Southerner Won't Tell You.......2001-10-27
Progressive Curtis Wilke made me realize I should be proud of my heritage but also aghast at what caused all of these atrocities and racist views. The South's dirty laundry is something that needs to be acknowledged in order to overcome the past.
What a Southerner Won't Tell You.......2001-10-27
Progressive Curtis Wilke made me realize I should be proud of my heritage but also aghast at what caused all of these atrocities and racist views. The South's dirty laundry is something that needs to be acknowledged in order to overcome the past.
Dixie--Better than the Chicks.......2001-10-01
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Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys
Dervla Murphy Manufacturer: John Murray ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0719565103 |
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Couldn't Put It Down.......2005-03-25
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Dervla Murphy, Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys.(Book Review) : An article from: Journeys
Lily Ford Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EHSANS Release Date: 2006-02-07 |
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La dieta antiazúcar
H. Leighton Steward , and Morrison C. Bethea Manufacturer: Vergara Editor S.A. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 9501520072 |
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The Changing Nature of Warfare, 1700-1945 (Access to History)
Neil Stewart Manufacturer: Hodder Arnold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0340780754 |
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The Changing Nature of Warfare
Peter Browning Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521000467 |
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This book focuses on the changing nature and methods of warfare with particular emphasis on land warfare. Topics include the impact of factors related to the conduct of war, such as generalship, tactics and strategy, quality of soldiers, weaponry; the impact of technological change, from communication to industrialization; and the relationship between state, society and warfare.
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Changing Nature of Warfare: How War Became Global (Studymates)
Robert Johnson Manufacturer: Studymates Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1842850369 |
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The Encyclopedia of Warfare: The Changing Nature of Warfare From Prehistory to Modern-day Armed Conflicts
Manufacturer: Barnes and Noble ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0760779953 |
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Tells the fascinating story of the history of warfare, from the earliest conflicts to modern war. Includes numerous illustrations, diagrams, and charts to complement the text and features a timeline charting 3,500 years of armed conflict
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Changing Nature of Warfare
Robert Johnson Manufacturer: STUDYLINE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K3Y7K6 |
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Civil augmentation of U.S. Army operations and the changing nature of warfare (USAWC strategy research project)
Charles J Toomey Manufacturer: U.S. Army War College ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006S8XX2 |
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On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum: A Critical Text Volume III
John de Trevisa , and M. C. Seymour Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0198185308 |
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Trevisa's translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum was the first encyclopedia ever published in English. From the late middle ages to the early 16th century, it was the most popular work of its kind, and it provides scholars with first-hand commentary on central medieval ideas. The two-volume
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Clinical Biochemistry : Techniques and Instrumentation - A Practical Course
John S. Varcoe Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9810245564 |
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