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George Washington Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook
Marc Appleton Manufacturer: Tailwater Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 097057200X |
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Culled from the remains of an original scrapbook comes a long overdue publication of the work of an architect who all but defined the Spanish Colonial Revival of the early twentieth century. Containing magazine articles and photographs published during Smith's lifetime, this book is an essential addition to the library of any student, practioner or afficionado of Southern California Architecture. It also contains a brief introduction written by Marc Appleton.Customer Reviews:
SPANISH COLONIAL MASTER.......2006-09-26
Fantastic collection.........2003-02-22
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The HarperCollins Dictionary Art Terms & Techniques (Harpercollins Dictionaries)
Ralph Mayer Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0064610128 |
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The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, 2nd edition, contains over 3,200 clear definitions of terns encountered in thestudy and practice of the visual arts and in their literature. It covers all forms of easel and mural paintings, drawing, sculpture, the graphic arts, photography, ceramics, and mosaic. There are entries on schools, styles, and periods, but the chief emphasis of the book is on the materials and methods of the artist. Materials are defined in terms of compositions, source, use, and characteristic properties; processes and techniques are defined in terms of their practical application and results. Tools and equipment are concisely described and illustrated with copious line drawings.Customer Reviews:
What artists work with, clearly explained.......2003-10-24
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3-D Hollywood/Book and 3-D Glasses
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0671769480 |
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Alan Moore Magic Words Volume 1
Alan Moore , and Juan Jose Ryp Manufacturer: Avatar Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0970678495 |
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Alan Moore brings a new line of Graphic Novels to Avatar starting right here! Hand picked by Alan Moore, this book is a stunning adaptation of some of his songs, poems and writings turned into sequential art, by an amazing group of European artists never before seen in America! This is also the first American work by staggering talent Juan Jose Ryp who will certainly be providing many fantastic Avatar projects in the years to come! Also included is an exhaustive listing of Moore's work in other mediums as well. This deluxe edition book features an introduction by Warren Ellis.Customer Reviews:
Obscure Alan material, great art!.......2003-03-21
Very Disappointing...........2003-02-04
So it's with a VERY heavy heart that I report that not only did I NOT enjoy Magic Words, I actually regretted buying it. The book was solicited (By publisher Avatar Comics) as a collection of short stories; It's actually a few of Moore's song lyrics interpreted by a group of European artists. The art was varied, ranging from decent to ultra-detailed, but the stories themselves (Actually the lyrics..) do NOT make for compelling reading. If reading song lyrics and looking at an artists interpretations of those lyrics is your thing, you'll probably like Magic Words. I found it to be very pretentious and self-important. I'll be very careful about checking into the content of Avatar books before buying from now on.....(Sorry Alan! You're STILL my favorite Writer, though!)
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An Affair to Remember: My Life with Cary Grant
Maureen DONALDSON Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 035617638X |
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An Affair to Remember: My Life With Cary Grant
Maureen Donaldson Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0517074184 Release Date: 1991-07-20 |
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So Intresting .......2007-03-27
Reading Past Midnight.......2007-01-02
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Great Book.......2003-11-09
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An Affair to Remember, My Life with Cary Grant
Maureen and William Royce Donaldson Manufacturer: Putnam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWBVNO |
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An Affair To Remember, My Life with Cary Grant.
Robert C. and William Royce. Christopher Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NGRSLU |
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An Affair to Remember: My Life with Cary Grant
Maureen Donaldson , and William Royce Manufacturer: G. P. Putman's Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K7AWOM |
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An Affair to Remember: My Life with Cary Grant
Maureen; Royce, William Donaldson Manufacturer: Putnam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OHDGTQ |
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Last of the Saddle Tramps (Equestrian Travel Classics)
Messanie Wilkins Manufacturer: Long Riders' Guild Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1590480430 |
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Historically the world of equestrian travel has contained an exciting mixture of unique men and women. Some are adventurers seeking danger from the back of their horses. Others are travelers discovering the beauties of the countryside they slowly ride through. A few are searching for inner truths while cantering across desolate parts of the planet. Then there is Messanie Wilkins. She was acting on orders from the Lord!In 1954, at the age of 63, Wilkins had plenty to worry about. A destitute spinster in ill health, Wilkins had been told she had less than two years left to live, provided she spent them quietly. With no family ties, no money, and no future in her native Maine, Wilkins decided to take a daring step. Using the money she had made from selling homemade pickles, Wilkins bought a tired summer camp horse and made preparations to ride from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. Yet before leaving she flipped a coin, asking God to direct her to go or not. When the coin came up head several times in a row, one of America's most unlikely equestrian heroines set off.
What followed was one of the 20th Century's most remarkable equestrian journeys. Accompanied by her faithful horse, Tarzan, Wilking suffered through a host of obstacles including blistering deserts and freezing snow storms, yet never lost faith that she would complete her 7,000 mile odyssey.
"Last of the Saddle Tramps" is thus the warm and humorous story of a humble American heroine bound for adventure and the Pacific Ocean. The classic tale is amply illustrated with photographs.
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Insirering Story.......2006-11-02
The Courage to ride.......2002-11-26
Her goal - California.
"Last of the Saddle Tramps" is Mesannie Wilkins' recollection of this 7000 mile journey. This tale is a wonderful mixture of the humorous horsey incidents (like her Tennessee Walker trying to walk back to Tennessee), the incredible physical hardships and the wonderful hospitality offered to her by her fellow Americans during the ride.
Mesannie Wilkins' style of writing is, much like herself, warm, humorous and unassuming. She has a wonderful gift for, with only a few lines, painting accurate images of the people encountered on the trail.
Most importantly, however, this is a tale of the incredible courage of one woman who, faced with seemingly unsurmountable odds, refused to give up on her life and her dream. Mesannie Wilkins is a true inspiration, today as much as during her lifetime.
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Last of the Saddle Tramps
Mesannie Wilkins with Mina Titus Sawyer. Preface by Art Linkletter Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RV5Y3A |
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Last Of The Saddle Tramps
Wilkins And Sawyer Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: B000JCUV6C |
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Best True Story I've ever read.......2006-10-25
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Last of the Saddle Tramps
Wilkins Mesannie Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LB2KEW |
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Last of the Saddle Tramps
Mesannie Wilkins Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NZMZQE |
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Expectations:Best Kept Secrets Every Mother Knows
Terry Lee Bilsky Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories: ASIN: 0836210891 |
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Excellent.......1999-10-26
Warm, touching, funny.......1999-10-06
Funny, beautifully illustrated and touching.......1998-12-09
Terrific!!.......1998-07-17
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Expectations: Best Kept Secrets Every New Mother Should Know
Terry Lee Bilsky Manufacturer: universa; press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OV9PVU |
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Polish Winged Hussar 1576-1775 (Warrior)
Richard Brzezinski Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 184176650X Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
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This book examines the origins and development of the Polish 'Winged' Hussars. Using many years' painstaking research drawn from unpublished Polish sources, the author provides a rounded view of the training, tactics, appearance and experiences of these legendary and fascinating warriors. Most dramatic of all Hussar characteristics were the 'wings' worn on the back or on the saddle, although not all Hussars wore them, and their purpose has been fiercely debated. The Hussars terrified the Turks, Tatars, Muscovite boyars, Ukrainian Cossacks and Swedes, who did everything to avoid facing them directly in battle.Customer Reviews:
Ignorant spreading his "knowledge".......2007-07-16
My favorite Osprey.......2006-10-08
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Warrior 094 - Polish Winged Hussar 1576 - 1775
Richard Brzezinski Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TYZODK |
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Manufacturer: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000H6G3PS |
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians (Legends of the West)
Manufacturer: Barnes and Noble ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0760754292 |
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Like opening a time capsule.......2005-11-21
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Legends of The West: Narrative of my Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Barnes and Nobles Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NU2LCM |
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My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Citadel Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0806503890 |
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Travelling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas, the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Fort Laramie by a band of Oglalla Sioux on July 12, 1864, and held prisoner until December 12 of that year, when she was released at Fort Sully in the Dakota Territory... Her book is clearly one of the most distinguished examples of the last period of the captivity narrative... Fanny Kelly's narrative is valuable not only because it is an intrinsically exciting firsthand account, rich in details of Indian life, told by a brave and intelligent woman; it is especially valuable because it expresses the tension between two conflicting nineteenth-century images: the Indian as savage aggressor and the Indian as hapless victim-- a tension which illustrate the uneasy mingling of hostility and guilt central to the whole American Frontier experience. --From the introduction by Jules Zanger, Southern Illinois UniversityCustomer Reviews:
A Plains Pioneer Story.......2006-03-25
My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians.......2000-02-17
19th century captivity narrative.......1998-02-27
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NARRATIVE OF MY CAPTIVITY AMONG THE SIOUX INDIANS
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Lakeside Press/RR Donnelley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V2NV4E |
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Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 142861852X |
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With A Brief Account Of General Sully's Indian Expedition In 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring In My Captivity.Customer Reviews:
She Survived.......2007-10-06
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly; Editors Clark & Mary Lee Spence Manufacturer: R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OL58LG |
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Lakeside Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NSKJJG |
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - With a Brief Account of General Sully's Indian Expedition in 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring in my Captivity
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Pomona Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1406793647 |
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"A Pioneer Woman's Harrowing story of Frontier Experiences during the Opening of the West - Contents Include: Early History The Attack and the Capture My Husband's Escape Beginning of my Captivity Plan for Little Mary's Escape Suffering from Thirst and Weariness Powder River The storm Preparations for Battle Mourning for the Slain Meet another White Female Captive Despair and Delirium A Letter from Captain Marshall Lost in the Indian Village Fourteen Whites Killed Scenes on Cannon Ball Prairie A Prairie on Fire Negotiations for my Ransom Indian Customs An Indian Tradition I am Free! Retrospection Sad Fate of Little Mary Reward Offered Mother and Child A Brutal Father I Go to Washington General Sully's Expedition Poem to Mrs. Fannie Kelly Certificate of Indian Chiefs Certified Copies of my Correspondence with Captain Fisk Statement of Lieutenant G.A. Hesselberg Statements of Officers and Members of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry "
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians, with a Brief Account of General Sully's Indian Expedition in 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring in My Captivity
Fanny Kelly Manufacturer: Mutual Publishing Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LYAD7U |
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Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (The New Cambridge History of India)
David Arnold Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0521563194 |
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Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. David Arnold's wide-ranging analysis combines a discussion of all three fields across the entire colonial period--from the 1860s through to Independence--offering both a survey of recent scholarship and an original overview. Arnold assesses the role of science in the making of colonial India and in the fashioning of Indian responses to British rule.Download Description
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.Customer Reviews:
Surprisingly little studied till now.......2004-04-21
But what happened in science, engineering and medicine when the British ruled India has been relatively neglected, compared to both the pre and post colonial eras. Arnold attempts to redress this deficit here. He describes how indigenous Indian scientists and doctors learned from and also influenced the British.
Especially in the area of tropical medicine. From their African colonies, the British also had experiences in this field. But India had much higher population densities and a more highly developed infrastructure than in Africa. Plus the Indians had perhaps better, though incomplete, knowledge of solutions.
It is still surprising that up till now, there has been little scholarly work done on this subject. One might speculate that previous British authors might have concentrated on science done in Britain itself. And Indian authors might have wanted, even if only subconsciously, to deprecate the colonial period.
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