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This handsome reprint of a rare 1930s catalog displays the interiors and exteriors of Sears-designed homes. Illustrations of 68 houses, including measured floor plans, depict such attractive residences as the Belmont — a six-room house — and the Dover — an English cottage with a massive chimney. Over 200 black-and-white illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
Just OK.......2007-06-27
I felt this book had too many interior drawings & that the plans were all too similar. While I know this book is a reproduction catalogue, other books from this genre have more varied styles illustrated in their floor plans.
Nice book.......2006-01-14
Dover Publishing (God bless 'em) reprinted the 1926 Sears Modern Homes catalog many years ago and that reprint (apparently) enjoyed quite a bit of success. And that book - the 1926 reprint - was one of the books that turned me on to Sears Homes.
This is another reprint of a Sears Modern Homes catalog, specifically the 1932 catalog. In their description, Dover calls it a "rare" catalog and it's not as common as the others but I don't know that I'd call it RARE.
The only downside is the lack of color. The 1932 catalog was a beauty with lots of bright colors but that's a minor point here.
I'm delighted to see this catalog reprinted. It shows the Sears Modern Homes program from a slightly different angle, with their "special order" homes featured. These fine and fancy homes were far cries from the kit bungalows that made Sears famous.
It also has several testimonials and lots of cool trivia. For the Sears Home Aficionado, this one is worth the money.
Rose
author, "The Houses That Sears Built"
and co-author, "California's Kit Homes"
Book Description
This successful artist shares her time-tested secrets for capturing the awe-inspiring qualities of light on canvas. Whether readers paint in their kitchens or backyards, they'll learn how to use light to create depth, form, mood and atmosphere.
Artists of all levels will master light with:
*Exercises in watercolor and oils
*12 complete step-by-step demonstrations
*Close-up painting details
*Keys for "seeing" light and true color
The wide variety of innovative techniques and exercises makes it easy to understand this often confusing topic. Every reader will come away with the ability to harness the power of light!
Customer Reviews:
Good information.......2007-01-25
I liked her examples. It was nice to see the examples in watercolor as well as oil. Clear instructions and an easy read.
Seeing the Light: An Artist's Guide.......2007-01-07
Very pleasurable visually with bright colors and stunning use of white to indicate light. I can never seem to pull this off and look forward to trying to recreate some of the paintings to see if I can achieve success.
Janice Lawson - Montana
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Good Stuff for Shutterbugs at All Levels.......2000-06-18
I bought this book based on excellent reviews given to Mr. Sint's book on Wedding Photography (which I ordered as well). My expectations that "101 Tips" would include useful things for photographers at all levels were fully met. Sint includes many tips for the novice with the autofocus point-and-click camera right on up to the pro who is shopping for vintage Hasselblad equipment. Many tips cost little or nothing or provide a "hundred dollar solution" for fifty cents or less.
As I read the various sections on technique (exposure control, prefocusing, preproduction and planning) I thought of whole rolls of films wasted because I didn't understand one rule; for example, that the full moon is frontally lit be the sun and thus obeys the "sunny day F/16 rule".
I have three tips concerning this book. First, buy it. You'll get your money back in a few rolls of correctly shot film. Second, be aware that the wide range of expertise levels addressed therein means that some tips are either way above your head or completely beneath you. That leads me to tip three: pick a couple of pointers and make them yours. Don't try to incorporate a whole pile of Mr. Sint's time-proven advice at your next photo event. Just get a little better on the next roll and plan on flipping through the book again.
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The Way Things Really Work: (And How They Actually Happen)
Henry Beard , and
Ron Barrett
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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- Must have been one hell of a woman
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The Hell With Politics: The Life and Writings of Jane Wood Reno
Jane Wood Reno , and
George Hurchalla
Manufacturer: Peachtree Pub Ltd
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ASIN: 1561450928 |
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Must have been one hell of a woman.......2001-09-20
If you read this book, and cross ref. it with Janet Reno, Doing the Right Thing by Anderson, you will find out what, or who, made janet Reno what she is today.
The hell with politics, don't worry about what the majority says, figure out what you think, and do the right thing. Fix what you can, do what you must.
Jane wrestled alligators, wandered on the beaches, and was accepted by the local Indians as one of their own. She would go for the throat, if anything was between her and her objective. She built her own house, raised four kids, and worked as a journalist. She stood against the Mafia, and testifyed at the child kidnapping trials. She had insight and vision. All that Janet is, I suspect, is a remnant of her mother.
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- A Travelogue to the Andaman Islands
- Islands of Lost Souls
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Cannibal Isles: Time-travelling In The Andaman Islands
David Tomory
Manufacturer: Nth Position
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A Travelogue to the Andaman Islands.......2003-12-28
This is a travel rather than a scientific book. Like any good travelogue it contains a great deal of interesting historical and ethnological information in easily digestable tidbits. It is a good read and is small enough to carry around. Indeed, it is light enough to be read with one hand while - wait for it! - sitting down and holding on to your backpack against thieves with the other.
The cannibal-tag of the title is misleading. The Andamanese have always been accused of it but there is no evidence whatever that they have never been cannibals. I must mention this here even if I know that I am being a nit-picking fuddy-duddy. Cannibalism sells books so let us be glad that books are being bought.
"Cannibal Isles" despite its title is written in excllent and fluent English. If you are curious about your destination but do not want to carry an entire library with you, take this book, along with Mukherjee's , and you'll be better-informed than 99% of the locals when you arrive at Port Blair. Tomory is strong on local conditions and atmosphere as they are today, giving great tips on how to deal with local bureaucrats and hotel keepers (who are often one and the same, physically as well as in their attitude). Tomory is an old India hand who knows his stuff. The story of how he got his ticket in Calcutta for the boat to Port Blair is highly instructive for advanced students on how you can get what you want from petty local bureaucrats. He has discovered a fundamental secret of the Indian bureaucracy but you will have to buy the book to find out. My lips are sealed.
The description of a Soviet-style culture-speech on p. 17 against malfunctioning loudspeakers onboard ship is hilarious. Everybody who has ever been to a communist country will recognize the scene. While India's embarrassing "tilt" toward the Soviet Union just before the latter's even more embarrassing exitus is ancient history on mainland India. In the Andamans, on the other hand, the Soviet atmosphere of incompenensible speeches, bureaucratic bumbling and "paranoid security crap" (as someone calls it on page 7) still survives.
There is a fascinating description of historical piracy in the Bay of Bengal and its connections with the "legal" navies operating against them. There is material for dozens of action movies here that neither Holly- nor Bollywood have tapped into yet. Unfortunately, there are no references anywhere in this book as to where the author has unearthed this and other interesting historical material. This reviewer, for one, would have liked to follow up those piracy leads.
A few inaccuracies occur, such as calling the Akar-Bale tribe Aka-Baie throughout (the tribe had a few alternative names but Baie was never one of them). That Tomory unquestioningly accepts the horror stories of "Kalapani" and the Cellular jail irritates but is understandable - these stories are sacrosanct at Port Blair, if not historically accurate. For example, the claim that "nobody has ever returned from the Andamans" is made several times. In fact, there was an official repatriation program for rehabilitated prisoners in the later stages of the penal colony and a few convicts actually escaped successfully. Reality, as always, is not so simple. Tomory also accepts without question the version current at Port Blair of Subhas Chanda Bose and his raising of the first flag of Indian independence in 1943 - under Japanese tutelage. There is no hint of the mindbogglingly convoluted events surrounding this early declaration of Indian independence in the Andamans. That the stamps prepared for Bose's future India were printed in Germany is mentioned - but not what sort of Germany it was that printed them.
For a good travelogue these are minor errors and ommissions that do not detract from the value of the book,.
If you are interested in the Andamans and/or want to go there anytime soon - put this book on your reading list.
George Weber
The Andaman Association
Islands of Lost Souls.......2003-12-23
Perhaps due to their remote location, surrounded by treacherous seas in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Burma, the Andaman Islands have always been a source of fear and fascination for travellers.
Marco Polo, in the 13th century, reported that their inhabitants had the heads of dogs. In the 17th century, even the most daring buccaneers were afraid to harbour there, believing that they would be killed and, according to one French captain "dressed for food". In 1890, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would pit Sherlock Holmes against a murderous Andaman cannibal in The Sign of Four; while in the 1990s, the native islanders - those few that remain - were still described by the media as living in the Stone Age.
The Andamans were settled 40-50,000 years ago and since then they have seen a constant flux of visitors and would-be colonisers, both well and ill-intentioned. In the past 700 years or so the French, English, Indians, Japanese, Malaysians, and Americans have all left their mark with ports, prisons, hospitals, a great many diseases and even more settlers, who today number about 400,000. The islands' discovery by the rest of the world brought war, piracy, imprisonment, slavery and sickness. It's little wonder that only a few hundred of the original islanders remain, split into four tribal groups. One of these, the Great Andamanese, has only three breeding women left. For all their paradisiacal beauty, the story of the islands has not been a happy one.
As the book's subtitle suggests, this is not just a journey through space, but also through time. Elegantly merging history, travelogue and ethnography, David Tomory paints as complete picture of the islands and their inhabitants as we are likely to read. Whether bumping along white beaches in an autorickshaw, baking inside a metal ferry cabin or hallucinating in a sweaty hospital bed, he bombards us with information so effortlessly as to be almost subliminal.
Cannibalism, or at least the threat of it, has always been central to the Andaman story, and Tomory does a fine job picking at the bones of this persistent rumour. He suggests, rather convincingly, that the cannibal tales were concocted centuries ago by Malay slavers seeking to deter others from exploiting the islands and their diminutive inhabitants. In fact, the sole documented case of cannibalism here dates only as far back as July 1945, when a steamship full of Indian prisoners was thrown overboard by their Japanese captors. One of the few survivors admitted that they had eaten a dead comrade out of desperation.
Slavery and captivity are recurring themes of the islands' story, climaxing with the establishment of a high-tech, highly brutal, Victorian jail in1897. The building survives, reminding tourists that there was a time when any visit to the archipelago was likely to be a permanent one. The various attempts to reform criminals sent to the islands mirror those to "civilise" the indigenous tribes, whose few remaining descendants now live in a kind of open captivity on "protected reserves" that provide an all-too familiar echo of the past.
Tomory laces his book with mordant humour, but there is no escaping the underlying sense of sadness. Just as the Andamanese provide a tangible link to humankind's ancient past, a kind of genetic petri dish, so they serve as a microcosm of the entire history of human expansion, colonisation, civilisation and, inevitably, annihilation.
This is an engaging and engrossing book, and Tomory is a fine guide. Anyone who ever plans to visit the Andaman Islands, whether to confront the centuries-old ghosts of pirates, cannibals and murderers, or simply to indulge in a spot of fishing or snorkelling on "India's Hawaii", will surely want to read it beforehand, and take it with them when they go. Meanwhile, anyone seeking to lose them selves in a model microhistory, whose lessons concern all of us, should look no further.
And if we ever do crack the secrets of time travel, this book should immediately be posted back to the 18th century, when it might just prevent a tragedy.
Book Description
Here you will learn to balance your body and mind to create the perfect environment for you to conceive a healthy baby. With many practical tips on how to learn the powerful techniques for creating a fertile atmosphere in your body, life and relationships, this book is an indispensable guide for the fertility process. You will also have the opportunity to learn the latest mind and body program to create better health, greater intelligence, self-realization and actualization for you, your partner and your baby.
Customer Reviews:
Twelve Weeks to Fertility.......2002-07-13
With all the ART treatments and acupuncture ,still no baby. The missing link was the stress and our mind/body connections. We are now happily 6mos pregnant. This book helped both of us deal with it all and prepare for a truly healthy pregnancy in every way. Very special book. Cindy and Jack
Twelve Weeks to Fertility.......2001-03-05
Finally,a method for putting it all together.I feel hopeful and even excited about the process.Excellent ,simple , mind/body program recommended by DR Marrs in his book.
Twelve Weeks to Fertility.......2001-02-16
For many people,conception needs some preparation .For us ,the fertility process almost destroyed our relationship. Through DR.O'Neill's program,we received quality of life,physical health,emotional health and finally healthy ,beautiful twins.We got to read each chapter while it was a work in progress.I'M so glad it is now out there for the public.It truly is a must read.
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As European correspondent for a number of American newspapers during the 1930s, William L. Shirer witnessed at first hand many of the pivotal events in the buildup to World War II. At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, broadcasts and translations of Hitler's speeches, Shirer tirelessly tried to warn the world of the terrible evil that was growing in Germany. The Nightmare Years, a No. I bestseller when first published in America in 1984, is not only the fascinating eyewitness account of this cataclysmic decade, but also the more personal story of a young American caught in tense and desperate times, struggling to survive and provide a life for himself and his family as the world lurched inexorably towards war.
'More than any conventional history book, Shirer's memoirs let a reader relive history' -People
'A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book' -Time 'No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis' -Barbara Tuchman
'An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history' -Washington Post
Customer Reviews:
Superbly readable eye-wintess Account.......2005-08-10
In this superb memoir, William L. Shirer describes life inside Nazi Germany from his six-year perch (1934-1940) as a foreign correspondent for newspapers and CBS radio. Readers get a feel for everyday life in Nazi Germany as Hitler consolidated his power, crushed (or killed) his opponents, and put the jobless to work building a war machine for future conquest.
Shirer begins by describing his days in Vienna, Afghanistan, Spain, and France, but the book's heart comes with his posting to Berlin in 1934. Readers learn about Gestapo terror, prewar rearmament, increasing anti-Semitism, and the devotion of many (but not all) Germans to their violent Fuehrer. Shirer also examines the inexplicable appeasement policies of France and Britain - policies that leave one as baffled today as in the 1930's. The author recounts joining Ed Murrow at CBS Radio in 1938 and then broadcasting events such as the Anchluss (takeover) of Austria, the betrayal at Munich, and the German invasion of Poland. Shirer also recounts traveling with the German army as it tore through Belgium in 1940, seeing Paris under Nazi rule, and broadcasting the French surrender. The book's nicely readable prose vividly recreates the stifling atmosphere and the unfolding, utterly preventable tragedy.
Journalist-author William L. Shirer (1904-93) wrote superbly readable eye-witness accounts of 20th Century history. This 1984 memoir was his final bestseller on Nazi Germany, and every bit as readable as the earlier two, BERLIN DIARY (1941) and RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH (1960).
Front row seat.......2004-08-17
Shirer writes a wonderful, exciting memoir of what it was like to be in Europe as Hitler began his rise to power.
As I read, I became aware that Hitler could have been stopped many times before the U.S. became involved. Had the French or the British acted in a timely manner, Hitler could have been squashed like a bug before all the destruction and loss of life. But politics got in the way and everyone seemed afraid to call Hitler on his obvious, transparent lies and bold treaty violations. Churchill had his number, but he was criticized strongly. Everyone believed Hitler's lies, they closed their eyes and allowed him to grow powerful. He bluffed everyone.
I enjoyed the book and found it good reading. Now I am reading Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I recommend The Nightmare Years as a good preface.
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- Military Transport by T.J. O'Malley, Ray Hutchins
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Military Transport: Trucks & Transporters (Greenhill Military Manual)
T J O'Malley
Manufacturer: Greenhill Books
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ASIN: 1853674664 |
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These concise and informative guides provide an excellent source of reference on modern contemporary weapons and military equipment. Each features technical line profiles, a wealth of photographs and informative text written by experts in the field. Military Transports: Trucks and Transporters reviews key load-carrying vehicles in service around the world and includes technical data and performance details.
Customer Reviews:
Military Transport by T.J. O'Malley, Ray Hutchins.......2002-04-01
160 pages, covering 75 vehicles from around the world. All photos are in B/W, with a line drawing, showing a version of the truck and not the cargo version as is found in most other books of this type. Each truck is covered by a brief history and tells about the differance versions and a full specification listing.
A better referance book than most, wish there was more color photos.
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Object-oriented Design For Temporal Gis (Research Monographs in Geographical Information Systems)
Monica Wachowicz
Manufacturer: CRC
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Object-oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modeling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within GIS. It also offers practical guidance to object-oriented methods by demonstrating the feasibility of applying such a method to issues involved in handling spatio-temporal data. The author demonstrates how this knowledge might be used in a wide range of applications such as political boundary record maintenance (historical data), disease incidence rate analysis in epidemics (diffusion rate), and environmental studies of climate change (time-series data).
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- Simplified Irrigation Design, 2nd Edition (Landscape Architecture)
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- State Houses: America's 50 State Capitol Buildings
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- The California Missions (First Books - Examining the Past)
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