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Adventures With Old Houses
Richard Hampton Jenrette Manufacturer: Wyrick and Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0941711463 |
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This is the story of one man's quest to breathe life back into some of America's most historically significant dwellings. Richard Jenrette's affinity for endangered historic sites has led to the restoration of such historic houses as Edgewater on the Hudson River; Millford Plantation and the Roper House, both in South Carolina; Ayr Mount in North Carolina; and Cane Garden in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This uniquely personal account of the quest, acquisition, restoration, and furnishing of each property is instructive and entertaining. Along the way, the author introduces the artisans, curators, furniture specialists, designers, antiquarians, preservationists, and collectors who have played a part in his adventures.Customer Reviews:
Adventures with Old Houses.......2007-07-19
Great read...gorgous book.......2006-11-22
Appreciate Classic American Interiors? This book may be your new friend........2006-06-14
A Beautiful Book Of One Man's Exceptional Residences.......2003-01-13
This man has the most exquisite taste, a passion for historic houses and the decorative arts, and the means to indulge a lifestyle that can simply be described as sublime.
This book is NOT a "how to" manual. It is an elegant recollection of a number of houses he has owned and obviously loved over the course of many years.
More reviews available.......2000-10-31
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The Girl on the Shore: Adventures at Beacon House - A Care Home With a Difference
F. M. Hughes Manufacturer: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1843101114 |
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When Gemma gets the job as a support worker at The Beacon, a residential home with a difference, she soon gets to know all the residents, and their stories.Gemma divides her time between sailing Periwinkle, a gift from her boyfriend Adam, and her new job. But as winter arrives a dramatic storm and uncertainty over The Beacon's future threaten to disrupt the peace. Will the Beacon survive?
This is an absorbing adventure story and a thought provoking read for teenagers, adults of all ages, and caregivers, and everyone who is close to an older person.
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My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales: With Stories of Adventure and Occasional Orgies in Her Hoarding House for American Soldiers During the War, Including Her Confrontations With the kent
Robert Antoni Manufacturer: Grove/Atlantic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VYTM0O |
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Richard Jenrette's Southern Comfort. (Where are they now?).(The Roper House)(Brief Article): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IJ6WC Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 401 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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Adventures With Old Houses
Jenrette Richard Hampton Manufacturer: Wyrick & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDYVYI |
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The Watercolor Expert: Insights Into Working Methods and Approaches (Royal Watercolour Society)
The Royal Watercolour Society Manufacturer: Cassell Illustrated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1844031497 |
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How to pose for the camera
Isabel Shirley Manufacturer: Chilton Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DOYXE |
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HOW TO POSE THE MODEL
William Mortenson Manufacturer: San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company, (1956) Third Edition ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M1GCN6 |
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How to pose the model, ([A Camera Craft plus value book])
William Mortensen Manufacturer: Camera craft Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007EG2XS |
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How to Pose the Model
William and George Dunham Mortensen Manufacturer: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ODWJQ6 |
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Dark Horse Deluxe Journal: Hellboy (Dark Horse Deluxe Journal)
Mike Mignola Manufacturer: Dark Horse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items: ASIN: 1569718911 |
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This 128-page journal's cover depicts Mike Mignola's popular character Hellboy, the world's greatest paranormal investigator. Unfortunately for him, one of the only mysteries he's never been able to solve is the mystery of his own origins. Red-skinned, pointy-tailed, and horned, Hellboy tends to stand out in a crowd. Did he come from Hell, or to save us from it?Customer Reviews:
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
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Dark Horse Deluxe Journal: Hellboy
Mike Mignola Manufacturer: Dark Horse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: B000LSBTNI |
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This 128-page journal's cover depicts Mike Mignola's popular character Hellboy, the world's greatest paranormal investigator. Unfortunately for him, one of the only mysteries he's never been able to solve is the mystery of his own origins. Red-skinned, pointy-tailed, and horned, Hellboy tends to stand out in a crowd. Did he come from Hell, or to save us from it?
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Lone Scout: W. D. Boyce and American Boy Scouting
Janice A. Petterchak Manufacturer: Legacy Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0965319873 Release Date: 2003-05-01 |
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"Lone Scout: W. D. Boyce and American Boy Scouting" is the biography of a Progressive-era Chicago businessman and world-wide explorer. Paralleling Theodore Roosevelt in many activities, during his lifetime Boyce (1858-1929) attained international prominence--"a man with friends in almost every civilized country." His sustaining legacy, also a reflection of Roosevelt's interest in and concern for children, was bringing the concept of Boy Scouting to the United States and combining it with youth programs established by the YMCA and other organizations. This is the first authoritative biography of William D. Boyce, founder in 1910 of the Boy Scouts of America.Born to a Pennsylvania farm family, Boyce's monetary successes were as a Chicago newspaper publisher. Between 1887 and the early 1930s, his periodicals were read by millions of subscribers in rural and small-town America.
A lifelong adventurer, Boyce made extensive trips to all parts of the world. During World War One, he traveled to Europe on the British luxury liner Lusitania (three months before it was torpedoed by a German submarine). He made two African safaris and spent nearly a year traversing South America. Sending detailed reports of those foreign experiences as articles for his newspapers, the stories were later reprinted in books published by Rand McNally & Company.
Among the last hugely successful turn-of-the-century entrepreneurs, Boyce amassed a fortune valued in 1916 at $20 million (approximately $328 million in 2003 value). Perhaps because his death in 1929 occurred on the brink of the Great Depression--a time of vast economic and political change, W. D. Boyce has been virtually forgotten in American history. Yet his accomplishments were many, and his lasting gift is the Scouting program he initiated in 1910 and helped finance through the early years, a program that today serves more than four million American boys.
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Worth the Time Spent Reading It.......2004-05-23
William Boyce was a man of whom little is truly known. There is no Boyce Library and Archive and there is not any overflowing amount of information about him in the BSA National Archives. He was an important fringe character whose story should be known.
Due to this lack of information, LONE SCOUT is the first book that goes into the persona of the man, the man who is generally credited with bringing the idea of Boy Scouting to the USA in terms of the present organization known as the BSA. In my research of the beginnings of the worldwide Movement of Boy Scouting, LONE SCOUT has been a rather good resource on this topic that enabled me to delve further into the story of Boyce with regard to his role in the BSA. And since this is the first substantive biography on him, it should be the one upon which all future ones should be compared.
At this point in time, Ms. Petterchak's book is the most definitive look into Mr. Boyce's life, and to my literary knowledge, font size has never been a critical determinant in discerning the quality of content. A panning argument of "large font size" is cursory and of little importance.
Give this book a read, it's highly worth one's time.
Disappointing!.......2004-04-30
To be perfectly honest, it looks more like a college paper than a published professional biography. This sense was confirmed when I noticed that the author was citing an undergraduate unpublished paper as a source! And a source for a US Congressional Report that any good researcher can obtain with no problem.
Unfortunately, a serious biography of Boyce has yet to be written and published. If you'e wanting to read such a work, you'll have to wait. If you really want to read this book, then wait a year and you'll be able to buy it when it is marked down to it's real value in the used book stores.
Entertaining & Informative Biography.......2004-02-28
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The Woodie Chronicles: My journey through America on the road to recovery in a 1949 Woodie Wagon
Gregory A. Raymer Manufacturer: 1st Books Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1410759156 |
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Realize appreciation.......2003-11-12
The Woodie Chronicles.......2003-10-17
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52 Simple Ways to Build Your Child's Self-Esteem and Confidence
Jan Dargatz Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 0840795874 |
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Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War
K. Scott Wong Manufacturer: Harvard University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0674016718 |
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World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, K. Scott Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.
Long the victims of racial prejudice and discriminatory immigration practices, Chinese Americans struggled to transform their image in the nation's eyes. As Americans racialized the Japanese enemy abroad and interned Japanese Americans at home, Chinese citizens sought to distinguish themselves by venturing beyond the confines of Chinatown to join the military and various defense industries in record numbers. Wong offers the first in-depth account of Chinese Americans in the American military, tracing the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated unit comprising over 1,200 men, and examining how their war service contributed to their social mobility and the shaping of their ethnic identity.
Americans First pays tribute to a generation of young men and women who, torn between loyalties to their parents' traditions and their growing identification with America and tormented by the pervasive racism of wartime America, served their country with patriotism and courage. Consciously developing their image as a "model minority," often at the expense of the Japanese and Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans created the pervasive image of Asian Americans that still resonates today.
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Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Asian America)
Madeline Hsu Manufacturer: Stanford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0804738149 Release Date: 2000-11-23 |
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CFE and Military Stability in Europe
John E. Peters Manufacturer: RAND Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0833025597 |
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This report describes the main activities and involvements of the project. It features two principle chapters, one dealing with the big questions about the future of CFE (Conventional Forces in Europe) and one that describes more-technical details and modeling of arms control pacts.
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Striving for Military Stability in Europe: Negotiation, Implementation and Adaption of the CFE Treaty
Jane Sharp Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415407958 |
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This study shows that arms control agreements reflect rather than affect relations between the parties. The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) codified parity between NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) in November 1990. CFE thus reflected the status quo at the end of the cold war, but the benefits were short lived, at least for Russia. Although still widely viewed in the west as the cornerstone of security and stability in post-Cold War Europe, from the Russian perspective CFE was soon overtaken by events. With the collapse of the WTO and the Soviet Union in 1991, it became impossible to talk of a military balance between east and west in Europe, especially as all the former WTO states opted for membership in NATO.
The other state parties worked hard to adjust and adapt the treaty to meet Russian concerns about its new weakness relative to NATO, but three sets of issues complicated Russian acceptance of CFE limits. The first was NATO enlargement which, though not directed against Moscow, certainly underscored Russia's weakness relative to NATO. The second was Russia's heavy handed suppression of the Chechen independence movement, begun by Boris Yeltsin in 1994, which after September 11, 2001 President Putin rationalized as part of the global war on terrorism. Putin also used 9/11 as an excuse not to withdraw troops and equipment from Georgia a commitment made by Russia when the adapted CFE Treaty was signed in Istanbul in November 1999. The third was Russian opposition to increasingly aggressive US-led military operations in the post Cold War era: in the Balkans in the 1990s and against Iraq in 2003. Russia cooperated with the operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002, but was increasingly concerned with what appeared to be permanent US military bases in central Asia.
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Some New Directions in Science on Computers
Gyan Bhanot , Shiyi Chen , and Philip Seiden Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9810231962 |
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