Ski Style: Alpine Interiors, Architecture & Living Style

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Against a backdrop of evergreen forests, rugged mountain peaks and crisp white powdered slopes, a unique and evocative living style has evolved in ski resorts.Ski Style captures the distinctive aesthetics and ambiance of this way of life through photographs of interiors, architecture, and style elements that powerfully convey both the nostalgia and modern dream of mountain living.Each locale, surrounded by the dramatic landscape, with access to some of the world's most exhilarating skiing, is graphically conveyed with a compelling mix of atmospheric color and archival photographs. AUTHORBIO: Simon McBride is an interior photographer whose work appears regularly in leading lifestyle magazines such as Architectural Digest, House Garden, and Country Living.His previous books include Private Tuscany, Private Ireland, and Living in Cuba.Alexandra Black writes on interiors, lifestyle and popular culture for magazines including Elle, House Garden, and Gourmet Traveller.She is the author of Living in Cuba.

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Breathtaking mountain homes.......2003-01-26

I felt there was an unhappy overtone in 'skifanatic's review elsewhere. I guess I can remember feeling a bit like that when young and all I could do was covet. However, don't be put off. The photos in this book -- particularly the Alpine homes -- are a tribute to design, warmth, style, and beauty of traditional materials. And yes, they are also a tribute to money.
But take out the envy and you have examples of a most fabulous marriage between modern crafts and mediaeval styles, using wood, iron, glass, ceramics, cottons, furs, etc etc. Breathtaking homes -- though somewhat less so in the case of the modern-style, overly self-conscious designs.
I lived in a mountain village in the Swiss Alps for a couple of years in the 1960s, and still adore the warmth, solidity, simplicity of the homes there as well as the intracies of the wood structures, paneling and finishes. That was true even for (maybe especially for) the peasant chalets, such as those where I spent that time (skiing fanatically, I might add).
The homes in this book are a tribute to what great imagination, and great taste, based on traditional styles materials, and values can achieve. I was transported by the book and would love to own one of them -- if someone else would take on the upkeep and maintainance!!
Mr.'skifanatic' will get over his hurt one day I hope and may even get to enjoy such places -- while ignoring the fact that others possess them. We don't all have to live in the kind of crowd-accomodating ski barns that dot today's ski centers to be democratic. It is good that human achievement can reach the levels shown in this book. It keeps the crafts people up in the mountains where they surely have a place.

if you have enough money you can build the house you want.......2002-04-24

All this proves is that "ski style" is ANYTHING you want to build in a ski area. Some of the places have no "ski" feel at all.

Ski Style: Alpine Interiors, Architecture & Living Style

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Ski Style: Alpine Interiors, Architecture & Living Style
Simon McBride
Manufacturer: St Martins Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KBNALA

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Ski Style: Alpine Interiors, Architecture & Living Style
Simon McBride
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT9QZ2

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New and expanded edition published in 2000

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A tourists guide to native tanning.......1998-09-23

This book will provide you with an overview of one of the traditional native tanning processes (used primarily on Buffalo and Moose hides), but there is no-where near enough detail to actually do any tanning. Amazon.com sells two books that will give you the detail and expertise you need to tan skins "the Indian way": DEERSKINS INTO BUCKSKINS: How to Tan with Natural Materials, and Wetscrape Braintan Buckskin. Get one or both if you want to do any tanning or want a much more thorough overview of native tanning methods

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Creating Special Effects (The Kodak Library Of Creative Photography)
Unknown
Manufacturer: Time Life books in association with Kodak
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UPONI0

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The Kodak Library of Creative Photography: Creating Special Effects
Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: Time Life Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
General | How-to | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0867062339

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The Kodak Library of Creative Photography: Creating Special Effects
Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: Time Life 1984
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VYZO8S

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CREATING SPECIAL EFFECTS: The Kodak Library of Creative Photography
Time Life
Manufacturer: Chicago: Time Life Books, 1984
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KOZ0ZQ

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Jack Newfield has covered it all: he has documented he unfolding drama of the 1960s; followed the boxing careers of Ali and Tyson; taken on city hall; and kept his integrity intact in the rough world of tabloid politics. Somebody's Gotta Tell It is the clear-eyed memoir of a journalist whose love for his country, and passion for his profession, has never wavered.

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Wonderful and moving!.......2003-01-24

This is a very evocative and entertaining autobiography that vividly recreats newfield's childhood and coming of age as a working class radical journalist and student activist in the 60s. Newfield seemed to know everyone who was anyone in the 60s and was was closely involved in the creation of SDS. Newfield also provides us great stories about the four things he loves most and writes about best: baseball, boxing, jazz and -- of course -- New York CIty. A lovely book, full of Runyonesque character.

Hackneyed and Boring.......2002-05-20

Newfield has to be one of the most humorless journalists who ever wrote about the 60's. He calls this an upbeat memoir but I found it a downer. It's a lot of self congratulation with same old cliches and no real thoughtfulness. The world has changed and passed Newfield by. It's all been done before and far better too. Spare yourself.

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Catch a ride with Patrick and Patsy Nolan as they search for their roots in Ireland and enjoy a journey of a lifetime through Germany, Scotland, Paris and Great Britain. Join them as they speed down the Autobahn in Germany, go behind the wall in Hamburg and journey to the fields of Athenry and beyond

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Helps back-pain sufferers reduce the pain and strengthen the back against further injury.

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Excitingly different.......2005-07-29

In the early 1900s, a sickly young German lad decided to strengthen his body. Developing his own philosophy of exercise that embraces body, breath and mind, Joseph Pilates turned himself and his body around, turning himself into one of the exercise gurus of the early 20th century. This book is an updated example of the Pilates method, filled with lots of illustrating pictures. Overall, my wife and I have found this to be an excitingly different approach to exercise, one that incorporates stretching and breathing with strengthening exercises, and (so far anyway) is proving successful at alleviating her back pain. We both give this book our highest recommendations!

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Banish Back Pain the Pilates Way
Anna Selby
Manufacturer: Thorsons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Pilates | Exercise & Fitness | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000O8RQKK

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By the autumn of 1757 Frederick the Great was beset by enemies on all sides. The French had invaded the territory of his Anglo-Hanoverian allies, a Franco-Imperial army was threatening Saxony, an Austrian army 110,000-strong had marched into Silesia and even the ponderous Russians had moved against him. Then within a month Frederick transformed his fortunes. At Rossbach on 5 November he smashed the Franco-Imperial army in barely 11/2 hours. Force-marching to Silesia he won perhaps his greatest victory exactly a month later, crushing the Austrian Army at Leuthen. The Emperor Napoleon considered Frederick’s lightning campaign ‘a masterpiece of manoeuvre and resolution’.

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A must.......2003-10-04

Having read Kolin I hoped Simon Millar's next book would be on the same lines. I was not to be diappointed, Rossbach and Leuthen will give the entusiastic military historian a clear and accurate insight into the two battles. I have heard that too little time is given to Rossbach, however I think that there is enough for a battle that was not as big or important as Leuthen which is where Simon Millar's full attention is directed. I found the orders of battle for both armies to be very informative. I do feel that another 3-D map on Leuthen would not have gone amiss. However as per usual there were a large amount of photos of the battlefield that helped me to understand its layout. I was rather annoyed when one of the uniform plates of the Franco-Bavarian army was not shown in colour, but that has more to do with Osprey rather than Simon Millar.
I have also read certain people talking rather badly about the book and rewriting and even correcting it in their reviews, thinking they know better. Maybe they should write their own version instead of picking apart another one in this way.

A Cold Disappointment.......2003-02-08

I was hoping that Simon Millar's latest Osprey Campaign series title, Rossbach & Leuthen 1757, would be as good as his previous title, Kolin 1757. Alas, it is not. Whereas Kolin 1757 offered incisive military analysis of why Frederick the Great suffered his first defeat, Rossbach & Leuthen 1757 has much less to offer. Osprey Campaign titles are intended to be stand-alone volumes, but Millar has short-changed the readers of this volume in regards to background material, analysis and maps. The author's writing style is also far more plodding and passionless than in his previous volume; for example, Leuthen is presented as a bland recitation of units marching and firing, rather than a desperate winter battle (was there not a single eyewitness account that might have been incorporated?).

Rossbach & Leuthen 1757 begins with a short section on the origins of the campaign, a chronology and a section on opposing commanders. Unfortunately, there is no section on opposing plans as is normal in the Campaign series and the section on opposing armies is woefully inadequate. The author states that, "I am not going to discuss the uniforms, equipment or typical tactical formations of the combatants at Rossbach and Leuthen" since these subjects are detailed in various Osprey Men-at-Arms titles (11 other volumes to be exact). Instead, the author offers brief blurbs on the Prussian Guard, the Imperial Army, and Frederick's oblique order. Frankly, this was the first time that I ever felt cheated by an Osprey Campaign series title. The author partly redresses these omissions with two detailed order of battle tables for both battles. It is also highly questionable whether two battles separated by a month and 150 miles can be efficiently packed into the thin space of an Osprey title. Indeed, the campaign narrative appears to suffer from trying to cover too much; the author spends only 17 pages on the Rossbach campaign and 47 on Leuthen. The volume includes three 3-D "Birds Eye View" maps (one on Rossbach, two on Leuthen) and only four 2-D maps (Invasion of Hanover & Prussia, the road to Rossbach, the campaign in Silesia, the flank march at Leuthen). At least the three battle scenes included are good: the French and Prussian firing lines at Rossbach, the initial Prussian attack at Leuthen and Driesen's cavalry charge at Leuthen. The bibliography is also a bit disappointing since 50% of the sources listed are either Christopher Duffy's various titles (which are good but tend to recycle the same information) or Osprey Men-at-Arms titles.

The crux of both these battles comes down to Frederick's favorite tactic, the oblique attack. Unfortunately, the author fails to mention that this tactic required an excellent tactical picture of the enemy's disposition, convenient screening terrain and a fairly incompetent enemy commander; when Frederick held these advantages, the tactic worked. The author has little to say about the Battle of Rossbach. The French and Imperial forces were unprepared for mobile warfare and attempted a lethargic effort to flank Frederick's smaller army, but which blundered directly into the Prussian "kill sac." Millar blames the Austrian defeat at Leuthen primarily on faulty leadership, noting that, "once again the direction of the Austrian forces in the field would be decided by dynastic interests and pride, rather than ability." Certainly one major factor in the Austrian defeat was the premature commitment of virtually their entire reserve force to the wrong flank, in response to Prussian feints. Commitment of the reserves when the enemy's intentions are not yet clear is certainly an egregious error, but it doesn't suffice as the sole reason for the Austrian defeat. Other factors include the early defeat of the Austrian cavalry covering force, the low quality of the Imperial German troops that caught the brunt of the initial Prussian attack, the sluggish tactical response of the Austrian commanders and the collapse of Austrian morale. However, Napoleon's dictum that in war the morale is to the material as three is to one must surely have derived from his study of both these battles (Napoleon was much enamored of Leuthen), since Frederick was badly out-numbered in both battles but still won handily. Frederick's tactics were successful in both battles because he was able to disrupt his enemy's deployment (defensively at Rossbach and offensively at Leuthen) and this knocked his foes off-balance, but these same methods were much less effective against foes like the Russians who simply stood their ground even if flanked. One could say that Frederick's tactics were meant to take advantage of the faint-of-heart. Nor was Frederick particularly effective at exploiting his victories and pursuing a defeated enemy to destruction, since his style was geared toward highly centralized war making. The author also fails to mention that Rossbach and Leuthen, while victories, did not lead to any long-term advantages for encircled Prussia.

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Through a collection of challenging but humorous essays, grounded in personal experience, observation and anecdote, Ziauddin Sardar analyzes the key characteristics of the embryonic 21st century. From advertising to zapping, sex to shopping, toys to hype, The A to Z of Postmodern Life explores the ideas, products, artifacts and “-isms” that shape the undefined, but ever encompassing, global culture. By learning to read the message of postmodernism, the author suggests that we might discover whether this new century is heading off in the right direction or leading us all up a very dark alley.

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In this volume contemporary methods designed to provide insights into, mathematical structure for, and predictive inferences about neuroendocrine control mechanisms are presented.

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* Collates an array of contemporary techniques for analysis of neuroendocrine data
* Discusses current problems in and solutions to neurohormone pulse analysis
* Identifies relevant software available

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