Store Windows, No. 14 (Store Windows)

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Later this year, approximately 100 of the most important and best-preserved examples of paintings on copper from collections in the U.S., Europe, and South America, along with displays of copper mining and copper ores, and copper objects and printing plates from the period, will be exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, travelling next to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and then to the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis in The Hague. The artform of painting on copper dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, when European artists found that the smooth surfaces of thin sheets of copper lent themselves to fine workmanship, were easy to handle, and even gave a luminous shine to the paint. Masters including Jan Breughel the Elder, Claude, El Greco, Reni, Guercino, Rembrandt, and Vernet are among those who produced fine works on copper. Copper as Canvas brings together 100 full-color and sixty-five black and white reproductions of these paintings, each accompanied by a detailed entry, as well an interdisciplinary range of essays covering the history of painting on copper. From the history of the copper industry in Europe circa 1500-1700, to the technique's emergence in the New World colonies (particularly Mexico and Peru), to technical studies of the technique, the essays provide illuminating background information for the museum-goer. A combination of beautifully produced illustrations and fascinating reading, Copper as Canvas brings these stunning paintings to art-lovers in an impressive volume sure to have a long afterlife beyond the exhibition.

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An excellent book on a relatively understudied subject.......1999-09-08

This book is one of my favorites in my extensive art history collection. Komanecky is an excellent writer and alothough the pictures don't give justice to the real thing, they are still vibrant. The layout of the book makes it easy to follow, and the author describes everything in detail, and even goes so far as to describe copper in general. Very impressive book and I highly recommend it!

An excellent catalogue about an obscure subject.......1999-04-01

Catalogues of this kind serve the noble purpose of casting light upon obscure or uncharted areas of art history. Imagine a perfectly vivid Rembrandt , about the size of a three by five card, painted with the full talents of that great master. This perfectly preserved masterwork, as well as works by El Greco, Frans Hals, Murillo and lesser well known artists make up the superb exhibition documented in this complete catalogue. The only drawback to this book is that the color reproduction of the paintings is yellowish, murky and occasionally even flipped! I would have given it the coveted fifth star , except that in presenting such works of miraculous detail and perfection, only perfect reproductions will do.

Copper As Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775

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Copper As Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775
Mauritshuis, et al. Phoenix Art Museum
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKUKJC

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First-ever monograph by Leonard Nimoy revealing his intrigue with scriptural mythology and ancient spirituality.

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Very aesthetic pictures.......2007-09-16

Actually I don't like pictures of naked women, because there are already too many of them, everywhere. But these pictures are different. They are very aestethically and well made. To share the topics Judaism godhood and women is really intersting, because I have never seen anyone - especially no man - who puts together believe and women, anyway if the women are naked or not. I think it is very couragenously of Leonard Nimoy to do it. I always knew he is a very emancipated man, he always was.

I liked most the pictures where I could see the relations to Judaism directly. The pictures are really impressive. I am not a Jew, but very interested in that religion and Leonard Nimoy (himself a trusted Jew) shows me one more time that Jews have something special and they (many of them I think) know what life can be when one uses its qualities. Actually anyone should know, it shouldn't something to do with believe or religion...

Very well done book and an interesting facet of a man who many only know as green blooded and with pointed ears, what is much too little, if one wants to describe Leonard Nimoy.

Look at the book before you buy it.......2006-10-06

I was at the Star Trek 40th anniversary convention in San Jose, and they had copies of this book in the dealers room. I quickly looked at the book, and I did not like it. I have read the other reviews here, and I don't think it is really a case of the nude woman being the most important point. I just did not like the images, and certainly not enough to buy the book. I believe if he was not famous for being Spock, Nimoy would never have been able to have a career in photography. So many talented people go unsung in this world.

So, if you are Star Trek Fan and you think the book is a must have, look at the book first, and then decide. If you are a fan of high art photography, then you should also take a look first. The only people who would be sure to like the book are the people who want to use it as a statement about their opinion of nude images. There are no shocking nudes or anything like that. So, I can't understand why some people are so upset by the nude woman, but I can't support this book because it is not good artistically, in my opinion. Each person's view of what is art is subjective.
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This book is now greatly reduced in price. So, my opinion can't be that far off.

Prudes make me mad.......2006-08-24

I shouldn't be dumbfounded by some of the prudish, narrow-minded responses this book has evoked. And yet I am.
As a deeply religious and spiritual person, as a feminist, and also a photographer of classical nudes not unlike those presented in this book, I commend Nimoy's work.
1. From an artistic perspective the technique, composition, and visual impact is intense and yet quiet.
2. From a feminist perspective, this work does NOT objectify women, but rather celebrates them. Mr. Nimoy has never been one to objectify women's bodies, as he made so clear with his Full Body Project in which he sympathetically photographed very, very rotund women. His very reference to Shekhina, the female aspect of the Hebrew God Yahweh (if you don't know anything about her, please look her up) shows his deep respect for women. Yes, these women are naked, but they are clothed in their own strength. They are not presented as objects of lust, but rather as beings connected to the spiritual realm. The nudity just serves to add to the poignancy, intimacy, and sincerity of the work.
3. Spiritually, there is nothing remoting insulting about this work. Nudity is not a filthy thing, just as sex is not (although this work is clearly not even remotely about sex.) Yahweh put Adam and Eve into the garden stark naked, because this was His idea of perfection, innocence, and beauty. It wasn't until sin came into play that clothes entered the scene -- Adam and Eve came up with the idea of clothing, and Yahweh just went along with it. Clothing is a social construct created by humans in reaction to their own shame. Worshipping before God nude shows our vulnerability, shows that we hold no barriers between ourselves and the Divine, and that we come to Him as He created us.
Simultaneously, this work challenges conservative Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives of women that suggest they are the originators of sin and evil, and therefore do not have the same right or ability to connect with God as men (and as such are not allowed to be religious leaders.) He particularly highlights women's ability to create and harbor life within themselves, using this as an example of their unique form of spirituality. Mr. Nimoy's women approach God without the shame in relation to their womanhood and their supposed original sin, concepts the religious right tries to pound into them. Their femininity and pride therein is emphasized by their nakedness.
On all counts, a provocative, artistic, rich, reverent, inspiring work.

Beautiful and inspiring........2006-07-22

Contrary to some of the amusingly horrified reviews here, every single page of Shekhina is not plastered with breasts or splayed genitals. Of course there is nudity- full nudity on a couple of pages- but it is very tastefully done (if you're looking for pictures of naked women in an erotic context, look elsewhere). Nimoy's photography depicts these women reverently and they very much bring across the spirituality he intended.

Good Photographs of Nudes from Leonard Nimoy.......2004-08-20

Leonard Nimoy shows that he is as fine a photographer as he is an actor and film director in "Shekhina", his first monograph of photographs. These are beautiful, sensual photographs of Jewish women and are in themselves, an intriguing photographic exploration into Jewish femininity. And yet Nimoy's work doesn't quite rise up to Edward Weston's or Robert Mapplethorpe's in its ability to inspire or to infuriate the viewer. To his credit, Nimoy demonstrates his technical acumen in lighting and composition. However, I wish his work was visually more interesting.

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Shekhina: Forty Poems
Norma Farber
Manufacturer: Capstone Editions
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Binding: Paperback

General | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0961066229

Stone Shekhina: Poems (A Three Mile Harbor book)

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Sinking stones

Stone Shekhina: Poems (A Three Mile Harbor book)
Enid Dame
Manufacturer: Three Mile Harbor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006S6WIK

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Sinking stones.......2007-04-09

Enid Dame issued her seventh book two years into the latest Palestinian war against Israel, and in the poems attempts to recreate Biblical figures and their stories, by which she often condemns the Jewish people. Dame knew Tanach--the Hebrew Old Testament--as the poems glean heavily from biblical stories and Midrashim, instructive commentaries on Biblical tales.

But Dame neglects the elegant, native Midrashic traditions of early 8th century, revenant Jerusalem Karaites--for whom living outside Israel is a violation of Torah and who constituted Jerusalem's majority before the Muslim conquest; Dame thus mistakenly presumes in several poems that Israel's modern Jewish presence is not rooted in Jewish history and that the Jewish people remain at sea.

Dame opens "Noah's Daughter," for example, with an epitaph from poet Robert Graves' collaboration with the late Hungarian Israeli scholar Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis: Medieval rabbis expanded upon the Genesis stories by asking such questions as how Noah lit the ark, how he fed the animals and if he carried a Phoenix. "Good questions," says Noah's daughter, in Dame's vision. She sees the mythical beasts sailing behind the ark in a smaller boat; the poem also sports a violin, kitchen, cocoa and cookies, and animal dialects that Noah's wife alone speaks and understands. These anachronisms at least stand up against the weighty original biblical text, and the poem ends with a beautiful, warm embrace of mother and daughter.

But none of the succeeding pieces in Dame's latter-day Noah sequence are as successful as the first.

In "Free-Lance World Saver," Dame made Noah a late-in-life, suburban Baltimore grumbler, with belly cancer, a wife who had drowned herself and sons scattered globally in strange trades. Noah's daughter, a muse in Dame's rendition, wants to tell his story while others rewrite (presumably Jewish) texts and slap paint upon "murals changing the icons' faces." Judaism proscribes icons.

In "Excerpts from Naamah's Journal," Dame names Noah's wife and portrays Noah as a scowling, angry, stiff-backed man. In the first 191 days of their flood-induced voyage, Dame recasts Noah as a drunk, with a wife shunning his amorous attentions, her people, the animals and their "hungry, angry life." Naamah is disinterested in the earth's legendary rebirth and she addresses her prayers, not to God, but to the Ocean, where she'll return to sailing after she plants Noah, his children and animals ashore--with their myths and ghosts--"like saplings in raw mud."

Between these and four other poems in Noah's and the voices of his four children, Dame plunked her title poem, in her voice, like a heavy stone into deep water. Set in 1995 San Antonio, Texas, it falsely casts Judaism as a "hard religion," whose stories all "turned to stone." There is a certain glow when Dame reaches for God's female portion, Shekina, in the poem's final four stanzas.

But back on Noah's ark, Dame's Shem also rewrites Torah and history in a nasty tone. He can't stand his neighbors or his family. And he also falsely accuses the Jewish people of believing that they "contain the world." Racing forward through millennia, Shem swoops through Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Somalia and "the West Bank," thus dissecting the Jewish people from Judea (which provided their name).

Shem, a self-pronounced "negotiator," urges people to sit and talk. Thus Dame's Shem alludes to Arab refugees, whom he imagines floating alongside the ark, indeed, even aboard it. Alas, this destructive Shem neglects Arab declarations of war and antagonism by which they've wounded themselves.

Shem's brother Ham ultimately flies to visit his sister at her upstate New York "zoo," aboard a plane serving as a second ark. Noah's third son Japeth won't give the oral history for which his kids plead; he makes his family dysfunctional and reshapes Noah and his wife as classic co-dependents. He declares that the past is dead.

In "Sarah: The Place Beyond Laughter," Dame makes an even sadder story, in which Abraham's wife sardonically named their son "Laughter," since according to Dame's interpretation Isaac was joke. Moreover, Abraham has brought them to a place where words become stones and laughter becomes "poison."

Dame's Gershom may be her most admirable creation. He makes songs without music, poems released into the atmosphere as prayers, fragments that sometimes gleam in the sun, sometimes dance---that if unbroken (like Moses' second tablets) could be a seamless vessel, an undamaged plate. He does not accuse; he only asks questions.

Despite their occasional glimmer, however, I don't recommend these poems.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

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It's funny and everything is true!!!.......1998-12-28

This book is absolutely funny and shows the different points of view between men and women in several aspects, at the same time teaches how they think and behave helping us to understand them better. We act exactly the way is written there, and the men too! It was quite funny (and annoying) to read about their (and our) behavior, but it's all true! It's a funny "day-by-day" book about men and women...

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Peter Griffin has drawn upon a wealth of previously unpublished material--including numerous letters and five of Hemingway's early short stories that appear here in their entirety--to trace the formative years of one of America's Most celebrated and influential authors. This book examines in richer detail than any previous biography Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his relations with his parents, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volumteer during World War I. It sheds new light on his wartime romance with Agnes Kurowsky, his first love, and the circumstances surrounding his wounding and convalescence. It closes with Hemingway at the brink of the literary career that would bring him worldwide acclaim. As the brisk narrative moves from Illinois to Kansa City on to New York and then Europe, Griffin paints a vivid picture of the people, places and events that shaped Hemingway as a man and a writer. This is the first installment of what promises to become the difinitive Hemingway biography for this generation. In a foreword to the book, Jack Hemingway, Ernest's first son, writes that Griffin's "insights and his innate skills have enabled him to bring a far different view of Hemingway as a developing human being." This book, he says, "has shown me insights into my own father's character and behavior I would not have thought possible in view of the time lapse between Hemingway's death and the research Griffin accomplished."

Along With Youth Hemingway, The Early Years

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Along With Youth Hemingway, The Early Years
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: Oxford U.P.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0NS6Y

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Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GWOH2O

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Along With Youth : Hemingway, the Early Years
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OM6GAM

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Along with Youth : Hemingway, the Early Years
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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ASIN: B000PGFVCQ

Along With Youth: Hemingway the Early Years. With Five New Short Stories

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Along With Youth: Hemingway the Early Years. With Five New Short Stories
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OK2HHA

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Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ONL76O

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Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years
Peter Griffin
Manufacturer: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKSDQE

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The best time management book I've ever read.......1999-05-08

Stephanie Culp is the only time management expert who really gets it. You can't just tell people how to work faster and harder. You have to tell them how to reduce the number of items on their to do lists. This is one terrific book!

Extremely helpful book........1999-04-17

I am getting *so much* out of this book. Especially the part about establishing a mission statement and making your goals reflect that. It is all about living a conscious life. Making your life happen rather than letting the events of your life just happen to you, "by accident." It is very empowering.

Excellent real life time management text.......1998-05-16

This is an excellent "real life" text for gaining control in today's fast paced world. The author avoids many of the errors that make some other time managment texts seem distant and unreal. This text is for real people with real lives. I appreciate that this text relates to all aspects of one's life, not only to the work world.

YOU CAN FIND MORE TIME FOR YOURSELF EVERY DAY: A SEVEN-STEP PLAN THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

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YOU CAN FIND MORE TIME FOR YOURSELF EVERY DAY: A SEVEN-STEP PLAN THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
STEPHANIE CULP
Manufacturer: BETTERWAY BOOKS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OYHZS2

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Physician to the high-demon of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler. Kersten could alleviate Himmler's severe stomach pains with his hands using massage and manipulation. In return, Kersten bargained with Himmler to order the release of innocent prisoners condemned to die.

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The Federal Writers? Project, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt?s Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, collected interviews from over 3500 ex-slaves throughout the United States, including 365 former South Carolina slaves. These narratives are an invaluable resource to those interested in resistance by the last generation of South Carolinians held in bondage. This thesis tells us about the separate worlds inhabited by the Palmetto State?s slaves and their owners, and describes, often in the slaves? own words, the resistance precipitated by the friction between these worlds.

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The Federal Writers' Project, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, collected interviews from over 3500 ex-slaves throughout the United States, including 365 former South Carolina slaves. These narratives are an invaluable resource to those interested in resistance by the last generation of South Carolinians held in bondage. This thesis tells us about the separate worlds inhabited by the Palmetto State's slaves and their owners, and describes, often in the slaves' own words, the resistance precipitated by the friction between these worlds.

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At the turning of the millennium, a switch in computing technology is forecasted and looked for. Two main directions of research, both based on quite unconventional ideas are most promising - quantum computing and molecular computing. In the last few years, both of these methods have been intensely investigated. The present book is the first "friendly" presentation of basic ideas in these exciting areas. The style is rigorous, but without entering into excessive technicalities. Equal attention is paid to the main practical results reported so far and the main theoretical developments. The book is written for the educated layman and is self-contained, including all the necessary facts from mathematics, computer science, biology and quantum mechanics.

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