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A sophisticated blend of ambience and attitude. From cobblestones to churches, row houses, fishing boats, and tree-lined streets, Brooklyn boasts enriching public spaces and diversely beautiful landscapes. The illustrious history of Brooklyn comes to life in this guide, which focuses on northern and central Brooklyn, including the oldest urbanized areas, the vast "brownstone belt," and some of the principal industrial areas such as: Downtown Brooklyn Heights Prospect Park Fort Greene and Clinton Hill
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A delightful compendium from our cityýs best tour guide.......2003-04-29
Rare is the architectural guidebook that merges intricate depictions of the masterpieces with compelling tales about how they came to be. Yet that is precisely what Mr. Morrone has accomplished with this tome, which shows off a borough he clearly loves to great effect. This is a book you can, and should, hold in your hands as you walk through the neighborhoods Mr. Morrone has chosen to include. He made me love Brooklyn even more than I thought possible, and made me wish I lived both in this era and some many years ago, when the many buildings and neighborhoods he describes were coming into being. A must-have book for anyone who intends to look at the buildings of Brooklyn, whether for scholarly pursuits or for pure weekend pleasure.
Factually dead on, but a tad fatiguing.......2003-04-01
Everything in this book is 100% correct: Mr Morrone is doubtless a perfectionist in his research and I mean that as a compliment. You want to know the history of a building, an area in Brooklyn or an architect, this book is the ne plus ultra.
I give it 3 stars because his writing style is a tad heavy. It reminds me of Frasier Crane, he of the tv show "Frasier".
But it is good enough to merit a double purchase: One you keep at home and the second you rip out pages at a time as you work your way through the various sections/chapters in Brooklyn. I am never in favor of destroying books, but given the size of this tome, buying two and giving one of them a good going over in the streets of Brooklyn is entirely acceptable.
An Delightful and Necessary Addition to New York Guides.......2002-04-12
An elegant writer and gifted independent scholar, Francis Morrone has done his adopted home proud in An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. With sharp descriptions and apposite facts, Morrone conveys both the complexity and vibrancy of one of New York City's largest boroughs. Readers may well disagree with a few of his assured opinions but what use is a guidebook without a point of view? Morrone's perceptive comments, illustrated by James Iska's graceful photographs, make An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn a boon for both the Brooklyn visitor and the armchair New York fan alike.
A Spirited Urban Delight.......2002-04-07
Francis Morrone's new book on the architecture of Brooklyn proves once again that he is not just a masterful prose stylist, he is a uniquely high-spirited urbanist of wide-ranging tastes, keen architectural discrimination and infectious enthusiasms. At every page I wanted to jump up and rush out to Brooklyn to walk up and down the streets with *An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn* in hand, sharing Francis Morrone's delight in Brooklyn's wonderful, and even its less wonderful, buildings. A popular lecturer on New York City history at NYU, and long-time principal guide for the Municipal Art Society of New York, Morrone does not merely describe the architecture of his own borough, Brooklyn, he savors it, he uncovers it--many Brooklyn treasures have never been described in print before this book--and he loves it. He knows the fascinating histories of the buildings and their owners, he knows his architecture, he looks not just at the buildings but at the neighborhoods and the whole borough. He has read deeply, he has walked the streets of the borough many times, and his research has even taken him to the best web sites. A wonderful, richly detailed, helpfully illustrated book for every urbanist, architecture fan, history buff and, indeed, for every reader. If you love cities, architecture and good writing, read this book!
passionate and intelligent.......2002-04-06
Morrone's passion for urban life is infectious. He puts things in a broad historical and cultural context to give a real sense of how and why the neighborhoods of Brooklyn evolved. Few books of this kind even attempt to do that, let alone do it well. The book is well written, with many astute observations, and often very funny.
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Printmaking: Methods Old and New
Gabor Peterdi
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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Classic.......2003-01-26
A classic work in the field of printmaking. The book features vintage techniques and tactics. It has over 300 pages of detailed text, illustrations, photos and diagrams. Covered are sections on: intaglio printing, etching, engraving, dry point, aquatint, woodcut, wood engraving, linoleum cut, casein cut, plastics, silk screen work, and more.
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Its beyond the techniques. Its about real photography........1999-07-13
This book goes beyond the equipment and techniques of wildlife photography, its goes into different ways of getting yourself into the position for the shot and different places to go for contact with the subjects. Learned as much from it as I have other books that deal with techniques. Well worth it to learn more about wildlife photography.
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Collecting a selection of "Point of View" columns (including several that have never before been published) by comic book writer, essayist, and historian Mark Evanier. Topics covered range from the state of the art form and its leading practitioners - including Jack Kirby and Carl Barks - to convention-going and Mark's old comic book club. His acclaimed columns are surrounded by a new cover and interior illustrations by the award-winning MAD cartoonist (and Mark's collaborator of 20 years on Groo The Wanderer) Sergio Aragones.
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a comic book book for people who no longer read comics.......2003-08-01
Like a lot of guys who came of age in the 1960's, comic books were the defining literature of my childhood. (And I use the term "literature" loosely, since the titles I followed most enthusiastically as a kid were the Superman family comics edited by Mort Weisinger, the legendarily gimmick-obsessed editor who never met a color of kryptonite he didn't like.) Printed cheaply and sold for almost nothing--12¢ apiece was the going rate when I started buying them, up from a dime a few years earlier--newsstand comic books of that era were the very definition of disposable pop culture. So why is it that, forty years later, I still can't shake those damned funny books out of my consciousness?
At least part of the answer may be found in Mark Evanier's __Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life__, a collection of funny, informative and opinionated essays on the world of comics and the people who read, collect, write and/or draw them. Since Evanier is that rare person who has, at one time or another, done all of those things, the book also serves as a de facto memoir of the author's storied life as a collector, creator and curator of inexpensive four color fantasies.
But, while the details of the author's own surprisingly swift ascent in the comics profession--he parlayed his chairmanship of a Los Angeles comic book fan club into a youthful career as a comic book writer quicker than you can say "Shazam!"--provide a breezy narrative flow to this series of loosely connected essays, Evanier makes it clear that his love of comics and respect for the people who make them are the book's real subjects. In a string of affectionate and knowing profiles of comic art luminaries like Jack Kirby, William M. Gaines and Carl Barks, Evanier makes a pretty convincing argument that these flesh and blood artists, and others like them, are the real comic book heroes, not the four color figments these guys brought to life.
And Evanier, in turn, brings these comics creators to life in prose that's greatly enlivened by the author's seemingly endless inventory of firsthand anecdotes. Indeed, the author seems to have known, interviewed or otherwise collaborated with practically every single person who ever set foot in a comic publisher's office or animation studio over the past three or four decades. Perhaps for this reason, Evanier doesn't feel compelled to limit his personal pantheon to a few name brand geniuses like Kirby and Barks; the author's spotlight casts a wide enough beam to illuminate such equally solid, if less celebrated, masters of the comic book form as __Creepy__ magazine mainstay Archie Goodwin and longtime Dell Comics editor Chase Craig, as well as a bullpen full of unsung artists like __Supergirl__ penciller Jim Mooney and the late Owen Fitzgerald, an obscure cartoonist and animator who, Evanier insists, was the hands down fastest artist ever to work in comics.
Evanier rounds out his volume of essays--many, if not most, of which first appeared in slightly different form in The Comics Buyers Guide--with well-researched explorations of such little-understood pockets of comic book subculture as the history and creation of the Comics Code Authority; the true impact of the internet and computers on the creation and distribution of comics; the difficulty of arriving at a consensus on exactly what time period defines the golden age of comics; and a number of other topics you'd probably never guess you were interested in until you came across them while browsing this endlessly engaging little volume. __Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life__ may not entirely explain my continuing fascination with funny books twenty-five years after I stopped buying them, but discovering that a guy as intelligent, articulate and funny as Mark Evanier shares my obsession sure helps.
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- John Boyle O'Reilly
- good work on a forgotten hero
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Fanatic Heart - A Life of John Boyle O'Reilly 1844-1890
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The poet and Irish patriot John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) led a life as adventurous and dangerous as any fictional hero. His Fenian activities in England resulted in tranportation to Western Australia. Against all odds he escaped from his convict working party, boarded and American whaler and eventually reached Boston. In America, he became a successful newspaper editor, orator and champion of Irish immigrants and racial minorities. His death at th age of forty-six shocked the nation. Tony Evans draws on O'Reilly's poetry and writings - some which have only recently been discovered - to reflect the events which shaped O' Reilly's life.
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John Boyle O'Reilly.......2002-04-02
This was a well-written, detailed biography of a man who deserves to be more well known than he is. I agree with the other reveiwer that it did focus too much on his time in Australia nad not enough on his Boston career, but that is understandable since it was first published in Australia.
good work on a forgotten hero.......2000-12-23
i wish that the author had concentrated more on his career in boston and less on his time spent in australia , but overall this is a superb book for those unfamiliar with o'reilly. o'reilly was way ahead of his time in his social views and in his regard for oppressed groups and should definitely be remembered for that. the author has done a fine job. i greatly admire o'reilly -though i must admit i have a bias as i am related to him indirectly through his wife.
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Toronto Architect Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture
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Do you know the true meaning of a dollar?
Few people do. Now an expert on arcane symbolism uncovers the fascinating secret meanings behind the design of the money we use every day.
In
The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, David Ovason explores the visual complexity and magic behind the world's most influential currency. Lively and readable, this extraordinary book invites you to take a dollar bill in hand and set off on a visual adventure. You will discover dazzling explanations of its secret contents -- from the symbols derived from the Great Seal to the extraordinary strands of numerology interwoven into its structure, to sur-prising hidden alignments.
Once you discover the magic and mystery revealed in
The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, you will find that the dollar in your wallet is worth so much more than what you can buy with it.
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Interesting way to pass some time.......2005-06-28
The author has 100 points (factoids) about the one dollar bill. He focuses on the various symbols found on this familiar item, the possible signficance of this symbols, when and why they first appeared etc. Some of this information is aleady quite well known, such as the fact that many of government officals in the past and present are Masons and that many of our nation's symbols have a basis in Masonic tradition. Other items are not as well known, such as the extensive (according to the author) use of numerology.
I found the book interesting but was a bit frustrated by the format. Instead of a regular narrative divided into chapters with subheadings the author has 100 numbered sections of one or more short paragraphs giving the book the look and feel of a rough draft.
The author also has a tendancy to state his point and then simply move on. At the end of the book I had learned several intriguing tidbits but was left wondering 'so what?'.
If you would like to find a way to spend a few hours and pickup a few factoids to toss out then get this book, a dollar bill and a ruler and enjoy. Don't be surprised though if after dazzling your friends by displaying unsuspected triangles and pointing out the repetitions of various numbers and symbols if you are not asked what is the point to all this.
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Breaks the silence about the power money holds over family life
Internationally known psychologist Cloe Madanes and writer Claudio Madanes present a revolutionary view of the role money plays in families. In dozens of stories, anecdotes, and case histories, they show how family members all use money in covert ways that express desires, struggles for power, and yearning for commitment. To prevent money issues from destroying relationships, the authors present an extraordinary problem-solving technique that uses money to restore and heal family relationships.
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Do you know the true meaning of a dollar?
Few people do. Now an expert on arcane symbolism uncovers the fascinating secret meanings behind the design of the money we use every day.
In The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, David Ovason explores the visual complexity and magic behind the world's most influential currency. Lively and readable, this extraordinary book invites you to take a dollar bill in hand and set off on a visual adventure. You will discover dazzling explanations of its secret contents -- from the symbols derived from the Great Seal to the extraordinary strands of numerology interwoven into its structure, to sur-prising hidden alignments.
Once you discover the magic and mystery revealed in The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, you will find that the dollar in your wallet is worth so much more than what you can buy with it.
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Interesting artwork and factoids, but overall a big "who cares?".......2007-10-03
"Fascinating." "Extraordinary." "Dazzling." Breathless adjectives like this, taken directly from the blurb on the back cover, echo the tone of the book itself. While purporting to reveal "the fascinating secret meanings behind the design of the money we use every day," this book instead merely presents a series of more-or-less unconnected factoids about the various images found on the US $1 bill. Having previously read Ovason's *The Zelator* on the recommendation of a friend, I recognize this rambling and disconnected manner of presentation as something characteristic of the author's ouvre and not merely something particular to this specific book. Sadly, Ovason's writing style wrings all the power and magic out of a fascinating premise and replaces it with a sullen "so what?" I also found annoying Ovason's habit of passing off unsubstantiated assertions as fact, something that he does on a regular basis.
A page-by-page analysis of the book is inappropriate for a book review, but one choice example should suffice to support my criticisms. On page 5 (in his irrelevant factoid on how the word "dollar" originally came from Germany, irrelevant because he fails to connect it with any subsequent factoid) Ovason makes the claim that only those who knew that the dollar sign had been derived from a crucifix (one of the many points he assumes rather than proves) would get the "half-joke" from Sinclair Lewis' *Main Street* that the dollar sign "chased the crucifix clean off the map." Really? I would have thought that was a pretty transparent reference to the fact that the "almighty dollar" had supplanted the Christian God in the hearts of America's faithful, a rather mundane theme which is in keeping with the rest of Sinclair Lewis' writing. Far too often, a section heading that includes wiggle words like "may," "possible," "might" is followed by a paragraph from which these qualifiers are absent. One need read only a few pages into the book to see that Ovason's tendency to confuse assertion with fact is clearly evident.
A good book on the symbolism of the dollar bill would definitely be an interesting read for those interested in American history, Freemasonry, and symbolism in general. Sadly this isn't that book.
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A captivating story about a controversial WWII hero who fought for Finland, Germany, and the U.S.
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Poor home work for Gill.......2000-10-02
Gill is really superficial in this book. The overall story is quite fascinating, to say the least, but there are so many inaccuracies in the book that it should not have been published at all. I personally found the book unpleasant to read, because Gill had used the Finnish words for the most important terms. And mostly wrong. As a Finn, I find it troubling and makes reading uneasy. It also makes me wonder about other facts which have been presented in this book. I also did not understand why there was a photo of the former president Mauno Koivisto presented but no story attached. Maybe there was a reason?
Excellent topic for a Biography-Superficial Treatment.......1999-10-06
Soldier Under Three Flags relates the story of Larry Thorne (Lauri Torni) a Finnish soldier who emigrated to the US and had a distinguished career in Special Forces. One might imagine this would be a great subject for a biography but unfortunately, this book does not do justice to its subject. Thorne's Finnish military service is rife with inaccuracies, reflecting some poor research. For instance we read that during the Winter War, "the Scandinavian midnight sun lowered Russian (sic) soldiers morale", and "they disliked the forests...which they called the 'White Death' [Byelo Smert]." Well, "midnight sun" refers to the almost continual sunlight during the SUMMER. No one who's been to Finland in the winter could possibly mistake the almost permanent darkness for the midnight sun. Also, "Byelo Smert" refers to the white uniforms of the SOLDIERS not the forest. Finally, the author is less than fully forthcoming in Torni's association with the Waffen SS. He did attend training as the text describes, but he also fought in the Finnish SS battalion, which was part of the "Nordland" SS Division. In describing Torni's subsequent SF career the author appears more comfortable with the subject matter. However, battles are discussed very generally, with no details on his combat leadership, and there are no stories by those who knew him best-his troops. At best we get variations on, "he was a great soldier, and a great guy" nothing more. Finally, the author needlessly complicates his narrative by referring to Thorne/Torni's by the pseudonyms he used as he changed his name throughout his life; confusing to say the least. As a cursory account of this fascinating character's life this book may be acceptable, but it's basic errors regarding the Winter and Continuation Wars make it suspect for any more than the most basic background.
Fascinating Subject-Superficial Treatment.......1999-09-30
"Soldier Under Three Flags" attempts to portray the life of US Army Captain Larry Thorne (Lauri Torni). This man is a legend in both the Finnish and American armies; his exploits definitely deserve documentation. Unfortunately, this isn't it. The book is written in a, well, superficial style. Battle scenes on the Eastern Front that would be excellent vehicles to show Torni's maturing leadership and command style are only sketchily covered, and numerous inaccuracies detract from the subject at hand. For example, we read that due to the "Scandinavian (Finland is not technically Scandinavia) midnight sun, dense forest" etc the Russians suffered low morale during the Winter War. Well, I've been in Finland during the winter and there ain't NO sun at all. "Midnight Sun" actually refers to almost continous daylight during the summer. Also, the author can't get simple German phrases accurate: "zu Befehl" does not mean "at once"-that word is "sofort", it literally means, "at (your) orders, and "werewolf" in German is simply "werwolf" not "werwulf". When Captain Thorne emigrates to America, and joins Special Forces, the author seems to be on more comfortable ground, with better flow up to the end of the book. All in all, for a very generalized, and inaccurate in spots, accounting of a Finnish and American patriot, and combat leader this may suffice. The historian however, needs to look elsewhere.
Excellent and fascinating.......1999-03-14
I really liked this book. It held my interest and was extremely easy to read. It is easy to understand the authors fascination with Larry Thorne. I appreciate the 23 years of effort the author made to bring this story to us.
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- capable, occasionally lyrical memoir
- A Slytherin sort of book
- Complex, odd but worth reading
- Occasionally fascinating, but cluttered and disorganized
- A Delightful Read!
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Poison: A History And a Family Memoir
Gail Bell
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Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the ground, out of sight and out of reach.
Then ten-years-old, Macbeth's granddaughter Gail Bell watched the mysterious case of elixirs arrive at her home. She watched her father treat it like a poison chalice. Only decades later would she understand why: the case concealed evidence of her family's deadly secret.
In 1927, Macbeth was accused of poisoning two of his sons. He never stood trial. Bell, determined to discover how this "calm, warm, and caring" healer could become a cunning murderer-and evade detection-eventually uncovered the dark secrets that her father had tried to hide from the world. But as the unexpected twists of her investigation reveal, nothing is as straightforward as it seems.
At the same time, she explores what the crime of poisoning reveals about humanity, through the perspectives of myth, history, fiction, and the great poison trials. A pharmacist by profession, and the granddaughter of a suspected poisoner by circumstance, she is perfectly placed to revisit the cases of Cleopatra, Emma Bovary, Napoleon's doctor, Harold Shipman, and Dr. Crippen, and she is equally well-suited to chronicle the devastating effects of poison's many forms, from hemlock and belladonna to arsenic and strychnine.
Poison is at once a fascinating history of the science and sociology of poisoning, and a true, first-person account of one woman's struggle to understand its mysterious role in her own family's murderous history.
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capable, occasionally lyrical memoir.......2005-09-14
My rating of this book may not be fair as I came to it more interested in poisons than in the story of Bell's family.
So, it's with an acknowledged bias that I say that I think this book is at its best in its presentation of actual case studies and poison history. It's a pleasure to read the author's take on even the most familiar elements of poison lore because of the freshness and literacy she brings to the telling. She weaves together unexpected sources but is always delightfully aware of the personal and historic contexts of the sources. I particularly enjoyed the fact that she treated her own presence as narrator and author with the same degree of honesty.
That said, I can't say that I found her family's story particularly compelling, largely because there is just so little information. Bell addresses this repeatedly but I often found her speculations about the past unsatisfying and redundant. She also tries to fill the gaps with her own thoughts about poisoning, history, death, etc. Some of these are beautiful and surprising, but many just feel self-indulgent.
I should also point out that Bell never really lets up on the metaphors and similes. It gets to be a bit much.
Also, I found her treatment of her great-aunt Rose hypocritical and a little odd. Though she seems ready, if not eager, to use the lack of evidence to exonerate or at least raise questions about her grandfather's guilt, she seems awfully ready to make harsh judgements about her great-aunt based on very little information. Could it be that Bell herself falls prey to our desire for a villain in every story?
Still, an enjoyable read and a welcome break from the usual poison literature.
A Slytherin sort of book.......2005-02-23
Here is an author who definitely belongs in Slytherin House and would probably knock the socks off of Professor Snape in Potions class. Gail Bell studied pharmacy at the University of Sydney, and has written a fascinating history of the science and sociology of poisoning. I once did a science project on the natural poisons to be found locally (water hemlock, nightshade, etc.) and found it to be a compelling subject--a close-in look at some of the more ambiguous and dreadful forms of death. After all, almost anything including water can poison if taken in the 'right' quantity.
Gail Bell has a special interest in poisons because her grandfather reputedly murdered two of his sons with strychnine. The guilt or innocence of her grandfather, William MacBeth is one of the central themes of this book--hence the subtitle 'a Family Memoir.' The author tells us, "By inclination and training I've spent many years thinking about the bad stuff, poison, and its companions: secrecy, death and storytelling."
This isn't merely a family narrative. We are also informed of other poisonings, both historical (Cleopatra) and fictional (Madame Bovary). The story of Cleopatra is especially grim, since she reputedly tested many poisons on her slaves before selecting one that would leave her beautiful in death.
The 'Queen of Poisons,' arsenic is not neglected although the author calls her "a defeated monarch at the end of the twentieth century." The 'Old Lady' is easily discoverable now, but that doesn't necessarily mean that arsenic is no longer used as a deadly, but slow way to murder one's relatives. Something that strikes me about the true crime TV shows concerning poisons is that most physicians never think to test for arsenic (or its heavy metal companion, thallium) until the victim is on his or her deathbed, or in the grave. Doctors who poison their patients are especially liable to get off scot-free until the body-count is too high to ignore.
The only parts of "Poison" that I didn't really enjoy were the author's 'rescue fantasies.' They involve Madame Bovary, the author's young uncle, Patrick, and a certain Danish king who appeared in one of Shakespeare's plays. I do believe Ms. Bell satisfactorily solves the mystery of her own grandfather's guilt or innocence, and that alone makes this a very interesting book.
Complex, odd but worth reading.......2005-02-15
An odd little book that I wasn't quite sure I liked after reading the first chapter, however I persevered and I am glad that I did.
Gail Bell the author, a trained Chemist by trade is the Granddaughter of a poisoner, a man who murdered his two eldest sons when they were babies and supposedly got away with it.
Or that is what she is told by one of her maternal Aunts and it is this family story that leads Gail into the strange, frightening world of poisons, the people who have used poison for murder, accidental poisoning and how poisons can affect the human body both before and after death.
Ms Bell is surprisingly methodical and cold about the use of poison through history, looking at the likes of Cleopatra, and Crippen and analysing their motives for dabbling in the murderous art but as she digs deeper into her own family background she finds that her Grandfather the supposed child poisoner is more complex and elusive than she could ever have imagined and that truth is often really stranger than fiction.
This book is quite chaotic as one earlier reviewer said, they are right, Ms Bell is telling two stories, one about her Grandfather, the other about poison itself as weapon for murder but for me the two juxtaposed together quite nicely, and the chaos adds to the strange charm of this book.
I liked it but I should warn you it's isn't for the really squeamish and also it isn't for those that want an easy read, because of the "chaotic" writing you need to read it very carefully but for me it was quite riveting and I read it in one sitting and really enjoyed it.
Occasionally fascinating, but cluttered and disorganized .......2004-08-06
This work is really two books. The first is an account of the alleged poisoning death of her two cousins in 1927 by their father and the second is a history of poison and poisoning told using literary, historical, and toxicological examples. These disparate works are never really blended and there are no transitions between the two topics. Several times the author literally seems to forget about the family poison story and spends several chapters on unrelated topics. This made the book difficult to read.
There are some fascinating tidbits on poison in this book [copper arsenite was used to color wallpaper designs green and was mixed with starch, applied to fabic, dried and polished to make a passable substitute for silk that killed a woman who wore a green ball gown made of this stuff] but there is nothing really new here. Bell reviews the standard poison cases [Crippen, Palmer, Lamson, Young, Swango, Shipman] that are in most true crime reference books and the family poisoning story that sounded so intriguing at first devolved into a gossipy, frequently-incorrect account [only one of the two boys suspected of being poisoned was killed by poison]. The literary and antropological sections concerning poison myths and portrayls of poisonings were also interesting.
Overall, this book is just too chaotic and cluttered.
A Delightful Read!.......2004-07-21
Engrossing and humorous, devious and delightful, this book has it all! Couldn't put it down!
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ASIN: 3907078500 |
Book Description
From landscapes to personal studies to ad campaigns and product shots for Lufthansa, American Express, and Audi, all of Hans Hansen's key creative phases are represented herein. Hockey gear and heads of hair, car parts and chairs, butter and bookshelves, fish scales and fruit rinds, sausages and sea shells, textiles and tea cups--Hans Hansen's camera freezes them all. Rightly admired for his images of objects, Hansen's view on world of the still life is explored in "Sachtfotografie", as is the greater scope of his personality, inspirations, and passions.
11 x 8.25 in.
340 illustrations
GERMAN LANGUAGE ONLY
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