Authentic Art Deco Interiors in Full Color

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Rich archive of 108 handsome illustrations, selected from rare 1920s French portfolios, features elements characteristic of Art Deco interiors, among them built-in furniture, cleverly arranged living areas, open and uncluttered spaces, clean, straight lines of furniture and rooms and much more. Of immense value to artists, interior designers, craftspeople and others.

Customer Reviews:

Dissapointed .......2005-09-08

Expected real photos of art deco interior design and the book contains only cartoons.....and cartoons of very poor designs.

Title should be: Authentic Art Deco Desings in Full Color.......2005-02-01

This book is nice to have for the low price however, it was not what I had expected. The book contained only the illustrations of the designers' concepts for the rooms. It would have been better if it had included photographs of the rooms or any information about the designs or designers.

Great illustrations........1999-11-17

The title might be somewhat misleading. It is indeed art deco interiors, but it contains only illustrations, so don't await to see real homes or interiors. The illustrations of Ruhlmann, Mallet-Stevens, Chareau and others are very nicely executed though, and it is interesting to see how they imagined rooms to be arranged. There is a small introduction and biographical notes only. It would have been nice to see the illustrations together with photographs of authentic art deco furniture and furnishing.

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The Challenge of Landscape Painting
Ian Simpson
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback

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Challenge of Landscape Painting
Ian Simpson
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
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Nationally, women are the largest—and fastest growing —group of people buying small farms. Some figures indicate that in ten years 75% of American farmland will be owned by women.

In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Miller's VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all share a spirit of independence and common concerns such as keeping the land open, healthy and productive; nurturing animals; producing clean and healthy food; and serving their neighbors and their community. In the face of a growing agribusiness intent on controlling the global food supply, you could call them working activists.

VERMONT FARM WOMEN is a 144-page, hardcover book containing 110 photographs, mostly portraits and some stunning panoramic images. All of the photographs are in black and white.

"I believe this is my most important book," said Miller," because it indicates a revolution back to the small farms, which started in Vermont, spread to Maine, Pennsylvania and the West Coast. There is a humanity in the way farm women relate to other people through what they produce. Agriculture is more of a calling to these women than a way of making a living. "

Miller has also initiated The Vermont Farm Women Fund, to help owners of small farms and to educate people about the importance of women in agriculture. The fund is being organized and implemented through the Intervale Farm Community in Burlington, Vermont.

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The Pioneer Spirit is alive and well........2005-10-14

My wife and I just returned from a Fall Foliage vacation in Ver mont. On a coffee table at a Bed and Breakfast we stayed at, we found a copy of this book. It is the stories of variouss women who own and do the back breaking work of farming. Some have lived on a farm all their lives, others have left jobs in the cities to take on the rigours of farming. These women are not wimps. They are hard working, self-reliant, single minded and full of passion for the farms they work....endless work.

The author's style is both interesting and comelling. This is a non-fiction page turner. It is the most inspiring book I have read in years.

Conversations With A Prince: A Year Of Riding At East Hill Farm

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Wish I could spend a year at East Hill
Quite simply a delight
A fun read, and educational, too
Great book
Playful and Never Boring

Conversations With A Prince: A Year Of Riding At East Hill Farm
Helen Husher
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1592286933

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What is it about horses? And why do they matter?

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Wish I could spend a year at East Hill.......2007-02-12

Helen Husher does a great job writing about the nature of the horse and her descriptions of horse behavior will bring a thrill to all riders who will recognize their own experiences with lesson horses and barn life. I really enjoyed this book and wish I could ride at such a barn.

Quite simply a delight .......2006-02-28

What more is there to say? This is a book that operates, both for the writer and the reader, on a number of different levels at once. Through her depiction of her relationship with the horse, Prince, you felt you saw into the author and into human relationships as a whole. Yet, if you are a horse lover just looking for that kind of story, you find that here as well.

This was my first Husher book after having her name recommended to me more than a few times. It definitely won't be my last.

Bravo!

A fun read, and educational, too.......2005-12-31

A former Vermonter, I received this book for Christmas. I've been around horses quite a bit, although I'm no expert. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Husher is full of insight into herself and horses. She has fun with unique phraseology throughout the book, and I laughed aloud several times. I was having fun reading, but also learning. You hear a lot about that "special relationship" between horses and people, especially in fiction works. This is the first time that I've heard about communicating with horses from a real world person who claims no special expertise. In fact, she is quite humble. It was fun to hear her insights into horse psychology. I'm sure the horsey set will enjoy this more than those with no interest in horses. But if you've never been around a horse and would like to, or are just plain curious about what they're really like, you'd enjoy this book.

Great book.......2005-07-21

A wonderful book for anyone with even a remote interest in the world of horses. I originally bought this book for my girlfriend who has two horses herself, but I ended up reading the book myself before I had a chance to give it to her.

Playful and Never Boring.......2005-07-13

On one level this is familiar turf. Cowboys, schoolgirls, whispering trainers, jockeys ... everyone has a story about communicating with a horse. What sets Husher's apart is her increasing growth as a wordsmith. She has blossomed into one of Vermont's finest writers, and fine writing always trumps well-trod subject material.
"Conversations With a Prince" is loaded with fine characters--most equine, some human. Husher is not afraid to put herself under scrutiny as well, and my guess is that she learned a great deal about herself in the writing of this book. She knows she's a little off the deep end on this subject, but that's exactly where she wants to be. She's a playful writer who is not afraid to take chances. As a result, she is never boring.
She's at her very best when she gets right into the mind of the horse, such as by explaining how vulnerable horses are to their riders who sit in the one blind spot where an ancient tiger might attack. This, in turn, explains how one horse, Bones, became addicted to the symbiotic company of a dog who would patrol the perimeter on "tiger alert." Who knows if this is a correct interpretation of what's going on in a horse's mind? The point is, Husher's treatment is so well done that the reader never questions the believability.
You will enjoy "Conversations with a Prince" whether or not you are a horse person. If you are a horse person, however, you will just enjoy it more.

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Silent and sophisticated, whimsical and funny, short comics involving mummies, vampires, the wolfman, and Frankenstein. Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler is famous for his silent and sophisticated comics. His short stories are intriguing, humorous and incredibly illustrated in a whimsical, yet weighted, sketchy style. Characters in this volume include the classic archetypes: mummy, vampire, wolfman, Frankenstein, et al. This first American compilation will be sure to create an instant fan base his for work.

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Is there an earthbound paradise—one single spot in all the world which is the perfect place to live?

This is the question Richard Tregaskis set out to answer, and here is his story of a thrilling 48,000–mile search for a modern–day Eden. Fulfilling a dream that everyone has shared at one time or another, the author voyaged leisurely around the globe—to the East Indies, Asia and Australia, Africa and Europe, New York and California. He visited many of the world's most fabulous regions, and he chronicles his adventures with exciting accounts of everyone he met, gaining a fascinating insight into the true nature of each country.

The people are vivid and varied:

Ex-GIs in Australia, the land of beautiful beaches, the worker's paradise.

Bare-bosomed women of Bali, typifying the movie ideal of a tropic isle.

Indian untouchables, courageous despite their lowly, caste-bound state.

Ladies of the evening in Singapore.

A Swiss watchmaker, passionately proud of his democratic heritage.

An American, married and settled in England, strongly advocating the British way of life.

These are but a few of the many personalties whose stories highlight this seven-league search. In pursuing his own paradise, Richard Tregaskis presents a colorful, frequently humorous, always perceptive picture of our far-flung neighbors and the lands in which they live.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1916, Richard Tregaskis was graduated from Harvard, cum laude, in 1938. He was a reporter, war correspondent, motion picture and television writer, and author of the best-selling Guadalcanal Diary and Vietnam Diary.

He was the winner of the George Polk Award in 1964 for reporting under hazardous conditions.

Readers of Seven Leagues to Paradise will enjoy his style of reporting under more leisurely conditions, as well.

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Discontents from country to country and even back home.......2005-04-11

Tregaskis was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

After I graduated from college in May, 1971, Oberlin College,
A.B., then spent some time at Vanderbilt. In 1972 I hung out
as a hippie on Mt. Adams in Cincinnati, then my father
got me another job working for my uncle at MacPerth Knitwear
downtown Cincinnati... then another job in Elizabeth
working for Wilson Freight Company loading and unloading
trucks. I was in Elizabeth the Fall of 1972. I drove
a tow motor, what they called fork lifts.. Cardboard
drums of yellow cake came through there and telephone exchange
mainframes.. One of the truck berths was to Montauk.

I came home to Cincinnati in December of 72 then worked
as a dishwasher for 10 days before Christmas at Frisch's.

Then started back at University of Cincinnati in math
and biology. I had a breakdown and went to Enoch Sheppard
Pratt Hospital in Baltimore for 8 months, while in the hospital
earning a real estate license. I left the hospital to
sell real estate, working for Professional Real Estate
and Coldwell Banker Grempler... while working for Grempler
I was also working in a bacteriophage genetics lab at
Johns Hopkins.. I left Baltimore in the spring of '75 to
take the Big Trip, seeing the country. I ended up in
San Francisco and was hospitalized twice. The second
time, I was there at Napa for 3 months... A young man
on the ward's locker was filled with books. I bought two
of them for 10 dollars. One was an entire book on
Ohm's law, or electronics.. The other, Seven Leagues.

My father picked me up and we flew back to Cincinnati.
After a month home I took the Navy officer's test, a math
test, getting 58/60 where 60 was passing.

Next year I took a year of electronics at Ohio College
of Applied Science - Ohio Mechanic's Institute.

Seven Leagues is the frustration Tregaskis feels, discontents
where ever he lived even finally home.

Seven Leagues to Paradise, A Round-The-World Trip in Search of the Perfect Place to Live

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Seven Leagues to Paradise, A Round-The-World Trip in Search of the Perfect Place to Live
Richard Tregaskis
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W7ATP2

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French guy gets it right - again!

Carrere provides non-judgmental look at Dick's life

A fascinating look at the mind of a really strange person

Heavy on interpretation

Is this Review a Manifestation of Ultimate Truth or a Figment of Your Imagination?

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: The Strange Life and Times of Philip K. Dick
Emmanuel Carrere
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books
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For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the 'most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century' (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. Dick, whose work inspired such films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, dedicated his life to solving one ultimately unanswerable question: What is real? In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrre follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink lights, three-eyed invaders, and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews as well as unpublished sources, Carrre traces Dick's multiple marriages, paranoid fantasies, and vertiginous encounters with the drug culture of sixties California. He vividly conjures the spirit of this restless observer of American postwar malaise whose more than fifty novels subverted the materials of science fiction-parallel universes, intricate time loops, collective delusions-to create classic works of contemporary anxiety. As disturbing and engrossing as a book by its subject, Carrre's unconventional work interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw-from cloning to reality TV-a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions.

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French guy gets it right - again!.......2007-03-17

What's going on with these French novelists seeming to re-invent biography with their love letters to American weirdos? Michel Houellebecq wrote my favorite (non S.T. Joshi anyway) appreciation/bio of H.P. Lovecraft ever, and now here comes another in much the same vein, only more so. This is part biography, part literary criticism, and part attempt at doing just what the title suggests: inhabiting, for a short while, the mind and imagination of Philip K. Dick. I say it succeeds at all three, beautifully. Finishing it, I immediately wanted to start it again.

Carrere provides non-judgmental look at Dick's life.......2006-11-15

I Am Alive and You are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere has been on my books to read list for awhile. I have a weakness for biographies and autobiographies of writers, and if it's a writer who I all but worship as a god, well, all the better.

Philip K. Dick is one of those writers who, once I discovered all those years ago with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, felt compelled to read every book I could get my hands on. There are a few here and there that I have missed, but I have read the vast majority of Dick's works, and perhaps none was more haunting than Valis, particularly the author's introduction to the novel. Not having any use for religion myself, I felt a bit betrayed that a writer I idolized could have written something so strangely spiritual. It seemed like it had to be all a joke. I know exactly how those French fans felt at that science fiction conference,Carrere describes in I Am Alive and You are Dead because I have been there. If anything, though, it was Valis that made me want to read more about the life of Philip K. Dick.

Carrere calls the biography he's written "a peculiar book," and says he has attempted to portrary Dick from the "inside." I can't say whether this is the result, but the book chronicles Dick's life with an empathy that seems born of a true fan, who wants to understand this writer and share his story with the world.

He tells the story of Dick's decent into madness with honesty, and yet avoids passing judgment. It is a tragic story and a dark story, all the more disturbing because it is a true story and not a work of fiction.

I have seen what madness can do to a person firsthand, and I'm always the last person to classify what others call crazy as insanity. Sure it sounds crazy that Jesus could appear in some girl's toilet bowl, but then millions of people go off to church each Sunday, many of them believing in things that look a whole hell of a lot like insanity - a virgin that gives birth to a semi-divine child, a person turning into a pillar of salt, a dead person disappearing from a tomb. When it comes right down to it, The Bible is full of as much weirdness as say, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I appreciated the fact that Carrere never tried to paint a caricatureof Dick, but presented the man as he was, and showed the way he struggled to understand the seeming insanity taking over his life.

Carrere also does his best to link the different epochs in Dick's life with the books he was writing at that time. He doesn't cover all his novels, but a fair number. The result is that the reader can see the inspirations behind some of the themes, and in some cases the outright autobiographical nature of the works.

I have read no other biographies of Dick's life to date, and so, have nothing to compare this book with, but found it a solid and well-rounded effort. It may not be quite as page-turning as one of Dick's novels, but it is written in a way that is engaging and entertaining.

A fascinating look at the mind of a really strange person.......2006-10-20

This book is not just a biography of Philip K. Dick, famous science fiction writer; the movies Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report are based on his stories. It is also an attempt to find out what made him tick, to get inside his mind. And that is a strange place to be.

Dick was born in 1928, near Berkeley, California, half of a set of twins. Evidently, his mother knew little or nothing about child rearing, because Jane, his twin, died at 6 weeks of age, possibly of starvation. Her death affected Dick for his entire life.

He was a big lover of classical music, and a voracious reader, especially of psychology, philosophy, and later in his life, religion. Dick never achieved his dream of becoming a "serious" novelist, though not for lack of effort. Writing science fiction simply paid the bills, until he became successful at it.

His first wife was a Communist sympathizer (having an FBI file in 1950s Berkeley was practically a badge of honor), he got his second wife sent to a mental hospital, and his third wife left him, and took their young daughter, when he objected to her getting a job outside the home. Dick had a fear of being alone. Dick was a paranoid agoraphobic who was subject to panic attacks. He was, shall we say, well acquainted with the world of prescription drugs, taking them for all sorts of physical and mental ailments. On speed, he could write a novel in two weeks, without sleeping, though he knew that he would physically pay for it later. In later years, he was perceived as some sort of LSD guru, even though he took it only once. There were a couple of stints in drug rehab.

As a youngster, during one of his rare trips to a movie theater, Dick was suddenly convinced that nothing existed outside the theater. The four walls and the pictures on the screen were the sum total of reality. Another time, he wondered if he was really alive, or if he was simply an android who was programmed with false memories so that he would think that he was alive. In later years, Dick turned a couple of innocent fan letters from Eastern Europe into a plot to get him behind the Iron Curtain, and keep him there.

Anyone who has ever read one of Dick's novels, or seen one of the movies based on his stories, needs to read this book. For those not familiar with Philip Dick, read this as a look into the mind of a very strange person.

Heavy on interpretation.......2005-11-20

Overall, this is a nice work, but it seems to be an interpretive biography, with emphasis on interpretive.
Some may love it, depending on what kind of biography one is looking for. I would describe Emmanuel Carrere's PKD bio as melodramatic.

This is the first PKD bio I've read. Emmanuel Carrere uses PKD's books as the timeline, without much emphasis on years, which can be frustrating to some (like me). Also the author's style is somewhat flowery and heavyhanded. I almost stopped reading it in the beginning because I wanted something more straight forward.

The kicker is, PKD's life is so interesting to me, I got caught up in it and eventually appreciated Emmanuel Carrere's style.
The book is appropriately titled, A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick. Emmanuel Carrere was looking for motivation, not just describing events.

Fortunately there are other PKD bios, which I intend to read.

Is this Review a Manifestation of Ultimate Truth or a Figment of Your Imagination?.......2005-11-19

What a fascinating journey through a bizarre and brilliant mind! I had always wanted
to learn more about Philip K. Dick, but had been turned off by other articles and
books that had drained the life from Dick's story with overly dry and pedantic prose.
In contrast, Carrere offers psychological insight and philosophical speculation
that can only be described as "Phildickian." As one who had read all of
Dick's better-known works, Carrere seems to have reanimated Dick's spirit in this
compelling, partially novelized tale. What the reader sacrifices in footnotes and
verifiable fact is more than made up for by the sheer human interest of the story.

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Definitive guide

We all have a lot to learn..............

Excellent Guide for parents.

negative to coaches

Fantastic--Experience and Psychology--Quite a Resource

Raising Winners : A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids Succeed On and Off the Playing Field
Shari Young Phd Kuchenbecker
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Release Date: 2000-05-02

Book Description

Whether your child is a casual joiner or a serious athlete, the playing field is a terrific place to learn confidence, sportsmanship, and other skills he or she will need to succeed in life. This comprehensive guide from sports psychologist Dr. Shari Kuchenbecker distills decades of sports research and the author's own experiences as a "soccer mom, volleyball mom, Little League mom, and basketball mom" to create an indispensable guide to children's development through sports. Topics include how to:Choose the right sport for kids--and when they should startSupport a good coach and deal with a bad oneKeep kids motivatedHelp kids eat rightScreen an injuryEncourage girls in sportsDeal with quitting, stalling, and burnoutGet athletic scholarships and more

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Definitive guide.......2006-08-06

Dr. Kuchenbecker offers common sense with academic precision. "Raising Winners" leaves the reader with a new sense of responsibility to properly prepare children for a competitive world, and a tool to help fulfill it. It appears to be the definitive technical guide on youth team sports for educators, parents and coaches.

We all have a lot to learn.....................2000-07-15

If you need a reference book about raising children with a positive self-image, then this book is a must read. On or off the playing field the values are the same. I've been involved in athletics for nealy 30 years, as a mother, coach, participant, and as as athletic director at a local Community college. I have witnessed poor behavior by all involved. This wonderfully written book will help get you through even the most trying times. It has incrediable advice, wonderful suggestions, and is wriiten from the heart. My experiences in sports has help to mold my life and the advise in this book will help mold yours...A MUST-Read for parents, coaches, teachers, and participants of all ages.

Excellent Guide for parents........2000-07-05

I believe that this book could not have come at a better time. In this day and age it is not unusual for teenagers to sign multi-million dollar contracts for basketball and hockey. Unfortunately, for every Tiger Woods, Martina Hingis, and Kobe Byrant, there are many more unnamed people when pushed to the limits just burned out.

Dr. Kuchenbecker' book reminds everyone that the primary role of sports is not to make millions of dollars and become famous, it is to have fun.

negative to coaches.......2000-05-21

I noticed that most references to coaches were in a negative way and I stopped reading the book after page 120. While I agree with alot of what was said I felt it was to anti-coach.

Fantastic--Experience and Psychology--Quite a Resource.......2000-05-17

This book should be used by little league associations and all parents who have kids that play sports. The lessons learned in this book and the research proves that the methods and techniques in this book are absolutely necessary for all parents and coaches to know. I have recommended this book to many and would highly encourage anyone to buy this book. It's down to earth, easy to understand approach is very enjoybable to read. I've shared many of the thoughts in this book with my kids, their team, and their coach. Everyone on the team is buying a copy and we're going to make it automatic on our team that all new parents on the team should buy the book! Very well done, Dr. Kuchenbecker.

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Eastern Europe

Lots of info, but how useful?

Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe 1000-1568 (Men-at-Arms)
David Nicolle
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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ASIN: 0850458331
Release Date: 1988-03-24

Book Description

Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of France, that endured throughout the Middle Ages whilst the Byzantine Empire was even more extensive and enduring. The Serbians won themselves a brief but extensive local empire in the 14th century; while the Bulgarians established an effective and cultured state. Other players in the confusing Balkan scene included the Albanians; Wallachians; Moldavians; Transylvanians; Croatians and many others. How did they organise their armies and fight their wars; and why did they ultimately fail? This title answers these questions ably supported by numerous illustrations and eight colour plates.

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Eastern Europe.......2007-04-08

A useful book with fine plates. As is often the case with men-at-arms titles, it does not have enough space to get extremely detailed, but within the confines of this series it is excellent.

Lots of info, but how useful?.......2000-07-23

This is one of the Men-at-Arms grabbag volumes. While there are wonderful illustrations and lots of facts crammed in here, one has to wonder just how accurate a book covering warfare in approximately 1/2 of Europe over a 570 year period can be. In the end, use this book as a jumping off point, but not the last word on Eastern Europe.

The Angus McBride illustrations are mostly up to their standards of excellence, although he has left the last painting only partially done for some obscure reason and he DOES like to focus on atypical arms and armour, which can be interesting, but also presents a rather skewwed vision of the armies of the period.

Nicolle tries valiantly with this volume. As I said above, there are a LOT of facts in here. There are two problems that press on the information. 1) Militarily, this is a poorly chronicled era and the sheer number of languages makes the task all the more duanting and 2) the timeframe is just far too broad for any serious considerations. Imagine lumping all of, say, American military developement from 1492 to the present (a similar timeframe) into a volume this size and you will get a notion of the enormity of the task.

The informaion is as good as the team can get it. The illustrations do their best to bring a candle to the minds of Western Europe and America as to what Eastern Europe went through. The writing is solid. In the end, though, the book has severe limitations. Take it with a grain of salt.

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In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was already disappearing. Behdad argues that this nostalgic desire for the other contains an implicit critique of Western superiority, a split within European discourses of otherness. Working from these insights and using analyses of power derived from Foucault, Behdad engages in a new critique of orientalism. No longer viewed as a coherent and unified phenomenon or a single developmental tradition, it is seen as a complex and shifting field of practices that has relied upon its own ambivalence and moments of discontinuity to ensure and maintain its power as a discourse of dominance.
Through readings of Flaubert, Nerval, Kipling, Blunt, and Eberhardt, and following the transition in travel literature from travelog to tourist guide, Belated Travelers addresses the specific historical conditions of late nineteenth-century orientalism implicated in the discourses of desire and power. Behdad also views a broad range of issues in addition to nostalgia and tourism, including transvestism and melancholia, to specifically demonstrate the ways in which the heterogeneity of orientalism and the plurality of its practice is an enabling force in the production and transformation of colonial power.
An exceptional work that provides an important critique of issues at the forefront of critical practice today, Belated Travelers will be eagerly awaited by specialists in nineteenth-century British and French literatures, and all concerned with colonial and post-colonial discourse.

The Postcolonial Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

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The increased importance of minority and subjugated voices has led to a new interest in the effects of colonization and displacement on medieval culture. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which "aboriginal," "native" or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed.

Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

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Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, including art history, cartography, and Anglo-Saxon and Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies through the exploration of a common theme: translation in its broadest sense as a mechanism of, and metaphor for, cultures in contact, confrontation and competition. The essays form a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power.

The Postcolonial Middle Ages.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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The Postcolonial Middle Ages.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Cynthia J. Neville
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 744 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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Title: The Postcolonial Middle Ages.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Cynthia J. Neville
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 37 Issue: 3 Page: 511(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The Postcolonial Middle Ages
Jeffrey Jerome (Edt) Cohen
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan 01/1//2000
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5YEHW

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