Eileen Gray: Compact Design Portfolio

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The stylish little books in our new Compact Design Portfolio series put great classic and contemporary design within everyone's grasp. Launching with four leading designers of the twentieth century--Richard Sapper, Michael Graves, Eileen Gray, and Jean Prouve--these exciting new books defy the idea that design is inaccessible. Each book contains an introductory essay addressing the designer's life and work, penned by a distinguished design writer with real knowledge of and fresh enthusiasm for the designer at hand. Subsequent pages dynamically illustrate numerous key works in photographs and sketches--from Sapper's famous Tizio lamp to Graves's Target line, Prouve's pioneering metal furniture to Gray's Rioli desk. This series will extend into future seasons with more titles featuring an eclectic mix of international design heroes. In an irresistible small format packed with images and useful information, the Compact Design Portfolio books are affordable enough to collect the entire series. At long last, here's the perfect introduction to the influential designers who changed the face of contemporary design.

Eileen Gray (Compact Design Portfolio Series)

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Eileen Gray (Compact Design Portfolio Series)
Eileen] Rowlands, Penelope; Bartolucci, Marisa (editor); Cabra, Raul (editor) [Gray
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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A unique guide that will teach complete beginners how to paint a beautiful floral watercolour in just one weekend.

Beginners recognise that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce their first finished painting. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do both in a limited amount of time - to build skills gradually and to produce an attractive, frameable painting that they can hang on their walls by the end of the weekend.

The author starts by introducing the materials required, and then leads readers through a series of watercolour technique exercises designed to provide a basic grounding in the skills needed for this subject area.

This instruction is followed by six weekend projects for painting a range of popular floral subjects: a single flower; a group of white flowers; an indoors still life; an outdoors close-up; autumn flowers; and wild flowers in the landscape. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday; readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday.

Clear instructions accompany step-by-step photographs throughout, and technical information is given in special feature boxes.

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Thanks, Jill!.......2004-04-11

After months of sitting with my preschooler at the easel and painting nothing but crude daisies, I bought this book. It's been three days and I am already painting flowers that look like flowers. The techniques are simple and are explained well with text and photographs. I find that many how-to-paint books are filled with the artist's own finished works but never show the intimidated beginner how to get there. This book is different in that it takes the reader through a step-by-step process that begins with the first stroke and ends with the final product. I highly recommend this book to the beginning watercolorist.

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Jonathan Miller
Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley
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For the past three decades, highly acclaimed theater and opera director Dr Jonathan Miller has pursued the unlikely hobby of photographing unusual and bizarre objects. In this acute, perceptive gaze, ordinary details of the everyday world, often ignored or overlooked, somehow take on a life of their own. Here, for the first time, these strange and enigmatic pictures are presented in a unique and highly personal volume, together with Jonathan's notebook jottings, which illuminate his observations on life and art.

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Nowhere in Particular
Jonathan Miller
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The Nosferatu are split between keeping Kurou alive or killing him. In an unprecedented turn of events, Tsuchiya and Matsudaira join together to take Kyrou out, while Sato and Fukaya struggle to save him.

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Compelling subject matter done in a well-written manner.......1998-08-05

Ted Berkman has spent all of his adult life in the media and in this, his autiobiography, he takes on a ride through the various incantations of its development. We are able to meet well known figures such as Edward R. Murrow, Harry Truman, King Farouk, Sheilah Graham and others in Hollywood, Washington DC, Egypt, Japan and other places. This man is an excellent writer and teacher--I picked up this book at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference where he teaches biography--and he provides thought-provoking commentary on the media influences and its growth. He left me thinking hard about the Internet and what it will mean as it grows evermore. But the book is also entertaining. His descriptions of Egypt and of growing old are both heartrendering and unforgettable. Consider picking this one up. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Spellbinding, unforgettable true story of Lise Huebert Towes Gerig and her Christian family escaping Russia. Epic told through actions of individuals caught up in events of Russian history,1800-WW ll.

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The Foreword.......2003-07-01

A foreword for this 2nd printing is written by Nancy K. Splain, J.D., Liaison to the American Bar Association's Far Eastern Project - Ukraine. Dr. Splain lived in Ukraine 2001 and 2002. She has traveled many of the same by-ways as Lise did during her escape with her Mennonite people. In this unusual foreword, Dr. Splain describes the lush hills of Crimea where Lise was born and her passion for this book is obvious. Dr. Splain's foreword is an outstanding addition to this award winning book.

Survival.......2002-08-26

Escape to freedom. Survival. How might we lose our freedoms? This author tells it all.

Universal appeal - reads like a mystery.......2002-02-05

has written this true story in Lise's own, up-lifting and charming words as a child of Dutch-German parents trapped in Russia. I consider it an important addition to the unknown, unadmitted history of Russia's people and Lise's escape with 140 of her people is an amazing story for all ages. This exciting, well crafted book is hard to put down. It is both relevant and powerful. How difficult it is to earn freedom -- how easy to lose it! I Heard My People Cry is felt in the hearts, and seen upon the faces of all mankind. So relevant for day!

From a reader in Virginia, Minnesota.......2002-02-05

I Heard My People Cry is fast becoming the one book everyone in your "home town" wants to read. Congratulations Elizabeth.

Faith and Perseverance: A Story of Our Times.......2001-12-26

Set in Eurasian history, this remarkable story of faith, courage, perseverance and love could easily have happened--and is happening--today. A mother's love and determination, a child's lost innocence, a tale of harrowing survival. What should never have occurred again is as fresh today as it was then. I couldn't put it down the first time, and I continue to pick up my favorite parts to read them over and over as a source and basis for my own faith. The words are so clear, the vision so real.

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A new edition of the popular Learn to Relax—the first two editions have sold a combined 100,000 + copies!

In this new edition, Dr. Walker, a well-known expert and lecturer in the area of relaxation and stress management, provides proven techniques for physical and mental relaxation to gain relief from the rising epidemic of tension, stress, and anxiety. New to this edition are over forty practical, hands-on exercises that will enable the reader to quickly grasp and apply the tools necessary to manage and overcome stress without the use of drugs and gain a sense of control over their life. Completely updated and expanded, Learn to Relax includes chapters on nutrition and exercise, goal setting, problem solving, decision making, relaxation exercises, and self-hypnosis.

C. Eugene Walker, PhD (Edmond, OK), is a clinical psychologist in private practice and the author of books. He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma Medical School.

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Learn to Relax and Accompanying Techniques.......2006-11-05

Stress management is a considerable task for many people in every sector
of life, in every age group, occupation and aspect of life. The book
illustrates specific steps to take in order to identify the stress triggers and deal with them constructively. The lotus position is the ideal setting for relaxation and tension release. Belief systems, perceptions and uncontrollable events are classic stress triggers which the author tries to address in the book. Subjects can engineer less stress into their week by enjoying family activities on Sundays. This will set the tone for the rest of the week. Goal-setting, brainstorming and hot baths/saunas are classic methodologies to deal effectively with stress. The book would be very helpful in combatting the everyday stress triggers that we all face. The book is a good value for the price charged.

Highly Recommended!.......2001-03-31

Stress and anxiety are natural parts of the human experience and can actually improve performance in challenging times. But for those of us with more than our fair share of tension, C. Eugene Walker has written a helpful book. Walker draws on theories from many psychologists, psychiatrists and other researchers in analyzing the origins of our stress. More importantly, he also provides techniques for overcoming and reducing tension - including more than 40 exercises that will help you calm down. While his basic principles will sound familiar to those who know self-help and personal-development literature, Walker does a good job of combining and organizing these points. We [...] recommend this book to a general audience, but also to top managers and executives who deal with stressed-out employees or feel the pressure mounting themselves.

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No military unit in all the annals of American history exceeds in reputation Robert E. Lee's illustrious Army of Northern Virginia. In ten chapters based on exhaustive research, esteemed Civil War scholar Robert K. Krick gives eloquent examination to aspects of the army ranging from biographical sketches and the best and worst books on the subject, to Confederate troop strengths and locating soldier records. He begins with two key events: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's mortal wounding at Chancellorsville; and Jackson's most famous quarrel with a subordinate, which resulted in the unsuccessful court martial of General Richard B. Garnett.

Krick continues with chapters on James Longstreet's failure at Knoxville and the prickly relationship between Jubal A. Early and the undisciplined Valley Cavalry. His piece on Robert E. Rodes is the first complete portrait of Lee's best division commander, whose wife methodically burned all of his letters sent home, forever preventing a full-scale biography. Krick, however, has uncovered a wide array of unpublished material on Rodes to sketch him in fresh perspective. Another essay considers the life and career of Colonel R. Welby Carter-a rogue who was cashiered by a court martial after the Battle of Tom's Brook-a character quite different from Rodes. Krick also examines Maxcy Gregg in the only article written on this politician-general.

The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy gleams with Krick's usual superior research, skilled writing, and sound analysis and sheds new light on one of the most popular Civil War subjects. It is sure to become an integral part of the historiography of the Army of Northern Virginia.

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Anti-Longstreet Cabal.......2007-07-29

Although this book has a number of good points, like the section on Jackson, this is really just another rant about Longstreet by the king of the anti-Longstreet cabal. Robert Krick is an excellent writer, but he has over the years unjustly presented Longstreet as the "loose cannon" of the South. Krick has made a living preaching the gospel of Longstreet . . . a severely flawed man with and equaly flawed ego, and he probably thinks it's too late to back down now. In spite of the multitude of new books and new evidence establishing Longstreet as one of the best generals in the Southern states during the Civil War, Krick continues his uneven and vitrolic diatribe about one of the South's greatest generals. He's like the energizer bunny . . . he just keeps on and on . . . repeating variations of the lies established so long ago by the Lee Cult conspirators. He doesn't seem to be able to write anything without trying to put the boot to Longstreet. I guess Lee, Johnston, Grant, and a host of others got it all wrong about Longstreet being a "capital soldier". Robert Krick is one of a group of rapidly shrinking notable historians who---dispite the evidence---have blindly painted themselves into a niffty little historical "catch-22". They're d***d if they say they had it all wrong... and they'll be d***d if they don't. But, since they've made a long living bashing Longstreet, don't expect any sudden confessions. Too bad though. What a waste. He's a great writer.
Metaphorically speaking, Krick and other historians of similiar ilk, are "cherry pickers". They use individual cases or data that seem to confirm their position, while ignoring a significant number of related cases or data that contradict that position. They belong to a class of anti-apologists or a "cabal" whose common goal is to bash Longstreet as often and as hard as they can.
A true historian is a neutral one. He presents the facts in an unbiased manner. He doesn't deal in half-truths---statements that may be partly true or even totally true, but represent only part of the whole truth. The intent of the these "anti-apologists" is to blame, not educate. It's to entertain, not illuminate. Having said all this, I will leave you with the following quote by one of the greatest historians of all time.

"It is the first and fundamental law of history
that it should neither dare to say anything that is false,
nor fear to say anything that is true, nor give any just
suspicion of favor or dissatisfaction."

Cicero

Slices of Civil War Life and Death!.......2006-11-14

Award-winning author Robert Krick has written a number of well-received books on the Civil War. Civil War enthusiasts should enjoy this collection of 10 Krick essays published by the Lousiana State University Press.

By and large, the essays deal with various aspects of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The opening essay is an exhaustive account of Stonewall Jackson's wounding and death. Wonderfully researched and well written, it's a marvelous opener to the book. Other essays deal with the ever-controversial James Longstreet, the death of General Robert Rodes, the fiery secessionist General Maxcy Gregg, Jubal Early's cavalry troubles in 1864, good & bad books on the Confederacy, locating & using Confederate army records, etc.

I enjoyed Krick's book tremendously. His essays are interesting, informative, and thought-provoking. Civil War enthusiasts will want to pick up this book. It provides not only interesting reading but much food for thought not to mention heated arguments over how good or bad certain Civil War generals really were!

Good.......2006-04-15

Well, I myself couldn't quite understand what the previous reviewer was even saying, but I found this book to be rather good.

Obviously, some of the more interesting essays are those about Longstreet. The one conserning Knoxville I don't think is really all that controversial, because most Longstreet apologist books cover the total bungle in a few sentences or find some amusing way of justifying the monumental failure it was. (supplies! Ha!)

To get to the most controversial essay, about Getysberg. Well, I personally didn't see anything particularly glaringly wrong about it. I know enough to know that the author isn't merely making stuff up, Krick is not some amatuer historian, and most of his statements ring fairly true. I'm not really sure what the previous reviewer was trying to say about the third day, the writing was a little incomprehensible, but I have seen some recent research suggesting that Longstreet's real failure came on the evening of the second day into the third. (a not from some Lee glorifier)

I can't say that I remember anyone being written off as a Longstreet apologist, but whatever fits, eh? And to point out something the previous reviewer failed to notice, Krick uses some statments from soldiers who had no real axe to grind, such as Wilcox, who critisized the general in private letters, with no hidden agenda. Krick points out he had NO hidden agenda, because he wrote very little and what Krick took were from private letters! Perhaps the most amusing statement from previous reviews is that Krick's sources have been debunked as pre-meditated smear--yeah, by Longstreet apologists no doubt, whose list of great generals begins with Longstreet. After all, there is at the very least one that is no pre-meditated smear--it was private correspondance! For pete's sake, let's be rational human beings here. And don't go jumping on me as some sort of Lost Cause Lee glorifier, because I think Longstreet was a better general than Lee--but that does not make him god almighty, the all great, all powerful military genius. He most certaily was not.

And another thing to keep in mind when evaluating some of these statements. There is good reason not to take Longstreet at his word, because he simply was a notorious blame-shifter. After totally bungling the battle of Seven Pines (and I mean total), he proceeded to place the blame on others, actually emerging with a better reputation, when his actions should have gotten him removed from command. (As pointed out by Stephen W. Sears, a very level-headed historian. Perhaps some of the critisizers of Longstreet have hidden agendas--but so does the man himself. I'd say Longstreet is probably just as guilty of any pre-meditated smear as any of those evil Longstreet bashers and Lost Causers. I am not interested in either, really, but Longstreet simply does not hold up under scrutiny. And really, a cool look at the facts do not make him to be totally incompetant, but hardly what he and others claim he was. He was, really, basically mediocre, and Krick does a good job of showing why. The essay is certainly not favorable to Longstreet, but to write it off simply because of that,(and when you get down to it, there's really no other rational reason--complain all you want about smear-sources, that doesn't make it a valid complaint. Both sides here are way too polarized to really be able to say such a thing) well, it makes little sense. I guess maybe you could read it with some work polarized in the other direction. Although in reality most of them are really the poorly researched histories showing only one side. It just happens to be the other and is therefore good.

Personally, I don't care about Lee's memory, because he is remember in exponentially better than he deserves, but that doesn't make Krick wrong about Longstreet.

Anyway, overall the book is really quite good. And to call Krick "no historian"...just laughable!

WELL -RESEARCHED,NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-10-26

This book is hardly well researched and anyone with any common sense should be able to tell .For he uses the well used ploy of ignoring what doesn't fit his rather (warped point of view) but using what dose. (Pure propaganda, in this case of the lost cause and to use one of the scribblers own words APPOLOGIST). Just one example is on page 76/77 where he wrights, Longstreet's Demeanor on July 3 affecting the major assault on that day is another subject and BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS ESSAY!!, Why could that be because you would be forced to write something positive about longstreet because he was clearly correct about That stupid assault on July 3. But I find it amusing that many things that happened well before and after dose have somehow have scope, an example of one is Longstreet in the wilderness in 1864 (page 80/81). Quite simply this is just a verbal assault.

A second point is that whenever he includes a positive statement made by a person that was there he is instantly a Longstreet apologist. But he willing uses many GEN McLaws statements as gospel to back up his theory without any scrutiny at all; When McLaws clearly had an agenda in anything he said about longstreet.

This man is no historian and you should not waste your money on it.

If Krick Says it...It Must Be a Lie..........2005-08-23

I am dumbfounded that anyone exists that believes these essays are well-researched and informative. The sources that Mr. Krick uses to found his impression of General Longstreet have been proven to be absolutely false and a premeditated smear campaign to ruin the man who was Second-in-Command of the Army of Northern Virginia and RANKED Gen. Jackson. Pure Lost Cause mythology. I can't imagine what would possess a man to slander a person he never met so badly. Very unprofessional and disrespectful to Robert E. Lee's memory too. Readers: do not waste your money on this. It is BADLY researched and unsubstanciated nonsense.

The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief ... An article from: Journal of Southern History

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The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief ... An article from: Journal of Southern History
Otho C. Campbell
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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Title: The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Otho C. Campbell
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 3 Page: 715(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire: The Ford Lectures and Other Essays
John Gallagher
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This book is a follow-up to the introductory text written by the same authors. The primary emphasis on this book is linear and nonlinear partial differential equations with particular concentration on the equations of viscous fluid motion. Each chapter describes a particular application of the finite element method and illustrates the concepts through example problems. A comprehensive appendix lists computer codes for 2-D fluid flow and two 3-D transient codes.

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