Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
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  • Italy as the Marriage of History, Architecture, Gardens, Design
Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
Edmund Howard
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ASIN: 0312148119

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For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the world. This book focuses on the most characteristic examples of the Italian genius, from lavish piazzas and magnificent fountains to Palladian villas and flamboyant Baroque churches.Within these pages, author Edmund Howard leads readers on a fascinating tour of Italy's most glorious landscapes and architecture. He explores a variety of homes and residences, form a simple farmhouse in Tuscany to majestic town palaces. Also on display here are the lush horticulture and exuberant statuary of Italy's most beautiful gardens. Readers will experience the wealth of striking decoration found in Renaissance facades, wrought-iron gates and balconies, Byzantine mosaics, and sumptuous frescoes.With three hundred specially commissioned photographs and a series of evocative essays, this book is both a fascinating study of Italy's many treasures as well as an invaluable sourcebook of visual ideas.

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5 out of 5 stars Italy as the Marriage of History, Architecture, Gardens, Design.......2006-01-23

ITALIA: THE ART OF LIVING ITALIAN STYLE is a title that may be misleading. This is not a 'decorator's source book' (though it certainly is an indispensable resource of information for any designer of interiors or exteriors!): this is a book rich in the Italian ambience that marries a respect of history in all forms while providing some of the finest photographs of a wide vista of Italian towns and gardens and homes. It is unique in its approach and a most rewarding read as well as a picture tour through Italy.

Edmund Howard utilizes the gifts of photographer Oliver Benn in partnering this leisurely journey through all parts of Italy.The writing and the visuals are equal in quality and when paired as they are here they are inimitable. Howard divides the book into chapters: 'Towns and Landscapes' surveys the various regions from the north (Venice) through Tuscany to the south with Rome and Sicily; 'Architecture' details the forms or buildings as they have developed through centuries; 'Interiors' span the humble with the grand; 'Gardens' are explored in all varieties. Then Howard and Benn swoop down on a chapter titled 'Details': here Doors and Windows, Frescoes, Fountains, Colors, Stonework, and Mosaics are scrutinized with word and image, a point where the reader gains more information about the Italian style than in any other source.

Realizing that the book will seduce many to visit the land of all this beauty, the book closes with a 'Visitor's Guide' which succinctly outlines the most interesting places to see in all of the Italian and Sicilian towns, villages and cities surveyed in this book. This is a photographic feast and a completely entertaining and readable as well as informative book. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06
Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
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    Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
    Oliver; Howard, Edmund Benn
    Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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    ASIN: B000OHCS18
    Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
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      Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style
      Edmund Howard
      Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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      ASIN: B000OT3L6C

      Personal Viewpoints: Thoughts About Paintings Conservation
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        Duck Enough to Fly
        Jim Wright , and Doug Goodell
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        5 out of 5 stars Informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box.......2005-11-11

        The collaborative effort of Jim Wright, Jerry Barrack, Doug Goodell, Duck Enough To Fly combines an informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box and taking their first great leap of faith. Duck Enough To Fly offers a simple and inspirational message about facing life's challenges and uncertainties, while emphasizing the importance of protecting wood ducks and their habitats. Indeed, these beautiful ducks almost became extinct a century ago and were only saved by strong conservation efforts. Duck Enough To Fly is informative, entertaining, inspiring, and enthusiastically recommended reading for children, nature lovers, wildlife enthusiasts, and anyone else who has ever felt a sense of wonder watching wild ducks in flight.

        5 out of 5 stars Informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box.......2005-11-11

        The collaborative effort of Jim Wright, Jerry Barrack, Doug Goodell, Duck Enough To Fly combines an informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box and taking their first great leap of faith. Duck Enough To Fly offers a simple and inspirational message about facing life's challenges and uncertainties, while emphasizing the importance of protecting wood ducks and their habitats. Indeed, these beautiful ducks almost became extinct a century ago and were only saved by strong conservation efforts. Duck Enough To Fly is informative, entertaining, inspiring, and enthusiastically recommended reading for children, nature lovers, wildlife enthusiasts, and anyone else who has ever felt a sense of wonder watching wild ducks in flight.

        5 out of 5 stars Informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box.......2005-11-11

        The collaborative effort of Jim Wright, Jerry Barrack, Doug Goodell, Duck Enough To Fly combines an informative text with superb color photography of baby wood ducks leaving their nesting box and taking their first great leap of faith. Duck Enough To Fly offers a simple and inspirational message about facing life's challenges and uncertainties, while emphasizing the importance of protecting wood ducks and their habitats. Indeed, these beautiful ducks almost became extinct a century ago and were only saved by strong conservation efforts. Duck Enough To Fly is informative, entertaining, inspiring, and enthusiastically recommended reading for children, nature lovers, wildlife enthusiasts, and anyone else who has ever felt a sense of wonder watching wild ducks in flight.

        Cinema for Russian Conversation: Volume 2
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          Mara Kashper , Olga Kagan , and Yuliya Morozova
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          Each of this two-volume series presents seven films in historical order. Each chapter focuses on one film and includes assignments ranging from Intermediate to Advanced Plus proficiency according to the ACTFL guidelines. The modular structure allows instructors to select the films according to the students’ interests and course goals, as textbooks or as supplemental materials for classes at various levels. While the books’ main purpose is to development conversation skills, each chapter includes texts for reading comprehension and exercises that focus on the acquisition of written skills and grammatical accuracy. For departments of Russian offering courses in Russian language and conversation at the Intermediate to Advanced level, or survey of Russian cinema in Russian.
          Mara Volume 2 (Eros 36)
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          • The bare-foot beauty is back
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          4 out of 5 stars The bare-foot beauty is back.......2007-04-11

          Bare of foot, top, and pretty much every thing else at every chance she gets. Mara is a mystic in training, with a mystic's need to be always in contact with the earth, and with a personal aversion to clothing. This story starts in a shaman's world-beyond, filled with dreamlike jumps from one stream of thought to another. The first jump lands her, starkers, among the evil Sadeians. After her previous encounter with them, they're eager to impose degrading revenge on her, bringing us to the first (and by no means last) scene of whips and chains.

          There's actually a lot more of that here in volume 2 (see Mara Of The Celts (Eros Graphic Novel Series, No. 17)), in the many and fast shifts of scene, and a lot less of the first volume's couplings and single activity. This is fully up to the standard of the first volume, though. There's plenty of magical adventure, and Mara gives us a lot of Mara to look at. Come to think of it, so do most of the other female characters. (Is there a reason for men to be so much slower in shucking their shirts?) And, in the end, Mara achieves her goal: she casts off the evil enchantment that had imprisoned the mind of her equally beautiful but better-dressed sister.

          It's good fun for grownups. Despite pervasive nudity and some amount of SM and bondage, it's much more of a fantasy story and less of an "organ recital" than other adult comics. If you like Thorne's Lann and Ghita, give it a shot.

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          PARABOLA Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning - THE SHADOW Summer (May) 1997 (Volume XXII, Number 2)
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                              Looking Forward to Christmas: Family Devotions for the Season
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                                Jon Farrar
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                                Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe
                                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                • Here Is Your War: Story of G. I. Joe
                                • Great First Hand Account of the African Campaign
                                Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe
                                Ernie Pyle
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                                A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle’s story of the soldiers’ first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America—ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns—learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor. It’s all here—the suspenseful landing at Oran; the risks taken daily by fighter and bomber pilots; grim, unrelenting combat in the desert and mountains of Tunisia; a ferocious tank battle that ended in defeat for the inexperienced Americans; and the final victory at Tunis. Pyle’s keen observations relate the full story of ordinary G.I.s caught up in extraordinary times.

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                                5 out of 5 stars Here Is Your War: Story of G. I. Joe.......2005-09-20

                                A fascintating read. This book gets you right into the actual experiences faced by our soldiers. It is about feelings, conditions, etc.

                                5 out of 5 stars Great First Hand Account of the African Campaign.......2005-06-04

                                This book is an edited compilation of Ernie Pyles' dispatches during the North African Campaign of World War Two (each chapter was originally two or three columns and were woven together to make the story flow better). It describes the sea voyage from England, the landing in Algiers, and the drive across North Africa, ending with the German retreat and surrender.

                                Pyle gives a great accounting of all of the different types of people that compile a war effort - the nurses, cooks, mechanics, pilots, and of course the infantry. He tends to stay away from the brass and talk with the soldiers. The style of writing is very quaint - when ever a soldier is introduced in a story, Pyle gives his/her hometowm and often his/her address as well. The writing flows surprisingly well - and I say surprisingly because if one just looks at the text, consisting of short sentences and paragraphs, it would give the illusion of being choppy. It is infact beautifully written from a humanistic stand point.

                                Pyle doesn't gloss over the horrors of war, his own fear, the hardships or the set backs. He talks about the mistakes we made in the administration of captured Algiers, and how we were defeated in the initial combat against the Germans.

                                The reason why Pyle was/is so famous is he brings to life all of the warm anectodes that make life in a combat zone bearable - the unselfish acts of courage and kindness - as well as the sense of loss when a friend will no longer be with us. That was the true beauty of Pyle's work.

                                Again, this is a fantastic book for anyone seeking to learn who were the men and women that fought WWII and what life was like for them.
                                Here Is Your War
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                                5 out of 5 stars The feel of war.......2006-08-23

                                War is more than just battles, bullets, fighting and killing. It's about soldiers who go for weeks without bathing, nor even taking their socks off. It's about simple delights such as finding a nice foxhole without having to dig it yourself, or a fellow soldier sharing his fresh eggs for breakfast. It's about making friends quickly and deeply, then never seeing them again.

                                At least this is the picture of war painted by correspondent Ernie Pyle in "Here is Your War: The Story of G.I. Joe." This fascinating book is a compilation of Pyle's newspaper dispatches from 1942-43 when he accompanied U.S. soldiers fighting in Algerian and Tunisia, and told their stories to the folks "back home."

                                Pyle is a masterful journalist; any reporter could learn from his careful attention to detail. Every page in "Here is Your War" is filled with stories and anecdotes that are brought alive by his colorful and nuanced observations.

                                He tell us, for example:

                                * Infantry constantly watched the sky; nothing scared them more than strafing planes.
                                * A jeep going fast makes a humming noise that sounds distressingly like an incoming enemy fighter.
                                * The less a soldier washed the less he was bothered by insects.
                                * Repair crews improvised methods to keep planes flying that would have frightened the plane's makers
                                * A tired soldier -- sometimes they would go for two or three days without a break -- could sleep right through an artillery shelling.
                                * In war, "camouflage became second nature. Near the front no one ever parked a jeep without putting it under a tree. If there were no trees, we left it on the shady side of a building or wall. As we neared the front we folded our windshield down over the hood and slipped a canvas cover over it so it wouldn't glint and attract a pilot's eye."

                                Along with such details, Pyle introduces us to many dozens of the soldiers. Most of these are ordinary men who were living ordinary lives as doctors, carpenters, furniture movers, or some such occupation before the war. Now suddenly they're off on the biggest adventures of their lives. For each man, Pyle find a story or detail that makes him unique, then quickly moves on. There are no continuing characters in the book, other than the author himself, but that's the nature of war, Pyle explains:

                                "In wartime people leave without saying good-bye -- a fellow would be gone for three or four days before we realized his absence. It was no use to inquire. We just accepted it, and months later we were likely to be pumping his hand in some other foreign country. Or maybe we would never see him again. There was no telling."

                                A big strength of this book is that Pyle is just plain likeable. He's down-to-earth, self-deprecating and admittedly human. I especially liked when he confessed that he was too scared to go along with a bomber crew on a dangerous mission.

                                The book is filled with funny and offbeat anecdotes, and you'll no doubt gets some laughs from the book. But this is still war, and Pyle acknowledges that as the fighting goes on, it changes the men: "The most vivid change was the casual and workshop manner in which they talked about killing. They made the psychological transition from their normal belief that taking human life was sinful, over to a new professional outlook where killing was a craft no longer was there anyting morally wrong about killing. In fact, it was an admirable thing."

                                Despite the hardships and the dangers, Pyle finds a generally upbeat tone among the American soldiers. Sure, they might be homesick and hungry for a comfortable bed and Mom's cooking, but no one seems to question the war itself. The fact that that there's a clear goal and that the soldiers can see progress being made clearly helps their morale.






                                5 out of 5 stars A beautifully written book which pulls no punches.......2005-12-28

                                Ernie Pyle was one of the finest war reporters of his generation and this book shows us why. Pyle writes simply and describes what he saw, day in, day out, never exaggerating, never descending into hyperbole. A tank drives up, the commander laughing about something, and then heads into combat. In the next line Pyle tells us the crew died half an hour later, using curiously dispassionate yet effective language to do so. This is an account of the U.S. combat campaign in North Africa, the first major European theatre conflict that American troops took part in. Pyle pulls no punches and describes the endless problems the troops came up against thanks to what he saw as excessive bureaucracy. Nor does he hide unpleasant facts -- he correctly describes the Battle of Kasserine Pass as a major defeat for the fledgling troops but goes on to say they'll do better the next time. This is a wonderful book and I cannot recommend it too highly.

                                5 out of 5 stars A Story By The Greatest War Correspondent Of World War Two.......2003-09-23

                                As a combat veteran, I have always admired Ernie Pyle. He stood head and shoulders above other reporters in World War Two. He was in the thick of battles, shoulder to shoulder with the troops. More than that, he saw war through the eyes of individual soldiers. He shows us their human side while they do a dirty job, and he gives them dignity that they richly deserve. If you haven't been in combat, you haven't a clue as to what it is like, but Ernie Pyle's words come closer to a realistic picture of the many facets of war than anything else I have read. Here Is Your War begins on a ship carrying inexperienced, American troops to the invasion of North Africa in November, 1942. Through Pyle's eyes, we follow their landing at Oran, their pounding and defeats by the Germans as they struggle eastward, the bitter battles in Tunisia, and final victory in the Spring of 1943. If you are in combat long enough, you will die, and it happened to Ernie Pyle on Okinawa in the Spring of 1945. But he left us memorable words about war, such as those in this book. It is well worth reading.

                                3 out of 5 stars The Feel of Americans Fighting in WW II.......2000-06-05

                                I've been reading Pyle's "Here is Your War," his accounts from the North African Campaign. It is easy to see why Pyle was beloved, not just by the soldiers (especially the infantrymen), but by the folks at home too. Pyle loved these guys and they loved him. He was "embedded" with them for years. He and they hated the job they had to do, and they were grimly determined that they were not going home until they had done it. Ernie never did get home--he is still out there, still telling his stories, still helping us feel why his guys and his words are still important.

                                Pyle was not shy in telling readers that he was never big on going on "heroic" missions just so he could write about them. He would pass on opportunities to stick his neck way out. It is interesting and ironic that Ernest Hemingway, another war correspondent, who sought any opportunity to make a hero out of himself, frequently and enviously mentions Pyle, but Pyle never mentions Hemingway. When they were both in Paris in 1944 at the Liberation, Pyle was with the GIs, Hemingway was in the Ritz Bar with the generals.

                                Pyle was always ready to go anyhwere with the troops, and if that meant being shot at, he just hung on with the rest of the fellows. Pyle made it clear to the readers that the real heroism was being there and sticking it out, not the particular feats of bravery that garnered the headlines and the medals. He showed all the guys (and the gals; Pyle's second love were the ladies in the uniforms) were heroes and he told the folks at home why.

                                There are never any "minor combat actions" for the lads and lasses under fire, and Pyle gives the feeling of that "pucker factor," when the enemy is shooting, strafing, and shelling. But he also conveys a deeper feeling that is largely missing from combat today. In the 1940s, Americans went to war knowing not just that they or their friends might die, but that our side could lose the whole war. Today, the individual American soldier knows he or she might have a "bad day," but we are all pretty sure we know who's side is going to win. In 1942 or 1943, the fate of the world was riding on those young boys Ernie Pyle loved so deeply. What is beautiful is that Ernie never had to write anything profound about why these guys were out there doing the fighting. He just told their personal stories in a way that told the whole story for all of us.

                                I would recommend any of Pyle's books, to be read along with a copy of the late Bill Mauldin's "Up Front," his WW II cartoons of Willie and Joe. Mauldin drew cartoon versions of the GI infantrymen that Pyle loved the most. Pyle and Mauldin are the very best way I know to introduce a young person to the Americans in World War II. Pyle and Mauldin are the words and the pictures that provide the feel, of the life and the death, the humor and sadness, the guts and the fear and the bravery, of this Greatest Generation of Americans at war. There were no two journalists as loved by combat soldiers. Without the feel that only they convey it is very hard to give the history of WW II much real human meaning.

                                Colonel (ret.) Frank Stech, PhD USAR

                                5 out of 5 stars A vision of the past.......1997-03-06

                                Ernie Pyle, probably the greatest journalist who ever lived, presents his best work from the American campaign in North Africa. Through Ernie's words, we see how life was like in WWII for the average soldier. Ernie never cared for raving on about generals and admirals -- just the average "Joe." His books read like the greatest screenplays. And yet they are not fiction. They are real stories, memoirs, recollections, biographies of hundreds of soldiers. His book is a living, breathing echoe of America's blood and tears in World war II. A must for any journalist, journalism student or anyone interested in World War II and military history
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