Japan Country Living: Spirit Tradition

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One tends to forget the simplicity and beauty of the traditional way of Japanese life, when meals came direct from the land or sea, when clothes were made at home after the day's labors were done, and when utensils and even homes were crafted from materials that were close at hand.

Japan Country Living: Spirit, Tradition, Style is the perfect antidote to city living--whether the city is Tokyo, New York, or anywhere in between. With more than 450 color photos, this book serves as a visual monument to a disappearing way of life and as a resource for those wanting to capture the flavor of Japan at its best. Author Amy Sylvester Katoh and photographer Shin Kimura provide plenty of fodder for décor daydreams, showcasing antique textiles and ceramics; examples of lighting; indoor and outdoor baths; the use of natural materials such as straw, wood, and stone; glorious food arrangements; and even a few recipes in this beautifully produced volume. You probably don't want a thatched roof or straw mats for your home, but be warned: after you've added a soft paper lantern, a wooden rack for displaying antique bowls, or a gleaming tansu chest, you may not be able to stop. --Jhana Bach

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From Japanese antiques to home and garden design, Japan Country Living is a delightful introduction to rural tradition and a decorating guide for art and furniture lovers. In over four hundred full-color photographs of quaint country homes, lush gardens, simple decorations, and traditional dishes and recipes, Japan Country Living presents the traditional lifestyle of the Japanese countryside and describes how elements can be used in present-day urban living. Readers can visit charming Japanese country homes and gardens and discover the practical and beautiful way of life that has been handed down from generation to generation.

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Beautiful Phogography.......2005-08-20

Spectacular photographs serve to illustrate a view of Japan that is far different from the bustling cities. This represents three things to me:

First is the fact that until recently Japan was a rural rountry. People lived a farming, fishing existance.

Second, the sense of using natural surfaces: wood, fabric, thatch and some rudamentory manufactured items: paper, pottery, cast iron makes for a room appearance that we could all strive to find.

Third, as with any architecture book, the ideas of style, decoration, and utility in a small space give one ideas that may well be applicable in housing designs that we may be considering.

These houses have a utility and a simplicity that is all their own. It is great to see what they have done with simple items and a rather small amount of money. These are not the million dollar homes often seen in architecture books, these are lived in.

Beautiful book.

My vacation photos turned out better.......2003-02-21

Sigh, disappointed: poorly composed, lousy photos inside the covers make this book visually un-stunning. Houses and vignettes looked dull, close, shabby, untidy, underexposed, overshadowed, and only very rarely triggered a moment of interest. I felt that I've seen better Japanese country design books and magazine layouts, and I was truly disappointed. Feh.

A MUST for Japanophiles.......1999-06-14

This is an amazing book, as are all by Amy Katoh. I was lucky enough to live in Tokyo two doors away from her store, and visited it at LEAST weekly.

She specializes in simple but beautiful "country craftsmanship," as opposed to the opulent, such as dress kimino, and such.

Her knowledge of Japanese culture and her sensitivity has even awakened the appeciation of Japanese citizens who had previously taken their material culture for granted.

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Japan Country Living: Spirit, Tradition, Style.
Amy Sylester & Shin Kimura Katoh
Manufacturer: Charles E. Tuttle
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K5WAU8

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Japan Country Living Spirit Tradition Style
Katoh Amy Sylvester
Manufacturer: Charles E Tuttle Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LBKWNS

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Images of the sun, comet, Saturn, crescent moon, the Big Dipper, and 3 more. Hang in window for stained glass effects.

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I expected more.......2003-02-13

This dover little activity book isn't as lovely as it could be. Extremely plain designs, and the only planets shown are Saturn and Earth. Half the pictures are of stars, and they're boring, plain. I could draw this just as good as they do, and I am no kind of an artist. Definitely not of the same quality as other stained glass coloring books.

A fun little book!.......2002-10-31

This is a small book with black and white images printed on "special paper that allows the light to shine through." Basically you color the pictures and hang them on a window. The book is about 4"x6" and has 8 images - the Big Dipper, Saturn, Star, Group of Stars, Crescent Moon and Stars, Comet, Earth and the Sun.

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* This unique book covers the latest release of Final Cut Pro, Apple's professional digital video editor
* Presents 50 powerful but easy effects that creative professionals and amateurs alike can achieve almost instantly
* In-depth explanations and instructions allow readers to apply the techniques easily to their own videos
* Includes masking techniques, creative use of colors and special effects, professional titling and rolling credit techniques, film-grain simulations, and more
* CD-ROM contains all the video clips from the book, tryouts, and valuable utilities
The 50 Fast series shows readers how to get amazing, cutting-edge results with today's leading graphics, Web design, and digital video software. Each lavishly illustrated book delivers 50 step-by-step tricks of the trade that are easy to learn and impressive to look at, along with a CD-ROM with before-and-after examples and tryout software.

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Final Cut Pro 3.......2005-09-24

This book is good for the beginer who does not know much about Final Cut Pro 3.

Save your money!.......2003-04-29

This book is only for the most beginning FCP user, or possibly for kids. Poorly written, incredibly basic, redundant (multiple chapters on how to create essentially the same effects), and accompanied by a poorly designed CD-ROM (mislabled clips, etc.). You would do well to buy ANY other book on FCP.

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Enjoy an original full-color scene inspired by favorite "Get Fuzzy" strip every month in this calendar in which Rob, Satchel, and Bucky appear in all their strange but appealing glory.

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Awesome..........2004-08-22

Get Fuzzy is an awesome comic strip. To enjoy this calendar you should know the basic background of the characters. It's printed in vivid bright colors. I use it everyday. Each week you flip the page to one comic strip and one date strip. It's a blast to read the new ones. When the tech's sit down at my desk to fix my computer they like to flip through it. Bucky, Rob and Satchel are too funny!

Arabic Nonsense!.......2004-04-22

I was unfamiliar with Get Fuzzy 'til somebody gave this calendar to me as an April Fools joke. I can't believe how bad this strip is. At least we now see Bloom County returning in the Sunday comics to remind us of how funny strips used to be.

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Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman
Joyce W. Warren
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0813517648

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Fanny Fern An Independent Woman
Joyce W. Warren
Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUNRNY

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Julian Robertson is one of the most successful and well-known hedge fund managers of our time. For nearly twenty years his infamous fund--Tiger Management--was the talk of the town, routinely delivering double-digit performance. This biography will explore this legendary fund manager's role in the development and popularity of hedge funds, examine his investment methodology and strategy, and look at the growth of his fund and his 'Tigers'--individuals who have gone on to great success themselves.
* Includes candid interviews of Robertson, his colleagues, and his peers
* Uncovers the trading strategies and investment style of a legendary fund manager
* Offers a rare glimpse inside the personal world of Julian Robertson
READERSHIP: Those with any interest in or knowledge of hedge funds, business readers, investment professionals.
Daniel A. Strachman is Managing Director of Answers Company, a New York-based money management firm that offers investment management services to individuals and institutions. He has contributed many articles on investment management and strategies to publications including the New York Post and the Financial Times and is also the author of Getting Started in Hedge Funds (Wiley 2000).
Also available by Daniel Strachman, Getting Started in Hedge Funds, 0471316962 Paper.
EAN - 9780471323631
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PRAISE FOR Julian Robertson "Julian Robertson may be the most important person to ever manage money. Daniel Strachman has captured Robertson¿s impact on the money management industry in this excellent and insightful book. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the way money is truly managed." ¿Michael Cacace Fortune magazine "Daniel Strachman has written an important book about one of the most fascinating people to run a hedge fund. The book reveals how Julian Robertson built the Tiger organization from a single fund with $8 million in assets under management to a fund complex with more than $20 billion in assets under management. Throughout its pages, the book gives readers real insight into this unique man and his business and how the hedge fund industry has evolved over the last fifty years." ¿Jack Gaine, President Managed Funds Association "This is a portrait of one of America¿s most diligent and successful money managers¿one who had the foresight and courage to walk

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Julian Robertson's record.......2007-10-10

I had the pleasure of working for Tiger Management for a few years. It was thrilling. Whether or not the book reflects it, Mr. Robertson was an investment genius.

Mr. Robertson was part of the value investing community. He invested in things with value, not hype. The fund was criticized for not keeping up with the Internet bubble. Mr. Robertson could not understand why the Internet start-ups were valued so high. They had no fundamental value and could not justify their price tag. So rather than invest in hype, he closed the fund.

A year later, the Internet stock bubble collapsed, and Mr. Robertson was right.

Still a valuable book.......2007-05-22

A number of reviewers here on Amazon called this book by Strachman a hagiography on Robertson, so my expectations for the book were not high. That said, I find I am generally able to glean something from almost any book--and for some time I have been meaning to pick up a biography about Robertson, so I picked up the book anyway. Yes, it could have been better. A stronger editor would have pared back some of Strachman's writing excesses (those excesses, for the most part, are exaggerated by some of the reviewers here), but Strachman is more critical of Robertson than some of the reviews here would have led me to believe. Strachman seems to have had good access to both Robertson and the "Tiger Cubs" (former employees of the Tiger)--but I highly suspect that the cost of this access was a promise to show Robertson at least portions of the manuscript. In many places the book feels like a give and take between Strachman wanting to maintain some objectivity (various criticisms of Robertson DO make themselves into the book), followed by passages that almost seem to be direct rebuttals worked in from Robertson himself. That obviously detracts from the work overall, but a fair amount of the book is still valuable because you still get some insight into Robertson's thinking on several macro trades. (The best chapter is "Dawn of a New Era," which describes how Robertson and Tiger thought about the interplay between the U.S. and Japanese economies/markets during the late 1980s. While Strachman's discussion obviously can't capture the insights you can glean from a book like Soros' Alchemy of Finance--more or less lifted directly from Soros' own trading diaries--more of this would have made the book even stronger.) My final criticism is that I wish Strachman had spent more time on Robertson's formative years and development as a financial professional, rather than the disproportionate amount of time he spends on Robertson's charity work in the chapter "Noblesse Oblige" (which does stray dangerously into hagiography). Until a better profile comes along, this book is still worth a read, especially since there are not exactly a lot of other books chronicling Robertson's life.

Easily the worst book I have ever read.......2006-11-16

I am not kidding. A drunk retarded 3rd grader could have written a better book. If you like poor editing of terrible writing that introduces absolutely nothing new about Robertson or Tiger, then this book is for you. Otherwise just read some old articles and save a couple hours and 20 bucks. The only reason it got one star is that Amazon does not allow a reviewer to give negative stars, of which Strachman certainly has earned many for this effort (or lack thereof).

Dont waste your time.......2006-06-29

Horribly written. No sequence or point. I can't imagine Robertson gave the author more than 20 minutes of access and didnt answer a real question. Contradictions abound.
Save yourself time and money. One of the worst books I've read in a while.

Trash.......2005-09-17

A superficial, mind-numbingly stupid love song to the controversial fund manager who up-ended in early 2000. Every mistake justified or ignored, every act of hubris minimized. Absolute garbage that must surely go down in history as one of the worst business books of recent years.

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A classic in the field

Kiss Daddy Goodnight
Louise Armstrong
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A classic in the field.......2003-04-17

This was the first mainstream U.S. book to address the issue of incest. It's highly accessible but deeply disturbing, filled with tragic, individual stories of assaults, mostly by fathers and perpetrated upon daughters. Armstrong did her homework. I got to know her in New York in the late 70s through a mutual friend, and she was a warm, intelligent, and compassionate woman. I wish I could find her today to let her know how my own story has ended up. But anyway, read this book if you are a survivor who needs to know you're not alone, a perpetrator who is on the road to recovery (though there is never 100% recovery for them, and I would not trust one completely with anyone under the age of 16), or just someone interested in this field of criminal psychology from a layman's perspective.

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Both enjoyable and difficult

Kiss Daddy Goodnight: Ten Years Later
Armstrong
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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Both enjoyable and difficult.......1999-07-25

Kiss Daddy Goodnight offers a clear picture of incest and sexual abuse. There are autobiographical accounts that tug on the heart strings. This book also brings hope and healing. One of the best autobiographies of incest I have read.

Kiss Daddy, Goodnight. Aussprache über Inzest.

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Kiss Daddy, Goodnight. Aussprache über Inzest.
Louise Armstrong
Manufacturer: Suhrkamp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Broke new ground

Kiss Daddy Goodnight

Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9993196959

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Broke new ground.......2003-11-23

This book broke open the subject of incest and incest in combination with other forms of physical and mental abuse. At the time of its first printing, it was the only mass-market information available. It is well written and comprehensively researched.

Although some of the statistics will be dated by now, I would imagine that the basic material is still as valid today as it was back then.

I was also fascinated to see some of the commonalities between the adult survivors. Many of the consequences of incest could be tracked with a fair amount of accuracy.

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FABULOUS BOOK!.......2000-11-25

This is a fabulous book! Incredibly good! Buy this book!

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Buckle up and get ready for a wild ride.......1999-09-29

Bill Band has managed to capture the essence of a bygone era and make it live for those of us who weren't there. An exciting read.

A true story told by a real American hero.......1999-07-22

Bill Band has told this story in a manner in which the reader understands what went on in this little understood albiet important theater and why it happened that way. It is a personal account which is engaging and well told. I'll bet Mr Band has more stories to tell .. and I hope he does.

Live with the Flying Tigers.......1999-07-20

This story takes you back to a time when the world was a much larger place. Men and machines were the means to accomplish great deeds. Computers did not tell you how and when to do everything. Men actually flew by the seat of their pants and when they made a mistake they were quite often the only one's who ever knew. Laugh at the funny side of combat and feel the heat of tears when a friend is lost. Don't miss this wonderful story.

Fascinating autobiography.......1999-07-19

A colorful, engrossing story where real life is far more interesting than fiction as the author helps us relive his exploits. For war/aviation buffs, an adventure not to be missed.

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"Opening Scripture provides a thorough and original account of ministerial and lay strategies for interpreting Scripture in the Massachusetts Bay. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast literature and history of the period, Lisa Gordis moves deftly through discussions of major figures and events. This is a significant intervention in the study of Puritan New England."—Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

What role did the Bible really play in Puritan New England? Many have treated it as a blunt instrument used to cudgel dissenters into submission, but Lisa M. Gordis reveals instead that Puritan readings of the Bible showed great complexity and literary sophistication—so much complexity, in fact, that controversies over biblical interpretation threatened to tear Puritan society apart.

Drawing on Puritan preaching manuals and sermons as well as the texts of early religious controversies, Gordis argues that Puritan ministers did not expect to impose their views on their congregations. Instead they believed that interpretive consensus would emerge from the process of reading the Bible, with the Holy Spirit assisting readers to understand God's will. Treating the conflict over Roger Williams, the Antinomian Controversy, and the reluctant compromises of the Halfway Covenant as symptoms of a crisis that was as much literary as it was social or spiritual, Opening Scripture explores the profound consequences of Puritan negotiations over biblical interpretation for New England's literature and history.

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The Bible as Literature.......2006-04-28

Gordis does a remarkable job of illuminating the literary genius behind Puritan bible study, as demarcated by the twin poles of bible reading and preaching. Her analysis of the preaching itself and the use of "collation" and other polemical and expository tools, is most helpful in spotlighting the often overlooked factor of aesthetic pleasure and even entertainment, which early American Christians derived from the intersection of their own impressive biblical literacy with preaching which was more than just "eloquent."

"Opening Scripture" is a groundwork for a new discipline in American literature and for kindling renewed interest in becoming once again biblically literate ourselves, in order to experience the kind of joy and edification which Gordis showcases, particulary with regard to the gifted Puritan preacher John Cotton.

The fusion of print and spoken word culture was never performed with such virtuosity in America as it was in the 17th century, a fact often overlooked as we moderns obsess almost exclusively over the perceived negatives of all that we class (often erroneously) under the heading, "Puritanical."

The informed and engaged constituency which Samuel Adams and other revolutionaries would lead to victory over the West's greatest military power in the 18th century, was rooted in part in the intelligence wrought by the literary universe in which 17th century New England was stepped. One might venture to say that America was never more literate, never brighter than in that era. If this is so, then we might wish to reexamine that time with heightened appreciation. Lisa Gordis' "Opening Scripture" is the book with which to begin the journey.

--Michael A. Hoffman II
historian of early American bound labor ("They Were White and They Were Slaves")

Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book Review) : An article from: The Modern Language Review

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Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book Review) : An article from: The Modern Language Review
Roger Pooley
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book review): An article from: Church History

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Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book review): An article from: Church History
Michael P. Winship
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This digital document is an article from Church History, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 891 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: Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book review)
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Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England

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Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England
Lisa M. Gordis
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPN526

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This fascinating new book draws on insights from across th social sciences - from psychology, economics and geography as well as sociology - to examine the changing character of society and nature.

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