Luxury Coastal/Mediterranean Style Homes

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Sater is very good

Definitely not "cookie cutter"

Cookie cutter

Luxury Living Redefined!

Luxury Coastal/Mediterranean Style Homes
Inc. Sater Design Collection
Manufacturer: Sater Design Collection
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966211626

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In this book you will find 49 of the most remarkable luxury homes on the market today. Styles vary from Old World Mediterranean, Modern Spanish to Contemporary Coastal. Sizes are from 2,500 to 6,800 square feet of living area. Each home is a study is superb architectural detailing both inside and out. Floor Plans feature the finest comforts and amenities you can imagine. If your looking for the "sweet life", you'll find it within the Sater-designed homes in this book! 60 pages of full color interior photography, 112 pages of exciting home plans.

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Sater is very good.......2004-11-15

Sater II has some of the most elegant designs I have ever seen. I love the way he combines the out doors with the indoors with extensive use of the veranda and varied use of all different types of ceilings. His Fiorentino and Prestonwood plans are masterpieces of elegant and stately designs. The only fault I see is that I wish his foyers were larger and more isolated from the living room like Frank Lloyd Wright's and his designs are somewhat cookie cutter.

Definitely not "cookie cutter".......2004-05-11

The reviewer who has called this book "cookie cutter" suffers from delusion. The homes in this book are some of the most unique designs I have found anywhere, and the photography does a great job of showing this.

As far as I can tell, the designer of the homes in this book has probably allowed the Homeplanners magazines to reproduce his designs with the hope of exposing more potential customers to his work.

I suppose the writer of this review would accuse her local newspaper of plagiarism if a column by one of their writers appeared in USA Today or the New York Times.

Cookie cutter.......2004-01-23

I purchased this book thinking it would offer a variety of styles and details. What I found was a run of the mill Florida cookie cutter style (neither mediterranean, nor Spanish, nor Italian, nor classic), the kind you find at just about every cookie cutter development in the Southwest and Florida. Even more disappointing, however, was the fact that I found the exact same plans, illustrations, and photos found in several home plans magazines, particularly those by Home Planners, inc.

Overall, the book was short on substance and detail, and the plans were so convoluted, I felt I had opened a puzzle book instead of an architecture/design book.

Luxury Living Redefined!.......2002-11-28

This book has some of the most beautiful homes I've ever seen! The photography is stunning and the interiors are extremely well detailed. More importantly the floor plan designs themselves are well thought out and give a unique livability to it's occupants.This is a great source for truly one of a kind luxury home designs!

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Book in Perfect Condition.......2006-03-23

The book came on time and in perfect conditon. The transaction was very successful and smooth.

Romanesque Sculpture : The Revival of Monumental Stone Sculpture in the Eleventh and the Twelfth Centuries

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Romanesque Sculpture : The Revival of Monumental Stone Sculpture in the Eleventh and the Twelfth Centuries
M. F. Hearn
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBPQFG

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Flint chips and pottery shards: Connections and reflections : an anthology of stories about artifacts, friends and adventures
Tom Westfall
Manufacturer: Dennis Schiel, Art Gallery
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Shards from the heart;: A spiritual odyssey in 20th century America,
Bernard J Garber
Manufacturer: Free Deeds Books
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Shards of America
Phil Bergerson , and David Harris
Manufacturer: Quantuck Lane Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1593720106

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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In Shards of America, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children's letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole.

Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present...touching on all these themes, Bergerson's quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years' time. 119 color photographs.

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This second collection of Evan Dorkin's Power Corp$! series traces the shift in his work from slapstick space adventures to character-driven tales against a backdrop of lost loves, girl ska bands, hockey fights, and getting lost in the supermarket of the future. Collecting the Slave labor issues of Pirate Corp$! Special and regular series numbers one through four, plus pinups, rare promo art, and a gallery of Hectic Planet-related album and flyer art.

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Dorkin Hits His Stride...........2002-07-10

After reading the AWFUL Hectic Planet: Dim Future, I was less than thrilled that I had purchased all the volumes of Dorkin's Sci-Fi satire. The book was derivative, lifeless, and unfunny. I started reading Checkered Past with a sense of dread....

Well, I needn't have worried, because Dorkin obviously found his voice after those initial issues. This book is touching, funny, and well-done all around.

In Book Two, we follow the crew of The Jersey devil as they try to get off of the planet they're stuck on, see the next phase of the disastrous relationship between Halby and the lovely/crazy Elsie, watch Ron make a Hockey comeback, meet the hilarious "Fibby", and go for a 36-Hour shopping spree in the biggest supermarket EVER. The jokes all hit the mark, and despite the Sci-Fi trappings, Halby and Elsie's doomed love is really Heart-rending to watch. What guy couldn't identify with Halby...? My only beef is that Evan seems to have forgotten about the T.A.N.C..........(Also, be on the lookout for a cameo by the great Cowboy Wally!)

The funniest comic artist around........1999-02-23

This is the best of Evan Dorkin's work. If you like Milk and Cheese, Hectic Planet, Pirate Corp$ or Dork check this out.

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Lorna Moon My Secret Mother
Richard DeMille
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W8UNHU

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I've Got a Secret

Is there an editor in the house?

Lorna Moon: Scotland's Lost Daughter!

A fascinating, poetic story of one man's search for his past

My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon
Richard de Mille
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374217572

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My Secret Mother is a delicious blend of memoir and mystery. Richard de Mille, Cecil B. DeMille's adopted son (Cecil contracted his last name to make it easier for moviegoers to remember), recalls a happy childhood set in a house full of children against a backdrop of early Hollywood. De Mille learned early that he was adopted, along with two other siblings, but his loving parents rendered this fact a mere triviality to the boy. Soon, however, he was troubled by his striking resemblance to his paternal grandfather. Incidents in which schoolboy friends and caretakers claimed to know "something" about him only enhanced his curiosity about the circumstances of his birth. He believed he might have been his father's illegitimate son, accepted into the family by his even-tempered mother. It was not until 1955, when he was in his 30s, that de Mille learned his history: he was, in fact, the son of his paternal "uncle," William, and the novelist and silent-film scenarist Lorna Moon. But solving the mystery of his origins revealed yet another enigma: Moon.

In My Secret Mother, de Mille sets out on a journey to discover his mother, dead for 25 years, and in the process uncovers a history of two families that stretches as far back as Belgium in the first century B.C. on his father's side and the hardscrabble village of Strichen, Scotland, on his mother's. Part genealogy, part homage to a lost mother, part portrait of one of Hollywood's most powerful families and enduring legacies, My Secret Mother is an engrossing study of one man's attempt to solve the mystery of identity.

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I've Got a Secret.......2004-01-27

It is not clear to me why Richard de Mille wrote this book. Authors write for an audience - they want their works read. Who did he expect to read this biography/memoir/investigation? I can think of three possibilities:

Perhaps he expected those beguiled by the de Mille [DeMille] name to be interested. Certainly that is why I picked it up: I have repeatedly read and enjoyed Agnes de Mille's memoirs ["Dance to the Piper", "Speak to Me, Dance with Me", "And Promenade Home", etc.], and having heard whispers of a half-brother, I wanted to know more about it and how that affected the family. Mr. de Mille must have expected to reel in those readers, because the first 50 pages of the book barely mention Lorna Moon, instead concentrate on the history of the de Mille family and his upbringing within the family.

Or did he expect to lure those who feed on celebrity gossip? Certainly the story has the makings: an illegitimate child of famous parents [a scandal in the 1920s]; famous Hollywood names; passionate, bohemian women who believed in "free love" [Lorna Moon left 3 children scattered around the world]. The elements are there - but Richard de Mille is not the writer to dish the dirt: he has an analytic, philosophical bent -- his previous books include a volume on Carlos Castenada. Just the facts, ma'am.

Finally, as the title suggests, he is trying to "unsecretize" his mother, to share her contributions with the world. If that is the case, wouldn't it have made more sense to share her writings with the world? Clearly, she valued them more than her children. [He has indeed written an introduction to a recently issued "Collected Works of Lorna Moon"].

My best guess is that Richard de Mille wrote his book to satisfy his own curiosity. Sadly he never found out everything he wanted to know, especially about his mother. Truth has a way of being out of reach, just beyond our grasp. What came across was that (1) members of the de Mille family were cold, unable to express feeling [and Richard's dispassionate presentation of the entire story seems to indicate that he shares this trait] and (2) although she abandoned him, Lorna did give Richard life, and he has become her apologist [he writes, "How can I call her honest when she told so many false stories about herself? Those stories did no harm. No one counted on their being true." -- a strange definition of honesty. He also wrote "Work came before ... certainly before children ... A book or a child was something she created and gave to someone else to care for"].

At the end of his book, de Mille writes, "My purpose has been to tell a true story about some people who are gone, some of them famous, some obscure, whose lines crossed one afternoon to produce their chronicler." And there is indeed a story here. Unfortunately, de Mille gave us data, not a story. That remains to be done.

Is there an editor in the house?.......2001-04-01

This book is written in a style that appears as if the author wrote down everything he could remember in his entire life and no editor sorted it out for him. Boring.

Lorna Moon: Scotland's Lost Daughter!.......1998-09-29

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Lorna Moon's accomplishments are mostly unknown in Scotland until now.Richard de Mille has restored the knowledge of her literary talents, and his account of her life is haunting and poignant.Lorna was a child of her race,strong, resilient,tough,but tempered with Celtic melancholy and sweetness.She leapt from obscurity to the highest pinnacle in Hollywood capturing along the way the attention of the De Mille brothers. The Author has distilled the essence of Lorna Moon from a distant memory to a living presence that dominates the book from beginning to end. The mixture of early Hollywood, family secrets, and Scottish roots will absorb and delight all readers.

A fascinating, poetic story of one man's search for his past.......1998-09-15

Who was Lorna Moon? And why did she abandon him? These are just a few of the questions Cecil B. de Mille's son Richard explores in the most absorbing biography of the year. His quest takes him from Hollywood to Canada and a small village in Scotland, and nets him a sister, a brother, cousins galore, and family secrets some didn't want revealed. It is both lyrical and tragic and his father and uncle would have been proud.

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My Secret Mother Lorna Moon
Richard Demille
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O693B2

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My Secret Mother Lorna Moon -
Richard DeMille -
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This "quick-flip" spiral bound recipe book is the same size as your recipe cards. Contains recipes, facts and cooking hints from contributors of Danish heritage. A great gift or "stocking stuffer" for Danish-American friends and relatives.

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Sample Wonderful Danish Recipes.......2000-11-20

Dear Danish Recipes, in the popular recipe-card file Stocking Stuffer format, is full of the best recipes and notes about Danish foods and culture. Compiled by Michelle Nagle Spencer, a Scandinavian American with a love a gourmet cooking. Dear Danish Recipes contains recipes, facts, and cooking hints from contributors of strong Danish heritage. The cover features calligraphy and traditional red hearts by Esther Feske.

In addition to wonderful recipes, Dear Danish Recipes also includes information on Danish American culture, Sites to See, such as The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa, and Danish Table Prayers which gives a reader a true sense of Danish heritage. This book is a must for chefs and tourists alike

The recipes are wonderful individually or to create a full Danish meal! Included are a variety of soups such as Split Pea and Danish Soup Dumplings. Served with a homemade Rye Bread, this is a hearty meal for those cold days! The Appetizers and Snacks section has wonderful suggestions for your next get-together. Try a Cheese Buffet that serves up to twelve people, or a Salmon Log. For a main entrée, Shrimp au Gratin with Sugar Browned Potatoes and a Spinach Soufflé make for a wonderful meal. Top it off with Danish Tea Cakes for dessert!

Dear Danish Recipes is excellent for personal collections and as a memento of Danish American culture.

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Written nearly 2,500 years ago, The Art of War contains not only wisdom on war, but also on the science and skill of maneuver and strategy that are still relevant today. Not only for military people who wage war on battlefields, this book is appropriate for business leaders who wage battles in the corporate world, martial artists, spiritual leaders, and those who rely on their street smarts. Included are compact teachings on resourcefulness, momentum, integrity, secrecy, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, and responsibility. This translation provides commentary and interpretations for the modern reader.

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In this close examination of the interplay between welfare state institutions and the evolution of public opinion, Kumlin advances understanding of how and why support for or opposition to the welfare state develops. Kumlin's theoretical framework incorporates insights from a multitude of research traditions--including research on voting behavior, social psychology, rational choice theory, political psychology, and institutional theory. The theoretical contribution is matched by a close examination of surveys of trust in government and support for democracy measures showing that people's views are constructed and influenced by their experiences with and assessments of public services and welfare state provisions--including health services, schools, transportation, and income programs like pensions, student aid, and unemployment insurance. This book will be valuable to political scientists and sociologists studying public opinion, political participation, and welfare state politics.

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