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The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical and theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart.
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When an alliterated one-liner just won't do..........1999-03-30
"Brilliant...Anthony Vidler is a conceptual conjurer of formidable skill." - J. Mordaunt Crook, New York Times Book Review
"The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. These essays are at once historical and theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult reltionships between politics, social thought and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the avant-garde have never seemed so far apart."
"Anthony Vidler has proved himself among the most lucid of contemporary architectural historians,always writing with vigor and clarity, and allying perception with structure...There is wit, intelligence, and a host of shrewd observations." - Peter Blundell Jones, Architectural Review
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If it were only as easy as reading a book!.......2002-10-03
Exquisite paintings of wildlife make this book worthwhile in itself, but Kalon Baughan also supplies fascinating insights into how he paints. Though most of us can only dream of painting animals that capture the animal's soul, there are many useful hints and techniques that even rank amateurs can use.
Simply the best.......2001-08-19
How to review this book is a problem. It is simply the best book on the subject that I have ever seen. It goes through the usual informative sections on animal anatomy and several step-by-step demonstrations and details. It is here where this book stands out, in the detail of the demonstrations. From detail information on the underpainting technique to detailing, drybrushing and using washes it covers everything in an easy to understand manner. If you want to paint wildlife and have not had an expensive course in a high quality art school then this is the book that you want to buy.
Painting the Faces of Wildlife Step-by-Step.......2001-04-30
I was at the Texas Woodcarver's Guild Spring Roundup in Fredericsburg, TX, recently and saw a copy of this book. As a woodcarver I would rate this book as excellent. The book has excellent detailed pictures of faces of various animals. As a carver, I must pay attention to exact details such as hair color and texture, eye size and color, ears details, and all facets of wildlife characteristics. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn wildlife details for painting, carving, or general knowledge.
A well done Wildlife Art book.......2001-01-29
This is a great book. It is well thought out and well done. I am not an artist but I enjoy wildlife art and have many different pieces of artwork. Knowing some of the history and research behind the paintings adds to the enjoyment and appreciation of the artist's work. I recommend this book to anyone who loves wildlife art and art in general.
"stepping into nature with Kalon Baughan".......2000-08-04
Kalon's book is full of drama, which is quite a feat for a "HOW TO" book. His passion for what he does shines through in his text as well as in the expressiveness of his awesome paintings.
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Between 1935 and 1943, a group of photographers under the direction of Roy Emerson Stryker set out to photograph the United States for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. Photographs taken by this celebrated group, whose ranks included Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Gordon Parks, Russell Lee and Walker Evans, have since become icons of the 1930s and 1940s. In recent years, however, their work has been reproduced with little discussion of the particular circumstances surrounding its creation.
Documenting America takes a fresh look at these remarkable photographs. The book opens with two incisive essays by Lawrence Levine and Alan Trachtenberg that examine issues central to photography and American culture. While Levine explains how the pictures portray the complexity of life in the period, balancing scenes of Depression hard times with images of the pleasures of life, Trachtenberg analyzes the way in which viewers read photographs and the role of the government picture file that stands between the creation of the photographs and their use. Both essayists raise important questions about Stryker's grand ambition of a photographic record of America, about the "ways of seeing" that have grown up around the most famous of these photographs, and about the whole enterprise of documentary photography and the conventions of realism.
The images themselves are presented in series selected from groups of pictures created by single photographers. A documentary photographer often makes dozens of exposures to portray different elements of the subject, experiment with camera angles, and cover the stages of an event or steps of a process. By studying these pictures in series, we come closer to the photographer working in the field. We see a tenant farming community in Gee's Bend, Georgia, the activities of the Salvation Army in San Francisco, and the hubbub and commotion that filled Chicago's Union Railway Station in 1943. Texts accompanying each of the book's fifteen series describe the circumstances that gave rise to the creation of the pictures and discuss the relation between government policy and the subjects of the photographs. The nearly three hundred images included vividly portray America in the last bitter years of the Great Depression and the first years of the Second World War.
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Hey! You're not supposed to laugh at that!.......2003-12-28
Bored with most of the so-called "funnies" in the local rag, I wasn't expectin' much when I caught my first glimpse of this paperback in the humor section of a fave local book nook. But as soon as I saw the cover illustration that went with the book's title (cops staring down a gunman holding a hand puppet hostage), I just had to delve further into the tome in the hopes of seeing even more outrageous imagery. Fortunately, I discovered that the cover shenanigans were just the tip of the iceberg. As I flipped from one page to the next, each crude rendering and corresponding caption seemed even sicker, and more depraved than the last, to say nothing of being extemely non-P.C. Needless to say, I ended up laughing like a mental patient at many of these oh-so-wrong depictions, so much so that I kinda created a scene at the book nook, and decided to buy this collection before the owner got cheesed off even more than she already was...
John Callahan's works are the kind of stuff you're not supposed to laugh at, but you do anyway. Well, except for those few panels of Klibanesque weirdness that pop up here `n' there, but those are few and far between. From suicidal slugs to a day in the soul leper colony ("gimme none!") to the flatulent nun, it appears that nothing is sacred to the mad quadriplegic behind the wheel of this cartoon catastrophe. If you're easily offended, or are the kinda person who would NEVER make fun of the handicapped, people with deformities, suicide, politicians, lawyers, Madonna, political correctness, or Santa Monica, CA, you probably should just skip this bad-boy entirely, and pick up a few "Family Circus" titles instead... you wuss!
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Is Callahan sick, brilliant, or both?.......2001-06-15
"Do What He Says! He's Crazy!!" is a collection of cartoons by John Callahan. Callahan has a distinctive style: his crude drawings look like they were created by 10-year old juvenile delinquent with a hand injury.
Callahan mercilessly mocks modern life. His twisted sense of humor embraces such topics as leprosy, torture, religion, eating disorders, bestiality, and especially suicide. He frequently mocks celebrities: Dan Quayle, Elvis, Picasso, Madonna (one of his favorite targets), and others. He is not shy about making fun of specific groups of people: blacks, Jews, Asians, the bald, the homeless, the handicapped, etc.
Although most of his work features human characters, he occasionally includes other creatures: cows, flies, aliens, etc. His work often has a political edge. And despite their frequently dark subject matter, Callahan's cartoons have a playful quality which I find very appealing, and very amusing.
In one of these cartoons, TV talk show host Geraldo Rivera is shown praying, "Thank you, God for all the tragedy, wretchedness and perversion in the world." Callahan could make that same prayer himself. His gift is to look at the absurd, violent cesspool of humanity and give us all something to laugh at.
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A Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn
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Lafcadio Hearn's life was a fantastic journey that took him from conception outside of marriage on a Greek island to a protected upbringing in Ireland; from a Gothic education in England to Cincinnati, where as Paddy Hearn, he established himself as a journalist of the macabre par excellence. Moving on to New Orleans in the 1860s he transformed himself into Lafcadio Hearn, litterateur and a man of the South. Then after two years in the West Indies, he finally reached Japan in the spring of 1890 where he spent the last fourteen years of his life and did the work for which he is now known.
Although it was to always be an ambiguous relationship with his adopted country, Hearn gave to the world some of the most valuable and enduring insights into Japan which have ever appeared and which continue to stand the test of time. Through his many articles and several books, he remains one of the foremost interpreters of Japan to the West.
In Paul Murray, Hearn is provided with not just with an informed and able biographer, but with one whose experiences parallel his subject's quite closely and thus give him an exceptional understanding of the extraordinary lives that Hearn lived. Murray is an Irishman, a diplomat who has served both in North America and especially in Japan. He thus uniquely brings out the Irishness of Hearn and the nature of his life: a transient observer rather than rooted participant. "Hearn carried the burden of the Wandering Irishman to the furthest extremes, dropping and picking up identities as a long distance trucker does loads."
This engaging work tells a story of great intrinsic interest. It has much for those intrigued by the life and culture of Japan and also for the many students of the Anglo-Irish literary tradition.
". . . a book that goes beyond scholarly diligence and careful research across three continents to become also a humane and oddly hopeful story for our times." --Catholic Herald
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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
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Great Book!.......2007-09-16
Jon has done a splendid job of bringing to life these two titans of world history. The relationship of these two men are recreated with a detail to personal traits and their crumbling world around them. This book has been pivotal in enhancing a better understanding of both men, and particularly how Franklin D. Roosevelt, albeit his duplicity and guile, was crucial in the fight against the evil Axis powers.
Some have criticized FDR for those white lies, yet those lies and actions secured success for a slumbering nation that would have remained set in their isolationist ways, and would have certainly fallen victim to Hitler's death machine if America followed their own self interest and avoided conflict. Roosevelt was clairvoyant enough to understand the threat and coddle America's misguided sentiments and turn it into action, action that made America the clear world leader it became. A magnificent book of a magnificent man, along with his strong-willed partner Winston. Mecham's treatment of both men is sound and extremely admirable. Highly recommended.
BFF?.......2007-09-07
Well, while Winston and Franklin might not have been best friends forever, it certainly is refreshing and enlightening to see this aspect of WW2 given such detail. The book is rife with quotes from direct corespondences as well as excerpts from various diaries of those surrounding these two titans. Jon Meacham does an excellent job with this book and really makes learning about these two enjoyable. While not a complaint, it is worth noting that this is NOT a history of WW2 and you should probably know the basics before diving in because Meacham jumps forward and glosses over major points, but this best serves his main focus: Churchill and Roosevelt.
An Excellent look at the friendship that shaped the modern world .......2007-06-21
Jon Meacham presents an interesting portrait of two leaders in World War II and the way they united the allies. This book is not meant to serve as a book on World War II and diplomacy but on the relationship between FDR and Churchill. In doing so the author presents a unique perspective that has not been looked at in many of the countless World War II books. The personal relationship of these two men (much like the personal relationship of their enemies Mussolini and Hitler) drove and shaped the course of the war. Each complimented each others strengths and in the end allowed for a unique position to be taken. There had been few examples of this kind of diplomacy before World War II and Meacham shows a diplomacy that would be very important thereafter. This book is filled with excerpts from personal letters and is very well cited. For those who want a different look that your standard World War II books this is an excellent place to start. It is a very light book to read and a lot of fun.
Captivating Insights.......2007-05-11
Franklin and Winston is an excellent book about the friendship between FDR, and Winston Churchill. Many people know the big-picture history between these two men, mostly centering around WWII, but few actually know and understand the smaller details between the two giants of the 20th century. Meacham does a remarkable job detailing the intimate moments between these men, often giving the reader a fly on the wall feel. Franklin and Winston is a fast-paced read, and is highly recommended.
Great read!.......2007-04-29
Superbly written! Whether you like biographies or not, you will love this book!!
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How Cultural Values about Women are Manipulated.......2002-05-15
Honey examines the mechanics of first changing social values that make women working in primarily male jobs socially acceptable and then how the pre-war values are restored at war's end.
The Rosie the Riveter campaign is so interesting because these values, which were first a barrier and then an open invitation for women to work outside the home, were changed over a very short period of time to meet the labor needs of war and then changed back just as overtly. This campaign is an excellent lesson in how social values hardly are cast immutably in stone or are somehow seen as unchangable because of religious, moral, or other social objections.
Honey does an excellent job of describing the mechanics of this campaign. A lesson to anyone arguing that any social group should or should not be barred from any social activity.
An interesting view of World War II Propaganda.......2000-04-12
Honey presents a view of wartime propaganda aimed at getting women into the work force. Her main sources are the saturday evening post when discussing the middle class women who were urged into the workforce and true story when discussing the working class women. She presents an unconvincing argument. Unconvincing? Her sources were mismatched...one being a weekly magazine aimed at all genders, the other a monthly aimed only at women. We really have no way of knowing that true story was only aimed at working class women any more than we know that only lower class individuals watch Jerry Springer. Her samples were completely uneven, her sources from the saturday evening post vastly outnumbering those from true story. She completely ignores women of color. However, having said that, the book is not a "bad book". As a historian in training I have often had to limit myself more than I would like, so perhaps that explains the complete lack of a discussion on race and ethnicity. The first chapter clearly presents a view of the various government organizations that were created to organize and mobilize the propaganda machine, and that alone is worth the price of the book. Her analysis of her sources is decent as well...especially that of true story. The various story synopsis that she presents are amusing, and her conclusions are worth a look. I would not reccomend it as the only source to read on ww2 propaganda, but is a good addition to the scholarship on the subject. And for the layman, don't worry, it's very readable..she does not spout off jargon like other authors. Good for high school and above.
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An African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960
Adelaide M. Cromwell
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The only comprehensive treatment of nanophotonics currently available
Photonics is an all-encompassing optical science and technology which has impacted a diverse range of fields, from information technology to health care. Nanophotonics is photonic science and technology that utilizes light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, where researchers are discovering new phenomena and developing technologies that go well beyond what is possible with conventional photonics and electronics. These new technologies could include efficient solar power generation, high-bandwidth and high-speed communications, high-capacity data storage, and flexible- and high-contrast displays. In addition, nanophotonics will continue to impact biomedical technologies by providing new and powerful diagnostic techniques, as well as light-guided and activated therapies.
Nanophotonics provides the only available comprehensive treatment of this exciting, multidisciplinary field, offering a wide range of topics covering:
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The only comprehensive treatment of nanophotonics currently available
Photonics is an all-encompassing optical science and technology which has impacted a diverse range of fields, from information technology to health care. Nanophotonics is photonic science and technology that utilizes light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, where researchers are discovering new phenomena and developing technologies that go well beyond what is possible with conventional photonics and electronics. These new technologies could include efficient solar power generation, high-bandwidth and high-speed communications, high-capacity data storage, and flexible- and high-contrast displays. In addition, nanophotonics will continue to impact biomedical technologies by providing new and powerful diagnostic techniques, as well as light-guided and activated therapies.
Nanophotonics provides the only available comprehensive treatment of this exciting, multidisciplinary field, offering a wide range of topics covering:
* Foundations
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* Applications
* Theory
* Fabrication
Nanophotonics introduces students to important and timely concepts and provides scientists and engineers with a cutting-edge reference. The book is intended for anyone who wishes to learn about light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, as well as applications of photonics for nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Written by an acknowledged leader in the field, this text provides an essential resource for those interested in the future of materials science and engineering, nanotechnology, and photonics.
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applications for Nanophotonics.......2006-01-25
Excellent reference book for the contemporary research and development work. I learned alot by reading this book. I actually followed up on the concept of wavelength up converters and down converters.There is a significant potential in these class of materials for use in medical technology, especially scintilation efficincy improvement. By deposition of converter emulsion in front of a scintilator which emits at UV- or near visible (400NM);short wavelnegth scintilation photons can be translated to two longer wavelength photons where semiconductor detectors have two to three times responsivity. therefore, on could use ordinary si-APD to work with NAI, etc. scintilators. i was also impressed by level of detail dedicated to polymers and their potential applications
Henry Daghighian Nanophotonics.......2006-01-20
Excellent reference book for the contemporary research and development work. I learned alot by reading this book. I actually followed up on the concept of wavelength up converters and down converters.There is a significant potential in these class of materials for use in medical technology, especially scintilation efficincy improvement. By deposition of converter emulsion in front of a scintilator which emits at UV- or near visible (400NM);short wavelnegth scintilation photons can be translated to two longer wavelength photons where semiconductor detectors have two to three times responsivity. therefore, on could use ordinary si-APD to work with NAI, etc. scintilators. i was also impressed by level of detail dedicated to polymers and their potential applications.
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Photonics concerns the generation, transport, processing and detection of light. It underlies a large amount of industrial activity, mainly devoted to information technology, telecommunications, environmental monitoring, biomedical science and instrumentation. The field has received a powerful impetus recently with the introduction of nanoscale concepts. Moreover, organic materials now appear as key components in photonic devices such as light-emitting diodes, integrated lasers, or photovoltaic cells. Organic molecular systems offer unique opportunities in nanophotonics since both top-down and bottom-up strategies can be pursued towards the nanoscale. This book gathers the proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop on "Organic Nanophotonics", held in Aix-en-Provence, France, August 25-29, 2002. It constitutes a snapshot of the state of the art in the novel, emerging research area of nanophotonics based on organic molecules and materials.
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