Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, Revised Edition

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A classic in architectural history!

Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, Revised Edition
Hugh Morrison
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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The best introduction to the work of one of America's most famous architects. Hugh Morrison's biography of Louis Sullivan was the first definitive study of his work. This edition provides the original text and illustrations plus an assessment of Morrison's groundbreaking research and an authoritative revision of the chronological List of Buildings, including corrections to the data in light of six decades of research. 112 illustrations.

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A classic in architectural history!.......1999-08-01

Timothy J. Samuelson, Curator of Architecture at the Chicago Historical Society, has done a marvelous job at bringing out a beautiful new edition of this classic on modernist pioneer Louis Sullivan. Samuelson has written a perceptive and entertaining introduction to the book, and given an invaluable revised list of Sullivan's work along with vastly improved illustrations. Hugh Morrison first published this groundbreaking study in 1935, and it is still the starting place for learning about Sullivan. Morrison's writing is fresh and entertaining, and moves along at times almost like a novel. More importantly, Morrison's analysis and history of Sullivan's architecture remains solid and convincing.

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Marvelous Mosaics with unusual materials.......2003-08-31

I have checked this book out of the library on several occasions to use as a 'reference manual' while making mosaics. I like this book so much that I am going to purchase it to add to my collection of books on mosaics.
The book is very thorough in explaining technics, materials, and mosaic lingo. There are color photos which accompany the step-by-step instructions, as well as a number of color-coded mosaic patterns. Each time I peruse the book it inspires me to be creative. This book is a must have for beginner as well as advanced mosaicists.

From the author regarding review from Holland.......2000-11-07

I am wondering if this review is for another book because sewing machines are not used or referred to in any way in our book. If our book is the one referred to please email back with a page number so that we can clear up any misunderstanding. Thank you.

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Published to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Britain's celebrated inventor of photography, Specimens and Marvels illuminates the mid-nineteenth-century cultural environment in which Talbot's vision for photography emerged--a vision that would permanently alter how human beings view themselves and the world.

This unprecedented publication focuses on Talbot's ambitions for the mystical blend of science and art he termed "photogenic drawing" (later called "photography"), as outlined in his classic The Pencil of Nature.

In addition to some of the familiar icons from photography's beginnings, such as Talbot's cameraless photograms of plant forms and lace, many unseen and little-known experiments with calotypes will be featured in this invaluable new volume on the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot.

Lively and insightful texts offer new critical perspectives on Talbot's significance in the history of image-making, the illustrated book, and the history of ideas. The book is published in association with the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (NMPFT), in Bradford, England, home of the largest collection of Talbot material in the world.

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A Splendid Achievement (ASA).......2006-04-20

you may think this a fusty tome abrim with wizened snaps of dead old salts but you would miss the point for the point is one essay that shines and shines by one Russell Roberts, he of the Shining Path Tendency of photographic enamorature, he who blazes and has always blazed a singular track of obstreperous preposterous and bifocular intrepitude through the carelessly lobbed jeers of lesser men and women, barbing and bobbing through catcalls brickbats and old hats the air thick with huzzas and the cadenced grumple of an introitus by the Dulwich Male Voice Choir piquanting as we all salute the dear old Queen on her 88th but we really do insist that she should be in this book talk about a world record she will bury the lot Charles Philip Harry you name it she will go on an on and on and on just like dear old Russell or as we call him behind his big broad back Rascal Roberts don't ask...

Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot: The Invention of Photography (Aperture 161: Winter 2000)

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Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot: The Invention of Photography (Aperture 161: Winter 2000)
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Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography

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Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography
Hubertus von Amelunxen
Manufacturer: Dirk Nishen Publishing
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Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography
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Manufacturer: David R. Godine
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Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography
Gail Buckland
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The Best of Mignery.......2001-08-27

What a fabulous,realistic, collection of "Down-To-Earth" humor about the American cowboy. Apparently, the artist has a good grasp of the true cowboy way of life and has keenly interjected his own sense of humor. I'm anxiously waiting to read more of this artist's work. I would highly recommend this humorous book for all ages.

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The life of Mary Heaton Vorse (1874-1966) reads like a chronology of American radicalism in the first half of the twentieth century. The foremost pioneer of labor journalism in the U.S. and a prominent participant in the women's universal suffrage movement, Vorse spent her life actively struggling for libertarian socialism, feminism, and world peace. Her friends and colleagues were among the most famous writers, artists, and intellectuals of the time. Her sizeable FBI file was maintained until she was eighty-two years old. And yet this is the first full-length biography of Mary Heaton Vorse.

"I love my golden wings and I want to fly right into the sun until they are all draggled and battered,' wrote Vorse in 1896. A rebel at a young age, she fled her wealthy New England family and settled in Greenwich Village in the early 1900s. As an editor for The Masses, a charter member of the Liberal Club, the Provincetown Players, and the Heterodoxy Club, Vorse was intimately involved with the political, cultural, and feminist leaders of the Left. Widowed twice, she wrote magazine stories to support her three children and became, for several decades, one of the most popular writers of women's fiction in the U.S. As a labor journalist and war correspondent, she traveled to Lenin's Moscow and Hitler's Germany; she participated in the Lawrence Textile Strike, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the uprisings in Gastonia and Bloody Harlan County. She reported the early struggles and rise of the CIO in the 1930s. Her commitment to feminism led to her presence at women's rallies in Europe and America; her unique contribution to the journalism of her time was to give consistent attention to the special concerns of women and their role in the labor movement.

This compelling biography restores an important heroine to her place in American and feminist history.

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Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent.
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This study is the first to provide a comprehensive and in-depth economic analysis of the origins and consequences of U.S. crop insurance and disaster relief programs.

The Economics of Crop Insurance and Disaster Aid. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal

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The Economics of Crop Insurance and Disaster Aid. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Claire Holton Hammond
Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 993 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: The Economics of Crop Insurance and Disaster Aid. (book reviews)
Author: Claire Holton Hammond
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
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Volume: v63 Issue: n1 Page: p264(3)

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If you are a parent, you MUST read this book!

Steering Them Straight
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If you are a parent, you MUST read this book!.......1998-01-16

This review appeared previously in Christian Library Journal (January 1997).

Steering Them Straight is subtitled A Parental Plan for Guiding Today's Youth Through the Temptations of Premarital Sex, Eating Disorders, Pornography, Suicide, Satanism, and Substance Abuse. Many parents will find themselves out of their comfort zones while reading this book. It is thorough in its examination of these serious issues and the steps parents need to take to prevent their children from falling prey--or to rescue them.

Stephen Arterburn is a well-known counselor and the co-founder of Minirth Meier New Life Clinics. Jim Burns has been active in youth ministry for over twenty years. They illustrate chapters on such difficult topics as homosexuality, AIDS, runaways, and eating disorders with insights drawn from actual case studies. They address mysteries such as why one child experiments with drugs while another does not.

In reading Chapter 2: The Evolution of the Dysfunctional Family, some parents may recognize themselves and be tempted to stop reading. I would urge readers to continue, as painful as it may be. The message of this book is that parents save lives by committing themselves to spending time with their kids--actively expressing their love, having fun together, lavishing attention on them, and teaching their children right from wrong through example and frank discussion.

The book's strong point is its practical advice. Most chapters end with a section called You Can Make a Difference. Arterburn and Burns tell us how and why kids fall into destructive behaviors. They list warning signs, expose parental conduct that contributed to their children's problems, and give positive strategies that parents can use so that their kids won't be deceived into temptation.

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Andrea R. Huelsenbeck

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In 1940, Hitler infiltrated England with spies to gather intelligence and disrupt Allied plans. But unbeknownst to the Germans, the entire network had been captured and "turned" into double agents who reported to the British while sending misinformation to the Germans about Allied defenses and strategy. Now, after decades of secrecy, comes the first complete account of the British network that ran this "phony war."

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World War two spies.......2007-07-29

I liked the book. A well written story of how some agents of Germany were turned against them to provide false intelligence to the Nazis.
We need some of that in this day and age.

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Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle. Wellington, his men said, "didn't know how to lose a battle". But Wellington himself admired his adversary:

In Portugal and Spain, Wellington helped wreck Napoleon's Continental System, bled his reserves away and showed the 'unbeatable' French could be beaten after all. The opposing armies, like their commanders, were not at all similar. Napoleon's were large conscript armies, living off the land and led by marshals who rose by merit. Wellington's was a smaller, volunteer force, ruled by the lash though paid, and his officers were those the government chose to send.

It was the British infantryman who made the difference. Napoleon never learned to counter Wellington's infantry, and at the great climax at Waterloo it cost him dear. Even so, the battle was so near-run that, but for luck and the Prussians, history might have taken an altogether different course.

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Well, this isnt a bad book for the price.......2004-04-30

I like this book. Its not very weighty, and gives a pretty breezy overview of a long period of time. It also tends to be a very traditional telling of the story of Napoleon's downfall. However, I would like to point out that the previous reviewer somewhat miscontrued the nature of this book.

Neillands goal is to see Wellington and Napoleon as parallel lives. Both lived in the military traditions of their countries, and in important ways, came to embody those traditions; Napoleon, the audacious, fast moving, hard hitting French soldier, and Wellington, the quieter, conservative, and solid nobleman/soldier. Napoleon moved through the professional training schools of the Old Regime, to become a general of the French Revolutionary armies. Wellington became an officer in the quaint English way of buying his commission. Both learned warfare by working through the ranks, Napoleon in Provence and Italy, Wellington in India. And both finally fought each other at the last battle of the wars, at Waterloo.

Neither man really ever fought the other until that last battle. Napoleon's attention was focused on Central Europe - Austria and Germany - and Russia, while Wellington spend almost the entire time period covered by this book in Spain and Portugal. Only briefly did Napoleon personally intervene in Spain, preferring to leave Spanish affairs to his brother Joseph, Napoleon's handpicked king of Spain, and his Marshals. Wellington marched all over the western and central portions of the peninsula, and experienced great frustration working with the Spanish generals and Spanish system (calling it a government might be generous)

Napoleon's overstretch, which led to his eventual downfall, began in Spain, with the Spanish uprising. The French could beat just about any Spanish regular military force, but they had no way to defeat the guerillos who swarmed along every road and in every town. French soldiers were killed retail, which, in the long run bankrupted the French war effort. The Spanish ulcer, despite its 'sideshow' quality, was the major cause of Napoleon's collapse. He could not afford the strain on manpower, supplies or treasure that the Spanish war caused France.

Now, the reason the ulcer was inflammed and played its role as a drain on French resources was Wellington. His army, led, not always brilliantly, but for the most part competantly and professionally, kept the French off guard, helped keep the Spanish and Portuguese armed and supplied and gave the Spanish regular armies, after their usual drubbings, a place to rally. Napoleon could continue to through troops into Spain, but it was, by 1810, a losing investment, but one that he couldnt write off.

Napoleon himself was losing his touch, to be sure. The battles of Aspern-Esseling and Wagram are not prime examples of Napoleon at his best, and the invasion of Russia was clearly a disaster. But, without the drain on his resources caused by Spain, would he have been better or worse off? Would the extra hundred thousand veterans wasting away in Spain, have been better used in Austria or Russia? Hard to say, but they might have helped.

I give Wellington all the credit in the world (as Liddell Hart did too) for keeping his small army in being, managing to cooperate to a certain extent with the Portugeuse and Spanish (and eventually the Dutch), and for taking advantage of the French style of warfare, to bleed Napoleon's armies in Spain, and eventually defeat him at Waterloo. Often, Wellington had the best of both worlds; an offensive strategy that put him in the tactical defensive position.

For it is in the defensive art that Neillands feels Wellington made his mark. His ability to see the defensive quality of the terrain, to use the reverse slopes, and to rely on the marksmanship of the British 'thin red line' all worked to his advantage because Wellington well knew how the French were going to fight. His tactics were based on this udnerstanding, and the French never really did work out a means of countering it. At Waterloo Napoleon tried massed artillery, cavalry charges and infantry shock attacks, and never made much of a dent in the British position.

So, the Spanish war was an essential part of the downfall of Napoleon, and Wellington was essential to keeping that war going to a successful conclusion. Does that make him the greatest general of the war? Maybe not, but he certain earns high marks, and is one of the best.

Poorly thought out, but an adequate summary of events.......2003-10-08

Neillands says Napoleon was in decline for the last 8 yrs and the reason for that decline is the campaigns in Spain. NB however really did not campaign there, and devoted secondary attention to it. Neillands says that no one man played a more decisive role in that struggle than Wellington. He proved France could be defeated and his victories in Spain revived spirits of the allies. He slowly chipped away at the myth of invincibility of Napoleon. The final element contributing to Napoleon's downfall was himself. He went too far, refused to recognize enough is enough. Neillands argues that British soldiers did well against Napoleon's troops if well handled, well-positioned and could not be galled by cavalry and artillery. Well, who wouldn't be if all of these preconditions were met! The author's aim is to reduce the jumble of confusion of 20 years & study the time period through men. Neillands claims that in the end W's tactical skills on the battlefield proved decisive. He doesn't say much to support this, and overlooks to a large degree the Prussian contribution to NB's defeat. NB's tactics never varied-it was to seek out the enemy and destroy his army-with blitzkrieg. Wellington knew @ command, logistics, & was at ease at court. He had important political connections too. He had gained a clear idea of how, by setting attainable objectives and relying on his own force a campaign could be won. Wellington's army was superior in training, discipline, marksmanship & tactical ability, says Neillands but this is open to debate as well. Tellingly, Neillands admits that most of the Peninsula campaign was a side show. What he ought to have said is that because of this, the book's title of Wellington & Napoleon is a bit misleading, as NB was not directly involved in Spain for much of Wellington's tenure there. The title is a stretch. Is Neillands correct when he says that 'Wellington must be considered the greatest general of his age.' Hardly.

Wellington and Napoleon (Clash of Arms 1807-1815)

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Wellington and Napoleon (Clash of Arms 1807-1815)

Manufacturer: Barnes and Noble
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This book summarizes the main scientific achievements of the blown-up theory of evolution science, which was first seen in published form in 1994. It explores - using the viewpoint and methodology of the blown-up theory - possible generalizations of Newtonian particle mechanics and computational schemes, developed on Newton's and Leibniz's calculus, as well as the scientific systems and the corresponding epistemological propositions, introduced and polished in the past three hundred years.

The authors briefly explain the fundamental concepts, then analyze a series of topics and problems of the current, active research widely carried out in the natural sciences. Along the lines of the analyses, they introduce new points of view and the corresponding methods. Also, they point out that the blown-up theory originated from the idea of mutual slavings of materials' structures so that "numbers are transformed into forms". This discovery reveals that nonlinearity is not a problem solvable in the first-push system, and that the materials' property of rotation is not only an epistemology but also a methodology. The authors then point to the fact that nonlinearity is a second stir of mutual slavings of materials.

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