Early Mexican Houses: A Book of Photographs and Measured Drawings

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From days of Mexican viceroys photographs, measured drawings, floor plans inspire designers.

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Digital Photography in Available Light is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. Learn how to choose the most appropriate digital camera for your workflow, manage your image files and process images using camera RAW. Try key capture techniques including exposure, framing the image and how to work with the available light in all situations. Explore different styles: panoramas, landscapes, environmental portraits and photo journalism. Understand ethics and law, how to plan a shoot and sell your work. Throughout youll learn the importance of image design, communication of content and essential techniques for competent and consistent image capture and creation. Includes a full glossary of terms.

* Everything you need to know to photograph in available light using a digital camera
* Learn all the essential skills and try out the invaluable activities and assignments
* Covers the whole workflow, including choosing a camera, asset management and camera RAW, shooting techniques, ethics and law and selling your work

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Don't Judge by the Cover!.......2007-09-30

The previous reviewers who commented on the lack of substantive information about available light shooting techniques, are correct. I've looked through this book carefully and it is like a dozen other beginning photography books I've seen, and that's how it should be titled. Sadly I believe the assertion that this book was mis-labeled intentionally, because there is so little inside that actually relates to available light shooting. This book, while it has some good information for beginners, is another inch deep, mile wide digital photography overview. When what it should be is mile deep, inch wide, pertaining mostly to working with available light indoors and out. A chapter on reflectors or flash is OK but as an extra, not the "meat".

Unless you're new to digital photography, look elsewhere. Focal Press should know better. They usually produce outstanding titles. This one OTOH, is average in every way except the photographic examples provided. But examples without detailed context, are useless.

A good book mainly because of the last chapter........2007-02-03

Up until this last chapter this is a basically just another how-to digital photography book. Nothing that 10 other books don't already have. However the last chapter covers the "photo-essay" which is almost worth the price of the book. This chapters covers a lot about making a photo-essay that I have not seen in other books.

Not About Available Light Photography.......2007-01-21

The authors of this book should be fined for false advertising. This book is NOT about available light photography. There is not a single chapter on available light photography. This book has a chapter on picking out a digital camera. This book has a chapter on using a FLASH and picking out a FLASH. This book discusses using reflectors and LIGHT MODIFIERS to beautify your pictures. This book is a basic, generic, all encompasing book about digital photography. I have read dozens of books that have nearly the exact same information as this book, which is probably why the authors tried to sell the book under a missleading title. If they tried to sell the book under an accurate title. . . "A beginners guide to digital photography." it would have dozens of other books with the same information and premise to compete with.
As a generic digital photography book, it is not bad, though not at all original. If you are looking for a generic digital photography book, you may whant to buy this book. If you want to buy a book on available light photography, you should not waste your money because there is not a single sentence in this book dedicated to photography using only available light.

An Engaging Book.......2006-12-17

First and foremost, this is an attractive book as every book on photography
should be. It is rich with relevant and interesting color photographs on each page.
It is not just a book about digital photography but one that shows how to use digital
photography to capture and manipulate images. If I were still teaching and teaching
a basic course in photography this certainly would be a book to consider. A well
written, well illustrated and engaging book

Awesome.......2006-10-26

This book is by far one of the best books I've read on photography.

The images and examples within the book are amazing, they really help to get the point across and makes me want to go out and take photo's.

The book is clearly laid out and is in a logical manner. The activities and summaries in each chapter really help. Marks thoughts on workflow came in very handy early on, helped to organise my existing photos and all my new ones which I've been taking while reading this book.

I found this book really easy to read and didn't get bored with it halfway through like many other books. I have been searching for a book like this for a couple of years now and I'm so happy to have finally found such a great book.

The activities in this book aren't mandatory but after finishing the book so quickly I'm now going back over the activities and getting even more out of it. As well as the activities in this book the Photoshop sections are great and were really helpful and will be a great reference.

I'm sure this book will keep on giving for a long time yet.

I highly recommend it.

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All This and Snoopy Too selected cartoons from your can't win. Charlie Brown Vol. 1 (Selected Cartoons from You Can't Win Charlie Brown, Vol. 1)

Manufacturer: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 4490123205

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This is a paperback Fawcett Crest Book with a green cover. This is the first half of a two part series.

All This And Snoopy, Too : Selected Cartoons from 'You Can't Win, Charlie Brown' Vol. 1

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It's a legend
Strips From 1960-62

All This And Snoopy, Too : Selected Cartoons from 'You Can't Win, Charlie Brown' Vol. 1
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0449204340
Release Date: 1983-04-12

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It's a legend.......2004-12-21

Snoopy has become a legend, it is sort of a part of a culture. You ought to read this if you like american culture.

Strips From 1960-62.......2001-02-24

This book contains strips from the book "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown" - strips from 1960-62. Published by Fawcett Crest.

ON THE BACK COVER:

BEWARE OF SNOOPY? YES INDEED. Snoopy is dangerously habit-forming. A real spellbinder. No one is safe from his reckless charm, his dashing antics, his dogged imagination. But then who wants to be?

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All This and Snoopy, Too Selected Cartoons from You Can't Win, Charlie Brown Vol 1
Charles M Schulz
Manufacturer: Fawcett Crest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PM14OO

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Your company's global competitiveness depends on the utilization and maintenance of information. Current data handling practices-storing, updating, and accessing data-can be either a problem or a significant strategic advantage for your company. Designing a Total Data Storage Solution: Technology, Implementation, and Deployment gives you the information you need to compare current technologies and determine which is best suited to your enterprise. This book defines and explains the components that make up total cost of ownership along with the impact of integrating current changes in technology. It discusses the storage, security, volume, growth, and access to data and provides everything an IT manager needs in order to develop an efficient and cost-effective data storage plan.

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"Landlord's Legal Guide in Texas is a practical, well-organized manual designed to provide landlords with valuable legal information. This new edition updates and expands already existing material and adds new material focusing on evictions, tenant responsibilities, Armed Forces Members and much, much more."

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good landlord handbook for Texas.......2006-03-20

Was easy to read, thorough and useful. Had good suggestions for screening tenants and what to include in a lease and excellent sample forms.

Landlords' Rights & Duties in Texas: With Forms (Legal Survival Guides)

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Landlords' Rights & Duties in Texas: With Forms (Legal Survival Guides)
William R. Brown , and Mark Warda
Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Landlords' and Tenants' Guide (Special Report (Texas a & M University. Real Estate Center), 866.)

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Landlords' and Tenants' Guide (Special Report (Texas a & M University. Real Estate Center), 866.)
Judon Fambrough
Manufacturer: Real Estate Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Customer Reviews:

Great Gift.......2002-08-30

My aunt loved this gift. It was the perfect way to tell her, "you are special!"

A tribute to Aunts everywhere............2000-11-14

My aunt Joan is one of the angels in my life. I became an aunt a few years ago and it is so fun to spoil your nieces. While I have yet to see any nephews (hint to my brother), I love buying little fun items for my nieces, taking them skating, or renting a fun kid video. My niece Ashley even helps me review G rated movies sometimes. Alexia helps me review books by giving me free reign of her collection of children's books. They both choose books for me to review and think it is so fun to help me find great books to recommend to parents. I also know if they love them, other children will too.

This book is filled with modern insights, which will make you laugh. If you have a special aunt in your life, here is a book you could give her on Mother's Day. My cousin and I try to remember my aunt on Mothers Day, as she is the mother we would want if we didn't have our own mothers.

You can tell aunts secrets, or be an aunt who keeps secrets. Aunts have a very special place in all families. If you have an aunt, treat her to this clever and humorous book to honor her irreplaceable role in your family.

She will enjoy this collection of anecdotes and humorous observations that celebrate the special relationship between aunt and nieces/nephews and explain everything from how to dress the part to selecting the proper gifts. Finally, an affectionate tribute to the women in your life who deserve a fun book to inspire laughter and fond memories.

Fluff.......1999-09-18

Much ado about nothing!-- just a lot of fluff and filler and general rambling about family life. From my standpoint (and I am an aunt seven times), there wasn't anything in this book to recommend having bought it. I feel that I wasted my money.

Funny, touching and engaging........1998-07-27

I love this book. I received it as a gift and have since given it as a gift to many friends and family. It really is a "celebration" of family and values without political or religious association. I recognized myself in many of the funny vignettes as both Aunt and child. Great book!

fantastic.......1998-04-01

This book is fantastic. Perfect gift for that special Aunt in your life.

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Vintage travel writing at its most fascinating.......2004-09-27

This is a fascinating first-hand exploration of one of the least travelled lands in the Balkan regions. Ironically, it was actually more accessible to travellers in 1909 than for most of the 20th century. Full of amazing tidbits: Albanians counted kinship through their male line to the remote past, but the sister of one's mother was "some sort of relation." Ms. Durham (who must have had the soul of David Livingstone) stayed with Albanians who refused to believe that nights in summer were shorter than in winter. Albanian men were constantly "in blood" with other tribes because they had killed to "cleanse their honor" to a degree that the Hatfield/McCoy feud seems like a happy band of brothers in comparison. Top-notch first-hand vintage travel: Recommended.

A very enjoyable read.......2003-11-08

Edith Durham was a remarkable British woman which after an illness that caused her depression. Her doctor recommended that she changes the place where she lives and she did. She sailed to Balkans and it was then when her lifelong involvement with the people of Balkans began.

"As I knew there was no case on record of a stranger being "held"
in North Albania, and moreover, The Albanian is an old friend of mine" - she writes and there she was in Albania even though they were under occupation by Turks at the time.

Even though it is more like a armchair travel book, Edith gave us a lot of historical facts about Albanians. She writes a lot about Illyrians and Skenderbeg. She talks about times when Slavs with an enormous number came to Balkans for the first time.
But what makes this book so pleasant is when she writes about her time spent with various Albanian tribes. There are so many "tales" such as those with Witches. There is a "tale" about an Albanian woman who killed her husband who sold her brother's life to the turks for a bag of gold.
There is a lot of everything and this book is just wonderful by all means. Even though I am an Albanian there were lots of things I learned that I didn't know before.

So if you really need to learn more about Albanians, their traditions and their history - one must chose Edith Durham's book
"High Albania"

Highly Recommended

A glimpse into antiquity.......2003-02-05

A good book is capable of opening your eyes to a whole new reality, Ms. Durham does that here. An Italian historian once wrote that the Albanian territories were across the Adriatic Sea yet less known than darkest Africa, this is a valiant effort to remedy that. Ms. Durham ventures, illegaly, into northern "High" Albania with an intrepid curiosity and through Western eyes proceeds to open up the vast horizons of Albanian culture. Imagine a society so isolated by the Alps and suspiscion of outsiders that they still have a ready grasp on pre-Christian traditions and myth. Read this and learn of the highland clans, the "besa", the rights of blood and honour that decimated entire generations of males and oh so much more.

Ms. Durham managed to earn the love and respect of those that trusted no one and had been maltreated by all. She lobbied tirelessly, if vainly, for her adopted people for her entire life and in the end was embraced as the "Queen of the Mountain People." This truly is an exceptional book. Read it.

A Must Read for those Interested in Gheg Albanian Culture.......2002-08-08

Edith Durham is the undisputed "Queen of the Northern Albanian Alps". She takes you along her tour in Victorian/British-English fashion through the Northern Albanian Alps just after the turn of the century and you feel as if you were just whisked away to ford the streams and climb the mountains with her.

Remarkable as it was to have traversed this landscape in 1909, it was nothing short of a miracle for a woman to have done it. She gained the respect of those she met, showing respect for the great traditional law of the Gheg Albanians--the Kanun of Leke Dukagjini. She was offered "bread and salt" at every table and never doubted the Albanian people's ability to show mikpritje (hospitality) towards an outsider as herself.

Furthermore, I loved the stories she relates about her visits to the specific tribes. She peppers them occasionally with Albanian parables that she was told along the way. For me, this book was amazing and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

They were our mothers.......2001-05-27

The totally engaging travel diary of a woman who explored High Albania in the years before the constitution. It is illustrated, though sparsely, with her own charming sketches.

The book explains the complex tribal system of social relationship where strict rules on intermarriage inevitably spark off tribal blood feuds. It is another view of this worlds love affair with the gun. You will be intrigued by the tradition of the "Albanian virgin".

I came to understand better, through reading this book,the civilizing power of government. The author also deals with the development of the concept of individuation and personal responsibility. This is often accompanied by the original folk stories that Ms Durham recorded.

Edith Durham became for a time unofficial "Queen" in recognition of her contributions to social welfare. The daughter of an English surgeon, she never married, but fell in love on a holiday trip and gave her life to a people. I would like to read more by, or about this woman.

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British Politics in the Age of Anne is a book that anyone with an interest in the period will wish to possess: completely authoritative, yet as attractive to the student and the general reader as to the specialist. The author has both revised the text and written a substantial new introduction to this edition. Geoffrey Holmes reveals how little the structure and contents of politics under Queen Anne had in common with the connexion-ridden scene of the mid-eighteenth century, as portrayed by Namier. He depicts a period of fierce and genuine party conflict, in which society at many levels was divided by great issues of principle and policy. Through frequent and hotly-contested elections and long parliamentary campaigns both Whigs and Tories enjoyed triumphs and suffered disasters. And while struggling against one another, each had to contend with internal factions and pressure-groups, the divisive thrust of personal ambitions and the hostility of the queen to single party rule. British politics in the Age of Anne is more than a major work of analysis and a historiographical landmark. By liberal use of quotation, eye for detail, sense of atmosphere and vivid character sketches of both leading and lesser personae, Professor Holmes recreates the unique political life of the high Augustan age.

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British Politics in the Age of Anne:
Geoffrey Holmes
Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CNK66

Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne

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Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne
Pat Rogers
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0199274398

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This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts provides the fullest contextual account to date of Windsor-Forest (1713), widely seen as a key text in the evolution of early eighteenth-century poetry. It examines the poem's topical and political aspects and offers a reconfiguration of Pope's early career, demonstrating that this was a pivotal period, marking a critical watershed in both his personal and literary development. The book gives a complete account of Pope's life and work in his early twenties, and supplies a new political interpretation, including a careful analysis of possible Jacobite colourings. Attention is directed towards a range of literary, historical, ideological, and artistic issues. The book draws on classical studies (the role of Virgil and Ovid especially), Renaissance scholarship, literary history, political history, and artistic contexts. The key ideas and techniques of Windsor-Forest are related to Pope's other early works, including the Pastorals and, centrally, The Rape of the Lock. Rogers goes on to reassess the poet's dealings with the Scriblerus group. He shows previously unnoted textual connections with the work of Swift, Gay, Parnell, and also Prior, and casts fresh light on the tortuous process of composition and revision of Windsor-Forest, with a description of the manuscript and an account of the publishing and textual history, while numerous allusions are traced for the first time. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.

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British Politics in the Age of Anne
Holmes Geoffrey
Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDO7EW

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British Politics in the Age of Anne
Holmes Geoffrey
Manufacturer: The Hambledon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UF5P8C

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Birds

Different than expected

Great book for birders

A road book with a passion

Kaufman Becomes a Birding Fanatic

Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
Kenn Kaufman
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0618062351

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As ornithologist Kenn Kaufman recounts in his lively memoir Kingbird Highway, he's managed to do what other birders only dream of doing: take a year and chase winged creatures from one end of the country to another. The year in question was 1973, when Kaufman was 19 years old, and a few dollars and an outstretched thumb could go a long way. Armed with binoculars, notebook, and the blessing of birder patron saint Roger Tory Peterson, Kaufman set out to capture the record for most species spotted in a single year. He came close, closing with 666 species sighted from Alaska to Florida and back again. More important, he racked up a lifetime's worth of adventures on the road. These stories form the heart of his book, a narrative in which spotted redshanks, white-eared hummingbirds, marbled murrelets, and black-capped gnatcatchers are among the chief supporting players.

Book Description

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. His goal was to set a record - most North American species seen in a year - but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. What had been a game became a quest for a deeper understanding of the natural world. KINGBIRD HIGHWAY is a unique coming-of-age story, combining a lyrical celebration of nature with wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventures, starring a colorful cast of characters.

Customer Reviews:

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Birds.......2007-02-10

Written many years after the fact, this book is well worth reading many years after the fact. Kingbird Highway is an autobiography, a travelogue, and a `where-to-bird' guide for 1973. It is a tale of life, liberty, and the pursuit of birds. Kingbird, alias Kenn Kaufman drops out of high school to pursue his dream (obsession) of seeing more birds in a single year than anyone had ever seen before. There are several catches to his liberty and pursuit of birds. He must see the birds north of Mexico, a technicality that affects his dream. He has almost no money, so he does cheapest Big Year ever with the lowest dollar to bird ratio ever. He spends only about $1000 by hitchhiking everywhere and living off Little Friskies in a can of cold soup for dinner. Kingbird Highway provides a wonderful map of where to bird even now over forty years later. For example, the Brownville Texas Municipal dump is still the place to see Tamaulipas crows. Read in conjunction with a field guide, Kingbird Highway opens a world of birds, their habits, and habitats that might otherwise escape notice.

Different than expected.......2006-11-04

This is a good book, but not what I expected. It's about a specific time in birding and America. This makes Kenn Kaufman's experience unique. This was during the "early days" of birding and bird listers. There was not the instantaneous information of the location of rare species we have now. If you are interested in birding, the search for rare bird species, or the effort to see bird species out of their normal range, I would recommend this book.

Great book for birders.......2004-10-19

Kenn Kaufman began birding at an early age, and as a young teenager he hid his "geeky" habit from his friends. Eventually, as he became older, he realized that there was a birding fraternity and he began to bird with others who loved it as much as he did. At 16, with his parents' blessing, he dropped out of school and began doing cross-country birding by hitchiking around the country. His knowledge of birds grew and his contacts with other birders increased. In 1973 he decided to go for a Big Year, that is a year in which he attempted to break the record for most birds seen in a year. The pace of Kaufman's quest was amazing and he relates his adventures in an interesting and down-to-earth style. Towards the end of his Big Year, Kaufman begins to question his own motives for building up his list and his introspection brings a new maturity to him and his methods of birding. This is a great book for any bird enthusiast.

A road book with a passion.......2003-10-18

I read this book a couple of years ago ,haven't been writing reviews for long;but thought I would go back to this fine effort.I've read a lot of " road" books by some of the best; such as Heat-Moon,Kerouac,Mc Murtry,Peterson/Fisher,Steinbeck,Teale,Caldwell ;but as good as these were, none were written with the passion and self involvement that Kaufman brings to this book.He didn't set out to roam the country to escape,find himself,to discover the people or country.He set with the purpose of finding as many bird species as he could in one year ; wrote a book about it,and even though the goal was not just to write a book; he produced one that is as good as the "best".As a Birder ,we have all experienced many of the things he did ;but without the endurance,passion and commitment that he did.I thought I experienced cold along the Niagara River looking for Gulls in the Winter;but this was mild compared to sleeping in a car on the East coast when it was "cold as an Eskimo's tomb",eating from a can of cold soup at the ABA onvention,or having "his" scope blown away during a storm while doing the Christmas Bird count.If you like road books;but even more so if you enjoy nature/birding you just gotta read this gem !In my opinion he is right up there with the best of them.

Kaufman Becomes a Birding Fanatic.......2003-08-02

Great read. Any serious birder will like it as will a general audience that likes books along the lines of William Least-Moon.

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