Victorian Houseware, Hardware and Kitchenware: A Pictorial Archive with Over 2000 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Teeming with over 2,000 illustrations — reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from antique catalogs — this archive offers an extensive view of the furnishings of a typical 19th-century home. It features andirons and ash sifters, housemaids' buckets and buttonhole cutters, sausage stuffers, seed strippers, spittoons, and hundreds of other items.

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A must-have for writers!.......2006-11-22

Although interesting for the idle reader, this book is a valuable resource for those writing in the period setting, with its detailed descriptions and illustrations of items considered mundane in this era but no longer in use today. Also a priceless resource for the reenactment community.

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Using simple techniques, this guide demonstrates how to emulate the traditional look and feel of genuine stained glass with colorful, specially commissioned photographs and easy-to-follow instructions—illustrating how to create stylized flowers, ornamentation, knotwork patterns, Tiffany-style pictures, and more. Tracing, outlining, painting, mixing and blending colors, adding texture, gilding, and applying decoration are covered in detail through such projects as panels, bookmarks, tiles, window hangers, bottles, mirrors and vases.

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Wonderful introduction to glass painting.......1999-08-22

This is a wonderful introduction to the basics of glass painting. Color photo and step-by-step instructions help guide you through a wide variety of techniques.

The book starts out by quickly demonstrating many basic techniques as well as covering safety & materials. Some techniques include outlining, marbling, blending, adding gems, frosting, gilding, & using a self-adhesive lead or gel.

There are many great multi-cultural projects for learning each technique. These include an Asian floral plate, Tiffany window panel, Celtic knotwork frame, Victorian rose bowl, Egyptian bookmark, & a mosaic box.

Templates accompany each project. There are a few extra templates given for each style as well. Though it may take some practice to create a masterpiece, this is definitely the book to get you there.

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A lavishly designed, full-color photographic record of that American shopping institution, the thrift store. The culmination of a decade of "thrifting" by renowned book artist Emily K. Larned, Thrift Store contains photographs and essays that celebrate the joys of second-hand shopping. Originally published as a limited-edition artist book, this beautifully done trade edition has been expanded to include new photographs and insights that demonstrate the appeal of the thrift store in contemporary America.

Emily K. Larned is a Brooklyn-based book artist and the vice president of Booklyn, a not-for-profit artist alliance. Her handmade artist books are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, Tate Britain, and the Getty.

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More misadventures of my favorite Viking.......2002-04-12

This 4"x7" paperback book is a collection of Hägar the Horrible comics by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89). Here in this book are many adventures of Hägar, his friend Lucky Eddie, his formidable wife Helga, his beautify though self-conscious daughter Honi, his bookish son Hamlet, his ever-relaxed dog Snert, and Hägar's less than competent crew. In this book, Hägar must face an evil magician, a Scottish curse, and repeated (rather unsuccessful) attempts to educate both Hamlet and Snert

Recently, while digging through an old box full of books, I came across several of my treasured Hägar books, of which this is one. My children (girl eleven, boy eight) grabbed it away from me, and were soon happily reading the jokes out loud to all present. It is so nice to see that Hägar can entrance the young of today, much as he did me. My children and I agree that the best cartoon in this book is when Hägar shows Hamlet how to skip stones, bouncing them off a rock in the center of the lake (the underwater dragon rubs his head and says "Hägar's back!"). My wife enjoyed Helga's further schooling of Honi (no spoilers this time!).

We all love this book, and you will too. If you can get it, then do so!

An insightive work into ancient Nordic bathtime and leisure........1999-03-17

Years of archeological study has prepared me to answer that Dik Browne's insights into this ancient culture has turned the current theories into ancient Viking life on it's head.

It was thought of by revisionist historians for the longest time that vikings did not wear horned helmets or waged war at every opportunity. This latest work shows proof that these ancestrial beserkers did, in fact, do all this and more.

New evidence has been brought to life that these people had a complex family life, enjoyed food and drink in large quantities, and had managed to domesticate the common Duck as well as the familiar canines.

Brownes work is based upon the preserved record of an ancient family as kept by the eldest son. Brownes magnificent rendering of this family group includes the patriarch, Hagar; his wife, Helga; their daughter and son, pets, mother-in-law, and Hagar's best friend, Lucky.

As both a historian and an archeoligist, I highly recommend this study to any of my colleages. Huzzah!

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Room for One More (Hagar the Horrible)

Manufacturer: Tor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000FCXMPS

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Strategic Planning for Sponsored Projects Administration: The Role of Information Management (Emerging Patterns of Work and Communications in an Information Age)
Keith Harman , and Charles R. McClure
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0313249318

Book Description

Going beyond typical approaches to developing and administering sponsored projects, the authors build a compelling case for new perspectives and techniques which are uniquely relevant to today's fast-paced Information Age. This work functions as both a theoretical treatise and a desk-top handbook by integrating systems thinking, information management, boundary spanning, contingency management, and strategic planning into an effective and flexible model for both the public and private sectors. It assesses the various factors to take into account when applying the model in different organizational settings and outlines the various steps in initiating a project and bringing it to completion. The authors also further unify the technical work and human dimensions of their model by incorporating it with emerging concepts of organization culture.

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Landlord's Legal Guide in Massachusetts (Legal Survival Guides)
Joseph P. Diblasi , and Mark Warda
Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Every Landlord's Legal Guide (Book w/ CD-Rom)

ASIN: 1572483989

Book Description

Discusses the need for security deposits Explains landlord rights and responsibilities Covers information regarding subleases Clarifies eviction procedures

Landlords' Rights and Duties in Massachusetts: With Forms (Self-Help Law Kit With Forms)

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Landlords' Rights and Duties in Massachusetts : With Forms.
Very helpful

Landlords' Rights and Duties in Massachusetts: With Forms (Self-Help Law Kit With Forms)
Joseph P. Diblasi , and Mark Warda
Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1572481072

Book Description

Under Massachusetts law, if you do not follow the exact procedures required of landlords, you can be liable to tenants for thousands of dollars in damages and attorney's fees. Landlords' Rights & Duties in Massachusetts explains Massachusetts landlord/tenant laws in simple language so you can protect your rights and your investment. This book thoroughly explains what to do and how to do it, with forms, flowcharts and examples from actual cases. Complete with step-by-step instructions and the forms you need, this book can significantly reduce your costs and potential liability as a landlord. It explains and gives guidelines for: Tenant's application Evictions Claims on security deposits Bad check notices Abandoned property rules Suits for back rent Pets Discrimination laws Maintenance rules

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Landlords' Rights and Duties in Massachusetts : With Forms........2000-02-26

I have several apartments and condos. Though I am well versed with the real estate laws in Mass., this book is a great reference for me. Any landlord in Mass. should have this book, it is easy to read and understand. Dealing with the court system can be a nightmare if you are not prepared, believe me. If you don't have everything in proper order, you lose. This book will assist you in what are your responsiblities are, you can bet your tenant does. Beware of the professional tenant! Plus, the book gives helpful hints to make your life a little easier.

Very helpful.......2000-02-07

My husband and I own a two-family house near Boston. This book has been very helpful in knowing what we are legally responsible for. We also used the forms included. Since purchasing this book, we've realized we are much more detail-oriented than most landlords. Tenants have many rights that landlords simply ignore that could really hurt them in the end. Courts don't accept "ignorance" as an excuse from landlords. This book is well worth it and easy to understand for a landlord interested in the legalities of smaller residential and commercial properties.

The Massachusetts landlord survival guide (RHA's classic legal handbook)

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The Massachusetts landlord survival guide (RHA's classic legal handbook)
Philip S Lapatin
Manufacturer: Rental Housing Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Landlord & Tenant | English Law | Law | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006RWWKS

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Not your father's cancer treatment.......2003-04-01

New advances in cancer treatment are exploding on the scene, and Dr. Dooley and Marian Betancourt have outlined them clearly in this book. It's cutting-edge science, explained in plain English.

The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs- Joseph F. Dooley Ph.D........2002-06-21

I purchased this book for an associate intending to skim through it. It is very well written and "user friendly." I found myself reading the entire book. The chapters direct you to the specific site of cancer the individual is interested in. Standard treatments are discussed but the newer exciting, promising developments for all cancers are detailed. One can find the expert physicians and cancer centers where clinical trials are ongoing. Web sites and telephone numbers are given as contact information.Support groups are detailed. It is uplifting and provides hope. Don't read this book if you are looking for "quackery". I hope the author provides updates with a second edition! Thanks a lot.

The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs.......2002-06-20

This book was a wonderful help to me and my family. A very close friend told me that she had lung cancer. She was told by her doctor to wait and see. I told her about this book and gave her a copy. She was able to find the latest treatments for her type of cancer in the book. It even had the name of the specialist doing that work in her city. "The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs" gave her hope and she felt empowered by the information she found in this wonderful book. She was able to ask her doctor all of the right questions, and with him, find an experimanetal new treatment for her disease. Without this book, she would never have started the process that eventually heped her so much.

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interesting but a little boring

The Beginning of the States!

The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48 (European History in Perspective)
Ronald G. Asch
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics)

ASIN: 0312165854

Book Description

Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected. Thus the problems of war finance are shown to be an important key to the interaction between inter-state and domestic conflicts during the war. Equally confessional tensions are analysed as a decisive factor linking international and domestic disputes, and the reader is provided with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the major turning points of the war.

Customer Reviews:

interesting but a little boring.......2002-08-09

Mr. Asch is obviously a thorough and competent specialist of the period. It seems to me that he is writing essentially from a German perspective, which is not a bad thing, but his thorough expositions, chapter by chapter, lack the additional dimension one would expect to find in a book describing such an amazing period of European history. In other words, this is accurate, solid stuff but after a while, it takes some effort to labour through the rest of the book. Historians can't be expected to write page turners, but still !

The Beginning of the States!.......2000-12-26

The Thirty Years War by Ronald Asch is a very good book on the subject of the political forces and their interaction that came to be called the "Thirty Years War". He looks at not only the policies of the major actors in Europe at that time but also at the area of religion and what factor it played in this conflict. I would recommend this book to individuals with a strong understand of the political factors and major European powers of the 17th century. As for others, this book may be a little hard to follow. A map of the region is provided in the front, but I would have enjoyed additional maps encompassing those specific areas that specific chapters covered to be included in those chapters. I would have also liked to see a little bit more of the military aspects of this conflict to be covered in depth. However, even with these minor request, Robert Asch's book is a great reasource covering a interesting period of sometimes forgotten European history. It should be required read for those interested in state politics and to understand how the European states came into existence.

The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Kelly DeVries
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 824 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 Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48.(Review) (book review)
Author: Kelly DeVries
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 538

Article Type: Book Review

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The Thirty Years War : The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48 (European History in Perspective)

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The Thirty Years War : The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48 (European History in Perspective)
Ronald G. Asch
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU6RN2

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Very Helpful.......2001-01-20

This was a great book! It was helpful to me because im a duck hunter. It would also be great for other duck hunters who dont know their ducks too well. They show all kinds of ducks, and where they breed. It also shows lunes, geese, and even swans. This book is great for curious readers and also big time duck hunters.

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