Conservation and Restoration of Glass, Second Edition

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Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the materials and practices required for the care and preservation of glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of glass conservation.

This new edition of Newton and Davison's original book, Conservation of Glass, includes sections on the nature of glass, the historical development and technology of glassmaking, and the deterioration of glass. Professional conservators will welcome the inclusion of recommendations for examination and documentation. Incorporating treatment of both excavated glass and historic and decorative glass, the book provides the knowledge required by conservators and restorers and is invaluable for anyone with glass objects in their care.

* Includes both theoretical background and practical procedures, providing a comprehensive view of the subject
* Contains new highly illustrated case studies
* Concentrates on 2 and 3 dimensional glass object restoration

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In our society it has long been believed that art serves very little social purpose. Evolutionary anthropologists, however, are examining a potential role for art in human evolution.

Kathryn Coe looks to the visual arts of traditional societies for clues. Because they are passed down from previous generations, traditional art forms such as body decoration, funeral ornaments, and ancestral paintings offer ways to promote social relationships among kin and codescendants of a common ancestor. Mothers used art forms to anchor themselves and their kin to the father and his kin, and to promote the survival and reproductive success of kin and descendants. Individuals who abided by this strategy, accompanied by its strict codes of cooperation, left more distant descendants than did individuals who did not. Over time, given this reproductive success, large numbers of individuals would be identified as codescendants of a common ancestor and would cooperate as if they were close kin. These cooperative codescendants were more likely to survive and leave descendants. With each new generation these clans propagated not only their genes but also their behavioral strategy, the replication or presence of "art."

The book concludes by examining the changing characteristics of visual art-including a higher value on creativity, competition, and cost-when traditional constraints on social behavior disappear.

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"Wherever I happened to be," wrote Paul Strand, "I sought the signs of a long partnership that give each place its special quality and create the profiles of its people. . . . "

In 1953 the renowned American photographer Paul Strand, who was then living in France, suggested to Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini that they do a book together about a small town in Italy, a town that would reveal the spirit of a people. Strand asked Zavattini to choose a village with the elusive "special quality" he sought. Zavattini knew just such a village: his own birthplace of Luzzara, in the Po Valley. The collaboration of these two remarkable artists resulted in the classic book Un Paese.

Published in Italian in 1955, and now available for the first time in the English language, Un Paese captures in photographs and in spoken testimony the essential experience of daily life in Luzzara. It presents a series of intense portraits, graceful landscapes, and images of everyday objects. Paul Strand's photographs are carefully distilled, deeply powerful; they contain the flavors and the rhythms of an entire culture crystallized in a single village. Zavattini successfully synthesizes text and image, aligning with the new cinematic trend of the day, a movement known as Italian neorealism. Their Luzzara is an ordinary village, neither overly picturesque nor greatly unusual, yet it is a town sustained by a grounded humanity and a profound love for the land by its people.

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The people of Luzzara.......1998-12-30

Never have I experienced before the feeling of looking into Italy's eyes so deeply. The photos of Paul Strand along with the notes of Cesare Zavattini are a masterpiece.

But most important : you may fall in love with the little girl on page 72. As for me, I will never forget that look.

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Un Paese : A Portrait of an Italian Village
Paul; Shore, Marguerite (translator) Strand
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Before there was The Incredibles, there was Major Damage: the tale of a little boy who is transformed into his favorite super hero, protecting the world from mutants, monsters, and alien scum!

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National Technical Information Service: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate

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Information for the inspector, investor, appraiser, home buyer, home owner and handyman regarding structure

A Practical Guide to Inspecting Structure (Amercan Home Inspectors Training Institute How-to Library & Guide, Volume 1)

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A Practical Guide to Inspecting Structure (Amercan Home Inspectors Training Institute How-to Library & Guide, Volume 1)

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Publisher: Amercan Home Inspectors Training Institute, revised 2002 edition

A Practical Guide to Inspecting Structure (Revised)

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A Practical Guide to Inspecting Structure (Revised)
Roy Newcomer
Manufacturer: American Home Inspectors Training Institute
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VFWJGM

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The Practical Parent.......2003-06-30

27 years ago, this book saved my sanity and that of my children. I followed the advice to the letter, and within a few applications, all of us learned our lessons well. Today, they are our best friends... happy and well-adjusted. I have credited this book and these methods ever since, and today had an opportunity to recommend it to two colleagues. After a brief glance, both saw the potential in the methods and are ordering the books. I will always be grateful for what I learned here. It literally changed our lives.

My favorite parenting book!.......2003-03-19

I am an elementary school teacher and the mother of three children and this book has helped me more than all the child psychology books I have read. It gives practical advice for every conceivable situation and also gives antidotes from actual case studies where the advice was applied. It opens your mind up to all kinds of positive ways to teach your children to be more pleasant individuals. I have personally used alot of the advice and it works.

An absolute "must" for parents.......1998-04-11

The book gives excellent and compassionate methods to deal with everyday problems parents encounter with their upgrowing children. A warm and at the same time 'no-nonsense' approach. Paul Miedema, child-psychologist, The Netherlands

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On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma. The subsequent U.S. victory signaled the end of the Cheyennes' traditional way of life and resulted in the death of Black Kettle, their most prominent peace chief. Long considered a watershed event, the Washita received formal national recognition in 1996 when the site became a unit of the National Park System. Now, in a remarkably balanced history, Jerome A. Greene draws on newly available material from both Indian and U.S. Army sources to retell in unprecedented depth the story of what happened on the snowy banks of the Washita River at dawn that November day.

Tracing the history of the Southern Cheyennes from the seventeenth century, Greene describes the horrific losses Black Kettle's people suffered at Sand Creek, Colorado, four years earlier. Terrified of another attack, Black Kettle sought to maintain a fragile peace, but to no avail. On orders from General Phil Sheridan, the U.S. Army made a retaliatory strike against the Indians for purported raids, deliberately attacking the Cheyennes in the deep of winter when the Indians were most vulnerable.

Synthesizing primary and secondary sources, Greene describes the event's causes, conduct, and consequences even as he addresses the multiple controversies surrounding the conflict, including questions of whether the engagement was a battle or a massacre and whether Custer purposely abandoned his men during the fighting. As Greene explains, the engagement brought both praise and condemnation for Custer and carried long-range implications for his stunning defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn eight years later.

Volume 5 in the Campaigns & Commanders series

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Controversial Subject: Custer and the Cheyenne .......2005-03-26

Washita is one of the more controversial battles of the Plains Wars in that there are several aspects that make it unique. What is not unique is the standard approach of attacking native americans in the dead of winter when they were much less mobile and prone to surprise if the attacking force could survive the elements. What makes the battle exceptionally controversial is that Black Kettle of Sand Creek fame and known as a peace chief once again bears the brunt of an attack, which in this case he does not survive. He also was making peace overtures at the time that several young men from many villages and perhaps his own were still making raids. The other ring of controversy is the loss of Major Elliott and his platoon that impulsively chased after escaping villagers too far from support and was annihilated by Indians from neighboring villages. Custer eventually abandoned the field under pressure to save his command but this seemed to aggravate a split in his command since Elliott could not be found. The split was particularly with Captain Benteen who was highly critical and later has a contributory part in Custer's demise at the Little Big Horn, which has more than a touch of irony. Well written and researched by Green, maps are very good and for example demonstrates how young Lt. Godfrey almost made the same mistake as Elliott but was restrained by wiser counsel. Excellent over all view of the Cheyenne with a background on their history as well as a good review of the military situation in Kansas. Good balance although more dicussion on Sand Creek may have been appropriate a new book cast a different opinion on that battle and perhaps recognizing that may have made that section of the book more interesting. This is a good book to buy and keep on the shelf and take with you if you ever get a chance to go in the field and visit the site yourself.

"Washita" Proves Jerry Greene Is One Of Our Best Historians .......2005-02-21

Plains Indian War historian, Jerome A. Greene, has produced another important book to add to his growing body of work. "Washita" proves that Greene is one of our best historians researching and writing today, period. Unlike so many published authors that write from secondary sources, Greene relies principally upon primary sources to tell the story of Lt. Col. George Custer, the 7th Cavalry, and Black Kettle at the Battle of the Washita.

"Washita" begins in Colorado with Greene reciting the story of the Sand Creek Massacre, November 29, 1864, along with its causes and aftermath. We learn how Black Kettle escaped only to die almost four years to the day, November 27, 1868 under similar circumstances at the Washita.

Greene writes with firm yet smooth determination in recounting a complicated story of Indian/White depredations, by both groups, beside the old roads, ranches, and rivers of the American West. There is nothing politically correct in Greene's story - it is a brutally honest and most unprejudiced book written about this dark period of the Indian Wars.

By the time Custer and 11 companies of the 7th Cavalry leave Camp Supply, heading towards the Washita River, on November 23, 1868 Greene has laid out all the reasons why in a succinct but clear interpretation. I love the way Greene writes his stories - he doesn't waste any time. Greene would make a great screenwriter - he draws a clear picture in our mind through his words, the picture is sharp, focused; the plot and the characters, with the different pieces, all come together allowing the viewer (reader) to follow the storyline completely without question.

Greene's story about the Battle of the Washita is told in two parts - the first part is from the army's perspective while part two is told from Indian accounts. If I may use film as an analogy again, "Washita" is somewhat like Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film, "Rashomon" which tells the story of a murder from four eyewitness accounts with each account being somewhat different from each other. One might think that Greene relating the story of the battle this way would make it confusing, however, that is the farthest from the truth.

Greene provides evidence confirming the number of soldier's killed and even the count for Indian dead. He also provides conclusive evidence as to who in Custer's command killed many of the non-combatants - it was mostly the Osage scouts; even after Custer ordered his troops to prevent, "the killing of any but the fighting strength of the village..." before the battle began.

Greene delivers a detailed analysis of the demise of Major Elliott and 17 of his men against Cheyennes, Kiowas, Arapahos, and Kiowa-Apaches - warriors that entered the battle from the downriver villages. Elliott and his troops were cut-off from the main village and the rest of the 7th -- surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned they reluctantly let go of the horses, lay down in the tall grass in a circle facing outward and gave it their best shot to the last man.

If you are prone to not review endnotes of a book, I highly recommend that you do read those that Greene provides. You will find pertinent information -- all most interesting about the battle. You don't want to miss any of the action! It is in the endnotes where you will learn that Custer had his soldiers retrieve two ponies from the village herd, before all the horses were killed, for each Indian woman prisoner to use on their trip back north.

From the opening of the battle when Custer orders the soldier's dogs killed to ensure silence, to the vexation of the warriors watching hundreds of ponies killed, Greene's account of the Battle of the Washita is told better than all others preceding him. I think it will be a long time before someone else can even possibly come close.

Jerome Greene has just completed the definitive account of the administrative history of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. It is currently in review at the National Park Service and will be published soon.

The Washita--Pulled From the Little Big Horn's Shadow.......2004-09-09

... An excellent book with all the quality, both in terms of literary style and source documentation, that readers have come to expect from Jerry Greene. It goes without saying that this work replaces Stan Hoig's WASHITA that has stood for nearly thirty years as the best volume on this engagement.

Often, when students of the Indian Wars discuss the Washita, it is in terms of viewing it as a "test case" for what Custer was probably trying to achieve at the Little Big Horn eight years later. While that approach has strong merits, it tends to lessen the importance of this battle. This book does allude to Custer and the Little Big Horn but mainly treats the Washita in the full context of the situation on the southern plains from 1867-1869, therefore helping us see this as the historical event that it was in its own right.

Excellent photos included, especially was intrigued by an image that I have not encounterd before, that of Sgt. Major Walter Kennedy (killed at the Washita) when he was a Confederate army officer from Virginia. Despite what old Hollywood movies like to portray, there were actually very few cases of Confederate officers becoming either enlisted men or non-coms in the US Regular Army after the Civil War. For someone interested in the fascinatiing personalities of the 7th Cavalry, there is much here: the tensions between Custer and Benteen, the controversial death of Major Elliott, the death of Captain Lewis Hamilton, (grandson of Alexander Hamilton), the wounding of Barnitz, etc. Greene also engages in a detailed examination of whether the Washita should be termed a "massacre" or a "battle." Much food for thought here, even though many readers (like myself) may respecfully disagree with some of what he says.

From the standpoint of visiting the battlefield, this book contains an ten page appendix that provides very detailed descriptions of what took place at each spot on a numbered map that appears earlier in the book. This map key, as well as this entire book, is indispensible for anyone planning to visit the battlefield, in person and/or through books.

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On April 8, 1998, a powerful tornado plowed through a quiet spring night in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. In a thirty-mile path of destruction, the storm killed thirty-two people, injured 252 other victims, and left thousands of families homeless. Eyes in a Storm is the story of how a brave group of rescue workers fought to save lives that night and how they struggled to recover their own in the years that followed.

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from the wife of Matthew Seals.......2004-12-11

Hi! This is Renee' Seals, wife of Matthew (June '04). This book is absolutely WONDERFUL and accurate according to my husband and others I know from the area!

It breaks my heart to see and know what all he, his family and all of the other residents of Rock Creek went through. Thankfully, I was not involved in it and didn't lose anyone/anything dear to me at the time, though it did strike again very close to my home in Moody. Tragedies are strange animals -- what you think would bring you closer to your family can often be the final straw that breaks the camel's back. I know that God gave my husband peace and that is the ONLY way he made it through this. I cannot begin to know what he and Christie went through, losing one son, laying out there for hours waiting for help, and not knowing where the other two are, but I still see the hurt and pain and results of what happened that night. Quite honestly, I don't know how anyone could make it through such without God.

Only He can bring the peace and healing needed, and I am thanful I have seen some of that first hand. I pray continued peace and healing for all who went through the hell that night, as well as all who have this type of tragedy in their lives.

Jessica -- THANK YOU for portraying this story so well in book form. I learned new things reading through it myself.

From the son of Eddie Maxwell.......2003-08-28

At the time this event happened I was living in North Florida. It was three days after this storm that I found out what had happened. Not knowing if I had family to come back to, I raced back to Rock Creek. I drove past the street I had lived on for 19 years and did not even recognize it. I never really new the full extent of the damage since it was 3 days after clean up had begun that I arrived. This book has shown me a view, and a detail, in this story that few people in the community are willing to talk about. I am purchasing a copy for myself even though I have read the copy given to my parents, and will charish it for many years to come. This community is everything that she has described it to be, and I have found no exaggeration in any of the pages of this book. My dad was also involved in the search and resue efforts, and to this day he is still unable to sit through any conversation regarding the events of April 8, 1998. Jessica, my hat's off to you. You are an excellent writer and I look forward to seeing more of your work. Journalism could use a lot more people like you. Truth and integrity have been a long time gone in the media, and it is refreshing to see someone report the story the way it really happened. I hope that many people learn from this book, and I hope that the people this book was written about live happy and prosperous lives. They have litterally lived through "Hell on Earth".

A Wonderful Gripping book!.......2003-08-26

"Eyes in a Storm" kept me riveted from page one, as though I was swept along with the tornado's winds! I couldn't wait to turn the page, yet was almost afraid to do so for fear of what was coming next. McNew's eloquent description of the community members made me feel as if I knew them, as if they were my neighbors, people in my community. Reading how they rebuilt their lives and their property and continue to do so to this day, made me take stock of what really is important in my life.

Storm spotter's wife.......2003-08-23

Ms. McNew has given a correct and true account of what our community went through in the weeks and months, even years, following the F-5 tornado in April of 1998. This author made every effort to record each persons account of their experience and to verify her material before publication. I am as proud of Ms. McNew for this excellant reading, as I am my husband and all the men and women of the Concord Fire Department of which my husband was also a member of. The things he saw in the recovery effort to find missing people, the wailing and screaming of our neighbors pleading for help will forever be in his thoughts. Viet Nam couldn't have looked any worse, for our home-town litteraly looked like a bomb exploded. We thought it could never happen to us. Ms. McNew's book is a "can't quit reading" of the fear, heartache, destruction and sense of hopelessness that one feels in this situation. Any community that goes through this kind of tragedy will go for days without sleep, trying to dig your way out of all the destruction. Streets are covered with trees, crumpled cars, dead people, parts of homes, pets, washing machines and spewing gas and water lines from where the trees were ripped from their roots and splintered into pieces. People found themselves with only the clothes on their backs and possibly no shoes to wear to protect their feet from all the broken glass. The phone lines were gone, and within a short amount of time the cell phones didn't work because the repeater was jammed with too many calls. There was no way to even call your loved ones to let them know you are, or are not, alright. In an instant all your family heirlooms, pictures, Grannies old china cabinet that you inherited, Great-Granddads old shotgun....all of it gone. Thank you, Jessica, for a job well done!

Go inside the storm..........2003-08-17

This gripping account of the tornado that ripped through the small Alabama townships sweeps you along just like a storm's powerful winds! Ms. McNew's eloquent description of the people and the community make you feel as if you know them, they could be your neighbors, members of your community. As a mother, I sat by the tree in the rain with Christy Seals and shared her worry over her family and felt the helplessness she did. More than once I was brought to tears reading about the havoc and destruction this storm caused, both in terms of personal and property loss. I highly recommend this to anyone who wonders beyond the headlines to seeing how people go on to rebuild their homes and, more importantly their lives, after experiencing a horrific event.

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The American West boasts the greatest variety of birds of prey in North America. In Birds of Prey in the American West acclaimed photographer Tom Vezo and raptor expert Clay Sutton celebrate the power and majesty of these remarkable creatures which include several that have been brought back from the brink of extinction and others that continue to be threatened by loss of fragile habitat. Vezo's extraordinary photographs and Sutton's authoritative text depict and describe more than 35 species of eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and owls indigenous to the West. They also share their personal experiences searching for these captivating birds in the wild, and include a recommended list of prime birding locations in parks and wildlife refuges. 80 color photographs.

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Stunning images from the best in bird photography.......2006-12-27

In case you're not aware, Tom Vezo is one of the best bird photographers in the United States, and most likely the world. Right off the bat, that should set your expectations when you flip through this book. Quite simply, some of the images are truly amazing and you'll be wondering how Tom was able to "pull off" some of these shots.

If you have an interest in bird photography, more toward the serious side, I would strongly recommend that you purchase this book and study the pictures carefully. You'll immediately get a feel for what it takes to capture a wonderful image, although most people will probably never get even a quarter of the amazing shots contained in the book, and that's okay since Tom has dedicated his life to this stuff.

If you enjoy looking at amazing pictures of some of the birds of prey, like Bald Eagles, Falcons, Hawks, etc., then I'd also highly recommend this book. It will serve as a wonderful coffee table book given its oversized nature (roughly 9 inches X 10 inches).

Not only will the book delight you with wonderful photographs, but the accompanying text that describes the particular bird is very educational and easy to read.

All in all, I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stunning images of birds of prey.

Masters of the Sky.......2004-07-11

This is a great book of bird photographs. There are many spectacular, and some astounding, pictures of the raptors. That Vezo was able to get so close to birds catching their prey; eating their prey; with their young; and feeding their prey to their young, is beyond my imagination. The title page shows a kestrel perched atop a cactus with a lizard in its claw; the next page a prairie falcon crying defiance over a just-killed dove in an arid western landscape, and the book goes on from there. Two to four pages are devoted to each bird. But this is not a birding guide. This is a book of photographs.

This is not to suggest that every photograph is a wonderful shot. There are many record shots of hawks gliding against a blue sky. While these are not as impressive as most of the pictures, I suppose they were necessary for a book dedicated to presenting views of all of the avian raptors of the American West.

One of the questions that this book raised for me is whether these photographs were art. There is certainly not the well-developed sense of line and color that the great bird photographer Arthur Morris presents in his pictures. But looking at Morris' work, I also notice that none of his raptor pictures are as arty (no pun intended) as his other work. Vezo has set himself a difficult task. These birds are handsome, not pretty, and their chicks are sometimes downright ugly. Most of them seem to be glaring at us with hostility. They don't have long sinuous necks whose curves can be emphasized. And yet as I looked at a picture of a perched zone-tailed hawk, against the blue western sky, with its tail feathers displayed, I certainly felt a sense of admiration for these birds, which appear to be so much more in control of their world than we mere human beings.

A brief narrative by Glinski accompanies each set of pictures of a particular species. The writing is romanticized and filled with varying amounts of information on the birds. No one would ever buy this book for the text, although it seems customary to provide this sort of thing. Instead what they would want is the striking pictures, and anyone looking at them will not be disappointed.

Great book!.......2003-07-11

Vezo does it again. No one captures the essence of the bird on film as does Tom Vezo. If you've never seen a bird in the wild, look at Vezo's pictures and you'll feel like you're there.

Incident at Eagle Ranch: Predators As Prey in the American West

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Incident at Eagle Ranch: Predators As Prey in the American West
Donald G. Schueler
Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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