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Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, Edifices de Rome Moderne, has been?hailed as the most beautiful book on Renaissance architecture ever?published. Letarouilly devoted 35 years to drawing the plans, sections,?elevations, perspectives, and large-scale details of gardens, convents,?palaces, and churches of Renaissance Rome. His keen observational ability and immaculate drawing skills make this work an indispensable sourcebook. In many cases his etchings remain the only measured plans or elevations available; he also recorded buildings destroyed by later demolitions.?
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?Princeton Architectural Press's Reprint Series was established in 1981 to make rare volumes on architecture available to a wider audience. The books' beautiful reproductions and finest quality printing and binding match those of the originals, while their 9-by-12-inch format makes them accessible and affordable. New introductions bring a modern voice to these classic texts, updating them to become invaluable contemporary resources. These critically acclaimed books are an essential addition to any library.
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great.......2005-12-22
it is stellar book. However, this reprinted version reduces quality of original version.
In the original version all plates were printed on one side only so there is no see-through problem. Original version is printed on much larger paper size so your visual treat are more fulfilled.
anyway, with this price what can we ask for more.
A Must For Architectural Enthusiasts.......1999-08-04
This is by far the most impressive book in my collection. Afeast for the eyes, this book illustrates some of the most beautifularchitecture of all time. The exacting detail, and vast collection of drawings make this book a true work of art. I had seen it years ago, and have been searching for it to add to my library ever since. A MASTERPIECE!!!
The most beautiful book I own........1997-10-03
I found a paperback copy of Letarouilly's Edifices De Rome Moderne in my local library - now out of print - after a vacation to Rome. Nothing has captured the feelings of awe I felt since that trip quite like this new publication. The book itself is a work of art. It should be framed, mounted or placed on an alter, or in a family shrine; "Edifices De Rome Moderne" is the most beautiful book I own. The attention to detail from the original etchings is remarkable. Any Roman Historian of the renaissance or lover of great architecture will not want be without this book. Princeton Architectural Press has a masterpiece with this publication.
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Palais, maisons, et autres edifices modernes dessines a Rome
Charles Percier
Manufacturer: G. Olms Verlag
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In depth examination of Visual Design.......1997-12-06
Joseph A. Gatto has published one of the most comprehensive tomes on modern visual art and the utility of the space around us, the products we use, and indeed, man's design of his environment and the world. Fascinating theories, a good read, for beginner and pro alike.
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Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the "Me Wall," Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she "saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in capturing fantasies." Looking at Me gathers together Rossellini's private collection of portraits taken of herself by some of the world's leading photographers, including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Fabrizio Ferri, Horst P. Horst, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, and Bruce Weber, as well as filmmakers David Lynch and Wim Wenders. Rossellini invites us to join her as she looks at her favorite portraits, privileging us with her witty, humorous, and self-ironical comments. She traces her career, in photographs, from boxing reporter in Muhammad Ali's training camp to highly successful model, from actress in some of Hollywood's more controversial films to head of her own cosmetic line, Manifesto. Mixed in with these public images are pictures of Rossellini in private, with her children, her dog Macaroni, and her pig Spanky. Irresistibly charming, intelligent yet whimsical, Looking At Me proves the perfect complement to Rossellini herself.
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Excellent and Engaging.......2002-12-06
This is a fabulous book, the type that you can sit with for hours and enjoy. It is reminiscent of Sante D'Orazio's first book, but on a much simpler scale. The photos are great, the commentary a little bare-bones but interesting. As a photographer, it's also interesting to see how different photographers have captured the same subject, sometimes more than once. Highly recommended and nicely published.
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Forgotten Missourians Who Made History (Show Me Missouri)
Brett Dufur , and
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A book of short stories and humorous comic-style illustrations of more than 35 Missourians who made a contribution to the state or nation yet are largely forgotten by subsequent generations.
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Cuando las cosas empiecen a pensar
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¿Un ordenador en su zapato? Es posible, según el análisis del autor en este libro nos presenta la manera en que la informática se ira adaptando a nuestra vida cotidiana. Nos ofrece una perspectiva del desarrollo tecnológico y nos da su "Tecno - pronóstico" de lo que podría ser nuestro futuro.
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Exam Guide North Carolina, Version 4.0
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review worth doing.......2007-02-27
This review is very helpful as a study help for each chapter. I would definitely recommend using it! It is not updated with the new book such as chapters on disk are not in same order as the book and the term salesperson(used on the CD) has been replaced with the term provisional broker (used in the book). These are minor things considering how helpful the quizzes and exams are. Good Luck!
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- A New Level of Freedom
- The Addicted Narcissist
- Narcissistic Need and Entitlement Deprivation
- A somewhat dogmatic Freudian approach with lots of insight
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Alcoholism, Narcissism and Psychopathology (Master Work Series)
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This book is an innovative analysis of the interrelationship between the alcoholic's behavioral disorders and his or her intrapsychic processes. It is a systematic, comprehensive, profound exploration of the psychopathology and treatment of alcoholism.
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A New Level of Freedom.......2003-08-27
I am not a mental health professional but a recovering alcoholic, and have been searching for some understanding into who I am for a long time now. This text describes me almost too accurately. It opened my eyes up to some of the deeper emotional and psychological problems that I have suffered with for my entire life. The things I gleaned here are painful revelations, but nevertheless necessary disclosures for my mental stability. Essentially this book gave me the language to articulate and understand my existence, and by doing this it has given me a sense of freedom and relief.
The Addicted Narcissist.......2003-06-21
To attribute alcoholism to narcissistic regression is both commonplace and controversial. But there a less convoluted clinical "handle": Pathological narcissism is an addiction to narcissistic supply, the narcissist's drug of choice. It is, therefore, not surprising that other addictive and reckless behaviors - workaholism, alcoholism, drug abuse, pathological gambling, compulsory shopping, or reckless driving - piggyback on this primary dependence.
The narcissist - like other types of addicts - derives pleasure from these exploits. But they also sustain and enhance his grandiose fantasies as "unique", "superior", "entitled", and "chosen". They place him above the laws and pressures of the mundane and away from the humiliating and sobering demands of reality. They render him the center of attention - but also place him in "splendid isolation" from the madding and inferior crowd.
Such compulsory and wild pursuits provide a psychological exoskeleton. They are a substitute to quotidian existence. They afford the narcissist with an agenda, with timetables, goals, and faux achievements. The narcissist's addictive behaviors take his mind off his inherent limitations, inevitable failures, painful and much-feared rejections, and the grandiosity gap - the abyss between the image he projects (the False Self) and the injurious truth. They relieve his anxiety and resolve the tension between his unrealistic expectations and inflated self-image - and his incommensurate achievements, position, status, recognition, intelligence, wealth, and physique.
Thus, there is no point in treating the dependence and recklessness of the narcissist without first treating the underlying personality disorder. The narcissist's addictions serve deeply ingrained emotional needs. They intermesh seamlessly with the pathological structure of his disorganized personality, with his character faults, and primitive defense mechanisms.
Hence the importance of this book: it unflinchingly exposes the roots of alcoholism and attributes it to an identity disturbance, paranoia, sadomasochism and obsessive- compulsive disorders. The author's rich experience is evident in each and every page. A documentary treasure trove - if not a theoretical masterpiece. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
Narcissistic Need and Entitlement Deprivation.......2001-07-02
At age fifty-two, I am absolutely in awe of this book which hit me like a sledge hammer; it is holographic in its presentation, and speaks to me very deeply, personally, and professionally.
Each chapter is a multi-faceted reflection of the whole, and it pretty much sums up my personal experiences in growing up in a constantly relocating military family within a global environment during the post-World War II and Cold War period. If I had to write a personal byline on this text I would catagorize it in this generational fashion: Paint Your Wagon; The Unforgiven; and, Apocalypse Now; i.e., The American Experience of Conquest!
This text made me realize that my own life-long personal quest as the young captain, the trained assassin sent upriver on a covert mission to terminate the colonel, was really a personal paradox to be reconsidered: the young questing captain, in my personal interpretation of a time paradox, was realistically and symbolically the son of the colonel he was seaching out to terminate. The captain was the son that the remote, alienated, and estranged colonel-father, who had become distraught by the deeper woundings of a continuing warfare and conquest, wanted his son to know and understand him personally at the rivers end! This text allowed me to do this personally.
In conclusion, it is necessary for one to understand that "The Destructive Narcissitic Pattern" (described by Nina W. Brown) of the generational circumstance, the handing down, does not reguire drinking at this level. One can be quite numbed by The Great Depression, World War II, and Vietnam and, by one's sense and mission of self-importance through...Narcissitic Need and Entitlement Deprivation.
A somewhat dogmatic Freudian approach with lots of insight.......1997-06-12
Good news, bad news, first the bad news. Forrest:
1) subscribes to a now questioned if not
discredited Freudian theory of infantile narcissim;
2) has very low standards of proof; apparently
supposing that repeated repetition amounts
to proof, when sometimes it isn't even adequate
description;
3) has an editor who is asleep at the switch when
it comes to reducing florid redundancy; and
4) still has an essentially pathological view of
homosexuality and bisexuality, preventing him from
discerning homophobia as a form of paranoia (the
term 'homophobia' doesn't occur in discussions of
'deviant' sexuality).
The good news is that he has a substantial
wealth of experience, including quite a lot of
military experience at which he obviously worked
hard and for which he presumably wasn't paid much.
He gives a convincing account of a combination of
orality, narcissism, and anger/rage that lying at
the foundation of alcoholism, and issues of
identity, paranoia, sadomasochism and obsessive-
compulsiveness as common superstructures. (I
would have put the obsessive-compulsive issue
closer to the foundation; but I don't have his
experience.)
It would be a mistake to discount Forrest's
wealth of experience simply on the basis of his
dogmatically Freudian outlook. Much of the
substance of the work will survive translation
into other frames of reference--as is the case
with most good Freudian writing. I learned a lot
from it and found it fascinating reading.--
Jonathan Ketchum, PhD (Philosophy)
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Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays-and who dies. Over 120,000 copies of the previous edition are in print. This new edition is substantially reworked and fully updated through the War in Iraq. "A witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy."-Howard Zinn
Joel Andreas wrote and illustrated The Incredible Rocky, the biting satire that introduced over 100,000 people to the unsavory activities of the Rockefeller family.
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REAL history lessons!.......2007-09-28
This is a fabulous book - it ought to be part of the lesson plans in every high school! Written so that even George Bush could read it - maybe not fully comprehend it. (hehe) Makes a great gift too!
America knows not the way of peace or reconciliation.......2007-06-05
in comic-book form Joel exposes the several and perrenial trend of war and imperialism imposed by the USA on other nations, and for the purpose of avarice and power by both the military officials, members of the US government, and the industrial giants that manufacture weapons. War is hell only for the recruit or victim, but it is money, comfort and political and economic freedom for every person involved in its propagation.
As the title indicates, America is so engulfed and obsessed by war and its related industies, that it does not know, and cannot handle, any other manner of resolving international conflict.
wake up americans.......2007-05-07
This book is excellent, it explains the way things really work in america in a simple way that anyone can understand
Worshippers of ignorance and stupidity unite!.......2007-03-31
The only reason this book gets one star is because anyone who doesn't worship ignorance and stupidity will quickly realize that this is little more than a left-wing "comic book" endorsed by none other than Noam Chomsky.
Even more disgraceful is the fact that certain schools in San Francisco actually consider this teaching tool!
Joel Andreas is to be commended for managing to write a book equivalent to a bag of garbage that certain segments of the population actually buy!
Well done!.......2007-03-15
A great primer of the history of U.S. militarism, the history of war. An excellent first book and introduction to the historical facts. It presents them in a easy to read straightforward way.
One drawback is that it seems to rely on some of the more official 9/11 material (i.e. The 911 Commission). The facts presented are clear and references for them are provided.
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- This should be mandatory reading in every school
- Solid examination of war & military spending in comic form
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Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Government Can't Kick Militarism
Joel Andreas
Manufacturer: New Society Pub
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This should be mandatory reading in every school.......1999-01-02
This is a powerful comic book presentation on militarism in the U.S. and the economic profit motive behind military spending and military intervention. It does a wonderful job of explaining and going straight to the root of the issues, in a way that is easy for readers of all ages to understand. A must-read for folks of all ages!
Solid examination of war & military spending in comic form.......1997-07-03
Andreas' accessible drawing style makes this illustrated examination of US war and military spending history from a critical standpoint an enjoyable read. Even if you're familiar with the history focused on here, the presentation will make it seem fresh and new. Tons of facts and quotes are packed into the comic strip panels. A great read for adults and younger students alike
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A Teacher's Guide to Imperialism: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
Louise Forsyth
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Learn to identify the birds in your state by sound. This set of two audio CDs offers the highest quality digital recordings, featuring approximately 120 minutes of bird calls. It's a must-have for any bird lover!
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This CD set is wonderful!.......2007-05-22
I can finally pick out which birds are singing which songs. We listen to it on the road and my son reads along in the field guide. For years I have wanted to be able to identify which song belongs to which bird, but I had a lot of difficulty with this as I am not a auditory learner. Stan clearly introduces the bird and gives a solid description of the type of song and when/where you are likely to hear it. I feel almost like I've been blessed with learning a foreign language. Absolutely wonderful!
CDs.......2007-02-17
My husband and I loved the CDs of the birds, but the second CD is damaged. How it got damaged, I don't know, since they're brand new........
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