Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200-1400 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

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This beautiful book-the first major study of Westminster Abbey in more than fifty years-places the Abbey`s physical and artistic growth in the context of the political and religious culture of its time. Published on the 750th anniversary of the major building program of the abbey, it is a fitting tribute to one of the great royal treasure houses of the world.

Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200-1400

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Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200-1400
Paul Binski
Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Center BA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORPFCM

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Here is a rich assortment of comical caricatures for intermediate and advanced whittling enthusiasts. 22 imaginative projects include Bronco Ben, Baccarat Jack, The Tijuana Kid and 19 other hilarious characters. Full-size patterns and photographs of the finished projects come with step-by-step instructions and full-color cover photographs. 82 b/w illustrations.

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comments.......2002-01-30

Characters were good. Photographs were dark and difficult to see details.

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The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, "Father Knows Best," and "Rebel Without a Cause" are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book--a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives-- brings this watershed period to life and examines who and what was important and why. The photographs, which include both famous and lesser-known images, are arranged thematically, under the headings "America in the World: War Hot and Cold," "Mechanization in Command," "Fame and Infamy," "Growing Up American," and "American Ways of Life." The pictures are accompanied by two major essays that look at the role and development of news photography at the New York Times and the relevance of what pictures were taken and which were published by the paper. A third, shorter essay on "the morgue" is a lively description of the photo archive, telling where and how the photos are stored. Together the photographs and essays shed new light on a decade that is still shadowed by misconceptions and stereotypes.

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Tumultuous Times........2002-03-11

A fascinating collection of two hundred large, one to a page, photos capturing the fifties. The photos are divided into five sections and each picture has a caption and credit taken from the back of the print. Page sixteen shows the back of a photo from 1953 taken in Berlin and it is a mess of crossed out picture sizes, pasted on captions, five in all, and rubber stamps, this photo has been used at least six times over the years.

I was pleased to see that most of these photos can be viewed not just as historical news images but as well crafted compositions. So many photos that we see on a daily basis (especially in the media) are purely for the moment and lack any real creative input but the ones in this book encourage you to linger and think about what the photos are saying.

Apart from the two hundred pictures there are three essays, Douglas Dreishpoon's on the background to the Times Picture Desk is particularly interesting, a twenty-one page time-line to the fifties, bibliography and index. The elegant layout and excellent printing make this book a good addition to the library of anyone interested in the recent past.

The book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the photos that is travelling around the Nation between now and 2004

Another book of photos from the paper is 'Pictures of the Times' by Peter Galassi and Susan Kismaric, this has 154 photos covering the last century and is equally as good as 'The Tumultuous Fifties'. Both books rightly conclude that The New York Times is the world's premier daily.

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The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives

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The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives
Alan Trachtenberg, Luc Sante Douglas Dreishpoon
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSC3G2

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We changed our attitudes, we listened, we learned, we cooperated, and we took the initiative. - Granqvist, supervising forester, STOR.

Over the past ten years, Swedish forest products giant STORA has transformed its forest management to implement and verify a commitment to sustainable forestry. The company has hired a staff ecologist, implemented ecological landscape planning, brought local environmentalists into its management planning, retrained its workforce, and adopted new forest conservation measures. Most recently, STORA became Europe's first major timber company to have a large block of its forests certified by a third party as sustainably managed.

Headquartered in Falun, Sweden, STORA is one of the largest forest products companies in the world with 1996 sales of $5.9 billion. The company ranks fifth worldwide in paper and board production, producing 1.9% of the world's production compared to 3.2% for industry leader, International Paper Co. STORA sells primarily paper products, but also runs four sawmills and is involved in power production, banking, and associated financial operations. The company owns a total of 2.3 million hectares of forest, primarily in Sweden, but it has holdings in Portugal and Canada, as well.

In 1996 STORA became one of the first large commercial forestry operations in the world to attain third-party certification. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the oldest and most credible certification system with environmentalists, certified STORA's holding in the Ludvika district. STORA's size and its importance in the global forest products industry makes its actions a milestone in the development of sustainable forestry. As STORA's evolution toward sustainable forestry indicates, certification has already become a strategic consideration for some forward-looking companies.

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Sekine follows the method advanced by Kozu Uno to provide an updated version of Marx's economic theory, in its full scope, as described in the three volumes of Das Kapital. It constitutes a dialectical system, consisting of the doctrines of Circulation, Production and Distribution. The wholesystem defines the "idea" of capitalism. More than a hundred years after Marx's death, his economic work is revived here with the analytical rigour expected of modern scientific theory, yet with no concession in substance to bourgeois economics.

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Excellent Info.......2003-12-18

This book provides an easy to comprehend method of improving one's skills as a communicator. Stubbs and Hogan provide easily understood material and many real life examples of the reasons why people fail in communicating with each other.
While there are many examples of the pitfalls in communicating in family, business and inter-personal life, the things that most people mess up on, they also provide numerous ways and suggestions to avoid them as well. Their examples are simple to put into practice yet extremely effective. All in all, I found this book to be entertaining as well as informative and would recommend it to all my friends and family. My only complaint is I would love it to be twice as long so I could glean even more life lessons from these two authors.

Library Journal Review.......2003-12-18

Library Journal
People have misunderstood one another since the beginning of time-and, if the self-help genre is any indication, they continue to do so. Hogan, a well-traveled motivational speaker and expert on body language, and hypnotherapist Stubbs document common communication barriers (e.g., poor listening skills and being critical) and techniques to overcome them (e.g., distract the criticizer). Though initially a bit technical, the book smoothes out, presenting lucid examples to show readers that they should change themselves instead of trying to change others. The authors refer to research but fail to include their sources. Still, this effective and lively beginners' approach will find an appreciative readership. Large libraries can safely use this to supplement Kate M. Wachs's Relationships for Dummies; smaller libraries will do fine with either. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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A how-to guide to help parents recognize and heed the warning signs of today's hip culture, including threats that weren't around 20 or 30 years ago.

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Trying to cash on worried parents.......2005-09-18

The author is just trying to cash on moral panic and the natural concerns of parents with a sensationalistic histerical piece that is misleading, non factual and completly useless for any practical purpose.

/sigh.......2004-04-28

I have one thing to say to this crap. Jesus save my tattooed old school goth behind from your followers. What a silly, hysterical woman. I am more concerned about saving my daughter from people like her.

Hohoho........2003-08-14

I have to say that this is possibly the most sensationalist misinformed piece of tripe I have ever come across. I agree fully with all of the other reviews and their comments. Not only is this the worst type of religious scaremongering (before you bible bashers start I am a good Catholic boy, educated by priests anyone) I have seen in a long time, it's just plain offensive to anyone who indulges in the odd piuercing or enjoys dance music and raves or God forbid...dresses in black (catholic priests). I think this books sales rank speaks volumes for it. The author must be quite worried about the state of the world today when books about bestiality are selling more than their guide to emerging threats. In brief...if you want to completely distance yourself from your children, if you do not want to understand their problems in the most important years of their lives, if you are fundamentalist, sensationalist or just ignorant to other cultures and lifestyles then this book is for you. If on the other hand you are a normal sane human the only good this book will serve will be to scare you away from organised religion and it's draconian beliefs forever.

horrible.......2003-05-02

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Not only is this woman preaching hysterical and wildly inaccurate attitudes towards what most of us parents consider to be a pretty important aspect of our lives (the growth of our kids into decent adults) the ridiculously over the top diatribes and fundamentalist doctrines she spouts, if taken seriously, could easily blind a parent to the real issues their teen is going through.

Frankly I think the attitudes expressed are dangerous and could be highly detrimental to a growing teen if taken seriously.

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pie?.......2003-03-25

this book promise pie, it have no pie, i blame teen culture! oh no!! hehe

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During World War I, about 10,000 Native Americans either enlisted or were drafted into the American Expeditionary Force. Three related questions are examined in depth for the first time in this book: What were the battlefield experiences of Native Americans? How did racial and cultural stereotypes about Indians affect their duties? Did their wartime contributions lead to changes in federal Indian policy or their standard of living?

Many American Indians distinguished themselves fighting on the Western Front. And as compared to black and Mexican American soldiers, Indians enjoyed near universal respect when in uniform. To celebrate their patriotism during and after the war, Indians could even perform a variety of traditional ceremonies otherwise proscribed. Both in combat and in their support roles on the homefront, including volunteer contributions by Indian women, Native Americans hoped their efforts would result in a more vigorous application of democracy. But the Bureau of Indian Affairs continued to cut health and education programs and to suppress Indian cultures.

"This is a first-rate book and a significant contribution to twentieth-century Indian history."--Professor Donald L. Parman

Provides the first broad survey of Native American contributions during the war, examining how military service led to hightened expectations for changes in federal Indian policy and their standard of living.

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Groundbreaking & Appreciated.......2002-05-05

A successfully brilliant undertaking of a rather difficult process of searching for, analyzing, and articulating material and then presenting it in such a work as this.

American Indians in World War I: At Home and at War

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American Indians in World War I: At Home and at War
Thomas A. Britten
Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PSC19A

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A Light Read with a Serious Point.......2003-10-29

This book is not what its title suggests. At a time when Britain is embarking on what appears to be a slow motion revolution in its constitutional arrangements, and when the place of the monarchy is being given increased scrutiny by political thinkers and commentators, author Charles Neilson Gattey has produced a work not so much about monarchy as monarchs. In "Crowning Glory: The Merits of Monarchy," the reader is given less an argument for retaining the Crown, than an appreciation of those who have worn it.

Gattey, who ironically has an ancestral relationship to George Washington, is not concerned with constitutional, legal and political arguments. Not that he discounts those arguments. Gattey briefly and rightly argues that the monarchy helps to disguise and moderate change and therefore helps society to adjust to the turmoil that even beneficent change often brings. He further argues that by elevating the monarchy's role above partisan politics, the state is protected from the more baleful influences of political strife. There is nothing new or original in this, and for readers who seek more in-depth analysis, Vernon Bogdanor's "The Monarchy and the Constitution," L.L. Blake's "The Prince and the Professor," or even Walter Bagehot's famous work, "The English Constitution," would be better choices.

Instead, Gattey, after some brief remarks about the monarchy's role in British national life, offers in the introduction of his book brief descriptions of the contributions that various kings and queens have made to Britain's historical development. In the chapters that follow, Gattey then describes Britain's constitutional monarchs: Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, as well as their consorts and immediate family.

However, these are not biographical profiles in the conventional sense, with an emphasis on dates, events and actions. They are, instead, character appreciations that focus on the personalities of their subjects. The major historical events of the reigns of these monarchs are hardly mentioned at all. Indeed, even events that touch on the institution of the monarchy directly, such as the 1936 Abdication Crisis or the 1992 annus horibilis, are barely discussed.

At one level, this gives the reader a stronger sense of the monarch's personalities. Thanks to Gattey, Queen Victoria can be appreciated for here sense of propriety, Edward VII for his sure tact and diplomacy, George VI for his courage and the current Queen for her almost superhuman patience and dedication to duty in spite of the foibles of her family and the tumultuousness of her times

Unfortunately, the picture is too unbalanced. Gattey's monarchs are seen only in their best light, and their weaknesses are barely mentioned. For example, Queen Victoria can be appreciated for her regal bearing, utter lack of racial prejudice, and dedication to her work, but her self-indulgent seclusion from her ceremonial duties after the death of the Prince-Consort is barely hinted at. Edward VII is credited for his keen sense of the moment, but his recurrent infidelities at the expense of his generous and long suffering consort, Queen Alexandra, are ignored. Even more strikingly, Edward VIII is not even given his own chapter, but is instead mentioned only in reference to his father and brother, as if his thankfully brief reign had never happened. At one level, this may seem like an effort to create a hero image. However, the effect is the opposite of what is intended.

By failing to balance the various monarch's undoubted virtues with a discussion of their vices, Gattey makes them less than human and therefore seemingly less impressive. The point is not that they should be seen as mere humans who, by accident of birth, found a crown upon their heads. The point is that the men and women that Gattey discusses have overcome their own weaknesses, jealousies, insecurities and petty indulgences to perpetuate an important institution that gives to the British nation far more than is properly appreciated.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Gattey's chapter on King George V and Queen Mary. Gattey justly heaps praise on the Queen for her artistic tastes and generous personality. Against her, however, the King is barely mentioned except as a stick figure who dearly loves his wife. This is a serious lapse. As Kenneth Rose has shown in his brilliant biography of the "sailor king," George V was no intellectual, was unduly harsh on his children, (with significant consequences for the monarchy), and had few interests outside of stamp collecting and the Royal Navy.

Yet, George V was also capable of enormous self-discipline, was not afraid to make difficult decisions, and could summon in himself a surprising open mindedness and egalitarianism. His openness to, and indeed his ultimate friendship with, Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, was a watershed in British class relations at a moment when those relations were still strained and haunted by the spectre of economic dislocation and rising totalitarianism. Similarly, George V was the pivotal figure in forging the emergency coalition government that dealt with the crisis of the Great Depression. These are significant moments that show the true strength of George V's character, and he deserves better than the virtual non-treatment than Gattey gives him.

That said, in an age when readers often seek gossip and titillation for its own sake, and when "warts and all" biographies have become "all warts," Gattey's book helps to right the imbalance just a little. His appreciations, though hardly objective and often very light on solid history, nonetheless give the reader an insight into the remarkable people who have occupied the British throne. Although they are not the saintly and blameless figures that Gattey makes them out to be, they are still more remarkable and interesting than their critics have unjustly claimed. That may not be a merit of monarchy per se, but it is a tribute to the sense of duty and sacrifice of the House of Windsor, and for which the British people have been the sometimes insufficiently grateful beneficiaries.

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The Idaho bird guide: what, where, when

The Idaho Bird Guide: What, Where, When
Dan Svingen , and Kas Dumroese
Manufacturer: Backeddy Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 097108131X

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The Idaho bird guide: what, where, when.......2006-08-14

Well done, very good direections to biriding sites and birds. This book makes birding Idaho for a visitor much easier and enjoyable.

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