Blue Universe: Architectural Projects

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Blue Universe presents the collaboration between architectural photographer Gerald Zugmann and the architectural group COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Gerald Zugmann is an internationally recognized architectural photographer who has worked for over 30 years with architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Carlo Scarpa, Louis I. Kahn, and Rudolph M. Schindler. With his precise and individual style, he helped establish a new generation of architectural photographers. Eschewing the functional aspects of the buildings and models he photographs, Zugmann focuses on the play of light and shadow. His photographs are dramatic, yet faithful representations, able to highlight essential details while maintaining the integrity of the structural unit. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU emerged in 1968 as one of the most innovative of new architectural groups in Europe. Founded in Vienna by Wolf Dieter Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU is known for its increasingly experimental structures. Each project starts as a series of discussions, ultimately yielding a fully formed model. For Blue Universe, Zugmann photographed a selection of these resulting models. Bringing together the expertise and innovation of a leading architectural firm and a well-known architectural photographer, Blue Universe provides a unique glimpse into the future of experimental architecture.

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Acrylic Portrait Painting (Learning to Paint Portraits, Step-by-Step, in the Versatile New Medium of Acrylic, 4th Printing)

Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0823000761

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Acrylics (Learning to Paint Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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The various brushes, palette knives, paint boxes, easels, and other implements best for acrylic painting are shown with their uses demonstrated. Sections that follow instruct on color mixing and the many different application techniques that let the artist achieve both stylized and realistic effects with acrylics. Specific examples of finished work include a seascape, a landscape, and a nude.

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Learning to Paint Acrylic
Alwyn Crawshaw
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Learning to Paint Acrylic
Alwyn Crawshaw
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Michael Snow: Works 1969-1978, films 1964-1976 = Werke 1969-1978, Filme 1964-1976
Michael Snow
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STILL FUNNY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

Selection of newer, lesser Beetle

Fight on bro!

Beetle Bailey Celebration
Mort Walker
Manufacturer: Backinprint.com
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ASIN: 0595348467

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Beetle Bailey has over 200 million daily readers and appears in almost 2,000 newspapers worldwide. Few strips have the popularity of staying power of Beetle Bailey, able to entertain readers for nearly four decades. As creator or co-creator of four other popular comic strips, including Hi & Lois and Boner's Ark, Mort Walker is the most widely published cartoonist in comics history. It's a testament to Walker's genius and Beetles' Universal appeal.

Walker created Beetle Bailey just before the Korean War, and the strip has evolved into a comics page staple where the fun, but ineffectual, denizens of Camp Swampy exist in a place long forgotten by the Pentagon. At the bottom of the heap is Beetle Bailey, the eternal private who sees his duty as sleeping whenever possible, needling Sarge, and avoiding work at all costs. But Sergeant Orville P. Snorkel has different ideas—he may beat up on “his boys”, but he then takes them out for a beer. General Halftrack is more concerned with ogling Miss Buxley than running the camp. And with inept officers like Major Greenbrass, Lieutenant Fuzz, and Lieutenant Flap, nothing ever gets done. But that doesn't keep the troops from complaining, or getting into one hilarious mess after another.

Beetle Bailey, the character, may never get a promotion, but Beetle Bailey, the comic strip, has made it to the top.

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STILL FUNNY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!.......2001-03-17

The cast of characters at Camp Swampy are just as funny as ever. They have not lost their "core" characters that their creator, Mort Walker assigned to them. They remain true to their characters and remain funny to this day.

Beetle Bailey has certainly raised the bar in comic excellence; nobody could EVER forget that lazy, lovable and TOTALLY funny work dodging private! I think Beetle Bailey should be promoted to Private First Class and Sarge to Sgt. Major. Poor Sarge has had all he could do trying to rein in his wayward men. This is truly an excellent collection.

Selection of newer, lesser Beetle.......2000-08-19

Beetle Bailey as a strip has shown a hardening of the arteries over the years, as evidenced by this selection of strips from the 1980s. It is not nearly as consistently funny as classic Beetle fron the 60s and 70s, which were the strip's best decades. Still, there are sill enough good strips to make it worth owning for the ardent fan.

Fight on bro!.......1999-03-16

Hey yeah, secret beatnik Beetle Bailey, we got real reason ta celebrate him! That man worm his way into da heart o' darkness army and show them da ways o' true anarchist work ethic! From da deep gritty inside to da sheer gritty outside, da Beetle Dude weave his magic subverso laziness and take down da military industrial complex slow but sure. When it all come to a grindin' halt, we have da Beetle Dude ta thank. Sarges everywhere are shakin' in der boots. Rock on and Hail Bailey! 5 badass black stars!

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Amaze your friends with your in-depth knowledge of Macintosh's history. This book of trivia, anecdotes, quotes, and more includes a complete list of Apple's code names for all its products, published here for the first time.

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Fun -- but when's the new edition coming?.......2002-01-08

The Mac Bathroom Reader is one of the more quirky books about Apple Computer and its equally unusual story. Mostly filled with trivia relating to the most obscure Macintosh information, this is definitely a book for serious Mac users or those who really get into Silicon Valley culture.

It's also great in telling the first two parts of the Steve Jobs tale, his rise and his fall. Unfortunately, as this book was published before Jobs' return in 1997, it is missing a large part of recent Apple history, including the creation of the iMac, Microsoft's 'grant' to Apple, and the beginning of Mac OS X.

In any case, Linzmayer's storytelling skills are sharp and playful in this book and no serious Mac fan should be without it.

Selling this book used?.......2001-12-11

Hey, I love Apple trivia as much as the next guy, but honestly, are people really going to buy a "Bathroom Reader" used?

Has Seinfeld taught us nothing?

Get Apple Confidential.......2000-12-27

This book is basicly the exact same book as Apple Confidential. I would suggest you pass on this book and buy that one instead, it is much better and more up-to-date.

Misleading Title.......2000-08-02

Am I the only reader who had a problem with a Macintosh book bearing the warm and fuzzy title of "The Mac Bathroom Reader" turning out to be full of negativity? The author seemed determined to wipe out any positive feeling the readers might have for Steve Jobs, quoting every criticism anyone ever made of him but leaving out much of the good stuff. If you are into debunking heroes, you'll love this book. Otherwise, choose a book with a more balanced approach such as Insanely Great.

Ultimate Mac trivia book.......2000-06-27

As noted by another reviewer, there is an overlap with Apple Confidential, but they're not the same.

This book has the answer to various trivia questions (including stuff about third party vendors). The other is organized more as a history, and has a lot of new material about things such as clone licenses that was not available when the Bathroom Reader was published.

Both books are written by a very knowledgeable true believer, although there is definitely criticism of inept management in Confidential (Bathroom Reader is more positive in tone).

So if you want a history to read start to finish, buy Apple Confidential. If you want something to read a page or two at a time -- say, IN THE BATHROOM -- then this is a better book.

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The Complete Bathroom Reader

Manufacturer: Great Quotations
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0931089972

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Eric Hobsbawm, the eminent English labor historian, is concerned here with "the sort of people whose names are usually unknown to anyone outside their family and neighbors"--the machinists, grocers, bus conductors, and bartenders who make many small worlds go around. In a series of essays, he looks into the role of shoemakers in European politics (cobblers being a particularly left-leaning lot), the influence of Luddite machine breakers on the labor movement, the abortive union of students and trade unionists in the May 1968 uprising in France, and jazz music, which he considers to be an idiom of the laboring class. These unknown people, in Hobsbawm's view, have made uncommon contributions to their times and are too little honored, even by the international celebration called May Day, the origins of which he traces in an especially fine essay. --Gregory MacNamee

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Now in paperback, an engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London). Uncommon People collects twenty-six essays by Eric Hobsbawm, "one of the truly great synthesizers of the last few centuries of European history" (Philadelphia Inquirer). It brings back into print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the villainy of Roy Cohn to the genius of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holliday. A true Renaissance man, Hobsbawm explores topics from Mario Puzo and the Maa to Tom Paine and the radical tradition. Highlighting Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women, Uncommon People offers both an exciting introduction for the uninitiated as well as a broad-ranging retrospective of the work of this "erudite and influential historian" (Los Angeles Times).

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Victorian Values.......2001-03-25

The best essay in this collection is "Victorian Values", on the skilled-worker labor movement of England's 19th century.

The superficial contemporary story is that British workers were lazy and bloody-minded sods who built into British industry a variety of rules which they insisted upon while their country failed in the 1970s to compete.

There is some truth in this very shallow story, for by the late 1970s, it was true that many English workers had been driven crazy by the matching bloody-mindedness of the toffs in charge and their matching lack of imagination. One of Meg Thatcher's unsung accomplishments happens to be giving some of the most egregious examples of the upper class the boot.

But the real story is here, in Hobsbawm's essay Victorian Values.

Skilled men in Britain in the 19th century were justly proud of their status. They after all bent metal and other recalcitrant materials (in ways we no longer teach the young, allowing computers to do the job) and formed the railways which at first frightened the toffs (the Duke of Wellington himself was astonished that a thing could go so fast) and which the upper crust then took for granted.

Their "Victorian Values" weren't, on Hobsbawm's account, bloody-mindedness. They were part of being sober or teetotal, industrious, church-going and caring for their families.

That is: the man who thought it a natural law that he should have some of his employer's time, at the close of business, to properly care for his own tools was a man who could ask justly for this time because he also went to church and took care of his family.

Contrast the post-modern scene. Employers today refuse to get lured into time-consuming debate about natural justice, whether with unions or piecemeal.

Modern corporations, by encouraging personal experimentation, have liberated a lot of people, but Hobsbawm shows that perhaps conservatives are being disingenuous when they call upon working people to settle down, and return to Victorian Values.

For if a man returns to the moral law the 8 hour day may again be seen to be natural, and many other work rules which are said to hamper the overarching command to be "productive."

Honest and true.......1999-12-27

Its a very beautiful piece of work.It doesnt just follow the paces of some forgotten people, but it also paints their historic time. The chapters about the Vietnam war, the relationship between socialism and art and the one about the role of women in XIX century are brilliant. This book shows you things you wont find in a common history book.Its rich, honest and true.

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Uncommon People

Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8984010235

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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz by Eric Hobsbawm in Korean Language.

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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
E.J. Hobsbawm
Manufacturer: Abacus
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Binding: Paperback

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These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social protest - the formation of the British workin class, labour custom and traditions, the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, male and female images in revolutionary movements, the machine-breakers, revolution and sex, peasants and politics, the rules of violence, the common-sense of Tom Paine. There are more recent reflections: on the May Day holiday; the Vietnam War; socialism and the avantgarde; Mario Puzo, the Mafia and the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano; and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus. There are tributes to some of jazz's legendary figures - Count Basie, SidneyBechet and Dike Ellington - anf the tragic blues-singer Billie Holiday.

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Great pregnancy guide with real photographs.......2003-10-03

This is a very readable, well-researched pregnancy guide. I read it through from cover to cover, and then used it also as a reference. The factor that distinguishes it from other pregnancy guides is that it contains numerous actual photographs of parents & babies. It is also much less scary and alarmist than some of the more popular guides. It may be a little out of date compared to some of the more popular guides that are updated regularly, but it is nonetheless well worth getting your hands on.

Great pregnancy book with actual photographs.......2003-10-03

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NR-1 Crewmember revisits

A good solid read~!

Excellent history of a little-known submarine

Fascinating little known story

Muddy Waters

Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
Lee Vyborny , and Don Davis
Manufacturer: NAL Hardcover
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0451207777
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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Operating alone and unarmed on the bottom of the sea, the U.S. Navy's smallest nuclear-powered submarine is one of its biggest weapons. Tied up at a pier, the boat with the bright orange sail looks absolutely minuscule, innocent and out of place beside its big brothers, the fleet's huge missile-carrying and attack submarines, but it can dive deeper, stay down for a month, and accomplish missions far beyond the capabilities of any of them. The ship has been cloaked in mystery. It wasn't commissioned or given a name, and even today it is hardly known beyond a select fraternity of sailors and scientists. They simply call it the NR-1.

The little submarine was born in controversy, served in secrecy, survived potential catastrophe on numerous occasions, and is still in operation almost forty years after being conceived. It was and remains the only one of its kind ever built.

The story of the NR-1 is told against the tense background of the Cold War and peopled with such rich characters as the acerbic Admiral Hyman Rickover, ocean scientist Robert Ballard (who found the Titanic), the designers and builders who faced almost impossible tasks to give life to the ship, the unique officers and sailors who took the little boat down into depths on covert missions, and the families who waited for them on shore, unaware that there would be no escape if the boat ran into trouble.

"Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub" is a thrill-a-minute book of submarine adventure, imminent danger, personal bravery, technological wonder and historic discovery. It will be a proud addition to the shelves of readers who love stories of the sea, history and intrigue.

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NR-1 Crewmember revisits.......2007-03-15

As a crewmember (EM1SS/DV) 1976-1978 aboard the NR-1 brings back many memories of those exciting times aboard the super-secret mini sub.

I was aboard when the tow line parted twice, the F14 recovery mission, when we lost the reactor for a time, washed overboard when making the emergency tow hookup with IC1 SS/DV Frank Smith, aboard when Dr. Heezen had his fatal heart attack.

The tremendous work load, risks taken and NO notice, care, or thanks from the Americal public, ah but we were young, idealistic and full of energy.
The book is scrubbed for security reasons but it is a great story that needed to be told.

Greg Stanosz
Captain, EN, USAR (retired)

A good solid read~!.......2006-06-27

The author, who served on the NR-1, does a good job recounting the genesis and evolution of the project and the vessel from inception to the recent past. More than a first hand account, the author provides information based on interviews and archival research. He provides insight into the military and political dimensions of the project, as well as some satisfying operational stories and character sketches (Rickover, Satchel). The quality of writing makes for smooth easy reading. Though I found myself wanting to know details, like whether the wheels on the NR-1 are steerable, the author maintains a responsible balance between maintaining secrecy and recounting a small but important piece of recent naval history.

Excellent history of a little-known submarine.......2005-12-29

Very entertaining history of the capable, unique NR-1, the only nuclear submersible yet built. The coauthors include journalist Don Davis and member of the first crew, Lee Vyborny. Mr. Vyborny tells some excellent stories from the years he spent during the NR-1's design, construction and early operating career. After Vyborny leaves the crew the boat's history is told in third person but the stories are no less interesting. For example, the interactions with Rickover are somehow written to be more amusing than irritating!

This book is similar to Blind Man's Bluff in its handling of covert cold war operations by the US Navy but the first person stories told by Lee Vyborny really pull the reader in and are very engaging.

Category: cold war nuclear submersible

Submarine(s): NR-1

Heroes: NR-1 crew and, for getting it built, Admiral Rickover

Technical content: average

Fascinating little known story.......2004-03-26

No one is quite sure when Admiral Rickover decided the Navy needed a small nuclear-powered submarine that could drive along the deepest depths of the ocean and be used for a variety of missions. The civilian world had been using deep-sea submersibles for some time, but it was not until the Thresher accident that everyone realized the need for a vessel that could remain underwater at the deepest depths for very long periods of time. It was developed and built under conditions of extreme secrecy and was never even designated a warship. It had a variety of bizarre features, including tires on the bottom of the hull that would literally permit it to drive along the bottom, and sideways thrusters fore and aft that allowed it to hover in one exact position.

Lee Vyborny was one of the original crew members on the tiny NR-1, a sub that contained a midget nuclear reactor, which developed a mere 130 horsepower, of which only 60 could be used for propulsion. The crew quarters were tiny, and there was no stateroom for the commander, who would usually sleep on the floor next to the control panel. The reactor was designed so it could be operated by one man because the crew never exceeded eight people, usually only four on duty at any given time.

In an uncharacteristic mistake, Rickover tried to keep the cost of development and building down and required that as many of the ship's components as possible be purchased off-the-shelf. He was under the mistaken impression that the commercial deep sea industry was well developed and the parts standardized. At the same time, he insisted on testing these parts under the most extreme conditions. They had never been designed for the role he intended, and the result was costly failures and time spent to develop alternatives. The early computer they used was a midget and capable of only fourteen simultaneous operations, in contrast to the original PC, which could do many thousands at once.

Rickover's presence was ubiquitous. Everyone was suitably cowed, but he knew the bureaucracy well and how to manipulate them. The story of the two dead mice is illustrative. A habitability team was due for an inspection. Their job was to verify that a new ship was liveable. The NR-1 had so many discomforts for the crew, Rickover knew he might be in trouble, so he sent out an aide to find two dead mice and to hide them in the boat. The habitability team was delighted to find a dead mouse, thinking they would be able to reprimand the famous admiral. Instead, they were the ones on the receiving end. He told them they had done a terrible job and didn't belong in the Navy. "I know there were two dead mice on that boat," he shouted, "I bought them! You only found one! Get out of here!"

When lambasted by the General Accounting Office for the NR-1's cost overruns and asked to explain the excess, Rickover replied with a sarcastic letter, reprinted in full in the book, suggesting their analysis was similar to a review of Lady Chatterly's Lover by Field and Stream magazine. The letter concluded, "A cursory review of the subject report leads me to conclude that its authors, likewise, lack comprehension in the manner of accomplishing research and development. Therefore, I believe no useful purpose would be served by detailed comments on my part."

In order to withstand the enormous pressures at depths to which the little sub was expected to go, the hull had to be perfectly round. The twelve-and-a-half-foot diameter hull could be out of round by no more than 1/16th of an inch. That required special manufacturing processes. The crew had to undergo special psychological tests to see whether they could stand being cooped up in tiny spaces for long periods. Submariners who had been successful at resisting the stresses of a regular submarine wound up in fistfights after just a few days when tested under the conditions expected on the NR-1.

The boat was expected to remain under water indefinitely, but practical considerations limited the length of the voyages: food and waste. The ship had no galley, so the crew subsisted on TV dinners purchased in large quantities and kept frozen until they were needed, and when the waste tank was full, they had to surface.

Ironically, the NR-1 has outlasted larger and more famous mega-submarines. According to the author, it continues to conduct classified missions in addition to being a valuable resource for many universities and research institutes for tamer exploratory searches of the ocean's depths.

Muddy Waters.......2004-02-14

I love books about submarines and how they are used so of course I was excited to read this book. The dust jacket lead me to believe that the book was going to detail out mission after mission that was top secret, good old cold war espionage fun. I should have known better, these types of missions are filed away as top secret and it will be years before they see the light of day. Any book that claims to have the details are usually a little more puffed up in the description then the actual details. So I dug into this book and for the most part really enjoyed it. It starts with a review of how the sub was created and the crew trained. Somewhat interesting, but to be fair I was looking for the under water fun and games.

The book did move into the subs exploits, but due to the top-secret nature the stories that were told were not all that new or exciting. And that would not have been all that bad if the authors would have kept telling me about the non secret items like finding other wrecks at the bottom of the sea and weird fish they came upon. Instead they spent just a little too much time of live outside of the sub. Ok I know these guys have wife's and families, but to be fair I do not care. I want exciting submarine stories, not issues about home life. Overall the book was mostly interesting and well written. I could have done with more detail, but there is nothing I can do about that.

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Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1: The Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub
Lee Vyborny & Don Davis
Manufacturer: New American Library
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MDYS8K

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Raptor Watch: A Global Directory of Raptor Migration Sites
Jorje and Keith Bildstein Zalles
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ASIN: B000IY6Q7Y

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Raptor Watch: A Global Directory of Raptor Migration Sites
Jorje I.; Bildstein, Keith L. Zalles
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