House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era.

As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants' social status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society, not only did the increased diversity of commodities lead to material elaboration of dwellings, but home itself became an object of special attention, its importance emphasized in writing, invoked in politics, and articulated in architectural design. The aim of this book is to show the features of this culture of the home as it took shape in Japan.

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Bill Sewell
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2005-10-27

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Title: House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
Author: Bill Sewell
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 142(3)

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Watercolour Masterclass: Learning from Professional Artists at Work
Laurence Wood
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0004126491

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Watercolour masterclass: learning from professional artists at work.
Laurence Wood
Manufacturer: [London, HarperCollins Publishers,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P1ZYP0

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Excellent.......2000-10-07

Being a photographer myself, I can only say that this is an excellent book with great photography and good background information on Thailand, Buddha Statues and Buddhism in general. I pull out this book over and over again just to look at it's photographs. They are almost meditation!

Disappointing t ext and photography........1999-06-30

The photography was at best "mediocre" and presented nothing that could not be seen in other books on Thailand. The text lacked both depth and understanding of the subject and was stilted.

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Relax into yer fav'rit easy chair with yer fab snack and "HOT" new book and howl about lycra-clad buffoons, guffaw over bolt-slammin' geeks, split a gut at Avalanche Poodles, collapse on the floor in a weepin' heap of laughter cuz of Climbing Tales of Terror.

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Demented climbing humor, great fun!!.......1998-08-27

Tami Knight draws some of the best and most demented cartoons its ever been my pleasure to read.

I just keep laughing when I think of Sid and Ed the Siamese climbers, 'Rinky-Dinky Dogs', and 'Avalanch Poodles'.

I can't think of a better way to spend a non-climbing day.

Special note: Cavers ('the Pale Ones'), hikers ('Fosslized Guide Book Authors'), and 'lycra-clad weenies' should not look at these cartoons unless they're into abuse.

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Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet guides are the industry standard--based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.

The U.S. investment banking subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, a major Canadian commercial/retail bank, TD USA is known as one of the "good guys" on the Street. But that doesn't mean it doesn't make its presence felt in those markets in which it concentrates.

In the WetFeet Insider Guide on TD Securities (USA), you'll learn just how this relatively small Canadian-owned firm is a more aggressive and strategic player than you might have thought. You'll also learn answers to the following questions: * Just how good is Toronto Dominion's media/communications group? * Who'll control investment banking if TD USA and Oppenheimer are combined in the pending merger between their parent companies? * What are TD's hottest industry and product groups? * What role does the star system play at the firm? * Exactly how exceptional is TD's vacation policy? * What interview questions should you be prepared to answer? * What does TD USA's lean, flat management structure really mean for new hires at the firm? * So you're not Canadian--what's that mean for your future at TD USA? * What is Green Line Investor Services, and why should you know about it?

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Wonderful.......2003-10-10

I found this book to be an excellent read. It was very informative and provided excellent insight into the "Beatrice way". Sad story, Corporate greed destroying a model corporate citizen.

Worth its weight in gold.

Hungry for more..........2002-03-13

This is an amazingly insightful recounting of the building of one of the finest companies in the US, and it's ultimate demise through greed. Gazel mixes depth and eaxcting factual information in a style that is incomparable. A must for any business student or historian.

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Beatrice, From Buildup Through Breakup
Neil R. Gazel
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ6KDQ

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BEATRICE: FROM BUILDUP THROUGH BREAKUP.
Neil R. Gazel
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Binding: Hardcover
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Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation
Stanley and Jonathan Cutler, ed Aronowitz
Manufacturer: Rouledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GR9292

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Compassion, Strength, Love.......1999-08-29

This book shows the true compassion,strength, and love of Camille and her whole family. There should be more people like her. This book gives people with or without a child with special needs ways in which they can help children with Down Syndrome or any other disability. I hope that Ms.Geraldi and Ms.Burris would write another book to let us know how her wonderful family is doing.

A great book, I would like to write to Ms. Geraldi.......1999-06-22

Educational,humorous,sad and thoughtful. I would like to get in touch with Ms. Geraldi for more info on how to care for my daughter

Camille's Children, 31 Miracles and Counting

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Camille's Children, 31 Miracles and Counting
Camille and Burris, Carol Geraldi
Manufacturer: Andrews and McMeel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXH606

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Camille's Children: 31 Miracles and Counting
Camille Geraldi and Carol Burris
Manufacturer: Andrews and McMeel
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It was the most fought after frontier ever, immortalized in poetry by Kipling: from the 1830s to Indian independence in 1947, British forces engaged in almost-constant battle with the most implacable guerrillas in history. The Afghan mountain tribes were fiercely independent, and for years plundered the north Indian plain...until the English arrived. Then, in a strange war, the British alternated between paying the Afghans subsidies to quell their raiding and launching punitive military expeditions. Nonetheless, a grudging respect for the enemy and a concern to stick by unwritten codes of conduct governed this hundred-years war. From The Lives of a Bengal Lancer to Carry On Up the Khyber, these confrontations have been a rich source of inspiration for novelists and filmmakers-and here the true story is told in a unique and vivid style.

The North-West Frontier: British India and Afghanistan, a Pictorial History 1839-1947

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North-West Frontier well explained.

The North-West Frontier: British India and Afghanistan, a Pictorial History 1839-1947
Michael Barthorp
Manufacturer: Blandford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Afghanistan | Asia | History | Subjects | Books

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North-West Frontier well explained........2004-03-08

Michael Barthorp's book on one of the most turbulent areas of the British Empire has been reissued in a very welcome and well produced volume.

There is ample detail on the Pathans, or Pushtuns as they are more normally now called, the actual inhabitants of this rugged area. The main tribal groupings and their principal tendencies are neatly summarised together with a clear mapping of the area. Illustrations, all contemporary, indicate the look of the areas in which actions were fought: by no means were all arid scrub! The political dimensions of the struggles book are deftly assessed with each of the major wars receiving a clear narrative account. It would have been appreciated for there to have been maps of individual actions, though the list of engagements suggests the inhibiting cost of such a provision.

The book may therefore be recommended as an excellent survey of the issues and actions of the period and place, covering the whole of the British Empire's connection with the Frontier. It is a reasanable and certainly accurate synopsis of the political ramifications whose complexity are daunting.

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Afghan Wars : And the North-West Frontier, 1839-1947
Michael Barthorp
Manufacturer: Cassell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSI5X2

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In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade, they also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally treated and died in great numbers, prompting a never-ending influx of new slaves.

The French Revolution sent waves all the way across the Atlantic, dividing the colony's white population in 1791. The elites remained royalist, while the bourgeoisie embraced the revolutionary ideals. The slaves seized the moment and in the confusion rebelled en masse against their owners. The Haitian Slave Revolt had begun. When it ended in 1803, Saint Domingue had become Haiti, the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

C.L.R. James tells the story of the revolt and the events leading up to it in his masterpiece, The Black Jacobins. James's personal beliefs infuse his narrative: in his preface to a 1962 edition of the book, he asserts that , when written in 1938, it was "intended to stimulate the coming emancipation of Africa." James writes passionately about the horrific lives of the slaves and of the man who rose up and led them--a semiliterate slave named François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture. As James notes, however, "Toussaint did not make the revolution. It was the revolution that made Toussaint."

With its appendix, "From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro," The Black Jacobins provides an excellent window into the Haitian Revolution and the worldwide repercussions it caused. --Sunny Delaney

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A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.

This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

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Too much Marx.......2007-06-03

'The Black Jacobins', by C.L.R. James, is so sodden with Marxist cant as to be nearly useless. He can't get the story straight through all the verbiage. A far better account of Toussaint is found in Richard Gillespie's book, Papa Toussaint.

The other problem with James' book is he almost completely ignores military engagements. One can read the entire book and almost never learn of the War of the Knives. Given Toussaint's obvious military genius, this is a serious weakness. Again, Gillespie has the correct balance.

I've written a book set in modern Haiti, though it is fictional. It's entitled Naked in Haiti: A sexy morality tale about tourists, prostitutes & politicians. It's about politics & sex tourism, but mostly it is meant as entertainment.

Caribbean person's review of Black Jacobins.......2007-02-09

My interest the book was kindled by Michener's reference to it in his book 'THe Caribbean' which I only read recently.

When I would see black people holding high office in the US army I would see it as evidence of the enlightened attitude of the American society. I now know that that 'enlightenment' wast the result of a lesson taught by Haitians since the 1790's.

An excellent work which should be read by all especially Caribbean blacks!

TOUSSAINT AND THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE .......2007-01-24

The French Revolution, as all great revolutions, had effects on world politics and the struggle of other peoples whom awoken to political life in the afterglow of that event. The fight for freedom in French Santo Domingo (now Haiti, the name that I will use to avoid confusion hereafter) led by Toussaint to a point just short of independence is a prime example of that effect. Without the revolution in the metropolis it is very unlikely that at that time the struggle in Haiti could have been successful. The history of the times was replete with unsuccessful slave rebellions. Why it was successful in Haiti and how that success was accomplished, mainly under the leadership of Toussaint in its decisive phases, is the subject of the eccentric Marxist, later Pan-Africanist historian C.L.R. James. Although originally written in 1938 Black Jacobin is still the best biography of Toussaint in English.

The freedom struggle in Haiti, a tropical island well suited to intensive agricultural development for the new international market in those goods necessary for the embryonic industrial system, was above all the struggle for the abolition of slavery. The fight against that servile condition that even many revolutionaries, white and black, and former revolutionaries of the time broke their teeth on. Today that freedom struggle, successful in its way in the Haiti of the early 19th century, remains a shining example of the only really successful fight against slavery by the slaves. So it pays to pay particular attention to the fight.

The forces which pushed the French Revolution forward in the metropolis had their its own set of priorities, among them the fight to move the population from a condition of subjugation to a monarch to citizens of a democracy. I have noted elsewhere how important that changed social status was to the historical and psychological development of modern humankind. Nevertheless that same psychology applies to the struggle in Haiti although even more so under conditions of chattel slavery. Thus, the events in French had their reflection in the colonies particularly in Haiti. One can observe in France the changes in attitude and policy from the early revolutionary days when all classes were good fellows and true through the rise of the leftist Robespierre regime based on the plebian masses, its eventually overthrow and establishment of the Directory and then the various manifestations of the regimes of Napoleon. That regime and its treacherous colonial policy attempting was a very far drop down hill from the early heady days when even moderate revolutionaries were in both places prepared to go quite far to eliminate slavery in Haiti.

There is something of a truism in the statement that great revolutions throw up personalities fit for the times. Certainly revolutions shake up the traditional order of things and let some who might have stayed dormant rise to the occasion. That is the case with Toussaint. For most of his life he was a middle level functionary on his master's estate respected by not slated for greatness. Early on, as the struggle against slavery heated up among the black slaves he exhibited the military, social, political diplomatic and other skills that would eventual thrust him into the leadership of the liberation struggle, This is really saying something special about the man because in the context of that Haitian revolution with the initial disputes between British Spanish and French interests and then the conflicting interests on the island itself between white, black and mulatto would have driven a lesser man around the bend. That it did not do so and that in his errors that which at times were grievous, especially around his seemingly obsessive commitment to maintain the French connection, does not take away from the grandeur of the experience. A cursory look at the latter developments on the island and the seemingly never ending series of tin pot despots who in their turn devastated the island only brings out Toussaint's fascinating role, warts and all, in the earlier liberation struggle in broader relief.

Hermetic Scholarship.......2007-01-23

I've read a number of books on the Caribbean and was taught about the Haitian revolution in school. The latter cursorily in comparison to James's work. His analysis of race and class are concurrent as the Haitian dymanics necessitate such. One of the most salient things was the bizarreness of the social arrangements in Haiti: Great Whites, Small Whites, Mulattoes (even more stratification in this class) and Africans. Maybe the events that transpired were ineluctable. Here are these variant races and classes in the midst of an African revolution with a French Revolution correlate and interface. This political climate produced some of the most intelligent, heroic and proficient men in History: Toussaint, Dessalines, Moise, Petion and Christophe. James's work is flawless and timeless.

Good but too much marxism.......2006-12-29

This is an older account of how San Domingo became Haiti and the rode to freedom from slavery. Be warned it carries a Marxist slant throughout the whole book but once you ignore that then the story is very compelling. It is one of the best accounts of what happened on San Domingo and you get a sense for how the French Revolution influenced what was happening the Caribbean. If you are just starting out on Caribbean history this is the perfect book to start with. It shows how the cultural identity began to take shape and what happened to the French Caribbean possessions.

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