Fragments: A selection from the sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri : the tiger paradigm-paradox

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Dense as a diamond and as precious too........2000-03-18

A world view so unlike anything ever before conceived. Yes, it is unique. It is also terribly hard to find. Soleri's streams of conciousness and random thoughts are presented in such a manner that bringing it all together is harder than it should be. Do not read this book and expect to work out what Soleri is on about. Read "Omega Seed" or "Technology and Cosmogenesis" instead; they are more together. You WILL, however, be stimulated in ways you never though possible. It's like drinking Vodka straight up; you get drunk faster but that stuff burns something nasty! I stand by my belief that Soleri will one day be seen as a great visionary on par with Da Vinci, Haussman, Emerson and Nietzsche. He will change the way we think and live.

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For Soleri completists only

The Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri
Paolo Soleri
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0262190907

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For Soleri completists only.......2000-03-25

This book, while extraordinarily facinating, is really only for those who possess many of Soleri's other books and are already familiar with his unique work. Non-collectors will be unable to make head from tail with this book.

For the collectors and lovers, I do recommend this fantastic glimpse into the concious stream of thought that runs through the inner mind of Soleri. If you spent hours staring in wonderment at the designs in "Arcology: City in the Image of Man" then you will spend twice as long with this book, pouring over the oft times incoherent notes and picking apart the spidery sketches in an attempt to work out just what makes this great man tick. If you stare long enough, and look close enough, you can see the vision as clear as the nose on your face. And it's simply breath-taking.

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THE SKETCHBOOKS OF PAOLO SOLERI
Paolo Soleri
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQBWMA

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Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri
Mit Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TXN9S8

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FRAGMENTS : A SELECTION FROM THE SKETCHBOOKS OF PAOLO SOLERI
Paolo Soleri
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEQSAS

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Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri.
Paolo Soleri
Manufacturer: See notes
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UK77T2

Book Description

If you find the translucence of watercolor irresistible, here’s how to get the best results possible. Find out what subjects particularly suit the medium, and start with washes (flat, wet-on-wet, and more), that form the basis of any watercolor. Develop techniques such as lifting out color, experiment with paper texture, and spattering. Soon, you’ll paint a beach scene, brilliantly-hued flowers, a child with a panda, a boat, and more.

Customer Reviews:

Customer Satisfied.......2006-11-04

This book was send quickly and was in excellent condition as stated in the listing.

Thank you.

Phyllis Wilmott

Step-By-Step Art School: Watercolor.......2005-05-07

I bought this book just after it came out and still use it over 15 years later. Suitable for the beginner (step-by-step) or advanced (technique refresher/ideas).

Great book!

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Step by Step - Watercolour (Step by Step Art School)
Patricia Monahan
Manufacturer: Bounty Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Watercolor | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0753707284

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Step by Step Art School: Watercolours (Step by Step Art School)
Patricia Seligman
Manufacturer: Bounty Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Watercolor | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0753704358

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Step-by-step Art School: Watercolour
Patricia Monahan
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0600603644

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Watercolours: Step-by-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School)
Hazel Harrison
Manufacturer: Anness Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1860351093

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Developing the Creative Edge in Photography
Bert Eifer
Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books
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Developing the Creative Edge in Photography: Put the "Pro Difference" in Your Photos and Start Creating Remarkably Better Pictures Today.
Walker Van ; Niedrach, Robert J. ; Bailey, Alfred M. Riper
Manufacturer: Denver Museum of Natural History
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PVZE4Q

Book Description

This massive, 400+ page phonebook-size volume is both an extraordinary showcase of the artist's talents and wit, and a glimpse into the creative process of developing unique cartoon characters and style. Thousands of the artist's sketches, drawings and cartoons are included in this book - which spans twenty years of creative development - including 4 fully serialized newspaper style cartoon strips and hundreds of single panel magazine and free style cartoons. These cartoons are not only a distinctive, expressively drawn representation of the artist's style and technique, but they are also delightfully hilarious and enlightening to read! This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone who is interested in the creative process of cartooning.

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A bold and graphic rendering of declining living standards and growing inequalities in a book-and-poster format. Striking and informative, The Prosperity Gap uses the immediate impact of a poster format to illustrate the "whys" behind the decline in living standards experienced by the typical American family. It shows that the usual culprits blamed for households' financial ills -- taxes, big government, inflation, U.S. wages that cannot compete, and poorly trained workers -- have little if anything to do with today's problem. The real source is the insistence of big business on short-term profits, which in turn leads to falling wages and a decline in job stability. Precise, concise, and readable, this poster and sixty-four-page booklet, with more than fifty charts and graphs, bring together data on income, wealth, race, and marital and occupational status to provide a lively and accessible picture of the decline in American economic growth along with essential prescriptions for change.

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Precise information, exactly what an entrepreneur needs

Finally a venture book for the rest of us

Most relevant and referenced book on my shelf

Without a doubt, the best book on software startups

Clearly written & nicely organized

Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Stock, Finance and Contracts
Cliff Conneighton
Manufacturer: Venturebooks
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Binding: Paperback

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The Startup Company Bible For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising Venture Capital

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ASIN: 0972167102

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The brand new, highly-acclaimed Venture Management Handbook tells an entrepreneur or the management team of any company how to raise money, avoid trouble and manage to profitability -- even in the post-crash, post-Enron economy. And at the end of the day, make sure there is something left for themselves.

Sample topics include:
• Valuations
• VC terms and preferences
• VC structure - exactly how they make money
• Business plans for you and for VCs
• Accounting 101 for a manager (not an accountant)
• Accurate sales forecasting
• What executives need to know about accounting
• Cash flow forecasting, management and reporting
• Deciding what to measure
• How to work with investment banks
• Protect your precious cash from crafty creditors
• Good vendor contract terms
• Convertible notes and bridge loans
• Borrowing on assets or receivables
• What to do when things start going bad
• Controlled bankruptcy and reorganization
• How to structure sales agreements to ensure you get paid
• How to choose the right lawyer - and get the most from them while paying the least
• Dividing the spoils in a merger or acquisition
• How to avoid employee lawsuits
• When can investors demand their money back?
• Options, warrants, ISOs, your personal income tax
• Revenue recognition - what Enron, Xerox and WorldCom did wrong -- how to stay out of trouble
• Avoid personal responsibility for the debts of your corporation -- if you're not careful, you may NOT have a corporate shield
• and much, much more

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Precise information, exactly what an entrepreneur needs.......2003-09-12

I have read a few books on how to do startups, but no other book came close to explaining the concepts in as precise a manner as this book does. While other books talk about concepts like equity sharing and common and preferred shares in a general sense, this book gives exact definitions and examples.

The best book for an entrepreneur who dreams of raising money and taking his enterprise to places!

Finally a venture book for the rest of us.......2003-02-05

The rest of us not being financiers, accountants or lawyers!

I opened the book expecting another of the usual business help books. The ones that spend half the book telling you why you should read it and the second half trying to sell the next in the series.

This book is different. Venture Management Handbook gets right to the point on every subject and is entirely written for the totally uninformed yet driven entrepreneur. I'm only a quarter through, and with skipping to subjects I need now, I may not ever actually finish. But, who ever finishes a reference book, and Venture Management Handbook will surely find its way to the reference shelf of your local library.

Most relevant and referenced book on my shelf.......2003-01-21

This book is fantastic. Compared to numerous other business school and do-it-yourself books I own, this book is hands-down the most relevant and referenced on my shelf.

Without a doubt, the best book on software startups.......2002-12-04

Thanks for taking the time to compile such a great resource. You've done a great job and I appreciate the honest, real world, advice. You cover all the things that I didn't learn in business school...and in a thoughtful, approachable style.

Without a doubt, the best book on software startups that I have ever encountered. Each chapter is immediately useful, practical, and concise.

Thanks for all of the help and for sharing your experience and thoughts. Super!

Peyton

Clearly written & nicely organized.......2002-11-10

Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide To Stock, Finance And Contracts by entrepreneur Cliff Conneighton's is a clearly written, nicely organized, experienced based, informative instructional guide to the often complex and confusing subject of financing business ventures. Conneighton's Venture Management Handbook is a very highly recommended, complete-in-one-volume, "user friendly" reference.

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Having toppled the bookselling giants on-line, Jeff Bezos is now leading Amazon.com
its list, not to mention a makeover for the web's most recognisable site, is Amazon
pushing its luck or positioning for the future of e-commerce? The so-called 'market
correction' has questioned the future of e-retailing, but for Amazon the future is still
bright.
Now completely updated for this new edition, Business the Amazon.com Way shows
how Jeff Bezos is leading Amazon into the harvesting phase, promising a great ride for
investors, a great experience for shoppers and a model for entrepreneurs and business
leaders everywhere.

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First Hand Experience from an Amazon Seller........2006-10-02

I can tell you first hand how Amazon makes easy money. I am a formal seller here at Amazon. Not a big seller,but an honest one with a 5 star rating and zero claims.However Amazon allows dishonest buyer's to do chargebacks months after a purchase and then has nothing in place to assist seller's in getting their merchandise back. Sounds like retail fraud to me!! I wish there was a lower rating to give to this website.They are truly at the bottom!!

Simplistic, Outdated Guide to E-Commerce Success. .......2006-07-27

"Business the Amazon.com Way" (first edition) was published in 1999, at the height of dot-com mania, when Amazon had 1,000 employees and was trading at $209 a share. So it's hopelessly dated. The book might still have merit if it included a good history of Amazon's early years, but the information on Amazon's foundation and early growth is sketchy. This book was aimed at aspiring internet entrepreneurs, touting the endless possibilities for business on the web and presenting Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as a shining example of e-commerce success. "Business the Amazon.com Way" is a simplistic handbook for web businesses more than a study of Amazon, and it looks even more naïve in retrospect, considering the dot-com crash.

Author Rebecca Saunders catalogs the reasons for Amazon's success that could be applied to your internet start-up: know your customers, update pages frequently, link from related sites, have clear long-term goals, brand the site, be customer-centric, staffing and recruiting, a distribution plan for fast order fulfillment and delivery, frugality, state-of-the-art technology, constant innovation, continual growth. And we get a general idea of how Jeff Bezos and the early Amazonians went about accomplishing these things. But it's pretty simple stuff. I don't think "Business the Amazon.com Way" did anything more than state the obvious, in limited detail, in 1999. If you're looking for a primer on Amazon's early years, Robert Spector's "Amazon.com: Get Big Fast" (2000) is equally enthusiastic and uncritical, but it is much more useful.

Very basic work.......2000-12-07

Very basic book on doing business via the web. This should have been released a generation ago when Amazon.com itself was finding its way. The new enterpreneur exploring online business is more knowledgeble than the informaiton and insight provided here and hence can disappoint reading it. It may be suitable for those who are hearing the name of e-business and trying to set up the business online for the first time in their country to know what happend when Jeff Bezos tried doing so for the first time in the history. Certainly this book is not for those who already heard about e-business.

200+ pages of nothing........2000-11-27

Ms. Saunders has taken riding someone else's wave to a new low - two waves really. The first is the branding and selling power of anything with "Amazon.com" on it. The second is the hope that this book will follow in the footsteps of Robert Spector's, "The Nordstrom Way," in giving the reader some insight into the world's leading and most successful e-commerce enterprise. Unfortunately, she fails to even remotely live up to either.

The book is dry and completely uninformative. Even worse, it's factually incorrect. A couple examples (though there are many, many others):

According to Saunders, Amazon.com set up shop in Seattle, Washington because Ingram is there. Um, Ingram is in Oregon, not Washington. What the heck is the Federal Trust Commission? I think it's usually referred to as the Federal Trade Commission.

These two errors and the many others in this book have regrettably been printed before - usually in the popular press - which speaks volumes about where she got her material.

The book is marketed as an investigative look at the business model and "Ten Secrets" that make it work. Considering the legendary secrecy surrounding Amazon.com's business and the supposed investigative nature of this book, I find it pretty amazing that she knocked it out without attempting to consult a single (current or former) insider. But then again, after the first two pages it becomes very clear that she had no intention of going out of her way. The book itself is about as pure an attempt to capitalize on Amazon.com's success as could have been imagined. Oh, and the ten secrets touted on the cover are actually basic common sense and obvious to anyone who visits Amazon.com on any sort of a regular basis.

If you're curious about Amazon.com, I say stick to Spector and read, "Amazon.com - Get Big Fast," (ISBN: 0066620414).

Keep in mind that as of this writing, there really is no truly in-depth factual piece on Amazon.com and it's business model. You can get more information about Amazon.com from the New York Times archives (online) or almost any Wall Street analyst who covers the company.

How much money came out of the pockets of Amazon Executives?.......2000-09-20

It seems like more and more these days books are being written by horrible authors that companies could pick up off the streets and have them write a book entirely about their company, but hide it as being a guide to successful e-commerce. If your looking at e-commerce, you don't just focus on one "semi-successful business", you focus on the many different e-commerce companies out there and you compare and contrast at their success. This book skims the surface on Amazon...but you are looking for more.

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The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market. This ongoing problem has proved difficult to explain. Drawing on comparative data from Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, these papers go beyond examining only employment and wages and explore the effects of family background, education and training, social expectations, and crime on youth employment.

This volume brings together key studies, providing detailed analyses of the difficult economic situation plaguing young workers. Why have demographic changes and additional schooling failed to resolve youth unemployment? How effective have those economic policies been which aimed to improve the labor skills and marketability of young people? And how have youths themselves responded to the deteriorating job market confronting them? These questions form the empirical and organizational bases upon which these studies are founded.

Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries

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Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries
DG Blanchflower
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OOR0LO

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Conquest of Apacheria

Still a classic 40 years later

Thrapp's works are outstanding

Trashy and Biased views camouflaged with historic facts - according to the Apaches, themselves!

35 years later

Conquest of Apacheria (Civilization of American Indian)
Dan L. Thrapp
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Customer Reviews:

Conquest of Apacheria.......2006-02-24

As an interested reader and student of Apache history, I couldn't pass up reading the reviews on books by Dan L. Thrapp. One that caught my attention was that written by Kosto Barry Granlund of New York. Where is this guy coming from? Dan Thrapp's works are a MUST for anyone interested in a solid understanding of the Apaches and their wars. Mr. Granlund's diatribe is without basis and so off the mark that it is not worth discussing. For an accurate assessment, one must read Ed Sweeney's balanced response.

Dan Thrapp broke new ground and set the standard in researching the Indian wars. In doing so, he spawned a new generation of researcher/writers who will readily acknowledge the man's greatness. Dan Thrapp not only wrote about Apaches, but also compiled and authored the highly touted and indispensable four-volume, Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. I highly recommend all of Mr. Thrapp's books.

Still a classic 40 years later.......2006-02-20

Dan Thrapp, who passed away in 1994, remains the preeminent Apache historian of the twentieth century. The former religious editor of the Los Angeles Times, Dan became interested in the American West, particularly the Apaches, in the early 1950s. He faced a daunting challenge. Unlike other Indian tribes, the Apache story had not been told. What was known looked like a puzzle with its frame formed but without the interlocking pieces. Thrapp quickly realized there was a treasure chest of unpublished material from Western historical societies and the National Archives that no one had mined. The fruits of this research led to books that advanced our knowledge by light years over what had been written: Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts (1964), Conquest of Apacheria, (1967), and Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, (1974). These peerless works provided interested readers with new information about the Apaches' struggle in survive against overwhelming odds. And, although in print for over forty years, each has stood the test of time.
Dan Thrapp was honest and objective about the frontier characters whom he wrote about-whether Indian, American, or Mexican. Ethnicity did not matter. He sympathized with Apaches who fought to preserve their cultural identity and ancestral homelands. And he was partial to men of integrity and honor. He was not an Apache "wanna-be," though he obviously admired many of the Chiricahua Apache leaders during the period he wrote about. He clearly respected Cochise, Victorio, and Juh; he had little respect, however, for Geronimo, who has become the symbolic leader of the small band that surrendered in 1886. He made no apologies for his opinion.
One critic sites Dan's treatment of Geronimo to disparage his entire body of works. He claims that comments made by Asa Daklugie, a relative of Geronimo, who was the main source of Eve Ball in her book Indeh, as proof that the Chiricahuas take issue with Thrapp's view of Geronimo. Yet Asa Daklugie does not speak for all Chiricahuas in his remarks that glorify and exaggerate Geronimo's skills, and influence. In fact, the majority of those Apaches who knew and rode with Geronimo did not share Daklugie's sentiments. Many blamed him for their twenty-eight years as Prisoners-of-War.
It might be appropriate to point out that Morris Opler, the foremost Apache anthropologist of the twentieth century, agreed wholeheartedly with Thrapp. Opler had interviewed two hundred Chiricahuas on the Mescalero Reservation in the early 1930s. Of these, many had served as scouts against Geronimo during the final outbreak, and thus had little sympathy for him. Opler concluded that "no Chiricahua of his general age group who had been in engagements with him, represented him to me as a particularly able or effective fighter." In an article that Opler published in 1948, he expanded on his feelings: "Geronimo was not a tribal chief or leader. Moreover, he was not a particularly outstanding warrior." Two of Opler's principal informants were Perico (Geronimo's second cousin who was with him at the final surrender) and Chatto. Perico is quoted as saying that "he and the other warriors did all the fighting while Geronimo stayed behind." And Chatto, who led the Chiricahua scouts against Geronimo in the 1885-86 campaign, said: "I have known Geronimo my whole life and I can't say anything good about him." Even Chihuahua and Ulzana, two fearless Chiricahua warriors, had vowed to kill Geronimo because he "had told [us] so many lies" to persuade them to leave the reservation in the final outbreak. Geronimo avoided their wrath by fleeing before they got to his camp. Lt. Britton Davis, the Chiricahuas' agent in 1884-85, saw Geronimo often during this time. He characterized him as a "thoroughly vicious, intractable, and treacherous man. His only redeeming traits were courage and determination. His word, no matter how earnestly pledged, was worthless."
Here we have the opinions of the foremost Apache anthropologist, the American military officer who knew Geronimo the best, and the statements of four prominent Chiricahuas of the 1880s (associates of Geronimo) who agreed completely with Dan Thrapp. Their views certainly deserve the same consideration as Daklugie, who was a teenager at the time of the last outbreak. He was with Geronimo for less than three of the eighteen months of hostilities. Daklugie was too young to have fought during the Apache Wars. During the reservation years, he was not a chief in the traditional manner and never had much of a following.
Conquest of Apacheria tells the complete story of the military struggle to defeat the Western and Chiricahua Apaches. Thrapp's unsurpassed material, unequalled knowledge of his characters, and supreme understanding of the terrain in Apacheria, are apparent throughout the book. His unique grasp of his subject allows him to analyze and interpret the cause and effects of military conflicts. American Indian policy, establishment of reservations, and the government's ill-fated concentration polity to remove Apache bands from their ancestral homelands to the hated San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Conquest of Apacheria remains a seminal work today, the best book for anyone interested in understanding the full story of the Apache resistance in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Ed Sweeney, author of Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief, and Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches.

Thrapp's works are outstanding.......2006-02-15

For anyone who has an interest in Apache history, or for that matter American Indian-federal government relations, all of Dan Thrapp's works, especially Conquest of Apacheria, are a must read. Mr. Thrapp's research is impeccable, his writing fascinating and he provides an interesting and informative view of the Apache story. I have lived with the Apaches, know many of them personally and professionally, have been married into a Chiricahua family, and have studied their history for almost fifty years. I own and I still enjoy rereading all of Mr. Thrapp's works about the Apaches and the other characters of the period such as Al Sieber and George Crook. His books have served as a guidon and inspiration for such great historians of the Apaches as Dr. Angie Debo and Ed Sweeney. If you are interested in learning about Apaches, or western history, the place to start is with Dan's works. Conquest is a seminal text, and book collectors interested in the genre should have it along with the other books by Thrapp on their shelves.

Trashy and Biased views camouflaged with historic facts - according to the Apaches, themselves!.......2006-01-24

The works of Dan L. Thrapp which in any way deal with the Apache Indians are highly annoying to me. Of course, the non-critical reader and the casual reader of books on the Apache or on frontier history in gerneral may no doubt go through Thrapp's titles and actually think that they've gotten a superbly accurate amount of information about these Indians from a very capable author on the subject. Unfortunately for them, this is far from true because Thrapp is expert at using historic fact to camouflage what I see as his highly baised views of these Indians. Let me explain.

Unless the reader is already aware of a significant amount of detail concerning the Apache in gerneral AND individual Indians of this tribe, they simply won't pick up on what I would call Thrapp's infantile adoration, his seemingly "I-wanna-be-an-Apache" love affair with these Indians and several of their old leaders (which he relentlessly attempts to glorify through Politically Correct maneuvers of "writing in" or exagerating their personality traits and the qualities of their leadership, warfare skills, etc.

To the reader who has a good deal of knowledge about the Apache of frontier times, Thrapp's enthralled, school girl-like fixation with their various leaders almost oozes from the pages of his books. EVERY APACHE LEADER OF THE FRONTIER PERIOD(with the exception of one) was, if Thrapp's writings are to be believed, something of a superhuman individual with superior mental capabilities and ultra high-toned morals and ethics - Tragic Heroes of the Southwest who were victimized by memebers of Thrapp's own race.

Well, after reading Thrapp's "Conquest of Apacheria", "Juh, An Incredible Indian", and "Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches", I became so sick of this childish, Politically Correct type of distortion, that I decided to come on here and write a few reviews. In each review, I'll use JUST ONE example out of many I could draw upon to show the potential purchaser of Thrapp's books just what sort of "bargain basement" work of scholarship they're going to buy!

Please recall that I just mentioned that I consider Thrapp to be in love with old Apache leaders with the exception of one. This crush-like adoration Thrapp exhibits extends to Cochise, Mangas Colordas, Victorio, Juh, etc. BUT NOT TO GERONIMO. To Thrapp, Geronimo seems barely worthy of mention in terms of the Apache leadership. Also, Thrapp seems to desire to leave his readers with the view that Geronimo was grossly inferior in every way to all other Apache leaders.

I quote now from Thrapp's forward to "Indeh, An Apache Odyssey" by Eve Ball:

"A goodly share of this important book concerns Juh, the ablest of the militant Apaches after Victorio, although his fame was mainly among his own people, while for his enemies it lay submerged beneath the flood of reports, and ballyhoo, surrounding his subordinate, Geronimo, in every way a lesser man."

Here is another quote taken from Thrapp's "Juh, An Incredible Indian":

"With [Juh's death], the power of the Apaches to make massive war virtually died, for his successor, Geronimo, never became more than a minor guerrilla chieftain."

It is a matter of FACT that the Apaches NEVER had the capability to "make massive war" against Europeans in their entire tribal history. I could be gererous here and say that Thrapp's idea of what "massive war" might mean could be different from my own and that he is entitled to his opinion, but as an author dealing with historic FACT (not opinion) in detail, Thrapp SHOULD be able to comprehend the obvious! But by wording his comment about the leadership of the Nedhnis shifting from Juh to Geronimo, Thrapp once again reveals his desire to distort FACT in order to paint certain individual Apaches in a favorable light (or unfavorable, in the case of Geronimo) ACCORDING TO THRAPP'S OWN TASTE, NOT ACCORDING TO ACTUAL FACT!

I offer the following quotes by APACHE INDIANS who knew ALL the leaders of their tribe as a firm rebuke to Thrapp's slanted view of the FACTS concerning Apache leaders. These quotes come from statements given (person-to-person) by Apaches to Eve Ball, author of "Indeh, An Apache Odyssey". I ask that you read them and then consider Thrapp's assessment of Geronimo (which is firmly based upon Thrapp's bizarre dislike for Geronimo and not upon any concrete FACTS). By reading the following quotes,you'll see how APACHES (not Thrapp's fantasies) hold the memory of Geronimo in terms of just how important this individual Indian was to his tribe.

"It took a man to lead the Chiricahua. Geronimo was of middle age, a well-known fighter and a superb leader, and he was also a Medicine Man. No White Eyes seem to understand the importance of that in controlling Apaches."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 101
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"Even in [Geronimo's] delerium, he talked of those seventeen men who had eluded five thousand men of the army of the United States for many years; and eluded not only them, but also twenty-five hundred Mexican soldiers - seventy-five hundred men, well armed, well trained, and well equipped against seventeen whom they regarded as naked savages. The odds were only five hundred to one against Geronimo, but they still could not whip him nor could they capture him."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 101
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"We talked it over. Geronimo was shrewed and cautious. Also he had great Power, much greater Power than I. As you know, Geronimo could foresee what would happen. I relied upon that and upon his habitual caution to keep us out of trouble."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 173
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"Death is not new to me. I had seen hundreds of people die. But Geronimo's death hurt me as had those of my mother, father [Juh], and brothers. As I sat beside my uncle [Geromino] I thought that he would never speak to me again and that the Apaches were losing the best they had. *Even though he [Geronimo} was old he had more influence than any since Cochise."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 181
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"Although Geronimo had never brought attention to it, all Apaches, including the scouts, believed that his Medicine gave him great Power, and they were awed by it."
Kanseah (young warrior with Geronimo)
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"...but of all living men I respected Geronimo. He was the embodiment of the Apache spirit, of the fighting Chiricahua."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 134
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"He [Geronimo] had never been one, but he weilded more authority than did any chief."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 181
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

"We stood guard over his [Geronimo's] grave every night for months. Not one of his warriors, including Eyelash, failed to volunteer to take his turn guarding that grave. Many who had never been with him on the warpath joined in the lonely vigil. There were so many that we usually had at least two every night."
Daklugie (son of Juh)
page 182
"Indeh, An Apache Odyssey"

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have several quotes from Apache Indians about Geronimo, specifically from Daklugie - THE YOUNGEST SON OF JUH, chief of the Nedhnis, and a chief himself. Now do you see what I mean about Dan L. Thrapp superimposing his own TASTES on historic FACTS in order to color the final opinion of the reader? Geronimo, a "lesser man" who was nothing more in the Apache scheme of things than a "minor guerrilla chieftain"! That is Thrapp's great tallent - distortion through camouflaging his TASTES and BIASES under and around actual historic facts.

If Thrapp could deliberately mislead the reader about Geronimo, what and who else could Thrapp also offer a severely distorted view about?

With this in mind, I advise you that if you want to learn about the Apaches from accounts provided BY APACHES, read "Indeh, An Apache Odyssey" by Eve Ball.

Equally, if you want to learn about European dealings with Apaches from frontier people, read; "Life Among the Apaches", "Three Years Among The Comanches", and "Nine Years Among The Indians", all available right here at amazon.com

Forget about Apache wanna-be, Dan L. Thrapp and his slanted work concerning the Apache, their leaders, and their wars. True, Thrapp can swamp the reader in minute details concerning all sorts of incidents in Apache history and the conflicts and campains within these incidents in the 1880's, but gushing up from beneath this swamp of details always come Thrapp's crush-like fixations to distort and color according to Thrapp's own tastes, likes, and dislikes.
As for me, when I want to read about historic events, I want plain facts, not fantasy or someone's OPINION slathered over facts, and as far as I'm concerned, this describes ALL of Thrapp's works which I have read to date. He was not present during any of the events he writes about, and therefore he has little to nothing important to say about them. Other sources containing actual accounts from people of those times stand as true monuments of historic record. Read those, reject Thrapp's!

35 years later.......2005-02-23

Dan L. Thrapp has been dead for 10 years or so, but this first big book of his on Apacheria from 1967, is still to be found in almost every footnote or bibliography of books written on the Apache. Following on the heels of his 1964 biography of Al Sieber, this is an epic book. His writings helped give birth to many of today's writers scholarship and contributions concerning this area of study. Both Dan Thrapp and The University of Oklahoma have a classic study with this book; a definite milestone of publishing for its time.

I've read this book several times, and still can remember obtaining it back in the late 1960s; there just wasn't much available in this field of study containing good, solid, comprehensive history on the Apaches. Since that time, and I attribute it directly to Dan's reseach, much material has been published not only specifically on the Apaches, but also the Arizona Territory in general.

Though this wonderful volume is now only mostly available in trade paperback, and costs several times what the original hardcover cost, it is a study still most essential for anyone's library who reads on the Apache and the Indian fighting army of those years, in that area.

The word 'classic' can today be overused, but this book truly is in any sense of the word, a major classic.

Semper Fi.

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The Conquest of Apacheria
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The Conquest of Apacheria
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Steve Wallech
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Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Volume 1 (Field Guide): Covers all South Asian birds (including for the first time Afghanistan and Chagos). Volume 2 (Morphology, distribution, vocalizations and taxonomy): Describes over 2500 taxa, including all 1428 species recorded for the region. Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. Publication date: April 2005 Language: English. Format: Hardback, 15,3x22,1 cm., Volume 1: 384 pages; Volume 2: 688 pages

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Ripley Guide.......2007-03-09

A truly wonderful book. An outstanding work. The book is divided into two volumes: a field guide, which is easy to carry in the field, and a second volume giving you detailed descriptions of all species. The field guide illustrates all known species from the region (about 1300) in great detail, including color variations. And the illustrations are superb. The second volume gives you details about each species, and includes, for the first time for this region, a sonogram for most of the species. I found this book invaluable for this region. Highly recommend for anyone who is interested in birds of southern Asia.

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India

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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
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COLLINS HANDGUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT INCLUDING INDIA, PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH, SRI LANKA & NEPAL.

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Collins Handguide to the Birds of the Indian Sub-Continent, Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal

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The only pocket sized reference guide to India's birds

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The only pocket sized reference guide to India's birds.......1999-03-31

The only readily available, handy sized reference guide to the birds of India, although far from complete. But the book turned out to a great help for my first steps in birdwatching.

A Field Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

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Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan

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The Bible of Birds in South Asia
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Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan
Salim Ali , and S. Dillon Ripley
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From two world-renowned ornithologists, Ali and Ripley's Handbook remains one of the most important reference works on the birds of India and Pakistan, along with the adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. This ten-volume set presents the life history information, taxonomy, colour pictures of practically every species, of birds in one of the world's riches birdlife regions.

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The Bible of Birds in South Asia.......2007-09-21

A must-have for anyone serious about birds in India. A monumental effort the likes of which only Ali, Ripley and TJ were capable of.

Get one, it's the ultimate reference guide.

Goes without saying this is not a field guide, for that I'd recommend Grimett, Inskip, Inskipp's guide to the birds of India.Pocket Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

Excellent Book from The Bombay Natural History Society.......2004-08-03

This is an excellent book from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and published by the OUP. It is a book that gives the complete list of all the different species and sub-species with the modern geographical and geo-geographical boundaries. A must for any bird watcher, amatuer or prefessional, student or researcher, bird lover and traveller to the great Indian Sub-continent.

This book shall be a great value addition when read with other great titles and publications of the BNHS

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Volume 10: Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka (Handbook of the Birds of India & Pakistan)

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Over the years, the Handbook has established itself as the most comprehensive and reliable reference work on the birds of the Indian subcontinent. Volume 10, first published in 1974, has been thoroughly revised for this second edition, with new plates by distinguished bird artist John Henry
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Birds of the Indian sub-continent: Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal (Roger Tory Peterson field guides of the world)

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