Architecture Studio: Cranbrook 1986-93

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Studio art;: A resource for artist-teachers
Larry T Schultz
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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ASIN: 0442274335

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Photographs that capture the contemporary cowboy in a strikingly direct and truthful manner.

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In admiration of cowboys . . ........2004-11-17

Photographer Schreiber is a romanticist of the West, with an eye for the individuals who choose life and hard work in the outdoors. His deep-focus black and white photographs often find their subjects in the foreground against the vast landscape, an empty sky, or a large sparely furnished room. The strenuousness of the work can be seen in photos of men slouched in chairs or on the ground, staring blankly.

Some pictures have familiar subjects, such as branding calves and roping horses. Others are nice surprises: four men talking together and leaning across the hood of a Ford pickup, a backyard photo of a wedding party, the groom and two best men in big cowboy hats, a cowboy outside a liquor store holding a flat of six-packs. Schreiber in his introduction says the cowboys he's known embody the qualities of honesty, integrity, sincerity, and kindness. This collection of photographs is a celebration of those values.

Last of a Breed: Portraits of Working Cowboys

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Last of a Breed: Portraits of Working Cowboys
Martin H. Schreiber
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GR6ZNS

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This volume recounts the little-known history of Hispano merchants in the Santa Fe trade during the nineteenth century. Contrary to ethnic stereotypes, Hispanos were ambitious, savvy businessmen who practiced the most modern methods of international finance. Their complex transactions linked Santa Fe with Chihuahua City, St. Louis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, London, and Paris. New Mexican merchants like millionaire Felipe Chávez were major figures in the Santa Fe trade until the coming of the railroad in 1880. The practices of Chávez and his competitors convincingly demonstrate why they referred to themselves as "los capitalistas."

In addition to maps illustrating the international network of the Santa Fe trade, five appendices present data of interest to historians and genealogists, including Mexican merchants who received commercial passports from the Santa Fe customs house, and census data from 1860 and 1870 on Hispano and non-Hispano merchants and freighters.

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Writing a prize-winning play; spending a week doing nothing but build Lego constructions; sinking all his savings into wildly impractical money-making schemes - these are just some results of the periods of intense energy Brian Adams has experienced. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, he has also been hospitalized several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, and gained and lost eleven jobs.

This engaging, humorous and sometimes startling account gives rich insight into how it feels to experience this mental health disorder. It is illuminating reading for people with mental health problems, and their family and professional carers.

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The deadly accurate guns of the Union artillery were the most feared weapons on Civil War battlefields. General Henry Jackson Hunt, the highest-ranking artillery officer in the Union army, was "the man behind the guns"--the military genius who transformed a disorganized artillery corps into the most effective service arm of the army. Even the Confederates admired General Hunt. One Rebel general once boasted, "Give me Confederate infantry and Union artillery, and I'll whip the world!"

The Man Behind the Guns tells the life story of General Hunt, who, by the time he died in 1889, was recognized as one of the finest tacticians and military theorists ever to wear an American uniform. His outstanding reputation, however, had been established years before when his 270 strategically placed cannon shattered Pickett's Charge and decided the outcome of the most significant battle in American history.

This classic military biography, published twenty-five years ago and now available for the first time in paperback, is a "must" for every student of Civil War history.

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Master of Artillery.......2005-10-11

When reading this book you can't help but admire Henry Hunt. This is a man who knew what he was best at, artillery, and knew how best to use it. If only his superiors understood what a true asset they had in this man. Henry Hunt was a Hero of the Mexican War and the Civil War. It was a mistake for the government and Grant never to promote him to Major General during the war, and to Brigadier General after the war. This man really can be considered the father of American Artillery in my opinion. He designed artillery, wrote manuals on artillery, and was overall a true pioneer for the use of artilley. His theories on the massed use of artillery, which he was able to display at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg to great effect, were very good and it was a shame he never saw his dream of a unified corps of artillery come true.

I think Longacre did a pretty good job with General Hunt. His chapters on Malvern Hill and Gettysburg in particular were very good. I think he did a good job portraying the situation between Hunt and Joe Hooker. You really do come away from this knowing that Hooker knew next to nothing when it came to artillery and that had he followed Hunt's advice and gave Hunt the power he needed Chancellorsville may very well have been a very different battle. One thing I found out from this book that both interested me and caught me by surprise was the friction between Hunt and Winfield Hancock. They really didn't get along that well at all, both having very different views when it came to the use of artillery. Hancock was an incredible Corps commander but when reading this biography you definitely see that Hancock would have been better off following Hunt's advice when it came to artillery.

Only real complaint would be that the biography could have been longer. I think Longacre could have done a better job, or at least more detailed job, with Hunt before the Civil War. I think Hunt in Mexico was rushed a bit. I also think the post-Gettysburg section of the book, specifically the Overland Campaign and Petersburg could have been given more spotlight. I thought this part of the book seemed a bit rushed.

But overall a very good biography of a very good soldier.

Good biography........2005-03-21

Edward Longacre's biography on General Henry Hunt was long overdue for most Civil War historians. Considered as probably the finest artillery man in the war, he was grossly overlooked by his contempories as well as historians there after until this book. I believed Longacre did pretty good justice to General Hunt.

Hunt's contribution to the Army of the Potomac was pretty considerable. The book reflects much of Hunt's life as a preparation of this great ordeal. The author also points out that one fatal flaw in Hunt's character that proves to be so devastating to his career and life, his very sensitive and over blown sense of pride which made him headstrong, politically foolish and judgmental. This made his career harder and exactly didn't helped his post-Civil War life. But he was a fair man overall, man of honor and man of his time and class. The book was pretty well written in showing all that to the readers.

The book revealed that Hunt spent much of the war trying to bring an unified central command of the army's artillery. Under such central command, the artillery units can be depatched where it was needed, when it was needed and with the proper strength. While that make common sense today, Hunt had a hard time during the war with it. What also make the book enlightening was that it shows why Hunt was so good with the guns. His performance at Gettysburg was a high water mark in his career and reflects his military skill as an artillery man.

If there was a weakness in the book, the author didn't show the parallel between what Hunt was trying to do and the what other armies during that period was doing as well. Even Napoleon had an Artillery Reserves type of formation, his "Grand Battery" was under a command of a single commander moving it around like a ground formation, much like what Hunt was trying to accomplished. It was interesting to note that most West Pointers who had commands in the Army of the Potomac didn't understand what Hunt was trying to do even although their education at West Point in Napoleonics must have been pretty considerable.

Overall, a well written book, interesting and filled a vital spot in any Civil War library.

A good biography with a few flaws.......2004-09-15

Civil War biographies seem to be a lost art as of late. We do see the occasional biography such as Sears' fine book on McClellan, Wert's on Custer and it seems there's a new Lee or Jackson biography every year. However for many Civil War commanders it's been years since we've seen full biographies for them. Generals George Meade and George Thomas haven't seen new full bios in 50+ years. Not since Freeman Cleaves wrote his works on them in the late 40s and it's been 60 years since Walter Hebert wrote his work on Fighting Joe Hooker.

So with that said, it's nice to see a modern biography of an important and yet overlooked man in the Army of the Potomac's leadership.

Partly that that makes this book interesting is it's as much a story of the evolution of artillery in the Civil War as it is Hunt, although it's evolution controlled and nurtured by Hunt. In Longacre's book we see Hunt's famous stubbornness and to some extent his temper. We also see his brilliance with artillery and unfortunately his tragic life after the war where one could argue that his country turned it's back on him after Hunt did so much to help preserve it.

While this book is an enjoyable read it does have it's faults. One fault is the book has a feeling of being rushed. One doesn't have a feeling one is reading a true in depth biography of the man. The writing style is good and the essential facts are there but the book in the end simply has a feeling of being a bit rushed and not as detailed as it should have been.

Another odd fault shows up in the chapter on Gettysburg. Longacre obviously isn't the biggest fan of George Meade and it shows. In the Gettysburg chapter Longacre repeats the Dan Sickles created myth that Meade was planning to retreat from Gettysburg on July 2nd. Not only does he repeat the myth but he credits Henry Hunt with talking Meade into staying! Then Longacre takes the myth one step further and claims Meade planned to retreat on July 3rd and the only reason he didn't was because his Corps Commanders talked him out of it! Only two chapters later in the section on the Congressional investigation into Gettysburg does Longacre tell the reader that any plans Meade had made for retreat were merely contingency plans.

For the rest of the Gettysburg chapter Longacre takes his shots at Meade where he can to the point that it becomes both obvious and a bit annoying. Meanwhile Hunt's faults are glossed over a bit. Yes he was a brilliant officer, often under appreciated these days but he still had his faults. By reading Longacre you'd think Hunt had never made an error.

While the book has it's flaws it still is worth picking up. Longacre's nice writing style makes it a pleasant read. Hunt was an important part of the Army of the Potomac and this book help's greatly to understand his role. Most Civil War enthusiasts will find this book worthwhile.

An awesome book, a hero of Gettysburg!.......2003-12-09

This biography of Henry Jackson Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, is an outstanding example of a biography of an oft-overlooked yet key figure in the Civil War. Hunt's professional knowledge and expertise led to his prominent contribution to Union victory at Gettysburg, a
battlefield that offered tremendous opportunities to the side that more effectively utilized artillery. His role in the later
campaigns was reduced by the reduced reliance on artillery on the Virginia battlefields of 1864 & 1865. His prickly and sometimes quarrelsome disposition also failed to endear him to some of his peers, notably W.S. Hancock. Nonetheless, Hunt's story is one that all students of the Civil War should know.
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The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac

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The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac
Edward G. Longacre
Manufacturer: Combined Publishing
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The Man Behind the Guns: a Military Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac

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The Man Behind the Guns: a Military Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac
Edward G. Longacre
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSPZSK

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The story of the enforced settlement of Gypsy travelers in southeast England, whose nomadic lifestyle ended when they were moved to concrete ghettos of local-government-run caravan sites following the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, is told in this textual and visual rendering. The seasonal work harvesting fruit and vegetables that attracted Gypsy families who lived in "bender" tents and traveled in horse-drawn wagons to Kent dried up in the post–World War II era when mechanization reduced the need for labor. Historical accounts, primary sources, and stories told by Gypsies provide an intimate picture of the cultural and social impact of this transition and the loss of identity that struck members of this rarely documented ethnic group.

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The epic subtitle only hints at the amazing scope of this story. The subject is the migration of a species of sandpiper, known as the red knot for its smoked salmon breeding coloration. These birds mass in the tens of thousands on New Jersey's Delaware Bay beaches in late May, a pit stop between Brazil and Hudson Bay, one leg of their immense journey. Their short New Jersey sojourn indicates both the wonder of their stamina and the fragility of the whole elaborately evolved enterprise, for they use this stop to consume a prodigious number--as many as 135,000--of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Yet this bit of New Jersey shore is a vital link that makes the completion of the trip possible. An astonishing and important story.

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Grab your binoculars and let's go!.......2006-02-28

What an adventure! The story: A round-trip excursion from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America, more than 18,000 miles. The characters: A sandpiper known as the Red Knot, barely ten inches long and weighing two ounces per inch, that can fly thirty to forty miles per hour, often as long as 2,500 miles non-stop in their migratory quest. This is a companion piece to the PBS series "Nova," and as one would expect is a beautifully designed and written book with scores of impressive full-color photographs. It also contains maps of their annual flight that shows their landing spots, along with expected dates. If this information and the book doesn't inspire you to get to one of these sites with binoculars in hand, well, its message isn't for you. This is a study of the ever-increasing struggle these birds face against encroaching humanity upon their life-sustaining environments and what we can do to preserve them before it is too late. It's not preachy, but matter-of-fact in its discussion. I'm going to catch the very next migratory stop in my area, and probably will repeat myself in the years ahead. I can't wait to see these little marvels.

The Flight of the Red Knot........2004-09-10

The author introduces himself by describing his Rhode Island boyhood conversion -- from his BB gun to his brother's telescope. He then proceeds to bring the reader along on a rather incredible journey, observing the patterns of feast and flight of the curious migratory shorebird known as the red knot. The annual junket of sorts traces from the southern reaches of South America to the northern reaches of North America, and is nicely summarized in these words:

"Patagonia and the Canadian archipelago are the antipodes of the cycle, but neither is truly end or beginning. In both locations summer briefly holds a tenuous grasp within the looming shadow of near-perpetual winter, but the knots never experience real winter at any latitude. They always stay just one flight ahead of the nether parts of the calendar, alighting only when and where the larder is full, living out their lives in perpetual spring and summer." (p 115)

My usual science reading tends decidedly to physics, which is often thought of as "hard science." In physics, the unknowns lead us toward the deepest philosophical inquiries of human wondering (like "what is reality?"), but the mysteries of animal biology seem rather closer at hand (although this depends, of course, on the observer/ questioner). Ornithologist Brian Harrington observes and speculates, counts and calculates, and often arrives at questions whose answers are essentially mysteries: "No one quite understands . . ." and, "we have very little idea . . ." he muses. At every level, nature gently resists our hopeful desire to oversimplify it. Our story here, of the red knots' travels, is told in five chapters. The last chapter [6] considers conservation issues; what can be done and what is being done to preserve critical coastal areas and other wetlands important to migratory birds. The book includes many photographs, which are interesting in their own right, but also illustrate the text. This is a fairly quick read and an interesting one.

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