Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy (Icon Editions)

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An illuminating tour through five Italian cities famous for brilliant architecture that captures the ideas of a culture and a time in history.

For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities, architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today. Whether travelling on holiday or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Italian mind and its great cities a little closer.

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A memorable lesson.......2003-11-07

Mr. Mayernik transports the reader to the glorious past of Rome, Venice, Florence, Siena, and Pienza; a past in which city builders sought to make their cities into reflections of the perfect heavenly City of God; a past in which every stone, every building, every piazza was an episode of the larger urban narrative that played itself for its citizens as a great "theatre of the mind."

Mr. Mayernik's writing allows us to view the urban mythologies of these places not as History, events frozen in by gone times and no longer capable of speaking to present generations, but as living lessons in city building; he invites his audience to learn the 'language' of these five cities so that we too can build memorable places.

Wonderful Journey Across Time and Ideas.......2003-09-12

Timeless Cities is indeed a wonderful journey, a voyage across time and ideas. The author tells a poetic, scholarly and delightful story of five Italian cities and how they became meaningful and memorable places, remaining so to this day.

For those who have experienced the magical, transforming impact Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena and Pienza have on their visitors, David Mayernik unlocks the richly poetic ideas which are their very essence. An architect and traveler, his writing is filled with the passion of one who truly loves and understands the tradition of those great cities: the tradition of humanism.

For all for whom life is, above all, a cherished series of discoveries and experiences, Mayernik extends a masterful invitation to explore those places which stir our souls and which demonstrate the highest fulfillment of our collective potential for cultural and artistic achievement. He then challenges us to again seek to create cities "through which dance the Muses", cities which are "built Ideas suffused with cultural Memory". Accept his gracious invitation. It is a journey you will treasure.

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The old urbanism.(Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections On Renaissance Italy)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Philip Bess
Manufacturer: Institute on Religion and Public Life
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ASIN: B000824AQA
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2052 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The old urbanism.(Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections On Renaissance Italy)(Book Review)
Author: Philip Bess
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 141 Page: 39(5)

Article Type: Book Review

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RUBBER SOUL.......2000-10-29

I enjoyed this book tremendously. From its Dada cover, to its scores of wonderful illustrations inside, I loved it. Before reading this book, I hadn't understood the folk art aspect of the rubber stamp genre; now I do. Rubber Soul also includes a collection of correspondence art, with its colorful rubber stamp and collage-like effects. I found the images and the text of this book fascinating, a window into other people's creative and personal lives. A treasure.

Nothing much to even complain about........2000-07-06

Not much of a book here. Seems that it was only published so the individuals featured could buy a copy. As for it being about 'mail art', it's not. Not if you mean in reference to artists known for the process. Basically, it a competent group of hobbists that got a buddy at the university to publish a book of their stuff. Of no interest to anyone not personally connected.

this book is great fun to read.......2000-01-20

I bought this book as soon as I heard about it. I liked the story of the correspondents who almost competed with each other to produce interesting art to mail to their friends. Full of interesting characters.

Visually appealing and informational.......1998-08-24

This book focuses on correspondance artists and their personal methods and motivations. While not a how-to book (it never pretends to be), I found it to be well-written and informative. The pieces featured in the book are stunning.

Fascinating look at artists in it for the art.......1998-08-24

A large portion of this fun book is dedicated to photos of the artists' works and these really give you a feel for the unusual art they've invented for themselves. The plates could have benefited from being more integrated into the narrative about the artists, but I can't complain about the sheer volume of photos and examples.

I'm not sure why another reviewer expected a how-to from a book in a folk art series from an academic publisher, because that's obviously not the goal of this book. Instead, it's a careful study of a group of artists who really love their art. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in rubber stamping, crafts, and mail art.

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Rubber Soul: Rubber Stamps and Correspondence Art (Folk Art and Artist Series)
Sandra Mizumoto Posey
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUFZ9E

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Andy Warhol's Exposures
Fotos by Andy Warhol, index is on the endpapers TEXT BY Andy Warhol with Bob Colacello
Manufacturer: Andy Warhol Bks, Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD7FQA

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Andy Warhol's exposures
Andy Warhol
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0448128500

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Thumbs Up.......2002-06-03

A fun book of photos Warhol took of his high society friends like Truman Capote and Jackie Onassis. A text of his commentary accompanies the photos.

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ANDY WARHOL'S EXPOSURES
WARHOL ANDY
Manufacturer: GROSSET AND DUNLAP
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PGWJS0

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The financial services sector has had a respectable track record in the protection of consumer privacy. However, business practices, industry consolidation, electronic commerce and economic trends have raised consumer privacy as a key issue in the financial services sector. Improvements in the rapid transfer of information provide a new medium for the purchase of goods and services, that is, the medium of electronic commerce. The European Union has forced the issue with the Data Protection Directive. As a result, the United States has had to debate the lack of regulation or standards governing the new medium of electronic commerce. The debate could hinder any advance by society to engage in new technology. Because of increased government attention through regulatory and legislative action, corporations are developing self-regulatory initiatives to create industry standards for electronic commerce. Consumer privacy deals with how and what types of information are collected and how the data is controlled and accessed. Consumer concepts of privacy will resist or allow different configurations of what is allowable and what is utilized. The book is an exploratory and descriptive study that assesses the privacy concerns of today's consumer, as well as determines the potential impact of consumer privacy concerns on technological innovation and public policy. In order to understand privacy concerns, the study builds and extends current quantitative research on privacy in the financial service sector. Current research was developed to assess the privacy concerns of consumers. It was not designed to analyze or evaluate the specific impact of privacy on underrepresented consumers. The study expands research to focus on this particular segment of the population. Using privacy as the foundational issue/motivation for developing perspectives on financial education, the study focuses on people of color in the financial mainstream of our economy.

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The leading treatise on financial privacy matters.......2000-12-09

It is about time that the issues of privacy are being thoroughly addressed in this country. Dr. Robinson takes an academic analysis and applies it to the real financial world, in a manner that is most effective. I hope the banking and financial services community wakes up to the reality of privacy issues and takes appropriate action. If not, they will hurt more than just their bottom line. This book is a must read for anyone who expects to be successful in the financial sector.

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Canadian Trade Index 2004: Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters/Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Canada (Canadian Trade Index)

Manufacturer: Canadian Trade Index
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0973156597

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In this social and economic history of the Indian working class of Durban, Bill Freund has woven strands of gender related, political, ethnic, and cultural issues into a complex and intriguing pattern. As "insiders and outsiders," the Indian working class presented an analytical challenge in studying economic history "from below." The result is a skillful representation of the nuances in the interplay of social forces, and the initiatives of particular classes and particular cultural formations, which simultaneously bring the larger picture into focus. The essential underlying concern of this book is to relate the history of this group to the changing nature of South African capitalism in the twentieth century. It unites an interest in people and agency with a conviction that structures are important in limiting the circumstances in which men and women pursue their destiny.

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A heart healthy regimen needn’t be torture. Two hours on a stationary bike, followed by a dish of low-fat cottage cheese topped with a lonely sprig of parsley may be your idea of what it takes to maintain heart health—but it’s actually a lot more enjoyable and fun! Cardiac fitness, like any new lifestyle plan, can be achieved with only a few basic modifications to your diet and activity level.

With The Healthy Heart Cookbook For Dummies, you’ll follow an exciting and delicious food regimen, destined to give you and your heart a boost. Written by James Rippe, a leading cardiologist and chef, and with over 100 recipes from a cadre of expert dietitians and fifty top chefs, you’ll discover some of the secrets to heart health, some common fallacies, and get the lowdown on a few life-saving basics:

The risk factors for heart disease—and how to control them
The eight key eating habits affecting heart health—includ ing the number of calories, cholesterol and fat, and antioxidant-rich foods you consume
“Bad” versus “good” cholesterol—the world of saturated, monosaturated, and polyunsaturated fats
Nature’s gift to health—phytochemicals and what foods contain them
Smart shopping tips—including common supermarket traps, and how to select produce, meats, seafood, dairy, grains, and from the deli counter

You’ll discover what a snap it is to prepare your own menu, assemble meals that are nutritious and balanced and also meet every sort of dietary need (including high blood pressure, diabetes, and food allergies). The book’s rich cornucopia of recipes will help you explore the delicious possibilities of every meal and dish, including:

Breakfast and brunch—including Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins, Peach Scones, and Eggs Benedict with Asparagus and Low-Fat Hollandaise Sauce
Appetizers and snacks—including Homemade Dill and Celery Seed Hummus and Chilled Hapa Shrimp Rolls and Thai Citrus Dipping Sauce
Seafood—including Red Snapper with Braised Fennel and Spinach and Seared Scallops in Grilled Eggplant with Mango Salad
Poultry and Meat—including Lemon-Grilled Cornish Hens, Healthy Heart Beef Stroganoff, and Herb-Crusted Lamb Loin with Braised Fennel and Fresh Mint
Vegetarian Entrees—including Curried Tofu and Vegetable-Stuffed Pitas with Cashews and Raisins

With sixteen pages of full-color photos, black-and-white how-to illustrations, a summary cheat sheet of need-to-know info, and humorous cartoons, The Healthy Heart For Dummies Cookbook helps you build a sensible foundation for overall fitness—beginning with your heart.

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I bought this for my Mom.......2007-07-24

I bought this for my Mom to help her with her high cholesterol. She said she really liked the book and the recipes so far have been really good.

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Friendly, conversational, easy to read!

The Healthy Heart for Dummies
James M. Rippe
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 076455199X

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Heart disease affects almost 25 percent of Americans and causes almost a million deaths per year. Although women fear breast cancer more, only 1 woman in 27 dies from breast cancer, while 1 woman in 2 dies from heart disease. Kudos to James Rippe, M.D., associate professor of cardiology at Boston's Tufts University Medical School and director of the Rippe Health Assessment at Celebration Health and the Center for Lifestyle Research, for making such a serious subject accessible and even entertaining. In the style of the For Dummies books, the information is presented in a lively, simple, conversational manner, with easy-to-follow, skimmable text and helpful checklists. Rippe's main point is that there's plenty you can do to "maximize your cardiac function," reduce your risk of heart disease, and keep your heart working like a well-tuned orchestra. Learn how your heart works, how to keep it strong, and what puts it at risk for disease. Get a "healthy heart lifestyle plan" of nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction--straightforward and easy to implement. Control the four major contributing causes of heart disease: elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, and being overweight. Understand the most common heart conditions and their tests, procedures, and rehabilitation. If you want a healthier heart--and who doesn't?--this is your guide. --Joan Price

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The Healthy Heart For Dummies explores that most vital organ -- the heart -- and explains why you need to care for it. This book also helps you design a personal lifestyle based on proper nutrition, physical activity, weight management, and mind/body connections to both prevent and control heart disease. It includes a section describing the latest tests and procedures used in evaluating heart health and problems, which help you make decisions on treatment options. As an added bonus, the author, James M. Rippe, M.D., has conferred with the world's top chefs to offer you 35 great tasting and heart-healthy recipes.

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Friendly, conversational, easy to read!.......2000-01-31

Dr. Rippe's Healthy Heart For Dummies gives you everything you need to understand heart disease, and take steps to prevent or control it in your own life. Covers everything from anatomy to lifestyle choices to tests and procedures...all in a warm, friendly, conversational tone. You feel empowered to take control of your own life and health. Takes all the work out of learning about a scary subject. This is the only thing you need to read and reference when it comes to understanding and handling heart disease in your family.

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Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies
James Rippe
Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS IDG
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SN2QGU

Healthy Heart for Dummies / Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies

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Healthy Heart for Dummies / Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies

Manufacturer: For Dummies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764582828

The Healthy Heart for Dummies / Lowfat Cooking for Dummies

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NOT JUST ANOTHER COOKBOOK!

The Healthy Heart for Dummies / Lowfat Cooking for Dummies

Manufacturer: For Dummies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764581376

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NOT JUST ANOTHER COOKBOOK!.......2000-06-09

The Heart Healthy cookbook is a great addition to any library in the "new" lowfat genre. The Chef's included in this volume give low-fat cooking a decidedly tasty twist. Color pictures are not numerous, but well done, and very clear. Directions are precise, and the results have been wonderful. The recipes I have tried, allow for variation to personalize for dietary needs, tastes or restrictions. A great book!

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The VA exists to limit the government's liability.......2007-07-22

The title above is a quote/paraphrase from the book that has long stuck out in my mind. I read this book back in the '90s, and often find myself referring back to it. The authors make it clear in many cases where their sympathies lie and there is a pervasive politically leftist bias that runs throughout the book. That doesn't mean that myself or others would necessarily and automatically disagree with some of their digs and personal assertions. It is by no means a dry, boring text book on history, but the reader needs to be aware of the often not very subdued opinions the authors express. There seems to be a reasonable trade off there somehow between subjectivity and objectivity.

Though I'm not really sure why it was included, the authors did write quite a bit about the so-called 'Shays Rebellion'-I suppose to give an indication of how Revolutionary War veterans were treated by the financiers in Boston and how these veterans and their plight was ignored or actually misunderstood by the rest of the new United States. That was an interesting account of a portion of American History we rarely read or hear about, and the authors clearly refuse to buy into the standard interpretation of the so-called Shays Rebels as being mere troublemakers bent on challenging Federal or even state authority. If convincing citizens to agree with them on this view was their intent, they certainly won at least one convert.

The authors move steadily from the Revolutionary War on and show the evolution of U.S. veterans' medical care, pensions and benefits...or lack thereof. A huge portion of the book was spent on the Agent Orange issue, as well as the radiation exposure from 1950s atomic bomb tactical maneuvers. Another section that stood out for me was the hundreds of Spanish-American War veterans suffering from fever and virtually dumped into a makeshift field hospital on Long Island. Also, the authors spent a portion of the book pointing out atrocities and excesses committed by American soldiers against the rebels in the Philippines. It's not always clear why the authors included some of the information they did but these things were interesting nonetheless.

The authors spent a reasonable amount of time on the Bonus Marchers (B.E.F) and how they were eventually run out of their Hooverville in D.C. . Certainly no book claiming to be about American war veterans would dare ignore this chapter and the authors did not disappoint here. The authors couldn't conceal their disdain for General MacArthur. MacArthur (along with Patton and Eisenhower who were also involved in the 'attack' against the B.E.F.) did indeed become famous in the next war...and the next-while the Bonus March veterans became a footnote. I must admit that though I believe MacArthur to be an important and brilliant American general I still have always sympathized with the Bonus Marchers. An exact quote at the end of the "After the First World War" chapter shows what I mean by inherent bias on the part of the authors:

"Within a few years, America would have a new war to fight-the most monstrous war in all history. MacArthur, of course, would be a hero again. As the United States drifted closer to that war, the veterans of the Great war-expelled from Washington by the very Government they had fought for-were not only forgiven. They were forgotten."

I don't believe there is a section on the Merchant Mariners and their struggle for veteran's recognition seeing as how they were in constant peril of attack during the world wars. Perhaps a little less space should have been spent on the Agent Orange/PCB/Dioxin angle. However, at least one author seems to have a great deal of knowledge in this area as a journalist covering this topic. The other author also apparently represented Vietnam veterans concerning their claims. Had this book been written later I'm sure a lengthy treatment of the 'Gulf War Syndrome' would have been included. Considering how a ridiculously large number (something like 30,000 or more!) of our Gulf War veterans have succumbed to this it is amazing that we don't hear more about it from the media. Of course, we don't hear much about Agent Orange or radiation poisoning either.

Even though the book meandered at times and lost sight at times of the relationship between war veteran and Washington it was still hard to put down. They did manage to cover quite a bit of U.S. military minutiae that you are not likely to find in a single volume. For the most part they did an excellent job reporting on the treatment of our soldiers as they returned home from war over the last two centuries. There is obviously what I would call a Liberal tone or bias throughout the book. However, this bias did not diminish the factual information they presented nor the fact that these issues concerning our military are issues that exist no matter what the political bent of the author or reader is. A more scholarly work would have let the great amount of researched information speak for itself. This book is more editorial than textbook.

The reader also has to endure a questioning of the morality of American wars (Henry David Thoreau got dragged into the section on the War with Mexico). For some reason the interesting though rather trivial story of the San Patricios as well as the general outlook of Americans regarding Roman Catholics at that time was included-and I don't understand why unless included in a book specifically about the Mexican War or a book on 1840s America. Clearly the authors' points at times don't seem clear or always stick with or connect with the reader.

I feel that a different title for this book would have been more on the mark as it clearly isn't just about veterans' affairs over time. Actually, it's more like three books in one: veterans affairs history, the cost of warfare to individual Americans, and the examination of America's military conflicts from a nontraditional perspective.

So, besides what I perceive as the presence of quite a bit of political bias and am not entirely sure why some things were included in the book and some things weren't, it is still an excellent book and should be read by those interested in U.S. military, political and social history.

The Wages of War, When America's Soldiers Came Home - From Valley Forge to Vietnam

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The Wages of War, When America's Soldiers Came Home - From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Richard & Lewis Milford Severo
Manufacturer: New York: A Touchstone Book Publ. By Simon & Schuster, 1990
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NVDC9C

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The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home--From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Richard Severo , and Lewis Milford
Manufacturer: Touchstone Books
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A short history of the world since 1918,
J. Hampden Jackson
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006AOMTE

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on March 1, 1992. The length of the article is 751 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community. (book reviews)
Author: J.R., Jr. Jehl
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1992
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v104 Issue: n1 Page: p194(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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