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Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Gustave Dore Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486277194 |
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A necessary companion to the Literary Masterpiece.......2003-02-23
Stunning Display of Woodcut Artistry.......2001-12-30
If you like to see high standard of woodcuts, get this book.
An exceptional gathering of his finest work!.......1999-02-27
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John Milton's Complete Poems Includng Paradise Lost, with Dore Illustrations
John) Newton, Bishop Ed Milton Manufacturer: Crown Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LB7ERK |
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Milton's Paradise Lost
Gustave] Milton, John [Dore Manufacturer: Cassell Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KW6HLO |
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Watercolor: Fast and Loose
Ron Ranson Manufacturer: F & W Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0891342257 |
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Intimidated by those fancy little tubes of paint?.......2002-05-05
As the author, watercolourist Ron Ranson states in the Introduction, his goal is to relate to the reader. Even though you've "waged the psychological struggle" before, only to have lost - by getting materials out and then being afraid to ruin that lovely sheet of white paper - this book will truly get you itching to try Ranson's methods.
Ranson's paintings and techniques in this book emphasise loose, free, impressionistic renderings of landscapes. If you're looking for cloying illustrations of nostalgic subjects and "hearts and flowers," you'll have to look elsewhere. This book is chockfull of advice on representing trees and skies, composing pictures, tonal values and simplifying photos to painting.
You will pick this book up again and again as your own "ouvre" develops, as it's the kind of advice you'd get if you were lucky enough to have a beloved English uncle - that could paint like only Ron Ranson can! For example; "You can't go through life avoiding figures in your landscapes - just because you're afraid of spoiling your pictures. Students often seem to belive that they need training in life drawing before they can portray them with confidence - this simply isn't true." And better yet, the author goes on to show you just exactly how to paint: outlining tools to use, many varying examples, and an absolulely indispensible "do's and don'ts" list that should be mandatory reading for every painter.
Another example in "The Materials" chapter; "This is going to be short chapter because the materials I'm going to show you are few, simple and reasonably cheap to buy." If a statement like that doesn't get you itching to paint, you can always go back to charcoals!
As a Sunday painter, struggling to do away with the inclination to "fiddle" with a painting until it becomes muddy, flat and contrived, I found Mr. Ranson's techniques to offer new hope of fresh, vital, majestic paintings. I recommend this book unreservedly.
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Watercolor Fast & Loose
Manufacturer: David & Charles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GIPC04 |
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Watercolour Fast and Loose
Ron Ranson Manufacturer: David & Charles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0715301209 |
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50 Norman Rockwell Favorites
Norman Rockwell Manufacturer: Crescent ProductGroup: Book Binding: Poster ASIN: 0517233584 Release Date: 1987-07-12 |
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The Norman Rockwell poster book
Norman Rockwell Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0823045889 |
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The Norman Rockwell Poster Book
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications, N. Y. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KADR4Q |
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The Second Norman Rockwell Poster Book
Donald Holden Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Similar Items: ASIN: 0823045897 |
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The Norman Rockwell identification and value guide to magazines, posters, calendars, books
Denis C Jackson Manufacturer: The Illustrator Collector's News ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000719DDW |
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The Norman Rockwell Poster Book
Michael Schau Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NBEE5I |
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Eddie Et Alia
James L. Clark Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 059526767X |
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When the peccadilloes of his law-firm partner sink the business, Eddie Amos returns to the Commonwealth Attorney’s office as a prosecutor having as his chief goals the conviction – on the basis of suspected longstanding sexual-abuse of boys – of (1) the administrator of a tax-funded youth organization in the central-Kentucky city of Lexington, and (2) the city’s drug-czar/pimp. At the same time, a young attorney instigates a heretofore-unheard-of wrongful-death lawsuit, generated by a drunk driver, against a distillery, and the two lawyers work together to achieve their goals. An assassination, two murders and a possible suicide impact or result from their efforts.Characters ranging from the most sublime to the seamiest – an Episcopal priest (Vietnam veteran), drug pushers, dope-heads, prostitutes, embezzlers, rogue cops, troubled teenagers, a greed-driven booze-maker, corporate lawyers, sexual perverts, a hit-man, sex-abuse victims, and a devout and beautiful paralegal – are caught up in the process, during the development of which Amos, the priest, a restaurateur embittered by the drunk-driver-induced death of her husband, a corporate attorney’s wife, the young lawyer and the paralegal progress through spiritual journeys and/or experience the developing of romantic attachments or profound heartbreak, but find some answers to hard questions.
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Old Fools and Young Hearts
Tom Bodett Manufacturer: Random House Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 0553471546 Release Date: 1993-02-01 |
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Mark Twain meets Northern Exposure.......1997-03-03
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TOM BODETT:AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO WITHOUT A PASSPORT,END OF THE ROAD,LAST DECENT PARKING PLACE IN NORTH AMERICA,BIG GARAGE ON CLEAR SHOT,GROWING UP GROWING OLD AND GOING FISHING,OLD FOOLS AND YOUNG HEARTS,THOSE GRAND OCCASIONS AT THE END OF THE ROAD
TOM BODETT ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000WE5Z2M |
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7 AUDIO CASSETTES. RUN TIME 2 HOURS EACH. BANTAM AUDIO. HUMOR
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Nityasumangali (Devadasi Tradition in South India)
Saskia Kersenboom Manufacturer: Motilal Banarsidass,India ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8120815270 |
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It studies what the devadasi tradition meant and its transformation into a living cultural phenomenon in the context of Hindu Tradition. The author has first investigated the concept of the Devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India. The functions and forms of the Devadasi tradition are also examined within the Temple Ritual. Data from Sanskrit Agamas, commentaries, Tamil sources, informant's accounts and form the actual repertoire of the Devadasis have been woven into a coherent structure.
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Nityasumangali: Devadasi Tradition in South Asia
Saskia Kersenboom Manufacturer: Motilal Banarsidass Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8120803302 |
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Devadasis, temple prostitutes or living goddesses?.......2004-12-03
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Becoming A Scientist In Mexico
Jacqueline Fortes , and Larissa Adler Lomnitz Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0271026324 |
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Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country
Jacqueline Fortes , and Larissa Adler Lomnitz Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0271010185 |
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Becoming A Scientist In Mexico
Jacqueline Fortes Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORG96S |
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Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country
FORTES Jacqueline & LOMNITZ Larissa Adler Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OR2GVK |
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British Vocational Qualifications 2002: A Directory of Vocational Qualifications Available in the Uk
Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0749437170 |
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Fun & Fabulous Tops to Sew: 10 Easy Designs for the Totally Cool Beginner (Fun & Fabulous)
Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader Manufacturer: Lark Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1579908039 |
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Don't Bother.......2007-06-12
The same as Stylish Skirts.......2007-04-15
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To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 (Classics of War)
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Burford Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580800971 |
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Here is a riveting chronicle of the nine final days of the Civil War, and anecdotal and intimate portrait of Grant, Lee, Lincoln, and the war's other notable personalities as they play out the end-game to America's bloodiest war.Customer Reviews:
History comes alive!!!.......2006-02-10
History as Novel in Fascinating Read.......2005-09-11
a real trail of tears too.......2005-07-22
Inspirational Story.......2004-11-27
Narrating history in the fluid style of a novel.......2002-05-07
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To Appomattox: Nine April Days, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Five
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0030288959 |
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To Appomattox - Nine April Days 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Holt Reinhardt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KDFP4I |
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To Appomattox - Nine April Days, 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Rinehart & Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KDITIC |
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To Appomattox - Nine April Days, 1865
Burke Davis - Manufacturer: Rinehart Publishing - ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OMGZ3A |
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To Appomattox Nine April Days 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Rinehart & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KDI5KY |
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To Appomattox Nine April Days 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Rinehart ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OKWC7K |
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To Appomattox Nine April Days, 1865.
Burke. Davis Manufacturer: Popular Library Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NXK1GW |
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To Appomattox, Nine April Days, 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. 1959 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O3PMPQ |
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To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865
Burke Davis Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8V5AC |
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Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0465031765 Release Date: 2001-04-03 |
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This collection of essays addresses a difficult question: Are some cultures better than others at creating freedom, prosperity, and justice? Although Culture Matters offers varying responses to this politically incorrect question, its editors, Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, as well as the bulk of its contributors, answer in some form of the affirmative. In an introduction, Harrison (author of Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind) writes in the third person of the movement he helps lead: "They are the intellectual heirs of Alexis de Tocqueville, who concluded that what made the American political system work was a culture congenial to democracy; Max Weber, who explained the rise of capitalism as essentially a cultural phenomenon rooted in religion; and Edward Banfield, who illuminated the cultural roots of poverty and authoritarianism in southern Italy, a case with universal applications." (The book, moreover, is dedicated to Banfield, "who has illuminated the path for so many of us.") For readers loath to make value judgments about cultures, Culture Matters may be tough going. But admirers of Trust by Francis Fukuyama, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes, and any number of books by Thomas Sowell will find much to admire on these pages. Fukuyama and Landes, in fact, have written chapters--along with Barbara Crossette, Robert Edgerton, Nathan Glazer, Seymour Martin Lipset, Orlando Patterson, Lucian Pye, Jeffrey Sachs, and many others. In an especially compelling essay on Africa's continuing plight, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle asks, "What cultural reorientation is necessary so that in the concert of nations we [Africans] are no longer playing out of tune?"And this is the point of the book: not to denigrate any particular culture, but to figure out how all people can improve their quality of life. In the words of Harrison, who pens the book's concluding essay, "It offers an important insight into why some countries and ethnic/religious groups have done better than others, not just in economic terms but also with respect to consolidation of democratic institutions and social justice. And those lessons of experience, which are increasingly finding practical application, particularly in Latin America, may help to illuminate the path to progress for that substantial majority of the world's people for whom prosperity, democracy, and social justice have remained out of reach." --John J. Miller
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An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression.Customer Reviews:
Worth a read -- find out what academics think!.......2007-09-11
Culture Matters.......2007-03-09
Tedious academic compilation.......2006-08-28
it really does matter.......2006-07-04
Some very good chapters.......2006-06-19
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CULTURE MATTERS: How VALUES SHAPE HUMAN PROGRESS.(Review) (book review): An article from: Real Estate Issues
Bowen H. McCoy Manufacturer: The Counselors of Real Estate ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JB9I0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Issues, published by The Counselors of Real Estate on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1248 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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Culture, globalization, and U.S. foreign policy. (Books).(Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World; Culture Matters: How Values ... An article from: World Policy Journal
Andrew J. Bacevich Manufacturer: World Policy Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FRRNA Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from World Policy Journal, published by World Policy Institute on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 3130 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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Does Culture/Technology Still Matter to Institutionalists?(Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress) (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Thomas R. DeGregori Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ILO2M Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4224 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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Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
Lawrence E. Harrison Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N75A3W |
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The Last Bald Eagle
Rh Value Publishing Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0517514842 Release Date: 1988-12-12 |
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