Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent (Dover Art Library)

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Collection of portraits, selected from public and private holdings by art historian Trevor J. Fairbrother, reveal the technical skill and intuitive eye for which American portrait painter John Singer Sargent is renowned. Drawings in pencil, pastels and charcoal — a lesser-known aspect of Sargent's oeuvre — are shown. List of Plates. Introduction. Captions.

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Outstanding pencil art.......2007-09-11

I'm a big fan of Sargent, but haven't had the privilege of seeing much of his pencil work in the grand collections of his paintings. This changes that. What a great book with so many beautiful pencil and charcoal portraits to enjoy. And the price? Who sells art books for this price anymore? Dover does an amazing job.

Sargent Captures the Personality and for any Life Drawing Student this will be a Wonderful Guide.......2007-06-25

As a student of Life Drawing and Portraiture (Carolyn's by Design) going back to her art, I had to have more of Sargent. I had just read the book, "Strapless" about the nortorious Madame X who was captured over and over again in Sargent's renderings. This compilation of renderings displays how attuned Sargent is with his representations of the personalities, how good his eye is at capturing the likeness.....how easily he appears to use minimal usage of his medium to obtain maximum expression in his subject.....This small Dover Art Library reference to Sargent gives you the medium and size as well as the name of the subject and the Intro gives you a great synopsis on Sargent's bio.....For any serious student of Sargent....you will refer back to this over and over again for technical knowledge as well as the inspirational beauty obtained from his work...I love him! Formerly millersequine....sign me Carolyn's by Design and "Enjoy"!!!

Wonderful.......2007-03-18

As an art student, I'm in love with Sargents drawings, so much to learn from such a master.

Drawings or Sketches?.......2006-08-04

I was a little disappointed in this book. I expected detailed, color drawings. This book contains nice sketches of portraits that Sargent perhaps later painted. The reproductions are a little blurry, also. It is still a nice, inexpensive reference book to own.

Must have for Sargent lovers.......2006-03-20

Excellent plates - This book is a must have for any John Singer Sargent admirer!

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Monte (editor) Beauchamp
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It wasn't suicide.......2004-01-23

Kurt did not commit suicide. Spread the word, because people need to know the truth. Go to justiceforkurt.com and I promise you will change your mind for good.

~Alma, 15

Rest in peace dear Kurt, I'll always love you.

condemning kurt cobain is not a tribute to nirvana........2003-09-05

i have no idea what kind of nirvana tribute suzi black hoped to accomplish by writing this book. i have just finished reading the book, and i'm angry and hurt by all the unfounded, condemning, moral judgements she made about kurt cobain's suicide.

the book itself is an unimpressive repetition of everything we all know and have read elsewhere about kurt -- and some of it is misquoted and wrongly stated in this book. it's just a lame attempt to cash in on the huge market created by kurt's death. but it's all passable until the very end where she jumps into the jury seat and begins to judge and degrade kurt for his choice of suicide, citing the usual moral cliche nonsense that we hear from those who've never been truly depressed or desperate enough to contemplate ending their lives. nobody has the right to judge anyone until they've walked in their shoes for a mile. this bit of wisdom is totally lost on the author of this book. she is way out of line writing such harsh and inaccurate judgements on a man off of whoes death she's making money. there are far better books out there written on kurt. save your money on this one. i have a world of love and respect for kurt cobain, and i will always cherish and honor him. that's why i'm going to throw this book in the garbage can and write a letter to miss black requesting that she keep her uninsightful and condescending opinions to herself. how dare she judge a man who was in so much pain as to want to die.

R.I.P. dear kurt. we will love you forever.

Cobain.......2002-03-15

Kurt Cobain is a god in the music world, and he is also my god, i love him and i hate that he is no longer around i will always miss him.

kurt cobain is the man

I believe i am kurts biggest fan.......2001-05-10

Ive read it as well as countless amounts of other material yes it is a good book but kurt didn't kill himself and it has other incorrect information as well. If your going to write a book get the facts strait

I'm not like them (but I can pretend).......2000-04-07

This was a very informative yet depressing book...many times -- most of the time actually -- I cried. And I don't cry a lot. I am a HUGE Kurt and Nirvana fan (as well as a Courtney Hater) and I thought I knew a lot about Kurt but I didn't and I learned a lot more through this book.

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Every day trillions of dollars circulate the globe in a digital data space and new forms of property and ownership emerge. Massive corporate entities with a global reach are formed and disappear with breathtaking speed, making and breaking personal fortunes the size of which defy imagination. Fictitious commodities abound. The genomes of entire nations have become corporately owned. Relationships have become the overt basis of economic wealth and political power. Hypercapitalism explores the problems of understanding this emergent form of global political economic organization by focusing on the internal relations between language, new media networks, and social perceptions of value. Taking an historical approach informed by Marx, Phil Graham draws upon writings in political economy, media studies, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and critical social science to understand the development, roots, and trajectory of the global system in which every possible aspect of human existence, including imagined futures, has become a commodity form.

How to Tape Instant Oral Biographies
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William Zimmerman
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How to Tape Instant Oral Biographies: Capture Your Family's Living History

Manufacturer: Guarionex Press
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ASIN: 0935966110

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Expanded, large, workbook-sized edition of original family history guide features additional chapters to help generations review the past and imaginatively explore the future together. Provides useful interviewing information for families that may be multiracial, multiethnic or multireligious in composition. Includes special "Make Beliefs Activities" section in which your relatives can write, color or draw their responses to a variety of questions that will provoke their imaginations and provide fun. Every family has its own history, its own well of stories and experiences that enriches each of its members. Journalist Bill Zimmerman offers a step-by-step guide that shows you how to record, videotape, and film your life stories, memories and traditions. Offers basic interviewing techniques, more than 100 questions to ask, family history sheets. Take it with you to Ellis Island, on family reunions and to visit the grandparents. This book will allow you to preserve the wit, wisdom and traditions of family members for you, your children, and your children's children. Also has a special section for use by teachers in the classroom. Featured on the PBS "Ancestor" series.

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For as long as the Vietnamese people fought against foreign enemies, women were a vital part of that struggle. The victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu is said to have involved hundreds of thousands of women, and many of the names in Viet Cong unit rosters were female. These women were living out the ancient saying of their country, "When war comes, even women have to fight."

Women from Hanoi and the countryside fought alongside their male counterparts in both the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese military in their wars against the South Vietnamese government and its French and American allies from 1945 to 1975. Sandra Taylor now draws on interviews with many of these women and on an array of newly opened archives to illuminate their motivations, experiences, and contributions--presenting not cold facts but real people.

These women were the wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters of men recruited into military service; and because the war lasted so long, women from more than one generation of the same family often participated in the struggle. Some learned to fire weapons and lay traps, or to serve as village patrol guards and intelligence agents; others were propagandists and recruiters or helped keep the supply lines flowing.

Taylor relates how this war for liberation from foreign oppressors also liberated Vietnamese women from centuries of Confucian influence that had made them second-class citizens. She reveals that Communism's promise of freedom from those strictures influenced their involvement in the war, and also shares the irony that their sex gave them an advantage in battle or subterfuge over Western opponents blinded by gender stereotypes.

As their country continues to modernize, Vietnamese Women at War preserves the stories of the "long-haired warriers" while they remain alive and before the war fades from memory. By showing that they were not victims of war but active participants, it offers a wholly unique perspective on that conflict. This rare study reveals much about gender roles and cultural differences and reminds us of the ever-present human dimension of war.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

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The History of Vietnam According to Whom?.......2000-09-03

Women have always figured prominently in Vietnamese history and I approached this work with a great deal of positive anticipation. I was looking for something akin to Bruce Myle's Night Witches. This was an excellent account of Russian women combat pilots in WWII. Unfortunately Taylor's book fails on several fronts and I found its value to be very limited.

Probably the first thing that stands out is the so-called photograph identified as that of a Captain William Robinson, allegedly shot down in the 1972-73 Christmas bombing. On page 110, Professor Taylor writes that this captain returned to Vietnam in 1985 to apologize. This same picture is identified in Rochester and Kiley's book Honor Bound as a helicopter NCO named William A. Robinson who was shot down on 20 September 1965 (pages 141-142). This would be the same A1C helicopter mechanic who was awarded the enlisted Air Force Cross for that mission. Robinson's team was attempting to rescue an American pilot when they were shot down. Nor can I find any verification of Mr. Robinson's "apology" in 1985. Discrepancies such as these do not do much to lend credibility to the rest of the text. What is particularly disturbing is the fact that Professor Taylor seems to have accepted the photograph presented by the Women's Museum in Hanoi at face value. It is next to impossible that a 22-year-old would have received the rank of captain anyway. Given several documented incidents of individuals passing themselves off as POW's and making fake apologies, one would have expected some documentation of an attempt to verify this information.

Taylor indicates that she does not speak Vietnamese and that her interviews were done in the presence of government interpreters. One wonders how candid these interviews would be and in fact Professor Taylor indicates a certain reluctance on the part of those interviewed attributing it to Confucian principles of "right relationships" rather than the presence of government interpreters. On this issue, I remain skeptical.

I have traveled to a few communist countries (Russia, China and Vietnam and the former East Germany). My experience has been a consistent pattern of enthusiastic efforts on the part of communists to correct me on points of history that are simply not credible. And I have no doubt these people genuinely believed what they were telling me and they were certainly not reticent. This was not the case in rare private meetings with "average citizens".

If you are interested in how the North Vietnamese have reconstructed their history to fit political goals or are interested in the mechanics of propaganda, then this book may be of some interest. I have no doubt there were many patriotic North Vietnamese women who fought bravely, suffered and sacrificed much, particularly under French colonialism and later under Diem. Unfortunately their stories are subsumed in the same sort of revisionism seen in the Cultural Revolution in China. It is likely that the real story of women's participation in the Vietnam War will have to wait until Vietnam can become a freer society than it is today.

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Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation—from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America's founding regarded as grossly self-destructive—in a word, evil.
In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, Kupelian peels back the veil of marketing-induced deception to reveal exactly when, where, how, and especially why Americans bought into the lies that now threaten the future of the country.
For example, few of us realize that the widely revered father of the "sexual revolution" has been irrefutably exposed as a full-fledged sexual psychopath who encouraged pedophilia. Or that giant corporations voraciously competing for America's $150 billion teen market routinely infiltrate young people's social groups to find out how better to lead children into ever more debauched forms of "authentic self-expression."
Likewise, most of us mistakenly believe the "abortion rights" and "gay rights" movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. Few people realize America was actually "sold" on abortion thanks to an audacious public relations campaign that relied on fantastic lies and fabrications. Or that the "gay rights" movement—which transformed America's former view of homosexuals as self-destructive human beings into their current status as victims and cultural heroes—faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers.
No quarter is given in this riveting, insightful exploration of how lies, both subtle and outrageous, are packaged as truth. From the federal government to the public school system to the news media to the hidden creators of "youth culture," nothing is exempt from the thousand-watt spotlight of Kupelian's journalistic inquiry.
In the end, The Marketing of Evil is an up-close, modern-day look at what is traditionally known as "tempation"—the art and science of making evil look good.

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Worldview Wakup Call.......2007-09-28

As a Christian going through "The Truth Project", which is a study in developing a Christian worldview, this book is very relevant to my study. We have been sold a bill of goods by the world, and this book is very powerful in helping to identify these lies.

If you want to gain a better understanding of these destructive worldviews that lead to moral and spiritual decay, you need to add this book to your reading list.

Eye-Opening Must-Read.......2007-09-13

Regardless of your politics or religious beliefs this book is a must-read. Even if you disagree with the author, it provides insights into the conservative point-of-view, which is something valuable for everyone.

Kupelian surveys the scourges of our culture and explores their roots. I am well educated and informed on many issues. I tend to dig deeper than the average media consumer. I was brought up in a liberal Christian home and I seek information from the left, the right and everywhere in between. Then I form my own opinion. I must say I learned a lot from his book. It is an eye-opener.

As a father, I connected with his exploration of youth culture exploitation. As a husband, his writing on divorce resonated. Having once been a fetus myself, I'm pro-life, yet his expose of the pro-abortion left was stunning. As one who cherishes our constitution, his probing chapter on the subject was informative. As a professional marketer, I found his entire premise, of The (media) Matrix, sobering.

Of course one can debate various finer points Kupelian makes. That is one of the book's best aspects. It is thought-provoking. Read it, think about it, and debate it. I'm convinced you will be affected.

The truth the media won't tell me.......2007-08-06

When our only viewpoint of society comes from a media that has its own agenda, we are carried along on that agenda. It's time we knew the TRUTH behind the myths of modern times such as gay "rights." Is the phrase, "separation of church and state" even in the Constitution? What really goes on in our schools? Do the majority of Americans really approve abortion on demand? Why would there be a "plan" to destroy marriage? Why are people so easily duped? David Kupelian tells us the truth behind the myths, and I urge anyone who really wants to know "the rest of the story" to read this book.

worthwhile read, but some shortcomings.......2007-07-22

Overall a good effort in identifying to Americans how their thoughts have been manipulated on many issues. Other reviewers have previously covered these issues in some detail.
Where the book does fall short in its search for truth, (important for Kupelian), is objectively looking at 9/11, the creation of Israel, the ownership of American major media and the role that the masonic orders have played in influencing the topics that he covers.
Please remember one very important thing: presidents that belong to a masonic order are NOT Christian !

God or No God - Religion or No Religion.......2007-06-28

We all know there are some things that are just wrong.

The media is exposed for what it truly is in this book. How could we, in America, have succumbed to such deception? We fell for all of this marketing madness hook, line, and sinker. The only good news in this whole book is that WE CAN STILL CHANGE THINGS!

I applaud Kupelian for writing such truths in a dramatic and unapologetic way. The world needs to read this book. Killing babies is wrong! Selling sex to children is wrong! Being a "bug chaser" is wrong! Allowing the government to brainwash our children is wrong!

If you want to know the truth about America you must read this book. I could not put this book down. My eyes are opened.

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom.(Book review): An article from: Catholic Insight

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The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom.(Book review): An article from: Catholic Insight
Paula Adamick
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In the past two centuries, cowbirds have increased in numbers and extended their range across North America, while many of the native songbird species whose nests they parasitize to raise their young have declined. This timely book collects forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds. The book's goals are to explore the biology of cowbirds, the threats they pose to host species and populations, and the management programs that are being undertaken to minimize these threats.

The book is organized into five sections, each with an extended editors' introduction that places the contributions in a broad, up-to-date setting. The sections cover:

The changing abundance of cowbirds and the ways in which their numbers can be estimated.
Host choice by cowbirds, the negative effects of cowbirds on particular host species, and the daily patterns of cowbird behavior.
Behavioral interactions between cowbirds and specific host species.
Patterns of cowbird abundance and host use across varying landscapes.
Management programs designed to control cowbirds and protect threatened songbirds.

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