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Fabric Glossary, Third Edition
Mary Humphries
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ASIN: 013098549X |
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This illustrated fabric dictionary explores the fascinating and satisfying characteristics of the multitude of fabrics available today. Comprehensive lists of fabrics for many uses are given, and over 600 names and terms are illustrated and/or explained. It provides a place for actual fabric swatches, and gives information about mounting swatches. Cerlox binding allows the book to lie flat when open. A comprehensive overview starts the book; it explains how to use the glossary, fiber families, fabric weights, and end-use categories. A section called “Fabric Files” follows, with notes on mounting swatches, alphabetically-listed fabric files, and references and resources. This book is an excellent resource for use on the job for those in textiles, textile marketing, and the fashion industry because of its clever layout and wealth of information.
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all good.......2007-09-11
I received this book in a timely manner and it's in great condition. thanks.
Wonderful Wonderful Reference.......2004-03-13
Fantastic book! One that is extremely useful and one that I take everywhere with me. Perfect for new designers acquiring fabric sense. I know several firms where this book is a staple reference guide. A+++++
Good Text, But No Color.......2000-06-28
I was a little disappointed that all of the pictures were blackand white. In order for this book to be useful to me, I would have topay [approx. $20.] plus shipping and handling to get the actual swatches used in this reference book.
The text seemed to be very thorough and all fabric types are covered. For the price, I would have expected color photos of the swatches since it is difficult to judge texture from black and white. If you don't mind investing [more money] for the swatches, you'll be happy with this book.
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Aircraft Mishap Photography: Documenting the Evidence
John, Jr. Panas
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Harem Nights Collection
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This book details the erotic travails of a gorgeous harem slave under a nefarious spell that forces her to achieve orgasm with a willing partner a day.
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Fun Is Where You Find It
Bob Terrell
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Humor Is Where You Find It
Taylor Reese
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ASIN: 1887905324 |
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These tales of everyday life are at once comic and revealing, serious and fun-loving, common and cerebral. Don't look for the usual -- you won't find it here. The unplanned life always has a plan -- the unplanned book of recollections and reflections also has a structure.
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Humor Is Where You Find It: Look No Further
Taylor Reese
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A collection of humor. These are tales of everyday life. They are at once comic and revealing, serious and fun-loving, common and cerebral. Don't look for Hollywood one-liners or the brittle and sophisticated--you won't find it here. These short pieces are as down-home as fried chicken and biscuits; they just seem to happen. But the unplanned life always has a plan--the unplanned book of recollections and reflections also has a structure.
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Taylor Reese Hits the Humor Jackpot!.......1999-12-22
This book of "down home" short takes is really great for the guy who doesn't have much time for reading. You can get in there, get a chuckle or two and get back out. It isn't every book you can give as a gift because of language and content. Give this book to your Aunt Minnie when she laid up at the hospital. There aren't many like it these days.
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Laughter Is Where You Find It
James Lowe
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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Laughter Is Where You Find It defines humor. Some histry of humor is provided which emphasizes the universality of humor. Jokes are listed in categories such as school, church, politics, sports, occupational, race, and shaggy dog stories. Some information may be useful to speakers.
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"'Bird' by others".......2007-01-13
This is the only book that I have read about Parker. So I can't compare it to other works. BUT it is a very enjoyable read. As the cover states there are extensive interviews with people who knew him best, including various ex-wives. Various incidents that are in the movie are described here, so I assume Eastwood, or whoever wrote the script, probably consulted this book. But, what is interesting is that the Book states that Chan and 'Bird' were never legally married. Don't think that fact was in the Movie.
Outstanding!.......2004-12-11
This book is less acclaimed than Ross Russell's book, but is far better than the latter. Reisner knew Bird well and he interviewed most of his associates. It's Bird in the words of those who knew him. A great piece of work!
Bird; The Ledgend Of Charlie Parker is a must read........1998-10-07
This book shows the life of Parker through the eyes of many of his collegues, friends, and family. Robert Riesner should be commmended for his work on this material because it's informitive and gives views of Parker through people that were in his life. This book is a must read for all "true" Bird fans.
this book was great.......1997-07-30
this book was about an epic struggle of a jazz musician in a New York city life.Im 16 and i play a lot of jazz and parker was a geat influence on me and my playin i worship him as a mucican and a jazz ico
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Title: More noteworthy titles.(Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley)(Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker)(The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef)(The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records)(Lady Sings the Blues)(Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver)(Life Is Not a Fairy Tale)(Louis Armstrong's New Orleans)(Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley)(One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils)(Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll)(The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, From Noisy Novelty to King of Cool)(Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era)(Book review)
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Hidden in Plain Sight: An Examination of the American Arts
Martin Williams
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When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected to the United States in 1974, he announced that his hero as a dancer was Fred Astaire. Many Americans were surprised that a highly popular figure from the movies could inspire a classically trained European dancer, just as they would be surprised to hear Duke
Ellington called a great composer in the same breath with Ravel. But these artists and others, writes Martin Williams, deserve such praise. Twentieth century America, he argues, has produced a rich and innovative culture whose best artists should be a source of national pride.
In Hidden in Plain Sight, acclaimed critic Martin Williams offers an eloquent celebration of the achievements of American culture. Americans, Williams writes, have labored under the sense that the art forms created on our shores are less valid than the traditional art forms of Europe. In
these lucid essays, he shows how certain American artists have achieved a range and power of their own. Specifically, rejecting such terms as "popular culture," Williams looks at such great, innovative artists as D.W. Griffith and Fred Astaire and shows how they virtually created their own genrers
of art with a uniquely American outlook and temperament. He offers a brilliant look at Duke Ellington, exploring the range and enormous volume of his work and describing how he worked with his orchestra in the same way great dramatists (Shakespeare among them) have worked with the specific talents
of their actors. Williams looks at comic strips and finds in E.C. Segar's original "Popeye" a perceptive and prophetic comic comment on dictatorship done in 1936. He sees Walt Kelly as a kind of American Father Goose. He discusses the aesthetics of TV by looking at "Bullwinkle and Rocky." He
provides freshly revealing accounts of the detective story, the gangster thriller, and the radio satire of Fred Allen, and more. On the other hand, Williams seriously questions whether the United States has a folk music in the traditional sense.
In 1924, Gilbert Seldes published The Seven Lively Arts, a landmark account of the originality and value of American culture. Hidden in Plain Sight will be considered a Seldes for the 1990s--and yet it goes further, offering a celebratory critique by the writer Gary Giddins of the Village
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Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
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Dolares y Sentido
Janet Bush
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Dolares y Sentido (Dollars & Sense) is a self-study reference with over 50 best practices for developing policies, drafting contracts, setting prices, keeping financial and legal records, marketing and expanding a child care business, and improving income. Child care providers can adapt and individualize the bookÂ's formats for contracts, financial spreadsheets, and business plans to meet their own needs. Reproducible forms including financial spreadsheets can be copied as needed. Presenting real-life situations frequently encountered in child care businesses, this guide offers strategies for handling challenges assertively, effectively, and profitably. This book provides the right business tools that no child care provider should be without.
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Revisioning the Civil War: Historians on Counterfactual Scenarios
Keith E. (FWD) Gibson
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What if Douglas instead of Lincoln had won the presidential election of 1860? What if the Confederates had pushed their advantage and advanced on Washington following their victory at Bull Run? What if Lincoln had not been assassinated? Questions like these help historians answer other broader queries such as: Was the Civil War inevitable? Could the South really have won the war? This book examines key events and decisions of the Civil War, giving some of the subjects foremost experts a chance to reflect on the actualities of what could have (and what could not have) happened. Each of the chronologically arranged sections briefly introduces a topic, poses a counter-historical question and presents the responses of several leading scholars, and synthesizes and recaps these often divergent opinions. The work concludes with survey results from the panel of experts regarding several all-encompassing Civil War topics.
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American politics has devolved into a grim battle between two approximately equal-size armies in a take-no-prisoners culture war. In 2000, those armies fought to a near-draw—out of more than 100 million ballots cast, the presidency of the United States hinged on a breathtakingly slim 537-vote margin in Florida. Four years later, despite the occurrence of a recession, two wars, and a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, the two adversaries remain fairly evenly divided.
In the wake of an acrimonious election where both political parties together spent roughly $4 billion on the federal elections, politicians, analysts, citizens, and scholars continue to turn to the book that George Will called the "Bible of American politics" to understand the American political landscape. The 2006 Almanac of American Politics remains the gold standard of accessible political information, relied upon by everyone involved, invested, or interested in American politics. As in previous editions, the 2006 Almanac includes profiles of every member of Congress and every governor; in-depth and completely up-to-date narrative profiles of all 50 states and 435 House districts, covering everything from economics to history to, of course, politics; and analyses of the 2004 presidential election, the 2004 congressional elections, and redistricting battles. Specific to this latest edition of the nation's leading political reference work is coverage of all special elections in the 108th Congress and the California gubernatorial recall; maps and district profiles of the newly redrawn Texas congressional districts; a state-by-state analysis of the 2004 presidential election; a national overview of the 2004 presidential election; and a statistical breakdown of the 2004 presidential vote by state and congressional district.
Full of maps, census data, and information on topics ranging from campaign
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Barone's America--champion of the overdog!.......2007-09-21
Michael Barone has edited this screed for over 25 years now. I first started reading this book in the early 90s as a political and geography junkie. A look at the cover one would expect it to be a straightforward encyclopedic reference guide to congressional districts and biographies of our elected representatives. Alas, while reading subsequent editions (especially after the '94 election!) I kept thinking "Is it me or is this guy biased?". Well, it wasn't me. Barone is not the most fringy or even inflammatory of right-wing pundits. However, I still think he is one of the worst and most sinister righties out there. There is something about his champion-of-the-overdog and free-market-absolutist mentality that is just disgusting to me. He cloaks it in a veneer of supposed fact-spouting. The reality, however, is Barone is obsessed with a certain vision of America: A vision that glorifies money-making and free-market absolutism above ALL ELSE, one that scorns environmental stewardship as the mamby-pamby invention of supposedly out-of-touch eastern "elitists", one that thinks government itself is almost the source of all evil and dysfunction, and that the military and war-mongering jingoism and ultra-hawk cowboy diplomacy are just misunderstood virtues distorted by the SCLM ("so called liberal media") and those damn European countries are on the road to ruin and that we should try so hard to avoid becoming like them. I live in Massachusetts and my state naturally is a favorite target of Barone's. He writes in a smug, condescending tone in edition after edition about how Massachusetts (read: Massachusetts LIBERALS) is tired, irrelevant, a thing of the past, "discredited", "out of touch with the rest of the country"(TM), etc. etc. (his Mass. entry always ends with the same "Massachusetts still has much to teach the nation but it now needs to do some learning." Hey, Barone--"learn" THIS: WE ARE AMERICA!!!!) His snide contempt for Ted Kennedy is so blatantly obvious that he is oblivious to the condescention he dishes out while decrying the same condescention that Kennedy supposedly epitomizes to the rest of his "real America". To Barone, sprawl is not a bad thing at all! Hey, it's giving contractors jobs and giving families a new place to live like their God-given right as "Real Americans!"(TM). Read his ludicrous take on Henry Hyde's Illinois district about how working at McDonald's is such a better and wonderful thing for young people... so much better than those rotten public schools that are bastions of squabbling nitwits quarreling over political correctness!!!!! Barone just loves the south and west...they are the "real" America to him while the Northeast "is not as important as it thinks it is" (his quote--hey, news to me, Barone! Personally, I think ALL of the US is important, you blowhard!) No, Billy Graham and the Southern Baptists are not not bad...they are America at its finest and the world needs more of it!!! Screw the spotted owl!!! God-fearing gun owners in Idaho will take care of that!!! Survival of the fittest, baby, and if you don't like it, you don't deserve to survive!!! Sigh. Read Barone's "Hard America, Soft America" for more "insight" on this man's Social Darwinist view of how America should be. God forbid anyone should aspire to anything in life but running a business and making nothing but the almighty dollar and moving into a big huge house in Sugar Land or Rancho Cucamonga or Marietta or Wheaton. No, his biggest sin is cloaking what should be an objective encyclopedic overview of America's districts, geography, and elected representatives into a volume that Grover Norquist probably drools over night after night while working to destroy what's left of anything good and decent about this country. Sad indeed. :(
Fox News? not quite.......2007-07-09
As a serious political junkie I have faithfully bought this book every year since my friend gave me the 1st in 1972. I have won so many arguments, answered so many questions and just satisfied curiosities over the years that it defies counting. It is everything you will need to spend hours of time qetting well researched thoughtful information. Are you a union brother or sister well how did your Senator or Rep vote on the new overtime rules. Is you congressman really in favor of choice well let's see how s/he voted on school vouchers. Are you a liberal check out the ratings that the ACLU or the ADA gave them. Same with conservatives ( the NTU or ACU). By the way if you need to ask what those mean you're not a true junkie.Every congresssional district Governors race etc. Now the part I didn't understand at first. I buy this through the National Journal but I haven't heard from them yet so I went to Amazon to see if it was out yet. I started read the reviews which of course were mostly positive then I came across a couple that claimed it was biased put out by Fox News (as if that would make it in and of itself bad) etc. Well dig a little deeper and you find out these wack jobs idea of fair, honest writting is Al Franken. Do I have to say any thing else. As to the cost the 2006 version is over 1900 pages. Must be a CEO complaining they're the ones who think we should all work for minimum wage so they can buy things for nothing. Let's see lots of research updating constantly changing info 1900 pages on a moderate run book and oh yeah you get a code for the online edition updated regularly all for 75/95 sounds like a great deal to me.
Outrageous Price.......2007-06-08
The outrageous list price for this item ($70 for 2006 and $75 for the 2008 edition) is a sad comment on the the high price of access to accountability in goverment. Few ordinary voters will want to pay the high price.
Valauble, & Informative, but Biased.......2007-04-21
This informative if biased political almanac provides a wealth of historical and demographic information about all 50 states, and every one of the 435 U.S. congressional districts. Readers learn a lot about each state's people, traditions, industries, etc., and the same applies to each Congressional district. One also gets a revealing snapshot of the abilities, campaigns, and political views of all 50 Governors, 100 U.S. Senators, and 435 members of Congress. The information is presented in a reasonably concise manner, dividing up the information by state and congressional district.
Some readers may dislike the authors' pro-Republican bias, which includes contempt for certain liberal politicians (but never right-wing ones), and their idiotic claim that the Bush/Gore 2000 election in Florida was beyond reproach. Also, the book no longer has re-election forecasts by analyst Charles Cook (Cook's Call). Despite these weaknesses, readers can learn much about the nation's demographics, sociology, and political traditions from this book.
Where's the bite of yesteryear?.......2006-09-19
I share the reservations of others here who remember the oldest
version of Almanac, written with Grant Ujifusa. The Almanac was fun, then: witty, balanced, wry, sharp. It spoke often to
the real worth--or lack of it--of the Congress members and Governors reported on. It dared to note who was a pompous charlatan and who was an unappreciated workhorse. Its criticism and encomiums seemed to me to be balanced. Now, unhappily, the reporting is bland, and radicalism of any kind is
decried--particularly on the left. Probably it sells more copies now--I know that it's much more expensive. It's worth it for the assemblage of data in a single place, but reads rather like the average telephone directory. Surely the dullards of today in Congress deserve to be as bitingly outed as the old Almanac began?
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Nations of the World 2006: A Political, Economic & Business Handbook (Nations of the World)
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The Almanac of Latino Politics (2006)
Manufacturer: The U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute
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ASIN: 0972126120 |
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Since 2000, USHLI has published three issues of The Almanac of Latino Politics - 2000, 2002, and 2004. The Almanac is the most comprehensive survey and analysis of national Latino voting patterns and trends and defines the political landscape on which the struggle for Latino empowerment will be fought throughout the remainder of this decade. In short, by identifying legislative and congressional districts in which Latinos have the greatest opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, the Almanac is a roadmap to political empowerment.
The Almanac provides a meticulously detailed survey of Latino voter registration, voter turnout, and voting behavior in all presidential elections since 1976, as well as in recent federal and state elections. The Almanac also compares Latino voting behavior in presidential elections with white and black voters, union members, and women, and explores the implications of Latino population and voter participation growth over the next 25 years in the United States.
The Almanac of Latino Politics is a must read for campaign strategists, pundits, corporate and labor leaders, public and private sector policy-makers, academicians, researchers, commentators and columnists in electronic and print media, students, Internet users, and anyone else trying to understand the political implications of Latino population growth.
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Greatest statistics available - up to date!.......2006-05-28
Dr Andrade has put together the most comprehensive study, very informative and up to date with hundreds of great chart & graphs. It is a must have for anyone involved in Hispanic Issues.
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- Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties
- Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos
- Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness
- Fast Sketching Techniques
- First Steps in Enameling
- Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume I (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
- From Word to Image: Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process
- Getting Started in Airbrush
- Global Art: Activities, Projects and Inventions from Around the World
- Handbook of Ancient Greek and Roman Coins
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- Magic Tree House Boxed Set 1, Books 1-4: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Mummies in the
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- Pain Erasure: The Bonnie Prudden Way
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fourth Edition
- Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
- Nutrition and Pregnancy : A Complete Guide from Preconception to Postdelivery
- Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Immanuel, God With Us: The Life of Christ in Art
- Zero Option
