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The books in Prestel's Adventures in Art series do a wonderful job of balancing respect for art with an understanding of what holds a young child's interest. Now You See It--Now You Don't is filled with excellent reproductions of the paintings of René Magritte, carefully printed in color, with a lot of white space around each one. Designed with confidence in a child's ability to find the paintings fascinating, the layout is calm, and the text is full of fun. "What a horrible meal!" reads the caption over the famous image of the plate of ham with a human eye staring out from the middle of the meat. Throughout the book such comments are written in the same proper, school-board script Magritte himself used to caption such pictures as "This is not a pipe" (which depicts--of course--a pipe). Of a painting of six everyday objects with wonky captions (such as an empty glass labeled "the storm,") titled The Key to Dreams, readers are asked, "What do you think this picture could be called?" The book reproduces many old, black-and-white, surrealist snapshots, and even introduces Man Ray to the reader. This is the sort of multifaceted book that should enthrall the parent as well as the preschooler, and probably everyone in between. --Peggy Moorman
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In his mysterious paintings, Rene Magritte shows us how to see normal things in a different way. Heavy stones become light and float in the sky like clouds, a country scene shatters into lots of different pieces and a steam train chugs out of a fireplace.
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Gives a good explanation of the artist's work........1998-07-01
As an art teacher, I have been very impressed with this series of books for children. This volume, in particular, helps to explain some of the interesting and yet bizarre qualities of this surreal artist. I look forward to the next book in this series.
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Title: Frans M. Olbrechts: 1899-1958: In Search of Art in Africa.(Book Review)
Author: Simon Ottenberg
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African Arts (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
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Volume: 37
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Basic Leica technique (A Fountain photobook)
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CAN I GET A “RAMEN” FROM THE CONGREGATION?!
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match–and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.
Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts– dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (“only a theory”), science (“only a lot of theories”), and whether we’re really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!)
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Slightly misleading book picture but good book........2007-10-01
I was kind of disappointed to find that it was not actually the red/orange book like many bibles but a white paperback with the picture of the gospel on itThat is why i gave it 4 Stars for being misleading not book content. Not a big deal but it would look cooler / more impressive if it was.
Still consider it a good buy for a funny read.
Beautiful logic.......2007-09-23
This book is both hilarious and a great read to point out the flawed logic of one's own religious arguments, in that it uses the same wonderful logic that the most fundamental of them use.
Flying fun readig romp.......2007-09-22
This book is so much fun to read. It is a hoot and a half. Many of the punny funnys had me in stitches. This is a book I may leave out as it is made so you can read little bits at a time. Still funny the fifth time reading some bits. Laughter is the best medicine and this item is a great dose of medicine. FSM rocks!!!...**
Creative Concept--Poor Execution--Troubling Situation.......2007-09-02
I am a sitting science and mathematics educator. I found this book at once entertaining and disturbing. It is crucial to the future of America that problems with such material be spelled out--and avoided.
Satire is a valuable tool in helping us step back and see things from a fresh perspective. This book would be a success, if, by reading it, people of faith and people whose faith is scientific obstinacy were induced to do that.
Instead, Henderson lampoons theistic faith to advance doctrinarism further widening the gap between those who would accept their scriptures literally and those who believe unwaveringly in (provably mutable) theories. One could as easily produce a book of satire lampooning the history of science (with an emphasis on contemporary fallacies and their adherents) making fun of all sorts of Great Minds (Pauling and Einstein come immediately to mind) for holding wrongheaded beliefs.
What's needed in this debate is more sanity and clarity, not perpetual cycles of teasing and belittling. Vine Deloria has written a fine book (Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths ISBN: 1555914586) in which he exposes fundamental flaws on both sides of this debate; his book convincingly argues that "creationists" framed a debate to which "evolutionists" fall prey: pursuing unanswerable questions.
By reacting to traditional, religious fervor by analogy, Henderson remains dogmatic. The irony that disturbs me so is that the author adheres to a secular creed no less rigid or illogical than that which he parodies.
Good Read.......2007-08-23
I haven't read the entire book yet, but it's pretty funny so far. Even if you could just show it off to all your friends it would be worth it. I say go for it, it's worth the buy.
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The FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER: How to Create Your Own Gospel Using One Million Verses Direct from the FSM
Jon Smith
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Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet--who have lived and worked together for almost forty years--may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as forerunners of the New German Cinema movement in the 1960s and influential figures in the subsequent explosion of the European avant-garde. In Landscapes of Resistance, Barton Byg fills a significant gap in modern German and European cinema studies by tracing the career of the two filmmakers and exploring their connection to German modernism, in particular their relationship to the Frankfurt School.
Although they are not German themselves, Straub and Huillet have used German material as the basis for the majority of their films. They have transcribed prose by Böll and Kafka, operas by Schoenberg, and verse dramas by Holderlin. Byg explores how their work engages German culture with a critical distance and affection and confronts the artificiality of divisions between high and low culture.
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124 short excerpts using a mixture of treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs and various common transpositions. The book concentrates on diatonic harmonic study (including diminished sevenths) and harmonic counterpoint in up to three parts. The exercises train students to take in many staves at once, to see where the principal melody is, to understand harmonies and modulations, to read various clefs, and transpose as necessary.
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A fully revised classic, with expanded photography and even more masterpieces by international artists, teaches you how to work each fiber technique in metal wire or strip. “Abundantly illustrated and thorough...this treasure of a book will be a continual source of insight, inspiration, and information.”—Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot.
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Textile Techniques in Metal.......2007-07-06
Another disappointing book on using textile techniques in metal: the vast majority of the projects are too amateur and "crafty" in appearance, at least in my opinion.
The one technique I bought the book to learn about wasn't in it: as a silversmith, I wouldn't consider using any of the others.
Excellent!!!.......2007-06-23
This is not a how to do a project book.
Its a book that shows you how to push the materials used to its full capacity
100% inspirational.
Photos are great, so is the information on history materials, tools, etc.
A "must have" for all serious wire artists
When Fiber Becomes Metal.......2003-08-19
Though not the end all, be all of the technique (I wish she'd come out with a good project based how-to book on the subject), you will find tons of inspiration in the gallery and in the descriptions of the basic techniques! For those looking for a way to add to their current jewlery work or jump from textiles to jewelry, you'll find lots of help here.
Inspires new creative ideas and works.......1999-09-04
An excellent guide inspiring ideas for both metal sculpture and jewelry. A beautiful, as well as a thoughtful presentation of textile history and techniques adapted for use with metals. The photographs are elegant and eloquent in the information that they alone convey. A remarkable book useful to both students of jewelry techniques and to masters of metal work. Five Stars to Arline Fisch!
Good for introductory workings with metal and crafts........1998-06-26
The descriptions of what types of metals are best to use and the list of suppliers are worth the purchase price. There are basic instructions in everything from knitting to weaving to bobbin lace. A beginner crafter will appreciate the instructions and find a very useful book. As an experienced worker with nearly all the textile techniques in the book, I found the inspiration to branch into metalwork and some exciting project ideas. However, I felt a lot of the book was wasted, because the metal techniques are not difficult to master for someone familar with the corresponding yarn craft.
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1-800-President: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Television and the Campaign of 1992/With Background Papers
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A New York Times Notable Book
A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year”
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Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.
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ABOUT THE BOOK.......2007-10-02
This is a truley wonderful graphic novel.
Even though I'm only ten I must say this is an amazing book. I would love to meet Mrs. Satrapi. When my mom just bought the book I was very curious what it was about. Believe it or not I read it before her. Even though it's really an adults book which I think they will love (like my mom) I think kids might like it too.
This is a book about a little girl who lives with her parents and has god on her side, facing all the wars and deaths in Iran. It's hard, but she keeps believing that one day Iran will be in peace once again.
It truley tells the story of what happend, She tells the story with emotion, with her words and illustrations, what her words can't tell the illustrations will tell. Mrs. Satrapi will make you read it atleast twice. We now know what a little girl experienced during the revolution in Iran, not just like that, but with feelings!
This is an AMAZING story for Everyone!
Remember to catch Persepolis 2 & Embroideries!
Non-Fiction.......2007-09-25
An autobiographical account of a girl growing up in Iran. Through her own story she highlights how deeply screwed up the country is, and has become, and how ludicrous some of the religious laws and commands are, when you see them through the eyes of a child. Wear something on your head? It is too hot, stupid! That sort of thing.
She is not holding back, talking about how people feel when their 18 year old next door neighbour is executed as being a communist, after a leftist lead revolution allows them to take power, or when your uncle's sister is strangled to death because he was not home to kill, and things like that.
She points out other crazy things that we probably are not aware of, you can't have chess sets, in Persia? That is very freaky.
The art style is quite cartoony, which is somewhat jarring when she is talking about firing squads.
Definitely good.
Awesome.......2007-09-23
Amazing graphic novel about the author's childhood in revolutionary-era Iran. I learned a lot about this time and place. I also enjoyed her artwork with its heavy black lines and highly graphic style. The sequel is also very good.
Beautifully written - Azadi Bareya Iran.......2007-08-17
Like "Maus" and the story of the Holocaust, Persepolis brings the sad story of the Iranian Revolution to light in a way only a well-done graphic novel can do. It is an absolutely brilliant book that gives you the raw pain and emotion of the Revolution, with all the necessary facts and events, without the dry and verbose nature of many historical novels. Rarely can it be done, in pictures, like it is done here.
If you truly want to know the sad story of the Iranian Revolution from the perspective of an average Iranian family, this is the book for you. Please read it.
Disheartening, but with hope for a better future.......2007-08-06
'Persepolis' was my first graphic novel (or, in this case, graphic autobiography) experience. It is the childhood story of Marjane Satrapi, who was a young girl of liberal parents during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the 1980s.
Satrapi's drawings are simple yet poignant, and reading about her experiences and culture so foreign to me was at the same time both fascinating and dismaying. I hope to read more of her works.
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Title: This Iranian life: memoir depicts author's childhood in Tehran.(Book Review)
Author: Jeff Severns Guntzel
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Date: February 11, 2005
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When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the 15th N.Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th U.S. Infantry. Led by mostly inexperienced white and black officers, these men not only received little instruction at their training camp in South Carolina but were frequent victims of racial harassment from both civilians and their white comrades. Once in France, they initially served as laborers, all while chafing to prove their worth as American soldiers.
Then they got their chance. The 369th became one of the few U.S. units that American commanding general John J. Pershing agreed to let serve under French command. Donning French uniforms and taking up French rifles, the men of the 369th fought valiantly alongside French Moroccans and held one of the widest sectors on the Western Front. The entire regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French government’s highest military honor. Stephen L. Harris’s accounts of the valor of a number of individual soldiers make for exciting reading, especially that of Henry Johnson, who defended himself against an entire German squad with a large knife. After reading this book, you will know why the Germans feared the black men of the 369th and why the French called them “hell fighters.â€
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At last their story is told.......2006-12-17
It is at long last that the world is made familiar with these brave warriors of the first world war. They stepped up to the challenge and proved themselves as true warriors and men. It is a splendid telling of a story too long overlooked. Very well done.
Amazing Response After Prejudice.......2005-02-17
I see that the clerics in Iraq want to impose all kinds of contraints on what women can do in their society. They can't seem to understand that this eliminates half of the potential workforce in one step. And for many of our years we eliminated a large source of our workforce by arbitrarily holding down African-Americans.
The truth is that African-Americans whatever they were called at the time played important parts in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War (10% or the Northern Army), and the Indian wars later on (the Buffalo Soldiers).
This is the first book that I've seen that talks about an African-American combat unit in the First World War. It continues to astound me to see what they had to endure in the form of prejudice before they could even go over and die for their country.
This is an important part of our military and cultural history that deserves wide telling. Highly Recommended.
Excellent treatment of a fascinating topic.......2004-02-05
Harris has done a magnificent job of illuminating an important aspect of American military history. His meticulous research has uncovered new information in the French archives as well as obscure family archives. His narrative style is enthralling and he is able to transport the reader to the place and time of events and still produce a fine piece of historical research. This is undoubtably the most comprehensive history of the 369th written, and deserves to be in the library of every student of African-American history as well as military historians and music historians. A fine companion piece to Harris other book on the 7th Regt, one hopes that he will continue to chronicle the exploits of all the NYNG during the First World War.
Harlem's Hellfighters should be counted with Bernald Naulty's Strength for the Fight, and Barbeau's Unknown Soldiers. More than a military history, it is also a fine lesson in the sociology of the early 20th century and the paradoxes of US military race policy. His use of James Reese Europe as the centerpiece of his work provides a cultural touchstone as one reads the unfolding pages. A must have book.
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Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things-- of sounds, looks and images." In this brilliant work of political reportage, filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall there is a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. Little bits--or intimations--of the West are gradually making their way east: boutiques carrying Levis and tiny food shops called "Supermarket" are multiplying on main boulevards. Despite the fact that Drakulic can find a Cafe Europa, complete with Viennese-style coffee and Western decor, in just about every Eastern European city, the acceptance of the East by the rest of Europe continues to prove much more elusive.
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East and West...The Differences.......2007-08-23
Slavenka Drakulic is both a skilled writer and a capable interpreter of the human condition. Cafe Europa is not a standard history text; rather it is a collection of related articles that reveal the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of individuals who have lived in both the communist world as well as the post-communist period. Drakulic is a great travel companion with a keen feel for the people that she writes about. I approached the book expecting a useful social commentary and found it to be both enlightening and difficult to put down. Anyone who wants to truly understand this part of the world needs to read this one!
Scintillating review of the post-Communist world..........2006-05-12
...which still applicable today, several years since the original publishing of Drakulic's amazing book.
For someone such as myself who's spent a great deal of time in the post-Communist former Bloc, I indentified very strongly with the views put forth by this author. I hasten to add that such identification was instantaneous.
I also learned a heck of a lot; a great deal more, in fact than I thought I knew at the outset, and especially about Croatia and its storied past (the author is Croatian -- Istrian, in fact -- and quite impressively knows the history of her nation and of the former Yugoslavia more generally, like the back of her hand). I wish I had that kind of accessible knowledge. I'm humbled...
Were I able to speak to the author today, I'd probe her for her latest reflections on several of the ideas she put forth almost a decade ago. I'd even attempt to cajole her to pen a sequel...so much has changed, and the instability (sometimes constructive, though more often explosive) has continued to pummel and plague and thereby radically alter the identities of many of these newly democratic states. I'm sure what was the case in 1995 is no longer extant in many of these nations...
Drakulic is deliciously bold in this compact non-fictional winner. She refuses to accept Croatia's latter day nationalistic dogmas and the 'superiority slogans' bandied about by her patriotic peers. Within Cafe Europa's pages, she refuses to accept anything glibly declared by her compatriots 'for granted,' and there remain no sacred cows, and no stones unturned: everything is up for discussion, every so-called truth is up for grabs. For that reason alone, I'd personally have to say her credibility is unassailable.
You might wonder whether what awards someone such 'instant credibility' is in their willingness to lambaste the conventional wisdom of their relevant societies -- to wit, if Drakulic wasn't as willing to chisel away at what Croatians think makes them tick, would she be any less credible? I don't know. That wasn't the tack she took, therefore hard to judge her work on that basis...I suppose what I'm really trying to say in a roundabout way is that I don't have anything against Croatians, and just because she was willing to bash her compatriots doesn't make her any more credible in my eyes. It's not a prerequisite for credibility...having that said that, her candour is yet quite impressive.
Fascinating how so many inspiring factoids were contained in this short and spirited read.
It ended way too soon, Cafe Europa did...now that another decade's passed, I think the time's come for perhaps a revisiting of this theme?
Five-stars all the way.
Balkan mentality.......2005-09-15
Excellent book, Slavenka Drakulic is very perceptive and understands Balkan mentality better than anybody. I really enjoyed reading this book, and other books from Drakulic as well. Sometimes, it seems like Drakulic is balancing between two worlds-one of reality and the other of fantasy. Very good reading and it will give you an insight into the minds of people living in parts of Southeast Europe.
Not bad, but could have been better.......2005-08-19
The first few essays in Drakulic's book are a disappointment. You must wade through pages of materialistic babble (for example, paragraphs on all of the consumer goods she buys in western Europe for the material-hungry people back home) and shallow feelings of insecurity that she shares with her readers (as in, she feels as though her husband will question their marriage simply because her passport is not as powerful as his). But once you reach the essays further on in the book, you may find something of interest to you that falls in to the politics/essays category into which this book has been placed. Drakulic often writes with a sassy, angry tone which is unbecoming. All in all, the book is good reading but I feel as though I could have read another book and learned more about life after communism.
worthwhile read.......2005-06-24
This is a good book, and one worth reading. It's not a history book nor a work of political philosophy. The analysis isn't rigrously done. I don't say these things as criticisms, but rather to point out what sort of book it is. It's a book of essays that provide a particular picture of what life was like in the early 90's in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. Many times these pictures are insightful and can help throw light on a situaiton. They can help provide that "ah-ha!" moment that is sometimes lacking from a more historical or analytic account. So, it fills a good roll that way, but you should not expect it to be something it's not. My only other criticism is that sometimes it got a bit too close to the "why are we eastern europeans so dumb?" mode for my taste. But, it's an enjoyable book that would be useful for anyone with an interest in post-communist eastern europe. For those who want a deeper view of how Eastern Europe got to be how it was when the Soviet Union fell, I'd recommend reading this book together with parts of Alec Nove's terrific _The Economics of Feasible Socialism_.
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Nage Birds: Symbolism and Classification Among an Eastern Indonesian People (Studiesin Environmental Anthropology)
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This unusual book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they live. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, it provides a view of how a human society interacts with another zoological class and gives it a chosen place in its community.
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