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Great flatware ID book.......2007-08-10
This is a great book for collectors of silverplate flatware!! I have worn out one and found another one here on Amazon. Highly reccommend the book and Amazon. Claudia Cope
Silverplated Flateare.......2007-07-26
This book helped in the identification and listing the ages of different flatware I have found at yard sales, flea markets and thrift stores. I have shared it with several friends.
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Hagan Silverplate book is complete and easy to use.......2006-03-15
I found many of the patterns I collect covered in Hagan's book. The drawings are large and easy to use to identify your pieces. I also bought Hagan's Sterling Flatware which is set up in a similar manner. You can also use both books to note which patterns you want to search for. The dates given in the books allowed me to note which patterns were contemporary with the china I collect.
I've looked at other silver identification books and I liked these best.
Great reference book.......2006-01-09
I have owned this book for at least 3 years, it is the most used book I own. If you are interested in identifying many pieces of silver plate, this is the book for you. Very easy to use. I was just on Amazon to see if there was an updated version yet, or I am trying to decide if I should buy a new one. Mine looks ragged, I have used it so much.
Helpful, but so much more is needed!.......2005-03-14
I collect silverplate - mostly flatware, and have been studying it for several years. I'm not the authority - that's why I want to learn more!
First of all, this book needs to be updated. I think that there are many more collectors today with the advent of Ebay. My favorite pattern, Rogers Exquisite 1940 is listed as "S" or seldom collected but let me tell you, it is a hot commodity on Ebay. Conversely, my aunt's pattern, Rogers Ambassador 1919, is listed as "C" or collectible but the items do not bring as high a price as my Exquisite pieces do.
The index needs to be better cross-referenced, as others have noted. Photographs instead of line drawings of the patterns would be nice. Also, a bit more on the history of silverplate and the reasons for its peaks and dips in popularity would be nice.
I use my silverplate for everyday use and put it in the diswasher every day. It still looks great. I am not looking to preserve it but to use it to make my life more beautiful and gracious. Others would be more willing to buy it and use it if they knew the truth about this marvelously inexpensive collectible. It's so easy to quickly polish it up for a special occasion (and if you use it, it never tarnishes!) and - well, I almost feel like I should write a book myself!
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Silverplated flatware, an identification & value guide
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Anyone who has ever shopped for a pair of shoes--especially anyone who does so with a passion--knows that shoes are much more than functional objects. From the sneaker to the stiletto, shoes have become potent signifiers of gender, class, personality, taste, and even politics. This lavishly illustrated work recounts the history of shoes with entertaining essays that cover everything from the eroticism of ancient shoe lacing, medieval fears about long-toed shoes, and the role of shoes in religious ritual to the infamous Chopine with a 23-inch heel and the modern cult of shoe designers. With 170 color photos and 30 black and white illustrations, the essays will entertain and inform casual shoe shoppers and fashionistas alike.
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Fashion shoes, yes, but there are others..........2007-09-04
My daughter got this book to use as a resource for a school report, and it does have some interesting history and great sections, like the Chinese shoes. But where are Birkenstocks and Earth shoes?? These also have changed shoe history, so why were they, and other "bohemian" shoes not included? Just because they are ugly to certain people, some of us are more concerned with comfort after years of wearing fashion (feet and posture killing) shoes, and now wear these, or similar "clunky" shoes. A real history would include everything.
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This continues explaining locating, buying, managing, renovating, financing, renting, selling, and more. Also includes simple chapter summaries for quick review.
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Bruce Lee's last movie, Game of Death, was released shortly after the megastar's tragic death. From its first screening, controversy surrounded the film, with millions of fans worldwide believing it misrepresented Lee's vision and undermined his legitimacy as a martial artist and philosopher. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey offers readers a unique insider's account of the remaking of this incomparable film--a film in which Lee intended to showcase not only his mastery as a martial artist and actor but also his personal philosophy.
After searching nearly thirty years, Bruce Lee expert and award-winning filmmaker John Little found Lee's original scripting notes, directorial instructions, and more than ninety-five minutes of unreleased footage from this film. In the late 1990s, working closely with Lee's widow and referring to Lee's own copious notes, Little painstakingly reconstructed the movie according to Lee's vision. Here, readers get the inside story, firsthand from the man who made the discovery, remade the movie, and, in doing so, honored the best-loved and most highly respected martial artist in living history.
The perfect complement to Warner Home Video's movie of the same name, Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey offers fans a rare behind-the-scenes account of remaking the film as well as the most comprehensive presentation of Lee's philosophy available to date.
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The Beethoven Encyclopedia
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Beethoven Handbook
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Medieval castles, armored knights, dragons, and crests are among the scroll saw projects included in this pattern-filled book. The popular segmentation style, which involves applying a pattern to wood, cutting the wood according to the pattern, rounding the edges, painting the pieces, and gluing them back into position on a plywood backing, is introduced and explained in these projects. The effect of the segmentation method is that the finished pieces resemble ceramic tile and stone mosaics created by the ancient Romans. Beginner or intermediate scrollers can simplify or complicate the projects by deleting or adding pattern lines.
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Intermediate Accounting, FASB Update Edition, 11th Edition
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This bestseller has powered the careers of countless professionals. This update to the 11
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Good .......2006-02-25
Everything was perfect. But the book said that a problem solving guide included and I didn't receive anything.
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Intermediate Accounting, Vol. 1 (11th Edition, 2005 FASB Update)
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It will make you want to go to Afghanistan.......2007-06-23
Yesterday a friend asked what I was reading.
I just finished 'Come Back to Afghanistan: My Journey from California to Kabul' written by Said Hyder Akbar, a 20-year old college student in California. Like many others, Akbar's story is a migrating one - from Afghanistan to Pakistan, India, and then the USA.
When the Taliban were ousted in 2001, Akbar's father, a long time friend of President Hamid Karzai decided to go back to Afghanistan. Akbar started coming with him on his school and college breaks, and got back in touch with his country that he had left a long time ago. It's a homecoming of sorts.
The book is brilliant. Written with the assistance of journalist Susan Brunton, Akbar takes us into corners and niches that few books on Afghanistan do. It is deeply personal and highly political without the usual history, geography or other details. Born in Afghanistan and raised in the US, Akbar is able to straddle both countries and regions. He neither despairs nor scoffs at anyone or anytime. His writing is passionate, gentle and unassuming.
Akbar's goal in Afghanistan is to be with his father and get to know his country. He travels with, among other things, a tape recorder, and makes programmes for National Pubic Radio in California. He interviews the person in the highest office - President Karzai - as well as his driver, Sartor. He listens to everyone and judges none. During the two years he goes back and forth, Akbar's brother and mother visit Afghanistan. His father is appointed as the Governor of the province of Kunar, a remote and troubled area, where the family collects and lives together.
Through sickness and health Akbar goes through the journeys he charts for himself. His writing is sensitive and engaging. It never strays or lags. It is clear that he loves Afghanistan, is sensing what his relationship with his old land is, and how it will develop. He is conscious of the contradictions within himself.
When I think about why I liked the book so much, and the experience of reading the book, I feel it its so akin to my time in Afghanistan. Without being able to speak the language (Dari an Pashto), I communicated with those I could, in Urdu, Hindi and English. I reached out to the humanity in them, and they in turn, reached out to mine.
In the final analysis the book is about being reconciled to where we come from. No matter where we are, our multiple identities always call us to the land we were born, and we yearn to return. That has been my experience too.
The book also describes the Afghan situation - the challenges to the Afghan people, the leaders, the donor community and Americans stationed in Afghanistan and back home. It presents everyone's reality. Akbar's strength is his ability to see what is happening, from many perspectives, and present it in a dispassionate way.
In a growing body of literature on Afghanistan, Akbar's will enjoy a place of pride. It's young, passionate, and terribly easy to read.
Liked it, but disappointed in the Author.......2007-04-10
After reading this book, I felt I had a better understanding of the situation in Afghanistan. I really have no experience with the situation there, and this book helped me to understand on a more basic level. I was very upset to hear that the author burned the American flag recently. Until I hear his defense, as an American I no longer feel that I can support this book.
THIS REVIEW IS USELESS.......2007-04-05
That's right, don't bother rating it, because I'm here to say I'll never read a book by some over-privileged little delinquent who crawls out of Taliban-infested Afghanistan, gets citizenship in this country, gets into Yale, publishes a book, and then . . . gets together with his two teenaged foreigner buddies and burns the American flag. Oh, how very chic. What a statement.
Not as good as I hoped. .......2007-04-05
Unfortunately, not as good as I hoped and not what it promised to be.
Plus, he was arrested for burning an American flag at a college campus - after all that he's done and what has been done for him.
Very unfortunate.
well worth reading .......2007-01-11
I was intrigued after hearing the author as a special correspondent on NPR's Morning Edition. His insightful recorded journal was riveting. To encourage my 79 year-old mother to keep mentally active, I often buy a second copy of a book for her to read simultaneously and then we discuss the book as we read it. She and I were both very impressed by the maturity and skill of this young author. We had both just finished reading the novel The Kite Runner which is set in Afghanistan. Said does a masterful job of viewing Afghanistan from both the perspective of an American and of a native son which makes the read both enjoyable and enlightening. My mother, who has very limited experience with other cultures and is very conservative, was quite moved by the dilemma of the people of Afghanistan. I think this is a must-read for anyone who wants to have a better global perspective than they are given by the evening news.
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Published in association with the Anne S.K Brown Military Collection.A Complete set of Albrecht Adam's evocative color plates of 1812 campaign.
In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted. In all he produced 77 color plates of the campaign and they are as fresh and dramatic as the day they were produced.
They show troops passing along dusty roads, bewildered civilians, battles and their bloody aftermath, burning towns and unchecked destruction. The memoirs which accompany the plates form a candid text describing the war Adam witnessed.
Attached to IV Corps, composed largely of Italians, he was present at all the major actions and saw the conquerors march triumphantly into Moscow. But, from then on, the invading army's fate was sealed and the disastrous outcome of the war meant that the year 1812 would become legendary as one of the darkest chapters in history.
This is a major and important new work and is destined to become a collector's item.
The author, Jonathan North is a professional editor and a historian specializing in Napoleonic history. He spent a number of years in Eastern Europe before beginning a career in publishing in 1997. His publications include With Napoleon in Russia: The Illustrated Memoirs of Faber du Faur, In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1812, The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Americans will never stop debating the question of church-state separation. Courts across the country perpetually hear cases on religion's place in our schools, civic government, and society at large. Such debates lead us back to the nation's beginnings and the founders' intent. The Separation of Church and State presents, for the first time, a basic collection of the founders' teachings on this topic. Readers can see for themselves why George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison-together with leading evangelical Christians of the day-believed passionately in church-state separation. This concise primer gets past the rhetoric that surrounds the current debate, placing the founders' vivid writings on religious liberty in historical perspective. Edited and with running commentary by the Reverend Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.
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Historical Proof that the United States was NOT Founded as a Christian Nation.......2006-10-15
Forrest Church, a Unitarian minister and historian, has pulled together a nice sampling of letters, documents, and legal briefs from the early days of the United States of America (both pre- and post-Constitution) that lays out how most of our founding generations felt about the separation of church and state--they were very much opposed to religion mixing with government and politics. Mr. Church has presented the material in chronological order, and he introduces each piece to highlight its contextual setting and importance. These are more than just the familiar quotes, these pieces in their whole so that the complete context of what is said is there for the examination.
Included are number chapters on some the most recognizable figures important in the separation of church and state debate, including Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry and James Madison; but, what makes this book more useful are the lesser known public and religious leaders included: Isaac Backus, Caleb Wallace, and George Mason among others.
The separation of church and state was a hot topic open for much debate in our founding days. Most of the original colonies prior to and into the Revolution, had laws on the books that sanctioned a state religion, usually the Anglican Church, and collected taxes that paid the clergy. As King George's yoke was being thrown off during the Revolution, our fledgling country debated itself on the meaning of freedom and liberty, and religious freedom was of utmost importance for our founders.
What makes this book important is that instead of being a thick volume of every conceivable reference to our freedom of and from religion that only an historian would glance at, this book is of the perfect size and length that a layperson can read it and learn for his or herself how important it is that we keep government out of religion and more importantly that we keep religion out of government.
Religious Freedom for All.......2006-07-21
Forrest Church is a Unitarian minister and historian who believes strongly in the American tradition of church state separation. He wrote this book to include actual words taken from several influential individuals from the early days of the United States, illustrating how and why each of these people felt so strongly about the importance of preventing intermingling of church and state.
Many important individuals are mentioned in this book with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison receiving the bulk of the coverage. The reason these two are singled out should be obvious: They were two of the most influential of all in the writing of the U.S. Constitution and their firm stance in favor of religious liberty was unyielding. Of the two men, Jefferson was the most insistent that church and state remain as far apart as possible and it isn't surprising that three of the book's chapters are dedicated to him. Jefferson wrote many letters about this topic and among the nation's many founders, he was the most instrumental at keeping religion and government from joining forces.
Most of the names mentioned in this book are well- known from American history but there are a few surprises. I did not know the names Richard Price or John Caleb until I read this book but I can understand why each was included. Both of these men were high- ranking and very influential religious ministers and they were both convinced that church and state should never be allowed to mix. This is similar to the sentiments expressed by others in this book. But the difference is that these two individuals were ministers and their feelings add credibility to the church/state separation issue. Even though they were both ministers and believed religion was a very important part of society, they also knew religion and politics made dangerous bedfellows. Give one religious group control of governmental laws and all other religious views will not only be silenced, their fundamental freedoms will be lost. These wise men knew that it was better to keep religion out of the laws completely, both for the good of the nation and for the good of churches and religiously- minded individuals.
Probably the main thing I like about this book is the fact that it includes the actual text taken from the various letters, speeches, essays, etc. that each of these men composed relating to church/state separation. The reason I like this is because it puts to rest any claims that the words of these men have been "taken out of context". I have heard many of the small quotations taken from different letters and essays, like Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and most everyone else has heard these famous quotations as well. Those who are opposed to church/state separation often try to say that these pro separation quotes are taken out of context- that the person who spoke or wrote them didn't really mean what he said. But here, author Forrest Church has taken these letters, speeches, and essays and presented them in their entirety (the exception is Washington's farewell address, which is presented in condensed form). This way, the reader can read the entire document and clearly see that there is nothing taken out of context. When, for example, Jefferson told the Danbury Baptists that the U.S. Constitution was explicitly worded in a way that builds a "wall of separation between church and state", he really meant what he said. Reading the entire text of the letters sent back and forth between Jefferson and the Danbury Baptists, it is very clear how Jefferson felt about church/state relations.
Besides the actual letters and essays, most of the remainder of this book is old news that the majority of Americans have heard before. We all know how the early founders generally wanted to keep church and state separate (there were some exceptions, but they were outvoted) and how they believed that religion was a very personal decision that should never be interfered with from government. So, other than letting the reader absorb the entire text of these leader's speeches, there really isn't much new in this book. It is really just a history refresher on the problems of church and state and how the U.S. Constitution explicitly calls for separation of the two entities.
One other problem I have with this book is its short length. It is only 160 pages in length and it contains contributions from only about ten or eleven different men. It is also very small in size, with dimensions that are similar to those of a handbook and a length that needs to be about twice as long to make it more effective. It's nice to read these letters in their entirety and it's good to read more proof that America was intended by its founders to have a secular government. But more proof and the inclusion of more articles from other intellectuals of the time would make the book more thorough and more believable.
Overall, I like "The Separation of Church and State" and I think it's a good reference book for those who are in favor of church/state separation and need some ammunition to take on the pro- theocratic people who feel that America would be best served if its Constitution and laws included more specific religious doctrine. It would be a better book if it included quotes from more people and if its length was about double. But it is still a good book to read about the never- ending debate of church/state separation and it makes a good handbook and reference guide for understanding this important subject.
Excellent set of raw data, without much context.......2005-08-07
Mr. Church serves more as editor of source materials in the time of our nation's founding; the bulk of this book is dedicated to presenting the founding fathers' and framers' opinions regarding the eventually established American ideal regarding religious freedom, with very little context added by Mr. Church. His short analyses though are spot-on.
Mr. Church's book presents, in their own words, essays and letters from: Patrick Henry (an enemy of religious freedom and some of our founding ideals), Sam Adams, George Mason, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, and others. It also includes the Treaty of Tripoli initiated by Washington's administration but ratified by Adams after being unanimously ratified by the 5th Congress which expressly defines the U.S. as "not being in any sense founded on the Christian religion". The preponderance of evidence collected in this book strongly favors the fact that our framers (not neccesarily our founders like Henry), were enlightened gentleman suspicious of organized religion, but respectful of humanaity's need for faith, and that a relationship between religion and government led to corruption of religion and the derprivation of freedom to citizens and thus the need to separate the two institutions as much as possible.
Being an avid student on this topic, I can state unequivocably that Mr. Church's assessment is accurate relative to the framers' historic desire to secularize government. Mr. Church even presents Madison's post-Presidential memorandum on his admitted hypocrisy regarding his re-establishing national days of prayer during the build-up to the War of 1812 and the fear that elicited.
The book is light in available source material regarding the majority of our leading framer's express desire to seperate church and state in hopes that religion would evolve to a faith in line with scientific fact that believed in a God of universal grace rather than the God described by fundamentalist Christians (then called Trinitarians) and that disestablishing religion was considered necessary in order that Citizens had the "freedom of conscience" to evolve to a more unitarian, if not deistic, faith already shared by our enlightened founders. It is surprising Mr. Church doesn't explore this more fully given that he is a long-time Unitarian Minister with a Ph.D. in Early Church history and editor of "Thomas Jefferson's Bible", suggesting he's completely up to the task.
This is an excellent book to own and I highly recommend it because of its wealth of source data, all in a tiny book, 157 pages in a small footprint. It however is assuredly NOT the definitive book on the relationship between church and state due to its limited scope and incompleteness of source material (.e.g, it's missing Madison vetoing faith-based charities as President along with the failed efforts to extend constitutional power to the gov't through a particular sect's version of God v. gov't deriving power directly from "We the People"), however since I haven't found that perfect book on this subject, one can't be too critical of Mr. Church.
For those of you that have been duped into believing the Dobson/Moore/Robertson propaganda that our government was divinely established to Christianize the world based on fundamentlist beliefs, I would recommend this book as well. The framers quoted here belong to all of us, possessing their words, with very little editorializing by Mr. Church makes this book a very un-controversial book that will hopefully enlighten you and motivate you to further research the veracity of today's religious right propagandists v. what legitimate scholars and historians publish.
While reading this book I suggest thinking about the electability of some of America's greatest generation of statesmen: the words of Madison, Jefferson, Adams, and Washington would make them certainly UNELECTABLE in today's world where politicans are forced to kneel down to the dogma of belief in a theistic, vengeful God as defined by a primitive sect of Christians to even have a chance of getting past the primaries. While a deistic Jefferson and Madison or unitarian Adams could be elected then and were able to establish our precious American ideals, these men wouldn't stand a chance today, our loss in my humble opinion.
Then versus Now.......2005-02-17
Forrest Church's handy little book is not only entertaining and informative, but provides verbatim background on our founding fathers' experiences and concerns that led to their insistence on the separation of church and state in founding our nation. Yet while he admirably provides the political and religious context in which their thinking developed, he doesn't provide the scientific and technological context. Consider the following.
In those days most folks accepted the Biblical explanations of the Earth's and Life's beginnings - that the Earth was only a few thousand years old and unchanged (except for the Deluge's scares), and that the animal kingdom and humans were still much as God had created them. Scotland's James Hutton's arguments for Earth's `incalculable' age wouldn't be accepted until forty-years later when Charles Lyell published his own findings in 1830. Charles Darwin took a copy of Lyell's first volume on his famous voyage; it rattled Darwin's religious beliefs and eventually led in 1859 to his seminal "On the Origin of Species." So eventho' several key founding fathers were Deists, given their limited knowledge, the best they were able to do was use words like "nature's God" and "endowed by their Creator." What words might they have used instead, if they'd known then what we know now? Thus verbatim excerpts should be read in context.
Moreover their technology was primitive by today's standards. They didn't have central heating but used fireplaces in many rooms (altho' Ben Franklin's stove-insert was coming into use). They didn't have indoor plumbing but used streams, wells, cisterns, buckets and pitchers, and outhouses and chamber pots. No electric lights or even gaslight, they used candles and oil lamps. They traveled by foot, theirs or horses' and oxen's. No telegraph much less telephone, radio, TV or email. You get the picture. Given their rudimentary technology, what they achieved was not only revolutionary but remarkable.
So pick-up and peruse Church's little book, but put it in context. And if you're interested in an up-to-date scientific look at religion, you might also take a look at Amazon's detail pages on my book, "Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-Minded Skeptics."
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