Sketching Street Scenes

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For the artist, street scenes make dramatic subjects, teeming with interest. Artist John Marsh offers ideas for choosing materials, keeping a sketchbook, drawing people quickly, and working swiftly and unnoticed. See what elements make street scenes fascinating, from landmarks to storefronts to signs. Try techniques for perspective; tone, light and shade; drawing architectural forms; and composition. Bonus: hints on the seasons, times of day, and changing light and atmosphere.

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Sketching Street Scenes

Manufacturer: CASSELL LBS (ORIO)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GUBX9Q

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Sketching Street Scenes
John Marsh
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORX790

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Contents:
Special Double Issue on Fashion and Orientalism
Dorinne Kondo, author of Crafting Selves and About Face, in interview with Nirmal Puwar
Nirmal Puwar, University College Northampton
Skin Deep – A History of Tattooing: An Exhibition Review
Anna Cole, Goldsmiths College, University of London
(En)countering Orientalism in High Fashion: A Review of Indian Fashion Week 2002
Sumati Nagrath, University College Northampton
What Happens when Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia?
Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross, and Carla Jones, Emory University
White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire
Ashwani Sharma and Sanjay Sharma, both University of East London
Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory
Nirmal Puwar, University College Northampton
Unraveled Yarns: Dress, Consumption, and Women’s Bodies in Ghanian Culture
Esie Dogbe, University of Louisville
Fashioning Women in Colonial India
Nandia Bhatia, University of Western Ontario
Fashioning the Colonial at the Paris Exhibitions, 1925 and 1931
Michelle Tolini Finamore, Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design and Culture
The West Indian Front Room
Michael McMillan

Fashion Theory: Volume 7, Issues 3 and 4 : The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)

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Fashion Theory: Volume 7, Issues 3 and 4 : The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
Nirmal Puwar
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUGQ9M

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A Good Suess Read

Theodor Seuss Geisel: The Early Works of Dr. Seuss, Vol. 2
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Manufacturer: Checker Book Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1933160195

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Before writing his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published in 1937, Geisel worked as a political cartoonist, an advertising illustrator, and a documentary filmmaker. Checker collects some of the rarer, never before published cartoons created by Geisel. Volume 2 includes magazine and book illustrations, advertising illustrations, and other rare pieces.

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A Good Suess Read.......2007-05-21

This book gives a great introduction to Dr. Suess. It helps to see he was more than just a children's book author. I have enjoyed the book.

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Spam, spam spam, spam...If you're still hungry for laughter, here's yet another spicy helping of frivolous forwardings. For the third time, the best & worst of Internet humor is coming your way, with more sick tales of personal injury and injustice, more celebrity lampoons, and more puerile puns and sexist sideswipes. Both witty and worldly and daft and disposable, these gags deliver a much needed poke in the eye to all aspects of modern life from cybersex to office politics, insurance claims to Dubya-isms. Re-live your favorite office moments and discover what the people on the other side of the building were doing when you thought they were hard at work ...
You'll get:
* The latest on the War on Terrorism
* Health and Safety: Your Pretzel Concerns Addressed
* Blonde Woman Changes Lightbulb Shock!
* Dozens of modern relationship case-studies
* Does your hair color affect your behavior?

They'll keep you guffawing when you're away from your inbox.

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They came from Japan -- those larger-than-life monsters that terrorized Tokyo and then stomped their way into America's households and hearts. The success of Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan has inspired action figures, dolls, plush toys, model kits, comic books, posters, and records. This thorough guide covers five decades' worth of collectibles based on these appealing monsters.

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DON'T PANIC...IT'S ONLY GODZILLA!.......2002-04-02

Dana Cain's book is an enjoyable, well written guide to an increasingly popular sub-category of monster toy collecting. No book on pricing collectibles is likely to remain current for long, and its real value lies in providing the reader with a pictorial overview of its subject. COLLECTING JAPANESE MOVIE MONSTERS succeeds very well in this, and its text provides some lively historical background into that singularly odd period in cinema where colossal creatures used Tokyo as a ring and we watched guilt-free. Note to "serious" Japanese movie monster collectors: don't take it all so seriously. Those responsible for the men in the monster suits didn't.

A good book with info not found elsewhere.......1999-07-26

While not perfect, this book is better than the earlier reviews said. The book is very well illustrated, and most of the pictures are very clear and sharp. To say that the pictures come mainly from a Toys-R-Us is simply false: The vast majority of the toys pictured are items not even distributed in the U.S., to say nothing of the movie posters, magazines, etc.

Any price guide is eventually going to be out of date. Many of the prices in this book are still current, although there are several that are not. I did find a couple of errors, where a picture was incorrectly labeled. To be fair, Sean Linkenback's book has similar errors and in many examples his prices are more dated than Ms. Cain's, plus her book includes items not even listed in his.

Yes, Linkenback's book is more in-depth, but it has its flaws too. As with other kinds of price guides, thinking of a single edition as being all encompassing or definitive is a mistake.

Bad........1999-01-30

This is not the first price guide on these toys. Sean Linkenback's was the first and much better than this.... Ms./Mr. Cain should research the subject before saying what prices are. Linkenback is a respected dealer of Japanese toys and thus infitely more qualified for an endeavor such as this. Cain, you should take a research class.

Not as good as other books on the subject.......1999-01-09

I was really looking forward to this book, and unfortunately con not find much to recommend about it. The listings are woefully incomplete and many times inaccurate. Photography is only so-so, and is mainly filled with items from the local Toys-R-Us. A better book to get would be "The Unauthorized Guide to Godzilla Collectibles". The one bright spot is the 14 pages on Gamera, which while could be better is finally altogether under one cover.

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This digital document is an article from Comparative Drama, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Darryll Grantley, ed. English Dramatic Interludes 1300-1580: A Reference Guide.(Book Review)
Publication: Comparative Drama (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38 Issue: 4 Page: 469(2)

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The numerous practical ideas here for creating special happy occasions for children are flexible enough to be adapted across a wide age range. Section one details three complete theme parties and briefly describes other appropriate party-related topics. Section two describes activities (skill challenges, thinking games, pool activities, performing activities, etc.). The final section lists suggested refreshments, decorations, prizes and favors, gift ideas, and items to collect and use when entertaining children.

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Managing the Generation Mix: From Collision to Collaboration
Carolyn A. Martin , and Bruce Tulgan
Manufacturer: HRD Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Connecting Generations

ASIN: 0874256593

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No doubt about it: The newest diversity issue in the workplace is age diversity. Many organizations have finally figured out how to recruit young talent only to watch them drive down a collision course with seasoned employees over issues like work ethic, respect for authority, dress code and every work arrangement imaginable. And they're not sure what to do about it. The fact is, generational conflicts are not merely a matter of young versus old. They mirror critical business issues every organization faces as it transitions from the workplace of the past to that of the future. Managing the Generation Mix will help you place your multi-generational team on the course to collaboration.

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From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.

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I agree with Carlberg.......2007-09-15

My title says it all. I just wanted to make sure that there was more balance to this book review.

Great Read .......2007-09-05

This is a great book. I never new much about Tesla and now my whole world has changed.

a work of love.......2007-08-15

Tesla was shoulder to shoulder with Newton, leibniz and Einstein. This one man was responsible for the 20th century. Wireless, as in internet, the radio, Alternating Current, Neon and fluorescent light, energy transmission without wires - this guy seems like he came from another world. Margaret obviously loves Tesla and it is hard to blame her. After the idiot Edison did every horrible thing he could do to destroy Tesla because of Edison's rival Direct Current, including, possibly having Tesla's lab burnt down amongst other devious acts. When Margaret wrote this book, Tesla wasn't wildly popular as he is in
the oughts. There are more coherent books out there on Tesla, but this book is a work of love. Good going Margaret.

very informative.......2007-05-14

a great look into the past of one of, if not the greatest inventors of all time.i learned soo much about tesla i didn't know.you won't believe how many inventions still being used today, and some not yet used were from him.a must have.

On the Shoulders of Giants.......2007-04-21

It is hard to imagine that there is anyone who does not know the names Edison and Einstein. The same should be true of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the alternating current motor, radio, X-rays, radar and more, yet somehow Tesla's name has slipped into history, largely forgotten. As Margaret Cheney reveals in "Tesla: Man Out of Time", there are several reasons that Tesla's legacy has suffered: he didn't market himself as well as Edison, and he left no wife or children to promote his interests after his death. Although a naturalized American citizen, his ashes were returned to Croatia, the land of his birth, as were also his papers and writings. A world war and a cold war later entombed his memory.

Bizarrely enigmatic yet definitely brilliant, Nikola Tesla is one of the giants of science. He was an under-educated inventor who explored the nature and properties of electricity with a rare vision and trial and error. He was lauded in his time, an on-and-off national hero, but could do little as his patents were raided by other inventors. His life is fascinating and worthy of study. Margaret Cheney took the initiative to pull together all the separate, obscure treatises on his life and weave them together into one complete narrative, but her delivery is dry and her narrative devices stumble. She, for instance, tries to create suspense and expectation by presenting portions of Tesla's life out of sequence, by referencing back to journal entries or setting up cause and effect relationships between present and past events. These devices don't work and leave the reader confused as to why, suddenly, a decade or more has passed in Tesla's life. She also laces the narrative with Tesla's science--the properties of electricity--with no explanation at all. Why were alternating current motors so important? Just what the heck WAS a Tesla coil? What does electricity jumping an air gap do? If you do not already know the answers to these questions, this book will not answer them for you. But even though the narrative is clumsy and dry, "Tesla: Man Out of Time" still stands as a good, single-volume study of Tesla's life.

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TESLA MAN OUT OF TIME
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Dorset Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJHZAU

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Tesla Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UV3KGK

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Tesla Man Out Of Time
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Dorset Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUP2AU

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Tesla : Man Out of Time (Reprints Ser.)
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Dorset Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRZBZ2

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Tesla : Man Out of Time (Reprints Ser.)

Manufacturer: Dorset Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLY1KI

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TESLA: MAN OUT OF TIME
MARGARET CHENEY
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OIKXGY

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A new "Da Vinci"!
The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century

Tesla: Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FJDFBW

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In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties. From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.

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A new "Da Vinci"!.......2006-12-15

Pond: "Looks like Marconi got the jump on you."
Tesla: "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." (161)

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I'm not sure we will ever understand Tesla. First, he was head and shoulders above everyone else, we are like puppy dogs trying to keep up with his great strides. One biographer suggested that Tesla was the avatar of an alien from Venus (p. xiii). The problem with that theory is that it is almost believable!

The second problem is that Tesla was a classic introvert. (The first observation is the cause of the second.) As a classic introvert, he had a chronic case of the Da Vinci Syndrome. He was so smart, his internal world was far more exciting than the humdrum external world--the world of politics, back-stabbing, no finaces, and the ever-cascading trifles and trivia.

The difference is that we can read Da Vinci's notebooks and try to reconstruct his mind, much as we can read all of the Lost Tales of Middle-Earth (Tolkien also had Da Vinci syndrome) and think about what could have been. However, with Tesla he was not a note keeper. On top of that we have the problem of the missing Tesla papers. Thirdly, if we even had the papers, could we make sense of them?

Cheney's masterwork is worthy of her subject. It is readable, balances the hard science with the human-interest, and when you are done, you know you have read a beautiful tragicomedy. This book has converted me to Tesla, and I suspect it will do the same for you.

The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century.......2006-08-13

Nikola Tesla, for the uninitiated, made wireless transmission (radio) a reality. He also perfected alternating current which was, up until then, merely a concept. During W.W.I he proposed using radio waves to find German U-boats in a method we now call 'triangulation'. He also envisioned a time when electricity and radio waves would be used to transmit data and images between various persons or agencies, ie; the wireless internet. This was at a time when the telephone was still viewed as a novelty. I haven't even gotten to his envisioning of geo-synchronous satellites. Oh yeah, this man died in 1942.

Any one of these accomplishments would merit the highest of accolades from the scientific community yet the name Nikola Tesla is greeted, more often than not, with questions. "Who? I thought Marconi invented the radio..."

Nikola Tesla was, quite simply, the most important figure of the twentieth century but he made the mistake of angering Thomas Edison by doing what Edison said couldn't be done (perfecting alternating current) and thus a Stalin-esque media campaign championed by Edison was born to impune the imperious Serb (Tesla). The inertia of the campaign continues to this day - The People's Almanac Vol. 2 credits Marconi with inventing radio...

The chapters detailing Tesla's interaction with Edison are alone worth the price of the book. Sadly, it reads like a soap opera as Edison was a spiteful old man. It's a pity that Mr. Edison's ego prevented him from seeing the importance of Mr. Tesla.

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. Like so many others, I was taught that Marconi invented the radio but this book addresses that issue in a chapter entitled 'The Great Radio Controversy'. This book also describes the many expirements with electricity conducted by Mr. Tesla. How different life would have been for Henry Ford if he'd been unable to build and operate his assembly lines due to a lack of sustainable power. Tesla's research into mechanical resonance still leaves me in awe - he generated earthquakes with a little gizmo he cooked up in his lab.

The implications are numerous. Maybe someone would have come along to invent these devices but I can find no one person who had such a wide field of vision for the potential of electricity. Tesla proposed ways to use electric impulses as a weapon of war before W.W.II. In the 1970's computer designers were surprised to learn that some of their patent applications were denied because such devices had already existed for decades. Guess who?!

I have only scratched the surface here. Nikola Tesla is one of the most important figures of the last five hundred years. Margaret Cheney has written a superb book that reads like a science fiction novel - surely no one man could have been so brilliant but Nikola Tesla was truly that brilliant.

BUY THIS BOOK.

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This investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76 exmines the interaction between internal and external factors to reveal the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is described, and the externalization of that power struggle is analyzed from a perspective of both international and domestic politics.

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Insightful, thoughtful, often beautifully written analysis.......1999-03-30

Insightful, thoughtful and often beautifully written analysis the internal and external forces that lead to the devasting, unending civil war in Angola. Addressing the geopolitical pressures informing the intervention into a local internal conflict of the Portuguese, South Africans, Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, author Andresen Guimaraes artfully reveals the international nature of the Angolan war and its devasting effect on the Angolan peoples. A fascinating study, which is so well written that it is definitely NOT for experts only.

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In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960s and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism--including citizenship and equality--were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts.

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Good but misguisded.......2005-07-27

In this interesting study the reader is taken on a tour of 'colonial studies' looking at colonialism as a discipline and its study as historiography. Colonialism is one of those topics that every western student is expected to have a knee jerk reaction of 'bad' when the word is mentioned. Along with 'imperialism' this is the word used to condemn the west and justify murder and terrorism everywhere in the world. From Hamas to the IRA to the Tammils, it is always generic 'colonialism' that is being fought against. But how does colonialism come into play with nationalism? What about the question of colonialism and the west. What was colonialism?

These definitions and debates are interesting, however in seeking a broader understanding and looking at 'colonial studies' this book doesn't address some important questions. Most important this book accepts that 'colonialism' is a western creation when in fact it is not. Since the 7th century Islam has colonized 1/5th of the world. The Ottomans colonized Eastern Europe and the Afghans and Turks did the same to India. China colonized Korea. We have examples of colonial societies outside the west not usually recognized as such, in the pursuit of western academics to pursue their goal of self hate. The Roman Empire and the Assyrian empires were colonial constructs. Colonialism didn't start in 1492. For instance for 1000 years, 500 of which took place before 1492, the Arabs colonized East Africa and deported 5 million slaves from the region. They ran plantations and imported religion, in a similar model to the one applied by the Spanish in South America.

Seth J. Frantzman

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The Red-Winged Blackbird: The Biology of a Strongly Polygynous Songbird
Les Beletsky
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0120847450

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The Red-Winged Blackbird: The Biology of a Strongly Polygynous Songbird
Les Beletsky
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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