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Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.
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Manchild In the Promised Land.......2007-08-26
I was able to find this book relatively easy, based on a few keywords. My boyfriend started reading it several years ago and was unable to complete it. The storyline stuck in his memory and I bought it as a surprise for him, because over the years he mentioned it occasionally. Thanks for making the lookup so easy!
Will definitely reread..........2007-07-05
This book made such an impact on me when I read it the first time. I was in high school in New Jersey in the early '70's and had friends in Harlem so I visited often. To read such a vivid portrait of a young life at that time in New York City felt real for me. Claude Brown's writing influenced me at an early age. This work is a masterpiece and will stand the test of time.
Hyper-detailed looked into Harlem decades ago.......2007-04-03
Brown leaves no stone unturned when it comes to his life in New York. The Howard University graduate covers the story of the first generation of Southerners (his parents) that left to New York-the "promised land" where they expected to enjoy equality and prosperity. Instead, they were forced to deal with overcrowded living spaces and violent ghettos. He paints a picture of his rugged coming of age with vivid recollections of how he gained his rep as a brawler, the friendships gained and lost due to drugs and violence, as well as his fight to escape the seemingly hopeless condition that Harlem was trapped in at the time. After surviving run-ins with the law, brutal fights and the ravages of drug abuse, one can only hope to have half the mental toughness that Brown had to rise above his circumstances.
Through the eyes of a ghetto child circa 50's Harlem.......2007-03-04
Claude Brown quite literally puts his life time between the paper's line[just to quote Mobb Deep] exposing us to the world of Harlem circa the early 1950's. The story definately has universal appeal to all children that have been spawned from the depths of ghetto despair. What Claude reveals to the general reader is that even a ghetto child destined to either a prison block or pine box can rise above and accomplish what they will.
The book functions as a autobigraphical novel,socilogical story,and psychological observation. All the following can be gleaned from Claude's Manchild in the Promised Land. Every other view we get of the ghetto comes from exagerated gangsta rap lyrics or second hand suburban reserchers. Clude provides us with a realistic depiction from single parent households down to street hustlers that flood the block with heroin.
The Harlem of the 50's-60's definately sounds alot like the inner city realities of today even at 2007. While Claude was able to escape the trap, you have to wonder how many ghetto youth today are just simply a victim of their own enviroment. How many Claude Browns are there in every inner city that don't live to tell their story or do so behind iron bars? The sadness is that such conditions have only became worse since Manchild in the Promised Land was published in the 60's.
Before Brown's death he planned a sequel to his previous work detailing experiances of the 80's generation and how crack cocaine devistated Harlem much like heroin did in the 50's-70's.
captivating.......2006-03-08
this book changed my life in a way... not that i have similar experiences or grew up in that time because i'm only 24. This was an excellent book all the way but it did a little more for me. This is one of those books that touched me and will always get praise. My mother was an addict and up until i read this book i held a grudge because she left me at the age of 5. This book made me understand the mind of an addict and that she would have probably the best mother in the world if it were not for the drugs. I understood the control drugs had over people and my mom. The book wasnt just about drugs but you can overcome and rise from the evils of the world. But for me this book made me forgive my mother.
Product Description
Claude Brown is a black man who made it out of the ghetto, who pulled himself up from Harlem, from the gang wars, the crime, the dope pushing to become a law student at one of America's leading universities. Manchild in the Promise Land is his story. It is one of the most extrodinary autobiographies of our time.
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Manchild in promised land
Claude Brown
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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- Book #2 in the Crimson City Series
- DISAPPOINTED
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- Unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking story
- Liu is for everyone's MUST BUY list!
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A Taste of Crimson (Crimson City)
Marjorie M. Liu
Manufacturer: Love Spell
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Book Description
Los Angeles is no longer the City of Angels; dark things haunt its streets - dark, restless things. Bodies have been found, and the tentative peace between humans, vampires and werewolves teeters on the brink of collapse. Keeli Maddox needs to know why. If she and her kin are to survive, she must trust a man as different from her as night from day, as tooth from claw. He's a slayer, a betrayer, an enemy. But nobility lurks in dark places, and Keeli herself is no stranger to shadow. As sure as the moon will rise, Michael was meant for her. Life is about to change. Only three things will remain: the color of blood, the hot joy of skin on skin, and the danger in...A TASTE OF CRIMSON.
Customer Reviews:
Book #2 in the Crimson City Series.......2007-08-15
This was Keeli Maddox, granddaughter of werewolves, teams up with Michael, vampire law enforcement.
I enjoyed reading this book. Both characters were delightful.
We are introduced to the "demon world" here...
Fast past, well written. Wonderful read!
DISAPPOINTED.......2007-02-25
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE VAMPIRE AND WEREWOLF BOOKS AND I BOUGHT THIS ONE BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY HAD BOTH.
I MADE IT PAGE 23 WHERE I RAN INTO THE WORD "F____D". I ABSOLUTELY HATE BAD LANGUAGE IN BOOKS, MOVIES, ETC. I AM OF THE BELIEF THAT PEOPLE WHO USE IT HAVE LESS THAN AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE OR THEY WOULD HAVE USE PROPER ENGLISH AND NOT SPOIL THESE BOOKS FOR THOSE OF US WHO CANNOT ABIDE IT.
I WILL NOT BUY ANOTHER BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR AS I WOULD NOT WILLINGLY CONTRIBUTE TO SOMEONE'S INCOME WHO HAS NO BETTER SENSE THAN TO WRITE BOOKS WHICH WILL OFFEND.
I WILL STICK WITH CHRISTINE FEEHAN, SHERRILYN KENYON, AMANDA ASHLEY, ETC. MARVELOUS AUTHORS WHO KEEP ME NICELY SUPPLIED WITH TOTALLY ENJOYABLE PARANORMAL LITERATURE.
SARA JANE TURNER
Oh yeah!.......2007-02-18
I loved the mixture of Werewolf and Vampire--and a love story that was just to good to put down!
Unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking story.......2006-12-07
When you do a random library pick you often end up with complete rubbish - I picked "A Taste Of Crimson" from a shelf in the sci-fi category without expecting too much of it - the cover image had a wolf howling at the moon overlaid with a picture of a man in a big cloak running down a road. The blurb on the back seemed overblown and cheesy (as usual) so I expected another run-of-the-mill vampire-werewolf-romance-thriller-chiller story.
"A Taste Of Crimson" surprised me. Yes, it is a story whose main characters are werewolves and vampires. Yes, it's a romance with all the usual trimmings. Yes, there are heroes and heroines and magical vampirey/werewolfy things going on. But there is a very strong theme running through this book that is definitely not run-of-the-mill - it's the theme of acceptance or ostracism of those different to you.
In the Los Angeles of this book, the humans are aware of the vampires and werewolves but are afraid of them and are starting to discriminate against them; werewolves are the bottom of the pile as they aren't rich, well-dressed and sexy like the vampires, so our heroine Keeli Maddox, a werewolf, can barely hold down a waitressing job because of the suspicion with which she is faced. And it's not only the humans who dislike the werewolves, there is also huge mutual antagonism between the vampire and werewolf community. Thus when Keeli meets Michael, a vampire assassin (he kills vampires that have gone rogue and is therefore disliked by his own kind), they face huge difficulties from both her culture and his over their relationship. What is so good about this book is the way in which these problems are described. This may sound a bit trite but sometimes reading this made me think of Germany pre World War 2 when various minority groupings in society were demonised and discriminated against, and often those behaving the worst to these minorities were other minorities. The werewolves and the vampires can't get along but they have to learn to work together in order to deal with the expected future problems from the humans.
Keeli and Michael find themselves working together to find the murderer of vampires - and the evidence suggests that a werewolf is carrying out these killings. The human police don't care about deaths within the supernatural community and so Keeli and Michael are battling against indifference from all but one of the human police and obstructiveness from the werewolves and vampires. Plus Keeli is finding herself becoming stronger and having to avoid challenges to the Alpha of her clan as well as having to do physical battle against those who want to punish her because of her relationship with a vampire. Michael has his own demons - his past as an assassin as well as some less-than-savoury events in his distant past. The way in which two flawed people work together to try and help their ungrateful kin is well written.
As in many books in the sci-fi genre there is a certain element of "Deus ex machine" to help the author out of tricky areas in the plot - in this case Grindla, a demon. What do you do when you need to rescue someone from a Fort Knox-type building? Well, you find your own handy demon who can magic you in and out just like that. And what about the short life span of werewolves compared to the almost-immortal vampires, when your hero and heroine have found each other? Well, perhaps your friendly demon Grindla can help with that too. Perhaps this is slightly lazy writing for an author but overall I didn't mind - the story has so many merits that one or two things like this are acceptable. I found it an enjoyable book to read and apart from a slightly slow section in the middle it kept my interest and I enjoyed finding out about the characters as they learned about themselves and I learned about this new world that they inhabited.
Liu is for everyone's MUST BUY list!.......2006-09-24
I loved this book, hated for it to end. I hope the rest of this series' titles are as excellent? For fans of paranormal fiction--romance & otherwise--action, suspense, drama, werewolves, vampires, magick, there's more than something for every reader interest. Liu's work is better than my now OLD favorites (of this genre) such as Feehan & Kenyon, & one of the top 50 BEST books of my long years (& out of millions). This story is as much ART as romance--though not in an overly stuffy literate, artsy-fartsy way--as much best seller fiction & action novel, as about learning to embrace ones' self warts & all. No boring or slow moments, no cliches, & nothing predictable--what a fresh voice & perspective Liu brings to the fiction table!
Other authors in related genres need to WAKE UP AND TAKE NOTES from Liu, please--no formulaic, template-driven, just-change-the-names, same-old-plot garbage romance readers are used to (even, alas, in the paranormal realm). I guarantee an awesome reader experience, no matter what your personal bent is. I just wish the entire series were written by Liu!
Here are two brief passages from page 279 that stick with me as an example of her fresh new voice & way with words:
FIRST:"So what's the story with The Bloody Pulp? Why is it the hot place for all the lowlifes?" [Keelie]
"No one asks questions and the blood is cheap and good." [Michael]
SECOND:"Keeli wanted to throw her arms around his body & hold him tight against her, tight enough to anchor his feet to the ground so he would not go into that awful place without her; but she...knew him well enough to understand his determination, and so she did not move when he left her side and crossed the street, a DARK FIGURE IN SUNLIGHT, GLIDING INTO THE GRAY, THE DIRTY, ALONE."
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This digital document is an article from Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, published by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. on January 20, 2001. The length of the article is 1863 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: Flavorings the sweet taste of success.(Crimson Cup)
Author: Amelia C. Levy
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Date: January 20, 2001
Publisher: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
Volume: 173
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Bishop: The Mount Joy Crisis
John Ostrander
Manufacturer: Marvel Entertainment Group
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Simply X-cellent !.......2000-01-08
This book features Bishop vs. Mountjoy his arch-enemy from the same timeline as him. Mountjoy is a mutant and a homocidal killer on a rampage through New York. I would give the artwork 200% if there was even such a thing. This also shows a lot about Bishop's character and was one of his first limited series. If you are a Bishop fan, then this is a definitely must buy!
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Few athletes will be among the best in their sport at such a young age as Martina Hingis and Tiger Woods. But accelerated athletic development is now possible because of better, smarter training starting at an early age.
Total Training for Young Champions provides coaches, instructors, teachers, and parents of potential future sports stars the best conditioning advice and training programs for establishing an overall fitness base and maximizing athletic development from the ages of 6 to 18.
Over 300 exercises are included to safely and effectively increase a young athlete's
• coordination,
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• speed,
• endurance, and
• strength.
Tudor Bompa, one of the world's foremost sports conditioning experts who has trained 11 Olympic medalists, presents a safe, proven training regimen geared specifically to three distinct developmental phases. He also offers sport-specific training programs in 10 sports, including baseball, basketball, ice hockey, football, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and track and field.
Total Training for Young Champions is the comprehensive guide to developing the next generation of superior athletes. Use it to boost the physical tools every young athlete needs to succeed—and shine—in sports.
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Train Your Kids.......2007-04-10
Coaches and anyone who works with children should check out this book. It will dispel all those myths you may have heard about training children in sports.
Well written and easy to understand.......2007-01-05
I am from Greece and it was quite easy for me to understand it and apply the meaning of this book to my athletes. Thank you Mr. Bompa.
Excellent resource.......2006-03-09
It helped me a lot to understand the essentials of training my young kid, and designing an effective training strategy for his age.
Excellent Source for Youth Development and Training.......2002-07-13
It's hard to write a review without it sounding like an advertisement...This book dispels many myths of youth training like the need for early sports specific exercises. It covers exercises for all phases of youth development from ages 5 to 20. His advice, backed by world class achievement, can help you resist the pressure to put children through adult style training exercises and at the same time properly train children for future world class competition. I have compared his recommendations against many sources and have become convinced that they are correct. This book is a must have for Directors of Youth Coaching and Physical Development.
Good information.......2000-07-08
This book is full of good "common sense" information. I read the book from the veiwpoint of a parent, most of the drills and training exercises would be of more use for a coach, but the book was still interesting. The author gives a variety of ways to train a child to become a better athlete without burning them out at a young age. The book is very thorough in explaining the exercises, eg., which muscle is being stretched or if your working on strength or stamina, making it helpful for a rookie.
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Entrenamiento Para Jovenes Deportistas / Total Training for Young Champions
Tudor O. Bompa
Manufacturer: Hispano Europea Editorial
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I would give it 10 stars if I could!.......2002-11-07
Simply put, I think this is the finest Italian cookbook out there. My favorite from the old PBS show is the "zucchinni dish" -- stuffed zucchinni, rippiene patties, and fettuchine alfredo. Franco and Margaret's recipes remind me of eating around my grandparent's kitchen table filled with love, olive oil, and good food.
Classic Italian home cooking.......2002-10-09
This is a classic book of basic Italian home cooking. Everything from sauces to making pasta to meatballs (the best I've ever had.) You can't go wrong with any of the Ramagnoli's cookbooks, and this is their finest.
IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ONLY ONE ITALIAN COOK BOOK..........2001-06-09
This is the best Italian cookbook we have ever used.
Usually, I consider a cook book a good buy if I can find one or two "favorite" type recipes in it. Hey, this one must have ten or twelve and we are still counting.
the recipes are very basic, authentic and simple. Wonderful pasta sauces. A "green chicken cacciatora" done with rosemarie instead of tomatoes.
We just bought a second copy today. Ours is just about worn out and the pages with the now "favorite recipies" are food, wine and sauce stained. This book is more basic and easier than several of the later books which are a bit fancier and don't contain the wide range of recipies this one does.
We are going to Boston in June. Our hope is to return to their resturant there for dinner. I hope it is still open. These folks have to be getting old.
All I can say is, if you don't already have this one, buy it while you can.
Book Description
Ford truck owners and collectors can now research Ford's commercial vehicles made from 1905 to 2002 in the first edition of this identification and value reference guide.
Model listings are categorized according to year of manufacture with prices in up to six condition grades, specifications, factory options, serial number explanations, production totals, and other useful facts for collectors and fans. Features more than 500 photographs.
Thorough coverage is given to pickups, panel trucks, sedan deliveries, vans, sport utility vehicles, and work trucks of various sizes and types including specific models such as Ranger, Explorer, F-100 to F-350, Falcon, Ranchero, Econoline, Model T, Model A, Expedition, and Bronco.
• Research Ford light-duty trucks made from 1905 to 2002
• Covers pickups, panel trucks, sedan deliveries, vans, sport utility vehicles, and work trucks of various sizes and types
• Includes specific models such as Ranger, Explorer, F-100 to F-350, Falcon, Ranchero, Econoline, Model T, Model A, Expedition, and Bronco
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Not a bad catalog..........2007-03-09
The book is a catalog of Ford trucks down the years, and as such is exactly that. There are some problems with the book - there are keywords in some of the truck data tables that are NEVER explained, but otherwise the book is a good reference for those interested in looking up information on older Ford trucks.
Book Description
Get a taste of the best quilts from today's brightest designers! This inspiring collection of quilt patterns from That Patchwork Place®--18 specially selected designs from a bounty of our latest books--offers something for every quilter to enjoy.
* Find timeless tradition, fun trends, and new techniques in quilts from Nancy J. Martin, Judy Hopkins, Kim Diehl, Karla Alexander, and many more
* Choose from quick quilts for the wall, lap quilts for the couch, and big quilts for the bed, plus a brand-new bonus project
* Try strip and curved piecing, stunning applique, Stack the Deck techniques, and a range of other quiltmaking methods
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A primer packed with variety and ideas.......2007-07-07
Volume 2 of CREATIVE QUILT COLLECTION FROM THAT PATCHWORK PLACE offers eighteen designs culled from the latest That Patchwork Place books to create a synthesis of new and old techniques and styles. From wall displays to lap quilts, strip piecing to applique, and specialty weaves and finishing techniques, here's a primer packed with variety and ideas.
Book Description
Quilters will love sampling gorgeous quilts from the publisher of "America's Best-Loved Quilt Books"! Covering a variety of styles, techniques, and skill levels, these designs from recent books offer something special for everyone to enjoy.
• Create 16 dazzling quilts, including one newly commissioned bonus project
• Find designs for every taste, from Basket, Star, and Log Cabin blocks to floral and scrappy styles
• Projects come from topselling authors including Evelyn Sloppy, Rosemary Makhan, and the owners of Joined at the Hip
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They've Done It Again.......2006-12-28
This book is very well written and beautifully presented. A beginning quilter could pick this up and run with it! The samples are nicely done and the projects represent a well-rounded group of quilters. Can't wait for volume 2!
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Creative Quilt Collection III: From That Patchwork Place
That Patchwork Place
Manufacturer: That Patchwork Place
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For award-winning interior designer Mariette Himes Gomez, every project is a voyage of self-discovery
Refined simplicity, thoughtful attention to detail, and a clear architectural design -- these are the hallmarks of Mariette's style. Filled with breathtaking photography, Rooms is a guided tour of the designs that have made Mariette one of the most respected and sought-after tastemasters in the country. Peek behind the scenes as she divulges the secrets of the trade that will help you transform your own home from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Designing a room involves balancing the ideal and the real, discovering a happy medium between what you imagine and what exists. From evaluating the core architectural structure -- or "shell" -- of a room, to selecting colors and arranging furniture, to picking out and placing the final artistic touches, Mariette shares all of the techniques and information you'll need to create Rooms of elegance and distinction.
What colors and patterns will work with a room's architecture? How can you visually turn two Rooms into one -- and vice versa? How is art different from décor? How big a sofa will a room tolerate? Mariette answers these questions and more with sage advice and an easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach. She shares the experience of renovating her own homes -- one, a house in the country, the other, an apartment in the city -- and the many homes around the country that bear her unique signature.
Whether you are decorating a loft apartment, summer cottage, or home in the suburbs, Rooms will help you strike the balance between beautiful and practical, lavish and livable.
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This book has changed my life!!.......2006-04-07
I am a stay-at-home father of one-year-old twin boys with a military background. I've always wanted my home to have that tasteful look that comes from understated wealth and assumed it required money -lots of it, and that arcane knowledge that separates good designers from mere homeowners.
Well, I don't need money, I needed this book!
I have learned much from three years worth of House and Garden magazine. All the amazing houses and rooms are there to be studied and scrutinized. Yet I always wondered how the designer came upon the ideas to do put those drapes with that color wall and that certain chair and so on. Unless I wanted to make an exact replica of some millionaire's living room, I saw no way of creating that energy in my own house.
This book is not like other picture books of great layouts. It didnt matter that I dont have triple-hung windows or a fireplace or 12-ft high ceilings. This book allowed me to see what I do have, and to work it masterfully. It also allowed me to see problem areas, and to mitigate their effects.
I like the way the author proceeds to tell the story of her own process of putting a room together. Had she done what all the other picture books do- tell the reader what to do in this certain room- there would be no true learning, only rote memorization or copying. By telling her own story and her thought processes, the author literally trained me on how to really take stock of my living room and the spaces taken up by furniture and bookcases and windows.
halfway through the book, I had what felt like 50 new ideas about my own place. Sitting at the dining room table, I suddenly saw that the dining room needed a table with a pedestal to free up some of the space. My living room set is a long couch and an oversized chair with ottoman, and the perpendicular layout I had was totally wrong and un-balancing for the room. So using the authors ideas on circles and making conversational spaces, i turned the chair diagonally to face the couch, which clicked with the offcenter side window and the bookcase to create a new energy that just feels right. My wife came home and was very impressed.
Interestingly, Mrs. Gomez's ideas on flow through a room and conversational groupings seem so intuitive to how people live. I could put my two boys in those rooms from the book and they wouldnt get into trouble, because they crawl around on instinct in ways that reinforce the author's ideas on flow. Say you have two distinct furniture groupings in a room (most of us dont have 50 ft long rooms, as the author attests), a baby or babies would rather operate between the two, in open areas, rather than messing around in the particular spaces among furniture.
Anyways, this book changed my life. It will let you know the secrets of unifying hardware, shape and line, the geographical intersections that windows and doorways make for a room and how to furnish to that, placing furniture on rugs and rugs in the room, how to choose the correct rug (even persians!), and how to save a wall by stamping it (my word) with art or pictures. I was really shocked by the negative reviews, but it seems that some people expect more direction or they equate livable with beanbags strewn around the room or something. I dont know.
You really should get this book.
a classic.......2005-08-24
This is my favorite interior design book. As a design student I have a bookcase full of books, and this is the one I turn to over and over again. Ms. Gomez's graceful style is refreshing and easy to live with.
OK, but not great.......2005-08-17
I didn't find this book helpful. Most of her advice, which is few and far in between, anyone who reads interior design magazines or has common sense would already know. What little advice she gave was practically useless--shun "silk" flower arrangements (for those of us live in areas where cut flowers are not abundant and cheap, I found this to be rather snobbish.)--Paint all your rooms beige--but make sure they are "complex" colors like mine--but then she doesn't tell you where to get them. So there is a clear lack of practical advice. This is mostly a book about a designer musing on her houses and high opinion of herself. Not inspiring at all.
Divine Harmony.......2005-01-04
With "Rooms", Ms. Himes Gomez has become my favorite American interior designer.
To my great surprise and chagrin, I found that most reviewers held quite a harsh opinion about Ms. Himes Gomez's abilities and her book. Some went so far as to insinuate that the positive reviews were written by the the author herself. Whether or not this is true, I cannot say, but while one must acknowledge that most of the positive reviews sounded somewhat similar, it ought also be acknowledged that those interested in interior design, including magazine writers, tend to overuse a certain jargon -- and hence sound exchangeably similar. Let me cast any doubts one might have, and say from the outset, that I do not know the author, nor was I involved with the production of this book, nor do I stand to gain from its sale.
Offended by the confused, cluttered, and gaudy design schemes that comprise much of interior design today, I do not dare to imagine what the negative reviewers understanding of "luxurious", "comfortable", and "casual" may be.
Ms. Himes Gomez achieves a perfect, refreshing harmony between sparseness and ornamentation, and has the uncanny talent to know when to stop.
Her rooms are composed like paintings in an equilibrium that reminds me of Renaissance art, in which the symmetry of a balanced composition exemplifies the existence of divine intention.
Luxury, here, does not mean to drown oneself in an overstuffed sofa, but to leave the worries and stresses of everyday life behind as one enters a home and is greeted by simple and classical beauty. Every object in such a home is placed there for a reason. More importantly, the absence of an object means that it was left out for good reason. As a woman does not wear her entire jewelry collection at once, because it does not fit, it is also not sensical to fill a room with objects that do not belong there, and whose only merit is that they are pretty or valuable.
Environments affect thoughts, emotions and behavior: a temple should direct a visitor's feelings to the numinous, a university library promotes a scholar's concentration; equally, a room designed by Ms. Himes Gomez facilitates the inhabitant's ability to focus on the essential things in life. Who could ask more of a personal space?
I was surprised at how varied the "range" of Ms. Himes Gomez visual technique is: While her favorites seem to be the neutral colored designs, I learned that, when necessary, she uses bright, and engaging colors very adroitly (e.g. for a house located in the rainy Irish countryside).
Her repertoire is varied, spanning from "country" to "urban", and she realizes her superb ideas, while mainting a consistent design philosophy. I frankly do not understand how somebody can execute so many different styles and at the same time be so consistent.
I most heartily recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn from the best that interior design has to offer.
Best of the best!.......2004-10-06
I have a large collection of books on interior design. This one is the best of the best. Mariette is most generous in sharing her talented insight. She tells the reader as well as shows the reader what makes a beautiful room (too many books on design are just advertisements for the designer without sharing any insight). I learned more from this book on design than from any other that I own. My favorite principles learned had to do with maintaining a certain honesty and integrity in the designing process--in being true to the house and to the space. I also learned a great deal on balance and on using color with subtlety. I highly recommend this book!
Book Description
Three hundred vintage advertising and promotional posters.
During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) was widely hailed as "The World's Greatest Travel System." The Canadian Pacific transcontinental railroad spanned North America from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans. The company also operated luxury hotels and resorts, passenger ocean liners, cargo ships, and an airline.
To promote the company and Canada to the world, Canadian Pacific produced more than 2,500 stunning lithographic and silkscreen posters -- 1,000 of which were created in its own graphic studio.
Posters of the Canadian Pacific is a treasury of three hundred of the finest posters published by the company. They were displayed in Canadian Pacific offices and independent travel agencies worldwide from the 1880s until the 1970s. These posters enticed millions to visit and even settle in Canada.
The posters span the years 1883-1973 with special focus on the Art Deco style posters of the 1920s and '30s. They focus on travel and leisure -- activities on ski slopes, golf courses, beaches, and luxury resorts. Other posters feature Canadian Pacific ocean liners in exotic locations around the globe such as the West Indies, Rio, Hawaii and the Orient.
Posters of the Canadian Pacific will appeal to a wide audience including art lovers, history buffs and railroad enthusiasts.
Customer Reviews:
Days of Glamour and Style.......2007-01-15
Superbly crafted book showing the elegance and beauty of a bygone era. Makes 21st century travel (via planes) feel like a very poor substitute despite the saving in time. Just does not compare.
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Canadian Pacific posters, 1883-1963
Marc H Choko
Manufacturer: Meridian Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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