Book Description
In a country where men dominate, this epic novel is first and foremost about women. As the title implies, the female body serves as the book's most important image and metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900. Married at 17 into the Shangguan family, she has nine children, only one of whom is a boy, the narrator of the book, a spoiled and ineffectual child who stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings. Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman, who risks her life to save the lives of several of her children and grandchildren. The writing is full of life-picturesque, bawdy, shocking, imaginative. Each of the seven chapters represents a different time period, from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years. In sum, this stunning novel is Mo Yan's searing vision of 20th-century China.
Customer Reviews:
Intriguing.......2006-04-27
The novel is quite long, but shorter than it's original lenght. The book is twisted in some ways, but that's how you'll have to accept it. The book follows a family through four centuries and is an interesting read if you want to read about how intense life was in China during its revolutions. Mo Yan's use of magical realism definitely adds more to the novel's element.
Not Banned in China.......2005-03-08
In fact, Mo Yan's work has never been banned in China. Nor is being banned a particularly good index of literary value. Mo Yan is a great writer despite never having been banned in China.
"Dying's easy. It's living that's hard.".......2004-12-18
Setting this monumental family saga in rural Gaomi, in northeast China, where he grew up, Mo Yan vividly portrays political and historical events--most of them bloody--over the course of the twentieth century, from the Boxer Rebellion through the Communist Revolution, the Japanese invasion, the Cultural Revolution, and the death of Mao. Jintong, the only son of Shangguan Lu, tells the story of his remarkable mother, his eight sisters, and their families as they live through these seminal events.
Shangguan Lu's early marriage and domestic life unfolds through flashbacks. With an infertile husband, whose family beats and abuses her for failing to produce a son, she resorts to extreme measures, giving birth to eight daughters by eight different fathers before finally producing a male heir. The stories of the daughters and their marriages to men with varied political agendas reflect the history of twentieth century rural China, and its unconscionable atrocities, starvation, death from exposure, forced marches, and land seizures.
Author Mo Yan, who lived through the major events depicted here, gives a thorough portrait of rural life during these historical crises. The author's style, while often exciting, is also brutally realistic. Precise physical descriptions help bring the culture and people to life, including the kind of clothing nursing mothers wear so they can feed their children in very cold weather, descriptions of the silent "snow market," and facts and figures about the minimum amount of grain needed per person to keep farm workers alive for the harvest season. But the author also uses satire, wry comments, and black humor to criticize totalitarian governments and closed societies.
Providing a helpful cast of characters at the beginning of this episodic novel, Mo Yan shows a society in which individualism has little meaning. The narrator and spoiled only son, Jintong, is neither a hero nor a fully realized character in the western sense, and though much detail is given about what characters do and how they behave, less consideration is given to how they think and why they behave as they do.
Author of nine novels, Mo Yan, whose pen name, ironically, means "Don't speak," has sometimes been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize. The vibrancy and accuracy of his portraits of Chinese life, his steadfast insistence on showing life as it is, rather than as it ought to be, his celebration of resourceful women, and his willingness to take risks for his art make him one of the most influential writers in the People's Republic. Mary Whipple
Product Description
Original Chinese edition of "Big Breast and Wide Hips" Volume 1 of 2
Customer Reviews:
VERY GOOD BOOK!!!!!!.......2003-08-30
This was a very good book. One of my favorites. It captivates the reader from the very beginning. The characters are wonderful and very realistic. It also gives you insight on the hardships the Apaches had to live through. It helps you understand their way of life and why they fought to keep it. Plus the love story is so wonderful. Swift Buck and Silent Wind are meant to be together. They are true soulmates. A very good book and highly recommended. Praise for the author. It would be great to have another book about Swift Buck and Silent Wind. The story is wonderful. It gives you hope!!!!!!
VERY GOOD BOOK!!!!!!.......2003-08-29
This was a very good book. One of my favorites. It captivates the reader from the very beginning. The characters are wonderful and very realistic. It also gives you insight on the hardships the Apaches had to live through. It helps you understand their way of life and why they fought to keep it. Plus the love story is so wonderful. Swift Buck and Silent Wind are meant to be together. They are true soulmates. A very good book and highly recommended. Praise for the author. It would be great to have another book about Swift Buck and Silent Wind. The story is wonderful. It gives you hope!!!!!!
Not enough words for how good this book is........2003-06-20
I wanted to cry when this story ended. It was everything and so much more than what was promised in Cougar's Woman, the first book in this series. I was captured by Swift Buck and Rachel in Cougar's Woman, to put it simply Swift Buck stole that book away from the hero, and I've waited four years to finally read Rachel and Swift Buck's story. I wondered if the same feeling, the feeling of deep emotional love, would be captured the way it was in Cougar's Woman, the love that Swift Buck had for Rachel, that was conveyed so strongly, that we were teased with. It did. Outstanding is the only way I can describe Walk Into the Flame. I connected with these two characters so deeply that they were on the fringes of my mind when I wasn't able to read the book, when I was dying to get back to it. Rachel and Swift Buck are two characters that were so alive for me I couldn't stand the thought of reading the end of their story, of leaving them behind. They're the kind of characters I wish I could read about in ever book I read. The perfect example of soulmates. They stole a piece of my heart in Cougar's Woman and took the rest in Walk Into the Flame. Even when faced with what looked to be betrayal, Swift Buck still had complete faith in Rachel, even when he had no reason to, and even though others accused him of being blinded by love. He wasn't wrong. He followed his heart and it lead him to a dazzling love he risked everything for. Now that's romance! Walk Into the Flame is a diamond without flaws. You're heart will be touched as never before by this eternal love story that holds a place in my heart as one of the best books I've ever read.
deep historical fiction.......2003-06-16
The New Mexico Mescalero Indians raised Rachel as one of their own after her father abandoned her. However, unable to ignore her white heritage and fearing her love for Swift Buck, Silent Wind left the tribe to live in the white world. She not only deserted the people who nurtured her, but also destroyed the love of Swift Buck.
For five years an abashed Rachel watches the harassment and murder of her former tribe even on their reservation. She returns to her tribe with a deep desire to help in the fight against the hell that the whites have imposed on her people. Angry at her for leaving and at the whites for killing his fellow Apaches including his wife, White Buck abducts Rachel. He plans to use her as a pawn enabling him to flee the infernal jail the soldiers call a reservation, but did not count on their former love rekindling even brighter than before.
Though the romance is a subplot, WALK INTO THE FLAME reads more like a deep historical fiction than a love story. The tale provides a dark often-gritty look at the nineteenth century mistreatment of Indians by Federal agents and soldiers, and other Americans. Ronda Thompson provides plenty of action with strong charcaters, but readers seeking an Indian romance need to look elsewhere. However, those in the audience who appreciate deep realism that condemns anyone taking away the inalienable basic rights of an individual (to include the male lead making a hostage out of the female protagonist), a people, and a way of life will want to read WALK INTO THE FLAME.
Harriet Klausner
Book Description
The earliest adventures of the most enduring heroine of all time are featured in this hardcover collection, from her beginnings as an Amazon Princess to her 1940s career battling the power of the Nazis. These celebrated, quirky stories made an indelible impression on all those who grew up with them.
Customer Reviews:
Fun but juvenile.......2007-08-06
D.C. is doing a great thing releasing their archival editions of their most popular superhero comics. Was very happy to come across these earliest Wonder Woman, and indeed, it was a fun nostalgia trip. My only disappointment was that the stories were even more juvenile than I had expected. Would love to see D.C. skip ahead and do archive editions of the '70s Wonder Woman comics. The art reproduction and recoloring are truly fantastic.
Wonder Woman-The Early Years.......2007-07-25
Wonder Woman Archives vol. 1 is the first instalment of a series of hardcover Wonder Woman collections from DC Comics. The Golden Age stories have their ups and downs. Good Points include respect for females, something most comicbooks of the time didn't have, and great artwork, possibly the best Golden Age art I've ever seen. The Bad Points are racism, mainly twoards Germans and Japanese, although the book has it's share of Blackface. Interesting, culturaly signifigant, and at times entertaining, Wonder Woman Archives vol. 1 is a worthy addtion to any Comicbook fan's library.
Great Hera! What a sentimental time warp!.......2005-03-29
My introduction to Wonder Woman (or I should say, who I "thought" was Wonder Woman) came in the form of the weekly TV show starring Lynda Carter. As a child in the mid 1970s, I was not only bewitched, but suddenly I was hooked on superheroes and don't think I missed a single episode of WW or the many other superheroes who made their prime time debuts in the 1970s and 80s. For this 2nd grader, there was no one who topped the esteem that Wonder Woman held in my favor. But like many things from childhood, Wonder Woman the superhero faded into my conciousness for many a decade...until THIS book!
Presented here are the first Wonder Woman tales and what a treat they are to behold! Not only could Wonder Woman fight the Nazis, stop a blacmarket milk trade, uncover unfair working conditions for shop girls-- she could also kick some serious butt and save her beloved Steve Trevor from all harm(who seemed to ENDLESSLY get himself in to pickles) and by the end of the issue not bat an eyelash! Considering the cultural atmosphere of War-time America, this was quite a feat and what a role model Wonder Woman would served for young children. Yes, Wonder Woman was an early Gloria Steinem with brains, beauty, braun and a kicky pair of boots! Interestingly, the producers of the TV series in the 70s, at least for a little while, remained very faithful to the nature of these first comic books. A smart decision on their part. After reading these marvelous adventures, I decided to check out Wonder Woman of the 21st Century at the local comic shop. I'm sorry wasted my $2. The WW of 2005 is a sorry testament to the original icon presented in the pages of this marvelous CD Archives edition. Gone is a lot of the whinsome yet strong storytelling. Its replaced with a Uber-Wonder Woman whose overly "pumped up" muscles and attitude leave nothing to the imagination and sense of "wonder" the early vision so effortlessly supplied. What we have in the early books is the REAL Wonder Woman...perhaps the one that is best left to the casual reader's memory.
The DC Archive Editions are easily one of the most enjoyable and accessible ways to rediscover the comics (something I hadn't given at thought to since 1983!). Presented in beautiful color, on superior quality papers these volumns are "built to last". They are truly archival in every since of the word. These time capsules will not only become welcome additions to your library, but are destined to become terribly addictive to read. Worth every penny for certain! But first and foremost they serve as a reminder to all grownups of simpler pleasures that could be had for a couple of quarters with some change to spare....once upon a time.
Great Fun!.......2004-03-26
For those who are fans of Golden Age comics, or are just crazy about nostalgia, this book is for you! I've always thought Wonder Woman was a well conceived character and being able to read her first adventures (during the early 1940s) was a real treat. While the art and stories are not as sophisticated as what today's comic book readers are used to, they are still incredibly enjoyable. Wonder Woman's character had almost a sarcastic side to her in these early days. Completely different from the very serious character in current issues. Readers will enjoy watching Wonder Woman toss around America's World War II era Axis enemies as well as cleaning up corruption and injustice on the home front. The Amazon princess is also a great role model for young girls. This archive would make a nice gift for the serious comic book collector in your life.
Diana's Debut.......2003-05-24
I love this book because it shows a lot of firsts in the life of Princess Diana/Wonder Woman-the first time she sees a man,the first fime she leaves Paradise Island and the debut of her arch-enemy,Cheetah!Beautiful artwork and great writing make this a must for Wonder Woman fans.The colors in these comic stories are bright and vigrant.I've been a Wonder Woman Fanatic for years,but had never seen her beginnings in Sensation Comics.If you love the Amazing Amazonian too,buy this book immediately!
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The first time Helen Curry walked a labyrinth she was moved to tears and then "was filled with peace and possibilities." Here, she shares her years of experience with labyrinth meditation and shows how others can find serenity and guidance by adopting this increasingly popular practice. Unlike mazes, which force choices and can create fear and confusion, labyrinths are designed to "embrace" and guide individuals through a calming, meditative walk on a single circular path. The Way of the Labyrinth includes meditations, prayers, questions for enhancing labyrinth walks, guidelines for ceremonies, instructions for finger meditations, and extensive resources. This enchanting, practical, and exquisitely packaged guide helps both novice and experienced readers enjoy the benefits of labyrinth meditation, from problem-solving to stress reduction to personal transformation.
Includes a foreword by Jean Houston, the renowned author and leader in the field of humanistic psychology, who is considered the grandmother of the current labyrinth revival.
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful tool.......2005-04-18
This book was my introduction to labyrinths - I didn't even know that labyrinths weren't mazes before reading "The Way of the Labyrinth". Reading this book was a valuable experience for me. I found the tone very agreeable and it helped me make my way through the book at a comfortable pace that was a nice complement to the material. The whole "labyrinth concept" is sort of a personal experience and a lengthy intellectual document would have missed the point entirely. I read it one or two pages a day and every time I picked it up it was like continuing a interesting conversation.
Reflecting on and meditating with labyrinths is a process of carefully and peacefully reflecting on life with something tangible, labyrinths. It was surprising to me how relevant some of the aspects of labyrinths were to issues I was thinking through. A labyrinth, as opposed to a maze, is a path you can follow which winds you around till you get to the center - always. There are no dead ends, and no choices (other than the choice to keep walking forward). This book outlines a few famous historical labyrinths and discusses basic lessons that people have relearned every time they incorporate labyrinths into their society: focus, patience and reflection among many more. The method in which labyrinths focuses people on these lessons shows how powerful a symbol labyrinths are. Its sort of like how you can't help thinking about the future (or the past!) when you see funeral.
There are many personal experiences that Helen shares about her experience with labyrinths. They are a nice guide to what to what you might think about when walking a labyrinth - or even just thinking about labyrinths. Helen seems to be sort of new-agey and religious and I'm not in to new age stuff. Also, I don't have any concrete feelings about religion - I don't even pray. So, any reflections on religious aspects of labyrinths could have been distracting; but they weren't. Her religious reflections were sort of offered as her experience, not something you had to think was part of the labyrinth experience. I could see how they would be helpful for people who were thinking about religion while walking labyrinths.
I really was able to take from this book a set of insights into labyrinths and how this very old meditative tool can help guide your thinking in a secular, non-new-age manner. So, for all you out there who see the word "christian" or "self development" printed in reviews of other labyrinth books, don't get scared away from labyrinths because you think it has something to do with any organized religion or new age philosophy. The reason that people have religious reflections on labyrinths is clear to me - as it will be to you if you know about labyrinths or decide to read up on them. But religion does not have to be a part of your understanding of labyrinths.
I think that meditating is something everyone has tried at some point in their lives (usually when they are teenagers) and that most give it up as life gets more complicated. Part of the problem with keeping with it, I think, is that there's usually this feeling when you try to meditate, that you have to "do" all these things - clear your mind, focus on your breathing, think of a white light, focus on your energy, sit still for 15 minutes, blah blah blah. As we all know if somethings hard, people just won't keep doing it. But, my experience has been that the labyrinth concept gives you a tangible tool for meditating that takes a huge burden off of you. Since reading this book 2 years ago the concept of the labyrinth pops into my head at least once a week and helps me think through things more easily. I know it sounds crazy, but the basic concepts I pulled from the book have helped me lead a calmer, more comfortable life - and I'm not even one the hardcore "labyrinth walkers" that Helen refers to throughtout the book.
In fact, I have yet to actually walk a single labyrinth (aside from tracing the labyrinths in the book) - but the concepts are concrete enough that I have taken something valuable from this book. If I have the opportunity, I will walk a labyrinth and am sure that I will notice things I haven't thought of yet.
I now believe there are real, meaningful reasons the concept of the labyrinth has been a helpful meditative tool for people for thousands of years and I believe it is worth a read for everyone else to find out about labyrinths for these reasons. This book was a nice way to get in touch with that information for me and I suggest it to everyone with an open mind.
A Solid Confirmation of What I Knew Inside.......2001-11-24
A dear friend gave me this book.
My friend is not someone who talks about feelings or his spiritual life and he rarely finds himself walking in a labyrinth. Yet he knew when he saw The Way of the Labyrinth in a museum bookstore in Washington DC that it was a book he must get for me. On December 31 2000 my friend and I did walk in a laybrinth in Hamilton Montana. My friend enjoyed the walk but for me it was transforming. I didn't know much about the power of Labyrinths until then, nor did have much information about them. Lucky for me I have a woman friend in Missoula who has created several labyrinths in Vermont. She came to my house in May of 2000 and we installed a labyrinth of mowed paths in my backyard. I immediately felt more happy and at peace than I had in months. I have a much deeper connection to my small piece of property as a result of the labyrinth that has been uncovered in yard.
I walked in my "lab" for almost a year before my friend gave me this book. After a year of meaningful walks I was still without much formal understanding of the labyrinth concept. I was now ready to take in information and become more knowledgeable of the history of labyrinths and how they have helped people throughout time. This book is a wealth and gift of gentle information. As a result of walking my labyrinth for 18 months and reading this book I feel more grounded in my labyrinth practice. I feel very lucky to have recieved such a lovely gift from such an unlikely friend. I'm happy every morning to see this book on my desk in my yellow kitchen and I am even happier to have read a book that is so well written.
The book confirms what I've always known inside. The truth is already there, you just have find your way to the center to listen as it quietly speaks to you in ways you can understand. I reccomend this book to everyone who has ever walked a labyrinth, and even for those who have been walking all year without any formal understanding of the journey. You won't be disapointed.
The Journey toward God.......2001-01-07
Finished THE WAY OF THE LABYRINTH, and, dear friend, you are certainly doing "the work," as you would say. You've put together a book rich in history, experience, and possibilities, and you have made this time-honored meditation tool easily accessible to others. That is, after all, what we are all here to do -- to help each other as we each journey toward God.
Labyrinths from A to Z.......2000-11-26
A clear, concise, and very practical introduction to Labyrinths, their history and deeper meaning, and how to use them today. The author shares an abundance of her own moving experience in working with labyrinths, and offers detailed instructions both for building and for using labyrinths for purposes ranging from simply quieting the mind to practical daily problem-solving. Worthy reading for anyone intrigued with the deeper meaning of an ancient symbol.
We All Meet at The Center.......2000-11-25
Helen Curry is an internationally recognized expert on the labyrinth movement and is a founding member and current President of the Labyrinth Society. Helen puts an overdose of her personal experience in to this book. She includes sections on the history of labyrinths and how to build labyrinths as many recent books do, but more importantly, she gives many personal experiences in operating the Connecticut Labyrinth Project, and shares the anonymous comments of many pilgrims. I was a bit amazed in reading the personal comments, that I had much of these experiences myself, over the same time frame. Special features include meditations for each portion of the traditonal walk, and a series of 'ecumenical' blessings that can be used on different occasions in setting the environment when opening the labyrinth for public walks. Added bonuses are the embossed 'walkable' labyrinth on the cover and a preface by Jean Houston.
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Lasagne. Meat Loaf. Mocha Chocolate Roll. With 350 appetizing recipes such as these, a diabetic need never feel deprived. The dishes are all easy to prepare, feature everything from impressive appetizers to gourmet entrées to luscious desserts, and will delight the entire family. Of course, the volume includes the most recent American Diabetes Association, Inc. and American Dietetic Association Exchange Lists to make meal planning easy. So dig into Summer Chicken Canapés, the perfect start to an al fresco repast; hearty, satisfying Beef Stroganoff; flavorful Shrimp Creole; tasty Potato Puffs; and Creamy Amaretto Cheesecake as a grand finale. Tips on measurements, pan sizes, oven cooking, spices and herbs, and flavorings and extracts help the preparation go smoothly and deliciously.
Customer Reviews:
STANDARD CATOLOG OF AMERICAN CARS, BRILLIANT.......2005-07-10
THIS CATALOG IS INVALUABLE TO US, BUYING CARS FOR EXPORT. WE CAN CHECK ENGINE SIZES, OPTIONS, VIN NUMBERS ETC. BEING OUTSIDE THE U.S. ITS A COMPLETE WINDOW ON ALL CARS THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE ADVERTISED FOR SALE FROM 1976 ONWARD. I WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT IT.
Wealth of Information.......2002-04-23
The Standard Catalog of American Cars really sets the
standard to an automotive history book. The information is
overwhelming, and you will find yourself glued to the book
any chance you get.It's also a great book for anyone looking
for a used domestic automobile. It lets you find the right
car, and gives you options that you can look for while
shopping for your car. This is not a book for page flippers.
But it will fill your head with a wealth of information.
Best book ever!!!!!
Exhaustive and informative.......2000-05-03
This book is not for everyone. Flammang and Kowalke have given us not merely a reference book, but a sort of "living history" of the American automobile industry's most challenging era. It's great fun to track the changes in American cars from the North American Vinyl-Backed Road Pigs of the mid-70s through the confusing transitional years of the 80s, on into the rebirth of the American auto industry in the 90s. Reading this book not only shows you how the way cars are built has changed; you also get a sense of how the way cars are sold has changed.
The reason this book is not for everyone is that this is essentially an encyclopedia. There's a section for every American automaker, and within those sections, a section for every model year. Thus you can learn what makes, say, a 1978 Chevy Impala different from the 1979 models. Or you can read about the travails of the Ford Motor Company in the late 70s and see how they dug themselves out of a rut with their products. Flammang and Kowalke have done a good job researching this book and finding telling little factoids to help illustrate where each company was at in a given year.
This book is also a boon to collectors, as it gives fairly complete production numbers. You can learn about ultra-rare body styles, option packages, and the like.
I've only got one quibble: the authors exclude any discussion of "captive imports" (cars produced by foreign manufacturers but sold with American names, like the Dodge Colt and Ford Fiesta). I can understand their rationale, but there are future collectibles among these cars, and it's been a *long* time since the Standard Guide to Imported Cars has been updated. On the whole, though, this is a good book for any hard-core auto enthusiast, and one of the best rainy-day reads I've got.
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Family Circle's famed craft series gives knitters and crocheters a colorful new collection of accessories to inspire and delight every taste. It's filled with unique projects for everything from leg warmers to neckties, plus hats, scarves, shawls, stoles, mittens, totes, and handbags. The instructions are simple, and so are the projects, with drawings and photos of each step, including the finished works. Their titles hint at the fun of making, and wearing, them: What a Mesh openwork scarf/wrap, Keep It Short chevron-striped capelet, Whiter Shade of Pale shawl, Life's a Beach drawstring pouch, Stripe It Rich straw tote, Going Loopy derby and mittens.
Customer Reviews:
Si lo hubiera ojeado no lo habría comprado.......2007-05-14
Sorry for this comment in spanish but my english is a little bad and I think that there are more people like me who buy these books even they aren't written in our language and do a big effort to understand it. So I want do this comment in spanish to make them easier the chance to compare the opinions.
En fin es un libro que está muy bien explicado aunque deja algunas instrucciones un poco en el aire, las que he intentado (2) al menos son lógicas y realmente no era necesario que las indicaran para poder terminar bien la prenda. Tiene cosas bonitas, desde chals hasta bolsos, calcetines, calentadores, pareos para la playa, guantes, 1 cinturón e incluso una corbata, pero sinceramente si hubiera podido echarle un vistazo en la tienda no lo habría comprado porque de todo el libro haría 3 ó 4 prendas, y no porque me encanten, sino porque son las que se salvan (en mi opinión). No es que todas las demás sean feas, es que para mí no merece la pena hacerlas la verdad, sí es cierto que lo explican todo muy bien y además son accesorios fáciles de hacer y vienen medidos por grado de dificultad.
Si compras este libro antes de hacer cualquier cosa te recomiendo que vayas a la web de vogueknitting y mires si para la prenda que has escogido hacer hay algún tipo de corrección, no sea que empieces y ya a mitad de camino veas que algo no tiene mucho sentido. Recomiendo que en cuanto adquieras el libro entres en la web e imprimas todas las correcciones y las intercales en las hojas correspondientes del libro, así no se te olvidarán.
No es un libro que enseñe a hacer punto, pero para nada, es básico eso sí pero tienes que saber hacer ciertas cosas, es útil para realizar tus primeras prendas y practicar un poco hasta que domines la mano con la que tejes (la tensión).
Por lo demás, si no recomiendo la compra de este libro es sencillamente porque por el mismo precio o casi consigues una suscripción a una revista en la que vendrán muchísimos más patrones de los cuales puede que algunos te gusten y muchos no, pero seguramente el total de los que te gustan y decides hacer será mayor (y más satisfactorio) que el que acabes realizando con este libro (si no es así mejor cancela la suscripción a la revista y prueba con otra).
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Creating a Room: A Designer's Guide to Decorating Your Home in Stages
Charlotte Moss
Manufacturer: Penguin Group / Viking Studio
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Customer Reviews:
Very helpful.......2006-12-30
I thought the "stages" shown in this book were very helpful. True, I don't own the type of home shown but one can easily interpret the ideas to suit a more modest home and budget. I purchased this book after her newest book, "A Winter House" (so very scrumptous!}.
Book Description
The best of graphic design, the power of communications, and the remarkably broad range of projects, clients and venues that creative professionals touch is showcased in American Graphic Design Awards No. 4. Documented with over 900 full-color photographs are the ultimate in top graphic design efforts chosen from entries in Graphic Design: usa magazine's annual awards program. All aspects of graphic design are presented, conveniently grouped by category: annual reports, announcement/cards, brochures/collateral, direct mail, editorial design, environmental design, identity design, internet design, motion graphics, packaging, P-O-P/signs/displays, posters, public service/pro bono, sales promotion, and self promotion.
This fourth book in the design annual series keeps you current with the latest creative from design firms, advertising agencies, corporations, publishers, and a multitude of other institutions and organizations, and the over 100,000 graphic design professionals employed by them.
• in 18 chapters presents the best in graphic design by category • indexed by design firm • showcasing only the best, the winners of Graphic Design: usa magazine's annual awards program
192 pages 8 1/2" x 11" 900 color photos hardbound 1-58471-076-4
Customer Reviews:
The Culture A.D. Review.......2005-10-07
The Culture Advertising Design don't bump your head review. GDUSA is that kind of reference you gotta keep around. They scour the nation and give you a wide gamut of "real" design, the kind of things clients love. Having said that we designers can be a little, um, how you say, *itchy, so you won't love everything. However these are the smart solutions that get the job done well.
Book Description
American Graphic Design Awards No. 3 showcases the best of graphic design, the power of communications, and the remarkably broad range of projects, clients and venues that creative professionals touch.
In this 184-page book—lavishly illustrated with over 825 color images—you will see the ultimate of top graphic design efforts chosen from the 11,000 entries submitted to Graphic Design:usa magazine which conducted the awards program.
All aspects of graphic design are presented conveniently grouped by category: annual reports, advertising, announcements/ cards, books and publication design, brochures/collateral, calendars, catalogs, corporate identity, direct mail, internet design, letterhead/stationery, logos/trademarks, motion graphics, packaging, P-O-P/signs/displays, posters, public service, sales promotion, and self promotion.
There are over 100,000 graphic design professionals in the U.S. working at design firms, advertising agencies, corporations, publishers and various other institutions and organizations.
This book dramatically illustrates the best work from the graphic design profession; a profession that is growing with energy and intelligence, interpreting and shaping commerce and culture.
184 pages 8 1/2" x 11" 825 color photos, hardbound
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American Graphic Design Awards, No. 1 (American Graphic Design Awards)
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Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
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Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
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From the suspect heroism of Edwin Forrest, paragon of 19th-century American manhood, to the "lavender marriage" of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the private lives of leading actors are unearthed in 14 stimulating essays by historians of American theater. The subtitle Queer Readings... is especially apt, in that Passing Performances continually addresses the promises and perils of "outing" famous figures who lived, in some cases, before the terms homosexual, gay, and lesbian were coined, and before many of the behaviors now associated with same-sex love took on their current meanings. While the best essays here explore the larger significance of these actors' romantic affiliations--how it affected their performances, for example, or their choice of roles--many have a more narrow focus on sexual orientation, and are thus hampered by what the editors call the "vexed and elusive" evidence of sex acts or desires. Lacking documentary evidence or eyewitness accounts, writers are forced to rely (with varying success) on gossip and anecdote, and sometimes on gender stereotyping. Mary Martin is classified as bisexual, for instance, almost solely on the basis of her haircut. Despite occasional leaps of faith, Passing Performances capably fills a longtime gap in theatrical history and the expanding queer curriculum. --Regina Marler
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Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practitioners variously "passed"-- i.e., managed unconventional sexual inclinations both on- and offstage--significantly determined the course of their personal and professional lives and thus the course of U.S. theater history.
The actors, directors, producers, and agents examined here include Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Adah Isaacs Menken, whose personal lives and careers traded on the same-sex erotics of "true love" in the antebellum period; Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Janis, Nance O'Neil, and Alla Nazimova, whose intimate female liaisons were variously interpreted around the turn of the century; the "lavender marriages" of Alfred Lunt to Lynne Fontanne and Guthrie McClintic to Katharine Cornell; the lesbian collaborations of Margaret Webster and Cheryl Crawford; the comic antics of Monty Woolley, which negotiated codified constructions of homosexual perversion in the post-Freudian interwar years; and the on- and offstage performances of Mary Martin and Joe Cino, which resisted the paranoid enforcements of heterosexual normality in the McCarthy era. Central to these investigations are the complex connections of performances of sexuality and gender and their different implications for men and women practitioners working under pervasive sexism and homophobia.
The volume also includes striking archival photographs of the performers and their performances, and an index to facilitate the cross-referencing of subjects' intersecting careers. Passing Performances will engage both general and academic readers interested in theater, gay and lesbian history, American studies, and biography.
Robert A. Schanke is Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Division of Fine Arts, Central College, Iowa. Kim Marra is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Iowa.
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