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My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles
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Book Description
Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. Whether focused on the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less defined but intense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella Two Serious Ladies, or on the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different loneliness in "Plain Pleasures," or on the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman in Morocco in "Everything Is Nice," Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow both stranger and more familiar than what they left behind.
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A must have item........2005-08-24
Jane Bowles is still an unfortunately neglected writer despite Tennessee Williams' statement that she is our finest American prose fiction writer. He wrote that in the early 70s, and it is still true today. She manages to surprise and fascinate and perplex and amuse in nearly every sentence. She is the kind of original our university writing courses and the 'searching for a hit' publishing industry are stifling.
Night, Let Me Be Numbered Among Thy Sons And Daughters.......2004-07-26
My Sister's Hand In Mine: The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles (1970) offers readers the rewarding opportunity of entering the strange but oddly homey world of its author. The volume contains Bowles' only novel, Two Serious Ladies, her single work for the theater, the uneven In the Summer House, and thirteen short stories and unfinished pieces. The book's real strengths are Two Serious Ladies and the long story Camp Cataract, works that compliment one another and successfully define the unique landscape of Bowles' vision.
Married to the more famous novelist, composer, and expatriate Paul Bowles, Jane was an apparently bisexual woman with strong lesbian leanings. Though her liveliness and wit were widely appreciated by other artists of the period, most of whom were also ardent admirers of her talent, Bowles' life was compromised by anxiety, and her final years were marked by severe illness and tragedy.
The individualistic Bowles was probably an introvert in Jung's original definition of term. Her character's fears largely revolve around the idea of "passage into the outside world," the states of existence that most people must inevitably face, embrace, and accept beyond the personalized state of the home and the nuclear family. But while confronting the outer world is a unpleasant necessity for most of Bowles' characters, family life, far from a paradise, remains a sentimentally idealized but claustrophobic circle in hell. Achieving and maintaining states of grace was also an important matter for the author, though her unsettlingly tragicomic approach to both these themes has historically kept her work from being widely understood and accepted as mainstream American literature. While other idiosyncratic writers like the vastly more prolific Muriel Spark have enjoyed decades of popularity and critical and commercial success and thus the opportunity to carefully evolve their personal vision, Bowles found the act of writing difficult, and her readership during her lifetime, in commercial terms, almost nonexistent.
Two Serious Ladies concerns Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, casual acquaintances who synchronistically strike out on no longer avoidable quests for personal salvation after meeting at a Manhattan party.
While Mrs. Copperfield seems to be seeking fulfilling love and all kinds of meaningful sensual pleasure, the independently wealthy Miss Goering apparently seeks spiritual development through material sacrifice, meager living, and confrontation with her fears in their social and public forms. Both women are simultaneously asexual and semi-consciously lesbian in their preferences; the married Mrs. Copperfield enthusiastically chases the love and company of other women in a Central American village, while the somewhat sheltered but more confident Miss Goering, who shares her home with both a woman and a man in an ambiguous arrangement, actively pursues first a failed businessman and then a gangster in the name of achieving her goals. Both women are weirdly naive, and Bowles never allows the reader a clear understanding of how knowledgeable, sophisticated, or self aware either character is. Both encounter and embrace a hilarious assemblage of oddball characters and misfits; like Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield, these eccentrics often seem incapable of objective or comparative perception, and may thus be doomed to lives of starchy parochialism. Only Mr. Copperfield, a figure unmistakably based on Paul Bowles, seems stable, clear-headed, and rationally self-motivated.
Unstable, indeterminate social conventions and mores haunt Bowles' characters. Routine train rides, visits to relative's homes, evenings out in taverns and restaurants, business meetings, and even the simple act of purchasing become comic war zones in which all present seem to enjoy a vastly different understanding of what behavior is appropriate and acceptable. Misunderstandings, breaches of etiquette, emotional hypersensitivity, and insults are common in The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles; fluid, trusting, easy, and healthy communication is sadly unknown.
The grueling Camp Cataract concerns a shrewd, secretive, and uncommonly self aware adult woman, Harriet, who is quietly and carefully planning a final break from her smothering and unconsciously incestuous sister Sadie. Unlike Two Serious Ladies, Camp Cataract contains surreal elements, fugue states, and odd flights of fantasy, but is also more far more specific about the intentions and inner workings of its characters: Harriet's desperate motivations are laid bear in a way that neither Miss Goering's and Mrs. Copperfield's ever are. During her alternately forlorn and energetic pursuit of her sister, Sadie is unpleasantly forced to confront the devouring public world she fears as well as the heavily repressed psychosexual underpinnings of her character. Though wildly funny, few works of fiction can cause readers to twist and squirm like Camp Cataract.
Throughout, the writing is simple, subtle, admirably crisp, and compellingly readable; Bowles is also a master of peculiar, perfectly timed dialogue, a talent she uses to great effect throughout. Also notable are A Guatemalan Idyll, originally a section of Two Serious Ladies, and A Stick Of Green Candy, in which a young girl learns that violating the fidelity of her creative imagination brings about the permanent end of innocent fantasy.
Read it.......2004-06-11
Incredible book. Jane Bowles has the unique characteristic of amusing and depressing us at the same time. Two serious ladies and her short fiction(Camp Catarat and Plain Pleasures are masterpieces) are unique. Her play is funny but she is not as good as in her narrative.
What you will find in this book is a complete diferent way of understanding live, you will encounter an original brain that expreses itself with the most personal sentences you will ever read. Jane stands alone in the whole literary tradition. Surrounded by her terror, obsessions and complete understanding of human heart what Bowles achieves is the perfect expression of human essence.
You'll Want More.......2004-04-25
The only bad thing about this collection is that Bowles' collected work is so limited. The writing is experimental, intriguing and engaging. Her language is so fresh. The different genres show her reach as an artist. You only wish that she had been more prolific. She will be read for years to come.
The best........2002-05-16
If you've not read Jane Bowles, stop what you're doing and buy this book now. Everything in it will enrich you. Every sentence is an object of pleasure, every character a shrewdly observed or constructed being. Along with Jean Rhys, Bowles is one of the most important writers of the last century.
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Picture a world intricately entwined with our own yet separate, pulsing with the raw energy and vivid color of Celtic myth come to life. Picture Albion. And enter Lewis Gillies, an Oxford student whose search for a missing friend leads him through a door to another reality- and unimagined discoveries about life, good and evil, and his own identity and destiny. In an ancient cairn in the wilds of Scotland, Oxford student Simon Rawson vanishes, seemingly into thin air. Where has he gone? Unsettling signs -- a mysterious Green Man, a Celtic circle chalked on the sidewalk -- point his roommate, Lewis Gillies, to an impossible answer . . . and an incredible destiny on the other side of a doorway between worlds. There, where Celtic champions, magic, and treachery weave the beautiful and brutal land called Albion, Lewis finds Simon. And there, schooled as a warrior, he is thrust to the front of a titanic struggle between light and darkness -- a hideous, onrushing darkness that would devour not merely a kingdom, but two worlds.
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Eh, why such good reviews?.......2007-09-13
Another series created out of the idea that a run of the mill dude discovers an alternate world, where he all a sudden becomes courageous and forgets his past. Besides that, the build up of a great magical climax is greatly over hyped, as it falls flat. Dont buy this novel if you are looking for your next great fantasy read
Super Reader.......2007-08-27
A solid fantasy trilogy, with the often useful hook of placing a modern man into the setting - with the twist that he becomes one of the great Celtic heroes, but not quite how you expect. The other thing is that he is an arts grad student nerd, too, so even more surprising. Not remarkable though, certainly would not read it again. A grad student and friend go on a wild trip, and find a supposedly extinct prehistoric ox, then follow it, and end up in a Celtic mythic Albion, and have to adapt fast.
I Screamed.......2007-08-13
Getting lost in Albion is a rare treat. This is the first (and only) book I have read as an adult that made me feel as if I had managed to step into a realm far more beautiful then anything that could be known in this.
This is a book that engages on many levels with a story that can be read as simple mind candy or with a careful disection of symbols, either way the story only disappoints in that it must end.
In fact, I was so engrossed in the story I did not realize the pages were running out! The shock of such an abrupt ending literally made me scream at Mr. Lawhead for leaving me hanging until I could get the next two books (which I read within two days of recieving them).
Awesome!.......2007-06-27
I love Trilogies and when I saw all three of the Song of Albion series on sale together I decided to give them a try. I had never read SRL before, but the concept of this series really caught my attention. Needless to say I was hooked. I have since read just about everything SRL has written, since March!
As was mentioned in a previous review, the book takes a little while to get started (most Lawhead's books do), but it was all necessary backround and character development. I guess he could have just created a "time machine", but that wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as interesting a storyline Lawhead has created here. Part Fantasy, part historical fiction/speculation, I found this whole series both entertaining and educational and really created a good foundation for his other Celtic based storylines (i.e. Pendragon series, Hood, Celtic Crusades etc.) I don't know if it's just because this is first series of Lawhead's I read or what, but this is still my favorite SRL series, one which no doubt I will re-read more than once.
The First of an incredible Fantasy Trilogy!.......2007-06-10
Okay, this book starts off my absolute, all-time favorite trilogies by Stephen R. Lawhead - who is one of my favorite authors because of how stinking awesome the trilogy is. The trilogy is called the Song of Albion. And it is a must read for any and all fantasy readers, especially if you love Celtic fantasy, of which Lawhead is a supreme master.
Anyways, Paradise War starts off a little slow, at least in comparison to all that happens over the span of the trilogy. But I would suggest some patience and for you to just enjoy how Lawhead sets up and transitions into the primary story, because he really is setting the stage and establishing characters which you will see grow, mature, and change throughout the entire trilogy.
I would also warn anyone who's got a squeamish stomach about Lawhead's books in general - he doesn't flinch at violence or describing the results thereof. It's not that he's overly gory or anything, but if a character has a wound inflicted on them and they have to deal with it, he describes it in, well, almost explicit detail.
I love Lawhead, also, because he's stylistic in his writing and very character driven. You see the main character go through a very drastic transition.
Overall, though I love Paradise War, it really only gets the story rolling and introduces you to a cast of characters which you will come to love. The Song of Albion is an amazing trilogy, and I highly recommend it to all fantasy lovers. I would suggest to parents that this book (and trilogy) are more for senior high students due to mature content.
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- Wow!! This is it!!
- Awkward Writing Style Undermines Delivery
- Great and humane book.
- Rich character driven novel
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Conscience of the Beagle
Patricia Anthony
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Earth's toughest cop has his hands full investigating terrorist attacks on the planet Tennyson.
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Wow!! This is it!!.......2007-03-27
I have now read all of Patricia Anthony's novels, griping about the way she apparently can't seem to close a book. I don't know the chronological order of printing but this just happens to be the one I read last. And apparently I saved the best for last. Finally, an earth-shattering climax!
This book contains everything that makes her other novels such compelling material. Interesting, unique characters. Pathos, unique writing style, compelling plot. Everything. This one also has the kind of ending I've been waiting for. Unexpected, leave my mouth hanging to the floor shocking.
Based on her other books I can understand why her books sell for a penny everywhere. My complaint about the endings is a valid one, I think, and may be a huge contributing factor to their lack of popularity.
Still it's a shame that she hasn't written anymore. This book proves that she can do it, and do it big.
Awkward Writing Style Undermines Delivery.......2006-08-06
Conscience of the Beagle (1993) by Patricia Anthony - 201 pages - rating: 6/10
Four top notch investigators are dispatched from earth to a peaceful colonial world to capture the terrorists responsible for a series of deadly attacks.
The ideas are fresh and the feel is unique. The characters are well developed and the action moves along at a good pace.
The author does have a problem however with sentence/paragraph structure and as a result the prose comes off as jerky and confusing. This problem continues through out the entire book and almost totally ruins what would otherwise have been a compelling story.
An excellent ending and the best sex scene ever in a science fiction novel save Conscience of the Beagle from a dismal 4/10 rating.
Claus Kellermann
2006 Aug 5
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Great and humane book........2006-04-06
Take a pinch of hard-boiled detective fiction and mix it in with some science fiction and throw in a dash of political thriller for good measure. If what you came up with was more than the combination of its parts, then you may be as good a writer as Patricia Anthony.
Describing the plot of this book does not do it justice. Like Dick, Anthony uses science fiction tropes and plot points to engage in a meditation on the nature of being human.
One of the best books, from one of speculative fiction's (or any kind of fiction, actually) unsung writers.
Find a copy if you can and give it a read.
Rich character driven novel.......2003-08-14
Patricia Anthony is science fiction's best kept secret. It's really rather sad because she's probably one of the best contemporary novelist and short story writers around. Her novel Brother Termite managed to subvert a genre that had become little better than cliche. In the process she also managed to satirize politics, our view of aliens and our obssessive/compulsive media.
Essentially, isn't quite what he seems and neither is this richly plotted mystery sf novel. I'm not going to recap the plot here as it's been done quite well in the amazon.com review but suffice to say that Anthony, like Phil Dick, takes science fiction (and other genre)conventions and likes to turn them inside out/upside down. Then she procedes to wrap a characters around the skeleton of the plot and finally top it off by wrapping her novels (and short stories)in a narrative skin that keeps your attention regardless of the length of the story.
I'd also recommend Anthony's Flaunders. It redefines the literary war novel. A pity she hasn't written anything new in some time.
Strongly protagonist-centric scifi suspense.......2001-10-17
This book came highly recommended to me from an extremely literate friend. It was my first experience with a Patricia Anthony book, but I'm fairly well read in science fiction overall.
If you're looking for some good ol' comfy sci-fi reading with a couple big plot twists to spice up the read, this book is a great place to start - at 240 pages, it's a quick read. Also, like all (well, most) good science fiction, this story rightly focuses on the unfolding human drama (in the context of new technologies) and one of the main devices used to keep you on the edge of your seat is the strongly protagonist-centric view of the world. A tangled weave of interplanetary political intrigue, religion, sexuality, and J. Edgar Hoover style police state paranoia add a lot of texture to the story.
Likes:
- Holloway's (the protagonist) inner tragedy, while overly analytical, rang true from a basic emotional standpoint.
- Anthony's rendition of an emotionally unbalanced man's view of love and sex shows an refreshingly perspicacious view.
Dislikes:
- The book tries to accomplish an awful lot in 240 pages. The reader gets just a brush with the texture alluded to above. For example, the Beagle, an artifically created personality construct, could have been developed more. Compare cf. the constructs in "Nature's End" by Strieber and Kunetka.
- For me, this book was uncomfortably similar to "Caves of Steel" by Asimov. Earth in political turmoil with an advanced off-Earth human colony? A sci-fi detective story? A government dictated artificial economic stratification of society with overpopulation of Earth? Constructs vs. robots?
Takeaway: it keeps you in suspense, it's got some very interesting plot twists, you won't be sorry you read it, but it won't change your life either (rather, it didn't change mine).
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Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as institutions dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, however, reveals a very different picture. One of the toughest neighborhoods in Boston, Four Corners also contains twenty-nine churches, mostly storefront congregations, within its square half-mile radius. In McRoberts's hands, this area teaches a startling lesson about the relationship between congregations and neighborhoods that will be of interest to everyone concerned with the revitalization of the inner city.
McRoberts finds, for example, that most of the churches in Four Corners are attended and run by people who do not live in the neighborhood but who worship there because of the low overhead. These churches, McRoberts argues, are communities in and of themselves, with little or no attachment to the surrounding area. This disconnect makes the churches less inclined to cooperate with neighborhood revitalization campaigns and less likely to respond to the immediate needs of neighborhood residents. Thus, the faith invested in inner-city churches as beacons of local renewal might be misplaced, and the decision to count on them to administer welfare definitely should be revisited.
As the federal government increasingly moves toward delivering social services through faith-based organizations, Streets of Glory must be read for its trenchant revisionist view of how churches actually work in depressed urban areas.
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vital contribution.......2006-09-29
It's difficult to express how important a contribution Streets of Glory is to the sociology of religion as well as to black religion. He really helped us understand how the black church relates to the vicissitudes of urban life in ways that were previously unexplored. He reveals how a black urban locality can be saturated with churches and yet fail miserably in disabusing the socio-economic challenges of that locality because many of those churches don't identify with the community. In other words, they're choosing localities based on low overhead, so they don't invest in or develop solidarity with the surrounding community. If we were looking to the church to solve urban problems, McRoberts let's us know that maybe we better look elsewhere. This is a monumental contribution and is why many people are referring to McRoberts as the next "C.Eric Lincoln.
Essential Reading on Afro-American Religion.......2003-11-27
This is essential reading in any study or class in the sociology of religion more broadly put, or especially the "Black Church" or Black Liberation Theology. McRoberts demonstrates the vitality and variety of at least this 'corner' of African-American church life.
A Classic.......2003-07-30
This is the most important study of black urban religious life in a long time, and University of Chicago sociologist Omar McRoberts gives us a lot to think about here.
The book focuses on Four Corners, a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Boston composed of Holiness-Pentecostal-Apostolic and "mainline" (Baptist, Catholic, and United Methodist) congregations but also numerous black Caribbean and Hispanic immigrant churches. There are so many churches in the neighborhood that it is what McRoberts calls a "religious district"--a depressed area where vacant commercial spaces provide space for religious institutions looking for property with cheap rent. One might expect that the sheer religious presence of all these churches would help turn a poor neighborhood around quickly, but apparently most of the people coming on Sunday are commuters from other parts of the city who feel little responsibility for the area their churches happen to be in. That leaves community activists, local politicians, and the efforts of some concerned ministers and laity to try and save Four Corners. It is a story that may be found in similar urban areas all across the country, and Streets of Glory helps us understand their particular nature, problems, and possible future.
McRoberts is a tremendous scholar and writer--an authoritative and imaginative new voice in urban sociology, and a keen observer of the highest order. This is ethnography at its best, and it will be a classic on many reading lists for years to come...
Solid scholarship -- dry read........2003-07-27
How the author of this book can take something so rich, dramatic, lush, vibrant, controversial, dynamic, powerful, human, and compelling -- black urban religious life -- and write a book that is boring, dead, overly analytical, and hyper-dull is nothing short of astounding.
No doubt this is top-notch sociological scholarship. But does it also have to be so dry ? If you like academic journal articles, you'll love this book . If you want an engrossing, engaging, enthographic-like read which really draws you in to a community, which lets you get to know these people as thinking and feeling humans, which takes you into the actual drama of urban religous life, you'll be let down. Yes, the author reveals some interesting scholarly conclusions. But that's about it.
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- A great introduction to a healthy lifestyle
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- Serene Cuisine
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Serene Cuisine: Traditional Yogic Recipes for the Mind & Body
Nicky Moona
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Give a sun salute to one of the very first cookbooks to incorporate yogic philosophy in an approachable way. A fun design features a photo of a matching asana with every dish.
Yoga and the right foods make a deliciously healthy combination. These easy-to-prepare recipes have their roots in ancient principles, but they’ve all been revamped for the modern diet and illustrated with beautiful color photos. Every dish feeds the body and spirit as well as the mind: it’s a high fiber, high in antioxidants, vegetarian diet for people who want to eat well and be happy, and it can help manage weight, boost energy, improve concentration, strengthen the immune system, and even ease stress. Above all, these recipes taste fantastic, thanks to infusions of therapeutic spices. There’s no guilt when you dig into a rich Strawberry Lassi; Lentil Spinach Soup; Corn, Tomato, and Cucumber Salad; a variety of chutneys and curries; Green Lentil and Rice Kichdi; and Honey Fruit Delight. A bonus appendix shows yoga postures, and explains the links between the poses and the recipes.
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A great introduction to a healthy lifestyle.......2005-08-11
I didn't realize until I saw this beautiful cookbook that yoga is not just about physical exercise but about a healthy lifestyle as a whole. This book has so many simple recipes that I can actually try, and they are all very tasty. Unlike other similar cookbooks that I have, the recipes in this book do not come with a long list of esoteric ingredients that you can never find in a local supermarket. What is really helpful and educational is that this book explains in detail the concept of yogic eating and its teachings in a most understandable way. I can say that this is one of the most accessible books for anyone who is interested in a healthy vegetarian lifestyle. I highly recommend it!
Practical guide to healthy cooking.......2005-04-01
I bought this book kind of impulsively a couple of weeks ago. I'm not a vegetarian, but am interested in healthy home cooking. When I got around to actually trying a recipe, I was surprised to find how easy it is to put together something very tasty and fresh. I've tried several more recipes and have been consistenly delighted with them all. This book is not a coffee table book (although it looks good enough for that purpose) and it has led me into an exciting new way of cooking healthy food. I've also tried variations of the recipes, and it's given me so many ideas for quickly making delicious and healthy food. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
Serene Cuisine.......2005-02-17
What a great cookbook! The recipes are easy and taste delicious. They are easy enough to cook for yourself and delicious enough to cook for a dinner party. The yoga poses are also great for both yoga beginners and those who practise. My eight year old nieces spend hours doing the yoga poses from thIs book!
Namastay Nicky Moona for a wonderful book!
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- The Book of Buffalo Pottery
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The Book of Buffalo Pottery
Violet Altman , and
Seymour Altman
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Buffalo pottery is constantly growing in popularity as a collectible. This documentary volume preserves all available background information and lists and pictures many of the firm's products. Here, in eleven concise, information-packed chapters, with well over 400 pieces illustrated, are all the facts, statistics, and details. Every kind of ware the firm is known to have made is discussed or pictured. Here, too, is the fascinating background story of the John D. Larkin mail-order company which founded the pottery that made Deldare, Albino, blue Willow, advertising and commemorative pieces, game sets, pitchers and jugs and other articles dating from its early days that are cherished and highly valued today.
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The Book of Buffalo Pottery.......2000-01-20
Excellent source of information for anyone interested in collecting Buffalo Pottery. It even has a well organized section of values of various pieces.
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It a fun quilt.......2005-11-04
I will make several sizes of this quilt before I'm done with this book. I am going to use many differnt color ways with this pattern. It a great book. It has quilts for the beginner as well as intermidate and advanced quilters. Get this book and have fun quilting.
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Amish Quilts: A Book Of Days
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Loss Forgiveness and Restoration.The Face of Christ illustration and the accompanying story that has changed lives all around the globe.First it is a truelife story of an advertising executive an artist and a pastor Joe Castillo and the way God changed him. It also tells of the many lives touched by this simple illustration.Done before a live audience the very first time it had a powerful impact on those who watched. This motivated the artist to reproduce it in pen ink prints. As an artist Joes struggle to make a living was suddenly compounded by having his wife diagnosed with cancer. They had no insurance to cover the mounting debt but at an opportune time a friend offered to reproduce the artwork on marble plaques and pay royalties. The sales of the plaques were amazing surely this was the answer to all their financial problems But the story seems to grind to a halt. The friend refuses to pay royalties on the artwork that is selling world wide and Joe loses his wife to cancer. It becomes a daily struggle to forgive the man who was profiting from his artwork and overcome the bitterness at the loss of his wife. The plaques seem to show up everywhere compounding his anger and resentment. For Joe it became a bitter symbol of everything that had gone wrong.If you have ever struggled with forgiveness. If some events in your life just dont make sense God can use this artwork and the story that goes with it to help you put the pieces together.
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Digital technology is transforming commercial photography offering speed, efficiency, and higher quality imaging. Yet, for all its advantages, the world of digital photography is rife with challenges.
Digital Photography for Creative Professionals is the essential handbook for using and managing digital techniques smoothly and effectively. Written by veteran digital photography expert Lee Varis, this book walks readers step-by-step through the entire digital process, from preparing for the shoot to studio techniques to color management and printing issues. Compelling visuals illustrate a range of digitally executed projects, and Varis explores the pros and cons of each solution presented.
An invaluable guide for designers, printers, photographers, and Web developers, this book offers methods and approaches for producing flawless images on Internet time.
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The most focusted and useful book on the subject!.......2002-05-12
Without a doubt this book is the most user friendly book on technology I've read. It is packed with essential information for everone using digital photography today. It provides help in setting up shots as well as streamling your workflow and a lot more. There is nothing extraneous out this, it's great from start to finish!
DPFGD will be dog-eared before you know it!.......2002-02-16
This book is a must-have for designers and photographers who are moving towards a fully digital production process. DPFGD is a well-organized linear treatment and full of extremely useful guidance relevant to both the broad creative issues and nitty gritty details that we face in our profession. Varis is precise, clear, experienced, and is well backed up by artfully selected examples on every page. This is one book that I expect to look back to again and again.
Great for the Design Student.......2001-12-13
Just fininshed reading Lee Varis's new book. It's a great overall treatment of digital photography for any student of graphic design or even the seasoned art director that may be new to digital technology. The technology discussed is current, and in common use professionally. The discussions of critical concepts of resolution and color are presented in a user friendly, easy to grasp manner.
This book should well prepare the designer going into their first digital photoshoot. It can help in understanding how to achieve all the technology is capable of, and how to get the most from the shoot.
Digital Photography for Graphic Designers.......2001-12-12
This is a must have book for designers and photographers, especially designers of the old school who have been more then a little afraid of going digital and there are many out there. For the beginer designer, this book puts on the page what they will be told about the digital work flow as it exists today.
Lee Varis takes the reader on a digital ride explaining more then enough to get the reader to appreciate the digital workflow.
A must for designers.......2001-12-12
Even though there are many books as there are about digital imaging, none discuss in detail the relationship of designers and art directors with the process (and people) involved with creating digital images.
This book covers a great many of the complexities of digital imaging with a clear, casual style that does a great deal towards clearing up many misconceptions people have about digital photography. Not only does it cover that, but the book goes further into aspects such as pre-press, proofing, editing and printing, and and does so with a very enjoyable, non-technical narrative. Anecdotal writing, along with supporting photography (beautifully printed) helps lend creedence to this book. A necessary text for anyone in graphic design and/or advertising.
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A Frenzy of Indifference: Tales of a UK TV Journeyman
Harry Turner
Manufacturer: Book Guild Publishing
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Harry Turner worked in UK television for 30 years, culminating in a stint as managing director for the independent Television South-West (TSW) network. This book interweaves the author's favorite episodes from his long broadcasting career with the saga of TSW's struggle to survive in independent television.
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