The Five Gates of Hell (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)

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Oddworld

if beauty were born as words

The Five Gates of Hell (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)
Rupert Thomson
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0747536937

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Oddworld.......2001-08-03

Highly recommended. I have read all of Thomson's books, except "Soft", and found that his first 2 ("Dreams" and "5 Gates") are his best. What seems to work is the off-kilter realism of the characters combined with the surrealism of the setting (a coast town based on the funeral business in "5 Gates" and a town no one is allowed to leave in "Dreams") and stories. "5 Gates" is an eerie read where you always feel submerged in the dreamy water-world of Moon Beach or its surrounding deserts where things mostly move in slow motion until drawn to a quick conclusion.

if beauty were born as words.......2000-01-04

Beauty and ugliness collide with such a tremendous impact, that there are points when we are not sure which is which. Thomson illustrates this; here are two central characters; Jed, the ugly one, and Nathan, the beautiful one. The story follows each, as he is swallowed by the endless decandence of Moon Beach, a city obsessed with death, and built on an industry of funeral parlours. Each witnesses beauty and ugliness in many forms, presented in wonderful prose. Thomson has a talent for describing things in unconventional forms, while somehow never moving away from the thing in question. He solidifies emotion, and liquifies solid objects, in language that bounces and cascades. Ther supporting characters fulfill their requirements - not only do they 'support', but they add depth to the two central characters. Vasco the gang leader, Creed the mysterious head of the corporation, Harriet the Au Pair - each has their own place in Thomson's magical city. This is a decidedly blue book; anyone longing for brighter colours should look elsewhere. However, if lue is your scene, then this might very well be the shade for which you've been searching.

At least read this book, even if you don't buy it. There are few novels able to capture the imagination with such magnificent force and effect. I felt like a butterfly lost in caverns of sulphur, walls that glitter in the noxious light, I had to stay, I wanted to fly further, deeper, I had to know . . .

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FIVE FEET TO THE GATES OF HELL : WORLD WAR II MEMOIR - EASY COMPANY SAIPAN
EMILIE E. LUEBKE
Manufacturer: ZANDER PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0615133738

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THE MEMOIR OF CORPORAL MARK E. PETERIK, A MARINE FROM WISCONSIN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. HE WON 4 PURPLE HEARTS AND THE SILVER STAR. CAPTURED AND SURVIVED ON SAIPAN. GREAT STORIES AND PHOTOS. HE WAS IN EASY COMPANY

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Five Gates of Hell, The
Rupert Thomason
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KPOD5I

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What magical beings inhabit earth's waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer- people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar's Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.

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Enjoyable collection of fantasy short stories.......2007-05-16

This book consists of 6 short stories- 3 by Mckinley and 3 by Dickinson; as indicated by the title they all center around water. Mckinley is by far the better author, but Dickinson's contributions are worth reading as well. I always enjoy reading Robin Mckinley's short stories because they are self-contained and provide the reader with a full story. Many authors make the mistake of writing a short story as if it were a single chapter in a novel; Mckinley does not fall into this trap (which is odd, given the multitude of loose ends that exist in some of her more recent novels). This book is definitely worth the price, especially for a Mckinley fan.

Strange and Fascinating.......2006-06-20

I picked up this book because it featured Robin McKinley's stories. She is a highly talented author.

Peter Dickinson's stories are on the most part drier and more brittle than McKinley's smooth, tautly woven prose. He lacks the beauty and mystery of McKinley's writing, but he introduced a fine piece in The Kraken, which is well worth the read.

McKinley, on the other hand, displays three well-turned stories that further her reputation as a writer. She never hesitates to flirt with old myths and legends, drawing on their ancient mystery, and spinning out new tales that combine old stories into her imaginative prose. Her writing is never forced or overdone. Each is seamlessly woven and smooth.

She features three stories, but The Pool in the Desert is definitely the gem of the entire collection. It tells of a girl's longing for a place she can visit only in her dreams. She falls in love with the dark sentinel of the desert, and yet she cannot stay in Damar, but is drawn back each morning to her dull life and her domineering parents. Her longing for Damar overcomes her humdrum life and she finds a way to journey to the place of her dreams. Overall, a strangely wistful but powerful story.

I'd say that the Pool in the Desert is probably the only one that shines. Water is definitely worth the read, if only as an introduction to Robin McKinley's writing.

Six short stories (3 by each author).......2005-12-24

On the whole, I was drawn into RM's stories more quickly than PD's (my favourites are "The Sea King's Son" and "The Water Horse"), although after repeated exposure I've developed some liking for two of his three. McKinley's stories herein seem to me to have more detailed and polished world-building. None of the six, to my knowledge, have been published previously.

"Mermaid Song" (PD) Setting = very like Puritan New England. (I'd have enjoyed it more if PD had simply made it an alternate Puritan history.) While the mundane setting may be off-putting at first, the sea-people's introduction is well handled when it comes. In a way, this is two stories - a family tradition (handed down from mother to daughter) and the story of the protagonist, young Pitiable Nasmith, left with her maternal grandparents upon her mother's death in childbirth.

Near the end of her life, Pitiable's grandmother tells her the story behind the most unusual of her songs - how their ancestress Charity Goodrich really survived shipwreck upon arriving in the new world as a girl. Although the People's culture isn't fleshed out much, the first contact scene between Charity and her sea-children rescuers is realistically detailed. In a neat reversal of some sea-people stories, the air-breathing person was a pet, kept in an undersea cave with no way out.

The present-day story turns grim when the grandfather takes to drink after his wife's death, which seems to have quenched what little of his heart survived his daughter's passing. Eventually he takes to walking along the seashore, and finds something that only Pitiable has learned to recognize, shaping up to a possible reversal of the secret tradition.

"The Sea-King's Son" (RM) Jenny, only child of a well-off farming family, grew into shyness as she grew up, and never let on that she had fallen in love with Robert, a good-looking younger son of another farming family from a village on the far side of the harbour separating the small towns they live in - a harbour under a curse by the king of the sea people, to avenge an injustice inflicted by the land people in the days when the two races had dealings with one another (though only a trade in luxury items, never friendship, each race considering the other too alien to grow close to). But when Jenny's parents make plans to send her away to the city for a season, in the hope that she might shake off her shyness, and perhaps find a good husband, Robert finally makes a move - for love of Jenny's inheritance rather than for her. But late in their courtship, Jenny makes an unannounced visit alone to Robert's family home, and what she learns there is more terrible for her than any ancient tale of sea-curses, and drives her onto the shortest road home - the direct route across the harbour.

"Sea Serpent" (PD) I was disappointed with the initial scene-setting, although the wave-riders eventually won me over a bit. The conflict between the New religion's chief god and the Old's chief goddess comes to a head as the builder of a new temple seeks building stone taken from the goddess' shrine (which seemed unoriginal). The magic-working temple-builder forces the neutral wave-riders, worshippers of the Sea God, to help transport the stones. The details of the minutiae, practical politics, and ethics of the wave-riders' work make the latter portion of the story a decent read.

"Water Horse" (RM) "This island is a strange place...a threshold between land and water; and the boundary between us is striven for, and fought over, and it shifts sometimes this way, and sometimes that...it is over this one island that the war is fought, and if once we yielded, then all those lands behind us - farther from the boundary we protect - would immediately come under threat, and they have no Guardians. We are the Guardians; and here we hold the line." So says Western Mouth to her inland-born apprentice, Tamia, who began her training at fourteen as do all apprentices, and can't help worrying that she's not really suitable for the work. But Western Mouth was a very old woman by the time Tamia came along...When Western Mouth has a stroke five years into Tamia's apprenticeship, the defenses are torn open, allowing a creature of sea-magic to slip through that Tamia must face in her Guardian's stead.

"Kraken" (PD) Somewhat similar to "Mermaid Song", although the two humans swept into the water are saved by more supernatural means and for more complex reasons. The protagonist, a young sea-princess indulging in her last rule-breaking before coming of age, runs serious risks to try to return them to the upper air.

"A Pool in the Desert" (RM) The only Damar story herein - not surprising, for a country bordered by desert in the more recent ages of the world. The protagonist, a present-day Homelander (not unlike our own present), begins dreaming of a time so far in Damar's past that it has become legend, and finds it far more like home than her parents' household, with their stranglehold on their children.

A Dash of Cold Water on the Face.......2005-08-05

This book struck me a blow across the mouth when I first read it, and I've grown in appreciation of it on subsequent readings. These are not pretty stories, but neither are they squalid; they are sometimes slow, sometimes difficult, sometimes piercing, all chilly and wet. These mermaids have sharp fins and keen calls, and it is an extremely refreshing shock to read both authors' contributions to the book. As I have time, I will be reading more of Peter Dickinson, whom I had not read previously. This is a simply good book.

A humble review.......2005-07-24

I've been a fan of McKinley's writing ever since I randomly selected "Spindle's End" off the shelf at the local Borders, and so when I discovered the collection of short stories put together by her and her husband Peter Dickenson (all based around my favorite of the four elements), I was thrilled.

Once again, Robin has not let me down in her production of fantastic tales. From the hopeful, innocent, and adorably naive Sea-King's Son to the continuance of her famous Damarian stories, I was sucked into the worlds that Robin creates once again and came out the other side with a smile on my face.

Peter Dickenson's stories were a delightfully dark contrast to Robin's upbeat and cheerful writing style. I admit that, at first, I found his stories to be slightly dry and slow (though The Kraken was wonderful), and even left off reading Sea Serpent for boredom. However, just this past week, I decided to give the story another go, as it was the only one in the book I hadn't read and I was desperate for new material. It took me but a few pages to realize that he was, in fact, writing about one of my favorite subjects: Arthurian Legend. I'd read in one of the other customer reviews that they felt that the gender-issues presented in this story were never fully explained. They must have, however, not caught the obvious references to Merlin, Stonehenge, the English Channel, and the battle between Christianity and Paganism (the male Church vs. the priestesses of Avalon). After seeing the connection, I paid closer attention to the story and, while it didn't become my favorite, it certainly raised my opinion of Dickenson as a writer.

Overall, the stories were well worth reading and were a great source of entertainment and enjoyment. I can only hope that the pair will release a book for each of the other three elements. Congrats Robin and Peter, you did a great job.

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Water, Tales of Elemental Spirits
Robin & DICKINSON, Peter McKINLEY
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Anita L. Burkam
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 772 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: Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Anita L. Burkam
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 78 Issue: 4 Page: 466(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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If you like the first book, you will like this one!

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If it's so bad, why am I still reading it?

Slavery is more complicated an evil than it seems

Second Novel Is As Rich As The First

The Broken Wheel: A Chung Kuo Novel (Chung Kuo)
David Wingrove
Manufacturer: Dell
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Seven continents. Seven Chinese kings. A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society. But the T'ang overlords no longer control all three hundred levels of City Earth. Revolution is brewing. As the all-powerful Seven plot the boldest imaginable counterstrike, a plan to control the minds of all humankind, Chung Kuo speeds toward cataclysm, and the final game between East and West, between the privileged Above and the downtrodden Below--a monumental confrontation with forty billion lives in the balance. An epic that draws us into an alternative world so read that we become true denizens of the new Middle Kingdom, touched by tomorrow's longings . . . driven by forces as ancient as the first human breath.

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If you like the first book, you will like this one!.......2006-04-22

Better than the first. Just read the Book.

A must have.......2003-04-18

Take the chance and embark on a long journey with David Wingrove. You will not be let down. Problem is, you will see nothing of your friends or family for the next three months.

But, that is what you are looking for in a book, isn't it?

If it's so bad, why am I still reading it?.......2000-06-10

Another example of psycho-fi - characterized by unpleasant characters, ruthless power plays and rampant paranoia. Superior practicioners of this flavor of sci-fi include Frank Herbert and CJ Cherryh. Wingrove has penned a compelling saga weakened by a lack of endearing characters - at least any that live very long. Maybe that's just an honest reflection of the rather vicious society he creates - where good guys die young (and painfully) while slavery, racism, brutality, incest, pedophilia, treachery, and murder abound. If, like me, you prefer stories that give you someone to identify with, this one's going to be tough going. And yet it's intriguing - and I'm still reading.

Slavery is more complicated an evil than it seems.......1999-10-25

This book provides a great illustration of the fact that ownership of another human being dehumanizes everyone concerned. There's a scene where a young newlywed prince--a nice guy for the most part--is worried about the welfare of the two young maids he owned during early adolescence. So he sends an emmisary to check on them. The two girls tell the emmisary that they're lonely for the prince and miss him badly. You see, during the previous volume, "The Middle Kingdom", they had "initiated him into manhood", quite affectionately explaining to him; "That's what we're here for". In the process, they both fell in love with him. Neither girl (they're sisters) is jealous of the other. They don't even resent his new bride--the way they see it, they had both played a part in a necessary rite of passage for the kid. In this book, he admits to himself that the reason he cares about their welfare is that he loves them as well. What's the best thing he can do for them? He plans to give them their freedom, as well as a substantial dowry. They can't have him, but they'll never be anyone's property again. That's what's so cruddy about slavery--when master and slave care for each other as people, but all that "the system" depicted in this story allows is a "semi-requited" relationship. I felt so sorry for all three of these young people. It's too much of a temptation to chalk it all up to the alleged Oriental "lower respect for human dignity" and forget that we in the West have our share of it in our history. There's a lesson in this for HUMANITY, period. However human society "advances" or "regresses" in our future, we damn sure don't want to go back to something like that.

Second Novel Is As Rich As The First.......1999-01-26

This second novel is as rich as the first. Wingrove is truly a sci-fi force. The characters are vividly portrayed, both good and evil, and the complex plots and subplots are a true delight for me, a fan of this genre. Wingrove seems to be able to keep a story alive while not causing the reader to lapse into incredulity. Devore is up to his usual tricks, with a few powerful allies, and the members of the T'ang are slowly losing power as the Seven is struck by assassinations and dissent. Events in this novel -- the allegiances that are forged and the ties that are broken -- will surprise some. I can see where some people might be intimidated by this series because of its scope and length but to anyone who is looking for a mixture of superior, intelligent science fiction with a soap-operatic yet action-oriented feel, then this series fits the bill...bar none. In addition, there is a welcome emergence of very strong female characters in this novel that continues into the third novel of the series. Be forewarned, however; the sheer number of characters can be frustrating if you haven't read Chung Kuo first.

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What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.

Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.

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Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.
Hent de Vries
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Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review): An article from: Christianity and Literature

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Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review): An article from: Christianity and Literature
Bruce Ellis Benson
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This digital document is an article from Christianity and Literature, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1594 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: Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review)
Author: Bruce Ellis Benson
Publication: Christianity and Literature (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
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Volume: 56 Issue: 3 Page: 520(4)

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Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review

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Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
Colin Davis
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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 440 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: Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review)
Author: Colin Davis
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 101 Issue: 2 Page: 508(2)

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Knife Skills for Chefs captures the experience and expertise of Christopher Day and reveals how to select, maintain and use knives in the professional kitchen. Endorsed by the American Culinary Federation (ACF), it contains step-by-step instructions and numerous four-color photographs that make techniques easy to understand and simple to follow. Comprehensive in coverage, the book contains chapters on history and production, knife selection, knife maintenance, basic knife cuts, simple garnishing techniques and knife sanitation, safety and storage. Written by Christopher Day, who is considered one of the country’s foremost authorities on knives and is the corporate chef for Mercer Tool Corp, a knife manufacturing company. Co-authored by Brenda Carlos, who is an experienced author and a regular contributor to two American Culinary Federation magazines: The National Culinary Review and Sizzle. Provides a quick overview of the history of knife making and a look at the manufacturing process used in high-quality forged knives. Introduces readers to the basic knives used in a professional kitchen and emphasizes how to select the best tool for the job. Shows readers step-by-step how to dice, chop, mince, paysanne, rondelle, oblique, tourne, chiffonade, butterfly, carving/slicing, gaufrette, and even opening clams and oysters. Includes large photos that make it easy to learn proper culinary techniques and procedures. This is an ideal reference that reinforces the artistry and skills that provide the foundation for a successful culinary career.

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Good basic training.......2007-03-31

The book provides good basic information for the use of kitchen knives. The book is written for a chef not a home cook.

In the Hands of a Chef: The Professional Chef's Guide to Essential Kitchen Tools (Culinary Institute of America)

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In the Hands of a Chef: The Professional Chef's Guide to Essential Kitchen Tools (Culinary Institute of America)
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
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From the world's premier culinary college, an indispensable guide to the use of knives and other culinary tools

What are the essential knives that cooks must own, and what are the proper techniques for using them? And how do cooks make the most of other tools, such as peelers, pitters, and Parisienne scoops? This essential reference from The Culinary Institute of America provides the answers. Illustrated throughout with more than 100 photographs, In the Hands of a Chef offers a complete course in knife skills as well as guidance on using a wide array of other kitchen tools and gadgets. Featuring advice from real-world chefs on choosing, using, and caring for knives, the book provides detailed cutting techniques for all kinds of foods.

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Bob Marley died in 1981, but the interest he generated in the raggae, blues, and world beat music continued to grow. Around the world local bands sprang up and clubs began to feature the music to ever increasing numbers of patrons. To advertise these events hundreds of posters were hung on telephone poles, vacant walls, and shop windows. Made on photocopiers and litho presses, by local artists, they have the edge that comes from needing to catch one's attention with a minimum of expense. The result is raw, "in-your-face" street art that captures the spirit of a generation. Victor Burleigh has gathered together more than 500 original posters from dating from 1977 to 1989, from San Francisco, a city on the cutting edge of the music world and a haven for raggae, blues, and world beat music. Nearly every night one of the many music clubs would offer a live concert of an up-and-coming group. Since every club produced its own posters, there is a wide variety of styles and graphic images, as well as a history of the music scene captured in these posters. They are reproduced in this large volume that is a must for graphic designers, rock historians, and collectors. It is a perfect companion to Burleigh's first book, Great Rock & Roll Street Art.

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Club posters demonstrate ad approaches and art.......2006-04-27

Fans of music poster art have a number of general titles on the topic to choose from; but for something more specific and specialized - and therefore, more in depth - choose GREAT STREET ART: REGGAE, BLUES AND WORLD BEAT POSTERS 1977-89. Black and white and some two-color prints of such posters appear full-page and come from the author's own gathering of over five hundred originals from San Francisco. These are largely club posters from events which demonstrate a range of advertising approaches and art, making STREET ART the perfect acquisition not just for the art school library, but for business schools seeking solid, large-size examples of advertising art that works.

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Add country-cozy warmth and color to your home with this collection of distinctive quilt designs by artist and designer Debbie Mumm. This unique collection combines three of Debbie's most popular titles, Country Settings, Cottage in Bloom, and Project Kids.

Debbie Mumm Collections From The Heart: A Sampling of Cherished Country Quilts & Charming Collectibles

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Debbie Mumm Collections From The Heart: A Sampling of Cherished Country Quilts & Charming Collectibles
Debbie Mumm
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Adapted from grotesquely carved waterspouts and architectural ornamentation, these stickers depict mythological monsters, unicorns, winged serpents, bizarre birds, and other fantastic fauna. Add medieval ambience or an eye-catching decorative touch to almost any flat surface. Simply peel and apply.

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My favorite kind of book.......2002-04-20

Lesta Bertoia's "mini memoirs" are a necklace of small masterpieces. I'm always intrigued by personal accounts, but my favorites are those that let you catch glimpses of the soul world shining through the story. Lesta is a master of "double vision" -- one part slogging through the tribulations of daily life and one part looking on with deep wisdom and humor. Her writing has a gracefully casual tone that draws you in as though you were sitting across from her at the kitchen table. With unflinching honesty she describes her struggles with the real hard relationship stuff -- and shares many mind-expanding encounters with spirit. My favorite section is a profound revelation of the soul-wisdom of children, as her little boy recalls his existence as spirit. I hope there will be a sequel; Lesta is an unforgettable personality and leaves you wanting to know more of her unique insights.

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