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Advances Animal Welf Sci (Advances in Animal Welfare Science)
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ASIN: 0898387760 |
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A seasoned pro covers baseball skills for Little League and other beginning players.
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Excellent.......1999-11-06
Covers basics for young players - spiced with advanced concepts you wouldn't find even in a book written at the College coach level. Brilliant.
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This is a comprehensive manual intended to teach students the basics of communicating in Swahili at an elementary level.
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Get Anything Else.......2007-04-13
Reading other glowing reviews of this book made me wonder "Did I have the same text?" This book is a hopeless muddle for a beginning student of the language! Almost all other books on the market are at least organized in a manner that offers a non-intimidating approach. This specimen begins the actual instruction with section titles in Swahili, and proceeds to introduce terms that are not yet accessible to students in the chapters being studied. I'm sorry, this is the ONLY Swahili language text I could find that I would NEVER recommend for an independent learner.
Very clear and helpful.......2007-02-07
I found this book easy to use and very clear on matters of grammar and pronunciation. The reading exercises advance at a nice pace, so you are continually challenged without being overwhelmed. I do agree with the other reviewer that more answers to the exercises would be really helpful for self-study. The dictionary section at the back is pretty thorough, though if you keep going past about the first half of the book, you will be interested in investing in a Swahili-English dictionary (probably Awde).
Excellent!.......2000-03-26
This is a really wonderful book to start learning Kiswahili with. The explanations are clear and it is very attractively illustrated. My only (small) gripe is that there are no solutions for the exercises, which hampers independent study somewhat. However, this won't deter any serious student as the book does include a translation of all the dialogues,as well as all a vocabulary listing all the words used in the book. Highly recommended!
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Clean New World is a somewhat disjointed collection of essays that promises a fresh take on an old dilemma: graphic designers provide the glossy public face of big corporations but are not permitted (or motivated) to reveal the messier realities that underpin public power. Beginning with the exception that proves the rule--the leftist photomontages made by John Heartfield in Weimar Germany--Maud Lavin segues to such contemporary themes as corporate identity work, political art coalitions, and the role of advertising in the U.S. abortion debate. Along the way, the author spotlights women in graphic design who balance bread-and-butter clients with more personally meaningful work and discusses how Web design can make users feel "controlled or in control." The final chapter deals with the cathartic effect a Web-based "soap opera" had on its creators, an eight-writer team that included the author, a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maxims pronounced by the gurus of graphic design tend to go unchallenged by practitioners in the field, so you want to cheer Lavin when she butts heads with received wisdom, including Paul Rand's belief that simplicity in design is inherently "truthful." As she points out, the striated logo Rand designed for IBM in 1956 does not reflect some indisputable fact about this corporate behemoth. The reality is just the reverse--corporations seek to cloak themselves in the clean, bright look of good design. But the author's arguments can lack rigor. For example, she discusses how former CBS creative director William Golden teamed up in the '50s with artist Ben Shahn to develop advertisements for a documentary program. Lavin lauds these ads as "humanistic" without stopping to consider the inherent qualities of illustrations in graphic design and the preconceptions evoked by Shahn's well-known style. Several of these essays were originally given as lectures, which might account for their underwhelming effect on the printed page. But why not stretch out and delve deeper when you have a whole book to play with? --Cathy Curtis
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Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce. Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Many corporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companies the look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, they often end up simply veiling it.
Lacking the power to influence the content of their commercial work, many designers work simultaneously on other, more fulfilling projects. Lavin is especially interested in the graphic designer's role in shaping cultural norms. She examines the anti-Nazi propaganda of John Heartfield, the modernist utopian design of Kurt Schwitters and the neue ring werbegestalter, the alternative images of women by studio ringl + pit, the activist work of such contemporary designers as Marlene McCarty and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and the Internet innovations of David Steuer and others. Throughout the book, Lavin asks how designers can expand the pleasure, democracy, and vitality of communication.
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clean new writing.......2001-08-21
maud lavin deals with a complex subject in a manner that can be understood by the layperson as well as the academic. kudos to her for reminding us of an important subject that has to be continually examined. and kudos, too, for approaching it with a fresh perpective.
Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design.......2001-04-24
What is the nature of creative compromise? What and who gets compromised by whom? In this fascinating new book, Maud Lavin may focus these questions on the practice of graphic designers, but she also opens them up, in a larger way, to questions of cultural and commercial identity. Her awareness of these larger questions makes her one of the preeminent (and one of the only ) critical thinkers to write about graphic design. For Lavin, graphic design is one mode of engagement in a complex dialogue between commerce and creativity. But she is equally comfortable, here, discussing other modes of (often technological) engagement.
The book is a group of connected essays which can be read independently or as a whole. Its intended audience is broad and Lavin's writing style is clear enough to engage those unfamiliar with graphic design even while being sophisticated and intelligent enough to engage the professional designer, design historian, or art historian.
I find her essay on Kurt Schwitters and the Circle of New Advertising Designers in 1920's and 1930's Europe to be the finest which I've read on the topic. I also find her collection of interviews with women graphic designers to be particularly interesting and enjoyable. What these two essays have in common is their engagement with questions of creativity and compromise - a complex and underestimated dialectic in graphic design and one which Lavin makes uniquely evident. In bringing that evidence to bear on different forms of creativity (and different forms of compromise) - be it on the internet or in the visual politics of the abortion debate - Lavin is pushing the boundaries of both design and cultural criticism.
For that it deserves a lasting spot on my bookshelf.
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The Book of the Bulldog.......2000-04-19
I thought the book was outdated and many of the pictures are in black and white. I found the book to have information on the care of the bullldog, showing the bulldog but once again alot of the information in outdated. I think the book spent alot of unnecessary time on the champion bulldog from different eras and it's owners. This is a book you may want to add to your bulldog library but I would not want it to be my primary book on the bulldog.
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Manual practico del bulldog/ The Guide to Owning an English Bulldog (Animales De Compania/ Companion Animals)
John Gallagher
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ASIN: 8425513170 |
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“A superb primer on orchid culture. It uses a fully illustrated step-by-step approach and doesn’t skimp on relating complete details. There’s a chapter showing easy-to-grow orchids in all their glory, and there’s also a chapter warning about ‘difficult’ orchids to avoid. This tome takes you on a visit [to] 16 terrific varieties you can easily handle....It’s a fun and rewarding winter exercise.”—Denver Post.
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Great Book On Orchids.......2007-09-09
This book is easy to understand with lots of detail. Good to have as reference.
Removed all the guess work in a book you can read in one evening.......2007-06-04
I've read a lot of confusing books on orchid growing as well as some very good ones like Understanding Orchids. this book is conveniently short and clear with excellent charts, great pictures easy descriptions. I found of everything I have read that this one gave me the confidence and actually repot, prune and relocate my outdoor Florida orchids. I finally feel confident that I know what I am doing. I gave it five stars because it was the star in the crown of what I read but I feel that you still need to read Understanding Orchids as well to have it all.
Really good, but not enough pages!.......2004-04-01
I was the ultimate orchid wimp, a complete novice, when a friend sent me an encyclia last summer, and I panicked. I bought the Ortho orchid book, and tried to find a decent place for my plant, then went so far as to buy two more orchids - NOT knowing they were ones that needed the exact opposite treatment from the first. And THEN the same friend moved, and had some careless friends crate up 14 of her orchids and ship them off to ME! They arrived in terrible condition, having fallen out of their pots, leaves crushed, roots torn, a MESS. I had no space, no good light for them, not enough humidity, NOTHING.
Well, enter Orchid Growing for Wimps. It gave me not only information but confidence. In particular, I commend it for having pictures of the complete plants, not just the flowers. It really shows you how to perform many necessary tasks, gives good tips on care of many common types of orchids. It convinced me at last that I'd better splurge and buy a large, lighted case for my babies, and they are now quite happy and doing well.
My only complaint, and it is unrealistic, is that this book doesn't cover all the thousands of varieties and their sometimes highly speccialized culture. The remedy for that is - MORE BOOKS, never a bad thing!
But if you can only buy one book, this one may be the most helpful one you can find.
review by Janet Knori, author of Awakening In God
... This wimp loved it!.......2002-11-27
I received an orchid plant a few years back and was afraid of loving it to death (ie: overwatering, overfertilizing, etc.) Happily, it seems to do quite fine, but I wanted to know when to repot it, how to get it to bloom with the most possible blossoms and how to care for it-aside from just keeping it alive. This book was VERY helpful, and I am the ultimate in Orchid wimps. The pictures helped me to match up what kind of plants I could buy that would do well in my home and had a great section on pests, diseases and interesting tips on how to make it a "humidity bath", and what is normal (big fat white roots, growing all crazy-like out of the top....normal (who knew?) ). It is a book for the novice, the wimp, the "please, hold my hand and tell me everything," kind of orchid grower....of which I am....and thankful that someone put it all in words for me. It will also let you branch out to other types once you get your "orchid growing chops"....and there are plenty of different varieties to try. So, take the plunge, get the book and learn to grow beautiful orchids.
Not for everyone!.......2002-10-08
While this book is easy to read, and covers many of the basics, and does recommend many easy to grow orchids, it is much too limited in application. If you are an orchid beginner and an apartment dweller in New York City, this is the perfect book for you and most everything applies to your situation. If are an orchid beginner that lives in a house in a warmer climate, some of the advice is just plain poor.
A comfortable, pretty book, but not for everyone.
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Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
H. T. Wallinga
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This book presents a new theory about the developments in shipping and naval organization that culminated in the invention - around 530 BC in the eastern Mediterranean - of the trireme, and the subsequent adoption of this first specialized warship of antiquity by all the naval powers of the time. New interpretations are proposed of Greek and Assyrian iconographic data and of hitherto ignored evidence in Herodotos and Thukydides, the non-military factors determining developments are emphasized. Thukydides' fundamental essay on the genesis of Greek sea-powers is studied in depth, the rarity of these sea-powers stressed, and the peculiar background of the naval power of Phokaia and the Samian tyrant Polykrates exposed. The problem of the trireme's place of origin, the factors determining its invention, probably in Saite Egypt, and its immediate adoption by the Persian king Kambyses are discussed. The first naval operations of the Persians are surveyed, reasons and circumstances of the trireme's introduction into the navies of the Greek city-states analysed with special attention for Themistokles' navy bill. The book offers ancient historians and classical philologists a radically new approach to archaic maritime and naval history. It will also be useful to (nautical) archaeologists.
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The March of Civil Rights: The Benjamin Hooks Story (ABA Biography Series)
Benjamin J. Hooks
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The author recounts his inspiring leadership role in the ongoing struggle for civil rights and racial equality in America and abroad.
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