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Who but Rick Steves can tell you how to take self-guided walking tours along the Champs-Elysées and through the Marais? With Rick Steves' Paris 2005, you can experience the best of everything this beautiful city has to offer-economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, Rick Steves' Paris 2005 includes color maps and photographs, opinionated coverage of both famous and lesser-known sights; friendly places to eat and sleep; suggested day plans; walking tours and trip itineraries; clear instructions for smooth travel anywhere by car, train, or foot; and Rick's newest "back door" discoveries. America's number one authority on travel to Europe, Rick's time-tested recommendations for safe and enjoyable travel in Paris have been used by millions of Americans in search of their own unique travel experience.
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How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen paree?.......2006-07-02
This is probably an adequate enough guide for a first time visitor, or for someone who has never made it out of Weehauken, New Jersey before, and is travelling on a student, or barely post-student budget.
But beyond setting out the basic tours from Paris 101, the book is really, really skimpy on hotel and restaurant recommendations, and really, really heavy on flakking Rick Steves' products and tours.
If you buy just one guide, there are many better choices.
Our Paris Bible.......2006-02-18
We had the great fortune to spend 3 days in Paris during the middle of May; an absolute perfect time to visit this fabulous city. This book went with us every second of our trip. We did Steves' walking tour which was 'heavenly.' This is the way to see Paris. The only problem we had was at the end of the first day my son noticed that we had spent an entire day doing what Rick does in one third of a day! We didn't care though as we never felt rushed and were able to backtrack or spend more time visiting all the wonderful shops. When we go back, this book will go with us again!
Information incorrect.......2005-12-02
I'm glad I compared maps. The hotel I'd booked was incorrectly placed by the Stevens' map, more than 2 miles off. This made me leery about other information as well.
Fabulous.......2005-10-28
I love his books and I loved this one. It has all the right info (museum hours and transportation info). The book was invaluable because it was so helpful in a variety of different ways. I even relied on his pronunciation guides. Thumbs up.
The only guide book I took to Paris this year.......2005-10-25
Just finished a 5 night stay in Paris and Rick Steves' Paris 2005 was an indespensible guide. I used the book to read up on the main sites before going and it also has useful day planning guides. I also like the way that it doesn't waste space with loads of hotel reviews and restaurant reviews. Once you choose a hotel, which you can usually do better with TripAdvisor for more current information, that section of a guide book is then just wasted space. Anyway Rick's book was also very helpful in explaining how to catch the metro and how best to get to each tourist site. And face it, we're there to be tourists so I want to see the Eiffel tower, Notre-Dame etc, I don't want to read about some backwater art gallery if I only have four days. Rick also includes good city walks and guided tours of the main museums which saves you having to buy the audioguides at each museum. For the city walks though, I pretty soon got sick of looking at the book while walking down the street so I ended up just wandering around the neighbourhoods for awhile checking out the shops and cafe and then used the walk as a guide to find my way back out. The maps in the book are well designed and are of a convenient size for easy reference. I was able to carry the book with me everywhere and whip it out to find the nearest metro or street to the tourist site I was looking for. Overall this book made my trip very easy and enjoyable. I'm going to buy some more for my future trips to Europe.
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This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese custom and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely.
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slipshod editing, uneven scholarship.......2005-03-19
Although an excellent broad approach to Chinese symbolism, the reader is subjected to horrific type layout issues, with a myriad of misplaced hyphens making each page a veritable minefield of visual assault.
To make matters worse, the author is wonderfully detailed on some subjects, and then worse than cursory on others.
And for some reason, we're subjected to handwritten Chinese characters. Surely this book needs a major overhaul.
Ian Myles Slater on: Revealing Meaning.......2005-02-01
"A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols" is the work of Wolfram Eberhard (1909-1989) A German-born Sinologist and sociologist, and a political refugee from Hitler, he spent eleven years in Turkey introducing Sinology to that country at Ankara University, and then most of the rest of his career (1948-1976) at the University of California at Berkeley, in the then-new Department of Sociology. He published in German, English, and Turkish, on both standard Sinological subjects and Chinese and comparative folklore, and the local cultures of China and adjacent areas. His "Dictionary of Chinese Symbols" is based on a lifetime of study, and an unusual diversity of experience.
The bulk of Eberhard's publications (thirty-five books, 195 articles, 300-some book reviews) are usually fairly technical, or, if popular, rapidly becoming obsolete. (His "History of China," first published in German in 1948, was last revised in 1977, just before an explosion of archeological and other work.) However, his "Folktales of China" (1965), part of University of Chicago Press series aimed at both college students and the general public, should be accessible to most readers, if a copy is available. The present volume was also apparently aimed at a wider public, although it was well-received by Sinologists.
The 1983 German edition of "Lexicon chinesischer Symbole," translated by G. L. Campbell, as "A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols," was his last major work. It is the condensed -- in some ways perhaps too condensed -- product of a lifetime of study. It is organized not around the meaning of Chinese art motifs as such, but around the symbolic associations of the written characters of classical China, with their fully pictorial counterparts as supporting data; and it includes primarily verbal symbolisms as well. (More exactly, while the Chinese script isn't pictographic, some pictures are "read" as if they were phonetic -- so that a picture of a "lu" (a deer), which often stands for "longevity," may also be seen instead as "the exact phonetic equivalent" word "lu" meaning "good income," and interpreted as "riches" instead (see Deer, page 79, and cross-references.)
It is primarily historical, and, inevitably, very selective: "no more than an introduction to the subject," according to the author. A topic is always given its Chinese character, or set of characters; and many are illustrated from traditional art, mostly reproduced rather well. Eberhard uses the traditional, or "full" forms of Chinese characters, rather than the recent simplified forms, pointing out that the symbolic associations may depends on the perceived imagery of at least part of the character, as well as on, or in addition to, its phonetic reading. (He doesn't get into the real history, which may be different, given shifts in the spoken language and development of the written forms.)
Eberhard does use survival of ideas into modern times -- by which he apparently means the first part of the twentieth century -- as an important criterion of selection. There is, however, no attempt made to include specifically *modern* China, whether the mainland or Taiwan, in any systematic way. The reader who is interested in classic Chinese literature, or traditional art probably will be far better served than those interested in twentieth-century innovations or drastic adaptations. A history encompassing millennia is given priority over recent decades. But, if modernity as such is given short shrift, Eberhard often notes the geographic and cultural distribution of a concept or image within China, instead of offering an impression of "all Chinese ... at all times." To those without access to the primary and secondary sources (the latter of which include some of Eberhard's own publications), this feature is very important all by itself.
First published at a time when the mainland government was pressing the claims of its official "Pinyin" system for Romanizing Chinese as the international standard, the transliteration used in the book, at least in its English-language version, represents a compromise. It uses the character set of Pinyin, instead of the old Wade-Giles system (or a German equivalent), but breaks up the long polysyllabic forms of the official version with hyphens, in the Wade-Giles manner. This is, I am sure, annoying to those who know and like the Pinyin system, but it is a practical compromise. The uninitiated, faced by, say, "huijiaotu" (Muslims) are, I would think, at least as likely to try pronouncing it as huiji-aot-u as they are to read it as hui-jiao-tu, the form given here.
Eberhard was very much aware of theoretical issues, and raises some in his brief Introduction, which deals with written Chinese as itself a symbolic system. He mentions, with regret, that he was not able to include the symbolic systems of Chinese craftsmen, and explains that Buddhist and Taoist symbols are included only if they are meaningful to ordinary Chinese. He adds that the full range of Chinese symbolism, and its functions, remains to be explored and evaluated, but he does not turn a dictionary into a vehicle for promulgating his own theories.
The main purpose of the "Dictionary" is to present useful information in a condensed fashion. It succeeds at this quite brilliantly. While not as all-encompassing as Williams' antiquated (and not always reliable) "Outlines of Chinese Symbolism," and lacking the sheer beauty of Fang Jing Pei's "Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art: Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers," it is dense with relevant, and authentic, information. The simple indication of a cross-reference, an arrow pointing at the head-word of another article, is usually less distracting than common alternatives, such as the use of italics, small capitals, or boldface, although in a few articles their abundance becomes an obstacle to reading.
Informative but..........2004-01-25
It seems to be general consensus that this is one of the only books of its kind. While its content is concise and informative, it does seem to be dated. I had to double-check that it had indeed been originally published in 1983 because stylistically speaking (in addition to the weird romanization issues and lack of "modern" symbology that others have mentioned), it seems to stuck in the early 20th century and perhaps a little tainted with the Edward Said notion of "Orientalism." I can't help but get the feeling that it is from an "outsider looking in" perspective, meaning I wish it was written in a more intimate and warmer way, and that if it were, perhaps the text would become more alive.
I also found the method of cross-referencing information (by peppering the text with a lot of arrows -->) fairly distracting, and that the descriptions of individual symbols did not really "flow," but rather were written in a piecemeal fashion.
Again, I am grateful that this information has been compiled and assembled in this text; however, I wish that it could be updated.
Good content. Poor romanisation........2002-07-25
The content of this book is more or less well-written. Each item is richly described and explained following the romanised Chinese, Chinese characters, and English translation of the entry. The unfortunate aspect of this publication is in its poor rendering of pinyin romanisation and the absence of simplified alternates to the full-formed Chinese characters. With regards to the pinyin, in practice, syllables of a given meaning unit are grouped as one, forming a polysyllabic word, and are not linked by a dash. Hence, "pinyin" and not "pin-yin", "huzi" and not "hu-zi", "qilin" and not "qi-lin", etc. This also applies to names and titles: "Mao Zedong" and not "Mao Ze-dong". There is a tendency in this book to apply Wades-Giles vowel renderings like replacing "-ong" with "-ung" and "-e" with "-o"; and there is a lack of tonal diacritics or an intermittent application of them when it have been better applied throughout, especially in the heading term to be defined. With regards to the characters, not only is there an absence of the simplified alternates in the head entries, there is an absence of Chinese characters in the following text where they would have been an excellent reference accompanying the pinyin. This is quite disappointing coming from a sinologist who spent years at Beijing University (why some people, including some at the university itself, use the old French postal spelling "Peking" to this day is a mystery to me) and should know better. Still, this is probably the only book of its kind available and you will be immensely rewarded if you are aware of its faults and learn to adjust to them.
Delightful.......2001-12-30
This is a noteworthy volume from someone who for five decades had been one of the worlds preeminent Sinologists. The late Wolfram Eberhard, a former instructor at Peking National University, unfolds the story behind over 400 Chinese characters giving the reader a vivid insight to Chinese life and thought.
The book starts with a ten-page introduction to Chinese symbolism and how the Chinese conception of words differ from views held by the West. The remainder of the book is an alphabetical listing of important symbols written in the form of an English-Chinese dictionary. Each entry contains the English word for a particular symbol, the Chinese equivalent (using both Chinese characters and Peking romanization) and an explanation as to why the ideas behind the symbol are important. Many entries are multiple paragraphs long and are accompanied by black-and-white illustrations from Chinese texts. Among the entries are numbers, colors, plants and animals, mythological characters, the cardinal directions, body parts, bodily functions, and several concepts that are uniquely Chinese. While the title implies the book is a dictionary this is a bit of a misnomer. Eberhard uses the dictionary format as a vehicle to introduce the reader to the cultural symbolism that lies behind selected Chinese characters. You will not find any detail on radicals, stroke order, stroke counts, or pronunciation as you might in a more typical language-oriented Chinese dictionary.
It would be impossible to comprehensively survey even the most common elements of Chinese symbology. The author himself states that his selections follow from a few basic themes such as health, happiness, and longevity. For a volume of its size and given the level of detail that it contains, Eberhard's work is about as comprehensive as one can get. The only real detraction is the lack of an index. Language students might also be disappointed by the lack of pin-yin romanization. The book is wonderful as a stand-alone primer on Chinese culture or as an adjunct text for students of the Chinese language who desire an intimate knowledge of the latent symbology that accompanies many Chinese words.
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Christmas Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
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Copyright-free evergreens, holly, bells, stars, angels, more. 24 full-page, 16 half-page frames on nonreproducible grids.
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These vividly colored fish of the carp family are ideal for artificial garden ponds. Here is detailed information on koi varieties, advice on purchasing them and practical facts on feeding, breeding, and maintaining a healthful environment in your fish pond. Dozens of color photos and line drawings. Paperback / 104 Pages / 6 1/2 7 7/8 / 1995
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very good for the price.......2004-09-13
If this were an expensive book, I wouldn't rate it so highly, but it has more information than you'd think for a cheap little paperback. The koi varieties section is mediocre, but you want a big glossy hardcover for that anyway, right? The advice on koi handling and transport is outstanding, with great emphasis on minimizing stress to your fish. There is also information on plants, something most koi keepers disdain to mention. Another reviewer thought the author was against wheat germ sticks for koi--he's not condemning them, just saying there's no proof they make a difference in over-wintering. So much of koi advice is unsupported, it doesn't hurt to mention the fact.
Ok.......2002-06-04
Where's the part about behavior, the part about training your fish to come on over (admittedly this is easy) and how about a more comprehensive types and markings - it was also sad they really skipped over butterfly koi. Otherwise nice pictures and a good disease section.
Oh well. Nice book to have, but it is not by any means complete.
Good, but could be better.......2002-05-16
This book includes everything you need to take care of koi, but sometimes in too much detail. Many of the items in this book are exactly the opposite of what I have read elsewhere (e.g wheatgerm sticks are bad for koi??)
While too much detail is usually the problem, there are also many parts when there are not enough facts to actually understand what thi book is trying to say.
It's an OK beginners guide, but some parts can be tedious and confusiong.
One of the two books you need........2002-02-07
This book has all the information you need on keeping Koi. Don't let its small size fool you. I have browse through all available Koi books, this book is the only one you need. You will not get more information from other books, except for more pictures. Buy this book and another book titled "The ponder's Bible" for excellent information on pond building and maintenance. These two books will be more than enough for keeping Koi sucessfully.
Excellent.......2000-07-18
If you're a beginner at having a pond and keeping koi, this is a great book. It has everything from digging the pond, filters and pumps...to everything you need to know to keep the pond clean for your fish. The book identifys the various breeds of koi, with a complete section on diseases.
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-Full-color definitive resource to "The Real Thing" collectibles
-Rooted in previous editions of Petretti's Coca-Cola Collectibles Price Guide, which has netted sales of $300,000+
-Speaks to novice and expert Coca-Cola collectors -- an estimated 500,000 in the U.S.
One of the world's most recognizable brands is one a wildly popular category among collectors. Passionate collectors will discover tools to maintain and enhance collections, and learn more about the company's 120 year-old history, in this exciting book.
Warman's Coca-Cola Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide features countless chapters of Coca-Cola's broad range of collectible items, and offers readers:
-1,500 vivid color photos to help identify and assess items before purchasing or selling
-Reliable market prices and detailed descriptions
-Tips on spotting fakes and reproductions -- a potentially huge cost benefit to collectors
In all, this exhaustive Coca-Cola reference features items from 1880s to 1960s including calendars, toys, serving trays, bottles and coolers.
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Pettretti's 11.5th.......2006-07-05
This is his latest Coca Cola pricing guide. All pictures are in color, unlike his big book that mixes color and b&w photos. It has helped me with my large CC colection but is far from being as complete as is his 11th volume. It is a good guide. BB
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Plant gallery shows 55 species of trees, shrubs, and woody plants adapted to bonsai culture.
Ideas to display and design bonsai to fit existing home decor and gardens.
Details several bonsai styles as well as techniques for dwarfing and training to bonsai form.
Dozens of tips for seasonal care, including how to maintain, water, fertilize, prune, and shape.
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Review: Ortho's "All About Bonsai".......2007-08-27
A very good book for anyone with an interest in cultivating bonsai. This book's no non-sense appoach coupled with its "readability" make it a great choice!
A little bit of everything.......2006-02-22
This book is definitely over-rated by others (my opinion). However, I would agree with a couple of reader's comments that some of the pictures are good, but the discussion on the topics of bonsai are too general (and kind of shallow indeed). If anyone would like to know about or even start a bonsai, I would recommend a better substitute: Bonsai (101 Essential Tips) that costs less than $5.00.
Helped my skills grow as well as my trees...........2006-02-22
Of several of the bonsai books I have purchased, this is excellent. Photography is wonderful, line drawings and instructions are excellent. The text is excellent and good reading instruction for novice to more skilled bonsai grower.
Learn Bonsai Techniques.......2006-02-06
"This book shows step-by-step growing and training techniques, how to choose bonsai styles and tools, and it provides a comprehensive guide to plant selection. 'Learn the secrets of pruning, shaping, watering, and care requirements to ensure success with your miniature landscape in a pot.'" (summary by South Texas Library System)
These miniature landscapes have always fascinated me. They are a work of art. In the plant gallery, it shows 55 species of trees, shrubs, and woody plants suitable for bonsai use.
Ortho's All About Bonsai.......2005-09-03
This was a gift to my son-in-law. He is very pleased with it.
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Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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LOGO DESIGN 5 (Graphis Logo Design)
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8 1/2 x 11 3/16 400 color illustrations US and Canada Distribution previous edition:Logo 4: 1-888001-58-5 The newest addition to the successful series, Logo 5 features an outstanding collection of original logos, corporate symbols, and trademarks created by prestigious designers all over the world. Filled with stunning, high-quality color photographs, detailed listings, and complete creative credits, this remarkable reference provides students, clients, and design professionals with an unending source of inspiration and ingenuity.
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-- AWESOME LOGO COLLECTION --.......2003-11-05
Once again, Graphis puts out another great collection of logos from around the world, you will see great concepts, execution, and variety of styles. This is a must have for any designer or student for their library.
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Advice from 45 prestigious branding firms
The newest and most innovative ideas for branding in any book
Whether it's presented on a business card or in a multimillion-dollar campaign, a successful brand must be recognizable and must build customer loyalty. In this book, forty-five design firms showcase their best brand-building work, with 1,300 full-color images and informative commentary. Branding USA features the remarkable work of the most creative minds in the branding business.
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Branding USA.......2007-02-26
Excellent resource. Covers a wide range of creative material, a hugely valuable book for my library.
Graphis books are always worthwhile buying, id reccommend all in the 2006/07 range.
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Packed with original logos, corporate symbols, and trademarks, this collection includes work by more than 400 designers from around the world. All logos are indexed and categorized according to industry for ease of reference.
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Top of the line.......2006-03-10
There are so many design books, but the Graphis series always asure you the best work quality.
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Great reference book for grahic designers.......2000-05-25
Nicely designed. Great source for finding illustrators for that high profile logo design.
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A striking collection of stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity. This powerful tool of communication is explored through more than 300 original letterhead designs, conveniently arranged by business category and indexed for reference.
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A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South (The American South Series)
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An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way. . . . He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded Swann-Wright's ancestors, as commodities. Thus Swann-Wright took another route, setting out to gather spoken words--stories, anecdotes, and sayings. What results is a strikingly rich and textured history of a slave community.
Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.
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Title: A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South.(Book Review)
Author: Sharon Ann Holt
Publication:
Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 70
Issue: 2
Page: 458(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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