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Dubrovnik: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide)
Piers Letcher
Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841621099

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A compact city guide to the Mediterranean city of Dubrovnik, popular with travelers looking for culture.

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Little book packs a big punch.......2006-08-24

I am traveling to Dubrovnik with a group of couples towards the end of this summer, and this book was the most comprehensive and utilitarian guide to the city and surrounding areas that I could find. With practical information (parking spots are hard to find in town and city officials aggressively tow cars and levy hefty fines) and tips on culture, day trips (new high speed ferry makes trips to nearby islands possible)and culinary options, it was the most helpful and informative guide I've found. Puts other pricier, glossier guides to shame!!

Dubrovnik, 2nd: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide)

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Dubrovnik, 2nd: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide)
Piers Letcher
Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841621919

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The old city of Dubrovnik offers immense and rich experiences to visitors--arguably the best city walls in Europe, Italian architecture, palaces and churches, as well as the clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. This new edition serves as an excellent guide for independent travelers and also explores beyond the city, suggesting day trips to islands off Dubrovnik's peaceful coastline for those wishing to retreat from the bustle of the city and indulge in scenic walks and natural history.

Features include:

*Revised listings for hotels for all styles and budgets, including accommodation within the city walls

*Updated information on dining out

*Practical advice, including getting there and getting around on public transport

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Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping!

Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented?

Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.

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The history of time-keeping for 2nd to 6th grades.......2005-04-07

I am using this book in a math-through-history course I teach for all ages, including my own children, along with a similar book by Betsy Maestro, The Story of Money. These books are beautifully illustrated, with "denser" text than a picture book, and they fit a need for middle-grade level materials. I enjoy the simplicity of the text and stories, and find I can read these aloud to interested children of even younger ages if I can abridge the text and use the illustrations to advantage. Yet the material cannot be considered light, I learned a lot of history I never knew about before reading these books, and it whetted my own appetite to investigate the topic deeper. A great compliment to this book would be Marilyn Burns' This Book is About Time.

The Story of Clocks and Calendars : Marking a Millennium

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The Story of Clocks and Calendars : Marking a Millennium
Betsy Maestro
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0688145485

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January 1, 2001, will mark the beginning of a new thousand-year period on earth. But our earth is more than four billion years old, and humans have lived on our planet for perhaps two hundred thousand years. So how can it be the year 2000? The answer is that it is the year 2000 only on the Gregorian calendar. On the Hebrew calendar, the year will be 5760. On the Muslim calendar, the year will be 1420. And on the Chinese calendar, it will be 4698. So what year is it really? It all depends on what calendar you use and when you started counting the years.

Here is the fascinating story of timekeeping: how, over thousands of years, calendars and clocks came to be.

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Stories of time (Instructor literature series)

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Stories of time (Instructor literature series)
Bertha Evangeline Bush
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The Story of Clocks and Calendar

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THE STORY OF CLOCKS AND CALENDARS : Discusses the year 2000 of human achievement leading to the new millennium & birth of Jesus.

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THE STORY OF CLOCKS AND CALENDARS : Discusses the year 2000 of human achievement leading to the new millennium & birth of Jesus.

Manufacturer: Lothrop,Lee & Shepard Books
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ASIN: B000ICQ0AY

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two works in progress : Over the river, project for the Arkansas River, Colorado and The gates, project for Central Park, New York City
Anne Swartz
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ASIN: 1893974081

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The Gates project for Central Park, New York City

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ASIN: B000R9A9HI

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Rare signed copy of the Gates project for Central Park, New York City

Christo, The Gates project for Central Park, New York City

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Christo, The Gates project for Central Park, New York City
Christo
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ASIN: B0007B2YZG

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A necessary book for every bird lover.......2001-03-02

No human can live on bread and water alone. Birds have similar dietary needs, and this book tells you how you can get optimum bird health using everyday materials from your kitchen. In this book you'll find nutrition info, as well as medicinal info and how common foods can prevent illness and give your bird a happy, healthy life.

This book will be a great present for your companion bird as well as you.

Throw away that seed and give your bird a life!.......1999-05-01

Until a few years ago, all bird foods were developed off the poultry production model -- that is, made for birds who didn't live more than a few months and weren't expected to have any quality of life. If there are birds in your life and you love them, get this book and take it to heart.

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Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams
Cassandra Danz
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0609802658
Release Date: 1999-02-09

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Cassandra Danz takes her gardening seriously--she just doesn't discuss it that way. Her practical advice in Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead is liberally sprinkled with humor (when training a rose to climb, "Don't take guff from a plant."). Danz structures the garden from the big-picture perspective; for example, make your garden a separate "room" or rooms, and carefully develop the most stirring palettes of compatible colors. ("Don't plant magenta next to taxicab yellow!") She discusses the advantages and pitfalls of a single-color palette, such as writer Vita Sackville-West's white garden, and shows how to create illusions of greater space in a small yard. Other hints, such as "the old newspaper trick" of mulching, will make your gardening an Edenic delight.

Book Description

Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead shows you how to triumph over climate, garden pests, and the design clichés of the typical suburban landscape to make gardening an unrivaled entertainment.

Here's how any gardener, even with limited land, money, time, or experience, can create a glorious cottage garden.
Siting, enclosing, and "furnishing" a garden
Using the classical rules of proportion to balance your garden plan
Making the most of your garden depending upon its angle to the sun
Constructing a garden path, a rusticated arbor, or a wattle fence
Combining trees, shrubs, and perennials for abundance and bloom throughout the growing season
Using color as a unifying theme, accent, or expression of mood
Propagating shrubs and perennials simply and cheaply
Plus a special section on chemical-free pest control and deer-resistant plants.

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Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the

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Virtuosity and Artistry.......2004-07-26

Anya Peterson Royce was a professional ballerina before becoming an anthropologist. This book is a personal record: thoughts on ballet expand out to experiences with other dance forms, ranging from Kabuki to the dances of the Tewa Pueblos of New Mexico. Then she moves on to classical music and to traditional small-scale cultures' healing rituals; in such cultures, healing is a performance art, since the main thing the curer can really accomplish is psychological support and help posed in dramatic forms.
Where this book stands out is in contrasting virtuosity--sheer technical skill--with true artistry. Royce has given a great deal of thought and attention to the question of what differentiates a great performance from a merely good one (or, worse, a merely slick one). A good dance performance can be perfect in timing, flow, steps, poses, and so on; a music performance can be perfect in timing, pitch, attack, dynamics and so on. A great one is never perfect--not in that way. A great artist adds countless tiny, almost imperceptible variations to bring out the emotional force of the piece. A musician will come in a tiny fraction of a second early on an attack note, and make up for it by coming in a tiny bit late on a later note ("rubato and agogic"). Similar tiny variations will appear in force of attack, tone quality, pitch levels changes, dynamic contours, and all other variables. These changes are not just random; they are all carefully calculated, or more often intuited, to drive the emotion and intensity of the piece. This is what differentiates a merely pleasant performance from a performance that sounds, superficially, the same, but leaves the audience collapsed in their chairs, drenched in sweat and tears. The great artist can then go on and build original creations on the understanding of emotions that emerges from such performance success.
This use of micro-variations seems to be worldwide. The Chinese have about 100 different named ways of playing a single note on the qin (Chinese elite stringed instrument). Blues guitarists have a complex vocabulary for such variations. Effective use of them in the service of really intense emotion is what differentiates Robert Johnson from an ordinary bluesman. Royce plays cello and uses it as one example; I remember once hearing Mischa Schneider coach a friend of mine who is a concert cellist. My friend was playing about as well as I thought possible, but Schneider played the same piece with just a little sharper attack, more rubato-agogic, and so on, and the difference was astounding. Royce's description of working with the great cellist Janos Starker brings out all the things I heard, in much more detail and from much deeper knowledge.
I am glad somebody has finally come out and said this in the anthropological literature. I have seen many pathetic and dismal attempts to define what makes art great (e.g. Robert Jourdain in his otherwise excellent book MUSIC, THE BRAIN, AND ECSTASY; see my Amazon.com review). Now, Royce has provided a good account of one vital key: the performance side of art. Now someone else has to tell us how humanity got from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to Beethoven's symphonies.
Some things this book is not: It is not a sustained, brilliant tour-de-force; it is more a set of personal essays. It is not an introduction to anthropology of performance art; Royce assumes the reader already knows that literature. She also assumes great knowledge of elite European dance and music. The book is, alas, also not well edited. Comma faults, missed quote marks, repetition (often word for word), and other problems are distractingly common.
On the other hand, she gets a full extra star for not using, anywhere, such phrases as "inscribed on the body" or "problematizing gender" or "the modernist program," even though she is treating in detail the actual phenomena in question. Such phrases once were valuable, because they referred to exciting new topics. They have long ago become vapid cliches, and should be dropped once and for all from the English language. Also, Royce is far too knowledgeable to think there is a thing, "the body," that has some kind of separate reality that makes it (note that neuter gender) a special topic for study!

Anya Peterson Royce, Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.(Book Review): An article ... Review of Sociology and Anthropology

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Anya Peterson Royce, Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.(Book Review): An article ... Review of Sociology and Anthropology
Karen McGarry
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1082 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: Anya Peterson Royce, Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.(Book Review)
Author: Karen McGarry
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 2 Page: 235(3)

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This unique publication will provide a wide-ranging and intellectually challenging reference to indigenous Australian art, covering documented archaeologically traditions, art styles of the early contact period and the nineteenth century, and the development of the remarkably diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices that have attracted so much attention in recent years. The Companion will draw upon much original research on art and culture in remote Aboriginal communities, and on the emergence of Aboriginal art in urban institutions, markets, and exhibitions. Academics, graduates, and general readers will find concise and authoritative analysis on specific topics and regional traditions, unavailable even in specialist databases. Distinguished indigenous and non-indigenous scholars have been commissioned to write on individuals, artistic traditions, and historical shifts. The Companion will address more fully than any previous book important regional variations and historical developments in relation to colonial occupation and white Australian society over time. The Companion's primary emphasis is upon visual art, though survey entries on indigenous literature, theatre, and music among other areas provide a wider context. Essays, 'boxes' and 'voices' will be commissioned from well-established and emerging indigenous and non-indigenous writers. The presence of key historical figures such as Oodgeroo Noonucal and Kevin Gilbert will be heard through excerpts from previously published material or the use of archival sources made available for the first time. The visual component in the Companion is not viewed as simply an adjunct to or illustration of the written text, but is seen to be vitally important to its rationale. Visuality has contributed to the growing critical acclaim and widespread popularity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art nationally and internationally. Therefore extensive illustrations in colour and in black and white will be included to not only offer a critical understanding of objects and events but to acknowledge the key role visuality plays in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The 400 illustrations will be extensively captioned and some of the entries will be read as visual storyboards, equally as important as the essays. Complementing this focus on visuality, there will be additional reference material: maps, diagrams, chronologies providing a comprehensive listing of the major exhibitions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, locally and oveseas and guides to further reading.

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An excellent overview.......2001-08-23

Australian Aboriginal art is gaining international recognition, and rightly so. It is an art form driven by the culture of the artsists, and this book covers the traditional works of desert Australia, and also touches on more the more contemporary works of urban dwellers. These works are vibrant and alive, and the illustrations do justice to the richness of the work. The accompanying text is detailed and authoritative.

If you are interested in the art works of other cultures, or even art in its broadest sense, you will find many of the works presented in this volume to be quite different, even provocative. Others are as spectacular as any landscape known to the Western world.

This is an excellent introduction to a complex topic, and a worthy addition to any library.

Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture.......2001-06-15

This book was recently reviewed on the Sunday Arts program on ABC television in Australia. The book presents an authoratitive overview of the origins and development of Aboriginal Art and Culture in Australia.

It presents information in an easy to read format with enough detail to satisify most readers. It even includes sections on contemporary Aboriginal artists including Lin Onus. There are many colour illustrations of artwork to illustrate the narrative text.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Art
Alan McCulloch
Manufacturer: NY Frederick A. Praeger .
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