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Good cross reference.......2006-03-21

My boyfriend and I just got back from our trip to Sardinia. The Lonely Planet was helpful with some general information, but it was a bit dated (the new edition comes out May 2006 though). It did have a really good section on the food in Sardinia which mentally prepared us for a homecooked farewell dinner of baby goat! :) All in all, having the book was much better than nothing, but I'd recommend taking another guide book along to cross reference (which we did) or wait for the 2006 edition.

Very well done.......2005-06-11

I bought this book because the reviews about Rough Guide were pretty bad, and I must say Lonely Planet delivered once again. It's full of "local" tips that must have taken the author a very long time to put together.
A few more mini-maps would save dozens of lines of directions to reach those hidden places, and would save the reader a lot of time on the road.
We would also have done with a few more places to stay and eat, but locals are so welcoming that it was a joy to ask them.
These shortcoming anyway don't even erode one star, as the guide is otherwise exceptional. We didn't need anything else.

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Top quality presentation of a fascinating subject........2007-09-21

This volume gives a through background of the colonists' need for inns, a day in the life of an inkeeper and his family, guest services and government regulations that controlled signs, prices, etc.

A Day in the Life of a Colonial Innkeeper provides a listing of web sites for further exploration of the subject and a glossary for review.

Every book in this series brings history to life with period illustrations and photographs of historacal interpreters in colonial costumes and settings.

Very highly recommended.

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Capture a beautiful bouquet in your stitches! Celebrated for her glorious designs and exceptional talents, quilt artist Rosemary Makhan returns with more exquisite appliqué creations in five elegant new projects. Lush blossoms, twining vines, and graceful bluebirds come to life in colors inspired by authentic antique quilts.

· Take your hand-appliqué skills to a new level by learning Rosemary's special techniques

· Choose from large medallion quilts and smaller wall quilts that offer creative options for beginning and advanced appliquérs

· Rosemary Makhan is the author of Rose Sampler Supreme and Biblical Blocks, both from That Patchwork Place®

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The flowers of William Morris.......2000-04-10

When I bought this book I was expecting pictures of flowers. Instead I end up reading a book on Mr. Morris' life. His love of flowers and wonderful drawings have made this book better than I could have imagined it.

English Floral Place Cards and Matching Napkin Holders in Full Color: 12 Ready-to-Use Sets (From Stencils and Notepaper to Flowers and Napkin Folding)

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English Floral Place Cards and Matching Napkin Holders in Full Color: 12 Ready-to-Use Sets (From Stencils and Notepaper to Flowers and Napkin Folding)
William Morris
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Lovely collection of dining table accessories includes 2 different richly detailed floral and foliate designs adapted from originals created by famed 19th-century English craftsman and designer. Assemble quickly and easily with scissors and tape.

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Fresh Flower Arranging
Kate Morris , Andreas Neophytou , and William Bacon
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William Morris Flowers
Jenny De Gex
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This catalogue presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks found in Italian printed maps of the sixteenth century. Such watermarks are essential tools in identifying paper moulds and are part of the evidence that bibliographers use in dating the paper on which maps and other documents were printed. The images reproduced in the catalogue have been selected from some 1200 beta-radiographs of watermarks gathered from Italian printed maps issued mostly in composite atlases printed in Venice and Rome between 1540 and 1600. These beta-radiographs reveal minute variations that are almost invisible to the eye. A special feature of the book is a visual index of miniature black-and-white line tracings of the watermarks.

Fifteen years in the making, this catalogue will be an essential reference for bibliographers and archivists dealing with rare books and maps of the period, for map collectors, map librarians, and scholars and librarians working with early printed items and manuscripts.

Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps, ca 1540-1600.: An article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps, ca 1540-1600.: An article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Manufacturer: Bibliographical Society of Canada
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This digital document is an article from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, published by Bibliographical Society of Canada on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 417 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: Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps, ca 1540-1600.
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Refereed)
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Volume: 35 Issue: 2 Page: 233-4

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David Squire has produced an inspirational and quite practical guide to how the garden can be turned into both a place of healing and a place of calming, restoring energy. Scent, sound, water, and touch can be an integral part of mental and physical healing, or simply an added enhancement to good health and a sense of overall well-being. This book draws on many cultural traditions of healing, starting with the basics of caring lovingly for the soil itself to the use of sounds, water, and color to create powerful emotional states and provide a serene, meditational experience for the gardener and anyone who ventures into the healing garden itself. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this is a charming book for the serious gardener, of course, but it will also inspire the person who delights in simply thinking and dreaming of the garden. --Mark A. Hetts

The Healing Garden: Natural Healing for the Mind, Body and Soul

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The Healing Garden: Natural Healing for the Mind, Body and Soul
David Squire
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“Presenting fact as well as folklore, Squire eloquently and exhaustively addresses aspects of gardening for the senses, from color and sound to fragrance and touch. As he deftly combines historical perspectives with practical considerations, Squire also provides a visual feast of alluring color photos and archival paintings and illustrations.” —Booklist.

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From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins

To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City in 1918, Jerome Robbins repudiated his Jewish roots along with his name only to reclaim them with his triumphant staging of Fiddler on the Roof. A self-proclaimed homosexual, he had romances or relationships with both men and women, some famous—like Montgomery Clift and Natalie Wood—some less so. A resolutely unpolitical man, he was forced to testify before Congress at the height of anti-Communist hysteria. A consummate entertainer, he could be paralyzed by shyness; nearly infallible professionally, he was conflicted, vulnerable, and torn by self-doubt. Guarded and adamantly private, he was an inveterate and painfully honest journal writer who confided his innermost thoughts and aspirations to a remarkable series of diaries and memoirs. With ballets like Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Concert, he humanized neoclassical dance; with musicals like On the Town, Gypsy, and West Side Story, he changed the face of theater in America.
In the pages of this definitive biography, Amanda Vaill takes full measure of the complicated, contradictory genius who was Jerome Robbins. She re-creates his childhood as the only son of Russian Jewish immigrants; his apprenticeship as a dancer and Broadway chorus gypsy; his explosion into prominence at the age of twenty-five with the ballet Fancy Free and its Broadway incarnation, On the Town; and his years of creative dominance in both theater and dance. She brings to life his colleagues and friends—from Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine to Robert Wilson and Robert Graves—and his loves and lovers. And she tells the full story behind some of Robbins’s most difficult episodes, such as his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his firing from the film version of West Side Story.
Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from Robbins’s personal and professional papers, to which she was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, Somewhere is a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one man’s phenomenal career and places it squarely in the cultural ferment of a time when New York City was truly “a helluva town.”

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Everything you always wanted to know and more and more.......2007-06-12

I picked this book up out of curiousity. Jerome Robbins was legendary aong those who enjoyed Broadway musical theater. His best known acheivement was probably "West Side Story". In any event, I figured a bit of time spent learning about Robbins' life would be interesting.

Well, yes it was - and it was also a bit of a slog.

Amanda Vail has produced a hagiography of Robbins. Considering that Robbins never did anything really, really, really nasty, that is no sin. However, it is a reflection of Robbins' narcissism that Vail had such massive archives to draw from. 539 pages of biography, followed by just less than 100 pages of notes and bibliography. No one can accuse Vail of inadequate research.

The result is a mind-numbing recitation of what seems to be every day in the life of Jerome Robbins from birth to death. It isn't boring, but it won't be stimulating either unless you really, really are a Robbins fan who just can't get enough.

For me, the reward wasn't in learning far more than I wanted to know about Robbins' sex life, but about his contributions to the development of American dance. Robbins truly was a genius and while perhaps overly detailed, this is the kind of thorough biography Jerome Robbins deserves.

Jerry

Broadway Equals Robbins.......2007-03-14

If Jerome Robbins had only directed "West Side Story" that would have been enough to establish his legend on Broadway...if you read this wonderful biography by the very skillful Amanda Vaill you will discover that almost every production from the Golden Era of Broadway had the Robbins touch. Mr Robbin was also a member of the American Ballet Theatre and created many celebrated dance pieces. A complex individual, at times; a son of a bitch, he always got the best from his performers and his collaborators. West Side Story, High Button Shoes, Peter Pan, Gypsy, Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The King and I, Fiddler=Robbins

Dance Review.......2007-02-17

My dance teacher raved about this book in class and so I had to buy it. I haven't read it all but it shows valuable insights into Mr. Robbins. Although he was a difficult person, he was a genius, as my dance teacher said, and so he was and he made dance so much bigger and better for us all.

An Insightful Look at the Legendary Choreographer Soars Highest in Vaill's Professional Portrait.......2007-01-03

The mercurial brilliance and personal shortcomings of choreographer extraordinaire Jerome Robbins are captured with equal amounts of compassion and objectivity in Amanda Vaill's comprehensive biography. His impressive resume represents some of the most arresting work in dance and theater - "On the Town", "High Button Shoes", "Call Me Madam", "Gypsy", "Wonderful Town", "Bells Are Ringing", "The King and I", "Peter Pan", "The Pajama Game", "Funny Girl", "Fiddler on the Roof", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". Robbins' most famous work is the stage and screen versions of "West Side Story", his legendary collaboration with composer Leonard Bernstein and then-prodigious lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Yet for all these accomplishments, he was reviled as much as he was revered. Stellar results notwithstanding, his vaunted perfectionism and Method-style approach were taxing to many, and it would often come under the guise of brutality and verbal abuse. Although Vaill's book is the third Robbins biography to be released in the last five years, hers reflects access to the subject's personal diaries before his death at age eighty in 1998, which lends the book a voice that one could easily imagine approximates Robbins' own.

The author dives deeply into Robbins' childhood to seek answers to his personal dichotomy, and she pieces together a vivid if somewhat pat portrait of self-loathing. Robbins' mother comes across as a vindictive woman who used her deep-rooted insecurity as a lightning rod for attention, while his father seems weak-willed and foolish. The combination of their personalities already reinforces Robbins' incurable sense of self-doubt due to his shame over being both Jewish and gay. His resulting bisexuality gave way to a string of lovers of both sexes, though his most intense and enduring relationships were with men including a two-year affair with a young Montgomery Clift. Ironically, he was able to translate these passions into some of the most beautiful male-female duets in musical theater. It is in Robbins' professional triumphs and failures where Vaill's book soars highest. She meticulously documents the process of creating his ballet works, in particular, 1944's "Fancy Free" (the basis for "On the Town") and 1969's "Dances at a Gathering", and how George Balanchine acted as both supportive mentor and demonic taskmaster. Obviously, Robbins applied Balanchine's split-personality approach to his own work when he drove performers, whether chorus dancers or ego-driven divas, to tears with his exacting demands.

In spite of his self-assurance in staging and choreographing specific scenes, he would remain steadfast in experimenting with endless versions of the same moment no matter how long it took to satisfy his vision. Feeding into the already rampant insecurities of his cast, Robbins would often have two or more people learn the same part and urge one to shadow the other as he did his solo. In rehearsing the Broadway version of "West Side Story", he would instigate gossip in order to raise the ire of the dancers playing the gang members. Such alienating, frequently self-serving techniques came at a price, for instance, he was fired from the film version of `West Side Story" in mid-production due to his insensitivity to the resulting budget overruns. The darkest moments of his life are almost a carbon copy of filmmaker Elia Kazan's, as they revolve around his guilt over his 1953 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and the seven people he named who apparently recruited him for the Communist Party. Vaill is insightful enough not to judge Robbins for this infamous act, especially ironic given the value he placed on loyalty throughout his career. Her extensive portrait of Robbins should satisfy not only those fascinated by his legendary life and career but also those interested in knowing one of the most profound influences on musical theater and ballet in the second half of the 20th century.

The long way time: a new Jerome Robbins biography explores why happiness eluded him.("Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins")(Book review): An article from: Dance Magazine

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The long way time: a new Jerome Robbins biography explores why happiness eluded him.("Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins")(Book review): An article from: Dance Magazine
Laura Jacobs
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ASIN: B000NQDK80
Release Date: 2007-02-26

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Title: The long way time: a new Jerome Robbins biography explores why happiness eluded him.("Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins")(Book review)
Author: Laura Jacobs
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
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Volume: 81 Issue: 3 Page: 86(2)

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Somewhere: the Life of Jerome Robbins
Amanda Vaill
Manufacturer: Broadway Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7A44W

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Jan Critchett presents a series of moving Aboriginal biographies from the Western District of Victoria. She draws both on the oral tradition of local Koori elders and on official records.

Untold Stories opens our eyes to a number of remarkable individuals who managed to make a life for themselves at the edges of the society that had dispossessed them. Their long-running battle to maintain their culture and their connection to country is both humbling and inspiring. These sometimes heartbreaking, often humorous, always courageous stories will touch the hearts of readers.

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You must read this book.......1999-10-30

I was handed this book and was told that it has some of our Family History in it.(i'm part koori) From the moment I opened this book till the last page I could'nt put it down.

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