HOW TO KNOW WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS PARTS I, II, III. A Key to the Flora of the Temperate Regions of Western Australia.

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HOW TO KNOW WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WILDFLOWERS PARTS I, II, III. A Key to the Flora of the Temperate Regions of Western Australia.
William E. and Grieve, Brian J.: Blackall
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ASIN: B000W2VNDE

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Charming!

More history... and less babble

history and the present

an intimate look at history

A Little TOO Much detail

A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood
Alex Karmel
Manufacturer: David R. Godine Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1567921981

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Charming!.......2007-04-27

A charming little history of le Marias and a lot more...

First, Alex Karmel talks about his first trip to Paris, which takes place back in 1949. At the time, he is a freshman at Columbia who gets on a cargo ship, crosses the Atlantic and twelve days later arrives in post-war Europe. Needless to say, Paris is the high point of his journey and over the next three decades he is back to visit it again and again. I found this part of the book especially touching since it portrayed word for word my personal experience with Paris (except for the cargo ship, of course)... Paris enthusiasts will relate to this story and may wish that Karmel had given us a little bit more detail.

In 1982, Alex Karmel and his French wife purchase a 50m2 pied-a-terre on rue des Rosiers. At the core of the book, he lays out the history of the building, which dates back to 1393! In the 600 years of its existence, the house in which the apartment is located has changed owners multiple times. At one time, it was in the hands of the usher of the king; centuries later, a "paticier du Roi" and his family occupied it.

In conclusion, Karmel takes us on a tour of the Marais and talks in brief about the history of various other streets and "hotels" in the area.

The book is very short - only 149 pages. Beautiful black and white pictures of the Marais are taking up at least 10-20 pages. I literally read it in a day and now can't wait to take it with me on my next trip to Paris. It will be so enjoyable to stroll in the Marais and find all the places Karmel is referring to.

More history... and less babble.......2007-02-13

I can't believe I actually skimmed through a particular chapter, I never, ever do that. It tried to bore me to tears with a tedious description of a wrangle over the ownership of an apartment 200 years ago!!! I love this area of Paris, and was hoping that the historical content of this book would leave me delighted... sadly not.
There are some interesting descriptions of life at the time, however the book tends to only touch on the interesting bits and rave about the mundane. I kept hoping it would improve as I pressed on... unfortunately, it didn't.

history and the present.......2006-05-06

I loved this book, especially as I was staying a few doors down from his apartment in a hotel and it made my visit enhanced by his descriptions and thoughts.

an intimate look at history.......2005-10-16

This is a great book to read while in Paris. With the book in hand, we easily found many points mentioned in it (and it answered some questions we had had while walking around the Marais on our own). It's very much a "labor of love" by someone who became intrigued by a small slice of history that, coincidentally, sheds some light on the broader picture over a long period. Anyone who enjoys history will envy the author's dig through old documents and records searching for even tangential mentions of his building, and the people associated with it. (Also recommended, for entirely other reasons: "Paris to the Moon," by Adam Gopnik.)

A Little TOO Much detail.......2004-01-08

man this book gets boring at times. it's more the history of the neighborhood and medieval and renaissance parisian life as it took place around the author's apartment building. Maybe the other books I've read about Paris are overly sentimental, but this book does little to invoke the romance of the city of lights.

for instance: there is an entire chapter devoted to a legal wrangle which took place over the non-payment of taxes on the home, in which various people bickered over the ownership in the 17th century. this should have been at most a paragraph.

there are some fascinating descriptions of period toilets,17th century french bathing habits, and 13th century house construction. the length of space devoted to meaningless crap is stunning.

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A CORNER IN THE MARAIS: MEMOIRS OF A PARIS NEIGHBORHOOD

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A CORNER IN THE MARAIS: MEMOIRS OF A PARIS NEIGHBORHOOD
ALEX KARMEL
Manufacturer: David Godine
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ASIN: B000UO8ZHG

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Five Stars

Very Sad

It was disapointing

disappointed

Great Start to Learning About the Salem Witch Trials

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 (Dear America Series)
Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0439249732

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Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village, where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But when four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials. And life in Salem is never the same.

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Five Stars.......2007-08-08

One of the last books of Dear America series and what a tragedy given how wonderful each of these books are. Here we have Delieverance Trembly living in Salem with her sister Mem who is sickly. Their parents are dead and their uncle has disappered Delieverance is trying not to let anyone discover they are alone but her worries are subsided by events unfolding in Salem. As a witness to the Witch Trials, Delieverance is surprised by what's going on and when one of her friends is accused of being a witch Delieverance grows suspicious of the trials. You can feel her worries, fear and horror at watching her town where she thought she knew everyone try and hang neighbors.

Very Sad.......2006-12-10

Liv's life is very sad. Her dearest role model is accused of being a witch. I cried when I read parts of this book. I wish we had read this book in Middle School! I think the other students would have really liked it. I know I did! I liked it so much that I'm trying to write my own 'Dear America' book about the Salem Witch Trials. The working title is 'Witness to Insanity: The Diary Of Rebecca Goode'.

It was disapointing.......2006-12-03

I rented this book from the local Library, partly because I wanted to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials and it was a Dear America book I had never read. Boy, was I wrong! The style was not anything like what I thought it would be. It did indeed give accurate history-like innocent people getting accused of being a witch, and the fear that 15th century people were going through. But it was boring the way that Deliverance had to do almost all the work by herself, because her sister was so lazy!And it really got to me, when Mem, Deliverance's sister just turned on her. Deliverance has absolutely NO ONE to turn to, except a neighbor lady that eventually is executed!! To make matters worse, she loves a boy that ends up marrying Mem. And if I remember right, Mem thought he was ugly and hated him!And Deliverance really loved him,no matter what he looked like. Things are just not looking good for poor Deliverance! If you are looking for a history lesson, you may like it, as I learned more history myself, but if you want a nice book more balanced out and entertaining with history as well, I would not look for it in this one.

disappointed.......2006-10-28

I bought this book in the gift shop of the Witch Museum in Salem, Ma. Having no listing of "fiction" on the shelf above the book, it was sitting there with other books of the trials and the cover stated it was the diary of a witness. It caught my interest because it lead me to believe there was a witnessed perspective on the trials that may have shed a different light on the mystery. Not familiar with the "Dear America" series, it did not register to me that this was a fictional novel. I bought it before I returned home on my trip, read 2/3 on the plane, and was anxious to read the rest of what happened to Deliverance and her family. Being almost finished, I wanted to get on-line to see what other readers thought. It was then that I discovered that the book is fiction. Having a great interest in the factual history of Salem and the witch trials, I am obviously no longer interested in reading this book. That the novel states it is scholastic is puzzling. Why create more confusion in an era shrouded by mystery by telling it through the eyes of someone who does not exist? My lesson is learned at least. If we need to be entertained by fiction to retain facts that are interesting in their own right, I'll stick to the history books.

Great Start to Learning About the Salem Witch Trials.......2006-06-01

When I first bought this book, it was because it was the bookstore's most recent release. I started reading it on the ride home and was captivated by the flowing writing style and the central character's devotion to God - something missing in modern fiction. I read at around the same time as other Dear America's and thought it of high quality. I liked the character change, for one thing - she wasn't always scornful of "witches." After finishing it I started reading more books about the Salem Witch Trials.

Puritans Besieged: The Legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Puritans Besieged: The Legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Michael J. Puglisi
Manufacturer: Univ Pr of Amer
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0819182915

Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1639-1702: The Pynchon Court RecordAn Original Judges' Diary of the Administration of Justice in the Springfield Courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Surprising, fantastic!

Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1639-1702: The Pynchon Court RecordAn Original Judges' Diary of the Administration of Justice in the Springfield Courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Surprising, fantastic!.......2003-06-04

Who on earth would have thought that reading court records could be such fun?! Witness drunken brawls, teenaged boys setting their bare bottoms on the neighbor's loom, slander, etc., all the way to much more serious and heart-rending cases.

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Historians often consider transatlantic trade and the export of staples to have been the driving forces behind economic development in virtually all of colonial America. In From the Ground Up: How the Massachusetts Bay Colony Achieved Economic Success, James E. McWilliams challenges this assumption, showing how internal economic development, rather than exports that shareholders hoped would provide a handsome return on their investments, actually served as the backbone of the Massachusetts economy.

Starting with the basics -- the building of farms, fences, stables, roads, and bridges -- McWilliams demonstrates through careful analyses of farmer and merchant account books how these small infrastructure improvements established the foundation for more ambitious, overseas adventures. Using an intensely local lens, McWilliams explores the century-long process whereby the Massachusetts Bay Colony went from a distant outpost of the incipient British Empire to a stable society integrated into the transatlantic economy.

An inspiring story of men and women overcoming adversity to build their own society, From the Ground Up reconceptualizes how we have normally thought about New England's economic development

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The founders of the Massachusetts Bay colony: A careful research of the earliest records of many of the foremost settlers of the New England colony
Sarah Sprague Saunders Smith
Manufacturer: Press of the Sun Printing Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000866BUY

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The Puritan age and rule in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685
George Edward Ellis
Manufacturer: Cornell University Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 142973406X
Release Date: 1888-01-01

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Making of America monographs collection.

Builders of the bay colony (Sentry editions)

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Well written book on the early Massachusetts colony
Thorough, in more ways then one

Builders of the bay colony (Sentry editions)
Samuel Eliot Morison
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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1930. Sketches of some of the individuals who came out of Old England to begin the New, written by Morison, Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor of History in Harvard. Contents: Promoters and Precursors: Richard Hakluyt, Captain John Smith, and Morton of Merrymount; Master John White, of Dorchester; John Winthrop, Esquire; Master Thomas Shepard; John Hull of Boston, Goldsmith; Henry Dunster, President of Harvard; Nathaniel Ward, Lawmaker and Wit; Robert Child, Remonstrant; John Winthrop, Jr., Industrial Pioneer; John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians; and Mistress Anne Bradstreet. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Well written book on the early Massachusetts colony.......2007-09-05

Samuel Eliot Morison paints a pretty detailed and accurate picture of what life was like during the first few decades of settlement in Massachusetts in the 1600s. He does this by presenting biographies of about a dozen important figures during that time and place, representing a cross-section of the colony: Governor John Winthrop, goldsmith and businessman John Hull, first president of Harvard Henry Dunster, theologian Thomas Shepard, missionary to the Indians and Bible translator into Algonkin John Eliot, poetess Anne Bradstreet, and lawmaker Nathaniel Ward are a few. Morison breaks with the revisionist view of 1930 when the book was first published and as presented by historian J. Truslow Adams that few of the earliest settlers were actually Puritans; he sides with the earlier view that indeed most were. Morison quotes heavily from the original Puritan documents, many of which are highly entertaining as well as being informative. Morison is of an older school of historical writing where scholarship is, of course, important, but so is literary skill: he is authoritative and able to relate a clever or witty observation at the same time. He is, therefore, a pleasure to read. I recommend the 2nd edition in that it adds a profile of fur trader and frontier official William Pynchon not found in the 1st edition.

Thorough, in more ways then one.......2004-06-24

I would not read this book if you have never read any other books on the History of early New England. It is very densely written and with the many sentences you sometimes lose sight about what really happened.

When you do decide to read this thoroughly (and it will take a long time) it becomes more interesting. The book is a collection of biographies of important people in 17th century New England that made the region what it was and still is today. It is an attempt to pierce into the Puritan mind and he has succeeded.

Interesting for those already interested, but unreadable for people who do not know a lot.

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4 Books by Samuel Eliot Morison: Spring Tides, The European Discovery of America, History of Massachusetts, Builders of the Bay Colony
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VQ6N6S

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Antionomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636-38, Including the Short Story and Documents

Manufacturer: Burt Franklin
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0833700103

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The Bay colony;: A civil, religious and social history of the Massachusetts colony and its settlements from the landing at Cape Ann in 1624 to the death of Governor Winthrop in 1650,
William Dummer Northend
Manufacturer: Estes and Lauriat
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Binding: Hardcover

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Your Happy Healthy Pet

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs—now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

A little dog with a big personality, the Yorkshire Terrier is among today's most popular canine companions, renowned for his energy, intelligence, and spirit. This updated guide gives you all the information you need to understand, select, train, and care for a Yorkie, including:

An in-depth look at the Yorkie temperament
The fascinating history of the breed
Tips for selecting a Yorkie puppy or adult dog
Pointers on feeding, grooming, and health
Savvy advice on housebreaking and basic training
Bonus chapters available on companion web site

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Who Can Resist a Yorkie?.......2006-05-04

"Yorkshire Terrier, 2nd edition (Wiley, 2005), by Marion Lane, is a guide to 'a little dog with a big personality.' This book contains the information a new or prospective "Yorkie" owner needs, including selection tips; pointers on feeding, grooming, and health; advice on housebreaking and basic training; and more. Author Lane is editor-in-chief of the ASPCA magazine Animal Watch." (summary by South Texas Library System)

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Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies
William Temple Hornaday
Manufacturer: T. Werner Laurie
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008CEFG0

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Canadian Bookplates
Roger Burford Mason
Manufacturer: Subway Books
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Binding: Paperback

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The Alcuin Society's keepsake, 1967;: A selection of old Canadian bookplates from the collection in the library at the University of British Columbia
Neil Brearley
Manufacturer: Alcuin Society
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The bookplates of Leslie Victor Smith ;: Illus. with original prints in addition to a full check-list and introd
William G Colgate
Manufacturer: Old Rectory Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007J1ZYY

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A list of Canadian bookplates,: With a review of the history of ex libris in the Dominion; (The Society for Bookplate Bibliophiles, Publication)
Winward Prescott
Manufacturer: Printed for the Society of Bookplate Bibliophiles
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Cheater's guide! Help yourself and your plants.

Helpful reference book I'll use time and time again

Month-By-Month Gardening in New York: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year (Month-By-Month Gardening in New York)
Andre Viette , Mark Viette , and Jacqueline Heriteau
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Includes the major gardening categories, from annuals and perennials to trees and shrubs, including lawns and vegetables.

The Month-by-Month series provides credible information on maintaining plants throughout the year in a specific state. These books contain monthly advice on what to do in the garden and when to do it, along with the author's personal recommendations on specific plants that perform well in the state.

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. More homeowners are enjoying the beauty and satisfaction they derive from improving their home landscape.

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Cheater's guide! Help yourself and your plants........2005-09-03

I guess I didn't expect to really like this book, and I'm not entirely sure why. Perhaps I have bad associations with month-by-month instructionals. At anyrate, I was completely won over. This book is handy, handy, handy. If you live in NY or a similar climate with the extreme winter and tropical summer, this is a helpful reminder. I garden professionally and still rely on it as a task list just to remind myself when my brain's on overload. Plant categories are covered separately month-by-month which was a little confusing at first glance--why not have all plants listed in monthly sections, but no matter. The categories are: Annuals and Biennials; Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes, and Tubers; Herbs and Vegetables; Houseplants; Lawns; Perennials; Roses; Shrubs; Trees; Vines, Ground Covers, and Ornamental Grasses; and Water and Bog Plants. Pretty comprehensive. Buy it and make your gardening a little easier!

Helpful reference book I'll use time and time again.......2005-08-08

Clear, concise format -- a little redundant in spots (did we really need to be reminded in every section that January is the month to get our 'wish list' together?) but I expect this expenditure to pay for itself several times over. Thanks!

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From the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. This activity resulted in the incorporation and reorganization of the classical heritage in the new civilization which, using Arabic, spread with Islam. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical and rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of the translations. It is based on the glossaries included in text editions, both published and unpublished, and on other materials gleaned from various sources. The work is published in fascicules of 128 pages of lexical entries plus indexes of the Greek-Arabic correspondences, of Greek proper names and transliterated words, of variant Greek and Arabic passages, and of the Greek authors cited in the context passages. From the second fascicule onwards the indexes will be cumulative. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is an indispensable reference tool for the study and understanding of Arabic scientific and philosophical language and literature. It facilitates the preparation of future editions of Arabic texts translated directly from the Greek, as well as of works originally composed in Arabic but based on the translations. It contributes to our knowledge of the vocabulary and syntax of Classical and Middle Arabic, of the thought and methods of the translators and of the nature of the translation activity into Arabic methods of the translators and of the nature of the translation activity into Arabic as a whole, and of the way a new vocabulary may develop in an existing language. Moreover, the Greek-Arabic glossary in general and the index of variant Greek passages in particular will assist in future editions of the Greek text of the works translated into Arabic. These provide information, in a way that can be used by classical scholars who do not know Arabic, on the readings of the manuscripts which were used by the Arab translators and which antedate by more than two centuries the Greek manuscripts actually extant. The work further contributes to our knowledge of the vocabulary of Classical and Middle Greek and of the reception and reading of classical Greek works in late antiquity and pre-Photian Byzantine literature.

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Long before Bruce Weber or Herb Ritts picked up a camera, there was a photographer whose images glorified the male nude. But Alonzo Hanagan, better known as Lon of New York, was working during the 1940s and 1950s, when images of the male nude were not just illicit but illegal. Twice, his studio was raided and his negatives destroyed by police. Many of the images in this book thus exist only as prints purchased by collectors at the time.

Now, for the first time in more than forty years, these photos are published in one comprehensive collection that recovers this lost body of work. Suffused with a coy playfulness and a naïve vulnerability, these erotic images of men evoke a time of greater innocence but also of greater suppression, revealing much about gay history and the history of photography.

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The Male Ideal: .......2007-07-27

This is a great "underground" era of photography that needs more documentation & archiving. There is so much more to know and see of this age when things like this were forbiden - yet so popular.

In the Beginning: The Contributions of the Pioneer in Male Photography.......2006-10-31

Lon of New York (AKA Alonzo James Hanagan) is honored is this very beautifully designed and written book by Reed Massengill. Beginning with a fine foreword by Vince Aletti which summarizes Lon's position of importance in the field of photographing the male physique in a time when such photography was literally burned as pornography, Reed Massengill then takes us on a verbal and visual survey of the rather remarkable gifts of this important artist.

The pleasure of the book is not just the subject matter (though that is entertaining in and of itself) but rather in the chance to observe how male posing and male ideals have developed since the last century. Very often the body builders Lon of New York used as models are in the poses usually reserved for competitions. It is his taking those poses and pushing them a step toward art that makes them unique.

But credit Reed Massengill, one of our finest photographers of the male nude today, to mix the images so that there is little redundancy of stance: beefcake gives way to innocence and pride in the raw and the spectrum is admirable. This is not only a fine book to read and peruse, but it is also an important documentation for the world of art photography and especially for those many fine artists who are now making the images of the male nude a true art form. Recommended. Grady Harp, October 06

Beautiful then but not now!.......2006-10-25

Beauty seems to change. I have no doubt that the models were considered beautiful at the time the pictures were taken.

However, this is not the case when the pictures are viewed today.

You should not buy this book if you want to look at slim and beautiful males naked.

LUSCIOUS !!.......2005-08-09

This book will have your drooling. So incredible, it is almost edible...would that they were.

How Great Words Beautify Great Art.......2004-08-12

I was only expecting the photos to be revealing. But this book is so well written that the shots expose even deeper beauty. Photographic history can be so dry, but in this author's hands you are engaged. No longer are the photos just nude shots, but a dangerous moment captured between a man behind a camera and another very real person in front. Illegal in their day, the prints were an act of daring as well as art - but the extent of the daring and danger are only truly felt after reading the great text. This book is a joy!

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Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT takes us directly into the murky world of nuclear espionage. But it is also a daunting story about the fate of the man who brought the bad news. After the scandal broke, Trulock found himself the targeted by the Clintonites who resented him for speaking out. He was smeared as a bigot and a mentally unstable alarmist. When he attempted to tell his side of the story, the FBI tried to silence him by claiming he had revealed classified data. He was demoted and driven out of government, his career and his personal reputation ruined. Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT tells the inside story of one of the major spy scandals of recent years. It reads like a Le Carre story told by Franz Kafka.

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Kindred Spirit tells us more about the disastrous Clinton administration.......2007-08-25

I was one of those Americans originally conned into believing Wen Ho Lee was a victim of racial prejudice and unjust persecution. It enraged me that he was isolated and shacked during much of his imprisonment. Notra Trulock's revelations, however, have made me realize that the left-wing media cooperated with Bill Clinton's administration to provide cover for the latter's unforgivable fecklessness. Lee was likely a spy for the Chinese communist government. Nothing else comes close to explaining his suspicious behavior. At the minimum, Lee committed gross security violations mandating the revocation of his security clearance. Nonetheless, Clinton's people were apparently interested only in damage control. Slandering the author as a racial bigot and perhaps even mentally unbalanced was deemed necessary. The intellectual virus of political correctness also pervaded the culture---and the President took full advantage of this sad state of affairs to severely damage Mr. Trulock. The results were not pretty.

The majority of American voters supported Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. They thought The End of History and the Last Man had arrived and our country could therefore concentrate on domestic issues. Islamic nihilism, for instance, was rarely even mentioned. Trulock's splendid work adds to the already substantial evidence that Clinton weakened our nation's defenses and emboldened our enemies. Reading Kindred Spirit is a harsh reminder that the citizens of the United States should never again become so nonchalant concerning their security. You should read Rich Lowry's: Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years. The National Review editor's book, as you might expect, is also highly critical of the Clinton era.

prepare to be aggravated ... and engaged.......2003-07-12

An excellent book by Notra Turlock and as one of society's wierdos who actually wanted to read the Cox Commission report, an important historical document of just how self preserving the FBI, the DOE, the Justice Dept. can all act when their turf seems headed for well deserved blame admist a national scandal. There are typical government buearacrats earning huge salaries that act virtually as traitors to the U.S. cause and their are spys who act as spys and then blame the sorry old lable of racisim when at least a few government officials try to do the right thing. Most of the characters in this book, while government officers and employees all, act decidely un-American throughout.

This a scary story. One cannot help but feel that the powers that be, higher up, much higher than N. Turlock, actually knew about the efforts of China to engage in nuclear espionage and condoned it. Why, I can only speculate, but the safegauards to prevent its occurences were so hap-hazzard and the influx of foreign "students" and scientists so prevalant, that truly, a simpleton would see the inevitable events which all too obviously did occur.

Mr. Trulock is a brave man to have undertaken this expose. It's a shame that millions and millions of Americans are not reading this book.

The reason that I did not give this book five stars involves a few minor writing issues. First, the book's first 100 pages or so are sparsely populated with identifiable characters as Mr. Turlock sets the stage with important but thick detail and thus making it a little difficult to grab one's attention. Also, I could find no explanation for Mr. Turlock's use of alias names of certain characters in the book. I was left to surmise that various agencies forbade the use of actual names of some of the actors, but some explanation would have been helpful. In summary the book is well-sourced and well written.

The Folly of Political Correctness ..........2003-01-18

... and the naivete of the Clinton administration in 1) kowtowing to China and offering all kinds of tribute in the form of sensitive technology, etc. and 2) hobbling the FBI investigation because of racial concerns.

Unfortunately, many Asian-Americans (P.S. I'm Asian myself) were transformed into China's "useful idiots," blindly supporting Wen Ho Lee's unbelieveable charges of racism.

Read along with "A Convenient Spy" and, if you've the stomach, Lee's own self-serving (but fatally incomplete) book.

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Code Name Kindred Spirit, Inside the Chinese Nuclear Espionage Scandal
Notra Trulock
Manufacturer: Encounter books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I3XE3E

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