Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses
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    Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses

    Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

    GeneralGeneral | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
    GrassesGrasses | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
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    ASIN: 052138060X

    Book Description

    An authoritative guide to current problems in the world's most important plant families including cereals, the major forages, amenity grasses and those able to stabilize desert margins. After dealing with a computerized approach to grass taxonomy, the book considers in detail the grass spikelet. Thereafter, it examines fertilization, apomixis, and the structure of grass populations. The helpful role of grasses in reversing the trend toward desertification is also considered. The book then examines how molecular biology and tissue culture can be used with grass pollens to mitigate hay fever. Finally, the book seeks to identify some of the current major themes and key issues in grass research.

    Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 3) (Eat Smart, No 3)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Essential for travelers and foodies
    • This is a spectacular guide to Indonesian cuisine.
    • Well researched, accurate and very informative..
    • The Most Comprehensive and Readible Survey
    • An indispensable companion for travellers.
    Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 3) (Eat Smart, No 3)
    Joan Peterson , and David Peterson
    Manufacturer: Ginkgo Press
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0964116812

    Amazon.com

    You may go to Indonesia for puppet theater and white beaches, but you'll return dreaming of nasi goreng (fried rice) and opor ayam (spicy coconut chicken). Still, there are so many Indonesian treasures that you might have tried, if only you'd known how to ask for them, and felt reasonably confident of the ingredients. Happily, Joan and David Peterson are masters of conferring culinary smarts. They provide regional specialties, food market aplomb, restaurant phrases, a glossary of ingredients, and the main course--an extensive list of Indonesian entries with English translations. I wish this book had been available when I visited Sumatra and Bali.

    Book Description

    The compact, portable, and very readable EAT SMART guides to world cuisinethe first of their kindhelp travelers experience the delicious culinary delights of a foreign destination. This popular series contains fascinating food history, insight on regional specialties, great recipes to preview the tastes of the country, useful phrases, handy shopping tips, and two extensive bilingual dictionaries to simplify navigating menu and market. Travelers can now easily determine whats on the menu, whats in the market, whats on their plate, and what they can ask for as they travel.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Essential for travelers and foodies.......2000-06-17

    This little book is essential for travelers to a country where food is riotously varied, delicious and, to most of us, utterly unfamiliar. It begins with a brief historical survey of the cuisine, citing the contributions of successive immigrant or colonial groups, then slices the other way, with sections on Indonesia's major culinary regions and their specialties and characteristics. Recipes, a listing of US sources for ingredients, then phrases in Indonesian all follow. Two alphabetical listings are the heart of the book: One is of menu items, with brief descriptions and notations; the other is of "foods and flavors" (and utensils, cooking methods and so on), in Indonesian, with English translations or explanations. The whole is thorough, information-packed and mouthwatering.

    5 out of 5 stars This is a spectacular guide to Indonesian cuisine........1999-02-16

    For a country of 17,000 islands and 670 dialects, and complex traditions, religion and culture, no one-including Indonesians-can claim to know more about Indonesia's traditional food tastes than the authors of Eat Smart in Indonesia. Their guide is the first ever published with in-depth information about the unique and diverse food of Indonesia. -William W. Wongso, culinary educator, president of William F & B Management, Jakarta, Java

    5 out of 5 stars Well researched, accurate and very informative.........1999-02-06

    The authors have written a series of Eat Smart books that no traveler to foreign countries should be without. Each book covers a separate country--Eat Smart in Turkey, Eat Smart in Brazil, Eat Smart in Indonesia and Eat Smart in Mexico--and is chock full of information that you won't find elsewhere within the covers of one easy-to-carry paperback. Individual chapters cover such topics as the history of the country's cuisine, regional foods, how to shop in the local markets, mail-order sources for suppliers of ingredients, and a collection of recipes for typical dishes found in that country. Especially useful is each book's extensive menu guide, listing menu terms alphabetically in the language of the foreign country, with a description of the dish in English. That section is followed by a chapter titled "Foods & Flavors"--listing the foreign terms for foods, spices, kitchen utensils and cooking techniques, with an English translation/description. These books are well researched, accurate and very informative. Highly recommended. --Sharon Hudgins, editor, Chile Pepper magazine

    5 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive and Readible Survey.......1999-01-18

    Soundly researched, clearly written, artistically illustrated, "Eat Smart in Indonesia" is the most comprehensive and readable survey of the whole scope of Indonesian gastronomy I have ever come across. It is equally valuable as a solid reference work for the scholar and as exotic inspiration for the chef or home entertainer. Bill Dalton, founder, Moon Travel Guides; author, "Indonesian Handbook"

    5 out of 5 stars An indispensable companion for travellers........1998-12-22

    This is a lovely book, full of knowledge and wisdom, a pleasure to read, an indispensable companion for travellers who care about what they're eating. If you are only thinking of going, cook some of these Indonesian recipes and taste the islands for yourself. I only wish there were a guidebook like this for every country where people still know how to eat well. -Sri Owen, author, Indonesian Regional Cooking

    Ancienct Civilizations, Grades 4-6
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      Ancienct Civilizations, Grades 4-6
      Jean Wolf
      Manufacturer: Instructional Fair
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 156822060X

      Corporate Interiors No.3
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • A Splendid Find
      Corporate Interiors No.3

      Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

      GeneralGeneral | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      Professional ReferenceProfessional Reference | Interior Design | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      GeneralGeneral | Building Types & Styles | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
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      ASIN: 1584710004

      Book Description

      Work performed by today's leading architecture/interior design firms is showcased in a compendium of noteworthy projects produced for corporations across the United States. Written by an esteemed professional with long experience in the field, whose perspective on contract design ranks this the quintessential book on corporate interiors, the book covers installations for Fortune 500 companies as well as new and rising firms concerned with image and office environment.

      Stanley Abercrombie, author of Hospitality & Restaurant Design, Corporate Interiors No. 2, and other design books, is editorial director of Interior Design magazine.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A Splendid Find.......2001-06-01

      Corporate Interiors No. 3 unfolds the highly dynamic interplay of spatial transformation through some very exciting projects, varying from the classically conservative office space to the more blatantly modern conceptions. It highlights the brilliance of the Design firms by focusing on the innovative solutions through each of the 150 projects that comprise it. The photographs add to the visual stimulation, increasing its value far beyond the paper and the ink. A definate must to have around while studying, working or otherwise!
      Corporate Interiors No. 3.
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        Corporate Interiors No. 3.
        STANLEY (ED.) ABERCROMBIE
        Manufacturer: See notes
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000RQTNC8

        Pyrenean Mastiff (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series)
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          Pyrenean Mastiff (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series)
          Christina De Lima-Netto
          Manufacturer: Kennel Club Books
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

          BreedsBreeds | Dogs | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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          ASIN: 1593783639

          Book Description

          As grand and wondrous as the Pyrenean mountains whence he comes, the Pyrenean Mastiff is an awe-inspiring guardian breed that remains one of Spain's best kept secrets. The Pyrenean Mastiff is rugged enough to weather the outdoors, though he prefers to be indoors with his family, to whom he is fiercely devoted. Towering at over 32 inches at the shoulder, the adult Pyrenean Mastiff offers expert protection for home and property, given his natural aloofness to strangers. Additionally, owners will prize this noble breed's calm, confident demeanor and its superior intelligence and bravery. The author provides a thorough history of the breed in its native Spain as well as in the US, where the breed has begun to win new admirers. In detailing the breed's history, the author rightly credits Rafael Malo as the savior of the modern breed and the man responsible for promoting the breed internationally through his La Tajadera del Tío Roy kennel.

          The first book of its kind in English, this Special Rare-Breed Edition serves as a comprehensive introduction to the Pyrenean Mastiff, written by Spanish breed fancier, Christina de Lima-Netto, who provides an insightful look at the breed's characteristics and the Spanish breed standard. Illustrated with over 135 color photographs, the book also presents sound and useful advice about puppy selection, house-training, feeding, coat care, health concerns, obedience training, behavior and more.
          Pyrenean mastiff: Guardian of the Spanish Pyrenees
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            Pyrenean mastiff: Guardian of the Spanish Pyrenees
            Karin S Graefe
            Manufacturer: Pyrenean Mastiff Club of America
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Unknown Binding

            GeneralGeneral | Veterinary Medicine | Medicine | Subjects | Books
            ASIN: 0966289404

            Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
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              Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
              Reyahn King
              Manufacturer: National Portrait Gallery
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 1855141922

              Book Description

              Insight into the life of an ex-slave writer in England.
              An African Man of Letters
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                An African Man of Letters
                Ignatius Sancho
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Paperback
                ASIN: B000VX1XC0

                Advanced Guide to Hydroponics (Soilless Cultivation)
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • none better
                Advanced Guide to Hydroponics (Soilless Cultivation)
                James Sholto Douglas
                Manufacturer: Viking Penguin Inc
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 0720715717

                Customer Reviews:

                5 out of 5 stars none better.......1999-06-22

                the best non PhD book on hydroponics,Why? is it out of print
                Advanced Guide to Hydroponics
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                  Advanced Guide to Hydroponics

                  Manufacturer: Michael Joseph
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover
                  ASIN: 0720708303

                  Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings
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                    Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings
                    Susan Berry
                    Manufacturer: Cassell
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Hardcover

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                    ASIN: 030434611X
                    Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings: Ideas and Inspiration for Hardworking Areas in the Home
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                      Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings: Ideas and Inspiration for Hardworking Areas in the Home
                      Susan Berry
                      Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Paperback

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                      ASIN: 0304349496
                      Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings
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                        Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings
                        Susan Berry
                        Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Paperback
                        ASIN: B000ORV0A8
                        Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings: Ideas and Inspiration for Hardworking Areas in the Home
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                          Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings: Ideas and Inspiration for Hardworking Areas in the Home
                          Susan Berry
                          Manufacturer: Cassell/ Sterling
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback
                          ASIN: B000NHWI5A

                          Still Lovers
                          Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                          • "Realer than Real"
                          Still Lovers
                          Elena Dorfman
                          Manufacturer: Channel Photographics
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                          ASIN: 097667081X

                          Book Description

                          A fascinating, serious, and shocking glimpse into an alien realm, these are art photos of the complex relationships between sex dolls and their owners. These are not kitschy inflatables, but life-sized expensive, highly realistic dolls, customized to the smallest detail. Dorfman's deft treatment of the subject and neutral color palette keep the images grounded in documentary tradition, neither prurient nor fantastic. Viewers can believe in the owners' vision of these dolls as free objects of relation from this candid and non-judgmental approach. The dolls become sculptural beauties, sex kittens, companions, and family members. A woman owns several dolls representing different aspects of her personality. A military officer dreams of marrying his Rebecca. A family goes about their morning routine as Valentine sits at the table in a demure cardigan and straw hat. These photos are as riveting and culture-shifting as those of Diane Arbus.

                          Customer Reviews:

                          3 out of 5 stars "Realer than Real".......2007-05-27

                          The very interesting and well written introduction to what is essentially a photo book ended too soon. Photos are sharp and clear but many of the doll poses are "common." I would have preferred a little more creativity and artistry in the latter department. I also would have appreciated some photos of other than the (admittedly beautiful) "Realdoll."
                          The Hasselblad way;: The Hasselblad photographer's companion
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • Manual for using older Hasselblad cameras.
                          The Hasselblad way;: The Hasselblad photographer's companion
                          Heinrich Freytag
                          Manufacturer: Focal Press; distributed in the U.S.A. by Amphoto, New York
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Unknown Binding

                          GeneralGeneral | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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                          ASIN: 0817406204

                          Customer Reviews:

                          5 out of 5 stars Manual for using older Hasselblad cameras........2004-01-22

                          Before Wildi's The Hasselblad Manual came on the scene and the various editions became the bible for Hasselblad users, there was Freytag's The Hasselblad Way. This tome covers the use of and accessories for the Hasselblad SLRs and SWCs of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This book is a good place to start if you are trying to use one of the olders Hasselblad cameras with the older C type lenses and accessories. For one example, this book explains which ends of the dual cable release go to which end on the old style bellows. Now I can reliable get the lens shutter and the camera shutter working in the proper sequence for macro work. There are many little nuggets like this that no longer have a place with the more modern focus of the newer books. So if you have a 500 or 2000 series Hasselblad camera, this book can help you utilize all the potential of those cameras better.
                          Young Companions
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • Young Companions
                          Young Companions

                          Manufacturer: Bruno Gmunder
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Hardcover

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                          ASIN: 3861872579

                          Customer Reviews:

                          5 out of 5 stars Young Companions.......2006-04-14

                          The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. Destined to be a late-modern erotic photography classic. Published in a small and limited print run as a paperback original only. Should not be confused with the pocket-sized edition, which was brought out in 2002 by the publisher. A handsome production by Bruno Gmunder Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with large flaps, as issued. Photographs by Benno Thoma. There is no text. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the photographer's male nudes, mostly in black-and-white. Benno Thoma achieved international status with this collection, which is a tasteful yet highly sensual celebration of the beauty of the young male face and body. Each model is in his teens, on the brink of manhood and exuding a singular mix of shy self-consciousness and bold self-confidence that for Benno Thoma, is the essence of their erotic appeal. Most of the models are photographed full-frontal; some, semi-erect, and two, with full erections. This would all be vulgar in lesser hands, as it were, but Benno Thoma succeeds in making the images seem the most natural thing a young man could have or show or be. This is an Import title and was not widely distributed in the United States. It has been out-of-print for almost a decade and is now very difficult to find.
                          The Retina way;: The Retina photographer's companion
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                            The Retina way;: The Retina photographer's companion
                            Otto R Croy
                            Manufacturer: Focal Press
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Unknown Binding

                            GeneralGeneral | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
                            ASIN: B0007J3A7E
                            Young Companions (Postcard Books (Bruno))
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                              Manufacturer: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh
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                              Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle
                              Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                              • a great tri-ography!
                              • Mr. Leddick Tries To Do Too Much.
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                              • an ardent fan of Paul Cadmus's work
                              • I've stepped in deeper puddles
                              Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle
                              David Leddick
                              Manufacturer: Stonewall Inn Editions
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Paperback

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                              ASIN: 0312271271

                              Book Description

                              From the late 1920's through the early 1950's, photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein helped to create and define the aesthetic and institutions of the American art world. With an overlapping circle of friends, lovers, collaborators, and models, Cadmus, Platt Lynes, and Kirstein created a world of gay esthetics and desire in art that was groundbreaking at the time and remarkable even today. Through hours of conversation with surviving members of their circle as well as unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photographs, David Leddick has brought to vivid life the lives and loves, connections and interconnections, and the inspirations and influences of this now vanished art world.Meticulously researched, completely forthright, and lavishly illustrated, Intimate Companions is a celebration of the art, the lives, and the impact of this groundbreaking circle.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              5 out of 5 stars a great tri-ography!.......2007-05-12

                              leddick's book about the lives and loves of lynes, cadmus and kirstein is one of the best!

                              it's informative, entertaining and a revelation for someone that is a fan of either new york city ballet or the beauteous photographs of george platt lynes. these men were the among the most complex men of arts in the last century. and lynes was even more complex because he was somewhat of an enigma, a self-styled court jester to the 1920 euro-american jet set and literati that got a life when he picked up a camera and began to document his contemporaries.

                              cadmus, by contrast, was the closest to a family man, painting a variety of portraits that documented the crazy seedy life of the west village but choosing to live a domesticated existence with his longtime partner in the countryside of upstate new york(i think, do not hold me to that).

                              but in addition to these lives, which leddick brings to life with humor and a economical approach to his prose, he also weaves in the stories of nycb dancers jose martinez, nicholas magallanes, frank moncion and tanaquil leclercq; other artists such as glenway westcott, leonard bernstein and monroe wheeler and the beautiful hangers-on that modelled for these men and provided characters that would become parts of novels they would write.

                              it's a world that various artists have tried to reconstruct and failed because of lack of talent or too many chemicals but this one time was definitely enough because it was definitely the right mix of people at the right time.

                              3 out of 5 stars Mr. Leddick Tries To Do Too Much........2003-07-11

                              I picked up this book because I like the work of George Platt Lynes and Paul Cadmus a lot. I also read and liked very much Mr. Leddick's first novel and own a couple of his books on male nude photography. (I have little interest in Lincoln Kirstein or ballet either.) I finished this book not having learned much about either of these two men that I cared to remember. Part of the problem is that Mr. Leddick attempts too much. He is art critic, photography critic, dance critic, literary critic as well as consummate gossip. Additionally since there are no footnotes in this book, the reader has no idea whether Leddick's conclusions about anything are his or something he gleaned from the list of sources at the back of the book. Take the opening sentence from Leddick's chapter on Katherine Anne Porter: "Katherine Anne Porter is among the most esteemed women writers of the twentieth century in America." Is that Mr. Leddick's opinion-- and what qualifies him to make such a judgment-- or the literary critics who tell us whom we should read? Incidentally, Ms. Porter comes off as a most distasteful person. Mr. Leddick paints her as homophobic although she obviously hung out with a lot of people whose lives she couldn't tolerate. He might have discussed her racism as well if he wanted to really give us a rounded view of this pretty ugly woman.

                              I would have preferred more insight into what made Mr. Lynes one of America's great photographers and less information and speculation as to whom he did bed or might have taken to bed. Mr. Leddick does discuss at some length many of Cadmus' paintings. Without the actual reproductions preferably in color, however, it is impossible to know whether or not this writer has a clue as to what he is discussing.

                              Mr. Leddick does briefly discuss Lynes' influence on later photographers, particularly Bruce Weber and Herb Ritts. For my money, Lynes is the best photographer of the male nude this country has had. His studio lighting is creative and quite wonderful. Just look at the photographs of anyone who followed him to see the long shadow he cast. (And all this inventive and difficult lighting before the strobe. At least there were no monotonous umbrella reflections in the eyes of Lynes' models.) Robert Mapplethorpe--whose work I admire a lot-- but who lit every photograph he ever took pretty much the same way-- could certainly have learned a plenty from studying Lynes' lighting.

                              So if you want to appreciate these two men-- study their works and made your own judgments. Mr. Leddick has edited a fine book on Mr. Lynes' photographs and there are several fine books on Cadmus in color.

                              1 out of 5 stars [weak].......2003-03-31

                              This is an abyssally written, horribly researched, inaccurate, unorganized babble of idle gossip about some truly great artists and writers. The author should not attempt to write about things beyond his limited ken. What a travesty that a publisher would agree to print such garbage!

                              3 out of 5 stars an ardent fan of Paul Cadmus's work.......2002-07-08

                              My sole reason for acquiring this book was to learn more of the very private-seeming artist Paul Cadmus and to uderstand how he and Lincoln Kirstein came to be inlaws. As a result of the focus on George Platt Lynes, I will pursue more of his work as well. This narrative/history clarifies the various Cadmus paintings featuring Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Westcott plus additional models. Personally, their sexual orientation is of no interest to me. Their art and contributions to art are indisputable. I enjoyed Mr. Leddick's presentation, which was fun and breezy. I look forward to locating Platt Lynes exhibitions and hope to view original Cadmus paintings before long. As for Jared French, imagine my surprise to discover a painting of his at the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, NY. Not once was there a single mention that any of these gentlemen might be fans of baseball, but you just never know, do you.

                              2 out of 5 stars I've stepped in deeper puddles.......2002-01-26

                              As shallow look at some shallow men, specialy Platt Lynes. Only Paul Cadmus seems to have some reedeming qualities, and he is portrayed as undersexed and remote. I am glad I did not know any of these men.
                              The Retina Reflex way;: The Retina Reflex photographer's companion
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                                The Retina Reflex way;: The Retina Reflex photographer's companion
                                L. A Mannheim
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                                ASIN: B0007IUPVE
                                The Sappho Companion
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                                The Sappho Companion
                                Margaret Reynolds
                                Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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                                ASIN: 0312239246

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                                The ways in which this sparkling, unexpected anthology will be classified in libraries and bookstores--lesbian studies; classical studies--will strike anyone who reads it as absurd. A sweeping look at the persistence of the Greek poet Sappho in the artistic and popular imagination, The Sappho Companion draws on everything from the Roman myths of Sappho to the eighteenth century rediscovery of Herculaneum, with its intriguing papyrus fragments, to Pat Califia's 1980 lesbian S/M book, Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality (out of print). The only book that compares to The Sappho Companion in its breadth and imaginative vigor is Charles Sprawson's lyrical book on swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero, in which the swan-diving Sappho makes an appearance. You don't need to know a thing about Sappho to relish this book, but for true enthusiasts, it makes a good companion volume for Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho, Paige DuBois's Sappho is Burning, and Anne Carson's brilliant meditation, Eros: The Bittersweet. --Regina Marler

                                Book Description

                                Born around 630 BC on the Greek Island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. We see her image change, recreated in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, and H.D., in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Carol Rumens, and Jeanette Winterson. Artists, too, have felt Sappho's power, and The Sappho Companion contains a rich variety of illustrations: classical statues and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Roman mosaics, and Romantic pornography.

                                Customer Reviews:

                                5 out of 5 stars NOT yawn!.......2003-02-12

                                I don't know what the previous reviewer is talking about; I loved this book. Granted, I am no scholar of Sappho. Although I have read various translations of her poetry in the past, I do not read Greek and cannot comment upon whether Reynolds' research is accurate. However, given her amazing previous work (editing Aurora Leigh, the Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, etc.) I am inclined to trust her (and I like her writing style anyway).

                                For me, this book was the perfect introduction to Sappho. It includes historical background followed by many of Sappho's fragments in a variety of translations. But that's just the beginning: Reynolds goes on to show how Sappho has been imagined/created by literature up to the present day. She anthologizes a variety of poems, plays, and fictions inspired by Sappho. It is amazing to see how, though so little of her writing survived, she has remained a titaness in our imaginations. Each literary generation has reinvented and recreated her. Reading Jeanette Winterson's amazing story "The Poetics of Sex" (narrated by a modern-day Sappho) fills me with hope and joy at the potential for lesbian creativity that is Sappho's legacy. I also appreciated the inclusion of works of art depicting Sappho through the ages. Although they are in black and white, they are an exquisite visual touch to this beautiful volume (the cover art is amazing as well).

                                I urge you not to judge this book by one bad review. It is a book to be perused at leisure, to leaf through in times of anxious sorrow and contemplative joy. Buy or borrow a copy and judge it for yourself.

                                1 out of 5 stars Yawn.......2002-10-01

                                I don't know for whom this book may have been written. For the Sapphophile, there are certainly more exhaustive and interesting books, some are which are noted in the bibliography at the end. Furthermore, for all the treacly editorial reviews about Ms. Reynolds's scholarly resources (which are certainly evident), she abuses them time and time again in two ways, one merely bothersome, and the other approaching dishonesty. 1.)She frequently truncates the passages from other authors just when they begin to get interesting. 2) She frequently selects works of literature, particularly poems, that may or may not have anything to do with Sappho and offers no solid evidence that they do. They are, I guess, Sapphic by association. Reynolds's association. The two most obvious examples are Shelley's "To Constantia, Singing" and Emily Dicknson's ""Heaven"- Is What I Cannot Reach!" To take the latter as a case in point, the poem is supposed to be Sapphic because of a three line Sappho fragment (#105) about an apple on the topmost bough. Need I remind everyone that there was another apple on a bough in another book that has a far more rich cultural history. And given that Dickinson's poem concerns "Heaven" and "Paradise," it seems a stretch, so to speak, to see the poem as influenced by the Sapphic fragment. Truth be known, I spent many more hours meditating on Ms. Dickinson's exquisite 15 line poem than I did in reading the rest of the entire hodgepodge of this book, though I plodded through from srart to finish.
                                So, my advice is to buy a book of Ms. Dickinson's poems or a more intriguing and honest study of Sappho. This book is just a non-starter.
                                The Hasselblad Way: The Hasselblad Photographer's Companion
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                                  The Hasselblad Way: The Hasselblad Photographer's Companion
                                  H. Freytag
                                  Manufacturer: Focal Pr.
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                                  ASIN: B000K4ZLCI
                                  The Asahi Pentax way: The Asahi Pentax photographer's companion
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                                    The Asahi Pentax way: The Asahi Pentax photographer's companion
                                    H Keppler
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                                    Breaking Through: A Migrant Child's Journey from the Field
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                                    Breaking Through: A Migrant Child's Journey from the Field
                                    Francisco Jimenez
                                    Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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                                    Binding: School & Library Binding

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                                    5 out of 5 stars Outstanding.......2003-11-24

                                    This book is has an amazing story I would recommend to anyone!

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