Life on the Tanque Verde: The History (Book 1)

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Tonga & Samoa in one book

samoan language

Finally - a practical guide to Tonga

Telling it like it is

this book tells it as it is

Moon Handbooks Tonga-Samoa (Moon Handbooks)
David Stanley
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Travelers will be lured to the region by David Stanley's inviting presentation of legends about demigods and directions to the undersea caves and canyons in Tonga. Stanley also provides a brief history of tattooing rituals and suggestions on where to find budget breakfast bowls of cocoa and rice in Western Samoa. The informed, compact guide to Western, or "old," Polynesia profiles beautiful Samoa, fascinating Pago Pago, traditional Tonga (where a king still rules), and friendly Niue. Neatly packaging all the information explorers of the colorful region could require, Tonga-Samoa Handbook will prove a top-notch traveling companion.

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Tonga & Samoa in one book.......2002-08-07

I used the Moon guidebook to Tonga and Samoa during a 3 1/2 week trip to the South Pacific in early 2001. I found the book very useful because it covers Tonga and Samoa in one condensed book. There are enough details to travel on both island groups for a couple of weeks and not missing information in this great guidebook. The book is still quite accurate there is enough details for each spot you will visit on your trip. In general this book has helped me a lot to find my way around the islands with detailed maps and a wide range of unbiased information.

samoan language.......2002-01-04

i would like to order a book that is telling all old samoan stories and customs and the faasamoa in the samoan language..

Finally - a practical guide to Tonga.......2000-11-24

As president of Sea for Yourself snorkeling tours, I'm obligated on behalf of my clients, to stay informed about the destinations we visit. Although we've been operating programs in Tonga for many years that allow snorkelers to actually swim with humpback whales, we keep a copy of David's Tonga/Samoa Handbook in the office in order to answer questions from clients about areas other than Tonga. In addition to Tonga, this book has extensive coverage of Samoa, American Samoa, and Niue.

In this book, the reader will find all the practical info (that continues to distinguish all of David's books) including travel tips, accommodations, meals, etc. I also appreciate the special attention given to cultural background, political and economic elements, and particular vignettes (such as the explanations of coral reef ecology and the palolo worm). However, the sections I personally find most useful include the pages on Internet sites, email addresses, and the bibliography.

I started using David's books (South Pacific Handbook) in 1982, and they have always been valuable and trusted travel companions. We always take this book with us on our programs to Tonga because it makes a useful reference for both staff and participants. Plus, since this book is easily available, I'm always happy to refer our clients to David's Tonga/Samoa Handbook when they are seeking to purchase a single accurate source of both practical and background information about this section of the Pacific.

Telling it like it is.......2000-11-09

David Stanley says he always travels incognito and never takes any "freebies" from any travel purveyors, so he doesn't get any special treatment that you wouldn't get and he doesn't "owe" anyone a good review. And you can sure tell. He is not afraid to give his opinion on anything and everything. Isn't that what you really need from a guidebook? If I want a sanitized version, I can get that for free from the tourist bureau. I like to know if a company is dispreputable or if a hotel is unsafe--especially for a woman traveler. I also especially liked the introductory sections that give you a good background of the culture of the peoples and info on the unusual flora and fauna.

this book tells it as it is.......2000-09-16

I used the Moon guide while in Samoa and was glad I had a source which dealt with matters not covered in the brochures on the airport counter. Some of the writers of the other guidebooks I saw seem to have been chaperoned by the Samoa Visitors Bureau. If you want more than an Alice in Wonderland view of paradise, this is the book.

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The Complete Caricature Course!

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Let's Toon Caricatures
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This is an instructional book on how to draw cartoon caricatures. With over 150 photos to practice from, it is the most extensive caricature book ever published. Multiple styles and medias are explored and there are step by step examples of how to draw caricature faces and cartoon bodies.

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Great book!.......2007-03-24

I highly recommend this book! It is a fun and easy read. It breaks down the drawing process step by step, body part by body part getting you on your way to start drawing caricatures like a pro!

The Complete Caricature Course!.......2005-11-09

For a complete novice who suddenly realised it would be fun to have a go at drawing caricatures, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Other "how to" books on the subject left me feeling inadeqate and incapable of drawing anything resembling my victims. When Keelans book safely and quickly arrived to me here in the UK, the easy step by step illustrations immediatley gave me the confidence and skill I was lacking and my results have rapidly improved.

I now find myself staring a strangers trying to decide how I would tackle their caricature by wondering what their head shape is and how their features are arranged. Thanks Keelan!

Bravo, lad! Compliments to the author.......2005-10-21

Keelan, I am so happy for your success selling your great "How To" book. I have shown it to curious youngsters and it's a wonderful starting point for future Face Hustlers. Concise and fun to look at.

Thanks for the inspiration. I am trying to get mine for sale here as well. Wish me luck!

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it's a Useful book.......2005-09-13

Yap it's a useful Book..it help me a lot in improving my drawing.. learn a lot from this book.. it's a great book to buy! Pic is more than the word, not like others like writing grandmother story.. word more than pic..that would be boring but this book won't..overall this book is very useful to me for drawing pic for my teachers..

Mary West.......2005-09-12

This is the best step by step caricature book. Many pictures and examples to follow. Keelan kept it simple, thorough, fun and funny.

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Beautiful Breed!.......2003-01-28

This book is filled with beautiful photographs and extremely helpful information. After reading the book, I feel I have a much better understanding of the breed. The author is obviously extremely knowledgable with the care and training of border collies.

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New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture, Second Edition

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Where is the sequel?

New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture, Second Edition
Susanna Sirefman , and Keith Collie
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New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system. The book considers architecture not as something that happens on isolated building sites, but rather as social, cultural, and political phenomena. At four inches square, this highly portable book is an ideal travel companion.

Some of the other books in the series cover Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Each guidebook has its own flavor, as different writers--usually architects--cover each city. --Loren E. Baldwin

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Updated and rephotographed edition of a massively successful book: the definitive reference to the city's contemporary architectural scene. Covering a diverse range of enormous- to diminutive-scale projects, this book is an urban study rather than just a building guide. The last ten years of post-urban architecture in New York have involved the infrastructure of the city. And with an energy found nowhere else, Manhattan is so vertically jam-packed that any single structure sends reverberations throughout its vicinity. So New York expands and contracts in large chunks, and this guide reveals pockets of change, gentrification and development: Bryant Park, Battery Park City, the future of 42nd Street and Times Square. All five boroughs and Roosevelt Island have been included. Complexes such as the Jacob Javits Convention Center by I.M. Pei are to be found side by side with Steven Holl's Storefront for Art and Architecture. Interiors as well as complete structures are covered. This book is probably the most comprehensive review available of recent architectural activity in New York. Written to appeal to both professionals and anyone interested in the built environment. 150 b/w photographs.

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Where is the sequel?.......2001-09-03

It's a beatiful book, I rated five star but I felt as if I read the first half...Hopefully I'll see the "New York II" shortly on the shelf somewhere..

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the Official collie book

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the Official collie book.......1998-07-09

A beautiful practical tribute sure to delight Collie fans, includes origins, starndard, training, showing, breeding and puppies, and obedience. 345 b/w illust / color breeding chart

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Help wish your family & friends a Happy Holiday with these wonderful Christmas greeting cards created especially by Pet Star Photography! Inside of card reads "May this Holiday find you surrounded by those you love! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!" Card size is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". 6 cards with envelopes.

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Twig the collie.......2000-05-28

I read this book a while ago, but it was one the best I have ever read. I got the book from Craig massey last year before he died. He is a great author, highly recomended.

5 ways to show employees how much you care. : An article from: Printing News

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5 ways to show employees how much you care. : An article from: Printing News
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This digital document is an article from Printing News, published by Cygnus Business Media on May 16, 2005. The length of the article is 1160 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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This book contains 79 color plates and details which include the 29 works from the Tahitian period held in Soviet museums.

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ix, 205 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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Impressions of the Art, not the author
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Impressions of the Art, not the author.......2004-05-21

This book displays the great Russian Impressionists, who ignored the weak, blotter-like colors and meekly dabbing brush work of the French. The book is well worth the price. Russian, Italian, Spanish and even American, Impressionism by far exceeds in style, vigor, spontonaety and boldness of color, that of the French. The French, however, because so many Americans lived there got more headlines. Serov, Irolli, Michetti, Mancini, Sarolla, Fattori and even Sargeant and Brangwyn, are all superior draughtsmen and colorists, with broad slashing, powerful, brush work and able to maintain brilliant color use in huge paintings, as anyone who paints knows is a prodigious feat. Among the French only Manet comes close to those I've mentioned, but even he pales in comparison.

Case of Mistaken Identity.......2002-02-11

It is hard to disagree that this book is well published and probably, along with Bown's Socialist Realist Painting, is the best book on the official Art in the Soviet Union. The quality of reproductions is superb. However, Swanson chooses to see the Socialis Realist Art as Impressionism, and under this newly changed name tag he begins the revisionist compaign ( as did Mr.Bown). What could possibly lead to such a switch in style's identities? It seems that this erroneous view is based on the fact that many of the sketches, landscape studies, and other works ,done from nature, by the Soviet artist do bear some stylistic affinity to the loose and airy impressionist technique. However, such affinity is due to the educational methods of the Soviet academies, where students worked with live models, worked outdoors, etc. Such practices , together with the influence of French and Russian Impressionists of the Nineteenth century, would definitely lead the artists to a more impressionistic portrayal of nature. But, as majority of the works reproduced in the book show, contrary to Mr. Swanson's thesis, Soviet Impressionism has NEVER existed in the form other than small percentage of the Soviet artists artistic output, and as such, it was motivated to be "impressionistic" more by the fact that people would rather buy something "pretty", like a landscape or a still life. Official commisions of oversized Communist compositions were only occasional for many artists, and "Impressionism" provided them with the Marketable Style on the side. This would classify the Soviet Impressionism more as the Soviet Opportunist Realism inside the Larger Socialist Realist Tradition. Soviet Impressionism/ Socialist Realism has never been interested in the portrayal of real world around, it was staging the reality, beautifying it and distorting it. As such it is not worthy of being "Impressionism", if one calls the art of Degas, Cezanne, and Manet the same name. In short the book is the sad example of great pictorial beauty and false revisionist doctrines.

Wonderful!.......2002-01-25

Not only are the photos fabulous, but the text is the most comprehensive and informative account yet of this powerful school of art. Vern Swanson is not afraid to tell it as he sees it. This book is so far the best one written on the subject of Russian Impressionism/Socialist Realism.

*THE* book on Soviet Impressionism.......2002-01-10

Artists are often asked "Who are your influences?" Though Sargent, Sorrolla and Gerhardts are my favorites, I'd have to say that the Soviet Impressionists as a group have had more influence on my work than anyone else.

Ever since I walked into the Soviet gallery at the Sprigville Museum, I've been looking for a book that lives up to that experience. Not suprisingly, the author of this book is the director of that museum. In fact he's probably the leading authority in the country, if not more.

The book is nicely made and well laid-out, with the discussion and explaination of Soviet Impressionism following in a logical order which I find very helpful. This book is mostly color plates of a size you can see (unlike the postage stamp sized black and white ones so many books have.) The color plates are as good as any I've seen (and I'm fairly picky about that) and are true to the original pictures. And the size of the book is just right. It's large enough to be comprehensive without being over-heavy and uncomfortable.

If you're into Soviet Impressionism, this is the book to have. I would have gladly paid more.

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Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-1970s
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Historic Treasures Utopian Spirit Russian Impressionism 1930s-1980s

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Representing an exhibition at Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, Feb. 3 to Apr. 30, 1998. "... The most successful exhibition in [the Museum's] history ... artists represented ... were the official artists of the former Soviet Union. ..." First painting featured in book (and part of it enlarged on cover): Kornienko's "In the Palace of Culture Ballet Class." Last: Vysotski's "Porvoo, City of Finland."

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Modern Russian art,
Louis Lozowick
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Russian light: Russian impressionism/Soviet Socialist realism, 1930's-1970's

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The book explores ways in which Muslim women are portrayed, alongside their experiences of being Muslim and part of a predominantly western culture. It engages with Muslim women living predominantly in the United Kingdom, with contributions from other countries such as Australia, America and Sweden. Religious prejudice is a major theme that permeates the book, providing empirical evidence of ways in which islamophobia and visible symbols, such as the hijab, influence life experiences and perceptions of Muslim women negatively. Accounts of the impact of discrimination on life chances and opportunities are vivid. The book recounts ways in which the women cope in challenging diasporic contexts and concludes with recommendations for positive change. The text will be particularly valuable to anyone interested in issues of gender, religion and ethnicity, including students, employers, politicians and professionals.

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María de San José Salazar (1548-1603) took the veil as a Discalced ("barefoot") Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa of Avila's most important collaborators in religious reform and serving as prioress of the Seville and Lisbon convents. Within the parameters of the strict Catholic Reformation in Spain, María fiercely defended women's rights to define their own spiritual experience and to teach, inspire, and lead other women in reforming their church.

María wrote this book as a defense of the Discalced practice of setting aside two hours each day for conversation, music, and staging of religious plays. Casting the book in the form of a dialogue, María demonstrates through fictional conversations among a group of nuns during their hours of recreation how women could serve as very effective spiritual teachers for each other. The book includes one of the first biographical portraits of Teresa and Maria's personal account of the troubled founding of the Discalced convent at Seville, as well as her tribulations as an Inquisitional suspect. Rich in allusions to women's affective relationships in the early modern convent, Book for the Hour of Recreation also serves as an example of how a woman might write when relatively free of clerical censorship and expectations.

A detailed introduction and notes by Alison Weber provide historical and biographical context for Amanda Powell's fluid translation.

Autobiography and Other Writings (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

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Spanish Studies in Shakespeare And His Contemporaries (The International Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries)

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Spanish Studies in Shakespeare And His Contemporaries (The International Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries)

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