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A grain of mustard seed
Alice Albertson Shurrocks
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Nantucket Wild Flowers
Alice O. Albertson
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NANTUCKET WILD FLOWERS. Illustrated by Anne Hinchman
Alice O. Albertson
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Wildflowers of Nantucket
Peter W Dunwiddie
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A Ten-Star Book on Wildflowers.......2006-10-19
Just as the title states, this book contains information on all of the wildflowers which grow on Nantucket, but the real value is in the beautiful and delicate color illustrations by M. J. Levy Dickson. Worth owning. Please see the image in "customer image."
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National Geographic Traveler: Florence and Tuscany (National Geographic Traveler)
Tim Jepson
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ASIN: 0792279247
Release Date: 2001-03-01 |
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- In-depth site descriptions and background information
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- Complete visitor information plus hotels, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment
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Great Series.......2002-05-12
I have a few of these National Geographic Traveler books. This is a great series of books. This one on Florence and Tuscany is my favorite. The images and thick glossy paper make these books really stand out. After reading the one on Florence I was hard pressed to actually go there because I felt like I saw everything there is to see from the pictures in the book. The maps are great and make getting around the cities easy. I have been through Tuscany a lot in the past year and this is the only guide book I've used.
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National Geographic Traveler: Florence & Tuscany, 2d Ed. (National Geographic Traveler)
Tim Jepson
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ASIN: 0792253183
Release Date: 2006-02-21 |
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Completely revised and updated guidebooks from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed series. Profusely illustrated with full-color maps, photographs, and specially commissioned artwork, packed with detailed information, savvy advice, and much more, they're a favorite with travelers everywhereand the critics love them as well.
"Sensational photos, superb maps, and prose that's authoritative." San Francisco Chronicle
"It's like reading and looking at a really in-depth National Geographic essay." Seattle Times
"All the glossy thoroughness you would expect from the brand name, with an impressive list of contributors."The Times (London)
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"Filled with beautiful photography, and excellent color maps; after all, this is National Geographic, a publisher that's had about a hundred years experience in doing this kind of thing." The Tennessean
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THE best general travel guides.......2007-05-13
National Geographic started this series of travel guides a few years back, and, after 16 years of leading student tours to Europe and trying other popular travel publications, I can highly recommend the NG series. The maps are some of the best in this category and I especillay appreciate the way the authors/editors divide cities and countries into easily digestible and fun to use sections. Another plus are the suggested walking tours. If you're heading across the pond, these are the travel guides to invest in.
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Sir Francis Drake and the Foundation of a World Empire (Explorers of New Worlds)
Jim Gallagher
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- Three essays, four prose selections, and the drawings in wonderful colour
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The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation
Elka Spoerri ,
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In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger
ASIN: 0691114986 |
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In his day (1864-1930) and after, the Swiss mental patient and self-taught artist Adolf Wolfli inspired some heavy-hitter patrons: Andre Breton, Jean Dubuffet, Meret Oppenheim, Jonathan Borovsky. But most esthetes encountering him today will do so with the later, now more-famous outsider artist Henry Darger in mind. Like Darger, Wolfli sought to tame his pedophilic madness by organizing it into an incredibly elaborate art exploring what Darger called "the realms of the unreal," where a mind incapable of coping with the real world could construct and rigidly control a world of infinite beauty and sights denied all ordinary mortals. Wolfli was technically superior to Darger, though his collages clipped from magazines (often the Illustrated London News) were not so central to his imagination as the clip-and-trace fantasy battles of little girls that obsessed Darger. In fact, Wolfli was strikingly diverse in his imagery, echoing by turns San Francisco psychedelia, Northwest Coast native-American art, folk art from all over the planet, Bauhaus or Constructivist typographical experiments, and William Blake visions. What windstorms were to Darger, waterfalls were to Wolfli: symbols of the uncontrollable passions that drove through him. Wolfli conceived of himself as a multimedia artist in a way only a schizophrenic could imagine: his drawings were also musical compositions, images and letters imbued with sounds, and time reconceived as a unit of space. I find Wolfli's imagination less vast than Darger's, and less numbingly repetitive. His narratives are slightly more intelligible: it's all about a Wolfli character's epic journey from poverty and brutal oppression (no fantasy) to apotheosis in the "St. Adolf-Giant-Creation," a realm so immense he ran out of numbers to describe it and was forced to invent 23 new numerals beyond quadrillion, ending with the biggest number of all, Zorn (German for "rage"). This eye-opening book could make Wolfli all the rage, but it can't hope to contain his imagination. --Tim Appelo
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Despite being institutionalized for schizophrenia at age thirty-one, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) achieved artistic greatness in his cell at Waldau Mental Asylum near his native Bern, Switzerland. He has had a profound influence on modern art ever since; André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuvres of the twentieth century." The Art of Adolf Wölfli offers a fresh vantage point on the artist's remarkably intricate drawings and astonishing collages, as well as his newly translated writings, which are justly celebrated for their dizzying blend of mythology and humor. Also included are illuminating essays by leading specialists on his art and life.
Wölfli's youth was one of deprivation. His alcoholic father ran off when Wölfli was five, and his mother died soon after. Despite these travails, he managed to complete his education, acquiring the sophisticated literacy so evident in his later work. However, beginning at age twenty-six, his repeated attempts to molest young girls landed him first in jail and, in 1894, in the asylum. Though violent at first, by 1899 he calmed down--and began to draw.
Working primarily in pencil on newsprint, Wölfli created a dense, stunningly detailed medley of wildly imaginative prose texts interwoven with poems, musical compositions, color illustrations, and collages. His five-part magnum opus, "St. Adolf-Giant-Creation," comprises 45 large volumes and 16 notebooks--25,000 pages in all--containing 1,620 drawings and 1,640 collages.
Sure to be the authoritative resource for this remarkable oeuvre, this striking book represents compelling testimony that great torment does not preclude great art.
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American Folk Art Museum, New York
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Milwaukee Art Museum
September 18 - December 12, 2004
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Three essays, four prose selections, and the drawings in wonderful colour.......2006-03-28
THE ART OF ADOLF WOLFLI: St Adolf-Giant-Creation is a presentation of the works of the mad Swiss artist, whose institutionalization in a Bern asylum in 1895 led to a prolific career of thousands of drawings and literary endeavours. The book was prepared to accompany a 2003 exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum.
The book contains three essays on various facets of Wolfli's life and work. Elka Spoerri's "Adolf Wolfli: Artist/Builder" is a bibiography and presentation of the basic techniques of his work, including the various shapes he used due to horror vacui. Daniel Baumann's "Calculation of Interest" tells of the reaction to Wolfli's work among critics, other artists, and mental health professional. I was surprised to find that his work was known even before Morgenthaler published his notable monograph. And as I discovered Wolfli through the music of Per Norgard, I was delighted that Baumann talks of the many composers inspired by Wolfli's work. Edward M. Gomez' "Adolf Wolfli: Visionary Graphic Designer" sees Wolfli not as a curiosity, the madman who can draw, but as a truly original creative figure whose art is a contribution to modern design. In between these essays are selections from Wolfli's writings, including poetry, a tale from his imaginary travelogue, and an aetiology from his peculiar cosmology where God the Father is created by Orpheus and the pregnant Mary.
The latter half of the book are the plates. Wolfli's drawings are presented in gorgeous full colour, with many being full-page (and a few half-page). I've seen many Wolfli works before, but not in such fine quality. Drawings such as "The Rings of the Ocean and the Island, Scepter-Giant-Fountain in St Adolf-Kiss-Giant-Sea" and "Holy St Adolf Tower" are awesome in this presentation. This and the critical/historical material makes this all a very recommended book for those interested in the art of Wolfli.
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Guide to Owning a Canary (The Guide to Owning Series)
Linda A. Lindner
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Manual Practico De Canarios/ the Guide to Owning a Canary (Animales De Compania / Companion Animals)
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Jean Taylor Federico
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How to speak furniture with an antique American accent: An extensive American furniture vocabulary : explaining what, where and when including chicanery, clues, characteristics, and clarifications
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Magic of Irises
Barbara Perry Lawton
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The magic of irises. : An article from: Prairie Garden
Marilyn Brown
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This digital document is an article from Prairie Garden, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1699 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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Cerambycidae of Northern Asia: Cerambycinae
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Volume II, part 1 contains keys to the tribes based on adult insects, larvae, and pupae of the subfamily Cerambycinae, and information of the ecology of 23 genera and 47 species of the tribes Hesperophanini, Cerambycini, Callidopini, Graciliini, Obriini, Nathriini, Molorchini, Dilusini, Callichromini, Rosaliini, and Callidiini. The material for part II was collected during many years of investigations. This book presents keys to the genera and species of the tribes Clytini and Stenaspini based on various developmental stages, and a detailed description of the morphology, geographic distribution and biology of cerambycids (14 genera, 61 species).
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Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary
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U.S. Latinos have made important contributions to American society, and this biographical dictionary is devoted to celebrating those contributions. All 127 men and women profiled in this work have immigrated to or been born in the United States and have made major contributions to American life and culture. Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and others of Spanish, South American, Central American and Caribbean heritage--more than one-third of them women--represent 35 fields of endeavor and all 50 states. From historical figures to the newest sports champion, figure-skater Rudy Galindo, this work provides profiles of both prominent and important but less-familiar people who have made significant contributions in their fields. Many of those profiled can be found in no other biographical source. A selection of photos complements the text. All biographies have been written by experts in their ethnic fields. Those profiled range widely from distinguished scientists to sports stars, from actors to activists, from businesswomen to political personalities, from literary luminaries to labor organizers. All are potential role models for young men and women, and many have overcome extreme odds to succeed. These colorfully written, substantive biographies detail their subjects' goals, struggles, and commitments to success and to their ethnic communities. Among the 127 people profiled are: Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis Alvarez; Treasurer of the United States Romana Acosta Banuelos; actor/composer/activist Ruben Blades; classical dancer Fernando Bujones; baseball player Jose Canseco; U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos Jr.; writer Sandra Cisneros; fashion designer Oscar de la Renta; U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart; teacher Jaime Escalante; composer/singer Gloria Estefan; tennis players Gigi Fernandez and Mary Joe Fernandez; playwright Maria Fornes; U.S. Men's 1996 Figure Skating Champion Rudy Galindo; physician/political activist Hector Garcia; Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta; labor leader Dolores Huerta; U.S. Ambassador Mari-Luci Jaramillo; artist Marisol; civil-rights activist Vilma Socorro Martinez; businessman/politician Jorge Mas Canosa; federal judge Harold Medina; graphic artist Nicholasa Mohr; U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello; astronaut Ellen Ochoa; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Severo Ochoa; TV personality Geraldo Rivera; U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; educational psychologist George I. Sanchez; newspaper editor Roberto Suarez; women's rights activist/businesswoman Maria Elena Torano-Pantin; New York State Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres; mystic Teresa Urrea; film producer/director Luis Valdez. For ease of use, the heading of each profile identifies ethnic group, field of endeavor, birthdate and, where appropriate, death date. Each profile concludes with a suggested reading list of books and periodical articles about the subject. An ethnic index, field of endeavor index, and a general index make research easy. This much needed reference work is essential for school and public libraries.
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Customer Reviews:
Roberto Clemente by Thomas W. Gilbert.......2001-10-17
This biography by Thomas W. Gilbert on Roberto Clemente was very informational but at times lackluster and unexciting. In the book, the author described Roberto Clemente as one of the greatest baseball players and a person who valued life. He died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve in 1972. He was going to Nicaragua to help earthquake victims, but the DC-7 cargo plane developed engine failure and the plane turned back for San Juan. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, the only player to be immediately inducted. He finished with 3,000 hits, 12 gold gloves, 4 batting titles, and other great accomplishments. I think young readers and baseball fans would enjoy this book because it is informative about his life and his career. This book is unique from others because it went in depth more than other books I read. The language of the book was very understanding and it used many thrilling adjectives to describe games and it used some similes but not a lot. The author also included great realistic details, and various quotes from players. This is a great book for baseball fans of all ages.
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Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary
Conchita F. Serri Matt S. Meier
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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