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World renowned as the insider bibles for shopping, the Where to Wear guides are the essential authority on shopping in fourteen cities around the globe. Written by teams of fashion journalists living in each city, Where to Wear tells you what ordinary guidebooks don't: where to find out-of-the-way boutiques, the best places for vintage, for wedding dresses, for childrens' wear. From globally famous names to hidden treasure-houses, Where to Wear shows visitors where to begin and locals where to go next. The reviews are organized alphabetically and accompanied by simple category indexes and neighborhood maps. They also list convenient lunch stops, hairdressers, fitness studios and day spas to cpmplete the whole shopping experience. 2004 saw the first ever San Francisco Fashion Week. In the past, fashion had been a bit overlooked in this city that thrives in art, food, music and culture. But move over New York and L.A., the less hectic San Fran is out to become an established American fashion hub. Where to Wear San Francisco lets you in on the city's secrets and leads you off the beaten-track to unearth new discoveries and wardrobe essentials you never knew you needed. We'll heighten your chances of finding something utterly cool in this friendly city.

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As a rule, artists find a comfortable, workable niche, and stay there for the rest of their lives. A designer, a painter, or a sculptor - rarely do you find someone who can literally do it all, and well! Daniel Horne is one of those irksome individuals, equally adept in practically any medium; his art is breathtaking in scope, imagination, and level of detail. Horne's career has reflected his love of fantasy and fable. The richness of these illustrations comes from a limitless imagination and a trained eye, but also hours and hours of detailed sketches, studies, research drawings. The Daniel Horne Sketchbook Volume One contains intricate break-downs, as well as many finished projects and personal pieces. See for yourself what makes Daniel Horne such a genuine talent, a masterful illustrator, and a true Renaissance man.

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THE SKETCHES OF A TOP FANTASY ARTIST.......2005-09-08

SQP presents another in their outstanding line of sketch books featuring the art of erotic, pin-up and fantasy artists, this time highlighting the work of Daniel Horne. Over the past twenty years or so, Horne has become one of the top cover illustrators of fantasy books, painting literally hundreds of covers as well as illustrating for Dragon Magazine, toy packaging art, producing posters, and sculptures for the Middle Earth action figure line.

The Daniel Horne Sketchbook displays a magnificent sampling of his work from rough layouts to finished illustration, often comparing the two side-by-side so you can see the progression of his work. Horne also provides artist commentary on many of the drawings in the book which is a real treat, especially for aspiring artists.

One of my favorite pieces, and one of Horne's fan's favorites as well, was a cover he did for Dragon Magazine depicting an enormous, armored skeleton, its body filled with arrows charging forward to assail a female archer. I think it's probably the most memorable cover in the history of Dragon Magazine. Horne's work is filled with images of classic fantasy: Trolls, dragons, wizards, damsels in distress, warriors, and all manner of beastly creatures. Another wonder piece is a humorous illustration of a Valkyrie Warrior riding atop a disinterested donkey. I also love the illustration of an Elven mermaid entitled "River Daughter's Lament"

While we mainly know Horne through his unparalleled finished cover paintings, it's interesting to take a glimpse at his sketch work to see it in the earliest stages. Sometimes I think we tend to see a finished piece and not fully realize just how much work goes into it. In addition to his paintings, Horne has also done a great deal of sculpting and design work for toy companies such as Hasbro, Toy Biz, Mattel, and others. This book shows why Horne is one of the top fantasy artists in the business.

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Great Britain Specialised Stamp Catalogue Volume I: Queen Victoria
Stanley Gibbons
Manufacturer: STANLEY GIBBONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LYE970

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GREAT BRITAIN SPECIALISED STAMP CATALOGUE: QUEEN VICTORIA V. 1
STANLEY GIBBONS
Manufacturer: STANLEY GIBBONS LTD
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0852596200

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GREAT BRITAIN SPECIALISED STAMP CATALOGUE: QUEEN VICTORIA V. 1
STANLEY GIBBONS
Manufacturer: STANLEY GIBBONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0852591802

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GREAT BRITAIN SPECIALISED STAMP CATALOGUE: QUEEN VICTORIA V. 1
STANLEY GIBBONS
Manufacturer: STANLEY GIBBONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0852598750

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GREAT BRITAIN VOL 1: QUEEN VICTORIA (Specialised Stamp Catalogue)

Manufacturer: Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000G2PNQ8

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This book will show you how to propagate and cultivate popular varieties, also how to use them for flavoring baked goods and making lovely topiaries, dried arrangements, and potpourri. With scents of rose, lemon, ginger, and chocolate mint, these easy-to-grow pelargoniums will enrich your life with fragrance.

Growing Pelargoniums and Geraniums: A Complete Guide

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Growing Pelargoniums and Geraniums: A Complete Guide
Beryl Stockton , Geoff Stockton , and John Mason
Manufacturer: Hyland House Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1875657886

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A Great Reference Guide
great basic overview

Geraniums and Pelargoniums
John Feltwell
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1552094642

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The vibrant plants commonly called "geraniums" are actually pelargoniums. They are, however, related to true geraniums, which we also call cranesbills or wild geraniums. Despite their very different attributes, geraniums and pelargoniums belong to the same botanical family, Geraniaceae, and are among the world's most popular garden plants.

Garden expert John Feltwell discusses both members of this wide-ranging family, providing all the information gardeners need to choose, grow, propagate, and design with geraniums and pelargoniums.

More than 250 full color photographs illustrate their beauty and charm, and the extensive A-Z plant directory describes 328 plants in detail. The book also contains:

descriptions of foliage and flowers for all varieties, such as wood and dusky cranesbills, zonals, ivies, Highfields, Stellars, Butes, Regals and many more
tips on how to choose the right place for the right plant
instruction on growing and propagating
how to deal with pests and diseases
mail-order sources.

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A Great Reference Guide.......2004-12-07

For anyone wanting to learn more on Geraniums, Pelargoniums, or both, this book is for you. This is not a book for the beginner gardener, but logically grouped together for the advanced gardener or one on the way.
John Feltwell has put together this book in order to help anyone who wants to choose, grow and design with these lovely plants. He gives in-depth descriptions of over 300 different types and has more than 250 colorful photos that add to the beauty of this book. You won't find step by step photos in this book, but plenty of others that show the how-to shots.
Feltwell's book can be useful in discovering these wonderful plants all while creating your garden into a colorful display of fragrance and beauty

great basic overview.......2002-03-13

Both geraniums and pelargoniums belong to the family "Geraniaceae," of which there are 750 species (and thousands of cultivars) scattered over most of the world. Geraniums are the hardy plants that grow in the wild. Pelargoniums, however, are the plants most of us think of when we think "geranium" -- the colorful flowering houseplants on our windowsills and the lovely scented varieties growing in our kitchens.

The book begins with the characteristics of geraniums. Often called "Cranesbills," geraniums are hardy perennials (zones 4-8) found in mountainous areas, meadows, marshes and near woodlands. Their flowers have five petals, are symmetrical and are relatively small; their foliage varies by shape and color. Size ranges from the taller Meadow and Dusky Cranesbills to the shorter Sanguineums and Wood Geraniums. They make superb ground cover plants with many types able to grow in full sun as well partial shade; they propagate by seed and can become invasive.

Most pelargoniums, on the other hand, are from South Africa and have been cultivated since the 17th century, initially as garden flowers and later as house or conservatory plants. All pelargoniums have a recognizable scent, they have tiny hairs on their stems, their flowers are asymmetrical, they can be propagated by cuttings and most are not cold-hardy and will not survive winters above zone 9.

While there is an abundance of information about geraniums in this book, the main emphasis is on the pelargoniums. There are a seven basic forms: Ivies (sprawling habit with ivy-shaped leaves); Scented types (which can either be upright or trailing); Zonals (named for the bands or "zones" of color on their leaves); Highfields (compact plants with lush flower clusters); Stellars, Startels and Cacti (with star-shaped petals); Regals (beautiful, showy plants with large flowers); and Butes (Single and Double Dwarfs, Miniatures, Micro-Miniatures, Angels and Deacons). Angels are miniatures with Regal-type flowers; Deacons are miniatures crossed with Ivies.

Also included are very short chapters on cultivation, propagation, dealing with pests (although nothing about the mealy bugs that plagued my plants last summer) and treating diseases. A list of 175 species and cultivars is provided with Latin and common names along with a very complete index and a list of world-wide suppliers (with web.addresses!)

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How can one imagine summer without geraniums growing in profusion? Cultivate them everywhere, using the comprehensive information contained here, which covers everything from soil and siting to propagation and pests. The directory of recommended varieties, filled with remarkable close-ups and larger garden photos, gives an overview on each type and its range of species, chosen from around the world. Consider the early-flowering Geranium Sylvaticum; alpines; or the pelargoniums, related plants in wonderfully gaudy shades. You'll use these striking flowers to maximum effect!

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The Book of the Geranium
John E. Cross
Manufacturer: Saturn Press, London
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000Q9H0QW

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An early important work in the field. Black and white photos and color illustrations.

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This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls “the first great Latin American poet.” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), poet, playwright, rhetorician, and musician, is often equated with Sappho, the lesbian poet whom Plato baptized the “Tenth Muse.”

The Mexican nun has fascinated readers around the world for centuries as scholars have attempted to understand her brilliance, her feminism, the affairs of her heart, her decision to enter a convent at the beginning of her luminous intellectual career.

Juana Ramírez de Asbaje, an illegitimate criolla, is sixteen when word of her self-taught erudition travels to the palace in Mexico City and she becomes an attendant to Doña Leonor Carreto, Marquesa de Mancera. Wanting only to study, confused by her love for la Marquesa, and loathe to marry, in five years Juana becomes Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the Convent of Santa Paula of the Order of San Jerónimo. There, her quill becomes her salvation and damnation as her notoriety mounts with each new artistic commission. Popular with court and clergy, she receives a stream of guests at the convent, among them la Condesa de Paredes, who becomes Sor Juana's intimate friend. More than two decades later, after brilliantly defending her right to think, teach, and write, Sor Juana appears before the Inquisition and abruptly withdraws from the spotlight.

Mixing fiction with Sor Juana's own words, and drawing on the most recent Sor Juana scholarship, Alicia Gaspar de Alba creates the most full-bodied portrait of Mexico's Tenth Muse to date. This remarkable novel about a remarkable woman will enlighten a new generation of readers, and stoke the interest of devotees who already are captivated by the inspiring Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

“An adventuresome exploration into the lyrical and historical vision of an extraordinary woman, written by an extraordinary novelist who has given us a new possibility to dream and invent Sor Juana Inés all over again.”—Marjorie Agosín, Wellesley College

“Beautifully written, without doubt the best book I have read this year. A masterpiece.”—Greg Sarris, author of Watermelon Nights

This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.

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sor juana wishes she could wake up from this one.......2007-09-25

my principle regret is that young latino students and aspiring writers are often pointed to this and other like products from the publishing mills and told they are the "literary" models to follow. the book is replete with trite, canned sentiment expressed in stiffly-worded dialogue from the mouths of two-dimensional characters. too many of the descriptions are of the flowery, cake-decoration kind. the narrative is littered with redundancy as well as words that are simply misused or incongruent with the intended meaning. someone can use a remedial course in plain, effective style. it is a shame to hear such books as this one touted as the best in current "latino literature." unfortunately, such things often get published (and praised) on the strength of an author's academic connections and fashionable political sentiments rather than the worth of the writing.

History becomes herstory.......2007-05-29

As women living in the 21st Century, we have unlimited choices. That is why it is so difficult to imagine what it must have been like for Sor Juana. She was an intellectual giant in the New World, displaying her abilities in subjects ranging from ancient history to physics. She was a self-taught scholar. Even so, she was persecuted. Not simply because her views were extreme (though they were), but because extreme views or, in fact, views at all, were considered unseemly in women. Sor Juana's story, as well as the history of early Mexico, is the inspiration for this novel.
No doubt, Alicia Gespar de Alba takes poetic license. It is impossible to know the intimate details of Sor Jauna's everyday life, but this is a good educated guess. And it is breathtaking. Each page is a heartwrenching description of the passions that tore Sor Jauna apart. Many of her own words are used in the story, and the parts that are fiction blend beautifully with them.
In addition to its revelation of an early feminist, this book is also important in its description of Colonial Mexico. In the background of Sor Juana's story, the reader is able to view the precarious mix of church and crown, whites and indians, and intellectuals and idiots. The time period, of course, is an essential part of what happens to Sor Juana, but it is an interesting subject of its own.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of feminism or Mexico or to anyone who enjoys poetry or rhetoric. Be warned, though, when you discover what this woman went through for knowledge, you may not be able to take your freedom for granted anymore.

poetic quest.......2007-02-12

I thoroughly enjoyed being drawn into the world of Sor Juana. She was a genius, a gifted poet, dramatist, philospher, scientist, theologian and humanist who radically sought her personal truth despite the constrictions of the societal and ecclesiastical institutions of her day. I surmise that Sor Juana would likely not have taken the veil has she lived in our day but she chose the only route left to her within her social position to attain some manner of intellectual freedom. Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a master storyteller who knows the art of bringing the vivid colors and textures of her subject matter to life. Though I do realize that this is a work of fiction and share the author's conjecture that Sor Juana's affections most definately rested with those of her own sex and her passionate manner of writing to the same was not simply a rhetorical device of her time, I did sometimes question her literary license with regard to specific scenes which are ambiguous at best in historical accounts, not in the slightest because I think them distasteful but simply because I think the brilliance and passion of this woman is not compounded by the "fleshing" out of her sexuality in pure fantasy. The climate of the ecclesiastical world during the inquisition and the sad state of inner conventual politics makes her luminous literary heritage even more astonishing. Though the author does tell this dark aspect of the divisions and hypocracy of some member of the Spanish Catholic Church of Sor Juana's day, she never does it gratuitiously and one senses a balance as with the priests and other nuns who support her and even try to help her remain on a path of discretion when her passions overtake her rational judgement. It is truly sad that her star disappeared too soon from the heavens that she so loved gazing into with her telescope. In any case, I found it an intensely beautiful read which left me wanting to know more of the woman behind the words. I recommend this highly to anyone who wants to know Sor Juana without the censorship of other admirers of hers who would deny her one of the most elementary forces behind her creative working - her passion for the two women who helped her become fully the muse that she was.

A Note From the Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba.......2005-08-25

I've just seen the new historical novel on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson, and the terrific review it got in the New York Times on Monday, August. 23, 2005. Although the heft of the book is daunting, I look forward to reading it and comparing it to my own book, Sor Juana's Second Dream, which was published in 1999, and which, due to the limited distribution and publicity resources of a university press , has never gotten the kind of press or promotion that would have helped sell out the first print run by now. Perhaps Mr. Anderson's book will spur a mainstream interest in the amazing life of Mexico's "tenth muse," and readers will pick up a copy of both his book and mine, sold here on Amazon for the outrageous price of $12.95 for the hardback. To quote Sor Juana: "from what I keep silent, you will infer what it is I cannot say."

A Must Read.......2005-05-05

This is a very inspiring story of a strong-willed woman determined to defy the intellectual oppression of men during the seventeenth century. She can be compared to England's early feminist--Mary Astell--for her steadfast support of women's intellectual advancement.

It is a moving story, very sad, but essential.

Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz (Raintree Hispanic Stories)

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Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz (Raintree Hispanic Stories)
Kathleen Thompson
Manufacturer: Heinemann Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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ASIN: 0817233776

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Hispanic Stories (Raintree Hispanic Stories Series)

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Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Hispanic Stories (Raintree Hispanic Stories Series)
Kathleen Thompson
Manufacturer: Steck-Vaughn
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 081146752X

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