The morphology and development of certain pyrenomycetous Fungi

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The morphology and development of certain pyrenomycetous Fungi
Mary Alice Nichols
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The Pyrenomycetous fungi (Mycologia memoir)
Lewis Edgar Wehmeyer
Manufacturer: J. Cramer for the New York Botanical Garden, in collaboration with the Mycological Society of America
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Synopsis pyrenomycetum,: Being a revision of the classification and enumeration of pyrenomycetous fungi included in Saccardo's "Sylloge."
Pier Andrea Saccardo
Manufacturer: Williams and Norgate
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ASIN: B0008CMB3O

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This comprehensive guide to every major entertainment and sports venue in metropolitan New York has been extensively revised for its first new edition since 1996. The updated 2nd edition (2002) includes all Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres, concert halls, and stadiums, as well as numerous regional theatres and arenas. A full seating chart is provided for each venue, color coded by price, along with all ticket ordering information. And the book also includes a user's guide, including information on different ways to score bargain tickets to top attractions. Whether you want to see RENT, take in an Opera at the Met, or catch a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium, SEATS is the only source you need!

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All Seating Plans Should Be Readable.......2007-06-08

Some of the seating plans are not readable because the print is very small. It would have been better if larger venues were printed on two pages to be able to read the seat numbers. Otherwise it is very comprehensive.

Seats.......2003-11-12

Although I live in Hilton Head, S. Carolina, I'm a native New Yorker who spent many wonderful evenings at concerts and the theatre. I therefore didn't know how valuable this book would be until I planned a return visit this past month.

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A "must-have" for theatre aficionados, this book shows the location of seats in Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway theatres, and in New York metro area theatres in New York state, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Easy to use, with color-coded price ranges, SEATS also features seating charts for major concert halls and the areaÕs sports arenas.

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SEATS: NEW YORK 2ND EDITION HITS THE SHELVES.......2002-11-22

Following in my father's footsteps, SEATS : NEW YORK has arrived in a new, updated second edition. SEATS is your guide to the best SEATs in the house and features: 150 Seating plans to New York metro area theatres, concert halls, and sports stadiums with SEATS pricing guide. It also includes: "insider" tips on locating the best SEATS at the best discount prices, detailed maps of the SEATS Theatre districts around NYC, user-friendly directions and transportation information to get you to your SEATS, parking locations convenient to your venue and four seasons of FREE SEATS around the town. All this information is compiled into a nice pocket-size format which is a must for every theatre-goer. As Mayor Bloomberg says: "So be sure to consult your SEATS guide and enjoy the show!"

It's about time theater goers were given some consideration.......1999-01-25

With all the "waste of time and ink" publishers are inflicting on the reading public, it's about time that a publisher has released a book that makes sense. SEATS explains clearly how to buy theater tickets at discount prices, some at the unbelievable price of $3. I tried it and it really works. The seating plans are unbelievable! I ordered my tickets from Ticketmaster and the salesman mumbled, "oh, Seats again," when I told him exactly what I wanted. I could tell from the colors where to find the best values. Horay for Sandy Millman, Seats is a brilliant idea.

A very useful tool,well presented information.......1998-12-29

The book provides an opportunity to check a theatre and know something more about the location of your seats than just a stub number in an easy to use design.

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on June 5, 1997. The length of the article is 666 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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Title: Hispanos celebran poco 'DÃa de los CaÃdos'.(TT: Hispanics barely celebrate Memorial Day)
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Caído del cielo : guía para observar el firmamento de día y de noche

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Caído del cielo : guía para observar el firmamento de día y de noche
John Naylor
Manufacturer: Ediciones Akal
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 8446022680

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An impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters displays the styles of figure drawing across five centuries, from Dürer and Michelangelo to Modigliani and Derain. Featured artists include Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck, Hogarth, Constable, Ingres, Gauguin, Matisse, Rodin, and others. 45 black-and-white illustrations. Captions.

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A must-read for ET's and those who love them!

A much needed book for people doing euthanasia of pets.

Paws for Thought: A Look at the Conflicts, Questions and Challenges of Animal Euthanasia
B. J. Ellis
Manufacturer: Paw Print Press (SC)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0963670808

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A must-read for ET's and those who love them!.......1999-04-04

An excellent overview of the challenges of companion animal euthanasia. Pulls no punches. A great tool for those of us doing the job with little or no emotional support.

A much needed book for people doing euthanasia of pets........1999-02-03

This book offers really good suggestions on how to cope with the conflicts and confrontations and pain inherent in needing to be the one to put unwanted animals to death. It explains the stresses faced, and how others have faced them, and gives ideas on how to cope. It would be a good read for the friends, relatives and even the people that work with euthanasia technicians, to explain the thoughts, feelings and pain that the technicians feel when they have to say goodbye to yet another animal. It explains how simple comments can be seen as attacks, and how euthanasia technicians need to be understood and need to be given credit for a very difficult and disliked job. It gives a good look at the other side of the story, shows how the people that actually need to be euthanising feel and experience their jobs.

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The Sport American Baseball Card Price Guide #13 (Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide)
James Beckett
Manufacturer: Edgewater Books Distribution
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 093742451X

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Decent little book

In the Eyes of the Beholder

A Glimpse of Paul Strand

Paul Strand (Aperture Masters of Photography Series, Number One)
Paul Strand
Manufacturer: Aperture Book
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ASIN: 0893812595

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Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugural volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series presents forty-one of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a career that spanned six decades.

Included are his earliest experimental efforts, created from 1915 to 1917, which Alfred Stieglitz declared had begun to redefine the medium. Subsequent photographs reveal the artist's impeccable vision in locales as diverse as New England and the Outer Hebrides, France, and Ghana. During Strand's last years, he concentrated on still lifes and the poignant beauty to be found in his own garden at Orgeval, France.

In an introductory essay, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides an overview of the artist's life and his enduring contribution.

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Decent little book.......2005-01-08

This collection is a nice, compact, and inexpensive glipse at a range of Paul Strand's photographs from throughout his long 60 year career. I would have prefered the book to be a little larger to allow for bigger pictures. The print quality is decent.

In the Eyes of the Beholder.......2001-11-24

as a person who has been close with the Strand family for a long time, i have to say that out of personal relations and out of knowing the full potential for paul and his family, this book is amazing. you have to remember that there is a face and a mind behind this camera, and the amazing talent that people must have in the first place to even be able to spot beauty in the everyday things. if you can take the time to look at the power of these photographs as a human being with a powerfully capable mind and not as a critic, prone to hang on every little detail instead of fully trying to enjoy the pieces in question, i can garauntee that you will be completely satisfied with this collection. in my mind it will always be stunning.

A Glimpse of Paul Strand.......1999-12-07

This book presents a small collection of Mr. Strand's images, all titled and dated, and offers a glimpse of the entire span of his career. We are given a sense of his work through four of the major times and places during his life: his photographic apprenticeship in New York during the late 1910's, a sampling of his work done under commission in Mexico, his well known work in New England, and finally, images taken after his emigration to France, in 1950. A brief biography precedes the photographs that follow, and we are left to consider the images free from further didactic comment.

At first sight, one senses immediately the charm this man might have possessed in his relationships with both himself and those people and things surrounding his life. This sense is borne out in the wry humor of "Town Hall", with its off kilter framing, which we instantly recognize as Paul Strand. Ironically, a closer study of his personal life indicates Mr. Strand could be a difficult man. The well-known "Wall Street", an earlier piece of darkly shadowed monstrous windows overpowering passers by, is as close to the foggy pictorialist sense Strand will get, and the rest of the images show him breaking away from that style, and moving head first into the previsualized and almost straight photographic style that he was to help break ground for.

In this collection, several of the photographs stand out; but many seem rather innocuous, specifically the portraits of those he knew personally, and those he didn't - none seem to capture the viewers imagination like those of Mr. Strands' contemporaries might, Edward Weston for one. Instead, they seem unimaginative and emotionless. Furthermore, it doesn't help that, lacking that content, it may be that his reputation as an innovative technician in the darkroom goes unnoticed here, seeing these images only on the page (in small 7 inch by 6 inch reprint).

On the other hand, we are shown some photographs which show how powerful a view of quiet solitude can be. Of particular note,"Tir a'Mhurain" stands alone. A wide view of the silence surrounding three horses watering in the bay, and in the very left foreground, they are being watched from far above by a lone white horse. The leading of the three animals has turned its mane toward, and is eyeing the lone horse. The silvery water of the bay reflects the stand of horses, and more strongly, that of an immense and clouded sky, suggesting a powerful solemnity. Faintly, in mid-ground, wood buildings of a fishing village are left powerless in front of only a small mountain range. Taken in 1954, an American living in France (but not able to speak the language), Mr. Strand might have felt himself the lone horse. The obtrusive sky begging for silence. The artist contemplating his subject from afar.

"Driveway" was taken late in his life (in fact, three years prior to his death) where he lived in France. This poetic view leads us through an overgrowth, tunnel-like, of bare tree limbs and branches. Beneath this dark surrounding of hibernating growth, two parallel white cobblestone paths. Our eyes search the dark, shadowed background to where we are being lead; almost imperceptible, at the end of the driveway, we make out a decrepit structure: a country cottage, seemingly empty and abandoned. One cannot help but feel the author's probable recognition of the path of his own life, and the awful truth of life: of autumn, the oncoming winter, the drawing to a close, and of coming home to a place unknown.

In this collection, these are his strongest images, these landscapes. - whether "Fox River", from his acclaimed book "Time in New England", or the handful of New York cityscapes, or the country landscapes and village life scenes, such as "Marketplace", taken in Italy. Robert Adams has suggested that Mr. Strands work went into decline following his emigration to France in 1950 (1). In actuality, it is these images we wish for more of. Mr. Strand's capacity was not limited by time and place, but by subject and content. Seeing the images borne from his emigrated life, one is left wanting less of his still life's and portraits, and more of what showed a more genuine side of Mr. Strand through symbolic form. Not the modernist machine pictures like "Oil Refinery", or "Akeley Motion Picture Camera", but more of "Landscape, Sicily, Italy", with its bare, white birch trees having cloistered the villager's in their quiet homes.

However, in this book, as a simple compendium of Mr. Strand's oeuvre, the viewer is at least left with a closer understanding of a part of what this celebrated photographer was seeing throughout the varied stages and places, both known and foreign, of his life.

1. Adams, Robert Why People Photograph, Aperture Press, 1994. pg. 85

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Best of Bresson

A True Master

Nice little collection

the best

Visualizing the Common Qualities!

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography Series)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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ASIN: 089381265X

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Henri Cartier-Bresson's amazing feat as a photographer is the ability to follow his heart and the keen vision of his mind and eye in each photograph. His subjects are only part of the image in the viewfinder, whose composition he sometimes arranges with geometric precision. Many of his best photographs also have startlingly broad political and sociological connotations, which gives the ordinary subjects extraordinary dignity, even grandeur. Europeans is filled with these images, which are often visually complex as well: a 1952 picture depicts a poor immigrant tilling hard ground while in the distance the prosperity-propelled factories of industry belch smoke into already smoggy skies. This is not just a picture of a poor man, or industrial power, or the contrast between the two. It's an open question about the meaning of life, with an anonymous no one--just another human being--at its center. Another wonderful image in this collection is a 1954 shot of a handsome soldier ogling two pretty women. It shows that even at the bleakest moments in their social history, Muscovites were not immune to pheromonal persuasion.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done consistently--the richness, the sensibilities, and the varieties of the human experience in the twentieth century. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer whose pictures with the new, smaller hand-held cameras and faster films defined the idea of "the decisive moment" in photography.

Cartier-Bresson's imagery is intimate, but it is also utterly respectful of his subjects. In his wide travels throughout the world, he has captured universal meanings through the glimpses into the lives of individuals in scores of countries. Each photograph is in itself a masterpiece of dramatic form; taken together, Cartier-Bresson's works constitute a personal history of epic scope.

Henri Cartier-Bresson presents forty-two of the artist's photographs, each recognized a a masterpiece of the medium. In addition, Cartier-Bresson offers a brief statement of his own artistic ethos, his striving for the spontaneity through intuition that imbues his work.

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Best of Bresson.......2006-06-25

A lovely little book showing the most famous pictures of Henri Cartier-Bresson on 95 pages only. A must-have for the Cartier-Bresson fans or a great first book to have on this fabulous photographer.

A True Master.......2005-10-06

If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human gesture--that he termed "the decisive moment"--that made him one of the immortals of photographic history. As one of the founding members of Magnum, he changed the way we think of photographs and the way we see the world. This book is an introduction to his work. As such, it's all too short, but the economical format make it possible to see a few decent examples of his work and perhaps to inspire further study. He was a true master of the art.

Nice little collection.......2005-01-08

This collection is a nice, compact, and inexpensive sample of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. I would have prefered the book to be a little larger to allow for bigger pictures. The print quality is decent. I was disappointed that my favorite photograph by him, the one of the bicyclist going by the staircase entitled "Hyères, France", was absent.

the best.......2001-12-30

Cartier-Bresson is a God of Photography. This is his best album that I know.

Visualizing the Common Qualities!.......2001-07-02

Review Summary: This book is a brilliant expansion of M. Cartier-Bresson's 1955 show designed to emphasize the similarities that exist from country to country throughout Europe in the way people live together. M. Jean Clair has done a marvelous job of adding earlier and more recent images to extend and magnify this theme. As a result you will see an "unquestionable family likeness" for the Europeans that emerges from "the obstinate reworking of a chosen subject." The book contains 200 duotone images to make that point.

Reader Caution: While there is relatively little nudity in this book, there is one final image of two female models resting on a couch that would probably cost this material an R rating if it were a motion picture. If you skip that photograph, you will probably not find the other partial female nudity offensive. This one work is actually asexual, in portraying posing nude as hard work from which one needs a totally relaxing break.

Review: Since World War II, Europeans have been struggling with their common heritage and how to balance it with the national, religious, and cultural ones. Gradually, the differences are being homogenized. Brilliantly, Henri Cartier-Bresson understood early on that the connections were stronger than most other people probably realized. By showing the similarities across countries and cultures, he creates an awareness of potential for friendship that would escape those who had never visited all of these countries.

The work revolves around unnamed themes. But any casual viewer will spot children playing, men and women enjoying a relaxed moment together, public observances of religion and politics, how humans are dominated by nature, the contrasts between rich and poor, and the artificial nature of much modern life. His work also explores the subtle ways that natural and human-made objects display the same forms and outlines.

Here are my favorite images in the book: Guilvines, Brittany, France, 1956; On the banks of the Seine, France, 1936; Palais-Royal, Paris, France, 1959: Amarante, Alto Douro, Portugal, 1955; Lamego, Beira Alta, Portugal, 1955; Madrid, Spain, 1932; Ariza, Aragon, Spain, 1953; Aquila, the Abruzzi, Italy, 1951; Torcello, Italy, 1953; Zurich, Switzerland, 1953; Ridnik, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1965; Gyor, Hungary, 1964; Near Linz, Upper Austria, 1953; Tug-boat pilots on the Rhine, Germany, 1952; Warsaw, Poland, 1931; Moscow, USSR, 1954; Fishermen, near Suzdal, USSR, 1972; George VI's Coronation, London, England, 1937; Queen Charlotte's Ball, London, England, 1959; and Break between drawing poses, Paris, France, 1989.

You will also be intrigued by how much of the political content of what is portrayed here has changed since it was photographed. The scenes of celebrating Soviet Communism and its founders are gone. The Berlin Wall is gone. The positive identification with everything royal in England is diminished.

Naturally, there's a less pleasant side of this convergence that M. Cartier-Bresson did not choose to portray -- the dominance of mass culture with world brands and forms of entertainment, often from outside Europe. In fact, some have argued that the gravity pulling Europe together is that people like to have more choices when they shop. Isn't it interesting that this dimension was ignored?

M. Cartier-Bresson has a masterly touch for composition that is seen again and again in these photographs. The large two-page landscapes with small people in them show the kind of sophistication that only the most successful painters achieve in the oversized paintings you see in the Paris museums. M. Cartier-Bresson also shows his love for people by portraying them in attractive, positive ways . . . even when they come from different ends of the religious and political spectrum. How wonderful it must have been for him to see people so positively!

Those who are long-time Cartier-Bresson fans will be disappointed a little in the images here. You are probably used to seeing them reproduced in somewhat larger sizes. The sizes used here work, but bigger in this case would have been better.

After you read this book and enjoy its wonderful images, I suggest that you think about how people can make connections with one another that move from a deep spiritual commitment to helping one another, regardless of the basis for that commitment. Otherwise, all we may find we have in common in the future is that it will look like we all shopped in the same mall.

Stand taller by assisting those who want to receive a willing heart!

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Aperture Masters of Photography Series, Vol 5
Dorothea Lange
Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0893812609

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Jacques-Henri Lartique (Aperture Masters of Photography Series)
W. Eugene Smith
Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover

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Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography Series)
Alfred Stieglitz; Text Dorothy Norman
Manufacturer: KONEMANN
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ASIN: B000O5RM02

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The life story of Cuban-American journalist and talk-show host, Cristina Saralegui.

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Terrible example for young children!.......1999-08-18

This arrogant, self-serving and badly written bio is not a role for children, instead it sets an egocentric, uneducated, uncompassionate, prejudiced, self-centered example!

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