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Alaska's Southeast, 10th: Touring the Inside Passage (Alaska's Southeast)
Michelle Gurney
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
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Discover the rich landscape and scenic beauty of Alaska's Inside Passage, including Skagway, Haines, Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan. Alaska's Southeast details the region's history, culture, geography, and flora and fauna. It also provides extensive information on when to go, what to bring, how to get there and how to get around, where to eat, and where to stay. With more than 10 million acres of forest, 1,000 islands, 10,000 miles of shoreline, 50 to 70 major glaciers, and thousands of brown bears and eagles, Alaska's Southeast offers much to be explored.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Dream Machine. One-stop volume provides a wealth of information to help aspiring hot rodders get started in the hobby.

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must have.......2007-05-23

Must have to read (or do) a lot of the old school type customizing for cars. Very complete. Well written and detailed sections.

Great stuff!!!.......2002-02-14

Burger and Hendrickson have done a great job of covering the process of building a hot rod. With their years of experience, wit, and wisdom it makes for a very enjoyable read. Much of the text is obviously culled from the late, great RODDER'S DIGEST magazine, but it was good then, just as it is now. For anyone who is seriously into hot rods, this is required reading.

Hot rodders, restorers, pocket rocket folks...the works!.......2002-01-08

Okay, I admit, I am not a hot rodder. I like fast, water-cooled volkswagens. The book was a gift. "Great," I thought. "What am I gonna do with this?" It sat around for awhile before I cracked the covers. Good Golly, y'all!! THIS BOOK ROCKS!!

The authors have really distilled auto resto and modification down to were even a nimrod can understand it and envision doing the projects. I can't really speak to the "Model T-this," "Deuce-coupe-that" sort of stuff in the book, but man, the technical stuff about metal-bumping, welding, body work, paint application, suspension modifciation, and other how-to stuff is great. They have put the facts in simple, step-by-step sequences with loads of photos to clarify the procedure. This is the kind of stuff you find in good car magazines, but here, the authors have wrapped into one slick package.

Okay, so it looks a little funny on my shelf with all my euro-car books, but I am not ashamed to own (AND actually to have READ) a copy of Hot Rodder's Bible. My hat is off to the authors. I am sure hot rodders will love this book as much as I found that I did. Believe me, I was determined to not like, or even admit that I owned, this book. Now, I take it to my club meetings and show if off to my buds. I wonder if the authors would ever consider a "Pocket Rocket Bible?"

Author's Notes.......2001-06-30

This book was designed to be a complete guide to finding, building, and enjoying a hot rod. Chapters include: * A Brief History of the Hot Rod * Finding Your Hot Rod Project * Building a Better Body * The Hot Rod Frame * A Rogue's Gallery of Hot Rods * Hot Rod Suspension Basics * Hot Rod Brakes * Hot Rod Engines and Drivetrains * Hot Rod Interiors * 15 Things to Do With Your Hot Rod * The Ten Commandments of Hot Rodding * Source Guide * Club List

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Besides the gorgeous work he does on the Cities of the Fantastic series, Schuiten also has amassed a body of work in theater and Opera set design, posters and full scale recreations which is impressive. This handsome art book presents an awesome array of these never-before-seen pieces in large size along with an interview of the artist conducted by Peeters. A handsome addition to anyone?s library that shows off the talent involved in comic art!

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Mad Genius?
Schuiten Deserves the Best
A triumph of the imagination
Great art- poorly served by DC
Varied stories, enjoyable art

The hollow grounds
Luc Schuiten
Manufacturer: Humanoids Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 1930652216

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Mad Genius?.......2006-03-15

This book is a little bit confusing because it's actually a collection of three books that were published separately in the original French editions over the course of 15 years (1980-1995). Furthermore, the first section/book (Carapaces) is itself a collection of six short stories -- so it all gets a little complicated for the reader. Not to mention that the worlds imagined by the French creators are so strange and surreal that they almost qualify as conceptual art. Sci-fi or graphic art fans with a taste for the offbeat may well enjoy this import and those looking for traditional narratives are hereby warned. It should be noted that while the drawing is quite nice, especially strong in capturing the human form and architectural elements (which often show a distinct art nouveau influence), the coloring and reproduction is pretty awful. Most of the book is very murky and dirty looking, and a somewhat cramped, as if the original art had been shrunken down a bit. It should also be noted that this is definitely an adult book, as there is copious amount of female nudity, and a few sexual scenes and situations.

Desire is the theme of the first section/book, "Carapaces", as each of the six stories is built on one person's desire for another. The first of these, "Shells" is possibly the most effective, as two humanoid figures in a post-apocalyptic landscape frolic and tease one another. Their desire overwhelms them, and for the first time ever, they remove their metal protection to have skin-on-skin sex -- which is when the insects show up... "Stampede" and "Sample" are much more abstract, while in "Crevice" a sentient and partly organic subterranean computer/entity splits the earth to be able to touch a woman. The final, and longest story, is "The Fog Cutter", set in a world where fog can roll in and freeze in place. The town's "fog cutter" is the person responsible for freeing trapped people from the fog, but he'd rather be left in piece to finish a giant nude statue of the woman he yearns for.

The second section/book is "Zara", which takes place in a planet whose outer shell rotates very quickly on the outside, and has a stable inner shell where people live vertically. It's rather bizarre and hard to explain, but the story basically follows one woman who crosses from the outer world to the inner, only to discover a village of sapphic women who've not seen a man in fifty or more years. Meanwhile, on another planet, a group of men without women learn of the same inner world and teleport themselves there in order to rape and plunder. It's an interesting, weird, adventure story, some parts of which are very modern, and some of which are totally old-fashioned pulp. The final section/book is the widely acclaimed experimental "Nogegon". It brings together elements and characters from "The Fog Cutter" and "Zara" in strange story that is all about symmetry. It's very hard to explain, but essentially, the story of one woman's search for her friend is exactly symmetrical. The search proceeds normally enough to the halfway point, and then it all doubles back upon itself in a mirror reflection. Very odd and impressive in the same way a mad genius is -- as is the entire book.

Schuiten Deserves the Best.......2005-10-14

The artwork is fantastic. I wish the quality of publication - the vividness of the colors - was as good as the original printing of these stories in Heavy Metal magazine. It's worth getting, just not as high quality as other published work by Schuiten. The printing job doesn't do justice to the subject.

A triumph of the imagination.......2005-10-13

Francois Schuiten is one of the most accomplished artists working in the field.
This handsome trade paperback reunites three graphic novels that comprise the Hollow Grounds cycle.Worth mention is the excellent arguments by his brother Luc.

CARAPACES - Actually a collection of six stories that displays Schuiten's versatility, experimenting with a series of techniques.

ZARA - Zara is a vertical planet inhabited entirely by woman that never experimented "conventional" sex with men.After the arrival
of invaders with "vines" below their waists, things take a bizarre and often amusing turn.Zara is a marvelous blend of satire, adventure and science fiction that should appeal for fans of trippy european comics.

NOGEGON - Another baroque, amazing and wild adventure.This time a character from Zara goes in search of a missing friend and
becomes embroiled in a plot involving symmetry and murder.

Great art- poorly served by DC.......2005-05-06

This paperback is a compilation of three hardcover oversized albums first released by Humanoids Press: "Carapaces", "Zara", and "Nogegon". ("Nogegon" with its beautiful palindromic structure was nominated for a 2002 Eisner award.) The print quality and beauty of these volumes has suffered greatly at the hands of DC, who started distributing European Humanoids titles in 2004- and has in May 2005 already announced that they will stop doing so! Apparently DC has no clue how to market and properly print "non-superhero" art: half-size washed-out reproduction on poor-quality paper, and shoehorning these three separate titles into a single paperback, is an injustice to the artist. Please try to find the original hardcover Humanoids volumes instead, and also check out the Schuiten/Peeters "Obscure Cities" titles released by NBM, an American publishing house that really knows how to treat this incredibly beautiful work in a respectful way. Then you will understand why Schuiten is one of the most revered and awarded "comic" artists in Europe. 5 stars for art and story + 1 star for DC's poor effort= 3 stars

Varied stories, enjoyable art.......2004-12-05

These stories are all set in an odd world in an odd future. The first story, Shells, is a post-apocalypse. People defend themselves in full body armor at all times, even in making love. "Crevice" gives an odd echo to The Matrix, where an all-sustaining computer must itself be sustained by human company, but with a happy ending. "Olive" is another story, in a very different visual style, about a world governed by strange forces. After those disconnected short stories in the beginning, the Schuitens give us a longer tale. Men and women live in segregated societies, then rediscover each other. The result is ... well, you'll just have to read it.

The artwork is skilled and subdued. Figures are carefully drawn. The stories move well, from one turn to the next, without big fights and other cliched tricks. There's occasional nudity - this is not a comic book for little kids. It's thoughtful and lyrical. It's also a DC venture. For years, DC was the stodgy comic house, sticking to their superheroes in capes. DC still sells Superman and that crowd, but also sells the Vertigo line and books like these. I'm glad to see that DC's range of offerings has matured to match their readership.

"Hollow Grounds" doesn't blaze new trails in visual storytelling, but it's well drawn and well told. I've never been aware of the Schuitens before, but I'll be watching for them now.

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Les Cités Obscures, tome 10 : L'Ombre d'un homme

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Les Cités Obscures, tome 10 : L'Ombre d'un homme
François Schuiten , and Benoît Peeters
Manufacturer: Casterman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 2203343125

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Les Cités Obscures, tome 4 : La Tour
François Schuiten , and Benoît Peeters
Manufacturer: Casterman
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Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 220334301X

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Les Cités Obscures, tome 7 : Brüsel
François Schuiten , and Benoît Peeters
Manufacturer: Casterman
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ASIN: 2203343095

Métamorphose, tome 1 : Aux médianes de Cymbolia

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Métamorphose, tome 1 : Aux médianes de Cymbolia
Claude Renard , and François Schuiten
Manufacturer: Les Humanoïdes Associés
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ASIN: 273161529X

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Good art, paced story

Nogegon (The hollow grounds)
Francois Schuiten , and Luc Schuiten
Manufacturer: Humanoids Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description

Part of the Hollow Grounds series. The logic behind the world of the hollow grounds seems familiar to us, but is in fact a vertigibous trap. It becomes a real treat for the attentive reader to let himself slide into these chasms where elegance is just a discreet mask concealing the most terrible weapons: Intelligence.

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Good art, paced story.......2005-04-26

Outstanding art is what attracted me here. The drawing is good, and color is used thoughtfully - no bold primaries in this palette. The story is brief but enjoyable, featuring a fascinating future form of sculpture among other things. Action? The story moves well, but not because of typical fights 'n' chases.

Collectors, please note: this book's content, and more, is also found in The Hollow Grounds (ISBN 1401203647).

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Outstanding work

Zara (The hollow grounds)
Luc Schuiten
Manufacturer: Humanoids Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 1930652224

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Outstanding work.......2005-01-16

The Schuitens have created a remarkable world, inhabited by Earth-like people, but very un-Earth-like in its natural laws, if in fact they are natural. The first brief story, "Olive," describes a rebellious teenaged girl who tries to flout those laws, and falls off the world as a result. The delicate pen drawings are delicious, but some readers might prefer that her clothing contain her more reliably.

The remainder of the book is in color, a well-drawn story of a society of women. The characters are strong and easy to like. The men they once lived with return and ... Well, that would be telling. The women are quite competent at defending themselves and maintaining their way of life. The story is enjoyable, but the drawing really makes it worth while.

Collectors, please note: the Schuitens' "Hollow Grounds" (ISBN 1401203647) appears to include all the material in this book, and a good bit more.

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L'archiviste
Benoît Peeters , and François Schuiten
Manufacturer: Casterman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book
ASIN: 2203349204

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Les Cités obscures : L'Echo des cités
François Schuiten
Manufacturer: Casterman
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Binding: Board book
ASIN: 2203343141

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This Book Is For All Muzzeload Hunters!

Everything you ever wanted to know-from both ends of the gun

Successful Muzzleloader Hunting
Peter Schoonmaker
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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The boom in blackpowder hunting's popularity has created a demand for more information on the sport. Author Peter Schoonmaker answers the call with this new guide, detailing everything a hunter needs to know about muzzleloading-- from the basics and background, to success strategies, to a glimpse into the future of the sport.

Successful Muzzleloader Hunting features a review of the guns, propellants and projectiles commonly used today, as well as a look at the purpose and uses of muzzleloaders. Sections on gun preparation and sighting-in prepare hunters for using the guns and cover important safety issues every hunter needs to know.

Finally, the book reviews strategies for hunting several types of popular game, including whitetail deer, black bear, turkey, coyote, and elk, as well as several other small game species. A troubleshooting section provides answers to the ten most common muzzleloading pitfalls, and a resources guide lists muzzleloader organizations and manufacturers.

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This Book Is For All Muzzeload Hunters!.......2005-02-10

After reading "Successful Muzzeloader Hunting"I was greatly impressed.This book covers the fundamentals from Old Traditional
Front Loaders to--->Modern Muzzeloaders.
There is information about percussion,projectiles,powders,and muzzeload hunting as well.Peter Schoonmaker also has an article "Blackpowder Barometer Bucks" which is one the best articles I find ever written about Whitetail Deer Hunting.It is awsome!THe Author is a true Outdoorsman.Also the knoweledge he shares in this book is a "Mastres Degree" about Muzzeloading.I would suggest everyone read this book.You will find yourself reading articles over again.Thanks Pete for so many years of information through field and research....
It is

Everything you ever wanted to know-from both ends of the gun.......2005-02-08

This book not only tells you everything you need to know about a variety of muzzleloaders (rifles and shotguns, and including everything from flintlocks to modern in-lines and everything in between) - enabling you to decide which may be best for you if you are in the market.

It also covers a wide range of large and small game animals that you may encounter and gives you extensive information on how best to hunt them. I have read a lot of "successful hunting" books, and this is the first one in an long while that took me back to when I was young, reading Field and Stream, itching to get out in the field and try out what I had learned.

This book is basically 2 for the price of one. It is printed in vivid, full color, and is generously illustrated. I found it to be a refreshing and enjoyable approach to hunting the most popular big and small game with a muzzleloader. An excellent read.

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U S Coins of Value-83
Norman Stack
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing Company
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0440196019

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best gardening book I have found

The Midwest Fruit and Vegetable Book. Ohio Edition. (Midwest Fruit and Vegetables)
James A. Fizzell
Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
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ASIN: 1930604130
Release Date: 2001-07-03

Book Description

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the benefits derived from gardening, namely enjoyment, exercise, and nutrition.

Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.

The Midwest Fruit & Vegetable Book, Ohio Edition is written by the highly popular gardening expert James Fizzell.

Contains advice for plant fruits, vegetables, and herbs. With 60 featured plants, the authors provide characteristics of available varieties, planting and maintenance advice, as well as recipes for dishes from the garden.

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best gardening book I have found.......2002-01-07

I live in Oh and bought the book in OH. I have not figured out how to tell which state the book is for. I can tell you that everything matches with what I know. It is excellent! It includes lots of good practical information. I grow Blueberry, Red and Black Raspberries plus the garden vegtable and fruit plants.

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Das Thema des Buches ist der Isiskult wahrend der romischen Kaiserzeit, wie er in zahleichen Darstellungen der agyptischen Gottin und solcher ihr angeglichener Frauen zum Ausdruck kommt. Wahrend sich dadurch zum einen diese Frauen ganz allgemein als Dienerinnen der Isis zu erkennen geben, fallt zum anderen ein besonderes Licht auf die zur Angleichung ausgewahlten Bilder der Gottin. Dabei handelt es sich, anders als bei den meisten bekannten Isistypen, um keine mythologisch erklarbaren Gottesbilder. Sie sind deshalb der Forschung ebenso ratselhaft geblieben wie die entsprechend angeglichenen und oftmals auch als Priesterinnen oder Mystinnen bezeichneten Frauen. Das Buch behandelt somit zwei Problemkreise, namlich die Stellung jener Frauen im Kult sowie die damit verbundene Frage nach Sinn und Bedeutung der fur die Angleichung verbindlichen Isisbilder. Das vorwiegend plastische Material ist in einem Katalog mit volstandigem Abbildungsteil zusammengestellt. Auf dieser Basis bietet das Buch eine ikonographische und ikonologische Untersuchung des Themas. Die ausschliesslich in statuarischen Kopien uberlieferten Isisbilder werden in angemessener Weise auf Originale hin rezensiert; die vorranging sepulkralen Darstellungen der Isisdienerinnen werden sowohl in quellenkritischer als auch archaologischer Hinsicht interpretiert. Daneben kommen auch religionsgeschichtliche Probleme zum Tragen. Ein langeres Exkurs am Ende des Buches ist der Frage nach der sozialen Stellung der Isisdienerinnen gewidmet.

ISIS Und Ihre Dienerinnen in Der Kunst Der Romischen Kaiserzeit

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ISIS Und Ihre Dienerinnen in Der Kunst Der Romischen Kaiserzeit
J. Eingartner
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MVGWCM

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A true master of fiction, a writer the New Yorker has called "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language," brings his considerable gifts to non-fiction in this brilliant collection of essays. Marked with Trevor's deft irony and subtle gifts for illuminating characters, Excursions in the Real World collects more than two dozen deeply personal memoirs of the artistic life.

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These autobiographical tales are about people and places, personal fascinations and enthusiasms, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years.

He writes here of childhood and youth, of his schools and university days, his early life in Dublin and London, of Ireland and of England. Most of the portraits are of people who have either been well known to him or casually met a few are drawn from the imagination, though the subjects are real. Some of the landscapes are equally familiar to him, while others are merely glimpsed: Persia in the early seventies, a Swiss valley, County Cork in the thirties, a Gloucestershire village, Venice in November, New York and San Francisco.

"Places do not die as people do," William Trevor writes in his introduction, "but they often changed so fundamentally that little is left of what once they were. The landscape of the Nire valley that spreads over a northern part of Country Waterford is timeless, but the Dublin remembered here is the Dublin of several pasts, and elsewhere among these impressions there is that same dichotomy."Affectionate, poignant and often gently humorous, these essays are an expansion of a writer's notebook. Such excursions into memory convey the essence of William Trevor's world — read in conjunction with Lucy Willis's graceful illustrations, they illuminate unforgettably the background to this celebrated novels and short stories.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Autobiography of a Contemporary Master.......2000-04-04

Admirers of Trevor's masterly fiction will enjoy these incisive, witty, heartbreaking essays revisiting his youth and early adulthood. The short piece about his parents is probably the most moving thing he's ever written. Most writers use autobiography to settle scores; Trevor uses it to give shape to the life of memory--a shape, in its own way, just as artful and just as true as the shape he gives to the life of his fiction.

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Memoirs Excursions in the Real World
William Trevor
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000RKSTOM

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The New Yorker has called William Trevor the greatest living writer of short stories in the English Language, now in this book he turns to non-fiction with a precise series of 29 essays about people and places, facinations and enthusiams that have remained snagged in memory.

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Excursions in the Real World : Memoirs
William Trevor
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJAO8A

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