100 DESERT WILDFLOWERS IN NATURAL COLOR

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100 DESERT WILDFLOWERS IN NATURAL COLOR
Natt N. Dodge
Manufacturer: Southwestern Monument Assoc.
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ASIN: B000IAEIE6

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100 DESERT WILDFLOWERS IN NATURAL COLOR
Natt N. Dodge
Manufacturer: Southwestern Monument Assoc.
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ASIN: B000X5QO0C

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100 Desert Wildflowers in Natural Color

Manufacturer: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GU4Q4U

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100 Desert Wildflowers in Natural Color
Natt Dodge
Manufacturer: Southwestern Monuments Assn
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ASIN: B000NDM52K

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100 desert wildflowers in natural color
Natt Noyes Dodge
Manufacturer: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007EBW1U

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100 Desert Wildflowers in natural color (Popular Series, Volume 10)

Manufacturer: W. A. Krueger Co.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000EEG9OS

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fabulous close up pictures of 100 desert wildflowers with text description of how to identify them

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100 Desert Wildflowers in Natural Color

Manufacturer: W. A. Krueger Company, Phoenix, Arizona
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ASIN: B000B62OUC

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Beautiful desert plants photographed in their natural color. Indexed; lists scientific names and habitat areas.

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A combination travel guide and history book to Jewish culture in Central and Eastern Europe, it is written in a lively style. The author takes readers into a ghostly, multidimensional shadow land of ``Then, Now and What Might Have Been''. Besides providing invaluable tips on getting around, locating historical sights, what to bring and wear, etc., it also includes numerous references, historical and fictional works that will futher aid readers in preparation for their trip.

Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe

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Good value for the money

Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe

ASIN: 047104251X

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Completely revised and updated to cover the division of Czechoslovakia, the breakup of Yugoslavia, and other important changes, Jewish Heritage Travel deftly interweaves moving personal anecdotes and historical facts with practical travel information. A joy to read and a valuable resource for travelers, this acclaimed guide uncovers a wealth of priceless detail about a vibrant, almost vanished world.

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Good value for the money.......2000-05-29

If one is on the verge of taking a trip to Poland and other countries in easter Europe to see what is left of the Jewish communities, there is no better preparation than this book. Not only does it provide an overview of what remains in all these eastern European countries, it also gives detailed information of where to look and what to see in each city. While it is an excellent tourist guide, it also provides history. There is also a section setting out where to get more information about each village (and there were so many of them!). This is Ruth Gruber's second book on the subject. It is more comprehensive than the first and is certainly worth the money. If you are planning a heritage trip to find your ancestors, don't leave home without it. I found it invaluable.

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Tom Hayden: An Activist's Life
Tom Hayden
Manufacturer: Roberts Rinehart Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1570981558

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Fascinating Idea, Poor Execution

A Fascinating Hybrid of Fact and Fiction

A for scholarship, C- for entertainment.

Wainewright the Poisoner: The confession of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright--Regency author, painter, swindler, and probable murderer--brilliantly woven from historical fragments

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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HWYL3I

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British poet laureate Andrew Motion knows how to write a conventional biography--witness his much-praised books on John Keats and Philip Larkin--but this time out he's chosen not to. In a fascinating act of literary ventriloquism, Motion has created a fictional "confession" supposedly written by Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847), an English painter and essayist friendly with many artists in the Romantic movement before he was convicted of forgery in 1837 and transported to Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania). Demonized in several lurid pieces of Victorian fiction that assumed with some justification that he was a murderer as well as a forger, Wainewright has fallen into obscurity since. Motion thinks he deserves a modern reassessment: "His career dramatizes ideas that deeply concerned [the Romantics]. By combining a life in culture with a life in crime he embodies an extreme version of [their belief] that good and evil grow on the same stem." The brilliantly slippery monologue fabricated by Motion vivifies that belief, capturing Wainewright's glittering, dandified charm and subtly suggesting the darker currents underneath as it narrates his unhappy childhood, London heyday, and ordeal as a convict. Readers are strongly urged not to skip the footnotes, which lay out the book's factual underpinnings and gracefully provide a historical context as interesting as Wainewright's convulsive life story. --Wendy Smith

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In a time rich in unlikely characters, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) was one of the strangest of all. A painter, writer, well-known London dandy and friend of most of the major figures of the Romantic era (from Blake to Byron, from John Clare to John Keats, Lamb, De Quincey and Hazlitt), he was also almost certainly a murderer, possibly several times over. Arrested and convicted of forgery--evidence was lacking to prove the murders--he was transported for life to the barbarous penal colony of Tasmania, where, years later, he died in obscurity. Behind him he left only rumors and fragments of documents, and a legend of evil that fascinated such writers as Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde.

With a brilliant blend of creative imagination and scholarly sleuthing, Andrew Motion evokes Wainewright's double life in a tour de force of the biographer's art. Cast in the form of a partly fictional "confession" written by the subject himself, buttressed (and sometimes contradicted) by the notes, background essays and other commentary setting out the known facts, it reveals the man as no straightforward history could do--his distinctive voice, his wit and charm, his callousness and unreliability, his pathos and, perhaps, his capacity for
murder.

As a distinguished biographer (of Philip Larkin and John Keats, among others), Andrew Motion has been notably successful in pinning down the often-elusive details of Wainewright's life. As a first-rate poet (he succeeded Ted Hughes as Britain's Poet Laureate), he shows himself equally skilled in the imaginative investigation of Wainewright's bizarre psyche. The result is a richly memorable exploration of the darker side of human nature, of the roots of crime, of the nature of biography itself.

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Fascinating Idea, Poor Execution.......2001-07-01

The story of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright should be a fascinating read--the idea of a chirasmatic, possibly murderous swindler at the heart of Victorian letters is certainly attractive. However, the execution, using the convoluted prose of the 19th century, but without the subtlety or wit, is profoundly flawed.

The footnotes, which develop the historical basis for what is essential several hundred pages of whining, are actually more interesting than the novel itself, and show what Motion, a competent and conscientious historian, is capable of when he does not hamstring himself by setting up too restrictive a scenario. Motion is obviously not comfortable portraying the literary giants with whom Wainewright interacts, and so he shows them only through the jaundiced (and totally unsympathetic) eye of Wainewright himself. The footnotes are essential in figuring out where Wainewright is sowing truth into his lies, but frankly, I was not able to become interested in Wainewright enough to care about when he tells the truth, and when he lies.

Those interested in this genre of historical fiction are encouraged to check out Tim Powers, who manages to portray historical figures more realistically and sympathetically, even when he's throwing ghosts and vampires into the mix.

A Fascinating Hybrid of Fact and Fiction.......2000-09-26

Andrew Motion has blended two of my favorite genres -- true crime and historical biography -- then wrapped the whole in a carefully crafted and very clever fictional fabric. Surprisingly, "Wainewright the Poisoner" holds up on all levels: as a deft work of literature, an insightful biography and a masterful mystery. I enjoyed the brief, incise chapters of the "Confession" followed by the scholarly footnotes liming the real Wainewright (as available from exisiting sources), the times in which he lived and the extraordinary cast of characters (real) with whom he associated, ranging from Byron and Blake to the inmates of that prison island, Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania). The ease with which Motion moves from the scholarly to flights of fancy (his own as well as the unstable Wainewright's) makes this book one of the most satisfactory, and unusal, reading experiences I've had in quite some time. Very well done, well done indeed.

A for scholarship, C- for entertainment........2000-08-27

This is a strange animal, neither fish nor fowl. The book is marketed as the fictional confession of a real, and seemingly fascinating, character--writer, painter, swindler, companion of famous Romantic authors, probable murderer, and criminal transported to Tasmania. Publishers highlight the fact that Andrew Motion, the author, is both Poet Laureate of Great Britain and a professor of creative writing, and words such as "brilliant," "memorable," "engaging," and "convincing" attach to the book and appear in reviews. With credentials like these, this book should be one of the most vivid and exciting reading experiences of the year, if not the decade.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. The book is so erudite--so like a doctoral dissertation--that the reader never gets close to the subject. The voice of Wainewright, done extremely well in the formal language of the period, nevertheless keeps him at an unbridgeable distance. Wainewright himself never admits his crimes--in fact, does not even recognize them as crimes--and seems to be solely concerned with his own ends, not characteristics allowing for reader identification. Most unfortunately, footnotes so heavily burden the narrative they constitute almost as many pages as the novel itself, and they bring any flow the author does create to a juddering stop. Appearing at the end of every chapter, rather than at the end of the book, they act as deadweights throughout.

Andrew Motion is a respected biographer who appears to have chosen to write a novel because it's the only way he can fill in the gaps in Wainewright's shadowy history, but he is too much the conscientious scholar to be able to exploit the privileges which fiction allows him. We end up, ironically, with a footnoted, scholarly account of Wainewright, a man who lived almost totally in the moment.

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Beautiful creations, but...

Omiyage

Cute!

Kokoro no Te

Exquisite Small Gifts to Make

Kokoro no Te: Handmade Treasures from the Heart
Kumiko Sudo
Manufacturer: Breckling Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Omiyage : Handmade Gifts from Fabric in the Japanese Tradition

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The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook

ASIN: 1933308044

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Kokoro no Te, translated into English as "handmade from the heart," is the philosophy behind this enchanting collection of small, high-fashion craft projects that have a distinctive Japanese flair. Featuring purses, pins, sewing accoutrements, and the author's amazing temari balls, the 30 original hand-sewn designs combine surprisingly simple techniques with exquisite colors and fabrics, allowing sewers to create lavish objets d'art easily and inexpensively. A delightful and original array of fashion pins, brooches, purses, and keepsake pouches creatively combine silks, cottons, and soft felts with delicate beading and embroidery. A pattern for a doll-sized kimono is included along with designs for pin cushions, thimbles, and a needle cache. The sensational color photographs and line drawings show multiple points of view for each project and show precisely how each artful, stylish, and charming piece comes together.

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Beautiful creations, but..........2007-05-14

Kumiko is a master of her craft and her book shows some of her cutest work. While the patterns are fairly simple. she leaves out important hints that make recreating her projects difficult if you aren't paying attention. Pay close attention to the weight and type of fabric that she uses but does not mention in her directions. If you use a heavier fabric than what she used, you may need to adjust the pattern to make it work. I wouldn't recommend this for a complete beginning sewer. Otherwise this is a great book full of fun projects.

Omiyage.......2007-01-23

Lots of lovely ideas in this book, had to alter some sizing, but no problems

Cute!.......2006-08-25

I love the book, and love making all the cute things in it. However, the first time I made the fish, her instructions referred to part C (or maybe D?)of the fish, and the template for the part was nowhere to be found. I was able to make my own template, but it was irritating.

Kokoro no Te.......2006-07-01

I purchsed this for my wife. She is an artist and loves artistic items from Japan - ever since visitng Japan last year. She loves this book andf keeps it on our coffee table in easy reach. The instructions are excellent and the presentation is of high quality.

Exquisite Small Gifts to Make.......2006-01-27

This is the second of Kumiko Sudo's books I have purchased and fallen in love with. There is sure to be a special project that will appeal to your senses and compel you to spend the hours creating just that perfect piece! The projects are small, and require patience and careful attention to detail. That said, the hand sewing can be done in front of the television or while riding in the car.

Items evoke a delight when given as gifts and are perfect for those who have everything. These patterns seem a bit more difficult than those in the Omiyage book and require a bit more imagination to fill in the steps not illustrated. If you enjoy challenging projects, you will love this book.

The Temari balls have become an bit of an issue at my house. I make them for my children and our Siamese cat grabs the balls and runs with them from the kids! So if you have cats or want to make a very special gift for a friend with cats, you could make a Temari ball with a bit of catnip inside!

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Parent Study Group to Ease Transitions

a great help

Good Raising

Wish I'd have read this book earlier!

Women Authors with Feminine Points of View

The Rollercoaster Years
Charlene C. Giannetti , and Margaret Sagarese
Manufacturer: Broadway
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Too Old for This, Too Young for That!: Your Survival Guide for the Middle-School Years

The Everything Tween Book: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Turbulent Pre-Teen Years (Everything Series)

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Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers

ASIN: 0553066846
Release Date: 1997-08-04

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For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence. Every parent knows about the terrible twos and the brooding teens, but few have anticipated the wild ride of these magical yet maddening years that can provide all the thrills and chills of a carnival ride.

Now, drawing together the latest information from experts, supported and advised by the National Middle School Association, and with surprising insights from the authors' own surveys of parents, teachers, and the children themselves, The Roller-Coaster Years covers every facet of the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of early adolescents, including:

• Appearance Anxiety
• Distractibility
• Fears and Other Emotions
• The Battle for Independence
• Success in School
• Friendship and Peer Pressure
• Sexual Awakening
• The Lure of Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol
• The Promise and Peril of Electronic Media
• Sticky Questions About Your Own Past

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Parent Study Group to Ease Transitions.......2004-02-02

I have used this book successfully for the last two years with a 5th grade parent group we started to help ease the transition from elementary to middle school. "The Roller Coaster Years" is a non-threatening way to address issues in a group setting and provides parents with an excellent resource. The authors have an easy, calming style of writing that invites parents to read more. When we decided to try using a text, I was afraid if parents knew that I would have them read and discuss a book, they would not attend the sessions; however, once we began reading and sharing, our group size increased and more parents attended the meetings just to get their own copy of "The Roller Coaster Years".

I would highly recommend this book for principals, parent service providers, counselors, and parents in general who need assistance with managing the changes a child experiences during adolescence. It leads to great discussions about our own experiences and how times have and sometimes have not changed for our own children.

a great help.......2002-11-13

This book is intelligent, common sensical and compassionate. It was a great help and answered questions I didn't even know I had.

Good Raising.......2001-09-01

I think this book is a good book, and I'm not just saying this because one of the authors is my mom. My 18 year-old brother and I were brought up using the philosophy that when we grow up we can be anything we want to. And to this O'Brian fellow who says that this book was written with a "soccer mom" point of view I would just like to state that he is very, very wrong. For one thing, I don't even play soccer and that would also be very hard, living in the City. My mom has been through a lot, and has experienced a lot of what she writes about in her books. So if your saying that this is very feminine writing, then you can go talk to my brother about that. So there.

Wish I'd have read this book earlier!.......2001-06-20

As the father of three mid- to late teens, I believe this book will be a great aid to young parents who have, or will soon be raising, the "middlers" (ages 10-15) that this book focuses on. My only regret is that I did not have the opportunity to read it when my children were beginning to move through this age group.

Had I read it earlier, I'm sure that it would have greatly improved my parenting skill because this book is practically a "how-to" manual for parents raising the 10-15 year-old child. Many, many topics are addressed by (what I feel, anyway) are two very readable and knowledgeable authors! Success in school, friendship & peer pressure, helping with the selection of appropriate media, drug and alcohol use, sexual awakening, and appearance anxiety are just some of the topics that are addressed in the book.

The book is a very fast "read" and is written in a light-hearted, yet informative manner. Humor and "street-talk" are used appropriately and effectively. The authors have certainly done their research and share a great deal of relevant and "eye-popping" survey material. Much of the material comes from the National Middle School Association, which also gives the book it "seal of approval".

I wholeheartedly recommend it to all parents who have children approaching those difficult high school years. You'll learn a lot of effective communication and parenting tricks which will make you a more effective parent, while at the same time making it easier for you and your "middler" to peacefully (and happily) progress through these trying 6 years! 5 stars!

Women Authors with Feminine Points of View.......2000-07-07

I'm a Big Brother and I bought this book to assist me with my 12 yr. old Little Brother. I returned it when I found it was a book written from a very feminine, "soccer mom-ish" point of view. If you're a man looking for a good book about a middle school boy, look elsewhere. The authors recommend treating your boy's issues from a feminine perspective. Instead get a book by Gurian or Pollack. (On the plus side, and the reason I gave it 3 stars, I do have to say that the authors did a thorough job covering all of a middle schooler's relevant issues...)

Rollercoaster: My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998

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Rollercoaster: My Hectic Years as Jean Chretien's Diplomatic Advisor, 1994-1998
James K. Bartleman
Manufacturer: Douglas Gibson Books
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For four years, James Bartleman mixed with all the biggest names – Clinton, Blair, Yeltsin, Mitterrand, Castro, Kohl, Chirac, and on and on, as Chrétien’s Henry Kissinger figure.

He was involved in deadly serious crisis management, accompanying Chrétien to all the world’s hot spots – dodging bullets in Sarajevo, and trying to avoid war in the Spanish trawler incident. Not to mention dealing with Premier Li of China on an official visit encountering protestors in Montreal and shouting, “I am departing immediately. Never have I and my country been so humiliated.”

Which leader at the G7 Summit in Halifax passed out drunk in the hotel elevator? What did Jean Chrétien do to set White House aides threatening, “the next time there’s a referendum, we will support the separatists”? And why did Fidel Castro grab our author, shaking him and snarling, “I hope you are satisfied, Bartleman”? It’s all in this lively book.

Every major world crisis of these years is represented here, and every region of the world. You’ll be amazed at how widely Chrétien and Bartleman travelled and how much top-level action they experienced. Canadian foreign policy has never seemed so exciting. Or so funny (as when the angry Japanese prime minister’s Ottawa visit was marred by a health problem officially described as “soft poo”). A candid, witty, eye-opening book about foreign affairs at the top.

IN BRITAIN - Volume 40, number 1 - January Jan 1985: D H Lawrence 100 Years On; Buon Appetito; Round Trip; Sunday Lunch and Views of Distant Hills; Wales's Land of Milk and Honey; A Glorious Rollercoaster and other Ups and Downs; On the Town: Ayr

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IN BRITAIN - Volume 40, number 1 - January Jan 1985: D H Lawrence 100 Years On; Buon Appetito; Round Trip; Sunday Lunch and Views of Distant Hills; Wales's Land of Milk and Honey; A Glorious Rollercoaster and other Ups and Downs; On the Town: Ayr
Bryn (editor) (Bob Collins; Paolo Filo della Torre; Bill Grundy; Julian Critchley; Carole Wright; Nesta Roberts; William Foster) Frank
Manufacturer: The British Tourist Authority
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HR85VC

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Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Alessandra Comini romps through six decades as an unconventional art historian in this illustrated memoir. The author of award-winning books on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Comini reflects on the formation and flowering of her distinguished career. Beginning with her colorful background as a refugee from Franco's Spain, then Mussolini's Italy, she describes her music-loving family's adjustment to a World War II Texas. A series of fortuitous experiences lead to what would ultimately be a turning point in both her life as well as in Schiele scholarship: the discovery, half a century after Schiele's incarceration in a provincial Austrian jail, of the actual cell in which he had been imprisoned.

Comini invites readers to join her in the same zestful pursuit of cultural history that has repeatedly earned her the honor of being voted "outstanding professor," first by her students at Columbia University, then later at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her research and quests take the reader around the world and back. From the islands of Corfu, Madeira, Rügen, and Tahiti, and the cities of Lisbon, Rome, Oslo, and St. Petersburg, Comini pursues such diverse and distinctive personalities as Rosa Bonheur, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Vaslav Nijinsky, Egon Schiele, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Käthe Kollwitz.

For those who wonder what academics do besides teach and publish, Alessandra Comini's memoir will inspire readers with its compelling account of an extraordinary life and career still passionately in progress. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

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Comini's Passionate Pursuits.......2004-10-12

I have just finished reading Alessandra Comini's autobiography, "In Passionate Pursuit", which was recommended to me through your "personal recommendations" list on your Amazon.com site. This memoir which covers six decades of the author's life and career as an art historian was a delight to read. There were many sections where I had to actually put the book down and wipe my eyes, as I found myself tearing up with emotions of both joy and sadness. As a mental health counselor, professional musician, and patron of the arts myself, I was touched by how Comini so beautifully integrated her love for art history and musicology with equal passion and pursuit! Life can become such a balancing act for all of us and how many of us truly follow our heart's calling as Comini does? Equally, how many of us, especially when we age, look back and wish we had pursued those dreams much differently?
Comini's book rejuvenates the human spirit. Her colorful descriptions of each site she visited makes readers feel as if they are standing there beside her. Intertwined with her journeys and discoveries are those very reflective moments such as having to say goodbye to life-long friends she has made along the way. Heart wrenching was the moment when she opened a letter mailed to her after her own mother's death, a letter in her mother's handwriting compassionately consoling others who had had a loved one die. Poignantly, she describes another period in her life when she dropped out of graduate school in order to assist Hungarian Refugees as they fled to Vienna during the Hungarian Revolution. Subsequently, she so bravely, and honestly describes her own battle with breast cancer which gives hope to women everywhere who are going through similar experiences. Alessandra Comini's introductory description of discovering Schiele's prison cell leads the reader into an exuberant, 233 pages of the author's adventures, travels, and personal memoirs. Comini's book is "real" and can reach audiences from those in the arts' world, students, and especially those who have ever had a slight tug in their heart to follow their own dreams.

An inspiration for everyone who dreams in color.......2004-10-10

Any student of the liberal arts - and, for that matter, anyone who has ever been inspired by a book, a painting, or a fragment of a song - should run out and buy this book immediately! Comini's rich, hypnotic prose brings her world alive and takes one on a journey of the senses through her brilliant career. Making deft use of language, Comini's writing is both deeply personal and introspective, tracing her growth as a person and as a scholar. At the same time, the narrative provides a warm, refreshing look at how art is "pursued," with the indomitable Comini and her trusty camera on the forefront of some of modern art's greatest re-discoveries. A cult icon amongst young intellectuals, Comini's articles and public lectures are the stuff of academic legend, so this book written in Comini's own words is a treat for her readers. This book takes up Goethe's call to arms: "Strive! Strive! Strive!"

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