The genus Tigridia (Iridaceae) of Mexico and Central America (University of California publications in botany, v. 54)
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    The genus Tigridia (Iridaceae) of Mexico and Central America (University of California publications in botany, v. 54)
    Elwood Molseed
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    Eccentric France (Eccentric Series)
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      Eccentric France (Eccentric Series)
      Piers Letcher
      Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 1841620688

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      Want to visit the Garlic and Livestock Festival in Provence? See a homemade full-scale reproduction of the Sistine Chapel in Normandy? Follow the Truffle Trail in Périgord? Or just find out about the fascinating, madcap, and sometimes tragic lives of the hundreds of real eccentrics who have made their mark in France?
      Eccentric France brings travelers all this and much, much more--on and off the beaten track. Between the covers of Eccentric France readers will discover entire museums dedicated to eccentricities such as Camembert cheese and corkscrews, and fairs celebrating the virtues of edible snails and absinthe. The Montgolfier brothers, Nostradamus, and Marie Antoinette all rub shoulders here, along with some American exports such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, and Henry James. Bizarre buildings, outrageous artists, ridiculous royalty, impossible inventions, and peculiar people populate France; this guide tells travelers what to visit, when to go, and who they can meet. It's also a great book for the armchair visitors or for those planning their next trip to La Belle France.
      Berbiguier de Carpentras
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        Berbiguier de Carpentras
        Marie Mauron
        Manufacturer: P. Belfond
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        The Hats of Mr. Zenobe (Performance Series) (Performance Series)
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          The Hats of Mr. Zenobe (Performance Series) (Performance Series)
          Robert Astle
          Manufacturer: Signature Editions
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 0921833539

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          I first became aware of the story of Vahan Poladian, the inspiration for Mr. Zenobe, through my colleague Agnès Limbos to whom I had sent some rough notes on the new piece I was working on. One day I received a phone call from Agnès, who was on tour in Switzerland. She had just visited the Musée de L'Art Brut (Outsider Art Museum) in Lausanne and seen Vahan Poladian's remarkable collection housed there. Strangely enough, his story dovetailed with many of the ideas that I had sent to Agnès just months earlier.

          I travelled to Lausanne myself, and spent an incredible day looking at Poladian's creations and screening the short film Monsieur Poladian á St. Raphael. I was shocked and astonished by his story of exile, crumbled spirit, then spectacular transformation of creative ardour, verve, and passion.

          Vahan Poladian was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1902. The Turks began systematically killing the Armenians in 1915, with a death toll that reached 1.5 million. Poladian's family fled the country. With the assistance of relatives, Poladian attempted to immigrate to the USA, but he was refused entry. He went instead to Cuba, where he worked as a travelling salesman. But this did not last long. Poladian was able to return to Europe when France accepted him as an immigrant.

          He settled in Paris, where he made contact with the expatriate Armenian community. Poladian married an Armenian woman who bore him a daughter, Viviane. With the onset of the Second World War, however, Poladian was conscripted by the French Army, and forced to leave his family. His unit was captured by the Germans and Poladian was sent to a POW camp.

          Upon his release at the end of the war, Poladian made his way back to Paris, only to discover that his wife and child had disappeared. For several years he searched in vain for them. His mother had also immigrated to France and he was briefly reunited with her after the war. She died soon after, however, and her death and the loss of his wife and child was a devastating shock for Poladian.

          Poladian became "socially autistic," closing off the world. In 1966, at the age of 64, he entered the Armenian Home in St. Raphael, France. He would spend his remaining years there. The Home gave Poladian a stipend of one franc a day, which he used to create an amazing phantasmagoria of hats and costumes. Twice daily he paraded through the streets of St. Raphael, showing his collection of "Ancient Terrors and Glories," always with "the hope to change the world with laughter."

          Vahan Poladian died quietly in the Armenian Home in 1982 after refusing to eat. Part of his enormous collection of hats and costumes was donated to the Musée de L'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. —Robert Astle
          Mouna: Gueule ou creve (Memoire pour demain)
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            Mouna: Gueule ou creve (Memoire pour demain)
            Anne Gallois
            Manufacturer: Editions Clancier-Guenaud
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            Rat Man of Paris (Collier Fiction)
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • A Shabby love in Wartime Paris
            Rat Man of Paris (Collier Fiction)
            Paul West
            Manufacturer: Collier Books
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            ASIN: 0020262507

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars A Shabby love in Wartime Paris.......2000-02-02

            The superb historical novelist Paul West's greatest accomplishment is this short, unsentimental yet oddly moving love story between a Parisian vagabond and the young woman who (against all bourgeois judgement) cleans him up and falls strangely in love with him in occupied Paris. Loosely inspired by stories of sightings of a real life character who wandered the city of lights with a trained rat during the war, West's gritty, twisted love story is among the best three novels I have read from the 1980s, along with White Hotel and Libra. A strange, rewarding read.
            The Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • The Eccentric Pretender
            The Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
            Stephanie de Montalk
            Manufacturer: Victoria University Press
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            ASIN: 086473414X

            Book Description

            Poet, polemicist, pagan, and pretender to the throne of Poland, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was one of the glittering generation of New Zealand poets of the 1930s. His career took a strange turn after he was imprisoned for obscene libel. Following a celebrated trial in London, he became increasingly eccentric, dressing in mock-medieval garb, claiming the throne of Poland, and issuing a stream of poetry and pamphlets, before returning to New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s. This is the first time his full story has been told and it will be relevant to those interested in the literature of obscenity, the history of censorship, and private press publishing in the 20th century.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars The Eccentric Pretender.......2003-02-13

            My response to this excellent biography/memoir about New Zealand born poet, polemicist, private printer, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, by his cousin NZ poet Stephanie de Montalk, is best conveyed by excerpts from the two following reviews. Michael King, writing in The Dominion (NZ) 17 November 2001, said, 'Every once in a rare while, a subject and an author admirably suited to each other connect and the result is a book of outstanding interest and merit. Unqiet World is one such volume ...like many poets, she writes prose very well. This quality is yet another that lifts this book from the domain of biography into that of literature.' And Ruth Brown, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, 27 December 2002, observed: 'Stephanie de Montalk succeeds in bringing her implauible relative to plalusible life. His various exploits on a worldwide stage are set in a meticulously researched analysis of the context of their times, and in openly acknowledging a complex and shifting personal reslationship with her quarry, she charts the subjectivity that must go into the making of any biography.'
            J'ai reussi ma vie
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              J'ai reussi ma vie
              Leo Campion
              Manufacturer: Editions du Borrego
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              ASIN: 2904724052

              Momentum, Direction, and Divergence
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • brilliance shines throughout the book.
              • Great Conceptual Book for Double Smoothed Indicators
              • A great discussion of momentum
              • Not impressed
              • EXTREMELY great book
              Momentum, Direction, and Divergence
              William Blau
              Manufacturer: Wiley
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              ASIN: 0471027294

              Book Description

              A guide to the latest, most promising technical indicators and their applications

              Momentum, direction, and divergence are the three basic components of nearly all technical indicators used in the analysis of stock and commodities trading. And for those who understand them and their applications, they are also the pillars of a high-performance trading strategy. In this groundbreaking book, technical wizard William Blau schools financial professionals in all three. Combining the latest financial information with dozens of eye-opening graphics, Blau clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of complex mathematics:

              MOMENTUM, DIRECTION, AND DIVERGENCE

              The Wiley Trader's Advantage is a series of concise, highly focused books designed to keep savvy traders in tune with the latest successful strategies and techniques used by the keenest minds in the business.

              In this latest volume, technical expert Bill Blau shows you how momentum, direction, and divergence form the basis of most technical indicators and how they can work for you to provide a considerable competitive advantage. Clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of complex mathematics, Blau shows you how to understand and apply them. Integrating the latest financial insights with more than 75 easy-to-follow graphics, Blau describes the uses and limitations of many of today's most notable technical indicators. He then demonstrates a variety of ways in which the principles of momentum, direction, and divergence can be used to create a versatile new set of technical indicators or to improve the effectiveness of the most widely used traditional indicators.

              Focusing on the groundbreaking double smoothing concept, which he introduces for the first time in this book, William Blau:

              A complete guide to the most potent new indicators and their applications, Momentum, Direction, and Divergence is an indispensable resource for traders, portfolio managers, and all financial professionals.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars brilliance shines throughout the book........2007-10-23

              This book is a small volume. And very potent one at that. Along with Tom Demark's Duration Analysis, Blau's Slope Divergence concept is one of the brilliant ways to look at the market. This book should be studied thoroughly by ALL market technicians.

              4 out of 5 stars Great Conceptual Book for Double Smoothed Indicators.......2005-08-05

              If you're a day trader with moderate success and an ability to tear apart the concepts, and Blau's basic examples, one or two of the indicators discussed could probably help you. If you're just wanting to learn more about momentum and/or double smoothed (practically any oscillating) indicators, or a neophyte, then this book is most likely over your head. The example "systems" that Blau expounds upon are a great basic start to good systems, and he tells you flat out that they're not complete, but just example-type systems. But I'll tell you this: The basic, incomplete systems in this book are a heck of a lot better than a huge majority of those "magic bullet" "get rich overnight" systems that cost three and more times the amount of this book! There is no magic bullet, but this book is a lot closer to making you into the magic bullet than most others.

              If you're a beginner and don't have a powerhouse charting platform like e-Signal or TradeStation, I would suggest waiting to get this book (but definitely put it on your Wish List). If you already have the dedication, some experience, and something like e-Signal or TradeStation, then just fork out the money and get it. You should not be disappointed if you can actually read and apply information exactly as given, and are not expecting to receive that which does not exist, the magic bullet. Very strong foundation building book.

              One more thing: Please don't expect that you will thoroughly understand the concepts with only one reading. The ideas Blau presents are fairly advanced (high intermediate level) and do take some personal evaluation, which will take time. I believe that this is a book that you will want to read at least once a month for the first six months, then at least once a year thereafter.

              5 out of 5 stars A great discussion of momentum.......2004-04-18

              This is a book about momentum. It will show you what momentum is and how to interpret it. There are several vey unique indicators developped in a masterful way. You will get many new ideas, and should be able to improve your use of these indicators, and make better interpretation of other mainstream momentum indicators. You will understand smoothing and lag. A must read for any technician.

              2 out of 5 stars Not impressed.......2004-02-25

              I thought this book was very short to begin with (only 104 pages of actual text, plus some small apendixes)...hardly worth $42 for a small amount of text. It's also very old (written in 1995). The content which is in the book is very difficult to apply because you really need a research tool (like tradestation) to apply these ideas. Numerous ideas in earlier chapters are brought back in later chapters and you have to go back and re-read to see what each indicator meant. I think all in all he just applies his idea of double smoothing to filter out misleading chart data....nothing revolutionary, and hardly worth the price.
              Also, as odd as this may seem, with all the math involved, 90% of the charts which he derives from these mathematical formulas look exactly like a line chart of the security!
              If you have access to tradestation, this book is worthwhile if you put the time into understanding all the concepts involved.

              5 out of 5 stars EXTREMELY great book.......2002-09-27

              OK where did my previous review of this book go? I wrote it months ago was it lost?

              Can't be bothered writing the whole thing again, so in summary: it is an excellent book, picks a main concept of smoothing and constructs some excellent indicators, and many different ones, has great ideas, inspires great ideas, has code / formulas you name it, extremely worthwhile for anyone who is serious and capable of putting these things into use.

              That means constructing them and understanding them.

              Some reviewers seem disappointed ... I suspect some people think "momentum" is some magic bullet that will get them into a stock before it moves, other reviewers are arguing definitions, all I can say is that when I first got hold of this book I took a look and did not really like it, but after working my way through it found it to be truly a gem.

              Very worthwhile.

              And where did my previous review go? grrrr

              Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations: 2003 Cumulative Supplement (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series)
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Comprehensive
              • midnight accounting help
              • This book is very valuable for Not-For-Profit Organizations
              • It is helpful to me.
              Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations: 2003 Cumulative Supplement (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series)
              Malvern J. Gross , Richard F. Larkin , and John H. McCarthy
              Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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              2. Bookkeeping for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Nonprofit Accounting Bookkeeping for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Nonprofit Accounting
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              ASIN: 0471250155

              Book Description

              The 2003 Cumulative Supplement (0-471-25015-5) completely updates the sixth edition of Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations.

              It includes:

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars Comprehensive.......2006-05-12

              This is a fantastic resource for accountants entering into not-for-profit organizations for the first time or to review further for accountants wanting more clarity in their current management positions. This book covers everything and has excellent sections on accounting and reporting guidelines for the many entity types of not-for-profit organizations. Also has a chapter covering entities on public not-for-profit (GASB). This book truly is worth keeping in the office as a valuable resource.

              4 out of 5 stars midnight accounting help.......1999-12-07

              Sometimes you may be serving on the board of a nonprofit group and discover that your funder requires GAAP. Well what is that. This book will help you understand the nonprofit world of accounting. This work has been a resource that I have turned to at midnight myself aand have recommended many times. At times it is a little technical. But it helps to use some "accounting" language in the next board or committee meeting that you will be discussing budgets or finalcial presentatons.

              Also, I have used this as a guideline when I consulted a small group that needed help with internal controls.

              4 out of 5 stars This book is very valuable for Not-For-Profit Organizations.......1999-10-18

              I felt this book was basically well written. It at times is a little too technical, but basically is easy to follow. I do find it an invaluable tool for reference information in the not-for-profit industry.

              4 out of 5 stars It is helpful to me........1999-05-25

              It was lucky to find this book. I'm a college student. I am preparing to take a AICPA exam. The library of my college doesn't have enough books about Not-for-Profit Organization accounting. This book gives me friendly and detailed explanations. well, a shortness of this book is a tedious text, such as one color text, no graphic figures. I just worried about objective judgements, because I didn't study other Not-fot-Profit books. Anyway, this book makes me come to Not-for-Profit accounting more closely. I'd like to recommend this book.

              Gundog sense and sensibility
              Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
              • Too much information
              Gundog sense and sensibility
              Wilson Stephens
              Manufacturer: Pelham
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              ASIN: 0720714079

              Book Description

              Readers are told of the inner nature of gundogs, their behavior patterns and reflexes, elements of management, and the man-dog communication system by which the recommended lessons can be taught.

              Customer Reviews:

              3 out of 5 stars Too much information.......2005-07-19

              I'm not too satisfied by this book. It contains a lot of information which is adequate and desirable. Unfortunately the author needs a lot of words to explain relative simple items.

              Wood Spirits and Green Men: A Design Sourcebook for Woodcarvers and Other Artists
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • A great resource
              • Woodspirits
              • Wood Spirits and Green Men: A Design Sourcebook for Woodcarvers and Other Artists
              Wood Spirits and Green Men: A Design Sourcebook for Woodcarvers and Other Artists
              Lora S. Irish , Chris Pye , and Shawn Cipa
              Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing
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              5. The Green Man The Green Man

              ASIN: 1565232615

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              The 40 patterns included in this guide for carving green men and wood spirits out of wood are appropriate for carvers of all skill levels. A recent term for a loose archetype—usually the head of a man within nature or a man as part of nature—the green man can be documented as early as A.D. 30 as a Roman architectural accent. The patterns show the green man in his wide range of emotions—happy, sad, miserable, or mischievous—with descriptions of how the wood spirit is anchored to nature not by the imagery of leaves and foliage but by the media on which he is depicted. The wood spirit walking stick patterns show realistic human faces that appear out of the bark or grain of the wood branches or logs in which they are being carved.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars A great resource.......2006-12-09

              I wanted to carve some wood spirits for walking sticks. I had some 1.25 inch dowels to practice with. I checked this book out of the local library, and was able to carve a decent wood spirit on my first try. The "practice" wood spirits ended up looking good enough to finsish and keep for display, even though I had never carved anything before. So if you are a new carver, or even an experienced one, this book will give you plenty of patterns, illustrations, and descriptive text to make wood spirits. I will be buying a copy soon so that I can keep it on hand.

              5 out of 5 stars Woodspirits.......2006-07-11

              If you are into wood spirits, spirit canes, or green men this is the book for you. Lots of patterns, good instructions.

              5 out of 5 stars Wood Spirits and Green Men: A Design Sourcebook for Woodcarvers and Other Artists.......2005-08-02

              I'm not skilled at woodcarving, but I have to tell you...these patterns are so clear, so easy to follow, that they lend themselves to nearly any medium! Clay, lost wax casting models, needlework, woodburning decorations, painting inspirations, even stained glass, which is my business. Bravo, Lora Irish! Thank you for sharing!

              Cereal Grass: Nature's Greatest Health Gift
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                Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
                Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                • PRICELESS, ENCOURAGING WORDS FOR THOSE IN THE WARZONE......
                • Very insightful
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                Nancy Boyd-Franklin , Pamela A. Toussaint , and A. J. Franklin
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                3. "Yo, Little Brother . . . ": Basic Rules of Survival for Young African-American Males "Yo, Little Brother . . . ": Basic Rules of Survival for Young African-American Males
                4. The Warrior Method: A Parents' Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys The Warrior Method: A Parents' Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys
                5. Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children (Plume) Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children (Plume)

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                1. Health o Meter  HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

                ASIN: 0452280850

                Book Description

                In this first book of its kind, psychologists Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin and Dr. A. J. Franklin help African American families of all kinds face the unique challenges of raising their teenage sons. Boys into Men offers hope and inspiration to parents, teachers, counselors, and community members by drawing on African American family values and cultural and spiritual strengths.

                In this compassionate and comprehensive handbook parents will learn how to foster a positive racial male identity, plant strong spiritual roots, promote sexual responsibility, overcome negative influences of hip-hop and "hoop dreams," and rise above the no-win skin color game. As Scared Black Parents transform themselves into Prepared Black Parents, they'll be able to cope with problems of violence, drugs, gangs, and racism. Filled with hundreds of real-life success stories and a detailed list of books, Web sites, and helpful organizations, Boys into Men is a much-needed antidote to the one-size-one-color-fits-all approach of most parenting guides.

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                In this first book of its kind, psychologists Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin and Dr. A. J. Franklin help African American families of all kinds face the unique challenges of raising their teenage sons. Boys into Men offers hope and inspiration to parents, teachers, counselors, and community members by drawing on African American family values and cultural and spiritual strengths. In this compassionate and comprehensive handbook parents will learn how to foster a positive racial male identity, plant strong spiritual roots, promote sexual responsibility, overcome negative influences of hip-hop and ""hoop dreams,"" and rise above the no-win skin color game. As Scared Black Parents transform themselves into Prepared Black Parents, they'll be able to cope with problems of violence, drugs, gangs, and racism. Filled with hundreds of real-life success stories and a detailed list of books, Web sites, and helpful organizations, Boys into Men is a much-needed antidote to the one-size-one-color-fits-all approach of most parenting guides.

                Customer Reviews:

                5 out of 5 stars PRICELESS, ENCOURAGING WORDS FOR THOSE IN THE WARZONE.............2001-09-04

                As soon as I learned that the baby I was carrying was a boy, I instinctively knew that I have to foster the "state of emergency" frame of mind to make him into the shining Black Prince that I wanted him to be, and this book will push you on that path from the jump. It encourages, enlightens and spells out the solutions to keep your precious son on the right path. Nearly every possible scenario is touched on here: encouragement to single mothers and fathers and tips on the ex, homosexuality, the doomed "raise the daughters love the sons" mentality, how to teach him to live in a sometimes hostile, racist world while maintaining self-dignity and respect for others, how not to allow himself to get "dumbed down" by peers, avoiding the temptation of drugs and gangs,etc. This book has more info than you would expect one source to have, and it helped me to understand that raising a responsible, loving, respectful young Black man doesn't have to be a pipedream. If you want to help avert crises before they occur, or need help throughout the one you may in the midst of, this book is priceless. Learn from the case scenarios and advice these 2 parents give from their own lives and others and cherish it.

                4 out of 5 stars Very insightful.......2000-06-19

                My husband and I are the parents of one 2.5 year old boy and one boy on the way. As an African American parent I am desparate for books discussing the special issues that relate to our sons. I found this book to be a great resource and reference.

                With all of the issues facing our sons--drugs, gangs, police overreaction etc. it felt good to know that I am not the only one extremely concerned about how to grow my boy into a man.

                This book deals with all of the issues I could think of related to raising a black son.

                I think it can be a praticular interest to single moms who I believe have a special need.

                This book also provides a listing of several other books that one can reference which I found invaluable.

                Donna

                Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism (Midi Series)
                Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                • Beware!
                • So far, so good!
                Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism (Midi Series)
                Daniel Wildenstein
                Manufacturer: Taschen
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Paperback

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                Customer Reviews:

                3 out of 5 stars Beware!.......2004-06-03

                This is a reprint of an earliar edition with a different painting on the cover. The book info seen on line does not disclose this fact. Therefore if you are an online buyer you may be fooled into buying a book on Monet that you already have.

                4 out of 5 stars So far, so good!.......2004-01-31

                I just got this book at Chicago's Art Institute at Christmas and I am really enjoying it so far. I am not an art expert by any means, but the author seems very knowledgeable and the text is readable and includes lots of detail and quotes from original sources. There are also period photes of the artist's subject matter to compare with the paintings and to set the scene for his biography.
                I was not familiar with this book's physical format. It is not really a cloth-bound book. It seems to be some sort of super-tough paperback. The book seems very sturdy and I suppose that this binding keeps the cost of the book down.
                I looked up the publisher in Amazon's book search and there were 1600 listings, so this is probably a hugely famous art publisher I just never heard of.
                It's a very attractive coffee-table book that you might actually read!
                Monet: Or the Triumph of Impressionism (Jumbo)
                Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                • Well-written, no references, duplicates catalog raisonne
                Monet: Or the Triumph of Impressionism (Jumbo)
                Daniel Wildenstein
                Manufacturer: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

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                4 out of 5 stars Well-written, no references, duplicates catalog raisonne.......1999-08-30

                This is a beautifully illustrated review of Monet's life, by one of the major scholars of Monet. It suffers as a scholarly source, however, because there are no citations of where quotes or information was obtained. And buyers beware: this is a reprint of Vol I of the 4 volume catolog raisonne--so if you have that set, don't buy it!
                Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
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                  Monet To Matisse: The Triumph Of Impressionism And The Avant Garde : The Howard D. And Babette L. Sirak Collection At The Columbus Museum Of Art
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                    Monet To Matisse: The Triumph Of Impressionism And The Avant Garde : The Howard D. And Babette L. Sirak Collection At The Columbus Museum Of Art
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                    Manufacturer: Columbus Museum of Art
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                    The Way That I Followed: A Naturalist's Journey Around Ireland
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                      The Way That I Followed: A Naturalist's Journey Around Ireland
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