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A Time for Breaking Hearts: I Don't Accuse, I Don't Defend, I Don't Apologize, I Report
Herbert A. Paas
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Joseph De Maistre: An Intellectual Militant
Richard A. Lebrun
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Scary and Wonderful.......2005-08-25
I'm thinking about going to medical school, and this book was recommended to me to get a flavor for what life is like as a medical student - particularly a slightly older, female, non-traditional student.
The book is frankly scary if you're considering medicine as a career - the overwhelming stress and forced maturation she describes is daunting. On the other hand, it's probably very realistic for someone going through the process while juggling a family. Her writing is accessible and insightful, and at times I found myself identifying completely with her and her thoughts on the field (though, granted, in some ways the book is outdated). A book I will likely re-read.
The person who said she was run-of-the-mill clearly didn't identify at all with her, which is not a failure of her writing so much as their imagination, especially given that they recommended Melvin Konner's "Becoming a doctor", which is a far less eloquent/evocative book.
Worth your time.......2005-07-28
For anyone who has considered attending medical school, this is an insightful tale. It's a realistic look at medical school from someone who is not necessarily a perfect student. I enjoyed this book very much.
Interesting Book.......2002-07-13
I am a pre-med Junior in college and I enjoyed this book. It gives you a look into medical school, although it is through her sometimes negative or critical point of view. Interesting and easy to read.
Fascinating book.......2002-06-22
A fascinating well-written book, which will be of interest to anyone who has experience of hospitals and medicine, whether as professional or patient.
Perfect for Pre-Meds.......2001-12-02
I am a biology major/ pre-med student at UCLA, though it is through my English class that I found this book. Simply put, this novel made me think. I continuously wondered, "can i handle 'dog dissection'... will I be able to memorize all of the countless facts about all these rare diseases?" An entire section of the book is devoted to bioethical issues, including one essay entitled, "DNR," (do not resuscitate). I began questioning myself, "is it fair to bring someone back just so that they can suffer longer with the same disease?" If you plan on going to medical school, reading this book is a must, and a joy; it is perfect for pre-meds.
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A not entirely malignant procedure.......2004-11-16
This is the story of a grumpy, exhausted, scared stiff medical student who also happens to be a great writer. I've read many medical autobiographies by physicians such as Frank T. Vertosick, Michael Baden, Robert S. Desowitz, and William A. Nolen, but none that have terrified me as much as "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure."
Perri Klass received her MD from Harvard in 1986, and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, where her subspecialty is Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is also an extensively published writer.
"A Not Entirely Benign Procedure" was written deep within the bowels of medical school by a new initiate into the arcane, bloody, sometimes agonizing rituals of late 20th-century medicine. Perri Klass had a bit more to deal with than the average medical student, when she learned she was pregnant on the afternoon of her first anatomy exam. The author was the first to admit she was no superwoman: "I was a totally frazzled, frequently irritable, chronically sleep-deprived case, depending for my survival on the support and patience of others..."
One of her fantasies was to crawl into one of the hospital beds, slip an IV into her arm, and be taken care of like a patient. Sleep. Wake up to take a sleeping pill. Sleep.
If nothing else this book talked me out of the deep-seated fantasy that I should have gone to medical school---not with an absolute need for eight hours of sleep every night. I'll stick to watching "Trauma--Life in the ER" and reading books like this one.
I also vow that the next time I'm in a hospital and a white-coated, badged, stethoscoped person approaches me with a needle in hand, I'm going to ask, "Have you ever performed this procedure before?"
Thanks, Dr. Klass. I'm trying not to be a gomer (Get Out of My Emergency Room), and I'm definitely not CTD (Circling The Drain), but if it really takes some medical students seven punctures to complete a spinal tap, then I'd rather have someone with a bit more experience perform the procedure on me.
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- Review of the book,"From here, you cant see Paris"
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- Evocative rendering of a wonderful part of the world
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- We had stumbled upon a little world of good.
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
Michael S. Sanders
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ASIN: 0060959207
Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
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From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques Ratier and his wife, Noëlle, whose bustling restaurant -- the village's sole business -- has helped ensure Les Arques's future.
Sanders set out to explore the inner workings of a French restaurant kitchen but ended up stumbling into a much richer world. Through the eyes of the Sanders family, one discovers the vibrant traditions of food, cooking, and rural living, and comes to know the village's history. Whether uncovering the darker secrets of making foie gras, hearing a chef confess his doubts about the Michelin star system, or absorbing the lore of the land around a farmhouse kitchen table after a boar hunt, life in Les Arques turns out to be anything but sleepy.
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Review of the book,"From here, you cant see Paris".......2007-09-10
I started out prepared to like this book, after all, I love France, having visited it many times, and my Grandmother on my Mothers side was French. However, after only a few sentences, alarm bells started to go off. The more I read, the worse it got. Basically, -here are the problems. The authors appalling use of Grammar, the tortured sentences, the overuse of adjectives, the misplaced adverbs and verbs, the use of American slang, {as in "I wanted to get the "skinny" on the matter,-meaning the inside info.}The mixed use of Ameringlish, Franglais,and slang.
Just read it yourself, and you will see what I mean. Michael Sanders badly needs a} a good proof-reader, one who is literate as well as literary, and b}someone to edit his work and be prepared to slash many tortured sentences with a red pen.I gave up before I was even half-way through, as being a retired English teacher, it was too painful to read further. Sorry, but I cant recommend this book to anyone who is half-way literate.
Poorly Edited.......2007-06-01
I enjoyed this book for the most part, but found it poorly edited. The author mentions the same things over and over again in different parts of the book. When the same idea or scene is repeated, it is as though it is being mentioned for the first time. I found this highly annoying when I was reading the book.
Evocative rendering of a wonderful part of the world.......2006-09-02
A friend who lives in the Lot recommended this as essential reading prior to our recent trip to visit her. Although at first I feared that this book would be another cloying American-in-Europe travelogue, I happily found that Sanders presents a balanced and gracious treatment of a place that obviously captured his heart. He resists gushing encomiums and treats his subject matter with restraint and some degree of objectivity. Having said that, I should add that he also enthuses when he feels inclined to do so, and these sections generate a warm glow without excessive sugar-coating. The book hooked us, and after we arrived in the region, we undertook a two-hour drive through the backroads of the Lot to walk through the village, visit the museum, and, of course, lunch at La Recreation. It is always difficult to reconcile the experience of a place in the flesh with one's mental image from a book, but Sanders captured the magic of the place deftly. The lunch, by the way, was magnificent.
A little gem.......2006-08-15
Sanders has captured a lovely, wistful sense of life in an impoverished little French village. Balancing out the descriptions of the local restaurant and the residents of Les Arques are more factual reports on how some of France's culinary goodies (foie gras and duck breast, for example) are made.
While he doesn't shy away from describing his experiences with a clear eye, Sanders' affection and appreciation for his neighbors' kindness is apparent. This is a book that deserves a place on the shelf of any Francophile.
We had stumbled upon a little world of good........2006-07-09
After I read chapter 3, "Monsieur le mairie," I knew that I not only liked this book, but loved it. This is a book of very warm, real portraits of French people in a small community and of vivid and pleasant images of a village and the countryside around it. The book centers on the village of Les Arques in the valley of the Lot River, which lies below the better known valley of the Dordogne, and it is loosely center around a restaurant, La Recreation, and the dedicated proprietors, Jacques and Noelle. Although I am not interested in restaurants and cooking, I found myself fascinated. Not only did I learn about the life of a small, yet dedicated restaurant, but about the farmer who lovingly came to grow produce for it. And about the many other relationships of Les Arques that spell the familial essence of being French. I learned about the trials of producing truffles, of raising ducks for foie gras, and of eking out a living in rural France. Yet it is a happy book, a joyous book, a real book, and a loving book. When the author returned to America, it was almost as difficult for me to say good-bye to Les Arques.
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His most unforgettable character.......2007-04-17
If they gave out book awards for Best Portrayal of an Actual Person Known by the Author, Gerald Durrell's second book of animal-collecting adventures would definitely be on the short list. In 1949 he returned to the British Cameroons, site of his first expedition (as chronicled in THE OVERLOADED ARK. (see my review)), and there the District Officer, learning that he planned to leave his partner at their base camp in the forestland and try his luck up-country, advised him to go to Bafut. This grassland kingdom was ruled by a native potentate known as the Fon, whom the D.O. said Durrell must be sure to get on his side if he hoped to succeed. The best way to do that was to prove he could carry his liquor!
Durrell's experiences in Bafut are told with his typical delightful style and trademark wry humor, particularly when he teaches the Fon, his wives and children, and his chiefs and councillors how to dance the line portion of the conga. (The book's title comes from his name for the pack of "six thin, ungainly mongrels" and four hunters whom he employed, and the hunters became very proud of it; he describes one of them, in an argument with a local, indignantly exclaiming, "You no go shout me like dat, ma friend! You no savvay dat I be Bafut Beagle?") As always, his love of "all creatures great and small" shows through even during such misadventures as when he is bitten by what he supposed was a harmless blind snake, but, as he tells his cook, "'e get eye," a thing no member of the supposed species ever possessed. But the best scenes are those in which the Fon appears. Roguish, irrepressible, and an indiscriminate lover of drink in every kind and combination, he still proves to be the best ally an animal collector could hope for--and a lover of the outdoors as well, as when, clad only in a loincloth and armed with a spear, he takes Durrell to see the evening emergence of a colony of galagos, tiny arboreal creatures locally known as shillings. All Durrell's books are great fun, but this is one of the best.
the end of the old Africa?.......2001-06-11
This book was published in 1954 and I guess that the actual collecting trip must have been in the late 40s. The Africa presented here is a weird mixture of Hollywood movie and anthropological journal. Durrell is quite respectful of the Africans and their culture, but this doesn't prevent him from sitting down and getting repeatedly sloshed with the local king. On the one hand, Durrell never refers to the people of Bafut as savages or anything overtly pejorative, but the 'Bafut beagles' of the title refers to both the mongrel dogs that help him to collect animals and the Bafut hunters themselves. He recounts telling off the hunters for being superstitious, but he never comes close to stereotyping these people. He communicates with the people of Bafut in pidgin English, which is at first a bit difficult to read, but after you get used to its conventions, makes a lot of sense.
Durrell's affection for Africa, its people and the animals that live there permeate this narrative. I am left wondering how similar or different Cameroons is 50 years later. The descriptions of the landscapes and the various animals that are collected contain just enough detail for you to form a picture in your mind, but not so much as to make the picture too literal and therefore somehow limited.
I believe that this was Durrell's first book. If so, I can imagine that he won an immediate audience for his subsequent books if only because his self-description is so winning. He presents himself in a classic Edwardian combination of self-deprecating humor, occasional bumbling, eccentricity, earthiness, but finally practicality and capability. I grew to like him more and more as the book progressed and look forward to meeting him again in later books. He returns to Bafut with his wife in A Zoo In My Luggage.
Wonderful Durrell.......1999-12-22
I loved this and only wish I could also get it in print. Though things have no doubt changed in Africa, there are no doubt still funny stories and people there as on any other continent, and I'm glad Mr. Durrell chronicled these.
africa and its animals - a humerous historical insight.......1999-07-13
First of all - you have to rememebr that this book was written several decades ago...and that things ahve changed a lot since then in Africa.
The scenery is graphicaly portrayed - and the incidents that occur in Durrell's animal collecting adventures are classic Durrell humour!
A great book for anyone who loves African animals with fantastic descriptions not only of the animals - but also their temprements and traits!
A good read for a rainy day.....
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THE BAFUT BEAGLES
DURRELL
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The Bafut Beagles
Gerald Durrell
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The Bafut Beagles
Manufacturer: The Reprint Society Ltd
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ASIN: B000FLZFBI |
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Pens and pencils made at the wood lathe are becoming increasingly popular. These unique writing instruments are fantastic sellers at art and craft shows, cherished treasures for family, and fabulous gifts. Kits to make a variety of styles are widely available, but the techniques to make a pen which works well and looks spectacular are harder to find. This book fills the need with 273 step-by-step color photos and helpful text. Skilled wood turner Dick Sing provides detailed instructions and a wealth of tips and techniques for twelve different styles of pens. Advice on selection of materials, set-up, turning, and finishing techniques, and tips for final assembly of the pens make this book the ultimate reference for the field., 273 photos, 8 1/2" x 11"
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For Starting Out.......2006-05-01
I picked this book up on the recommendation of a friend. I've advanced to the stage where I'm getting pretty good at making dowels on an expensive lathe, and was feeling like I needed to find something that made me feel more productive. If I've got it figured right, my first pen will cost me about $4,000. After that, hopefully, economy of scale should set in (I hope). If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm pretty good in a wood shop, but an absolute newbie at turning.
I think my friend was being kind. Dick Sing assumes you have some familiarity with small gouges, skews and scrapers, which I do, and does little or no explanation of the turning part of pen making. He focuses on the intricacies of the equipment that is peculiar to pen making (mandrels, drilling jigs, etc.). Truth is, basic pen making is not a challenging occupation, and Dick Sing offers lots of pictures and straightforward text. This could have been called Pen Making for Dummies. In other words, anyone who can make a dowel on a lathe should be able to follow this book. Even me.
What is missing, though, is and real focus on creative pen making. But this I mean grooves, beads, and chatter work sort of things that can turn a pen into something other than a useful dowel. He does play around a bit with materials and an interesting desk pen, but for the most part this book is about kit making and not about custom pen making. Even so, it is a terse, but very useful, introduction.
Great how to on making pens.......1998-12-30
64 pages, full color, 9 gallery pages. Step by step pictures with detailed text on how to make pens/pencils on the lathe. This book was a must for making my first pen, and a great reference as I have progressed. Pens include: Standard twist (and pencil), Dome-top, Rollerball and Fountain, Cigar pen, Flat-top click pen, Flat-top twist pen, and desk pen.
An outstanding presentation of "How-to" for pen making........1998-09-29
A very clear and concise presentation of what is required for making excellent writing instuments. Great color photos of all materials and instructions of each step in the selection of woods, and hardware, how to drill, match and assemble the components. The number of ways to varie the appearance of the instruments. He does not go into the discusion of lathes. He concentrates making pens and pencils and the variations that can be created. I have his other book, "UNIQUE & UNUSUAL PENS from the wood lathe" and I refer to them quite ofen for new ideas. I also refer to "TURNING PENS AND DESK ACCESSORIES" by Mike Cripps which I also use
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Preserving Summer's Bounty
Surefire techniques and great recipes for keeping the harvest!
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Down to earth gardening advice........2000-01-29
The Carpet Garden book is an excellent reference for those with little gardening experience or for seasoned gardeners. The Rockmores provide a down to earth approach to plan and design a garden that provides years of almost weed-free service and a bountiful supply of fresh vegetables. There are no other references of this type that contain such thoughtful guidance and practical advice.
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Keeping cool in the kitchen, even when temperatures seem to soar as high as the summer sun...that's what this book is all about. For your keep-cool convenience, Pillsbury has put together this collection of summer favorites for creative menu planning. The accent is on the use of seasonal fruits and vegetables, no bake entrees and airy desserts....all which have been carefully tested in our own kitchens.
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Summer is when many fruits and vegetables are the juiciest and most flavorful. Whether you purchase fresh produce at a farmers market or a supermarket -- or you harvest your own backyard or community garden -- you won't want to miss out on all the flavors of summer.
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- A great resource for self-reliance
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Make your summer garden last all year
Patricia Shannon Kulla
Manufacturer: Lyceum Books
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A great resource for self-reliance.......2001-07-04
This book of practical gardening advice is a superb value. It tells how to extend the growing season, various simple methods to store your produce, and details on storing specific fruits and vegetables. If you want to save money growing your own food, if you want to have tasty home-grown produce all year long, if you want to know how to store purchased produce without processing it, this book is for you. You really can make your summer garden last all year!
There is a section on alternative methods to store produce. Not everything has to be canned, frozen, dehydrated, etc. And not all produce storage has to be indoors. Read how to store food in your attic or basement, how to build a root cellar, how to store produce in the ground or under straw mounds, and so on.
There are many pages of information about storing your produce, giving details such as ideal storage temperature, moisture level, and any materials that extend the life of your stored produce items. Also covered are which are most suited to which storage methods.
Another section details methods and plants for winter gardening. Learn how to build cold frames, sheltered nursery beds, and even a simple greenhouse. Learn about plants you can grow in the cellar in winter, others you could grow in a cool closet, or elsewhere in your home. Learn about crops that prefer cooler weather, to plant in spring and fall, and those that will grow outdoors well into winter with just the shelter of a home-made green house.
Rose Berry, thrifty-living fanatic
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- R J Harris's Moon Gardening
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R J Harris's Moon Gardening
Will Summers , and
R. J. Harris
Manufacturer: Really Useful Books
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R J Harris's Moon Gardening.......2003-08-08
This is one of the most important gardening books to come along in years. John Harris is perhaps the last Head Gardener in England using the deep trench methods of gardening, along with companion planting techniques and gardening according to the cycles of the moon. The quarters of the moon directly affect the water table of the earth and thereby directly affect the health and productivity of plants, shrubs, trees, vegetables and flowers. This knowledge is unsurpassed in garden books on the market currently, and it could very well revolutionize the way we garden! And it should. The old ways are always proven to be the best, and his sharing of his huge knowledge should place John Harris on the level of "National Treasure" in England.
This book is presented in a format which welcomes in all gardeners of any level of experience and education, and it is probably the singularly most exciting and clearly written book on the subject I've ever read. Every time I pick it up its like walking through the garden with John Harris, listening to him teach me about everything from the subsoil up, and I have learned so much from it my mind cannot hold it all. It is not a New Age book on gardening my what astrological sign the moon is transiting. Rather, it is a clear and in depth teaching of centuries old English gardeners' methods of understanding when things are to be done in the garden and most importantly, why. John Harris's explanation of deep trench gardening, opening up and feeding the sub soil, companion planting and rotating crops, as well as an every 4 year cycle of regenerating the garden beds is incredibly useful knowledge. We are all so lucky to have his publisher, Will Summers, realize the importance of helping John teach the world what he knows, and to have the vision to consolidate years of converstations with John Harris and put them into this book. I am going to tear up my farm garden this autumn, and rebuild it according to John's teachings, and I fully expect to see absolutely incredible results, even in the less than perfect East Central Plains of Colorado. I cannot wait until the second book from John Harris and Will Summers is available. ...
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Robbery on the highway
Paul L Bennett
Manufacturer: Abelard-Schuman
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blah.......2007-09-02
I didnt find any originial idea's in this book- i'm very disapointed by the purchase
Really fun.......2007-04-23
This is a really fun book, I enjoy the cutting and pasting stuff. I am 10 so I am not really challengend on some of the crafts. The DVD crafty fun is really good for my age, I have learned how to make christmas stuff, iron-on tote bags, necklaces and other really fun stuff.
Creative fun when you are short of your own ideas.......2006-11-06
I could tell my little three-year-old boy was bored and needed some new stimulation. I used the ideas from The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book and together with my boy created many colourful artworks including an aquarium, mail pouch, masks, flags and scrapbooks. My boy enjoyed cutting, pasting and coloring involved in the process and we together had a great time doing role plays afterwards. It is a good, easy-to-follow fun book for boys and girls!
Little Hands, Big Fun.......2006-07-19
This book is perfect for your little ones. My 2 1/2 year old daughter loved the crafts we have already done out of the book. I also work with children as my job and also at my church. I highly recommend this book to all you parents, grandparents, Aunt & Uncles, All care givers, and even the expecting parents. A+ Book.
Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum........2005-09-05
Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum. This book gave me wonderful ideas on teaching little ones to be creative. This book helped me plan lessons for my home toddler/preschool daycare. This book is a MUST HAVE for home daycare providers and home schooling parents.
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- Helpful but Tiepolo Deserves More
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Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art
Michael Levey
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The full-length treatment in English of Tiepolo`s life and career. Examining in detail the genesis and the achievement of Tiepolo`s major accomplishments, and presenting a rich array of illustrations-some never before reproduced-Michael Levey presents the fullest possible evidence for a deeper understanding and enjoyment of the great Italian artist.
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Helpful but Tiepolo Deserves More.......2005-08-05
It cannot be easy to write a successful biography of Tiepolo. There is none of the usual stuff that can make a biographer's life so easy: gossipy letters, shrewd observations from friends or enemies. Moreover Tiepolo seems to have been, by any conventional measure, a pretty boring guy. By all the evidence, he had little or no contact with the cultural icons of Venice in his time-Goldoni say, or Metastasio, or Vivaldi (one notable exception: the artist Giambattista Piazzetta-Levey says that Piazzetta and Tiepolo were "the Picasso and Matisse, or perhaps better the Turner and Constable of their period). For an artist whom we identify as a child of the Age of Absolutism, it perhaps comes as a surprise to recognize that he worked only once in a "major" court-at the very end of his life, Madrid. Rather, he seems to have been something of a workaholic: it has been said that he covered more square feet of wall space than any other artist in history. Perhaps the most interesting thing about him is to observe how much of his life he spent on a scaffold, 20 or 50 feet off the ground.
Michael Levey has done a creditable job of walking us through the Tiepolo gallery. He offers shrewd and appreciative insights on any number of works, making us understand Tiepolo with new eyes. Has the reader noticed, for example, how many of Tiepolo's really important figures are women? Or, perhaps even more remarkable, how many of the "really important figures" in the pictures are not that "iimportant" after all? Or how, for all his pomp, his pictures remain gentle, playful, almost light-hearted?
Levey's book is thus an honorable effort, but Tiepolo deserves more. Attractive as he is on his own terms, he cries out to be put into a larger context. For surely, whatever his intrinsic merits, a large part of the appeal of Tiepolo today is his utter foreignnesss: the sense he conveys of exemplifying a world so different from our own. The Greeks and the Romans and the Bible themselves seem scarcely more remote than Tiepolo's representation of them-sometimes less so, since the originals are more part of our cultural equipment. It is good to have an appreciative understanding of Tiepolo's art. It would be even better to see him evaluated as a figure of his times.
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Giambattista Tiepolo : His Life and Art
Michael Levey
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
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Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art
Michael Levey
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
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Book Description
After surviving the brutal Bataan Death March in Spring 1942, Louisiana native John Henry Poncio spent the remainder of World War II as a Japanese prisoner. In those three and a half years, U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant Poncio suffered severe beatings, starvation, disease, and emotional and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors. In Girocho, he relates his experiences with touching honesty, vividly describing the harsh conditions he and his comrades endured as well as the sometimes-funny clashes with Japanese culture.
Girocho was a samurai who resembled Robin Hood. Early on, Poncio was given this name in jest by one of the prison guards, and it suited him perfectly. During his internment, he took part in a vast smuggling operation that brought food and other supplies into the POW camps, reported enemy troop movements to Filipino guerrillas, and committed acts of sabotage.
Although he and his fellow captives were treated with cruelty by many, Poncio recalls the camaraderie of the prisoners and encounters with humane guards and kind civilians, proving his remarkable gift for finding the positive in the most dire of situations.
Girocho is an inspiring memoir, transcribed verbatim by Poncio's wife, Inez, from nine hours of cassettes Poncio recorded some years after the war. Marlin Young verified her uncle's stories, placed them within the greater context of the conflict, creating a compelling tale of one soldier's courage, honor, and resolve to overcome life as a prisoner of war.
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Bataan to Hirohata.......2004-02-10
Poncio's story from Bataan to Hirohata, written with total context of the war. An outstanding and complete story.
Every so often, one discovers a "POW" book that is not only accurate, but well written. Each line, each paragraph, each page weaves a complete tapestry of a Prisoner's life under the Japanese. Add to this, one sees beautifully crafted typography that makes this a classic. Of the more than 1000 books w have on the subject, this book ranks in the top ten.
Poncio adds depth and meaning to the history of our POWS, especially the guerilla and public support by foreign nationals and Filipinos. His is one of the rare books that even acknowledges the support from the legendary Madame Utinsky, a heroine who deserved the Medal of Honor. No phase of the experience is slighted nor any detail ignored as the writers weave a tapestry of horror endured yet an inspiring and unending battle to survive and sabotage the Japanese war effort. Poncio's description of desperate hunger alone is worth the price of the book. On a scale of one to five stars, Poncio's book deserves seven extra large stars.
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