Confederate Commando and Fleet Surgeon

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Confederate Commando and Fleet Surgeon is the story of one of the Confederacy's truly heroic fighting naval surgeons.

Confederate Commando and Fleet Surgeon Dr. Daniel Burr Conrad

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Confederate Commando and Fleet Surgeon Dr. Daniel Burr Conrad
John W. *Author SIGNED!* Lynn
Manufacturer: Burd Street Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VWC6J0

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Gurdjieff Three Lectures.......2007-10-16

During the Summer of 1963, Mr. J. G. Bennett delivered three lectures on Gurdjieff at Denison House. Mr. Bennett was the one person, perhaps, who could speak with authority upon the controversial and little-known figure of the Master, Gurdjieff.

The first lecture acquainted his audience with the incredible enviroment of Gurdjieff's boyhood. Such compelling names of places and peoples threaded their way through Mr. Bennett's lecture. He spoke of the Greeks of Caesaria and Alexandropol. The early invasions of the Turks, Armenians and Assyrians came to his mind, as the Sack of Kars in April of 1877.

The second lecture was devoted to the sources of Gurdjieff's ideas. The reader will be intrigued with his associations with the Armenian Secret Societies; of Sufism and the Dervish Brotherhoods; and of the Sufi Recluses of Persia and Turkestan. In this lecture, we find Gurdjieff known as the Wonder Worker, who was evidently influenced by Russian Occultism and Zoastrian teachings.

The third lecture, which dealt with Gurdjieff's teachings and methods, revealed a man with the basic human problems such assail every man. It, also, allowed the audience to see the practicality of the man through the plans he made and their execution. There remains an unanswered question: "How did Gurdjieff intend his work to continue?"
--- from book's back cover

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Eat Fat Look Thin: Natural Way to Weight Loss

5 stars is all they'd let me give, it needs more!

Very Good Read

A Real Wake Up Call!!

Really Good Book - But Not Quite Great

Eat Fat, Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently, Second Edition
Bruce Fife
Manufacturer: Piccadilly Books, Ltd.
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The Coconut Oil Miracle (Previously published as The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil)

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The Coconut Diet : The Secret Ingredient That Helps You Lose Weight While You Eat Your Favorite Foods

ASIN: 0941599620
Release Date: 2005-01-15

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Eat delicious, full-flavored foods and lose weight permanently with this new, all natural, no-hunger, weight-loss program. You can enjoy rich, full-fat foods and lose weight without the hassle of counting calories, weighing portions, or suffering from hunger.

This book exposes many common myths and misconceptions about fats. It reveals new, cutting-edge research on the world's only natural, low-calorie fat--a fat that not only has fewer calories than any other fat, but one which also stimulates metabolism and burns up calories. Yes, you can lose weight by eating fat, if you use the right kind. Combined with a sensible eating plan, you can shed excess weight, enjoy the foods you love, and gain better health.

This revolutionary, total-wellness program is designed to keep you both slim and healthy using wholesome, natural foods, and the most health-promoting fats. It has proven successful in helping those suffering from obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart and circulatory problems, yeast infections, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions.

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Eat Fat Look Thin: Natural Way to Weight Loss.......2007-08-06

Very informative book that shatters myth that saturated fat coconut oil is bad for your health: in fact, it's about the best oil/fat you can eat to improve your health. Includes some easy but very tasty recipes too. Would recommend to anyone interested in exploring better nutrition, in addition to those interested in weight loss.

5 stars is all they'd let me give, it needs more! .......2007-07-14

This book is totally awesome to say the least. I've been a bonified "health nut" for years, but this book gives you a lot of the information that I've took hours to research and read all in one book! So I recommend it to everyone that is concerned about their health and wanting to have some correct, and good knowledge to go on. It is not only about weight loss, it encompasses good fats, bad fats, why fat helps you lose weight, boosting your metabolism many other ways, and all the benefits of healthy eating. It really is a Healthy Lifestyle Plan as Bruce stated! I have used coconut oil for years now, (and read his book in about as long ago but seen I could write a review here today!) and it is truly a wonderful addition to anyone's diet. Not only do I use it in the kitchen, my husband and I use it in the bedroom--since it is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-parisitacal it works great for having a balanced "flora and fauna" in that area. And it makes a superb hair conditioner as well, gets rid of dandruff too (which is fungal). There are just so many uses for it...

Very Good Read.......2006-07-24

I totally agree with Master Hahn's review, especially the slant that Fife has for animals fats. It certainly does come out. Certainly a worthwhile purchase. As always, bear in mind that we need to read a lot of books in the low-carb world to truly get a well rounded view of the subject. This books fits in well with all the others.

A Real Wake Up Call!!.......2006-03-21

"Eat Fat, Look Thin" by Dr. Bruce Fife is an excellent book that explains exactly why you don't want to consume polyunsaturated oils like soy, canola, cottonseed, corn, and why you are risking your health if you do. Dr. Fife also explains the dangers of eating any soy that is not fermented. The book also explains the benefits of coconut and coconut oil and other healthy fats that your system needs to function properly.

After reading the book I dumped out all of my junk food and processed foods and started taking virgin coconut oil and eating only natural whole foods (mostly organic). Both my husband and I are losing weight and feel so much better!

This book is for anyone that is seriously interested in their health! Dr. Fife's book is based on the research of Dr. Weston A. Price (see www.westonaprice.org). I first checked it out from the library and read it. It was so good that I wanted my own copy for reference.

Really Good Book - But Not Quite Great.......2005-09-04

While hyped as a "Coconut Diet Book", this book actually "wanders" into several dietary areas. A lot of the information was VG and backed by continued research. And while there was a general emphasis on a low-carb approach, at times it seemed that approach came closer to a "moderate carb" recommendation.

On the positive side, the authors addressed the strong advantages of incorporating coconut oil into the diet . I especially found fascinating their discussion about the WTS (Wilson Thyroid Symptom) and the situation of T3 not being converted in tissue leading to a hypothyroid type condition (even though T3 levels in the blood could still be registering as normal!). While supplementation of T3 medication could be an obvious answer to medical types, the authors' recommendation of use of coconut oil to raise the body's temperature - and thereby enhance the enzyme that processes T3 more fully into body tissue - was a very interesting concept that bears further consideration.

I was disappointed in one regard in that the book emphasizes the advantages of coconut oil's saturated fats while downplaying the equal advantages of saturated fats from animal sources (ignoring for example that the native Okinawan diet emphasizes the use of lard quite extensively). I realize that the book was designed to emphasize the advantages of coconut oil, but seeing as how it drifted into so many other areas, it was still a point that could have been more easily addressed. (In fact there were times when a reader could almost discern a definite slant against animal origin saturated fats.)
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There was one other area where I was disappointed with the position of the authors, and that was directed at their obvious bias against commercial milk. I would be the very first to loudly proclaim that raw milk (obtained under sanitary conditions) is by far a much healthier product that commercial milk. The authors however declare commercial milk to be basically a "death product" (making the chart of "FrankenFoods") by citing concerns with pasteurization and homogenization.

Yes, pasteurization does kill off the enzymes in milk - but then every time one cooks their vegetables (or meats, grains, etc.) they very likely generate more heat than that generated in the pasteurization process... and thereby kill off the enzymes contained by that food. One needs to stop and consider that while a food products enzymes can be important, the more important enzymes are the one's located in the human body naturally. I find it interesting that pasteurization (a low heat process) is evil as it kills the milk enzymes and yet when the authors discuss "Dietary Goitrogens" that they recommend, quite properly, the cooking of cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, etc.) and even bean sprouts as the cooking process (a high heat process) inactivates the goitrogens that can create thyroid problems. Oh yeah, and the cooking also kills the enzymes in the cruciferous vegetables and bean sprouts. Milk enzymes are apparently supremely important and yet the enzymes of cruciferous vegetables and bean sprouts apparently are not.

As to homogenization, the authors cite the theory addressed by a Dr. Kurt Oster, citing that homogenization causes an enzyme called xanthine oxidase to become trapped within tiny fat globules in the homogenized milk and that as a result the XO eventually passes through intact into the bloodstream where it acts as a free radical attacking the arterial wall. This simply is pure bunk.

The authors cite the Weston A. Price Foundation as their first listed "Most Useful Web Sites". Dr. Mary A. Enig is the Vice President of that organization and has this to say about Dr. Oster's theory:

"According to Oster, XO that remains in pasteurized, unhomogenized milk is found on the exterior of the membrane of the milk fat globules, where it is broken down during digestion. XO in raw milk is similarly digested. Oster postulated that because homogenization reduces the fat globules to a fraction of their original size, the XO is encapsulated by the new outer membranes of the smaller fat globules which form during the homogenization process. He believed that this new membrane protected the XO from digestive enzymes, allowing some XO to pass intact within the fat globules from the gut into the circulatory system when homogenized milk is consumed... A fundamental flaw in Oster's theory involves the difference between a fat globule and a liposome. Fat globules basically contain triglycerides and cholesterol encapsulated in a lipid bilayer membrane composed of proteins, cholesterol, phospholipids and fatty acids. They occur naturally in milk in a wide range of sizes. The fat globules in unhomogenized bovine milk are both very small and very large, ranging in size from 1000 nanometers to 10,000 nanometers. After homogenization, the average globule size is about 500 nanometers with a range from 200 nanometers to 2000 nanometers. Oster considered homogenization of cow's milk to be a 'procedure which foists unnaturally small particles on our digestive tracts.' Yet sheep's milk fat globules are reported to be 'very small. . . [and consequently]. . . easier to digest' and in fact globules from this milk are described as 'naturally homogenized'. The milk fat globule membrane from sheep's milk does not separate and butter cannot be made from such milk even though there is twice as much fat in sheep's milk as in cow's milk. The fat globules from goat's milk are similarly small. Once again, goat's milk is considered easier to digest than cow's milk for this reason. So there is nothing unnatural about small milk fat globules. Fat globules of all sizes are broken down during digestion, releasing the hundreds of thousands of triglycerides as well as any enzymes they contain. (Milk fat globules actually contain more than seven enzymes, of which XO is one - the other major ones are NADH2, iodonitrotetrazolium, 5-nucleotidase, alkaline phosphatase, phosphodiesterase and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase.) These enzymes are broken down into individual amino acids (enzymes are specialized proteins) and the triglycerides are broken down into individual fatty acids and monoglycerides. Although Oster described these small milk fat globules in homogenized milk as liposomes, several researchers have pointed out that liposomes are very different in basic composition. Liposomes are typically 200 nanometers or less in size and do not contain complex protein components. Liposomes do not occur in nature but were developed by scientists as a way of delivering components such as drugs to the cells in the body."

Interestingly the authors of this book highly recommend goat's milk.

To further cite Dr. Enig (who is also the author of "Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol"):

"A team led by A. J. Clifford looked carefully at Oster's theories. In a study published in 1983, they noted that 'neither liposome formation during homogenization of milk nor absorption of intact liposomes from the gastrointestinal tract has been demonstrated.' In reviewing the major published findings, Clifford reported that 'absorption of dietary xanthine oxidase has not been demonstrated.' Clifford's team cites studies showing lack of activity of serum xanthine oxidase from pigs and humans fed diets that included milk or were without milk. Further, Clifford's team noted that 'a relationship between intake of homogenized `dairy foods' and levels of xanthine oxidase activity in the blood has not been established.' There was even one study which showed an increase in serum xanthine oxidase when corn oil was fed, whereas milk and cream showed no such increase."
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I believe that incorporating inaccurate portrayals that "may" have been the result of personal beliefs (for example inferring problems with other helpful fats and foods), the authors actually may have diluted to some extent the more positive messages that were being sent.

Overall would have to say that I agreed with 90% of the book.

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Written for long-term live-aboard RVers and casual weekenders, Cooking Aboard Your RV addresses the unique problems faced by RV cooks--limited water, insufficient counter space, and little room for the extra appliances of today's kitchens. This new edition is fully updated with: • Instructions for using a combination convection-microwave oven

Hundreds of recipes for every palate and dietary preference, adapted to the confines of the small RV galley
Ingenious tips on making the most of limited counter and storage space
Helpful illustrations

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Save your money.......2006-09-18

I thought this book would provide more insight on kitchen appliances and ways to downsize but cook different meals. The recipes were awful in my opinion and I would not want to eat them even at home, much less on the open road. A few good hints but not at the price of buying the book brand new.

Makes some assumptions on facilities.......2001-03-16

This cookbook had some limited use for me. It was a short introduction on tips for RV cooking. Overall some good general tips, but nothing that probably isn't in a good trade magazine. As an experienced camping and backpacking cook I was hoping for information on RV cooking now that I have a refrigerator. It does give some good recipes that utilize the better facilities of an RV. However about half the recipes assume you have an oven as well. My small Class B RV doesn't have an oven. Therefore, half the book is useless for me. Overall a slightly disappointing book that I wish I had looked over before purchasing.

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How to Make Beaded Creatures & Creations. Beadlings are irresistible itty-bitty creatures, made out of shimmering glass beads on delicate silver wire. This book of simple instructions covers all five major beadling categories: Critters, Creepy Crawlers, Flighty Bugs, People and Sea Creatures. Seed beads, bugle beads, "wonder" beads and wire are also included -- everything you need to make all 19 projects. For ages 8 and up.

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Fun to Share.......2007-01-04

This book provides fun projects for an adult to share with a cherished child. The pictures are great and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow.

Fun with beads........2006-07-31

When I first got the book, I thumbed through the pages. Once done, I went straight down to my local bead store so that I could start straight away. Don't miss out, get this book.

A LOT OF FUN!!!! .......2005-08-20

Purchased this for my daughter's 11th birthday. She has spent numerous hours making many different dreatures and creations (i.e. a seahorse, starfish, butterfly, lizard, bumble bee, etc). The book was easy to follow, great instructions and photos to support them. I would highly recommend purchasing this, infact may purchase a couple more for her friends and cousins for Christmas.

Everything you need to get started!.......2004-04-28

I purchased this Beadling book as a Christmas present for my Mom. She had mentioned an interest in doing some beading and since this book comes with everything you need to get started (a good supply of beads and wire), it was a perfect choice.

Just looking through the pages will get you wanting to bead. There are color photos and diagrams that talk you through the process. You start out with a simple beadling to learn the stitching and then advance to spiders, grasshoppers, mermaids, etc.

This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to bead. I also highly recommend Geckos & Other Bead Animals by Drew Wilkens. There is a little bit of overlap, but with both books you will become a beadling expert!

Beadlings-awesome!.......2003-12-29

I'm 19 and just bought this book for myself. I'm having a blast with it! The book is extremely well written. At first I didn't think I'd be able to do it, but the instructions are VERY clear as are the diagrams. Excellent book for all ages!

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Let's have peace!

Easy to read and rewarding to apply; an outstanding book.

Here's a book for everyone!

very practical, very useful, very necessary for raising kids

Tired of Yelling: Teaching Our Children to Resolve Conflict
Lyndon D. Waugh , and Letitia Sweitzer
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743400763

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ARE YOU TIRED OF THE YELLING? TIRED OF THE CONSTANT CONFLICT AT HOME, AT SCHOOL...EVEN AT WORK?

In Tired Of Yelling, renowned family psychiatrist Lyndon D. Waugh offers the solution for more peaceful homes and classrooms, offering parents the lifelong gift of teaching their children the most valuable lesson they can ever learn: how to get along with other people.

Dr. Waugh's simple fifteen-step model shows parents how to teach their children to:

assess their emotion and gauge its intensity
be angry while behaving well
listen actively
admit fault
brainstorm solutions
make acceptable decisions.

This practical and easy-to-understand book provides specific teaching language for each age group-from infants to teens-so you'll know exactly what to say and how to say it. Complete with strategies for overcoming a child's resistance and sections on motivation, defensiveness, discipline, and "goat getting," Tired Of Yelling helps parents defuse tension and achieve something truly priceless-an emotionally stronger and happier child.

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Let's have peace!.......1999-11-04

It's about time somebody wrote a book on helping parents understand that yelling does more harm than good. The author teaches the parent communication skills, and that's how the child will respond positively to the initiations from the parent. A peaceful environment is so much better than the hostile power play of yelling. This is a great book every parent should read. Another book that I highly recommend as it teaches parents that often frustrating situations evolve because of a lack of love, self-esteem and an identity crisis in the child and the parent, is Dietmar Scherf's "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression" which is also available at Amazon.

Easy to read and rewarding to apply; an outstanding book........1999-09-05

In concise and elegant terms the authors reveal a well developed method, evolved over their years of professional experience, to help us nurture and work more effectively with our children. The text focuses primarily on teaching parents to teach childeren to resolve conflicts in a healthy and emotionally honest way. The later chapters devoted to adults are just as useful as those dedicated to your particular child's age group, and are not to be missed. This deeply insightful work will prove a great relief to all parents who are 'Tired of Yelling." I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

Here's a book for everyone!.......1999-07-15

I bought this book thinking my son and daughter would find it helpful in parenting their very young families. Their rave reviews prompted me to sit down and read it from cover to cover in my own empty nest. Conflict resolution is a skill we all need at home and in the workplace. I found the authors' commonsense approach really works! So old dogs can learn new tricks -- No Biggy Piggy!

very practical, very useful, very necessary for raising kids.......1999-07-01

Dr. Waugh's book is the answer! I can tell you that what he says is practically common sense, but it is the useful 15-step model for families,parents and teachers to follow that makes it a necessity in my life. I am so happy to see that there really is a way to stop the anger and the tiresome yelling in my household once and for all. Tired of Yelling is precisely what this country is asking for: a way to raise our children to effectively manage their anger and frustration. Maybe then we could see a safer school environment and community for everyone. And I'll tell you -- you will be surprised as all that you will learn, too.

Tired of Yelling: Teaching Our Children to Resolve Conflict

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Tired of Yelling: Teaching Our Children to Resolve Conflict
Lyndon D. Waugh
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This book made me swoon

Intense art...wholesome book.

Great Overview of Her Work, Leaving You Wanting to Know More

everything I'd hoped for

Sophie Calle: Did You See Me?
Christine Macel , Ive-Alan Bois , Yve-Alain Bois , and Olivier Rolin
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ASIN: 3791330357

Book Description

The work of conceptual artist Sophie Calle embraces numerous media: photography, storytelling, film, and memoir, to name a few. Often controversial, Calle's projects explore issues of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity as she secretly investigates, reconstructs and documents the lives of strangers—whether she is inviting them to sleep in her bed, trailing them through a hotel, or following them through the city. Taking on multiple roles—detective, documentarian, behavioral scientist and diarist—Calle turns the interplay between life and art on its head. The book presents Calle's best-known works, including The Blind, No Sex Last Night, The Hotel, The Address Book and A Woman Vanishes, as well as lesser known and earlier projects that have largely escaped the public eye. The book also includes diary excerpts and video stills, along with three critical essays, a revealing interview with the artist and a dialogue with fellow artist Damien Hirst.

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This book made me swoon.......2006-08-05

I wanted this book since I first saw it at the Tate Modern. It is an incredibly satisfying read. Sophie is a genius.

Intense art...wholesome book........2006-06-06

Sophie Calle uncovers gender relations as well as human qualities in her "explorations". She is an artist that inmerses herself in a situation and through th experience creates the content of her art. Magnificent artist. I do think there is a big deal of "womanhood" in her aproach to "situations". I believe she is one the few artist that have made me aware of gender relations in a very viceral and sublime way. This book takes you to the multidimetionality of her work while showing the work on itself. Is a book to read and and enjoy. Besides the book is really beautifull: different papers, and layouts within the same book. A substantial book of art.

Great Overview of Her Work, Leaving You Wanting to Know More.......2005-05-20

Published to accompany a 2003-2004 Pompidou Centre retrospective, this is a wonderful overview of the artist's 1978-2003 work. The book is chock-full of photos and text, and is divided into front matter, "shadows, investigations, vanishings", "hotel rooms, sleepless nights and other true stories", "games and ceremonies", "journeys", "absence", "Unfinished, 2003", and appendices.

The front matter includes a brief foreword and preface, a thoughtful essay "The author issue..." by Christine Macel, and a rather haphazard essay "The paper tigress" by Yve-Alain Bois. There are also 15 pages of excerpts (mainly in French) from Calle's 1978-1992 diaries.

The body of the book gives excerpts from about 30 of Calle's projects that take you on an emotional roller coaster ride. "Shadows, investigations, vanishings" starts with "Paris shadows, 1978-1979" in which Calle "followed strangers on the street." Then there's a "Biographical interview with Sophie Calle" by Christine Macel. "Suite venitienne, 1980" documents an intense following of a man visiting Venice. Calle contacted people listed in "The address book, 1983" that she found. "The shadow, 1981" and "Twenty years later, 2001" concern detective work. "A woman vanishes, 2003" is about the mysterious disappearance of a museum guard. "Beet, alfalfa, etc." by Oliver Rolin concludes this section.

"Hotel rooms, sleepless nights and other true stories" includes: "The sleepers, 1979" (people slept in her bed); "The hotel, 1981" (as a chambermaid, she photographed guests' belongings); "Bedroom, 2003," "True stories, 1988-2003," and "Appointment with Sigmund Freud, 1998" ("autobiographies" and associated places and objects); "Journey to California, 2003" (she sent her bed from France so a man could sleep in it); "Room with a view, 2002" (she spent a night in the Eiffel Tower listening to people's stories); and "Psychological assessment, 2003" (her mother, her friend, and she filled out forms which were given to a neuropsychologist and a psychiatrist to interpret).

The first two projects in "Games and ceremonies" are "The graves, 1990" (which consists of large photos of "plots" and made-up headstones) and "The striptease, 1979." While those are perhaps depressing, the rest of this section is mostly delightful: "The birthday ceremony, 1980-1993" (she photographed all the presents she received on her birthdays), "Gotham handbook, 1994" (she "prettied up" a phone booth in New York), "The chromatic diet, 1997" (she ate foods of a single color each day), and "Days under the sign of B, C & W, 1998" (she spent time as a Big-time Blonde Bimbo, in the Cemetery, and on a Weekend in Wallonia).

"Journeys" consists of "The Bronx, 1980" (an exhibit covered in graffiti); "Anatoli, 1984" (train ride with a Russian man); "Los Angeles, 1984" (Calle asked people in L.A. "where are the angels?"); "No sex last night, 1992" (movie about a road trip with a male artist); "The Eruv of Jerusalem, 1996" (public spaces that have private meanings); "The detachment, 1996" (people's memories of East German symbols removed from Berlin); and "Exquisite pain, 1984-2003" (Calle asked people about the worst times of their lives).

"Absence" deals with the loss of sight or the loss of art. "The blind, 1986" and "Color blind, 1991" asked what is beautiful for blind people, or what they can see. "Ghosts, 1989-1991" and "Last seen, 1991" asked for recollections of artwork loaned or stolen from museums.

The final project "Unfinished, 2003" is a sort of attempt to work through "writer's block." Calle documents her struggles to make something artistic from a 1988 series of video surveillance tapes from an American bank.

Appendices include a list of Calle's works, exhibitions, books, articles, etc. In addition, in the body of the book are notes as to where to find more info on projects if available; for example, "The striptease, 1979" was published with more material in "The Doctor's Daughter" (Fille du Docteur) of 1991, "Les Panoplies" of 1998, and "Double Game" of 1999. It's nice to have such references, because the snippets of projects in this book make you want to read more about them. But many of the projects in this book were previously unpublished, which adds to this book's unique value. Get hold of it from Amazon.com!

BTW #1, here's a note on the book's title, which varies across bookstores and libraries. The photographically illustrated front cover (showing Calle with her hand over her left eye) says only (on three lines in a box to the right) "SO / PHIE / CALLE". The spine says the same. The back cover (whose photo is a mirror image of the front cover) contains in a box to the left "M'AS-TU VUE / M'AS-TU VU(E) ?: / Did you see me? / ... Vain person. (fam.) show-off. ...". The half-title page (just before the copyright page) has the same box of text as on the back cover. The box on the title page (just after the copyright page) has five lines: "SO / PHIE / CALLE / M'AS-TU / VUE". I therefore conclude that the title of this book, whose ISBN is given on the back cover and on the copyright page as 3-7913-3035-7, is best rendered as "Sophie Calle: M'as-tu Vue". Although the book itself is mostly in English, this French phrase preserves the double meaning intended.

BTW #2, the paper types and sizes used in the book vary considerably, which adds to its charm. The endpapers are salmon; the front matter is slightly gray; the diary pages are cream-colored; the section dividers (like "journeys") are pink; etc. Some of the pages with photos are glossy, but others are matte. Scattered between pages 84 and 281 are various pages attached to the spine but cut smaller than the 16.5x23.5 cm page size for the rest of the book. Examples include a postcard after page 122, and a number of installation views such as "Gotham Handbook, 1994" before page 273.

everything I'd hoped for.......2004-05-16

This book is much more satisifying than the usual exhibition catalog. It's dense and highly informational, but it's also very tactile and engaging in its presentation. Different paper stocks, postcard-size inserts and lovely puffy cover make it more of an artist's book. I'm so happy with it.

Sophie Calle: Double Game (with the participation of Paul Auster)

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Fantastic
the best ever!
ms. calle is an artist for the new millenium
Fact, Fiction, Life, Art
A gift

Sophie Calle: Double Game (with the participation of Paul Auster)
Sophie Calle , and Paul Auster
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ASIN: 1900828065
Release Date: 2000-01-02

Book Description

Artwork by Sophie Calle. Text by Paul Auster.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic.......2001-08-07

I received as a birthday present and love it. It lets your imagination run wild with wanting more.

the best ever!.......2001-08-01

simply, this is the most excellent book i've come across. sophie calle's projects that mix photography and writing, seek to investigate identity, familiarity, and life in creative, direct, and honest ways. she's fascinated with knowing and simultaneously constructing others and herself.

ms. calle is an artist for the new millenium.......2001-07-31

i just saw an excerpt of the work discussed in this book at mass moca in north adams mass. it was amazing. the attention to detail that ms. calle pays is astounding. i can't wait to get the book and i recommend you get it to and see the work in person at mass moca if you get the chance.

Fact, Fiction, Life, Art.......2000-05-07

Whether you're an artist, a writer, an art lover, a fan of either Sophie Calle or Paul Auster (or both), or just an observer of life, there is something for you in this beautifully designed and wonderfully written book. From the elegantly hardcover binding to the amusingly devised performance art pieces, you can't find any fault in this book. The first part of the book collects some of Sophie Calle's own performance art pieces, which were adapted into fiction as part of the Paul Auster's novel Leviathan. One of my favourite is her collection of birthday gifts through a span of several years which she kept and displayed in glass cabinets. The second part is titled the Gotham Handbook, which chronicles her life based on some 'instructions' she asked Paul Auster to write for her. This book will make you wonder where is the thin line between fact and fiction, life and art.

A gift.......2000-04-18

This is an unbelievably beautiful book about an amazingly creative artist. It is definitely about time that there is easily accessible information about Sophie Calle and her work. This is certainly a book to have if one is at all intrigued by Calle's artwork and life.

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Appointment with Sigmund Freud
Sophie Calle
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: 0500511993

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A unique assembly of Calle's own thoughts and photographs of her belongings juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud's personal collection, still kept in the house where he lived.

"In February 1998, I was invited to create an exhibition entitled 'Appointment' at a house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, where Dr. Freud lived and died. After having a vision of my wedding dress laid across Freud's couch, I immediately accepted. I chose to display relics of my own life among the interiors of Sigmund's home."—Sophie Calle

Appointment features fragments from the artist's own fascinating life story, characteristic texts that reveal intimate secrets and unravel some of Calle's childhood memories as well as her adult relationships. Calle's references to certain mementos and the emotionally charged events with which they are associated have many parallels to Freud's own psychoanalytic theories and his passion for collecting. 80 illustrations, 50 in color.

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Exquisite Pain

Prepare to peer into the meaningless void that is your existence and revel in misery.

Exquisite Pain
Sophie Calle
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: 0500511985

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A poignant visual record of the obsessive nature of failed love by a leading French contemporary artist.

Over the last two decades, Sophie Calle has made it her business to follow, peek into, and illuminate the lives of people she barely knows. In Exquisite Pain, Calle turns her attention to a life-changing experience from her own past.

This book is a visual record of the time in 1985 when a lover failed to meet Calle as promised in a hotel in New Delhi. Calle was devastated. As always, she kept everything from that journey—photographs, ticket stubs, visas, and letters—each image rubber-stamped to mark the countdown to the fateful day of her heartbreak.

On her return to Paris, she asked a group of friends to answer the question, "When did you most suffer?" Their stories of pain, each of them accompanied by a photograph, interplay with Calle's own story and daily reflections—"It is now seventy-five days since the man I love left me"—creating a testament to the heartache of romantic rejection. 130 illustrations, 71 in color.

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Exquisite Pain.......2006-03-20

I saw her photo installation of Exquisite Pain in NYC summer 2005, and this is the whole show beautifully captured in book format. Sophie Calle is by far my favorite artist. She triggers your emotions pulling you into her own story of a lost love and others shared moments of exquisite pain. Perfect for your art book collection.

Prepare to peer into the meaningless void that is your existence and revel in misery. .......2005-07-15

This is not a book for sunny afternoons in park gardens; the backdrop for this book should be bleak unforgiving concrete cityscapes, silhouetted against dark and brooding winter skies. At least that's what it was like when read it (I live in Birmingham, you see bleak is what it does best).

If you've ever been in love and lost that person; though careless words, deeds or just through circumstances outside of your control. Then you'll know all about that feeling of emptiness, like a hole in you guts can never fill.

In away no other book ever has, this book touched me and funny enough it felt great. It's like, it's OK to be upset when you've been dumped and yes it is the end of the bloody world and no there aren't plenty of sodding fish in the sea. Of course we all know, it isn't and there are.

As you read this book you can't help but project yourself into the stories of desperation and despair and there is the beauty of it, it's like a hit of misery to cheer you up. Reach in and read about someone who's had it worse (I found myself discreetly shedding the odd tear on the rush hour train) and all of a sudden it's not so bad out here, in the real world.

Lift your self out of the humdrum of modern life and sink into despair, there you will find the most `Exquisite Pain'.

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her ideas will inspire visual culture / new media artists

Suite Venitienne/Please Follow Me
Sophie Calle , and Jean Baudrillard
Manufacturer: Bay Press (WA)
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Binding: Paperback

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photo essay w/afterword essay by Baudrillard

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her ideas will inspire visual culture / new media artists.......1999-05-27

this tiny book was inspiring. the thought of following a random stranger as a means of understanding/documenting that stranger is obscene, but Calle seems to understand the ever growing public infuatuation with the private human sphere.

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Absence
Sophie Calle
Manufacturer: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
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ASIN: 9069181312

Appointment: Sophie Calle and Sigmund Freud

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Appointment: Sophie Calle and Sigmund Freud
Sophie Calle
Manufacturer: Violette Editions
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ASIN: 1900828170

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"Appointment: Sophie Calle & Sigmund Freud" is a unique assembly of Calle's own texts and personal objects juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud's collection, still kept in the house where he lived. Featured here are fragments from the artist's own fascinating life story; these characteristic texts reveal intimate secrets, unraveling some of her childhood memories as well as her adult relationships. Calle's references to certain mementos and the emotionally charged events with which they are associated parallel Freud's own psychoanalytical theories and his passion for collecting. "Appointment" is a compelling and beautifully designed follow-up to Calle's "Double Game," right down to the satin ribbon page marker.
5.5 x 7.5 inches, 80 color illustrations. Author Quote:
"...I was invited to create an exhibition entitled "Appointment" in the house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, where Dr. Freud lived, and died. After having a vision of my wedding dress laid across Freud's couch, I immediately accepted. I chose to display relics of my own life amongst the interior of Sigmund's home." -Sophie Calle

Art Museum: Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler, Richard Misrach, Diane Neumaiger, Richard Ross and Thomas Struth

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Art Museum: Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler, Richard Misrach, Diane Neumaiger, Richard Ross and Thomas Struth
Trudy Wilner Stack , Sophie Calle , and Louise Lawler
Manufacturer: Center for Creative Photography
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ASIN: 0938262262
Release Date: 1995-03-02

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Artwork by Sophie Calle, Louise Lawler. Text by Trudy Wilner Stack.

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Des histoires vraies
Sophie Calle
Manufacturer: Galerie Sollertis
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 274270342X

Doubles-jeux : Gotham Handbook, livre VII

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Doubles-jeux : Gotham Handbook, livre VII
Paul Auster , Sophie Calle , and Christine Le Boeuf
Manufacturer: Actes Sud
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ASIN: 2742718702

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