The Boy from Alatsata

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In this book, you'll learn about all three types of A.D.D. You'll see what the characteristics are for each, the best jobs for each type, as well as the best boss for each type. Finally here is the sensitive, practical advice you need to be effective and content on the job.

Customer Reviews:

Thank you, Dr. Weiss!.......2006-11-21

This book was like reading a story about my own life. What an incredible relief to know that I am not the only one experiencing life this way. It's not about making excuses either, but rather taking responsibility for your "wiring," making life choices that work for you, and then moving forward.

Positive Approach to ADD At Work.......2003-03-17

The author, a psychologist with ADD, recommends ways to handle ADD at work. Describes how ADD affects the employee, how to get organized, how to get along with peers and the boss, and options such as self-employment. Is also helpful for people who are not ADD and must work with ADD people. Describes three types of ADD: Outwardly Expressive, Inwardly Directed, and Highly Structured. This book does an excellent job of covering the emotional reactions to having ADD and how to handle them. Takes a positive approach.

Adapted from Annotated Bibliography of Learning A Living; A guide to Planning Your Career and Finding A Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown

Wonderful!.......2002-09-20

At last someone who looks on ADD as something positive, rather than a disease. Bravo! I gained much self confidence reading this book. It is great even if you do not work. Never forget your ADD makes you special and unique!

helpful guidance on how to choose the right work environment.......2001-08-17

This book deals more with choosing the right work environment than giving practical suggestions on how to thrive in your current work environment, given that you are ADD. Weiss pays much attention to choosing the right career and self-employment, and offers tips on how to be successfully self-employed. She uses many one-two paragraph anecdotes of individuals who were either successful or unsuccessful, based on how they dealt with one aspect of their ADD. Weiss does address ADD issues that affect performance and effectiveness in the workplace, but I felt her advice was a bit superficial -- perhaps in a super-caring, ideal work environment, some of the suggestions might work, but in the average work environment, chronic disorganization and lateness will probably result in termination. Her suggestions for enlisting the help of others to deal with these problems may work in a few enviromnents, particularly where the ADD person is highly valued, but I think the suggestions would fall flat in most environments. Overall, the book is probably work reading to help you realize how your work behaviors are common to people with ADD and to learn about how other people have adapted -- but the book won't solve all your workplace problems attributable to ADD.

Practical sense.......2000-12-07

This is a good manual for making a job more comfortable. I wasn't there yet. I didn't know WHICH job to choose with my ADD, or how to go about making that decision. Another good book to help with THAT is Finding a career that works for you, by W. Fellman. It really helped me think about how to choose in the first place.

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Simple French Cooking reveals the secrets of 10 French women chefs who earned the nickname les mères, or "mothers," in central France in the early 20th century. The simple, honest cuisine of these formidable women has inspired generations of chefs. Here readers will find artfully simple recipes for creating the true flavors of France in their own home kitchens. Coauthors chef Georges Blanc--awarded three Michelin stars, Gault et Millaut Chef of the Year, and grandson of Mère Blanc, whose signature Bresse Chicken in a Creamy Sauce titillated her customers' palates--and French food authority Coco Jobard tell the stories of les mères in fascinating biographies that offer a glimpse into the remarkable lives of these women and introduce a variety of French regional cooking styles.

The bulk of the book is made up of more than 100 traditional recipes. Classics like Onion Soup Gratinée, Beef with Carrots, Coq au Vin, and Grand Marnier Soufflé are well represented. Adventurous dishes like Artichoke Hearts with Foie Gras, Calf's Sweetbreads with Asparagus, Partridge Pie with Black Salsify, and Pink Praline Ice Cream round out the book. Crimini Mushroom Salad with Mussels melds the delicate earthiness of tiny white mushrooms with apple vinegar, shallots, tomatoes, and mussels. Mère Crouzier's Wild Duck Surprise daringly combines fish and mussels with duck hearts and livers to stuff the bird. The result is delicate, delicious, and truly surprising.

Classic photos of les mères add to the charm of the book, while beautiful photos of the finished dishes are enticing. Those interested in culinary history will be especially delighted by Simple French Cooking, but anyone interested in learning to cook the simple and honest cuisine of central France will find it a welcome guide. --Robin Donovan

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"To all mothers: Those queens of our hearts, whose simple and generous cooking inspires and sustains us!"--Georges Blanc. Even the greatest cooks had to start somewhere--and for famed restaurateur Georges Blanc, it was the kitchen of his grandmother, an illustrious and well-known chef herself. Now Blanc presents 10 French "mothers," professionals who lovingly maintain and guard the country's classic culinary tradition. They come from every province, and each reveals the secrets of her regional French cuisine so you too can easily create the same time-honored dishes at home. Atmospheric photography captures the essence and style of French cookery: the old-fashioned pots in which the food simmers and bakes; the freshness of its vegetables, the richness of the country patés, the crispness of a perfectly baked duck with olives, and of course, the perfection of its presentation. Among the irresistible temptations: a beautifully made omelette with artichokes; a gorgeous salade Niçoise; sautéed frog's legs with herbs; Coq au Vin; and a heavenly orange cake flavored with Grand Marnier. You won't need any other book on traditional French cookery--this has it all.

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Plain patterns, but easy to knit & modify

Not bad

Look before you leap!

Featuring thick rolls of yarn and a flair for creativity

Chunky and simple

Chunky Knits: 14 Quick and Easy Step-By-Step Projects
Carolyn Clewer
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1581804466

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Adapted from the runways of Europe, Chunky Knits' projects help readers create stylish, up-to-the-minute fashions with surprisingly easy-to-master stitches. Author Carolyn Clewer has incorporated basic knitting instruction and overviews of materials and equipment to get readers started quickly.

Chunky Knits contains 16 projects to suit every taste and skill level, from a woolly scarf and simple ski hat to a chic shoulder bag, V-neck cable and Afghan coat. Thorough step-by-step instructions and more than 200 color illustrations guide readers through these projects. More advanced knitters will appreciate the illustrations of variations for each project, such as decorative additions and alternative finishes.

Customer Reviews:

Plain patterns, but easy to knit & modify.......2005-09-07

When I first bought this book I was a little bit disappointed, but then I realized that the simple patterns were extremely easy to modify and add your own flair, unlike more complicated patterns. I added a braided cable to the last sweater in the book, and it turned out beautifully. With this book I've been able to knit an entire sweater in a weekend, and to me that's worth having it!

Not bad.......2005-01-30

I have made a Finished Object (FO) form this book, and find it useful and well-written. Of course some of the yarn used has been discontinued, but oh well. As for the person who said the pattern for the pink sweater onthe front isn't in the book, have you checked out page 48 for project 4: the "Ladies' Turtleneck Raglan " or not?

I'm not a new beginner, but I've not been knitting for years either. I found the book to be easy to follow and I like the patterns. My mom does too.

It's probably a worthwhile investment as far as knitting books go.

Look before you leap!.......2004-03-11

I too was excited to get my Chunky Knits but once I received the book, felt disappointed. Too many of the patterns are retro, and look like you got it at a Thrift store as opposed to spending a lot of time and effort to make it. There is a nice coat, but I won't make most of what is in the book.

If you have teens, they might like the designs, or maybe not! Check it out first!

Featuring thick rolls of yarn and a flair for creativity.......2004-01-13

Chunky Knits by knitting expert Carolyn Clewer presents the "do-it-yourself" needlecraft enthusiast with fourteen quick and simple knitting projects that anyone can use to create wool sweaters, pull-overs and turtlenecks. Featuring thick rolls of yarn and a flair for creativity as well as practicality, Chunky Knits is enhanced throughout with full color photography and extremely detailed, step-by-step instructions ideal for knitters of all skill and experience levels. Chunky Knits an excellent and highly commended resource and reference for anyone looking to create their own homemade, hand-crafted, practical, and esthetically impressive needlecraft treasures.

Chunky and simple.......2003-12-22

It's usually a good idea to never judge a book by its cover, but in this case the cover gives you a pretty good hint of what's inside. Mostly plain chunky designs, with a little modern flair, the sweaters are probably better suited for the younger (and slimmer) crowd. There is some variety in the patterns - a bag, a hat, a cute child's poncho, and a sequined shawl. The sweaters also have some variety among them, besides the basic stockinette pullover you also get some cabling, some fair isle, argyle, and even a really cute beaded turtleneck. There isn't anything mind-blowing here for an experienced knitter who has done all those techniques before, but a beginner will find here decent explanations and lots of pictures of each technique, plus a fun project in which to apply it. Definitely worth a look.

Chunky Knits: 14 Quick and Easy Step-By-Step Projects

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Chunky Knits: 14 Quick and Easy Step-By-Step Projects
Jane Crowfoot
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K6IQC8

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A collection of Sir Roy Strong's witty and intriguing articles on gardens and gardening.

Customer Reviews:

Old but not antiquated.......2004-07-14

Yes, the original publish date on this book was in the early 1900's, but the formulas within are timeless. Most of the products can be purchased cheaply and locally in urban areas, but some cannot and to have the formulary information available is priceless. A great book for DIYer's and anyone with an appreciation for general chemistry. It's history and self reliance is indespensible.

Whacked.......2003-09-12

This book was written in 1907, and it offers recipes and directions for many things, from "how to fluff the hair" to creating alloys of metals and administering antidotes for poisons. Inside the cover, it says "this book was written in 1907 and some of the things it suggests have actually been found harmful by modern medicine. Consult a physician before doing anything suggested in this book regarding the human body." Well, I would consult a professional before doing anything this book says to do. Its antidotes for poisons, for example, recommend treating one poison with another! No matter what poison has been ingested, the book recommends inducing vomiting--the very opposite of what would be prescribed nowadays. The steps it suggests for creating alloys involve not only harmful methods but harmful metals! I could go on and on. However, it is an interesting read--if you're looking for a good shock! If you're going to buy this book, don't pay any attention to what it has to say about health or food--you just might end up getting killed!

Henley's Twentieth Century Home and Workshop Formulas, Recipes & Processes

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Quaint, informative, interesting and very useful

Henley's Twentieth Century Home and Workshop Formulas, Recipes & Processes

Manufacturer: Norman W. Henley Publishing Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000MBQ4ZW

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Quaint, informative, interesting and very useful.......2007-07-03

I ran across this book in 1983 in my high school library. I immediately found a copy for myself. This book has information on everything from blueing metal and gun smithing to making soap, making soda pop or a still, medical remedies for wart removal, the gout and so much more (the medical advice is quaint at best and dangerous at worst - it's home remedies from a simpler, less informed day). Whether you are a do it your-selfer, a survivalist, or enjoy reading about how it was done in the old days you can not go wrong with this book. A copy of this book and The Foxfire Book and you are good to go.

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Henley's Formulas for Home and Workshop
Gardner D. (Editor) Hiscox
Manufacturer: Avenel Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J30EIQ

Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets: A Valuable Reference Book for the Home, Factory, Office, Laboratory and the Workshop, Containing Ten Thousand Selected Household, Workshop, and Scientific Formulas, Trade Secrets, Chemical Recipes, Processes and Money Saving Ideas for Both the Amateur and Professional Worker

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Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets: A Valuable Reference Book for the Home, Factory, Office, Laboratory and the Workshop, Containing Ten Thousand Selected Household, Workshop, and Scientific Formulas, Trade Secrets, Chemical Recipes, Processes and Money Saving Ideas for Both the Amateur and Professional Worker
Gardner D. Hiscox
Manufacturer: Norman W. Henley Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MWQ7TO

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Henley's twentieth century book of formulas, processes and trade secrets: A valuable reference book for the home, factory, office, laboratory and the workshop ... for both the amateur and professional worker
Gardner Dexter Hiscox
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ASIN: B0006WU6F6

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Henley's twentieth century book of formulas, processes and trade secrets;: A valuable reference book for the home, factory, office, laboratory and the workshop
Gardner Dexter Hiscox
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Henley's twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes: Containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes, and moneysaving ... mechanics, housekeepers and home workers

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Henley's twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes: Containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes, and moneysaving ... mechanics, housekeepers and home workers
Gardner Dexter Hiscox
Manufacturer: Norman W. Henley Pub. Co
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Henley's formulas for Home and Workshop Contianing 10,000 Scientific Formulas, Trade secrets, Food and chemical recipes, and Money sving Ideas

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Henley's formulas for Home and Workshop Contianing 10,000 Scientific Formulas, Trade secrets, Food and chemical recipes, and Money sving Ideas
Gardner D. (Editor) Hiscox
Manufacturer: Avenel Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXITLG

Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas,Processes and Trade Secrets A Valuable Reference Book for the Home, Factroy,Office,Laboratory and the Workshop Containing 10,000 ...

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Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas,Processes and Trade Secrets A Valuable Reference Book for the Home, Factroy,Office,Laboratory and the Workshop Containing 10,000 ...
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Henley's twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes: Containing nearly ten thousand ... recipes ... for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home

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Henley's twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes: Containing nearly ten thousand ... recipes ... for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home
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A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms

Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him-so Stravinsky could preserve his concentration on his work. Modjeska's book investigates the life patterns of women artists, most of whom have been unable to manage such a neat compartmentalization of daily life and creativity.

Stravinsky's Lunch tells the stories of two extraordinary women, both born close to the turn of the century in Australia and both destined to make important contributions to Australian painting. Stella Bowen went to London to make her career, then became a bohemian and the longtime mistress of Ford Madox Ford. Grace Cossington Smith, a spinster who never strayed far from her childhood home on the outskirts of Sydney, became one of the first Australian modernists. Their distinctive stories speak volumes about how love, art, and life intersect.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Inside the artist's mind.......2003-04-03

To say I enjoyed the reading experience of "Starvinsky's Lunch" would be a gross disservice to the achievement of the writer. I felt that the artists' minds (both Stella Bowen¡¯s and Grace Cossington Smith¡¯s) were uniquely explored - not exposed with a terminal completion, but explored and searched with a satisfyingly partial understanding.

The majority of Modjeska's understanding of her two subjects comes from their art - and not from letters, diaries or interviews with contemporaries - although these also figure large in the total insight. By making the majority revolve on their art means that the two things can be said about the understandings offered - (1) they are highly personal and interpretive to the writer, and (2) force us to see and think of these women artists through their art rather than through any other window of our view of them.

On the first point - that the insights are personal to the biographist - this is a delight in the hands of such a gifted writer and observer, but it also leaves the reader with the privilege of sharing a more emotively insightful understanding of the subjects. It is like having a biography written by a lover/spouse/parent ¨C it leaves us with two impressions ¨C both an understanding of the person and the relationship between them and the biographer. Of course we achieve this at the expense of objectivity, but with the benefit of a more intimate, more contextual, more sympathetic view. For me Drusilla Modjeska¡¯s sharing of her interpretations and impressions of her two subjects - based mainly on looking at their art - has given me an unforgettably intimate insight into the hearts and minds of two fine artists. And her interpretations ¨C nearly always matched by illustrations of the art under discussion ¨C are convincing to me. I believe her interpretations.

On the second point, I have been left with an action plan out of reading this biography ¨C I want to look at the paintings. I think that is a very positive outcome after reading biography of artists!! Yesterday I saw Grace Cossington Smith¡¯s ¡°Harbour Bridge¡± at NGV in Melbourne. Stella Bowen¡¯s work is harder to see ¨C but there is a traveling exhibition in Australia at the moment. It¡¯s not so unique for a biography of an artist to send us to look at the paintings ¨C but in this case my thirst is to find the two women in their paintings ¨C not paintings that illustrate events in their lives.

To return to my original observation. Stravinsky¡¯s Lunch is a marvelous reading experience. It communicates an incomplete understanding of its subjects and therein lies one great strength. It is intriguing, up-lifting but not didactically complete. But it sets us off the want to know the subjects better ¨C by looking at what they must have seen as the heritage they wanted to leave ¨C their art.

Is family life incompatible with great art?.......2001-07-06

"For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me, in saying it, to understand it." Rilke.

Stravinsky's lunch, and that of his wife and children, was taken in silence when he was composing. The slightest sound, it seems, "could destroy his concentration and ruin an entire work". Is family life, then, incompatible with great art? Is compromise impossible? Could Stravinsky not have taken his lunch on a tray in his room and left his wife and children free from such restraint?

And what about women artists? Can they possibly juggle family, love and art?

Questions of compromise lie behind all the lives in this book, including Modjeska's, but this does not make it a dry book of philosophy or polemic.

On the contrary, it is a rich and engrossing book about the lives of two Australian women artists, Stella Bowen (1893-19470) and Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) whose lives and art were very different and who dealt with this problem in very different ways. It is also a book which is richly illustrated. And Modjeska has a superb ability to describe paintings in such a way that the viewer/reader sees them anew with her, noticing subtle details and sharing the empathy she has developed with the artist through exploring that artist's life.

Unusually for a modern biographer, Modjeska is careful to distinguish between speculation and fact. Occasionally she does weave imaginary lives for her subjects but she makes it clear that these are her own fantasies and that myth is a dangerous indulgence. This is especially so in the case of Grace Cossington Smith, who "left little trace of herself. Her private personal self. There are few interviews, few letters, few photos, no diaries". All there is to work on is her art, which, in its directness and modernism is tantalizingly at odds with the description of Grace given at her memorial service as "a sweet Christian lady". "Sweet", Modjeska notes, "is never the word for an artist; or if it is, you can be sure it's not a compliment". Such pithy comment is typical of Modjeska's style.

Neither Stella Bowen nor Grace Cossington Smith are well known outside Australia, although Stella Bowen shared a decade of her life with Ford Maddox Ford, worked with him to establish and fund _transatlantic review_ in 1924 (Tristan Tzara, e.e.cummings and Havelock Ellis featured in it), and brought up their daughter Julie. At the same time, her own art was exhibited in Paris, she wrote a weekly column ('Round the Galleries' ) for the London News Chronicle and, after leaving Ford, took portrait commissions in America and, during World War II, was commissioned as a war artist by the War Memorial in Canberra. Altogether, she led a very full and independent life in which she successfully managed to juggle mundane work, love and family with her commitment to fine art.

The life of Grace Cossington Smith took quite a different course. Apart from two years spent with family in England and Germany as a young girl, and a later visit to Europe in 1949-50, Grace spent all her life in Australia. She was supported by her family. Even domestic duties did not impinge on her time: a younger sister took on this role for the family and Grace "managed never to master" the kitchen arts (the position of that 'never' is subtle and telling).

Grace was artistic and talented. She won art prizes at school; and her father built a studio for her in their suburban garden and paid for her to attend the Sydney art school run by Italian artist Dattilo-Rubbo. Unlike Stella Bowen, she had "No husband. No babies. No affairs. No scandals. No cafes in Paris.". Yet Grace Cossington Smith was one of the first and best modernist artists in Australia, and she achieved this in spite of the critical antagonism of the powerful male art-establishment: "the buggers' union" as Naomi Mitchison, an Australian friend of Stella Bowen, called them. She achieved it, too, in spite of the fact that the work of artists like Picasso, Cezanne, Gaugin, Matisse, Van Gogh and Watteau (all of whose work seems to have influenced her own) was unavailable to her in Australia, except as reproductions. This was true, too, of the work of masters like Fra Angelica, whose work she first saw and loved on her visit to Italy when she was fifty-seven.

It is shocking to be reminded that Australian artists were so cut off from the art of Europe for so long. In 1936 the director of the National Gallery of Victoria still spoke of "modernist filth"; and the first exhibition of 'French and British Contemporary Art' was seen in Australia in 1939 - although none of it was bought by Australian public galleries, two of which refused even to host the show.

Grace Cossington Smith succeeded by dedication as much as by talent. Many other artists felt the need to leave Australia in order to succeed: this, too, is a question Modjeska ponders.

Other artists, literary and figurative, appear in this book. Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker set the scene. Ford Maddox Ford, Edith Sitwell, Virginia Wolf, Vanessa Bell, Sinclair Lewis and (in Australia) Dattilo-Rubbo, Ethel Anderson, Julian Ashton, Margaret Preston and others become part of Modjeska's investigation of the relationship between art and life. She is erudite and intelligent but she wears her knowledge lightly. Above all she brings her two main subjects to life and shows their importance as artists and, particularly, as women artists who succeeded in the male-dominated art world in which they lived and worked. Their stories are inspiring, fascinating and thought-provoking and Modjeska tells them wonderfully well. ...

Are love and art incompatible?.......2001-04-28

Women artists were leaders in the Modernist movement in Australia between the two World Wars. This books looks at two, whose lives are like a mirror image of each other, Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith. More than a straightforward biography, it addresses the dilemma of love and art. Do women have to sacrifice one for the other?

Modjeska's motif is a story she first heard from a friend. She says: "It isn't much of a story, simply that when Stravinsky was in mid-composition, he insisted that his family ate lunch in silence. The slightest sound, a murmur, even a whisper, could ruin his concentration and destroy an entire work."

"It's not a particularly unusual story - great male artists have demanded more than that in the name of Art - and yet it has worked on me, and in me, in ways that it has taken me a long time to understand. What began, for me, as an argument has become taken into my life as a kind of meditation."

At the time Bowen and Smith were developing as artists, Virginia Woolf was writing that in order for a woman to succeed as an artist she needed A Room Of One's Own and 500 pounds a year - ie an income sufficient for self-support.

Stella Bowen was born in 1893, Grace Cossington Smith in 1892. They led extremely different lives. Bowen went to europe, met and fell in love with a writer, Ford Madox Ford, spent a decade keeping house for him, and raising their child (which she continued to do after they separated). She lived in England and France from the evee of WW1, and never returned to Australia. Smith, on the other hand, lived for most of her life in a (then) semi-rural, outer suburb of Sydeny, bucolicly middle-class. She had the financial support of her encouraging family, who facilitated her art. One sister remained unmarried, and for most of the time kept house.

Modjeska said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald:

"It is very tough to be a woman and an artist. It has always been tough to be a woman and an artist. I have had a pretty good run as a writer, but even I have tasted enough of it to know what it has been like for women before. Life intrudes. Love intrudes. Women don't seem to be able to separate the two, women don't seem to be permitted to separate the two, like the blokes are able to do. And what is interesting, the more I explored this, the more I realised that women are complicit in the whole thing, too. The whole question became very complex."

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Grace Cossington Smith is widely considered to be one of Australia's most significant artists. She played a vital role in the development of modernism in Australia. This volume traces her artistic development through paintings and drawings as well as through her many sketchbooks to reveal an artist of considerable depth, insight, and spirituality. It covers her practice from 1910 to 1971—the full span of her career.

Grace Cossington Smith: A life : from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia

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Grace Cossington Smith: A life : from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia
Daniel Thomas
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ASIN: 0642130191

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Grace Cossington Smith
Bruce James
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Binding: Hardcover

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The devastation of Hungarian Jewry was among the worst atrocities of World War II, encompassing the murder of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in the final months of the war.

Facing defeat, Hitler and his allies brought the Holocaust to Hungary with unprecedented speed and barbarity. The Hungarian Jewish population was rounded up and deported to concentration camps in just 54 days. 437,402 Jews. 148 trains. Destination: Auschwitz.

The German plan for annihilation of the Jews-called the 'Final Solution'-set the goal that not a single survivor would be left to bear witness to the events. Fifty years later, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to record the testimony of as many survivors as possible. From the ashes of the Holocaust these voices now emerge to share their stories and to represent the nearly six million Jews who did not survive.

Survivors and liberators share what they experienced in gripping, firsthand testimony. Archival photographs document history, and powerful color images chronicle the survivors' emotional return to the places of their pasts:from homes unseen for fifty years to the ghettos and concentration camps of their imprisonment. Top scholars have been brought together to share their insights into one of humanity's darkest chapters. These elements are poignantly synthesized in The Last Days as a warning for all mankind.

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gripping.......2006-05-07

This is the story of the final days of the Holocaust when the Final Solution was inflicted upon the Jews of Hungary with devestating fury by the nazis and their local collaborators The Arrow Cross.

This is not a happy book but an insightful one that covers this portion of the bloody social engineering of Hitler's Final Solution, his attrocity against Jews.

Witnessing the murder of Hungarian Jewry.......2005-05-04

Six eye-witness accounts of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis are at the heart of this work. This and the witnesses return fifty years later to the place of the destruction and their reflection upon this.
Their testimony is part of the sacred act of remembrance of the destruction, and of those destroyed. It is of course a very partial act and can never compensate for the destruction.
With the murder of over four- hundred and fifty thousand Jews were murdered thousands of families, whole worlds.
The mind and heart cannot encompass or understand this.

exellent historical document a must for all.......1999-07-19

exellent visual and historical document please advise publishers of the following p201 liberation photo, it is J Krammer with british gaurds at belsen not Fritz Klein revisionist would love that let us never forget.

THE LAST DAYS: STEVEN SPIELBERG AND SURVIVORS OF THE SHOAH VISUAL HISTORY FOUNDATION

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THE LAST DAYS: STEVEN SPIELBERG AND SURVIVORS OF THE SHOAH VISUAL HISTORY FOUNDATION

Manufacturer: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841880574

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Last Days
Steven Spielberg; Survivors Of The Shoah Visual History Foundation; Intr
Manufacturer: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLP35W

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