Mannerheim: The Finnish Years

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“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth century’s most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley’s death, his accomplishments in Africa have largely receded from public memory or have been discredited as epitomizing the wrongs inflicted by the scourge of European colonialism and its “scramble for Africa.” While numerous writers have attempted to describe the man, sometimes through highly speculative means, our understanding of the most notable aspect of Stanley’s life, his relationship to the continent, isn’t much more advanced than it was one hundred years ago.

To fill this void, James L. Newman re-creates Stanley’s seven epic African journeys, explaining why he made them, what transpired en route, and what resulted. He highlights Stanley’s determination to succeed despite incredible odds and his various relationships with the people who enabled him to accomplish his objectives. And while he acknowledges Stanley’s less admirable traits, such as his penchant for stretching the truth, his capacity to be ruthless, and his tendency to demean others, Newman refuses to engage in facile speculation. Instead, he focuses on the words and deeds of a man who played a major role in shaping today’s Africa.

James L. Newman’s in-depth research, detailed descriptions, and vivid prose make Stanley and Africa both a fascinating read and a notable contribution to the study of Africa, exploration, and the age of empire.

Customer Reviews:

Who knew?.......2005-08-14

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all heard that quote. Some of us even know who said it. However, if that's all you know about Henry Morgan Stanley, you are in for a treat when you read Imperial Footprints. In his time, Stanley was compared with Christopher Columbus, and Newman makes it clear why. This is a well-written and very readable story. Newman has done an excellent job of capturing the adventure of Stanley's seven(!) African journeys, as well as his very interesting younger life. Did you know that Morgan fought in the American Civil War? On both sides??? I give Imperial Footprints my highest recommendation. If you like adventure stories, if you like well-written biography, Imperial Footprints is the book for you.

An exciting blend of researched fact and drama .......2005-04-10

A hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley's death, his own African explorations have receded from public memory in favor of critical reviews of European colonialist expansion in Africa. James L. Newman returns Stanley's importance to the world with Imperial Footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys, a re-creation of his seven African journeys which explains why and how he made them, and their lasting impact on the modern world. The blend of history, biography and travelogue makes for an exciting blend of researched fact and drama which reads like fiction, giving Imperial Footprints an edge over other coverages on Stanley.

Imperial footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African journeys [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]

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Imperial footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African journeys [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]
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Provides law teachers with a relatively simple, easy to use casebook to teach U.S. international taxation. The field is notoriously complex—more so, perhaps, than any other area of Federal tax law. The focus is on how the details of the tax law fit into a broader structure, which is described in the introduction. Enables students to fit the particular issues they are working on into a larger context, to develop an intuition for where the problem areas may lie.

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Serves an active online market - averaging 4,300 continuous auctions for small-size U.S. currency on one the world's largest online auction sites

Provides collectors and dealers with more than pricing, including tutorial information to guide investment decisions

There's nothing small about today's small-size U.S. currency market, and this abundantly illustrated and thoroughly researched reference offers serious collectors, and dealers of small-size notes the details to stay on top of their collecting. In Standard Guide to Small-Size U.S. Paper Money 1928 to Date, collectors will discover: *More than 300 large photos and illustrations of small-size notes to aid in quick identification *Listings that include precise population figures, updated values, and serial number data *Chronological-by-denomination format for easily locating note listings

Serious collectors seeking success in this constantly changing market need the updated and reliable information only found in this book.

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Very informative.......2007-04-08

This edition was updated significantly since the last one came out. More serial numbers and star notes are listed.

Still it need more listing and better explanations of grading/pricing for each series. Also the values seem high, although not as bad as previous edition.

Standard Guide to Small-Sized U.S. Paper Money 7th Edition.......2007-03-21

An incredible book if your looking for a complete reference book to use on a daily basis. This reference book is updated every year which is very important to any Small-Sized U.S. Paper Currency collector. I find this book gives spot on values for each and every small-sized U.S. note that anyone could have an interest in collecting. I use this reference book like I use my right arm so that should tell you just how important this reference book is to my collecting. I purchase the revised book every year without question. No collector should ever be without this book. Well lets say any serious collector should never be without this book !!!

Useful but disappointed.......2007-03-07

I agree with many of the reviewers comments. This is a very useful book, it is a must for the serious small size currency collector. Quality control is a major problem however. There are just too many errors which cause confusion. I am surprised that KP books can't do a better job. These errors run through all of the editions 5, 6, and now 7. These errors cause one to question some of the pricing information. A typical example is in the 7th edition, 2004 A Atlanta star listing. 96,000 sheets? What does that mean? It has been widely reported that there was a printing of 9,600. I suggest Oaks, Schwartz and Lindquist take special care with the 8th edition and perhaps find a new editor.

Mistake's are a plenty, still good basic info in here.......2007-01-11

I personaly collect Star Notes, I have been hording GL's and GF star notes. I was waiting on the book release for value's, just to find they have incorrect figures for printings. They have 96,000 for the unbelievably low 9600 print of the Atlanta(GF) $10 star notes.
So, I as well as 3-4 other collectors wait again till next years release for the correct numbers and therefore guide on value. Maybe the mistakes are how they sell new editions? Guarantee sales?

Paper Money details.......2007-01-09

This volume is even more complete in its listings than the previous editions. It has a better listing of modern uncut sheets, although quantities printed would be a much-needed addition. The book is clear, concise and valuable as a necessary element in the reference library of any collector of small-size notes.

Standard Guide To Small Size U.s. Paper Money: 1928 To Date 3rd Edition

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Standard Guide To Small Size U.s. Paper Money: 1928 To Date 3rd Edition
Dean; Schwartz, John Oakes
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“[For] the young at heart...37 items to craft concentrate on hair ornaments and necklaces, bracelets, and anklets; most are fairly simple to fashion...the book is frontloaded with the how-tos, a good basic explanation of threads, needles, clasps catches, knots, and other challenges a novice beader just might encounter....Totally for young people—from styles to execution.”—Booklist. “A ‘how-to’ delight for any budding bead enthusiast.”—Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot.

Liquid Beads Totally Awesome Iron-On Pattern Book

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Liquid Beads Totally Awesome Iron-On Pattern Book

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Iron-on transfers included.

Bead Buddies: Make Your Own Totally Cool Bead Animals

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Bead Buddies: Make Your Own Totally Cool Bead Animals

Manufacturer: Troll Communications
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Not as good.......1999-01-04

When I recieved the book it was just a few pages. All it had were probably 3 different animals to make.

Not the best.......1998-10-20

I luv to make these things but who wants to waste 5 dollars on this book when you can get dozens of patterens online for FREE!?¿

Nice but too little.......1998-08-24

Nice for starters but too little for kids who have already done one of these. My 7 year old son is bonkers for these things, so I ordered a bigger book of patterns for him and put this in the "gift box" to give to someone else who hasn't done any yet.

Not worth the money!.......1998-07-08

We were disappointed in this title. We thought this was a book but instead it is a kit with only approximately 3 bead projects. We were able to get much nicer patterns off the Internet for free! The patterns included do not look like the animals!

It was awsome.......1998-07-02

Icouldn't do em till i got this book and it was just the tool i needed.

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Totally Awesome (Liquid Beads)

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A history of the practical impact of each form on land use, local economics, and local culture

A compact review of the evolution of American housing

A new way of seeing and appreciating U.S. dwellings

Ranches, Rowhouses, & Railroad Flats: American Homes : How They Shape Our Landscapes and Neighborhoods
Christine Hunter
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393730255

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An introduction to housing in the United States: its characteristic forms and its environmental implications. What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the immediate outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to society. She emphasizes the varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.

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A history of the practical impact of each form on land use, local economics, and local culture.......2006-06-26

Any interested in the architectural heritage and culture of American neighborhoods must look at RANCHES, ROWHOUSES & RAILROAD FLATS: AMERICAN HOMES: HOW THEY SHAPE OUR LANDSCAPES AND NEIGHBORHOODS. It lacks glitzy color photos but provides a wonderful blend of black and white line drawings and insights into how American housing forms evolved and influenced their neighborhood's development. Three forms of housing -freestanding homes, attached houses, and apartments - are the focus here, with registered architect Hunter's background in housing design and construction lending to a history of the practical impact of each form on land use, local economics, and local culture.

Diane C. Donovan
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A compact review of the evolution of American housing.......1999-07-15

Much as John MacPhee has offered a new way of appreciating canoes, Alaska, and U.S. geology, Christine Hunter offers a new way of appreciating U.S. dwellings. He deals with our natural environment; she deals with our man-made environment. Combining description with evaluation, she provides a compact review of the evolution of housing since colonial times, seen through the eyes of a trained architect employing a social scientist¹s critical detachment. Her study will be useful for a wide variety of general readers as well as those in the fields of history, city planning, design, and government. The book is easy to read, with dozens of clear sketches showing the changing forms and anatomy of houses and rooms under discussion. Technical detail is relieved by occasional gentle humor. After a chapter on fundamental requirements for human dwellings (³what we all need to survive²), she tells how minimum standards for urban and rural housing have evolved as the population grew and spread across the continent, taking advantage of abundant resources and new technology, while confronting political and economic complications. A central chapter spells out the necessary components of a modern dwelling (plumbing, lighting, heating, connections with the world outside, etc.), giving these familiar aspects of our surroundings a fresh and revealing specificity. Three chapters discuss freestanding houses, attached houses, and apartments. An incisive final chapter on neighborhoods comments on the problems and prospects surrounding our homes today.

A new way of seeing and appreciating U.S. dwellings.......1999-07-14

Ranches, Rowhouses and Railroad Flats: American Homes: How They Shape Our Landscapes and Neighborhoods.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Peter Owens
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Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 66 Issue: 2 Page: 210

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An exploration of racial identity and family, as seen through the lens of 10 Black families living in a predominantly white, affluent community

What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high?

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, interviewed Black families in depth to identify the sacrifices and achievements necessary to survive and prosper in a white community. For the Black citizens of "Sun Beach," dual-income households, religious affiliation, and extended families help maintain stability. But with assimilation comes an insidious "hidden racism," subtly communicated when Black children aren't called on in class and revealed more fully in incidents of racial name-calling. By listening to the individual voices of these children and their parents, Dr. Tatum skillfully probes the complex questions of identity that arise for a visible people rendered invisible by their surroundings.

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Popularly known during his lifetime as "The World's Greatest Living Composer," Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky's two sides--the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in history, and the private composer, whose views and beliefs were often purposely suppressed. Charles M. Joseph draws a richer and more human portrait of Stravinsky than anyone has done before, using an array of unpublished materials and unreleased film trims from the composer's huge archive at the Paul Sacher Institute in Switzerland. Focusing on Stravinsky's place in the culture of the twentieth century, Joseph situates the composer among the giants of his age. He discusses Stravinsky's first American commission, his complicated relationship with his son, his professional relationships with celebrities ranging from T. S. Eliot to Orson Welles, his flirtations with Hollywood and television, and his love-hate attitude toward the critics and the media. In a close look at Stravinsky's efforts to mold a public image, Joseph explores the complex dance between the composer and his artistic collaborator, Robert Craft, who orchestrated controversial efforts to protect Stravinsky and edit materials about him, both during the composer's lifetime and after his death.

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Fluff.......2004-05-20

This book is remarkably light. It is a breezy discussion of Stravinsky from the viewpoint of a fan interested in the man more in terms of gossip than insight, with a big mis-step in its irrelevant focus on Stravinksy's son and the hardships of being Stravinsky's son. Does this have anything to do with Stravinsky's music. It is gossip, trite.

Thoughtful, fresh, and controversial.......2002-05-08

I found this book to be an extremely new and interesting look into the mind and personal life of Igor Stravinsky. Understanding the artist as a person helps us to understand and appreciate the art he creates.

In response to Craig Matteson... everyone is entitled to their opinon (and of course, no better place to put one's opinon but in a review). However, Mr. Matteson was off on one point (well, in my opinon, he was off on MANY points, but I'll only discuss one). Joseph has written a very thorough book entitled Stravinsky and the Piano in which he studies Stavinsky's "actual piano music performance scores" in detail - fingerings and markings included. Maybe Mr. Matteson is unaware of this book because it is only available to music scholars, which quite obviously, he is not. So it makes perfect sense to me why Joseph did not include such information in this book. A) he already wrote a book about this, and B) this book is about Stravinsky's split lives (the person vs. the public composer) - therefore the scores and fingerings are obtuse.

Worth reading, some great points, but ..........2001-10-28

We seem to be at an unfortunate stage of music history writing. The approach of many books, including this one, is the antithesis of the hero worship books written by the shelf-full not too many decades ago. Do we really need this style of book as an antidote? To me, it seems to belabor the obvious that composers, even the very greatest, such as Brahms, Mahler, and Stravinsky, should be mere mortals after all.

Why is it important at all that we point out moments or even decades of pettiness, vainglory, or difficult family relations? How exactly is that supposed to help us understand the art? Why not write a book about a fellow named Bob who lives down your down the street and his ordinary to miserable life?

Of course, we don't write about Bob down the street because he is ordinary and he isn't Stravinsky. Haven't we long ago realized that even Stravinsky the composer is something other than Stravinsky the husband, father, or businessman. Of course extraordinary people have much about them that is quite ordinary.

Some feel that knowing the artist as a human being helps us understand his art. Maybe on the margins it could, but only children believe that a composer was necessarily sad when writing a sad piece or happy when writing a happy piece and so on. Nothing Mr. Joseph tells us about the composition of The Flood helps us understand how it comes out of a Stravinsky. (Even if the author is trying to put forward that in this case it DIDN'T come out of Stravinsky).

Don't get me wrong, this book by Charles Joseph isn't bad. Really, it has much to recommend it and I am glad that I read it and hope you do too. But I was frustrated by the mixing in of well known stories and photographs into a book that claimed to be revealing new things based upon new access to Stravinsky's papers and artifacts in Basel. It isn't that there isn't anything new or semi-new, it is that it isn't set apart from the ho-hum there's that old chestnut again regurgitation of Stravinsky tales.

It is like going to a dinner party and listening across the table to a very knowledgeable guest who tells a few enthralling tales about a very interesting subject, but then spoils the enchantment by going on too long by telling a few too many tales that have no spark or wit about them.

Joseph also doesn't follow up on things that ARE really interesting. For example, when he discusses the actual piano music performance scores that Stravinsky used and the interesting fingerings the composer used as a performer. But we don't get a picture of even one page of those piano scores nor do we get even a hint as to why Stravinsky's written in fingerings are telling. As a pianist of sorts, I can surmise why Stravinsky's fingerings would be interesting, but it would be nice to get even a bit of discussion on such an interesting topic. I would have traded all of those re-printed pictures for one or two of the actual new material and one page of the marked-up piano music.

Yes, there is a 1983 text available through ProQuest that talks about Stravinsky's piano music, but Mr. Joseph indicates in the book that there were new things learned from his seeing the materials in Switzerland. In any case, this book is generally available and his 1983 book is not. Again, why reprint the nude photo of Stravinsky that is NOT original to this book and leave out something that would be valuable and a real contribution such as Stravinsky's piano fingerings?

It would be a real service if Mr. Joseph (or SOMEONE) put together an edition of the piano works with those fingerings in them. Not that pianists will necessarily use those precise fingerings, but they would certainly aid in understanding how the composer himself interpreted the piece.

Especially annoying to me was yet another tired discussion about Robert Craft. Mr. Joseph does demonstrate that Mr. Craft did play a significant role in the genesis of Stravinsky's work "The Flood". The author approaches the point of almost intimating that Craft is at least the co-composer of "The Flood", but never is bold enough to make that accusation. My guess is because for all the support and creative priming that Craft provided for Stravinsky, the evidence is that the composer did indeed compose the music himself. For heaven's sake, every composer since music began based it on some other creative spark or borrowed a theme from another work or even included suggestions from performers for whom the work was written. Composition is not done in a vacuum chamber on the dark side of the moon!

However, anyone who knows anything at all about Stravinsky's output from the fifties onward knows that Craft did us all a tremendous service. Why anyone wants to criticize Craft is beyond me. Unless someone wants to make the case that Stravinsky simply signed his name to Craft's scores and present real evidence they should either whine to people who care or thank Craft for the music he enabled Stravinsky to make in the fifties and sixties.

All in all, it easy for us in our age of sarcasm and witless irony to see the flaws of books that extol our favorite composers as heroes or as flawless paragons of humanity. My suspicion is that it won't take too many more years for people to turn their backs on the recent spate of books that take as their mission the whittling down of the tree of the great artist to a toothpick of a human. It is just too easy to write about human failings. We don't learn much at all about the art from such books and they are tiresome to read.

Finally, I am curious about the surmise that I am not a music scholar? By what definition? In europe a student is a scholar. Over here, what is the definition of a scholar? One who agrees with your points of view? I happen to have spent seven years at the University of Michigan School of Music and have a degree in music theory and several years of graduate school before my life took a different direction. But I have always played my piano and kept up on music. So, my views are not uninformed.

He was his own greatest composition.......2001-10-02

Stravinsky, whether you like him or not, was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Alternately deified by his collaborators (like Ballanchine, W.H. Auden, and Robert Craft), or villified as a worthless hack by Schoenberg and his accolytes, the truth lies somewhere in between those extremes. While the composer has not lacked for documentation of his life (notably his own Autobiography, and the "conversation books" edited by Robert Craft), there's still a need to balance facts with Stravinsky's own carefully constructed fictions. Few artists in any discipline have been more self-conscious of their public image than Stravinsky, and there is a real need to sort out how much of the composer's lifestory was his own invention. Joseph's well-written, meticulously researched book stops short of being a hatchet-job, but isn't afraid to display the idol's clay feet. (If fact, there's a nude photo of the composer in the book, so you'll see more than just his feet!) Joseph leaves the musicological analysis to others, and provides an engaging, provocative look at the man behind the hype. Turns out, like most human beings, he had his share of flaws as well as moments of genius.

Stravinsky Inside Out. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review): An article from: Notes

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Celso Loureiro Chaves
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Title: Stravinsky Inside Out. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
Author: Celso Loureiro Chaves
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
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Volume: 59 Issue: 2 Page: 340(3)

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Stravinsky Inside Out
Charles M. Joseph
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Charles M. Joseph
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