River Dark and Bright

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All his life Stimson Bullitt has belonged to Seattle, with excursions elsewhere that included undergraduate years at Yale and four years in the Navy during World War II. Bullitt is a ninth-generation American lawyer. His first political activity was a letter-writing campaign in 1942 in defense of Japanese Americans. He has taken part in civic affairs, locally and nationally, in the fields of government reorganization, political process reforms, race relations, foreign affairs, and conservation. Among honors he has received, perhaps the best known was his inclusion on Nixon's "Enemies List." He is the author of To Be a Politician.

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River Dark & Bright - A Memoir
Stimson Bullitt
Manufacturer: Willows Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J3174G

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In 1983, Jones, well known as one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time, had his leg amputated. Refusing to become landbound after a lifetime at sea, he acquired a specially designed, virtually untippable boat.

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Somewheres East of Suez
Tristan, 1924- Jones
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NP0KZC

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Somewheres East of Suez
Tristan Jones
Manufacturer: Grafton Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000MB2G6I

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Succinct expert summary provides an overview of the fundamental issues underlying the taxation of corporations and stockholders. The text focuses on the corporation as a taxable entity and tracks the corporate life cycle from incorporation through complete liquidation. Includes discussion on nonliquidating distributions, redemptions, and stock dividends. Also addresses advanced problems in corporate taxation, such as taxable acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and corporate divisions, and carryover of corporate tax attributes.

Federal income taxation of corporations and stockholders in a nutshell (Nutshell series)

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Federal income taxation of corporations and stockholders in a nutshell (Nutshell series)
Jonathan Sobeloff
Manufacturer: West Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0829921222

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Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
Karen C. Burke
Manufacturer: West Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OU0BP0

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Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
Karen C. Burke
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTNA0O

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A little disappointed.......2007-01-12

I found the choices of scarfs pictured lacking the vitality found in Vera's designs. These were hardly the most sort after. I think it needs some review of photo choices.

Good but not great........2006-05-10

For those of you who have been waiting forever to see a book about Vera Neumann need not wait any longer. This book contains nearly 500 images of her work. I'm glad that it exists, although it could have been much better. There are a few issues with color correction, i.e. the whole print is one color while the detail shot is in another. Also, they seemed to have a bit of a problem laying the fabrics flat. That being said, it's a must have reference for contemporary print designers as well as collectors.

PS What's with the price guide?

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Thirty drawings and 17 Grimm fairy tales include "Hansel and Gretel," "King Thrushbear," "Doctor Know-All," plus 12 others.

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Good cheap way to practice.......2006-06-29

I have been studying Arthur Rackham and trying to emulate his style. Sometimes certain things are so hard to draw, you just can't seem to do it. However, if you can trace over something several times and then try to draw it, it is easier. So I have used this book to tighten my "Rackham" chops. Also my kids and granddaughter never heard of him and it gives me a chance to share my childhood memories with them.

Wonderful coloring book for adults and children.......2002-05-29

I decided to revisit my childhood recently, and ordered a stack of coloring books. The Rackham is by far the prettiest of the lot. You can attempt to emulate Rackham's earthy palette, or you can go wild and use every bright color in the box. Either way, you'll have a wonderful time coloring these complex, sinuous, lovely illustrations. And the fairytales are a bonus. Something for when you're sick in bed, or just feeling down and looking for a bit of comfort.

Rackham's World.......2001-02-16

One of the most respected artists of the last century, Arthur Rackham brought some of the best loved children's stories to life with his beautiful illustrations. Here, some of Rackham's illustrations for 17 of the Grimm's stories are presented in a colouring book format, and while it would make a wonderful gift for a child, it also makes for a great collector's item for the art connoisseur and fan of Rackham's work. I bought two copies - one to colour, and one to keep as a collector's item! Ed Sibbett, Jr. rendered the 30 colourable illustrations based on Rackham's originals, and each one compliments James Spero's adapted text of 17 of the Grimm's tales. Included in the 64 pages are the classics "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Rapunzel", and more. At Amazon's price, there's definitely value for money in this book.

WOW!.......1999-12-08

What a great idea - fairy tales with really detailed, gorgeous illustrations to be colored in. This is sure to give hours and hours of fun quiet time!

Rackham Fairy Tale Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)

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Coloring Books for All Ages

Rackham Fairy Tale Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)
Arthur Rackham
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 048644435X

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Good to know..........2007-09-20

Good or bad, I was surprised to get this and realize the "stained glass" bit refers to the TRANSLUCENT PAPER, not the ease/large size of the areas to color. The pictures are lovely, but I was expecting something a bit simpler (that might be executed in stained glass, for instance) for my kindergarten princess to color.

I'm sure she'll like it anyway, and at least she can use her markers without them bleeding through the paper, but still a little surprised.

Coloring Books for All Ages.......2007-01-20

This coloring book, as well as other stained-glass coloring books from Dover, is suitable for all ages, including adults. In fact, the books would be wasted on young children. All of them are especially beautiful when colored with the deepest shades of markers, and particularly when viewed from the back.

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The Dutch Foundation for Architectural Research (SAR) was established in 1965 as a research institute and remained active until the beginning of the 1990s. Its innumerable research reports, policy recommendations and practical experiments have profoundly influenced the shape of Dutch and international architecture and building practice, most especially in the 1960s and 1970s. Housing for the Millions is primarily concerned with the philosophy of John Habraken, SAR's founder--in particular his new approach to the self-image and professional and social status of the designer, as well as the role and input of the resident. In his years as a researcher and professor at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Habraken has built an international reputation. This is the first time that the intellectual heritage of the SAR has been brought together in book form and considered within a broader international perspective. The subject matter of Housing for the Millions is particularly pertinent right now, given the renewed emphasis on flexibility and interactive decision-making evident in government and private industry today.

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Absolutely Wonderful

Not worth it

I preferred Breathe!

THANK YOU ~ THANK YOU!!!!

Brief and Mostly Humorous, a better choice is "Daddy Smarts"

Every Guy's Guide as to What to Expect When She's Expecting
William Grant Eppler
Manufacturer: Furlip Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Pregnancy & Childbirth | Women's Health | Personal Health | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0965670112

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Every Guy's Guide as to What To Expect When She's Expecting is a humorous and unique guide for every day guys who thought they had a plan, and now have a new plan: Children. This book will help guy's avoid some of the pitfalls of this new frontier and encourages them to fullfill one of the highest positions in the land: Fatherhood.

Far too often, the nation hears the term "dead-beat dads", alongside alarming statistics relating to poor parenting, when in fact there is a large group of men from all facets of society ready and capable to be an invaluable influence during pregnancy, birth, infancy, and child rearing.

Having searched for non-clinical pregnancy information written from a guy's point of view, and finding none, the author wrote a humorous book for guys about the process from fertilization to post-birth.

So while a gal can read from the hundreds of books available (written by women for women) about her soon-to-be expanding body, her lactation ability, her possible morning sickness and mood swings etc., with Every Guy's Guide... a guy can now read about the bumpy road ahead from a guy that survived pregnancy and childbirth.

Every Guy's Guide... contains all the information dad forgot to mention.

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Absolutely Wonderful.......2004-08-05

I bought this book for my husband hoping he'd enjoy it as he is not the most avid reader. He chuckled the whole way thru and when finished gave me a Big Hug with a huge smile. I also read it and it is very informative, light enough to not bog a man down, carries an extremely positive perspective and is certainly humorous. Thank You Mr. Eppler !!!

Not worth it.......2004-06-22

I bought this book for my husband thinking it would be great giving him his own book instead of reading all the ones geared toward women. Whoops was I wrong.

Although humerous this book had no information he nor I was looking for.

If you want some chuckles out of an easy read this book is for you, otherwise not worth wasting your time. You'll never get that hour back!

I preferred Breathe!.......2002-10-31

This was good, but I was expecting a little more hilarity and a little less accuracy from the front cover. It's a worthwhile book, but in terms of straight laughs I got more from Breathe! A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy.

Also, the title, Every Guy's Guide as to What to Expect When She's Expecting, just seems awkward to me. Bugged me the whole way through.

THANK YOU ~ THANK YOU!!!!.......2002-04-24

You can't imagine my relief when I found this book for my husband. All I could think was while we're laying in bed and he ask's me why i'm reading about what to expect I can now ask him why he's NOT reading about what to expect. So he read this book and I have to say that I owe a GREAT debt of gratitude to the author who is obviously in touch with his father side. What a refreshingly funny tool, to losen up a bear of a man, for a process that is all too serious. So I say thank you and so does the Mr. who was more than prepared come the day to bring home the twins, thanks in large part to this book.

Brief and Mostly Humorous, a better choice is "Daddy Smarts".......2002-03-30

This guy gets a little carried away with humor. If you are looking for the one must have book for rooky dads, buy Daddy Smarts by Bradley Richardson

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Not curmudgeonly. Not in the slightest........2003-07-04

Norman Lebrecht, for those unfamiliar with him, is an institution in the field of music commentary and criticism, and culture in general. He has his own BBC radio show ("Lebrecht Live") , as well as a weekly syndicated newspaper column (now in the London Evening Standard, formerly in the London Daily Telegraph), and is the author of a number of books besides this one. More often than not, Lebrecht can be a curmudgeon with the best of them (but always with the thought in mind of provoking one to think more deeply than usual), and seems to be one of the surviving few these days who can write in the style of the feuilleton (a humorous, often sarcastic, style of arts essay once common in Paris during Berlioz's time, and then brought to even higher heights in fin-de-siècle Vienna when Heinrich Heine "imported" the genre from Paris).

But there is nothing curmudgeonly about "Mahler Remembered," Lebrecht's anthologizing of reminiscences by people who knew Gustav Mahler. Instead, this is a chronological capturing of these reminiscences - many of them appearing in print for the first time - to provide a portrait of Mahler hard to find elsewhere, at least not in any single volume such as this. (The closest book, in terms of recording of reminiscences, is likely "Mahler: His Life, Work and World" by Kurt and Herta Blaukopf. There is some overlap, but Lebrecht's quotations seem fuller, and several in Lebrecht do not appear in Blaukopf.)

Among the highlights are an extended essay by Alfred Roller (Mahler's stage director at the Vienna Court Opera), describing Mahler's physical attributes from an artist's perspective (and giving the lie to any thought that Mahler was less than a fine physical specimen), a humorous tribute by Leo Slezak (a fine Wagnerian tenor in Mahler's troupe) who was not always highly motivated but who, in retrospect, realized that Mahler brought out the best in him, and tributes by his many acolytes, most particularly Arnold Schoenberg, Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter, as well as famous musicians still remembered today, including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ferrucio Busoni and Fritz Kreisler. Of these, Busoni's is perhaps the most moving: It was at Mahler's very last concert, in New York, that he had premiered Busoni's "Berceuse élégaique," and it was Busoni who traveled in the company of Mahler on his final journey home from New York to Vienna by way of Cherbourg.

But the book goes well beyond these few names, and these brief highlights. Lebrecht seems to have found something from everyone of significance whose life or career intersected Mahler's, and quite a few from people of no particular historical significance at all save that they knew him and wrote something that is now part of posterity. What emerges is as full a personal portrait of Mahler as one is likely to find without collating bits and pieces from multiple sources and volumes.

I could manage to find only two unfavorable reminiscences, both of them "expected" (and quite well-known) from my earlier readings of writings on Mahler. One is by Franz Schmidt, a near-contemporary composer who was also the principal cellist in Mahler's Vienna orchestra, and the other is by Henry Krehbiel, the very influential music critic of the New York Tribune during the years Mahler spent in America. In Schmidt's case, one can easily read past the professional jealousy that generated his rant; he was after all not nearly as well-known a composer, and was an instrumentalist who chafed under Mahler's directorship. A little bit of historical perspective (not provided by Lebrecht) serves as well to explain Krehbiel's antagonism toward Mahler (a composer whose works he wasn't able to fathom): By the time that Mahler had arrived in New York, in the fall of 1907, Richard Strauss - both "friend and rival" and self-promoter without equal - had already established himself as the paragon of Germanic composers of the day.

A final somewhat off-topic comment. I thought, perhaps, that in Lebrecht's book I had found another small clue in the matter of what I've come to call "the Mahler-Ives connection" (the story, seemingly true, that Mahler had acquired a fair copy of the score to Ives's Third Symphony during his final year in New York, but didn't live long enough to perform it). Two persons who wrote reminiscences included by Lebrecht were Ossip Gabrilowitsch (a well-known pianist of the time), and his wife, Clara Clemens (daughter of Mark Twain and a concertizing singer). Twain was a close friend of Ives's father-in-law, Reverend Joseph Twichell, who married not only Charles and Harmony Twichell Ives but also Ossip and Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch. But it seems that a possible Mahler-Ives connection by way of Gabrilowitsch and Clemens is pretty much a dead-end: Harmony, despite being president of the Mark Twain Society, didn't think highly of Clara Clemens. And Ives thought so little of Gabrilowitsch that it doesn't even bear mentioning in the context of Lebrecht's book.

If you are one who thinks of Mahler in terms of his being autocratic and domineering, too tough on his musicians, and someone who was "a curiosity in his time," not to mention harboring thoughts of his being less than a first-rate composer, best that you stay away from this book; too many people who knew him felt differently, as Lebrecht's anthology makes clear. For everyone else, I consider Lebrecht's book a "must read."

Bob Zeidler

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Mahler Remembered
Norman LEBRECHT
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GT5ZQO

Book Description

Tells the story of Lithuanian Jews caught in the sweeping history of the first half of the century in Europe.

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Somewhat exagerated.......2006-12-24

I think when writing a book of this type there is always a tendency to exagerate facts and figures in order to make it more dramatic and sell more copies. One case in point: the author says that the 3,000 figure for Jews killed in Zagare is more likely 7,000. Where does she get this figure? According to census records, in 1938 Zagare had 5445 residents, not all Jews. In 1942 it had 2,936 residents, mostly non-Jews. So about 2,509 were killed, not 7,000, perhaps not even 3,000. This of course does not make the crime any less horrendous. But let's stick to facts, please.

A moving and involving book........2003-02-14

This is an interesting account, part personal and part historical of the plight of the Jewish people of Lithuania, focusing primarily, but not restricted to, the Second World War. The author begins by providing a brief history of her family, which serves to personalize the tragedy to come. The town her parents were from originally is the main subject of the book, and although a small town, appears representative of other towns where the same thing happened. The title of the book alludes to the park in the town where a great number of the towns` Jewish people are buried, after being killed by other townspeople during German occupation. This is not a casual read, although that`s more to do with the subject matter, rather than the writing style. It will make you sad and perhaps angry, and there is no happy ending, perhaps just an understanding that we can learn from our mistakes. The latter part of the book follows the author as she heads to Lithuania for her first ever trip there, (she lived in South Africa as a child), and her experiences when visiting the park, as well as meeting the only Jew now living in the town. A moving and involving book.

WINNER.......2000-11-02

Congratulations Rose Zwi's book Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is the Winner of the Sliver APPA Award, category General Literature, in Beijing, China for the translation from English to Mandarin of Last Walk in Naryshkin Park

Rosa Zwi traces her roots to Zagare, Lithuania. Interesting.......1999-04-12

Rosa Zwi traces her roots back to a small town in Lithuania. Her family had fled Zagare to escape the rising anti-Sematism in Lithuania in the years leading up to WW11. Most of the family that remained were trapped in Lithuania, and were murdered by local Lithuanians and/or Nazis. The book is invaluable in telling the story of Jews from the town of Zagare, almost all of whom were murdered. There is no-one left to tell me the story of my own relatives from Zagare who are likely to be in the mass graves in Naryshkin Park. Thank you Rosa Zwi for sharing your journey back in time. The book is well written and easy to read.

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