The Houses of McKim, Mead & White

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With nearly one thousand commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead & White was the architectural firm of choice of the most prestigious projects of the era, including the redesign of the White House and the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities. Among its residential clients were many of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age-Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Pulitzers-for whom the firm built splendid summer cottages in Newport and throughout Long Island and the Hudson valley and sumptuous town houses in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and New York.

More than thirty houses are presented here, their exteriors and interiors elegantly recorded in lush new color photographs. The book also provides the first look at the recent restoration of the Isaac Bell house in Newport and newly reinstalled Venetian room at the Payne Whitney house, now the French Cultural Services, in New York City.

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Gilded Age Spendor.......2005-09-04

I must confess I enjoyed this book, it may not be the burning bush, but the text was insightful and I thought the photos where nicely laid out. It is amazing to see the breathe of Mckim, Mead, and Whites work, they really where THE Gilded Age architects. Lord knows there where other great architects of the time, like Horace Trumbaur and Carrere and Hastings to name a few, but no firm had a better P.R. machine than this firm, namely Stanford White, it can be debated whether they where the best of the architects of the time, but nobody can debate their preeminence during the Gilded Age. Nice book, I recomended it.

mindless nepotism.......2004-05-27

This book has some nice photographs but adds nothing to already published scholarship on this topic. The author is not a professional architectural historian; he is a descendant of Stanford White. His text is gushy and uncritical, and makes only scant mention of the social and economic forces that contributed to the rise and decline of these grandiose houses.

A minor correction.......2001-04-06

The point of this review is to correct an error in Steven Goldstein's review of this book. McKim, Mead, & White were not involved in the construction of the Metropolitan Opera, as he states.

This is a wonderful, ravishing book, although I suppose some readers might be disappointed that the author has limited himself to surviving examples of McKim, Mead, & White's work, with current photographs ... all of them gorgeous. Vintage photographs, where available, would have been a nice addition. For example, it would be interesting, if possible, to compare the Pulitzer mansion in New York as originally built with the current photos ... it has been divided into something like 9 condominiums!

Luscious Vision of the Gilded Age.......2001-01-28

Speaking as a practicing architect and longtime admirer of the works of Stanford White, I found this book was nonetheless a revelation. Gorgeously photographed, it shows a broader spectrum of the residential work of this illustrious firm. McKim Mead and White have a well-deserved reputation for grand public buildings (Penn Station, Madison Square Garden to name two that have sadly been demolished) but are less known for these spectacular houses built for the robber barons of the Gilded Age among whom Stanford White circulated. What is suprising is the facility with which they moved from lavish and elegantly detailed city houses to surprisingly unpretentious inviting summer homes on Long Island and elsewhere. If you love Beaux Arts architecture, skip this book at your peril.

Sumptuous photography and insightful text.......1998-12-13

This book combines rich visual appeal with a serious analysis of the residential work of McKim, Mead & White. The introduction is particularly valuable for its succinct survey of the firm's development and its discussion of the collaboration of the partners.

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Houses of McKim, Mead and White, The
Samuel G. White
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OM7DJA

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Sherry C. Nelson is known for her innovative and creative methods for painting animals in oils and acrylics. In Painting Garden Animals with Sherry C. Nelson, decorative painters now have a chance to learn these techniques through detailed step-by-step instruction.

10 projects feature those cuddly animals we know and love--a curious kitten, a furry yellow chick, a playful squirrel--all placed in colorful garden settings. Plus, readers can paint wilder animals, including a fawn and wolf cub. Decorative painters will master each part of the animal, including its eyes, noses, ears and paws, as well as its realistic fur with distinctive color, markings, and length.

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Almost like cheating.......2006-08-31

Not only are the sample paintings easy and fun to create, but they give you very good ideas for your own compositions from photos or life.

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It really deserves 3.5 stars

360 Degree Imaging: The Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality Manual (Photography on the Web)
Phillip Andrews
Manufacturer: Rotovision
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 2880467322

Book Description

Photographic based virtual reality is fast becoming one of the most exciting areas of the digital imaging world. No helmets, no gloves; no longer even an interactive panorama tool, the new techniques create fully immersive experiences where the viewer can look up and down as well as sideways whilst playing with virtual objects.

This book provides a visual introduction that is both easy to read and understand. The ideas and techniques draw on those used by industry professionals and are presented in a step by step form, allowing readers to gradually develop VR skills. Practice images and demonstration versions of the software used in the book can be downloaded from the companion website.

The author reviews and discusses a range of hardware and software options, providing VR imaging solutions for budget conscious amateurs and professionals alike. Comprehensive technique overviews are provided for the capture, creation and display of Standard and cubic panoramas, object movies and Video VR. If you are interested in this subject, this is the book you cannot do without.

Philip Andrews is a photographer, lecturer, author and website designer with an international profile. A former teacher of photography and imaging, he now writes books and articles from his base in Australia, and has created/designed several websites.

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Useful and Informative.......2005-12-03

I had no prior experience with VR 360 panoramas and this book really provided me with the information I was looking for. It reviews software, equipment, and helped me to gain a better understanding of how it all works. I especially found the section on finding the nodal point helpful.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in doing VR 360 panoramas.

It really deserves 3.5 stars.......2004-08-31

As a panoramic (or virtual tour) photographer myself, I was hopeful about this book. It's bound well with lots of glossy photos and an easy-to-read layout. It is the only book (that I know of) dealing with the growing area of 360 degree or virtual tour photography. That in and of itself deserves some credibility.

The author gives lots of step-by-step photos, showing the different camera brackets and tripod heads needed, and covers the various techniques for shooting in-line or full cylindrical virtual tours. There are even a few sidebars with comments from other virtual tour photographers or company owners. The coverage and explanation of parallax errors is done well.

I wish there had been more of an explanation as far as the different software types, the pros and cons of each, expenses involved, etc., although there is a nice section on how to polish up finished images, and what to do to get a good exposure when the room & light you're in prohibits it.

Shooting these types of tours with a fisheye isn't really covered, and even though it's not the most popular way to create a panoramic or 360 degree tour right now, neither is the egg-type of 1-shot method the book does go into detail with.

If you're looking for a book on 360 degree imaging, I suggest this book. The website references and up-close equipment shots, and diagrams of stitching methods is very good. It's not a coffee table book full of breathtaking panoramics, so don't buy it if you're looking for that. (Although there are a few nice landscapes.)It's not the be-all of 360 degree imaging, but it's a great start.

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Adventures and short stories starring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and other standard Disney characters.

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Strictly Below Average.......2003-08-19

In this volume in the popular "Animorphs" series (about a group of teens who attempt to save the planet from invasion by alien parasites by acuiring the DNA of and turning into animals), the gang runs into trouble with a new group of extraterrestrials: the Helmacrons. These very small, very rude beings manage to get their hands on the blue box that is the key to the exclusive morphing power. So, the Animorphs have to get it back immediately before it falls into the wrong hands! This book has some humorous moments, and of course a little bit of action, but the plot is a bit weak, especially when compared to some of the thrillers that the author has wrote in this series. Unless you are a diehard Animorphs fan intent on collecting all the books, I would steer clear of this one and look for something with a stronger storyline.

Terrible.......2003-06-26

Normaly I really like Animorphs but this book is awful. In this book the Animorphs find out about aliens called the Hemerclans. They shrink the Animorphs to 1/16 of an inch high and the Animorphs have to get back to their size. How pointless can you get?! K.A. Applegate shouldn't have written this one. My advice: don't get it.

The worst Cassie Book.......2000-08-14

This book was not only boring, it was a disappointment. After #19, I thought it would be more about Aftran and the other issues raised, but you have to wait till no 29 for that. This book has a very strange plot and introduces a new class of aliens, the Helmacrons which aren't that intresting. Some parts were okay, like when the Helmacrons shrunk Visser 3. I also liked the Helmacron log entries, they were funny. But Cassie seemed to be acting out of character, especially after no 19. This is a book I'll probably only read once or twice. Get it only if you're an Animorphs fan.

james animorph book #24 review.......2000-05-10

It is about the Helmocrons. They want to take over the world. There homasidle. For goodness sake there only a 16 of an inch tall..... Later there all shrunk,the animorphs and the controlers. Will they work somthing out...........! It`s a good book, it is like a sentince you can not stop in the middle of it.

Pretty Cool.......1999-07-14

This one's about these little aliens that try to get the morphing cube.It's pretty weird because the aliens leaders are all dead so they cant make mistakes!At the end the animorphs morph to Anteater and slurp em' up!

Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion

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Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion
Michael Moriarty
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

French | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Modern | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

History of Ideas | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0199261466

Book Description

This book is an examination of three major French thinkers of the seventeenth century, Descartes, Pascal, and Malebranche, of whom the latter two are comparatively little studied in the English-speaking world. It deals with a common attitude of suspicion towards everyday experience, which they see as dominated and obscured by sensation, imagination, and the presence of the body. This attitude, however, obliges them to develop detailed and sophisticated accounts of the shaping of experience not only by the body but by interpersonal and social relationships, and of the tension between human nature as it is and as we experience it. The treatment of Descartes thus challenges the interpretation that sees him as eliminating the body from 'subjectivity', while that of Pascal and Malebranche shows how their critical attitude towards experience (a fertile source for twentieth-century French thinkers) is linked with their religious doctrines, especially their Augustinian emphasis on Original Sin.

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The Age of Suspicion
James A. Wechsler
Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CISK5

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The age of suspicion
James Arthur Wechsler
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006D6S6Q

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Age of Suspicion
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: GEORGE BRAZILLER INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKYPRU

The Age of Suspicion The Inspiring Political Autobiography of a Courageous Youn

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The Age of Suspicion The Inspiring Political Autobiography of a Courageous Youn
James A. Wechsler
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O5WYEG

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The Age of Suspicion.
James A. Wechsler
Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ODNUCI

The Age of Suspicion: Essays on the Novel

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The Age of Suspicion: Essays on the Novel
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: George Braziller
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

French | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Foreign Languages | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0807612537

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Just finished 5 minutes ago!.......2001-02-21

This is a short, compact little book. Sarraute wrote it on the hinge of the century; the moderns had come & gone. Faced with the paradox that "we can't re-do what Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Proust did, because that would clearly be perceived as copying innovators, but Tolstoy and Stendahl's traditional techniques are copied every day," Sarraute urges further innovation, up to and including the excision of the "he said" part of dialog. In doing so she explicates, to a certain degree, the processes that brought her to the unique style and technique evidenced in her novels.

Age of Suspicion: The Inspiring Political Autobiography of a Courageous Young Editor Who Challenged

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Age of Suspicion: The Inspiring Political Autobiography of a Courageous Young Editor Who Challenged
James A. Wechsler
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLDIBI

Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media

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Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Media Studies | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0230002544
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Book Description

Communication in the Age of Suspicion explores and interrogates the relationship between media and trust. It begins by examining the decline of trust in key institutions and the relationship between Trust Studies and Media Studies. Fourteen international contributions follow, focusing on a variety of genres and examining a number of media forms. Can we speak of The End of Trust? The book concludes by delineating three emergent themes, before outlining implications for media communication and future directions for research in this Age of Suspicion.

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Ali Salem's A Drive to Israel is an engaging account of Israel through Egyptian eyes, and a deliberate challenge to Egypt's intellectual establishment.

In 1994, the popular playwright and humorist Ali Salem filled up his old soviet built car, loaded the trunk with copies of his books, and drove from Cairo to Israel. In three intense weeks, he traveled the length and breadth of the country. On the return, he wrote a provocative book, full of wry humor and keen insight, which became a best seller in Egypt. Ali Salem's A Drive to Israel is an engaging account of Israel through Egyptian eyes, and a deliberate challenge to Egypt's intellectual establishment.

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Road Trip, Egyptian-style.......2005-12-03

A rebellious playwright with a sense of the outrageous plans and executes a road trip to Israel soon after Israel and Egypt make peace. He shocks his family, outrages his peers, and thrills his curious countrymen with a narrative of the journey. There is something almost Mark Twainish in his observations along the way.

The anecdotes, histories, personalities, locations, and laments Salem chose to include provide interesting insights into the Egyptian psyche. Though I found the translation a bit awkward in places, what I read rang true with my own experiences traveling by bicycle in these lands. Ali Salem helped fill in many random details I could never have gathered myself.

Like Steinbeck's "Travels with Charlie," "A Drive to Israel" provides a view into the Egyptian national psyche more than it provides a history, travel log, or travel guide to Israel. It's an interesting yet funny read about a deadly serious region.

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