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In 1521, when the Spanish arrived in Mexico, they were amazed at the spectacular architecture and complex urban planning they encountered in the great city of Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City). To the native Mayan, Aztec, and Olmec traditions that had flourished throughout Mexico, the Spanish brought their own influences, resulting in an extraordinarily rich design heritage that survives to this day.
Acclaimed architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter vividly captures this enduring passion for design in Casa Mexicana Style, the follow-up to his best-selling Casa Mexicana (more than 100,000 copies sold). In this gorgeous new book featuring more than 250 photographs, Street-Porter takes us on an insider's tour of 30 stunning homes, from urbane city apartments and modernist beach houses to stately rural haciendas and lovingly restored colonial townhouses.
All of the residences showcased here are enlivened by a natural blending of indoors and outdoors, a vibrant palette shaped by the sun-drenched surroundings, and an artful incorporation of the country's celebrated crafts and handiwork. Whether large or small, historical or contemporary, Mexican houses are artistic statements, expressing the unique and inimitable lifestyle of their creators. Casa Mexicana Style is a welcoming invitation to bask in the beauty of these homes, to enjoy their charm and sophistication.
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For professionals.......2007-05-25
This is a beautiful book, wonderful photography and architecturally very interesting. It is also very heavy, large, and it only shows buildings. I have no room or need for it on my interior design shelves.
Unbelievable guide to Mexican design.......2007-02-18
I am an interior designer and have always been fascinated by the use of color in Mexico. This book is eye candy for any designer. The pictures are amazing and the photography wonderful. I have picked up this book so many times I have bookmarked almost every page for ideas. Great inspiration!
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Mexican HOuses.......2005-09-08
This is the best book I've seen on Mexican houses..comprehensive and are they beautifully photographed! and all kinds of examples, from the very oldest colonial, Porfirian, to modern. I
am so glad I got a copy, and too, that I found out about the book, as I wasnt aware of it when it was published some twenty years ago.
Fell short of what I hoped.......2003-04-12
I bought my copy because of the name, since I am FACINATED with interior design and decorating ideas with ANYTHING Mexican. My text IS in English, and if I would have known it was available in Spanish I would have preferred to have it that way!!
Anyway, this book DOES show the enormous VARIETY of what can truly be called "Mexican": from indigenous homes to still functioning haciendas to colonial-style buildings to the Broque French influence so many of the wealthy class favored before the revolution.
However, for me, it is just too cold, too sterile, for the Mexico I know and love. The colonial and Baroque-influenced homes look more like museums. They look like something only the extraordinarily wealthy could ever even dream of, and are far removed from the comfy, cozy, antique-filled hotels featured in "Mexicolor" or "Mexicasa". There is also a huge, AD NAUSEUM section on modern Mexican architecture -which I LOATHE- and a whole chapter on American, Chicano influenced houses -which I could CARE LESS about. All in all, I have my few favorite pages, which I love and look at repeatedly, but the majority of the book consists of large sections that I skip in their entirety. If you are looking for a treatise on the gamut of architectural styles in the country of Mexico, this is probably a good choice. If you want a book on Mexican interior design and decoration with a passion for things Mexican, this is NOT going to be your first choice.
It is a great book!!.......2002-02-07
I am a Mexican woman studying in the USA. I read a commentary above saying that these are European houses, they are not. We were conquered by the Spaniards centuries ago and thus the architectural style blended creating a "Mexican Style". This so called Mexican style includes european traces with Indian influences. This book represents Mexican houses that complies with this style. Obviously you can find native houses following Indian design, but for sure not in any Mexican metropoli.
Nice Photos of Interiors -- Little Else.......2001-09-05
Well, the book does have some nice photos. My copy is in english. However, it really falls short of what was promised. First, there is virtualy nothing in it about architecture. Very few photos of buildings, houses, etc. at all. It's just a collection of photos of the interiors of homes designed by famous people. I was very disappointed. For example, it goes on and on about european homes in mexico -- what does that have to do with mexican styles? If you are looking for a book that is basically a Home & Garden magazine with 270 pages then buy it. Like i said earlier - some nice photos. If you wanted somethign else, then search on. Cause this may leave you unsatisfied.
Beware! Text is Spanish.......2001-07-21
If you don't read Spanish then consider this book just a picture book. It would be nice if somewhere it had been mentioned that this book is NOT IN ENGLISH. The pictures are OK.
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En esta casa (Letras mexicanas)
Federico Patan
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica
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La Casa de La Presencia (Letras Mexicanas) (Letras Mexicanas) (Letras Mexicanas)
Octavio Paz
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica
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La casa de la Santisima y todos los cuentos (Letras mexicanas)
Rafael Solana
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica
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La casa en la arquitectura mexicana
Ernesto Alva Martinez
Manufacturer: COMEX
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ASIN: 9686904042 |
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Actual, published by Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Carmen Ortuño y Flavio Romero: nos invitan a saborear las delicias de la cocina mexicana contemporánea en el restaurante de Casa Lamm.
Author: Lila Lomelí
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Actual (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 12
Issue: 134
Page: 100(3)
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by Thomson Gale on March 7, 2004. The length of the article is 4144 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Centenario del "Indio": su casa, sin destino.(futuro de casa del director de cine Emilio Indio Fernández)
Author: Columba Vértiz
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Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 7, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1427
Page: 62(4)
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The most complete and authoritative book on preventing and correcting health hazards of art and craft materials for students, professional artists, and craftspeople.
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No practicing artist should be without.......2005-09-04
If the title sounds familiar, that's because Artist Beware: The Hazards In Working With All Art And Craft Materials And The Precautions Every Artist And Craftsperson Should Take appears in a newly updated, revised edition to provide the latest facts. The latest EPA and OSHA standards for artists is included in this edition, as well as updated details on proper ventilation, machine and tool safety, fiber hazards and more. No practicing artist should be without.
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Inconvenience Of Being Born
Manufacturer: Fotofolio
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ASIN: 1881270351 |
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Photographs of babies "In Amy Arbus's unlikely babies, something new has entered the world with the irreversible impact of raw feeling made visibile"---Richard Avedon
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much more than a coffee table book .......2006-04-05
nice crisp images of babies crying laughing off the wall expressions just like the title of the book. fresh from the womb and snap! camera flash. my 6 month old loves this book large photos of other babies expressions something different than the parenting magazines. i shared this book with my daughters 1st grade teacher who used a few of the pictures as inspiration for class journals.. everything from oohs and ahhhs and soo cute from the class. after seeing this book i have taken pictures of actual expressions not just the happy moments crabby and all its a great inspiration. props to the artist/photographer :)
new arrivals.......1999-11-20
Big photos of newborns - black and white. Slightly amusing, but what is the point really?
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Remote Control
Andy McNab
Manufacturer: audible.com
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Don't expect to see Andy McNab's photograph on the cover of his first thriller, Remote Control--the former British Special Air Service agent says both the Colombian drug cartel and the Provisional IRA still have contracts out on him. His two nonfiction books, Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action, give more detail about his prolific past.
Remote Control is the fictional story of an SAS agent named Nick Stone, who is on the case of two Irish terrorists. He follows them across the Atlantic to Washington, D.C., but is suddenly ordered back home on the next available flight. His old mate Kevin Brown, now with the Drug Enforcement Agency, lives near the airport, so Nick decides to drop in. He finds a slaughterhouse: Kev, his wife, and youngest daughter have been battered to death, but daughter Kelly has survived in a special hideout. Prying information from the shocked child, Nick links the killers to either the CIA, the DEA, or his own organization--which means that he and Kelly are virtually on their own. As Nick trundles the spunky youngster from one seedy motel to another, stuffs her with junk food, and teaches her the rudiments of spy craft, he also begins to piece together a picture of why Kevin and his family were killed. There is a connection between a terrorist bomb scare in Gibraltar in 1988, the Colombian drug cartel, and high-level intelligence-agency skullduggery. McNab keeps dropping those shiny nuggets of believability along the trail and winds up holding our attention until the predictable but satisfying end. --Dick Adler
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Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after being involved in the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of fellow SAS soldier Kev Brown and his family in Washington, DC. Only seven-year-old Kelly has survived--and immediately the unlikely pair are on the run from unidentified pursuers.
On his own, Stone would stand a chance of escape. But, needing to protect the girl, he is hamstrung. Together they are plunged into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friends and enemies are indistinguishable.
Gritty, original, vivid and menacing--in the hands of Andy McNab the action thriller moves into another dimension. Other thriller writers talk and talk. Only McNab has walked the walk.
Customer Reviews:
Better than (insert title here) or your money back!.......2007-04-29
Recently, I acquired a copy of the Stephen Leather thriller, Hot Blood (A Dan Shepherd Mystery), which had on its front cover a sticker that screamed "Better than Andy McNab or your money back". Leather's ongoing fictional hero, Dan "Spider" Shepherd, is a former member of the SAS now working for an ultra-secret undercover unit of London's Metropolitan Police. Nick Stone, the protagonist making his initial appearance here in McNab's first novel, REMOTE CONTROL, is an ex-SAS trooper now working for MI6. What, do Leather and McNab have a mano-a-mano thing going? (I don't ever remember seeing a Dean Koontz release with the claim, "King writes dross; read my stuff.") When queried by me, Stephen said that his publisher suggested the ploy. But, since I did end up buying REMOTE CONTROL, perhaps the point is to sell more books from both.
Here, Stone is tasked by his SIS controller to follow two hard IRA boyos to Washington, DC, to see what mischief they're up to. Once comfortable in his hotel room, Nick is almost immediately recalled home. But, before catching the next plane back across The Pond, Stone decides to visit old SAS pal Kev, now working for the DEA. Arriving at Kev's suburban home, Nick discovers his buddy bludgeoned to death and his wife and one of two daughters with their throats cut. Stone find's the second daughter, 7-year old Kelly, cowering in a hidey-hole. Realizing that Kelly saw the killers and her life is now in peril, and that he himself may become a suspect in the bloodbath, Stone grabs the girl and runs. Over the remainder of the book, our hero must discover the identity of the murderers, protect Kelly, and get both of them to safety in England where his boss, Simmonds, will certainly sort things out.
For a first novel, REMOTE CONTROL is better than average. McNab's personal tour of duty with the SAS imparts a patina of realism to the actions of his Stone character. Indeed, Nick is a Tough Guy in somewhat the same vein as author Lee Child's ex-Army MP, Jack Reacher. At one point in a desperate, hand-to-hand struggle with a Bad Guy over control of a pistol, Stone must essentially chew the man's face apart. Somehow, I don't see Leather's hero doing anything so messy.
One of the criticism's I've made of the Dan Shepherd series is the fact that Spider's young son Liam is trotted out as a prop in every installment to re-emphasize that widower Shepherd is otherwise a warm, decent, family man whose day job takes him to the world's hard and grotty edges. In REMOTE CONTROL, Kelly also starts out as a prop. But, by the conclusion, she plays an integral, nail-biting, and very satisfying part. I see from plot summaries that Kelly also appears in follow-up volumes of the Nick Stone series, so I've gone ahead and ordered the second out of curiosity to see where McNab takes the character.
The drawbacks to REMOTE CONTROL are that we've seen the scenario before in books and films - adult and child flee a deadly conspiracy hand-in-hand - and, well before the end, the coming betrayal twist becomes all to obvious.
By profession, Stephen Leather is a journalist who's lived all over the world. McNab - a pseudonym ostensibly to protect his identity from vengeful terrorists left over from his bad old SAS days - continues to work with intelligence organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. I suspect, therefore, that Andy's books will be more realistic in the finer points, while Stephen's will show a wider scope of imagination. In any case, both are excellent British authors creating some very entertaining reads.
Hey, Stephen and Andy, why don't you both co-author a thriller in which both Dan and Nick appear? The potential for a friendly, or not so friendly, rivalry between the two heroes is almost too good to pass up.
Not bad for a first time out.......2005-10-03
Alright, I knew "who dunnit" pretty early on, but it was still a fun read. Mr. McNab for obvious reasons brought a great deal of verismilitude to the story. I'll definitely be picking up more of his fiction.
sometimes and during the reading.......2005-09-16
i was just wondering if nick stone has to come all the way from england to do a baby sitting job in america. this book at the very beginning read so promising, then, typical mcnab style, the digression and re-routing became such a huge burden to read along. like reading p.t. deutermann's assassination novel, 'firefly', the assassin lost his goal and focus to carry out his mission to kill the target but concentrated on how to eliminate a witness first instead, and spent almost the whole book to describe the panaoia and the stubbornness of how the assassin won't let go of the witness; this remote control exactly did the same like the firefly, making nick stone a more interesting regular screw-up, a constant failure and loser, a pathetic main character of the 3rd kind in the action thriller turf. well, maybe that's a new way to do this genre. if there could be always a clown and jerk-like character in bruce lee's or jet li's serious martial art fighting movies, why not do the same in andy mcnab's novels? why not furthermore making the main character himself a helpless running-around, knock-around SAS wash-up?
Great book Andy!.......2005-01-23
this Book is his best one so far i think, it was very hard for me to put it down and i think it's a very exciting read and andy has a great story once more and the more the book advances you are wondering how the book will end, very good job Andy!
Remote husband.......2004-08-13
Great setting for a crime - everyone snowbound or snowblind perhaps. The psychologist/sleuth is only a husband bringing his
wife's purse to the hospital. A good read if you enjoy lawyers in trouble
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The Evergreen Farm: Essays and Tales of Rural Western Pennsylvania
Bill Betts
Manufacturer: Laurel Valley Graphics
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0971747520 |
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The Evergreen Farm includes 27 tales and essays composed by the author over three decades for the outdoors magazines. All have been inspired by exciting and memorable experiences enjoyed by the writer in the Pennsylvania forests,farmlands, and mountain streams.
Because the pieces are arranged chronologically according to the time of the narrated event, they account, when taken together, for a boy's growing up in rural Pennsylvania from the Depression years through World War II. Most feature some engagaging wildlife personality. Here in story form are the ruffed grouse, the mountain brook trout, the wild huckleberry, the spring peeper, the timber rattlesnake, the sugar maple, the black bear, the pennyroyal mint, and many more.
The book is beautifully illustrated by the watercolor drawings of Francis Golden, by pen-and-ink sketches, and by photographs, both color and black-and-white, by such eminent wildlife photographers as John Netherton and Clara Sipprell.
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........2006-08-17
I love this book about a one room school house and the woods and streams in PA I was there and I like to relive those wonderful days before TV.
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Romancing the Scone: Finding Our Way in a Land Full of Brits
Bill Leffler
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1403396760 |
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