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Written in a plain English Style.......2003-07-30
I have been teaching print reading for over 4 years, & this is my required text. Print Reading for Construction is written in a very plain English style and works very well in diverse classroom settings. In addition, this text provides a great deal of sample building plans for sharpening your skills.
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The Visionary Details.......1999-05-27
Imagine making the micro-stages of a plum blossom's growth the basis of a startling series of nature poems. But this is what Po-Jen Sung manages to do, and Red Pine's translation seems elegent and luminous and baffling in all the right places. The poet is never at a loss for the perfect image. He is intuitive and always flowing with the spirit of the inner details. This is visionary poetry at its best -- and the woodcuts of each of the flower's stages are incomparable. A must read. Thanks to Red Pine for this deeply moving work.
Exquisite........1999-02-19
Bill Porter is a devout Buddhist and one of the most outstanding translators of Buddhist classics into English since Arthur Waley. This is a translation, not only of some of the Sung Dynasty's most elegant poems, but also of the first known art book-- yes, it predates Gutenberg by hundreds of years and yes, it contains woodcuts-- of which only one actual copy exists; it is the original from which the Bill Porter worked, housed in a museum in Shanghai. The verses are sublime. The tranlation is incomparably faithful and elegant. The signifigance of this work cannot be overestimated. All sinophiles and students of the language should own this one!
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Great collection!.......2003-03-28
I buy this WPP books in every year! I'd like to offer you the exhibition too. Those are more live!
And What A Year It Was Too..........2002-01-25
As with earlier volumes of this series, World Press Photo 2001 shows us the year we all, luckily, passed through. It's evocative, moving, and at times very sad. The power of the images range from subtle to in-your-face--and each single shot speaks volumes.
Just as good as always.......2001-06-23
The World Press Photo annuals are always a good showcase for the best photojournalism from the rest of the world (and an excellent companion to the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism series), and this year is no exception. There's plenty of spectacular documentary work in here that for whatever reason, just never seems to be published in the America, outside of these volumes: illegal immigration in South Africa; acid attacks in Bangladesh; the roadkill problem in Australia, etc.
What's also nice is that although there apparently wasn't enough space to print the multi-image winners in their entirety, the back of the book has thumbnails of all winning entries, so you can still see the story in its entire presentation.
The World Press Photo series is much more than just a simple chronicle of the winners, or a summary of the year in pictures...it's a window into some of the best work being done anywhere today.
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A book by the photographers of CONTACT PRESS IMAGES
Within minutes of the attack on the World Trade Center the morning of September 11, 2001, Contact Press Images, one of photojournalism's preeminent agencies that represents some of the world's greatest photographers, had mobilized half a dozen photographers to cover the event. In the following days, their reportage on the disaster would swell to include more than a dozen photographers who documented in a variety of formats and moods the assault on the towers, their collapse, the firefighters and rescue workers, stunned on-lookers and survivors, the torrent of debris blanketing downtown, and the smoldering wreckage at ground zero.
In order to honor the memory, as well as the cultural and social significance of the twin towers, the agency has compiled a memorial book comprised of 110 photographs (the number of floors of each of the towers), both color and black and white, made by twenty-two photographers affiliated with Contact Press Images, including David Burnett, Frank Fournier, Lori Grinker, and Annie Leibovitz, to be released in time for the first anniversary of the attack. Divided into two sections, the first part will be devoted to the horrific events of September 11. The second part will depict the Trade Centers in all their gravity-defying glory, which the agency had photographed since its inception. It will also include text by Nobel-laureate Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon, Sula), Minoru Yamasaki (chief architect of the World Trade Center), Jacques Menasche (Contact Press Images' writer and 9-11 witness).
The first year anniversary will mark a transition from the "moment" to the "monument." Rather than attempting to be a news presentation, Contact's Eleven is intended to be offered as a visual elegy marking the life and death of the great landmark. In this sense, it is reminiscent of the hundreds of memorial (Yizkor) books produced after theHolocaust by survivors whose villages no longer existed. Then, as now, the function was two-fold. First, as witnessing books -- that is, books that gave testimony to the disaster of the holocaust; secondly, as tributes, meant to memorialize the life and history of towns that had disappeared.
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Although the cover proclaims "award-winning images from the world's leading professional photo-journalists," the laurels in 2001 Nikon Press Awards all went to pictures snapped by men working for British media. Much of the material has a parochial flavor: local sports teams wreaking vengeance on the field, bland images of the royal family. It seems particularly bizarre for the world's most famous camera manufacturer to pursue such a limited segment of global picture-making. Still, there is some good work here. The standout is Tom Stoddart, who has a terrific eye for incongruity and heartbreak in everyday life--the heart of photo-journalism--and a fine sense of lighting and composition. His portfolio is strikingly diverse. Subjects range from a fat, slobbering British football fan gazing at the huge exposed breasts of an American porn star to the sticklike silhouette of a young Zambian AIDS victim being helped into a bathtub. Jon Levy's photo-essay on fox hunting, a hotly contested sport in the UK, offers multiple perspectives that allow the viewer to make the judgment call. In one image, a plaintive row of hunting dogs' heads hang out of the vehicle that will transport them to the hunt as two "huntsmen" in traditional white trousers and black jackets plod away to the meet. In another photo, steam rising off the horses creates a mysterious pocket of mist in the woods. Other noteworthy work includes a wry fashion shot by Peter MacDiarmid, capturing the quizzical expressions of two models wearing bizarre headgear in supersaturated colors. --Cathy Curtis
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The World in Photographs 2001: Agence France-Presse
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ASIN: 0810932237 |
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 25, 2001. The length of the article is 815 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: Un giro hacia lo humanitario.(TT: A turn towards the humanitarian.)
Author: Carmen Montón
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Title: Were WTC photos necessary?(A View From The Press Box)
Author: Sam Friedman
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Date: February 23, 2004
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Volume: 108
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 15, 2004. The length of the article is 642 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: WTC photos revisited.(A View From The Press Box)
Author: Sam Freidman
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2004
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 108
Issue: 10
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Customer Reviews:
Really Good Stuff De Los Ermanos Hernandez.......2001-12-29
This book has tons of good stories, and some goodies you couldn't find in the magazines(lost covers, unused T-shirt designes). It even has a story in which Jaime appears, and you get to see his actual picture as he interacts with some of Gilbert's creations. I think this book is good, a satisfying conclusion to the Love & Rockets series.
best book ever.......2000-04-27
this book is great if you need to make a rocket it's great
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Kim Rich's parents came to Alaska to get rich, and ended up working the gambling and B-joints of Anchorage. In probing the mysteries of their lives, Rich comes to terms with her own.
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Not the Anchorage I knew!.......2007-06-08
I grew up in Anchorage during the same time that Kim Rich did so I bought this book for my sister for her birthday. It got passed from family member to family member until it made it back to me in Texas. My mother doesn't usually read books and even she couldn't put it down. I found it to be very interesting although it may not be as good to those without ties to Alaska. I knew that Anchorage has its sleazy side but I had no idea about the activities described in this book although I do remember some of the characters and murders. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and recommend it.
Glad this was re-issued and would like to see more from her. .......2006-03-13
Although biographies are not my favorite reading, I was drawn to this when it first came out. I still remember the feelings evoked by how she was able to deal with her parents and her life -- her strength and resilience as she was growing up. Her strength in her later search for answers, her maturity and understanding, and her forgiveness and love for her mother and father, although both parents were flawed and could not give her the kind of love and life so needed by a child, is a powerful statement.
Devotion.......2003-12-26
I am a person who finishes a book of this length in a day. But this book I held onto for weeks. Such extraordinary courage and objectivity it must have taken to write this book. One should be proud. My Holiday Greetings to Kim Rich and her family.
Not exactly the parents from the Brady Bunch.......2003-08-08
Kim Rich, who grew up in Anchorage during the 60s and 70s, had the parents from hell: Mom was a prostitute who ended her years in a mental hospital, and dad was an operator of illegal gambling joints who was eventually murdered due to a dispute over ownership of a massage parlor. Her parents tried to create the facade of a respectable middle-class family when Kim was a child, but all for naught; Kim imparts such experiences as being mistaken by the police for a prostitute, at age 13, when they raided her house.
I sense writing the book was an act of therapy for the author, who was trying to reconcile the fact that although her parents loved her, they were, at the core, bad people. It is deeply moving to see how the author struggled to have a normal childhood and normal teenage years despite the underworld characters who surrounded her and the emotional baggage her parents saddled her with. This well-written, articulate book is also a portrayal of what Anchorage, Alaska, was like during the 60s and 70s.
wonderfully moving memoir of a daughter searching for home.......1998-09-15
I read this book after seeing the movie 'Johnny's Girl' which is based on Kim Rich's life story. As I suspected, the book offered a fuller portrait of the struggles Rich endured and the sense of survial she must have felt. Her writing style is fluid and funny and moving and I recommend this book to readers who value excellent literarily nonfiction. I look forward to her next book!
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Llama for Lunch
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Featuring appalling rock overhangs, horrifying chasms, and waterfalls flanked by near-vertical precipices, this tale of travel through the wildest regions of the Andes is no Caribbean cruise story. The Panama Canal and the coasts of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia are all described in a fast, furious fashion by a seasoned travel writer who survives a car ride along a mountain pass that claims an average of one vehicle a week. Also included are adventures to the last hideaway of the Incas, Machu Picchu, and a sail down the Amazon to the center of Brazil.
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Some startling aspects of the book.......2005-12-26
I'd like to give this 3 1/2, but rounded up as she has a great sense of humor.
The first section takes place in the United States. She arrives at O'Hare airport from overseas. Upon arrival at her in-town hotel, she remarks that finally she could understand the locals, "explaining" that the hotel clerk was the first caucasian with whom she'd interacted in the States (I'm paraphrasing here). Ummmmmm .... for someone who had travelled as much as she had in other parts of the world, I'll be charitable and decide that she must still be VERY naive.
Later, in the south, she harps on that fact that Americans are sooooooo obese! Somuch so that for the rest of the day I kept an eye out for the legions of beer-bellied children she ran across. They all seemed pretty height-weight proportional to me.
Her observations on the Latin American trip itself were equally subjective, although she presents them more clearly as her opinions - agree or not.
I'd recommend her as an author because ... well ... she's funny. Just don't mistake her for a serious travel writer.
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