Book Description
Victorian Dream Homes offers designs encompassing the best in historical exterior coupled with modern interior livability. Expanded sections for each major style: Gothic Revival, Italiante, Queen Anne, Folk and Farmhouse.
Customer Reviews:
Buy it if you like repeats.......2003-03-13
I purchased this book with much excitement and enthusiasm only to find at least 75% of the floor plans have already been published. Not only have they already been published, but many of them in the first book with the same title. I wouldn't recommend purchasing this book unless you've never purchased a house plan book of Victorian homes.
Victorian Dream Homes.......2001-08-15
This is not for you if you want Victorian homes with Victorian floor plans. It might be for you if you want modern homes (e.g. with "kitchen islands", attached multi-car garages, and 'open floor plans for the new century') that are designed (some more than others) to look Victorian-esque on the outside.
Maybe if they called it "Neo-Victorian Modern Dream Homes", people who want that would buy it and give it 4 or 5 stars.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointly modern.......2006-09-28
I was extremely disappointed when I finally got my hands on this book, because I was expecting another Dover-style collection of period house plans. I was unimpressed by the "Victorian-inspired" designs because they're only Victorian enough to fool the casual observer. Only the ones from Historical Replications were any good in my opinion, and there were precious few of those. All the rest were rambling modern homes with a few cornices and a porch, only the outsides referencing real Victorian architecture.
Never get tired of it.......2002-11-16
Although I am not in the market to build a house, I love Victorian architecture and house plans in general. I never get tired of looking through it and have had my copy for several years.
Victorian Dream Homes.......2000-08-19
The introduction is very informative regarding the various styles of Victorian homes. There is an abundance of modernized Victorian plans. Unfortunately, of the 160 plans, only a handful included attic space. Authentic Victorian homes were rarely built without attics. If you are planning on building a three-story authentic Victorian home with a full basement, be advised there are only a few plans contained in this volume.
Victorian Homes with Modern Day Comforts.......1999-03-01
I thoroughly enjoyed this home planning and design book. Larry Garnett & Associates offers some wonderful designs in the first of this books three sections. If you are looking for "Authentic Victorian" designs this may not be the book for you. However, if you love Victorian style as I do, but prefer modern amenities this book is PERFECT.
Pricey and Padded.......1997-10-16
I was surprised to find most similar books at the local bookstore priced under $9, but if this book was truly victorian it would be worth it. But the BACK cover expands the title to "VICTORIAN AND VICTORIAN-INSPIRED FARMHOUSES". These are not the homes you'd expect to see in Cape May, NJ, but there are some floorplans I really like. But if it lacked the "victorian-inspired" and was under $9 retail, it would be much improved.
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Victorian dream homes
Manufacturer: Home Planners, inc
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ASIN: 0918894913 |
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Victorian Dream Homes
Manufacturer: Home Planners
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9991752218 |
Book Description
Fold, measure, cut, and decorate your way to the greatest paper airplanes ever. This fantastic kit has everything you’ll need to design and decorate more than 100 planes from 18 designs. Contains a copy of the vibrantly colored, electrifying Best Ever Paper Airplanes; 50 sheets of special white flying paper and 15 sheets in each of 4 exciting, vivid colors; the ultimate stencil for plane markings and decals; a lettering stencil to personalize your planes; 4 brilliantly colored markers; and a black pen.
Customer Reviews:
Best Ever Paper Airplanes Book & Gift Set.......2007-09-07
I gave it to my 14 year old grandson who likes to make things like this, and while I was watching him - he quickly lost interest as after the first digram it was very intricate and reminded him of complicated Origami, he said! So I'm sure he won't do much with it. Too bad as it wasn't exactly cheap for a pack of lots of paper, 4 colored markers and a book. Oh well - Pg
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“Sleek, slick, and beautiful....Includes similarities to real-life airplanes....The book features crisp white diagrams, clear black type, step-by-step instructions, yellow boxes of special construction information, and magnified views of tricky sections.”—School Library Journal. “A well-thought-out and handsome volume that should provide successful projects for careful readers.... [Schmidt’s] ideas for coloring and decorating the projects make the ‘paper birds’ extra special.” —Booklist.
Customer Reviews:
Fun With a Sheet of Paper.......2007-07-17
A clever Father's Day gift. I've made four airplanes, so far, and they all fly as promised. I'm looking for some wide open spaces with a launching hill and a slight breeze, then I can enjoy their true potential. The instructions are very easy to follow: grab--but don't wrinkle--a sheet of bond copy/typing paper, make mountain folds and valley folds, you'll see, have a ruler and pencil handy, and a sissors. A glue stick is called for from time to time--I didn't have one, so I used a small piece of scotch tape. Oh, yes, you can color them in a variety of patterns. Fun and educational (basic flight principles) and a great value at $7.95. And no, I am not related to the author nor a friend of the family.
Great introduction for adults and children.......2003-09-30
This is a great introduction to paper airplanes for the novice. The models range in complexity from easy to difficult, providing a challenge for both kids and adults. Best of all is a brief comparison of each model with specific models of actual airplanes, and a brief primer on flight principles. Taken together, this book is a great lesson in aviation, as well as a lot of fun.
Best Ever Paper Airplanes.......2000-10-14
This is an awesome book. It challenges your skill of making,cutting,and folding paper airplanes.
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A short, sweet, simple time filler!.......2004-10-11
My 5 year old son, 2 year old daughter and their friends (with some help of my husband and/or me) have spent many an hour folding and flying these airplanes. True there are only 3 planes, but that hasn't stopped them from folding them over and over with different types of paper. I recommend this as a great stocking stuffer for any age kid, girl or boy!
Good introduction, but better books are available.......2002-02-07
For the same money, you should get Quick and Easy Paper Planes that Really Fly, by Paul Jackson. This book has many more models and clear, easy instructions. My son already knew how to build the three planes in this foldout.
A smooth flight.......2000-04-16
Three paper aeroplane designs presented with typical clarity byKlutz. The fold-out format is excellent, being a good size, durableand able to lie flat more easily than a paperback. Graphics are clear and attractive and the text, though brief, has the usual Klutz sparkle and amusing asides. The only real disappointment here is that all three 'planes are much of a muchness. Given the constraints of space and simplicity it is easy to see why more advanced models were avoided, but still it would have been nice to have at least one that looked radically different from its brethren. A fair price for what you get and a splendid introduction to the most elegant and enjoyable way I know to litter the countryside.
3 Great Planes........1998-11-22
Instructions for folding 3 excellent paper airplanes. Typical Klutz simplicity and thorough treatment. My kids can't get enough of it.
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- Great planes, a little hard for me
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Best Ever Paper Planes That Really Fly
Paul Jackson
Manufacturer: Flying Frog Publishing
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Quick and Easy Paper Planes that Really Fly
ASIN: 1884628443 |
Book Description
Step-by-step easy to follow diagrams for creating 12 amazing paper planes that really fly. Book includes brilliant stickers to customize the planes.
Customer Reviews:
Great planes, a little hard for me.......2000-11-02
I'm the mother of a 7 year old who is becoming obsessed with paper planes. He's had me making him the planes from this book. He loves them.
I only deducted one star because some of the planes were too hard for me to figure out.
And yes, they do fly!
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Best Ever Paper Airplanes Book & Kit
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0806909048 |
Book Description
Fly away
Fold, measure, cut, and decorate your way to the greatest paper airplanes ever.
This fantastic kit has everything you need to design and decorate more than 100 planes so they'll soar, zoom, glide, and dive through the air like the actual aircraft they're designed to simulate. Full-color photos and detailed instructions show how to make 18 great high-flying models.
This cool kit contains:
" One copy of the vibrantly colored, electrifying Best Ever Paper Airplanes
" Fifty sheets of special white flying paper
" Fifteen sheets in 4 exciting, vivid colors
" One ultimate stencil for plane markings and decals
" One lettering stencil to personalize the planes
" Four brilliantly colored markers, plus a black pen.
In no time at all, you'll have a sky full of fabulous planes.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful oversize "portfolio" of some of his best images..........1999-09-10
This portfolio size volume (preferably in hard cover) is a delightful companion to "The Essential Duane Michals" by Marco Livingstone. Duane has always been and shall always be an inspiration to me as a photographer for his innovative use of natural light, his witty sendups of so many things sexual (homo and non-homo)are always such FUN!! He writes, photographs, and says things that most people only think, (lacking the chutzpah to say such things out loud!). Bravo, Bravo and Bravo!!! Duane. Please continue so that Twelvetrees Press can issue volume 2 of your finest photos!!!
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- Cute. Silly. British.
- Fine & Funny
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Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers: A Scary Go Round Story
John Allison
Manufacturer: Keenspot Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1932775226 |
Customer Reviews:
Cute. Silly. British........2005-07-22
John Allison is a genius, there's no disguising it. His silly characters, the distinctly subdued British conversations on some of the most peculiar topics, and the wacky hijinks they all get up to make for one of the best comics I've ever read. While Scary Go Round can be found online, this book contains a brand-new comic, not to be found on scarygoround.com. Whee!
Fine & Funny.......2005-07-19
A graphic novel, based on the online comic strip "Scary-Go-Round", this is both well-written, & charmingly drawn.
It also has a do-it-yourself Android Girlfriend. With Hypno-Eyeballs.
Buy this. Laugh. Leave happily afterward.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on December 22, 1995. The length of the article is 803 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: A Sacred Trust: Nelson Poynter and the 'St. Petersburg Times.' (book reviews)
Author: John T. Kneebone
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The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1995
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v49
Issue: n1
Page: p188(3)
Article Type: Book Review
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- Major Life Change Written in Low Key Style
- a breath of fresh air
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Starting Out In the Afternoon
Jill Frayne
Manufacturer: Vintage Canada
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Release Date: 2003-03-25 |
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Jill Frayne’s long-term relationship was ending and her daughter was about to graduate and leave home. She decided to pack up her life and head for the Yukon.
Driving alone across the country from her home just north of Toronto, describing the land as it changes from Precambrian Shield to open prairie, Jill finds that solitude in the wilds is not what she expected. She is actively engaged by nature, her moods reflected in the changing landscape and weather. Camping in her tent as she travels, she begins to let go of the world she’s leaving and to enter the realm of the solitary traveller.
There are many challenges in store. She has booked a place on a two-week sea-kayaking trip in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia; though she owns a canoe, she has never been in a kayak. As the departure nears, she dreads it. Nor does it work any miracle charm on her, as she is isolated from her fellow travellers; yet the landscape and wild beauty of the old hunt camps gradually affects her. Halfway, as she begins to have energy left at the end of the day’s exertions, she notes: “This is as relaxed as I have ever been, as free from anxious future-thinking as I have ever managed.”
From there she heads north, taking ferries up the Inside Passage and using her bicycle and tent to explore the wet, mountainous places along the way. Again, she feels self-conscious when alone in public, but once she strikes out into nature, the wilderness begins to work its magic on her, and she begins to feel a bond with the land and a kind of serenity. Moreover, she comes to realize that this self-reliance is an important step.
Many travel narratives involve some kind of inner journey, a seeking of knowledge and of self. Set in the same part of the world, Jonathan Raban’s A Passage to Juneau ended up being “an exploration into the wilderness of the human heart.” Kevin Patterson used his months sailing from Vancouver to Tahiti to consider his life in The Water in Between, while the Bhutanese landscape worked a profound transformation on Jamie Zeppa in Beyond the Sky and the Earth. In This Cold Heaven, Gretel Ehrlich chose not to put herself into the story, but described the landscape with a similar hunger and intensity, while Sharon Butala has written deeply and personally about her physical and spiritual connection with the prairies in The Perfection of the Morning and other work.
In Starting Out in the Afternoon, Frayne struggles to come to terms with her vulnerabilities and begins to find peace. In beautifully spare but potent language, she delivers an inspiring, contemplative memoir of the middle passage of a woman’s life and an eloquent meditation on the solace of living close to the wild land. Eventually what has begun as a three-month trip becomes a personal journey of several years, during which she is on the move and testing herself in the wilderness. She conquers her fears and begins a new relationship with nature, exuberant at becoming a competent outdoorswoman. “Despite a late start I expect to spend the rest of my life dashing off the highway, pursuing this know-how, plumbing the outdoors side of life.”
Customer Reviews:
Major Life Change Written in Low Key Style.......2002-12-27
It was the picture on the front cover and then the title that made me want to buy and read this book. It was the beautifully descriptive turns-of-phrases that makes me want to read it again a second time...right away. This time slowly, to saveur her love story with nature in the style of Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". One of the most evocative, moving and intelligent books I have read this year...and I read a lot of books. Read this book!
a breath of fresh air.......2002-10-25
Reading Jill Frayne's book "Starting Out in the Afternoon" took me away on a vacation of the senses, her beautiful descriptions of the natural landscape of Canada inviting me to journey with her.
she also got me thinking about what is truly important in life, esecially our 24/7 hectic lifestyles that we lead. Pairing her life down to first only what she can cary in her car, and then in a back-pack, camping in the open, alone, dealing with her fears and mis-givings, she opens the reader up to a journey filled with untapped posibility and spiritual growth.
I admire her tenacity and sense of adventure, her words still echoing in my head.
I'm planning on seeing more of Canada since reading her work.
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The American Collection Victorian: 165 New House Plans with Historic Elegance (American Collection)
Victorian Dream Homes: 160 Victorian & Farmhouse Plans from Three Master Designers
Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, and Other Elements
Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color: 75 Plates from the "Scientific American--Architects and Builders Edition," 1885-1894
The American Collection Farmhouse: 165 Home Plans With Country Style: Features Porches, Dormers, and Open Floor Plans (The American Collection) (The American Collection)
