Great American Houses and Gardens: A Pop-up Book

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Filled with an array of surprises, the book features historically accurate artwork exclusively drawn by artist Chuck Fischer, who combines real photography with his own painting to create a masterpiece in each double-page spread. The spread includes pops of both house and garden, and informative booklets about each estate's house, gardens, and history.

Among the fabulous pop-ups are elaborate full-scale replicas of Biltmore and Monticello, as well as a moveable carousel showing each season in the famed Winterthur gardens. A concertina allows a see-through of the Governor's Palace at Colonial Williamsburg.

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Great American Houses and Gardens.......2003-01-10

This could have been a fantastic pop-up and when I first examined it, I thought it was. Unfortunately, the pop-ups don't 'pop'; you literally have to open them. My first reaction was that the book was stiff because of the newness but it has not gotten better. My second disappointment is the lack of gardens; this is essentially the houses. If anyone wants a pop-up for the gardens, get the one about Monet's Garden; it is great.

Fantastic glimpse into a variety of houses and gardens.......2002-10-23

This was one of the more creative books I have delved into in ages. There is a wide variety of properties chosen with beautiful illustrations by Byfield that put you there for a moment. The book also has on each page a couple of little attached booklets for futher interesting facts to be had. This is a fantastic gift for yourself or someone else who enjoys traveling, art and miscellaneous facts, amongst other things.

A STUNNING BOOK!!.......2002-10-23

This is a gorgeous and inventive book...The mixture of paintings and photographs is flawless and the choice of homes is exquisite. I've already bought 3 more copies as Christmas gifts!

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Exactly what I needed.......2006-02-25

I read this book shortly before returning to my former Peace Corps site in Mali a few months ago. My "jatigi" family are the blacksmiths of a small village in the Mande region. During my two years living with them I observed a lot of interesting things that I couldn't understand, or didn't realize the significance of. I was very happy to find a scholarly explanation of pretty much everything I had scratched my head over for a dozen years. I don't exaggerate when I say that every page contained something that made me say "oh that's what that was about..."

During my return visit I was able to ask the blacksmiths about details in the book. And they confirmed everything I asked about. I couldn't find a single contradiction. It was as if the book were written about them specifically. They enjoyed hearing about the notion that the blacksmiths themselves were responsible for the early anthropologists' mistaken conclusion that blacksmiths were bad and should be avoided -- just trying to get rid of the anthropologists with all their annoying questions. They also seemed happy that someone would be interested enough in what they do to write a book about it, and that I had learned so much about them while I was gone. One brother was willing to talk a little bit about nyaman and fetishism -- just yes and no to a few careful questions -- but I'm convinced that the author's discussion of the subject is right on.

I had a great couple of weeks back in the village. And this book enhanced the experience in a big way.

My thanks to the author!

Soul, power and creation in Mali, W. Africa.......2001-01-31

Anyone who has any interest in traditional West African society should read this book. McNaughton discusses the roles, image and social context of the blacksmiths of the Mande peoples of West Africa. Blacksmiths are not simply artisans, they are skilled manipulators of supernatural power (called nyama in Bambara. As such they are considered in the same vein as jeliw (bards, praise-singers) and sorcerors. They are also woodworkers, potters, circumcisers, and workers of magic. Specifically located in Mali, this study examines the world of the blacksmiths in relation to local rulers, villagers and visitng foreigners.

McNaughton's work emphasizes an anthropological perspective and he worked with and was finally apprenticed to several blacksmiths in the course of his fieldwork. Even though this is a very scholarly book, and at times very dense, it is well worth the effort required to get through it. Like John Miller Chernoff's "African Rhythms and African Sensibility", this book deserves pride of place among people who are serious about expressive culture in West Africa.

As a primer to the deep knowledge that comes out of the continent, this book presents an extraodinary and powerful introduction. A bonus for musicians and rhythmatists: check out the excerpt where he talks about the way the blacksmiths play drum rhythms on their bellows to accompany their work and the rhythms "played" by the women as they work pounding millet in the compound. Magic.

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The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa
Patrick R. McNaughton
Manufacturer: Indiana University
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N2EZP6

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Here is the perfect book for kitten owners and would-be kitten owners who want to know how to bring their kitten up to be a happy, well-behaved, friendly cat. This book gives you the latest behavioral information, emphasizing prevention.

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The Perfect Kitten Book!.......2006-12-01

A wonderfully thoughtful and comprehensive book. This one goes beyond the usual healthcare descriptions and pictures of breeds that fill the pages of most such books. The most compelling part is the research presented into a kitten's early environment and the effects on its future personality. Great insight into cat behavior for breeders and cat lovers alike.

Don't judge a book by the cover!.......2004-02-10

I bought this book expecting it to be about kitten care and it told entirely too much about breed and the 'evolution' of cats. It didn't explain how to care for and raise a kitten. I was not impressed with the content.

A great Outline.......2003-06-05

This book is wonderfully written and definitely will give many people a better understanding of their pets. It can teach you the basics of identifying behavior, training, life stages, as well as food and litter information. However, due to the vast topics covered the book is unable to spend a great deal of time on details. Consider this book a great read for someone just starting off with a cat, or who wants to understand them better, then grab something more in depth for whatever section you really wanted more in.

Enjoyable fun reference book..........2002-08-21

This book has helped me to understand the stages of development my new kitten, Princess Elizabeth Talker Mischief Wafer Fritter Gremlin Peekaboo, has just gone through, is going through and has yet to face. The author details everything from the various kinds of cat foods and litters to the minutiae of grooming (a soft toothbrush is helpful for the face and around the eyes) as well as body posture meanings and socialization requirements. There is a lot of good information, and I am sure I will refer to it again. Though I think some of the information, on dental care for example, could have been more in depth.

Excellent Book on Kitten Care.......2002-07-31

Chapter 1: The Raw Material
Chapter 2: Cat Breeds
Chapter 3 Finding the Right Kitten
Chapter 4 Your Kitten's Development
Chapter 5 Preparing For Your New Kitten
Chapter 6: Bringing Your Kitten Home
Chapter 7: Your Kitten's Lifestyle
Chapter 8: Feeding and Litter Training
Chapter 9: Health Care
Chapter 10: Going on Vacation
Chapter 11: Cat Behaviotr
Chapter 12: Learning and Training
Chapter 13: Preventing Behavioral Problems
Chapter 14: Growing Up

This book is easy to read and understand. The book is also packed with infomation on how to care for your new kitten. Some of the many topics covered in this book includes:

How kittens learn
Toys and games kittens like to play
Introducing your kitten to a new baby or pet
Preventing behavioral problems
Basic equipment your kitten will need
Giving your kitten medicine
Feline communication

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The Pokemon find a mysterious hole, but only Cyndaquil is brave enough to travel down it. What could be hiding there? “Some of the cooler products to come out for Pokemon ... with beautiful illustrations, all the way through.” — GameFan

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A postcard of modern India.......2001-01-15

Justine Hardy is a British journalist who decided to take the plunge and work on a Delhi newspaper. Her book covers diverse topics such as a visit to the Dalai Lama, toilets (or the lack-thereof), Slum education, organic farming and polo.

The prose is easy to read, and both funny and sad. This is essentialy a travel book. It won't change your life, but if you have any misconceptions about the Raj still being alive in India, this might cure you. A great book to take on holidays, about ordinary people and how they live int in India today - a world away from western Europe and America.

Scoopwallah.......2000-09-23

Scoop-Wallah

Reading Justine Hardy's Scoop-wallah, an alternatively hilarious and pensive account of her hacking days as a features writer for the New Delhi daily the Indian Express for about a year, is to realize that good writing about India keeps coming out regardless of, or perhaps because of, the country's status as "a functioning anarchy," to borrow a famous phrase from Daniel Moynihan, a former U. S. Ambassador to India. Justine Hardy is a clever writer. She does not claim to be writing about all of India. She is writing just about New Delhi. Her portrait of New Delhi has all the anomalies that one expects in such a book. There is a raja's son who has no kingdom to rule and his satrapy in the flophouse where the writer resides. There is a newspaper editor, her boss, who is unable to understand references to April Fool's jokes in spite of his Anglicization. His name, as transliterated in the book is "Sourish," perhaps a version of "Suresh," meaning the god of gods in Sanskrit. Sourish Bhattacharya will consider for publication only such of Hardy's writing as can be considered fictionalized features, not hard news. When Hardy rants about her missing slides, telling him in London a lost or stolen slide fetches up two hundred pounds, he feigns indifference. Then there are the usual gang of culprits: charlatan gurus, rickshaw drivers salivating over the experience of driving a white woman to her destination trying hard to catch a glimpse of her white skin in one of their many mirrors, fops who decry colonialism and hold her responsible for all Britain's crimes without taking into account she hadn't even been born when Nehru's somnolent words announced the birth of India on the midnight of August 15, 1947, dreaming social workers who want to show off their good works. Our writer does not fall in love with New Delhi, but she likes it very much, notwithstanding its unsettling attachment to dust and defeat. She tries to fit in. She wears Indian clothes; she tries to learn to speak Hindi. Of course, her attempt to speak the language always identifies her as a foreigner, a fate she tries hard to avoid. Of course, she speaks Hindi only to those who drive her around or make tea for her. Good intentions don't matter. British administrators also learned regional languages just so that they could tell their servants what to do. Not much goes right for her. Indians are notorious for trying to sharpen their English skills on visiting foreigners. They don't want the visitors to speak the local language, partly because they think it is not polished enough. Thus, it is not surprising that Hardy runs into scores of Indians who want to show her that there remains a British presence in India in the form of English remade in the nuances of native languages. English is the language of power. "English is still the currency of the social establishment. The socialites of Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi may swirl their saris and stand proud in their national dress . . ., careful copies of the sartorially patriotic Nehru, but still they speak English. Their feet are silent speakers too, shod in English shoes, black Oxfords to match the aspirations of language."

Much as I enjoyed the book, I am not able to formulate its readableness in anything other than its fictionality. I believe that the book reads like fiction because everything novel that the writer experiences turns into interesting. In her moments when she stops pretending to be amused by New Delhi's transmogrification by globalization Hardy writes passages which indicate that she can indeed free herself from her self-imposed obligation to remain unsettled by her Indian experiences. Hardy turns from being an entertainer into a Blakean observer when she lets her pen rip the calm surface of her humorous meditation and speak of the mimic men and women, living an opulent life style which is more a parody of life in New York or London than one truly free of sexism as exemplified in arranged marriages and dowry extortions. Her Kiplingesque analysis of the horror of AIDS in India, often brought home to well provided-for wives by ambitious, much-traveled entrepreneurial husbands, the government's denial that the disease is widespread, the government doctor's refusal to treat AIDS patients are perhaps the best part of the book.

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Title: Autopista del Sol: monumento a la corrupción.
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Cerca del Polo Norte.(Torneo Sol de Medianoche)(Magnus Carlsen): An article from: Epoca

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Cerca del Polo Norte.(Torneo Sol de Medianoche)(Magnus Carlsen): An article from: Epoca
Gale Reference Team
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000JLQNHO
Release Date: 2006-10-13

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Title: Cerca del Polo Norte.(Torneo Sol de Medianoche)(Magnus Carlsen)
Author: Gale Reference Team
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Date: September 15, 2006
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CT: sol del occidente: Computadoras y Tecnologbrilla en el poniente del pa sus 11 aos de trabajo cercano con el canal de ensambladores marcan la pauta ... bien atendido.: An article from: E Semanal

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CT: sol del occidente: Computadoras y Tecnologbrilla en el poniente del pa sus 11 aos de trabajo cercano con el canal de ensambladores marcan la pauta ... bien atendido.: An article from: E Semanal
Alejandra Perez , and Olgu Ad
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El imperio del astro rey: las hierofanias solares.(culto antiguo al sol)(su representacion en mitologia ): An article from: Kanina

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El imperio del astro rey: las hierofanias solares.(culto antiguo al sol)(su representacion en mitologia ): An article from: Kanina
Kattia Chinchilla Sanchez
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Title: El imperio del astro rey: las hierofanias solares.(culto antiguo al sol)(su representacion en mitologia )
Author: Kattia Chinchilla Sanchez
Publication: Kanina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2000
Publisher: Universidad de Costa Rica
Volume: 24 Issue: 2 Page: 97(5)

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El PRD abriga a lo peor del PRI y desecha a la izquierda: Marco Rascón/fundador del Sol Azteca.(Entrevista): An article from: Siempre!

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Isabel Salmerón
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Release Date: 2006-10-24

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Title: El PRD abriga a lo peor del PRI y desecha a la izquierda: Marco Rascón/fundador del Sol Azteca.(Entrevista)
Author: Isabel Salmerón
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 2, 2006
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... El resplandor del Sol y la Tierra.(Año nuevo mapuche): An article from: Mensaje

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Pedro J. Canales Tapia
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Title: ... El resplandor del Sol y la Tierra.(Año nuevo mapuche)
Author: Pedro J. Canales Tapia
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
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Volume: 54 Issue: 539 Page: 25(3)

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Geologia, hidrogeoquimica y modelo conceptual de reservorio para la prefactibilidad del Campo Geotermico Poco Sol, San Ramon-San Carlos, Costa Rica.(Tesis ... from: Revista Geológica de América Central

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Geologia, hidrogeoquimica y modelo conceptual de reservorio para la prefactibilidad del Campo Geotermico Poco Sol, San Ramon-San Carlos, Costa Rica.(Tesis ... from: Revista Geológica de América Central
Juan Rafael Vargas M.
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This digital document is an article from Revista Geológica de América Central, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 421 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: Geologia, hidrogeoquimica y modelo conceptual de reservorio para la prefactibilidad del Campo Geotermico Poco Sol, San Ramon-San Carlos, Costa Rica.(Tesis de Maestría)
Author: Juan Rafael Vargas M.
Publication: Revista Geológica de América Central (Magazine/Journal)
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