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HGTV Before & After Decorating
HGTV Manufacturer: HGTV ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0696219093 Release Date: 2003-10-15 |
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Before-and-after photos of amazing room transformations in various styles inspire readers to take action.Ideas for all ranges of skill levels, time commitment, and budgetfrom simple furniture rearrangement strategies to more dramatic changes in room surface treatments (floors, walls, counters, and more).
Each room makeover includes a section on multiple alternatives to one aspect of the redesignsuch as wall finishes. These sections give readers more options for applying what they learn from the book to their own rooms.
Makeover projects make the book as practical as it is inspiringwhat readers expect from HGTV.
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Outdated and Disappointing.......2006-06-30
Affordable decorating.......2006-05-18
Great Book for the DIY, HGTV, TLC Channel Fan.......2006-01-13
Become a Before & After pro indeed.......2005-09-26
hgtv before and after decorating.......2005-09-10
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Painting the Many Moods of Light
Rachel Rubin Wolf Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0891348794 |
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Painting the Many Moods of Light
Rachel Rubin Wolf Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OZK7UE |
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Avedon: Photographs,1947-1977
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0374232008 |
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Avedon Photographs 1947 1977 1ST Edition
Richard Avedon Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PX1HIG |
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Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977 1st Edition
Richard Avedon Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDJDKK |
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Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977. With an Essay by Harold Brodkey
Richard Avedon Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0374107408 |
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Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977, Signed 1st Edition
Richard Avedon Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDIO1E |
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Avedon, photographs, 1947-1977: [exhibition], May 2 - June 24, 1979, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Richard Avedon Manufacturer: The Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00070W0AQ |
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The Crystal Ballroom
Frank Thorne Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1560975458 |
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A moving and eloquent memoir of a professional comic book artist.Frank Thorne is one of the most respected and accomplished comic artists of his generation. He began drawing comic in the 1950s and quickly established himself as a supremely competent draftsman and storyteller. By the mid-'80s, he found himself drawing Red Sonja, a Conan spin-off for Marvel Comics, and discovered that he enjoyed drawing the female form so much that he bolted from mainstream comics and became one of the preeminent erotic artists of his time.
The Crystal Ballroom is Frank Thorne's sequel to his first illustrated autobiography, Drawing Sexy Women"coming of age in the spring of '46," as the sub-title has it. Thorne describes his growing passion for popular cultureHarry James, Artie Shaw, Satchmo, Betty Grable, Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon as well as Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon newspaper strip (in The New York Journal American), pulp fiction and movieshis growing interest in drawing and playing the coronet, his budding sexuality, and, of course, his dream of playing in The Crystal Ballroom with his jazz idols. By turns an expression of postwar exuberance and bittersweet rite of passage, copiously illustrated with over 80 exquisite pencil drawings by the author that capture the feel of the period and complement the prose, The Crystal Ballroom is the most moving and eloquent memoir of a cartoonist ever written.
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Murph's comments.......2005-08-15
A moving joyride.......2004-02-11
A moving joyride!.......2004-02-10
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The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom
Tim Hills Manufacturer: McMenamins Pubs & Breweries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O2MFRK |
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The many lives of the Crystal Ballroom
Tim Hills Manufacturer: McMenamins Pubs & Breweries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QMS6W |
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Midnight Chambers and Crystal Ballrooms
Adrian Francis Fox Manufacturer: AuthorHouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1434322254 |
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'MIDNIGHT CHAMBERS and CRYSTAL BALLROOMS', a collection of dark poetry and articles, explores a range of human emotions as felt and experienced from one person's standpoint, at once chilling and macabre, yet with elements of beauty and passion taken directly from the soul. Feelings freely expressed are stated honestly and unapologetically and, for better or worse, take no prisoners. This compilation in many ways speaks outward, within the areas of darkness seeking to provide the light of hope and inspiration for others, the intention from one human being reaching out to clearly say: "You are not alone". Product of over one year's output on the highly-successful American website 'Vampire Rave' (www.vampirerave.com), here is contained evocative Gothic poetry with a strong Sixties slant, which is at various times hard, open, loving and immediate. A sock in the guts to the fragile strains of ghostly harpsichord. Welcome to 'MIDNIGHT CHAMBERS and CRYSTAL BALLROOMS'. Enter of your own volition, thrill and chill to the Dark Dance...
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Speaking Freely: A Memoir
Nat Hentoff Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0679436472 Release Date: 1997-09-16 |
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Journalists aren't held in the greatest esteem these days. Too many are insiders, value a scoop over all else, or are too cowardly to spurn accepted thought. Not Nat Hentoff. Hentoff is the kind of reporter (and citizen) all reporters should aspire to be--"less interested in 'exclusives,'" as he writes in Speaking Freely, than "in making a difference." Speaking Freely is Hentoff's chronicle of a career's worth of making a difference, writing unexpectedly--for a self-proclaimed Jewish atheist civil-libertarian--about everything from Vietnam and Israel to abortion and John Cardinal O'Connor to the Nation of Islam and the ACLU. Hentoff recalls a Village Voice that presented "a forceful diversity of views" and a New Yorker shaped by revered editor William Shawn. Speaking Freely is an inspiring memoir from a man proud to have been called, by one editor, "a general pain in the ass."Book Description
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Speak, Notebook.......2003-05-24
A Village Voice and Washington Post columnist, and the author of some 40 non-fiction and fiction books for adults and children, the catholicity of Nat Hentoff's interests and his career of taking gutsy stands have made him an institution in a profession pervaded by mediocrity and conformity.
Hentoff's atheism, his support of trade unions and flag burners, and his quaint faith in school integration that most American blacks no longer believe in make him look like your standard-issue liberal. Yet the same man defended the right of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, opposes abortion, and has fought against a purported "right of privacy" that would allow women to dispose of children born with birth defects. It is no wonder that many of Hentoff's colleagues at the Village Voice have stopped speaking to him.
The sequel to Hentoff's 1987 memoir Boston Boy, which told of his "exuberantly anti-Semitic hometown," Speaking Freely briskly covers his 50-plus years in journalism with a wry, self-deprecating humor that his columns and First Amendment books often lack.
Hentoff enjoyed early success writing on jazz for Down Beat magazine, whose New York office he ran. In 1956, he got fired. It seems he had hired a "black" secretary without getting permission from the home office in Chicago. The magazine, which was devoted to black music, had never hired a black staffer. Ironically, Hentoff reports, "Several years later I found out that the secretary at issue was not black, but Egyptian. Of course, these days, the creators and practitioners of Afrocentricity would rule that, being Egyptian, the new secretary was, of course, black. Either way, I would still have been fired."
Hentoff sketches several poignant portraits of jazz greats. He tells of a 1980s concert at Lincoln Center in Dizzy Gillespie's honor. "I hadn't seen Dizzy...for a few years.... In the hallway, Dizzy was talking with someone, saw me, ran over, and grabbed me in a bear hug. To the man he was talking to, Dizzy, grinning, explained, 'It's like seeing an old broad you used to go with.'" Hentoff comments that "This old broad has seldom been so honored."
Hentoff tells sadly of the deterioration of New York's Village Voice, once as vividly unpredictable as it is now a museum of political correctness, and of his hopes for its reinvigoration under its current editor-in-chief, Don Forst. For the past several years, I have found Hentoff to be the sole reason for reading the Voice.
Hentoff's turn against abortion quarantined him at the virulently pro-abortion Voice. He has subsequently campaigned against all forms of euthanasia. He also attacked the practice of testing pregnant women for HIV for research purposes and then withholding the test results from them-a policy demanded by the AIDS lobby, employing an obscene interpretation of "privacy" rights, which condemned thousands of children and their mothers to terrible, premature deaths. Hentoff compared this practice to the "Tuskegee experiments," in which black men infected with syphilis were left untreated, to die horrible, slow deaths. The ACLU's support of this HIV testing policy led Hentoff to resign from the organization in 1995, after 35 years as a member.
In the "Genghis Khan of the Catholic Church," conservative archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor [alive at the time of original publication of this review], Hentoff sees a kindred spirit. He and O'Connor locked horns over Pope John Paul II's granting of an audience to Kurt Waldheim after his complicity in Nazi war crimes had been exposed. Before Hentoff could complete a second column attacking the Pope and O'Connor, a letter from the latter shut him up: "Now that I have won the argument, let us proceed. You may recall how Belloc ends his Path to Rome: 'So let us love another and laugh. Time passes and we shall soon laugh no longer. Meanwhile, earnest men are at siege upon us all round. So let us laugh and suffer absurdities, for that is only to suffer one another.'"
The defense of an opponent's freedom of belief requires a kind of love, and the embrace of absurdities. In Hentoff's case, the loving and the embracing are done by a warrior journalist.
Originally published in The American Enterprise, Spring 1998.
In the tradition of Orwell.......2001-11-25
In this second installment of his ongoing autobiography, Hentoff's love of jazz is again front and center - there has never been a better chronicler of jazz, and if Hentoff's prose is a bit more stilted than his favorite musicians, he still captures that sense of life that jazz embodies.
An unapologetic integrationist, Hentoff is also one of the most color-blind individuals you will ever read.
Reading this book also brings you to a realization that Hentoff opposes abortion for the exact same reason he opposes the death penalty - it is a consistent ethos, even if the Left (such as it is these days) finds itself compelled to try to silence him.
If you despair of the left ever finding its way again, if you feel dismayed by the increasing conformity of American liberals, then read this book.
Self-Aggrandizing Apologia.......2001-04-18
Interesting!.......2000-01-16
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Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California
Angus Ellis Taylor Manufacturer: University of California, Institute of Govern ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0877723931 |
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Speaking Freely, A Memoir
Nat Hentoff Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O2XJ84 |
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Wilderness Wife
Bradford Angier Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0020582307 |
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Book was excellent, alot of good advice on wilderness living.......1998-08-14
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Wilderness wife;: The story of Rebecca Bryan Boone
Etta DeGering Manufacturer: D. McKay Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007E0680 |
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Wilderness Wife, the Story of Rebecca Bryan Boone
Etta Degering Manufacturer: David McKay Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KMD77G |
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Leaving the Wilderness
Tonya Blount Manufacturer: Dunamis Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0972455302 |
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Ms. Blount's protagonist, Jordan Baez is a beautiful and talented woman, married eleven years to Franklin Baez with whom she has three children. Jordan endures many tragedies, yet her astonishing determination to survive and succeed allows her to bend, but not to break.Walk alongside Jordan on her journey, a journey that is reflected in the lives of many women past and present. Take part in revelations, which have forged an iron will, one so necessary to survive, no woman should be without!
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absolutely wonderful.......2005-06-07
Leaving the Wilderness.......2003-08-05
Still I Rise.......2003-06-10
Tonya Blount has illustrated an unforgettable and emotive female protagonist in Leaving The Wilderness. Ms. Blount's poetic writing style is both fluid and enchanting allowing readers to empathize with the main character. I would have liked to read more about Jordan's rediscovery of self as she mends the broken pieces of her life. Nevertheless, Ms. Blount's debut novel will speak to women in the midst of their wilderness experience and serve as a testimony to those who have been stripped of their self-worth. A must read for men and women alike.
Reviewed by Nicki Lancaster
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Superb!!!!!!.......2003-03-10
"Leaving the Wilderness" was ingeniously written It discloses how an abusee overcame many dire impediments and triumphantly rised above it all.
Revenge wasnt the storyline in Blounts novel. Eventhough she battled several diverse worlds: Good verses Evil; Love verses Hate; Emotions verses Spiritual.
She ensured us that her lessons were well erudite. By allowing us to walk candidily with her to that spiritual intercession . Where she discovered she found her place of counterpoise.: Her Lord and Savior!
As a reader , I'd like to applaud and thank Ms.Tonya Blount, for showing myself. That if we keep God first and believe with all our hearts.. That we too, can obviate any stumbling blocks in ones life. While holding steadfast to faith; We too can avoid our pitfalls along the way. But we must believe!
As i conclude with (Psalms 23:4..... "Yea, though i walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, Your rod and Your staff, will comfort me.)
Free to be Me.......2002-12-12
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Roadless Area Adventures of a man and wife in the American Wilderness and other remote places from the Alaskan tundra to...
Paul Brooks Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000W5D89I |
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Wilderness Wife
Bradford and Vena Angier Manufacturer: Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company, 1976 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NXKDP6 |
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Wilderness Wife
Degeering Manufacturer: David McKay Company Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JBZ3I4 |
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Wilderness wife
Kathrene Pinkerton Manufacturer: Carrick and Evans ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000892K88 |
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Wilderness Wife
De Gering Manufacturer: David McKay Company Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JEEIGE |
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Wilderness Wife/Asylum/Alone/Dry Guillotine/How to Live on 24 Hours a Day/RFD/Man, the Unknown/Reaching for the Stars/Wake Up & Live!/Singing in the Wilderness (Reader's Digest Nonfiction Bestsellers)
Kathrene Sutherland Gedney Pinkerton , William Seabrook , Richard E. Byrd , Rene Belbenoit , Arnold Bennett , Charles Allen Smart , Alexis Carrel , Nora Waln , Dorothea Brande , and Donald Culross Peattie Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWHKDE |
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