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Kitchens and Baths (Good Ideas)
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Design Ideas for Kitchens (Design Ideas Series)
ASIN: 0823025888 |
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Packed with more than 700 incredible photographs, Kitchens & Baths provides literally hundreds of creative ideas for design and construction in two special areas of the home: kitchens and bathrooms. A part of the brand-new Good Ideas Series, a collection of guides for enhancing the home, Kitchens & Baths offers dozens of real-life solutions for small surface areas: adding light, color combinations, changing locations, and more. Hundreds of sketches, drawings, and plans-all real ideas from real designers-offer comprehensive solutions to a variety of difficult situations. Many of these featured designs are taken from existing kitchens and bathrooms that are brand-new or have been successfully transformed into attractive, useful, contemporary spaces. Plus, this enormous reference also includes complete contact information for each featured manufacturer and designer.
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Bathroom remodeling is one of the most common renovation projects for homeowners and interior designers.This is due in part to homeowners shifting desires for their bath space -- trending away from pulsating showers and energizing whirlpools toward the soothing sanctuary of a home spa -- and in part to the ongoing development of new, affordable bathroom fixtures, and in part to the simple fact that a bathroom renovation is widely recognized as the home improvement project most likely to maintain or add value to one's home.
But all the design styles and products available to homeowners can be overwhelming. Coming to the rescue is the latest volume of Harper Design's ongoing Good Ideas series, Bathrooms, including over 600 exquisite photographs that showcase innovative bathroom designs from top designers such as Philippe Starck, Massimo Iosa, Frog Design and others. Each design shows interesting suggestions -- good ideas! -- for your own private bath or home spa. A helpful directory to the featured designers and manufacturers is also included.
Undertaking a bathroom renovation can be a daunting project, but armed with Bathrooms: Good Ideas, you'll have an endless supply of inspiration and information to guide you.
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Lots Of Style, Little Substance.......2004-12-24
I bought this book because I am looking for ideas for a pending bathroom remodeling project. The book is generally shrink-wrapped in stores, so the contents are somewhat elusive; Amazon's price is great so I took a gamble on it. While there are some ideas illustrated in the book to recommend it, in general I am a bit underwhelmed. The book is full of color photographs (which are generally good, although the quality varies) but essentially no text. My biggest complaint about the book is that it has sections like "Fittings and Accessories," which illustrates things like faucets, but rarely does the book tell you what you are looking at or even who the manufacturer is. The architects involved in the projects are generally referenced; in fact many of the bathrooms look like promotional photos for architectural firms. The strongest section of the book is the section on small bathrooms, which is good for a lot of remodeling projects that don't have a 500 square foot footprint to work with.
The book is stylish with a clear plastic cover over very colorful illustrations, making for a unique effect. The book looks very cool, but if I had to do it over again, I would skip it and look for a book with more information on the materials and fixtures in the photographs.
Only bathroom book out there that's exclusively contemporary.......2004-11-14
We're building a bathroom in our house and desperately searching for contemporary ideas. Well, this book certainly has them, loads of them. However, if, like me, you buy design books regularly, you'll recognise many of the bathrooms from them - this is really more a compendium of images already published than a brand new collection. The result is that it offers little information on what fittings are used, who makes the mosaic tiles on that wall, where you can get that vessel sink, etc. On the other hand, the title is honest: these are just ideas to get you started, good ideas, really good ones, and all of them very of the moment and beautiful. I give it four stars because the quality of the pictures is uneven - I suppose because some were scanned from other people's books.
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Jimmy Carter makes 1976 a great year for editorial cartoons.......2003-05-18
"Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1977" captures the events of 1976, which was a banner year for editorial cartoonists. The reason why is aptly captured by the cartoon on the cover of this collection, which shows the iconically toothy smile of Jimmy Carter, who came out of nowhere (a.k.a. Plains, Georgia) to be elected President of the United States. 1976 had it all: the nation's bicentennial, political scandals, a heated Presidential campaign, an election that went down to the wire and divided the nation along geographical lines, all wrapped up the distinctive facial features of Jimmy Carter (and an infamous interview "Playboy" magazine).
The editorial cartoonist of the year was clearly Tony Auth of the Philadelphia "Inquirer," who won both the Pulitzer Prize, for a carton of Leonid Breshnev singing "American the Beautiful" in an American wheat field, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award, for a cartoon of Muslims and Christians killing each other in the name of their religions in Beirut. There are also several cartoons by my all-time favorite, Jeff MacNelly, along with choice cartoons by Robert Graysmith, Ed Gamble, Mike Peters, and Dick Locher. You will certainly get a sense of the new school and old school approaches to editorial cartooning.
Cartoons about the 1976 Election provide the single largest chapter in the collection, with the vast majority of those being about the challenger Carter. The challenge to President Gerald Ford by Ronald Reagan in the Republican Party receives treatment as well, along with the Wayne Hays Scandal (does the name Elizabeth Ray ring a bell?). In terms of international affairs there was turmoil in Southern Africa, OPEC raising the price of oil, tension in the Middle East in general and Lebanon in particular, and the death of Mao Tse-Tung (that was the spelling used back then). There were, of course, cartoons on perennial topics like Crime, Defense, Education, and the Economy, as well as one time subjects such as the Swine Flu, Earl Butz, and the mystery of Howard Hughes' will.
This is the fifth collection of the annual series that brings together hundreds of examples of the high art of editorial cartoonists by more than 130 of its practitioners compiled by Charles Brooks, award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham "News" and former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. The introduction is written by Draper Hill, an editorial cartoonists for the Detroit "News" who comments on the change in this satirical art form, arguing: "Dignity is out of fashion. For the younger cartoonists, sentiment is so suspect as to be virtually taboo." Given that we are now talking about an American living in the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era, this is not surprising.
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Between Nixon and Carter the Ford editorial cartoon years.......2003-05-11
Editorial cartoons might not be the first thing people turn to when they open up their newspaper (that honor would go to the regular comics page or the sports section), but they are probably the first thing you turn to when you get to the editorial page (how can it now be? It is usually the only visually compelling image there unless you are really enraptured by a small photograph of George Will). But the 1976 edition of "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year" celebrates the art form from the historical perspective, because we are over a quarter-century beyond the events of 1975. Whatever you remember from that year, when First Lady Betty Ford was more popular than the President and the strongest Democratic hopeful for the Presidency was a southerner (George Wallace and not Jimmy Carter), will come flooding back as you go through these pages. This is because nothing brings back the passions of an issue like a good editorial cartoon, and there are several examples to prove the point within these pages.
This pictorial history of the year's events is broken down into 26 major news stories, including the ups and downs of the Ford Administration, the machination of the CIA and the FBI, the energy crisis, and the growing parade of contenders for the Presidency. You will also see that some things apparently never change, such as the continuing strife in the Middle East and the controversial U.S. Congress. But ultimately what sticks out are those issues that were more specific to the year 1975, such as Nelson Rockerfeller becoming the lame duck Vice President, detente, and the end of the Vietnam War. There were also the assassination attempts on Ford, the bailout of New York City, the preparation for the nation's bicentennial, court-ordered busing in Boston, and the capture of Patty Hearst, all of which made the year rather unique.
This was actually only the fourth volume of this annual series focusing on the best of the year's editorial cartoons. For once Garry Trudeau's "Doonsbury" makes it into this collection, by virtue of his Pulitzer Prize award: the strip selected shows the stonewall being built in front of the Nixon White House, which is as fine a representation of the four panel editorial cartoon as you can find (there is even an editorial cartoon cartoon attacking Trudeau's win on page 153). Mike Peters won the 1974 Sigma Delta Chi Award and you will also find examples by Herblock, Pat Oliphant, and my personal favorite, Jeff MacNelly. One thing you will notice is that overall the editorial cartoonists of today are a lot better artists than most of what you see in this collection. However, you will discover a few cartoonists with distinctive styles that you will enjoy, such as Graham Pilsworth, Hugh Hayne, and David Simpson. Besides, the President with the most iconic set of molars in the history of the nation was just around the corner.
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Liz Carpenter has been a speech writer, a press secretary, a lecturer, and a well-known Texas character, but nothing prepared her for being a mother the second time around (.
"On his deathbed three years ago, the man she calls 'my soul mate' asked her to take care of his children (.So she opened her Austin home with its chintz-covered couches, and in flopped three teenagers....On the Mount Rushmore of child-rearing--Benjamin Spock, T. Berry Brazelton, Penelope Leach--a fourth face has been etched: Liz Carpenter's."
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"Carpenter's how-to on raising somebody else's kids is a frequently hilarious, often-poignant, engagingly homespun road map of inter-generational side trips into unexplored territory where older Americans might once have feared to roam....Not merely did they put her through every torture (but they did it to her at an age when she should have been sitting back with her feet up, sipping a glass of wine and doing the crossword puzzle."
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Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition is this remarkable account of Alexander Mackenzie--the explorer who beat Lewis and Clark across the North American continent. Mackenzie accomplished this feat an astounding twelve years before the Corps of Discovery. Drawing extensively on the journals of Mackenzie and other turn-of-the-century explorers--and featuring historical and contemporary photographs, illustrations, and maps--Hayes presents a lively portrait of the explorer who both preceded Lewis and Clark and provided an impetus for their expedition.
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First Crossing.......2007-09-25
This book is a welcome collection of facts about the stupendous exploits of Alexander Mackenzie's Canadian exploration. But the words are curiously bleak & dispassionate, and separate panels of information on the pages, intrude into the flow of the narrative.
What is needed now is for someone to take on the story, light it up with the raw romance of the period, paint the picture of the landscape, add colour photos of the places in the text, tell us about the man, and keep the size of the book down to normal.
Let us see the landscapes in all their glory.
The raw detailed story of the man remains to be told.
Illustrated throughout with maps and photographs.......2003-04-14
First Crossing by historian Derek Hayes is the amazing story of Alexander Mackenzie, and his trailblazing journey across the North American continent before civilized society conquered the North American wilderness. Illustrated throughout with maps and photographs in black-and-white and color, the deftly researched and meticulously reported details of Mackenzie's voyage vividly reconstruct an 18th Century expedition of truly insurmountable bravery and pivotally important discovery.
Not much new!.......2001-10-04
OK, there is some new information here. Mostly it seems that Hayes has helped illustrate the travels of Mackenzie, something that was not available previously. Barry Gough's book is notoriously lacking in any illustration of Mackenzie's voyages and Mackenzie's own book is virtually without useful illustration. Maybe having read the previous two books makes me jaded but Mackenzie's voyages can only be retold so many times.
Hayes has presented us with a slightly new take on telling the story with pictures, maps and historical vignettes but I hunger for a more thorough job. Perhaps more in the nature of Moulton's "Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition". Finding someone willing to wade through Mackenzie's rather impenetrable prose may be a challenge.
Notwithstanding the above this is probably the best explanation of Mackenzie's voyages since the original journals.
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First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (The Oklahoma Western Biographies , Vol 14)
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The Journals of Alexander MacKenzie: Exploring Across Canada in 1789 & 1793
ASIN: 0806130024 |
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The first white man to cross North America, Scottish-born Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820) was typical of his generation of explorers: this bold adventurer who surveyed the untamed wilderness with impressive accuracy was also a hardheaded businessman who ventured into unknown Canadian territory in search of profits from fur trading. Canadian historian Barry Gough admires Mackenzie's toughness and daring without glossing over the towering ego and knack for self-promotion that won him a knighthood from England in 1802. First Across the Continent is another enjoyable entry in the University of Oklahoma's Western Biographies series.
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Canadian explorations.......2006-06-15
This is a well-written, concise (200 pages) biography of Alexander Mackenzie, the great Canadian explorer, best remembered for two important journeys made in western Canada, one to the Arctic Ocean in 1789, the other to the Pacific in 1792-93. Mackenzie was born in Scotland in 1762 and came to America as a teenager. He lived first in New York State around Johnstown, but moved to Montreal in 1778, where he entered the fur trade. By the 1780s, Fort Chipewyan, on the southern shore of Lake Athabasca, had become an important fur trading post, and this became Mackenzie's base of operations for his two explorations. The first, in 1789, took him north to Great Slave Lake and the river that would later bear his name, down which he ventured to the Beaufort Sea. Three years later he journeyed west from Fort Chipewyan along the Peace River and then over the Continental Divide to the Fraser and finally overland to the Pacific near Bella Coola. Thus Mackenzie and his men became the first to travel to the Pacific from an interior post on the continent (basically the first to cross the continent from sea to sea). He wrote an excellent account of his travels in 1801 (Lewis and Clark studied it thoroughly), much of it having to do with the Indians he encountered and which also included a history of the Canadian fur trade. He was knighted in 1802 and settled in Scotland. Although the book is a full biography, Gough focuses on the two journeys, the itineraries of which he has made extensive explorations of his own, and details the routes carefully, explaining much of what the explorers would have seen and experienced. He's a compelling writer and the book is a most interesting one. Highly recommended.
Factual narrative.......2000-01-08
Pretty good book. Gives a rather matter-of-fact account of MacKenzie's life. Not alot of detail or passion in either of his 2 great voyages. Interesting in all the other people brought into the story. Now I want to read about Peter Pond, MacKenzies' predecessor. Short and a quick read.
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