Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South

Book Description

Profusely illustrated survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Detailed drawings, including 36 floor plans, depict such venerable residences as The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's homestead, the Gothic chapel of Old Jefferson College, many more. Rich commentary, with additional material on carpentry, other topics. 109 line illustrations, 7 halftones. Bibliography.

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Needs better pictures.......2005-08-07

The author speaks of the pleasing cream color used on the stucco walls of a particular home, but we are looking at an ink drawing. There are no actual photograhs in the book. I didn't enjoy trying to "imagine the color" at all.

I found it hard to recognize homes such as "Oak Alley" which I have actually visited. The line drawing did nothing to impress me at all. The artist line drawings do not do any home in the book any justice. It's unfortunate that after reading a small part of the book, I put it aside because I don't have a photo reference of the house I'm reading about.

This book would be better left on the shelf. Don't waste your money.

A treasury of classic Southern architecture.......2001-05-15

"Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South," by J. Frazer Smith, is an informative celebration of the home architecture of the southern United States. This volume is actually an unabridged reprint; the book was originally published in 1941 with the title "White Pillars: Early Life and Architecture of the Lower Mississippi Valley Country." The book includes a foreword by Leicester B. Holland.

The book contains drawings and floor plans of many historic homes. These visual elements are accompanied by a generous text. Smith not only profiles important homes, but also illustrates the evolution of the southern home from a single one-room cabin into "dogtrot" homes, and eventually into larger structures.

Some of the homes presented in the book are Cragfont (1820) of Tennessee, with its impressive second-floor ballroom; Andrew Jackson's "the Hermitage" (1831); the Forks of Cypress (1820), an Alabama house with a 2-story wrap-around portico; and the Walter place (1855), a Mississippi home with twin octagonal towers.

Unfortunately, a perspective drawing and floor plans are not included for every house presented in the book. Also, an unpleasant racist subtext shows up at points in the book. Holland's foreword notes that the book "is a survey of the habitations of man of the Caucasian race [...] of the south." Elsewhere in the book are offhand or patronizing references to "niggers," "darkies," and an "old Mammy."

Since this book is an historic reprint, I believe that these racist remarks should be placed in proper context (but not ignored or excused). But if you want to see the majestic Greek-inspired pillars, covered porches, imposing staircases, and other elements that characterize classic southern architecture, check out this book.

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Great American Homes Old New Orleans, Plantation Houses of the Old South, Historic Charleston, Mansions of the Virginia Gentry
Muse Vance et al
Manufacturer: Oxmoor House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UEHXO2

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Land of Louisiana sugar kings;: Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River, columned mansions recall the heyday of the old South's sugar plantations
Harnett Thomas Kane
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007FT8Z6

Book Description

Seldom has a photographer created such an authentic work as Jack Slomovits has in this book. From the middle of the sexual action the artist captures us from the first photos onward. Slomovits' semi-documentary style leaves little to the imagination; high-contrast detailed photos are interspersed with portraits in a snapshot aesthetic. His protagonists are the lads of the West Village in New York, lads of impressive naivety and tantalizing innocence. A fast book from a fast city. Sexy!

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Sexy pics, but..........2007-08-13

I was really disappointed by this book. I was hoping for something a little different, after seeing a lot of Jack Slomovits' other work (he gets a LOT of mileage out of that window in his apartment!), but there isn't anything truly special about these pictures. I think the best way to describe it is to say that these aren't "photographs" they're just pictures. Sure, they're sexy -- what pictures of 2 guys having sex WOULDN'T be? -- but they're not beautiful, and I was hoping for more. I'm putting my copy on ebay... 'fraid this one isn't a keeper.

It's hot in the West Village!.......2007-07-22

Jack Slomovits' new book Sex in the West Village is a feast for the eyes. His subtle lighting and composition produce sultry black and white photographs that stay with the viewer. The individual prints stand alone as powerful images, and combine to create a narrative that is both alluring and provocative. Bravo!

Sexy boys in the big city!.......2007-07-04

Jack Slomovits delivers the boys of New York in a series of highly suggestive images. These guys are fresh to the city and eager to explore their own boundaries, bodies...and other boys. The photographer documents their sexual adventures in a photojournalistic style that puts you right in the center of their action. A visual turnon from start to finish!

hot and steamy.......2007-06-20

Sexy book, straight and find it very erotic.

White Male Privilege: A Study of Racism in America 40 Years After the Voting Rights Act

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Introspective As Well As Thought Provoking
Reflection
White Male Privilege gets two thumbs up.

White Male Privilege: A Study of Racism in America 40 Years After the Voting Rights Act
Mark Rosenkranz
Manufacturer: Law Dog Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Discrimination & Racism | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
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Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race (Teaching/Learning Social Justice)

ASIN: 0979108918

Book Description

Discrimination and racism has existed in America since the very early days of colonization. In the Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers declared "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." and yet, it would be another 189 years before Americans would be equal by law. It has been suggested that with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, America had finally overcame its ugly past of racism and discrimination. As we entered into the new millennium, the author wondered if America had really set aside its biases and discriminatory practices. The author interviewed eight people as he developed the foundations for this book. One of the people he was honored to interview was Brian Swann, the brother of famous footballer Lynn Swann. Brian shared his story of a racial motivated encounter that he and his brother's had experienced in the 1970's in San Francisco, California, at the hands of the San Francisco Police Department. Each of the eight people interviewed for this book brought with them a different experience and viewpoint as it relates to discrimination and racism in America, and more specifically, white male privilege in America. The author brought these eight individual viewpoints together, and told their story as they relate to American history, from the early days of colonization through the present day.

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Introspective As Well As Thought Provoking.......2006-07-04

What strikes me about this book is the fact that the author seems to genuinely care about the responses he gets from his interviewees. I know I'm doing some reading between the lines, but I believe it's because the author himself has spent a good amount of time reflecting on his own predjudices and experiences, and I commend him for doing so. I hope those who read his book will be inspired to do the same.

Reflection.......2006-06-20

A unique insight into the "whys" of racism. This book is an easy read that will have the reader reflecting on how he/she affects and is affected by racism and quite possibly can cause a change in behaviors through that reflection. The interviews say a lot about how racism affects the interviewees both in what was said and what was not.

White Male Privilege gets two thumbs up........2006-05-22

The author Mark Rosenkranz has written a prolific prospective on the subject of racism. His unique way of presenting the information enables the reader to help understand one's own biases which is the first step in recognizing racism. He focuses on discrimination from an introspective point of view. The author interviewed eight different people from various backgrounds. One of which is Brian Swann, who experienced racism with his renowned brother pro football hall of fame and Gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann. The Swann brothers filed a civil lawsuit against the San Francisco Police Department for discrimination and won their case. I believe the average reader will find his work insightful and captivating. I would highly recommend this book to anyone whether or not they have experienced racism in their lives.

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good intentions, at least

The Black Male in White America

Manufacturer: Nova Science Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1590337573

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good intentions, at least .......2005-03-11

This book contains (unlucky) 13 chapters on aspects of black men in the United States. Many books on black men and black male activists have lamented about how black men fare in education, the workforce, and the prison-industrial complex. This book covers those familiar (played out?) topics. However, it touches on novel topics such as black male expression in the theater and black men in journalism. This book gives a tolerable nod to diversity among black men by discussing boys, MSM, and the foreign-born.

On a positive note, I think everyday readers could pick up and understand this book. On the other hand, this book is RIDDLED with typographical errors. I am almost sure that a typist typed up these articles and the editor never bothered to assign someone to proofread the anthology. As a result, black men with fancy academic degrees are made to look like freshman in high school or other people that have never had exposure to a typewriter or don't know about "spell check" in their computer programs. Trust me, there are enough errors here that it conspicuously interrupts the flow of the book.

Throughout this book, the authors try to emphasize that race and gender must both be juggled; one issue can't be dropped in thinking of the plight of black males. This group is often compared to black females and white males for comparative purposes. Comparisons to white females are hardly brought up. I am sure that the editor did not want to "play the oppression sweepstakes" and imply that somehow racism is more pervasive than sexism. LatinOs and LatinAs are brought up occasionally as well.

Unfortunately, this book is men's studies by naiveté. Any topic that even tangentially discusses black men is brought up here. For example, one writer details the similarities between the late artist Equiano and the living artist George C. Wolfe. Black masculinity is not brought up; this chapter is just here because it happens to discuss black men. The same is true on the chapters about foreign policy, journalism, and the sciences. Male privilege, male rituals, and rigid masculinities are never brought up. Most men's studies authors are much more conscious of these matters than the authors here. I wonder if authors approached the editor and begged to be included just to avoid the "publish or perish" rule at universities.

The author provides a weak introduction and conclusion for the book. This book breaks down starkly into three areas: 1) lists of black male achievers, 2) statistics on black males, and 3) policy recommendations for black men. Thus, I wonder why the author did not divide the book into parts. The authors here are BIG on role models. Just by mentioning that black male individuals have thrived before is their proof that others can carry that torch. The suggestions at the end of the book are helpful, but unrealistic at a time when the party that "promotes self-reliance" and decries "big government" is in power.

I just absolutely disagree with much of what is said in this book. One author gives Joe Jackson, father of the Jackson 5, as an example of "strong" black fatherhood. In reality, his sons have spoken openly of how abusive their father was. Later, a man celebrates Bill Clinton's appointment of blacks to high offices. He never mentions that Clinton shamefully fired Jocelyn Elders and he doesn't mention Lani Guinier (and Clinton's backstabbing of her) at all. A chapter on Caribbean and African men in the US implies that they are all PhD's and entrepreneurs. Trust me, there are plenty of foreign black men in the US who are not class-privileged or upwardly mobile economically. The chapter on black MSM never spells out if MSM are different from openly gay men and it makes a predictable statement that any person on the street could have made about preventing HIV among this populations.

The book is the size and length of a required text for a college course. However, I could not imagine any professor using this as his core book on a syllabus. While it is nice that the cover does not contain something predictable like a male symbol or a drawing of Africa, I wonder why the editor chose a Mondrian-inspired cover. Did he want readers to ask, "What's black and white and red all over?"

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Simple and lovely photos
not impressed

Black Male / White Male

Manufacturer: LPC Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0854490809

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Simple and lovely photos.......2007-02-13

The photos in this book are indeed mostly of black men. I was pleased with the thoughtful compositions and hadn't really thought that this was Rotini Fani-Kayhoda's response to Mapplethorpe's work. By themselves, the photos are striking and sometimes very simple. As a person who is simplistic enough to simply like photos for what they are, I think that this is a successful collection.

not impressed.......2004-08-29

I was first introduced to Rotimi's work by the praises Kobena Mercer gave it in the his book "Welcome to the Jungle." Like many black gay artists, Rotimi's work responds to the fetishizing work in R. Mapplethorpe's "Black Book." However, this photo book is not inspiring. There are much better responses to Mapplethorpe out there than this. (Essex Hemphill's poem in "Looking for Langston" for example.)

There's a long history of gay photographers showing black men and white men in homoerotic poses together. With Rotimi's title, you would think he's doing the same thing. First off, few if not none of the works here show black men and white men together here. Secondly, the book is about 90% black men. He should have titled this book "Black Men with a Few White Guys for Novelty." I really think the title is meant to lure in the white purchaser of his work, rather than truly centering black men as artistic subjects.

Finally, the photos are not that great. One photo could be described as an insult to Mother Africa. Just because black men are being portrayed doesn't make the work transgressive. I was deeply disappointed in this book. I predict than many others will be too.

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Black Male White Female

Manufacturer: Schenkman Books Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 087073167X

How to Supervise Black, Minorities and Women: A Guide for White and Japanese Males

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How to Supervise Black, Minorities and Women: A Guide for White and Japanese Males
Earl H. McClenney
Manufacturer: First Assoc Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0961883537

Jagged Edges: Black Professional Women in White Male Worlds (Studies in African and African-American Culture, Vol 7)

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Jagged Edges: Black Professional Women in White Male Worlds (Studies in African and African-American Culture, Vol 7)
Nancy C. Talley-Ross
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Pub Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Movie Star News: The Male Catalog Black and White Photos

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Movie Star News: The Male Catalog Black and White Photos
Ira Kramer , and Staff of MSN
Manufacturer: Movie Star News
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000L0W0Q6

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Approx. 8 1/2" x 11", with black and white photographs.

The relationship between self-esteem/self-concept and aggression in Black, Latino, and White middle school males : (Dissertation)

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The relationship between self-esteem/self-concept and aggression in Black, Latino, and White middle school males : (Dissertation)
Ronald E. Byrd
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EQHEAY
Release Date: 2006-02-26

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Distributed by ProQuest Information and Learning

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It's O.K. to Be a White Male
Jeff Wayne
Manufacturer: audible.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B000054856

Book Description

The Super Nerd has stolen Pikachu! Yellow needs help to get Red's favorite Pokemon back, so Misty, Brock, Erika, and Blaine team up in a new alliance of Gym Leaders to rescue the only link to Red, the missing Pokemon master.

Customer Reviews:

A good book..............2003-03-23

This was my first pokemon adventure book. The artwork is outstanding, and the action is good. But the store could have been better.

the caballero's advenures by Bart Fox.......2001-08-16

The battle between Loreli and Yellow comes to an end.After that,Erika joins up with Yellow and they find Red! Or do they? I give the book 4 stars because of the action.But did it ever come to you that Yellow resembles that girl in Part 3,Number 5.

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Best known for her passionate epistolary relationship with Franz Kafka, Czech writer Milena Jesenka (1896-1944) was an important cultural figure in her own right: she was a perceptive journalist who colorfully captured the keyed-up atmosphere of Vienna and her native Prague during the 1920s and '30s; a powerful spokesperson for Czech nationalism; and a fearless antifascist who helped Jews escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. This thoughtful biography restores the strongminded, intelligent Jesenka to her proper stature as a humane voice in the ethically slippery world of Central European politics.

KAFKA, LOVE AND COURAGE. THE LIFE OF MILENA JESENSKA.

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KAFKA, LOVE AND COURAGE. THE LIFE OF MILENA JESENSKA.
HOCKADAY MARY
Manufacturer: A. Deutsch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPY8ZO

Book Description

Practical and proven guidelines for launching and growing

a successful planned giving program

For planned giving officers and development staff members, document development is a critical part of the job. Nonprofit employees must create documents that take many forms, including: detailed proposals describing complicated gift options; marketing materials; correspondence to donors, professional advisors, and staff members; exhibits; agreements; presentation materials; and IRS and tax-related documents. This workbook, together with the documents contained on the accompanying CD-ROM, will help employees of development organizations draft, design, and develop a variety of documents that can accomplish their organization's goals.

The Planned Giving Workbook contains a CD-ROM with 425 documents to assist nonprofit development staff, mentors, and planned giving officers in their jobs. These documents serve as models, or templates, to be used in planned giving and development. The documents are divided into seven categories, with one chapter of the Workbook devoted to each type of document. The seven categories are:

Marketing
Agreements
Correspondence
Administrative Documents
Exhibits
Presentations
Tax and IRS Documents

Planned giving officers, development professionals, nonprofit executives, and consultants will find the Planned Giving Workbook to be a vital tool for long-term fundraising.

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Compilation of template documents.......2004-02-25

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Planned Giving Workbook
By Ronald R. Jordan and Kathelyn L. Quynn
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002

Reviewed by:

Norman Olshansky, President
NFP Consulting Resources, Inc.

The Planned Giving Workbook is a compilation of model documents, which are used in the course of conducting a planned giving program.

There are 425 documents presented in the workbook and/or within the CD-ROM, which comes with the publication. The documents are classified under 7 categories.
Marketing
Agreements
Correspondence
Administrative Documents
Exhibits
Presentations
Tax and IRS Documents

The documents are presented in a way that allows the reader/user to adapt them to their own program. While there is a lot of repetition of language, the book and especially the CD-ROM, can be helpful to those who are beginning or are new to planned giving. The documents provide templates for forms and other instruments, which should be in every planned giving professional's arsenal.

The authors properly note that all of the documents need to be reviewed and updated from a legal, tax and "calculation of rates" perspective. Most of the documents were prepared prior to 2001 and therefore do not reflect the most recent changes and updates which have occurred since that time.

The CD-ROM is the most valuable component of the workbook. There is also a very good section in the book that reviews how to prepare documents and outlines what are the most important components of a good document. That section relates more to writing skills rather than charitable giving content.

The title of the book is somewhat misleading since it is not a publication that deals with the totality of Planned Giving but rather one aspect.........the .development of documents used in the execution of a planned giving program. The book has a useful index and the CD is easy to use. This publication and CD-ROM should be seen more as a reference resource for ongoing use, rather than as a primer on planned giving.

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Implementation Workbook for a Local Church: Planned Giving Program
J. D. Elam
Manufacturer: Riverview Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1888499052

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