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François Roche (born in 1961 in Paris) and his partner Stéphanie Lavaux (born in 1966 on the Reunion Island) are radical advocates of a thought provoking architecture which inspires the imagination. Their buildings and projects, including the new art museum in Bangkok and the Glacier Museum in Switzerland, both of which would have been unthinkable without the latest IT methods of design, strive towards designs which are unique and unmistakeable in both function and appearance. François Roche is guest professor at the London Bartlett School and the Technical University of Vienna, and has made a name for himself internationally as a pioneer of a new architecture through his lecture activities and his participation in many exhibitions. This monograph is the first complete overview of his work and has been published to coincide with the exhibition "No Standard Architecture" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where R & Sie...architects were one of the 12 invited architectural firms.
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Cole Weston was the first in his family to express his unique vision of the world in color. His magnificent signature image is available as a lustrous Cibachrome print, signed and numbered by the photographer.
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40 - Deal With It
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Great fun, a great present for a friend or co-worker........2006-01-30
I got one of these for my boss on his 40th. Great mix of fun without being offensive enough to cause me any problems later. Good writing and great drawing make this an excellent fun gift.
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Court takes up lawyer ad rules: justices grapple with how to deal with more than 40,000 lawyer Web sites.: An article from: Florida Bar News
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Title: Court takes up lawyer ad rules: justices grapple with how to deal with more than 40,000 lawyer Web sites.
Author: Jan Pudlow
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Readers who associate "Amazon" primarily with a South American River or an online retailer are in for a big surprise. In On the Trail of the Women Warriors, Lyn Webster Wilde investigates the original Amazons, independent women warriors who lived without men. First mentioned by Homer, who considered them "women the equal of men," Amazon women fought bravely and ruthlessly in the Bronze and Iron Ages (2000 BC-300 BC), and sought out masculine society only once a year to conceive.
Webster Wilde concentrates her study on the Amazons of Greek mythology, and with clarity, wit, and detail, she examines various possibilities as to what the source of their images and myth may have been. Unlike most scholars, she examined--firsthand--Amazon remains: she traveled to the Ukraine, Russia, and the shores of the Black Sea to investigate graves of Scythian women warriors and the lost city of Themiscyra. Her findings reveal fascinating information about not only the Amazons and the societies that validated their myth, but also "our understanding of what women and men are, and what they can be, if we remove our ideas of what they should be." For example, in Classical Greece, women were utterly suppressed and misogyny was rife, while democracy ironically evolved. In the powerful myth of the Amazon and the subliminal recognition of female power as expressed in religious rites, however, women experienced the liberation denied them by society at large.
A glossary, maps, footnotes, photos, and timeline make her already accessible results even more relevant and coherent. So, did the Amazons exist as portrayed in Greek mythology? Probably not, the author concludes, but all the components of the myth most likely existed in different times and places, and "pieced together, they make an image close to the Amazon archetype." On the Trail of the Women Warriors allows readers to draw their own conclusions. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack
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"Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons." That is how the fifth century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated society ever since. Did they really exist? Until recently scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons, and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords, and armor. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Themiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults and an armed bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious warrior women.Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has explored a largely unknown field and produced a coherent and absorbing book, which challenges our preconceived notions of what men and women can do.AUTHORBIO: Lyn Webster Wilde is a broadcaster and filmmaker with a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University. She is married and lives in London. This is her third book.
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Narrow Minds.......2005-11-13
When the author writes about the "female monster" HAVING to be destroyed, she is clearly presenting the ancient greeks' justification for the course taken by their myths. She is not in any way presenting this as either her own or any legitimate viewpoint, as should be obvious if one takes into consideration the context of the sentence. I'm amazed that supposedly intelligent people simply can't grasp this subtle but simple aspect of irony in prose, but when one is caught in a fit of hysteria over an imagined slight to their political agenda....
glad i bought this book........2005-11-07
I got this book for a world mythology report, and i am glad i did. I found this book very interesting and very helpful for my report or amazon women. I picked that topic because my sister is obssesed with xena, and i like to read about powerful women. After reading this book i suggested my sister read it and she is loving it to. Of course she is more excited than i am.
something different.......2005-02-14
I've read alot of books about the Amazons and this is definately a first. It is definately the most realistic approach to the subject and I applaud the author's goals - finding the evidence of what could be the original inspiration for the stories of the Amazons. The book does not, like others, write off Amazons as a fantasy from the beginning and use them only to espouse various feminist ideas. It also doesn't have a stubborn faith that the Amazons existed EXACTLY as told in myth and stretch little amounts of evidence to the breaking point trying to "prove" their existence. And even though it does eventually HAVE to leave the subject of the mythical Greek Amazons and dig further and further back in time in many different cultures it is far from an "encyclopedia" of EVERY single woman in HISTORY that has ever been assertive.
Because it was so realistic, though, it does come off very dry and researchy.
I really don't know what to say about this book. It wasn't one of my favorites on the subject although it probably is the most useful and informative. If you have a big interest in the subject of Amazons and ancient history and archaeology then you'll appreciate this (maybe not like, but appreciate). But if you are looking for something that really invokes the fantasy and passion and obsession with the Amazons and what they have come to stand for then you definately have to look elsewhere.
Stunning book........2003-11-25
This is a stunning book, about the origins of warrior women, and in particular the myth of the amazons. It has obviously been meticulously researched, and is based on historic sources. Lyn is a wonderful writer, telling her story with flair, and keeping the reader fascinated and curious right up to the end. For me, it has been as much a discovery of the religious significance of women, and of the Goddess, as an interesting historical book. It follows the story, as far as we can tell, of warrior women, across time and space. I would recommend it to any reader.
Interesting but Introduction/conclusion falls flat........2003-08-31
Based on her comments in the Introduction and concluding paragraphs of this book, I am quite sure that Wilde would not consider herself a feminist. While I do not consider myself a feminist, I definitely bristled at her clear statements on how men and Christianity taking over female-centered societies have advanced civilization. Says who? She must live in a Eutopian bubble not to see the inequality around her. Unfortunately, we will never know otherwise.
With that said, I did appreciate the book. Wilde takes us with her to various Near and Middle Eastern countries to search for the Amazons. There is also some great information on Goddess-centered and therefore female-centered societies. The book is clearly written and is not sentimental. Wilde does not bash males or push to give females more of a place of power than she can prove.
What does ruin it for me are the comments about how Christianity and men have advanced civilization and made the world a better place. I consider myself her target audience and wish that even if she does feel this, she kept it to herself because it sticks in my mind much more than all of the research and travel she embarked on to bring the Amazons to life.
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Trail of Feathers
Tahir Shah
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Enthralled by the chronicle of a 16th-century Spanish monk, which said that the Incas 'flew like birds' over the jungle, and by the recurring theme of flying in Peruvian folklore, Tahir Shah set out to discover whether the Incas really did fly or glide above the jungles of Peru. Or was it flight of a different kind, inspired by powerful drugs? After gathering equipment in London the long quest begins, in the mountains of Peru, with a trek to Machu Picchu, the Incas' most sacred city. Then on to the mountain city of Cusco and a mysterious island on Lake Titicaca, before the trail of clues leads to the coast and through the desert, to the immense animal-like etchings which form the Nazca Lines and a remote burial ground for 30,000 mummified corpses. And finally to an epic river-journey up the Amazon to discover the secrets of the Shuar, a tribe of legendary savagery. Even for a traveller so used to surreal adventures, there are many strange encounters - some gruesome, some hilarious - among madmen and dreamers, sorcerers, con-men and jungle experts, before he can at last discover the truth about the Birdmen of Peru.
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The Amazon Trail
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The Amazon Trail
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Exceptional and thoroughly enjoyable.......2006-09-13
These selections of the author's column `The Amazon Trail' were published in newspapers during the mid-1980's (and is still being published in 2006) are tremendously enjoyable. I picked it up to read a couple selections and didn't put it down until the last page (and I wasn't ready for it to end there).
Laced with insight, humor and life's everyday (and not so everyday) dramas. This is a not to be missed book and I can only hope that we may someday have more tales from the author's journey on the amazon trail..
From the back of the book - For four years Lee Lynch's syndicated column THE AMAZON TRAIL has been appearing in lesbian and gay papers from coast to coast. Now, at last, it is available to her wide audience of lesbian readers who have been following her work in TOOTHPICK HOUSE, OLD DYKE TALE, THE SWASHBUCKLER, HOME IN YOUR HANDS and her latest novel, DUSTY'S QUEEN OF HEARTS DINER.
Lee covers the lesbian and gay scene from coast to coast, from inside our bookstores to inside our bars, campfire to coven to careers, into and out of love. Growing up lesbian and being openly and proudly lesbian for 30 years and the rich perspective that come from "The Good Life", just one of the many selections of this delightful, sobering, fascinating and enriching collection.
Follow Lee from "The Good Life" though "Gay Lit," "Portraits," "Gay Rites" and "The Geography of Gay," into adventures as diverse as the secret haunts of famous writers to the food dubbed "Lesbian Stew" recommended for the temporarily bereft, from exploration of a notorious bar to learning to live soberly.
Lee tells us "Gay children flare up everywhere, stronger than religion and law and violence" and that "I wanted to spend my life writing from my heart in a way that will enhance the lives of my readers."
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Amazon Trail
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on June 24, 2003. The length of the article is 1075 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: City to add last link to emerald chain.(Government)(The Amazon Headwaters Trail, the final portion of a public greenbelt, will be open by next spring)
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Professional Liability And Risk Management: An Essential Guide for Obstetrician-Gynecologists
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This manual is focused on the design professional's involvement in the construction process, the areas where the design professional is exposed to liability, the types of liability and methods to minimize such liability. The manual will also explore types of alternative dispute resolution procedures and how certain contract provisions setting forth such procedures can benefit the design professional. This manual will aid the practitioner in refining various types of contractual agreements and examine different ways to limit the design professional's liability. Additionally, the manual will focus on the various types of construction claims brought against the design professional and methods to defend against such actions.
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Professional Liability-Risk Management: A Manual for Surgeons
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Risk Management: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
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