The Patio Portfolio: An Inspirational Design Guide
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The Patio Portfolio: An Inspirational Design Guide
David R. Smith
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764320505

Book Description

An inspiring collection of design ideas for patio construction, this book will help you discover ways to transform ordinary outdoor spaces into perfect outdoor environments. Over 200 beautiful color photographs show patios of all shapes and sizes, from quaint and picturesque, to grand and elegant, for any kind of budget. Your dreams will turn into exciting design realities as you visually explore dozens of patios, studying their shapes, colors, textures, and patterns. You'll be sure to find the perfect patio to suit your home's architecture and your family's lifestyle. 8 1/2" x 11" 200 color photos

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Paver advertisement.......2007-04-29

I purchased this based on the 4 star review it received, but it was a huge disappointment. Every single photo in this book is taken directly from a paver catalog, which you can get for free. And they all start to look the same after a page or two. It is just the same configurations against different backgrounds. The captions under the photos were the only text in the book and they were pretty bland. I have been reading a lot of home and garden design books as research for a project and this book was by far the worst I have seen.

4 out of 5 stars Picture Perfect.......2005-08-31

Photos are indeed inspirational, giving the view of the finished product for a wide variety of settings. Visuals or perfect pictures of the final results inspire options to give your own ideas form, outline, and color.

Native American Voices On Identity, Art, And Culture: Objects Of Everlasting Esteem
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    Native American Voices On Identity, Art, And Culture: Objects Of Everlasting Esteem

    Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 1931707804

    Sam Taylor-Wood
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      Peter Doroshenko , and Harland Miller
      Manufacturer: Steidl/BALTIC
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Leather Bound

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      ASIN: 3865213235
      Release Date: 2006-08-15

      Book Description

      As one of the leading artists of her generation, Sam Taylor-Wood is acclaimed for her compelling psychological portraits in photography, film and video. Over the last several years they've included a series of still photographs of male celebrities crying, and a short video observing the English footballer David Beckham as he sleeps. Each piece creates a slightly enigmatic situation replete with latent energy. Taylor-Wood is compulsively examining the contemporary psyche and the place of the individual within the social group, and in order to do so, she is displaying the vulnerability and fragility of the human body and self. Sam Taylor-Wood presents the artist's most iconic pieces alongside previously unpublished images from her own archives, including personal, reportage and documentary work. She asked musicians and writers who have inspired her to contribute text, and Nick Cave, Peter Doroshenko, James Fox, Harland Miller, Rufus Wainwright and Ossian Ward complied. Their writing appears alongside an in-depth interview with the artist by Annushka Shani.
      Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men
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        Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men

        Manufacturer: Steidl/Matthew Marks Gallery
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

        GeneralGeneral | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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        ASIN: 3865210392
        Release Date: 2004-11-02

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        Description: Crying Men is a series of photographic portraits of famous film actors: Tim Roth, Gabriel Byrne, Laurence Fishburne, Woody Harrelson, Michael Gambon, Jude Law, Hayden Christiansen, Ryan Gosling, Robert Downey Jr., Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Benicio Del Toro, Willem Dafoe, Kris Kristofferson, and others. Sam Taylor-Wood makes portraits of her subjects as actors; she shoots them in character, asking each to perform and cry for the camera, and demanding their investment in the process. These are no passive sitters. Each of the resulting images is distinct; one actor recalls the hieratic clarity of a Byzantine saint whose tears appear decorative. Other images are of heroic crying, where stoic restraint has broken down. Some display the voluptuous crying of medieval saints, others cathartic crying or quiet tears of regret and grief. Yet while being moved by these intimate revelatory images, we simultaneously know that the emotional display is being play-acted. Sam Taylor-Wood's film and photographic works are distinguished by their subversive creation of enigmatic situations full of latent but explosive energy.
        Art From the UK: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whitread
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • a credible book to credit great artwork
        Art From the UK: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whitread
        Neal Brown , David Bussel , Paul Fryer , Angela Bulloch , Tracey Emin , Douglas Gordon , Mona Hatoum , Sarah Lucas , Rachel Whiteread , and Abigail Lane
        Manufacturer: Ingvild Goetz
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

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        Hatoum, MonaHatoum, Mona | ( G-I ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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        ASIN: 3980526739
        Release Date: 2001-01-02

        Book Description

        Featuring interviews with and artwork by such hot young British artists as Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Angela Bulloch, and Sarah Lucas, Art from the UK documents an exhibition at the Goetz Collection in Munich. The Goetz Collection is one of the most important collections devoted solely to contemporary art, and is housed in its own small private museum, designed by renowned Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The works presented here exemplify the Goetz Collection's dedication to art that is innovative and challenging--from Mona Hatoum's surprising and complex mixture of media, to Rachel Whiteread's inverted spaces, to Sam Taylor-Wood's explorations of the erotic entanglements of people in closed spaces. In addition, the interviews presented in Art from the UK offer a tremendous insight into the changing creative processes and aesthetic philosophies of the new wave of contemporary artists.

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars a credible book to credit great artwork.......2001-04-08

        I found this book ot be an excellent asset to my collection of modern british art. I thought that the large amount of content was covered thouroghly, but not drawn out to get stale(just like the artwork itself, discussed). This is a very important book because it recaps all of what is happening with the yBa movement in the artworld. This book is for anyone who wants to be on top of the world of modern art.
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          Sam Taylor-Wood
          Manufacturer: Booth-Clibborn
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          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 1861542232
          Grand Street: Trouble/65 (Summer, 1998)
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            Grand Street: Trouble/65 (Summer, 1998)
            Eugene; William T. Vollmann; Sam Taylor-Wood; Rachid Boudjedra; Jean-Jacques Lebel (and others) Ionesco
            Manufacturer: Grand Street Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000NPSD60
            Just Love Me
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              Just Love Me
              Diana Ebster , Thomas Meinecke , Birgit Sonna , Katharina Sykora , Gillian Wearing , Tracey Emin , Matthew Barney , Mike Kelley , Sarah Lucas , Pipilotti Rist , Sue Williams , Andrea Zittel , and Tracey Moffatt
              Manufacturer: Walther Konig
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 3883757543
              Release Date: 2003-11-02

              Book Description

              Description: Just Love Me--with its title taken directly from a late 90s neon sign by Tracey Emin--reveals how complex and differentiated female identity constructions have become today. Classically assigned roles have broken down. Radical feminist positions of the 70s and 80s no longer make sense. But if much has changed since the late 60s, when feminist artists began to make their most prominent moves, many social and structural problems remain. The strategies and perspectives of women artists today--and, presumably, of women today--are here considered through a selection of works by an important group of contemporary (mostly) women artists: Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffat, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidan, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.
              Moving Pictures: Photography and Film in Contemporary Art
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                Moving Pictures: Photography and Film in Contemporary Art
                Tacita Dean , Rudolf Scheutle , Christopher Williams , Doug Aitken , Matthew Barney , Douglas Gordon , Roni Horn , Sharon Lockhart , and Mariko Mori
                Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

                Collections, Catalogues & ExhibitionsCollections, Catalogues & Exhibitions | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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                ASIN: 3775710507
                Release Date: 2001-09-02

                Book Description

                In recent decades, the border areas between photography and film have emerged as an important field of contemporary photographic art. Well-known practitioners include the American artist Cindy Sherman with her "Film Stills," a series of black-and-white self-portraits evoking film stills from the 1940s and 1950s both in form and content, and the Australian Sam Taylor-Wood, whose photographic panoramas-sometimes more than 30 feet long-forge interpersonal dramas from individual pictures, not unlike unrolled scrolls of film. With works by 40 international artists, this book is the first dedicated to a growing artistic fascination. Based on the observation that at the beginning of the 21st century the history of the moving picture is at an end and yielding fast to the reality of accelerated information, the book bridges the gap between the "classical" position of photography and contemporary work using the Internet and other technologies.
                Parkett (Art Anthology) Volume 55
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                  Parkett (Art Anthology) Volume 55
                  Ed Ruscha
                  Manufacturer: Parkett
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback

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                  ASIN: 3907582055
                  Release Date: 1999-06-02

                  Book Description

                  Artwork by Ed Ruscha. Photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood. Contributions by Andreas Slominski.
                  Sam Taylor-Wood: Third Party
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                    Sam Taylor-Wood: Third Party

                    Manufacturer: Cantz
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Hardcover

                    Pop CulturePop Culture | Graphic Design | Design & Decorative Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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                    ASIN: 3775790136
                    Release Date: 2000-04-02

                    Book Description

                    Photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood.
                    Sam Taylor-wood: Unhinged
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                      Sam Taylor-wood: Unhinged
                      Sam Taylor-Wood
                      Manufacturer: Book Works (UK) Ltd.
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Hardcover

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                      ASIN: 1870699246

                      Inu-Yasha : A Feudal Fairy Tale, Vol. 4
                      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                      • ONE OF THE MOST COOL BOOKS!!
                      • yet another enjoyable addition to the series
                      • Great!
                      • Blood 'N Guts 'N Sushi! by A 13 year-old in San Diego
                      • Correcting past mistakes...
                      Inu-Yasha : A Feudal Fairy Tale, Vol. 4

                      Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC
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                      ASIN: 1569313687

                      Book Description

                      In Rumiko Takahashi's latest volume of this epic adventure, Inu-Yasha and Kagome - protectors of the powerful "jewel of four souls" - are challenged by army-fighting demons and the ghost of an unforgiving girl.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      5 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE MOST COOL BOOKS!!.......2002-10-14

                      This is a really awesome book. Especially with the thunder brothers--Hiten and Manten--who kidnapped Kagome. Inu-Yasha is forced to fight not only to keep the shards, but to hide a secret I think even his own heart was keeping from him, by saving Kagome. It's sweet with the scenes and the tension between the strong, Shikon-Jewel-souped-up, full-demon Hiten against Inu-Yasha; Shippo, as little as he is, trying to help; Kagome trying to set some memories right with the little one. Even though our hero is only half-demon, he is--as one of the chapters says--a half-demon is better than one.

                      Pacifing the angry soul of Mayu gives you a chance to see Kagome's really strength and determination. Guess Inu-Yasha does need her, huh? (And not just as a shard detector) Though you don't see him nearly as much in this little story of the book, he's still a big focus.
                      This one deserves 5 stars; you can call me bias, don't care.

                      (By the way, will somebody ever slap Hojo with a stick of knowledge? Because if someone says they slapped him with a stupid stick, I'd disagree. I'd still disagree if they said he was beaten with it. I'd say he had a severe fall down the whole dang tree!!!)
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                      5 out of 5 stars yet another enjoyable addition to the series.......2002-06-28

                      I wouldn't recommend reading this book if you haven't at least read the first book, and even then this might be confusing. It begins with a continuation of the confrontation that began in the third book. Kagome has been kidnapped by a pair of demons, the Thunder Brothers, but she manages to convince them that she'd be of more use to them alive than dead. They find Inu-yasha because they want the shards of the Shikon Jewel that he has, in order to increase their own demonic powers. In the second half of the book, Kagome is back in her own time period and trying to survive school. Unfortunately, she can never seem to get anything done without something supernatural appearing. Kagome has to somehow get a dead girl to find peace before the Tatari-mokke, a demon that plays with the ghosts of newly dead children, opens its eyes. The girl will go to hell if she can't find peace before then. The second part of the book is, I think, the first time that Kagome and Inu-yasha have ever done anything that didn't give them the possibility of recovering a shard of the Jewel. Rumiko Takahashi handles the death of a child and the idea of learning forgiveness very nicely in that second part.

                      5 out of 5 stars Great!.......2002-04-25

                      It basicaly continue from volume three, then has a short story when Kagome go back during her time and meet a dead girl! Read it!!!!!!!

                      4 out of 5 stars Blood 'N Guts 'N Sushi! by A 13 year-old in San Diego.......2002-04-17

                      Actualy Im 13, I just had to say Im 12 to do this form.

                      This was a pretty good book. Its Manga, Main-Gah, a Japanese comic-book, er, "Graphic Novel." This is by the same guy, I meen Girl, as the one who did Ranma 1/2. Her name is Rumiko takahashi... Or some thing like that. She is a really great artist, and does the best art in any manga ever! Now for the plot:

                      A girl named Kagomi- Kah go mee, I think,- is in present day Japan, but falls down her familie's anchient-Sacred well, trying to get her little brothers cat out. She wakes up in Feudal Japan with a demon centapede after her!

                      There she meets a strange half dog-Demon boy named Inu-yasha, who beleives her to be the incarnation of Kragomi,a Preistess of the Shikon Jewel, The women he once loved, the woman who killed him once...Or did she? He is on a quest to find the Shikon, for in will make him a full demon. Unfortunatly Kagomi breakes the Jewel, scattering the peices over all Japan. Now the two, A rude young dog-demon boy, and a modern schoolgirl, must team up to recover the jewel shards.

                      Warning- Japanese manga is very different from U.s comics:

                      More Blood, less violence.
                      Plenty of rok'im sok'm fights.

                      Better artwork, better plot, less dialoge.

                      Due to Public baths, they have nothing against bare umm...you know. This is kinda embarasing for me, but, I'd advise moms against letting any one under 12 read this, maby 15 for boys. It's not really nasty, just embarrasing. And there is barely any of it in there.

                      5 out of 5 stars Correcting past mistakes..........2000-02-21

                      First off, let me just say this: Inu-Yasha is my favorite Takahashi manga to date! Second, I think you get a pretty good plot summary from Amazon and the other reviews, so I won't go into that. However,I will say that with plot and characters both, Takahashi surpasses all her other manga series. Personally, I thought that Lum was a bit out there, Mermaid Scar a bit too gory, and Ranma 1/2 was too repetitive, but in this title, it's as if Takahashi has taken the best from all of her series and decided to part with the worst (not that there was much of that anyway!). She's finally perfected the blend of action and romantic comedy. Inu-Yasha and Kagome as the reluctant couple complement each other perfectly--Kagome is mature in her actions, yet not in her feelings, and Inu-Yasha, while aware of what he feels, can't get past his somewhat juvenile behavior. I'm happy to say Takahashi-san has ironed out the flaws that persisted in the relationship between Ranma and Akane. Kagome is smart, independent and *very* likable, but she isn't violent or unforgiving or unwilling to listen, like Akane sometimes was. She's more than capable of standing up for herself, but she doesn't have to put others down to do it. Finally, a heroine who can put up with her guy! I'm very impressed with her--she can see past Inu-Yasha's hostile exterior and be kind to him in spite of his insults (though by no means being a suffering saint!). It's also refreshing to see the characters grow--Kagome started out slightly ditzy, but as she found herself having to deal with demons and monsters, she quickly shapes up and becomes reliable in a crisis, stable and in control. She's also sensitive and caring. On to Inu-Yasha. He seems at first to be a Ranma-type character--unable to express his feelings, hurting the ones he loves by accident, yet as the manga progresses, you see he has much more depth to him. Inu-Yasha has a rather unfortunate past with Kikyo, and that's the thing stopping him from fully accepting his relationship w/ Kagome. His past also leads him to be suspicious of mortals, and his heritage adds yet more complications to his emotional outlook. As a half-demon who fights agains his humanity, he's really a much better person than even he knows. I must say it was very surprising to find out that he's quite aware of his feelings for both Kikyo and Kagome--he just can't bring himself to put them out in the open. One thing I love about this manga is that we can finally *really* emphasize with Inu-Yasha's distrust of women and Kagome's frustration at not being able to get closer to him. In Ranma, it was hard to take the characters or their feelings seriously--the situations were always so wacky and bizzare that they spoiled and refuted any really dramatic moments. But here, you can really feel Kagome's ache for something more, and Inu-Yasha's bitter reluctance to commit. Another factor is the much more mature storyline, with gripping action that leads you to exclaim and sometimes hold your breath in anticipation as you flip the pages. Finally--if you felt some of Takahashi's other titles were too repetitive--that they settled into a pattern and stayed there--I'm happy to say that _this isn't the case_ with Inu-Yasha. Just as you think the story's beginning to be in a rut (about Volume 4)--Takahashi introduces a whole new aspect to the plot, dealing with passion, trust, heartbreak and betrayal in a surprisingly serious way. This all starts out in Volume 5, and only gets better from there on. This isn't quite the light-hearted comedy Takahashi-san usually serves up, but with still plenty of laughs in between. So even if you found some of Takahashi's other works not to your liking (but especially if you did!) here comes a manga with something for everyone. Buy it already!

                      The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe
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                        The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe

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                        ASIN: 0838980856

                        Bell's Guide : The Comprehensive Real Estate Handbook
                        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                        • A good source of info for Real Estate & Property managers
                        • Very informative for homeowners.
                        • EXCELLENT REFERENCE FOR BUYING/SELLING A HOME
                        Bell's Guide : The Comprehensive Real Estate Handbook
                        Randall Bell
                        Manufacturer: Sequoia Publishing
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                        ASIN: 1886734119

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                        This amazing new book now corners the market for being the most outstanding real estate quick-reference available. It is an outstanding tool for explaining complex real estate matters and can help in decision making situations regarding real estate purchases, sales and useage of property. This most useful tool is used by real estate professionals, developers, appraisers; and yet anyone who owns, rents, leases or is otherwise involved with real estate matters (such as homeowners) will find it very useful. Students,this book is for you! It contains more than 500 pages of facts, charts, graphs, diagrams and checklists, AND it fits in your shirt pocket!

                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars A good source of info for Real Estate & Property managers.......1998-07-03

                        I find this guide a be a great source of information for Realtors and Property Managers, from the novice to the old line pros. It covers the many faucets of sales, maintenance and the administration of real property. As a property manager I find it most helpful in my everyday work. The charts and graphs have been great assets in preparing my maintenance directives and checklists. The sections dealing with security and environmental issues have been very helpful in the preparation of various directives. Bell's Guide truly covers real estate from AtoZ and has found a definite spot on my desktop as one of my most important reference sources.

                        5 out of 5 stars Very informative for homeowners........1998-07-03

                        This is a handy little reference - basically a pocket encyclopedia of real estate. I find it useful as a homeowner and even more so as I consider making a change to a new home.

                        5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT REFERENCE FOR BUYING/SELLING A HOME.......1998-06-30

                        I found this book to be very easy to read and quick for referencing the topics covered. While it may have been designed for use by Real Estate agents and other professionals, as a homeowner (and buyer/seller at different times in life) it includes solid information on repairs, safety and security , mortgaging and keeping property in top value. The next time I move, the charts will be helpful in keeping a focus and going through the process in an organized manner. In the interim, the finance section is helpful in watching opportunities to refinance or restructure my mortgage. I would recommend the book to anyone who owns or who is thinking of owning a home or other property.

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