Great Kitchen Designs: A Visual Feast of Ideas and Resources

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Here is a collection of 370 gorgeous color photos to pour over and ponder: images to inspire dreams. Full-color pictures of hundreds of beautiful kitchens will help you sort out the details and create your own unique cooking/dining/entertaining environment. All the elements of beautiful kitchensflooring, cabinetry, windows, walls, lighting, appliances, surrounds, backsplashes and moreare pictured and discussed. Individual chapters will help you find the right look, exploring current trends from exotic to country, formal to feminine, antique to modern. Imaginative solutions for showing off collections are explored, as well as ways to open up the kitchen to wonderful outside views. There are lots of ideas for creating gathering places for family and guests alike into the hearth of the home. A special chapter on the small kitchen illustrates solutions for homes with limited space, and a resource guide at the back of the book will point you toward award-winning designers and top-notch manufacturers. This is an invaluable resource for anyone planning to remodel an old kitchen or build a new one and a great reference book and sales tool for any kitchen design professional.

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The ideas are not so great.......2002-12-15

If you like tradional style kitchens, then this may be useful to you. Otherwise, I suggest you skip it. The tips are not very informative and the pictures are so-so. Better books are Better Homes and Gardens: Complete Kitchens and the Kitchen Planner (this one especially if you are remodeling your home).

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At Home with Art is about art lovers, their passion for art, and their seemingly unquenchable desire to bring home the works that have captured their hearts. Whether the artworks are Picassos or posters, these people want to acquire and live with the art they love. "I wake up in the morning and exercise where I can look at it," says John Robson about one of the paintings in his San Francisco townhouse. How these art lovers integrate their finds
into their living spaces, juxtaposing their paintings and sculpture with the artifacts of everyday life -- furniture, rugs, books, lamps, objets d'art -- is vividly illustrated here in more than fifty homes inhabited by people for whom living with art is as essential as breathing.

These homes are not mini-museums with art to be admired from a respectful distance. Nor have they been designed by interior decorators whose goal is to harmonize the upholstery with the pictures. Each home has been chosen for its very personal and inspired expression of art and decor, revealing a deep, even spiritual, relationship between the pictures on the walls and the people who place them there. From airy lofts and old farmhouses to sleek city apartments and cozy traditional houses, all are made special by the paintings and sculptures within.

A wide variety of people appear in these pages, from the president of MoMA to a young man in love with poster art, to the writer who has artist friends, to the young woman who inherited pieces from her mother, to the actress whose art travels with her wherever she goes. The kinds of art that speak to them and that they are impelled to acquire range from old masters to outsider art, from folk art to contemporary art, to prints, drawings, photographs, and sculpture. We learn about what sparked their interest in a particular genre, how they make their selections, how they meld them into their homes, and what living with their art means to them.

Though looking at these interiors proves there are no fixed rules about displaying a work of art, special sections on framing, hanging, lighting, and caring for art, from oil paintings to delicate works on paper, provide technical assistance. A directory includes framers, dealers, auction houses, and restorers in major American cities and in London.

Above all, At Home with Art shows that there are all kinds of art to be loved and cherished, however grand or simple, and that living surrounded by art's beauty can bring boundless personal satisfaction.

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An invitation into the homes of collectors........2000-12-31

This book is inspiring because it shows us the homes of many collectors of paintings.It is well written, but there are not enough new ideas that can be incorporated by the reader. Some of the collectors have little idea on how to display their paintings in a way that is pleasing and justifies the works. Many of the dispalys are cluttered and claustrophobic. Yet, there are some splendid homes that incorporate paintings spectacularly. The article on Dorothy and Herbert Vogel is very moving. These extra-ordinary people deserve a book just on them.

A unique and personal view of collecting.......2000-01-12

This is an extraordinary book. Clearly not intended as a scholarly exercise, the authors take us up close and personal with outstanding collectors and their art. These are people I would be unlikely ever to meet, and their personal views and how they are expressed through the works they surround themselves with provide a glimpse into the collecting mind. Many of the homes are wealthy, though some are artists who have accumulated works from their friends. The photos are spectacular, and give many ideas of how art can be integrated into one's home.

At Home With Art Not Your Home.......2000-01-06

Diving into this book, as an avid art collector, one might expect to learn how different people work with the art they possess. This book though is really for those who are stricly ardent and almost excessive collectors who like to jam pack their residences with works galore. What is missing from this text is a careful presentation of how many different types of people display their art. There is too much focus on furniture, collecting passions and interest, and not enough focus on ideas. Overall, I found this book to be somewhat mono-dimensional in the concepts portrayed of how others live with their art. More a picture of what the authors had preconceived than a search for the spectrum of ideas.

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That is fun ..... memory recycle

the art of unintended consequences

Junk

Simple and Wonderful

Other Pictures: Anonymous Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection

Manufacturer: Twin Palms Publishers
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That is fun ..... memory recycle.......2005-08-11

The photographs are part of the Thomas Walther collection, which is assembled after endless search in flea markets, junk stores, etc. It is the accompanying catalogue of the exhibition with the same name, which has been taken place in different places around the world. I got this copy when visiting the exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

These found photos dated from 1910 and 1960, which were taken by anonymous individuals. Images are personal, intimate, and full of humour. Out of its context, it provides a means of collective memory of our past. Perfect match if you like second-handed stuff, junks, etc

the art of unintended consequences.......2005-05-24

This isn't a book for those in search of precisely composed and exposed photography of traditionally museum-worthy subjects. These images are for those who thrive on surprise and the accidental. Mysterious, inexplicable, impenetrable, they're full of wonder if you open your eyes. And the presentation is similarly serendipitous, avoiding categories to offer a better sense of the unexpected images one might find at at flea market. This is one of my very favorite photography books, and belongs on the shelf os anyone interested at all in found or vernacular photography.

Junk.......2003-07-21

There is nothing here of artistic or camp value, and certainly not nostalgia. Out of focus, overexposed junk. What a farce! When I think what this guy could have done...terrible disappointment.

Simple and Wonderful.......2000-08-09

"Other Pictures" is another great book from Twin Palms Publishers. It is a collection of snap shots by anonymous photographers. It is the perfect book for anyone who has lost hours at flee-markets or junk stores pouring over vintage photographs. I gave this book to an artist friend and got rave reviews. The collector who put these picutres together seem to have a wonderful sense of humor and a real love of "Happy accidents." The pictures found within are a pleaseure. It reminds me of the pictures that didn't make it into the family album - but tell the real story.

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This book contains the papers presented at the second World Scientific Congress of Golf. The overall theme of the congress is the application of science, scientific method and scientific research in golf. The congress is intended to provide a forum for scientists of different disciplines to meet and discuss their ideas and research and for practising coaches to interact with scientists.

When War Played Through: Golf During World War II

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When War Played Through: Golf During World War II
John Strege
Manufacturer: Gotham
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ASIN: 1592401546

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The New York Times bestselling author pays tribute to the golfers who rallied for an Allied victory during World War II—and shows how the Greatest Generation kept golf alive, despite equipment shortages, bombings, and even captivity.

World War II transformed the American home front, and golf was no exception. The world-famous Masters course at Augusta National became a farm to ease food shortages. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were drafted, and Bobby Jones enlisted. Rubber rationing forced pros and amateurs alike to play with well-worn golf balls—and created a black market for new ones. The 1942 U.S. Open was canceled, replaced by the Hale American Open—whose winner, Ben Hogan, was awarded $1,000 in war bonds—while golfers across the country raised millions of dollars for the war effort.

When War Played Through brings to life these little-known aspects of an endlessly fascinating period in golf's history. Bestselling golf author John Strege's narrative extends overseas to captured soldiers in Germany who constructed golf courses in a POW camp and English golfers who devised rules for playing around bomb craters and shrapnel during the Blitz (from the Richmond Gold Club in London: “A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball. Penalty one stroke.”). Many golfers returned home from battle with commendations for valor, finding unmatched solace on the links after a dark time.

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Golf is magic. Just talk to anyone who's played more than a round-or flip through two or three pages of this stunning new book, Golfers. With more than 65 beautiful black-and-white photos accompanied by descriptions of the locale and players, renowned photojournalist Dick Durrance truly captures the magic of this game. Durrance's images transport readers onto the fog-shrouded fairways, beside the green where a grandfather beams as his granddaughter sinks her first putt, and beneath the blazing Arizona sun, where Countryside RV Park residents see not sand and cactuses but fairways and greens. Along with anonymous golf enthusiasts, the book features golf legends Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, as well as celebrities from other fields who also happen to be avid golfers, such as Tico Torres, sculptor and drummer for Bon Jovi; NFL star Jerry Rice; and tennis champion Gigi Fernandez.This book reflects the magnificent range of people, places, and particulars that make golf such a passion and celebrates the deep feelings experienced by those who play the game. Golfers will treasure this book, and others will finally begin to understand.

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Great, even for non-golfers.......2003-03-26

I am surprised that this book was the source of so much enjoyment for me, since I had originally bought it thinking it was about Dick Dastardly from the Wacky Races (my youngest wanted it for Christmas). Suffice to say, come Christmas Day, Jeffrey was in tears and the whole household was looking at me reproachfully.

But when I locked myself in the lavatory for the rest of the afternoon to escape the sarcastic commentary from the assembled throng, I was absolutely rapt with it. Really good. I'm still not quite sure of the author's name, though.

Hole In One.......2000-12-20

"Golfers" is an inspiring collection of photographs and essays that brilliantly captures the addictive allure of golf- a game that Dick Durrance presents as a metaphor of life - an elusive search for excellence, a test of personal values, a source of enduring friendships.

Durrance take us on a fascinating journey from Chelsea Piers in New York to "The Chilly Open" on a frozen lake in Minnesota to "Wild Golf" in the foothill pastures of Colorado. He surrounds stunning photographs with moving essays that reflect the diversity of the game, and he balances reverence with an eye for the absurd - that creative club in the American golf bag that keeps us on course when life and recreation get too serious.

You don't have to be a golfer to appreciate the wisdom and humility that come with the game or the artistic hole-in-one that Durrance has shot with this book.

Amazing Gift Book: A True Golfing Revery.......2000-12-15

Durrance has struck gold with his poignant look at the people of golf. His hallmark photography is stunning but only a step ahead of the funny and touching description of his brief time with each subject. He is to be commended for such stellar work completed in such a short period - three months. The range of characters - from professionals to the most rank amateurs - presents a sweeping view of the golf world that will find resonance in anyone who enjoys the game. This book is the perfect gift for any or all of the golfers in your life.

GOOD SPORTS: A LARGE PRINT ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT SPORTS WRITING: Volume II: Tennis, Basketball, Golf, Horse Racing & The Olympics and Other Special Events

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GOOD SPORTS: A LARGE PRINT ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT SPORTS WRITING: Volume II: Tennis, Basketball, Golf, Horse Racing & The Olympics and Other Special Events

Manufacturer: G.K.HALL & CO.
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ASIN: B000I9J234

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Guia Pactica Del Gol II
Joerg Van Den Berge
Manufacturer: Konemann
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In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.

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Passionately written, but a difficult read........2007-04-13

Charles Sellers sets an ambitious goal for himself. Using a multidisciplinary approach, he revisits an already well researched and controversial period in American history to formulate his hypothesis. He argues that the economic boom, which followed the war of 1812, began a cycle of transformation that lasted a generation, the outcome of which determined the capitalist market system that effects our daily lives even to this day. To buttress his argument Sellers uses a great many monographs on a variety of subjects, the most critical of which he outlines in a selective bibliographic essay.

Sellers theorizes that it was a market revolution that established the "capitalist hegemony over economy, politics and culture." (5) While the constitution is the framework of American government and the foundation of its laws, in the early eighteenth century people's attitudes and the events they triggered transformed the nation politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Egalitarians opposed a more intrusive government that market elites saw necessary to promote capitalism.

There have been outspoken men with powerful ideas in America's history and the period under discussion is no exception. Disagreement prodded a divided country toward its ultimate destiny. There was no grand design; contemporaneously there existed no perfect road map to the future. The clashing perspectives of land and market focused early American politics on three tightly linked questions: 1) How democratic - how responsive to popular majorities - would government be? 2) Would government power be extensive and concentrated at the federal level or limited and diffused among states? 3) To what extent and in what ways would government promote economic growth?

In the brief span of a generation, these questions were answered between the end of war in 1815 and Democrat Pennsylvanian David Wilmot's antislavery amendment in the House, which inflamed differences over slavery. Suppressed anger encouraged new coalitions to form which, Sellers maintains, made the Civil War inevitable. The "great contradiction," as he refers to the Civil War, was caused by the failure of a compromise between the irreconcilability of slavery and liberal capitalism.

Sellers' treatise is a thoughtful synthesis explaining what happened and why. In the political economy "public policy was an indispensable generator of market revolution." (435) Change began when Andrew Jackson defeated the British in New Orleans and the economic boom, which followed the War of 1812, pitted subsistence farmers against enterprising New York traders. According to Sellers abundant land and geography created a class struggle. As citizens moved inland they could subsist but impenetrable geographic barriers fostered familial and neighborly relationships. In contrast, along the coast, grain and other commodities could be grown or manufactured for trade with England. There commerce led to economic interdependence and the rising importance and influence of port cities. The significance of these developments was personified in the opposing philosophies of Jeffersonian Republicanism's whose desire for a more limited government conflicted with Hamilton's "developmental capitalist state." (33)

Sellers argues Republicanism was an ambiguous ideology. Under the four Republican administrations of Jefferson and Madison, people were affected less by federal power; state and local governments exerted considerably more influence. Both Jefferson and Madison each opposed the Hamiltonians. But "the crucial difference between the two friends was also the crucial ambiguity at the heart of republicanism. Jefferson was anxious about the corrupting effect of the market on American farm families, while Madison saw farmers as incipient small entrepreneurs who were to be fulfilled by the market." (39)

To tap interior resources, entrepreneurs influenced state governments to consider transportation needs. Federal money was not available so, in the case of New York, under Governor De Witt Clinton, a Republican legislature financed the Erie Canal. This success spurred other transportation projects in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston. "By the 1840s, as a consequence, a northeastern sectional economy was integrating the port/hinterland economies and reaching out to create a national market." (45) Ironically it was Republican-controlled state governments that first provided the financing for transportation improvements which made the market revolution possible.

According to Sellers, lawyers, judges, and courts led the way in formulating state policy. The epitome of judicial interpretation was the case of Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824, in which Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, writing for a unanimous court, adopted Daniel Webster's argument that the Constitution under the commerce clause trumped state regulation in matters of commerce. This broad construction of the constitution angered Jefferson, then aged eighty-two, who riled at the aggrandizement of Federal power.

During this time of change and transformation, people turned to religion for comfort. Through religion people sought their own peace in a troubling time. Sellers notes "their pessimistic piety belies our historical mythology of capitalist transformation as human fulfillment." (202) However the prospect of conversions on a large scale through a national market, convinced religious leaders of the benefits from a capitalist market. Sellers writes that "a prophetic irony made these spiritual missives [referring to publications of Moderate Light organizations] the first standardized, mass-produced commodities to be distributed and promoted for the entire national market." (215)

A new reality emerged within a larger market. Widening inequality of income and consumption between elites and common folks contributed to a peripatetic migration of working people. As one result, the birth rate declined, but this proved to be a normal reaction to the transition from a rural agrarian society that other industrializing countries also experienced. Children used to be an asset but, in a society undergoing transformation, additional children were a liability.

In America there was a difference however: "only in the United States...did the demographic transition spread through a mainly rural people before a sharp mortality decline and before large-scale industrialization/urbanization. Only here was it so clearly associated with the rising price of land." (240) People involved in the frets of life were caught up in a Kulturkampf for change that "telescoped the land-scarcity stage of fertility decline into a generation or two before merging imperceptibly into the industrial/urban stage." (240)

Slavery was the touchstone of the Republic. "The capitalist market took off for global conquest by first propagating and then repudiating slavery." (396) Significant of this switch is the reversal of John C. Calhoun, a prominent politician from South Carolina. He changed his view in support of slavery to preserve his Southern base. There fearful South Carolinians had passed a quarantine law which jailed free black seamen while in one of their ports. The nullification crisis that ensued challenged federal supremacy over state law. Coupled with anti-tariff sentiment "the old South of Confederate rebellion crystallized politically in the 1820s as farmers accommodated to slavery and planters accommodated to antidevelopmental, anti-tax democracy." (280)

But, if slavery was the touchstone of the Republic, the keystone of the market revolution was politics. This is logical because his thesis argues for a class based political struggle between market oriented elites and a majority rural constituency. Candidates and parties had to appeal to larger coalitions to win elections. If a coalition became too large however, marginal groups became susceptible to defection to the opposing party. The evolution of the two party system and class politics, coupled with the controversy between credit and specie, led to an unlikely candidate for President, Andrew Jackson.

Voter interest from "class politics and party competition pushed white male turnout in presidential elections from one-fourth in 1824 to over half in 1828-1936 and four-fifths in 1840." (349) Old Hickory's dramatic electoral victory was helped by a partisan press and the doubling of voter turnout, which demonstrated the power of the majority. Nevertheless there remained limits which had a lingering affect on politics. "As anti-Jacksonians mastered the new techniques of popular appeal, this second party system moved toward two-party parity, adjusted to the demographic tides of urbanization and immigration, and survived in considerable measure even the upheaval of civil war and reconstruction." (297)

The Bank War controversy, according to Sellers, was crucial. Jackson could not attack state banks because of constitutional limits, only the national bank. "Society's most profoundly political decisions were being made out of public view, by a private, profit-making corporation that was answerable only to a paper aristocracy of stockholders and banking interest, and to no public authority. This class control of economic life...was the inevitable issue in the political showdown over the market revolution." (322) While Jackson won the Bank war, ironically, Sellers argues, as prosperity returned, credit again flowed freely in support of the market. "Market revolution, essentially completed in economy, culture, and polity, gave way to industrial revolution." (359)

The question of capitalism's compatibility with democracy remained unanswered until the problem of slavery could be resolved. Unfortunately this did not occur without another war. As stated earlier, the issue erupted over Wilmot's antislavery amendment in 1848 which inflamed irreconcilable sectional differences. A coalition, formed of slave owning planters and non-slave owning white farmers, defied the will of the majority. The advocates for the principals of freedom and democracy could not relinquish their adherence to human bondage.

In summary, Sellers explains how America adopted the capitalist market system by a political process based on class conflict, the outcome of which influenced the formation of an economic and social order that is perpetuated to this very day. One could say it was democracy at work, imperfect as it was.

Significant but not light reading.......2005-08-07

Market revolution fills the need for a signifiant economic history on the development of American capitalism.

Important for the Scholar.......2001-10-19

This is one of the most important works on U.S. history before 1865 out there. BUT, it is very long and very tough reading. Put simply, if you are not extremely interested in economic history, you'll quit reading this book after 50 pages, so don't waste your money. The book contains important ideas, but they are not clearly conveyed. I recommend this book for grad. students in history (who probably will be forced to read it), but that's about it.

Great Guide to the Forces Changing Early 19th c America.......2000-01-09

Solid all-around work on the social and economic forces that changed the United States from an Old World society, where privilege and rank were foremost, to a budding modern commercial civilization where individualism is prized and pluralistic republican principles predominate. A good read for anyone interested in the first half of the 19th century.

Sellers studies the capitalistic trends of the US Economy........1998-07-08

In this book, Sellers relates capitalism to historic trends within the United States. Although at time a bit heavy-handed, Sellers makes some important points. One weakness with the Market Revolution is sometimes the line between exchange economies and commercialism is crossed. As Steven Hahn warns, there is a distinct difference. In the eagerness to relate history and economy, Sellers blurs this line. Overall, this is an interesting and valuable book that provides enlightening insights into economic trends within the US.

THE MARKET REVOLUTION JACKSONIAN AMERICA 1815-1846

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THE MARKET REVOLUTION JACKSONIAN AMERICA 1815-1846
Charles Sellers
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846
Charles Grier Sellers
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKDIUA

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The Market Revolution; Jacksonian America 1815-1846

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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