The Stone Carvers: Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral

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Marjorie Hunt presents the lives and careers of two Italian-American master stone carvers, Roger Morigi and Vincent Palumbo, who have spent decades creating the sculptural works, such as gargoyles, grotesques, capitals, pinnacles, saints, and angels, that embellish Washington National Cathedral. Exploring the carvers' underlying aesthetic attitudes, Hunt reveals the spirit of creativity and mastery that infuses their work. She describes their backgrounds and apprenticeships in Italy, showing how memory and tradition continue to shape their art. The book records the stone-carving process, highlighting the carvers' complex body of technical knowledge---their opinions of various stones, their preferred tools for different stages of carving, and their techniques for achieving effects of light and shadow.

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Book is even better than the movie.......2007-01-05

This book was written over a decade after Hunt's research on stone carving formed the basis for an academy award-winning film. The film is entitled "Stone Carvers," and it's an excellent starting point to learn about the carvers. Watching the movie and then reading this book provides a great way of learning about this inspiring traditional art. Hunt gives us a good history of two carvers' lives and provides us with a great overview of the European apprenticeship system within which they learned their art. She then writes a vivid description of the salient aspects of the process of carving, illustrating her key points with beautifully presented photographs. The book builds up to a delightful chapter on the stories that are literally set in the cathedral's stone. Hunt documents, for example, stories such as a description of an argument between the master carver and one of the carvers which resulted in a very clever gargoyle-caricature of the master carver. This story is but one of many that are represented in numerous carvings, and visitors to the cathedral will greatly enjoy looking for the numerous in-jokes and clever stone figures that are discussed in Hunt's fine writing. Hunt closes her book with a fascinating discussion of the artistry as she uses relevant points within folklore scholarship to interpret the cultural expressivity within the workers' community. This focus makes the work an especially significant contribution to the historical record because the crafting of intricate stonework in cathedrals is likely to become a lost art and this type of workplace community of stone carvers will be remembered only in the stories of delightful carvers such as those depicted in Hunt's book.

hard beauty.......2000-01-12

A really handsome volume that wonderfully illuatrates this fine art. After visiting the National Cathedral (I was there for the dedication of the tympanum over the main door) and being captivated by the work of the carvers, this superb survey of monumental work brings it all to life again.

a wonderful culture revealed.......1999-11-26

Stone Carvers, a cultural study of the men who carved the stone embelishments and sculptures of the Washington National Cathedral, offers exceptional insight into this fascinating subculture. It builds on the film, released in 1985, which won a documentary academy award for the author, Majorie Hunt of the Smithsonian anthropology staff. The characters of these unique, talented and charming men are beautifully revealed while the photographs make clear what a monument they have created. They were trained in the classic stone carving workshops of Italy, came to this country as young men and created a world of classical beauty on buildings on the Washington Mall, and in New York as well as at the Cathedral. The last of these unique men, Vincent Palumbo, carved the wonderous Creation sculpture [by Fredrick Hart] over the central door of the cathedral, the visual image of which was used without premission for the movie Devil's Advocate [Washington Episcopal Diocese sued to block release of the movie until some images were removed]. The fact that monumental stonecarving is both a dying art and a dying subculture makes this documentary book all the more valuable and poignant. I visit with Mr. Palumbo about once a week just to hear his tales of the old days when these great men walked the roofs of the sixth largest cathedral in the world and carved their impressions in immortal stone.

The Stone Carvers Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral

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The Stone Carvers Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral
Hunt Marjorie
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Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise.
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Jeffrey James is an impressive servant to the discipline of development studies, here he brings together previously fragmented literatures to break new ground in internet intermediation. Information Technology and Development will interest development economists and practitioners in equal amounts.

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Founded in 1914 by Ed Booz, who was later joined by Jim Allen and Carl Hamilton, Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the most highly regarded firms in the management consulting industry. With more than 100 offices on six continents and more than 11,000 employees, it's also one of the largest. And Booz Allen has had for years what other consulting firms now strive for: both the ability to deliver strategic recommendations and the technology expertise to implement them. The firm stands out not only by helping devise strategy, but also by sticking around to help clients implement the changes it prescribes. It focuses on long-term client relationships; consultants work in the trenches and see their recommendations put into action. What's the rest of the story behind this major player in the management consulting arena? This WetFeet Insider Guide will tell you.

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San Antonio-based C. H. Guenther & Son, founded by a young German immigrant in 1851, is the oldest family-owned business in Texas and the oldest continually-operated family-owned milling company in the United States. Evolution from waterwheels to computers and from plain flour to mixes and frozen foods form the backdrop to this human story of a company whose Pioneer, White Wings and White Lily brands approach nationwide distribution.

C.H. Guenther & Son at 150 years The Legacy of a Texas Milling Pioneer

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Fisher Lewis F.
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Crusade for the children;: A history of the National Child Labor Committee and child labor reform in America,
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America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out
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The quality of child care in America is mediocre at best-and often far worse. Is there a way out of this mess, or are the lives of the nation's children jeopardized by a system that is minimally regulated and vastly underfunded? In America's Child Care Problem, esteemed economists Suzanne W. Helburn and Barbara R. Bergmann outline the kind of help Americans need from their government if their children are to get the early care and education they deserve, and at a price that won't wreck their family budgets.

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Definitive Landmark work -- highly readable.......2002-03-17

This book gives a complete summary of the major problems with child care in the United States related to the high cost to parents, the mediocre quality of most care, and the difficulty parents have finding it. The authors argue that the affordability problem can only be solved through large increases in financial aid and that the federal government is the only practical source given the magnitudes involved. They also make recommendations for more public spending to create incentives for parents to demand good quality services and for providers to give it. I found the book extremely informative, authoritative, and easy to read.

Children's Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America

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David Post
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From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and repeatedly over different survey years, David Post documents tendencies for children to become economically active, to remain in school, or to do both. The survey data analyzed illustrates the roles of family and regional poverty, and parental resources, in determining what children did with their time in each country. However, rather than to treat children's activities merely as demographic phenomena, or in isolation of the policy environment, Post also scrutinizes the international differences in education policies, labor law, welfare spending, and mobilization for children's rights. Children's Work shows that child labor will not vanish of its own accord, nor follow a uniform path even within a common geographic region. Accordingly, there is a role for welfare policy and for popular mobilization. Post indicates that, even when children attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many students will continue to work to support the family. If the consequence of their work is to impede their educational success, then schools will need to attend to a new dimension of inequality: that between part-time and full-time students.

Child Labor in America (Perspectives on History Series)

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child labor in america history.......1999-05-27

-How children were working in america. -Major events in those days. -Conditions of children working. -Interviews with such children. -What was done to attempt to put and end to child labor. -Where children ever used for labor.

Child Labor in America: History, Policy and Legislative Issues

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Child Labor in America: History, Policy and Legislative Issues
William G. Whittaker
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Child Work and Education: Five Case Studies from Latin America (UNICEF In Association with)

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Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus). (book review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail

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Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus). (book review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail
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Title: Children's Interest/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus). (book review)
Author: Susan Prentice
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Page: 301(3)

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Combating Child Labour
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Explore the history of child labor in America through photos.(Grades 6-12): An article from: Curriculum Review

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Title: Explore the history of child labor in America through photos.(Grades 6-12)
Publication: Curriculum Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
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Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail

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Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Dominique Marshall
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Release Date: 2005-07-25

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Title: Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
Author: Dominique Marshall
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2005
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