Botticelli's Bed & Breakfast

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Wonderful Book!.......2006-11-28

This is a fun book. It's a great way to introduce someone to the old masters without being intimidating. I collect pop up books with a special interest in 3D books like this one. It's my absolute favorite.

An interesting format.......1999-06-20

My Advanced Art teacher was thrilled with this pop up and wanted to know where I got it in order to use it as a teaching tool. It appeals to both the young and old by educating the reader about art through a fun and artsy pop-up tour.

best christmas gift I have ever received.......1998-12-28

A delightful foldout book of art masterpieces exhibited in an entertaining and tongue-in-check layout.

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Yes, the companion videos are indeed available!.......1999-08-04

In answer to reviewer "Patricia", there are 5 companion videos to "How To Paint Portraits From Photographs" available. They total nearly 10 hours on 5 VHS cassettes in NTSC, PAL, or SECAM formats. For details, send an email request to the author at kaolink@msn.com

The author also gives free painting advise. He welcomes "help" questions from budding portrait painters and professionals alike.

Happy painting!

The best instructional book for painting portraits........1998-01-22

This artist's instructions are the best that I have seen. I just started painting in 1993 and one of my passions is portrait painting. I did not know how to start and when I found this book in my local library I immediately purchased it. The artist takes you step by step with very detailed pictures. I only wish I could purchase his videos; however, I have been unable to find a source from which to purchase them. I would like to see more books from Mr. Du Toit!

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HOW TO PAINT PORTRAITS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
KEN MAUND
Manufacturer: Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SH51BS

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A small streak of an island in the Atlantic. On no map. In heavy summer heat. Memories and messages graffitied on the pier wall. A chance encounter with a beautiful elusive woman. A murder. Or was it? Nothing seems completely real. Only the graffitied memories are constant. This is a dream-like, experimental and beautifully colored impossible story about a man on an island, who can't distinguish dream and reality, or the present and the past. 2004 WINNER OF THE 'BEST FOREIGN ALBUM' AWARD at Angouleme International Comics Festival in France

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The best from one of the best.......2007-03-28

I've read this graphic novel back in 1994, in Spain. Since then I've never forgot this comics and literature jewel. Miguelanxo Prado, a Spanish from Galicia, is a genius, and Trazo de Tiza maybe is the best he produced. Lyric, onyric, phantastic, human, wonderfully drawed... highly recommended.

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1001 Spoilers

Movies for gays...not gay movies. There's a difference!

Exactly what the title says

Not another list book

Because he knows what he's talking about.

101 Must-see Movies for Gay Men
Alonso Duralde
Manufacturer: Advocate Books
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Binding: Paperback

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In this comprehensive must-have guide to queer film, Advocate deputy arts and entertainment editor Alonso Duralde presents 101 films that will resonate soundly with gay audiences for reasons good, better, and outrageous!

Whether it's Pee-wee's Big Adventure (for redefining the idea of a movie hero), Mommie Dearest (for making Joan Crawford campier than she already was), or Two for the Road (because some-times you have to glean insights about gay relationships from straight movies with great banter), Duralde brings a quick wit, a gift for analysis, and a lifelong love affair with the -movies to each film recommendation. Along the way, he even outs Casablanca as a gay love story!

In addition to analysis as to why these films matter, each capsule review also contains production notes, cast and crew credits, and DVD/VHS availability.

Alonso Duralde has been the deputy arts and entertainment editor for The Advocate, the national gay and lesbian news-magazine since 2000. Prior to that he was the artistic director of the USA Film Festival in Dallas. He has been an arts columnist for the Dallas Observer, Movieline and Detour. He lives in Los Angeles.

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1001 Spoilers.......2007-03-24

If you hate reading spoilers, don't read about any movie in this book unless you've seen it already. Duralde gives away FAR too much in his synopses, which are in my opinion completely unnecessary anyway. It is his commentaries that are the interesting element here, and motivate us to see the films. Why he chose to reveal plot turns, and thus needlessly deflate our enjoyment of the films is beyond me.

Movies for gays...not gay movies. There's a difference!.......2006-05-17

Love it, love it, love it - short, sweet, funny, smart. Or as I like to call it, "the best bathroom reading book ever."

Oh, and my copy of "Can't Stop The Music" is on its way from Netflix as we speak ;)

Exactly what the title says.......2006-05-04

101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men is a seminal tome in more ways than one. Well, actually, only one. It hasn't got any of the good pictures in it. But it does have 101 movies that are essential to a broad range of the gay aesthetic. It's got movies for drama queens, diva queens, show tune queens, bears, disco queens, grunge queens and size queens. The only gay subgenre it's lacking is the queer sports movie, and I'm sure once Duralde has seen Summer Storm and Guys and Balls he'll add something appropriate to Bride of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men he keeps promising (unless that what he's titling the lesbian companion piece he keeps promising as well, in which case he'll have to include Bend it Like Beckham or, better yet, Personal Best).

When I came out, I was told I couldn't get my queer card until I'd seen Torch Song Trilogy and Murder by Death. Both are missing from 101. I'm not going to fight too hard for Murder by Death which is simply a very good example of camp and not particularly queerly significant beyond that, but I will say that I can't imagine a list of queer movies complete that doesn't include Torchsong.

But what is in the book is delightful and insightful. I knew Fight Club is about the slashiest thing every made, but it didn't occur to me to put it in a list of must-see movies for the queer cognoscenti. But even the obvious choices - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Sunset Boulevard, Valley of the Dolls, Sunday, Bloody Sunday and many more - are given new life and new perspective with plot synopsis, evaluation of what's important to the queer viewer, quotes from the movie and an interesting visual classification system.

Duralde examines these movies with wit and sensitivity. He makes you want to expand your DVD library, and in some cases your VHS library, not only with the movies he lists, but with the movies he mentions in passing discussion about other movies.

And, for the record, I've seen The Broken Hearts Club and it isn't nearly as awful as Duralde makes it out to be, but it is awful.

I cannot remember the title or anyone who was in it, but it you're looking for a movie emblematic of what bad queer cinema is, the one with the fireman who begs his girlfriend for a threesome without specifying the gender of the third participant and then is horrified when she brings some guy from the neighborhood who's been crushing on him for years into the bedroom is the one to choose.

Not another list book.......2006-04-29

This is far more than a simple list of films that may be aimed at a gay audience. It is 101 hysterical fan rants from someone who has a wicked sense of humor and extraordinarily evolved taste in film.

This is a book that every film student should read because Duralde has a genuine passion for movies and the understanding of them to back up his opinions.

Many of Duralde's choices surprised and delighted me; he didn't go for the easy selections. Any book that mentions "Tarnation" and "Without You, I'm Nothing" in the same breath is aces by me.

Because he knows what he's talking about........2006-04-26

`101 Must See Movies for Gay Men' by Alonso Duralde is a must have quick reference guide for anyone who has a penchent for all things celluloid. From movies that are so bad that they're good to the kind that make you want to thank the creator for bringing to your life a newfound joy, this book has them all. Written in an easy, approachable style, this no-nonsense guide lets the reader know what movies to watch and all the reasons why, without sounding hoity-toity or pretentious. Complete with memorable movie quotes, a fun rating system and inciteful analysis, this book needs to be within easy reach every time you think about buying or renting a movie.

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Six masses by great 16th-century composer: Missa Papae Marcelli (his most popular), Missa L'Homme Armé, Missa O Magnum Mysterium, Missa Ave Regina Coelorum, Missa Veni Sponsa Christi, Missa Ascendo ad Patrem, plus a selection of motets. All for unaccompanied voices. Reproduced from authoritative Scalera edition, edited by Raffaele Casimiri.

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Excelent source for palestrina.......2006-06-30

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is a composer who like Mozart creates a sonic world with very little dissonance but excelent use of tension and release.

This dover score is clear, readable, authoratative and inexpensive. A great buy.

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Cantus Firmus in Mass and Motet, 1420-1520 (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)

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In the Bleak Midwinter: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Choir

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Robert Fountain
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The Robert Fountain Legacy Project presents the University of Wisconsin–Madison Concert Choir, 1971–1994, Robert Fountain, conductor

A re-issue of the 1978 holiday LP originally titled We Come a Wassailing.

The Robert Fountain Legacy Project began in 2000 when the Mills Music Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison embarked on digitizing the recorded archives of the distinguished choral conductor Robert Fountain. The collection of 350 concert recordings documents the history of choral music at the university.

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Laudate Pueri Dominum: A Collection of 100 Hymns and Motets and an Easy Mass for Unisonous Chorus

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Carlo Rossini
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Catholic choral music and liturgical chants, incl English translations of all pieces. Includes many original pieces by Rossini.

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Bach Studies Approaches to B Minor Mass (American Choral Review, XXVII)

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Master the Numbers Game That’s Taking the World by Storm

Whether you’re one of the millions of people already obsessed with the number puzzles called Sudoku (a Japanese logic game that’s like a combination of a crossword puzzle and a Rubik’s Cube) or you’re just being introduced to this addicting game, Master Sudoku has a puzzle for you. Here, the UK’s leading Sudoku expert, Carol Vorderman, offers 200 puzzles for Sudokuists at every level, ranging from easy to super difficult, with clear instructions and crucial secrets that will help you finish puzzles in record time. The faster you are, the higher your score! Engrossing, challenging, and totally addictive, Master Sudoku is chock-full of fun.

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Great Sudoku Book for All Levels.......2007-06-03

*****
This is a great sudoku book for all levels, but especially good for those who wish to increase their sudoku proficiency and MASTER sudoku. There are 200 puzzles, only one to a page, printed large enough for marking up. There are places to record your time, too, and you can accrue points based on how quickly you can do a puzzle. This is nice, because although I prefer difficult puzzles now, it's fun to go back and do an easy one faster and faster. There are different techniques involved in the different levels of puzzles and timing them makes them all continue to be challenging.

If you're a beginner, you can start out with the easy puzzles and work your way up. There are medium puzzles, too, as well as difficult and super-difficult. There is plenty of technique instruction, and there are many examples, so this could serve as a first book for adults. It was not my first sudoku book, but it is still one of my favorites, and I find myself going back to it again and again.

Highly recommended.
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COULD HAVE GONE FARTHER.......2007-04-11

I WAS HOPING THAT SHE WOULD HAVE GONE INTO THE SOLVING OF MORE DIFFICULT PUZZLES. HOWEVER, I THINK SHE DID A GOOD JOB IN SOLVING THE MEDIUM PUZZLE SOLUTIONS.

Good for non-experts........2007-02-22

Good basics. A good springboard, and you can go to more advanced techniques later. Her favorite epressions are "slicing and dicing." Took a while for me to figure out that all she's telling you is to look horizontally, and vertically.

GOOD INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS PUZZLES.......2007-01-12

VERY HELPFUL. SHE DOESN'T LEAVE YOU WONDERING WHAT CAN I DO, OR TRY, OR WHERE TO START. IT'S ALL THERE FOR BEGINNER OR DIFFICULT PUZZLE SOLVER. THE ONLY BOOK OF IT'S KIND OUT THERE ...I.B.E. MASS.

My favorite Sudoku book.......2006-09-01

Helpful coaching in learning Sudoku at the beginning of each level. More levels of challenge. Starts easier than others books I've found. Would help people who have tried Sudoku and gotten frustrated and quit.

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Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.

Between Stage and Screen: Ingmar Bergman Directs. (book reviews): An article from: Scandinavian Studies

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Between Stage and Screen: Ingmar Bergman Directs. (book reviews): An article from: Scandinavian Studies
Marilyn Johns Blackwell
Manufacturer: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 506 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: Between Stage and Screen: Ingmar Bergman Directs. (book reviews)
Author: Marilyn Johns Blackwell
Publication: Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Volume: v68 Issue: n2 Page: p276(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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