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Charming reproductions of rare original cards by great Art Nouveau master. Voluptous females, lush florals, more.
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Mucha Postcards.......2007-05-17
If you love Mucha's work and cannot afford to go out and buy posters, prints or delicious books then this is your answer. These cards can be used to frame or decoupage etc. They are beautiful and the detail and color are how they should be, I have seen others and they are washed out and the detail is not that good.
I received this quickly with no delays.
Moderately grainy, but decent.......2000-05-10
The 24 cards are as follows: all 12 from Les Mois (The Months) - Mois artistique et litterare (1898); Topaze of the Precious Stones series; Femme a la Plume (Woman with a Quill); Le Crepuscule (Dusk); Fleur de cerisier (Cherry Blossom); Exposition de 1900 (Exhibition 1900); Dessin pour un eventail (Design for a Fan); L'enfance (Childhood); Dessin pour un programme (Design for a program); 4 Moet et Chandon Menus.
Overall, I was disappointed in the color clarity - Topaze and the Moet et Chandon menus seemed over-saturated and Fleur de cerisier seemed too light. All the prints are on the grainy side, as well - I would venture to say my color printer would do as well. I wouldn't say these cards are of framing quality, as I had originally hoped, but they are perfectly suited for sharing your love of Mucha with friends by mail.
Exquisite detailed prints!.......1999-03-16
Mucha in all his splendor of the dancing line to create beautiful compositions. Prints on cards are of good quality. My students could not get enough of his artistry.
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Clara Sipprell: Pictorial Photographer
Mary Kennedy McCabe , and
Clara E. Sipprell
Manufacturer: Amon Carter Museum
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In this biography, one hundred photographs complete the portrait of Clara Sipprell and help to demonstrate why early critics considered her one of the finest pictorial photographers in America.
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Anyone can write a book about how to get rich. The bookstores are full of them. They rarely work, though, which isn't surprising since the people who write them rarely know much about money.
But it takes Ben Stein, economist, finance expert for Barron's, commentator on finance for Fox News, and (fairly) successful investor to write a book called How to Ruin Your Financial Life. Written with the same tongue-in-cheek cheekiness as his bestselling How to Ruin Your Life, this book is a humorous road map showing you how to make something useful of the money that comes in and out of your life. Follow the rules—in reverse gear—and you're bound to be a lot better off than you are now. Follow the rules as they're written—and you're highly likely to wind up in bankruptcy court—as millions do every decade.
Here are some of the rules, just to whet your appetite: Collect as Many Credit Cards as You Can and Use Them Frequently; Compete with Your Friends to See Who Can Own the Most Expensive and High-Status Possessions; Know in Your Gut That Only Suckers Work Hard for Money and That Smarties Like You Only Have to Find an Angle; Remember That Retirement Is a L-ooo-nnn-g Way Off, and Don't Even Think about It Right Now; Bear in Mind That Only "Little People" Pay Their Bills or Taxes; Don't Bother to Own Your Own Home Because Home Ownership Is a Hassle...and many more.
This book is a laugh-out-loud way to educate yourself, your children, and your friends about how money really works...and a way to smile while you're straightening out that mess you call your financial life.
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What not to do with your money.......2007-05-12
I am in the financial planning business. I manage my money well. Often it is hard to recall some of the silly things folks do with their money and how they make financial choices. Thanks to Ben's book, it is obvious why a fool and his money are soon parted.
Perhaps the best personal finance guide yet written........2007-03-13
Sure, there are plenty of books out there about how to get rich. They almost always fail because the authors are ignorant of how money works. Ben Stein is a true financial expert and only someone of his caliber can teach us how to blow it all. A hilariously written book and a tongue in-cheek way of assessing one's own financial foibles. I must admit that I am guilty of more than a few of these tips (I won't say which ones!) The essay titles say it all. Here are a few:
*Save money only when you feel like it, and if you just don't feel like saving, then don't.
*Forget to pay your taxes.
*Collect as many credit cards as you can and use them frequently.
*As soon as you've succeeded in maxing out your credit cards, get new ones!
*Don't think about retirement- it's a loooooooong way off.
*Start a business with inadequate capital- in a difficult field and in a difficult location- and expect it to prosper. (also titled, "Open A Restaurant.")
and my favorite...
Find a man or woman with really expensive tastes and reckless financial habits- and marry him or her!
Read this and then read it WITH your kids (or give it to your teen)!.......2007-03-04
Ben Stein should be a keynote speaker on high schools (or even grade schools), because what he says could form the basis of an excellent class on financial literacy. After all, our kids are supposed to learn the basics of reading, writing and mathematics but...what about the basics of how to handle money? Isn't that equally important (and for those who say they learn it at home, the level of personal debt in this country is alarming, so I'd argue that point).
In any case, the humor and writing style of this book makes it very accessable and it should reach a readership that finds other financial books too dry or ho-hum. This one is not and if you simply do everything the opposite of what you'd do to "ruin" your financial life, you will be on a more solid financial path. Get this. Read it. Share it with a teenager or high school student or anyone being lured down the road to instant gratification, expensive cars and clothes and who is NOT looking at the larger picture - or their financial future.
Funny thing,too. With a little foresight and by starting early, it is possible to indulge (some) and have enough for the future. Read this book. You'll get the point.
Simple yet informative financial advice.......2006-07-24
Ben Stein knows how to dispense basic financial advice. Don't put it in a stuffy investment tome and don't give it as a lecture. Instead use sarcasm and satire, presenting poor financial decisions in an absurd manner which will hopefully induce people who need the advice to follow it. Let's face it-nothing Ben says is complicated-it's all common sense-and nothing should really even need to be said. But this book is for people who don't have a lot of financial sense, who don't save money and have a tendency to get bamboozled by get rich quick schemes. Stein shows, in a simple and unmistakable way, the folly of 55 poor financial decisions that are, alas, common. An example: in one short chapter Ben advises making only the minimum payments on credit cards, and in another he advocates transferring balances so you'll never have to pay them off. In doing so he points out what a poor decision this really is, and hopefully inspires people to avoid this pitfall. This book works because it is both simple and informative, without being either condescending or boring.
Perhaps the Best Ten Bucks You Have Ever Spent.......2006-04-30
Most people in the US could really use this book. So many people believe things about finances that are not true or they don't think about their finances at all.
Anyway, Dr. Ben Stein will straighten the reader out with this excellent book (I hope).
Dr. Stein uses a sarcastic approach to helping the reader see what he/she is doing wrong. I nearly split my side laughing about the late night infomercials. Stein hammers away at people for not saving money or charging up credit cards, etc.
At the end of the book Dr. Stein tells the reader to save a portion of their income and buy index funds, annuities (which I wouldn't do), CD's, and good mutual funds.
Ben Stein has a Ph.D in Economics, so I think we should take him seriously.
How To Ruin Your Financial Life is a great book for students and for those who have just plain been getting kicked around by life.
An excellent buy. Don't delay this purchase.
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Life & Health, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 20, 2004. The length of the article is 612 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: How to ruin your life.(The Editor's Edge)(Editorial)
Author: Steve Piontek
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National Underwriter Life & Health (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 20, 2004
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 108
Issue: 35
Page: 4(1)
Article Type: Editorial
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Cinema for Spanish Conversation, Second Edition
Mary Gill ,
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The second edition of Cinema for Spanish Conversation includes the same stimulating exercises and conversation materials that have made the first edition a success among students and instructors alike. The text is designed to be used in courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish-speaking world are used as springboards for classroom Spanish-language discussion. Using high-interest feature films, students hear Spanish as it is spoken in different countries and in a wide variety of situations and are encouraged to listen to and converse about the social and cultural aspects of Spanish-speaking countries around the world. The second edition includes a high-interest reading for each chapter; reading selections include interviews, magazine or newspaper articles, and selections from film scripts or literary pieces. Each reading is followed by an activity. These readings are optional; they can be covered in-depth if reading is one of the goals of the course. Each chapter is devoted to one movie, and contains appropriate vocabulary, cultural notes, special terms for conversation and |composition, a focus on a specific scene for structured discussion or writing, questions for review and understanding, and quotations from directors or critics. Difficult-to-find or older films have been replaced by films of more immediate interest to students. New to this edition are: Mara llena eres de gracia [Maria Full of Grace], Diarios de motocicleta [The Motorcycle Diaries], and Mar adentro [The Sea Inside]. As with the first edition, the second edition comes with an instructors manual that includes answers to exercises and ideas for additional activities.
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Spanish Cinema (Inside Film)
ASIN: 1585100463 |
Book Description
This exciting new book is designed for courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish speaking world are used as springboards for classroom discussion. In this way, students hear Spanish the way it is spoken and are encouraged to converse about the social and cultural aspects of Spanish-speaking cultures around the world.
Each of the eighteen movies covered in the book have been selected for their high quality, interest, cultural value and easy availability from sources such as Blockbuster Video and Amazon.com.
Each chapter is devoted to one movie, and contains appropriate vocabulary, cultural notes, special terms for conversation and composition, a focus on a specific scene for structured discussion or writing, questions for review and understanding, as well as optional reading sections from directors or critics.
This text is especially useful for courses in Spanish conversation, composition, culture, and film, as well as for non-credit community courses and language refreshers.
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Cinema for Spanish Conversation.......2006-03-22
I love this book! I am a Spanish major at the university and I used this book in an independent to help me understand some of the issues facing Latin America. Watching the movies helped me improve my Spanish comprehension. The activities in the book helped me understand the movies and social issues in Latin America. This book presents a variety of movies from Spain, the Caribbean, Central and South America, so you get to hear a number of different dialects. I really feel I grew in my knowledge and appreciation of Latin America.
Misleading!.......2006-01-21
This sale online to me was VERY misleading. I was under the impression that it was the actual book. However, upon opening my delivery, I discovered that it was the INSTRUCTOR'S manual. In no way shape or form, is it listed ANYWHERE that this is the instructors manual. I am very angry, and frustrated with this outcome.
Excelente.......2004-09-24
I am an intermediate Spanish language student and I bought this book in order to organize some "film nights" with several fellow students. To that end, this book has served as a superb resource. It offers a diverse selection of Spanish language films from Spanish-speaking countries around the globe (most of which I have been able to find in my local library, and definitely at the local "art" video store). This provides a wide range of dialects and accents for listening comprehension. The films selected in the book range from comedies to serious histories and dramas, offering fascinating insights into different cultures, while providing excellent entertainment. (Some films here will be old chestnuts to serious film buffs, but I also found a few new gems!) The book offers film synopses, specialized vocabulary, and then several types of follow-up exercises, ranging from simple matching and fill-in-the-blanks, to more detailed "essay" questions which are a terrific launching pad for group discussions. All-in-all this book is well thouight-out, well designed, intelligent and REALLY interesting, all high selling points for anyone trying to learn a language. I HIGHLY recommend this book for both independent intermediate Spanish students and ALL Spanish instructors (and libraries!!!).
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Finally, a rhythm guitar method for today's hard rock guitarist! This book and CD package is designed to get you started with techniques and grooves in the styles of Creed, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Van Halen and many other great bands. Covers: power chords, single-note riffs, picking, muting, accenting, syncopation, odd meters, drop D tuning, harmonics, rhythmic grooves, cool chords, and more. Each musical example in this book is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, backed by a full rhythm section.
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In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title, The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it this new publisher's first release, it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed.
Today, more than seventy-five years later, the legendary Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book series maintains its status as the standard-bearer for cruciverbal excellence. Published every two months, the series continues to provide the freshest and most original puzzles on the market. Created by the best contemporary constructors -- and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson -- these Sunday-sized brain-breakers offer hours of stimulation for solvers of every level.
Can you take the challenge? Sharpen your pencils, grit your teeth, and find out!
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"Doctor Who", Project Who? (BBC Audio)
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