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Four Wisconsin artists, Martha Glowacki, Mark Lorenzi, Natasha Nicholson, and Mary Alice Wimmer, are passionate collectors who use objects from their own collections to inform their individual artwork. This catalog documents an installation by each of the four artists that is reminiscent of the 16th- and 17th- century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of wonders, private collections of natural and man-made objects.
Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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- Not a calligraphy manual, but...
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George Bickham's Penmanship Made Easy (Young Clerks Assistant)
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The Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy: A Manual and Model Book of the Pointed Pen Method
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Unabridged reprint of extremely rare 18th-century manual offers helpful hints on forming letters, holding the pen, arm and wrist positions, and posture. Includes rich sampling of alphabets, maxims, didactic verses, and other words of advice. Charmingly illustrated instruction manual for calligraphers, commercial artists,and devoteés of fine penmanship.
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Not a calligraphy manual, but..........2003-09-10
...still an enjoyable read for the price.
A good portion of the writing samples included in Mr. Bickham's book were not, in fact, considered calligraphy in their time, but rather to exemplify legible and easy styles of business hand, intended, as per the book's subtitle, for clerks and others whose jobs necessitated a good deal of writing and record-keeping, prior to the era of the typewriter. To the reviewer who complained of the cursive scripts being illegible, try reading handwritten cursive a bit more often; the scripts do retain certain archaisms such as the extended S, but are not significantly different from, for instance, the Spencerian system of cursive penmanship, which dominated American schools throughout the 19th century. If you want illegible (to the modern reader's eye) calligraphy, try picking your way through an illuminated medieval manuscript.
That said, this caveat must be included: this book does -not- give explicit instruction on how to reproduce the styles, it is merely a collection of the best samples-- it's best for those who already have some grasp of some form of calligraphy or antiquated penmanship. For those -looking- to learn, I would recommend Theory of Spencerian Penmanship as a starting point, at the very least. For those who have no interest in taking up calligraphy and merely enjoy looking at elegant handwriting, it's a delightful curiosity and memento of the vanished culture of penmanship; much of the writing samples given are quite simply beautiful to look at; though this particular calligraphy enthusiast would hope that admiration of beautiful writing would spur more people to take up interest in a now-esoteric art.
Penmanship Made Easy -- Not!.......2002-07-26
I have trouble calling this a book. It's a bound collection of calligraphy, and not very good calligraphy at that. Many letters are unreadable. Penmanship should be to help communicate by written word. This book is not helpful unless you're experienced with calligraphy.
Fine examples of formal handwriting in the 1700's.......1998-10-30
Mr. Bickham was an 18th century engraver and calligrapher. Although the book (orignally published ca 1733) begins with a set of rules on how to form letters, these rules and the book's examples are best studied by an experienced calligrapher. This is NOT a beginner's book. But it is delightful for those who like to examine the formal hands of nearly three centuries ago. The examples are not just alphabets but writing samples. Fancy "Content alone is true happiness; or the Country Lass"? How about "Beauty's a Fair But Fading Flower"? There are many calligraphic examples from copperplate to blackhand. As the gentlelman says, everything the "young clerk's assistant" might need.
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The Artist's Assistant
Leslie Carlyle
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A comprehensive and critical analysis of information on 19th century artists' materials.
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Manual for instructors of ¿Qué te parece? intermediate level spanish teaching at colleges and universities. Includes strategies, suggested syllabi, suggestions for testing and evlaution, listening scripts, background information on artist and their works and suggested composition grading criteria.
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True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache.
Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country.
Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers.
Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.
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Are You a Doctor or a Patient?.......2007-07-30
I could see what was funny about this book and I appreciate the serious dedication required to get through the grind of schooling and to actually practice. I can even appreciate the contempt these practitioners must feel with patients that don't adhere to regimen, or narc seekers who think they are pulling the wool over the practitioner's eyes. These issues were presented in a very humerous fashion by the Doctors - often it is a hoot.
But it also made me sad because though things are better than they used to be, there is still a core problem with communication between doctors and patients. For various reasons, certain people get a certain kind of treatment and labels that others don't. There is a documented problem with gender, race, and class bias, and it doesn't take too much imagination to see that it might cut both ways. I could go on for a while about this subject but I won't - google it.
The contempt some of the doctors unload about their patients was for me a bit hurtful. I have often sat on the other side of a doctor's desk, not always the case but more often than not a person with a HUGE ego who is irritated at the prospect of having to explain what is wrong to the yokel patient. I have been treated like dirt, or a drug addict by MDs for perfectly legitimate and well documented problems. But judging from this book, I guess we are all a pain in the butt to these guys. They must be relieved that the healthcare crisis is keeping so many people out of their offices.
I liked the book but suggest another book, this time BASED ON THE PATIENT'S EXPERIENCES OF THE DOCTORS. Now this could be really really funny! With chapter headings like, "The Doctor Who Didn't Think I Knew He Was Manually Raping Me and Other Stories", and "How Can I Get This Doctor To Listen To Me Outside Of Batting Him On the Head?" or "I Told Him I Was Allergic To That Stuff". It could be really funny!
I took special note of the litigation issues these doctors express concern about. I've had at least three egregious, actionable, horrible snafus done to me by MDs over a period of about 25 years. I have NEVER taken any of these practitioners to court, even when I was urged to by other professionals. I imagine more people don't file than do, and the doctors should be more appreciative of that.
Read the book to find out about the other side; you've got to have compassion for them but keep a balanced view and look out for my new book, the companion volume, coming out soon.
Reality bites!.......2005-12-18
This book is the one you reach for after a long, hard day with whiny patients, screeching moms and parents who keep forgetting to give their epileptic kid his phenobarbital.
You need to put it all together and solve the mystery of how so many people make it from day to day with the worst habits and total inability to take care of themselves...
The irksome part of being a doctor is that you start out thinking it is all so noble and then you realize that in a room full of patients, staff and you, no one would ever agree with you.
Placebo Chronicles will radically revise your perspective as a health care provider and remind you how to get by from day to day! A great book for anyone who wants to know what real life in health care is like...Warning: you will never be able to watch any of those "dramedy" medical shows without snickering over their rank stupidity ever again, so read at your own risk!
mybookopinion MISSED THE POINT.......2005-09-29
As a st doc I can attest to the many stories in this book...in particular are the 2am ER narc seekers, heres a hint people, wether its in the ER at 2am or your FP at 10AM if you are a seeking narcotics everyone knows it, no one beleives how your rx was stolen, or how your toilet has passed so much codeine it should be given its own DEA number. Great read for those looking for some relief from the PC world we live in when you can be sued for telling a patient she is too fat and the once noble profession has been reduced to something akin to a walking lottery ticket, you can find refuge in the chronicles at least until that sheriff tracks you down with that subpoena.
To the reviewer with the 40 lb tumor heres a hint: the fact that these stories make headlines are a testament to their rarity. It is also getting more difficult to practice medicine due to the bulging waste lines...palpating organs is more difficult due to the fat folds so I can see how a tumor maybe missed in a 500 pound pt. On another note, spend a few weeks in a county ER, ride with an ambulance crew, spend a few days fighting with an insurance compnay to pay for something, or take a listen to some drone pharm rep lecturing about their product using scientific words and biostatistical analysis that were probably not taught between the time they left the sorority and the time they got the drug rep required implants and you will realize that making fun of these things is the only way to keep sane. I didn't even mention the paranoia at being sued by everyone you lay your hands on.....Or you can save yourself a week, read this book with an open mind and you will be inside the ER to see the 42 year old at 3AM for a cough they've had for the last 2 years but just got around to it at 3AM on a Friday or argue with the mom loaded with gold about the $4.00 bottle of Tylenol her kid needs...then watch her throw the Rx out getting in a better car than what you drive wondering why?
I sure hope this is farce..........2005-09-26
I sure hope this is farce. It reads like a bunch of articles written by the doctors of the several people I know who have been turned away by their doctors for being hypochondriacs (or worse, in case of the several "my favorite Munchausen" sections of this book), only to turn out to have incurable bone cancer, breast cancer, giant ovarian cysts, and blocked up gall bladders. If the first doctor had not called up the specialist for a laugh (see the "new doctor vs. old doctor" list), these conditions may have been caught before they reached the critical or fatal stage. Read this if you want to get inside the head of the doctor who told you that you're fat and lazy rather than the one who caught finally "caught" your 40-pound tumor (true story).
Better than NEJM or AAPA journal.......2005-05-31
LOVE love love this book. As 15-plus year PA in ER and General Practice have NOT had the "Residency" Blues but have incountered most if not all of the patients/providers in this book. If one cannot keep a sense of humor and balance, I question if one can truely provide "medical care". Big thumbs-up for Dr. Farrago, and can't wait for more books, columns, papers from The Placebo Chronicles!
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Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven web of connectedness.
To explore this complexity, the editors have forged links between usually compartmentalized fields (especially media studies, literary theory, visual culture, and critical anthropology) and areas of inquiry—particularly postcolonial and diasporic studies and a diverse set of ethnic and area studies. This book, which links all these issues in suggestive ways, provides an indispensable guide for students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. Essays in this groundbreaking volume include Julianne Burton-Carvajal on ethnic identity in Lone Star; Manthia Diawara on diasporic documentary; Hamid Naficy on independent transnational film genres; Robyn Wiegman on whiteness studies; Faye Ginsburg on indigenous media; and Jennifer Gonzáles on race in cyberspace; Ana M. López on modernity and Latin American cinema; and Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan on Warrior Marks and multiculturalism and globalization.
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The Life of Webern (Musical Lives)
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On September 15, 1945 the composer Anton Webern was shot in confusing circumstances in a small mountain village near Salzburg. The world lost a composer of extreme originality whose mature music was still almost unknown. When Webern's works did come to light, he immediately became one of the most influential figures in music of the second half of this century. This book focuses on several aspects of Webern's life that have been treated only briefly in earlier accounts: his youthful instability, his often embarrassing dependence on Schoenberg, his naive nationalism and his absolute belief in the value of the brief moments of music he produced.
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Sylvia Bursztyn and
Barry Tunick's delightfully punny Sunday crosswords are an institution. Los Angeles Times readers have relished them for more than 20 years; Random House Puzzles & Games solvers have snapped them up through more than 20 volumes. Thanks to Sylvia's freewheeling themes and grids and Barry's contemporary clues, this terrific team turns out the best-selling puzzle book series around, after The New York Times.
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Quintessential LA TIMES.......2007-05-06
LA Times crossword puzzles are attractive for two reasons: they are more contemporary than most, and they are funny. So many crossword puzzles refer to TV shows, movies, and cultural events that happened 50 years ago. The Times is focused more on recent history. Not to say there's no depth to them -- there certainly is. You'll find plenty about Western history in the puzzles, as well as the occasional obscure word. On top of clues that are focused on the recent past there is the humor inherent in them and their corresponding answers. If you like puns -- or if you even like groaning at puns -- you'll enjoy these puzzles. You've got to approach these from a particular perspective -- one that's not too serious. It is, after all, a crossword puzzle and not brain surgery. But speaking of brain, studies are showing that we older folk (I mean older like 50) can keep our brains active and our memories sharp by doing things like crossword puzzles. These puzzles are recommended for a certain type of person -- the one who likes popular culture, and enjoys a certain kind of humor. If you've started forgetting why you came into a room, you'll like them all the more.
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Smith provides an insightful, affectionate portrait of pharmacy's place in radio's golden age that should evoke fond memories. --PHARMACY IN HISTORY
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