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In Image and Spirit, Karen Stone provides a theological and aesthetic background for understanding art as an embodiment of the transcendent. Geared to the general reader, the book helps the reader develop the ability to look at artwork of all styles and from all periods, and interpret and appreciate them from a spiritual perspective. Image and Spirit also explores the communal aspect of art—it can be a prophetic voice that challenges, mobilizes, and sensitizes us, and it can be a pastoral tool that enriches the spiritual and aesthetic journey of a community of faith.
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Title: Image and Spirit: Finding Meaning in Visual Art.(Book Review)
Author: Mark C. Mattes
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Currents in Theology and Mission (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
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Volume: 32
Issue: 5
Page: 381(1)
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Seeking the spirit of art.(Book Review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter
Mary Schaffer
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This digital document is an article from National Catholic Reporter, published by National Catholic Reporter on February 11, 2005. The length of the article is 583 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: Seeking the spirit of art.(Book Review)
Author: Mary Schaffer
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National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 11, 2005
Publisher: National Catholic Reporter
Volume: 41
Issue: 15
Page: 7a(1)
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You may have seen them in some wonderful old movie, sparkling on Audrey Hepburn or Claudette Colbert, looking as if they cost millions of dollars. They didn’t; they are not the real thing. But even though they are faux, they’re made with the same care and attention as the real things: strands of artificial pearls individually knotted, “gems” hand set and pronged, plastic bangles more stunning than ivory.
Fabulous Fakes gives you one hundred years of the most amazing pieces of costume jewelry ever produced, in brilliant and beautiful color.
It tells their story, starting with mass-produced Victorian jewelry, moving through the wonderfully sophisticated lines of art deco geometrics, and parking at the doorstep of 1990s designer and artisanal jewelry.
Whether you love the boldness of Czech crystal or the delicate handiwork of Miriam Haskell, whether your jewels are part of your everyday fashion or a breathtaking collection of
objets, the thrill of finding them is the same.
Fabulous Fakes is your treasure map to discovering the craftsmanship and tradition that have made these pieces part of our collective memory.
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A 'must' for any serious collecting library, especially those covering costume jewelry........2006-10-15
FABULOUS FAKES: A PASSION FOR VINTAGE COSTUME JEWELRY is much more than just another identification or pricing guide: it captures and shares the author's own enthusiasm for the history and background of costume jewelry, offering chapters spiced with numerous color photos. Her pieces accompany a running history of vintage costume jewelry from Victorian to modern times, offering excellent and vivid insights into show-stopping pieces. A 'must' for any serious collecting library, especially those covering costume jewelry.
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California Bookwatch
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A longtime favorite that I've recently revisited........2007-07-15
And rediscovered. I never really knew there was alot more to elfquest than those first five or so. Can't really remember the number offhand.
My original collection had somehow been lost over time, so I just rebought all of them, and then some. I got lost again in a beautifully created other world. Great art, epic story, what more can one ask for.
Elfquest Archives.......2007-06-15
This newly coloured version of the original elfquest is stunning and well worth the money. Elfquest has always had that knack of catching readers attention of all ages. It is a remarkable story elegantly illustrated and written by Wendy and Richard Pini.
Though, I have to say as a collector, the original colouring done when the comics were released under the Father Tree Press name are much more satisfying. The digitally coloured Archives are stunning and beautiful but to me take away from the character of the hand coloured versions.
A plus from the archives-Contains the story "the Heart's Way". Also, contains an introduction by Mercades Lackey and an Afterword by the Pini's.
Fun and very entertaining!.......2007-06-14
Arriving on a strange and primitive world, the elfin High Ones quickly find themselves set upon by the cruel and brutal humans, and driven from their home. It is now many years later, and their descendents, the Wolfriders, are still trying to survive on this deadly world. This is the story of their struggle, their joys and sorrows, their finding a new home, and all that befalls them - both good and ill.
In 1978, Wendy and Richard Pini started self-publishing the Elfquest saga in comic book form. The rest, as they say, is history! This graphic novel contains the first five issues of Elfquest, and is quite an entertaining read. I really enjoyed the story (I love stories of elves and magic!), and thought that the illustration work was quite excellent. Some people have criticized the coloring, but I thought that it was quite good, a little bright like older comics, but that is what it is.
Now, there is one thing to consider before buying this book for younger readers. The Elfquest cycle includes some sexuality, and final story in this book includes a main male character dallying with *three* females. So, you might want to bear that in mind.
But, that said, I did find this to be a fun and very entertaining read! I give this book two thumbs up!
WOW! just WOW!.......2007-03-20
It's not a story. It's an Experience! Truly AMAZING work, graphicly as well. WOW
Best version to date!.......2006-11-14
I started reading EQ as a teenager 1979-1980 have been a fan ever since, and I have to say I found most of the reveiews spot on but there were a few I was very confused by.
Some folks found the coloring used amaturish and unapealing? What?! I have owned every prior color volume of this series and I have got to say those folks do not know at all know what they are talking about! These new editions are stunning, a lovely picture of the true colors and vibrancy long missing from such vibrant stories!
Another review claims to be surprised buy the adult themes and the questionable sexual behaviour of the elves and not remembering those existing before.
Well that is also incorrect from almost the very begining the Pini's have made it clear that the elves sexuality was much more open and free than humans, that they did not share the negativity that many in the real world feel for certain types of pairings.
It's there, always has been there and I have always found it to be done in such a tasteful and beautiful way that when I have children I DO plan on sharing EQ with if only to avoid some of the negative attitude so much of our country has towards sex and sexuality.
These books are worth every "Pini" buy them!
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Join Erma Bombeck as she travels the world with family in tow. A giddy guided tour of the global village, this is travel writing as only Erma Bombeck could write it.
A Publisher's Weekly audio bestseller.
A 1991 Grammy Award nominee
Customer Reviews:
Trying Too Hard.......2006-07-04
The first few chapters got me laughing, yes. But later on, I felt like I was reading a stand up comedian's script. It made me feel that everytime she goes on a vacation, she turns every moment as an oppurtunity to make it derogatorily funny. A bit too pessimistic for me.
i liked however how she pointed out the 'usual' members of a travel group and the confinement of travelling with a group.
sometimes the accounts are too exagerrated, bordering on slapstick: (when she decided to travel and not be a house-sitter anymore, she held up her hands to declare this, clutching the neighbor's hamster).
This is a book that may be enjoyed by people who travel so that they could be reminded of how things are all better 'back home'. People who genuinely love to travel (for love of culture and other purposes) may find it a waste of time reading this.
The most humorous book I have ever read!.......2006-01-11
This is the first book I've read by Irma Bombeck and I bought it because of the rave reviews from other readers. I was more than pleasantly surprised. I am recovering from a broken ankle and needing a "little cheering up". This book did the trick. I was laughing nonstop. I would highly recommend it!
LIfe turned comedy through the words of Bombeck.......2004-02-16
The title at first hadnt seemed so appealing to me, but the contents of the novel is what matters the most. My mother had urged me to read this book saying it was both witty and funny. A optimistic novel, turning lifes issues into comedy. In her book " When you Look like YouPassport Photo" she writes about her travel experiences which you can both laugh with and at the same time relate to. It starts off with her never having left her home town, to renting the smallest and most unpractical home RV in the world to deciding to leaving her children home to explore Europe. Even if you havent traveled you can laugh at the way she describes even the weirdest things and if you have relate to the tour guides and horrible food services. The memeroable husband always thinking that there are consipiracies going on in the system. The Hotel rationing the same piece of hard roll for every serving. Then there is always your typical bus groups. The health fanatic upfront, the photo mania and your typical drunk always singing at certain stops. I found it funny when she explaned that she had more children than she had window seats and just basically how she compared her life to things. IN her book, she gives tips and rules on travel issues. I havent read a book that made me laugh from page to page liek this one, this is a book no one should miss reading. Her perspective is always fresh, always giving her own ideas her own opinios. " Food for the dangerous" isnt this a catchy yet dangerous phrase. Erma describes all things with a different look. I heard that the authot died a few years ago and i praise her. Having suffering so much illness and even althrough this, having the ability to narate such an optimistic and hilarious book.
True, so true!.......2003-04-15
Erma's funniest book yet! Every time I'm on a car trip and I'm stuck behind an RV, I think of her experience driving the "rig" with her hands clamped to the wheel, etc. I think of her regretting having more children than she had backseat windows and paying a fortune for a cruise only to spend half the voyage throwing up into a sink shaped like a seashell. Erma took mundane real life for mothers/wives and made it funny.
I've never read a Bombeck book I didn't like..............2002-04-20
& this was the best. You can litterally place yourself in her shoes & experience comical things you could never have imagined happening to yourself. The way she narrates really grabs you into the book & won't let you go, & when your finished you need another of her books or you'll go into withdrawl syndrome. It was a horrible loss she died & took her comical genius that no one else has mastered with her.
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When You Look Like Your Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home-6 Copy Prepak
Erma Bombeck
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When You Look Like Your Passport Photo , It's Time to Go Home
Erma Bombeck
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6 cassette tapes; 6 hours.
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Inconsistent.......1999-04-24
Some of the articles are well written but others are very repetitious and not rich in analysis. They are usually very short, and chould have been developed more. @More careful analysis needed. They also use a lot of "I's" in their writing. They emphasize a lot on their own experience, not what others think. Not really academically written. Some authors just repeat the same thing over and over again, which makes the whole book dull. One advantage is that it is easy to read.
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Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century
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Music theorists of almost all ages employ a concept of "Nature" to justify observations or statements about music. The understanding of what "Nature" is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In tracing these explanatory strategies and their changes in music theories between c. 1600 and 1900, these essays explore (for the first time in a book-length study) how the multifarious conceptions of nature, located variously between scientific reason and divine power, are brought to bear on music theory and how they affect our understanding of music.
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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1479 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: Reading Renaissance music theory: Hearing with the Eyes and Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the early Twentieth Century. (Reviews) .
Author: Blair Sullivan
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Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 55
Issue: 1
Page: 325(3)
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Winner of the prestigious Chess Journalists of America Book of the Year award, this single book boils down all essential endgame wisdom into one you can use to win games for the rest of your life.
Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. For most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race.
This revised, updated edition of Just the Facts! brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. Winning Chess Endgames can take you from beginner to master. Two-color chess illustrations throughout.
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Okay, but there's a much better choice.......2007-07-23
I bought this book about a year ago, and I'm sure it's okay. However, I recently bought "Silman's Complete Endgame Course," which has been much more helpful. "Just the Facts" breaks endgames down by position type (for example Rook Endgames). Silman's breaks endgames down by the player's ability. So there is a chapter for beginners, then "E" players, then "D" players, etc. For me (a "D" player) the Silman approach was much more rewarding. "Just the Facts" is probably great for better players, but if you're learning, I highly recommend Silman's.
winning endgame.......2007-06-26
This book is very readable, as Alburts books are.
You can learn a lot about endings in enjoyable way.
I thinks it is excellent for anyone under rating 2000.
Authoritative Yet Easy to Follow.......2007-06-05
Start with two Grandmasters -- famous Soviet defector Lev Alburt and Spassky's chess coach Nikolay Krogius.
Add former USCF Executive Director, Al Lawrence, whose specialties are chess and education.
You end up with the very best theory, presented with relaxing clarity.
I get tired of all the chess books that are jumbles of variations presented in the latest 1825 layout style. (I keep waiting for some old schoolmaster to hit me with a stick!)
Finally chess books are using modern layout styles!
Main points and summary diagrams are highlighted in blue. Explanations are clear. And variations are kept to only those essential for making the actual point. (Some chess authors get carried away.)
It's a fun book. Some chess trivia asides -- like mini-bios of Capablanca, Nimzovitch, Botvinnik, Lasker, and a few others. Not so much that it interrupts the flow of the book.
The layout helps you remember the main principles. The highlighted summaries stick in your brain and can pop up during your games.
The theory is pure science and will work against your favorite chess engine no matter how mighty the algorithm.
My only complaint -- too many Russians.
Very nice introduction to the endgame.......2007-05-09
The first thirty pages of this book are essentially worthless, and I found the use of color to be a bit distracting at times.
Aside from these trivial complaints, this is an excellent book. Unlike many endgame books, you don't find yourself trudging through eight different variations of "king, bishop, and two pawns versus king, knight, and three pawns." Instead, you are given the most basic endgame positions--the theoretical principles for which are explained fully, simply, and clearly--then moved on to more complex engame positions which share similar theoretical features. Not only do you see how to play a particular sort of endgame position, then, but you are also given an understanding of when and how the same principles would apply to a more complicated board situation.
Endgames are usually drudgery to study. This book makes them pretty interesting and accessible.
Endgames are interesting? Whoulda thunk it? :).......2007-04-22
Just the Facts is every bit as good as the other reviewers say, and it lives up to the hype. Some rather opinionated chessplayers (very good ones, at that) like this book and recommend it to their students. The book is written VERY well, approachable and understandable. I have very minor issues here and there, which don't distract at all from the overall quality of the book. Besides, Alburt is a GM and I'm a schmo - so who ya gonna believe? :)
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The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.
Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification.
That the phrases "competitive advantage" and "sustainable competitive advantage" have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable.
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Using IT for Competitive Advantage.......2007-09-24
In his 1985 book titled Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance Free Press 1985 Management and IT (information Technology) author Michael Porter set fourth some very useful ideas about creating competitive advantage with IT (e.g. building a strategically valuable system.) I've added an example or two after each of his points. They include:
(1) Building barriers to Entry (Microsoft Windows loaded on every new PC)
(2) Enhancing loyalty (American Hospital Supply on-line ordering)
(3) Favorably altering the balance of power with suppliers (American Airlines AAdvantage frequent flyer program)
(4) Changing the basis of competition within an industry (Federal Express hub & spoke delivery)
(5) Developing entirely new products (Finance and Insurance industries)
I believe this is very powerful stuff when thinking about the value of a new system proposal and in particular the inevitable 'build vs. buy decision'. It's also relevant to starting a new business and trying to find an approach that makes it unique!
A very timely book even after 20+ years!
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Porter is a topper.......2007-08-29
Read and learn.
It changes your life and the way you think about society.
Gives you a deeper understanding.
Excellent work by Porter.
The Bible.......2007-04-19
While Porter's Competitive Strategy is The Old Testament, this book, Competitive Advantage, is The New Testament. Enough said.
I recommend this book!.......2007-01-11
Prior to reading this book, "Competitive advantage" was just a phrase I used in my marketing material to hopefully get the reader's attention. Now I have a measuring stick for analyzing how specific companies can survive in the 'take-no-prisoners' real world.
The best part of my Strategy course.......2006-10-12
For me, the best part of MBA's Strategic Management course was getting to know the ground breaking works of Michael Porter. I found the book 'Competitive Advantage' so impressive that I also ended up ordering 'Competitive Strategy'. Competitive strategy is even used by wallstreet investors and analysts to develop investment insights.
The classic paper 'What is Strategy' still has me thinking and mulling over -definitely an uncontested winner as my year 2006's best read!
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