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One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921, a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb, when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes, Greenland. Preserved intact for centuries by the permafrost, these mediaeval garments display remarkable similarities to western European costumes of the time. Previously, such costumes were known only from contemporary illustrations, and the Greenland finds provided the world with a close look at how ordinary Europeans dressed in the Middle Ages. Fortunately for Norlund's team, wood has always been extremely scarce in Greenland, and instead of caskets, many of the bodies were found swaddled in multiple layers of cast-off clothing. When he wrote about the excavation later, Norlund also described how occasional thaws had permitted crowberry and dwarf willow to establish themselves in the top layers of soil. Their roots grew through coffins, clothing and corpses alike, binding them together in a vast network of thin fibers - as if, he wrote, the finds had been literally sewn in the earth. Eighty years of technical advances and subsequent excavations have greatly added to our understanding of the Herjolfsnaes discoveries. "Woven into the Earth" recounts the dramatic story of Norlund's excavation in the context of other Norse textile finds in Greenland. It then describes what the finds tell us about the materials and methods used in making the clothes. The weaving and sewing techniques detailed here are surprisingly sophisticated, and one can only admire the talent of the women who employed them, especially considering the harsh conditions they worked under. While "Woven into the Earth" will be invaluable to students of mediaeval archaeology, Norse society and textile history, both lay readers and scholars are sure to find the book's dig narratives and glimpses of life among "the last Vikings" fascinating.
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Historical textiles from Greenland.......2007-08-12
This hard-cover book, translated from Danish, is a fascinating look at an obscure treasure. Clothing found in the ancient settlements of Greenland (1000 A.D.) is discussed, color photos and drawings explaining construction details of the garments are included. It is a beautiful book and anyone interested in clothing or textiles of the middle ages will consider it a must-have.
Instant Classic.......2005-04-12
It is rare that more than a few shreds of fiber survive from an archaeological site. Thanks to the unique climate and soil conditions in Greenland, we have a number of whole garments that have survived from about a 200-year span during the middle of the medieval period. Until now, most of that information was known in detail only to specialists. Ms. Ostergard's book collects the information she and her colleagues have derived from the Greenland finds and presents it clearly and succinctly, with full color photographs and line illustrations describing the weave, cut, pattern and techniques used to sew the items in meticulous detail. This book is a permanent asset to the study of medieval costume, an instant classic and, thanks to its clarity of writing and layout, useful even for the costumer.
Delicious addition to fiber history.......2005-02-28
superb. The binding is good, the paper is good, the editing appears to be good, the content is way coool. The pictures (printed on a very fine semi-matte paper) are very clear; there are diagrams of almost every weave discussed, and clear discussions of all the weaving tools found in Greenland and some other Norse sites, as well as the material, dyes and finishing methods. Two garments are diagrammed on graph paper (a hood and a dress). The writing is clear and interesting and accessible, and the writers clearly care about the people who were behind the artifacts they are examining.
My only additional desire would be for a summary of the recent research on the history and demise of the Greenland colony (and maybe an explanation of the two-page statement in Inukitut (?)).
If you are a costumer or a scholar or a fan of weaving in different circumstances from the ones we enjoy now, this is a rewarding and fascinating book.
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Easily the funniest comic strip ever........2007-06-09
That's really all I can say. It's not my favorite comic strip (that honor belongs to CALVIN AND HOBBES) but it is the laugh-out-loud funniest. BILL THE CAT LIVES!
Bloom County Volume Two.......2004-06-16
These strips aren't just funny. They're laugh out loud, roll on the floor, tears streaming down my face, people coming into the room to see "WHAT-are-you-laughing-at?!" funny.
Berkeley Breathed has created a perfect 'toon universe populated by funny and poignant humans, along with funny and poignant penguins, groundhogs, Bill the Cat and purple critters that hide in your closet of anxieties waiting to grab you as soon as you sleep. Breathed was an absolute genius at seeing some topical issue of the day (circa 1984 for this voume) holding it up to the light so that we could see it just the way that he did, then skewering the thing with what would be the humor equivalent of cupid's arrow.
So glad this is still in print.......2004-05-19
I had no idea this book was still around. I had picked it up in the mid-eighties, lent it to a friend in the early nineties, and it was gone. I never thought I would see it again. What a surprise to find it again. Immediately, I picked it up and started where I had left off years ago... roaring with laughter. This collection of Bloom County golden oldies is hysterical and clever. The years have been very kind to this strip because it is as fresh as it was during the Reagain administration. Pick up "Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Metal Rump 'N Roll" and laugh your rump off!
If ever there was a reluctant hero..........2000-07-11
The first time I ever picked up a Bloom County book at a bookstore in the mall...and this was the book. After a few pages, I found myself having to close the book in order to gather my wits about me, wipe the tears off my face, then attempt to forge farther ahead...usually having to immediately close the book because glancing at the same page instantly initiated another wave of helpless laughter. Had this only happened once, I could have dealt with it as the adult that I believed myself to be...but, since it happened every few pages, I realized myself to be captivated in the tormented world of Opus and friends. Unfortunately (and much to my surprise, I didn't really care), this resulted in more than a few patrons of the bookstore in question to raise their eyebrows in my direction. I would like to thank the kind person that finally joined me (they picked up a copy of their own) and together we chortled together, pausing at times to close our books at our respective pages to momentarily regain our composure. Whimsical, thoughtful, introspective, silly, hilarious, thought-provoking...If you never read another comic, even if you think you're too old for silliness, you owe it to yourself and Berke to read this...and yes, I bought the book!
Giggle! Chortle! Snort!.......1999-06-25
When this book first came out, I was 9. I was already reading the strip, and loved it. I've never stopped doing either. Like many other comics and cartoons, it has many levels for appreciation. It combines a genuine understanding of the overall importance of silliness, sharp and brilliant satire, and brief, poignant moments of sincere emotion. I keep copies of this book and Penguin Dreams in my car and read a page before I walk into my office most days. Happy reading!
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D+Q presents the latest anthology of new comics talent from around the world.
D+Q publisher Chris Oliveros started the company by publishing a quarterly magazine of the world’s best comics talent, which over the years became an award-winning deluxe coffee-table anthology that featured cartoon classics of yesteryear, such as Gasoline Alley, and today’s French comics superstars Dupuy & Berberian. Fourteen years later, Oliveros noticed an explosion of new talent from around the globe, so he decided to combine two of the things he does best—publishing anthologies and nurturing talent. The result is the Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, which is one of the most exciting outlets for readers to find new comics talent.
Book Three features three cartoonists from around the world: Genevieve Castrée from Canada, Matt Broersma from England, and Sammy Harkham from the United States, whose previous graphic novella, Poor Sailor, was excerpted in the David Eggers–edited Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004.
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Good work.......2007-01-06
I enjoyed Sammy Harkham's work but the rest were a joy to find. Pretty much anything from Drawn and Quarterly you have a certain expectation level, but this book was beyond what I expected.
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Looking at such films as Frankenstein, Svengali, King Kong and The Mark of the Vampire, Berenstein argues that classical horror cinema is marked by malleable gender roles, not by entrenched conventional personas.
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- The definitive Satchmo biography
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Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo." To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times--not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th-century popular music. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York during the "jazz age", Collier re-creates the saga of an old-fashioned black man making it in a white world. He chronicles Armstrong's rise as a musician, his scrapes with the law, his relationships with four wives, and his frequent feuds with fellow musicians Earl Hines and Zutty Singleton. He also sheds new light on Armstrong's endless need for approval, his streak of jealousy, and perhaps most important, what some consider his betrayal of his gift as he opted for commercial success and stardom. A unique biography, knowledgeable, insightful, and packed with information, it ends with Armstrong's death in 1971 as one of the best-known figures in American entertainment.
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Just someone showing off about how much he read about jazz History.......2006-11-02
I was completely disapointed by this book. SInce the begining the author is only taking advantage of the trapped reader to show him how much he knows about the origins of technical jazz. There is really little about Louis and his lif per se. The author rather gives a rough background stating that little is known (he shouldn't have written a book about such a personality if little was known about him)and the few facts that he states he refutes arguing they are not true or completely true. Even refering to Louis autobiography trying to demonstrate that the artist himself was wrong in his own words.
Just a well written account of Jazz origins dressed up as a Louis Armstrong Biography, maybe the only way James Lincoln Collier could sell a copy. Disguising the buyer and cheating on the reader.
Strongly not recomended !!!
The definitive Satchmo biography.......2004-12-11
Collier did a great job! His historiography is as brilliant as ever. It seems to me that the mainstream of Jazz so-called "scholars" don't like Collier because he's got no race bias and because of his impartiality. Actually, Mr. Collier is the best American writer on the subject, as he knows musical theory and is also a fine researcher.
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In this valuable and entertaining book, Angus Dunnington arms the reader with all the necessary skills to be able to cope with attacks on his or her king. Using illustrative games, Dunnington investigates in depth defensive ideas such a blockading, giving up material and the timely launch of counterattacks. Read this book and defend with confidence!
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DIFFERENT APPROACH.......2006-10-22
This is an excellent book about how to defend difficult positions. Unlike the few books available that discuss defense, Dunnington describes defensive plans with tips that you don't find in other books. For example, while most books on defense tout exchanging off attacking pieces, Dunnington cautions against trading too many pieces and ending up with a lost position. This involves analyzing moves beyond the defensive exchanges. He also suggests trading off pieces that you won't need later on after the attack is neutralized, but keeping your more useful pieces for the endgame. Dunnington also proposes sacrificing pieces when defending lost positions. This is not a theme found in most books on defense. All in all, this is valuable addition to the chess defense literature.
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Take a proven approach to short-term trading.
Winning the Day Trading Game offers an insider's view of the trading life and provides proven strategies for profitable trading. Professional trader Tom Busby explains how the strategies that made him so much money early on in his career ultimately failed during the 1987 stock market crash and then reveals how he reinvented himself as a high-percentage day trader. He interweaves personal experiences with technical explanations to outline the cornerstones of his technique. In highlighting his own trading experiences, Busby clearly explains how to beat the market by balancing the impulses of greed and fear, managing risk at all times; and taking responsibility for your trading.
Thomas L. Busby (Mobile, AL) has been a professional trader and broker for 25 years, working with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. He founded the Day Trading Institute in 1996 and it has grown into one of the most successful trading schools in the world.
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Take a proven approach to short-term trading. Winning the Day Trading Game offers an insider's view of the trading life and provides proven strategies for profitable trading. Professional trader Tom Busby explains how the strategies that made him so much money early on in his career ultimately failed during the 1987 stock market crash and then reveals how he reinvented himself as a high-percentage day trader. He interweaves personal experiences with technical explanations to outline the cornerstones of his technique. In highlighting his own trading experiences, Busby clearly explains how to beat the market by balancing the impulses of greed and fear, managing risk at all times; and taking responsibility for your trading. Thomas L. Busby (Mobile, AL) has been a professional trader and broker for 25 years, working with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. He founded the Day Trading Institute in 1996 and it has grown into one of the most successful trading schools in the world.
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Excellent Futures Trading Book.......2007-10-05
Consistently making money as a day trader is exceedingly difficult. I can verify that fact, as a former day trader, and as the author of a comprehensive book on day trading. Every trader would like to become a millionaire trading the markets a few hours a day. Unfortunately, this is a pipe dream for the vast majority of traders. Most traders are neither well disciplined nor have a rule-based buy and sell strategy. Moreover, they are usually too emotional, and they don't properly manage risk to protect their capital. The end result is usually a change in profession.
Busby's begins his 13-chapter book with a retrospective on how he got started in trading. Early in his career, he was as a broker at Merrill Lynch while earning his law degree. He then migrated to trading S&P 500 futures in 1982 when they first became available. Busby enjoyed had much success until devastating losses on Black Monday, a day that impacted him for many years to come. After taking a big hit on October 19, 1987, due to an unhedged futures position, Busby spent years trying to regain his self-confidence. His trading results tended to be mediocre. He was searching for his future direction.
After coming to grips with this situation, Busby decided to look forward instead of backward. He embarked on a path to develop a systematic approach to trading futures that offered consistent profits and minimal risk. After developing and successfully trading his methodology, he decided to found the Day Trading Institute in 1996 to teach new and experienced traders his approach. In 2001, I attended Busby's two-day seminar on futures trading. The book's contents closely parallel the seminar. As I read the book, I remembered many of the key points taught by Busby and his associate Geoff Smith.
Busby certainly has the experience and expertise to educate potential and existing traders with over 25 years of trading futures and teaching about futures in his firm's workshops since 1996. For those individuals looking for a time-tested approach method to trading the S&P 500 futures, he provides a realistic, informative, highly-structured and workable approach that will put the odds of success in your favor, as long as you do your homework, apply yourself, learn from your mistakes every day, and always use protective stop loss orders.
Throughout the book, Busby continually hammers home the point of using protective stops on all trades to limit risk. He believes that trading without stops can potentially lead to big losses that will prematurely end your trading career. This protective stop insurance policy certainly paid off on September 11, 2001 when the market fell precipitously. Busby and his clients were automatically taken out of the market by their stops, before the big drop accelerated which, Busby's career had some bumps along the way.
The futures trading methodology that Busby developed and espoused in his book consists of adhering to three main elements:
· Key Numbers
· Time of Day
· Road Map
Key numbers represent critical support and resistance levels that are often tested, as well as the opening price for the day, and week, month and year for the S&P 500 futures contract, for example. Busby believes that there are three trading times during the day that offer better odds of making money. These include one morning and two afternoon sessions of 30 minute to 75 minute each. Lastly, he reviews a few key market indicators that he calls his "Road Map" to assess the market's condition that include the S&P and Nasdaq futures, NYSE and NASDAQ TICK and TRIN, foreign futures, and two proprietary indicators. Busby uses his electronic real-time "Road Map" as those before him used the ticker tape to read the market's pulse. Knowing the direction of the various market components and whether or not they are synchronized provides critical information as to whether a trade will be entered, and whether it will be a long or short.
In one chapter, Busby recaps the key points that have him years to learn and put in practice. At the end of the book, Busby writes, "The markets will crash again. Be prepared." That's what trading is all about, being prepared. Busby provides a sound approach to a challenging and rewarding profession. A more precise title for this book would have been Winning the Futures Day Trading Game because the contents are almost exclusively focused on futures trading. However, the basic trading advice that he provides is well suited for day traders of other investment vehicles. Although some readers may not feel that his trading approach fully fits their needs or personality, there are numerous insights that will shorten their learning curve and reduce their losses. Education is the key to successful trading. Busby certainly provides a realistic educational experience that readers will benefit from and hopefully become better traders.
Excellent book, but no charts..........2007-01-19
Nice read and good tips as well. But a few charts. A good begining. I'm satisfied with the book. I Recommend.
Helpful and readable experience from a real pro trader!.......2006-11-30
There are several reasons for my positive rating of this book. First, the author dared tell his dire trading failure in 1987 and the consequent financial and emotional trouble from then till 1992. Second, he emphasized repetitively on the need for one's own trading journal, protective stops and preparaton before any trade. Third, he elaborated plainly his past unsuccessful day trading routine. Fourth, he preached detailedly the importance of special dates and key numbers. Fifth, he respected Jesse Livermore much. I do, too. Finally, I had read four of his seven suggested readings beforehand. Our thoughts should be close. Perhaps the major weakness I can tell of it is that he had talked very little on TA tools, or at least the importance of them on day trading. In short, readable! But not on the top priority list.
Weak book attempt.......2006-11-25
When I read this book it reminded me of a seminar that Tom did in Las Vegas. He is full of himself and it is not a secret that he makes money selling books and training, not trading. If you want to learn how to trade read up on Toby Crabel, Linda Rascke, find it used on Ebay or whatever, just read up on the real traders, not on the entertainers.
Good Read........2006-10-12
This book provided the general steps in trade preperation. You won't get the nuts and bolts into money management, trade setup, position sizing... etc. But it gives you a blueprint of how you should prepare yourself to trade. Some say there's nothing new in the book, yeah, everything can be found on the net, but can you piece it all together. The author did, so THAT's where the 5 star came from. Read the book and give a honest review.
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