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This outstanding collection displays the remarkable richness and diversity that make Victorian costume enduringly popular. A fascinating window into the everyday life of the past, it features 239 authentic images from the 1840s through 1900, in which women of every class model the fashions of the era.

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save your time and money.......2007-03-08

The pictures in the book are not bad quality, but thoes produced by the cd-rom are grainy, scratchy and very poor quality. not worth the effort, much less the money. keep on looking, better are out there.

Will be of especial interest to costume designers and students of women's fashion........2007-03-04

"Victorian Women's Fashion Photos: 239 Royalty-Free Designs" showcases period photographs of women's Victorian era clothing ranging from the 1840s to 1900 and will be of especial interest to costume designers and students of women's fashion.

Victorian Fashion Accessories CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

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Victorian Fashion Accessories CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486995984

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This collection of vintage images spans 50 years of fashion history — from the mid-19th century to 1900. Includes cuts of high-topped footwear, elegant hats and parasols, fans, shawls, jewelry, and much more. Perfect for use in catalogs, brochures, newsletters, and other print and craft projects. 683 black-and-white illustrations.

Victorian Fashion Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design)

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Stunning graphics

Victorian Fashion Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design)
Tom Tierney
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486995143

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110 full-color illustrations of outfits by Worth, Paquin, Dolly Varden, Revillon, and other noted designers span 65 years: lace-trimmed wedding dress, resort wear, formal riding attire, and more for women; plaid trousers, frock coats, ruffled shirts, other apparel for men; top hats, walking sticks, bonnets, parasols, and additional period accessories.

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Stunning graphics.......2004-10-16

This comes in a large "paper-doll' size book. The images from from 1836 to 1900, they are gorgeous full colour depictions of Worth gowns, riding habits, bathing suits, men, women and children. This image are HUGE, approximately 800x1500 pixels is average size, in TIF format, perfect for web designs or for use in more personal graphics just as a web page or "siggies".

There is a detailed description of each costume 110 to be exact, and all are open CD ROM, too, so no bother with scanning them. They are Permission free use, so there is no limit but you imagination and you talent.

Great for web designers, graphics mavens, and even more useful for historical writers. Worth every penny.

Victorian Fashions CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

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Victorian Fashions CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
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ASIN: 0486996603

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Features 379 beautifully rendered, black-and-white fashion illustrations from Godey's, Harper's Bazar, and other period magazines: mid- to late-Victorian walking dresses, ball gowns, cloaks, shawls, and capes, as well as hats, shoes, parasols, handbags, and other decorative accessories. A valuable reference for designers, illustrators, and costume historians. "...superb resource." — History in Review, March 2005.

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Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space. This is the full, original screenplay to the new movie, along with storyboards and exclusive input from the screenwriters and director.

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One of the best!.......2006-07-15

I saw the movie first in Imax 3-D and it was amazing! This script by Bryan Singer is spectacular. The only downside for me (for the movie & script) was the character of Kitty (Lex's dumb girlfriend). Parker Posey is annoying at best. Her only role I liked was in Scream 3. As for the character of Kitty, expect someone shallow , annoying & completely not needed in this story (or movie).

Overall, though, Superman Returns is one of the best scripts for comic book movies out there. You can tell there is a lot of love and insight into the character of Superman. Unfortunately they treat Clark Kent as a disguise only, unlike Smallville where Clark is the real him and Superman will be the disguise.

The plot is a little out there. Lex wants to get his share of money from the world by creating basically a new Krypton on earth. When Lois says (quote from memory, might be off a little) "but it will kill millions" Lex responds "Wrong. Billions!" well who's going to pay to live on this land if billions die? For an evil genius this is Lex's dumbest comments. Sure he is supposed to have a downfall so Superman can beat him, but something so simple should have been better thought out.

Otherwise, the script is very well done. Even if you don't see the movie first, it is a quick read and well worth the buy.

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Life of the fiercely independent and courageous singer-songwriter. Ani DiFranco's career as a singer-songwriter, recording artist, and independent recording label 'executive' for Righteous Babe Records has given new inspiration to the world of alternative music. Since the release of her first album in 1990, she has developed one of the most loyal followings in contemporary music among young feminists, college students, and folk rock fans. With the release of her celebrated solo album, Educated Guess, she has embarked on a one-woman, two-year North American concert tour , the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. ""I always wanted to be the commander-in-chief of my own one woman army."" says Ani DiFranco.

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Righteous.......2007-01-08

Great biography!! Even as a long time fan you can still learn something new. Much of the biography is direct quotes from Ani's many interviews. Great reading for old fans, new fans, and/or for anyone with any appreciation for music.

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The picture in the puzzle looks like a simple flower, with four red petals, inside a square. But to solve the mathematical problem—finding the total area of those petals—you’ll have to think outside the box and do some fast figuring. Some of these great puzzles have ancient roots, others come from Leonardo da Vinci’s work; and every one’s a classic. Not only will these conundrums provoke hours of thought, but the images look great, too, with pictures that range from cartoon rabbits to time-lapse photography of the sky.

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Puzzles for creative thinking.......2004-12-06

Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci was fascinated with the idea of dissecting curved figures and transforming them into squares? So says Ivan Moscovich, the designer of these puzzles and games which provide a learning experience that he calls "recreational mathematics." This collection of puzzles and games contains a tribute to Da Vinci in the form of mirror writing and a dissection puzzle that is quite difficult to solve. Also included are puzzles based on lines, parabolas, curves, and hexagons.

Interspersed among the puzzles in this collection are fascinating facts about such things as the Kinemat art drawing machine, Fibonacci numbers, and the best way to pack circles. The answer pages provide not only solutions, but also explanations for the answers that present simple principles of mathematics. These puzzles are not just challenging and educational, but they are a visual treat as well, since each puzzle has one or more colorful and esthetically pleasing illustrations. Some of these puzzles are real mind benders, but that makes discovering the solution all the more rewarding. Happy puzzling!

Eileen Rieback

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Leonardo's Mirror and Other Puzzles
Ivan Moscovich
Manufacturer: Robson Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1YEL0

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This paperback edition of The Coming Generational Storm has been revised and updated and includes a new foreword by the authors.

In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. How will Social Security and Medicare function with fewer working taxpayers to support these programs? According to Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, if our government continues on the course it has set, we'll see skyrocketing tax rates, drastically lower retirement and health benefits, high inflation, a rapidly depreciating dollar, unemployment, and political instability. The government has lost its compass, say Kotlikoff and Burns, and the Bush administration's spending and tax policies have charted a course straight into the coming generational storm.

Kotlikoff and Burns take us on a guided tour of our generational imbalance: There's the "fiscal child abuse" that will double the taxes paid by the next generation. There's also the "deficit delusion" of the under-reported national debt. And none of this, they say, will be solved by any of the popularly touted remedies: cutting taxes, technological progress, immigration, foreign investment, or the elimination of wasteful government spending. Kotlikoff and Burns propose bold new policies, including meaningful reforms of Social Security and Medicare, that are simple, straightforward, and geared to attract support from both political parties.

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Essential Reading - Save Early and Save Often.......2007-08-08

This book should be required reading for all high-school sophomores who are going to inherit the economic problems the authors lay out in the prologue. The more awareness my generation (x) and the younger generations get about the mounting economic conditions we will face within the next 25 years, the better prepared we will all be to fix, or at least adjust to them.

At times the book is a bit too academic and for that I give it only 4 stars but there are parts that you can skip and still not miss the authors' explanation of why we are doomed and what - possibly - we can do to mitigate the situation. Robert Shiller summarizes the points that the authors make below:

"There's a lot of frivolous criticism of our politicians, but this book hits the mark, convincingly documenting their biggest sin: the failure to account for the magnitude of a huge government deficit crisis. The accounting scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat pale by comparison. Read this book so you can start preparing for much higher taxes in the future for you and your children."
--Robert J. Shiller, Yale University, author of Irrational Exuberance and The New Financial Order

Perhaps the worst part of all of this is that we CAN fix the debt obligations that are hanging over us but doing so would require massive sacrifices on behalf of all citizens (unlikely since so many of us "expect" the government to play a role in financing our retirement and healthcare) as well as for both sides of the political aisle to work together (even more unlikely in these partisan times when all the Dems and Republicans want to do is blame one another). Failure to grasp the gravity of a $54 Trillion debt obligation and its impact on the quality of our lives will only continue to erode the value of the dollar as more developing nations such as China, India and Brazil increase their ownership of the US by buying up Treasuries that the government continues to issue. Not good, especially when so many of our middle class jobs are being lost to these countries at the same time.

This is perhaps the most important issue of our time. Until voters are heard and a real politician runs on a platform to fix the escalating economic crisis that awaits us all, do what you can to prepare yourself; save as much as possible in both tax deferred and taxed accounts (the latter of which will benefit you in the future since you will likely be in a lower tax rate today than you will 20 years from now when the govt. has no choice but to raise personal income taxes to finance the debt). Also, go to the gao.gov website and click on "Fiscal Wake Up Tour" in the left hand gutter, then click on the CBS New Program 60 Minutes hyperlink. If you dont have the time to read this book, at least read this article and watch the video interview with the head of the GAO office. By that time, the message and its implications should be painfully clear to you.

Informative, but speculative.......2007-01-10

Kotlikoff and Burns rightly portray congress, the president, judges, the AARP, and anyone else who favors increases, or even the status quo, of social security, Medicare, and Medicaid policies as truly irresponsible. The fact that these three entitlement programs will bankrupt the country within 50 years has been known for at least 10 years (when I started to pay attention to politics). Every year, reforms are spoken about, even good ones that would for the most part protect the programs. But every year, the situation becomes worse because nothing is done. And Bush II foolishly expanded Medicare.

On the flip side, economic predictions decades into the future seems fairly irresponsible as well. As is pointed out in this book, other countries are in far worse condition than the US for the same stupidly financed entitlement packages. They will go belly up first. While the US will certainly feel their pain as well since their economies are intimately tied to ours, we will learn from their mistakes and fix our own problems.

All my life, I've been listening that one disaster after another is going to crush us. In grade school, I learned that we would run out of food in the mid 80's through the 90's and billions would starve to death. Didn't happen. Humans now consume more calories on average throughout the whole world than ever before. Then in grade school and middle school I learned that we would run out of energy. Despite the blip of the last year, oil prices have steadily been dropping and they will continue to drop. We will never run out of oil or energy. Destruction of the ozone layer. It's still there. The depletion of our forests. The US today has more forest cover than 80 years ago. Foreign holdings of the US debt. Nuclear war.

And on and on, disaster after disaster that never materialized. Not because the harping drew attention to the problem, but because in the stating of every single problem, the assumption was that nothing would change. That the human response would not adapt as new information and incentives came about. Not a smart assumption.

We will solve the entitlement problem, but, yes indeed, we will have to feel the pain first. And so what? We'll still solve the problem. The sun will rise in the east and set in the west and the US will be around for a long time and in a dominant position, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid not withstanding. The US and the world will continue to become a better place, but in fits and starts.

I've always been an optimist. I really do believe in the power of imagination and human ingenuity.

Generational Fear Should be Great.......2007-01-09

This book gives a great review of the issues facing America in this century due to government give aways. After reading it I found that several current news stories seemed to be confirming the predictions in the book. The numbers are 3 years old, but the suggestions for saving Social Security and Medicare still seem to be valid. I was a little disappointed in the funds listed in the book, but I have received updated listings by visiting the Scott Burns web site.

A Sobering Assessment.......2006-12-05

Per Kotlkoff and Burns (who base their findings on Government projections), the present value of unfunded future liabilities for Social Security and Medicare is $45 trillion (some nine times the size of our "National debt"). The reasons: longer human life spans due to advances in medical science, retirement of the baby boomers, and the disconnect between the consumption of medical services and the responsibility for paying for them.

Drastic action would be required to close the gap now, e.g., (a) increase federal income taxes by 69%, (b) increase payroll taxes by 95%, or (c) cut Social Security and Medicare benefits by 45%. We could make even more drastic adjustments in a few years. Or, we could do nothing and let the U.S. economy go into a meltdown with double-digit inflation fueled by the Government printing money.

Our political leaders are trying to ignore the problem, and, as Kotlikoff and Burns explain, the fault is ours. "The last thing we want is Uncle Sam telling us to save now for a tidal wave of obligations when the baby boomers retire. So we make sure that doesn't happen. We hire [elect?] politicians who tell us what we want to hear."

The authors go on to present a plan for reform, but they don't expect their plan (or other reforms that could save the system) to be enacted. They end with advice as to how workers should attempt to look after themselves and their families if the politicians in Washington "miss this opportunity to save our ship of state."

One thing bothers me about the analysis. Accepting that the fiscal gap is every bit as bad as it is depicted, this problem was created by Government action. Why should we attempt to solve it by giving the Government even greater responsibilities, such as running the world's largest index fund, assessing the health risks of every senior in the country, deciding how much society needs to spend for health care, etc.? It might be more logical under the circumstances to move in the direction of less Government and let people make choices (such as how long should I work, what medical care do I and others in my family need, etc.) for themselves.

Even if the authors don't have all the answers, however, they have diagnosed the problem very well. "The Coming Generational Storm" is entertainingly written and refreshingly nonpartisan (lambasting both Republicans and Democrats with vigor). Don't miss it.

A retort to the complaints about this book.......2006-11-27

The negative reviews of this book tend to note the following: we cannot predict the future and, yet, this book purports to predict what will happen in the future.

On the one hand, this is a valid criticism - it IS true that we cannot predict how things might change over the next few decades. If some changes occur, they may invalidate the predictions of this book. In fact, I would wager that this book ends up being wrong on a number of fronts.

However, one response to this criticism is that the best information that we have about the future is based on current trends. Absent information about unknown innovations, how could we do any better? Using information about current trends is exactly what this book does. Any alternative future is necessarily based on more tenuous predictions.

Moreover, the authors are very, very careful (and I cannot emphasize how careful they are) about the caveats associated with their predictions - they consistently note that no one can predict the future with certainty and that their predictions are based on the best available information.

They then go even further. They consider scenarios that may invalid their predictions such as technological change (i.e. productivity increases) and carefully argue that those changes would be implausible or, at the very least, insufficient to alter the basic gist of their message.

In the end, the authors try a great deal to innoculate themselves against the criticism regarding the uncertain future. They will almost certainly not be correct, and they concede this point throughout. But their predictions are based on more careful analysis than the knee-jerk response that "we cannot predict the future" which ends up being a vacuous criticism since it is not refutable.

What annoys me about this whole issue is that it is quite clear that we are facing a future crisis even if these guys are wrong about the details. And yet our politicians do not have the guts to face up to it. I think that we need a blue ribbon, non-partisan panel that includes serious people like Kotlikoff (who is a serious, well-regarded economist) to consider the issues and make recommendations. Most politicians either do not understand the issues or do not have the chutzpah to confront them. Something has to be done, and even if this book ends up being wrong, at least it's a call to action.

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