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The art of cut crystal—a lavishly illustrated invitation to discover the most creative crystal jewelry, fashion, and design in the world.
Founded in 1895, Swarovski has become synonymous internationally with the finest crystal jewelry, accessories, and decorative objects. Since 1989 the designs of Daniel Swarovski, the company's Couture signature, have earned it a place at the forefront of contemporary fashion. Designed by creative director Rosemarie Le Gallais, the exquisite range of necklaces, bracelets, pins, handbags, watches, gloves, and other ornaments testifies to Swarovski's unique blend of technological innovation, creative talent, and manufacturing expertise.
The jewels and accessories of the Daniel Swarovski line tell an extraordinary tale that revolves around the fascination of cut crystal, its lightness and brilliance, its intriguing contradictions of clarity and mystery, fire and ice. 150 color illustrations.
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Great coffe table book.......2007-01-15
For anyone interested in Austrian crystal jewelry, this book is a must have. The photos are just as artistic as the jewelry!! Love it!!
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 21, 2002. The length of the article is 1038 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: Rosemarie Le Gallais, diseñadora de Daniel Swarovski.(TT: Rosemarie Le Gallais, Daniel Swarovski's fashion designer.)(Artículo Breve)(Entrevista)
Author: Abraham de Amézaga
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Beautiful styles from the Parisian high fashion houses of the 1950s are shown in Couture Fabrics of the 50s, a collection of French fabrics of the era. Exotic and exquisite designs in silk, rayon, and cotton used to create elegant women's high fashion wear are identified in hundreds of splendid full-color photographs. Of special interest are fabric swatches reflecting seasonal styles, "special effects" photo-engraving and lavish imitation weaves. Designers and 50s enthusiasts will find this artistic collection of fabric designs inspiring and exciting.
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Osamu Tezuka is often credited with being one of the pioneers of "story manga"-- long, narrative comics for adults. His stories frequently run thousands of pages and comprise dozens of volumes. He is known in America (though not by name) as the animator of Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion. Adolf, his last major work before his death in 1989, is his first full-length work available in English. It's the story of three individuals named Adolf: a Jewish boy living in Japan, a half-Japanese/half- German boy, and the leader of Nazi Germany. This is a wonderfully fresh perspective on the events of World War II.
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the book you can't get.......2007-01-09
I read this book in the college library Oberlin, Ohio. I can't get it for myself. It's astonishing when you think about ANYTHING Tezuka did being out of print, but presently so is Astro Boy Vol.1. Anyhow, I hope to own this book someday - if LOTS of lovely manga-readers requested it, maybe we could ALL have a chance of owning Adolf, vol.1.
Amazon disappoints.......2006-05-30
The Manga series is great, but Amazon has disappointed me greatly. I bought the entire series of Adolf from amazon and while i recieved the last four books, the first volume hasnt been shipped and its been nearly 4 months since my order.
Owning the rest of the books without the first is worthless. Amazon should have been more truthful and just stated that this item is not in stock, instead of saying it will ship in 2 weeks. I would not have spent $44 on the rest of the books.
Awesome spy story.......2005-01-22
From the hype surrounding this I was expecting something kind of educational or with serious history. I was pleasantly surprised. This read as a good spy story.
The Adolf series proposes to tell the stories of three Adolfs. One is the historic Hitler. The other two are fictional. We start by following the story of Toge, a Japanese reporter in Berlin to cover the 1936 Olympics and to some extent our narrator through these stories. His brother is an exchange student living in Berlin. Toge receives a call from his brother about a secret that will throw Hitler out of power. When Toge arrives he finds his brother murdered. The police take the body but it never arrives at the station. When Toge tries to track down the body he finds that no one will admit to having met his brother and the police (who also have no record of the murder) claim that he must be making the story up. Through the first half of this book we follow Toge's search for information about his brother in Berlin. He wants to bury and avenge his brother, and gets caught up in something much bigger. Somehow the murder is connected with a murder of a Geisha six months earlier in Japan. Both victims had plaster under their fingernails. When Toge returns to Japan he continues to search for the truth about his brother.
Through this Geisha we are introduced to the next two Adolfs. One is the son of the prime suspect for the murder, a high ranking German intelligence officer stationed in Japan. The third Adolf is a Jewish German whose family is in Japan because that is a better place for them to live than is Germany. The two boys are the same age and are best friends, which bothers both families. Non-jewish Adolf doesn't want to go to school in Germany and take the career path that his father wants for him, because he doesn't want to be taught that jews and therefore jewish-Adolf are bad. Both Adolfs come to learn the horrible secret that can destroy Hitler and so they are caught up in the bigger story.
This is a really great and well paced story. I got pulled in and had to finish it. I had put off reading it because much of the hype I had heard about it made it sound dry and educational. It isn't dry. I'm sure that I learned something from seeing a telling of WWII from a Japanese perspective, but regardless this is a good story.
I highly recommend this book. Keep in mind that there are a couple of graphic torture scenes, a rape and a suicide (and book 2 gets much much worse). So don't give this to your fourth grader to teach them history.
The first volume in a great, epic series.......2004-06-19
Osamu Tezuka's, 'Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century,' is the opening chapter in what will turn out to be an epic, sweeping tale of 3 Adolf's - Adolf Hitler, Adolf Kamil (a jewish boy growing up in Japan) and Adolf Kaufman (a half japanese, half german youth). Within this framework, Tezuka will spin a deep and moving story set against the backdrop of Japan and Germany during WWII providing both entertainment and fresh historical perspective of events during this timeframe.
Spanning 5 volumes and over 1300 pages readers will easily glide through each book thanks to Tezuka's sharp and easy-to-digest narrative along with his crisp black & white artwork. This series is highly recommended to anyone interested in graphic novels, excellent storytelling and WWII. Definitely start with this first volume and enjoy the rest of the tale over the next 4 books.
Serious Manga for adults.......2001-07-26
This, in short, is the good stuff. An excellent eye-opener for those who think of the manga genre as black and white anime that doesn't move. This manga series is a very human telling of the story of WWII through the eyes of 3 men named Adolf.
The style will perhaps not appeal to those who are used to American style or even the more recent Japanese style but to those willing to give it a chance, the storytelling is fantastic. This edition is on pretty nice paper and is definately worth the money.
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A Listener's Guide to Mozart's Great Operas
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Full, penetrating analysis, guide to five great operas: Don Giovanni, Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. 343 musical illus.
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Charm and expertise..........2000-05-10
If I am not wrong, this book has been previously released under the title "Famous Mozart Operas. An analytical guide for the opera-goer and armchair listener", that's at least the title of the second edition I now have in front of me. For the readers acquainted with it, this new title may be a little misleading and suggesting a new revised edition. Equally misleading may be the double authorship: the Amazon.com database gives both Spike Hughes and Patrick Cairns Hughes as the book's authors, but this is simply a confusion resulting from the fact that Spike Hughes's real name - Patrick Cairns - has been used for copyrights. Hughes's book is a wonderful guide for anybody interested in Mozart operas - beginners will find here expert guidance through the operas' complicated plots, advanced Mozartians - a series of delightfully written essays highlighting many important points too often taken for granted. In the author's words, the book is meant to "serve as a supplement to those programmes found in most opera houses or to the analytical notes on the picturesque "sleeves" of L.P. records (I imagine that the new edition has "CD" here) which tell the story in more or less intelligible terms but do not always explain why the tenor should suddenly want to burst into a song, nor what he is singing about when he does". The guide contains 343 musical illustrations usually no longer than 5-6 bars, designed, according to the author, with the student of orchestration in mind, but this shouldn't set off anybody without a reading knowledge of music. Even without it, one is able to follow and enjoy Hughes's musical arguments easily - his language is simple and devoid of heavy specialistic jargon, though readers with no theoretical knowledge of music may sometimes need to consult a little dictionary of musical terms. I can't help thinking how wonderful it would be if such a delightful book - one of its kind - could be re-edited in our CD-room era with these musical illustrations actually played - or, even easier, supplemented by references to certain milestone recordings (just little notes on the margin referring to tracks and timing - nothing more simple in the CD era!). The book is divided into 5 chapters, each devoted to one opera ("Entfuehrung aus dem Serail; the three Da Ponte operas; Die Zauberfloete). Musical illustrations are inserted along the text and, where necessary, shortly discussed. These illustrations together with Hughes's insightful comments are the high points of the book and it would be difficult to find a popular introduction to Mozart's operas done with more charm combined with expertise. The guide is also very helpful in following stage productions of Mozart's operas either in the theater or on video. We have to remember that Mozart's stage instructions are very often skimpy and most of the important staging hints can be found in the libretti themselves (this seems to be of no importance to some opera directors today). Hughes's book offers its readers a vivid description of an "ideal" production, taking into considerations even the smallest of Mozart's stage directions. It also highlights certain difficult points, easily unnoticed, but important for the dramatic action. It is so easy to get lost in some of the plots - "Marriage of Figaro" being the best example - and Hughes does everything to make them as clear as possible, often borrowing helpful hints from literary works or other operas (here Beaumarchais's original play and Rossini's "Barbiere"). How many times did you wonder about the relation between Rossini's and Mozart's characters? If you are not eager to read Beaumarchais, this guide will answer all your questions. Here and there the author makes some mysterious statements that make you feel like a bad student who didn't do his homework. In the chapter on "The Magic Flute", page 200, description of Tamino's encounter with Papageno, brings a surprising piece of information about Papageno's past (supposedly told by Papageno himself): his "mother had been in the service of the
". I was really surprised, since the libretto - at last in the form I know it - never says anything about Papageno's mother, even more - the bird-catcher, asked by Tamino about his parents, declares that he knows nothing about them. Everything he knows, he continues, is that he has his straw hut nearby, which protects him "from the rain and cold". I don't know where the idea of Papageno's mother comes from, but before I suggest a mistake I would like to hear from more experienced Mozart opera lovers. The other strange statement appears in "Cosi fan tutte", when Despina, laughing at the two "Albanian" visitors' appearances, says - in Hughes translation: "What clothes! What faces! What moustaches! Are they Poles or Turks or what?" I am Polish and I was very surprised to find an allusion to Poles in no less than one of the Mozart's masterpieces, while the whole operatic literature contains maybe two or three. Despina, however, doesn't say Poles, she says "Vallacchi", what - if you listen to the opera without following the printed text - can easily be taken for "Polacchi". But Poland was hardly exotic in Mozart's times (in fact, it never was because of generally Western character of its culture) and making Guglielmo and Ferrando look like Poles wouldn't help create an exotic aura around them. "Vallacchi" are simply Wallachians or Rumanians, if we want to use a more familiar term, Wal(l)achia being a province of Rumania. These are, however, minor complaints about the book that cannot be praised enough for its charm, general expertise and beautiful language - the world of Mozart's operas as seen through it is now even more delightful (if it were possible). Indispensable!
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Judgment And Planning In Chess focuses on that crucial point in the chess game -- eight or so moves into the game -- where the opening development breaks off and the middle game begins. This is precisely the part of the game that falls between opening books and middle-game books.
Dr. Euwe studies a number of orthodox openings and positions from the point where the opening stage has come to an end. He describes the characteristics of the position reached, shows why one or the other side stands better, and gives a practical demonstration of the means by which the game can be brought to its logical conclusion.
"Written with all the expository power for which the ex-champion is famous" (Times Literary Supplement), this well-known book is regarded as one of the standard manuals for developing players.
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Covers important middlegame themes not present in other (even great) works........2006-08-11
The 5th World Champion, Dr. Max Euwe, is an underrated chessplayer; I think this is because he knocked off Alekhine during the latter's uncontrollable alcoholism. The chess legacy of this man lies, however, more in his textbooks than in his playing career. His prose is very clear, and to the point. I would even say that at many points he is refreshingly terse!
JUDGMENT AND PLANNING IN CHESS is not difficult to comprehend (I didn't say "easy" because it WILL require some work, but not an inordinate amount), and because Euwe explains things that are missing in other, even great, middlegame texts. I have read many of the classics (Niemzowitsch, Pachman, Silman, Stean, etc.), but none of them, to my recollection, explicitly detail the power of a queenside majority (Ch. II), or "The Queen's side Attack" (Ch. III. Euwe's prose on Bogoljubow-Capablanca from New York, 1924 which begins the chapter is brilliant, in my opinion). Another topic that he devotes much (needed!) time to is "Knight vs. Bad Bishop" (Ch. IV). All experienced players have heard of this and have a concept of what a bad bishop is, but Dr. Euwe actually makes exploiting such an advantage understandable. In this chapter, the variations given are particularly valuable.
Now, the book is invaluable simply for coverage of the above. The author does cover many of the "standard" topics of middlegame texts, including "Weakening the King's Side" (Ch. V) and of course "The Attack on the King's Field" (Ch. VI), but even here he has something worthwhile to add, especially in that he does not discuss the maneuvers of the attacking side in a vacuum (as many authors do) and thoroughly analyzes the example games as a BATTLE, and not as a one-sided MASSACRE.
Implicit throughout "Weak Pawns" (Ch. VII) is the difficult motif of ALTERNATION (Euwe even calls it by name at a couple of turns). Provided herein are good examples of play against isolated and hanging pawns, the latter not receiving enough attention in the chess literature, in my opinion.
"Strong Squares" (Ch. VIII) is also, it seems to me, unique. If you have surveyed Kmoch's PAWN POWER, this chapter will no doubt reinforce the power of sealer/sweeper maneuvers when available. In fact, Euwe talks about "sealing," both as a detriment to the defender, and how the attacker should avoid the sealing off of weaknesses! Very interesting!
"Open Files" (Ch. IX) is much akin to Stean's "The Minority Attack" in SIMPLE CHESS, but is well-done for those who will encounter this for the first time, even if the title of this chapter should be "Half-open Files."
Some general comments. There are plenty of diagrams, and Euwe certainly utilizes them in all the right places, making it possiible to gain much from this work on-the-go, because his "expository power," as the blurb calls it, is tremendous. Euwe also does not overburden us with variations: he includes them if they are important to understanding the main play, or if they help illustrate the subject of the current chapter. Also (fair warning!), this book is written in Descriptive Notation (even using Kt for Knight), so you will have to know how to read this. But if you have been reading other classics, this should be no problem.
HIGHLY Recommended.
Best introduction to positional chess play.......2004-07-13
Very informative book which is highly recommended by the great middle game teachers (Highly recommeded by Pachman).
Although written in hte late 70s, the chapter on knight v Bishop was ahead of its time. All the examples are drawn from the games of famous GMs. So not aonly do you get the games looked at from the perspective of their classification, attack on king, Queen side majority, minority attack etc but the book also serves as a collection of famous games annoted by an ex world champion. What can the book do for you? Without a doubt:
Great introduction to positional elements.
Great intermediate text on the key peositional issues (You will go back time and again to this book)
Great collection of games that are used by other teachers to illustrate other aspects, you will thus be familiar with many of the most instructive games
Finally I would expect a gradual improvement of 100 Elo points in all players below 2000 Elo if you study & apply your new knowlege.
The book is not too long so you can finish it lol.
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Great book!.......2004-01-05
Max Euwe is justly famed for his series of superb instructional books on the middle game and end game. This book, despite what the blurb says, is firmly a middle game book. What Euwe does is show typical middle game situations, explain the positional dynamics behind them, and advise the reader on how to handle these positions in their own games. This is really useful, practical stuff, clearly explained.
The book does not advocate any sort of 'thinking method' aside from the old fashioned one of examining the position for salient strategic features (such as those shown in the book) and playing accordingly.
For example, the second chapter deals with a strategic feature termed 'pawn majority on the queen side'. Euwe shows how the possessor of the majority should station their pieces so as to support an eventual passed pawn and then, when the time is right, create one. Further Euwe points out the real value of a such a pawn is that the opponent must commit his forces to blockade it, creating weaknesses elsewhere. He comments that many average players will rush a passed pawn through but then find it becomes isolated and is quickly lost. (I find this sort of advice very valuable when playing chess as this is exactly the sort of error one is likely to come across. After all, the vast majority of us only ever play other average players!) Further, we see the sort of openings that lead to this situation - enabling a player to aim for this in their own games.
Euwe cautions that while following this policy the player must remember to keep an eye out for tactical threats and opportunites - he takes pains to reinforce this throughout the book.
Each chapter covers a different theme. Note that chapter one - which you can read in Amazon's 'Look Inside This Book' feature - is actually the least useful chapter, and very different from the rest of the book. I think Euwe's intention in that chapter is simply to reinforce his dictum regarding tactical awareness.
Of course this book does not set out to cover all possible middlegame situations but rather a careful selection of situations which occur with reasonable frequency. Thus it serves as a useful introduction to more advanced middlegame works.
I would say the sort of player who would gain most from study of the book someone who doesn't make silly tactical errors, knows enough opening theory to reach an ok middlegame position, but then finds themselves unsure as to how to proceed.
A well written quality product.
A classic.......2002-04-17
This is a classic work of chess literature that deserves another five-star rating. If GAMBIT publications came out with this book today, with a big double-column format with a nice cover, it would be hailed as a classic. In other words, this McKay edition is not laid out in the best fashion, but it is a great book, that is ten times more useful than cranked out word processed streams of consciousness like The Road to Chess Improvement or the Seven Deadly Chess Sins. Those books are a different genre than this. This book was WRITTEN, with painstaking care, as were books by Reti, Pachman, Nimzowitsch and other greats. Because they were written out, they are more carefully done than the books today. Yes, the books today are backed up by computer analysis, but that does not make them more enjoyable to read. Read the classics of chess literature. You will see in fifty more years people will still be reading this book, whereas Yermolinsky, Rowson, will be forgotten....
First contacts withe the middlegame.......2001-01-25
This book is incredibly useful for the player who has understood opening principles; this book is one of those (very rare) which explain some middlegame's concepts very clearly. A must For a player who wants to go up to 1900 ELO.
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Invaluable, Tangible Advice.......2007-09-14
Outstanding advice for anyone building a career! Forget abstract leadership philosophy - Mr. White provides concrete, tangible means to assert yourself as a leader from day one. I recommend this book to people at any stage in their careers as its concepts are universal. Buy the book - your career will thank you!
Practical advice from a seasoned professional.......2007-09-04
William White provides advice from his successful career and from his successful friends in a clear and actionable manner. I will periodically refer back to his suggestions to make sure I'm continually implementing the concepts. It was a quick and easy read. I recommend it especially to those finishing college (any career) and those wanting to learn how to navigate the American corporate culture.
Inspirational.......2007-08-16
From Day One is a great book that gave me a priceless insight into the transition between undergrad and the business world. This should be read by all graduating seniors wishing to enter the field of consulting, finance, law, engineering or venturing into entrepreneurship.
Excellent book for switching jobs.......2007-04-28
I got two performance bonuses in the first two quarters last year after switching jobs and reading this book. Excellent book
A book that goes beyond the obvious to offer career-changing insights.......2007-04-25
William White hit the nail on the head in writing this book for undergrads about to embark on their first foray into the "real world." Let me get one thing straight: this is not just another cheesy self-help book. This book offers great insight as to how young professionals can create a lasting impact in the workplace and provides suggestions for how the young professional can develop practices that will place his/her career on a fulfilling, fast-paced track. If you are serious about making the most of your beginning experiences, this is a must-read. Best of all, White admirably illustrates that "moving up" does not necessitate "pulling down" others in the workplace - an essential realization that is needed now more than ever among today's young professionals.
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