The Encylopedia of Shaker Furniture

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Great book.......2005-05-19

I'm obsessed with Shaker furnitue and architecture. I'll get around to reviewing all of my books in time. I think I have every Shaker book printed!

This one isn't "Complete" but there's an aweful lot in here. I look at "complete" more or less as meaning "most" variety of furniture. I didn't take it literally.

This is one book that gives a lot of weight to Shaker built-ins as well. Of which I'm trying to re-create so I've been referencing this book a lot lately.

I do have other books, some of which focus more on details and drawings with potential variety in drawer configurations for example, others more on color and simple photos etc.

So far it 's been one of my favorites in terms of the wide variety of material it contains. An overall wonderful photo and text reference to existing furniture.

Excellent book, beautiful pictures; but see my warning below.......1999-01-18

Probably because it is one of the newer books on Shaker furniture, this one seems to be the most accurate on the provenance of the many surviving Shaker items. It appears they have done an excellent job of deciphering where a piece was made regardless which village it was found.

THERE IS WARNING HOWEVER! Don't be fooled by what they mean by "The Complete Book." They use the word complete to mean, that in addition to covering the "Shaker Golden Years" of 1830 to around 1850, they have included items from the 18th to the 20th century.

With approximately 400 beautiful illustrations, they can't possibly cover every important piece of Shakerdom. To my disappointment, they did not discuss the particular 12 to 20 foot benches of two slightly differing styles that I have seen pictured in the meeting room at Sabathday Lake. Nor did they show the small wall clock at Sabathday Lake that I wanted to know about.

The authors certainly accomplished their goals of descibing the various, differing forms used by the different locatations over the approximate 150 years covered.

For me the final test is, would I buy it again -- Abosolutely.

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The most action-filled Eden yet! In this shocking volume, character revelations and intense battlefield decisions punctuate a rollercoaster, book-length conflict. With new, cyber-augmented Propater villains (the Aeon soldiers) making a vicious debut, the mysterious Colonel tries to keep his ragtag group of freedom fighters alive. Kenji cuts a path through armored soldiers, and Cheribum and Sophia suffer serious setbacks. Kachua and Wycliffe make their way through secret Incan tunnels, not knowing what horrors lie in the daylight. If you thought that the previous Eden volume had a cliffhanger ending, you'll be blown away by the final pages of this thrilling ride! Hiroki Endo's Eden is a garden of violence, pathos and philosophy, where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

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UNDER SIEGE.......2006-07-10

Colonel Kahn and his crew of deadly freedom fighters are surrounded by attacking Propater forces and it's just a matter of time before they move in for the kill. But his soldiers, along with Elijah, Cherubim, Kachua, and Helena, have had plenty of time to prepare the battleground among the ancient Indian ruins. The whole volume is really just a depiction of one battle but the drama contained therein and the insight we get into the character's pasts and motivations make it as riveting as the opening minutes of the D-Day assault in Saving Private Ryan. Hiroki Endo is playing for keeps in this masterpiece of a manga that has deep connections to the core of human existence. Lots of characters have died in this manga, and many more will in this and future volumes, but that's what happens in war. The coup that Endo pulls off is making us care about these characters, even if all the story isn't out there yet. We don't really have all the details about what the fight is about yet, but I get the feeling that this manga will only get better. The art is EXQUISITE and ranks as some of the best comic art I've ever seen this side of Akira. The characeterization, the panel layout and action, the dialogue, all at the levels of genius. I cannot praise Eden enough. One of the best manga out there. Buy it!

A Bloody, Emotional Mess.......2006-05-29

Of the first three volumes of Eden, this is easiest the bloodiest, most violent one of them. It's uncompromising in the way it presents war, and gives some of the characters that same uncompromising attitudes when it comes to killing. And those who live and die were not the ones I expected, that's for sure.

The story continues to follow Elijah as he battles for his own life as well as those of the people around him. In this volume, though, he takes a more active role and actually picks up the gun himself. His fellow hostages, Helena and Kachua, are forced to do the same as well, and none of them come out the same because of it. Along the way, we get a glimpse into the past of some of the characters, namely Wycliffe, the merc from the Caribbean with the implanted camera-eyes, and Kachua, the village girl who loves her Incan heritage. The brief glimpses into these characters' lives make this volume of Eden probably one of the most emotional stories I've ever read.

Upon finishing this volume, I realized that Eden is the best manga I've ever read. Now, I say this out of almost complete ignorance (and for any of you who read past manga reviews, I think I said this about Monster and Death Note as well) as I don't read a lot of manga, but I'm sure now there won't be many to come along to take its place (besides Berserk, which had once been my favorite and is now in a very, very close second). Eden is pure brilliance, and is redefining the post-apocalyptic genre. It's a story written and drawn with so much power that I think it stands up well alongside some of science fiction's greatest literary works (like what Ray Bradbury writes). I highly recommend Eden: It's an Endless World to anyone.

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DUD BOOK.......2007-01-20

I don't even know why I ordered this. Perhaps because of some good reviews. But I just don't get it. Not funny. Not useful. Just a waste of money. Let me save you some money by giving you a way to annoy people: Pick you nose in public. All the book is not this tastless but just as useless.

Pick it up and you'll start laughing!.......2004-03-30

While visiting the home of a business acquaintance in suburban Philly, I saw "750 Ways to Annoy People" sitting on a coffee table in his den. So, I picked it up, started flipping through the pages, and smiles and unexpected bursts of laughter instantly ensued. My friend said the book has the same effect on everyone, and that's why he's had it sitting in the same spot for over two years. Then I remembered that a year or so ago I'd heard a wild radio interview with the author while driving from the airport into Anchorage, Alaska (of all places). I remember he was banging things and ranting about bad table manners, ways to annoy people at work and everything else. Anyway, the point I want to make is that this is an really funny book. It's easy-to-read, it will keep a smile on your face, and it gets your mind spinning in a slightly warped but positive direction right away. It makes you think of all of the idiots, malcontents, pretentious bores, neurotics, social morons, and anarchists out there - including (dare I say?) some of my own annoying friends and relatives. Nothing is off-limits but, to my surprise, it gets the job done without any profanity, which seemed to add to the book's weirdness. Yes, I do like this little gem, and I highly recommend it. It's one of those timeless attention-getters and laugh-givers that's going to stay right on my coffee table, too, for a long, long time.

Very funny.......2002-04-17

The funniest book in the world! I have read it a few times and it makes me laugh every time. It can really kill time in any situation. I can't find another funny book, with such a strange concept. This book definitly deserves five stars.

Very funny.......2002-04-17

The funniest book in the world! I have read it a few times and it makes me laugh every time. It can really kill time in any situation. I cant find another funny book, with such a strange concept. I am still waiting for the next one. It Definitely deserves five stars.

Call 911 -.......2001-01-03

This book is REALLY FUNNY! It is so STUPID! It had me smiling and laughing the whole time. It also made me think about a lot of people I know. There were times I had to put it down because I was laughing so hard!

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Over the past twenty-five years, Italy's film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. Despite these successes, Italian cinema is in a state of crisis: ticket sales for domestic films, which plummeted in the l980's, are only now beginning to recover; television deregulation has engendered a popular culture largely dependent on American programming; and the passing of an entire generation of brilliant auteurs--Rossellini, Viscounti, Pasolini, Antonioni, and Fellini--extinguished the revolutionary impulse which had characterized Italian filmmaking since the Second World War.

In After Fellini, Millicent Marcus contends that in the late 1980s and 1990s, a new wave of Italian filmmakers has transcended these obstacles and reasserted Italy's importance in world cinema. Through in-depth critiques of such acclaimed films as The Last Emperor,Caro Diario, and Stolen Children, as well as the immensely popular Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful, Marcus details how today's auteurs have both reflected and resisted Italy's shifting social, political, and cultural identity, and created a body of work that signals a new beginning for Italian cinema.

After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age & The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. .(Book Review): An article from: Cineaste

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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age & The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. .(Book Review): An article from: Cineaste
P. Adams Sitney
Manufacturer: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: B0008FYM6U
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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Title: After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age & The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. .(Book Review)
Author: P. Adams Sitney
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Date: December 22, 2002
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 54(5)

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Millicent Marcus. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age.(Book Review): An article from: Italica

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Millicent Marcus. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age.(Book Review): An article from: Italica
Antonio Vitti
Manufacturer: American Association of Teachers of Italian
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ASIN: B0009GN9S0
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from Italica, published by American Association of Teachers of Italian on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1497 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: Millicent Marcus. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age.(Book Review)
Author: Antonio Vitti
Publication: Italica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: American Association of Teachers of Italian
Volume: 81 Issue: 3 Page: 442(3)

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Suzanne Vega is a poet of the urban streets whose passionate eye catches the motion and vibrant color of the life that surrounds us all. In this volume are her collected writings: poems and stories; song lyrics and overheard conversations; remembrances of times past and faraway countries.

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Yeah.........2007-03-12

The best songwriter ever in terms of lyrics.Freakin totally in your face fantasticima,the "Spiritual Bathing" of poetry books.(A plug for that book by Ms.Nadine Epstein.) CrAss had some songs that were also on par with MS.Vega. "Reality Asylum"'s one of them.The best poetry peice ever.If you do not like punk with poetry by "Love Songs" the book with Crass lyrics and "Self Evident" Ani DiFranco's lyric book as well.For these three artists plus Sarah MacLachlan define how we are as women and men and humanity in all of it's beauty and angEr and Joy.

Wow.......2002-05-26

I really don't know how can I explain this book. It's not really a book it's something more than that, something you always want to carry with you no matter how many times you read it, you want to read again and again. Every poem, story or lyric gain new meanings each time you read. I've always been a big fan of Suzanne Vega's music and now I'm a big fan of her writing too! I wish she wrote more books!

Suzanne Vega Fans will love this!.......2001-12-15

Wonderful collection , written superbly!

The impersonal nature of personal revelation.......2001-10-31

Suzanne Vega's Passionate Eye effectively points up some of her ideas in a fresh, readable and consistently interesting format. She uses her song lyrics, poems and prose both recent and juvenile, and a centerpiece radio interview of Ms. Vega by Leonard Cohen (the most "human" part of the book, as Mr. Cohen alternates between simple friendliness, quick wit, deep insight and good, old-fashioned flirtatious play to "illustrate" Ms. Vega's contradictions and the themes of her music through a spirited dialogue).

As in her songs, Ms. Vega writes in veiled themes. She tries to illustrate that one can own the artist's revelations without owning (or needing to know) anything about the artist herself. She quotes passages to support her idea that her particular muse stems from childhood experience, and that she is merely saying the same things she thought at nine. She repeatedly makes the point that it is the elusive (and by inference, the allusive) that appeals to her. As Ms. Vega points out, the communication medium of a songwriter includes in large measure the lyrics of her songs. Yet this is not a mere fanzine piece, but instead a well-done arrangement which highlights her ideas without descending into morose autobio. Although her spare, dark sense of humor peeks through the covers a time or two here, the book perhaps suffers from yet another Vega trait--her consistent effort to maintain a sort of "high seriousness" about her proceedings. I would have liked, perhaps, to see the lyrics of Christine Lavin's Vega parody "Mysterious Woman" arrayed beside Ms. Vega's own lyrics. Ms. Vega shows the reader that she understands the limitations in the persona she created, but we do not quite see what persona she wishes we had seen instead.
Still, I left this book convinced that Suzanne Vega remains a complex and interesting artist, wishing for fame, but disliking the toll it can take on the part of the artist which is not the public persona. Thank goodness this is not a morose "pity me, I'm famous" piece, but a set of images and wordplay, well worked out. Read this, even if you are not a "Suzanne Vega fan".

I left this book feeling that I understood a thing or two about the public person Suzanne Vega seeks to portray, and that I need not know anything more about Suzanne Vega herself. I believe this is what Ms. Vega wants the reader to feel, and therefore she has succeeded admirably.

A little heavy-handed, little structure, but interesting!.......2000-10-18

The interview with Leonard Cohen alone is by far worth every penny I chose to spend on this book. I love Leonard Cohen... to see these two artists interacting and conflicting in a dialogue on a printed page was FANTASTIC. The rest of the book is a little harder to warm up to... although die-hard fans will cherish every window into Suzanne's head and heart.

The Passionate Eye the Collected Writings

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The Passionate Eye the Collected Writings
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PTR5K4

The Passionate Eye The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega

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The Passionate Eye The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRUUOO

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The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
Manufacturer: Spike
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OHEZDC

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Easy Blackjack for the Average Joe is a book about how to play the game of Blackjack. It includes instruction on how to play, playing strategy, and betting progressions. It is not written for card counters, as many are, but for people who want to play Blackjack on a vacation, for a weekend, or just a few hours every now and then. The player doesn't have to be a math whiz to understand the book. It is a book which could be read on the flight to Vegas or Atlantic City.

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Solid Advise.......2006-03-10

I enjoyed reading the book's solid info on blackjack strategies with common sense logic.You may not win all the time but after reading it you should come out a winner more times then not (80%)

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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1468 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: Seeing is believing: how the new art of visual management can boost performance throughout your organization.(Book Review)
Author: Michael L. Moore
Publication: Human Resource Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28 Issue: 2 Page: 41(2)

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Seeing Is Believing: How the New Art of Visual Management Can Boost Performance Throughout Your Organization

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A powerful idea poorly presented
VM: Bringing the art & science of management to a new level

Seeing Is Believing: How the New Art of Visual Management Can Boost Performance Throughout Your Organization
Stewart Liff , and Pamela A. Posey
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ASIN: 0814408087

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The visual elements in a workplace have a profound effect on its employees. Most organizations, however, do not recognize the power of design, art, sculpture, and graphics to create the vibrancy and energy that can drive productivity and innovation. Seeing Is Believing explains how to use these elements to improve communications, connect individual tasks to organizational goals, and greatly enhance employee commitment and job satisfaction. It shows how the system of Visual Management:* replaces "information overload" with information sharing and effective workflow* translates critical requirements into visual stimuli that cannot be ignored* resonates particularly well with "the MTV generation"* enhances the way customers, other stakeholders, and the public relate to the organizationSeeing Is Believing shows how organizations of all types are adopting VM and lays out a roadmap for successful implementation.

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A powerful idea poorly presented.......2006-06-22

Seeing Is Believing describes visual management, a "system that reinforces tried-and-true management principles and techniques through the use of fine arts techniques." That is, the book explains why and how one should use visual artifacts to communicate the organization's vision, mission, and values (and gain employee support of the aforementioned), create a customer-focused environment, communicate performance goals and progress, and provide a rewarding work environment for employees, among other things. Examples of visual management include bulletin boards, posters, art works, and war rooms (entire rooms devoted to such displays). The arrangement of furniture in the workplace and the general décor also play into visual management.

The first three chapters of the book are concerned with defining visual management, explaining why it is important, and where it came from. If you ask me, the chapters could have been condensed into one. Chapter two spends an unnecessary amount of time trying to convince the reader that we have become an increasingly visual society (duh!), citing examples such as computer interfaces and the video displays on cell phones.

One particularly amusing example involves comparing classic movies with the movies of today. The authors maintain that while classic movies used a "careful and often time-consuming process of detailed character development", today's movies rely on fast-paced and complex special effects to tell the story and develop the characters. Personally, I would argue the majority of movies today involve no character development whatsoever (and that's why good movies are few and far between nowadays).

The authors then go on to claim that this visually-oriented technology boom has forced us to become visual learners, as if learning visually is a new phenomenon (I guess the authors are not familiar with Howard Gardner's research around multiple intelligences and learning styles).

After suffering through the first three chapters, the reader is finally presented with some actual examples of visual management in practice via several brief case studies. Again, the writing is less than scholarly. No data is presented to back up any of the conclusions presented. For example, the authors claim that the visuals at a particular manufacturing plant "help to reinforce success and foster a sense of pride among the employees", but provide no qualitative or quantitative data to support this claim.

Chapters five and six provide a roadmap for becoming a visual management organization. The six-phase process (plan, frame, create, focus, detail, and renew) is discussed in detail and along with some examples. The final chapter helps the reader assess if visual management is right for his/her organization.

Although I believe visual management tactics make sense and are worth any manager's attention, I feel this book does a poor job of getting the message across. With the exception of a handful of citations throughout the book, the authors fail to share the research that informed their writing.

VM: Bringing the art & science of management to a new level.......2005-04-04

It's hard to imagine that anyone could read this book without having an "aha" experience. Much of what Liff and Posey say is so logical it's hard to believe we haven't already been applying this technique. Liff and Posey do an excellent job of setting the stage as to why Visual Management is a necessary and logical approach in our current visually rich environment. In essence, they clearly explain the why, what, how, when, who, and where of visual management. They also provide plenty of visual examples to get our creativity flowing. This is a must read for managers who want to share information effectively and increase performance.

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