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This comprehensive guide to locomotive development includes descriptions of more than 900 trains and locomotives. Arranged in four sections — steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, and trains — listed chronologically within each section. Featuring 1300 photographs and artwork, as well as specification for each locomotive, this book will enthrall general readers and train buffs alike.
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limited.......2007-06-29
The authors are British and the work is heavily focused on British and Commowealth locomotives. Fairly ignores a myriad of interesting and innovative German locomotives.
Very good.......2004-05-03
I am a train fanatic and I know a good reference book when I see one, and this book is one of the best I've ever seen. I have refered to this book at least fifty times at the railroad (whose name is undisclosed) that I work as a volunteer at. Simply an amazingly informitive book that I would recomend to any train fan of almost any age.
Large book but has some short comings.......2004-03-19
The book is a fair to good encyclopedia of trains. It has a large number of foreign engines. Most of the photos are taken from the front and one side and not in profile. The Little Joe appears to be a A-unit but is in fact an A-unit on both ends. The pictures are not very large. Profile drawings would be a good addition.
It is not complete for North America and leaves out many novel, limited production engines like the S-1 Turbine and General Motors Aerotrain.
Some specifications are not available like engine length on many engines. Engine length and height are useful when determining whether a model is scale or not.
It is a good book but did not meet all my expectations and I am still searching for a more comprehensive guide to mainly North American locomotives.
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 1298 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: Work of reconstruction: from slave to wage laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870.
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Date: March 22, 1998
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- A Cat Lover's Delight
- a wonderful modern day "fable"
- wonderfully more than meets the eye
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Cats in Clover
Lea Tassie
Manufacturer: TreeSide Press
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ASIN: 1897098375
Release Date: 2004-06-25 |
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George the Magnificent is a tabby-Siamese who revels in his royal status. He's adopted by Holly and Ben, a cat-hater, who buy a five-acre farm on a small island off the south coast of British Columbia. Ben is so impressed with George's intelligent exuberance that he becomes St. Francis of Assisi to every animal, even adopting Henry, a cat with a Buddhist nature. Holly worries about trips to the vet, invading guests and renovating dilapidated farm buildings. Ben worries that his dream of market gardening may fail. George doesn't worry about anything. But can Henry be plotting to convert him from feudal tyrant to mere citizen?
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George the Magnificent is a tabby-Siamese who revels in his royal status. He's adopted by Holly and Ben, a cat-hater, who buy a five-acre farm on a small island off the south coast of British Columbia. Ben is so impressed with George's intelligent exuberance that he becomes St. Francis of Assisi to every animal, even adopting Henry, a cat with a Buddhist nature. Holly worries about trips to the vet, invading guests and renovating dilapidated farm buildings. Ben worries that his dream of market gardening may fail. George doesn't worry about anything. But can Henry be plotting to convert him from feudal tyrant to mere citizen?
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A Cat Lover's Delight.......2006-10-09
This book is well written and the situations in it are so true as anyone who is owned by a cat(s) knows! I enjoyed it thoroughly and am looking forward to reading Siamese Summers. Too bad these books are not more readily available!
a wonderful modern day "fable".......2004-07-28
As all cat owners know - cats rule! In this case, the royal princeling is George the Magnificent - a Tabby-Siamese. No ordinary moggie, George revels in his royal status. Holly and Ben (who is a cat hater) adopt George as they are buying a small farm off the Coast of British Columbia. Though Ben starts out thinking cats are no good and have no personalities, George soon teaches him what is what, and quickly has Ben is dragging home other foundlings, such as Henry, a kitty with Buddhist leanings. While Holly frets about everything, Ben fears failing at running the farm - George, being typical cat, frets over nothing. It's a captivating tale as Henry considered toppling George from his lofty throne. The charming tale is a wonderful cat story, but it also works on another level, about needs and hopes and reaching to be more than you thought you could be. A marvelous, modern day fable!
wonderfully more than meets the eye.......2004-07-26
The well-written story of a woman, a man, and a VERY determined cat, and a little more than that. While George, an utterly dogmatic (sorry, George!) and deeply insecure part-Siamese wins the heart of Holly (the narrator), her husband Ben is more skeptical ("cats have no personality"). They move to a small island to begin a new life and the story follows them through the first year of their struggle. But there's a little more to it than that, because each of the main characters (with the exception, possibly, of the Dharma-cat who arrives halfway through) is struggling with both a need to let go of the past and a deep hope/desire that has never been fulfilled. The story of how they begin to do this gives this story an underlying strength and interest -- but for the devotees of cats, there's plenty to keep you grinning, and some good historical and factual info to add to one's store.
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More inexpensive crafts for children to fill the need for creative projects relating to holidays during the year.
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From his Beatles-sponsored debut in 1968 to his Grammy-winning Hourglass album of 1997, James Taylor has been universally acclaimed as a songwriter of exceptional eloquence and emotional power. Dispelling myth and rumor, Long Ago and Far Away examines the roots of Taylor s mental anguish and his recurring bouts with heroin and alcohol. This is an epic family history, an exploration of the real stories behind Fire and Rain and the rest of the songs, as well as a frank account of Taylor s days on the Apple record label, the financial disaster of his Greatest Hits album deal and the deaths and divorces that have haunted his life. In this major biography, Timothy White explores both the career and the troubled personal journey of the legendary singer-songwriter.No writer interviewed James Taylor and his family in greater depth over the decades than the late Timothy White, former editor-in-chief of Billboard, and author of the international best-seller Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. This new edition has been updated by his friend and former Rolling Stone comrade Mitch Glazer and includes an epilogue about the memorial concerts for Timothy that James Taylor helped organize. SELLING POINTS: Rich with insights from Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Sting, Danny Kootch Kortchmar, the entire Taylor family and many other key figures around James Taylor and his music. Original editions sold over ***** copies worldwide! (17,000 N America) Includes many previously unpublished photos and an extensive discography and bibliography.
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Excruciatingly poorly written.......2007-09-11
Wow, I've been trying to wade through this book for about a week now. The author constantly trails off into way-too-long tangents on history, other celebrities, and other artists' work. He also glosses over or barely delves into many of the key points in Taylor's life (marriages/divorces, deaths of family members, addictions). I think he could have used some Ritalin to help him concentrate on the subject at hand: "Remember to write about James Taylor, remember to write about James Taylor. . ."
If you want to learn more about James Taylor, this is the book to read........2007-07-16
I found this book interesting and well-written. It was great to learn more about James Taylor and his family. I have appreciated his music for over 30 years.
Great insight on JT and family.......2007-07-12
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Areas of great interest to me were his family history as well as the memories of his childhoood and young adulthood, his parent's relationship,and his many friendships with people I had no idea he was friends with, etc. I also enjoyed the section where he shared personal insights and info about various songs and what they meant to him. Great book.
Boring.......2007-06-08
Very tedious boring start about family history in British Isles.
Never really picked up the pace, almost nothing new. Glosses over
heroin and drug abuse. Sorry, poorly done
Boring.......2007-03-24
Too much history! Felt like I was reading a history book. Would have liked more personal info.
Book Description
The first difinitive biography of singer-songwriter James Taylor, written with the full co-operation of Taylor and his family, numerous friends and musical associates.
Customer Reviews:
Well Meaning, Well Done.......2007-09-04
Timothy White obviously worked hard on this book. He clearly wanted to put together a well researched, well written book on James Taylor, and he does a fairly good job of achieving his goal.
As others have mentioned, the first quarter of this fairly long book is dedicated to James Taylor's family and background. Fortunately, his family story is quite interesting, and so I didn't mind looking back a few hundred years into the Taylor's roots in Scotland and North Carolina.
White appears to have fairly good contacts with the Taylors themselves, and he interviewed many of the musicians who worked with him over the years. The result is a fairly detailed look at James Taylor's tumultuous and interesting life.
I have to admit that I have some reservations about this book. Somehow I still feel like I don't quite know James Taylor. Having read the book, I can't really say whether he is shy, outgoing, egotistical, caring or insensitive. Interestingly enough, I feel like I could find material in this book to support almost any of those positions.
White knows Taylor's music, and discusses it in great depth and with considerable enthusiasm and skill. But again, I'm not sure that he fully plumbed the depths of the music, nor does he give a complete accounting of Taylor's various strengths and weaknesses. I've loved James Taylor's music since I was a boy, and I've listened to some of his albums over and over again. There are some things that he does as well or better than anyone else, yet I've also been aware of his limitations. In particular, he is a great singer and craftsman, and he has written some of the most beautiful melodies in pop music; and yet his often skillfully written and highly intelligent lyrics are not as deep as those of some of the other great singer-songwriters. I wanted White to wrestle with these inconsistencies and was disappointed that he did not.
If you like biographies of musicians, and you like James Taylor, then you will not be disappointed by this book. Here you can learn many details that help make the songs come alive. Certainly James should be happy with this book, as reading it made me spend a few dollars to fill in the holes in my collection. If you are tempted by the subject matter, by all means buy the book. You will enjoy it.
Nothing About James Taylor A Hermit Wouldn't Know.......2005-11-09
I concur with all the prior reviews that criticize this book for the lack of insightful, interesting information about James Taylor the Man and the Musician. Virtually nothing new about Taylor, professional or personal, appears throughout the book. Taylor's life is either extremely boring or intensely gaurded by some kind of blood pact with every single one of his past associates. What is certain is the author didn't have the tools to dig deep enough and come up with something sustantial. However, with this book, you will get an extremely detailed and embellished Taylor Family history dating back to 17th century Scotland worthy of the National Archives. The redundant geneology lesson spans nearly 100 pages, including more information on great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, in-laws, and siblings than could possibly be considered relevant or neccesary to the biography of a musician. Unless, that is, you buy into the weak metaphor of James Taylor still plying the ancient trades of his ancestors and voyaging across that timeless ocean that is life, and slurp up some pretty sappy, poetic reviews and subjective interpretations of his songs from the author. Not much else about this book is new or interesting. Indeed, if you put all the James Taylor quotes together, you'd only fill a page or two. Toss in the author's awkward attempt to evoke the mystic qualities of the pioneer Eastern seaboard where Taylor was raised, or the unconvincing "Taylor Curse" of paternal carelessness and addiciton that the author claims haunts the clan, and by the end of the book your patience has been thoroughly tested. Perhaps you may find this book informative if you have no clue who people like Danny Kortchmar, Peter Asher, Carole King, and Carly Simon are, or if you had no idea that James Taylor struggled with substance abuse and spent brief periods of his youth in mental wards for depression. Or maybe you missed the detail about Taylor being first appreciated commercially in London and signed to the Beatles' Apple Record label. Any unofficial fan website could provide these details; you don't need to wade through 322 pages. As far I'm concerned, we're all still waiting for the "definitive" bio on James Taylor. It's hard to believe the author has known and been interviewing James Taylor since 1977. The familiarity one would hope for from that relationship is surely amiss in this book.
Geneology and discography, but a biography? Nyeh........2004-01-30
Author Tim White worked his butt off to turn this book into a biography but it is clearly "authorized" and will not do.
Outside of a 100-page 600-year family history that the family itself never cared enough about to investigate, and considerable detail about Taylor's music deals, influences, play dates and venues, the biographical material is scarce and overly-vetted, perhaps by Taylor himself who certainly did much living he does not want made public.
Plenty of space is given to Taylor's alcoholic but highly-accomplished father, Ike, and the distance he put between himself and his long-suffering wife and children. The emotional agony he caused his family, for there is no other word for the consequences of his illness and personality, is laid out bloodlessly and at a remove, so while we can "guess" what might have gone one, it is never spelled out. One can almost hear James Taylor okaying the allusions but crossing out the specifics.
The same applies to Taylor himself and his years of alcohol and drug abuse, which must have produced a miserable life for those connected with him. There is little meat to the discussions of his two lengthy marriages, either, which also were fraught with his heroin, methamphetamine and alcohol addiction and emotional abandonment.
James Taylor is a very gifted artist who was married to two artists, the son of gifted parents, the brother of several musicians, the father of two more and the lover of several others. This book had the potential to be a richly-layered analysis of how love, art, joy, duty, ruin, passion, sin and guilt have woven themselves in and out of this family's lives.
But it is not.
His wives and lovers, for instance, are given extremely short shrift. Being married to James Taylor could not have been a picnic. There is a feeling here that both of his first two wives -- Carly Simon and actress Kathryn Walker -- must have yearned as mightily for a deeper emotional connection to this man they loved, just as the reader yearns to understand what the hell was going on here and how they all traversed the stormy seas of Taylor's personality - and why they bothered.
There is no mention at all, as far as I could find, of Joni Mitchell, with whom Taylor had an affair so intense that she devoted two albums ("Blue" and "For the Roses") to its exegesis, nor of the other affairs that lit up or littered his marriages and his life. Other losses -- the sad death of his father and brother, the divorces, deaths of friends, difficulty with intimacy -- are narrated carefully and truthfully, it would seem, but again, with no detail and at a considerable remove.
The ghost of James Taylor is here, but the body has been carted away. He insists his music is not autiobiographical, and since his biography is not biographical, Taylor continues to be the mystery he apparently wants to remain. I have no objection to that, but it is nothing to write home about. zzz-zzz-zzz
Like reading an encyclopedia.......2003-05-19
If you want to know everything in the world about JT's music history, including practically every person he ever shook hands with, read this. If you're looking for something to put you to sleep at night, read it. If you're looking for a good, readable biography, skip it.
What about James?.......2003-01-21
A very in-depth book, however if you're really interested in details about James Taylor's thoughts, reasonings, actions or detailed accounts surrounding his career, you won't find a ton of it hear. The book is over 300 pages but you could probably knock it down to about 50 pages that actually talk about James. Perhaps the author just couldn't get enough out of the private james taylor. Instead of finding out what went on in the early days with respect to his career, music and interpersonal relationships, we get pages and pages of family history and backgrounds of other people or events. The author gives more information about his friends than about james. Just when you think you're getting to a portion in the book that's revealing, the author sums it up in a page. We hear about his songs including vocals by other artists like Jimmy Buffet or Keith Richards - why not expand on thier relationship a bit? He was married to Carly Simon for many years but not much is learned about their life together and the effects they had on each other.
All of this said, the details on the family history and make up does help put a frame around his life. Just don't think you're going to come away with a lot of interesting tales about his thoughts or actions other than some descriptions as to what the songs meant and brief descriptions of certain periods of time.
If I wasn't such a huge fan I never would have finished it.
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Culture, Power and Difference: Discourse Analysis in South Africa
Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1856494721 |
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What can discourse analysis offer to the better understanding of power and change in South Africa? Discourse perspectives have emerged as a means of addressing the structuring effects of language. This unique book shows how they can provide a framework for critical intervention and radical political engagement. The contributors focus in turn on the process of dismantling apartheid, of issues of gender and sexuality in popular culture, everyday talk and counselling practice, of methodological issues arising from this mode of analysis in South Africa, and finally the wider context of using these perspectives for supporting change.
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No Other Way To Tell It: Dramadoc/Docudrama on Television
Derek Paget
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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ASIN: 0719045339 |
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Drama documentary is a program category unique to television. Combining the factual approach of documentary with the entertainment values of drama, dramadoc/docudrama has featured in television schedules for over forty years, and has often been the focus of controversy. Questions are frequently asked about how the viewer is to judge between fact and fiction, and whether such programs invade individuals’ privacy. No Other Way to Tell It is an introductory book which defines the form, and reviews its history and development on British and American television. The people who make the programs--television producers, writers, actors and lawyers--give their views, and recent co-production work between Granada TV in Britain and Home Box Office in America is examined. Hostages, a co-production which was bitterly opposed by the British and American hostages released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the decade, is used to illustrate the changes that are now taking place within the medium.
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- Learn from the tactics and techniques of major corporations - Get big impact without spending big dollars - Promote your company on the Internet
Customer Reviews:
Good Place for a starting point.......2006-03-03
This book is a good starting point for someone who has no idea where to begin. I just started my online business and was looking for something that would give me a basic introduction and this book did that very well. If you are looking for a lot of detail on search engine optimization this may not be what you want though.
Good book for newbies and people looking for direction.......2005-08-11
I bought this book for my brother who is a new webmaster. I read it before giving it to him and though I didn't get any enlightenment from it (I have been promoting websites for several years), it has become a very useful guide for my brother. If you are just starting a website and need an easy and direct list of things to do to promote your website, this is a good starting book. If you however own multiple sites and are looking for new ideas, this book is not for you.
Not for everyone.......2005-02-21
As an overview for the true novice, this book is full of good, basic, up-to-date ideas. However, this book is defintely not for every business with an online presence - and doesn't say that. The author never clearly states that by using the term "small business" throughout the book, she's actually referring specifically to e-tailers and those providing services to consumers. Most of the tips and suggestions would not be useful or practical if you're a consultant or use the web to promote other business-to-business types of products and services. For that, I'm disappointed.
Great advice for small businesses! .......2004-11-11
I just started a home based business and do all my communications via the web and email. This book was a quick read and easy to follow, and gave me a clear direction on how to market my business online, without spending a fortune! I highly recommend this book
You Get What You Pay For.......2004-07-09
What can I expect from a book with a cheap title and a cheap price? Well, it's not bad but all the info is loosely put together, and it is best served as an excellent intro book on the subject. Its 127 pages are rather good. Recommended as a quick intro and a stepping stone to more advanced learning on the subject.
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