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Fans of the National Geographic Channel's The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan will be grateful for Cesar's Way, an accessible guide to help new and current dog owners better understand the needs of their beloved pets. If you are not yet a fan, try to catch a couple of episodes of the remarkable show--you will be amazed, impressed, and motivated to create a healthier, more fulfilling relationship with your dog. In Cesar's Way, Cesar explains that dogs are not complicated, and despite what various owners think--not human. They rely on three key elements in their lives: exercise, discipline, and affection (in that order). "Problem dogs" can be attributed to "problem owners," owners who don't understand and misinterpret their dog's behavior. Cesar's Way is really a training program for dog owners, with chapters devoted to understanding the "power of the pack," taking responsibility for "how we screw up our dogs," and learning how to manage aggression. Cesar's book (a must-have for new and old dog owners) moves beyond basic obedience school techniques, and teaches owners how to change unwanted behavior by better understanding their "best friends." --Daphne Durham
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Cesar Millan's Top 5 Tips for Going to the Dog Park
1. Make sure your dog is spayed or neutered, has all her shots, and is in good health. Under no circumstances should you bring a sick dog to a dog park!
2. Do not use the dog park as a substitute for the walk! If you drive to the park, leave your car a block away and take your dog on a vigorous walk of at least thirty-five minutes to drain some of her energy. Never take an over-excited dog to the park.
3. While at the park, don't "punch out" on your calm-assertive leadership. Be aware of your dog at all times, and take responsibility for her behavior.
4. A calm-submissive dog will not attract another dog's aggression--but an excited dog, a weak, timid dog, or an aggressive dog can become a fight-magnet.
5. Know your dog! If your dog has poor social skills, is overly fearful or is dog aggressive, or if you have not yet established your calm-assertive leadership with your dog, find a more controlled way to introduce her to the company of other dogs, such as "play dates" with one or two other dog owners.
Book Description
“I rehabilitate dogs. I train people.” —Cesar Millan
There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan—star of National Geographic Channel’s hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan—reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life.
From his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show to his roster of celebrity clients to his reality television series, Cesar Millan is America’s most sought-after dog-behavior expert. But Cesar is not a trainer in the traditional sense—his expertise lies in his unique ability to comprehend dog psychology. Tracing his own amazing journey from a clay-walled farm in Mexico to the celebrity palaces of Los Angeles, Cesar recounts how he learned what makes dogs tick. In Cesar’s Way, he shares this wisdom, laying the groundwork for you to have stronger, more satisfying relationships with your canine companions.
Cesar’s formula for a contented and balanced dog seems impossibly simple: exercise, discipline, and affection, in that order. Taking readers through the basics of dog psychology and behavior, Cesar shares the inside details of some of his most fascinating cases, using them to illustrate how common behavior issues develop and, more important, how they can be corrected.
Whether you’re having issues with your dog or just want to make a good bond even stronger, this book will give you a deeper appreciation of how your dog sees the world, and it will help make your relationship with your beloved pet a richer and more rewarding one.
Learn what goes on inside your dog’s mind and develop a positive, fulfilling relationship with your best friend
In Cesar’s Way, Cesar Millan—nationally recognized dog expert and star of National Geographic Channel’s hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan—helps you see the world through the eyes of your dog so you can finally eliminate problem behaviors. You’ll learn:
• What your dog really needs may not be what you’re giving him
• Why a dog’s natural pack instincts are the key to your happy relationship
• How to relate to your dog on a canine level
• There are no “problem breeds,” just problem owners
• Why every dog needs a job
• How to choose a dog who’s right for you and your family
• The difference between discipline and punishment
• And much more!
Filled with fascinating anecdotes about Cesar’s longtime clients, and including forewords by the president of the International Association of Canine Professionals and Jada Pinkett Smith, this is the only book you’ll need to forge a new, more rewarding connection with your four-legged companion.
Also available as a Random House AudioBook
Customer Reviews:
Not Sold .......2007-10-20
Not crazy about this book. Not a lot of instruction and that is what we were looking for. I was expecting this to provide some training techniques to help our new puppy behave and help us understand his dog way of thinking. No such luck on this one. Wouldn't purchase any additional books from Cesar.
Interesting, but NOT a training book.......2007-10-16
If you enjoy watching Cesar Milan's show, you'll enjoy this book. It talks about how he entered the U.S. (illegally, which he admits), and with some luck and a lot of determination, followed his dream to become a dog trainer. Interesting if you enjoy that sort of thing. However, the subtitle of this book is "The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems." But is there anything on housebreaking? No. Preventing chewing on things? No. Preventing your dog from jumping up on people? A little. There is in fact very, very little on addressing everyday problems. There is a LOT on running your large-breed dog until he's exhausted. There is a lot on being the "pack leader" and addressing your dog with "calm-assertive" behavior. That's fine, but there was almost no specific information on exactly HOW to do that.
He discusses being successful in rehabilitating problem dogs, but he never actually describes HOW he did that. He also uses a chapter discussing the case of Diane Whipple, who was killed by two out-of-control large dogs owned by inexperienced and ignorant lawyers who adopted the dogs from a convicted felon. Milan believes he could have rehabilitated one of them, but rightfully points out no one would ever have trusted the dog after it had killed someone. Why he wanted to insert himself into the process is a mystery to me, unless he just wanted bragging rights.
Cesar Milan also advocates running your dog on a tread-mill, which sounds like a recipe for disaster, and apparently was, for at least one dog who was injured at his facility. (This event was not discussed in the book.)
His emphasis on exercise and "calm-assertive" leadership behavior could be helpful for new pet owners who think it's ok to just put the dog out in the backyard for exercise. It's not, and Milan explains why. Owning a dog takes a big commitment of time and energy, and Milan stresses why the exercise component is so necessary.
However, if you want to teach your dog basic house-training or basic obedience or how to be a good canine companion, this book has less for you than you might expect by the sub-title. If you want to learn more about Cesar Milan personally, you may find it interesting. I'd suggest getting it from the library rather than buying it.
If you want a book about understanding your dog's emotions and how they affect training, try reading "For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend" by Patricia McConnell. This is a much better and more practical book geared to reading and understanding the emotions behind your dog's physical behavior and expressions.
Don't bother........2007-10-14
This is old-school "you are the pack leader" rubbish. This is just a guy who somehow got picked up by television and made an icon, for reasons I can't fathom. He's not saying anything new. He's just a common self-promoter. The whole idea of dominance training has been debunked anyway. And as for his idiotic idea that dogs should walk behind their lord and master...not only do I want to know what my dogs are sniffing or looking at, so I can interrupt negative or possibly dangerous behaviors, I want their companionship. I don't want to lead a parade.
By the way, a dog was seriously injured at this fool's "training camp" (he's cashed in big on his moment of fame) because it was left unobserved on a treadmill and fell off of it, while tethered to it. Pretty ugly picture, don't you think? (There was a lawsuit, which I beleive ended in a payoff...uh, settlement.) Breaking down dogs by exhausting them is not training them. I'd give this no stars if I could.
Good book.......2007-10-13
Good book. Provides a good understanding of the dog mindset. Enjoyed it and found it helpful but was more high level than I was hoping for, would have preferred more practical everyday tips for the everyday dog.
Give This One Five Dog Biscuits.......2007-10-12
I'm a dog lover, advocate for animals' rights, and volunteer with a Weimaraner rescue group. And okay, I admit, I tend to attach human qualities to the four dogs we own. All are rescued dogs - two Black Labs, an Australian Blue Heeler, and a Weimaraner. All have their own quirks and behavioral issues. What Cesar Millan states is true: dogs are a pack animal and respond to this milieu. And what I kept forgetting before I read this book was that I'm pack leader, so would find myself following the pack, so to speak. I learned some valuable lessons with this book and it's helped tremendously with our Weimaraner, Emma Blue, and her problem with separation anxiety. Excercise is essential, as are discipline and affection. It amazed me how quickly our dogs responded to this regimen. Thanks, Cesar!
Book Description
Bestselling author Cesar Millan takes his principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop the calm-assertive energy of a successful pack leader and use it to improve your dog’s life–and your own.
Filled with practical tips and techniques as well as real-life success stories from his clients (including the Grogan family, owners of Marley from Marley & Me) and his popular television show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Cesar helps you understand and read your dog’s energy as well as your own so that you can move beyond just correcting behavioral issues and take your connection with your dog to the next level.
The principles of calm-assertive energy will help you become a better pack leader in every area of your life, improving your relationships with friends, family, and coworkers.
In addition, Cesar addresses several important issues for the first time, including what you need to know about the major dog behavior tools available and the difference between “personality” and “instability.”
Ultimately, what emerges from Be the Pack Leader are both happier dogs and happier, more centered owners.
Customer Reviews:
Achieving Harmony With Your Furry Friend.......2007-10-21
My profession since 1969 has been a dog trainer specializing
in the problem dog. I see Cesar's new book as being quite helpful
to dog owners as well as fellow dog professionals.
In the book Cesar explains how to become pack leader via
a calm/assertive pathway. He clearly explains on how to achieve
this state without being aggressive,yelling or emotional. How? With positive affirmations,inner dialogue and visualization along with
other techniques.
If you like Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer..You'll love
Cesar Millan.His approach to leadership is quite new age and nowhere
near what the critics are stating.
I've seen negative reviews regarding the book..obviously the close minded
have not read it and have some preconceived notion about Cesar
Millan. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Do your dog a favor..Get this book today.
Get another for a dog owning friend/relative...they'll love you for it
Yours for a better understanding of dogs,
Bob Maida
Northern Virginia, USA
Master in understanding dogs. .......2007-10-16
Great book! Cesar Millan is truly a Master in dog - and just as important, people training. If all of us dog and animal owners would take to heart what Cesar teaches and put it into practice, Humane Society workers would become like Maytag Repairmen.
There seems to be very few people who have a complete Passion and Love for this type of purpose; Cesar is certainly one of them and possibly the most talented.
More nonsense from a groomer and the writer for The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence.......2007-10-15
As a professional trainer and one who works with behavior problems day in and day out, I come across a number of clients who are fans of the book and show. Not one of them has been able to create positive change in their dogs' behavior.
Look to books by Patricia McConnell, Nicole Wilde and Jean Donaldson (to name a few) for proven information about dog behavior.
It might make for good tv, but it is unnecessary to frighten and force a dog to get results...yes, even with aggressive dogs.
A Lot Can Be Learned.......2007-10-13
I have read both of Cesar's books and have really learned a lot from them. His techniques have impacted my dog's life. His 1st was a lesson in dog behavior and how to deal with their issues that usually lead to bad behavior. This new book helps both the dog and the human by establishing how to be the leader in your dog's life. He gives many examples of how to be a calm assertive leader as well as why this state of mind is so important. I REALLY recommend this book and the book Understanding: Train of Thought to all.
Another success for Cesar and more wisdom for the rest of us........2007-10-04
Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier have done it again. In Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog...and Your Life, the dog whisperer and the writer have put their talents together once more to provide dog lovers and owners with a valuable resource. This resource helps us build and maintain a harmonious relationship with a balanced animal and, perhaps, even with each other. In that vein, Cesar speaks to four aspects of human nature that need to be in balance: intellect, emotion, spirituality, and instinct, and how we have lost touch with number four. Developing a balanced relationship with our dog(s) helps us to regain the instinctual side of ourselves buried so deeply within.
In his acknowledgements, Cesar also speaks to the ability of women to impart a calm-assertive influence on the world's inhabitants. That was nice to read. In his introduction, Cesar states that he has continued to learn from dogs and people and has taken to heart the criticisms of his first book. As a result, this book includes easily remembered practical tips for working with dogs and a step-by-step reference (at the end) for specific situations, in addition to more of Cesar's innate wisdom when it comes to dogs and their behavior. (I especially liked the Rudyard Kipling quote near the beginning of the book. Be sure to read it.)
Part I deals with balancing our dogs and Part II deals with balancing ourselves. Cesar presents case studies of the relationship between various dogs and their humans, including that of the Grogan family (bestseller: Marley and Me). Then there's the Tycoon and his seriously out-of-balance dogs, Willy and Kid; and Bob Kettle, a pro who helps domesticated dogs get back in touch with their natural instincts when it comes to snakes...in other words, to stay away from them; and the book's author, Melissa Jo Peltier, makes an appearance as an example of how one's nervous energy can set dogs into a frenzy. As a skilled writer, she was able to describe, in her own words, how she experienced the situation in which she found herself.
There is much to be learned from Cesar's books and his television show, The Dog Whisperer. Those who have been lucky enough to see him in person have an additional dimension in which to experience and appreciate his talents. In the two years I've known of him, several friends and family members have put his methods to work with great success. He has become one of my heroes.
Carolyn Rowe Hill
Book Description
Cesar Chavez is known as one of America's greatest civil rights leaders. When he led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But Cesar wasn't always a leader. As a boy, he was shy and teased at school. His family slaved in the fields for barely enough money to survive.
Cesar knew things had to change, and he thought that--maybe--he could help change them. So he took charge. He spoke up. And an entire country listened.
An author's note provides historical context for the story of Cesar Chavez's life.
Customer Reviews:
A beautiful children's book with an illustrated personal story and a larger message.......2006-09-09
Harvesting Hope tells the tale of Cesar Chavez, but more than that, it reveals the power of collective bargaining and fighting for what is just in the world. As a children's book, it has appeal as a well-illustrated biography, an important history lesson, a story of family and personal triumph, and a book with a message. Chavez's crusade took place several decades ago, but the plight of migrant farm workers remains, despite the tremendous inroads Chavez made with La Causa. The story of Chavez's childhood, hard days of labor, and fight for worker's rights is timeless, and Kathleen Krull's award-nominated book deserves a place on every child's bookshelf.
The story of a lesser known American Hero.......2006-02-22
This is a great picture book for all ages. The heroic story of Cesar Chavez is left out of most U.S. history classrooms, save those in California. This book would be an enlightening addition to any classroom or children's library.
Si Se Puede.......2005-06-08
Let's begin by saying that the drawings are super and captivating. Yuyi Morales creates characters that show emotion and the result is a drawing of emotion from the young reader. As the title implies this is the story of Cesar Chavez who many adults came to know about from his work with the farmworkers in California. This story humanizes the man by beginning in his childhood. The roots of the farmworker leader are explored as a young person traveling from crop to crop , from state to state. A drought in Arizona began the family oddyssey that would result in Caser Chavez becoming familiar first hand with the troubles of the farmworkers. Life on the road became a harsh reality. The treatment he encountered in school forced him to drop out in eighth grade but the treatment in the fields wasn't much better, at times it was much worse. This is simple story about a complex problem that one man was determined to overcome. He wanted justice for farmworkers and organized. He became to Mexicans what MLK was for civil rights, for Mexicans it was an extension of civil rights. This is a beautiful book for young readers or those not so young that are learning to read in English if they have a reading foundation in another language. Although it is recommended for children ages 6-9, middle school students, ages 9-12, especially those with limited English proficiency can benefit from this story well told. For the teacher or parent this book can help instill pride and understanding as to how determination, perseverance and hard work can overcome even the greatest odds.
Beautiful, educational, brought tears to my eyes!.......2004-11-25
I recommend this book for anyone 4 and up (adults included!) Beautiful illustrations and a wonderful telling of an important part of history.
Harvesting Hope is Hopeful.......2004-08-02
This story is a wonderful way to teach children about the people who have made a difference in our world. People like Cesar Chavez. The story beautifully illustrates how Cesar did not use violence to solve problems but rather he used his mind, as his mother had taught him. The illustartions are vivid and real. The story is well written and teaches an important part of California history in a wonderful way. It reaches the heart of all ages. This is a great book for any elementary school classroom library, even High School.
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Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Peter Matthiessen
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In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City while Chavez lived in Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where his career as a union organizer took off. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent traveling and working with Chavez. In it, Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence.
More than thirty years later, Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. A whole era comes alive in its pages: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez's series of hunger strikes; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was, how important his life had been.
A new postscript by the author brings the reader up to date as to the events that have unfolded since the writing of Sal Si Puedes. Ilan Stavans's insightful foreword considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.
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Do you really want to escape?.......2004-06-02
Sal Si Puedes, by Peter Matthiessen, is an excellent chronicle of the adult life of the farm workers' revolutionary, Cesar Chavez. This Biography written by Matthiessen is from the day he meets Chavez to the time he passed away in 1992. Chavez was a activist for the rights of all farm workers, and believed that union representation was not only a privilege, but a right of all workers. With the installment of the Bracero program, non American people brought into the united states were allowed to work in the fields, because Lobbyists in Washington were successfully able to determine that no American was willing to do the back breaking manual labor of picking and harvesting the fields in California. This book was simply put, is the best book that I have read in my young adult life.
One thing that I enjoyed in this biography is the use of language. I found the linguistics easy to understand. With the easy language and prose writing, this made the biography an easy read. Because I spent a short time of my later childhood in Delano, Where the book took place, I knew exactly where everything was, and with his descriptive, powerful words, I felt like I was back in Delano. Stepping out of my own skin and looking at the book from a non-Californian's perspective, the description and detail is awesome.
Another thing I liked about the book was the accuracy of the historical fact. Family members of mine lived in the time of the farm workers movement, and after having discussed the biography with them, they, too, agree that the accuracy and detail of events that took place are superior. The chronicling of not only the personal life, but also business life of Chavez was easily understood, and Matthiessen did an excellent job with this Biography.
Sal Si Puedes means Escape If You Can.......2001-06-21
Am forever indebted to my mentor Bea Brickey for getting me involved with the United Farm Worker union locally, and for instilling in me the importance of getting involved and living by Christ's motto that what you do to the least of them you do to Christ.
The book begins with a reminder form Cesar Chavez himself, who said in 1992 two years before his death that "The rich have money, the poor have time". The reader is reminded that patience was his tool of success.
The book is just shy of 400 pages and is a humbling as well as an energizing read. The title Sal Si Puedes is from the San Jose barrio where Chavez' farm workers union work was birthed. The book was begun with a three year stint the author had in the late 70's with Chavez with much appreciated postscript that brings the reader up to date with the events that incurred since the 60's and 70's.
Bea would spend hours passing on the wisdom that Chavez and the other UFW activists had taught her. How she and her husband were often taunted by San Joaquin farmers and called commies and pinkos and how Chavez and the other UFW workers who simply wanted decent working conditions and a living wage were taunted like this as well. How migrant workers were/are exposed to high pesticide levels and that in one breath the farmers denounce the "slave" labour workers for wanting decent housing and wages, while bemoaning the fact that they can't find American who will do the damn stoop labour for slave wages.
This is a book I am passing on to a lot of people, since I believe it is so important that we as citizens, stand up for what is right and that sometimes people have to have their comfort levels challenged.
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read and learn.......2007-01-04
"the fight in the fields" is an excellent biographical account of cesar chavez and the farmworkers movement. it's a must read for anyone interested in making a difference.
Cesar Chavez Merits a National Holiday !.......2006-11-24
"The Fight in the Fields" compelled me to recognize that Cesar Chavez is arguably the greatest humanitarian in US history. He tirelessly and peacefully campaigned on behalf of underpaid and overworked farmworkers and migrants who were forced to toil amidst toxic insecticides and pesticides. Chavez was profoundly influenced by Gandhi, Martin Luther King and St. Francis of Assisi. He was an environmentalist, a vegetarian and animal welfare advocate who denounced dogfighting, bullfighting, cockfighting, slaughterhouses and rodeos because they are all rooted in inhumane violence. Cesar Chavez had reverence for all life and was a paragon of compassion. He was known as America's Catholic Ghandi of the Fields. The United States should have a national Holiday for Cesar Chavez's birthday, specifically, March 31.
a must read book.......2006-11-04
This is a well written book and is fun to read.
A great historical review of the "other" civil rights movement.......2006-07-06
The authors did a great job of detailing the early childhood that shaped the future leader of the farm workers movement. They also do a great job of highlighting the trails, ups and downs of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement. One gets a good idea of just how bad conditions were before the movement and how much improvement has been made since the inception of the movement. It also touches the heart with the human aspect of the lives that were shackled in the old system and changed for the good with the reforms that were won. Cesar Chavez is a true humanitarian that should be mentioned with the likes of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. This is truly a must read.
Fight in the Fields.......2005-07-21
This is a book based upon the successful PBS/Sundance Film of the same name. While it has several wonderful attributes (some excellent and rare pictures), it does not stand up to the earlier work of London and Anderson in So Shall Ye Reap. In reality, this is more of a biography of Cesar Chavez than a careful review of agricultural labor history. In the end, I would buy it again/
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- Inside Cuba
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Inside Cuba
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Fiesta Cuba: living in the Pearl of the Antilles Described by Christopher Columbus as "the loveliest land ever beheld by human eyes," Cuba's sumptuous landscapes are marked by sun-drenched tobacco and sugar cane fields and its cities ripe with music, dancing, and jubilation. Celebrating the relics of Cuba's revolutionary glory days, this book explores everything from the kinds of interiors seen in Buena Vista Social Club to top-notch luxury hotels and cultural heritage sites. Via a diverse selection of Cuban homes, hotels, gathering places, and more, Inside Cuba takes you on a colorful tour of Cuba's most archetypal interiors. Just mix up a Mojito, pop in a Compay Segundo CD, and fire up a cigar—you'll be in the perfect mood to savor these luscious Cuban gems.
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Inside Cuba.......2007-03-09
Excellent book. Could benefit from more text and specific location information (addresses) but great coverage and good photos. My wife and I used the information from the book on a recent visit.
Another view on Cuba.......2006-11-10
The book Inside Cuba is very different from others. It gives you a little view inside a beautiful country. Buildings, rooms, furniture everything is if you're going back into time. The regime of Castro stopped the time and you find this definitely back in this book. Almost all the pictures are of very good quality. The only negative point is the lack of political and historical information. But overall it is a good book to get another view on Cuba.
Forgotten jewel splashed to pages.......2006-05-26
Great book. No supercover, do not search, and that begins the style. I do not agree, that book displays the misery, serves regime, and that is something expected to be admired by 'leftists'.
For, to me, not unpainted walls, natural (though, yes, not "rich" as it is often understood) people are disastrous. Omnipresent agression of commerce IS.
There is no doubt, those people are more beautiful on inside, than those, who are rather on outside.
And Cuba can be land of clean, magnificent dreams, architecture and interiors for people, by people, ideas, derived from ideals - let it be imperfect, I can understand that part, still book is about departure into the other world. And that journey is impressive. With that book in my mind, I tried to compare it against many others, that were on shelves. I returned home with this book today, definite highlight of Taschen.
If in doubt, open it, and you will feel quickly if it is for you, or not. Hopefully, it is.
A serial killer in the cover?.......2006-05-19
A wonderful book, marred by efigy of serial killer in the back cover. What a shame. The book is also peppered with photographs which are clearly the choice of an ignoramus who admires Castro and Guevara, without realizing that the beautiful ruins of Havana are their handiwork. Face it, Cuba was destroyed by the so called revolutionaries who terrorized a prosperous country and trasformed it into a Fourth World nightmare.
One can tell, that the selection of the photography depicting spies convicted in the United States, Castro and his brother Raul, and the international terrorist Che Guevara doesn't have anything to do with a very honest and informed text.
Gratuitiously, the editors try to ingratiate themselves with a left leaning public who finds rejoice in the misery of others. Nevermind that the back cover of the book will alienate many potential buyers who will not take a book into their houses if it has the anti-Cuban by excellence in its cover. Maybe Che Guevara is an appropiate image for a book on Buenos Aires, but I am afraid that the editors will get the backslash of the Argentinean public as well. Just compare the splendors of the Cuba of yesteryear with the present day mysery that looms over the whole country, I mean, over the part of the country that is reserved for Cubans, while the tourists benefit of a veritable apartheid.
Needless to say, Cubans leave their country every day, on fragile and unseaworthy rafts, to end up either being returned to Cuba, being eaten alives by sharks, or arriving in Florida -the luckier ones.
Those Cubans are young. They didn't know the Cuba of their grandparents. They only know the inferno created by Castro and his master executioner, Che Guevara. Will Taschen publish a book with the image of Hitler in the back cover? Of course not, Goering and Hitler are wounds still open in the German psyche. Instead, Castro and Guevara are really cool, according to the typical gospel of the liberal left.
By the way, many of the photos appeared to be recycled from Havana Style, another "Cuba is so quaint" book by Taschen.
Alberto Martinez
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In this powerful and moving biography of one of the greatest labor leaders in the history of America, students come face-to-face with an inspirational man whose trials and tribulations echoed the struggles of modern America and whose courage, simplicity and faith changed agriculture in America forever.
Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This text focuses on Chavez, but also provides the much needed background of the farm workers movement, the formation of the UFW and the history of migrant workers in the U.S. This text incorporates the latest scholarship on Chavez’s life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history.
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A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.
"My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil…." So starts César Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream, school, reading, games, friendship. The novel begins in Aira's hometown, Coronel Pringles. As self-awareness grows, the story rushes forward in a torrent of anecdotes which transform a world of uneventful happiness into something else: the anecdote becomes adventure, and adventure, fable, and then legend. Between memory and oblivion, reality and fiction, César Aira's How I Became a Nun retains childhood's main treasures: the reality of fable and the delirium of invention.
A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write How I Became a Nun. With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life and the importance of literature.
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Pscyhologically, Surrealistically, Obscene.......2007-09-27
I have never in my life hated a book as much as I hated this book. There have been very few artistic endeavors which I have undertaken or experienced that have aroused such passion as this one. Anything which can generate such an intense emotional response from me deserves at least four stars on this scale--I would have given it 5 stars only if I had been inspired to incinerate the text immediately after finishing it. Highly recommended for all those out there sleepwalking through literature.
Ice Cream surprise.......2007-06-01
Aira has an eye for intrigue and mystery. Well into the story you sense some sort of confusion. The finale supends this feeling to its fullest height. Hitchcock would be dismayed.
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The curtain wall a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings from museums to skyscrapers.
There are few practitioners of curtain wall design as accomplished as Cesar Pelli & Associates, and this book presents twenty of their most exemplary projects. Arranged by material glass, metal, stone the conception and development of each individual facade is revealed and construction details comprehensively documented through numerous drawings. Any practicing architect interested in state-of-the-art curtain wall design will need to own this indispensable and inspiring book.
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