Prints Of Rufino Tamayo, The (Artes Visuales Turner)

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This bilingual (English-Spanish) catalogue raisonna of Rufino Tumayo's prints will reproduce in color every print--including xylographies, lithographies, silkscreens, artist's books, and the late mixographies--ever made by the great Mexican artist. Tamayo made approximately 320 prints between 1925 and 1991. Many of them were made using different inks, and these ink colors are respected in the catalogue's printing; in several cases, the printing processes themselves will also be reproduced. Comprehensive and expert commentary is made on each print regarding print-run, workshop, and publisher. This project has taken the Tamayo Museum and Foundation in Mexico City almost ten years of research to complete.

Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)

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Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)
Juan Kattan-Ibarra
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071414444

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Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs!

From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
Practical vocabulary
Regular and irregular verb tables
Plenty of practice exercises and answers
Bilingual glossary

The new editions also feature:

Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
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Truly Awful.......2007-08-06

I purchased the CD version, and really can't believe the CD interface does not go with the units in the book. One must guess as to which track goes with which chapter. This makes it almost impossible to easily pick-up where one leaves off. This is such a simple concept to master for someone creating a CD/Book combination, it simply is amazing that they didn't take the care to make navigation with the CD and book easier.

The language progression is mish-mash at best. All in all, I could use this book without the CD altogether, but the book itself seems to follow no logical progression.

There are plenty of good books and programs out there, please don't waste your money and time (as I did) on this poorly constructed program.

Teach yourself Spanish.......2007-06-27

I needed a way to brush up on my Spanish since I started learning Spanish in the 3rd grade. I just wanted to keep up with the language. I was always better in Spanish than English in High School. Product arrived in excellent condition.

Shoulda bought another .......2007-02-21

I've had Spanish in high school 20 years ago so some stuff is familiar. I was hopintg to learn how to conjugate verbs, numbers, and simple stuff. But this starts out as if you know the language and have p;roblems speaking it. I'd have rather purchased Spanish for Dummies.

Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course (book + CD pack).......2007-01-27

The CD's begin by asserting that the course can be used at home, in the office or car. Yet the recording constantly refers the student to follow in the text. Try it while driving, a challenge if not frustrating, to say the least. And without the text to read & follow (while driving), one is quickly lost & confused. That precious time while driving is critical to me because I am just too busy otherwise. So, I hit STOP/REJECT & listen to the news (in English). Further, the CD constantly refers the listener to "Practice by going over this again". And then the CD does not go over it again, but merely continues with Spanish conversation unintelligible & too fast for the beginner

My son gave me for Christmas "Eyewitness Travel 15-Minute Latin-American Spanish, a complete course with book and two 60-Minute CD's". By comparison, this course is much, much better, more elementary in the beginning & more methodical.

learning spanish as second language.......2007-01-13

a good text for beginners. Using it in conjunction with a beginner class. The CD is helpful; however, the speakers talk quite fast

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It

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A Thought-Provoking Critical Analysis Of Black Culture
Speaking For Us!
Enough by Juan Williams
Juan Williams -- The Black Radical

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Juan Williams
Manufacturer: Crown
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ASIN: 0307338231
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and falling to the bottom in twenty-first-century global economic competition.

In Enough, Juan Williams issues a lucid, impassioned clarion call to do the right thing now, before we travel so far off the glorious path set by generations of civil rights heroes that there can be no more reaching back to offer a hand and rescue those being left behind.

Inspired by Bill Cosby’s now famous speech at the NAACP gala celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown decision integrating schools, Williams makes the case that while there is still racism, it is way past time for black Americans to open their eyes to the “culture of failure” that exists within their community. He raises the banner of proud black traditional values—self-help, strong families, and belief in God—that sustained black people through generations of oppression and flowered in the exhilarating promise of the modern civil rights movement. Williams asks what happened to keeping our eyes on the prize by proving the case for equality with black excellence and achievement.

He takes particular aim at prominent black leaders—from Al Sharpton to Jesse Jackson to Marion Barry. Williams exposes the call for reparations as an act of futility, a detour into self-pity; he condemns the “Stop Snitching” campaign as nothing more than a surrender to criminals; and he decries the glorification of materialism, misogyny, and murder as a corruption of a rich black culture, a tragic turn into pornographic excess that is hurting young black minds, especially among the poor.

Reinforcing his incisive observations with solid research and alarming statistical data, Williams offers a concrete plan for overcoming the obstacles that now stand in the way of African Americans’ full participation in the nation’s freedom and prosperity. Certain to be widely discussed and vehemently debated, Enough is a bold, perceptive, solution-based look at African American life, culture, and politics today.

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Is more than i was expected.......2007-10-17

Hay! Is more than i was expected. Thank you amazon and sender.

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A Thought-Provoking Critical Analysis Of Black Culture.......2007-10-13

Juan Williams has eloquently and courageously put to words thoughts that I've had for many years. I find it interesting that it took a speech from famed comedian / actor Bill Cosby to spur Mr. Williams to take center stage in the culture battle within the black community.

Nevertheless, this book exposes to the world the mindless rhetoric and failed strategies of many of the so-called civil rights leaders that are just as much a drag on the ability of American blacks to successfully pursue the American dream as slavery and racism ever was. I would even go so far as to assert that self-appointed civil rights leaders practice an entirely new brand of slavery, economic slavery, designed to keep a noble and proud culture chained to the failing polices of past radicalism and confrontation that had their place in the 60s but are woefully inadequate today; and which only presently exits to serve the self-interests of those who promote them. While Mr. Williams hints at such, a bolder, more clearly articulated statement would have been a welcomed addition to his work. My only other disappointment with Enough was the lack of footnotes and source citations for many of its claims.

Minor criticisms aside, this is a well written book. Mr. Williams presents his ideas in a smoothly organized fashion that rivets the readers' attention in a vice grip of paradigm shifts, provocative ideas, and conservative thought that the black community would do well to consider. Its been said as a political force the black vote is taken for granted by the Democrat Party and written off by the Republican Party. Many of the reasons are revealed in this book. How can either party consider blacks to be politically relevant when the emerging leadership in politics and pop culture debase and disrespect their own people and the rule of law?

As so well stated by Mr. Williams, the key to ending black poverty and lack of social progress lies within the black community itself. Government can throw billions more dollars at the problem with equally meager results as seen these past 30 years, or blacks can rise above the crass, degrading, demeaning, and enslaving icons of rap artists, self-serving civil rights leaders, tolerance of neighborhood crime, and lack of moral courage, to propel the race to unimagined prosperity. Enough is certainly a step in the right direction.

Speaking For Us!.......2007-10-06

It took one speech by one man at one moment frozen in time to set off a barrage of discussions on the Black community's progress post-civil Rights era.

Bill Cosby, famed doctor of the Cosby show, stood in front of the crowd as if he was a preacher standing at a pulpit speaking truths from the Bible instead of having a congregation of the willing eagerly anticipating his every word the crowd was members of the NAACP who expected a simple congratulatory speech from the non-controversial celebrity. The event that Mr. Cosby made his infamous speech was deemed, by him, to be appropriate--it was the commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court ruling (this ruling prompted the eventual integration of public schools across America--making the "separate but equal" policy unconstitutional). Irregardless of how you felt about Cosby's speech, you have to admit that it took immense courage on his part to risk his reputation and long-standing alliances (both political and social) to draw from his wisdom that he has gained over the years as an actor, activist and as a black man.

The author, Juan Williams, of "Enough....", is an accomplished commentator (known from his correspondent work on NPR and Fox News) exceptionally delved into Mr. Cosby's argument about the downturn and complacency of the Black community after the Civil Rights Movement. He took each hard-hitting point of Bill Cosby's speech such as the lack of importance on education leading to increased drop-out rates, social failures as result of deteriorating family cohesion, the long-term effects of criminal elements within neighborhood of all economies--especially poorer areas, lack of credible leadership to further carry-on the torch of the movement, cyclical poverty effecting the economic wealth of the community, and the ill-conceived plea to seek reparations from the federal government for the crimes against our ancestors.

Mr. William's approach to analyzing Bill Cosby's argument for change was reminiscent of a college professor that taught one of my "art of argument logic" courses--he presented a theory, dissected it, built it back up, presented opposing views and brought it all full circle!

As I read this book, I realized that it was justified for Cosby (or anyone else) to point out the shortcomings within the black community to invoke change. Why should we continue to go on with our lives being disillusioned? Everything is not okay! Cosby's speech is simply a rally call to everyone, in particular, those that will take heed to his battle cry. We are not at war with this mystical force out there to get black folks (aka "the man"), we are at war with "crabs in the bucket" weighing down on the community making it appear to the world that we are a community who continues to fail whether in education, economic advancement and social imagery. I know that Cosby wasn't speaking to everyone--not all blacks are dropping out of school! Not all blacks are unaware of the sacrifices that our ancestors went through so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we have today! Not all blacks are accepting of the negative images and buffoonery that is in the media! Not all blacks are accepting of anything that sets us back to a period prior to the civil rights movement!

People within the Black community should not dismiss Bill Cosby as just some old, rich man with nothing better to do than to nitpick at the "wrongs of the young generation". His speech had validity and needed to be heard and what better venue than at event celebrating a freedom that some black people take for granted--the right to an equal opportunity to a quality education under the eyes of the law.

Enough by Juan Williams.......2007-10-05

This was an awesome book that should be mandatory reading for Liberal Arts majors and just the general public. The author describes a realistic pathway for both blacks and whites in the search for racial harmony.

Juan Williams -- The Black Radical.......2007-09-28

I used to think that people like Mr. Williams were sellouts. Now, I know better. When you look at what he is saying...he is saying the same thing as Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. (Farrakhan just has a slicker approach.)

That is, the Nation draws you in with their "hate whitey" message, but when you join they slowly flip the script. When you attend the meetings, buy the tapes, and read the there books, the message is the same:

1. Eat good foods (How to eat to live).
2. Take care of your responsibilities. "Every brother needs a job. If he doesn't have a job, then the brothers need to get together and create him one." -- Farrakhan
3. Don't buy things (cars and homes) you can't afford. - F.O.I. meetings
4. Educate your own children. - If they won't treat you right, they won't teach you right. N.O.I slogan

What more needs to be said? Juan Williams is as pro-black as you can get!

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Great collection and even better story
Make this into movie! Smashing green succes guranteed!
Hulk at his best!!!
The most emotional Hulk I've read in a looooong time
not as good as everyone seems to think

Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk
Greg Pak
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0785122451

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Savage alien planet. Oppressed barbarian tribes. Corrupt emperor. Deadly woman warrior. Gladiators and slaves. Battle axes and hand blasters. Monsters and heroes... and the Incredible Hulk! Let the smashing commence! This deluxe hardcover collects the entire Planet Hulk saga, plus extras! Collects Incredible Hulk #92-105, Giant Size Hulk #1 and the "Mastermind Excello" story from Amazing Fantasy #15

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Great collection and even better story.......2007-10-11

Great story arc, HC edition contains more than just the Incredible Hulk issues. The extras are good and this is an outstanding story. I was not an Incredible Hulk fan and didn't even read Hulk before this story arc but this arc changed my mind. If you are a Hulk fan I strongly recommend this. If you are not a Hulk fan but enjoy a comic with intense action and a gripping story, than this is also the book for you. I really enjoyed seeing Hulk in a place where he was actually at risk of being injured or killed and this book also presents a new and intriguing look at who Hulk really is.

Make this into movie! Smashing green succes guranteed!.......2007-10-09

Planet Hulk is one incredible world wind ride. If you like sci-fi, action and adventure with a certain green monster that likes to smash, this is the book to own. This is way better than the Marvel's Civil War event in my humble opinion. Tricked by Reed Richards and others, jettison the Hulking brute into deep space. The Hulk lands on a planet ruled by the Red King. He is cruel and dictator that his little care for his people. The Hulk is captured and sold off as a gladiator slave. The Hulk and his motley crew of Warbreakers lead an insurrection against the Red King. Along the way, the Hulk battles the Silver Surfer, free the slaves, provide nutrients for plants with his blood soak radiated blood, saves the worlds, gets married and unite the people. But there is no happy ending. The puny humans have once again enraged the Hulk that I shall not give away. When the Hulk gets mad, he gets stronger, and the puny humans will pay! Go out and buy this now. If only they could turn this story into a movie, it would be a smashing green success!

Hulk at his best!!!.......2007-09-29

This is a great great great Hulk story. Must pickup prelude to see how it all fits together first. VERY COOL STUFF!!!

The most emotional Hulk I've read in a looooong time.......2007-09-27

I never thought I'd love Hulk. God, how wrong I was...

It's a classic Marvel epic story, with all that story should have - beautiful concept, amazing characters, well written plot and it's as emotive and wise as any story should be. Amazing art, and it doesn't end here, it just leads for the next big thing - and believe me, it looks so sweet!

I don't think I ever fallen in love with a character as fast as I did with Hulk on this story..

not as good as everyone seems to think.......2007-09-20

i picked this up based on buzz and reviews that made this book look like the best thing since sliced bread. also it didn't hurt that ladronn did some absolutely stellar cover work. maybe this run is so well regarded because it followed bruce jones's run, which started out rather great but floundered. the premise is fine, and there is a lot of smashing, but i didn't quite see what all the fuss was about. there isn't a whole lot of story for 14+ issues, and the padding really shows in places. i really think the pacing would have been much better if there was some down time on the planet to give the hulk and the reader a sense that he really was sent to a peaceful planet and create some tension and maybe do some character work on the hulk before he's attacked.

the portrayal of the hulk is good, but i thought there was something really missing in the appearances of bruce banner. i like the hulk, but i would really have loved to see banner's take on the situation he and the hulk have been thrown into. he shows up three times, and each appearance comes off as awkward for some reason or another. of particular interest is his appearance where a character wants to see "all" of the hulk, so he transforms into banner for her. the idea of hulk accepting banner as a part of himself should have been a landmark moment for both hulk and banner (perhaps the most important and central moment in the character's history considering that for hulk's entire existence he's been at odds with banner), but the moment is completely glossed over. this is the story for all of banner's appearances. there's so much potential in the hulk's duality. it could have been a compelling and fascinating element of the story, and it's all just glossed over. wasted potential really. and with all the "extra" room in these 14+ issues there was plenty of space to explore the hulk/banner relationship, but of course that would have required some true character work. i can't disagree that pak "gets" the hulk, but there's not a whole lot to the hulk. banner is more interesting, and pak's banner is just plain confusing. in a way banner's story could be the most compelling part of the whole saga, since for all he knows he's trapped inside the hulk on this planet forever and will never return to earth again, but there isn't even an effort to make that come across. the same goes for hulk's friends' reactions (or lack thereof) to banner showing up. wasted potential.

the art is fine. it gets the job done, but that's about it. and the supplemental material bothers me. honestly i never like it when these books come out with a stack of background material, except when they're interesting, of course. and sketchbook material is always welcome. but what we have here is a handbook-style documantation of the culture and miscellany of this planet. for my tastes it's all a wasted effort. if none of this information came across in the story i don't understand why anyone besides the exceptionally bored or exceptionally geeky would be at all interested. even at the same price i'd prefer this material be excluded from the collection, just to save some trees. life's too short to read even a little bit of it.

all-in-all this is an above average read. it's not deep by any means, and you're sure to be disappointed if you expect a five-star book, but if you like to read about the hulk smashing things you should like this. and i can't say enough good things about ladronn's cover work on this series. maybe not quite worth the price of admission alone, but pretty close.

Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files

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Action on the seas around Africa
Skeleton Coast
Typical Over-the-Top Cussler Action-Thriller
Cussler at his best!
Another Clear Winner for the Author

Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files
Clive Cussler , and Jack Du Brul
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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ASIN: 0425211894

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The explosive New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series returns!

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre-who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area.

What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry-a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.

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Action on the seas around Africa.......2007-08-20

What do you get when you tie together Clive Cussler and one of his numerous co-authors? Typically, a Clive Cussler book with some twists that show the seams where Clive and the co-author split writing duties. that is not the case in this book! JacK DuBrul is identified as the co-author here and there appear to be only minute seams which may actually be artifacts of editorial decisions made by others.

In the Oregon Files we follow the adventures of Juan Cabrillo and his modern pirate ship. Oh, I know! Juan Cabrillo is the "Chairman" of a corporation and he gets his commissions from government work - not high seas piracy. But, is this really that different than what used to be called Privateering?

The Oregon is Cabrillo's ship. She looks like a tramp steamer, but is in reality a super modern, highly equipped and weaponed, futuristic ship. Her equipment includes everything from superb engines to a multiple ways of launching boats, to all kinds of weapon systems and helicopters. The crew are all ex-CIA or other special forces and all seem hell bent for leather to do anything they are asked to.

In Skeleton Coast we see the marriage of eveil fanatical eco-terrorists with the power seeking quasi-officeers who take over African countries. The thread that pulls them all together is the Oregon and its exploits.

In typical Cussler style, there is a prologue in which we learn of a daring diamond heist perpetrated on an African nation over 100 years ago. Then, we switch to modern times and see the Oregon delivering a load of weapons to a modern African warlord. Action starts there and does not stop until we meet a woman who works for DeBeers diamonds, charismatic industrialists and scientists who invent various things, evil scientists who try to kill millions to show the world that the environment is deteriorating, etc. etc. etc.

There are actions scenes galore, many bodies, morbid torture and killing sprees, a fabulous prison situated in the middle of an impassible desert, and more. All to be resolved as it should with the Oregon rescuing the world and getting the girl to boot! It was a fun read and they even tied the old stolen diamonds in a way that made some kind of madcap sense.

Having had some bad experiences with co-author arrangements, I was frankly skeptical about this one. But after having read the Skeleton Coast, I will seek out more of the Oregon Files in the future.

Skeleton Coast.......2007-07-20

Book was received in a timely manner. Excellent condition.

I enjoyed reading the book and its fast paced action.

Typical Over-the-Top Cussler Action-Thriller.......2007-07-03

This review is for the Berkley trade paperback edition, October 2006, 373 pages. SKELETON COAST was on the USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling books list for nine weeks in October and November 2006, reaching a peak position to 21. Clive Cussler has 24 novels on this best-seller list.

The story begins in 1896 with the theft of a fortune in uncut diamonds from the Herero king in then the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). After a treacherous escape across the Kalahari Desert, the five thieves, all Brits, reach the HMS Rove, their chartered escape vessel. But as soon as they board, they are trapped by a violent storm and their pursuers attack. Officially, the HMS Rove is lost a sea, but the story narrator reveals it is buried eight miles inland in the desert.

In the present day, the story moves to a laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and a conversation between the owner and a female technician about making sea water gooey. Then it jumps to a scummy looking freighter in the Congo River. The crew is trading weapons for uncut diamonds with a rebel group. Beneath the crud the freighter is actually the Oregon, Captain Juan Cabrillo's technological marvel operated by ex CIA agents and other mercenaries working for a for profit corporation. After escaping a harrowing fire fight with the rebels, the Oregon saves a damsel in distress who happens to be looking for the HMS Rove.

And so it goes. The Oregon faces one challenge after another, each one more tortuous than the previous and requiring the employment of the Oregon's state-of-the-art firepower, helicopter, lifeboat cum hydroplane and submersibles. The feats and skills of the Oregon's crew are nothing less than unbelievable, the coincidences incredible and Captain Cabrillo's ability to invent complex plans within minutes astounding. This is a typical over-the-top Cussler action-thriller. Unfortunately, it is heavy on tell rather than show and the non-stop action is frequently interrupted by speeches we would rather skip.

Cussler at his best!.......2007-06-19

Last Christmas, my mother asked me if I could give her any gift ideas for myself in the 15-30 dollar range. Without hesitation, I told her to buy me a book, something by Clive Cussler, but not Sahara or Atlantis Found, as I had already read them.

When I opened this book, and first saw the reflective red cover, I was a lttle taken aback. The title was not one I expected to see. (I already recognized the shape, weight, and flexibility as being a novel from my many years of present shaking as a child.) A quick scan of the synopsis further worried me. This novel would not prominently feature Dirk Pitt. (I only recently realized that my knowledge of Mr. Cusslers work is still in it's infancy)

Slightly dismayed, I set the book aside for a week or two. Then, one day for no obvious reason, I picked it up. I quickly realized that Juan Cabrillo is every bit the caliber of Dirk Pitt. Even the way the crew members converse, setting each other up to display intelligence and character in a way that would seem out of place in reality (but always seems to skirt the edge between comic book an adventure novel here) remained. many ways having knowledge about subjects and scenarios that seems unlikely at times. In all, I found everything I love about Cussler inside, and for anyone wary to venture from the Dirk Pitt series to some of Cusslers other works, take this as a vote of Confidence. You will not be disappointed.

Another Clear Winner for the Author.......2007-06-19

Clive Cussler was born in 1931 and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. He has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. He is married with three children, and divides his time between Colorado and Arizona. His credentials as a best selling author cannot be doubted and he has a large `stable' of best selling adventure novels.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon, a well disguised combat shop have barely escaped from a mission on the Congo River. Not in a hurry to commit is men to anything else for a while when the radio operator intercepts a mayday call from a boat under fire off the African coast. Much as he would like to ignore the Mayday, no seaman with an ounce of self-respect can ignore such a call. Cabrillo takes the appropriate action and saves the beautiful Sloane Macintyre.

Sloane is looking for a long lost sunken ship that could hold a fortune in diamonds. But what intrigues Cabrillo most of all is her story about a mad fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area by giant metal snakes . . .

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Great Resource
great book for the housing history
Get out your "readers!"
A very useful book
A Field Guide to American Houses

A Field Guide to American Houses
Virginia McAlester , Lee McAlester , Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz , and Lauren Jarrett (Illustrator)
Manufacturer: Knopf
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3-D Home Interiors Deluxe 2.0

ASIN: 0394739698
Release Date: 1984-05-12

Book Description

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

Customer Reviews:

Great Resource.......2007-09-30

Great book!!! I'm using for my company to get a true representation of many styles for many of the house I'm designing. A great resource for any firm!!!

great book for the housing history.......2007-09-10

great at housing history
great describe for the house component
good picture to show handy book to show at real estate

Get out your "readers!".......2007-07-27

A good "bible" type book for house lovers (buyers, sellers, architects, Realtors, etc.) However, the print is itty bitty, so be sure to have a magnifying glass or some readers handy. There is a lot of information and many black and white photographs along with intricate drawings. It almost feels like a college textbook (good thing it's a paperback!). Good reference book.

A very useful book .......2007-05-06

This book has been one of the most fascinating and useful books I have read. It is laid out in an easy-to-use manner, and is packed full of information that is useful for an amatuer old-house lover, or as a reference for a professional. It follows the history and evolution of homebuilding consecutively from pre-1600's-current (the book was published in 1984, so it is lacking the last 20 years, though). Each style of house or time period has it's own chapter, which goes into depth detailing the features that are unique to and commonly found in that style. It also includes many pictures displaying these features.

The first few chapters of the book introduce you to the basics of house form, structure, and style, and provide a wealth of information on how to look at a house and identify it using key features. It literally is a field guide! I have learned so much about the way a house is constructed, how house layouts have evolved through the years, and learned the names and meanings of all the different parts of a house. It has been fascinating. My husband and I met with a home builder last week, and I was able to comfortably converse with him and understand everything he said because of having read this book recently!
I can't begin to describe all that this book contains. Highly recommended!

A Field Guide to American Houses.......2007-03-12

I've actually purchased two of this book, one as a gift. It is a 'coffee table' book that will actually get used. It is a great reference book and an interesting book to spend some time with. The explanatory illustrations are exceptional, and the photographic examples provide more than just an example. Looking at these photographs you can travel back in time and different periods of American history. Some of the houses are abandoned and run down which in no way lessens the impact of their design and grandeur.

Early in the book, most houses are named and the location given. However, the newer houses toward the back are not so identified. This is not a problem as much as it is a disappointment.

Fly Fishing Patagonia: The Lake District

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Awesome!

Fly Fishing Patagonia: The Lake District
Juan Pablo Reynal
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A nice coffee table book.......2005-01-21

This book, and it's companion Fly Fishing Patagonia:the South, is an excellent coffee table books for gringos heading south or who've gone south. If you want a meaty flyfishing guide head elsewhere. 5 stars for a coffee table book, 2 for a guidebook.

Awesome!.......2003-03-22

I recently returned from Argentina where I purchased this book before it was available here in the US. I own dozens of fly fishing books but there is none that compares to the outstanding photography in this book. It is a book every fly fisherman should own, whether or not they have ever fished Argentina. The book covers every important river in the Lake District and the bilingual text makes for excellent reading. I am purchasing copies for friends.

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Hmmm....
To Carlos, with gratitude
Best guide for introducing Toltec wisdom.
Journey as Allegory
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Journey To Ixtlan
Carlos Castaneda
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This volume shows the reader the means by which a "man of power" sees, as opposed to merely looking, and how by his concentrated "seeing" he can, indeed must, "stop the world." In it, Carlos Castaneda describes the lessons, the omens, the exercises of the will and body, the arduous trials and tests, the simple yet mysterious demonstrations, the extraordinary visions and experiences by which don Juan, his mentor and friend, prepares him for the task of perceiving things as they are, instead of describing them by the words, conventions and standards of conventional, a priori ideas and language. Here, in the high mountains and in the bright arid desert, Castaneda reaches for power in a series of startling encounters with the unknown--a confrontation with death and the past in the form of an albino falcon, with the twilight wind, with a flesh-and-blood mountain lion, with a mountain fog--and learns the techniques, the concentration, the compassion of the hunter, the man who is "without routines, free, fluid."

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Hmmm...........2007-07-01

Probably the most significant book I have ever read. That doesn't say a lot but hey I never like the bible. For some its almost petty to the number of polished novels and books already on the market and waiting for you pocket book. I must say though, this is quite the exquisite example of whats possible in our world or reality to get metaphyiscal. Many of the writes or teachings of castaneda are just that but this book to some is a starting point from which to begin the journey. The not-doings and small samples are just a small example for what in it. I highly recommend this book for anybody. Maybe you'll get hooked maybe not. Either way, some may care to read it.

To Carlos, with gratitude.......2007-06-22

Carlos Castaneda was one of the most controversial writers of the twentieth century. Some in academia branded him a fraud for claiming his stories were biographical rather than fiction, while lauding him as a great novelist for exposing a mass audience to otherwise inaccessible philosophical abstractions they claimed were largely plagiarized. Each of his works is a piece of a larger puzzle, which makes it impossible to critique any one book without addressing the larger context into which it fits.

His first two books, "Teachings of Don Juan" and "A Separate Reality" describe experiences induced by ingesting psychotropic hallucinogenics prepared by a Yaqui Indian shaman from Sonora, Mexico he called don Juan Matus, and accounted for his becoming a guru to a generation seeking short cuts to spiritual enlightenment, as well as his lifelong interest in the relationship between perception and reality, a theme now explored in many popular books on consciousness and quantum physics. Unfortunately, these books remain his best selling works, in spite of Castaneda refuting their importance in his later works. Readers would be best served to skip these and avoid the risk of being turned off to Castaneda and missing the more stimulating works that followed.

His third and fourth works were "Journey to Ixtlan" and "Tales of Power." In Ixtlan he admits to over-estimating the value of his drug experiences, which caused him to overlook the more profound teachings of don Juan which became the focus of future writings. What emerges is a spiritual discipline dating back to the Pre-Colombian Toltec sorcerers of Latin America, culminating with don Juan's departure from our world, effectively ending Castaneda's direct affiliation.

In his fifth and sixth works "Second Ring of Power" and "Eagles Gift" Castaneda suffers strange flashbacks of what seem to be memory fragments of events he is unable to fit into any logical time sequence. In his seventh and eighth works, "Fire From Within" and "Power of Silence," Castaneda succeeds in reconstructing his lost memories, which derive from teachings previously administered by don Juan while Castaneda was in a "heightened" state of awareness.

In books nine and ten, "Art of Dreaming" and "Active Side of Infinity," Castaneda focuses on what he describes as inorganic predators from another dimension, some having the power to imprison humanity in "ordinary reality" so they can feed on the dark emotional energies we produce when succumbing to the negative thoughts they insert into our minds.

In later years several seemingly substantiating works appeared by two of Castaneda's female apprentices, Taisha Abelar and Florinda Donner-Grau. In addition, two scathing exposés were also published by two of his ex-wives. The first, "Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda" by first wife, Margaret Runyon, offers little corroboration, since her marriage pre-dates the time when the bulk of Castaneda's adventures were claimed to have occurred. While steadfast that Castaneda was a sorcerer, she doubts the existence of don Juan, even claiming authorship of many of the concepts Castaneda ascribed to him.

The second, and more credible work, is "Sorcerer's Apprentice," by well-known writer Amy Wallace, daughter of the late best selling novelist Irving Wallace. Here again, we find little corroboration since the time of the events she describes is well after the period when Castaneda's relationship with don Juan is alleged to occur. What the book does provide is a troubling look inside Castaneda's final years, a picture of descent into what seems sexual addiction and possibly madness, leaving one to wonder if Castaneda was just one cup of cool-aid short of a Jonestown.

Many have asked why I put any stock whatsoever in Castaneda. A story from my autobiography, "The Vortex" may shed some light. A year before Castaneda published his first book I had an experience that would remain a mystery until Castaneda published "Power of Silence" twenty years later.

For a brief time, in my youth, I became a practicing Muslim, meticulously performing the complex prayer ritual five times a day. Then one night, sitting in my car, frustrated and complaining at not being able to find the address of my next sales appointment, something inside me snapped. It was as if some part of me had disconnected from my body and assumed control, lecturing me about my lack of discipline. A profound calm settled over me, rendering me simultaneously detached and engaged. For two days my sales figures soared. It was as if no one could say no to me. On the evening of the second day I decided to put my new state of being to the acid test by visiting my parents. Their behavior was so uncharacteristically supportive I hardly recognized them. It was enough to convince me that I was now living in an altered reality. But by the following morning I had returned to "normal." So distracting had this event been that I completely forgot to perform my Muslim prayers, and in fact, never did so again.

Twenty years later, in a chapter of "Power of Silence" entitled "Place of No Pity" Castaneda describes a very similar experience. In the aftermath of the event don Juan explains that humans are like televisions stuck on a channel called "self-preoccupation," lacking the energy to tune into any of the vast array of other channels available to us. To change channels, he explains, we first need to accumulate energy, by practicing rituals that are deliberate, precise and repetitious. Do this long enough and eventually our stored energy precipitates a shift to a channel where self-importance and self pity become impossible. Once this happens we connect with the force that controls the entire universe, a force don Juan called "intent," and everything can be bent to our will and even more channels can be opened, assuming we remember to keep practicing the rituals that save our energy.

This one realization alone was enough to inspire me to dedicate my autobiography "To Carlos, with gratitude."

Maxwell Austin van Lack, Author of The Vortex: A True Story of Passion and Karma

Best guide for introducing Toltec wisdom. .......2007-05-30

Over the years, I've read all of Castaneda's books multiple times trying to extract the wisdom embedded within. Along the way, I have also supplemented my reading in other Toltec Lineages: Mares, Eagle Feather, and Ruiz, to name a few. Different lineages branch out in different directions covering diverse ground and the inevitable snipping across boarders of those who negatively critique Castaneda. While all the various traditions offer some insight, I find Castaneda to be the most compelling.

Like the previous commentator, this book contains a distillation of all of Castaneda's books with regards the concepts and exercises for transforming one's life from a common man into that of a warrior. I differ with the reviewer below in that allegory (in my view) is not a major component of Castaneda's book - at least this one! I say that based on my experience and mentorship with Tom Brown ("the Tracker") and living with other indigenous peoples all over the world.

The stories conveyed by Castaneda conducted in the wilderness, on hunting, tracking power, and so forth, ring true with the other teachings I've been exposed to by those indigenous peoples still living in their original ways. The insights and practices on the spirit-that-moves-through-all-things is a common element of all native teachings cross culturally. (And if one doubts that, I invite you to enter an original culture to corroborate the experience yourself!)

My advice is to read this book through a couple of times, and then again a third time, in an attempt to discern the propositions offered. The key is to live out the propositions. Make them your own. The deeper you can engage these concepts into praxis, the deeper the transformation will manifest in your life. Herein the rub: no small task by any means.

I recognize some people will need teachers to engage this system. And for those you have who do need that, an abundance of "teachers" in the Ruiz lineage hang their shingle out, and offer their services for huge fees. If you need that, that is certainly one option. But, you can also do it on your own. Victor Sanchez is another author who has used these propositions on his own and offers a good summary in his many books.

If you do not need someone holding your hand for you, then these insights can be learned directly from the books with a little dirt time. I would also recommend supplementing these books with Tom Browns books and if able to attend his workshops.

Journey as Allegory.......2007-02-17

Journey to Ixtlan, almost summarily, contains most of the wisdom and core ideas found throughout the Castaneda books. This book is really the only one you need to read, in the sense that the best of the storytelling and lesson summaries are all here. Regardless of your opinion of Castaneda's personal life, the lucidity of this storytelling stands on its own merits.

The journey is an allegory, a metaphorical map for one's own journey through life. Cogent lessons from the first 2 Castaneda books are expanded and reiterated here: Becoming Accessible to Power; Using Death as an Advisor; Losing Self-Importance; Not-Doing (Taoist connection); Assuming Responsibility etc.

The fundamental question this book insists on is: How will reading it change you through changing your perceptions of everyday reality? This one bears re-reading several times. Highly recommended.

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The Cloud Reckoner

Not very helpful.......2007-02-09

Don Juan attempts to teach Carlos Castaneda vague lessons by engaging him in a series of nonsensical activities. Many of the themes are common to other spiritual traditions (e.g. breaking routines, becoming inaccessible, not doing, or stopping the world--in the language of this book) and because of this, the reader may have a clue as to what Don Juan is getting at. However, Don Juan consistently spurns Castaneda when he asks for explanations, insisting on showing him instead. Unfortunately, the demonstrations seem to be pointless and nonsensical. Maybe, that's the point, but it gets tiresome to endure this over and over again throughout the book. I'm a big fan of psychedelic drugs and solipsistic thinking, and I approached this book with a great amount of focus but finished it mostly disappointed.

Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology 2 Volume Set (Surgical Pathology (Ackerman's))

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Critical contribution to medical pathology
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Rosai or Sternberg? Pick Rosai.
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Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology 2 Volume Set (Surgical Pathology (Ackerman's))
Juan Rosai
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Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology presents comprehensive guidance on every aspect of the field. The New Edition of this two-volume masterwork retains the practical approach that has earned it a loyal following and widespread critical acclaim. At the same time, it delivers expanded and updated content on molecular pathology, immunohistochemical markers, and cytopathological diagnosis. What's more, this definitive reference is now illustrated in full color throughout! Virtually all of its more than 3,900 illustrations are now in full color, providing unprecedented diagnostic assistance. A bonus CD-ROM delivers all of the book's illustrations in digital format.

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Critical contribution to medical pathology.......2006-11-03

The book is well structured and very intuitive. Easy to read and comprehend

The resident's best friend.......2004-12-25

I read the previous edition and the current one... I found that it is a change from the better to the best. Rosai's surgical pathology is the only dependable text and the easiest to read and review book for the pathology residents. It is not comparabale to the other surgical pathology books because ..simply..it is the best. I realy advise it to the pathology residents and consultants.

Rosai or Sternberg? Pick Rosai........2004-08-26

Unless you plan on purchasing both Rosai and Sternberg, most people at some point decide which one to buy. Since both are roughly the same price and the same length with the same amount of illustrations, it can be difficult to decide. Here is my take. If you're a resident, you'll probably prefer Sternberg because it is easier to read and has better charts and review tables. If you're an older resident or pathologist, Rosai is more comprehensive and thorough, although more laborious to read. Either way, you can't really go wrong as long as it doesn't just collect dust on the shelf. This book truly is excellent and you will not be disappointed if you choose Rosai.

TIMELESS AND OUTSTANDING.......2004-08-14

A benchmark bench reference book for established and trainee pathologists: an histopathology trainee's bible. It is timeless and outstanding. Editors are bang up-to-date and move with the times. See something new down your microscope and can't put your finger on it? It is in Rosai's book. CDRom enclosed.

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The Rum Diary
Best book ever
Great book
hunter s. doesn't disappoint
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The RUM DIARY: A LONG LOST NOVEL
Hunter S. Thompson
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"Disgusting as he usually was," Hunter Thompson writes in this, his 1959 novel, "on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard." Surprise! Thompson isn't writing about himself, but one of the other, older, aimlessly carousing newspapermen in Puerto Rico, a guy called Moberg whose chief achievement is the ability to find his car after a night's drinking because it stinks so much. (I can smell it for blocks, he boasts.) The autobiographical hero, Paul Kemp, is 30, trapped in a dead-end job (Thompson wound up writing for a bowling magazine), and feeling as if his big-time writer dreams, soaked in Fitzgerald and Hemingway, are evaporating as rapidly as the rum in his fist.

In fact, Thompson was only 22 when he wrote The Rum Diary, but his fear of winding up like Moberg was well founded. What saved him was the fantastic conflagration of the 1960s, a fiery wind on which the reptilian wings of his prose style could catch and soar to the cackling heights of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Puerto Rico in 1959 doesn't have bad craziness enough to offer Thompson--just a routine drunken-reporter stomping by local cops and a riot over Kemp's friend's temptress girlfriend, a scantily imagined Smith College alumna who likes to strip nude on beaches and in nightclubs to taunt men.

Thompson's prose style only intermittently takes tentative flight--compare the stomping scenes in this book with his breakthrough, Hell's Angels--but it's interesting to see him so nakedly reveal his sensitive innards, before the celebrated clownish carapace grew in. It's also interesting to see how he improved this full version of the novel from the more raw (and racist) excerpts found in the 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed (available on audiocassette, partly narrated by Thompson). --Tim Appelo

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The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way...do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other -- that kept me going."

The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit."

Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years -- before Castro, before JFK, before civil rights & moonwalks & flower power & Vietnam & protests & even before drugs -- but the San Juan Daily News was a vortex & a snakepit of all the corrupt new schemes & plots & greedmongers who swarmed in. Paul Kemp, The Rum Diary's narrator, speaks for the unfocused angst of those times: "In a sense I was one of them -- more competent than some and more stable than others -- and in the years that carried that ragged banner I was seldom unemployed. Sometimes I worked for three newspapers at once. I wrote ad copy for new casinos and bowling alleys, I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. It was a greedy life and I was good at it. I made some interesting friends, had enough money to get around, and learned a lot about the world that I could never have learned in any other way."

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The Rum Diary.......2007-09-24

Thompson's best work for beginners as well as a favorite for seasoned fans. Written more like a screenplay than any of his other works, The Rum Diary takes you on the journey of a degenerate journalist's time as a sports writer for an English rag in San Juan. From the interesting characters to the usual Thompson antics this book will not disappoint. The length lends itself to consumption of an afternoon, so if you are easily engulfed with storylines make sure you have the time. This is one of the most heavily used books in my Thompson collection as it is a great story that never seems to grow old. I can't wait to see what happens when the movie starts filming.

Best book ever.......2007-08-14

This is honestly the most enjoyable book I've ever read. Hunter S. Thompson is absolutely brilliant. You would have no idea that this was his first novel. I kept having to limit what I read in a day so that I could read it longer. I would recommend this book to anyone (and have!)

Great book.......2007-08-03

This little book was such a find. It is one that once you stop you cant put down. A good read and interesting topic.

hunter s. doesn't disappoint.......2007-07-26

this is a really good book. the pace is really quick, yet there is enough dialogue to connect you with the characters and settings. it is a real fun book to read.

Quality ish..........2007-06-06

I just finished this and it is a real hoot. I have never read any of his other works and intend to. I recommend this book for anyone who wants a laugh and enjoys reading about people who live at the bottom of the bottle. Enjoy!

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