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This all-encompassing guide to saltwater fishing covers boat and shore fishing on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States. Extensive line art and color photos enable readers to visually appreciate the techniques, tackle, methods of fishing, and species of fish and how they relate to each other.
A book for the whole family, it concentrates on involving every member of the family. Milt Rosko covers everything from fishing to cleaning to cooking, while stressing the contemplative side of fishing, not the competitive side.
Rosko puts a lifetime of saltwater fishing into one complete guide for anglers of all skill levels, urging participation in the joys of saltwater fishing.
-Complete guide to saltwater boat and shore fishing on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States -Extensive visual representation of techniques, tackle, methods, and fish species -Explores contemplative side of fishing for the entire family
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Useless.......2007-06-27
This book was a primer for people that have had no exposure to Saltwater fishing. Having had some experience with saltwater fishing I found this book useless. There was no coverage on the proper tackle to be used and the techniques to deploy.
If it's not here, you don't need to know it.......2006-03-08
I have checked out at least 30 books from our city and county library systems on saltwater fishing from all over the country on inter-library loan. None were as good as this one! This is the only book that has the hooks, rigs, lures and knots associated with a particular type of fishing in their own section. This is extremely helpful compared to pages of unassociated graphics. The photographs (and there are plenty of them) are all in color and the paper is a high quality gloss matte. There are pencil graphics of techniques. The sections on cleaning and cooking your fish are outstanding with a few recipes thrown in. Each type of fish is identified with the bait to use, method of catch, where to catch them and what equiipment to use. Good water-resistant cover. Can't go wrong with this one.
A Handbook for Sucessful Angling.......2001-07-22
This book is full of information that will help put you and your friends into some good fishing. The information ranges from fishing on rental boats in a small saltwater bay to offshore trips for big gamefish and even provides recipes for your catch from Milt's lifelong fishing companion and wife, June. One of the highlights of the book is the use of photography chronicling his tactics as a "jetty jock" in order to land the coveted lunker Striped Bass that cruise the Northeast coast every April to December from the Cheasapeake bay, Virginia to New England. There are even some photos revealing his commitment to teaching and imparting his fishing "know how" to his grandaughters on small skiffs. Rosko has been fishing for more than 60 years and he has culled the best of his knowledge gained over six decades into this 288 page handbook for successful angling! He covers all the coasts but is especially strong in his homegrown territory, the Northeast coast. It makes a great gift for someone who has a passion for fishing or a budding gift for fishing. I bought one for me and one for my newest fishing disciples.
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The Complete Book of Fishing: A Guide to Freshwater, Saltwater and Big-game Fishing (Complete Book)
Trevor Housby ,
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Great American Carousel
Tobin Fraley
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A great addition to your carousel book collection.......2000-07-22
This is an easy to buy, easy to read and easy to look at book on carousels. It is filled with wonderful full color pictures and a great written history of the carousel. If you enjoy looking at carousels, you will adore reading this book.
Beautiful book preserves magic of carousel history and art.......2000-05-07
As a lover of carousels, history, and books, I was captivated by Tobin Fraley's presentation of American carousel art. This book is lovely to look at, richly illustrated with all kinds of carousel animal photographs as well as historical photos and memorabilia about carousels and carousel carvers. I liked how the book was divided, chronologically outlining carousel manufacturers and master carvers. Each carver had a different style ("the eyes of a Zalar horse always have a certain sadness to them" and"Charles Carmel captured a whimsical element that no other carver could match.") and this book does a great job of showing off these masters' beautiful work and individuality. If you're looking for a book that visually captures the fantasy and beauty of carousel animals while providing a highly interesting dose of American history, this book is for you.
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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 906 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Apollo next door.(DANCE MAGAZINE RECOMMENDS)(Video recording review)
Author: Allan Ulrich
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10-Pk Great American Carousel
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Pioneers of the 1950s and of the optimistic American way of life, Charles and Ray Eames created the greatest modern furniture "classics" between 1941 and 1978. They designed more than 20 chair models, mostly unique pieces, and developed know-how in the art of sitting. The Plywood Chairs LCW and DCW (1946), the Aluminum Group (1958) and the Lounge Chair (1956) have become true symbols of design that remain references today. Still produced, they inspire the admiration of new generations to convey the generous social ideal of their designers.
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Tiki Modern
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TASCHEN`s Book of Tiki provided the blueprint for the re-appreciation and revival of Tiki style. Almost completely wiped from the consciousness of Americans until recently, Sven Kirsten's tome put Tiki on the map as a unique pop culture phenomenon. Never before had Tiki culture's visual power and pervasiveness been revealed with such detail and insight. Not only did the book inspire the erecting of many new Tiki bars from New York to London to Berlin to Prague to Waikiki, but also motivated a myriad of Tiki artisans to pick up the chisel and carry on the forgotten tradition, while spurring many others to create their own home hideaways, making "Tiki" a household name again.
This new follow-up book, which brings together the two recent retro trends of mid-century modernism and Tiki style, is bound to lift the Tiki craze to a new level. With his usual mixture of ironic detachment and genuine enthusiasm for the subject, Kirsten shows us how primitivism and modernism were two sides of the same coin in the 1950s and 60s. Decor deities and ersatz ancestors outrageously merged in the modern brutalist furniture from the house of Witco, a company that outfitted Elvis Presley's Jungle Room and Hugh Hefner's Chicago Playboy pool. This was design porn at its best. cover: © Estate of Stanley Stubenberg
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A Religious Experience.......2007-10-15
Sven Kirsten's first book was the Tiki bible, but it has now become the Old Testament -- no less essential, but now merely the precursor to an even more impressive New Testament of Tiki. "Tiki Modern" is so full of fantastic vintage imagery and wry, entertaining commentary that you could add another zero to the price tag and it would STILL be worth the money. An essential purchase!
Wonderful, intoxicating sensory overload.......2007-10-03
I've read many, many art books. Seldom have I had one that gave me such a delirious buzz as Tiki Modern. It's like walking into some cool but forgotten museum until your mind feels like it's going to explode from too much input. I just got it, today, and I can only look at it for short bits. It's so powerful.
Although I'm not a baby boomer and I do have more than my share of irony, I genuinely love this stuff. The tiki art craze was exciting and gutsy. It was totally unafraid to take a concept and run naked through the streets with it. The fact that it still offends the delicate artistic palates and political sensibilities of others only proves its validity. Besides that, tiki was damn fun.
I never thought anyone could pull off a book that was better than the original "Book of Tiki", but Sven has done it. It's a tiki feast for the eyes and the soul.
Light your tiki torch again.......2007-09-29
The tiki revival of today is filled with quaintness, much like the recent short-lived resuscitations of Googie architecture, swing music, cocktail culture, cigar-smoking and other "square" artifacts from the Mid-Century American attic. I can't imagine anyone in Southern California propping a tiki god in the back yard without a heavy dose of smirking irony. But Baby Boomers will surely remember when Polynesiana was a genuine enthusiasm and the excitement of our parents as they departed for an "exotic" evening at some lavish mocked-up South Seas restaurant. Author Sven Kirsten has done another magnificient job as an "urban archeologist" in unearthing this quirky bulldozed chapter in American pop culture, following up his influential The Book Of Tiki which was published in 2000. Tiki Modern covers some of the same ground, but concentrates on the social and artistic movements that gave rise to the tiki craze (and ultimately brought about its demise). It's another lavish, thick book from Taschen, with every page loaded with great graphics and seemingly lost tiki ephemera. The book is divided into two parts, The Evolution Of Tiki Modern and Witco: Tiki Modern Exemplified. Witco was the leading manufacturer of tiki decor. Horrendously ugly to anyone with traditional taste, Witco wall art and furniture was produced with chain saws and shipped across the country to modern crudes. Witco decorated tiki bars, restaurants, apartments, motels and the famous homes of Elvis and Hugh Hefner among countless other swinging bachelors and wild chicks. The book's final chapter ponders tiki's future, which probably will be limited to eBay auctions, thrift stores, and few retro-minded artists catering to hipsters. As a genuine phenomenon, tiki will always belong to its long-departed day.
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The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, overhauling the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces. In The Modernist Home, art professor and curator Tim Benton examines its elements, from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting, to new construction materials like concrete and steel, to features like winter gardens and folding furniture. He opens the door on Modernist houses around the world, including Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Kocher and Fry's Weekend House on Long Island, all fully illustrated with color photographs and plans.
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Slim-line modern.......2007-07-26
I thought this was a rather disappointing book, not much more than a cut and paste job from the author's two essays in the excellent Modernism: Designing a New World also published by London's V&A Museum. This really can be considered the definitive book on the subject, rather like the V&A's 'Art Deco: 1910-1939', both books were published to tie in with major exhibitions at the museum.
'The Modernist Home' is a rather slim volume and you'll be able read it in a sitting. Covering all the important people and buildings, mostly in Europe. Visually I thought there was just too much designer white space throughout the book. Frequently photos of building interiors, referred to in the text, were too small and other images, of no particular importance, were too big.
Modernism deserves better than this and I would go for the 'Modernism: Designing a New World', to my mind it is the complete package.
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From House to Home.......2006-09-07
By 1914, most the elements that would come together to form Modernism were already in place. In took the Great War to launch Modernism in the mainstream. By the early 1920's, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies, JJP Oud and other avant garde architects began building the first Modern houses.
"The Modernist Home" tracks the development of the Modern home from the early 1920's to the outbreak of the Second World War. During this time, the Modern home transformed from the theoretical Modern House of the 1920's to the more livable Modern Home of the late 1930's.
This is a slim volume that I imagine was published as a companion piece for an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. For those who already know something about the subject, there will be little new in this book. However, what makes the book intersting is in the beautiful pictures of Modern homes of the 1920's and 1930's. There are plenty of books about Art Deco homes but far fewer about the early Modern home. The book is a good value for its price. If you are new to the subject and are looking to learn more, I would recommend Tim Benton's, "Art Deco 1914-1939", probably the single best volume on the art and architecture of the inter-war years.
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Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts 1890-1960
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- Strong beginning, weak ending
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Understanding Modern
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Strong beginning, weak ending.......2006-10-20
This is overall a good book. The author provides a succinct, cogent summary of the revolution that occurred in architecture in the twentieth century with the advent of the Modern movement and gives brief descriptions of the major architects in the field with examples of their work. He also provides a helpful guide to each of the architects, listing books about them and a small selection of sites they have designed that are accessible to the public. My only real complaint about the book is that the last section, providing examples of current projects by less well known architects that are in the spirit of the Modern movement, seems rather arbitrary. The author gives no explanation of how he made his selections. Even worse, the very last example he presents in this section appears to be inconsistent with and contradictory to his entire thesis about what Modern means. It is a house that Elvis would have loved if he decided to convert Graceland to a caricature of Modern architecture.
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