Book Description
In urban parking lots and open fields, the U.S. is covered in swap meets, trade days, and other varieties of the venerable flea market. Not all are created equal, however, and whether you're looking close to home or bargain-hunting on the road, the key to finding great flea markets is locating ones with the most variety and best quality. The U.S. Flea Market Directory separates the treasure from the junk by listing the best in each state - markets that are accessible and well-maintained, consistently attract the best vendors, and are worth your time. The U.S. Flea Market Directory features:* The best markets in all 50 states and the District of Columbia * Days and hours of operation and admission costs for each listing * Driving directions and rates for vendors * Special features and amenities available * Types of merchandise and range of selection * Contact information, including phone, fax, email, and web site when availableFully indexed for easy reference and including maps of each state showing major cities and flea market destinations, the fully updated and revised U.S. Flea Market Directory is your guide to the best bargain shopping in America.AUTHORBIO: An avid collector and flea market enthusiast, Albert LaFarge has been keeping track of flea markets across the nation for more than a dozen years. He lives in Massachussetts.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent reference.......2003-11-23
This is a really good book for finding flea markets. Each state is covered (a map shows the state at a glance and the key fleamarket towns shown) and for each flea market it says the town, address & directions to get there, dates/times when its open, cost of admission, features such as typical types of items you'll find there, number of booths, rates if you're a dealer and want to sell at the flea market, contact info and web site if they have one.
Really full - it was neat to see Wellfleet covered in here. When I was little my grandparents (who lived on Cape Cod) would take me there to browse through the stalls - I usually had a small allowance of a dollar or two to spend....thank goodness my allowance is bigger now :)
Anyway, great book, seems to be really complete although I've only gone to a few local flea markets that I can get to.
Definitely recommend this as I haven't found anything else that comes close to being as good
"The ultimate flea market guide." --Publishers Weekly.......1996-07-23
see http://www.familyinternet.com/collectables/fleaad.htm for more rave reviews from CNN-TV, Newsday, Milwaukee Journal, etc.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed.......2007-07-21
As a sewing professional, I am always on the lookout for new insight. This book did not do the trick. Some of the technique information was interesting, but the examples are truly hienous. The entire point of couture is a beautiful result. Schaeffer does a much better job approaching this subject.
Couture sewing.......2007-07-16
The photos of the finished outfits are very dated looking, overdone, and not really couture looking. They look like someone with no figure tried to do too much to a garment. However, the instructions on how to do the techniques are excellent. I'm giving it 4 stars because the finished products are not very inspiring.
Can't Live Without ..........2003-02-21
If you are a lover of fine clothing and dressmaking this is the book for you. Roberta Carr's dedication to teaching techniques that elevate sewing from mundane to extraordinary is evident on every page. The extremely readable instructions and georgeous examples make this book a must have for home sewers who want to take their clothing construction to a higher level.
Couture The Art of Fine Sewing by Roberta Carr.......2000-06-05
This book is so good that I am going to purchase it. I checked it out of our local, public library and someone else must have loved it enough to cut pages out of it. Roberta Carr writes about what every sewer wants to know. She tells what a perfect fit entails. She describes perfectly how to make a "single-thread" dart, how to work with the forbidden BIAS, the dos and don'ts of buttonholes, etc. I learned volumes from this book.
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History and Our Times.......2007-07-12
The Houses of History is a very complete book for those who are enthralled by history. Preferably, for those who like to understand first the big picture concerning our changing times. This unique book takes you throughout the stages of history during the twentieth century and better yet, through the different trends that those who record history have faced from the modern to the post modern times.It also includes interesting excerpts for each particular history theory. This product must be read by anyone who wants to understand nowadays' social, cultural and political movements.
useful.......2007-01-23
I read this book for a methods course as well as some of the other reviewers. The format of the book is useful since it provides a synopsis of the selected perspectives as well as a reading that provides an example of the method/interpretation in action. While it is not always entertaining, it is not designed to be; it is a critical reader designed to promote critical discussion. I completed an annotated bibliography of the work (since Troup references many scholars and their works) and found this very useful so that I could read the better known examples that Troup discusses in each section. This book is a good spring board to further studies in the historian's journey to becoming thinking historian who is sensitive to the relationship between worldview, interpretation and methods in the historian's research.
Dull Dull Dull This Book needs to be reworked........2005-12-12
I am a university student majoring in history. I was forced to endure the reading of this book for a course in historical methods. I found the book to be very dull in its presentation and arguments about the historical house. This is not just my opinion but that of my fellow students as well. In a class of thirty people only two or three found the book excellent to use the rest of us found it a disaster. There are numerous other sources out there that present this material in a more colorful and interesting fashion. I am no fan of this book. The book does present the very broad subdivisions of historical research. I disagree with anyone who is in the study of history that allows one book, one professor, or one course to mold their like or dislike for this discipline. I suffered through this book because it was mandated for the course. I did learn something about the topic. So in that way the book did have useful information in it. I just would like to suggest to those who want to learn about the historical houses of history that there is an abundant amount of material available both on the web and published that is much better in presentation then this book. For the dullness and lackluster presentation of the material I gave this book only 3 stars.
Great intro text - which Jay obviously couldn't handle.......2005-07-11
Great book. Before I read it, I had been confused by the various historiographical 'houses.' Now I know what's what. Anyone who's doing a historiography course at university should read this book because it (a) explains most things well and (b) makes it clear that there is a lot of conscious consideration behind how historians approach the past, which I think anyone who plans to study the past for a living needs to know. Jay's negative review shows he isn't willing to engage in a sophisticated analysis of the historian's influence on history.
Don't listen to Jay!.......2002-12-05
This is a response to the first review written by Jay, who claims that this book made him hate history, and further, change majors because of it. If this is the case, then that it great. The study of history doesn't need people like Jay! The value of this text is that it presents a brief synopsis of the main schools of historical thought, and an according sample with each. Jay is obviously of the dominant school (empiricist) that thinks history chould be treated like a science, without concern for philosophical questions. Despite what you may think about postmodernism, it has unearthed the deception of the empiricist school. By professing their method as THE path to THE truth, empiricists cut off unthought ideas by setting up a power discourse. They rule the universities, and anyone who wants to become a 'professional' historian must take his/her PHD pill from them. HOUSES OF HISTORY is a great text for the beginner in that it provides a brief summary of the schools of history, which is invaluable in undertaking a historiography course. Historiography is NOT boring and useless, and any historian who thinks it is is simply trying to prevent new ideas from emerging, ideas that might (oh no!) compromise his/her position. Don't listen to Jay.
Book Description
Color photographs and accurate scale drawings of over one hundred of the most significant and influential modern houses.
A companion to the popular Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, this book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as works by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Glen Murcutt. Includes CD—ROM of images included in the book. 600 illustrations, 150 in color.
Customer Reviews:
Invaluable.......2001-02-02
Vintage, the publisher, should feel deep, dark, spooky shame for letting this remarkable book go out of print. The reviewer below is misguided in his or her belief that there are more than a few clunkers among the translations: hogwash. Wilbur's rendition of "Le Pont Mirabeau" is an exceptionally musical version of an exceptionally musical poem, and approximates beautifully the Whistleresque mood. To critique Pound's translation is like saying "Damn the Moon, it's full of holes." Sure, but its the Moon. On the whole, this book gets it right, offering an interesting selection of poets and translators (just as there is more than one kind of poet, so too are there different, and equally valid, forms of translation). Seek it out till Bertlesman come to their multinational senses.
GREAT TO HAVE IT, BUT OO-LA-LA! SOME POOR TRANSLATIONS!.......1998-08-16
Paul Auster chose his poems well, and the bilingual presentation, format, and ordering of the poets are all clear and easy to follow. It's wonderful to have this access to modern French poetry in English. There are two problems, however: First, there are hardly any women poets (I think 1 out of 50 - the unrelenting masculine viewpoint gets tedious, like being trapped in a cigar-smoke-filled men's room). And second, some of the translations are graceless and inaccurate. Mr. Auster's secondary goal was to choose among already-existing translations by American and British poets. Many of these ruin the mood, parallelisms and imagery of the poems. For instance, Apollinaire's "Mirabeau Bridge" is tortured into English rhyme, destroying all subtlety. Milosz's "November Symphony" has had a meaningless name change to "Strophes" by Ezra Pound, who, if he was going to re-name it, should have called it "Truncations", since he seems to have gotten tired and omitted the last third of the poem. All in all, though, I'm very pleased to have it.
Book Description
The architecture of great homes became a fascinating and significant art form in twentieth-century America with such icons of modernism as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Philip Johnson's Glass House, and Frank Gehry's personal residence. This lavishly illustrated
volume, the newest title in the Universe architecture series, is a condensed and updated edition of the bestselling book of the same name. Twenty-five of America's finest masterpieces of modern residential architecture are presented with rich color photographs, accompanied by text that explores each house in depth and discusses its place in the progression of American architecture. Compact and very reasonably priced, this book is ideal for students and all enthusiasts of twentieth-century design.
Customer Reviews:
Thirty-three American residential masterpieces.......2000-08-28
This book successfully captures the vast architectural contributions achieved in the Twentieth Century in American residential design by spotlighting 33 masterpieces located across the country.
The book begins with stunning photographs and drawings of remarkable homes built early in the century, including the Greene and Greene Gamble House in Pasadena, Ca., Rudolph Schindler's Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach, Ca., and Richard Neutra's Lovell Heath House in Los Angeles, Ca. Then, homes are featured that embody "the triumph of the modern American house," including Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Bear Run, Pa. The final and largest section of the book highlights "blueprints for modern living," such as Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Ct., Louis Kahn's Korman House in Fort Washington, Pa., and Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica, Ca.
The book lets the images of the homes, exterior and interior, speak for themselves through extra-large photographs. The accompanying commentary focuses well on the architects' contributions to architecture.
I very highly recommend this book. It is the best compilation of American residential masterpieces of the Twentieth Century that I've seen, and even more importantly, the authors have put the differing styles in perspective with the evolution of American architecture.
Book Description
A spectacular visual narrative and guide, this paperback edition of this title details the explosion in styles and exciting technical progress that characterize the rapid evolution of design over the past 100 years.
Customer Reviews:
20th Century Furniture.......2007-09-15
This was a very helpful book to determine furniture in different periods of time. It's a good resource.
A good overview........2006-07-20
Overall, a pretty good book. Starting a little earlier than most modern books, it begins with some examples of Arts & Crafts, Nouveau and Deco which help give some interesting perspective.
The photos are large, but of varying quality. Some pics surprised me with new angles and views than I am used to. (There is a shot of a Nelson Marshmallow couch in a very large size that I had never heard of.) Some of the shots show some aging and wear and tear which is refreshing to see and sometimes adds some nice character to the pieces.
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Home: The Twentieth-Century House
Deyan Sudjic , and
Tulga Beyerle
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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ASIN: 0823023303 |
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Examining the broad spectrum of home design as well as house architecture, this book documents the relationship between interior and exterior space, the evolution of furniture, domestic appliances, and other factors that have shaped twentieth-century houses around the globe. Landmark homes by architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and other famous and influential designers lead the review of scores of remarkable living environments built in North and South America, Europe India, Japan, and Australia. An engaging survey or fifty contemporary house designs from around the world completes the book. 200 color illustrations.
Deyan Sudjic is the founder of Blueprint, and is currently director of Glasgow 1999.
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What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family
One hundred years ago America’s richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt’s 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family’s memories. There could never be a better picture of the Rockefellers and their ambitions for the enormous fortune Senior had settled upon them.
The authors take us inside the house and the family to observe a century of building and rebuilding—the ebb and flow of events and family feelings, the architecture and furnishings, the art and the gardens. A complex saga, The House the Rockefellers Built is alive with surprising twists and turns that reveal the tastes of a large family often sharply at odds with one another about the fortune the house symbolized.
Customer Reviews:
Rockerfellers House.......2007-08-02
I read this book from an architect's viewpoint, and it squares with my experience that there is something about homebuilding that is intensely personal. Much has been written about visionary Designers. In fact, it is the clients who hire and steer those designers who are writing their world views large. I visited Kykuit once and thought the design was quirky for a pile from the mansion age...quirky but with vim & vigor, bold but not bombastic. Now I know how it got to be that way.
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Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Houses, 1900-1944
David Dunster
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Updated and redesigned for a new generation of women, Priority Planner is still the ultimate organizer to help any woman keep her responsibilities in order and on schedule. Easy to use and packed with features, it puts everything you need to get organized right at your fingertips, including:
- A "How to Use" page, helping readers get the most out of their planner.
- A yearly planner and monthly planner with room for birthdays and anniversaries.
- Undated page-per-week schedules that include a priority list, menu, and cut-out shopping list.
- Space for phone numbers and addresses.
Customer Reviews:
I love it!.......2004-11-05
I have purchased many planners over the years and this one is the best. Because it is spiral bound, it opens flat. I can write in all my appointments and as a full-time graduate student, I can even keep track of my class schedule and assignments. The Menu section, offers space to write down meals, which saves time. This planner reminds me daily to keep my life in perspective. I think this is a great planner for any busy woman, wife or mother.
Don't Even Bother.......2004-09-01
I didn't see a review for this item but I now have 4 kids and I needed some organization. I decided to take a chance and boy what a waste of time that was. You would do better getting a regular organizer or calendar than wasting your money on this book!
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