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Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available rare images of family life in Southern California. Together with a timeline of L.A.'s ethnic history, they offer a compelling portrait of life in one of America's most diverse cities from the 1880s to the 1960s.
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A City's Family Album.......1997-08-05
Shades of L.A. is a charming photographic reminiscance of a city with a diverse population. These are not pictures of a city caught in turmoil. Not pictures of urban blight. These photographs, copied from real family albums, give the viewer not only a glimpse of Los Angeles from an ethnic point of view, but also provide a chance to feel what it's like to check out someone else's family pictures.
Every type of photography is included--from amateur to professional. And the subjects are just as diverse socially. This is a quaint review of a city from its inhabitant's points of views. And, ultimately how each ethnic group regards the city as just another member of the family
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Bold, even breathtaking, in its scope and cutting-edge in its interpretations. Bruce Vandervort, VMI
Fills a hole in military historiography by compressing into one volume all the conflicts involving Western style armies and navies between 1775 and 1882 and testing them against the issue of whether one can realistically determine the existence of a linear continuum of progress toward warfare in the modern world. Gerry Bryant, Bolton Institute, UK
Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, this book offers students an unrivaled account of civil and international conflicts, integrating both naval and land warfare. It covers military capability as well as conflict; social and political contexts as well as weaponry; and tactics and strategy. In addition to examining such major conflicts as the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the Wars of German Unification, the book redresses the imbalance of previous treatments by examining the neglected conflicts in Latin America or insurgency and counter-insurgency in Europe.
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Excellent overview of military evolution.......2005-03-30
Black is considered one of the premier military historians of his age. He chronicles the evolution of Western warfare starting with the American and French Revolutions to the Franco-Prussian War. Each significant advance is documented in context with the leaders who introduced them. Other great books include Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975 and War for America. Black provides a well researched thesis that is well written and illustrated.
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Left me wanting more........2005-03-27
Personally, I rate Dr Ballard's books; The Discovery of the Titanic, Lost ships of Guadalcanal, Return to Midway and Exploring the Lusitania as some of the finest works on the subject of shipwrecks ever to have been published. On this occasion, however, I am left with a feeling of disappointment at finding such a thin book.
Perhaps anything short of the discovery of another Titanic would always be a disappointment to some - but let us examine the content. Firstly, we have 5 of the world's greatest ever shipwrecks; Titanic, Empress of Ireland, Lusitania, Britannic and Andrea Doria. Each of these vessels was a great ship in it's own right and their like will never be seen again. Indeed, entire books have been written about each of them - by this author and by others. As with all great shipwreck stories, there is always an element of mystery - arguments for and against the mine versus torpedo theory for example. Those arguments, in addition to all the many other elements of the overall picture, must always be fully presented and reasoned in order to allow readers to draw their own conclusions.
In this book, the text, photography and excellent (as always) illustrations by Ken Marschall are confined to 56 pages. Quite frankly, that is not enough room for any single great shipwreck - let alone five! Easy to see why I was left wanting more.
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Young people need modern heroes - Robert Ballard is real........2003-12-01
Robert Ballard is one of the few genuine adventurer - hero models available to young people of the 21st Century. He is is incapable of being boring. He's somehow interesting even when he's talking about a can of paint. He has manifold unquestioned achievements, both scientific and spectacular in the public eye. His flair for photography and for commissioning or selecting exciting paintings of underwater scenes is unparalleled. His feeling for developing memorable themes, in this case lost ships, is gripping for both adults who allow their imaginations to seized by large events effectively told, as well as children.
At times one hears unjustified carping from scientists at Ballard's role as a popularizer. At others, not unreasonable arguments are raised that some of his books don't offer enough credit to others. I have known Ballard from the time of his PhD dissertation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and onwards. I prefer to interpret Ballard's telling of major stories with simplifications as part of his ability to reach and affect large audiences, including young people who have become one of his major targets and goals in later life. Kids simply don't have the life experience and maturity to weigh all nuances of complex phenomena like scientific and exploration discovery.
Ballard has made extraordinary efforts with his Jason outreach programs to enliven science education for school children, facilitating realtime "exploration" opportunities to hundreds of thousands of young people. Ballard has a sense of personal ethics (refreshing in a "me" generation), being reluctant, for example, to allow souvenirs to be retrieved from the Titanic and other wrecks. Even though one can argue scientific and other value for such retrieval, I attribute to him sense of purpose and principle along with other unusual qualities as a person and author.
A look at lost liners you never even knew about.......2003-02-14
I accidentally ordered this children's book from my son's school book fair, but I really love it. I wanted the book Lost Liners also by Bob Ballard. The paintings in Ghost Liners are wonderful and the narrative is interesting and also sad at times. I didn't even know about many of the other sea disasters. My son did read the book, but I'm the one who enjoyed it the most. The haunting illustrations are, themselves, worth the price of the book.
Pretty Good Little Book.......2000-03-23
This was a pretty good little book for the money. However, it was largely a slimmed-down version of Lost Liners, which I highly recommend. Some new pictures were featured, but much of it was rehash.
Great pictures and text.......1999-11-20
Awesome pictures! Ken Marschall did a wonderful job with the illustrations, and the photographs were nice, too. The text explained clealy what had happened to each ship, and the controversy about some of them. I really learned something from this book.
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Titanic.......2006-03-23
Do you like old ships? Well, I know the right one for you. It is the Titanic. It is about a ship that hit an ice berg and went down. So go under water with Dr.Robert Ballard and explore the Titanic. Good Luck! This book is recommended for 8 and up.
A Sad, Yet True Look at the TITANIC .......2006-02-12
Exploring the TITANIC is a very profound read. Robert Ballard (author of this book) is an avid diver, with the dream of finding and exploring the TITANIC. He joined a bunch of French explorers, and traveled far into the deep of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland where the TITANIC sank in 1912. Ballard used Argo (an advanced water-safe camera) to take pictures of the TITANIC until he found that he could not use Argo anymore because the rough waves were pounding against it. Minute after minute, hour after hour, the Knorr (the submarine Ballard was traveling on) floated in a sea of darkness because the only light they had was the light from Argo. About ten hours went by before Ballard decided to use Angus. Angus was an older camera that Ballard had used in previous explorations. In an hour or two, Ballard had found the TITANIC. Somehow he was not satisfied. He wanted to take clear pictures but did not know how to get them with the technology that he had with him. He pondered this for days. He knew that he was about 13 feet above the TITANIC. Then it came to him that he just needed to go down 13 feet more to get his pictures. Ballard convinced the Captain to go down the 13 feet. When they reached their target, they were able to get their pictures.
Ballard's dream was still not fulfilled because he had not yet explored the TITANIC. About a year later, Ballard and two other divers went underwater to explore the TITANIC. They had traveled down four or five times to complete their mission of exploring the TITANIC. Ballard's dream was fulfilled.
I would recommend this book to any reader that is NOT sensitive. This book told about people on the TITANIC who died. I think the author told us too much about people's lives and made us care about them too much. It was sad when you found out the person died. If they weren't killed, then one of the person's loved ones was killed. For example, Jack Thayer was talked about very much in the beginning. I became fond of him because the author gave so much detail about his life. When Ballard told us that Thayer had survived the crash, he did not stop there. He went on to tell us that Jack's father and his friend did not make it. This made me very emotional. If you would like to learn about Robert Ballard and his exploration of the TITANIC, then by all means, read this book. If the sad parts about the people who died bother you, just skip those pages and you'll still learn a lot about exploring the TITANIC.
If you like reading about the Titanic you will love this book!!.......2005-07-10
It's a true story about the Titanic and what things Robert Ballard and his team find in the Titanic.
A fabulous read.......2001-12-21
I first read this book almost 15 years ago, at age 5 : I loved it, and read it uncountable times. Today it is still just as fascinating. Beautifully illustrated and clearly written, it was the first of many Ballard books that I read. I would also recommend the Discovery of the Bismark and The Wreck of the Isis, just as interesting but less well known. A great way to start reading about the great ships of the past.
Read about the Hole thing from the Beginning.......2001-11-22
Goes behind the Titanic. Why did the Titanic sank, why it was built, how they came up with the name Titanic etc. It has everything you need to know about the Titanic. Even has real actual pictures taken of the Titanic in the water and above.
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Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and the Early Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1918
Nina Gurianova
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This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West bloc divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.
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New Cold War Essays.......2006-06-25
Across the Blocs is a compilation of short essays, which collectively provide a sampling of novel socio-cultural arguments about Cold War History. The editors, Oxford Professor Rana Mitter and University of Warwick Scholar Patrick Major, attempt to "set out a research agenda for a truly comparative approach to the cultural and social history of the Cold War." In 2000, Mitter and Major founded the Cold War Cultures Network, which seeks active interaction between scholars who are interested in the East-West conflict, particularly the `home fronts.' Jointly, this compilation is an example of the labors of the aforementioned network - and illustrates that professional collaboration often advances new ideas and approaches to traditional subjects. The collection is thematically grouped into three sections, with two essays on each theme (utilizing either a Western or Eastern bloc approach). These British authors advance Cold War cultural and social narratives by utilizing an array of topics such as cinema, broadcasting, and fictional writing.
As with other essays in this collection, British scholar Sarah Davies argues that the "emerging Cold War inclined the Soviet Union towards increasing state intervention in cultural policy." To this point, Davies succeeds adequately in connecting Soviet cinema to Communism. She carefully chronicles, from 1944-46, the ever-changing script of Admiral Nakhimov. The film, modeled after Nakhimov, a revered Russian military leader who helped defeat the Turks in the battle of Sinope, is manipulated by the Soviet leaders, including Stalin, to reflect only professional achievements, vice personal stories, of the admiral. These adjustments, of course, focused on Soviet military superiority. This same type of supremacy is advanced in Patrick Major's essay on Communist Science Fiction. The "Communist Party" in the mid-1950s, argued Major, was "consciously extolling the scientific-technological revolution with the fervor of a pseudo-religion." Major convincingly draws parallels from the clashing superpowers, and illustrates some of the more impressive propagandistic efforts from the Soviets to discredit capitalistic space advances. For instance in one Communist film, The Great Frontier, the Soviets rescue an American space crew from an ostensibly weaker, and disabled, space craft.
In comparison, the reader is also offered a healthy dose of American propaganda. Nichols Cull, a British Historian of American Studies, adds a unique perspective on Edward Murrow's stint as head of the United States Information Agency (USIA) in 1961, and his ostensibly strong political alliance with President Kennedy. According to Cull, Murrow had limited political power and estranged many members of the Voice of America by withholding information about the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cull further argues that Kennedy utilized Murrow as a media spokesperson to withhold, and sometimes manipulate, sensitive political topics - as evidenced in Cuba.
As evidenced by Davies, Cull and Major's essays, the superpowers often sought to manipulate cultural mediums for political purposes. Although the editors admit that the essays are not definitive, they are indeed "complimentary," to pre-existing Cold War culture histories. Led by editors Major and Pitter, the authors seem heavily influenced by the school of "new Cold War History." More questions and research remain in this nascent school, but the editors appropriately note that a "common set of questions" provides a "better chance of a coherent set of answers." Across the Blocs is a useful collection for scholars and university students who seek to expand their "methodological wings" about Cold War topics.
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Articulating Hidden Histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf
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Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
ASIN: 0520085817 |
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With his groundbreaking Europe and the People Without History, Eric R. Wolf powerfully advanced the project of integrating the disciplines of anthropology and history. In Articulating Hidden Histories, many of those influenced by Wolf--both anthropologists and historians--acknowledge the contribution of this great scholar while extending his work by presenting their own original field and archival research.
The "hidden histories" referred to here encompass the histories of economic and political forces capable of dislodging people from their surroundings, of the people thus dislocated, and of the anthropological concepts developed to understand such processes. Within this framework, the contributors explore an extraordinarily wide range of topics, from the invention of tribalism in colonial West Africa to the ecological activism of North American housewives.
This collection offers a fitting tribute not only to Eric Wolf's work, but to its continuing influence on the fields of anthropology and history.
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Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources
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Exploring History 1400–1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. Spanning continents and genres, the selection of documents illuminates the links between concurrent events in diverse places and illustrates the legacies of important social, religious and political trends. Previously unpublished accounts and newly translated material reveal new perspectives on both familiar and less well-known events.
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Exploring History: A Journey Through Time, From Prehistory to the Modern World (Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia)
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A beautifully illustrated reference that takes the reader through time, showing the reality of what it was like to live in the past.
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Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai
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Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as "intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist," which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few.
The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, What is Politics About, available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars.
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Birding is the fastest growing wildlife-related activity in the U.S., and even conservative estimates put the current number of U.S. birders at 50 million. According to the New York Times, some authorities predict that by 2050 there will be more than 100 million—and the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America will be the essential reference for field identification and the cornerstone of any birder's library. This is the ultimate, indispensable bird field guide—comprehensive, authoritative, portable, sturdy, and easier than ever to use.
Among the the new edition's key elements and practical improvements: Every North American species—more than 960, including a new section on accidental birds—classified according to the latest official American Ornithologists' Union checklist 4,000 full-color illustrations by the foremost bird artists at work todayand newly updated range maps that draw on the latest data New durable cover for added protection against adverse weather, plus informative quick-reference flaps that double as placemarkers New reader-friendly features like thumbtabs that make locating key sections faster and easier, and a quick-find index to direct users straight to the information they need.
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A Fabulous Field Guide - Sibley's now has competition.......2007-10-15
I've been using Sibley's Field Guide for the last three years, and my Western Sibley's is very well worn. But now, the field guide I refer to is the National Geographic. The new fifth edition is great. Rather than just list field marks, it offers tips on distinguishing similar species. The art is all new, and IMHO, very close to actual (compared to previous editions which were...schematic...[that's putting it kindly]).
Additionally, the submerged tabs are very handy, and they've picked up on putting the map in the back, like Sibleys.
My only complaints are that it's not a harder cover, and that I'd like it more narrow and tall, rather than wide and short. Nits. It's a fabulous field guide.
Nat Geo Bird Guide.......2007-10-03
I think this is a good field guide. I find the organization easy to use. The infomation is good and includes the regions where each bird can be found. The pictures and drawings of the birds were very thorough, ie the birds may be sitting or flying, male vs female, juveniles vs. adults, and extensive markings are identified.
I'm rather new to bird watching, so I only gave it 4 stars. I thought the more experienced watchers may have a different perspective.
Great Guide for Birding.......2007-09-07
As a novice birder, I find this book to be invaluable. Not only does it provide great photos, it also gives information that entices the reader to learn more and more. This is the text our birding instructor insists we all have in our libraries, and I certainly know why. The guide is a must for anyone interested in learning more about birds.
Still the best in its field.......2007-08-31
I've owned a previous edition of this field guide (it fell into a pond), and I think this continues as the clearest, most practical North American field guide I've found.
The text is simple and to the point. The illustrations are not always as beautiful or lifelike as the drawings or photographs in other guides, but are often much clearer, with useful distinguishing details always picked out well, and a range of plumages/postures shown when necessary. It's not posket sized, but it's not too large or heavy for a backpack or fannypack. As a practical field guide, this is my choice.
I haven't found any changes from the fourth edition that make much of a difference for me, so I wouldn't suggest buying this just as an upgrade.
Hawkeye Review.......2007-06-26
Excellent Field Guide for North American birds----I have owned numerous field guides and this one is by far the best. The bird pictures are excellent and easy to compare with the living specimens. Field notes and range maps are also excellent. A great birding guide that will not dissappoint. National Geographic continues to put out top quality publications.
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