Creative Clothing and Accessories for Children (Milner Craft (Paperback))

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Outfit your kids or grandkids in elegant clothes and timeless costumes without spending big bucks. With a bit of previous sewing experience and some time and patience, this book will help you transform velvets, satins, taffetas, and tulle into party frocks, wedding outfits, and fancy dress costumes. Enlargeable gridded patterns are presented for all 12 designs, along with step-by-step instructions and a photo of each completed garment. --Amy Handy

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Just was not very well put together.......2000-10-09

The patterns themselves are not sized, just a small note on them like " Pattern designed to fit 7 year old", so unless you had a 7 year old who was lucky enough to be the particular size of the pattern, you had to do a lot of altering. This is not easy because of the pleats and points and gathers on these dresses. This book only had three boy patterns, and they were for outfits that would only be good for halloween costumes. The patterns themselves have to be inlarged using the 1in=4in grid which is timeconsuming and troublesome. There were very few accessories, and in total only eleven outfits. It would have made more sense for me to buy a couple of patterns at the store, most come with several different designs for dresses, full size patterns in the size you need, and clear directions. I have bought other similar books over the years, but none as poorly writen as this one.

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On the morning of July 16, 1995, after storming the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Serbian militiamen massacred hundreds of Muslim civilians. They buried their victims in a mass grave in a wheat field on the outskirts of town, after having been congratulated by their general, Ratko Mladic, who told them, "Finally, the time has come to take revenge on the Turks."

Mladic and his soldiers went about orchestrating other atrocities, but the dead of Srebrenica came back to accuse them through the work of an American-led team of forensic anthropologists who reconstructed erased lives from scraps of bone and cloth. Eric Stover's well-written account of the scientists' work in the killing fields of Bosnia, accompanied by photographs by journalist Gilles Peress, makes for disturbing but hopeful reading---hopeful because, through such documentation, the perpetrators may eventually be brought to justice. --Gregory McNamee

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Excellent.......2001-06-10

This is an amazing book, detailing evidence collection by the ICTY war crimes tribunal at two mass grave sites - Srebrenica, a predominantly Muslim town in eastern Bosnia; and Vukovar, a mixed Serb-Croat town in eastern Croatia (contrary to the view of the previous reviewer, Vukovar is neither Muslim nor Bosnian). The photos are phenomenal. After a wrenching reading, one comes away with a few scattered thoughts. Namely: 'never again, and 'thank god there is an international tribunal to carry out prosecutions for these events when domestic courts are unwilling to do so'.

There have now been two ICTY indictees arrested for Srebrenica, the trial is ongoing as of this writing. None of the 'Vukovar Three', reportedly hiding out in Belgrade have been arrested yet.

Justice is far too slow. But at least with the ICTY, there is some chance for a bit of justice after all.

Sickeningly beautiful; tough to take but necessary.......2000-05-11

This is a hard book to rate, for any number of reasons. For one thing, it's not nicely rounded; it doesn't tell a complete story, but provides a blistering snapshot of a small slice of history and an investigation still in process. For another, its photos and text don't work closely together, but provide approximately parallel looks into the same awful tale. Hardest of all is the stunning vividness of the photography by Gilles Peress, and the nagging suspicion that we share some small portion of blame for this.

Simply put, _The Graves_ is a collection of photographs of dead bodies and skeletons, the anonymous mass graves from which they were exhumed, the remnants of their clothing and contents of their pockets, the relatives that survived them; and a text that describes the painstaking and horrifying process of trying to identify them and divine how they came to die.

Srebenica and Vukovar are two towns in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, where in July of 1995, hundreds of Muslim men -- unarmed, defenseless, and bound -- were apparently shot by soldiers of the Serbian army under Ratko Mladic and then bulldozed under mounds of earth.

Five years later, most of those responsible still roam freely in the former Yugoslavia, though the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague steadily sifts evidence and issues warrants for their arrest. This book depicts some of the effort to establish evidence of their guilt ... and is itself damning evidence.

The photos by Peress, all black and white, are horridly beautiful in their mute, pinpoint clarity. They record a creepy new form of archaeology, where shiny white teeth peek out of the dirt, leg bones remain encased in socks and athletic shoes, entire bodies rise out of the near past, shorn of flesh but still comfortably clothed. They could be ancient remains, and one struggles to comprehend that they were alive, page after page of them, not very long ago.

Stover's text gives some historical context for these graphic images, records the testimony of surviving witnesses, and offers brief portraits of the men and women -- forensic pathologists, archaeologists, x-ray technicians -- who sift through this grisly treasure. Peress also photographs them at work, relaxing with a guitar, and the waiting, anxious families with their charity canned goods and stuffed toys.

This is a stark, stolid book, one that serves as a necessary reminder that what happens on the other side of the planet matters, and that no matter how much relative attention we give them, some things are worse than being sent back to Cuba to live with one's father. Much worse.

Powerful, Powerful Account of War Crimes.......2000-02-05

Stover and Peress, through searing words and photographs, have created a record of the two greatest war crimes in the conflicts that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia. The sack of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 by Serb forces, and the subsequent mass murder of over 200 patients and staff from the local hospital is still a powerful and pivotal event, not only because of the sheer magnitude of the atrocity, but also because it was the first. Vukovar came before the siege of Sarajevo, the rape and torture camps in Prijedor and Foca and elsewhere, before the destruction of Mostar bridge, and the massacre at Srebrenica. Vukovar set the standard for the atrocities that were to come, and eight years after its destruction, the town is still a hollowed-out ruin with weeds poking through shattered buildings and one-fourth of its prewar population clinging precariously to subsistence in a destroyed economy. The siege and fall of Bosnia's Srebrenica in 1995, engineered by indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic has been amply documented elsewhere, but this book is not a military history or the reconstruction of the crime. Rather it is about the search for the missing and the identification of bodies pulled from mass graves. The authors follow the forensic specialists, the anthropologists and physicians who have created a sad but necessary specialty in this field. The exhumations are part of the search for the truth, not only for the half-grieving, half-hopeful survivors who cling to rumors about their loved ones, but for all people of compassion who hope that finding some finality, and perhaps some justice, at the bottom of these graves will serve both the living and the dead. The exhumations and identifications are carried out according to strict forensic standards so the results can be used as evidence at the Hague war crimes tribunal. If we are to forge any positive legacy from these atrocities, it may lie in allowing the children of both the victims and the executioners to lead normal lives, free from fear and revenge and poisonous hatred. Memories are long in this region, and vengeance can take decades. The woman who runs an orphanage for young Srebrenica survivors observes, "What is important now is the message the international community sends to these boys and what they then tell their own children. If you say to a child, `Look, that man there killed your father, and now he lives in your house.' What kind of message is that going to send? But if you say, `That man killed your father and that is why he is in prison.' The message is very different. So, for now, there might not be a lot of hatred or revenge, but if we don't find a way to punish those responsible for these crimes, it will surely be something we can count on in the future." To date, neither Mladic nor the "Vukovar Three" are in the tribunal's custody. For the children's sake, we can do better.

Peress' photographs convey much more than words........1998-11-18

Having seen first hand the atrocities carried out in the former Yugoslavia, I was surprised by the stark reality of the superb photographs in this book. Black and white images always seem much more effective than colour. The text does not confuse the reader who knows little about the work of PHR but gives an idea of how immense the scale of the identification programme is. The book tells it like it was, and still is, for not only those people who lost friends and family, but for those people involved in the grave work. Forensic Archeologists, Anthropologists, Pathologists, Technicians and SOCOs' from all over the world give their time and energy to help identify bodies and bring the perpetrators to trial. This book puts across, in words and pictures, the real horrors of what happened in the former Yugoslavia. It is a most effective way of telling the world what did go on,and how it is still affecting, and will continue to affect peoples lives for a long time to come.

Deeply Moving and engrossing.......1998-10-12

The war crimes comitted in Bosnia should be more at the forefront of today's headlines. The photographs by Gilles Peress are absolutely magnificent. They capture the love, life and death of a group of people as I haven't seen since photographs of the holocaust in Germany. Each picture tells a story, and though it could have said much as a pictorial the text only enhances the things we don't see. Eric Stover has brought to life the group of people working for Physicians for Human Rights and lets each reader know them and what the organization is about. This is not only a historical document, but a testament to the good and bad in humankind.

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A celebrated French pianist's poignant story of her journey from her early days as a student in Paris to her life as the founder of a wolf conservation center in upstate New York.

A gifted pianist from a young age, HÃ©lÃ¨ne Grimaud made her first recording at the age of fifteen and won the French equivalent of a Grammy at sixteen. She is a classical music star whose concerts continue to draw sellout crowds all over Europe and North America. But it wasn't until she met her first wolf that she discovered there was something missing in her life.

Late one night in 1991, Grimaud encountered a wolf-dog hybrid in Florida and felt an immediate, instinctual connection to the animal-one that the wolf also seemed to share. Determined to do what she could to protect this threatened species, she committed her time and resources to becoming certified to found her own wolf preserve on the grounds of her home in New York State. Today, the master pianist acts as a tireless advocate for wolves, a species she believes has been unfairly demonized throughout history. In turn, the animals have given her a sense of freedom that she has never before experienced, even as an artist.

In a beautifully rendered personal story that weaves the tale of a musical prodigy's rise to stardom with one of an animal lover learning to communicate on a level as primal as music, HÃ©lÃ¨ne Grimaud touches, astonishes, and delights with her remarkable insight and passion.

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Grimaud & Friends .......2007-10-06

Helene Grimaud is a wonderful pianist. I enjoy her music and when I saw this book, I tried it, read it, and liked it. At this price it is a great bargain, I think.
This is autobiography, and tells how she got out of a frenetic childhood through music, how she met her first wild wolf, and a bit about the sanctuary she made for wolves on her New York farm. Though you learn something about her parents and friends other than the wolves, she is very devoted to them.
The book is translated from "Variations sauvages," a best seller in France; it is sometimes mentioned as "Something Wild," instead of "Wild Harmonies," the title in the U.S. Another book of hers that has sold extraordinarily well in France apparently has yet to be translated.
She writes with great passion, about her life, her music, her education, her move to the United States, and the wolves. These days about 20,000 youngsters visit her sanctuary every year; and she is helping the federal government with plans to possibly reintroduce wolves in important places they once lived in.
What a great thing to do with celebrity, with her determination.
Her musicianship is superb also.

A teenage girl's diary.......2007-09-28

Perhaps I've just read too many books by Peter Mathiessen or Farley Mowat, but this book annoyed the daylights out of me. I hate to be unkind to Grimaud, because I get quite taken by her artistry at the piano, but this read like a teenage girl's diary, and a very indulged teenage girl at that. More often than not, be it with artists or performers or sports players or whomever in the public eye, you're better off not knowing too much about them. In some cases like Bill Evans, it makes compositions like Turn Out The Stars all that more heartbreaking, in other cases like this book you'd rather just howl at the moon.
There is a story to be told about music, about wolves (see Paul Horn's recordings) about humanity that reconnects us with the planet and eliminates the artificiality introduced into human thinking post Aristotle and particularly post DesCartes. But that mystical aerie faerie stuff reduces otherwise brilliant and insightful humans into Tori Amos like knuckleheads, and unfortunately I wish I had never read this. I'll have to steel my nerve to focus on listening to her new Beethoven disc, hoping that however she channels her sympathy for the wolves wherever she lives that that stays apart from the great German, a bit of a wolf himself, who checked his fur at the door and got on with it at the piano bench.

The Best Classical Music Biography I've Ever Read.......2007-06-29

I like the format of the book; the way Grimaud alternates between the myth, legend and folklore of wolves with her own individualistic musical biography and how the two come together at the end when she meets her first wolf in the flesh. "I have found my equilibrium... located between the wolves, the wildest form of nature, and the most refined music between heaven and earth." I admire her desire to do things her own way; learning English by watching hundreds of subtitled movies, dropping out of formalistic conservatory training against the advice of nearly everyone in favor of self-teaching through master classes, armed with a freedom and fierce individuality that female performers as Fanny Mendelssohn and Nannerl Mozart were never allowed. One of my favorite moments in the book is when told by teachers, "Don't come back to class unless you can play the required program," Grimaud disappears from school to teach herself Chopin's Second Piano Concerto, only to be chastised for doing so. "Oh, so I had taken the statement... (too) literally?" The book is excellently translated by Ellen Hinley, so it is a pleasure to read and savor the words as well as the story.

An oddly compelling read, but perhaps not for everyone.......2007-05-29

Helene Grimaud, as most of you already know, discovered her affinity with the piano at a young age and was admitted to the Paris Conservatory at the age of 13, the youngest musician to achieve that status. She currently plays concerts and is, in fact, a splendid pianist. (See my review of her CD with cellist Truls Mork.) But this is about her book, as a book, and not about how well she plays. She reveals herself to be arrogant, self-willed and not very forthcoming about her life. In other words, this is not your usual celebrity bio. Her interest in wolves dates back to her first encounter with one in Florida, a wolf that was a "guest" at the house of a man she met there. (I hesitate to the use the word, pet.) The book traces her growth as a musician from student to world class performer, but she is very careful to put herself, her feelings, her relationships at a distance, other than a few casual comments about having worked with certain other performers and conductors. She has great knowledge of many classical texts (non-musical) as well as being a great source of wolf lore and currently operates a wolf refuges in New York state. Certainly an interesting book written by an interesting person, but I can't help but be a little put off by people who relate well to animals, but not to people and she seems to be one. I don't think anyone will find the book boring, but I found it at once off-putting and oddly compelling.

Pianiste Sauvage / Untamed Pianist.......2006-11-25

Horowitz once said that a great musician must first of all be well read and liberally educated. Hélène Grimaud not only satisfies those requirements but even writes her own books! Although she was a prodigy she is not of the machine-like version. Her aesthetic philosophy springs from personal experience and development which informs and enriches her music immeasurably!
She weaves her interest in animals (she has a wolf preserve in upstate NY), culture and music into a single fabric. She could be a beauty who loves wolves and plays well but she is not a packaged gimmick. Her words take us from the nature of animals to the nature of man and how these are all relate to music as a cultural expression. Her music takes us on mythical forays in search of the mystery of what music is and what it does to us. (Elle "nous laisse devant l'absolu.")
Do yourself a favor, get her book and spend the entire night reading her and then have a long breakfast sipping on tea and listening to her.

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a beautiful book, with love & joy

The Music of Wild Birds
Judy Pelikan
Manufacturer: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1565122712

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One hundred years ago, F. Schuyler Mathews, an erudite naturalist and birder, theorized that birds sing first for love of music, and second for love of the lady. To expand on his theory, he actually scored the songs of birds in the wild. His charming text and bird-by-bird annotations were compiled into a guide called Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music. This extraordinary work has now been lavishly illustrated and adapted for a new audience. Each bird is meticulously rendered by artist Judy Pelikan in full-color illustrations that feature not only the birds, but also their nests, eggs, and feathers. And every song is represented by its written musical score, which Mathews expertly explains in a way that both musicians and non-musicians can enjoy. As Mathews points out, the music of wild birds is everywhere--in poems, children's nursery songs, as well as in the works of the great composers: the Black-billed Cuckoo's call appears near the close of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; the Nashville Warbler's song is found in the opening bars of Rossini's Carovale, and the Meadowlark's song is remarkably like the first two bars of Alfredo's song in La Traviata. He reveals how a bird's character is reflected in its song: the Baltimore Oriole is a sharp-billed, sharp-witted character, and his remarks are as incisive and crisp as the toots of a steam whistle. And he reminds us of the words of our great poets--Wordsworth, Emerson, Sir Walter Scott--and their descriptions of the very same birds and their music. This classic, useful, and completely original guide will put a song into the heart of novice and experienced birder alike.

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a beautiful book, with love & joy.......2005-09-30

some books are made that are not only beautifully constructed & designed, but include joyful text & illustrations. this is such a book. a joy to read, to look at & behold.

Field book of wild birds and their music: A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common ... notations of bird songs by the author

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Field book of wild birds and their music: A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common ... notations of bird songs by the author
F. Schuyler Mathews
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007FI3O8

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An outstanding reprint from the folks at Applewood Press!

Fieldbook of Wild Birds and their Music
F Schuyler Mathews , and F. Schuyler Mathews
Manufacturer: Applewood Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1557095183

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In this beautifully written and well-illustrated guide to birds' songs from 1904, Mathews describes 127 bird species, mostly of Eastern United States, and their songs. This fieldbook contains descriptions of the physical characteristics and habits of each, as well as detailed comments on their songs and calls. He includes musical scores of at least two songs for each species.

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An outstanding reprint from the folks at Applewood Press!.......2002-12-30

Originally printed in 1904, G.P. Putnam's Sons. Reprinted 2000, Bedford, MA: Applewood Books.

The modern American field guides we are used to -- Peterson, Kaufman, Sibley, etc. -- offer detailed migration information, pithy descriptions of each bird, and digitally enhanced images. On the internet, dozens of bird-identification sites can be found, and many more websites allow bird songs to bubble forth from our computers. It wasn't always this way, though, and F. Schuyler Mathews' 1904 Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, reissued by Applewood Books, is a pocket-sized reminder of what bird books used to be. Whereas our modern field guides are bent on helping us quickly and accurately identify birds, many popular field guides of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries blended the goal of identification with encouragement for readers to revel in the beauty of birds and their music.

Mathews writes this about the Ruffled Grouse (our Ruffed Grouse): "There is no doubt about it at all, here is the kettledrum of Nature's orchestra!" About the Red-winged Blackbird: "A beautiful slim and smooth black bird with scarlet epaulets sways unsteadily on the supple stem of a cattail on the margin of the pond ..." About the White-throated Sparrow: "This handsomely attired Sparrow is one of the most distinguished members of the family." Contrast this with Sibley's description of the same species: "Smaller and plumper than other Zonotrichia sparrows. Rufous on wings and sharply outlined white throat distinctive." Looking at older field guides, one starts to wonder, in our rage to identify identify identify, has something been lost?

Mathews' Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music describes the Eastern birds (or most of them) in elaborate passages, but what is most ambitious about this book is the music. Mathews renders each bird's song on a musical scale, complete with liner notes and commentary. Don't read music? Don't worry. Mathews offers both a quick primer on how to read music and a glossary of musical terms. Paging back to Mathews' handy glossary, you'll know just what he means when the lark's song is described as affettuoso or the robin's melody as sostenuto. On the other hand, if you do happen to read music, this guide breathes new life into bird songs.

Mathews concedes that

"Of course it is a more or less problematic matter to deal with wild music. It is not amenable in any respect to law. However, the question involved is not whether the bird's song is radically different from ours - we may admit that point - but whether it may be truthfully and logically recorded upon the musical staff. That question, it is the object of this book to answer affirmatively, and with due regard for all the difficulties involved" (xvii).

F. Schuyler Mathews' Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music is not the only book of its time that attempted to capture bird songs on the printed page. S. Miller Hageman's Bird Songs (also of 1904), for instance, presents bird songs in the form of poems. In that book, Hageman not only poetically recreates the rhythm and tone of each bird, but works to capture the poetic essence, if you will, of each species. Many authors writing about birds have focused first on the joy of listening to birds, then on the joy of watching them, as bird songs have been considered a primary enhancement to everyday life. Mathews is simply following along in this tradition.

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The Exploitation of Mammal Populations presents a selection of peer-reviewed and edited papers from a conferene jointly organized by the Universities' Federation of Animal Welfare (UFAW) and the Mammal Society which includes contributions from an international array of wildlife biologists, ecologists and conservationists. In 22 chapters the issues involved in harvesting, hunting, sustainable trade and ecotourism are explored and set in the context of past and present mammal exploitation.

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Field book of wild birds & their music
F. Schuyler Mathews
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008864WW

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Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music

Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLEFFO

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Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music
F. Schuyler Mathers
Manufacturer: G. P. Putham's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UHAMT2

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Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and Music of Birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the eastern United States
F. Schuyler Mathews
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NKPQJW

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Field book of wild birds and their music: A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the eastern United States
F. Schuyler Mathews
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