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The Bengal Cat is a gentle, domesticated animal that makes a fine house pet. Heavily illustrated with vivid color photos and instructive line art, BarronÂ's Complete Pet OwnerÂ's Manuals show and inform pet owners regarding proper care of dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, small caged animals—virtually every creature that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, feeding it nutritiously, keeping it in good health, and where applicable, grooming and training it. Each book in this large series is individually written by a specialist, and though the information is authoritative, the text is clear and straightforward, easy for every pet owner to understand.
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Very Good, Very Helpful For New Bengal Owners!!!!.......2006-04-15
A lot of information that hepls new bengal owners, I would also recomend Guide to Owning a Bengal Cat by Jean S. Mill.
Average Bengal Book.......2006-01-17
The book has some good pictures and some good information, but some is contradictory. For example, if you buy premium cat food your paying for advertising, etc., but the next sentence reads that when buying cat food, you get what you pay for. Confusing. Otherwise the book tells the positives of owning a Bengal, not the drawbacks.
Basic Bengal Info........2006-01-02
I found this book to be full of basic cat information and less Bengal specific information than I would have liked. It did help to describe the breed standards on a basic level. If you are looking for a quality Bengal and want all the details, more research is absolutely necessary.
Excellent book on Bengals.......2005-08-03
This is a very informative book on the Bengal cat breed. Many wonderful photos too. Very helpful to a new Bengal owner -- highly recommended.
Bengal .......2004-09-21
I enjoyed the book but was a little disappointed as I expected it to be much more detailed. I thought it was more of a beginners book to cats. A great book if you have never had a cat or done any research on bengal cats.
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MILLS PRIDE.......2005-09-08
After reading this book and many, many more in my research of the breed for purchase I searched the internet for responsible and reputable "Bengal Breeders" and even though I found a few and corresponded with several over email and phone I also ended up contacting Jean Mill too. I couldn't be happier and now have my absolutely gorgeous Bengal Kitten I named "Nala" that Jean shipped to me. Not only is she a perfect example in description, with an awesome coat and beautiful , stunning features she has a personality to match. She is the most intelligent, loving, playful inquisitive, kitten I have ever seen and loves me and and my pups and friends that visit.
You will love reading this book and savoring the photos!.......2003-03-28
You need to buy this book regardless if you already own a Bengal, or are planning on purchasing one. The author Jean Mill of Millwood Bengals studied genetics at the University level and was the founder of the Bengal breed.
The negative reviews that are on Amazon about this book are obviously from uneducated and or envious people. Jean Mill created and developed the Bengal breed to give today's modern society an absolutely unique domestic cat that retains the appearance and luxuriously soft feel of a leopard's coat. This text will take you on an interesting journey through pictures and prose on how Jean Mill evolved the Asian jungles Leopard cat into a Bengal cat.
Moreover, the joy that you will receive from basking your eyes with the beauty along with the sensual softness, and interacting with the gentle personality and extreme intelligence of a Millwood Bengal absolutely has no peers...
An informative book from an actual Bengal breeder!.......2002-06-07
This book wowed me!I had read some negative reviews about it before but decided to order it anyways.I don't know what those people were talking about because this book IS amazing!First off it has high quality color photographs on every page!Second off,the author is and has been a Bengal owner and breeder for years and really knows first hand what she is talking about.She tells you the basics along with what she has learned.
VERY imformative on the Bengal breed!My book of choice.
Recommended buy before you purchase your Bengal........2001-03-17
The book is worth purchasing for the stunning photography itself. There are some tips and helpful information, but I've found more detailed information from breeders websites. Books on Bengals are not available as yet in Australia, so not sure how this compares to others, but I doubt breeders nor people wishing to show their cat would learn more than what they already know from this book. Recommended to the pet buyer who wants some basic info on habits, care, growth stages and beautiful photos of a range of Bengal coat patterns.
Expected better from the woman who created the breed.......2000-01-14
I expected a better book from the woman who created and promoted this wonderful breed! It is a very basic book more appropriate for someone considering a Bengal as a pet rather than for someone who already owns one. Very superficial coverage of the topics covered in this book. Most of the pictures in this book were provided from the same people over and over so there was not a lot of variety. 2 different photos actually show cats with a leash AROUND the neck of the cat which is very dangerous. Further, many of the cats pictured in the book were not very close to the breed standard and could therefore be misleading if a potential buyer where to use these pictures as a guideline for buying. Many of the photos don't do this breed justice. One cat, for example, was featured both on the cover and on the title page, and had the dirtiest ears! This is no testament to proper cat care and who was the editor anyway! The only thing that I did really like about this book was the "foto-glaze" that coated all the pictures making them look realistic and rich. Overall, I'm sorry to say, I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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- Enjoy the play of mesmerizing colours!
- Enjoy the play of mesmerizing colours!
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Jamil's Clever Cat: A Folk Tale from Bengal
Fiona French , and
Dick Newby
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
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Jamil is a poor weaver who daydreams of marrying a princess and never again having to work. When he confesses his dream to his cat Sardul, the resourceful feline resolves to make his master’s wish come true. Sardul tricks the royal family into thinking Jamil is the richest man in the world and giving him their daughter in marriage. But the princess soon discovers that something’s not quite right, and even Sardul may not be able to save the situation. Fiona French offers a vibrant, beautifully illustrated version of this classic folk tale.
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Enjoy the play of mesmerizing colours!.......2001-12-22
A beautifully illustrated book with mesmerizing colours: an abundance of deep indigo, jungle greens, various shades of burnt orange, and of course the requisite fuschia. I very much enjoyed the play of colours in this book. With the cut paper collages and paintings, the fabrics flow eith textures, layers and decorous patterns.
The story focuses on Sardul, a clever cat who schemes to have his master Jamil marry a princess. Reminiscent of Puss in Boots, when Jamil sighs and wishes he could marry the princess in the palace, Sardul responds "Give me the best waistcoat and the most beautiful sari we have made, Master, and I will make your dream come true."
My four year old delighted in reading the book. I gave her some cut fabric and she pretended dressing up in a sari. I highly recommend this marvelously illustrated book.
History buffs shaould also note that Jamil's Clever Cat is shrewdly retold from "The Folk Tales of Bengal" originally published by the Rev. Lal Behari Day of Hooghly College,Bengal, in 1883.
Enjoy the play of mesmerizing colours!.......2001-12-17
A beautifully illustrated book with mesmerizing colours: an abundance of deep indigo, jungle greens, various shades of burnt orange, and of course the requisite fuschia. I very much enjoyed the play of colours in this book. With the cut paper collages and paintings, the fabrics flow with textures, layers and decorous patterns.
The story focuses on Sardul, a clever cat who schemes to have his master Jamil marry a princess. Reminiscent of Puss in Boots, when Jamil sighs and wishes he could marry the princess in the palace, Sardul responds "Give me the best waistcoat and the most beautiful sari we have made, Master, and I will make your dream come true."
History buffs should also note that Jamil's Clever Cat is shrewdly retold from "The Folk Tales of Bengal" originally published by the Rev. Lal Behari Day of Hooghly College, Bengal, in 1883.
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Bengal Tiger (Wildlife Series)
Carl R. Green , and
William R. Sanford
Manufacturer: Crestwood House
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Peru and the Andean Countries (Tintin's Travel Diaries)
Chantal Deltenre , and
Martine Noblet
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- Edit, please
- Edit, please
- Insightful view of Indians and nation in 19th-century Peru
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From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise)
Mark Thurner , and
Mark Thurner
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822318059 |
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From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye toward Creole and Eurocentric ideas about citizenship and nationalism.
Working within an innovative and panoramic historical and linguistic framework, Thurner examines the paradoxes of a resurgent Andean peasant republicanism during the mid-1800s and provides a critical revision of the meaning of republican Peru’s bloodiest peasant insurgency, the Atusparia Uprising of 1885. Displacing ahistorical and nationalist readings of Inka or Andean continuity, and undermining the long-held notion that the colonial legacy is the dominant historical force shaping contemporary Andean reality, Thurner suggests that in Peru, the postcolonial legacy of Latin America’s nation-founding nineteenth century transfigured, and ultimately reinvented, the colonial legacy in its own image.
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Edit, please.......2003-04-22
This is a very poorly written piece of history. I'm not an expert on the topic but I know that most English teaches would have returned this. He should have improved the writing and the editors should have intervened.
Edit, please.......2003-04-22
This is a very poorly written piece of history. I'm not an expert on the topic but I know that most English teaches would have returned this. He should have improved the writing and the editors should have intervened.
Insightful view of Indians and nation in 19th-century Peru.......1998-11-23
Mark Thurner's recent FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED is a landmark contribution to Andean history and historical anthroplogy writ large--a book bound to provoke healthy controversy among scholars and students alike. This is the first book-length study to deploy insights from "post-colonial" theory to explore the complex roles of indigenous peoples in the politics and political imagination of republican Peru. Based on remarkable archival research about indigenous communities and the state in the little-studied Huaylas-Ancash region, the book begins by insightfuly tracing the paradoxical fate of the so-called colonial "Indian republics" in early republican politics. The second half of the book zeros in on the Atusparia revolt of the latter part of the century, as a sign of the widening gulf between Creole nationhood and indigenous politics as Peru approached the 20th century. All in all, Thurner offers a complex and thoughtful alternative to both "integrationist" and "resistance" visions of the role of Indians in the liberal-republican world, and in its theoretical sections new ways of thinking about ethnicity and the "national problem" across Latin American history. The American Historical Review already hails this work as "an important book" that provides a "pathbreaking analysis of peasants'use of republican discourse." The Hispanic American Historical Review proclaims it a "sophisticated study" with "impressive" "intellectual and analytical power". Whatever, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED ought be on the shelf of every serious (and not-so-serious) student of the region.
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This beautiful photographic collection of urban train station design covers a 100-year period from roughly 1850 to 1950. Striking original photographs chronicle 40 large passenger station buildings still in existence in cities around the world. From the great terminals of London, across the world to Auckland, New Zealand; from Toronto's Union Station to the grand and crumbling Retiro Station in Buenos Aires—vastly different architectural forms are displayed and presented chronologically. One-third of the stations included are among the best America has to offer.
Still Standing: A Century of Urban Train Station Design outlines the history and development of large urban stations throughout the Western world. The basic physical forms and their evolution are reviewed in the context of the rapid growth of train travel. Christopher Brown discusses the arrival and impact of Beaux-Arts architecture in the 1890s and its profound effect on the American terminal. The end of the so-called golden era of passenger rail travel coincided with an architectural move away from the classicism of Beaux-Arts. New and different design forms appeared while passengers defected to other means of transportation.
These dazzling public structures have endured, but the photographs imply a disturbing question: How long will they survive?
Customer Reviews:
A very pleasant surprise!.......2006-03-08
I was pleased to discover this book, and to find it was really more than just a group of train station photographs - as beautiful as they are. The writer/photographer simply yet eloquently shares his love of these structures - both in his writing and in the loving way the many station photographs are presented and framed. I purchase a lot of design and architecture books. It is not often this type of book delivers so much "heart". A very pleasant surprise!
Disappointing...........2006-03-06
The photos are few and mediocre and the printing is of low quality with poor color saturation and muddy details (perhaps because it is printed in China?). Even the limited details of the stations themselves (the only written information in the book) is lacking in depth. Save your money....
Pictures worth a thousand words...........2005-11-19
It is very seldom one finds a book on a specialized subject such as striking photos of train station architecture that is executed with such passion and commitment. The preface gives a brilliant foundation to this study which, in lesser hands, could have easily become dry and academic. The photos are stunning and the placement of the camera always reveals the design or the detail that distills what the designer of the station intended. The layout is beautifully done with a keen eye for color and layout. I love this book, and it is high on my gift-giving list for Christmas.
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