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Part One illustrates and describes each poisonous plant and animal in a nontechnical manner. Part Two provides in-depth information of the toxins, symptoms, and treatments presently recorded in the scientific literature, as well as beneficial uses and folklore. A must for campers, hikers, bicyclists, kayakers--anyone who spends time in the Florida outdoors.
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A great resource.......2003-11-05
I found this a fascinating read. The author provides a section on the toxic element, symptoms, and treatment of a wide range of plants and animals. For me, the book also serves to provide a list of plants that can be used to discourage nosy neighbors and their irritating little pets. What a great resource!
Fascinating & Informative!.......2002-02-20
This was a truly fascinating book! Each plant as well as each animal mentioned had a color photograph beside the description. The book was divided into two sections. Section one covered the distribution, appearance and habitat while section two was devoted to toxins, symptoms and treatments.
The table of contents was of particular interest to me. It had page numbers side by side that told where to find information in part one and part two both.
I was surprised at some of the plants that were toxic as well as some of the symptoms. Many of these plants are common houseplants. This book also gives beneficial uses of these plants.
This is definitely a book worth adding to your book shelf if for no other reason than having the symptoms and the treatments of toxic plants and animals close at hand.
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Stop every shot! The Soccer Goalkeeper is the single most comprehensive guide to the key position in soccer. From drills and tactics to equipment and fitness, coaches Joe Luxbacher and Gene Klein cover all of the mental and physical skills you need to maximize performance on the field.
This revised and expanded edition includes many new and improved drills and tactical information on restarts, organization of the defense, angle play, and more. Coaching points and actual game examples from top goalies provide special insight.
The text features these topics:
· Training programs like those used by top goalkeepers in the world
· Footwork and positioning techniques to cover more of the goal
· Tactics to gain a competitive edge in every situation
· Choosing the right equipment
· Using mental skills to maximize physical skills
The Soccer Goalkeeper presents everything you need to know to shut out the opposition.
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GOOD.......2007-10-07
THIS BOOK IS VERY INFORMATIVE, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS I'VE HAD TO TEACH GOALIE TACTICS AND DRILLS, THIS BOOK HAS HELPED.
An outsiders opinion.......2007-08-16
This book was purchased as a gift for a goalkeeper in training. From what I can tell it has all the information he will need.
FOR BEGINNERS OR EXPERIENCED KEEPERS.......2007-05-12
Whether you are a keeper yourself or coaching them, I highly recommend this book. It's a book for anyone who wants to learn the skills needed to be a top-notch keeper. The book focus on the key skills in a very comprehensive fashion: describing when the skill is used in game situations, how the skill is performed, and creative exercises for mastering the skill. These discussions are supplemented with photographs and illustrations. The author really knows what he is talking about. Read the book, then watch goalkeepers playing at the highest level of the game (such as in the world cup) and you will see the keepers utilizing the key skills detailed in "The Soccer Goalkeeper"over and over again.
Good book for beginers.......1999-07-03
I read the book front to back and overall was slightly impressed. A great book for new coaches or new keepers looking to understand the position.
The Best Overview.......1998-10-07
There's a dearth of valuable technical instruction available for most aspiring goalkeepers, both in person and in print. This book provides an excellent overview of all aspects of goalkeeper play, from the physical fundamentals (catching, footwork, etc.) to positional play and the mental game (an extremely important topic that often gets little coverage). Mastery of the skills detailed in this book will make you a very good, skilled goalkeeper. My only beef is that the nuanced information and skills that separate the "very good" from the "world class" is not covered at all. I know that's a lot to ask, but if you're looking for the knowledge to put your game over the top, this isn't really going to help. On the other hand, if you're looking for a comprehensive guide to the position, or to find a reference touchstone for the "completeness" of your (or your player's) game, this is the place. Ultimately, a necessary resource for any serious goalkeeper.
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A goalkeeper handbook that sets new standards! The Complete Keeper can help you train your goalkeepers in a focused and systematic way. Many coaches are afraid to try goalkeeper training because they think they are not qualified - but this book will tell you everything you need to know. Teach your goalkeepers age-appropriate techniques and tactics step by step, right from the start. This book starts off with the major techniques and tactical concepts of goalkeeper training, and thenshows you exactly what you need to teach your players at every age level. It has more than 240 clearly illustrated exercises and practice games which provide virtually infinite variations for effective youth goalkeeper training. CONTENTS: 1) Goalkeeper Training - Basic Principles and Organizing a Training Program 2) Goalkeeper Techniques 3) Basic Goalkeeper Tactics 4) 8 to 10 year Olds: Basic Ball Training 5) 10 to 12 Year Olds: THe Start of Focused Training 6) Moving On: Intermediate Training with 12 to 14 Year Olds 7) The FInishing Touches: Advanced Training with 14 to 18 Year Olds 8) Equipment and Accessories
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This newest addition to the Museum's popular Looking At series provides definitions of the technical terms most often encountered by museum-goers and student of post-antique European sculpture. The book enhances the appreciation of the art form by explaining the methods used in creating sculpture and the terms used by scholars to describe it. Featured are clear, concise explanations to questions such as: What is a socle? What are the steps in bronze casting? What is contrapposto? Written for the non-specialist and lavishly illustrated with objects from the Getty Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book is invaluable to anyone who wants to learn more about the art of sculpture.
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This magnificent book is the first full-scale exploration of Impressionist technique. Focusing on the easel-painted work of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Cassatt, Morisot, Caillebotte, Sisley, and Degas in the period before 1900, it places their methods and materials in a historical perspective and evaluates their origins, novelty, and meanings within the visual formation of urban modernity.
Drawing on scientific studies of pigments and materials, artists’ treatises, colormens’ archives, and contemporary and modern accounts, Anthea Callen demonstrates how raw materials and paintings are profoundly interdependent. She analyzes the material constituents of oil painting and the complex processes of “making” entailed in all aspects of artistic production, discussing in particular oil painting methods for landscapists and the impact of plein air light on figure painting, studio practice, and display. Insisting that the meanings of paintings are constituted by and within the cultural matrices that produced them, Callen argues that the real “modernity” of the Impressionist enterprise lies in the painters’ material practices. Bold brushwork, unpolished, sketchy surfaces, and bright, “primitive” colors were combined with their subject matter—the effects of light, the individual sensation made visible—to establish the modern as visual.
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Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics
James D. Herbert
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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One of art history’s most admired artists, Edgar Degas (1834–1917) challenged contemporary conventions with his intriguing working methods. This generously illustrated study is the latest title in the National Gallery’s series Art in the Making. Drawing on both technical studies and documentary evidence, it takes a fascinating look at Degas’s techniques in the context of his life and artistic milieu as well as his place in the Impressionist movement.
The book includes a vivid biographical sketch, an essay on Degas’s working methods and materials, a discussion of his reputation in Britain, and catalogue entries on 14 works owned by or on loan to the National Gallery.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, and Julian Weir, and other well-known artists produced images of quaint villages, agricultural labor, scenic rural churches, and the distinctive New England landscape. Julia B. Rosenbaum asks why and how a range of artists-including Impressionist and Modernist painters and sculptors-and exhibitors fashioned this particular vision of New England in their work.
Against the backdrop of industrialization, immigration, and persistent post-Civil War sectionalism, many Americans yearned for national unity and identity. As Rosenbaum finds, New England emerged as symbolic of cultural and spiritual achievement and democratic values that served as an example for the nation. By addressing the struggles for national unity, the book offers a new interpretation of turn-of-the-century American art. Ultimately, Visions of Belonging demonstrates how the local became so important to the national; how art was crucial to the formation of national identity; and how internal nation building takes place within the realm of culture, as well as politics. And even as later artists, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, challenged New England's cultural hegemony, the appeal of linking regional identity to national ideals continued in distinctive ways.
Beautifully illustrated with color plates and almost sixty halftones, Visions of Belonging explores the interplay between art objects and the shaping of loyalties and identities in a formative phase of American culture. It will appeal not only to art historians but also to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century studies, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American studies, New England history and culture, and American cultural and intellectual history.
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Gaugin: A Savage in the Making: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings (1873-1888)
Daniel Wildenstein
Manufacturer: Skira/The Wildenstein Institute
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ASIN: 8884911370
Release Date: 2002-07-19 |
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A century after the death of Paul Gauguin, our knowledge of his life and work has made huge strides.
The present work covers the youth and early maturity of this pioneering artist and attempts a summation. It also offers a complete catalogue of the paintings, in the process thoroughly updating the original Wildenstein catalogue of 1964. These first two volumes take the reader through to the end of 1888, a year of profound upheavel in French painting. That was the year in which Gauguin and his friends, by a collaborative effort, arrived at Synthetism and, by rejecting representation in depth, freed Western painting of laws that had governed it since the Renaissance.
But Synthetism was also a form of primitivism. The society in which Gauguin lived was--already--a technical and materialist one, which contained the seeds of all that the 20th century became. Gauguin was one of the first to seek, in reaction to this civilization, a form of inspiration deriving from the timeless origins of humanity.
Although these two volumes are the product of rigorous research, they are studded with illustrations and are by no means intended for specialists alone. Commentary on each work offers a step-by-step analysis of Gauguin's artistic development, while reconstructing the artist's experience and the aesthetic and socio-cultural issues of his times.
The lively detail of the chronology describes the events of Gauguin's life, along with those of his friends; thanks to extensive research in unpublished archives, it also casts completely new light on Gauguin's ancestry.
The introduction offers an analysis of the period and an in-depth portrait of this great artist.
This exhaustive work is carefully designed so that each entry and insert can be read in isolation, though a system of cross-referencing ensures the continuity of the work and restores the overall trajectory of Gauguin's development.
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J. M. W. Turner: The Making of a Modern Artist
Sam Smiles
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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ASIN: 0719077087
Release Date: 2007-11-27 |
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J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting. Our celebration of his achievement--signaled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art--is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognize today. On Turner’s death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a whole scale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work.
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