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Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data (Comstock Book)
Virginia Hayssen , Ari Van Tienhoven , and Ans Van Tienhoven Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801417538 |
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ASDELL'S PATTERNS OF MAMMALIAN REPRODUCTION: A COMPENDIUM OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC DATA
Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GOY19G |
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The Complete Book of Knots and Ropework
Eric C. Fry Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0715318314 |
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The step-by-step photographic guide to knots, plaits, mats and toggles for both practical and decorative uses.Here is the ultimate knot book. Usually the difficulty in learning to tie knots is that the demonstrator is facing you and the procedure is therefore being shown back-to-front. Here the reader can see the bights and tucks of each stage of each knot as if he or she were tying it, making the entire process explicitly clear.
The book demonstrates, stage by stage and in 323 photographs, the tying of ninety-five knots, hitches, plaits, bends, rope and wire splices, sennits and decorative ropework mats, covering all the basics that yachtsmen or other outdoor sports enthusiasts need to be familiar with, and at the same time acknowledging the artistry of the Turk's Head, crown knots and ocean mats. The nature of rope and its lay are explained in the introduction to a book that will enable the tiro to become competent quickly and old hands to explain their expertise, be it during long winter evenings or as a pastime in the cockpit. Here, in fifty-one lessons, is knotting without tears - a happy combination of instruction and entertainment.
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The Complete Book of Knots and Ropework.......2006-03-09
Dangerous Knots!.......2005-04-06
Dangerous.......2000-07-15
Excellent opportunity for novice and experienced knot-makers.......1998-10-08
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The Complete Book of Sailing Knots
Geoffrey Budworth Manufacturer: The Lyons Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1585740675 |
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Knot books donýt get any better or simpler than this........2001-06-16
So, how many knots does one need to know to sail safely? Some say as few as three, but Budworth shows you how to tie over 60 nautical knots, each with step-by-step color instructions. He has an excellent introduction that covers history, tools, terms, material and construction of cord. Each of the diagrams has the knots history, application and a written instruction that 99% of the time is not needed. Budworth breaks down sailing knots into five sections: Stoppers, Loops, Bends, Hitches and Others. Finally, he gives you a glossary, a bibliography of numerous knotting manuals, and tells you how you can join `The International Guild of Knot Tyers". The only thing missing is a section on knot jokes.
Knot books don't get any better or simpler than this. If you are going to buy one book to learn to tie knots this is the one. Highly recommended
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The Complete Book of Knots
Geoffrey Budworth Manufacturer: Bounty Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0753702908 |
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My "Go To" book for knots.......2007-05-20
My Son the Sailor Loved This book.......2007-04-11
Great selection.......2007-03-14
A Good Knot Book.......2005-08-21
A nice introduction to the world of knots..........2001-02-24
At the very beginning the book has a directory of the knots contained, listed by name, page number, application (sailing, caving, climbing, and so on), and description. In the introduction the book covers a number of topics: knotlore; terms, tips, and techniques; ends; and tips on using the book. In the main part of the book, each knot has a small photo of a finished knot, an explanation of the application of the knot, numerous diagrams showing the knot being tied, a description of the tying of the knot, and a brief history of the knot itself.
I really don't understand why some of the other reviewers feel so strongly about this book, as a neophyte to the world of knots, I found it more than adequate, and it served my needs well. And I find my husband returning to it again and again, as he slowly falls under the spell of knots, well on his way to becoming a true knot geek. If you're a beginner looking for a practical guide to knotmaking, this book will suit you well.
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Sailing: The Complete Manual of Maneuvers, Knots and Navigation
Michel Deshors Manufacturer: Book Sales ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0785813918 |
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With over 240 photographs, this comprehensive book explores the exciting world of sailing, from sailboats of the past to present state-of-the-art equipment, as well as detailed accounts of competitions and regattas from around the world, complete with diagrams of maneuvers and illustrated course maps.
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Here Comes The Guide: Northern California: Wedding Locations and Services (Here Comes the Guide Northern California)
Jan Brenner , and Lynn Broadwell Manufacturer: Hopscotch Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1885355130 |
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Should be called "CA Bay Area Bride Guide".......2007-06-27
Good book but run by advertising.......2005-03-27
The Book that Saved My Wedding.......2001-07-28
A must have for all N. CA Brides.......2001-02-27
This book contains accurate descriptions of venues, with information pertianing to the size, cost, and other key factors. It also contains less important but still useful information on catering options at each venue, music limitations, and other factors which can help a bride and groom say yea or nea to a location that is still site unseen.
I called over 20 phone numbers in this book and all were up to date and correct. I also found the pricing information almost dead on. The black and white pictures also gave an accurate impression of the venues.
This book was essential to my planning of a wine country wedding and I highly recommend it to anyone that is arranging a wedding in the bay area.
A wonderful book if you live north of San Jose.......1999-09-21
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Private estates, historic gardens, yachts, museums, and more are detailed in this "location bible".Customer Reviews:
Here Comes the Guide: Southern California: Wedding Locations and Services (Here Comes the Bride Series).......2007-01-04
The Guide screens its recommended vendors.......2000-12-10
As The Guide states on Page 483, their process "involves interviewing 15-20 other event professionals. We call every single reference and ask about the professionalism, technical competency and service orientation of the advertiser in question. ... Those candidates who received consistent, rave reviews made it into The Guide."
Using The Guide as a starting point (combined with the internet, magazine ads, and friends' recommendations), I conducted exhaustive research of my own of wedding professionals in Los Angeles and beyond. I wound up hiring three vendors who had been featured in the Guide (caterer, band and florist, 11-11-00 wedding). All performed beyond my greatest expectations, and my guests cannot stop raving about the "fabulous," "amazing," and "out of this world" food, music, and flowers. Clearly, The Guide got it right.
So don't be fooled by the relative size of the vendor section compared to pages allotted to reception sites. The vendor section may be small because they are the cream of the crop, thanks to the Guide's legwork.
A Bride's Best Friend!.......2000-02-19
Then I started actually going out, visiting places, and realizing that it wasn't so easy to find the perfect place! I quickly realized I was going to have to work a lot harder than I thought to mesh the right church location, my number of people, and a convenient indoor reception site. So I came back to the Guide--time and again! Soon I had it dogeared and filled with notes as I reconsidered the options I'd been so quick to skip past earlier. The statistics on each site helped keep me focused and helped me and my fiance consider new places when others fell through, and keep the attributes of each place in mind. The descriptions of the reception sites are detailed, positive and generous-but-not-misleading. We ultimately booked a site listed in the Guide and are thrilled to have found it.
Now that I've moved on to choosing a photographer, I went to the Guide again. First I read through each photographer's profile in the book, then went on the Guide's website! It's so easy to use - - it allows you to jump to photographers' websites and see their portfolios, all without making appointments or driving around! I feel satisifed that I don't need to look beyond the professionals listed in the Guide, since the authors have already done the legwork in finding people with high standards and good customer service.
If you really want to explore all possible options for your ceremony, reception, and event professionals, you will love Here Comes The Guide! The hardcopy book and the website are thorough, pleasant to read, and - - most importantly - - really helpful. My mom keeps saying, "I had no idea it was this complicated to plan a wedding in this day and age!" Here Comes the Guide goes a long way towards relieving the complication!
A real lifesaver!!.......1999-04-19
Excellent! A SoCal bride's first absolute necessity!.......1998-08-04
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Embodied Image
Robert E. Harrist Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0810963779 |
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Could the prominent appearance of large, boldly brushed Chinese characters on the cover of House & Garden magazine (May 1999) signal that Americans are ready to appreciate the ancient but often modern-looking art of calligraphy? The Embodied Image offers both stellar examples of Chinese calligraphy and tools with which to view it. And it successfully bridges the gap between the non-Chinese reader's concern over incomprehension, the modernist's appreciation of calligraphy as linear abstraction, and the traditional connoisseur's approach.Edited by art historians Robert Harrist and Wen C. Fong and with contributions from 11 other scholars, the volume documents the calligraphy collection of Princeton University's Art Museum, which Fong calls "the only collection outside China and Japan that properly represents the sixteen-hundred-year history of this highly prized ... art form." Filled with marvels ranging from one of the earliest known fragments of the classic text Tao Te Ching to letters and scrolls by artists who are the Rembrandts and Picassos of the medium, The Embodied Image presents Chinese calligraphy in terms of brushwork, as text, as the expression of the writer's personal cultivation, and as the underpinning of later (if not all) Chinese painting.
There's plenty of ink play for the eye to dance over: fluid, angular, stiff, or scratchy. The accompanying texts--two introductory essays on calligraphic history and theory and eight specialized ones, with various levels of detail--allow readers to choose their own depth. But the visual "text" alone is illuminating and provides pleasure. The 55 featured works, dating from 270 to the 1870s, are divided into seven groups, with short historical introductions preceding the works (reproduced in color and nuanced duotone). Four hundred more illustrations, including character comparisons, are enormously helpful, as is the labeling of the parts of a 12-foot scroll assembled over several centuries around a traced copy of a two-line fragment of a letter by the most influential calligrapher of all, Wang Hsi-chih.
The book was published for an exhibition at Princeton University in 1999, touring New York and Seattle through 2001, but The Embodied Image will long contribute to the understanding of an art that is itself more than two millennia old. --Joseph Newland
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Private collection catalogue.......2003-05-15
Great Book.......2002-12-15
A Different Way of Thinking About the Written Word.......2001-05-30
When we Westerners read, we read for content, for meaning only. We do not read and at the same time notice how the characters look. Since Gutenberg and the advent of movable type, and especially now, with digital type, each of our characters must always look the same. When they don't, it is considered an imperfection. In Chinese calligraphy, however, considerable attention is given to how the characters look. It is through their appearance that we can discern the whether the creator was hurried, what angle he wrote at, and what mood he might have been in.
The visual effect of a poem written by a great Chinese calligrapher a thousand years ago, vs. reading the same poem in a standardized font, is quite stark. We have a lot to learn from the Chinese, especially given their likely ascension of global power in the coming years. This book provides an indispensable, detailed, well illustrated reference for an important aspect of how Chinese culture differs so dramatically from our own.
Highly recommended.
more please.......2000-03-16
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The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Coll.
Robert E. & FONG,Wen C. HARRIST Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MXJS2Q |
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Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body (European Journal of Women's Studies Readers series)
Kathy Davis Manufacturer: Sage Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0761953639 |
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This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. Whether the body is treated as biological bedrock or subversive metaphor, it is implicated in the cultural and historical construction of sexual difference as well as asymmetrical power relations. The contributors to this volume examine the role of the body as socially shaped and historically colonized territory and as the focus of individual womenÆs struggles for autonomy and self-determination. They also analyze its centrality to the feminist critique of male-stream science as dualistic, distanced, and decontextualized. While the body has become a "hot item" in contemporary social theory and research, the renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. The body may be back, but the "new" body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition that evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in Western culture. Drawing on insights from contemporary feminist theories of gender and power, this book offers a timely critical appraisal of the recent "body revival." Embodied Practices not only sets an agenda for research about the body, but for an embodied perspective on the body as well. It will be a valuable and thought-provoking resource for students of womenÆs studies, social theory, cultural studies, and medical sociology.
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The Redeemed Image of God: Embodied Relations to the Unknown Divine
Susan Windley-Daoust Manufacturer: University Press of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0761824391 |
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Embodied practice: Claiming the body's experience, agency, and knowledge for social work.: An article from: Social Work
Kathleen M. Tangenberg , and Susan Kemp Manufacturer: National Association of Social Workers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008EPXW8 Release Date: 2005-07-29 |
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This digital document is an article from Social Work, published by National Association of Social Workers on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 6623 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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