Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae (ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF SUCCULENT PLANTS)

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The Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants represents the first comprehensive taxonomic treatment of succulents in thirty years. It covers over 9000 taxa of all succulents except Cactaceae. This volume on the Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) presents all kinds of succulent plants from geophytic Raphionacme, leaf succulent Hoya to stem succulent Cynanchum and, of course, the popular stapeliads (carrion flowers). A total of 1119 species are included; of the 70 genera treated, 49 are covered in their entirety. The most species-rich assemblages are Ceropegia (lantern flowers) and Brachystelma. For the latter a complete generic treatment is presented for the first time. The handbook is devoted to a family famous for their outstandingly complex and beautiful flowers and is illustrated with 332 superb colour photos. Keys to genera are provided; for all accepted taxa, descriptions including typification and distributional data, full synonymy and literature references are given.

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There's a ton of essential information in this Not For Tourists Guide. Featuring clear, easy-to-read maps and graphics, listings of key services, restaurants, shops, schools, entertainment venues, public transportation, parks, pull out maps and more. NFT Guides put everything residents need to take advantage of the wealth of local services and resources at their fingertips in a convenient size.

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Not for me.......2007-08-03

First, the font on this book is so small it is virtually unreadable without a magnifying glass. Second, there is no day tour info or comparisons or restaurant advice or reviews. Book is primarily a collection of maps and listings.

Great SF info!.......2007-07-29

I lived in SF for ten years and this book was great at reminding me of fun places I used to go to (and wanted to return to) and new places to try. Great assortment of maps. The book is segmented in a very helpful way.

the big four for S.F........2007-03-18

A cool little book if you live around here. I like that they keep it updated. Three hundred and fifty pages, all good stuff to know. Makes a nice companion to my Golden Gate Trailblazer, Lonely Planet San Francisco and Zagat guides that I use all the time.

This saved my life in SF!.......2006-11-09

Hi! I'am a College student that attends San Francisco State University and I have to say this little book has saved me a lot of heartache. For example I was caught downtown last weekend at 12:30 a.m. the regular MUNI(SF bus system) was done for the evening. The OWL(late night bus system) was running but only has a few locations, I decided to consult my little black book and sure enough the OWL system map was there. My little black book has traveled around my dorm floor its know by the residents as the "bible" thanks NFT
ps. Im going to grad school in Chicago so NFT Chicago is on my list
2006 ed.

Good for SF, but not as helpful for the East Bay.......2006-10-03

This would be vastly improved if it included maps of Oakland and/or Berkeley. Space could be made by eliminating some of the less useful "general information" pages at the end.

A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1910s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades)
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A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1910s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades)
Michael V. Uschan
Manufacturer: Lucent Books
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A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1950s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades)

A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades - The 1940s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades)

ASIN: 1560065516

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The gap between the fabulously rich and the desperately poor widens in this decade as manufacturing becomes established, and labor unrest grows. America has no qualms about intervening in the affairs of its Latin American neighbors, but it must overcome.

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Turn-of-the-Century Design: A Warped View
REPRINTS FROM THE HIGHLY PRIZED DECORATIVE ART YEARBOOKS

Decorative Arts 1900s & 1910s (Varia)
Charlotte Fiell , Peter Fiell , and Peter
Manufacturer: Taschen
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Turn-of-the-Century Design: A Warped View.......2001-05-05

The remark that this book "traces this aesthetic revolution..and is a compleling guide through the founding years of Modernism" rings false after even a cursery examination. Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great architectural geniuses of the period, is represented by a chair. Grueby Faience is given a reproduction, but Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck are not mentioned. Several of Otto Wagner's students are repesented, but he does not appear. Gaudi and Horta cannot be found. Josef Hoffmann, the great genius of Secessionism, is poorly represented and two of his most famous chairs are attributed to Kammerer. Tiffany appears to be a minor window designer. Etc. One suspects that the authors saved photos in a shoebox and threw this series together. This is a great idea that is unfortunately very slovenly assembled and ultimately serves to distort and flatten this inventive and extravegent period of architecture and art. Taschen and his authors should be ashamed of this endeavor.

REPRINTS FROM THE HIGHLY PRIZED DECORATIVE ART YEARBOOKS.......2001-01-18

TASCHEN's Decorative Art series spans the 20th century through the 1970s and carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine's Decorative Art yearbooks. Published annually from 1906 until 1980, the yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics, and remained on the cutting edge throughout its nearly eight-decade run. Since going out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have been highly prized by collectors and dealers. Preserving the yearbooks' original page layouts, TASCHEN's Decorative Art books bring you an authentic experience of each decade's design trends and styles. The now complete six-volume set is an essential addition to the comprehensive design library and the devoted collector will want them all.

Decorative Art 1900 ~ 1910s - This volume highlights the aesthetic transition from the Victorian era to the modern age at a time when `modern' was a genuinely new concept. Eschewing designs that displayed excessive ornamentation, this era of Decorative Art yearbooks showcased the work of progressive designers like Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Voysey, Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte.

Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s
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Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
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ASIN: 0824823605

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This volume is a multifaceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature. Being Modern in Japan raises many issues about Japanese modernity and its contested meanings. Writers explore what it means to be modern in Japan from the 1910s to the 1930s, but many subjects discussed are relevant to modernity elsewhere in Asia, Europe, and North America. Certain aesthetic concerns in Japanese art occurred spontaneously, while others reflected the adoption of a common formal modernist language. Being modern in the Taisho and early Showa periods became integral to the society of the time. The practices and spaces of modernity changed in their meaning--or took on multiple meanings--during the 1920s, and by the early 1930s Japan was widely perceived by Japanese themselves as "modern."

Public Faces-Private Lives (Women in South Florida-1870s-1910s)

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Karen Davis
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The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

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The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s
Ellen Gruber Garvey
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195108221

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How did advertising come to seem natural and ordinary to magazine readers by the end of the nineteenth century? The Adman in the Parlor explores readers' interactions with advertising during a period when not only consumption but advertising itself became established as a pleasure. Garvey argues that readers' participation in advertising, rather than top-down dictation by advertisers, made advertizing a central part of American culture. Garvey's analysis interweaves such texts and artifacts as advertising trade journals, magazines addressed to elite, middle class, and poorer readerships, scrapbooks, medical articles, paper dolls, chromolithographed trade cards, and contest rules. She tracks new forms of fictional realism that contained brand name references, courtship stories, and other fictional forms. As magazines became dependant on advertising rather than sales for their revenues, women's magazines led the way in making consumers of readers through the interplay of fiction, editorials, and advertising. General magazines, too, saw little conflict between these different interests. Instead, advertising and fiction came to act on one another in complex, unexpected ways. Magazine stories illustrated the multiple desires and social meanings embodied in the purchase of a product. Garvey takes the bicycle as a case study, and tracks how magazines mediated among competing medical, commercial, and feminist discourses to produce an alluring and unthreatening model of women bicycling in their stories. Advertising formed the national vocabulary. At once invisible, familiar, and intrusive, advertising both shaped fiction of the period and was shaped by it. The Adman in the Parlor unearths the lively conversations among writers and advertisers about the new prevalence of advertising for mass-produced, nationally distributed products.

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Scrapbook - The 1910s (Scrapbook)
Robert Opie
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Decades of the 20th Century: The 1910s (Decades of the 20th Century)

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ASIN: 3829036019

Songs of the 1910's (Songs of the 1910s)

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Songs of the 1910's (Songs of the 1910s)

Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
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ASIN: 0793531799

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57 classics, including: After You've Gone * Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Danny Boy * Let Me Call You Sweetheart * My Melancholy Baby * Oh, You Beautiful Doll * Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) * and more.

America In The 1900s And 1910s (Decades of American History)

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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets From The 1910s

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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets From The 1910s
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Walker C Smith , and William E Trautman
Manufacturer: Charles H Kerr
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'Direct Action & Sabotage' (1912) by William Trautman, 'Sabotage: It's History, Philosophy And Function' (1913) by Walker Smith, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's 'Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal Of The Workers' Industrial Efficiency' (1916), edited, and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno. "The activist authors of the text s in this collection challenged the prevailing stereotype....As they point out, the practice of direct action, and of sabotage, are as old as class society itself, and have been an integral part of the everyday worklife of wage-earners in all times and places. To the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) belongs the distinction of being the first workers' organization in the US to discuss these common practices openly, and to recognize their place in working class struggle. View direct action and sabotage in the spirit of creative nonviolence, Wobblies readily integrated these tactics into their struggle to build industrial unions." [From the Introduction]

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Up-and-coming designer Konstantin Grcic works with everyday objects--everyday objects that just happen to have belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These apparently banal objects--which lost their importance and were forgotten after Goethe's death over 150 years ago--are now reinterpreted by Grcic, the artist who Achille Castiglioni considers his ''spiritual heir.'' Among the objects is a pair of the great writer's boots, one of his belts, several buttons, a glove, and various precious stones. Grcic juxtaposes these objects with his own creations: ashtrays, washbasins, pens, and hangers. Grcic is also responsible for the graphic design of this volume, making it a truly unique document.

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