Flowers & Plants of Western Australia

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A revised edition of the sell-out second edition, which includes over forty new species in a full-colour supplement. The complete text has been updated and many new plates added. Orchids of South-West Australia is a definitive work which describes almost 450 orchids and provides an accurate and easy means of identifying the native orchids of the region. Colour photographs, location maps and a description of each orchid - giving distinctive features, distribution, habitat, flowering period and common name - have made this an invaluable and popular guide.

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Who could have dreamed, when Peter Minuit traded a few trinkets for Manhattan back in 1626, that this little island on the outer reaches of civilization would one day be the world's center of shipping, finance, theater, culture, architecture, and diplomacy? Through the tireless work and unbounded optimism of a few wealthy dreamers and a few million immigrant workers, this rocky, swampy islet at the mouth of the Hudson River was transformed into today's axis of world capitalism—a dazzling metropolis of soaring skyscrapers and great city parks, magnificent museums and professional sports teams, epicurean restaurants and intricate subway systems.
Eminent photographer Carol M. Highsmith has captured the essence of Manhattan in a stunning new collection of over one hundred city portraits, ranging from breathtaking panoramas of the celebrated skyline to close-ups of architectural details. Her camera sweeps across the city, pausing at the magnificent stainless-steel Art Deco Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, eclectic neighborhoods including Chinatown and Little Italy, the bohemian Greenwich Village, and trendy Soho. She also stops at some of New York's most revered cultural institutions like Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Manhattan: A Photographic Tour captures the heart of New York City in all its cocky vigor, beauty, and trendsetting sophistication. It is the perfect souvenir of a memorable visit, and the ideal gift for anyone who savors unforgettable architecture, unsurpassed culture, and fascinating diversity.

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THE IMAGES OF MANHATTAN.......2000-04-16

This book contains great artistic pictures from the greatest city of the world. I used this book in my first trip to NY and it gives a good image of the city main touristic places. Pictures are, as I said, very good, but some do not have good quality. Pictures are sometimes too artistic. However, it is the perfect book for tourist and people who admire great buildings and big cities. Do not consider this book a complete tour guide, because it's not. If you're a tourist, this book helps you decide what places to visit, but it does not contain a classified list of restaurants, etc. If you buy this book, you'll be happy to see beautiful images of the places you've seen on TV. I hope you enjoy this book.

Souvenir and Easy Guide to New York A Complete Information and Pictorial Guide to All of New York's Important Places

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Souvenir and Easy Guide to New York A Complete Information and Pictorial Guide to All of New York's Important Places
Manhattan Post Cards
Manufacturer: Manhattan Post Card Publishing
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ASIN: B000MIHNB4

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A black and white pictorial of places to go, times of operation and description and location of each place of interest.

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This volume contains the text of eight poems by the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, together with an introduction and extensive commentary. This is the first full-scale commentary on the work of Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and is the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry. It offers new readings of all the poems, which show both how Theocritus differs from subsequent pastoral poetry, and how his poems, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition.

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Disappointing, but of course essential for the Theocritean.........2000-06-07

No serious scholar of Hellenistic poetry will ignore Hunter's solid commentary..but as usual the academic presses tell a mistruth in claiming this new volume is the "first full-scale" whatever on the author under consideration since whenever..Dover's 1971 London commentary is just as solid as this one, and the saddest thing about Hunter's book is how he covers much of the same ground as Dover idyll-wise..better, it would seem, to have covered a different selection and allowed students to have both reasonably priced volumes on Theocritus than to repeat coverage of the same poems (a valuable thing for the seasoned Hellenist but less valuable for the beginner-if any young Hellenists are reading Theocritus anyway). Of course both books can be safely ignored if one is lucky enough to find the monumental 1952 Gow commentary..sadly, and scandalously, allowed to remain out-of-print. Those two volumes contain every poem with full commentary and translation. Without Gow, the best one can do book-wise is amass the Oxford Text (also by Gow) to at least have all of the poems and get this commentary and Dover's. The Loeb by Edmonds is way out of date text- and translation-wise. These poems are far too difficult for the unseasoned Hellenist to read without commentary, so every little aid helps.

Giovanni della Casa's Poem Book: Ioannis Casae Carminum Liber, Florence 1564 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 194)

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Giovanni della Casa's Poem Book: Ioannis Casae Carminum Liber, Florence 1564 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 194)
Giovanni Della Casa
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The bucolic poems of the ancient poet Theocritus
Greek Poems for Greekless Readers

The Idylls (Penguin Classics)
Theocritus
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ASIN: 0140445234

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'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC) was the inventor of 'bucolic' poetry. These vignettes of country life, centred on competitions in song and love, are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition. They were the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and their influence can be seen in the work of Petrarch and Milton. Although it is the pastoral poems for which he is chiefly famous, Theocritus also wrote hymns to the gods, brilliant mime depictions of everyday life, short narrative epics, epigrams, and encomia of the powerful. The great variety of his poems illustrates the rich and flourishing poetic culture of what was a golden age for Greek poetry.

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The bucolic poems of the ancient poet Theocritus.......2003-11-10

Theocritus was a bucolic poet and native of Syracuse who has often been credited, by both ancient and modern critics, as being the inventor of the genre of pastoral poetry. However, there are also those who argue that while there are poets attributed to Theocritus the bucolic poems in question are from another ancient edition of dubious authorship. Today, Theocritus is primarily of interest to those looking for the historic antecedents of homoerotic poetry; the poet wrote the 14th, 15th, and 17th Idylls in honor of his patron, Ptolemy Soter. There is also a poem to a beautiful youth that is considered from that perspective. My interest in his "Idylls" stemmed from Theocritus being one of only two other classical writers to talk about the murder of Pentheus depicted in Euripides's tragedy "The Bacchae," the other being Ovid in the "Metamorphoses." This particular poem is neither pastoral nor part of the bucolic tradition, so it may well have been written by the actual Theocritus.

For those interested in pastoral poems about shepherds and their ilk, the most famous Bucolics are: I, where Thyrsis sings to a goatherd the story of Daphis, the herdsman who died rather than yield to the power of Aphrodite; VII, "The Harvest Feast," which features a gathering of poets on the island of Cos; and a set of Idylls, VI and XI, which has Polyphemus, the cyclops from the "Odyssey," in love with the sea-nymph Galatea. There is also a marriage song for Helen that will be of passing interest to teachers and students of mythology. The rest of the poems are of lesser interest both from the perspective of mythology and, I would think, of those who study ancient poetry, although several are interesting in that they were apparently commissioned by rather ordinary folk for loved ones. Such poems are of a dramatic or mimetic nature, offering poetic pictures of the ordinary life of the common folk of Sicily in the 3rd century B.C. Consequently, although a minor classical poet all things considered, there are several elements worthy of note in his work.

Greek Poems for Greekless Readers.......1997-08-06

With Homer, you can still appreciate the Iliad and the Odyssey in English -- indeed, the recent translations of Robert Fagles capture the movement and energy of Homeric verse quite well. With Theocritus, however, a translation is a wretched substitute for the Greek, since the exquisitely refined beauty and charm of his poems simply cannot be reproduced in English. What makes Theocritus such an enjoyable experience in Greek is the Doric dialectic in which he writes, his manipulation of the hexameter verse (the same 6 beat verse used by Homer), the echoes of Homer and other authors, and similar curiosities.

Theocritus wrote in the 3d century BC, during the so-called Hellenistic period which arose after the demise of the classical Greek city-state. This era was, in many respects, the first "modern" world. Theocritus was a Sicilian who wrote around 270 BC. He was highly original -- he invented pastoral or "bucolic" poetry, a genre which had a very long and distinguished run in subsequent Latin and European literature. Appearing in the works of this poet for the first time are the cowherds, goatherds, and shepherds playing the pan pipes under the shade of spreading trees, bantering with each other as they sing their rustic songs. If you wish to appreciate Vergil's Eclogues, Spenser's Shepheard's Calendar, or Milton's Lycidas, to name a few of the more well known examples of the form in later literature, you must at least have a taste of the master who invented this important genre.

In this Penguin paperback edition, Robert Wells offers up straightforward, readable translations of the 22 "Idylls" (meaning "short sketches") which are commonly attributed by scholars to Theocritus. Accompanying the translations is an excellent 52 page Introduction which provides the general reader with important background information about the poet, his art, his era, and his compositional techniques.

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Though there were distinct classes of people during the Middle Ages-nobility, clergy, peasants, and the various levels between the three-daily life activities and cultural rituals often unified the populace. All people participated in pilgrimages, warfare, markets and fairs; none among them escaped the Plague.

Medieval Town And Country Life (History Topics)

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Medieval Town And Country Life (History Topics)
Emma Johnson
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Shaping Urban Identity in Late Medieval Europe: English & French Languages (Studies in Urban Social, Economic & Political History of the Medieval & Early Modern Low Countries)

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Shaping Urban Identity in Late Medieval Europe: English & French Languages (Studies in Urban Social, Economic & Political History of the Medieval & Early Modern Low Countries)

Manufacturer: Garant Uitgevers N V
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La diplomatique urbaine en Europe au Moyen Age: Actes du congres de la Commission internationale de diplomatique, Gand, 25-29 aout 1998 (Studies in urban ... of the medieval and modern Low Countries)

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La diplomatique urbaine en Europe au Moyen Age: Actes du congres de la Commission internationale de diplomatique, Gand, 25-29 aout 1998 (Studies in urban ... of the medieval and modern Low Countries)

Manufacturer: Garant
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Excellent Book on Frank Reaugh .......2004-12-19

This is an excellent book on the artist Charles Franklin Reaugh. However, having seen some of the original works contained in this book during an exhibit at the Bush Library in College Station, TX; the quality of the pictures are not up to par and don't due the artist justice. Should Texas A&M reprint this book I would recommend something be done to improve the quality of the photos.

Excellent book on Frank Reaugh.......1997-08-30

This is one of the few books on relatively-unknown artist Frank Reaugh. Mr Reaugh used watercolors and charcoal to illustrate the beauty of the Texas plain. Landscapes -- especially at sunset -- and , yes, cattle, were his favorite subjects. The book begins with 29 pages of text describing the life and art of Frank Reaugh. Then follows 61 full color plates of his watercolor work. An obscure book on an obscure painter, but very much worth seeing if you like Frank Reaugh or scenes from the Texas panhandle. P.S. "Reaugh" is pronounced "Ray"!

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F. Reaugh;: Texas longhorn painter,
Alice Bab Stroud
Manufacturer: Royal Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007EGH10

Frank Reaugh,: Painter of longhorn cattle (Southwestern Historical Quarterly)

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Frank Reaugh,: Painter of longhorn cattle (Southwestern Historical Quarterly)
Roy C Ledbetter
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ASIN: B0007JLSHS

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