2000 Census of Population and Housing, Nebraska, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics

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Official government publication published by the U.S. Department of Census provides official summary for social, economic and housing characteristics for Nebraska. Includes statistical tables, maps and appendixes.

2000 Census of Population and Housing, Nebraska, Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics

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2000 Census of Population and Housing, Nebraska, Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics

Manufacturer: Bureau of Census
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A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spain's cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune.

Desperate to find their own sources of the elusive dye, the English, French, Dutch, and other Europeans tried to crack the enigma of cochineal. Did it come from a worm, a berry, a seed? Could it be stolen from Mexico and transplanted to their own colonies? Pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies -- all joined the chase for cochineal, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. A Perfect Red tells their stories -- true-life tales of mystery, empire, and adventure, in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.

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more than I ever expected.......2007-09-26

This was one of two books a friend traveled across the country to share with me. I am so glad she did. I would never have picked up this book on my own. I have a terrible time finding non-fiction works that are interesting - unless they are recommended. I look at the table of books and decide something looks good. Then when I get it home, I have a hard time getting to my 100 page allowed stopping point.

Greenfield does a wonderful job of describing the importance of the color red throughout history and the different compounds used to create it. With a focus on the cochineal originating in Mexico, this book covers the fortunes of Spain and the industry itself. Weaving the domestication of cochineal with the efforts of other countries to destroy Spain's monopoly, the book moves quickly. there were very few sections of the book where I was willing to put it down. Yes, I could stop at the chapters, but I only once put it down while in the middle of a chapter.

I highly recommend this book - and if I didn't have to send it back to its owner, I would keep it in the library. I will be recommending it to my mother for her book club. With their focus on women authors and a mix of fiction and non-fiction, this book will give them much to discuss.

Red trail through history.......2007-06-03

Some of the best stories are the histories of everyday objects that few ever consider. This book is an example of such a story. It traces the history of the color red; specifically, it examines the sources of red dye sought by humans over the past 700 years. Something as simple as a color can actually be quite difficult to obtain without the marvels of modern technology. This book starts of at the Venetian textile guilds of the late Middle Ages and shows the reader the state of the world's textile industry. Of all the colors, bright red is hardest to produce on clothing, and individuals and governments devote a lot of time and effort to procure new sources. Many are found, but the best one is carminic acid found in the insect cochineal, native to the Americas, and cultivated in Mexico specifically to obtain the color red. Starting with the Spanish conquest, red dye from Mexico is exported to the rest of the world, and four centuries of trade wars and political intrigue follow. The book lays all this out in chronological order, citing places, people, governments and institutions. But eventually, man's technology caught up with nature's bounty, and by 1900, synthetic red dyes destroy the cochineal cultivation industry. All the ensuing technical advances, scientific discoveries, and commercial contests are detailed clearly by the author. The book ends with a survey of the dye industry at the end of the 20th century, and a review of how red dye has influenced, and been influenced by fashion tastes throughout the centuries. This book touches many countries, and ties in history, economics, fashion, politics and science into a wonderful tale of man's obsession for a specific color.

Terrific study of the history of cochineal trafficking.......2006-09-16

This book is one of the very best I have seen in a long time. The author has taken great care to present historically correct and detailed information about the long history of cochineal farming, and sale of this commodity (dried beetles that can be processed to create a brilliant hue of red).
She reveals all of the intrigue of Spain's royalty, as they sought to keep this much prized product of New Spain exclusively for the Spanish empire. Even Perkin's discovery of the color "mauve" is discussed. This book will find broad interest among scholars and the general public. It is certainly a book worth owning, if you love the history of textiles.

Patricia Cummings

Colorful History.......2006-08-11

A Perfect Red is history at its best: examine something seemingly insignificant, let it take you down its byways and tangents to myriad interconnections, and soon you have a world history in miniature.

A Perfect Red is primarily concerned with the age old desire for bright colors, especially red. In the 16th century Europeans discovered a new source from the Americas which would provide a beautiful shade of dark crimson: cochineal. Over the next several centuries cochineal became one of the most prized imports from the New World until chemical dyes became commonplace in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Amy Butler Greenfield writes well, not just about cochineal and its uses, but about the economics and politics behind the search for the perfect red. She also does a good job examining the cultural changes which made red highly desireable, then a color to be avoided as a symbol of sin and decadence. Furthermore, she is a skilled depictor of personalities and draws shrewd portraits of the many fascinating characters involved in the story of cochineal. Highly recommended.

Facts are usually stranger than fiction..........2006-06-22

Facts are usually stranger than fiction, and this book supplies one more proof. The sheer ineptitude of some of the government ministers, the luck of some of the explorers, and the same mistakes being repeated over and over again, would be unbelievable if written as fiction, but this is history.
This book primarily covers the exploration, and exploitation of Cochineal (a small bug from South America that produces one of the best of all natural red dyes). There is mention of the earlier trade in Kermes (a similar red dye producing insect from the mediterranean) and other red dyes such as Madder, but it is primarily covering the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire and its monopoly on Cochineal. The book also covers uses of Cochineal in the post chemical dye age.
A note to members of the SCA and other re-enactors, this book, while worth buying, and very interesting, does more heavily emphasize the time period *after* Queen Elizabeth the first.

Colors from Nature: Growing, Collecting and Using Natural Dyes

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Colors from Nature: Growing, Collecting and Using Natural Dyes
Bobbi A. McRae
Manufacturer: Storey Books
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ASIN: 0882668064

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Educating!

Color and Fiber
Patricia Lambert , Barbara Staepelaere , and Mary G. Fry
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0887400655

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Fiber artists will welcome this opportunity to learn how to use and control color with this monumental and exquisitely beautiful book. Whether they stitch, quilt, weave, work in macrame, hook rugs, knit, crochet, or experiment in mixed media, the artists will benefit from the authors' techniques for solving color problems. Color and Fiber is divided into three sections. The first section presents essential terminology, ideas, and definitions about light and color as preparation for the problems, projects and ideas which follow. The second section describes how light, dye and pigment work with fibers because individual fibers, yarns and fabrics differ in their responses to light and color. The ability to solve color problems depends on the artists' understanding of the fiber's light and color relationships. The third section presents the practical applications for the information gained in the first two sections. Besides color mixing and special effects such as iridescence and opalescence, this section examines projects that artists or classes can do to understand color's part in determining spatial effects, emotional impact and color systems.

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Educating!.......2005-03-06

Having read this book, I know quite a lot more about color, light, their causes and traits, and their physical and psychological effects on people. I'm not really into fiber and weaving, but as a painter, I found the information about color to be highly enlightening!

Vegetable Dyeing: 151 Color Recipes for Dyeing Yarns and Fabrics With Natural Materials

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Vegetable Dyeing: 151 Color Recipes for Dyeing Yarns and Fabrics With Natural Materials
Alma Lesch
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0823056007

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A must-have!

Color on Paper and Fabric
Ruth Issett
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893164020

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A must-have!.......2000-05-06

Great combination of inspiration and information. Luscious pictures, tons of ideas, and very clear instructions. What makes this book so useful is that she really focuses on what the title says -- putting color on paper and/or fabric -- so it's extremely versatile. If you make quilts, wearable art, collage, mail art, stamped art, fabric to use in home decoration, greeting cards, anything, you'll find something in here to get your juices flowing.

(A quick British-English translation: Markal paint sticks are the same thing as Shiva paint sticks. Windsor and Newton and Sennelier also make oil paint sticks.)

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If you love textile art you will like this....

Most complete guide on coloring & decorating fabric

Excellent.

TRANSFORMED ME!!

Fabric artists aren't the only ones who will be inspired.

Transforming Fabric: Color on Fabric and Life
Carolyn A. Dahl
Manufacturer: Amer Quilters Society
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Binding: Hardcover

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Natural Impressions: Taking an Artistic Path Through Nature

Transforming Fabric: Thirty Creative Ways to Paint, Dye and Pattern Cloth

Journey of an Art Quilter: Creative Strategies and Techniques

ASIN: 1574327003

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If you love textile art you will like this...........2003-01-09

As someone who designs her won clothes and loves making a variety of textile art I love this book as well as Textile Dyeing: The Step-By-Step Guide. Simply because each book shows that one need not rely on plain fabric, but with some simple know how you can transform the simplest piece of cloth into a work of art. I especially like taking rubber stamps and with a simple clothes iron, and some velvet, making beautiful material rich with images of nature.

Most complete guide on coloring & decorating fabric.......2001-02-10

This is the most complete guide I have found on coloring & decorating all types of fabric. It is in full-color & packed with many detailed examples. The book starts out with a general history & information on fabrics.

Step-by-step instructions then take you though a wide variety of techniques, including painting, dyeing, printing and stamping. Choice of fabric, preparation and colorant recipes precede the various techniques.

There are lots of fresh ideas that I have not seen in other books like coloring a black & white pattern and etching fabric. Many others include compression dyeing, heat transfer, wax patterning, silk painting & nature printing.

I found the work in this book to be very creative and a great source of ideas and inspiration. I especially enjoyed those that use patterns from nature. The extensive resource list is a great bonus.

Excellent........1999-11-24

Carolyn Dahl's "Transforming Fabric" is a clearly superior reference volume, and one which reflects the author's dedication to artistry in every aspect of its pages. Most fundamentally, "Transforming Fabric" is itself a work of art, which even a fabric-neophyte will enjoy browsing through to gaze at the richly colorful photographs and illustrations. For anyone interested in the fabric arts, this book is a must-buy!

TRANSFORMED ME!!.......1999-09-06

After reading many books on silk painting, I came upon 'Tranforming Fabric' and knew immediately this was the book I had been searching for. In fact, I had to call the author and express my appreciation for her writing style and the techniques she offers to transform fabrics. Looking at fabric took on a new meaning for me - I was eager to start the process of transforming fabric. The results have been more pleasing than I had expected. I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys working with fabric - sewers, quilters etc. The author's experiences add to the pleasure of taking a piece of fabric and adding your personal touch without being an artist. To the author - thanks and I'm waiting for # 2! To the publisher - thank you - find more authors like Carolyn.

Fabric artists aren't the only ones who will be inspired........1999-08-17

I will never look at a piece of fabric in the same way after reading Carolyn Dahl's beautifully written and generously illustrated book on fabric design. The subtitle, 'Color on Fabric and Life' hints that there is much more here than the how-to of dyeing, painting and patterning fabrics. Fabric artists aren't the only ones who will be entertained and inspired as Dahl awakens memories of childhood coloring books, leaf prints, iron-on designs and the tie-dyed T-shirts most of us experienced at sometime in our lives. Connoisseurs of the decorative arts and those who are merely curious about the fabrics they wear and use in everyday life will find much to interest them. Early textile dyers, Dahl tells us, signed oaths that they would not reveal any of the process. Fortunately, Dahl openly shares the secrets she has gleaned in arts schools from New York to Florence, Italy, and in her own studios from Berkeley to Houston. She hands out easy to follow directions on techniques that range from simple sponge printing to the very exacting wax resist process of batiking. For the serious fabric artist, her book is the next best thing to having a master artist and craftsman with them in the studio as she chats and reminisces while sharing the things she has learned in easy to follow, step-by-step instructions. For example, in a chapter on Compression Dyeing, Dahl compares the pulling and tugging of the fabric to the way "great handfuls of hair disappeared into skinny little whips" when her mother braided her hair. Such fresh imagery and lyrical expression set a new standard for "how-to" books. "Wherever you go...you are part of someone's visual landscaping...Why not make it beautiful," Dahl quotes from one of her lectures. With her book in hand, it is hard to resist such a challenge.

Chemical Processing of Synthetic Fibers and Blends

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Chemical Processing of Synthetic Fibers and Blends
Keshav Dayte
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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Binding: Hardcover

Color Atlas of Clinical Application of Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy

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Color Atlas of Clinical Application of Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy
Satoshi Kitamura
Manufacturer: Year Book Medical Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0815151411

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The Color Book of Fiber Cooking
Carole Handslip
Manufacturer: Octopus Books Limited
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0706410122

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The Color Book of Fiber cooking
Carole Handslip
Manufacturer: Mandarin Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KL6DDC

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Over 100 nutritious, well-balanced dishes using all kinds of natural foods like nuts, protein-rich beans and whole meal flour. Recipes range from Lentil Salad and Brazil Nute Bake to Muesli and Mushroom bread.

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Combining an exceptional love story with a gripping tale of incarceration in Stalin's gulag and later in Mao Tse-tung's concentration camps, Patrick Lescot's Before Mao is a deeply moving, beautifully told saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head of the Communist Party and a key member of the Russian and Chinese revolutions.

Told in an engaging, highly dramatic style that reads more like a novel than a standard history, Lescot skillfully unfolds this page-turning biography. Li, who led the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920s, was a rare survivor among the Chinese members of the International. He was eventually allowed to return to China after having been elected, in absentia, to Mao's government.

When Mao and Khrushchev fell out of power after 1959, the Chinese Communist Party demanded that Li divorce his wife, Lisa. When the couple refused to do so, Lisa was only allowed to stay by becoming a Chinese citizen. Soon after, both would be victims of the Cultural Revolution. Lisa was taken from her husband shortly before he was again arrested, imprisoned, and tortured -- this time fatally. She spent eight years in solitary confinement.

Moving from China to France to the Soviet Union and finally back to China, Before Mao is an extraordinary chronicle of the indomitable human spirit, "allowing us to share in some true moments of emotion, where love wins over totalitarianism's destruction of individuality" (Le Monde).

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Not so great.......2006-09-10

I thank the author, a Frenchman for taking pains to assemble a story about the life of an early Chinese communist leader largely forgotten by us Chinese. But the novelization and the author's penchant for melodramatics made it such a drag that I had to force myself again and again to pick it up and finish it. At times it seems that the author can't tell rumors from facts. For example, where the hell did he get the idea that Mao occasionally slept with young men? Care to disclose the source?

Chinese history in the last couple centuries has been dramatic enough that neither literary flourish is needed nor will it help in telling its variegated stories.

A Must read.......2004-03-18

Renewed interest in Pre-communist china ahs brought this wonderful book to us along with other reads on Chang-Kai Shek among others. This is a needed contribution to the scholarship. Li Lisan was co-founder of the Communist party and went on to study in France and then settle in Russia. Although this book focuses on his love affair with Elizabeth Kushkin, it also tells a weaving fascinating story of the links between international communism and cracks within it. Excellent portraits are given of the mercurial Stalin, who jailed Lisan along with many international communists who didn't toe the party line. In the end Lisan returned to China, saw the civil war to communist victory and then was finally killed in 1967 in the cultural revolution, just prior to the large scale military skirmishes on the China-Russia border that showed the final split between Moscow and Beijing.

A wonderful book. A must read for any Chinese or communist enthusiast. This book brings back to life the heady days of warlords, Sun Yet Sun and the birth of communism in China during the chaos of the early 20th century.

Seth J. Frantzman

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This book is a creative adaptation of columns written for the "Drumright Gusher", the paper in Drumright, Oklahoma.

Set in the fictitious Boomtown Restaurant, each chapter features a group of men who reminisce about "the good old days." The struggles and the laughter of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression are told with wit and warmth.

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Tiger Creek Tales.......2004-06-03

"Fearful that this gem of a book may slip through the cracks, may I enthusiastically recommend, Tiger Creek Tales, Memories of an Oil Patch Kid by Billy Gene Carriker. The 297 page hardback consists of both a factual and hilarious account of an oil boom town during the Great Depression of the 1930s, i.e., Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma, now an historic site. It is a prototype of those towns that sprung literally overnight with the discovery of oil. Hordes of people from other states and from foreign countries converged overnight and built Drumright on two impossibly steep hills. Merchants from Lebanon, Syria and Assyria were prominent; mixed with them were engineers, bankers, lawyers and displaced dirt farmers. Carriker cleverly mixes individual accounts with unifying narration from a dozen old-timers who meet in the Boom Town Cafe for coffee. The book is a remarkable re-creation of the town and the times; it is also highly entertaining. Carriker is right on the mark in his account of that time and place. I know, I was there."

Vivian Kelly Travis, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Associate Prof. Psychology Emeritus

Tiger Creek Tales.......2004-05-27

After reading the story of an 'oil patch kid' I was moved by the warmth and humor extended by the author, not to mention the knowledged of an earlier, easier time in life. Born and raised in Oklahoma, but too young to have grown-up during that time, I found the book entertaining as well as nostalgic. The sketches drawn through out the book helped me visualize the scenes that the author so eloquently described. All in all the book, the sketches, and the topic were well worth the time invested in reading from cover to cover the story of the 'oil patch kid'.

Thoughts About The BoomTown Cafe Coffee Bunch.......2004-05-26

What a fun book to read! As an adult born at the end of WWII in the central part of the country, I had grown up hearing tales about the 30s and 40s, but the stories in this book really expand on them. Expressions I had heard and words I never really knew the meaning of are sprinkled through the stories. It's actually a mini-history lesson presented in an enjoyable way. The format, the coffee bunch are so real. Growing up in a cafe, I know there is always a bunch of regulars and do they like to talk! I can see this book being a conversation starter for adults and an eye-opening experience for the younger crowd.
My dad talked about playing shinny, never knew what he was talking about. Blowing the plug out of a pressure cooker, feeding spiders and eating box suppers are experiences you never forget! Fill your coffee cup, settle in your comfortable chair and be prepared for sharing when someone catches you chuckling out loud....

oil patch stories of real people in Drumright, OK.......2004-05-26

This is a delightful book of wonderful stories about real people of all ages living and working in the oil patch of Oklahoma. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, a flavor of rural atmosphere is injected into the stories that recall life in a simpler time.
As history reports, born in an unpainted and roughly-furnished shotgun house, located in an actively producing oil field, Billy Gene grew up on the banks of Tiger Creek near the city of Drumright in the new state of Oklahoma - the time was only a few years after Indian Territory was named the state of Oklahoma in 1907. And that oil bubbling up was the reason that Drumright was founded, becoming a boom town before Oklahoma became a state, years later being known as the "Pipeline Capital of the World". Many colorful characters were part of that history.
In a period of 14 years of growing up in Drumright, the author met many different people. His family moved 9 times, which meant he and his siblings changed schools often. In each instance, a new circle of friends was established to go with the old friends. During his elementary schooling, the author attended 5 different schools in the immediate area of Drumright, graduating from the 8th grade as valedictorian of his class.
Those formative years took place during the Great Depression in the Dust Bowl era, which meant the specter of poverty always hovered near. Despite the economic hardships--or perhaps because of them--the large family, attending different schools and living in the rural atmosphere provided an enriching environment for these indelible memories the author shares so beautifully.
You will be entertained by reading this author's work.

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