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Key Indicators is an annual statistical publication of the Asian Development Bank, presenting the most current statistical data and socio-economic indicators from the Bank's developing member countries.
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Chip carving—a style of woodcarving in which knives are used to remove selected "chips" of wood from the project in a single piece—is introduced in this guide. Noted chip carver and teacher Dennis Moor presents the tools and techniques needed to replicate this ancient woodcarving art with detailed guidance on wood, tools, and sharpening, and tips on how to hold chip carving knives. Instructions on the three main types of chip carving, layout and design, and on getting the pattern onto the wood, lettering, and finishing are included. Woodworkers are taken through seven projects, including a napkin holder, a plant box, a letter holder, a trinket box, a tissue box holder, and a cheese and cracker tray. A photo gallery of finished pieces provides inspiration for novice woodworkers.
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- Fantastic!!
- Bukowski Still Going Strong
- Death is smoking my cigars...
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- Bukowski's last great book
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Charles Bukowski
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Customer Reviews:
Fantastic!!.......2007-03-14
I wish I discovered Bukowski earlier in my life. This book is just wonderful! Highly recommended!!!
Bukowski Still Going Strong.......2005-05-13
Having been a long standing fan of Bukowski's work I am partial to this book because it represents his later work which is just as powerful as any of his early lyrical work like Crucifix in a Deathand and It Catches My Heart In It's Hand. Poems like Dinosaura,We; In The Shadow of the Rose and My Uncle Jack capture the author still at the peak of his creative powers. Of course there are the typical Buk topics like horseracing, boozing, women, the outsiders, but Bukowski takes a soft turn by dedicating a poem to his wife which will catch many Buk fans surprisingly off guard. If you are new to Charles Bukowski's writing you will definitely want to get this book; it will inspire you to try his other books. If you're a long time Buk reader, you probably have this one in your collection already. I highly recommend The Last Night of the Earth Poems to everyone
that has a taste for earthy, lyrical and ballsy poetry.
Death is smoking my cigars..........2005-02-05
...and.....
The piano has been drinking
My necktie's asleep
The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone
The jukebox has to take a leak
Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut?
And the spotlight looks just like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes
As usual the balcony's on the make
And the piano has been drinking, heavily
The piano has been drinking
And he's on the hard stuff tonight
The piano has been drinking
And you can't find your waitress
Even with the Geiger counter
And I guarantee you that she will hate you
From the bottom of her glass
And all of your friends remind you
That you just can't get served without her
The piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
And the lightman's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
And he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking
Without fear of contradiction I say
The piano has been drinking
Our Father who art in ?
Hallowed by thy glass
Thy kindom come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in the lounges
Give us this day our daily splash
Forgive us our hangovers
As we forgive all those who continue to hangover against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver from evil and someone you must all ride home
Because the piano has been drinking
And he's your friend not mine
Because the piano has been drinking
And he's not my responsibility
The bouncer is this Sumo wrestler
Kinda cream puff casper milk toast
And the owner is just a mental midget
With the I.Q. of a fencepost
I'm going down, hang onto me, I'm going down
Watch me skate across an acre of linoleum
I know I can do it, I'm in total control
And the piano has been drinking
And he's embarassing me
The piano has been drinking, he raided his mini bar
The piano has been drinking
And the bar stools are all on fire
And all the newspapers were just fooling
And the ash-trays have retired
And I've got a feeling that the piano has been drinking
It's just a hunch
The piano has been drinking and he's going to lose his lunch
And the piano has been drinking
Not me, not me, The piano has been drinking not me
Enjoy this book kiddies. Buk can do no wrong, he never did. Turn on only one lamp, with no shade (as if there ever was one), open up a bottle of Ol' Red Eye, throw the cap away, put on some T.Waits, and cherish the fact that you and your misery are not as alone as you thought.
Read them out loud.......2004-08-31
This was the first Bukowski I've read. The poems are less poetry-like and more short stories in columns. They've got a great rhythm. They're better when you read them out loud, which works better when you live alone. What amazes me is that this book is 405 pages long, and it's one of forty-five books by Bukowski, mostly books of poetry. That's pretty prolific. This one was published in 1992. There's a lot of poems about being old and getting ready to die. And a lot about drinking.
Bukowski's last great book.......2004-08-11
Like the title of this review says, this is Bukowski's last great book. Very downbeat, almost a companion piece to "You Get So Alone...". Highly recommended.
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- End of the World
- interesting and easy to follow
- Love it
- A cute tale with a hidden message
- Great Read!
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How I Spent My Last Night On Earth (Time Zone High)
Todd Strasser
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What would you do if you were told you only had 24 hours before an asteroid obliterated the planet? The teens at Time Zone High are struggling with that very question (along with figuring out who's sleeping with whom and whether or not to attend physics class). Is the asteroid real? Is it a government cover-up or an Internet hoax? And by the way, what are the Laws of Virginity? Allegra "Legs" Hanover--usually prepared for anything--is thrown into a tailspin by this potential catastrophe. Only minimally less disorienting is the discovery that her "platonic boyfriend" Derman may have slept with her sexy friend Angie. But as Legs has always thought, "high school is potty training for life," so she tries to make important decisions in the face of disaster--such as whether or not she should make a play for rebellious surfer dude Andros Bliss, the strangely attractive "Totally Inappropriate Guy."
Todd Strasser, author of How I Changed My Life and Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date (both also set at Time Zone High), once again proves his mastery at funny, fast-paced, fascinating writing. Teens will love this wild ride, and will find themselves laughing in the face of the end of the world. (Ages 12 to 16) --Brangien Davis
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Something strange is happening in the parking lot of Time Zone High: The established cliques aren't in their usual gathering places. Instead, everyone has joined in one large, frantically interacting mass.
Why? Maybe it's because the world may end tomorrow.
For the attractive, brilliant Legs Hanover, this poses daunting questions:
What are the romantic possibilities, given she may only have twenty-four hours to live before a giant asteroid smashes into the earth?
Or is it all just an Internet cyberhoax?
Either way, it's time for Legs to meet the object of her daydreams -- the handsome, frequently truant Andros Bliss.
Because during the next twenty-four hours, everyone's life is bound to change.
Todd Strasser continues the Time Zone High saga with this hilarious, thought-provoking novel about emotional confusion on the brink of disaster.
Customer Reviews:
End of the World.......2007-04-24
Allegra, called Legs, spent most of her night studying for a Chinese test instead of talking on the phone or online with her friends. So when she arrives at school in the morning, she is shocked to see so many people looking upset or even crying. Then she finds out that everyone else knows that there may be a meteor heading toward the Earth, on course to destroy the world within twenty-four hours. The government is keeping quiet about things, of course, but most suspect that there is some sort of coverup and the situation is dire.
How will everyone spend today, assuming that it is, in fact, their last day on Earth? Legs spends the morning thinking carefully about things, especially the fact that she doesn't really have any strong feelings beyond friendship for her boyfriend Derman. Halfway through the day she stands up and leaves school, something she never would have dreamed of doing on any other day, and heads to the beach to find Andros Bliss.
Andros is the guy of Legs' fantasies, a rebellious surfer who rides a motorcycle. Legs has decided that she doesn't want to die without at least having a real conversation with him. When she does track him down, though, she is surprised by his personality. He is laid back and seems amused at her need to question everything, to explain everything and work it into a logical order in her mind. As she spends more of the day with him, she finds herself beginning to relax and feel more at ease. Will this day really be the last any of them experience? If it is not their last day of life, will Legs and Andros be able to continue to have a relationship?
I liked the way Legs narrated the story and the ways she tried to talk herself out of things or into things. I liked her ironic view of the world around her. I didn't like Derman or Angie, and I didn't like that they were both keeping secrets from Legs. I also thought Legs and Andros immediately getting along was too easy. People who lived in such vastly different worlds would probably have more trouble trying to form a relationship.
interesting and easy to follow.......2006-09-29
i usually dont like slow-moving stories but this book has interesting stories in between. it's like a data bank of useless and irrelivent information but thats what's crazy, i cant stop reading on and it really gets a person thinking. ill enjoy doing a book report on this!
candi, 13
Love it.......2006-04-25
I love this book it's the best book ever on this earth! I read it in one day because I couldn't put the book down it was just to good!
A cute tale with a hidden message.......2004-07-30
I picked this book up at my local library the other day and devoured it in a few hours. I was expecting nothing more than a typical teen romance story;dialogue that was either way too polysyllabic to possibly be entertaining (Dawson's Creek, anyone?)or so cheesy that it causes every young person to question just what weird species of teenager was the inspiration behind it. So, to cut to the chase...I wasn't expecting to be wowed like I was when I read the final page. The author depicted teens in a believable light - while there definitely are more than a few hormonally driven kids in the world, there are also those who hold onto their virginity as if it were the last piece of See's chocolate on the planet, even when they have a guy like Andros Bliss (whom I was imagining looking like Chad Michael Murray)in a tent on the beach. I know that must have taken some conviction. Anywho, I really identified with Allegra, for she shares my passion for memorizing useless factoids. I wish I could change the way I looked at life as easily as she did, but I guess that'll have to wait for either the apocolypse or my very own Andros Bliss to come riding into town...either way, I don't plan on holding my breath.
Great Read!.......2004-06-28
This book is awesome and was truly hard to put down. I finished the whole book in just 2 sittings! It is a great book and I know you will love it!
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What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made-an immense impact crater in the Yucatán Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof. A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work-in the trenches, complete with passionate struggles and occasional victories.
Customer Reviews:
Lack of objectivity. An embarassingly one-sided shill........2005-03-11
I was hoping for a balanced analysis supporting the dinosaur extinctions via an asteroid doing a number on mother earth. Instead I got a steady dose of denunciations towards anyone who disagreed with the asteroid theory. The tone is palatable at first but after a while repeating the same canard over and over does tend to get tiresome. Around page 170 or so I realized that I was reading an apologist for the asteroid theory.
I was very disappointed that other theories were given short shrift and at times almost mocked. This is a so so book about dinosaur extinctions but I am waiting for a truly meaty and balanced book.
A very clear account, but of questionable objectivity...........2005-02-08
I did't find this book to be a particularly good review of the dinosaurs-vs-meteorite controversy. The narrative is clear and captivating, and accounts of the several open (or closed!) disputes, rooted in disparate fields of Earth sciences, is made accessible to the layreader or those with just a modest background in natural sciences. Nevertheless, Powell holds a one-sided approach right from the beginning, pointlessly crusading against some supposedly general backward attitude in geologists and paleontologists that actually never was there, except for a very few unfortunate cases. Everyone now agrees on evidence for a massive extraterrestrial impact dated around 65 million years ago, but the main issue is presently whether that was the ultimate cause of the mass extinction or other earth-bound factors and feedbacks played a role in driving interactions between physical environment and the biosphere toward a mass extinction. Powell leaves no room for such developments.
In particular, I'd have two specific objections to specific cases presented in the book: 1)On pages 172-174 taxonomic analysis of dinosaur diversity in the highest stratigraphic stages of the Cretaceous in Montana is reported as evidence in favour of a sudden crisis of the original ecosystem. Pete Sheehan and co-workers carried on their studies at the taxonomic rank of families, which resulted numerically stable with time approaching the K-T boundary. Only, John Horner recently reviewed their work at a species level, likely to be statistically and biologically more reliable indicator of biodiversity, and found out a steady decrease of dinosaur types through time. Such reconsideration of Sheehan's research thus reverses evidence against the impact hypothesis! 2) The section "Did impact cause all extinctions?" introduces the final part of the book which has absolutely nothing to do with the K-T event per se, and presents us with Raup's "impact-kill curve" which was originally just an interesting exercise in statistics, but lacking a solid connection with the actual geo-paleontological database of major mass extinctions (let alone minor ones..) and thus oversimplifies the subject. Yet the author all too enthousiastically takes sides with the "impactors" and loses objectivity, even falling in contradiction (Page 192:"Not enough firm evidence is available to corroborate the claim that impact is responsible for any other mass extinction boundary than the K-T event..." Page 196:"..how are we to escape the conclusion that not just in theory, but in practice, impact has caused many extinctions?")
More poignantly however, scientific arguments and debates against the "impact hypothesis" haven't been introduced thoroughly enough but too quickly glossed over, although numerous in the recent scientific literature...
Without deceiving myself of having read a downright objective account, I'm afraid this is the best available book about the (still ongoing...) debate, together with J.D.Archibald's "Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say", which is possibly far more objective though...
A great description of science from the inside.......2004-08-07
This is one of the best science books I have ever read, and a great description of how science works from the inside. Scientists aren't impartial godlike figures, they're human beings just like the rest of us.This book details how a geologist, by bringing his father an interesting rock--a polished specimen that included the K-T boundary layer, deposited when the dinosaurs all vanished--started a controversy that revolutionized and redefined the entire field of earth sciences. Personally, I love it when that happens, that's how science is supposed to work, but people who have built their entire careers on the old view of things can have a very difficult time accepting a new paradigm, and will go to ludicrous extremes to defend the old one to their dying breath. The impact theory of extinctions is one of the scariest concepts I have ever come across, but I am a lot happier knowing how things really work. This is an utterly fascinating read, and I can't recommend it strongly enough. To anyone interested in geology, astronomy, dinosaurs, (who isn't interested in dinosaurs??), or the workings of science, I can only say---READ THIS BOOK!!!!
Night Comes to the Cretaceous.......2003-08-01
All in all, James Lawrence Powell did a superb job in writing this book. He is highly opinionated and interprets data in a manner to support his fundamental belief (that an asteroid caused the KT extinctions).
I advise readers to get a balanced view by also reading "The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controvery" by Charles Officer and Jack Page. I felt that Powell covered the topic very thoroughly and provided historical context to help the novice extinctions reader. I felt that the book was very weak in dicussing the paleontological aspects of the extinction. Next revision perhaps.
How Scientific Revolutions Actually Happen.......2003-06-13
One of the great scientific revolutions of our times has been the recognition that the biological evolution of Earth is influenced random impacts by comets and asteroids. When this concept was put forward in 1980, it was radical; today it is the accepted wisdom in paleontology, geology, and evolutionary biology. Jim Powell tells a fascinating story of the evidence for this transformation and of the scientists who have been protgonists in the struggle to understand this evidence and integrate it into our broader undestanding of our planet. This is one of the best books ever written to trace the history of a scientific controversy and of the people involved, warts and all.
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In a work that is part memoir, part meditation, and part performance, "today's most daring choreographer" (NEWSWEEK) charts his dance's origins and development in the context of his remarkable life. "A breathtaking accomplishment. To the extent that any words can convey the experience of dance, Jones does so here, eloquently and with disarming honesty."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Illustrated throughout.
Customer Reviews:
Compelling.......2000-06-11
Although journalist Peggy Gillespie was involved with Bill T. Jones in writing his memoir, from hearing him speak (including reading from the book) I know that the voice in it is his and am fairly confident that he decided what incidents and topics to include. Jones has long been an openly gay dancer and choreographer, and more recently an openly HIV+ one slandered as perpetrating "victim art" (by a critic long hostile to him who condemned while refusing to see "Still/here," his attempt to craft a piece about living with terminal diseases).
Jones is acutely aware of his body and the fetishization of the body of the big, black stud. He plays with that objectification on-stage and off without forgetting its cost. "My eroticism, my sensuality is often coupled with wild anger and belligerence," he says. "I know that I can be food for fantasy, but at the same time I am a person with a history-and that history is in part the history of exploitation."
It is what Jones does with his own (and others') bodies on stage, not just his physical appearance, upon which he wants to focus the interest of many: "The performer who takes the stage must believe that he is fascinating, that he or she deserves being the locus of several hundred or thousand points of attention. . . . The performer wants to be one of many, but even more, he wants to command the attention of many."
As I already said, Jones's voice comes through on the page. The book is compelling as a narrative of an interesting life in a difficult time (the time of AIDS to which Jones lost his partner on- and off-stage) and as an account of the wellsprings of Jones's art.
Stellar Memoir, Amazing Honesty.......2000-05-04
Bill T. Jones, one of the most innovative and controversial choreographers of our time, writes his memoir with honesty, insight, and emotion. I would recommend it to any Bill T. Jones fan, dancer, choreographer, or human.
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- What a wonderful Christmas/anytime present this book makes!
- Excellent, creative!
- A must have for any child's library!
- WONDERFUL
- A whimsical journey!
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Last Night I Left Earth for Awhile
Natalie L. Brown-Douglas
Manufacturer: New Voices Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1931642052 |
Book Description
Last Night I Left Earth for Awhile is a wonderful story about imagination and engaging children in conversation about their dreams.
As a mother tucks her young child into bed one night, she tells him that "your dreams can take you anywhere." As the child sleeps, his dreams take him through lush jungles and deep space and onto fun-filled journeys and humorous escapades. In the morning, he marvels at his mother's certainty that, once asleep, dreams do take you anywhere.
Customer Reviews:
What a wonderful Christmas/anytime present this book makes!.......2003-12-13
Every child can benefit from this book. I love the way it helps them to realize that there is so much out there they can do! A child's imagination is so important, and this author really understands that. She takes them on a journey they really enjoy through her words and beautiful illustrations! I've bought this book for all the little children in my life. You should too!
Excellent, creative!.......2003-10-27
This is an excellent children's book, stirring imagination and creativity. I loved the illustrations, the use of color, and the wonderful story she told!!! What a neat book!!!
A must have for any child's library!.......2003-08-19
This book beautifully illustrates the wonderful and whimsical dreams that await a child once he closes his eyes. Reading this book to my son before bed time gets him excited at the possible journeys his dreams will take him on. It's made going to bed less of a battle - Thank you!
WONDERFUL.......2003-08-19
A wonderful children's story that I enjoy reading over and over again to my son. The illustrations are bright and colorful while the sweet story of the many jounreys a child takes while dreaming spark his imagination! Through this book I have watched my sons imgination and creativity blossom.
A whimsical journey!.......2003-07-27
This is a delightful retreat for both the preschooler and the reader, inspiring imagination and discussion. The illustrations are wonderfully clever and fun, while the tone is light and loving. Readers of all ages will eagerly anticipate similar dreams.
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Uncle Jamie and Me
Jack Jordan
Manufacturer: Protea Publishing Company
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A Memoir of West Virginia.
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