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Though now somewhat dated I kept this book handy when I was working as an unclassified reference. Much detail not found elsewhere.

I orginally owned the book in the 90s found it a useful and comprhensive look into a different war in a different time.

A quilting friend who spoke only English took a trip to Europe. How did she get other quilters to walk up to her on the street and introduce themselves? She wore a jacket with motifs from this book!

This is one of the CUTEST paper-piecing pattern books I've seen in a long time. Lots of blocks, lots of patterns and project ideas, and good instructions. I found it absolutely charming! - I've been recommending it to foundation-piecing loving students! If you need something special for your sewing room, or for sewing friends, this one is well worth the cost.

I was very happy with my purchase. I received the item fast and for more than half the price that was offered to me from the school's vendor. I will recommend ordering from amazon for everything. I was very pleased.

This is by far my favorite english book I've ever had! The content is organized so well that it's incredibly easy to find whatever you're looking for. I didn't even have to really read anything because I could so easily find what I was looking for. Very nice! The language is simple, concise, not inflated, and straight to the point. Very easy to understand.

The New Entrepreneurs is an informative and compelling survey and presentation on doing business through network marketing in this new age of globally connected, technologically advancing "brave new world" of the 21st Century. Readers will learn how to create their own business with minimal start-up costs and unlimited income potential; be their own boss, yet enjoy the support of a team; work from home with more free time for personal and family enjoyment; even choosing work that encourages personal and professional growth. An ideal instruction guide for the novice entrepreneur, The New Entrepreneurs is especially recommended for those already employed and seeking to expand their career opportunities and income growth while maintaining and enhancing their personal and family life commitments.

Wow! I couldn't believe this book. The hardest part of being in network marketing is bringing in new people. And I especially want to interest professionals. But they are so hard to get past their own prejudices. This book does it all for you. It is factual, heartwarming, and compelling. If you are a professional looking for some alternative outside of your current work, or if you are a network marketer looking for some means that will help you make a better presentation about our industry to your professional prospects, this book is the answer. Believe me, I have never found anything that answers people's questions and addresses their concerns about network marketing better than the messages and stories contained in The New Entrepreneurs.

An incredible book that anyone interested in 3d art should buy. Jurgen Ziewe is no ordinary artist, he creates the most amazing dreamlike scenes imaginable. The book contains pictures of fractally generated landscapes populated by human-like beings, dolphins in the desert, cyber trees, giant mushrooms and futuristic sculptures. Jurgen describes in detail how to create one of his images and describes the software he uses. If 3d art is your thing then this is the book for you ! New Territories by Jurgen Ziewe. Buy it online now !

A ground breaking book detailing the work of desktop artist Jurgen Ziewe.

Mind blowing computer generated illustrations and enlightening text make this a must see for anyone interested in computer illustration and/or mind expansion.

Buy it now! On the net. Thanks Amazon and Jurgen: my life has taken on new meaning!

I was in middle school from late '95 to 98. it was a weird time as i was getting sick of all the modern rock music on the radio and the changing format. so i bought a Sonic Youth record on a whim, loved it, and looked at the sleeves to see all these band posters. i had no idea who most were, so i went to the Orange County Library in Florida seeking education and found this book, this edition...

the writing on it was very well done with great reviews (especially from Ira Robbins and Jack Rabid). and i got into so many incredible, obscure bands that captured the era (and since then, not often mentioned) like Saccharine Trust, Volcano Suns, Squirrel Bait, Die Kreuzen, Contortions, etc. as well as all the important bands on SST, Dischord, Alternative Tentacles, etc.

i haven't seen it in the library lately, but it has been digitized at www.trouserpress.com for great nostalgia. even though allmusic has pretty much taken the lead when it comes to music review devices, Trouser Press is still filled with great reviews.

Seminal work capturing the less main stream of music before Spin could even think that it would have a 17 year in heart underwear on their cover.

Robbins provides susinct reviews, useful info, discographies and band "family" trees.

I relied on Ira to make me smart more than a few times, even won the complete RHINO collection of New wave hits because I knew the name of Mitch Easter's bass player on some album. Thanks IRA.

If you ever have a chance to get your hands on this book, do so with great haste. I have never really cared for most of Huxley's works but this particular essay has stayed with my thoughts for years and, in fact, changed the way I percieve things around me. I cannot summarize the book in any manner but can only say that Huxley examines the human psyche and behavior, and details it in such a way that one will feel ignorant for having not noticed many of his observations before.

The chapter on 'Religious practices' make interesting reading for a multifaith vistas.

Having just read many neo-originalist works on the 14th Amendment, I really can't praise this book highly enough. Curtis is thorough, fair, tolerant of ambiguity, and remarkably free of "presentist" blinders. He carefully traces the ideological context of the 14th amendment, the sources its framers drew on in crafting its language, and the beliefs of the legislators who debated it. In the process, he reveals the unfortunate misuses to which history has been put in interpreting the amendment over the years. Curtis's lucid and straightforward style and skill at making sense of complex events are a refreshing contrast to many of the commentators and historians who have drawn upon his work.

Having just read many neo-originalist works on the 14th Amendment, I really can't praise this book highly enough. Curtis is thorough, fair, tolerant of ambiguity, and remarkably free of "presentist" blinders. He carefully traces the ideological context of the 14th amendment, the sources its framers drew on in crafting its language, and the beliefs of the legislators who debated it. In the process, he reveals the unfortunate misuses to which history has been put in interpreting the amendment over the years. Curtis's lucid and straightforward style and skill at making sense of complex events are a refreshing contrast to many of the commentators and historians who have drawn upon his work.

In CATCHING LIGHT, Kathryn Stripling Byer weaves yet again her own brand of poetic magic. Poems in the voice of an aging woman named Evelyn take us into the life and imagination of a woman who refuses to give up, refuses to let go of life. In lyrics with delicate yet strong movement and closure, she gathers her reader into the web that only language well used can weave. Byer continues to grow as a poet, and I look forward to future volumes. The terms Southern and Appalachian no longer apply to such work; it has moved beyond the regional and into a realm accessible to anyone who cares about poetry, regardless of its regional roots. All good poems begin in the particulars of their worlds, of course, but too often poems termed regional, especially Southern or Appalachian, are met with condescension from the more entlighted literati in NYC, Provincetown, and else where. Byer's poems rebuke such a constricted view of American poetry.

When the Southeastern Bookseller's Association selected this book for their 2002 Book of the Year in Poetry, they knew what they were doing. Kathryn Stripling Byer's fourth book of poetry takes on the subject of a woman's old age, her last days, and how she reacts to them. By turns stark, witty, lyrical, elegiac, these poems seem determined to rise to the challenge issued by Eavan Boland in several of her poems and essays that writing about an aging woman is difficult if not downright impossible in the Western poetic tradition. In the voice of a woman by the name of Evelyn, and growing out of a collaboration with photographer Louanne Watley, whose Evelyn Series illuminated the last days of an eccentric old woman, these poems take the reader into Evelyn's interior world, her fears, her sexuality, her memories. It's quite a journey and one well worth taking, not only for its insights but also for the beauty and clarity of its poetry.

I am ashamed to say that though I have struggled through the Odyssey in Greek I was unaware that Cowper had done a translation--of which I have now read portions. It is superb. We think of Pope as the great 18th century translator of Homer but as another reviewer has written, a careful reading of Cowper provides great pleasures--I like it as much as Pope. Do be aware that it takes some getting used to since the cadence of an 18th century line takes getting used to. If you like the language of Jane Austen however I think you will appreciate Cowper's achievment. Enough said.

For lovers of language and epic drama, Homer and the Bible brook few competitors. For readers up for a slightly higher degree of difficulty, William Cowper's eighteenth-century English translation of the Oddyssey provides a second layer of beauty. Not only do you get Homer's genius. You also soak in the resonant and ironic tones of an English dialect that is familiar enough to be almost completely understood but also different enough from modern American dialect to bring astonishing and pleasing insight into the language we speak.

Odysseus gets lost on his way home from the Trojan War.

And what a piece of luck that is, for it generates this tale of epic suffering, nobility, vice, vengeance, and freshly requited love that is so riveting that one almost aches for his neighbor who has not read or heard Homer.

Moderns unfamiliar with the classics may want to approach the Odyssey by way of the film Brother, Where Art Thou? Though a retelling of the Odyssey that all but redefines the word 'loose', the plot structure is similar enough to serve as a point of reference while reading Cowper's Odyssey translation or - better still - listening to Naxos' recording of the same.

Reviews are intended to be about the book, not about the reviewer's pleading. But forgive me just this: you really *need* to meet Homer and his most elevated and elevating narrative poetry. You won't be sorry. Bite the bullet. Grit your teeth. Fight those inner demons. Forget everything your boring literature teacher told you.

Discover the Odyssey.