Brandt Books

This is a lovely story into the life of a 12 year old Brethren girl growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1740's. A girl that has learned about cooking, baking, cleaning and caring for her younger brothers and sisters but longs to read and have a book of her own. An interesting view into a different lifestyle, times and the longings of a 12 year old heart.

For the First time, Gay or Lesbian traveller to Europe this book is fun and insightful. It gave us some great ideas and we enjoyed the stories.

Though a rather thin book, its content is dense and highly interesting. Probably best combined with the other books of the series, it gives a deep and detailed insight in a coherent system of thought. You need not agree with it overall, but at least you can almost certainly enhance your own understanding of astrology and its techniques.

Kris Riske presents a method of weather prediction that rivals any meteorological method in use today. The beauty is that you can predict weather for anytime in the future, not just the next three days. Planning a wedding next year, or a camping trip in the Rockies? You can choose the most favorable weather using this book.

This book is probably not for the beginner astrologer. It makes use of a wide variety of techniques that require some seasoning to understand and use properly. The intermediate to advanced astrologer will find a wealth of information about weather charts, including exactly how each planet functions in weather charts.
Example of major storms, drought, hot and cold weather, and amount of precipitation show the reader just how weather charts are constructed and interpreted.

Kris Riske writes in a clear, understandable style. With this book you can use astrology to plan any event that depends on good weather for its success.

A clarion call to us who are the nameless masses of data-enterers and coffee-makers! We'd rather not, we'd rather not, we'd rather not!

Read it all from the begining or read the last part first and then go back to the different cases to gain a faster review of the book. To those willing to gain an in-depth insight into the auditing process.

From a researcher perspective, the book addresses hot topics in the early 2000s (auditor indepedence, earnings management, and earnings quality), and should be considered as an interesting reference to consider. It also analyses those concepts with a case study methodology.

Bill Brandt Behind The Camera is a study of twentieth century British photographer Bill Brandt's life and works, featuring striking black-and-white samples of his photographs and an insightful biographical, deconstructive, and artistic essay of his pursuits. Exploring his connections to literature, and his deep immersion in the streets of Spain, Paris, and his home nation of Britain, as well as the revelations his camera captured, Bill Brandt Behind The Camera for photography shelves.

Bill Brandt's work has a striking poetic immediacy and a potent suggestiveness of mood rarely seen in still photography. Sombre landscapes, brooding portraits of prominent literary figures, and surreal, distorted, abstract nudes are featured in this superb, nearly comprehensive volume of the great man's oeuvre.

Just a slight glance at some of these unforgettable pictures and the viewer is hypnotized--eyes rapt to the page--drawn into a strange, mysterious world of the past and overwhelmed by its melancholy lyricism. One senses a profound humanity in Brandt's treatment of desolation and poverty: a quality comparable to the best work of Expressionist painters like Munch or Schiele.

It is interesting to note that the visual sensibility found in Brandt's high contrast, black-and-white compositions and sometimes startling, baroque perspectives also bears comparison to the cascading, labyrinthine imagery of Orson Welles's films. And the influence of Brandt's work appears evident in a number of other dreamy/nightmarish films: e.g., Ingmar Bergman's "The Silence," Roman Polanski's "Repulsion," David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and "The Elephant Man," and Michael Radford's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," to name but a few.

To put it simply: Bill Brandt is a genius of the lens--a supreme master of light and shadow--and, without a doubt, one of the most vital and innovative artists of the twentieth century.

I own a first edition of this book. Brandt Van Blarcom Dixon is my ancestor. He lived to be 93 and was reknowned as a humble and wise man. For thirty years, he was the first and only President of Sophie Newcomb College (all the subsequent leaders were called Deans). It is a very interesting story about the beginnings of a school for women in the late 1800's whose name became synonomous with fine art (Newcomb Pottery) and with the recognition of women as productive and creative people, rather than solely mothers and wives.
Brandt Dixon was an adventurer, a scholar, a mines inspector, a chemist and, finally, an educator. He was recruited by Tulane U. in the 1980's from St. Louis, MO to found, staff, equip and begin a school for women that would be the first of its kind west of the Mississippi to graduate women with a skill that could earn them a living on their own.
This book is an account of how he accepted the task, searched for teachers, recruited students, designed courses and classrooms, publicized the new college's mission and , for thirty years, led Sophie Newcomb College to prominance in the US and abroad.
His writings are full of anecdotes, wit, logic and personal reflection. Anyone interested in the history American education and/or in the history of women's emergence as artists will enjoy this book.

First read as a teen-ager, this little book was very formative to my life philosophy. The book was lost...I searched and searched !
To find a copy no is nothing short of a miracle!
I read it when life feels overwhelming and it helps me to regain a perspective on life.