Turner Books

If you buy only one book on astrolabes, this should be the one. The stated purpose of this book is to record the astrolabes in the collection of the Time Museum but it is far, far more. It is a wonderful book, beautifully presented and has by far the best historical section of any modern reference.

I would love to get this,It has my favorite couple,Timmy and Tootie. Tootie is so cute the way she swoons after Timmy,I wish The creators of The Fairly oddparents would give,Timmy,and A.J. brothers and sisters,maybe in the theater movie. same with Jimmy neutron, Jimmy and carl should have brothers and sisters.

This is another wonderfull book on Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock. This book has lots of amazing photos, some very rare or exclusive. The book centers on Tina during the 80's. The writting is not amazing but I highly recomemd this book to Tina Fans.

I LOVE this book! It is very informative and has some wonderful photos. Tina Turner is my favorite artist and this book is my favorite Tina book. I highly recommend it!

I just finished reading The Titans of Saturn by Bram Groen and Charles Hampden-Turner. It's a powerful read about the multinational team that built the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that reached Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, after a 15-year voyage. On one hand, the book is a science book, and it details how after seven years of space travel, a spacecraft was able to land safely millions of miles away from its launch point at Cape Canaveral. But there's much more to The Titans of Saturn, and that's the story of how people from vastly different cultures and far-flung continents were able to work together to accomplish such incredible science.

The title of Chapter Four perfectly encapsulates the essence of how a rocket was launched in 1997, orbited Saturn, and landed a probe on Titan in 2005: Competing to cooperate: how thousands of incomparable indivduals fulfilled their common mission. Very good read.

Illustrations by Lloyd Coe. Illustrated with text to show how a town meeting works and the responsibilities of the citizens who live there. Local elections, taxes, and the duties of town officials will be no mystery to young readers after reading this book about how local government works. Illustrations in green, orange and gray. Really cute and a great idea!

This fascinating book presents in loving detail the work of an artist who subtly commingles beauty and horror, angels and beasts. Traian Filip was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1955 and experienced the repression of the Ceausecu regime. In 1989, he arrived in New York and then settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where his work took on a new grace, but with an evident loneliness for his family in Romania. He took his own life in 1993. For most of his life he concentrated on intaglio etchings, later producing paintings on found materials. The book poignantly relates his personal history to his artistic production. It gives exellent renditions of many of his beautiful and intriguing etchings and paintings.

The title may confuse a casual browser - this book is not about trees. It is the heartbreaking story of unbearable loss, grief, and then peace and victory through God's grace. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I turned the pages. Any mother (or father) who has ever loss a son, or is struggling with the spiritual battles that attack our youth across America today, will benefit from reading this book.

Trollope. Gender. Victorian era. Magazines. See how Mark W. Turner masterfully meshes all of the above in a brilliantly cohesive discourse.

Impressionist and post-Impressionist authority Pierre Courthion says that first tries often show the full range of an artist's talent: "Man at a parapet," aka "The invalid," painted harmonious curves, modulated planes, and straight lines; and "Head of a girl" brushstroked dark against light with the turned away face of an Italian painting and without contour lines. In fact, GEORGES SEURAT became the first painter to draw boundaries as spreading surfaces in lighted areas and as silhouettes in shaded areas. He went on to paint Impressionist-style themes of bourgeois city and countryside life, cafe and circus scenes, seashores and summer landscapes with dots blending into shimmering light and subtle color variations at a distance. The book's 40 colorplates, along with John Russell's SEURAT, show the most important of his 700 drawings and 200 paintings: the blue of "Bathing at Asnieres" and the immense scale of "Bec du hoc" from Bruegel the Elder; the dancing diagonals and slanting double bass of "Le chahut"; "The circus" clown, horse and lady rider galloping and jumping before a captivated audience in a composition of ellipses, ovals and trapezoids worthy of Raphael's "Transfiguration"; the frontal sunset of "Evening, Honfleur" hallmarking a great artist; the ancestors of abstract art in "Port-en-Bessin" and "Rue Saint-Vincent"; the differently brushstroked beach, cliff, mist, sea, ships and vegetation of "Shore at Bas-Butin"; and the David-Pierre Humbert de Superville-styled plumbline straight figures among sultry summer lights and shadows of the masterpiece "A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte". Readers can put pointillist art in context with Bernard Denvir's POST-IMPRESSIONISM, Walter S. Gibson's BRUEGEL and Wolfgang Stechow's PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER.