Wagner Books

In Welded Sculpture Of The Twentieth Century, Judy Collischan (Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, Neuberger Museum of Art) has written a seminal, benchmark study of welded sculpture with historical sources, methodology, and extensive coverage of the most influential artists to work in this medium: Picasso, Gonzalez, Smith, and Caro. Collischan's informative, "reader friendly" text is wonderfully enhanced throughout with almost two hundred illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and a very useful glossary. Welded Sculpture Of The Twentieth Century is an important and much appreciated contribution to the history of sculpture and deserves to be prized as a core title for any personal, art school, and community library collection.

This book is great. It really taught me a lot. Helps you put things in perspective and helps you focus during hard times. I used this book to help myself through postpartum depression.

This book contains the following short stories: Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner; For These and All My Sins by David Morrell; Substitution Trick by Connie Willis; Dreams in Amber by David Drake; Footprints in Perdu by Hugh B. Cave; The Last One Mo Once Golden Oldies Revival by F. Paul Wilson; A Country Home by Wade Kenny; Of Time and Kathy Benedict by William F. Nolan; Deadspace by Dennis Etchison; Cabin Number Six by Jerry Sohl; Father's Day by Steve Rasnic Tem; The East Beaverton Monster by Alan Ryan; The Horse by Libby Tinker; and Return of the Dust Vampires by Sharon N. Farber.

Who's Who and What's What in Wagner will put you in touch with the kind of classical education you may have missed but realize you need especially if you are a late blooming opera fan. And if there is any apprehension about approaching Wagnerian opera, it is neatly dispelled through the no-nonsense descriptions of all of Wagner's characters, major or minor, in his musical works. The format is a simple alphabetizing of characters which makes cross-researching an easy affair. There are full blow-by-blow chronological descriptions of the characters each time they step on stage with wonderful character study summations at the conclusion of the entry.

The work explains the characters` domestic and personal struggles that we so readily (and lazily) recognize, then places their godly or ungodly doings in the context of the particular work along with the larger allegorical meaning. Other Wagnerian themes such as "water" or "sex" are gratefully included, the latter essential to understanding the endlessly sung dialogue between Tristan and Isolde.

Who's Who... is essential homework reading before you attend any Wagnerian performance and a revelation after you've seen one. Jonathan Lewsey does not hesitate to point out discrepancies or lapses of logic in the plots. Star Wars and Star Trek fans, late-blooming or not, will also find those universes enhanced by recognizing similar mythological underpinnings.

This is an outstanding reference book.

After being a fan of Karl Edward Wagner's Year's Best Horror anthologies for DAW publishing I decided to give this anthology a try. Though I confess that I didn't realize all the stories in the tome were penned by Wagner himself. However, it was a very pleasant turn of events. The horror contained in these stories is subtle and insidious. Within the first few pages you're completely hooked. This book is hard to put down. The characterization is such that you find yourself wanting to know what happens to these people. The plot is winding and intriguing.

I'd like to be able to tell you " If you're a fan of so and so author you'll enjoy this book," but I can't do that. Wagner is unlike any other horror writer. His style is refreshing and just different enough to completely stand out.

If you have a chance, snap up this out of print gem. You'll be rereading it time and time again.

"Wide Ruins" is a wonderful reading experience on an interesting topic. Sallie Wagner weaves a personal tale of her experiences as the trader at Wide Ruins, Arizona, in the 1940's. Her story progresses quickly and she seems to provide enough detail of her experiences without lingering too long on any one topic. She vividly describes the role of the trading post and of the traders. The trading post was a general store, a pawn shop, and a safety deposit box. The traders were resourceful businessmen who could conduct business without any actual money trading hands. They were esteemed residents who helped the Navajo people survive a difficult time in America's history.

This memoir is a significant piece of literature because it was written by one who actually lived in a world that few non-Navajos ever get to see. She decribes the Navajo people and the Navajo culture in a way that makes their time and place real. It is not an academic study by a distant scholar of the culture. It is a personal account of a world that no longer exists, and as such, it is a treasure. I would also recommend "Navajo Trader" by Cladwell Richardson in addition to "Wide Ruins".

This is a gorgeous book.Wonderfully written and informative.Your friends will definitly enjoy it while visiting.

This report was originally commissioned by The Wildlife Society to make recommendations for managing wildlife in the national parks. TWS was disappointed with the result, and the authors decided to publish it on their own instead of trying to satisfy them.

It's an excellent review of the history of wildlife management in the national parks. Originally, wildlife were an afterthought because the parks were built around monumental scenery. After that, many people started to think of some species of wildlife as part of the scenery too, such as bears in Yellowstone or Yosemite. Eventually, wildlife became a featured part of some parks such as Isle Royale or the Everglades. In all parks, wildlife faces threats external to the park such as pollution or exotic species, as well as internal threats from tourism and other national park service goals.

The authors review these issues very well, and this book is one of the central texts for any review of wildlife in the parks. However, they shrink back from making any strong recommendations. As scientists, they tend to feel more comfortable with recommendations of the form, "If your goal is X, then your policy should be Y." They are less comfortable talking about what the policy goals should be, and the authors did not see this book as the place to make radical recommendations about decommissioning roads, removing tourists, or the like.

They also don't really confront the political problems involved in park policy. These include the interests of concessionaires and gateway communities, hunters in the region around each park, congressional pork, the political interests of the National Park Service, and the self-interest of scientists who work in parks (such as the authors!). While they mention these issues, they don't really confront them as either obstacles or opportunities to their preferred policy, in large part because their policy recommendations are pretty weak themselves.

Though this book is essential if you want to understand wildlife in parks, those limitations are an important weakness. It deserves 4.5 stars but I'll round up because I'm in a good mood.

This is a big, beautiful book portraying the works of an architect who strived not to design monuments with a signature style, but instead create wonderful places that fit their landscape. The book chronicles twenty of Turnbull's projects beginning with the Sea Ranch Condominium (with MLTW) and ending with Turnbull and his wife's own weekend retreat, Teviot Springs Vineyard. All but one of the projects (Sea Ranch Athletic Club)are residential, which reflects the nature of Turnbull's career. The book contains essays by Mary Griffen (Turnbull's wife and business partner), William Stout, Mitchell Schwarzer, and Donlyn Lyndon. Turnbull's buildings contain innate beauty, sensitivity to site, and the ability to bring common, conventional construction to a high art. Morley Baer's black and white photography is powerful and captures the wonderful subtleties in Turnbull's sometines simple and conventional structures that are truly "GOOD" architecture.

This pamplet shows the art on display at the Windsheim Alter of the Twelve Apostles. Up close photos of The Christ and the twelve apostles art work. In looking over the damage suffered by works of art belonging to the Kurpfalzische Museum which had been stored elsewhere for safe-keeping during the last war, it seemed advisable to completely restore a carved wooden altar of the late Gothic period which had long been one of the most important pieces in the Heidelberg city art collection. This is its history.