Wagner Books

"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.

Larry Lueck, the founder and president of the Wagner Society of Hawaii, has made an important contribution to the literature about Wolfgang Wagner, Bayreuth, and studies of Richard Wagner. The book is skillfully edited and presents twenty separate essays with 142 photographs, most of them published here for the first time.

Lueck has assembled an illustrious group of composers, conductors, singers, and critics to produce an important book for experts on Wagner as well as for novices. Readers will be especially fascinated by the manner in which Lueck and other contributors balance criticism and praise for Wolfgang Wagner and his half-century of achievement at Bayreuth, which his detractors will find difficult to gainsay.

In addition to his adept editing of this attractive book, Lueck has provided the preface and two major essays that detractors of Wolfgang Wagner must read. The list of contributors demonstrates successful coordination with writers in different parts of the world. Contributors to the volume in the sequence they appear are Larry Lueck, Klaus Schultz, Penelope Turing, Astrid Varnay, Peter Dannenberg, Pierre Boulez, Sir Donald McIntyre, John Tomlinson, Graham Clark, Poul Elming, Linda Watson, Robert Dean Smith, Philip W. Raines, Monika Hofer, and Jim Becker.

Though written over a hundred years ago, this is a great historic work by a leading suffragette. She uses history to show where some of our societies current attitudes towards women come from. Much of this book is dedicated to the middle ages. The chapter on witches in Europe and the US was especially enlightning.

As a student of women's history, I was especially interested in the history of wives, our obsession with virginity and the corrupt rulers of the church.

Great book for anyone that enjoys reading about women's history or has an interest in the history of the church.

I just recently bought and read Xena:WP "Slave" Graphic novel and I was very pleased with it. The artwork was fantastic and the story was absolutely well done. It was interesting for them to involve Cleopatra in this paticular storyline. I think that the Xena books help fill the void when they show repeats of episodes on TV, you can read a totally all new Xena adventure in Novels and graphic novels. I highly recommend this Graphic Novel and the very First Graphic Novel "The Warrior Way Of Death" To any Die Hard Xena Fan.

This is a wonderful book with much information. Purchase this book if you are planning to learn about technologies in business

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