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Contrary to popular belief, it is not the earth that needs to be saved, it is humankind. The earth has geological ages to recover from us; it is our survival on the planet that demands attention. In this unique and groundbreaking book, Paul Devereux has written a practical guide to using the power and energy of nature to heal ourselves - emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Combining the most recent research on intelligence and perception with the wisdom and insight of ancient traditions, Devereux uses the techniques of modern science as well as traditional lifeways to create hands-on exercises that will reestablish our harmony with the natural world. Seamlessly blending science, philosophy, and psychology, Re-Visioning the Earth creates a new paradigm for living with, not just on, the earth.
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How to use energies of the Earth to heal yourself........1997-10-29
"Heal the Earth" is a common call today.Devereaux points out that it is humans who have to be healed, because it is humans who are doing the damage to the Earth.He advocates that we get in touch with the power and energy of nature to balance ourselves and be in tume with our natural environment.Some methods he suggests are: visiting sacred sites and wilderness areas, exploring the local geography, lucid dreaming, tape recording a waterfall, studying clouds,rocks and bark for suggestive shapes and patterns, and many other activities.A strength of this book is the practical advice it gives on relating to various Earth mysteries and energies.
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Seen as merely a thought experiment for over a century, the space elevator is now understood to be achievable in our foreseeable future. It promises to open up the Solar System to all of humanity, and this book gives you a peek at that future. Interweaving both science fiction stories involving the space elevator along with non-fiction articles on the basic technical, financial, legal, social and political issues surrounding the space elevator, this book will give you an entertaining and informative crash course in the space elevator. After reading this book, you will understand both why we want to build a space elevator as well as how it will be built.
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Love it!.......2007-06-25
I love this book. I'm interested in space projects and science fiction. This was a great combination of fact and fiction. Both informative and entertaining. It's great for the laymen. You don't need to know much about space technology to understand and enjoy this book.
Doorway to planets and stars.......2007-03-29
A terrific overview of the various steps needed to build the space elevator. Can't wait to see it happen. Hope it's soon.
A project to change our future.......2006-07-22
This collection of fact and fiction centers on the proposal by a startup company, Liftport, to create a new way to get into space: an elevator. The idea is not new, and the specific means they propose to do it has been discussed in technical papers; nevertheless this is likely the first popularly accessible book that describes the new near-term practicalities of construction, operation, and business for such a system. Liftport plans to get their first elevator up and running before 2020, and this book describes how they may just be able to do that.
The format of the book is a collection of independent essays (the factual portions) and stories, some of which are reprinted from separate novels (by Arthur C. Clarke, David Brin, and Charles Sheffield) and the rest seem to have been specifically written for this collection. The quality of the fiction is rather variable; unfortunately some of the authors would perhaps have benefited from reading the technical sections, as some details are rather jarringly wrong. For example, the "Hermit of the Skies" would not plummet and burn up from the top station, but would be thrown out away from the planet - that's sort of the whole point. In "High Space", you can't be in orbit 300 miles above Earth's surface and stay over one spot - you have to be going a lot slower than orbital speeds. And the troposphere is the lowermost portion of Earth's atmosphere, not what you would hit first on the way down! But of course the technical details aren't the central point of the stories, so maybe it's silly to be picky about it.
The longest fiction section, "The Rings of Earth", by William H. Keith, is among the best of the contributed stories. The vision it paints, of a future Earth-bound society knowing of "gods" above, and the stunning reality of the ending, is almost worth the price of the whole book.
The technical essays describe the project in good detail, though somewhat redundantly and at different levels. It would have helped if the editors had given the authors a better picture of what the other parts of the book would cover. I wrote (and donated) one of those essays, so I'm somewhat familiar with the way it worked - I have met a number of the authors in person as well.
The elevator physically consists of an anchor station on Earth's surface, a counterweight beyond geosynchronous orbit in space, and a strong ribbon connecting the two. A "lifter" climbs the ribbon; technical essays cover each of those components. Additionally, power to the lifter must be supplied without physical contact which would add precious mass - a power beaming system is described that could do the job. Construction steps and safety issues are also discussed.
The remaining essays discuss business, law, and political issues more than technology. How the elevator will make money, what it will do to the space launch business, is covered in several chapters. Who will have legal jurisdiction is one central question - from these essays it seems clear the United States will at the least have a strong claim, but inclusion of many international partners would probably be safest.
One of the applications that may be enabled by the cheaper space launch services the elevator will provide are solar power satellites. An essay here by Ralph Nansen discusses the enormous potential and environmental benefits from this alternative energy solution.
Finally, the Liftport staff call on all of us to "get involved" - including sponsoring a contest to win options on 1000 Liftport company shares. This book demonstrates the company has a potentially feasible plan to radically change the relationship between Earth and space - if they succeed it will change our future. Are you ready to join?
Interesting, even for a casual reader.......2006-06-28
I have no science degree and spend little time pondering space elevators, but the subject is interesting and this book is well organized. Different authors took specific topics and created one or two chapters each. Famous sames such as Kim Stanley Robinson contributed. I received this as a present prior to a week at the beach and enjoyed the book more than expected, flipping to chapters that interested me and skipping others.
By coincidence, I visited the Wright Brothers' museum near Kitty Hawk while on vacation. It is striking how rapidly air travel developed from the "cranks and weirdos" stage around 1900 to a substantive business. I do not know if the analogy translates, but you never know.
The roadmap to our future.......2006-05-09
Seen as merely a thought experiment for over a century, the space elevator is now understood to be achievable in our foreseeable future. It promises to open up the Solar System to all of humanity, and this book gives you a peek at that future. Interweaving both science fiction stories involving the space elevator along with non-fiction articles on the basic technical, financial, legal, social and political issues surrounding the space elevator, this book will give you an entertaining and informative crash course in the space elevator. After reading this book, you will understand both why we want to build a space elevator as well as how it will be built.
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Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.
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African women are seldom given the space to express their concerns, their ideas and their reflections about the societies in which they live. In situations where a good woman is expected to remain silent, literature can provide an important medium for the expression of deeply-felt and sometimes shocking views. In this anthology the award-winning author Yvonne Vera brings together the stories of many talented writers from different parts of Africa. The act as witnesses to the dramas of private and public life. Their stories challenge contemporary attitudes and behaviour, leaving no room for complacency.
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A window in the lives of everyday African Women.......2007-08-08
Awesome compilation of real women's stories. I felt a particular connection to the story by Gugu Ndlovu. Her characters were especially vivid. A must read!
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- Teaches Openings To Beginning and Intermediate Players
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Complete Book of Chess Openings
Fred Reinfeld
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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Teaches Openings To Beginning and Intermediate Players.......2003-02-20
This is a tough little tome to track down. In fact, it is less than 200 pages and too short to be a tome. No matter, "Complete Book of Chess Openings" by the late Fred Reinfeld is packed with openings, gambits, defenses and explanations why which moves will impact your playing.
Reinfeld authored dozens of chess books, and was one of America's top players. He summed up his understanding of openings into this book, suitable for beginning and intermediate players.
Included are what you'd find in most opening books:
Center Opening, Danish Game, Bishop's Opening, Vienna Game, King's Gambit, Giuco Piano, Four Knights, French Defense, Sicilian Defense, Queen's Gambit, and much more. The moves are described in notation form, and he briefly points out the sensibility behind a given move. There is a page with a notation chart for those players unfamiliar with it.
Where many great players falter as they prepare opening books is that they often overwhelm the reader with more material than is useful. Unless the player understands the reasoning behind the openings, the secondary and tertiary lines and variations are pointless. The player will have already lost. Reinfeld wrote this not for Bobby Fischer or even Garry Kasparov, but for the average player.
I fully recommend "Complete Book of Chess Openings" by Fred Reinfeld. It should be on every student of chess' desk, ready as reference or for study.
Anthony Trendl
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The art of designing both unites and divides landscape architecture and architecture. Despite having a long tradition, landscape architecture has lacked a concise presentation of the fundamental principles underlying its design and planning concepts. This much sought-after book has evolved out of more than twenty years of teaching experience. The authors distinguish between the variable factors such as climate, growth of vegetation etc., and the more abstract element of design. They describe the ideal design components and demonstrate the extent to which natural features such as surfaces, spaces, paths, borders, hard and soft materials shape the designs. This book reveals how concepts such as order and chaos, way and goal, intention and reaction form the basis for landscape design, just as they do in architecture. Hans Loidl has been Professor for Landscape Architecture in Berlin since 1982 and has headed his own atelier since 1984. Stefan Bernard works as a landscape architect and graphic designer.
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This symposium was dedicated to science opportunities with the VLT. All major areas of astronomical research were discussed in the plenary sessions, ranging from where we stand in cosmology to the new frontiers in the solar system. The workshops published in this volume focussed on different ways of finding clusters of galaxies at high redshift, on gravitational lensing by distant compact clusters, on the use of stellar populations as distance, age or abundance indicators, and on the extraordinary progress made in the discovery of extrasolar planets. This book affords a glimpse of what will be at the center of astrophysical research in the forthcoming decade. It is addressed to researchers and graduate students.
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Jean-Jacques Semp+- is one of the most successful andbest-loved cartoonists in the world, best known from his cartoons that havegraced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for decades.Semp+- haspublished numerous collections of his work in his native France, but neverbefore have they been translated into English.Phaidon Press is delightedto present the first English translated publication of EVERYTHING ISCOMPLICATED by Jean-Jacques Semp+-, one of four witty and beautifullyillustrated collections from this notorious and widely adored cartoonist. Semp+- is equally adept at capturing the little indignities (and triumphs)of everyday life as he is at high farce.EVERYTHING IS COMPLICATED, thesecond Semp+- volume published in France, features some of his favoritesubjects, such as hapless tourists, pipe-smoking novelists and unrulyschoolchildren, as well as people who choose to express their innermostfeelings through the medium of the protest sign.One classic imageportrays a family after dinner; the father, still in his work attire (aclown costume) berates his three boys only to find that his tirade anddress leave the boys in hysterics. Another tell-tale cartoon tells of aworkers union parading the streets in protest, demanding their rights aswritten on expressive posters, while one concerned-looking man uses hissign to inquire if anyone in the crowd has lost a glove.These inimitabledrawings and watercolors, accompanied by perfectly judged deadpan captionsare fresh, engaging and funny.Semp+-'s work, once just the one-of-a-kind illustrations that appearedbefore our American eyes in delightful yet sporadic moments, can now bebrought home as an enchanting part of every family's library.EVERYTHINGIS COMPLICATED, just one volume of four, includes more than 100illustrations, both pen and ink, with captions translated by Anthea Bell. Professionals, children, and adults of any age will fall in love with thesecharming books.
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Sempe: Nothing is Simple (Sempe)
Jean-Jacques Sempé
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Jean-Jacques Semp+- is one of the most successful andbest-loved cartoonists in the world, best known for his cartoons that havegraced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for decades.Semp+- haspublished numerous collections of his work in his native France, but neverbefore have they been translated into English.Phaidon Press is delightedto present the first English translated publication of NOTHING IS SIMPLE byJean-Jacques Semp+-, one of four witty and beautifully illustratedcollections from this widely adored cartoonist.NOTHING IS SIMPLE was the first book of Semp+- drawings, originallypublished in 1962. In this classic Semp+- collection, we find a timelessmix of everyday moments and surreal situations, captured withcharacteristic playfulness and attention to detail.Semp+-'s world ispopulated by nosy neighbors, mischievous schoolboys and thwarted lovers, bysnooty holidaymakers and crowds of frustrated commuters in the big city. In one classic series, a woman looks horrified to witness an accidentinvolving a truck, a restaurant-front and several bystander, and rushes toher friend's house to report, not of the accident, but the fact that shesaw her friend's husband stepping out of a nearby bar with another woman. These inimitable drawings and watercolors, accompanied by perfectly judgeddeadpan captions, are fresh, engaging and hilarious. Semp+-'s work, once just the one-of-a-kind illustrations that appearedbefore our eyes in delightful yet sporadic moments, can now be brought homeas an enchanting part of every family's library.NOTHING IS SIMPLE, justone volume of four, includes more than 100 illustrations, both pen and ink,with captions translated by Anthea Bell.Professionals, children, andadults of any age will fall in love with these charming books.
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Delightful.......2007-04-05
Sempe' is simply a genius at capturing subtle universal situations with a few beautifully drawn characters. He's a modern master.
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1001 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, and Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers
Michael Hodgin
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ASIN: 0310473918 |
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Drawn from a broad array of sources, topics in this compilation range from Ability and Acceptance to Words, Work, and Worship.
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Book review.......2007-08-11
Over all this book was worth the money. Wont realy know until I have to prepare the next speach.
I wasted my money.........2001-05-26
I didn't get anything out of this book. Buy it if you have money to waste.
It was very helpful........1998-12-11
The book was very helpful to me. It's a great book filled with useful stories and jokes.
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Jean-Jacques Semp+- is one of the most successful andbest-loved cartoonists in the world, best known from his cartoons that havegraced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for decades.Semp+- haspublished numerous collections of his work in his native France, but neverbefore have they been translated into English.Phaidon Press is delightedto present the first English translated publication of SUNNY SPELLS byJean-Jacques Semp+-, one of four witty and beautifully illustratedcollections from this notorious and widely adored cartoonist.Originally published in France in 1999, SUNNY SPELLS explores a wide rangeof topics, from troubled relationships and existential crises to officepolitics and doping scandals in the literary world.Semp+-'s cast ofcharacters includes pious churchgoers, amateur painters and lovelornpaleontologists, as well as psychiatrists, actors and football supporters. In the spirit of (celebrity) book clubs, one image portrays three verypleased-looking women inquiring if a bemused salesman could recommend abook that hasn't been picked up by the media,' so that they can set thebook off with the irresistible force known as the word-of-mouth campaign.' Another modern day spoof illustrates two business men departing from arather long lunch, discussing the satisfaction of their meals in comparisonto the rather verbose man they dinned with, adding that they could findall his anecdotes and quotations on the Internet within five minutes.' Propelled by the hustle and bustle of the cityscape into the calming imagesof vacation spots and churches, readers will reach for this collection timeand time again in order to satisfy their travel desires.Semp+-'s work, once just the one-of-a-kind illustrations that appearedbefore our American eyes in delightful yet sporadic moments, can now bebrought home as an enchanting part of every family's library.SUNNYSPELLS, just one volume of four, includes more than 100 illustrations, bothpen and ink, with captions translated by Anthea Bell.Professionals,children, and adults of any age will fall in love with these charmingbooks.
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1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers
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Michael Hodgin offers this third book in a series of humorous, audience-tested illustrations that enable speakers to connect with their listeners in an effective way.
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Great Source of Good, Clean Jokes.......2005-05-29
This is a great source for good, clean AND funny jokes. They are arranged by topic and can be indexed by subtopic. There is also a place where you can record the use of each joke so you don't repeat yourself. I've receive quite a bit of good feedback from the jokes I've used in my sermons.
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Jean-Jacques Semp+- is one of the most successful andbest-loved cartoonists in the world, best known from his cartoons that havegraced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for decades.Semp+- haspublished numerous collections of his work in his native France, but neverbefore have they been translated into English.Phaidon Press is delightedto present the first English translated publication of MIXED MESSAGES byJean-Jacques Semp+-, one of four witty and beautifully illustratedcollections from this notorious and widely adored cartoonist.The most recent collection of Semp+-'s work, MIXED MESSAGES was originallypublished in France in 2003.Here Semp+- turns his attention to thetrappings of modern life, from cell phones to designer water, and revisitssome of his favorite subjects, such as struggling artists, a lookpsychiatrists and unhappy couples.One image portrays two business men inconversation, traveling down a cit street aboard personal scooters,ironically wondering about the kind of society they are leaving to theirchildren.While another image, rendered beautifully in watercolor, mocksNew York City's resolute ban of smoking in restaurants; calling on the NYPDto take out a lit cigarette in a vacated French Bistro.Whether he ispoking fun at the urbane patrons of fashionable restaurants or theinhabitants of the bucolic countryside, Semp+- treats all of his subjectswith equal amounts of insight and affection.Semp+-'s work, once just the one-of-a-kind illustrations that appearedbefore our American eyes in delightful yet sporadic moments, can now bebrought home as an enchanting part of every family's library.MIXEDMESSAGES, just one volume of four, includes more than 100 illustrations,both pen and ink, with captions translated by Anthea Bell.Professionals,children, and adults of any age will fall in love with these charmingbooks.
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The art of humorous illustration
Nick Meglin
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1,049 whimsical images by George du Maurier, Randolph Caldecott, and others: art, music, transportation, grooming, more.
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Great for many uses.......2000-01-29
This book contains quality art for use in various publications. You are allowed to use as many as ten in a single publication without written permission. Very nice.
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Humorous Illustration: Top Artists Of Our Time Talk About Their Work
Nick Meglin
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A Great Book!.......2002-11-20
This book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in cartooning and humorous illustration in general. I had the first edition of this paperback (published in 1973)... that edition has a different cover and shows up in used bookstores occasionally. The chapters about Jack Davis and Mort Drucker were great... two very good Mad Magazine artists (along with Sergio Aragones and Al Jaffee). But my all-time favorite part of this book is the chapter that focuses on Bob Jones. Bob is a great funny animal (anthropomorphic animal) illustrator who created the cartoon Exxon Tiger (also known as the Esso Tiger), a famous icon in America and around the world. There are several great pictures of the Exxon tiger in this book including a model sheet with different expressions! This part of the book alone is great because it's so hard to find pictures of the cartoon tiger like unless you go to the Exxon web site or find old advertisements for Exxon/Esso with pictures of the tiger. In fact, you can go to the Exxon (or ExxonMobil) web site [...] and enter "tiger" in the search field for info from the company about the character. Exxon introduced its cartoon tiger in 1964 as the star of its 'Put a Tiger in Your Tank' ad campaign. (May be hard to find cartoon images now because of the Kelloggs vs. Exxon Lawsuit lost by Exxon in 2000). Anyway, other artists featured in this book are Federico Fellini, Paul Coker, Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, Gerry Gersten, Johnny Hart, Donald Reilly, Norman Rockwell, Arnold Roth and Maurice Sendack.
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Edward Lear's Nonsense
Rizzoli
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No Nonsense.......2000-04-20
Though Wines is renowned for architecture, his illustrations for Lear are emphatic of his talents as an artist; these are a combination of the beautiful line and sensuous watercolor qualities of Arthur Rackham crossed with the avant-garde and perverse sensibilities of Edward Gorey. An intriguing perspective on the poems of Edward Lear. Lear himself must have applauded if he'd had the chance. Provocative for adults, yet children will be tickled by it. Nice gift book. The title makes it suitable for all sorts of occasions.
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