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The CowParade is here! To immortalize the event, Orange Frazer Press has published a full color picture book upon which to showcase these bovine beauties. 100 full color pictures show off the creatively color coated cows which adorned the sidewalks, parks, and streetcorners of San Antonio this past winter. The 'a-MOO-sing', fiberglass creations were decorated by hundreds of local artists, professional and amateurs, from throughout San Antonio and South Texas. The cows will be sold at a live and online auction at the conclusion of the event for the benefit of the American Cancer Society and the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, which supports local arts in the community. Therefore, CowParade San Antonio will be the only official record of the event after all of the animals have been sold. CowParade is the world's largest public art event. From Chicago and New York in 1999 and 2000 to Kansas City and Houston in 2001 and London in 2002, CowParade continues to evolve, not just in size, but in creativity and quality of art. While the cow sculptures remain the same, each city's artists are challenged by the art from past events, inspired by the cultural influences of their respective cities, and moved by their own interpretaion of the cow as an art object. Capturing the hearts and imaginations of millions worldwide, CowParade travels to exciting new cities around the globe. Along the way it fosters art education through its programs and benefits charitible causes through its one-of-a kind cow auctions.
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Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography not only is a major document in the history of Christianity, a classic of Roman Africa, and the unchallenged model through the ages for the autobiographical record of the journey to self-knowledge, it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when, and why he became the man he is, he probes the great themes that others were to explore after himCfaith, time, truth, identity, and self-understanding--with a richness of detail unmatched in ancient literature. Dense with vivid portrayals of friends, family, colleagues, and enemies, The Confessions chronicles the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening--in a powerful narrative of one man's inner education that continues to shape the way we think and act today.
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Very deep and laborious reading, but well worth it.......2004-01-07
St. Augustine was the first, and is arguably the most influential, of the major Christian apologists. In a time when Christianity was gaining momentum in the Roman Empire but was still mostly confined to the poor and uneducated, Augustine's theological treatises and apology made Christianity more valid, and in many cases more acceptable, to the learned in Rome. This autobiography, detailing Augustine's early life with a special emphasis on what made him convert to Christianity, made a tremendous contribution to the work of the sect.
Augustine deals with several topics in this book. He explores why we sin, how it affects God, and how He tries to win us back. He discusses learning and the effect of worldly wisdom and human interpretation of divine will, and attempts to reconcile earthly learning to spiritual growth. In the last three books he discusses time and creation with God. This is definitely heavy reading, but while Augustine's argument is very detailed and is sometimes difficult to comprehend, it is not poorly organized. For the most part the narrative is smooth, though the last three books do lag a little bit compared with the rest of the work.
Augustine's work has endured for more than a millennium and a half. Christianity has evolved, and has branched into many different and often opposing factions, but Augustine's work and his message still carry the great weight that they did over 1500 years ago.
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Architectural photographer Richard Payne began this photographic survey of small Texas towns as a part-time enterprise—something enjoyable to do in his spare time out of nostalgia, curiosity, and a love of making photographs that reminded him of his hometown. The effort grew into a book that reflects today's Texas small towns and the practice of architecture as a profession and an art.
The brief period between 1880 and 1930 was the golden age of architecture in Texas. The downtowns of small towns were built then, and since about 1950 there has been a general decline, not only in the architecture and infrastructure, but also in the cultural and economic fabric of life in much of rural Texas.
Looking closely at the architecture of some two hundred towns throughout every region of the state, Payne closely documents in beautifully detailed images the current state of our architectural heritage. For him, the art of architecture stems from both the practical need of civic development and from the dedication, hopes, and dreams of architects, builders, and their customers. "Could we learn and apply the lessons small towns offer us?" he asks. "Could we not have, with all our wealth, energy, and talent, buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in which the 'spirit is cuddled, made serene, made at home with its fellow spirits, proud and happy?'"
Payne's answer, represented by the beauty of his photography and the passion of his writing, "is always yes."
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A unique addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections.......2007-06-09
"Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture: A Photographer's Journey" by architectural photographer Richard Payne is a photographic survey of small Texas towns. Payne embarked on this project as a part-time activity -- something to do in his spare time out of nostalgia, curiosity, and taking pictures of places that reminded him of him own hometown. The 'golden age' of small town Texas architecture ran from 1880 to 1930 and reflected all of the early American architectural styles and influences including Greek, Roman, Italian, Egyptian revival, Spanish Colonial, Victorian, Art Deco, Moorish motifs, and a great many idiosyncratic oddities that defy classification. "Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture" showcases architectural examples drawn from around two hundred towns throughout every region of Texas. Payne carefully documents his beautifully detailed images, many of which rise to the status of art as reflected through the lens of his camera. A unique addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections, "Texas Towns And The Art Of Architecture" is a very highly recommended reading for students of Photography, Architecture, and Texas History.
A must for Texans, road-trippers, and photographers.......2007-02-13
If you don't smile several times, feel nostalgic several times, and maybe even get a tear or two, while reading and studying the photos in this book, then you must be too young or just arrived from the former Soviet Union.
Page after page in this book called out to me, "You've got to go there," or "Haven't you been there?" Since the book is a compilation of work over a number of years, many of the subjects in these photos are gone. Many more will be gone. Small towns in Texas, and the Southwest in general, are being transformed.
Buy this book. Read it. Go to the places photographed in it while you still can.
Gorgeous Photos.......2006-12-03
Came across this book at Gonzales, Texas book fair in Dec. 2006. A great gift for friends and loved ones who have a sincere appreciation for small-town Texas. Very unique.
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- Doomed To Glory
- "Now I really know why he was a legendary PIMP!!!"
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Iceberg Slim
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Doom Fox is the last in Iceberg Slim's legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, Doom Fox is a tale of the Los Angeles ghetto that begins just after World War II and spans the next thirty years. In the no-holds-barred tradition of Chester Himes, Doom Fox captures a violent, vivid world of low-riding chippie-catchers, prizefighters, prostitutes, and smooth-talking preachers.
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Worth a look mostly because of the author.......2006-11-18
It was Iceberg's last novel; apparently published posthumously. Seems to me to be in an extremely unfinished state; the dialogue is bizarre. Not bizarre in the "ebonics" manner that "Pimp" was in, but dialogue the likes of which nobody really speaks in. I can't tell if he wrote it out in what he considered educated english (in a way it is just that), or his idea was to write the story as a sketch wherin the protagonists have really pronounced argots; later changing it to be more realistic.
While his classic "Pimp" wasn't exactly what you'd call a cheerful book, this one was positively bleak in its misanthropic outlook. As a novel, it is a complete failure, but the depths he plumbs in this one (exploring his misogyny via what is apparently the story of his childhood), and the fact that it is Iceberg Slim's work, make it worth a look.
Doomed To Glory.......2005-08-16
Is the only title I feel adequately descibes my feelings towards Slim's last book
The book is doomed, for nothing this good can help but get co-opted by the Man somewhere down the line. White Power Freaks (and that's a much bigger category than the Klan) will surely rip it off sometime. It's a glorious book wherein the greatest "surprise fighters" are: two women, and one gay guy-- Reba, Dottie, and Pretty Melvin.
Here I'd say I'd surely go along with Deborah and get Peter Muckley's Iceberg Slim: The Life As Art to read as a companion piece to Fox, just to help see how great this work in particular, and Slim in general, truly are. Though, mostly, for me, Lit. Crit. is foolish hype, I go along with Thumper on this one; "truly deep".
When I first read Doom Fox, I simply couldn't get over the brittle, hard writing, every phrase a left jab. Here were all the great Slim types in one compact, "coruscating" volume: the Pimp (and just watch how he burns); the Black Muckety-Muck; the twisted killer cop; the Religious Shark; and, as always, the "bitter sweet ghetto".
The prison scenes are superlative and the Nazis therein are more threatening today than even in Slim's time; now they rule the White House. Melvin is an especially complex character who grows and transforms right along, becoming almost a Malcolm X by story's end. Rebecca and Dottie form the Black (staying) Power matrix.
Poor Kong is doomed by his great heart, but there is glory flashed in the sheer telling of his tale. Doom Fox is the history of African-American experience in the 20th century... (and beyond?) It is a blues masterpiece which, as time will prove, is doomed, like its best characters, to posthumous glory. It is also the best presented, best printed, best proofed, and best rounded out of all Slim's books. Please, read it, even if you do not buy it, Muckley's work ditto.
"Now I really know why he was a legendary PIMP!!!".......2005-08-11
1st I plan on reading this book for a 2nd time, which is sumptin' I have NEVER done w/ any book before. Iceberg has already had me in a trance w/PIMP, Trick Baby, Airtight Willie and me, and the Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (I'm workin' on reading Mamma Black Widow and Long White Con). Let the trumpets blow and roll out that decadent red carpet, because honey...Doom Fox is like Whoa!!! Yes, there was even litigation saying that this was not soley written by him. I'd have to say, "Are u out your damn mind!!!" This book is filled from cover to cover with a man's life story, ups and downs; however, not our modern day happenings. Containing every emotion, Love, Hatred, Sexual lust, Revenge. Their is even a woman as well, representing this in the story (which I think is great). One of the more pleasant attributes of Slim, is when he wrote w/out any hang-ups and, he literally hands it to you in writing form, saying, "Hey this is what's on the plate it ain't looking to pretty, but u eat every morsel..ya hear?" His mere talent for weaving everything together w/ out it all turning into Cosmic Slop is uncomprehensible. O.K. dammit read the book, 4 get that 1 star rating some multiple personality wrote, and this is simply (cum on paper), but still safe and legal. Enjoy and indulge yourself. Thank You!
I'm Going to Keep It Real Since Most of You Won't.......2005-06-27
Wow. Like, this book got 5-star reviews. Well, let me tell you, this book is BORING. The only part of the book that I liked was the introduction by Ice-T. The book goes downhill from there. The book made me fall asleep a few times, but I mananged to finish reading the entire thing. It was like the time I was reading "Beloved." That book was way too boring and I had to reread sections just to understand what in the world was going on. Thank goodness I had seen the movie before I read the book! Maybe "Doom Fox" should be made into a movie, and then maybe it would more intersting. Michael Clark Duncan could play Joe "Kong" Allen, Terence Howard could play Melvin, Daniel Sunjata could be Felix, Lonette McKee can be Reba, and Snoop Dogg could be Whispering Slim. Since both of these twits like to act, even though they have no skills, Ashanti could be Delphine and Paris Hilton could be Erica. Yeah, the 1st decade of the new millenium can be known for pimp and hustler movies the way the 90s were known for 'hood movies. I'm perplexed as to why almost everyone in the book- except for Joe "Kong" Allen- had green or violet eyes and auborn hair. I don't see too many Black folks looking like that. Anyway, Joe "Kong" Allen was an old fool and that's what he gets for chasing around a harlot. And just because a book is about dopin', shootin', pimpin', hustlin', or whatever, that doesn't make it deep. I guess this book is as "real" as it'll get- REAL boring.
The Very Apex of the Iceberg.......2005-04-18
In many ways, Doom Fox is an update version of Mama Black Widow. Just try to equate the characters there with those here.
The book stays completely within the ghetto and the prison-system here is dealt with as it had not been since Pimp or the Essays of The Naked Soul. That is, it is Robert Beck writing at his very best about what he knows better than any of us. One way of appreciating the real depth and true subtlety of Doom Fox, its overriding concerns and its masterful historical achievement is to read it in conjunction with Peter Muckley's Iceberg Slim: The Life as Art. There, there is even a plot-breakdown neatly compacted into 1 single page. It is good to see Amazon offer both conjointly at discount price. If you were me, you'd snap up the offer.
For me, this is THE VERY BEST of Slim's works. The writing is sure, the action rapid. It shows what Slim could do when not hampered by publishers, that's why it was published so late and posthumously.
The tale of the Allen Family and its generational decline has as a subtext the whole of African American History, together with much of Robert Beck's own history. The burning up, quite literally, of the evil Whispering Slim shows what Iceberg now thought of his old Pimp-self. In the character of Baptiste Rambeau, we find one of the sleaziest villians of all literature.
For all those, like Sapphire, who have accused Slim of misogyny, this is pure rebuttal here, in the characters of Reba and Dorothy, two outstanding resistance ghetto-fighters.
This is the Slim with the revolutionary consciousness first found in Death Wish, but it is a "bitter-sweet" ghetto saga. Unmatched of its kind, Doom Fox is a tour-de-force singing out to the vile ghettos of Today.
Everyone should have a copy. It is, in so many ways, the Apex of the Iceberg.
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Childhood Favorite.......2007-04-04
I remember having this book read to me and eventually reading it for myself when I got older. I loved the stories, especially The Fox and The Crow. I recommend it that all parents, present and future, have this book in their children's collection.
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Award-winning wildlife photographer Wendy Shattil records the touching, true story of an urban fox family as the kits grow up in a grassy cemetery.
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Beatiful, heart warming story for adults and children........1999-07-09
This book absolutely touched my heart and soul. The true story of foxes living in a cemetary will touch all your emotions. If you love wild life, buy this one.
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Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society—in this case, a team—"chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices?
Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He considers the defensive strategies American Jewish leaders have employed in response to sports' challenges to identity, such as using temple and synagogue centers, complete with gymnasiums and swimming pools, to attract the athletically inclined to Jewish life. Within the suburban frontiers of post-World War II America, sports-minded modern Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis competed against one another for the allegiances of Jewish athletes and all other Americanized Jews. In the present day, tensions among Jewish movements are still played out in the sports arena.
Today, in a mostly accepting American society, it is easy for sports-minded Jews to assimilate completely, losing all regard for Jewish ties. At the same time, a very tolerant America has enabled Jews to succeed in the sports world, while keeping faith with Jewish traditions. Gurock foregrounds his engaging book against his own experiences as a basketball player, coach, and marathon runner. By using the metaphor of sports, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports underscores the basic religious dilemmas of our day.
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This digital document is an article from American Jewish History, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1058 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Date: September 1, 2004
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