Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp & Barbara Ebersol

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Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp & Barbara Ebersol
Louise Stoltzfus
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts, 1683-1850

The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest

ASIN: 0788167227

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The engaging story of two unusual late 19th century foil artists, who were both Old Order Amish. Both were artists, craftspersons, disabled, & single. Henry Lapp (1862-1904) built simple, yet beautiful, pieces of furniture & painted exquisite watercolors. Barbara Ebersol (1846-1922) worked as a seamstress & created fraktur (hand-decorated & painted) bookplates & paintings. Numerous anecdotes about their lives enhance this carefully researched story. How the 19th century Amish community approached, accepted, & nurtured them is discussed. Full-color illustrations of many surviving examples of their work reveal their creativity, charm, & craft.

Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol

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Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol
Louise Stoltzfus
Manufacturer: Good Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K45556

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Philip Edwards deals succinctly with the exhaustive commentary and controversy which Hamlet has provoked in the manifestation of its tragic energy. Robert Hapgood has contributed a new section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play in this updated edition. He discusses recent film and stage performances and actors of the Hamlet role as well as directors of the play. His account of new scholarship stresses the role of memory in the play and the impact of feminist and performance studies upon it. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22151-X First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29366-9

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You will be absorbed into the story.......2006-09-17

This really is "The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark" and not only the Prince but his family. Not only his family but his friends. Not only his friends but all though that came before him and is told to those that came after him.

You can take time to scrutinize and pick apart many underlying themes or may of the phrases that now challenge Bible sayings in today's sound bites. But the real fun is in just reading the story and you will find that it is not as foreign as you may have thought.

A quick synopsis is that Old Hamlet conquered Old Fortinbras seizing his land. Now that Old Hamlet is dead, Young Fortinbras wants his land back and is willing to take it by force. Meanwhile back in Dänemark Young Hamlet who is excessively grieving for the loss of his father, gets a now insight from his fathers ghost. Looks like he was a victim of a "murder most foul"; it looks like his mother and uncle were in cahoots on the murder.

The story is about what each person felt and acted or did not act upon the situation.

You will find many movies and perverted imitations of the story but nothing will replace the original scripts that were intended to be watched.

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage

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A Look at a Royal Marriage
beautiful one
Another Royal Book?
Interesting reading
Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table on the island of Corfu

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage
Gyles Brandreth
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0393061132

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Privileged access to both the Queen and Prince Philip is the key to this revealing and engrossing royal biography.

This is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh—both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but in temperament and upbringing very different people. Her childhood was loving and secure, his turbulent: the Duke's grandfather was assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated by the time he was ten. For almost sixty years theirs have been among the most famous faces in the world—yet the personalities behind the image remain elusive and the nature of their marriage is an enigma.

Gyles Brandreth has met all the principal players in the story; he quotes no anonymous sources; he has known the Duke of Edinburgh for twenty-five years and has interviewed him. This is a unique and revealing portrait of a remarkable partnership, told with candor and authority, and illustrated with Prince Philip's family photographs and pictures from the Queen's royal collection. 40 pages of illustrations.

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A Look at a Royal Marriage.......2007-06-08

This is not just a book about the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip-it is a story of their lives both before and after their marriage in-in sections.

First Section: details about their early lives and details surrounding their parents and grandparents.

First was Elizabeth growining up in England-with her parents the Duke and Duchess of York and then after Edward VIII abdicated King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

Second was Philip born a Greek and Danish Prince but shortly after his birth his family was forced to move to France to live near his uncle George and Aunt Marie.

Second Section: Details their lives as teenagers around the time of WWII
Elizabeth was forced to live apart from her parents and was sent to live with her sister outside of London. After the war the family was reunited and at 13 Elizabeth met Philip for the first time

Philip lived in France for several years before his mother was institutionalized and his father ran off with his mistress. His sisters help raise him and then sent him to schools in Germany, and England. During the War he was a Navey Man where at 18 he met 13 year old Elizabeth.

The Next several Sections detail their courtship, marriage, becomeing first time parents to Charles and Anne, becoming Queen and Consort and then having Andrew and Edward afterward.

An interesting book with interviews from Prince Philip, Elizabeth's cousin and others that give a detailed account of two interesting people.

beautiful one.......2006-11-04

one of the most beautiful biographies i have ever read . it reavels the humaneterian side of queen elizabith and prince philip . they are like us they love and hate like every ordinary person . mr brandreth is great .do not miss this book

Another Royal Book?.......2006-06-06

Having read a lot of books about the royals, I didn't know if I wanted to read another. I'm very glad I read this one. Enjoyed how it was written. Very witty remarks, a lot of them in parenthesis. Having the book notes at the bottom of the various pages was a great help. One can't help but read them. There was alot of info that I had read before, but Mr Brandreth gave a more balanced view. It was a fun read!

Interesting reading.......2006-05-13

This book is well written and enjoyable, but at times quite disengenous. While the author personally knows the prince and has met the queen, his writing ignores some obvious observations by equally believable authors. In fact, as to the princes' errant love life, he interviews Sarah Bradford as an author to be believed, because of her scholarly detail and investigation. When she asserts that Philip has had "lovers" emanting from the very upper crust set who know how to keep their mouths shut, he interviews the Duchess of Abercorn who says "she and the prince would walk and in hand on the beach, but were not physical lovers". She does say she cannot talk for the rest. Brandeth then leaps to the conclusion that the prince's dalliances are just intellectual. One could laugh, as he should have skipped it, as come to this silly conclusion. At any rate, some of the stuff is first rate and as he is a familair with the prince, whom I think he sees justly, as a man with a job to do and does it whatever the cost. It is worthwhile reading, if skewed to one side. That is okay, for as in politics, all of this stuff is skewed to one side or another.

Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table on the island of Corfu.......2006-04-13

And other irrisistable tidbits make this book an honest and enchanting look at the British Royal family. For me, it has been a real page turner. I cannot put this book down. Yes, as one other reviewer pointed out, the book has many "footnotes" but they are packed with even more interesting information, and are not a problem to read. The stories Brandreth includes about the young Princess Elizabeth are charming as well. Scenes of her pulling her grandfather, King George V, by his beard, so that she could play "horse and groom" are priceless. "Lillibet", as he called her, was the apple of his eye, and he got down on all fours to play with her. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in British history and the current Royal Family.

Central Cambridge: A Guide to the University and Colleges

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breathtaking

Central Cambridge: A Guide to the University and Colleges
Kevin Taylor
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521459133

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This is the guidebook that most people interested in Cambridge will need. Combining an accessible style with accuracy of fact and a wealth of historical detail, it is a book that can be used to accompany a walking tour around the University and colleges, or read at leisure as an authoritative introduction. Packed with newly commissioned color illustrations and detailed maps, it provides a comprehensive survey of the collegiate University. There is an informative introduction, a full list of colleges, a glossary, and an index.

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breathtaking.......2002-07-11

This is one of the best books about Cambridge that i own. It's a hybrid of a picture book, full of dazzling photos of the colleges and surrounding town, and a brief history of each college and the town of Cambridge itself. It isn't as long or as wordy as a full history might have been but take it for what it is.
For those who've been there, it is a trip down memory lane which showcases the most beautiful, the most intriguing, and the most fascinating sights in Cambridge, with a good bit of information about each.
For those who haven't been, or are planning to go, this book acts as a tourguide, complete with map. It points out the very best there is to see and how to get there.
I would (and have) recommend this book for anyone with an interest in Cambridge. It's almost like taking a daytrip there.

Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

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Intresting protrayal of Humanists Ideas

Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Erasmus
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521588111

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This is a new student edition of Erasmus' crucial treatise on political theory and also contains a new, excerpted translation from his Panegyric. The Education of a Christian Prince is one of the most important "advice-to-princes" texts published in the Renaissance and was dedicated to Charles V. It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently. This edition also includes an original introduction, a chronology of the life and work of Erasmus, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

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Intresting protrayal of Humanists Ideas.......2001-02-25

The Education of A Christian prince is qutie intresesting and really gives you a sense of how the Renaissance was and kinda what people were thinking know that they didn't follow the church so strictly and that the were free to write their ideas and with the help of the printing press were able to spread the ideas like wildfire to the rest of Europe through books such as this one.

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Not what I expected
So-So writing /interesting book, though

The White Night of St. Petersburg
Prince Michael of Greece , and Franklin Philip
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0871139227

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In the summer of 1998, Prince Michael of Greece attended a solemn interment ceremony for Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were murdered eighty years earlier. While there, he noticed a dazzling older woman in the crowd and, curious to know her connection, traveled to Moscow to meet her. Natalya Androssov Iskander Romanov met Prince Michael and revealed the long-buried story of her grandfather, the Grand Duke Nicholas.
All record of Nicholas Kostantinovich Romanov was erased from the royal dynasty's official vaults, so Natalya's memories remained the only key to his past. As she speaks, the narrative fades to a snow-filled St. Petersburg morning in November 1860, and there begins the fantastic re-imagining of the rebellious and dashing duke's life. His scandalous affair with the devastatingly beautiful American courtesan Fanny Lear and his implication in a plot to fund revolutionaries by stealing family jewels led the emperor to banish him to the far reaches of the vast Russian empire to avoid tarnishing the family name.
From the glittering splendor of Imperial Russia to treks across the barren steppe, The White Night of St. Petersburg brings to life a fascinating and forgotten member of one of history's most legendary families.

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Not what I expected.......2005-04-11

I couldnt even finish reading this book. Prince Michael has done better.

So-So writing /interesting book, though.......2005-03-07

This was not a bad book, but, I think the fact that it's a translation from the French does give it it a stiff quality. (I think there is also a ghostwriter involved.) Also, the initial leap from present to past is somewhat awkward in execution (the first chapter begins like a memoir in the first-person, then proceeds into a novel, occasionally returning to the first-person.)

There were parts of this book that were better than others, particularly when the action was restrained to the characters of Nikolai & Fanny (where the writing really came alive), but then there were sections that dragged a bit (to me, the bits written in the first-person). However, it grew on me, and it always held my interest. I think 3 stars is a fair rating as I don't think I'd want to read this one again, which is my criteria for a 4 or 5 star read.

Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne

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Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne
Philip Mansel
Manufacturer: Orion Publishing
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ASIN: 0753818558

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Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne was a provocative writer, an ambitious general, a brilliant conversationalist, and an innovative garden designer. His desire for military and literary glory was as great as his appetite for lovers. A worldly aristocrat, equally at home in Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg, he electrified and wrote about everyone he met, from Catherine the Great to Casanova, Marie Antoinette to Goethe. Prince of Europe is a story overflowing with memorable incidents and characters, told with delicacy and skill by one of Britain’s leading historians.

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Prince Phillip: His Secret Life
John Parker
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain

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National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain
Keith Wheatley
Manufacturer: Caxton Editions
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Inland Birds of Saudi Arabia
Jill Silsby
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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Outstanding Resource

Guide to the Birds of Madagascar
Olivier Langrand
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300043104

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Outstanding Resource.......2005-01-25

Which probably isn't surprising, considering there aren't many books specifically for the birds of Madagascar.

The color plates in this book are in the middle, with numbers which correspond to detailed descriptions of each species before and after the plate section. This can make for a lot of flipping for the casual bird watcher, as you try to match a picture with a description/known region.

However, the behavior descriptions and text are very good. The color plates are high in quality and a pleasure to reference. Importantly, the book itself is sturdy enough to hold togther while being dragged through Madagascar!

It's fairly pricey, but for anyone who's planning to make a Madagascar trip, I'd definitely say it's worth it.

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