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The World: Travels 1950-2000 2 reviews
Jan Morris
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
A journey through time and place
This book is excellent. The author's descriptions of the locations she visited over the past fifty years as a journalist are insightful and, in my mind, fairly accurate. She is more than a travel writer. Morris is an artist, taking what she sees in the places and people of foreign places and turning them into vivid expressions on the page for the reader to both visualize and experience. Morris ...
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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-19985 reviews
George W.S. Trow
Vintage, 2000
Wonderful. One of a kind.
In "My Pilgrim's Progress," George W. S. Trow abandons the impersonal, incantatory voice of his celebrated 1981 essay "Within the Context of No Context" for a free-flowing, deeply intimate act of performance art on the page. If the astounding "No Context" was a late 20th century "The Waste Land", then Trow's newest book is his "Krapp's Last Tape." With razor-sharp wit, brilliant insight, ...
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When We Were Young: A Baby-Boomer Yearbook4 reviews
Rita Lang Kleinfelder
John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1993
High School Reunion Resource
This yearbook is an excellent resource in planning a high school reunion and helping build a school alumni association.
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Abingdon Pottery Artware 1934-1950: Stepchild of the Great Depression4 reviews
Joe Paradis
Schiffer Publishing, 2000
The Ultimate Guide to Abingdon Pottery.
Abingdon Pottery has been a little know piece of Americana until Joe Paradis and his outstanding book came along. Paradis covers the history of the pottery works, from the days of sanitary fixture making to the Depression when Art Pottery was made. Also discussed are the unique features of the actual pottery with excellent illustrations and interviews with the surviving members of the Depression ...
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Naked Men, Too : Liberating the Male Nude 1950-200010 reviews
David Leddick
St Martins Press
The Naked Male Is Liberated!
David Leddick continues in this second volume of naked men what he began in NAKED MEN, PIONEERING MALE NUDES, 1935-1955, bringing us up to 2000, the year this volume was published. The genie is out of the bottle as famous and unknown men pose before many different photographers. In addition to George Platt Lynes, there are photographs here by George Dureau, Ken Duncan, Francesco Scavullo, Tom ...
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The American Century 2-Volume Boxed Set: Art and Culture, 1900-20002 reviews
Barbara Haskell, Lisa Phillips
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
Creativity never looked so good
It was the word Culture in the title that made me buy these fascinating books. I wanted something that explained American creativity in the broadest sense and I thought, having used them both for some time now, that the text and images succeed brilliantly.
What really made the books come alive for me was the extensive use of long sidebars to explain how the various strands of art and ...
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Letters from an Actor5 reviews
William Redfield
Limelight Editions, 1984
A Theatre Classic!
I read this book when I was in high school. More than thirty years later, I took it off the shelf and couldn't put it down. Wity and insightful, William Redfield's Letters from an Actor may be the best book I've read on what it's like to be a working actor in the theatre (I stress "theatre" beacuse Mr. Redfield has some interesting thoughts on film acting.) From frustrating rehearsals to ...
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U.S. Military Medals 1939 to Present2 reviews
Lawrence H Borts
Medals of America Pr, 1995
Excelent quality reference work on US Medals
This is an US medal collector must have refence work. It's depics each medal with full exaplanation on topics related on wearing and displaying such medals. Each medal is explained and detailed. All medals and ribbons are in full vivid colour
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English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s2 reviews
Peter Holland
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Possibly the best book since the First Folio
OK, so he has a bad hairstyle much like Shakespeare's. But man he can write -- this book contains some of the best prose about live Shakespeare since Ken Tynan took his last spanking. A rich, appreciative book that shows why Shakespeare still matters and how his plays are best used, and a priceless document of theatre history.
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Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950-1970 (Photobook)2 reviews
F. Valentine, III Hooven
Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1996
Wow! Add This One to Your Collection
BEEKCAKE: THE MUSCLE MAGAZINES OF AMERICA ought to be reprinted. It is an essential read for those interested in the contruction of the gay male form/ideal. BEEFCAKE takes a look at the history of "the beefcake." Simply defined, the beefcake is a male who is physically built--a bodybuilder or perhaps an Abercrombie and Fitch male model. What I found interesting is the beefcake ideal ...
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Day by Day: The Nineties (Day By Day)1 review
Smita Avasthi
Facts on File, 2004
A Worthy Choice
This wonderful two-volume set chronologically lists events as they occurred day by day for the decade of the 1990's. Entries are brief, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. The taxonomy is intuitive, with categories that consist of: world affairs; Europe; Africa and the Middle East; the Americas; Asia and the Pacific; US politics and social issues; US foreign policy; US economy and ...
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140 Great Fashion Designs, 1950-2000, CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)1 review
Tom Tierney
Dover Publications, 2002
great resource book for writers and graphic artists
This book and CD is another in the line of great royalty free works of images. This time, it's fashions from the great designers of women's wear 1950-2000, ranging from everyday wear to evening gowns.
These Dover book/CD ROMs are a graphic designers delight. It's so hard to find good quality graphics that are royalty free, and not end up spending a fortune. Dover has a good selection of ...
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The Great Spanish Films: 1950-19901 review
Ronald Schwartz
Scarecrow Pr, 1991
A Classic
This book is not only a classic, but it is being updated by the author in a new edition that will cover the years 1990-2000!
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Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-19501 review
Atina Grossmann
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
Reviewing Sex
This work serves as both an incredible study of German feminist history, but also as an interesting look into the social construction of birth control in a rather atypical Western nation. Grossmann is clear and concise, chronicling the period by major players and important legislation, focusing mainly on the movement to reform Paragraph 218 (the anti-abortion clause in the Civil Code) but also ...
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Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991 (New Edition)1 review
William J. Grimshaw
University Of Chicago Press, 1995
Complex
It's insightful. It's dry. It's daedal (not a typo) and complex and surprisingly interesting.
My professor wrote it and my professor assigned it. He says that Ch.2 is embarrassing and skipped it.
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Ohio Politics1 review
Kent State Univ Pr, 1997
The definitive history of recent Ohio politics!
Wow! This is an epic tale of everything there is to know about Ohio politics -- featuring all there is to know about the Governors, legislators, and average citizens of the Buckeye state. In this book readers will find the "real story" behind the headlines. The pages turn like a thriller -- I heartily endorse it!
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Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000: A Spindler Anthology1 review
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000
amazing history
For anyone doing research in education, this is an amazing history and helps you understand how to approach these settings with the right theory and perspective.
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Alabaster Cities: Urban U.S. Since 1950 (Space, Place, and Society)1 review
John Rennie Short
Syracuse University Press, 2006
Alabaster Cities is thoroughly accessible to lay readers as well as scholarly readers.
Written by John Rennie Short (Professor of Geography and Public Policy, University of Michigan), Alabaster Cities: Urban U.S. Since 1950 is an in-depth, scholarly study of urban America since 1950, with especial focus on "urban renewal" that all too often demolished working-class city zones that were not slums, failed to provide adequate public housing, and therefore left too many poor and ...
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Cuban Art and National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters, 1927-19501 review
Juan A. Martinez
University Press of Florida, 1994
Excellent
An excellent book that explores an area of the Cuban arts that remains somewhat clouded - the painters of Cuba's first avant-garde movement. The book is well-written and easy to read without being boring or esoteric and the selection of artwork is perfect for the content. Martinez shows a lot of care and research in this topic.
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 (American Made Music Series)1 review
Richard J. Ripani
University Press of Mississippi, 2006
Invaluable analysis of R&B by a musical expert
This is not your typical overview of R&B through the decades. Such overviews typically contain lots of biographical tidbits about various R&B stars, discuss the show biz aspect (the rise of fall of various record labels), and discuss the sociological aspect of R&B as black music crossing over into pop. And so on. And there's nothing wrong with that. I've read many books of that ilk, and learned ...
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