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Bazaar Bizarre: Not Your Granny's Crafts!

28 reviews
Greg Der Ananian

Studio, 2005

Bazaar, YES. Bizarre, YES. FABULOUS!! YES!!
Mr. Der Ananian 'crafts' a winner. The book combines hilarious and honest memories of his youth that rang true with mine, despite the fact that I was never crafty, and I grew up in a different ethnic mixture. But he describes a little bit of life and alot of crafty creativity. For anyone who likes to create, for anyone who had a mother, and for anyone who likes to laugh while learning, this book ...

The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking

28 reviews
William Langewiesche

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

What If.
What if ...Iran covertly buys Enriched Uranium from North Korea?...then claims it produced it ..this is the very reason Israel has made contingency plans for a strike on the Known Nuclear sites...its really hard to believe that the World is not taking the Iranian threat seriously,during WW2 we had "Plausible" deniability that a Whole race of people were being savagely eradicated because nothing ...

Harper's Bazaar Great Style: Best Ways to Update Your Look

22 reviews
Jenny Levin

Hearst, 2007

I LOOOOOVE IT!
This book is awsome, I even bought a second one to give as a gift! I love the fact that it has pictures to show what they are taking about. I use it as a reference before I get dressed every day!

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

36 reviews
Paul Theroux

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Classic Paul Theroux travel book
This book is a great read from one of the best travel writers of the past 35 years. I've read all his travel books and essays and some of his fiction. I voraciously consumed this book in a couple of weeks. If you like travel writing, give this a try. You won't be sorry.

Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia

7 reviews
Susan Meller

Abrams Books, 2007

extravagantly illustrated
while this extravagantly illustrated compilation of Russian printed fabrics from 1900 to 1950 will be invaluable to both artist and collector, it is a visual delight to the general reader as well. The author skilfully weaves the history of the Cental Asian tribal peoples into the tapestry of mass migration and technology which produced stunning roller and block-printed cotton clothing.

The Great Railway Bazaar

3 reviews
Paul Theroux

Mariner Books, 2006

A peerless and unforgettable travel narrative
This fabulous account of getting on the train in London and riding trains (including the decrepit Orient Express) through Europe, across Asia as far east as Japan, then looping back to Europe on the Trans-Siberian, is not a bit dated, even though it was first published in 1975. Theroux is sometimes cross and prickly, but he doesn't miss a thing, and he ventures into places (and eats things) that ...

Bag Bazaar: 25 Stylish Bags to Sew in an Afternoon

1 review
Megan Avery

Potter Craft, 2008

Easy and fun!
I just received Bag Bazaar today and it's exactly what I hoped for! It's not just 25 bags, it's 25 very different kinds of bags - a whole range of projects from a chic clutch to a much needed garment bag - all with lovely illustrations and easy to follow, brief and precise instructions. Plus the projects don't require expensive or hard to find materials. I have lots of pretty left over ...

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

15 reviews
John McMillan

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Finally, a reasonable, non-ideological book about markets
I had never expected to give a 5-star review to a book about markets. But this book is a very even-handed description, favoring a case-by-case approach to "market design". Government is neither all bad nor all good, and markets are neither all good nor all bad, in this view. Nor does McMillan wrap markets in the mantles of politics and/or religion, a la Milton Friedman, George Gilder and others. ...

Bazaar Style: Decorating With Market and Vintage Finds

5 reviews
Selina Lake, Joanna Simmons

Ryland Peters & Small, 2008

BOHEMIAN SPLENDOR!
I love this look and find it a fun and easy way to decorate, HOWEVER, I caution those less adventurous folks to find a more mainstream book for reference. This book focuses on the flea market, ethnic look which is not a look based on balance or anything cohesive...it's an "anything goes" kind of look which is perfect if you are just starting out and trying to put a home together with odds and ...

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

50 reviews
Eric S. Raymond

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2001

Simply a Great Book
I could not put this book down. In a nutshell: it's is about software and development models. Don't yawn just yet - this book definitely held onto my attention throughout. Eric Raymond has a great way of introducing the subject matter as he shares his first-hand experiences as a free software developer. If you ever tried or thought about writing software, especially free (as in speech) software, ...

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

33 reviews
Paul Theroux

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

A Wondrous Adventure aboard the Orient Express
Note: I made some immature Mormon angry because of my negative reviews of books that attempted to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews almost as fast as they are posted. So, your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks, and note that a short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great book. If you always dreamed of traveling, then do ...

Midnight Bazaar - A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales
Simon Clark

Robert Hale Ltd, 2007

Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600

2 reviews
Rosamond E. Mack

University of California Press, 2001

INFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
To whom visit Italy, Venice is different of other important art centers , like Rome or Firenze . The Oriental influence in the architecture remains as first impression.Screnning windows in the lunette above Porta Sant'Alippio , ,the grills on Saint Mark, the facades of the Doge's Palace.But,also, in the painting , and general decorative arts the islamic and oriental influence is visible. Venise ...

The Money Bazaar : Inside the Trillion-Dollar World of Currency Trading

5 reviews
Andrew Krieger

Crown, 1992

Great overview!
This is a great book. Mr.Krieger gives you the history of how foreign currency trading came about. He also provides you insight into how curreny trading work and more importantly how it fails. He doesn't give specific strategies on how to trade currencies, but he does introduce vocabulary and resources to help you get started. In that respect the book is out of date. There is no discussion on the ...

Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Objects/Histories)
Kajri Jain

Duke University Press, 2007

Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as ?calendar art? or ?bazaar art,? the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring women, movie stars, chubby babies, and landscapes. Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class ...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

3 reviews
Jerry Brotton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Was Renaissance a western-only phenomenon?
Between XIV and XVI century a silent revolution changed the landscape of Europe in such a way that nothing after Renaissance looked as before: every field showed the mark of its passage. Today we still praise the age of Salutati, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus, Montaigne, Copernicus and Galileo, Bacon and Shakespeare. Just to name few of the leading ...

Quick & Easy Christmas Bazaar Crafts

2 reviews
Jim Williams

Rodale Pr, 1995

WOW! Great Ideas!
I have an addiction: I am a craftaholic. Also a confession: I don't do them, just read about them. My intentions are always good: to someday get organized enough to start Christmas presents six months in advance and dazzle everyone with homemade gifts. (These are particularly useful for gifts to co-workers when you want something different, but not too expensive.) Most crafts books are ...

The Arms Bazaar (Coronet Books)

2 reviews
Anthony Sampson

Coronet Books, 1991

an excellent journalistic complement to the cold-war literature on the subject
International arms sales is one of the issues that I got into as a student of IR in the early 80s. I read Andrew Pierre's Global Politics of Arms Sales, which was so good that I almost pursued the issue as a career concern. I read Sampson's book at that time, and it was the perfect complement to the academic side of it: Sampson went to the places where catastrophe was brewing from arms sales ...

Harper's Bazaar April 2008 - Demi Moore, Fabulous Fashion

Hearst Magazines, 2008

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