The Equine Arena Handbook: Developing a User-Friendly Facility
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Extremely technical
  • How to build and maintain a cost-effective equine arena
  • Thanks from a Non Rider
  • Disappointing
  • if you want to know dirt....
The Equine Arena Handbook: Developing a User-Friendly Facility
Robert Malmgren
Manufacturer: Alpine Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1577790162

Book Description

If you are planning to build or improve an arena, you must have this book. Think of the arena footing as more than a smooth surface--it's use and management must be compatible. The three most important concerns are dust, hardness, and drainage. You'll learn to control all three. Additional chapters cover purchasing land for horse facilities, arena maintenance, footing amendments, and more.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Extremely technical.......2007-05-20

I purchased this book because it had rave reviews. I immediately read the book when it arrived and was a bit disappointed because it has so much scientific jargon it was hard to follow at times. I couldn't help but notice that the author has patents on rubber footing products which he advertises throughout his book.

5 out of 5 stars How to build and maintain a cost-effective equine arena.......2006-03-19

Deserving of ongoing mention is a guide horse owners will relish: a slim but detailed account of how to build and maintain an equine arena. You can save thousands of dollars and horse injury by learning what makes for a good arena, how to clean and manage it properly, considering drainable spots, and more. EQUINE ARENA HANDBOOK: DEVELOPING A USER-FRIENDLY FACILITY appeared in 1999 but remains virtually the only in-depth book on the topic today.

5 out of 5 stars Thanks from a Non Rider.......2006-03-12

Not being a rider myself, I was totally confused with the need for a sub-base and how the unique impact of a horses hoof can cause failure to the surface.

Now that Robert Malmgren has explained the soil mechanics involved in horse hoof impacts, I can now utilize local sub base, base and surface materials better.

And now tractor drawn grooming can be done better as I now understand that the B and C horizons need to be addressed as well as the obvious A.

Thank you for saving me countless yards of material and wasted time. Dan Lauzon, Rockport MA

1 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2005-12-26

I got this book because I was planning to build my own arena and was very disappointed with the lack of practical advice it contained. The author is a soil scientist and it shows. The book is about soils and sand, and has very little to do with the practicalities of arena construction, nor is it even very clear about the range of surfaces available. Its lack of practical orientation can be illustrated by the(very brief)section on drainage where it states that: "Drainage refers to the potential of a soil to acquire an optimum level of moisture for a particular purpose." That really wasn't much use to me. In fact I found much more valuable information on equestrian arenas, including surfaces, but just searching the web.

3 out of 5 stars if you want to know dirt...........2005-10-21

This entire book is about footing....soil testing, issues, management,.....
What I thought I was buying included guidelines as to how big to plan an arena for various uses, .... and that was never covered.
So, if you want to know dirt, soil, ...it's great. If you want more, it's lacking.

Intaglio: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Intaglio: Acrylic Resist Etching
Intaglio: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint
Robert Adam , and Carol Robertson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: 0500513430

Book Description

The complete safety-first system for creative intaglio printmaking.

This practical and inspirational book is the definitive guide to intaglio printmaking. With clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of illustrations, it describes methods that, while employing a strong traditional basis, avoid the use of toxic materials to achieve stunning prints the modern way—safer, healthier, and more environmentally friendly.

Covering every stage of the plate-making and printing process, the book opens up creative possibilities for beginners and experienced printmakers alike. Whichever intaglio technique you wish to use—acrylic-resist etching methods such as aquatint, photo-etching, collagraphy, and photocollagraphy; or engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, burnishing, and air-abrading—classically trained printmakers Robert Adam and Carol Robertson show you how to do it.

From setting up and equipping an intaglio studio, through choosing a printing method, to collating and presenting finished prints, this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive reference book—complete with a list of international suppliers and glossary—is the only resource any art practitioner, educator, or student will ever need. 229 illustrations, 199 in color.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Intaglio: Acrylic Resist Etching.......2007-06-08

This is a beautifully made and illustrated book with sewn pages and thick paper. It includes and excellent synopsis of the history of printmaking. Effort is made to cover many of the "safe" contemporary techniques, but one cannot escape the feeling that it is a marketing tool for Lascaux products (though various dry film resists, and products by Golden, Graphic Chemical, and others are not excluded). Oddly, while the techniques will be of great benefit to someone new to safe printmaking, discussion of setting up the studio is aimed toward a commercial fine art printmaking operation, not the lone printmaker. Take what you need and leave the rest. Techniques are clear, often illustrated, and easy to follow. It is an excellent reference for safe handling procedures and a variety of techniques. The book is a good value.
Mezzotint
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful intro to a little-known technique
Mezzotint
Carol Wax
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0810926490

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5 out of 5 stars Wonderful intro to a little-known technique.......2004-08-09

Mezzotint is one of the least-known but most versatile of the intaglio printing processes. It is the only process that gives such delicate nuances of light and dark, the "mezzo" in its name. Even aquatint's tonal qualities are generally crude by comparison.

Wax first shows the technique of mezzotint process. It starts with a ground that prints beautiful, silky blacks. Unlike other printmaking techniques, the artist then makes lighter marks on this dark field. This technical information is very helpful when looking at actual mezzotints - it lets you read each mark in the print with better understanding.

Wax includes a huge gallery of mezzotint prints, her own and other printmakers'. The reproductions are very good. They show how the process evolved from a technique for reproducing other artwork into an art in itself. Something is always lost in photo reproductions of these prints, but Wax's gallery should be enough to entice you into wanting to see more.

This is the only book I know dedicated to this most unusual printmaking technique. I recommend it to any serious maker or afficionado of fine prints.

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66 etchings,: Being full page reproductions of etchings, drypoints, aquatints and mezzotints, and a few reproductions of wood-block prints and lithographs, (Print Society Publications)
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    66 etchings,: Being full page reproductions of etchings, drypoints, aquatints and mezzotints, and a few reproductions of wood-block prints and lithographs, (Print Society Publications)
    Hesketh Hubbard
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    The art of etching explained and illustrated: With remarks on the allied processes of drypoint, mezzotint, and aquatint (One shilling hand-books on art)
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      The art of etching explained and illustrated: With remarks on the allied processes of drypoint, mezzotint, and aquatint (One shilling hand-books on art)
      H. R Robertson
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      British Mezzotinto Portraits: Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the Early Part of the Present Century : Arranged According to
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        British Mezzotinto Portraits: Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the Early Part of the Present Century : Arranged According to
        John Chaloner Smith
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        Reprint of the 1883 edition. Oversized octavo. Four parts bound in two volumes. Circa 2000 pages. 'Mezzotint' is a printing process of the intaglio family, in which the surface of a metal plate is roughened evenly; the image is then brought out by smoothing the surface, creating the image by working from dark to light. The mezzotint technique, invented in Germany in the 1640s, found its apogee in 18th-century England as the ideal medium for reproducing oil paintings. The method is tonal rather than linear: the forms and highlights are pulled out of an overall dark background by scraping or burnishing in the highlights. Whereas a few painters, notably Thomas Frye, became gifted mezzotinters, the most skilful practitioners like John Raphael Smith, Valentine Green and Richard Earlom were professional engravers who made brilliant interpretive plates after England's best-known artists including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Zoffany, Stubbs and Joseph Wright of Derby. The proper appreciation of mezzotints depends crucially on two absolute prerequisites: the quality of the impression and the condition of the paper. Such is the nature of the technique that a mezzotint plate can only give a small number of impressions before the burr on the plate gets worn down by the pressure of printing, so that what should print black and velvety comes out looking flat and grey. Despite its date, still a standard reference work for mezzotints.
        Catalogue No. 250 European and British Master Prints 1800-1970 from Costable to Miro and including a fine collection of mezzotints by J. M. W. Turner
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          J M W Turner
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            Francis Seymour. Hayden
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              THE COLLECTED GHOST STORIES: Canon Alberic's Scrapbook; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash Tree; Number 13; Count Magnus; Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad; Treasure of Abbot Thomas; School Story; Rose Garden; Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes
              M. R. James
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              Cotton Mather the Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer 1663-1703, Salem Witchtrails, Becoming a Witch
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                Cotton Mather the Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer 1663-1703, Salem Witchtrails, Becoming a Witch
                B/W Mezzotint Engraving By Peter Pelham, 1727 of 65 Yr. Old Cotton Mather, Illustrated , Small FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Blank Flyleaf, Back Inner Flap DJ Photo of Levin By J. David Congalton David Levin
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                The Discoveries of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. , Concerning the Influence of the English Mezzotint O
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                  Acta Est
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                  • Visual tension from an unknown universe
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                  Acta Est
                  Lise Sarfati
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                  4 out of 5 stars Visual tension from an unknown universe.......2001-07-06

                  Russia images made by Lise Sarfati in the 90'. Dislocated and strange space and time that should belong to an unknown universe. The ruins like broken structures depicted 'as is' via certain perspective, is really attractive. Places like contention camp and work camp for offenders, psychiatric institute, bathroom, the eyes of prisoners & transsexuals etc further increase the mysterous tension in your visual interpretation.

                  The cover photo is a masterpiece. Imagine, the room inside Moscow psychiatric institute is shown as a performace like theatre setting.

                  5 out of 5 stars Detention Camp for Young Male Offenders.......2000-11-03

                  A dark and intensely disturbing exhibition. Luminous photography, giving a fascinating representation of a vague, mysterious world. I finger through this book with fever: Sarfati gives the imagination powerful imagery, a feast of the unknown. To be enjoyed slowly and carefully. Highly recommended.
                  Explorare Necesse Est: Hyllningsskrift Till Barbro Nilsson (ACTA Universitatis Stockholmiensis)
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                    Yvonne Lindqvist
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                    Creating hierarchical models of protein families based on Expressed Sequence Tags: The ''Sprockets'' analysis pipeline [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
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                      Creating hierarchical models of protein families based on Expressed Sequence Tags: The ''Sprockets'' analysis pipeline [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
                      P.M.K. Gordon , C. Weinel , C. Jacobi , U. Kampf , and Kri
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                      This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                      We have created an analysis pipeline called Sprockets, which can be used to classify proteins into various hierarchical ''families'', and build searchable models of these families. The construction of these families is based on data from Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and Coding DNA Sequences (CDSs), making Sprockets clusters especially suitable for studying gene families in organisms for which the completely sequenced genome does not (yet) exist. The pipeline consists of two main parts: pair-wise analysis and grouping of sequences with Z-score statistics, followed by hierarchical splitting of clusters into alignable protein families. Various computational and statistical techniques applied in Sprockets allow it to act like a massive and selective multiple sequence alignment engine for combining individual sequence collections and related public sequences. The end result is a database of gene Hidden Markov Models, each related to the other by three levels of similarity: secondary structure, function and evolutionary origin. For a sample 20,000 EST set from Lactuca spp., Sprockets provided a 9% improvement in mapping of function to unknown sequences over traditional pair-wise search methods and InterPro mapping.
                      Acta Est Fabula
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                        Diogenes Valdez , and Fic00000
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                        La diva: Acta est fabula : novelle (Meulenhoff editie)
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                          Wim van de Woestijne
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                          The Very Best of Hagar the Horrible
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                            The Very Best of Hagar the Horrible
                            Dik Browne
                            Manufacturer: Pocket Books
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                            Binding: Paperback

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                            Hagar the Horrible: Vikings Are Fun (Best of Hagar the Horrible, Vol 1)
                            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                            • Hägar at his boisterous best!
                            Hagar the Horrible: Vikings Are Fun (Best of Hagar the Horrible, Vol 1)
                            Dik Browne
                            Manufacturer: Tor Books
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                            Binding: Paperback

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                            ASIN: 0812560523

                            Customer Reviews:

                            5 out of 5 stars Hägar at his boisterous best!.......2002-04-09

                            This 4"x7" paperback book is a collection of Hägar the Horrible comics by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89). Here in this book are many adventures of Hägar, his friend Lucky Eddie, his formidable wife Helga, his beautify though self-conscious daughter Honi, his bookish son Hamlet, and Hägar's less than competent crew. In this book, Hägar must face Bloody Bulgars, knights in armor, magical trolls, and Lucky Eddy's cooking.

                            Recently, while digging through an old box full of books, I came across several of my treasured Hägar books, of which this is one. My children (girl eleven, boy eight) grabbed it away from me, and were soon happily reading the jokes out loud to all present. It is so nice to see that Hägar can entrance the young of today, much as he did me. My personal favorite is when Hamlet and his friends discuss what they want to be when they grow up. My wife loved it when Helga instructed Honi in "The Ancient Mysteries and Secrets of Womanhood." As for my kids, their favorite was when Hägar's crew proves too incompetent to even leave the pier behind!

                            We all love this book, and you will too. If you can get it, then do so!
                            Hagar H/turn For Wors (Dik Browne's Hagar the Horrible)
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                              Hagar H/turn For Wors (Dik Browne's Hagar the Horrible)
                              Chris Browne
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                              Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook
                              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                              • Worldwide Loot
                              • Everything a Hägar fan could want
                              • From the comic strip Hagar, a fictional viking
                              Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook
                              Dik Browne
                              Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Paperback

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                              ASIN: 0894809377

                              Book Description

                              Featuring Dik Browne's lovable Viking Hagar the Horrible, here is an indispensable manual filled with hands-on advice for anyone who would enter the Viking business. For the first time anywhere, the entire range of Viking life, lore, and wisdom is presented.

                              Illustrated with 150 full-color drawings, this guide explains how anyone can be Norwegian, conduct a smash-and-grab, and take home the fruits of victory even when closet space is tight. Hagar's beloved Helga, Honi, and Hamlet are all present; there's a long-running party at the Glog factory; and a special section rates the 10 Most Sackable Cities in Europe. For all who quest for the Golden horn, assault castles, or wield the broad axe, this is the definitive treatise.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              4 out of 5 stars Worldwide Loot.......2007-02-20

                              Was a big fan of this book when I was a kid. Found it fascinating, pretty funnny too. Plenty of drawings. Features Dik Browne's Hagar the Horrible going around Europe, Britain and Russia. Features Dik Browne's view on Viking exploration & Viking life too. Gives some background to the comic strips that way. Worth getting for fans.

                              5 out of 5 stars Everything a Hägar fan could want.......2002-09-11

                              This lovable book bills itself as "an introduction to the Gothic Arts of Pillaging, Pilfering, Sacking, Looting, Ravaging and Plundering." Well, I wouldn't quite go so far. What it is instead is a look into the world of Hägar the Horrible, Viking extraordinaire. Created by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89), Hägar is a lovable rogue: fighting, carousing, drinking, and partying his way across Dark Ages Europe, and doing his share to make it just a little darker.

                              This book has everything a Hägar fan could want. It's explains who the Vikings are, how they think (or not), how they party, and what they do. Filled with Dik Browne's wonderful cartooning, it's a hilarious book. My two favorite parts are the Viking Code, and the list of the "10 Most Sackable Cities in Europe." This is a great book, a must-have for any Hägar fan. If you can get this book then do so, you won't regret it!

                              4 out of 5 stars From the comic strip Hagar, a fictional viking.......1996-08-10

                              Full of funny stuff, The Viking at Home, at work, real work,and more.From the book " Rome fell in 475 A.D. The Dark Ages spread over Europe. Civilization died out. people got stupider and stupider. Things couldn't possibly get worse. And then....... The Vikings showed up in 800 A.D." It did seem a little short though.
                              Hagar the Horrible, No. 1
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                                Hagar the Horrible, No. 1

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                                At Home With...Hagar The Horrible No 6
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                                  Dik Browne
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                                  ASIN: 0868016284
                                  Best of Hagar the Horrible
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                                    Best of Hagar the Horrible
                                    Dik Browne
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                                    The Best Of Hagar The Horrible No 1
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                                      Dik Browne
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                                      Born Leader (Hagar the Horrible)
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                                        Born Leader (Hagar the Horrible)

                                        Manufacturer: Tempo
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                                        Even More of The Best Of Hagar The Horrible No 2
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                                          Dik Browne
                                          Manufacturer: Budget Books
                                          ProductGroup: Book
                                          Binding: Paperback
                                          ASIN: B000KKF5WI

                                          Books:

                                          1. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective
                                          2. The Good Home: Interiors and Exteriors
                                          3. The Graphic Standards Guide to Architectural Finishes: Using MASTERSPEC to Evaluate, Select, and Specify Materials
                                          4. The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting
                                          5. The Japanese Home Stylebook: Architectural Details and Motifs
                                          6. The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings
                                          7. The Landscape Urbanism Reader
                                          8. The Main Line: Country Houses of Philadelphia's Storied Suburb (Suburban Domestic Architecture, Vol. 1) (Great American Suburbs) (Great American Suburbs) (Great American Suburbs)
                                          9. The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
                                          10. The New City Home: Smart Solutions for Metro Living

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