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A thorough catalog of wallpaper designs and fabric types and patterns from 1700 to 1900
This new hardcover edition is a unique single-source presentation of the successful Fabrics for Historic Buildings and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings.
Featuring the entire content of both comprehensive, visually stunning books, Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings offers:
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More than 1,000 authentically reproduced wallpaper designs, along with extraordinarily useful advice for answering the centuries-old question: "What shall we do with our walls?"
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Reliable, expert advice for choosing, buying, and installing the appropriate fabrics for historic interiors, complete with more than 600 fabric types and patterns and new information on twentieth-century fabrics
Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings is an essential volume for everyone involved in restoring or researching American houses built between 1700 and 1900.
Customer Reviews:
A superb reference for historic and periodic consultation and inspiration.......2005-11-07
Fabrics & Wallpapers For Historic Buildings is a new hardcover edition compiling the previously published references "Fabrics for Historic Buildings" and "Wallpapers for Historic Buildings". An immense catalog of patterns appearing from 1700 to 1900, Fabrics & Wallpapers For Historic Buildings include more than 600 fabric types and patterns, more than 1,000 authentically reproduced wallpaper designs, new information on twentieth-century fabrics, useful advice, and much more. The many illustrations are in black-and-white but have exquisite detail. A superb reference for historic and periodic consultation and inspiration.
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How Can An Appropriate Fabric be selected to reupholster a family heirloom chair, make new draperies for a 100-year-old house or restore the furnishings of an entire house to their original appearance? Revised and expanded, Fabrics for Historic Buildings explains how to choose, buy and install the correct fabrics for historic interiors. Included is a unique catalog of more than 600 fabric types and patterns and a new chapter on 20th-century fabrics. "Gives practical, step-by-step advice on selecting and ordering appropriate fabrics for restoration projects." Interior Design "This book offers practical advice for anyone decorating a historic or an old home who wants to recreate a period look and is confused when it comes to selecting appropriate fabrics for the curtains and upholstery." Country Home
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Fabrics for historic buildings
Jane C Nylander
Manufacturer: Preservation Press
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Threshold: Images and Shadows of Things Devine
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
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- Relevant for many missionary kids
- Relevant for many missionary kids
- Through Isaac's Eyes; Crossing of Cultures,Coming of Age, an
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Through Isaac's Eyes; Crossing of Cultures, Coming of Age, and the Bond Between Father and Son
Daniel Barth Peters
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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A memoir of a young man's relationship with his father and the importance of a father's faith to his son.
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Relevant for many missionary kids.......2003-07-08
This personal story of a wounded missionary kid is a story so familiar for many missionary kids. Mr. Peters did well in balancing the "taboo" of revealing MK (missionary kid) struggles and respecting his father's faith and committment to missions. If your a missionary kid I encourage you to read this powerful book, and even more importantly if you are a parent of a child raised on the mission field.
Relevant for many missionary kids.......2003-07-08
This personal story of a wounded missionary kid is a story so familiar for many missionary kids. Mr. Peters did well in balancing the "taboo" of revealing MK (missionary kid) struggles and respecting his father's faith and committment to missions. If you're a missionary kid I encourage you to read this powerful book, and even more importantly, if you are a parent of a child raised on the mission field.
Through Isaac's Eyes; Crossing of Cultures,Coming of Age, an.......2000-04-30
I was fortunate enough to have Dr. Peters for a class in college. I, too, had been to Siagon in the years he was there. I, however, was older and had gone because of service to our country. I found this a very compelling read as well as some what tragic. Even though Dr. Peters wrote fondly of his father, I found it tragic that this man would put his wife and child in such harms way. I asked Dr. Peters if his father ever understood how profoundly that experience effected him. He quietly answered, never. I also discovered that he had passed away before Dr. Peters could tell him how it changed his life. At fourteen he was to experience the same shock that many in the military did, only with no one noticing. This is an excellent read and may explain better than any other book I have read how many of us returned from that war emotionally shattered.
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- The book is an excellent resource for high schools
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Between Fathers & Sons: A Program for Sharing Faith, Strengthening Bonds, and Growing into Manhood
Michael Smith
Manufacturer: Ave Maria Pr
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The book is an excellent resource for high schools.......1997-11-15
"Between Fathers and Sons: A Program for Sharing Faith, Strengthening Bonds, and Growing into Manhood" by Michael Smith SJ, (Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1997). 125 pp. $16.95
Frontiers are sometimes physical borders and sometimes spiritual or even mystical boundaries. Adolescence is both. Every person has to live on both sides of it as it rolls through generation after generation. Perhaps the older and the younger in the golden past related across that rolling frontier amicably. Not today, and particularly not among males, as the shapes and forms of fathering have disintegrated one after another.
Commentators have given a name to this social illness: nonfeasance-the omission of an act which ought to have been performed. Fathers today are not sufficiently active in rearing their children, sons and daughters alike. And commentators have a partial cause of this illness staring up at them from their statistics: because marriage has somehow lost its bite, four of ten American children fall asleep at night in a house bereft of their biological father. Even where father lives with his family, pressures from gender role shifts, work patterns, urban mobility and anonymity, the drug culture, and a lot else have contrived to turn male adolescence into a fairly wild frontier. The pressures have made the father-son relationship arguably the grittiest and tautest frontier in society.
Michael Smith, S.J., now Director of Campion Retreat Center in Melbourne, Australia, has boldly moved onto that frontier equipped with sound psychology and solid theology. He has created a series of group spiritual exercises that bring a father and his son together not at high noon-to put it this way-but in the cool of the evening where God walks. He has conducted the program in the United States and in Ireland as well as in his native Australia. It works.
In "Between Fathers and Sons" Fr. Smith outlines, as the book's subtitle puts it, "a program for sharing faith, strengthening bonds, and growing into manhood." The book lays out a program of six three-hour sessions, done on a weekend or spread out. Each session, grounded in an event from Jesus' life, incorporates brief input from the facilitator, individual reflection, group work, and time during which fathers and sons speak personally to each other. The topics cover the field by having the generations meet at the crossroads: the father-son relationship, becoming a man, dealing with anger and aggression, friendship with girls and women, the quest for identity. The program ends with a moving ceremony during which each father blesses his son and washes his feet.
Fr. Smith's expressed conviction is that a son must learn to believe in Jesus Christ autonomously, but he will believe much more wisely and well if he witnesses his father's faith. Grace, we have learned, builds on nature; Fr. Smith is strengthening both grace and nature in this program for fathers and sons.
Designed for adolescent males between thirteen and eighteen and their fathers (or someone who takes the father's place when he is not available to his son), the program is an excellent resource for pastoral teams in high schools, parishes, and retreat houses. "Between Fathers and Sons" offers much to pastoral counselors and even to groups of fathers who wish to deepen their relationships with their sons. The program's process is crisply laid out, practical, and penetrates intimate and personal issues without too much pressure or too much thrashing about. Plainly written, the text includes full directions to conduct the program and useful tear-out forms to photocopy. Facilitators do not have to belong to a helping profession to use it.
The focus of "Between Fathers and Sons" raises some tangy questions about other relationships in the family: What about mother and daughter, for instance? Does that relationship need a program? For that matter, what about mother and son? While fathers and sons enhance their mutual relationship, do they leave mother out, or do they heighten all family relationships? Probably most of us would judge that in general, mother-son and mother-daughter relationships are in better shape than father-son or father-daughter relationships. Yet daughters need their fathers as much as sons need them. Perhaps therein lies Fr. Smith's next task: to apply the fine combination of gifts and skills he shows in this program to write a similar book for fathers and daughters.
Joseph Tetlow SJ
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The Three Doctors-Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt-discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: As children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite great odds, the three overcame the statistics. In high school, they formed the Pact, a promise to one another that they would become doctors, and it kept them dedicated to one another and to their dream, and helped to put them on the road to successful careers as physicians.
In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers' inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors' own words-and their fathers'-they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifing ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that's sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man.
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Bonds of Attachment (University of Wales Press - Land of the Living)
Emyr Humphreys
Manufacturer: University of Wales Press
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ASIN: 0708316255 |
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In this final novel of the Land of the Living sequence are the voices of the dead poet, John Cilydd More, and his youngest son Peredur in a twin-track narrative. Humphreys won the English Book of the Year 1999 at the Hay Festival.
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- When the kid sticks his tongue out is the best.
- Dancing has good watercolor illustrations.
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Dancing
Denys Cazet
Manufacturer: Orchard Books (NY)
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ASIN: 0531087662 |
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When the kid sticks his tongue out is the best........1998-06-02
I think that people who like dancing would prefer this book, called dancing by denys cazet.I didn't like it because the illustration was boring. It's written by denys cazet oh by the way I kind of don't like dancing. One thing I liked about the book was when the kid yells.
Dancing has good watercolor illustrations........1998-06-02
I did enjoy this book because it was fun looking at the pictures--because they are cool. I really liked the style of illustration using the dark and light watercolor media. And the writing fit the pictures !
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- A book worth giving to a son or Dad
- Would highly recommend, even if my son and I weren't in it.
- A very touching look at father and son.
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Father & Son: The Bond
Bill Hanson
Manufacturer: Bright Books Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1880092190 |
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A book worth giving to a son or Dad.......1999-10-20
I read this, now am ordering for a gift to my Father for Christmas. Though it leans a bit too heavily to artists, actors, etc as subjects (I would prefer more 'regular guys'), it can reach out and grab your emotions.
Would highly recommend, even if my son and I weren't in it........1999-01-08
Too often a father feels that he has to play the "tough guy" and fails to convey to his son(s) that loving and caring for others is the mark of a man who is truely confident of his "manliness." This book gives the reader examples of fathers who transcend this stereotype.
A very touching look at father and son........1998-07-14
In this book Bill Henson manages to capture the essense of children and the men they call father. Each photograph (taken by Bill Henson) is a moving photograph of a father and his son(s), accompanied by a essay written by the father, son, or both. There are some celeberties in the book which is an added incentive to buy, but the best reason to buy this book is because of the fantastic artwork done by Bill Henson and the touching essays that capture the love between a father an soon.
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Father & son. It is a relationship that rewards, frustrates, & mystifies. Here are more than 50 fathers & sons who reveal in their writings & through Hanson's poignant photography, the unique bond of fatherhood. These men speak of the responsibilities & rewards of being father & son. They share stories of discovery & growing pains. There are very young sons who are just beginning to follow in their father's footsteps, sons who are testing their father's patience, sons who are separated from their fathers by divorce, & sons who adore their fathers. These men are following in the traditions of family, trying to raise a better generation of men.
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- Superficial analysis, difficult to read
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Structural Adjustment in the Transition: Case Studies from Albania, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova (World Bank Discussion Paper)
Michael S. Borish ,
Khaled Sherif , and
George Clarke
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
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ASIN: 082135065X |
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Superficial analysis, difficult to read.......2003-10-22
I tried to use this book for my own research. Here is my conclusion: Not impressive.
This paper is neither a serous research effort, nor an easy read. It claims to be a diagnostics of four countries and that is what it just is.
People who know about these countries will not find anything new from this paper, economic "symptoms" and "illnesses" described in this work are widely known and often repeated.
Plus statistical information included in the paper becomes history and its usefulness therefore evades.
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