West Coast Bungalows of the 1920s: With Photographs and Floor Plans

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This handsome reprint of a Stillwell & Company catalog is an ideal resource for 21st-century bungalow buyers and renovators as well as for builders seeking details of authentic materials and techniques. Its 50 examples of the classic California bungalow style include magnificently reproduced photographs, in addition to floor plans, estimated costs, and descriptions of exteriors and interiors.

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New York City is an object of awe, desire, and disparagement, an image both alluring and, often, frightening.A magnet to tourism, it is also home to eight million people of every race, color and creed.For over 50 years, Henrik Krogius has roamed its avenues and streets, photographing and describing many facets of its vibrant and varied life.His focus is not on famous buildings-though he depicts many-but on people who live and work here.With the eyes of one of the city's many celebrants, he describes a city that is traversed by visitor and resident alike, yet not consciously observed by most.He gives us the New York we see in passing, but rarely pause to reflect upon-the familiar made special.In these pages one sees New York today, but also, thanks to his constant camera, how it looked and evolved over the past five decades.

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Much more than a coffee table presentation.......2004-10-10

New York, the 'city that never sleeps', receives a wide-eyed celebration with Henrik Krogius' New York You're A Wonderful Town! a photographic treat representing the author's own 50 years of fascination with New York. Much more than a coffee table presentation, however, New York You're A Wonderful Town! adds Krogius' own prose to supplement the striking black and white shots: the result being a history of change and a celebration of New York's lifestyles and courses of history.

NEW YORK YOU'RE A WONDERFUL TOWN!: FIFTY-PLUS YEARS OF CHRONICLING GOTHAM

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NEW YORK YOU'RE A WONDERFUL TOWN!: FIFTY-PLUS YEARS OF CHRONICLING GOTHAM

Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IA85HC

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When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores stories that survive in both versions associated with, on the one hand, such standards of the nineteenth-century fairy tale as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, on the other, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy tale owes a great debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period.

Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past

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An outstanding guide for Christians caught up in terrifying feelings of shame and distrust
Worthwhile read!
You can be free
no more a victim!
Find Freedom, Find Peace & Experience a Changed Life

Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past
Alice Smith
Manufacturer: Bethany House
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 076420176X
Release Date: 2006-03-01

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Brought to the feet of Christ by her own trauma, Alice Smith talks for the first time about the abuse she faced. Powerful personal testimony provides healing and help.

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An outstanding guide for Christians caught up in terrifying feelings of shame and distrust.......2006-06-07

Highly recommended reading, Beyond The Lie: Finding Freedom From The Past by Alice Smith is an outstanding guide for Christians caught up in terrifying feelings of shame and distrust, and who are searching for an escape to a personal world less susceptible to the all consuming evils promoted by the broader culture of the world today. Providing an informed and informative mapping of the proper pathway to a spirituality healthier lifestyle, Beyond The Lie helps the reader to avoid being victimized or otherwise lapse into behaviors that would disgrace themselves and their families. Above all else, Beyond The Lie gratefully speaks to Christian readers of the glorious sacred love of Christ redeeming them from the bonds of their past, the temptations of the present, and the promise of the future.

Worthwhile read!.......2006-04-30

All people, including Christians, have traumatic events that keep them in spiritual and emotional bondage. Alice Smith is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. She began her life journey as a victim, but through the healing power of Christ, she emerged a victor.

Smith's book, Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past offers help to all who struggle with past abuse experiences. Through personal and victim stories, biblical stories, statistics, a bibliography of suggested reading and victim resources, Smith provides readers with the necessary information to rise up, gather hope in God and walk out of the darkness.

Smith's book is laid out in a manner that makes it easy for the reader to gather the information necessary to help themselves. She discusses forms of abuse and typical responses by victims, systems of thought that can impact how you view yourself and the world, warning signs that victims send out, positive self talk and healing through Jesus Christ.

Armchair Interviews says: If you, or someone you know has suffered abuse, Beyond the Lie: Finding Freedom from the Past is a valuable gift to give.

You can be free.......2006-04-07

I really liked this book. It's easy to read and her stories are real clear. Alice shares in a way that hurting people of this world can be set free of their past. First Alice shares how as a child she was victimized and how she struggled with her abuse for years. But she doesn't stop there she goes on to skillfully explain how we can be free from the torment that has kept us bound all of our life. It really is a lie you know, we don't have to remain a victim! We can be set free. This book will help change your life.

no more a victim!.......2006-04-02

No wasted words here! I found this book easy to read, succinct and to the point. It demonstrated how childhood rape or molestation can be overcome through prayer, with graphs and charts that were very helpful. The author made clear how to overcome a victim mindset. Especially helpful were definitions of spiritual warfare terms, how demons find ways to attach themselves, and how to get rid of these parasites. ("you've got worms?") Yes, this book helped me gain confidence and put away fear. Highly recommended!

Find Freedom, Find Peace & Experience a Changed Life.......2006-04-02

I am thrilled to recommend "Beyond the Lie" to anyone who has suffered at the hands of others, experienced traumas or ever asked the question of how to turn suffering and difficulties into something better vs years of repeated pain. The transparent stories, biblical principles and step by step instructions are the result of over 35 years of counseling and ministry.

In almost 15 years of working alongside Alice's ministry, I have seen thousands of lives impacted and changed by the insights shared in "Beyond the Lie". Personally my life is completely different than where I was years ago when I first met Alice. "Beyond the Lie" can make a difference in your life as well!

Debbie Walker
Houston, TX.

Souls Don't Lie: A true story of past lives

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Unconvincing but a good read

Souls Don't Lie: A true story of past lives
Jenny Smedley
Manufacturer: O Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1905047835

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Do we really have past lives? At one level this is a thrilling romance adventure from the 17th century. But it is all true. Jenny Smedley's life was changed in the moment she recognized Garth Brooks, American country music singer, as her husband from an earlier life. Under hypnosis she began to recall the life they led together, and wrote this astonishing tale of love and sacrifice, murder, death and renewal. She later found many points of confirmation of her story. It also changed her from an overweight, suicidal woman to a successful song writer, newspaper columnist and TV presenter.

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Unconvincing but a good read.......2007-08-17

I believe reincarnation is likely to be true, but I seek evidence of it. This book contains only the scantiest of evidence that will only convince the already-convinced. As a bodice-ripper novel, it's a reasonably good fast-moving read, though this is only the second book of that genre I have ever read. The past lives story is (I guess) possible, but the embellished details seem far beyond what would normally be known from a past-life regression and the plot is not the kind of thing that happens to most people--although what do I know about 17th century England? Overall, I was disappointed but mildly entertained anyway.

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Past Lies
Nunzio Defilippis , Christina Weir , and Christopher J. Mitten
Manufacturer: Oni Press
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ASIN: 1932664343

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In 1980, an aviation pioneer and millionaire named Trevor Schalk found the key to immortality. His psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, Dr. Christopher Peck, completed the most extensive post-hypnotic command in history. After the 25th birthday of Schalk's next life, whoever or wherever that was, this life would begin to come back to him. Unfortunately for Schalk, on the night he'd secured his immortality, Trevor Schalk was murdered. The police never even arrested a suspect. Now, in 2005, Timothy Gilbraight is starting to have weird dreams. Dreams in which he's an eccentric millionaire, hated by everyone around him. Dreams in which he's being murdered, but he can't tell by whom. But is Trevor Schalk really back? That's what skeptic private investigator Amy Devlin has to find out and quickly - Devlin isn't the only one looking for proof and if the person who killed Trevor Schalk 25 years ago is convinced that Gilbraight is the real deal, they're not going to hesitate to kill again.

Historical Truth and Lies About the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan

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Trancends the issue of politico-historical falsification by hermeneuticizing it
The Importance of the Truth
Academic jargon with little thought to narrative
Not for the common student

Historical Truth and Lies About the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
Alan B. Spitzer
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807845981
Release Date: 1996-08-14

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Historians have long struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Intellectual historian Alan Spitzer focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four politically charged debates about the past: the response to the report of the commission chaired by John Dewey that evaluated the accusations made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Purge Trials of 1937, the Dreyfus Affair in turn-of-the-century France, the allegations about the extent and meaning of literary critic Paul de Man's complicity with the German occupation forces in wartime Belgium, and Ronald Reagan's justification for his 1987 visit to a German cemetery where Nazi SS officers are buried.

Spitzer's argument centers on the ways in which the authority of 'objective' criteria for historical judgment are introduced in politicized disputes about the past, regardless of the theoretical qualification or repudiation of such standards. The higher the political stakes, the more likely the antagonists are to appeal to generally warranted standards of relevant evidence and rational inference. Spitzer's commentary speaks to issues that transcend the specific content of the four cases he discusses.

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Trancends the issue of politico-historical falsification by hermeneuticizing it.......2006-02-01

I have to confess that I don't know what the title of this review means. I'm also not sure what the phrase means in its original context: I'm quoting it from page 111 of Alan Spitzer's "Historical Truth and Lies About the Past". I feel it's still an appropriate title, however, since it reflects the essential character of the book: unwieldy jargon-heavy prose without much in the way of clear meaning or importance.

In short, "Historical Truth and Lies About the Past" is (so far as I can tell) a book that does not have much to say, and what it does have to say is neither important, interesting, informative, nor well said. Spitzer, an octogenarian professor emeritus of French intellectual history, seems to be writing for postmodernists or those studying postmodern historical philosophies. Those who don't fit that description (and quite possibly those who do) will most likely not enjoy the book nor find it useful for any purpose.

There is really only one worthwhile observation in "Historical Truth and Lies About the Past", and it's simple enough to state fully here. Spitzer notes that in "politically-charged" debates involving historical issues, people usually argue in terms of evidence and objective fact even if their beliefs were adopted for other reasons, such as ideology or pragmatism. For example, a Stalinist arguing that Trotsky was a counterrevolutionary traitor to the working class would not come right out and say that he believed this because it was the Party line. That would not be very convincing to those who did not necessarily accept the omniscience of Stalin and the Communist Party. Instead the Stalinist would talk about meetings between Trotsky and other traitors, nefarious plots, menacing conspiracies, etc. -- even though this "evidence" was not particularly convincing and was not the actual reason for the Stalinist's belief in the guilt of Trotsky.

It's a rather trivial point, but the bulk of the book consists of examples of people giving weak evidence-based arguments on issues (the Dewey Commission's inquiry into Trotsky's guilt, the Dreyfus affair, Paul de Man's WWII-era writings for the collaborationist Belgian press, and Ronald Reagan's flights of fancy) where their own beliefs came from different sources. Towards the end of the book, Spitzer devotes a good deal of ink to scolding both postmodernist academics who claim to reject the existence of historical truth but then argue in terms of it, as well as conservatives who excoriate the postmodernists for threatening the concept of truth but then fall over themselves to forgive lies spouted by Reagan and other right-wing politicians.

There's not really anything particularly novel or noteworthy in that, all of which has been said (and said better) in numerous other sources. I had to read this book for school; if the same fate has befallen you, you have my condolences. Otherwise don't waste your time on "Historical Truth and Lies About the Past".

The Importance of the Truth.......2004-06-08

Democracy cannot survive without the support of an informed public, which is why dictators seek to control the media from day one. Nothing can be more timely now than the search for the truth. This important book, which is used as a college text, should be read by the general public.

Academic jargon with little thought to narrative.......2001-10-27

I must agree with Alan Kirby above. Spitzer is far more concerned with impressing his post-structuralist colleagues with his familiarity with the latest in literary theory than in doing serious history. I was expecting a serious grappling with misrepresentation of truth in history, and instead got the tired academic canard of truth as not really existing in the first place. I guess Spitzer didn't feel the need to do the hard archival work to find out what really happened in the Bitburg case, or in the cases of Paul de Man, or Dreyfus, or Dewey.

Not for the common student.......2000-03-14

Spitzer's writing style is very difficult and cumbersome, and often it was very hard to follow where he was going. As a senior undergraduate history student, I found this book to be not worth wading through, (though I unfortunately had little choice). Probably good for professional historians, but otherwise I would recommend Appleby et al or Gilderhus for better, clearer, more concise texts on historical philosophy.

The big lie;: An unmasking of our untruthful religious and political past,

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The big lie;: An unmasking of our untruthful religious and political past,
Howard J Dodge
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006C619Q

My Ticket to Tomorrow: Activities for Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

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My Ticket to Tomorrow: Activities for Exploring the Past, Present, and Future
Betty Bonham Lies
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1555912850

Past Lies (Harlequin Super Romance #1325)

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Past Lies (Harlequin Super Romance #1325)
Bobby Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OWX42U

Past Lies (Harlequin Superromance No. 1325) (Harlequin Superromance)

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Good story!
fabulous contemporary romance

Past Lies (Harlequin Superromance No. 1325) (Harlequin Superromance)
Bobby Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0373713258

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Good story!.......2006-02-07

PAST LIES by Bobby Hutchinson
February 6, 2006
Amazon rating 4/5

"Ivy Pierce and her father Tom work together at Raven Lodge, Alaska, entertaining tourists. They're in a remote part of the state, where access is only by boat or helicopter. Ivy spends a lot of her time taking visitors up in their rented helicopter, for a better view of the cold beautiful wilderness that surrounds the lodge. Ivy and Tom are close, and both love the cold, stark arctic land.

Along comes Alex from San Diego, in search of answers about a father he never knew. Alex is a city-boy, who does not belong in the wilds of Alaska. Though he and Ivy fall for each other, Alex is clear about his need to stay uncommitted. He is still dealing with the death of his three-year old daughter, the subsequent divorce from his wife, and now the knowledge that the man he thought of as his dad was not his biological father. He is in Alaska to find out the truth about his real father, the one he never knew existed until just recently. His world has turned upside down, and a new relationship is the last thing he thinks he needs." - Complete review at BookLoons - M. Lofton

The romance rang true for me in PAST LIES but I didn't buy Ivy's mother's character (the supermodel). The life they had in Alaska was enough to keep me interested however, and was well worth the read. Recommended.

fabulous contemporary romance .......2006-01-14

In Valdez, Alaska helicopter tour guide owner Ivy Pierce assumes upon meeting Alex Ladrovik that he is another vagabond looking to temporarily work for food. However, he shocks her when he stays around to continue to help her after her partner-uncle has a heart attack. Already attracted to Alex before his kindness, Ivy sleeps with him.

Alex has no time for romantic alliances as he follows the route his father took three decades ago before vanishing. However, he cannot leave Ivy at a time she needs help. Even harder for him is that he falling in love, but he has a mission to complete and a home in California waiting for his return. She wants him to stay, but can understand why he would not want to remain in a cold pristine wilderness.

This is a fabulous contemporary romance with a touch of a mystery (what happened to his dad?) that emphasizes falling in love in a remote area, the stark beauty vividly described. The lead couple is a delightful charming pair as Ivy and Alex are every attracted to one another though her initial impression is that he is a homeless hobo and his is of a frontier woman who needs no man. The suspense is actually in the romance as fans will wonder whether he stays, he goes home alone or she goes with him.

Harriet Klausner

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Past Lies (Larger Print Superromance)
Bobby Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Harlequin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXE2H0

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