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What better way to begin each new day than with Mary Engelbreit's Just for Today, Be Happy quote-a-page book? Adapted from her top selling Day-To-Day boxed calendar, this chunky gift book allows every Mary Engelbreit fan to enjoy her classic art, joined with uplifting and positive quotes for 366 days of the year. Each day, as you turn the page, Mary's just-for-today sentiment invites readers to be playful, read a book, give a hug or just watch a sunrise (to name just a few). Whether this gift book sits on a nightstand, kitchen table, or coffee table, let it fill this year - and years to follow - with inspiring thoughts and just for today...be happy!
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Happy Little Book.......2006-05-15
I just bought this book as I've just discovered M.E. I love this chunky, happy little book. It is easy to carry around and has a great ribbon marker so you can turn right to today's date. There is a wonderful thought and illustration for each day of the year. I look forward to each new day to see what the inspirational saying and picture is for that day. A sweet, happy look at the small, priceless moments in life; something that is sorely missing today and I hope we can hold on to. Mary's work gives you something great and pleasant to focus on, so you can attract more fun moments like it, every day. Thank you Mary Engelbriet. You have a new fan!
Magic !!!!!!!.......2005-09-16
365 "small aids" to live the life on a happy form. Excellent illustrations of an artist with an immense heart of child.
great gift.......2005-08-08
It's a great quote-a-page-book which will make you, your family or your friends, begin each day with a smile thanks to positive quotes and cute illustrations!
If you like Mary Engelbreit's work, you will love this book!
a gift for oneself.......2005-07-20
This is one of the best books I have ever bought for myself! It truly is a treasure. With over 365 illustrations and wise thoughts to ponder every single day of the year, one is guaranteed to find joy all year round. Worth every penny!
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POSSIBLY THE MOST COMPLETE AND USEFUL BOOK ON THIS TOPIC.......2007-06-26
Originally published in French in 1981 by the great Catholic Publishing House Desclee de Brouwer in Paris as L'Icone: Image de l'invisible, this book may be the most thorough, useful and complete treatment of the theology, procedures, composition and aesthetic techniques of the Ikon phenomenom.
Indeed the ample first section discusses the Genesis and Theology of the Icon, including history from the first days of Christianity, the art of the catacombs, etc. This first section also includes the various theological elements essential to iconography, as well as a discussion of Byzantine society and religious vision. It also discusses literary types in relation to icons, and a general theory of the icon as sign, symbol and as actual or sacramental participation in the Divine.
The second section explains aesthetic elements, including geometric structures, such as proportions, which I find most immediately helpful for any artist who wishes to draw anything involving the human face and body as well as iconographers. This section closely analyzes the formal use of geometry in composition of the icons and their arrangements, and the use of the laws of perspective as well as inverse perspective, dynamic space and epic perspective. This alone is fascinating for anyone who studies art theory, and truly renders comprehensible and visible underlying principles and practices not previously noticed or known. Several common Iconic themes are examined iin this light, including the Annunciation as well as the Resurrection of Lazarus. This second section also fully discusses colors and the theory of color, their meanings in icons, and their composition. The second section concludes with a complete consideration of light, and the inner light of icons.
As promised in the subtitle the third section fully examines the technical aspects of icons, including the preparation of materials in every way, the paints and how to apply them to the prepared and primed board, the selection of the palette and creation of flesh tones, for instance, and techniques and styles of the various ancient schools of iconography, including Greek and Russian. A thirty six page full page selection of icons follows in full color well produced, ending this excellent and comprehensive and informative and useful book with a thorough bibliography and a pair of indexes by subject and by name.
Everything about this book is the best, but what really sold me was the discussion of proportions of the human body and of perspectives, technical problems I had been trying to resolve but which are very clearly presented here.
Highly recommended for any artist, art historian, art lover, or especially the devoted Catholic looking for visual sacramentals as edifying aids in prayer and the saintly, sacred, immanent presence with us in prayer and contemplation. This book discusses everything from theology to hands on techniques and has something for everyone, expressed more completely and clearly with continual examples on every page, than in any other book I have seen. I have in my hand the 1999 paperback reprinting from Oakwood. If you are able to acquire the hardcover edition, or the original French, please invite me over for prayer and painting!
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”
–Los Angeles Times
“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.”
–The New York Times Book Review
In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions.
“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”
–USA Today
“Filled with [Vonnegut’s] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity.”
–The Australian
“Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family’s legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism.”
–Studs Terkel
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Vonnegut at the end.......2007-09-27
It occurred to me while reading "A Man Without a Country", Kurt Vonnegut's last offering, that we all have it in us to write a comparable book regarding our own lives. However, few of us could write in the style of Vonnegut, and his short but pointed book is well worth the hour or so it takes to read.
"A Man Without a Country" blends humor, fact, sarcasm, wit and a lifetime of observation. It is Andy Rooney, Garrison Keillor and George Carlin wrapped into a small package of good writing, Vonnegut-style, of course. Age brings perspective and with that Vonnegut has plenty on which to comment. As one who survived the bombing of Dresden in 1945, the author has an earned platform to speak about war and he does so quite often in this book. But it's his humor, often black but always funny, that propels things along. Vonnegut, a humanist, addressed a group of fellow humanists upon the death of Isaac Asimov. He told the assemblage, "Isaac is up in heaven now". Vonnegut goes on to say, "it was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored." Lines like that give a warmth to the book, yet he saves his best line for "W". Vonnegut says, "...do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra". With that comment I had to take a minute or so away from the book to wipe the tears from my eyes.
I highly recommend "A Man Without a Country" for its appealing nature and visionary comment. Kurt Vonnegut departed this life with just the right things left to say. I could add that "Kurt is up in heaven now", but I wouldn't want to get my fellow humanists going. The book is a pleasure.
Beautiful.......2007-09-06
A conversation with America's greatest writer about the same things everyone in the country had had on their minds that year, this work by the late Kurt Vonnegut was just what I was waiting for and it delivered a kind of comedy and editorial that people all over the country were holding just on the tips of their tongues. Vonnegut is suing PALL MALL cigarettes for keeping him alive in a time when the three most powerful people in the world are named Dick Bush and Colin. He puts himself out there and tells the truth like he always did.
peaCE,
Jacques Paisner, Author of Albuquerque Blues
A banal book from a great writer.......2007-08-14
Another Amazon reviewer, commenting on Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions", wrote (quote) "You know that anything goes once you pick up a work by the zany and terrific Kurt Vonnegut. The man knows how to dish up satire like none other. He'll spew out his complaints about the government, the world, people, etc., and instead of making it sound like a bunch of inane ranting he uses all of that to create a crazy world filled with outrageous characters and situations."
Very nicely said. It is too bad that, at some point, Vonnegut did decide to write up "a bunch of inane ranting", which he then condensed into this booklet. I do love the two books of Vonnegut I have read, and I do think that there is much to be ranted about the government, the world etc etc, but the rants in this book are not mush more valuable than mine or yours, or those of a random guy you hear ranting on your way home on the subway.
It is unfortunate that sometimes great artists feel compelled to stray into areas which are not their own. Even sadder than their beliefs and views end up being listened to just because they come from someone accomplished in something. Unfortunately, being a great writer (and I do think he is), or a great actor or director, does not necessarily make you a very deep political thinker.
To feed any "anti-establishment" feelings, give me any day one of the outstanding investigative reporters out there. There is way too much well documented, well written, honest anti-establishment work out there (Seymour Hersh's "Chain of Command", just to mention one example) to waste time on this sort of booklet. I received it as a gift, and I gave up after a few pages, because I was really getting nothing out of it. Booklets like this one, in my opinion, do more harm than good to the ideas they want to represent.
Not Kurt's best.......2007-08-08
Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors, and I really wanted to read some new material and get his take on the present. We're at a major crossroads in history where a new paradigm is emerging. And yet, there seems few author's worth reading anymore -- not like the Vonnegut's who gave us new and interesting perspectives on decades' past.
Unfortunately, his views on the present are tired and cliche. I almost wish I didn't read this book as it diminishes my respect for the author.
Example: he wrote something about a child being better off in an enlightened country, not the US, which had universal health care and better schools. He blames conservatives/republicans. I felt like throwing the book away! Forget politics (if possible). This is tripe. I thought aloud... we spend a _fortune_ on education and healthcare. The new perspective I was hoping for? ... Euro-socialism I suppose.
What I'm saying is, I didn't want to read tired old left-right, conservative-liberal gibberish. I was hoping for some FRESH ideas from an original, free thinker. I was looking for a new paradigm -- not liberal-lite, shallowness.
A Few Last Jabs . . . .......2007-07-27
Kurt, Kurt, Kurt . . . A few last jabs before you went down for the count. No, this can't be compared to his earlier novels, or his later novels. It is not meant to be---it is a memoir of sorts---his last parting thoughts on the way things are. A Man Without A Country is a concise, simple little ditty, with a few quick jabs to once again jolt the minds of the choir. Like Mark Twain before him, life just plain got to him. I know the feeling. At 57, I am feeling much the same way. After spending some hard-time on earth, dealing with the workings of this world and man's never changing habits, any thinking, caring person would have to throw their hands in the air and say, "When will we ever learn!" And it seems, from Twain's time on---and from way before---back to the first primates to utter a sound and drop from the trees in search of something to kill, man hasn't changed a spit. A Man Without A Country is a dang good little book, and an enjoyable read from a man who will be sorely missed. Hi Ho! Mr. Vonnegut, Hi Ho!
Bewick Cory
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Vonnegut's Memoir --And Opinion Pieces on War & Peace...........2006-10-29
Kurt Vonnegut is a giant in American literature-- this is his memoir which turns out to be funny, thought provoking and a strong POV from Kurt on art, politics, war, peace and even ecology. Amazingly intimate and yet universally interesting even if you're not a Vonnegut fiction fan-- you may find this fascinating. His first book was PLAYER PIANO and probably the most known are Cat's Cradle, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five, Happy Birthday, Wanda Jane, and Breakfast of Champions. There are about a dozen other books too...he talks about the writing and the reader response to his books in this memoir and illustrates it with some amazing illustrations that have a style all of their own. Did you know he was once a car dealer owner? Yep, a Saab dealership. There's probably lots you didn't know about Vonnegut. What makes the book so amazing is that he uses both a 'stream of consciousness' style and even breaks the 4th wall by talking with you not at you. Humanism-- it's what makes Vonnegut tick...and good old Midwestern outspoken talk -- after all he's from Indiana and much of the book happens there. Enjoy-- it's a great book for writers, teachers and scientists and technologists-- lots of kewl comments about science and tech.
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And then the old man took off his own sword of ceremony, and gave it to Nolan, and made him put it on. The man told me this who saw it. Nolan cried like a baby, and well he might. He had not worn a sword since that infernal day at Fort Adams. But always afterwards on occasions of ceremony, he wore that quaint old French sword of the commodore's.
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Never ,ever, turn your back on America.......2007-04-07
Hale gives us a small but powerfull treatise on patriotism here.A reminder that as Americans we can't abandon our beautiful land.My father once mentioned this story during one of our conversations and it struck me funny that he would know of this since he was not a big reader and I couldn't help but think that for him to remember it, it must have left a lasting and powerful image on him.I never read it in school and I now find it odd that it is not required reading but should be.Yes I know all the current troubles we are having with the alleged war with Iraq and all the other never ending Middle East garbage we have had to contend with lately but trust me, this will pass.I can only hope that we turn inward and try to fix our own problems instead of trying to fix everyone else's.This book concerns one Phillip Nolan, who turns his back on America and who pays the price of living without her for the rest of his life via an intricate method devised to keep any and all reference or news about America from him.His misery is palpable and he realizes just what an error in judgement he brought down upon his being as he is not only viewed as an outcast to be shunned but as a traitor,a fate most unpleasant.Kept at sea,transfered from ship to ship before reaching sight of land permenently kept him isolated and imbedded the feeling of isolation to an almost unbearable degree.His last days of longing for any news about America no matter how small or insignificant brings a sympathetic mate to his side but even then information is not brought forth without disregard to the initial nature of the crime and is delivered in metered amounts.If your patriotism ever weakens, read this book. Its brief, but imparts a strong message to us.We must always stand together in times of war and peace.America is the best country in the world despite world opinion.The deep, psychological punishment inflicted on Nolan can only serve to remind us what life would be like without our country even with all her imperfections.She is still the best the world has to offer as far as freedom and opportunity are concerned.Why would everyone be trying to get in as opposed to out.This little gem of a story makes plain why we need to stand together as Americans, more now than ever and should be read by every American both old and new.
Ugh.......2006-04-13
Ugh! Ideal-mad, patriotic tripe. The protagonist wishes never to see or hear about his country again, and instead of being unloaded in, say, France or even Africa - which would get him out of America's hair and comply with his wishes - he is tortured by being carried around on ships for the rest of his life. What the...?
An American classic .......2005-01-24
The man without a country, Philip Nolan who is condemned to sail the world without ever hearing again name or news of the country, that he has at his court-martial for an involvement with Aaron Burr, cursed. In the course of his wandering and through the many lonely years his longing for his country and his love for it becomes apparent. The great poem of Scott which he keeps in his heart and mind says it all for him ' Breathes there a man with soul so dead / who never to himself hath said/ this is my own , my native land/ Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned as home his footsteps he hath turned/ from wandering on a foreign strand/ If there such breeds / Mark him well/ For him no minstrel rapture swells/ High though his title/ Proud his name/ Boundless his wealth as wish could claim/ Despite these titles / power and pelf/ The wretch concentred all in self/ Living forfeit fair renown/ and Dying doubly shall go down/ To the vile dust/ From whence he sprung / Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Philip Nolan sings the song of his own ignominy , repents , and shows his great love for his country.
As a child in school this book moved me very deeply. It is a true American classic. And it teaches the meaning and value of a patriotism which is not the refuge of scoundrels, but rather a genuine reflection of love of one's own native land and home.
The Story of Learning to Appreciate Being an American.......2002-11-01
I originally read this book in eighth grade, and recently had the desire to reread the book. The book was just as I remembered it. However, with a greater understanding of the world, I have learned to appreciate this classic even more. While an American may not agree with that the United States does, a perfect country or government has yet to be created. Philip Nolan made a statement in which he disowned his country in his younger days. It was a statement that he would quitely regret for the rest of his life. Even in exile, Nolan reflects loyalty to his country in his behavior. On his death bed, Nolan only wants to learn of what has happened to the country since he was exiled. He was able to die a happy man knowing how the country he loved had prospered.
The story is intended to made readers appreciate their country. Sometimes it may be difficult to agree with the government. In the end, one realizes that they love their country like a parent or their own child. Nolan had to learn this lesson the hard way.
Captivating short story.......2002-02-12
Appearing at first to be a true story, this is really a tale of mythological quality. It tells about a man who swears off his own homeland and is banished from it in turn. For fifty-seven years he is doomed to sail with the Navy like a lost Odyssevs, never allowed to cast his eyes on his native land, and never allowed to hear any news from home.
This story was written during the Civil War, and is of course an attempt to remind Americans of their patriotic duty. It does, however, go deeper than this simple didactic point, and contains a more universal message about the value of loyalty and identity. By present standards it might perhaps be deemed overly sentimental, nonetheless I found "The Man without a Country" a fascinating and thought-provoking read.
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Yuck........1999-10-10
This is just more proof that Mark Waid doesn't understand Captain America. The story is incredibly boring, overly wordy, and has a stupid ending. I bought it because I was a big fan of Waid's stuff, but this sure didn't read like a Waid story. If you want good Waid, go buy Kingdom Come and Flash. Forget this schlock.
Great Captain America Tale.......1998-12-02
The basis for this book is what is the worst thing that can happen to Captain America? How about being thrown out of America and having your American citizenship being taken away from you? That's what happens here as Steve Rogers tries to find who framed him for a crime that he didn't commit. It's an exciteing story which builds to an explosive climax and it could only have been written by Mark Waid.
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