The Pinball Compendium, 1930s-1960s

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The Pinball Compendium, 1930s-1960s
Michael Shalhoub
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Best Pinball Book Ever.......2006-07-20

I never buy books due to the fact you can read most stuff on the net. This book however, is so well researched and put together that I STRONGLY recommend buying it. There is so much informations, and a truck load of pictures of all sorts of tables.

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The Marabou Mule. The Chanel toe. Jackie O's pump. Marilyn's stiletto. And lotus shoes and fetish shoes, shoes made for coronations and inaugurations, Cinderella's slipper, shoes of tulle, brocade, rhinestone, python, fish scales, and feathers, and much, much, more, including the two-foot-high wooden chopines of the 16th century and their resurgence as the platform shoes of the 1960s and 1970s.

Shoes, now with over 357,000 copies in print, is an obsessive, over-the-top extravaganza-chunky, full-color, and irresistible, it contains page after page of seductive photographs and information about women's shoes.

Created for the woman who's a passionate shoe lover-and what woman isn't?--Shoes features over 1,000 glorious photographs, most of them taken for the book. Includes Footnotes (fascinating facts about shoes); Foot Soldiers (profiles of master shoemakers from David Little to Andrea Pfister); and The Shoe that Left an Imprint, focusing on one shoe that changed history-remember Courrage's futuristic go-go boot? Shoes is, as they say, to die for.

262,000 copies in print.

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wife loves it.......2007-01-14

Got my shoe junkie wife a picture book fix. Saving me money? Not sure yet!

The book seems nice though; take that with a grain of salt. This is a husband who owns 4 pairs of shoes.

The Best Shoe Book.......2006-03-14

I've owned this book for a couple years now and am looking through it again. I've given this book as gifts and I show it to a lot of the people who pass through my life. It's just too much fun. As a wee "coffee table book" it has sparked countless conversations and has even helped settle a bet.

The photography is incredible and the book is a real stomp through history's closet. If you have a passion for shoes (the book says that the average American woman owns 30 pairs), then you'll love this book. Fun, fun, fun!

Yum!.......2003-04-14

Sandals,platforms,heels.A real feast of footwear is shown within the pages of this compact(but quite thick)book. Great fun to flip through and a great resource for research as well..!

tiny package, HUGE fun.......2002-11-26

This book contains fluent, erudite words about shoes, but who cares? The point of the book is the luscious photography -- beautiful, enticing images of a large number of shoes.

If you have friends who also love shoes, get a copy for each one and you can sit around for hours saying "omigosh, look at page 501!" and "wow, Carly Jane, page 347 is just what you need!" This is a whole lot more fun than it sounds, actually.

And you can always place the book on your coffee table where it will (a) take up very little physical space and (b) end up enticing everyone who sits down in your living room into developing a shoe fetish.

Seriously, this is a well-researched, beautifully photographed, elegantly written gem of a book. If you happen to like shoes, you really owe it to yourself to obtain a copy of it.

Enchanting!.......2002-07-19

This book is worth the purchase just for the forward! It features wonderful comments and quotes like, "When it comes to shoes, practicality and comfort are beside the point." And, "...You look down at your feet and wink at yourself." But the photos are stunning and the information delightful! Terrific fun for the footwear fancier.

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In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved, page counts increased, and by issue seven, sales had reached 6,000. In 1994, Drawn & Quarterly took over the publishing duties of Optic Nerve, and the original seven issues sold out and were left out of print. 32 stories presents these rare, early editions, collected for the first time in a single volume.

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where it all began.......2003-07-08

A wonderful collection of Adrian Tomine's earliest published stories. If you have read none of his work before this might not be the way to be introduced to this great writer and artist. Look to any of the Optic Nerve collections for that. But if you want to see the evolution of an important writer and see where things began then this is the book for you.

These early stories hint at the stories that come later. They offer insight and humor and it is fascinating to see how Tomine's art began.

funny, sparse, tales.......2003-05-20

adrian tomine does a fantastic job of capturing the mundane, everyday details of life- turning them into funny little slices.

don't expect a strong narrative to run through the book. each of the 32 stories run from 1-6 pages and only carry a few repeat characters.

the stories are 32 tiny vignettes capturing little bits of life- random thoughts, dreams, small experiances (which manage to capture a much larger picture, and that's the brilliance of it), etc.

don't be dismayed if the first few comics aren't that great; once you get further into the work it's fascinating to see how tomine's art and story arcs mature.

my only complaint, and the reason i gave the book 4 instead of 5 stars, is that i finished the book in about half an hour. although it's well worth reading, and something i'll pick up and read again, i strongly suggest buying the cheapest copy you can find. 90 odd pages (and they're small pages)of drawings do not add up to the fairly high retail price.

do try to pick a copy up. tomine has a voice not to be missed.

The Birth of a Talent.......2002-05-02

The 32 stories collected here reprint the self-published first seven issues of Tomine's "Optic Nerve" comic, spanning 1991-95. While his Tomine's work is always enjoyable on at least some level, reading his earliest work in chronological order allows us to witness him grow as a writer and artistýwarts and all. The earliest stories tend to be short two-page pieces, while the last stories tend to be longer narratives.

The stories fall into a few rough categories: dreams (Adrian Tomine's 10, 533rd Dream, Haircut), the Amy quartet (Solitary Enjoyment, Rodney, Two In the Morning, Leather Jacket), autobiographical vignettes (Sean's Story, Disappointment and Despair, Back Break, This is A True Story, Adrian Quits Hi Job, Psycho Cook, An Everyday Triumph, My Appearance on the Jane Pratt Show, Allergic, The Sell-Out), and moodier stories that deal with loneliness, alienation, and relationships (Lifter, Smoke, Happy Anniversary, Stammer, Laundry, Dine and Dash, Grind). There are also some crude attempts at social commentary (Patriotism is Alive and Kicking), reportage (Heat Wave Death), biography (Kerouac's Life With Comics), and an amusing tirade against sleep (Sleep = Waste).

Over the course of the book, we can see Tomine's increasingly sophisticated take on alienation and relationships. His artistic progression progresses from crude to totally exacting and precise, a style that reinforces his themes and storytelling. This trend is continued in his subsequent collection, Sleepwalk and Other Stories, which is more bleak and stark. Tomine is often compared to Raymond Carverýsince I've never read any Carver I won't do that, however, I will say he is brilliant and his work deserves a wide audience.

Fun read.......2000-05-01

I first heard of Adrian Tomine from my comparative literature professor. His stories contain real-life characters that readers can relate to. Some of his stories are sad, and others are funny in a painful way, and still others are just humorous. Adrian Tomine is an original artist and he is one of my favorites. Sleepwalk is also a great compilation of his stories, but I haven't finished it yet. One of the stories in sleepwalk made me cry.

Insightful, entertaining, and poignant.......2000-02-17

"32 Stories" really works on many levels: as an insight into the artistic evolution of Tomine, as a showcase for his talents (ranging from wacky illustrations to downright sobering dissections of failed relationships), and as a collection of stories exploring the realities of isolation in modern life. While "Allergic" is many fans' favorite strip here (no doubt due to its offbeat, exaggerated artwork and sadistic humor), Tomine *really* shows his talent in stories like "Smoke," "Train I Ride," and "Haircut," which combine his considerable story-telling abilities with cutting, poignant images that tell a thousand words. Stories like these also serve nicely as prototypes for the later, more sophisticated Optic Nerve comics that Drawn & Quarterly would release.

Please do smaller merchants and independent distributors a favor and order this book from your local bookstore, or directly from Drawn & Quarterly.

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32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-comics
Adrian Tomine
Manufacturer: Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1896597017

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This is the hardcover edition printed in a limited run of 500. Each hardcover edition was signed and numbered by Adrian Tomine.

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Wilde's scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

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Moral Clarity and Hedonic Flippancy.......2006-01-08

As a dish for Oscar Wilde's inimitable and devilishly sweet locution, "An Ideal Husband" accentuates adequately. Like Roger Moore's 70's Bond flicks (before they became cartoons in the 80's), the play is saturated with the style, but very little of the substance from previous genius.

The excuse for, more than the theme of, the play is the unforgiving and insincere moral code among the social elite of fin de siècle London. Sir Robert Chiltern's otherwise ivory political career grew from selling a Cabinet secret to Stock Exchange speculator, Baron Arnheim, and Mrs. Cheveley, the since-deceased Baron's intimate, possesses the letter of documentation. All she asks for the letter's destruction is Sir Robert's official support of the Argentine Canal Company, in which she has invested and he knows to be a swindle. More than an end to his political career, he fears publication of the letter will end his marriage to his admirable, but morally unrelenting wife, Lady Chiltern. As if to release his audience from any pretension of seriousness, Wilde presents Society's dandy, in the form of Lord Goring, as both his foundation of moral clarity and hedonic flippancy. A string of one-liners and contrived plot twists later and we delight in what Wilde considers the proper end to any play or romantic relationship, a pleasing settlement.

"An Ideal Husband" is the Daily Star, not the Financial Times. Wilde is truly genius when seriousness is woven through his works, and particularly when his seriousness is personal; but, here he is entertaining nonetheless. If you're just introducing yourself to Oscar Wilde, I recommend including this work after a more flattering introduction, lest you mistake Wilde as merely entertaining.

Chiltern: "You prefer to be natural?".......2005-12-02

Chevely: "Sometimes. But it is such a difficult pose to keep up."

Perhaps not so well known as "The Importance of Being Earnest," this has all the same banter, manners, and sharp-eyed look at the crumbling edge of the upper crust in Vistorian England. It pleases the attentive listener at many levels. Considered only as a stream of one-liners and clever quips, it delivers all you could ask for.

But because it's Wilde, it's also a wild tirade against the mannered (sometimes ill-mannered) gentry. Behind that, it has a good deal to say about tolerance for the flaws of any fallible human - and Wilde could speak on human flaws with rare authority. And, like any truly great work, its examination of honesty (and dis-) reveals a good bit about today's world, a century later.

I'm not normally a reader of plays. I don't have that inner ear that brings words on the page to life. Wilde gives me some idea what that experience must be like, and I'm grateful for it.

//wiredweird

One of the great masterpieces of English Drama.......2005-03-20

My very favourite of Oscar Wilde's plays. Choc-a-bloc with wit, and humorous repartee, it also is an intriguing story, and fascinating to see how it plays out. No wonder it is still popular 112 years after is first produced with recent productions on video/DVD doing very well.
Member of Parliament Lord Robert Chiltern is blackmailed by the wicked Mrs. Cheverly, with a secret from his youth, leading to a crisis in his life, and in his marriage to the virtuous Lady Chiltern. It is up to his friend, the delightfully foppish Lord Goring to help extricate him. All is well that ends well, but not after much interplay and intrigue.
Every word in this play is well measured out for one of the great masterpieces of English Drama.

Love, politics and forgiveness.......2003-05-26

Oscar Wilde gives us here one of his best plays. He explores the political world in London and how a young ambitious but poor man can commit a crime, which is a mistake, to start his good fortune. But he builds his political career on ethical principles. Sooner or later someone will come into the picture to blackmail him into supporting an unacceptable scheme, by producing a document that could ruin his career if revealed. His past mistake may come back heavily onto him. But he resists and sticks to his moral reputation. He prefers doing what is right to yielding to some menace. He may lose though his political ambition and career and his wife's love. But love is saved by forgiveness and the man's career is also saved by the work of a real friend who recaptures the dubious document and destroys it. In other words love and an ethical career are saved by the burrying of the old mistake into oblivion. In other words love and friendship are stronger than the scheming action of a blackmailer. This is a terrible criticism of victorian society which is based more on appearances than principles and yet able to destroy a man's absolutely ethical present life with a mistake from his youth, throwing the baby along with the water of the bath. It is also a criticism of the victorian political world where you cannot have a career if you are not rich, money appearing as the only way to succeed, at least to succeed fast. But it is a hopeful play because love and friendship are beyond such considerations and only consider the best interest of men and women, in the long run and in the name of absolute purity. Better be a sinner and be forgiven when you have reformed than see a reformed sinner destroyed by the lack of forgiveness. Oscar Wilde advocates here a vision of humanity that necessitates forgiveness as the essential fuel of any rational approach. Real morality is not the everlasting guilt of a sinner without any possible reform. Real morality is the recognition that forgiveness is necessary when reform has taken place. Otherwise society would be unlivable and based on hypocrisy and the death or rejection of the best people in the name of (reformed) mistakes. One must not be that sectarian, because man can learn from his mistakes and improve along the road : one can learn how to avoid mistakes and repair those oen has committed. If condemnation is absolute, no progress is possible. A very fascinating play, a very modern play. And yet when can one be considered as reformed, when can we consider one has really corrected one's mistakes and improved ? And who can deem such elements ? The very core of political and ethical rectitude is concerned here and Oscar Wilde embraces a generous approach.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

An Ideal Husband.......2001-06-23

Politicians hiding secrets? Sound familiar? This tale brings historical pieces to present times magnificently.

AN IDEAL HUSBAND A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

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AN IDEAL HUSBAND A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

Manufacturer: Modern Library
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An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
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Binding: Paperback

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GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes An Ideal Husband

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GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes An Ideal Husband
Nicholas Tornaritis
Manufacturer: GradeSaver, LLC
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ASIN: 160259001X
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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GradeSaver(TM) ClassicNotes are the ultimate study guides, written by Harvard students for students! Each note includes: * An author biography * An in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary * A short summary * A character list and related descriptions * A list of themes * A glossary * Historical context * Two academic essays * 100 quiz questions to improve test taking skills!

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An Ideal Husband (New Mermaids)
Oscar Wilde
Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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A good read but perhaps a little formulaic
Great Read
Shari is wonderful as always...
what is the Ideal husband??? hum...cracking good tale!
A delightful historical romance

The Ideal Husband
Shari Anton
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A good read but perhaps a little formulaic.......2006-01-10

I bought this book having read an Amazon review which recommended it. Although not precisely disappointed, I had hoped the book would be better than it was.

The basic premise - woman pretends she is married to mortally wounded man in order to regain her lost honour, but then he recovers and thinks they are married as he has lost his memory - is a good one. This book is set in mediaeval times which makes it unusual and a little more fun. However, I found that the central characters weren't very roundly portrayed. Leah is beautiful (of course!) and very caring but also remote; Geoffrey is tall, dark, handsome (of course!), strong-willed and honourable. No surprises here. There's a side-plot about smuggling and an evil brother who may or may not have murdered his father, but the main purpose of the book is to set out the deception of the fake marriage and build up the suspense until Geoffrey discovers he's been tricked and he isn't really married to Leah. The way this denoument was portrayed didn't entirely work for me and the happy ending was perhaps a little too easy.

Although this sounds overly negative, I did enjoy the book, some of the period detail, and the fact that we saw the flaws, as well as the good points, in the characters. But I couldn't escape the fact that it felt very like lots of other books in places - too formulaic - and the Americanisms were also jarring (although it was an American edition of the book). If I have to read another "gotten" in a Regency/Mediaeval English Romance I might scream!

Great Read.......2005-09-01

Leah of Pecham and Geoffrey Hamelin meet on a ship when they're both returning home to Cornwall. Leah, unsure of her welcome because she ran off with a man who seduced her with promises of a grander life. Geoffrey, to stop his father from forcing his sister into a marriage she might not want.

Things change when they are shipwrecked and Geoffrey saves Leah and makes sure she is safe in a boat before he, himself, is gravely injured. Because of the way he saved her, Leah is mistaken for his wife, even though all Leah knew about the unconscious Geoffrey was his first name. But she couldn't do anything less than take care of him until he's well enough to go home. But that's before they reached her house and before Geoffrey woke up with no memory, believing he and Leah are truly married.

Although I've seen books by this author plenty of times, this is the first time I've read her. From beginning to end, this was a great book. One that should not be missed.

Mad

Shari is wonderful as always..........2005-01-23

I highly recommend this book along with all of Shari Anton's others. She has a great style that flows nicely and makes for a fun and easy read.

what is the Ideal husband??? hum...cracking good tale!.......2003-11-25

The Ideal Husband - according to Shari Anton - is one who is not a husband a'tall!! She gives us a old fashioned historical tale of two people born of England, returning from France. They have a lot in common. They both left England and went to France to follow a dream, both are going home after years, knowing their fathers would not welcome them.

Geoffrey Hamelin first sees Leah of Pecham on board the ship. He thought her beautiful, mysterious for travelling alone in a time when women did not travel alone, and rather tragic. He would have liked to speak to her, however, the Channel was pitching a fit and it kept him hiding below decks and tossing his cookies. On their last day, he is on deck fighting to keep his stomach level when she approaches him. He is fearful he will embarrass himself so he rebuffs her, but she is warm, gentle, understanding and refuses to take offence.

Suddenly, there a big swell, a cracking sound and the ship is going down under them. He risks his life to save her, and nearly dies in the process.

Leah, is going back to face her father who would not welcome his ruined daughter. She followed her love to France only to find out he was a jerk, so she must now go home in shame. She would rather not, but she lived in a day and time when women had few choices.

She is touched that the stranger offered his life to save her, so she will not leave him to die uncared for. Believing he will die, she is determined to take him with her to Pecham. In her repayment for his saving her life, he also gives her another chance to "save" it. By claiming the dying man is her husband, she can return home a "married" women instead of a fallen one.

Only, he recovers and....well you have to read the rest of this very lovely historical romance in the old style. Glad to see they are coming

A delightful historical romance.......2003-10-02

Sir Geoffrey Hamelin heads home after spending four years in France to attend his sister's wedding. He meets on the ship Leah of Pecham also going home after causing a scandal by running off with a lover who deserted her. When the ship catches fire near Dover, Geoffrey protects Leah and manages to get her a seat on one of the small rescue crafts. However, he is injured not long afterward and she rescues him only to find he probably will die.

Not wanting to leave him, she takes him to her father's home, but adopts the pretense that he is her husband after hearing a peasant say so. At her family home, her brother Odo is upset with the return of the prodigal daughter because he wants everything his father owns and plans to destroy his sibling to achieve his goal. Geoffrey recovers, but has amnesia and believes his savior is his beloved wife. As he and Leah fall in love, she knows there can be no happy ending once he recovers his memory and recognizes her as a scandalous fraud.

THE IDEAL HUSBAND is a delightful historical romance starring two courageous wary lead protagonists. The fast-paced story line will grip the audience from the point when Leah helps her seasick fellow traveler until the climax. Though Odo is obviously short for odious, fans will appreciate Shari Anton's warm tale of love with honor arriving when least expected.

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Written in the late 1800's, "An Ideal Husband" is full of the wit and satire that made Oscar Wilde one of the most famous literary figures of his era.

The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde The Duchess of Padua An Ideal Husband Volume 1

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The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde The Duchess of Padua An Ideal Husband Volume 1
Oscar Wilde
Manufacturer: National Library Company
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Binding: Hardcover

FIVE FAMOUS PLAYS: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN; A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE; AN IDEAL HUSBAND; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; SALOME.

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FIVE FAMOUS PLAYS: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN; A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE; AN IDEAL HUSBAND; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; SALOME.
Oscar. Wilde
Manufacturer: Gerald Duckworth
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Binding: Hardcover

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Her Ideal Husband (Romance)
Liz Fielding
Manufacturer: Harlequin Mills & Boon
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Binding: Hardcover

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I Love Liz's books!.......2002-10-25

This woman really knows where the key to my heart is when it comes to writing romance. Real people that tug at life's everyday emotions. Very enjoyable read.

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