Icon and idea;: The function of art in the development of human consciousness [by] Herbert Read (Schocken paperbacks)

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Icon and idea;: The function of art in the development of human consciousness [by] Herbert Read (Schocken paperbacks)
Herbert Edward Read
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ICON AND IDEA. The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
Herbert Read
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
Herbert Read
Manufacturer: Schocken Books
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Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
Herbert Read
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Icon and idea;: The function of art in the development of human consciousness (Schocken paperbacks)
Herbert Edward Read
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Book Deliverance.......2005-09-27

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Icon & Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness

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Icon & Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
Herbert Read
Manufacturer: Schocken Books
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Icon and Idea: The Function of the Art in the Development of Human Consciousness

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Icon and Idea: The Function of the Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
Herbert Read
Manufacturer: Schocken Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8EH6G

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NEW combined, revised and expanded edition of Delightfully Dutch and Dutch Treats. Short histories of Holland and Dutch immigration and bios of famous Dutch-Americans, essays on Dutch art, tulips, famous windmills, on growing up Dutch in America, and updated information about sites to visit and annual celebrations. A cornucopia of Dutch heritage.

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Recipes and Traditions.......2000-11-02

Dutch Touches expands Penfield's original edition, Delightfully Dutch, to include articles by Marvin Hiemstra about growing up Dutch in Pella, Iowa, and his essay on how to visit the Netherlands. Writer Heimstra was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry.

Among other new touches is writer Margaret Kleis of Holland, Michigan, an immigrant after World War II. She tells of her family in Holland, and their participation in the underground sheltering Jewish refugees and downed American pilots.

Favorite articles by Carol Van Klompenburg who authored the original book, Delightfully Dutch and Dutch Treats, are included.

All recipes from both original books are found in Dutch Touches.

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A story to pierce your heart.......2004-10-24

This is one of the best books I have ever read, and I read all the time, every kind of book, you name it. People complain that Christian fiction lacks reality, that it is poorly written, that it tends toward pious gush. They should read this book and know better.
Told in companionable, muscular prose, "Touches the Sky" takes place on the Great Plains, after the disappearance of the buffalo but before the trains. Against a background of doomed Indian Ghost Dancers and Dutch Reform settlers, a young white man is murdered. The narrator, Jan, has lost his first wife and two young children, and thereby his faith. Jan and his second wife try to find and help the pregnant Sioux woman the murdered man left behind. There is a mystery to solve: who killed the white man? But that problem swiftly gives way the deeper mystery of faith in times of loss, and those questions we all have about the ways of God. Jan's second marriage is to a strong, compassionate and determined woman, a missionary who identifies with the Sioux in all they have suffered. Their marriage makes good reading, for they are both independent and iconoclastic, yet able to love and respect each other deeply. Their love is at the heart of what makes this book alive.
Although "Touches the Sky" is published by a Christian publisher, it transcends the Christian/secular categories, much like "Peace Like a River" or "Anna Karenina." Schaap is one of those great story tellers who knows just how to keep you turning the pages instead of turning out the light and going to bed. When the last pages of the book came, I read out loud. I wanted to hold the words in my mouth. I started crying then, because something deep in me was being broken by the truth in this book. The ending is sad indeed, and also triumphant in the way few things ever are in stories or in life.

A deeply moving historical novel.......2004-05-15

Dr. Schaap has succedded in capturing some important truth about American history that most of us had rather deny, discaount or distort. His story is deeply moving in a deeply humane manner in it's treatment of a clash between two cultures. He writes with obvious respect for both cultures. He writes with a passion for the truth, much like Dee Brown did in BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE. If you have not dicoveres the work of Jim Schaap, I urge you to do so.

A Good, Multi-Layered Novel.......2004-01-25

I asked to review this book --- which I knew only by title --- because I recognized the author's name, having read and liked some of his contemporary short stories. This means I had no idea that James Calvin Schaap's new novel was set in 1890, in western South Dakota. Until I saw the cover, a tinted photo of Sioux hunters, I did not imagine that the title, TOUCHES THE SKY, might be someone's name. Had I known that this was a "western," probing the tension between settlers and the Sioux, I probably would have passed it over. Another genre please.

What a mistake that would have been. This a good, multi-layered novel written in the first-person voice of Jan Ellerbroek, who had impulsively left his Dutch community in Michigan and moved west, embittered after the sudden deaths of his young wife and baby. When the book opens, he has unexpectedly and happily married again, to Dalitha, a long-tenured and well-respected teacher on the Rosebud Reservation.

So narrator Jan, a liveryman who claims no Christian faith, has entrée to two cultures, each distrustful and afraid of the other. East of the reservation, a Dutch farmhand has been killed. His boss, known as a taskmaster, blames Sioux horse thieves. Jan isn't convinced. The ground is laid for a who-done-it, but that question is thrown aside when Jan is beckoned and confidentially asked to deliver a bag of coins to the reservation in order to satisfy the dying man's last-breath request: that his final wages be sent to an unnamed squaw who was carrying his child.

Hearing of Jan's task and acting on not much more than a hunch, Dalitha leads Jan on an extended search for her former student and aide, Anna Crow, who has quickly married and gone farther west to join forces with a new messiah-cult known as the ghost dancers. "Like their stomachs," Jan notes, "their hearts are hungry."

The Sioux have learned enough of Jesus to understand his love and his story's hope. Anna's father, Broken Antler, says to Dalitha, "It is a story for our people and yours, you told me....I believed you....And now my daughter says this Jesus has come again, to us, because we are poor and suffering and because [the white people] put him on a cross to die. 'He is here,' she tells me, 'and now he loves us.' " He is miraculously going to bring back the buffalo herds and destroy all the interloping whites. "Why should I believe you and not my own daughter?"

Schaap writes a taut story from the start, hinting at disaster. If I had been a better student of American history, I would have known that the plot was careening toward the massacre at Wounded Knee in December 1890. But that historical storyline is of course overlain with Jan's personal story. He and Dalitha aren't the only people looking for Anna and her child. An unexpected visit with his always-distant clergyman father confronts Jan with the rigid Calvinism in which he was raised. The God he has tried to run away from pursues him, through and beyond tragedy.

This is a serious novel --- not for people looking for easy answers or a light read. It raises issues still relevant today: Who speaks for God? Can we trust personal revelation? Do any of us know truth fully? How vast is God's grace? How does fear of "them" motivate or control "us"?

But this is not a difficult or dark novel. The narrator's voice is well controlled, from the beginning planting clues of trouble and seeds of hope. After all, the title is TOUCHES THE SKY.

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It's not just Viktor & Rolf anymore. When the Dutch Touch fashion showcase came to New York, exhibits included Dutch at the Edge of Design: Fashion and Textiles from the Netherlands; Stretching Boundaries: Beyond Fashion; Hermetica and Finding Netherland, an atelier and showroom. Among the venues were the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Diane von Furstenberg Gallery. Previous events in Rome and Paris had been just as intense, and just as lavish. Dutch Touch, which highlights important recent and current Dutch contributions to fashion, is an initiative coordinated by the Dutch Fashion Foundation and organized in close collaboration with designers, artists and local partners; The book brings readers the work of featured designers, and considers contemporary fashion and its interaction with other modern design disciplines such as 3-D photography, graphic design, video art and performance.

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The Dutch Touch in Ontario
Albert VanderMey
Manufacturer: Marten A. Mol
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q7TK7G

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A voluminous coffee table book that profiles a selection of 200 Dutch immigrants, detailing their struggles to succeed and how they made a unique contribution to their community, their province and to all of us across North America. It covers the community by sections on a range of endeavours, showing by the extensive diversity how far it has spread beyond its agricultural beginnings.

Index, Prairie View: A touch of Dutch, the first 100 years

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Index, Prairie View: A touch of Dutch, the first 100 years
Robert L Hays
Manufacturer: s.n.]
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006OWHFQ

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Based on the hit Sony PlayStation video game, Night Warriors follows the sometimes scary, sometimes comedic adventures of a cast of weird characters including vampire prince Demitri; catwoman Felicia, a six-foot-tall fur-covered humanoid; ghoulish Lord Raptor; and vampire hunter Donovan.

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Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge .......2007-05-12

If you like the Dark Stalker Fighting game series and you are curious about the background story this is the book that you have to read. Is better than the 3 dvd miniserie, more or less as good as the 2 dvd movies (3 ep. pr per disc).

Darkstalkers: Lite.......2005-11-08

It's a nice little read. The stories are well done but the book is a real quick read. I was expecting the same detail and expansive storyline that "Super Street Fighter: Cammy" had but I guess that would've been difficult to do with so many characters in just one book. The stories are: Morrigan challenges Demitri, Felicia struggles to become an actress and ends up teaming with Jon Tailbain to hunt down a murderer, and Donavan seeks a mystic sword to defeat Morrigan. Though the stories are good and the art is beautiful it didn't really meet all my expectations. I suggest reading "Darkstalkers" by Udon Comics. The art is spectacular and the storyline is much bigger. I recommend this books for the Darkstalker fans. If you're looking for meatier manga storylines you might want to try somewhere else.

Why is there just this one book?! There must be more!.......2003-05-01

I LOVE this book. This is one of my favorites in my vast collection, and I never get tired of reading it. Felicia is just adorable in her kitten form (I love how she talks in a childish scribble as a kitten!) and she is beautiful as a humanoid; Morrigan kicks major butt in more ways than one; and the other characters add a flavor to this manga that you don't often see. My question is, why did the publishers print this one volume? Surely there must be more! Please, bring over the other books (If they exist)!

This sheds some light on the Darkstalker's universe..........2003-04-15

Felicia and Morrigan are two of my favorite characters, and they are featured prominently in this book. We also get to know the vampire lord Demitri Maximoff, the werewolf Jon Talbain, the zombie Lord Raptor, and the Vampire Hunter Donovan. There are hints that Demitri and Morrigan are attracted to each other, as well as suggestions of deeper feelings between Jon and Felicia (at least that's what I am reading between the lines).

The art is simply gorgeous, and the characters and their troubles evoke powerful feelings from the reader. The story around each character is a deep and interesting one.

If you have ever played the games or watch the anime, then I suggest you give this a try. Maybe you'll like it as much as I did!

If you liked the anime or the video game..........2000-04-13

First I watched the anime: It was wonderful. But I would want more. So I bought this manga. The illustrations are not so good as the anime but the story is pretty good.

Night Warriors - Darkstalker's Revenge (Darkstalker's Revenge, Volume #1)

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Night Warriors - Darkstalker's Revenge (Darkstalker's Revenge, Volume #1)
Run Ishida
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000RG4R74

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Night Warriors, Darkstalkers' Revenge Edition 2

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Night Warriors, Darkstalkers' Revenge Edition 2
Run Ishida
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Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000ONXPDM

Night Warriors, Darkstalkers' Revenge Edition 3

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Night Warriors, Darkstalkers' Revenge Edition 3
Run Ishida
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000ONXPYQ

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good.......2004-07-02

excellent - read it in a day, already putting the info into practise. very well written, insightful and full of useful advice

Great book for beginners!.......2000-11-02

I recently baught this book for my daughter who was interested in learning to dows, and it was an absolute treasure.it's very informative, and taught her quiet alot. i've been dowsing for a very very long time, and i even learned alot from it too. not to mention that the authors style of writing is delightful! this book is for everyone learning the art of dowsing!!!

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Now I am much better at finding things I have lost
look no more
How to find lost objects
A useful and amusing how-to book for people who lose things
Quirky Yet Practical

How to Find Lost Objects
Solomon
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Now I am much better at finding things I have lost.......2002-08-25

Since reading this book I have been more successful, and more quickly successful, at finding things I've misplaced. I don't know where "Professor Solomon" got his ideas on this subject, but somehow they are very helpful.

Of course I still have piles of paper, CDs and computer equipment from which almost nothing can be retrieved, but that is a problem in a somewhat different realm.

Maybe Solomon, with his inherited wisdom, will eventually write something to help me stop accumulating rubbish which I "might need some day."

look no more.......2002-07-26

When I first heard of "How to find lost objects" its author was being featured on Michael Feldman's "Whaddaya Know?" on NPR. He sold me, as a person who frequently misplaces commonly used objects. Professor Solomon's book is amazingly functional as well as funny. If it's possible I actually enjoy the finding process rather than dread it when I need to search for lost objects, thanks to his methods. They may sound corny but they actually work. Because of the successful track record I've had with this resource I chuckle whenever I must place the post-it on my mirror reading "it's not lost-- you are". The 3 "C"s make sense: Comfort, Calmness, Confidence. How many times have we searched in a panic only to undermine our own efforts? The humor doesn't merely help relax the finder, it focuses. This book is in my top 5 most consulted. It's paid for itself many times over.

How to find lost objects.......2001-11-23

This has been a very helpful book, unfortunately I've misplaced it. Help, Professor Solomon!

A useful and amusing how-to book for people who lose things.......1999-04-21

This book is great for people like me, who spend an excessive amount of time looking for things we've misplaced. The principles for finding lost objects really work, and are presented in an amusing way via stories, photos and delightful cartoons. I recommend this book to anyone who's ever just put something down, and been unable to find it again. Also, a great gift for anyone who loses or misplaces things on a regular basis (I suspect there are lots of people like that).

Quirky Yet Practical.......1999-03-08

This book is a strange juxtaposition of the practical and the wacky. There are common sense lists and rules (for example The Eureka Zone)along with some clever tongue-in-cheek stuff. It's a great gift idea for people like my friends who are always losing things.

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How to Find Lost Objects
Solomon Hayley Ann
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIYY0K

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