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This magnificently illustrated book assembles more than 250 illustrations of Dante`s poem, created by fifteen known artists and some twenty anonymous illuminators to depict every aspect of the pilgrim`s journey to the depths of Hell, the mountain of Purgatory, and the heavenly spheres of Paradise.
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"A journey through the evolution of Western dining".......2007-01-15
From contemporary food design to the spectacle of eighteenth-century aristocratic feasts, this book examines the history of cutlery and dining ritual. A broad offering of [great, beautiful] pictures, and collection of texts that explore the social meanings and fascinating forms of table settings. A truly fascinating book. Somewhat specific, but highly recommended!
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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening.
Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated 80% of theworld's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.
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Wonderful ethnography.......2004-10-31
"Feeding Desire" is a revealing work of ethnography concerning the culture of force-feeding adolescent girls so that they turn into "bountiful" figures, figures considered attractive among the Saharan Moors. I have used it in two different courses on Africa and students have responded very favorably to it. The discussions about the book were the liveliest of the semester. The book is beautifully written with very good photographs. It is an excellent book.
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Helps the reader understand our God-given appetites and how to short-circuit out-of-control cravings and achieve lasting change by satisfying natural hungers.Learn to control the things that control you!
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Same Old Stuff Rehashed, just new writer.......2007-08-30
I've read it all before in several other books. But if you've never read the other books then you might be able to get something from this book, but I doubt it. I'd suggest you go to dobson books on this subject or Authers with more experience. She does not have near the experience she needs to be writing about the subjects she seems to have authority on.
Trust Stephen Arterburn for sound advice and wisdom!.......2004-09-07
Another terrific volume by a serious and dedicated Christian counselor. I have enjoyed every book this man has ever written, this one is no exception. A must-read for sure!
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Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis, Volume 2: Volume 2 (Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis)
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This is a unique account of the synthesis of organic molecules. All of the contributors are acknowledged experts in organic synthesis.
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- Tokyopop's Translation Is Quite Good
- Inaccurate translation ruins an otherwise outstanding manga...
- Poorly translated
- Adorable art and characters.
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Tactics Volume 2 (Tactics)
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Love Is Like A Hurricane Volume 1 (Yaoi) (Love Is Like a Hurricane)
ASIN: 1413901794 |
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When concerned parents beg help for their troubled son, it's Kantaro and company to the rescue! With a little investigation and a whole lot of family therapy, he might be able to reunite a confused mom and dad with their lonely little goblin son. With a talent for diplomacy and a goblin at his side, Kantaro is unearthing peace and harmony between the ogres and bogeymen of both worlds!
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Tokyopop's Translation Is Quite Good.......2007-05-17
This ongoing manga series (currently at 7 volumes) has a historical (Taisho-period) Japanese setting. Humor, magic, and mild drama ensue in this loveable series.
The Tokyopop translation is quite good, with helpful notes and everything, in stark contrast to ADV's attempt.
The main character, Kantarou, is a clever and mischevious writer and folklorist who can see youkai and other magical creatures. Haruka is an extremely powerful (and handsome) tengu who has been named by Kantarou, and is therefore required to obey him.
The art style is quite lovely here, and the characters are really fun. There is also an associated anime series.
Inaccurate translation ruins an otherwise outstanding manga..........2005-08-28
Tactics is a very entertaining manga series with well-developed characters and interesting storylines. Unfortunately, ADV's translation of this volume leaves much to be desired. The main problem is that they made a serious error in changing the sex of two of the main characters, sending Tactics fans everywhere into an uproar. There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude, so I can only assume that ADV must have done it intentionally, perhaps because one of the characters is a bit androgynous looking.
I have all of the original Japanese volumes of Tactics and was looking forward to buying the English translation as well, but I can't support a company that makes such serious translation errors. Nor a company that so blatantly ignores and looks down on its fanbase by assuming that no one would notice such an error.
Poorly translated.......2005-06-02
This is probably one of the worst translating errors I've seen in a while. Whether is was an accident or intentional, I'm not sure.
Two of the reoccuring characters are switched to the other gender. Sugino, the white tengu, is very male, however ADV made Sugino female. Muu is generally considered to be female, most of the characters refer to her as such, but ADV made Muu male.
I'm incredibly disappointed and will more than likely buy the original rather than giving ADV my money for a piece of work that doesn't deserve it. I'm very fond of this series and these characters, and am greatly appalled at this massacre of it.
Adorable art and characters........2005-02-15
Tactics chronicles the ghost-busting adventures of Kantarou and his goblin friends. Volume 1 offers 3 seperate stories, in which we're introduced to all the major characters: the sly, youthful-looking Kantarou, Youko--the foxy maid, and Haruka, an extremely powerful, handsome, and elegant "goblin-eater".
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this manga. There's a cheerfulness and cuteness about the art and characters that is extremely engaging. The target audience is probably 10-16 year-olds; I am past this age bracket, being a university senior, but that didn't stop me from liking the series. Fans of the Tactics anime should definitely check out the original manga.
Okay, now for the bad. There is something seriously screwed up about ADV's editing: text-over-images have not been edited at all, nor the sound effects. The result is rather messy: there will be one bubble in Japanese, and another bubble in English. I don't see the same things happening in my TokyoPop, Viz, or Darkhorse mangas, so I've got to wonder what ADV was thinking.
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Najica and Lila are back and this time their missions take them to many exotic locales: undercover at an all-girl's school to protect an important researcher's daughter from terrorists; aboard a luxury liner to recover a Humaritt; Area D4, on a remote island of the Japanese archipelago, where a bio-weapons experiment has gone horribly awry; and even auditions to be an idol singer! Finally, they journey to a small island country in the Pacific to recover a Humaritt whose master is a renegade scientist who disappeared 3 years ago.
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- Thin gruel
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One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever
Modern Humorist
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Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was
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To many visitors, America seems like a frightening and bewildering place, filled with gun-toting yahoos, self-obsessed celebrities and really, really fat people. Modern Humorist’s
One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever reinforces these stereotypes, and gives you some brand new ones to enjoy.
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Thin gruel.......2004-03-01
This book would be perfect for serving fish and chips -- once you're done eating you can peer through the greasy pages for some post-lunch empty calories. not much here -- these fellers have essentially been nuked by The Onion and their work is kind of "Onion for Dummies" -- something as necessary as owning a home yogurt maker. Time for these lads to get some real jobs -- their "modern humor" has the distinct whiff of old hatband.
Pretty Funny.......2003-03-06
A short, generally amusing, easy reading book making fun of America in a style similar to The Onion. It knocks us down for our excesses and cracks wise about our collective ignorance. This is an excellent guide for literate foreign visitors--it should be especially funny to them.
Funny, but in three hours, you're hungry again.......2002-12-31
You'll blitz through through this 141-page book in about two hours. It has some really funny stuff in there, written in a snarky Conan O'Brien-style fashion.
The problem is, about three hours after finishing the book, I remembered very little of it. I think much of that has to do with the weak production value of the book. As noted elsewhere on this page, "One Nation..." is printed on about the worst paper imaginable, and the abysmal quality of the graphics defies description. If I were a writer of this book (it was a team effort), the final product would make me feel as if I were cheated.
Still though, this is funny enough to pass along to a friend when you're finished.
One nation, one book and poor paper, hold the cheese........2002-10-20
Another (almost) winner from the folks at Modern Humorist. A very comprehensive guide to the bestest nation on earth and when you get to the last page to read `By the time you finish reading this page, 3.000 Americans will take a bullet, three million will super-size their Happy Meals and three will pass a geography test. Still, this nation is the envy of the world, except in Sweden, where government subsidies ensure all citizens have equal access to health care and erotica', perhaps you should book your ticket to Stockholm.
Scattered through the pages are Travel Tips or Fun Facts side-panels, spoof covers of books, magazines, greeting cards and dozens of really slick illustrations. These neat drawings are unfortunately wasted because of the really poor paper the book is printed on. This was a real disappointment to me, with better paper the excellent graphics would have made the book complete. The MH earlier book `Rough Draft', in color and on glossy paper was stunning, this latest offering, good as it is, doesn't quite make it though. Sorry guys.
Amber waves of laughter.......2002-09-11
In many ways this book is a comical love letter to America with all of her contradictions, squabbling citizens, trashy pleasures and, yes, majestic Starbucks on every corner. Though full of scathing gags on political and social issues (guns, religion, fast food), you get the sense that the writers wouldn't want America any other way. (A suggestion for the sequel: more Rainbow Head!) The narrator of the book addresses readers from foreign lands, but the jokes and insights are meant to bring a smile to true blue Americans.
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