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It's the great British obsession and not surprisingly: no other country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people's lives as we have. The Wrong Kind of Snow is the complete daily companion to this British phenomenon. From the Spanish Armada to the invention of the windscreen wiper, each of the 365 entries beautifully illustrates a day in the weird and wonderful history of the British and their weather. 31 January: The 'Big Freeze' of 1963brings the FA Cup competition to a halt: every football pitch in Britain is frozen: the third round takes 66 days to complete: the Pools Panel is formed as a result. 9 February: 'British Rail blames the Wrong Kind of Snow' -- it was a journalist's phrase, but on this day in 1991 it stuck to the beleaguered BR like flesh to ice. 15 July: The exceptionally hot and steamy summer of 1858 caused the Great Stink of London, resulting in the building of London's sewage system, still in use today. On the same day in 1930, rainfall in Yorkshire is so heavy that the Whitby lifeboat makes a rescue two miles inland. 10 September: A violent storm -- rather than British sea power -- defeats the Spanish Armada in1588.Four centuries later, bad light and rain stop play at the Oval ...And much more. ... Read more

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Delivered Before The Junior Class Of The South Carolina College. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1906.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Ice:An Introduction
Elements of Ice Skating
History of Ice Skating
The Sport of Ice Skating
The Spectacle of Ice Skating
Pleasures of Ice Skating
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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William Woodward was an extraordinarily influential force in Southern Impressionism, the New Orleans Arts And Crafts Movement, the Newcomb Art School, and the French Quarter Preservation Movement. His paintings also encompass scenes of his travels across America and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he retired after a career of teaching at Tulane University and Newcomb College.THIS IS A BEAUTIFULLY HARD BOUND 208 PAGE EXQUISITE COFFEE TABLE BOOK THAT CONTAINS 166 FULL COLOR PLATES of Woodward's art and presents, for the first time, a compendium showing the diversity of his work, and the different methods, style and genres he used.Woodward's paintings capture the romantic essence of New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century and a Mississippi Gulf Coast before the ravages of hurricanes.The articles in the book are written by George Schmidt (a prominent New Orleans artist), Judith Bonner (the Senior Curator, The Historic New Orleans Collection), Richard Gruber (the Director of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art), Jessie Poesch (retired Professor of Art, Tulane University) and Ray Bellande (a prominent Biloxi historian), all experts in their respective areas. ... Read more

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Art in the South
This is a truly lavish art book!For all who love American Impressionism and New Orleans, this book is a visual delight.In addition to the handsome reproductions, five leading art historians present engaging essays on the life and times of William Woodward, artist, architect, and art educator. The topics cover his early training in the American Arts and Crafts movement on the East Coast, his tenure as professor of architecture and fine art at Tulane University and Newcomb College Art School, his role as preservationist of the old French Quarter, and ends with his retirement in the lively art community of Biloxi, Mississippi. His paintings of the Vieux Carre (French Quarter) are perhaps the most famous of his subjects and provide a glimpse into New Orleans at the turn of nineteenth century. Woodward used the novel medium of oil crayon, instead of traditional oil, for these paintings, which allowed for quick, spontaneous, "on the spot" drawings of the old buildings.This impressionist technique did much to change the style of art in the South, leading the way to a late blooming of the popular Movement which had already taken Europe and the East Coast by storm.Woodward documents a vanishing culture and style of architecture in New Orleans which today remains unique among American cities.Woodward's beautiful paintings remind us that their message of preservation is more timely now than ever following the series of man-made disasters on the Gulf coast! ... Read more

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Veil is the explosive #1 national bestseller that ripped the lid off the inner workings of the CIA. From Watergate to Nixon, from the Supreme Court to the controversial death of comic John Belushi, Bob Woodward is on the leading edge of the events in our nation that make news, make history and make bestsellers! HC: Simon & Schuster. (Nonfiction) ... Read more

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It is like we were in the meetings......
This is another of Bob Woodward's insider stories on the White House, the Presidency of the United States and the surrounding players, in this case the CIA and it's Director William Casey.

Woodward chose one of the most turbulent times in US political history to write about and he wrote extremely well, it is almost as if the reader is in the room while these events took place. The ability of Woodward to draw out the biggest secrets and stories from some of the most powerful people in the world is something to be seen to be believed.

Excellent book.

Ivy Balls...The Depths of Real-Life Espionage
...Okay, so it's Operation "Ivy Bells"...I just wanted to relay an abbreviated connotation into the title, in a nutshell.

Specifically covering past espionage operations, this book relates excellent past internal working and policy decision making between various intelligence agencies, political players and other intelligence sources, not just the CIA. It covers specific, proven events...in great detail.

You can get an in-depth idea of how "shadow systems" work around, and with, existing civilian and government markets, as well as DC politics that are often involved in big business and major political entities world-wide.


I find it a very informative book, especially with its "hindsight" into deeper inner workings of not just what policy IS, but HOW policy is CARRIED OUT in the real world, and the not so visible world.

An eye opener...well written, as to simultaneously inform and entertain.

A whole lot of S**T going down!
This book delves into the various covert operations sponsored by the CIA during the Reagan administration.The primary focus is on combating communist parties in Central America and dealing with Middle East dictators and terrorism.The story is told chronologically and allocates about the same number of chapters to each year stated in the book's title.Woodward writes the book like a TV crime drama; with some conversations taking up whole paragraphs and some weeks covered in a sentence.The book contains many references, but all are in the back, with no correlation between specific facts and their sources.Woodward takes a fairly objective view of events, and there are many instances where central characters like CIA DCI Casey, Reagan, and various cabinet members can comment on their words and actions.The book gives a lot of facts such as dates, names of operations, names of characters, and other details that make this a good reference, along with a good piece of investigative journalism.All in all, a good book.

Expectations Met
Woodward does a good job ofgiving you a fly's eye view of the old CIA

The Clique That Couldn't Spy Straight
When Woodward wrote this book in 1987, it was his first truly up-to-the-minute muckraking exercise since "All the President's Men" and "The Final Days" with Carl Bernstein back during the Watergate years. "Veil" covers the activities of the U.S. intelligence apparatus in the 1980s, leading up to the Iran-Contra scandal that was just breaking as Woodward finished up the book. At the time, Woodward was probably trying to unleash an in-depth investigation on a breaking story for the benefit of concerned and skeptical Americans, like he did most recently with his three books on Bush and the Iraq war. This may have been a crucial investigation at the time, but now it largely reflects esoteric historical details.

The book mostly follows William Casey, Reagan's intelligence chief from 1981 to 1987, in the form of a 500-page investigative report of Casey's decision-making processes, the unqualified cronyism of the intelligence establishment, and all the political causes and effects. The historical details are fairly interesting for intelligence buffs but are now a rather unexciting read, especially since Woodward's strictly chronological investigative style creates very little suspense. You get the feeling that the historical coverage is always leading up to something that never quite comes as the book slogs along, except maybe the Iran-Contra hearings, but those started just as Woodward's chronology comes to a close (he concluded with Casey's untimely death).

But on the good side, if one takes a longer historical view there are some interesting lessons to be learned here. Woodward finds that the American intelligence apparatus (especially the CIA) has always been devoted not to the security of the American homeland, but to pushing ideology into other nations and building short-term alliances for quick political gain, no matter which political party is in charge back home. During the Casey/Reagan years, the agency was stacked with political cronies whose black-and-white ideological obsessions resulted in a parade of questionable actions leading to the shameful (and possibly treasonous) Iran-Contra scandal. At a higher level, through this example Woodward really brought some crucial focus to what American intelligence really stands for. But in terms of the specific events of this book, Woodward would have created a more lasting historical study if he had waited until after the Iran-Contra hearings had run their course. [~doomsdayer520~] ... Read more

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Robert Adams, one of Americaís foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Apertureís previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photographyís place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams's correspondence and conversations--some of which have never been published before--with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes. ... Read more

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Snippets of silence
Let me begin this review with a disclaimer, I am passionate about Robert Adams' photography and his writings and have been for over 15 years.

This book is in my opinion a useful primer for those interested in the ideas surrounding Mr Adams' work. A handy reference to other art and artists who Mr Adams feels are accomplished and successful in their approach to art. He also alludes to the meaning and function of art, a refreshing attitude in this post modern world of "anything goes".

However if you are looking for some intellectual meat or long indepth discourses on the meaning of art this book is not for you.

Currently this book is nestled in my bag and travels everywhere with me, shortly it will be as dog eared as his other tomes, Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defence of Traditional Values and Why People Photograph

A delightful book of conversations
Robert Adams is one of the most thoughtful people practicing photography today, and this book, though slim, is filled with conversations about the medium.Since purchasing the book about three months ago, I have read the book from cover to cover at least five times, and I suppose I will likely read it many times more.His words are full of love for photography and those who practice it, and for the landscape, and those who live there.

And the photographs--how does he find such simple scenes so full of memories of places I've never been?Full of light and leaves and water, quiet, powerful places...

The stars are for the photos only
Robert Adams' essays in "Beauty in Photography" and "Why People Photograph" were interesting and insightful.The interview text in this small book of photographs shows him to be an academic, lacking an understanding of human motivation and necessary practicalities.Would that the world was so simple.It's not and the foundation for Adams' wonderful photography is shown to be seriously flawed.

He describes himself in this book as being a socialist of sorts but then admits to having anger directed toward the "lower classes" because this "lower class" accepts "mass produced junk" without criticism.He also comes off as a sort of wimp.He may not return to photograph in California because of the "danger" he sensed in the areas he photographed.Apparently he feels that the presence of junk and the distant sounds of dirt bikes and "assault rifles" frightened him.I wasn't aware an "assault rifle" made its own unique sound.I wasn't aware that junk and dirt bikes were threatening.He also sensed "hostility" in many of the neighborhoods he saw because there was razor wire and aggressive breeds of dogs present.He later admits he has never been attacked while photographing but he has had to endure other people's anger.This poor guy must have either a superb sense of impending danger or he lives a sheltered, terrified life.

He answers many of the questions with quotes from famous people, whose words he has committed to memory.They are mostly profound statements.Unfortunately, when Adams speaks for himself, he comes across as lacking.He probably should get out among the "lower classes" more often and experience their hopes, aspirations and motivations instead of locking himself into a fantasy world of denial.

The photographs, however, are poetic and the only reason to buy this slim volume. ... Read more