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This bundle includes the following products:SAMS Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days- The #1 tutorial on the Visual Basic language/environmentSAMS Teach Yourself More Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days- The perfect follow-up to the original Teach Yourself book - takes you even further in advanced Visual Basic topicsSAMS Teach Yourself Database Programming with VB 6 in 21 Days- The best-selling tutorial on the most popular type of programs being developed with Visual Basic, database applicationsPurchased separately, these products retail for $104.98.Besides saving $35 by purchasing these books as a bundle, customers also receive a special version of Advantageware's VB Advantage for Visual Basic 6.This is a powerful development productivity toolset which can be used right out of the box or modified to suit custom needs.A separate 100-page book documenting VB Advantage for Visual Basic 6 will also be included. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha, R. B. Kitaj, Maurice Sendak, David Stone Martin, Kiki Smith, Saul Bass, Sam Francis, Chryssa, Charles Allan Gilbert, John French Sloan, George Salter, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Ron Davis, John Wesley, Robert Bechtle, Ernest Trova, Barry Le Va, John Ernest, William Wiley, Michael Engelmann, Bernard Childs, Eric Fischl, Jo Baer, Alfred Leslie, Will Burtin, Erik Nitsche, Robert Cottingham, Don Brautigam, Ben Shahn, Currier and Ives, Gregory Masurovsky, Charles Arnoldi, Elizabeth Catlett, Tom Wudl, Alan Shields, Jim Melchert, Peter Alexander, Reva Urban, Bruce Conner, Nicholas Krushenick, Donal McLaughlin, Edward Moses, Richard McLean, Ross Bleckner, Robert Stanley, Leon Golub, Suzie Frankfurt, Larry Cressman, Ann Twardowicz, Carroll Dunham, Edward McKnight Kauffer,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Andy Warhol (* 6. August 1928 in Pittsburgh, PA; † 22. Februar 1987 in New York City; eigentlich Andrew Warhola) war ein US-amerikanischer Grafiker, Künstler, Filmemacher und Verleger sowie Mitbegründer und bedeutender Vertreter der amerikanischen Pop-Art. Warhol gilt als die zentrale Figur der Pop-Art. Er hinterließ ein umfangreiches Gesamtwerk, das von anfänglich einfachen Werbegrafiken hin zu seinen Gemälden, Objekten, Filmen und Büchern reicht. Überdies war er, wenn auch nur kurz, als Musikproduzent tätig. Andy Warhol, 1977 Andy Warhol war der jüngste von drei Söhnen einer armen Bauernfamilie mit lemko-ruthenischen (in neuerer Terminologie und genauer: russinischen) Wurzeln. Seine Eltern Ondrej Varchola (amerikanisiert zu Warhola) (1888-1942) und Julia Justyna geborene Zavacka (1892-1972), waren Immigranten aus dem Dorf Miko...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=5070860 ... Read more

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A solitary young earthman is drawn into a new world of chaos and danger ..... destiny and desire. ... Read more

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No High Adobe
We are so planted in the 21st century and all its accouterments that we forget there was another time, even when some of us lived in it.Dorothy L. Pillsbury transports us back to a simpler time and tells the reader about the Spanish, Indian, and Anglo culture in mid 20th century Santa Fe, New Mexico.Reading the four Adobe series books, in order, is like watching "progress" happen while still hanging on to the old ways.If you have an interest is reasonably contemporary history, the southwest US, divergent cultures, or just want to relax while you read, get all these books and just sit back and enjoy every delightful word.I am so glad I've been able to spend time in Tenario Flat with Dorothy's friends and neighbors.

Roots In Adobe - AView of Santa Fe of the past
I have read all four of Dorothy Pillsbury's Adobe books.They are wonderful.You can read each little story individually or just sit down, or lay down, and read until you are transported to the Santa Fe of 1940 New Mexico.Dorothy retired from social work in Southern California and moved to Santa Fe.Each little story makes us at home with the people and town that she learned to love.The Indian and Spanish customs and history of that time that is all but forgotten.

I remember, when i was a child, going to the La Fonda Hotel with my aunt and uncle and we were the only ones there in the patio in the middle of summer.A sleepy little town.

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This book documents, for the first time, one of the largest and most important commissions of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. Between 1914 and 1924 Wright designed an entire theater community for art patron Aline Barnsdall on her thirty-six-acre Hollywood site, called Olive Hill. Although Wright designed fourteen projects for the Barnsdall estate, only one, Hollyhock House, now a museum owned by the City of Los Angeles, has been widely published. Hollyhock and another house/studio were the only buildings on the site to be completed, but all the projects are extremely important because they bridge the period between the early, well known Oak Park era of the Prairie Houses and Wright's "modern" work after 1936. This chapter in his career--except for his involvement in another huge project, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo--is virtually unknown.

Supported by unpublished drawings, photographs, correspondence, documents, and interviews from a variety of public and private sources, this volume is the product of ten years of research by architectural historian Kathryn Smith.
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Some surprises await the reader
This book is an interesting juxtaposition of two things--Frank Lloyd Wright's complex dealings with a maverick, and some very rare, beautiful photos.

The first part of this is probably of interest to only Frank Lloyd Wright's fans. But those photographs are something else.

Most people know only the exterior of Hollyhock House--cold, forbidding, monolithic; but are unfamiliar with its breathtakingly beautiful interior--in this book, displayed with some photos in vivid color. In my opinion, the interior of this building is the most beautiful of all Frank Lloyd Wright houses; a masterpiece of interior design in the Prairie Style. As an added bonus, there are some extremely rare photos of Residence B--long-demolished, it was a Frank Lloyd Wrightmasterpiece, probablyunique in its use of mitred wood and corbeled posts. (I've never seen a house like it in my entire life).

The photos make this book a must-read, must-have part of your collection, suitable for display on a coffee table.

The best book on Hollyhock House
As the author of this book, I know that I have brought together a collection of drawings, archival photos, plans and drawings made especially for this publication that document and analyze one of Wright's largest and most famous commissions during the period of the 1920s.His work with Aline Barnsdall was extrememly complicated and covered over a decade in his career.My book puts the Hollyhock House in context of the larger commission for Olive Hill.Drawings are reproduced from several sources, mainly the Wright Archives.Hundreds of letters and documents were consulted.A section of color photographs shows the house in detail with fully furnished interior views.This book is a must for the library of every reader interested in Wright.I hope you enjoy it and value it too. ... Read more

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These CDs provide audio for listening practice to accompany the audio sections included in the lab manual portion of the Student Activities Manual. ... Read more

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Chapters: Mel Daniels, Donnie Freeman, Les Hunter, Sam Smith (Basketball, Born 1944), Skip Thoren, Terry Kunze, Dick Clark. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melvin Joe Daniels (born July 20, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6' 9" center, he played for the University of New Mexico Lobo men's basketball team from 1964-67. He was the ninth pick of the 1967 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft, selected by the Cincinnati Royals, and was also drafted by the Minnesota Muskies of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He chose to play in the fledgling ABA, and became one of its all-time greatest players. Daniels was the ABA Rookie of the Year for the 1967-68 season before being traded to the Indiana Pacers, then of the ABA and now in the NBA. Daniels was the ABA Most Valuable Player in both 1969 and 1971 and led the Pacers to three ABA championships. Daniels played in seven ABA All-Star Games, and was named the ABA All-Star Game MVP in the 1971 game. Daniels led the ABA in rebounding average in three different seasons, and is the ABA's all-time leader in total rebounds (9,494) and career rebounding average (15.1 rebounds per game). Daniels also grabbed 1608 career postseason rebounds, ranking in the top twelve in professional basketball history. Daniels played briefly for the NBA's New York Nets in the 1976-77 season. After his playing days, Daniels joined the coaching staff of his college coach, Bob King, at Indiana State, where he coached future Hall of Famer Larry Bird. Daniels joined the Indiana Pacers front office in 1986 and was the team's Director of Player Personnel until October 2009. Mel Daniels is one of the few ABA Most Valuable Players not called up to the Naismith Memorial Bas...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2359991 ... Read more

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Chapters: Stern John, Jon Busch, Ryan Caugherty, Khano Smith, Sam Cronin, Yari Allnutt, Anthony Peters, Darryl Roberts, Scott Schweitzer, Robert Rosario, Randi Patterson, Amir Lowery, Mark Jonas, Tim Merritt, Lyle Adams, Marcus Tracy, James Riley, Osei Telesford, Jamar Beasley, Floyd Franks, Ben Hunter, Brian Loftin, Scott Jones, Jamie Franks, Brian Edwards, Ryan Solle, Khary Stockton, Nansha Kalonji, Shea Salinas, David Moxom, Marcus Storey, Zen Luzniak, Justin Moose, Kenny Bundy, Richard Sharpe, Zach Loyd, Wells Thompson, Scott Garlick, Michael Lahoud, Brian Shriver, Mo Oduor, Corben Bone, Joey Valenti, Musa Shannon, Peter Byaruhanga, Dominic Cianciarulo, Nate Winkel, Glen Collins,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stern John (born 30 October 1976 in Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian football player currently a free agent. John moved to the United States to attend Mercer County Community College in 1995. he joined the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from the now-defunct New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the A-League for the 1998 season. John received a try-out with Crew based on the good word from his older cousin, Columbus Crew defender and Trinidad and Tobago international, Ansil Elcock. With the Crew, he proved to be one of the most prolific scorers in league history. John led the league with 26 goals (and also with 57 points to be named the MLS Scoring Champion) in 1998. He was named to the MLS Best XI that year as well, and tied for the lead with 18 goals in 1999. After the 1999 season with Columbus, John was acquired by Nottingham Forest of the English First Division for a fee of £1.5 million. However, eventually financial difficulties at Forest following the team's failed bid at promotion forced John's sale to Birmingham ...http://booksllc.net/?id=1031068 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Sam Smith, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1030 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Still ahead of its time 40+ years later
This first novel by Josephine Saxton may have been published as science fiction, but it's as far from spaceships & rayguns & robots as you can get. One of the most fascinating & sadly neglected of the New Wave SF writers who flourished briefly in the late 1960s, her work is avant-garde & has more in common with Surrealist writers such as Leonora Carrington. Even in those heady days of experimentation & shattering genre boundaries, this was uncommon work.

Yet the narrative is simple, straightforward, matter-of-fact, and written with an utter clarity & attention to everyday detail. It has a certain dreamlike quality, in that it makes perfect emotional sense ... unless you start thinking too much about certain logical inconsistencies. Given the SF label, you'll start wondering what's going on behind the scenes: manipulation of reality? some strange scientific study? alien intervention? a post-apocalyptic scenario?

Let me warn you right now -- while the final pages transition seamlessly into the (then) modern world, there's no scientific explanation, no deus ex machina to resolve everything. Nobody appears to tell us reassuringly, "Here's what happened & why." But there doesn't have to be that sort of explanation, because it makes sense at a very deep & primal level.

So let's look at the actual story ...

The nameless boy is 14. He's been walking through a wasteland by himself since he was 4. He's seen a bird once, maybe twice in all those years. Yet he always wears clean, fashionable clothes & thinks in an educated manner, even though many things familiar to the reader are utterly foreign to him.

From time to time, he passes through empty towns. Nobody has been there in years. Yet the food in the stores is always fresh, the coffee makers still work, the water still runs. He takes all this for granted. When he does talk to himself, it's in a rather formal manner:

"'This is very annoying. I must remember that this door is not personally attempting to frustrate me,' he said, and walked away backwards from the unhelpful door."

His life changes when he stumbles across a dead woman who has just given birth to a baby girl. Despite his own fear & revulsion, he takes the baby with him. The reader might expect some grim, hardscrabble struggle for brute survival ... but that's not the case. The boy simply finds another town & raises the baby there for a few years, living in the Universal Goods Store, Ltd.

As the two grow older, there are occasional brief appearances by strangers in the distance. The two often wake to find telegrams of encouragement left at their bedsides. And they gradually become aware of their own budding sexuality.

At this point, let's remember that the Hieros Gamos of the title means "sacred marriage." It's both a mythological & psychological term. Let's also remember that one of the primary themes of New Wave SF was inner space, as opposed to outer space. This provides us with the necessary reading of this wondrous novel, which presents the universal journey of the human being, so familiar to everyone, and makes it new, giving it an unearthly beauty & power.

I've searched the internet for information about the author, but there's a dearth of it. All of her books seem to be out of print, and almost none of them have online reviews. This is a shame, because she's a superb writer, one who has the rare gift of both unsettling & enlightening the reader. When I began reading this novel, I had no idea where it was going -- but I couldn't put it down. And when I finished the last page, I simply sat in silence for awhile, mulling it over, knowing that I'd be reading it again before long.

"Not for every taste" is often used for unorthodox works of art, but it especially applies here. In these more literal times, where inner space is the last place anyone wants to go, I can't imagine much of an audience for such a novel. Again, that's a shame. It's truly stunning work, sure to appeal to the adventurous reader -- those of Surrealist tastes in particular. Definitely & desperately in need of reprinting!

As for me, I've already ordered more of her work & can't wait to read it. Meanwhile, I've scanned in the author's picture from the book jacket, which you can find elsewhere on this page (see all 2 customer images). It captures the tone of those times perfectly: hairstyle, clothing, cigarette, all radiating style, smarts, cool & confidence to spare. An extraordinary talent, one I'm so happy to have discovered at last!



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Chapters: J. P. Wearing, Nick Redfern, Sam Smith, Ken Rowley, Harry Haddon, Steve Hayward. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Peter Wearing (born c. 1945) is an English-born American author and professor, who has written numerous books and articles about nineteenth and twentieth-century drama and theater, including The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography, published in 2007. He has also written and edited well-received books on George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Wing Pinero, and an extensive series on the London theatre from 1890 to 1959, among other subjects. As a professor of English literature, Wearing has specialized in Shakespeare and modern drama. Wearing, who publishes under the name J. P. Wearing, was born in Birmingham, England and raised in Pelsall, England. At Cannock Grammar School, he became Head Boy and sang in the church choir. He studied English Literature at the University of Wales (then called the University College of Swansea), graduating in 1967 with a B.A. degree (magna cum laude). The next year he received an M.A. degree from the University of Saskatchewan. He earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wales in 1971. He has a brother named Michael. In 1971, Wearing began teaching at the University of Alberta, soon founding, together with L. W. Conolly, the journal Nineteenth Century Theatre Research, which he edited until 1986. He was also a theatre critic on CKUA Radio in 1973-74. Wearing moved to the U.S. and joined the University of Arizona in 1974, teaching Shakespeare and modern drama until 1999. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (197879) and a four-year research grant for his extensive series on the London theatre from the National Endowment for the Humanities (198791). Since 1999, he has held...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22051783 ... 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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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scott Skiles, Reggie Theus, Otis Smith, Sam Vincent, Morlon Wiley, Frank Johnson, Sidney Green, Mark Acres, Jerry Reynolds, Keith Lee, Terry Catledge, Jim Farmer. Excerpt:Frank Johnson (basketball) item Career stats (NBA) item Points : 4,937 item Assists : 2,476 item Steals : 570 item Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com item Career highlights and awards item Franklin Lenard Johnson (born November 23, 1958 in Weirsdale , Florida ) is a retired American professional basketball player and coach. Playing career After playing collegiately for Wake Forest University , Johnson was selected in the first round of the 1981 NBA Draft with the 11th pick by the Washington Bullets . He has played point guard in the NBA for the Bullets (1981-1988), the Houston Rockets (1988-89) (he has signed as a free agent with the New Jersey Nets , but they traded him to the Rockets before he played in any games for them) and the Phoenix Suns (1992-94) (his principal role with the Suns was to relieve starting point guard Kevin Johnson when the star fatigued). He was selected from the Rockets by the Orlando Magic in the 1989 expansion draft , but he was waived before the 1989-90 season started. He has played 650 games in the NBA (regular season and playoffs), with regular season career averages of 8.3 PPG and 4.2 APG in 21.6 minutes. He has played professionally in Italy for Ranger Varese (1989-91, played in the finals of the Italian Championship in 1990) and Marr Rimini (Serie A2, 1991). Coaching career Johnson coached the Phoenix Suns for almost two seasons beginning February 17, 2002, before he was fired on December 10, 2003 and replaced by assistant Mike D'Antoni . The official reason for the firing was routine the team had performed poorly in 2003-04--but at least one local news source reported that some... ... Read more