This book is the standard text for college level real estate course RE101. An excellent book with many walkthru examples to help understand difficult situations. GREAT BOOK!

Camera Work was the most important publication in the early development of modern photography. Camera Work was the first primarily pictoral periodical.

Edited by the indefatigable Alfred Steiglitz, the publication was the voice of the important Photo-Secession, but operated independently of it. Through Camera Work, early aficionados of great photography were able to discover the works of the first geniuses in this field. Later the publication also introduced Americans to the works of Marin, Matisse, Picasso, and Cezanne.

Please realize that I am rating this book for its value as a historical reference. This is not a coffee table book, and many of the images will not attract the casual observer. If you are looking for a book of beautiful and wonderfully reproduced photographs, this is not your book.

Before going further, please also realize that this book contains many tasteful nudes and would be "R" rated as a motion picture.

The book's strength is that it contains all of the illustrations (and even some of the advertisements) from the entire 50 issues of Camera Work. For most people, this book is the only way you can observe that work. Although many people have heard about Stieglitz's work in advocating photography, few have seen what an issue of Camera Work looked like. You will also benefit from seeing the essays that Stieglitz wrote about the photographers. These were done in New Yorker style and are very accessible variations on the essays often found in catalogues for exhibitions. In fact, Camera Work increasingly doubled as a summary of exhibitions at 291, Stieglitz's gallery.

The book comes with a fine essay (in English, German, and French) that explains many valuable details about Camera Work.

Stieglitz was very dedicated to quality and sought out the best reproduction processes for the images involved. Unfortunately, these reproductions as done for this volume will fall short of the expectations of most viewers. The pages are quite small, making many images appear differently than they were probably intended.

Stieglitz liked photography that included a soft focus or the diffusion of light that fog and rain can provide. In many cases, these effects are enhanced by other techniques to make the resulting images more abstract. In this book's format, these images often don't look their best. In particular, it seemed to me that many of the images were overinked in this printing, which would create more obscurity than was intended by the artist.

Here are my favorite photographic images from the book:

Bartholome, 1903, Edward Steichen

Letitia Felix, 1903, Clarence White

Ely Cathedral, 1903, Frederick Evans

Storm Light, 1904, Will Cadby

Illustration to "Eben Holden," 1905, Clarence White

Katherine, 1905, Alfred Stieglitz

Experiment in Three-color Photography, 1906, Edward Steichen

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 1907, Sarah Sears

The Rudder, 1908, Alvin Coburn

Spider-webs, 1908, Alvin Coburn

Still Life [glass bowl with floating flowers], 1908, Baron A. de Meyer

Portrait Group, 1912, H. Mortimer Lamb

The Balloon Man, 1912, Baron A. de Meyer

Ellen Terry, 1913, Julia Margaret Cameron

Dryads, 1913, Annie Brigman

New York, 1916, Paul Strand

Photograph [shadows on geometric objects], 1917, Paul Strand

After you finish enjoying this remarkable collection, I suggest that you think about how the styles represented here have affected modern photographic methods and our concepts of photography. In a sense, these images are the dinosaur bones of modern photography.

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Captain Blackman is an American soldier in Vietnam who is seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time, as an African-American solider in each of America's wars from 1775 to 1975. John Williams is a superb craftsman whose novel is as engaging as it is original. The blending of fantasy and history is superlative and his message as entertaining as it is compelling. Captain Blackman is authentic, accurate, and detailed in its background details, compelling, appealing, and completely entertaining in its story.

Anyone interested in thehistory of nazi espionage will find that this book is a must-read. Absolutely riveting. Highly recommended.

Catholic Beliefs From A to Z Review by the author: Alfred McBride (Norbertine Priest) Professor of Homiletics at Blessed John XXIII Seminary, Weston MA I address this book to anyone who is seeking truth and faith and God. It seems to me that behind this search is the desire to be truly happy. The offer of happiness comes from God through the Church. Catholic beliefs have always been rooted in this conviction. I also think the book will interest people who are curious about Catholicism as well as cradle Catholics who have questions about various issues of faith. My book is an organized list of terms which constitute the vocabulary of of an informed Catholic. The alphabetical format has the advantage of putting words and ideas into a predictable sequence. These hundreds of words are the outcome of centuries of prayerful use. Believers have taken them, sung them, spoken them, and polished them with the faith experience of generations. The purpose of Catholic beliefs is to open us to the power of the Holy Spirit. These are not mere words. They point to thoughts, convictions, and the experience of God's active presence in the world and in the center of the human soul. Faith confronts the deepest of all human questions - the origin and destiny of each human being. These words ought to become thoughts in your minds, and even prayers. "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go." The editors asked me to think of this book as an inspirational dictionary so that they become an invitation to faith in father, Son and Spirit. I thank my publisher, Bert Gheezi for asking me to do this book. I also thank the Holy Spirit whose help I sought and which was generously given.

This book is a great one. Invaluable as a supplement to a basic geometry textbook. It includes approximately 200 problems dealing with congruence and parallelism, circles, area relationships, collinearity and concurrency and many other subjects. Detailed solutions and hints are provided for all problems, and specific answers for most. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a great book at an affordable price. Buy it. You won't regret it.

I found the book to be educational as well as interesting i was glad i chose to do my assignment on this book

I chose this poem because I like war and also because Lord Tennyson Alfred is so descriptive. Tennyson Alfred used an idiom when he says "Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell," because the Light Brigade wasn't really coming back from Hell's jaws or the jaws of Death. I chose this poem also because it memorializes the suicidal charge that the Light Brigade made so valiantly against the Cossacks and Russians.

The Chase is a novel where the psychological plot line is equal to the narrative plot line - as the unnamed student tries to survive in a world of political intrique where he is the hunted not the hunter. Attention to detail - details that are constant varients on preceding detail - build the tension to a stunning climax.

Well written and worth your attention.

This book is an excellent way for me to introduce the holidays throughout the year to my young children. The book sequences the holidays throughout the seasons of the year, so it's also a good tool for teaching about the seasons and when the holidays occur. My four-year old often enjoys this book as a bedtime story, anytime of the year. This is a good, general reference for all the Jewish holidays.