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David Hockney
Published in Paperback by Henry Holt (Paper) (1981)
Author: Marco Livingstone
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A treasure of Hockney illustrations & information
If you want a better understanding of David Hockney buy this book. It is a wonderful display of illustrations and information of a great British artist.

"David Hockney: Paintings" is well written and organized to foster a greater understanding of how Hockney evolves over the course of his career. Moreover, you will be impressed by the outstanding quality of the the black & white and color illustrations.

Authors Paul Melia and Ulrich Luckhardt provide the reader an excellent insight to the artistic thoughts of David Hockney. It also studies and explains the tremendous global popularity of the artist. This is a great book to have in the house.

A Fan's Book
Being a tremendous fan of Hockney's work, I was delighted to find this beautiful and informative book.

I liked the chronological organization as the book traced the artist's development over the years. I always find this such an interesting perspective, seeing how an artist's vision changes and evolves. And I also liked the way that the relationship between Hockney's life and his art is explored.

The illustrations were grand too!

A worthwhile book and a good study of Hockney, his life, and his works.

What a bargain price for such a wonderful book
I was more than pleasantly surprised by the extremely high quality of the reproductions. The book is split up in six chapters covering the main artistic phases in Hockney's live and giving a lot of information about his paintings.
I find it extremely interesting not just to see Hockney's work but also to read the details on the creative process leading up to the finished painting. A wonderful book!


Inside the Plo
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow & Company (1991)
Authors: Neil C. Livingstone and David Halevy
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Tremendous book, a MUST READ. Buy it now!
One of the best books I've ever encountered. Buy it now, don't hesitate. I guarantee you won't regret it. This book will leave a lasting impression on you and will change your opinion, while informing you about the things that you've never heard before. Buy this book RIGHT NOW. DO NOT HESITATE!

Well documented and researched
This book takes us inside the complicated machinery that is the PLO. It removes the whitewash and demonstrates conclusively the PLO's hand in numerous terrost incidents. A must read for anyone interested in the middle east scene and how Americans have been lied to.


Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Published in Paperback by The Narrative Press, Inc. (2001)
Author: David Livingstone
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Bright Light in the Dark Continent
In his book on Nile exploration, Moorehead speaks of Livingstone as possessing "baraka"--the quality of making everything seem better just by his presence. Livingstone's humanity and generosity of spirit illuminate this book. The details of his journey through Southern Africa are interesting and vivid, though not crammed with incident. Modern readers will be interested in Livingstone's observations on race relations in the different colonial settlements of the region. But the highlight of the book for me was the personality of Livingstone himself, his sympathy and insight, his matter-of-fact documentation of danger and hardship, his global perspective. A particularly rewarding read if Speke and Burton have left you with a bad taste in your mouth.

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Anne Murray: The Story So Far
Published in Paperback by MacMillan Publishing Company (1984)
Author: David Livingstone
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A Must have for any one interested in Anne Murray.
Anne Murray is a wonderful Canadian Singer who came into our lives in 1968, and remained one of the best and ground breaking singers of our time. David Linvingstone takes us on a journey through her life from the very beginning to when this book was published. He has one of the best pictures of Anne Murray and her Family that you will never see anywhere else. It is a book you will never forget, and documented reveiw on a woman the world have loved since the beginning of time.


Human Geography: An Essential Anthology
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (1996)
Authors: John A. Agnew, David N. Livingstone, and Alisdair Rogers
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An intelligent, well-presented selection.
There are a number of things that make this anthology an excellent departure point for further thought and study. As a third year Geography student, bored with practical geography that felt like fourth form social studies and hungry for theory, this anthology provided me with an expansive, comfy place to rest as I worked out my own ideas and principles, recognising the things that attracted me to Geography, and understanding the things that will keep me attached to the discipline as my life and job change over the years.

Clarence Glacken said in Traces on the Rhodian Shore, his magnum opus about the way nature and the environment have been viewed over the centuries, that there have always been three key ideas about the environment in the history of Western Thought. The editors of this anthology have taken a similar approach to the way they have organised their readings under general themes or concepts that have always been relevant to Geographers: Region, Nature, Culture, Time, Space, and Place. This allows them to gather extracts taken from fundamentally important essays in a way that is useful and informative, in ways that are both historical and practical. The chapters allow you to contrast different approaches that Geographers have taken to key concepts, producing an anthology that is supremely functional, as all great anthologies should be. The readings are challenging, but manageable, and have been selected carefully to provide a budding Historical or Theoretical Geographer with not only the most well known, but also the formally overlooked, providing a well-rounded and fairly un-biased collection. The different paradigms carry equal weighting, allowing you a sense of the struggle that has occured between quantitative and qualitative schools over the years.

There's something for everyone. Kropotkin, Mackinder, Sauer, Glacken, Haagerstrad, Tuan, Anne Buttimer, Aldo Leopold. The anthology also has helpful introductory pages for each thinker with well written, concise biographies outlining their contribution to the discipline, as well as theoretical influences and heirs. Anything but dry, and as useful as any social research methods handbook. Don't discount or neglect the theory when it's been presented in such a stimulating and accessible format as this!


Inside the Plo: Covert Units, Secrets Funds, and the War Against Israel and the United States
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (1990)
Authors: Neil C. Livingstone and David Halevy
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Great Book on the PLO
One of the greatest books describing the PLO I have ever read. Livingstone and Halevy make the book incredibly easy to read and understand. The book is an indepth look at the most formidable terrorist organization in the world. Although the book is out of print and slighlty out of date (1990), it is still on of the best works to date. Definitely worth combing the used book stores for!


Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Published in Hardcover by Ayer Co Pub (1972)
Author: David Livingstone
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One of the greatest lives of the 19th century
This gentle, brave man was explorer, missionary, doctor, scientist and anti-slavery activist. He traveled 29,000 miles in Africa and added about a million square miles to the known portion of the earth. His writings were decisive in ending three hundred years of African slave trading. And here's the end of the story: he died of fever in a small African village while kneeling in prayer by his bedside. His body was returned to England and is buried in Westminster Abbey. But his heart, as he wished it to be, was buried by the natives, in Africa.

A fascinating life, well-told. A book to not only enjoy, but treasure.


Neuroanatomy: An Illustrated Colour Text
Published in Paperback by Churchill Livingstone (15 October, 2000)
Authors: A. R. Crossman, David Neary, and Churchill Livingstone
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Strongly recommened!
I strongly recommend this text. It is detailed enough as a PRIMARY source for test or exam review; yet every topic well-explained to make neuroanatomy much more "manageable". Plus they get great pictures too!


Personal life of David Livingstone ... chiefly from his unpublished journals and correspondence in the possession of his family
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Author: William Garden Blaikie
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What Is Darwinism?: And Other Writings on Science and Religion
Published in Paperback by Baker Book House (1994)
Authors: Charles Hodge, David N. Livingstone, and Mark A. Noll
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A Thoughtful Classic
Prof. Hodge was arguably America's most respected theologian for most of his 56 years teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. This was laregly due to how he was able to apply his keen insights to such a wide number of cultural interests. Dr. Hodge had his fingers on the pulse of politics, the arts, literature and history. After theology his greatest interest was in science. He enjoyed lively debate and had strong opinions, but he was always fair and gracious to his opponents. Folks often disagreed with Hodge's conclusions, but they always knew he was going to summarized the subject at hand lucidly and insightfully.

This book is chiefly known for its conclusion, *What is Darwinism? It is atheism.* This is unfortunate. He only condemns Darwinism after he has spent more than 100 pages closely defining it. It is not all change that he condemns, or even evolution, but a particular species of evolution -- naturalistic Darwinism.

Hodge rarely made hasty judgments. He wa sone of the first theologians to comment on Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) in print -- 1861. Hodge spent many years studying all aspects of the theory. He identifies its strengths as well as its philosophical inconsistencies.

This book is of great value not only to those interested in theology and 19th century history and culture, but also to those interested in the contemporary debates over the merits of Neo-Darwinism (Hodge would have surely been fascinated by the exciting new Intelligent Design [ID] theorists -- like William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Hugh Ross, Michael Behe, etc.).


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