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Five Short Works for the Guitar
Published in Paperback by Warner Brothers Publications (22 March, 1985)
Author: Andres Segovia
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The LOST Treasures
Along his GROWN and POPULAR carrier, Andrés Segovia has composed some songs that no CD have recorded. In this "BOOK" we can find:

- Impromptu - Tonadilla - Tres Preludios

All of these songs, musics or whatever you may call - i call Treasure - cannot be found on any one of Segovia's previous records. But this book contain all of them all written by his own hands!


Fragments: Portraits from the Inside
Published in Paperback by Faber & Faber (1996)
Authors: Andre De Toth, Andre De Toth, Bertrand Tavernier, and Martin Scorsese
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Genuine Inside Perspective
Not for the casual reader.

But if you have some understanding of film history, and world history, this book is totally without parallel.

Andre de Toth tells it like it was.

Frank, no nonsense, no sugar coating.

Read this LAST out of any "golden era Hollywood" books to learn what it was really about.


The French Imperial Guard: Cavalry
Published in Paperback by Histoire & Collections (2003)
Authors: Andre Jouineau and Jean-Marie Mongin
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Best Bang for the Buck
I am a person who has a lot of money wrapped up in Uniform print books. Napoleonic is my favorite era and I own most of the good works that have been published in the last 20 years. Some of these books can cost up to $500 new or when out of print as much as $700. Now we come to the Jouineau/Jean-Marie Mongin series. Wow, what great books for [item price]. For [item price] you get the uniforms of the Imperial Guard Calvary in color with lots of detail. One of the drawbacks (if you can call it that) is that they are computer generated images. This makes it inexpensive to produce numerous different unifoms. It does of course eliminate the uniqueness of a hand drawn print. But each book has dozens if not hundreds of images. Any person who has an interest in Napoleonic uniforms should gladly pick up this series. Well worth the money.


Fresh Air: On Stage and Screen
Published in Audio Download by audible.com ()
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If you like the show, you'll like spending 3 hours with this
This is a refreshing way to spend your time listening to some of the best interviews from the show. I like the show but sometimes don't have time to catch it on NPR. This audio set gives me lots of the memorable interviews I've heard or partially heard over the years. It's a great collection of some of the folks who are major influences in their work. The inquisitive and probing questions of Terry Gross really open up conversations with the likes of Tracy Ullman and Dennis Franz, they sound like us. These are wonderful snippets of real life.


Fundamentals of Geostatistics in Five Lessons (Short Course in Geology, Vol 8)
Published in Paperback by Amer Geophysical Union (1989)
Author: Andre G. Journel
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Fundamentals of Geostatistics in Five Lessons
I am geostatistics professor and wants to receive to cop


Fur Magic
Published in Hardcover by Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc. (1992)
Authors: Andre Norton and Alicia Austin
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A Spirit Dream?
Fur Magic is a fantasy novel based on the legends of the North American Indians. In the tales of the Nez Perce, and other tribes, the Changer is a great power who has the ability to shape things. Often called the Trickster, the Changer delights in confounding others with his changes. Long ago, the Old People, sapient oversized animals, ruled the world, but then the Changer made mankind and changed everything.

In this story, Cory Adler is a Floridan boy whose father has been assigned to Viet Nam by the Army and whose mother is taking care of his grandmother in San Francisco. An old Army buddy of his father, Uncle Jasper, has invited Cory to stay on his ranch while his parents are away and Cory looks forward to it with great anticipation. Yet the actual experience is much more frightening than he expects; the horses are big and buck him off, the animals have sharp teeth and claws, and the night is filled with strange noises.

The day after his unsuccessful attempt to ride a horse, Uncle Jasper takes him up to an old line cabin in the high country and leaves him there while the adults ride off to inspect the young horses. Cory agrees to wait for Black Elk, an old indian shaman, to arrive at the cabin and then to phone for a jeep to carry the old man to the main house. Cory is willing, as long as he doesn't have to ride a horse, and soon starts to explore the surrounding area. He accidentally falls into a shallow hole and breaks a basket and a turtleshell rattle within the hollow. He takes a leather bag back to the cabin to get a better look at it, but decides it is a medicine pouch and replaces it within the broken basket.

While exploring some more, he notices brown shapes moving around on a distance hillside and uses his binoculars to resolve the image into three buffalo, two adults and a calf. Moreover, he sees a man wearing an animal skin, possibly coyote, dancing close to the animals while carrying a decorated stick and a turtleshell rattle. He is held motionless by fear, but manages to drop the binoculars, which frees his muscles. Still terrified, he nonetheless runs toward the site where he has seen the buffalo and the man, but only tracks remain of the animals and man.

When he returns to the cabin, he finds an old indian man sitting motionless by the firepit. He asks the old man if he is Black Eagle and is finally answered with a bare acknowledgment. Cory makes a meal in the firepit for the old man, who eats everything given to him and Cory's portion as well. Afterwards, the old man pulls out a leather bag, the same medicine pouch that Cory had returned to the basket, throws some dust on the fire that causes a steady stream of smoke to rise above it, and insists that Cory has done wrong and must purify himself by holding the pouch in the smoke. When Cory complies, he is transported into the mind of an oversized beaver named Yellow Shell.

Cory thinks that he is in an exceptionally vivid dream, but cannot awaken. His mind accompanies Yellow Shell as he fights against marauding minks and clever crows which are minions of the Changer. He even meets the Changer face to face and is able to fight back and find a way to return to his own body. Moreover, he is now able to overcome his fears.

This story may be the earliest of the author's tales involving the legends and people of the tribes. Other works influenced by these traditions include the Beast Master series, The Sioux Spaceman, and The Defiant Agents. These tales of indian ways have been very influential to many young people through the years, possibly including Jane Lindskold, author of Changer and the Firekeeper series, which contain some of these same images.

This novel is intended for young people, but like her other juveniles, is also enjoyable to an old man like me.

Recommended for Norton fans and anyone who enjoys simple tales of exotic folks and heroic quests.


Gentle Roads to Survival: Making Self-Healing Choices in Difficult Circumstances
Published in Paperback by Aslan Pub (1991)
Author: Andre Auw
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A wise,gentle book about self-transformation through living.
I came to this book after a period of struggle and loss. Auw's definition of survivor includes anyone who prevails over life's traumas and tragedies. This is no superficial new age "self-help" book; it is a profound meditation on the possibilities of the transformation of a human life. Auw writes clearly, drawing from a lifetime of his own experiences, and what he has learned from his clients through counseling. He articulates "life's lessons" in a way that invites the reader to consider what we have learned to resist and dismiss ... that loss may be opportunity, and failure a message; that those of us in the "helping" professions must first of all be honest about our motives, and allow for our own humanity. In his discussion of fear and resistance, Auw points our that after close self-scrutiny, we may learn that the signal BEWARE that drives us reactively may be reframed as BE AWARE. These Zen-like suggestions sparkle in the mind and create courage. I would recommend this deceptively simple book to anyone who has begun an assessment of life with fairly open eyes. Savor this book - one small chapter a day will fill you up!


Gesture and Speech (October Books)
Published in Hardcover by MIT Press (04 June, 1993)
Authors: AnnaBostock Berger and André Leroi-Gourhan
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It is not human brain but the human posture that has created
It is not the brain but the human posture that has created room for increasingly complex social organizations among humans.
This provoquing classic of the 20th century intellectual life is still to be known by every inteletual today.


Gide's Bent: Sexuality Politics Writing (Ideologies of Desire)
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1995)
Author: Michael Lucey
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The Nitty-Gritty on the Scritti Politti and Litti
Not really for the Gide beginner, this book nevertheless contains extremely subtle readings of Gide's work in an attempt to reveal his (often fairly disingenuous) political and sexual strategies. Lucey is careful to give both the original French and his own translations of some of the more sticky, controversial, or just plain mindblowing passages that are made more controversial and certainly far more mindblowing by Lucey's interpretations. Though the book did take some getting into, the effort was well worth it: It's absolutely one of the most stunning "thematic" studies of any author I've ever read. Even though Lucey tries to make things more comfortable and enlightening by providing some biographical context and synopses, I'd recommend reading at least half the novels first and familiarizing oneself with Gide's biography beforehand. Gide's "classicism" will never be the same again, will never have that whiff of stodginess about it that the word implies...


Gslib: Geostatistical Software Library and User's Guide
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (1992)
Authors: Clayton V. Deutsch, Calyton V. Deutsch, and Andre Journel
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GSLIB--Powerful tools for power users
This is definitely not a book for the faint-of-mathematical-heart. As the title indicates, this is a user's manual for the GSLIB software (which is included on CD-ROM), and it includes discussions of all the supporting statistical mathematics. This makes the book invaluable to the user who is already well-grounded in statistics, and difficult to follow for the rest. There are very few lifelines to pull non-statisticians out of the jargon mire.

Nevertheless, if you're well-versed (and you probably are if you're considering purchasing this software), this is one heck of a powerful set of tools. The software includes a Kriging smorgasbord, simulation, variography, display tools, and is self-contained with few exceptions. The software is platform-independent, requiring only a Fortran compiler. All routines are written for Fortran77, and are uncompiled. I found the software user manual to be useful, well thought out, and complete.

A powerful tool at a bargain price!


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