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This is a great book. It includes an Annie Oakley doll, her husband Frank, Buffalo Bill, and Sitting Bull. It also includes a brief biographical account of Annie Oakley. The costumes are beautiful, and there are more than 10 for Annie. Each dress in the book actually existed and it tells what occasion the doll wore it for. This book is worth every penny, and is a must for fans of the Old West and paper doll buffs of any age.

This is an excellent piece of work for people who like a lot of content and process information. Compares favorably to the great Terry Winters one (forgive me, I can't remember the title) of about the same time. And , for me (who is not fully convinced about Kiefer), the work itself is more affecting, telling, resonant, intimate, and just plain interesting, than the very grand paintings. Highly recommended especially for those who, like me, were unable to see the show itself.

I have been reading, disecting, and deconstructing Artaud for well over ten years and find this volume to be indispensible. Well worth the price. The immedicacy and visceral quality of Artaud's words are captured on paper, and where as tapes of his anguished voice might crackle and fade in time, this first hand document of his perceptual experience is truly timeless. This is not only a firmly woven tapestry for those in the know, but also a good starting point for those wondering what all the fuss is about.

Arcady is a unique anthology of brief, free-verse poetry by Donald Revell that borrows inspiration from Charles Ives and Henry David Thoreau to create an American feel to its style, which mourns death yet embraces the natural splendor of the deserts of the Spring Mountains of Nevada. A moving, thoughtful selection that leads the reader to ponder and open oneself to what lies beyond death and grief. Nature A Corner For Me: Nature a corner for me/There will be no room/For my portrait//Besides I have seen/Enough people and horses/And extraordinary fish//.To dream like this/Was worth the trouble/Getting here//My other ideas/Seem premature/Like ghosts now//The most beautiful star/Is crossing me

This book is really terrific. I think that for many of us, "wonder," and a sense of personal contact with grand mysteries, are best experienced through either astronomy or archaeology. What I mean by that is that both of these topics necessitate a personal confrontation with the unknown. The origin of the universe; the fate of ancient peoples; the mythic architecture of dreams uponst which olden folk drew, to explain their place in the cosmos... if these topics don't give you at least a slight frisson of wonder, then, face it, you're hopeless.

This book provides a concatenated sense of wonder by drawing upon both archaeology and astronomy, and distilling many of the most provocative questions explored in each topic. Added to these topics is a tincture of anthropology, which in my mind solidifies the claim that this book has to true neato-hood.

The focus is on the Western Hemisphere, as the title states. The book starts out with a collection of essays by respected, authentic scholars who study this kind of thing. Essay topics include "Archaeoastronomy Today," "Archaeoastronomy and Education," "The Role of Architecture and Planning in Archaeoastronomy," and various and sundry allied topics. If you have a longstanding interest in this kind of thing, you might expect the book to spend a lot of time on the Mayans, because of all the work done on Mayan calendrics, etc. Well, true, there's a lot about the Mayans, but there's also plentiful material about peoples without written records, such as the Chumash, the Apache, some Algonquin tribes, etc.

Let me just point out that the people who contributed to this volume are all respected scholars -- there are no von Danikens, no Velikovskies, no Stichins to call the whole book into question with wild claims about pre-historic extraterrestrial contact, or the like. This book is for real.

The body of the book, like the introduction, is divided into essays by academics with backgrounds in the appropriate fields. The essays are broken up into geographical regions -- North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. Essays delve into all kinds of fascinating subtopics about many archaeoastronomical questions. There is a little essay at the end, about prospects for teaching archaeoastronomy in the classroom. This essay is over twenty years old now, but it still has much of relevance to say.

If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may wish to know about the "Journal of Archaeoastronomy," which you can find either online or in "Magazines for Libraries." Also, you can't go wrong reading anything at all by Anthony Aveni. Anyway, this book is a lot of fun. I would recommend it to anyone.

The post-war president of the American Association of Jews, Louis Breier said of Stepinac: "This great man of the Church is charged with collaboration with the Nazis. We as Jews condemn openly this mockery. He was one of those few men in Europe who stood against tyrrany of Nazism even when the danger was greatest." As in many other Communist countries Stepinac endured a Serbo-Yugoslav show-trial and attempts were made to sully his name. But little can destroy the image of this great defender of human rights. As children growing up in the Sixties in Canada my friend's mom's junior class prayed for Stepinac's safety during the reign of terror in Communist Yugoslavia. This book is an easy, well-documented read for the junior Stepinac reader

Overall, this book does a great job. It provides many good examples of various categories of term papers that received high marks in college. Also, the book includes comments on each paper. Finally, the book provides good web resources you can use in doing your own term papers such as companies on the internet that provide example term papers on every conceivable topic and have huge easily searchable databases of pre-written example papers [online].

This book, used in conjunction with these web resources is a great way to learn how to write exposition, argument and other types papers on any subject and how to properly cite research documents and other sources used. Following the examples, you should be able to easily learn to write term papers for which college professors will tend to give high marks.

The Aristocratic Ideal And Selected Papers is the long-awaited reissue of Donlan's seminal work on Greek social history and thought from Homer to the end of the fifth century BCE and includes The Ideal of the Warrior-Aristocrat; The Old Ideal Under Challenge; The Crisis of Identity: Theognis and Pindar; The Aristocratic Ideal in the Classical Period; and Aristocratic Life-Style in the Fifth Century. This new edition updates the original with reprints of eight related scholarly works spanning the years 1970-1994 including Changes and Shifts in the Meaning of Demos in the Literature of the Archaic Period; The Tradition of Anti-Aristocratic Thought in Early Greek Poetry; The Structure of Authority in the Iliad; The Unequal Exchange Between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Economy; The Pre-State Community in Greece; Homeric temenos and the Land Economy of the Dark Age; Duelling with Gifts in the Iliad: As the Audience Saw It; Chief and Followers in Pre-State Greece. The Aristocratic Ideal And Selected Papers is a scholarly and valued contribution to the study of antiquarian Greek thought, politics, economics, ideals and society.

This book is best described by "Trial Impressions," a 30-part poem which dominates the middle of the book. The first part of the poem reprints, verbatim, a short piece by the English poet John Dowland. The rest of the poems in the sequence rewrite this poem, each in a different way: as sestina, as Mallarmean sonnet, as contemporary plea ("Up to Date"), as an Oulipo "N+7" exercise (using two different dictionaries), as a detective riddle, as a palindrome, as Chinese imagism ("The Wang Way."), etc. The closest precedent to this amazing poem is Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style," another Oulipean tour de force. The poem is funny, touching, and maddening. There are other great works in the book, including the title piece (a very interesting faux "translation" of a nonexsistent prose precedent). And there is also "Histoire," perhaps the funniest sestina in the English language. This is a seduction narrative in which the repeated end-words are "Feminism," "Fascism," "Militarism," Marxism-Leninism," "Sexism," and "Racism." It's amazing to read this sestina and watch such words get drained of their meaning yet strangely re-energized.

This book has it all. From start to finish you learn to create great casts. I especially liked the section that explained how to make your own molds. I highly recommend this book.