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Boston

Boston: A Pictorial Souvenir
Carol Highsmith , and Ted Landphair
Manufacturer: Crescent
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517201437
Release Date: 1997-08-19

Book Description

Boston, that historical center of colonial charm, splendid parklands, superior universities, and technological development, is an endlessly fascinating place. It is the cauldron, not just of American freedom, but also, arguably, of modern democracy itself. The great names of Boston—Revere, Hancock, Adams, Kennedy, Lodge, O'Neill—are American legends. The stops along the Freedom and the Black Freedom trails are cornerstones of Early American life. Luckily for visitors, this old port city is compact, easily walkable, and eminently photogenic.
Gleaming skyscrapers have asserted their place in the skyline, but Boston seems little changed from the days when Henry David Thoreau dropped in on the Old Corner Bookstore. In this stunning new collection of full-color portraits, renowned photographer Carol M. Highsmith captures the principal historic landmarks from the African Meeting House to John F. Kennedy's birthplace in Brookline; neighborhoods from tony Beacon Hill to the eclectic South End; thriving downtown shops and restaurants; the major universities and celebrated museums; and the "Emerald Necklace" of parklands. A lively, information-packed introduction and captions by award-winning writer Ted Landphair offer the perfect complement to Highsmith's outstanding images.
Boston: A Pictorial Souvenir celebrates the enduring elegance of New England's hub city. It is the perfect souvenir of a memorable visit, and the ideal gift for anyone who savors history, unforgettable architecture, cultural vitality, and high-tech innovation—the diversity that is truly Boston.

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Boston.......2002-09-01

This is a good book as a souvenir and after having visited Boston six times, I know many of the places photographed and can vividly recall the moments I spent there. There's a detailed introduction looking at all aspects of Bostonian life, including some fabulous old photographs. The rest of the book presents the modern-day town, from the architecture to its people, traditional and contemporary. A lot of the photographs focus on detail, with some good camera angles, but I feel some more general views could have been used to get a better impression of this fantastic town.

My Creative Companion: The Ultimate Scrapbooking Resource

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GREAT SCRAPBOOKERS HELPER
My Creative Companion
Great Generic Ideas With No Photos to Distract
An Great tool
A MUST

My Creative Companion: The Ultimate Scrapbooking Resource
Becky Higgins
Manufacturer: Primedia Enthusiast Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1929180365

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"Inspiration at your fingertips! A much-loved best seller! Do you ever sit down and find yourself at a loss for ideas? Are you tired of using the same approaches over and over again? Let Becky Higgins' My Creative Companion inspire you! This unique, spiral-bound idea gallery system is filled with thumbnail sketches Becky herself uses that illustrate creative layout designs, unique enhancements, distinctive lettering and journaling ideas, and more. My Creative Companion will give you endless ideas for any layout. Simply browse the sketches until you find one that's perfect for the page you're working on, then re-create the concept on your layout. It's sure to become the resource you can't scrapbook without!

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GREAT SCRAPBOOKERS HELPER.......2007-05-18

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK FOR WHEN YOU HAVE A CREATIVE BLOCK -- LOTS OF IDEAS AND YOU CAN EASILY ADAPT THEM TO FIT YOUR STYLE! TONS AND TONS OF GREAT STUFF

My Creative Companion.......2007-05-12

Great Book, I love it. Good source of information and ideas. I would recommend it to anyone. I plan to get her other books also. Thanks Becky Higgins.

Great Generic Ideas With No Photos to Distract.......2007-01-31

My favorite part about this book is that it isn't just a bunch of pages other people have created that you then get caught up in the photos and stories, forgetting why you originally went looking. For years, I'd gotten the scrap magazines, which, while beautiful and ususally inspiring, did not always help me. I usually thought I had to find a book with exactly the theme I was working on. The good news is that you don't, and this book has mock-ups of layouts, borders, etc. that are easily adaptable to any book you're working on. I think the only downside might be that there are so many new techniques that have come out in the five years since it was published, that it may not cover as much as some might like. Having said that, I'm willing to bet the #2 that just came out will pick those up perfectly! From my perspective, buying either book (or even both!) would be a good investment for anyone who's found themselves stuck creatively!

An Great tool.......2007-01-11

I love this book it is a great tool when your scrapbooking and when you have scrappers block.. I would recommend the book to anyone.

A MUST .......2006-11-02

This book is a must for any scrapbooker. When you really want to scrapbook and have no ideas this book is the solution to all of your needs. It's amazing the ground it covers. I can't wait to have the 2nd one. You will not be let down by this one. It's a keeper. The layout section is probably the most helpful to me. Even when you only have 2 pictures it still helps you create a page that is unique.

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War

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AN EXCELLENT READ AND A WORK VERY WELL DONE!
Beautiful story, beautifully written
The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
If You Believe in it, You Win
The Souvenir - A Compelling Look Back at WWII

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Louise Steinman
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0452283655

Book Description

In 1945, an American G.I. mailed home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolded the past. Growing up, Louise Steinman knew little about her father's experiences in World War II. All she knew was that the whistling teakettle was banned from the kitchen and that she was never to cry in front of him. Years later, after her parents' death, she found an old ammunition box, filled with nearly five hundred letters her father had written to her mother during the War. She also found a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Who was Yoshio Shimizu and why did her father have his flag? So began Steinman's quest to return this "souvenir" to its owner, and in the process, to learn more about the war that transformed the expressive young man in those letters into the reserved father she had known.

Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a powerful view of how war changed one generation and shaped another.

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AN EXCELLENT READ AND A WORK VERY WELL DONE!.......2007-06-06

Like so many in my generation, the author, like the rest of us, really had no clue as to what made her father tick. These men, and women, of the "Greatest Generation" were a different breed. I had to blink twice when the author described her father, his attitudes, work ethic, treatment of his family and on and on. She could have well been describing my own father.

The author, after her father's death, discovers a box of letters written to his wife (the author's mother) during the war. Her father fought in the Pacific, taking part in some of its most brutal of battles. Amongst the letters, in an envelope, was a Japanese Flag, a "souvenir flag" which her father had sent home. The flag was of the type carried by many Japanese soldiers, which was a sort of good luck piece. The story is basically Ms. Steinman's search for the family of the soldier whose body it was taken from and a story of Ms. Steinman's search for her father, i.e. who really was her father, and how had the war changed him?

Now I will be honest, there were parts of the book that disturbed me. I am not all that certain if the author ever did have a clue as to what made her father the man he was and how the war truly affected him. The author never actually says it, but after reading her description of her father, which gave us some idea of the kind of man he was, there is really no doubt where he got the flag, and how he got it. He did not seem the type of man who would simply pick up a flag off any old dead body and keep it. While this falls into the realm of speculation, I think it probably would have been better if the author had faced reality. Be that as it may, the author did quite a good job with her research and I certainly admire her objectives.

The book is well written, easy to read, and quite informative. Like another reviewer here, I have the feeling the author actually found out more about herself than she did of her father, and that is actually a very good thing. I do recommend this one highly. You certainly will be richer for having read it.

D. Blankenship

Beautiful story, beautifully written.......2006-06-12

A page turner, I could hardly put it down. Moving and poignant. Through reading about "the war" of the author's father, I learned a lot about my own father and "his war". He too faught with the 25th Division at Balete Pass in 1945, earning a combat intantryman badge and purple heart. He has rarely spoke of his experience and after reading this book, I better understand why. The Souvenir is a must read for anyone whose father fought in "The Pacific War". Thank you Ms. Steinman, The Souvenir is truly a gift.

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War.......2005-09-03

I have just finished reading Ms. Steinman's THE SOUVENIR, and through her skill and persuasion, her souvenir has now become "my" souvenir too. I find myself thinking about her journey as a daughter as well as the unspeakable journeys our fathers, brothers, and sons (now daughters too) have made in times of war.

If You Believe in it, You Win.......2005-08-08

Louise Steinman weaves war, family and an unsolved mystery into a fine story about how a daughter trys to uncover the meaning of the deep, inconsolable silence her father brings home from one the worst battles of World War II: MacArthur's famous "return" to Luzon, the Philippines.

She retraces history with the help of more than 700 letters her father wrote to her mother during his time away, and with her friends, family and a handful of old infantry vets she is able to puzzle together what was the most momentous time in her father's life. Her journey forges a new understanding of her father and, most importantly, her relationship to him, even many years after his death.

The story tantalizes with descriptions of jungle warfare, imperialism and young men in the throes of battle, especially from the vantage point of Japan, where like their American counterparts, families were torn asunder by the conflict. They too carry the remnants of pain and sorrow sixty years later. Here, at least, Steinman could have spent more time illustrating the cultural differences-and similarities-that propel leaders and their societies to sacrifice their young men for nationalistic fervor.

In the end, the tale reveals just as much about the author as it does about her father. The care, grace and sensitivity with which she tells her story reflects the same qualities her father had, then lost, then struggled to regain after he returned home from 165 consecutive days of brutal warfare.

-Christopher Thomas Scott

The Souvenir - A Compelling Look Back at WWII.......2005-07-09

Louise Steinman's book, "The Souvenir", is dead on in her search for her father's war time past. Like many of her generation, she learned too late of his hopes, desires and fears through discovered letters to her mother, written on the battlefields of the Philippine Islands. After discovering the letters, Mrs. Steinman tells a compelling story of her search to discover his past, the youth he lost forever in war, and the family of the Japanese soldier whose good luck talisman ("The Souvenir") he happened to come into possession of. This is a must read for anyone whose father served in the "good war".

Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)

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Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)
Brian Spencer
Manufacturer: TSO
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0112905749

Book Description

This is the first major catalogue in English devoted to medieval badges. These fascinating objects provide us with a guide to the popularity of different cults and pilgrim centres, supplying evidence of the sometimes arduous journeys not only to famous and far-off sanctuaries like Compostela, but to native shrines such as that of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, or the tombs of local, unofficial saints. Often mass-produced and sold in tens of thousands, pilgrim souvenirs offer pointers to fashion in contemporary precious jewellery. The secular badges include a wealth of non-religious imagery, playful and amatory, satirical, celebratory and heraldic. Illustrating nearly 800 items of popular medieval jewellery, the catalogue contained within the book describes previously unpublished finds retrieved from datable archaeological London waterfront deposits, and provides the basis of a chronological framework for future excavations.BRIAN SPENCER was the Senior Keeper at the Museum of London, with special responsibility for the Museum's collection of medieval everyday objects.

George Catlin's Souvenir of the North American Indians: A Facsimile of the Original Album

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George Catlin's Souvenir of the North American Indians: A Facsimile of the Original Album
George Catlin , and William H. Truettner
Manufacturer: Gilcrease Museum
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0972565701

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

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amazingly insightful and infinitely engaging
great written work
a great book for artists

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Susan Stewart , and Susan Stewart
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0822313669

Book Description

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.

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amazingly insightful and infinitely engaging.......2001-11-22

This wonderful work has been indispensible in my research into collections and souvenirs. Stewart's ability to look at the long history of visual culture and bring in such disparate elements as Pop art and miniature manuscripts makes for a thoughtful and reasoned argument. Particularly notable is her need to cross barriers of medium, writing on everything from children's stories to painting to Tom Thumb weddings. An engaging read that rarely falls victim to theoretical rhetoric. The world needs more writers like Stewart who take their time, slowly unfolding their argument, surveying all aspects of culture, giving high and low culture equal weight.

great written work.......2001-03-26

I might add to the previous review, that this book is also of great interest for those that are interested in the study of objects and collections. Objects in this text are analysed in the miniature and the gigantic revealing their symbolic meanings and values. the analysis on the collection and the souvenir are also fantastic. Being a poet Stewart's book is a pleasure to read.

a great book for artists.......2000-04-02

On Longing is sensitively written and a must read for anyone interested in art or literature especially artists and writers. I would recommend Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millenium to anyone who enjoyed On Longing.

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War Souvenir

Manufacturer: Contrasto
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8889032979

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It is World War II. The corpse of a soldier lies someplace in the mountains of central Italy; in Milan, a German hidden in the cellar of a house in Via Monte Nevoso is captured by partisans; in Turin, German soldiers look at the body of a member of the partisan organization, who has just been killed in a shoot-out.

These are only three of the photographs Paolo Ventura has included in War Souvenir, a book which reflects and recounts the crude intensity of that war. But unlike the work of other photographers, Ventura's pictures are clearly fake: the images are the result of meticulous preparation, and each one presents a non-existent but apparently truthful memory. The soldiers are dummies, the scenes and objects in which they act are all in miniature.

Ventura represents war as a game in a grotesque dollhouse, but he does so without abandoning either war's emotion or its pain. His photographs constitute a profound and surprising reflection on the power of documentation and memory.

About War Souvenir, Francine Prose wrote: "Looking at these photos creates a moment of suspension, a melancholy hush in which we almost imagine we can hear whispers about the riddles of life and death, time and age, childhood innocence and adult knowledge, art, war, history, and such questions as: What are we seeing? What do we think we are seeing? And what we are concluding about what we think we are seeing?"

Making Memory Boxes: 35 Beautiful Projects

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Anna Corba does it again!
LOVE THIS BOOK
The phographs are nice

Making Memory Boxes: 35 Beautiful Projects
Anna Corba
Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
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ASIN: 1402715323

Book Description

Say the words "memory box" and many people instantly think of shadow boxes. Not designer Anna Corba! She let her imagination run wild, went beyond the ordinary, and in the process totally redefined the tradition. Corba, author of the very successful Vintage Paper Crafts, creates romantic, charming projects that use such unexpected items as tins and wooden crates as a starting point. Outside, she decorates with buttons, polish, fabric, sheet music, stamps, and seashells; inside, she places anything that will evoke wonderful memories, including vacation souvenirs and family recipes. Among her clever ideas: "Baby's New Nest," made from a birdcage and adorned with photographs and alphabet blocks and a velvet beribboned "Opera Box" for storing cherished programs.

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Anna Corba does it again!.......2007-02-06

If you are a fan of Corba's Vintage Paper Crafts you will also enjoy this book. Filled with great ideas ranging from traditional memory boxes to objects most of us think of as shadow boxes. What unites all these items is Corba's uncompromising style.

LOVE THIS BOOK.......2006-03-15

Very glad I purchased this book ... filled with great ideas. Very well photographed projects. Just an overall pretty book as well.

The phographs are nice.......2006-02-19

But there just really isn't any substance to this book. The projects are very simplistic, so in that regard I suppose this might be a nice project book for a beginning collage/assemblage enthusiast, but if you have any experience, this book isn't for you. It does have some nice photographs of vintage ephemera, which I plan to cut out of the book and use in my projects, but for me, that is about all this book is good for.

A Literary Lei - Flowers & Plants of Hawaii

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Beautiful journey to Hawaii

A Literary Lei - Flowers & Plants of Hawaii
Jim Wageman , and Virginia Wageman
Manufacturer: Watermark Publishing
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ASIN: 0974267252

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For generations, Hawai`i's flowers and plants have inspired authors, poets, song-smiths and travel writers - from the creation chants of the Kumulipo to the lyrics of the hapa haole classics, from travelogues of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson to the verse of today's poets. In this stunning photographic work, award-winning author-designers Jim and Virginia Wageman match excerpts from literature with 50 Island flowers and plants - weaving a unique literary lei of beauty, inspiration and cultural diversity.

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Beautiful journey to Hawaii.......2007-03-21

This award-winning book is a treasure for anyone who loves Hawaii, flowers, or great writing. The pictures are stunning - you can almost feel the texture of the plants and smell the flowers. The literary quotes show how Hawaii and its flora have inspired the great writers who have lived and visited here, and give us a new way to see the plants through their eyes. There is just the right amount of technical information about the plants. Most of all, this book transports you to Hawaii. The book received a Ka Po'okela Palapala Award from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association for design.

Five Gold Rings: A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II (Royalty)

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Five Gold Rings: A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II (Royalty)
Jane Roberts
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