By: Freedman, Russell
Review From Publishers Weekly
“The Newbery Medalist returns to the subject matter of Indian Chiefs and Buffalo Hunt –though with a narrower scope–in this recounting of the 1833-1834 expedition of Prince Maximilian of Germany and the artist Karl Bodmer up the Missouri River. While Maximilian’s own journal provides details of a difficult trek, the book’s primary focus is the winter spent by Bodmer and the Prince with the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes–details of their daily lives, customs, modes of dress and beliefs. The book is generously if unevenly illustrated, chiefly with works by Bodmer, whose watercolors of individuals are direct and immediate. However, engravings later produced in Europe seem stereotyped, and several large oil paintings are not well reproduced. Background information and sites to visit today fill out the volume. Readers of Freedman’s other titles on Native American topics will find much of interest here, though some may question the reliability of two European dilettantes concerning a culture they visited only briefly. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.”
Taken From: Amazon.com – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0823409309
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By: Murray Hill Records
Apparently, Murray Hill records was a subsidiary of Random House, and mainly re-released excellent material. Other sources claim this boxed set was released in 1970. Gorgeously recorded. My pressing is quite good — I can not remark on the condition of those at this library. Interesting academic material in the liner notes.
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By: Hopkins, Ellen
I think this book gives a great view into the life of an impressionable teenage girl suddenly immersed in the world of illegal drugs. Kristina starts using meth after a short stay at her estranged father’s home. She continues to use it for recreation purposes but soon develops a dependency on it and what was left of her previous life disappears. Make sure to read the sequel, “Glass”. Kristina’s life get’s even worse.
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By: Turner, William
Many notes in Latin and Greek.
Several hands.
One page includes notes about king Charles the first, which cannot have been written by William Turner.
The microfilm seems to include copies of two different books.
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F. Deconinck-Brossard
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By: Kitchen, Denis
Thank Harvey Kurtzman for Mad Magazine, if you are old enough to remember when it was good, or if not, for The Simpsons whose creators were influenced by him as youths. Or whatever hilarious subversive satire the kids are reading and watching these days. He was a subversive genius when it wasn’t so lucrative.
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Ellen
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By: Lutz, Joshua.
Wonderful photography and essays about an area that we usually see only from planes (landing at Newark Liberty) or from the road and rail links that cross it.
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David
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By: Corboz, Noelle. Pebeyre, Cécile de. Blondeau, Marc. Meaudre, Thierry.
What a great new reference source! A much needed index of catalogues raisonnes, complete works of an artist.
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Laura
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By: Thomas, Christopher
The photographs in this book are beautiful, scene of New York without any people!
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Laura
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By: Memming, Rüdiger.
Fantastic resource for those entering into the field of electrochemistry, and for those who are in need of a quick refresher on specific topics. A nice compliment to Electrochemical Methods by Bard.
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By: Eco, Umberto.
I was assigned this book as a class assignment, and I must thank my professor heartily for it. This book has quickly become a favorite, and I have encouraged several people to read it, including my husband. He read it in a week and agreed that it was an extraordinary book.
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