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The first major work on the exquisite watercolors of America's foremost and most popular realist painter. Edward Hopper has been celebrated for over half a century as America's most eloquent realist artist. His best known oils, such as Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning, and House by a Railroad, are powerful psychological statements that convey a sense of angst and alienation. Yet there is another Hopper we know less well: the freer, more spontaneous spirit that emerges in his watercolors. In 1923 he spent a summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and began painting houses, landscapes, and fishing boats. In them he captures remnants of nineteenth-century America that for him symbolized the fundamental character of the country's people and places, and prompted him to reexamine his views about the relationship between the past and the modern. Over the next two decades, Hopper painted hundreds of watercolors, in Gloucester, the coast of Maine, New Mexico, and Cape Cod. This beautiful book reproduces and examines over one hundred of Hopper's greatest watercolors in the context of his life and travels. It is an indispensable book for anyone interested in American art. ... Read more

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It's Hopper doing watercolor!
If you like Hopper and want to see a lot of his paintings then this is the book to get. It is uniquely watercolor. Many color plates of famous and not so famous paintings.

An Excellent Addition to Anyone's Collection!
When I read a book on a specific artist, I approach it from three different angles. I am an artist first and foremost, a graphic designer by profession, and employed by a library. This book ranks five stars in allthree categories.It's usually pretty easy to find an art book with reallygood color reproductions or with really good text, but to find one such asthis with both is a true find. The author's insightful and intelligentwriting combined with the wonderful color reproductions really puts youright in Edward Hoppers world. It's also what makes this book an excellentaddition to anyones collection! ... Read more

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An enlightening, celebratory anthology of the most classic and enduring of forms edited by twomajorpoets.This illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments andmakers over fiveand a halfcenturies. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus onvicissitudes, payingparticular attention to how individual poets—from Shakespeare toStrand—have claimedthesefourteen lines: lengthened them, shortenedthem, elaborated on them, and, in turn,beendefined by them. Three sections—"The Sonnetin the Mirror," "The Sonnet Goes to Different Lengths," and "The Sonnet extraordinary durability and itsreinventions. The collectionopens with personal introductions by the editors, and, in the appendix, they provide "Ten Questions for aSonnet Workshop" tojump-start a conversationbetween students and teachers. With more than three hundred poems, TheMaking of aSonnet guides readers through a vigorousadventures in craft and practice,right up to its extraordinary resurgence incontemporary poetry. ... Read more

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A Handsome Anthology, and a Strong Idea
A long term admirer of the authors, I bought this book when it first appeared, and am glad I did, the commentary alone, for me, anyway, being well worth the price. The idea of placing individual sonnets within the context of the development of the form was ingenious, and will be of enormous help to poetry lovers and aspiring sonneteers. The clever arrangement of this book in part inspired some elements in my own recent anthology, Sonnets for Sinners: Everything One Needs to Know About Illicit Love, in that I arranged the poems to illustrate the emotional journey of illicit love, and also added a facing page of insight into each sonnet (and sonneteer). So then, to these anthologists, Hat's Off!--and Thanks.

A Norton Anthology: In all the best and worst ways
If you go by the number of pages devoted to the various incarnations of the sonnet in this anthology, you'd come to the conclusion that the 20th century English language sonnet is the highpoint in the history of the form with some minor attention given to international sonneteers such as Neruda or Rilke. The layout of the book was also problematic as you are given a detailed breakdown of sonnet mechanics at the very end of the volume, if the breakdown was at the start of the anthology I would have a better appreciation for the intent of the poems outside of my normal aesthetics.

If you are interested in a deeper look at the history of the English language sonnets, I'd recommend The Sonnet: A Comprehensive Anthology of British and American Sonnets from the Renaissance to the Present, Edited by Robert M. Bender and Charles L. Squier.

Breadth more than depth
I own only two books of sonnets, Hirsch & Boland and Levin's The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. I do like the commentary in Hirsh & Boland better; Boland's essay "Discovering the Sonnet" is especially wonderful. But for a book to pick up and browse I prefer the Levin. It has much more depth for many of the genre's most accomplished practitioners, e.g. over 30 from Shakespeare vs. ten in Hirsh & Boland. So if you want to learn about sonnets, get H&B. If you want to read them, get Levin. Or better, get both.

Rated this way for the twentieth century.
There has been a revival in the sonnet in English-language poetry in recent years, but you'd never guess that from this book, which tends to give the impression that sonnets written after World War II were essentially a curiosity, something one does once or twice. The Levin anthology is far, far, superior.

Great gift for a talented poet
I gave this book as a present to a friend after hearing the authors on the NPR's (WBUR) "On Point", my favorite talk show. She really enjoyed it. I had to test it to make sure that I didn't lose her opinion - whatever it is - of my critical acumen. After sampling it for an hour before presenting it, I found the writers to be bright, engaging, and erudite, and just the list of all the sonnets cited to be worth the price of admission. I will be getting my own copy soon. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Illusionist is a 2006 period drama written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. Based loosely on Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist", The Illusionist tells the story of Eisenheim (Norton), a magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival; it was distributed in limited release to theaters on August 18, 2006, and expanded nationwide on September 1. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1467 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English.

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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 9544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Inter-vivos transfers and exchange.(link between informal care and economic motives)
Author: Edward C. Norton
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The film was in black and white. It had been on late-night Tv for years before it grew to cult status. Then a Hollywood festival is organized to honor the men and women who made the gritty movie from another time. The festival brings back more of the past than anyone expects. "Kingdom Come" is the movie business from the inside, and a mystery without the tinsel. ... Read more

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a book for tuners, dealers, teachers, and owners of pianos and organs ... Read more

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Citizenship in Action is a brand new series for Key Stage 3 Citizenship. The three Student Books and corresponding Teacher's Resource Packs, each an with inclusive customisable CD-ROM, give teachers everything they need for all three years of the Key Stage. Citizenship in Action can be used to deliver Citizenship as a separate subject or as part of a cross-curricular approach, giving teachers the flexibility to deliver Citizenship the way they want to. Citizenship in Action is a brand new series for Key Stage 3 Citizenship. The three Student Books and corresponding Teacher's Resource Packs, each an with inclusive customisable CD-ROM, give teachers everything they need for all three years of the Key Stage. Citizenship in Action can be used to deliver Citizenship as a separate subject or as part of a cross-curricular approach, giving teachers the flexibility to deliver Citizenship the way they want to. ... Read more

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The House: 1916 is a saga of a century. There are millions of houses across the land, similar in so many ways, but each holds the unique experiences of the people who call it home. One house built in Ridgewood, NJ in 1916 serves as a stage for a variety of owners who lived the life of the nation. They fought its wars, lived in hard times, and faced rapid social changes. One house, many residents, their lives comprise the experience of the nation. ... Read more

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History comes alive
The House in the title is as ordinary as it appears. So are the families who take turns living there, in a well-to-do New Jersey suburb, from just before the First World War to near the end of the 20th Century.
What's extraordinary is how deftly Norton tells the story of that century by tracing their lives and, sometimes, deaths.
They face the great crises of their world, from the deadly flu epidemic of 1918 to The Depression to Vietnam. At the same time, they struggle with their own foibles, and the timeless but often overwhelming challenges of human existence.
The House: 1916 is epic in scope. But its sharp focus and crisp tone make history seem current and vivid, even if it's often raw and occasionally shocking.And make no mistake: the story is fiction, but the feel and setting are authentic. So are many of the names, the real Tony Sopranos who bought and sold politicians and even newspaper publishers.
Full disclosure: Norton is a long-time pal and mentor, which is how I know that this is no pipe dream. He walked these streets as a reporter, and came eye-to-eye with corruption and violence.
He moved on from New Jersey and the newspaper business years ago. Luckily, he never quite got either one out of his blood. ... Read more