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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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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's 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 world's 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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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's 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 world's 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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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1873 edition by C. F. Winter, Leipzig. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1873 edition by C. F. Winter, Leipzig. ... Read more

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The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price.Handsome and collectible, the books each contain full-page duotone and/or color reproductions, plus a critical introduction and a bibliography.

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) had the rare ability to turn his talents to almost all genres of photography. Art and industry, fashion and beauty, celebrity portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, nudes and dancers—his legacy remains omnipresent. It was Steichen's curious and inventive mind that made this diversity possible, as he ignored established dogma to carve out his own unique path. This book presents the best of his work from a career that spanned well over half a century. 64 photographs in color and duotone ... Read more

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Just Awesome !
When I first became more serious about learning photography some 30 or so years ago, I meandered through the art's history with mild appreciation but I was more interested in really learning all about the "new stuff" rather than spend time with the old. Now that I have what I'd like to consider a repectable degree of professional skill in the medium, I find myself drawn on a pilgrimage to once again meet and now better appreciate the true Masters who made an art out of what was otherwise simply considered as a new method of "recording" things and events.

This book is a great collection of this man's work and this photographer is definitely understated in history.It is not until you realize the extent of his "portfolio" as well as his life's later achievements all having been created with a technology that was still very much in a daily self-discovery mode does the word "Wow!" jump from your mouth !!

Read about this man if you love the art !


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The prototypical Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) embodied in his art the glamours of Victorian Romantic painting, harking back to an Arthurian Medieval England of chivalry, virtue, Arcadian delight and dreamy sensuality. "I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be," he once wrote, "in a light better than any light that ever shone-in a land no one can define or remember, only desire." Burne-Jones' fantasies of an ideal Albion offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, which had increasingly come to determine urban life in Victorian Britain, and which his close friend William Morris had also critiqued in his bestselling poetry book The Earthly Paradise (1868). This volume explores Burne-Jones' vision of an "Earthly Paradise" as expressed in painting cycles such as Perseus, Amor and Psyche, St George and Briar Rose, and his wonderful Arthurian tapestry sequences and book illustrations. It also opens up the artist's more practical efforts to secure this earthly paradise through the domestic crafts, rejuvenating the Victorian interior through Medieval precedents: carpets, textiles, stained glass windows, furniture and other Arts and Crafts objects. In emphasizing the conceptual unity of Burne-Jones' painting cycles and domestic designs, this monograph reveals his vision to be a coherent expression and longing for a finer world.Edward Burne-Jones was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he met his future collaborators, the artist-poets William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, under whose influence he left Oxford without graduating. From his first major exhibition in 1877, Burne-Jones was a hit with the English public; his 1884 painting "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid" remains a classic expression of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood sensibility. After his death in 1898, Burne-Jones' legacy became most apparent in the decorative arts. ... Read more

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Combines reference grammar and a manual of current usage for advanced and intermediate students of German. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. ... Read more

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Wow
My wife and I have been trying to self-teach ourselves German for years, and we still have absolutely no clue about the intricacies of the language. When do you use what gender? How do ab_en verbs work again? And conjugation- it's a mess.

Until you pick up Hammer's German Grammar and Usage. There's so much in here that's left completely out of other books. I'm quite fluent in German alcohol, but I never realized that there's such a simple pattern to the gender (der everything, except for das Bier). These simple facts are laid out with perfect clarity in this book, when they're totally absent from most others. The format of such rules is even blindingly simple- "Rule: ... Exceptions:", and that's it. No unnecessary fluff, just the facts of the language printed clearly for your reference.

I could go on about this book, but I'll leave it at this: This is *the* book for self-learning German grammar. If you want to learn German, or even if you know German but you just need a grammar refresher, you must get this book.

Great resource
This is probably the best you can get. It gives detailed explanations of any problems you may encounter in learning German and quite often really useful tips at how to simplify things. If you're like me it's best to use this book together with tons of reading material so that you can get enough practice. I can never remember all the grammar, inflections and other forms without seeing them in writing many times when reading books (they have to be entertaining).
Recently I read Die Biene Maja und Ihre Abenteuer (German Edition) and Bissula (German Edition); great books that make German grammar fun!

See my list "Great German Books".

Prima!
This book is absolutely amazing! I have taken German for about three years in college and two in graduate school. All of those "exceptions" to the rule are explained in detail with plenty of examples. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to master the language, teach, or to the intermediate to advanced student.

Hammer's German Grammar and Usage
An excellent reference for beginning, intermediate, and advanced German speakers.Explanations are clear and thorough.I should have purchased this book years ago!

The Book I Want On A Desert Island
This is hands-down the single book I would want to have if stranded on a desert island.Words cannot describe the awesomeness that is this book.Mr. Durrell's masterpiece demands superlatives.As far as printed material goes, this is all you need to go from intermediate to fluent in German.(Of course you still need to practice speaking, listening, and writing to become fluent).I am a U.S. citizen now living in Germany, and this book vastly improved my German.I can't say enough about it.Get it!Keep a copy next to your bed and review a chapter before you sleep.What makes it so good?It's comprehensive without being watered down.It's dense and succinct without lacking necessary examples.It's accurate - I have impressed native speakers with my command of German word usage learned from this book.Simply wonderful! ... Read more

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What happens after we declare peace?
This book is simply unforgettable. A poet, political activist, leader of Bavaria, prisoner, and a real Mensch. That he is a Jew is ironic, and somehow both central and immaterial.
Even in the midst of violent turbulence, he remembers details of human kindness and simple beauty. I've not read his poem Sparrow Song, but it's next on my list.
An unjustly forgetten man, a reminder of the post WWI chaos that, sadly, lead to the rise of Nazism. ... Read more