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by Walter W. Heiser
Product Group: Book
Publisher: LexisNexis/Matthew Bender (2008-08)
ISBN: 1422426181
EAN: 9781422426180
Hardcover
SKU: 100808020
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: 2008-09 edition......no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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by Walter W. Heiser
Product Group: Book
Publisher: LexisNexis/Matthew Bender (2008-08)
ISBN: 1422426181
EAN: 9781422426180
Hardcover
SKU: 100808020
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: 2008-09 edition......no markings or highlighting...light shelf wear on cover
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by (Editor: Inc. Firefighter Selection)
Product Group: Book
ISBN: B0014NHFJ6
Paperback
SKU: 060408009
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: PLEASE NOTE. THIS IS AN OLDER 1984 EDITION IN CASE YOU WANT TO SEE OLDER QUESTIONS. ...some highlighting and or underlining with marker or pen/pencil.
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106 PAGES.
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by National Committee to Save Am
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (1992-04-30)
ISBN: 0810931745
EAN: 9780810931749
Dewy Decimal #: 790.1320973
Hardcover: 216 pages
SKU: 093008058
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: exlibrary copy in great condition with the usual markings and stickers and protective cover
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Although a vast amount of our country's art and antiques is still in private hands, most books on conservation and maintenance have been written for professional curators and museum staff members. This handy and eminently readable volume is the first comprehensive, practical care guide aimed at the average person. 118 illustrations, 50 in full color.
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Professional Help for the Private Collector
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-01-23
This book was assigned reading in the Museum Studies program I completed several years ago. I found it to be very readable and useful. It is geared to the person who is serious about preserving the treasures he or she has collected or inherited. Among its lessons is the fact that virtually everything we do to maintain our everyday household objects is not appropriate for objects that we would like to see survive for the long term. This book provides valuable guidance on what can be done to preserve the objects we value most. Today, I am a curator of a diverse museum collection, and still find this book helpful and a good refresher.
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Excellent for museum professionals without experience
Rating  (4)
Date: 1998-10-21
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'm purchasing my second copy of Caring for Your Collections. I am the curator of a house museum with a very diverse collection and I have found this to be a handy reference guide with easy to follow instructions for dealing with a wide variety of materials.
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Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harpercollins (1970-06)
ISBN: 0060803762
EAN: 9780060803766
Hardcover
SKU: 092208020
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...some edge wear on dustjacket
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by William Vaughan, Peter Wegmann, Matthias Wohlgemuth, Margarita Russell, Germany) Altes Museum (Berlin, National Gallery (Great Britain) (Contributor: Franz Zelger) (Corporate Author: Stiftung Oskar Reinhart) (Corporate Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harry N Abrams (1994-04)
ISBN: 0810964325
EAN: 9780810964327
Dewy Decimal #: 759.3074
Hardcover: 280 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 030608010
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: SOME WRINKING PAGES AND CREASES ON COVER. CORNERS SHOW WEAR. HAS HAD SOME MINOR MOISTURE EXPOSURE. NO STAINS. MINOR WARPING.
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by William Vaughan, Peter Wegmann, Matthias Wohlgemuth, Margarita Russell, Germany) Altes Museum (Berlin, National Gallery (Great Britain) (Contributor: Franz Zelger) (Corporate Author: Stiftung Oskar Reinhart) (Corporate Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harry N Abrams (1994-04)
ISBN: 0810964325
EAN: 9780810964327
Dewy Decimal #: 759.3074
Hardcover: 280 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 030608010
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: SOME WRINKING PAGES AND CREASES ON COVER. CORNERS SHOW WEAR. HAS HAD SOME MINOR MOISTURE EXPOSURE. NO STAINS. MINOR WARPING.
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by Ilona Katzew
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Yale University Press (2004-05-10)
ISBN: 0300102410
EAN: 9780300102413
Dewy Decimal #: 757.097209033
Hardcover: 256 pages
SKU: 050108005
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on dustjacket
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The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial mixing among the main groups that inhabited the colony: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ilona Katzew places casta paintings in their social and historical context, showing for the first time the ways in which the meanings of the paintings changed along with shifting colonial politics. The book examines how casta painting developed art historically, why race became the subject of a pictorial genre that spanned an entire century, who commissioned and collected the works, and what meanings the works held for contemporary audiences. Drawing on a range of previously unpublished archival and visual material, Katzew sheds new light on racial dynamics of eighteenth-century Mexico and on the construction of identity and self-image in the colonial world.
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A gem of a book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-07
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is written very nicely. The tone is very personnal and to an extent intimate. The difficult subject is treated very well. The painting reproductions are of great quality. The research is very complete.
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the best casta painting book in english
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-01-26
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had been waiting for years for someone to put together a comprehensive book on the casta painting genre. The book contains many, many beautiful reproductions and there are even ones that I had not seen before. And Katzew's thesis on the subject puts together every other piece of information I have ever been able to find in one place and weaves in her own views. In todays society we can learn a lot about how we work in regards to race politics from casta painting and this book in particular.
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by Megan McKenna
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Orbis Books (2002-10)
ISBN: 1570754497
EAN: 9781570754494
Dewy Decimal #: 232
Paperback: 144 pages
SKU: 102908053
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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by Gordon H.; Warfield, Benjamin B. Clark
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Trinity Foundation, The (2004)
ISBN: 1891777025
Hardcover
SKU: 102907AC59
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: some bent pages...bent corners of cover
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Great all-round apologetics book
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-05-13
The cheif virtue of this book is the range of topics that it covers. It looks at the philosophy of politics, history, ethics, religion and epistemology and exposes the major flaws in contemporary secular thinking in relation to these issues. Most other apologetic works that i have read deal with the defense of the faith in a more narrow sense, but this book aims at showing christians how to think about nearly everything. Quite an ambitious project, and of course, 250 pages is not enough to delve into the details but nevertheless, the book accomplishes what it sets out to do.
Another strength is the readability. The ideas are clearly explained and are ready to be taken into use by the reader straight after completion of the book.
Here comes the critique: although this book is good at exposing rotten ideas, it does not offer a sufficient amount of biblical answers to the problems of modern thought. It feels like the reader is left with the tools to tear down, but not with the tools to offer a reasonable alternative.
All in all, i'd say that this is the one of the best apologetic works i've read. It will definitely provide you with the tools to "tear down strongholds", but if you want to build a christian theory of knowledge, ethics and so forth, you'll need to complement it with other works.
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pretty good
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-11-28
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Of Clark's philisophical works, this stands as one of the best, excepting perhaps his larger introduction to philosophy entitled, "Thales to Dewey." His aim in "A Christian View of Men and Things" is threefold (from the introduction): 1) To demonstrate what a a theistic worldview would be by exploring its implications in several fields. 2) To contrast theism and naturalism and trace the divergent implication of these two types through various subjects in order to clarify our understanding of both. 3)To phrase the whole in an elementary introduction to philosophy.
The strength of Clark's approach is that although the introduction is very comprehensive in scope, there is no loss of precision and detail. You will see a very well organized and tightly argued work from beginning to end. This work affected me in two ways: After reading so much 'religious' trash,so called 'apologetical' books, and having been heavily influenced by naturalism, i realized that theism can at least be shown to be intellectually viable if nothing else, and secondly, that naturalism is suspiciously full of hot air. Naturalistic arguments are quite simplistic and easy to come-by. There is nothing systematic, no consistency in naturalism--what you have is random chaos. In any case, the defenition of both worldviews and the corresponding explanation of their several implications has proven to be very helpful to me in organizing my thoughts in the hopes of one day accepting either one of the two systems without reservation. And thanks to Clark, i am leaning to the right. THis work is indispensible if you wish to understand the two great systems of philosophy. It is really quite broad in scope and exciting.
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Still refuses to deal with the fundamental issues
Rating  (1)
Date: 2002-09-03
1 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
As with other works written about the theories of theism or Christianity, this one still fails to deal with fundamental issues in physical reality and epistemology. The author of course wishes to reject rationalism, but the presupposition that he replaces them with fails to preserve intelligibility and thought. Once again, the question "How do we know what we claim to know?" destroys theistic philosophy. For more information, read the works of Massimo Pigliucci and Richard Dawkins. Until theists can justify their presuppositions, they are just building mythological castles in thin air.
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Still refuses to deal with the fundamental issues
Rating (1)
Date: 2002-09-03
1 out of 27 customers found this reveiw helpful
As with other works written about the theories of theism or Christianity, this one still fails to deal with fundamental issues in physical reality and epistemology. The author of course wishes to reject rationalism, but the presupposition that he replaces them with fails to preserve intelligibility and thought. Once again, the question "How do we know what we claim to know?" destroys theistic philosophy. For more information, read the works of Massimo Pigliucci and Richard Dawkins. Until theists can justify their presuppositions, they are just building mythological castles in thin air.
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Classic Clarkian Philosophy
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-09
11 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Gordon Clark's book, A Christian View of Men and Things, presents what is one of his best works in understanding his philosophical defense of Christianity. He begins his inquiry with the more broad philosophy of history, working further down through more specific fields such as politics, to ethics, to science, to religion, and to epistemology. What Clark has in mind is to show that the Christian worldview is the most plausible one based on the axioms we generally believe (e.g. truth exists), and that the other worldviews are not able to provide a good defense of each of the various fields he covers (noted earlier). There are some really nice things about this book. Specifically, his argument from truth for the existence of God at the very end (Ronald Nash uses this in his book, Faith and Reason...I also thought his work on ethics, covering teleological and deontological ethics, was extremely helpful. Furthermore, his work on politics and history is just not found in many contemporary philosophical works. It was nice to see someone other than Hegel approach this. On the other hand, there are some downsides to the book. For example, Clark treats teleological systems (ethical egoism and utilitarianism) too broadly. For example, when he covers utilitarianism, he focuses on Jeremy Bentham. Bentham was an act-utilitarian, and most act-utilitarians have moved into rule-utilitarianism or accepted some aspect of rule-utilitarianism (e.g. J.S. Mill or G.E. Moore). To clear up why I may sound contradictory; Clark was helpful in ripping Bentham apart, but he leaves most of the other types untouched. Another downside to this book is that Clark argues, and not pervasively so, that science cannot tell us anything true. You can read his other book, The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God, for a fuller treatment. This point has come back to bite Clarkians. Nevertheless, I think this is an excellent book to read despite my own personal philosophical disagreements with Clark. This book is great if you want to understand his thought and will help you in one way or another to approaching various issues in philosophy. Note, this book is old so there is much more contemporary work done; but there is much to learn from the man still.
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