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One People illustrates this thought through a collection of glorious photographs, accompanied by thoughtful essays, that capture the universality of the human experience in the very different contexts of our diverse world. In this book we present people in all stages of our common life cycle, reflecting a moment, emotion, ritual, or intimacy that, be it mundane or extraordinary, is recognisable across cultures and language barriers. Regardless of nationality or beliefs, we share the joy of birth, the celebration of life's special moments, the need to find meaning in our lives, the strength to endure, the resilience to keep trying and the sorrow of death. And above all, we share a curiosity about other people that inspires us to travel and to seek them out. And it is travel that facilitates this understanding, connection and humanity in all of us, and illuminates the shared paths and crossroads in our many journeys.
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"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate." (The New York Times)
Apparently. With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume:
The Big Kill
One Lonely Night
Kiss Me, Deadly
Includes a special introduction by Shamus and Edgar Award-winner Lawrence Block.
Customer Reviews:
Great reading.......2007-06-08
Fine writing by a fine author. Pictures appeared in my mind with his use of words and always enjoyed each story. No one else like Spillane - not ever.
The Private Eye version of a Time Capsule.......2007-05-10
These Mickey Spillane novels that feature Mike Hammer are incredible. Spillane was immensely popular in the late 40s and early 50s. He wrote incredibly straightforward pulp novels of the sort that have been parodied endlessly in various media since, to the point that going back and reading the original invites laughs when they weren't intended.
The main character, Mike Hammer, is of course the private eye who's the toughest guy in New York City. He has his vices: he smokes constantly, drinks pretty much every chapter, and chases girls constantly. The women, especially, seem badly overdone. Each book he falls for at least three, and of course there's his secretary, Velda, who he claims to be in love with (though of course out of sight, out of mind definitely applies here). Velda never seems to get jealous when she figures out that he's been with another woman, at least not really, and none of the rest of them appear to think he should be monogamous either. They seem to understand that the book is for men, so they should let him chase as many girls as he can catch. He can catch a lot.
Some of the dialog is so overwritten and purple it's beyond parody, and often it's unintentionally funny. Some of the characters are a bit much too: Pat Chambers, his cop friend, never does anything beyond provide information and tell Mike to stay out of trouble, which Mike of course ignores. Mike is insanely tough: beat him up, shoot at him (or shoot him), whatever, he keeps trying to kill you until he succeeds.
One fascinating thing about the series, having read both volumes of the collection, is that Hammer almost never has a real client. Instead, he gets involved in these killings through being what amounts to a knight errant, wandering around and rescuing women. Of course the girl gets killed in the early going of the book, and of course Mike swears revenge, and of course he exacts it by the end of the book. Figuring out who the bad guy is by the end of the book is hard, though it's often another beautiful woman somewhere in the plot; if it isn't, it's some nefarious crime boss or something.
Everything is so dated it's funny. One of the books in this collection features bad guys who Mike invariably refers to as "Commies" as if he intends that as an insult. There's no pretense that someone should have the right to belong to a political party or anything like that: as far as Mike Hammer (and presumably Mickey Spillane too) is concerned, "Commies" deserve a firing squad.
I like dated things, things that are old and make you think about the past. Cultural references (the "Commies" mentioned above) are fascinating to me. I wonder what Hammett (who was a Marxist) thought of the book, if he read it. These books can be a bit hard to read (the characters are very cardboard, and the dialog is often way overdone) but they're interesting for what they are, and worth delving into.
Mike Hammer -- named appropriately.......2007-05-07
I read these books shortly after they were published originally. I was a teenager who fantisized myself as Mike Hammer and his conquests - both with the ladies and in giving the bad guys their due. Spillane introduced me to the wonderful world of paperback novels that have kept me a voracious reader of them to this day. A few years later, I marveled at the exploits of 007, first in the books by Ian Fleming and then the movies so ably done by Broccoli and Saltzman - not to mention Sean Connery (the only real James Bond). Mickey has now gone on to his reward and I would say to him "job well done, Mick."
Lord Breadalbane's Opinion.......2005-09-30
Nice format and great introduction but numerous typos and some dialogue was nonsensical to the point that I am tempted to go to local library and borrow a copy of Kiss Me, Deadly to compare text. Quality control obviously poor.
Tough guys and curvy dames.......2005-09-23
Spillane's books can be found at used bookstores or online for cheap, but buy these new collections and see how fast you can read three books at a time. I tore through these yarns fast and can't wait for the third set. Spillane does more for me than Chandlier or Hammett, though I love their books too, but the Mike Hammer stories are cool, tough, brutal, sexy, post-war stories with all the right slang.
Mike Hammer is brutal, sure. Maybe even cruel. But he is an avenging angel, always seeking revenge for a friend, sometimes for a stranger, but always to set things right. Or at least as close to right as he can make it with his fists and his slabside .45.
Customer Reviews:
lust for travel.......2007-01-23
Beautiful pictures - each page is juxtaposed visually with opposite picture on a page intertwined with a subtle theme- eg. desert sand with yellow ridge stripes is opposite of a shot of zebra - both pictures have a theme of contrasting stripes. A aesthetic wonder to behold. I just bought National Georaphic Wide Angle book and was utterly disappointed. Very nice production and excellent value buy.
Brilliant.......2005-12-22
This book like many picture/coffee table books has brilliant, mesmorizing photos. The book however has one lovely difference, it often has comparitive/contrasting photos on opposite pages. For example, a photo of women sitting together at an italian celebration and has a photo on the opposite side of asian women at a celebration. Providing you with the opportiunity to play what is similar, what is different. Intersperced into the photos are magnificent photos that cover two pages.
Average customer rating:
- Excellent Book for Little Ones
- "Only the lonely..."
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One Lonely Sea Horse
Joost Elffers , and
Saxton Freymann
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Amazon.com Reviews
Fruits and vegetables speak louder than words, and Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers (Play with Your Food, How Are You Peeling?) sure know how to tell a tale with produce. Bea--a lonely sea horse made out of Chioggia beets--is the star of this extraordinary counting book. (We know she's made of beets because the endpapers identify all the produce used in the lovely underwater seascapes--from cantaloupes to enoki mushrooms.) We know Bea is lonely, too, because sea horses just don't get any lonelier than this:
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One lonely, drifting sea horse cried,
"In all the cold and salty sea
I'm all alone--there's only me."
Fortunately, other sea creatures are eager to befriend her--two small mushroom crabs, three horned melon puffer fish, four ginger lobsters (we never knew fresh ginger looked exactly like lobsters), five pineapple turtles, six banana dolphins, seven cranberry-bean eels, eight banana-peel octopi, nine Asian eggplant mackerel, and ten bell-pepper angelfish. By the end of the book, Bea is surrounded by her colorful new friends in a glorious undersea cornucopia: "'You are my friends,' said Bea, 'that's true, / And I can always count on you!'" We can honestly say there is not a child or adult alive who could resist the charms of this visually breathtaking book, carefully composed and crisply photographed. Chefs, marine biologists, kids, rejoice! One Lonely Sea Horse is a fabulous tribute to food, figures, photography, and friendship. (Toddler to adult) --Karin Snelson
Book Description
Fantastic food sculptures tell the tale of a lonely seahorse whose friends arrive in progessively larger groups, proving with humor and flair that they can be counted on!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Book for Little Ones.......2005-12-07
My 15-month-old son has loved this book since I began reading it to him at 6 months old. The colors and pictures really keep his attention and as I read, we count the characters so that he can learn his numbers. The rhyming words have certainly helped his vocabulary. Now he can even finish each sentence for me as we read the book together! He loves it. I highly recommend this book.
"Only the lonely...".......2005-10-22
What a fantastic book. I love the creativity of the artist. My kids love the pictures in these books and I love trying to identify all of the foods. The story is cute and the kids enjoyed counting all of the sealife that appear. The only draw back to this book was that it wasn't as diverse as the others. All in all, a cute book to have around, especially when you need a pick-me-up!
Food is not just for eating.......2005-08-14
I ordered the book One Lonely Sea Horse by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann, because it was recommended to me by Clare Crespo, another foodie and cookbook author that loves to play with her food. I found the story charming and the illustrations of sealife made with real fruit and vegetables to be quite imaginative.....Impressive book....it should be enjoyable to everyone, regardless of age.
Eye Popping!.......2002-01-11
Even the youngest person can be captured by the vivid and thoughtful pictures in this book.
A very unique and innovative concept, using food, roots and vegetables mostly, this simple story is friendly, and the words are not too intimidating for budding readers.
My favorites are the dolphin made from a banana, and the lobster made out of a ginger root.
A sweet story about one seahorse who ends up with 10 friends, and isn't lonely anymore!
This book also is great for learning to count and recognizing numbers 1-10.
Gotta love it!.......2001-12-13
This book is just fun. I am fascinated by the unusual use of food to make all the great sea creatures you see in this book. I am more fascinated by that aspect than my son (age 2) is. He just delights in the story and the pretty pictures. The story is simple and the pictures only serve to illustrate the text. The colors are bright and the reading is fun! I think this book is a joy!
Book Description
Appealing directly to the intuitive part of human nature, these eight delightful stories reveal the deeper content of life and are further enhanced with illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp.
Customer Reviews:
Stories that inspire the reader........2007-04-12
This lovely book contains stories of ordinary people who have mystical experiences that either change their life completely or inspire them to seek higher dimensions and beings. I found it to be touching, sensitive, and it will remain in my heart for a long time.
Dr. Agnes Thomas
Book Description
One People is a photography celebration of the connection between people the world over. The collection brings together compelling portrait shots and group photographs, accompanied by inspirational text and informative captions.
One People depicts the people of the world at work, at home and at play, captured in stunning and evocative photographs. The book takes the reader on an atmospheric journey through the different lives and experiences of people around the globe.
One People is structured to resemble the life cycle, embracing birth, family, love, festivals and celebrations, solitude and reflection, work, home, society and death.
One People is perfect for lovers of fabulous photography and travel.
Customer Reviews:
Color photos blend with essays on the current state of humanity.......2006-04-20
Other visual treats of the 'we are the world' variety have appeared in print; but ONE PEOPLE MANY JOURNEYS is the first in over a decade or more to pack a beautiful gathering of color photos of world peoples with essays on the current state of the human experience. Peoples from all stages of life, under all emotions, and of all nationalities are represented in a blend of full-page color photos and accompanying identifier of country, photographer, and description of photo contents.
Customer Reviews:
Snowbound Strangers find love.......2004-07-16
A hired gunman named Kieran McDermott is hired to find someone's missing girl in Dakota, but not understanding the weather and how cold it can get doesn't dress warmly enouhg almost freezes to death outside until he comes to the house of a spinsiter named Margaret Thayer's who takes pity of on the handsome, cold stranger at her door.
Margaret has grown use to being alone without a husband and children to love or care of. So, why when she nursed Kieran back to help he made her want things she had been without for years. Could she allow him to finally turn her usually dark and only night into a night of passion found in her dreams.
One Lonely Night is a wonderfully written book. Kieran is a man who was use to being on his own without having a person to depend on because of his past and the lifestyle he has now. He didn't want to protect or love the beautiful Margaret, but something about her draws him more than he cares to admit. Margaret wants to be able to forget the night of passion Kieran gave her, yet she can't. The couple battles through several trials to come together. If you buy this book you won't be disappointed. One Lonely Night will pull you in from the first page and keep you entertained until the end. If I could I would give it more than 5 stars!
Very sweet book.......2003-02-24
This is a very sweet, well-written and satisfying romance. Margaret, at the very old romance novel age of 35, is a poor, struggling spinster shocked by the handsome and frozen man who falls into her doorway during a winter storm. The book has a nice rhythm. My one slight criticism is that too much of the plot is resolved away from the reader.
Two strong characters.......1998-12-19
Margaret shows us that taking a chance leads into a life she would have never dreamed of. The mysterious Kieran is to dream about.
Average customer rating:
- Short and to the Point
- A quick read about a brief encounter
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Lonely One
Richard Laymon
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Customer Reviews:
Short and to the Point.......2004-03-18
I have never understood the chapbook industry. Paying a lot for a single short story just doesn't seem right. But, when I can find one used for a decent price, I might check it out.
The Lonely One is the story of Doreen. She is at the Santa Monica pier and she is lonely. On the carousel she meets a young man and tries to convince him to go away. She says that if he goes away he will live longer.
Well, such a statement merely increases curiosity and the young man refuses to be put off by the lonely beauty. The rest of the story involves a little cat and mouse as she tries to avoid him and he refuses to be left. Finally we learn the truth of her loneliness and her warning.
A nice little tale. It is a very quick read, only a few pages in regular size, but crafted so that the story moves and reaches an acceptable resolution.
I wouldn't recommend paying a lot for this one but it is worth reading.
A quick read about a brief encounter.......1998-04-20
"Just forget about me, okay? You'll live longer."
That's the response Ron gets when he tries to pick up the pretty, sad-faced girl beside him on the carousel at the Santa Monica pier. Doreen admits she is tired of doing everything alone -- living, working, eating -- but if she likes someone, he always ends up dead. When Ron refuses to be put off, Doreen flees and hides in the darkness under the pier -- where a mugger tries to knife her. Ron arrives just in time to help defeat her attacker. To him their victory is more proof that he is safe with Doreen. But Doreen's hunger rises, and Ron learns that muggers are not the only dangerous things in the darkness.
Maybe he should have known better than to stay with a woman who fights off muggers with her teeth.
If you're expecting a vampire, you won't find Doreen's idiosyncrasies nearly as surprising as Ron does. You may, however, find that her self-pity gets old a long time before the end of this very short (26 pages) book. Only adequately written, THE LONELY ONE nonetheless has enough suspense and action to make it an interesting one-time read.
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- Ya Gotta Read At Least ONE Mike Hammer Book!
- Now I remember why I quit reading Mickey Spillane
- One of the Greatest Detective Novel Ever Written
- Dark night of the soul.
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One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series)
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Customer Reviews:
Ya Gotta Read At Least ONE Mike Hammer Book!.......2007-01-16
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was such a huge phenomenon in the early 50s that you'll miss out on all sorts of references in popular culture if you don't read him-- at least one of his inimitably gritty books. This is as good as any (though the first, "I, The Jury," is the most logical start). Mike is a full-bore psychopath who hears music in his head when he's gone nuts for violence, who relishes beating and blowing big holes in people whom he's identified as deserving it: commies mostly, but criminals and egg-headed pantywaists of all descriptions had better watch it too. This is beyond parody, since Spillane's writing is already so loopy that it can't be made fun of effectively. But the guy sold FIFTY MILLION BOOKS in a few years' time in the early fifties, so it's impossible to overestimate his effect on the culture of the time.
No joke: read one and see. It's good fun, though the plots are a bit transparent by contemporary standards.
Now I remember why I quit reading Mickey Spillane.......2006-09-22
This book came out when America was all aflutter with the Communist scare. China had gone Red. The Soviets had "the bomb." We were at war (correction, "police action") in Korea. And Tailgunner Joe was in his ascendancy. Mickey Spillane's earlier Mike Hammer novels had been apolitical for the most part. The villains were just hoods, gangsters, motivated by money.
With "One Lonely Night" Spillane went full-bore anti-communist, without much understanding of the threat beyond the Chicken Little the-sky-is-falling outcry. The reality was that American communists were self-styled intellectuals talking revolution in darkened Greenwich Village espresso shops. The laboring class Marx so adored were not having any of it, and the threat wasn't much of a threat at all.
But Spillane made straw men out of the commies and shot them down. And somehow Mike Hammer was the loser for it. As a young man in the 1950's I admired the prose in Spillane's first few novels--and then I came to this one and was weaned. He was way off the mark, but I forgot that until I picked this up again after a hiatus of five decades or so.
I will admit that the first chapter is a gem of writing, perhaps the best Spillane ever did. But one gem is not enough to get the book much praise. It's just barely enough to get it two stars from me.
One of the Greatest Detective Novel Ever Written.......2005-11-29
I know that my title may be an exaggeration, but Mickey Spillane's first and last chapters of this book, contain some of the best American prose, word for word, outside of Hemmingway. The narrative picks you up and carries you along in a stream of muscular, swift, clearing written words. Mike Hammer is having doubts about whether he is a mindless killer who deserves to live or a normal man with a quick temper. By the end of the novel Mike Hammer has the answer.
BTW, the "MVD" that Spillane constantly refers to is the Soviet Secret Police, this organization has been called the "CHECKA", "NKVD", and "SMERSH". Or to put it more international terms, its the USSR equivilent of the GESTAPO.
Dark night of the soul........2003-07-15
Mickey Spillane's popularity in the 1950s was meteoric. This novel is a prime example of Spillane at his snarling best. The anti-Communist hysteria of post WWII America is the backdrop of this tale of lonely death and bloody vengeance. "One Lonely Night" is the archetype Mike Hammer story. All the classic elements are present, most particularly Velda, Hammer's delectable secretary. A young woman's dive off a New York bridge draws Hammer into mystery-adventure mayhem. A nest of Commie (the vernacular is everywhere) spies is hard at work on the streets of New York. Unrestrained by official red tape, and at loggerheads with the authorities, Hammer embarks on a typical one-man war against the Russian-based MVD (whatever that is). Spillane's prose is as rough as his fictional alter ego. What the writing lacks in literary style, it gains in attitude and action. Hammer's earthy first person narrative enhances the character. The underside of the big city comes alive. The body count is large. The sex is raw rather than erotic. The climactic scene in the warehouse, on the inevitable rainy night, is compelling. As Velda hangs naked by a rope from the ceiling, the guy with the scythe and the black cowl stalks at Hammer's side and the machine gun belches blue flame and thunder. The day of the guns prevails. Good reading for genre fans and those who enjoy Mickey Spillane's viewpoint. ;-)
Mike Hammer, Misunderstood.......2002-06-14
I should preface this review by owning that I'm not a fan of Mickey Spillane. I understand his importance to the genre, and when he's at what I think of at his best, then I can enjoy his novels. But he isn't really to my taste, so consider that a fair disclosure of bias.
_One Lonely Night_ tells the story of Hammer, returning angry and bitter from a trial where he is excoriated for "knocking off somebody who needed knocking off bad". Hammer is shaken and wonders if the judge's view of him is really true and accurate, whether he really is such a bad guy. While in the midst of this reverie, Hammer runs across a girl being chased by a bad man. He kills the bad man, but fails to save the girl as she jumps to her death rather than be part of whatever it was she was involved in. Naturally, Spillane gets involved, and as the plot expands to threaten his beautiful Vera, he gets very involved indeed.
The book seems like it's thumbing its nose at critics who accuse Hammer of being too violent. He has to be violent, it seems to say, the world is a dangerous place and violence and vigilence go hand-in-hand.
This book contains much of what I dislike most about Spillane's writing-- the simple black and white approach to good and evil, the obsession with the communist conspiracy, and stupid society dames who get messed up in the wrong element and don't deserve to live.
To be fair, many people find this one of Spillane's best works, but I really prefer the more crime-oriented Hammer books such as _Kiss Me, Deadly_.
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