Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
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This is a great book!

An Interesting Counterpoint to Traditional Art History

Questions on the logic of the book.

Refreshing take on Art

what????

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Mary Anne Staniszewski
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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This is a great book!.......2000-08-07

Mary Ann Staniszewski's "Believing is Seeing" is a GREAT book. It is articulately written with many reproductions and is used in many university and college level art courses across the country!! Navigating the unnecessarily murky waters of modern and contemporary art, this book is refreshing in its insightful directness about art, culture and value.

An Interesting Counterpoint to Traditional Art History.......2000-08-01

Mary Anne Staniszewski's "Believing is Seeing" is a clearly written, carefully illustrated, thought provoking overview of the meaning of "Art". Distilled from introductory lectures on contemporary art, culture and critical theory delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design more than a decade ago, "Believing is Seeing" provides a useful counterpoint to mainstream art history texts by challenging traditional, transhistorical views of aesthetic value.

Appropriately subtitled "Creating the Culture of Art", Staniszewski's book demonstrates that Art is something "that has a specific history and belongs to a particular era." What our culture generally calls "Art" is an invention of the past two hundred years. Thus, modern culture has appropriated the paintings, frescoes, sculptures, and artifacts of earlier times and cultures (where they had historically specific meanings) and labelled them "Art". Modern culture applies this label even though the original creators of these representations and objects would not have regarded their creations as Art in the way we commonly use the term.

The task of defining and identifying Art in contemporary Western society is largely a function of the institutional structures--the museums, galleries, auction houses, and publications--that create the culture of Art. In this way, Marcel Duchamp can mount a urinal on a pedestal and this plumbing fixture becomes "Art", acquires meaning and value, through validation by these institutional arbiters of the Art world. Rejecting essentialism, Staniszewski argues that aesthetic value and meaning are socially constructed, the products of a particular historical moment and culture. As individuals, we may not consider Duchamp's urinal anything more than that--a urinal--but that does not obviate the fact that cultural institutions have conferred (rightly or wrongly) some greater meaning (and value) on the object.

"Believing is Seeing" is not an important book; it is a book which, like its thesis, is the product of a particular historical moment and culture. It is, however, full of provocative and challenging ideas about how culture creates meaning and value. And for this reason alone, it is worth careful reading.

Questions on the logic of the book........2000-04-04

In this book Mary Staniszewski tries a nearly impossible task of defining art. Her twist on the subject is a fresh look at art in the modern movements, but she also splits the art world into two time periods. The early works by those who are termed the old masters (e.g. Michealangelo, DaVinci, Bernini and other pre-1800's artists) do not fit into the definition of modern art that she presents in the book. If she were to have answered the questions in a little more logical fasion I may have been able to follow the first chapter better. But as it stands I don't see how simply useing the date of the modern definition of art can prevent or select an artists work for either being art or not being art. Some other great questions would be: What are Mary Anne Staniszewski's credentials? Has she ever made art herself? Is she an Art Historian? As for the descriptive portion of the book, it is wonderful and well worth reading. I would recommend getting this book just for its documentation of historical events and how they effected modern art movements.

Refreshing take on Art.......2000-03-02

First of all, I find that most of the reviews of this book are one star because the readers didnt agree with Staniszewski's ideas, however they ignored how well written this book is. She takes the way we typically view "art" and shows us how fraudulent it is. In doing so she challenges not only are view of art, but also our view of the world around us. Even if you dont like her ideas its no reason not to acknowledge the intelligence with which she has written this book.

what????.......1999-07-21

The author has written a senseless book trying too hard to simplify art and it's interpretation. I was expecting something elightening and informative, something that would help guide me when going to museums. She tries to succumb the "sucker" into defining what is and isn't art in HER terms.

The book is cluterred with unsubstantive one- liner, opinions about 2-d, photocopied artwork (that horde precious space in the book and will never do justice to the actual artwork).

I learned nothing except that I will think twice before buying something from Penguin Publishers. How could this laughable picture book slip through the pressing machines at a major publishing company, I will never know.

Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer
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A truly healing experience

Refreshing insight for dutiful but bored pray-ers

A misleading title; a powerful message

Isn't the Bible Enough for All Different Pray-ers?

Seeing is Deceiving

Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer
Gregory A. Boyd
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Release Date: 2004-04-01

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One of the most common problems with Christians in our modern secularized world is that they don't feel the reality of Jesus. Sure, they believe in him and love him, but he somehow doesn't seem to enter their daily lives in a real sense. Some might say, ''You ought to pray more.'' Others would advise, ''You ought to witness more.'' While this may be true, we don't get closer to God just because we ''ought to.'' Boyd believes that the way to true spiritual transformation and feeling the presence of God in your life comes from a little R and R: rest and reality. Boyd encourages readers to stop striving and learn to rest in an experience of Jesus as real. The best way to do this, he says, is through imaginative prayer. Experiencing Jesus will teach readers how to use God's gracious gift of creative imagination to know him better and feel his presence in their daily lives.

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A truly healing experience.......2005-08-31

I admit it. I bought the book for someone else - someone who was going through a very difficult time and was looking for answers and inner healing. But I decided I had better read it all the way through before giving it to him. I was only a few chapters into it when I found myself sobbing, and pouring my own heart out to the Lord. Praise God for Dr. Boyd's insights on prayer and on the importance of opening our hearts, our minds, and our experiences (past and present) to Jesus so He can lovingly heal each one. What was especially touching to me were the examples Dr. Boyd shared from his own life and how, through his own times of intimate prayer, Jesus healed even the most painful of memories. I recommend the book to anyone who desires to experience the loving touch of God and His healing presence in their own lives.

Refreshing insight for dutiful but bored pray-ers.......2005-08-31

Dr. Boyd has been blessed with one of the keenest minds in American theological circles today. Seldom will you find such a combination of honesty, careful scholarship and passion in one "package" as you do here.
Seeing Is Believing is just the prescription for those Christians who know they should pray but find no satisfaction in their praying. Boyd opens up the reality of genuine communion with the God who longs for our fellowship like few writers on the scene today.
While there will always be those who react in knee-jerk fashion to any thought that is new to them, honest hearts who long for intimate communion with Jesus will appreciate this wonderful and Biblical book which validates the experience of thousands of hungry seekers throughout spiritual history who have found that God is more than just a concept or a theological tenet--He is a Person who wants to be experienced by His creatures.

A misleading title; a powerful message.......2005-04-23

"Seeing is Believing: Experience Jesus through Imaginative Prayer" may be a misleading title for Boyd's book on using our imaginations as receptors for commmunicating with God. Many people that have posted reviews seemed to have bought the book hoping for a biblical analysis on prayer. Had that been Boyd's intention in writing this book he would have failed miserably. Thankfully, however, that is not Boyd's aim and he makes that clear throughout.

Boyd is not primarily teaching in this book how to pray; rather, he is endorsing an ancient Christiant tradition that works supplementary to prayer. He calls this "resting in Christ" and it is essentially a time of devotion with God in which you enter into an experience with Him instead of simply going through a list of religious observances.

Though Boyd does not quote great amounts of Scripture in order to back up the practice of resting in Christ, he does use a great deal of Scripture to show how people in the Bible experienced God through visions, dreams, and true encounters. So the questions becomes: why do we not tend to experience God this way in 21st century American society? Boyd believes the problem isn't with the way God communicates, but with the way Christians have become obsessed with the importance of the physical and have essentially determined that anything that can't be touched, smelled, etc. is merely imaginary.

Boyd conludes by showing how to "rest in Christ," a practice that will allow us to open ourselves up to the Holy Spirit in order to experience Jesus rather than just have intellectual knowledge about Jesus. He shows us a devotion that Christians have been practicing for hundreds of years, from Ignatius to A.W. Tozer. This book is not for everyone, but if given a chance it has the ability to help you become more passionate about worship, more devout about prayer, and more experiential in your faith through encounters with Jesus Christ.

Isn't the Bible Enough for All Different Pray-ers?.......2005-04-16

I just finished the book. I was struck with how extra-Biblical it was. I didn't see Mr. Boyd use Moses or Hannah or David or Jacob or Samuel or Daniel or Jeremiah or Mary or Paul or Jesus Himself as role models of how best to pray. He chooses people and techniques beyond-the-Bible as the most effective praying to REALLY EXPERIENCE God.

Just because something "seems to work","feels so right", "suits different people's personal preferences" is no justification to depart from the way Jesus and Scripture teach us to pray to the Father. The writer gives the sad impression that the Bible is deficient and insufficient to teach the Lord's people on praying. We need Agnes Sanford's inner teachings and other mystical misunderstandings from Roman Catholic Jesuits and New Age practitioners to "heal our pasts". So long as it "works for me" then let me be. Live and let live. Don't criticize.

True love shows concern when brothers & sisters go astray, especially with important Bible truths. True compassion speaks truth in love. In heaven when we're all perfect, it won't matter. But here on earth when we're all IMperfect, it DOES matter. Straying sheep led by straying shepherds need more than prayer, but to be brought back to the truth of Scripture, the arms of Jesus, back to the flock and away from the wolves.

Please pray for those who imagine this book is in agreement with the Bible when in fact it departs outside the Word of God. Pursue its popularist practitionings at your own peril. Don't say you haven't been lovingly warned of what Paul himself urged: "DON'T GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN!"

Is Jesus' way of praying in the Bible enough? Read all His prayers and what he taught us and see for yourself.

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we DO NOT SEE. This is what the ancients were commended for." (Hebrews 11:1-2) Follow the way of the ancients. Beware of the byway of the moderns.

Seeing is Deceiving.......2005-04-08

I saw this book on the Goodwill shelf for a buck and was drawn like a moth to flame. My prayer life has been dry lately and I was looking for some Bible insight to reconnect with the Lord. Suffice to say this book had lots of inner-sight but little properly-interpreted Bible.
No sooner had I finished the book than I got out my NKJV, NASB, and NIV to check out the verses cited. I was truly amazed that a mega-church pastor, former theology prof & PhD published author could get his exegesis so wrong so consistently.
The book seems a rambling, repetitive excursus on one excerpted text sequence: 2Cor.3:14-4:6. I counted its use or allusion over 40 times in 220 pgs. It was used very superficially with no independently verified cross-checking by other scholars (none cited in the notes)as to its intended meaning. To say nothing of missing the crucial context of 2Cor.3-5 as Paul's complete discourse on the subject. To say nothing further of not addressing other crucial scriptures that entirely negate the whole plot.
I was faced with a choice. Either embrace this practitioner's extra-biblical belief system about primary point of contact/ main receptor with the spirit world being envisionary/ imaginative picturing-in-the-mind of what we want to be real. Or search Scripture itself for Holy Spirit-bestowed insights into prayer.
Jesus says, "When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father Who is UNSEEN.." (Mt.6:6) Jesus does not teach us to envision-imagine-conjure up an icon of God to bolster our sagging prayer life or really encounter the Lord.
Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have NOT SEEN and yet have believed." (Jn.20:29) Doubting Thomas-theology of 'seeing is believing' is rebuked here in favor of the blessed faith that biblically teaches the opposite:'believing despite not seeing'.
Peter says, "Though you have NOT SEEN Jesus, you love Him; even though you DO NOT SEE Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.." (1Pet.1:8) Peter does not lament the fact of Jesus' invisibility as a deterrent to true Christian experience. Nor does he advocate visualization-in-the-mind's-eye to compensate for lack of sight. Faith is the goal, not fixation on focused imagery to facilitate believing.
Paul says (conveniently omitted in this book): "So we fix our eyes NOT ON WHAT IS SEEN, but ON WHAT IS UNSEEN. For what is SEEN IS TEMPORARY, but what is UNSEEN IS ETERNAL...WE LIVE BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT." (2Cor.4:17,5:7)
This imaginative-praying practitioner preaches that Seeing is Believing; we become what we see. Virtual-reality in the mind is the missing dimension of true spirituality. Regression-projection erases and replaces bad past memories with inner healing.
The Bible says otherwise. I choose Jesus', Peter's, Paul's teachings on Scriptural Prayer over any substitute that impersonates things in our mind as objects of worship/prayer.
My story has a happy ending. This book went back to Goodwill. I got "Praying the Psalms" in exchange.

Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

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A Different Look at Movies from the '50's

Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
Peter Biskind
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Book Description

Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at--classics like Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers-and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American--the conflicts of the period in action. A work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception, Seeing Is Believing offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.

Customer Reviews:

A Different Look at Movies from the '50's.......2000-12-24

Peter Biskind uses "Seeeing is Believing" to look back at films from the 1950's from a socio-political perspective. Using terms such as corporate liberals to define characters in films, and classifying films as either right-wing or left-wing biased, Biskind dissects several well-known films, and more than a few not well-known, from the early Cold War era based on uncommon film criticsm methods. The book is not for the typical movie fan, but for readers with more intellectual pursuits in mind.

Biskind often reads too much into the films he analyzes to substantiate his points, and will quote dialogue out of context from a film under discussion, or from other films of the time. It is doubtful that the producer, director, or writer of a science fiction film like "Them" imagined their science fiction action adventure about giant ants taking over the world to be as complex as Biskind makes it out to be. It is rare that giant ant films are analyzed in the same book as such 1950's classics as "On The Waterfront" and "Rebel Without a Cause." Knowing the Hollywood studio assembly line structure of time, and the large number of contract employees who provided input into any one film, it is difficult to believe that the large number of disparate films analyzed in the book would follow the same general set of character and plot rules as Biskind imagines.

The reading may not be light and easygoing, but "Seeing is Believing" gives the reader new food for thought the next time one of the films discussed in the book pops up on cable television.

Seeing Is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
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Seeing Is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
Jennifer B. Lee , and Miriam Mandelbaum
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As Leonhart Fuchs noted in the introduction to his great herbal of 1542, pictures "can communicate information much more clearly than the words of even the most eloquent men." Scientific and medical illustration can even allow a reader to "see" information that cannot actually be seen.Seeing Is Believing presents a selection of nearly forty scientific and medical illustrations drawn primarily from the collections in The New York Public Library's four research centers, augmented by materials from The New York Academy of Medicine and from a private collector. These fascinating images -- some in full color -- open a window on the primarily Western science of earlier centuries and on the artistry and skill that gave visual expression to those ideas. The book also includes a brief description of the principal illustration processes, a list of suggested reading, and a complete checklist of the exhibition that this publication complements.

Includes 32 black and white illustrations and 9 color plates.

Seeing Is Believing: How the New Art of Visual Management Can Boost Performance Throughout Your Organization
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A powerful idea poorly presented

VM: Bringing the art & science of management to a new level

Seeing Is Believing: How the New Art of Visual Management Can Boost Performance Throughout Your Organization
Stewart Liff , and Pamela A. Posey
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The visual elements in a workplace have a profound effect on its employees. Most organizations, however, do not recognize the power of design, art, sculpture, and graphics to create the vibrancy and energy that can drive productivity and innovation. Seeing Is Believing explains how to use these elements to improve communications, connect individual tasks to organizational goals, and greatly enhance employee commitment and job satisfaction. It shows how the system of Visual Management:* replaces "information overload" with information sharing and effective workflow* translates critical requirements into visual stimuli that cannot be ignored* resonates particularly well with "the MTV generation"* enhances the way customers, other stakeholders, and the public relate to the organizationSeeing Is Believing shows how organizations of all types are adopting VM and lays out a roadmap for successful implementation.

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A powerful idea poorly presented.......2006-06-22

Seeing Is Believing describes visual management, a "system that reinforces tried-and-true management principles and techniques through the use of fine arts techniques." That is, the book explains why and how one should use visual artifacts to communicate the organization's vision, mission, and values (and gain employee support of the aforementioned), create a customer-focused environment, communicate performance goals and progress, and provide a rewarding work environment for employees, among other things. Examples of visual management include bulletin boards, posters, art works, and war rooms (entire rooms devoted to such displays). The arrangement of furniture in the workplace and the general décor also play into visual management.

The first three chapters of the book are concerned with defining visual management, explaining why it is important, and where it came from. If you ask me, the chapters could have been condensed into one. Chapter two spends an unnecessary amount of time trying to convince the reader that we have become an increasingly visual society (duh!), citing examples such as computer interfaces and the video displays on cell phones.

One particularly amusing example involves comparing classic movies with the movies of today. The authors maintain that while classic movies used a "careful and often time-consuming process of detailed character development", today's movies rely on fast-paced and complex special effects to tell the story and develop the characters. Personally, I would argue the majority of movies today involve no character development whatsoever (and that's why good movies are few and far between nowadays).

The authors then go on to claim that this visually-oriented technology boom has forced us to become visual learners, as if learning visually is a new phenomenon (I guess the authors are not familiar with Howard Gardner's research around multiple intelligences and learning styles).

After suffering through the first three chapters, the reader is finally presented with some actual examples of visual management in practice via several brief case studies. Again, the writing is less than scholarly. No data is presented to back up any of the conclusions presented. For example, the authors claim that the visuals at a particular manufacturing plant "help to reinforce success and foster a sense of pride among the employees", but provide no qualitative or quantitative data to support this claim.

Chapters five and six provide a roadmap for becoming a visual management organization. The six-phase process (plan, frame, create, focus, detail, and renew) is discussed in detail and along with some examples. The final chapter helps the reader assess if visual management is right for his/her organization.

Although I believe visual management tactics make sense and are worth any manager's attention, I feel this book does a poor job of getting the message across. With the exception of a handful of citations throughout the book, the authors fail to share the research that informed their writing.

VM: Bringing the art & science of management to a new level.......2005-04-04

It's hard to imagine that anyone could read this book without having an "aha" experience. Much of what Liff and Posey say is so logical it's hard to believe we haven't already been applying this technique. Liff and Posey do an excellent job of setting the stage as to why Visual Management is a necessary and logical approach in our current visually rich environment. In essence, they clearly explain the why, what, how, when, who, and where of visual management. They also provide plenty of visual examples to get our creativity flowing. This is a must read for managers who want to share information effectively and increase performance.

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Great bargain for college material!

Seeing Is Believing
Arthur Berger
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Seeing is Believing uses semiotic and psychoanalytic concepts to help readers gain an understanding of the way we find meaning in visual phenomena and the way our minds process images. These concepts are presented in a readable, entertaining style, and abundant images, many of them new, including numerous drawings by the author, are offered to show how the principles discussed in the book have been applied.

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Great bargain for college material!.......2007-04-24

I ordered this for my daughter's required college reading material. I'm sorry that I can't say as to content, as I have not read it, but it must be of benefit, as it was required for her (Bachelor of Arts) major/class. What a great savings through Amazon, as well!

Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies

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Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies
Margaret R. Miles
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SEEING AND BELIEVING Religion and Values in the Movies A Choice Best Academic Book of 1996 A prominent religious historian explores what popular films of the 1980s and 1990s say about religion and the values we live by. "Miles's graceful writing style, intelligent analysis, committed religious-political perspective and affection for the movies will appeal to anyone interested in cultural, religious, or film studies." -Marilynne S. Mason, Christian Century "Takes the religious study of film to new and rather glorious heights." -Publishers Weekly

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An interesting collection
I read this book last summer and still love it!
A fun variety of magic
Good book

Believing Is Seeing: Seven Stories
Diana Wynne Jones
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Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana Wynne Jones. Here are seven tales -- seven doorways to bizarre, yet strangely familiar worlds -- to transport one and all. In these worlds are a child born to an ordered society but preordained to spread Dissolution...a girl who so loves the sun that she renounces her humanity for eternity...a cat and a boy, held captive by an evil magician until they can find a bigger magic of their own...a woman imprisoned in a strange country dominated by three ravenous wolves...and many other characters and stories just as exceptional. These richly drawn, razor-sharp stories showcase the skills and sheer narrative power of one of the most esteemed fantasy writers of our time.

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An interesting collection.......2002-12-30

If you are unfamiliar with the author, these stories will provide an introduction to her writings. The stories have appeared previously in other collections. The seven fantasies are of different quality and subject matter, and cover 165 pages (including seven cover pages) in an easy-to-read font. I am looking at the hard-cover edition.

I especially liked "What the Cat Told Me," a 22-page story about an unusual cat that becomes involved with wizards; and "The Girl Who Loved the Sun," about a girl who turns herself into a tree. Other readers will undoubtedly have their own favorites. The stories are suitable for pre-teen to teenage readers who enjoy fantasy literature.

I read this book last summer and still love it!.......2002-06-30

I've read a whole bunch of other books from last summer to now, most of which I thought were very good. But I still love the stories Diana Wynne Jones has writen. I'm reread her Chrestomanci Quartet again and am looking for some further writings by Jones. She is all in all one of my favorite authors. I liked 'Enna Hittims'. A must for any death hard fan of Jones.

A fun variety of magic.......2002-01-08

Just to add to Eleanor's review, since she hadn't read Enna Hittims: Anne, who is home sick with the mumps (and who is very bored), makes up the hero Enna, an inch-high girl armed with an enchanted sword, who has wonderful adventures in the changing scenery that is Anne's bed (including Anne covered up different ways with her blanket). There is a wonderful twist to the story when Anne makes countless drawings of Enna and her friends which results in Anne getting a turn at being a hero!
Worth reading, because it sets one's mind working, trying to guess what might happen next, and the surprises are fun to find in these short stories.

Good book.......1999-12-07

The seven stories of the title are: The Sage of Theare; The Master; The Girl Who Loved the Sun; Dragon Reserve, Home Eight; What the Cat Told Me; nad and Dan adn Quaffy; and Enna Hittims. I haven't actually read this book, but I've read 6 of the 7 stories in other collections (I've just always thought amazon should put up short story lists for collections the way they do track lists for cds in the music section). The Sage of Theare is a very nice Chrestomanci story and The Master is one of Diana Wynne Jones' beautiful eerie stories. Dragon Reserve and What the Cat Told Me (previously only available in a multi-author anthology) are classic Jones. nad and Dan adn Quaffy is fun. I haven't read Enna Hittims yet.

Dragon Reserve, The Master, and nad and Dan adn Quaffy (man I love typing that:) were 3 of 8 stories in Everard's Ride. Dragon Reserve and The Sage were 2 of 8 stories in Warlock at the Wheel. These 2 collections also share 2 other stories, which are not in this one. Maybe we should have a collected works?

4 stars because she's so splendidly good, but only 4 stars because none of my personal utter favourites are in here, & maybe we could have seen some of the harder to find stories in here instead of the duplicates.

Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows
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Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows
A. W. Stencell
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From striptease midgets, human pin cushions, and monkeys in miniature race cars to trained fleas and people with double bodies, three legs, and enormous feet, this chronicle of twisted midway attractions and the showmen who have presented them covers it all. The history of the circus side show and its companion, the carnival, is celebrated in words and rare, eye-popping images, making this a must for all collectors and enthusiasts. Interviews with many of the big players on the carnival circuit are included.

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Possibly the best of it's kind.......2003-11-29

This is a great book for anyone who would like to capture the spirit of the carnival sideshow, grind show, oddity attraction, etc. There is a ton of great historical information with loads of photos. If you've ever enjoyed a giant animal show - or more - at your local carnival, get this book and see how many traveling wonders were once out there - and still are, here and there. If you're already a collector, this is a must-have book. You'll get great pictures you've not seen before AND learn a lot - I did.

Scott Foresman Reading: Seeing Is Believing

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