Book Description
When the Irish turn to a guidebook, Bed and Breakfast Ireland is the one they choose. With nearly half a million copies sold, Bed and Breakfast Ireland has been fully revised and updated for this fifth edition. The authors have undertaken extensive trips, south to north, east to west, to find over 400 of the best bed-and-breakfast accommodations in Ireland, from guests houses, small hotels, country mansions, private homes, and farmhouses. Informative, personable descriptions and practical information (including contact listings and websites) are accompanied by helpful maps. Compact, comprehensive, and charming, Bed and Breakfast Ireland will help make any Irish holiday a trip to remember.
Customer Reviews:
Most Helpful travel book on ireland.......2007-07-20
We stayed at one of the nicest places we have ever stayed at, thanks to this book. Pick out a B&B, check out the web site, give them a call, then go. We are going back!
Great Little Book.....Great Price!.......2006-04-19
I own several guidebooks on Ireland. This is the best book I've found so far on B&Bs. It is very comprehensive. I found the recommendations to be more thorough and offer a wider range of room rates than the Frommer guides. I think if you use this book and consult the forums on tripadvisor.com, it's really all you'll need to plan your own self-guided tour of Ireland.(I recommend a Michelin map as well) It's more than worth the price, will pay for itself over and over.
Bed & Breakfast Ireland.......2005-09-24
So far, from what I've read, it seems to cover a lot of territory and is very helpful with booking a B&B.
I got the wrong edition but..........2005-09-14
I was going for the 2004 ed but ended up with the 2002 edition that being said, The descriptions seem to provide a clear idea of what a person can expect from the rooms in terms of amenities and really exceeds in allowing a person to compare B&Bs against each other because you'll find great variances in price. Also listing dates of operation is a great help. The acoomdations are arranged by area but a great update would to include nearby attractions or sights. I know these 25 B&Bs are near Killarney but how many are on the road to Clare or next to the national park? I'll see if it's worth the money this November when I go to Ireland.
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Well I've been to Ireland and back and my conclusion is
When push came to shove, and I needed to make an unscheduled stop, this book failed me.I can't remember exactly where we were but we were on the west coast below the Shannon River, the book didn't help because most places were closed. We stopped in a town that was listed in the book, but a curator at the museum in town said that in no uncertain terms should we stay in town because it was a bad place at night so I ended up asking where to stay, and got an excellent recommendation of Odell's B&B which was in the next town toward the coast but east of Ballybunion. This book was helpful making plans before we left, but not so good in the field.
Bed and Breakfast Ireland.......2005-09-04
Very informative when planning our trip to Ireland. Will be using this for our stays throughout Ireland.
Book Description
After ninety years, The House in Good Taste by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, The House in Good Taste is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong,' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
Customer Reviews:
not trite.......2005-04-06
I bought this book when it first came out. I tried reading it, was (too) quick to call it 'trite' and gave it away. Later my boyfriend gave me a copy (not knowing that I'd tried it before) so I had to slog through it. I am so very glad I did. Ms. DeWolfe has a unique style of writing that must be understood before you will truely enjoy the book. She has a wit and charm that is backed by such sincerity that few designers today could pull this level of writing off. The book will make you want to find more by or about this stylishly pragmatic decorator
what a joy.......2004-05-30
Elsie De Wolfe is acknowleged as the first woman to make a fortune as a decorator and can be called the first life style maven of the 20th century. Her opinions on home decor were eagerly seized upon by millions of aspirational women around the country. She wrote The House in Good Taste 90 years ago but it's just as fresh and suitable now as it was then.
I can't bring myself to agree with her on patchwork quilts, lace curtains or rocking chairs but she's absolutely correct in her advice on wallpaper, paint and apartments. It's amazing how much this delightful and informative book still has to teach us.
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Born into New York City's Victorian aristocracy and destined for the constricted lives considered proper for genteel women, the ladies and not-so-gentle women of this book invented new, more fulfilling identities for themselves with all-American aplomb. Bessy Marbury (1856-1933) was a pioneering play agent who fostered the careers of such scandalous writers as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Her longtime companion, Elsie de Wolfe (1858-1950), virtually invented the field of interior decorating, making her name by refining the tastes of the rich. Anne Morgan (1873-1952), who began a passionate affair with Marbury in 1904, used her privileged position as J.P. Morgan's daughter to forcefully advocate the rights of working women; Morgan's close friend Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (1859-1940) surmounted such personal sorrows as the premature deaths of two husbands and a daughter's mental illness by devoting herself to charitable work on behalf of drug addicts, prisoners, and soldiers. Veteran nonfiction author Alfred Allan Lewis deftly juggles the interlocking stories of these remarkable women (and just about every famous name in New York society, the feminist movement, the theater, and American government at the time) in an atmospheric narrative studded with shrewd character sketches and colorful anecdotes. He creates an enjoyable group portrait of the four trailblazers, "neither rabble rousers nor conformists, [but] pragmatists who helped to adapt revolutionary principles in ways that made them palatable to the public." --Wendy Smith
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A quartet of prominent trailblazing eccentric women whose intertwined lives span a century and open a new window on the age they helped to shape
Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women, a biography in the tradition of Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt, takes us from Edith Wharton's Gilded Age New York City to Hemingway's expatriate Paris and occupied France during World War II with four friends and lovers whose eclectic, extraordinary achievements have been overshadowed by recent attention to their male counterparts.
Elizabeth Marbury, with clients like Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, pioneered as a theatrical/literary agent. Her companion, Elsie de Wolfe, added interior design to the minuscule list of jobs at which a woman could make a living and still be a lady. Anne Vanderbilt, plagued by personal tragedy, worked for the poor, the sick, the addicted, and the imprisoned, and was celebrated for her World War I military hospital in France. The daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, Anne marched in the Triangle Shirtwaist Strike picket lines and built residences for working women. This delicious, gossipy group portrait is studded with anecdotes of their like-minded contemporaries--Edith Wharton, Ethel Barrymore, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many more--and with such legends as Henry Adams, Bernard Berenson, and Henry James. Never has the revolutionary era from the 1850s to the 1950s, that propelled America to world power, been seen through such an intimate, vivid, and realistic lens.
Customer Reviews:
Four Outstanding Women of the Gilded Age.......2002-01-07
Each of these women could easily have had their own biography, but the author does a pretty good job of covering all four, their relationships with their world and each other. This book is a bit disorganized, but once you sort out the characters, this is a wonderful view of four outstanding women and their world.
Where was the editor?.......2001-08-25
As a voracious reader of everything, but especially social history and even more of olde new york, I was so excited to discover this book. But, it is hard to plow through the verbiage, repetition, and confusion of this book. Each of these woman could have been the subject of her own book and Lewis has done little in the first three quarters to give us anything so we may understand connections that merit their lives being twined together in this fashion. Also, Lewis has tried hard to develop mystery and suspense where there doesn't need to be any - these ladies are great just the way they are, the endless foreshadowing, broad hinting and leaving a story just when it gets interesting is rather silly. The author has obviously done detailed research, but I found it confusing enough to have to jump back and forth between the narratives about the four subjects, but threw up my hands as chapter after chapter began with three pages on someone new who turned out to be the sister or next door neighbor of one of the subjects. Whew, I finally deconstructed the thing by reading each woman's story through by picking it out of the morass. What a shame, because these are interesting women.
Behind every great man there are great women!.......2000-10-25
Thank you Alfred Allan Lewis for creating a book of these spirited women who were the backbone of New York City, American society and worldwide. They are invisible in our history books, but thanks to you and your accuracy for facts their spirit remains alive!
These women influenced their power, money, political and social status to unite and heal mankind. I should know, I was there........to carry on, and say every "Queen" to there own home..
Wonderfully written and rollicking fun!.......2000-02-03
If you love a good victorian novel or a fine James or Wharton work, you will love Lewis' book. He is a superior writer who has brought together an incredible amount of penetrating and enjoyable material about four amazing REAL women. The word that suits this book is ABUNDANCE. I ate it up. There are side stories, and gossipy inserts, historical facts and little known incidents brought to life. I loved it and brought the big babe to bed for many nights reading. What makes a book is the writer and if you add a good writer to great subjects and then times that by 4(!) you have Lewis. Don't let them slam you in the stacks babe -- you rock!
Product Description
Elsie de Wolfe is a 20th-century legend and is the mother of modern interior decoration. Her name is familiar to many who practice the art of interior design or who are linked to the fashionable world of tastemaking. She provided appropriate settings for the new rich in the first half of the 20th century and in the process helped to shape our understanding of what we have come to know as the modern domestic interior. I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before. (Elsie de Wolfe) Through the measured re-examination of known materials as well as the review of history-clarifying documents that have been overlooked or underused by previous de Wolfe enthusiasts, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration provides the foundation of a renewed interest in her groundbreaking career, her philosophy of design, and her belief that an atmosphere of beauty could cure a world of ills. This large format, profusely illustrated book covers 29 projects (including Villa Trianon, The Colony Club, Anne Vanderbilt, Anne Morgan, the Duchess of Windsor, and J. Ogden Armour, to name a few) and concludes with a timeline of her works. Written by English decorative arts scholar Penny Sparke and edited by New York Times contributor Mitchell Owens, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration presents the most in-depth look ever into the design aesthetic of this early 20th-century master decorator.
Customer Reviews:
HISTORICAL SENSATION.......2007-03-19
THIS BOOK IS AN HISTORICAL SENSATION....A WONDERFUL READ AND FULL OF STUNNING PICTURES; WELL WORTH HAVING; MAYBE TWO IN YOUR LIBRARY ONE TO KEEP AND ONE TO CONSTANTLY REFER TO FOR INSPIRATION......A MUST HAVE !!!!
Product Description
Ready to take your scrapbooking style to the next level? In this exciting book, creative designer Elsie Flannigan presents you with 52 fun scrapbooking challenges! Follow along as Elsie and her team of designers take each challenge. Then challenge yourself to do the same. Learn how to discover your personal style, increase your scrapbooking creativity and create layouts that are uniquely you. This easy-to-use resource is packed with over 150 brand-new layout ideas and includes six bonus quizzes to help you discover your own signature scrapbooking style. Plus, get some of Elsie's favorite fonts—FREE with purchase!
Customer Reviews:
Not my Style.......2007-09-21
I'd suggest actually looking at this book before buying it. I was so disappointed. I expected useful scrapbooking challenges and don't feel there were really very many given. It is more like her personal scrapbook plastered with LOs of her and her husband on every single page. It got a little sickening for me.
52 SB Challenges by Elsie Flannigan.......2007-09-17
This was a good book with many creative challenges at first. As you get more into the book though they become somewhat repetitive and then will pick up again here and there. Still a great book but it wasn't all I was expecting with the rave about it.
Awesome Elsie book.......2007-05-07
The book is fantastic.
Full of great ideas and inspirations. The 52 challenges are a great way to get scrapping when you have hit a block.
A new way of doing things.......2007-03-09
I loved this book. I had never really noticed Elsie's stuff before and then this book came out. Jammed full of an incredibly fresh approach to scrapbooking, from my first glance it hit me like a bucket of cold water. Hand draw those lines, cut things out free-hand, doodle around the edge or on top of the photos, be as free and expressive as you remember being once upon a time when the rules were not very important and the thing you focused on was enjoying the process. i have spend many years scrapbooking to show my friends or family or future family... but this was so much eaasier, this was the most stress-free and enjoyable scrapbooking inspiration i have ever encountered.
52 Scrapbooking Challenges.......2007-02-20
Although I'm finding some of the sample pages a little "far out" from my style, I am totally enjoying the weekly challenges. Just think a whole year of scrapbooking ideas!!! The book is really motivating me to scrapbook outside my comfort zone.
Book Description
Combines a colorful overview of contemporary interior design with the riveting life and times of the founding mother of the decorating profession. In a fresh format, engagingly written, and chockablock with photographs and color renderings of de Wolfe's own work and of contemporary rooms that echo her ideas, this book presents a stylish view of a truly unique woman.
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Many stylebooks and manuals explain writing, but before the release ten years ago of Elsie Myers Stainton's The Fine Art of Copyediting, few addressed the practices and problems of editing. This handbook has guided users through the editing process for books and journals, with tips on how to be diplomatic when recommending changes, how to edit notes and bibliographies, how to check proofs, and how to negotiate the ethical, intellectual, and emotional problems characteristic of the editorial profession. Now featuring solid advice on computer editing and a new chapter on style, as well as more information on references, bibliographies, indexing, and bias-free writing, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition offers the same wealth of information that prompted William Safire to commend the first edition in The New York Times Magazine.
Complete with helpful checklists for the manuscript, proof, and index stages of book production, as well as an excellent bibliography of reference works useful to the copyeditor, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition is an indispensable desk reference for writers and editors confronting a host of questions each day. Why use the word "people" instead of "persons?" What precautions are necessary for publishers to avoid libel suits? How can an editor win an author's trust? What type fonts facilitate the copyediting process? How does computer editing work? For experienced and novice copyeditors, writers and students, this is the source for detailed, step-by-step guidance to the entire editorial process.
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant Reference Book.......2007-03-08
No other book is needed than this abundant source of answers. The scope goes beyond what one can usually obtain from other books of this nature. I imagine it's indispensable for authors and wish that it were for reference librarians. (Based on their answers, I don't believe that to be the case.) Although not laid out as a textbook, it IS a textbook, the most comprehensive that I've yet seen.
A Wonderful Book with a Refreshing Approach.......2004-03-07
This well-crafted book focuses on the details of copyediting and as a bonus gives advice on human relationships in the editorial process. Well-written, insightful, concise, and punchy, this compact book provides a novice with the basics of copyediting and is a useful and fun review for old hands. I recommmend The Fine Art of Copyediting highly.
Just the book I need.......2000-02-09
This lively and informative book is the one I always turn to as a ready reference. Stainton has the light touch and the right touch. She is alert to the real problems facing the editor. No wonder William Safire comments on back cover: "I recommend The Fine Art of Copydeiting."
A Very Useful Book.......2000-02-09
I'm a fan of THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE, but this book about "the fine art" is an excellent supplementary help. I'm an old hand at editing and I recommend it highly. Here, thank goodness, is a book to introduce you to the business of editing. I found information on all aspects of the profession. The details on editing procedures and the examples of notes, etc., are particularly helpful. Surprisingly, the concise manual of style in this book tells all you need to know to start right in editing.
Not what the title promises.......1998-01-15
This book is more about getting along with the people you work with than about copyediting. The author goes on at length about bolstering an author's ego but devotes only a few pages to the symbols of editing and how they are used. There are few examples or exercises. For those who actually wish to learn about the actual job I recommend Copyediting by Karen Judd or Style and Substance by Mary Stoughton. Both are excellent and contain many exercises and examples.
Book Description
Inspired by Sharyn Craig's Design Challenge articles, Elsie Campbell designed 8 exciting quilts with just two blocks- the Snowball and the Nine Patch. Elsie's clever use of colors makes these two simple blocks look like ribbons, baubles, beads, stars and more.
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