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	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mission Furniture: How to Make It Parts I, II, and III, Complete by Popular Mechanics, ISBN 0486239667</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>III%2C</category>
		<category>Video</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are nearly 100 of the finest, most desirable pieces of Mission furniture that you could ever want to make. Each project features accurate measured drawings and an illustration of the completed piece. Instructions have been prepared by experts and written in a clearly understandable style. Projects include a dining chair, porch chair, roll top desk, settee, sideboard, and many more. 213 illustrations.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are nearly 100 of the finest, most desirable pieces of Mission furniture that you could ever want to make. Each project features accurate measured drawings and an illustration of the completed piece. Instructions have been prepared by experts and written in a clearly understandable style. Projects include a dining chair, porch chair, roll top desk, settee, sideboard, and many more. 213 illustrations.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850 by Hakan Groth, ISBN 0500281068</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically. The style he fostered -- Neoclassicism -- was itself an international movement; there are echos in the interiors displayed here of the Louis XVI and Empire modes. Pieces of furniture may reflect French, English, or German influences, or be copied from objects discovered at Pompeii -- but all are suffused by a distinctively Swedish freshness and the northern light.From royal salons to modest spatter-painted Biedermeier halls, Hakan Groth and Fritz von der Schulenburg open the doors on an astonishing sequence of interiors; some, intensely private, are little known even in Sweden. The evocative photographs, all specially taken for this book, present in detail the decoration and furnishings of twenty houses and apartments. The text traces the evolution of the Neoclassical style in Sweden, placing it in its wider European context, and explores each of the buildings and its history. Plans, and original drawings by the architects and designers, complete the picture.These beautiful interiors are of unique value today not only as treasure houses of superb craftsmanship but also as a stimulus to contemporary decorators, and as a reminder that an international language can be spoken in a delightfully personal way.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically. The style he fostered -- Neoclassicism -- was itself an international movement; there are echos in the interiors displayed here of the Louis XVI and Empire modes. Pieces of furniture may reflect French, English, or German influences, or be copied from objects discovered at Pompeii -- but all are suffused by a distinctively Swedish freshness and the northern light.<P>From royal salons to modest spatter-painted Biedermeier halls, Hakan Groth and Fritz von der Schulenburg open the doors on an astonishing sequence of interiors; some, intensely private, are little known even in Sweden. The evocative photographs, all specially taken for this book, present in detail the decoration and furnishings of twenty houses and apartments. The text traces the evolution of the Neoclassical style in Sweden, placing it in its wider European context, and explores each of the buildings and its history. Plans, and original drawings by the architects and designers, complete the picture.<P>These beautiful interiors are of unique value today not only as treasure houses of superb craftsmanship but also as a stimulus to contemporary decorators, and as a reminder that an international language can be spoken in a delightfully personal way.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Valuation: What Assets Are Really Worth by Alfred M. King, ISBN 0471349836</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>M.</category>
		<category>TV</category>
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		<description><![CDATA["No one has a clearer understanding of valuation than does Al King. He knows the nuts and bolts of this subject, as well as its intricacies, because he has practiced his profession on the factory floor, in the boardroom, and in the courtroom. The mathematics of valuation is easy to understand. Applying the underlying principles to the ever-growing myriad of business assets and issues is very difficult. Only a handful of valuation professionals have the breadth of knowledge and experience necessary to meet that challenge. The author of this book is one of them, and he conveys that experience in a readable style. He writes as he speaks clearly and to the point. Anyone who wishes to understand the appraisal process as it pertains to business assets needs this book." --Gordon V. Smith, President, AUS Consultants "Al Kings Valuation: What Assets Are Really Worth aims to give the reader a deep understanding of what value really meansand it succeeds brilliantly. King clearly explains why there is no single correct value for many assets, using real-world examples to show that the intended purpose of a valuation must affect the result. Further, he offers examples of business problems (sometimes disasters!) caused by faulty understanding of value. Only someone with a truly deep understanding of the subject can explain it with such crystalline clarity." --Robert E. Esch, Retired Executive (General Management), Consultant, and President of Sarah Woods Traditions, Inc. "What a wonderful, commonsense book for guys like me that covers the minefields of cost, price, and value. Every buyer or seller can gain many valuable insights from Al Kings engaging book." --Thomas Swanston, Executive VicePresident, Bassett Furniture Industries "As usual, Al King has distilled a somewhat complicated area into commonsense business analysis that we can all relate to.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA["No one has a clearer understanding of valuation than does Al King. He knows the nuts and bolts of this subject, as well as its intricacies, because he has practiced his profession on the factory floor, in the boardroom, and in the courtroom. The mathematics of valuation is easy to understand. Applying the underlying principles to the ever-growing myriad of business assets and issues is very difficult. Only a handful of valuation professionals have the breadth of knowledge and experience necessary to meet that challenge. The author of this book is one of them, and he conveys that experience in a readable style. He writes as he speaks clearly and to the point. Anyone who wishes to understand the appraisal process as it pertains to business assets needs this book." --Gordon V. Smith, President, AUS Consultants <P>"Al Kings Valuation: What Assets Are Really Worth aims to give the reader a deep understanding of what value really meansand it succeeds brilliantly. King clearly explains why there is no single correct value for many assets, using real-world examples to show that the intended purpose of a valuation must affect the result. Further, he offers examples of business problems (sometimes disasters!) caused by faulty understanding of value. Only someone with a truly deep understanding of the subject can explain it with such crystalline clarity." --Robert E. Esch, Retired Executive (General Management), Consultant, and President of Sarah Woods Traditions, Inc. <P>"What a wonderful, commonsense book for guys like me that covers the minefields of cost, price, and value. Every buyer or seller can gain many valuable insights from Al Kings engaging book." --Thomas Swanston, Executive VicePresident, Bassett Furniture Industries <P>"As usual, Al King has distilled a somewhat complicated area into commonsense business analysis that we can all relate to.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture by Laurie Winters, ISBN 1555951740</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/A-Renaissance-Treasury:-The-Flagg-Collection-of-European-Decorative-Arts-and-Sculpture-by-Laurie-Winters%2C-ISBN-1555951740/info/653372</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>hobbies</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Richard and Erna Flagg collection, given to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1991, is one of the most important single donations of European decorative arts to an American museum. It includes unique and historically significant objects that provide insight into the culture, religion, and history of the Renaissance.Highlights of the collection include masterpieces of precious materials and virtuoso craftsmanship: rare and visually stunning clocks; tablewares and vessels; furniture; and religious works. A Renaissance Treasury was designed and produced with a visual opulence to match the magnificent collection it celebrates; each object is reproduced in color with authoritative commentary.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Richard and Erna Flagg collection, given to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1991, is one of the most important single donations of European decorative arts to an American museum. It includes unique and historically significant objects that provide insight into the culture, religion, and history of the Renaissance.<P>Highlights of the collection include masterpieces of precious materials and virtuoso craftsmanship: rare and visually stunning clocks; tablewares and vessels; furniture; and religious works. A Renaissance Treasury was designed and produced with a visual opulence to match the magnificent collection it celebrates; each object is reproduced in color with authoritative commentary.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dinosaur-Cut and Use Stencils by Ellen Sandbeck, ISBN 0486259234</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Dinosaur-Cut-and-Use-Stencils-by-Ellen-Sandbeck%2C-ISBN-0486259234/info/427400</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>events</category>
		<category>Dinosaur-Cut</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[64 Mesozoic monsters as royalty-free stencils for home and school use. Bold black graphics ideal for illustrating, decorating walls, clothing, furniture, more.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[64 Mesozoic monsters as royalty-free stencils for home and school use. Bold black graphics ideal for illustrating, decorating walls, clothing, furniture, more.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Painting and Decorating Furniture by Sheila McGraw, ISBN 1552091376</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Painting-and-Decorating-Furniture-by-Sheila-McGraw%2C-ISBN-1552091376/info/192784</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>Sports</category>
		<category>Decorating</category>
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		<title>Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary by Milo M. Naeve, ISBN 0393318443</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Identifying-American-Furniture:-A-Pictorial-Guide-to-Styles-and-Terms%2C-Colonial-to-Contemporary-by-Milo-M.-Naeve%2C-ISBN-0393318443/info/456634</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Identifying+American+Furniture%3A+A+Pictorial+Guide+to+Styles+and+Terms%2C+Colonial+to+Contemporary+by+Milo+M.+Naeve%2C+ISBN+0393318443</category>
		<guid>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Identifying-American-Furniture:-A-Pictorial-Guide-to-Styles-and-Terms%2C-Colonial-to-Contemporary-by-Milo-M.-Naeve%2C-ISBN-0393318443/info/456634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.<P>Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Twanged by Carol Higgins Clark, ISBN 0446517631</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Twanged-by-Carol-Higgins-Clark%2C-ISBN-0446517631/info/1468364</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>Business</category>
		<category>Fun</category>
		<guid>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Twanged-by-Carol-Higgins-Clark%2C-ISBN-0446517631/info/1468364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star, has been getting frightening "love notes" and she hires Regan as her bodyguard for a Fourth of July concert in Southampton. Brigid plans to play a fiddle given to her in Ireland and said to have magic powers. She later learns the rest of its legend - whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Brigid and her band are invited to stay at Chappy Tinka's oceanfront compound. Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and Bettina, his ditzy wife, are social climbers trying to get on the Hamptons "A" list. At Chappy's castle, Regan encounters a cast of characters including Chappy's bumbling sidekick and accomplice, Duke; Bettina's live-in guru, "Peace Man"; and a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture. A guest found floating face-down in a pool at Chappy's welcoming party for Brigid is only the first in a series of ominous incidents. As Brigid's Fourth of July concert nears, it looks as if the cursed fiddle should be shipped back to Ireland - Express Mail! It's Regan's job to hold the curse at bay and fend off Brigid's pursuers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star, has been getting frightening "love notes" and she hires Regan as her bodyguard for a Fourth of July concert in Southampton. Brigid plans to play a fiddle given to her in Ireland and said to have magic powers. She later learns the rest of its legend - whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Brigid and her band are invited to stay at Chappy Tinka's oceanfront compound. Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and Bettina, his ditzy wife, are social climbers trying to get on the Hamptons "A" list. At Chappy's castle, Regan encounters a cast of characters including Chappy's bumbling sidekick and accomplice, Duke; Bettina's live-in guru, "Peace Man"; and a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture. A guest found floating face-down in a pool at Chappy's welcoming party for Brigid is only the first in a series of ominous incidents. As Brigid's Fourth of July concert nears, it looks as if the cursed fiddle should be shipped back to Ireland - Express Mail! It's Regan's job to hold the curse at bay and fend off Brigid's pursuers.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>American Folk Art Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople: For Artists and Craftspeople by Joseph D&#039;Addetta, ISBN 0486247171</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/American-Folk-Art-Designs-and-Motifs-for-Artists-and-Craftspeople:-For-Artists-and-Craftspeople-by-Joseph-D%5C%27Addetta%2C-ISBN-0486247171/info/428103</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>Fun</category>
		<category>movies%2C+tv%2C+celebrities</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[309 authentic American folk art motifs (1710-1910) include flowers, fruits, border designs, human figrues, animals, birds, and more, rendered from textiles, furniture, paintings, tinware, ceramics, embroidery, and other sources.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[309 authentic American folk art motifs (1710-1910) include flowers, fruits, border designs, human figrues, animals, birds, and more, rendered from textiles, furniture, paintings, tinware, ceramics, embroidery, and other sources.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems by Miller Williams, ISBN 0807115746</title>
		<link>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Living-on-the-Surface:-New-and-Selected-Poems-by-Miller-Williams%2C-ISBN-0807115746/info/313256</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<category>Entertainment</category>
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		<guid>http://www.thesofascenter.com/Living-on-the-Surface:-New-and-Selected-Poems-by-Miller-Williams%2C-ISBN-0807115746/info/313256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The poems in this collection cover thirty years of loving contact with the endlessly varied surfaces of the world. They are poems in which the common furniture of our lives is always present, in which the universal resides in the local, in which elegance if born of clarity.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[The poems in this collection cover thirty years of loving contact with the endlessly varied surfaces of the world. They are poems in which the common furniture of our lives is always present, in which the universal resides in the local, in which elegance if born of clarity.]]></content:encoded>
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