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2012 Holiday Gift Books

5:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

As in the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday%20gift%20books">last seven years</a>, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays.  This year the list includes 39 titles, sorted alphabetically by publisher. Mouse over the cover images to get more information and click to see the listing on Amazon. Below the cover list is a text list, keyed to the covers by number.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Cover List: </b></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">1:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9064507961/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9064507961&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=9064507961&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9064507961" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 2:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907896082/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907896082&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1907896082&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1907896082" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 3:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810997029/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0810997029&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0810997029&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0810997029" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">4:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851496696/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1851496696&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1851496696&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1851496696" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 5:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8492861223/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8492861223&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=8492861223&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=8492861223" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 6:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934429740/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1934429740&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1934429740&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">7:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/303460811X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=303460811X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=303460811X&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=303460811X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 8:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907317392/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907317392&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1907317392&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1907317392" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 9:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/303778279X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=303778279X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=303778279X&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=303778279X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">10:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1452113920/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1452113920&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1452113920&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1452113920" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 11:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8488386729/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8488386729&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=8488386729&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=8488386729" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> 12:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4871406784/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=4871406784&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=4871406784&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=4871406784" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">13:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/389955440X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=389955440X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=389955440X&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=389955440X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 14:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3775734600/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3775734600&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=3775734600&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3775734600" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 15:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1864704535/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1864704535&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1864704535&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1864704535" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">16:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610913647/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1610913647&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1610913647&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1610913647" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 17:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3037782986/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3037782986&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=3037782986&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3037782986" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 18:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780670052/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1780670052&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1780670052&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1780670052" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />19:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935202928/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935202928&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1935202928&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1935202928" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 20:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262017083/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0262017083&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0262017083&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0262017083" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 21:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580933408/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1580933408&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1580933408&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1580933408" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">22:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9462080046/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9462080046&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=9462080046&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9462080046" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 23:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935935321/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935935321&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1935935321&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1935935321" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 24:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199898073/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199898073&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0199898073&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0199898073" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">25:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375424334/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375424334&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0375424334&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0375424334" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 26:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714857068/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0714857068&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0714857068&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0714857068" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 27:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791347314/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3791347314&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=3791347314&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3791347314" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">28:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616890681/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616890681&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1616890681&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1616890681" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 29:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1861898649/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1861898649&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1861898649&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1861898649" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 30:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847837971/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847837971&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0847837971&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0847837971" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">31:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415533546/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0415533546&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0415533546&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0415533546" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 32:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847838056/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847838056&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0847838056&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0847838056" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> 33:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3836542099/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3836542099&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=3836542099&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=aweeklydoseof-20&l=as2&o=1&a=3836542099" style="border: medium none ! 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Architecture in Sequential Art</span></a> by Melanie Van Der Hoorn, <b>010 Publishers</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907896082/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907896082&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">0-14: Projection and Reception</span></a> by Reiser + Umemoto, edited by Brett Steele; <b>AA Publications</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810997029/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0810997029&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Design Like You Give a Damn [2]: Building Change from the Ground Up</span></a> edited by Architecture for Humanity, <b>Abrams</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851496696/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1851496696&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">New York City Landmarks</span></a> by Jake Rajs, text by Francis Morrone; <b>ACC Distribution</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8492861223/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8492861223&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Sniper's Log: An Architectural Perspective of Generation-X</span></a> by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, <b>Actar</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934429740/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1934429740&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eames: Beautiful Details</span></a> by Eames Demetrios, et. al.; <b>AMMO</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/303460811X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=303460811X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References</span></a> by Robert McCarter, <b>Birkhäuser</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907317392/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1907317392&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World</span></a> edited by Renata Tyszczuk, Joe Smith, Nigel Clark, and Melissa Butcher; <b>Black Dog Publishing</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/303778279X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=303778279X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture</span></a> edited by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, <b>CCA</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1452113920/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1452113920&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sky High</span></a> by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine; <b>Chronicle Books</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8488386729?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8488386729&linkCode=xm2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">RCR Arquitectes 2007-2012. Poetic Abstraction</span></a>, <b>El Croquis</b><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4871406784/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=4871406784&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Big: Recent Project</span></a>, <b>Global Architecture</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/389955440X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=389955440X&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Going Public: Public Architecture, Urbanism and Interventions</span></a> edited by R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, S. Borges, L. Feireiss, <b>Gestalten</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3775734600/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3775734600&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Elemental</span></a> by Alejandro Aravena, <b>Hatje Cantz</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1864704535/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1864704535&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Masterpiece: Iconic Houses by Great Contemporary Architects</span></a> by Beth Browne, <b>Images Publishing</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610913647/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1610913647&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places</span></a> by Nan Ellin, <b>Island Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3037782986/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3037782986&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities</span></a> edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner, <b>Lars Müller Publishers</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780670052/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1780670052&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawing of Buildings</span></a> by Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb; <b>Laurence King Publishers</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935202928/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935202928&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit</span></a> edited by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani; <b>Metropolis Books</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262017083/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0262017083&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America</span></a> edited by Joan Ockman, <b>MIT Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580933408/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1580933408&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Contemporary Follies</span></a> by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn, <b>The Monacelli Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9462080046/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9462080046&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cycle Space: Architectural and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle</span></a> by Steven Fleming, <b>nai010 Publishers</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935935321/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935935321&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook</span></a> by  Jonathan Solomon, Clara Wong, Adam Frampton; <b>ORO Editions</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199898073/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199898073&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems</span></a> by Christopher Alexander with HansJoachim Neis and Maggie Moore Alexander, <b>Oxford University Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375424334/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375424334&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Building Stories</span></a> by Chris Ware, <b>Pantheon</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714857068/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0714857068&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas</span></a> by the editors of <b>Phaidon</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791347314/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3791347314&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ove Arup: Philosophy of Design</span></a> edited by Nigel Tonks, <b>Prestel</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616890681/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616890681&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses</span></a> by Steven Park, <b>Princeton Architectural Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1861898649/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1861898649&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Italy: Modern Architectures in History</span></a> by Diane Ghirardo, <b>Reaktion Books</b><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847837971/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847837971&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color</span></a> by Bernard Tschumi, <b>Rizzoli</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415533546/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0415533546&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture</span></a> by Rory Hyde, <b>Routledge</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847838056/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0847838056&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation: Gallery in a Garden, Garden in a Gallery</span></a> by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, <b>Skira Rizzoli</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3836542099/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3836542099&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Christo and Jeanne Claude: The Mastaba, Project for Abu Dhabi</span></a> by Matthias Koddenberg, <b>Taschen</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500516499/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0500516499&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell reinvented a French agricultural manual to create an American masterpiece</span></a> edited by Dickran Tashjian and Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, <b>Thames and Hudson</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844678571/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1844678571&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain</span></a> by Owen Hatherley, <b>Verso</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520274407/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520274407&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes</span></a> by Raymund Ryan, <b>University of California Press</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118336410/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1118336410&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Human Experience and Place: Sustaining Identity</span></a> edited by Paul Brislin, <b>Wiley</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393733157/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393733157&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Long Island Modernism 1930-1980</span></a> by Caroline Rob Zaleski, <b>W. W. Norton</b></li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300172370/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300172370&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ezra Stoller, Photographer</span></a> by Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, <b>Yale University Press</b></li></ol>

2012 Holiday Gift Books

As in the last seven years , I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This year the list includes 39 titles, ...

Christmas Films

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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I blogged about watching "The Holiday" a few weeks ago but I thought I would let you know of another favourite Christmas film of mine.  It's "The Family Stone" starring Clare Danes, Luke Wilson & Sarah Jessica Parker.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It's such a lovely film (and also a tear jerker - be warned!).  I find Sarah Jessica Parker's character Meredith to be highly annoying but I overlook this because the movie is so good.  </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Have you seen this film?  What did you think of it?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhIobFffoU2-av0ORSQKlUNzowB72dqJ8Y3yYUj0sxZc1VhP5uYALQsthjQy-Ii2lMqWtOBHam6O7pSJI5M-6xxkJe_mdTRWAqtz_cWBc5msjM-N-pmeQ1HW5_rTBM1_6F7p60DABCc5Y/s1600/Family+Stone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhIobFffoU2-av0ORSQKlUNzowB72dqJ8Y3yYUj0sxZc1VhP5uYALQsthjQy-Ii2lMqWtOBHam6O7pSJI5M-6xxkJe_mdTRWAqtz_cWBc5msjM-N-pmeQ1HW5_rTBM1_6F7p60DABCc5Y/s1600/Family+Stone.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>

Christmas Films

I know I blogged about watching "The Holiday" a few weeks ago but I thought I would let you know of another favourite Christmas fi...

Thanksgiving Fun Never Ends

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola once again y’all! As our fun-filled week here in the sensible, yet wacky capital of the American Midwest comes to an end, I give you one last meme. Don’t worry about the numbering; it’s the questions and answers that are most important. I think.<br /><br /><b>2. Favorite Place to eat a romantic dinner?</b> Western Sizzlin?<br /><br /><b>3. Last time you Puked from Drinking?</b> I guess the night we had homebrew, whisky, tamales and fresh baked chocolate cookies.<br /><br /><b>4. When is the last time you got drunk and woke up in a strange place?</b> Never, that I know of.<br /><br /><b>5. Name of your First Grade Teacher?</b> Mrs. Langston. She wielded a mean yardstick too.<br /><br /><b>6. What do you really want to be doing right now? </b>Travelling<br /><br /><b>7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?</b> A lawyer.<br /><br /><b>8.How many colleges did you attend before you settled on the one you graduated from?</b> One College, but I attended it twice (kinda)!<br /><br /><b>9. Why did you wear the shirt that you have on right now?</b> It was clean.<br /><br /><b>10. Gas Prices! First Thought?</b> Reagan eliminated most federal funding for researching alternative energy resources in the 80's.<br /><br /><b>11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you where would you go and who would you take?</b> Somewhere in Europe, maybe Amsterdam and I'd take anybody that wanted to come along.<br /><br /><b>12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?</b> No alarm, but when I woke up my first thought was, as usual, "I gotta pee".<br /><br /><b>13. Last thought before falling asleep last night?</b> "Why do I have so much trouble falling asleep?"<br /><br /><b>14. Favorite style of underwear?</b> Boxerbriefs unless I'm going commando!<br /><br /><b>15. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?</b> Any or none. Whatever you want is fine with me.<br /><br /><b>16. What errand/chore do you despise?</b> Doing laundry. It's dangerous.<br /><br /><b>18. Sex or Sleep?</b> Both, in that order.<br /><br /><b>19. Your Favorite Cartoon Character? </b>The Tick “SPOOOOOOOOOOON!”<br /><br /><b>20. Favorite non sexual thing to do at night with a girl/boy?</b> Play basketball?<br /><br /><b>22. What was your first car? </b>'79 Cutlass, and it was a BEAST!<br /><br /><b>23. Your best your mama joke? </b>"Yo momma so stupid, she sold her car for gas money"<br /><br /><b>24. Your favorite lunch meat?</b> Smoked ham, I guess<br /><br /><b>26. Beach or Shore?</b> What's the difference? Beach I guess<br /><br /><b>27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual that was invented by people who died at 20?</b> For some people, but for others it’s great.<br /><br /><b>28. Who do you stalk?</b> There are a lot of people I WANT to stalk, but I would get caught immediately.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-xiwFb4yAGPe6Mo65QvDMQmyejpaFX6bTpwrp-uEdH7m_VpUZWLwXjtoxWjmVmBMGp3YG3y9qZRxCDAU59P5CREs2GpCMGX-n1RxNmDRmiG64T166luD_X21SaRGCPUzuoWoFXYReJA/s1600/Jennifer+Lawrence+Nude+Bikini+Hot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-xiwFb4yAGPe6Mo65QvDMQmyejpaFX6bTpwrp-uEdH7m_VpUZWLwXjtoxWjmVmBMGp3YG3y9qZRxCDAU59P5CREs2GpCMGX-n1RxNmDRmiG64T166luD_X21SaRGCPUzuoWoFXYReJA/s400/Jennifer+Lawrence+Nude+Bikini+Hot.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><b>29. Favorite guilty pleasure? </b>Taco Bell? Celebrity gossip? Keeping up with Jennifer Lawrence?<br /><br /><b>30. Movie you watch whenever it’s on but wouldn't want anyone to find out about?</b> Grease 2.<br /><br /><b>32. Cowboys or Indians?</b> Indians<br /><br /><b>33. Cops or Robbers?</b> Fuck da Police!<br /><br /><b>34. Do you cheer for the bad guys?</b> In movies and on TV? We’re supposed to, right?<br /><br /><b>35. What Hollywood star do you think resembles you best? </b>Oh, totally Brad Pitt hahahaha<br /><br /><b>37. What do you want when you are sick? </b>To be left the fuck alone<br /><br /><b>38. Who from High School would you like to run into?</b> I try to avoid all of them<br /><br /><b>39. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?</b> Some heavy metal station. When I'm hope it's usually on ESPN Arkansas.<br /><br /><b>42. Norm or Cliff?</b> Norm, Cliff is a bore<br /><br /><b>43. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?</b> Simpsons.<br /><br /><b>44. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?</b> Me just being me usually ruins everything.<br /><br />46. If you could get away with it who would you kill? Oh no, no no no no .... Do you guys with the NSA think I'm stupid or something?<br /><br /><b>47. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?</b> Bill Clinton<br /><br /><b>49. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?</b> Yes<br /><br /><b>51. Do you have a teddy bear?</b> No, I AM a Teddy Bear ..<br /><br /><b>52. Strangest place you have ever had sex?</b> umm ..... uhhh ..... well ... that'll have to remain a secret since family members read this blog.<br /><br /><b>53. Strangest Place you have ever wanted to have sex? </b>see #52<br /><br /><b>54. How many times a day do you text?</b> Very few.<br /><br /><br />Okay, damn, that was fun, wasn’t it? 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Thanksgiving Fun Never Ends

Hola once again y’all! As our fun-filled week here in the sensible, yet wacky capital of the American Midwest comes to an end, I give you on...

Saints & Citizens

3:36 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker Palmer worries that American society is losing the virtues, the basic qualities of character, esential to living as a free society. The trainers at my community organizing training last week expressed the same concern. Palmer and they both saw the decline of “civic life” as the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">By “civic life,” they mean the intermediate institutions that stand between the family and the massive power of the market and government. Take for example the influence of marketing and media on children and youth. Those are powerful rivals to the authority of parents. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since 1973, the influence of the market and government has grown by leaps and bounds while the influence of civic institutions has declined. Civic institutions include schools, service clubs, churches, and others – think of 4H, the Grange, VFW, etc. Civic institutions buffer the family from all sorts of destructive economic and social pressures. And they do something more: they are the context in which we learn and cultivate the virtues essential to life in a free society. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is not a new or novel idea. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his essay “On The Necessitie Of A Publique Religion” that a republic is possible only if churches instill virtues in people that insure that most of us will behave well most of the time without the watchful eye and heavy hand of a totalitarian state. From the founding fathers through sociologists like Robert Bellah and theologians like Stanley Hauerwas in our time, we have known that living together in freedom requires capacities for empathy, restraint, compromise, etc. We learn those virtues in civic institutions, most particularly, churches.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Epistles are first and foremost guides to how to be a community. They are full of teachings about the virtues we have to master in order to be the Body of Christ – which coincide with the qualities of character essential to life in a free society. If the church is to do its job of forming saints and citizens, we have to get intentional again about teaching people how to deal with each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">For example, as I write this article, Congress is looking for a way to steer the budget away from the fiscal cliff. Whether this needs doing is beyond debate. Whether it is important is beyond debate. The only argument is over whether failure to avoid the fiscal cliff will be a disaster or just really, really bad. The only way to save the economy from this mishap is compromise. But among the constituents of the Congress only 46% of one party and 53% of the other support any kind of compromise. A substantial percentage of our population is bullheaded to the extent of being self-destructive. We complain about Congress but they merely reflect the populace. We get the government we deserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The business of the church is not to teach political or economic ideologies, but it is our job to teach wisdom, common sense, empathy, and forbearance that enable people of good faith to bridge their differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am particularly impressed by Parker Palmer’s Five Habits of the Heart (derived from Quaker Spirituality) that he says are necessary to democracy:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">                 1. An understanding that we are all in this together</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">                 2. An appreciation of otherness</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">                 3. An ability to hold tension in life-giving ways</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">                 4. A sense of personal voice and agency</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">                  5. A capacity to create community</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The practices of story-telling and identifying our deep self interests (things we want and need that go deeper than money, power, and prestige) and finding ways to meet those needs for both sides – all part and parcel of community organizing – are also crucial to being church and being a democracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">One of our priests just finished training in conflict resolution with the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center. I have not had this experience yet. but from what I have read and heard, it may be another rich source for helping us be the kind of community Paul urged us to be in all his letter, especially 1<sup>st</sup> Corinthians.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Often church folks do not behave toward one another with the kind of wisdom, patience, and kindness one would expect of Christians. If we cannot behave virtuously in church, what can we expect of human behavior in the rough and tumble world of politics? I hope in the coming decade or so we will renew our efforts to teach and practice relational skills, that we will grow stronger in the capacities we need in order to be good citizens and good church people, and that we will cultivate the strengths we need if we are going to get on with God’mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Saints & Citizens

In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker Palmer worries that American society is losing the virtues, the basic qualities of character...

Planning my menu

2:32 PM Tukiyooo 0

<span style="font-size: large;">We have a group of friends coming over on Saturday night and  I am currently planning what food to serve.  </span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I am going to have canapes and cocktails for our guests on arrival.  I will serve my usual taste explosions of blini's with smoked salmon, red peppar hummus in pastry tarts with sun dried tomatoes along with bruschetta and a selection of cheeses.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Then for the main meal I am going to heat things up with a mild fish curry and a pot of both korma and tikka masala served with rice.  I decided on the above to keep things casual and informal.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I am going to offer two desserts one hot and one cold.  The cold dessert will be a deep dark chocolate mousse served with a shot of milk (!) and the warm dessert will be an apple strudel.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I will probably make a jug of cosmopolitan and make caipiroska's to order along with a beer selection and wine.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Luckily I am off work tomorrow so I can go to the shops to gather everything I will need.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Pictures of the completed food to follow shortly!</span></div>

Planning my menu

We have a group of friends coming over on Saturday night and I am currently planning what food to serve. I am going to have canapes and c...

IRON DOME WAS THE ONLY REAL ISRAELI WINNER OF THE GAZA OPERATION

10:26 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIeAVhVHUJW3n4tQyGBhLWmKXert5g0r8HW6EbrQ86hhkMbDHvzc2xpLe4kXaLDUfiBss111WS7c2ypbQZOQx_Jnzziq3So3dTWGDleARgs6MkCh-AeJNcIVxlSFyzrrC2Jy76CO2QSgb/s1600/CE3EB8F5-3F7A-43ED-8132-A37956BA1645_mw1024_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIeAVhVHUJW3n4tQyGBhLWmKXert5g0r8HW6EbrQ86hhkMbDHvzc2xpLe4kXaLDUfiBss111WS7c2ypbQZOQx_Jnzziq3So3dTWGDleARgs6MkCh-AeJNcIVxlSFyzrrC2Jy76CO2QSgb/s400/CE3EB8F5-3F7A-43ED-8132-A37956BA1645_mw1024_s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IRON DOME WAS THE WINNER</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via DEBKA<i>file</i> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">The trio which conducted ISRAEL’S eight-day Gaza operation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, marked the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect Wednesday night, Nov. 21, by announcing that all the goals set for the Pillar of Cloud operation were achieved.<br /></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They did not reveal the concessions they made to enable the US and EGYPT to persuade Hamas to promise to halt its long missile blitz against ISRAEL. The most damaging was ISRAEL’S consent for EGYPT to act as truce monitor and arbitrator between itself and Hamas and the address for complaints of violations, misunderstandings and broker of future negotiations to follow the ceasefire for regulating future relations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />By deferring to EGYPT’S superior authority, ISRAEL let itself be demoted to an equal footing with Hamas, a group listed as a terrorist organization in the US and EUROPE and dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />In some respects, ISRAEL might have been better served by direct talks with Hamas itself rather than placing its strategic policy on two borders in the hands of the EGYPTIAN Muslim Brotherhood.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As of 9 pm, Nov. 21, Israel’s security actions on its borders with EGYPT and the Gaza Strip must be adjusted to staying on EGYPTIAN President Mohamed Morsi’s good side.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE USA HAVE VERY LITTLE INFLUENCE ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERS</span></b></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">   </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />Netanyahu and Barak’s advisers defend this concession by maintaining that it is superseded by Morsi’s dependence on Washington for the sake of AMERICAN aid grants and guarantees for international credit to rescue EGYPT’S economy from collapse. Cairo will be in the hands of the Obama administration and so ISRAEL has nothing to worry about, they say.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However reasonable this argument may sound, debkafile’s analysts say it has nothing to do with EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI relations which operate on a separate plane. It is a fact that Barack Obama never managed to persuade EGYPT to resume its gas supplies to ISRAEL after the Sinai pipelines were repeatedly sabotaged, or raise a finger to halt the arms smuggling traffic running through its territory to the Gaza Strip from LIBYA and SUDAN.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Washington has very little influence on the Muslim Brothers when it comes to Cairo’s attitude towards ISRAEL. They are far from being AMERICAN puppets. President Morsi may heed US wishes up to a point with regard to the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian terrorists ruling the enclave, but the Brothers will prefer to line up with TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA and the GULF EMIRATES and follow the gospel of their radical guru, Sheikh Yousuf Qaradawi, the great champion of suicide terrorism against ISRAEL.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL has gained substantially less than Defense Minister Barak claimed from the eight-day air operation launched to rescue southern ISRAEL from the 12-year old Palestinian missile war waged from Gaza .</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><b>WEAPON<span style="font-size: large;"> TEST</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCrv39Lcx8wZ2VkJTlU_qqm0yh4jB223AgnbQrJ2f6A8a8hKi5cVrj5VVpj3w1m_wEFcQxb0YGKGVhxZ15SnwhRVg90aKdTCexsVflvuZy29_9l0yIIalT29xd3xdTKJKuWnxGvGhdMGE_/s1600/operation-pillar-of-cloud-t-shirt_olive_men_tshirts_a8102dm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCrv39Lcx8wZ2VkJTlU_qqm0yh4jB223AgnbQrJ2f6A8a8hKi5cVrj5VVpj3w1m_wEFcQxb0YGKGVhxZ15SnwhRVg90aKdTCexsVflvuZy29_9l0yIIalT29xd3xdTKJKuWnxGvGhdMGE_/s200/operation-pillar-of-cloud-t-shirt_olive_men_tshirts_a8102dm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"></span>Hamas undoubtedly took a heavy beating and devastating damage to its command and control, military infrastructure, arms manufacturing and arsenal. But its 15,000-strong militia remains largely intact after losing 50 men and can be reconstituted. In any case, Operation Pillar of Cloud was not meant to be a military contest between the IDF and the Hamas military wing. What it finally boiled down to was a duel between the IRANIAN weapons wielded by Hamas and Jihad Islami and ISRAEL’S Iron Dome missile interceptor.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">TWO HOURS AFTER THE CEASEFIRE WENT INTO EFFECT, HAMAS HAD FIRED SOME 12 ROCKETS AGAINST ISRAEL</span></b></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">   </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Iron Dome came out of the ordeal the unchallenged victor.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">With that success in hand, ISRAEL had no need to get into negotiations with Hamas and Jihad Islami over a ceasefire, which neither of the two organizations is expected to honor. A unilateral ceasefire declaration from Jerusalem would have been enough. And in fact two hours after the ceasefire went into effect, Hamas had fired some 12 rockets against I<span style="font-size: large;">SR<span style="font-size: large;">AEL </span></span>. Schools in the south will remain closed Thursday.</span></span></div>

IRON DOME WAS THE ONLY REAL ISRAELI WINNER OF THE GAZA OPERATION

IRON DOME WAS THE WINNER Via DEBKA file The trio which conducted ISRAEL’S eight-day Gaza operation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Def...