Rachel Page Elliott's Books

Dogsteps

A New Look

By: Rachel Page Elliott

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Legendary breeder and world authority on canine movement Rachel Page Elliott’s classic volume Dogsteps has been the definitive manual on canine movement for four decades. Dog show judges and breeders around the world have relied upon this straightforward text and its “cineradiographic” illustrations to gain a more complete understanding of canine gait. Even with the passing of its famous author in 2009, no other volume has stepped in the path of Dogsteps. Upon its publication in 1973, the Dog Writers Association of America bestowed upon Dogsteps its highest award “Best Book of the Year.” More than an analytical look at canine gait, the book teaches the reader about canine anatomy and how each body part contributes to a dog’s correct movement. In the show ring, judges evaluate a dog’s movement to determine whether or not the dog is correctly structured: Dogsteps explains what the judge is—or should be—looking for in lay man’s terms, making this book essential for all breeders, judges, exhibitors, and students of purebred dogs. The book begins by explaining the terminology commonly encountered in describing canine anatomy (e.g., stop, occiput, withers, hock, croup, etc.) and showing three comparative skeletons (dog, horse, and human), pointing out critical similarities and differences between each. The author describes the eight natural gaits of dogs and how each is accomplished in specific dogs; these include: walk, amble, pace, trot, hackney gait, suspension, canter, and gallop. Individual chapters are devoted to the topics of angulation, toplines and tails, front assemblies, and shoulder assemblies. Each chapter is illustrated with “moving x-rays” to give the reader a clearer picture of how each anatomical region affects the dog’s gait, pointing out common flaws, the importance of correct structure, and how balance and ease of movement are achieved in a properly put-together dog. In an effort to provide dog breeders with a manual for breeding sound dogs, Rachel Page Elliott makes a case for correct structure as the most important aspect of keeping a breeder’s line going strong. Recognizing faults in movement and structure, while not the primary intent of the book, allows the reader to be more aware of the many structural pitfalls that threaten the quality of many purebred dogs today. Beyond having a great breeder as a mentor, Dogsteps is the single best source for learning all there is to know about canine anatomy, structure, and movement. The author concludes, “Experience is a good teacher, but knowledge—with a little luck!—steers the shortest way to lasting success.”

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1621870960

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From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

A Life of Listening to and Learning from Animals

By: Rachel Page Elliott

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From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

A Life of Listening to and Learning from Animals

By: Rachel Page Elliott

From the author of Dogsteps. A New Look, the classic work on canine movement and structure. This is the memoir of the remarkable life one of dogdom's most beloved and respected leaders who changed how we evaluate movement in dogs.

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Dogwise Publishing

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1929242603

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Dogsteps

A New Look

By: Rachel Page Elliott

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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

By: Rachel Farebrother

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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

By: Rachel Farebrother

Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism and international modernism. At the same time, attention to the politics of form in such texts as Toomer's Cane, Locke's The New Negro and selected works by Hurston reveals that the production of analogies, juxtapositions, frictions and distinctions on the page has aesthetic, historical and political implications. Why did these African American writers adopt collage form during the Harlem Renaissance? What did it allow them to articulate? These are among the questions Farebrother poses as she strives for a middle ground between critics who view the Harlem Renaissance as a distinctive, and necessarily subversive, kind of modernism and those who foreground the cooperative nature of interracial creative work during the period. A key feature of her project is her exploration of neglected connections between Euro-American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, a journey she negotiates while never losing sight of the particularity of African American experience. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Rachel Farebrother's book offers us a fresh lens through which to view this crucial moment in American culture.

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Routledge

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1351892576

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The Twins of Tribeca

A Novel

By: Rachel Pine

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The Twins of Tribeca

A Novel

By: Rachel Pine

Karen Jacobs has landed the job of a lifetime at New York's hottest film studio, Glorious Pictures, which is headed by a pair of famously competitive and ambitious brothers, Phil and Tony Waxman. The young publicist quickly finds herself with an all-access pass to the tantrums, whims, follies, neuroses, and unimaginable egos of the celebrities who star in Glorious's films -- but this comes as no surprise. It's the absolute insanity inside the company that knocks her for a loop. Extremely competitive and cutthroat, the Glorious executives continuously search for ways to outdo, outscheme, and outmaneuver each other in their attempts to impress the Waxmans. In the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada, real-life movie publicist Rachel Pine's razor-sharp satire captures perfectly the behind-the-scenes machinations of the film industry in all its glory.

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Miramax Books

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1401360009

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From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

A Life of Listening to and Learning from Animals

By: Rachel Page Elliott

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A Life of Listening to and Learning from Animals

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Dogwise Publishing

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The Making of Independence Day

By: Rachel Aberly,Volker Engel

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The Making of Independence Day

By: Rachel Aberly,Volker Engel

Discover here the behind-the-scenes secrets of Independence Day: exclusive interviews with director/co-screenwriter, Roland Emmerich, and producer/co-screenwriter, Dean Devlin; profiles of the all-star ensemble cast, including Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, Robert Loggia, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Harvey Fierstein, Brent Spiner, Harry Connick Jr, Mary McDonnell, Margaret Colin and Randy Quaid; the alien Mother Ship, Destroyers and Attackers - from concept to finished film; the staging of the aliens' attack, including the destruction of the White House and the city of Los Angeles; the creation of the aliens; special effects, including the stunning aerial flight sequences; plus the real life facts and theories that inspired Dean Devlin's and Roland Emmerich's exciting story!

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HarperPrism

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0061053597

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Dogsteps

Dogsteps

From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

Dogsteps

Dogsteps

The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

The Twins of Tribeca

The Twins of Tribeca

From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps

The Making of Independence Day

The Making of Independence Day

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