Trac Tree Lamp Black

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Trac tree floor lamp has 3 separate adjustable lights so you can direct light where needed. Each light has a separate switch so you can use one at a time or all 3 for maximum light output. Measures 64" in height and uses standard 60W incandescent bulbs.
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- 64" in Height
- Black Painted Finish
- 3 Metal Adjustable Shades
- 3 Separate Rotary Switches
- Uses 60W incandescent bulbs (Not Included)
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 "Very nice lamp." 2010-01-15
By Brian
I wanted a lamp that would be able to last with my cats and 10yr old son running around the house.This was the perfect solution for both.It is sturdy and well made with aluminum shielding for the bulbs which is better for me than glass or plastic.Set-up was fast and easy(7 minutes) and it looks great and throws off a lot of light.I am using compact fluorescent 23's instead of incandescents and the lamp stays cool and also saves energy .Needless to say my son loves it and wants one for his room!It really is a nice product.Trac Tree Lamp Black

 "Great lamp" 2010-01-07
By Rachel Iovino (New York)
I bought this lamp for my mom for Christmas. She loves it. It has a really nice design and is a nice addition to her living room.

 "It needs diffusers" 2009-08-30
By DB (NYC)
It's easy enough to put together and looks fine. The problem is that there are no diffusers on the lamp - which makes the bulbs blinding and the spread of light very narrow.

 "Cheap price for a nice lamp!" 2009-08-29
By R. A. Pennington (Coos Bay, OR United States)
1-It's stylish...black with chrome accents work well for dressing up a room



2-It's substantial...heavy enough base plate holds this well-built lamp up nicely



3-It's easy to assemble...no tools required as pieces screw together



4-It's cheap and free shipping to boot...go to a furniture store and see how much their lamps are



5-It works well...pivot each pod to put the light where you want it

 "Switches melted off, held on with glue" 2009-08-13
By Moyer
I was very pleased when I saw it come out of the box. It looks very nice and had a sturdy base that could even stand up on a carpet. On the first day I used the maximum allowed 60 watt bulbs. A horrible smell filled the room and gave me a headache. I found the center lamp could not be turned off. The reason why is because the rotating switches were held on with glue. The glue melted on the center lamp, and spinning the switch would not turn the small cylindrical piece inside that was covered in melted glue. Apparently I was also breathing in the fumes from hot glue.



I figured 60 watts was too much so after the glue solidified again (after I unplugged it to turn it off) I tried using only 40 watts in all lamp fixtures. The same problem came back. It took twice as long for the glue to melt, but the problem was still there.



I won't use 20 watts because I wanted to use it to read. I am going to attempt to send it back asap if it is not too late.



The worst part of it all is that it is so obvious that you should not be putting glue at the top of a lamp that gets too hot to touch. I am not an engineer, but even I can figure out that making the switches screw on like the top of a bottle would be much better than using a glue which melts and releases horrible fumes.



I am surprised none of the other reviewers had this problem. I wonder if I am the only one unlucky enough to have gotten one which had glue switches instead of some other model they were using. I noticed some of the other reviewers mentioned the smell and heat, but not this problem.



I will not buy from this company again.


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Textured Bronze-Finish Table Lamp

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Shed some light on the situation with this textured bronze-finish table lamp. Perfect next to your favorite reading chair or on an end table beside the couch, this table lamp has the look of antique wrought iron but with modern styling. Elegant lines and a soft bronze finish make it at home in any setting. Convenient 3-way lighting feature lets you control the mood. Natural-colored fabric lampshade is included and coordinates well with any décor. Lamp uses one 100-watt bulb (not included). No. T-9300. Imported. Lamp: 23H" Shade: 19Hx13" dia. at bottom of shade.
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- Textured bronze-finish lamp
- Fabric lamp shade
- Coordinates with other Textured Bronze-Finish lamps
- 3-way switch uses 100-watt bulb (not included)
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 "Love It" 2009-02-27
By Kathi Farrington (Virginia)
I love this lamp, Purchased two and then ordered two more. They look great in our sun room.

 "Not Fancy Close Up" 2009-02-05
By Allen L. Campbell (us)
These lamps looked good on a webb page but are kind of cheap-o looking up close. Once setup they are OK but if paid close attention to they look like shaped pipe than a bronze lamp.

Unpacking is a real chore as some 3rd world person really went ape with the tape.

The wire has to be pulled through and it's really tough to do without tearing or making bare places in the insulation.

 "It is not Bronzed finish but nice" 2008-11-10
By skillet34 (Massachussetts)
I bought because it was a bronze finish but it is brown. Not a shade of brown or in certain light, It is brown. If this matches your decor the overall function and look is fine.

 "very nice" 2008-08-03
By Karen A. Wiechers
I bought 2 for my bedroom. They look stunning and they give enough light to read in bed.

 "very nice" 2008-07-27
By Cecilia (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
They are very becutiful and the price was right. Overall I don't like order furniture on my computer when you can't really see what you are get. They are smal than i thought but ok as they are for decoration my room and not reading my books. I can just look at them sometimes.


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To Dismiss with Prejudice

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Eugenie Escousse is a thirty-nine year old, married career woman, and her biological clock is ticking. Detective Bo Hache of the Shreveport Police Department is busy investigating drive-by shootings and drug dealers----until someone starts murdering pregnant women.
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Empowering Your life with Dreams

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Find well-being with the wisdom of your dreams.

In this new volume in the Empowering Your Life series, Sirona Knight explores the meaning of dreams and explains how the images and messages from dreams surface in the mind, offering valuable insights into personal well-being. Discover how to...

€ Use meditiation, affirmations, prayers, and other dream empowerment methods
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€ Use dreams for problem-solving, healing, and achieving goals
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 "The one dream book I really love." 2004-03-11
By Terry Alongetti (Santa Barbara, California)
This is a dream book that I really love. Sirona Knight has done it again--put Dreams together with New Age practices. Empowering Your Life with Dreams is delightful--interesting stories and incredible meditations, rituals, and ways to become a purposeful and lucid dreamer. After doing the methods in the book for about three weeks, I started remembering several of my dreams and then I went lucid one morning--it was so amazing! Thanks Sirona for helping me to understand and use my dreams to empower my life. This is one book I don't think I will ever lend out.

 "INNOVATIVE, FRESH, HELPFUL!" 2004-03-10
By howardgoldberg@yahoo (USA)
This book is written in an innovative, fresh, and very helpful style. I started the hands-on meditations, rituals, prayers, and affirmations and they really work--I was lucid dreaming after about a week!!! Check this one out for yourself if you have ever wanted to direct the power of your dreams.


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Conversations with Cuba

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Here is a fresh story behind this passionate, struggling, frequently discouraged, but always proud country, told by ordinary Cuban citizens--the people who still struggle with a revolution that is far from over. Sparked during his high school and college years by his admiration of the Cuban revolution--the first successful bourgeois revolution of the twentieth century--C. Peter Ripley subsequently developed a fascination with Cuban culture that took him on five illegal trips to the struggling country between 1991 and 1997. During his travels, Ripley visited and revisited the Cuban landscape and its people, closely following the lives of citizens who were deeply influenced by the revolution and its effects. Through his experiences and observations, Ripley taps into the reality behind his long-romanticized perceptions of the Cuban Revolution.

Conversations with Cuba takes place during the height of the "special period," the ambiguous name given to the years of hardship following the end of the Soviet Union's vital aid to the country, isolated by the U.S.-led embargo, and preceding Cuba's as yet unrealized revitalization. Ripley guides us on a first-person journey through this bustling economy now reduced to soap shortages, one meal a day, and desperate attempts to locate an economic salvation in foreign tourism. He shows us people with a faith and pride in their nation and its revolutionary ideals that is as frequently conflicted as it is fierce. We come to know Pedro, a plumber and black marketeer; Roberto, who introduces Ripley and his companions to the enforced discrimination behind Cuban tourism; and Neddie, a schoolteacher whose early confidence in the Revolution is later seriously challenged by the harsh realities of the "special period." Ripley's most involved relationship is with Paulo, a college student turned black marketeer who becomes Ripley's guide and friend during his travels. Paulo's discontent with his country and his own circumstances is tested through the course of the book, and, guided in part by his foreign guest, he ultimately experiences a drastic transformation, trading his desire to leave Cuba for a new dedication to his heritage and a persistent hope for Cuba's revolutionary future. These individuals and countless others encountered in Conversations with Cuba reveal a moving portrait of a country and an uncommonly civil society shaped by “patria,” courage, tenacity, and a simultaneously critical and optimistic belief in their revolution, within an ambivalent reality of tension and change.

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 "An unbiased perspective of Cuba" 2004-04-27
By Norman Goldman (Montreal)
Good travel writing must encompass an author's ability to leave a good deal of his preconceptions and certainties at home and view everything from a different perspective. Conversations With Cuba, authored by C. Peter Ripley does not disappoint the reader in presenting Cuba in an impartial and unbiased light that for many of us will be quite a revelation.

As the title suggests, the book is based on a chronicle of conversations the author held with several Cubans during the course of his six trips to Cuba from 1991 until 2000. The first trip commences in 1991 and as the author states "a book about Cuba wasn't part of the plan when I began scheming to travel to Fidel Castro's embargoed island." It was moreover a need to satisfy a romantic curiosity that had occupied the author's mind since the age of fifteen. The opportunity presented itself when Ripley convinces a writer friend to tag along with him when the friend had been assigned by a magazine to write an article concerning Castro's emerging tourism trade.

From the very onset of his travels in 1991, Ripley is able to make personal contact with ordinary Cubans who are very eager to converse and express their feelings and perceptions. In fact, as the author states, "whatever the problems, whatever the politics of this place, no one, no one, refused to talk with us, about anything. Who is going to believe that back home."

Subsequent trips to Cuba reveal a kind of roller coaster ride in the sense that unlike the initial contact with Cuba, there were periods of extreme anxiety when basic necessities such as food, fuel and electricity were rationed. As for consumer goods, they were out of bounds for the average Cubans, although they were available in stores where foreigners frequented. There was also a prohibition imposed on the Cubans from being permitted to frequent hotels where foreigners vacationed.

This period was followed by a kind of loosening when a sliver of Capitalism peeks out from the clouds and Castro permits farmers to sell their produce for dollars in various markets. Unfortunately, this does not last too long, and the brakes are applied, putting an end to the so called "good times."
Ripley is very effective in revealing to the reader the spirit and soul of Cuba. As he states, "whatever Cuba was or was not, whatever she might become, she was not an island where a single opinion prevailed, however much some claim or hope." This is evidenced in the many towns and villages Ripley visits and as he asserts, Havana is not Cuba. To understand Cuba you must travel throughout the country and in particular to Santiago, the birthplace of the revolution. It is in all of these towns and hamlets where you will feel, taste, hear and smell what Cuba is all about and perhaps where it may be going in the future.

Although the book is not meant to be a scholarly text, it certainly serves as an excellent introduction in understanding Cuban history prior to and after the revolution.

Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures

 "An author you just want to smack in the head..." 2001-08-16
By R. Roosa (Miami Beach, Florida)
It is hard to put one's finger on just what it is about this guy that is so damn annoying. Maybe it's the way he spouts off "facts" about Cuba that would appear to have been gleaned from Reader's Digest. Maybe it is the way he reminds one of that pesky "authority" sitting next to you on an international flight who deems it his responsibility to enlighten everyone else in coach. Or maybe it is just that he appears to be so damn american. Whatever it is, it is creepy. Pick it up at your library and give it a quick read some afternoon, but only after you have read works by more credible authors. There are scores out there with more credibility on this subject.

 "Awful book ..." 2001-07-22
By A_2007_reader (Vladivostok, Russia)
This book blows. Buy the book by Christopher Hunt, "Waiting for Fidel", which is funnier and more accurate (albeit also flawed by a no-fun author). This book tries to be ponderous, serious, weighty, but with no analysis, just postering. The author is an ... (or at least claims to be) when Cuba is in fact crying out as a place to have fun. The author tries to engage in seditious conversation about politics at every turn, when most people (and I have visited Cuba) just want to get on with life. What a bore and waste of money. I almost think the author threw together this book so he can claim that he is a professor who has published. By the way, the author should educate himself when railing against the U.S. embargo as the root of Cuba's ills--according to the Cato Institute, the embargo is not that disruptive--the fault lies in communism. But again, I don't care about politics, just trying to point out how limited in scope the author's views are....braying about politics, never having fun...on and on and on and...well, I've made my point.

 "Finally, a different view" 2000-10-06
By John E. Mercurio (El Cajon, CA USA)
I agree with the reviewer who noted that this book gives a different perspective than the typical Cold War paranoid view of Cuba. The changes in Cuba from trip to trip were evident in the author's descriptions. Clearly, the book is slanted toward the Cuban people and away from the Castro regime. However, it did give a nice view of daily life for the ordinary citizen. After a while, though, the book seemed to drag on. Overall, though, it was nice to have a new view of Cuban life, and it clearly showed how the embargo is only hurting the Cuban people.

 "Intellectually Honest" 2000-10-02
By Julian S. Brown (Arlington, VA United States)
Superior work that puts the reader on five tours of Cuba and allows you to talk to Cubans who stayed and to experience the wonderful island paradise. The writer admits that he idealized the Revolution and wants it to work but still shows the numerous ways that it hasn't work and that the island is in trouble. I enjoyed his conversations with Cubans and the Cubans' resilent nature. Great background information for a novice to Latin American relations like myself who only recently gained interest in the island due to its recent commercial musical success. Conservatives and Castro haters will dislike Ripley's point of view, which may be unfair -- the work seems intellectually honest.


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