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Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects
Marypaul Yates Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 039373062X |
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A comprehensive, illustrated reference for those who choose fabrics for interiors. Fabrics provides designers with the information they need to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, and green design. It describes and illustrates the many fibers, construction techniques, processes, finishes, styles, and applications of cloth for furniture and window-, wall-, and floor coverings. 300 color illustrations.Customer Reviews:
not a practical guide.......2007-08-17
BroadBased Knowledge.......2007-05-13
Fabrics Guide by Marypaul Yates.......2007-03-09
Fabrics textbook.......2007-01-05
Can't review a book I never received.......2006-03-09
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Fabrics for Interiors: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Consumers
Jack Lenor Larsen , and Jeanne Weeks Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471289337 |
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Disappointing.......2003-02-09
Fabric for Interior by Jack Lenor Larsen.......2000-06-10
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fabrics for Interiors: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Consumers
Jack Lenor & Jeanne Weeks Larsen Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O6LJ32 |
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Painting More Animals on Rocks
Lin Wellford Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 089134800X |
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New, Exciting Hobby.......2005-09-15
Looking for Fun??.......2002-05-02
Looking for Fun??.......2002-05-02
Great book! Easy for everyone!.......2002-01-12
Another Treasure!.......2001-04-16
Painting More animals on Rocks shows you how to make very cute mice, bears, wolves, wild cats, penguins, cows, and so much more. Your rock creatures nearly look real when you are finished painting them. I made some frogs for my flower garden, a few mice, and a penguin so far.
Even if you have never painted before, you can do these projects. The book has full color, nearly step by step photos with the step by step instructions. I just love it.
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Exploring Color Photography
Robert Hirsch Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0697292304 |
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Here is an authoritative, comprehensive, practical resource for understanding the ideas, images, history, and processes of color photography. It shows readers how theory relates to practice with hands-on examples and activities and includes a diverse portfolio of work from 200 photographers along with their commentary. A tear-out 18% gray card, color checker, and sliding gray scale (items that bought separately would cost more than the book!) are also included.Customer Reviews:
Useful thorough text.......2003-05-10
A great guide for beginners and advanced.......2000-03-17
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Exploring Color Photography : From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio
Robert Hirsch Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072407069 |
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Exploring Color Photography is a flexible, multiple duty text that clearly and concisely instructs students in the fundamental aesthetic and technical concepts needed to create thought provoking photographs in both the digital and the analogue processes. This conceptual approach will not be rapidly outdated, nor will it get students bogged down in complex technical matters. Coverage of Light, Design, Color, Movement, Time, and Space, and Presentation is pertinent to all levels of photographic education.A comprehensive, diverse, high-quality art program stresses a multitude of approaches through its inspiring visual examples and well-structured illustrative informational charts and tables.
Exploring Color Photography's thoughtful assignments encourage students to be adventurous and to take responsibility for learning and working independently. The emphasis on design and postmodern theoretical concepts stresses the thought process behind the creation of successful images. Image captions give insight into how imagemakers apply technology in the service of their ideas. A "Problem Solving and Writing" chapter offers methods and exercises that help students learn to be visual problem solvers and to talk and write succinctly about the ideas at the foundation of their work.
From the journal Afterimage, November/December 2004, page 15:
"A textbook for college-level students and serious amateurs with a historical and pragmatic approach. Theory is related to practice and it is abundantly illustrated by original works form various sources and many professional practitioners and artists. The digital section has been expanded. Hirsch accompanies his "lectures" with creative assignments for the reader to complete."
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Excellent Service and Condition.......2005-10-05
Review from AlternativePhotography.com.......2005-07-24
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Exploring the Color Image: Professinal Motion Imaging
Eastman Kodak Manufacturer: Silver Pixel Press (a Tiffen Company) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 0879857854 |
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Exploring Color Photography
Hirsch Robert Manufacturer: McGraw Hill Book Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LBBJPI |
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Exploring Color Photography
Robert Hirsch Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OG5QZO |
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Soapstone Ridge, Georgia: A case study exploring the gray level color image enhancement technique as an environmental planning tool
Donald Gene Sherrill Manufacturer: Georgia Institute of Technology ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00071SNHO |
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Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men # 94-100 + Giant Size X-Men #1
Chris Claremont Manufacturer: Marvel Entertainment Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0871355973 |
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Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum reinvent the X-Men.......2003-08-01
The original strength of the X-Men was that their being hunted mutants served as a subtext for various issues involving social prejudice. Claremont and Cockrum put that in an international context by having Professor X go around the world to recruit his second generation of merry mutants recruiting from the mountains of Kenya to behind the Iron Curtain. This time around we find not only that the X-Men are no longer all white, they are also not all as young as before (Banshee qualifies more as a contemporary of Charles Xavier). Also thrown into the mix is their disparate temperaments; early issues always have Wolverine and Thunderbird in a contest to see who can blow up first.
This volume contains "Giant Size X-Men" #1 and issues #94-100 of "X-Men." The new X-Men are put together to rescue the old X-Men, at which point the question becomes: what do you do with thirteen X-Men? The answer is to get down to a half-dozen by having all of the original X-Men leave except for Cyclops, to have one of the new X-Men decide not to play, and then you are down to seven, one of whom is doomed to die (and if you pay attention to the group logo on the cover you can see that they telegraphed their choice from the start). Ultimately the idea of recreating the X-Men is more interesting than most of the particular stories being told in this collection.
All things considered, the new X-Men are an improvement over the original group, not only in terms of their powers but also in terms of their secret identities. I mean, all things considered all Angel could do was fly and the Beast was a muscular acrobat with lots of brains (the decision to make him blue and furry admits to the character's liabilities). Storm is an exotic elemental queen trying to fit in with regular folk and Colossus remains a man-child at heart, even in this brave new world. Most importantly, Wolverine makes the Thing look like a cuddly teddy bear, giving the group a dangerous edge. Claremont liked to skate as close to that edge as possible, and eventually he would send the series over the edge with his Dark Phoenix plotline and the demise of the asparagus people.
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George N. Shuster: On the Side of Truth
Thomas E. Blantz Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0268010285 |
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On the Side of Truth
George N. Shuster Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0268005206 |
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George N. Shuster: On the Side of Truth
Thomas E. Blantz Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQHWQU |
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On The Side Of Truth: George N. Shuster: An Evaluation with Readings
George N., ed. by Vincent P. Lannie Shuster Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OR9J4W |
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The Four Witnesses : The Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic -- Why the Gospels Present Strikingly Different Visions of Jesus
Robin Griffith-Jones Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0062516477 Release Date: 2000-04-04 |
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The Four Witnesses by Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of the (Anglican) Temple in London, attempts to clarify the distinctions among the four gospels' quite different visions of Jesus. The four witnesses, as Griffith-Jones describes them, are the rebel (Mark), the rabbi (Matthew), the chronicler (Luke), and the Mystic (John). Griffith-Jones asks, "Who were these four writers? Where did they write and when? For whom?" and proceeds to give straightforward, balanced, intelligent answers. The Four Witnesses is most intent on making the point that each gospel was first written to speak to the situation of a particular religious community. For many readers, that will come as very good news, because it will help them to hear the particular messages that the gospels hold for their own communities today. For this reason, The Four Witnesses will also be a useful resource for Christian education programs in churches of many denominations.Book Description
The gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John are arguably the most important and influential books in Western history. Their accounts of Jesus do not simply add up to "The Greatest Story Ever Told," but "The Four Greatest Stories Ever Told." Why do they present such strikingly different versions of the same events? As the great filmmaker Akira Kirosawa demonstrated in his epic movie Rashomon, different witnesses can quite honestly remember the same event in very different ways. Now Oxford New Testament scholar Robin Griffith-Jones shows how the four gospels testify authentically yet very distinctly to Jesus' life, death, and message.
Jesus himself asked, `Who do you say I am?' If his question has ever intrigued you--if it has ever just caught your imagination--then this book has been written for you.
In The Four Witnesses, Robin Griffith-Jones brings the stories of Jesus to life for the contemporary reader as he revives the original power and intent of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John as individual witnesses. He presents a lively discussion of how and why each of the four gospels was written, considering the substance and style of the testimony itself as well as the unique context of each story. Rather than entering into the current historical Jesus debates, he offers a fresh reading of the texts with new questions in mind, the same questions, often highly personal, that each Gospel writer sought to address in his own work. For them, as for us, Jesus presented a enigmatic, challenging figure. By seeking insight into the mystery of his life and work, they hoped to find a new way to see the world and to understand our relationship with God.
"Who do you say I am?" Each gospel offers its own answer to Jesus' question, influenced by the context of its writing and the personality of its writer. By examining the distinct light shed by each gospel writer on Jesus' life, work, and death, readers can discover which perspective speaks most clearly to their own needs, hopes, and fears, and decide how to respond to Jesus' challenge. Most importantly, they can encounter in all four gospels taken together what one alone could not provide: a remarkably full and compelling presentation of Jesus and his powerful message.
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An excellent study on the Four Gospels.......2007-03-15
The 4 story tellers of Christianity.......2006-12-22
Surprisingly Interesting.......2004-10-11
Four Views of Truth, Amplified.......2004-02-18
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all answer Jesus' question, "Who do you say I am?" And they present us with Jesus in such a way that it demands a response from us. Even so, each of the Gospel writers answers with a distinct voice. We are so used to hearing bits and pieces of all the Gospels; we often merge their messages.
Griffith-Jones invites us, instead, to see Jesus in the distinct ways he is presented in each.
The subtitle of the book tells us we will look at Jesus as: the Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic. If these are attributes of Jesus you have not yet considered, you will want to read more about each.
The author is a former chaplain and professor of New Testament at Lincoln College, Oxford, now serves as Master of the Temple Church in London, one of the most influential positions in the Church of England. He gives us the state of the world and the state of the fledgling Christian community, so we may better understand the concerns each Gospel writer addresses in their individual portraits of Christ.
Just as artists have cast light on particular aspects of Jesus ministry and message, so too, says Griffith-Jones, those inspired witnesses. The Rebel who turned the world upside down, the Rabbi who taught in the tradition of Judaism yet with an authority unlike any other, the Chronicler who told the wonders of God's kingdom, and the Mystic who helped us the eternal realities behind everyday living.
If you want to delve into these aspects of our Lord, you will find Griffith-Jones the perfect guide. The book is not a quick read; and you will want to keep your New Testament open as you study the contributions of the Gospel writers.
No bueno.......2003-12-26
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GARY LINEKER STRIKINGLY DIFFERENT
COLIN MALAM Manufacturer: ARROW ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S99TL4 |
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Strikingly Different
Phillips , and Nicoli Manufacturer: Not Avail ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0002189623 |
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STRIKINGLY DIFFERENT: GARY LINEKER BIOGRAPHY
BOBBY CHARLTON (FOREWORD) COLIN MALAM Manufacturer: ARROW ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0099273217 |
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Dan M. Tratensek Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000CEXJNY Release Date: 2005-11-23 |
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