Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition

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The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design

Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume.

Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind, it includes a diverse range of sample work, from student designers as well as well-known design firms such as Ellerbee and Beckett Architects and MS Architects.

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deserves six stars!.......2007-08-17

This book has taught me more than I learned in an entire semester at a FIDER accredited Interior Design program at a local college. Well worth every penny.

Just What I've Been Missing.......2007-03-30

I highly recommend this book to anyone in the business, or aspiring to be. I had an informal education and knew there was something missing about the nuts and bolts of presentation. This book is it! Everything I didn't know that I didn't know.

For project boards & rendering.......2006-04-24

I bought this to help organize my project boards, which it is great for. The bonus is the information on rendering. There was better information here than in the other 2 books I own on color theory and rendering.

excellent resource.......2006-03-24

This book is an excellent resource for the interior design student. It's a book you should get as soon as you start studies. Great reference to compliment classroom lessons. I also recommended it to my Residencial Design teacher. It has basic information that will save you time.Great buy!!

good guide.......2006-03-09

good guide to lots of information. Good reference for any design library. It touches base on resumes, presentation, etc.

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500 years of satiric art

The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IBVD2U

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500 years of satiric art.......2007-02-04

No one who is interested in art that tries to get at the wrongs of the world should be with out this book. It is well designed and fully illustrated of the greats of socially critical art.Gilray and Cruickshank British artist that were among the most trenchant critics of English society are well represented. Daumier has a chapter unto himself.An exhibit at the Bloch gallery of Northwestern University ..WAR!! That has many of the Expressionist artists inside this book had me re-reviewing this wonderful book. Shikes is not just someone who writes from the view of the history of art as a specialized knowledge of prints of social art ...he is someone who believes in the mission of the artist as social critic.Lacking are the political art after 1970 to the present. Another book reviewing the artists of this persausion is badly needed.

The Indignant Eye: The artist as social critic in prints and drawings from the fifteenth century to Picasso

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The Indignant Eye: The artist as social critic in prints and drawings from the fifteenth century to Picasso
Ralph E Shikes
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0807066710

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The Indignant Eye: the Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings From the Fifteenth Century to Picasso
Ralph E. Shikes
Manufacturer: Beacon, Boston
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MAEXS8

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The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso
Ralph E. Shikes
Manufacturer: Beacon Hill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PGHB5Q

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In this era of digital imaging there is a curious demand for original photographic processes used more than a century ago. In this new book, the author reveals the secrets of eight enduring antique processes, providing hard-to-find instructions and detailed supply lists for creating salted paper, albumen, cyanotype, kallitype, platinum/palladium, carbon/carbro, gum bichromate and bromoil prints. He explains each intricate step from selecting the appropriate paper and sensitizing it to exposing, developing and toning the final print, giving a short explanation of how each process was originally used and its significance in the evolution of photography. A treasure trove of dazzling images and straightforward information that will guide and inspire all alternative process practitioners.

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In Love with Photo Chemicals?.......2003-07-12

If so then this is certainly the book for you. If you are one of those photographer who does not enjoy the darkroom; does not like to take the process from start to completion; or perhaps just do not like to experiment. . . Then you may not enjoy this one too much. This book has alot of information.

** one suggestion, if your darkroom is not efficiently ventalated then you may want to stay away from some of the processes involved

History of cool things!.......2003-03-04

You'll enjoy the info in this one. Makes for a heavy read.

A useful guide.......2002-07-07

For the budding alternative practitioner, this book is an invaluable resource. It is clearly and engagingly written, and covers the gamut of processes from simple salted-paper calotypes, through platinum/palladium and bromoil. Safety is emphasized, with an overview in the second chapter, and a chemical index with hazards in the back. A thorough list of sources for materials, other references, online resources, etc, is in the back.

One of the best features of the book is that it is not limited merely to the historic processes, but also to modern variants. Therefore, not only classic cyanotype or kallitype is presented, but also modern formulations, with a discussion of how they differ and the advantages/disadvantages of each. The section on carbon printing includes recommendations for 3-color, and for 'overpigmenting' the gelatin base to produce grainy 'mezzotint' pictures. Illustrations include modern prints by the author and british photographer/chemist Michael Ware, as well as classic prints from the days when the techniques were in vogue. Each technique also has a discussion of the proper negative contrast which is required, which is important since most of these processes require contact printing and a denser negative than modern practitioners are used to.

If there is a problem, it's that the design of the book appears to be meant to get a practitioner started in the process, and then point them elsewhere for other sources. It is also clear that some processes (gum bichromate/bromoil) seem to get more attention than others (cyanotype), probably reflecting the author's personal interests in his work. This is a minor quibble, since the cyanotype chapter is still more thorough than most I've read elsewhere, and the formulations for image-color control in the kallitype chapter is invaluable to allow one to explore the range of the process.

In short, this is a well-written, thorough, text which will allow an interested party to get started, and then go to more specialized sources if they decide to delve deeper into one of the processes. It is also an enjoyable read in its own right. I bought it initially to get started in cyanotype, and have no regrets as a result.

Indispensable Photo Book.......2002-01-07

This book covers many historic methods. This book is for the photographer looking to go beyond silver. It gives you all you need to know to get you started. HIghly recommended - easy to read and follow.

The ultimate alt-photo book.......2000-01-18

First a disclaimer: I am the inventor of the Ziatype process described in the book.

The title is a little misleading since it says "historical processes." The book focuses on photo processes that are used largely in art photography and do not involve the normally used silver paper or color paper. Yes, many of these processes were used for photography in its earlier years and are "historical," but these processes are most often referred to as "alternative photography" now. If you are a photographer and are looking for a respite from the ordinary, this is your book.

This book replaces the now quite dated Keepers of Light first published in 1979. Since that time, and to the credit of Keepers of Light, alternative photography has grown considerably. This book is excellent and takes in much of the later developments and knowledge of the field.

Farber's treatment is lucid, well illustrated, and takes a hands-on approach. Despite the advances in alternative photography, many of the materials previously available have disappeared from the marketplace. Farber takes this into account and I particularly found his chapters on bromoil and carbon printing to be valuable as he discusses the use of modern bromide papers for making bromoil prints and also how to make your own carbon tissue.

This book belongs on the shelf of every serious darkroom photographer. If you are a photographic collector, I would also advise buying a copy even if you never intend to make an alternative photo print. There is a wealth of succinct information here that would be valuable for any collector wanting to understand the nature of many earlier photographic print-making processes.

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Historic photographic process workshops
Mark Osterman
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006QOUO0

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HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
Richard Farber
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MC4HK0

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When a submarine is mysteriously downed in the Persian Gulf, CIA tactician Douglas Griffin is reactivated into his former SEAL team to investigate. Simultaneously, a string of mystifying attacks pits the U.S. Navy against the underwater Kingdom of Atlantis in a full-blown war against humanity's extinction. With the threat of global devastation imminent, twisting realities lead the SEALs from Atlantis' 5000 fathoms to the even deeper political waters of our government in this Spy-Fi action thriller!

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This was really good!.......2006-04-12

I was amazed at how much I actually liked this book. It all seemed very "Yahhooo!" flag waving at first, but not unlike a season of "24", it was more than I thought it was going in! It was a complicated plot that unfolded very nicely, and, I don't want to give anything away, but anywhay, it's very cool. And the Atlantians are awesome! The art was really detail-oriented and fun to look at, it really helped progress the story. This book also hits on several different themes, including environmentalism and race relations, very cool stuff. A must read!

WORTH THE WAIT!!!!!!.......2006-04-12

Bout time this book came out and boy was it worth the wait!!! Once you pick it up it'll be hard to put down.

The mix of the elite soldiers which are based in reality, and the strange under-water aliens they encounter proved to be an interesting combination. I think some of the dialogue might confuse some readers, however, there is a glossary at the back of book to explain the necessary lingo, (for us non-military folk). I do think all that military lingo does give the story an authenticity you don't see in this medium. There are some great scenes in this book and there is some really funny dialogue which made the characters seem more realistic.

The black and white art in this book is awesome, I had to stop sometimes and really look to see all the great detail put into it. I can see a lot of time, effort and research went into this book. I understand that this is the writers first graphic novel and boy did he knock one out of the park in his first at bat. The story is fast paced, the action is dynamic and the characters are interesting to follow, and I for one am looking forward to the next chapter!!!

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"A historian who redefined the interpretation of European fascism and Hitler's Germany, and who made decisive contributions to the liberal historiography of modern Europe. He was a man of uncommon intellectual vivacity and a great teacher."-New Republic

"The late George Mosse was, as he says at the close of his autobiography, a child of this century. This book, even more than recent interviews or profiles of Mosse, reveals how very true this claim is. The most German of Germans, the most Jewish of Jews, the most American of Americans, Mosse lived out the complexities of all these categories. This autobiography plumbs the depths of the inner man and leaves those who knew him as well as those who wish to get to know him better for having read it."-Sander Gilman, University of Chicago

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century's great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his many scholarly books.

Confronting History describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Paris and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse also deals with matters of personal identity. He discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism. He addresses his gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality.

This touching memoir, sometimes harrowing, often humorous, is guided in part by Mosse's belief that "what man is, only history tells," and by his constant themes of the fate of liberalism, the defining events that can bring about the generational political awakenings of youth (from the anti-fascism struggles of the 1930s to the campus anti-war movement of the 1960s), the meanings of masculinity and racial and sexual stereotypes, the enigma of exile, and-most of all-the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth, and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of his times.

Confronting History is the autobiography of an internationally renowned historian. George Mosse, who recently died, was a pioneering scholar of German history and one of the founders of what today we call cultural history-which means that he was the first historian to investigate the cultural, sexual, and psychological roots of National Socialism and the Nazi movement. Mosse's life-story is also interesting as a purely human document that casts a new, vivid light on the Holocaust. A member of a German Jewish elite family who published the leading leftist Berlin newspaper, Mosse saw his family denounced by name in Hitler's earliest speeches. Managing to escape Germany just before it was too late, the historian would flee to the U.S. where his life of exile (and his status as an increasingly open gay man) reveals much about our own history, and the changing shape of academia.

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Enjoyable.......2002-10-12

I enjoyed reading this book and am sure will re-read it later on as I grow older. I admire his resolve to overcome adversaries. The book followed his distinguished professional career well, but I do long more for the personal side of his life. I want to know whethter his sexuality influenced his research and career, what the life was like growing up in a 'male' German culture, etc. I do hope there will be a more complete biography of him in he future that covers all aspects of his life.

Professor Mosse's gift.......2001-03-09

Bravo! Anyone who was ever a student or admirer of George Mosse will love this book. It is a wonderful, historical chronicle of Professor Mosse's family, his life and his career that is written as if he had spoken it.

For someone who lived such a long, interesting life, this autobiography is rather short. (200 pages or so.) What this means, is that the reader gets a great overview of all the different phases of Professor Mosse's life, without having to read through long, tedious chapters about things that aren't that compelling.

Furthermore, he treats the various angles of his life with equal merit. He writes about the Germany of his youth, his schooling, his family, exile, college, grad school and then life as a historian. With equal weight, he also writes about his status as an outsider, both as a Jew and a homosexual. His discussion of his homosexuality is probably groundbreaking in the sense that he is so adept at placing his feelings and actions in a historical context.

"Confronting History" brought Professor Mosse back to life for me. I could hear him talking, laughing, and pondering the various choices he made. He was someone who was refreshingly humble, and his lack of pomposity comes shining through in this great final gift he left for all of the many, many people who knew him and loved him.

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Confronting History: A Memoir
George L. Mosse
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSDG0O

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The Mike Bossy Story.......2004-01-21

I read this book years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think that with time he has begun to fade into obscurity, but when I was growing up he was truly one of the great players--and as far as I'm concerned, always will be.

Great insight to a great player!.......2001-11-17

For someone who didn't speak much to the press, it was extremely interesting to get inside Mike Bossy. It was great to relive all his outstanding accomplishments. A must read for hockey fans.

the greatest sniper.......1999-11-30

Mike Bossy is perhaps the most unappreciated star in the history of New York area sports. Perhaps it is because he played on Long Island and not NYC, Bossy is forgotton. Meisel and Bossy do a fine job. I hope copies of this book are out there for those of you hockey fans who are looking for a fun book to read. The book also takes serious turns, as the other review here says. It was an accurate review.

Bossy's Book is a Bull's-Eye.......1999-11-26

In his autobiography, Boss - The Mike Bossy Story, which was published in late 1988, Mike Bossy takes readers through his life and NHL career. The book is logically organized, easy to read and full of insights. He discusses his pre-NHL playing days, his NHL career, his memorable years with the New York Islanders, and his career-ending injury.

Chapter 1 talks about the genesis of Bossy's career-ending back injury, which occurred during a 1987 practice session. He also offers ideas for improving hockey.

Chapters 2 and 3 talk about his childhood in Montreal and his teenage years. He mentions how he met his future wife.

Chapter 4 details life in junior hockey. The title of this chapter, Survival, summarizes what Bossy went through to get to the NHL.

Chapter 5 talks more about his junior career and about how the Islanders drafted Bossy. It is still hard to believe that Bossy, despite all the goals he scored in junior hockey, was only the 15th pick in the first round of the 1977 draft, and that two teams passed drafting Bossy twice. There is a humerous passage in this chapter about the negotiations with the New York Islanders over Bossy's first contract.

Chapter 6 briefly touched on Bossy's disasterous 1977 honeymoon in the Caribbean, before discussing Bossy's first year in the NHL. He scored 53 goals, setting a record for rookies (which would stand for 15 years), and easily won the 1978 Rookie of the Year award.

Chapter 7 is the funniest section of the book. Bossy details his great relationship with teammate Bryan Trottier and some of the more memorable laughs he and the team had during his playing days.

Chapter 8 details how the 1978-1979 Islanders suffered a crushing defeat in the third round of the playoffs at the hands of their arch-rival New York Rangers, even though the Islanders finished first overall during the regular season. Many Islanders in the early and mid-1980s would say that their demoralizing defeat in 1979 (when they were expected to win the Stanley Cup) would make them fear losing.

Chapter 9 talks about the 1979-80 season. For a change, the team did not do well in the regular season, finishing sixth overall. But the Islanders tuned themselves up late in the season (via a trade that brought Butch Goring) and stuck together in the playoffs (against three favored teams, Boston, Buffalo and Philadelphia). In the playoffs, the Islanders dominated overtime, winning six games and losing only one. Bossy describes the uninhibited joy and elation that came with the Islanders first Stanley Cup championship, won on May 24, 1980, on Bob Nystrom's overtime goal.

Chapter 10 discusses Bossy's personal goal of trying to score 50 goals during the team's first 50 games, a feat last accomplished in 1945. Bossy tied the record, in dramatic fashion, by scoring twice in the third period of the 50th game. Bossy would later state this was his greatest individual accomplishment. The Islanders culminated the season by winning their second straight Stanley Cup. Bossy also describes the sadness over his father's death.

Chapter 11 talks about the team's thorough domination of the NHL both during the regular season and the playoffs in 1981-82. Bossy culminated the playoffs by winning the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the playoffs. Bossy descibes a goal scored while he was completely airborne in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Vancouver. Bossy had been bodychecked and, while falling to the ice with both feet off the ice, reached with his stick and shot the puck past a sprawling goaltender and a scrambling defenseman. Only one word describes this: incredible.

Chapter 12 discusses the 1983 and 1984 seasons. In 1983, the Islanders became only the second franchise to win four Stanley Cups in a row. Bossy details how, in the third round of the playoffs against Boston, he scored all four of his team's game-winning goals and nine goals overall. This was one amazing accomplishment. When the playoffs were over, Bossy finished with 17 goals during the playoffs, the third straight year he had scored 17 goals in the playoffs. It is needless to say just how huge a factor Bossy's goals were to the team's playoff successes year after year. The Islanders basked in the glory of their fourth straight championship during the summer of 1983. In 1984, the Islanders were aiming to tie Montreal's record of five straight Stanley Cups. Bossy details each round of these pressure-packed playoffs, when the hockey world focused on the Islanders. During the third round of the playoffs, dynasty faced off against dynasty: Montreal (the dynasty of the late 1950s) versus the Islanders (the dynasty of the early 1980s). The Islanders prevailed in six games, for their 19th consecutive playoff series victory, a record that still stands in 1999 and that no team has come close to matching. Unfortunately, an exhausted, battered and injured Islanders team was defeated by a younger, hungrier and healthier Edmonton Oilers team in the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals.

Chapter 13 details Bossy's participation in the 1984 Canada Cup. Although Team Canada won the tournament, Bossy had a lousy experience.

Chapter 14 discusses how Bossy suffered his crippling back injury and the frustrations he went through in 1986-87, his final NHL season. Bossy desperately wanted to score 50 goals again during the regular season, but his injured body prevented him from doing so. Bossy finished with 38 goals, the lowest output of his career. Nonetheless, Bossy still holds the NHL record for most consecutive 50-goal seasons (nine), a record which no player (including Wayner Gretzky and Mario Lemieux) has tied or broken and which should stand well into the 21st century.

Chapter 15, the final one, details how Bossy sat out the 1987-88 season to rehabiliate his injured back. He mentions numerous futile visits to doctors and specialists.

Overall, this book, Boss - The Mike Bossy Story, is excellent. Bossy's accomplishments: 573 regular season goals, 85 playoff goals, 1,126 points, four Stanley Cups, nine straight regular seasons of 50 or more goals, etc., are legendary. His book is able to present all these facts and other interesting matters to the reader in a refreshing way.

Thank you, Mike Bossy, for a wonderful career and book.

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Boss: The Mike Bossy Story
Barry Meisel Mike Bossy
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGREZE

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