Crisp: Wake Up Your Creative Genius (Quick Read Series)

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This book presents common-sense techniques designed to increase creative potential.

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nothing groundbreaking.......2007-07-03

It was a quick read that provided me with nothing new overall only a rehash of thing I already knew. Perhaps a good starting point for some but did nothing for me.

Really, great whacks for your brain.......1999-10-15

If you enjoy reading - and playing around with ideas and tools from Roger von Oech's A Kick in the Seat of Your Pants and A Whack on the Side of Your Head,- you will definitely like to read this book. It provides really great whacks for your brain. I have always enjoyed reading - and playing around with the ideas from - Kurt Hank's books. I have all his books, which include Rapid Viz, Design Yourself, The Change Navigator, Up Your Productivity. Like his other books, this book is very well illustrated, graphically and conceptually. It provides a step by step approach to the practical strategies of developing your creativity.

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It's obvious after walking through any home or department store that handpainted china and glassware are extremely popular right now. Decorative Painting on Glass, Tile & China shows painters and non-painters alike how to create a variety of their own charming items using easy-to-work-with acrylic enamels.

Carol Mays explains how to work with a variety of materials, choose a suitable surface and master basic painting techniques. Fifteen projects make learning easy with step-by-step photos of Carol in action. Traceable patterns and color swatches are also provided for every project, including: flowers on crystal stemware; colorful country tiles for kitchens; fruit-decorated porcelain bowls; Flowers and a butterfly on a porcelain picture frame; Christmas-theme place settings.

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One of my favorite books!.......2005-03-02

As I am new to decorative painting, I found this book to be extremely helpful in learning how to paint on glass and tile. The author shares many projects and all of them are something the beginning painter can do. I'm quite pleased with this book.

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Landscape is a revelation for photographers and nature lovers alike— a celebration of Earth's incredible and diverse beauty, with well over 100 images from around the world, coupled with illuminating text on the evolution of landscape photography dating back to the 19th century.

Among the photographers included are landscape masters like Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, side by side with contemporary photographers, such as Richard Misrach, who has spent most of his career photographing the American desert, and Sally Mann, who specializes in powerful portraits of the American South. In his accompanying text, renowned photography writer Ferdinand Protzman provides a history of landscape in art, from the Renaissance to moon rocks. He explores the significance of landscape photography as a background for art and popular culture. Landscape also documents the enormous technological advances in the field, and the implications for the future of this ever-popular art form. In all, this is an indispensable and truly extraordinary book that is as thought provoking as it is visually stunning.

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Disappointed.......2005-01-14

Of all the landscape books I ordered in 2004 this was the the biggest disappointment. I got the impression the author tries to convince me about his personal definition about what landscape photography is, with examples of images I wouldn't take a second look at.
If you're interested in beauty of nature and not in an abstract thesis about the definition and value of art look for books from Art Wolfe or Jack Dykinga.

A revealing look at landscape.......2003-11-29

Art,at its best, unveils an experience we did not have before. Sometimes it's an emotional response, sometimes it's intellectual. But it should show you something that you had not noticed or felt or thought of before. Good photography books should do the same. To often we look at landscape photographs as documentation or keepsakes and not as a form for expression. This book reminds us of how expressive landscape photography can be when the right person is behind the camera. It also reminds us how revealing a photography book can be when the right author is behind the word. Mr. Protzman knows a lot about looking. But most importantly he knows a lot about revealing. This is truly a book worth looking at and reading.

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Insightful photography of the western prairie
This photo collection is a pleasure to see.

Perfect Times, Perfect Places

Manufacturer: Aperture
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0893812994

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An ardent conservationist, Adams spells out in somber and serene photographs the importance of preserving our open spaces and the simple pleasure of walking the land.

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Insightful photography of the western prairie.......1998-08-26

Robert Adams' photographs are testimony to his continued sensitivity to the West and the hopes for what is POSSIBLE. Adams is one of the most influential photographers of the late 20th century and all photographers concerned about their own environment can learn from him.

This photo collection is a pleasure to see........1998-03-12

The photographs in this publication are a departure from Robert Adams' more sobering work. This book celebrates the simple joy of spending time outside, looking and exploring, and it just might incite spring fever in you.

The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time)

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War In The West
A chronicle of hope
Feeling the West

The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time)
T. H. Watkins
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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As a collection of geological and climatic phenomena, the earth is a scarred, bent, cracked, and agitated wreck of a place. Nowhere is this more evident than in Utah's redrock canyon country, which is among the most spectacular terrain not only in America but in the world. These extraordinary lands lie at the heart of the Colorado Plateau--130,000 square miles of uplifted rock sitting like a huge island in an earthly continental sea, surrounded on all sides by the remnants of once-active volcanoes. Although the Colorado Plateau includes portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, in no other part of any other state are its complexity and time-constructed beauty illuminated more brilliantly than in southern Utah. Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts by the millions visit and revisit the area because there is no place else on earth quite like it.

In The Redrock Chronicles, T. H. Watkins, one of America's best-known and award-winning writers on the environment and history, focuses on southern Utah's unprotected lands in a loving testament to its warps and tangles of rock and sky. Combining history, geography, and photography, the author reports the full story of the region -- from its violent geologic beginnings to the coming (and going) of pre-Puebloan peoples whose drawings still adorn rocks and caves there, from the Mormon settlement of the 1840s and 1850s to the great uranium boom of the 1950s, from the beginning of tourism and parkland protection in the 1930s to today's controversial movement to preserve millions of acres of wild Utah land in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Indeed, the account of that revolutionary movement is told here in all its color and complexity for the first time.

Writing from his own personal experience and extensive research, an appreciative Watkins takes readers on a tour of the Grand Staircase of plateaus, moving from the utterly wild triangle of Kaiparowits Plateau, with its erosion-sculptured mesas, tablelands, benchlands, and canyons, to a more welcoming kind of verdant wilderness that sits northeast, across the rolling desert scrubland of Harris Wash, in the red-walled canyon of the Escalante River. The author has spent much time hiking and camping here among the isolated buttes and mesas, and he draws a vivid portrait of the area's highlights: Comb Ridge, a 90-mile wall of 600-foot cliffs; Waterpocket Fold, an even more spectacular monocline to the northeast of the Escalante River, stretching a hundred miles; the Henry Mountains; Hump of Bull Mountain; Cataract Canyon; and the San Rafael Swell, an enormous oval some 2,200 square miles which rises just north of Capitol Reef National Park.

But The Redrock Chronicles is not simply a celebration. Watkins concludes with a spirited call for the preservation of the unprotected wilderness that gives the land its character and color. He offers the legislative device of wilderness designation as the necessary means of saving this plateau country that is not marked by one or two or even three or four scenic marvels but by an enormous kaleidoscope of geological diversity whose impact on the senses can set the mind to reeling with every turn.

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War In The West.......2000-12-23

Having recently moved back to the mid-west after living in the west for four years, I am amazed at the lack of awareness or information on what many describe as the War in the West. Before you protest that War may be to strong, consider: Employees of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Forest Service, and other federal employees in certain areas of the west carry sidearm's and long rifles; government vehicles have been firebombed; anonymous threats directed at government workers are routine; and county commissioners have authorized bulldozing or roads into National Parks and Monuments. Add to this volatile situation the recent decision of the Forest Service to charge a fee to anyone desiring to walk into a national forest and proposals to limit, or eliminate, logging and drilling in large sections of government land in the west and you have the makings of a real, well...war. Oh, did I mention the decision to increase the amount ranchers must pay to graze their cattle on public land? Needless to say, that has been a real popular decision among western ranchers that consider their right to use public lands as sacred. Speaking of sacred, the environmentalist movement had made itself real popular as well by proposing that millions of acres of land in the west be placed in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Such a designation would effectively remove it from any use by the public other than those associated with hiking. No way in or out except by foot, period. Then there is the proposal, gaining credibility and supporters, to decommission Glen Canyon Dam and drain Lake Powell. Some folks in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix have some concerns about this endeavor. While this battle is being waged geographically in the west, it is over public lands that belong to all citizens, including those of us that live a long day's drive to be even close to the action. In looking at the available literature on the myriad of issues in this war I find, as usual, a lot of publications that are long on rhetoric and short on real information or facts. I treasure the book that make's it argument in an honest, heartfelt, straight-forward manner. I may not agree with the opinion or argument of the author but I can respect their honesty and sincerity. Such books are few and far between. Edward Abbey did it with Desert Solitaire. Wallace Stegner did it with Coda: Wilderness Letter in The Sound of Mountain Water. The late T.H. Watkins has done it with The Redrock Chronicles. If you want a concise, upfront, spirited argument for the preservation of an area that many consider ground zero in the environmental war in the west, this is one of the best. Watkins, an award-winning writer, historian, and scholar has written an eloqquent testament tothe redrock country of southern Utah that is destined to become a classic. In just 163 pages, Watkins provides the reader with the history, geology, politics and sense of place in both the written word and with stunning photographs, that capture the mystery and complexity of a land under siege. This is one of those rare books that will capture your heart and spirit regardless of your political leanings in this war. It does so because Watkins has managed to write a love story so unique and touching that it could only come from what he calls the "home of his heart." Southern Utah's wild country is not for the timid, spandex-attired tourist on a carefully planned, scripted vacation. This 130,000 square miles of the Colorado Plateau was chosed by Brigham Young as just the kind of wild, desolate, forbidding place to send his followers in order that they might practice their particular brand of religion in peace and solitude. It is an area where a young wanderer from California could find spiritual comfort and disappear without a trace (Everett Ruess.)It is such a desolate place that during the 1950's the Atomic Energy Commission considered it expendable should fallout from atomic testing in Nevada drift northward, which it did. Why then, all the fuss over such desolate, forbidding land? Because it's there and because it weighs so heavy on the heart to see it destroyed, even on the altar of so-called economic development. Because, as Watkins stated shortly before he died,"I am helplessly addicted to this place, this wondrous geographic puzzle of canyons turning in on themselves, of upthrust plateaus and big blisterlike mountains, of multicolored rocks all layered and bent and broken, of curling rivers dammed by beavers and shaded by grandfather cottonwoods, of horizon-wide sweeps of sunlit emptiness and gracile unknown places where darkness hides and will not tell its name." After reading this gem of a book there will be many readers that will wonder about what was lost with the building of Glen Canyon Dam. One thing is for sure; those that advocate its decommissioning will likely garner some additional supporters. Love stories are like that.

A chronicle of hope.......2000-08-11

This brief eloquent book is a treasure. The history of the battle for Utah wilderness is a story that needs to be read by everyone who visits the redrock deserts and National Parks of Utah, and by everyone who lives in the region. Our astounding wild landscapes are not there by accident, but because there are people who love and defend them. The photos show places that would be protected if America's Redrock Wilderness Act were passed into law. These are the places that could be lost forever if public lands were privitized (as wise-use and sagebrush rebel groups would like) or managed for industrial tourism, resource extraction and grazing (as the BLM seems inclined to do). I hope that in the future this book becomes a triumphant chronicle of the vision and persistance that saved Utah's public lands wilderness instead of a sad chronicle of what was lost.

Feeling the West.......2000-03-28

Living in Utah, the battle over wilderness is a continual part of my life. And being an environmentalist, it is an important part of my life. There are 9.1 million acres up for wilderness designation in this state, but because of opposition from mining, timber, grazing, and off highway vehicle users, the process is slow- going. T.H. Watkins does an admirable job of making the reader feel the spirit of the west and the heart of the battle... which should make one realize the importance of wilderness designation, especially for these last few million acres. The Redrock Chronicles is not a political commentary, nor is it easily dismissed propaganda from the environmentalist faction. It is simply a writer's statement about the utter importance of wild places.

Time, Tide, and Place: A Coastal Fly Fishers Chronicle: Photographs and Fishing Reports

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Time, Tide, and Place: A Coastal Fly Fishers Chronicle: Photographs and Fishing Reports
Ted Hendrickson
Manufacturer: Flat Hammock Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0977372502

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Fly Fishing has often inspired artists and writers to capture their feelings for the sport in their art. In this unusual volume, Ted Hendrickson's photographic craftmanship and familiarity with local waters allow us a window into the world of an artist/angler. Landscape photographs chronicle moments spent fishing the coast of Southern New England. Accompanying e-mail reports give us a glimpse of the adventures (and misadventures) of each angling season.

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In this fun-filled outdoor adventure, Eevee, a shape-shifting foxlike creature, and its Pokemon pals embark on a hiking excursion that takes a surprising turn when the weather runs afoul of Eevee's forecast.

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Gone Crazy and Back Again
Robert Sam Anson
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385131143

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Gone Crazy & Back Again The Rise & Fall of the Rolling Generation
Robert Sam Anson
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD59T0

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Gone Crazy and Back Again The Rise and Fall of The Rolling Stone Generation
Robert Sam Anson
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0XJS6

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Gone Crazy and Back Again-The Rise & Fall of the Rolling Sto

Manufacturer: Dbldy
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HZ5ZUI

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Gone Crazy and Back Again
Robert Sam Anson
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQJYSK

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Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation
Robert Sam Anson
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6LRQ6

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Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation
Robert Sam ANSON
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UZZDPC

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This book is the continuation of the author's "Early Reminiscences". Contents: Horbury-Brig; Dalton I' T' Muck; Honeymoon Tour; Mersea; Belgium, Germany and the Tyrol; The Eifel and the Algau Alps; Gould Family and Lew Trenchard; Freiburg; Lew Trenchard; Archbishop Temple; Devonshire Lore; Montafun Thal; Bohemia; Riesengebirge and Dresden; Folk Songs; Genoa and Rome; Rome Revisited; Dartmoor; Les Eyzies; Squab Pie.

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Further reminiscences: 1864-1894
S Baring-Gould
Manufacturer: E.P. Dutton
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000862UE0

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Further Reminiscences 1864 to 1894 1925
S. Baring-Gould
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7GJV4

Further reminiscences: 1864-1894 (The Gale library of lives and letters: British writers series)

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Further reminiscences: 1864-1894 (The Gale library of lives and letters: British writers series)
S Baring-Gould
Manufacturer: Gale Research Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007ILYY6

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