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MNM: Minimalist Interiors
ASIN: 0060599227
Release Date: 2004-08-17 |
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Examining 31 minimalist rooms that have been created and reinvented by architects all over the world, Laura O'Bryan presents a profusion of images detailing the innovative synthesis of functionality, light, mass, space, and aesthetics that merge in minimalist design. Each interior is informed first by its practical use, then by its natural environment, resources, and technology to define clearly articulated, visually stunning rooms. The deceptively simple facets of minimalism are investigated in this book, delighting and inspiring both professional and casual readers.
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Irene Corey's designs have influenced the world of theatre with mosaic saints, mischievous Reynards, winning Tortoises. Now, from her studio, she writes the first major work on make-up to be published in the last two decades. It is a revolutionary book.
She treats the study of make-up as a creative art form. Her methods and techniques - - clearly set forth for the student working from this practical guide beneath his make-up mirror - - open new realms of inspiration for the make-up artist. From her private hoard of priceless pictures - - photographs, illustrations, paintings - - she shares more than 400, many in color.
The beginner will find the makup exercise progression unparalleled. It soothes initial fears, opens realms of delight in discovery and mastery. For the first time a make-up book employs transparent overlays to present a unique and logical illustration of the relation between make-up and the underlying skull and muscles. Corey lucidly traces the procedure of designing make-up from photographs. Another first is the unique presentation regarding make-up for complexions other than white.
A world-honored designer, Irene Corey approaches the face as if it were a canvas. She reinforces or ignores what nature has given. Her positive and direct style, her sense of humor, her remarkable assemblage of pictorial resources, her creative vision - all make this a refreshing new entrant onto the make-up textbook scene. It is a book with impressive endorsements by leading artists of the American Theatre.
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The best book for teaching technique.......2000-09-21
I "discovered" this book at a conference in 1996 and had the privilege of talking with Orlin Corey about the book, Irene Corey's work and the weather (San Antonio in the summer!) I have not had the opportunity to teach from this book until now and I am finding it, far and away, the most valuable text in my teaching arsenal. The book is useful for both the actor-as-makeup-artist and for the designer. Unlike other books that either oversimplify the processes or present the techniques without applying design, Irene Corey's book is organized in logical, progressive lessons. The real value of the book, however, is in Corey's emphasis on design (that is, planning the makeup to apply to a particular artistic situation) as a platform for teaching technique.
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Happy Halloween, Li'L Santa
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In a sequel to Li'l Santa that is every bit as bizarre and grisly and warmhearted as the first, Happy Halloween, Li'l Santa is a completely wordless graphic novel with so much action and adventure, readers won't know what hit them! First, the "li'l" red-suited hero gets a talking-to from his penguin buddy for trying to sneak samples from the his picnic basket. Then he has a chance encounter with a ghastly but friendly creature (a turbaned cross between mummy and skeleton) that causes a bewildered Santa to walk into several trees. Next, he winds up rescuing this fellow from a frozen pond incident, leading to a wild party with all the cheerful demons and ghouls in the mummy-man's coffin-sleigh. As everyone knows, what goes around comes around, so when Santa needs some help later, you know who comes running (and flying and sliming and lurching).
This may be the oddest book around, but it has true charm. Younger children may be alarmed at the beating Santa and his pals keep getting (what with walking into trees and wrangling with evil lumberjack monster-machines), but all's well that ends well. Each page features 14 or 15 frames, ensuring that the plot hops along rapidly, once "readers" get the hang of it. A quirky delight for Halloween or Christmas! (All ages) --Emilie Coulter
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In this second silent adventure, LiÕl Santa encounters the many critters of the night who take camp, much to his discomfort, right next to his abode. But the worst monster is an enormous devouring logging machine eating up his forest of Christmas trees around him! Turns out the night critters come quite in handy to fight the fearsome invader...
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Energetic, upbeat, and thoroughly & entertaining.......2003-11-17
Happy Halloween, Li'l Santa is a most delightful, original, and lively graphic novel storybook recommended for kids from 8 to 80 and that spins out it's holiday tale entirely in pictures. Each page is divided into sixteen panels that wordlessly move the adventure along, as Li'l Santa wanders into one scrape after another and befriends creatures such as The Abominable Snowman. An energetic, upbeat, and thoroughly entertaining "picture-tale", Happy Halloween, Li'l Santa is the collaborative effort of author Lewis Trondheim, illustrator Thierry Robin, and colorist Isabelle Busschaert.
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You have no idea what Santa must go through, all the way up there at the North Pole, until you read this suspenseful, fully silent graphic novel! Besides the huge yearly job that faces him, the North Pole is no friendly place! Santa must use all his best cunning to make all the world¹s kids happy. A light, delightfully original album for Christmas that will amuse all ages.
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Funny and unbelievably creative.......2003-10-06
My son (4 yr. old), my daughter (2 yr. old) and myself are all fans of this book. You will be blown away by the degree of creativity. Get ready to laugh and go through this book many many times...
Quirky and Delightfully Creative Santa Claus Story.......2002-12-18
I heard about this book from a friend who is both a comic book editor and the father of a five year old. His child enjoyed the book. Any adult I have shown the book off to has also been captivated. I was particularly impressed with the fact that Trondheim managed to produce such a fun and inventive take on the old Santa Claus tale.
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ASIN: 1586480804
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When Americans cast their ballots on November 7, no one expected that the outcome would still be in doubt more than a month later. For the first time ever, it seemed, the presidential election had ended in a dead heat, with but a few hundred votes in Florida separating Al Gore and George W. Bush. The stage was set for an extraordinary drama of recounts, challenges, court cases - and hanging, swinging, and dimpled chads.
The Washington Post, America's premier newspaper for politics and elections, has been in the forefront of the post-election coverage, and in this book its award-winning staff provides the first full-length account of the closest and strangest election in our history - from the last frantic days of campaigning to the networks' premature election-night projections; from the "butterfly ballot" to the manual recounts; from the first legal challenges to the final adjudication. The Post has offered unsurpassed coverage of the events that transfixed the nation and the world, and now its all-star team of reporters has produced a page-turner to rival the best political thrillers. Deadlock is a wholly original work of history-in-the-making, written by David Von Drehle and Ellen Nakashima, two of the paper's most accomplished political writers, drawing on the reporting of over two dozen top reporters and columnists in Washington, Florida, and Texas. The Post will publish a seven-part front-page series based on the book right before Inauguration Day (January 14-20), and the book will contain additional chapters that will not have appeared in the newspaper. Books will be in stores by mid-February, making it the first post-election book available to readers. Phil Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post in the 1950s and early 1960s, famously called newspapers "the first rough draft of history." His newspaper has now produced not a rough draft, but history itself - rich, detailed, nuanced, and groundbreaking. This is a book that no citizen should do without.
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Nice read..........2005-10-12
Good comprehensive play by play of the post election fiasco.
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Excellent Primer.......2004-09-19
If I could have given DEADLOCK another half-star, I would have. It's a fine, straight-ahead account of the disputed Florida election, and I've got only a couple of negative things to say. For one thing, there are a great number of characters who pop in and out of the book, and I wish the editor would have inserted a Cast of Characters page. And for another thing -- and this is not anybody's fault -- we know, almost four years later, more than the authors did when they wrote this book, almost immediately after the election. As I finished, I wanted to know the results of all those after-the-fact recounts that were conducted by various news organizations. But I'll have to find another source for those (though it's pretty silly to even care, at this point). Overall, a quick and informative read.
2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.......2003-10-16
DEADLOCK BY THE WASHINGTON POST IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON THE BUSH/GORE 2000 ELECTION RECOUNT VOTE.
More Detail Would Have Been Nice.......2002-11-28
Two things struck me while reading this book, the first is that I doubt there is a book out there that is truly balanced and not somewhat biased. The second thing was that Gore really got the shaft, not so much by the recount wars, but by the election official that came up with the Butterfly Ballot. In the history of the USA this decision ranks up there with new Coke and the XFL, what a mistake. As far as the reporting in the book it was not bad for a review of all the articles they had in the paper, but it did not really dig into the particular issues very deeply. I wanted more detail and behind the scenes with both the candidates. I also wanted more details on the court cases; I felt like the sky-high overview of the issues of the cases did not do such an important issue justice.
In reading the book I think a little bit of a democratic bias comes out, just a little, but enough to notice. I also thought it interesting that they had far more details of the Gore group then the Bush camp, it follows the perception that the Post is somewhat liberal in its views. The book is an overview that came out almost 10 minutes after Gore hung up the phone on the second concession call so there are a few more details out now that they did not get in the book. Overall it is a good effort and a readable book, but not the end all be all on the subject.
Terrific re-telling of a gripping era in American history.......2002-03-01
I don't care what Repubs say, there was no liberal media bias apparent in this book. They showed both campaigns, warts and all, and let the public form its own opinion. The book was a fantastic behind-the-scenes re-telling of America's most recent Constitutional crisis, one that could have disrupted government for years to come. Of course, recent events have taken peoples' minds off of this contentious election, but this book should be pushed as much as possible so people will never forget that every vote actually does count sometimes.
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Inside the Washington Post
Martin L. Fleming
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What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
•For Robert Sapolsky–Stanford professor of biology–it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.
•Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein’s work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
•Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes.
Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that invite us to consider what it is–and what it isn’t–that sets the scientific mind apart.
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"and as the twig is bent....".......2007-03-14
I have enjoyed this book so much. After reading the New York Times Tuesday Science Section for years, I wished that those writers would gather the stories in the "Scientists" series and put them in a book. In CURIOUS MINDS the personal reiminiscences include surprises such as a woman who loved Nancy Drew and her sleuthing. Richard Dawkins, often in the news now,
loved the Dr. Doolittle books. A good number of women scientists are included. Some of the scientists are from "scientific" families, others from good ole blue collar roots.
Where does a successful adult come from?.......2007-01-04
Although the subtitle uses the terms, Child and Scientist, I think the real topic is how a person develops into a successful, creative adult. I found the book fascinating as I looked for patterns to validate how I raised my own children, or how I was raised, or how anyone should mentor younger people. What I learned was that becoming a scientist or any thinking adult is a mixture of luck, genetics, family influence, peer influence, and social setting. There is no recipe, but there may be patterns for our children and ourselves.
While this was not a well constructed statistical survey, it was a well conceived set of informative essays from interesting, successful folks. Excellent book, great to discuss. Also, the format of many short essays made it easy to read in pieces and reflect.
the scientist in all of us.......2006-09-19
As the parent of two school-age children, I loved this book. For all of the current passion for loading our children up with the "best" and "the latest", the best approach is perhaps to simply get out of the way. What struck me about this book was that so many of the scientists profiled made do with very little as children--it wasn't all chemistry sets and parents with advanced degrees. My favorite was the primatologist who was inspired by the Bronx Zoo down the block AND the theme-song from Gilligan's Island ("...the professor and Mary-Ann" convinced him that brains might attract women). There was the woman whose parents wanted her to be a nightclub singer, but the Nancy Drew books she read led her to love investigations. A brain surgeon grew up searching for bullets in the brains of cows that his cowboy-butcher father processed. Indeed some of the scientists don't even find their focus until adulthood (in other words, if your high-schooler doesn't win the Intel science prize, there's still hope). This book made me realize that inspiration is all around my children and the wisest thing I can do is just be supportive.
It Takes a Curious Mind To Be Known!.......2005-05-03
Memory is faulty. "Even when we remember events accurately, we are apt to misidentify their places in the casual tapestry of our lives." It wasn't anything in childhood which influenced psychologist Steven Pinkier to pursue his dreams or career, or take a certain path. I think that fate has some place in what we become and do at a particular phase in our lives. It was in grad school when his interest in language became the focus for his career in vocabulary and grammar, my special interests, too.
Just like a man, when he is confronted with a question or situation he isn't expecting, he just nods -- therefore, no real "thinking" takes place. For a psychology professor, he has a strange way of thinking about truth, changing his viewpoint as the whim hits him. He feels that childhood influences don't steer a "curious mind" in a certain direction. Usually we find our niche in life quite acccidentally.
Most of us don't know what we will become (when suffering through childhood) nor any way to deflect what the future has in store for us. Happenstance has a way of steering us in a direction we might not want to go. We never know when life will throw us a curve ball.
The old hometown is full of transplants and aliens interested only with making big money, not in promoting "curious minds" of children to become scientists. Thomas Wolfe was right, "You can't go home again." Because home is where you are, not the place you were born. That's a myth -- an illusion. Nothing is ever the same. No one is ever there to greet you or welcome you "home."
These essays include stories by Howard Gardner on making a social scientist, Doyne Farmer (physics), Steven Strogatz (math), V. S. Ramachandran (science), no big names, no one I've heard of, but they have been successful enough in their diverse fields to be included in a social science assortment.
John Brockman's books include SPECULATIONS, CREATIVITY, and HOW THINGS ARE, all of which decide who we are as individuals and what we become as adults. He's been busy writing, editing and co-editing. He owns a software agency in New York City. What I am wondering is why he didn't become a scientist with his "curious mind."
A Very Atypical Child Becomes An Academic .......2005-04-17
Anyone buying this book as a gift or for insight on how a typical child becomes a scientist will be very disappointed. Do scientists work in industry? Not in this book. Is your child a female? She would be a distinct minority if she becomes a scientist, to judge by this book. Will your child have a Ph.D. by age 21? No? How disappointing. The scientist profiled in the first chapter, Nicholas Humphrey, descendent of famous scientists who grew up an acquaintance of, among others, young Stephen Hawking, captures why this book misses the mark in its selection of role models for aspiring scientists. He "wonders if having been born to be a scientist has not undercut my right to call myself a scientist at all." That is too harsh. It's not his fault that such a good idea for a book and a promising title were wasted.
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