Customer Reviews:
One of the best.......2006-11-22
I have had this book for over 20 years, and I keep going back to it. It is a delight to read because of the enthusiasm and exhuberance of its author for sketching and painting. He's inspirational, in other words. Also, many books teach compositional theories and methods, but this book contains an intuitive approach; and following it, the student learns composition by doing--getting out and sketching and coloring one's sketches. So design, or composition, is a major theme. He also majors on color, and again the method is learning by doing, by experimenting with mixing color, starting with a small palette of pigments and working up to a set of 40 different tubes (in the second book "More Joy of Watercolor," which of course is also good). But even though Millard's approach is experimental and intuitive, along the way he shares a whole host of vital principles for good painting and design and color use. In conclusion, Millard got me going in sketchbooks those many years ago, and I have learned best through the years by filling them with little color sketches. Highest recommendation.
One of the Finest.......2004-03-27
This book is one of the main referance books in my library for watercolor. I only wish I could fine Volume 2.
Finally a Watercolor book about Color.......2000-04-16
This is an excellent book on watercolor that helps you teach yourself to paint. It is one of the few watercolor books that I have seen that uses brilliant color. The book concentrates of landscape and still life, which are the topics that most people will have ready access to and the author's method of having you keep a sketchbook and paint at least 15 minutes a day is a wonderful way to learn. His suggestion that you always include figures in your landscapes is also excellent as most people wish to avoid figure work. THIS BOOK GETS YOU PAINTING.
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The joys of watercolor
Hilton Leech
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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Watercolor Painting
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ASIN: 0442234732 |
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A Daily Agenda Joy Marie's
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 084995777X |
Book Description
This 52-week agenda features the beautiful artwork of Joy Marie. It will include 52 four-color illustrations, tied to the seasons and holidays of the year. The spiral binding allows pages to turn easily and the velcro closure keeps everything together. This convenient agenda is not dated, allowing the consumer to begin using it immediately!
The agenda includes:
52 one-week-at-a-glance spreads Things to do Places to go Items to buy Pages to record birthdays and anniversaries Pages to record addresses Pages to list favorite websites
This will be a part of The Friendship Gift Collection
Product Description
Exhibition catalog, blue cover, 9x9 inches. 50+ clear color images + includes price list from exhibition & bio notes at end of book.
Book Description
Everyone deserves to be celebrated, especially a brand new bundle of joy. The popular "I Celebrate You™" series provides a uniquely customized gift for those times when a greeting card just isn't enough. Each 28-page book combines original art with special messages of celebration - and includes several pages for the sender to personalize the booklet with notes of encouragement.
Also Releasing in May 2001:
I Celebrate You On Your Birthday!
I Celebrate You, Sweetheart!
I Celebrate You, Grandchild!
Available February 2001:
I Celebrate You, Mother!
I Celebrate You, Daughter!
I Celebrate You, Best Friend!
I Celebrate You, Grandmother!
I Celebrate You, Dad!
I Celebrate You, Son!
I Celebrate You, Graduate!
Now Available:
I Celebrate You! (Karla Dornacher)
I Celebrate You! (Michelle Allen)
I Celebrate You! (Joy Marie)
Product Description
Roy Ward, MD, (Doctorate in Medicine)
Customer Reviews:
Good Book, Great Stuff.......2000-03-26
This book has made me a better designer ... It is full of great designs and products of geniuses. I love it. If I didn't own it already I would purchase it from you...
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Virtual Wilderness: The Nature Photographer's Guide to Computer Imaging
Tim Fitzharris
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Nature & Wildlife
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ASIN: 0817463798 |
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- Simply elegant
- slick design
- Shadows and Brilliance!
- His best book Yet
- Enlightened by Shadow
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The Great Shadow Migration
Michel Gagne
Manufacturer: Gagne International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 096664042X |
Book Description
The Great Shadow Migration is a sophisticated and mystical tale that will definitely give you something to think about. Follow the evolution of two diverse beings as they struggle to inhabit one world. Your eyes will feast at the beautiful illustrations while your mind wanders through this poetic tale. This edition is limited to 1000 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Printed on 100 lbs high quality paper. 11" X 11".
Customer Reviews:
Simply elegant.......2000-06-06
The third book of Michel's ongoing and ever growing collection of books that always makes you wonder whats next. Beautifully and simplisticly told yet all the while deep and wonderful. A book that goes to the basics of black and white yet draws you in through elegant design and an even more vivid imagination. Highly recommended to all who have loved the past books and to anyone wanting a great story with great art.
slick design.......2000-04-18
Once again, Michel has taken black and white and created the most intriguing images using the most unique yet simple approach to storytelling. A must for anyone who admires good design.
Shadows and Brilliance!.......2000-04-14
A Brilliant piece of work. Original and clever.Very few books have the sophistication and style of Michel's. The combination of stunning graphics with deceptively simple storytelling are going to make tis book a classic.
His best book Yet.......2000-03-06
Striking imaginative tale about a universal theme. The author's vision is fresh and vivid. From his first book to now, his poetry is maturing nicely. The dimensional illustrations are most impressive. Recommended for young and old (5 years+)
Enlightened by Shadow.......2000-03-03
A wonderful tale from a very intriguing author. Michel Gagnes books just keep getting better and better. His love of people and their life journey is as obvious as his commitment to the highest quality printing. This book is superb in all respects.
Book Description
Complete managerial emphasis throughout-makes this book relevant and interesting to the reader.
* Up-to-date coverage.
* Comprehensive coverage of e-commerce.
Customer Reviews:
Cumbersome reading.......2005-10-19
The book suffers from an over-abundance of references. Let me be clear that I can appreciate it when an author cites references, but when this is done too frequently and directly in the text, it breaks up the flow and makes the reading more tedious and un-interesting. So that you understand what I am talking about, consider that the author often cites independent studies. Sounds good, but I would be happy enough to hear about the results of the study rather than be forced to read detailed information about its authors, co-authors and dates of the study directly in-line with the text. This is how the text SHOULD read: "A recent study concluded that bla, bla, bla." The study could be referenced with a numbered footnote. Instead, this author might use: "In a study conducted by Anderson et al.(2002); Smith and Rupp, 2002; and Zhu and Kraemer, 2002; (see also Appendix 2A in this book) it was shown that bla, bla, bla." After reading the first 10 chapters, I actually began to count these endless references and taking chapter 10 as an example, there are approximately 114 instances of another author being referenced by name and publication date directly in the flow of the text! I am not kidding. The reader begins to get the feeling that nothing in the book actually came from its author(s) but from the other 114 dutifully cited references. Although this is certainly not the case, I cannot overstate the degree to which this becomes distracting and makes the text read somewhat like a legal brief! Most authors use a small superscripted number to refer to either a footnote or a bibliography, but that is not this author's style and the book is definitely the worse for it. An additional un-numbered reference section, typically spanning several pages, is also found at the end of each chapter! ENOUGH with the references!
My next specific fault with the book has to do with examples. Yes, examples. I once thought that you couldn't have too many examples, but the author borders on the ridiculous with perhaps as many as 10 examples of relatively minor points! This adds an element of redundancy that bores the reader.
The text also contain minor technical errors. As an electrical engineer with actual design experience of microprocessors on the circuit-level, I only notice those that fall into my area such as the mix up of mega-bytes and giga-bytes, and technical details of systems such as RFID. More errors would likely be noticed by other readers. In fairness to the author(s), these mistakes are minor and do not detract from the point being made, but they should be corrected by the 5th edition. Are my expectations too high?
Finally, the web-site for a book is an important consideration and holds the potential to significantly enhance the learning experience. The associated website for this book contains many things but is well below average.
Overall, I would not have given the book any stars, but the rating system wouldn't let me. While up-to-date, it is expensive, full of distractions and not of the caliber to which I am accustomed. It did not meet my expectations. Other readers with whom I am familiar seem to agree that the text seems to be written more as a display of the author's undeniable academic prowess than as a vehicle for learning. Sorry, NO STARS for that!
Nothing Great.......2001-12-05
I bought this book as requirement for an MIS class. The book has good graphics, but the authors have tried to cram in a lot of information. As a result, things have'nt been explained systematically. One has to move to a later chapter to look for things discussed earlier. The quality of writing leaves much to be desired. In a nutshell, the book is only ordinary. It is much like a glossy story book for children, certainly not worth the price.
Full of Information on Information System.......2001-08-19
If you want make a decision whether you apply a new Information System or not to your organization, buy this book. There are lots of real world examples and reasons to go to IT. It is an excellent book for all those who are in the any level of management position with little or no IT background. If you are going to develop a software product and be a multimillionaire, buy one. It will inspire you. It is also a marvelous book for IT professionals who want to know real world of business and its relationships with what they are doing. As usual, every good thing has it own short falls. This book is not organized well enough to balance with the weight of subjects it discusses. For example, Chapter 2.1 INFORMATION SYSTEMS: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS does not have any concepts and definitions of IS. Rather, you can find them in Chapter 1 (page 17). It also contains same concepts in different places and repeat similar explanations.
One of the best textbook!.......2001-08-09
This is one of the best book in IT Management (for upper level undergraduage or graduate level course). I have found that the book has been very updated in the pace of the current trend, and is providing one of the best and balanced treatment (for very broad field, but with fairly in-depth coverages in each critical area of IS and IT management) with the solid managerial and profound organizational groundwork. Some of the chapters that I enjoy reading is Ch.3 (Strategic Information Systems), Ch.4 (Business Process Reengineering and Information Technology), Ch.6 (Electronic Commerce), and especially Ch.12 and Ch.13 (Planning for Information Technology and Systems, Information Technology Economics) for Managing IT. My appraisal about this book is its well-balanced and insightful critiques (to rescue and enpower many of the simple and naive, or stubborn, from many of the crafty propaganda, illustions and deceptions of today's "rise-and-die-quick" empty promises and sales pictchs in this field). This is one of the main reason that I have adopted this book for my students.
Book Description
A practical, managerial-oriented approach to getting the most out of IT.
Managers will learn the most effective ways to use information systems in this new edition. The authors examine case studies to highlight new technology and applications including fuzzy logic, neural computing, and hypermedia.
Customer Reviews:
This is a cool book ..........2004-09-07
TO BURN! I hate it and so does everyone else who has read it. The authors are smart but they wrote the book for bung-junkies who smoke doobies and don't care about information technology. To answer a question in chapter 2, you have to read chapter 10 first. That's great if you have 3-cheek buttloads of free time and you're high off of laundry detergent and paint thinner, but not for me. Why are the questions so stinking hard?!? I think this book is used to brainwash us and make us more compliable. (...)Please do not read this book and contribute the world-wide molestation of our minds!
one of eight books on IS to stay away from.......2004-04-03
The book contains numerous factual errors and omissions of crucial material. Textbooks like these that are so full of misinformation are responsible for why management fails to get along with engineers.
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My Best Choice!!.......2002-01-08
This is one of the best (if not the best) book in this field, comprehensive, up-to-date, and to lay down the concrete and profound managerial framework in IT management (contrast to those books so abstruct or general for nothing to gain, or too IT technical to be so narrow or specific in its scope or to be obsolete in a few years). The strength of this book is the authors themselves who really understand (in theory and practice) both IT and Management fields, and to be able to integrate these two vast fields togather. I have used this book for my MBA MIS course that I have been teaching, and I recommend to read from cover to cover. I think that this book is a bargain!!
Book Doesn't Connect.......2001-09-24
Information Technology for Management, while a nice paperweight, provides little more than an illustrated dictionary of IT related terms. Its chapters feature lengthy and overly verbose descriptions of fairly basic terms, and far too many case studies and examples. Of course, such examples are important, however the present work tends to rely upon third-party analyses of IT/IS installations, making one wonder whether Turban, McLean, and Wetherbe are in fact authors, or merely just librarians compiling information for this seemingly derivative work.
Moreover, the text includes a significant number of charts and diagrams, many of which are provided with little explaination and often serve to confuse, rather than to clarify specific points.
Those wishing to learn more about information technology as well as professors considering adopting this text, would be strongly urged to consider some of the many other, perhaps more appropriate, texts available in the rapidly growing field of information technology for management.
Good for MIS.......2000-08-04
In the MIS department of a multinational company, the survival skills are not thorough knowledge of VB, ASP, PowerBuilder or JCL, but the overall understanding of company's huge system. You don't do coding step by step by ask for outsourcing. This book shows the computer system blueprints of big corporations. When you bosses ask you about what's the future of company Intranet, you better be able to give him/her a satisfactory answer in terms of company¡¦s overall profit/loss.
But if you want to be a creative professional, this book might let you down. Chapter 3 Caterpillar's case study is back to 1993. This book emphasizes too many advantages from IT and ignores many hazards. The EDI case study seems too good to be real. EDI is good, even though Internet is prevailing. But before the system can function properly, many people will suffer from system implementation, such as data missing, counterpart's delay and so on. Even if a field missing on EDI can cause your system stop operation. Besides, I believe most of the corporations in this world already had EDI linkage by 98. Probably it's too late to mention EDI at Y2K. But for a university student who has never heard EDI and other IT things, this book is worth reading.
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Information Technology for Management - Making Connections for Strategic Advantage 2e Im
Efraim Turban
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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| Certification Central
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ASIN: 0471283339 |
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Information Technology for Management - Making Connections for Strategic Advantage 2e Ir CD
Efraim Turban
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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| Business & Culture
| Certification Central
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| Digital Music
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ASIN: 0471299286 |
Book Description
The Landlord's Financial Tool Kit will show readers how to truly maximize the profit on their real estate investments. Featuring dozens of ready-to-use forms, worksheets, tables, and checklists, the book helps readers:* pick properties with financial issues in mind* understand concepts such as cash flow and depreciation* set up effective bookkeeping and record-management systems* avoid common mistakes in income reporting* shelter income and reduce income taxes* comply with tax laws and regulations* take advantage of write-offs and loopholesPacked with useful, practical information on tax rules and creating cash flow, The Landlord's Financial Tool Kit simplifies everything there is to know about managing real estate and being a successful landlord.
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