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Perspective sketches, II
Theodore D Walker
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Explains perspective for artists, and the simple laws that make using perspective easy. Step-by-step, with numerous illustrations.
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Sketch-Books: Explore and Store (Perspectives on Gender)
Gillian Robinson
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Gillian Robinson reveals what powerful tools sketch books can be for helping elementary students think and act for themselves.
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Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: Or, an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (Perspectives in Psychical Research)
Samuel Hibbert
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The purpose of this manual is to enumerate and detail some hints for didactic drawing, fundamentally applied to construction. It includes a mixture of rules for technical drawing and others for plastic drawing, but utilized in a simple and easy way. It does not deny neither technical rules nor creative fantasy; on the contrary, it merges them all in order to achieve a swift and ready-made technique.
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- Gets you thinking about more than technique
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How to Discover Your Personal Painting Style
D. P. Richards
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Gets you thinking about more than technique.......2000-04-05
I found this book thought-provoking. I'm still a novice painter, but I think it helps to start thinking more deeply about how/what you desire to paint. It emphasizes development of your own personal view point of the world around you. Many beautiful paintings are used as points of illustration. I find myself referring back to it often.
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Aspiring screenwriters don't need another book on how to write a screenplay, says Karl Iglesias. What they need is a book on how to be a screenwriter. Voilà: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, featuring interviews with 14 screenwriters, arranged by subject. The result reads like a panel discussion, touching on such subjects as collaboration, schmoozing, discipline, Hollywood, and story pitching. The dream of winning a Hollywood jackpot has lured everyone and his gardener into the screenwriting game. Still, despite the unencouraging odds, "all you need to do is write a good script," says Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls). Some of the book's best advice concerns one of the screenwriter's most formidable hurdles: getting a screenplay read. Submit it to film festivals and screenwriting competitions, or follow Tom Schulman's (Dead Poet's Society) advice and hire an entertainment attorney. After all, "most of them know a lot of agents." --Jane Steinberg
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A Must Read.......2007-05-14
This is a must read for anyone who aspires to be a screen writer. Any wannabe writer has their own personal favorite blogs, a blog that helps inspire, motivate and teach them. This book is almost a best of those blogs from successful writers whose movies they have written have actually BEEN PRODUCED.
The one main theme of this book is just write and write and write because you love writing and not because you want the Hollywood celebrity lifestyle. Great writing will open a lot of doors for one and most importantly, keep that door open.
In my opinion, I like to study and and read how successful writers from all genres got their first break, their work ethic and how most importantly they work through writer's block and rejection. Again, Karl Iglesias' book does that successfully.
The truth you need to hear before pursuing your dreams.......2006-04-10
I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Iglesias at the Screenwriting Expo. He knows his craft, he loves the business. And he's brutally honest in conveying the realistic odds of breaking into Hollywood. While no one ever says it's easy, he can tell you just how hard. This book is a must read for any aspiring screenwriter. Interviewing some of the greatest screenwriters, they all are forthcoming in telling their own tales of struggle, achievement, success, and most of them, frustration.
This book may be geared toward all screenwriters, however it succeeds in leaps and bounds, by telling the realistic truth any up-and-coming screenwriter needs to hear. Too often people are putting together a script hoping to win the lotttery, sell it for mid-six figures, and not taking the time to understand that the money should never be the motivating factor of writing any script. And if that's your only motivation, you'll never succeed in making your dream come true. This book reminds those of us that do it for a different reason, what that reason is. It's the love of writing. Anything else, any other reason, is simply a waste of time and energy.
Mr. Iglesias lays it out in plain view, through interview after interview, just how much of an uphill battle it is get someone to simply give your script a look, and even then, chances of your selling it are slim. Nicholas Kazan once spoke at a seminar. He told them to go turn in their registration forms and go home. He then told them that if any of them seriously entertained that advice, they would never make it. It's all about challenge and it's all about sacrifice. This book will help you realize how important both of those things are.
Yes, I am tired of reading old reviews on Screenwriting Books too........2006-03-06
I always find it frustrating when I go to Amazon and look at the reviews that are posted and find that they are at least 2 to 3 years old. So I decided to at least make a more up-to-date review.
First and foremost, this book is NOT a `How to Write a great Script' book. This book is about screenwriters and their knowledgeable insight on the practice we all know as Screenwriting. These established screenwriters ( Akiva Goldman: A Beautiful Mind, A Time to Kill, and the up coming The Da Vinci Code Steven E. de Souza: Die Hard, 48 Hours.) reference their past experience on what works, what does not work, and what habits you need to establish to have a successful career in the shark infested waters of Hollywood. Not sure how many hours you need to write day in day out? Thinking that you are the only one with a spouse and kids, fearing that you will not have enough time to write? Arrived at Hollywood lost with no plan of action on how to get your script read? Worried that you born yesterday and began sending inquiry letters to agents and producers? Fear of rejection (it is inevitable) from everyone? All these topics are discussed and more in this book.
This book is required reading for all serious screenwriters. I also suggest Breakfast with sharks by Michael Lent, The Art of Dramatic writing by Lajos Egri, Story by Robert Mckee, Making a good script Great by Linda Seger, and The Writer Got Screwed by Brooke A. Wharton.
A Must Have For Aspriring Screenwriters.......2005-11-28
This is one of thost books that you absolutely must read if you are an aspiring screenwriter. It's a goldmine of quality information to help you go from being a decent or lousy writer to a great one. Fourteen of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters share their secrets and tips to writing and selling your scripts to Hollywood. It's like getting private lessons from the pro's. Don't pass this book up, it will make a big difference in your writing career.
A good "dip-in" book for the isolated writer.......2004-12-20
Think of this book this way: it's you having a cup of tea with a bunch of good and not-so-good (but working) screenplay writers. This is not a formula for greatness, but rather a list of suggestions and experiences that you can greatly benefit from if you are so inclined.
Don't be put off by the cover. This is a good book. The best thing about it is it creates a sense of community and exchange of knowledge in what is essentially an isolated (and some might argue isolating) occupation.
This is a "dip-in" book which I find useful and refer to often.
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Offers the professional and novice writer in-depth advice from top screen writers.
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What secrets?.......2005-11-27
First of all, this book contains no secrets about screenwriting.
Second, it contains no information on how to write screenplays.
The book contains biographical summaries of how a number of screenwriters broke into screenwriting (told in narrative and in interview form), bits and pieces about writing habits, a summary of the movie, and a scene from the screenplay.
The screenplays chosen include six mediocre movies and four fair to good movies.
Studying mediocre movies can be useful provided you ask the all-important questions: (1) Why was this movie mediocre? (2) How could it have been made better? Since these screenwriters don't have a clue that their screenplays are mediocre, they never ask these two questions. (Actually, a number of them admit that their scripts were ruined by studios and rewrites by other screenwriters, but they still don't go into detail as to why those changes hurt the movie.)
The biographies also are depressing: most got their break because they had a friend who was already in or because they had a friend who knew somebody who was already in. Not very encouraging to screenwriters who don't have such connections.
Bottom line: this book is largely a waste of money. Buy a book on screenwriting to learn screenwriting and a book on writing treatments or outlines to learn about submitting material.
A practical guide for would-be screenwriters.......2001-01-25
Jurgen Wolff and Kerry Cox have put together another useful guide for aspiring writers. There is nothing quite as practical as the voice of experience, and Mr. Wolff generously shares the insights he has gleaned from a long and successful career. He infuses the potentially dull technical aspects of the writing process with his customary wit and humor, and shows the aspiring writer how to focus and succeed.
An excellent source........1998-07-25
"An excellent source of insider insights and know-how, this volume will interest movie fanatics and screenwriter wannabes." -- ALA BOOKLIST
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- Economists should read some real microeconomics for a change
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Asking About Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness
Elie Canetti , and
David Lebow
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Economists should read some real microeconomics for a change.......2006-04-02
The chief author of this book is Alan Blinder, once a Vice-President of the American Economic Association, a Vice-Governor of the Federal Reserve, and currently President of the Eastern Economic Association. He is, in other words, no maverick, but firmly within the mainstream of economic thought. And yet the research he reports in this book challenges many of the accepted tenets of both micro and macro economics.
The publication should therefore be taken seriously by the economics profession, and raked over carefully to find out whether what Blinder reveals is really the case, or simply a product of poor research.
It speaks volumes for the way that economics handles contrary evidence to accepted beliefs that this has not happened. Blinder's book has instead simply been ignored. The book languishes around the 750,000 mark in Amazon's "best sellers" list, and this review will be the first ever given of it. Meanwhile Mas-Colell's Microeconomic Theory, published three years before Blinder's book, which states the accepted neoclassical microeconomic canon in excruciating mathematical detail, ranks in the mid 100,000s, and has over 80 reviews--most of them from economics PhD students and highly laudatory.
Perhaps some of them should read this book and see whether they can reconcile Mas-Colell's elaborate theory with the reality Blinder found. Neoclassical theory presumes that firms face rising marginal costs, and firms profit maximize by equating marginal cost and marginal revenue. Blinder instead found that 89 per cent of firms in his survey reported constant or falling marginal cost.
If marginal cost falls for the majority of firms, then neoclassical pricing theory can't work--as Blinder acknowledges by saying that "The overwhelmingly bad news here (for economic theory) is that, apparently, only 11 percent of GDP is produced under conditions of rising marginal cost." (102)
Fixed costs are also much higher, and much more significant for firms' operations, than implied by economic theory. Quoting Blinder again:
"Firms report having very high fixed costs-roughly 40 percent of total costs on average. And many more companies state that they have falling, rather than rising, marginal cost curves. While there are reasons to wonder whether respondents interpreted these questions about costs correctly, their answers paint an image of the cost structure of the typical firm that is very different from the one immortalized in textbooks." (105)
Blinder's results were garnered by an unusual approach for economists: he interviewed firms to find out what their costs, operations, demand profiles, etc. were. This approach has been disparaged in economics ever since Friemdan's "assumptions don't matter" methodology paper in the 1950s--whose real target was very similar work by researchers like Gardiner Means, which found very similar results to Blinder today.
Blinder mounts an effective defence of the survey method, and also applies more resources to the issue than any previous researcher. He and his team of economics PhD students conducted face to face interviews with Presidents, CEOs and senior managers of 200 firms. The firms surveyed represented 7.1% of the USA's GDP, so what was found was statistically robust: what these firms reported was representative of US industry as a whole. As Blinder put it, "we interviewed an astounding 10 to 15 per cent of the target population-a large fraction by any standard." (68)
The research was used to explain the macroeconomic phenomenon that interests Blinder of "sticky prices". Economic theory implies that price adjustments should dominate market responses, but prices are notoriously inflexible, at least in the downward direction. Blinder's macroeconomics presumes this, but he wanted to know the microeconomics of why. His survey was designed to test 18 different theories as to why this might be so, and the results did let him distinguish between them. But the key surprise for Blinder and his team was the extent to which economic reality did not look at all like the models that economists assume are true.
This is the issue that most interests me, and I'll close with an extended quote from Blinder on this topic. I would love to see some of those who believe Mas-Colell is so wonderful explain why the real world looks so unlike economic theory:
"First, about 85 percent of all the goods and services in the U.S. nonfarm business sector are sold to "regular customers" with whom sellers have an ongoing relationship ... And about 70 percent of sales are business to business rather than from businesses to consumers...
Second, and related, contractual rigidities ... are extremely common ... about one-quarter of output is sold under contracts that fix nominal prices for a nontrivial period of time. And it appears that discounts from contract prices are rare. Roughly another 60 percent of output is covered by Okun-style implicit contracts which slow down price adjustments.
Third, firms typically report fixed costs that are quite high relative to variable costs. And they rarely report the upward-sloping marginal cost curves that are ubiquitous in economic theory. Indeed, downward-sloping marginal cost curves are more common...
If these answers are to be believed ... then [a good deal of microeconomic theory] is called into question... For example, price cannot approximate marginal cost in a competitive market if fixed costs are very high." (p. 302)
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Title: Asking About Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness. (book reviews)
Author: David Denslow
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Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1998
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Volume: v65
Issue: n2
Page: p364(3)
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Some of the information other such books leave out..........2006-01-25
Here's a book that I wish I had read several years ago...there are many details of the grant process that experienced grantwriters don't share-either they don't know or they forgot that others don't know. This book covers basic principles of grantwriting in a clear and direct style. The target audience is new or novice grantwriters (such as graduate students, postdocs, or junior faculty) in the fields of health and human services. Thus, the examples in the book are in those areas, however, there is plenty of information that is relevant to grantwriting in the biomedical sciences. The authors usually point out relevant differences. I learned things I didn't know about how RFPs are developed, when and how to contact a program director, how to interpret the pink sheets, and strategies for resubmissions (including how to decide whether or not to resubmit).
The book covers three areas that most grantwriting books omit: 1) strategies on how each individual grant should be part of an overall career strategy; 2) discussion and outline of a research career trajectory as one progresses from novice to intermediate to advanced and expert; and 3) information on assembling an effective grantwriting team for program project grants and multidisciplinary proposals. This third area is becoming increasingly important as the trend toward translational and group science grows. (I will re-read this section the next time I am asked to work on a training or program grant.)
This would be a great book for the bookshelf in a lab or in a grad student or postdoc resource center.
Not that good.......2005-06-27
This book is not really that good of a guide. Very simplistic in approach and mostly common sense. Their guide seems to be geared towards educational program start-ups and nothing else. If you are in the biomedical sciences, this book is a waste.
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Saving the Bay: People Working for the Future of the Chesapeake
Ann E. Dorbin
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For centuries before the arrival of European settlers, the Chesapeake Bay's natural bounty and pristine beauty were self-sustaining. Today, after three centuries of human use and abuse, almost everyone agrees that the Bay is fragile and its future uncertain. As scientists work to understand the environmental threats and policy makers respond with new regulations, ordinary people are increasingly doing their part to ensure a healthier future for the Chesapeake. Saving the Bay gathers dozens of these stories and brings them forward as examples of how broadly the coalition to protect the Bay has grown and succeeded.
Through engaging photographs by Richard A.K. Dorbin and moving first-person accounts compiled by Ann E. Dorbin, this book celebrates a new chapter in the history of the Bay, one in which people in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Delaware, West Virginia, and New York work hand in hand to shape the future of a beloved resource. From Americorps volunteer Julie Benintendi's work with shoreline restoration to Mike Ogburn's efforts to build a non-polluting electric car, from the mountainous outer reaches of the watershed to the mouth of the Bay, the people working for the Chesapeake are as diverse and dynamic as the resource itself. Here are teachers, engineers, writers, farmers, parents, and naturalists working with grit and imagination. Saving the Bay demonstrates how these unprecedented efforts throughout the Chesapeake Bay region are making a real difference toward creating a better future.
"By bringing these stories to the forefront, we hope to educate readers, show that individual actions are critical, and accentuate positive rather than negative human impacts on the environment. Just as the wonder of the Bay is not reserved for experts or old-timers, neither is the work that lies ahead. Therein lies the premise of this project--that behind the reports and controversy over the human-induced decline of the Bay's health and the path of its future, are many people doing their part, in different and necessary ways, for the future of the watershed." -- from Saving the Bay
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