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From renowned woodcarver and instructor Ian Norbury, this handy reference covers the basics of bandsaw woodcarving and demonstrates how to accurately portray the female face in wood. One step-by-step project guides carvers through the details of female-face woodcarving, including outlining the project, modeling the figure in clay, and carving, polishing, and mounting the final piece. A comprehensive reference section with full-color photographs of women's faces provides anatomical explanations and working drawings to help the carver better understand the female anatomy. An additional appendix features design notes on women of varying ethnic backgrounds and ages.
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Norbury has a carving system that actually works!.......2005-01-04
My husband is a woodcarver and is pretty darn good at it, with one exception --the human face. He carved a clown, an indian and a man's head, a Roman and Don Quixote and he was not satisified with any of those faces. Then he got his hands on this book. When he finished the bust of the female, I was startled to see just how good a carving it was. Now I'm afraid that he's decided that his problem was that he had not carved women's heads. He's looking around for a camera and a model to photograph from a multitude of angles, just like Norbury showed him how to do in this book. I'm just not too sure how far I want him to go with this new found talent....
Top of the line book.......2004-11-01
This is the best book I've seen about carving the female bust. Norbury works from photographs and goes into great detail about using photos to make the pattern for the bust of choice.
His directions are excellent, especially for determining the removal of unwanted stock. This could almost be considered a textbook.
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Carving the Female Face: How to Carve Pretty Faces in Wood
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Carving the female face in wood presents a difficult challenge for woodcarvers-their carved women too often looking like men in dresses. Starting with photos of women's faces, this guide offers an anatomy lesson on the bone and muscle structure of the female face, including information on the facial features of women of various ethnicity, and then provides detailed instructions on how these delicate features can be convincingly carved. Sixteen ready-to-use patterns-with front and profile views-are included.
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Yuk!.......2003-12-16
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Carving the Female Face :How -To Carve Pretty Faces in Wood.......2003-11-14
I almost bought this book hoping it would give me the necessary missing elements for my smaller faces .I got to preview it at a woodworking show .Glad I did because ,though it is great for an individual to learn to do a mouth ,nose, eyes ect. it is somewhat lacking in showing the technique and how to put it all together .A great book for someone needing to know how to go about doing the individual elements of the face but left me feeling like I needed much more than there was offered here .
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Short stories featuring Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Scamp and other Disney characters. It's Earth Day in Duckburg, and Donald's cleaning up the city in "Taking Things Litterly." "Pflip's Strange Power" is a 1948 classic by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson. Big Bad Wolf plays "Musical Eggs" in an Easter-themed story by the famous Dutch team of Wilbert Plijnaar and Dick Matena. Donald's nephews are "Straight Shooters" in a short gag story by Duck master Al Taliaferro. Goofy gets "Esteem For a Day" when a world of Goofylike alien beings asks him to be their Great Reasoner... an exalted judge who must solve the entire planet's problems! Scamp tries "Making Like a Mole" by moving bones through underground tunnels. This classic Lady and the Tramp-world adventure features the art of Al Hubbard. Finally, in "Gadabout Gadget," Donald's and Scrooge's Formula One racing adventures continue. Donald loses a super racecar part in the jungles of Brazil, and must trek into danger to recover it!
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* Compelling firsthand account of the dilemmas faced by relief workers
* Reflects the author's experience of the catastrophies in Kosovo, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan
Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions of pity and concern in the onlooker. For most of us there is a limited amount that we are prepared or able to do, but relief workers have to convert such natural emotional responses into practical action while addressing the stark dilemmas that go hand-in-hand with humanitarian intervention.
So why do they get involved? Are aid workers motivated purely by altruistic concern, or is it a more complex mixture involving the power they experience and the attention they receive?
In this new paperback edition of "The Selfish Altruist", Tony Vaux brings over 20 years' experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency program coordinators to a far-reaching and unflinching account of the conflicts between subjective impulses and objective judgment. Describing and analyzing some of the most traumatic crisis situations of the last two decades, he helps us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today.
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Why do we do it?.......2006-07-13
One of Vaux's clear intentions when constructing the questions throughout this work is achieving a personal catharsis. The motivations and decision making apparatus of himself and the aid community come under mercilessly objective evaluation. The graphic nature of the situations may tempt the reader to give in to the hoplessness that front line aid workers experience, though dwelling on the situations descibed in this book would be, in my opinion, missing the point. The point is understanding why we do the things that we do. Can an aid provider ( NGO ) overlook causality and bring aid to the person in need? Will attempts to affect causality do more harm than good? Do underlying motivations exist that influence the manner in which aid is provided? The answers to these questions are not simple or finite.
This book forced me to be introspective in ways that few others have. If you want a true lesson in disciplining your objectivity it's definitely worth the time.
self-recognition.......2002-02-06
Tony Vaux took a job that landed him in Kosovo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Azerbaijan and Rwanda. He worked for Oxfam, one of the world's premier development and relief organizations. In his work, he helped some of the poorest and hungriest people on this planet. He believed his work vital, but he observed and raised questions. He saw that what needed to be done frequently did not get done. Vaux and his associates, over stressed and under funded, decided sometimes who would live and who would not. Food and medical aid became entangled with politics and military action. Many of the people helped were less than innocent and sometimes guilty of horrific crimes. Helping the vulnerable, the most laudable of tasks, he found, can itself be corrupting.
What saves this book from becoming another "realist" tome about how awful and hopeless we humans are, is Vaux's willingness to probe his own psyche as well as others'. We're often able to make ourselves quite comfortable with the assessment that the human race is, as Vaux states, "a species of exceptional brutality and cruelty" (page iv). We object only when the accusation is made against ourselves. If our accuser presses on and places before us our own behavior, we may admit that, yes, sometimes we have, under certain circumstances, acted brutally. But, we hasten to explain: circumstances forced us to act so. We had our reasons. They made us do it. It's a cruel world. Vaux rejects this sophistry. He admits, "the possibility that I too could be a killer." (184) By "killer" he does not mean that he could serve in a UN peacekeeping force. He means he is fully capable of having been on the wrong side in Somalia, Bosnia or Rwanda.
From this non-privileged position, Vaux recounts debates among Oxfam staff about the identity of the organization: will it aim to promote development or be an emergency relief action? Should Oxfam deliver aid to a society that oppresses women to the point that women will not benefit from the aid - or should the organization try to save as many lives as possible, even if most of them will be male? Will accepting help from one side in a conflict - in this case trucks with armed soldiers to deliver food - compromise Oxfam's neutrality and its future effectiveness?
It is also from this position that he raises his most fundamental issue. Vaux points out that aid workers are in positions of power and that power corrupts. Aid organizations and workers develop interests, organizational and personal, in seeing that acts are done in a certain way and that they receive credit. "Saving lives," he writes, "can be intoxicating, especially when people are weak and vulnerable." (94) "The motive of pity so easily interacts with the motive for cruelty, and the desire to help so easily becomes the desire for power. .... Managers in the `disaster relief industry', like those in charge of homes for children or the elderly, have the opportunity to abuse power because they are dealing with vulnerable people." (95) Pity becomes contempt.
But, Vaux argues, "Self-knowledge is the prerequisite of humanity." (72) "(T)o be happy requires a(n) ... abandonment of self - an ability to rejoice in other's success and in the formation of their altruism." (180) As another person has pointed out, aid may be something done to people. Better is to do something for people. But the best is to do something with people. Only the worker who has abandoned "self" is able to work with people.
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The realtor's essential guide to harnessing true earning power
How to Become a Power Agent in Real Estate gives real estate agents both the powerful sales techniques and the practical management tips they need to double their income by closing more transactions. Based on the outstanding success of Darryl Davis's seminar "The POWER Program," this motivational guide utilizes POWER Principles to help the new agent as well as the experienced top producer dramatically increase listings and sales.
The book is full of Davis's surefire methods for managing the sales process, including time management for agents, prospecting for listings, handling the seller's and buyer's concerns, maintaining a winning attitude, and generating more sales in less time. He also reveals how clever use of the Web can provide a competitive edge and how the top producers work smarternot harder. Offering field-proven tools and techniques, Davis shows agents how to progress at their own pace to their own personal Next Level and accelerate their entry into Top Agent status.
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Power Agent in Real Estate Review.......2007-06-27
I'm working on my 6th year as a real estate agent and out of all the business books that I've read this one really hits the nail on the head! I started reading the book about 3 weeks ago and it already has had an effect on my business. I've been on 4 CMA presentations and came out with 4 Listings on the same day that I met with the prospects. This book gives samples of dialogues with sellers and buyers, time management advice, goal setting, servicing listings, seperating the serious buyers from the not so serious, and at the same time looking out for your clients best interest. You must read this book to succeed!
Great book for all agents.......2007-03-23
For a rookie agent, this book has reinforced many things I have heard from other agents. It has provided insights and techniques that have already been used by myself and other more experienced agents in my workplace.
New agent info.......2007-03-08
this is a good book for a new agent to read. it has the basic fundamentals needed to earn an income in our real estate industry.If you have been an agent for the past year of more and are not doing these things you better read the book.
GREAT book- worth it's weight in gold!!.......2007-02-03
I thought this book was ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I recently attended a seminar with Darryl, and in person he is even better! The man is a genius! If you want to be a Top Producer- read his books, and if possible, go to his seminars- I know I'm on my way! Thanks Darryl- you're the best!! No BUTS about it!! ;)
A Must Have.......2006-05-24
Davis` book is the best I have read and I have read many. The ideas are numerous. I actually carry this book with me at all times to get inspired when I need another approach. I would suggest every serious agent purchase this book.
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In this new edition, updated with all the latest information and trends, noted author and speaker Danielle Kennedy, puts her proven arsenal of techniques and strategies at your fingertips. Whether you're a rookie or a seasoned agent, you'll quickly develop a clearer understanding of the importance of self-awareness, discipline, and attitude. Kennedy's "Business Plan" is simple and easy to initiate and activate. She shows you how to improve your sales performance more than you ever thought possible by making yourself a better provider of service-not by focusing on money. With full coverage of marketing, creative problem-solving, negotiation, and more, this book features everything you need to succeed in today's ever-changing market such as: all new niche marketing concepts for the electronic age, how to use the Internet to create more intimacy with hot prospects, and never-before-revealed secrets on how to eliminate the unworthy competition at every listing presentation.
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Generally solid material, but not what you expect.......2001-03-09
When you purchase a book that boldly pronounces: "DOUBLE YOUR INCOME IN REAL ESTATE" you probably think it's about doubling your income, right? Not exactly, at least, not with this book. Danielle Kennedy gets us started lethargically and only begins to get into some of the "meat and potatoes" the last half of the book.
We begin with a lengthy chapter about tapping into your goals, desires, and will power, followed by another tedious chapter about your life and money, followed by still another chapter on the history of homeownership. By the fourth chapter, readers clamoring to double their incomes are asked to wait a while longer while Ms. Kennedy primarily addresses brokers and owners for another sixty pages. Finally, by chapter five, nearly halfway through the text, we begin to hear what the title told us we would.
To Ms. Kennedy's credit, most of what she has to say is valuable and worthwhile. If you can buckle down and actually get through the 120 pages of preliminary info, you will have a nice idea about your goals, your money, your health, and the history of real estate. After that, her techniques, while generally of the tried-and-true book of tricks, are nonetheless important. She does a nice job of explaining them consisely and offering some new ideas.
Ms. Kennedy also has a lot to say about diet and exercise, as well as how to motivate fellow salespeople. Some of this comes off as "motherly" and even a bit soft-sounding. It leaves you wondering if she truly has both feet set in the real world, or rather prefers to live in an idealized pseudo-reality. It would be nice if Ms. Kennedy's "model office" existed anywhere in real life.
The sad part is, the author has abandoned real estate sales for (perhaps?) the more lucrative area of writing books and speaking publically. I personally do not like to read books from individuals who abandoned their sales careers, but this should not deter you from picking up her book. To her credit, she does not come off as some kind of get-rich-quick guru and her advice is sound and generally timeless.
For a great back to basics book with a catchy (but not necessarily 100% accurate) title, consider this as a worthwhile read.
Food For Thought.......1998-12-17
A well written and practical book for the real estate practioner. Kennedy in her usual style approaches her subject material in a straight forward and common sense manner. Her advice and insight clearly stems from her years of experience as a realtor in the trenches. I rate this book as a must read for anyone wanting to enhance or increase their income with real estate sales while seeking to obtain a more balanced lifestyle. J.L. Wall, Knoxville, Tennessee
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