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- Great resource for the starting Illustrator
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Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
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Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books
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The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author's Tips on Writing Children's Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids
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The Illustrator's Bible: The Complete Sourcebook of Tips, Tricks and Time-Saving Techniques in Oil, Alkyd, Acrylic, Gouache, Casein, Watercolor, Dyes, ... Pastel, Colored Pencil and Mixed Media
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Writing and Illustrating Children's Books For Publication: Two Perspectives; 10th Anniversary (Writing & Illustrating Children's Books for Publication)
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, Second Edition
ASIN: 0764127179 |
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The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author's flight of fancy, then rendering the ideas and actions imaginatively in pictorial terms. This unusual and inspiring book was written for art students and ambitious beginners. It instructs on methods of developing both imaginative powers and the technical artistic skills to produce high quality illustrations that will please authors and children's book editors. Separate chapters focus on:
- Media, materials, and techniques
- Developing different drawing styles to fit specific storytelling methods
- Instilling visual personality traits in story characters
- Creating effective sequential images for storyboards and picture book outlines
- Design, typography, and preparation for print
- Illustrating story books for older children
- Illustrating nonfiction and educational books
- Breaking into the children's book publishing business
Here is solid, practical instruction for students of book illustration, enhanced with more than 250 how-to illustrations in color and black-and-white.
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Great resource for the starting Illustrator.......2007-07-31
This is an excellent, easy read for those interested in illustrating children's books. I bought this book along with Writing with Pictures (which I do not recommend) and found this to be an incredibly valuable resource for someone NEW to the field or illustration student. The book is filled with interesting insights into the minds of various illustrators, tips for processing ideas, understanding how the basic process works when dealing with a publisher and writer, etc. It also has a great brief history of children's book illustration, and talks about what is happening today, as far as media, market, etc.
Unlike many "how-to" books, this one is actually fun to read- and very easy to finish. I have been bored to tears with how-to books in the past- but I finished this within a couple of days. It is filled with inspirational illustrations on every page, and being a very visual person, I found it delightful to read.
If you are looking for specifics- exactly how to lay out a page, exactly how to prepare a portfolio, (though it does give tips) exactly which publishers to send your work to- then you will find this book disappointing. However, if you are new to this field and want a basic overview (and a bit of encouragement) before getting a very specific book- this is the best buy out there.
Other books I highly recommend:
Childrens Writers & Illustrators Market 2007
Inside the Business of Illustration
Bologna Annual 2006 (Bologna Annual. Illustrators of Children's Books)
A Fantastic Book!.......2007-07-10
As a hobby illustrator and a great admirer of Children's Illustration books, this book has provided a generous overview of the world of picture book publishing. Whilst, no area is covered in great depth, it's simplicity and wonderful illustrations provided more than enough information for the interested reader.
To self induluge, I would have loved to have seen some Australian illustrators mentioned though such as Mem Fox, Shaun Tan and Graeme Base as they are considered wonderful Picture Book Illustrators.
I showed this book to some of my collegues and they loved it!
THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLE!.......2007-03-16
If you're interested in illustrating for children's books and such, don't miss this book. Full of information, how-to's, pictures, experiences, this book could very well be the aspiring children's artist's Bible! Believe me, you won't be wasting your money and this book will easily help you break into the industry as well as teaching you HOW to illustrate for children. Buy this book!
Beautiful book, fantastic overview........2007-02-24
This book is filled with lovely illustration examples. I find myself flipping through it all the time just because it's so pretty. The content is solid for an overview; you get history, types of media, practices, advice and resources. While I still feel a little overwhelmed by the process of submitting work this book has been a valuable resource.
PERFECT!.......2007-01-05
Books on this subject are hard to find, and this one is a gem! I absolutely LOVE this book! The layout is perfect with tons of illustrations and examples while keeping the text interesting and useful. I've been reading it before going to bed every night and almost want to get back up to put the theory into practice! Very practical and an enjoyable read, higly recommended for all illustrators out there!
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Aesthetics and Motivations in Arts and Science (Kalasamalocana S.)
Kiran Gupta
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all of my favorites.......2007-07-20
maurice salad, pot pie, chinese salad. the best recipes and some i had forgotten. Popovers. Goodness. I have spent the last month reminding me how much I miss the food. What a great book and a great price. Beats the newest with the same old recipies at 30 dollars. I saved quite a bit.
Love this book!!.......2003-10-25
This is a great book. It has all the favorites from Dayton's, Marshall Fields, and Hudsons.
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Dinah Shore's cookbook.......2007-07-25
I use to watch Dinah Shore on TV, and she would have a
cooking segment, and she was wonderful in telling you how
to prepare the food she was making. Watching TV, you
can't ask a question, but, You didn't have a
question, she said everything you needed to know.
I use her cookbook, also and she has great recipes!
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Now parents and their children can have fun together in the kitchen, creating nutritious, low-fat, and tasty snacks and meals for holidays, rainy days, or any day!
Someone's in the Kitchen with Mommy contains 100 recipes that are not only fun to make but also look great, taste delicious, and are healthy, too. What kid could resist Macaroni and Cheese in a Broccoli Forest... Green Shamrock Soft Pretzels... or a Chili Sundae?
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- Life revealed in fiction - You have to check it out!
- The kitchen will never be looked at the same way again
- Reality Check
- Eric Pete Hits His Stride
- Oh yes, someone is in the kitchen
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Someone's in the Kitchen
Eric E. Pete
Manufacturer: E-Fect Pub
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ASIN: 0970499515 |
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Steamy Page-turner Shocks and Surprises From Beginning to End He's baaaack! Following on the heels of his best-selling debut novel Real for Me, Eric E. Pete takes you to the hot and sizzling city of Houston, Texas, where we find that Someone's In the Kitchen (in more ways than one).
View the world through the eyes of best friends and former college roommates: Reggie, a single playboy who is best described as cocky and conceited…but also caring, and Neal, a sensitive hulk of a man who is experiencing the downside of matrimony. Reggie, a successful supervisor with a major insurance company, is a smooth manipulator who has no plans of settling down or slowing down anytime soon. On the other hand, Neal, the head chef at a popular Houston eatery, is a dedicated husband who is trying to balance the troubles of a difficult marriage with the pursuit of his dreams. Both friends are impacted by what has happened in their pasts. Find out how each of them reacts as their story unfolds! Contemporary African-American fiction has a bold new chapter with this witty, stylish novel, which deals with the tests life gives and how the darkness of the past can shape the future. You won't want to put it down!
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Life revealed in fiction - You have to check it out!.......2006-03-07
WOW! What a great writer. "Someone's in the Kitchen" is the first novel of Eric Pete's that I had the pleasure of reading. I was surprised at how wrapped up I got in the characters. It was like knowing things about people you weren't supposed to. One of those times, where you overhear something at the office water cooler and cannot wait to share with your closest girlfriends. Enjoyed the realness in the fiction. Had a difficult time putting the book down. You have to check it out... Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to catching up on Mr. Pete's other novels.
The kitchen will never be looked at the same way again.......2005-06-23
This book demands a sequel. I could not get enough. I wanted more and more. The writing was incredible and the characters while flawed were likeable. I highly recommend this book it was very entertaining.
Reality Check.......2005-01-18
This story has a little bit of all of us in these characters. We may not act it all out, but it's in our hearts...the good and the bad. We've had our hearts broken, we may have even broken a few ourselves. We wanted that forbidden fruit and may have had it regardless of the consequences. This story hits home. If you're honest with yourself (no one else has to know) you're going to find yourself somewhere in this book.
Eric Pete Hits His Stride.......2004-07-07
After reading and enjoying Pete's first effort, Real for Me, I was anxious to sample his second novel. Reading Someone's in the Kitchen was like being swept along for a great joyride. In 242 pages Pete grabs your attention and takes you into the world of Reggie and Neal, but it is not a fantasy. The characters are real. You know these men and women. They are your friends, family, and co-workers. They are the people you love and the people you love to hate. It is a story about love, loss, dreams, disappointments, and growth. Pete writes about life. Enjoy the ride.
Oh yes, someone is in the kitchen.......2004-06-29
Eric does a wonderul job of developing his characters and developing the plot in this drama filled book. I found myself rooting for some characters and feeling sorry for others. If you love drama, as I do, then get this book.
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Someone's in the Kitchen
Manufacturer: Morris Press
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ASIN: B000GKEN8Y |
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Fifth 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Robert Byrne
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ASIN: 0449907511
Release Date: 1993-03-31 |
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America's #1 phrasemeister is back! Robert Byrne, author of four previous volumes of 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, continues his lifelong quest for the greatest of verbal treasures -- the quickest quips, the sharpest retorts, the brightest truths. For instance . . .
#59: "Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful -- provided you get between the right man and woman." Woody Allen
#61: "I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy." Steve Martin
#205: "My husband thinks that health food is anything he eats before the expiration date." Rita Rudner
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Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning author of two astoundingly comprehensive biographies of prominent American financiers, now examines the ultimate decline of such power brokers and the corresponding rise of international money in The Death of the Banker. This surprisingly concise (but no less illuminating) volume opens with an expanded version of a speech on "the dwindling role of the financial intermediary" that he presented early in 1997; it concludes with condensed versions of his earlier books on J. P. Morgan and the Warburgs that show how the essence of financial power has changed in the 20th century.
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"For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page headlines, this is the book to read." --Publishers Weekly
With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end.
As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P. Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of twentieth-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street.
"Chernow . . . delivers a sound, accessible account of the forces shaping capital, credit, currency, and securities markets on the eve of a new millennium. "
--Kirkus Reviews
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Top notch historical overview of investment banking.......2007-02-15
Published in 1997, this book, marking the modern transformation of banking, is a small addition to the Ron Chernow continuum of great American historical writing about finance; Hamilton, Rockefeller, House of Morgan and the Warburgs.
What's next? I can not wait.
an introduction to the history of merchant banks.......2006-08-28
Ron Chernow, who has degrees in English literature from Yale and Cambridge, has written excellent biographies of the Rockefeller, Morgan and Warburg families. In this book, which essentially is a spin-off of his other books, he explains how the economic niche that JP Morgan and the Warburgs inhabited, that of the middleman between the very wealthy and corporations and aspiring entrepreneurs, has disappeared in today's world of telephones, fax machines, the internet, the SEC, and mutual funds and venture capital.
This book grew out of a talk he delivered on the topic, with a brief summary of the Morgans and the Warburgs appended. Oftentimes talks given at conventions are in part written to fill time; this seems to be the case with this book; anyone with a bachelors in economics could summarize it on a page or two without any loss of meaningful detail, the second part is a short look at the lives of the subjects of his other books. Stylistically, the focus is on the use of elegant English, to such an extent that the book suffers under it. There certainly is a place for beautiful English in historical works, as anyone who has read Macaulay's History of England knows, but not as its own reward.
Those who want to familiarize themselves with the economic history of the great merchant bankers in an unthreatening way free of all too much economic jargon will greatly enjoy this book. PhD economists, on the other hand, will probably feel that Chernow ought to get to the point.
Excellent!.......2002-01-22
Brief, to the point and informative. A great anthology of how the financial world got from where it was to where it is now. Chernow is a master financial historian.
Nice little introduction to the history of banking in the US.......2000-06-15
I was disappointed with Chernow's tome on the Morgans, partly because, as he states in this book, it lacked thematic content. I don't think Chernow is right about banking and finance generally becoming 'democratised', even if it is changing. Global finance is still controlled by a very few fund managers and bankers, albeit with an eye to the profit margin. It may be the populace's money, but they do not decide how it gets used, and this is the crucial power in our time. Nevertheless, this is a good introduction to the subject and always readable.
Fascinating Introduction to Banking.......2000-04-07
This book provides a fascinating overview of the evolution of banking from its origins as an offshoot of general merchandising to the complex subject it's become today. Chernow skillfully and entertainingly reveals how bankers have gone from being all powerful "Masters of the Universe" to much less exalted financial bureaucrats. Chernow could have gone further, though, and extrapolated to explain how this is the natural product of capitalism, where the only true "Masters" are the vast bulk of consumers.
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Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries (Episteme)
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This is the first book by a sociologist devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics. The author provides examples of different ways of thinking about mathematics sociologically. The survey of mathematical traditions covers ancient China, the Arabic-Islamic world, India, and Europe. Following the leads of classical social theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Restivo develops the idea that mathematical concepts and ideas are collective representations, and that it is mathematical communities that create mathematics, not individual mathematicians. The implications of the sociology of mathematics, and especially of pure mathematics, for a sociology of mind are also explored. In general, the author's objective is to explore, conjecture, suggest, and stimulate in order to introduce the sociological perspective on mathematics, and to broaden and deepen the still narrow, shallow path that today carries the sociology of mathematics.
This book will interest specialists in the philosophy, history, and sociology of mathematics, persons interested in mathematics education, students of science and society, and people interested in current developments in the social and cultural analysis of science and mathematics.
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Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and the Labour Market: Integration and Exclusion in Europe (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor markets and workplaces of western Europe. Scholars from ten different countries set out the experience and implications of this exclusion for two main groups: the more established second and third generations of post-war migrant descent, and the "new" migrants, including seasonal and undocumented workers and refugees, who are vulnerable to extreme exploitation in unregulated working environments. The book finishes by addressing the implications of these issues for trade unions and employers in Europe.
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