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An Artist's Journal.......2006-08-15
I wanted to share what May Sarton said about this book:
"It has been an immense pleasure to read a journal so deep, succinct, and illuminating. The style is pared down and elegant as her sculpture appears to be as she writes about it. How rare to find an artist who can talk about her craft as she does!" (At Seventy - May Sarton)
Tremendous journal for women artists.......2004-10-12
I cannot say enough good things about this special book, which I discovered at an independent bookstore (and am forever grateful for that!) ... For anyone who is a fan of well-written journals and diaries, including those of May Sarton and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, this book will be a real treasure. I couldn't put it down, and consider it one of the best books on being an artist that I have ever read.
I should add that it would be especially comforting and inspiring for women who want to be artists (or writers) yet still maintain close, loving families and home life. For many women today, it is an "either or" proposition, but I love the way Anne Truitt shows how her domestic life informs and balances her art. This viewpoint give us all courage if we want to attempt the same lifestyle. Truitt raised three children on her own, and made her mark as an artist -- and a wonderful writer as well. What an inspiration for us all.
Moving, well-written, and beautiful........1998-12-09
In one of the greatest meditations on the artistic life ever written, Anne Truitt completes the trilogy of journals she began in 1979. In "Prospect" she discusses the joys of parenthood and grandparenthood, the perils of old age, and the way artists work. Each page is rich with insights and thought. Simply the best book I've read in five years. Her art is great, but it is for these books that Anne Truitt will be remembered, taking a place among diarists of historical significance.
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Jeff Koons Daybook
Jeff Koons
Manufacturer: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Stationery
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ASIN: 0947564551 |
Book Description
Unlike many art instruction books that focus on capturing realistic images, this unusual title offers inspiration and instruction on using pastels to translate landscapes into evocative abstractions. Putting emphasis on the pure-pigment aspect of pastels, award-winning artist Mark Leach offers exciting insights into the powerful connection between color and feeling. Designed for artists of all abilities, it covers everything from making composition sketches to displaying the finished work, and includes chapters on light, form, and texture; understanding the color wheel; and painting from sketchbooks and photographs.
Customer Reviews:
Great for learning abstraction.......2007-01-11
One of the best books in my art library. Mark Leach describes clearly his process in developing luminous color with pastels, while abstracting subject matter to the simplest of shapes. I love this book and use it constantly, and I am an oil painter. Valuable, in my opinion, regardless of your medium.
That person is SO wrong!.......2007-01-07
The first person who commented on Raw Colour evidently was under the impression that this wonderful book was merely a how-to title. Having read Raw Colour from cover at least twice, I can truly say that the person who wrote that negative comment was totally wrong in interpreting this book as a how-to for abstraction! That could not be more mistaken! It's definitely not a how-to book. It's a wonderfully exciting book covering one artist's way of exploring his feelings about his subject and how he is able to express them through his use of color. I found it a very freeing book and one that reignites my desire to paint every time I open it, which is often. It is an exciting new addition to my very large library on art and pastel in particular. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in color, pastel and art expression in general. Mikki Root Dillon, PSA
Not enough substance.......2007-01-03
There are so many better books on abstraction. I would give this one a pass.
Book Description
All aspects of drawing are made easy in this comprehensive, fully illustrated step-by-step guide which is packed with expert advice and illustrated with more than 550 colour photographs.
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The Way to Sketch With Special Reference to Water Colour
Vernon Blake
Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 048624119X |
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Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient
Clercq
Manufacturer: Edition Cantz
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ASIN: 3893221638 |
Book Description
When a genetically-enhanced band of terrorists overruns a secret weapons facility in Alaska, the fate of America - and the world - hangs in the balance. The future lies in the hands of infiltration expert Solid Snake, who must defeat the terrorists or die trying in the exciting conclusion of the comic's first major story arc.
Book Description
Four years after former FoxHound hero Solid Snake saved the day on Shadow Moses Island, a new terrorist organization known as Dead Cell has hijacked the environmental cleanup facility known as the Big Shell and taken the President of the United States hostage. In response to their threat, FoxHound agent Raiden must join forces with a mysterious Navy Seal known as Pliskin to rescue the President and neutralize Dead Cell, whose leader is said to be none other than Solid Snake himself!
Book Description
A trendsetting decade in world cinema The 40s were the decade of the movies. With the world at war, directors served up propaganda and escapist entertainment to the massed moviegoers of the pre-television age. Yet in many countries, there was also a parallel tendency towards greater realism. In Italy, for example, the spirit of the resistance culminated in the neorealist movement, which inspired the world's moviemakers with masterpieces such as De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). In Hollywood, the 40s were probably the most creative phase in the studios' history. Never before had the Dream Factory brought such compellingly edgy and experimental films to the silver screen. The most seminal work of the decade was Citizen Kane (1941); Orson Welles's extravagantly original debut anticipated the expressive visual style that would come to typify film noir—the genre of "dark movies," populated by romantic antiheroes and femmes fatales, that still represents the essence of cinema for many passionate movie buffs. In the atmospheric black-and-white universe of noir, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, and Lauren Bacall became timeless erotic icons, while Bogart—following The Big Sleep (1945)—was the very quintessence of cool. While these movies bore witness to the cracks in America's façade, another genre was busily reconstituting the nation's identity. In the films of John Ford, the Western came back with a vengeance, Monument Valley embodied America's incomparable grandeur, and John Wayne (The Duke) was a natural aristocrat of the wild frontier.
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Originally Posted on Romance Junkies in 2005.......2007-05-14
Kimberly Raye finishes up her Farrel Sisters Trilogy with SWEET AS SUGAR, HOT AS SPICE, and boy, does she go out with a bang! If you haven't read the stories of Skye Farrel in Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice or that of Xandra Farrel in Sometimes Naughty, Sometimes Nice (Warner Forever), you'll want to pick those two up at the bookstore when you run out to purchase SWEET AS SUGAR, HOT AS SPICE.
Eve Farrel is starting to panic. She's recently watched both her older and younger sister find their happily-ever-afters and settle down in marital bliss-to the complete shock, dismay, and chagrin of their very famous feminist and anti-marriage mother, Jacqueline. Now that mom only has one single daughter left, she's determined that Eve will stay that way, no matter what. Jacqueline is driving Eve nuts, to the point that she now believes there's only one way to get her mother to leave her alone, once and for all-find a man, fast, and get married, even faster.
Fortunately for Eve, there's a man who is having a very similar problem. Linc "Shooter" Adams is known on the NASCAR circuit as a bad boy, a skirt-chaser who knows no limits-on or off the track. Everyone and their brother knows that Linc's family is urging him to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming Mayor of his hometown, and nothing Linc says to the contrary will convince the constituency that he doesn't want a life of politics. In the current poll, he's even ahead of his best friend, Craig Sanders, the man Linc wants more than anything to win the election. Desperate measures are called for, and taking a very unsuitable woman as his wife just might do the trick.
Eve is definitely an unsuitable politician's wife. As the owner of Sugar & Spice Sinema, a company that produces how-to sexual videos for couples who want to up their sex lives a few notches, Linc knows that marrying Eve Farrel will stop any Mayoral races cold. As for Eve, what better way to get her mother off her back than to marry Shooter, the ladies man of NASCAR?
Kimberly Raye has written a laugh-out-loud romance story that has two people thrown together as a matter of convenience, and learning to love each other as a matter of the heart. Eve finds out pretty quickly that Linc isn't as bad as he'd like the world to believe, and Linc in turn realizes that there's more to Eve than a sexy body. As these two find a balance between the desires of their family and the desires of their own bodies, it's a joy to be along for the ride.
Not as good as the first two books.......2006-11-22
I was looking forward to reading this book since I had enjoyed the first two books in this series, but this one was kind of dull. Many of the flashbacks were annoying and I don't understand why they were there as they don't contribute anything to this story. Reading this book made me feel like the author just rushed through writing it in order to get another book in the series done.
The book starts out at Xandra and Beau's wedding (from "something naughty something nice"), where Eve and Linc decide to enter a marriage out of convenience. He does it so he will not be elected mayor in his former hometown and can continue his racing career without being bothered by his parents, she does it just to annoy her mother. How lame is that?
We lean that Eve and Beau have sex, however she fakes her orgasms until chapter 18 when Linc, who is portrait as the typical bachelor, mysteriously seems to change overnight. They start to have a fulfilling sex life and all in a sudden Linc becomes a devoted husband. The two of them finally decide to stay married and have a double wedding reception as Eves mother decides to marry her longterm boyfriend (and father of her three daughters) Donovan.
All in all this book is not as good as the first two. It is too unrealistic and predictable, which makes it hard to identify with any of the main characters.
Hysterical and totally sensual story.......2006-03-28
Eve has always been the black sheep of the Farrel family; she takes pleasure in trying her ultra feminist mother's patience at every chance. The owner of a production company, Eve makes and markets sexstructional videos. When she suddenly finds herself as the only single daughter, she's suddenly cast in the good girl role. What's a bad girl to do? If you're Eve, you will find the most misogynistic man in the world and marry him fast.
Linc Adams is the latest sexy NASCAR bad boy. He got into racing a little late in life - trying to his hand at a law career first. But he decides he does not want to follow in his father, grandfather, and great grandfather's footsteps by seeking a career in politics. But he owes a lot to his best friend Craig. So he decides to run for mayor in his small Georgia hometown, but does everything he can to make sure he's not elected; even if it means marrying the most inappropriate woman he can find. When Linc and Eve join forces to solve each others problems, you'd think it's a mismatch made in heaven. It's not like this is forever - just until November. But the two have smoldering chemistry and soon begin to realize that they are not actually so mismatched after all.
In a secondary story, Eve's mother, feminist talk show host Jacqueline Farrel is furious that her life partner and father of her three children actually has the audacity to ask her to marry him. When she moves out and shows up on Eve's doorstep, Eve and Linc have to put on a show to make her flee. What will happen after the election - will Linc and Eve be able to go their separate ways? Will Eve's mom and dad settle down and make their three daughters legitimate?
Raye's comedic timing, great delivery and smoldering love scenes will keep even the coldest reader warm. Unlike most authors who run out of steam halfway through a series, Raye definitely saved the best for last!
Hot NASCAR Action.......2006-03-21
This was my first Kimberly Raye purchase. I bought it because I love NASCAR. Ms. Raye did a great job of weaving NASCAR realistically into the storyline. Linc and Eve are a great couple, they have passion, humor and that intangible quality... chemistry.
Eve concocts a plan that is so outrageous it just might work. They meet at her sister's wedding and before the night is through, they're married. The idea is to use the shock value of the wedding to get Eve's mother off her back as well as keep Linc out of local politics. The plan works, but not in the way either of them expected. You'll have to read it to see what happens.
I have now read and thoroughly enjoyed the other 2 Farrel sister novels as well. "Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice" and Sometimes Naughty, Sometimes, Nice"
Too Good to Pass up.......2005-12-27
Bad boy + sex video producer=love.
Eve and Linc each have their own family problems and figure that
getting together(i.e. marriage)will perhaps solve their problems.
Eve's mom wants her to stay unattached but is driving her crazy so Eve decides she will marry so mom leaves her alone; into the picture comes Linc, Nascar driver, with his family pushing him to run for mayor. He thinks that his chances to win the race(mayoral) will be finished when he marries Eve(sex video producer).
What each of them doesn't realize is that they each have something to learn about the other and what love is.
Book Description
Forever Spice goes behind the scenes to explore life as a Spice Girl—their passage from a band produced by Simon Fuller, through their feelings and responses to the departure of Geri Halliwell, childbirth, marriage and their personal aspirations for the future. This beautifully illustrated book contains a personal portrayal of each of their stories, exclusive interviews, and simple and elegant photography by Dean Freeman.
Customer Reviews:
It's the best.......2001-04-17
i have one of these at home and i must say that the spice girls really, really, really worked hard on it. the pictures are nice too. in my opinion, the spice girls really poured out their guts and blood just to make this book so great job girls and GIRL POWER...
The real Spice of life........2001-01-22
This Spice Girls book is an absolute blast!! It has about 90 pages of photos and 24 pages with text. When you first look at the book, it looks like there isn't a lot of written words, but there actually is. They crammed a lot in those 24 pages. All the pictures are a marvel to look at, becuse a lot haven't ever been released before. The Girls of Spice did an amazing job putting this book together, because the ords and pictures are straight from their heart. They decided what was going into the book. In the text, they talk about the tour, Geri leacing, boyfriends, home life, and a lot more! If you live for Spice, you need to get this book. Out of all the official Spice books, I think this is second best, with their first one, Girl Power, in the lead. This book is highly reccomended, I got it last Thursday and am still marveling over every page!!
BEST SPICE GIRLS BOOK.......2000-08-30
The Spice Girls Book, Forever Spice, Is The BEST Book I Have Ever Bought. It Has Great New Pictures Of All Four Spice Girls. This Book Is DEFINITLY Worth Buying.
FOREVER SPICE BEST BOOK.......2000-08-20
This book is a must for Spice Girls fans! Hundreds of awesome Spice Girls pictures and wonderful stories written by the Spice Girls about thier tour, home life,solo efforts, and Geri leaving. Im thier # 1 fan in the world. But I reccomend your order this from amazon.co.uk because Amazon.co.uk got it out to me in one day!
"Forever Spice" is the BEST Spice book on the 4 Spices.......2000-08-03
"Forever Spice" is a great way to learn and see about the 1998 SPICEWORLD Tour. Since it's actually WRITTEN and EDITED by the Spice Girls, it's got the official stories! Packed with pages (I mean PAGES...at least 80) of tour photos (and a few with Geri) and about 25-35 book/written pages. The book part opens the truth about Geri's departure, their relationships with each other, boyfriends, marriage proposal stories, embarassing moments, on-stage moments (including embarassing, accidents, and info), life at home, the babies, coming back the UK after the US and their are stories behind a lot of the tour pictures, which they tell about. If you are part of the official fan club, you can order the special fan club edition, which includes a personalized message and limited edition mini-poster. For all you in doubt of buying the book, do not be anymore. "Forever Spice" is worth your money!!!!!!
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This digital document is an article from Women's Health Letter, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1353 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: How you can kiss antacids goodbye--forever!(LETTER)
Author: Gale Reference Team
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Women's Health Letter (Newsletter)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Page: 1(3)
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Forever
Spice Girls Cs2438 50467
Manufacturer: EMI MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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Scientific Knowledge Socialized (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 9027722846 |
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Franklin J. Schaffner (Filmmakers Series)
Erwin Kim
Manufacturer: Scarecrow Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0810817993 |
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Worthington Miner (Directors Guild of America Oral History)
Worthington Miner
Manufacturer: Scarecrow Pr
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ASIN: 0810817578 |
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