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Greetings with Love: The Book of Valentines (Architecture).......2007-02-18
This beautiful book inspired me to gather and organize decades of greeting cards at various locations in my
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Great book for gift, collectors or history buffs.......2003-07-13
This is the most complete book on Valentines Day I have seen. Filled with interesting facts, over 200 (not 20) vintage Valentines, the history of Valentines Day, fun crafts for kids, recipes andmore. A must have book. AAAA+++++++
Over 20 vintage valentines.......2003-05-15
Greetings With Love: The Book Of Valentines will hold year-round attraction for any interested in greeting card art, collectability, or history. The focus here is on antique valentines, with chapters surveying the earliest valentine in history to modern times. Over 20 vintage valentines from mechanical cupids to lace productions are detailed in a history which traces the changing trends of the day. Beautiful color photos of antique productions make for a bright, highly recommended coverage.
Absolutely the best.......2003-02-15
If you love Valentines you need this book! It's the best!
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Book on tying ties. A history and practical use........2007-02-21
If the tie was used in fashion, it is in this book. It took a little trial and error on using the illustrations for knot tying, but they worked. Many of the ties in this book aren't used anymore. But if you were trying to recreate an appearance from the past, this book IS A MUST. Many ties of every shape, size, length, and style. Along with the how-to, a real photograph of the tie being worn with its appropiate in fashion is in the book for your viewing. WOW. If you want to shine better than a clip-on, this is the book for you. But,...it is VERY expensive.
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Karen Kondazian has compiled inside information from talking to the premier casting directors in film, television, and commercials from New York to Los Angeles.
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interesting but not ground breaking.......2002-12-22
Had some useful information
but nothing that was ground breaking good but not amazing if you havr extra money ,not a bad investment
Good reading.......2002-11-26
I enjoy reading this book. It is useful for when you are submitting or auditioning for these casting directors since after reading the book, you know what they want. Or do you? I find people changing their minds very frequently and we as human beings are always changing. What is printed on the book, may no longer be true after a few years. However, it is interesting to read just what each person thinks an actor is or should do during auditions. I think as a whole, the book is useful because it provides some universal principles that we can all treasure and use in every aspect of our lives.
Hear it directly from the casting directors themselves.......2001-10-22
The role of a casting director is often misunderstood and actors are too often unaware of the pitfalls of auditions. This book is a must-have to help you find your way through. With direct interveiws with over 100 casting directors (mainly LA-based film/TV CDs, but some NY ones also) it gives you direct feedback on what casting directors like to see and don't.
One of the best advantages of this book is that you can see what preferences vary among casting directors...and what preferences are universal in the industry. This is an extremely valuable took and one I think should be in everyone's library!
good concepts, but not enough depth or variety.......2001-09-12
This is a well intentioned book, and has 100 interviews with real life Casting Directors. But after repeating the basics over and over with 100 interviews, there is not alot of depth or additional details. The basic teachings, such as being early to the audition, being prepared, being polite, being a professional, being an enthusiastic auditioner.....well, this is repeated for the 100 interviews. It could have been a much better book, with more details, so 3 stars.
A must read!.......2001-08-25
This is a fantastic up-to-date reference for all actors who are serious about the business! And if you don't want to follow the casting directors' advice, then get out of the business now!I have recommended this book to all the actors at my agency. I just wish it was bigger to include even more LA casting directors.
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Assuming little or no musical background, this book demonstrates how music works—and how to convey this understanding to others. It helps learners develop skills in teaching music while offering them introductory experiences in playing and reading music.
KEY TOPICS The book features lots of song material, information on learning instruments, sample lessons, and an accompanying CD. Presented in a non-technical, user-friendly manner, Section I introduces music in the elementary school, the elements of music, music-making activities, curricular approaches and developments, the eclectic world of music, and how to plan and assess music learning. The instrumental instruction section provides information about playing autoharp, guitar, baritone ukulele, piano, and soprano recorder, as well as information about the singing voice. It features descriptions of hand and body positions, fingerings, and strums, including keyboard drawings, chord frames, tuning instructions, and fingering charts; lists specific songs that may be used in learning to play each instrument individually or in large or small groups. For individuals ready to learn music now, and preparing to teach it in the future.
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Not for me.......2007-07-22
I don't know who that book is written for. I bought the book, since it appeared on the suggested reading list for the California Teaching exam. It's so technical that, unless you already know the stuff, it's useless. The classroom exercises use teaching concepts that should have been left on the cutting room floor fifty years ago. Parents, watch out.
Neat.......2007-03-09
I was plesantly surprised at how easy this book is to use for both musicians and new musicians. Watch out for used books not all of them have the cd that I needed for my class. For the musicians- sometimes I forget that newbies don't know about the Staff or note names this really starts form the begining. It demonstrates good places to start teaching from.
Must have for anyone seeking music in the classroom........2001-09-06
This book and accompanying cassette are invaluable! I teach grades K-8 general music and this book has been very useful for lesson plans. There are step by step lesson plans and the cassette provides the music and excerpts needed to present an effective lesson to the children. I've found that these lessons tie in easily with the benchmarks and goals for all of my children. If you do not own this book- buy it. I'm now waiting for an addition to come out that includes my 6-8 grades.
MUSIC EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE.......2000-06-18
Surprisingly, neither the online booksellers nor the publisher, Prentice Hall, refers to the audiocassette of all 60 musical selections in the model lessons for teaching music, which accompanies the Fourth Edition of this book. This is actually one of the main benefits to having it in a classroom or home setting. College instructors use this as a textbook to teach musician and non-musician teachers how to teach the art to elementary school students. Even parents who home school their pre-school and elementary school age children should find this a very accessible resource for teaching all basic musical elements: expressive qualities, melody, rhythm, form and harmony. I wish that I had found out about this resource guide and lesson plan library before returning to teach elementary school music full time after 30 years of pursuing a varied carrier in law, business and "higher" academics. The standardized essay exams for certification in music education should be a snap now. All the right conventional pedagogically sound verbiage is there to satisfy the most melancholy of lesson plan freaks. The cassette tape makes this book more helpful than Music Fundamentals, Methods, and Materials for the Elementary Classroom Teacher by Michon Rozmajzl and Rene Boyer-White(2nd Ed., Longman, 1996). For a complete (and much more expensive) library of childhood music experiences in the schools go to the K through 8 textbooks and teacher aids (ample CD recordings, overhead charts, wall charts, musical play scripts, and several video cassettes) in the Share the Music series published by McGraw-Hill (2nd Ed. 1998).
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Watered Down .......2007-09-20
This is a watered down version of How To Reasses Your Chess. I read this after reading HTRYC and the workbook. If you have trouble with HTRYC then read Amateur's Mind first. If you already have HTRYC then don't bother getting Amateur's Mind. You will find all the same stuff but not explained as well.
It was interesting to see how an amateur thinks but studying mistakes is not the best way to learn chess. You need to study what is the right thing to do. Then you will be able to realize when a mistake is made.
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Useful, but Falls Between Two Chairs........2007-09-05
IM Silman is the well-known author of "How to Reassess your Chess" ('HTRYC') and "The How to Reasses your Chess Workbook" ('Workbook'). In this book, Silman turns all his frustration and hair-pulling from his students into a book analysing how and why amateurs lose games. Unfortunately, Silman falls between two chairs. He did not decide if he wants to write a book about the *psychological reasons* amateurs make mistakes, or on *how to punish* such mistakes once made. Doing both at once, he also has to give an outline of his thinking technique so that the reader will understand why the moves made *are* mistakes in the first place. The result is a book which is 1/3rd excellent, and 2/3rds mediocre.
Amateurs will identify with the common psychological problems Silman presents and with Silman's perceptive comments on what kind of mistakes these problems tend to cause. For example, Silman notes amateurs are usually either terrified of their opponent's plans or, conversely, do not notivce them at all; the over-the-board result is either losing the initiative without a fight and merely reacting to the opponent's plans, or not stopping the opponent's plans in time. The good player should do neither, notes Silman: he should *objectively evaluate* his opponent's plans and decide whether, in the particular situation, stopping the opponent's plans or continuing undeterred with one's own plans takes precedent. Silman gives many other example on how common psychological flaws (such as "laziness"--"I'll just develop", for example) lead to specific chess mistakes (in this case, making "random" moves without a plan).
Unfortunately the other two parts are not nearly as good. Once we realize what psychological state caused the amatuer to make the chess mistake, we gain little insight from the fact that Silman, an IM, beat a 1500-rated player who played a dozen second-rate moves, especially when Silman deliberately makes bad moves himself just in order to give the opponent another chance to find the correct plan (they almost never do). It would have been better to write a seperate book showing games where one of the players makes one or two moves the Silman method shows are sub-optimal, and the opponents takes advantage of this. Finally, the exposition of the Silman thinking technique itself was done much better in HTRYC and the Workbook.
The result is a book which has about 1/3rd which is excellent and insightful and another 2/3rds that are not. This is not bad: most chess books don't even have a useful 1/3rd of a book in them, and the good 1/3rd in this book is very good indeed. It's only a pity there is so much chaff along with the wheat. This could have been twice the book at half the length.
Well done.......2007-06-12
Another reader criticised the book on several counts, including:
"The book sometimes downplays some moves and labelling them as a certain mistake while computer analysis chooses them as the preferred move. Such as 20.Rxb3? p.72"
I just let Fritz 10 think on that one for 4 hours, and sure enough Rxb3 was the favored move, followed by Nd2, Qd3, and in fourth place was Silman's suggestion, axb3.
So Silman was wrong? Not so fast!
In the first place, the Fritz variation board projects only 8 moves ahead, but the game will likely go a lot longer. (The actual game was stopped after 13). Two weak pawns is a static burden that could make itself felt for twenty, thirty, forty moves, far beyond Fritz' ability to calculate possibilities. Silman has in mind the end-game, not just the next eight moves.
Secondly, the point-spread from Fritz' first choice to fourth was just one-third of a pawn. Any allowance for errors on either side is enough to swamp a small difference like that.
Third, the gist of Silman's comment on axb3 was, 'Better one weakness on b3 than two weaknesses on a2 and c4.' That's a bite-sized piece of wisdom I can use repeatedly, as opposed to the other reader's alternative advice (by implication), 'Play what a computer would play,' which I could never follow in a tournament at all.
Fourth, even if I could play like Fritz in a tournament, the other player will not. Fritz chooses moves using "his" own assessments on both sides of the board. Even if he could see all the way to the end of the game (which he can't), the result is not necessarily ideal.
Silman's book tries to give us pointers we can use as human beings with human opponents. And he does pretty darn well, I think.
More confusion to the amateur.......2007-05-30
I think you should own this book. Since it has a nice collection of positional ideas and tips in one book that you can use to refresh your mind about subjects you already know or know something about. But is this a book who will lift you from amateurdome. No. Here are my reasons:
1- The author talks down on amateurs, and the way he delivers criticism is unconstructive.
2- The author plays down many amateur choices without constructive criticism especially when the amateur idea has some logic behind it. It would've been better instead of saying "the player is wasting his time doing this or that", or "the player is not looking into the real advantage" he should've have hilighted why this is not idea is as good as it seems acknowledging that it has some sense behind it but for particular reasons won't work. After all, most amateurs chose their moves based on some logic. I have to say that this doesn't happen allover the book but in many places.
3- The book can be contradicting from one place to another. For example in a certain chapter, choosing a move that goes with the chapter ideas (space and territory for example) may contradict another move that would go with the idea in a previous chapter. A master would know, but for an amateur, he would go like "but you said I should do this in the last chapter". I think that's the problem with taking chess piece by pieces since at the end chess is a whole. As other reviewers mentioned, there is no putting it all together approach.
4- The book talks very little about tactics and their effects. The whole text is positionally driven. I think the author should hilight that many positionally sound moves are not played because of their bad tactical consequences.
5- The book sometimes downplays some moves and labelling them as a certain mistake while computer analysis chooses them as the preferred move. Such as 20.Rxb3? p.72. And some of the position are not totally lost as he would like us to think.
6- Finally, the book doesn't seem to connect the ideas in the beginning of the chapter well with the games that follows. Sometimes they seem contradictory. For example, in the chapter of space and territory. One of the rules is to not hurry up in taking advantage of the space advantage which kind of doesn't make sense. On the other hand, in the game that follows, he's blaming the amateur for not taking advantage of his space advantage and the weakness of his opponent. More confusion to the amateur.
I agree with other reviewers on the following:
7- Bad moves are bad patterns to see. Reinforcing good patterns is better.
8- Games can get boring after the point has already been made.
In summary, I don't think this book should be your study book on positional concepts. I have "Reassess your chess" but haven't tried it yet. Take everything he says with a grain of salt. However, if you have developed some judgement yourself, you can use what the author is saying as a refresher without paying much attention to his criticism. I'm not saying that his criticism is wrong, but again sometimes it's not constructive, and sometimes it's more confusing because the amateur idea may have some soundness but he doesn't take alot of time to explain its unsoundness, instead he goes to stress the idea of the chapter under question, and then move on to another idea in the next chapter.
If you have a lot of time, play each position with a strong computer, and try to win. You will find out that there is more to the position than what is mentioned.
For when you don't know what to do.......2007-04-04
This is not my favourite chess book by a long way, but it has one thing to recommend it -
If you play chess, run out of book and think, "what do I do now?" this book will help you and will reward your study effort with chess improvement.
I have some dislikes about the style in the book. The format is that of listening in to his student's private lessons and unfortunately this is a somewhat negative experience and it's not information dense. You get to watch the amateur's games fall apart again and again, even though in many cases the instructive parts of the game are well and truly over.
The emphasis on strategy is perused to the almost total exclusion of anything else, which would be appropriate to illustrate some positions and aid planing but not for entire games. Many games do not have even a hint of being examined for tactical threats. Indeed, in the examples such examination is often dismissed as irrelevant - a big mistake to take into a tournament.
Self test positions and exercises are at the back of the book rather than being used to test and reinforce information at the end of each chapter.
But all said and done, if you do find yourself looking at the board and having no idea what plan to pursue this book will help.
Three stars for the book, 4 stars for the information.
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