I Am Wherever You Are

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wonderful book for those who are grieving

Beautiful book of peace and comfort

Beautiful angels and beautiful words

A wonderful comfort for those who have suffered a loss

I Am Wherever You Are
N. A. Noel
Manufacturer: Noel Studio Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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wonderful book for those who are grieving.......2005-10-08

The pictures and verses are comforting to those who have lost a child....My book has stayed on my night table since I first received it years ago..I have just purchased my third book for other mother's and fathers who have lost a child...beautiful book

Beautiful book of peace and comfort.......2005-08-05

A wonderful book for anyone who has ever lost a loved one, especially if a child has passed away. I gave it as a condolence gift. The artwork is superb, and the messages are uplifting and comforting.

Beautiful angels and beautiful words.......2004-01-27

This lovely book is intended to comfort those who have suffered a loss, and it certainly does. Spiritual without being denominational, it offers hope and gentle wisdom through some comtemporary poetry and an assortment of lines from classic writers. The beautiful images of child angels are stunning and touching. A wonderful gift for angel lovers or for sad hearts.

A wonderful comfort for those who have suffered a loss.......2002-10-31

This is an excellent book to give or receive! The sub-title In the light of loss - gives insight to the beautiful poems and prayers contained inside. I found this book to be of great comfort and hope. The paintings by Nancy Noel are magnificant.

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I Am with You Wherever You Go

Manufacturer: DIME Pub.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000EBIC9Q

I am an American - Shout Wherever You May be - Piano & Vocal Sheet Music

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I am an American - Shout Wherever You May be - Piano & Vocal Sheet Music
Cunningham, Paul ; Whitcup, Leonard Schuster
Manufacturer: Edwin H Morris
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K7O60S

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With advice, information, and reflection on such matters as lying in, long lunches, the art of the nap, and how to skive, How to Be Idle gives you all the inspiration you need to take a break from your fast-paced, overworked life.

From the founding editor of the The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler -- sleep, work, pleasure, relationships -- bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Johnson, and Nietzsche -- all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed.

It's a well-known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it's only befitting that one of them -- the very clever, extremely engaging, and quite hilarious Hodgkinson -- should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of loafing.

Who wouldn't want to blow off work for a day and just "be idle"? The key to a life of pleasure, freedom, and guilt-free lounging around is in your hands.

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Living not just existing.......2007-10-02

This book made me think about life and how I'm living it (and for those who dislike it, at least read the last chapter, it has the most fuel for thought). Although I don't agree with him entirely I do think that we have become enslaved by the system and serve it rather than it serving us. Many of us live to work rather than work to live and we need to look at how we're living and decide if we really want to continue in misery or change things to suit us. We have moved, unthinking, into the 20th and 21st centuries, all the time moving faster, working harder, striving for something that might be within our grasp if we slowed down and thought about it.

Although I wouldn't be as idle as he espouses, I do think that I wouldn't mind down-shifting my life.

This book is a series of views on a variety of issues from smoking to napping, a book that encourages us to think about our lives rather than just put our lives in neutral and keep going. Agree with him or disagree with him, he made me think about how much of my life is spent rushing instead of enjoying.

My 100-word book review.......2007-03-19

I found this book an enjoyable way to spend a few stray hours. Hodgkinson is an entertaining and quirky writer with a fine sense of mischief but whose underlying message is a serious one. Some of the things he advocates are not for me (I dislike cigarette smoking, and rioting and raves seem like appalling wastes of energy) but dreaming, daydreaming, getting up late and becoming lost in reveries are all activities I love. The regimented ways in which many of us work nowadays are tantamount to slavery, and this book is a subversive nudge in the direction of freedom.

Imagine a world in which we're all idle...........2006-06-30

Tom Hodgkinson's book "How to Be Idle" is no misnomer. It really is an instruction manual on how to be lazy. But after the first few chapters, I got so tired, I didn't want to finish it. I guess I was feeling too lazy to feel that reading this book was worthy of my time. I wonder how long it took Mr. Hodgkinson to write this book. Despite his sophism, it appears he put much effort into it. I'm sure he thought it out, drew up an outline, then wrote several drafts--maybe even staying up late some nights?--before hawking it to publishers in the hopes of having a best seller. If Mr. Hodgkinson took his own advice, he wouldn't have ever finished it. If only! But there lies the hypocrisy of Mr. Hodgkinson's theory. Laziness, mediocrity and incompetence are good enough to sell to the rest of us, but not to the man doing the preaching. Perhaps Mr. Hodgkinson wants to alleviate his competition by convincing the rest of us to stay home and do nothing while he garners all the goodies for himself, unimpeded by that dastardly concept called "competition."

But imagine a world in which Mr. Hodgkinson's vision comes true, a world in which idleness is placed above hard work. Who would build our roadways? Who would construct our homes? Who would guard our borders? Imagine if scientists working on AIDS research decided to work only 30 hours a week, or took a three month vacation right in the middle of some breakthrough research. They shrug and say, "Ah, who cares, I need a break. Let them all die."

But even if we did take Mr. Hodgkinson's advise, how would we idle away our time? There would be no yachts to relax on: someone has to build it (but he's on a break, too), then you have to actually have the money to buy it, but since you're on a perpetual break you no longer have the money for that. There goes, too, your dream vacation to Hawaii. No cruises to the Caribbean. No lounging on the beaches of southern Europe. No one to fly you to Paris and London. No Champaign parties at Nobo's. No fine dining experiences at Chez Merde. In all our free time, we'll have nothing to do but rot away in our government-subsidized shacks waiting for death. Sounds fun!

A study conducted in 2004 at Emory University found that when people earned an award for having accomplished a game without help, subjects actually produced a chemical that made them feel happy. These endorphins were directly linked to productivity. On the other hand, subjects who were given awards for no reason not only failed to produce endorphins, but they actually began to produce a chemical that brought about depression. Mr. Hodgkinson failed to mention this study in his great treatise. He also failed to mention the other umpteenth disastrous causes and effects if his adolescent ideas were put to practice.

Idleness, as the Emory study showed, is unnatural. It's so unnatural, that in Mr. Hodgkinson's world, the human race wouldn't last a century, and our individual life spans would plummet back to 16th century levels. Even Mr. Hodgkinson realizes the absurdity of his own premise. He's not stupid. You see, Mr. Hodgkinson, another one of those egomaniacal socialists, really isn't arguing for a more laid-back lifestyle (how much more laid back can we get? We already work less than our great grand parents--in the "good old days" it took six hours just to make breakfast!). When it's all said and done, Mr. Hodgkinson isn't rationalizing the glories of idleness as much as slavery.

I stay home and do nothing, and you do all the work. How else can Mr. Hodgkinson's theories work? It's what socialism is all about. Enslavement. While others are snoozing away a lazy afternoon on the sofas, someone else is in the lab, the factory, the office or the operating room trying to improve our lives. But their endorphins won't be soaring because their wages would be confiscated and given to Mr. Hodgkinson. How else can he afford to be so idle?? Mr. Hodgkinson and his ilk call it "spreading the wealth," or, more accurately, stealing other's money.

Imagine if no one cared about their work, their careers. Imagine being told: "Sorry, but I can't operate on your son's brain tumor today, I'm going fishing." For those who gave this book rave reviews, you cannot complain if such scenarios ever come to fruition. Next time you have to call the 911 operator because your wife is having a heart attack and the operator exclaims, "I'm on my break!" you should have equal praise for her apathy. As your spouse lies dying and withering in pain, smile upon her and say, "But honey, sweetness, sugar buns, idleness is a virtue." Good luck trying to find a funeral parlor that's open when it's time to bury your wife's corpse. The funeral director read Mr. Hodgkinson's book, too. So pick up your wife's corpse, throw it into a plastic bag (if you can find one--no one is making them any more) and bury her in the back yard (if you still have one). But if you find this too much work, chuck her onto the side of the road for the non-existent trash collectors to pick her up. There is always hope, no matter how thin, that someone else will take care of things for you. Ah, idleness!

"There's no fun in doing nothing ,when there's nothing to do.".......2006-04-05

If you ever wondered if the grind is worth it all,maybe you ought to read this book. The author makes many excellent observations on the whole business of what we do with the time we have on this earth;that is above ground. I agree with him generally;except for one thing. He ,although I don't think it was his intent,uses the word "idle" in too broad an context. Many of the things he equates with idleness certainly isn't idleness at all.One good example is fishing,another is conversations with a group of friends,and there are many more in the book .In fact,most examples of the things he discussed are anything but idleness; but are in fact activities one partakes in on their own volition and gain immense pleasure and satisfaction from them. You have to do some thinking as you go through this book,to see where the real idleness lies. He leads you to believe that having a boss over you on a 9 to 5 job is work and productive;while a 3 hour walk in the woods or through city streets is being idle. Just stop and think about it; many people in 'jobs ' just put in the time waiting for the bell to ring,so they can go home. Isn't that really what the height of idleness is.
We all have only so much time ,and what he is really telling us is that it is our time to spend as we see fit; not societys,nor anyone elses to decide what we should do with it. If what you are doing with your time is what you enjoy doing,it is anything else but idleness. Idleness is spending your time at things you would rather not be doing. Mother Teresa,helping among the poor,in the streets of Calcutta;never considered it work.Likewise a Bureaucrat putting in time in the office at a daily grind ,waiting for years for his pension date ---now you're talking idleness.
I also have fault to pick with the author when he lays the fast pace life,consumeration,possession of goods,long working hours,bad working conditions,the elite and on and on at the doorstep of America.These are the very reasons the people left Europe,came to America,and set up a country based on the principles of Life ,Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.America was where it was possible for anyone to achieve whatever they wanted and were rewarded for their efforts.This is where the whole idea of leisure being something for everyone not just the elite;came into being. It is also the difference between Capitalism and Socialism. Socialism produced writers like Lenin,Hitler and his Mein Kampf,Mao and his little Red Book;and little idleness,as our author likes to call it,or leisure as he should call it,while he might have been wiser to look to Ameica and her writers like Mark Twain,Emmerson,Thoreau ,Woody Guthrie and on and on for his examples.
All that aside ,I fully agree with his premise, and believe if you are spending your time at something , when there is something else you'd rather be doing ;that's what's really idle and the sooner you make changes ,the better.
I'm reminded of a couple of dictums along this line.
"You can always make more money,but you can't make more time."
and;
"You'll never hear a man say on his death bed;"I wish I could spend another day at the office".
Personally,I retired 15 years ago and with all my interests ,I haven't spent an idle day yet.I don't consider reading and writing reviews,working puzzles,drawing,going for a walk every day,concerts,bookstores,,time spent with family and friends,good conservation in the hot tub,walking my dog,and major time Birding ;like a winter's day in Algonquin Park at 30 below,in the Arizona Desert at 100 degrees,bouncing in a boat 40 miles off Cape Hattaras looking forTropicbirds,looking for Limpkins in the Florida Everglades,or simply lounging in my bakyard watching Nighthawks or simply listening to a Downey Woodpecker digging out a grub for supper. And that's just for starters .The author can call that idle if he wishes;I simply think of it as doing what I want to do and enjoying life.
Despite some of my points in this review.I believe we are in violent agreement.

I (and you) would rather be [fill in the blank] than reading this.......2006-04-02

I expected a lot more from this book, especially since its subject seemed so topical to our modern consumerist society. Alas, without even getting through the first chapter, I already found myself struggling to continue. It's not that the author is so smug in his tone, or that he uses facile arguments to support his thesis. It is that the book masquerades as being thoughtful and inspired, rather than the one-sided, prescriptive, and completely unrealistic rant that it is.

To actually recommend that we quit our jobs and let life provide for us is one of the most ridiculous suggestions that I have heard, and I feel the author is not only insincere in making this statement, but deceptive in not admitting it to be anything other than fanciful. The cute chapter titles and organization based on time of day are contrived and the author seems to grasp for things to say just to fit this artificial organization. Being idle is one thing if it is meaningful; reading filler is not something I or many people enjoy, especially if it is humorless and insipid.

There are many much better books to inspire one to free oneself from the daily tedium of work, such as Alain de Botton's "How Proust Can Change Your Life" or Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance." If you really have nothing better to do with your time, maybe give this book a shot, but it is doubtful you can manage more than a chapter at a time, and even then wonder whether it is worth it to continue. What a waste and shame.

Idle Worship: How Pop Empowers the Weak, Rewards the Faithful and Succours to the Needy

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Idle Worship: How Pop Empowers the Weak, Rewards the Faithful and Succours to the Needy

Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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Key-off comfort: how to provide a comfortable cab environment at zero idle.(Management Techniques) : An article from: Fleet Equipment

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Key-off comfort: how to provide a comfortable cab environment at zero idle.(Management Techniques) : An article from: Fleet Equipment
Carol Birkland , and Seth Skydel
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000E1N5HA
Release Date: 2005-12-27

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This digital document is an article from Fleet Equipment, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2300 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: Key-off comfort: how to provide a comfortable cab environment at zero idle.(Management Techniques)
Author: Carol Birkland
Publication: Fleet Equipment (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31 Issue: 11 Page: 42(3)

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Labour Rewarded: The Claims of Labour and Capital conciliated or How to secure Labour the whole Product of its Exertion. By one of the idle Classes (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Economics)

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Labour Rewarded: The Claims of Labour and Capital conciliated or How to secure Labour the whole Product of its Exertion. By one of the idle Classes (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Economics)
William Thompson
Manufacturer: Thoemmes Continuum
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1843714337

Eggs the year round from table scraps;: How idle land and table waste can be turned into dollars,

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Eggs the year round from table scraps;: How idle land and table waste can be turned into dollars,
Joel McCamant Foster
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How to Be Idle
Tom Hodgkinson
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEOTJ0

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How to be Idle
Tom Hodgkinson
Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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ASIN: B000OPUAUQ

How two girls tried farming (Idle hour series)

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How two girls tried farming (Idle hour series)
Ella Farman Pratt
Manufacturer: D. Lothrop and Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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"Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece, which details the ways robots have complicated the lives of humans, has a dexterous sense of wonder. . . . Mr. Pak's feel for melodrama adds a piercing and thoughtful end note similar to the emotional gravity found in Stephen King novellas like The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, both in Mr. King's collection Different Seasons. But it's Mr. Pak's respect for the actors that he's selected that seems to work hand-in-exoskeleton with the thematic mission of the protagonists in each chapter of Stories. . . . The most startling aspect of Robot Stories is not the mix the filmmaker built from spare parts left on the curb, but Mr. Pak's evolving dramatic acumen. He's a talent with a future."-The New York Times

Winner of dozens of film festival awards, Robot Stories is an acclaimed independent movie written by rising Asian American director Greg Pak. In four intertwined stories, people struggle to connect in a technological world. In "My Robot Baby," a couple cares for a robot before adopting a human child. In "The Robot Fixer," a mother reaches out to her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In "Machine Love," an office worker android learns that he too needs love. In "Clay," an old sculptor chooses between natural death and digital immortality.

Praised as "the kind of science fiction sophisticated audiences crave and deserve," the screenplay is a rich and rewarding reading experience and follows in the literary tradition of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.

This collection includes Pak's scripts from his popular comic shorts Asian Pride Porn, All Amateur Ecstasy, Mouse and Cat Fight Tonight. It features original commentary by the author and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.

Greg Pak directed his first feature film, Robot Stories, which has played nationwide and won over 30 festival awards. One of Filmmaker magazine's 25 Filmmakers to Watch, Pak studied political science at Yale, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and film at New York University's graduate program.

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Robot Stories: 4 Awesome shorts.......2006-06-29

Cliff's Notes Review:
+ 4 Awesome, distinct stories
+ Novel central theme "human emotions and robots"
+ Represents the Asian American/Mixed-Race Community without beating you over the head with issues.
+ Charming and Provocative like an independant film/Professional and polished like a high-budget studio film.

My Take:
Robot Stories is awesome. Its is broken up into a series of 4 charming shorties, each related around a theme of "how humans develop emotions when dealing with robots". Each story has a distinct perspective on this central theme. For example, one story is about a couple who wants to adopt a child, but must babysit a "robo-baby" to prove their worth as parents, while another is about a mother trying to re-connect to her sick son through his collection of toy robots. I think the final point that I'd like about Robot Stories and Greg Pak as a director was that he was able to represent the Asian American/Mixed Race characters in normal situations. While this may feel like a minor point, its refreshing. Its nice once in a while to see an Asian American on the big screen who isn't a Lucy Lu Dragon lady, or a Connie Chung newscaster, but as a normal protagonist whom i can identify with.

An exploration of the problems between men and machines.......2006-06-23

Filmmaker Pak provides not just the award-winning ROBOT STORIES screenplay, but four other tales which are all infused with considerations about technology. It's not only the futuristic settings which link these plots: it's an exploration of the problems between men and machines, the created and the natural worlds, which creates such a compelling dynamic in these motion pictures. Small black and white shots pepper the account, but it's the screenplays which are the heart of this fine title.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Inspiring!!!.......2006-01-28

I hadn't seen the Robot Stories movie, but a friend of mine did and raved about it. I'd read a few of Pak's comics for Marvel, so I picked up the book and was actually blown away by the amount of thought Pak has put into not just that movie but his career of writing in general. He gives insightful introductions to his many scripts, which run the gamut from sarcastic short spoofs about sex to the recreation of the life of a pioneering surgeon, and finally to the sci-fi feature from the title.

This was the first time I've actually read a screenplay, and it is different than reading a novel. But the book gives some helpful tips to make the adjustment easier. After I while I got used to the format to where I could really visualize the actors and actresses talking to each other.

Somehow I think that is one of the points of the book: to make films more accessible and to inspire people to create their own vision. Pak touches upon a lot of issues: from the craft of writing and the challenges of making an independent film to the media images of Asian Americans (David Henry Hwang's foreword is excellent in this regard). So it has something that can appeal to most everybody. But ultimately, I found the collection to be oddly inspiring to the artist hidden in me, and has made me want to see Pak's movies.

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Titles are: Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope * Fighting for Pharoah * I Gotta Keep Movin' * It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling * Questions * So Little Time * Thank Heaven for You.

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Rich selection of royalty-free motifs from famous British reference. Striking, varied designs suitable for any number of graphic projects. Images include lions, tigers, wreaths, falcons, rosettes, human figures, mythical creatures, crowns, and much more. Add aristocratic flair to book and magazine illustrations, advertisements, newsletters, etc.

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Without Blazon or Reference.......2006-03-14

Moderately useful, but all of the images are Victorian era lithograph in style, and have lost a lot of whatever flair they might have had. Color was not expected, but without blazon (heraldic description) or any other reference other than plate number, only the images are of any use. There is no table of contents, and although the images are grouped according to their central character (lion, tree, etc.), that is the extent of it. There is some mention of another archive, but not in a complete context. Hunting for it may be more of a chore than throwing your hands up and finding something else. I'm not even going to try. Also, since the images are in roughly the same style, an estimate of time period or place from one's own judgement of history is nearly impossible.
Still, there are a lot of images, and by themselves are inspirational to some extent.
Overall, not a complete waste, but not worth it, either.

Not for Heraldic Reference.......2005-08-23

While this volume provides thousands of clip art purporting to be heraldic Crests, you will not find any reference to identify which name the Crests are registered to. You will not find any reference to what the charge in the Crest means, nor will you find reference to the colors that the charges should be. What you will find are generic images resembling heraldic charges in black and white. Please note that those who are expert in heraldic Coats of Arms and Crests (and there is a distinct difference if you do not know), or those interested in improving their knowledge of them, will be deeply disappointed in this book, if you are looking for reference material. Coats of Arms are frequently and mistakenly referred to as Crests. Coats of Arms are the shields carried by knights, cavaliers, etc. during the Medieval Age, which were determined by the monarch of the country for which the knight served. To use the images of this book to put together a unique Coat of Arms for one's own family is to do so without any thought to the meaning of the charges. Each charge and each color determines a virtue recognized and honored by the monarch in the presentation of the Arms, while Crests (always displayed above the knight's helmet) are colors and charges chosen by the patriarch of the family to represent the virtues he wished to preserve in the family line. Most Western European names have coats of arms already registered with the College of Arms of that nation to represent their families and responsible dealers of these can provide them - this book will not help anyone find their own coat of arms or any explanation of their meaning.

Victorian Heraldry on its Best... and Worst.......2000-10-09

A set of over 4,000 crest designs, but what a disappointment! The true heraldic craftsmen drew their inspiration from true heraldic sources, i.e. the Middle Ages. After 1600 or so heraldry went into a steep decline, culminating in the truly awful Victorian concept of depicting the 'real' thing, as opposed to the brutal and wonderful power of the symbolic art of earlier craftsmen. Thus we're stuck with 'real' lions and dragons and any kind of object, complete with shadowing. Well, the book was published in 1859, so I should have known better.... If you're interested in Victorian heraldry, it's a wonderful book. If you're interested in real heraldry it's a waste of money. Try the compilations of Sir Anthony Wagner instead. Now t h a t is true heraldic power.

Good collection of high resolution, black-and-white images........1999-03-21

Enlarged versions of the black-and-white heraldic designs common to most coats of arms and crests. Perfect for scanning and easily adaptable by experienced graphic designers. Originally published in smaller versions in Fairbairn's Book of Crests.

resource book for designing new crests, not finding old ones.......1998-09-28

This book includes hundreds of components of potential crest designs shown in black and white on plates. It does not include any family names, family crests, or or any type of index to the images included in the book.

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This Is Your Life: The Story of Television's Famous Big Red Book
Roy Bottomley , and Michael Aspel
Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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