Twelve Renoir Bookmarks (Small-Format Bookmarks)

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From one of the most popular of French Impressionists — details from 12 of his finest works, including Luncheon of the Boating Party, On the Terrace, and Woman with a Fan.

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Giving a book as a gift?.......2006-01-21

Including one of these beautiful Renoir bookmarks is just the perfect touch -- like a bit of gift wrap on the inside, too! (Of course, you can keep the others for yourself!)

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Turn the pages of An Introduction to Mixed Media -- and discover an exciting art course that teaches you how to combine a variety of versatile and expressive media. an Introduction to Mixed Media is a practical guide to a range of artistic techniques. More than 300 photographs guide the beginner through a series of exercises designed to teach all the essentials of working in mixed media. Revealing projects focus on professional works of art, all shown in the making so novices can follow the creative process step-by-step. Unique gallery pages display works of masters -- pictures that will instruct and inspire every student of art. Packed with specially commissioned artworks, clear instruction, and easy-to-follow exercises, The DK Art School offers idea courses for "armchair" art students. The DK Art School series is a new way to learn, improve, or master drawing and painting skills. Carefully constructed courses ensure that you gain both the confidence and the know-how to create imaginative, beautiful pictures. With individual volumes on subjects like still life, portraiture, or landscape, in specific media such as oil, watercolor, or acrylic, The DK Art school series offers something for everyone, and builds into a unique collection of practical art books.

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Good general overview.......2000-06-03

This book is designed to open the reader's eyes to the various types of mixed media art and how the techniques are used by different artists to achieve a wide range of effects. The photographs, especially those of the tools and supplies used in the techniques, as well as the photographs of artwork are especially informative, and useful for a beginner. However, if you're looking for specific technique instructions, or tips on how to combine the various mixed media techniques into your own artwork, you may be disappointed. This book left me wanting more, but it is still a valuable addition to a beginning artist's library.

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Introduction to Mixed Media
Ray Smith
Manufacturer: Bt Bound
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

General | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0785710892

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In A Field Guide to Cows, John Pukite provides all the facts--so even the novice can identify and get to know America's fifty-two breeds of cattle. Every entry in this entertaining yet completely usable book features an illustration that highlights each breed's most easily identifiable traits, such as coloration pattern and body shape. The book includes a checklist of breeds so the die-hard cow watcher can keep track of sightings, a list of essential garb and gear for cow watching, a glossary of terms, a listing of breeder associations, and more. Fascinating cow trivia is interspersed throughout. Informative, amazing, and amusing, A Field Guide to Cows is the indispensable companion for would-be cow tippers, farmers, city folk, agriculturalists, interstate drivers, 4-H'ers, vacationing families, and everyone who likes to moo at cows.
Cow Facts
* There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milk
* Old cows in India have their own nursing homes
* From 1866 to 1895 cowboys drove about 10,000,000 cattle out of Texas

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Well done field guide.......2007-05-21

An encounter with a herd of "Oreo cows" prompted me to buy this book. What's an Oreo cow? Why a Dutch Belted, as is easily determined using this book.

This slightly tongue-in-cheek guide has many of the features associated with quality field guides:
- a diagram showing the terminology for the various parts, or points, of a cow
- a short essay on how to study the cows in question to make identification easier
- instructions on how to use the Guide
- a Key which groups cows by the easiest feature to identify: color
There's even a Life List checklist -- which any serious nature watcher knows is essential for keeping score in the friendly contest of "Who's seen the most kinds?" Also included are a glossary, a bibliography, a list of breeders' associations for many of the breeds featured, and all kinds of cow-related facts and graphics.

(I could have done without the "Cow Call" -- a silly cut-out cow mask on the back page of the book)

Several other reviewers objected to the lack of photographs in this book. I have used various types of field guides with various subjects over the years and have found that a good black-and-white line drawing with good accompanying text describing the colors is nearly always superior to a photograph. That said, a few photographs would have been nice to give some idea of the actual colors of the red and brown breeds -- black and white are pretty much black and white ;-)

Anyone who prefers using secondary roads to the interstate highways has passed many a herd of cows/cattle on their journeys. This book is an excellent companion to take with you on those trips so you can be informed as to just which kind of cow you are looking at.

No Cow Photo.......2007-02-14

The book had lots of good information, but only line drawings of the cows. I was disappointed in not having color photos since this was an identification book.

A Field Guide to Cows:.......2006-11-10

I was hoping it would show colored pictures of the different breeds of cows. The inside, unlike the cover, was not in color and showed parts of the cow more than breeds. Guessed wrong on what I wanted to buy.

My husband and I really like Amazon though.

Lighthearted, Cowgazing fun........2005-04-16

A nice little book for those of us city dwellers who admire cows, but know little about them. A nice place to begin. One of the most pleasant afternoons I spent recently was sitting with a herd of cows listening to them as they cropped the grass--very soothing and relaxing. Call me crazy....

Big Disappointment.......2004-02-17

If you are looking for a cutesy book you won't be disappointed. If you are looking for information on identifying cattle of various breeds accurately - keep looking. This book has a cut out mask that you can hold in front of your face so you can moo at cows over the fence. There are no photographs of cows or anything else. Black and white sketches only. Buyer beware!!!

A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds

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A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds
John Pukite
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ5908

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Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade: The Workshop By William Froug

Founder of the acclaimed film and TV writing program at UCLA, Froug's advice resounds with experience and integrity. Includes how to keep dramatic tension, find the action and counteraction, keep dialogue lean and more.

1 tape - 90 minutes

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Bill Froug -- the real article.......2007-01-12

Mr. Froug was my professor in a post-grad class at the University of Southern California Cinema Department which, by the way, also included Dan O'Bannon.

None of the reviewers I've read has mentioned that Bill Froug was a contributor to and producer of certain seasons of Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Mr. Froug was fluent in the language of film, respected in the film industry, and I assure you an insightful teacher respected by young film students. I was impressed with the man's wisdom even though I had no idea he had started the film program at our sometime rival UCLA. He was a real supporter of new talent; he once submitted my film essays (written for his class) to his own agent in New York in the belief that I should be writing film criticism. No result came from that (as is the norm) but it was just as well, because I stayed in Los Angeles for over 20 years, spending 9 years working in the Universal Studios film division and another 5 years at the Disney studios during the "glory days" of Michael Eisner's dream team.

Mr. Froug is no pretender. His information about the film industry has irrefutable substance, and that makes his book well worth reading. If you should disagree with him, you would be well advised to figure out why he is right and you are wrong. You'll learn more that way.

The Vice President Of How To Screenwritng Books! .......2005-07-22

Screenwriting Tricks of The Trade by William Froug
Froug a well known and more importantly and well respected teacher of screenwriting uses his years of experience and the same clever lessons he shared with his students as a teacher at two small schools you may have heard of USC and UCLA in this wonderful book. Screenwriting Tricks Of The Trade (STOT) is a fine gem amongst the many "How To Be A Screenwriter" books on the market. Automatically what separates this book from everyone else is that STOT has found the rare balance of juggling the classical elements that make up a screenplay (old-school) and the chaotic yet beautiful way movies are now being written (new-school). Like or not digital technology especially when it comes to NLE non linear editing has forever change the way movies can be made. Froug being the lover of film and screenwriting that he is has realize this and written a book taps into the creativity of Billy Wilder, Herman Mankiewicz and Scott Frank if these names are not familiar to you I suggest rethink this whole screenwriting thing. Yet at the same time Froug is one of the few authors willing to go on record and challenge all the so called screenwriting gurus who preach that all screenplays should follow a particular formula or template such Act I should end on page blah and by page blah you want to have establish blah.

Now there are rules to everything but formulas like everything else become dated but art and screenwriting is an art just as much as it is a craft is about exploration and creativity and that becomes very difficult when one is bind by so many rules.
Besides challenging the formulas, the paradigms and current screenwriting templates that plagued too many screenplays. Froug lays out some of best advice on creating excellent dialogue that I have ever came across in his simple dialogue test I will not share it, you have to buy the book. However, I will leave you with this, " great dialogue is immediately recognizable because the reader can immediately recognize if the screenwriter is putting words in the mouths of the characters or if the characters are speaking for themselves. " William Froug on creating dialogue. STOT is even delivered in a screenplay like fashion and by that I mean broken into three sections. Act I is Thinking About the Script. Act II is Writing The Script and Act III is selling the scripts and just as Act II is usually the longest part of the screenplay Act II is the largest part of STOT. Between challenging the template style of screenwriting and creating excellent dialogue this book is already worth the purchase but when you add the love that Froug has for screenwriting combine with is wit and insight this is a must have book for any screenwriter. STOT may not have information for some to be the only screenwriting book on one's shelf but it is definitely the best second book or an add on book you can have in your collection. Do not overlook this book.

A necessary addition to your screenwriting resources.......2004-01-11

I've read other screenwriting books, but keep picking this up to keep me motivated and on track. This book does not have the nuts and bolts of the beginning "how to's". It's not meant to. It's the book you pick up after the others to change your attitude.
I recommend it.

Good - but others are better.......2002-04-03

Summary: Buy one of the other "how to screenwrite" books first, and come back to this to round out the holes.

UCLA entertainment professor Froug has taught many of the top screenwriter's in Hollywood and has gotten some of his own work on to the big screen, so he's definitely worth listening to.

One of his main points is that you've got to have a structure for what you're writing about, but not too much structure because that kills the innovation and passion in it. Unfortunately, his book follows that advice and itself has some structure but not enough to make it both comprehensive and informative.

He calls it "tricks of the trade" and there's a good reason: it's not laid out to systematically teach you how to write a screenplay. It really is more ad hoc advice on writing screenplays. But I will say it's really good ad hoc advice. If you can get past Froug's slightly arrogant, pompous tone.

As someone who is a novice at screenwriting, I found a Charles Deemer's "Screenwrite" to be better at laying out a good structure for how to think about the main elements that go into writing a good screenplay. Christopher Keane's "How to write a selling screenplay' was also better, but stuck more closely to the formulaic 3-act structure and Hero's journey paradigm.

But all three books basically convey the same core message, just with a bit of a different spin. I've read reviews of lots of the screenwriting books now, and it seems like they all say kinda the same thing.

Straight Talk - Pragmatic Advice.......2001-01-26

I've read about a dozen scriptwriting books and this was in many ways the best of the bunch.

Froug has taught several of today's top-paid screenwriters. His methods are time-tested and proven effective. Many myths were dispelled in this book, and I found that it contained a great deal of very practical tips that other books simply didn't deal with. For example, how do you know if your script is boring? Will it get ripped-off? How do I keep from losing the "fire" for writing my script? These questions and many others are answered in the book.

One of the best things about "Tricks of the Trade" is the way in which it strikes a balance between structure and "feel" in your writing. Froug isn't shy about questioning the rigid formulaic methods which Syd Field teaches. While acknowledging that a reasonable structure *is* important, he states that it is far more important to write from the heart. This is one of the first screenwriting books I've seen do this - to actually tell you that Act I doesn't have to end on page 25, that there musn't be a certain event on page 45, etc. While agreeing that certain elements need to be present to create a good, solid story, Froug boldly teaches us to write from out heart first.

I would recommend reading "How to Write a Movie in 21 Days" as a companion to this. It is sort of an opposite approach, being very formulaic, but once you have that perspective then you can read Froug's book and learn about the importance of the "feel" in your writing.

Lastly, what you'll find inside the covers...

- the process of writing, from conception to final draft - creating a solid story - writing powerful dialog - finding ideas - finding an agent/producer - creating a strong protagonist - much, much more

Enjoy, and happy writing!

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Perspectives in Musicology: The Inaugural Lectures of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York
Barry S. Brook , and Edward O. D. Downes
Manufacturer: Pendragon Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0918728509

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Selection of best Oriental, American problems; figures built up out of standard geometric pieces. Pagodas, cats, people, bridges, etc. Solutions.

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lots of tangrams to play with.......2007-08-07

The tangrams themselves all have to be enlarged in order for my students to use them but I do that in Photoshop and it is working fine. I like that all the answers are there as well. Lots to pick from.

a lovely book for tangram's lovers.......2001-11-10

This book have 334 pages and it is very complete.
The introduction is very instructive.
There are 11 parts: Letters and numbers, Animals (tangram zoo, cats, dogs, birds, horses, bats, sea creatures...) Mankind (servants, Sam Loyd's portrait gallery, horsemen, medieval ladies...), around the house (watering can, baby carriages, stocking, pistol..), boat and bridges, stories and pictures (the house that jack built, the story of cinderella, a game of billard, the orchestra), a little mathematics (! ), chinoiseries (some chinese characters, dagger, raincot, "drinkink alone"), paradoxes and illusions, double tangrams (rocket, coach, sport car, television set, lion..) et the fifteen-piece puzzle (a pavillon in the moolight, a man asleep in a drifting boat..).
The solutions are given in the back of the book. The illustrations and the explanations are very clear. The author wrote a book really complete about tangram

Tout sur le tangram!.......2000-07-02

Ce livre de 334 pages est vraiment complet. Il a une introduction très instructive. Il est divisé en onze parties: Letters and numbers, Animals (tangram zoo, cats, dogs, birds, horses, bats, sea creatures...) Mankind (shoeshine boy and customer, acrobats, medieval ladies...), around the house (pipe, shoes, chairs, pistol..), boat and bridges, stories and pictures (the house that jack built, the story of cinderella, a game of billard, the orchestra), a little mathematics (! ), chinoiseries (some chinese characters, "Buddha hand"...), paradoxes and illusions, double tangrams (house, cyclist, sport car, telescope, microscope..) et the fifteen-piece puzzle (a pavillon in the moolight, a man asleep in a drifting boat..). Les solutions sont données à la fin du livre. Les illustrations et les explications sont très claires. L'auteur a écrit un livre vraiment complet sur les tangrams.

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Tangrams: 330 Puzzles
Ronald C. Read
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MBNIOW

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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 2, number 3 - May - June 1978: Last Full Measure; Voyage of the Bagel; Piece De Resistance; A Choice of Weapons; Polly Plus; Wolf Tracks; Guilt; Star Train; Born Again; Man Who Took the Fifth
George (editor) (George Alec Effinger; Martin Gardner; Jesse Bone; Michael Tennenbaum; Randall Garrett; Donald Gaither; James Gunn; Drew Mendelson; Sharon N. Farber; Michael Schimmel; Tony Sarowitz; F. Paul Wilson; Mildred Downey Broxon) Scithers
Manufacturer: Davis Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NRRVJ8

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THE U.N.C.L.E. FILES - PIECES OF FATE - FILES MAGAZINE
John Peel
Manufacturer: Psi Fi Movie Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KK8C28

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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 2, number 3 - May - June 1978: Last Full Measure; Voyage of the Bagel; Piece De Resistance; A Choice of Weapons; Polly Plus; Wolf Tracks; Guilt; Star Train; Born Again; Man Who Took the Fifth
George (editor) (George Alec Effinger; Martin Gardner; Jesse Bone; Michael Tennenbaum; Randall Garrett; Donald Gaither; James Gunn; Drew Mendelson; Sharon N. Farber; Michael Schimmel; Tony Sarowitz; F. Paul Wilson; Mildred Downey Broxon) Scithers
Manufacturer: Davis Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KJNXNM

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Great story....great message

Great little book...the moral: don't push YOUR luck too far!

A Piece of Luck
Simon Henwood
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Baby-3 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0374359253

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Great story....great message.......2002-02-02

this book is just darling. Very creative with an excellent message for all age groups. Especially in a worldly possession nation that we live in...this book was very enlightening.

Great little book...the moral: don't push YOUR luck too far!.......2000-09-07

I thoroughly enjoyed this book that has a picture book format. The gist of the story line is this...

A man finds a piece of luck (it looks like a little piece of gold). While others are glad for him, they could use some luck themselves. You'll have to read the book to see what happens when the man pushes his luck a little too far. It could happen to anyone.

This book can be used to teach great lessons about sharing, cooperation, greed, and consequences of actions.

I highly recommend it for children and adults of all ages.

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