Holbein and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies)

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One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Hans Holbein the younger earned high acclaim for his work both in the city of Basel and in England for Henry VIII and other patrons. This book is the first to explore the full range of the artist’s English body of work as well as the relation of this work to the visual and material culture of Tudor England. Providing a detailed account of the paintings, drawings, and woodcuts that Holbein produced in England, the book demonstrates convincingly that that country was not as remote from a common European culture as is often assumed. Rather, it was an unmistakable part of that culture.
Susan Foister discusses not only Holbein's well-known portraits but also his decorative paintings and murals, now lost, his designs for goldsmiths, and the works that can be associated with the English Reformation. In addition, she considers Holbein's religious and secular images, his techniques and practices, his status as an official court painter, and a variety of other intriguing topics.

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Brilliant survey.......2007-03-17

This is an outstanding book by the world's leading expert on Holbein. The plates are superb, the color reproductions remarkably faithful.

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A serene portraitist

Holbein in England
Susan Foister
Manufacturer: Tate Gallery
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1854376454

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Hans Holbein's prolific production of precise and realistic portraits of the great figures of the 16th century earned him an international reputation in his own time. Although Holbein (1497-1543) gained high acclaim while working in Switzerland, his periods in England, where he became the official artist at the court of King Henry VIII, proved equally important in establishing his reputation. Susan Foister, a leading expert on Holbein, considers the way in which England both influenced and was influenced by the artist and his work. Illustrated with more than 100 color images, Holbein in England includes the artist's best-known portraits alongside lesser-known but equally important works.

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A serene portraitist.......2007-04-09

For those like myself who were not able to see the exhibit in London, this catalogue is a wonderful survey of this supreme student of the human mind. Every single portrait is a profound analysis of the sitter's personality. These paintings are 500 years old, but they could have been painted yesterday. The text gives new insight on Holbein's world and even on the meaning of some paintings (e.g. the Lady with a Squirrel).

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Artists' London: Holbein to Hirst
Kit Wedd , Lucy Peltz , and Cathy Ross
Manufacturer: Merrell
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Binding: Hardcover

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Anyone who likes to follow in the footsteps of artists will love Artists' London. An exhibition catalog for the Museum of London's "Creative Quarters" show, the book covers five centuries of artistic movements and neighborhoods. Visit Hogarth in Covent Garden, Whistler and Rossetti in Chelsea, or Damien Hirst in present-day East End. Paintings of interiors and works by the artists fill the show, but the detailed maps make you hunger for a walking tour.

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Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII

Manufacturer: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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Binding: Paperback

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Catalogue of an exhibition of portraits by Holbein held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 1978-1979.

The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle

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The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle
K. T. Parker
Manufacturer: Johnson Reprint Corp
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Binding: Hardcover

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Henry VIII Revealed: Holbein's Portrait and Its Legcy

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Henry VIII Revealed: Holbein's Portrait and Its Legcy
Xanthe Brooke , David Crombie , and Hans Holbein
Manufacturer: Paul Holberton Publishing
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The portly figure of Henry VIII depicted by Holbein may be very familiar, but this book reveals much more about the portrait, the sitter, the artist, and his workshop. It gathers together and analyzes the several copies and variants of Holbein's Whitehall cartoon of Henry VIII, more than one of which is by the only significant painter immediately after Holbein in England, Hans Eworth.

The book reveals for the first time the results of extensive technical analysis and historical research undertaken on surviving versions of the portrait in the Walker Art Gallery, Chatsworth, Petworth, Trinity College, Cambridge, and elsewhere. It throws light not only on Henry VIII but on the Tudor court and on courtiers who, for their own purposes, wished to keep his memory alive after his death. The book explores how and when the portraits were painted and the motivation behind their production and also traces how they affected subsequent portrayals of the monarch, down to film and television.

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Holbein’s work exhibits both the highest standards of craftsmanship achieved during the northern Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and an uncommon ability to translate his perception of his sitters into paintings and drawings. His two visits to England produced a series of masterpieces of the portrait painter’s art. His second English period lasted from 1532 to his death in 1543, and during that time
Holbein emerged not only as one of the great European portraitists but also as the chief image-maker of the court of Henry VIII. Indeed our entire visual concept of the Tudor monarch and those around him is firmly rooted in what Holbein saw and recorded.

Holbein And His contemporaries a Loan Exhibition of Painting In France, The Netherlands, Germaby & England ( October 22- December 24 ) 1950

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Holbein And His contemporaries a Loan Exhibition of Painting In France, The Netherlands, Germaby & England ( October 22- December 24 ) 1950
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Holbein and England.(Book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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Holbein and England.(Book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Bret Rothstein
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Hans Holbein, portrait of an age, and four hundred years of English decorative arts: December 16, 1983-February 19, 1984, Byer Museum of the Arts

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Hans Holbein, portrait of an age, and four hundred years of English decorative arts: December 16, 1983-February 19, 1984, Byer Museum of the Arts
Hans Holbein
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Throughout the 1970s, as he wrote the "American Journal" feature for the New Yorker, Calvin Trillin crossed and recrossed the continent. Braver than most transients, he dined in every manner of restaurant, sampling all kinds of native cuisine. He tirelessly sniffed out plain but great joints where the local people loved to eat. "[Don't take me to the] place you took your parents on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, [but] the place you went the night you came home after fourteen months in Korea." As a result of such hard-nosed pursuit of good food, this "Walt Whitman of American eats" produced three delightful books chronicling his gastronomic journey, and they have now been collected into The Tummy Trilogy. Trillin is a marvelous writer, affable and witty under any circumstances. He's also an extremely enthusiastic eater, so the books are filled with gourmet brio. Here's a sample from the first book, American Fried:

ME: Anybody who served a milkshake like this in Kansas City would be put in jail.
ALICE: You promised not to indulge in any of that hometown nostalgia while I'm eating. You know it gives me indigestion.
ME: What nostalgia? Facts are facts. The kind of milkshake that I personally consumed six hundred gallons of at the Country Club Daily is an historical fact in three flavors. Your indigestion is not from listening to my fair-minded remarks on the food of a particular American city. It's from drinking that gray skim milk this bandit is trying to pass off as a milkshake.

This book is almost as fun as tucking into a big, delicious meal (but no substitute, of course). Trillin's family, long-suffering in the face of a father's obsessions, is as winning as always. If you're a dedicated fan--or just dipping into the writing of this good-natured maestro--The Tummy Trilogy is a wonderful book. --Michael Gerber

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In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books over the next two decades—American Fried; Alice, Let’s Eat; and Third Helpings—he established himself as, in Craig Claiborne’s phrase, “the Walt Whitman of American eats.” Trillin’s three comic masterpieces are now available in what Trillin calls The Tummy Trilogy.

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trillin but...........2007-03-14

amusing but not as clever or bitingly witty as Traveling with Alice. Trillin is a great food writer but at times he needs to edit himself. His shorter works are more entertaining

Funny Foodie Confesses All.......2006-10-19

This review refers to "Tales From The Tummy Trilogy" by Calvin Trillin(audio cassette)
He is in search of the perfect bagel. He researches the history of Buffalo Wings, and can tell you if the stain on your shirt that gives away you've been eating them, is from very hot or medium hot wings. He stresses greatly if his favorite cheese shop closes for a holiday. And has stories that will make you both laugh out loud, and ravenous for each and every dish he describes.

Calvin Trillin gives us an hysterical look at the serious foodie. He confesses all, and is proud of it! " Tales From The Tummy Trilogy" include selections from "American Fried","Alice, Lets Eat" and "Third Helpings" He travels the world looking for the best cuisine. No not your high priced fancy shamancy stuff, he's looking for some good old down-home BBQ, making friends with guys who's wife are from the old country and can make a decent dish without adding cream of mushroom soup to everything, and he shows his appreciation for a meal well done, by what else..having third helpings. This to the frustration of his wife, who is trying to keep him on a healthy diet.He pokes fun at his own food addiction and his need for passing it own to his own daughters.

His accounts may make you run to the fridge. I practically ate my way through this very funny book. I took to listening to it on the treadmill in the gym(to help burn off the extra calories i was consuming). I laughed out loud several times, and when I got stares from the other gym rats, I just smiled and held back what I was listening to, for fear of getting hit with flying water bottles!

This audio edition has 2 cassettes, for a total running time of about 3 hours. The reading itself was told with a very unique sense of humor, told in such a serious tone. The sound quality was very good. It is an abridgment. I had never read any of the books that had these selections, so it was all fresh and new to me. So I would say if you have already read them, this will all be repeat stuff(my reason for 4 stars).

Well, as much fun as this book was, I am glad I have finished it and can back to my protein bars and salads!

Enjoy the read....Laurie

Fats Goldberg lives!.......2006-08-21

I seriously doubt when Calvin Trillin was knocking out this purple prose back in the early `70s that he ever considered himself a "food writer." I expect no one at the time save the M.F.K. Fishers and Elizabeth Davids of the world even considered that label for themselves. Besides, Mr. Trillin was--indeed, still is--funnier than hell about his gastronomical habits and so was likely slotted under "Humor" in disco-era bookshops--a fate, I'm sure, worse than literary death. I mention all this as a eulogy to how far we've come, category-wise; Mr. Trillin is indeed a food writer and a great one to boot. And even though he's been at this over thirty years his essential approach--*bon vivant* foodie, not frustrated chef or that hideous modern invention, "food critic"-- remains unique.

So how is it that someone scribbling about *eating* (not, mind you, *cooking*) can have me laughing out loud? And wouldn't a self-confessed "big eater" feel at least some desire to whip up what he puts away? Part of the answer lies in that essential dichotomy: Trillin seems vaguely aware that writing about consumption is ridiculous, but he lets us in on the game and, like any good comedian, takes his craft *very* seriously. Most of the stories in these three hilarious volumes have long been published elsewhere but taken together (they can easily be consumed in any order) they betray a level of culinary detail that I doubt any European 3-star Michelin grader could approach.

From the first pages a wonderful informality reigns; Trillin seems to write like I'd imagine he speaks, which in this context is near-perfect. Being invited to the kind of BBQ joints, Chinese restaurants, and fried chicken houses that he describes *demands* this kind of chatter and rather than rambling, the author's language almost seems made for his venues. (Starting with "the best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City. Not all of them; only the top four or five.") The folksiness not only serves the purpose; when it comes to food, Trillin makes it clear: it *is* the purpose.

Another delightful device is familiarized repetition: bringing back an issue (the paralyzing fear that unreadable Chinese on menus hides unimaginable gastronomic delights, for example) from a previous story helps us identify with Trillin's angst--but also betrays his quiet confidence that we *read* the previous part and know its importance. Bringing whole characters (e.g., Fats Goldberg, the pizza baron) back into the mix regularly is even more fun.

To be sure, after nearly four hundred pages the author has a few overlaps (at least a few titles start with "Confessions of ..."), but they're minor compared to his comic genius. Reading `The Tummy Trilogy' was delicious from start to finish and the only dated portions--best exemplified by continual slams against "continental cuisine" (exemplified by `La Maison de la Casa House')--still rang somewhat true, even playing to a thinly-disguised inverse snobbery.

My only regret after this satisfying meal was not getting a better picture of the author himself, despite his occasional family references. Perhaps that's not all bad; I doubt Mr. Trillin and I would get along. From his recent writing, he appears to be indulging in political fever-swamping (especially against Mr. Bush) which is a tragic waste of talent. While he admits his days as a "sausage-eating crank" may be behind him, I can only fervently wish otherwise.

Wonderful writing and a delight even though much has changed on the American food scene.......2006-02-17

As far as I know, Calvin Trillin and I disagree on almost everything in government, economics, and legislation. However, he writes so well, that I prefer to forget the other and just remember how much he delights me with the music and fun of his words. This book is actually three books in one and all of them are about food. Trillin writes about food in a wonderfully charming way by using his family, friends, as well as the patrons, and restaurateurs he meets during his journeys in search of good eats.

"American Fried" is from 1974, "Alice, Let's Eat" from 1978, and "Third Helping" from 1983. The compilation has a new introduction that is, like the book, from 1994. America eating in the 1990s was much different than the way American's ate in 1974. Through the author's eyes (and tummy), we can recapture what it was like in those inglorious years for America's non-cuisine. Oh, there is plenty of bad food even in 2006, but it is much easier to find great food if you care to eat it.

Trillin is a wonderful storyteller. He has an eye for the telling and humorous detail and a great way with dialogue. These books are packed full of delightful anecdotes that illustrate local delights from all over the country (as well as horrors from all over the country). He has a special kindness that is never mean even while pointing out the ridiculous.

These remain fun books that I can recommend enthusiastically even though eating out on the American scene has changed a great deal since the years in which these books (this book) were written.

Enjoy!

How Much Do I Love This Book?.......2005-09-17

I stole it from a good friend on Easter Sunday no less, and I don't feel bad about it one bit. (Tho' I'm pretty sure stealing from someone on Easter has got to be bad karma.)

The Tummy Trilogy- American Fried - Alice, Let's Eat - Third Helpings

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The Tummy Trilogy- American Fried - Alice, Let's Eat - Third Helpings

Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVNEGU

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New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms.

The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotic and cultural debate--for example Metz's semiotics, Genette's narratology, the feminism of Mary Ann Doane, and Bakhtinian concepts. The book explores linguistically-oriented terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; the psycho-semiology of the cinema; and intertextuality, discourse, and transtextuality. References to individual films drawn from the work of a wide range of directors including Orson Welles, D.W. Griffiths, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Chantal Akerman illustrate the concepts under discussion.

Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics is an impressive guide that will be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy, and literature where an awareness of semiotic terminology and methodology has become indispensible to serious theoretical work.

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An academic treatment for an academic audience.......2006-05-01

As the book's title implies, it is intended for an academic audience--one interested in knowing how semiotics, which has traditionally been applied to the written word, relates to film. Since this book is searchable, a casual perusal of the back cover and table of contents should be sufficient to alert the reader to the book's style as well as as its highly academic treatment of content. Nor does it disappoint the serious student in this regard. Relevant theorists and theory are thoroughly examined. (Daniel Chandler's online introduction to Semiotics should be most welcome to someone unfamiliar with it.)

The book is useful to the serious student of film--how it negotiates meaning between creator/s and viewer/s. Semiotics, despite the author's claim to be a discipline, is more of an analytical method of how a cultural artifact like film goes about its communication work. Like any analytical method, it has developed a specific vocabulary that has been refined and modified over time via the input of various theorists and schools of thought. This can make reading a bit tedious, especially for someone new to the language, history, and concepts.

Ultimately, however, this book and others like it, are intended to shed light on how movies communicate and what makes one "good" and another not so good. For anyone seriously interested to the answers to these questions who isn't simply intellectually lazy, mastery of terminology is extremely useful and hardly a waste of time. Easy answers given in everyday language is available but for a very different audience than the one for which this book was written.

I gave the book 4 stars because the authors don't make much effort to make their explanations more accessible to those without a PhD, which they could easily have done with a little effort. To their credit, however, they do use some techniques such as bolding for new terminology. However, they would probably have fared better had they demonstrated expertise in creating text that is more "user-friendly."

Beginning of the end.......2005-01-01

If you've ever sat through film studies and wondered what on earth was going on, don't fret.

There is probably something to be gained from studying how we watch films, but unfortunately most of those engaged in the world of film studies as academics aren't interested. Instead, many are content to wallow in unreadable texts with long, impressive terms that, in the end, have little at all to do with films.

Studying modes of production, the words of the filmmakers themselves, trends, etc, we can figure out a lot about films. But that's not good enough for some people because it's too straightforward and obvious. Instead, an entire vocabulary needs to be invented--poststructuralism, film semiotics, etc, etc, in order to mask the quite obvious fact that we still don't know a thing.

If we had any concrete understanding of how films 'work' on our minds, then someone could write a book that a 12 year old could read and understand. Instead, we get books like this: inpenetrable, heavy, intellectual tripe.

If you believe there is actually a 'theory' to film, and that such a 'theory' can be applied to a large body of film and work, then this might be for you. If you're more interested in the real world, on planet Earth, you may want to avoid the subject altogether...

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Spirit of the First People is inspiring!.......2000-11-02

Native American Music Traditions of Washington State. This book & accompanying compact disk offer a rare glimpse into the NorthWest Native American's sacred traditions of song & dance.

Arising from a unique exhibit & live performance at the Northwest Folklife Festival, Spirit of the First People is a collection of personal narratives, stories & essays on the music of the First People in the region that now encampasses Washington State. From tribe to tribe & reservation to reservation across the state, a wide range of musical genres & individual styles have developed, including social dance songs, game songs & hymns.

It takes time to re-tune our ears from listening to the artificial & steroidal music we're used to. Listening to both the CD & reading the stories is like hearing the thunder in a gorge, a hawk on the wind, snow-muffled footsteps, water rushing to the sea. The voices of the People of the Earth whose ears have heard its heartbeats & remember the stories.

Tucked into the many memories of boarding school, singing the songs to life, berry gathering & potlatches is a gallery of exquisite black & white archival photos as well has full color ones of today's families, ceremonial regalia & drums.

A rare treat & an inspired gift for someone you know who favors music of a First People. A treasure! For my full review do check out: [my website].

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Great introduction to two color knitting

Beautiful Sweaters

Very satisfied with this book

Solid, but hardly the "best" of Lopi.

lovely, easy to follow instructions

The Best of Lopi
Susan Mills , and Norah Gaughan
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This collection offers quick-to-knit patterns for easy-to-wear Arans and simple textured knits using Lopi, the uniquely lightweight bulky yarn spun in Iceland from its long-coated native sheep. With 45 unique designs, The Best of Lopi celebrates the tradition of the Icelandic yoked sweater with updated sizing, colorway choices, and clearly illustrated techniques. Included are step-by-step charts and instructions for classic Lopi pullovers and cardigans as well as hats, mittens, and scarves. An index and palette aid knitters with pattern selection and color blending.

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Great introduction to two color knitting.......2006-11-03

Knitters will enjoy using these patterns to knit up sweaters. The bulky gauge makes the sweaters easy to finish in a week. Knit a little every day and you simply can't help finish in a week. Plus it's fun to combine the charts from one sweater with the sizes from another. Socks, mittens, hats, scarves, ponchos and even some Aran style sweaters are found in this book.

Beautiful Sweaters.......2005-10-19

This book is awesome. I highly recommend this book if your at all interested in knitting Islandic sweaters...this is the book for you! The sweater patterns are gorgeous! The patterns are easy explained and the graphs are easy to read. I have made several sweaters from this book and I am very happy with all of them. I also like the way they give you differnt color combinations for most of the sweaters also. Just in case you don't care for the colors it's knitted in in the book, they give you another color combination. I definatley recommend purchasing a Lopi color card sample if your not able to actually see the yarn before you buy it. I got mine on line where I buy my lopi yarn. Just like everything...the colors of the yarn vary from the way they look in the book. This book is definatley worth buying. I love it.

Very satisfied with this book.......2003-12-09

Though I have yet to knit a sweater from this book (just received it last week, and have nearly completed a pair of socks from it,) I suspect that it will be one of my most-used knitting books. It contains many sweater patterns, most of which are sized from extra small to extra large, and a number of patterns for socks, mittens and hats as well. I feel that the selection of sweater patterns is well-balanced; there are of course the traditional Icelandic round-yoked sweaters, but there are also patterns for cabled sweaters and a cabled jacket, fairisle, and many other pullovers and cardigans inspired by the traditions of other countries. There are some very nice patterns for men as well as for women and children, which is nice because attractive men's sweater patterns can be difficult to come across. The book also contains information on what exactly Lopi yarn is, plus color charts of both Lopi and Lopi Lite. Then next sweater I start will be the Norwegian-inspired men's cardigan, and I also plan to knit the little girls' poncho and the fantastic Snorri aran before next Christmas. For myself I want to knit the cabled jacket; for my mom the very unique textured, multicolored jacket; for my sister the hooded, zippered jacket with colorwork edging . . . I guess you can say that this book inspires me!

Solid, but hardly the "best" of Lopi........2003-05-06

This book is wonderful, but it hardly deserves the appellation "best". The editors, in my opinion, made some very odd choices about what to include (and, conversely, to exclude.) I understand that they were aiming for variety: a mix of cardigans and pullovers, traditional and modern styles, classic neutrals and cheerful, bright colors. There are a few challenging patterns in the collection (Sigridur, with its many three-color rows, comes to mind) but generally the editors have made an obvious effort to keep the book beginning-knitter-friendly.

There are quite a few beautiful, distinctive Lopi patterns which would have satisfied all of the above criteria, but for some reason these were left out of the book in favor of a bunch of clunky, uninspired designs. Perhaps the prettier sweaters were perceived as more difficult to knit, and omitted for fear of alienating the novice knitter. If you can get your hands on a copy of Lopi Vol. 22, you'll see what I mean. Vol. 22, packed with gorgeous designs, comes much closer to representing "the best of Lopi" than this book does.

One further criticism: this book is a compilation of previously published patterns, some of which were published quite a few years ago. XRX should really have re-photographed ALL the sweaters in the book, not just a select few. Many of the pictures in this book are really very silly, with their early-1960's hair and makeup, massive shirt collars, and bizarre color sense.

These quibbles aside, there are several real gems in the book. The Annika cardigan is just beautiful, as are the Laela rose-patterned pullover, the Klara fairisle sweater, and the Sonja and Snorri arans (which look just wonderful in a tweedy shade of Lopi.) Many of the children's patterns, however, are nicer than the adult sweaters! Fortunately, they are not difficult to resize.

lovely, easy to follow instructions.......2002-12-19

XRX will need to compile more books. With these beautiful designs and combination of colors complimented by their easy to follow directions they are sure to be a hit in the knitting world. Good Luck...design again soon...Lourdes

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GOOD, however the NY Metro thing is bogus, practice tests not representative.......2006-03-22

Essentially, there are a million reviews of this book under the "Premier Edition" version - and I agree with everything they say. The first crucial thing to know is that the Kaplan tests are NOT representative. My Kaplan test scores: 560, 570, 560, 610 (all of this had me in tears and ready to cancel my test date). Well, my real score was a 760. I think the two reasons for this discrepancy are that each Kaplan test section begins with a fairly difficult question (the first question in each section on the real GMAT was much easier by comparison) and overall the Kaplan practice test verbal sections are much harder than the real GMAT verbal section. By the time I picked up this book, I was mostly done with my studying - I just wanted the practice tests. Given that, I don't have anything to say about the review sections of the book. I will say, scoring WAY below what I was hoping to in these practice tests taught me to keep my cool and not panic whenever I hit a rough patch (so thanks, Kaplan, for the tough love... it paid off on test day). I also really liked the "Math Reference" appendix in the book - very helpful. As for the NYC stuff - it wasn't useful. It was only $2 more and that's about what it was worth. My NYC advice? I only took the test in one place, but I have to highly recommend the Lower Manhattan Pearson Vue test facility. It was awesome. Peaceful, professional, and the people were really, really nice. They even gave me a hug when I got a good score - considering my low Kaplan practice test experiences, I was happily in total shock!

Not Mac Compatible.......2005-07-02

Even though the Kaplan website appears to state that this package is Mac compatible, the entire package is not. The Mac compatibility refers to the online prep that is available. The CD ROM that is included with the book is windows only. The prep is good as usual, but the Kaplan website is misleading about compatibility. Kaplan says that they are aware of this and the product description may be changed soon.

Kaplan GMAT 2006, Premier Program (Kaplan Gmat (Book & CD-Rom))

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*Guidance throughout the program, directing students to additional resources within the program if they need it
*A diagnostic experience to help students concentrate on the areas in which they need the most help
*A progress report, so students can keep track of and analyze their performance as they make their way through the program
*Email communication at key points during the program, providing extra tips and guidance, as well as motivation to keep improving
*Monthly online additions to ensure that the student has the latest content and information about the exam
*Remedial content to ensure students are up-to-speed on the basic concepts before attacking higher-level content
*Downloadable strategy and reference guides for easy prep on the go
*Realistic practice experiences
*Online question banks
*6 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations

Customer Reviews:

most important resource for gmat candidates.......2007-09-12

if you wish to prepare for GMAT you need only two books official guide to GMAT and this kaplan gmat book .

The next step for serious GMAT review.......2007-09-07

As most have stated, princeton review is the easier book, and the kaplan series are more difficult.

For someone shooting for a top ten, I would recommend using all of the books. I would start with princeton review to break you in and set the basics, take their practice tests to warm you up, they are a bit easier than the others. I would then move to the Kaplan series. Take ALL of the tests you can get a hold of... they are the best prep and ia good ndicator of your progress.

That said, you can have a bad score one day and a good score the next, but the practice will help prepare you for the real deal.

Finally do the problems in the official GMAT books! Make sure to do all of those problems. The problems in those books are the best.

Take the tests, ignore the scores.......2007-07-07

I took the Kaplan practice tests before taking the GMAT. Like most people, I think the Kaplan tests differ significantly from what you'll see on the real GMAT. The Kaplan math questions were just as difficult as what I saw on the real test, while the verbal questions on the real GMAT were much easier than questions on Kaplan's practice tests.

It can be disappointing to see low scores on Kaplan practice tests after doing a lot of hard work. Keep in mind, though, that it's in Kaplan's best interests for you to improve on test day, rather than see your scores go down. Also, when you score poorly on practice tests after going through their book, you might be more likely to sign up for one of Kaplan's courses. However, I think the most reasonable explanation for test taker's consistently underperforming on Kaplan practice tests is simply that the scoring system is poorly calibrated.

I prepared for the GMAT by going through the Kaplan 800 book. For the sections I found most difficult, I went through the practice questions in the three "Official Guide for GMAT Review" books. I think the key to a good score is doing as many practice problems and practice tests as you can get your hands on.

My practice test scores were:

Kaplan Practice Test 1: 640 (14 days before the exam)
Kaplan Practice Test 2: 640 (10 days before the exam)
Kaplan Practice Test 3: 580 (5 days before the exam)
Kaplan Practice Test 4: 540 (3 days before the exam)
GMATPrep Test 1: 740 (2 days before the exam)
GMATPrep Test 2: 740 (1 day before the exam)
Actual GMAT: 760

The Kaplan tests helped me gain a sense of how much time I had to spend on each question. It was useful for me to see how rushed I would be at the end of a section as a result of spending just five minutes too long on the first 20-25 questions. On test day, I benefited from being disciplined enough to move on before getting bogged down on a question.

I thought the GMATPrep practice tests that you get when you sign up for the exam were the closest to what I saw on the real test. To me, the verbal section on test day was easy, while the math section had more tough questions than I had seen on any other exam. There were at least 3-4 math questions where I just guessed and moved on rather than waste time trying to come up with a solution. Just beware on test day that this won't ruin your chances of getting a solid score.

Kind of bad.......2007-01-04

I have not yet taken the GMAT, but am so far NOT satisfied with this book. I also have the PR (2007) and the latest edition(s) of the 3 GMAC books, and the main difference(s) that I have found between them and this one are the following....
1) The explanantions to the answers are very concise, and you have to keep flipping back to the question pages in several instances to read the question - the other books have the questions also printed along-with the answer explanations, and are more explantory.
2) In a lot of instances in the verbal section(s), I have, even after reading the explanation, felt that the answer/explanation to be very vague, and in some instances, I have actually felt that the answer is actually wrong.
3) In the verbal section, in the "inference" questions, in several instances, it is mentioned that an inference cannot be something that is factually stated in the passage, but in some instances, those (that had been factually stated) have been chosen as the answers.
But contrary to some of the opinions that I have read, I have not found the quant. questions (in the book, not the CD) to be too hard.

UPDATE:
Took the GMAT : Actual Score 730 (97th percentile).
Kaplan Scores : 560 - 630.

Kaplan is Horrible!.......2006-09-16

I got the book. Signed up for the website. Then didn't have time to study for a while because of work. When I finally had time to use the book and study, my internet access (where a lot of important suppliments are) was cut off because it was passed the assumed amount of time. I tried getting it restored, but Kaplan was no help.
1st-They kept connecting me to the wrong departments who were too busy to talk, so took messages and never returned your calls.
2nd-Didn't respond to emails
3rd-After 4 days of trying to get in contact with the right department, I found out at Friday at 6pm that the people who could help me are closed from 5pm and the whole weekend. So now I have to lose another 3 days. This is very frustrating for someone who has to work and is limited with time. The phone opperator said this is a common problem but Kaplan does not care to spend the money to have employees over the weekend.

DO NOT USE THIS BOOK, THE SERVICE THAT COMES WITH IT IS TERRIBLE!

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