Book Description
Explore the world of travel accompanied by the art and imagination of James C. Christensen. Whether you are preparing for a trip and need a travel journal or you want to give one as a gift to a traveling friend, you will love Exploration, volume two in the Personal Illuminations series.
Filled with charming illustrations, this journal teaches you some cardinal rules that will help you enjoy yourself more while visiting abroad, including:
* Travel light--leave the emotional baggage behind.
* Be curious; listen more; talk less.
* Visit the fish market; notice the gargoyles; talk with the street sweepers.
* Sit still in a public place and take it all in.
Exploration helps you notice and appreciate differences between cultures--including food, customs, sacred places, local legends, and dress. This travel journal will help you record your experiences, and give you ideas for new experiences, that will make your trip more meaningful and preserve your memories in a delightful way for when you've come home again.
Major works of James C. Christensen are available as limited edition fine art prints and three-dimensional collectibles published by The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. www.greenwichworkshop.com
Customer Reviews:
Twenty Things I Like about Enumeration: My Book of Lists.......2001-01-11
1) I can tell tell the world "why I am a Superior Being" (for two pages!).
2) I can also "vent" for two pages... and then "move on."
3) I can draw thought balloons for the tie-wearing cat or Yorick's skull.
4) I can celebrate "great days" or whine about things that went wrong.
5) I can grow by doing what I've always been afraid to try.
6) I can count my blessings and set goals to bless others: perform acts of kindness (random and otherwise), send thank-you notes, choose gifts, extend dinner invitations...
7) I can experience new things, like listening to European pop music or tasting Ethiopian cuisine--and maybe find something to add to "my favorite foods."
8) I can be spiritual by recording favorite scriptures.
9) I can make memories with my family "now" or "while I still can."
10) I can brainstorm improvements to my home... and work... and health... and environment.
11) I can log my debts (monetary and otherwise).
12) I can name the pet dragon or the one-horned dinner guest or the hunchback's flying contraption.
13) I can invent my own lists.
14) I can sift the trivial from what really matters.
15) I can doodle for posterity (but mostly for myself) and search for the right word and be surprised by a forgotten memory.
16) I can discover what I want to change about myself...
17) ... and what I want to keep just the way it is--at least for now.
18) I can find out my favorite quotations include things my grandmother used to say.
19) I can fill up one journal and start another.
20) I can recall all these things next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, because I've written them down.
Customer Reviews:
excellent beginners book.......2004-10-21
Fabulous book, written especially for beginners who know very little about painting, but also has EXCELLENT pointers for those who are good painters, but love those extra tips.
I've got this one at the top of my shelf and I've underlined, bookmarked pages, etc. It really is an excellent read, but most of all, it has really easy-to-follow instructions and doesn't leave you confused.
If you're just learning to paint, then you really have to get this book. You just have to. It is written SIMPLY and is EASY to read and the book is really thick and hardback and will last a really long time. Well worth the money and something you can use as a reference too.
great book.......2003-06-23
This is a great, comprehensive painting guide for anyone who is interested in getting into oil, acrylics or watercolor painting. It shows all the basics needed including the materials available and needed and it also shows (at least to me) some advanced techniques. Great for any beginner and maybe even intermediate painter. The only complaint I have to make is that I would have liked that the book covered other kinds of painting too, such as glass painting, but I guess it makes sence that they didn't really get into that since it seems to me that it is a classic kind ot painting school.
A huge resource for anyone painting anything!.......2000-11-12
I am very pleased with the work I have created using this book. I had a lot of questions about watercolor and oil painting. Most of the other books I purchased and studied left a lot of the beginner things out....like how to actually mix colors well. The format is wonderful as well, you can go from one exercise to the next a really get some techniques under your belt. The approach to demystifying the products needed for each media was fantastic. You are shown what each product is for and when you might use it. The instuctions in the book include clear step by step pictures...so you don't start feeling lost halfway through the exercise. The best part? There is no rigid rules, the dialogue is personal and encouraging. You flip through it and start itching to paint!
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The Hamlyn Art School: A Complete Painters Course
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0600592669 |
Customer Reviews:
A treasure.......2007-02-24
A wonderful resurce for those interested in 19th century American costume and early photography, following the author's earlier work "Dressed for the Photographer". The amount of fine detail given and breadth of knowledge displayed is awe inspiring.
early 1800s American daguerreotypes as records of the era's fashions.......2006-07-04
Severa examines daguereotypes of American women and some children and men for what can be learned about American fashion in the 1840s and '50s. Severa is a former curator of costume at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. That she examines over 250 and has something different to point out about American fashion with each one attests to the variety and bountifulness of the fashion during the short period of the two decades--which is what the author wanted to demonstrate by the daguerreotypes. Women in the earlier 1800s had more fashion choices than they did in the middle and latter nineteenth century. "In the 1840s the visible model [for women's fashion] was taken, as it had been for centuries, from royalty." Designers in Paris and other fashion centers quickly picked up on the fashions displayed by queens, princesses, and duchesses in their marriage ceremonies, crownings, and other public appearances. And these trend-setting fashions were quickly picked up by American women in turn. Most of the women in the daguerreotypes are well-to-do, able to keep up with the latest and the finest fashion of the era. In addition to noting and naming parts of the fashions visible in the numerous daguerreotypes, Severa makes comments on such points as materials and unseen features cut off by the frames which most readers would not be aware of. "The dress is of rich silk, with fitted sleeves, fan front bodice, and full bouffant skirt" is part of her description of the dress of one young woman. The author's enthusiasm for the subject and succinct, informative annotations along with the pictures of actual historical persons make this an especially enjoyable survey of this short but exceptionally rich period of American fashion.
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American Daguerreian Art
Manufacturer: Clarkson N. Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HDJ4MU |
Book Description
Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll--Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnson’s Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographer’s mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate.
Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many of these zingers have long lain dormant. Some have even come close to extinction. Now they’re back in all their prickly glory, ready to be relished once more.
Customer Reviews:
Beware of 'backfriends' Amusing .......2007-01-05
This is an amusing collection of the 'snubs, sneers, slights and effronteries' by the 'Great Cham'. Lynch arranges them in alphabetical order and adds his own interesting commentary on their origins. In writing for instance of 'backfriends' that is of friends who behind the back to others speak about their friend in ways not friendly at all. He tells us the story of Boswell's resentment of Hester Thrale whom Johnson gave more time with him, and his revenge on her by filling his 'Life of Johnson' with insulting remarks about her. These led her to say that if all friends are like Johnson one should have no friends at all.
This is an amusing work especially for those who love the study of Language and all its unending varieties and duplicities.
As Intelligent as a Shovel Beaten Weasel........2006-04-10
Please don't waste your time, or, more importantly, your hard earned money on this compendium of excrement.
The barbs and sneers in this book were of the grade school variety. Anyone with a minimum of a double digit I.Q. could be far more imaginative and impressive with less effort than would be needed to turn one page in this *book*.
Samuel Johnson was a man of extreme bias and prejudice, and most often without basis or reason; all of which shine through clearly in a few of the more *enlightening* barbs and sneers.
The only sneer connected to this travesty of bound paper was the one I wore while being forced to peruse it by a well meaning colleague.
Over three hundred of Samuel Johnson's nastier barbs.......2005-02-07
Over three hundred of Samuel Johnson's nastier barbs and their meanings are gathered from his various writings under one cover to appeal to modern readers seeking new ways of insulting. Quotes are often accompanied not just by definitions but insights into the source of the barb or quip, revealing further insights into Samuel Johnson's works and life as well. Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master is highly entertaining and enthusiastically recommended reading.
Classic Zingers.......2004-11-27
If you are at a loss for words when annoyed, read this. The insults are selected from Johnson's famous eighteenth century Dictionary of the English Language. Bet you never thought to call someone a jobbernowl or a moon-calf.
Actually this is great for anyone who likes reading historic romances and is curious about some words used by the characters. Example: "rakehel - a wild, worthless, dissolute, debauched, sorry fellow." The book contains over 300 of these insults.
Book Description
Sci-fi, schlock, women-in-prison, Japanese monsters, biker gangs, brazen gals, mindless men, kung fu mischief, bad music, flower power, and puppet people! Utilizing in-depth reviews, cast and plot details, Slimetime wallows in those films which the world has deemed it best to forget-everything from cheesy no-budget exploi-tation to the embarrassing efforts of major studios. Many of the motion pictures in Slimetime have never had a major release, some were big hits, others have simply "vanished." Complimenting the wealth of reviews are detailed essays on specific sleaze genres such as Biker, Blaxploitation, and Drug movies.
Steven Puchalski is editor/publisher of the cult-movie magazine Shock Cinema, and a frequent contributor to Fan--goria, and Sci-Fi, the official magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel.
Customer Reviews:
to the person who gave this one star.......2003-05-03
what is wrong with you? all of these in Blockbuster? what Blockbuster are YOU going to? (And, what are you doing going there in the firstplace? No sleaze/trash film fan would ever even look upon a Blockbuster, let along go IN!) Puchalski has OBVIOUSLY seen al the films HE reviews (can't speak for his guests). This book is amazingly fun. Get it and enjoy!
A Sleaze disappointment........2003-01-28
Steven Pulchaski, whose fanzine and website "Shock Cinema" offer reviews of the most obscure and bizarre films ever released, has fallen flat on his desire to please mainstream territory. Every film in this book is available at Blockbuster, and while this may be a benefit for novices, most people interested in a book called "Slimetime" want to hear more about the buried treasures of the sleaze era. Also, it's clear that Pulchaski hasn't seen all the films he writes about, a sin for film fans that is almost unforgivable. Buy "Sleazoid Express" instead, or at least check out Pulchaski's web site. The man's brilliant, but you'll find no evidence of it here.
Zine stalwart comes up with the goods........2002-12-27
400 pages of PURE GOLD!! Steve Puchalski started out in the publishing world producing a zine called SLIMETIME. Along with GORE GAZETTE and SLEAZOID EXPRESS it was one of the best publications of its type around in the 80's. Now he has compiled all those early issues into one amazing tome that will bring a sentimental tear to older horror, cult and sleaze fans like me, and open the eyes of a whole new audience to much cinematic cheese that they may not be aware of. This book has something for everyone, be they gorehound, arthouse, tv, transgressive or even mainstream fans.
This updated version also includes a review of a live performance of Hunter S Thompson and lengthy essays on biker, drug and blaxploitation films.
Puchalski is still involved in publishing, with his great SHOCK CINEMA magazine. Discover his roots with this book and you'll quickly be sending off a subscription cheque to that publication.
In a word, this book is ESSENTIAL.
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Experiencing Music: A Composer's Notes (Musicians on Music, No. 5)
Vagn Holmboe
Manufacturer: Toccata Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0907689159 |
Book Description
This guide to creating fully functional, working locks from wood includes step-by-step instructions, color photos, measured drawings, and advice on wood selection, tools, and finishing. Techniques for creating five different locks, including a combination lock, are also included. Here is a book for all woodworkers who enjoy making moving, mechanically oriented objects such as puzzles, games, gears, and motors.
Customer Reviews:
Really Thorough.......2006-02-11
I have only read thru the project list for the first of the 5 locks but I'm already itching to try my hand at constructing several of them. The instructions are very detailed and with full size drawings, the only difficulty will be finding the time to get started. Although the plan dimensions will generate seemingly large locks as compared with their metal counterparts, it should be of little difficulty to scale down the plans.
One reviewer commented about how two of the locks are fairly similar and I would agree that a unique type of lock should have been included instead. Hence the 4 rating.
Of special consideration is that the cover posted directly on the Amazon ad is not the accurate cover. However, if you "Look Inside" the book, the scanned cover is correct.
The one thing that should be made clear is that this book does not function as a guide to locksmithing. The plans are clear for building the locks but provide little explanation in terms of how the mechanisms work so a bit of tinkering will be necessary if you want to venture away from his designs.
Otherwise, I'm thrilled with the purchase!
Making Working Wooden Locks.......2005-09-13
Cool book. Not exactly what I originally wanted but one I will keep around anyway.
Don't be mislead.......2004-02-11
Another customer from Ontario wrote [quote]The cover shown with this book description does not show the actual locks that are described. Do not get mislead!!![/quote]
In actual fact I own the original book and when I saw this one advertized here, I ordered it assuming it would contain instructions to make the locks depicted on the cover.
When I received a copy of the original book, I simply assumed it was an error and returned it.
Another was sent to me immediately but turned out to be the same as the first. It was then I realized the cover as shown was not what the book contained.
I did receive excellent service from Amazon in rectifying the problem and all credits were applied to my account.
The old addage, what you see is not always what you get, certainly applies in this case.
I fail to understand why Amazon doesn't simply show the cover from the book in stock.
As also mentioned by at least one customer, two of the locks are very similar and considering the author has made many different ones, it's a shame he chose to do this.
Hopefully his next book "More Working Wooden Locks" on order since October, will contain plans for 5 distinctive locks.
Great Idea for a Book, mediocre implementation.......2003-02-26
The idea of making functional locks completely from wood is great. This book accomplishes this task to a reasonable degree. Although, I do have some reservations about this book. There are five lock projects, two of which are extremely similar. Rather than waste pages duplicating instructions, this space could have been more effectively used describing additional locks. Some drawings are actual size, some are not, which is frustrating. Beware that this book was printed with more than one front cover which is very misleading and tacky publishing practice!!!! The content is identical! The cover shown with this book description does not show the actual locks that are described. Do not get mislead!!!
Great fun. Looking forward to trying them all!.......2003-01-07
I am a beginning student in cabinetmaking and have been browsing Amazon.com for ideas for my classroom projects. Because I grew up in a time when boys took shop and girls took home ec, I really have not had any experience with power tools beyond an electric drill. Any project that helps me become more comfortable with these tools and also with hand tools at a minimum cost outlay for materials is a welcome addition to my library. Making Working Wooden Locks
by Tim Detweiler is such a book. The simple diagrams, many of them full scale, should make the actual process of producing the lock parts simple. The suggestions for jigs and measurements should be helpful, not only with this project but with others as well. Most of the written instructions are very clear, especially when taken in conjunction with the diagrams, so assembly should not be a problem either. While I can use the classroom equipment and will, I hope to purchase some of the tools suggested in the book for a shop of my own, and those that are required for the locks would be a good place to begin. Each mechanism is somewhat more complex than the preceding one, and the tools required for each a little more complex as well, so I should have quite a collection with which I am familiar by the time I have completed all five.
Customer Reviews:
Lincoln is still a leader........2007-10-01
I selected "Lincoln on Leadership" as a biography to use in a graduate educational administration course and I couldn't have chosen a better book. The organization of the book highlighted leadership qualities that Lincoln exemplified and each chapter had a succinct summary of those leadership skills. Lincoln's leadership is applicable to all types of leadership including education.
Leadership During ALL Times.......2007-04-28
Donald T. Phillips used our sixteenth president's wisdom under fire to provide an excellent primer for leadership focused on tough times, but it is as important during good times. When sales are at record levels, employees are happily working long hours, and new prospects are pounding on the doors because of customers' recommendations, is when one needs to be preparing for potential tough times.
Few will go through the meat-grinder which faced President Lincoln, but able leadership during good times will give an organization a firm footing for the mishaps and misfortunes which will affect us all at some point. Focusing on the 'Endeavor' section of the book, Phillips illustrates examples of Lincoln's will, ability, and lack of hesitation in making tough, necessary decisions. Losing a war, being sniped at by those who should be supporters, and struggling with difficult family matters can be paralyzing, but ignoring a personnel issue so as to not rock the boat during a smooth voyage can also be destructive. Phillips points out how "Lincoln often accepted the aggravation and exasperation caused by subordinates if they did their jobs competently", but he also shows how Lincoln could be decisive and tough when his hand was forced. This includes disciplining and firing upper level staff such as cabinet secretaries and commanding generals.
Any review of Lincoln's life would be incomplete without mentioning his use of humor and a unique storytelling ability to make his point. Phillips recounts Lincoln's reason for doing so, which includes these lines: "I often avoid a long and useless discussion by others or a laborious explanation on my own part by a short story that illustrates my point of view." "No, I am not simply a story-teller, but story-telling as an emollient saves me much friction and distress." Oh, if only more of our business and government leaders would use short stories, saving us all some "friction and distress".
The chapter titled "Persuade Rather Than Coerce" explains that Lincoln was smart enough to know that he couldn't do it all by himself, but needed capable leaders who were authorized to make decisions and act on them. His largest problem with military leadership was a gauntlet of generals who were not willing to assume that responsibility. Understanding that influence is a more effective tool of leadership than coercion or orders, he "...preferred to let his generals make their own decisions and hoped that, through his suggestions, they would do the right thing."
That chapter begins with a quote from the first Lincoln Douglas debate: With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. Looking back at the presidents of my lifetime, it is easy to see which have taken this advice to heart, and have shown success because of it. Likewise, those who have ignored it, and a recent president comes to mind, have had their leadership suffer.
Paraphrasing John C. Maxwell, there is no such thing as `leadership during tough times'; there is only `leadership'. Those fond of history and anyone interested in leadership should read this book.
Great viewpoint on focusing on people.......2007-04-23
This book is one of the best management/leadership books I have ever read. It was giving to me by one of my business school professors who I respect and admire greatly. The book will not disappoint you if you decide to buy it. Worth the time and money!
Lessons on Leadership.......2007-03-31
This is a great book for individuals entering the business world to read how leadership and ethics can and should lead to excellent decision-making skills.
Excellent and well-worth reading........2007-03-31
This book is well written and will appeal to a very wide range of readers, including but not limited to Lincoln scholars and those interested in leadership. Readers who are interested in history, business, politics and those who just like well-written prose should enjoy this book. As the title states, this book is about Lincoln's leadership style. He is portrayed as a paradigm of an effective leader. The book covers topics such as: his interactions with people, his character, his decisiveness, and his immense skills as a communicator. Each chapter covers a different facet of leadership and how Lincoln typified this feature. At the end of each chapter there is brief discussion of how this applies to current day business and politics. There is also a brief summary list of Lincoln's principles discussed in that chapter. The book itself is brief and you can learn a lot from the way that Lincoln interacted with and led people during the most trying time in America's history.
While the focus of the book is on Lincoln's leadership, I learned quite a bit about the man and the challenges that he faced and how he shaped the subsequent government of the US. This was done in a very interesting manner, which was devoid of the dense details of a history book. I got more from this brief book than from some much more detailed books on the Civil War. The book is replete with Lincoln anecdotes, jokes and parables, all of which enrich the text and get the points across in much the same way Lincoln initially used them to get his points across. The best accolade that I can give this book as that it is making me read more about Lincoln and about leadership.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by American Society of Military Comptrollers on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1171 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: Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times. (Off the Shelf).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Shirley A. Stephens
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Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: American Society of Military Comptrollers
Volume: 48
Issue: 1
Page: 29(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Lincoln on Leadership
Manufacturer: Recorded Books INc
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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ASIN: 078873573X |
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Executive Strategies for Tough Times. In this remarkable book - hailed by CEOs, politicians, coaches and college presidents alike - Donald T. Phillips examines Lincoln's effective leadership style. As he explores the President's diverse management skills, he demonstrates how youc an succeed with them in today's complex world. With this compelling portrait, Donald T. Phillips reveals Lincoln as one of the world's most outstanding leaders. Nelson Runger's thought-provoking narration will motivate you to influence others in the same quiet way.
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