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The designs of Clarice Cliff are among the most striking and collectable ceramics produced in the20th century. Angular and uncompromising, embellished in strident primary colors, they were a sensation when they first appeared in the1920s, capturing the very spirit of the Art Deco movement. Today her teaware is as sought after as it was then, her most collected designs, such as her Bizarre ware, commanding top prices. Now,100 years from her birth in1899, Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre explores the life and work of this fascinating artist. Leonard Griffin, an authority on Cliff, considers her achievements and artistic significance, highlighting these with220 photos of all her major forms and designs. All facets of her life are explored--her motivations, ambitions, and inspiration; her phenomenal success in the1920s and1930s; and her challenge to the art establishment, which she ultimately rejected in favor of a simpler life. Complete with a comprehensive reference section, this is a splendid portrait of one of the finest, most vibrant ceramic artists of this century. Leonard Griffin is the author of Taking Tea with Clarice Cliff and Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff.
Customer Reviews:
My favourite Clarice Cliff book.......2006-03-21
Although this book is 6 years old it remains my favourite of all the Clarice Cliff books and there are now MANY available on her now. It tells Clarice's story thoroughly, with far more archive images than any other book, and great colour pictures of pieces from collectors from all over the world. The author interviewed nearly all the surviving paintresses who worked for her between 1927 and 1964 and this shows in the attention to detail about them, life in the 1930s and individual patterns they painted. There are many quotations from Clarice in the book and these give a "flavour" of her as a person. I'm prompted to write this review for newer collectors or Clarice fans who might be confused over the best book to start with, but in my opinion THIS is it, and at a very good price too. Barry
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Why is Dilbert such a phenomenon' People see their own dreary, monotonous lives brought to comedic life in the ubiquitous strip. In the 23rd collection of Scott Adams" tremendously popular series, Don"t Stand Where the Comet Is Assumed to Strike Oil, suppressed and repressed workers everywhere can follow the latest developments in the so-called careers of Dilbert, power-hungry Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, the pointy-haired boss, and other supporting"but don"t you dare call them supportive"characters. Each "funny because it"s true" scenario bears an uncanny, hysterical, sometimes uncomfortable similarity to cubicle-filled corporate America. But the United States clearly hasn"t cornered the market when it comes to drone-filled offices: Dilbert appears in 65 countries in 25 languages and in 2,000 newspapers. The strip has 150 million fans worldwide.
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Don't Stand Where The Comet Is Assumed To Strike Oil: A Dilbert Book.......2007-03-26
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Fun times.......2005-09-16
Scott Adams brings an utterly human and sensible perspective to what is so often inhuman and insensible: the world, especially the office world. Adams' satire is sometimes so bizarre and abstract as to actually approach reality.
Adams' only trouble is that he seems to be running out of ideas, cycling some of the same basic jokes in different packages. But he's still a funny read, and one of the best comics out there.
A very hilarious book........2005-01-21
This latest Dilbert is witty, funny, and I give Scott Adams an A+ for putting greater details into his art works.
Not the strongest Dilbert collection but worth the read........2005-01-06
If you have ever read Dilbert and cracked a smile or saw where you worked in the joke then you need to buy the collected strip editions.
Profits Plummet.......2004-12-16
Dilbert and the cast of his wacky corporation are back for more satirical looks at our modern business life. Join our crazy characters for some of the following story arcs:
The company loses so much money a new number needs to be named
The perils of discount Irish dancing
The dreaded tunnel shark
Asok heads the office relocation
And more quick jabs and jokes than can be listed. If you work in an office, you will swear Scott Adams has been watching your coworkers.
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Upon publication twenty-five years ago, Pidgin To Da Max became a best-seller and remains one today, with over 200,000 copies in print. The sequel, Pidgin To Da Max Hana Hou, also became a best-seller. The anniversary edition combines the words and illustrations in those two collections in a paperback format.
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Review to da mx!.......2007-08-31
This book is awesome! I once owned the first book "Pidgin to Da Max" and that was great, but the 25th anniversary is even better.
Dis da bestest.......2007-08-21
Ho, dis book stay da bestest book about da Hawaiian pidgin. If you from dea (like me) den you no can stop cracking up at all da cartoons inside. Da words too, brings back all da memories of growing up dea (all my life). If you not from dea, PLEASE no try fo talk liddat (make shua fo read da warning in da front of da book) :-) , bumbai you goin get all buss up an sound funny kine. Jus use um fo get one feel of da real Hawai`i. No odda book like dis one. Da second one stay good too ... I no tink as good as da first one but.
Hawai'ian Pidgin .......2007-08-11
If you are a haole and do not have a Hawai'ian friend this book does not make much sense. Some of the more self explanitory things were somewhat funny.
Dis haole's goin bak home.......2007-03-19
I grew up in Hawaii and really miss talking pidgin. I can't wait to show my family why I say things that they have NEVER hear of. Like hanaokalele broke your okalele:)
Local Hawaiian humor stalwart.......2007-01-10
Yes it's funny...if you are new to Hawaii and trying to get familiar with the local flavor. If you're living in Hawaii, as your tenure lengthens, it seems less entertaining, and more annoying. Some of the cartoons verge on misogynistic drivel, while others perpetuate the weary stereotype of the ignorant local who speaks pidgin. For those who do not know Hawaii and don't live here, I suspect this is a mildly disturbing book harboring little humor.
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In 1981, Pidgin to da Max started a cultural revolution and became a publishing phenomenon. Now you can take part again in the humor of Pidgin to da Max with over 500 pidgin word magnets. Place them on your fridge or any other magnet-friendly surface to create da kine sentences. Garans ballbarans fo' make you bus' laugh.
Customer Reviews:
Dis book.......2005-11-18
Dis book is da kine. You say you try learn, no get nuts eh, just get da book.
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Pidgin to Da Max Word-A-Day Calendar (Pidgin to Da Max)
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Pidgin to Da Max: 25th Anniversary Edition
ASIN: 1573062669 |
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Daily calendars are designed to inform and entertain, and none do it better than this one, which includes words and cartoons from the best-selling Pidgin to Da Max 25th Anniversary Edition.
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Pidgin to da max hana hou
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With more than 300,000 copies sold--this is the only official companion book about the making of the seven-time Oscar(r)-winning movie. It contains the screenplay; editorial, photo, and art features on the history of the Plains Indians, the frontier, and the Civil War; personal essays by Costner, Blake and Wilson, behind-the-scene production stories, and much more. 170 illustrations, 80 in color.
The Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks, official companions to films, large format (8 3/8 x 10 7/8), heavily illustrated throughout, with color photographs, details on the making of the film, background on the filmmakers and cast.
Customer Reviews:
A nice addtition to the movie.......2006-08-26
Dances with wolves is one of my favourite movies ever. Once you see the movie as many times as I've seen it :) you try to find something else to continue the story. The ilustrated story of the epic brings you back to the movie and has very nice photos and comments of several scenes. I reccomend it to any fan of the movie.
Brilliant.......2004-07-19
I got this book at Waldens ages ago and have enjoyed looking it over repeatedly. Dances With Wolves is truly a masterpiece and brilliant work. Kevin Costner is simply the best in acting, directing, and entertaining us.
Penni Weston
Author of Accidental Outlaw a novel written for Kevin Costner.
About the movie!.......2001-08-03
If you liked the movie then this book is a must! Not only was Kevin Costner make one of the best films in history but he followed it up with this great book! My daughter picked this one up for me at a library sale. I didn't even know it existed to be honest or I would have purchased it myself. The book is a bit tattered so I checked out the local bookstore and although they didn't have it on the shelf, it can be ordered. If you liked the movie then consider this book for your collection. I fully recommend this great work of art by Mister Costner and friend.
If you hunger for more this book will satisfy.......1999-09-08
I wonder if Kevin Costner even realizes the artistic and historic contribution he has made with this film. As an artist I found this book to satisfy my graphic appetite and as a romantic I have, once again, been allowed to travel back in time. Mr. Costner has shown us his artistic brilliance in so many ways and I thank him for his efforts. Enjoy the book; it is a treasure.
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The Stones 65-67
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Rolling Stones: 40 X 20
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If music fans and musicians carry a composite image in their head of The Rolling Stones' street-fighting dandy look in the '60s, it'll be substantially composed of shots taken by revered British photographer Gered Mankowitz. Fittingly, Mankowitz took his first photographs of The Stones as a teenager. As a hip London 18-year-old, with a growing reputation as photographer, he'd met and photographed Marianne Faithfull in '64 at the time of her first single, "As Tears Go By". Her manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, was so impressed by the results that he invited Mankowitz to photograph one of his other turns, The Rolling Stones. From '65 to '67 Mankowitz was on board as the Stones' unofficial-official visual chronicler, accompanying Mick, Keef, Charlie, Bill and Brian through the hysteria of the 1965 autumn US tour, providing covers for their Decca albums Out Of Our Heads and Between The Buttons, and documenting all angles of their notorious progress, on stage, back stage, in the studio, on location and at home. Previous books from Mankowitz on The Stones have been very expensive limited editions which have now sold out. Here, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the classic shots, as well as images from the thousands of lesser-known photos in his Stones archives, are given the design setting they deserve and are available, at last, to a wider audience. The Stones is both a cultural and historical document, and one of the greatest rock'n'roll stories ever told.
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Solid coffee table depiction of arguably the most photogenic of them all.......2006-04-30
To me, The Rolling Stones were the most picturesque of all white rock bands. Visually (and sonically in my opinion), their mid-60's period was the strongest. And despite the plethora of timeless recordings that they produced during this time, it has to be said that a large part of their iconic appeal was directly attributable to the startling photography of Gered Mankowitz. When we think of the '60s Stones, we think of his photographs of them.
Mankowitz was pretty much the official Stones photographer between '65 - '67 and in this volume he treats us with a collection of some of his choice shots, many unpublished before, of the band from the time they toured the US to promote The Last Time, up until Satanic Majesties. Here we see the band metamorphose before our very eyes from shaggy-haired yet sharp-looking garage rockers to druggy, spaced-out degenerates (although some might argue that they always WERE degenerates). And at all times, looking as gritty, potent and real as their tough and grainy records. It's a fascinating visual portrait that never gets stale regardless of how many times you view the book.
There is some perfunctory text that accompanies some of the photographs but really, this is a visual affair. Mankowitz' pictures capture a time, place and attitude with far more clarity, insight and immediacy than any wordy verbiage ever could.
As essential as your copies of Aftermath and High Tide And Green Grass.
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The highly acclaimed SOS series provides intermediate chess players with perfectly playable, easily digestible opening ideas: deviations from main line opening theory in a very early stage of the game (usually before move six). Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the chess opening will be able to apply these SOS-ideas in an actual game. There is no need to study large quantities of stuffy theory, but there is an almost immediate return on the investment of a limited amount of time. Readers of SOS will baffle their opponents, gain crucial time, and stand a good chance to get an advantage in the game.
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Tired of main lines? Shock your opponent with an SOS! Contents 1 Jeroen Bosch: The SOS Files 2 Ian Rogers: Refining Fischer's Plan 3 Alexander Beliavsky: Destroying the Benoni Wall 4 Maxim Notkin: When I was Young 5 Jeroen Bosch: Morozevich's Pet Line in the Albin 6 Michal Krasenkow: The Dutch in the English? 7 Dorian Rogozenko: Follow the Experts 8 Jeroen Bosch: Let's wait and see: 3...h6 in the French 9 Sergei Movsesian: Play like a Beginner 10 Dimitri Reinderman: The Haberditz Variation 11 Jeroen Bosch: Get the Edge on the Budapest 12 Igor Glek: Gambit Lines in the Glek Variation 13 Jeroen Bosch: Beating the Van Geet 14 Dorian Rogozenko: A Latvian Speciality vs the Dragon 15 Mihai Grünberg: It is Better Playing White 16 Glenn Flear: The Solid but Tricky Fianchetto Spanish 17 Jonathan Rowson: The Improved Nadanian
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SOS allows you to play the chess opening like a pro without spending nearly all your free time trying to memorize stuffy theory. An unprepared opponent will have great difficulties dealing with these cunning, ready-to-go early deviations from main stream openings (usually before move six). The ideas may look weird at first sight but have proven to be perfectly playable: they have all been played by Masters or Grandmasters.
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Secrets of Opening Surprises brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at first sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable. An SOS deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six! That is why it is so easy to actually bring the variation on the board. You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory. Contributing authors: Mikhail Gurevich, Alexander Beliavsky, David Navara, Oleg Chernikov, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Carlos Matamoros, Ian Rogers, Karel van der Weide, Jeroen Bosch, Dorian Rogozenko, Mark Bluvshtein, Glenn Flear, Oleg Romanishin
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Readers of this series can ignore large areas of the ever expanding chess opening theory. They can concentrate on these surprising ideas, because SOS variations deviate very early from the regular lines in mainstream openings. Ideal for players who don't have enough time to keep abreast with main line theory. Appears twice a year. Ready-to-go chess opening ideas.
Customer Reviews:
Dont waste your money.......2007-05-17
How come I don't see anyone without a job? Dont waste your money buying this useless book. Watch a movie in the theaters instead.
3 stars for getting the topic out in front of people, -2 stars for not getting it right........2007-04-29
This subject is getting a lot of ranting from people on the outskirts who know squat. Manufacturing is one thing, but IT is where the real action is. I work in IT outsourcing and I have seen both sides, while so many are talking from 3rd hand knowledge. Number 1 issue is that these imported visa techies are more sinned against then sinning. The imported worker isn't fully paid, gets only a paltry salary, the winner in the game, the true elite, are mddlemen ....It's all the vendor/employers who make the money, and sometimes there are so many layers of them, they don't even make much; and, they are rarely US corporate..... Oddly enough, most of them are immigrants themselves. Some immigrant guy gets a stable of visa guys with desireable skills (e.g., SAP) and vends them to other vendors, perhaps more than to actual US companies (you have to be a "preferred vendor" to get in on the action with the largest US Companies). Who knows what the poor visa guy actually gets, while the large US companies who seek to buy this contingent H1 visa labor don't get much of a bargin either. Yeah, they try to get competition for the sake of lower rates, but they also TRY to squeeze from the top and demand the TOP Tier "preferred" vendors send them with visa techies with such and such skills for a ceiling of $X; however, there are STILL market forces, and these middle level vendor/employers know the rates and sometimes the preferred vedor above them cannot not find or provide someone when any of the layers cannot make at least a minimal amount on the rate. Consequently, the rates creep up, and end up not that far behind the going rate. I have seen some Corporations/Companies have to re-process their original req with higher salaries cause they need someone badly, and eventully they go to the 2nd tier vendors. Ultimately while they may pay slightly less on the contract than for a full time guy, and slightly less than a US guy, it's not that much less, only a little, while the vendor middle-men gets his bucks (and more and more of them pop up every day). These vendor/employers make their bucks either on specific skills (lake SAP, .NET) or on volume, like parasites. Meanwhile US Companies cannot be bothered with hiring entry level. They need someone to "hit the ground running." The imported guys are just beyond entry level, having already got that back home from the same US companies overseas OR from other foreign companies or domestic companies over there. So, yeah, they are up and running faster than an entry level guy. The real tragedy is that our US IT grads have so few entry level jobs available. And the big bonanza, right now (jobs paying over $100k) is in managerial IT. The ones who have a leg up on those are the visa guys who tough it out and survive to get that magic Green Card. Having survived all the levels, they are often the best candidates for these well paid positions, and compete with native born US citizens who survived the tech bust. However, understandably, these GC guys want a competitive salary with their American counterparts. When the best candidates for these jobs are Green Cards, the US grads who never got the entry level job originally, lose out once again. Meanwhile, in places like India, IT is booming, and they badly need midlevel managers, so who will go? How many Americans are ready to uproot and learn Hindi? There is an r2i movement (r2i==return to India).... Probably all those Green Card guys who earned their stripes here, will go back, and again the US IT departments will have to go to another 3rd world country, and start the whole mess all over. Meanwhile, the rest of us low paid flunkies are barely making ends meet, work long hours, and get NO health benefits.
LOU DOBBS IS IGNORANT AND INCOMPETENT NEO-POPULIST.......2007-03-14
Shame on Lou Dobbs and his ignorant and arrogant rethoric.
Predicitions that have come true.......2007-03-11
Lou Dobbs writes a book on outsourcing and corporate greed. The wonder of this book was that it was written in 2004, in the early stages of the outsourcing pandemic in this county. Most of his charges have come 100% true in current day. This book is a simple read - I finished it in about 4 hours and is easily read.
He curtails so called free trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA and organization such as the WTO and gives many examples of how these free trade agreements are completely unbalanced and unfair to the US worker and economy. US workers have been forced to compete (and history has now show)and loose to third world labor in China and Mexico. He was accused of being a "protectionist" when the reality is most people do not call for no trade with other countries. They call for fair and balanced trade. He explains how countries have set high tariffs and quotas on US imports but the US maintains little to no quotas and tariffs - and these are countries we are in trade agreements with. US businesses relocate our jobs and manufacturing base to cheap labor and unregulated markets in developing nations to only re import their good to the US. We are being exploited at the expense of corporate greed which does not have this nation's interests in sight. I am very unhappy with the fact that amongst his laundry list of present day status quo of terribly chartered agreements by our current administrations (Bush and Clinton), he does not really charge our nation's citizens with their insatiable appetite for consumption of flat screen TV's and just about any other exorbitant commodity we purchase. This has been a major factor on why these agreements stay in effect - our out of control consumer consumption has become culture at which it becomes very hard to change. But then again, most Americans really do not have a tiny grasp on the big picture because they are ignorant of it. They simply get annoyed when they call their bank customer service and wind up speaking to a representative in India of which they can't understand. Mr.s Dobbs goes into detail on how US companies have used the tax systems to their advantage and wind up paying no tax which leaves the middle class to pick up the burden. He gives a very good account of local and state government exporting their work to foreign countries! One of the most important discussions in the book is where early proponent of "free trade" would say that as our manufacturing base (about 3 million jobs) leaves the country, we will replace these jobs with higher level professional and services jobs (IT, lawyers, accountants). He details how we have now begun exporting these "replacement" jobs to our trading partners. What's left next to go? Since we have become now dependent on imports for our basic needs and have financed both consumer and economic debt and deficit with foreign funds - we have become very dependent and vulnerable as the worlds sole superpower.
I found this book a little bit of "preaching to the choir". I would highly recommend this to a person looking to wet their feet in trade issues of present day. Someone who has done much reading on the fleecing of the middle class will have come across much of what Mr.s Dobbs speaks about. Nonetheless, it still has some very good informative material that have been proven to be the reality. My last grievance is that of his 10 chapters of laundry type lists and critiques - 1 is devoted to finding solutions. I find this to be the case with his other book - "war on the Middle class (which I highly recommend). Mr. Dobbs is truly a great popularist of our present day. And if you watch his nightly CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight' you'll know he committed to leveling the playing field for the middle class.
Honest Polemic.......2006-12-28
A market loving Republican has written a powerful indictment of the outsourcing of jobs that is hurting the middle class. As a business journalist & news anchor he fully understands the machinations of the business world. Ex: Free trade is not always fair trade. Note our trade deficit has been growing for thirty years. Some reforms & tasks can't be left to the market alone. The Federal & state governments have a duty to the citizenry. The latter with the peoples consent can stop corporate greed & corruption by preventing the constant outsourcing of middle class jobs to third world countries. If nothing is done to stop the jobs from leaving. We could become in the not to distant future a two tier society. Pharoahs at the top & a poorly paid majority of drones at the bottom.
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