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In its fourth edition Gilbert's
Living with Art won a first-place award for outstanding design and production at the 1995 New York Book Show. The new sixth edition is even more luxurious and beautiful. Not only a book about art, but also an artfully made book, Gilbert's
Living with Art has earned a reputation for elegance and the highest standards of quality.
Living with Art supports student efforts to develop an appreciation of art by clearly communicating the ways one can approach various forms of expression - offering a comprehensive introduction to the visual arts from several perspectives: themes and purposes of art; the vocabulary of art; individual art media (painting, drawing, camera arts, sculpture, architecture, etc.); and the chronological history of art. The book is rich with illustrations drawn from a wide range of artistic cultures and time periods.
Customer Reviews:
Bad customer service.......2005-09-18
I was suppose to receive my book no later than september 7th and I just received it on sept 17th. also the bag was torn the c.d. with the book is gone and there is no packageing slip. I had never had this type of experience I am very disappointed
Covers Everything.......2003-12-14
This book is excellent for the beginner, intermediate and advanced art enthusiast. It crosses over all cultures and eras and connects them all using unique and interesting themes. It also covers the basic design elements and visual fundamentals and can be used again and again for any art class: drawing, painting, sculpture, art appreciation.
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Release Date: 2001-10-23 |
Book Description
In this superbly produced volume by Callaway Editions, Ltd.; the world's most successful bridal gown designer shares her thoughts and vision on weddings. Culled from years of experience in the wedding business, Vera Wang offers ideas on every aspect of the wedding day from invitations to flowers, from cakes to attendants.
Of course, a wedding book by Vera Wang wouldn't be complete without detail on the bride's gown. She explains how to select the right neckline, construction, length, bodice, and waistline for each bride's figure; what fabrics are appropriate for certain times of day; how to choose a headpiece, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Just a coffee table book.......2006-05-10
Please don't buy this book if you need honest, reasonable tips for your wedding. This has some beautiful photographs and makes a nice coffee table book but it is waaay to huge to lug around as one may wish to do. Photos are nice but that is basically it. In addition, I wish it had more photographs of gowns. Doesn't have as many photographs of a variety of gowns as I had hoped.
nothing special.......2006-01-15
Same old stuff nothing different.
Makes Itself Helpful By Presenting Each Aspect Of A Successful Wedding In Minimalistic Sections.......2005-09-25
This book became the Bible of a certain bride I knew when she was getting married in a VERY big service and I was one of her friends involved early on in much of the planning. We had about three other mass market wedding books as well as a hired advisor/planner but those were quickly cast aside in favor of this one. Soon more faith was placed in this book than in tomorrow's sunrise. "What's Vera say about..." became the catch-phrase of the season.
Vera Wang and her staff not only create beautiful wedding dresses, but they know the occasion of wedding from A to Z. Fair warning, this book does pre-suppose that some serious money is going to be invested in the service and reception, but for those who are planning a once in a lifetime event they want special in every way, I know of no other source I'd put more faith in than this. Everything is compartmentalized and arranged so that the important aspects merit more attention than those that can simply wait till later. I also liked the "take it easy, things will be all right" message that kept popping up almost subliminally in the little reassurances that were scattered about. Those were really appreciated by those of us who were dealing with a perpetually freaked out bride, and in a few cases, made a real difference.
I'm in favor of something more minimalist when it comes to weddings, but for those who want an elaborate service and don't mind spending a lot of money to get it, then this is a book that prove worthwhile more times than you'll be able to count.
Elegant Fabulousness.......2005-09-15
Beautifully presented... a wonderful showcase of blissfully simple yet incredibly elegant gowns... also features glimpses into fabulous famous brides & their weddings.... very inspirational & truly lovely ....
A beautiful coffee-table style book with some helpful info........2003-02-14
As other reviewers have said, this is a gorgeous book. It's very oversized--larger even than most coffee-table style books--and has lovely pictures throughout which cover every aspect of wedding celebrations. Included, of course, are many samples of Wang's own work as a bridal gown designer as well as photos from her own wedding. As a wedding planner, however, this book is less useful. Although Wang does include her own commentary, some of which is interesting and helpful, there really isn't enough information for the book to be used as comprehensive planner. Furthermore, the organization of the book is somewhat confusing, as it does not follow a typical wedding planning chronology. Despite these issues, brides-to-be and others are likelyto enjoy this book, if only to "look at the pictures."
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After the traumatic events of Invincible Volume 3: Perfect Strangers, Mark Grayson (a.k.a. Invincible) is left to pick up the pieces and try to continue on with some sort of life. His mother is a wreck, his friends don't understand and the super-villains of the world just want to beat him up. Mark has a lot on his shoulders and graduation is just around the corner. Containing the fan-favorite and sold-out issues #14-#19 and the short story from Free Comic Book Day 2004's Image Comics Summer Special, this volume is massive!
Customer Reviews:
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
The fallout from the whole super alien thing continues. Mark has problems because he has to keep his identity secret from his girlfriend.
His mother is becoming a drunk, and then there is the hero team problem and the working for the secret government organisation problem. All in all, a lot to deal with for a kid.
A brillant homage to silver age comics.......2007-02-28
After ending the father and son story of Volume 3 Robert Kirkman really starts to expand the world of his comic 'Invincible' with 'Head of the Class'. This volume is really many small self contained stories each either filling in the gaps from the previous thirteen issues or setting up plotlines to come.
Kirkman's style of writing coupled with Ryan Ottley's brillant art make this read like any of your favorite silver age comics with tons of humor and references that any long time comic fan should find irresistable.
Plot Threads and Repurcussions.......2006-12-30
Writer Robert Kirkman has said that when he wasn't sure how long the Invincible series would last, he was hesitant to start too many plot threads. But now that he feels safe he's really starting too build up the fictional world in which Invincible lives. Some of the stories in this volume stand alone, some stories are fallout from previous volumes, and some are obviously precursors of stories yet to come.
The Flaxans return (although we didn't know their name last time, so you're probably thinking "who?"). The knew Guardians of the Globe aren't quite on par with the old team, and the government intervenes, adding a couple new members. The death of Aquarus has left a unique power vacuum in Atlantis that only Mark can fill. Mark's mother, like many misguided people, is finding solace in a bottle. Mark secretly accompanies the first manned mission to Mars, and has to secretly rescue them from the Martians. There's a shake-up in the super-hero underworld. We meet Angstrom Levy, though we don't learn yet why he matters. And Amber wonders where Mark keeps disappearing to.
Kirkman writes entertaining charactors and Ryan Ottley draws a dynamic story. And don't forget Bill Crabtree's sharp colors, which keep the story much more clear than the "painterly" monochromatic colors some of the big guys use that make everything blur together.
This volume is as entertaining as the previous volumes, and like a good parent, Kirkman loves all his characters equally, giving them all face-time, and letting us fans find our favorites.
But this book definately doesn't exist on its own. Before you read this you're going to want to the previous volumes, and after reading this you're definately going to want to read the one's that follow.
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Welcome back, graduates of the 1964 class of C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio! They're all back in glorious black and white with color Magic Marker-Chuck U. Farley, Maria Teresa Spermatozoa, Purdy "Psycho" Lee Spackle, Faun Laurel Rosenberg, and, of course, Dacron's most famous son, Larry Kroger. Learn everything there is to know about Kroger's past before he became the pop-culture legend Pinto (Tom Hulce), the virgin fraternity pledge in National Lampoon's Animal House. With a hilarious "Where are they now?" addendum and a brilliantly funny new introduction by P. J. O'Rourke, the 39th Reunion Edition is sure to be the talk of the baby boomers who grew up with National Lampoon and of the new generation of comedy fans spawned by the success of The Onion.
Customer Reviews:
Still Really Funny.......2006-08-12
The planets lined up when the editors of the National Lampoon Magazine decided to create this brilliant parody of a mid-1960s high school yearbook. The names they made up are still classic, the grainy b/w pix a masterpiece, and the banal but funny text lives on.
This edition may not be an exact duplicate of the beloved softcover edition we all knew, but it's really great anyway. Enjoy!
One of the funniest things in the English language.......2004-08-27
Let's state it simply -- this is perhaps the funniest book ever published, even though the year 1964 is getting more distant all the time. Ingenious in its construction (a multi-level reconstruction of a typical high school yearbook), it is a hilarious, scathing, understanding, and even sort of poignant look at the kids of one year, one generation, in America long ago. Absolutely brilliant! (If you can find it, NatLamp also did an amazingly detailed town newspaper parody in the late 1970's that is also great.)
A parody that still delivers!.......2004-08-07
First things first: I am an admitted P.J. O'Rourke buff (the dude inspired me to start writing, which is either a good thing or bad), so I was interested to check this out. Plus, after reading Tony Hendra's book about the Lampoon and the creation of the Yearbook by Doug Kenney and O'Rourke, I decided to quit putting off my hesitancy to buying it and purchased it about two months ago. I haven't laughed as hard at anything in print since.
The context of the Yearbook is essential to understanding it; rather than just a "hey, look how crazy we were!" sort of Porky's approach, there's an underlying theme of "Animal House"-style anger at the authority structures that made social conformity and Vietnam possible. The writers had lived through the Vietnam era of the late Sixties, and they looked back in anger at the controls high school placed on them. There's real venom in these pages, if you know where to look.
But what struck me, and what made me appreciate this on the terms of being a simply good artwork, was the similarities to high school yearbooks even today. Sure, the layouts and hair/fashion styles change, but the general idea is the same: there are the popular kids, and then there's everyone else (including the "hero" of the piece, future Delta member Larry Kroeger). They all exist in the mythical Dacron, Ohio, and their school is really everybody's school. I can say, coming from a similarly awful school here in the great state of South Carolina, that nothing made me chuckle more than the laugh of recognition. I graduated in '97, yet I could identify and pick up on things that would've been true of any year (the snarky tribute to a fallen classmate, the peppy rememberence of a fallen President, the losing sports teams buoyed by a sense of "better luck next year").
The yearbook is so spot on, when I went back to my senior year yearbook I could immediately see such parallels. Our football team was(still is) a walking disaster, and little good could be said for the other sports. Our school play was just as clumsy as Dacron's "Julius Caesar", and our talent shows didn't improve much on the 'entertainment' provided by the 1964 class. It was these hilarious occurances that made me appreciate the book as simply more than a rant against the complacency of the Fifties; it was at long last a genuinely funny ghost of what it mocked.
I can't vouch for whether the "new" material takes away from the old (as this was indeed my first run-in with the parody in total), but I will say it seems a bit tame compared to what's part of the original. Plus, the "literary magazine" struck a chord, as I can remember my own sophmoric contribution to a similar publication in my high school (which sold about one copy, I believe). The "where will they be in ten years" list seemed like it could've been written by the idiots in my class, and the crude names assigned to the underclassmen (shown with the same exact photo every time) would not have been out of place in my school's tome either.
Overall, I enjoyed this far more than I imagined I would. There are obvious sight gags (the basketball team's hapless conduct had me in stiches), but the real meat is in the writing (whether or not O'Rourke can really claim a majority of the material, it seems a bit arrogant to take top billing over the late Kenney), which is dead-on. No matter when you graduated, you will recognize the figures in this book. And you will laugh your ass off, even as you cry tears of recognition.
Timeless genius.......2004-07-28
I am at a loss trying to recall another book that has ever been published that comes close to this towering achievement of humor. This thing is timeless in its genius. I first got a hold of this gem while in high school in '77-'78. I, too, had to resort to buying a used original copy on Ebay for about $120 a few years back. And now, here it is, in all its glory.
It is as funny today as it was back then. The new material is amusing, but the original stuff is the prime mover. There's just so much here, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to adequately describe this thing. Every single page has something (if not many, many things) that will make you laugh out loud, and hard. I gave my younger brother a copy a couple of weeks ago. He is still struggling to get through it (he laughs so hard he can't breathe).
I must agree that the pictures, which are impossibly funny on their own, look as though they were an afterthought in this reprint. They are, in a word, horrible. Dark at times, washed out in others. They look as though they were Xeroxed. Some pics (like the classic Spaz Leaking proudly holding his MEN sign for the Woodburning Club) are almost useless. Such a tremendous shame. I hope this problem is rectified in subsequent printings.
These shortcomings aside, the 1964 Yearbook Parody remains the book by which all other parodies or anything claiming to be humorous should be judged.
Just 'cause P.J.'s in it!.......2004-06-16
I don't care who you are, that reviewer Edward G. Nilges is funny! So, based on his recommendation, I would have had to get this book, even if P.J. O'Rourke wasn't in it. Keep up the good work Edward!
Book Description
For 35 years, the families, lovers, villains, femmes fatales, young and old of Bay City have drawn devoted viewers to their sagas. Another World originated on May 4, 1964, a creation of the legendary mother of soap operas, Irna Phillips. The show celebrates its 35th anniversary with this spectacular volume.
Complemented with hundreds of photographs, the Another World anniversary edition brings together everything fans want to know about their favorite soap opera. Relive the romances of Rachel and Mac, Cass, Kathleen and Frankie, John and Sharlene, and Vicky and Jake, to name a few. Take a peak inside the family albums of the Corys, the Matthews, the Frames, the Loves, the Hudsons, and the McKinnons. Enjoy the adventures of glamorous romance novelist Felcia Gallant, the high comedy of Wallingford and friends, and the evil doings of Carl Hutchins and Bay City Mayor Grant Harrison.
Relive the complete story line, tour the Brooklyn studios, meet the people behind the scenes, and hear humorous backstage tales from the stars in this essential guide for any fan of Another World. Another World: 35th Anniversary Celebration is a keepsake that will be cherished for years to come.
"We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds."
Another World: 35th Anniversary Celebration includes
A dramatic account of Another World's intricate plotline, from 1964 to 1998.
Hundreds of photographs from the show's archives--many never before seen.
Details on the unforgettable love stories, notable nuptials, and dastardly deeds of Bay City's inhabitants.
Rare glimpses of what it's really like behind the scenes and on the set of Another World, including interviews with the show's producers and crew.
Backstage tales from the cast about fans, auditions, days on the set.
A roster of today's stars whose exciting careers started on Another World.
Remembrance of those actors who are no longer with us.
Awards, show credits, a comprehensive cast list and much more!
Customer Reviews:
'Another World' still turns in this wonderful book!.......2005-05-19
This book is a must-have for any fan of the much-missed soap opera Another World- hundreds of photos, detailed year-by-year recaps, and interviews with the actors all make for a great tribute to a wonderful show. If there are any complaints, it's that some of the plot synopsis have been condensed a little too much, and more information about spin-offs Texas and Somerset would have been welcome, as well as more behind the scenes information. Still, this is an incredible book that should appeal to any fan!
More like "Fall of the House of Usher.".......2004-10-08
Who wants to remember 35 years of people robbing, cheating on each other, stealing money, jumping in bed with someone else when they were already married, the search and holding on of power. These were not nice people they were all distrubed human beings who belonged in jail or the sick house.
When the series finally left the air, it was a sign of sanity.
A Must for AW fans.......2001-07-23
Anyone who watched this soap will enjoy this book. Since this soap was taken from us on the 35th anniversary, this book has even more meaning. You will get to relive the highlights and story lines now missing from our daily lives. I get mine out about every 6 months - or whenever I need a Bay City fix. Looking through the book always manages to bring tears or laughter to me.
A Must Have for any Soap Addict.......2001-07-11
This is now a great retrospective of a great show that is now defunct. It is one of the best types of this book (though it is not as well done as General Hospital's). It should be in every collector's bookshelf.
A Welcome Gift, A Prized Possession.......2000-04-29
For the first 10 years of watching AW, I was a loyal, but hardly passionate fan. The last 5 years, leading up to the cancellation, I developed a passionate attachment. This book has made dealing with the loss of this 15 year old friend so much easier. I treasure this book in so many ways. If you are or were a fan, this really is a must have. No doubt.
Book Description
What should you do when your three-year-old Sesame-Street aficionado suddenly announces that he wants to study the violin? Or when your seven-year old informs you that he does not want the shiny new red bicycle you just bought him for his birthday, nor the spiffy new box of high-tech paints, but really wants to have piano lessons--today? What should you say when your ten-year old shouts that she hates that nasty new $1500 violin you just invested in, hates violin period, and is never going to practice again? Are there any software packages that can teach that teen-age Jimi Hendrix rehearsing in the garage next door how to read music? How should you answer the bewildered parent whose little girl wants to study the tuba and can take it for free at school? These and many other commonly asked and often puzzling questions are answered in Sound Choices: Guiding Your Child's Musical Experiences . This invaluable resource empowers over-busy, frequently harried, and technically- savvy twenty-first century parents to be consumer-wise participants in the music education of their children. Written by nationally recognized music educators who have been asked--and have answered--all these questions thousands of times, this user-friendly book offers information and practical advice about a large and varied number of issues in an accessible format that will enable parents to make informed decisions about music experiences and training for their children. Beginning with an ages and stages organization from infancy to adolescence, Sound Choices offers concise, age-specific information on musical experiences from generating interest to motivating practice and life-long enjoyment. Subsequent chapters provide detailed suggestions for choosing an instrument, finding a qualified teacher, and assessing the financial implications of musical study. Here also are practical strategies for such troublesome issues as evaluating the student-teacher relationship, changing teachers, monitoring practice, and useful comparisons of the varying points-of-view of parents, teachers, and children. A separate section discusses how parents might deal with a musically gifted child or how music might enhance the development of a child with special needs. Concise, comprehensive, and easy-to-use, Sound Choices features wide margins and useful icons to highlight key information and helpful questions. It is also a treasure trove of annotated resources that serves as an outstanding reference source for music related books, recordings, CD-ROMs, software, videos, movies, magazines, games, teaching aids, catalogs, and directories (including a directory of national sources for finding a qualified teacher). There are over thirty-one million family households in the United States with young children under the age of eighteen. Parents in these households now, more than ever, are looking outside and beyond the public school system to furnish educational opportunities for their children. For many parents, enrolling their children in music instruction is an attractive option. Yet most parents have no idea how to go about this. Sound Choices provides the answers for those who want to create an environment that will prepare their children for a lifetime of active involvement with music.
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BradyGames' SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs Official Strategy Guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for all 12 intense missions. Detailed maps that depict every international location. Enemy profiles and a complete rundown of all weapons. Plus, multiplayer strategies and expert coverage of the 22 online missions!
This product is available for sale in North America only.
Customer Reviews:
Looks great, but the info is worthless.......2005-08-03
This guide really didn't help me at all. The only reason I bought it was for a mission where i had to rescue some French guy... I couldn't figure out how to get him to move (turns out that you point the crosshairs at him, then command him with the mic. Kinda weird since you rarely ever use your mic for anything but talking to your fireteam members). Single player: for the weapons advice, it almost always says use the M4A1SD, or consider the SR-25SD sniper rifle. This is correct information, but it's not something that ya need to be told. The missions are about stealth, so get a silencer. I prefer the sniper rifle for most missions (except the ones that are mostly indoors). You just need to be able to be accurate with your pistol when they are up close. There's a walkthrough of each mission, but if you actually want to read where every single person is, then you're making the game pretty boring. It doesn't help much anyways. The multiplayer part doesn't help much either. It keeps telling you to use the turrets, but if you have ever played before you know that only a moron would. It makes you a sitting duck. I've only had one situation that i've ever found the turret useful... sniper only games. They get too close, and rather than get into a little "spinning battle" where you go around in circles until someone finally gets a hit, ya just hop on the turret and waste them. But the guide doesn't even mention that one useful scenario. So yeah, I basically just gave you a guide of SOCOM II that is just as useful as this published one. But at least the actual guide looks "professional". That's all that it does right.
Are you Serious.......2005-02-24
This is by far the worst Strategy Guide i have ever purchased or even looked through. I have already beat the single player mode and just looking through the single player guide section, i do not belive that would of helped with the single player game. The reason i did buy this was for the ONLINE play. The "quote" map guides of all 22 maps are bogus. They do not show one picture of online maps at all and the the info it gives would get you killed in a heart beat. and for the WEapons it gives you picture and name, no info on them. THIS IS A D-. do not buy unless you need this paper for fire, because it is useless.
Not much help.......2004-01-14
I found the first SOCOM book very helpful and worth the money. This guide for the second game is not as helpful. I doubt the writers actually played the game. You buy these books to learn how to get past the places everybody gets stuck. This book doesn't address these situations at all.
Of very little use.......2003-11-22
I am an old guy and have trouble with shooters so i always get the books and walkthroughs on line. I bought the Socom 2 game and this book at the same time.
I found it to be of very little use because the game itself contains all of the info in the book.
It can be helpful with its suggestions for alternate routes and what weapons to start with.
In general i find the screenshot to be very hard to view and the white text on a dark background annoying. Too much time is spent on 'looking pretty' and not enough on actual help.
For instance, the book lists the weapons by name only. This means that you can only tell what the characteristics of the Armory items are by checking them in the Armory. The names alone tell you nothing about the items.
There is a section of maps at the end but they are of little value, also for the same reason. No detail. The game maps are much more useful. In the book they are simply overhead snap shots that don't offer any detail or hints.
The multiplayer maps do show Seal & Terrorist starting points, but that is all the detail you will encounter. None of the different levels are shown ie. underground caves or stories in buildings...
I am sorry i wasted my money on the book. It has been of very little value to me. It looks good though.
Customer Reviews:
Practical gems for the ambitious worker.......2007-07-01
After reading Richard Templar's The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life, it seemed like the logical action to take and pick up his second "Rules" book because his first one contains common sense trinkets of pure wisdom that are immediately practical and usable.
The Rules of Work is also a collection of jewels to be learned and practiced.
We spend most of our lives at work therefore it makes sense to find methods to do our job more efficiently with less effort and better outcomes. However, this book isn't about working more efficiently but more effectively, seemingly rising to the top of the business, company or corporation (to our fellow workers at least) effortlessly, reaching our intended outcomes and goals
But what does the author mean by "rules"? Doesn't a job description, company policy or even the type of industry you're in already have rules to follow? The answer to this question is yes and no. These rules will not be found in any "starter kit', informing the new employee about break times, dental plans and where the bathrooms are located. These rules are about creating a new persona, the right attitude, being committed, putting in 100% without letting your fellow workers know how hard you really work.
Some of these "rules" appear like `work givens', for example taking care of one's appearance, dressing well, smiling, developing your own style and learning to speak well and write well. Similar to other `motivational business books', Templar also stresses the importance of having a stated plan, short term and long term, anticipating threats and spotting golden opportunities when they arise. This book really is about being smart, alert and always one step ahead of everyone else.
The key to any sort of success is actually naming what you want and creating a workable plan to attain that particular goal no matter whether the goal is becoming a millionaire, a better sales manager, teacher, doctor or priest. The second most important ingredient to any success is one's "desire". Ambition, drive, willingness to work effectively or one's will to simply become better at what we do and who we are comes down to how bad you want it. It doesn't matter how many courses you take or how many books you read, you have to really want something in order to attain it.
The Rules of Work contains many guidelines to help the ambitious worker get where they want to go, and if you have that necessary basic desire, this text will certainly help you along the way.
Read it - Think about it - Do what's right.......2007-03-25
The book is an interestingly crafted tool to get one to think about one's personal-corporate behaviour. The other reviewers, particularly Matthew Dodd, have described it well.
No tool is perfect, but it's far better than most.
Great book!!!!!!!!.......2007-03-16
Okay.. The best part about this book is that each chapter represents one of the rules of work. If you don't feel you need to read in depth about one rule, just move on to the next chapter.
75 percent of the rules in this book are right on the money, like avoiding the gossip of work and knowing who the bosses favorites are and befriending them.
This book should come free with your college degree if you're going into the corporate business world to work.
Highly recommended!!!
Hope this helps!!!
An Average read.......2006-07-01
The Rules of Work provides regular advice to would be managers/bosses however in my opinion it is not a fundamental read. It's basically a "How to" book with simple ideas. The reader will find that most rules are quite obvious.
Worthwhile Words on the World of Work.......2006-06-13
If you are looking for some good insights and perspectives from an experienced business manager about how to use the unwritten and unspoken rules of your workplace to your advantage, then you should read this book. Templar's 100 rules cover the gamut from what to wear and how to act to get noticed, to developing a career game plan. If you have never worked in an office environment, this book will help prepare you for what you will likely experience. If you have spent any time in an office environment, you will find many familiar situations to which you can relate.
The book is divided into ten parts (Walk Your Talk, Know That You're Being Judged at All Times, Have a Plan, If You Can't Say Anything Nice--Shut Up, Look After Yourself, Blend In, Act One Step Ahead, Cultivate Diplomacy, Know the System--and Milk It, Handle the Opposition), each with ten rules, that cover many important and sensitive aspects of virtually any work environment. Each rule is presented in two pages in a very conversational writing style that is generally easy to read.
I liked most of the content of the book. However, the book had way too many distracting spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors (including a 115-word sentence!) that detracted from the main points. Also, I found too many shady or questionable passages that seemed to contradict the rules they were describing or other rules:
-"You have to look as if you gossip without ever doing it." (from Rule 31--Don't Gossip)
-"But if in doubt--never lie or embellish if you can't think fast on your feet." (from Rule 44--Never Lie)
-"You don't need to volunteer information unless it directly helps you to do so...Sometimes it pays to be a little editorial with what truth you are giving out." (from Rule 47--Know the Difference Between the Truth and the Whole Truth)
-"If you need information and someone asks you why you need it, invent something entirely bogus...Don't lie, but you can be circumspect, devious, inventive, creative, eccentric, and you are allowed to set up a decoy." (from Rule 95--Don't Give Too Much Away)
Despite the book's shortcomings, I found many worthwhile points that either reinforced what I already knew or did, or that I am adapting into my overall style and behavior:
-"There is no bad karma in trying your hardest to be pleasant, cooperative, helpful, friendly, kind, and honest in your dealings with others around you." (from Rule 24--Develop a Game Plan)
-"Remember though what we said right from the outset--you have to be able to come up with the goods, you must be able to do the job--and do it well. That is the bottom line. If you can't do the job leave the stage." (from Rule 67--Walk the Walk)
-"You must work to live, not live to work. Don't take stuff home with you--learn to be assertive and say no. Put your family first. Spend time with your children--they will grow up so fast you will miss their precious childhood if you work your way through it...." (from Rule 80--Put Things in Perspective)
-"There are no bad jobs, only bad attitude to jobs." (from Rule 99--Capitalize on the Career-Enhancing Moments)
Books:
- Global Corporate Identity 2 (Global Corporate Identity)
- Graphic Designer's Color Handbook : Choosing and Using Color from Concept to Final Output
- Hands in Clay with Expertise
- Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture
- Hate On Trial The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi (Tom Metzger)
- Hilla Rebay: In Search of the Spirit in Art
- How to Draw and Sell Comic Strips for Newspapers and Comic Books
- How To Draw Manga Getting Started Kit (How to Draw Manga S.)
- I Can Finger Paint (Playtime Series)
- Image and Spirit: Finding Meaning in Visual Art
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years
- Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
- Paths Not Taken
- Sunday You Learn How to Box: A Novel
- Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
- One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
- Principles of Three-Dimensional Design: Objects, Space and Meaning
- Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History
- Second Bill Slider Omnibus: Dead End / Blood Lines / Killing Time
Gilbert's Living with Art
Living with Art w/ Timeline
Living with Art's Core Concepts in Art, Version 2.5
A Speaker's Guidebook: Text and Reference
Exploring Psychology
