Monet Paintings Giftwrap Paper (Giftwrap--2 Sheets, 1 Designs)

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Striking collage of 73 paintings by great Impressionist on 2 identical 18" x 24" sheets with 3 matching gift cards makes perfect all-occasion giftwrap; also ideal for arts and crafts projects. Shrink-wrapped in a sturdy 9¼" x 12¼" folder with no staples to mar the wrap.

Flower Paintings Giftwrap Paper: Two Sheets 18" x 24" (46cm x 61cm) with 3 Matching Gift Cards

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Flower Paintings Giftwrap Paper: Two Sheets 18" x 24" (46cm x 61cm) with 3 Matching Gift Cards
Vincent Van Gogh , Claude Monet , and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486431746

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Such masterpieces as van Gogh's Irises, Renoir's Anemones, Monet's Waterlilies, as well as 69 other works by Degas, Bonnard, Jan van Huysum, Cézanne, Sargent, Cassatt, Delacroix, and others.

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A sequel to the highly successful Pen & Mouse, Hand to Eye features forty-five illustrators from around the world. Including both commissioned artwork and experimental projects, the work collected here shows that cutting-edge computer illustration is still thriving and continues to push boundaries. In the last two years, however, there has been a noticeable move towards a handcrafted style, perhaps a logical reaction to the torrent of digital imagery. More and more image-makers are turning to traditional tools and techniques, and their methods vary widely: some work solely with pen, pencil and paint; others create images using tapestry and embroidery, and many incorporate digital elements into handmade art.

Hand to Eye reflects these diverse approaches to image-making, from the cleanness of slick, vector-based work, through photorealism, to a lo-fi, handcrafted aesthetic; from exquisitely detailed, brightly coloured collages to simple, single-colour sketches.

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Fabulous book profiling contemporary illustrators........2004-09-01

This is a beautiful book. I love looking through it, the art is fantastic and there's so much inspiration to draw from. I really recommend this book, you will not regret buying it. It is especially good for those interested in illustration/graphic design but I think anyone with an interest in art will enjoy it. Well worth the $$ spent!

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Ever since he was little, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see the spirits of the dead, so when a teenage girl materializes through his bedroom wall, this should be no call for alarm. Rukia Kuchiki is a shinigami, a member of the mysterious Soul Society that is charged with capturing rogue ghosts, and is hot on the trail of an evil spirit. But in the ensuing confrontation, Ichigo absorbs Rukia's powers, giving him the ability to not only see the undead, but to fight them as well. Now this 15-year-old high school student begins a brand new vocation: hyperkinetic, all-purpose ghost-busting. With enough attitude to make a grown ghost blush, Ichigo and crew are taking on the after-life one ghoulie at time.

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Interesting End to the fight with Kenpachi.......2006-06-30

As the bunch are facing multiple challenges while trying to save Kuchiki Rukia, Aizen Sosuke is finally labeled as deceased. More tensions break between Soul society.
Sado falls to Kyoraku, captain of 8th squad. Kyooraku, who hates fighting, spares him.
Inuoe and Ishida aren't in this book.
Ichigo is still at it fighting Kenpachi. When he finds that the sword Kenpachi has is nameless, Ichigo gets (in my opinion, stupid) arrogant in thinking that it's easy to beat him. Kenpachi than stabs him, and Ichigo's sword breaks. Stopping time, Zangetsu comes up. Next thing is a spoiler. Get the volume if you want to know.
Meanwhile, Ganju and Hanatarou have come to the tower of repentance. But Ganju recognizes Rukia as the Shinigami who killed his brother. But too much time is wasted by Ganju being stubborn. Byakuya, like a hawk on prey, comes on the bridge (complete with throwing out tons of reiatsu(spiritual pressure)).

Excellent volume. Definitely keeps you on your toes for the next one.

Chad is down, will Ichigo fall as well?.......2006-06-01

In this, the thirteenth volume of Bleach, almost the entirety of it is focused on Ichigo's continuing fight with 11th Company Captain Kenpachi (Kenny) Zaraki... it is, for lack of better terms, near epic... and the battle swings both ways several times as we gain insight and clarity into their motives and their relationships with their respective Zanpakuto swords.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the soul society, word is traveling down the ranks of the various companies concering the apparent murder of Captain Aizen... not to mention that Ganju is closing in on Rukia's location, but is someone waiting to prevent them?

The art is as crisp as usual and the story flows as per normal, so if you're familiar with the volume spanning fights of series like Bleach, you'll not be disappointed. My only beef (storywise) is that Orihime and Uryu are MIA in this book, after a fatefull meeting was foreshadowed in the last volume.

Ah, well. Pick it up, as Bleach, Vol.13 is a decent read in the continuing series.

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Bleach, Volume 13 (in Japanese)
Obihito Kubo
Manufacturer: Shueisha
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic

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ASIN: B000MAXIW0

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Sacre Bleu!!!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the café...

For those of you who delighted in Geneviève's deliciously naughty first book, Merde!, and for those unfortunate few who have not yet had the pleasure...Geneviève is back with Merde Encore!

Here the inimitable Geneviève makes further fabulous forays into French argot and comes up with an enormous range of colorful idioms, essential for anyone who wants to speak the language as it really is spoken. As an additional treat, she also gives instructions in the correct use of impassioned Gallic gestures -- those silent but expressive signals so beloved of the French motorist and shopkeeper. And, most important, she reveals how the French language, both spoken and visual, is a key to the spirit and character of the people who use it. With infectious humor, she exposes the idiosyncratic attitudes that have produced so great a wealth of vivid expressions.

So now discover how the French really feel about sex, food, la belle France, foreigners, hygiene, death...Merde Encore! may confirm what you've always suspected.

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Fills in the cracks.......2007-01-13

This book teaches you things that only a good friend who is French could tell you. Not covered in the usual French text, it is for real world French.

this is fine.......2006-11-11

I got it for my teen, and it was a huge hit. LOTS of R rated phrases and words. Be warned! Still it was good for fun and some of it might be useful to know.

An Outsider's "Look" into the French Psyche?.......2000-12-23

In "Merde Encore!," author Geneviève recommends that one should have looked over her previous book, "Merde!," because she "shall at times . . . assume knowledge acquired in the first." Thus, she says, "What I offer here is further exploration of colloquial vocabulary and idioms and, through them, deeper insights into the French psyche." So, while the layout of "Merde Encore!" is similar to "Merde!," there is a difference in tone between the two books. "Merde!" presents a colloquial and idiomatic French glossary, and "Merde Encore!" attempts to offer an outsider's view on the French psyche (in particular, on the Frenchman's psyche) in a rather sarcastic commentary interspersed with additional vocabulary. Here, Geneviève extends her thesis from "Merde!" (see the chapter on "Xenophobia and Racism") on the "innate French feeling of superiority" by indulging in lots of name-calling and stereotyping. In the interests of free speech, a glossary, dictionary, or phrasebook may offer "politically incorrect" terminology and usage. However, it is up to the reader to decide if a line has been crossed when an author chooses to perpetuate xenophobic stereotypes by using the words "Frog," "Froggie," and "Frog Pathology," and by offering undocumented commentary on the hygiene of the French, for example. Sometimes it is difficult to determine what is humour and what is not. (The foregoing remarks are offered by this reviewer as a disclaimer.)

"Merde Encore!" has thirteen short chapters: "Verbs" (i.e., the "moi-je" syndrome); "Suffixes" ("instruments of belittlement and contempt"); "Les Beaux Gestes" (with cartoons of French gestures, illustrated by Michael Heath); "Guillotined French" ("shortened" French words, like "cap" for "capable"); "Counting in French" (including "The Frog Clock"); "Sound Effects"; "The Most Popular Ingredients of French Idioms" (food and animals); "Anatomy of a Frog"; "Appee Beurzdé Tooh Yooh" ("Franglais"); "Allons Enfants" ("kiddie talk"); "The Cocorico Syndrome" (i.e., "Frogs on Wheels"); "Geography à la Française" (i.e., "the Parisians and the rest"); and "Your PH.D. Exam."

This book has quite a bit of useful idiomatic vocabulary and phrasing; it is also quite humourous. As to an insight into the French psyche or national character, I think not. For a more perceptive, witty, and insightful read on an outsider's view of the (Parisian) French, I highly recommend "French Toast," by Harriet Welty Rochefort. The irony of Geneviève's books (particularly the second one) is that they would be most appealing to an age group who should not be reading them!

Quelle Joie!.......2000-08-19

Ooh-la-la. This is a delightful gift for the friend who has a decent elementary grasp on the French language and a rolicking sense of humour. Written with great lingusitic dexterity, both in French aan in English, it will be treasured for years to come.

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(Expletive deleted) formidable!.......2000-05-30

This book assumes you have at least a full year of French behind you. It is not for beginners, even given the fact that most learners of a second language usually go for the "cinq lettres" words first. It was absolutely a must read for me when I visited Paris, and a bit of a help when I eventually visited Quebec. Lots of cultural nuances about the French (even body language is discussed), funny illustrations, and plenty of good intentioned advice... if a bit R-rated.

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Shelley II :The middle of my century

Bravo Shelley

INDOMITABLE STAR CAN REALLY WRITE.

Shelley II: The Middle of My Century
Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Hollywood's Silent Closet

ASIN: 0671442104

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Shelley II :The middle of my century.......2005-02-16

I absolutely loved this book. Shelley tells her wild and crazy story of an actor's life in the 1950's. This includes the intense and gratifying work of being an actress and the world famous people she worked with, socialized, lived with and loved. I can say that there is drama, tragedy, humor and love on almost every page. What an exciting life she lived and she's still a young beautiful woman at the end of this book. Buy this book today!!!

Bravo Shelley.......2003-08-17

I liked this even more then the firt memory book.
It makes a light on all of a period and point of view, I do like to read about words different of mine.
She is (was?) a hard worker, a survivor, and as she recognises in her book not always a nice person to be with. But I like her and was very interested in how she sees the world.

INDOMITABLE STAR CAN REALLY WRITE........2003-05-08

Though it can be argued that Shelley Winters has assisted in creating her own legend (her ego is the real star of both highly entertaining autobiographies), there is a real flair to her writing and her memory for details (even allowing for the usual embellishment) is impressive. Her place in cinema is probably in question; two Oscars was a bit generous and her seeming insistence that she deserved to win Best Actress for "A Place in the Sun" over Vivien Leigh's Blanche in "Streetcar" is merely laughable today. But she did produce an impressive body of work (and relationships) on screen and stage and deserves credit for being larger than life, a trait that some actress of today could take a lesson from. Ms. Winters takes pride in her work and the craft of acting, which is to also be applauded, and she never paints herself in an angelic light when not appropriate. Overall, these are among the very finest autobiographies of any kind, celebrity or non-. Is it too much to hope for a third act to these treasured volumes?

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Shelley II : Middle of My Century

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HDJUN8

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Shelley II: Middle of My Century
Winters
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OCOWCQ

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Shelley II-The Middle of My Century
Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: (Simon & Schuster)
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Binding: Hardcover
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Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Shelley II: The Middle of My Century
Shelley Winters
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster c1989
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OO54NK

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A full collection of popular harmonica songs for the beginning player. All songs are easy and fun to play, and are marked with blow/draw and hole indications. Written for the 10-hole diatonic harmonica in C.

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Excellent resource of games, plus much more!.......2002-05-09

The subtitle for this book is "How games and sport help children develop." But I find it's much more than this! It is also a unique resource of tried and tested games for all ages levels. The introduction deals with tips for presenting games to children, how to cope with difficulties (such as bullying) and equipment. The bulk of the book is broken into three parts for different age ranges (3-7 year olds, 7-12 year olds and teenagers). Then the three sections are further broken down into game type: music, movement, beanbag games, water games, skipping games, playground games and so much more! Although this book is part of the Rudolf Steiner Education Series and written especially to address Waldorf schooling, it would be a valuable guide for every teacher, movement specialist and parent. I've never seen a better book on this subject!

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In our hype-infested society, honest and positive word of mouth can multiply sales explosively. But for those who think it happens by chance (as most marketers do), this book will be an eye-opener.

The surprising truth is that word of mouth can be implemented as strategically as any other form of marketing--and at significantly lower cost! This is especially good news for any seller of products or services who must maximize every marketing dollar.

Central to this book is the innovative Decision Matrix, which helps readers identify who their potential buyers are and what messages those prospects need to hear from friends, coworkers, and trusted advisors. This matrix is followed by step-by-step guidance on how to construct an integrated "no vested interest" campaign that leverages all channels (including traditional media, the Internet, and PR), penetrates successive tiers of audiences, and builds sales exponentially. Marketers will learn how to:

* Target the predominate adopter type (innovator, early, middle, late, laggard) * Create the content--the actual words--needed to accelerate the process * Identify the sources and delivery mechanisms that will be most persuasive * Use a wide variety of the methods that trigger runaway word of mouth.

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Sssssh!.......2007-07-21

A friend told me it is a great book. I bought it. Read it. And told my friends about this book. Oops! I think I have started a word of mouth campaign for this book.

Kishore Dharmarajan
Author of Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming for Innovative Managers

For marketing-impaired persons like me...excellent!.......2007-05-26

I admit it: I have a tin ear for marketing. I flunked Marketing in the MBA program. I hated it, I hated the professor, and he hated me.
So this book was a major turn-around for me. I found it very useful, practical, detailed, un-hyped, and respectful of customers. Silverman helped me set up a word-of-mouth marketing plan for my business that was coherent, understandable, and worth the effort. This book also made me think again about unproductive marketing I was doing--such as advertising in the newspaper, which reached nobody whom I wanted to reach. For these reasons, besides that of helping re-tune my tin marketing ear, this book gets a BIG 5 stars.

More Than Just Word-of-Mouth.......2007-05-03

This is a very resourceful book. More than just a description or promotion of word of mouth, this book explains the whole decision cycle that takes a person from first exposure to a product or service to the act of buying and then the follow up which makes the buyer a champion for your product.

You can use this book as a step by step guide to developing your marketing program. You will learn how to integrate all of your marketing methods with word-of-mouth. It also teaches you how to promote and expand positive word-of-mouth and how to correct negative word-of-mouth.

Every serious marketer should read this book.

Waste of Time.......2007-01-28

I'm annoyed that I actually spent money on this book. It took the author 217 pages to write 10 pages of content AND it was boring.

Get "Anatomy of Buzz" instead.

Ode to Word-of-Mouth.......2006-12-31

If you need justification for word-of-mouth marketing, this is it. George Silverman makes a very good, substantiated argument for the importance of 'accelerating decision-making processes'. He spends a lot of time motivating this approach, and the rest of the book on strategies to find and 'exploit' influencers and decision-makers that can spread your message.

The book is interesting, but if you're already convinced on importance of word-of-mouth, you can skip about half. Silverman goes into a lot of low-level strategic detail, often repeating himself. The premise is that word of mouth can be 'controlled', for the most part, at least. He has a point, but he misses the 'organic' part - his sole strategy is to inject information in the right places (influencers). The book reads like a standard marketing text, albeit with a higher emphasis on 'customer-to-customer' communication. I felt that Mark Hughes (Buzzmarketing) offered a much more interesting view at the same phenomenon.

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