Rafal Olbinski Women: Motifs and Variations

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The result is an inviting, vivid collection essential for any college-level art library

Rafal Olbinski Women: Motifs and Variations
Matthew Gurewitsch
Manufacturer: Hudson Hills Press
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At once both controversial and classical, Rafal Olbinski has built a career around examining the mystery of women. In this first publication of his paintings, Olbinski creates a world that seeks to celebrate the secrets of women without destroying their mystery.

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The result is an inviting, vivid collection essential for any college-level art library.......2007-05-19

Rafal Olbinski was born in post-war Poland and is best-known for his depictions of women - all of which are gathered under one cover for WOMEN: MOTIFS AND VARIATIONS. These are gorgeous full-page color paintings which blend elements of surrealism, landscape and figure art and which explores both classic and contemporary images alike, offering an often-whimsical play on themes. The result is an inviting, vivid collection essential for any college-level art library and many a college-level holding on women's portraits and issues.

Diane C. Donovan
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From Poland: an emerging artist: not yet available on Amazon.com, Rafal Olbinski's exciting book on women must be ordered from Poland. Because the book ... : An article from: Saturday Evening Post

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From Poland: an emerging artist: not yet available on Amazon.com, Rafal Olbinski's exciting book on women must be ordered from Poland. Because the book ... : An article from: Saturday Evening Post
Ted Kreiter
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000F3UE9Y
Release Date: 2006-03-21

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Title: From Poland: an emerging artist: not yet available on Amazon.com, Rafal Olbinski's exciting book on women must be ordered from Poland. Because the book contains graphic material, the Post recommends parental guidance to purchasers in homes with young children. Available from the publisher, Polpharma, Warsaw, Poland.(POST BOOKSHELF)(Motifs and Variations: Rafal Olbinski Women)(Book review)
Author: Ted Kreiter
Publication: Saturday Evening Post (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 278 Issue: 2 Page: 71(1)

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A passionate interest and a lifetime spent seeking out the world's finest ethnic jewelry has contributed to making the Ghysels collection one of the premier collections of its kind in the world. Jean-Pierre and Colette Ghysels have indulged their passion indiscriminately, according as much attention to ethnographic objects as to extraordinary pieces of ethnic jewelry. They are guided by a single criterion: the quality that gives rise to beauty, a strict standard indeed, but one made possible by their longstanding familiarity with ethnic objects. A vast array of hair combs, pins, jewelry made to be woven into braids, nose rings, lip plugs, forehead ornaments and other related objects made out of the most diverse materials, many never before seen, are presented in beautifully composed photographs. The book is divided into geographical sections and includes 200 annotated photographs, a glossary, an index, maps, and a general bibliography. The author's essay describes the uses and meaning of the objects in different cultures and emphasizes the originality of the pieces.

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A Gorgeous, but not scholarly book.......2006-11-18

The book is visually stunning: some readers may be disappointed, depending on what they are seeking. The book consists of superb shots of pieces from Asia, Africa, Oceana, and (South)America. The pieces consist of a variety of head ornaments: combs, bands, nose ornaments, etc., but do not include earrings (which are covered in A World of Earrings) or hats. The representation is uneven, with the collections for Asia and Africa being much stronger than for Oceana (perhaps 24 pieces) or South America (perhaps a dozen pieces). Since this is a catalog of a personal collection, one obviously cannot have pictures of what is not there, and this is not a criticism. However, the person researching international jewelry should recognize the limitation.

The pictures themselves are stupendous: large with extremely clear detail. Depending on the item, there may be several on a pages (as with small hairpins) or one piece may have a double spread. The pictures are solely of the pieces; there is no attempt to display them as they would be used. They are arranged in geographical sections, with a brief introduction to the jewelry of that area. All of the caption information is collected at the end of the book, which I suppose avoids detracting from the pictures, but which some may find annoying. At least every page seems to have a discreet page number, so it is easy to match them to the captions. Anyone with a scholarly interest may find this disappointing: there is minimal information about the size of the pieces, generally the largest dimension only, and only one, even if multiple pieces are shown in the same picture. Only a very broad provenance is given, and little about the age. One comb for example, notes that this style was derived from the Spanish mantilla beginning in the 17th century, but it does not indicate if it is also contemporary. I a a little confused by the notation in the caption about a piece from Nigeria referring to Pharaonic Egypt. Does this reflect cultural sharing? Does this mean that the piece is from the time in history? The precise comment is that the ancient Egyptians often copied natural forms, but looking through the pictures, isn't that true of most cultures?

The index is very detailed in that one may, for example, look up pieces from Ming Dynasty China under either Ming or China. It would be helpful if a time period was specified for the dynasties. Also, the page numbers refer only to text, either in the section introductions or the captions. Thus, one is directed to the captions for the jewelry, and goes from there to the pictures. There are also maps and an extensive bibliography.

Well worth oohing and ahhing over, but will be only a supplement for a person with scholarly interests.

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Dog and cat owners alike will love this humorous little book. On page after page, they will see their own experiences with shedding loved ones brought to life in Hilary Price's captivating and clever cartoons.Reigning Cats and Dogs is a collection of the most popular dog and cat strips from Price's wonderfully funny syndicated comic, Rhymes with Orange. These fan favorites offer an insider's view of pet ownership-from the tumbleweeds of hair they deposit in every corner to their ability to take up so much room on the bed that you end up with your head on the nightstand.Readers also get a dog and cat's-eye view of the world-where canines cram for the obedience school final and felines explain their compulsion to sit on your newspaper. Plus there are plenty of quips on the lengths we people will go to satisfy our most beloved family members.Reigning Cats and Dogs is guaranteed to leave pet owners-and everyone else who treasures the best in contemporary cartooning-howling for more.

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Excellent Gift.......2006-12-25

After reading the one I bought for a friend, I bought four more! Three for friends who allow their homes to be ruled by monarchs with 4 legs, and one for my dog!

Perhaps a Tad Too Many Cats..........2004-04-14

Just kidding. Cats are fine. I had a cat once. He was great. (Thought he was a dog, you know.) Anyway, this little book is full of witty -- and true! -- observations about our most common animal companions. Price's humor is so accurate, it's scary. She really captures the personalities of cats and dogs. Buy this book and learn what guide dogs do on their down time and what greeting cards would be like if cats wrote them. This book also makes a great gift for fellow dog (and cat) lovers.

Life with Cats and Dogs Captured!.......2004-01-02

I can't wait to share this book, a gift, with my friends, but I'm afraid I might never get it back. My strategy is to get another copy to circulate ...

Reigning Cats and Dogs: A Rhymes With Orange Tribute.........2003-11-05

This is a MUST HAVE for anyone who loves cats and dogs! Hillary Price is unsurpassed in her depictions of the thoughts and actions of our four-legged friends. Her ability to express her witty observations can lift even the most dour of spirits. I received this book as a birthday present and have read it daily since. If you enjoy laughing aloud and the love of a sweet pet, this book is for you.

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Profusely illustrated step-by-step guide enables you to rebind books, paperbacks, periodicals, more. Book sewing of all types (antique, flexible, lockstitch, whipstitch, etc.); how to make endpapers, attach headbands, case in, cover with book cloth and other materials, add titling and decoration, much else. Updated list of suppliers. 254 illustrations and photographs.

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So so.......2007-08-28

Many of the methods Banister uses in this book are finicky and overcomplicated, but they get the job done nonetheless. His instructions may be difficult for some to follow, but there are tons of great photographs. I also love that Banister gives instructions for how to build several presses yourself - they can be very pricy if purchased ready made!

Just what I needed to get me started. .......2007-01-04

This book--paired with Hand Bookbinding: a Manual for Instruction--are just what you need to get started with the art of hand bookbinding. The only time I would buy another book about bookbinding would be if I needed more information, or wanted to try out some new stuff, which is highly unlikely.

So, if you're interested in hand bookbinding, buy the two books I mentioned, and you'll be all set (apart from equipment).

Best of show.......2000-02-21

This is by far one of the better books on the subject of bookbinding. It treats things such as leather covering, multiple sewing methods, cording, split covers, and finishing with great detail. However, an easier to read book is Hand Bookbinding A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson, which also happens to provide instructions on how to make your own tools, something the reader will find quite useful since tools are very difficult to find. Anyone wishing to get into bookbinding seriously should obtain both books to have a complete treatment of the subject, from tools to final product. I couldn't do without the two of them.

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Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis

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Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But many times, representatives of the two professions do not fully understand one another's roles. This book bridges this gap by helping biologists understand state-of-the-art statistical methods for analyzing capture-recapture data. In so doing, statisticians will also become more familiar with the design of field studies and with the real-life issues facing biologists.

Reliable outcomes of capture-recapture studies are vital to answering key ecological questions. Is the population increasing or decreasing? Do more or fewer animals have a particular characteristic? In answering these questions, biologists cannot hope to capture and mark entire populations. And frequently, the populations change unpredictably during a study. Thus, increasingly sophisticated models have been employed to convert data into answers to ecological questions. This book, by experts in capture-recapture analysis, introduces the most up-to-date methods for data analysis while explaining the theory behind those methods. Thorough, concise, and portable, it will be immensely useful to biologists, biometricians, and statisticians, students in both fields, and anyone else engaged in the capture-recapture process.

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Re: What's manly
The Manly Handbook- The Work Of A Genius
The Manly Handbook or Holy Bible
Men Only
The Manly Handbook - the only book real men read

Manly Handbook Tr
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Re: What's manly .......2004-11-06

Subject: Re: What's "manly"

Hello

My love turns 35 tomorrow and will be getting summary of responses to this thread, "The manly handbook" and its reviews on amazon.com as a gift ...

:) Thanks again guys

BTW, I *love* the self-help book above

At 11:10 AM 10/21/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Just a suggestion: Maybe he can play with your two-year old while hunting, which would certainly upgrade that activity to manliness? Also, you may want to let him know that any man (husband) who would even broach the subject, 'why do you like me?' is inherently not manly. In fact, I'm tempted to report him, based solely on this account.

Spend the $35 on this book [ "The Manly Handbook" ] and you can bring both of you up to speed on what is manly and what isn't. Basically, anything that is illogical, uncalled for, obnoxious or dangerous (or some combination thereof) is, by definition, manly. It will also help you get over your astonishment and move on to contempt for the male psyche.

Please don't anyone forward this to my wife -- she'd kill me if she knew I was saying this stuff...

At 10:12 AM 10/21/2004, you wrote:
Hey

Question to all of you guys there - is being a good husband a "macho" thing to do? Because my love does not seem to think so.

Here I am, happily finishing up evening chores while my hubby lovingly pats me on - ahem - the back and asks me "So, why do you like me?". I tell him "Hmmmm... let's see - you're a wonderful dad, you spend lots of time with Andrew and me, you really like me and you help around the house a lot".

I see him beaming with pride for a while and then he goes "Just don't tell any of my friends about it".
I'm really puzzled and ask why and he answers, very seriously, "Because it's not a 'manly' thing to do" and then he goes on elaborating a bit on it. Apparently it's a huge dishonor to a man to hug, kiss, tickle and play with his 2yo son, to like spending time with his wife and to do dishes/take trash out etc every evening and to openly admit it to his computer game playing buddies (as if they don't know it already - or maybe they don't? Man's psyche never fails to astonish me ...).

Guys?

Thank you

The Manly Handbook- The Work Of A Genius.......2003-10-28

This book is not for the soft and weak.If you truly wish to become manly and stand proud.This book is a must read.No wimps are allowed to get near this book or they will be in a world of hurt.

The Manly Handbook or Holy Bible.......2003-10-23

This book should be required reading for all american males. Everything in this book is right on. The reason I'm so manly is because is started living this book at a very young age. I eat stuff that'll make a billy goat puke

Men Only.......2003-07-10

We've followed this bible since college in '82, through 10 yrs of military service, and continue to place it on the pedestal it deserves today. So simple, so obvious, and yet so needed in this fairy age we live in. I now have this propped up in my H2, what better vehicle for MEN? Excuse me now, I need to hang glide through enemy airspace.....

The Manly Handbook - the only book real men read.......2000-07-19

I read this book in the mid-80's, and it changed my life. Gave a copy to a friend of mine what was in the hospital for lung surgery, and a coupla weeks later got a thank-you card. Said that without reading The Manly Handbook, he never would have had the courage to have the surgery without anesthesia.

This book should be a must-read for every male in America - before it's too late. There aren't many manly men around these days, and I think there's a direct correlation to the fact that the book has been out of print for a few years.

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L. Elliott and Harold P. Manly Brookes
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Peggy Seeger
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tiny replica of the original!!!.......2006-12-12

This is great for an office display with one of those littel cubie display boxes. A nice replica of simpler times past, where the toys were fun and dind't have to make a lot of noise. Neat for collectors of nastalgia!!!

Excellent.......2006-03-24

I was looking for this product for a long time and i finally find it at Amazon. I bought it for a friend of mine that was living in the US (I am from Argentina) and it was shipped as soon as Amazon told me. It was a great buy experience. Keep on good work! Thanks.

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Valuable Insights and Counsel in Combination with Practicality

A bit of this, a bit of that

Solid book on Innovation AND Excecution

Strategy AND Tactics

Fact-filled and Jargon-free

Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability
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“How can I create an innovation engine that will consistently deliver substantial organic growth?”

This question is the number-one issue for most CEOs and senior executives today. Innovation is a critical driver of organic growth, yet based on the authors' research, only a small percent of companies effectively use innovation to sustain long-term, profitable growth. And the stakes couldn't be higher-failure to create successful new products, services, and business models causes stagnating or declining profits.

Now, for the first time, experts Michael George, James Works and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill explain the surprising and significant gap between the CEO's growth goals and actual performance. The authors, who are experts at connecting strategy to execution, give you a complete blueprint for exploiting the strategic and operational dimensions of innovation.

Using fresh insights about the true drivers of fast time-to-market and the inadequate success rate of innovation, Fast Innovation reveals:

Why current approaches to innovation fail
A new strategic and tactical plan that will help your company dramatically reduce time-to-market by 50 to 80 percent
The secret for finding out what your customers really want (not just what they say they want)
Tools and methods for turning customer insights into ideas that will generate significant ROI
The key levers that senior leadership must engage to create innovation capability across the business

You'll receive specific actionable solutions for driving disruptive and sustaining innovation at the strategic, portfolio and project level. You'll also learn how to improve how much time your innovation teams actually spend innovating, and discover the changes that must be launched at the corporate level in order to enable the whole business to embrace and get results from this approach.

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Valuable Insights and Counsel in Combination with Practicality.......2006-02-28

The last time I checked, Amazon and its online partner Borders offer more than 12,000 different books on the subject of innovation. Presumably this number will continue to increase as organizations become more actively involved with strategic planning in a global marketplace which relies so heavily on both technology and innovation.

What we have in this volume is a remarkably thoughtful, indeed rigorous and insightful discussion of how to achieve superior differentiation, speed to market, and consequent increased profitability. Those who have read any of George's previously published books (Lean Six Sigma, Conquering Complexity in Your Business, and Lean Six Sigma for Service) already know that he is an expert on both process simplification and process innovation. The former achieves incremental progress while the latter (with higher risk and higher reward) enables what George and other business thinkers refer to as "breakthroughs." Highly disruptive technologies, for example. The most effective organizations (e.g. GE, 3M, and Allied Signal) are committed to sustaining both process simplification and innovation.

The subject of speed has always intrigued me. The challenge, obviously, is to determine when to increase, decrease, or sustain it. Now more than ever before, organizations must be able to respond quickly to crises, opportunities, etc. However, as James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and the Light Brigade demonstrated at Balaclava in 1854, when decisions are based on insufficient information and/or poor judgment, the results can be disastrous. Moreover, doing nothing or doing it too late can be just as dangerous as acting impulsively rather than rationally.

George, Works, and Watson-Hemphill carefully organizes their material within 15 chapters as they respond to a number of critically important questions which include:

1. What are the most significant benefits of fast innovation?
2. What is the process by which to design a fast innovation program?
3. What are the most effective strategies when implementing that program?
4. Which tools are most helpful during implementation?
5. What is an "innovation factory"?
6. How to establish an "idea-rich" workplace environment?
7. Within which process should fast innovation projects be deployed?
8. How best to measure project progress accurately?
9. What is the "FastGate Method" and how does it work?
10. How to create "innovation incubators"?

I especially appreciate the authors' probing analysis of several case studies (e.g. Eli Lilly, Home Depot, Intel, ITT Industries, and Procter & Gamble) to demonstrate their key concepts as well as to suggest how each reader can (with appropriate modification) apply those core concepts within her or his own organization. To me, some of the most valuable material is found in Chapter 4 when George, Works, and Watson-Hemphill examine "The Value of Thinking in Three Dimensions": product-service innovation, market definition innovation, and process/business model innovation. I agree with them that products and services such as Microsoft Windows and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol telephony are the cornerstones of most innovation programs, there are perhaps even greater opportunities in the other two dimensions, market definition innovation (which reflects the leverage possible from existing customer relationships) and process/business model innovation (which can create a competitive advantage that lasts longer than that from sustaining product or service innovations).

The key point is, that the most important breakthroughs in innovation are achieved by those initiatives which are multidimensional. George, Works, and Watson-Hemphill also note that "there are many companies that have maintained above-average growth without innovating a single new product or service but rather by exploiting the market definition, or process/business model dimensions of innovation."

As indicated previously, "fast" innovation does not mean hurried innovation. More often than not, as an ancient aphorism suggests, it is often prudent to "make haste slowly." Also, as the authors would be the first to point out, decision-makers in a given organization must decide to what extent (if any) activity in one or more of the three dimensions makes sense. Moreover, although George and his co-authors offer an abundance of information, observations, insights, and recommendations, it remains for each reader to determine which (if any) are appropriate to her or his organization's needs, interests, current and imminent circumstances, available resources, etc. This is not an "easy read." On the contrary, it requires but will generously reward a careful consideration of its contents. Credit George, Works, and Watson-Hemphill with a logical organization of their material, and, an eloquent presentation of it.

If you share my high regard for this book, I urge you to check out George's previously published Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth and Lean Six Sigma for Service: How to use Lean Speed & Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions.

Also, Clayton Christensen and co-authors' Seeing What's Next, Geoffrey Moore's Dealing with Darwin, Tom Kelley's The Ten Faces of Innovation, Yoram (Jerry) Wind and co-authors' The Power of Impossible Thinking, and Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators. One other suggestion: one of the most influential books ever written on the subject of technological innovation, Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. It was first published in 1987 and, in certain respects, is even more relevant and more valuable now than ever before.

A bit of this, a bit of that.......2006-01-20

After finishing this book I thought my time was wasted. Actually I should have guessed from the jacket cover that this would be six sigma forced into the popular (an also lucrative) topic of innovation. The book did indeed trurn out to be just that. Hence, lack of coherence. The only useful part for me was the one on Re-Use, which I thought, was brilliant. This was a very good handling of an often neglected but very important issue. But apart from that the whole book could be squeezed into a little article and all the arguments made here could succinctly be made in only a few pages. If you are after a good book on implementation of innovation, I recommend "Making Innovation Work" by Tony Davila et.al. Fast Innovation will not provide answers to most of your questions.

Solid book on Innovation AND Excecution.......2005-09-24

Having worked at several Silicon Valley start-ups and with several visionaries, I can honestly say that innovation, especially the product and new market definition types, are somewhat easily arrived. However, once envisioned, most start-ups/visionaries fail miserably to execute. Visions without execution are just hallucination!

This book not only presents the what's and why's of innovation but also the how's. It details some solid guidelines for being fast and productive in an uncertain environment where disruptive innovations reign.

I would recommend reading this book along with the following books:
- Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
- Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen
- Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore
- Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey Moore
- Harvard Business Review's Darwin and the Demon, Geoffrey Moore
- Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy et al

Strategy AND Tactics.......2005-08-23

Growth through innovation is key to Eli Lilly and Company. To serve our commitment to meeting medical needs and achieve our growth goals requires more innovation, faster innovation and, at the same time, less resource consumption and risk. This book identifies some of the significant changes in strategy and tactics needed for an innovation process to achieve these goals. Every executive concerned with the changing business of innovation would do well to become familiar with the principles contained in this book." -ALPHEUS BINGHAM, Vice President, Strategy, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company

Fact-filled and Jargon-free.......2005-07-27

At last! An authoritative source of step-by-step information that allows an organization to create what the title promises -- fast innovation. The instructions are crystal-clear and demonstrated with examples of recent developments at leading businesses. The writing is colorful and lively. Altogether, an essential resource for anyone responsible for organizational growth.

Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability

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Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability
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