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Teaches you everything you need to know to get started. Furthermore, you'll be helping the environment by making a personal contribution to recycling.
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BUYER BEWARE! Check with the seller first!.......2006-11-09
I was excited to get this book as I love to recycle stuff and make new stuff. But when I got the book in the mail (which even used, I paid over 20 dollars for including shipping) it was missing the clear templates. And of course, without the templates, you can not use the book. The seller who I purchased it from did not mention the missing templates in the item description and I assumed that if it wasn't mentioned, everything would be there as expected. That is the problem with these large warehouse-type online stores; they have so much inventory and most of the time, they don't even know when a product doesnt have everything it should have in order to sell it. I am waiting feedback from the seller in regards to a refund but I'm now going to have to eat the cost to send it back, which is money out of my pocket. The book is great in theory and I can't wait to try it WHEN I can get a copy of the book WITH the templates. I'm now going to have to try other sellers and make sure to check and double check that when I repurchase that it DOES have the templates. If you are interested in the book, I would encourage you to do the same.
Missing templates.......2006-09-22
The subject of this book is how to create envelopes from printed materials using the plastic templates included in the back of the book. They were missing from the book I received. If the advertisement for the book had stated the templates were missing I would not have purchased this book, because without them the book is useless.
Price inflation.......2006-06-30
I received this book as a gift, and it is one of my favorites. HOWEVER - could someone please explain why a book issued in
1995 at a cost of $19.95 is currently priced from $44.00 to $50.00??
great but not for what they are charging..........2006-06-21
I just noticed that they are wanting over $40 for this book. I like this book BUT it is just a beginner book on this subject and not worth $40. The book has envelope templates but you can get templates FREE on the net. Otherwise this book is just "eye candy". If you saw Ms. Harvey on HGTV then you pretty much saw what is in her book.
So unless you can get it for $15 or under I'd say skip it.
A bit basic.......2005-02-21
This is an ok book. If you have envelope templates already then I'd say pass on this book because the text isn't that novel. There just isn't much to it......select a page from a magazine, plop the template down, draw around the shape of the template, cut it out and glue it up. Voila. I'm actually surprised the author was able to turn this topic into a book. It does have a few unique ideas like using special scissors like the deckle edge to cut out the envelope shape. It might be a good book for someone just starting to play around with templates and making envelopes. I was just looking for something for more advanced mail art.
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The world of vintage clothing is a fun, exciting, rewarding area of collecting. This is particularly true of the fashions of 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Unlike earlier eras, these creations can be worn and enjoyed everyday. And there is something for every taste...from the formal to the whimsical and from the chic tailored suits of the 1940s to the free-style fashions of the late-1960s.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed.......2002-05-20
I have been in the vintage clothing business for only about two years, so I am constantly searching for new books and information to keep me informed. I ordered this book in hopes it would be what the title says it is. Was I ever disappointed!
It only has a few pages of text and the rest of it is nothing but pictures. I know this sounds like a good thing, but the dresses were not even on dress forms or mannequins! I go to more trouble than that when I put my merchandise in 3-day auctions. The descriptions were generic, dates vague and prices unrealistic. There were several words, namely file (meaning faille) and stripped (meaning striped), that showed up not once, but throughout the book. I thought everyone had spell check! I am surprised that Schiffer would publish it. I have always relied on their reference books, but I cannot, with any conscience, recommend this one.
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Office hijinks, role-playing games, teenage geeks in love, old high-school rivals, and a Troll who's run away from home: It's just another average day at PvP Magazine. Landscape format trade paperback.
Customer Reviews:
A great collection of strips!.......2006-04-08
PvP is a wonderful comic strip. If you are not familiar with this comic, this collection is a great way to just jump in and start enjoying this series. If you're an 80's child, gaming nerd, or even just a fan of well produced and genuinely funny comics...you should find a lot to like here.
great comics, poor publishing.......2004-11-09
I've been reading PVP for some time now online, and decided that it was time to a) give something back to Kurtz and b) get some new bathroom reading. Having the comics in dead tree form is great, but unfortunately, the publishing job is awful. I recognize that paper is the most expensive part of the printing process, but it would've been nice if Kurtz or someone at Image decided to spring for some larger gutters. It's impossible to see the end of the strips on the left hand pages and the beginning on the right hand pages without cracking the spine. And this is definitely the sort of book that will lose some pages once the spine cracks. Overall, I'm glad to have it because the material is great, but the physical book itself is pretty poor quality.
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Tomando La Risa En Serio/ Taking Laughter Seriously
Maria Perez
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A must read for anyone interested in Chicano or Ethnic films.......1999-07-09
Chon Noriega, Editor of Chicanos in Film, dares to create a book that reveals the culture, philosophy, corazon, affirmation, sangre, and issues of contemporary Chicano Films. Pues, what are you waiting for? Buy it and learn how Richard "Cheech" Marin threw stereotypes on their head and how Frances Salome Espana creates films on her own terms.
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Practising the Piano
Frank Merrick
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The Art of Practising the Piano
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From hallucinogens to shining ones.......2006-02-22
I, for one, love this addition to the world of Exalted. I find it highly amusing that the story of the Cult involves being started by some guy hopped up on 'shrooms and then the whole thing being used by the Gold Faction Sidereals to their advantage. Granted, Sidereals rock my socks anyway and I needed this book to research the Cult for a game I'm going to try to run. I was quite thrilled to see the god I'm basing the story around (Lytek) listed as a supporter of the Cult. I figured he was anyway, but it was cool to get details on his activities with them.
Also, the rules for Illuminated Solars are awesome! I need a Solar sorceror for my game, and while it is an epic-level game, it might be neat to have the sorceror be raised by the Cult of the Illuminated and have some of the special Backgrounds.
Cult of the Illuminated or Sidereals are bastards.......2005-09-20
I have mixed feelings about this book. For one, this book gives you a great way of creating a mixed group of exalted. It also gives you a good alternative to creating Solars. That being said, I don't know if I would use the Cult in any fashion other than an antagonist. Players can play Solars with boosted skills and background ratings if they want to play lapdogs to the same people that had them assasinated. My players would rather die than have their Solars become slaves to this Cult.
Book Description
Synchronicity is an inspirational guide to developing the most essential leadership capacity for our time: how we can collectively shape our future. Joseph Jaworski offers a new definition of leadership that applies to all types of leaders: community, regional, national, international, corporate, political.
Customer Reviews:
the best book i have ever read.......2007-04-11
it should be a must for all college students
Dancing in the moment.......2007-03-17
If you are following the path of coaching and be a leader in your field
its a great book to read.
An engaging personal saga of leadership and the inner life.......2004-08-01
Synchronicity is one of the most inspiring books I know on leadership. The book is a fascinating and holistic blend of the personal and the professional. Jaworski is a name you may already be familiar with. He is the son of Watergate prosecutor, Leon Jaworski. His career is facinating. He began his professional life as a high-powered attorney in Houston. He chased after and won all of the trappings of external success. Then, suddently, his wife announced she was leaving him, and he was forced to confront himself, his values, and the meaning and purpose of his life. The rest seems to flow out of this pivotal experience. Jaworski left the practice of law and went on to become founder, chairman, and CEO of the American Leadership Forum. This organization continues to serve established local leaders and promotes collaborative problem-solving in communities and regions for the public good. In the early 90's, he joined Royal Dutch Shell in London as head of Global Scenario Planning. The initiative he led there is credited as instrumental in the peaceful transfer of power in South Africa which put an end to the government of apartheid. At the time the book was published, Jaworski was with MIT's Center for Organizational Learning which later closed in 1997. His role there was to work with leading corporations on building learning organizations, a topic which still receives considerable focus in leadership circles. It's a concept that appeals to many, and yet few have succeeded in implementing one. The old models die hard. Still, change is in the air.
The book speaks to topics that resonate with us at a deep level: integrity, commitment, responsibility, values, meaning, vulnerability, trust, collaboration, to name a few.
The book begins with a familiar story. A man seeking what we've been led to believe is success. Prestige as a high-powered attorney, a big income and a big home. Then his world falls apart when his wife leaves him, and his identity proceeds to fall apart. He rebuilds a life that is based on authenticity. He speaks of finding the flow in his life when he honors an inner call. He has a vision of what is possible. He sees his life and his choices as intimately connected with the world. He sees himself and his actions in relationship, not isolated and separate. He notes the the busyness of his earlier life as symptomatic of a larger of dis-ease in our culture. We spend too much of our time on activity and too little time on being present to what's really happening around us. We've forgotten the power we have as a witness. We fear having too much time to reflect, instinctively knowing that we're going to have to face ourselves and our lives at a deeper level than we're comfortable with. We're hooked on the notion that commitment and activity are inseparable. So we create a continual stream of activity, making sure that everybody sees us doing lots of things so they'll believe we're actually committed. If we stay busy enough, maybe we'll even convince ourselves that our lives had some meaning even though, deep down, we know they couldn't possibly have any meaning, because everything is hopeless and we're hopeless, and we couldn't possibly affect anything anyhow. Often, it takes a crisis to cause us to question the value of our lives and our activity.
He speaks of proper timing -- that situations unfold at an organic pace that is impossible to rush. All of our pushing and forcing serves mainly to exhaust us. There is a natural flow to our individual lives and to the times in which we live. Nothing of real substance can be pushed or forced to fruition. The purpose of life and our individual lives is revealed at a mysterious pace that the rational mind cannot grasp. There are things that want to happen. We can either fight or embrace the natural flow of our life, thus being an integral part of that larger flow of life. We won't find more riches anywhere else than in our own experience. Jaworski also speaks to an intriguing notion he calls economy of means. Change one small thing and the repercussions can be enormous. How is is possible to see which thread of a situation or a challenge needs to be pulled in order for everything to fall into place without the space for reflection? Economy of means. It's the notion that with perspective and awareness, we can see opportunities we couldn't see before. And seeing these opportunities, we can sense when the moment is right to act, and we will know exactly what needs to be done.
We begin to see that with very small movements, at just the right time and place, all sorts of consequent actions are brought into being. We develop what artists refer to as an "economy of means," where, rather than getting things done through effort and brute force, we start to operate very subtly. A flow of meaning begins to operate around us, as if we were part of a larger conversation. This is the ancient meaning
of dialogue: (dia .logos) "flow of meaning." We start to notice that things suddenly are just attracted to us in ways that are very puzzling. A structure of underlying causes, a set of forces, begins to operate, as if we were surrounded by a magnetic field with magnets being aligned spontaneously in this field. But this alignment is not spontaneous at all -- it's just that the magnets are responding to a more subtle level of
causality.
He writes at some length about his experience at Shell with scenario planning. It's a tool for strategic planning at a level most of us are not yet used to working at. Its objective is to create the future with greater awareness of the consequences of our choices through collaboration and dialogue. The approach was designed to uncover and directly impact the mental models used individually and collectively to make choices large and small. Our mental model is the totality of the opinions, judgements, and beliefs that act as a filter, preventing us from seeing a situation clearly as it is without bias. The work led by Royal Dutch Shell included a diverse team of international experts. The team developed two scenarios known as "New Frontiers" and "Barricades" and two sets of wide-ranging implications on the international community, the environment, energy, economics, politics, business, and people.
Writing "Barricades" was a sobering experience for the entire team. We had been as realistic and conservative as we could in the development of this scenario, yet we had drawn a chilling picture of an increasingly divided world with anarchy enveloping society within our children's lifetime.
New Frontiers is a world where the center of gravity of the world economy shifts from the rich to the poor.... It's a story of new demands, new opportunity, turbulence, and vast change, resulting in governments and businesses being challenged beyond what they thought possible.
Jaworski calls dialogue the power of collective thinking. It's the idea that there is a collective consciousness at the level of the family, the community, the nation, and the world at large. There is a collective consciousness implicit in the times in which we live. These two scenarios were widely presented in 2- and 3-day workshops. Presentations were made to government officials, the business community, black community groups and leaders in exile. The initiative was successful in getting a critical mass of key individuals to focus their attention on choices and their consequences, about the unsustainability of the system and the consequences that each scenario might have on the international community, the environment, the opportuntity for other choices. And power was transferred peacefully in South Africa.
Jaworski describes three fundamental shifts of mind necessary for the creative leadership that will solve some of the world's tougher dilemmas:
1) A shift from resignation to a sense of possibility that comes from seeing the universe as a magical dance, full of living qualities rather than a linear, logical, and predictable view of what's really going on.
2) A shift from seeing ourselves as separate and isolated from everything else that we see "out there" to seeing the world holistically as a web of relationships. Change one small thing and everything else is subtly different.
3) A shift in the nature of our commitment from a highly disciplined proposition in which you "seize fate by the throat and do whatever it takes to suceed" to a deeper level of commitment that comes from an willing spirit. This sense of willingness opens us up to connect with our inner guidance systems and wisdom. To hear the call, to recognize an innate sense of purpose and to accept and honor that.
As these shifts occur, we will notice that synchronicity comes into our life, both the personal and the professional. Synchronity, is defined by Carl Jung as "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of change is involved." When synchronicity comes into our life, it's an indication that we are on the path. There is a sense of ease and excitement, a sense of true belonging to ourself, to one another, to the times in which we live, and to life.
Reads like a good mystery novel.......2004-07-02
My colleagues and I have been designing and facilitating leadership development programs for about 20 years. I've also served as a VP of three Fortune 500 companies. I recommend this book to everyone who is a leader or who wants to be one. Not only does it contain THE secret to true leadership, Mr. Jaworski has written his account so that it reads like a good mystery novel. You wonder what will happen next. And he has written this book from his heart. I hope our paths cross one day soon.
Good Story about Personal Reinvention.......2004-04-27
I read the book on the recommendation of a coworker. For me, it opened up my eyes to finding my type of leadership-in my case servant-leadership. His journey of personal reinvention is a joy to read especially as he learns what is truly important in life.
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