100 Best Selling Albums of the 70's

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100 Best Selling Albums of the 70's

Manufacturer: Amber Books Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 076075652X

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A celebration of the 100 best selling albums of the 1970s based on recording industry figures. Each album featured with sleeve artwork. Complete track listings, musician line-ups, and production credits.

100 Best Album Covers the Stories Behind

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The top 100?
You'll Keep Going Back For More
The 100 Best???
Hastily thrown together
Great Book. No other way to describe it

100 Best Album Covers the Stories Behind
Storm Thorgerson
Manufacturer: Firefly Books Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1552093913

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The immediate question that arises with a book entitled 100 Best Album Covers is, of course, "Says who?" Wisely, authors Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell have anticipated such widespread suspicion. In their thorough and amusing introduction, the two former cover designers (of Hipgnosis) go on at length about potentially qualifying factors (innovation, humor, bizarreness, minimalism, audacity) and possible reasons for nonselection (popularity, dull illustration, ugly technique, emotional offensiveness). But, they concede, what it really comes down to is a matter of taste--with a bit of nostalgia thrown into the mix.

In the end, the mysterious (and eternally debatable) selection formula matters not. The history, inspiration, and technical design details provided for each of the 100 covers that made the cut serve as reason enough for their inclusion. Did you know that Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy cover was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Childhood's End?? Or that the burning man on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here was actually on fire (and in a bit of danger)? Or that an original idea for Supertramp's Breakfast in America was to depict cereal and milk rolling through the Grand Canyon? Tasty tidbits like these, along with quotes from designers, photographers, and the musicians themselves, make this a must-have volume for music fans--yes, even if your personal top 100 covers would constitute an entirely different collection. --Brangien Davis

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From the psychedelia of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's to the quirky social commentary of Nirvana's Nevermind, some of the most memorable, groundbreaking images of the last five decades have graced the covers of rock albums. DK's 100 Best Album Covers presents the cream of the cover crop, chosen by legendary designer Storm Thorgerson (the creator of celebrated sleeves for Pink Floyd, among other artists) and presented in DK's brilliant lexicographic style. No other album cover compilation comes close to 100 Best Album Covers in showing -- and telling -- the "stories behind the sleeves." The ideal gift for music lovers of all ages.

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The top 100?.......2002-12-24

Although the information about each album cover is intriguing, I'd be hard pressed to agree that these are the top 100 best (or creative) album covers of all time. As a graphic designer, I feel that some of covers are downright dull - definately not worthy of the title bestowed upon them.

You'll Keep Going Back For More.......2002-01-13

I have owned this book for several years and I finally decided to write a review on it now. Why did I wait so long? Well, this is not the kind of book that you'll likely pick up right away and read all the way through. In fact, I constantly find myself going back to this book whenever I'm bored. It's fun, even after many years, to flip to an album cover and read all of the interesting details on the concept, artist, design, and history. The book is laid out in such a fashion that each time you look at a represented cover, you discover new details and gain a new perspective.

As to the question of whether or not these are truly the best 100 album covers of all time, I really can't say. In fact, in that regard I think the title is misleading because it forces the reader into thinking this is some type of a ranking or countdown. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. This is simply a really cool collection of 100 great album covers and their history. And, in that respect, this book really delivers.

Buy it today. I promise you, it will never get dull.

The 100 Best???.......2002-01-05

There are so many albums out there, but I have to question some of the album covers that were chosen.
I think that part of the problem with this book is that it tries to catagorize the covers, which is the downfall. For some of the catagories, it seems that they are reaching on covers just so they have enough album covers to sustain that catagory.
I also think there were albums, too numerous to miss.
That all being said, the information was very interesting and it was good to see that one time period or genre was not dwelled upon.

Hastily thrown together.......2001-03-26

At least half of the featured album covers were familiar to me, and the book did contain interesting and informative snippets of information. However I was a bit dismayed that some album covers were overlooked, memorable covers by such popular bands as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Meatloaf, ELO, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, and Iron Maiden (for their frightening Eddie character that graced so many of their albums).

As an art book, this book is a joke. I have many coffee-table and art books, and "100 Best Album Covers" is the only one I have that centers some featured graphics in the CENTER of the book. By that, I mean that a picture is centered in a two page spread, which runs the spine of the book right down the middle of the picture. All of the other art books I have put a graphic on one page so that you can see it (unless it's oversized). The pictures here aren't oversized and would easily fit on one page. It's hard to appreciate even a nifty album cover when you can only see the outer edges of it clearly. Far too many of the album covers are centered on the spine this way. The emphasis in this book is on the commentary it seems, and not so much the picture. Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" (an impressive work by the famous artist Giger) isn't quite as breathtaking when you have to pry and bend the book open and crack the spine to see it.

The publishers should revise this book and reissue it.

Great Book. No other way to describe it.......2001-01-30

I can't say anything more than this book rules. It has definitely the best 100 album covers.

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The 100 Best Album Covers

Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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100 Best Album Covers
Author Unknown
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

100 Best Album Covers Pb (Hmv Pack - Book + Poster)

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100 Best Album Covers Pb (Hmv Pack - Book + Poster)
Dorling Kindersley
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0751331465

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3 Stars, with reasons.......2006-11-02

I've worn beaded wampum belts for a long, long time now. Ever since I saw that documentary on the way of the Iroquois, Blazing Saddles, I've been obsessed with their belts and their culture. They're sporty, practical, and downright indestructible. (the belts, not the Iroqouis, thank god) With that being said, I was a little disappointed with this one.

I'd been familiar with Ray Tehanetorens' other books and admired his work in the past. Namely his third book, "Squaws on the Halfshell: The Iroquois Kama Sutra". Fascinating. That one really cleared up a lot of confusion Wanda and I had over which end goes up during the execution of the "Squatting Elk". (it's the hooves, always keep the hooves pointing north) We keep the book within arm's reach, as we never know when we'll need to use it. It's been sitting on the tractor tire we call a coffee table since its release.

However, I really feel that Tehanetoren dropped the ball on this one. Many of the pieces featured in the book are misidentified. Example: on page 36, the caption under the turquois and ratbone tongue seperator states that it was originally used by tribes in the NORTHERN Dakotas. Hah! Anyone with half a brain knows its of the kind found in the CENTRAL DAKOTAS! This oversight is almost unforgivable. It doesn't end there.

The back cover displays what it claims to be a ball-clamp fashioned from fresh water crocodile teeth. Wrong again. The Iroquois never practiced ball-clamping. That is straight Illinois Sioux behavior there. Any boy scout worth his neckerchief can tell ya that.

Still, I have to give this one a solid 3 stars, even if based solely on the couple of little details he DID get right.

I was really pleased to find the text of the book is in my favorite font, 19 Times Mongoloid Italics Bold. You just don't see that one used much anymore. (outside of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and NAMBLA newsletters) Not really sure why. Maybe the sheer size of the font discourages its use, in that it only allows 4 words per printed page.

Also, I found the book's Introduction by David Duke to be a daring, if ill-advised, choice.

Good History and Descriptions.......2006-07-04

An excellent book on the use and meaning of wampum belts by the Iroquois. I found the descriptions and history of the belts fascinating. There does not appear to be very much written on this subject, and several of the publications outlining the wampum belts are out of print. The book covers most of the well-known wampum belts including photographs of reproductions of these belts. Color photographs would have been better, but there is still enough detail to see some of the individual beads.

Wampum Belts by Tehanetorens (Iroqrafts Iroquois Reprints)

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Wampum Belts by Tehanetorens (Iroqrafts Iroquois Reprints)

Manufacturer: Iroquios Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: 0919645070

The Hiawatha wampum belt of the Iroquois league for peace: a symbol for the International Congress for Anthropology

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The Hiawatha wampum belt of the Iroquois league for peace: a symbol for the International Congress for Anthropology
William N Fenton
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007GUPM0

Wampum and glass bead belts of the Seneca Iroquois: Part 1 Notes

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Wampum and glass bead belts of the Seneca Iroquois: Part 1 Notes
Charles . . . et al Wray
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00072FA2O

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Wampum Belts of the Iroquois

Manufacturer: Iroqrafts Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I74J52

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Review of Dog Tricks:How to Teach Your Dog to Dance & Dazzle

Dog Tricks: How to Teach Your Dog to Dance and Dazzle
Ivy Press
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Dog Tricks: Eighty-Eight Challenging Activities for Your Dog from World-Class Trainers

ASIN: 0740751115

Book Description

Dog Tricks is a fun and easy how-to book and accompanying kit that provides straightforward know-how to teach even an old dog new tricks. With this simple guide your pooch will master amazing tricks that will leave your friends and their "average" dogs stupefied.

The Dog Tricks training package includes a 32-page instruction book complete with four-color art, a mini-soccer ball, eight mini trick-training cones, and the crucial invisible magic dust. Equipped with these common tools, you'll be able to teach your dog unbelievable stunts such as:

" Walk Yourself, and Don't Be Long

" Dance the Shimmy

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Successfully teaching your dog to perform tricks like these will not only be great fun for you both, but will enrich your dog's life, help with general obedience training, and help him make new friends and influence people. With this remarkable kit, you won't limit your pooch to a life of mediocrity!

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Less than desirable.......2006-11-10

This book sucked. One of the tricks is actually to teach your dog to run away. It would take about 5 million treats to train your dog using the advice of this book.

Review of Dog Tricks:How to Teach Your Dog to Dance & Dazzle.......2005-09-03

This is a cute little set and would make a fun gift for puppy buyers or anyone with a young dog they wish to train. The book is short and simple and the props are fun. The only thing necessary is motivation. I got it to teach my therapy dogs tricks so they can entertain on their visits. A fun set for sure.

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This book covers important middle-level topics such as scheduling, related arts, assessment, the adolescent learner, incorporating technology, and more. Researchers outline the major topics, and middle school teachers describe actual successful programs.

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This book contains explicit material.

What ecstasy! The mischievous, delicious, explicit DOTS are back--and this time they're even naughtier than ever, with full color photographs. No wonder more than 100,000 copies of this very sexy, very adult collection of 30 images have been sold. What treats await you when your pencil makes the dot connection? The untouched page is already tantalizing, but just wait till it's done. The woman in "Dusty Dots" has a feather duster. What is she up to? See what fun goes on in "Party Dots" when the music stops and the guests have gone home. "Lap Dots" is full of adult mischief, while "Variety Dots" presents, well...variety.

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A Fun Book With An Annoying Layout.......2005-05-05

This is a review of this product: "Really Naughty Dots: Fun for Adults Only" by Eddison Sadd. Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assurred that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.
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If you didn't already guess, this is a connect-the-dots book with the revealed pictures being of guys and girls in rather naughty adult situations (read: having sex). There are 30 puzzles total in the book. Each one has a pun title and caption (adding to the fun). Puzzle #25 contains the least amount of dots (230), while puzzle #8 contains the most (450).

From what I understand, this book (and the others in the Naughty Dots series) was originally released in England many years before it was published in America. I've never seen the original version, but I hope the layout was better than this one. 29 of the puzzles are spread across two pages (puzzle #26 is the only one-page puzzle), which means that you'll be drawings lots of lines across the inner spine of the book. I don't need to tell you how annoying this is. Connect-the-dot puzzles should always be on one page, not two. To add insult to injury, a few puzzles have dots right on the inner spine which are impossible to connect (so you'll just have to draw your lines as close to them as you can).

On the plus side, the puzzles are very detailed and contain a lot of dots. Often you won't know what the image is supposed to be until you've connected almost all of the dots. The puzzles do have partial photos to give you a hint as to what the revealed image will look like. In some puzzles, there are photos of nipples, with you connecting the dots to draw in the b-r-e-a-s-t-s around them. I liked this idea of using photos mixed into the puzzles, but I think that there should have been a section in the back of the book with the complete photographs of the puzzle images.

Before I wrap this up, I should probably take a second to tell you that puzzle #3 contains two #208 dots. The second one is supposed to be #209. So be on the lookout for that.

Overall, the puzzles were fun to do (aside from the two-page annoyance), and I enjoyed this book very much. I already bought another book in the Naughty Dots series - the follow-up "Really Really Naughty Dots".

Really Really Naughty Dots: Explicit Fun for Adults Only

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A Fun Book With An Annoying Layout & Less Detailed Puzzles

Really Really Naughty Dots: Explicit Fun for Adults Only
Eddison Sadd
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402708890

Book Description

There’s no doubt that these 30 naughty new teasers each graded saucy, hot, or sizzling will put a smile on anyone’s face. So, get ready for some spicy fun with a seductive combination of picture puzzles and explicit color photography.

• Think “Blind Man’s Buff” is a child’s game? Not the way it’s played here!
• A little “Crème Fraîche” tastes delicious-especially when served on a very special “dish.”

From “Spanktastic” to “Double the Pleasure”, every image delivers good, adult entertainment. And you might even come up with some creative ideas of your own.

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A Fun Book With An Annoying Layout & Less Detailed Puzzles.......2005-05-05

This is a review of this product: "Really Really Naughty Dots: Explicit Fun for Adults Only" by Eddison Sadd. Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assurred that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.
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If you didn't already guess, this is a connect-the-dots book with the revealed pictures being of guys and girls in rather naughty adult situations (read: having sex). There are 30 puzzles total in the book. Each one has a pun title and caption (adding to the fun). Puzzle #8 contains the least amount of dots (113), while puzzle #17 contains the most (307).

From what I understand, this book (and the others in the "Naughty Dots" series) was originally released in England many years before it was published in America. I've never seen the original version, but I hope the layout was better than this one. 24 of the puzzles are spread across two pages (puzzles #1, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12 are the only one-page puzzles), which means that you'll be drawings lots of lines across the inner spine of the book. I don't need to tell you how annoying this is. Connect-the-dot puzzles should always be on one page, not two. To add insult to injury, a few puzzles have dots right on the inner spine which are impossible to connect (so you'll just have to draw your lines as close to them as you can). Thankfully this book has less two-page puzzles than the previous book, "Really Naughty Dots," which had 29 out of 30.

The puzzles are less detailed in this book than in "Really Naughty Dots." You can easily tell what most images are going to be just by looking at the placement of the dots. In one puzzle, you didn't even draw in any naughty parts (the partial photo did it for you), you just drew in the clothes and the guy's face. There's a lot of white space, which almost makes this feel like a coloring book.

In "Really Naughty Dots" there are partial photos mixed into the puzzle itself to give you a hint as to what the revealed image will look like. In this book, the photos are more complete, hence why I call them "starter" photos. In a way this is good as the woman are beautiful, but this leaves less of the puzzle to do since most of the image will be made up of a photo and not the dots. There are still some puzzles which have photos of nipples, with you connecting the dots to draw in the b-r-e-a-s-t-s around them. So, thankfully that idea was carried over from the previous book. New to this book is a very liberal use of sex toys in the photos and images. With all of this great photo imagery, there should have been a section in the back of the book with the complete photographs of the puzzle images.

Before I wrap this up, I should probably take a second to tell you that puzzle #12 contains a number 136 but there is no dot for it because it shouldn't be there. Also, the woman's hand in puzzle #18 looks strange. So be on the lookout for that.

Overall, the puzzles were fun to do (aside from the two-page annoyance), and I enjoyed this book very much. This is the second book in the "Naughty Dots" series that I own.

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Get the "facts" to back up your gut feeling!

I'm going back and taking notes

Mostly personal

Works great - use it all the time. Easy

Deceptive Title

Conquering Deception
Jef Nance
Manufacturer: Irvin Benham Group
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0967286247
Release Date: 2001-10-16

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Ever wonder if you're hearing the WHOLE story in a conversation? Conquering Deception delivers the tools to recognize the hidden meanings of what others say using principles originated by America's savviest police investigators. Conquering Deception adapts these principles for use in any setting--business or personal--to be used in an informal and non-confrontational style. A handbook for the savvy conversationalist that is practical, effective, and one-of-a-kind.

A few highlights: interpreting eye movements, ways to pose questions that always get honest answers, dispelling myths of lying, using agreement to our advantage in conversation, the amazing significance of hearing a person say "I think...," techniques for influencing others, using silence as a 'weapon,' recognizing nose gestures, judging deception without being accusatory.

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Get the "facts" to back up your gut feeling!.......2007-06-14

Ever have that feeling that someone isn't telling you the truth - the whole truth? After reading this book, you will have the tools to evaluate your hunches.

Nance is an average guy who writes in understandable language. With that said, some topics, like the chapter, "The Eyes Have It," make take a few rereads to really digest the point.

Nance offers many "try-this" techniques. And you can really use them.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is in a situation where s/he feels that deceit is happening.

I'm going back and taking notes.......2007-01-23

I liked this book. It seemed to do exactly what the author said it would which was to tell you what you already know, but in a way that explains the significance. In effect, gives you some 'mental shortcuts' to use. It is more a book about behavior in a conversation and what the significance is. I can see immediate benefit to a person that performs interviews as part of their job. There are no silver bullets to detecting lies, but there are indicators that suggest the probability. It depends on the context. As I was reading it, I realized that I do some of the things he mentions in the book in my conversations, when I recall information, I look away, when I am thinking while I am talking I look away, when I am trying to 'dump' a talkative person I shift my body position, etc.

Mostly personal.......2007-01-11

This book is mostly about personal experiences and tales of a police officer at work.

Works great - use it all the time. Easy .......2006-02-14

The methods taught to you in this book are so easy and so effective.
Here is a true story that inspired me to write this review.
I suspected (knew) that an employee had stolen something from work (value of about $600) and highly suspect he had done this in the past. He was recently told he was being let go for other reasons. (Thats when he went on his little spree). Using the techniques in this book, I was able to have him return all the items and not once did I have to accuse him of taking them or, threaten, or even ask if he took them (that's a no-no).
AMAZING !!! I would have nevr use this technique naturally although when you use it, it sounds natural and after youi practice it becomes natural.

It's not just extreme situations when you use the info in the book, it's much more often. It's not as much about detecting lies/decption, as it is about asking the questions that make it difficult for people to deceive. It's about not putting people in the position to lie, instead of asking for lies, as many of us do naturaly. If people have to work to lie, they generally won't, if we hand them the opportunity to lie, they might.

Deceptive Title.......2005-11-04

Even though some of the stories are interesting, this book is nothing short of average. Had little to do with the title.

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