Art Nouveau Frames and Borders CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
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Art Nouveau Frames and Borders CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
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Book Description

Indispensable collection for enhancing menus, invitations, ad copy, greeting cards, catalogs — almost any graphic project — includes 199 black-and-white designs, among them crisply rendered floral and foliate motifs, butterflies and peacocks, female figures and sensuous cherubs, asymmetrical shapes and undulating lines, all in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing .......2007-08-14

The ppi is far to small to enlarge. I had hoped to use the frames for digital scrapbooking, but the images are not suitable for that purpose.

4 out of 5 stars Great book for any art project........2007-03-14

This book was great for any art project. I use the easy to use cd-rom to create borders for invitations, brochures, ads, labels, and so much more. The only complaint I have is there are alot of repeat of the same design, I believe they are meant to be different sizes but I found them unnessesary. Other than that I loved it!

3 out of 5 stars Great images, poorly delivered.......2006-04-05

These are beautiful and very useful images - great for invitations, menus and the like. A wide range of shapes and styles within Art Nouveau - some Charles Rennie Mackintosh-inspired stylised roses, and more French Belle-Epoch style curvilinear designs as well. I WOULD have given this 5 stars if it weren't for the actual files on the CD.

The 'jpegs and gifs ready for web delivery' are tiny - about the same size as in the book, whereas I would have thought using them on the web would have been... well, as a border. Big enough to contain something like text, for example. No such luck - they're only about 150 pixels across. What good is a frame/border that small?

The tifs are much larger, at a printable resolution of 600dpi and about 1500 pixels across - but this is where it stunned me. They've been reduced to 2 colours, black and white. Anyone who's worked with graphics at all knows that to get the appearance of curves and diagonals, you need at least 16 colours of greyscale to 'anti-alias'. Technical definitions aside, what it means is that they appear horribly jagged. Considering that curves are what Art Nouveau is all about, this seems particularly ironic.

Even the eps files have had this same treatment - they're not vectors, they're 2 colour bitmaps. Which means to use them, you need to feather the edges to make them look less jagged, or...

I suggest scanning from the book. I know it defeats the purpose of buying a book that has a CD with it, but they're really beautiful images and worthwhile using. They scan well, as they're on good quality paper and printed only on one side of the paper.

I'm more than a little annoyed that the pitch suggests they're ready-to-use in a variety of formats, when the grave error of reducing all of the formats to 2-colours has rendered them pretty much unusable from CD.

I've just bought about 20 of the Dover book-CD sets, and they're not all like this - I'll slowly work my way through and write a review of each after trying to actually use the files, in the hope that it helps people to decide which ones are the better ones to buy. There are new ones coming out all the time - let's hope that they're not all as shoddily treated as the files on this CD.

Dover, what were you thinking? These designs deserved much better treatment. This is from the Electronic Clip Art series - doesn't anyone actually try using the files after the CD's been made?

kat black =^..^= retrokat.com

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful book.......2000-09-20

This book (with CD) is great. There are lots of images for numerous projects. Having the CD saves lots of scanning time and frustration. Highly recommended.
Borders, Frames and Decorations of the Art Nouveau Period (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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    5 out of 5 stars Great stuff!.......2001-09-24

    I'd been looking for an art noveau tattoo design for quite some time, and I ordered this book to see if I could find something interesting in it. I was not disappointed, to put it mildly. The book has got the most beautiful art in it, and I've got my tattoo now! If you want art noveau patterns and borders, this is the book to buy, TRUST ME!

    5 out of 5 stars Art Nouveau Frames and Borders.......2000-05-25

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                    "Science is too human, too much fun, and too important not to laugh at it." The Annals of Improbable Research (and its predecessor, the Journal of Irreproducible Results) has been making fun of science and scientists for decades. This latest compendium includes a listing of the Ig Nobel prizes, annually awarded "for scientific achievements which cannot or should not be reproduced," and some of the prizewinning papers, such as "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation" and "Of Mites and Man." There are also plenty of groundbreaking original studies from AIR: "How Dead Is a Doornail?" "Furniture Airbags," and "The Medical Effects of Kissing Boo-Boos." As the book's warning label states, the result is a highly reactive mix: "Contents are unexpectedly educational and informative, especially in patients who suffer allergic reactions to science, technology, literature, or art. Can be highly addictive." Let the buyer beware. --Mary Ellen Curtin

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                    5 out of 5 stars The Ubiquitous Holy Grail.......2003-11-27

                    As a scientist and technical professional I couldn't put this book down. I have kept up with the the Annals of Improbable Research for many years and this truly reflects some of the best efforts of scientists the world over. In this volume we have works by legitimate Nobel prize winners, and lesser known works such as "Gummy Worm on a Sidewalk" by Kate and Jesse Eppers, ages 12 and 10, respectively. (In their conclusion they noted that: "We came to a conclusion that three out of five people will accidentally step on a gummy worm thrown on a sidewalk." Brilliant.)

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                          A very interesting collection of facts. However Lebrecht is entirely unfair and inconsistent in his use of them. He demonizes Arthur Judson entirely in the first part of the book, with evident justification, but by the time he gets to the last quarter of his book he is looking back on Judson's as a golden age. The overwhelming impression is of a uniformly negative point of view regardless of who is being discussed, with any available evidence being marshalled in favour of the current conclusion even if he has already discredited the evidence earlier. A fun read though.

                          4 out of 5 stars dry prose, fascinating story.......2003-07-19

                          This book is also known by the title Who Killed Classical Music in the U.S. The prose is dry but the case for the historical demise of classical music as a mass media is well-made. The nutshell is that the music could not survive the compartmentalization of mass-marketing and the greed of the recorded music industry. Lebrecht doesn't hesitate to label good guys and bad guys. The worst bad guy for Lebrecht seems to be Herbert van Karajan, whom he describes as an unrepentant Nazi who, unlike Mengelberg, is welcomed at the end of WW2 and conquers classical recording more thoroughly than Hitler overran Europe. The good guys aren't even all that good, record execs who had shifty business ethics but at least had the idealism to back musical greats like Duke Ellington and Stravinsky. You may disagree strongly with Lebrecht's position or his hit list but there's no doubt he's done his homework.

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                          ASIN: 1560768452

                          Customer Reviews:

                          4 out of 5 stars Great book for Paladin PCs........2001-11-30

                          This book covered almost every detail about being a paladin, even the roleplaying aspect of it. The book even gave recommendations on books to read and movies to see in order to correctly roleplay a paladin. The one thing I think it should have had was more paladin orders for players below 9th level. If I'm correct 9th level was the lowest level someone was elegible to join an Order. An order for 6th level paladins may have been created to get the ball rolling on Order advancement.

                          5 out of 5 stars Brings the shining heroes of AD&D to the forefront.......2000-06-09

                          The PHBR (Player's Handbook Reference) series is one of the most highly-regarded, and yet much-maligned, series of supplements ever created. Each sourcebook takes one of the races or classes of the AD&D game, and adds to it huge amounts of new detail - new equipment, spells, kits (sub-classes), lore, new rules, etc. The problem is that the players love these so much that the DM often feels compelled to buy into the rest of the series - an expensive proposition! Fortunately, these works were "reprinted" in the excellent AD&D Core Rules CD-ROM. This one has details on the creation and development of Paladins, with chapters including: Paladin requirements, level advancement, armor, weapons, magic, special powers (including a full description of the Aura of Protection), honor, kits (with such great examples as the Divinate, Inquisitor, Skyrider, and Wyrmslayer), proficiencies, equipment, role-playing, faith and divinities, holy orders, and more! A great book.

                          5 out of 5 stars Good Book.......2000-04-26

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                          I have never been a fan of those poumpous self absorbed Knights, I prefer a character along the lines of a chaotic good alignment, but I do have respect for those that play them, and even more respect for those that play them well, It is an incredibly hard character to play(much like a true druid) and I have only come across 1 player in my ten years of DMing and playing as a character that could pull it off, for those of you out there that are sucessfull with your Palidins, congrats, it means you know how to play pretty well and you have my respects.

                          5 out of 5 stars A great resource for paladins!.......1999-04-21

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                          Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader
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                          • Something for everyone
                          • Packed with Knowledge !
                          Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader
                          David L., PhD Dotlich , James L. Noel , and Norman Walker
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                          Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities or ensnare them and prevent further development. The good thing about these passages is that they’re predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can survive them to become stronger but can use these experiences to enhance their leadership, compassion, and effectiveness. This book lays out thirteen specific “leadership passages” based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of the passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with significant failure for which you are responsible, derailing/losing your job, being acquired/merging, losing faith in the system, understanding the importance of children, family and friends, and personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of leadership passages to grow talent.

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                          Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities or ensnare them and prevent further development. The good thing about these passages is that they’re predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can survive them to become stronger but can use these experiences to enhance their leadership, compassion, and effectiveness. This book lays out thirteen specific “leadership passages” based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of the passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with significant failure for which you are responsible, derailing/losing your job, being acquired/merging, losing faith in the system, understanding the importance of children, family and friends, and personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of leadership passages to grow talent.

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                          4 out of 5 stars A refreshing corporate perspective on the learning value of diversity and adversity.......2007-09-24

                          I have not read a Dotlich book that has disappointed. If you're an executive, or making your living helping executives, you'll lap up the honesty and authenticity of "Leadership Passages". Leadership is a topic about which few people can write without mistaking good fortune for wisdom. Dotlich and his colleagues have written about the lessons in authenticity we all can learn from narrowly surviving, and even failing, the challenges that any executive must expect to encounter at some point in his or her career. If you've had a few of these searing experiences already, you can trust "Leadership Passages" to help you be as prepared emotionally as any book can help you be for the next one. What's more, you will gain inspiration to participate purposefully, and perhaps even zestfully, in what today has become one of the most challenging of all civilization's passages: the bending of corporatism to addressing intelligently the true needs of all this planet's creatures.

                          4 out of 5 stars A book with a fresh take on leadership.......2006-09-18

                          This book focuses on an interesting premise- that leadership is significantly developed by key experiences and the person's reactions to them. Many of the key experiences need to be actively sought out and accepted such as accepting a stretch assignment or living in a different country. Others are often a matter of time such as joining a new company, coping with a bad boss, or facing personal upheaval. Another- dealing with failure- is in between with an element of decision in choosing to take risks and stretch oneself, and an element of time. What links all these experiences together is that they must be dealt with honestly in order to learn from them. The book does a good job of presenting these ideas and more, with examples of people who have gone through the passages- some successful, others not. While few will agree with everything presented, it raises good questions and should be appreciated for that.

                          5 out of 5 stars Cool ! Easy to read and best of all - it all makes sense. .......2006-06-05

                          A light reader with diagnostics and Rx that is heavily oriented to senior leaders' career peaks and waves but it has great personal advice for aspiring leaders' and mid careerist's leadership tool box. Also, valuable advice for organizational leaders that shape high performance work cultures. If you buy into life long learning philosophy - this book is for you. If you think learning is for the birds. . .I recommend you still get it - it might open your mind to a new and re-focused you.

                          5 out of 5 stars Something for everyone.......2005-06-27

                          Transitions are a part of everyone's life. And since the publication of Judith Viorst's "Necessary Losses," transitions has become and increasingly popular subject for authors.

                          Dotlich, Noel, and Walker in "Leadership Passages" cover thirteen common personal and professional passages (transitions) that they say make or break a leader...in fact, they can make or break any human, not just leaders. The authors based this book on their work as executives within major companies, business advisors and executive development consultants.

                          Passages are predictable and inevitable. Most will go through more than one. Since passages are intense, they can destroy one's spirit. At the same time, they represent an opportunity as those who successfully navigate these difficult currents of life will experience real personal growth. And if not handled with emotional and intellectual honesty, these passages lead to danger.

                          Most people, the authors have found, who move through life experiencing one success after another are shallow. They distinguish between the senior executive who has been strengthened and deepened by his/her passages and failure, from those who have not. The former are the most effective leaders.

                          "Leadership Passages" is filled with examples and covers the following transitions.
                          1. Joining a company.
                          2. Moving into a leadership role.
                          3. Accepting the stretch assignment.
                          4. Getting responsibility for a business.
                          5. Dealing with significant failure for which you were responsible.
                          6. Coping with a bad boss and competitive peers.
                          7. Losing your job or being passed over for the promotion.
                          8. Being part of an acquisition or merger.
                          9. Living in a different country.
                          10. Finding meaningful balance between work and family.
                          11. Letting go of ambition.
                          12. Facing personal upheaval.
                          13. Losing faith in the system

                          There is something in this book for everyone. This is a book that will have value at many points in your career. And these passages will test your resiliency, your ability to accept responsibility, your ability to reflect, seek support, develop and seek refuge, use a professional network, gain perspective, take risks, refine, and pass on your experience.

                          5 out of 5 stars Packed with Knowledge !.......2005-03-14

                          Authors David L. Dotlich, James L. Noel and Norman Walker connect the growing body of work about the emotional intelligence of leaders with the practice of executive coaching and leadership development. Where does emotional intelligence come from, and how can you stimulate its development in the next generation of leaders? The authors' answer is that growth is indivisible from pain and change. Any great leader fights personal and professional battles, and earns a few scars. The bottom line: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. For individual leaders-in-training, the question is how to grow after being hit by life's curveballs. For firms, the question is how to incorporate executives' personal lives and career setbacks into their development as leaders. In this regard, the book bridges a gap in executive development literature. We very highly recommend it to those experiencing difficult transitions, and to human resource and development professionals.

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