Poetry of Clay: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu

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Toshiko, an acknowledged doyenne of American ceramic artists, has ben a poet in clay for over half a century. This publication accompanies an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which opened on Aug 7, 2004 and will close on March 6, 2005.

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Expandable knowledge

My favorite button book!

Button, Button...

Great reference

Easy to use with great illustrations!

Button Button: Identification and Price Guide
Peggy Ann Osborne
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764300822

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This well-organized guide is recommended by the Button Society as a book that every button collector and dealer should own. The standard book in the field, it gives information to identify the age, material, and desirability of any button that may be found. It covers buttons of every imaginable type, price range and age. Its convenient size make it a perfect field guide, an easy reference for forays into antique stores, flea markets, and yard sales. The price guide is newly updated to reflect the current market.

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Expandable knowledge.......2007-08-02

This was a great book for photos and history, price guide would have been extremly useful, learned a bit about buttons, yet having the prices laid out in front of me would have been a great benefit.

My favorite button book!.......2007-02-08

I have always been drawn to buttons, but didn't know very much about them. This book has very clear photos and descriptions. There are many "museum quality" buttons that are wonderful to see, but I was especially excited to see everyday buttons that I am more likely to find.

Button, Button..........2006-03-12

For a beginner, who knows nothing of buttons, I'm impressed with the depth of knowledge in this book. It's a must for collectors, or for those wanting to learn more about buttons.

Great reference.......2003-11-25

I bought this for my mother who started collecting buttons that she was finding at yard sales and flea markets. She absolutely loved the book. It is very complete in terms of providing information on all sorts of materials and subject matters. There are lots of examples, great pictures, so you can compare your buttons with the ones shown to get an idea ofthewir history/origins as well s some pricing info. Definitely the best book I've come across for buttons as I was looking for this gift for my mom and she's gotten great use of it. (Now I get to hear from her about "oh and this button..... and that button..." It's fun :)

Easy to use with great illustrations!.......1999-06-29

I needed to price and identify over 100 pounds of vintage buttons with very little background in the subject. This book taught me everything I need to know in a very short time. Excellent photos and examples. Highly recommended.

Antique & Collectible Buttons: Identification and Values

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Antique & Collectible Buttons Identification and Values
Useful But A Little Dry
lacks detail
My quick thoughts on this button book.
Synopsis with British market in mind

Antique & Collectible Buttons: Identification and Values
Debra J. Wisniewski
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0891457119

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The button, both functional and decorative, can be deservingly considered an art form on a small scale. This book is a dazzling color array of outstanding examples. Thousands of buttons are featured in over 300 color plates. Debra Wisniewski, an avid collector, has chosen the most beautiful and fascinating buttons to represent the vast variety available. They are displayed in this gorgeous hardcover book which provides invaluable information to the collector - complete descriptions, dates, and of course, current values. The realistic price ranges given reflect actual prices paid and considerable discussion with other collectors. All ages, styles and materials are represented in this fascinating reference and value guide. It's a perfect book for anyone who appreciates the art, craft, beauty, and skill apparent in these buttons. 2003 values. REVIEW: In only 168 pages, this book has made a successful collector out of me. It has numerous illustrations, all in color; an orderly method of describing types of buttons and their history; tips on cleaning and displaying them; and addresses of publications, suppliers, and clubs for collectors. Although it is crisply informative, the book also conveys the pleasant, upbeat personality of the writer. -Amazon.com

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Antique & Collectible Buttons Identification and Values.......2007-03-08

Very informative and educational. The pictures are a little small but the magnifying glass seems to be an accessory that you would use regardless. Recommended for any button beginner or collector.

Useful But A Little Dry.......2006-06-25

This book covers everything in detail except what really interests me, plastic buttons that aren't made of the early, valuable plastics like Bakelite and Catalin. However, what she does cover is profusely illustrated and her pictures are clear.

lacks detail.......2002-05-10

This book is mostly comprised of full page pictures of buttons. Many of the pictures are accompanied by a note that gives a range of prices for all the buttons in the picture. I had hoped for some information about what characteristics make a button more or less valuable than another. It mentions that there are different styles of shank and construction, but says nothing about why or when each style was used. I had also hoped for information about estimating the date of manufacture.

My quick thoughts on this button book........2001-11-23

The photos were nice. However, it would have been nice to have a ruler or coin in place for scale. Measurements are rarely mentioned - only that buttons are either larger or smaller than actual size. The book also could use a glossary. Several terms are used but never defined. I'm glad I bought the book - it does have nice photos.

Synopsis with British market in mind.......2001-01-20

A good basic book, mainly for the U.S. market. As a British button collector, I found it of limited use due to most illustrated buttons being manufactured in America. However, the illustrations were clear and information fairly concise though more dates and background information re. manufacture would have been useful. I am based in Yorkshire, England with an interest in all glass, and golden age buttons, but found no mention specifically of the latter. The over-all approach was user-friendly and would be of particular interest to all collectors of American buttons

Antique & Collectible Buttons: Identification & Values

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Not For Beginners

Antique & Collectible Buttons: Identification & Values
Debra J. Wisniewski
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574322427

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Thousands of buttons are featured in over 400 color photographs. No repeats from the first book. Complete descriptions, dates, and current values. This unique book showcases all types of materials such as glass, enamel, brass, plastic, rhinestone, wood, and shell , as well as the amazine pictorials of birds, dogs, cats, insects, people, mythology, and more. AUTHORBIO: Debra Wisniewski is the author of two volumes of Antique Collectible Buttons. She has been involved in her family's estate auctioneering business since 1970. She has served as president and as secretary of the West Michigan Buttoneers and is a member of the National Button Society. She continues to spread the joy of button collecting at schools, historical societies, and civic groups. REVIEW: This book is the second of Debra Wisniewki's bestselling books, with no repeats from her first volume. Using the same user-friendly format as Volume I, the book includes more studio buttons, paperweights, and newly manufactured buttons. Large photos and colorful pages make the book an eye catcher.

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Not For Beginners.......2007-03-09

While I'm sure this is a helpful book for the serious and advanced collector, it isn't for the beginner, which I am. I didn't see anything in it's description that would have let me know that, so I wasted my money. I am not a collector and never will be; I'm just a beginner button sorter, breaking up big collections and selling individual buttons, pairs or sets.

Painted Porcelain Jewelry and Buttons: Identification & Value Guide

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Another Great Book by Dorothy Kamm
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Recommend!
Soft Cover Book
Pairs gorgeous large color photos with a value guide

Painted Porcelain Jewelry and Buttons: Identification & Value Guide
Dorothy Kamm
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1574322664

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Almost 350 photos represent numerous categories: pins and pendants, brooches, watch chatelaines and fobs, hatpins, buttons and cuff links, shirt waist buttons, and dress sets. Information on how the jewelry was worn, as well as what trends influenced design in form and decoration, is provided.2001 values. AUTHORBIO: Dorothy Kamm is an award-winning porcelain artist, author, and expert on hand-painted porcelain. She is a certified and registered artists and teacher by International Porcelain Artists and Teachers, Inc. She has been teaching the art of porcelain and painting for more than a decade. She is the author of American Painted Porcelain Collector's Identification and Value Guide, Comprehensive Guide to American Painted Porcelain, and Painted Porcelain Jewelry and Buttons. REVIEW: This book showcases miniature works of art, and presents decorating techniques, styles and motifs, and the quality of the artwork, in addition to the history of the American china painting movement. Information on how the jewelry was worn as well as what trends influenced design in form and decoration, is provided.

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Another Great Book by Dorothy Kamm.......2004-08-02

Wow, what an informative, helpful book if you have any interest in vintage jewelry or hand-painted porcelain. Wish I had some of the pieces featured here....

Honest review:.......2002-02-24

I read the reviews on this book prior to purchasing it. I also noted the reference to another book: LIVING WITH LIMOGES and I purchased it. Of course I compared the two. LIVING WITH LIMOGES is FANTASTIC and has an entire section on WEARING YOUR LIMOGES that is informative, professional and has fabulous photographs of thousands of hand painted pieces. The quality of Living With Limoges is much better than this book Painted Porcelain. I personally don't like paperback books and Painted Porcelain is a paperback. I thought I would enjoy both but my recommendation - don't bother spending the money on paperback reference books -- put your money toward the better book.

Recommend!.......2002-01-13

I love this book!! I also love Debby DuBay's book: LIVING WITH LIMOGES! Both authors "brooch" the subject of hand painted jewelry, buttons, brooches, hat pins, etc.!! A must for the collector.

Soft Cover Book.......2002-01-12

The author has a wealth of information! (Too bad the publishing company made this a poor quality product, and a soft cover book. No justice to the content!)I love hand painted buttons and brooches and received this book and LIVING WITH LIMOGES which has a section on such, over the holidays. The two books have provided me with much information.

Pairs gorgeous large color photos with a value guide.......2001-12-08

Dorothy Kamm's Painted Porcelain Jewelry And Buttons pairs gorgeous large color photos with a value guide to painted buttons and jewelry. The primarily-floral designs are gorgeous and are accompanied by the latest values.

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Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through an analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label "New Objectivity". The New Objectivity was marked by a sober, unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contrast to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in "auratic" art. This sensibility was gendered as well as contradictory: while associated with male intellectuals, New Objectivity was best symbolized by the New Woman they feared (and desired). Moving skillfully from Caligari to Dietrich, McCormick traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and New Objectivity

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Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and New Objectivity
Richard W. McCormick
Manufacturer: Palgrave MacMillan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTA9ZI

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In addition to the title song from Anastasia collection includes: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth * Angels We Have Heard on High * Christmas Alphabet * Christmas Mem'ries * Deck the Halls * Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * The Little Drummer Boy * O Holy Night * Please Come Home for Christmas * Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer * Sleigh Ride * Somewhere in My Memory * Winter Wonderland * and many, many more.

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Puzzler's Elusion

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The Puzzler's Elusion: A Tale of Fraud, Pursuit, and the Art of Logic
Dennis E. Shasha
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560258314

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Genius mathematician, Dr. Dennis Shasha, here sets out his latest book-length mind-twister. Made up of many smaller segments, some of which can be solved by ten year-olds and some which are more challenging, the detective work requires no more than high school geometry and junior high school algebra. In every case, imagination trumps knowledge.

The puzzles are set in a larger story of a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco, his nephew and niece, and Professor Scarlet, the narrator. Scarlet is essentially the Watson to Dr. Ecco's Sherlock Holmes, asking the questions a reader might ask. Each puzzle is posed in a plausible if imaginary real-life setting. There are no hidden facts, no abduction here, just deductive logic and mathematical thought.

Overlaying these puzzles are the ramblings of Dr Ecco's old nemesis, Benjamin Baskerhound. He seems to be on the run, but he's trying to tell Ecco his whereabouts in a way that only Ecco will understand. The evidence builds up and readers are invited to send in their solutions. The winner will receive a pre-paid trip to the home of modern mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton's Greenwich Observatory.

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Puzzler's Elusion.......2006-10-18

This book is superior for anyone interested in thinking about logical and mathematical problem solving. It's written in a light style with interesting character development and includes mostly new material in the puzzling realm. Many problems are open ended with possibly ground breaking results to be found. There is a puzzle contest challenge with a prize to whomever negotiates all the clues. It's a must have book for any library containing puzzle book. My heartiest congratulations to Dennis Shasha.

Fun-filled Sunday.......2006-05-08

Forget Sudoku or the Times' Sunday crossword; The Puzzler's Elusion is a much better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon. Filled with enjoyable puzzles based in all subject areas from simple mathematics to information theory to computer science, these puzzles (all backed by fun story lines) will keep you thinking for hours on end.

Note that while it's true one can solve the puzzles with no more than a high school-level knowledge of algebra and geometry, Shasha's background as a professor of computer science shows through in that many of the puzzles are much more easily solved with some knowledge of computer science algorithms and techniques, such as dynamic programming. In fact, many of the puzzles in this book share similarities with the types of logic questions posed during interviews by some of the big tech companies. So, if you're planning to interview for a development position and you're looking to practice your logic, this would be a great place to start.

I'm only halfway through the book, but thus far it's been quite enjoyable and thought provoking, and I'm eagerly looking forward to finishing it over the next few days. Highly recommended.

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Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise Brian Maskell and Bruce Baggaley

As companies move ahead with the implementation of lean production, financial functions often lag behind. When this happens, not only do they fail to actively support the effort, but they can actually hinder it.

In Practical Lean Accounting: A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise, authors Brian Maskell and Bruce Baggaley present a step-by-step method for transforming a manufacturing company's financial functions to support lean manufacturing. This step-by-step method transforms the accounting system to follow the company's pathway through lean implementation covering what needs to be done at each stage to support lean.

A case study runs throughout the text illustrating the lean accounting transformation within the context of the whole lean enterprise. A CD-ROM is included containing detailed forms, charts, and diagrams supporting the transformation to lean accounting.

Practical Lean Accounting is a valuable tool for CFOs, Controllers, accounting staff, and general managers that use key financial information to control their processes and support lean implementation.

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Who' Counting & Practical Lean Accounting: 1+1>2.......2007-07-16

"Who's Counting" and "Practical Lean Accounting" are two great books on lean accounting. I wondered some time ago, which one to read and I am glad that I could not decide, so I bought and read them both. They complement each other extremely well and each one conveys the lessons of lean accounting from a different angle.

"Practical Lean Accounting" is a well structured textbook, approaching lean accounting in a systemized way. Starting from straight-forward shop-floor measurements, like the day-by-the-hour report, it gradually immerses the reader into more demanding topics, like value stream costing or lean performance measurement, culminating in the thorough description of the Sales, Operations and Financial Planning (SOFP) process, which is the way, how an entire lean enterprise is planned, controlled and measured. Lean practitioners looking for specific answers to particular questions will find it easy to navigate through the book. People with the luxury of time for reading it cover to cover will also like it, due to the gradual increase in the complexity of the topics and the many references to other chapters.

"Who's Counting" focuses more on the human side of turning the vision of lean accounting into reality. The novel format is the best way to illustrate, how strong the resistance against change will be and from how many corners of the organization it will attack back. Knowing what to do and knowing why is not enough, the issue is not capturing people's brains. The real challenge is conquering their hearts, while tearing down decades worth of wrong beliefs, bad trade-offs and political game-playing. Mike, the hero of the book teaches us through his own mistakes, that patience, tactfulness and respect for people is more helpful, then acting like a bull in a china shop. The reward is the enthusiastic desire of fellows to go his way and take ownership of the new processes. He even manages to turn Fred, a CFO who has to recognize, that most of what he built during his career was wrong, to use the 3 years until his retirement for becoming the most enthusiastic advocate of change!

Both books provide the reader with insight and incite self-reflection about "the way, we do things". There is hardly any chapter without a sacred cow being slaughtered, however this will strike the reader as plain common sense, due to the thorough description of the reasons. Deeply engrained management practices, such as approval routings, full absorption overhead allocation, standard costing or departmental budgeting will seem ridiculous, once the reader starts to open the eyes to see their fundamentally wrong assumptions.

These books will make You hate many of Your current processes!

The Best Management Accounting Book in Years.......2006-11-08

"Practical Lean Accounting" is the best management accounting book I've read in 20 years - maybe more. Well written and illustrated with plenty of examples and diagrams, it adds new tools to management accounting and restores the relevance of some older ones. As such I recommend it to all management accountants and students - whether or not you are involved in lean accounting itself.

The aim of the book is to "produce a roadmap for finance managers in companies seeking to transition their organisations into lean enterprises". Lean accounting is a new approach to managing a business and, as management accountants, we have a duty to be there. As the authors say "it's never too early to start dismantling the company's transaction driven control systems. They represent huge amounts of waste and cost to the organisation !".

Specifically, lean management seeks to radically restructure the organisation into Value Streams (rather than functional departments), and this requires new management accounting tools including Value Stream performance measures, Box Scores, new methods of planning and budgeting, target costing and a whole host of other tools. The book explores all these tools in detail. The introduction of "lean" tools also allows significant reduction in transactions in the company's accounting processes, including the elimination of full-absorption costing.

Lean accounting is, therefore, designed to replace "traditional" accounting techniques which encourage inefficient practices such as building inventory, and often lead to poor management decisions (using Standard costs). Traditional measures are also too complicated for operational employees to understand easily and are often too late to be useful in shopfloor decision making. Lean accounting, by contrast, is very much focused on simple visual shopfloor measures for instant decision making, coupled with management accounting tools for longer term planning.

"Practical Lean Accounting" provides a good overview of the lean management process, and excellent linkage to management accounting activities. Highly recommended.

Convert your accounting methods.......2006-03-09

Best book on how to get your accoutning function to look at, use and make use of lean costing which really makes your lean projects work.

Great Tool for the Lean Enterprise.......2004-04-18

This book is right on target for the emerging practice of Lean accounting. It gets into the brass tacks of what you really need to do to report results that really mean something to the folks that can take action to improve the business. The entire concept of Value Stream Costing makes so much sense it's a wonder we haven't been using it for decades.
We have asked manufacturing to change, change, change in order to improve results and compete in this global market yet we have ignored the need to provide the necessary support from the accounting area. This book shows, step by step, how accounting must partner with manufacturing as well as engineering to provide actionable information in a timely manner. The old conventions of standard costing and variance analysis lead to poor decisions and this book will explain why.
A must read if you are serious about Lean manufacturing!

Getting the "Dough" to Flow.......2004-03-01

Based on the tenets of lean thinking, Mr. Maskell & Mr Baggaley present a powerful & practical implementation methodology that is applicable to lean accounting and all lean business practices. By integrating lean accounting with the transition to lean systems thinking, organizations now have the measurement and analysis tools to make robust business decisions at any level.

Practical Lean Accounting A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise

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Practical Lean Accounting A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise
Bruce Baggaley
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ASIN: B000N7IPG6

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