Bill Barrett: Evolution of a Sculptor

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This beautiful monograph traces the forty-year evolution of the vision and technique of a major contemporary sculptor, whose work is characterized by dynamic balance and compositional rigor.

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Presents the fundamentals of the study of clothing design in a straightforward, practical manner while assuming no prior knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader. Class activities at the end of each chapter give the reader a practical experience with the material. Provides examples of both sexes, many different countries, ethnicities, contemporary, and historical illustrations in each chapter. Provides a context for the design as a process. For reference in clothing selection and use, fashion design, basic design for theater costuming, and clothing in other cultures. It may also be used as a reference book by consumers who wish to know how to achieve a desired “look.”

A Visual History of Costume: The Eighteenth Century (Visual History of Costume)

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A Good entry in a scholarly series

A Visual History of Costume: The Eighteenth Century (Visual History of Costume)
Aileen Ribeiro
Manufacturer: Quite Specific Media Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

A Good entry in a scholarly series.......2006-09-07

I usually prefer line drawings of costume: while the merits of showing contemporary drawings are clear, the reader is too often left to attempt to draw conclusions from small picture, frequently in black-and-white, described somewhat vaguely in jargon. "Note the sitter's fumpow ... " the description is likely to say, leaving one to wonder what exactly that is and where it is worn: is it a hat, a sleeve, a shoe? Frequently, even unabridged dictionaries are little help in sorting out the terminology, even if they contain the word. "Kirtle" meant different things at different times.

This series, The Visual History of Costume, uses historic drawings, in an effective manner. The descriptive captions are very clearly written. There is a glossary, with references to plates illustrating the item described. The authors also attempt to place the styles precisely within the century. The picture may show, for example, an elderly sitter and explain that the clothing would not have been in style at the time of the painting, but that it was common for older people to continue wearing styles from their youth. Most of the clothing is middle- and upperclass styles. A more detailed description is in the ProductWiki.

The pictures in this case are both a strength and a weakness. The pictures are carefully selected to show variant styles, back details, etc. Unfortunately, some are so badly reproduced that the details are difficult to see.

A good reference work for someone interested in the fashion of the period.

A Visual History of Costume: The Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Visual History of Costume)

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A Superb, detailed book

A Visual History of Costume: The Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Visual History of Costume)
Margaret Scott
Manufacturer: B T Batsford Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Superb, detailed book.......2006-04-28

The two books that I have from this series are two of the most informative costume histories that I have ever seen. Although they are not particularly long, they are carefully and clearly written. They should be models for other writers.

This is one history of costume book that you will not need to read with an unabridged dictionary by your side. There is a detailed glossary. In addition, rather than simply throwing a lot of terms at the reader and leaving them to match them up to the details of the pictures, the author very carefully describes what each shows.

The descriptions are wonderfully detailed, including comments on class and details of fashion at particular times. I usually prefer line drawings of fashions rather than photographs of contemporary portrayals, but these photographs are clear and well annotated.

The book includes a bibliography, with a separate section on useful visual sources and an index. There are a number of books in the series (A Visual History of Costume ... ) covering the whole history of Western fashion, as well as one "condensed" volume that includes samples from all periods.

The Way We Look: A Framework for Visual Analysis of Dress

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The Way We Look: A Framework for Visual Analysis of Dress
Marilyn Revell Delong
Manufacturer: Iowa State Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0813819067

A History of Fashion: A Visual Survey of Costume from Ancient Times

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A History of Fashion: A Visual Survey of Costume from Ancient Times
Douglas Gorsline
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0713465921

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The Visual History of Costume
Aileen Ribeiro , and Valerie Cumming
Manufacturer: B T Batsford Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0713456248

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Visual Design in Dress
Marian L. Davis
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIXBX6

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Visual Design in Dress
Marian L. Davis
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIZGM0

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VISUAL DESIGN IN DRESS 3/E
Marian Davis
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIST8I

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Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide historical continuity and to trace professional collaborations among the subjects, Selected Takes features editors whose credits include such diverse films as Ben Hur, The French Connection, The Godfather, and E.T. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the artist, background information, a filmography of feature-length works, and personal recollections of specific films, producers, and directors, as well as helpful comments on editing techniques. A glossary of terms commonly used in film editing and pertinent references found in the interviews complement the work. Film students, scholars, and educators, as well as film industry professionals and moviegoers, will find Selected Takes both entertaining and instructive.

Burling Hull's bulletin of latest sleights and improved tricks: Selected special sleights designed to take place of more difficult and complicated sleights ... and several unique individual tricks

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Burling Hull's bulletin of latest sleights and improved tricks: Selected special sleights designed to take place of more difficult and complicated sleights ... and several unique individual tricks
Burling Hull
Manufacturer: American Magic Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AZGF6

An Empire Takes Shape: Selected Articles on the Origins of the Old English Colonial System (Early American History)

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An Empire Takes Shape: Selected Articles on the Origins of the Old English Colonial System (Early American History)

Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Post Social Art 1996-1998 : Selected Digital Images, An Out-Take from the Latest Russian History

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Post Social Art 1996-1998 : Selected Digital Images, An Out-Take from the Latest Russian History
Andrey Boudaev
Manufacturer: N. P.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QXQ3U2

Take Charge, Snoopy (Selected Cartoons from Kiss Her You Blockhead! Volume 1

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Take Charge, Snoopy (Selected Cartoons from Kiss Her You Blockhead! Volume 1
Charles M. Schultz
Manufacturer: Ballentine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KFEZPG

Take it Easy Charlie Brown Selected Cartoons from You'll Flip Charle Brown Vol 2

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Take it Easy Charlie Brown Selected Cartoons from You'll Flip Charle Brown Vol 2
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1D1JG

Take it Easy Charlie Brown: Selected Cartoons from You'll Flip Charlie Brown Vol 2

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Take it Easy Charlie Brown: Selected Cartoons from You'll Flip Charlie Brown Vol 2
Charles M Schulz
Manufacturer: A Fawcett Crest Book/ Fawcett Publications Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000NPNWBG

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Take it easy, Charlie Brown;: Selected cartoons from You'll flip, Charlie Brown, v. II

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Take it easy, Charlie Brown;: Selected cartoons from You'll flip, Charlie Brown, v. II
Charles M Schulz
Manufacturer: Fawcett Crest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006XQWRG

Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book

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Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book
Tasha ( Selected and Edited By ) Tudor
Manufacturer: New York: The World Publishing Company, 1966
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZ1S58

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Each book in the Ultimate Play-Along series features the finest, professionally recorded tracks, complete transcriptions, detailed explanations, and performance notes. Each song has demonstration tracks that can be used for learning and practice and then turned off to allow playing parts along with the CD. Solos are fully demonstrated and explained. This edition offers seven classic Pink Floyd songs: Money * Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part V) * Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) * Comfortably Numb * Have a Cigar * Breathe * Hey You.

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Halloween Ideas

Terrible

Fun With Scavenger Hunts
M.J. Kusz
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1413739164

Book Description

Fun with Scavenger Hunts is a book on planning, setting up and executing the best party you will ever host for adults or children. When my daughter wanted to throw a Halloween party at our house for her classmates, I had a better idea. I hosted a scavenger hunt for her class. The first year was a success. Every year the guest list grew. She is now going to start high school and her classmates want me to host a reunion hunt for them next year. I have encountered many questions on how to run one. Where do you start? How do you come up with the questions? This book will take you through the process. And it doesn't stop there. I have included car rallies and a new twist on humdrum bridal and baby showers. Your first clue is ....

Customer Reviews:

Halloween Ideas.......2006-08-23

This is short but contains good information, especially regarding Halloween. It has 3 different Halloween hunt lists!

Terrible.......2006-04-08

Very disapointing. No where near worth $12.95 Maybe .25 cents at a yard sale if you happen to come by it. I suppose someone has to pay for the cost of printing it!

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Since the first edition of the Handbook of Alternative Assets was published, significant events—from the popping of the technology bubble and massive accounting scandals to recessions and bear markets—have shifted the financial landscape. These changes have provided author Mark J. P. Anson with an excellent opportunity to examine alternative assets during a different part of the economic cycle than previously observed in the first edition.

Fully revised and updated to reflect today's financial realities, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition covers the five major classes of alternative assets—hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance—and outlines the strategies you can use to efficiently incorporate these assets into any portfolio. Throughout the book, new chapters have been added, different data sources accessed, and new conclusions reached.

Designed as both an introduction to the world of alternative assets and as a reference for the active investor, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition will help you match alternative assets with your various investment goals.

Customer Reviews:

Great Reference.......2007-09-01

Nice overview of alternative asset classes. One reference of many we use for research, cross-reference, marketing and new associate education.

Uneven.......2007-08-29

I have to agree with the woman from SC below -- this book is horribly edited. The typos are everywhere, and it is distracting. Authors' names are misspelled, equations are referred to inconsistently, odd commas cause a sentence to be read more than one way. It's really frequent -- you will notice it.

Also, some of the statements are questionable generalizations - e.g. p.100, Anson is quoting a hedge fund document:

Anson:
"Consider the following language from a hedge fund disclosure document.

'The fund's objective is to make investments in public securities that generate a long term return in excess of that generated by the overall US equity market...'

...[T]he manager identifies that it invests in the US public equity market."

In fact, the sentence quoted from the hedge fund document does not state what Anson says, only that the return should exceed the US market, long-run.

Here's another: "Hedge funds tend to have portfolios that are much more concentrated than their mutual fund brethren." p.33.
This may have been true in the 1990s, but circa 2007, this is very questionable.

There are also questionable statements made about portfolio theory: p.21 "Diversification, [comma? sic] is a way to minimize the risk of underperformance, but, at the same time, it minimizes the probability of outperformance."
In fact, diversification's benefit can be divorced from any benchmark, and the conclusion that a reader might be drawn from this (that concentrated managers will outperform more diversified ones with regularity, or are somehow more attractive) is an error. Concentrated managers will simply have higher variance. Diversification decreases the expected variance around the expected return -- it does not necessarily lower the expected return (if you diversify with higher returning investments, your expected return can go up while your expected variance can come down, even if the new investments are more volatile that the old), or the "probability of outperformance", which is not an output of portfolio theory.
A more accurate statement in this context would be that, "As your portfolio converges to the benchmark portfolio, your returns will converge to the benchmark return."

There are honestly other examples of sweeping generalizations that are questionable, or have exceptions that go unmentioned, but I suppose that Wiley wanted to get this thing out the door. It's a little bit of a disappointment that such a high profile author did this - he clearly has a ton of experience.

Here's one more: p. 102
"Generally, process risk is not a risk that investors wish to bear. Nor is it a risk for which they expect to be compensated. How would an investor go about pricing the process risk of a hedge fund manager? It can't be quantified, and it can't be calibrated. There is no way to tell whether an institutional investor is being properly compensated for this risk."
The second sentence here answers the fifth sentence? Since process risk is entirely diversifiable, the proper expected compensation (risk premium) for this risk is simply zero.

There are lots of these. It's just too broad, too sweeping in it's generalizations, which lead to more questions.

Good content, but horribly edited.......2007-07-18

I had to buy this for the CAIA exam. In reading it, I find on average one typo a page. I have found at least one chart misreferenced in the text. It is very distracting. Given that Mr. Anson is on the Curriculum Committee for the exam, it is not surprising that his text is on the list of required readings. Perhaps it is all that is out there. But Shame on Wiley for publishing it in the rough draft that it seems to be.

Clear overview of all 10 Hedge Fund Strategies.......2007-07-06

This book is part of the CAIA exam reading and well worth it. It clearly explains what are some of the strategies put to work by the Hedge Fund managers. Very clearly articulates the similarities and differences between all the 10 possible Hedge Fund strategies (ex: equity long/short, market neutral, convertable arbitrage)

This is the best book on Hedge Funds for someone looking for an overview of the industry.

Truely a Handbook.......2004-02-16

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I used this book for my preparations towards CAIA Level 1 exam. And I am impressed. Mr. Anson is an authority and this is truely a great book for Alternative Investment aspirants.

If you want to have a very solid grasp of any of the following alternative investment approaches then this is the book you should turn to -

Hedge funds
Commodity and managed futures
Private equity (5 catagories)
....Venture Capital
....LBOs
....Mezzannine Financing
....Distressed Debt

....CrossOver/Interval/PIPE and PEPE funds
Credit derivatives
Corporate Governance

Mr. Anson helps you build strong fundamentals. Actually he clearly explains what constitutes Alternative Assets(Aha !!!) as against fundamental and/or capital assets and what is meant by alternative investment strategies.

This is followed by a rigorous analysis of the topics listed above in that order.

I particularly enjoyed his coverage of Hedge Funds. He explains each of the 10 Hedge Fund strategies in a systematic fashion. From a variety of angles including Market(S&P500), Risk, Regulatory, Due Diligence/Operational/Administrative perspective.

The coverage of Commodity Derivatives is also superb. Although confined to 4 chapters this coverage is sufficient to gain an intermediate level insight into the Commodities.

The coverage for Private Equity is less comprehensive(but good) compared to it's actual scope in real world. I particularly expected a more rigorous coverage for LBOs.

Although I did not touch credit derivatives and CorpGov I could tell you for sure that these topics must have been covered well.
As I read 19 out of 22 chapters.

To put it in a nutshell - This is a very good book for Hedge fund aspirants and prospective Alternative investment professionals.

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Praise for The Handbook of alternative investments

"Finally, one book explains the ins and outs of alternative investments and what investors should expect from this asset class."
-Daniel A. Strachman
author of Getting Started in Hedge Funds

"Many forward-thinking fund managers have recognized the benefits of treating alternative investments as a comprehensive asset class, including both marketable and nonmarketable assets, rather than setting policies and targets for individual components. This kind of treatment allows more efficient understanding and management of this pool of uncorrelated assets. However you treat alternatives, this excellent book is a necessary reference."
-Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
President and CEO, Strategic Investment Group

"A wonderful introduction to the fascinating world of alternative investments . . . should be on the desk of every senior investment management consultant."
-James P. Owen, The Prudent Investor Network
author of The Prudent Investor's Guide to Hedge Funds: Profiting from Uncertainty and Volatility

Customer Reviews:

a mixed bag.......2003-10-26

as a reasonably sophisticated individual investor, i was hoping for some additional insights over what i already know re: convertibles, metals, hedge funds, etc. --the successes and failures of this book are largely section specific: for example, the chapters on Energy, Distressed Securities and Hedge Funds were insightful and worthwhile, whereas the chapters on Gold and Microcaps were hardly worth reading (i.e. no insights whatsoever). In general, Tremont Advisors did a great job in their sections, and the rest (except the one on Energy) were woefully inadequate.

It seems this book was written with a target audience of unsophisticated / non-critical high-net worth individuals in mind...how many of them are out there, hmmm?

Proceed with caution.

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