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- Excellent first drawing book for children
- unique approach to drawing
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Drawing with Lee Ames
Lee J. Ames
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Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Castles and Cathedrals, Skyscrapers and Bridges, and So Much More... (Draw 50)
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Draw 50 People: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Cavemen, Queens, Aztecs, Vikings, Clowns, Minutemen, and Many More... (Draw 50)
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The Draw 50 Way: How to Draw Cats, Puppies, Horses, Buildings, Birds, Aliens, Boats, Trains and Everything Else Under the Sun (Draw 50)
ASIN: 0385237014
Release Date: 1990-08-01 |
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From the best-selling creator of the Draw 50 series, a proven step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of drawing for all ages. As countless aspiring artists have already learned, it's easy to get the picture when your teacher is Lee J. Ames.
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Excellent first drawing book for children.......2004-04-30
"Drawing with Lee Ames" is an extremely well illustrated book on drawing generally. He sketches rough figures advanced to a more refined drawing, by sequence; but I regard this book more as a reference book, and not the best of the field of beginner's drawing books. It is one of the larger books dealing with human figure drawing, at 261 pages, outsizing many other books by about 100 pages. With that much size, one might think Ames would include something on human anatomy, or the canon of proportions, but he has nothing on these matters whatsoever. His last 40 pages are entirely on Portraits. I believe some will find this book a value; children for example. In fact, what is a stunning surprise about Ame's book, is that there is virtually no text in it at all, with the exception of about 4 or 5 pages, and then only a paragraph of text per page. With the early pages demonstrating how to draw butterflies, cats, dogs, and dinosaurs, one could readily see that Ames has an ability to encourage children and the young to give drawing a try. It is a welcome addition to my home library, and I'm sure it has its place.
unique approach to drawing.......2003-06-24
Mr. Ames clearly takes a different approach to teaching drawing. He provides step-by-step sketches so a piece can be seen from the first few lines up to its completion. He totally avoids explaining any art technique, vocabulary, supplies, etc.
I like his approach very much, although it may be more helpful to break up the steps a little more in the more complex drawings. A beginner would also need to purchase other books (which he recommends) in order to learn drawing basics such as shading, perspective, etc.
Great step-by-step.......2003-01-16
This book is a great drawing book to follow. I don't have any real artistic ability and found I was able to follow the steps easily. Each step had enough to not be over whelming, but help lead you. My 9 year old is also enjoying. And since it has a little of everything (animals, still lifes, automobiles, people), there are lots of great choices.
This book is a great step- by- step guide for all ages!.......1999-01-23
This book is the best drawing book I have ever read ( Well, I didnt really read it ! ). I have looked over this book a few times. Whenever I am doing a drawing project, I just look in this book and it practically gives me whatever I am looking for! I recommend people of all ages should give this book a try.
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The Machine Knitter's Guide to Double Jacquard
Betty Bailey
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More Funny than Bugs Bunny or Charlie Chaplin Combined.......2007-02-17
I have been a faithful FoxTrot reader for years. Roger, Andy and their kids Peter, Paige and Jason are always good for a reality check with a large dose of laughter. I've got two girls and let me tell you, I see a lot of my kids in Paige with, I believe, even a healthy dose of Jason thrown in. And they have Peter's bottomless stomach. Of course, they're faithful FoxTrot readers too. I used to read the strip to them, explain what was going on, but now they get it just fine and we three all laugh together. Then my girls try and explain the strip to their dad, who pretends he doesn't get it.
The FoxTrot folks are a great family, one we sort of got used to checking up on every day, so we took the news that Mr. Amend was going to cease daily distribution of his wonderfully funny people and turn his strip to Sunday only, with a bit of sadness. Still, we have these terrific FoxTrot books to keep us going with our FoxTrot fix. Mr. Amend is to be commended for his great gift to our culture and his great gift to so many lives. I truly believe a laugh a day, helps keep the blues away and the FoxTrot gang are always good for a laugh. Heck there are a lot of laughs in the FoxTrot books. I know, I have them all and I am, along with my girls and my hubby dear, eagerly awaiting the next one.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention, we don't have an iguana, but my girls do have a pet gecko and, you guessed it, his name is Quincy.
Bury My Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain. Foxtrot, All Great! .......2007-01-20
I've been a Foxtrot reader for a long time and personally I think there is something suspiciously wrong with people who don't find Bill Amend's characters funny as all get out. If you want a good laugh, check out Bill in your local newspaper, or better yet, get one of the Foxtrot books. They are all great, really, they are.
Like many of Mr. Amend's fans I'm a bit disappointed he's switching his strip to Sunday-only, but fortunately I can still read him daily in the Foxtrot books. Get them one and all and you can keep right on a laughing.
Praise for "Bury my Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain".......1999-08-24
I loved this book! It was just one hilarious comic strip after another! Absolutley a must-have.
Loved It!.......1998-03-21
I get so engrossed in all foxtrot books, but I think this one defenitly topped my list. It was hysterical from cover to back. Keep up the good work!
Pretty darn good!.......1998-01-05
I liked this book, especially because you went in to Jason and his iguana, Quincy. I think that when they harass Paige, the way she gets back at them is hysterical. Thanks for all the books, please make more, and keep the good work up. ~Brittany~
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What are the not-so-cool cars, the cars you shouldn't opt to buy—and those you shouldn't even be seen in or alongside? No, not the Skoda or station wagon, which have a heroic anti-car coolness of their own, but the Golf or Astra or professional footballer's Ferrari. This is a book that celebrates Jarvis Cocker's decision to drive a station wagon and Roger Moore a Renault 5. It questions what happens to the status of your car after you have seen Bernard Manning or Jade Goodie posing next to a model of it in the newspaper. Additionally, there is a "Showroom Questionnaire" for car manufacturers to ask their customers before they sell them a car that might become irrevocably uncool as a result.
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What Not To Drive.......2006-11-26
Its an interesting book and a worthwhile read. Hammond goes on in his typical style. All that is missing from this book are teeth whitening jokes.
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Title: Can railways be a fast-track for exporters? With exciting developments in countries like China and Japan what is the scope for railways in any drive to expand African exports? Ronald Watts uses his experience and some recent examples to draw some useful pointers to the future.(Railways)
Author: Ronald Watts
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Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit : Practice Aids for Managers and Auditors
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Whether you work for a publicly traded or pre-IPO company or an IT consultant, you are familiar with the daunting task of complying with The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. You have no doubt seen the hour and dollar estimates for compliance go up and up. Now, you can re-grain control. This ground-breaking, fully integrated book and bootable, “live” CD provide all of the information AND the open source tools required for you to achieve SOX compliance the “cheap and easy” way.
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Do not waste your time and money on this book........2007-02-07
Useless book.
Waste of time.
Waste of money.
Trust me. Anyone who has gone through SOX will really get a good laugh out of this book.
A waste of money........2007-01-06
If you are preparing for the CISA,do not waste your money on this book. Put your money towards the ISACA's study materials. I found several errors as well as disagreements between this book and ISACA's study guide.
Nice Resource on Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.......2006-08-11
If you are a company or IT person that is responsible for keeping your company compliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book. Chock full of tons of helpful advice and guidelines, this 300+ page text will help get your IT department streamlined and well structured. The Sarbanes-Oxley act was put into place in direct response to the outlandish acts of companies such as Tyco, Enron, MCI and the such where the public will know that their investment money is being used towards non-corrupt practices and this involves not only financial numbers, but also the systems that hold such important data.
Nice book, helpful guide
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ARE YOU IN COMPLIANCE??.......2006-07-22
Are you a CFO, CIO, CEO, VP, Director of IT, IT Operations Manager, and/or IT Consultant? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Christian Lahti, Roderick Peterson, and Steve Lanza, have done an outstanding job of writing a practical book that gives you the reader, an understanding of how open source technology and tools might be applied to your individual requirements.
Lahti, Peterson, and Lanza, begin by discussing why the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) experience promises to be quite different in terms of depth, cost, and resources. Then, the authors discuss how Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in an effort to prevent financial scandals such as those that occurred at Enron and MCI. Next, they explore the need for SOX compliance and the possible consequences of noncompliance--lawsuits, negative publicity for the company, and fines for executive management. The authors then investigate the entire open source phenomenon and the fundamental differences between it and nonfree software. They continue by covering the difference between SOX and COBIT. Then, the authors discuss automation and why it should be a key component of any small to medium-sized company's SOX compliance activities. Next, they cover the COBIT Delivery and Support Delivery and Support Domain and why it is important, not only to SOX compliance activities, but also from an IT Department repositioning perspective. The authors then discuss Deming's continuous quality improvement process, specifically how it was predicted on a closed-loop process. Finally, they show you how to reposition an IT Department, by utilizing COBIT for SOX.
In this most excellent book, you will find a lot of applicable content--basically as much as the authors could muster by way of open source technologies and how they fit into the SOX sphere of influence. More importantly, this book illustrates the many Open Source cost-saving opportunities that public companies can deploy in their IT organizations to meet the mandatory compliance requirements of SOX.
Great resource, very helpful in ensuring complying with SOX.......2006-04-20
Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a legal requirement for publicly traded companies. The problem with the Act is that it requires things like adequate internal control structure and a report on the effectiveness of the internal control structure and procedures while not providing any guidance or any specific mention of information technology implications. Luckily there are several other more specific standards to follow, with the most common among auditors being COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology).
This book concentrates on using various open source tools (included on a CD with the book) to audit and document your system for compliance with COBIT. The authors take the reader through a detailed walk through the COBIT components and explain each one as well as how to implement it successfully. If it is followed the result is a sustainable system that is well documented, has set policies to prevent problems, has solid controls, and establishes responsibilities for change and improvements. Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools is highly recommended for anyone preparing to undergo and Sarbanes-Oxley audit but is also highly recommended to others because it is so useful for documenting your system and setting responsibility for changes to it.
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This digital document is an article from Implement & Tractor, published by Agra USA on February 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1463 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: V-belts: what you see may not be what you get. (agricultural equipment drive belts)
Author: Frank Buckingham
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Date: February 1, 1990
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What drives the specifier?(selecting doors and hardware for buildings): An article from: Doors and Hardware
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This digital document is an article from Doors and Hardware, published by Door and Hardware Institute on February 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1262 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: What drives the specifier?(selecting doors and hardware for buildings)
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This digital document is an article from Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, published by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. on October 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2020 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: What factors drive U.S. tea's continued growth?(Industry Overview)
Author: Shea Sturdivant
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Title: You should decide what to drive -- not the state. (Opinion).(Brief Article)
Author: Assemblyman Jay
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Vampire Movies: An Illustrated Guide to 72 Years of Vampire Movies
Robert Marrero
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An Artist's Journey: Lettres d'un bachelier es musique, 1835-1841
Franz Liszt
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In these eloquent and intensely personal writings, Franz Liszt sketches the cities, people, and scenes of his travels in the 1830s and explores ideas about art and its ideal place in the world. During six years of wandering through Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, and Germany (four of them together with Countess Marie d'Agoult), the composer saw the greatest art and most fabulous landscapes of Europe and crossed paths with celebrated singers and artists, renowned intellectuals, infamous socialites, and both reigning and deposed aristocracy. The article/essays that emerged from this period are both public and private: though written for the Paris press, they are the closest that Liszt came to autobiography. Some of these writings are travel articles; some are essentially reports of a music correspondent; still others are personal and confessional; and some are really essays on the nature of art. All offer precious insight into the musical, social, and intellectual life in the major European capitals seen through the eyes of one of the most well-read and influential musical personalities of the period.
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Frisbee gone Wild!!!.......1999-04-07
This book is amazing, although it has not yet been re-released as is claimed here. If it were, the world of frisbee would be so pleased, though. Packed full of historical and technical information, this cyclopedia of all things frisbee is an absolute neccesity for the frisbee-obsessed. And the pictures are worth the price, not to mention the iconistic rhetoric.
Disc Classic: Soon to be updated and re-issued for 1998.......1998-03-05
Take notice that the author, Stancil Johnson, will soon be updating this disc classic and having it published for it's second printing. More news to follow.
Shortly, it won't be so hard to get your hands on this bible.
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• Stop throwing thousand-dollar bills out the window and camouflaging spending as marketing—demand that the money spent on marketing bring in more money in return.
• Cut through the myths that claim marketing is about advertising, public relations, or direct mail—learn that it is about growing the revenue, profit, and valuation of the business.
• Fire your advertising agency if it even thinks about applying for a Clio or other creative award.
• Implement the marketing moratorium—stop all marketing until you know how each component of your program justifies itself in dollars and cents.
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"Your marketing sucks..."
What in the world does Mark Stevens mean?
For starters, let's take spending camouflaged as marketing. Everyone sees all those expensive, slick, pointless campaigns day after day. Just turn on your TV set and there are all the look-alike ads from Ford, GM, and Chrysler with look-alike cars going down... a road. Creative? Probably yes -- nice scenery, good-looking people, etc., etc. But effective? Mark Stevens says absolutely not. Like you're going to spend $30,000 or more for the privilege of seeing a car go down... a road? Wouldn't it be easier for the Big Three in Detroit just to open the windows at their ad agencies and throw out gobs of thousand-dollar bills?
Don't get Mark Stevens started on marketing that sucks, or he might mention all those oh-so-cool people-in-black at the ad agencies developing campaigns that generate all kinds of buzz -- in the advertising community. But not in the marketplace. (Oops.)
Note to advertisers from Mark Stevens: If you have an advertising agency that applies for any kind of an award (Clios, whatever), fire them immediately. They shouldn't be in the business to win ego awards for beautiful ads. They should be creating ads that sell. Period! If they talk about building "mind share," fire them immediately as well. That's just another way of saying they'll camouflage their failure to generate sales behind an intellectual smoke screen.
Mark Stevens is the best friend of anyone with a product or service to sell who wants to use marketing as a basis for growing the business. What he provides both entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 types is a hard-nosed, "prove it to me" program that demands accountability for every dollar spent on marketing so that it brings in more revenue or customers, preferably both. Use his program and you won't be throwing money out the window.
Your Marketing Sucks is chock-full of practical ideas such as:
- Marketing is not about advertising, public relations, or direct mail. It is about growing the revenues, profit, and valuation of the business.
- The marketing moratorium. Stop all your marketing for a month and you may be surprised at what happens. Sales have actually risen at some companies, a sure sign that, prior to the moratorium, they were throwing money out the window.
- Why the worst ads are actually the best. Start paying attention to the genius of the infomercial and cast a very skeptical eye on the kind of ads you see during the Super Bowl.
- Reverse engineer your marketing so that it starts at the point-of-sale. Because nothing happens unless a sale is made.
- Employ a swarming offense. Hit customers from every possible angle -- print ads, sales displays, e-mails, infomercials.
- Pick the low-hanging fruit. Cross-sell to clients and customers.
Mark Stevens shows how to conceive an innovative, effective marketing campaign strategy -- like Bill Gates's battle cry of "putting a computer on every desk and in every home" -- and then monitor the results. The idea is to spend your marketing budget only in ways that will give you a measurable return on your marketing dollars. That's more than good marketing: It's how you grow a business. And that's what this book is all about!
"Your marketing may suck, but this book doesn't. Every single page has a story, an example, or a concept you'll find yourself repeating to colleagues within days. Powerful stuff, not for amateurs or anyone too lazy to succeed."
SETH GODIN, AUTHOR OF
PERMISSIO
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This is the most truthful book on marketing ever. Many people in the business will hate it.......2007-06-18
This is the most truthful book on marketing ever. "If the moola you spend on marketing isn't growing your business and bringing in more moola in return, then you have marketing that ...sucks." Stevens is very clear and concise. "Stop throwing thousand-dollar bills out the window and camouflaging spending as marketing-demand that the money spent on marketing bring in more money in return." Even better, "Fire your advertising agency if it even thinks about applying for a Clio or other creative award." Awards do not generate moola for you who is paying the bill. This is a terrific book for any CEO who wonders if he is just throwing money at the wall with his creative/advertising/marketing budget. If you are not getting clear metrics reflected by increased bottom line dollars - then the money is wasted. Al Trout told us that advertising is dead and PR is alive. Stevens gives very concrete examples for you and I to see this clearly and a plan to remedy things immediately. Our company already adopted revenue-focussed marketing for 2 quarters and it works. A keeper and a true reference book
My brain exploded when I read this book.......2007-06-09
Why? Because I'm the CEO of a small investment management firm, and our whole industry is plagued by exactly the kind of mind-numbing marketing that this author talks about in his book. The real question here is, do you continue with conventional messages: those safe messages that everyone else in the investment industry uses, and that produce little or no results, or do you focus on new ideas, or ways of communicating existing ideas, that really resonate? The answer is obvious.
Shortly after starting my firm, we spent a lot of money on an "identity." Our marketing firm recommended using focus groups to assess how well that identity, and our marketing materials, worked. Yet, because we didn't have the perspective shared in this book, we ended up with an overall identity that was weak. Also, there has never been the kind of integration between all of our sales and marketing efforts that are suggested in this book.
It's all so obvious, once you read the book. However, for anyone who is contemplating this book, and feels like his business is presenting itself in a way that fails to differentiate it from others, I highly recommend it.
To suck...or, not to suck?.......2006-11-19
This book is required reading for managers in my organization who struggle to make the connection between the cost of marketing activities and the need for quantifiable and satisfactory returns. Although Stevens devotes too much space to self-promotion, his message is clear and understandable, a useful quality for the reader who needs to draw only a few critical conclusions. The key takeaways from this book, while few in number, are worth the short effort needed to extract them. The title, by the way, prominently displayed on your shelf, is worth the cost of acquistion, as it makes for a great conversation starter.
Title Got Me -- ticked me off -- then I bought it.......2006-08-12
The lesson here is that a compelling headline creates interest. Emotionally the title of Mark's book grabs you and either intrigues you or royally ticks you off. Either way, it creates book sales. The content was basic, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Too many people are looking for the magic pill, or next best thing, while they should be focusing on the fundamentals.
Mark shares plenty of essentials and fair reminders for anyone in the marketing realm. It's worth a read while on an airplane, or in a doctor's office, anywhere you happen to have a few hours to spare. I also laughed because it parallels my IFixLousyMarketing.com website -- not as edgy as Mark's title --but as mentioned earlier -- it's all about grabbing the prospect's attention.
great for small business marketers.......2006-07-08
I bought copies of this book for some of my colleagues. We were spending too much money on 1 or 2 marketing initiatives and this book inspired a marketing "blitz" that will capitalize on all of the initiatives we have access to and tie everything together - web, print, texting, direct mail and reward programs.
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