Book Description
Select your paint with confidence and protect your valuable work. This book is about artist's paints, a guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent and the bad. It also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each color and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across. Vital Information for the concerned artist.
Customer Reviews:
Useful.......2006-12-12
The following refers to a copy published by the "School of Colour Publishing" not the North Light one here. Hence I have no idea as to how NL may have messed around with it (I'm not a big fan of North Light - found their books, for the most part, to be woefully focused on the "twee" end of the picture creating spectrum).
The Australian (hence the presumed typo's) Michael Wilcox does an admirable job of outlining which pigments to use (and avoid), in what media i.e oil, acrylic, watercolour and gouache, and why. Much of the information can be found elsewhere (Mayer's "The Artist's Handbook") but I favour Wilcox owing to the book being in colour, with an excellent reproduction of the hues compared with actual colour swatches I've made.
Given that the various paint manufacturer's are continually on the look out for "new" colours I found a couple of pigments in my oil paints that weren't mentioned in the book.
With reference to another review posted here, I didn't find any instance of Wilcox promoting his range of materials.
A very useful book, particularly for someone using paints from a variety of manufacturer's as well someone working in a range of media.
The Most Helpful Book In My Art Library.......2006-07-06
I would never again purchase a tube of paint that did not conform to the ASTM Standards that Michael Wilcox describes in easy to understand terms. I have owned this book for several years and still refer to it often. If a pigment has been proven through research to crack or change colors with time, better color mixtures using proven pigments are given in each instance. A most valuable tool for any artist's library.
Excellent and Vital Reference Book.......2003-07-15
Important information for choosing the best colors in your palette. I now am confident in the archival integrity of the palette I use and I arrange the colors according to those that form the purest color mixtures. An earlier review speaks of typos -1. Apparently this person is ignorant of the Queen's English (Michael Wilcox is British) -2. Who cares to throw out the baby with the bath water anyway? This is the clearest reference I have found on pigments.
not trustworthy.......2003-03-06
From another website (by an artist who is NOT trying to sell a line of paints as Wilcox is) I found out that Wilcox did not actually test all of these paints himself, and does not disclose his relationship with one brand of paints he recommends.
His "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" IS however a book every painter should have as it is the best on color bias and mixing and has helped me a great deal.
An Excellent Resource.......2003-02-13
This is an essential book for any serious artist concerned about the integrity of their art. Who cares if there are typos? (I noticed none, myself -refer to a previous review). If you are knocking a book like this for whatever spelling/grammatical errors the subject matter is over your head. The author thoroughly explains everything to look for when selecting the best color pallet. Watch out for misleading labels, redundant and unnecessary products, fugitive colors and hidden ingredients that threaten the longevity of your work.
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Knitted Shawls, Stoles, and Scarves
By Nancie W. Wiseman
Get ready to wrap yourself in cozy comfort!
These elegant, glamorous fashion accessories all have something special in common--a great fit! Nineteen gorgeous projects range from simple shapes that beginners will appreciate to stitch patterns and techniques that advanced knitters will love.
For many knitters, learning complicated knitting techniques can be overwhelming--so overwhelming that some may put down their needles for good. But the glorious accessories in Knitted Shawls, Stoles, and Scarves rely on simple, easy-to-learn shaping methods that produce elegant--and foolproof--results.
The yarns chosen for these projects range from trendy, richly textured yarns to the most easy-to-find styles. You'll fall in love with these designs--and with every beautiful accessory you make, you'll learn a new technique or stitch pattern that you can use in future projects.
· Choose from 19 glamorous wraps, such as Interlocking Diamonds Scarf, Textured Squares Mohair Shawl, Cabled Stole, and Lavender Linen Lace Scarf
· Learn several new knitting concepts as you knit--start with simpler projects, and then move on to more advanced projects to perfect your skills
· Find charts and written stitch patterns, basic knitting techniques, and an informative reference section
Whether you're a novice knitter or someone who has made knitting a lifelong passion, you'll delight in this beautiful book that will expand your knitting skills and enhance your design savvy.
Customer Reviews:
Try to visualize your own colorway instead..........2007-05-13
Nancie is local to my town and a very nice person; I loved her shop. However, even calling on local pride, I've got to say that the color choices and sometimes the yarns chosen make these shawls look dated and dowdy. However, the shapes are interesting and useful, like the deep V shape that really covers the "cold parts" better than an oblong, and made up in a prettier yarn, some of them are beautiful. I made the Textured Squares in a rich violet mohair as a gift for a doctor/friend, and whenever I see it in her office I still think, "Oh, pretty!" before I realize I was once intimately acquainted with it for a month.
Someone mentioned that the shawls don't always fit right, and I agree; some are a pretty skimpy. I was lucky enough to try the abovementioned shawl on a friend before I had reached the "turn" of the V, and a good thing, too: I finally had to expand it by almost a third to make a wrap one could really cuddle into. Fortunately, shawls are fairly easy to resize, but it might be prudent to draw out a mock-up on paper or tissue and try it for size, particularly if you are knitting for a tall or generously-sized person.
The instructions are very clear, which is helpful for some of the techniques like entrelac. All in all, the techniques and shapes make it worth owning if you are good at visualizing things, adapting and recoloring etc. If you tend to buy the yarn and color specified, and follow the pattern obediently, this might not be the best book for you. I'm glad I bought it. : )
Beautiful, but.............2006-02-17
I would consider myself a beginner, trying a few more complicated patterns as I gain experience. The patterns in this book are beautiful, well presented, but it will be quite a while before I try one. They are not for the "average beginning knitter". If I'd taken the time to look at this book in another store before ordering it from Amazon, I probably would have waited to purchase it. However, I'm glad I do have it....gives me a goal to work towards. I gave 4 stars because I do think it's a wonderfully done book for the right audience.
Give it a second look............2005-02-05
These shawls and wraps are creative, but some of color combos are awful. If I had picked this book up in a fiber store, I probably would not have bought it because I don't find the items pictured as particularly attractive. However, giving it a second glance (now that I have purchased it sight unseen) I find a number of items I might actually make. I often become chilled right in the middle of my back. Wearing a sweater makes me too warm. And while I like Challi wool scarves, I find they often slip off at inopportune moments. I detest heavy turtle neck sweaters, and pullover weskets that men wear, so I have gone to vests of all sizes and shapes, though the ones that keep me warm in the right spots are often unstylish. Besides, after a while one can become awfully tired of donning a vest for work everyday.
So, I was pleased to discover a great new (to me) item of clothing, a scarf that sits on your shoulders like a small buttoned stole. Nancy Wisemen, author of KNITTED SHAWLS, STOLES, AND SCARVES, has included several diagonal and square scarves that fit over your head and rest on your shoulder. They don't make you feel smothered like a turtleneck, and they don't overheat your arms and lower chest. Made with mohair or a light wool, they are featherweight, so you don't feel as if you are carrying a pack on your back. (Some items are to be constructed with cotton).
By knitting, I am resuming the use of an abandoned skill, so I am fairly rusty. The items in KSSS will stretch me a bit, they are not for beginners.
Uneven quality of patterns.......2004-12-04
The patterns look beautiful on pictures, but some of the pictures are misleading. For example, the picture of Textured Squares Mohair Shawl shows a full-sized shawl draped around the shoulders. I have knit it with the recommended gauge, and found out that the only way the shawl can drape like this is if you wear it sideways. The shawl is very long in the back and too short in the front (barely covered my relatively small chest). Wearing it sideways is impractical in any situation apart from posing for a picture. The pattern did not state finished dimensions, and the picture was misleading. I ended up ripping the whole thing. I wanted to knit the Gossamer Shawl, but then realized that its picture also did not offer a full view of the shawl, so I skipped it. On the positive side, I knit Chenille Diagonal Lace Scarf, and it turned out great.
I would recommend to editors of knitting books to follow the example of Cheryl Oberle's Folk Shawls, and show each shawl in the clearest way possible.
super shawls.......2004-11-13
Chock full of one beautiful design after another, this book and its presentation make it difficult to decide which shawl to try first. The patterns are inventive but not overly complicated, resulting in professional-looking garments with a designer look. Directions are clear and comprehansible. Yes, the yarns used in the photos are expensive, but there are so many cheaper but still lovely substitutes on the market these days, that cost doesn't have to be prohibitive, and you can still attain great looks. I've even substituted yarns of different weights than those specified, and while the size of the shawl is bigger or smaller, I've been happy with them all. Achievable challenges, never boring - my idea of great knitting.
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Shawls, Stoles and Scarves (Costume Accessories Series)
MacKrell
Manufacturer: Quite Specific Media Group
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ASIN: 0713448768 |
Book Description
The representative work of the multi-talented Yoshitoshi Abe continues to demonstrate his talents as a mangaka, illustrator and script writer. The illustrations that were published in 1999's Serial Experiments Lain were compiled into the illustration book An Omnipresence in Wired Yoshitoshi Abe, and has been reprinted numerous times due to its immense popularity.
Customer Reviews:
Connect Wired.......2006-08-15
If you like Serial Experiments Lain at all, buy this book. Just trust me. This is by far one of the best art books I've come across. Absolutely worth the price.
Book Description
The representative works of the multi-talented Yoshitoshi Abe continues to demonstrate his talents as a manga-ka, illustrator and script writer. His renowned works include Serial Experiments: Lain, NieA_7, Haibane Renmei and TEXHNOLYZE. Abe's charismatic popularity has captured the hearts of his Japanese audience and continues to expand overseas. The U.S. version comes with an exclusive "how-to" section by Abe and a selection of pencil drawings not previously seen in the Japanese edition.
Book Description
For many years, we've all laughed at the great classic "dirty" jokes. But always we had to hear them by word-of-mouth. No one dared publish them. But times have changed. And now Mr. "J" has gathered the very best of the world's dirty jokes and put them in a book. A very funny book filled with very funny stories. At last, they can be published.
Customer Reviews:
This book is garbage.......2004-05-12
This book is the worst joke book i have ever read. Grade school jokes are even better. I didn't even chuckle. It is very out dated. I highly reccomend you not to even think about purchasing this item. I would have rated it even lower if I could have. It is about a quarter of a 1 star.
Certainly not the worlds best.......2000-05-27
First of all, I would like to say, this book made me want to vomit. But I was reading a dirty joke book. So does that matter? No. This collection is vulgar, cruel...on and on. Putting all that aside, this book wasn't funny. I've heard jokes that made me laugh for hours. I did not laugh once while reading this book. So, in my opinion, it failed. You be the judge.
Doesn't live up to it's name.......2000-02-05
There are just too many great jokes out there and most of them didn't find their way to these pages. While some jokes are subjective, there are some that just plain split your sides and I didn't find myself laughing hard all the way through this rather small collection. Plus times change. Many on these pages are relatively tame compared to some of the really dirty humor around today. Not really worth the price but worth reading in the dentist's office instead of old National Geographics or Reader's Digest.
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More of the World's Best Dirty Jokes
Mr J
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345346874
Release Date: 1986-12-12 |
Book Description
He's back -- that wonderful master of blue humor, Mr. "J" -- with another delicious, delightful, and downright dirty collection of jokes sure to please the hundreds of thousands who laughed their heads off at his first book.
Fresh, funny, and pointed, some of these stories may shock you, some may make you blush -- but all of them will make you laugh!
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More of World's Best Dirty Jokes
Mr J
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345301277
Release Date: 1982-03-12 |
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Still More of the World's Best Dirty Jokes
R. Salomon
Manufacturer: Citadel
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ASIN: 0806507802 |
Book Description
This is the third and final volume of Mr. "J"'s collections of the world's best dirty jokes. Some of the jokes and stories are new; some you may have read (or heard) in different versions. Most of them might merit being X-rated. But we believe you and your friends can pick up this book and enjoy hours of smiles, chuckles and plain old belly laughs.
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Still More of World's Best Dirty Jokes
Mr. J.
Manufacturer: Book Sales
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ASIN: 0890095868 |
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Still More World's Best Dirty Jokes (Worlds Best)
Mr. J.
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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ASIN: 000638076X |
Customer Reviews:
Review of Still More World's Best Dirty Jokes.......2000-06-11
If you like a joke book with distasteless humor and dirty jokes this is a book for. I thought some were really of the wall funny and others were simplyjust not at all funny.But i did give this book a 4-star rating because, i think you could use some of them as ice breakers at parties or when your by yourself and feeling down it could be a pick me up. in conclusion i think if your between the ages of 15-21 you would definetly enjoy this book. But if your lets say in your 30's you would probably find the quite unhumores.
Book Description
In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema.
At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics.
Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrÈe to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.
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The Films of Joyce Wieland (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)
Kathryn Elder
Manufacturer: Cinematheque
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ASIN: 0968296920 |
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A visionary who consistently explored new styles and approaches in her art and films, Joyce Wieland grappled with nationalism, feminism, environmentalism and spirituality. The Films of Joyce Wieland brings together essays by Canadian and American theorists about the artists and her work. It includes a never-before-published interview between Wieland and experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the film literature on Wieland.
Published by Cinematheque Ontario. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.
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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.
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Titles are: Daisy Jane * Don't Cross the River * A Horse with No Name * I Need You * Lonely People * Muskrat Love * Only in Your Heart * Sandman * Sister Golden Hair * Tin Man * Ventura Highway and more.
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Shaun Udal - My Turn to Spin
Shaun Udal
Manufacturer: Know the Score Books
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ASIN: 1905449429 |
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No more excuses! With this essential resource, there is no more need for agents to panic over business correspondence to clients or customers. Agents simply find the letter they want to use, make any changes they want, insert the clients' names and addresses, print the letters, and harvests the benefits. This new time-saving resource includes a CD-ROM that provides more than 200 sample letters and e-mail messages agents and brokers can use daily in their real estate career. Agents will discover letters for all kinds of issues and scenarios, sample messages that can be copied and pasted into e-mail, checklists, forms, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Five Minutes to a Great Real Estate Letter.......2007-09-17
The product was good. It contained everything I've wanted. But it would be nice if it would contain some photos of some of the letters or products inside the book to make it easier to determine if this is the right product or not.
disappointed.......2007-08-09
I was very disappointed the second I got this book and cracked it open. I purchased it because I considerd myself a poor letter writer and wanted new fresh creative ideas. These sames and mostly very short, seemed shallow, unfinished, and are very simple and elementary. As for me. this was a waste of money. I am obviously much more creative than I thought and would never send a client a letter with 4-5 short sentences.
Not worth the money!!.......2006-03-27
I don't think this book worth the price. All the letters are very basic, a bit outdated and follow old prospecting techniques. Some of the letters can only be use after you made a call or you met with a prospect. There is nothing impressive about this book.
I'd expect to see more eloquent and articulate letters. My broker wrote better letters and they are free.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!.......2006-02-24
This book has been quite helpful for me in writing letters that sound so professional, but like I wrote them myself. Sure saves the brain alot of time on trying to construct a personal but professional letter.
Great book!.......2005-08-13
This is an excellent book for both new & experienced real estate agents. The letters sound intelligent and professional, and they're informative without being either too informal or sounding stilted. The CD included with the book was especially helpful, because you can just download all the letters onto your computer & personalize them with your own information or make changes. Real estate agents are too busy to have to re-invent the wheel every time they need to write a professional-sounding letter. These are GREAT templates. Highly recommended.
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