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Finely detailed florals, chinoiserie, popular art, and faience designs and patterns for decorative inspiration.
Full-color ornamental motifs fill the pages of the Handbook of Decorative Motifs, offering a lively catalog of inspired ideas and models for decorative painters and craftspeople of all kinds. The simple design techniques—as well as general tips on caring for plant and flower models—help artists adapt the motifs to their own styles and media. 250 color illustrations.
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Rich in Color and Style!.......2006-05-31
A wonderful reference book in styles and shapes of flowers, leaves, fish and colors. Great to use for resources by many artists. Birthe shows you how to break up a design into repeat patterns, sizes, and designs. She has wonderful flowing motifs. Great use of colors, soft to vibrant. This book should be in all artist library.
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Ornament 8000 Years: An Illustrated Handbook of Motifs
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In this third edition of Photography and the Art of Seeing, Freeman Patterson reviews principles of composition and visual design and provides techniques and exercises for breaking away from traditional concepts. Aspiring photographers are made aware of the barriers to seeing and learn how to observe, imagine and express in a personal and creative way.
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Breaking the photographical routine.......2007-03-24
Freeman tries to get photographers to break out of their ways, to look at the world with different eyes, to question old habits. This is a good thing, in my opinion. But does he succeed?
I can only answer this from my own perspective: Yes, the book gives me impulses to try out different perspectives than the ones I'm used to.
The writing is fluent and to the point. The images underline the points in the text. I like many of them, even though they seem unspectacular at first. The printing quality could be better, though. I ordered the book together with two volumes by John Shaw ("Focus on Nature" and "The Field Book to Nature Photography", both Amphoto Books), and those are printed much better, with more contrast and color saturation.
Still, a recommended book for anyone who likes taking photos and would like to explore new grounds.
I deeply regret buying this book... RATED NO STARS AT ALL.......2007-02-16
I wrote a review as follows: 'Anyone can take a picture of a hot dog. If this photographer took a picture of a hot dog you would smell the french fries, hear the ocean, and taste the salt water taffy. The author offers the reader a chance to see the world through his eyes.
Then I looked through the book more closely. On page 137 I saw a picture that disgusted me. When I read what he wrote about the subject, I became angry. He wrote, "This photograph captures a moment in the life of a child, and suggests innocence. The little girl had withdrawn from her playmates on the beach; she wanted to be alone. She was crying a little. When I came along, she hid her face to preserve her privacy. I quickly made this picture and left. Note that the expanse of rocks and the girl's small space in the composition strengthen the sense of her privacy."
The picture is of a naked little child who was hiding her face crying and trying to turn away from the man taking her picture with his camera. It is only my opinion, but I think this man is greatly lacking in respect of human dignity.
I am sorry I put money in his pocket. I hope no one else will.
An excellent resource.......2006-12-15
If you have moved up from the technical aspects of photography, and are into "photography as an art", this is the book to buy to take you to that next level.
If there is just one book in the whole world that you can buy, this is it! I own all of patterson's instruction books - and they are all great! a worthy investment and proudly displayed in my bookshelf.
Don't buy this book - PLEASE!.......2006-11-30
Please don't buy this book. It will change your photography. I bought it, and now I have an advantage, and I want to keep it!
Seriously, this is probably the most disturbing photography book I have found. It will challenge everything you do in photography, and that is unsettling.
If you follow the exercises properly, you will develop a whole new way of seeing and taking photos.
Sure, if you want to, you can read it from cover to cover and go "Ho, hum, very nice." and take it no further. But if you want to improve your photography, take your time, and do the exercises carefully. You will be surprised at the results.
I especially like the one where you lock yourself in a small room (bathroom) and have to take 20 images. "If you don't feel desperation before you finish this exercise, then you have to take another 20 photos."
Don't buy this book! Run away and hide. Keep taking boring photos.
Stimulating Creativity.......2006-11-11
I found this book excellent for stimulating the creative process where photography is concerned.
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- Ranma the cheerleader? Mother's coming?
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Ranma 1/2, Vol. 20
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Genma, father of Ranma, learns that his ex-wife is coming to visit. He panics and tries to flee with Ranma, whose condition as half-boy/half-girl resulted from a martial arts accident. Why is Genma so terrified of his former wife? Perhaps because he promised her that Ranma would grow up to be the manliest of men or face seppuku (ritual suicide).
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Ranma the cheerleader? Mother's coming?.......2003-10-30
We all know that Ranma dislikes his female form, except when he can use it to get free food or something. But still--cheerleading? This is yet another activity that has gained a martial twist from Rumiko Takahashi, and it works out rather well. And Ranma-chan does look good in that outfit.
Have you ever wondered why Ranma and his dad are traversing the world by themselves? Where is Ranma's mother? Turns out that she is looking for her son and husband. They stopped writing to her just before the visited the springs of Jusenkyo, and she is curious why. But there is something ELSE Genma "forgot" to mention...
Genma screws up Ranma's life once again.......2003-10-14
In this volume it finishes the matrial arts cheerleading ( i have no idea what that is about i don't have 19 yet ) Ranma comes home from school to find his father in a panic and wanting to go on a training mission. Well Ranma quickly stops him and asks why, but he won't say. Untill he finally says that Ranma's long lost Mother is coming. When she gets there before she see's them Genma throughs both of them into the pond. He keeps claiming that Ranmas mother can never see Ranma ever because there life depends on it. Well Mrs. Saotome explains about why she hasn't seen her son since he was one year old. Genma took him away so that he could become a Man among Men. ( The best of the best you could say) To convince Ranma's mother Genma made a pack that if he failed both he and Ranma would take there own lifes. Well since Ranma isn't exactly a man amoung Men anymore thanks to Genma, it looks like Ranma will Never really be able to meet his mother as himself, not Ranko Akanes first cousion. Will Ranma ever meet his mom as a man. Find out by buying this volume.
Cheerleading Ranma.......2003-02-09
This contains the ending of book 19, which is surprising to say the least. We also meet up with Nodoka, who is Ranma's very sweet mother. There is only one problem with Ranma and his mother. Read it to find out.
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Goofy, fun, not to be mistaken as reader.......2004-09-17
You need to take a second look at this book to figure out it's NOT the usual Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane have grown up. It's listed as "humor" not "school book." Some of the humor is a sad reflection of today's reality - like the visit to Grandma that doesn't happen. Overall, it's a spoof, weird, goofy, funny, amusing, and not necessarily suitable for children.
pukey.......2004-01-10
My 8 year daughter and I read this book tonight, and both thought it was bad. My other daughter (5) had learned to read with the original books (as had myself), and thought this would be the same type of book. I was very disappointed in this book, and would never recommend it. The part with the boys playing with guns and shooting each other (as Mr. T) was pathetic. I'm sorry I don't agree with the other reviews - but, I thought as a book to teach young ones to read, it was not suitable.
Laugh out loud fun!.......2003-12-19
The first time I read this brief parody, I was alone in a room but literally laughed out loud. Marc Gallant has captured the wording, the feel, and especially the "cadence" of this genre of books.
A WONDERFUL and funny reminder of childhood.
If you like parodies at all, you will love this book. Only other item nearly as funny was a one-time run of "Off the Wall" Street Journal, published on April 1 in the mid 1980s.
Funny...A good satire of the genre........1999-08-20
I collect the old Dick and Jane readers and was just shown this book by a friend. Hillarious take off on the series. I think it was very creative and would be enjoyed by any "Baby Boomer" who used the Dick and Jane readers or anyone familiar with them. Even though it is out of print, I hope to acquire a copy.
A Baby Boomer Classic.......1997-07-14
More Fun with Dick and Jane is a
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It is a fun look at how "things used to be."
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Think-and-Do Book for use with More Fun with Our Friends, a Dick and Jane reader.
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Screenwriter Frances Marion (1888-1973) is the central subject of this excellent book, but mega-star Mary Pickford, journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, bit-player-turned-gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper, and other high-powered female friends get nearly equal time. The author's skillful mix of biography with Hollywood history results in a densely textured portrait of an industry in formation and the intelligent, ambitious women who seized the opportunities it offered them for creative expression and financial independence. The text also instills new appreciation for the artistry of silent movies.
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Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or female--or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."
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Pure Inspriration.......2005-09-14
This is a must have for any aspiring artist in this industry. Male or Female. It truly does her story justice. I learned so much about the ins and outs of such a remarkable era. Must Read!
"Follow you dream, because the person who cares the most wins!"
Entertaining and Informative.......2005-04-27
With great appreciation, Without Lying Down tells the story of how women influenced the movie industry in its infancy. The author clearly admires the women she writes about without appearing to compromise her objectivity. The book is well-researched and rich with entertaining details about the world of Frances Marion. The story moves along at a nice pace and the book is well written. It was easy to imagine the challenges and adventures Frances encountered in the days when Hollywood was still taking shape. It is difficult to read the book and not feel a little sad that women don't enough influence in the stories Hollywood tells today.
A long gone girlfriend.......2001-09-19
After reading Ms. Beauchamp's biography of Frances Marion, I felt that I knew Frances...and felt a bit sad that we would no longer "hang out" within these pages.
Frances was not only an intelligent and witty screenwriter but a woman with principles and a giving heart.
The lack of respect afforded to Ms. Marion by modern cinephiles as a pioneer in film-making is a true travesty.
These pages made me wish that I could have been friends with Frances Marion...and in another life, I think I would.
A Fascinating Look At Early Hollywood.......2001-02-17
Cari Beauchamp has written a fascinating biography of early Hollywood through the life of Frances Marion, one of its most powerful and highly paid screenwriters, Without Lying Down, Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. The working life of Frances Marion has the advantage of coinciding with the birth of movies as Marion began working on scripts for silent movies in the teens and continued into the sound era and the advent of World War II. This biography also has the joy of highlighting many of the other unique women of Hollywood as Frances Marion traveled in a powerful Hollywood clique. It is a wonderful look at Hollywood between the wars from the vantage point of Frances Marion. Occasionally, it would have been helpful if the author could have expanded the view a little to give a larger context outside of Frances Marion's own sphere of influence and given a broader perspective of the film industry. But what is seen in both entertaining and informative. There was for me real sadness at the end of this book as all these great women pass away but, now at least, one of them is captured lovingly and brilliantly in this fine biography.
Excellent!.......2001-02-06
Unlike other reviewers, I felt I knew Frances very well after finishing this book. Her generosity, her sense of artistry, and her passion (and sometimes hatred) for her profession really come through. This is one of the few books, biography or silent film history, that is actually well-written in addition to being informative. It's rare to find an historian who can write well, or a biographer who pays attention to history. And as for rah-rah feminism, Beauchamp merely points out a fact--that women were highly involved in every phase of early film-making. If you are interested in silent film history, women's history, or just want to read an entertaining biography, you won't be disappointed.
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- Drawing on America
- Believe Half of What You Read
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New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music
Jack Sullivan
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The subtitle of this book gives its theme: How American Culture Changed European Music. Beginning with the touchstone New World symphony of Dvorák (which author Jack Sullivan believes celebrates the African American and Native American strains in American music), Sullivan, a professor of English at Rider College, takes readers on a tour of music history right up to the present day. His study centers on the American writers, poets, and styles that have influenced the Old World, using such examples as the impact of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, of Walt Whitman on Ralph Vaughan Williams, and of Edgar Allan Poe on a host of composers. Sullivan also takes up Frederick Delius's stay in Florida and Edgar Varèse's love affair with America and even includes the careers of expatriates such as Erich Korngold and Kurt Weill. The book ends with a long consideration of the effects of jazz, which Sullivan views as the American classical music.
Sullivan has done his homework very well, and most of the expected names and relationships are here. Yet his highly opinionated tone and habit of compartmentalizing and strictly categorizing the music (atonalists and serialists are "bad," as are British musical-theater composers) can limit the scope of his arguments. There is no doubt, for instance, that jazz has had an influence on European music, but can one really say, as Sullivan does, that it has changed that music? Did Vaughan Williams's love for the poems of Whitman alter his music any more than his love for John Bunyan did? Did Poe's "The Bells" redirect Rachmaninoff in ways the composer never suspected? What we have here is a book that is an interesting elaboration of an idea perhaps better confined to an evening around the fire with friends. --Patrick J. Smith
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This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Acknowledging the impact of European tradition on American composers, Jack Sullivan contends that, beginning in the nineteenth century, an even more powerful musical current flowed from the New World to the Old.
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Drawing on America.......2001-12-07
The influence of American culture on European composers has been extensive, shaping the course of music history. Author Jack Sullivan, a faculty member of Rider University in New Jersey (of which the famed Westminster Choir College is a part), has traced this connection in an illuminating book which should give Americans pause when considering their own cultural history. Though Sullivan's point of view is one of exploring how Europeans drew on American sources, what becomes increasingly clear to the astute reader is the lack of enthusiasm Americans had and continue to have for their own creative history.
In a first chapter, which is alone worth the price of the book, he traces the route of African-American sorrow songs from the Black experience back to Europe through Dvorák and Delius to Debussy and to the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, who was considered by most Americans to be the greatest composer alive a century ago.
We learn that many of the ideas of W. E. B. DuBois grew from Dvorák's defenses of his assertion that the basis of American music should be Black Spirituals. The Czech composer's letter to the New York Herald were often quoted by DuBois (sometimes credited, sometimes not) and are here quoted by Sullivan.
We also learn the impact on Delius of hearing songs from the African-American shanty towns in Florida's orange plantations as they drifted on the air to the porch of his house. Simple though it is, the photograph of the house where Delius lived in Florida carries with it a sense of the space in which he could hear songs from afar.
Other chapters elucidate the effect on European composers of Poe, Whitman, the landscape, cities, and jazz and pop music. Sullivan's research is strong, his ability to connect disparate facts is engaging, and his writing is clear and lucid. Wonderful anecdotes occur throughout the book.
For anyone who (like Sullivan) writes program notes or is interested in the roots of much 20th century European music, this book is a must. I found it difficult to put down and refer to it often as I write articles and reviews.
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Believe Half of What You Read.......2000-07-26
The book purportedly tells the story of classical music in America, how Old World traditions were transformed and revitalized, and how concert music came to interact with popular trends. I flipped to the chapter on film music, and to his credit the author makes some very defensible claims for the genre, at it's best, as being the equivalent of incidental music written for plays, or even singspiel music composed by Purcell, Telemann, Mozart and others. (Opera would be a little more of a stretch, since the film composer cannot ordinarily manipulate the "libretto" -- in this case, the screenplay -- where he would be able to, in the case of the genuine article.)
However, despite these commonsensical claims and pleas for critical tolerance, the author doesn't seem to know very much about his subject matter. He's got the "sense" right, but his facts are all wrong. I read maybe a dozen pages and, over the course, found at least four factual errors. He claims that Erich Wolfgang Korngold quotes thematic material from his score to the "Sea Wolf" in the slow movement of his String Quartet No. 2 (when, in reality, it is the Quartet No. 3); he claims the same composer's Symphony in F#, while reminiscent of his film music, is comprised solely of original material (when, in fact, the melody of the slow movement was lifted from his score for "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex;" and the finale uses a motif associated with the Maria Ouspenskaya character in "Kings Row" -- something I have never seen mentioned by any annotator); and that Dimitri Tiomkin wrote the score for Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (it was actually Miklos Rozsa, who won an Oscar!). On top of it, I suspected his claim that Victor Herbert wrote the score for D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" was equally false, but THAT I had to double-check. The score is mostly a hodgepodge of pre-existing classics, like "Ride of the Valkyries," anyway. As it turns out, I was right -- it was written by Karl Breil. In any case, it's not my job to research these things. You'd think Yale University Press would hire a fact-checker.
Breil aside, I could have written the chapter off the top of my head, virtually complete, right down to the historical dates, and not made so many errors. I don't know if it was sloppy note-taking or faulty memory, but the book never should have gone to publication in this state. What if someone comes across this thing in a university library somewhere and takes it as fact? We'll have all these theses on film music that reiterate the heinous error that Dimitri Tiomkin wrote "Spellbound!"
For a good general survey of American music, you might try Wilfred Meller's now-classic "Music in a Newfound Land," or even H. Wiley Hitchcock's "Music in the United States." However, film music is a weak link in both studies. For that, I would refer you to "Film Score: the Art and Craft of Movie Music," by Tony Thomas. Thomas highlights most of the major composers, and many of them contribute in their own words. It's an interesting read, and you learn a lot about the unique challenges faced by the composer in Hollywood.
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Nicholas Tawa
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Finally, a puzzle book as “bright” as its readers. Not only will puzzle-doers find wickedly tricky brainbusters on every page, but all the accompanying illustrations are in brilliant color too. And that makes unraveling these challenging conundrums even more fun. It will take some real smarts to figure this out:
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FORTUNE magazine calls Harvey Mackay "Mr.-Make-Things-Happen." No matter where you are in your career, he can help you ride the expressway to success. This collection of on-target how-to's, insights, and self-tests translates into immediate take-to-the-office results on EVERY page. Discover the secrets on servicing sales that are worth millions, add the missing ingredient--courage--to your career, learn how to love your job, take a manager's quiz that will revolutionize your style, and much, much more!
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I lost my shirt on this one.......2007-08-08
I had a bet with my friend. If this one as good as Harvey's first bestseller, I'll give you my shirt. Well, I lost it. Another book that I am willing to bet my shirt on is Eightstorm. You can't be a corporate leader without that book.
Terrific Book!.......2005-02-21
This book, like all of Mr. Mackay's books, is absolutely wonderful. The information it contains is timeless. Do yourself - or a friend! - a favor and read this book!
Basic, no-nonsense information that is immediately useful.......2001-11-14
Harvey Mackay suggests basic details in this book, like being aware of how respectfully you address a someone else's secretary, but as simple as these suggestions are, they are critical. I read this book while I was on the public relations/sales team for the Marine Corps recruiting station in Kansas City. As a result of his principles of respect for people, care in personal committments and follow-through on obligations, I earned a quarter million dollars in documented free advertising per quarter for my firm. Needless to say, I won numerous awards and ample recognition from my superiors.
Mackey's brand of professionalism -- of delivering what you promise -- is as effective and productive as it is simple. He does keep it simple, but this book is not short on value. After completing the Xerox School of Sales, I was assigned to work with the J.Walter Thompson advertising firm. This company adheres to Mackey's basic concepts. Later, I worked for a Japanese firm in Tokyo; again, they adhered to Mackey's concepts of sound business practices. Currently, I'm living in Cairo, Egypt, and I find that too few Egyptian companies adhere to Mackey's ideas of committment to customer service. They could definitely learn how to improve sales, keep old customers and earn new ones if everyone from the top executives to the clerks and receptionists read this book.
the shark is back again.......2000-08-23
this is the terrefic book i had read after the swim with the sharks, it is easy to read , have alot of advice you could not find in any book. if you want to take an advice you can take it from someone like Harvey. have fun and engoy your self
one of the best books i've ever read.......1999-07-19
If you must be a seller, or you simply want to be effective in your bussines - this book must be the Bible for you. This is one of these one breath book, that are sa rare nowadays.
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