Seeing the Light: An Artist's Guide

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Seeing the Light: An Artist's Guide

Seeing the Light: An Artist's Guide
Betty Carr
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1581803427

Book Description

This successful artist shares her time-tested secrets for capturing the awe-inspiring qualities of light on canvas. Whether readers paint in their kitchens or backyards, they'll learn how to use light to create depth, form, mood and atmosphere.

Artists of all levels will master light with:
*Exercises in watercolor and oils
*12 complete step-by-step demonstrations
*Close-up painting details
*Keys for "seeing" light and true color

The wide variety of innovative techniques and exercises makes it easy to understand this often confusing topic. Every reader will come away with the ability to harness the power of light!

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Good information.......2007-01-25

I liked her examples. It was nice to see the examples in watercolor as well as oil. Clear instructions and an easy read.

Seeing the Light: An Artist's Guide.......2007-01-07

Very pleasurable visually with bright colors and stunning use of white to indicate light. I can never seem to pull this off and look forward to trying to recreate some of the paintings to see if I can achieve success.
Janice Lawson - Montana

Light and Shade (Watson-Guptill Artist's Library)

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Light and Shade (Watson-Guptill Artist's Library)
Jose Maria Parramon
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823027694

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This book explains theory and instructs on techniques for creating shadows and the illusion of depth in charcoal and other monochrome media, as well as in color. Among the main subjects explored are light and shade in artworks throughout history, methods of creating the effect of brightness, highlighting, contrasting light and shade in chiaroscuro, and reproducing visual textures created by light. Barron's Art Handbooks are pocket-size reference volumes for students, artists, and art hobbyists. All have full-color illustrations throughout.

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How to draw and paint: Containing instruction in outline, light and shade, perspective, sketching from nature, figure drawing, artistic anatomy, landscape, ... the whole revised by a practical artist
John Dickson
Manufacturer: Excelsior Pub. House
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Light (Scribbles Institute Young Artist Basics)

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Light (Scribbles Institute Young Artist Basics)
Rob Court , and Penny Dann
Manufacturer: Child's World
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ASIN: 1567660800

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Simple text and cartoon characters introduce the concept of light and its application and importance in artwork and architecture.

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Light And Shade: Or The Young Artist, A Tale

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Light And Shade: Or The Young Artist, A Tale
Anna Harriet Drury
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0548326290

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Bruce Checefsky
Manufacturer: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
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The theory of effect: Embracing the contrast of light and shade, of colour and harmony

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The theory of effect: Embracing the contrast of light and shade, of colour and harmony
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"At least a dozen of Helen Levitt's photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know. In their general quality and coherence, moreover, the photographs as a whole body, as a book, seem to me to combine into a unified view of the world, an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and in a gently and wholly unpretentious way, a major poetic work." (James Agee) World-renowned for her iconic black-and-white street photographs, New York City's visual poet laureate Helen Levitt also possesses a little-known archive of color work, which has been collected for the first time in Slide Show, her third powerHouse Books monograph. In 1959, and again in 1960, Helen Levitt received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation to photograph in color on the streets of New York, where she had photographed two decades earlier in black-and-white. But tragically, the best of these pioneering color pictures were stolen from her apartment in 1970 and she had to start over again. In 1974 the new work was shown as a continuous slide projection at New York's Museum of Modern Art—an early example of a slide show presentation by a museum and one of the first exhibitions of serious color photography anywhere in the world. Slide Show presents more than one hundred photographs—including eight surviving images from the 1959-60 series—more than half of which have never been exhibited or published before. This impressive monograph is a worthy successor to her magnum opus, Crosstown (powerHouse, 2001), which included the largest collection of her color pictures to date, and to her more intimate volume of black-and-white work, Here and There (powerHouse, 2004), which presented more than eighty "unknown" Levitts taken over six decades.

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Disappointing Printing.......2006-12-31

I'm a big fan of Helen Levitt's work & I would love to give this book a 5 star review. Unfortunately her excellent photography is not presented well due to a poor print job. It seems that something went wrong in the scanning or pre press phase. All the photos are too light & the colours are washed out. This is not how Kodachrome should look. Some of the same images are printed in the German book titled 'Helen Levitt' & the difference is significant. The photos in the German book are much more accurate. Unfortunately this publication is no longer in print & hard to come by.

I already knew that this book 'Slide Show' had poor reproductions as I had a chance to view a copy in the library. I bought it anyway because it is the only way to see some of her photos. I can't think what went wrong as Powerhouse seems to be a quality publisher & I own other photography books by them where the printing is fine.

The least glamorous photos of New York you are ever likely to see.......2006-11-07

The photos in this collection portray working people and poor people, people who are poorly dressed, people without air conditioning on hot summer days, people with ugly pets. The collection is oddly timeless; many photographs of New York can be dated to within a few years by looking at store awnings and, clothing styles, and haircuts, but not these. The people whom Levitt photographed are wearing clothing that was shapeless, ugly, and impossible to date in 1960, 1970, or 1980. With the exception of a couple of photos that show movie theater marquees in the background, nothing here can be dated.

The photos are all the more remarkable because they flatter nobody. Did people give permission to be photographed, knowing how they would look? Had they given up long ago?

Some of the photos give their subjects dignity, but not all. The book is sometimes cruel, sometimes funny.

As an aside, I'd love to know where these photos were taken. Some look like East Harlem, but not a single photo shows a street sign, and I can't identify any of the stores.

America's Greatest Woman Photographer.......2006-05-08

This collection of Helen Levitt's brilliant color photographs is a treasure. I grew up in the city, and looking through this book, I was immediately transported back to the sights, smells, sounds and feelings of my childhood. These sensitive street scenes are wonderful social documents and pure poetry.

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From the pages of World Explorer comes this zany, wacky compilation of cartoons, pulp-era parodies, and comics featuring the never-ending saga of the intrepid Professor Wexler -- a bespectacled, unshaven, unabashed adventurer into the fringes of the unknown and weird. It includes all of the original cartoons, plus a new comic of the Professor and an introduction by World Explorer editor and Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress.

With a pipe clenched in his teeth, the ever-resilient professor encounters everything from Bigfoot, UFOs, and the Loch Ness Monster to the dangerous jungles and deserts of the remote parts of the world. Professor Wexler is a Doc Savage-Indiana Jones character who lives on the edge of life, and one never knows what sort of predicament he will be in next. This book follows his early exploits which first appeared in 1998 in the pages of World Explorer Magazine and continues into his more mature later-day adventures.

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Gary Larson meets Indiana Jones.......2006-06-06

If you like your humor in the FAR SIDE vein, you'll enjoy this wild collection of cartoons and short stories---Very Harvey Kurtzman-esque (50's MAD magazine artist)in places with the art. WARNING: You have to be up on the paranormal and cryptozoology to fully appreciate a bit of the humor. This helps make this volume unique.Hopefully, a movie is in the works!
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"O! Little Town of Cat Mayhem, what mischiefs among you lie?" With a brand-new cover and all the favorite Christmas carols rewritten from the feline point of view, there's plenty of mischief here. Forget peace on earth, forget good will toward men, and discover the true meaning of Christmas: "Wreck the Halls," "The First Meow," "Collar Bells," and more. Each song is accompanied by a playful illustration, and all are familiar tunes, so it's easy to sing along. Selling over a quarter of a million copies to date, Catmas Carols remains the perfect stocking stuffer for cat lovers and caterwaulers alike.

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Adorable - a must-have for cat-lovers.......2004-11-17

This collection of familiar Christmas carols reworked to a feline perspective is priceless. Laurie Loughlin writes with a deft touch and a wry understanding of the feline nature, as only a cat-lover can. The illustrations are hilarious and sweet.

I think my favorite is: "Oh Come All Ye Furful" -- it's not only very funny but perfectly captures cat-ness in lyrics such as:

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Hungry and well-rested
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Fun and funny feline versions of Christmas carols........1998-07-08

New lyrics (about or by cats) are given for 20 common Christmas carols. They are funny and all VERY feline. I love it. Old familiar Christmas tunes will never be the same.

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10-Pak Catmas Carols Hc
Laurie Loughlin
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0811891577

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The "little black book" that's next to every studio executive's palm pilot-the real scoop on Hollywood's top 200 stars.Who's hot? Who's not? Who can green-light any project that they want? Who's begging for scraps? For years the film industry's elite have looked to James Ulmer's Hollywood Hot List to measure who was really worth a multimillion-dollar payday and who should be pasture-bound. Ulmer's star power rankings can change a star's salary-or even whether or not he or she gets a role. An actor's star power includes:Bankability: How the actor's name alone guarantees a sale up front in today's global marketplace.Career management: How well has the actor chosen roles to maximize career potential?Willingness to travel and promote: How cooperative is the actor in promoting projects?Professionalism: How reliable is the actor to work with, both on and off the set?Inside Dirt: The truth about what it's like to work with the top 200 actors worldwide.Box office bait: Who the actor has worked for and how much the project made.Ulmer's information is culled from those who work closely with the stars-their agents, co-stars, movie producers, directors, distributors, and personal assistants. The opinions of those in the know and the dollars a star can earn measure the true value of the actors in Hollywood. Find out who owns Tinseltown, who's just renting, and who's being evicted.

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You'd have to be a stone not to like this book ..........2002-06-03

Or maybe a Sharon Stone (she is not spared in these pages). Quite simply, this book is impossible to put down. James Ulmer's clever rating system is interesting enough in itself -- but the best part of the book is his personal stamp. He makes no bones about being star-struck, yet his mission is the demystification of the gods, and he does it with gimlet-eyed clarity and intelligence. A dirt-filled riff will turn on a phrase into a sharp insight into the celebrity cult and our fascination with it. Some of his observations of actors are priceless. My image of Marlon Brando struggling up the Brooklyn waterfront ramp will now forever be juxtaposed with him struggling up the aisle of an L.A. supermarket, dressed in a muumuu and eating from an as-yet-unbought gallon of Breyers ice cream. This is a great summer (or winter) read, but don't take it to anyplace where you're self-conscious about laughing out loud. Because you will.

Hot lists...hot book.......2000-11-22

The title only tells half the story. The lists are fun to browse (the 200 top stars), especially the inside dirt on each star. But the essays are really hilarious: weird twisted perks, gossip and insecurity, naughty inside references - a pretty amazing picture of business and culture in Hollywood, where Ulmer says nothing binds people together like money, tribal membership "and the desire to see your best friend fail." Yikes. This book definitely goes on my holiday gift list.

Dish the Dirt.......2000-11-08

For anyone who enjoys following the cult of celebrity -- go backstage with James Ulmer and find all of the behind-the-scenes gossip (ok really thruths) about today's biggest stars. Ulmer has been compiling this list for industry insiders for years and this is the first time he's published his info for the general public -- can't wait for the next installment!

Hollywood dish.......2000-10-04

It's fun and funny to see how the industry perceives itself, this book is a hoot. The information they based the ratings on is already outdated, (Russell Crowe's career trajectory arrow is going sideways? Hello?) but it's still worth the $$ for the essays, especially the one on star perks, (you will not believe the story about a certain actress and a baby opposum) and the "inside dirt" remarks.

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Basic Christmas Sing Book

Manufacturer: Warner Bros Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Forty-eight traditional and popular songs including: The First Noel * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * Jingle Bells * The Little Drummer Boy * The Night Before Christmas Song * Silent Night * Sleigh Ride * We Three Kings of Orient Are * We Wish You a Merry Christmas and more. Instruction included.

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joy of discovery

Chess Mysteries is no Mystery.

Fascinating puzzles, but won't improve your chess

DEVILISHLY CLEVER

Retrograde analysis at its best

The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
Raymond M. Smullyan
Manufacturer: Random House Puzzles & Games
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Release Date: 1994-09-06

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The dazzlingly clever and always entertaining Raymond Smullyan takes an unorthodox approach to chess puzzles by treating them as mysteries--with Sherlock Holmes as guide and mentor. The key concept is retrograde analysis. Rather than figuring out how to achieve some end from a given arrangement of chess pieces, the game is to examine the board and deduce what has happened in the past: Which side is white? What were the previous moves? Prove that a promotion did or did not occur. Which piece has been replaced by a coin? These are just a few of the challenges Smullyan presents through the eyes of Holmes and Watson. He even manages about as passable an imitation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's style as can be expected from a tongue-in-cheek presentation. To enjoy these problems you need only know how chess pieces move. The first puzzles in the book teach all the concepts you need to know to decipher the later ones; the process prepares you to join Holmes in solving a baffling double murder--they keys to which reside in a series of devilishly clever puzzles. The chess game is afoot, and it's almost too much fun!

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Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted or original?

Since these problems involve the same sort of logical reasoning that lies at the core of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Raymond Smullyan has aptly set each one within its own Holmes-Watson dialogue. In each case Holmes, by his remarkable powers of deduction, is able to demonstrate to his awed admirers precisely what must have happened, move by move, at the "scene of the crime" -- the chess table. For example: what the missing piece is; what square it should be on; whether or not either side can castle.

In the second half, through a series of progressively more difficult (self-contained) chess problems, Holmes, with the reader's help, solves a mystery and a double murder -- perpetrated, of course, by Moriarty. And at the end of the book are ten bonus problems from Moriarty himself (four of them composed before the age of nine!).

Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes is Smullyan's challenging and witty romp through the royal game.

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joy of discovery.......2003-05-30

I think the 2-star reviewer misses the point of this book: it's supposed to be fun. And it is. The puzzles are pretty challenging, and it definitely helps if you play chess. You tend to notice positional abnormalities that are the bases of the problems. From there, it's just detective work.

But the real treat to this book is the world the author creates. Smullyan's characters can't play chess for nuts. You should see the bizarre positions they come up with - it's as though they're making random moves. Yet this doesn't diminish their love of the game one bit. They're such gentlemen too. No one minds when Dr. Holmes interrupts to ask questions. His new friends are always polite and like nothing more than a good demostration of deductive reasoning. I wish I lived in their world.

Chess Mysteries is no Mystery........2002-09-06

THE CHESS MYSTERIES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Raymond M. Smullyan was predictable from beginning to end. Immediately Dr. Smullyan admits he doesn't like or play chess yet proceeds to use chess as a vehicle to demonstrate 'retrograde analysis' as though it were unique to chess. Any human being who has mastered his trade, craft, or profession has probably routinely reconfigured his work to identify a prior characteristic. Retrograde analysis is common to anyone skilled at their occupation and the adroit have no need to read this book to learn a commonly acquired skill. (The unadroit will simply continue as they are.) I further think this book will disappoint both chess players and Sherlock Holmes fans, and contribute nothing for students of logic.

Fascinating puzzles, but won't improve your chess.......2001-09-09

The other reviews given below cover the contents comprehensively - I wholeheartedly agree that it is a wonderful book for those that enjoy puzzles and have a knowledge of chess. However, lest anyone believe otherwise - this book will in no way improve your chess playing skills. The puzzles are all about what happened (ie the history of moves) to bring about the current chess position (given in a diagram) on the assumption that the laws of chess have been strictly observed. There is no assumption that either side played plausibly or well to bring about the current position. Thus, the puzzles do not concern a future sequence(s) of moves that would, for example, lead to mate for black/white. This is what sets it apart from most chess puzzle books.

DEVILISHLY CLEVER.......2001-04-02

This book is a devilishly clever blending of chess problems and Sherlock Holmes (with Dr. Watson, of course). 50 unique chess mysteries await you in this book that is anything but elementary.

Retrograde analysis at its best.......2000-07-12

Those who enjoy puzzles that require logical thinking but are bored by standard "logic puzzles" and chess problems will find this book a sheer delight. Each puzzle presents an innocuous-looking chess position and a seemingly impossible-to-answer question about it, such as, "What was White's previous move?" or "Is it legal for Black to castle now?" or "On which square must the White pawn be located?" The questions can all be answered by pure deduction; although some of the problems are in some sense "trick questions," there are no silly answers involving outright cheating of the kind commonly found in inferior puzzle books. The puzzles are fresh, original, entertaining, and deep. My only complaint is that in the first half of the book, there is no clear demarcation between the statement of the puzzle and the solution, so that the reader who likes tackling puzzles without any hints has to guess the point at which he should stop reading. This flaw does not occur in the second half of the book, however. Readers who enjoy this book may also want to buy the companion volume, "Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights," although as of this writing (July 2000) it is out of print.

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From one facilitator to another...

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Facilitating with Ease! is an updated version of the best-selling resource that offers easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools that team leaders, consultants, supervisors, and managers have used to learn the basics of facilitation. Complete with worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized to fit your personal needs, it's a complete facilitation workshop in a take-home format. Facilitating with Ease! shows you how to run productive meetings with skill and authority and includes the information needed to train others in your organization to become confident facilitators as well. The book is filled with dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists that can be used to transform anyone into an effective facilitator.

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Years of Knowledge in One Neat Package.......2007-07-08

As a Human Performance Technologist, I am constantly running into situations where I need to use facilitating skills. I have acquired such skills and knowledge over years of experience and practice. This book, Facilitating With Ease!," neatly packages the knowledge components required of a Facilitator and provides useful tools to be used in practice. I am planning to use this book with a client in training new facilitators to facilitate discussions of ethical business leadership. I wish I had this book 10 years ago!

COMPREHENSIVE, CLEAR AND CONCISE........2005-02-27

Details core facilitation tools and techniques. Chapters cover: understanding facilitation; facilitation stages; assessing and understanding participants; creating participation; effective decision making; facilitating conflict; meeting management; process tools for facilitators (e.g., visioning, exit surveys, brainstorming) and process designs. This is a well organized 'soup to nuts' reference including worksheets on CD-ROM that can be customized. Comprehensive, clear, and concise.

Insightful!.......2001-10-16

Companies that embrace work teams quickly discover a basic truth: More teams mean more meetings. Management experts laud the benefits of enlightened teamwork, but they spend much less time dwelling on the often long, sometimes pointless and nearly always inefficient meetings that teams breed. With teams fast becoming a fixture in the corporate world, meeting management, or facilitation, is becoming a critical skill for anyone with executive ambitions. Author Ingrid Bens' definition of a facilitator is quite specific - someone who guides a meeting without actually participating in discussion or decision making - but her book is filled with practical advice that any professional can apply when running a meeting. A host of charts, examples and worksheets (not to mention the accompanying CD) help illustrate her process for steering meetings without controlling or directing the outcome. We [...] recommend this hands-on how-to guide to anyone motivated to minimize the waste of meeting-creep.

Facilitating With Ease!.......2000-11-08

I have had the privilege of participating in workshops taught by Ingrid Bens: this is like having her in your own training room! The information in this book is both relevant and concise. I use the book to lead my facilitation team through all of their group dynamics training. The CD-ROM allows me the freedom to customize the worksheets to meet our needs. This is a great book that I highly recommend to all individuals who work in teams, lead meetings, or need assistance in group dynamics

From one facilitator to another..........2000-07-07

As a failitator of a process using storyboards, I am always looking for new twists on facilitation in general. As a compact, to the point resource on facilitation and basic meeting management, I think Ingrid's is at the top of the list. While, like any such work, you truly gain the value when you attend a workshop, this book is worth the price in things anyone can adapt and use in any organization. You can never become "good enough" at facilitation and I am glad someone referred me to this book. Two thumbs up......Oh, and one other nice thing. Everything in here is to-the-point instruction - no big ego trips with the author's name dropped into war story after war story...

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