The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (Blacks in the American West)

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Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West’s most remarkable individuals. The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. He spent the rest of his long life attempting to clear his name.

Flipper’s record of accomplishment was significant for any individual in any time, and for a nineteenth-century black American it was phenomenal. As historian Quintard Taylor points out, in his post-Army career Flipper was a surveyor, cartographer, civil and mining engineer, interpreter, translator, historian, inventor, newspaper editor, special agent for the Justice Department, deputy U.S. mineral surveyor, aide to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and consultant to the secretary of the interior. His work carried him to Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain, and he left a record of achievement that demonstrates his enormous talent and unrelenting effort.

The Colored Cadet at West Point contains Taylor’s biographical essay, Flipper’s account of his career at West Point, and a new index prepared for this volume.

Sheridan's Lieutenants: Phil Sheridan, His Generals, and the Final Year of the Civil War. (American Crisis Series)

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Sheridan's Lieutenants: Phil Sheridan, His Generals, and the Final Year of the Civil War. (American Crisis Series)
David Coffey
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0742543064

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In 1864, General U. S. Grant summoned 33-year-old Major General Philip Sheridan to lead Meade's cavalry in the resilient yet seemingly lethargic Army of the Potomac. Sheridan's fiery determination and uncompromising demand for performance quickly gained him the upper hand against Confederate cavalry forces in Virginia. In this exciting new work, David Coffey explores Sheridan's relationships with his subordinates and their substantial role in shaping the final year of the Civil War and future U.S. military history.

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A short discussion of some remarkable soldiers.......2005-07-04

This short summary of Sheridan's role in the last year of the Civil War is an interesting introduction to the lives of a remarkable group of largely-forgotten soldiers. Merritt, Mackenzie, Crook, Upton, and Wilson were young, gifted, and tough officers who contributed to Union victory. Custer is remembered today because he blundered at the Little Bighorn. The others are seldom discussed because they died in bed after distinguished military careers both during and after the Civil War. The author does a nice job of educating us about their backgrounds and contributions. Pleasantly written, one finishes the book wanting to know more about this Band of Brothers that Sheridan drew around him in the Shenandoah and at Appomattox.

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Henry's Lieutenants (Great Lakes Books)
Ford R. Bryan
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An Answer To That Part Of The Narrative Of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., Which Relates To The Conduct Of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis ... Campaign In North-America In The Year 1781

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An Answer To That Part Of The Narrative Of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., Which Relates To The Conduct Of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis ... Campaign In North-America In The Year 1781
Earl Cornwallis
Manufacturer: Scholar's Bookshelf
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Binding: Paperback

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First published in 1783 in response to Clinton's Observations (Reprint Edition: Scholar's Bookshelf, 2005) this was Cornwallis's defense against accusations that the surrender at Yorktown was his fault, citing a range of "failures" by others at various engagements in the South, especially the failure of Clinton to support Cornwallis, as he had promised, against the French fleet. Includes a great deal of documentation and reports by Clinton and Cornwallis. Reprint edition. 2006: 284 pages, 1 fold-out chart. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

Anybody Can Do Anything/Elephant Bill/Signal Thirty-Two/German Faces/Mischief (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1951)

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Anybody Can Do Anything/Elephant Bill/Signal Thirty-Two/German Faces/Mischief (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1951)
Betty MacDonald , Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Williams , MacKinlay Kantor , Ann Stringer & Henry Ries , and Charlotte Armstrong
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FJPNU8

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Includes: Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald; Elephant Bill by J.H.Williams; Signal Thirty-Two by MacKinlay Kantor; German Faces by Ann Stringer and Henry Ries; Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong.

Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall 1940-1944

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Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall 1940-1944

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Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall. Vol. 1: 1933-1940. Vol. 2: 1940-1944. 2 vol. set

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Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall. Vol. 1: 1933-1940. Vol. 2: 1940-1944. 2 vol. set
Henry Pownall
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Chief of staff;: The diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall
Henry Pownall
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The Grange Garden
Henry Kingsley
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2000-04-24

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This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1876 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.

The great buccaneer;: Being the life, death, and extraordinary adventures of Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica

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The great buccaneer;: Being the life, death, and extraordinary adventures of Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
Philip Lindsay
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A GREAT BOOK ON THE BEST EVER COLLEGE FOOTBALL QB!!!!!.......1998-07-24

Ty Detmer had one of the greatest college careers ever! Dick Harmon is a great writer. He has written many books on BYU football and their quarterbacks. This book goes into depth on how Ty became a football player in the small town of Mission, Texas. Buy it, read it, and ENJOY!

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The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations. Some of the characters from the film noir era are extremely violent, such as Neville Brand's Chester in D.O.A. (1950), whose sole pleasure in life seems to come from inflicting pain on others. Other noirs feature flawed authority figures, such as Kirk Douglas's Jim McLeod in Detective Story (1951), controlled by a rigid moral code that costs him his marriage and ultimately his life. Others present ruthless crime bosses, hapless males whose lives are turned upside down because of their ceaseless longing for a woman, and even courageous men on the right side of the law.

The private and public lives of over ninety actors who starred in the films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are presented here. Some of the actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Raymond Burr, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance and Mickey Rooney, enjoyed great renown, while others, like Gene Lockhart, Moroni Olsen and Harold Vermilyea, were less familiar, particularly to modern audiences. An appendix focuses on the actors who were least known but frequently seen in minor roles.

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Bad Boys: The Actors of the Film Noir
Karen Burroughs Hannsberry
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786437391

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The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world--how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds. The study of folkbiology not only sheds light on human nature, it may ultimately help us make the transition to a global economy without irreparably damaging the environment or destroying local cultures.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the work of researchers in anthropology, cognitive and developmental psychology, biology, and philosophy of science. The issues covered include: Are folk taxonomies a first-order approximation to classical scientific taxonomies, or are they driven more directly by utilitarian concerns? How are these category schemes linked to reasoning about natural kinds? Is there any nontrivial sense in which folk-taxonomic structures are universal? What impact does science have on folk taxonomy? Together, the chapters present the current foundations of folkbiology and indicate new directions in research.

Contributors: Scott Atran, Terry Kit-fong Au, Brent Berlin, K. David Bishop, John D. Coley, Jared Diamond, John Dupré, Roy Ellen, Susan A. Gelman, Michael T. Ghiselin, Grant Gutheil, Giyoo Hatano, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, David L. Hull, Eugene Hunn, Kayoko Inagaki, Frank C. Keil, Daniel T. Levin, Elizabeth Lynch, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Bethany A. Richman, Laura F. Romo, Sandra R. Waxman.

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Biology of the Masses.......2004-01-15

Human Nature Review, Volume 2, 2002, 146
While there has been much talk in the cognitive science literature of "folk psychology" and "folk physics," there has been relatively little discussion of the everyday understanding that most people use to classify and reason about living things. This is surprising, since as bio-logical creatures we spend probably the most important and meaningful segments of our life-cycle interacting with other biological crea-tures-our spouses, children, pets, food, and the like. Douglas Medin and Scott Atran fill this gap in the literature in an interesting way with Folkbiology, a collection of essays featuring such luminaries as Jared Diamond (of Guns, Germs, and Steel fame), Frank Keil and David Hull. These three authors represent, respectively, the fields of anthropology, cognitive science, and philosophy of biology. This gives some indication of the interdisciplinary flavor and range of this collection of original articles. The book's introductory and capstone essays are excellent. Medin and Atran concisely discuss the several issues covered in the book in a helpful manner, and David Hull's concluding essay ("Interdisciplinary Disso-nance") is lively and provocative. All in all, the essays are linked in interesting ways and are uniformly good, with several of them being ex-cellent contributions to the literature. Douglas Medin and Scott Atran have done great service to the ethnobiological com-munity by collecting together these original pieces. Moreover, this work has the potential to more broadly impact anthropology, cognitive science, and philosophy of biology, whether it be by expanding anthropological horizons via a consideration of cross cultural folkbiological taxonomies, providing another example to in-form cognitive scientists' deliberations about cognitive development and the presence of cognitive universals, or by helping philosophers of science settle the ongoing dispute about the exact nature of the term "species." I commend this book to you if you are interested in any of these issues.

Folkbiology of freshwater fish [An article from: Cognition]

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Folkbiology of freshwater fish [An article from: Cognition]
D.L. Medin , N.O. Ross , S. Atran , D. Cox , and J. Coley
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Cross-cultural comparisons of categorization often confound cultural factors with expertise. This paper reports four experiments on the conceptual behavior of Native American and majority-culture fish experts. The two groups live in the same general area and engage in essentially the same set of fishing-related behaviors. Nonetheless, cultural differences were consistently observed. Majority-culture fish experts tended to sort fish into taxonomic and goal-related categories. They also showed an influence of goals on probes of ecological relations, tending to answer in terms of relations involving adult fish. Native American fish experts, in contrast, were more likely to sort ecologically. They were also more likely to see positive and reciprocal ecological relations, tending to answer in terms of relations involving the full life cycle of fish. Further experiments support the view that the cultural differences do not reflect different knowledge bases but rather differences in the organization and accessibility of knowledge. At a minimum the results suggest that similar activities within a well-structured domain do not necessarily lead to common conceptualizations.

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Folkbiology (Cloth)
DL Medin
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQI318

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The best book I've ever read

Love the Irvine Welsh prose

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Butterflies and enclosures

Gripping, couldn't put it down

The Killing Jar: A Novel
Nicola Monaghan
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In her stunning debut, Nicola Monaghan lays bare the gritty underbelly of life in Nottingham, England.

Very early on, Kerrie-Ann begins to dream of the world beyond the rough council estate where she lives. Her father is nowhere to be found, her mother is a junkie, and she is left to care for her little brother. Clever, brave, and frighteningly independent, Kerrie-Ann has an unbreakable will to survive. She befriends her eccentric, elderly neighbor, who teaches her about butterflies, the Amazon, and life outside of her tough neighborhood. But even as Kerrie-Ann dreams of a better life she becomes further entangled in the cycles of violence and drugs that rule the estate.

Brilliant, brutal, and tender, The Killing Jar introduces a brave new voice in fiction. Nicola Monaghan's devastating prose tells an unforgettable story of violence, love, and hope.

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The best book I've ever read.......2007-09-17

I am 20 years old and absolutely LOVED this book. For two days, I found myself making excuses to put off other things to continue reading. The characters (all of them) are so deeply developed and real. I won't say more than this is a total page-turner and a book that can change a life. After I finished, I immediately brought it to work and made some one else take it home. Needless to say, they agree. The only thing I disliked is that Monaghan has yet to write another novel! :)

Love the Irvine Welsh prose.......2007-07-17

I couldn't get enough of this book, I couldn't put it down. It was direct to the point and moved flawlessly. I checked it out from the library but after reading it I bought the book for my collection. A very good read. Looking forward to more of Nicola Monaghan's work.

DON'T MISS THIS ONE.......2007-07-03

I agree with the other reviewer that once you get used to the dialect, this book is impossible to put down. I read it in less than 2 days and was totally absorbed by the characters and story. It is well written and unfolds beautifully. It has been a long time since a book has engrossed me like this one did. I hope she writes something else soon!

Butterflies and enclosures.......2007-06-25

The novel was refreshingly original and offered a slice of Nottingham life hardly ever observed in fiction. The realistic nature of the novel and it's characters brings into focus the complexities of heroes and villains. Characters don't have to be all good or all bad. 'Kez' - is a kind of attractive anti-hero who lives her life in a dangerous and compelling way largely because of social circumstances. The book does not condone murder or drug use, but rather opens up an unknown world detailing the highs and lows of a working class estate. There is definite tranformation without a moralistic authorial voice interupting the narrative. Butterflies are introduced early on in the book as a mofit for transformation. The 'killing jar' of the title represents the rough housing estate where the narrative takes place, it's enclosed spaces and the metaphor of being trapped runs through out the book. The fumes that kill the butterfly are like the drugs that spread around the estate, and so I thought the images and motifs were highly fitting and used well. The use of local dialect and descriptions of drug use were very well done and the writing keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.

Gripping, couldn't put it down.......2007-06-25

Once you get your head around the dialect in which The Killing Jar is written, it is impossible to put down. The way Kerry-Anne's character is built up and exposed to us is both gentle and brutal simultainiously. The story is compelling, and unlike so many lesser novels, believable. 3 people in my family have read it and were equally silent for the weekend whilst they relentlessly read. A fantastic, if different read.

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The Killing Jars
Dan Neil
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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John Trickett is a rancher in southern Saskatchewan suffering from guilt since his brother Luke vanished from the world twenty-five years ago. Luke was diagnosed with Schizophrenia while studying Entomology at the University of British Columbia and was institutionalized by his family who could not bear the shame of another illness. Institutions closed and Luke fell through the cracks.

When John's father calls him to his house in Maple Creek, he finds his frail mother clutching a newspaper article on the lost souls living in the ravines of Toronto. There is a photograph. She thinks it's Luke and pleads John to bring him home. He makes a promise to her and to himself, to reconcile a life lost. But John's wife Nora implores him not to go. She has a dire fear of Luke and what his return may bring to Windrush.

John defies Nora and leaves on a journey to Toronto's netherworld in the ravines of Toronto where he meets Steven, a contemptible panhandler. But he knows how to find Luke. John befriends him and soon learns that he is more than he seems, an intelligent young man hiding from unimaginable horrors. Finally Steven leads John to Luke. Together at long last, Luke is skittish, wild, and does not recognize John. In that moment enemies of Steven interrupt the reunion. There is a shooting and Luke is wounded.

Luke recovers and in the fall John brings him home to Windrush. Nora tries to accept him but cannot see past her fear. Still John is determined to make things right at all costs, to give Luke back the life taken from him. But all is not well with Luke. He is lost again. And John comes to terms with his past. What his family did and did not do for Luke could never be truly forgiven, but at last acknowledged and accepted to allow space for new beginnings.

The Killing Jar (Alternity Sci-Fi Roleplaying, Dark Matter Setting Adventure)

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One of the best published adventures ever
Move over again X-Files

The Killing Jar (Alternity Sci-Fi Roleplaying, Dark Matter Setting Adventure)
Bruce R. Cordell
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Release Date: 2000-01-01

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One of the best published adventures ever.......2000-05-05

The Killing Jar is great. The players will be kept on their toes the entire time. They won't believe where they end up, yet one part leads clearly into the next. It's chilling, suspenseful, and downright weird.

Move over again X-Files.......2000-01-05

This adventure has taken the Dark Matter setting out into a great horror/conspiracy! This is the BEST near future RPG setting EVER. This adventure and game setting will put the Alternity RPG on the map! I can't wait until they release a CD ROM game utility. Way to go TSR/WOTC!

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The Killing Jar
David Docherty
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The killing jar
E. M Beekman
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The Killing Jar

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How to make and use safe insect-killing jars (Direction leaflet)

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How to make and use safe insect-killing jars (Direction leaflet)
Julia A Mathews
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Killing Jar
Nicola Monaghan
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The Art of Maya 3rd edition is an introduction to 3D computer graphics unlike any other. Join the thousands of users who've garnered the knowledge they needed to enter the 3rd dimension with this full color visual exploration of the theory of Maya. Rich with diagrams and illustrations that demonstrate the critical concepts of 3D time and space, this book will help you understand the concepts critical to conveying your artistic vision through the medium of 3D. If you are an artist looking to incorporate 3D into your toolkit, this is the resource you need.

Understand:
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* Deforming Objects
* Lattices and Clusters
* Character Animation
* Materials and Textures
* Shading Networks
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a theory book, but useful.......2007-07-03

This is a THEORY book. If you don't understand the theory behind maya, pick this up. If you want tutorials, pick something else up.

This book is not another picture book, and its not really a tutorial book either. Its more of an explanation of how maya works and what things are used for, in a general sense. If you're picking up Maya for the first time I'd recommend Learning Autodesk Maya (and your version, which I'd recommend 8, which so far the tutorials are working fine in 8.5) If you're already a novice or higher maya user, and know your way around, this could prove useful.

After you've covered the material in a big tutorial book, keeping this one handy will help if you were to struggle on a specific task or forget how to do something, because theres plenty of explanation in this book.

I like how it explains the typical work pipeline, if you're doing this as a hobby but want to enter the industry someday, it will explain to you how daily work usually goes for each person, when working in teams on a pipeline, or how one person can control the entire pipeline when working alone.

A useful add to any maya users library, and one book can never cover everything there is to know about this program. This is my 2nd book covering just maya and found it interesting to read, but I'd start with a tutorial book for new maya users like myself.

Good book.......2007-03-21

This book was pretty good, although it was a little more "begginner" than i would of liked. Also, if you get a used copy, it might have a few dings but who cares right? as long as you can read it.. I love Maya books and this is a great addition to my Maya library!

The Art of Maya: An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics .......2007-03-19

It is always the same thing that in other editions. When you will stop to copy and to put something new.
The covers and the works of the experts in 3D, are perfect. The price is also something expensive, being the same thing that in previous editions. I Offer you that you can be but original. Thank you and a cordial greeting.

Basically a Maya product guide.......2007-01-28

You know how some companies offer really slick little illustrated booklets detailing their products, the advantages they offer, and all the features they have in an attempt to get you to buy the product? Well that's basically what this book is. It's essentially a 200+ page advertisement for Maya. It doesn't really attempt to teach you how to do anything in particular using Maya, but it does gloss over most of the features and the sorts of things you can do once you learn it.

As a new Maya user and being brand new to 3-D modelling in general, I actually found it to be a decent and useful read. But I have to admit that I was hoping for, and expecting more of a tutorial. But it still gave me a decent "view from 10,000 feet" of the program, which is something few if any other books will give you. Also it is well written and very well illustrated, it just wasn't at all what I expected.

If you are considering buying it to learn Maya, look elsewhere. But if you are looking for a decent overview of Maya, or are evaluating various 3-D tools, this may be a decent book to buy.

What they mean by "Art".......2006-07-30

I think some readers may be confused by the title, "The Art of Maya." This is not a coffe tale book showing some art made by Maya users. The title is a play on Sun Tzu's book, "The Art of War." That is exactly what this book is, it is a soup to nuts explaination of the "art" of using Maya.
This is a beginer's book that goes into great detail about the concepts of using Maya. Many newbies might prefer to just by advanced books and learn all the WOW tricks that Maya has to offer. Of course then those users don't know why they went through the process they did to create a stunning image, and are left without any creative energy.
This makes this book a MUST HAVE for beginers and intermediate users. Every bit of the under lying logic in how Maya works is explained.
This is also a good "reading" book too. The problem with other Maya books that have projects is that you can not sit down and read them without being in front of your computer to do the projects. With "The Art of Maya," you can set it next to your nightstand and just read a chapter or two before bedtime; you can learn things without having to sit in front of the box.

The Art of Maya: An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics

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Autodesk Maya Press
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This unique, full-color visual exploration of the theory of Maya is rich with diagrams and illustrations that demonstrate the critical concepts of 3D time and space, and helps explain the principles of 3D modeling, animation, dynamics and rendering. The book also includes a series of production notes detailing how skilled Maya artists have worked with the software to create production quality films, games, visualizations, and animations. The accompanying CD-ROM includes Maya Personal Learning Edition.

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