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How often have you wished you had access to the team behind your favorite software--in this case, Adobe Illustrator--so that you could really pick their brains about all of its coolest features? With this book, you do. In these pages the Adobe Creative Team gives you a guided tour of the graphics powerhouse, Illustrator CS. Best of all, it does so at your pace. Whether your beautifully designed graphics end up in print, the Web, broadcast video, or even cell phone displays, this book shows you how to get them there--easily, elegantly, and efficiently. You'll find step-by-step, project-based lessons in all of Illustrator's key features, including those that are new to CS: powerful new type tools, the Scribble Effect, hundreds of professionally designed templates, support for 3D graphics, and more. Each chapter contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, and a companion CD includes all the files needed to complete the book's lessons.
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Teach Yourself Illustrator.......2006-08-24
If you don't have the time or the money to take a lengthy class on Adobe Illustrator, just buy this book. There are a lot of instructional books out there for Illustrator and other Adobe programs, but this is by far the best and most concise. It includes a CD with lessons and images, and if you start at the beginning and plow through it, you'll learn Illustrator competently enough to get you up and running with the program.
Illustrator CS training guide.......2005-12-28
This workbook is incredibly useful for gaining a thorough understanding of Adobe Illustrator. Shortcuts are introduced throughout the lessons and extra information is included in grey text boxes in the book along the way. Lessons are outlined well in the table of contents for quick reference.
Adobe Illustrator Classroom In A Book.......2005-10-03
This book combined with the CD is fabulous. Immediately you feel like your getting the hang of this very complex software.
Enlightening.......2005-08-23
This books gives you tht basic ins and outs of Illustrator in a comprehensive step by step format.
A Great Way to Get Started With Illustrator.......2005-08-08
Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book (like the other books in the series) is extremely thorough, providing repeated opportunities to try the features of the software. After finishing the lessons, it's a great resource to have nearby.
The 19 lessons provide step-by-step instructions and screenshots for both Mac and Windows environments, so you don't have to worry about which version of Illustrator you are using. Each lesson also ends with Review Questions (with answers) to help you sum up the main points of each lesson. The attached CD-ROM provides partially finished files to use in the lessons and examples of the finished product, so you can tell if you completed the lesson successfully.
Finally, don't expect to master all of the functions by time you finish the book. You will learn quite a bit, but simply following the steps in the book once will not provide you mastery of this powerful piece of software. Still, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about learning how to use Illustrator.
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This digital document is an article from Comparative Economic Studies, published by Association for Comparative Economic Studies on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 751 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: What Role for Currency Boards? (book reviews)
Author: Evaldo A. Cabarrouy
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Axel Leijonhufvud has made a unique contribution to the development of macroeconomic theory. This volume draws together his insightful essays dealing with the extremes of economic instability: great depressions, high inflation and the transition from socialism to a market economy. In several of the papers, Leijonhufvud brings a neo-institutionalist perspective to the problems of coordination in economic systems.
The papers within Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination, some of them already considered classics, deal with the questions that dominated Leijonhufvud's interest throughout his career as an economist: what are the limits to an economy's capacity to coordinate the activities of its members? How does the behavior of the system change under extreme conditions? In what ways does its performance depend upon the institutions that govern the market process?
This book presents in one volume several of Axel Leijonhufvud's most important contributions to macroeconomic theory and monetary economics. It will be invaluable to monetary and financial economists as well as to historians of economic thought.
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Made me laugh out loud.......2005-04-13
I guess it's because I know so many people like the ones in this book and because I've got my own stories like these that I found it a great read. Some of the pieces, like the story about the trip down the Cal Salmon, had me laughing out loud. People get worked, pulverised, and abused and they come out smiling. Probably conveys the joy of adventure and the ridiculous situations we find ourselves in better than any book I've read. You just want to go have a beer with these folks and swap tales.
Tales of death and woe.......2000-05-03
This is a great book -- tall tales of fear, terror, and great humor in the backcountry. Being a compilation, the writing is somewhat mixed but when it's good it's very good and when it's not it's at least readable. It makes perfect reading for the bathroom or to remind yourself of the great outdoors while trapped in the cubicle.
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This third anthology in the highly popular No Shit Series features the top 25 entries form this years' contest which received hundreds of story entries form some amazingly skilled and entertaining liars, ahh, we mean writers, who specialize in weaving elements of believable and heroic fantasy from threads of outright stupidity and cowardice. No Shit! There I Was...Gone Wild is a raconteur's finest feast, full of truly wild adventure tales that will leave you smiling , chuckling, chortling even screaming with glee.
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Funny! Engaging! Great Bathroom Reading!.......1997-04-08
Armchair adventures get a forum...some stories a bit slow, but most are downright outrageous! Best part of all, these are the best stories published from a writing contest anyone can enter
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The Classical Music Experience features the work of forty-two composers and spans more than 450 years of classical music history. The book also includes two audio CDs of excerpts from the works of each of the composers, and a guide on what to listen for in each piece.
Dr. Jacobson takes the reader on a musical journey from the fifteenth-century sacred chants of Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina to the 1950s jazz- and Latin-inflected rhythms of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story Suite. Along the way, the reader will discover the boyhood genius of Mozart, the virulent anti-Semitism and musical brilliance of Wagner, the revolutionary concepts of Schoenberg and the travails of Shostokovich in his quest to write music that reflected the soul of Stalinist Russia. Other composers include the "Three Bs"—Bach, Beethoven and Brahms—as well as lesser-known composers like Elgar, Ives and Bruch.
Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style, The Classical Music Experience is the perfect guide to classical music appreciation for anyone who loves music, but has yet to truly experience the sheer joy and drama of classical composition.
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It's a good start..........2006-07-16
(I'm always a little suspicious when an item- after getting all four and five star ratings- suddenly gets an uninterrupted string of one star reviews.)
As a young musician myself, I can tell you this is a wonderful book for the lay person to approach music. It avoids talking about the music theory of pieces (trust me, if you're a non-musician, this is a very good thing), and gives a good (if brief) look at the lives of composers. I rather welcomed the introduction of the authors knowledge of surgery and medicine when he brought it up- I enjoy hearing about how my favorite composer died.
If you're someone who really likes trivia of all sorts, this is a great book. I wouldn't study for an exam by it, but it is a high quality coffee table or nightstand reader.
Very Disappointed.......2005-11-27
This book is organized by composer chronologically. Each chapter contains brief commentaries of each composer and one or two major works. The two included CDs have excerpts of these pieces, along with some brief narration. What seems like a good idea turns into something wretched in the hands of this author.
The author is a surgeon who isnt shy about sharing his medical knowledge throughout the book. For example if the composer died of heart problems, the author will break and tell you about that condition. For a book covering forty-two composers this should have been left out. The author also introduces prejudices and negative opinions about many composers which is distracting. This makes the authors writing style unfocused and he tends to jump all over the place.
A better introduction to classical music is Fred Plotkins Classical Music 101. With this book and a subscription to Rhapsody music service, youll have a more enjoyable experience.
I didn't care for it, either........2005-09-10
Since we seem to be piling on this poor fellow, I thought this to be the most bizarre publication I have seen in years. I agree that the author is entirely too full of himself, even to the point that the purpose of the book seems to be to glorify himself, rather than to address the purported subject of the book.
Aside from that, the approach of the book seems so scatterbrained that a lot of what he says doesen't mean much unless you already know the subject matter pretty well. It's just too much of a fact here and a fact there thrown in among the author's obvious prejudices about who you will enjoy listening to and who you will not. I may not be as big a fan of the Goulding book as someone else here who has recommended it, but it is much better written, organised and filled with useful information. In fact, much of the content of the Jacobson book is so sketchy that it will make a lot more sense if you read something like Goulding first.
On the other hand, if you have already read Goulding or the like, you probably don't need this book anyway, unless you just like to hear authors talk of themselves.
Keep your money.......2005-09-08
I've worked in public radio long enough to have read a number of these types of books regarding which this author rather naively maintains his to be the first of it's kind. The only remarkable thing about this work is that the author has rendered such a poorly written attempt, yet managed to remain so full of himself. Read the Goulding book, instead.
Great place to start if you are new to classical music.......2005-03-31
Taking full advantage of the ability to bind a CD into a book, The Classical Music Experience offers and opportunity to read about classical composers and listen to appropriate example of their works. The book portion covers all the composers that you would expect in a work on classical music. These include Palestrina, Bach, Handel, Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Chopin, Schumann, Strauss, Liszt, Wagner, Smetana, Bruckner, Brahms, Bizet, Bruch, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Elgar, Mahler, Debussy, Strauss, Sibelius, Vaughan, Schoenberg, Ives, Ravel, Orff, Bartok, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Poulenc, Copland, Shostakovich, and Bernstein.
For each composer the author gives information on their history, most important pieces, and an analysis of their work as well as several examples on the CD. Each time they are discussing a track on the CD it is clearly identified as such in the text and the specific CD and track listed so you can easily find it and listen while reading that section.
This is as fine of an introduction to the world as classical music as you are likely to find anywhere. A thoroughly enjoyable education in classical music,
The Classical Music Experience is highly recommended.
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MEET THE STARS OF BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Jan Gabriel (New York: Scholastic, 1998)
RATING: 4/5 Stakes
BACK-OF-THE-BOOK SUMMARY: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer is total must see-the coolest kickin' hour of teen power on TV. Blazing into its third sizzling season, Buffy is the chosen show, funny and scary and heartbreaking and loving and real. It's generation next, to the max. Sarah Michelle Gellar as the Buffster is one huge reason, but Nicholas Brendon as Xander, Alyson Hannigan as Willow, David Boreanaz as Angel, Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia, and Seth Green as Oz are the slammingest sidekicks a slayer, or her fans, could ask for. What's their real life deal? Here's the place to find out."
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"Slammingest"? "Generation next, to the max"? The back cover copy is lovely cheesy fun, obviously written by someone several decades older than the subject of the book. Slang aside, Meet the Stars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is actually a decent, short biography of the main actors in the show. Several chapters focus on Sarah Michelle Gellar, with individual chapters on David Boreanaz, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Seth Green, and Charisma Carpenter (sorry Tony Head!). Written shortly after Season Two, the book is by no means comprehensive but the writing is breezy and eminently readable. Better yet, it's not sycophantic and is willing to talk about some of the actors' more controversial traits, such as Gellar's reputation for bitchiness. To my mind, this is a cheaper and far more entertaining way to get a quick overview of the actors' pre-Buffy work than the Watcher's Guides.
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What the teen magazines were saying about the "BtVS" gang.......2005-02-21
"Meet the Stars of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'" was published in 1998, when the show was about to start its "third sizzling season" on the WB as "the coolest kickin' hour of teen power on TV." Those sentiments along should be enough to warn you that this unauthorized biography by Jan Gabriel is aimed at the young fans the WB was trying to attract to its network with shows like "BtVS," "Dawson's Creek," "7th Heaven," "Felicity," "Charmed," and all those young-skewing situation comedies. Today, however, "BtVS" is the province of syndication and scholars who are writing about the show from the perspective of philosophy, spirituality, feminism, linguistics, and any other discipline in which its adult fans happen to have their advanced degrees. So there is something refreshing about this book about the young stars of the show aimed at the show's young fans (notice that Anthony Stewart Head as Giles does not get a chapter).
Six of the thirteen chapters focus on the "Buffster" herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, starting with her early career in commercials, getting to her Emmy award winning role as Kendall Hart on "All My Children" in the third chapter, and being cast as Buffy in chapter four. The other two chapters look at what Gellar does away from the set, where she explores her "Passion for Fashion," and her initial movie career as a scream queen in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Scream 2." Getting their own chapters are Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, and Seth Green. These basically read like interviews, culled together from other publications such as "Seventeen" and "Entertainment Weekly," but clear aimed for young readers (you will be reading along and suddenly a "Huddle alert" is called, so you know to pay attention because what follows is something you can gossip about with your friends). Chapter 12, "Camp 'Buffy': A Day Behind the Scenes," groups together stories about the cast on the set (and proves the book is unauthorized by not referring to the show by the Joss Whedon approved shorthand "BtVS"). The final chapter is filled with "Quick Bites on the Slayer Team" so that you can learn SMG loves anything vanilla along with standard biographical information and a long list of favorites from actors to whether or not they believe in vampires for her and the rest of the cast (including Head).
Gabriel tends to get a bit gushy at time throughout "Meet the Stars of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'" but she does provide a lot of information. I was thinking that this was going to be one of those quick and dirty little books that comes out to take advantage of the hot television series du jour, but there is a lot of information about the young cast members of "BtVS." Gabriel must have read everything that was available in magazines from "Rolling Stone" to "YM" to put together this book, and since the vast majority of these magazines is not on my reading list, there was enough "new" information in this 165-page book to make it worth my while. If you spent the seven years that "BtVS" was on the air cutting out everything you could find about Sarah Michelle Gellar and the rest of the cast, then that might not be the case. But that should be easy enough to figure out going in to this paperback.
Highly recommended for fans........2002-11-13
Although this book did not contain much information that I did not already know from reading countless other Buffy biographies, it is an awesome read for people who have not read other books. It contains pictures of their early days as actors (I especially liked a funny picture with Alyson Hannigan with brown, poofy hair). It really shows how the actors' characters and their looks have evolved through the years.
A definate YES to Buffy fans........1999-11-29
If you want to learn a lot about the stars of the show then read the book. It gives you heaps of info about them. It gives you their star signs, where they were born and heaps more. In other words, it's a really good book.
Welcome to Heaven Buffy Fans!.......1999-11-26
Meet the Stars of Buffy the Vampire is a must read! If you're mad about Buffy then here's the book for you. It gives you all the latest info on the Stars, and talks about exactly what you want to know! With 16 pages of color pics, and each chapter carefully written, you'll find out the truth behind each stars sucess.
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This carefully written, balanced book teaches the most important concepts in computing and computer science while providing enough programming depth to enable understanding about how people work with computers. Taking advantage of today's interest in and familiarity with the Web, the book contains experimental problems using Web-based tools; enabling readers to learn the fundamentals of programming by developing their own interactive Web pages. Beginning with an introduction, overview, and the basics of computers, the book proceeds with comprehensive chapters on HTML and Web pages, the Internet, JavaScript and Web page creation, the history of computers, abstraction and user-defined functions, algorithms and programming languages, event-driven programming, conditional execution, data representation, conditional repetition, JavaScript strings, and transistors and integrated circuits. This book can serve as an excellent reference resource for those entering the computer job market: programmers, Web site and Web page designers, and technical support staff.
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many mistakes, poor formatting.......2005-03-06
I was asked to grade students' homework based on Chapter 10 of this book. I found that this book contains a lot of mistakes and complicates the subject greatly. Moreover, some side-notes miss the right-most part of the text, i.e. you cannot read those side-notes without guessing what letters are missing.
For example, in the aforementioned Chapter 10, there is a diagram, which shows that public-key encryption involves the following: the sender first encrypts the message with private key, then with public key; the recipient first decrypts the message with private key, then with public key. This sounds quite complicated, and looks like they have tried to present encryption and signature-verification at the same time, but call it "public key encryption". Clearly, it should not have been this complicated, or at least it should have been called appropriately.
As one more example from Chapter 10: they say that for LANs Ethernet technology is used. They claim that this technology uses Ethernet bus, and when one computer sends a message to another computer, all computers receive the message and check the intended recipient of the message, and discard the messages that they are not intended to receive. (Clearly, this describes how Ethernet Hubs work, which can be found rarely these days as opposed to Fast Ethernet Switches.) However, later on they say that the speed of the aforementioned Ethernet is 10, 100, or 1000 Mbits per second. This is where the problem begins -- I have never saw a Gigabit Ethernet Hub (as opposed to Switch), and I don't think that Fast Ethernet Hubs were popular either. Clearly, this is one more instance of confusing the reader and presenting false information.
I would never recommend this book to anyone. If the author wanted to keep the subject simple, he should have avoided the technical details all together. If he wanted to present some technical detail, then he should have made sure that they don't contradict each other and are not missing important points and updates.
Suitable for an introduction to computer science course.......2005-03-01
There are generally two courses for beginners in computing. "Introduction to Computers" is usually designed for people who know very little about computers and are interested in using them in their daily life. While "Introduction to Computer Science" covers some of the same material, it is designed for those who want to know how computers work, and perhaps even take some courses in computer science. This book is written for the second type of course.
Programming is introduced via HTML, which is in complete agreement with what I tell everyone who expresses an interest in learning to program. HTML is easy to understand, demonstrates some of the ideas of advanced programming and the feedback is immediate. Furthermore, initial programs can be small and since the student will most certainly be familiar with surfing the web, the results will make sense to them.
What most people consider to be true programming, writing code with variables, functions, if constructs, loops and user interaction, are introduced with JavaScript. This is also a sound decision, JavaScript is powerful enough to introduce the basics of programming, builds on the previous HTML coding and is freely available. Other chapters cover a brief history of computing, how data is represented in computers, the fundamentals of digital logic and the impact computers are having on society. A large number of images are used to reinforce the text, and exercises are embedded inside the chapters with another set at the end of the chapter.
If you are in the queue to teach an introduction to computer science course, then you should examine this book. It is well written and the level of presentation is appropriate for the typical student taking such a course. It could also be used for self-study.
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