More Creative Window Treatments: Complete step-by-step instructions with full-color photos for over 60 distinctive window treatments

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The best just got better. We've updated this fantastic book to include the latest in window fashions. This revision includes some more modern window treatments such as shades, contemporary curtains, and even shoji-style screens.

From selecting a window treatment to draping a swag, this companion to Creative Window Treatments covers everything readers need to know to make decorator-style window treatments themselves. Included is information on shades, curtains, top treatments, and alternative treatments such as frosted windows and screens. Over 400 color photos make it easy-to-follow.

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Look through my window.......2004-07-28

If you've got a nice, sunshiny yard, why not gussy it up a little with one of the contemporary curtain ensembles that decorators now call, window treatments? I found Creative Publishing's guide to be insightful and a true resource, it's good even with the basement windows that my X put inwhile trying to give a basement woodshop some natural light, but on the other hand nosy neighbors mean that you have to have some cloth over the glass.

Whether your view overlooks a garden in the country, or St. Patrick;s Cathedral in the city, you'll want a book like this here "More Creative Window Treatments" so you can look at the color photos and decide for yourself, and for your family, which setting would look nicest. And then the book gives you complete instructions for how to sew it together yourself. Or perhaps you can enlist the assistance of the birds and mice Disney's Cinderella used to help her whip together her gown!

Only if you can sew..........2002-07-01

While this book does have a few pictures, they seem quite old. The one or two items I liked didn't have any instructions for. If you are not a sewer, than this book is not for you. I found the book very confusing - definitely written for the person with sewing background. Sorry.

Great ideas, directs you to a professional window treatment.......2001-02-05

This was one of three books I purchased on window treatments; I turn to this one for advice and direction. Step by step directions with pictures on such topics as installing hardware, including hanging a mounting board, to the basics of sewing. Great ideas for rod pocket curtains and custom shades. I used it to create two different window treatments, scarf swag and shoji-style screen. Each project tells you how to measure and materials required. Due to the great instructions, both treatments turned out very professional!!

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This text presents drawing instruction with detailed break downs of various types of characters. Maternal? Elderly? Sassy? Sexy? It all starts with body proportion, bone structure, body masses, the facial expressions, the hands, and the feet. Hats, props, fabrics, and choice of medium are all thoroughly covered to ensure your ability to develop convincing life-like characters.

* Includes unique three-step drawing guides that develop the sketch from stick figure to full-blown character
* Detailed examples of how to draw faces, hands, and feet
* Learn to draw realistic fabrics in a multitude of colors and textures

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Great book!.......2007-05-07

This book is very interesting. It has taken a very difficult concept (figure drawing) and broken it down into easy to understand step by step directions. The author's costume sketches were very helpful as well.

Pleased but not overwhelmed.......2006-03-24

I am not sure what I had expected for a teaching format but my initial reaction to the book was that it was too cartoony for the structure I was looking for in the human body and expression.
As an artist's model for the last 24 years and as a costume designer for the last 21 who's drawing skills have not kept pace, I was looking for a more direct and perhaps, academic approach.
What I have discovered in reading and studying the text is that the author is a very gifted costume designer and teacher.This is not a book for a quick-fix. The book requires time and attention in each section if you are a beginner.
While the book did not address the design style I was hoping for,it more than met the criteria for a strong teaching text.

Amazingly helpful!.......2006-03-20

I had to do a full costume presentation with renderings for 6 characters for my class and I was so lost! I am not an artist at all, so I got this book and it helped me so much. It explained everything in detail and my renderings came out great! I would definitely recommend this book for beginners and experienced alike!

Everything You Need to Know.......2005-12-25

I bought this book because I had a project to do on costume rendering, and I know very little about it. Now, thanks to Tan Huaixiang, I know so much.

He makes drawing the figure bearable, shows how the body should look under the clothes, and provides many, many detailed examples. It shows how to beautifully draw different textures and the different methods of painting the rendering.

The chapter about the face could show better how to draw the eyes, nose, and mouth. Other than this, I believe everything is well written and explained.

This book is definetly worth the money!

Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers.......2005-10-04

Not only are there body types, movement and mediums. It covers fabrics and works in a way my students can understand as well as use. The artwork is lush! A must for any design teacher.

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Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers
Tan Huaixiang
Manufacturer: Focal Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPVOTW

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The Beatles racing across Candlestick Park at the end of their final public performance; Johnny Cash pausing to give the camera a middle finger salute before playing for inmates in San Quentin; a weary Janis Joplin backstage, keeping a whisky bottle company. Jim Marshall captured each of these iconic images with his camera. But what of the other shots taken during these legendary moments? For the first time, Marshall shares his contact sheets from the sittings, concerts, and sessions that surround his most famous pictures. Over sixty proof sheets are featured in their entirety, along with the final chosen hero shot on the facing page. This book sheds new light on Marshall's talents for revealing on film the essence of his subjects, from celebrated musicians, actors, writers, and performers, to everyday people from San Francisco to rural Appalachia. A rare glimpse into a great photographer's creative process, Proof provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of some of the most preeminent images of our time.

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A photographer's inner thoughts via proof sheets.......2007-08-26

I really appreciated seeing proof sheets created from Marshall's rolls of film. For every pair of pages in this book, a black-and-white positive proof sheet is on the left-hand page, and the chosen (usually quite famous) print from that roll of film is on the right-hand page, along with a short paragraph describing the occasion of the shoot. The individual frames of the proof sheet are quite viewable: there are usually 35 frames printed on each sheet, and each sheet is printed in the book at about 8x10". As a photographer, I envy other photographers' final products, and many times I like to see their rejected frames to catch a glimpse of their decision-making and their ad hoc/candid photos. The proof sheet serves as a documentary on how Marshall worked that day: how many repetitive frames he takes for well-prepared money shots, how he shoots horizontal portraits with the rule-of-thirds, and how many candids he takes. The only thing missing is that the short paragraphs describing each shot do not delve into how Marshall selected the one shot from each roll. Looking through the proofs, it's clear that many good frames were left behind. Finally, there is also a very nice picture evidently of Marshall's gear bag, containing several Leicas, rolls of film, and other stuff.

Seeing through the eyes of the photographer.......2005-09-08

As a photographer myself I have always been attracted to the idea of seeing the original contact sheets from which a finished print is first judged.

One of the greatest photo shows I have ever seen of Gary Winogrand included large scale preproduction's of some of his contact sheets and it has always stayed with me.

In Jim Marshalls "Proof" that is exactly what you get. A contact sheet with all of his markings and foot notes and then the print that was pulled from that process. Side by side.

It is a great learning tool and a great visual look into the mind of a Photographer that has taken an inordinate amount of iconoclastic images, particularly from within the music world.

History and explanations of the photographic methods.......2005-03-05

Photographer Jim Marshall captured some of the most notable musicians in historic candid shots still remembered today: Janis Joplin with whiskey bottle and the Beatles racing across Candlestick Park at the end of their final public performance: but what about some of his other shots. Proof shares his contact sheets from the concerts, sessions and sittings of his more famous shots. These contact sheets, nicely accompanied by background history and explanations of the photographic methods and shot settings, are outstanding representations and when viewed here as a unit and package, explain the origins of the famous works. Highly recommended.

Jim Marshall Photos - Single Malt & Hendrix on the Stereo! .......2004-09-16

After the stunning achievement of Not Fade Away Jim Marshall has equaled that effort with this important book. If you care about music or photography this is a MUST HAVE book. Period! Buy the book - pour yourself a single malt, put Jimi Hendrix on a (good) stereo system and enjoy!!!

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Jim Marshall Proof
Jim Marshall
Manufacturer: CHRONICLE BOOKS @
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SNSG00

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D. Florine Baker has been called an antique. But she knows how valuable antiques can be. In her story of her life and the methods she's used in teaching is filled with ideas on how better to work with children so that they will grow up to be honest, wholesome, God-loving adults.

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There is no doubt that Bill Shankly was one of the greatest managers of all time. The former miner took over at Second Division Liverpool in 1959. The changes he made there were nothing short of revolutionary, and few would argue that it was he who transformed the sleeping giant into the great club it is now. To the people of the city he was a hero they could relate to and even today, more than 25 years since his death, he is remembered with love and admiration. Tom Darby has spoken to some of the men Shankly molded into great footballers—among them Ron Yeats, Ian St John, and Kenny Dalglish—and has also gathered stories from ordinary Liverpudlians whose lives were touched by the genius Scotsman. Whether profound, witty, or sarcastic, Bill Shankly's comments on life and football are as relevant and entertaining today as they were in the 1960s and '70s.

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Daily Warm-ups For Character Education: Grades 4-9 (Daily Warm-Ups Social Studies)
Walch
Manufacturer: Walch Pub.
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Binding: Paperback

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The Italian Reparti d'Assalto (Assault Units) of World War I were a truly elite force. The word ardito (pl. arditi) means bold or daring, and, as their name suggests, their role required courage, as well as specific combat skills. This book takes a close look at the origins, training, dress, weaponry and equipment of the Arditi, and examines the daily life, motivation and combat role of these elite soldiers. The legacy of their identity is also examined, in the presence of D'Annunzio and rise to power of Mussolini in post-war Italy.

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Italian Arditi Elite Assault Troops 1917-1920.......2007-03-13

Who's ever heard of Arditi? Me either. But this is what makes a title like this so wonderful. It puts light on a little known subject that is important to any Military, Italian or WWI historian. This book is part of the "Warrior Series" published by Osprey Publishing.

"Ardito" means literally "Audacious Man," and you will learn so much more about this elite unit of the Italian Army that served in World War I and into the internal unrest that Italy suffered right after the great war. The book by great academic, former soldier and historian Angelo Pirocchi is written in a style that is flowing, easy to read and packed with information. The differing chapters cover origins, recruitment, training, equipment and daily life. The illustrations are wonderfully rendered by Velimer Vuksic in a fresh style with lots of eye-catching details. Photographs, lists and maps help to round out the information and bring it all together, even to the casual reader. Osprey, as usual, has made the most of the 60-plus pages in this book.

I was really impressed by this book. It is all encompassing and covers every detail without getting bogged down in details. Excellent!

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The Contra War and the Iran-Contra affair that shook the Reagan presidency were center stage on the U.S. political scene for nearly a decade. According to most observers, the main Contra army, or the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (FDN), was a mercenary force hired by the CIA to oppose the Sandinista socialist revolution.

The Real Contra War demonstrates that in reality the vast majority of the FDN's combatants were peasants who had the full support of a mass popular movement consisting of the tough, independent inhabitants of Nicaragua's central highlands. The movement was merely the most recent instance of this peasantry's one-thousand-year history of resistance to those they saw as would-be conquerors.

The real Contra War struck root in 1979, even before the Sandinistas took power and, during the next two years, grew swiftly as a reaction both to revolutionary expropriations of small farms and to the physical abuse of all who resisted. Only in 1982 did an offer of American arms persuade these highlanders to forge an alliance with former Guardia anti-Sandinista exiles--those the outside world called Contras.

Relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primary sources, Brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the Contras, debunking most of what has been written about the movement's leaders, origins, aims, and foreign support.

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Reagan administration propaganda.......2007-07-08

The lies of the Reagan administration just keep coming in this book that attempts to justify the terror of the U.S. proxy Contra forces. For people who want a serious analysis of how the U.S. empire has brutalized Nicaragua, here are a couple resources: Washington's War on Nicaragua and Solomon's House: The Lost Children of Nicaragua.

Beyond left and right -- the revolt of the 'indios puros'.......2006-11-24

When career American diplomat Timothy Brown was assigned to oversee the Contra war against the Sandinistas in 1987, he believed, along with everybody else, that the counterrevolution had been started by defeated Somocistas with arms and money from Ronald Reagan.
The war had, by then, been going on for five years, he thought.
In 1990, when the Sandinistas were voted out of office, the Contras were disarmed by an agency of the Organization of American States. OAS was astonished to find itself dealing with more than 10,000 fighters -- they called themselves Comandos, not Contras -- and 80,000 unarmed supporters.
These could not possibly have been ex-Somocistas, as there had never been so many. But it did not seem to occur to anyone else but Brown to ask, who were they?
Brown, now at the Hoover Institution, surprised himself with the answer.
Contrary to the "Black Legend" of the Contras as a small band of mercenaries, Brown discovered that the counterrevolution was started by Chibcha Indians who make up 52 percent of Nicaragua's population, that the revolt started in 1979, that it continued for almost three years before outsiders and ex-Somocistas joined and that it had the unanimous support of the highlanders.
"Alone among the major antagonists in Nicaragua's recent wars, the MILPAS (the name the rebels gave their combat units) of 1979-82 had no foreign military support. . . . The much-feared and widely demonized 'Contras' turned out to be only poor dirt farmers from Nicaragua's equivalent of Appalachia, historically marginalized but insistently independent mountain 'hillbillies.' "
Brown traces this revolt back more than a thousand years, to the collision of Nahua Indians expanding from Mexico to Nicaragua's Pacific lowlands and Chibchas expanding from South America to the highlands.
Though the Chibchas were defined out of existence following a revolt in 1881, when it became national policy in Nicaragua to claim that there were no more "indios," only mestizos and "espanioles," the Chibchas themselves knew who they were.
In oral interviews, Brown discovered that the anti-Sandinistas identified themselves as "indios" or even "indios puros," versus the mestizos and "whites" of the lowlands.
The question arises: Can the analysis of a Reaganista be trusted?
The answer is yes. Brown conducted a sociological-ethnological inquiry using standard academic research protocols, and the documents are on deposit at Hoover for inspection.
Some of the most important points can be cross-checked with outside, even with Sandinista publications.
Of all the proofs Brown offers, the most extraordinary and persuasive is the question of the Literacy Brigades.
We know from many studies of peasants that in societies divided between literate and illiterate, peasants will extend a great measure of goodwill to a regime that teaches their children to read, even if the regime is harsh otherwise.
Observers as various as the historian Alexander Werth writing of Stalinist Russia and University of Hawaii sociologists Geoffrey White and Lamont Lindstrom writing of Micronesians under Japanese rule have commented on this phenomenon.
Thus, the admission of the Sandinista regime, in a broadcast on April 9, 1980, that it had sent soldiers and special militias to the mountains to protect the teachers from their students suggests an extraordinary popular revulsion against the revolution.
This is understandable, as the Sandinistas came in murdering, raping and robbing.
No one, from any political position, thought it necessary to ask the indios what their opinion was. Oxfam America, in a document called "A government we can work with," explained that the Sandinistas were committed to "empowering" poor women.
Poor men who saw their wives and daughters molested by Sandinista soldiers and cadres did not agree, and they took to the jungle.
If the Sandinistas had had any knowledge of the history of their own country, they would have left the independent farmers of the highlands alone and turned their energies to the many problems of the lowlands.
But they were Marxist-Leninists, and their intention was to instruct history, not be instructed by it.
Later, after a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign in the Atlantic lowlands, other indios (Miskito, Rama, Sumu and so-called "Black Creoles") joined the rebellion.
With five separate armies in revolt, the Sandinistas lost at the polls in 1990.
Even then, according to Brown, the new Conservative President Violeta Chamorro united with the Sandinistas against the indios, who were Liberals.
They were Liberals in the 19th century sense, individualists; they had nothing in common with the statist views of American Democrats.
The Sandinistas, with Chamorro looking the other way, continued a campaign of murder against the indios leaders until the election of 1996, which both the Conservatives and the Sandinistas tried to rig by faking the census and refusing to register the highlanders.
International observers thwarted that plot, and the indios voted 90 percent for Liberal Arnoldo Aleman, who won the presidency, the first peaceful change of power in the country's history.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM REAGAN/BUSH'S FORMER CONTRA LIAISON??.......2006-11-10

but a bunch of self-rationalizing and self-deceptive propaganda to ease his guilty conscience for the genocide he and we have done. Here is the guy who sanctified and forgave the brutal murder of American engineer Ben Linder by his own contra forces, identifying the murderers and realeasing them on their way. Read the book on Ben Linder available here on amazon.

I too lived in Nicaragua during the years in question and personally met with many such people examined here. This man is mistaken.

And the recent re-election of President Daniel Ortega of the FSLN should prove that, after years of US puppets like Chamorra and the next still under house arrest for his extensive corruption. Bolonos whom I often met was a wise and perceptive businessman who just plain got old. And now once agian we have Ortega as people, tired once again of colonialism under US powers, seek peace, justice and equality the Sandinista way thwarted and sabotaged twenty years ago by the contortionist contra writer of this book.

Please note where other contra liason have wound up, especialy the career of Negroponte.

For a professional and objective and comprehensive reporting of bungling and genocidal US international policy against Nicaragua in those years, get the book Banana DIplomacy.

Peasants in Arms.......2005-12-02

If you want a more balanced look at the Contra war, try reading Peasants in Arms by Lynn Horton. To say the Contras are significant political force in Nicaragua today, is slightly misleading. The Sandinistas still have a lot of support, and just swept the 2004 municipal elections. The Contras, as the PRN, in their first elections participating as an individual party, won one mayoralship in a small town of the interior.

Research vs. Propaganda.......2004-07-14

In Nicaragua, as in the United States, there are still holdout areas of Marxists, still waiting for the Great Revolution to show the world that communism should be the way. In Nicaragua, it is in Leon where there are still murals of Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas on many buildings. In the US, it's places like Seattle and college faculties.

But for those who don't find it "reactionary" to hold the belief that communists are the bad guys, this book is a great source. Instead of still fighting the war for the Sandinistas, this book offers a well-researched and documented history.

Having a brother that is married to a Nicaraguan from Corinto, where the CIA mined the harbor, it has been surprising to learn how much the majority of Nicaraguans appreciated Reagan's decision to fight the communists in their country.

For those who don't remember, when the Sandinistas were forced to hold elections, the US media and most of the world had predicted a resounding Sandinista victory. They are still bitter that they were wrong, and that the Nicaraguan populace kicked their fellow leftists out of office.

For those interested in a rational view of the Contra war and the Sandinistas, this book and Glenn Garvin's "Everybody had his own Gringo" are the best bets. For those who still aren't sure which side to believe, do a little research on what the Sandinistas did to the Moskito indians. And to see who it was in the US that supported, and still supports, the Sandinistas as well as Castro's dictatorship, read "Covert Cadre" by S. Steven Powell.

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The near future--viewed, in the instance of this 2000 book, as the rest of the 21st century--may turn out to be awful. Prognosticators well known and obscure have envisioned dark times of war, famine, plague, and want; of humans ruled by machines, in servitude to the global economy; of disappearing ecosystems and countless lost species.

Most of the contributors to Predictions, though not sporting rose-colored spectacles, take an altogether brighter view of the coming century. Mostly scientists, scholars, and innovators, they see a time of abundance and technological splendor. Arthur C. Clarke, for instance, foresees the rise of an artificial intelligence that so closely approximates human thought that it will constitute the planet's second "intelligent species ... evolving far more rapidly than biology would ever permit." Another contributor, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, envisions an ever-improving system of education and communications, one that will make it "harder and harder for leaders to shield their people from outside information." Frances Fukuyama, a social theorist, holds that "the further integration of global markets will further enforce the norms and institutions of the liberal democratic West." A few contributors raise alarms about the growth of monoculture, the destruction of the environment, and the consequences of too-free dabbling with the genetic code, but in the main this lively book--which mixes entertaining profiles of the book's 30 contributors with short essays by them--suggests that there are few technological or social problems that well-intentioned humans cannot solve. --Gregory McNamee

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Here are a series of tantalizing predictions about the coming century, delivered by thirty of today's greatest minds--including Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Sherry Turkle, Steven Weinberg, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, and John Kenneth Galbraith.
This glittering list of contributors includes Nobel laureates, bestselling writers, intellectual icons, and scientists at the cutting edge of research. Readers can sample everything from Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's hopes for the future of Africa in the next century, to feminist Andrea
Dworkin's dream of a new Jerusalem for women. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke serves up a series of startling visions, including the possibility that, by the year 2050, large sea creatures will be found beneath the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa. Steven Pinker suggests that the
completion of the Humane Genome Project will lead to a sudden jump in our knowledge about the genetic basis of our emotions and our learning abilities. And Richard Dawkins believes that the ancient mind-body problem will be solved--not by philosophers but by scientists. Each prediction is preceded
by an intriguing profile of the author--blending a lively interview with biographical data--which conveys a vivid sense of the individual while setting their work in context and explaining their theories or inventions. These fascinating interviews, previously published in The Times Higher Education
Supplement, give us instant capsule portraits of some of our most brilliant living thinkers.
Predictions is an exciting roadmap to the future as well as a vivid snapshot of the state of human knowledge at the end of the millennium.

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Predictions of the future are worth about the once cent the book costs on the used market.......2006-01-22

I am glad that I have this book. Not because I agree with very much of anything in this book or admire the thinking or stature of any of these thirty "great minds". This is such an exercise in arrogance and secularist delusion that it makes a wonderful way to get snapshots of the way such people think. I find much of the book disgusting, some of it laughable, and a bit of it frightening. A couple of the people chosen have useful things to say, but not many.

The format is that the editor spends more space writing a flattering introduction explaining the life work of the "great mind" than the mind gets for expounding what they predict and hope for the new century and millennium. Of course, these kinds of exercises are done each century and they are always embarrassing to look back on. Why? Because they are always an exercise in narcissism. The thinker is so in love with his own worldview that all future good is measured by how it conforms to that view. Isn't that overweening sense of self clearly a manifestation of narcissism (at least solipsism)? But we can take hope in the tendency of the ways in whic the future has ways of confounding the present.

The best advice I have heard about the future came from the economist Herb Stein. He said that if a trend can't continue it won't.

I think that you can get copies of this book for about one penny or not much more. That should tell what the book's future - just five years out - already thinks of their thinking.

Book sold out. Did not recieve........2005-08-02

This book was sold out. The bookstore did not charge me for the book and, of course, did not send it.

Great Minds Think... Ahead.......2003-01-26

"Predictions: Thirty Great Minds on the Future" is easily one of the most reader-friendly, chin-stroking collections of interviews and essays prognosticating time's arrow I've read, and I've read a lot (Tommorow Now, Metatrends, etc.) Nothing is expanded in depth here. It's more about breadth. If you don't necessarily agree with what Richard Dawkins thinks, then read the interview/essay from Lynn Margulis (re: Margulis, Dawkins once said he'd rather share a conference table with Attila the Hun!).

Some of the previous reviewers seem to hold Predictions up to some pre-conceived notion. Well, everyone has pre-conceptions. We don't come to books as tabula rasas. In fact, there's something funny about the person who had trouble with the lack of "God" in this collection. It's like going to St. Peter's Cathedral and complaining you can't find a good postcard. Ie. can't see the forest for the trees. Maybe that's not the best description, but I believe in God, and science, and the ability of deep thinkers to extrapolate upon the present to guide the future, and even intrigue our imaginations and... pre-conceptions. What's life without change?

As Umberto Eco says: "Don't fall in love with your own airship."

Recommended for general science fans, writers looking for good/new ideas, and anyone who wants to learn about the direction we're going in the time it takes to visit the watercloset.

Interesting, but narrow in focus and disdainful of God........2002-01-08

This book is an excellent introduction to the works and thoughts of some of the great minds in the world today--and particularly those that are housed at Oxford and M.I.T. The emphasis is upon human evolution; attempting to unravel the mystery of human consciousness; the human genome project; and, of course, the computer and it's interaction with us, its potential for achieving artificial intellegence, and the implications of the Internet. If your interests lie elsewhere, look elsewhere. In particular, if you happen be of a God-centered mindset, you will be dismayed--as I was--at the scepticism and even antipathy toward God and all things religious that many of these great minds share. In a hard fought fight, the winner of the award for the most offensive statement in this respect goes to molecular biologist James Watson, who reported,"People say we are playing God. My answer is, if we don't play God, who will?"

One hardly needs to be a religous fundamentalist to be disheartened by the attitudes of many of these gifted individuals.

Not so great minds.......2001-12-21

If these are 30 "great minds", then God help the human race.Most of the viewpoints are very narrow, with the thinker projecting his or her specialized ideas into the future.None mention the most important influence taking place today that will shape the future.This is the moral decline occurring due to excessive materialism and commercialism.These factors are causing the collapse of civilization.Nobody likes a Cassandra, but I predict increasing breakdown: of societies and the environment.

Predictions : Thirty Great Minds on the Future (Popular Science Ser.)

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Predictions : Thirty Great Minds on the Future (Popular Science Ser.)
Sian (editor) Griffiths
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OK6OLU

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