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The Front and Backyard Idea Book Collection combines two books that together offer innovative ideas for transforming every part of one's yard into personal and livable space. Jeni Webber's popular Front Yard Idea Book is filled with practical ideas for creating that all-important first impression, starting with an inviting entry. Webber offers insights into the role a front yard plays for a home and more than two dozen plans for all types of homes and settings, and every shape and size lot. Lee Anne White's Backyard Idea Book literally takes up the rear, moving readers from the prosaic lawns, swing sets, and dog pens to a more imaginative space for communal gathering, a showcase for intriguing decks and patios, and on to fully furnished outdoor rooms with floors, walls, and ceilings. The book includes hundreds of ideas for expanding the possibilities of a space too often taken for granted.

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Nowadays, not only has much Hollywood animation and game design become informed by the Japanese manga aesthetic, but these works are increasingly done by computer applications.Indeed, Photoshop and other 3D software have become detailed and versatile enough to be an ideal tool to successfully render the nuances of the human figure and face. How To Create Virtual Beauties is a must-have volume for those working in such fields, a comprehensive guide to rendering beautiful characters through computer technology that allows not only for exquisite rendering of complex forms, but also allows for saving, editing, re-editing, animation and manipulation of the created artworks.

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Remarkably simple.......2005-09-27

I'm a student of fine arts with an interest in digital imaging and decided to buy this book. After using it in just the first week I had learned techniques save 4+ hours on shading problems, texturing cloth (in 2d), when to properly use anti-alias and not, as well as more than 10+ techniqes.
The 3D is really easy, rather time consuming, but worth it in the end. It uses examples from Lightwave, but can easily be converted over 3Ds Max or Maya. It was a rather quick read and I wish they would have had more artists than the 3. The slight complaint I have about the book is it has some parts aimed at fan boys. I'd rather have information on how to recreate images than some eye candy

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Not bad.......2007-08-14

This book was very good. It has a good variety of photographic stylies. I would disagree with the other review calling some of the pictures out right "porno"; I would call them more fetish and others are trying to make an artistic point. But I guess you can take the pictures the way you want to. At any rate this book is no dissapointment.

LIVES UP TO ITS NAME.......2006-08-18

Probably the largest variety of photographs, showing the largest variety of breasts of any book I've ever seen. Big ones, small ones, direct porno like photographs, artistic renderings, full-color, black and white, silhouettes, I could go on and on about all the variety of different breast shots that appear in this book.

The book originated in Germany. Half the writing is in German and half is in English. The photography, printing, and presentation are all top notch. This is one of the few female form books that lives up to its title and description.

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If Paris and Spain in the '20s provided the scene for Ernest Hemingway's writing apprenticeship, it was the decade that followed that saw the writer mature to the height of his powers, as told in the third volume of Michael Reynolds's five-part biography of the American writer. It was also the time that marked the creation of the "Hemingway myth," the burden and eventual doom of his later years. Hemingway "the great white hunter," "the boozing brawler," "the literary pugilist" began to take shape during his 30s, and the brilliance of his mature work carries within it the inevitable ripeness of decline and self-parody. (His friends would comment on the "long white whiskers" that Hemingway would metaphorically assume when talking about art, life, and literature, even as a young man.) Reynolds stretches his timeline back to 1929 to cover both the publication of A Farewell to Arms and the stock market crash. The next 10 years saw the publication of many of his major novels and some of the finest short stories, as well as such "nonfiction" as Death in the Afternoon, The Green Hills of Africa, and the collected pieces of war correspondence that would serve as source material for For Whom the Bell Tolls. The writer, increasingly celebrated and successful, made new friends, quarreled with old ones (including John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson), and met and fell in love with the glamorous Martha Gellhorn--the writer with whom he covered the Spanish Civil War and later married. As with his other biographies of Hemingway, Reynolds balances a clear enthusiasm for his subject with a keenly honed critical sense, chronicling not only the triumphs but also the ruthless nature of the writer's ambition to achieve them. He is particularly good at tracing how his subject's experiences--from fishing with friends off Key West to the African veldt to the battlefields of Spain--were translated into his fiction, through Hemingway's uncompromising effort to "put a thousand intangibles into a sentence." --John Longenbaugh

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In the years between A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, and To Have and Have Not. In this "masterpiece in the making," Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that "you can all but smell Hemingway's whisky breath coming off the pages" (Library Journal).

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The focus is on the life, not the works.......2007-05-05

The fourth volume in Reynolds's multi-volume biography of Hemingway. Unlike other Hemingway biographers (James Mellow, for instance) who are mostly interested in how the author incorporated his own life into his fiction, Reynolds approaches his subject in a strict chronological fashion and hardly touches upon the works at all. This volume begins in 1929 with Ernest and Pauline returning to Paris while he put the final touches on "A Farewell to Arms," and ends with Ernest beginning to write "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and taking up residence with Martha Gellhorn in Havana. Very detailed in terms of H.'s life and doings, much less so with regard to his works and art. Definitive in that respect, but not where to go to get an appreciation of Hemingway the writer and the forces behind his artistic creations.

Fourth Part of a Five-Part Hemingway Biography.......2002-04-19

This is the fourth installment in Reynolds's five part Hemingway biography. During this period Hemingway lived mostly in Key West. He wrote his first non-fiction bullfight book, Death in the Afternoon, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He also spent a lot of time in latter part of this decade as a journalist covering the Spanish Civil War. He meets the journalist Martha Gellhorn in Key West and begins the relationship that will break up his second marriage.

Reynolds does a good job here but it is not as good as the two previous installments. There is much less detail given here compared to those books especially with regards to Hemingway's thoughts and state of mind while writing the books of this period. The other books had a nearly page by page account of what the great man was doing and thinking while he wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. This is noticeably lacking here. The account of the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls is especially curt. That book, which is regarded as Hemingway's masterpiece, doesn't get the attention Reynolds gave to earlier works. I read somewhere that Hemingway contacted his publisher Charles Scribner during the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls, telling him that one of the Spanish Civil War short stories he was writing had taken off in his mind and that he already had written 40,000 words. This information is nowhere to be found here. Instead there are gossipy details of the relationship with Gellhorn and the unkind treatment Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, received at the end of their marriage.

There is a long account of Hemingway's first African safari which I found uninteresting. Reynolds stresses his subject's need to recreate the "summer people" of his youth, the group of friends that would gather at Walloon Lake in Michigan every summer of Hemingway's boyhood. Reynolds's tries to force every single relationship to fit this "summer people" thesis even when it is less than apt. There is overlong attention given to hunting trips and less attention to the actual writing than I would have liked. Reynolds has a disturbing tendency here to introduce a new person into Hemingway's life story without much explanation of how they came to meet and what caused them to be friendly. On several occasions a new friend will enter Hemingway's life and without any explanation immediately become the center around which the narrative revolves. This is unsettling and made me page back on several occasions looking for the first appearance of this person. Overall, a poor follow up to the previous books in this series.

Easy-to-read informative biography.......2000-06-09

Though this is the fourth of a five book series, and the first I chose to read, I had no trouble keeping up. You could argue that Hemingway the man was more interesting than his fiction and Reynolds goes a pretty good distance to show why. Hemingway takes his first safari, catches Marlin in Key West and fights in the Spanish Civil War, and switches women before the end of the decade.

Reynolds paints a fairly descriptive portrait of Hemingway, but also reminds us of other current events as the decade unfolds. Hemingway begins the decade mostly apolitical, but he is very critical of the New Deal Programs he sees running in his hometown of Key West Florida. In 1936 he likens President Roosevelt's plan to socialism, but his support two years later of antifascist guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War allies him with downright communists.

It was also interesting to watch Hemingway's friendships crumble. Reynolds describes how Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sherwood Anderson went their separate ways from Papa for various reasons, but mostly because Hemingway was an explosive character. His larger than life dominating personality coupled with his fatigue for certain personality types doomed a great deal of one-time friendships.

What I like mostly of Reynolds work is that he likes Hemingway a great deal, and this comes through, despite Papa's many flaws.

Responding to the reader from Buffalo, New York.......1999-09-09

Hemingway: The 1930s is the fourth installment in Mr. Reynold's series; he does not "dump you into the story midstream." Anyone with even a little knowledge of Hemingway is familiar with this series and knows that Mr. Reynolds is THE Hemingway biographer. My advice - do at least a little research before expressing an opinion.

Excellent side dish - not the main course........1998-07-31

This thorough and "personable" slice of Hemingway's life in the 30's is quite readable and almost literary itself. Reynolds' periodic but careful use of correspondence and journalistic fragments, interspersed with the narrative is thought-provoking and draws the reader into the time. The only problem with this book is the necessity that the reader bring a somewhat extensive background to the reading in order to thoroughly enjoy the material. If you do not know the Hemingway cast of characters, Reynolds does not go to great lengths to introduce you. Since the book, by its nature, dumps you into the "story" midstream, its failure to catch you up is somewhat frustrating at times. However, the expertise with which it is written only leaves you wanting more and seeking additional sources to fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle. I highly recommend it to all who are somewhat familiar with Hemingway. If you are among the uninitiated, you may wish ! to start elsewhere and keep this in mind for later.

Hemingway: The 1930s. (book review): An article from: Yearbook of English Studies

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Hemingway: The 1930s. (book review): An article from: Yearbook of English Studies
Victoria Bazin
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Hemingway: The 1930s. (book reviews): An article from: The Hemingway Review
Sandra Spanier
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This digital document is an article from The Hemingway Review, published by Ernest Hemingway Foundation on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 2504 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: Hemingway: The 1930s. (book reviews)
Author: Sandra Spanier
Publication: The Hemingway Review (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Ernest Hemingway Foundation
Volume: v17 Issue: n1 Page: p92(6)

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A memoir spanning three decades of loss and love, regret and remorse. The words serve as a candle in the darkness to those who have experienced the loss a child through adoption. Along the way, amid the many saddening recollections, the author discovers the gifts that are ever-present.

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An inspirational and deeply intimate story of profound loss.......2000-01-27

In this profoundly moving journey, we are invited to join this author as she weaves a story of truth, of innocence, of blind trust in her parents, of soul-shattering pain and ultimately of healing. In "The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow," Jane Guttman cracks open her heart and unravels the events which led to the relinquishment of her baby in an unconscious world. After three decades, Dr. Guttman has emerged from these events much like Saki Santorelli depicts in his book, "Heal Thy Self," "shattered but still whole," and at the doorstep of transparent illumination...For those who wish to heal any life loss, this is a quick read that will remain forever etched upon our hearts.

Healer's search for Healing.......2000-01-26

A rare gift indeed; author Jane Guttman allows her readers to participate in her healing process, while deeply touching their inner most pain and hidden sorrow. The book a well written journal weaves the reader through years of the authors secrets, pain, and joy. The reader experiences the intricate web of the healer and healing process. The descriptions of the desert are soothing morsels that give the reader hope and inspiration.

The tragedy of the loss of a child to adoption.......2000-01-25

A well-written account of a single mother's pregnancy, loss of her child to adoption and subsequent search for him. This poignant description of one woman's profound loss typifies the tragedy of millions of women in similar circumstances, who were coerced into giving up their children and the on-going trauma they suffered as a result. A must read for anyone whose life has been affected by adoption

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An exploration of new and emerging techniques, processes and applications in the behaviour, crystallization, and polymorphic transformations of fats and oils. It presents research and information on advanced analytical tools, computer modelling, molecular structures, mixing behaviour, and interactions with seeding materials and surfactants. The contributors spotlight developments in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, highlighting modern discoveries in polymorphic forms, self-assembled structures, and speciality fats and oils, emphasizing health, balanced nutrition, and functionality.

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