Watercolor: You Can Do It!

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Couch is a star

I recommend this book all the time!

A wonderful book for the beginner.

Terrific how to book

One of the best watercolor instruction books on the market

Watercolor: You Can Do It!
Tony Couch
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Watercolor Painting | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Watercolor | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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Couch is a star.......2003-09-26

I can not believe that Amazon does not carry Tony Couch's books.
He is an awesome teacher that gets his points across to the novice.
His advise is easy to follow and he uses his colour in a pure and simple way

I recommend this book all the time!.......2000-11-10

The early chapters on handling paint and the brush seems to really get to the point. The section on "moisture control" really is a must read for anyone still struggling with this aspect of watercolor painting. I recommend this book all the time to anyone who asks about good reading material. Too bad it is out of print. A must for the watercolorist library!

A wonderful book for the beginner........1999-05-24

This is a great book that addresses problems that I haven't seen addressed in other books. He is also encouraging to the painter who may not feel they have a lot of talent but still want to paint. He feels that all people with the desire can do it. I got the book from the library, and loved it so much I purchased it. I've heard his videos are great too.

Terrific how to book.......1998-10-01

This is one of the best books teaching watercolor painting. I've bought many. He stresses that the journey (learning) is more important than the goal (being a great painter). He's an excellent teacher and his step by step illustrations are some of the best. A great help to me.

One of the best watercolor instruction books on the market.......1997-02-25

After reading at least 30 watercolor instructions books, this one goes to the top of my list. Couch covers everything from the basics (from equipment to how you actually get paint on to the paper) to the essential guidelines of design and composition. These (sometimes boring) subjects are covered in an easily-digestible, easily-usable manner, making it exciting to get to your next painting and apply what you have read. The book includes a really good description of how the painter is a "shape maker, symbol collector and entertainer" and numerous step-by-step examples of painting basic landscape components (trees, sky, rocks, water). The book is upbeat with a wonderful sense of play and humor running through it -- plus the reader is given dozens of examples of Tony Couch's own marvelous watercolor paintings, as well as examples from eight other superb watercolorists. The gallery of paintings alone is worth the price of the book (which, by the way, is about 30 pages longer than most watercolor instruction books -- so you really get your money's worth!)

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Watercolor: You Can Do It!

Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GX2EAA

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A Child's First Drawing Book

With this simple teaching method, every child can learn to draw!

Designed as a child's first art series, Kids Can Draw will help any child learn the basics of drawing. It's as easy as drawing a triangle, circle, or square. By starting with these basic shapes, your child can create a stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, or any dinosaur.

The Kids Can Draw method provided a fun, effective way for your child to learn basic drawing skills and achieve amazing results.

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After 15 years, Reynolds Unwrapped has earned its reputation as one of the craziest panel cartoons around. In this latest collection, the spotlight is on getting older. Aaww, but don't worry: The laugh lines will be worth it!Viagra, botox injections, antiwrinkle cream: Everyone is trying to fight the effects of aging, and the latest research indicates that laughter may be the real fountain of youth. If that's the case, then How Aging Affects Belt Height is your prescription for vitality. It will have you laughing like a kid again. Dan Reynolds's own age-defying generation, the boomers, will recognize themselves in the offbeat humor of these wacky cartoons. They remind us that aging may not be fun, but it sure beats the alternative!Millions of readers regularly enjoy Reynolds Unwrapped in Reader's Digest, the world's most widely read magazine.

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YA GOTTA HAVE THIS ONE.......2006-09-20

This collection is a HILARIOUS look at aging! I saw this book at a book fair, thumbed through a few pages, and laughed until I cried! I bought several copies and gave them as birthday presents to family and friends. They loved it just as much as I did. If you like The Far Side, you'll LOVE this collection of cartoons.

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In this evocative and engaging memoir, Thomas Wright recalls, with eloquence, frankness, and humor, a man coming to terms with his homosexuality and seeking his happiness in ignorant and repressive times. Throughout his life and in his travels, Wright gathered a distinguished circle of friends that included some of the most influential writers of the mid-20th century, among them Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, and Christopher Isherwood. Scion of an old Louisiana family, Wright left the South after college to live in the scintillating Manhattan of the late 1940s. Stimulated by the Columbia University of Trilling and Van Doren, he went on to develop lasting friendships with Allen and Caroline Tate, Tennessee Williams, and socialized with William Inge, Chester Kallman, Speed Lankin, Bill Goyen, Carson McCullers' family, and Harold Norse. Wright moved to southern California in the 1950s to become a writer. There he became intimate with Christopher Isherwood and Edward James (the purported son of Edward VII of England), enabling him to move in circles that included Igor Stravinsky, Gerald Heard, and Aldous Huxley. In the 1960s he began his travels, moving first to Mexico, then to Europe and on to Morocco, where he became a confidante of Paul Bowles. By the mid-1970s Wright began traveling again, moving throughout Latin America and finally settling in Guatemala where he now resides. Wright's honest treatment of his homosexuality and personal remembrances of the literary legends he befriended will inspire and fascinate readers.

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Lively, Informative, Revealing.......2000-02-23

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, one that makes you hope it had been longer, especially because some of the people Wright writes about are viewed so briefly, and yet so sharply, that you want more. The glimpse of John Rechy is enticing. In a few lines, Wright captures this unique writer for those telling moments. The portraits of Tennessee Williams and others are sharp and entertaining; and Gavin Lambert! What a creation he is. Congratulations, Mr. Wright, for your lively memoir!

Contemplating legends.......1999-12-07

This memoir is rich, varied, and readable. For some, the most interesting sections will be the character sketches of Tennessee Williams, Christopher Isherwood, and Paul Bowles, all of whom Wright knew well. My favorites are the passages about Tennessee Williams. Wright tells us more about him than some long biographies do. He also offers original perspectives on that enigmatic figure, Bowles. Wright has a gift for perceptive insights about people. He also has an acute sense of place and a talent for evoking locales. His conjuring up of various cities (for instance 1948-1950 New York) and the travel sections (for instance, descriptions of several Amazonian expeditions) are well done, as expected from a writer of literary travel books. One leaves the book feeling entertained by many stories, and the array of Wright's friends and acquaintances. Meanwhile--with a genial, humorous, eloquent, and scrupulously honest man as host--the reader has learned a great deal about Twentieth Century gay history and some Twentieth Century American writers.

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If you are concerned about your health, you may already be trying to maintain a diet that is low in fat and high in fiber. Now, with The Simply Healthy Lowfat Cookbook, you can go a step further toward staying healthy by preparing recipes that are packed with beta carotene and vitamin C. Known as anti-oxidant vitamins because they protect the body from the adverse effects of oxygen, these vitamins (along with vitamin E) may help prevent such illnesses as heart disease and cancer.

Research has shown that the best way for your body to get vitamin C and beta carotene is to eat fruits and vegetables high in these vitamins rather than to take vitamin supplements. But which foods contain these antioxidants and how much do you need? The Simply Healthy Lowfat Cookbook, developed by the cooks and nutritionists at the Wellness Cooking School in conjunction with the editors of the University of California at Berkeley Wellness Letter, not only details the best sources and an ideal intake for these vitamins, it also answers all your questions about why antioxidants are so beneficial.

To help you maintain an antioxidant-rich diet, more than 250 lowfat recipes featuring many of your favorite fruits and vegetables -- strawberries, melons, sweet potatoes, carrots, red bell peppers, tomatoes and more -- have been specially created for this book. Here are dishes that are not only delicious but innovative. For example, a recipe for California Pizza adds carrot juice to the dough to boost the beta carotene content to 17 milligrams, almost triple the minimum recommended daily intake. Ice cream and chocolate cake are made with sweet potatoes, second only to carrots as the best source of beta carotene. A recipe for sauteed spinach and kale contains 265 milligrams of vitamin C, surpassing the recommended daily intake in just a side dish.

With chapters on Soups & Stews, Poultry, Fish & Shellfish, Meat, Meatless Main Courses, Pasta, Main-Course Salads, Vegetables & Grains and Desserts, Simply Healthy has flavor-packed, anti-oxidant-dense dishes for every course. Throughout the book there are also Super-Quick recipes for the busy cook who doesn't want to sacrifice good nutrition. Moreover, every recipe is accompanied by an extensive nutritional analysis.

Perhaps you are one of the many Americans who do not consume nearly enough beta carotene and vitamin C. With The Simply Healthy Lowfat Cookbook you will find that you can get plenty of these vitamins with a minimum of effort, and that increasing your daily intake of antioxidants can lead to healthier life.

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Simply Healthy is Simply Delicious.......2003-10-31

My fiancee and I have cooked many recipes from this book. The book offers great variety with recipes inspired by Southwest cooking, Mexican dishes, Chinesse stir fry, Morrocan, Indian and Italian cooking. They all taste superb and are not that hard to prepare (once you stock your spice rack).

Healthy Gourmet, No Longer an Oxymoron.......2001-07-10

This cookbook is full of delicious, unusual, and healthy food. The recipies do require some knowledge of cooking and a restocking of your shelves. I tend to plan the meals for a week, making out the grocery list from the list of ingredients for each meal. Wear your sun glasses for this trip to the grocery store, your basket will be glowing with orange, yellow, red and green items. Stick with using this book exclusively for a month and you will never think the same about food. I found that cooking and eating delicious food to be the best instruction in what constitutes a healthy diet.

Its all here..........1999-12-18

Looking for one magic cook book? Simply Healthy seems to have it all. Almost every one of the recipes has turned out to be a winner. Quick prep time too. My wife and I love this book! Watch out for the pasta... its delicious!

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an interesting look at the series

Lots o' laffs at the critics of Burns masterpiece

Historian's Complain is more accurrate

Okay Book of the PBS Series

Overall Good Compilation of Critiques

Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. Indeed, forty million people saw it, more than the populations of the Union and the Confederacy combined. Newsweek praised it as "a stunning television documentary." For a generation of Americans, this documentary is the Civil War. Yet many professional historians criticized it sharply for ignoring the roles of minorities, pointing to a lack of women and of blacks throughout, a disregard for the aftermath of the war (particularly its legacy to race relations), a conventional emphasis on military history rather than social history, and uneven coverage of the military campaigns that gave short shrift to the bloody Western front. Ken Burns's The Civil War brings together detractors, supporters, and Ken Burns himself in a volume that will inspire readers to look again at this stunning documentary, at the way television shows history, and at the Civil War itself. Some contributors are sharply critical. In "Noble Women as Well," Catherine Clinton describes the experiences of women during the war, disguised as soldiers, working as nurses in makeshift hospitals, or besieged in caves by enemy armies, saying that Burns ignores these stories completely. Eric Foner and Leon Litwack are even more scathing, saying that the series distorts the legacy of the war by focusing on the preservation of the union, ignoring the importance the institution of slavery had to those who fought the war, and neglecting the experiences of blacks both during and after the war: out of 28 people whose postwar careers are mentioned, only two blacks, both men, are included. "Faced with the choice between historical illumination or nostalgia, Burns consistently opts for nostalgia," Foner writes. In response, C. Vann Woodward, who served as an advisor to the series, and Ken Burns himself describe their painstaking efforts to develop a sophisticated interpretation of history in The Civil War. In the process, they explore the question of whether art can, or should, substitute for history. Is the purpose of a documentary such as The Civil War to inform or to entertain? And what happens when the desire to entertain gets in the way of historical accuracy? The answer, according to Woodward, is that the unique power and responsibility of art is to bring the past to life, not to engage in historical polemics. Ken Burns's own response is a defense of his art that is as well-crafted as the series itself. He discusses the unique limitations of television: unlike written history, for example, television documentaries require specific, identifiable visual images, limiting the coverage of subjects with little pictorial documentation. Geoffrey C. Ward, the series writer, defends their choices of interpretation and coverage in the series, and pleads eloquently for greater cooperation between filmmakers and historians. And Burns praises the power of television to move, inform, and educate, pointing to its unique responsibility in an age where Americans receive more and more of their information through television and film. The Civil War sparked emotions, curiosity, debate, and a desire to learn more about this bloody crossroads in American history. Ken Burns's The Civil War is for anyone who was intrigued and touched by that monumental series, and by the even more monumental war that it illuminated.

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an interesting look at the series.......2004-02-11

this book is an interesting critique of the great Civil war series. I think the best essay was that done by Ken Burns himself. This book gives a fair and balanced look at the series through the eyes of different minded historians

Lots o' laffs at the critics of Burns masterpiece.......2002-12-20

This book is a riot. I have always thought Ken Burns' Civil War miniseries was a one of the best 12 hours of TV ever shown. The series recently aired again for the first time in a few years and it's just as good as I remembered, possibly even better. Granted, it's not perfect and one could probably nitpick it forever, but few TV shows have ever equaled it for sheer emotional impact. This book is not about nitpicking. It is about politically correct professors ripping it to shreads, and is it ever funny. In general, they whine about how the series devotes too much time talking about battles between dead white males, instead of the really important stuff, such as slavery, women's issues, class struggles, and the like. One (I think it was Eric Foner) has a bone up his kiester over the fact that the miniseries devotes almost nothing to Reconstruction (his speciality, by the way) and instead shows photos and movies of Confederate and Union veterans at a reunion picnic at Gettysburg. Another complains about the use of the term Rebel. Somebody whined about the fact that Shelby Foote, the white Southern popular writer got more airtime than Barbera Fields, the black female professor. And so on. If you want to know why liberal professors get so little attention outside their own circles and why, on the other hand, non-specialist Civil War history is so popular, you have to read this book. It's worth it for the laughs alone.

Historian's Complain is more accurrate.......2000-12-11

The premise behind Toplin's book is a very interesting one. When Ken Burns' epic documentary on the Civil War received the highest ratings in public television's history, historian's immediately began to comment on it. Toplin brought together, in this one volume, many of today's most notable Civil War Era historians to turn their comments into essays about the film's pros and cons. Unfortunately, the historians only seem to care about the cons. With "The Civil War", Burns was attempting to educate the public at large, not the academic historian. This fact seems to be lost upon the authors of these essays. The primary focus of the criticisms in this book do not deal with the film itself, but rather with what the film forgot. Most complaints are geared towards the treatment of women and blacks. This is because the authors of these essays are primarily social historians, with the exception of Prof. Gallagher and Prof. Boritt. It is no surprise then that the majority of the essays scathe Burns for not telling the whole story of slavery, or of women, or of Reconstruction. By doing this, these authors have missed the point that the film series is about war, not social change. Therefore, this book only gets three stars because the content is not of good quality. While each author is correct in their statements about what Burns left out, they do not grasp what Burns was attempting to do. The most interesting part of the book in fact is when Burns and his writer Ward respond to the historians responses, and I believe put them in their place. I suggest reading this after viewing the films, but take what they say with a grain of salt, and do not judge the film series by what is written in this book.

Okay Book of the PBS Series.......1999-06-22

This book was fairly good in how it compiled complaints lodged by historians against the PBS series, "The Civil War". However, one critic (Leon Litwack) was extremely off base in his condemnation of Burns and Shelby Foote. Because they didn't think soldiers of the USCT were supermen, Litwack can't stand them. Litwack needs to plow through the accounts of battles in which the USCT participated. These soldiers could stand up to battle like white troops, but they weren't any better. Litwack is just in the thralls of PC-mania and refuses to acknowledge fact. Overall, though, the book is worth reading if one ignores the ignorance of certain critics.

Overall Good Compilation of Critiques.......1999-06-17

This book is composed of historians' critiques on the PBS series, "The Civil War", the most widely watched PBS series. Most of the historians make good points in showing areas that Burns left out of the series but all of them need to recognize the fact that it wasn't possible for Burns to show everything they wanted. No series could do that. Moving on to individual historians, most are very fair with Burns but two were not in parts of their arguments. These two need to be taken to task. Firstly, Catherine Clinton attacked Burns for not showing enough females in his series. She then spends a large amount of space discussing women who disguised themselves as men in order to fight. I hate to rain on Clinton's parade (well, not really) but it is estimated that only a few hundred women both North and South did that. Compared to the males in the armies (something like 1.5 million), that is EXTREMELY tiny portion. Burns spent a lot of time with the males because the made up the VAST majority of soldiers, both USA and CSA. Period. Clinton is on firmer ground when she berates Burns for not giving more time to women on the home front who kept the war supplies moving. In reality, these women were really the precurser of Rosie the Riveter. Secondly, Leon Litwack attacks Burns for not concentrating on the legacy (at least, the legacy Litwack says) of the Civil War. Granted, the civil rights struggles could be mentioned. However, Burns should not be damned for going the "reunion" route with his documentary. Reunion is what happened between North and South and that should NOT be forgotten, especially since both sides were killing each other just a few years earlier. On another topic (and one of the faults I found with "The Civil War") Litwack keeps maintaining that the war was fought over slavery. That is simply not the case. The Northern states WERE NOT threatening slavery where it existed. Abe Lincoln wasn't threatening slavery where it existed. The Republican party platform of 1860 didn't threaten slavery where it existed. Abolitionists in the North were threatening slavery but they were a VERY small group and were thought of as kooks by fellow Northerners. Any sampling of these materials and the letters of Northern soldiers will reveal that they were not fighting for emancipation. They were for emancipation only if it helped destroy the South. Thus, the South's "peculiar institution" wasn't threatened. If the argument is made that the South's leaders felt that slavery was threatened, why didn't the Southern states go back into the Union when the Congress made enticements of legal protection of slavery? Economic factors (tariffs especially) was a larger part of the South's secession than slavery. It is curious, though, that Litwack's litmus test of a just cause, the American colonies shouldn't have been granted independence because they had slavery. America shouldn't have come out as well as it did during the War of 1812 because the British were granting freedom to slaves who turned against the US.

KEN BURN'S THE CIVIL WAR: HISTORIANS RESPOND

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KEN BURN'S THE CIVIL WAR: HISTORIANS RESPOND

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0P9PW

Ken Burns's The Civil War : Historians Respond

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Ken Burns's The Civil War : Historians Respond
Robert B. Toplin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000V2IMKM

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Ken Burns's The Civil War, Historians respond
Robert B Toplin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLX8WW

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Ken Burns's the Civil War: Historians Respond
Toplin# Robert Brent (editor)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QB45XQ

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Pursuing a master-scholar's inquiry into the relationship between historical knowledge and Jewish collective memory in medieval and modern times.

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A must-have collection of essays .......2006-02-12

This symposium to honor the great scholar of Jewish History , Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is a celebration of Jewish historical writing. Its opening essays written by one of the books editors ,David N. Myers(The other two are John Efron and Elisheva Carlebach)traces the intellectual development and career of Yerushalmi . It is an appreciative and insightful piece of work, tracing Yerushalmi's interest in the Marranos(A major subject of his researches)from the time he received as a ten year old a book on Abarbanel from his parents. It shows how Yerushalmi developed early on the methods of historical analysis (This under the tutelage of Salo Baron at Columbia) which would lead to his most well-known and influential work 'Zakkhor'. Myers tells of Yerushalmi's researches on Isaac Cardoso in 'From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto' and shows how Yerushalmi had an early feeling for those kinds of Jews who lived in two worlds, and whose modern exemplars would be for him, Kafka and Moses.
But the opening essay is only the first treasure. It is followed by a diverse set of essays on Jewish historical writing, Jewish consciousness and memory, and various other problems in Jewish history. Among the writers are Moshe Idel, Jacob Schacter, Iran Robinson, Todd Endelman, Hillel Kieval, Nava Tirosh -Samuelson, Eliot Wolfson,Marc Saperstein, Ed Fram, Arthur Goren.
An extremely rich collection and a must- have book for students of Jewish history.

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Beginning with the formula used to derive Euler dynamical equations, this monograph discusses Eulerian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches to generalized motion on rigid body in sequential chapters, emphasizing how one approach was extended and simplified by other one. The last chapter covers canonical transformations from one phase space to another and invariance of certain properties including Poisson beackerts.

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