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The Medieval Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt
Villard de Honnecourt
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486443582 |
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Little may be known about Villard de Honnecourt, but thanks to his immortal Sketchbook, there exist reliable and contemporaneous graphic observations of everyday life in 13th century France. Contained in this volume are the entire contents of his portfolio, complete with authoritative translations of the artist's words, annotation, and editor's commentary. 73 black-and-white plates.
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Maitre de Chantier.......2007-05-03
A Dover Publication. Villard de Honnecourt is an enigmatic figure from the 13th century. Little is known of this man other than what has been found in his sketchbook.
This book is a requisite for any student of the study of early Operative Masonry. Villard de Honnecourt's sketches show a point in time long forgotten. I have to say that this is one of the most important documents we have today of the Early Operative Cathedral Builders, The Forefathers of Speculative Freemasonry.
Careful study and meditation on de Honnecourt's drawings, will reveal much of the time, perception and thought process of these now Silent Great Men.
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The sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt
Villard
Manufacturer: Indiana University; distributed by G. Wittenborn, New York
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ASIN: B0007EA98W |
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The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt
Villard De Honnecourt
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group
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ASIN: 0313237476 |
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One of the most treasured documents in art history, the Sketchbook is the work of a medieval draftsman, presumably an architect, who recorded his observations, his projects, and his solutions to various problems in construction in a series of annotated sketches. His drawings reveal a knowledge of architecture, sculpture, carpentry, and masonry; and his comments reflect a lively intelligence and discerning eye, whether his subject was roofing a vaulted chapel, designing a brass handwarmer, or building a perpetual-motion machine. This new edition contains all of the drawings and fresh translations of the captions.
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In this how-to-draw book, renowned artist Gene Franks invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to re-create a variety of inspiring landscapes in pencil. He explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects, but also his own method of developing a drawing to its fullest. You will practice techniques such as shading, hatching, and glazing to enhance your drawings as you learn how to improve manual dexterity and visual perception, resulting in more successful pencil drawings. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, this guide is sure to become a favorite addition to any artist's library of drawing references, to be enjoyed for years!
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Updated with a new focus on digital imaging technologies, the new edition of this guide for photography professionals discusses how to improve lighting, digital capture, and client posturing techniques in the camera room so that less time is spent making computerized corrections in the digital darkroom. Posing and lighting strategies for minimizing perceived faults in the client's appearance, such as under-eye circles, bald spots, and tummy bulges, are provided, along with techniques for gracefully addressing and resolving potential appearance problems without demoralizing the client. Pointers are also given for effectively using Adobe Photoshop for the image problems that remain, including information on digitally removing braces and smoothing stray hairs.
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Corrective Lighting Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers.......2007-09-20
This book is wonderfully written. It answered most of my questions and some I had not thought of. I would recommend this book to anyone having trouble getting that perfect shot.
Get this book!.......2007-08-03
Information in here will help you hide the flaws that make people not buy your portraits! Get it... learn it by heart and use it to drive up your sales even on tough-lower-self-esteem-having clients. By all means a must own!
Information for Every Type of Photographer.......2007-03-31
I learned so much from this book. It was very well written.
Corrective Lighting, Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers.......2006-07-31
Excellant introductory look at Portrait Photography. Part of the art of getting a good result in portraits is the skill of posing your subject correctly & in such a way that you can overcome any flaws etc. Excellent book for Portrait photographers wanting to do more & develop their skills
Great book for getting the best photos of your subjects.......2006-06-30
Great book not so much on lighting as it is on positioning your subjects so when you do snap the shutter they are posied to look their best. This can be hard for folks overweight, this book explains how you can position just about anyone to make their photos look better and they will feel better about it.
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Professional photographers have access to specialized and often expensive lighting equipment, but amateurs can take great photographs with much simpler setups or even just available light. This guide explains how to get the best results from the most minimal investment with plenty of patience and practice. Photography is the art of capturing light on paper, and all that is needed to take wonderful pictures is a sophisticated understanding of how light works. This handbook provides that knowledge, starting with technical explanations of film and lenses and moving through different general scenarios (indoor, outdoor, nighttime) to specific case histories.
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The characteristics of light, including its intensity, direction, and color temperature, are primary factors in determining how a subject will be recorded. This tutorial provides photographers with a solid understanding of filters, allowing them to control the light available to them, thus capturing their subjects in the most flattering way possible. Beginning with an overview of the color wheel, essential to any discussion of filters, the book then explores all aspects of filter use, from special effects filters to utilizing black and white filters with color film, soft focus, star filters, graduated color, double-exposure filters, and diffusion filters.
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The HDRI Handbook reveals the secrets behind High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). This cutting-edge imaging technology is a method to digitally capture and edit all light in a scene. It represents a quantum leap in imaging technology, as revolutionary as the leap from Black & White to Color imaging. If you are serious about photography, you will find that HDRI is the final step that places digital ahead of analog. The old problem of over- and underexposure in analog photography, which was never fully solved, is elegantly bypassed here. A huge variety of subjects can now be photographed for the first time ever.
HDRI emerged from the movie industry, and was once Hollywood's best kept secret. It is now a mature technology available to everyone. The only problem was that it was poorly documented until now. The HDRI Handbook is the manual that was missing.
Many questions remain open even for the computer graphics gurus that have been using HDRI for years. This is where The HDRI Handbook comes in. Included here is everything you need to build a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable you to become really creative with HDRI. This book is packed with practical hints and tips, software evaluations, workshops, and hands-on tutorials. Whether you are a photographer, 3D artist, compositor, or cinematographer, this book is sure to enlighten you.
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Understanding the foundation of HDRI
Tools for a High Dynamic Range Workflow
How to capture HDR images: now and tomorrow
Tone mapping for creating superior prints
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All 4 ways to shoot panoramic HDRIs
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World premiere of the Smart Dynamic Range toolkit
Creative uses and unconventional applications
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Everything you always wanted to know about exposures...but didn’t know who to ask. Photographer’s Exposure Handbook has all the answers, in an accessible, appealing format. Author Jack Neubart’s philosophy is that "correct" exposure is relative, because it varies according to individual taste and the intended effect--and getting that desired effect is easy with his convenient, comprehensive guide to exposure. Five chapters explain light and exposure, tools of exposure, flash exposure, film and digital exposure, and practical applications. A handy appendix covers ISO, converting EV changes to f-stop and shutter speed values, a glossary and index, and includes a quick guide to exposing for film and digital. Easy to use and easy to understand, lavishly illustrated, and packed with professional information useful to photographers at every level, Photographer’s Exposure Handbook exposes the answers to every question about exposure.
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- Big Story ... in a little book?!
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Little Book of Horror: The War of the Worlds (Little Book of Horror)
Steve Niles , and
Ted McKeever
Manufacturer: IDW Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1933239379 |
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The Little Book of Horror series presents classic horror tales in a new light, as writer Steve Niles is paired with unique illustrators to re-tell stories that follow the text of the original tales. This book features all the horror that H.G. Wells brought to bear in his novel, with the bonus of seeing the story beautifully illustrated by the warped mind of Ted McKeever.
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Big Story ... in a little book?!.......2007-01-04
I love Wells' classic "War Of The Worlds", and I was interested to see how a modern day horror writer would do a take on it. I am pleased to say that it is well presented in terms of book design, the writing is aimed at a young audience, and is a simplistic take on "War Of The Worlds". I can't honestly say that its great, as the art was probably not as good as it could have been, being that it was done someone who I truely respect. Ted McKeever's art is generally considered rough and disturbing, and what he did on this book had a flat polished feel. Its nice, but not that interesting. Don't expect a novel either ... it captures the important bits of "War Of The Worlds" in paragraphs, but it does feel like a complete story!
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- An excellent portrait of Mrs. Punkhurst's life and work
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Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel For Ethiopia
Richard Pankhurst
Manufacturer: Tsehai Publishers
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ASIN: 0972317236 |
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Sylvia Pankhurst, the former British Suffragette, devoted the last forty years of her life to Anti-Fascism and support for Ethiopia, for many centuries Africa's principal independent state. She responded to Mussolini's invasion of the country in 1935 by founding a weekly newspaper New Times and Ethiopia News, which she was to edit for twenty years. She protested against the Fascist use of poison-gas in Ethiopia, and published news of the Ethiopian patriot resistance. Her paper condemned Britain's "appeasement" of the Axis Dictators, and supported the Republican Government in the Spanish Civil War. After Mussolini's entry into the European War, on the side of Nazi Germany, she agitated against the return to Italy of her African colonies. Ever against colonialism, she clashed with the British Government in demanding the full restoration of Ethiopian independence, and advocated the "reunion" of the former Italian colony of Eritrea with Ethiopia. She raised funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively on Ethiopian art and culture. Having moved to Addis Ababa in 1956, with her son, the author, she founded a monthly journal, Ethiopia Observer, on many aspects of Ethiopian life and development. She died in 1960, and was buried with the Ethiopian Patriots, in front of Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, in the presence of the Emperor.
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An excellent portrait of Mrs. Punkhurst's life and work.......2003-09-02
In this beautifully written book, the author, the current leading Ethiopianst and the son of Mrs. Pankhurst, describes and reviews the work of his mother. The book introduces a new generation of Ethiopians and those interested in Ethiopian history to Mrs. Pankhurst's advocacy on behalf of Ethiopia during and after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This is definately a must read book!!!
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This book is a key to mastering the demand chain concept.
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Fatherhood.......2000-06-07
This book is easy to read and has well chosen photographs, quotes, and boxed information. The focus is on the experience of fatherhood, feelings, and emotions. It is assumed that the baby will be breastfed and he gives the best advice on how fathers can simulate breastfeeding without bottle feeding that I have been able to find. The author believes that a man can choose what kind of father he will be. He introduces the concept of "fatherman." In order for men to move back into the family, our culture needs to reconnect masculinity and fatherhood. Young men need to see fatherhood, not paternity, as the fullest experience of manhood. Masculinity has everything to do with fathering.
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The Taliban are yet another manifestation of the growth of radical Islam worldwide. This book explores what they stand for and the factors leading to their rapid rise to military and political dominance over Afghanistan. It considers the many influences on their ideology emanating from within the country, the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East. It describes the war which continues to afflict the Afghan people as well as the geo-political context and the possible part played by certain powers in the region, and by the United States, in the Taliban’s dramatic expansion. Peter Marsden examines the unique and complicated character of an Islamic revivalist movement like the Taliban. He confronts the issue of international responsibility in situations of chronic conflict brought on by external interference, and considers the dilemmas faced by humanitarian agencies in seeking to reconcile the evident need for assistance with the often difficult political and human rights context in which they are working. He examines the cultural conflict between Western thinking and the Taliban’s interpretation of Islamic values, particularly in relation to gender, and asks how the international community should deal with this conflict.
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Nice Intro But Lacked Depth and Sources.......2002-05-01
Reading this book made me wish I had read it before I read Ahmed Rashid's book, Taliban. It puts many issues in focus, giving the reader a basic starting point for further research, but that is all it really does. His bibliography was limited to 13 book resources and the text is scattered with clips from Taliban radio but it doesn't really "break out the box" per se, giving no real indepth viewpoints any more than a school textbook. And it is much related to a school textbook because those book sources seem mostly to be secondary sources. He mentions Osama Bin Laden in only one paragraph and never at all speaks of Al Qaeda forces.
But in the conclusion he mentions the purpose of his book being to rid people of stereotypes about Islamic movements and to show the conflict in communication between Islam and the West. In the case of the former, he pretty much succeeds. In the later, I'd read Rashid for a better anwer than Marsden.
Very good, but not the whole truth..........2001-11-13
The book reads factual, and a tad dry. The truth is when you want to know about something as such you have to live it. I have been to this part of the world, there is so much more Peter could have researched out by actually being a part of this life. I strongly recommend reading SB 1 or God By Karl Mark Maddox.
Recommended SB 1 or God
Reads like a text book for Modern Afghanistan 301.......2001-10-11
I found this book to be more "textbookish" than the other books I have read recently about the Taliban. It has a more dry academic style than the other two books that I'd recommend about the subject: The New Jackals: Ramsi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism, by Simon Reeve, and Taliban, Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid. However, I felt that this book was still valuable. It has a more indepth discussion of the history of Afghanistan than the other two, and much more detail about the Northern Alliance, and makes it clear how difficult it will be to unite the Afghan people even after the Taliban are gone. As I read about the various factions there, I began to feel that I needed to write out a cast of characters, just to keep track of them all, and I also gained a sense that none of the various factions involved are particularly savory. Since it is several years old, recent events such as destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas, and of course, the WTC, are not discussed, but the book still presents a valuable overview of the backgrounds of the war we are facing now.
an adequate introduction.......2001-09-30
I just read Peter Marsden's book _The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan_. It's a short, well-reasoned introduction to the Taliban.
Chapters on The Mujahaddin illuminate the Afghan-Soviet War, and the Islamic Resistance. Marsden comes to tell how several specific factions within Afghanistan were recognized by the government of Pakistan...then, American weaponry was channeled through Pakistan to those groups. After the Soviet-Afghan war, those groups fought among themselves for power in Afghanistan. Years later, out of the chaos sprang the Taliban.
There are other good chapters on the history of Afghanistan in general, The Taliban creed, earlier movements in Afghanistan, Taliban's relationship with the rest of the world, esp. humanitarian agencies in Afghanistan, and the gender policies of the Taliban.
Marsden's angle is definitely one of cultural relativism. He repeatedly asserts that the Taliban are operating out of a totally different value system than the "liberal" or "Western" world. Humanitarian agencies are serving in a country where women cannot vote, work as they wish, drive, or walk uncovered in public. Indeed, women have been beaten for violating the strict public dress code. However, Marsden states, common ground must be found, if there is to be any humanitarian aid at all. The author also reminds us that our view of Islam and The Taliban is colored by our place in the world, our "Western" biases, et cetera.
All in all, this is a good introduction to the Taliban. I'm not sure if I can agree with the author's assessment of how many Afghans actually support the Taliban, but generally this is a good introductory book on the subject. The book is short and to the point. There is a helpful chronology in the front, and a short bibliography and index are in the back.
If you're only going to read one book on The Taliban, you could do worse.
Ken32
Good but no longer the best...........2001-09-28
Written in 1998 this book will seem dated to those who have become CNN junkies over the past weeks. Good coverage of the rise and roots of the Taliban but, Ahmed Rashid's Taliban:Militant Islam,Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia is more up to date and detailed.(also cheaper...)
Good coverage of NGO and UN relations with the Taliban that you will not find covered as well elsewhere.
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The Taliban, War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan (*). (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: International Journal on World Peace
Versa Laska
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This digital document is an article from International Journal on World Peace, published by Professors World Peace Academy on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1383 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: The Taliban, War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan (*). (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Versa Laska
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International Journal on World Peace (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Professors World Peace Academy
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
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This digital document is an article from Middle East Policy, published by Middle East Policy Council on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2041 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: The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Christopher Boucek
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Middle East Policy (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
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Originally published in 1986 by Kangaroo Press, this revised edition of the many amazing stories as told by John Cann of individuals in the days of snake showmen and snakeoil remedies in the downunder Australia. The new edition adds 16 pages of historical photos.
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As Snakes Alive
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
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ASIN: 0843125330 |
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Snakes Alive
Manufacturer: John Brown Publishing
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Snakes Alive
Manufacturer: Milliken Pub Co
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ASIN: 0883357879 |
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- This book is really cool and is great for 4-5 year olds.
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Snakes Alive!
Janet Lambert , and
Ray Keane
Manufacturer: Pages Publishing Group
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ASIN: 0874068266 |
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Ages 5 and up. A full-color children's nonfiction book about snakes using both illustrations and photography. Two very realistic labeled snakes are included with the book, all in a polybag. Index included. Worthington Press imprint.
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This book is really cool and is great for 4-5 year olds........1999-03-10
This book teaches you all about snakes. It has really good pictures and explanations. The cobras, rattlesnakes, and constrictors are the best. The whole book is great and easily keeps a child's attention.
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