Architectural Patterns for Woodcarvers: 63 Classic Patterns for Adding Ornamental Detail to Furniture and Architectural Trimwork

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Misleading cover!.......2007-06-13

Not a bad resource for repeating patterns and a few medallions and foilage, but if you're expecting details for the corbel on the front or for the shell on the back, keep looking. The shading in the drawings usually conveyed the shapes pretty well, but I frequently found myself wanting another or a different section on the pattern. Just be sure to review the Table of Contents in "Search Inside" more closely than I did. I was very surprised and disappointed that none of the design motifs from the front and back cover photos are inside this book. Nada! No drapery, no volute, no shell. Never judge a book...

Offers 63 classic patterns.......2003-11-17

In Architectural Patterns For Woodcarvers, woodworking expert Kurt Koch offers 63 classic patterns especially designed for adding aesthetic detail to furniture and architectural woodwork. A very brief introduction to architectural carving techniques supplements the bulk of this 67-page resource, which is devoted to patterns presented in a precise style, and which can easily be transferred to the wood itself. Both top and side profiles for each pattern offers good detail and depth in this excellent and highly recommended instructional resource for amateur and professional woodworkers alike.

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An eye for detail.......2002-11-05

Michael Warr certainly has an eye for detail and his book "Detail & Texture" will please those watercolor artists who appreciate realism and near realism. His use of gouache with his watercolors will help remove any fears, or prejudices, amateur artists have held about "corrupting" the purity of the watercolor.

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Complete, easy-to-follow guide by noted watercolorist covers papers, paints, brushes; also techniques: scratching-out, wax resist, split-brush, spattering, sponging and more. Full, detailed chapters on surface textures, trees, flowers, coastal scenes, reflections, other topics. Full-color illustrations throughout.

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Textural Detail Feast!.......2001-11-12

This book's emphasis on texture techniques has been a boon for my own paintings. I was growing bored with my paintings because all the areas were painted with the same techniques. When I got this book I sat down with my watercolors and watercolor pad and began to practice many of the texture techniques the author explains.

There are chapters devoted to paper surfaces (hot, cold, rough, handmade, etc), various brushes (kolinsky, synthetic, bamboo, toothbrushes, flats, rounds, riggers, etc), miscellaneous materials (salt, sponges, plastic wrap, etc.) and pigments. All are discussed from the point of view of trying to exploit the properties each has for creating unique and convincing textures and details. Each chapter is packed with paintings and accompanying analysis of how the author achieved a particular effect. Unlike most painting books it does not use the painting-in-progress method of explanation. Instead, each painting is shown on one page and the opposite page has a detailed discussion of the various steps the author took. Interspersed at times are close-up photos showing details on some of the more interesting textural details. The subjects are everything from rusty iron, rotting wood, rough stonework, adobe brick, rough bark, pottery, etc. And all of it as applied to landscapes with rusty farm equipment, ponds or lakes with watersogged wood, closeups of buidings, trees, grasses or other plants.

The pro is that this means a lot of paintings demonstrating a wide variety of techniques are displayed and explained. The con is that you don't see the paintings in various stages of completion which some readers might feel would be more helpful for their learning style.

Overall I believe this book achieves exactly what it set out to do - i.e. explain in detail a large number of textural detail techniques. It doesn't wander off into discussions on composition, values, light, etc. It is very tightly focused and therefore can go into much greater depth on the subject than more wide-ranging watercolor books.

A wonderful book for watercolor artists........1998-08-03

His book has wonderful techniques in painting old things. I particularly use his book when I am painting rusty metal and old buildings. I read through his book to refresh my memory at the beginning of a new painting. It is an invaluable book in my library.

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Photographer's Business Handbook: How to Start, Finance, and Manage a Profitable Photography Business
John Stockwell , and Bert Holtje
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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ASIN: 0671608819

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Photographer's business handbook: How to start, finance, and manage a profitable photography business

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THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S BUSINESS HANDBOOK: HOW TO START, FINANCE, AND MANAGE A PROFITABLE PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS
John, editor Stockwell
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Stan Hart and Jack Davis put together the "MAD" enemies list.......2005-04-13

The "MAD Guide to Parents, Teachers and Other Enemies" by writer Stan Hart and artist Jack Davis was first published in 1985. To be clear, the guide is ABOUT parents, teachers and other enemies and not FOR parents, teachers and other enemies. The book is not organized by types of enemies (mother, father, brother, teacher, etc.) but rather the way they act so that the sections are devoted to key characteristic such as overprotectiveness, non sequiturs, invasion of privacy, the double standard, etc. The idea is that if you "understand the behavior of these everyday menaces" this would constitute the first step to combating these enemies.

Each page in this paperback provides a specific lesson about the appropriate topic. For example, the exploration of "anxiety" includes anxious mothers showing up at Little League games, fathers peeking into bedrooms to make sure you are asleep, teachers wanting you to go to an Ivy League College, and an older sister going on a diet. The better sections of the guide have to do with turning parental foibles to your advantage, so that an overprotective parent who is convinced you are on death's door when your temperature is 99.2 can mean that your can avoid mowing the lawn since you might get overheated or catch a cold.

My favorite section is probably the one devoted to "Things That Go 'Bump" in Your Life," which is devoted to THINGS that are your natural enemies instead of people. This includes such things as school hot lunches, the loose loose leaf page, and the evil smelling egg salad sandwiches. This underscores that the best parts of this guide have to do with being a student more than with being the offspring of your parental units. So this is a hit and miss collection, whose grand finale of the "Academy Awards for Enemies" is one of the weaker sections, but the hits are enough to round up on this "MAD" paperback.

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Good and Schultz demonstrate how the careful identification and management of technologies provide significant advantages that for many managers and firms far outweigh the disadvantages imposed through the invention of these technologies. As part of this exploration, the strategic, organizational, and managerial impacts of technology are explored in a variety of venues. The book discusses such topics as the roots and directions of technology, how technology will change organizational teamwork, its influence on internal and external (e.g., supplier and customer) relationships, opportunities provided technological entrepreneurs, and the influence of technology on marketing, employees, customer partnerships, information systems, and resource strategies. To demonstrate the practical application and to bring in real-life scenarios, a host of business applications are introduced. As a result, this book provides managers a strategic roadmap to using technology for a competitive advantage, while remaining free from the entanglement of specific technologies.

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Capitalize on the lucrative market for suburban residential development. This new book describes how consumer demands are changing, strategies for overcoming NIMBYism, and the latest trends related to open space, infill and mixed housing development, increasing density, transportation, and street design. Seasoned developers provide insight into what works--and the traps to avoid--in developing single- and multifamily properties ranging in size from 22 units to large planned communities, both conventional and new urbanist, in price ranges from affordable to luxury. Eleven case studies of projects in the United States and abroad illustrate how others are incorporating these trends into innovative and financially successful developments.

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Title: I'm a normal third grade kid. I like school sports and my friends. What I don't like is when other kids make fun of me. I have trouble pronouncing some letters and words. I get so mad that I cry. My mom says to walk away, but then they think that I'm scared.
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Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: Children's Better Health Institute
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Dad Was Right.......2007-04-25

I do not come from the background of many of those reading WWII books. I read this book looking for general information on the Battle of Okinawa and more specifically corraboration of information left by my father who fought there. This book is extensively researched and incredibly documented with the voices of those who lived and died there. Other reviewers of this and later additions have complained that it is not a Military History---one could argue convincingly that it is more a military history than the overly sanitized versions one is usually offered. Yes, it does not have the usual maps, diagrams and extensive strategies but in its place is the brutally bloody and human side of War.

At the outset my father claimed that the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. Honestly I had trouble swallowing this argument. However, after reading Tennozan, George Feifer has brought me around to my Father's line of thinking. My father was stationed on Nagasaki after Okinawa so he was in a position to compare the two.

After researching on the internet and in other books about Okinawa I could not find corroboration of my father's claim that attrocities had been committed on Okinawa by American's just as horrible as that of the My Lai massacres in Viet Nam. This book includes a chapter "American Atrocities." Although not comforting to the American psyche it is none the less important to have a full picture of the brutality of War from all sides.

An unexpected surprise was to glean the day to day life of a Marine and to understand what being a Marine meant to my father and to all those who wear the globe and anchor. Reading this book was a very personal journey. One I feel is worth taking. In honor of my father HQ Co. 1st Battalion, Eighth Marines, 2nd Division.

Big logical flaw.......2005-08-25

The psychology of the fighting man actually gets quite boring after several pages, and more of it is provided than is really necessary. Rather than focusing so heavily on that aspect, the book might have devoted more than one paragraph to the crucial issue of whether all those deaths were strategically necessary.

America lost thousands of men attacking Japanese dug in in southern Okinawa, south even of captured air bases. Given that Japan is north of southern Okinawa, it doesn't take a genius to point out what a dumb tactic this was. McArthur in fact pointed out what a dumb thing it was. But this glaring stupidity, central to the whole story, merited only a paragraph in the whole book. Of course the terrible toll on Okinawa was used to justify the 'life-saving' bombs, no doubt on the assumption that any invasion of Japan would be prosecuted in the same stupid way.

Labouring the horrible view from the trenches, when it was all for nothing, then using it to justify the atomic bombing, is essentially dishonest. Perhaps another book will compare the Battle of Okinawa with the Charge of the Light Brigade.

In the mud with the soldiers .......2005-07-03

The Battle for Okinawa has never found its way into American folk memory the way D-Day and Iwo Jima have. Perhaps the battle for the island was upstaged by the simultaneous collapse of Nazi Germany and rendered anti-climatic because of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan shortly thereafter.

Okinawa, however, was a battle that inspires superlatives. It was the bloodiest battle in the Pacific for both Americans and Japanese; the American fleet for the invasion was the most powerful naval armada ever assembled; the kamakazi attacks of the Japanese led to the largest naval losses the US has ever suffered; the number of soldiers and civilians killed in the battle exceeded those killed by both atomic bombs dropped on Japan.

This is one of the best books I have ever read on World War II. There is less here of strategy and tactics and more of the personal experiences of American and Japanese soldiers at the sharp end of the stick and the unfortunate Okinawans, a "little" people killed in wholesale numbers by both their Japanese overlords and the American invaders.

The author does an especially good job of examining the education and psychology of Japanese officers and soldiers and their incredibly naive faith that Japan would somehow prevail against the awesome American armada. He explores the Japanese cult of death and their archaic beliefs that courage and military virtues could overcome American firepower. (As a practical American said, brave men and firepower will always defeat brave men.) Most of all, the author paints a sympathetic picture of Okinawa and its peaceful people, one third of whom were killed in the battle.

"Tennozan" has not received the recognition it deserves as a classic of warfare. Perhaps this is because it is essentially an anti-war book that extols the courage of the fighting man -- but does not sugar-coat the atrocities committed by both Japanese and Americans. Perhaps it is because the book takes a forthright view of the correctness of the American decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. In my opinion, the author is fair-minded in all his conclusions and has turned out a magnificient work of art and history.

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Don't pass this up.......2005-03-22

This book has been around a while but your library should have it. It didn't get much of a play a few years back despite its excellence because it made the case for the necessity for dropping the atomic bombs. The Left, whom some believe control the book review industry and library services, didn't want to read such arguments and didn't want you to read them either. Not many people today, even those who can find Okinawa on a map, know that the 8th Air Force was scheduled to move to Okinawa when Germany went belly up. The move was already under weigh when the bombs were dropped. Your editor was talking to a veteran of Troop Carrier Command just the other day and he regaled me with tales of meeting 8th Air Force people newly arrived on Okinawa. They were out of their element, according to the TCC guy.

He did not know to what outfit the 8th people belonged but he thought they were some sort of pathfinder for those to follow. He said he became a hero to the 8th people who were desperate to know where they could buy some cigars. He managed to get them aboard a Navy ship where they got their cigars but refused offers of pogey-bait, a term unknown to refined 8th AF people. "Tennozan" was a famous site in the 16th century where a Japanese warlord risked everything on one battle. The 1945 warlords were planning to fight for every inch of the homeland in just such a struggle when Hiroshima and Nagasaki convinced them that further struggle was useless.

Perhaps you are alive today because of the events related in Tennozan. Your editor recalls August 9, 1945, very clearly. It was his 21st birthday. He was an RO on a B-24 heading for Chengtu (now Chengdu) from India with a cargo of high octane. Rumors were everywhere that soon we would move to China and resume bombing. I was fiddling with the radio when I heard an excited English language broadcast from someplace in China telling of the bomb that had just wiped out a city. It sounded like that bomb would end the war and we could go home. We began to celebrate on oxygen at altitude as best we could in a B24 that stunk of gasoline. We probably passed around the cigarettes!.jb

Rebirth, Resurrection.......2003-07-31

In Tennozan, Governor Ota tells of the morning he first felt hope after the Battle of Okinawa was over. Still a boy, but now, with grizzly experience that left very little child in him, he dipped a bamboo stick in his coffee and wrote these words over and over: SHINSEI SAISEI SHINSEI SAISEI-- Rebirth, Resurrection, Rebirth, Resurrection.

I grew up in Okinawa, so leftover signs from the Battle of Okinawa were common and thus, sometimes not thought about. My school was built on a ridge that WWII's 'bloodiest battle of the Pacific'was fought on; elderly women would occasionaly leave offerings at a deigo tree on campus. Friends' parents and grandparents had lived through it. Memorials were tourist attractions also good for fieldtrips. So the battle was all around and yet after reading Tennozan, I realised how much I never knew.

Although Feifer is American, he obviously has a very deep understanding of Okinawan culture and thinking. While he gives plenty of attention to the American perspective and experience, he does his best to give the Okinawan perspective just as much.

The highlight of the book is his following of Governor Ota's childhood story as a thread throughout the book. I had never heard his story, although I knew he'd been a young teen during the war. I never had considered that the same gracious, well-respected governor that my dad met with on occasion was once in the middle of a living hell and yet had managed to come out as a phoenix.

Tennozan reveals the extent of the horror that Okinawans were trapped within of this part of the war in a way that gripped me as it never had before. Equally, its portrait of the extent of the Okinawans' amazing courage, forgiveness, and will to live also gripped me as never before.

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Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
George Feifer
Manufacturer: Ticknor & Fields
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Binding: Hardcover
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From Churchill, Stalin, and Kennedy, to Blair, Clinton and Mandela, A Dictionary of Political Biography covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Compiled by an expert team of contributors under the editorship of Dennis Kavanagh, this new dictionary contains
over 1,000 entries which describe and assess the lives of the men and women who have shaped political events across the world. Each entry includes an account of the background, career, and achievements of the individual concerned, balancing fact with critical appraisal.
Including entries on Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Slobadan Milosevic, Francois Mitterrand, Mary Robinson, and Mao Zedong, A Dictionary of Political Biography is an indispensable and authoritative reference for anyone interested in twentieth-century history and politics.

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A Reference for Politicos.......2001-09-14

Quite simply, this is a fairly comprehensive biographical reference of those who play roles in politics that are in any way visible on the international level. Mostly, it is helpful for those obscure references to long-dead and/or faraway politicians whose names sound, perhaps, familiar. I recommend this book as a companion to political writings generally.

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Must have for Texas birders

Birders in Texas must have this book.

Best and Most Current Book on the Status of Texas Birds

The Tos Handbook of Texas Birds (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series, No. 36)
Mark W. Lockwood , and Brush Freeman
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1585442844

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The most ambitious edition yet of the Texas Ornithological Society checklist of Texas birds now includes range maps and color photographs of the birds much of the world comes to Texas to see. Based on the work of the Texas Bird Records Committee over almost three decades, The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds provides authoritative annotations on the abundance, status, and distribution of all species encountered in Texas; lists rare, introduced, and hypothetical species in the appendices; and offers a comprehensive reference section.

* Covers 623 species of birds currently listed for Texas

* With expert descriptions of the occurrence of each species

* Plus convenient range maps and distribution details for each species

* Plus 140 color photographs by well-known bird photographers of Texas specialties, rarities, and species of conservation concern

A one-stop source of information on Texas birds, The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds is an essential companion for bird enthusiasts.

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Must have for Texas birders.......2004-05-06

The new TOS Handbook is an indispensable reference to the current status of Texas' avifauna. The range maps are excellent and show seasonal changes in gray scale. Anyone interested in birding in Texas will want a copy of this book. It is not a field guide, but a reference on status and distribution.

Birders in Texas must have this book........2004-05-05

Whatever your general guide for the identification of birds is while in Texas you need this this companion book. Current information as to the status of Texas birdlife written by two premier Texas birders. A percentage of the profits are given to the Texas Ornithological Society.

Jack Clinton Eitniear
Editor/Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society
www.Texasbirds.org

Best and Most Current Book on the Status of Texas Birds.......2004-04-09

If you want to know the current status of any bird in Texas you need this book! Good range maps make it possible look at individual counties.

The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds.(Book Review): An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds.(Book Review): An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Jon L. Dunn
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Title: The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds.(Book Review)
Author: Jon L. Dunn
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 116 Issue: 4 Page: 366(2)

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