Country Houses of England: Landhauser in England = Les Maisons Romantiques D'Angleterre (Specials)

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Pleasant browsing.......2001-05-24

This book is a very nice compilation. It has the usual high "Taschen" standard of photography and is nice and heavy on the pictures. The other great thing about the book is that it shows a series of very "lived in" sort of interiors (unlike the really contrived sort you so often see in design books). Overall, a really enjoyable read for anyone interested in seeing how the other half lives.

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“It’s rare to find a series of basic instructional books that are well executed, comprehensive, and attractively priced. The quality of this series is consistent....Purchase as many of these as your budget allows.”—Library Journal. “Explores the various techniques and materials to create a still life painting with ink, pencils and paints.”—Art Materials Retailer.

Drawing & Painting Techniques: A Step-By-Step Guide

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Drawing & Painting Techniques: A Step-By-Step Guide

Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0760759596

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Drawing and Painting Techniques is a practical and inspiring course for artists of all abilities. Follow the 80-plus practical, problem-solving lessons and expert hints and tips in this book and you, too, will be able to create perfect paintings and artworks.

How to Draw and Paint Landscapes (Famous Artists School : Step-By-Step Method)

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How to Draw and Paint Landscapes (Famous Artists School : Step-By-Step Method)
Cortina Famous Schools Staff
Manufacturer: Cortina
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0805015299

Step by Step Techniques Pack: Airbrushing / Gouache / Still Life / Landscapes / Drawing: (1 Each of the 5 Titles) (Step-by-step Art School)

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Step by Step Techniques Pack: Airbrushing / Gouache / Still Life / Landscapes / Drawing: (1 Each of the 5 Titles) (Step-by-step Art School)

Manufacturer: Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 043107867X

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Since 1987 editorial cartoonist Jim Day of the Las Vegas Review-Journal has satirized the process of attempting to find the "best" way to dispose of nuclear waste by "studying" only a single option--burying the stuff in Nevada. As Congress prepared to endorse the inevitable result, Day and the Review-Journal collected the best of those jabs into this book.

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Excellent, Inspiring, Focus for new beginners.......1999-09-11

This book is a excellent guide for new beginners at the business of real estate. It takes you step by step to obtain your first goal as a real estate agent. It's easy to understand, and it is real inspirational. I recommend this book to every person who desires to start this profesion.

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The Story of Hello Kitty

Not in depth enough and no really unifying thread

Great concept - poorly written.

comprehensive... almost

HELLO KITTY

Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon
Ken Belson , and Brian Bremner
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Hello Kitty Everywhere!: Haiku: Postcards in a Hinged Box

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Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)

ASIN: 0470821515

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Now in paperback, the inside story of the cartoon kitty that became a multibillion-dollar global enterprise

The only business book to offer an in-depth exploration of the Hello Kitty phenomenon, Hello Kitty tells the amazing story of how the Japanese company Sanrio bucked the odds and transformed a bulbous, all-but-featureless cartoon critter into a multibillion-dollar global business powerhouse. Readers will learn how and why the Hello Kitty brand clicked with children and adults, across cultures, and how it continues to successfully compete, internationally, with Disney and Warner Brothers. This book is packed with valuable lessons about the awesome power of branding, marketing, and licensing to capture the hearts and minds of consumers.

Ken Belson (Tokyo, Japan) covers Japanese business, economics, and government policy for the New York Times. His work has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Fortune, Bloomberg News, the International Herald Tribune, and Barron's, among others. Brian Bremner (Tokyo, Japan) currently serves as Asia Economics Editor for BusinessWeek and writes a weekly column called "Eye on Japan" for BusinessWeek Online.

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The Story of Hello Kitty.......2006-07-03

If you are a Hello Kitty fan you might want to know more about how it all got started. Sometimes repetitious, but still fun to read if you are a Hello Kitty fan, this book provides tons of information about Sanrio and Hello Kitty and her makers. It is an interesting story. Did you know Bill Gates tried to buy the copywrite to Hello Kitty? A fun read. Good for summer relaxing or rainy days in a blanket. It will make you love Kitty White even more (if that is possible!)!

Not in depth enough and no really unifying thread.......2005-04-20

I think the authors were writing this to be used as a textbook for a business class. There was no message beyond Hello Kitty is sucessful. Yeah, I figured that out from the title. Additionally, many details were repeated in multiple chapters. Overall there was no unifying thread from the authors. They didn't tell us their interpretation of why Hello Kitty was successful or how it came to be in their opinion. It was interesting but not earth shattering.

Great concept - poorly written........2005-01-09

I am a huge fan of the Sanrio company and everything it creates and I received this book for Christmas. The writing style is typical of a high school student's book report. The same facts are repeated over and over, making half the book seem like filler. The same numbers and figures and statements are constantly repeated. In short, the book could have been about 30 pages long without the filler.

It backtracks a lot also. It feels like every chapter is written by a new writer who was told to research Hello Kitty (like I said, it repeats). I wish it would have had a more linear style, from beginning to end.

The facts are very interesting though, and learning about the creator was also a nice treat.

comprehensive... almost.......2004-09-27

This book was recommended by a friend who has extensive experience in the consumer goods industry. It was an interesting read, as I'm a fan of Hello Kitty as well as a business school graduate. The authors do a good job of explaining a lot of the background regarding how Sanrio got to where it is today.

One of the things I hoped this book would answer is the question of why Sanrio would distribute its products through a mass retailer like Target. It never even came close to this issue; I'm still curious to know Sanrio's strategy with Target.

I agree with Tristan Beaulieu that the later chapters begin to repeat content from earlier chapters. I'm not sure if this is because it was written by two authors and simply wasn't integrated well enough. Also, some of the earlier chapters refer to vignettes coming later in the book, but it turns out to be a letdown when most of the story has already been revealed by its earlier reference.

HELLO KITTY.......2004-04-13

It?s so easy to trivialize the significance of Hello Kitty?s simple iconic image. But here the authors have skillfully drafted a book that deconstructs the appeal of this cross-cultural phenomenon and the behind-the-scenes machinations of its hugely successful marketing and merchandising.

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Buenas ideas para ver la vida con optimismo.......2007-09-26

Compre este libro para un ser querido, despues de leerlo yo mismo. Creo que las ideas de Louise Hay son una voz positiva que ayuda a combatir los malos y aveces dolorosos pensamientos y el estres que nos puede trastornar cuando hemos perdido fe en si-mismo.

conocer nuestro cuerpo.......2006-06-23

Revela el lenguaje de nuestro cuerpo y de como pensar acerca de nosotros para sanarlo.

Aprender sobre nuestro propio poder.......2005-01-16

Uno de los mejores libros para darnos cuenta del gran poder y responsabilidad que tenemos sobre nuestra propia vida.

Un buen cambio en mi vida........2002-10-12

Yo e leido muchos libros en mi vida,y ninguno como este es la primera ves que un libro me quita el sueño solo para pensar en lo mucho que me debo querer aunque suene extraño pase la primera noche sin pegar un ojo diciendome a mi misma cuanto me amo lo recomiendo para todos aquellos que tengan deseo de cambiar su vida para una vida mas complaciente y agradable,creo firmemente en un cambio mundial y apolo la idea de esta maravillosa persona que entro a mi vida atraves del libro.

Louise Hay helped me change my life!.......2000-07-14

Fifteen years ago I was struggling to rebuild my life after a second divorce, cancer, and bankruptcy. Someone handed me You Can Heal Your Life and I went home and read it. After reading a few pages I recognized how I had created my life by the choices I had made. I saw myself for the first time: my anger, my guilt, resentment. I knew then those negative emotions had poisoned my life. I then decided to change. I started working on myself using Luise's book. I recreated myself into the person I had always wanted to be. Today I am positive, happy, independent and most of all, healthy. I thank Luoise. Everyone on this planet needs to read her book. Emelina

Usted Puede Sanar Su Vida - Edicion Color

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Usted Puede Sanar Su Vida - Edicion Color
Louise L. Hay
Manufacturer: Ediciones Urano
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Usted Puede Sanar Su Vida-Bolsillo-Books4pock

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Usted Puede Sanar Su Vida-Bolsillo-Books4pock
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8496829014

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Hitler's Gladiator is the life of German general Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich, who rose from private soldier in the Kaiser's army to command an SS panzer army in the closing stages of the Second World War.

Dietrich was one of the more notorious but intriguing characters of the Nazi era. It is impossible to disassociate him from the excesses of the Hitler regime, he was close to the heart of the party and Hitler himself and was twice convicted as a war criminal.

However, he was also an effective and much admired military commander; he was devoted to his men and led them through some of the fiercest fighting and harshest conditions experienced during the war.

In this revised and extensively illustrated paperback edition, Charles Messenger provides an objective account of the life and times of Sepp Dietrich, painting a vivid picture of life under the Third Reich.

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One and only Sepp biography..........2007-06-05

There was a lot of man in front of the eyes when you take a look at the history of the Third Reich. And there is alot of things to say about them. When the SS matters, one can easily count Sepp Dietrich`s name in the top 5. So he must have been one of the most well-known persons in the Third Reich history, but not.

This biography especially deals with the wars of Sepp Dietrich. I couldn`t find many useful information about his early life and what did he do just before the WW2 between 1933-1939 (the book spared only 20 pages for that). The 47 years of his life between 1892-1939 covers only 70 pages and most of them are not directly about Sepp, only giving a brief summary of the events.

Sepp will be still a mystery after reading this book. And many new questions will arise about him.

But there is a big advantage of this book. It`s the one and only. So I won`t say "Don`t buy this one". Read it if you have interest about Sepp but minimilise your expectations.

First and Only Biography in English of Controversial German War Hero.......2007-05-26

Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a charismatic leader of the Waffen-SS. He fought in World War I and became the first true military leader of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in 1933, which became the first division of the Waffen-SS in 1941. Acting on the orders of Hitler (not to mention Himmler, Goering, and others), he was directly responsible for executing several SA members in the June 1934 Nazi party purge of its enemies that became known as the Night of the Long Knives.

He fought in all major German fronts in World War II, except for North Africa, including the invasion of Poland, the invasion of France, the evacuation at Dunkirk, the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the invasion of Russia, the defense of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and the defense of Vienna. Throughout these campaigns Sepp Dietrich and the accomplishments of his men were lauded in the German press to the point that he rivalled Rommel in press coverage and adulation.

At first commanding the SS LAH until it grew to divisional size and strength during Operation Barbossa, Sepp Dietrich later became commander of the First SS Panzer Corps, and eventually, after his successful maneouveres in defending the invasion of Normandy, commander of the Sixth SS Panzer Army.

Sepp Dietrich's contemporaries in the Wehrmacht, namely the Prussian officer class, acknowledged his personal skills in motivating and leading his men but most believed that he had risen above his abilities in becoming if not a corps commander then certainly commander of his own army. Nonetheless, his successes against overwhelming odds continued at both the corps and army level and his few failures were more often than not based on factors outside of his control, such as Hitler's micromanagement of strategy and tactics, which eventually led to a rift between the two men.

At the end of the war, Sepp Dietrich was sentenced to life imprisonment at a war crimes trial over allegations of his involvement, due to vague orders regarding the taking of prisoners, in the deaths of numerous U.S. soldiers at Malmedy during the Ardennes offensive. This was later reduced to 25 years and he ended up serving 10. (No one was ever executed for the Malmedy massacre because it came to light after the trial was over that confessions used at the trial were obtained by beatings, torture, and psychological manipulation, including mock executions.) He was also condemned to death, in absentia, by the Soviets for atrocities committed by the SS LAH during the Battle of Kharkov. Finally, he received a 19-month sentence by a German court for his part in the Night of the Long Knives. Released in 1959, he lived until 1966. Despite his controversial past, six to eight thousand comrades in arms attended his funeral.

Charles Messenger's "Hitler's Gladiator" is the first and only attempt to tell Sepp Dietrich's story in English. (There is also one in French but inexplicably none in German.) In so doing, the author does an excellent job of objectively assessing Sepp Dietrich's history based on meticulous and thorough research. Woven throughout that history is also a history of the Nazi party and World War II. Included are a sprinkling of maps and two sections of photos. Essential reading for students of World War II in Europe, Nazism, Hitler, or the Waffen-SS.

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An indispensable resource for anyone in need of avian art, this magnificent compendium comprises more than 600 royalty-free images. Featuring the work of many different artists, it abounds in accurate renderings of ducks and geese, herons, owls, eagles, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and many other birds, both familiar and less well known, from the world over.

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