Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter: Improve Any Quilt with Easy-to-Follow Lessons

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Good color and composition course for quilters

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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter: Improve Any Quilt with Easy-to-Follow Lessons
Katie Pasquini Masopust , and Brett Barker
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• Color theory and composition—explained in clear, understandable quilters' language

Simple exercises—from no-sew step-by-step using the fabrics quilters love, to a color wheel built from scraps, to the easy "Nine Patches" approach to color and composition—show exactly how to understand design principles and incorporate them into the craft of quilting. A gallery of beautiful quilts follows each exercise and shows how beginners and professionals use color and composition techniques to create magic. Great for traditional and art quilters, this book makes quilters' talent shine.

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Wow!.......2007-02-15

Learn some new ways iof looking at color ar expand what you think you know. Lovely ideas and great things to put into use.

Good color and composition course for quilters.......2006-04-02

I took a basic color and design class at a community college about a decade ago. We worked through similiar exercises to those in this book, but with paper, not with fabric as in this book. If you have wanted to take a basic color and design class at a college but don't have the time or resources, this is an excellent book. The only thing I like better about the college class is that you have a real person demanding your homework!

Improve your skills.......2005-10-11

If you hated homework you won't like this book, but if you are willing to follow the instructions and trust the authors to lead you to new skills, you will come away from the lessons in this book with a better understanding of drawing and coloring ways to add to your personal style of making art quilts. I will do this and look forward to the experience!

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A book of beautiful and moving photographs covering the war cemeteries and memorials from nine theaters of the First World War.

- The results of the War Graves Commission's hard work in restoring resting places for the dead of the dreadful conflict that was to be the war to end all wars can be seen in this book of outstanding photographs.

- The Commission still maintains these cemeteries to provide a dignified and peaceful resting place for those who sacrificed their lives in the cause of freedom.

- The areas covered in this beautifully photographed book are:? Flanders 1914? The Marne and the Aisne? Artois? The Ypres Salient? Gallipoli? Verdun? The Somme? Italy? Macedonia

- The book also contains a short text which briefly explains who was fighting whom, and the place and date of each encounter.

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Poignant photography.......2002-01-19

This book consists primarily of photographs taken by an English doctor from 1975 to 1990 at and near war cemeteries and memorials related to World War One. There is a good text, which gives the background for the events which led to the cemeteries and memorials depicted. The photos are sobering, and if you are a student of photography would be of great interest. I sometimes thought the photos were designed more to show off the photographer's skill than to depict what was to be seen--which I confess is what I was looking for in the book, since I have never seen on the ground the awesome sights related to the First World War, and I suppose I never will. I did not appreciate this book as much as I did a book by Rose E. B. Coombs: Before Endeavours Fade: A Guide to Battlefields of the First World War, which I read on 4 May 1991 and which I thought was almost as worthwhile as going to France to see the sites discussed for myself. Garfield's book has many poignant quotes, but unfortunately does not have a bibliography of any kind.

THE FALLEN, A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE WAR CEMETERIES AND MEMORIALS OF THE GREAT WAR, 1914-18

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A joyous mix of Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts geared toward kids-at-heart of all ages, It's All Mine and You Can't Have It! contains more than 300 comic strips from the webcomic Innies and Outties dating from February, 2000 to January, 2002. Included is a gallery showing the visual development of Otis and Iris and an intro and foreword.

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This book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2. Inheriting the legacy of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), units such as the 23rd FG 'held the line' against overwhelming Japanese forces until the arrival of the first P-38s and P-51s in 1944. The Warhawk became synonymous with the efforts of the AAF in the CBI, being used by some 40 aces to claim five or more kills between 1942-45. This volume is the first of four covering the exploits with the P-40 during World War 2.

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Great reference on P-40s in the CBI.......2007-05-30

I ordered this book as a reference for a P-40 model I was building, and found it to be everything I needed and more. Plenty of photos, color plates and great reference material. It's also a good read, so it goes beyond a reference book. I highly recommend this book, as well as any book by Carl Molesworth, as well as the entire Osprey line. They've always been a valuable resource.

Aerial Victories Discrepencies.......2006-11-13

I love the air war in the CBI, so even though I am a historian amateur, I have a good knowledge about the air aces of that theater since I have read every book about the 14th Air Force, Flying Tiger, and the 23rd Fighter Group. The one flaw I see in the book is the list of aerial victories by the CBI P-40 aces. Unless, the United States Air Force had revises the confirm air to air victories of its aces, I believes the air to air victory list is incorrect. Otherwise, I would have rate this book as five stars.

John Hampshire is suppose to have 17 confirmed air victories. In the book, he is credited with 10 kills.

Robert L. Scott is suppose to have been credited with 13 or 14 confirmed air victories. Like John Hampshire, Scott is also credited with 10 kills in the book. After Colonel Scott had walk the entire length of the Great Wall of China in the 1980s or 1990s, he should have set out to get confirmation on 9 aircraft he had claimed to shot down. The man was really tenacious in achieving his goals no matter how incredible the odds were against him. If he really had shot down 22 enemy craft, then the
P-40 would be really be seen as the ultimate aircraft symbol that represent the air war in China.

Reviving the tarnished rep of this aircraft.......2006-03-22

In reading this well researched book, WW II Historians amateur and otherwise may be surprised to learn that the P-40 squadrons in this Theater had consistently excellent combat records against the Japanese Army Air Forces, not just in the AVG days but throughout the war.

Lots of good pictures........2001-06-08

An easy read, but not very detailed. However, it wasn't meant to be a technical analysis of the subject. I have read several books on this subject, so the names and events were familiar. If you have an interest in the CBI area of operations, you need this book. It's on my shelf as a keeper.

Another Good book by Osprey Publishing.......2001-01-03

The book P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI goes into great deal with the AVG (American Volunteer Group) early battles with the Japanese fighters and bombers in early 1941 through to 1944. The colour plates of the P-40s are well detailed adn the archival photos and uniforms also bring the book to life. This book also interviews many of the aces of the AVG and show explicit deatil of aerial combat over china

Aircraft of the Aces 35 - P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CBI

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In spring 1945, as the Russians moved on Berlin and it became clear the Nazi cause was lost, Adolf Hitler assured his most trusted henchmen that even if he were to die, "the seed of National Socialism will grow again one day [in] . . . a radiant rebirth." Several times after the war, the distinguished author Peter Wyden, himself a victim of the Nazis, returned to Germany to discover, to his dismay, that Hitler's prediction was all too true.In these unsettling pages, Wyden documents the reality that the "Hitler virus" is still very much alive. A harrowing companion to Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this book is Wyden's legacy to the world.

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Utterly fails to prove the existance of a virus.......2006-12-06

The Hitler Virus by Peter Wyden

Utterly fails to prove the existance of a virus

I was dissapointed by having hasted time reading this 340 page book. Why did I start reading such conspiratorial book, might you ask? Because one day while perusing the books in my town's library I saw this book and the whole premise intrigued me. As some Americans happen to be anglophiles or francophiles, I happen to be germanophile. The goods part about the book is that I learned some german words, I am more educated about the general culture and life in Germany (author talks about a lot of important personalities, and mass-media events in WestGermany), but I also started developing a bitter taste for the author's writing style and content.

Peter Wyden, speaks fluent German (albeit with a Berliner accent), and as a Jew he was forced to leave Berlin in 1937. What Wyden does in this book is try to prove evidence of his thesis: that "Hitler's spirit is alive and well" in Germany. He does this by employing the same tactics that he accuses the Nazi sympathizers of doing. Taking stories out of context, relying on bloated mass-media sensationalist stories (of which he is a great compilers, nevertheless), of failing to logically connect the dots (and this also involves American and British personalities in the post WW II era), injecting his own venom in how he spins various isolated stories. Wyden is a great story teller, a master of art and the pen is his sword.

I don't want to bash the deceised author, as I think just like his publisher (who finished his work) he is concerned for the current German youth population and what the general attitude and culture towards the dark "Adolf zeit" (Hitler years) is in today's Germany (book published in 2001). But the author's theory that many "hanker after their Fuehrer and apparently cannot let his spirit die" is a typecast generalization that the author wants to believe from the start of the book. He makes his case connecting random thoughts of historical accounts, public opinion polls (which are selected with a fine comb), annectodes of individual neo-Nazi or Nazi sympathizers. And to tie it all up, the author goes into the territory of individual vs. national guilt that Germans do not express and the apparent lacking remorse. Well, I wish I could exchange some experiences with the author (pre-mortem) that I had with regular German folks talking over dinner about the same subject. I wonder how the author would feel if he grew up in Cold war Germany where there is no sense of national pride, where you're not allowed to say the anthem fully, and where National Sozialismus is discussed at nauseum (in alsmost every class imaginable - biology, geography, history) and a western white-washed history is presented ?

Sadly, I feel the author is locked into his interpretation and understanding of the German psyche. From my exposure visiting and talking to Germans, this is not a easy territory to deliniate. The Germans are a complex people, just as the publisher notes, and one should not jump to conclusions just because of an isolated hate event or a pseudo-scientist denies the Holocaust. To better explain this, imagine that a British (who may resent the fact that the US is not part of the British Commonwealth and imperial legacy) or Japanese author (who is a convinced emperor=sun-god believer) would write a book presenting evidence that Americans are bigotted, racist, and even anti-Semitic during the 1930 and 40's. And the evidence presented is that the US had pockets of populations (even a demonstration in Madison Gardens, New York city) of Nazi sympathizers, that we refused emigration vizas to thousands of German Jews, that we discriminated blacks in the military and public life, that Japanese were interred in reservation camps on the west coast. All these true historical facts could be loosely used along with imflamatory newspaper front-page slogans, and an author's hidden agenda to portray the United States on par with any imperialistic and semi-democratic regime in the West at the turn of the 20th century.

Learning from history is a great thing. As the famous quote goes "the ones who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it." But to neglect journalistic rules and ethic and build a "virus" case that will ultimately polarize people instead of achieving some common good, speaks more about the author (Peter Wyden) than his subject (how Germans feel about Hitler and the Nazi past).

errors in his discussion of Heimat.......2005-06-21

This was an interesting book, and I devoured it in one sitting. However, I have given it a poor rating solely for for its misrepresentations of Edgar Reitz' film Heimat, which are not incidental but go to the heart of his analysis in this chapter. I think that Wyden either did not watch the film before reviewing it to make his points or I don't know what. I know this type of thing is necessarily subjective, but still... could one legitimately say that Beethoven's 9th symphony is a "jolly ditty"?

I don't have the book in front of me for the quotes I want to bring out. Nevertheless I want to go ahead and post this, so please forgive the errors that will creep in.

i) Wyden says Eduard becomes mayor and then marries Lucie. He marries her first. His wife hectors him to be somebody, and he resultingly ends up as a mayor. Wyden makes it sound as if he had this type of ambition himself--definitely not the case.

ii) Maria is not the Wiegand's younger daughter, she is the only daughter. The female relationships are important in this movie, so it just seems sloppy to state that there is another daughter.

iii) Wyden states that Reitz uses color footage to show "explosions of swastika banners" or some such to make his "points." This gives a totally false impression, and I actually don't recall even one instance where such a scene occurs. The bursts of color are charmingly erratic, sometimes emphasizing some emotional point (e.g., the sparks when Paul hits the anvil upon his return home or when Maria feeds the fire upon Otto's return to her) and sometimes appearing for no apparent reason other than artistic whim. Perhaps the glowing red ruby eyes of the death's head rings that frighten Maria would have been a better example, but these are not so much representative of the official, "public" party as they are of individuals' "private" choices to accomodate themselves to Nazism. Also, there are colorized swastika armbands, but I believe that Wyden writes as though Reitz produced, however ironically, some "Triumph of the Will"-type spectacles, which is not the case.

iv)warfare/civilian atrocities downplayed: I know this is a controversial point with this film, so let me just bring out a spot where Wyden misrepresents the film. "One character views a [presumably partisan fighter or Russian civilian--reviewer] shooting at a neutral, sanitizing distance through a camera lens." IF he is speaking here of where Anton is participating in filming the execution of individuals in the snowy woods (and that is the closest thing to what he is talking about that I can think of), it is wrong to say Anton is looking through a lens--he is trying to fix a telephoto lens when the shootings take place. More importantly, the focus on the camera "used as a gun" serves to heighten the impact of this scene to an almost unbearable degree rather than to "sanitize" it. This is a blatant misrepresentation of this film.

iv) doughty characters, "muddle-through" attitude, etc. This trivializes the film, which is anyone's right, but I strongly disagree with this shallow assessment. Also "drowning in detail," etc.

v) "Heimatfilme" as a Nazi genre: I am not sure about this, but I believe that "Heimat" films were popular in the 1950s and are considered as a genre to be a "regionalistic" reaction to the emphasis on nationalism in the Nazi times. Wyden subtly implies that Reitz named his film after a Nazi-inspired film movement, not because he is a Nazi sympathizer, but as part of his attempt to "cover up," "reclaim," or go beyond, etc.

The Allies may have won the battle the war continues.......2002-09-02

... At at time when revisionists are busily trying to rewrite everything from the horrors of the holocaust to the origins of the US Constitution as a Christian based document, it is refreshing to read the work of an author who was in fact born in Germany making him a German Jew. Mr. Wyland experienced first hand the rabid anti-semitism that was rampant in 1937 Germany when his parents fled to the United States. Mr. Wyland started "The Hitler Virus" in the 1970's, but other projects kept him from it's completion. The fact is his widow and editor finished up the final touches on the book after Mr. Wyland's death in 1998.

The book does at times meander but I suspect that is due to the fact the author didn't have the chance to polish up his manuscript before his death. If you want to understand many of the current political undertows sweeping the globe today, the Hitler Virus will give you insight into the insidious nature of hate, political extremism, and where with the help of religion horrors such as the holocaust occur. My only complaint is that once again only the Jewish victims of the holocaust are referred to. Once and for all people need to understand there were another six to seven million people killed in camps who were non Jews. They too deserve to be remembered.

Rancid and exploitive.......2002-06-28

I will admit, I was leery of the book when I bought it. Mostly because of the opening line in the introduction detailing how this was not a indictment of a "complex people." I was not pleasantly surprised.

Wyden, a German born American Jew who had worked in the the US Army's denazification program and later as a journalist takes the reader on a disorganized, disjointed journey though modern Germany (with random side trips to the US and Austria as well as to the past). Almost every sentence until the closing chapters of this book reeks of disdain for the "complex people" he was not indicting.

The Hitler Virus' first and major sin is it's disorganization as the reader is taken from chapter to chapter in random directions with no controlling vision of what he is trying to say. The few good chapters (dealing with David Irving and the children of Nazi parents) are dealt with much better in books he cites (Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust and Sichrovsky's Born Guilty).

The second deadly sin of this book is it's terrible abuse of statistics when he does use them. Numbers are clothed in yellow language meant to slant the reader without explaining other factors which can only be inferred. When the numbers are not as shocking as he'd like, Wyden often mentions how Germans are unlikely to admit unpolitic feelings to pollsters, which I thought was a novel defense of desperation.

The best example of this is early in the book:

"Another poll in the new millennium revealed that 79 percent of Germans see May 8, 1945, as a day of liberation rather than a day of defeat. However, if one considers different age groups separately, 87 percent of people under the age of thirty think that May 8, 1945 was a day of liberation, while only 67 percent of those over fifty do."

Perhaps, being an American, I tend to think of 67 percent as a high figure for any poll, and hardly worth an "only", especially given that if it was indeed taken at the end of the century than this poll would have included East Germans for whom the end of World War II was the start of a forty year nightmare, and certainly not a day of liberation.

Wyden also fails to place facts in context--in a chapter on Konrad Adenauer he proposes what he thinks will be a shocking revaluation that the post-war chancellor was not a true democrat. I haven't read any serious book on post war Germany that suggested he was. It is a well known fact that Adenauer hated consulting the Bundestag and would frequently end run the parliamentary process if he could.

Wyden though infers the chancellor was a nazi because of the brown past of several of his appointees. One has to wonder how one was going to find enough people qualified to run the government in post war West Germany with no brown past. After all, this was not an occupied state being freed.

Another proof Wyden gives to paint Adenauer brown is the fact that he pushed High Commissioner McCoy to commute the death sentences of several convicted war criminals. A point to remember is that the Federal Republic had outlawed the death penalty in the forming of the Basic Law and at the very least the chancellor had asked that the sentences be commuted to fall in line with this. This is not to say that is the only reason Adenauer lobbied for McCoy on behalf of the war criminals, but it is a side that Wyden simply does not inform the reader of.

Perhaps to me most insidious is not the German bashing, or the disorganization, or even the 'lies, damn lies and statistics' but the fact that this subject deserved better.

The only thing I agree with Wyden about is that Adolf Hitler is the big pink elephant sitting in the middle of German life, and of any conversation about history between Germans or with Germans and non-Germans. But sadly, Wyden abandons his stated goal, only talking about neo-Nazies and anti-emegrant feeling in passing and ignoring the basic hardships left behind in the old DDR which might foster a rise of a right-wing party.

Wyden treats Germans and Austrians as if they are interchangeable, and my great fear is that the lay reader which this book is aimed at will not understand the fundamental difference between the two German speaking nations. Farther afield are discussions of American hate publishers and Nazi collectors which seem to have only tangential baring on the issue of if the virus is alive in Germany today.

The only people who will be satisfied with this book are those who had preconceived notions about a people who's national guilt will last much longer than anyone has a right to demand of them. The author began his work by telling the reader he was close to the subject, what he did not tell his readers is that he was TOO close to his subject.

Hitler in the twenty first century.......2001-07-08

What you make of this book depends what you expected when you picked it up. The expression 'virus' rather suggests an analysis of how Hiterlism still infects the body politic. Up to a point, that is right. Wyden (who died before completing the text) does consider ultra right movements such as Haider's in Austria and is adroit in considering the continuing fascination for the Fuhrer amongst tourists and skinheads. But those references hardly add up to a comprehensive treatment. The author is far more successful in tracing the post war political careers or influence of card carrying nazis, for example Remer (who saved the regime in the failed July 1944 coup)and a veritable tribe of unpunished former SS who popped up all over the world in new guises. For my money, this book illustrates that Hitler's influence has certainly persisted since 1945 without really telling us why or to what end. Perhaps those loathsome internet hate groups have some of the answers.

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