Gustav Klimt: Erotic Sketches / Erotische Skizzen (Erotic Sketchbook)
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  • Not worth the pretty binding and ribbons.
Gustav Klimt: Erotic Sketches / Erotische Skizzen (Erotic Sketchbook)
Gustav Klimt
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3791333968

Book Description

This unique and intimate treasure of a book captures the sensual pleasure of an artist's sketchbook as well as the genius behind Klimt's vision of women.

Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's sketchbook, this exquisite volume culls the artist's most beautiful erotic sketches and watercolors. The experience of viewing it awakens the senses, while affording the reader the guilty pleasure of leafing through an artist's most private visions. The stunning color reproductions, embossed cover and calf binding make this a perfect gift for lovers of art and for lovers everywhere.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2007-07-07

I bought this book because I saw the exhibit at the Musee Maillot in Paris in 2005 and stupidly didn't buy their book of the drawings as I thought I could buy it here it here in the US. (Which isn't possible). This is an extremely disappointing pick of very few of his drawings, all of which were certainly not my favorites. There were so many which better demonstrated his skill in catching the expression, the sexuality and the beauty in very few lines I am surprised at all the inclusions and the exclusions. In my mind he picked the weaker drawings. And yes, they didn't even catch an obvious drawing inserted upside down, which unfortunately states a lot since there are so few of them.

1 out of 5 stars Not worth the pretty binding and ribbons........2005-12-12

The presentation is great - I thought this would be a treat. Great binding, nice ribbon, and maybe this would make a good introduction to Klimt's erotic figure-work BUT . . .! There are only 56 drawings, most of them have been seen and reproduced in other books. An index gives specific information about the images but since the pages are unnumbered, good luck trying to match a drawing with its description.

The drawings are not in chronological order so you can't see Klimt's style change. The drawings are cut off and cropped sloppily and set on the page arbitrarily; some in the middle of the page, others shoved to the top or bottom for no particular reason. Actual image quality varies since the drawings are taken from a variety of sources; some look as if they were hastily run through Photoshop to clean them up. (But if you tell this was done, if you can SEE the digital manipulation, that doesn't say much, now does it?) Judging by the screen dots and other indicators some drawings show, a lot of these drawings were scanned from other books, run through a Photoshop-type of program to fill out the page - and not very diligently. I think the publishers were trying to be artistic. Or something. They've failed miserably.

Thames & Hudson did an Egon Schiele book a while ago that shows you CAN do this kind of thing well, at a great price and with tons of illustrations, not just 56. In April of 2006, they are going to release a Klimt book. Skip this feeble Prestel book and wait for the T&H book.

One last observation about the book at hand: the drawing on page 34 is badly placed at the bottom of the page . . . and is UPSIDE DOWN.

The Encyclopedia of Flower Painting Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques
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    The Encyclopedia of Flower Painting Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques
    Sue Burton
    Manufacturer: Sterling
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    Capturing the complex structure of flowers requires careful observation, practice, and instruction. Learn how to reproduce the intricacies of various shapes. Arrange flowers for a beautiful composition; face the challenges of painting outdoors, where nature offers so many tempting options; or see how to paint from photographs.

    New spaces: The holographers vision : an exhibition made possible by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and from Marilyn L. Steinbright, the ... September 26, 1979 to March 21, 1980
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      ASIN: 0891680292

      The Christmas Opus 'n Bill
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        Creating 3-D Animation, originally published in 1998 and based on the work of Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman Animation, creators of the wildly popular Wallace and Gromit short films, has become required reading for animation courses around the world. In addition to being the most thorough treatment of 3-D puppet animation, also known as stop-action animation, the book was the first complete how-to guide that catered to both novices and experienced animators.

        Since the book was published, Aardman released Chicken Run, its first feature film and an enormous box-office success. Also during that time, the studio began to rely more heavily on computer graphics. This revised edition brings Aardman's technology and achievements up to date. With 32 additional pages that include techniques developed during the making of Chicken Run and a further exploration into the use of computer graphics-a necessity now for animators-this edition remains the best book on the art of puppet animation and a must-have for all animators and animation junkies. AUTHOR BIO: Peter Lord, with partner David Sproxton, founded Aardman Animation in 1976. He has received several Academy Award nominations for his work on Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, and Creature Comforts. Brian Sibley is a writer and broadcaster who has written extensively about Aardman, including Abrams' Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie. Nick Park joined Aardman in 1986. His Oscar-nominated A Grand Day Out (1989) introduced the world to Wallace and Gromit.

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        4 out of 5 stars Short and concise.......2006-11-06

        Good review of the history of stop motion and a great introdutction into making stop motion movies, though not too deep. Some explanations are rather short and not everything is explained. Good price and quality.

        4 out of 5 stars Good, but no bible.......2005-10-24

        An excellent book for fans of Aardman and those wanting a basic overview, but only fair for those looking for detailed information on how to create their own stop-motion films. Susanah Shaw's book comes closer to being the "bible" for puppet animators. But there are at least 6 crafts involved in stop motion, each deserving of a book in themselves, so no single volume can cover it all in detail. Worth buying, but don't expect it to be the all-in-one answer.

        5 out of 5 stars Cracking Good Book, Gromit!.......2004-11-27

        Aardman is one of the most admired animation studios around, known by animators and regular people alike as the creators of beloved clay animation characters like Wallace and Gromit, and the "Creature Comforts'" pent-up zoo cat ("I need space!"). This book will be devoured like candy by anyone wanting a closer look. The text provides a well-rounded animation primer, but it's the pictures that really make this book such a valuable reference. Clay characters are removed from their backgrounds and depicted clearly in frame-by-frame movement sequences that demystify even the complex animation sequences. It also offers practical advice on building characters and other handy tips for animation production. If you are doing clay animation of your own, you'll refer to this book again and again. In the UK this book is titled "Cracking Animation" for the cheese-loving Wallace's favorite complement.

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        • as nasty they be: the uncensored story of luther campbell
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        4 out of 5 stars as nasty they be: the uncensored story of luther campbell.......2001-05-03

        I have read this book before and it was so good that my college roomate took the book with him. it is excellent history of the notorious rap group mogul luther Campbell, in his tell all history of the dirty rap game. and how he came to be the first black own record company CEO.

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        5 out of 5 stars Sudoku Fever.......2006-09-25

        Sudoku! Even the name is redolent of an island paradise far from the traditional workaday rat race! Did you know that, as Michael Mepham confesses, the game is an American one which the Japanese picked up and gave it their own translation for its name? It's true: "Su" means "number," while "doku" means bachelor. And In English, "sudo" means "pseudo," that is, ersatz or fake, while "ku" means, well, in English we have the expression "cuckoo," as in "I'm nuts about Sudoku!"

        Mepham is an affable editor who has grouped his puzzles from easy to hard, or in his words, gentle to diabolical.

        Every couple of spaces he helps out and drops a digit into one of the boxes. For imagine how "diabolical" this game would be with no numbers in it whatsoever! Will Shortz has several Sudoku books not worth the paper they're printed on, for Will is great at wordplay but I wouldn't trust him across the street without his pocket calculator. Meanwhile, England's Mepham is a sly dog, for when I picked up my pencil, never having seen a Sudoku puzzle before, and tried to solve the one on page 65, I saw right away the numbers 1, 6, 7, and 9, and I thought to myself, "What if this is some sort of reference to English history?" For example, which famous philosopher and author of THE LEVIATHAN died in that year? Why, Thomas Hobbes, of course, the man who wrote, "All that is real is material, and what is not material is not real." In France in that same year Papin invented the pressure cooker: coincidence? I think not!

        As a puzzler, Mepham's happy flourish is his reluctance to use the number "8," and also his quirk in labelling his hard puzzles easy, whereas even your own children in 4th grade will be able to polish all his so-called "stumpers." It's sort of like, you know how in England, you have to drive on the wrong side of the road? Grading your Sudokus is like that here. This was last year's hottest puzzle craze, and for me, the puzzles on page 65 (the aforementioned "moderate" Hobbesian puzzle), 105, with its geometrically spiral hint cluster, and 127, with its ribbon of hints forming a northeast-southwest pattern, are the sweetest flavors on display here.

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        I got interested in Sudoku puzzles through the newspaper, and I felt I had the grasp of it and could solve them fairly quickly when I received this book as a gift. While the introduction to Sudoku was helpful and much more thorough than other books, I was very nearly put off by what they consider "gentle" puzzles. I found them quite difficult compared to what I had encountered in the newspaper and on the internet. So I would not consider this the book for a very casual sudoku puzzler but rather someone who wants more of a challenge. Assuming I ever get through the "gentle" ones, I imagine the moderate and tough part of the book will go untouched.

        5 out of 5 stars This book has a great introduction. Solid sudoku book overall........2006-05-04

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        Another bonus is the fact that there are blank grids at the end in case you screw up too bad or simply want to reproduce them with a photocopier. This is another feature that is not always included in other books.

        Finally, a suggestion for other solvers out there that are having troubles with the quality of paper that these puzzles are printed on (this is a trick I learned when I was doing those grid-box logic puzzles from my childhood): put scotch-tape over the grid and then use a pencil. The tape is incredibly easy to erase from and adds some more durability to the book. This is also simple to do and would only require seven to eight strips of tape for each grid (I think. I typically do the puzzles in pen anyway and it turns out looking like a warzone on the grid... I rarely have pencils just sitting around).

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        2 out of 5 stars Not too keen.......2006-03-04

        This book is no rival to Carol Vordermann's sudoku books. In Mepham's book, those puzzles labeled easy are not so easy. So I can't even imagine how difficult the difficult puzzles will be. And I am a good, fast, logical solver who has done hundreds of puzzles. This book is NOT for the beginner, or even advanced beginner.

        2 out of 5 stars Not the best book for beginners.......2006-03-03

        As a beginner, I bought three books of Sudoku puzzles. This one has very confusing introductory instructions on how to solve the puzzles, and the puzzles labeled "gentle" even at the first of the book are pretty hard. If you have already picked up techniques of solving Sudoku puzzles, this is a fun but challenging book.

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          Harry Castleman , and Walter J. Podrazik
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            Type II Diabetes and Your Health: Causes and Control - Plus Recipes To Aid Meal Planning
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              Helen V. Fisher
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              Culloden and the '45
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Seeing the Whole Picture, But ...
              Culloden and the '45
              Jeremy Black
              Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
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              The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 was one of the greatest challenges to the 18th-century British state. This study examines the political and military context of the uprising, highlighting the seriousness of the challenge it posed.

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Seeing the Whole Picture, But ..........2004-07-01

              Jeremy Black has presented us with the entire mosaic of the Jacobite uprising in the mid-18th century. It is fascinating to see how he weaves the political and religious movements going on in George II's London, with Spain, Paris and the Low Countries into one larger picture. At times authors tend to be so myopic about their subject, but this gives us a broader field of vision. What this text does not do, however, is spend very much time, at all, on the Battle at Culloden Moor, which is what I was looking for. I found it tremendously profitable, if at times laborous, reading but distant from my hoped for goal. Perhaps the title should not have an emphasis on Culloden but rather on the entire Jacobite movement that surrounded the young Pretender.
              The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the suppression of the 45
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Culloden from the Governments view
              The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the suppression of the 45
              W. A Speck
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              4 out of 5 stars Culloden from the Governments view.......2003-11-04

              I originally bought this book to get my information about the Duke of Cumberland. Although it talks of Cumberland, he is but one of the many people viewed in this book. Mr. Speck gives us the events and political actions of the rebellion of 45 and the culmination of "the forty-five" at Culloden. It main focus is to show that the rebellion was not widely supported at all. That the highland army massed about the Young Pretender was relatively large; they represented a small minority when compared to greater Scotland. Mr. Speck shows that the Rebellion although feared was not supported and with any amount of resistance by George II and his administration it would have crumbled anyway. Many modern historians seem to romanticize the Young Pretender and his run through Scotland but we see more of the follies he lead and the fluff created by time. We also see that due to the "Aggressive" prosecution of the battle of Culloden the Jacobite rebellion all but ended and another rebellion never occurred. Good book. A bit tedious at times but nice to see a new point of view on an old and very important event in the history of Great Britain and especially Scotland and the Jacobites.
              Culloden & the 45
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                Jeremy Black
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                Culloden and the '45
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                  Jeremy Black
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                  Culloden and the '45
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                    Jeremy Black
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                    The Prince and the Pretender: Two Views of the '45
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                          Alexander Bruce Tulloch
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                              Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time
                              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                              • A non-academic book for the baby boomer generation
                              • duh!
                              • A must read if you believe in service to others
                              • Every citizen must read
                              • tired of it
                              Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time
                              Paul Rogat Loeb
                              Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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                              These are indeed cynical times. But to hide behind the smugness of cynicism is a kind of self-imposed death sentence, explains writer and social commentator Paul Loeb. In fact, now is the ideal time for gathering all our strengths and wisdom as spiritual beings and applying ourselves to shaping a better world, he claims.

                              Are we talking social activism here? Well, yes. But before you cringe from images of shrill, humorless, burned out activists, keep in mind that Loeb is talking about a new kind of activism--an exciting, spiritual model for creating social change. We don't have to be pious or martyred saints (as he explains throughout one chapter), starving ourselves in the name of a cause or staging protests in freezing rain. We can be "good enough" activists, assuming the task of helping 10 people in need rather than taking on the globe. We can remember the power of storytelling when convincing an audience, rather than angrily spewing scary facts. We can replenish ourselves so that we do not burn out. We can emphasize themes such as community and forgiveness rather than separatism and blame.

                              This is a deeply spiritual book, but make no mistake: Loeb's writing, research, and integrity are as solid as they come. Soul of a Citizen may well become The Handbook for activism at the turn of the century. --Gail Hudson

                              Book Description

                              Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions.A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life-powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style. Paul Loeb tells moving tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise and powerful lessons, we are compelled to move from passivity to participation. The reward of our action, we learn, is nothing less than a sense of connection and purpose not found in a purely personal life.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              2 out of 5 stars A non-academic book for the baby boomer generation.......2007-03-29

                              As many other reviewers I was asked to read this book as a part of a college course. My wife was recently assigned the reading in her MSW program. I do believe it has some value, but to a specific generation and type of activist. The book rarely (if at all) discusses a model of activism outside of that born from the peace and love movement of the 60-70s. If you are from these eras, by all means this is the book for you. If you are or will soon be a college student you will likely find little to connect with in the book. I suspect that its over use in courses at this time is a result of faculty promoting a book they feel applies to them greatly without thinking of how it applies to younger generations.

                              2 out of 5 stars duh!.......2006-12-05

                              I read this book for a college class on Social Work, and although Loeb tells many meaningful and powerful stories, this is the same text I have heard before. If you read the first and last paragraph of each chapter you basically get the point. It's an easy read, and some may find it powerful, but I just found it repetitive and over-told.

                              5 out of 5 stars A must read if you believe in service to others.......2006-10-21

                              Paul is an outstanding voice in our world. Fantastic book helping bring hope to a difficult time for those of us who aspire to service. It is a challenge to keep engaged in service and Paul does provide hope. I also appreciate his newsletter and recommend it to those who appreciate his work. Great insights.

                              5 out of 5 stars Every citizen must read.......2006-08-11

                              I read Soul of a citizen which inspired me to action. I am now a volunteer activist in my neighbourhood and have formed a group of concerned citizens to negotiate and participate in our city's development plan. We have made an impact in the corporation and even had a few small successes along the way.

                              1 out of 5 stars tired of it.......2006-07-09

                              Must we indulge yet another collection of tripe in the guise of self-help? Didn't we get this sort of nonsense out of our systems a long time ago?

                              If you are the type who hangs around in the self-help section of Borders looking for something you haven't yet read, hoping the nice-looking man ordering the latte isn't as bad as your ex-husband, well, sure, pick this up. You can read it a few hours later after you've snuck that man past your sleeping children's doors and out to his car, and feel good about yourself and how wonderful a person you are for reading something like this.

                              For the rest of us that live with a real sense of morality, well, we know books like this are just excuses - a mechanism by which the anointed democrat leftists sanctify themselves. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I wrote this review. If it offended you, you're beyond help. If it rang true, you already know you don't want to get anywhere near this book.
                              COMBATING CYNICISM.(Review): An article from: Sojourners
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                                COMBATING CYNICISM.(Review): An article from: Sojourners
                                Layne Mosler
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                                Title: COMBATING CYNICISM.(Review)
                                Author: Layne Mosler
                                Publication: Sojourners (Magazine/Journal)
                                Date: July 1, 1999
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                                  Paul Rogat Loeb
                                  Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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