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One of master designer Patti Sowers' many gifts is the art of seeing flea market throwaways not as what they are but as what they can become. In this clever and imaginative book, she shows readers how to take their tattered treasures and transform them into stylish keepsakes. With projects like 'Very Lady Lights,' made from cast-off handbags and shoes, and 'Time After Time,' a clock face gleaming beneath a tempered glass tabletop, Sowers' amazing insights and helpful tips will inspire collectors of all kinds. Featuring more than 150 projects embellished with over 200 gorgeous photos, crisp layouts, and easy-to-follow instructions, Easy Flea Market Style is sure to be snapped up by flea market devotees everywhere.
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love this creative book.......2004-02-12
If you are a creative person with a small budget for home decorating then this is a great book for you.There are tons of ideas and projects that will add alot of character to your home.If you want something that looks expensive and unique but don't have money to buy it,then you can make it.I would also recommend the Junk Chic books by K.Eliott and Flea Flea Market Finds also by same publisher as this book.
love this creative book.......2004-02-12
If you are a creative person with a small budget for home decorating then this is a great book for you.There are tons of ideas and projects that will add alot of character to your home.If you want something that looks expensive and unique but don't have money to buy it,then you can make it.I would also recommend the Junk Chic books by K.Eliott and Easy Flea Market Style also by same publisher as this book.
Wonderful Surprise!.......2003-11-07
This book was ordered just so I would get free shipping at
Amazon along with another similar title. Easy Flea Market Style is fantastic!
Wonderful ideas and projects. Buy this one, you won't be disappointed!
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Harley Brown offers artists his "truths" for painting success--the stuff he hopes they teach in art school. A well-established artist, Brown has gained a large following with his frank, no-nonsense approach to teaching art. Twelve knock-out chapters include:
* What every artist should do first. Harley's own cheap and dirty way to start a painting
* Composition--who needs it? See why most paintings are boring. And why a few will knock your socks off.
* Working with color. Stay miles ahead of the person who skips this chapter!
* Going on from here. Your greatest obstacle isn't skill...it's attitude.
* Plus, 30 magic solutions to common problems, 15 things to leave out of a painting, 24 painting sins and much more!
Supplementing Brown's advice are more than 10 step-by-step painting demonstrations in oil and pastel. His unique offerings are sure to enlighten and entertain painters of all skill levels and backgrounds.
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Wisdom, but without taking himself too seriously.......2007-04-12
Mr. Brown's Eternal Truths is the kind of book I have picked up again and again. Not so much for the artistic advice, as for the cheerful inspiration that fills every page. It inspires me to actually head to my art table and begin painting, which is much more than most books. And, most especially, Mr. Brown approaches everything (his paintings, his advice, his life) with humor and joy. A lesson to us all.
Simply amazing!.......2007-02-09
There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said. Simply put: This book will improve your art, and you as an artist, more than any other book I've seen. Full of useful tips, truths and anecdotes from Harley Brown's experiences, this book is just great!
Insights and Inspiration.......2006-11-06
This book is an amazing compendium of technique infused with insights that will inspire artists to rethink what, why and how they paint. Set up casually with plain talk, it belies the great book design and wonderful artwork. I highly recommend this book to all artists who aspire to do better!
Harley Brown's Eternal Truths for Every Artist.......2006-07-09
Fantastic book, and highly recommended for anyone wanting to get inside the "meat" of an art instructional manual. Harley has a wonderful sense of humor, and an easy way of explaining his procedures. I have read it through cover to cover, and use it to reference repeatedly.
Next purchase, is Harley's newest book.
Excellent book for intermediate artists.......2006-06-30
Brown's book is excellent for intermediate or advanced artists. I think beginners will find it confusing and beyond them (Brown presumes some drawing and painting abilities are in place). His book will help you "bust loose" and get to the next level. His advice and side-comments are entertaining, anti-establishment, anti-artsy-baloney and generally right on! Enjoy.
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The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality, and Social Concerns, Volume 7 (Merton Annual)
Victor A. Kramer ,
Thomas James Merton ,
Patrick Eastman ,
Elsie F. Mayer ,
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Roy D. Fuller , and
Elena Malits
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The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for television. Bennett is principally responsible for what is known worldwide as the "Broadway sound" and for greatly elevating the status of the theater orchestrator. He worked alongside Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, and Frederick Loewe on much of the Broadway canon, eventually providing orchestrations for all or part of more than 300 musicals between 1920 and 1975. This work is the first publication of Bennett's autobiography, which was written in the late 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration. George J. Ferencz is professor of music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
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George Eastman and the Kodak Camera (Graphic Library)
Jennifer Fandel
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George Eastman : A Biography
Elizabeth Brayer
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George Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography Business (Business Biographies)
ASIN: 1580462472 |
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The innovative founder of the Eastman Kodak Company was not generally known for his thirst for adventure, his love of art and classical music, or his philanthropic activities, yet these were all important aspects of the man. George Eastman (1854-1932) was a complicated individual who lived most of his long, industrious life out of the public eye; his private affairs both admirable and dubious are now out in the open, thanks to this scholarly and scrupulous biography. Eastman is revealed as cold, shrewd, modest, and surprisingly generous in this colorful portrait. The text is appropriately enhanced by a number of rare photographs.
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Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him "America's most modest and least-known millionaire." Despite his retirement in 1925, Eastman showed little sign of slowing down. Making money had been interesting, but putting money to work became more so. In the 1920s he designed a special camera for use in orthodontia and established elaborate dental clinics for needy children around the world. He oversaw the building of the Eastman theatre and the Eastman School of Music. His contributions built a new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a new medical school for the University of Rochester. Finally, he became the largest contributor to the education of African Americans during the 1920s and the Tuskegee Institute's most important benefactor. Elizabeth Brayer lives in Rochester, NY. For the past 18 years she has served on both the George Eastman Legacy and the Landscape committees at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. She writes about the history of central and Western New York State. George Eastman: A Biography was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1996.
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it sucked.......2001-03-21
I think they should explain how th invention works
Eastman comes alive as a real person........2000-01-14
George Eastman was one of the seminal figures in the development of photography. Eastman was the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. Brayer's scholarly biography is long and definitive.
Eastman was perhaps the first scientist-engineer entrepreneur, a model followed later by men like Edwin Land and Bill Gates. Brayer skillfully weaves his engineering feats with his financier skills into a highly readable biography. Eastman was like Gates and Land, a hands-on entrepreneur. Stories abound about Eastman's midnight haunts through his factory, showing up in the wee hours unannounced to some startled employee working late on a project.
I was constantly amazed at Eastman's ingenuity. Eastman the inventory of flexible film, made his first commercial batches by spreading the celluloid out on level 100-foot long glass topped tables. It wasn't until many years later they finally found a way to machine make it.
For my taste there was far too much information on the architecture and building of Eastman House. Since Brayer, as I understand it, was or maybe still is, an employee of Eastman House, now a foundation supported museum of photography, this is understandable. I did find it amusing that Eastman used Belgian imported glass plates that were to be used in the factory as a film base as window glass in the House. Window glass will have an occassional ripple or bubble, but not these. George always had to have the very best.
Brayer has shed some new light on several of the patent infringement lawsuits that went against Eastman.
In many biographies, the subject is just that, a subject. Brayer does an exceptional job of bringing Eastman to life. If you have an interest in photographic history or in financial history, this is an exceptional book. This is the first freely written biography of Eastman. Earlier attempts were quite controlled by the Trust and Eastman himself.
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Giants of American Industry - George Eastman (Giants of American Industry)
Peter Brooke-Ball
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Inspiring biographies of America's modern moguls! Included in each of these books are:
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When George and Donella East buy a derelict mill in Normandy with only an overdraft to their names, they know it will take more than luck to realize the dream of living the good life. As they set about renovating the Mill of the Flea, Rene Ribet arrives in his ramshackle caravan to assume squatters’ rights. Their mentor promises to school them in the ways of the French countryside, but what the innocents abroad are yet to learn is that Mr. Ribet is known locally as The Fox of Cotentin. A series of doomed survival schemes ensues, and with financial disaster looming, the couple’s vision of a new life seems to be fading fast. This is a hilarious foray into French country domesticity.
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Even if the nearest you have been to France is watching a renovation on TV, you will love this book !.......2005-07-19
This is no dry description of the cold hard facts and potential pitfalls of buying a property in France, it is a humourous, poignant and very readable chronicle of the whole process, and the people encountered during it, from the first wish to the eventual fulfilment of a dream that many, many people share. The insights into the very different attitude to life and mind set of their growing circle of friends and neighbours is educational in itself, I wish I had read it before we bought our property in Normandy, we would have understood more about what was happening, laughed a lot more and would have probably been a lot less stressed!
This is an enjoyable read for anyone and not just for people who are buying or thinking about buying property in France, it is a book for anyone who can enjoy reading about some of life's characters in a story about a couple actually getting up and doing something that most others only dream about.
I laughed out loud at some parts and felt their sorrow at others in a book that explains, with insight and humour, a lot of things about France and the French that I, for one, have never quite grasped before, putting all this into a story that held me from page one.
By the time you finish you feel that you know George & Donella West and that you would instantly recognize any one of the characters described in the book. You are able to sense their changing attitudes to the local people and, in turn the locals attitude to them as the story progresses. It is the first in a series and I really look forward to reading the rest.
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George Eastman: The Kodak Camera Man (Famous Inventors)
Carin T. Ford
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George Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography Business (Business Biographies)
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A fascinating view of a successful and famous inventor, innovator, financier, and entrepreneur.
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George Eastman: Bringing Photography to the People (Historical American Biographies)
Lynda Pflueger
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