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Providing a unique combination of full-color photography and illustrations,
Cozy Cottage Home Designs offers readers 250 plans of the best-selling and stylish home designs available in this genre. From traditional cottages to comfortable country cabins, this book offers home designs that meet the needs and budget of most readers. In addition to the house plans, the book offers practical tips and planning and design advice that will be welcome by those wishing to build a house and create the home of their dreams.
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We live in an age when technology moves faster than we do, where noise levels are high, air is polluted - and our homes are often in the center of this frenzy. No wonder we want to escape and be free. With irresistible photography by Chris Tubbs, this book is about making that wish come true. As Jo Denbury and Ali Watkinson show, your hideaway needn't be large or grand; it needn't be far from home or expensive. What is important is that it is an expression of yourself.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed in Nebraska.......2007-08-22
This was a large disappointment. Soooo many pages taken up with nothing on them but a photo of sky..... earth....etc... and where are the photos of Cozy cabins and rustic retreats? An old Airstream...? Gushy wordy, fluffy, puffy.I found it a feeble attempt at "poetry"...or something other than great cabins and retreats. Many, many wasted pages. All attempts at sizzle and no steak. Wish I had left it at the seller's. Also, the cover was different than what it shows here. It looks like a book on cabins and cottages, but its focus is not there.
Sherrie G
A fine survey of cozy cabin interiors .......2006-10-15
Lovely color photos by Chris Tubbs accompanies a fine survey of cozy cabin interiors and decoration schemes which make the most of small and rustic spaces in Cozy Cabins Rustic Retreats. The idea here is to customize a personal sanctuary: chapters are filled with insights supporting this concept and provide ideas for a range of styles and designs, from log cabin rustic to giving the illusion of airy expanse in limited places.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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- Cutting Edge Home Design
- Beautiful Book, Environmentally Friendly Getaways and a Cool Tree House!
- Haven
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Haven: Cozy Hideaways and Dream Retreats
Allison Serrell
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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ASIN: 0811844676 |
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Haven brings together unique homes in which the dream of retreat has been made a reality. Each of these twenty hideaways offers something for every taste from a rustic barn to a desert oasis, from a modest tent cabin to an architecturally significant modern masterpiece. Throughout, the focus remains on communion with our natural surroundings and the peace it brings, on sanctuary from the noise and frantic pace of every day, on the sounds of nature and the gentle art of doing nothing. Each restful and rejuvenating interior illustrates how such relaxing spaces can be created in the home, with details such as an intricate stonework fireplace, a panoramic view through a wall of picture windows, or a tropical poolside cabana. Beautiful color photographs make Haven an escape unto itself as well as a rich source of ideas and inspiration for making dreams of simplicity and retreat come true.
Customer Reviews:
Cutting Edge Home Design.......2007-04-04
Create a getaway that's environmentally friendly and completely you. Learn how to live with nature instead of clambering all over it.
Beautiful Book, Environmentally Friendly Getaways and a Cool Tree House!.......2007-02-11
I got this book as a gift from my wishlist here at Amazon. I was thrilled with it, not only for the fact that it's a really nice book, pretty cover, very heavy pages & beautiful photography. I wanted it mainly for decorating purposes and I did get alot of unique decorating idea's from it, but it is much more than a decorating book.. 20 different homes, vacation retreats and wilderness camps are featured.. Each one displays a gorgeous getaway spot that has been created to blend in with it's surroundings while still offering the luxury and comfort of home. Many have optioned environmentally conscious methods and offer ideas for using recycled or repurposed materials in their construction. Most of the beautiful, comfortable, romantic, scenic getaways are created to co-habitate with nature without causing further harm to it..
This is a book on the cutting edge of home design. Many of the homes and getaways shown are designed for nature enthusiasts and with popular past times in mind, such as camping, hiking, bird watching & the beach. Many different styles are represented as well, from spare minamalism to the eccentric whimsy as illustrated in an adult treehouse paradise that looks rustic on the outside but is a luxurious showplace on the inside.
Really wonderful book. An absolute gem. I don't think the description here on amazon properly conveys how useful this book is for creating homes or getaways that are environmentally friendly. I highly recommend this it to anyone concerned with the environment, even if not in the market for building a new home, there are a lot of great ideas for conservation in remodeling and just everyday living. It's also just a beautifully crafted book and makes a great conversation piece as a coffee table book. I have had sitting out for months and many friends have enjoyed it, commenting on it's beauty & unique-ness.
Haven.......2006-06-29
The book arrived in pristine order and very quickly. I am very happy with it.
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- No good
- The only animation book from wer you can really learn.
- Astro Boy's a cute 'lil guide...
- Better than the How to Draw Manga Making Anime Book
- One of the most useful animation books
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Tezuka School of Animation, 1: Learning the Basics (Tezuka School)
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ASIN: 1569709955 |
Book Description
The work of artist Osamu Tezuka has been as influential in Japan as that of Walt Disney in the US. His most famous character, Astro Boy, guides the reader through this book on the fundamentals of animation. The focus is on mastering movement, timing, and expression-the keys to bringing anime characters to life. This book is filled with step-by-step instructions on how to depict weight, walking speed, dynamic action, and effects like fire and water. The concepts are all taken from Tezuka's works and have his particular stylistic mark. Become a master by mastering the basics!
Customer Reviews:
No good.......2007-02-21
I have seen better amination books I would not recomend this book for a animation class.
The only animation book from wer you can really learn........2007-01-12
Illusion of life Disney Animation( that I rate it -0 with 0 stars), and some other animation books. But the Tezuka school of animation books are the best ones, you can see all the details of the animation making, the walking with all the steps and in all angles, the jumps, the talk, and everything to be a great animator in no time. I definetly recommend this book over all other books, this is a must have. Don't commit the mistakes of buy others books that are not from Tezuka learning school. See the previews and find more info if you want. Just respect yourself and your money, buy this one.
Astro Boy's a cute 'lil guide... .......2007-01-10
Anime fans doing animation courses can get it a little tough here in the UK. The style just isn't popular enough and as much as I admire walt disney, it's a shame he stereotyped the genre as a kids-only zone. Interesting I should say that, as Tezuka is often hailed as the Japanese walk Disney (up there with such greats as Mamoru Osamu and Hayao Miyazaki.)
Even for non anime fans, the walk cycles remain basically the same and this was a simple and understandable guide that gave you all the basics nessecary for various cycles, whether you use anime as a style or not. I mean, heck, I just made an entire SKIP CYCLE! SKIPPING!
Not a great deal of information, but ideal for anyone just starting out with basic walk cycles and animation terchniques. Not a bad job, though it could've had a little more info. The book is probably better suited for younger people with an interest in the genre but hey, this nineteen year old ain't complaining.
Better than the How to Draw Manga Making Anime Book.......2006-10-26
This book actually teaches you how to animate the anime way. The how to draw manga is nothing more than a showcase book for fans rather than teaching you how to animate. I recommend this book instead of that one all the way.
One of the most useful animation books.......2006-03-01
This book is one of the most useful tools for the animator I have purchased. It is very complete, covering from simple animation techniques to complex movements and effects. It lacks the part about equipment and tools, but is a great reference for animating. American readers may find strange the order some sequences are to be seen and the way the authors name the principles of animation, but if you skip these difficulties, you have one of the two mos useful books to become an animator (the other is Preston Blair's).
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Ugly art (again), and rehashes one of the darkest stories ever.......2005-12-30
I guess one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy this book is because it just revamped and retold one of my least favorite Uncanny X-Men stories that I ever read, but in more horrifying detail.
William Stryker is effective as an X-villain. He's a televangelist. He's creepy. He killed his only son at birth because he was a mutant, and supposedly "deformed." Oh yeah, and he killed his wife too, for giving birth to him. Sheesh. The original story gave me creeps, particularly the "crucifixion" scene when Stryker manipulates Xavier to turn against his students. Just to add insult to injury, this TPB reprints the original in the back of the book, and offers a behind-the-scenes look into the original story by the Marvel staff.
So with that in mind, I didn't have high hopes for this book going in. I bought it because Shadowcat returned to the team (albeit briefly) from college. I also enjoyed the building relationship between Logan and Ororo, and previously didn't realize Claremont was taking these characters in this direction as early as these issues in this title, I previously thought they weren't interested in each other until Uncanny "The End of History." Nice to be educated...
Anyway, in a nutshell, if you haven't read the individual issues, the X-Men end up in a backwoods mountain town called Mt. Haven. They find, to their consternation, that the town is inhabited by mutant children...no baseline humans, and no adults. This already makes it feel like Children of the Corn. To make matters worse, Lady Deathstrike springs Stryker from his prison transport jet before her body's cybernetic grid is overtaken by an entity who urges to kill Stryker and any who threaten Mt. Haven.
There's a predictable battle between Deathstrike and Logan (yawn). There's more touchy-feely artwork by Kordey (he tends to make the characters look like they are groping each other a lot, especially Sage and Storm in this one, eeew). This book's ending is both grisly and vague, but I won't offer any spoilers. I will, however, recommend only buying this one used, if you are a completist. I will also mention that Magneto played a significant role in the original, namely offering one of the first glimpses of his desire to have Xavier as an ally rather than an enemy. He was nowhere to be seen in this story, and probably should have been. Oh well.
Another contender for the no star award..........2004-12-17
There was a time when I loved Chris Claremont's stuff. Fall of the Mutants, Mutant Massacre, any tale he told of the Hellfire Club, Dark Phoenix...I could go on, but I won't.
Why? Because this interminable, derivative crapfest, as written by Claremont, shows that he's ready to retire. He's obviously out of fresh ideas. Hell, he's ripping his own old stuff off, and badly! And I agree with the other reviewer about Igor Kordey. He should be arrested for gratuitous abuses with a pencil. His illustrations look like he took art lessons at the Braille school. They're not even illustrations, or drawing, even. "Pick-choors" maybe, if you're from Alabama (no offense, go Tide!)
How can someone who gave the X-men his best care so little about them now. It's like catching up with a couple who were passionate after the nuptuals, but can't stand to touch each other while they sleep years later. And the X-men have definitely started sleeping in the spare room...
Poorly written, and the artwork is even worse........2004-09-18
Having reaches his creative peak in 1983, Claremont's second run on UNCANNY was very dissapointing, after his inspired initial run. His first two or three arcs on X-TREME were all right, and Salvador Larroca's artwork was beatiful.
"GOD LOVES MAN KILLS 2" is where X-TREME "jumps the shark," so to speak. This is a very poorly written story. I had high expentations fo this one, considering that Reverend Stryker had been absent since his debut in "GOD LOVES MAN KILLS," which was inspired.
This story serves as little more than a movie tie-in. In it, we encounter Stryker, who's suddenly very close with Lady Deathstrike's family; meanwhile (this part may give away something of its incredibly contrived plot) a robot by the name of Reverend Paul who's doing something fairly devious that ultimately comes to nothing.
Meanwhile, the team runs around accomplishing very little.
Not worth reading.
Not worth looking at, either. Salvador Larroca'scovers are beatiful, but the only purpose they serve is to cover up the crap inside. Kordey claims that they love him in Europe, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. As it is, he regards himself as a visionary because he's made the characters ugly. I'm not convinced that this was intentional.
Really, don't touch this.
One of the better X-Treme X-Men books.......2004-02-11
Many comic fans have been disappointed with legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont's run on X-Treme X-Men, but this sequel/remake of his classic X-Men storyline is definitely one of the better story-arcs he's thought of of late. William Stryker, the televangilist who almost wiped out mutantkind years ago, has escaped his confines with the help of his new ally Lady Deathstrike, and he has bigger plans for mutantkind this time around, and he is manipulating Shadowcat as well. On his trail are Storm, Wolverine, Bishop, Sage, and Cannonball as the plot thickens and twists are revealed. The story, even though it is nowhere as profound as the original, is solid Claremont style storytelling. Shadowcat has always been one of the best characters that Claremont has ever written, and in this story we get inside her head as Stryker tries to use her to his advantage. The art by Igor Kordey (New X-Men, Cable) is solid as well, even if he tries to hard to draw Wolverine like Hugh Jackman. The real attraction of this book however, is that the original, and now out of print, God Loves, Man Kills story is included here as well as we see Stryker make his first strike at Professor X and his X-Men (which then included Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Shadowcat, and Nightcrawler). This story is the story that inspired the superb X2: X-Men United film, and this book is worth picking up for the original story alone.
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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel, No 5)
Chris Claremont
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Customer Reviews:
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
One of the original batch of Marvel graphic novels, and well done. Some of this was of course adapted for the X-Men 2 movie in a somewhat different format. Graphic novels of this type were new and innovative then. A somewhat more adult and tragic look at racism and the tensions and violence between humans and mutants.
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills.......2006-11-21
THere are reviews for two books on this page. One is apparently a low-quality collection of stories from different X-Men titles. THe other one is one of the three best stories about the X-Men, alone wiht the Dark Phoenix arc and "Days of Future Past".
This later, I have read, albeit in a greyscale, low-quality edition. The art suffered from not being colored. Even so, it was really, really good. IT looked painted more than drawn, and I would describe it as art, not just "illustrations". It was really gorgeous.
The characters are all believable. As believable as anything is within the Marvel continuum, anyway... whcih is to say they are real people with or without superpowers. Some of them are truly evil people, but they still come across as real.
The X-Men, their closeness, adn their personalities come across. The only character-bit that was wrong, so far as I could tell, was that when someone was shot, Kitty/Ariel tended to him, rather htan Nightcrawler, who was the one with medical training. But that was the only thing. Their personalities and actiosn were right, although Magneto showed a different, positive side, as events force him to become the ally of the X-Men. He comes across as a hard, harsh man wiht hte same take-over-the world intentions, but more or less believable reasons to be hostile. You get the idea that he is hard and evil because he was hurt too badly to heal, and didnt' have Xavier's courage to reach out to his enemies. His parting line, "I have wept over too many graves, X-Men. I will not weep over yours" drove home both that hardness and that pain. I didn't like him, exactly, but I understood him better.
The villains- Reverend Stryker, the evil preacher, and Anne, one of his Purifier assassins, are really evil without realising that htey are. Both of them believe that htey are serving God. They are the definition of "fanatic".
The end- when Cyclops realizes that this foe must be confronted in a different manner than the others- is quite good. Cyclops's speach left soemthign to be desired, but Ariel's verbal defence of Nightcrawler was wonderful.
All around, this was a really good story. Most comic books and msot graphic novels are just fun, no substance, but some of them are really good. This is one of hte best. It's fun, but it has something to think about,too.
The inspiration for the first X-Men movie.......2005-07-16
I just watched the first X-Men movie last night and while it was fun enough, I was quite annoyed that Claremont and Anderson got ZERO credit for the fact that their graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills" is undeniably the inspiration for the movie.
Well, no one ever said Hollywood was fair.
Not for me.......2004-10-07
Being a fan of the x-men and comics in general (but not a fanatic) I realize the importance of these issues but at the same time walk away somewhat puzzled and dissapointed. As a younger fan of the X-Men I don't understand where these stories lead in terms of the current situations in the series. Especially the New X-Men. Who were they, where did they go? Magneto ran a or the school? Also compared to todays artwork this stuff is chickenscratch. Also the preachiness that runs in the first part is a little over the top and serves against the purpose rather than for it. Good for a history lesson if nothing else but I wouldn't recommend purchasing this.
a Claremont classic.......2004-03-16
The Fall of the Mutants is another one of Chris Claremont's classic stories. It takes place when the original X-Men have formed X-Force and Wolverine leads the X-Men. Storm and Forge are elsewhere. And this is when the supposed death of the X-Men happens. Very good for those of us who remember it and those who are new to it.
Book Description
The Uncanny X-Men. Magneto, master of magnetism. The bitterest of enemies for years. But now they must join forces against a new adversary who threatens them all and the entire world besides... in the name of God. One of Chris Claremont's most powerful and influential stories, the partial basis for "X-Men 2," is reprinted here for the first time in years. Collects Marvel Graphic Novel #5: God Loves, Man Kills.
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