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Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools
Bradford Perkins , and Stephen Kliment Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 047132700X |
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Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for preschools and kindergartens as well as elementary, middle, and high schools.Order your copy today!
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Schooled.......2001-08-15
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What Every Artist Needs to Know About: Paints and Colors
David Pyle Manufacturer: Krause Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 087341831X |
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An essential, entertaining must-read for any artist or crafter, David Pyles comprehensive volume is sure to be treasured for years to come. Both through words and stunning photos, readers will learn about the history of color, how paints and colors are made, pigment characteristics, permanence and stability, and how to choose and use the materials that will dramatically enhance their creative and expressive processes. Also included is crucial information about how pigments perform in different mediaacrylics, oils, and watercolorand color theory. Resource artists and crafters will return to again and again.
Comprehensive coverage from the history of color through modern-day computer applications.
Thorough treatment of acrylics, oils, and watercolor.
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Fantastic.......2005-11-24
A must.......2004-05-11
An Inside Look into Pigments and Paints.......2002-01-16
Also, one of the more fascinating chapters in the book is on the pigments themselves. After reading this chapter I added to my color palette many new modern pigments. In many cases I use them exclusively for a painting. Until reading this book I did not realize just how incredibly lightfast, permanent and resistant to varying weather conditions these new pigments really are. Thank you, Auto Industry for giving artists all these great new pigments! Books like this will help get the word out that these new pigments really are superior to many traditional ones. The Rennaissance masters would have loved to have access to the colors artists have available today. For example, for my orange colors I now often use a benzimidazolone, an isoindoline and a pyrole. The reds and browns are now quinacridones and pyroles (although I still use red, orange and yellow cadmiums on occasion). My most frequently used yellows are azo and hansa. One of my favorite blues is an anthraquinone. Practically the only color on artist palettes that has not benefitted from auto industry pigment research is white. Titanium white significantly compromises the lightfastness of any color it is mixed with. As for the pigments I mentioned above many have transparent qualities while others are very opaque. This book explores how you can exploit each of these new pigments' qualities to add new dimensions to your artwork. And you may want to consider trying some of the secondary colors because they have qualities that might not be available from a mixed secondary.
Later chapters in the book discuss the binder and mediums for various types of paints such as oils, watercolors and acrylics. One of the last chapters examines "painting" with computer programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The final chapter covers health and safety issues. Get this book. It will open your eyes to the wonderful possibilities of today's pigments and paints.
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Body Knots
Manufacturer: Rizzoli ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0847822508 Release Date: 2000-06-03 |
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Body Knots is a creative collection by Howard Schatz that showcases his extraordinary photographs of the human body. Continuing his expansive exploration of the relationship between content and technique in his earlier bestsellers, Pool Light and Water Dance, the exquisite and ethereal images are unlike any seen before by photographic aficionados. Models are arranged in organic positions and colorized in rich, vibrant tones, making Schatz s work a truly original effort. You have to see it for yourself!Customer Reviews:
Big Budget, Oddly Cold.......2004-08-05
Disappointing.......2000-08-07
This book is far too gimmicky for my taste and I think Mr.Schatz is capable of far more creative imagry than this. How many of these images will appear in Madison Ave. advertising over the next year? Or is that the real goal here? One wonders. Perhaps if Mr.Schatz would have remained in California rather than moving to New York his artistic goals would not have been seduced by the scent of advertising contracts. I don't begrudge an artist trying to earn money but Mr.Schatz was a very successful surgeon before taking up lenswork full time--he isn't a starving artist.
What strikes me about "Body Knots" is that it is more a graphic arts presentation than it is fine art photography. Mr. Schatz, please go back and look at "Passion and Line" and "Water Dance". You created something wonderful there. Remember your motives?
Stunning Visual Images.......2000-06-26
Body Knots is a must have for photo & art fans.......2000-06-05
Most photographers would continue treading down the same artistic path, but not Howard Schatz aparently.
Body Knots is a collection of photos of humans entwined to make all sorts of puzzling shapes and images in the most beautiful color schemes and light.
There are collages of these strange, ambiguously naked images that create landscapes of the most surreal nature.
You don't even realize that you are staring at multicolored nudes entangled. The images seem more like alien shapes.
This is a coffee table book that people will flip through repeatedly and enjoy in a unique manner with each viewing.
Body Knots is a fun, and beautiful book that celebrates the human body with humor and new perceptions and challenges the viewer to rethink how they see things.
I know what I am giving as a gift for the rest of this year.
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Tying The Knot: A Gender-Neutral Guide to Handfastings or Weddings for Pagans and Goddess Worshippers
River Jade Manufacturer: Creatrix Resource Library, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0976060426 |
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Magical rituals don't just happen; they are created with forethought and planning. Tying The Knot is the perfect tool to facilitate creating a magical handfasting you will remember the rest of your lives.Customer Reviews:
Practical Help At last.......2007-10-02
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The Knot of Time: Astrology and Female Experience
Lindsay River , and Sally Gillespie Manufacturer: Women's Press, Limited, The ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0704347083 |
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The knot of time.......2007-05-14
One of my favorite books.......2000-04-20
The book contains separate chapters on astrological theory, history, and the planets, signs and houses and ends with aspects and synthesis. References are included at the end of each chapter and there is a great bibliography at the end of the book that could keep you busy reading for a couple of years. Also included (one of my favorite things to see in a reference book) is an index.
One of the things I like personally about this book is that the writers have really explored the historical nature of the astrological language to give you more than the cookbook descriptions that others provide. In Virgo, they discuss the mythology of Demeter, Hygeia and the Virgin Mary. In Scorpio, they review the mythology of Pluto and Inanna. The use of myth and poetic imagery really helps one to understand the energy inherent in the astrological symbols rather than trying to distill a personality typology from a sign.
The authors describe the Taurean personality as, "Touched by the warm sensuality of the flower Goddess, and those born in this astrological month have some of her easy grace and luxurious delight in the physical."
"Luxurious Taurus can be lazy, but there is another side of her personality: committed, persevering and determined... Others who are less practical often dismiss her as materialistic, but fail to understand that decisions about money are a way for her to make important choices about what she does value and provide her with a path to self-knowledge."
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Threads, Knots, Tapestries: How a Tribal Connection Is Revealed through Dreams and Synchronicities
Tess Castleman Manufacturer: Syren Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0929636171 |
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Threads, Knots, Tapestries reveals the way our dreaming expresses and reflects our deep interpersonal and environmental interconnectivity . Drawing upon her decades of Jungian analytic practice, and many years of pioneering in dream groups, Castleman weaves a rich tapestry of dream threads which shows us how we are dreaming with and for each other. Her method is that of a storyteller telling the stories of people, their dreams, the stories of shamans, the stories of individuals suffering from cancer, love entanglements, and most delightfully, stories which show how dreams are woven together with communal life in other cultures, as well as in our own.Customer Reviews:
Mysterious Connections in Dreams.......2005-06-02
Transpersonal Connections for Artist.......2004-06-17
Sifting through stories, myths, and beliefs about dreams.......2004-04-13
Fascinating Reading.......2004-03-27
Some schools of psychology teach that all the characters of your dream are just different parts of yourself. Is it possible that there are times when a dream is much more than this? Tess Castleman examines situations where it appears there is some type of communal dreaming occurring. Apparently there is some sort of collective dream world that we can all access and do at times. Going one step further she shows how we may be interacting not only other people, but also with our environment itself, or even with other cultures.
"Threads, Knots, Tapestries" is a fascinating trip into the realm of possibilities and how closely we may all be bound together in the web of life.
Are we interconnected through our dreams? Maybe........2004-03-17
Some schools of psychology teach that all the characters of your dream are just different parts of yourself. Is it possible that there are times when a dream is much more than this? Tess Castlemen examines situations where it appears there is some type of communal dreaming occurring. Apparently there is some sort of collective dream world that we can all access and do at times. Going one step further she shows how we may be interacting not only other people, but also with our environment itself, or even with other cultures.
"Threads, Knots, Tapestries" is a fascinating trip into the realm of possibilities and how closely we may all be bound together in the web of life.
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Dante and the Knot of Body and Soul
Marianne Shapiro Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312217501 |
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Dante and the Knot of Body and Soul seeks to evaluate in just measure the material, bodily, erotic, and aesthetic aspects of the intellectual foundations of the Commedia and explore the idea of embodied spirit and its poetic consequences in Dante's worldmaking poem. Bodies, be they ghostly, demonic, fleshly, or angelic, are tied up in both literal and figurative knots because of their unstable ontology, an ontology that they share with human language. In each chapter, Marianne Shapiro addresses the interconnections between poetic speech and embodied spirit as they develop over the course of the Commedia's three canticles. Instead of regarding Dante as an Olympian poet, her approach emphasizes process, for even a masterpiece may conceal adjustments and shifts in strategy as part of its structure. While much current scholarship has set out to recover the specifically literary dimensions of Dante's enterprise by prising them away from the overriding theological concerns, this work is intended to bring the two together in an integrated vision.
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The Double Bowline Knot
James D. Collins Manufacturer: Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0805970592 |
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The Double Bowline Knot is a powerful and timely message derived from a consideration of the unfathomable intelligence reflected in the creation of the human body and the spiritual reason for its existence. The author progresses from a technical description of human anatomical parts and systems, and the incomprehensible intelligence reflected in their evolution, to the nonphysical nature of man as indicated by the atomic structure of his physical body. He alludes to physical reality as existing only in a virtual state and that true existence is on a spiritual plane. Therefore, the development of spiritual faith is a necessary step toward reconciling our physical existence with a source of infinite wisdom, a supreme being, which we call God, and that development of spiritual faith could well be the ultimate purpose of our being. The author likens the acquisition of spiritual faith to learning to tie a double bowline knot.
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The Knot of Time: Astrology and the Female Experience
Lindsay River , Sally Gillespie , and Linsay River Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0060158646 |
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The Knot of Time.......2007-04-02
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Knots of Eternity: Paradoxes from Dadi to Daughter Volume 1 (Paradoxes from Dadi to Daughter)
Dharma Dadi Manufacturer: Orange Palm/Magn Magus ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0973443936 |
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All of the paradoxes and precepts which pepper, and enliven this unique book with their light, humor and surprising depth, act as master keys, which can suddenly open doors to many unsuspected aspects of the Truth within-us-all.
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Transcend the Self-knot of Fear
Adi Da Samraj Manufacturer: Dawn Horse Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: DVD-ROM ASIN: 1570972087 |
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Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself From Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships
Ty Howard Manufacturer: Knots Free Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0972404007 |
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Do you know anyone who's tied up in procrastination, poor choices, excuses, self-pity, the past, denial, clutter, debt, confusion, toxic relationships, fear, matching or trying to be like others, continual pain, anger, mediocrity, or stress? In Untie the Knots That Tie Up Your Life, Ty Howard, renowned dynamic keynote and motivational speaker, shares quick and easy to apply guidance on breaking free of toxic habits, choices, people and relationships. He shares the foolproof strategies that got him to where he is today and provides you with a program for developing a life of better health, balance, significance, harmony, potential, and prosperity. This is an enlightening, inspiring, empowering, and "practical guide" for gaining control of your career and your life by breaking yourself free of negative baggage, building positive habits, and then turning them into actions to help you achieve your dreams.Customer Reviews:
A Brilliant Piece of Work..........2007-06-21
Great Read.......2007-05-08
This book is understandable and practical. You get results!.......2007-05-08
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Children Are Meant To Be Seen and Heard Gift Book: Humor and Wisdom for Honoring Children (Keep Coming Back Books)
Meiji Stewart Manufacturer: Hazelden ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 1568383797 |
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For anybody interested in well-being of children. Delightful illustrations, wisdom from the ages and poignant humor to encourage anyone and everyone to love, honor and cherish children.Books:
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