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In the tradition of the highly successful Cottages by the Sea, this book takes readers to the Sedona desert, where the clean air, breathtaking views, and wonderfully mild weather attract more than four million visitors each year. Stunning new photographs evoke the fantasy of owning a home in the desert. From a soft stone house inspired by the pre-Colombian tribes who used the desert as a ceremonial meeting place to a home built in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright to a cutting edge architectural gem, Desert Retreats demonstrates a rich variety of approaches to living in this beautiful but harsh environment. Culturally rich, chic with celebrity, and known for its restorative powers, Sedona, with its influential style, is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the U.S. and a perfect place to relax and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
A dream book for all climates, Desert Retreats will appeal to all residents of and visitors to
the Southwest.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful!.......2007-03-16
This was another purchase that is a must have for anyone that loves the Desert Southwest and Sedona. What can one say of one of the most beautiful places on earth. The Red Rocks and the homes and scenery are magic.
Great purchase!
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The foremost color problem identified by artists lies in the mixing of greens. They want to be able to mix grays, oranges, browns and violets of course, but first of all greens.
Our eyes are very sensitive to green and we can identify a vast range. Artists need access to this range if their work is to be at all realistic. Apart from a few standard premixed greens, the result is often very much trial and error.
This pocket sized book, in our 'Color Notes' series, offers the artist and craft worker instant access to a vast range of easily mixed, predictable greens. Using a simple step by step approach the reader is shown how to produce yellow-greens, blue-greens, bright, dull, vivid, opaque and transparent greens. Then how to make any of these lighter or darker. Not only is full information given on the mixing of the colors, but the book also offers a reference when seeking instant color guidance. Suitable for any media.
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Mixing Greens (Colour Notes) by Wilcox.......2007-03-10
This handy book is wonderful for getting a handle on the difficult matter of painting various greens in a landscape.
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The Winsor and Newton Guide to Colour Mixing Watercolour takes the uncertainty out of colour mixing for artists.
This Winsor and Newton Colour Mixing Guide takes the uncertainty out of mixing watercolour colours. Organised around the primary colours, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tints, the book presents a gallery of precise colour mixes to enable an artist to recreate what is on the page in their palette and on their work of art.
Clear, concise outline of the principles of colour mixing using watercolours At-a-glance guide to more than 5,000 hues and shades Complete visual reference to mixing watercolour Inspirational galleries of successful watercolour works using colour mixin
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Providing a handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades, this complete color reference reveals the 25 colors of paint that compose the most useful range of color. The time-saving guide takes the uncertainty out of mixing colors and enables artists to quickly and precisely match any tint they’d like to reproduce with only two colors in the mix. Intended for both amateur and professional artists, this guide will prove invaluable in the studio and when painting on location.
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Colour Mixing Bible
Ian Sidaway
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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ASIN: 0715318233 |
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Providing a handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades, this complete color reference reveals the 25 colors of paint that compose the most useful range of color. The time-saving guide takes the uncertainty out of mixing colors and enables artists to quickly and precisely match any tint they’d like to reproduce with only two colors in the mix. Intended for both amateur and professional artists, this guide will prove invaluable in the studio and when painting on location.
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Artist's Guide to Mixing Colours
Jenny Rodwell
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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ASIN: 0715304216 |
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Learn to Paint Colour Mixing (Collins Learn to Paint Series)
Judy Martin
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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ASIN: 0004133374 |
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This beginner's guide to colour mixing is part of a series which offers step-by-step demonstrations, easy-to-follow advice and hints, and tips and techniques from working artists.
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Learn how to select a basic palette for every medium that will give you the results you want. Discover how to mix colours for such problem subjects as snow, water, skin tones, skies, reflections and foliage. Packed with practical techniques, step-by-step demonstrations and hundreds of illustrations.
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The European New Middle Class: Individuality and Tribalism in Mass Society
Pekka Sulkunen
Manufacturer: Avebury
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Customer Reviews:
tattootime rules!.......2000-07-04
do you think you are serious about tattooing? consider yourself a bit of an expert on it? and you don't have this book? (not even any of the other tattootime issues?) then you should re-think and re-consider! anyone serious about tattooing, its backgrounds, its history, its important figures should have this book. and all the other four issues. they all are out on hardy marks publications; the publishing company owned and run by the great don ed hardy. whom you should know.
this book was one of the main reasons why tribal tattoos became so popular again. (published back in 1982!) there are some articles in it by leo zulueta, one of the great masters, if not THE great master, of tribal tattooing. you'll find information about tattooing in samoa and borneo, pre-technology aspects of tattooing, tattooing names / letters, the swastika and its meaning in different cultures over the centuries, american tattooer paul rogers, and one of the greatest and most important american tattoo artists ever: sailor jerry collins.
plus, this is good for reference but bad for your bank account, there are a lot of suggestions for further reading! (i ended up spending over $ 100 on books recommended here.)
if you already do know in-depth about the subjects covered in this book, then maybe it is not for you. but still, imho, all the tattootime issues are a must-have in any serious collector's library. i keep checking them for all kinds of references. it's a shame hardy marks are not planning on doing any more issues.
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This digital document is an article from Oceania, published by University of Sydney on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7603 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: In this article I begin by sketching the main events in a recent dispute over the allocation of fishing quota among Maori. I seek to shed some light on the ideological grounding of this dispute in the simultaneous individualisation and tribalisation of Maori society since the late 19th century. Because the New Zealand nation is now imagined as an essentially binary one (bicultural, or treaty-based) there is no secure place for urban indigeneity which constitutes a third voice. The inability of urban Maori Authorities to gain a share of the fishing quota is a reflection of this binarism.
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Title: Maori tribalism and post-settler nationhood in New Zealand.
Author: Jeffrey Sissons
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Oceania (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: 75
Issue: 1
Page: 19(13)
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The perils of designer tribalism.(evaluation of certain modern views of culture): An article from: New Criterion
Roger Kimball
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4400 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The perils of designer tribalism.(evaluation of certain modern views of culture)
Author: Roger Kimball
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New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 19
Issue: 8
Page: 15
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This digital document is an article from Middle East Policy, published by Middle East Policy Council on June 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3961 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: TRIBALISM IN IRAQ, THE OLD AND THE NEW.
Author: Judith Yaphe
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Middle East Policy (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 51
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Explicit sexual imagery has erupted in every medium and on every surface. While some react to it by pointing and laughing, hardly anyone has stopped to seriously consider its impact. Behind this phenomenon lies the normalization of pornography, which along with the complete turnaround in social attitudes to it, has been one of the most momentous developments in contemporary life. In Designing Pornotopia, Rick Poynor explores recent advertising and design and the invasion of sexual imagery into everyday life, revealing how advertising walks the fine line between prudish and vulgar imagery.
Developing the discussion of Poynor's previous anthology, Obey the Giant, Designing Pornotopia covers a wide area of subjects, from magazines, billboard advertising, branding, illustration, photography, tattoos, and music graphics to architecture and includes interviews with architect Rem Koolhaas and maverick American graphic designer and performance artist Elliott Earls. Along the way Poynor reassesses the early work of Peter Saville and tracks the unstoppable rise of Stefan Sagmeister, among others. Poynor's concise, riveting prose constantly challenges the reader with strong and thought-provoking arguments. In its timeliness and poignancy, this anthology is a truly indispensable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in visual culture and its effects on our daily lives.
Customer Reviews:
understanding designing pornotopia.......2006-11-16
this review is largely in answer to the previous reviewer's review - john d. i think context is important with this book. rick poynor is a design critic for eye magazine, and this book is an anthology of his essays over the last three to four years. while i agree that there is not much "depth" to each essay, i think that, taken as a collection, poynor's writing provides a great STARTING POINT for further criticism, analysis, or study. he's noting a trend within visual culture. not to be taken as anything too scholarly, he comments on the trends as concisely as possible for magazine format. so for all design students, design geeks, culture geeks, this book is by no means going to illuminate everything about pornotopia for you, but it will plant seeds which you can either nourish or ignore.
buy it, it's interesting.
Is that an idea under there, or are you just happy to see me?.......2006-11-15
I like to take chances on books, and this is one of them. I hope someone else comes along to write something really insightful and postive about this book, 'cause I'm not. "...concise, riveting prose" Maybe for lack of ideas. "truly indispensable addition" Maybe if you're a dunderhead that thinks life has changed a little since Madonna turned oour entire world upside down--uh, almost--with her shocking self-expose' of a coffee table book. Sorry, I find that many of these essays meander far from the sexy pitch. I was hoping Rem Koolhaus would fill me in on why his quirky boxes should be getting me all hot and bothered, but mostly I learned he has an elusive and dark presence in your company. And then I frittered away a few more mornings with the usual claptrap of dingy magazines that make something of sexual toys beyond their ostensible function, and designer rehash of Pop strategies. OK, there are some essays here that relate to the title. But for the most, I find the author "not on task." Appropriately, I got all excited by the titilating come-on, but in my dull straight world, the dish is a guy. I deflate.
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Pornotopia (Sin Factory)
Nureruru
Manufacturer: Radio Comix
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Is it fantasy or reality? Uptight co-ed Iris has to figure that out, when her sexual fantasies begin spilling over into her daily life. But will she have too much fun to bother solving the mystery? And will her wild roommate Zoe help her or simply take advantage of the situation? From the Sin Factory imprint of Adults Only material. This publisher is a new client to Diamond Book Distributors!
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Merryland: Gender and Power in an Eighteenth-Century Pornotopia.(Critical Essay): An article from: Utopian Studies
Sharon O'toole Dubois
Manufacturer: Society for Utopian Studies
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 5538 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Merryland: Gender and Power in an Eighteenth-Century Pornotopia.(Critical Essay)
Author: Sharon O'toole Dubois
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Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Page: 77
Article Type: Critical Essay
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