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- some authors should be shamed of their publications
- poorly written, no explanation, do not buy this book.
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Engineer-in-Training: Mechanical Review
Lloyd M. Polentz , and
Jerry H. Hamelink
Manufacturer: Kaplan AEC Education
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Written for the closed book afternoon FE/Mechanical Examination Each topic is briefly reviewed with example problems. Many end-of-chapter problems with solutions and a complete afternoon Sample Exam with step-by-step solutions is included. Mechanical Design, Dynamic Systems Vibrations, Kinematics, Thermodynamics Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics Stress Analysis, Measurement and Instrumentation Material Behavior and Processing Computer and Numerical Methods Refrigeration and HVAC Fans, Pumps, and Compressors
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some authors should be shamed of their publications.......2000-04-03
There are too many errors in this books. The reviewers and some authors should be shamed of their works. I give you an example. At page 12-2, example 12-2. Let alone the problem is not clear, say the assumptions appear in the solution section. And user still do not know what the refrigeratant is. I mean what type? Buy this book if you want to annoy yourself.
poorly written, no explanation, do not buy this book........1998-01-09
I felt this book was hastily and poorly written. The provided examples are solved in a haphazardly and crude manner with little or no explanation given. I don't recommend this book to anyone wanting to prepare for this portion of the exam.
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Engineer-In-Training: Mechanical Review, 2nd Edition (Engineer-In-Training)
Lloyd M. Polentz , and
Jerry H. Hamelink
Manufacturer: Kaplan AEC Education
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This guide is written for the afternoon FE/EIT Mechanical Exam and reviews each topic. This volume is written for the closed-book afternoon FE/EIT Mechanical Examination. It reviews each topic with example problems. Many end-of-chapter problems are provided with solutions and a complete afternoon sample exam is included with step-by-step solutions. Topics covered:
* Mechanical Design
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* Computer and Numerical Methods
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This guide contains a total of 530 problems and solutions. SI units.
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Now Back in Print An elegant and insightful book. -- The Art Newspaper Exquisite. --Boston Globe Joe Earle . . . has enlightened us with new facts associated with the subjects portrayed in netsuke and new insight into the background of this unique world . . . An excellent, well-written tome and a worthy addition to one's library. --International Netsuke Society Journal Netsuke--tiny sculptures used to secure pouches to the kimono--have long been an obsession for collectors in both East and West. They depict a variety of figures, both domestic and exotic, from marketplace tradesmen to otherworldly beings to perfectly rendered animals. This superbly illustrated, accessibly written volume examines netsuke in the context of Japanese life and details the origins of designs that have evolved through the centuries. It delves into the minds of the artists and explores the question of the objects' use, both functional and symbolic. Featuring 300 netsuke from three world-renowned collections, this is the definitive work on these remarkably minute, endlessly intricate objects.
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- The power of netsuke
- Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature
- A story goes with each netsuke
- Lovely images, informative text - great introduction!
- Visual Masterpiece for the Netsuke Enthusiast
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Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature
Edwin C., Jr. Symmes
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Netsuke are exquisite reminders of three centuries of Japanese life. In tiny sculptural masterworks, most under two inches high and originally destined to keep the cord attached to a gentleman's snuffbox from slipping through the belt of his kimono, the myths, legends, and cultural history of Japan is recorded. Tiny Buddhas, grinning female poets of the sixteenth century, monkeys, jesters, and craftsmen beam their imperishable cheerfulness toward the viewer, taking the mystery of the ages in their tiny strides. Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniatures features over seventy of these superb artifacts, along with fascinating background on the figure and the object or idea it represents.
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The power of netsuke.......2007-03-26
This book is a lot like the netsuke themselves. At first, it looks like it might be something interesting, so you pick it up, look a little closer, and...you are inside a whole different world. Something deceptively simple shows itself to have hidden depths.
I had been interested in netsuke for awhile, ever since buying a little ivory sumo in an antique shop in Japan one day. There was something about the miniature wrestler that fascinated me, and I found myself going back to the shop over and over again, just to look at it. I finally knew that, even though it was expensive, it had to be mine.
This is much like the feeling that author Edwin Symmes describes, leading me to believe that it must be a universal experience amongst netsuke appreciators. He is someone who loves the stories behind the tiny figures, who tries to find their personality rather than figure out their rarity or value. In "Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature", he combines his fascination with his skills in photography, creating small vignettes incorporating the figures with appropriate settings, such as an ivory tiger emerging from real bamboo, or a wooden Daruma nestled inside a rock cave. Next to each image is a story, detailing the legends behind the figure, or maybe a little something about the carver, something that you wouldn't know just by looking but which deepens the understanding and appreciate of the figure.
What this book is not is a collector's guide to netsuke. Anyone new to the art form, and looking for a "How to.." guide to give them tips as what to look for, isn't going to find that here. Not that it is entirely lacking in practical information. There are sections describing the history of netsuke, their original use and their evolution, but that is not the focus. To those who's interest lies in photography, Symmes includes a fascinating section on photographing netsuke. But the real joy lies in looking at the pictures, reading the stories, and sharing the love of netsuke that radiates from this book.
Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature.......2007-01-11
There are a lot of high quality photographies of very wonderful netsuke, interesting design, good advice how to do the photographies of small netsuke better! This book is very good for beginning carvers, galleries!
A story goes with each netsuke.......2004-09-17
As author Symmes says, netsukes have the "power to influence people and pocketbooks." This statement is true in several aspects. First, the collector of netsukes will find that they are expensive. Second, the purpose of a netsuke is to fasten an "inro," or case holding valuables, to an obi or belt. "Ne" translates as "root" and "tsuke" translates as "to fasten." An inro's cords are held tightly by an "ojime," or bead, to keep it closed and the netsuke keeps the inro from falling off of the wearer.
The highly-detailed photographs of netsukes are in harmony with the scenery and objects surrounding them, so lusciously artistic that you may consider framing them.
HIH Prince Norihito of Takamado, who wrote this book's foreward, says he looks for "warmth, wit, and a certain twist" in his own netsuke collection. To fully appreciate a netsuke, "hold it, feel it, and examine it closely in one's hand."
Netsuke figures have stories associated with them. Many figures are puns in which the same word may have several meanings. For example, monkey is "saru" which is pronounced the same as "to leave," so it would be unlucky to marry in a monkey year.
If you are not familiar with Asian astrology, this book will teach you much about the associated legends. One tale that fascinated me was about Daruma, the 28th patriarch of Zen Buddhism. Daruma meditated for 9 years, sitting so long that his legs lost their strength. My sister, who lived in Japan for many years, sent me a wooden Daruma doll with two blank eyes. When you knock over the Daruma doll, it pops back upright, reflecting an undaunted spirit. Here's what you are supposed to do with a Daruma doll: you color one eye to make a prayer, then you color the other one when the prayer is answered.
You'll learn much about Japanese life and legend from studying these tiny netsukes -- and Symmes provides us with a fun way to learn.
Lovely images, informative text - great introduction!.......2000-01-23
Between the introductory text and the stories attached to each picture, this book serves to both educate and whet the appetite. I struggled with the desire to own each of the pieces that Symmes so lovingly photographed.
Visual Masterpiece for the Netsuke Enthusiast.......1999-05-04
Symmes does a wonderful job of composing this text. He gives a nice history of netsuke, covering the span of time from feudal Japan to the present. He includes a small section on netsuke manufacture, and another on photographic techniques for macro photography and design, and then the text opens into a wonderful collection of full-page photographs of several varied and incredible pieces, some dating back to the seventeenth century. He includes brief descriptions of the netsuke, although he could have elaborated on the Japanese (and Chinese) fables that inspired many of these creations for Western audiences. Many of the pieces in this book are available today in reproduction form, and the netsuke are composed of several different materials, not just the "typical" ivory or wood. This text is a must have for any collector, beginning or advanced, as it will inspire readers to research their private collections as well as create the desire to build them! The reproduction of detail from the photographs is amazing!
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Masatoshi is the last netsuke carver to belong to the great tradition of Japanese craftsmanship, belonging, that is, in all particulars but one - this book; for never before has a master carver described himself, his training and his approach to his work.
How does a carver choose his subjects? What influences his choice of materials? What tools does he use to carve with? How long does he spend polishing his work? Masatoshi shares his insights of a master carver, and more; he welcomes us into his realm of ghosts and goblins, owls and lizards, Kabuki heroes and Edo Period entertainers - all of them brought to life in the carver's descriptions of his own netsuke and in the carvings themselves, each one illustrated in color.
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The Art of Netsuke Carving.......2007-01-11
There are good many photographies, description of different techniques, styles. This book is very helpful for any carvers!
Absolutely the finest reference book on the title subject!.......1999-02-16
This book captures both the beauty of ivory and the art form of Netsuke carving. The artist Masatoshi is a superb carver and the photgraphs of his works and others in this collection epitomize the "best of the best" in the field of this unique Japanese art form. If you like oriental art, this book is a must for the true collector. The book itself is highly collectible, although the First Edition is impossible to find.
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- Excellent research source
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The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Miniature Japanese Carvings
Norman L. Sandfield
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Netsuke
ASIN: 1878529579 |
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The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of more than 4,400 bibliographic print and non-print entries covering all aspects of Japanese netsuke, the miniature carvings which Japanese men used to suspend various items from the sash belt that fastened their kimono. It is organized into 15 major and 5 minor categories. Each category is further divided into 11 subcategories. Additional features include four indices (Author, Journal, Place, and Subject), and a variety of appendices.
It contains 2,196 books, 1,861 journal articles (457 from the Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal), 367 from the Journal of the International Netsuke Collectors Society 1,494 auction catalogs, 431 items in French, 254 items in Japanese, 60 items prior to 1900, including 9 auction catalogs.
Includes most materials published through the end of 1998. A section of 'Late Arrivals', including last minute submissions and items in early 1999, will be listed as well. This volume is a necessity for every netsuke collector, bibliophile, art library and museum.
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Excellent research source.......2000-09-22
Norman Sandfield has saved everyone a lot of time and effort with this excellent annotated guide to the world of these miniature Japanese carvings. References abound on netsuke types, specific pieces, inro, ojime, sagemono, and toggles in addition to those on legends, subject matter, techniques, materials, and various artist's schools.
Not content to confine himself to the English literature, outstanding foreign references have been included. Any serious collector of netsuke, okimono, or sagemono must consider this book.
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- The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Frances Bushell ,
Hollis Goodall ,
Virginia G. Atchley ,
Neil K. Davey ,
Christine Drosse ,
Sebastian Izzard ,
Odile Madden , and
Robert T. Singer
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The World of Netsuke: The Werdelmann Collection at the Museum Kunst Palast, Duesseldorf
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Netsuke, Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting
ASIN: 1588860353 |
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The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.......2007-01-11
It is very useful book for any collectors, carvers and other people who love netsuke! There are a lot of images, the perfect quality!
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Lavishly printed in full color, this exhibition catalogue features over 300 spectacular examples of netsuke carvers' art. Chapters elucidate the historical development and extraordinary breadth of netsuke production with examples from as early as the 17th century to contemporary works by living artists. Matthew Welch, Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Sharen Chappell, former president of the International Netsuke Society, discuss iconography, technique and artistic style of each work. All netsuke were selected from the private collections of the International Netsuke Society members, and many have never been published or publicly exhibited.
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- Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture
- Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture
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Netsuke Masks
Raymond Bushell
Manufacturer: Weatherhill
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ASIN: 0834803410
Release Date: 1995-08-01 |
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Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.
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Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture.......2005-10-12
Masks are the oldest models for Netsuke art, designated as national treasures, yet remaining a relatively untapped collector's source. Perhaps that's because few in-depth coverages of Netsuke masks are available: an absence rectified by Netsuke Masks, packed with black and white and color plates and historical background on all kinds of Netsuke masks. Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture.
Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture.......2005-10-12
Masks are the oldest models for Netsuke art, designated as national treasures, yet remaining a relatively untapped collector's source. Perhaps that's because few in-depth coverages of Netsuke masks are available: an absence rectified by Netsuke Masks, packed with black and white and color plates and historical background on all kinds of Netsuke masks. Discussions of trick Netsuke, Netsuka characters, and more assure collectors thoroughly understand mask origins and culture.
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An Art form unique to Japan, netsuke are exquisite miniature sculptures that portray a multitude of real and imaginary subjects. The superb netsuke in the collection of Joseph Kurstin illustrate intricate and aamusing tales of holy immortals and hapless mortals, supernatural creastures and ordinary animals of the earth. Ranging in expression from horrific monsters to a serenely lovely pearl diver, these objects (displayed here in full color and full size or better)are tiny in size but grand in conception and execution, anc can be classed with the finest sculptures in the world. This book is from an exhibit held at Epcot Center in May 1997.
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The Toledo Museum of Art has an outstanding collection of more than 250 netsuke. Fifty examples are highlighted. Chapter One relates the history of netsuke. Chapter Two illustrates the most popular types using additional examples in the collection. Chapter Three explores materials, some information about the carvers, and techniques. Selected bibliography. Index.
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Japanese Treasures: The Art of Netsuke Carving in the Toledo Museum of Art.......2007-01-11
There are interesting stories about every netsuke, good quality of photographies.
Great book for a gift!.......2000-12-16
This is good book to start know about what NETSKE is. It introduces the brief background, type and techniques for Netsuke. What I like was the pictures of marvelous museum collection with notes. It is not thick book like others but it is enjoyable and enriches your mind.
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This photographic essay examines the two aspects the Ozark region is famous for: its sublime natural beauty and its conservative folk culture. Leland Payton finds something of value in each. There are mist-filled photographs of scenic valleys and pictures of the spring-fed rivers' scaly inhabitants. The people of the region are lovingly portrayed, but not idealized. Payton interweaves personal experience, extensive knowledge of local history, readings in frontier travel journals and natural history to create a fresh and original look at one of America's fabled regions.
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Almost as good as a visit!.......2002-04-05
Anyone who loves the Ozarks will be touched and moved by Leland Payton's photographs, which capture the hills, plains, parks, towns and people of the place in all of their rugged, yet fragile beauty. Books of regional photography often feature dirt-dry text, but not this one! Mr. Payton's brief history of the Ozark landscape is fresh, easy to read and full of interesting ideas. As an added bonus, he has included images from antique postcards and tour books, not to mention photos of wonderful vintage hillbilly souvenirs! This book is almost as much fun to explore as the Ozarks themselves.
The Ozarks are beautiful indeed!.......2001-06-13
THE BEAUTIFUL AND ENDURING OZARKS not only looks like the Ozarks, it has the feel of it. I live there. Ozark rivers are photographed in their best light. The region's folklore is integrated into the text. Really high quality book and true to its title. Perhaps the best flavor of the Ozarks in book form I've seen.
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Bombaby: The Screen Goddess
Antony Mazzotta
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Sangeeta Mukherjee is the daughter of well-to-do, traditional parents, dealing with a bratty little sister and a possible arranged marriage when an out-of-body experience reveals that she is not an ordinary young woman. Sangeeta is, in fact, the reincarnation of India's ancient protector, the Goddess of Mumbai. But how will Sangeeta use this new-found power? Can she make a difference in a male-dominated society? Sangeeta must defy traditional expectations to choose what kind of life she wants and discover her true self.
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