Careers for Crafty People & Other Dexterous Types (Careers for You Series)

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Careers for Crafty People & Other Dexterous Types (Careers for You Series)
Mark Rowh
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0658002112

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Careers for Crafty People and Other Dexterous Types lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living--including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.

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Opportunities in Arts & Crafts Careers, revised edition (Opportunities in)

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Hobbies to Careers
Valuable compendium for those considering a career in crafts
This Book Offers an Exceptional Measure of Information
This book is very engaging & accessible..with great strength

Opportunities in Arts & Crafts Careers, revised edition (Opportunities in)
Elizabeth Gardner
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071448497

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Are you looking for the latest information to open the door to the career of your dreams? Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers covers a range of jobs in this industry, from those that require high school and trade school to associate, four-year, and graduate degrees. You'll find up-to-date salary statistics, training requirements, as well as the lowdown on life on the job. This comprehensive, no-nonsense guide takes the stress out of launching a career that's both satisfying and financially rewarding.

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Hobbies to Careers.......2000-12-13

Excellent advice on how to pursue careers in the arts and crafts fields and professions. It is practical and fun to read especially since so many opportunities in these fields are discussed. The histories of these fields are very good as are the processes involved. It makes one want to pursue one's interest in arts and crafts!

Valuable compendium for those considering a career in crafts.......1999-06-01

This book is a valuable guide for students considering a career in the arts. Each career path includes a brief history, a description of the actual processes involved in the work and discusses training options and job potentials. A particular strength of the book lies in including some of the more unusual crafts like book binding, stained glass design and weaving.

This Book Offers an Exceptional Measure of Information.......1999-02-23

Do you sometimes think to yourself when you're doing a project, "I wouldn't mind doing this for a career." Then the one question you must definitely ask yourself is, "What procedures must I take in order to develop a career out of my talent?" This book can get you started in the right direction.

Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers offers you a clear understanding about the various careers available, the skills needed, and how to get started. I wanted to read this book to find out if it would help out fellow woodworkers who would like to pursue a career with their skills, and if it had information for them to get started in one. I've found that not only does it provide information for these two avenues, but also an understanding of the history of the craft.

I extremely recommend this book for those who would like to seek a career in the arts and crafts. Elizabeth B. Gardner has performed an exceptional measure of research, in order to write this book with the facts provided in it.

This book is very engaging & accessible..with great strength.......1999-01-04

I applaud Elizabeth Gardner for authoring Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers. This book is a very engaging and accessible reference to a multitude of careers that are too often overlooked by students, their teachers, parents, and counselors. The book covers a broad scope of career opportunities including fine art, applied art or design, and craft. The result is a career reference book with great collective strength.

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Very good all around info for "Young" designers

Careers in Art and Graphic Design
Ronald A. Reis
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764116290

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Careers in the graphic arts can be both rewarding and glamorous for young men and women with good training and proper focus. The author points readers toward courses in art and graphic design, discusses interning in studios and art departments, and points out the pros and cons of freelancing versus working in-house, at design firms and ad agencies. Titles in the practical and enlightening Success Without College series guide ambitious young men and women toward satisfying and well-paying careers in fields where a college degree is not required. However, all occupations described do require specialized training, either on the job or in technical or vocational classroom settings. Readers learn how and where to get that training, then find out how to get started on the highway to career success.

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Very good all around info for "Young" designers.......2001-06-09

Careers in Art and Graphic Design is a good introduction to what the "young" graphic artist is up against. And it's encouraging. The jobs exist. We must mold the skill set to fill them. It gives solid practical information on how to form those skill sets and it's very current. It lists many occupations from Jewelry design to 3D game modeling. It also says internships are all but required. Whoosh! That's the sound of the air going out of my tires.

If I had a degree in art, a HR manager would look at it and say, "That's nice. Now show me what you can do." There's a Sports Arena full of folks with an MFA and no job. This is a portfolio driven industry. Careers in Art and Graphic Design gives info on how to get a job without a degree. It does so in a factual way.

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Bobbo is a traditional weaver from Ghana, where his ancestors have been weavers for generations. His young son, Kweku, learns from him, just as Bobbo learned from his father. Through Kweku's eyes, we see family and community life in the small fishing village of Denu. Kweku learns that in life, just as in weaving, "one thread is weak, while threads woven together are strong." Magnificent full color photographs.

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Preservation of African Traditions.......2002-07-02

This book describes the daily life of a family of weavers of Kente cloth in Ghana. Every page has color photos of African homes, markets, people, and cloth patterns. Ideal for children who enjoy colorful pictures of other countries and for adults wishing to learn more about the art of Kente strip weaving. Includes lists of resources (books and websites)for both kids and adults. I particularly like this book because it shows how indigenous peoples can enter the modern world without sacrificing their cultural traditions.

Master Weaver from Ghana.......2002-05-30

Master Weaver from Ghana is great for the entire family to read together. There are so many wonderful photographs in this book. It is definately one of my family's favorites!!!...

A book that is really nice to have!.......2000-08-09

With this book you can understand how much tradition is keept up by the poeple who make these beautiful cloths. Excelent picutes demonstrate in a unique way how the cloth is made from the beginning to the end. A good investment if you like to learn about African clothing and weaving tradition! I just wish it had a few more pages. Don't hesitate longer! It's worth it!

Careers for Crafty People and Other Dexterous Types, 3rd edition (Careers for You Series)

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Careers for Crafty People and Other Dexterous Types, 3rd edition (Careers for You Series)
Mark Rowh
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071458786

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The only career book to match the right job to your clever personality

The inspiring Careers for Crafty People and Other Dexterous Types encourages you to embrace your individuality by finding the job that matches your character traits.

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Suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors
A selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements
Advice on competing in hot job markets
Tips on transforming hobbies into job skills

Common Threads: Women, Mathematics and Work

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A Tapestry of Mathematical Intelligence

Common Threads: Women, Mathematics and Work
Mary Harris
Manufacturer: Trentham Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1858560152

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Mathematics is still the quintessential male subject. Throughout the world it is women who underachieve in it. And needlework still defines femininity: it is mostly women who do needlework. Yet it is often a highly mathematical activity - activity that goes unaccredited because women do it.

Common Threads traces how, when national education systems were initially set up, school mathematics and needlework came to mark systematic differences between boys' and girls' education, and reveals the lasting influence in differentiated expectations for boys and girls all over the world.

The book explores the mathematical content of a variety of textile activities worldwide and shows how these can be used in the teaching mathematics where expectations are low or where curricula are gendered or culturally irrelevant. It suggests how women, in particular, could gain greater economic independence if the mathematics skills they acquire while learning textile crafts were formally accredited.

This book has implications for all involved in mathematics education, the education of girls and women, ethno-mathematics and development education. Its content impacts upon research and education policy and on adult education worldwide.

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A Tapestry of Mathematical Intelligence.......2006-10-06

I like Mary Harris' book. It is both a history and dialogue with the reader about the social control and gendering of mathematics and education, focusing upon the abusive subordination of women and girls. The title Common Threads is from an interactive exhibit she designed, produced, and presented in many countries, bringing together a variety of hands-on sewing and needlecraft to challenge centuries of gender stereotypes about mathematics: that it is masculine and, because it requires high levels of intellect, is obviously no place for girls.

A basic theme of Common Threads is that while over the centuries girls were relegated to such presumed "mindless" activities held not to require much intellect, those very activities are in fact very mindful and embedded with very high level mathematical concepts and operations. Just as the famous "Penrose Tiles" and "Four Color Problem" entail the application of very high level abstract concepts, operations, and theorems to material objects and patterns, one finds the same fruitful abstract mathematical applications in patterns and designs of sewing.

But because women and girls are generally the ones who sew--a fact that is itself a result of centuries of sex role stereotyping by male religious and educational powers--the mathematical intelligence found implicitly in those activities is usually either not recognized or is denied outright.

The mathematical knowledge found there is denied by those mathematicians of a theoretical bent. These are usually white upper class males educated in institutional mathematics, who insist that abstract theorems must be known explicitly in theory prior to any application to material objects or designs, or one does not know them at all. Without that theoretical knowledge, sewing certain complex patterns is simply sewing. It is not mathematics.

Their objections highlight an issue between "theory and practice" found in the distinction Harris notes between institutional mathematics, a body of infallible knowledge waiting to be memorized or otherwise instilled into passive students--and ethnomathematics, found in the cultural "living interests" of a people. Because mathematics is used and abused as the language of power, the means by which political, commercial, industrial, scientific and technological progress are measured, it has largely been used as the language of control.

Thus, the most widespread use of mathematics, according to Harris, has been its use to fail people, particularly women. As she notes from another author, mathematics as a body of infallible knowledge can bear no social responsibility. But conceived as a way of coming to know, a living and developing knowing, it has a place in the daily lives of everyone.

Harris' book is timely, especially in the face of growing reactionary efforts in education, particularly in higher education, to keep women students out of academic areas such as math, science and engineering, based upon the same biological and social determinist theses used centuries ago. I highly and warmly recommend it.

Myrna L. Estep, Ph.D.
[This review was originally published in Initiatives, Journal of the National Association for Women in Education, Volume 58, number 4, Spring, 1998; also in New York State Mathematics Teachers' Journal, 1998.]

Opportunities in Crafts Careers (Opportunities in)

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Opportunities in Crafts Careers (Opportunities in)
Marianne Forrester Munday
Manufacturer: VGM Career Books
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Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers (Opportunities in)

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Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers (Opportunities in)
Victoria Kloss Ball , and David Stearns
Manufacturer: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0844244414

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Opportunities In Interior Design and Decorating Careers offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers within the field of interior decorating and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.

Pennsylvania Workers in Brass, Copper and Tin 1681-1900

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Pennsylvania Workers in Brass, Copper and Tin 1681-1900
James Biser Whisker
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
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Making Things in South Asia: The Role of Artist and Craftsman (Proceedings of the South Asia Seminar, Vol 4)

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Making Things in South Asia: The Role of Artist and Craftsman (Proceedings of the South Asia Seminar, Vol 4)

Manufacturer: Dept. of South Asia Regional Studies
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ASIN: 0936115033

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The United States will be represented at the 50th Venice Biennale by an artist known for questioning accepted notions of "truth" via combinations of historical artifacts, art objects, film, video, audio and altered museum labels. Fred Wilson's U.S pavilion will deal with Renaissance Venice and the role black Africans played in what was then the most cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse city in the world. Part of Wilson's exhibition will focus on the more personal themes of sadness and regret and will include new individual works and an installation about the legend of Othello, the Moor of Venice.

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excellent resource filmmaking basics

A beginning filmmaker's goldmine.

Shot by Shot; A Practical Guide to Filmmaking (3rd Ed.)
John Cantine , Susan Howard , and Brady Lewis
Manufacturer: Pittsburgh Filmmakers
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Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

ASIN: 0963743325

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excellent resource filmmaking basics.......2003-09-23

Consider this book the idiot's guide to moviemaking, which is why it's used in many beginner production classes. It's a thorough technical basics manual that no filmmaker should be without. (The 3rd edition focuses an entire chapter on digital editing.) Not only does it outline the proper way to film your Oscar-winner, it also explains why and how your equipment or shots function. There are chapters devoted to camera and lens, film stock, lighting, and sound and another five chapters regarding production and editing. (I'm still trying to figure out, however, why the pre-production, lighting, and sound chapters are relegated to the end of the book while the two editing chapters are sandwiched in the middle.) Drawings and photos illustrate the proper and improper ways to film, and an index and handy glossary are also included.

After using this book as my classroom companion, I came away with much more confidence in my elementary filmmaking skills. As a beginner, I appreciated the writing, which was concise without being overly technical. Each subject is segmented into digestible, reader-friendly chunks. If you want a solid foundation in filmmaking basics, this is the book to buy.

A beginning filmmaker's goldmine........1998-10-14

This book covers the very basics of motion picture photography: lenses, framing, some blocking, lighting, cameras and more. Neat diagrams, pictures (demonstrations) and easy to read text. This book is also good for the professional who just needs to get back to basics!

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Instructor's Manual to Accompany Microeconomics: Theory and Applications
Dominick Salvatore
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)
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Instructor's manual to accompany Miller : Intermediate microeconomics: Theory, issues, applications : second edition
Ronald G Reddall
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0070421609

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