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The Colorist seeks nothing less than to demystify color aesthetics. After three years of extensive travel and research, color specialist Shigenobu Kobayashi has devised a stunningly simple method for pinpointing personal color preferences. A series of clear-cut exercises allows you to
accurately define your color sense and then locate it on an "image scale" in order to select compatible color schemes for home or office, or even wardrobe.
Next, Kobayashi illuminates the underpinnings of color in everyday and ornamental settings, revealing the hidden technique beneath each successful color scheme. He introduces a full range of colors for all moods and tastes, then presents eight psychological color types to assist you in putting your
own color profile to practical use in the bedroom, den, playroom, or office.
With over 500 color photographs, 50 charts, and hundreds of sample "color-scale chips," the Colorist not only delivers a unique method of defining color sense but provides invaluable insights into the art of using color, making it an indispensable guide for home owners, decorators, artists, and
designers-indeed, anyone who works with or enjoys color.
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It's interesting........2000-03-28
Japan and Japanese have their own view & style in writing and this book shows what's the style & view. The author says about 'European-style-usage of color and the underlying reasons and schemes' through eyes of a famous Japanese professor, so that it's somewhat unique and interesting. However, if you can read Japanese, I think it would be better trying to buy and read the original(Japanese) version. In a word, it's scrupulous and acceptable book.
Successful Color Choices R Us.......2000-03-28
Color choices may not be easy but they are doable if you follow the process outlined in this book.
'Colorist' is a fascinating insight into how and why color affects us and our impressions of the world. It abounds with images from nature, architecture, art and products.
It is not a simple book to immediately apply but it offers a workable process which relies on an excellent understanding of what is required from the color scheme being prepared. By applying the book's principles it is possible to develop both appropriate color schemes and the rationale behind why these are the right color choices!
I felt that some of the language suffered from being translated from Japanese but on the whole the book is well written and follows a logical progression identifying the various elements that need to go into making successful color choices.
If color is an important element of your life, whether at home or work, this book will help you identify your color prejudices and the right color combinations for a particular project. Overall a good buy!
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Compton Gamma Ray (Aip Conference Proceedings)
Neil Gehrels
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Machine Learning Proceedings 2000
International Conference Machine Learning
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
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If your organization is looking for ways to improve performance, here's a source for proven systems, processes, and models from HRD experts. Twelve cases provide practical applications of performance analysis and consulting
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Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (Proceedings of a Conference Held at Stockholmsmassan May 21-24, 1989)
C. E. Norrbom
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Wadsworth's best selling Public Speaking text, the Verderbers' CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING, features a skills-oriented, mainstream approach that has effectively led hundreds of thousands of students through the challenges they face as they develop and deliver speeches. The speech making process is presented in a six-step framework based on classical and contemporary theory. The straightforward writing style and effective use of examples enables students to understand and effectively perform key speech making activities. The six-step framework emphasizes topic selection, audience analysis and adaptation, effective research (including appropriate use of Internet resources), organization (with emphasis on outlining), language and delivery. The six action steps are introduced in generic form and then later adapted to follow principles of informative and persuasive speaking.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Book!.......2000-06-12
A must-have book.Informative and excellently written.Gives all the information you want on Public speaking.
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Artificial Life is the new Artificial Intelligence........2005-03-04
If you are intrested in how biological systems can be simulated via computer or in what contect computer programs or computer simulations can be called alive -- this is the book to read.
Eventhou the articials in this book are technical reports from a scientific conference most provide easy reading for the layperson.
Artificial Life is a fassinating scientific endevor that seeks to do for biology what Artificial Instelligence did for psychology -- model biological processes, instead of mental processes on the computer and look to biology as a model for computation -- using techniques such as Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Neural Networks.
I find that all the books I've read that were published by the Santa Fe Institute to be intresting -- how ever the Artifical Life series is the easiest for an armchair scientist to grasp.
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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2000: 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 9-12, 2000 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2000, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA in October 2000.The 37 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers and eight industrial abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submitted papers. The book offers topical sections on database integration, temporal and active database modeling, database and data warehouse design techniques, analysis patterns and ontologies, Web-based information systems, business process modeling, conceptual modeling and XML, engineering and multimedia application modeling, object-oriented modeling, applying object-oriented technology, quality in conceptual modeling, and application design using UML.
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A complete collection of beautifully rendered Disney art, graphically depicting both produced and non-produced Disney cartoon shorts from the 1930s and 1940s. These story ad pages were utilized by Disney in Good Housekeeping Magazine to both promote their cartoons and to act as springboards for other merchandising. This handsome coffee-table book collects all of those ad pages and matches them up with many examples of the other material that sprang from them.
Customer Reviews:
Hail, hail, the gang's all here........2007-07-03
From 1934 to 1944, Good Housekeeping magazine included a legendary series of Disney one-page features. Disney cartoons were adapted into beautifully illustrated rhymed verses. Almost all of these pages are great. In addition to that, the book includes a lot of other material. The plots of the actual cartoons are synopsised, with differences between the cartoon and the GH page being noted. And other merchandise based on the cartoons is featured; including toys, presskits, comic strips and much more. This is truly a treasure trove for Disney fans.
A Surprise Disney Discovery! A+++.......2007-06-26
We were pleasantly surprised to discover this wonderful treasure chest of both vintage Disney art and history.
We were expecting a nice overview of Disney comic history, but this unexpected bounty produced not only the original "Good Housekeeping" art work from the Disney Studios; but the many sidebars and subtexts included a fascinating array of stories about the men and women who created these classic works of art. Also filled with a wide variety of related toys, books, and other keepsakes for collectors of all interests.
In addition, the art of quality bookbinding has been utilized by Gemstone, leading to a new favorite among all modern Disney publications..
An essential addition worthy of any Disney archive or museum collection.
A GORGEOUS PRODUCTION BY GEMSTONE!.......2006-03-07
In 1934, Good Housekeeping Magazine and Disney began a partnership that would last ten years and prove very beneficial to both parties. Good Housekeeping would publish a Disney page in each issue of their magazine, taking advantage of the ever-growing popularity of the animated characters that Disney was creating. On Disney's side, it gave them an opportunity to publicize their upcoming animated short features in a magazine that had a readership of over two million. Thus with the April 1934 issue, Disney's Silly Symphonies would make their first appearance with "The Grasshopper and the Ants". The Disney page would tell the story of each cartoon in verse with all new illustrations provided by Disney staff artist Tom Wood.
This lavish book by David Gerstein reprints all ten years worth of the Disney pages from Good Housekeeping in an over-sized, breathtaking format, printed on heavy glossy stock. But the book is much more than just the Disney page reprints. The book also features a synopsis of each of the animated shorts featured on the Disney Page, as well as excerpts from interviews with Disney talent, pictures of rare presskit material, storyboard sketches, reprints from newspaper and foreign adaptations of the shorts, and even vintage merchandise made to coincide with the release of the films. For "The Tortoise and the Hare", the book reprints 8 pages of the newspaper strip that adapted the story.
Mickey Mouse makes his first of many appearances in January 1935 with "The Band Concert". Other Mickey shorts featured in the book include "Alpine Mickey", "Mickey's Magic Hat", "Clock Cleaners", "The Brave Little Tailor" and "Mickey's Magic Lamp". Not to be outdone, Donald Duck is featured in numerous Good Housekeeping pages for his shorts like "Donald's Ostrich", "Good Scouts", "Donald's Gold Game", "The Hockey Champ", and many more. Throughout the book the reader will be treated to rare illustrations from such great Disney artists as Al Taliaferro and Carl Barks. The book provides readers the unique opportunity to peer into the past at Disney's creative and marketing process for these shorts.
When Disney was planning the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Good Housekeeping realized that a mere one page with verse and a few illustrations would not do justice to this full-length feature and thus in November and December of 1937, the page count was increased for the Disney page and instead of verse, a complete text novelization was published. The story was written by Dorothy Ann Blank, one of the screenwriters for the film and featured illustrations by renowned Swedish illustrator Gustaf Tenggren. Tenggren was already a well known artist and had done previous illustrations for Good Housekeeping prior to the Snow White novelization. Good Housekeeping would again expand their page count for the Disney section in October and November 1939, this time for the upcoming release of Pinocchio.
The wonderful aspect of "Mickey and the Gang" is its broad appeal. It will be a book that fans of Disney animation, comics, memorabilia, and history will all be able to appreciate. David Gerstein has helped shed the spotlight on a forgotten and yet very important period in Disney animation history. Gemstone has truly produced a fascinating and beautiful book for Disney fans everywhere. My highest recommendation!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Marvelous, fascinating compendium of Disney lore.......2005-12-24
This sumptuously handsome volume reprints - in full, and then some - the famous Disney pages that ran in Good Housekeeping magazine from 1934 to 1944. Many of these pages, which married rhyming text to gorgeously drawn and colored illustrations, were "adaptations" of Disney short cartoons that were either in production at the time or had just been released. As editor David Gerstein reveals in intricate detail, the word "adaptation" could literally mean anything from a fairly accurate précis of the cartoon's plot to an extremely early version of the project -- later to be changed extensively, but preserved for the young readers of the GH feature like a prehistoric creature encased in amber. On occasion, the feature even presented summaries of cartoons that never saw ultimate release. The GH pages have been discussed on occasion by various authors, but Gerstein's work is likely to remain the definitive discussion into the foreseeable future - not least because he "eggs the pudding" with reprints of press releases, trade reviews, original storyboard art, related comic-strip and comic-book material, and text adaptations that spun off from the GH pages and appeared in children's books and such contemporary periodicals as Mickey Mouse Magazine, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, and the British Mickey Mouse Weekly. This mass of additional material places each page firmly in its historical perspective and lends strong credence to the thesis, presented by Gerstein in the book's foreword, that the GH pages served the important historical function of "standardizing" the appearance of characters for promotional purposes. (Reprints of several frankly hideous visual interpretations of the Disney characters from British and Italian sources serve as silent testaments to just how significant an accomplishment this was.)
The rather rigid nature of the book's organization - cartoon plot summary, critique of the GH page, additional material - does get a bit tiresome after a while, especially after we reach the war years, which saw a gradual decline in the feature's overall quality. When the feature becomes "New Tales from Old Mother Goose" in its final incarnation, Gerstein metaphorically throws in the towel and lets the individual pages pretty much speak for themselves. But even if you "bleep" over the cartoons and other features that don't interest you (for my part, I chose to skip GH's lengthy and overly familiar tellings of the plots of Snow White and Pinocchio), you're likely to find something of interest on virtually every page. Gerstein writes well and flavors his commentary with a dash of humor that will be familiar to anyone who has read his scripts for American Disney comics. As to his accuracy, I've found only one (date-related) error in the book on the first reading, a fairly remarkable feat given the amount of material presented herein. Any Disney fan will simply have to have this book. Hopefully, if Gemstone can get the book distributed to the big chain bookstores and Disney stores, it will reach the wider pop-culture audience it manifestly deserves.
Great Disney Fun.......2005-12-09
This book is outstanding! The covers are of thick, slick paper and the inside pages are slick paper with quality thickness. There is color throughout the book and the color is sharp and bright. The printing is very clear and readable.
Although this art and story from the 1930s/1940s Good Housekeeping Magazine is unknown to casual Disney fans, it is an important part of early marketing efforts of the small Disney company of that time. I've known about these art and story treasures for decades and I'm thrilled to now own them in this book!!
The information in the book appears to be thoroughly researched and is presented in an entertaining manner.
I have bought previous books from Gemstone Publishing, so I knew their quality work - but the quality of this book surpasses even my expectations.
I feel that any Disney fan, especially those interested in the early cartoons and the early animated films, will love this book. This book is a bargain at its full suggested retail price, but it is a bargain deluxe at Amazon's reduced price!!!
I have spent hours pouring over this book and expect to get weeks of pleasure reading it. It is the type of book that I will return to read in the future again and again and again.
One note of warning ... Gemstone Publishing's books usually don't have large print runs. If you decide you want this book, I would suggest ordering it as soon as possible while it is still available for sale.
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- Self Help Author sees the beauty of this message.
- Aim Low : Quit Often, Expect the Worst, and Other Good Advice
- Bravo!
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Aim Low: Quit Often, Expect the Worst, and Other Good Advice
Dave Dunseath
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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ASIN: 1401602428 |
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Think Office Space is the greatest movie ever? Worship at the feet of Jon Stewart? Want to read a humor book that is actually funny? Aim Low is for you.
Funny, cynical, well written, snarky, call it what you want-but there are millions of people who will identify with the message in Aim Low. Author Dave Dunseath says Aim Low is for those who were invited to life's big banquet and ended up working at the drive-thru. An excellent gift book and a first-rate humor book, Aim Low also offers such pearls-okay, morsels-okay, crumbs of wisdom-as:
- Hope is a crutch. Crutches are only good for getting two things: awesome parking at the mall and sympathy dates with hot chicks. Otherwise, they will just slow you down.
- You can't be a failure when you have no hope of winning.
- Whoever said nothing is easy has never tried quitting.
Customer Reviews:
Self Help Author sees the beauty of this message........2006-04-24
I read a review of this book while traveling through Nashville recently. At first it seemed to slam self help books in general, and as the author of a somewhat quirky book on how to overcome obstacles to daily joy ("Live in the Moment"), I bristled for an argument. In the end, I realize that "Aim Low", is indeed a self help book, only it takes a reverse point of view. "Our happiness doesn't have to depend on results..." was the summation of the review and I couldn't agree more. As long as we're all still striving for happiness!
Aim Low : Quit Often, Expect the Worst, and Other Good Advice.......2006-02-28
Cover to cover, this book will seriously make you think about your life...as you're falling off your chair, laughing! Dave Dunseath writes about what we all, at some point, have thought about and wish we could say out loud. Look deeper folks, the wisdom woven between the hilarious pages of this book will surprise you! Loved it and I recommend it...
Bravo!.......2006-02-24
This book made me laugh out loud..alot! The author hits the nail on the head so many times I lost count. If you want to lighten up and stop pushing against the tide, this book is for you! Great gift idea too.
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