England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

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No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and of Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II, this is a lively, lavishly-illustrated investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country.

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Not just Elizabeth but why she matters.......2005-01-16

Anne Barton, an emerita Cambridge, England professor of literature and history, called this book 'scholarly, wide-ranging, lively and witty', and she doesn't give out praise lightly: she also described it as 'a fascinating cultural history of England itself in terms of its obsession with Anne Boleyn's resilient daughter.' This was in the London Review of Books, which rarely gets that sort of thing wrong, so I bought it. And she was dead right. This is a stunning book -- broadens your whole sense of history. And such a joy and a stimulant to read. I can't think how they'll ever follow it, but thank goodness they wrote it.

Gloriana in all her posthumous glory!.......2003-03-05

This is a dazzling piece of cultural history about all the things people have wanted to be true about Elizabeth I whether they are or not, with fantastic pictures drawn from the plays and novels and movies in which her endlessly glamorous afterlife has been lived. It's a great book about why this enigmatic, dangerous woman matters and has mattered: it's funny, it's heartfelt, and it's scholarly too. Perfect for the thinking Glenda Jackson/Bette Davis/Cate Blanchett fan in your life, and a penetrating, witty meditation on fame, womanhood, and history.

England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy.(Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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This book develops a new approach to measuring the total returns to human resource development through investment in education. Drawing on microanalytic foundations, it uses regional and worldwide data to estimate the net marginal contributions of education and new knowledge both to economic growth and to wider effects on democratization, human rights, political stability, health, net population growth rates, reduction of poverty, inequality in income distribution, crime, drug use, and the environment. The total impact of education policy changes on endogenous development is then estimated using an interactive model. This new approach is important to industrialized and developing countries alike. The diffusion of knowledge and the adaptation of new techniques has been identified as crucial to the growth process in the new endogenmous growth models, and is of increasing strategic importance in current knowledge-based globalizing economies. Similarly, the non-monetary returns from education are important in improving human welfare. Measurement of these non-market returns is a crucial but much neglected subject. It has proved frustrating, and existing microanalytic measures have proved piecemeal. The new approach developed here offers some comprehensive estimates and simulation techniques for finding more cost-effective policies, and also suggests new hypotheses for further microanalytic testing.

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If you want to be a Photoshop Master you need to have Margulis' books in your library

If verbosity was an olympic sport this book would get a gold medal

Not for me

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Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction (5th Edition)
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The commonsense, by-the-numbers approach of Professional Photoshop has shaped the workflows of a generation of Photoshop experts. This new edition, the first in nearly five years, is completely updated for the age of digital photography. It continues the book’s tradition of introducing astoundingly effective, previously unknown methods of image enhancement. The original photographs found in the book come from a variety of professional sources, and all correction exercises are on the included CD. Professional Photoshop has changed radically from edition to edition, and this time is no exception—with almost 90 percent new content and completely overhauled coverage of curves, channel blending, and sharpening.Professional Photoshop offers a full explanation of:

How curves bring out detail in the most important areas of the imagen
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More than just good.......2007-09-13

This book is more than just good, I just started reading and even though it is a lot of info it is very useful. it doesn't just give you a couple of step by step how to's but it really gets into how things work for you to understand why they look the way they look and what you can and should do about it. It also tells you what you should not do about it. I think this book is recomended to those who are more than just serious about this stuff, it is heavy reading and if you're just trying to fix up a couple of pictures here and there you'd be better of with something less informative. In my case I also what to say, I'll take a book like this one over scott Kelby's any day of the year. There's to those who still don't know it: you don't need to be the president of NAPP to know your stuff.

If you want to be a Photoshop Master you need to have Margulis' books in your library.......2007-09-04

Convoluted, complex and long-winded is the signature style of Margulis and if that bugs you don't get the book. However, you can't beat the incredible information he delivers in every thing he publishes. He delivers in this version. In a review of his LAB book, I wrote that Margulis is to Photoshop what Ansel Adams was to Fine Art B/W photography. Adams explained in great detail the zone system, toning, etc. etc. ....getting the full range of B/W tones in a photograph in his books: the Print, The Camera, and others. Margulis does the
same except in the digital world it is known as CMYK, LAB and RGB , channels, blends, sharpening, etc. etc.

If you want cookbook information, quick and dirty "how to" and you can't get past anything more difficult than the sliders in the Lightroom or Aperature softwares then get Scott Kelby's books, but note that Kelby references Margulis' books throughout his books.

A previous reviewer said that he didn't want to bother with Margulis because as a "pro photographer he found this book heavy going and irrlevant as it is CYMK based and photographers use RGB." I can't believer this guy even admitted he was a pro photographer. Maybe sometime in the future when print is no longer available and all there is is web and computer screens this phrase might be true, but if you are working in the digital arena, regardless of whether is is photography, graphic arts, or illustration, knowledge of CMYK is necessary....CMYK are the basic inks in all print machines including our printers. It was through Margulis books that i finally "got it" .....the concepts of RGB and CMYK. This info. has helped me enourmously in all of my digital classes: Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver etc.

I have only two gripes about his book: I am so happy that he has updated most of the book, but he replaced the image of the face in his "guess the different channels" exercise (page 12, 4th edition) with an image of a flower (page 12). This excercise is the basis and starting point for the concepts thoughout the rest of the book. A face is familiar to anyone, but that flower!!!.....looks like an unreconizable alien glob...a not very helpful example.

Second, I am disappointed that there are no margins. I wrote in one of his websites, to please please place large margins throughout his books for notes. A big 2 to 3 inches of blank space placed around the text would help us photoshop zealots get through the intense learning process that is a Margulis book.

If verbosity was an olympic sport this book would get a gold medal.......2007-08-09

After bumbling along in Photoshop since version 4 I brought this book to learn how to use curves properly. I am not a photoshop newbie by any means. I found this book really hard going not aided by the fact that the author takes forever to get to the point. Whilst the author warns us in the introduction that this book is not a step by step approach it is reasonable to assume that someone buying this book has no idea how the curves dialog box works and needs to have their hand held when first introduced to it. It would be like learning to drive a car but the instructor forgets to tell you where to insert the key.

I returned to a Ben Willmore book for some curve basics and then returned to this book and got started in the LAB colour space which produced some nice results on my images, but what took a dozen pages could have been written in less than a page with a more succinct writing style.

It is obvious that Dan Margulis knows his subject extremely well, but knowing a subject and being able to teach it are two different things. Some people must love Margulis's style and I might not have found it so laborious if there was some step by step tuition.

This book is not for intermediate photoshop users, it is for very advanced photoshop users, in fact I would go so far as to say that unless you have formal training in colour theory and pre-press issues this book is better left unpurchased.

Its a pity that this book was so unapproachable for me as the author is so knowledgeable I'm sure I could learn a lot.

Not for me.......2007-07-25

As a pro photographer I found this book heavy going and irrlevant as it is CYMK based and photographers use RGB.

I've tried to "dip" into this book every now and then in the hope of re-discovering things I missed on my first read but I've found it useless.

A good photoshop book (I like Scott Kelby) will give you all you need in color correction.

Is the only way of getting good color by converting first to CMYK then back to RPG? Sounds nonsense to me.

I picked up on a few things put it did not solve my photoshop color problems. A waste of time for me.

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Yet another convert.......2007-06-14

This book doesn't need yet another review ... but I just wanted to lend voice to the fact that its significance isn't to be underestimated. The simple message herein is that it's all in the channels. Most images can benefit from individual steepening in the area of interest (to highlight variation) or cross-blending for reconstruction. Separation of tonality and color is also crucial. It's a pity that there won't be a sixth edition to take this further in light of newer techniques based around luminosity layers. Margulis can be a bit of a stirrer and there's some old scores to settle in this book but any sentient Photoshop user will at least have to question the orthodoxy that purports to be way color correction is tackled in pretty well every other book on Photoshop. If the approaches in Real World Photoshop (to name just one influential tome) come across to you as somewhat tortured, then this book is for you.

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Plenty of books cover all things Photoshop, but Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction is probably one of the few that ought to be required reading. Filled with clear text and color images, this new edition of the classic color usage guide stands out among its peers. Updated to reflect changes in Photoshop since the previous edition, nearly half the material is either new or has been rewritten. Color correction itself hasn't changed, but the way it's done and the need for doing it certainly have.

The book contains 17 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of correction and image reproduction: colorspaces, resolution, luminosity, separation, channels, and much more. Each chapter is worthy of study, and all are interesting. While not a step-by-step tutorial guide, the text is written so that the driving idea behind each technique--in addition to a demonstration of it--is explained, allowing the reader to apply what is learned to his or her own work.

For the first time, this book includes a CD-ROM. While not exactly overflowing with content, it does include images from the book that anxiously await color correction, as well as some chapters that were in earlier editions of the book but are not present in this one. There is also an important chapter on moving from a pre-version 5 Photoshop to version 6 (a significant jump).

The book doesn't try to be a Photoshop all-inclusive encyclopedia. Instead, it focuses on one aspect of the tool. Fortunately, since color correction is probably the most important, complex, and misunderstood area of digital imaging, Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction excels at explaining and exploring the process behind the curtain, and the right and wrong way to adjust the color of images. --Mike Caputo

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An electronic prepress master reveals how to get the most out of Photoshop

Renowned among graphic design professionals for his technical grounding and ability to clearly explain difficult principles and techniques, Dan Margulis has updated his bestselling book, Professional Photoshop 5, to help readers quickly master Photoshop 6 and learn how to take full advantage of its latest tools and capabilities. Rather than focusing on program features, Dan Margulis builds on a solid foundation of classic design concepts and skills. This new edition has been substantially expanded to include coverage of issues surrounding image handling for devices other than offset printers, such as final output on desktop color printers, high-volume copiers, and large-format printers for outdoor displays.

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professional photoshop 6.......2003-04-21

It doesn't get any better than this. Dan's ability to communicate by thoroughly explaining and then demonstrating is excellent. You may never need to use all of the included techniques but this publication is a resource that is unmatched for content relative to the imaging industry. I purchased additional copies as gifts.

Really one of the best.......2002-06-23

If you are a photographer, this is the book for you. If you do any prepress work, this is the book for you. I have read and re-read this book to try to absorb everything inside. It's not a book about how to make the latest cool button for your website, it's about how to render a photo's color in the best possible way in a print or on a press. The book is very opinionated, and it's clear the author has attracted criticism from many parties. However, in the application of his techniques, I have never found any advice from him to be unwarranted.
He's been very influential in my work.

The Colour Correction Bible.......2002-04-22

First of all I would like to say this is not a book for beginners, it is intended for people who have a good understanding of Photoshop and how to apply it. That being said, this is by far the best book I have ever come across on any Prepress subject period. In fact in the first night of reading I had so much information to take in it almost made my head explode. The book contains 17 chapters that are each thoroughly explained, such as the different colourspaces avaiable to a Photoshop user (each colourspace gets it's own chapter), sharpening, and moires to name but a few. The thing I like most is that each chapter of this book is devoted to a specific subject and then each subject is broken down into its relevant components. I find this is a very thorough and detailed way of explaining information to the reader and I wish more Prepress books were written in this manner.

Number 1 in Color Correction.......2002-03-06

If you want to learn beautiful and powerfull world of color correction, go and get it.

CMYK color correction with lots of ego........2002-01-29

Most of the online reviews promise a lot but the book doesn't deliver and that is a great disappointment since an understandable guide is need. The author does not explain and illustrate the relationships between rgb (additive) and cmyk (reflective) in enough detail for one to comprehend how to read color coordinates in the info window and then correct the images using PhotoShop's image adjustments whether they be curves, levels, or whatever (which require thinking in both color spaces). The author is an expert on the four process color inks on the press and how they relate to cmyk color densities on printed paper but how to achieve the corresponding correct color densities in your digital files using PhotoShop is not clearly communicated. I've learned more reading the compressed "Create Print" articles in MacWorld by authors like David Blatner (a fine writer) then I learned from this book. My recommendations are: if you want to understand the basics of digital prepress then the Agfa Guide to Digital Color Prepress (though dated) is far better; if you want to understand channels then PhotoShop Channel Chop (also dated) is better; if you wants to understand curves then the PhotoShop Artistry books (version 5 or 6) are better. If you want a professional's insights into how he goes about correcting cymk color situation along with lots of self accolades, well this is it. Also be warned that none of the photographs measure up to the quality of good commercial stock photo images. Hopefully, by the next version of PhotoShop a good technical editor can turn this book into the gem the PhotoShop audience needs on this topic.

Professional Photoshop 5: The Classic Guide to Color Correction

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Even a non-Photoshop user should read this book
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A Must-Have Photoshop Book.......2000-09-19

My interest in Photoshop is digital photography, and for me this is a must-have book. The information in this book has shown me how to quickly and effectively adjust colours in a digital photograph to optimize its appearance, and then how to selectively enhance the photograph even further.

The author works in the pre-press industry, so he prefers to work in a CMYK colourspace, and all the instructions in the book are for CMYK as a result. I work in a RGB colourspace, but it is relatively straightforward for me to convert the techniques given for CMYK to RGB. The only difference is that RGB doesn't have a black colour channel, so the one chapter that focusses on black is not as useful to me (converting to LAB colour does produce a black channel, however, so the advice given for the black channel in CMYK colour aren't confined exclusively to the CMYK colourspace).

If you want to gain an understanding of colour and means of using Photoshop to enhance and optimize the colour of photographs , then this book is a must-have.

Even a non-Photoshop user should read this book.......2000-07-04

You're not a Photoshop user? So what? This book is also helpful to you if you concern about colors.

If you're like so many Photoshop users who only knew how to fool around with filters, let this book be your guide to the "left-side."

No CDs?.......2000-06-27

All right, there's not a CD with this wonderful book. But its somewhat spinnable. Imagine you're a stock photo supplier, you always advertise that your images are of the highest quality, then this man Margulis comes to you, and asks you to let him put some photos in his book, as an example of bad scanning. What will you do?

Placed in any of Margulis' books is no fun when you're in the stock photo business.

No Eyes.......2000-04-20

Hi,

I am based in India, and had to go to Singapore to source this book. Having spent some money on this book, I know that it was well worth it. The only thing that has left a bad taste in the mouth is that there is no accompanying CD with the images used in the book. Although the author, the highly respected Mr. Dan Margulis has given the sources of the images, I think that they could well afford to get the licence to use these images and distribute them on a CD instead of expecting readers to source the individual images themselves.

All in all a great resource for pre-press colour correction work.

Professional and then some.......2000-04-11

Working at a prepress house doing high-end drum scanning, photography, color correction and retouching for 5 years has shown me that there are lots of opinionated blowhards in the graphics field. Mr. Margulis combines the rare gift of technical mastery, insight and humor into a potentially dull topic. This book is very readable on it's own, without sitting at your G4, since he is instilling a philosophy and insightful observations that make sense. The fog lifted from my eyes after reading this book, but now I know why. To quote the master: A full tonal range is absolutely the most critical element of color re-production. If you do not have one, regardless of your creative abilities, channel-maneuvering cognition,etc., you will never be able to beat even a modestly talented person who does no more than set a proper highlight and shadow.

Professional Photoshopr: The Classic Guide to Color Correction with CDROM

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