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Used 5th edition in Digital Elec classReview Date: 2006-09-06
Good for first year EECS program.Review Date: 2004-02-24
My advice is : get this book unless you have passed this level!
Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !Review Date: 2006-04-25
Best of its kindReview Date: 2003-02-09
Magnificent book to understand Digital Electronics !Review Date: 2006-04-25

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A true tutorial from the best in the businessReview Date: 2004-12-16
A Compliment to any Woodworker's LibraryReview Date: 2005-04-25
The instructions are clear and concise and includes ALL the steps required to make 9 tables.
Kim Carleton Graves is obviously a very good teacher and it really comes across in this book.
I found this book a great learning aid and I'm sure I will refer to it time and time again.
Please publish a book on chairs.
Just what you need if your going to build a dining tableReview Date: 2005-01-04
The book contains a nice selections of projects, including a trestle table (pictured on the front cover), a shaker style kitchen table (which I built), various expandable tables, and a boat table constructed using a torsion box.
I would also recommend reading the Tables book by Taunton, as it has a dining room table designed by Frank Klausz which is awesome.
Great Book , Great AuthorsReview Date: 2003-04-29
I can't add much to what was already stated in the earlier reviews except that Kim Carleton Graves was easy to contact through email. He responded quickly, professionally and was very informative.
In summary, buy the book you wont be disappointed.
Everything I Expected, and More!Review Date: 2002-11-14

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Fantastic Reference!Review Date: 2008-01-24
hands of furyReview Date: 2007-06-10
Excellant Work!!Review Date: 2007-01-15
Drawing Dynamic Hands Review Date: 2007-01-19
A helping handReview Date: 2006-08-14

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Excellent!Review Date: 2008-03-18
Amazing!!!Review Date: 2008-01-20
Vibrant floral educationReview Date: 2007-05-03
A very visually rich bookReview Date: 2005-01-08
lovely, but it's more of a recipe book, really...Review Date: 2004-10-03

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Better Homes and Gardens never disappoints! Review Date: 2008-02-10
This book, as the title states, is about "Garden Style. It is a hardback book filled with many colorful photos.
The book is divided into different areas regarding either living with the "garden style" or creating the "garden style" in your home.
There are a few BEFORE and AFTER photos included in the last chapters, but mostly, this is a pictorial book showing how to use garden accessories, and/or garden structures in your home , your porch, your shed, and/or your garden.
A soothing, restoring sojourn in a fantasy landReview Date: 2008-01-17
A second choice is a book like "BH&G Garden Style." I can sit with a book like this and imagine life in one of these pictures of garden comfort, inside and out. This is not plant gardening but the comfort of resting and entertaining and playing next to a garden, in a garden setting, just being outdoors or indoors with the ambience of outdoors. I have numerous books like this, but "Garden Style" is really special because it has such rich, imaginative, calming, creative rooms inside and out that are "garden style."
The important selling point for a book like this is how doable are the looks. There are actually affordable decorating tips here. Let me show you what I mean. Randomly opening to p. 38, I find a wicker chair with a side wooden stool, simple design, with a potted pink geranium and a colorful birdhouse. These items are available at local do-it-yourself stores or as is in others. Then surrounding the chair and stool are containers and containers of more potted pink geraniums, pink petunias, junipers, broadleaf plants--all in blue or white or clay pots, creating a calming scene to sip tea and read a book.
Here's another on p. 79. Take a small drop-leaf table, paint it white, put it in a nook or empty corner or wall, add matched botanical prints, two mismatched but coordinated chairs, and top the table with an assortment of plants for a quiet garden look in the midst of indoors.
One more: a mini-greenhouse in wrought iron filled with potted flowering plants set against a large window, anchored by two wicker chairs upholstered in green and white. A lovely garden look (p. 105).
I am currently creating a cottage garden outside my patio where I feed the birds. Some of my ideas come from this book. See you later outside for tea and Pennyroyal dumplings from my herb book, or maybe herb scones from a scone book.
Beautiful and inspiring home design book for nature lovers.Review Date: 2000-07-20
You will drool over this one...Review Date: 2001-04-29
Highly recommendedReview Date: 2000-05-19

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simply amazingReview Date: 2007-05-30
A Great ResourceReview Date: 2007-03-08
Thorough and EnlighteningReview Date: 2007-03-08
Opened My EyesReview Date: 2007-03-07
Rare findReview Date: 2007-03-01

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The Best Available History of Illuminated ManuscriptsReview Date: 2008-01-23
The second edition of De Hamel's book is structured as was the first: an informative introduction is followed by chapters which divide and discuss the manuscripts according to their intended users (missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, everybody, priests, and collectors); an extended bibliography precedes several useful indexes. This Phaidon paperback edition is a beautiful book, with a white paper cover adorned with a full-color dust-jacket. Many new illustrations have been added, and there are many more color illustrations than there were in the first edition. More importantly, the text has been updated to reflect ongoing research in the field.
My only complaint about this edition is that many of the important full-color and full-page illustrations in the first edition (to which I often referred in my classes) have either been reduced in size or eliminated entirely in the new edition. There are also significant (and inexplicable) differences in the color reproduction of illuminations between the first (David R. Godine, Publisher) edition and this second (Phaidon Press) edition--sometimes the differences are so radical that only a close inspection (or a familiarity with the actual documents) reveals they are photographs of the same manuscript. And since many of these manuscripts are from private collections (to which Mr. De Hamel apparently gained access by reputation or through associations established during his tenure at Sotheby's), it would be impossible for most readers to know which of the differing reproductions are the more accurate. My own experience would suggest that not all the changes in the new Phaidon edition are indeed improvements.
Publishing faults aside, this is a fine book by a scholar with impeccable credentials and a gift for clarity and sensibility in his writing. I highly recommend it.
A History of Illuminated ManuscriptsReview Date: 2007-11-13
Very ImpressedReview Date: 2007-08-02
But, as scholarly as this work is, if one simply wants an attractive coffee table book on the subject, this can certainly be one. If one wants a very readable, engagingly written, well illustrated introduction to illuminated manuscripts, this is for you as well.
There is even some helpful guidance on collecting the more available manuscripts such as Books of Hours. And as the Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and with his 25 years experience in evaluating manuscripts for Sotheby's, Dr. De Hamel's knowledge is not just theoretical.
Yet the price is extremely reasonable for a book of this quality.
A Joyous Entry for Anyone's LibraryReview Date: 2007-04-20
Fabulous book and indispensable resource!Review Date: 2006-04-26

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A ClassicReview Date: 2008-03-22
Christmas presentReview Date: 2008-01-24
Good as new?Review Date: 2007-02-20
Please correct your authorship creditsReview Date: 2007-02-02
Simply One Of The Best Books Ever!Review Date: 2007-10-20

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A guide which offers a collection of work by the modern masters of wine label design Review Date: 2005-09-07
Icon: Art of the Wine LabelReview Date: 2005-09-02
Great Book for Wine EnthusiastsReview Date: 2006-03-15
Must HaveReview Date: 2003-09-26
Best of the Best!Review Date: 2003-10-31
ICON is a tour de force, a signature piece representing the extensive body of work by two of the wine industries brightest stars, Jeffrey Caldeway and Chuck House, package designers.
One once told me that the contents of a barrel, brown bag for a label, sans introduction, sipped from a coffee cup in your kitchen, will defy distinction by most and keep both the wine and the consumer most honest.
But we of sophistication desire more than honesty, and more is ours in ICON. To the vast universe of wine, the package brings order to chaos, diminishes chance, dispels mystery, stamps a caste, creates distinction, and strokes your ego and those of others. We assume the package as an intimate expression of Self, much in the same way one would don a designer creation. Albeit, a label does nothing to alter the wine.
In this treatise of wine package history, we are reminded that necessity is the mother of invention. Order to chaos produced the first labels. Labels of origin, distinction, and personality followed. It wasn't until recent times that ego drove the package, and Ego is the stuff of ICON.
This book reveals both Jeff and Chuck as modern day alchemists, intently stirring their witches brew of ego, dream, soil, anxiety, money, sweat, clone, ambition, microclimate, and desire, distilled into an amalgam of glass, cork, paper, and ink which will transform total of Past into the largesse of Future . . . a responsibility from which all but the most tempered would shrink.
And whom amongst us do we charge with this lofty responsibility? It must be entrusted to those select few who have the creative talent, skills, will, and ability to lift mere grape juice to the pedestal upon which it currently resides. Package designers must do for others what they are incapable of doing themselves.
Jeff Caldeway and Chuck House are gifted Iconoclasts, challenged with creating an artistic expression which will herald not only the product but, moreover, the totality of the person, the sole of the winemaker, the beast that lies within. We find the authors delving into a very intimate and complex process of discovery. Needs. Wants. Values. History. Family. Dreams. Hopes. Fears. Stuff. From all this they must derived a package that projects not only the person and the product, but also an expression that potentially becomes a fulcrum on which success and failure balance.
Drawing from ancient beginnings, Jeff Caldeway and Chuck House have successfully bred charm and aristocracy into the great wines and spirits of present day, inscribing pedigree after pedigree that will endure. Page after page brings to mind another example of success that can be directly attributable to the profound influence their package had on the wine selection process.
The depth and breadth of their body of work clearly place Jeff and Chuck at the forefront of the wine package business for more than three decades, leaving a legacy most others could only hope to achieve. ICON secures their place amongst the elite who's creativity exceeded all those before them, who's work will not soon be eclipsed.
Art, beauty, and finesse abound. ICON elicits something that is deeply satisfying, much like a well-turned ankle or great music. Printing, inks, paper, photography, binding are all first cabin. ICON is a calling card, a testament, and an example of excellence that the authors expect from themselves and deliver to others.
We are blessed to have such a fine compendium to grace our lives, the likes not often achieved. It is a gift, a reference, a history, a conversation maker, and a commanding centerpiece for any lover of wine and art. I would recommend you add ICON to your collection and see how long it stays on your coffee table! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Share it with a friend.
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Good beginner book but not the best for its priceReview Date: 2004-06-28
Clear, Helpful, BeautifulReview Date: 2007-06-01
Overall - it's very handy. For advanced students, however, bear in mind that it would probably be more of a reference for you than anything. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a look at other books available here on Amazon.
One of the best books for the subjectReview Date: 2004-11-17
Insightful techniques and easy to grasp conceptsReview Date: 2002-07-30
I didn't look through Steven Stipelman's book before because I deemed it boring and uninteresting based on a brief flip through. When I actually sat down to start reading it, it all seemed to make sense. What Mr. Stipelman does that other books on this topic fail to really do is to talk about technique and concepts. He outlines standards for drawing croquis (working sketch) in steps, which is a must because a croquis is a foundation for fashion illustrations and will eventually lead to a final drawing.
He also applies the step by step explanation of how to do different poses and how clothing rests on the body in different ways. A big bonus is that he also provides a historical background wherever he can to each section because each period of time had its own ideal for "the" silhouette or body type. It really just ties in well because you get a broader understanding of fashion's past and its relation to the current ideals of fashion.
Whereas some fashion illustration books merely display pages of illustrations done by the author or professionals in the fashion industry, this book is written and arranged in such a way that you feel you're actually in the classroom being taught one-on-one all that it takes to illustrate fashion effectively and beautifully.
Great 4 Beginners!!Review Date: 2003-08-08
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Great book