Illustration Books

History can be merely the dusty past, or it can be a fascinating insight into a different civilization. Dudley writes lucidly and gives a vivid picture of what Roman civilization was really like -- and, more important, why it was as it was, and how it became that way. His ability to make clear the development of a civilization is on a par with Kitto's in "The Greeks".

This book offers a majestic view over jerusalem in a timeless fashion. I pick it up every moment I have and the memorys come to life. you can almost hear the stillness of the trees, the wind blowing and the leaves falling.

I, Herb Galewitz, edited this book for Dover Publications. Why do you have it listed as edited by Anna Samuel. Who she? My name is on the book cover.

This book is a must have for people who love classical music. Many of the best classical performances will never be transferred to CD, and LPs sound better anyway. This guide has an extensive list of catalog numbers, which will help you determine the recording dates of your records.

This is a tall book about 12.5 inches (32 cm tall and 24 cm wide) and contains excellent quality presentations of the botanical prints of the collector Clutius [artist(s)unknown]. So you see on each white page an aged parchment that contains the botanical watercolor. The parchments are set on each page with about a one-inch surrounding border of the white background page. All the parchments are very old so their edges are a bit uneven here and there indicating their age and their true paper-making origin. No machine churned out perfect sheets back then. The watercolors themselves are absolutely exquisite and their skilled presentation by the author makes you feel like you are actually paging through the actual collection. She chose 142 watercolors from the collection of 1,800. The artist(s) may be unknown but their skill would have guaranteed them widespread fame today if they had autographed their works. I am a modest collector of botanical books and I just feel so peaceful and content paging through them. This is my favorite book. Even at Amazon's $45 price tag, which I did not pay, I consider this book worth it. Barely, but still worth it! And I am a real skinflint so I don't say this lightly! If you love botanical books, you will treasure this one.

jayne cortez writes firespitter poems, songs of blood and freedom and beats (and caresses) the drum of undying resistance to oppression. this book is a good introduction to her work. she write with fiery anger and real, passionate strength.

India won my heart during a visit two years ago; my wife won it for India all over again with a gift of this wonderful collection.

The art is taken from Indian fireworks packages. It comes as a fold-out, two-sided continuous 20 foot fan made of heavy coated cardboard. There are many subjects: religious scenes, medieval knights, contemporary tanks and other military equipment, Bollywood starlets, hunters and wild animals, strongmen, holy men and circus scenes.

Exuberant, lively, always garish -- a joy. And, it's an education on what sells fireworks in that fascinating country.

This story combines several conflicts in interesting ways. 1) Earth is ruled by "Titans" which are a race of humans that has deemed themselves "better" than other races and also has the resources to enforce this. 2) There seem to be ancient alien buildings on Earth and at one time the aliens seem to have destroyed much of Earth's civilization. The Titans are very interested in preventing a repeat of the alien invasion. 3) It becomes apparent that the alien ruins are becoming younger (aging in reverse) and that an alien attack is believed to be coming from the future. 4) 100s of light-years out in space a very advanced human civilization that escaped a previous collapse on Earth lives in a double bottle shaped ship called "Retort City" which one bottle containing a worker class and the other a leisure class. These people are apparently originally from China and have near mastery of time and space. Thus they have set it up so that one bottle is 25 years in time from the other and at birth newborns from one side are passed to the other. People are raised by their grandparents and overall the population gets distributed between workers and leisure with both sides being very good at their respective tasks. 5) One Retort citizen on the Leisure side hides his newborn child but at age 10 the child is discovered and sent to the worker side meaning he's one of the very rare individuals (the first in centuries) to know about life on both sides. This person becomes a rebel that wants to abolish the worker/leisure system. As punishment he is sent to Earth but ends up teaming up with the Titans who try to take over Retort City.

A central theme is the concept of time as waves passing through the universe and that there are many such waves. Before and after a wave the universe is dead (no life) and it's only at the very wave edges that life exists. Time travel is quite easy but you will only see a dead universe in both the past and future. You can look but any changes you make simply "don't happen" as the time wave is not in "now." This neatly gets around time paradoxes.

These are great to use to teach techniques in Photoshop or Illustrator. Just scan as black & white line art at 300 ppi. In Photoshop use the paint bucket, or in Illustrator use live paint. We printed some as t-shirts and notecards. Fun projects especially for kids.

A great book, 32 of the best directors and how they make their comercials, Ridley Scott(and the Apple 1984 comercial), Jonathan Glazer, Tarsem, Micheal Gondry(the The White Stripes director) and more, cool book for new and wanna be directors.