Papers Books

Tera Leigh's book Faux Mosiacs is a fabulous find. I too am a great lover of mosiac but with a toddler and a career who has the time to break out the old plates and create and old fashioned masterpiece? I love this method for creating artistic frames (I feature one in my book "Craft the Perfect Frame"), creating one of a kind home accents, and creating great gifts for friends. You can easily knock out any one or two of these fun projects in an evening giving yourself a well needed sense of creative accomplishment. Kids can also easily join in on this version of mosiac, not only a great "I'm bored" eraser but a fantastic creative activity to create gifts for friends and teachers.

Do yourself a favor and give this book a try. It's easy, it's fun, it's creative, and fun for everyone.

I've often admired the look of mosaic tile, but just couldn't deal with the mess, tools, and time involved in the original technique. Then I found this book -- AMAZING! "Faux Mosaics" look like the real thing, without a bunch of expensive tools and tricky application techniques. Don't be fooled by the words "tile" and "grout" in this book; the tile is any piece of paper, and the grout is a brush-on finish that's a snap to apply. Best of all, you don't have to be "crafty" to make beautiful mosaic look-alikes. Ms. Leigh's super-simple technique is explained so well that virtually anyone can get FANTASTIC RESULTS. And she shows so many wonderful project ideas -- you'll never run out of items to transform into works of art for your home and unique gifts for friends and family. This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone who has ever admired mosaics ... I'm sure you'll use and love it as much as I have!

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They should be teaching this in our public schools.This defines who we are and what the consequences are if not adopted (Which they were. Thank God.)We need a rebirth of patriotism and this is a good start.

I really enjoyed this book because it was a fantasy book! For readers that like exciting adventurous short books this is the book for you. I really enjoyed the parts where: Felix mind read with the princess frog; The elf came alive from the magical moon stone; Mr. Nubble made his yard into a monster museum.

We liked "Felix and the 400 Frogs" because our class is studying about ponds and pond creatures (like frogs). We also liked the main character Felix because he was nice and he was always helping the Frog Princess. Also, we liked the book because the authors put a lot of detail in it. They also put some hard words in it that we didn't know so that we could learn new words. The book was full of interesting things like someone kissing a frog and interesting characters like the mean Mr. Nubble. Our favorite parts were when Mr. Nubble called Felix names and when Felix and the Frog Princess were trying to find the Magic Moonstone. The worst part about the book was when it ended! We would recommend the book to 2nd, 3rd, or 4th graders. We give the book 5 stars! Mrs. Justice's 1999 3rd Grade Class, Jersey Shore Elementary in Jersey Shore, PA

This Festschrift for Le Cam was organized by former students and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1994. It did not actually get published until 1997. There are numerous papers written by prominent probabilists and statisticians who worked in the area of asymptotic theory that Le Cam was so well known for. Erich Lehmann provides an essay on Le Cam's years at Berkeley. Diaconis and Freedman talk about the consistency of Bayes estimates in nonparametric regression. Dudley reviews empirical processes. Yang provides an application of Le Cam's work to sodium channel experiments. Stigler provides an historical account of maximum likelihood through the work of Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler. van der Vaart covers superefficiency. Donoho and Johnstone present some new results on minmax estimation based on wavelets. Many of Le Cam's colleagues at Berkeley contributed interesting articles including Beran, Blackwell, Brillinger and Freedman. There are nearly as many applied papers as theoretical ones in this festschrift. Other well known contributors include Aalen, Millar, de Acosta, Picard, Ferguson, Pollard, van Zwet, Roussas and C. R. Rao.

This Festschrift for Le Cam was organized by former students and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1994. It did not actually get published until 1997. There are numerous papers written by prominent probabilists and statisticians who worked in the area of asymptotic theory that Le Cam was so well known for. Erich Lehmann provides an essay on Le Cam's years at Berkeley. Diaconis and Freedman talk about the consistency of Bayes estimates in nonparametric regression. Dudley reviews empirical processes. Yang provides an application of Le Cam's work to sodium channel experiments. Stigler provides an historical account of maximum likelihood through the work of Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler. van der Vaart covers superefficiency. Donoho and Johnstone present some new results on minmax estimation based on wavelets. Many of Le Cam's colleagues at Berkeley contributed interesting articles including Beran, Blackwell, Brillinger and Freedman. There are nearly as many applied papers as theoretical ones in this festschrift. Other well known contributors include Aalen, Millar, de Acosta, Picard, Ferguson, Pollard, van Zwet, Roussas and C. R. Rao.

Some number of months ago, I gave my neighbor's kid some gliders preprinted by NASA as a PR gift (Got them at Oshkosh). It wasn't long before he was stopping me on the way back from work to ask if I had anymore planes! This title fit the bill (more planes). It was in color and precisely precut for little hands. I almost didn't gift it!
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I happened across this book in a bookstore and could not resist buying it.

To date, I have made the first three airplanes in the book. I'm working on the fourth now. The first few models are rather simplistic to get new people accustomed to paper modeling. The later models are amazing. The curves of the aircraft are to scale and very impressive.

The book is also a great way to learn how to design your own paper model airplanes to fly. I've made a space shuttle using the techniques learned in this book and it looks/flies great!

I should mention that this is not a typical 'paper airplane' book. You do not simply take a sheet of paper and fold it in various ways then fly it. You have to cut out numerous pieces, form them to get the proper curves, glue them (carefully, so that the paper doesn't warp when it's drying), and THEN fly them. Even though that may sound challenging, the first few airplanes are enough to learn the skills necessary for the later (and more challenging) airplanes. And...THE PLANES FLY GREAT when built with patience and care. Mine have survived some great crashes into walls and radiators since I have a habit of launching them indoors (all the planes have a hook for launching via rubber bands).

This is by far one of the best EQ books that I have read. The plot is fairly complex, not like that of Sherlock Holmes where you know who did it, but the story introduces a selection of characters that each have a motive for the threatining messages and the weird christmas gifts presented to one John, who is sure that someone is trying to murder him. towards the middle, a dead body is found and EQ is starting to worry. The ending I won't give away, but it is a twist no one expected. I would reccomened this book to anyone who is sick and tired of Agatha Christi and Sherlock Holmes.

A must-read for anyone who loves surprise endings. At first, the book seems to be giving away too much information and that the clues would lead me to the right solution. Alas, the Master has again hood-winked this reader. The characters may not be as fully-realized as in Calamity Town, but the multiple red-herrings that the Maestro pulls out of the hat and the Dennis Miller-like ambiguous references he gives out at a fast clip more than makes up for it.

This is a great novel. I was kind of put off at the beginning because a big deal was made out of that it had never been editted due to the history of the book and it's a work of natural genius blah blah blah, but I really got into this book. Billany tackles issues of class system and war ethics, honesty and love in a way I've never seen so genuinely done before. I got a lot out of this novel (or memoir, I'm not sure which as it's in first person).

Dan Billany's The Trap is an unjustly forgotten book. Billany, who died in 1943 after escaping from a prisoner of war camp, brilliantly analyzes British society and the war. For Billany, a Communist, the war is not a "just" war, a war for democracy and against the forces of darkness. Instead, it is merely one capitalist society fighting another for dominance. It is a powerful and compassionate look at the lowest class in British society.

A great overview of the intersections of games, linear stories, and interactive artworks. This book almost inevitably leaves you with a richer perspective, because the range of articles (the uses of voice synthesizers to the Sims) makes it unlikely that you are familiar with all the terrain. The commentary discussions parallel to the main text give a feeling like chatting with your smart friends about some brilliant lecture you just saw. Thought provoking and fun.

What has particularly excited me is the opening chapter on "Cyberdrama"... it discusses approaches to story, game play and engagement in terms that echo what we are trying to achieve in Drama education. Throughout the book (and this is from preliminary browsing) there are discussions about narrative and simulation and disticntions being drawn bewteen perceptual positions of players ... the writers that have contributed to this book have a very clear sense of the notion of "role" and I am starting to think that this book may well serve as the basis for investigation into the role of technology in Drama ( and possibly other) education for the next few years. Other promising looking chapters include such discussions as "Moving Through Me as I move: A Paradigm for Interaction", "Unusual Positions: Embodied Interactions in Symbolic Spaces", "Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games: Four Naughty Concepts in Need of Discipline", " Videogames of the Oppressed: Critical Thinking, Education, Tolerance and other Trivial Issues", "A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games"

The authors contributing to this book are well known to anyone who's started looking into Drama and technology - Janet Murray , Espen Aarseth and Brenda Laurel are all there, alongside more familiar "drama' voices such as Richard Schechner...

As a high school drama teacher, I have a keen interest in new media applications in Drama education - it seems that many of our number are still focussed totally on their Drama classrooms and while they have an interest in technology are not actually making much headway with developing knowledge in the area - this retards developing discussions when there isn't a common language and some basic concepts upon which to build our discussions and investigations...

I think this book "First Person" is probably as good a starting point as is available at the moment. It provides a broad overview of the scope of "new media" interactions and there is definitely what I would call a "drama sensibility" contained within it.

The other book I've just started looking into is Marie-Laure Ryan's "Narrative as Virtual Reality"

Narrative As Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media

What looks promising here is Chapter Nine: "Participatory Interactivity from Life Situations to Drama". I've yet to properly digest the chapter - I've been intrigued by some of the statements I've encountered, for instance "For interactivity to be reconciled with immersion, it must be stripped of any self-reflexive dimension"... I'm not sure that is exactly what we are trying to do with Drama (or any form of) education - we are generally trying to become aware of the symbolic forms we are engaging with... although in a Stanislavskian sense, it might just be that this ne dimension of building belief is somehow well placed in Drama... I tend to think the Brechtian requirement for distance might be better suited... but that can be a discussion for another day... for the time being we need to start to come to grips with some key concepts in the new paradigm we have the opportunity to define...

Once again... as Drama people we know the need for social constructivist approaches... I'm hoping we can live that rather than just posit it....

We are trying to establish a special interest group called DramaPlayShop.org... you're welcome to drop in!

It has photographs, maps, etc. on at least every other page. It covers nearly all of the major archeological findings up to the end of the B.C. years. Written in a easily readable style by a person who cares more about the quality of the concrete evidence than making surmises or speculations from it. I would have liked more associations made with what's been found in Britain and the Continent, but it's still a five-star overview.

This book, by the archaeologist who excavated Newgrange, is an excellent resource for anyone interested in European prehistory. Though subtitled "An Introduction to Irish Prehistory," the book does not shy away from indepth scientific and archaeological evidence, either supporting or refuting conventional theories; thus, the book would be better classified as intermediate to advanced. One would be hard pressed to find a better resource of Irish prehistory.

I am on the design team at my local scrapbook store and one of our projects was to take a book and scraplift a page. I found so many in this book that I just loved and the one I chose had people making comments on how well they liked it. I would highly recommend this book. It would not be for the beginner in scrapbooking but for someone that's done a few layouts this is full of great ideas.

Rebecca

Finally a book about the photos! It seems scrapbooking has become less and less about the photos and more about showing off what you can do with countless supplies. At the end of the day, when I'm showing my scrapbooks to my grandchildren, they aren't going to care much about the embellishments (they will be out of date, anyway) but they will care about the photos.

The book offered practical how-to instructions and some neat processes to try to highlight your photos.

I highly recommend this book.