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This book about a Minerva Louise adventure was a first for my five year old son and me, and he has never laughed harder at a story. The illustrations are simple and humorous, and the story about Minerva Louise's creative misperceptions is hilarious. I've ordered a bunch of these for gifts for friends and family!

This book about a Minerva Louise adventure was a first for my five year old son and me, and he has never laughed harder at a story. The illustrations are simple and humorous, and the story about Minerva Louise's creative misperceptions is hilarious. I've ordered a bunch of these for gifts for friends and family!

When I read the original tale of "Minerva Louise" by Janet Stoeke I was charmed. It's rare that an author packs so much great storytelling punch in such a little package. So when I discovered that Minerva Louise, the extraordinarily curious chicken, had further adventures to her name, I immediately located "Minerva Louise and the Red Truck". Just as great as its predecessor, this tale tells the story of a curious member of the poultry family and her attempts to make sense of the world around her.

Minerva Louise (who is prone to loving things) loves her farm's red truck. A playful foul, she likes to dress up in the abandoned bandanas she finds in the back and create tea parties out of tools and flowerpots. One day, while playing, the truck jerks to life and Minerva finds herself driving about. While out she translates the things she sees into farm-based items. A backyard swimming pool is a lake. Golfers are farmers hard at work in their fields. Best of all, a church (to a chicken's eye) is nothing more than a, "silly barn wearing a hat!". In a nice section of the book Minerva spies a construction site and decides that it must be a farm for other trucks. Hither and yon are baby trucks and big strong ones as well. By the end of the day she's happy with what she has seen, but she's glad that the red truck has returned back to her home. That is, until she sees a bright and shiny fire engine!

Minerva is the Amelia Bedelia of the farm world. It's sweet to see how everything fits into her perceptions and misconceptions. Kids reading her books can recognize where she's wrong and feel superior that they know more than this adventurous chicklet. For my own part, I was happy that the illustrations of the little heroine show her joy and contentment so clearly. She's just so darn perky and pleased with everything she sees that it's a joy to watch her. This particular book combines farm life with construction sites. For those kids who are really into trucks and trailers, this might be an ideal storytime reading selection. It's difficult not to love the plucky (ha ha!) Minerva Louise so definitely take the time to check her out. If you've never seen a chicken beam with contentment, this should be the book for you.

"Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder." This simple precept is explored to its fullest in Goliath's latest anthology of modern day photographers, each of whom were asked to showcase their most prized nudes of their favorite model. An impressive and diverse range of artists are featured including Richard Murrian, Craig Morey, Sabine Schoenberger, Dave Naz, Christine Kessler, Peter Janhans, Peter Gorman, Mark Frank, Andrew Einhorn, John Donegan, Emma Delves-Broughton, Bob Coulter, and many, many others. It's a electrifying collection of glamour and art nudes from an array of photographers and models working at the apex of their power.

Each model is the focus of an individual chapter of exquisite pictures. And she is allowed to express herself through a simple, Playboyesque list of questions such as "Where do you Live?", "How did you become a Model?", "Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs?", "Democrat or Republican?", etc. As with the photographers, there is a diverse assemblage of women here, all of whom are amazingly beautiful and some that are very well known in their own right, like Liz Ashley, Sativa Verte, and Carlotta Champagne to mention a few.

The production quality of the book itself is magnificent. And it's 320 pages gives it the feel of a massive, erotic textbook of sorts. This is a delightful collection of nudes and insights that all will enjoy.

A breathtaking look into female beauty. The images will definitely fill your dreams. The cover model Carlotta Champagne is stunning, as are her photos inside.

This is an absolutely stunning book of photography featuring a wide range of models and styles. From simple nudes to full-on fetish, these photographers showcase everything from bondage to outdoor nudity to the finest in latex attire. I have many favorites here, but what I loved is discovering new photographers and models alongside favorites like Justine Joli, who is absolutely smokin' hot here (as well as literally smoking, turning the act of placing a cigarette in one's mouth into an erotic art form).

The Hikari Kesho set of Karia and friend, featuring mistress and sub play while also slightly mocking it is to be commended as well. Emma Delves-Broughton brings us Valeria, who is, I believe, on the cover of her book Kinky Couture, but here she's also in a cute little blue latex waitress outfit on roller skates, transforming herself into some kind of kinky waitress on wheels. Katja Ehrhardt's photos of the striking Ulorin Vex, with a different hair color in each as she models a black latex headdress and gloves, are arresting in their boldness. They're followed by the lightheartedness of Happy Naked Girls photographer Andrew Einhorn showing off Lorina, a pretty but somewhat plain girl who's holding a camera of her own.

This book features some models who look like typical California blonde beach babes worthy of pinup calendars, to others who'd be perfectly at home in the dirtiest of dungeons. The short interviews with each model give a little glimpse into their personalities, and their websites so we can go ogle more photos; I certainly plan to. What's also wonderful about this collection is that one has the sense that the models are equal participants in the shoots. They stare back boldly, sometimes defiantly. They take up space, and truly pose, instead of just staring back at the camera and waiting for the person behind the lens to work their magic. While this book is meant to, and does, showcase some of the best erotic photographers in the world, it also highlights the importance of the models, who are clearly making statements of their own via their clothing (or lack of it), piercings, hair, and body language. This is a book I plan to revisit often.

nan goldin is a credit to photography. her works are so personal and show simple and humble pictures of friends and herself. nothing is dolled up or made to look fashionable...it's how things are...caught at the perfect moments. i am in love with this collection and go back to it many times to look at my favorites.

I searched long and hard for an affordable and great collection of Nan Goldin's work and this is the winner. The pictures are crisp and the color is good. Although, some of her famous photographs were missing, and some of my favorites as well, I recommend this book. Great deal!!

nan goldin is, no room for a doubt, the greatest photographer of our decade. no one like her can capture the way modern life can be odd and beautiful at the same time. this book contains some of her brilliant artwork, the quality of the photos is really great, and besides, its less expensive than most of her books, and as good as most of them. its great to find another excellent book of her. you wont be dissapointed, believe me! you have to see it for yourself!

As a PHd in Telecommunications Engineering at UCLA, I use this book for all my beginning and intermediate students to give them a good thorough understanding of Telecommunication technologies. I find this book facinating and very easy to understand. The author explains these emerging technologies in easy to understand reading and he eliminates the unnecessary fluff that most authors do not. I highly recfommend this book for all levels.

Network Administration is truly an enjoyable book to read.
The author treats a very dry subject matter and makes it interesting and enjoyable to read. I highly recommend this
book for beginners and intermediate levels of networking. The book describes the most recent technologies in detail and explains their historical and future perspectives. The biggest selling point is the appendecies which explain how to test each application. I highly recommend this book.

Quite simply a masterpiece of networking technology for beginners. The author does a great job in presenting the material
to novices. Gives a great explanation on how the technology works in layman's terms.

As a professional writer and photographer, I read and review dozens of books on photography each year--from technical how-tos to fine art books. I don't often run into books of this caliber. Night & Low-Light Photography is technically informative and artistically inspiring, touching on an unprecedented scope of topics related this theme while also presenting a powerhouse art portfolio experience.

What is truly impressive about Night & Low-Light is that it is equally valuable for pros, hobbyists and art-lovers alike.

Jill Waterman is passionate an accomplished night photographer, a fantastic writer and a well-respected editor on topics of photography. She also has more industry connections than you can shake a stick at. It is this combination of assets--along with her clear editorial vision--that allowed Waterman to hit a home run with Night & Low-Light Photography.

If you have any interest in night and low-light photography (including recording weather phenomena, painting with light and other low-light techniques often overlooked), you will definitely enjoy and learn from this book. The in-depth biographical data on the 30 contributors, the incredible list of resources and the detailed glossary alone are worth the purchase.

If you are on the fence, you can get a better sense of Night & Low-Light Photography by checking out Waterman's companion website: [...]. However, keep in mind that Waterman has created such an impressive and jam-packed experience that it is hard to fully appreciate the value and pleasure of this book until you actually have it in your hands.

If you've ever wanted to do any night photography, you need this book!!! This book gives so many tips and inside information from actual night photographers, you can't miss! Buy it, learn from it, and enjoy the night!

Finally, someone did this book!

"Night and Low Light Photography" is destined to become THE textbook for any night photography and light painting class or workshop. It stands head and shoulders above all the other NP "how to" books on the market, covering all the pertinent bases in an easy to read and informative style.

A fantastic and enjoyable (not dry) book about shooting in low light. In addition to her own, Ms. Waterman presents the combined expertise of several photographers who are passionate about low-light photography. And that's what you want because the best low-light photography means thinking outside of the users manual. The quintessential guide--highly recommended.

that's the best book i've ever read about the flying wings of jack northrop. i highly recommend this book!!!

There aren't a lot of books around about the Northrop flying wings but this one is really an invaluable tool. Quite a bunch of historical and detail photographs you wouldn't find anywhere else. A must have if you're interested in flying wings or aviation history.

If you have a serious interest in John Northrop's Flying Wings, this is absolutely the best book available on the subject. Authors did a wonderful job pulling together photos, including many in color. The color photo section also includes some B-2 pictures.

But more important, the written narrative is excellent. The book covers Northrop's earliest days in aircraft design, and deals with all of his flying wing and tailless aircraft designs, especially the N-1, N-9, B-35, & B-49 projects.

Worth the money if you're a flying wing fan!

An outstanding history of the Sixties by an outstanding public servant. Harris Wofford makes the era come alive on the page with his first-person experiences with Martin Luther King, President Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A must read for anyone interested in the decade, the Kennedys, or Martin Luther King. Fantastic!

Harris Wofford brings the reader to some of the key moments in one of the nation's most tumultuous decades. His stories are genuine because he was there -- a key advisor to John and Robert Kennedy and to Martin Luther King.

I think this book is a amazing read! I picked up because of an interest in the era (the 60s), and once I started reading I felt as if I was actually living the events Wofford describes in this book. I particularly like his style of writing, and also how he comes across as different to most writers on the Kennedys. Usually it's clear the writer adores the Kennedys (and can see no wrong with them), or hates them (and can see no good in them). Wofford is not like this. He honestly paints the full picture of the two Kennedy men, and Luther King as well.
A thoroughly fascinating read - one I recommend to everyone!

Anyone who is interested in art should have Lowell's books. The pictures inside are so beautiful they could be framed. He explains things so well that anyone can understand and create their own painting. Very good books, get them all.

Anyone who is interested in art should have Lowell's books. The pictures inside are so beautiful they could be framed. He explains things so well that anyone can understand and create their own painting. Very good books, get them all.

this tecnique is easy to understand and to applicate, I would like if it could be applicated in lanscape and still life

This is a really excellent collection of 77 photos taken 1985-1995 across the high plains states from Montana to Texas. All are in richly captured color, and all manage to bring the panorama of this wide open country within the viewfinder of the still camera. Brown's achievement is to show the suggestive and telling details that transform these "empty" landscapes into spaces that are filled with drama and atmosphere.

A shot of winter prairie, south of Edgerton, Wyoming, reveals the contoured undulations of grasslands thick with frost, the banks of a shallow wash weaving into the distance, the horizon blending into the brightly overcast sky. The entire image seems sepia-tinted in the winter light. An early summer shot of ground water standing dark and rippled in a Nebraska Sandhills pond shows tufted grasses in the foreground leaning with the wind. A single slender fence post is echoed in the distance by a single tree in full leaf and just visible beyond it a windmill. The grass extends to the gently rolling horizon where a white thundercloud begins to pile upward into the vivid blue of a brightly sunlit sky.

Light, shadow, clouds, all seem still but are in movement, and many of the photographs heighten a sense of time's gradual passing -- the hour, the day, the season, the years. A roadside directory, indicating the distances to ranches has been weathered and sun-bleached. An old shingle-roofed elevator stands empty and overgrown with trees. There's a disused one-room school, white paint worn by wind and rain down to the bare boards. Tall weeds grow in the playground, and the setting sun casts the shadow of a swing set against a side wall.

And there are many signs of life, as well -- a general store with gas pumps and pop machines in front, a TV antenna overhead, and a gravel lot for parking; a barber shop with curving glass brick and shiny red tile facade, with an American flag on a pole at the curb; a last-picture-show cinema, the Rialto, with nothing on the marquee, but above it a wonderful mural of cowboys around the campfire and a chuckwagon with "Welcome to Brownville" on its canvas covering.

There are photographs of small town life -- a young man and little girl stand by the front door of a tiny house, the white siding bright in the late afternoon sun and a darkening sky behind them; a sign painter sits on the back of his truck under a hand-lettered sign, "Advertise Dammit Advertise Before We Both Go Under"; a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard is filled with for-sale notices for hay hauling, an early American sofa and matching swivel/rocker, a 3/4 ton Chev. 4x4, toy poodles, chow puppies, and a bird dog that "will point."

And this really only scratches the surface. The photographs reveal themselves slowly, and with a patient and inquisitive eye, there is much to see in all of them. If you have lived in or traveled through this region, as I have, you will see much that you recognize, recall its quieter pace of life, and marvel again at the great diversity of landscape, seasons, and weather.

Kathleen Norris has written an appreciative introduction to the book, and Brown has an essay at the end, describing a lifetime of fascination with this part of the world. The book includes a listing of all its photographs, noting the location of each and the year in which it was taken. For anyone who grew up on the Plains and now lives elsewhere, this book is like a return home. As a companion volume, I'd recommend Ian Frazier's book "Great Plains," which covers this same territory in words and with much the same attitude. Kathleen Norris' "Dakota" is another good one.

Photographer Peter Brown wanted this book to reflect the many jouneys he made across the Plains in his youth...''from open country to a small town, through this town, on to a larger one, and then out again into open space and sky'', he says in his Afterword. This great book of photos does just that.

Years ago I read Walter Prescott Webb's definitive study 'The Great plains' and I became fascinated by this amazing part of America (still haven't managed to get there yet) and he descibes how some of the early settlers stopped when the came up against the Plains, being used to the European countryside they just could not take the flatness, no trees, no hills and if it it was not the quietness it was the wind, blowing for days on end. These fine photos capture the flavor of what they must have seen.

The small town photos show buildings with a weather-beaten look, the Allensville, Kansas, city hall is no bigger than a simple house, the lovely aerial shot of Marfa, Texas shows a town you could drive through in a minute and after the photo of Marathon, Texas it is back to the flat landscape until the end of the book.

If you want to capture the feel of the Plains this book will do it for you...an excellent keepsake. Maybe I'll visit next year!

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I found this book in the giftshop at the Sioux Falls airport in South Dakota. As a woman who grew up On the Plains, I found that Brown's photographs captured the true essence of the beauty one finds there. It's not simply a collection of "postcard" photographs of abandoned windmills, lonely pastures, and fragile pasque flowers. The photos depict the "real" plains, complete with its people and its architecture. Norris' introduction is, as I had anticipated, an enjoyable complement to the photos. This is a lovely book to share with people who appreciate the beauty of the Great Plains.

At last, a boxing book for the rest of us! This book is excellent. The information is presented in clear, easy-to-follow steps. The photoghraphs are nicely shot and the text is well written. But, most of all, as a non-fighter (I'm 54) I now know I do not have to get in a boxing ring to gain the benefits of the boxer's training regimen. This book has changed my work out and added new life and interest to my same old dull, daily fitness routine. I admit I felt a little self-conscious when I first tried shadow boxing, but now it's one of my favorite parts. There's something empowering about it. I also like the way the authors not only say 'what' to do, but also 'why' to do it. As an essentially lazy person I need ways of not fooling myself, and the 12-week log charts help do that. Thank you Andy Dumas and Jamie Somerville for designing a vigorous yet safe workout program. Gotta run...

This book clearly explains boxing techniques for the beginner. It lays out a training regimen of boxing methods, cardiovascular training and weight lifting. It teaches the various punches and maneuvers in a user-friendly way. There's instruction on working with the heavy bag, the speed bag, jumping rope, and more.

I am very pleased with this book. The One-Two Punch Boxing workout gives detailed descriptions of all exercises with pictures and drawings. I have a daily weight lifting program that I got completely bored with, I have always been interested in boxing but have never hit a heavy bag or speed bag, this book gave me all the information I needed to get started.