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I first read "Creating Technical Manuals: A Step-By-Step Approach to Writing User-Friendly Instructions" by Gerald Cohen and Donald Cunningham back in 1990. Written in the 60's when computers were almost reliable most of the time, this book is still the best on technical writing. These gentlemen explain how to develop a succinct natural vocabulary for emerging technologies, to boldly describe what is being invented.

They don't attempt to make up for what the government schools left out. The writer is expected to be able to use the language to communicate. That understood, thses gentlemen explain how to develop concepts where there aren't any to explain what has never been explained before and they do it in about 100 pages or so. (...)
As Cohen and Sutherland explain, technical writing is nothing more nor less than effective communication, as in writing the directions on the heel if you want people to pour water out of their boots. (...)If you know how to use the language, Cohen and Cunningham are all the instruction you will ever need to complete those technical writing projects.

This book features drawings by Beth van Hoesen and is a great gift when you want to send somebody more than a card. The drawings are well done, beautifully colored and pair up appropriately to a Walt Whitman poem, Her drawings of animals show more about the animals then mere photographs - they seem to reach inside the animal's personality and display it for the world to see. The rabbit on the cover is just the beginning of the beautiful drawings. Buy many copies of this book, so you can send it to friends and keep a copy for yourself.

This collection has four books (Annunciation, Last Supper, Crucifixion, Descent) which will be a treasure to all those who love great art, and especially those attracted to religious art. Each book is beautifully bound in its own brilliant metallic color: gold, silver, bronze and copper. The unique size and color of the books make this set aesthetically pleasing. It is a wonderful collection to display on any shelf. The prints, more than 100 in each book, are of superb quality. Phaidon, the publisher, is recognized for excellence and elegance in all their printing. There is scant text; each book has a New Testament scriptural preface, then a brief caption accompanies each image.

As the titles project, a central event in Christ's life is elucidated by the world's best artistic masters; each brings their own commentary to the selected Christological theme. Most enjoyable, and educational, is the progression through time, starting with early art pieces and finishing with contemporary masters. From beginning to end, each book is a wonderful journey through time.

Stunning. macabre, painful and finally humbling were some of the feelings I experienced as I journeyed with the masters through the 120 plates that depicted the crucifixion of Christ. Unlike "Annunciation" and "Last Supper", two other books in this Phaidon set, where you can see the changes in the artist interpretation of the event through the ages, the image of the painful and gruesome death of Christ in "Crucifixion" changes little over the 1600 years covered here. The inhumanity of the crucifixion travels vividly through the ages; from the earliest picture, painted by the monk Rabbula in Mesopotamia (586 AD) to Lovis Corinth's (1907) and Stanley Spenser's (1958) disturbing images. You can not come away from viewing this book without realizing the pain and suffering that occurred on the cross. This is a book I will return to as a devotional, especially during Lent, to rethink the cost of redemption. Excellent. Highly Recommended.

The teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg on Conjugial Love (married love)are amazing to me. His ground breaking perspectives on marriage as an eternal bond (rather than "to death do us part" experience) has absolutely enhanced my own marriage in every way possible. This text explores themes of married love, but also the ten commandments, living a good life, what Heaven is like and more. Ready for an adventure? Read this book. If you want to find out more about Swedenobrg and the New Church check out www.newchurch.org

This collection has four books (Annunciation, Last Supper, Crucifixion, Descent) which will be a treasure to all those who love great art, and especially those attracted to religious art. Each book is beautifully bound in its own brilliant metallic color: gold, silver, bronze and copper. The unique size and color of the books make this set aesthetically pleasing. It is a wonderful collection to display on any shelf. The prints, more than 100 in each book, are of superb quality. Phaidon, the publisher, is recognized for excellence and elegance in all their printing. There is scant text; each book has a New Testament scriptural preface, then a brief caption accompanies each image.

As the titles project, a central event in Christ's life is elucidated by the world's best artistic Masters; each brings their own commentary to the selected Christological theme. Most enjoyable, and educational, is the progression through time, starting with early art pieces and finishing with contemporary masters. From beginning to end, each book is a wonderful journey through time.

"Descent" dramatizes the removal of Christ's corpse from the cross. Hope has ended in despair and the darkest hour now was upon those waiting at the foot of the cross: Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene, Mary - mother of Jesus, and John the Beloved. The details of His death begin. The corpse must come down, and along with the dreams of His followers, be buried. No angels, no auras of light, no evidence of divine intervention is found in these 100 plus images. Rather, each artist throughout the ages illuminates the nightmarish reality of the demise of Christ. When you view `Descent' you will notice that there is a period of history, starting around the Renaissance to the end of the 17th Century, when the Masters grasped this moment and prolifically paint the removal of Christ from the cross. Outstanding paintings from the time of Sodoma (c.1505) through Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (c.1697) fill the largest portion of this book. Having gone through these four volumes it is my hope that Phaidon will continue this collection. To stop now and not give us the burial, resurrection and the ascension would be a great disappointment. This is a collection that I will treasure. The quality of binding, paper, color reproduction and selection of prints is superb. Highly recommended.

Sixteen essays bring together digital media artists, software and graphic designers, feminist theorists and historians of space, architecture and science, with cyberfeminists (see especially essay by "Technowhores"), to consider multiple issues concerned with "women and design." Contributors critically and creatively celebrate and interrogate cybertechnologies, and consider how these (material, conceptual and virtual) processes and practices challenge (and reify) contemporary ideas of gender, the body, nature, identity, space, diaspora, and difference.

ever look at pictures and wonder how the photographer was ever given permission to photograph such intimate things? This book is another example of Goldin's ability to let people's guards down and really understand (in an aesthetic and emotional level) her subjects. It is a sucessful collaboration with text and image!

Though most were about time travel,I liked the FogHorn and Our lady of the saurapods.Though Strata,didn't have anything to do with dinosaurs.But still a great book!

I fell in love with Distance & Proximity the moment I opened the book. Thomas A. Clark's prose poems left me with a sense of awe and wonder. I didn't want to put it down! Now, as I slip into a good pair of walking shoes and venture outdoors, I'll remember to to stay focused and enjoy nature at its fullest. Thank you, Thomas A. Clark!

Beautiful step-by-step illustrations that REALLY take you step by step and are clear. I think you'll get the most out of this if you're not an absolute beginner, but I'd recommend it for anyone's collection of watercolor instruction books.