Nicholas Books

This fully-illustrated hardback has come out to coincide with the like-named exhibition at Telfair Museum of Art. It may be the largest retrospective show of Frieseke's work to date (it is certainly NOT the first). Many well-illustrated catalogs of his work have been published in the past - I have six of them on my shelf - but this is by far the most comprehensive. The primary author, Nicholas Kilmer, also wrote the highly-acclaimed _A Place in Normandy_ and the Fred Taylor mysteries (_Harmony in Flesh and Black_, etc.). Contributions by David Sellin, Virginia Mecklenburg, H. Barbara Weinberg, and Linda McWhorter (coordinator of both exhibition and catalog) flesh out the text. The reproductions are magnificent. Do a web search on Frieseke, and see how many paintings you recognize. It is high time that this painter of well-known images should gain "name-recognition"!

Stemming from a 1999 lecture and slide show for the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists, this crisply designed book with almost 150 images is sure to be of interest to designers everywhere. The works included here come from the personal and professional lives of three young designers: Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Neimann, Paul Sahre.

Blechman is the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed section, and met the other two through his self-published political 'zone, Nozone-samples from which constitute about a fifth of the book. Neimann is German a freelance illustrator for a number of well-known magazines, and a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. His samples have a slightly quirky and offbeat amusing air concealed in their simplicity. Sahre is a well known book cover designer and postermaker, and his samples tend to be more outrightly commercial and graphically appealing than the others.

The book is a quick read, you can probably absorb it in about two hours, and well worth it for those interested in how graphic designers work and arrive at solutions. My own favorite part was the brief "killed work" section, where the three designers discuss work of theirs that was rejected and why. I'll definitely try to track down Fresh Dialogue 2, which covers the next year's lecture.

After all of the scores of books written about the origins of the Second World War it might seem that another is redundant, but Lamb and Tarling have truly made a valuable contribution with this book. They survey the diplomatic history of the interwar period very clearly and concisely, summarizing the internal political factors underlying the diplomatic moves. In the course of their book they provide a good and unprejudical review of the major views on key points. The treatment of the European and Asian ends of the story is well integrated -- far more so than in most accounts, which tend to concentrate on one end or the other and lose a great deal of coherence in the process. And they provide a good brief introduction to the historiography. The text is much enlivened by deft and judicious use of brief quotations from participants.

It is not at all possible, of course, to cover the story of the war's origins comprehensively and in depth in 200 pages of text. Many of the details and nuances of the diplomatic history are lost, the treatment of political factors is fairly sketchy, that of the economic factors still more so, and there is essentially nothing on the social factors. There are also a few lacunae, as when a few of the many people mentioned in the text are brought in without specifying who they were, what positions they held, or why they were important.

Overall, however, this has to rate as the best brief introduction to this richly complex and still relevant period.

Will O'Neil

Seller had to send it priority to cover up for really late shipment, even though it was expedited shipping. Item had unexpected water damage to it.

Excellent book. If you are interested in turbocharging the internal combustion engine, this book is great place to start learning about the subject.

This is a frist rate novel; page turning. A novel about honor and caring. This novel we see a unique side to the army and Vietnam. We see the inner workings of the 3rd US Inf, the Army's Old Guard, which is the unit responsible for Arlington Cemetary and Burial Details. The Nations Premier Honor Guard and the Presidents Own. This book is for everyone. We will see the enthusiam and innocence of youth in the '60s. Those young men who wanted to go and fight for their country. Worried the war would end before they could get there and help the US win. To the reality the soldier's who had allready been there wake up to, knowing we could not win the war the way it was being waged.

I buy this book to improve my knowledge about the gasification processes to teach this matter in the University. I think the Authors can be very proud of the book they have done.

Also very interesting the web site associated, which can be copy by many others, with tools and a sheet with the mistakes of the test.

I could not believe how beautiful this book is both color and reproduction are excellent.

I know. No one likes geometry. You have to take it in high school. And there are all these proofs to do. It's no fun.

But there are some interesting questions in geometry. And one of the most interesting ones is the Isoperimetric Theorem.

Here it is.

Of all plane figures with a given perimeter, the circle has the greatest area.

This theorem was known well over two thousand years ago. And in the nineteenth century, Jacob Steiner almost proved it. He proved that if there is a figure which has a greater area than any other figure with the same perimeter, then it must be a circle. And this book shows how. I think Steiner's proof should be shown to students in any honors geometry course.

Unfortunately, Steiner only proved that if there was an answer, it had to be the circle. He never proved that there was an answer. And when this was pointed out to him, he thought this was not a serious objection.

And yes, Karl Weierstrass did spot the error in Steiner's proof, and he found a way to prove that there is an answer to the problem, finally solving a problem that had plagued mathematicians for so many centuries.

If you are going to take a class in honors geometry in high school, and if my review hasn't talked you out of doing so, get this book. You'll enjoy it.

If you are new to the self-help genre, this book is a keeper. Put it somewhere with easy access so you can review author Nicholas Bate's main points and implement his insights. Of course, like many self-help books, this one gets redundant at times. You'll loose track of how many times Bates exhorts you to pay attention. But maybe that's the point. With a prod or two from this book, you can become alert and ready to conquer each day's challenges at work and at home. We recommend this book to those who want to reshape their lives for satisfaction, happiness and productivity at work and at home.