Watson Books

This is a great follow-up to the Process-Experiential book "Facilitating Emotional Change". Well written, and user-friendly, this manual helps to make this approach usable. A therapy book that isn't too theory oriented, which is refreshing.

I would highly recommend it.

This book is a great first read for anyone interested in emotion-focused therapy or experiential therapies in general. It could also be a good read for more intermediate to advanced therapists newer to this area of therapy. It gives some good background on humanistic approaches to therapy and how this approach fits into the larger therapy landscape. The book does a good job of giving just enough theory to tie together the very practical and accessible style in which it is written. Highly recommended. There are suggestions for many further readings at the end of each chapter, which is a useful resource for those looking to delve deeper.

This book is a like all great books -- it's reread and referred to again and again. Essential for art teachers and artists alike. Kaupelis's insights and love of art and art-making are contagious.

This book is essential for anyone who wants to fully grasp hold of their drawing abilities.

my kids, ages 5, 8, and 9, all appreciate this well-written story and mesmerizing illustrations.

I got this for my young son, Christopher. He really enjoyed it, and now knows the legend.

This books doesnt just give you a bunch of monsters to copy,it actually lays out a total creative process for creating your own unique monster concepts. This fact immediately puts it ahead of most of the 'Draw Manga' books in that it doesn't just give you a list of stylistice tips but a whole way of thinking about the subject.

The monster types in this book basically allow you do do a lot of mixing and matching (some examples were an Elephant with a Bulldozer, a human with a hercules beetle, a squid with a shrimp a crab and a stag beetle, and a Kaiju-fied lemur-esque monster with spikes on its tail... trust me when I say that THIS one is a LOT cooler looking than I've described it). Overall, this book allows for the artist to really use their head, as well as their creativity with some of these astonishingly terrifying, and sometimes cute or cool-looking monsters (the Pet Monsters, as this book calls them).

I'd recommend it to anyone willing to think outside the typical anime norm.

This book gives an excellent overview of the problems and solutions to level-of-detail rendering. Few books in the computer graphics field are this well written.

A few things to note:

- Though there's plenty of material on simplification of polygonal meshes, there doesn't seem to be much on volume (tetrahedral) simplification. My impression is that volume simplification is kind of hairy, though, and might require its own textbook.

- If you wish to do your own level of detail rendering, you may end up reading the papers referred to in the book. Most of those papers are available online (try google).

- The terrain chapter is great, and even deals with real-world issues (geospatial file formats, terrain data on the web, what a geoid is, etc) in addition to an overview of different approaches to terrain simplification.

If you're doing level-of-detail stuff, it is basically your duty to buy this book. I only wish I'd bought it eariler.

This is clearly one of the most outstanding Level-of-Detail-for-3D-Graphics-algorithm-survey books currently in print. However I find Luebke, et al.'s choice of a subtitle puzzling. Clearly it should be "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Theory and Application", rather than "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application and Theory". If Luebke, et. al. wanted to emphasize the applied nature of their work, it would've been more appropriate to title it "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application, then Theory, and finally some more Application".

Frankly this oversight ruined the whole experience for me.

I browsed this book in the bookstore many times before I actually purchased it, and I'm glad I did. The simplistic approach the artist takes with her paintings captivate me; the light lights contrasted with the dark darks are breathtaking, and yet everything seems so soft and pastel-looking. I have learned a lot about value because of this book. It's wonderful. Buy it.

If you love watercolor (just to look or also to paint them) you may possibly adore this book as much as I do.

Lucy Willis is immensely talented. Her feeling for light and how to handle it with watercolor is nothing short of amazing. She does many of the paintings in this book "a la prima" or without pencil drawing first. This fact alone astonished me as her rendering is draftsman-accurate with a brush. She also has a nice section on painting interior scenes. I hope she writes another book, so I can see more of her delightful work.

My mother taught us to read from these books about 12 years ago or more. she actually copied them from a friend bcs we live here in saudi arabia and she didnt want us to lose our language. i'm actually using those old copies for my children now! unfortunately the tapes were lost, and that's why i'm thinking of getting a new package from amazon.com
book stores in saudi r full of english books but NO PHONICS!!!

This was the best program I can imagine using!! I taught my 5 year old to read in just months. It was so much fun for her because she got to listen to the tapes while looking at the books. I highly recommend it.

I cannot remember of a better book of photographs about Paris. This small book is a gem. Black & white pictures add to the famous artists quotes a wonderful perspective. You can also consider that these quotes add deepness and universality to the innovative approach of Paris caught by the photograph. Even if the photographs went after the writing of the quotes you could reasonably consider the quotes were made after the photographs. In short, buy this book, don't bring it with you in Paris. It would be useless. Offer it to the one you love (either a kid of a grand-ma) after you brought him or her to Paris.

Paris is a city of many moods. Mr. Kraft captures the moods of this great city with his stunning photography combined with compelling literary quotations.

This book allows you to walk the streets of Paris and see the sights through the eyes of one who obviously has a great love of the culture. The literary quotations (some very well known, others more obscure)provide an unexpected richness to Kraft's body of work.

I recommend this book to anyone who has been to Paris or hopes to one day. Even if you've never thought of visiting "The City of Light", this lovely book will have you yearning to book the next flight out.

Words are not enoough to express someone who is going through grieving period, but there is hope. Looking beyond with God and this short book can influence way we look and feel about death in eternal perspective. It makes death less fearful and help readers to see beyond, with faith in God.

Jeffrey Watson integrates the principal findings from the fields thanatology (the study of death) and gerontology (the study of aging) with insights from the Judaeo-Christian Bible and the practice of pastoral psychology. This paperback has been useful for terminally-ill patients, their families, and their health-care providers. An ideal resource for self-study, discussion groups, and give-away purposes, LOOKING BEYOND utilizes over 500 scripture references, along with many anecdotes, case studies, and stories.

The Lost Princess, along with At the Back of the North Wind is truly MacDonald at his best. Through the help of a wise woman, two spoiled girls, "princesses" in their own homes learn to see themselves as they really are and find out how to change. A learning experience for all who read.

This wonderful story is my favorite of all George Macdonald's fairy stories. The great mistake here is to assume that fairy stories are for children. This is an inspiring and soul-searching story for readers of all ages. A wise old woman brings purity and character to the heart of an arrogant selfish princess, helping her to become a TRUE princess.