Watson Books

It is a typical and copiously illustrated in color survey of 17 works (projects of boutiques) of one design firm (architect). Like other architectural monographs from l'ArcaEdizioni sized 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inch, it is beautifully published on glossy paper, and full of excellent color photos, but also fewer b&w small technical drawings (plans, sections). There is a short introduction to the architect on a few pages, then the main part presenting architectural works, and ending lists of (selected) projects (credits) and office architects (biographies), etc. Each architectural work is depicted on several pages by illustrations and a title page with a short text description. The book is beautiful, well published, printed, and bound. It is slightly less technical and more album-like than the Architectural Monographs (No) series (or their present equivalent) published by Wiley-Academy (formerly Academy Editions / St. Martin's Press or Rizzoli).
CONTENTS:
5 INTRODUCTION
10 JIL SANDER (PARIS) Michael Gabellini
20 JIL SANDER (CHICAGO) Michael Gabellini
26 THE END Eduard Samsó
36 JEAN-PIERRE VICTIM'S Eduard Samsó
46 JERRY PAIR VTS & Associates
54 GALLERY Studio Granda
62 EVA Studio Granda
70 ONE STUDIO OFF Ron Arad
82 DOLCE & GABANNA (Uomo) Claudio Nardi
90 DOLCE & GABANNA (Donna) Claudio Nardi
100 SAN FRANCISCO STORY Claudio Nard
108 TEMPUS FRCH Design Worlwide
116 GREAT MALL FRCH Design Worlwide
124 HAGGAR FRCH Design Woriwide
132 DR. BAELTZ Shigeru Uchida
138 JOSEP FONT Josep Foni
148 OCKY'S Torsten Neeland

This book contains interesting LISP source code. The title say about Neural Networks and chaos, but the Chaos chapter is very small. However, this book contains a game!!. The Chess program (not use neural networks) is written totally in LISP. And play good. You can study the search techniques. I recommend this book for LISP lovers.

I have been teaching Speech Communication for over 17 years. I have taught a few other communication courses. It is not very often that Professors get to brag about a textbook. I recently had an opprtunity to visit one-on-one with the author. He is the "real deal" and so is the book! Long on substance and short on fluff. This is a book the students can truly learn from and one any teacher can truly create the kind of flow that a seasoned instructor could create. I recommend this book to the serious student of communication or a department looking to give their students a first-class textbook.

As a recent immigrant from Congo, I had difficulties reading thematic based topics in the English language. I found myself struggling with eveerything from business memos to advanced topics in scientific literature (particle physics, nanotechnology etc.). My boss told me to either learn a thematic approach to the material or to find another job (or get another Ph.D). This is when I turned to 'A community of Readers'. I cannot begin to sing its praises without bursting into tears. I recommend it to all.

I own dozens of decorative stamping publications, but this is probably the only one I would take to a desert island with me.

Many rubber stamping books cover only beginner techniques, but this book encourages a stamper to be an artist, with ideas for stamping on every surface in the house but the family dog!

Inks, paints,and surface preparation are discussed in detail, giving the stamper the needed guidance while encouraging creativity. Projects are detailed, but leave room for the personal touch.

If you are interested in "art experimentation" like I am, this book will help you have sucessful results, instead of frustrating messes!

The book takes a practical approach of how to do it and gives the reasons why. It covers imaging for printing presses, inkjet printers, web, animation, cd/dvd, movies, and cmyk output. In fact, the output determines choices when inputing the image. Included are how to use controls for brightness, contast, histograms, color correction, color casts, sharpening techinques, and layering to name a few. Many examples are presented. Types of paper used to print on and how to work with a press to get the correct color is also presented. The details are here. A must for anyone wanting to learn how and why and a good reference for the professional.

These 1,122 pages contain the authorized text of every Sherlock Holmes story ever written. The copyrights to these stories expired around 1972 so any writer can appropriate the characters in new fiction. Yet no one has been able to equal, let alone surpass, A.C. Doyle in world-wide popularity. Has anyone analyzed these stories to understand their wide-spread appeal? Erle Stanley Gardner and Agatha Christie wrote more novels but were not as popular. One reason is the short stories about Sherlock Holmes were more amenable to wide distribution as in school books on literature. (Chesterton's short stories had a religious bent.) Their classic restraint made them preferable to the stories of Hammett and Chandler. Novels written for 19th century adults often became stories for 20th century children (as Mark Twain). [One technical problem is that one volume is less handy than two or three volumes.]

The introduction by Christopher Morley tells of his admiration for these stories. The character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by the famous Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary whose diagnostic skills startled his patients and pupils. The name "Holmes" was homage to Oliver Wendell Holmes who first warned about practices that caused "puerperal fever". "Sherlock" was a common Irish name, Doyle's strike against prejudice. Doyle often fought against unjust convictions and for his other beliefs. Chesterton's comment about "a man who believes in nothing winds up believing in anything" was aimed at Doyle. He went from a Catholic to an agnostic to a believer in a spirit world. Aging can affect a person's mind and beliefs.

There are four novels and five collections of short stories. The novels are: "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", and "The Valley of Fear". The short stories are the "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (12 stories), the "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (11 stories), "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (13 stories), "His Last Bow" (8 stories), and "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" (12 stories). There are probably more books about Sherlock Holmes than about A. C. Doyle. Aside from legal considerations, it is easier to handle finite fiction than complex real life. Has anyone written books about "Hercule Poirot" or "Perry Mason"? The "James Bond" series goes on in new novels and action films but they are not as popular as the originals. Even fictional characters have a life-span.

This isn't a review, merely an attempt to make the "Book Description" more readable. Since this was put together by two of his closest associates, John Nicolay & John Hay, in the years after his death, it seems like a valuable resource. I just want to make it a bit more desirable by trying to decipher the mess that currently appears as the "Book Description". I've taken liberties since much was indistinguishable & I don't have a copy of the book in my hands. This is what I came up with, [which is obviously a description of the work as it was when published over a century ago]:

COMPLETE WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
With a general introduction by Richard Watson Gilder and special articles by other eminent persons
New and Enlarged Edition Volume I New York Francis D. Tandy Company.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Edition This Edition De Luxe is limited to seven hundred, numbered and registered.
Department Of State, Washington
Dear sir- I have your letter, of the 11th of February... the portrait of the younger man of the group is of myself. The other is a Mr. Nicolay. The photograph... I think, in the year 1863. Yours very truly, Judd Stewart, Esquire, 71 Broadway, New York.
Preface edition of the Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, hoping and trusting that it will be received as a welcome addition to American historical literature. John G. Nicolay, John Hay.
Something more than a decade has elapsed since the preceding words were written, and during that period the assiduity of a multitude of Lincoln collectors has brought to light a large amount of manuscript material which inevitably escaped even such conscientious workers as Nicolay and Hay. The collectors have been so diligent during this period it is hardly probable that any of Lincolns writings of importance can be any longer undiscovered. The aim has been to collect this material, add it to the work of the two great biographers, and so make a complete and definitive edition. The chronological arrangement of the original edition has been followed and all new additions to the text inserted in their respective places and marked with an asterisk. Explanatory and biographical notes have been added where deemed necessary to explain obscure allusions or to preserve the continuity of the narrative. These notes are mostly new

Thought provoking with interesting historical perspectives. Without a doubt, this book is the seminal work on the Millennium Round!

Contemporary Ceramics by Susan Peterson, Professor Emeritus at Hunter College, is a survey of recent ceramic art showing the work of over 260 artists, each with full-color illustrations, artist statements and brief biographies. It is not a technique book or a history of ceramics edition. It is a stunning array of artistic talent using a variety of techniques showing new artists and directions of new ceramic art. My only suggestions for improvement would be (for future reference) to include how the artists mark their work.