Ansel Adams was very concerned that his work always be reproduced in a high quality way. I fear that he gave too much attention to fidelity of reproduction, and not enough to size of image in the reproduction. This otherwise valuable book is seriously marred by the designer having chosen page and print sizes much too small for Adams' work. I suggest you avoid this book.

I would like to compliment James Alinder on an outstanding biographical essay concerning Adams' life and photographic techniques. This essay will add useful knowledge to anyone who wants to better understand Adams' work and life, and their effects on us all. I would also like to compliment the selection of the images. These are clearly among Adams' best work.

Adams' technique used the very stark light of dawn and dusk to create vivid detail that echoed across the image from figure to figure. The result was to help the eye capture the connectedness of nature, the oneness of creation. So when the details become too small, it is like rubbing out whole chapters in a book. I was very disappointed in the publishing decision for this book's page size. In fact, only one of my favorite images still held most of its power for me in these large postcard sizes, Moon with Half Dome, Yosemite, 1960.

Without Mr. Alinder's essay, I would have graded this book as a two star effort.

Some of the lesser works which have less fine detail still show well. Here were my favorites of this small-sized collection:

Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958

Monlith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite, 1927

Winnowing Grain, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1928

Rock and Grass, Moraine Lake, Sequoia National Park, 1982

Georgia O'Keefe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 1937

Mormon Temple, Manti, Utah, 1948

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941

White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 1942

Monument Valley, 1958

Cypress and Fog, Pebble Beach, California, 1967

Sand Dunes, Oceano, California, 1950

If you are like me and love Ansel Adams' work, I suggest you look into Ansel Adams, The American Wilderness, which does feature large enough reproductions.

Sometimes we learn more from mistakes than from successes. Where are your efforts being undertaken on too small a scale to be fully effective? What can you do to change that?

Enjoy the beauty of nature in its full scale brilliance (outdoors and in larger-sized photographic books)!

This collection can be seen at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, through July 7, 2002. This book is the catalogue of the exibition! If you like the book you should see the originals! They will blow you away.

This is a wonderful book filled with breathtaking photographs taken by the late and well-respected Ansel Adams. Each of the photographs contained is a unique masterpiece with a life of its own. Looking at these splendid photographs, one feels drawn right in to the specific location and year. Some of my favorites include, "The Golden Gate Before the Bridge" (1932), "Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts" (ca. 1937), "Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills, California" (1951) and "Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona" (1942). This book will definitely hold your attention and keep you captivated if not mesmerized. With so many minute and beautiful details in these photographs, it's easy to see why Ansel Adams was one of the most respected and popular photographers of our time. He didn't just take a picture; he ceased moments in time and captured the beauty of the subjects being photographed. This is an excellent book that will make a fine addition to any library. This book would make a great gift for photographers and art connoisseurs alike!

Put this one in the category of a good 'hands-on' guide to bonsai, almost like having a master looking over your shoulder. The book offeres specific advice on care & pitfalls of ten popular species -- which is great -- but the part I value the most is the author's use of examples in showing how to create and re-design bonsai specimens.

He often begins either with carefully-selected nursery trees or with commercially produced pre-bonsai trees. This way, he tends to start with mature trunks and roots, and some branching. This is probably the best way to go when seeking to create a truly good bonsai specimen within a few years.

If you like this book, you'll probably also like Gustafson's "Bonsai Workshop," which has been particularly helpful to me with conifers, and which uses a similar project-related approach.

I'd put this book on my short list for any bonsai library, and would have given it five stars had it been longer and more detailed with general bonsai information. But fortunately, the information not found in "The Art of Flowering Bonsai" can easily be found elsewhere.

I have read many books on Bonsai from various sources. This one gave me very detailed explanations on specific trees/plants. Lot of details and pictures. This is not one of those books with a bunch of good pictures and little details. Well worth the purchase.

This is a very comprehensive book - looking very well into flowering bonsai in general and then going fantastically into 10 specific plants - and how to make them and maintain them as bonsai. It analyses the Japanese flowering apricot, satsuki and kurume azaleas, cotoneaster, firethorn (pycanthra), crab apple, white and red hawthorn, deciduous holly, pomegranite, quince and wisteria.

I have to say that I have found this book to be interesting with regard to the large number of historical, mythical, folkloric and legendary references that Douglas employs. He definitely did his homework and it shows in every sentence of the book.

But therein lies the fault I find with the book. With the exception of a few brief moments where Douglas manages to smirk at himself, his writing style is largely (and annoyingly) pedantic. He approaches the subject seriously, but he takes it to the point of stuffiness.

I also found that a lot (and I mean A LOT) of the information Douglas spends page after page running into the ground had little or nothing to do with the subject of werewolves. His interest seemed much more focused on displaying his copious (albeit only indirectly relevant) research and knowledge than in writing a digestible book about werewolves.

This book is essential reading for anyone who likes unconventional history like I do. Adams takes you through examples of lycanthropy in all cultures and all signifigant time periods. No stone is left unturned. He even touches on a chapter on how feral children figure into the myth of the werewolf. Citing mythology, medieval history to current medical cases, this book is a delight to read. I highly recommend this to anyone. Historian and non-historian alike will find it nothing short of fascinating.

It is a shame that this title has gone out of print, whole so many terrible werewolf books remain in print. This mythological/folkloric/sociological study of the relation ship between man and werewolf is one of the most imformative books I've ever read.

I am hard pressed to find problems with this book, and I think you would be, too.

Interesting title but the cartoons inside does not match the funniness of the cover.

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This book is practical, humorous, and has big, simple cartoon pictures so it's easy to understand. Dogbert gives useful insights on everyday situations such as coffee intake, boss classifications, and hallway greetings. A must read!

There are many book about business etiquette. Many of them talk about all sorts of obscure manners and what to do in the strangest of situations. But this one actually talks about situations that you get into every day, such as hallway etiquette and mettings. But the best part about it is that it is fun to read. Other books have pages and pages of text that talk endlessly like a moron in the hallway. With this book, every page have something funny about it

When I received "Change Your Room" I was shocked by what the book actually was. It was interesting to look through and see the different creative ideas to use, but it didn't really emphasize on anything, just gave somewhat directions to do some of the projects. The book appeared and looked like it was meant to help redecorate kids bedrooms, etc. I again admit, i liked some of the ideas, but it just wasn't what i expected. I would recommend this book to any parent that would enjoy redecorating their child's rooms. I hope this review has helped your decision, or has informed you more about this book. Bye!

Change Your Room was a fabulous book that helped me think of GREAT ideas to make my room look a heck of a lot better. It has a colour scale so you know what will look good together and what won't, and it also gives you ideas for themes and things to use around the house to decorate! Did you know you can use a cardboard box, string, some old junk, and paint (or spray paint) to make a PICTURE frame?! And none of the things sound like boring work (which they aren't), it's a blast to do it!

If you want to decorate or redecorate your room because you're tired of those boring white walls and plain furniture, GET THIS BOOK!

Even if you aren't planning to redecorate, it is still an excellent book to look at all the ideas to decorate anyway!

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Change Your room is a great book if your room looks like a big 'ole rat's nest, and it really needs some bright colors, creativity and organization to tidy it up! This book starts out with ideas for different "theme types" you could use when organizing your room, including: Harmonies Hues (pink and gold), Silver Spectrum (metallic everything with square lines), Wild Contrasts (safari with very bright colors) Sunshine Shades (nature with bright sunny shades), and lastly, Comic Color (comics with super bright colors). These sample rooms get you really involves, and ready to change your room, because they look so cool! The next section is "Sorting Your Stuff" which has a lot of great ways to organize your stuff in an easy way. Including: Using hanging plastic pockets, dividing up your clothing drawers with cardboard, using bookends, hanging up your cards on a clothes line across your room etc.! The third section is "Decorating Basics," which gives you the how to, what type of paint to use, materials, how to use a craft knife, and basically a list of everything you'll need to make the projects in the next section. Finally, section 4 is "Making Changes," the section with all the terrific ideas. This includes how to make all of the items found in the sample room. Projects range from ways to paint your walls, to changing chairs. to making a chest of drawers look terrific and exotic, to decorating doorknobs, to picture frames, to painting and dying fabric, to Personalize Pillows, to Big screens, to lampshades, and Much, Much, Much more! For each ideas, there are bright colorful pictures, and easy to follow, colorful instructions. If you are trying to organize and make a child's room more inviting, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!

I have seen the Reduced Shakespeare Company perform this play and these guys are absolutely hysterical! This book provides a very funny overview of the History of America. Even if you find history boring like I do, they make all of the events easily accessible and extremely entertaining. They make merry on every topic - whether it be how America was REALLY discovered to what really happened with JFK, Lincoln, and Lucille Ball! These guys are truly clever, quick and funny and I can recommend this and their other books highly.

This script is really very funny. It has made me laugh out load on many occasions. Many of the scenes are funny just to think about. Whilst it is not to be taken seriously, it does give a broad, and very funny, overview of American History. However this is a script, not a novel, and i would highly recommend that if you buy the script, in order to make the most out of it and understand it completely, that you also see the play performed, if you can, because it brings the script alive. It is a measure of just how good this book is, when you think its funny even without having seen it performed.

I stumbled onto this play, looking for other things- my teacher had lost my homework and I was checking her desk for it. Sadly, the homework never turned up, but, I did find this incredibly funny play. Adam, Reed, and Austin will keep you laughing through all 92 pages of the play (and even after). There witty-take on American history left me laughing for a good three weeks. Now, everytime I see the book I have to pick it up and read a few scenes. What I really enjoyed about this book is the way they can look back on any point in history and make it funny. I recommend this book to all people who want a good laugh- there is every kind of humor in this play- so anyone can find something they will enjoy in this book.

Carlos Fuentes had a brief but tempestuous affair with actress Jean Seberg over thirty years ago. The encounter seems to have marked him, for this book is a barely disguised roman a clef (where Diana Soren = Jean Seberg) about his relationship. It is like one of those European stories where the man gives up everything to follow some vixen, including his money, family, and peace of mind. Luis Bunuel (who actually appears in this novel as a character) created the ultimate masterpiece of the genre with his film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE.

Jean Seberg has come down to us today as a tortured sado-masochistic saint who still has the power to beguile men. Film posters and stills featuring her and her movies command a premium in today's cinememorabilia market; and I know several collectors who seek out anything they can find depicting her. Perhaps, what Marilyn Monroe was for the 1950s, Jean Seberg was for the 1960s.

Why Fuentes wrote this novel in the way he did puzzles me. If I were as obsessed as he was, I would still feel queasy about exposing the dirty bedsheets and underwear to the gaze of the public. To me, love -- however brief or unhappy -- is a gift of the gods; and by spiting it, one shows oneself to be somehow unworthy. Fuentes has flouted a gift whose memory I would have locked away in the deepest recesses of my being and thrown away the key.

If, however, Fuentes feels himself to have been traduced by his relationship, like Charles Swann at the end of Proust's SWANN'S WAY after his recognition of Odette's unfaithfulness, I could understand his need to exorcise this "expense of spirit in a waste of shame."

Instead, I see both the anger and the gratefulness simultaneously. As a result, DIANA THE GODDESS WHO HUNTS ALONE leaves me with a feeling of unease, as if the author did not know his own mind and went off in several emotional directions at once.

The result is a very well written book that in the end does not quite jell. One can't worship at the shrine and spit at it at the same time.

In "Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone," the reader will discover a compelling tale by one of the masters of contemporary fiction. This novel by Carlos Fuentes has been translated into English by Alfred Mac Adam. Taking place primarily in 1970, the book tells the story of a tempestuous love affair between the narrator, who is a Mexican novelist, and American actress Diana Soren.

The novel captures the turbulence of the era being portrayed. Such phenomena as the Black Power movement and FBI surveillance of suspected "radicals" are woven into the narrative. Particularly interesting is the way that real people appear as characters in the book; the other characters have encounters, and sometimes conversations, with such figures as William Styron, James Baldwin, and Tina Turner. The novel is superbly written, and deals with such fascinating topics as national identity, racial identity, obsession, paranoia, creativity, political radicalism, fidelity, and Hollywood mythmaking.

One interesting note: The character of Diana Soren appears to be based on a real-life person, actress Jean Seberg. I recommend that those who are fascinated by Fuentes' novel do a little research on Seberg's life. Finally, I give "Diana" high praise as an outstanding example of the art of the novel.

Diana by Carlos Fuentes is an exceptional book! Fuentes uses vivid descriptions like in his other books, but this one is much easier to follow. He has the ability to captivate the reader and make the reader part of his story.

Adam Warren's third series, of the American comic adaptation of the Dirty Pair anime, is the first showcase of Warren's mastery of manga-style comic characters, plots, and situations. Unlike Biohazard, and Dangerous Acquaintences, the art work is much improved in that Warren uses much better detailing through fine lines rather than the broadline illos for the first two incarnations of the Pair. Here, the drawing and inking have reached American standards while adhering to a manga style appearance. Indeed, Adam Warren is among the best manga artist in the world today, and the original Japanese creator of the Dirty Pair animes is extremely please with the American's effort to deliver quality to his readership. Albeit a small crowd, but a proud consortium whom see his art as a beacan of hope in that Americans can create manga art without being Japanese.

Here is the real dough: The Pair are assigned to help track a terrorist on a satellite planet which wants to put the terrorist behind bars. That terrorist is Carvahol, and he can switch bodies with an illegal personality chip, that plugs into an interface near the base of the neck of any one with such a modification. This helps him download his personality into a new body, and become quite difficult to catch. But in the eyes of the people inhabiting the satellite planet, the terrorist ranks second on their list of: Most Likely To Blow Us To Smithereens - Just a tad behind the infamous Dirty Pair, whom managed to cause mass genocide by accident on each case they take on. Trust me- its not their fault! But if you pick this up you'll see that they're just a little slow and suffer from a general streak of bad luck, and you will come to understand how innocent freelance reporter, Cory, first hates them like anyoneelse, but then realizes that the Pair just has a bad rap. Pick it up and enjoy.

P.S.: For the future - place a letter in a time capsule so that you can warn your decendants about living on planets with Kuan Yin military products. They tend to lend a hand in "accidental" mass genocide.

When WWWA operatives Kei and Yuri arrive onbard the habitat Kalevela to stop a powerful weapon from being unleashed, plucky reporter Cory is called in to write a 'nice' review on the Lovely Angels. But with a criminal on the loose who has the unique ability to borrow other peoples bodies and the Dirty Pairs love of big weapons can they bring a stop to the criminal, prevent another disaster AND get a good review?

"A Plague of Angels" is the third "Dirty Pair" story Adam Warren worked on, and it shows. Unlike the previous two mini-series, the artwork here is extremely detailed and complex. Warren came into his own with this one(back in 1991!), and the reader can actually see his artwork evolving as the story progresses.

Although this one lacks the darker edge of other entries in the series, and doesn't progress as fluidly as "Fatal But Not Serious", the story is still quite interesting, and probably the one most laced with dark humor. Of course, the villain, Carvalho, helps this humorous status quite a bit by being obsessed with pornography(this obsession reaches some interesting heights towards the end...).

For a change, the focus of the narrative is not on Kei and Yuri, but on the journalist Cory Emerson, who has the unfortunate task of writing a "fluff piece" on the two. Of course, things don't go exactly as planned, and the story builds to an absolutely insane climactic battle which rages on for forty pages!

"Dramedy" and science fiction at their best, and a good starting point for readers new to Kei and Yuri. Highly recommended.

i loved this book. it was just so great. it was one of the best tourette expirnce books.i can realate to the authors because i have a few tics i also havre learing disabiltys so i know what feeling differnt can be like.

Informative, helped me understand what the touretter is feeling. (I am the parent). I understood that my son was not alone in some of the ways he feels on and off the medications.

I am a parent of a twenty year old with Tourettes Syndrome. This book helped me understand how my son views the world. I just didn't realize the numerous behaviors related to Tourettes. I wish I would of read this book ten years ago. It would of made me a little less critical of some of his behaviors. This book is a must for anyone wanting to understand more about Tourettes.

Based on a newspaper review, I read this book out of curosity. The book records Mr. Ammons' recollections of his life, his family and his business dealings. The book is not a literary work of art. It does reflect Mr. Ammons' unique opinions, which are consistently blunt, direct, no non-sense and to-be-point. His IRS ordeal was a chilling reminder that government works in strange and amazing ways. The book is entertaining summer reading.

What a wonderful and refreshing "picture" of someone who has become very successful without compromising family or values. The author's "comfortable" style of writing made me feel as though Mr. Ammons was sitting next to me, sharing his life and philosophies in warm conversation. Excellent book!

This is a wonderful book that reminds me of sitting down and listening to my own grandfather tell me stories of his life and growing up on a farm.