Hello everyone this is an a amazing book it tells about Cher's first time se did things. I suggest this book for Cher fans. This book tells abou Sonny the first time she met him. It tells about the first time she got lost. The first bra. She talks about everything in this book.

Really great toys and dolls shown, alot of things shown that I never knew were made.Lots of pictures.I really enjoyed it, and will use it for priceing stuff.

It was at the top of my Christmas list, I read it in two days and passed it on to a friend, I thought Cher did and excellent job, I hope she writes another book soon. Its one more talent Cher has. Cher PLEASE DON'T STOP ANYTIME SOON !

This book is a must read for all of this talented performer fans.Fans will find this book very interesting.The First Time is both witty and charming along with being very serious at times.I would recommend the First Time even to those that are not huge Cher fans,because the stories are great.

CHERS BOOK "THE FIRST TIME" IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE. IV'E BEEN A FAN OF HERS SINCE I FIRST SAW HER ON HARD COPY. NOW I WATCH HER MOVIES LISTEN TO HER NEW/OLD MUSIC AND NOW I READ HER BOOKS. THIS BOOK REALLY LET ME KNOW HER. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE SHE HERSELF WAS READING IT TO ME. WONDERFUL WORK CHER! KEEP IT UP. WE LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT! YOUR A TRUE LEGEND!

This book is all about the life of Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the popular 1960's group the Ronettes. Here she tells her story of her life growing up in New York to her early days as a singer and her tumultuous marriage to producer Phil Spector. This is a very interesting autobiography and Ronnie does a super job of describing the events and people that changed her life as well as what the music industry was like back in the 60's. And she tells her story without any bitterness or resentment. You can tell that Ronnie is a real classy lady with a kind heart and a winning personality. After reading this book, one really feels like they know who Ronnie Spector is, just like she was an old friend. You really see Ronnie as a human being and understand her instead of just thinking of her as a pretty face on a record cover or a fantastic voice on a record. Buy this book today and read for yourself. The foreword was written by Cher and the introduction was written by Billy Joel. Also included are a lot of nice pictures of Ronnie as well as the Ronettes, her family and some of the people she's met. Highly recommended!

This book is even more timely to read now that Ronnie's ex-hubby Phil Spector was arrested the other day for the murder of a woman in his house. It gives great insight not only into Ronnie's life story and rise to stardom but also into Phil's personality and temperament. While there is absolutely no doubt of Phil's musical genius, the man was(and possibly still is)mentally unstable(he claims to be bipolar and does not like to take his meds). I first bought and read this book when it first came out years ago but it is still a great read, one of the very best rock-bios around. It is also a great companion piece to Darlene Love's autobiography. If you are a fan of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, both books are essential reading. Very highly recommended.

For Ronnie Spector fans everywhere, this book has it all. Her early days in New York City, the beginning of the Ronettes, their spectacular number 1 hit BE MY BABY, her nightmare of booze and obsession while married to that creep Phil Spector, and her triumphant return to her first love of music and singing. If you want a fascinating look at the girl groups in Rock and Roll history, then you want to read this book. She writes in a down-to-earth way that makes you feel like a good friend is telling you a heart-wrenching story of pain and loss, of fear and courage. Good going, Ronnie! We love you.

This book is one that I will continue to use for a very long time. It is suitable for beginners who have some computer graphics knowledge to advanced users.

I am a beginner with Painter 6 but not to other graphics programs. I have found Painter 6 a bit intimidating. For the last 2 months Painter 6.03 has been loaded on my computer, but each attempt to use it has left me frustrated. The art that was in my head, was not being translated into the picture that I was making on my computer. So I was looking for a book to guide me. Painter 6 Wow was exactly what I needed.

This book is lavishly illustrated. There are color illustrations on every page. I enjoyed looking at those illustrations for inspiration and then using the the same step by step techniques that the artists used to complete my own digital art. I was easily able to complete several beautiful digital paintings using the information that I found in the book. I also enjoyed reading about the various aspects of the program. The debth and power of this program is amazing.

As I continue to use Painter 6 Wow, I am growing more confident with the program, Painter 6. I am not out growing Painter 6 Wow. There is enough material in the book to keep me inspired through countless art projects.

The Painter 6 Wow book is incredible in its' depth in detail of the features, tips and hidden gems of Painter. The first thing to do is flip through the book a few times to build up the anticipation of working through it, and then start to read it from cover to cover. The tutorials are practical and are also non restricting in that you are not learning projects but techniques that you can expand upon. There are new things to learn on every page, and you will find yourself saying, "Ah, so that is how to do that", over and over again. This book makes learning the software a fun and wonderful adventure. Also, the book is expanded from the previous edition with 80 full pages, and ALL of the information is updated for Painter 6. This book is a MUST have.

Disclosure: At the author's request, I submitted for the book, gratis, several illustrations I had done for clients, and as part of those contributions, I described how I created them with Painter 6. I have no financial association with the book. I am unquestionably a Painter advocate; it is the workhorse of my medical illustration business. In my estimation, this application is peerless in the area of computer 2D graphics applications that simulate natural artistic media -- whether used for commercial art or for fine art. REVIEW: The Painter 6 WOW! Book has taught me how to make use of many of Painter's features that I hadn't yet explored -- and I've been using it since 1994! As was once aptly stated in a MacWorld review, Painter doesn't have a steep learning curve; it has a steep experiential curve. It has SO MANY artistic effects waiting to be experienced by the user who takes the time to delve its depths. There are certain of its features and capabilities that I've made use of, but was unaware of how to use those features even more fully. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis' inspiring, informative and well designed book has helped me to maximize my use of Painter, and has greatly helped to extend my knowledge of what it is capable of doing. It is a digital artist's dream come true. My opinion.

Joe Gauld's practical experience and pragmatic system helps parents evaluate their own family's values. The book is a fast read. It engages humor with real life sad examples of families and teenagers who turned their lives around. The school expanded to two campuses, the second in Woodstock, CT.

Joe Gauld's goal was to reform American education when he founded Hyde School in Bath, ME about 35 years ago. His idea was that only about 12% of students had the aptitude to really succeed in the current system, which emphasized top grades leading to a great college and eventually making a lot of money. The other 88% of students were relegated to second-class status or worse. Furthermore, he believed that success in life was not created by high aptitude and a prestigious job, but rather by character traits that would lead to fulfillment of each person's unique potential. To date, the Hyde schools have expanded to two boarding schools (Bath, ME and Woodstock, CT) and two inner-city public charter schools (New Haven and Washington, DC). It has also spun off teacher training programs and a nationwide parent training program. The parent program is described in a new book by Joe's son and daughter in law (Biggest Job We'll Ever Have : The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting -- Laura Gauld (Editor), Malcolm Gauld; Hardcover, to be published by Scribner's in Feb. 2002.

As a parent of two children at Hyde, I can say from experience that what this book says is what the school actually does. For me, the Hyde experience has revolutionized the way I think about education, parenting, and other related efforts, such as psychotherapy and family counseling. The present, majority system is doing it wrong. Joe Gauld had the vision to see the truth, and he set up a system that does it right.

This book teaches a lot abou morals. Just becuase someone is alittle different from everyone else, doesn't mean they should be treated badly. Everyone is different in their own seperate way. Some people just show and others hide their feelings. People have differences, and no one is the same. Some of us just have to learn to accept it. And some have to realize we all are the same in some ways to.

The ugly duckling is a duck who is the same as everyone else, yet is also different. He just wants to be accepted. He doesn't know how to make people like him. People were not accepting him becuase he was not good enough. Everyone seems to be 'not good enough' at one time or another. Yet other people do not realize this.

I like this book because it explains how life goes. Some people aren't accepted because of their looks, other epople jsut need to learn to accept people for who they are. Not what they are not. You need to learn to look past the "bad" qualities and see the good qualities.

Our class liked it when the ugly duckling turned into a swan. Everyone learned that it doesn't matter if you don't look like everyone else. You should like who you are. We learned about the differences between swans and ducks. Our class learned that when you are young you have to learn about a lot of different things. We think that kids could learn about different things from reading this story such as animals, other stories to read, and feelings.

Like most parents, you want your child's home library to include standard fairy tales. Jerry Pinkney's "The Ugly Duckling" combines incredibly detailed ilustrations with a nice balance of both strong and muted colors AND a wonderful re-telling of the generations-old standard tale. In this verson, however, people are woven into the story in a way that I haven't seen before, and I like that very much. It's easy to see why this book was selected as a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book. Pinkney's a very gifted illustrator, and he really has to be given credit for his well-constructed text as well as the gorgeous pictures. Authors who write and then illustrate their own stories are somewhat rare, and as an adult, I appreciate the incredible mix of talent and hard work this represents. My children, of course, just love the pictures; they'll grow to appreciate good writing as they get older.

I think Cher's Guide to...Whatever! is defenitly THE book for all you Clueless fans! If you loved the movie, you'll get a kick out of this book! The defenite guide for the Clueless Guy/Gal for the 90's.

This book is definatly enjoyable. True, while most normal people don't have half as many luxuries as Cher does, this book actually made me have a more positive attitude on the subjects mentioned. This book also has actual scenes from the movie mentioned, along with other scenarios. Enjoy this book!!!!!!!!!

Clueless is my all time favorite movie (out of 5 other "favorite movies") and this book is a great companion to the movie. It has all the funny stuff about the Beverly Hills richies, just like in the movie. It is hilarious! And it's got some great B&W photos from the movie. A great book for all Clueless lovers.

New Raiders have problem with Flash MX Magic and now there are some problem with Photoshop 7 Magic, too.

Photoshop 7 Magic also have CD problem, I can't open picture in Project1 Folder. So, I can't Follow the book. Further more, Most of all folder contain only Start File.. no psd, no finish file there are only TIF file without layer! oh dear Sherry London, I'm not professional like you but I need some PSD file to see each Layer because sometime I can't follow your instruction. (as I see, 3 folders have finish file.. it's a big mistake)

in page 47 of this book, Phill Williams say only use Retouching tool to move object in TIFF file to other place (this is like a photo retouching) but they give me only 2 picture in that page .. just only original image and finish image.. there are no clue to point me out where I have to rubber stamp nor start to clone! and it's very small .. I do not understand why they left space behind. Maybe this is a MAGIC! So, it's very hard to understand. I need more picture and bigger! I do not know why her left space away like this .. :(

Worst ever, NO FONT!! but in book say include in cd, (lier) .. and many many error i.e. wrong folder name (I read only 3 projects but I found 4 or 5 errors!! it's too much!) and wrong picture in project 4!! you can download fix file from newriders website but it doesn't help anything! because errata still have error itself!! oh no.

Only a few better left is good tech support! but it's useless because this book is .... ok, I can say only don't purchase this book until next edition of this title came out! or try by yourself :) or purchase Photoshop 7 Wow! book instead!

A plethora of new books are arriving on bookshelves thanks to Adobe releasing version 7 of Photoshop, and Photoshop 7 Magic by Sherry London and Rhoda Grossman from New Riders is one of the latest.

I have been using Photoshop 7 for a few months now (and had used a beta version, Liquid Sky, for a few months before that) so I am pretty comfortable with the new version. I was hoping Photoshop 7 Magic would teach me something new, something I did not know I could do with the new version of the program. Alas, that is not what this book is about.

Starting off with some very simple ways to use text, layers, and transparencies, the book moves into many different categories of Photoshop, from Marbled Backgrounds to Satin Beveled Type. The book is broken out into three main segments, Artistic Techniques, Web Techniques, and Image Manipulation Techniques.

The book features some really nice artwork and the accompanying CD-ROM has all the files you need to re-create the projects done in the book.

The book is well written, if somewhat Spartan. There is no sense of who the people are writing the book. It is "I did this, then I did that, etc..." With all the white space in this book, I would have liked to see a little more of the personalities of the writers come through. As it is, it is a boring read. Photoshop 7 Magic is a textbook, not an entertaining read. With the great pictures and examples in this book, it could have been so much more. Perhaps Sherry and Rhoda should take a page from another New Rider writer, Scott Kelby, and liven their work up a bit.

This book is geared to new Photoshop users, or graphic designers just now making the switch from brush and canvas to mouse, stylus pen, and monitor. Experienced graphic artists who have been using Photoshop for a few years will get little from this book they do not already know, or have learned from the countless book already available on the subjects covered in this book. Add to that and the very hefty price tag of the book, a whopping forty-five bucks, and I cannot recommend this book unless you are really lacking in Photoshop skills, unlike the demographic this book seems to be catering to.

Average book at best. Nice paperstock and heft to the book, but price is way too much for the quality of the 275 pages of actual content. The only Magic here is watching [money] disappear from your wallet or purse.

MacMice Rating: 3 out of 5

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With hundreds of choices out there for the category, this one stands out. Photoshop 7 Magic really enhances the possibilities of the tool. As a user, I want a text that's simple to read and NOT overwritten. Just show me how to do it! I'm a painter who found the chapter on brush techniques and liquid painting to be very helpful. You'll want this book on your shelf.

It's hard to imagine two words that could do more to kill a book's sales than "history" and "celibacy" ("algebra" and "asphyxia," perhaps). Nevertheless, A History of Celibacy has proven a huge best-seller in Canada (if that counts), giving South Park fans one more reason to hoot in derision at their northern neighbors.

Toronto historian Elizabeth Abbott traces religious celibacy in exhaustive detail from Athena and the vestal virgins of pagan Rome to the Catholic obsession with virginity and the role of self-denial in the Buddhist and Hindu faiths. If the reader can get past Abbott's sociology-textbook prose in these first 200 pages, the book picks up considerably in the second half as she turns her attention to celibacy in the secular world. Abbott pokes fun at the Male Purity Movement of the 19th century and the scientifically unproven link between abstinence and improved athletic performance, but she appears completely sympathetic with female celibacy to transcend traditional gender roles (the section on Elizabeth I is particularly poignant).

Under Abbott's double standard, women in secular society give up sex for career or country (Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, Rachel Carson), whereas men abstain because they are repressed homosexuals, incurable pedophiles or superstitious jocks (Leonardo da Vinci, Lewis Carroll, Muhammad Ali). Equally discomfiting is Abbott's account of her own conversion to celibacy: "Much as I once reveled in sexual indulgence...I am immensely relieved that someone else's domestic demands no longer dominate my daily agenda." Yeah, love stinks.

Despite getting bogged down in various minutae in regards to different religious sects, this book is an entertaining and informative read. The author adroitly links the cultural mores of societies across the earth, and analyzes the reasons for celibacy or eternal virginity among different religions and cultures. She also, interestingly enough, emphasizes the practical nature of celibacy, and the role it plays in today's sex-driven culture. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a bit of odd cultural history or someone just interested in the rise and fall of celibacy.

A history of celibacy is a deeply compelling book that offeres a plathora of cultural views on celibacy. From china to native americans, ancient greeks to today, Elizabeth Abbott introduces the reader to a world populated by eunuchs, transvestite nuns, tormented ascetics, empowered virgins and AIDS-weary homosexuals. Abbott's wit and wry sense of humor makes this scholarly research a joy to read. I feel more knowledgble of both my own and other cultures view on sex, the close relationship between religion and sex, and how centuries of sexual principles affects many of todays issues concerning homosexulality, teenage pregnancy, pedophile priests, etc...
A must read for the curious.