Great reference for all aspects of this subject. Use it every week. Highly recommended for novice-expert.

Its even better than the previous edition. Check my comment in the previous edition's review. Good work Roger Jennings and Group.

Along with Robert Cowart & Kenneth Greg's book on the WindowsNT Bible which is for beginners, this book by Roger Jennings is the BEST that is available for NT.

I'd been looking for a book about Winslow Homer for a while and was delighted to find this one. Kate Jennings' copy about his life and art are very good and the 68 color prints are large and on glossy paper. The prints are not top notch, but very nice. If you're looking for a nice collection of Homer's work without breaking the bank, this is for you. (This review pertains to the Winslow Homer book by Kate Jennings. Alas,I havn't seen the one by Nicolai Cikovsky.)

As an Art student, venturing into watercolor recently, I received this book as a gift. I truly gained much information about the artist and the additon of color plates (90+) make this a complete reference guide. The author has separatedhis works into catogories by subject matter.The intro- duction reviews his travels, family life,interests,educa-tion,recognition and awardsduring his lifetime. A brief review proceeds each Chapterwhich then is visually supp-orted by wonderflul,colorful plates of Winslow works of that subject. The Chapters are Civil War, Sea PaintingsTropics, Adirondonck and Canada, and Prout's Neck,Me. He was an extraordinarypainter of various mediums,and always captured the 'atmosphere' in his workswhether it was stormy seasoff the coast of Maine, placid lakes in the mountains, clear skies in the tropics or children at play at that time. Fortunately, he was an artist who was noticed during his lifetime and rewarded with fame before his demise at age 74, having enjoyed his love of his work. I would highly recommend this hard cover version, to any art lover or student of the arts. I will plan to purchase this publication for my son, and perhaps a friend in the near future.

There is a power in simplicity. You have a story to tell, and you tell it. The language of that story is not peripheral, the language of that story - the words you choose to tell that simple story - are central: it is the integration (the symbiosis) of the right words and the purest most perfect moment that make an art of brevity.

Samuel Beckett, for instance, spent the better part of his writing life refining and refining and refining the words he used to say what he felt needed to be said (each refined piece of art taking up less space than the one that preceded it). Jorge Luis Borges, likewise (in fact: Borges famously commented that Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude could well have done with being fifty years shorter).

Kate Jenning's Snake, similarly, epitomises what can be achieved in the form of a short novel (in much the same way that William Trevor epitomises what can be achieved in the short story): over the course of just over 150 pages (and 76 chapters, some of barely a page in length), she traces out the married lives of Rex and Irene on a farm in the Australian outback, from their marriage and initial optimism through the gradual souring of the lives they share. Rather than tell us everything (rather than pin the details of this failing marriage to a calendar), Jennings scorches the details of a specific moment or pivotal event into a single chapter. As the chapters race by you, so your feelings for those involved deepen in a rather remarkable way.

Written in short epigrammatic chapters, Snake bores a deep hole into the secret lives of a miserable married couple who have entered into their nuptial arrangement out of conformity to superficial social mores and pressures, resulting in festering despair. Each chapter is like a trenchant poem and indeed it did not surprise me when I found out later that Jennings is an award-winning poet. The novel's title "Snake" seems to be a metaphor for the deranged, poisonous state people become seduced in when their desperate need for social acceptance compels them to capitulate to traditions and customs (in this case a marriage with all its false promises)and after the intoxication of the ceremony and public approval wears off they must face the sobering realization that they have joined union with someone completely incompatible with them. Jennings writes with scalding irony yet at the same time maintains love and compassion for her characters.

A short, concise tale of anger and rebellion by an intelligent but ignorant young woman who awakens very quickly to the fact that she has married in the worst way possible for her. She is available, every man knows this except her husband, who is too stary-eyed to see any truth about her. Highly recommended, can be read in a sitting.

This is what a book about N.C. Wyeth's work should look like. It contains crisp and colorful reproductions and they are shown in full detail. It's only a shame they don't show enough.. Wyeth produced over 2,000 illustrations in his lifetime.. it wouldn't hurt to show more. Great buy though.

I saw this exhibit at the Tate Gallery, London. The exhibit was terrific, though something seemed lacking in the over all presentation. Sargent is one overlooked watercolorist. He is one of the greatest, on an equal or superior platform to Homer. His Valasquez like eye made him a superior artist, though he seemed to get trapped in his facile technique in society portraits. Sargent is an amazing artist. One whose personal power has always been challenged by those that believe technique is secondary. Tell that to someone who appreciates his lively beautiful brushwork and intelligent landscapes. They won't buy it! The reproductions are not second rate as stated previously. They are rather good!The essays are good reading too.

I own both the Ratcliffe book on Sargent and Sargent Abroad, and I find this book to be a fine addition to my library of Sargent books. Frankly, the criticisms here regarding the reproductions are greatly overstated, in my opinion. I have no quarrel with the reprductions in my copy, except that I would welcome more detail shots and a larger format for the book in general. The abundance of notes and the photos of Sargent and his studio (etc.) have to be appreciated by any serious student of Sargent.

I have no idea what the others are complaining about. I compared this Sargent book side by side at a book store with other published Sargent books, and this one had the best reproduction by far. It is even better than "John Singer Sargent : The Early Portraits (The Complete Paintings , Vol 1)", which is by the same author and editor as this one. Make no mistake, this is the best book so far I've seen on Sargent. I'm not concerned about the writing since I'm a fan of Sargent because I'm a painter, and he's one of the best there ever was. Sure I'd read the text, but it's not nearly as important as the reproductions of his paintings. It's all about the paintings, and he is an artist. That's all that matters.

editorial and customer reviews on this very small book are gushing so we bought it. poor style, story not very interesting,
nothing comes alive. but the author obviously knows how to pick her subjects: alzheimer and the stock-market: you can not get more topical! all in all just a college 101 essay.

MORAL HAZARD

Read this book. Even by the second chapter, you'll understand you are entering a world that is mad as a hatter, only that the diagnosed alzheimer patient (the author's husband) is way more lucid than the bulls (the author's bosses) who ram Wall Street down our economic throats. Moral Hazard blinks yellow warning lights even when the words slice into neat little pats of cold butter on warm toast at breakfast. This makes the story edible in deceptively gentle prose. What seems like a peculiar combination of subjects is - dementia on Wall Street countered by a beloved husband's alzheimers' trials and indignities. Somehow the two stories fit hand in glove and come out swinging the reader into black-eyed shame for our dual neglect of an aging population, and withering pension funds ground into dust by tassle-shoed Big Toes. There's more, but then, that would be telling. Read Moral Hazard for yourself. I did. Twice.

This fine novella, a mere 50,000 words or so of taut invective against the greed of aspiring Wall Street shakers, is written in the style of an autobiographical essay, a winning strategy as Jennings juxtaposes the anguish of caring for her husband, suffering from Alzheimer's-driven dementia, with the novel's even more virulent dementia, the craziness and moral grotesqueness of all the avaricious, ego-piggish colleagues the narrator, Cath, must contend with day in and day out as she works as a corporate speech writer. The narrator's voice is sharp, pungent, and never sentimental as she describes her alienation at work and her despair at witnessing her older husband, twenty-five years her senior, disintegrate at the hands of Alzheimer's Disease.

I want to express my disgust at the decision to offer this only as an e-book. The editors should read the books they are recommending. Customers want a choice. I prefer to take nutrition by enjoying a wonderful tasting meal, not through a tube. And, I prefer a book, bound, and in my hands, not some data stream that forces me to waste time at my computer doing the tasks of downloading and printing. Until the authors wake up, I'll read others' books. If they do wake up let me know. The material looks interesting.

I just downloaded the PDF and are already questioning my decision to buy this eBook. Obviously I had no chance to read everything before writing this review and my opinion about this ebook might change for the better, but I doubt it. The reason why I can be so certain about this is, that this book is awefully short (only 49 pages) and therefore, scratches only the surface of most books. I would like to have a little bit more on each book, but maybe I am just a little annoyed that I paid over $$$ that is not even printed.

Now, to some this might be a benefit (and I would see it as such too) if it wasn't for the fact that the layout of this ebook is clearly created for print. For example: the layout is layouted in two columns requiring you to constantly scroll up and down and it doesn't even uses the most simplest features of Adobe Acrobat like creating bookmarks, which would allow easier navigation between the sections.

Given, that the publisher didn't have to fork out the money for the print, I think it is absolutely reasonable for me to expect a presentation of the content that is suitable to the medium, or, that I am not going to be charged an amount that I would not be charged if the information was printed on paper.

I still think that the underlying idea of this book is good and I hopefully will end up buying some great books that I otherwise might not have read. So, I am not sure if it is worth it, but since there was no reader review on this I felt compelled to give you at least my 5 cents of wisdom.

If you're a fanatic business book reader as I am, this is a great overview of business books across every area ranging from history to biography to strategy and leadership.
I ordered it, got it delivered digitally same day and printed it out to take home and read on vacation the next week.

Great book, great technology, great price!

I have seen and own many books filled with Ansel Adams' photography. This book contains the WORST reproductions of his photographs that I have ever seen. All of the photos are grainy and have poor contrast. The problems with these photographs are found only in this particular book. The selection of photographs in some sections also leaves much to be desired.