The book was alittle dated. It made me feel that I was reading a book from the late 80's. The content was very good - I would just like to read a 2000's version

This book is well written, straight-forward, professional, and detailed. It needs updating, but has been a tremendous resource and is an absolute requirement for anyone entering this business. However! This book includes a very small section on "dowsing" as a valid technique to determine if a land parcel has a water source, allowing it to be purchased for development. Dowsing is where the cartoon character takes a Y-shaped stick to find gold or water. All forms of dowsing have been found to be complete pseudoscientific nonsense--the realm of con-men and self-deceiving psychology. Including it in the book is not only a failure of the publisher to review the scientific validity of the book's information, but could cause the readers significant financial loss. This section undermines the validity of an otherwise accurate book focused strongly on realism and numbers.

Great Book! Highly recommended. Johnson gives practical straight forward advice garnered from years of experience.

this book gives an overview on how to understand mandalas. I was looking for a book on creating them and teach students how to create them. This book is all words no pictures so if you are a teacher and want to teach students how to develop them this is not the book. If you want to understand mandalas and how they are used, this is the right book.

I met Suzanne Fincher at a conference sponsored by Journey into Wholeness some fifteen years ago. I did not know it but I was in the first round of a fight for life: midlife crisis. My old life was crumbling before my eyes, and I went to Suzanne's workshop on making mandalas. We drew a circle and used crayons to just let things happen. Somehow, again without my knowing it until later, all the floating pieces of my life found a place within this circle called a mandala. It gave me a profound sense of peace, AND as I learned from Suzanne's teaching and this book, about how to work with my mandalas, they have provided me - throughout the years - a powerful vision for what is happening within me. I have shared this book with small groups and classes and people seeking wholeness and healing for many years with great blessing to each person who worked with it, and I continue to recommend it as the best single resource for mandalas, and a pivotal resource for sensing the moves of the Spirit within us. Suzanne's other book, Coloring Mandalas, is a delightful coloring book that offers many diverse models of mandalas representing places on the great round of the mandala.

One of the encouraging dimensions of regular creation of mandalas is the opportunity to see "progress" or movement within our lives when we are going through changes. I remember encouraging a friend to draw mandalas one time when they felt very alone and lost. After a couple of weeks when she thought she was going nowhere and learning nothing we sat down and compared her creations with the great round of the mandala and she and I could see her movement around the cycle, charting in a most beautiful way the progress/growth/movement within her life that she could not otherwise see, It provided a deep sense of peace and encouragement on her path.

Through the years innumerable folks have found a similar vision of their inner life through mandalas. May Suzanne's book help you start on that path! A small candle, some peaceful music, some crayons or colored pencils, and a piece or paper are all you need to begin.

I bought this book AFTER I had done several mandalas in an art therapy class. I was amazed by the insight of the author into art (and mandalas) as a healing & exploratory tool, and by the extra dimensions Fincher's writing helped me to find in my art work. Using her book as a guide, I'm continuing to create mandalas... and am using her research to augment the interpretation of my OTHER artworks as well. I highly reccommend this book -- especially to folks who want to access and improve upon the instinctive, artistic side of their nature but fear that they "don't know how to draw". You'll find, using Fincher's book, that sometimes simply WHERE you put a blob of color on a piece of paper, and WHAT color you're using is far more important than whether or not you've drawn something that looks "perfect" or "realistic". If you want to learn more about YOURSELF, buy this book. It's a fabulous and fun tool!

This book may have many samples of typefaces but it does not have all alphabet. Some typefaces only have four letters. And all of them have no punctuations.

If you're looking for a type specimen book, try Adobe Type Library Reference Book (ISBN: 0321136462) instead! Though it shows only one size (about 20pt,) and Adobe's only, it has everything in that set.

A great reference!

The reason some typefaces in this book are incomplete is that . . . they are incomplete! A complete alphabet does not exist (read the text, dummy).

Believe it or not (and setting aside the ambiguous ethical question of appropriation), the purpose of a book like this is not to provide ready-made cut-n-paste-able typefaces for you to rip off, but to serve as a reference.

This is a valuable reference work with the type faces very well organized. If you are interested in type face design and the history of type, this book is a must!

I have nearly every vintage purse book ever published and I must say this is definatelly the worst. Don't bother, save your money. The purse has virtually no information, other than "prices". Prices that are nowhere realistic. Pictures are plain and boring. You can see better purses at a thrift store. Wish I could get my money back :P

I am so happy that I purchaed this book! I own several books on collectables, including other purse books, and this is by far the best vintage purse book yet. The photography is outstanding-- very colorful and fun to look at. The information in the book is also accurate and useful. Donald-Brian Johnson obviously did his homework and presents in a casual yet informative way. If you plan to buy only one purse book in the future, this should definitely be it!!

Popular Purses: It's in the Bag! is a refreshing oasis in a world of often mundane collector books. Donald-Brian Johnson and Leslie Pina have done it again!! Ms. Pina's photos make this book a sheer delight to behold and Mr. Johnson's text makes learning about mid-twentieth century purses a rewarding experience. The book is obviously well researched and contains lots of interesting and useful information for the purse collector. And, as in previous books, Johnson's writing style assures that you'll never be bored. A beautiful book in every way!!

I was very disappointed in this book. The portion sizes are very small. I certainly could not satisfy anyone in my family with a half cup of beef stir fry (noted as the serving size for this receipe). The receipes were good but you must figure on two serving sizes for each person for most main dish receipes. Explanations of food exchanges was very helpful.

This is my favorite diabetic cookbook. My response to the unfavorable review about the portion size is that you have to adjust your eating habits to less meat and more starch and vegetables. You don't have to go hungry!

This ccobook has very simple, easy to prepare meals. ALL the ingredients are things you would find in a normal pantry. Not items that need to be purchased at specilaty stores. EXCELENT!

This book offers little in the way of things you always wanted to know. I found the layout quite annoying. I had to keep flipping the book on it's side to read what was written on the sides. I got a headache after reading it.

If you're a fan of the Real World you should skip this book and get the "Ultimate Insiders Guide." It has more information and is better on the eyes!

This book is good for the Real World fanatic or just the average fan. It summarizes everything that happened in each episode at the beginning of each cast section. The Real Real World has some wonderful pictures of the cast and is a great way to learn more about the cast even if you watched each and every show.

Each persons life was described and feelings you never heard were shared. The book is great for someone who watches the show regularly or for someone who just watches it sometimes and wants to get to know the characters better

The Valone boock is a good compilation of Valone's work and homopolar phenomena. If you want to build some weird machine, you can start by reading it but don't believe here is the clue. For this, better read Mr. Bruce de Palma and others.

Tom has done a good job in providing a text that is a recording of historical events and his own experiences homopolar research and development with a very detailed appendix. Although the homopolar motor is a bit of an anomoly in traditional electromagnetics, Tom provides a reasonable explanation for the experimental results and other developments. The discussion of relativistic effects of rotating systems is quite insiteful and would indicate that classical Electromagnetic theory needs an update!

This book does have alot of great recipes in it, but that is because they are old standbys, at least at my house. I do enjoy the fact that it has the nutritional information listed, which I wish more recipe books would follow suit. And the little tips at the bottom of each page are interesting. Most all of the recipes are fairly simple and this would be a great starter book.

This is the greatest cookbook I ever brought and I recommend everyone who like delicous desserts there are some as Mr Food would say Oooh it's so gooood. I just got this book this week and it makes a great Holiday gift.And you don't have to be a diabetic to enjoy this good food.

I read this book because I wanted to learn the art of fine letter writing of olden times that is spoken of so often. Unfortunately, there was nothing of this nature in this book. However there were a couple dozen letters that were absolutely delightful to read. It was interesting to see not only how people expressed themselves, but to see what went on during their lives and what they put to paper whereas today we might use another medium. It's a very quick read and a great deal of fun.

I read this book because I wanted to learn the art of fine letter writing of olden times that is spoken of so often. Unfortunately, there was nothing of this nature in this book. However there were a couple dozen letters that were absolutely delightful to read. It was interesting to see not only how people expressed themselves, but to see what went on during their lives and what they put to paper whereas today we might use another medium. It's a very quick read and a great deal of fun.

More than anything else, this book is a picture book. The photographs are of good quality and take more space than the text. The book is also printed on good quality paper. Each photo carries a brief well written description so that one could enjoy this book without ever reading the main text. The photos give the reader a nice introduction to imperial Russia: the nobility, their palaces, and their art. The text is informative but often does not correspond to the photos. The most glaring example of this is the chapter on painting. The author describes Van Dycke portraits, a Velesquez masterpiece, a sixteenth century Danae by Titian, a Danae by Rembrandt, and a gallery of seventeenth century Rubenses among others. The author compares and contrasts these paintings, yet no images of these works appear in the book. The reader is left hanging, wondering what these paintings really look like. Although the chapter on paintings is the most glaring example of this, the whole book does have this same problem. Absent this flaw, however, the book is well worth the money and should be recommended to anyone with an interest in imperial Russia.

This is a beautiful book! If you like Russian or French architecture, their art or furniture from the 17c on, you will love this book. With its beautiful color photos it is more of a coffee table book then a casual read. This would make a great Birthday or Mother's day gift.