Look behind the scenes. From the film used to the thoughts of the photographer. Excellent resource for photographers no mather if you're a pro, you always learn new things.

Fashion Shots is a book that includes many different lighting situations in a clear layout. I like the book for this, because its imformative and fun to read at the same time. If your interested in fashion photography, this is definetely a book to consider.

From the equipment used to take the shots in this book to the actual location of the models and light sources in each photo, this book is a perfect place to tap into. It will help you get some good fashion shots and/or spawn some really creative ideas on the readers end. A good buy for the fashion photographer or the aspiring one! Happy reading :)

I once flipped through Jane Packer's Complete Guide to Flower Arranging while in a bookstore. It was a nice book, but it didn't inspire me enough to purchase it. This book, however, seemed to be getting rave reviews so although I couldn't find it in the store, I took the chance to order it. What a surprise! A beautiful book that exceeded my expectations. Much better than the Complete Guide to Flower Arranging, this has some very modern and all easy-to-create arrangements. As a floral designer, I sometimes pick up books here and there for inspiration to use in my business. However, lately I haven't found much to inspire me. This little book is superb. Some fresh ideas to get me restarted (and to get all those budding and would-be designers started). Kudos to Jane and her photographers.

I have just discovered this book and I really appreciate its presentation. The arrangements are really fast, simple and beautiful through their simplicity. This books clashes with the traditional books on the subject which aim sophistication or grand effects at a high expense. The introduction about the most used flowers is short but clever. Skimming through the book is very inspiring. I don't think it as a coffee table book, but as a resource for inspiration for daily arrangements. And I like the fact that most arrangements presented here are not made with 6 dozen of flowers. I have just made the first arrangement with daffodils (4 USD worth), a small terracotta pot and moss. The result is gorgeous.

Jane Packer could not have made this book any easier nor user friendly!! Our sorority cancelled the florist we hired for rush when we found this book. We did all the flowers ourselves and they were stunning!! Great for a coffee table book as well.

five isn't just another boy band as they said in their biography.they don't just sing pop music either they add a little rap in there and do a great job of it!they're not rappers and they don't sing hip hop R&B as they clearly pointed out they just add it in to spice up their music.i love five and i think i'm the # 1 fan if you think differently please feel free to e-mail me at asreeves@uswest.net all of there merchandise is deffinately worth buying!

Like I said this book is great.It has tons of quality pictures.Good info about the lads.And its all around great ! I suggest this book to ANYONE who likes 5ive.

I would have bought this book just because it's Five's but it was really worth it. All the pics are amazing and show the boys how they really are. So if you are going to buy a book on Five, buy this one!

I read this book many years ago and I still have a copy on my shelf. I think all parents who have strong feelings about nuclear disarmament should read this to their children and use it as a jumping off point to discuss nuclear weapons, war, and the impact that softspoken leaders like Mahama Ghandi and little Georgie (the book's main character) can have when our nations' leaders let fear prevail over morality. I also believe it reminds those who seek to use the flag as a symbol of blind patriotism and allegiance to American military actions that pacifists can be patriots, too. There is so much to carry away from this simple, but elegantly written book that an elementary or junior high school student can understand and appreciate... it certainly speaks to many of the issues that are being debated in the current political climate.

I just got this book out of the library, and it was GREAT! I thought it looked dumb, but when I picked it up, I couldn't stop reading. Georgie leads the march and they walk to washington, DC. Preisident Toby isn't real, but the author makes him sound so real! My favorite characthers are Georgie and Weezie. To bad this book is out of print.

I read this book when I was a kid! And it still sticks with me after all these years. All I remember is this chick walks to washington dc. Pretty cool though. I'd buy it if I were you. Too bad it's out of print.

You may think you're buying a copy of "From A Distance" for that special child in your life, or maybe for a loved one -- but I suggest, nay warn you ;-), that you better order an extra copy for yourself. This book is exquisite -- it's a journey of colors, words, images and of music that has become part of our collective consciousness!

Enjoy! ..Zoe

I got all choked up as I read this to my five year old. The outstanding folk art illustrations along with the universal message of peace and harmony are extremely powerful together.

A lovely picture book with a song of hope for world unity. A beautiful gift for people you love.

With so much to absorb in so few hours during the day, this beautiful book allows us to glean the jewels from ACIM and immediately receive the full benefits of its purpose--a gift of peace and healing with generous reassurances of love. It is thoughtfully compiled and offers delightful food for thought for so many of us that are short on time, but still long for spiritual sustenance. I plan to include it on my holiday gift list for friends and family. Peace

I found the Course to be too dense. This, however, is just right. It has all the essential truth in a much easier to digest form.

Thank You Marianne and company,

Daniel

I'm not a serious student of ACIM, but have a passing familiarity from the books and tapes of Marianne Williamson and others. This volume, which I found purely by accident (are there accidents?), is a beautiful collection of quotes from the course. Reading it serially, or picking it up and opening to any page leaves one with a true sense of peace. I would absolutely recommend it for those who find the full text of the Course too much to take on.

This small book's size belies the wealth of information it contains. The book gives brief (2-5 page) summaries of the lives of a wide variety of women that participated in the Klondike Gold Rush. The authors write as if they personally knew these women and were telling their friends about them. Their writing style is easy to read, brief and very descriptive.The women include a native woman whose husband made an early stike; a woman whose son didn't return from the Klondike so she followed to search for him; several women who started/worked in businesses in the Klondike and women and families that entertained the prospectors. Photos accompany each biographical sketch.These are poignant stories that made me marvel at the strength of character of these women. Many made fortunes and found husbands in the Klondike but most suffered emotional or financial loss later.This book can be savored as either a very enjoyable read or for the historical bibliography it provides. I've referred to it several times and will continue to re-read it.

What an awesome book! Couldn't put it down. The odds these women fought against to chase their dreams during such a dangerous journey, not to mention the hardship of simply being a woman during this time in history is astounding! A must read for any woman looking for inspiration and motivation to follow her dreams!

I loved this book it was a great resource to me in building my Women in Alaska's History page. It was both well written and visually appealing, it flowed nicely and had excellent graphics!

After having opened this book I was very glad to see that the author had gone to no expense at collecting information of air battles and the tactics that derived from them. From the end of WWII until the Cold War era the book is rich in illustrations and historic facts. Most of this information is probably unknown to most aircraft enthusiasts. The comments and conclusions to the jet era and combat tactics that followed are more than well elaborated. Perhaps the slight downfall, the only one that is, seems that as from the Cold War to present day the book seems to have lost some of its momentum. There is less information concerning the Israelis numerous conflicts compared to the Korean or Vietnam era. However, in general this book has many outstanding photographs and is very well documented. One might add that this recommendable book deserves a very good place on any bookshelf.

I am a young plane enthusiast and I found this book very well written and informative. It takes the form of chapters which each cover a certain era(WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, etc). These chapters each have great stories in them, while at the same time they present great facts that are hard to find anywhere else. It is very interesting and will keep you on the edge of your seat/chair/whatever. I reccomend this book for anyone who is interested in planes at all, young or old.

The introduction of the combat jet has had a profound effect on how a battle is won or lost, and Mr. Isby has done a wonderful job of capturing the history of jet air combat from its roots in WW2 to the battlefields of the near future. Each chapter focuses on a particular topic, such as Cold War aircraft development, battle strategy, introduction of the missile and other technologies, and its application in a combat environment. This isn't a book about the aviation adventure - don't expect to get pulled into the cockpit very often. What you get is a very "readable" history of air combat since WW2, including some of the lesser known skirmishes. The book is chock-full of photographs (my favorite is the photo of the Argentinian Mirage buzzing the British destroyer in the Falklands War) and is printed on glossy paper. The more I read about air combat, the more I realize how much I learned from this book. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in military history and aviation.

It's a nice little book, but the operative word here is "little". It's small size may be a benefit to those looking for a quick treatment, however, so if it is the Cliff Notes to TBL that you are looking for, this may well be it. However, the diminutive size also ensures that it can only touch lightly on the underlying theory. Also, one should be aware that this is not really a book about "How to TBL", but rather about "How to TBL with a LEXICAL SYLLABUS". The author has obviously been heavily influenced by her husband in this regard. So if you don't agree with the precepts of a lexical syllabus, you are not going to agree with a lot of this book.
I give it 4 stars instead of 3 due to two outstanding ideas it presents: one concerns the importance of a "cold task" wherein learners cannot rely on short-term memory and imitation to perform; the other introduces a method whereby native or high-level speakers are recorded performing each task, and these recordings are then used for learner tasks. This idea even allows structuring a syllabus with regard to linguistic complexity, since one can then know in advance exactly what structures high-level speakers tend to use in a given task. Interestingly, this idea also effectively undermines a key argument in favor of the lexical syllabus, which the book is trying so hard to sell.

"I've taught them it but they didn't learn it" is one of the comonest complaints made by ELT teachers. But how can you get learners to learn if 'teaching' doesn't work?

Also, what things are most useful for the students. What grammar/vocab should the student learn? And how can we prepair students for speaking and listening with real people, reading real English and writing pieces that genuinly communicate?

In her remarkable book, A Framework for Task Based Learning, Jane Willis guides you to a new paradigm in ELT in small digestable steps how to achieve the above clearly with each point illustated by practical examples and justified by well researched straightforward theory.

The bibliography alone is worth the price of the book alone. Each book a masterpiece in its own area be it deeper theory, great textbooks you may have missed or wonderful resouce books you didn't know how you could live without once you have them.

Adjectives could never describe just how good this book really is!

If only I could get hold of her long out of print masterpiece of a textbook and tapes 'COBUILD English Course.' Are you reading, Jane?

How can we get students to learn? "I've taught them, but they didn't learn" is one of the most common complaints ELT teachers make, especially when it comes to grammar and pronunciation.

Another problem is preparing students for real life - how should we choose the vocab/grammar to teach - things that will be really useful and how can learners be prepared for the listening, reading, writing and speaking they will need to do in the 'real world' that lies outside the classroom.

In her brilliant book, Jane Willis will guide you in small easily manageable steps from the latest research into how languages are learnt to a concise guide to implimenting a new paradigm in language teaching that addresses all the issues above. Everything is backed up by clear theoretical reasoning and lots of practical examples.

The bibliogaphy alone is worth the price of the book as all the books, ranging from deeper theory through to fantastic textbooks and resouce books, are ALL superb - buy all these books and you'll have a mindblowing library of ELT books!

Finally, if you want more you can read her husband's (Dave) book The Lexical Syllabus which parallels this book illustrated by lots of examples from her astonishing but sadly long out of print 'COBUILD English Course series' (which I have a copy, hee, hee!)

Adjectives cannot do justice to just how good this book is!

David Carkeet is known more for his young adult fiction, but I find him a very satisfying author of light adult fiction that carries a running intellectual thread. The characters are not so quirky that they are contrived nor so stereotypical as to be completely predictable; unfortunately they do demonstrate the suspicion that a higher education does not guarantee success in any endeavor. The ironies are not particularly inspired but part of the charm of this and also his "Double Negative" is the way events unfold with an unremarkable inevitability. I enjoy this book. I put it in the category of Patrick Dennis.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The Full Catastrophe is as compelling and potent as a mystery, despite the fact that the "detective" in this case is linguist Jeremy Cook, and he bumbles through several well-meaning attempts to discover what the "horror" in the Wilson's marriage is. Carkeet's wit is intoxicating, yet he manages to take a back seat to the characters and let the day-in-the-life story unfold with perfect pacing. I can't ignore the probable similarities between Jeremy Cook and Carkeet, but one thing marks a clear distinction: Jeremy knows nothing about marriage until Carkeet unveils it to him.

Linguist-in-residence Jeremy Cook returns for an unlikely debut as live-in counselor to a couple trying to fix their sputtering marriage. There are laughs on every page in this entertaining dissection of holy matrimony. Jeremy moves in with the prosperous Wilsons and tries his best to get beneath their language, to analyze the "horror at the core" of their relationship