Average customer rating:
- Not Overly Impressed
- THE FINEST STUDY ON THE BREED AVAILABLE!
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The New Complete Lhasa Apso
Norman Herbel , and
Carolyn Herbel
Manufacturer: Howell Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0876052332 |
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Not Overly Impressed.......2000-05-07
While the book does have some valuable information in it, I feel the author spent far too much time focusing on specific breeders and dogs. It is more of a "Who's Who" in the Lhasa world. Unless you are researching old breeders or lines..I would not recommend this book. I only found 4 out of 20 chapters helpful. A more beneficial book for new Lhasa owners would be Lhasa Lore by Sally Ann Helf (unfortunately out of print), or A New Owner's Guide to Lhasa Apsos by Nancy Plunkett.
THE FINEST STUDY ON THE BREED AVAILABLE!.......1998-01-10
THIS BOOK IS THE FINEST COMPILATION OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THIS BREED. IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE RESULT OF YEARS OF RESEARCH MOTIVATED BY A LOVE OF THIS UNIQUE BREED.
Book Description
This book is the first by Collector Books to focus not only on dolls, but on the artists who created them. The book highlights 25 contemporary doll designers and their dolls, including Sue Sizemore (Kacinda), Anna Puchalski (limited edition Cocoa), Monica Reo (Alissa), Karen Williams Smith (The Promise), Kim Jelley (Blue Ice Faerie), Mary Ellen Frank (Lizzie and Oleanna), Marilyn Radzat (The Golden Faerie), and many more. Artist profiles are provided, which share the stories behind the creation of the dolls and the source of inspiration for the artists. Sections include healing and spirituality, history and heritage, storybook creatures and characters, Christmastide, needle arts, and more. Almost 200 beautiful color photographs make the book shine. 2004 values. REVIEW: This book is a companion to the Standard Encyclopedia of Carnival Glass, 9th Edition, but can also stand alone as a handy reference guide to take along on your glass searches. Thousands of patterns, from Absentee Dragon to Zip Zip, are included, with all available colors and values listed.
Customer Reviews:
Gorgeous!.......2006-09-14
Kathy Witt knows dolls! Her pedigree in the world of writing about dolls and their artists speaks for itself. This book is a wonderful example of how an interest that might seem narrow can be broadened for the masses. I enjoy dolls, but I've never been a collector. However, I've always enjoyed READING about dolls and their histories, and who designs them. Previously, I paid more attention to antique dolls, but CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN DOLL ARTISTS AND THEIR DOLLS opened a window on what's going on in the doll world today. This book is a beautiful addition to any doll lovers' collection! Excellent job, Ms. Witt.
Beautiful stories, gorgeous photos.......2005-06-06
I felt like I really knew the 25 doll artists in this book after reading their profiles. I enjoyed learning how Jamie Williamson began making polymer clay dolls, where Monica Reo gets her inspiration and why Anna Puchaliski favors making dolls that are a bit on the "dark side." The September 11 chapter was beautifully and sensitively written. Be prepared to shed some tears when reading the profiles on Karen Williams Smith and Kim Jelley in this chapter. This book is a must have for any doll lover.
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- Great to see doll styles; NOT great that there's no color!
- Collector's Guide to Contemporary Artist Dolls
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Collector's Guide to Contemporary Artist Dolls
Susanna Oroyan , and
Carol Waugh
Manufacturer: Hobby House Press
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Dolls of the Art Deco Era 1910-1940: Collect, Restore, Create and Play
ASIN: 0875882714 |
Customer Reviews:
Great to see doll styles; NOT great that there's no color!.......2007-01-25
Yes, rated "3" instead of "5" because pictures are all black and white, no color. But to see features of dolls from all these artists, it's just fine.
Collector's Guide to Contemporary Artist Dolls.......2004-02-09
This book offers an overview of the concepts of "Art vs. Craft" and "Art Dolls". There are 40 artist interviews with many pictures, unfortunatly they are all black and white which is why I rated it low. There is also an artist's diary of the process of making a prototype doll.
Product Description
Matching folio to their latest release.
Customer Reviews:
John Rzeznik is a musical geniouse........2006-08-05
Wow, this book is brilliant. How John Rzeznik writes this stuff is way beyond me but actually learning how to play some of my favorite songs is fantastic. I wouldn't reccomend this to beginers. This book is the guitar version but if I could play piano I would definately buy the piano/vocals/chords book aswell.
5 Stars
Not a good buy!.......2004-12-19
I bought this book before I learned to play guitar and I regret spending my money on this. If you are a piano player then buy this book but, if you are a guitarist then DON'T! I don't know what book the first reviewer was looking at but this book DOES NOT have original tunings. All it tells you is the original key the songs were played in. The GOO GOO DOLLS are the best band in the world and if you want to play their stuff note for note rather save your money and look for a 5 star tab on mxtabs.net. Im scared to buy another music book in case its like this one!
Guitar Tuner Not Included.......2004-05-29
The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl is a highly detailed book filled with the sheet music that you will allow you to master all the guitar parts of the entire album. As well as every riff and chord, it's also got the vocal parts - lyrics, notes and harmonies where applicable.
For almost every song there is a different tuning for guitar, some varying with giutar parts, which is specified at the beginning of each song, along with various chord symbols and the tempo. The rhythm pattern is displayed over the staff and TAB lines, and while the book can be a bit complicated to follow at times it is very extensive, and is perfect for anyone who wants to play any of the great hits from DUtG, and for anyone who wants to be Johnny Rzeznik. A Guitar Notation Legend found at the back of the book explains all the tablature smbols for those who need to know.
An excellent book for those who want it, better than looking for TABs on the internet. If possible a good companion piece would be the other version of the book, with the piano parts and less extensive guitars parts, for those who want to play these numbers in a band. Be warned, you'll be tuning you're guitar an awful lot if you want to play every song.
Acoustic.......2000-01-20
If you play and love acoustic guitar, like me, then this is a good guide to have. If you like pop music kinda like Dave Matthews, Cat Stevens or Collective Soul, then I recommend the book for all acoustic players new and old. Even if you're not a huge fan of Goo Goo Dolls, like me, you'll still enjoy playing some of these easy riffs.
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The Doll: By Contemporary Artists
Krystyna Poray Goddu , and
Wendy Lavitt
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Contemporary American Doll Artists and Their Dolls
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Finishing the Figure: Doll Costuming, Embellishments, Accessories
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ASIN: 1558598405 |
Product Description
This book is meant to represent the work of the artists of the NIADA. Each artist is represented by color photographs of her or his best work. Texts written by the artists.
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Contemporary Artist Dolls from Germany
Ann Bahar , and
Ingeborg Riesser
Manufacturer: Hobby House Press
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ASIN: 087588430X |
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Marianne Heske: A Doll's House
Manufacturer: Skira
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 8876247467
Release Date: 2007-01-16 |
Book Description
More than 30 years ago the Norwegian artist Marianne Heske found a large box of papier-mâché doll heads at a Paris flea market; she was intrigued by the glamour of early-twentieth-century film stars she saw in the doll's faces, and soon knew they would figure in her works. These works were exhibited when Heske was invited to participate in the international celebration of the centenary of Ibsen's birth, Ibsen Year 2006. The celebration in Oslo, Norway, includes roles for Heske's dolls in her installation dedicated to Ibsen's A Doll's House, and also includes Heske's early video work and several early lithographs, works that are fundamental to her productions with the dolls. Heske's A Doll's House installation is a collaborative project with the National Musuem of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and will subsequently be shown in Rome and New York City.
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Contemporary Teddy Bear Price Guide: Artist and Manufacturers
Terry Michaud
Manufacturer: Hobby House Press
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ASIN: 0875883982 |
Book Description
The Month-by-Month™ guides offer valuable advice on the proper timing of garden maintenance activities for each month. Month-by-Month™ Gardening in Illinois is one of the first titles of the redesigned series from Cool Springs Press.
Top features include:
- 4-color photography and line-drawing illustrations to demonstrate cultural practices
- Covers all major plant categories
- Specific advice for every month of the year
- Updated edition includes text revisions, additional reference materials, and a new design
Customer Reviews:
An excellent resource for gardeners in Illinois.......2007-08-27
This book presents month-by-month plans for growing your garden in Illinois. It gives tips on such activities as planting, pruning, fertilizing, and so much more. The plans are organized into categories, including annuals, bulbs, herbs, vegetables, houseplants, lawns, perennials, roses, shrubs and trees. I love this book, and recommend it wholeheartedly!
Most useful gardening book ever!.......2007-01-05
This is a book for both novices and experts. It is the most useful of the many gardening books that I own, and the one I go back to over and again.
Book Description
In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation—he calls it nature-deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and growing body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults. More than just raising an alarm, Louv offers practical solutions and simple ways to heal the broken bond—and they are right in our own backyard.
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Last Child in the Woods.......2007-10-09
As humanity goes deeper and deeper into materialism and our children are displaying symptoms in their emotional, behavioral and physical health, this book brings us back to the understanding that children are not little adults and human beings are not machines. The importance of self-discovery is being undermined through our over intellectualization on one side and on the other side the over protectionism of little ones. This surpresses the development of the imagination and intuition, which is so needed if our society is to refocus on humanity instead of amassing material good and consumption!!
Thank you Professor Louv for your timely and VERY important book!!
Reclaiming Childhood.......2007-10-08
I grew up in a very small and rural town. Growing up I was surrounded by nature and even though video games were popular neither my siblings nor myself nor any of our friends ever had to be forced to spend more time outside. We liked being outside. We enjoyed playing in the fields, woods, yards, and vacant lots that were around. Having become a secondary teacher and also having spent many summers working at a summer camp, I have noticed that many children and young people no longer have the same connection to nature that I had as a child. There are some who may ignore this shift in child development and reason that it's not significant and is simply an expected result of an increasingly technologically based society. But, as Richard Louv points out in LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS, such an attitude is severely misguided and ignores the disturbing consequences of what can happen if children aren't connected to nature. Though scientific in nature, the book is written for lay people. Therefore, the text is fairly easy to read and comprehend. Highly recommended for parents and people who work with children.
Too much of the same thing.......2007-09-27
The whole concept is an interesting one but the book drug on with the same message.
Taking Back Nature ...........2007-08-05
I would have never heard of this book if it wasn't for my sister-in-law, who is battling lung cancer. She and I were talking about whether or not I should bring her some books to read while she was undergoing chemo and she happened to mention this book, as her school system was recommending that she read it before school starts in a few weeks. Naturally, I had to pick up a copy of it and was sold.
This book (with a wonderful front cover, by the way ~~ my boys kept saying, "Mom! That kid's going frogging too!" ~~ they love frogs) is chock full of information and data and statistics. It is a book full of common sense and while Louv was very very careful to say that studies have not been done yet to proven that kids with ADHD disorders can be weaned from their medicine if they were outside in nature more, he offers that as a possible solution to solve a lot of mental disorders in today's society among kids and adults. He also offers a lot of other solutions as well ~~ different types of studies or programs that other people are trying to start up to recruit people back into living in a greener world.
As a kid, I was not very interested in playing outside. I lived in a neighborhood in a small town. BUT my parents signed me up for junior naturalist programs, they took my siblings and me camping, they took us to the parks, they encouraged all kinds of outdoor activities. I did not get a chance to go into the woods by myself in the morning like my dad did while he was growing up (he lived in a very rural area), but when we were camping, I took advantage of playing in the woods. We were not encouraged to watch a lot of tv. That is a trend that a lot of my friends look down on me at ~~ I only have one tv in this house. My boys probably do watch a lot more tv than they should but whenever we get a chance, we are outside, working in the yard, playing or going camping someplace now that they are older and we can start introducing canoeing, hiking ... things that take you back to nature.
Louv writes very compelling though throughout this book about today's generation and how they are drifting away from nature. He writes about the irony of people driving ATVs into the desert with their children to look at wild life and basically destroying the terrain with the automobiles and kids are "being exposed" to wildlife but from the safety of the vehicles. Or encountering kids who show no interest whatsoever in the wild life that the author had just spotted. There are a lot of stories that he shared ~~ personal and from other people. He also writes of the connection between kids being locked up in their houses all day and the rising concidences of obesity among today's children ... and so on.
This is definitely a book for parents to read. I cannot write an accurate review of this book because there are too much information in here and one cannot honestly know where to begin. Yes, it can be dry reading in spots, but keep on reading because it gets better and more interesting. However, I do have a question for all those global warming experts out there ~~ how come none of you have read this book and tried to implement some of the theories into practice? I'd like to see this book touted more in the media.
8-5-07
Finally, a ray of hope.......2007-08-02
Until I read Richard Louv's book, "Last Child in the Woods," I only had two books on my shelf that merited permanent allegiance: Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Both works were thoughtful and intelligent observations on the natural world and how we affected, and were affected by it. But they also left me slightly depressed. I felt hopeless and unsure of how to regain the ground we had lost. Although "Last Child" has numerous examples of what we've lost (including old-fashioned goofy play outdoors and an early-learned appreciation of nature), his research and interviews also focused on ways individuals and communities are turning dire predictions into positive ways to return childhood to children, and nature to families who have forgotton, (or maybe never learned,) how much we need it to survive and be healthy. Louv gathered and stitched together ideas that previously many others have tried to communicate, and this book is now my backup when I am trying to explain why I am hopeful about the future. What started as a catchy phrase ("nature deficit disorder") has morphed into a growing movement, and maybe this time the children will lead us all back into a more healthy and balanced way of living.
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Title: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.(BOOKSHELF)(Book Review)
Author: Sharman Apt Russell
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OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 27
Issue: 2
Page: 40(2)
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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by Thomson Gale on April 3, 2006. The length of the article is 1151 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Play Outside; Nature, nurture, and Nintendo.(Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder)(Book review)
Author: William F. Pedersen
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The Weekly Standard (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 3, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 11
Issue: 27
Page: NA
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