Book Description
Experience the mysterious and magical world of numbers as never before. This unique book investigates mathematical marvels such as why daisies always have 34, 55, or 89 petals, why the world's phone numbers appear in pi, and other patterns and paradoxes that will make readers look at numbers in a whole new way.
Customer Reviews:
It really IS cool!.......2007-01-02
As a homeschooling parent, I have read a lot of math books written for children. Go Figure! is one of the freshest and most fun! The pages are saturated with information, and my one complaint is that it feels a bit visually overwhelming. Don't let the colorful pages fool you, this book is very meaty and will take some time to digest. My son really enjoyed the section on ancient number systems. The chart on pages 24-25 compares Babylonian, Hebrew, Roman, Mayan, Hindu, and others. Readers can also learn about the golden ratio and phi, prime numbers, Pascal's triangle, buckyballs, and much, much more. There are nearly 100 pages of information here, geared toward middle school and up.
Brilliant book.......2006-05-11
I found this book incredibly interesting, and I'm no maths fan - I leafed through it while babysitting for a friend who has a son of 9, then I bought the book for myself! It is so well written and extremely funny in parts. I would recommend this book to anyone of any age. I guarantee you will learn something new.
A great book for all ages & levels.......2006-05-11
This is a truly awesome book, full of fascinating insights, entertaining all the way through and amazingly wide in scope, ranging from school math to jokes, puzzles, games and high-level topics like chaos. Note that the "mistake" mentioned in the first editorial review is not really a mistake but an old joke: How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the Ark? The answer of course is "none - it was Noah who built the Ark!"
FOR ALL AGES 7-70.......2006-03-21
THE BOOK WAS BOUGHT FOR A 7 YEAR OLD, BUT I SPENT AN ENTIRE AFTERNOON READING IT.
THE BOOK IS "WAY COOL' AND BEYOND AWESOME!
Unlock the Keys to the Universe.......2005-10-13
Without math, the pyramids would never have been built. ~ Johnny Ball
Go Figure! gives children the opportunity to unlock the magic of numbers through brainteasers, mind-reading games and magic tricks. This book also contains some of the puzzles that have stumped the world's smartest mathematicians.
The author, Johnny Ball introduces concepts to make math more fun and very easy to understand. Part of what makes this book quite enjoyable is the full-color pages filled with diagrams, pictures and explanations. The concepts are divided into four main chapters:
Where do Numbers come from?
Magic Numbers
Shaping Up
The World of Math
Children will learn about Roman numerals, infinity, secret codes, World News, how counting began, shapes, chaos and logic. Johnny Ball also answers the following questions:
Did Cavemen Count?
How many molecules are in one glass of water?
What do the symbols on a Babylonian clay token mean?
How did the Mayans count?
How do insects use prime timing to survive?
How did numbers evolve? See Indian numbers go from 10 symbols to what they are today. One was originally a horizontal line. Three, three horizontal lines. Which really helps to explain why three looks the way it does today. Really fascinating stuff even for adults to read about.
As someone who enjoyed writing words upside down on my calculator in school, I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining book about how math evolved through time. There is even a page comparing 1-100 in Babylonian, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Chinese script, Hindu, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Mayan and Modern Arabic.
The Math quiz is fun and one example:
"Find two numbers that multiply together to give 1,000,000 but neither of which contains any zeros."
You may need to buy some food for the lessons on page 72. "How can you cut a doughnut into 12 pieces with only 3 straight cuts? How is it possible to push a large doughnut through a cup handle?
The book concludes with a list of "Who's Who in the math world and then there are pages of answers to all the questions.
One of the most entertaining books on math I've ever read. Definitely will be of interest to children who have any interest in solving problems or want to make learning about math way more fun.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
Product Description
William Carey watched from the dock as the magnificent sailing ship headed for the English Channel without him. Tears filled his eyes, and deep disappointment filled his heart. What would he tell the missionary society? So much work awaited him half a world away. He must get to India--and soon!
William's amazing journey to India would prove to be just the beginning of a missionary quest filled with hardship and heartache as well as tremendous victories.
Often referred to as "the father of modern missions," William Carey displayed a single-minded determination to set his face like a flint to the task of bringing the gospel to those lost in darkness. His life of service and sacrifice is a guidpost for Christians of all generations.
Customer Reviews:
Good, Simple Primer on Carey.......2007-04-13
I was surprised when beginning this book to find it is on a mid-high reading level. As a result, it is a simple, easy read, offering a good summary of the life and ministry of William Carey. For any one wanting to get a quick overview of William Carey, this book provides it. For any one wanting a more thorough, in-depth treatment of the man, I would recommend looking elsewhere.
Book Description
The foundation to drawing a character is the penciled under-drawing. An under-drawing that has somehow gone astray, once penned, ultimately results in artwork that just will not pull together or lacks balance. This volume explains in thorough detail how to handle the pencil, before the pen ever touches the drawing. Using actual examples of how a well or poorly penciled under-drawing can affect the final work, this book passes along many helpful pointers. Use this book to learn the absolute basics of penciled artwork, manga-style!
Customer Reviews:
A good introduction to the basics of Manga art style ! .......2007-08-15
I Got my copy of this book thru amazon,And was really disapointed because they kept delaying the shipping date and had to wait over 2 weeks until it actually got shipped. However the book it-self offers quite alot of potential for learning to design and draw your own Manga charecters it covers many topics on both the realistic and the manga style such as the design of the eyes/Nose/Mouth , Also it was very helpful when it came to Head drawing from all angles in addition to that it also covers drawing the human figure . The only reason why i gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because all the charecters in the book look like from some 80's anime . And i am not that much into that style i love Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's style more it's modern and realistic .
This book is awesome!.......2007-03-17
This book has really helped me figure out how to draw manga step-by-step. I got it for my birthday and I'm always using it. It's got some really great stuff in it, so I would recommend it to anyone who has *some* experience.
It's good, but needs more........2007-02-14
This book had good pictures and examples to help a person draw manga and it's characters, but buy a different book if you are a beginner. This book wasn't very helpful to me, but if you are a good artist already and hope to be reminded to how to draw a few things like the head and body of manga characters, then get this book.
But, I don't really recommend this book because it needs much more pages and helpful pointers.
Super Kawaii book!.......2007-01-04
I knew this book should join the rest of my how to draw arsenal when I first laid my eyes on it! This book is sooo helpful in character drawing, it gives you the run down on different kinds of eyes, hair styles, faces,nose, ears, and the body. Another good thing about this book is that it shows you how the hair should be placed on the head, and how it flows when you are doing a certain action. This book also covers the types of pencils and erasers used for under drawings, and examples of the thickness of each pencil. It also has a small section of kawaii chibi characters! Aww! I would definitely recommend this book for those who want to start off drawing manga. Another plus is that the book doesn't contain any nudity at all. Perfect for those who are offended by nudity.
don't have a clue how to draw manga this is the book you should start with.......2006-02-28
Fantastic, I would say this is the first book anyone interested in drawing manga should buy. I have other manga books, but this one is the best.
Book Description
This fourth volume in the More How to Draw Manga series presents the basic drawing techniques depending on twelve (12) types of bishoujo characters, as well as their costumes, movements, etc.
Customer Reviews:
Great!.......2007-09-28
This is a great buy for anyone who wants to know how to create their own personal style for drawing girls in manga. I love this book. My friend saw it and borrowed it from me. She has been drawing GREAT ever since! THank you how to draw manga crew!! p.s. don't be scared by the cover, it's not like that at ALL in the book! Toodles!
Awesome book!.......2006-11-30
This book truly lives up to it's name, mastering bishoujo characters. For those of you having a little trouble with designing a unique character, then this book is definately for you! This book contains different personalities that you can give to your characters, the kinds of clothes that character would wear, and hair styles. It is full of poses that would be beneficial to you as well as some scenes of walking, jumping, and the way the body twists when it's doing a certain action. Another good quality this book has is girls waking in groups and sitting in groups. I think that is very helping if you are planning on drawing a manga with a school scene with a group of friends. This book really doesn't have any nudity, it does have the outline of the nude body, but nothing obscene. I would really recommend this book. A must buy!
Great book, I recommend to you!.......2006-08-17
This book is excellent to draw beautiful woman characters, the book shows you 20 different characters and their customes, body compositions and other kind of stuffs, a very interresting book.
One of the best "How To Draw Manga" books.......2005-09-19
A lot of the "How To Draw Manga" series really aren't that great. But this one, they actually did a very good job with. I like the first half of the book and how it explaining the twelve personalities. The best part about is you can almost design and give an identity to a unique character of your own. Ranging from punctual and outgoing to quite and conservative.
As for the second half, it almost has "fillers" after the twelve personalities. What I mean by fillers is that just stuff to fill the pages will. But something's are relatively useful, like school uniforms, character movement, relaxed poses, and hand gestures. What I did not find to be useful was entering and closing a door, drawing hair and eyes, and driving.
I wish I could give this a five star, but I can't because they could have gone into better details of maybe the eyes and hair, or left out the closing of a door and driving. But still, this book is pretty good and I recommend this book for the intermediate to advanced artist
The true meaning of manga.......2005-06-30
Okay, this is going to be my first review on Amazon. I'm from The Netherlands, so my English is not perfect. Please forgive me if there are some weird words or sentences in this review, I'm only 15... ;)
I'm a huge fan of manga and anime, not only on TV or in video games, but I also like drawing it myself. I've collected several books about drawing manga, and More How To Draw Manga: Mastering Bishoujo Characters is one of them.
Well, what can I say about this book... It's MARVELOUS!! It is such a great book! As I said before, I've got several books about drawing manga, and this is without a doubt the best one! It teaches you how you can perfectly draw different bishoujo characters. Their traits of character, what kind of clothes they wear, how they like to do their hear... Eyes, noses, mouths, cheeks... This book has got it all. It really helped me to get acquainted with all kinds of girls and how I could draw them with their characteristic marks. I'd definitely recommend this book to all of you!!
Here's a description of the contents of this book:
Chapter 1: Twelve Character Types
- Using Impressions to Portray the Twelve Character Types
- Key Points in Distinguishing the Twelve Character Types
- Twelve Character Types (such as the shy girl, the cutie, the bully, the imp, the princess, the bad girl and more)
- Height Distinctions
- Selecting Costumes That Match The Character
- Uniform Portrayal
- Tricks to Designing Uniforms
- Techniques in Character Image Design
Chapter 2: Making the Figure Move
- The fundamentals of Character Movements
- Walking Scenes
- Drawing Characters Entering through Doors
- Popular Relaxed, Conversational Poses
- Hand Gestures in Conversation Scenes
- Running, Leaping, Falling: Three basic Action Poses
- Figures and Cars
There are a lot of descriptions in this book, but even more beautiful art work. The drawings are absolutely beautiful. This is, in my opinion, the true meaning of manga!! Don't hesitate, just buy it: you won't regret it!
Or, as we say in The Netherlands:
Mensen, dit boek is echt te gek! Als je van manga tekenen houdt, is dit boek echt een must! Echt kopen dan, daar zul je echt geen spijt van krijgen!
Kimmy
Book Description
It's time to learn the basics of inking and two indispensable stroke types: strokes with tapered and even ends. Combining tapered lines with blunt, even lines allows for the production of balanced artwork. Applying discretion in using tapered and even lines when drawing figures will help you establish whether a character is good or bad.
Customer Reviews:
Real nice refrence book.......2006-01-27
This is a pretty decent refrence book to penning and like all How to draw manga books they also show you some basic drawing ( i dont understand why they do this since they already have a MHTDM volume for it ). What I loved about THIS MHTDM volume was the drawing style as well as the angles, UNLIKE the first volume the art style is more current and not 80s feel like the first one. Provides info on what type of pens and pencils should be used when penning as well as shading info.
fantabulous - not just for inking!.......2005-06-17
this book is just as excellent as the reviewer before me stated. however, there are also some other reasons to get this book. even though i plan to CG my sketches, i bought this books anyways. why, you ask? is has a surprisingly large selection of different body and head poses, especially downward and upward angles (which i find difficult). and many of the techniques shown can easily be adapted to digital inking as well (i.e. modulating lines, tapering, etc.) by all means, give this book serious consideration.
Much better than I expected.......2004-12-05
I've been drawing for about 15 years, 10 of them SERIOUSLY, I mean, with REAL dedication and study. 9 years ago, I discovered my love manga-style, and wanted to learn more. And every time I got stuck on the same point: I don't know how to ink. I have about seven books of the HTDM series now, and when I found out this one, I wanted to take the risk of ordering something that has no review. And I found the following:
-Yes, IT DOES TEACH YOU HOW TO INK, with description and examples of materials, techniques and all the stuff.
-It gives you good advice on texturing and shading, even to express the character's personality through inking. And to make your drawings look professional.
-It covers a lot of manga related subjects, from the inking point of view, like the use of special "codes" (sweat drops, X's and the kind).
Yup, it's not for the rookie artist, but you just need to know this: if you already do a good work with pencils, now you won't ruin it anymore on the ink process.
Summing up: buy it. You wont regret it (well, unless you're a skilled inker, and even then you might get some usefull advice).
Book Description
This third volume in the More How to Draw Manga series takes a focused look at means of enhancing a character's sense of presence as well as explains in detail techniques for imbuing a character with presence by suggesting movement.
Customer Reviews:
Totally not what I thought it would be..........2005-09-26
If you, like me, think this book is going to teach you about expressions, emotions maybe.... things that would actually help make the characters appear more alive... buy something else. This (graphically illustrated, I might add) drawing guide was hardly better than the first volume of basics. Waste of my money. Extremely disappointed.
Some Basics are helpful.......2005-08-26
I bought this book because the demonstrations are more clear and up to date in the "More" HTDM series than the older ones.
The first section goes into screentone and shading techniques. Some of this is rather useful even if you don't intend on making illustrations using screentones. They help out due to the fact you should learn regular values of shading.
The book also demonstrates values of tones on the face. There is a section talking about shadows on the feet. This section may prove more useful to artists since many do not draw the full figure, or they may draw figures that seem to float due to incorrect shadow placement.
The key reason I bought this book was their demonstration of how to draw shoulders, and clavicles. Symmetrical shoulders and their placement is a key learning point for many illustrators.This book shows various examples of how to draw the shoulders and clavicles to create more dynamic characters.
Other sections of this book include how to correctly convey emotions through the hands. How the torso bends and flexes during various positions, various action poses and key elements to manga scenes. I found the manga scenes selection rather weak however, although people should probably read it to gain knowledge in making panels.
There was another section on perspective and proportions with the figure and a car.
Overall the book is one of my favorites in the series due to the middle section. Had the book been better towards the end, I would have given it a higer rating.
Drawing Dynamics.......2004-11-27
For what this book is for it is great!! It shows how to give it more presence like it says in the tittle. If you alwready now how to draw the manga way and want to know how to make your people more stronger visually this is great.
But if you can't do proportions and figures well get the anatomy book before you get this.
It's a good book to add to your drawing book collection.
Average customer rating:
- Don't leave home without it
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Go Figure!: The Numbers You Need for Everyday Life
Nigel J. Hopkins ,
John W. Mayne , and
John R. Hudson
Manufacturer: Visible Ink Press
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Life by the Numbers
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Customer Reviews:
Don't leave home without it.......2005-10-07
I can't believe they made me go through years of school and all I ever needed was this book. Yep it has "The numbers you need for everyday life".
Well organized yet getting a little long in the tooth. This book covers something practical for just about everybody. There are no glossy pictures; in fact there are no pictures. However there are plenty of diagrams and understandable explanations.
There are nine divisions of about 90 numbers subjects. Many will never show up in your math books.
A short sample is:
Understanding the Consumer Price Index
Cardiovascular fitness
Biorhythms: real and imaginary
Pressure and weather patterns
Gambling, games, odds and probability
Sports - scoring and Statistics (including bowling)
Reading your gas meter
PH level in soil
Camera shutter speeds
Astronomical numbers
Mass to energy
Calendars
Radioactive decay
I could keep going on and on but you need to see for your self how much fun it can be.
Average customer rating:
- It tells you where to draw instead of how to draw!
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Figure sketching school (Learn as You Go)
Valerie Wiffen
Manufacturer: Readers Digest
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Customer Reviews:
It tells you where to draw instead of how to draw!.......1999-11-07
The book doesn't have any exercise materials to practice on, it mostly talks about tips instead of technics. It has plently of pictures on the back which would have been nice, if they draw all of it in steps and show me how.
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Go Figure
Rejean Ducharme
Manufacturer: Talonbooks
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- WELL DONE LITTLE PUZZLE BOOK FROM THE TV SHOW
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GO FIGURE (Ghostwriter)
Russell Ginns
Manufacturer: Skylark
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0553481827
Release Date: 1994-09-01 |
Customer Reviews:
WELL DONE LITTLE PUZZLE BOOK FROM THE TV SHOW.......2007-03-18
Nice little paper back from the T.V. Servies full of word games and puzzles and figures of speech. Well executed illustrations in black and white. I particularly liked the word games. This one is good, clean fun for the kids.
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