Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscapes

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Only an exhibition could add to this book!.......1999-10-27

I had the pleasure of meeting Diane Cook and her husband Len Jenshel when they exhibited some of the photographs from this book at The University of Akron's Emily Davis Gallery. In fact, I actually bought the book directly from them (so my copy is autographed, nyah-na na naaaa na!), and believe me, nothing short of the exhibition and lecture from the photographers could add to the experience of this book. The two photographers are stylistic complements to each other. She works primarily in black and white with a highly technical by-the-book precision, while he works in color using a more freewheeling, seat-of-the-pants approach. The result is that this book never gets boring. The wonders of the various vistas are capably described in a previous review, and I most heartily concur with the reviewer--if anything, he did not wax poetic enough.

But this book contributes more than just a wealth of memorable images (less than 1/10 of the photos from this project that the couple felt were "must use" images). There are stories behind each photo; reading the notes section in the back is a must, but I would suggest that you read it as you peruse the book...the *second* time. Just let the images impact you first, and *then* find out the deeper meaning behind the picture. These notes are not mere technical erata; they create an atmosphere, bespeaking how a certain sacred place has a given effect on the local populace, recalling the curiosity about what sort of people besides photographers would seek out the beautiful desolation of Yellowstone in winter, giving some idea of the true and very active power of some of these places--no still photo can convey the experience of the noise of a lava flow 25 feet below drowning out helicopter blades 5 feet above, or Cook's realization at one point that she had accidentally strayed onto a candy shell-thin layer of cooled stone over molten rock, and to stop walking would have meant instant death--as instant as the next step might also bring. The layout is superb, maintaining a strong sense of organization, even as each new photo delivers something not hinted at by those which came before.

The book's only drawbacks stem from situations which are technically impossible to resolve. While the reproductions of the photos in the book are of the highest quality, nothing can compare with seeing the actual prints themselves, and I consider myself fortunate to have been in a position to compare the two. Secondly, the photographers themselves do not come with the book. Their extended anecdotes and recollections, and the affable, off-the-cuff manner in which they relate them only served to enhance the experience of viewing these images.

This is environmental photography with an edge........1997-11-18

This is not just another nice looking landscape photo book. It is a visual description of our (amid uneasy) relationship with Nature as much as a celebration of its beauty. An example illustrating my first point can be seen on pages 32-33. Cook's gloomy black-and-white image showed a house buried in an endless span of dark solidified lava, a lifeless and helpless situation. Jenshel's color work on pages 40-41 included not only a closeup of a scarred trunk but the mass destruction of a forest as a result of Mount St Helens' eruption in 1980. Yet life is showing resilience as fresh vegetation was growing out of the ruins. Cook and Jenshel often present more than one image of the same vista allowing the reader to appreciate the vastness of the place from various vantage points. Their series on Mount Blackburn, Alaska, is a magificent and breathtaking illustration (pages 54, 56-59),a reminiscent of Ansel Adams.
Unlike many photographers who insist on capturing landscapes under natural lighting or occasionally with fill-in flash, Jenshel dared to be different. On page 67, for example, he illuminated the rock in the foreground with his car's headlight. By doing so, he isolated the foreground from the silhouette of the distant Ship Rock, New Mexico, giving the viewer a sense of depth while using the highlighted rock to echo the shape and the color temperature of the approaching storm cloud. Then there are the pyrotechnic extravaganzas of active volcanoes in Hawaii. Each image reminds me of the primordial force that once shaped our continents. This couple have demonstrated a true virtuosity in landscape photography.
Apart from its stylistic and ethereal quality, the book contains enough information on volcanoes for a lay person like me. It even included a glossary of terms commonly used in volcanology. The layout of the entire volume is neat and well thought out. By the time I turned to the last page, I kept asking for more. You can find heaps of landscape pictorials around these days but very few can be so exciting and educational to read or should I say 'To See!'.

Ironmind: Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies
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Not just for weight lifters

Great Motivator

Great Book!

A quick shot of well-backed motivation

wish i could read this!!!!!

Ironmind: Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies
Randall J. Strossen
Manufacturer: Ironmind Enterprises
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Product Description

Put your mind to work: handfuls of helpful strategies, ideas, and tools for maximizing your progress both in the gym and out in the world at large. Easy to read, with topic-specific guidance that is sure to boost your performance, this book just gets more and more popular as the years go by. 192 pp.

Customer Reviews:

Not just for weight lifters.......2007-05-15

I bought this book because I am a middle-aged newbie to the sport of lifting and thought a 5 star motivational book would serve me well. This book was written with weight lifters in mind but it's common sense wisdom applies to all aspects of life. Mr. Strossen's writing is very accessible and clear. I've read a few motivational books and this one is hands down the best. Although I come from the same town as the author we have never met and this is an honest "from the heart" review.

Great Motivator.......2007-04-10

This outstanding motivational tool belongs in the library of all lifters. If you're in a slump, you'll find something to lift you up; If you're on a roll, you'll find something to keep you going.

Great Book!.......2007-02-23

If you have trouble staying motivated when lifting, look no further! This is an excellent book that will help you stay motivated and lifting strong.

A quick shot of well-backed motivation.......2006-11-14

This book is like a little devotional for weightlifters. That phrase sounds precious and fragile, but the book isn't. This is rock-solid motivational theory that will help you lift harder, day after day after day. Each short article (there are sixty in all) gives you a new tool to shift yourself into gear. This book is just the thing to start you on your way to more bulk, more power, more definition - whatever you want, this book helps you achieve it. When you're in a slump, it helps you pick yourself up. When you're moving, it helps you keep yourself going. The best thing is, it's always crystal clear that the force making this happen is YOU; the book just gives you the tools.

Buy the book. Use the tools. Grow into your goals.

wish i could read this!!!!!.......2006-02-23

great book wish the type was big enough for people over 45 years could read.
i returned it becuse it hurt my eyes to work so hard, come on guys spend a little more cash and make the print bigger not just your pockets

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You can't get the colors

Color Me Beautiful

Color Me Beautiful

Timeless advice on looking your best

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Color Me Beautiful
Carole Jackson
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345345886
Release Date: 1987-04-12

Book Description

Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!

Customer Reviews:

You can't get the colors.......2007-08-16

This is an excellent book which I refer to often. The pity is that the colors I need never seem to be available.

Color Me Beautiful.......2007-07-24

I owned this book years ago and I had forgotten how much good information it contained. I bought it as a gift for a granddaughter and she loves it. Not only does it talk about colors to wear but styles of clothing and makeup. Great book!!

Color Me Beautiful.......2007-07-09

This book is very old. The suggestions for style are too outdated. However, the information on how to choose your color palette is still good.

Timeless advice on looking your best.......2007-05-14

This book provides a systematic approach to determining which colors will look best an individual, based primarily on the skin tone. The sketches of clothing used to illustrate the book and the names of celebrities referenced in the text are indeed dated, but the content is timeless.
I bought this book in the '80s, and lent it to someone who never returned it. I just bought a second copy, and find it just as useful now as I did then. Every woman I know has many items of clothing that she likes very much, but which sit unworn in the closet or dresser drawer. Why? Often it's because the color is all wrong for her, making her look sallow or washed out. CMB will help you avoid these costly mistakes.

Timeless Info.......2007-03-15

I ordered this book after reading an article about clothing colors. It's as good as the first time.

Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup and Style

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Liked the original better
Color Me Beautiful Expanded
One of the best...
Helpful companion to the original
Color Me With Confusion!

Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup and Style
Mary Spillane
Manufacturer: Madison Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Color Me Confident: Change Your Look - Change Your Life!

ASIN: 1568330375

Book Description

The classic makeup and style book, now updated for the 1990s and expanded to 12 color palettes.

Customer Reviews:

Liked the original better.......2007-07-28

The author has some valid points in this more-or-less updated book on Color Me Beautiful. However, I really liked the first method better. It was simpler to follow, easier to understand, and less time-consuming. But, if you're really into this, it is an interesting read with some good information. Just know that you'll be picking yourself out from twelve different types as opposed to the original four!

Color Me Beautiful Expanded.......2007-07-03

I really found this book helpful in the way of the 12 seasonal groups as opposed to the original CMB which only determines the original Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring. I have been told (by CMB) that this was created due to the fact that some women were unhappy with the original CMB seasons. The color swatches are not the best in this book and it fails to show all the colors in a palette, shortfalling with a list at the back of the book. It helps if you already know what season you are before reading this book. I had my colors done a couple of years ago by a Color Consultant. Therefore I can determine that I am a Clear Winter from reading this quite easily. I then contacted CMB and purchased a packet of fabric swatches from them. Although someone who isn't sure of their season may find it difficult working it out. The best way to do this is via professional color consultant.

Because I already knew my season and bought swatches from CMB I find this book indespensible. I am very pleased with the Clear Winter color palette I now have. The section on body type is excellent too. Although some of the book is a little dated, much of the advice is timeless.

One of the best..........2007-04-30

...books on makeup. Not everyone knows "how" to do it well but this is not only a book to "read" but also practical in its uses on how to do makeup well.

Helpful companion to the original.......2006-06-08

Our old "Color Me Beautiful" book was torn to shreds from looking at it so much, so we bought this update. The 12 subcategories were very helpful to me in honing into my season. I was sure I was one of the warm seasons (spring and autumn), but yet I look great in vibrant colors, and not the more toned down ones of spring, or the deep muted colors of autumn. As soon as I turned to the Clear Spring type in this book, I knew it was my type. It's much easier for people who are "between seasons" to find themselves in this book.

My only gripe, like many other reviewers, is that the color swatches look shoddy and like they were colored with many different colored crayons.

Color Me With Confusion!.......2004-06-04

I have NEVER been able to figure out my "season" with either Carole Jackson's Book, or with this one by Mary Spillane. I do not fit into any of the categories they suggest ,even though the seasons are expanded in Spillane's book. (I have ashen blonde hair color like a Summer, olive green/golden brown eyes like an Autumn, and pale translucent ivory skin , like a Spring). The color palletes look like coloring book swatches that were done by a five year old (what are we supposed to gain from that !) Overall a huge disappointment, and only helpful purhaps to those who have well defined seasonal characteristics. For the rest of us, I would suggest basing your color choices on compliments you get from friends and family, and even strangers, and taking your clues from them.

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This book is rather out-of-date.
Right On - Seasonal Color Does the Trick
Forget it!
Looking beautiful with only a little make-up
I like this business

Color Me Beautiful Make-Up Book
Carole Jackson
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Book Description

It's fun. It's easy. It's foolproof. The celebrated Queen of Color, Carole Jackson shows how her clear, detailed application techniques will bring out the beauty in you. Fully illustrated with vivid color-true palettes and full-color photos showing right and wrong looks for each season, this is the best make-up investment you'll ever make.

Customer Reviews:

This book is rather out-of-date........2007-07-05

I bought a copy of this when it was a new book (1987). Make no mistake about it, this is an 80's makeup style book. The approaches to eye makeup look rather garish today (though some would still apply to nightclubbing). Some of the advice about skin care is woefully out of date. Worth looking at if you're interested in determining what colors you look best in (clothing and makeup). The advice about makeup brushes is helpful to the novice. Take the rest with a grain of salt.

Right On - Seasonal Color Does the Trick.......2007-05-09

I had a seasonal color analysis done in 1979, when Carole Jackson came out with her first book, "Color Me Beautiful". I have found that this system works best of all to find the colors that flatter me most (I am between Winter and Summer, a "cool" person). This book helped me to select my best colors in makeup and also explains why.

I recommend it highly for anyone just trying to get together the best colors!

Forget it!.......2002-03-13

If you know your season and your best colors (from any other Color Me beautiful book) then forget this one. You're much better off buying Bobbi Brown's or Aucoin's book, both of which will offer you much better make-up tips and ideas.

The book is badly presented with boring pictures and graphics and an uninspiring layout that does nothing to attract your eye. When you go through Brown's or Aucoin's books, you find yourself itching to put some make on, with this one, you'll close the book and wonder what's on TV.

Looking beautiful with only a little make-up.......2001-03-28

Over the years, this book has been my best help to age gracefully and to feel my best. I am now 57 years old, and I feel fresh and alive, with both an inner glow and an outer one. Having learned through the Color system how to find clothes that flattered my natural coloring, I can easily highlight with make-up. Whether we are going fly-fishing or getting dressed for a fancy party, I need only a small kit to make me feel my best.

Thank you, Carole Jackson, for helping us to be the special women we already are.

I like this business.......2001-03-05

Hello, my name is Alla Tcsentovskaya I'm professional cosmetologist and my occupation is image. I I know the books written by Mary Spillane, Carole Jackson. And I'd like to know more about the Color Me Beautiful Company. I know that there are many consulting group in Europe and America. Have you the consulting service in Russia.? As for me, I'd like to be involved with your business, because of I'm very interesting in this method. I have office in Kazan. Could you be so kind to send me your replay on this e-mail: alla_cent@mail.ru

The Makeover Manual: From Color Me Beautiful

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The Makeover manual:From Color Me beautiful
The best information on color analysis and image
A Book for Every Style -conscious Woman

The Makeover Manual: From Color Me Beautiful
Mary Spillane
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The Makeover manual:From Color Me beautiful.......2002-01-09

Great book.
Step by Step instructions....on completly revamping onself.
Beautiful illustrations.
Unbelivable info.
You won't regret this purchase.

The best information on color analysis and image.......2000-06-25

By far this book has the latest information on color analysis and image. As a Color Consultant and Image Consultant, I have used this book and its theory on all my clients. I have also recommended this book for each of my clients as a manual that they can refer to over and over again. This book is inspiring and very informative, with lots of pictures of before and afters. The book is sectioned for each category, such as make-up, color analysis, wardrobe recommendations, and hair-styles. Mary Spillane's best book so far! Every woman should have this book!

A Book for Every Style -conscious Woman.......2000-05-30

This book really shows you step by step how to change your image to the best you can be from the inside out.It guides you on how to use color and style in a most appealing way.

Always in Style With Color Me Beautiful: Your Shape, Youre Style!

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Disappointed and Confused
The ONLY color me beautiful book I actually use!

Always in Style With Color Me Beautiful: Your Shape, Youre Style!
Doris Pooser
Manufacturer: Acropolis Books Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

Disappointed and Confused.......2004-08-18

Perhaps after reading Color Me Beautiful by Jackson I had unfair expectations, however, I feel that Ms. Pooser's work confused a previously workable system. She attempts to improve upon the concepts in the aforementioned work, but in doing so completely undermines the concepts that Color Me Beautiful are based on. What had previously been, to me, simple and effective became unwieldy and complicated. I recommend sticking to the original concepts and using one's own common sense about "bending" color rules. It should be common sense that there are some colors that could flatter a person that were omitted from preliminary lists-Pooser complicates that notion to the point that the advice is virtually useless.

The ONLY color me beautiful book I actually use!.......2003-04-19

After reading the other Color Me Beautiful books and trying to determine my "season," I stumbled across this one at a library book sale. While the others left me in the dark, and even my friends couldn't determine where a very pale, brownish/reddish/blondish with gray/green/blue eyes fit in, this book made me realize I am a Clear Spring.

The color patches are very useful, and I've finally realized why a person with my coloring looks so good in some Winter colors, but awful in others. This book is a blessing for any person having trouble with the season concept.

Color Me Beautiful: Discover Your Natural Beauty Through the Colors That Make You Look Great and Feel Fabulous!
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Color Me Beautiful: Discover Your Natural Beauty Through the Colors That Make You Look Great and Feel Fabulous!
Carole Jackson
Manufacturer: Acropolis Books Inc
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Reinvent Yourself with Color Me Beautiful
Color Me Beautiful
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Always in Style with Color Me Beautiful
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Bigger Ideas from "Color Me Beautiful"
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Bigger Ideas from "Color Me Beautiful"
Mary Spillane
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