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Dreamweaver
Real time saver

Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual
David Sawyer McFarland
Manufacturer: Pogue Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0596100566

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Available for both the Mac and Windows, Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8 is a professional web design and development program used by millions of Internet professionals to build high-quality static and dynamic database-driven web sites. It offers drag-and-drop simplicity, streamlined HTML coding tools, and powerful database integration features. But Dreamweaver 8 is missing one vital component: a printed manual.

Enter Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual, the completely revised fourth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer, Macromedia Certified instructor, and Dreamweaver Advisory Council member David McFarland. This book enables both first-time and experienced web designers to create visually stunning and highly interactive web sites.

With crystal-clear writing and much welcome humor, this new edition offers features such as:

Live examples: With McFarland's step-by-step annotated tutorials, you'll learn how to construct a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with working forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and dynamic databases.
Tricks of the trade: The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts for easing the process of building, maintaining, and updating professional web sites.
Design guidance: You'll learn to create virtually every modern web feature, including forms, animations, cascading menus, and more--and you'll find out which browsers you need to provide special coding or do extra testing with.

No matter what your level of expertise is, you'll also learn how to manage your entire web site-whether you've just launched or if it's been around for awhile and takes up thousands of pages. Beginners with no web design experience will appreciate the step-by-step guide to designing, organizing, building, and deploying a web site; long-time Dreamweaver users will appreciate the advanced, real-world techniques for controlling the appearance of their web pages with CSS.

With more than 500 illustrations, a handcrafted index, and the clarity of thought that has made bestsellers of every Missing Manual to date, this is the ultimate atlas for the complex and powerful Dreamweaver 8.

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Nice Job.......2007-06-27

Sent sooner than expected and in the conditioned promised can't ask for much more. thanks

Had very good review but I didn't enjoyed.......2007-06-13

I bought this book because it had many good reviews but I didn't like much. I prefer software manual with a lot of examples than just text. I felt like reading novels rather than software manual. If you like to know how to use software in short time, this may not be the right one but if you like to know all the details of software, this might be the one.

Best book I ever worked with.......2007-06-01

Extremely well written, clear step by step directions, lavishing expanation of topics, full of insider tips and tricks...just what you need for a solid start and a successful finish. I will never regret I bought this book. It has put me on feet understanding Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver.......2007-05-22

I haven't had a chance to go completely through the book, but what I have read so far has been very helpful.

Real time saver.......2007-05-21

This book could be a real time saver. It is a great resource to learn from and later on, when you start working on some real project,... having it in the drawer makes you want never to shut it again. This book really saved me a lot of trouble and time looking for possible reason why something is not working as it should. And the way how it is written ... Pleasure to read it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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It's a must have for everyone
Most powerful motivational book I've come across in ages
Procrastinate No More
Wow!
Brilliant

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business (Rich Dad's)

ASIN: 0446691437

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DO YOU:

· dream about writing the Great American Novel?

· regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays?

· want to start a business or charity?

· wish you could start dieting or exercising today?

· hope to run a marathon someday?

If "yes," then you need…THE WAR OF ART

Now, in this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. THE WAR OF ART is an inspirational, funny, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur.

Steven Pressfield enjoys great international success as a bestselling novelist. But in order to reach the top he had to do a lot of work to fight the inner demons that told him he couldn't make it. THE WAR OF ART is his challenge to creative block, and his succinct, straight-from-the-hip style will help every reader unleash their personal ambitions, be they literary, artistic, or business-minded.

According to Pressfield, the internal obstacle to success is Resistance. Resistance is the difference between the life you lead and the life you want to lead, and can take many forms. Pressfield shows readers how to identify and defeat Resistance at every turn and challenges them to change their amateurish, unsuccessful habits into a professional attitude that can get the job done. Finally, Sun Tzu for the soul!

Inspirational, funny, and a great kick in the pants, THE WAR OF ART is the perfect book for anybody who had a goal circumvented by life and circumstance: which is to say, you and everybody you've ever met.

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It's a must have for everyone.......2007-06-26

This book is a must have for everyone: for young kids, for adults, for old people.

It's has a fantastic approach to the problem of procrastination and of not knowing what to do in life.

Get it today!

Most powerful motivational book I've come across in ages.......2007-06-24

I have been on a self-help kick the past couple years. Something inside me compels me to buy any book that could possibly improve my situation in life. As a creative, my crises tend to focus on self-doubt, fear of rejection and fear of failure or success.

That being said, it is doubly powerful for me to read a motivational book written by a WRITER, a fellow artist, a 'creative'. Sure, we are all creative (bankers and janitors alike), but I felt like this book addressed me in a way that Wayne Dyer's or Eckhart Tolle's books didn't (tho those authors are helpful in their own ways).

What Steven Pressfield does in THE WAR OF ART is unique in that he defines the forces that keep your 'genius' paralyzed and locked in potential, unmanifested. He contextualizes this battle with references to Blake, Homer's The Odyssey, the Kabbalah, Krishna. He enlightens us by reminding us that ART for art's sake is a truly spiritual path, serving God.

This is not a book that will tell you how to manifest a mansion in the suburbs, or how to beat 'the system' into rewarding you with other material trappings. This is a book about TRANSCENDENCE. How to appeal to a Higher Power, how to put your passion, your suffering, and your struggle within a perspective larger than your petty ego trips. But most importantly, how to get STARTED. How to get to work, and stay steady on the track of working.

The spiritual principles in the book were not new to me, but the CONTEXT and the author's PURPOSE for sharing these principles took me by surprise. One can tell that this book was written through Divine love and inspiration. Every word carefully placed. Every phrase and sentence consciously constructed for maximum impact. This speaks more volumes than a self-help book that tries to come up with a gimmick, or with a cute acronym, or a 5-step standard for success.

If you are a born artist (and trust me, after reading the first two pages of this book you'll know. I cried all through the first two sections) then this is the book to shake you out of complacency, to remind you that it's not about you, it's about God, it's about serving the higher good. To waste that potential would be a sin.

Procrastinate No More.......2007-06-15

If you're anything like me, you know you should be sitting down and writing instead of just surfing the net, checking email (though writing email messages may count as writing), looking out the window, taking out the trash, washing the car, and whatever else follows this pattern.

When you get back in (after a day filled with other created things to do), you have this feeling that you got nothing done with what you were meant to write.

Well, this book will help you break that pattern. But it does take a bit of work. In his book, Steven Pressfield talks of the many ways we keep ourselves from doing what we know we should be doing. He talks of the evil that is resistance and how to sit down and battle it by being professional.

It is a quick read. My suggestion is read it through the first time in a single sitting. Then, the next day, go back to it and study it, gain ideas that get your attention, that you truly believe can work (and even a few you may wonder about). It is well worth the price.

Wow!.......2007-06-13

I agree with the book's introduction that the final third is not quite as good as the first 2/3's, but do not let that stop you. This book changed how I viewed my life.

Brilliant.......2007-06-13

Simply the best book on creativity ever written. Honestly changed my life. First read it three years ago and still mentally refer to it constantly. If you are prevaricating about buying it, don't: just do it. You'll never make such a good investment in your life. Nothing will give your creativity a kickstart like Pressfield's call to arms.

The glass gaffers of New Jersey, and their creations from 1739 to the present

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The glass gaffers of New Jersey, and their creations from 1739 to the present
Adeline Pepper
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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with Online Learning Center access card

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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with Online Learning Center access card
Jeffry A Timmons , and Stephen Spinelli
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ASIN: 0073285919

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This new 7th Edition of New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, is the most heavily revised edition since its existence, yet it still maintains the market defining "Timmons Model of the Entrepreneurial Process." As always, Timmons & Spinelli cover the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, and successfully harvesting it. Through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises, this how-to text guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, tools, and experience to equip students to successfully launch a new venture and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. The authors recognize that there is no substitute for actually starting a company, but believe that it is possible to expose students to many of the vital issues and immerse them in key learning experiences.

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

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The Most Important Book of the Century
Watch the films, don't wait for the book to come out.
honest, great book
Meditation is about more than this
An Honest Look into the Creative Process

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
David Lynch
Manufacturer: Tarcher
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Dynamic:01 - The Best Of DavidLynch.com
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ASIN: 1585425400
Release Date: 2006-12-28

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In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation

Over the last four decades, David Lynch has created some of the best-known and widely discussed screen works of our time. This distinctive writer-director's art bears not only the mark of box-office success but also criticalacclaim and cultural posterity.

Yet Lynch generally reveals little of himself, or the ideas behind his work. Now he provides a rare window into his methods as an artist and his personal working style. In Catching the Big Fish, Lynch writes candidly about the tremendous creative benefits he has gained from his thirty-two-year commitment to practicing Transcendental Meditation.

In brief chapters, Lynch describes the experience of "diving within" and "catching" ideas like fish-and then preparing them for television or movie screens, and other mediums in which Lynch works, such as photography and painting.

In the book's first section, Lynch discusses the development of his ideas-where they come from, how he grasps them, and which ones appeal to him the most. He then shares his passion for "the doing"-whether moviemaking, painting, or other creative expressions. Lynch talks specifically about how he puts his thoughts into action and how he engages with others around him. Finally, he discusses the self and the surrounding world -and how the process of "diving within" that has so deeply affected his own work can directly benefit others.

Catching the Big Fish provides unprecedented insight into Lynch's methods, as it also offers a set of practical ideas that speak to matters of personal fulfillment, increased creativity, and greater harmony with one's surroundings.

The book comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's deeply personal vision. And it is equally intriguing to anyone who grapples with questions such as: "Where do ideas come from?" and "How can I nurture creativity?

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The Most Important Book of the Century.......2007-06-11

This book addresses creativity with great personal stories of a master creator, but more importantly it describes how everyone can become more creative, happy, and fulfilled. Especially for the children of our increasingly stressed world, David Lynch presents a simple solution and takes the action to make it happen.

Watch the films, don't wait for the book to come out........2007-05-17

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big David Lynch fan. Twin Peaks is still my favorite TV show, even after all of these years. But having subjected myself to Lynch's senseless, overly whimsical rants about creativity and meditation, I now completely understand why he never wrote very much about explaining his work in the past.

Instead of offering insight into Lynch's creative process, this overly indulgent volume is more of a shallow diary. Most chapters are little more than a couple of sentences, stating little more than the fact that he enjoys LA and working with wood. Further, the stories get so caught up in logistics that the point is often mysteriously lost.

For ventures into the creative process, check out Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way or Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery. For more on meditaion, see Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind or Chogyam Trungpa's Dharma Art.

honest, great book.......2007-05-13

It's an honest, ingenuos, great book written by one of the ever greatest film director. In these pages you'll find honest advices for film maker and for peoples that use creativity as a part of everyday life. You'll find too many suggestions about how to practice meditation, written by a "normal" person instead of a "guru". Keywords: common sense, love, huge, peace, life, ideas, film.

Meditation is about more than this.......2007-05-10

Lynch makes meditation sound like a magic carpet ride. that part of the book made me wanna shove a couple long fingers down my throat. Anybody who actually does meditation knows that it is way more multifaceted, rigorous, and subtle than Lynch describes it as.

But the parts about filmmaking were great.

I would've liked it much much more if he just wrote a great book about film and at the end said : "By the way, meditation has been really helpful to my creative process," and left it at that.

If you want to really learn about meditation, read Turning The Mind into An Ally by Sakyong Mipham. If you want to learn about film, David Lynch is one of the masters.

An Honest Look into the Creative Process.......2007-05-06

I "borrowed" this book this morning from a friend's coffee table, read about half before having to return it now buy my own copy.
Not because the story is so gripping that I have to find out it ends but because of the honest view Lynch provides into the creative process. There are sentences I'd like to return to for encouragement and inspiration.

I am a poet, writer, and materials artist. While reading his descriptions of the filmaking process I mentally substituted the word "short story" or "sculpture-poem" for "film" and the processes he describes. This is just what I am going through right now in developing a couple of short stories.

As an artist and also long-time meditator I find Lynch's small book with brief, "seed-thought" chapters inspiring. And just enough is said to help me reflect on my own creative work. Sometimes I feel his words come from some lectures on creative film work that he may have given. Yet David Lynch has attempted the difficult task of clearly reflecting on the creative process in his long career.

Some reviewers here on Amazon complain that his book lacks depth because of brevity of these chapters. But they may have missed the essential point Lynch makes: the Deep you seek is within you. One must transcend the surface shallow stuff and dive within to experience the depth of life. This is not a book that teaches HOW to transcend. It merely describes WHAT has happened in one artist's life by regularly transcending.

Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation

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WARNING-These are only cases, almost NO content
Good Finance book
Bravo to Bruner!
Excellent, made the subject practical

Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation
Robert F. Bruner
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Case Studies in Finance links managerial decisions to capital markets and the expectations of investors. At the core of almost all of the cases is a valuation task that requires students to look to financial markets for guidance in resolving the case problem. The focus on value helps managers understand the impact of the firm on the world around it. These cases also invite students to apply modern information technology to the analysis of managerial decisions.

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WARNING-These are only cases, almost NO content.......2004-03-18

I bought this book to read outside of a class hoping to read through some really good case studies in finance, and hopefully apply several semesters worth of finance classes to some real world examples. However after receiving the book I realized that these were only cases, not case studies, meant to be discussed in a class. There is almost no content, and college professors would actually be better off building their own cases from current business publications.

Good Finance book.......2004-01-28

The cases in this book will make one think more than other books in this area.

Bravo to Bruner!.......2003-02-10

Case Studies in Finance and its instructors manual are absolutely the BEST of their kind in all the years I've been teaching finance and strategy. Bravo to Bruner! I've never seen an instructor's manual so complete. The At-a-Glance section has been very helpful when structuring a course design. Case Studies in Finance and its supplements are being used by the finance faculty at ESADE Business School, in Spain, as a guide to restructure their first year core finance course in the Full-Time MBA programme.

Excellent, made the subject practical.......1999-02-22

The book was excelleant, but I never knew if the answers I provided were correct, is there no model answers on the case studies that one could check one's answers against. I am a final year MBA student in South Africa with no real previous Finance experience and this book really assisted me in gaining a practical understanding. Please let me know about model answers

Coming to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology

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Helps Bridge the Gap
Once again ignoring the third choice
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Definitely worth the read.
Wow.

Coming to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology
Darrel R. Falk
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ASIN: 0830827420

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Is a thoroughly Christian and biblically informed doctrine of creation compatible with widely held conclusions of modern science, especially biology?For Darrel R. Falk, this is not just an abstract question but one with which he has personally wrestled. A professor of biology, Falk brings together his biblically based understanding of creation and the most current research in biology. The result of his efforts to acknowledge the validity of science and the authority of Scripture is a new paradigm for relating the claims of science to the truths of Christianity. Written with the undergraduate student in mind, this book nonetheless will help anyone who is looking for a place to stand in the creation-evolution debate, fearful that they'll have to choose between intellectual integrity and the faith of the church. Calling for charitable discussions within the church, Falk shows how an original and ongoing interaction of God with creation is fully reconcilable with the kinds of development identified by current biological science.

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Helps Bridge the Gap.......2007-05-14

Like Darrel Falk, I am an evangelical Christian who is firmly convinced that God used evolution as his plan for creation. It is most helpful to have an author with his credentials discuss this subject headon in a straightforward manner. This book should be on the must read list for people who are honestly searching for the answer to the role of science and faith in their lives.

Once again ignoring the third choice.......2007-04-25

While I applaud the efforts of the author to remain true to Christian faith and also to science, the third and best path has once again been ignored. Old-Earth creationism, as presented by people like Dr. Hugh Ross, who has both a doctorate in physics and astronomy, presents the best method of understanding the literal meaning of Genesis Chapter one. Before any young-earthers blow their stacks, they should REALLY undesrstand, in full, what Dr. Ross teaches and how his understanding of the Hebrew in Genesis is in full agreement with other parts of the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. It is also in better agreement with both Christian and Jewish scholars throughout history. And Dr. Ross has also shown from the myriad of scientific evidence available, why evolution, as taught in the public schools, is impossible. A better book to read is "Creation and Time" by Dr. Hugh Ross, whose organization is called "Reasons to Believe". And Dr. Ross has people with doctorates in Biology on his staff.

never recevied book.......2007-03-27

I don't know how this book is. Amazon shipped to the wrong address and the never reimbursed me after they sent me an email that stated they would.

Definitely worth the read........2007-01-12

Anyone who believes the earth is only 6000 years old should be reading this book. Anyone who believes science and Scripture (not religion) do not relate, should be reading this book. Falk does a great job of pointing out where Scripture and science walk hand in hand. As it should, it has too, for the Bible is the Revealed Word and Will of God. All of sciences findings are confined to it, and not vise versa. I cannot say I agree with all of his study tools, the use of the NIV being one of them. However as I read I had all my Bible reference tools next to me and there still was not one contradiction. A pure joyful and humble experience.

Wow........2006-10-10

It's difficult to not type with superlatives when reviewing this book. This is one of the top devotional books on nature I've ever read. I've never seen a finer treatment of the basics of evolution for the layman. I've never seen a more clear portrayal of how Christ is involved in evolution. But most of all, in all my reading on the intersection of evolution and Christianity, I've never seen a more gentle, kinder approach that so exemplifies that attitude of Christ.

Falk comes with a strong support for evolution, in all it's glory. But he treats it as far more glorious than most biologists, for he sees God's presence within it. There is no holding back here- Falk makes clear, cogent arguments in favor of every step and aspect of evolution. His treatment is something that anyone can understand, and anyone with an open mind can come to agree with. He comes from a background originally in literal creationism, and so knows the arguments that speak to the literal creationist. As someone who was also once a literal creationist, I can say Falk knows the arguments that refute the classic creationist arguments as well.

But he doesn't stop there. He then turns to the scriptures. Falk fully supports complete acceptance of the scriptures, but he's not interested in blind literal acceptance. He wants us to delve into the Bible and accept the points that God is trying to make. Throughout Falk's personal relationship with Jesus is clear. He sees this as the point behind everything. And he finds that he sees more of Christ by studying biology and evolution. It would be easy to try to proof-text passages to make the Bible appear to be supportive of evolution. That's not Falk's style. He's looking to see what God wants us to know, primarily through the scriptures.

This is the first time I've found a work that fully explains the nature of sin, death, and decay, using biology and the Bible both. For those unfamiliar with the controversy, this is the lynchpin of the literal creationist distate for evolution. Falk at no point denies the miraculous, but rather finds it foundational to his faith. However, he argues for a God that works through natual laws that He created- and ingeniously, Falk argues this based on how we see God working in our own individual lives.

I can not stress this enough. This is the most grace-filled treatment of this subject I have ever read. You get the feeling that Falk actually cares about his readers, whatever stripe they might be. He cares more that we treat each other with love on this subject than that we be right. Whereever you may live- even as distant a land as Morocco- if you have only $20 left to feed your family or buy this book, get the book. Feed your children's minds first and see what glories you might behold.

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]

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I credit the sale of my first novel to this book
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As Hokie As It Sounds-This Book Changed My Life
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]
Julia Cameron
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With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.

This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains.

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The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist's Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist's Way for a new century.

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I credit the sale of my first novel to this book.......2007-06-10

I picked up the Artist's Way in spring of 1994 and worked through it. Within a month I'd sold my first novel (MAINLINE), that I was working on at the same time I read this book. I have no doubt that the doors it opened for me - in creativity, in visualization, in the flow of energy around the entire process - played a key role in the unlikely sale of my unagented partial through the slush pile of a major genre publisher. Synchronicity and fortuitous happenstance abounded when I was deeply in the groove with the Artist's Way.

I just bought another copy because I want to revisit and renew some of the processes I learned here the first time around. It is my experience with this that putting serious attention into it yields tremendous payback. I know a million people have reviewed this book over time, but I just wanted to add a comment on it because Julia Cameron helped me open the door to professional authorship, and I'm grateful for the catalyst experience she provides.

Good Choice.......2007-06-08

This author leads you into a direction to focus on your creativity in a "step level".
It is a practical approach to dealing with a subject that can have no practicality to it at all!
How do you accept yourself as a creative person?
Most of us do not.
We come up with other ways of "dealing" with it......and try to push it away...because we think we will not be able to make a living or not be accepted by society....
This book helps every artistic individual to think differently about their approach to life and how to handle situations according to "their" artistic standards....
I enjoyed this work and use these philosophies and practical approaches in my art, which is.... being a musician and songwriter.
Thank you Julia!

As Hokie As It Sounds-This Book Changed My Life.......2007-06-02

This book was recommended to me several years ago by a therapist when I was struggling with finding my place in the world. Unfortunately, the book sat on my bookshelf for about five years before I read more than a couple of pages here and there. I didn't take the book seriously. Finally, a friend and I decided to commit and do the program together. Within the first week I felt hopeful and excited again about creating and started to feel more in control of my life. By week four in I had started writing again. It has been a year since I started the program and now I have a completed manuscript that I am confident with and I am considering a career change that is more in alignment with my creativity. I still do the morning pages. In order for the program to work, one must have faith in it and believe in the process-and stick with it-for the 12 weeks. The book attacks head on all the self-sabotaging ways we treat our art and in turn, treat ourselves and how to change those ways and clears our blocks in order to let art flow through. Highly recommended for blocked artists or anyone who just wants to bring more creativity to their lives.

GROWTH BLOCKED///GET THIS BOOK.......2007-05-15

This is an absolutely amazing book and I recommend it to anyone who is living one day at a time blocked from their best potentional despite the work they are doing. I am in a group doing the work recommended and am growing already. DON'T PASS THIS ONE UP!!!!!

This book moves mountains!!.......2007-05-11

Firstly, The Artists Way journey, a 12 week committment to unleash your creative self, is hard. It took me 15 weeks to complete the tasks but I am glad I stuck it out. There are aspects that I still really need to work on but as the weeks rolled by I saw drastic changes. I noticed things more. I was dressing differently...and I was doing something creative most days. Be prepared to put in the hard yards but it will be REALLY worth it.

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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A must read
Voluminous, informative, Britain-centered, some pieces missing
Why is the Middle East in so much turmoil?
Makes you wonder...
History Repeats Itself

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
Manufacturer: Owl Books
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Wonderful....No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East. Los Angeles Times

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A must read.......2007-05-30

Fabulous! This book is essential to understanding the middle east today and how it became that way (and how hard it will be to fix it).

Voluminous, informative, Britain-centered, some pieces missing.......2007-05-14

This book is about British policy and ambitions in the Middle East more than about the Middle East itself. It provides a compelling argument that political and tactical mistakes (and greed) by the Western powers are to blame for some of the problems in the region today. David Fromkin is not a conventional academic historian. He was a lawyer for many years before becoming a professor, hence his natural focus on political negotiations, diplomatic wrangling, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, machinations, power plays, disputes among government factions, etc. He does an excellent job of laying all this out.

Fromkin writes in an engaging style and his clear organization makes this long book fairly easy to read. The only part that disappointed me was the discussion of Central Asia, which is vague and incomplete. Fromkin does not identify the ethnicity/nationality of the players involved. He inaccurately and collectively refers to the peoples of this region as "Turkish speakers"--in fact most (but not all) speak Turkic languages, related but not identical to Turkish. For readers not familiar with Central Asia, it would have been helpful to note the Soviet republics (and now independent nations--Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) established soon after the episode with Enver Pasha and the Basmachi that Fromkin discusses. A more detailed map could have been included. It would have been interesting to compare Soviet and British policy in the creation of republics or nation-states but this is not touched on. As a location of important oil and gas reserves, Central Asia is once again of strategic interest to regional and world powers (including the U.S.). That Fromkin neglects to provide essential background information on the region is a serious flaw, and looks like a careless oversight. This part of the book could have been better researched. Fromkin is not a Middle East or Central Asia scholar per se, and does not appear to read the languages of the region. There are no Arabic, Turkish (or, also relevant, Russian or German) sources in his bibliography.

Fromkin's archival research has been mostly in British diplomacy and Zionism, and this is where his book is most informative. He has obviously combed through an enormous amount of material. Interested readers will need to look elsewhere for the perspective of the Middle Eastern peoples themselves, and may disagree with Fromkin's interpretations of events, but will gain much from the abundant factual material presented here. We learn, sadly, how very much history repeats itself.

Why is the Middle East in so much turmoil?.......2007-04-10

I purchased this book several years ago. With the events of the past 30 years in the Middle East, I decided to read it , in hopes of understanding the recent history of the area. Once I started, I could not put the book down. It's well written and shows little bias. I highly recommend it to those who have the same question.

Makes you wonder..........2007-03-30

I agree 100% with all the other reviewers. This is a well written, informative book, that everyone who wants to have an informed opinion about the middle east should read.

On chapter 31 (The New World, p.259) there is a quote from a speech given by T. Woodrow Wilson (then president of the US)on the 4th of July 1918, that caught my attention:

"The settlement of every question, whether of territory or sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own influence or mastery"

This speech outlined the Four Ends for which the US and its allies were supposedly fighting. These Four Ends outlined the discrepancies between American and European post war goals. The allies were imperialist countries, and the US were not.

No wonder John M. Keynes wrote "When president Wilson left Washington he enjoyed a prestige and moral influence throughout the world unequaled in history" (chapter 41, p.390). Maybe president Wilson was a bit naive, but the US entered the war with lofty ideals.

Makes you wonder what happened to those ideals, doesn't it?

Excellent book. Don't hesitate, buy it NOW.

History Repeats Itself.......2007-02-24

A Peace to End All Peace is a masterpiece that picks up where Guns of August leaves off. The author threads together the wide-ranging people, places and events that reshaped the Middle East following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The book traces the mostly failed attempts by colonialists, primarily British and French, to transform Asian cultures into Western style democracies with seemingly randomly defined national borders without regard to cultural differences separating the people. The primary motives: oil, power and military presence, as they remain today. This book shows that ethnocentric Westerners have learned little about the Middle East since then. This mangled shaping and reshaping of the region continues today, spearheaded by the American colonial foray into Iraq by dint of war that may soon spread overtly to surrounding countries. A Peace to End All Peace demonstrates an old adage: If we cannot learn from our past mistakes, we are bound to repeat them.

Introducing Character Animation with Blender

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Complete!!
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Comprehensive and genuinely helpful

Introducing Character Animation with Blender
Tony Mullen
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ASIN: 0470102608

Book Description

Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-world examples, expert animator Tony Mullen walks you through the complexities of modeling and animating, with a special focus on characters. From Blender basics to creating facial expressions and emotion to rendering, you’ll jump right into the process and learn valuable techniques that will transform your movies.

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excellent deal.......2007-06-13

This product arrived around a month from the day the purchase was made. the product arrived in excellent conditions, And I also found it{s cheaper than in other websites.

Exactly what I needed........2007-06-01

I've been learning Blender for a while now, piecing it together from stray tutorials and such, but with this very affordable book, I've found exactly what I needed. I already knew a lot of what the book covers, but it helped fill in some gaps that most online tutorials take for granted, and gave me a whole, more complete view of how to go about my business with Blender. I would definately buy another book from this author.

Complete!!.......2007-05-19

That was the first word from me about this book after reading it... from the modelling of your character, troubleshooting, poly-by-poly, extruding box modelling, particles, curve edition, to rigging, animation, actions, IPO curves, lightning, textures... to hints about maximize workflow, using of datablocks, and many, many other things... and more! analises about the making of Elephants Dream, Plumiferos, and even tips for those trying to get into the world of animation.

This amazing book, approved by Blender Foundation president Ton Rosendall, cames with a DVD with all the files you will need to do you tutorials and exercises (or to start from a more advanced one, if you want), many animations, rigs ready to use, and many applications (Blender included) for Linux and Windows.

A must have for experient and novice people alike!

Helpfull, but occasionally confusing.......2007-04-04

I haven't gotten near finishing this book, but so far it has been extremely helpful. I've learned a lot reading it, and that was what I hoped for. It's definitely a great buy for blender users.

Comprehensive and genuinely helpful .......2007-04-02

I am very pleased with this long-overdue guide to character animation with my favourite tool, Blender. The trickiest technical aspects of animating with Blender have never been documented and illustrated as well as they are here. Covers all the most recent boosts to functionality including the Modifier system and Sculpting tool.

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