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Take a tour of Los Angeles guided by National Geographic -- for generations synonymous with the thrill of discovery and exploration. Featured sites include both famous and lesser known places, selected to help you experience the city in a fresh and exciting way.

* In-depth site descriptions and background information
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* More than 190 vivid color photographs
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* Mapped walking and driving tours
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* Complete visitor information plus hotels, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment

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Turn of the century: An illustrated history in colour, 1899-1913
Robert J Hoare
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Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.

Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.

What you'll learn from this book ...

• A step-by-step process for painting in watercolor, from sketches to final details

• Important colors for a basic watercolor palette, and how to blend to achieve secondary hues

• Tips for creating special effects, including how to work wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry

• What materials you will need, and how to set up your studio

• The basics of good composition, and the value of a line of rhythm

• Methods for adding background elements to create a finished work of art

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Watercolor review.......2000-06-25

With this book, it is easy to learn how to paint with watercolors. I enthusiastically recommend it.

How to Draw and Paint --Watercolor Workshop / 1

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How to Draw and Paint --Watercolor Workshop / 1
ROSE EDIN
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How to Draw and Paint Animals in Pencil, Charcoal, Line and Watercolour

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An ideal introduction for beginners.
A book to treasure

How to Draw and Paint Animals in Pencil, Charcoal, Line and Watercolour
Linda Birch
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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Drawing and Painting Animals: Problems and Solutions

ASIN: 0715309307

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All in color! Capturing the beauty, majesty, and personality of animals often proves daunting for an artist, but in fact, anyone can paint or draw animals if they want to. In this essential, lavishly illustrated handbook, a specialist in animal painting explains everything you need to know to depict domestic or wild animals, both as individual studies and as elements of a landscape. Using a plethora of her own drawings, sketches, and finished works as examples, the author explains how to choose the right medium and tools for a subject, examines the basics of anatomy and simple methods for constructing form, offers suggestions for making quick records when dealing with a moving subject, explores the range of fur and skin textures, and much more. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 11.

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An ideal introduction for beginners........2000-02-04

Linda Birch's How To Draw And Paint Animals tells how to draw animals using pencil, charcoal, line and watercolor, with color photos and drawings of both finished and half-complete subjects making for an excellent guide.

A book to treasure.......1998-04-02

This book's modest title fauils to describe its full worth. It is full of good sense, sound technical information and really excellent drawing. Linda Birch has a mastery of all media,and her writing displays the confidence of a gifted teacher. Her authority stems partly from her own obvious love of animals and her careful observation of them. She faces the question "Oh dear, I shall never be able to do that" with an encouraging "Yes you can, and I will show you how". Everything is here - texture, movement, anatomy, all brought together through many years of experience of teaching. Linda offers regular painting courses in Durham, and in other parts of England. Her students will be very fortunate, having the benefit of the fluency and wit which shines from these pages. A book to treasure.

How to Draw and Paint in Watercolor and Gouache

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How to paint with acrylic, casein, watercolors, tempera, gouach and oils (Walter T. Foster "How to draw" books)

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How to paint with acrylic, casein, watercolors, tempera, gouach and oils (Walter T. Foster "How to draw" books)
Eugene M Frandzen
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Painting With Watercolors (How to Paint and Draw Series)

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Chinese Brush 2: Learn to Paint Step by Step (How to Draw and Paint Series)

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Accomplished painters Helen Tse and Rebecca Yue invite you into their artistic worlds and show you how to paint a variety of subjects in the style of Chinese brush. With this 2000-year-old art form, each stroke simply suggests the spirit and character of the subject. Over the years, the materials and subject matter used for Chinese brush have expanded, but the basic principles remain the same. In this book, you'll find information on the history, tools, and techniques of this elegant art form. From a colorful Chinese landscape to a lucky dragon, Chinese Brush 2 also features 14 inspiring step-by-step projects. Follow each project stroke by stroke, using a graceful, deliberate motion that captures the subject's mood and energy. Soon you'll develop the skills you need to render your own beautiful collection of Chinese brush paintings.

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The Wild Mammals of Missouri
Charles W. Schwartz , and Elizabeth R. Schwartz
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The Wild Mammals of Missouri
Charles W. Schwartz
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THE WILD MAMMALS OF MISSOURI. REVISED EDITION.
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THE WILD MAMMALS OF MISSOURI
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Great for the late 90's.......2006-12-14

This is a book showing the airliners and liveries of many airlines. It's broken down by global region. The pictures are on the whole very good although some you can see are slides/prints that may have been blown up too much because you see film grain. Also this book was published in the late 1990s so it is over 10 years old. But it is a great period history of airliners and airlines at that time. It's also got a lot of pictures and only as much words as needed so you will have a great time just looking and not having to read as much but those who wish to read the captions will find much valuable info.

Five star imagery. Five star book........2003-08-27

John K. Morton, you've scored five stars again. If you read an earlier review of mine relating to Flying Freighters, you'll undoubtedly understand how much I appreciate the way the author uses spectaculate camera equipment to take fabulous snapshots. But this book, yet another fantastic portfolio of Morton's really brings home how fascinating such big jetliners are. The book is split into various chapters for various countries, and a very wide range of aircraft is included in the thick, though expensive paper back: including Tupolev, Boeing, MD and L. Martin workhorses from the sixties to the millenium. Finally, if you're not a big one for such a lot of writing, this book is certainly for you: a minimum amount of writing is dwarfed by 268 pixel imagery of all manueovers, my personal favourite being the photos taken in the time Morton spent in Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport. This really is a book I won't want to forget, and I'll repeat what I said at the start: John K. Morton, you've done it again!

This book is ok........1999-05-31

This book is ok. It has some very nice pictures. I wouldn't rush out to buy it.

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Abc Airline Liveries
Ken Davies
Manufacturer: Ian Allan Publishing Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

Lost Airline Liveries: Airline Colour Schemes of the Past

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Lost and Found

Lost Airline Liveries: Airline Colour Schemes of the Past
John K. Morton
Manufacturer: Motorbooks International
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Lost and Found.......2003-12-02

Lost Airline Liveries picks up where Faded Glory left off. THis book will appeal to aviation enthusiasts looking for pictures of airliners in schemes of the 1980s and early 1990s. What makes this book worthwhile is that the author has included numerous pictures of small and obscure airlines, such as Air Haiti, Air One, Interconair, and Interestatal. I also like the picture of the Rich International C-46. Also noteworthy is that practically all of the airlines depicted have either folded or were merged with larger carriers; Pan Am gets special treatment here.

Most of the pictures are of decent quality, though a few do spread onto two pages. For each picture, Mr. Morton also includes an annotation of the history of the airline, though only basic information on the aircraft itself. Also missing is a table of contents or index; if you want to look up a particular airline or plane, you are on your own.

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This colourful selection of airliners from the last 30 years serves as both a chronicle of the civil airliner's development and a catalog of the world's most recognizable and unique airline paint schemes. Arranged by airline, each carrier is given a brief history and a series of colour photos documenting the evolution of its liveries and the aircraft that it favored during each era.

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Very light on details and depth..........2000-12-15

I was disapointed in this book. It largely showcases a few liveries from the 70's to the present. There aren't any of the really old liveries included, and a limited number of airlines -- notable exceptions that jump to mind are American, Northwest, KLM, Cathay (as well as many others).

If you're looking for liveries, especially of older airlines that have gone away, merged, etc., this isn't for you.

A good read.......1999-10-15

This book is a good look at the history of airline liveries. It has some of the most non heard of airlines in it. I would say if you like airplanes than this book is for you.

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In this practical, how-to book on the problems and possibilities of gardening in the tricky environments officially known as zones 7 and 8, Ladendorf draws on her own experience, interviews and research for her weekly newspaper column, and visits to hundreds of public and private gardens. Although this book will be particularly helpful to novice gardeners and newcomers to the area, it also offers a vast amount of current information for the seasoned gardener.

Successful Southern Gardening A practical guide for year-round beauty

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Successful Southern Gardening A practical guide for year-round beauty
Ladendorf Sandra F.
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Tedious

Kurosawa and Mifune - seminal Japanese cinema

Warning: Not a Biography

Its all about films....

Terrible as Biography

The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
Stuart Galbraith IV
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The first -- and long overdue -- English-language biography of two of the world's great cinema figures.

Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and High and Low -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. Kurosawa's films inspired blockbuster remakes and influenced directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile, Mifune virtually invented the roaming warrior rogue, a character adapted with great success by actors like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, and countless others. Their impact on the international film world is undisputable, yet at the very height of their abilities, Kurosawa and Mifune went their separate ways. After Red Beard in 1965 they would never work together again -- nor would they ever achieve the same level of success apart as they had together.

The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at the life and work of these two luminaries of cinema. Full of behind-the-scenes details about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and each other, it is also a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which the two societies viewed each other.

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Tedious.......2006-05-25

The subtitle of this book, The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa, is completely deceitful. There is nothing biographical in this book about either one of its main protagonists. It is rather a chronicle of the Japanese film industry, not without interest in itself. However, the voluminous facts, tid-bits of information about every minor actor, director, script-writer, and film composer, as well as the synopsis of every film mentioned, makes for increbibly tedious reading. While the book has its merit as a source of information, not much credit should be given to the author other than for his ability to put together facts that are available from a number of sources. Meanwhile, reading all these capsules of data will leave you dry when it comes to the lives of Kurosawa and Mifune. The author tells us nothing about how they lived, felt, thought, behaved,what motivated them; probably because he doesn't know himself. A simple gathering of public facts, none researched by the author himself because their sources are many and widely available, especially on the internet, do not make for a worthy book!

Kurosawa and Mifune - seminal Japanese cinema .......2006-02-01

Galbraith's combined biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune has a wealth of knowledge, or, more accurately, a lot of data. Though Emperor/Wolf has reams (848 pages at close to 3 pounds) of information, what it doesn't have is a life of its own. The material covered by Galbraith could have been assembled by researching web sites, magazine and newspaper articles. You read much about Kurosawa and Mifune but you never come to know the men as living beings. Everything is written just outside of any emotional involvement. I never felt their rage or joy and so I was never enraged or joyful. I never felt any emotional contact with the protagonists. It was as though Kurosawa and Mifune were being disected in an operating theatre and I was high above behind glass. I couldn't smell the blood of battle, hear the applause, cry at their deaths. The book was soulless; a compendium that could be used as an overview for further, smaller more intimate writings. Though it seems obvious to connect these two cinema powerhouses, on second thought, it is a failed premise because of the bodies of work by each man exclusive of the other, and dooms the effort.

Warning: Not a Biography.......2004-07-11

I read the warnings about this book, but I am such a film buff, Kurosawa fan, Mifune fan and all-around nerd, that I did not heed them. First thing, this book is not a biography of Mifune or Kurosawa. It should be retitled and repackaged as the "Films of Kurosawa and Mifune". This is really a filmography with extensive plot summations and notes on production. The author includes his opinion of each movie, as if I care what his opinion is. There is very little information about either of these greats. The excuse is that the war destroyed most of the documents pertaining to their early years. That does not explain the lack later on of any information about either of them. For instance, the author writes that scandal plagued Mifune in his later years, but does not go into any more detail than to mention that he had a mistress. I was very disappointed in this book and do not feel as if I learned one thing about Kurosawa or the great Toshiro Mifune.

Its all about films...........2004-02-12

I think many reviewers didn't read the subtitle of the book, "Lives and Films of....." I don't think this book was meant to be a complete kiss and tell biography of Kurosawa and Mifune, this is a book which chronicled their cooperative efforts together in making films that became great classics and their relationship with and against each other. This is a book on relationship between two giants of the Japanese film industry. It was not meant to be a total biography as so many reviewers seem to have wanted.

The book gives very good background material to both men but its always about the relationship between the two. After both men split up after Red Beard, the author took pains to how see each one of them dealt with their careers afterward. Kurosawa continued to have success while Mifune drifted into period films, TV shows and his achievements suffered greatly. The book also gives a great understanding on how Japanese film industry worked, how it declined and basically how it fell apart in the face of Hollywood. Even the author expressed mixed surprised how waves of American films in a foreign nation like Japan, completely converted the Japanese audience into their own as they abandoned their own film industries into Third World status.

I thought the book was well written, well researched and explained the relationship and the films made by both Kurosawa and Mifune. But for anyone looking for a true biography, look some place else, for film historians like myself, this book is a must read.

Terrible as Biography.......2004-01-30

This book was quite disappointing. Most of my criticisms have already been mentioned by other reviewers, but I must emphasize that this book gives almost no sense of Kurosawa or Mifune as individuals and very, very little insight into their relationship. I was truly amazed that such a long book could fail to provide any nuanced sense of the personalities it is supposedly about. The book reads more like an annotated filmography, with endless details about minor actors and plot summaries of Japanese films that American fans will almost certainly never be able to see. I might refer to the book occasionally as a reference, but it is deadly dull reading. Not only is it not a good biography, it provides very little insight about Kurosawa's filmaking. There is some interesting historical stuff about the Japanese film industry, but that's about the only good thing I can think of to say about the book.

The Emperor and the Wolf, The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune

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Stuart Galbraith IV
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The Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends.......2007-01-04

Really, I am quite puzzled....don't you have to have the book in order to review it? I have been waiting since September 11th to receive this book and have been told to continue the order since then. My question is - how can Amazon sell a book they don't have....I checked and the book is still being offered for sale and I don't even have mine.....WHAT IS GOING ON?

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