I've read a lot of books on decoupage and to me this is the ultimate "how-to" book. The chapters in this book cover everything from selecting papers to the finished product as well as an illuminating history of decoupage. There are clear step-by-step instructions and very detailed illustrations for wood, glass, tin and ceramic projects. This book also features chapters on gilding and special effects. And what I found most helpful for myself was that at the end of each chapter there is an outline of each technique for quick and easy reference. Again, I recommend this book for the beginner as well as the serious student. There is enough material to keep everyone busy.

Decoupage is the art of embellishing surfaces with decorative paper cutouts and requires no formal training or special talent beyond the ability to use scissors and paste. It can be readily mastered, uses simple and inexpensive materials, yet can produce objects of great attractiveness and sophistication. In Decoupage: A Practical Guide To The Art Of Decorating Surfaces With Paper Cutouts, Dee Davis draws upon her almost thirty years of experience practicing and teaching decoupage to explain and illustrate every aspect of this engaging craft. With her easy-to-follow instructions, the novice decoupage artist will discover an enthusiasm for this fulfilling activity, and even experienced decoupers will find a wealth of new ideas to enhance their own practical knowledge and expertise. Decoupage is a highly recommended addition to personal, school, and community library "how to" art book reference collections.

Welcome to the Wittgenstein of homiletics: H. Grady Davis. Many books on preaching provide only rules for fitting together the various pieces of preaching. Instead of this, Davis shows us the picture on the front of the puzzle box so that we can see what real preaching is. Davis is not concerned with specific rules for preaching, but rather with developing the preachers sense of form. His central idea is that substance and form are inseperable. An idea, he writes, is like a tree with branches reaching up towards the light. Davis walks the reader through finding ideas (trunks) to discovering how they develop (branches). I would recommend this book to anyone who feels the burden to preach the Word.

Even though this book was written in 1958, it is one of the best books on preaching ever written. It is both a systematic and philosophical approach to the design of biblical expository preaching. H. Grady Davis does a masterful job of exposing the faults of modern preaching while at the same time expounding on the necessity of solid expository design and formation of biblical sermons. I have not read any book since that has improved on Davis' work. His approach is for the evangelical preacher who wants to communicate God's Word as God's Word. This book is invaulable for the seminary student as well as the experienced preacher. Reading and applying this book to your own personal study habits will benefit the reader greatly. Read this book, you will not be disappointed.

I knew Java and ASP for several months, and I had to do ASP.NET with C# at work. This is my first and only DOT NET book so far. This slim book got me into working on ASP.NET in few days. This is NOT for the BEGINNING Programmers. If you have experience in OOP like JAVA and Serverside Web scripting like ASP, you would find this book get you to ASP.NET developing fast. It has real world example and explains core essential things. Just what you need to know to get on the job quickly. You don't spend time on what you already know. It doesn't teach you C# but since I knew Java, it was perfectly ok. For more detailed stuff where I needed, I went to MSDN library. To learn more and deep in certain sections, I'll buy some other books. I am giving 5 stars because it's the only book I read and it did good job for my purpose. Thank you very much!

I knew Java and ASP for several months, and I had to do ASP.NET with C# at work. This is my first and only DOT NET book so far. This slim book got me into working on ASP.NET quickly. This is NOT for the BEGINNING Programmers like college freshmen. It doesn't teach you C# but since I knew Java, it was perfectly ok. If you have experience in OOP like JAVA and Serverside Web scripting like ASP, you would find this book get you to ASP.NET developing fast and worth the time. Each chapter gives you core essentials. It has good examples and explains well.

It's concise: it tells just what you need to know to get on the job quickly. You don't spend time on what you already know like basics. No book can be indepth at every area, for more detailed stuff where I needed, I went to MSDN library. To learn more and deep in certain sections, you need buy some other books. I am giving 5 stars because it's the only book I read and it did good job for my purpose. Thank you very much!

My 2 year old LOVES this book!!! We "tone down" the fact that some Dinosaurs eat others, but she loves the realistic pictures, loves hearing the names, and learned to identify and pronounce all the Dinosaurs in this book the second day we had it... this book is fantastic! The ONLY drawback is that now our daughter wants more books just like this, and we've not been able to find anything else quite like it.

I was a big fan of the Eyewitness books when I was a kid, and so I decided to buy this for my Dino loving cousin. He loved it. Just like all the other Eyewitness books it was filled with big interesting pictures, and was understandable for all ages and reading levels. I recomend this to anyone searching for an informational dinosaur book to give to the little ones. Worth every cent.

This is a purposeful and strong collection of essays, fiction, and poetry that serves to illuminate a comparatively new (although long in coming) and vibrant discipline, Disability Studies, which, according to editor (and contributor) Dr. Lennard Davis, "is both an academic field of inquiry and an area of political activity."

Davis has written an elegant introduction that is ideological - with good reason. He provides an overview and defines the field and its terms. Davis cites many of the developers and 'early' thinkers (ancient times to the present) of disability studies and, in summary, asserts that Disability Studies is not about "sensitizing" "normal" persons. Disability Studies is, rather, "in favor of advocacy, investigation, inquiry, archeology, genealogy, dialectic, and deconstruction."

The book (which does not have to be read in any particular order) is divided into seven main sections: "Historical Perspectives," "Politics of Disability," "Stigma and Illness," "Gender and Disability," "Disability and Education," "Disability and Culture," and finally a small section of fiction and poetry.

Davis' "Constructing Normalcy" appears first, appropriately so, for in my view it's really required reading. There is a generous selection of essays on Deafness and Deaf culture. (Davis himself grew up as the child of Deaf parents). Some of my favorite essays: Harlan Hahn's "Advertising the Acceptably Employable Image," on the relationship between capitalism and disability; Susan Wendell's deeply personal and thoughtful "Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability," in which she points out, "When you listen to this culture in a disabled body, you hear how often health and physical vigor are talked about as if they were moral virtues." Susan Sontag writes on AIDS and metaphor. "Blindness and Art" by Nicholas Mirzoeff is complex, difficult, and worth the effort. In addition there are a number of incredibly powerful historical discussions.

This is a terrific textbook - for it contains a wealth of material that is challenging and engaging. Readers interested in this field and its ideas will be pleased. As a reference work it'll doubtless be useful for many years. It's solid and complex, and definitely worth reading.

The most priceless part of this book-- is the material he adds to the story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio disability & his closetry about it. Like "Washington became a ramped city...." Like reporting that any press photographers who took pix of FDR being carried (suchas- to get into his car) had their film "confiscated" and destroyed by the Secret Service. Someday some innovative historian will note that as a person with a disability-- FDR was himself within the scope of the groups that the Nazis scapegoated & killed. (In the mid 1930's, they killed every disabled person in every custodial institution in Germany.) Thus, FDR was the hero in fighting a war that was-- in part-- a defense of his own kind.And he felt he had to hide that fact, I'm looking forward to the upcoming "From Charity To Confrontation: A History Of The Modern Disabled Rights Movement" by Fleisher (sp?) & Zames, from Temple Univ. Press. Freida Zames has been a disabled activist for decades. Her book should blow away the few similar titles.

On my first visit to London, I happened into the Victoria and Albert Museum and saw my first costume exhibition: CECIL BEATON'S ANTHOLOGY OF FASHION. It changed my life. This book will change yours. The photography is fantastic and the text is informative as well as entertaining. This book is almost as wonderful as seeing these dresses in person. . .almost!

No "well heeled" coffee table should be without this little number...also makes an elegant gift. Gorgeoous photos of the black dress spanning the 1900's, lovingly compiled.. Anyone who loves fashion will appreciate this book. A "MUST HAVE" for STYLE BUFFS!

When I first started reading DRIVING WHILE BLACK: COVERUP,
I expected the book to be about the experience of one person.
I was surprised to find information about racial profilling
in great detail that covered the entire United States. I had no idea racial profilling existed in the U.S. Customs Service. People in hotels and airports are paid as informants to point
out minorities for searches by law enforcement.
Greedy police departments have tried to seize the assets of
dead people. Congress has made laws allowing law enforcement to
take money from citizens without proof that a criminal offense
has occurred. This book is a wake up call that our rights as Americans are under attack. Well researched with citations.
Well worth reading!

Cincinnati is now and has been in a state of racial hatred from the police department for many years (since the 1800's). Mr. Kelvin Davis has exposed just a few of the many overlapping protective systems utilized by the Hamilton County and the Greater Cincinnati Law enforcement agencies. While covering up the terroristic methods used to protect officers who don their badges as weapons of personal racial hate on people of color a search for a inkling of justice remains elusive. Truth be known, there is no justice in Cincinnati for people who challenge the County's practices of racial profiling and the cover up that soon follows! Many people from Cincinnati hate what black citizens are forced to endure in the year 2002! Great job Mr. Davis.

This book is fast paced and exciting. The author maintains your interest without making it obvious what will happen next with the contents of the manilla envelope. Its hard to believe that it's fiction, it reads so true. This book would make an excellent movie and Davis deserves a thumbs up on his first book

A good action book with thought provoking plot. How difficult is it to control the out come of elections in a smll state. Maybe easier than we think

One of the best compilations of new writers I have ever experienced. Scott Davis is really onto something here. Cunepress may have just creamed the writing world by bringing together the voices we will all read in the future under one title.

This collection of essays is one of the more important publications to escape the creative confines of Cune Press and burst into the literary world. In an era of diminishing expectations, both of culture and the publishing world, my hope is that it has arrived in time.

I just would like to say that if you are interested in Coastal Morphology but didn't think that you could ever understand the science behind the processes, think again. This book was extremely well writen and easily understood. This was a text I had to buy for a class and is the first text that I actually liked to read. It helped me to understand the concepts of Coastal morphology and how the processes work. Wonderful easy read. Thanks to the author for writing such a great addition to college texts!!!

Easy-to-read reference describing plate tectonics, erosion, changing sea levels, and other topics, with a focus on the coast. Although the term 'evolving' in its title does not refer to the evolution of life, the coast was indeed the environment where many of the most significant evolutionary advances took place.