Andy's book Photoshop 7 Creative Workshop is a real treat. Finally a book that gives me creative ideas that I can use in the REAL world. The book is divided into workshops with easy-to-read details on how to do each special effect, and the companion Web site has access to al the images used in the book.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to take Photoshop to the next step... it's really good.

Do you ever take a look at old school books from days gone by? This was an interesting book then and it still is essential in so many ways. My mother had saved this book and I recently rediscovered this essential classic.

The Contents Include:

The Anglo-Saxon Period

The Seafarer
Beowulf
BEDE

The Medieval Period

Early English and Scottish Ballads
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas Malory

The Elizabethan Age

Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Philip Sidney
Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
Thomas Campion
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Francis Bacon

The Seventeenth Century

John Donne
George Wither
Sir John Suckling
Richard Lovelace
Edmund Waller
George Herbert
Henry Vaughan
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvel
John Milton
Samuel Pepys
John Dryden

The Eighteenth Century

Daniel Defoe
Richard Steele
Joseph Addison
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Oliver Goldsmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Gray
Robert Burns
William Blake

The Romantic Age

William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Lamb
George Gordon
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats

The Victorian Age

Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Henry Newman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Matthew Arnold
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thomas Hardy

The Twentieth Century

Joseph Conrad
A.E. Housman
William Butler Yeats
E. M. Forster

Katherine Mansfield
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrance
T.S. Eliot

Contemporary British Writing

George Orwell
Evelyn Waught
Sean O'Faolain
Frank O'Connor
Stephen Spender
Graham Greene
Dylan Thomas
Doris Lessing

Essential discussions include the growth of the English Language, The King James Bible, and The English Novel. This book also contains English Paintings, A Literary Map of Central London, Literary Terms and Techniques and great index.

Each writer/painter has a mini-biography which is the real highlight of this work. What is terribly interesting is what one marks in a school book that interests one. Then, years later you read them again and realize that these poems and stories helped to create who you are today.

After reading Ulysses, you learn to love the good and bad in life and that all you see and experience becomes a part of you.

"Much have I seen and known-cities of men
.......I am a part of all that I have met"

Then you have other highlights of note:

Ozymandias
Macbeth - can you ever wash your hands again and not remember "Out, damned spot!"
The Tiger By William Blake
Ode ton a Grecian Urn
The Lady of Shalott
Tears, Idle Tears
In Memoriam

"Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand," -In Memoriam

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
When I Have Fears by John Keats
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Silent noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
When You are Old by William Butler Yeats
Epilogue to a Human Drama by Stephen Spender

"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or walked to ecstasy the living lyre."
-Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

This book makes me so nostalgic for warm classrooms and sunny days spent listening to teachers read, all while wishing you were living in this literary dream. Finally, you can now spend time reflecting on years of learning and rediscover the essentials of English Literature.

Words can be heaven or hell for the soul.

This is a wonderful little book filled with 1-2 page anecdotes from days gone by. The author writes in a conversational fashion, creating a relaxed tone that enhances his stories of the rural Virginia of his birth. The stories range from heart-warming to incredulous but are always entertaining and frequently produce a hearty laugh for the reader. It would be a welcome addition for anyone looking for diversion from these hectic times.

African Safaris is aclassic that has been out of print for quite a while and is now, thankfully, back in print. Anderson went from officer in the 18th Hussars, to coffe farmer, to one of the proffesional hunters for the 1924 safari of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), to his term as the organizer and first president of the East Africa Professional Hunters Association. Probably of greatest interest is his long lasting friendship with the great Jim Sutherland. This book provides some of the best information on Sutherland, besides his own book. The book covers his early forays into elephant hunting, his wartime experiences, his times hunting with Jim Sutherland, photographic safaris, game besides elephants, and a wonderfull description of what a white hunter should be. This is a wonderfull book that makes the time fly by. It is a wonderfull view into what African safaris were in their heyday.

Louise C. Anderson brings us a world of joy and close-knit family relations as she relates the story of a young girl growing up on her family's vegetable farm in rural Wisconsin. It's a time of danger from animals and fires, innocence, country schools, and the complete reliance on local papers and the rural mail delivery system for all your news and gossip. The book transports one to a time not so long ago in a very wonderful read. I highly recommend After the Sun Has Set.

Pure and classic Science Fiction. Fast paced with unexpected twists and turns. I read it in one sitting and then reread it. This could be the beginning of a great series. My only question is when is the sequal due out?

A great book on cribbage. Highly recommended

hi there, my teacher is teaching my orchestra with all for strings i have complete book one and two this book rocks! i play viola * no really? * this is a great book it will teach you just what you need! i can't wait to finish book 3!

*/sj

This book is good for beginners from age 6 and above. It covers almost all basics in music notation, and progress at an easy pace throughout the book. Selection of music is nice, though sometimes I came across a few other adaptations and variaty in other books. I am a violin teacher, and I highly recommend this book as teaching material for new beginners to music.

Covers the basics such as cash flow, etc. Helps the nonprofit reader to get a glimpse into the world of the Donor-Investor who visits PhilanthropyNet.org and SocialCapital.net