Wow... comprehensive and thorough. This text is very well put together with easily understandable text and challenging exercises. This is the most impressive series of percussion texts i have run in to.

Craig Hanken has given us a magnificent book on landscape painting written as a reflection of how paintings and a body of work develop over time. As a former student of the artist, I am continually taken with Leake's ability to use a narrow palette of color, and sometimes the same landscape over and over, to express an amazing range and depth of feeling about the landscape. This book is a joy to read and to use as a resource - Leake explains his use of color and choice of locations in terms that the general specator can appreciate and the student can try an emulate. The numerous images are well chosen and well reproduced. A classic.

yes the book addresses to basics. but some live and practical examples sould have been included.

This book did an excellent job labeling and organizing plants in the southwest area. For those who do not know much about the plants in this area, or about plants in general, then this book is a good starters guide in this field. The information given about these plants are simple to understand but also in depth for those looking for more factual references. The pictures are accurate and well drawn, so these plants are easier identified. The authors of this book did a vantastic job describing with clarity and in depth descritpions of the wide-range of plants covering this area.