This book is unique, among the many logo books I have owned or seen, for including a higher percentage of "retail" branding logos alongside the usual complement of arty and edgy graphic design identity marks. This upsets some readers who expect all edge, no cheese. But as I see it, one of the principle values of this book is supporting you when you are called back from Planet Ego to Planet Earth from time to time, to help you when you are stumped over that P.O.P. type treatment or retail branding logo that you need by tomorrow noon.

On another note, it does have some logos that are, as someone here says, ten years old, that have been in all the annuals several times already. I, too, do wish the entries were all marked by date. And further, I would love to have a collection of this scope culled from work I know to be 5 years old or less. It almost seems like a cheat to pump up the number of logos included in a non-history-focused volume by dipping back a decade.

All in all, The Big Book of Logos is a nice addition to the library of either ad agency or design house, while it doesn't at all replace the Graphis logo annuals or anything of that caliber.

This is a great inspirational book for logo designers! I find it to be a valuable addition to my design library. The only criticism I have is that this book was not carefully edited. There are low-resolution logos peppered throughout and logo placement does not always match logo descriptions. If you can get past this small speed bump, you have an excellent book.

This book has 2,500 of the best logos done by designers from all across America and nothing else. This book was put together so it could become a compendium of logos that one can use to see different styles and techniques and jump start their own creative juices. The book is full color and the only way to navigate the book is through the Index. There is no table of contents. Each page has a few logos with credit given to each the designers at the bottom of the page in very small print.

Every few pages, there is a full page devoted to just one company logo. But the cool part is that this full page has pictures of the logo in action - whether it is on the product packaging, bill board, or store front sign. This is very helpful as it gives you a context to judge the power of the logo. Just a graphics image against a white page background means you need to use your imagination trying to picture how the logo's going to look in its intended use.

Whether you are a designer or a small business owner that wants to get a logo done through a designer, this book is an invaluable tool. If you are a designer, you can use it to get your creative juices to flow or just admire the work done by others for inspirational reasons. If you are a small business owner, you can use it to work with your logo designer. You can point out some of the logos and just say 'I like these' and that gives the designer a place to start in creating your logo. This avoids a lot of wasted work as you are both trying to figure out what you like and what best represents your business image.

When I first started doing research on good logo design books, I was confused by the number of logo books by this author. The names are a little misleading when you try to figure out which one is the more recent version. I finally decided to use the publication date for this purpose and this book happens to be the latest (published in May 2003). We recently started offering Corporate Identity Management services to small businesses through our company and we are finding that this book is an invaluable tool in communicating with our clients. Especially if our clients are in another city, we just ask them to get a copy of this book before starting the project.

Even if you aren't a designer or someone looking for design services, this book is still fun to flip through if you are the creative type. The price is just phenomenally low for something of this high quality (I am trying to imagine the price of printing along considering it's full color). If you have to even remotely work with logos, just get the book. It's a decision that I haven't regretted even for a second. Have fun!

This novel was my introduction to Angela Carter, and what an introduction it was! The novel was originally published (I believe) in the early 80's, and smacks of magical realism as well as profound dollops of surrealism and eroto-psychedelia. Carter's prose is dense and precise, intensive rather than expansive, but the images keep coming, and if anything, one can feel swamped in the flood of dreams, but in a satisfying way. Really, to say Carter evokes Burroughs or any other author may convey a reader's subjective impression, but Carter is on her own trip, a protracted journey through history and psyche, and an examination of the sensual magic of words and imagination made manifest in miraculous ambiguity and ambivalent sexuality. Her highly original prose style often feels like a good translation from another language - most of the action takes place in Latin America, and at times I was hard pressed to remember that I was not reading a Latin American author. This book is recommended, though not an easy read due to the density of Carter's prose and the depth of her philosophical examination of the roots of dream and imagination. But she takes you on a journey that within a few pages becomes irresistible, and takes you to places that surprise, delight, and disturb, and that you will not soon forget.

As an Englsih major with a facination with cyberpunk, I think that this novel is fabulous!! In many ways the situations that Deserdio gets into remind me of the pratfalls and accidents of William Burrough's finest. Both share a vague sense of cause and effect--the reader in never sure how the character got into his situation or what he will have to do in order to get out of it. In many ways, I think Dr. Hoffman is a mix of ETA Hoffman and William Burroughs. Hoffman contributes the gothic surreality and Burroughs contributes the theme of escaping. Good luck! This is great. I love it so much I have two copies of it...one is sort of beat up.

Angela Carter's neo-Swiftian tale of Desiderio and his search for Doctor Hoffman is oftentimes so brilliant that it is mind numbing.

Through a surrealistic swirling pattern of images, illusions, allusions and memories, Desiderio, the narrator of the journey, travels through a wild range of cultures and attitudes on his philsophical journey to find Dr. Hoffman, the brilliant scientist whose mental images are slowly destroying any reality of the world. On his journey. Desiderio meets carnival folks, gentle river-dwelling natives, an animalistic whorehouse, a tribe of cannibals (or two), and in the best Swiftian fashion, a tribe of religious centaurs before finally reaching the Doctor's compound.

Through a skillful use of the erotic as philosophy, Carter takes us on a journey that makes us reconsider what our own views of the erotic, the realistic, the profane and the profound are, and how we justify them with every day life.

I did enjoy this book, though I only head half of it. It is written in such a way that the first half deals with you when you're not in a relationship and the second half deals with you when you're already in one. I had trouble connecting with it though. Some things were very true -- they were common sense. I was looking for help on how to deal with my lack of self-worth to help me find the right guy; I did not find it here.
But I must emphasize, the book is still great :)

This a powerful book. I found it to be more influential than most relationship books. Though I was a bit uncomfortable at first with the untraditional layout - the information is not organized into respective chapters and seems to flow from one subject to another continuously - it was that very conversational style that seemed to drive the authors' points home in a most profound way. Some of those points were:

-To get to the end you must start from the beginning; think about connecting with men before you start thinking about marriage/babies
-everyone makes mistakes, so give men a chance
-husband's usually don't resemble magazine models
-abuse is abuse
-behaviors and conversations to avoid on dates

The tone of the book was more practical than spiritual. The authors do not present "following your heart" and "soul mates" as precepts. For a read along those lines I would recommend mystical relationship books by Deepak Chopra.

This book was also quick and easy read without being too wordy and conceptual; great if you're a busy person.

This book is so simply written, yet very powerful. It gave me the confidence and courage to break off an abusive relationship and start a new! I highly reccomend it to any woman who has low self-esteem. This book will change your life!

As a direct source this book is valuable and needed. To the casual reader of history (like myself) it is a bit of a drag. The book has highlights but the authors are writing it to their contemporaries. It is difficult for the modern reader to grasp exactly what is happening. I think a book with maps and further explanations as to motivations and battle tactics (to a layman like me) would have been of greater interest. One thing I can say, however, is that you get a first hand look at what Caesar must have been like. The book clearly shows his side in the most favorable light (not surprising) but not as much as one would think.

An account of the civil war that had to happen with two such colossal egos as Caesar and Pompey. This is a less famous episode than the Octavian-Anthony war, but just as important, as it laid the ground for the appointment of a dictator which eventually evolved into the position of emperor, and also Caesars death. Not as well written or as clear as Caesars commentaries from Gaul, but give a clearer insight into the divisions in Roman politics, as others are thought to have contributed to the writings. A great follow up to Caesars commentaries from Gaul.

This is the concluding half of Caesar's Commentaries, the first half of which appears as "The Conquest of Gaul". Everything I wrote about that book is also true here. This is a marvelous example of a first-hand historical account of major events written by the major protagonist. A rare and precious thing, to say the least. Caesar wrote his "Commentaries" for the popular consumption of the citizens back home. Propagandist though they may have been in their original purpose, they nevertheless are an accurate account of events and they vividly showcase the talents of their author. Besides being a consumate general and politician, Caesar was also a great speaker, a careful observer, and an outstanding writer. His writing is at once concise, informative and interesting.

This book includes three accounts that are thought to have been written by some of Caesar's lieutenants. While this may bring down the quality of the narrative a bit, it is certainly understandable given the human whirlwind that was Caesar during these years. From the crossing of the Rubicon in 49 B.C., where the book begins, Caesar proceeded to occupy Rome, pacify Spain, defeat Pompey at Pharsalus, establish Cleopatra on the throne of Egypt, defeat his opponents at Thapsus, and dispose of the last opposition forces in southern Spain by 45 B.C.

A few months after these events, Caesar was assassinated in Rome after assuming the position of "perpetual dictator". It was argued that Caesar sought to be King of Rome. In fact, however, he was not the first to assume the position of Dictator after emerging successfully from civil strife. Both Marius and Sulla had gained similar powers within the preceding 60 years. For those interested in a fictional, but nevertheless vivid and historically accurate account of this entire period, I suggest Colleen McCullough's series, beginning with "The First Man In Rome" and continuing (so far) through five volumes, the latest of which is entitled "Caesar". More are planned.

As for "The Civil War", it may not be quite as exciting or compelling as "The Conquest of Gaul", but it is still excellent reading. And it's all true. Try it. I think you'll like it.

This book does provide some wonderful insights and helpful ideas for managing nonprofits. And since I'm always on the lookout for resources to help me do my job better, I'd like to recommend that readers also purchase The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management, Second Edition by Stanley Weinstein. It was just published (by Wiley, I think), and it offers step-by-step guidance in how to manage just about every aspect of fundraising ((major gifts, planned giving, capital campaigns, etc.). It even has a CD-ROM with customizable forms and worksheets that really will help me day-to-day.

I use this as the only text for an undergraduate nonprofit management course. It is easy to read and easy to understand, but not simplistic. The book covers the basics and provides enough information to get an overview of the main functions of a nonprofit organization.

This is a good book for anyone just getting into non-profit management or just starting to study it. It would also be a good handbook to keep and refer back to. The information is fairly basic but is very relevant. Not for anyone needing more in-depth information or anyone who has already studied the field. Chapters are divided so that information can be found easily on specific topic areas.

The writing is fairly decent and the circumstances of the author's self-destruction are certainly interesting to those of us who can't imagine sliding into that kind of lifestyle. She does a good job of answering the inevitable question: Why did you do it?

Yet I tired of the book half way through and was forced to put in down a few chapters later. And I rarely leave a book unfinished. I think Carter is just obsessed with herself and her family's "status". OK so she's a well-off jewish girl who grew up in manhattan with "intellectual" parents. And ironies of ironies, some slimey working class muslim guy gave her HIV. WOW. How many times does she need to discuss her background and how ironic it was that she became a junkie/prostitute? After a while it sounds more like pride than an explanation.

Ultimately, one wonders if Carter is really a writer or has simply done a decent job in telling her outlandish autobiographical odyssey. If she really thinks she's a writer, than she should undertake the task of writing something that's less of an act of narcissm.

Glory Goes and Gets Some is a great read, but also absolutely shocking. Some of the things this narrator does are incredible. As she narrates, she takes us through her life, instead of through a rose tinted view of the world, we see things as reality hits her at the moment. Her ups, and her downs, and her journey as she spirals towards the darkest parts of herself, at the end, still trying to understand who she is. Emily Carter does a great job with this book, I found myself able to see the character through her eyes, although some parts I found rather personally distasteful (like the part where she mentions having had faked at least 100 orgasms before she hit her mid-twenties is horrible! And having sex with some guy just for [$]! Whoa!) and some parts I was left wondering why it was even mentioned, but it was all still part of what made the reading so unique and the main character so refreshingly different.

By this series of semi-autobiographical short stoies, Carter established herself as a promising new writer, who already sounds like a master. With her own very unique and artful voice, this collection maintains certain quality. Yet, what shocks us most here is her signiture first person narrative style with which she achieved the excellence of one-woman show that is the entirely objective, fearless and pitiless self-exposition, sometime with the brutality of her sincerelity, sometime with the breathtaking wisdom that came from her entirely collected self- awareness.
Even though there are some dull moments during her too remote and unenvolving handle of third person narrative stories, this collection 'Glory goes and gets some' forever rocks and wails for readers such as youth in cities, having hope only to get despaied or women in all ages when they have doubt for their lives. Read 'All the men are called MaCabe', and hail Carter's cleverly woven, almost singing-like modern day life lessons. You will find it only comes back to ONESELF, which is the very favorite word [self] of Carter as she claims.
Am very much looking forward to reading Carter's next work.

That says it. The first few chapters were ok, but after that it got so tedious that I couldn't finish it.

The stories are supposed to be about the "wild days of rock and roll". Unfortunately, during the course of the book, not very much interesting happens. The writing is stiff and predictable.

Dinky Dawson used to run sound at The Channel nightclub. I think I met him when Roy Orbison did his second to last show. When his name was on this book I flipped through it at a store and had to buy it. There are books with rock & roll secrets, and this one tells them without being a gossip book. It is a real book about real things that fans want to know - more like The Wall Street Journal going behind the scenes than the National Enquirer. Carter Alan does a good job telling the stories like he's reading this on the air at WZLX, the classic rocker in Boston where he's a dj. It is folksy, but there is great content here - stuff that you won't find anywhere else. The book doesn't say if Dawson is out there still recording people and doing sound. It would be cool to see the guy in action after reading this book.

This fast-moving yet thoughtful mystery is refreshing on a number of levels, in particular because the crime solver isn't a middle-aged white guy who cracks wise about the same topics as every other detective in American crime fiction. Other plusses are the Paris setting and the interesting peek into the world of black musicians over the past several decades. Give this one a whirl; it's worth your time.

Here is a book that is quick on a good evening and won't totally bog the reader with a lot of filler. Nanette Hayes, on request of her mother, goes in search for her idol, Aunt Vivian, who seem to have left a couple of cryptic messages with mom. On route of searching, she is derailed by playing sax on street corners, meeting her male antagonist, who will be her lover, dirty dives, and a hotel room where her aunt resided. A duffel bag, one hundred dollars in a jacket pocket, and a picture of a old jazz musician puts her and her new conquest on the search, and somehow leads her to the missing relative, along with the drama and danger that comes along. Straight to the point and humerous, Nanette is a heroine that will charm you and a story that will keep you turning the pages.

Charlotte Carter's absorbing Coq au Vin is a witty, erotic and moving love song to Paris and its "glamorous black past" of jazz musicians, singers, and artists. Sax-playing New Yorker Nanette Hayes is on a mission in her beloved Paris to find her missing free-spirited aunt. Nanette finds hot sex and romance first, and big trouble second, confirming her fear that she brings doom to those she cares about. While the mystery is slight, Coq au Vin's romantic comedy is the real deal, and so is the serious heartbreak.

From the first few pages I knew I had made a mistake purchasing this book. It is formulaic light horror romance of the worst kind. The plot as well as the characters are predictable and ultimately forgettable with a juvenile interpretation of the werewolf archetype.

I purchased this book not knowing much about the author but I found the book to be fun and exciting. It's not your ordinary werewolf novel but it was gruesome enough to keep my interest. Lately I have found that female werewolves are alot more entertaining than the traditional male werewolf genre.

Margaret L. Carter has written an intelligent and intriguing novel that reads very much like something out of real life, with the exception that we are given entree into the life of a woman who is a werewolf. Usually, werewolf novels tend to be overly male-centric and treat the werewolf as a mindless beast crazed with bloodlust. So, it was for me, very refreshing to read a novel about a WOMAN WEREWOLF. (The transformation sequences were well done. I could appreciate Jenny's anxiety when she woke up one morning naked not far from the remnants of an animal she had killed the previous night as a wolf. Frightened, she managed to make it home, barely escaping exposure. )

I was also fascinated with the way Jenny, through psychoanalysis, was able to tap into her "Wolf" side, overcome a number of challenges, and learn to fully embrace and accept being a werewolf.

Hopefully, in future, more intelligently written and imaginative werewolf novels will come into the market. Novels that feature men and women alike as werewolves, hailing from all walks of life. May some deft writer or group of writers do for the werewolf genre what Anne Rice has already done for vampires!