I loved it, i think it is the best book available until now, it has fabulous graphics, examples, the quality is the best i have ever seen in a book !!

This book is really excellent, it have a lot the exercices and tips about Photoshop 6.0, the chapter about the photoshop plugins is wonderfuld and the color and color corrections references great too.

I'm Argentinian, sorry for my bad english.

The Lighting-Rod Man is one of Melville's lesser known stories. Despite the cold, dark setting, it is more comical than most of his works other works. This satire tells about one door-to-door salesman, and how annoying, pushy, and arrogant he was to his perspective customer (Doesn't seem like a lot has change since then), and how he ends up getting thrown out of the house.
The story The Lighting-Rod Man jumps right into the story in the first paragraph and just goes, which makes it much easier to get into and a much easier read for those that have a hard time getting started reading. I feel that it is worthy buying The Piazza Tales even if you just read this one story let alone the five other stories.

Put simply, this is the best collection of short stories by any American author.

Picasso's Errand is by far one of the funniest books I have read in a very long time. His journey takes the reader through a varying array of emotions-so many times I burst out laughing (loudly, I might add) reading this book. Each character was unique and made the story all the more richer. By the time I got to the last few chapters, I realized I had no choice but to keep reading until I finished it. The book has a surprise ending that I never saw coming which made the book even more captivating up until the end. The story never stalls or lags and keeps the reader interested in how things will turn out for Matthew when his journey ends. Definitely a great book and well worth the time spent reading it.

Hauser's humor will pinch and poke you and then sneak up on you! I read the first chapter in bed and kept waking my wife with my laughter. The personality and character of Mathew Picasso leaps from the pages and allows the reader to "look through Matt's eyes" at everyday life and the many oddities we often overlook. I started to look forward to the introduction and description of new characters, which were entertaining in themselves. The story takes you on a journey that makes you fear for Matt and hate the evil hitchiker. Not since "To Kill a Mockingbird" have I sensed this much fear from a book (and this is a comedy!). The end of the book crashes all of your notions for the driving force behind the "Errand"!

I believe that this is definitely the best book ever written on any form of entertainment in our culture. It is the kind of book that makes you feel a great deal of adulation, sympathy, love, or any other emotion for the characters, the silent screen stars, just by seeing their photographs. The reader can literally feel themselves fall back about ninety or so years while looking through this immense photo gallery which captures stars in their natural element and heydey. Where else can you find big names like Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, and Douglas Fairbanks? Or, names that were big then, like, Norma and Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron, and Alice Joyce? Or, even sound stars who were also silent screen players like, Joan Crawford, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, and Myrna Loy? I would recommend this anthology to anybody, film buff (which I am a HUGE HUGE one!) or photography student. It is an indespensible collection for the eyes to feast on, thousands of pictures of the most important people in the world. Enjoy!!![.]
(This review based on the edition published in 1953, and by Daniel Blum alone.)

The kind of book (originally published, I believe, in the early '60s) which just could not be done today, as photo reproduction costs have skyrocketed. Seemingly millions of scene stills and portraits crammed chronologically into this coffee-table book make it invaluable, compulsive reading for anyone interested in the silent screen. Also search second-hand stores for the late Mr. Blum's "Great Stars of the American Theater."

Our barrier island of N.E. Florida, stretching from Mayport to St. Augustine, is changing day by day. With the rapid development of business and residential areas, our pristine land has but faded memories. Escape from your daily grind, head for the nearest beach chair and relive a wonderful true story.

It is filled with the struggles of a true native family, living on the edge of swampland, a short distance from where a now famous tiger prowls the TPC/Sawgrass golf course. As a reader, one feels blessed to have all the modern conveniences we now enjoy.

A truly inspiring book depicting life at the turn of the century in rural Jacksonville and the surrounding beaches.

Before the age of the internet collectors of Philip K. Dick books had only this volume to help them out. It, too, is now a valuable collector's item in its own right. An essential tome for the fan of PKD and worth every penny of whatever they're charging for it -- Lord RC

For the serious collector of Philip K. Dick books Levack's bibliography is essential. Contains lots of b/w cover scans from before 1988, including some foreign. All kinds of obscure odds and ends in here too. A great book to have.

Wow. What a book. Jabotinsky expressed perhaps the clearest and most logical formulation of Zionism I have yet to read. He is truly one of the most brilliant men of out times. He speaks with a foresight so keen and accurate it borders on prophecy. A must read for anyone who wishes to grasp the meaning of Revisionist Zionism

Wow. What a book. Jabotinsky expressed perhaps the clearest and most logical formulation of Zionism I have yet to read. He is truly one of the most brilliant men of our times. He speaks with a foresight so keen and accurate it borders on prophecy. A must read for anyone who wishes to grasp the meaning of Revisionist Zionism

You won't believe how effortlessly Dan Graham weaves actual events from the career of these political opportunists into hysterical satire. I couldn't put it down. And thank God the whole cigar episode was yet to happen when this novel was written -- I hate to think about what the author would have done with that!

I laughed out loud reading this book. The satire is biting, but truthful. I have recommended this book to many friends.

Portraits Of Himalayan Flowers by Toshio Yoshida (botanical photographer, amateur botanist, and Associate Researcher at the University Museum of the University of Tokyo) is a beautifully presented compilation of natural photography and the compilation of ten years of travel. 108 gorgeous color pictures showcase the wondrous beauty of plants that correspond to the 108 beads of the Tibetan Buddhist rosary. Each full-page photograph includes a brief caption about the flower, as well as a knowing introduction combined to create a highly recommended and brilliantly presented work. Portraits Of Himalayan Flowers is an enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal, professional, or community library Gardening Shelf or Horticultural Studies collection.

This is an incredibly interesting book full of photographs showing the plants in their native environment. Toshio Yoshida did a fantastic job with all 108 full color photographs that are in the book.

By getting down on the ground and looking up at the plants you will get to see a viewpoint that is rarely offered in the world of plant photography.

Each photo caption contains the botanical name of the species as well as a wonderful description. While I'm not a big fan of photography books, the photos in this book definitely made me sit up and take notice.

There are plants in there that I had never seen before which were so unusual that they made me want to find out more about them. If you like unusual plants that are brightly colored or plant photographs that are above the average then you will want to acquire this book for your library.

Many short papers have been published on potassic igneous rocks. However, this is the first comprehensive work on that topic. The book is well written and 'userfriendly' for all geoscientists interested in the association between alkaline rocks and gold-copper deposits worldwide.

There is a number of literature published on potassic rocks. However, this book provides a guide for all geoscientists interested in high-K alkaline rocks, particularly those associated with gold and copper deposits. Well written and edited!