The potential informative content of this book is destroyed by the poor execution of the printed publication. This book which you would expect to be very visually oriented has the majority of its photos so blurred and grainy that they are almost useless. It looks like it was published in someone's basement on an old copy machine. Don't waste your money buying this book.

This book is somewhat cheaply published, the photographs are black and white and low res but the tutorials and interviews are great. My first sculpey head based on the tutorial came out very well and I have no other sculpture training. Great advice on working with Sculpey and there are very few other books like it out there. I hope eventually they can do a second edition thats bigger and has better photos. I'd love to take a class from the author.

This book is a great text for those venturing out in the world of international business... in 1990 that is. The content and layout of this book is very useful, however the second edition lacks the necessary over-haul bringing it up to date from its original version. Try again Dr. Clay.

This second edition of Gudrun Clay's Geschaeftsdeutsch textbook focuses on preparing students to take and pass the Goethe Institute's Pruefung Wirtschaftsdeutsch International. It effectively combines business-oriented reading selections with communicative groups activities, vocabulary acquisition, writing tasks, and up-to-date information. Although its listening comprehension setup is weaker than the rest of the textbook, overall it can form a useful foundation for any third- or fourth-year Business German course at university-level, including application in a community college or night-school environment

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I personally felt that the book was great for the understanding of clay properties. Overall a great book on clays.

Play-doh is so gross that I could faint! It has the lamest theme song, and the sickest smell. It also steals various trade marks: pokemon,seasame street, teletubbies, mc donald's, ect. And also, let me tell you two little stories about my expieriences with that foul mud: story 1. One day, me and my brother michael were watching television, when all the sudden, that annoying and gross commercial interrupted our television program. It was the Mc donald's play-doh set! Later in the day, we ate at mc donald's. Then that night I threw up! Story 2. One morning I went downstairs and ate carrots for break fast. Later in the morning I had a race to the basement with my brother and sister and I was in the lead. then at the finish line was a can of nasty muck- PLAY DOH! then i got sick and ran upstairs quickly. then as soon as I knew it, a pile of mashed up carrots were sitting atop my pajamas. and mom and my sister had to throw it out! Now have you lost your appetite? if so, mention that this review was helpful to you.

I have never heard of a kid that didnt like play-doh. This is a great set, a book and fun creativity all in one.

Heaven help us in the arts if anyone thinks this book is useful for creating works of art. One of the projects uses foil as an armiture and then covers it with pariscraft gauze. I found this to be a very poor guide for creating sculpture, and an inforcement of the worst of what sculpture can be. There was some useful information here and there for the beginner, but not enough to make it worth the price of the book.

Peck's book gives a great overall look at the basic forms of sculpture. As an art teacher, I found it invaluable. She covers the main types of sculpture and helps you to create your own work with a limited budget (a great bonus). There are a lot of pictures to go with her easy to follow directions. If you are just starting, this is a great book to help you on your way.

...then this is probably an okay book to get started. Probably more for teenagers. I was in Salt Lake when K.M. was drafted and the then owner of the team had really wanted Keith Lee but the fans gathered at the Salt Palace were happy Malone was still available. Before his name was announced fans were chanting "Mailman, Mailman..." That draft began a long and very good relationship with the Utah fans. Both have benefited greatly from the union. Unfortunately that part of K.M.'s story isn't in the book. Neither are a lot of things you'd like to know, such as the details of Mr. Malone's famous off-season workouts that make his workout partners puke, although it is touched on. I wanted to know how he developed it and who can keep up with him and what else he does to maintain his high durability in the modern game.

Karl deserves better. I met him his rookie year and found out he was a fantastic person, able to handle fame better than most. At that early stage he could make you feel like you were very important - how many rookie NBA players can do that? I've been a huge fan ever since and I don't even like basketball much.

I read the book hoping to see his development into the best power forward of all time and instead I got a bunch on newspaper clippings and vignettes on early NBA thugs. I think there's more to Mr. Malone than that. I think there's more to his development as a player than what I read.

He still hasn't won a championship. Well neither did Barry Sanders, Carl Yastremski, Gale Sayers or even Jerry Sloan. K.M is a great basketball player and an even better person - he deserves a better story than what the book told.

That Karl Malone fellow has been on the man show, movies, W.C.W, and knows Maxercise purple belt Mark Beekman. What else can a superstar basketball player accomplish?! The book is great, just like my girlfriend Joelle Fillipo and that Barry Sanders guy the dude mentioned when reviewing the book. Karl Malone should break the all-time record in a few years for points to show that Jason Haines from Parkway Manor kissed Jennifer Sue Frisch!

Easy to read book that takes you from the very beginning of the rules on how to move the checkers to the theory on when to double, and when to accept a double. It includes a chapter on probabilities, as well as brief chapters on duplication, tournaments, and chouette play.

It is not at the level of the books by Robertie, or Woolsey (in terms of fine points of strategy) but a very solid and complete introduction.

Mr. Wolfe's caricatures are gross exaggerations of the human form and may not appeal to potential doll or figure sculpters. They are remarkable specifically because they are so grotesque! Mr. Wolfe does give several hints that would benefit dollmakers - create a concave hole in the end of an appropriately-sized dowel to sculpt eyeballs directly in the face clay, or to hold a separately created eyeball in position for adhering to the face clay. I'm glad I read through the book, but it's not one I intend to keep as reference material.

Okay, so if you're like me, you've been looking at alternate ways to own a home and have probably stumbled upon this little book, probably because you've heard somewhere else about building with earth and maybe even specifically cob. This quest probably generated all kinds of questions for you, such as what is cob and why do they call it that? If you have asked those questions, then you want this book. This book primarily concerns cob and clay structures in the British Isles which makes it also a very handy little book for students of that regions architectural styles. It would also seem ideal for anyone taking a walking tour of the more rural parts of Englnad Scotland and Wales as it readily shows the different styles of earth building prominent in those regions as well as goes into detail about technique and history. The author takes a cursory close look at some restorations and examines some buildings that have been left in disrepair since they were vacated. It is here that I found the greatest value in the book as someone currently ingterested in working with the material. Here is several hundred years of historical evidence as to what this material is really capable of. This is not some guy telling you about the durability of this construction system. This is what has happened to cob homes over years of use. Overall it is great confidence booster and testimonial to the material itself, proving just how beautiful and durable it is.

Clay Allison is regarded by my most historians as a psychopathic killer, yet John A Truett has written a very readable novel sympathetic to Allison's cause. This book should not be taken as completely factual, and should be remembered that it is a novel. Yet the skeleton of this story is based upon fact, and is incorporated into some fictitious storylines. Clay Allison as a man suffered a split personality, believed to stem from epilepsy, and this is a fact Truett relies upon to explain why this otherwise, gentleman, found himself plagued by troublesome incidents. Allison's obvious flaw in life was his insatiable appetite for drink, which certainly contributed to many of his altercations, some of which proved to be fatal. Truett's portrayal of Allison is a competent business man and was also a valuable member of the community, with an overbearing need to see justice done. His stubborness and fun loving nature are emphasized in this novel, and both characteristics could at times contribute to his less glorious moments. Yet consistently through the story Allison himself tries to justify all of his deeds, and Truett does an excellent job of putting that across to the readers. It certainly provides an interesting alternative to the usual interpretation of Allison's life. The book succeeds in provoking sympathy for this controversial figure. John A. Truett should be commended for his ability to tell a good tale, which is based upon so many factual events.