This book, with its charts of sample mixes and color tones in various media, is a great asset if you are just begining to paint portraits or people. It will give you a good basic understanding of color mixing for skin tones. ( no need to buy premixed colors! Be able to paint the nuance of people, not reduce everyone to the same "skin tones.") In addition, it discussed the effects of shadow and reflected color. Nice illustrations, photos and color charts.

I found this book to be very helpful. Not only did it go in depth about tecniques for creating realistic paintings and portraits, but it also had a complete color guide for creating specific skin tones! I also enjoyed the step by step demonstrations, which again proved useful. I'd recommend this book to artists of all media, whether you work with oils, watercolors, acrylics, gouache, or pastel, this book will be a valuble resource.

I met at Patricia Reilly, the author of "I Promise Myself," at a recent booksigning in Salt Lake City. "I Promise Myself" is an amazing book and I made all of my high school friends read it. They all agreed that we girls need to affirm, appreciate, and love ourselves before anyone else. This in itself is a wonderful idea. But in a society such as ours, where we are told that pleasing others is our first priority, where we are taught that beauty is more important than comfort and love, and where we are ashamed of our sexuality and womanhood, this notion of self-affirmation isn't just wonderful...it's painfully needed. Patricia and her book are a wonderful example to me and to every one else.

I Promise Myself is a book to sit with and thumb through and read ten thousand times or more. Reilly shows us, through a vow composition process, how to truly know ourselves and find the inner strength needed to live in this hectic and often externally-focused world. The book is especially helpful to women who, as PLR describes it, tend to get caught up in the 'swirls' of others... ever the caretaker, ever the giver, ever the one who depends on others for strength. It has helped me through times of crisis by allowing me to define the natural center of my self to which I can always return.

This is an excellent book with an extremely insightful and fascinating chapter written by Mark I. Gruhin. He is a very skilled writer and lawyer, and I look forward to his future writings.

Being a lawyer in NYC, I was very impressed with some Inside the Minds: Interne Lawyers. Although it is impossible to cover every Internet related topic, the book does a good job at covering some very interesting topics. In addition, the individuals portrayed in the book represent a good cross sampling of different talents related to Internet law. I particularly enjoyed the interview with Mark Fischer at Palmer & Dodge. If you are a woman, make sure to also check out Inside the Minds: Leading Women.

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A handful of years ago Thomas Thompson (of the Copenhagen School) wrote a message on an Internet listserv that he did not consider Roland K. Harrison to be a historian. However that was about 1995 and Harrison's book is from 1969 when the issues of historicity were not the same.

Harrison begins his "introduction" (the book runs over 1300 pages) with a review of the development of Old Testament study. A special chapter is dedicated to the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis and another chapter to reactions to the same. This section is followed by ones on archaeology, chronology, and the text and canon of the Old Testament. Following sections deal with Old Testament history, religion, and
theology.

After almost 500 pages, Harrison begins to deal with the books of the Old Testament beginning with the Pentateuch. This is followed by sections of the prophets and the writings, the other two sections of the Tanakh. Finally comes a section on the Apocrypha.

Needless to say Harrison's Introduction is thorough. His includes some 400 pages more than that of Robert Pfeiffer and 850 pages more than Osterley and Robinson. THIS book is the place to start for anyone interested in what we call Old Testament studies.

If you want a quick and easy intro to the Old Testament, do not buy this book, as it is long and detailed. If you are a serious student of the scriptures who wants as good of an intro as possible to aid your understanding of the Old Testament, then this is the book for you. This is one of the few academic works about which I can actually say that it made a true difference in my confidence about the truth of Christianity. Highly recommended.

These reviews must be to hard for the authors to read. The only easy ones would the indifferent reviews since the negative ones are upsetting and the great ones are embarrassing. This review is the latter. Being Fifty it's hard to have any heroes these days, especially living heroes but, Jim Harrison fit's the bill. My other hero Neil Welliver, the painter, reminds me so much of Harrison in his individual thinking, direct approach, outspokeness and belief in their own vision. Descartes could have said "If you don't think for yourself, you don't exist" but this would have been a rather hard line for Descartes at the time( the Pope and all). Harrison(not too concerned about the Pope) does take that hard line in all his work and, like Welliver, has created individual, strongly felt and clearly defined worlds and opinions. These worlds help the viewer or the reader find strength, direction and inspiration to work on worlds of there own.

Harrison's Just Before Dark sets itself apart from other works of non-fiction and leaves the reader astonished. Out on the landscape of Hemingway's A Movable Feast, Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie, and Faulkner's Go Down Moses; Harrison has brought forth his expedient andric style in this collection of indelible truths. Divided into Food, Travel & Sport, and Literary Matters the book is saturated with wisdom, humor, and insight into every subject from, bird hunting with a French Count, to bar pool, to Ernest Hemingway, to Zen writings. Whether it's sharing with the reader travel tips through America's dirt roads or showing us the complex simplicity in a walk at dusk, Harrison gives the reader an escape that is based in reality yet woven in the fantastic. In my personal copy stars or markings may appear next to titles or lines. By doing this I realize that I am inevitably suggesting that one story transcends another and therefore is somehow healthier than the rest but no assumption could be more crooked. My tattered, marked, and exhausted copy sits as reminder that some books are truly priceless.

Like the book and movie Pay It Forward, this book has the power to change lives and most of all, communities. Through 2-3 page interviews of Lopez Islanders, the reader's heart is connected to the richness of life. The messages in every "story" are: live each moment to the fullest, connection with nature heals and enriches the soul, and kindness to others changes people and creates community. Lopez Island is known as "the friendly island." The reputation has created a self-fulfilling prophecy that comes through clearly in this book; kindness has become a pleasant responsibility. The reader knows the characters not just through the writings, but is as intimately connected through photos. The black and white portraits of the islanders show the sparkle in their souls. I hope there is another Kindred Spirits coming soon! The authors, I am certain, have only touched the surface of the character of this island community. --Dawn Ellis

Kindred Spirits shares the touching stories of real people who have chosen a more intentional and simple life. Their stories reveal the challenges and the beauty of life's journey. and inspire the reader to connect with the journey of their own spirit. The book is a beautifully written and photographed and captures the magic of life on a beautiful island off of the coast of Washington. A beautiful gift for those on a spiritual journey.

Babs Harrison's book, Kitschy Canape's, is the answer to that important time when your guests first arrive. Will they stay splinted into uninteresting pods or form into a cohesive unit the result of which is FUN!! Bab's Canapes are a magnet which draws people together. Forget chips and dips. Get into Ramaki the new way, try Deb's Sausage Rolls and many more. An added bonus to the content of this book is the hip style of Harrison's writing. A must for those who entertain.

And we thought folks had forgotten the glory of rumaki, the zest of curried cashews, and the zing of the California dip! Babs Harrison hasn't forgotten any of these retro edibles and her book is a must for anybody holding a cocktail party. Even better, the book is packed with humorous tips ("party manner"). And don't miss the recipe for Deb's Sausage Rolls!

LIGHT by M John Harrison marks a return for this author to science fiction of a genre type - it's a big, thrill-packed space opera that delivers on all the promise of his long-ago CENTAURI DEVICE. Yet simultaneously it retains all the characteristics of his writing since that time - the peculiar take on things that appears in his short stories is present here, with bizarrely-named characters and unexpected ideas aplenty. This novel is a Moebius strip woven of three plots - the quantum physicist and serial killer Kearney and how his fate intersects with that of Seria Mau Genlicher, K-ship pilot; and with that of 'Chianese' Ed, hooked on a strangely addictive form of virtual reality. Behind all this is the shadowy presence of the Shrander, an entity whose agenda is perhaps? made clear by the astounding climax to this novel. It's difficult to rate this book too highly, since it succeeds on so many levels. I was blown away by the visual impact of a scene where a coin is set spinning on its edge as two characters race through a mazelike habitation; and that was but one tiny thread in this complex book. I loved the off-kilter Kray sisters, menacing oddball characters to rival such great Harrison creations from earlier books as Benedict Paucemanly. The light in the Kefahuchi Tract illuminates a book which is a sheer pleasure to read and hits the buttons of both action and literary quality. A must-read!

For baffling reasons, this book is not available in the U.S. It is a remarkable story worth checking out. It won the James A. Tiptree Award in 2003.