books about: combinations

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Combinations

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair

William F. Powell

Walter Foster, 2006

Mixing Colour
This is great value for a novice that needs help to mix skin colours. The text is kept to a minimum and the charts clear to understand.

Chess Tactics for Champions: A step-by-step guide to using tactics and combinations the Polgar way

Susan Polgar, Paul Truong

Random House Puzzles & Games, 2006

Amazing book!!!
This is an incredible chess book!!! You want to improve your chess?? Read this book and solve the puzzles, but solve them seriously! Dont look for the answer at the end of the chapter, some of them are not easy, but keep practicing, every day solve some puzzles, you ...

Ultimate Juicing: Delicious Recipes for Over 125 of the Best Fruit & Vegetable Juice Combinations

Donna Pliner Rodnitzky

Three Rivers Press, 2000

We Love It
The book is awesome and it gave me great ideas for making fresh juices and mixed drinks.

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, ...

Roy Blount Jr.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

A joy for the word lover
One of my great pleasures is listening to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on NPR each week. Many of the panelists and guests are very clever and funny, but Roy Blount Jr. adds a deep gravitas to his humorous contributions. Much of that gravitas comes from his deep baritone ...

Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start ...

C. Colston Burrell

Rodale Books, 2008

Love This Book
Although I have a plethora of gardening books, this one stands out as one of my favorites. It shows a picture example on every page. It has planting diagrams (garden plans) so you can duplicate what you see and it gives a lot of information about the plants. It's ...

Designer Plant Combinations: 105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer
Scott Calhoun

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2008

For every gardener who has hesitated over plant pairings or wondered if an array of favorite plants will work well together in the garden, Designer Plant Combinations inspires and delights with professionally designed combinations using just two to six plants. Here are the secrets to combining French lavender with California fuchsia; prairie ...

The Beader's Color Palette: 20 Creative Projects and 220 Inspired Combinations for Beaded and Gemstone Jewelry

Margie Deeb

Watson-Guptill, 2008

Lovely pictures, great information, gorgeous color palettes, what more can a beader want?
Margie Deeb hits a home run with The Beader's Color Palette, a lush 192 page book full of inspiration, color palettes and jewelry projects. The book opens with an introduction followed by brief sections on how to read the palettes and creating palettes. Margie then ...

Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media

Jim Krause

How, 2002

excellent resource
This is an excellent resource for any designer. It is very handy and durable. This book organizes color palettes by style: Basic, Active, Quiet, Progressive, Rich, Cultural, Natural, etc. Color Index 2 is different because it organizes color palettes by 'root' ...

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

Laszlo Polgar

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006

A good chess puzzle book
This book has a large collection of chess puzzles. A lot of them are not realistic. But even a small portion of them are good, that's quite a large number. It's worth every penny.

Color Index 2: Over 1500 New Color Combinations. For Print and Web Media. CMYK and RGB Formulas.

Jim Krause

How, 2007

Great book, but calibrate your monitor!
I thought the book was a little whacked until I realized my monitor was out of calibration. I used the Eye-One Display 2 Monitor Calibrator to calibrate my monitor and now I am getting colors that are VERY close to the book. There isn't much to say about it except ...

ColorSense: Creative Color Combinations for Crafters

Susan Levin

Sixth&Spring Books, 2008

No matter how confident you are about color, Color Sense is a fantastic source of ideas for color combinations of all kinds.
I must have read (and probably own) dozens of books about color theory. Some I've found close to worthless, some are useful, and a very few are really helpful. Color Sense is one of those. Levin, a cofounder of K1C2 (a great knitting company) and inventor of the ...

Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing

Pat Rogondino, Michael Rogondino

Chronicle Books, 2000

Nice book
Well, I've been using CorelDraw for a short time, and this book helped me a lot about printing preview colors.

Wine & Cheese Pairing Guide: Your Exciting Search for Wow! Combinations

Norm Ray, Barbara Ray

Rayve Productions, 2006

Readers are encouraged to understand why they like different flavors, for optimum pairing of the two.
There's over a thousand wines and a thousand cheeses in the world with many possible taste combinations: if you want to take the guesswork out of the process, be sure WINE & CHEESE PAIRING GUIDE: YOUR EXCITING SEARCH FOR WOW! COMBINATIONS is close at hand. It doesn't ...

Ultra-Custom Semi Trucks (Gallery)

Bette S. Garber

Motorbooks, 2008

Beauty Trucks' Premiere Photog
I actually have not seen this book yet, but have seen Bette's previous books, and they are all must-have's for the beauty truck fan, full of glossy photos of gorgeous rigs. Bette Garber is like the Annie Liebowitz of the customized truck world.

Peterbilt: Long-Haul Legend
James Beach

Motorbooks, 2009

Frustrated with the pace of getting logs to mills by river, steam tractor, or even horse team, lumber baron T. A. Peterman experimented with adapting early automobile technology. In 1939, the remarkable logging trucks he?d refashioned out of surplus army trucks finally went on sale to the public and Peterbilt was launched. This illustrated ...