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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Nita Engle
Watson-Guptill
, 2007
entertaining lights
The artist creates visual stories of color and light in such a delightful manner. It leads one to experiment how to try her way of painting with watercolor. Especially helpful is her use of masking gum.
Spontaneous Healing : How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself
Andrew Weil
Ballantine Books
, 2000
Healing yourself
Last year after`experiencing extreme pain in back, shoulder, and arm muscles, I puchased Spontaneous Healing, Healthy Aging, and Natural Health Natural Medicine. I wanted to discontinue the use of the drugs I was using to control the pain. I intended to heal instead. ...
The Blade Itself: A Novel
Marcus Sakey
St. Martin's Minotaur
, 2007
A gripping story with brilliantly developed characters
As an avid fantasy reader I am sick to death with some same old fantasy novels that all seem to go down the same line, however this book is different. The characters are some of the best developed in fantasy They are not 2 dimensional like a lot of books that I have ...
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
George E. Lewis
University Of Chicago Press
, 2008
The avant-garde jazz compendium
George E. Lewis has written a superlative history of avant-garde jazz and The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. I am truly amazed with his research, depth of understanding and what he is teaching me. I get the value of being one of his students ...
The Thing Itself
Richard Todd
Riverhead Hardcover
, 2008
A charming and thoughtful book
I loved this book and want to read it again. When I first read it, alone in my living room, I nodded, grunted, and laughed out loud. A few sections made my eyes fill with tears. I kept thinking, "I've got to buy a copy of this for so-and-so." Todd begins with an ...
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. ...
Norman Doidge
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself
This is a fantastic book - well written and easy to read and understand; great case studies;a must for anyone with any interest in the brain; anyone who has aged parents or friends and is looking for some help in understanding how to keep the brain alert or even how to ...
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can ...
Mindy Starns Clark
Harvest House Publishers
, 2007
Thinking Outside the Mop & Broom
This book is a great way to FINALLY get your home neat and clean, for good. Just like dieting is a quick fix to loose weight, but doesn't keep the pounds off, spurts of frantic cleaning right before guests come over won't keep your home clean once the guests leave. ...
The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
Lawrence E. Harrison
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2008
Reality is the cure for ideology.
I must say that reading this book was a quantum leap from the last several political books that I've read, which were written by pundits. This book is a bit dry at times, but it contains real reasearch about reality. The "take home lesson" I got out of reading ...
The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
Joe Abercrombie
Pyr
, 2007
Compulsively Addictive
I was a little worried about ordering and reading this book because I haven't read any fantasy for about twenty years. I had gotten more than a little tired of the formulaic plotting, one-dimensional characters, and the stereotypes that drive the genre. However, when ...
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (In-formation)
Nikolas Rose
Princeton University Press
, 2006
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of ...
Fear Itself: The Origin and Nature of the Powerful Emotion that Shapes Our Lives and Our World
Rush W. Dozier
St. Martin's Griffin
, 1999
Excellent resource
I highly recommend this book as an intelligently written, well researched account of fear, our first emotion from birth. As the previous reviewer commented, this is not a self-help book and makes no pretensions to that. Thankfully (as I find most self-help books ...
The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself
David Bushnell
University of California Press
, 1993
Much more than drugs and violence
This is the best English language history of Colombia available. It follows the history of the country, from its disjointed past to its integrated yet violent present. Bushnell joins traditional "great man" history with current "socieconomic" and "cultural" history. ...
Doctor Murray's Total Body Tune-Up: Slow Down the Aging Process, Keep Your System Running Smoothly, Help Your ...
Michael Murray
Bantam
, 2001
Comprehensive, well-organized, easy to read and understand!
Dr. Murray really has written a "whole body" book. By coming from the naturopathic viewpoint, he has made achieving and maintaining optimum health an obtainable goal without a lot of side-effect inducing prescriptions. He does not just list a series of steps to ...
Manifesto for Philosophy: Followed by Two Essays: "the (Re)Turn of Philosophy Itself" and "Definition of ...
Alian Badiou
State University of New York Press
, 1999
Philosophy or Sophistry?
If anything, Badiou's book poses a serious challenge to the dominance of Heidegger in continental philosophy today. Philosophy can never announce its own end, the end of philosophy. Neither can philosophy pretend to lose itself in the linguistic turn, in the shift ...
Batman: Fear Itself
Michael Reaves
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Steven-Elliot Altman
Del Rey
, 2007
Fear Itself
Ok so this book took a little to get in to. After about the first Hundred pages or so you really start to wonder about who the bad guy was in the book. Yea it deals with feel and at first thought your thinking the scarecrow but the author does a good job to make you ...
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