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Advantages: Inspiring clear text, sample images, background stories
Disadvantages: Some sections could have been bigger

...book is rather different. Stephen Johnson is a highly regarded photographer who has pictures in some of the top museums and galleries around the world. He has also acted as technical consultant to such names as Apple, Epson and Adobe. It's fair to say that when Johnson has something to write about digital photography, it's going to be worth reading. Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography is difficult to classify. The coverage includes a discussion ...
...correction and management, fine-art printing, ethics and a whole lot on the creative process. In many ways it reads like a university primer on the subject - it provides a lot of background without going too much in to how to use a camera or what you can do with Photoshop. The latter does get some coverage but it's more to illustrate a point rather than teach Photoshop itself. It may help to think of it as a mix of science, history and art wrapped ... Read review

Advantages: gives good information and ideas
Disadvantages: none

...is about the craft of straw weaving, making corn dollies and its history. This book has 71 pages and has information about the history of making corn dollies. This book looks into the designs and customs from several countries. The book starts with a chapter about the harvest giving a little history about some of the superstitions that are connected with the sowing of corn and harvest there are several old rhymes about harvesting and the growing ...
...is a small section about straw plaiting by young people. I think it’s important to keep our craft skills and its history alive. Working with children is a good way of keeping the knowledge for future generations. There is a chapter about work from oversees telling and showing the different styles of straw work and telling of customs and use related to the harvest. The following chapters are about different designs and showing you then giving instructions ... Read review

Advantages: hugely informative, overwhelming amounts of knowledge
Disadvantages: can be confusing at first, book is written in fragmented format

...the subject can change (by performing the change on you). Tricks Of The Mind is an incredibly enjoyable and informative education read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the world of the human mind, beliefs and expectation, hypnosis and NLP, body language and psychic abilities. ... Read review

Advantages: Everything you could ever want to know
Disadvantages: Slightly upsetting in places

This is quite a significant book to me. I grew up listening to Thin Lizzy and being Irish, my whole family was totally in love with their music. Phil Lynott was such a complex character I felt I owed it to him to read this book, just to prove that there was more to him than just the drugs. I learnt so much about him and the band that at points I felt I knew them. It was strange to think that if only Phil had stopped the drugs, he'd still be here. ...
...gives us all the gory details of his life, it tells tales of Phils hilariously flirtatious character, his obsession with music and showed us what a loving father he was and how much he loved being a father. Last year I had the privelige of meeting his son and I felt like I knew everything about his father and he knew so little (he had only just found otu Phil was his father due to Phil giving him away because of his religion). It was amazing, it ... Read review

Advantages: really interesting book, very inspirational
Disadvantages: may not suit young children and specific to certain intrests

This book is very inspirational and after reading it fills your mind with ideas and creation. I bought this book not long ago and since i haven't put it down. I call it a book but to me its more like a gallery. Banksy expresses very political views by doing stencil art in some of the main cities of the u.k such as London and Liverpool. This book simply takes you on a journey through his work. The book documents his work in gallery's and current projects ... Read review