Book Description
This new 7th Edition of
New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, is the most heavily revised edition since its existence, yet it still maintains the market defining "Timmons Model of the Entrepreneurial Process." As always, Timmons & Spinelli cover the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, and successfully harvesting it. Through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises, this how-to text guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, tools, and experience to equip students to successfully launch a new venture and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. The authors recognize that there is no substitute for actually starting a company, but believe that it is possible to expose students to many of the vital issues and immerse them in key learning experiences.
Customer Reviews:
Textbook Use.......2007-07-08
The UTSI New Venture Formation course uses this as the main text. The book is chock full of information.
The idea of the Online Learning center is a great one, but there could be a lot more resources added. Currently, you are allowed to read the chapter summary & see typical questions for each chapter online. There are also several links to articles relating to the topic. The links are fairly old, however.
Book Description
-A wide range of papers and embellishments used to create unique looks
-Easy-to-follow techniques and steps ensure professional and durable results
With Paper Creations, Cards and Gifts, readers will discover the fascinating and precise craft of paperfolding, and create amazing gifts and cards for any occasion. They'll learn to take paper to new dimensions, literally, by turning flat sheets of tissue, patterned, textured and metallic papers into lasting, three-dimensional gift boxes, bags, floral arrangements and decorative displays.
Once the basic folding techniques have been mastered, even novice papercrafters can follow the clear, specially drawn step-by-step artworks that show how to complete each project, including styles such as iris folding and origami. More experienced crafters will find plenty to inspire, as each project is packed with design variations and ideas.
From fun-to-make Christmas and Halloween cards and gifts for christenings and Mother's Day, to packaging for all kinds of occasions that demand an extra-special touch, everyone will love to create-and receive-a paperfolded keepsake.
Customer Reviews:
Paper Creations Cards and Gifts.......2007-01-04
A nice addition to your library on paper crafts. The inclusion of patterns is very nice.
Over 30 Paperfolded Designs Featuring Origami, Iris And Tea Bag Folding.......2006-03-07
A range of techniques lend to creating new dimensions in paperfolding and applications, from origami and tea bag folding to iris folding. In this way the paper itself becomes a work of art and a gift, as evidenced in Paper Creations: Cards And Gifts: Over 30 Paperfolded Designs Featuring Origami, Iris And Tea Bag Folding. Projects range from simple baskets and cardholders to an album cover or a flower ball: each include step-by-step two-color illustrations for each fold and a color photo of the finished result. The perfect crafter's guide!
Product Description
The #1 source for creative card ideas! Add your signature touch to hundreds of fresh, colorful card designs with Card Creations, Vol. 3. Learn to incorporate your favorite paper crafting techniques into impressive cards for every occasion. Youll find a variety of ideas you can easily adapt for tags, scrapbook accents, invitations, and more. Plus, you'll find great ideas for using scraps on cards and how to decorate inside. And as always, youll love the big photos, supply lists and step-by-step instructions. 164 pages.
Book Description
From finding the right tools and materials to creating designs, The Everything(r) Crafts-Create Your Own Greeting Cards includes directions for more than twenty unique projects. For those who want to send personalized cards, The Everything(r) Crafts-Create Your Own Greeting Cards is packed full of creative projects and ideas.
Customer Reviews:
Editor versus Author.......2006-09-07
Courtney Nolan is the EDITOR not the AUTHOR. All material is from the SAME publisher. Lots of publishers do this. It is another way to market books.
Mixed bag with some good points.......2006-04-18
Pluses: This book is decent for beginners because it has large photos accompanying each step of the process for a project in most cases.
Cons: I say "in most cases" because sometimes it assumed prior knowledge about how to do something and a few times I was hard pressed to figure out what the missing info was. (I'm new to cardmaking, so I need things spelled out!)
Pro: There was a great section up front on making various kinds of paper. I hadn't previously considered making my own, but the steps and instructions in the book make it easy enough for me to tackle
Con: While I appreciated the idea of the cards, and the techniques being used, the end results were kind of arty and felt a bit Stevie Nicks/New agey if you get my drift. Definitely an acquired taste. However, I will be happy to apply their techniques and tweak them to my own style.
Con: I didn't like the way they had all of the card "beauty shots" crammed into a few sections of the book (often far away from the actual instructions) and all of the rest in black & white and a burgundy color. Sometimes black & white how-to photos just don't work when you're trying to figure out where to put the turquoise versus the yellow paper (and it's not in the steps!). If you're going to spell stuff out for us, do it right! This was not obvious to me since the book's insides weren't available for preview and no one else had reviewed this book before I bought it.
**My main beef about this book, however, and also something that is not apparent to anyone given the author is Editor Courtney Nolan is that ALL--at least 85% it appears to me--of the projects also appear in the book Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials by Maryjo McGraw. And in that book, which I also bought, the projects are shown in full color photos throughout. So save your money on this one and buy the Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials instead!!
Product Description
The #1 source for creative card ideas! Add your signature touch to hundreds of fresh, colorful card designs with Card Creations, Vol. 3. Learn to incorporate your favorite paper crafting techniques into impressive cards for every occasion. Youll find a variety of ideas you can easily adapt for tags, scrapbook accents, invitations, and more. Plus, you'll find great ideas for using scraps on cards and how to decorate inside. And as always, youll love the big photos, supply lists and step-by-step instructions.
Customer Reviews:
Neat ideas.......2007-04-11
This magazine had a lot of really neat ideas in it. I really like this group of books by Primedia.
Not Vol. 3 as stated.......2006-02-17
I purchased this item, expecting it to be Volume 3, as stated in the product description. Although there was not a picture of the item, I relied on the description to be correct. I received my item and it was Volume 1, not Volumne 3. I am still happy with this volume, but am dissapointed that the item was incorrectly described.
Product Description
*** 3 Lessons - 26 Cards *** 1. Creation 2. Adam and Eve 3. Cain and Abel - LESSON GUIDES INCLUDED ***
Product Description
Use your old greeting cards to make baskets and bowls, greeting card tote bag, holiday card balls, greeting card bowls, placemats, fantasy slippers, recipe file, match box holder, desk organizer, tissue box holder, decorator cups, jar lid ornaments, pencil holder, sardine can wall hanging, sewing basket/pin cushion.
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Playing Cards: General History from Their Creation to the Present Day
Felix Alfaro Fournier
Manufacturer: United States Games Systems
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ASIN: 8485074114 |
Book Description
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, one of Europe's most influential Art Deco designers, is being celebrated in North America with a major traveling exhibition.
Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing everything for the ideal home, from armoires and rugs to wallpaper and light fixtures. His early work is particularly notable for its Art Nouveau influences, and his signature pieces epitomize the best of Art Deco design.
Ruhlmann, inspired by the rigorous craftsmanship of the great eighteenth-century furniture makers, had a true passion for work well done. In fact, he was so protective of his reputation that he left orders in his will for his company to be liquidated after his death, to ensure that the quality workmanship associated with the Ruhlmann name would never decline. It has not.
This exquisite twovolume boxed set with ribbon closures is produced in the Ruhlmann spirit, and the lavish illustrations include exquisite facsimile reproductions of his designs. Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann will be a treasured addition to the library of anyone interested in this golden age of European design.
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Pink Floyd
William Ruhlmann
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
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Rock
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ASIN: 0831769122 |
Customer Reviews:
A Fan's Dream.......2003-09-21
Almost 100 high gloss pages crammed with photos interviews and discography. BEAUTIFUL--VIBRANT PICTURES. Interesting biography. Great coffee table book. Even someone who never heard of Pink Floyd would enjoy thumbing through this one!
Customer Reviews:
this is the one.......2004-08-17
The amg books are quite exceptional but this one is really something. There are a few omissions I noted (Rotary Connection and Fanny)yet the proof is in the pudding. Prove it to yourself by finding an artist with several works you have a view on and see what their writer says...often the observations are right on whether you fully agree or not. The reviews and bios are quite interesting, and it is a volume to get lost in...a real treasure. A few artists will get more attention than you might like, but it leaves all other volumes like it in the dust.
Last month, this book paid my electric bill..........1998-03-18
I've found the "All Music Guide" to be such a useful research tool, that I start lapsing into an "info-mercial-esque" tone when I begin extolling its virtues: "Hi. My name is Alan, and I'm a freelance music writer. When I'm assigned to write about a band that I know next-to-nothing about, I always turn to the 'All Music Guide'. This mammoth music encyclopedia is not only useful, but a ton o' fun! Let's say that I need a quick factoid about some rock group that I despise--like, I dunno, The Scorpions. I just pull out my 'AMG', turn to page 329, and voila; I quickly learn that Scorp's, co-founder Michael Schenker quit the band in 1973 to join fellow metal-meisters UFO. Wow...UFO! But they don't call it the 'All Music Guide' for nothin'; flip over to page 1351, and you'll find incisive reviews of almost every available record by legendary jazz saxophonist/heroin addict Art Pepper. If you only buy one music research book this year, make it 'All Music Guide'." In all seriousness, this thing has saved me hours of net-surfing, in addition to helping me avoid a few hundred research sojourns to Tower Records trying to find out what year Buddy Guy's first record was released.
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Barbra Streisand
William Ruhlmann
Manufacturer: Bison Books Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1854227998 |
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Barbra Streisand
William Ruhlmann
Manufacturer: Longmeadow Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0681101024 |
Average customer rating:
- horrible
- Too Much Information, Not Enough Knowledge
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Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits
Willia Ruhlmann
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0415943051 |
Book Description
The music industry is in crisis. Sales are down, artists restless with long-term contracts, and consumers angry at escalating CD prices. New technologies are rapidly changing the way music is recorded, sold, and enjoyed. Although these challenges appear to be unprecedented, a look back at the last 100 years shows that the recording industry has always initially feared - but eventually profited from - rapid shifts in the way music is recorded, distributed, and performed.
Breaking Records gives a narrative history of American popular music and the pop music industry. Organized by decade, each chapter gives an overview of the major developments, technologically, commercially, and musically, for all types of popular music making. Technological developments, from the irth of radio and the phonograph to downloading, file sharing, the burning CDs, are described in relation to how they affected musicians and the industry itself. Key performers and their major hits are profiled by decade.
Breaking Records tells us the compelling story of how business and art have interacted, and soemtimes clashed, through a century of new musical developments. Students of pop culture and music history, music-business historians, and general fans of American music will enjoy this account of the growth, maturation, and world of American musical culture.
Customer Reviews:
horrible.......2004-07-10
I'd like to know what kind of training this author has...completely subjective...no backing on any of his claims...pages and pages and pages of verbose garbage...it's hard to imagine that a publisher would support writing like this unless the author was paying off the CEO...
Too Much Information, Not Enough Knowledge.......2004-07-01
Basically this is a book in which the author, instead of using the tried and true method of using either graphs or tables to coordinate his information, decided to write everything out in long hand. The result is the reader getting his or her head over-stuffed with names, titles, chart figures, sales figures, years, etc. and finishing each chapter and finally the book with the feeling of having eaten too much rather than being nourished.
Product Description
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1882 edition by Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig.
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- Great Photographic History Of The Doors
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The Doors
William Ruhlmann
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0831724048 |
Customer Reviews:
Great Photographic History Of The Doors.......2000-01-14
The Doors is basically the same as all the other Bison Group books that I have. Mainly filled with great pictures and a little history. This one was a great gift from my Aunt. It even comes with a poster.
The Doors personify the image of 'Rock Gods'. To me, they are basically one of the first groups ever to be so dang cool.
If anyone has a link to the publisher I would be grateful.
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- Old Roses and English Roses
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- Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
- Paint Ideas & Decorating Techniques (Decorating Ideas)
- Palm Trees: A Story in Photographs
- Paradise Found: Gardening in Unlikely Places
- Perspectives on Garden Histories (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture)
- Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun
- Rocky Mountain Gardener's Guide
- Santa Comes to Little House
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