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Bay Area Backroads: The Best Adventures in Northern California from Kron-Tv 6 reviews
Doug McConnell
Chronicle Books, 1999
Very well done publication. Excellent source for adventures!
We're always looking for "local" adventures. There are so many interesting things to do - right in our own backyard! Can't wait to get started! Easy reading, good directions. Thanks!
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Barron's CHSPE: California High School Proficiency Exam (Barron's How to Prepare for the Chspe California ... 3 reviews
Sharon Weiner Green, Michael Siemon, ...
Barron's Educational Series, 2007
Helpful
I just took this test 6/21/08 and I have yet to receive my results.
I was a bit worried because older versions of barrons chspe books had bad reviews but I decided to purchase this guide anyway. Besides the book not noting that there is calculators allowed for the test now, I think it is very helpful and built my confidence before taking the actual exam. It had a bunch of practice questions, a ...
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Collage Discovery Workshop - Beyond the Unexpected: New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative ...58 reviews
Claudine Hellmuth
North Light Books, 2005
SWITCHING GEARS-RETHINK YOURSELF!
this second book totally switches gears from her first book in a good and different way. if you are looking for a change this book is for you! her first book had lots of dark and grungy looks while this one goes to bright and whimsical! i would consider myself on the more seasoned side of collage and sometimes i get sooo bogged down in details that i need to step back a couple steps and see the ...
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Julius Shulman: Palm Springs3 reviews
Michael Stern, Alan Hess
Rizzoli, 2008
Just to Lautner
Excellent new book on Palm Springs architecture. The final statement on John Lautner's contribution to Palm Springs architecture finally does just to this exeptional architect. For a book of this quality the price is obscenely low.
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Ready for RICA: A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (2nd ... 20 reviews
James Zarrillo
Prentice Hall, 2004
EXCELLENT RICA Review Book
I thought this book was a GREAT way to review for the RICA. I am sad to say that I think I learned more about teaching reading from this thin review text book than I did throughout my whole teacher education program (I won't say which University I am at!)!
To get the most use out of this book here is what you should do. Set up a grid like the one I am going to try and explain to you how to ...
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Barron's CBEST: California Basic Educational Skills Test (Barron's How to Prepare for the Cbest California ... 9 reviews
Steve Reiss, Kathryn Henkins
Barrons Educational Series, 2008
Provided the Math help I needed
This book helped me get through the test. The overview laid out the test for me which helped my confidence in approaching this high stakes exam, and the analysis of answers on the practice tests really taught me to sharpen my Math skills and avoid the tricks that can be incorporated into multiple choice tests. An invaluable preparation tool.
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The Photographer's Guide to Yosemite24 reviews
Michael Frye
Yosemite Association, 2000
Fantastic book for any kind of photographer!
Whether you're an amateur or a pro, this book has a lot to offer. It's loaded with information on how and when to take fabulous pictures while you're in Yosemite. It's well organized and it's easy to read. It's loaded with beautiful photographs that serve as good examples.
It's small and can be easily packed with your stuff as you venture into the valley.
A must-have for those who are ...
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before40 reviews
Alastair Fothergill
University of California Press, 2007
AMAZING PICTURES!
BEAUTIFUL BOOK TO HAVE. NOT ONLY IS IT INFORMATIVE, BUT THE PICTURES ARE TRULY A PIECE OF ARTWORK.
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Where I Was From18 reviews
Joan Didion
Vintage, 2004
Great-Great-Great-Great-Great
This book of essays by Joan Didion, entitled "Where I Was From," gained my attention from the start, and later also gained my respect. Loved all the detail, the overlapping, the apparent extensive amount of research--the compulsive force of it all. Much like one of her ancester, the one who stitched (and over-stitched) the quilt amidst all the turmoil while crossing the Sierra Nevada. Didion ...
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Kaplan CSET: California Subject Examination for Teachers (Kaplan Cset)11 reviews
Lee Brainerd, Rodney Lee, ...
Kaplan Publishing, 2006
Worked for me
I took a CSET class at Cal State Hayward 2-3 weeks prior to the test and used this as reference and passed. There's no way you'll be able to memorize all the material if you're pressed for time, particularly science. I'd suggest taking the smaller sub practice tests at the end of each chapter, see where you're weak, then study those areas. Once you study, re-do the big test at the end. Find ...
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Hollywood Portraits16 reviews
Roger Hicks, Christopher Nisperos
Amphoto Books, 2000
Very useful guide
This is a fascinating book which has been organized very intelligently. The quick-sketch diagrams displaying the lighting used to create each image not only make it easy to try for a similar look, but also teach the reader how to look at lighting clues in an image in order to reverse-engineer the lighting conditions. While a great many other skills are involved in producing the photos in this ...
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San Francisco Then & Now (Then & Now)14 reviews
Bill Yenne
Thunder Bay Press, 2002
Welcome to America's Most Conservative City!
I'm not using "conservative" in the current political sense, obviously. Everybody knows that John McCain has less than a snowball's chance in Gomorrah of winning in SF. I using the term conservative in its root meaning, something like "saving what was valued in the past." Preservation and conservation have the same Latin root. San Francisco has conserved more of its past than any western American ...
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Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House9 reviews
Victoria Kastner
Harry N. Abrams, 2000
The Biography of a country House
Fantastic book exceptional pictures and loaded with written details. Usually in a book like this you get one or the other here you get both! A must read and viewed book,a bit spendy but worth every cent!
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Wild Steps of Heaven6 reviews
Victor Villasenor
Delta, 1997
Epic Tale of Family Loyalty, Love, and Making of Heroes
In times of hardship heroes are needed and none moreso than in Mexico as revolution rages. The Villasenor family patriarch, an exiled red-haired Spaniard, has married an Indian woman. The first ten years of the marriage are a time of great love and passion, and the children born first are fair and favor Don Juan Villasenor. Later children are dark like their mother. One of the dark ones, ...
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Making Faces: Drawing Expressions For Comics And Cartoons
8Fish
Impact, 2008
Making Faces gives artists easy and effective techniques for creating expressive faces for comics and cartoons. Readers will learn to take the basic ingredients of an expression--eyes, nose, mouth and lips--and use them to create a wide range of human emotions. This one-of-a-kind guide is loaded with unique insights on human facial expressions, graphic storytelling, and character interaction.
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Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry: A Case Study Approach
Douglas Llewellyn
Corwin Press, 2004
Case studies, tips, and tools to harness the power of students’ curiosity and improve achievement in science! Now from the author of the best-selling Inquire Within comes a groundbreaking book devoted entirely to high school science teachers who desire to improve their teaching and enhance student learning through inquiry. Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry offers a complete plan for nurturing a culture of inquiry in ...
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Windows into the Soul: Art As Spiritual Expression1 review
Michael Sullivan
Morehouse Publishing, 2006
Beautifully Written
Michael Sullivan has written an engaging book that opened my heart to seeing both art and prayer in new ways. The exercises offered are easy access points for those who don't feel creative and would hesitate to call themselves artists. At the same time, experience artists will be inspired by Sullivan's story. The beautifully written chapters offer a wonderful glimpse into the author's spiritual ...
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Struggle and Survival in Colonial America2 reviews
University of California Press, 1982
Classic Collection Inspires Many Others
Most edited books draw little attention, and often very good chapters end up simply buried. Not so with Sweet & Nash, a landmark that stakes out the research agenda of a generation of scholars. The main innovation is its focus on humble men and women, mostly ignored earlier but historical actors nonetheless. Some names are familiar, most are not, and including nonwhites was also novel. ...
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Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art (with cd-rom)7 reviews
Steve Grody
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2007
Documentation of a Vibrant Art Form
Fifty years ago, graffiti was something written in restrooms and was relatively private. Now graffiti is an art form. You can think of it as vandalism; if it is your wall, or a public wall, and it is supposed to stay clean and undecorated, any unwanted spray-painting, no matter how fancy, is vandalism. But even if it is vandalism (and sometimes the owner of the wall invites the decoration, or ...
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PhotoSecrets San Francisco & Northern California: The Best Sights and How to Photograph Them (Photosecrets ...23 reviews
Andrew Hudson
Photo Tour Books, Inc., 1997
Awesome Photo Guide Book
While planning an upcoming trip to San Francisco I started looking at photos of the areas we planned to visit. I commented to my husband that I wished I knew where they were when they took those photos since taking photographs is such a big part of our trips. I ran across this book on Amazon.com and immediately purchased it. It is such an awesome book. Full of color and information on where ...
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