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2 reviews
Roberta Bernstein, Lilian Tone, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006

A magnificent retrospective of this great artist's life work
Did you miss the Johns retrospective at NY MOMA? This book captures the essence of an American Michaelangelo. Subjective? You bet! If you have even the slightest interest in modern art your library is not complete without this retrospective. The many color and b&w photographs are superb, and it is accompanied by a solid chronology of Mr. Johns's life. Emphasis is on original works, but ...

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

17 reviews
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Must-read for any scrum master
This is a really useful book. Most practical. Being into scrum (sort of) for 3 months, we've tried to change our retrospective meeting agenda applying methods from this book. We did this just once as yet, and applied only a single combination of methods from virtually countless variants possible. The result is great: retrospective meetings became more meaningful and fun. Every scrum master ...

A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

Millipede Press, 2008

Millipede Press is pleased to announce A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft . This huge tome is four hundred pages long and features the work of over forty artists, including J.K. Potter, H.R. Giger, Raymond Bayless, Ian Miller, Virgil Finlay, Lee Brown Coye, Rowena Morrill, Bob Eggleton, Allen Koszowski, Mike Mignola, Michael Whelan, John Coulthart, Harry O. Morris, John Jude Palencar, and dozens of others, as well as ...

The New York Yankees: One Hundred Years, The Official Retrospective

7 reviews
Yankees

Ballantine Books, 2003

A stylish pat on the back for the New York Yankee franchise
As the book title says, this is a "retrospective" and not a history, which explains why there is little to be found about the early days of the New York Yankees in between being certified as a member in the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs and the purchase of George Herman Ruth from the Boston Red Sox. Despite the 41-win season of Jack Chesbro, everything before the Babe is ...

Hockney's Pictures: The Definitive Retrospective

3 reviews
Gregory Evans

Bulfinch, 2004

David Hockney as Curator
"The Definitive Retrospective" sounds a bit unctuous and presumptuous for a book of selected paintings from an artist's enormous output, but when the artist himself makes the title, we pay attention. This is a splendid picture book with minimal writing and conversation put together by Hockney and Gregory Evans, a book that surveys almost every aspect of this prodigious artist's career. To a ...

Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective

10 reviews
Al Santasiere

Pocket, 2008

Informative and Interesting
This book shows many photos and contains stories about the stadium which will soon be torn down. It made a great birthday gift for my husband!

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective

8 reviews
Amanda Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2000

At last a superb compilation of a great artist's works.
I can't believe it's taken this long for a compilation of Cindy Sherman's body of work to appear. But maybe that's the real measure of a major artist in this place at this time. Sherman is one of the strongest,most meticulous and most original artists to appear since the early 1930s. I'm not going to analyze the photographs, they've been analyzed to death and are far beyond analysis in any case. ...

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

3 reviews
John Elderfield

Museum of Modern Art, 1992

this is a book that I have used for several years
Matisse is an artist that will grow with you. I often return to this or other Matisse books and find ways of seeing painting that I have never contemplated before. What's nice about this Retrospective is that it does a first rate job of covering the artists entire life in detail. When I first got this book, I skipped over most of the writing and just soaked in the pictures (The quality of ...

Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews

11 reviews
Norman L. Kerth

Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001

Excellent guide to improving organizational performance
"Project Retrospectives" is one of the best written, best edited, most nicely presented, and most useful software books I've ever read. Norm Kerth presents a convincing argument for the value of taking the time to study past projects and learn from them. He then presents a rich tool kit of techniques for helping a project team explore what actually happened, what went well, what caused problems, ...

Max Ernst: A Retrospective (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

5 reviews

Yale University Press, 2005

Image quality is perfectly acceptable
The reproductions in this book are every bit as good as those in a similarly-priced volume from Thames & Hudson (isbn 978-0500976586) in terms of color fidelity, and far superior terms of selection and size. Additionally, reproductions are much better than in cheaper volumes from Taschen (978-3822813881) and Phaidon (978-0714828664). Maybe the reproductions in the monumental Oeuvre Katalog are ...

The Super Bowl: An Official Retrospective

3 reviews
Rare Air Ltd.

Ballantine Books, 2005

Wonderful text, simply amazing pictures
It's hard to imagine picking out one book about the Super Bowl, one of the most overcovered events of our time, that's worth looking at, but this would definitely be one worthy of attention. The best part of the book is the amazing pictures. Instead of including all the well-known Super Bowl photos, they dug deep and found several ones that are spectacular in their own right and just as ...

Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective - Photgraphs From the Halsman Family Collection

1 review

Bulfinch, 1998

A fresh insight on old faces
Halsman offers more than the standard potrait photography we have grown accustomed to. He offers a fresh perspective to faces we have seen countless times, by offering us an intimate look into thier lives. For instance, how many people would think to photograph Monroe pumping iron, or Richard Nixon jumping up and down like a little boy. It is this inginuity that allows the audience to ...

Jeremy and Mom: A Zits Retrospective You Should Definitely Buy for Your Mom (Zits Treasury)

2 reviews
Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008

Zits always a great read
Jeremy's Mom should be up for sainthood. A lot of these comics remind me of my mom and brother.

Arthur Dove: A Retrospective

2 reviews
Debra Bricker Balken

The MIT Press, 1997

My favorite artist
This book is excellent. I bought it at the exhibit of the same name, that was put together by the Phillips Collection. It was a great show and this is the only way to see it now. Dove was the first abstract painter, at the same time as Kandinsky but having never seen Kandinsky's work until several years later.

Reading Conversations: Retrospective Miscue Analysis with Struggling Readers, Grades 4-12

1 review
Rita A. Moore, Carol J. Gilles

Heinemann, 2005

A Vital Stance on Reading that was Missing From my Classroom
Because of this book, my high school readers are teaching each other reading strategies that work for them. Here's what I heard Ben tell his fellow students on Friday as they questioned him about this miscues: 1. I was aware that I made that miscue as I made it, but I decided not to correct myself because what I said didn't change the meaning of the text, and I didn't want to interrupt the ...

Eyeglass Retrospective: Where Fashion Meets Science
Nancy Schiffer, Nancy N. Schiffer

Schiffer Publishing, 1999

This book provides an overview for identifying and dating vintage eyewear for the growing numbers of collectors. Explore ways in which eyeglass design has developed to reflect both popular fashion and scientific investigation.The designs of frames and lenses were changed as more comfortable and practical styles were invented. In the mid-twentieth century, eyeglass makers carefully sought high profile entertainers to wear their designs in order ...

Franz Marc: The Retrospective

2 reviews

Prestel Publishing, 2006

franz Marc
The book really is a treat. Very much like actually attending a major art retropspective at a museum. A big plus of the book is the series of pictures of drawings that one rarely sees in any exhbition particualry of this artist. The text is well structured and the ideas fluent. The extent of the examination of paintings has depth and is a visual delight. Truly a book to have in one's collection ...

John Alexander: A Retrospective (Museum of Fine Arts)
Jane Livingston

Museum Fine Arts Houston, 2008

H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: A Weird Tales Retrospective
John Gregory Betancourt, Robert Weinberg

Wildside Press, 2008

Selected carefully by well-respected editor Robert Weinberg, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: A Weird Tales Retrospective offers both readers and scholars a definitive collection of short fiction from the pages of Weird Tales - presenting from the past to the present a look into the classic and new contributions to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective

5 reviews
Janet Bishop, Michael Auping, ...

University of California Press, 2005

Capturing the Magic of California Light
Robert Bechtle has been a creative force in California art since the 1960s, yet his name remains practically unknown outside the Bay Area artists group. This very fine monograph by Janet Bishop, designed as a catalogue to accompany the traveling exhibition of this works, should help to mend that sin of omission. The style of writing is warm and informative and, in many ways, in keeping with ...

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