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	The Authority Vol. 4: Transfer of Power
	By: Mark Millar, Tom Peyer ISBN: 1401200206 Publisher: Wildstorm Release Date: 01 October, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 179994	The Authority was a brilliant concept and, indeed, the first two collected volumes of this groundbreaking comic are quite good - although, perhaps, they don't live up to the hype the series has received. Things have only gotten worse from there. The third volume, Earth Inferno, seemed concent to concentrate simply on cruelty and outrageous violence. His fourth installment, I'm sad to say, is even worse. While it has a promising beginning, its set-up and execution are quite poor: Essentially, the Authority's penchant for earth-changing superpolitics has earned them the ire and enmity of the Powers That Be on earth, a cabal of industrialists who control world politics. Each of the members is captured by a superpowered mutant named Seth, while a new and more complacent Authority takes over and immediately makes a muddle of things. <br /> <br />The writers of this volume squander some promising opportunities with this storyline by wasting time - most of this volume is concentrated on showing the audience what a rotten group of human beings the replacement Authority is, as thus cuts out plot in favor of excess and attempts to shock the audience, which fail utterly. Additionally, the art is quite poor in this volume - Frank Quitely, whose art lent a disquieting shadow to the comic, only pencils about two issues, and the rest is in a sort of cartoony style that doesn't fit. A bright spot is that two of the chapters are penciled by the iminitable Art Adams, whose style works amazingly well with this book. Overall, however, a very disappointing installment that does little to develop the characters of the Authority or advance the (originally) high-concept philosophy of the comic. The money that runs the world builds a killing machine superhuman out of a hillbilly and a ridiculous amount of money. This guy has more superpowers than he can even name. <br /> <br />Anyway, the rich and powerful cabal that is unhappy that The Authority is more powerful than they are, now, sends him out to take them down, and puts into place a puppet Authority that they can control, including a male version of Jenny Sparks who is a Beckham sendup. <br /> <br />Highly entertaining. <br /> <br /><br /> Mark Millar never disappoints. <br /> <br />If Warren Ellis invented the concept of widescreen comics, then Millar perfected it. This entire volume is in your face, never pulls its punches, and makes you glad you got into comics in the first place. <br /> <br />You have to keep in mind that when the source material was published back around 2001, the world lost its sense of humor, and in way, its tolerance for edgy work. It's no small wonder that this volume marks Millar's last work for DC, and the end of The Authority (for a little while), given the offensive content. But man, it's one hell of a fun ride. <br /> <br />It must be said that Millar did not write the entire volume, but it's hardly noticeable. The whole thing has the same tone, the same irreverence, throughout. <br /> <br />My only gripe with this work was the deus ex machina used to wrap up a hanging plot thread at the end, but since it was such a fun read, I can let it slide.
	Shadow Work Embroidery: With 108 Iron-on Transfer Patterns
	By: J. Marsha Michler ISBN: 0486402894 Publisher: Dover Publications Release Date: 15 June, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 187729	I purchase iron-on transfer books for the Comfort Blanket Ministry of St. Ferdinand Church. It is a blessing that such books are still available - we use these iron-ons for painting and marker coloring which ultimately become squares in our ministry's beautiful blankets. Keep selling these kinds of books, we'll keep buying them! Excellent..So glad to have it among my resources for ribbon embroidery. Such a variety of pattern, you can't decide where to start Michler provides in her book exactly what the title announces so I shouldn't have expected more. There are many transfer patterns with the basic instructions. I was hoping for some suggestions for projects. If you are looking for lots of designs to transfer this is a good value for the money.
	Ribbon Embroidery: With 178 Iron-on Transfers (Dover Needlework)
	By: J. Marsha Michler ISBN: 0486298183 Publisher: Dover Publications Release Date: 21 August, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 158803	Although I have not had the opportunity to actually work with the material provided in this book, it is very concise and done in a clear manner. Also, the shipment arrived in a short time period, which I appreciated. This book has only a few pages of text/instructions. Transfer designs are simplistic and none are illustrated. No pictures; all in black and white. I did give it two stars because it documents the basic embroidery stitches - although even they are not that clear. IMHO - not worth the shipping and handling. For someone who has never done transfers, nor tried my hand at ribbon embroidary, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this new craft was going to be. It's a perfect starter book, and she even has a flower for "X" in her ABC alphabet, which is Xeranthemum (Straw Flower). Money well spent for anyone who is looking for instructions on "how to" do ribbon embroidary. I am so glad this was my first book, she made it look easy and fun, and it was!
	Photographer's Guide to Polaroid Transfer: Step-By-Step
	By: Christopher Grey ISBN: 1584280646 Publisher: Amherst Media Release Date: November, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 373473	Christopher Grey's polaroid transfer instructions are so helpful in that they provide not only text but photographs illustrating each concept. I highly recommend this book for beginners like myself. Further, his book also provides room to grow into the next step in the transfer process. I have found his book to be the most helpful one available outlining polaroid art.
	Memories of a Lifetime: Borders & Frames: Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
	By: Inc. Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN: 1402719973 Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle Release Date: 01 April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 183263	The book and CD are user friendly and offer a variety of suggested uses. I have used the images to add to handmade cards and gifts. A great gift for someone who likes the "collage" look in handmade cards and scrapbook pages.
	Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom
	By: Dorothy Leonard, Walter C. Swap ISBN: 1591395283 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Release Date: 17 January, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 303915	For as long as anyone can remember leaders have been struggling to describe and to manage a mysterious kind of knowledge that people cannot readily pass on to others. It has been called wisdom, tribal knowledge, and tacit knowledge. Authors Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap put this elusive kind of expertise in an organizational context and call it deep smarts. <br /> <br />One of the best ways to describe deep smarts is to provide an example of what it can do. They write, "When knowledge is fragmented, it takes deep smarts to aggregate it, make sense of it, see the relevant patterns, and act on it." So deep smarts is what it takes to define a path through confusion by sensing the connections in a blizzard of information. Wouldn't we all like to have that ability and have it flourish in our organizations? <br /> <br />Deep Smarts, the book, stands out among its peers in the rapidly growing field of knowledge management books on the strength of several virtues that are expressed in the subtitle. The authors show the reader how to cultivate and transfer enduring business wisdom, with `how to' being one of the key elements. <br /> <br />Cultivating deep smarts in an organization requires serious commitment from a manager. The manager must study it enough to understand its nature. It also requires a big investment in other people in order to give them the opportunity to develop deep smarts, which is to say, to move beyond ordinary levels of competence. Finally, the manager must maintain an environment that supports learning rather than stifling it. This means maintaining an environment of candor, fairness, and mutual respect. Anything less stifles learning and discourages the development of deep smarts. <br /> <br />Swap and Leonard provide an abundance of rather specific guidance on the `how' component. They do not leave the reader to invent the implementation process. The tasks they prescribe are not easy, however, and this is why the skillful development of deep smarts is rarely accomplished by organizations. <br /> <br />There are plenty of books on knowledge management, but Deep Smarts fills a unique niche for the working manager who faces the real life challenge of building a smarter organization by virtue of providing a helpful vocabulary, a useful conceptual framework, and real life examples of success and failure in knowledge management. This is a "best-of-class" book for both the scholar and the practitioner who is accountable for the bottom line. <br /> This book uses great examples to explain the value of different levels of smarts. In the ancient hunting and gathering age, it's almost impossible for a hunter to get 1000 times of games more than his peer did. But in the Internet age, an expert programmer can easily make 1000 times of IT performance higher than her peer does. <br /> <br />The related critical issues come along: (1) How to distinguish different levels of knowledge? (2) How to find the right knowledge workers with required level of intelligence? (3) How to develop the deep smarts and their knowledge masters? (4) Finally, how to use those deep smarts to accomplish the organization's goals? <br /> <br />In the future editions, I would like to see the authors elaborate more on item (3) and (4) which are lightly exploited at the current version. Even for the item (1): how to distinguish different levels of knowledge? I think more quantitative and qualitative analysis may be introduced for better measurement and clarification. For example, how to measure the productivity of the software programmer is a tough task. (It's certainly not measured by the lines of code written per day.) In the senior corporate management and politics, it becomes extremely hard for rigorous performance measurement. <br /> <br />In a word, the deep smarts make good to great happen. The level 5 leaders in the greatest companies deploy and enable their organizations' deep smarts and constantly out-perform the rest. Therefore, it would be great worth exploring the general mechanism of deep smarts. <br /> This book is in the area of Knowledge Management. Similar to many other business books, it is based on empirical research performed by the authors. <br /> <br />The authors first define what they mean by "deep smarts" through reviewing different levels of expertise. Then they introduce the main thesis of the book. Expertise is acquired by an individual through active knowledge building. This includes getting first-hand experience and the transfer of knowledge from coaches or through other means. However, in such a process, the amount of knowledge that is actually internalized is also influenced by one's own beliefs and other people via their social influences. <br /> <br />The authors have led me to a significant understanding of why it is so hard for some people to learn, despite the fact that, their need for the relevant knowledge is very obvious already. Important factors include their lack of knowledge receptors and the knowledge to which they are exposed being contrary to their existing beliefs and assumptions. <br /> <br />This book is a great help to coaches, teachers, and consultants in helping them learn more effective methods of transferring knowledge to their students or clients in various situations. <br />
	The New Book of Image Transfer: How to Add Any Image to Almost Anything with Fabulous Results
	By: Debba Haupert ISBN: 1579905293 Publisher: Lark Books Release Date: 28 May, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 213220	I agree with the disappointments of other people. As I was reading them I was just confirming my own findings. In a nutshell , yes, instructions are clear and illustrations are beautiful, except the photos are staged and do not reflect real results, and the instructions are misleading and have errors. I would like to hear Lazertran's opinion since their name is in every project. Save your money, find more reliable instructions, and consider other brands (many are twice less expensive and have been tested by other than Debba Haupert. <br /> P.S. I was't even done typing when I got a response from Lazertran, who I sent my questions to earlier. They were prompt. Here is what I copied and pasted from their answer: <br />"She is quite wrong. The book, by the way, has nothing to do with us. We have a CD book that covers the inkjet version as well as all our other papers." <br /> Now you don't need my opinion. Make your own conclusions. <br /> I was really looking forward to learning how to use my own custom decals to decorate plates similar to those on the book's cover; unfortunately, I discovered what I can only assume is an error, possibly a misprint, in the instructions for baking decals onto ceramics. After soaking the decal in water, the book instructs you to place the transfer 'face up' on the object. In fact Lazertran's own web site and various arts/crafts sites on the Internet state just the opposite - the image should be placed face down. Yes, face down. (You would have printed the image in reverse if text was involved.) After removing the paper backing, the glue should then be washed off completely before beginning the baking process. <br /> <br />I had to toss the old cachepot I used as my experimental project, which was okay since I chose it with the knowledge that it was my first attempt and if something went wrong, it wouldn't be that big a deal. The author did mention that the glue would turn brown in the baking process but I assumed that meant what glue may have gotten squished out around the edges of the transfer or inadvertently smeared onto the object during application. <br /> <br />Aside from the above, the book was not bad - but not great either. It was just mediocre. The designs, most of which were copyright-free images culled from the Internet or simply the author's own photographs, were not what I would consider particularly inspirational or awe inspiring. <br /> <br />I wish I could recommend the book for instructional purposes but I can't do that due to the problems I ran into. Most of the techniques can be found on the Internet anyway, sans step-by-step photos. <br /> I was so disappointed in this book. I thought there would be multiple techniques (using gel medium, burning tools, etc) and thought it would be great to have a bunch of techniques in one book. I was sooooo wrong! <br /> <br />Basically, this book is just a huge advertisement for Lazertran products. EVERYTHING in this book requires some sort of product from Lazertran, which would be fine if it was titled "The Lazertran Book of Image Transferring". If you do buy the Lazertran products they come with instructions, so don't waste your money on this hardcover advertisement!
	Memories of a Lifetime: Animals: Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
	By: Kathy Alpert ISBN: 1402728794 Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle Release Date: 28 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 296098	i loves this book. tons of cool images! <br />i just wanna know, when are they going to put out a Halloween book in this series?!?!? <br />now, if you'll pardon me, i have to go kill a bug.
	Transfer Designs for Embroidery
	By: Anne-Marie Bodson, Josette Vinas y Roca ISBN: 1844482413 Publisher: Search Press Release Date: 28 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 522778
	Manhattan Transfer: A Novel
	By: John Dos Passos ISBN: 0618381864 Publisher: Mariner Books Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 44424	Yes, a five-star book compared to most of them, but compared to "USA," this novel's a warm-up, between 3 & 4 stars, rounded up for innovation if not poise. In the start of each chapter you get marvelous, miniature modernist riffs, reminding me of saxophones, Carl Sandburg, Whitman, and Joyce (he loves those runoncompounds too); these anticipate the "Camera Eye" vignettes that would enrich "USA"'s own prose concoctions. Jimmy Derf (some surname) and Ellen Oglethorpe emerge at the end as the two main characters; others come and go much like life itself--the central figure is not one human but a cast of millions. As an urban reporter here, Dos Passos excels at capturing the snatches of dialogue, smells of the bums, grit of the air (it's rare that nature itself is shown as less than threatening, when it's evident at all), and shouts and noise that, then as now, relentlessly hums and pounds along Manhattan's streets. It's naturalism combined with realism. <br /> <br />Since "USA" for all its flaws is one of my favorite novels, I wanted to compare "MT." The pace is very quick: I read this in three sittings, one per main section. What still seems innovative eight decades later is Dos Passos' ability to skip forward within a dialogue to show how the minutes pass even as the characters are speaking--you hear enough to understand that moment, but the next line may be a half hour later into the situation or scene or action. This "jump-cut" characteristic becomes a bit maddening at times, as it does in cinema, but technically it's fun to watch! This adds to the filmic parallels that flow through "MT," which keeps the clips coming much as a well-edited docudrama might pull off. <br /> <br />After 9/11, some readers of the opening pages of "Moby Dick" noticed headlines of "war in Afghanistan" and the like that seemed to presage the current turmoil, 150 years before. Towards the end of "MT," my eye lingered as I re-read this paragraph: from a failed con-man talking to a slick lawyer: "I happen to know from a secret and reliable source that there is a subversive plot among undesirable elements in this country...Good God think of the Wall Street bomb outrage...I must say that the attitude of the press has been gratifying in one respect...in fact we're approaching a national unity undreamed of before the war." (part 3. ch. 1) <br /> <br />Dos Passos rarely lets his characters stand still and think things through. They try, but there's always someone bursting through the door, or buttonholing them on the street, or the danger, in one dramatic case, of daydreaming leading to disaster. He captures the frenetic speed demanded by NYC, and 20c city life, in this chronicle of a couple of handfuls of characters drawn to the bright lights, and the indifference of the city towards their ambitions and schemes. It's not uplifting or casual reading, but for an immersion into the sensations that ran through and past those who grew up from about 1900-1925, this novel, while uneven, captures what it must have been like for the latest generation who thought they were the first to invent novelty, encounter licentiousness, or concoct flim-flam and skulk around in deceit and skulduggery. Homosexuality, racism, injustice, bootlegging, protest, complacency, war-fever, and rags-to-riches and back down: all these color and vivify the portrayals of the few who stand for millions more in Manhattan. <br /> <br />The slang may have changed since then, and the buildings have grown higher, but the people, even though they are more types than rounded (with the exception of about half-a-dozen who endure through most of the novel)--they are the kinds of figures you can still encounter today on any crowded street. <br /> <br /> Manhattan Transfer's plot is a series of interwoven stories that span several generations of interconnected lives in early twentieth-century New York City. The most appealing element of the book is Dos Passos's beatifully poetic descriptive prose. The mini-plots are a bit over-contrived and difficult to follow; he assigns them less attention and care than his descriptions of the city itself, but this is his intention. As a reader, I felt no emotional connection to any of the (many) characters I met; I did, however, feel a deep attachment to the city. It is an organic being in Dos Passos's cosmology--it is in fact the book's protagonist, almost as though it's the city's growth we're meant to be charting through the decades and its relationships with its inhabitants, rather than vice versa. His use of verbs is brilliant and rather unique: the city "breathes," it "sweats," it "sighs"; it is alive. As a book lover, you'll appreciate the language, and as a New Yorker, you simply can't not read this novel. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, none of the featured reviewers on Amazon's page for this novel mention the seemingly most obvious point about Dos Passos' style, which is that it's heavily influenced by Jazz rhythms and structures in its cutting between different characters and different points in time to flesh out and vary basic themes. The occasional interruptions by random characters echo the way a soloist seizes on elements or variations of a musical phrase to lend depth and context to an entire piece. <p> I realize this is all pretty pedestrian: after all, it's New York in the mid-20s, duh. However, some of the reviewers make the novel sound almost like proto nouveau-roman, which seems to me to be both little unfair, and also to make the novel sound a lot more confusing and difficult than it actually is. <p> In fact, I think an ordinary modern reader consciously or subconsciously familiar with musical and cinematic structures and techniques will have no great trouble understanding what Dos Passos is doing.

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