Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (At Work)

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Illustrator @ work

Good book, solid explanations

Not for the novice

Very good, but there's something better for novices

Easy introduction to pro use of Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (At Work)
Pariah S. Burke
Manufacturer: Sams
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0672328011

Book Description

There are plenty of books available to teach you how to use the different tools that are a part of Adobe Illustrator CS2. But how many will actually show you how to work with the tools and techniques and apply them to real-world, relevant projects that you encounter every day at work? This one will. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is a project-based guide that will help you complete workplace projects while you learn how to use Illustrator CS2. Detailed, well-explained instructions will help you accomplish job-related tasks, including:

Designing and working with logos.

Designing corporate identity materials.

Illustrating a poster.

Designing product packaging.

Designing a trifold brochure.

Designing a magazine advertisement.

Designing a DVD package, label and menu.

Designing a website.

Tips, tricks and notes will provide you with the information that you need to apply what you learn through these projects to projects you encounter every day at work. Learn by doing rather than reading with Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job.

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Illustrator @ work.......2007-07-13

Not bad at all. Practical exercises relevant to the real world. You do need prior knowledge of the application before starting into the book. What you do learn is very useful though..

Good book, solid explanations.......2006-11-12

The book livews up to it's name, these were all projects you can use on the job. I have used multiple projects in my own work. It is helpful to go to the site and download the project files to follow along. There is one section in the first book that gives ou instructions on making the E that are wrong...this drove me crazy for two days until I figured it out. But otherwise, you'll recieve use out of most of this book.

Not for the novice.......2006-09-28

I'm a newbie to Illustrator, and I found several of the teaching projects in this book difficult to follow. There is a presumption in the steps provided that you know your way around a little bit more than a novice may be able to grasp. Also, a couple of the projects have mistakes in them which render the reader incapable of completing them unless you go to the publisher's website and download the errata PDF.

Very good, but there's something better for novices.......2006-07-15

I first purchased this book to try to help me with Illustrator 9 (yes, I know - it's for CS2, but I was totally lost trying to learn my inherited version of Illustrator 9 on my own, and I figured things couldn't be THAT different between versions, right? hah.) To anyone else considering this book for anything other than CS2: Stop. Turn back. It will only make you salivate for CS2, for the features CS2 has that earlier versions of Illustrator lack.

That said, I've since been able to upgrade to CS2, and this book, although modestly helpful -- (it uses projects to teach, and who has time to work through the book's projects? I've got my OWN projects to complete, and need to get up to speed, fast, on only the tasks required for my project) -- is not nearly as helpful for a complete Illustrator nincompoop (i.e. me) as is the Quick Start CS2 guide by Elaine Weinmann, also available here on Amazon.

This book is the one that should've been included in the box with the software, instead of the semi-useful one that was there. But it's not as helpful for a total novice as is the Weinmann book.

Easy introduction to pro use of Illustrator.......2006-03-12

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work uses a language that is easy for non-english readers to understand. The descriptions for the projects are also thorough explained.
I am using the book as a part of the education of adults for vocational occupational rehabilitation in graphic pre-press and design.

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A good read...
A page-turner from start to finish!
great addition to A new series
a gret read in a dynamite mystery series

Pariah (Kurt Muller Mysteries)
Thomas Zigal
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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On the eve of his recall vote, Aspen Sheriff Kurt Muller is summoned to the home of an old acquaintance, the beautiful, reclusive heiress Nicole Bauer. Someone, she says, is sending her hate mail and threatening to kill her. She's convinced it's her old lover, the 60s blues idol Rocky Rhodes, but Kurt is wary, for good reason: Twenty years earlier, Rocky's body was found on the grounds of Nicole's mansion, and Nicole herself was charged with his murder.

But Kurt's doubts are shaken when Nicole is found dead the next morning, only hours after he left her. Against his deputy's advice, he pursues his own investigation, which leads him back to the decadent counterculture of the 70s, and reveals the shaded pasts of his contemporaries--the doctors, lawyers, land barons, and aspiring politicians of Aspen's social elite. Kurt soon uncovers a host of high-placed suspects, each with deeply buried secrets that Nicole alone had the power to expose. Frustrated at every turn, he realizes that the truth may lie with an elusive former groupie nicknamed Pariah, a witness to Rocky's death, and Kurt's last hope in solving the mystery of Nicole's final hours.

Dark, evocative, and suspenseful, Pariah puts Zigal's rich cast of ex-hippies, Aspen jet-setters, and militant activists face-to-face with the broken ideals of the past, in a tightly woven, electric thriller set against the sweeping background of the Rocky Mountains.

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A good read..........2002-09-06

Thomas Zigal's books evoke the wild beauty of the Colorado Rockies while gently mocking the glitz and artifice of Aspen's weathy elite. His characters are well-rounded, the plots are articulate and interesting, and his writing is lively and articulate (high praise from a voracious reader who bemoans the grammar faux pas of so many of today's popular writers).

A page-turner from start to finish!.......2001-02-01

Tom Zigal has written real joy ride of a mystery novel with Pariah (the third installment in the Kurt Muller series). He has crafted a tightly woven story that includes aging hippies, rock groupies turned yuppies, greedy developers, burned-out rock n' rollers, conniving politicians, ghosts of rock stars past, New Age Buddhists and Aspen social climbers in a plot that has more twists than the mountain roads that he describes. Zigal has a real feel for Aspen and the surrounding country. This book is a lot of fun to read

great addition to A new series.......1999-09-08

Politically ambitious Ben Smerlas heats up his campaign to remove Kurt Muller from being Aspen's sheriff because he knows that this is a perfect stepping stone to a House seat. A desperate Kurt Muller agrees to do almost anything to abort the politically motivated voter recall. Knowing how close the vote is and encouraged by his attorney, Kurt attends a charity benefit in which society's ladies are bidding on a date with him. Wealthy recluse Nicole Bauer bids ten thousand dollars to gain the evening with Kurt.

Nicole informs Kurt that she is the recipient of death threats that she insists comes from former rock star Rocky Rhodes, who died two decades ago. Nicole was the prime suspect in Rocky's death, but she beat the rap. The next day, Nicole is lying dead at the bottom of the nearby cliff eerily as Rocky did twenty years ago.. In spite of the negative publicity associated with Nicole, Kurt begins to investigate her death. He soon finds a link between Rocky,s band and many of the elite of Aspen. However, his new-found knowledge places more than a job in jeopardy as an unknown assailant wants to add the sheriff to the death list.

PARIAH is a very entertaining police procedural that will leave readers feeling a Rocky Mountain high. The story line intermingles Kurt,s personal problems with a well-designed investigation that requires the sheriff to work it. A sprinkling of jocularity makes the characters seem more human even as it eases the growing tension. The myriad of suspects all contains viable motives and means as the plot twists and turns with every new discovery. With novels like this one, Thomas Zigel will gain many zealous fans.

Harriet Klausner

a gret read in a dynamite mystery series.......1999-09-08

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Pariah is a retrospect of Tony Blair's recent New Labour plebiscite, so far the most absurd 'election' of the 21st century. After a much-vaunted Constitutional Revolution, overwhelming victory was obtained on less than a quarter of the electoral register, with more people abstaining than voted for Blair. In 2000 the Constitution of the United States collapsed into farce; this year it was the turn of the United Kingdom, as the oldest and most stable of Western democracies turned into a despised pariah of the global age. 'How is Britain breaking up?' asks this book. Is there any chance—or indeed any need—of its being repaired? In this corrosive polemic Nairn argues that democratic and constitutional reform alone provides an answer to such questions. But the longer the British ancien régime endures, the less chance there will be of such changes taking place by agreement. 'Reform or perish' is the moral; but to perish further looks like the only way towards reform.

Eccentric Seattle: Pillars and Pariahs Who Made the City Not Such a Boring Place After All

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Brilliant & entertaining history
A fun and informative collection for tourists
A history recalled with wit and wonder
The stories that made Seattle

Eccentric Seattle: Pillars and Pariahs Who Made the City Not Such a Boring Place After All
J. Kingston Pierce
Manufacturer: Washington State University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0874222699

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In Eccentric Seattle, readers explore the Emerald City's troubled, tragic, and bawdy past as well as the more familiar, rosy portrayals. A visitor in 1897, at the height of the raucous Klondike gold rush, called the Pacific Northwest's most ambitious city "more wicked than Sodom." Just over a decade later, President William Howard Taft—speaking with greater generosity, or perhaps less skepticism—declared the town to be "one of the most magnificent combinations of modern city and medieval forest...that has ever delighted the eye of men in this or any other country."

The truth, as J. Kingston Pierce shows in this irreverent account of Seattle's past, has always been somewhere in the middle. It was there, after all, where burghers once plotted to import "pure young ladies" from the East to marry local loggers...where big-dreaming bankers embezzled funds to raise a hotel in their own honor...where a bogus religious prophet was "shot down like a dog," while the press cheered...where a canny woman's political coup helped land her the mayor's post...where irate shipyard workers brought about America's first general strike...and where the Happy Face, that ubiquitous "symbol of abject naïvete," was born. Whether about famous or ordinary citizens, Pierce's selection of colorful anecdotes provides captivating reading.

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Brilliant & entertaining history.......2006-03-28

An engaging and captivating read. I sure wish someone like Mr. Pierce had taught history at my high school! This guy breaths life into history with humor, passion and brilliant insights. Pierce obviously loves history and manages to make it all come alive through his deft wordsmithing. As I delved deeper into the book, it became obvious that before ever writing a word, Pierce must have spent many months doing his research (including tracking down, across the Northwest and around the country, living descendents of his historic, eccentric characters.It is also a friendly read. Each eveninig before bed I'd devour another chapter. Sadly, after I finished the book I found myself foraging through the table of contents, like a depleted tin of almond roca, in hopes that just possibly I had overlooked a morsel or even a crumb of his delightful tales of Seattle's historic characters, charlatans, swindlers, realtors and hustlers. Bravo Mr. Pierce!

A fun and informative collection for tourists.......2004-01-09

Eccentric Seattle: Pillars And Pariahs Who Made The City Not Such A Boring Place After All by longtime Seattle editor and author J. Kingston Pierce is an engaging regional history of the great city of Seattle, Washington. Kingston Pierce's keen interest in unusual aspects of history are reflected in the sometimes bizarre anecdotes (mothers urging their children to stuff salt up their noses, scores of proper Victorian ladies forced to climb 8 to 30 foot high ladders) he's gathered and included in Eccentric Seattle, stories stretching through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to present a rollicking composite picture. Eccentric Seattle is a fun and informative collection for tourists or residents of Seattle to read through, and a highly recommended contribution to American Regional History.

A history recalled with wit and wonder.......2003-12-14

January Magazine crime fiction editor J. Kingston Pierce takes us on an effervescent journey through Seattle's ... er ... eccentric history in his latest history-related book, "Eccentric Seattle." In his introduction, Pierce describes how Seattle came to be. "Thus the city was born," writes Pierce. "It would prove to be a fast-growing but troubled child, which didn't always play well with others." This troubled-child aspect is where Pierce leads us. We learn about mail-order brides, a nutty Pulitzer Prize-winning Seattle poet; anti-Communist witch hunts in McCarthy-era Seattle; the first woman mayor of a large American city; rumrunning during Prohibition and so much more. Pierce, the author of "America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett" and "San Francisco, You're History," has written extensively on history in general and the history of Seattle in particular, so, in "Eccentric Seattle," we believe him when he tells us that he learned "long ago that history isn't merely about dates, places, and statistics; what gives it life are the people who charted its course, whether they were empire builders or avaricious businessmen, eristic newspaper editors or erratic preachers, artists or murderers." In "Eccentric Seattle," Pierce introduces us to all of them. -- from January Magazine, December 2003

The stories that made Seattle.......2003-11-22

Seattle's current self-indulgent concept of itself is of a comfortable, jets-rain-and-flannel-shirts backwater now finally being forced to wrestle with the fact that it's become a "big city." But as J. Kingston Pierce's subtitle suggests -- and his interesting and entertaining history reveals -- that vision of Seattle's past, if it was ever accurate, was at best only an interlude between the Emerald City's rowdy origins and the fast-paced *urbs* we are today.

For much of its early history, Seattle was a quintessential frontier town. And from that standpoint, many of the people to whom the author introduces us didn't really strike me as that "eccentric" at all. On the contrary, they seemed like the fairly standard character types one found in many American frontier settlements: the brothel keepers, the moralists, the criminals on the lam, the get-rich-quick artists, the Horatio Algers determined to make a fortune through hard work, the people who failed Back East and came west to start over, and, inevitably, the politicians.

Though these characters are familiar, Pierce does a fine job weaving them into the interesting tapestry that is Seattle history, and showing how they continued to affect the city even after its frontier days were long dead.

I for one can hardly wander through a city without wondering what kind of history took place there, what it looked like 100 years ago, and how it became what it is. The "sense of place" is very important to me. I understand Seattle a lot better for having read this book. Pierce has given faces and stories to many of the names that stare back at us from building fronts and street signs, uncovered important landmarks (literal and figurative) in the city's history, and generally done a good job proving the argument his subtitle asserts.

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Arendt neither a 'feminist' nor a 'zionist'.......2004-04-13

Those looking to Hannah Arendt for a Zionist or Feminist philosophy will be disappointed. She is one of the great philosophic minds of the twentieth century, and to assign labels to her and use the lens concordant to such labels in reading her is to miss much of what she has to say. She is certainly not trying to provide clever arguments to win debates with. Her relevance to the world today is up to the reader to determine, but I would encourage you to make the attempt.

Arendt is overrated.......1998-10-26

This is a collection of essays from Arendt, a feminist and Zionist from the middle of the century. I am sure most political theorists love this kind of book, but for normal people the text is far too "scholarly". I could find nothing of a feminist nature in this book and little convicing of a Zionist nature. There are far more convincing books on both sets of thought than this.

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Not Free SF Reader
Contemporary Horror writers should learn from him
Read this in the house alone
UNEVEN
Outstanding. One of his best.

The Pariah
Graham Masterton
Manufacturer: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0812521935

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-25

The Pariah is definitely one of Masterton's better novels, and also quite a bit longer than usual.

An antique dealer in a small town is visited by his dead wife. He is not the only one, and an Aztec demon lord of the dead, buried aboard a ship off the coast is responsible for this, and some truly horrifying acts later on the novel.

Definitely a good horror book.

Contemporary Horror writers should learn from him.......2007-08-09

I am one of the head cheerleaders for Graham Masterton, having the pleasure of reading "The Manitou" back in 1977 when I was 11 years old and suffering nightmares for the following two weeks after finishing. Since then I have turned over every stone on both sides of the Atlantic in order to read as much as I could by this Grandmaster.

The Pariah is an excellent plot and character driven horror novel that doesn't skimp on the scares, gore and sex. Masterton is not a PG rated writer and he never claims to be one. What he produces is an excellent, tightly constructed scream that also has plenty of exposition and backstory to flesh out all corners of the plot. Not only does Masterton scare the hell out of you, he explains all the background on how and why he will scare the hell out of you, something that is sorely lacking in books by the post modern horror writers.

Antique dealer John Trenton is devastated by the tragic loss of his pregnant wife Jane in an auto accident. While attempting to carry on, he is suddenly witness to mysterious manifestations at his cottage, complete with a heavy iron swing moving without benefit of a push or any wind and photos where the subject (his wife) refuses to stay in the same position. In addition, other people are appearing in these photographs despite the fact that Jane was the only one whose photo was taken.

Seems that Mr. Trenton and his town of Granitehead, Massachusetts have been subject to hauntings like this for some 300 years ever since a trader, the "David Dark" sank off the town's shores. This trader was bearing a mysterious cargo in it's hold that may hold the key to the hauntings and deaths that have and are occurring.

What a great novel. John Trenton's attempt to make sense of the carnage that surrounds him as well as to deal with the grief that explodes when he starts to see his dead wife return should touch a nerve with everyone. A speedy, well written novel that incorporates aztec legends, witchcraft, indian wonder workers, the finer points of marine salvage and scuba diving as well as the Masterton traits of characters having sex without the benefit of a first date and other characters dying brutal and explicit deaths. Some scenes will be familiar to Masterton readers as they have occurred in other of his novels, but the familiarity will enchant rather than turn off the Masterton reader.

This is a perfect example of what horror writing should be, worlds better than the stuff the industry is putting out today.

Read this in the house alone.......2005-06-14

I first read this book 20 years ago and I can't stop talking about it. It scared the you-know-what out of me and I have yet to find another book or movie for that matter, that can match its imagery and level of horror it can instill in a person. I have always recommended this book to anyone who wishes to read a horror book that is both scary as "hell" no pun intended and quite intelligent. The main characters loss is tragic and the ensuing horror he experiences will make the hairs on the back of your neck crawl.

If you enjoy a great ghost story and you don't live in a house that creaks too much, then this is the book for you. I don't know what happened to my copy but I am going to buy a couple and continue to give them as gifts.

UNEVEN.......2005-03-25

Why the low rating ? Because of the sudden switching gear of themes nearing the conclusion. From the get go the author has a pro handle on his characters and plot, and the built-up scary scenes are aplenty (with the many appearances of the hero's dead wife), but as a whole the novel disappoints for its turn into Clive Clusser zone in the second half. Gone are the atmospheric feel, the high-tension jolts, the shock deliverance. What is left is an unimpressionable adventure yarn that should have simply stuck with horror.-----Martin Boucher

Outstanding. One of his best........2001-11-21

I've been singing the praises of Graham Masterton's work for years and I think he is a hugely underappreciated author. As a lifetime lover of horror fiction, I consider him one of the great masters in the genre. I owned a copy of THE PARIAH for years but somehow never read it and then lost my copy. I recently purchased it through Amazon's UK site and couldn't wait to open the cover. For two days I was absolutely enthralled by it. THE PARIAH is outstanding. It's one of Masterton's absolute best... In Granitehead, Massachusetts the dead will not stay buried. For hundreds of years, grieving relatives have found themselves haunted by the dead. Apparitions that reach out to them and lure them into the land of the dead. John Hyatt has lost his wife and is terrorized by her ghost only days later. He soon finds that he is not alone and something very dark is happening in Granitehead. Something evil is submerged beneath the harbor in the ruins of an old ship, the David Darke. Something that has imprisoned those who have died in the area and is feeding off the hearts of the living. Even worse, it appears to be escaping it's watery grave... If you've never had the pleasure of reading any of Masterton's work, this is a fantastic place to start. A 5 star book all the way.

Pariah(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames)

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Pariah(tm) Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames)
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Manufacturer: BRADY GAMES
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ASIN: 0744005396

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BradyGames' Pariah Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

WALKTHROUGH & MAPS – All 18 missions start with a level map, showing the locations of items, WECs, and objective locations.
VEHICLE, WEAPON & WEC DATA – Learn the abilities of each vehicle and weapon, and where to find each WEC. After acquiring each WEC, you’ll learn the best order in which to upgrade weapons.
MULTIPLAYER MAPS – The default multiplayer maps and gameplay modes are all covered inside. You’ll learn how each multiplayer mode works and the best weapons to use on each map.
MAP EDITOR TIPS – Create Unlimited Battleground! Build and remove terrain, change the weather, adjust lighting and fully tailor the landscapes.

Platform: Xbox & PC

Genre: Action

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Platform: Xbox & PC

Genre: Action

This product is available for sale in North America, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.