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If you're a graphic designer or illustrator and you're stuck, this is the book to get you un-stuck. And, it's fun to peruse.

This is design before the Mac. Wozencraft has collected some of Brody's best work and presented them in a concise and inviting manner. From a designer's perspective it is astounding to see how Brody handles type and image in the pre-Mac design environment.

I highly recommend this this book for anyone who is into the Grateful Dead. It attempts to catalog/catagorize in 400 pages everything that has ever been written about the Dead. In doing so it also becomes a record of the history of the band through the years. It covers nearly 3000 entries all annotated with helpful information. It is a great tool for anyone that has and extensive collection of Dead related books/magazines/articles. It was very helpful in allowing me to catalog my collection. Although it is a bit expensive it was well worth it!

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Preston carefully examines the many forms of advertising misrepresentation, with special attention to "puffery", which is currently legal but which the author shows to be harmful to the unwary consumer.

Source notes, table of legal cases, index.

When this book originally came out, many of the predictions sounded outlandish. A perfect example was "Islam will replace Marxism as the main ideology of confrontation." This sounded ludicrous at the time (1991), but as we know, this could not have been any more prescient. The reason I call this book a masterpiece though is not simply because many of the predictions came true in the intervening years, but the method they used to make these predictions, what they called Megapolitics, is a still incredibly helpful way of viewing the world.

On the negative side, some of the predictions they made turned out to be dead wrong such as "huge numbers of government employess will be fired". However, this prediction and others like it were based on their conclusion that the U.S. would suffer a major Depression in the 90s where ""the value of the average private home will drop by two-thirds". Although this didn't happen in the '90s, it certainly doesn't seem completely far-fetched today.

I re-read this book recently and was again astounded that many of their descriptions of the deflation and the financial tsunami that would roil the financial markets could have been taken from today's headlines. They may have gotten some of the '90s wrong, but they got many things right and the balance of their predictions may still prove to have been as prescient as their view on Islam and Marxism.

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This book is not only a classic, but it is being updated by the author in a new edition that will cover the years 1990-2000!

Fans of music poster art have a number of general titles on the topic to choose from; but for something more specific and specialized - and therefore, more in depth - choose GREAT STREET ART: REGGAE, BLUES AND WORLD BEAT POSTERS 1977-89. Black and white and some two-color prints of such posters appear full-page and come from the author's own gathering of over five hundred originals from San Francisco. These are largely club posters from events which demonstrate a range of advertising approaches and art, making STREET ART the perfect acquisition not just for the art school library, but for business schools seeking solid, large-size examples of advertising art that works.

Hi, I've been interested in getting a copy of this book for years! I can understand why it's not available to the public, due to identity issues. My name is Robert Edward Greenhoe, born in Bay City Michigan. I'm in the military and can be reached at e-mail address: robert.e.greenhoe@us.army.mil If you have a copy for sale, please let me know. I'm presently living in Georgia.

Feminism in the spanish theater is well articulated against the backdrop of everchanging political landscape in the countries. Readers are left to interpret for themselves, is the theater true reflection of politics or the idealistic illusion of feministic political movement?