Ligatures
 Author: Donato Mancini Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9781554200177 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1554200172 Number Of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2005-10-06 [... more]
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Arabic Alphabet The
Taking away the mystery: I have learned some other semitic languages and was always interested in learning Arabic. I considered the alphabet/script to be too big a stumbling block. This book is simply very well done - elegantly laid out and intelligently [... more]
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A short history of the printed word
a must read: The book is a great source of information. The 4 (not 5) stars is given cause the book is filled with postscript errors (missing letters, ligatures replaced by spaces, accented glyphs...). Disapointing for a book about typography. What [... more]
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
good at the basics but unsatisfying, hard to read: This book was required for my Typography I class and at first I really enjoyed the stylish layout and color. But eventually I began to hate it because all the important info is flushed to the right side [... more]
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Bach: Musical Offering; Canons
A Cavalcade of Canons: This CD is a true gem. Where else can one find a collection of canons from those in the Musical offering to the obscure dedication canons Bach wrote for his friends to the 14 canons on the first eight notes of the Goldberg ground? [... more]
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My Dark Places
From Amazon.com: James Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When he's hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as & [... more]
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Arabic Calligraphy
Arabic Calligraphy 101: This introductory workbook is for those who have no previous knowledge of Arabic and want to try writing in Arabic writing for the first time. Writing is in this case a misnomer because as the title suggests the emphasis is on [... more]
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The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0
New version of one of the most-used standards: One reason for the wide acceptance of the Unicode standard is that the Unicode consortium has made it so freely available. There's no point in my discussing in detail what is in this volume when you can [... more]
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Typographers On Type
I didn't know type could be so dull.: I honestly had trouble staying awake reading this one. I'm very interested in type design and typography but the pace of this book made me feel like a kid with attention deficit disorder watching C-Span. There's a [... more]
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Dalkey Archive
weird but necessary: O'Brien is not a household name but he is a wag of the calibre of Oscar Wilde or even Joyce when Joyce wasn't taking himself too seriously. This is a classic but nearly unknown work. It does require some interest in traditional [... more]
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American Linden
To Every Season: Turn, Turn, Turn: By turns titian and upward, American Linden is a book of pirrouettes, lilts and fanny packs packed with snack packs of wisdom unpackaged. I don't say any of those three things lightly, for titian is yellow in a world of [... more]
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Before and After Graphics for Business
A great resource for ANY business: Before & After is one of my favorite design magazines. The project examples, step-by-step guidelines and practical articles have always been excellent resources for designers of all education and experiences levels. [... more]
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