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Great Book
Lots and lots of unique patterns in this book.Pattens include; holiday themes, seasonal themes,welcome signs, doorhangers, coasters, tissue toppers, a pin cushion, potato chip clips and some baby/children's patterns plus more!Skill levels range from beginner to advanced.The patterns are clear, in color and a good size overall.There are 55 patterns in this book. ... Read more

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Unfortunately, not what I was looking for
PLEASE NOTE: The only reason I am giving this book a low review is not because of the lack of information it contains, but because initially it was not what I was looking for.

I am in a Packaging major and my plastics class was not as beneficial as I would have hoped. Plastics are a huge part of the industry and I was hoping for some extra reading so I can get the information sorted out.

I was simply going on the reviews when I purchased this. This book contains more about plastic styles and applications (such as Transparency, Cushioning, Tasteless, Blended, Naturally wearing, Use in the oven, ect.) rather than specific plastic types (PE, PVC, PC, PLA, EVA, ect). It does offer some plastics names in the descriptions.For example, on the page "Heat resistant, flexible", they have PVC as the best for that application.They also have plenty of other industry-specific plastics too.

The book has tons of colored, detailed pictures and set aside information about Dimensions (though I'm not sure what it's meant for), Features, More, and Applications.Each page has an explanation of the plastic and what plastics would best suit it. Each page is a different application of the plastic.For the most part, I can easily identify the products that are pictured, if not, there is a nearby caption saying what it is, the designer, and manufacturer.

I say this book is more for people who are familiar with plastics and getting ideas for applications rather than reading up on additional plastic information. I'm sure I'll need this book eventually so I won't be returning it.

Great review of unusual plastics
I was looking for a review of unusual plastics to use in my shop and found that this book provided me with the start I needed.Each plastic is presented with a photo and description of common uses, their limitations as well as the sources where they can be purchased.The book has been a nice reference and has lead me to further research into the world of plastics.

Another homerun
Artistically done, no frills, very detailed, beautifully presented.Very helpful for me.Now, I want to be able to identify all plastics on sight. ... Read more

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Add a little holiday cheer to your home throughout the year when you stitch up these darling plastic canvas designs. Featuring projects for all seasons, this book includes holiday patterns, as well. All projects are stitched on 7-count plastic canvas and use readily available yarns and embellishments. ... Read more

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Pyrolysis is a recycling technique converting plastic waste into fuels, monomers, or other valuable materials by thermal and catalytic cracking processes. It allows the treatment of mixed, unwashed plastic wastes. For many years research has been carried out on thermally converting waste plastics into useful hydrocarbons liquids such as crude oil and diesel fuel. Recently the technology has matured to the point where commercial plants are now available. Pyrolysis recycling of mixed waste plastics into generator and transportation fuels is seen as the answer for recovering value from unwashed, mixed plastics and achieving their desired diversion from landfill.

This book provides an overview of the science and technology of pyrolysis of waste plastics. It describes the types of plastics that are suitable for pyrolysis recycling, the mechanism of pyrolytic degradation of various plastics, characterization of the pyrolysis products and details of commercially mature pyrolysis technologies. This book also covers co-pyrolysis technology, including: waste plastic/waste oil, waste plastics/coal, and waste plastics/rubber. ... Read more

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The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed without any copyrights or royalties paid to the master composers who created these musical canons. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced. You and your customers won't even notice the difference...the covers look the same, the engravings look the same, the songlist is nearly identical, and the price remains fair even on a musician's salary! But every conscientious musician and music store owner will appreciate that these books are now produced legally and ethically, benefitting the songwriters that we owe for some of the greatest music ever written! 400 songs, including: Ain't Misbehavin' * All or Nothing at All * Along Came Betty * Cheek to Cheek * East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) * Funkallero * H and H * I've Got the World on a String * I've Got You Under My Skin * The Jive Samba * The Lady Is a Tramp * Milestones * Moonlight in Vermont * A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square * On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) * Samba De Orfeu * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) * Things Ain't What They Used to Be * The Very Thought of You * Violets for Your Furs * Watermelon Man * and more. ... Read more

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Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language's variability of reference and the mechanisms which enable us to understand each other in spite of the variability. Kronenfeld's theory, rooted in the tradition of ethnoscience (or cognitive anthropology), accomplishes three things. First, it distinguishes prototypic referents from extended referents. Second, it describes the various bases of semantic extensions. Finally it details how we use the situational context of usage, the linguistic context of opposition and inclusion, and the conceptual context of knowledge about the world to interpret communicative events. ... Read more

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Brimming over with over 150 full-page, luscious photographs of superb jewelry, this is a treasure chest of bakelite, celluliod and lucite. Several of today's leading bakelite collectors lent their finest pieces of this book. Layered, carved molded, translucent, painted and imbedded jewelry styles are displayed in profusion. The captions include the values guide. From common to exceedingly rare, this book presents excitement and the best plastic jewelry to be found. ... Read more

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A Great Wish Book
This is a beautiful book! Vibrant color photos of some of the most classic bakelite jewelry ever made. Also some great, unusual things such as school pencils and charms that are rarely seen. Unfortunately, most of us who buybooks like these are not only interested in the photos and descriptions butare very much interested in the price/value guides. The value guide in thisbook is way too non-specific. It gives price ranges for entire pages (ordouble spread of pages) without giving estimates for individual items oreven groups of items. An example: pages 102 and 103, $600 to $1100. Not thebangles on page 102 and the pins on page 102 - just PAGE 102. For someonelooking for a beautiful bakelite jewelry "wishbook", this is it!However, if you're looking for an updated book with a usuable price guidethis book falls short. ... Read more

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Although polymer surface modification is a topic of a large number of investigations,relatively little attention has been paid to surface activation technologies which, when appropriately utilized, make specific polymer-based surfaces receptive to value-adding interfaces such as inks, coatings, and adhesive formulations.This book describes the primary polymer adhesion issues faced by manufacturers,processors, and converters, outlines a variety of methods for attaining an appropriately activated surface, and provides the diagnostics for various adhesion promotion issues aswell as troubleshooting guidelines.Adhesion strength is generally determined by the properties of a base material and itsinterface. Optimizing adhesion strength can be accomplished by modifying these interfaces chemically and physically. As polymers are continually engineered to meet new product application requirements, optimizing the activation of these surfaces requires a fresh lookat cost effective ways to etch, clean and functionalize them. These demands require detailed information on the surface treatment of classic materials, as well as an examination of the latest surface treatment machine designs available anywhere in the world today that areused to process these materials. There are four chapters devoted specifically to corona, ozone, flame, and plasma discharge surface treatment technologies, plus, a useful chapter on the identification of common adhesion maladies. ... Read more

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Texas Medical Center, Houston. Second edition of a manual on the pre-, post-, and operative care of plastic and reconstructive surgery patients. Previous edition 1982. General topics and specific procedures. For physicians, residents, nurses. 56 contributors, 55 U.S. DNLM: Surgery, Plastic handbooks. ... Read more

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Covers both established methods of manipulating plastics, and innovations newly or not yet in use, explaining such aspects as the physical properties of many new polymers, methods of purchasing tooling, secondary techniques, and suggestions on how to work with design engineers to produce plastic pro ... Read more

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This comprehensive workbook offers a thorough review of today'shigh performance plastics and manufacturing processes. Focusing oncommon processing problems and practical solutions this book surveysfundamental processing concepts for every major fabrication techniquein use today and provides extensive data on controls, instrumentation,materials and molding technologies. This second edition is fullyupdated with the addition of new material, new tables and new figures.Other useful features include:+numerousexamples of various phases of processing; +a detailed review ofeach plastics process; +the effect of changing one variablewhile others are constant. ... Read more

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Excellent
A must for any Plastics Engineer ... Read more

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This overview of plastics testing provides an understanding of how polymer structure and morphology affect properties that are important for plastics processing and how to test for these properties. The reader will get an overview of basic material testing, the specific properties tested, and why they are important. The book also provides insight into which tests are useful for predicting the behavior of plastics products after they have been produced and in end-use. ... Read more

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The info you need... STAT
Hi. This is a great pocket book that covers what it says on its title: Plastic Surgery Emergencies. It helps you make quick differential diagnosis, and gives a summary of the treatment options in a quick, simplistic fashion... Don't expect a lot of techniques here, just the basic info, but the info you need STAT.

Excellent book for residents (as I am), and it could be useful to the experienced plastic surgeons as a quick review as well.. ... Read more

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Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from the author’s previous poetry books. Instead of the obsessive focus on relationships and emotional damage that has characterized much of her earlier work, this book opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and dying, consumerism, and the natural world. In a tone that is often elegiac, without ever being maudlin, these poems are steeped in immortality and loss. Haunted by the pull of the past, there is strength of character and a sense of affirmation in all of these poems. While grounded in travel and in place, the tone is surprisingly meditative and contemplative. ... Read more

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Invested with state-of-the-art research on mechanisms of corrosion and advancements in corrosion resistance, this Fifth Edition serves as a convenient, single-source tabular guide to materials used in the construction of all system components—from vessels to pumps to gaskets and packing—for specific processes and applications. This revised and expanded edition includes tables for 83 additional corrodents covered for the first time. ... Read more

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Straight forward comparison of materials in various environments
Easy to use layout.Excellent reference.The book does not explain where the data came from.I looked in previous versions, and even the single volume version published in 1976 did not have a "Methods" section.I think that is really odd, and is the reason I did not give it a five star rating. ... Read more

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Product Developers have found a wide array of application for thermoplastics in the automotive interior and exterior parts, business machines, medical, telecommunications equipment, microwaveable packaging, appliances, and specialty uses. However, finding a material that can meet consumer demands is no small task. While technological information is readily available regarding the general properties of common thermoplastic material, there is no single authoritative source for building and evaluating new product lines. Written by a top team of international experts, this book will focus only on new and emerging engineering resin property requirements, instead of properties of conventional engineering thermoplastics which are available from polymer producers and compounders. This book will incorporate important chemical, physical, mechanical and applications for engineering thermoplastic in one place, providing clear solutions to evaluate and compare existing product lines and with new and emerging products. ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant energy, flexibility, boyishness, and subtle hints of sexuality. And as cartoonists "become" each character they create, it can be said that Jack Cole himself resembles Plastic Man. Cole revealed the true magnitude and intensity of his imagination and inner thoughts as Plastic Man slithered from panel to panel--shifting forms and dashing from male to female, or freely morphing from a stiff upright figure to a being as soft as a Dali clock. With a compelling history, a V-necked red rubber leotard, a black-and-yellow striped belt, and very cool tinted goggles, Plastic Man is truly a cult classic, and this art-packed book will delight any fan. ... Read more

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An all American boy
In his short life, Jack Cole, a hick from New Castle, Pa., managed to find himself at the center of three of the premiere cultural events of the 20th century.
As a youngster just before World War II, he developed the goofy, idiosyncratic Plastic Man comic character, which remains among the most admired strips of the Golden Age of pulp, though Cole drew his last Plas in 1950.
About then, too, a single panel of Cole's in another comic, True Crime, became the prime exhibit in one of the McCarthyite Congress's more ridiculous crusades, the one that said comix were sending our youth to hell. This brought the Golden Age of comix and the Linoleum Age of Congress to an end.
After that, Cole -- now using a completely different medium (water color) and style -- became the signature artist of the new Playboy magazine.
And not long after that, he shot himself, for reasons none of his friends could quite guess.
Art Spiegelman, who brought comix to their highest peak of respectability (at least in the eyes of people who never read comix) with his "Maus" comix about the Holocaust, wrote a sensitive and complex appreciation of Cole and Plas in The New Yorker in 1999, and that text is reprinted here, along with a generous selection of Cole's output.
This includes several adventures of Plas and his sidekick Woozy Winks, which rival Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strips, if not quite George Herriman's Krazy Kat,in wackiness; as well as Congress' favorite panel (a hypodermic needle aimed at a woman's eye) and the rest of that whole episode, "Murder, Morphine and Me."
"Murder, Morphine and Me" is no raunchier than the TV ads placed by the National Institutes of Mental Health ("This is your brain on drugs") nowadays, but Cole was always before his time.
Cole represented that nose-thumbing, razzberry-blowing strain of sez-who? Americanism that has just about been stamped out today, when we need it badly. If not the greatest, he was perhaps the most characteristic American limner of his generation.
This collection was designed by Chip Kidd, in a sort of paper version of MTV film editing. Plas, always frenetic, holds up very well to this kind of contemporary treatment.
A hero for the ages.

Jack Cole the real Plastic Man
Biographies of comic creators are few and far apart. This by a short reach is the best of the lot. It contains all the stories we have heard about Cole (his bike trip across America, his Playboy years, his mysterous suicide).

Interlaced through are reprints of some of his best works. What I liked was that the comics within seem to be reproduced from the originals, yellowing and all. If anything it added to my pleasure instead of took away from it.

For fans of comic history or tragic artists this is the one book that must be on your shelf. See Jack Cole stretch his mind as far as Plastic Man stretched his body.

Cole Mine
Jack Cole is better served by this fairly strange book than many other great cartoonists of the golden age of the medium have been in print.Spiegelman's somewhat sparse text is full of useful information and valid critique, but he wisely lets the material speak for itself, and that's the main attraction here, though those words and the book's design seem to have distracted some readers.This is not an anthology of "Plastic Man"- that can be found elsewhere, fortunately- nor is it an in-depth biography of Jack Cole.It's more like a large catalogue for an exhibition, covering all aspects of his varied career.Material seems to be reproduced from original art in a few cases- mainly his Playboy stuff- but the comic book stories are shot from original issues, with four-color separation and page-yellowing quite evident- and speaking as a sometimes-comic artist, that's close to the way I think they should be seen (I HATE modern re-coloring, and especially airbrushes!).And as for the book's unconventional design.....I like it.(Would've preferred a hardcover, though!)

Not to stretch a point, but...
I've bought and read many, many books dealing with comics history, and this volume is one that proudly sits with the rest of the collection!If you have even the slightest interest in the Golden Age of Comics, Jack Cole or Plastic Man, you definitely owe it to yourself to get this book (and Amazon's offering it cheaper than I got my copy!).There are several complete Plas stories included in this book, making it worth the price by itself, but the retrospective of Jack Cole's career also makes for fascinating reading.I couldn't put it down, read the thing in one sitting!

Draft Portrait of the Artist
This biography/retrospective of cartoonist Jack Cole is certainly eye-catching with its chaotic design, popping full-bleed artwork, rounded corners, and varying paper stock, but as a portrait of the artist it never really amounts to more than a draft sketch. Spiegelman's text is slightly expanded from an article he wrote in 1999 for The New Yorker, and while it's a fairly decent biographical sketch of Cole's life and career as creator of Plastic Man, Playboy illustrator, and syndicated cartoonist, it never does more than skim the surface. Most indicative of this is the skimpy treatment Cole's unexpected and unexplained suicide is accorded. It's clear that Spiegelman (creator of the acclaimed Maus) loves Cole's work, but other than some generic plaudits that could apply to a number of cartoonists, it's never really clear why he considers Cole a genius (or for that matter, why the reader should).

A graphic tribute it's more successful, combining reproductions of complete strips and stories (including the True Crime Comics classic "Murder, Morphine, and Me"), pieces from Playboy, family photos, unpublished sketches, covers, and collages. Some people are bound to hate renowned book designer Kidd's treatment of the material (and indeed, some of the text is a strain to read), but it seems wholly suitable to Cole's own frantic graphic style from the Plastic Man series. In the end, the book is unlikely to appeal to those outside the world of comics. ... Read more

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Although designing machines and dies for plastics processing is routinely done with the help of computer modeling and design programs, the results don’t always hold up in industrial application. Therefore, it is essential for the designer to have an understanding of the underlying mathematical concepts and their limitations when working with these programs and/or trying to improve their output.

This book presents a summary of the most important formulas and their applications to solve design and processing problems with plastics materials. Numerous practical examples guide the reader step-by-step through the computational routine of designing polymer machinery. The approach is unassuming and very practical to enable every engineer to apply these concepts in their daily work to improve their equipment and stabilize their processes. ... Read more

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Design Formulas for Plastics Engineers
Great!!! Great!!! if you like to refresh your memory on design formulas this is the book... also very good source for guidence

Calculating Polymer Molding for Manufacturing
As promised, the book Design Formulas for Plastics Engineers is filled with formulas that are attributed to plastics polymer manufacturing.Lacking are examples for all of the formulas or clear examples of what each variable applies to in a formula.With a strong math background, this book should prove an interesting read with a few issues related to what terms relate to what components or materials in the real world.If you lack a decent math background you will struggle through the material, this is not a tutorial in mathematics.Nor is it a primer in plastics polymer manufacturing.

If you want to dig deeper and understand even more about the depths of plastic polymer manufacturing this may be the book for you, but it is not a book for the novice.The book is well written and offers plenty of insight for the plastic polymer engineer. I use this book as one of several technical references in writting articles for a free on-line magazine that focuses on plastic polymers and the manufacturing processes [...]/magazine, sponsored by Precise Mold and Engineering a custom plastic manufacturing company([...]).

Dr. John H. Glasgow
President, Resource Management Training
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