Book by the Cover Blog

Welcome to the Book by the Cover Blog(cast), a spin on a podcast that I'm not currently able to record or-well-cast. Today's book is titled: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The author is Scott Barbour. The cover is very colorful for a relatively grim subject like PTSD-this adds a sense of hope and perhaps reflects some of the colorful personalities that are often a result of the disorder. Or, perhaps, those colorful personalities are an indication of planned PTSD never having its intended effect. Anyway, that's a little too much of getting into the content of the text already. Now for describing just the cover in detail... The background appears to be an image of what someone might find underneath a microscope. I don't know much about bacteria or microorganisms, but I'm pretty sure that's what's depicted there. It might be a compilation or collage or different images of select microorganisms under a microscope. I doubt it's an image of one microorganism....

Welcome to the Book by the Cover Blog(cast), a spin on a podcast that I'm not currently able to record or-well-cast. Today's book is a magazine. Within the magazine industry, magazines are often referred to as books. So, this magazine of a book is titled: Stay in Art, LOVE. It is the January 2025 edition. It's in German, so I am not entirely sure without a quick translation... (Translation search.) Well, "ausgabe" in German translates to "output" in English. So, I'm pretty confident the 1.25 means January 2025, referring to the release date/edition. The subtitle: "love" is in all capital letters with a thin yellow stroke. the main title at the top is the same , but the font is much smaller to allow it to fit-I imagine. About five lines of very small white text at the bottom balances out a lighter, pinkish splash of hue at the top of the cover. I won't put much effort into finding out exactly what it says there. If I did I would just be ...

Welcome to the Book by the Cover Blog(cast), a spin on a podcast that I'm not currently able to record or-well-cast. Today's book is titled: State of the Union, The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile-edited by Richard Caplan and John Feffer. Chapter 14, Communities: Building Authority, Responsibility, and Capacity is the chapter that brought us to the cover.  The cover of this book is quite simple. It's very aquatic-like, which is a great connection to the theme from last week: OCEANS. There seem to be three distinct little ripples. There might be a fourth there in the top corner. Perhaps to acknowledge the year from the title, 1994. The text of the title and names of the editors are in white as well as the Routledge logo in the bottom left hand corner. Within the title, the main title in bolded and the text below that is not. So, with that in mind, let's plan some travel! (Remembering.) I just recently completed the short workshop itinerary for this book....

Welcome to the Book by the Cover Blog(cast), a spin on a podcast that I'm not currently able to record or-well-cast. Today's book is titled: Property, A Contemporary Approach. It's by the authors John Sprankling, Raymond Coletta, and Rachel Salcido. The cover discussed here is of the sixth edition. The color scheme is very simple. There is just black, white, and grey. The text is all in white, and the background is black other than what might be considered a highlighting of the main title. Grey is the color used to highlight the title as well as to completely outline the title in a rectangle along with the names of the authors. This highlighting includes ornate bars at the top and bottom that act as flourishes to further distinguish the title of the book. These bars and lines might be better described as strokes-for you graphic designers out there. There are two more grey lines at the top and bottom of the cover that can each be broken down into a combination of three diffe...

Welcome to the Book by the Cover Blog(cast), a spin on a podcast that I'm not currently able to record or-well-cast. Today's book is titled: Flatland. It's by the author, Edward Abbott Abbott and was originally published in 1884. I've already broken the rules a bit by reading into the plot and such, but-no worries. That's all already pretty well covered by the originally published version of the book anyway. Now for a description of the front cover: It's tan. There is text well integrated with mathematically-themed illustrations and notations all in thin black line and text. At the top, the title and a short description of the book are among what seems to be a very nimbus cloud. Shortly below, are the author's name in parenthesis with "by A Square" just above that. On the sides (not to include the spine), are the mathematical references mentioned earlier. To the left there are a dot and a square, not so surprisingly. To the right, are a line and a ...