Book Description
Collecting Ultimate X-Men #40-45.
Customer Reviews:
Took Me FOREVER!.......2005-08-08
It took me forever to find the th volume of this series. I don't know if I was looking to hard. I had the 9th before I got this one.
Great story, things get stickier for Professor X and his X-men. I can't wait to see more characters from the X-men world.
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"Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too."
--The New York Times Book Review
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body--a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets
one. . . .
"You don't really know Morse until you've read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter's novels."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Fascinating . . . Very satisfying."
--Book Sellers
Customer Reviews:
A disappointment, even if enjoyable at times.......2007-02-24
Of course I know the Morse television series, but this is my first Morse novel. I will have to try another one. This book is disappointing for the reasons stated by other reviewers, especially a plot that is excessively labyrinthine and, to be honest, not terribly gripping. The ending is also unsatisfactory. Dexter is not a great writer, but I'm sure he's done better work than this one. So I'm not giving up. But if the next one isn't good, then I will probably go back to N. Marsh and M. Allingham.
He's not a genius.......2005-09-04
And he doesn't have the answer way before you do. In fact, you might get it long before Inspector Morse. Doesn't matter, though, because the twists and turns this tale takes will have you second- and third- guessing yourself. Upon the death of another detective, Morse is handed a missing person's case that is already several years old. Seventeen year-old schoolgirl Valerie Taylor went missing one Tuesday, never to be seen again, even as a corpse. Morse prefers corpses, perhaps only because they hold still while he works - and Valerie holds still like a wisp of smoke. The characters that peopled her life all seem to have some possible motive for killing her, but if someone did, where's the body? And if she's dead, what's she doing writing letters to her parents? Finding the answers is fun, especially when you're doing it with a dirty old man like Morse.
Sex (a little) but no car chases.........2005-09-02
Book loaned by a friend who noted that I was a John Mortimer/Rumpole fan and who thought I might enjoy Inspector Morse. I am sure there is some grist there and other reviews are probably more valid than mine owing to my decidedly pedestrian tastes.
The book started out with an interesting premise (but don't all mysteries?) but quickly wound its way onto a labyrinth of side plots, sub-narratives, and entanglements with, frankly no redeeming steamy sex (except when Morse and Lewis visit the strip tease show) or car chases to revive my interest.
Our poor old C.I. Morse even makes several self-admitted blunders as he stumbles into the mystery's resolution.
Mr. Dexter is a very good writer; I am just a very poor reader..
..short attention span and all that.
Dexter is a master craftsman!.......2004-07-26
This is a very intelligent book, and in it we see a very vulnerable, although still brilliant Morse. Dexter writes in such a way that we're there every step of the way with Morse as he stumbles his way around trying to solve a very confusing, old disappearance case. It is done so well, that as we read and see through Morse's eyes, the tension keeps on building and building. We begin to wonder why we can't figure out what happened to Valerie Taylor either. As well done as the televisin series is, and I have seen this story enacted, it cannot come close to the intricasies of the plot in this particular book. One of the best examples I've seen of plot and character development done in the mystery genre.
A confusing mess.......2000-11-19
This book seemed promising at first, but got worse as the chapters went by. A poorly constructed plot with bland characters made it hard to stay interested. The seperate parts were not well connected, and it was hard to lose interest. Even the mystery was not intriguing, and hardly made me want to find out what happened. There was no action, and it mostly consisted of interveiws and dialogue with no real point. However, there were some clever lines that showed Colin Dexter has some talent. This was my first book by this author, and it will probably be my last.
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Last Seen Wearing...
Hillary Waugh
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Pub
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Last Seen Wearing
Colin Dexter
Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Books
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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Last Seen Wearing...
Manufacturer: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000BLMCRM |
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6 Titles By Colin Dexter Inspector Morse Series : Last Bus to Woodstock Last Seen Wearing Service of All the Dead The Way Through the Woods The Daughters of Cain Death Is Now My Neighbour. six mmpb books.
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Hillary Waugh
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- Drop It Like Hot!
- It gets better!
- Keesha of Sisters of Unity Book Club.
- HOT AND STEAMY !!!!
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What I Do Is Taboo 2
Manufacturer: PF and Associates
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What I Do Is Taboo
ASIN: 0976977206 |
Customer Reviews:
Drop It Like Hot!.......2007-01-25
This book is hotter than the one before. These books are very unique because as long as I have been reading. I have never came across any talent like this in me life. Yonder has talent that will leave you breathless and hot as hell!
Maggie is still bored with her husband so what she does is go back to school. But the purpose was to get her mind off of sex and more sex. But she finds out that it's very hard to do with all the hot guys that is running around on campus.
Henson has a threesome with his co workers after seening them with a bowl of fruit. It wasn't just the bowl of fruit it was what they was doing with this bowl of fruit that brought him they way. Let your mind wonder on that one!
Mr. Roarke and Dre is up to their old ways as they call it the playa ways.
You have to read the whole book to get a grab on all the characters. Yonder bring the characters to life again and runs with it from beginning to end.
It gets better!.......2006-11-12
Yonder has done it again, penning yet another hot erotica anthology sure to put you in the mood!
Keesha of Sisters of Unity Book Club........2006-06-29
Titillating, Sizzling, Tantalizing, should I go on?
If you are looking for something erotic or just down right nasty then look no further. Look out Zane because Yonder has delivered yet again with part two of What I do is Taboo.It tells the tales of best friends and women conquerors, Mr. Rourke and Dre. They seem to mesmerize any woman who they come in contact with and totally satisfies each of them sexually. Any woman would love to have a Mr. Rourke or Dre in their lives to bring the natural freak that lies within them.
Anxiously awaiting Part III.......
HOT AND STEAMY !!!!.......2006-06-26
YONDER YOU DROPED IT LIKE IT WAS RED HOT !!!
LOTS AND LOTS OF GREAT SEX..
THE BOOK HAD ME WANTING MORE..
THIS BOOK IS THE BOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMB !!
I LOOK FORWARD TO PART 3..
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What I Do Is Taboo
YONDER
Manufacturer: PF and Associates
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ASIN: 0976977214 |
Book Description
Erotic in nature, but also hilarious and exciting, this collection of short stories, inspired by true events, gives you insight into a whole new world of fantasy...or is it? In Maggie's Madness, Maggie cautiously explores the contetns of a woman's goodie bag. The contents of this bag are for her total pleasure. You may be surprised to know that women carry in their cars! In Feening in 1988, Mr. Roarke has quite a reputation for making young ladies wildest fantasies come true. Can he use his bedroom skills to fulfill one last fantasy - his own? Enjoy the erotic, funny, roller coaster ride. What I Do Is Taboo is a page-turner; you won't put the book down until you're finished!
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- Ann Moten-Arthur (This is toooooo..... HOT for TV)
- It's very freaky and hot!
- I love Taboo
- Wonderful
- HOT !!
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What I Do Is Taboo
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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What I Do Is Taboo 2
ASIN: 1419612239
Release Date: 2005-08-19 |
Book Description
Erotic in nature-- but also hilarious and exciting. This collection of short stories,inspired by true events, gives you insight into a whole new world of fantasy..or is it?
Customer Reviews:
Ann Moten-Arthur (This is toooooo..... HOT for TV).......2007-06-04
This is a very good book and it takes you back in the day, ooh yes it does and that 1069 scene.... wow,wow,wow I can't even explain it, you need to read the book to find out....Anyhow Yonder bring it on, I'm ready for the next book, so I can put my feet up on a warn afternoon and FANTASIZE.
It's very freaky and hot!.......2006-12-01
Everybody else has already sum this one up for you. The book is very well written and the characters and the scenes are very well developed. For me being the female that I am the females in this book is unbelieveable. The things they allow the man to do to them is off the chain. Over all the whole book is wild.
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I love Taboo.......2006-07-06
Taboo is a great book, I couldn't wait to get to the end. In fact, I had to read the last paragraph before I finished it. I really enjoyed it. Support this brotha, it's really worth it!!!
Wonderful.......2006-06-28
I really enjoyed this book, I thought it was sexy, and funny. I have recommended this book to all of my friends, and family. Keep up the good work Yonder.
HOT !!.......2006-06-26
THIS BOOK IS GOOD
IT'S HOT STEAMY AND SOME GREAT SEX !!
YONDER YOU PUT IT DOWN..
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE,
HOT !!!
Book Description
When you are fighting for your life, you need to know your enemy and have the most effective weapons available. The Complete Cancer Survival Guide provides a full arsenal of absolutely essential information for anyone diagnosed with cancer.
Drawing on the advice and information provided by specialists at dozens of major cancer centers in the United States, this book provides the most up-to-date, cutting-edge information available on how each of the twenty-five most common forms of cancer is diagnosed and staged, what the most advanced treatments are, and where to go to get the best possible care.
Vetted by doctors and specialists, this updated edition provides new information superior to anything you’ll find on the internet. Complete with the newest cancer therapies and referrals to trustworthy organizations and agencies offering support and services for people with cancer, it remains the single best resource for empowering patients and their families.
Amazon.com
At age 51, Peter Teeley, former press secretary to George Bush, was given a 50-50 chance of surviving his stage III colon cancer. Like most newly diagnosed cancer patients, he knew little about the disease and less about possible treatments. He tenaciously sought out information and saved his own life. Now he and medical writer Philip Bashe spare others from having to start their own cancer treatment investigation from scratch.
"When faced with the most critical consumer decision of their lives, the majority of cancer patients accept without question the recommendation of the doctor who diagnosed the disease," write the authors. "Eighty-five percent of the time, that person is not an oncologist, a specialist in the detection and treatment of cancer." This leads to a substantial risk of substandard care, according to the National Cancer Policy Board.
The solution? Take charge, with the help of the comprehensive information here. Learn all you can about your disease, its staging and treatments (25 different cancers are covered here). Seek out clinical trials. Get an independent second opinion. Investigate cancer-treatment facilities. Learn about medications for pain and nausea. Learn how dietary changes, stress management, and support services can help you. Make your medical insurance work for you. There's an immense amount of practical, clearly written, well-organized, illustrated information in this book, and it's enhanced by anecdotes from Teeley's personal story. Everything you need is here: lists of top cancer centers and support groups (with phone numbers and Web sites), definitions of all terms, instructive charts and boxes, questions to ask, questions you're likely to be asked, and a ton of information about how you can help yourself.
Everything You Must Know and Where to Go for State-of-the-Art Treatment of the 25 Most Common Forms of Cancer declares The Complete Cancer Survival Guide's cover, and this 950-page book lives up to its claim. The foreword is by former president George Bush, whose daughter died of pediatric leukemia. --Joan Price
Book Description
Diagnosis * Staging * Treatment Options * Procedures and Medications * Clinical Trials
When you are fighting for your life, you must be sure to know your enemy and have at your disposal the most effective weapons there are. Peter Teeley and Philip Bashe provide a complete arsenal of absolutely essential information for anyone diagnosed with cancer.
Drawing on the advice and information provided by dozens of top specialists at all the major cancer centers in the United States,
The Complete Cancer Survival Guide provides the most up-to-date, cutting-edge information available on how each of the 25 most common forms of cancer is diagnosed and staged, what the most advanced treatments are, and where to go throughout the country to be sure that the care you receive is absolutely the best there is.
In down-to-earth language, THE COMPLETE CANCER SURVIVAL GUIDE maps out a practical game plan for obtaining the best care available. Drawing on advice provided by dozens of top specialists at all of the major cancer centers around the United States, the authors provide the most up-to-date information on which to base decisions about where to seek treatment and to make sense of the many therapy choices that may seem at odds with one another.
THE COMPLETE CANCER SURVIVAL GUIDE is a bible on which to rely not only for learning about how to navigate the health-care maze and obtain the best care, but also for learning how to best care for yourself--physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. -->
Customer Reviews:
This book is a true lifesaver.......2005-03-15
The information we got from this book literally saved my mother's life. After being told the tumor seen in the CT scans of her pancreas was probably cancer, within 24 hours of getting the book and doing our research, we were in touch with the best physicians to deal with it. Now my 78 year old mother is Johns Hopkins' poster girl for pancreatic cancer survival... three words that aren't often used together. I'll always have a version of this book in my possession.
Current Comprehensive Helpful.......2000-07-20
This book was well worth the small investment. With detailed referencing to take your researches even further, clear descriptions and helpful diagrams, helpful questions to ask your doctor about your disease and its treatments, it is a wonderful book. Aids in finding treatment centers near you with the latest treatments. Discussions about emotional health and insurance are also useful. Information drawn from top specialists makes this an authoritative book. Covers the top 25 cancers. Essential information.
An excellent and comprehensive "first choice" guide........2000-06-25
I am a cancer patient and this is the book I have been looking for. Encyclopedic yet concise and to the point, Teeley's treatment of strategies, treatment options and the biology of cancer sets a high standard. Useful summary boxes are distributed throughout each chapter, allowing the reader to get a quick overview of such topics as "Medical Terms You're Likely to Hear" / "Surgical Procedures" / "Drug Therapies" and related topics.
I found chapter 6 (State of the Art: Your Treatment Options) and Chapter 9 (Don't Neglect Your Emotional Health) especially useful...but EACH chapter is stuffed with information vital to an understanding of how to cope with cancer in the year 2000. This book does not have a dated or stale feel; the medical information is current. Numerous Web site addresses are included to help you get information and support.
Weighing in at close to 1000 pages (for a relatively modest price), I'll guess that this book will quickly become the standard cancer reference for the next few years.
Book Description
The owner of New York's celebrated Felidia presents a collection of over 120 simple but sophisticated recipes from the cuisine of her native Istria, spiced with tidbits of history and tradition and seasoned with warm family memories.
B & W and full-color photographs throughout
Customer Reviews:
Home cooking, with elegance.......2006-08-02
This is really two books, largely interleaved with each other. The cookbook is the more obvious one. It's where Lidia - never truly separable from her husband Felice - exposes the secrets of her kitchen. Correction: kitchens, plural. These are the recipes that have kept the lines long outside of her restaurants back to the early 1970s. Struggling against American palates trained on TV dinners, they addressed and quite possibly created a clientele who discovered that there was more to Italian food than tomato sauce.
Lidia has extensive professional education, undertaken while she was a young mother and beginning restauranteur (this is the weaker sex?!?). She and her husband traveled most of Europe, studying the national and even regional specialties of each culinary tradition. Although training and research inform this book, that's not where it really comes from. It comes, through her personal alchemy, from her grandmother's truck garden. That's where the second book within this one binding comes in. That book is Lidia's culinary biography, from her earliest girlhood in Adriatic Italy up to the book's 1990 writing.
The family wasn't rich. Meat was a rarity, and every part of the animal went into the pot: heart, kidney, liver, blood for black sausage, and (in this pre-BSE book) brain. Produce was fresh from the garden, though, and slaughtering the animal was part of cooking with meat. Plain cooking can be exquisite cooking, however. Lidia's close contact with every aspect of the food gave her a bone-deep appreciation for unique character of ever plant and animalin her kitchen. Her secret is really no secret at all: it lies in using the finest and freshest ingredients, and in knowing the preparation that lets each be the best it can.
//wiredweird
Some reservations about this book.......2004-01-20
I love Lidia and love her style of cooking. This was her first book and therein lies the rub. I found this book almost inpenetrable. Great stories about her childhood in Istria, but the recipes are almost universally unusable. Octopus salad, cuttlefish sacs, etc. Not the kind of thing you'd be inclined to try in your own kitchen. Lidia is very bright, that much is obvious. But I think she'd tried too hard to impress us with her intellect. I'd try another of her titles, if I were you.
IT'S NOT MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN COOKING.......2000-07-20
I first encountered Lidia Bastianich through the public television program, "New York, The Great Chefs." Ms. Bastianich made Grapes in Grappa. I had never heard of grappa but I knew I wanted to copy that recipe and so I bought the companion book for the series. Many years later, La Cucina di Lidia crossed my hands and I'm glad it did. And not just for the recipes, which are superb. Lidia and I are the same age. While I grew up is a working class suburb in the American Midwest,with its small lots ringed by chainlink fence, Lidia grew up in a country still scarred by WWII. We were not wealthy -- my father, who never went to high school, was a skilled laborer -- but we never had the sort of struggle to put food on the table that Lidia's family had. That struggle and the story of her families immigration is told in this cookbook. And, yes, it is a cookbook, but it is just as interesting as a document of perhaps the "other side" of the Baby Boom generation that has been soundly criticised for materialism and self-indulgence. From generations of Istrian cooks, Lidia learned how to feed a family suberbly. To my Irish and Polish family, the Italian dishes that were making their way into the Midwest in the 1950s were exotic. I remember my mother buying the "spaghetti kit," (can I mention the brand - Chef Boyardee) a yellow, rectangular box in which there was a long, thin box of dry spaghetti, a medium size can of tomato sauce and a small can of grated cheese. When there were only 2 children in the family, we were fed from one box, but as the children grew in size and increased in number, so did the number of boxes it took to feed the family. It was with considerable trepidation that my mother bought her first pound of dry pasta and cans of whole tomatoes and tomato paste and made her first "Italian" dinner from scratch. More than red sauce, this is a wonderful book that captures an era and an area. By the way, Lidia also answers the question of dry v. "fresh" pasta. A great book.
A DELICIOUS FEAST!!!.......1999-05-18
A book close to my heart. My family hails from the island of Krk just south of Istria. As a first generation American I am fortunate to have the flavorings of the Adriatic in my soul and palate. This book literally brought tears to my eyes. My family will have hours of enjoyment from this book. As a fellow child of Astoria,Queens---HVALA LIDIA!!!
Book Description
Now in paperback–the debut cookbook from the beloved Italian cook, restaurateur, and public television personality.
Lidia Bastianich is famous for her Italian-American cooking, but this cookbook–her first–captures the distinctive cuisine of her native Istria, located on Italy’s northeastern Adriatic coast near the border of the former Yugoslavia. This book is also her most personal; in addition to the recipes, she has included numerous personal stories, memories, and photographs from her childhood.
With La Cucina di Lidia, you can savor antipasti such as Polenta with Fontina and Mushrooms or Shrimp and Mixed Bean Salad. Rice and pastas include Plum Gnocchi, Risotto with Squash Blossoms, and Zucchini and Tagliatelle with Leek Sauce. Entrées feature fish (Swordfish in Sweet and Sour Sauce), fowl (Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Orange), meat (Stuffed Breast of Veal), and game (Duck Roasted with Sauerkraut). Desserts range from Chocolate Zabaglione Cake to Apple-Custard Tart.
Here is an Italian cuisine infused with the flavors of Eastern Europe, the early repertoire of one of America’s favorite chefs. Discover Lidia’s history and memories as well as the dishes from her homeland. The stories and tastes are unforgettable.
Customer Reviews:
Once you have one of her cookbooks you must have all!.......2007-05-15
All her cookbooks are great. They are filled with recipes that I must try and once I try them they become an instant favorite and then I start getting requests for them. You find yourself always cooking Italian, which is unsettling to my Scottish relatives. I've had to hide the fact I watch "The Sopranos" to keep the speculation to a minimum.
MORE THAN RECIPES.......2007-01-03
I think Lidia has opened her heart and shared memories along with excellent recipes. I love this book and it is one I have out on my coffee table to just pick up and read when I have a few minutes. Her recipes are always so easy to understand and make - this cookbook is my favorite and she is an American treasure! I remember my grandmother making so many of Lidia's dishes, but she was unable to read and write and her recipes went with her when she died. Lidia has some of them in her cookbook and I thank her for that!
This book also makes a wonderful gift to someone who is Italian or just loves Italian food! Thank you Lidia!
Home cooking, with elegance.......2006-08-02
This is really two books, largely interleaved with each other. The cookbook is the more obvious one. It's where Lidia - never truly separable from her husband Felice - exposes the secrets of her kitchen. Correction: kitchens, plural. These are the recipes that have kept the lines long outside of her restaurants back to the early 1970s. Struggling against American palates trained on TV dinners, they addressed and quite possibly created a clientele who discovered that there was more to Italian food than tomato sauce.
Lidia has extensive professional education, undertaken while she was a young mother and beginning restauranteur (this is the weaker sex?!?). She and her husband traveled most of Europe, studying the national and even regional specialties of each culinary tradition. Although training and research inform this book, that's not where it really comes from. It comes, through her personal alchemy, from her grandmother's truck garden. That's where the second book within this one binding comes in. That book is Lidia's culinary biography, from her earliest girlhood in Adriatic Italy up to the book's 1990 writing.
The family wasn't rich. Meat was a rarity, and every part of the animal went into the pot: heart, kidney, liver, blood for black sausage, and (in this pre-BSE book) brain. Produce was fresh from the garden, though, and slaughtering the animal was part of cooking with meat. Plain cooking can be exquisite cooking, however. Lidia's close contact with every aspect of the food gave her a bone-deep appreciation for unique character of ever plant and animalin her kitchen. Her secret is really no secret at all: it lies in using the finest and freshest ingredients, and in knowing the preparation that lets each be the best it can.
//wiredweird
Peasant Cuisine from Europe's Crossroads.......2003-12-04
This first book by Lidia Bastianich is both cookbook of recipes from the Istrian peninsula and Felidia Ristorante in Manhatten and a memoir of Lidia's life and family in central Europe and in the United States. The recipes occupy by far the larger portion of the book and include all of the expected elements of Italian cuisine. The culinary chapters are:
Appetizers and Soups
Salads and Vegetables
Pastas and Sauces
Fish
Meats
Game
Breads and Desserts
Spirits and Infusions
The most valuable portions of the book deal with the recipes native to Istria, especially those dealing with game and foraged vegetables and mushrooms. As the book makes clear, Istria, located near the top of the Adriatic Sea, is very near the crossroads of Europe's Roman, Slavic, and Germanic ethnic influences. The cuisine is all the more interesting for that fact. There are distinctly Austrian influences throughout the cuisine, including a recipe for an obscure Hungarian sweet crepe, palacinka, my Grandmother from Austria-Hungary would often make. The most vivid picture I get from the book is how food must have acquired the importance it has for many Europeans, since they spent so much of their time acquiring food and working with such inventive ways of making everything edible into something delicious.
The chapters on game cookery are expecially useful, including recipes for quail, Guinea hen, pheasant, squab, duck (with sauerkraut, of course), rabbit, venison, and wild boar. Of special interest is the technique, `Squazet' which is an untranslatable word meaning a braising method used in Istria, suitable primarily to slow cooked meats. A good example of making the most of what you had.
All the recipes are good as well as interesting for being examples of Istrian cuisine. However, I would recommend that for breads and pasteries, one consult a specialist in these fields. These baking recipes will work, but I know there are better techniques to be had. The sections on fresh pasta are short, but they appear to give competant results. The sections on various types of gnocchi and it's techniques are very good. I believe the recipes for mushrooms have much to offer which you may not find elsewhere.
The treatment of photographs in this book leaves something to be desired. All are presented in an old fashioned sepia tint and some, even some photographed specifically for the book by modern equipment seem to loose detail to shadows and haziness. Placing captions for chapter heading photographs strikes at the rear of the book in an appendix strikes me as a case of really poor judgement. I have a hunch the captions were forgotten until it was too late to include them on the same page as the photo. There are some lapses in copy editing. The Italian culinary term `sugo' is used in the memoir and no explanation is given for the term. It does not even appear in the appendix and is arcane enough to be absent from Larousse Gastronomique and a reference on Italian cuisine. I would have been baffled by the reference had I not encountered in the book `Cooking by Hand' by Paul Bertolli.
I give this book the highest rating because it's shortcomings do not detract from it's primary mission of being an engaging and accessible presentation of Istrian cuisine.
Book Description
Keith Martin's vast experience writing car-collecting columns in magazines such as Autoweek and Automobile, appearances on Speed Channel, seminars at major auctions, and publishing Sports Car Market magazine has made him an expert on car collecting. In this book, Martin and other editors and contributors of SCM have collected the magazine's best articles and auction reports covering the Jaguar marque. Full of pithy comments and straight talk about the pros and cons of Jaguar ownership, this book will be an incredible value for Jaguar lovers and fans of SCM.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-07-13
This book is the best, especially for learning to crochet. The how-to instructions are the clearest and best I've seen.
Seeing as the book was printed in the 70's, the projects are a bit outdated and I always resented the fact there's no step-by-step instructions on how to make a project - they leave it to you to create the pattern and project for yourself. I guess by today's standards it would be some form of freeform crochet, but I prefer to have instructions written out for me.
I do enjoy the book though because it does help you to think of what you can do with crochet beyond blankets and booties and sweaters.
great book, poor illustrations.......2005-05-23
The patterns are explained clearly and concisely. The authors made sure to make the projects quite interesting. But the illustrations (not photos) of the finished items definitely leaves something to be desired. I wish somebody would update this book, complete with photos.
I do recommend this book, but it would be much better with photos.
fantastic book for learning stitches.......2003-10-24
I love this book. When I found it, I only knew single and double crochet. I learned many new stitches from the very clear and simple instructions and illustrations. I have never had much luck learning crochet from a book and, being left-handed, it's not so easy learning from someone else, either. These ladies really explain how to make a stitch, step-by-step, while keeping it very simple. The only reasons I give it four stars instead of five is because the projects are pretty outdated, and the pictures of the finished projects are illustrations, not real photos. Otherwise, this book is a real gem.
Book Description
The complete how-to guide for turning faux, mural, and decorative painting skills into a viable, home-based career! Covering everything from the fundamentals of buying supplies to coping with the growing pains of a successful business, this essential sourcebook provides a wealth of tested tips and techniques on such crucial topics as getting referrals, buying insurance, building a portfolio, dealing with supply stores, evaluating job sites, negotiating prices, interviewing clients, and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Amazing!.......2007-10-05
The first thing I learned from this book is that I'm NOT ready to start my own faux/mural painting business!! This book is chuck full of information from someone that has been there. The author really explains scenarios well, and prepares you for, from what I can tell, every situation. In the back of the book she provides sample forms, and check lists, etc. I really feel that this is a true gift for anyone interested in this field. Even people that have been doing it for a few years might get some good tips here. Great job!
Very good book.......2007-01-19
I bought this book for my brother who is an artist and he loves the book.
Excellent.......2006-07-03
I read and re-read this book then handed it over to my sales and marketing manager. A MUST for a faux business owner.
Thank Heaven for Rebecca Pittman.......2006-06-14
This book gave me everything I need to start my own faux painting business, including confidence! Thank you Rebecca for the insight, the humor and the weekly accounting ledger located in the back. Great, superb, and HIGHLY recommended.
excellent.......2006-03-18
starting out as a muralist, and i bought the book before i landed my first job. i found it amazing how DETAILED and ENTERTAINING this book was. i knew nothing about how to start being in this business, and this book served as a complete guide. as i was reading it i thought that there were suggestions what i would never never need in life, BUT !!! boy, was i wrong. every word this book has in it is worth the pennies you pay. if you are startin out and have no clue how to manage your own business, this is a must for you!!!
Customer Reviews:
Under the Rainbow, but over my expectations.......2003-05-12
> Under the Rainbow chronicles the fascinating and melodramatic life of the beautiful and talented Liza Minnelli. Though at first glance one might think it's just another star bio, but this book not only has glitz and glamour, but tragedy and saddness as well as truimph. It has everything a good book should have to entertain.
> This book really makes the reader know and understand Ms. Minnelli. This bio is so compelling and whether or not you are a big fan of Minnelli you will enjoy reading every page. There are even moments the reader may mistake this bio for a lost Jackie Susann novel. It's even as hard to put down as a Susann novel! Can you say Valley of the Diva?
> Aside from the entertainment aspect of this book, there is also an in-depth look at Minnelli's tragic life and her resilience to overcome her pain. After reading Under the Rainbow it will inspire the reader to make the best out of life. In effect, not only does it entertain, but this bio serves as a Chicken Soup for the Saddened Soul as well. So drink it up and enjoy!
An odd mix of tabloid and serious reporting.......2000-11-30
I have very mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it is gripping; it has all the elements of a great Hollywood story: the daughter of two legends (Judy Garland & Vincente Minnelli) becomes a legend herself. In fact, Ms. Minnelli's story is so fascinating that any hack could make a good book just writing the time line of her life. On the other hand, the book lacks intimacy. The one unforgettable chapter is the one dealing with Ms. Garland's death and how her children dealt with such a blow. The author is not very capable of writing concisely not only about Ms. Minnelli's films, but Ms. Garland's and Mr. Minnelli's as well. Considering that they're seminal parts of American film history, expounding on them would have helped the reader understand Ms. Minnelli's courage in her venture into moviemaking and theater. Ms. Minnelli comes out virtually unscathed from this book. Ms. Garland isn't so lucky and I had the nagging feeling that I'd heard all of those stories before and so had the author. The notion of the author sitting down and interviewing people who knew Ms. Garland or Ms. Minnelli feels highly unlikely. On the other hand, I bet he's read every book on each of them and simply regurgitated them back in his own simple way and filled in whichever blanks there were with logical guesses.
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