Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans (One World)

Book Description

Written with an undercurrent of magical realism, and spiced with the flavors that linger long in the memory, these tales from Tecate--along the dusty strip of the Baja California border--evoke a wondrous place where roosters crow in Spanish, affection is spontaneous, and water, if it so chooses, can flow uphill . . . .
"These tales charm as they traverse a happy, well-observed life. The scenery is vigorous Californian-Mexican. The road signs crackle with whimsy, pride, and mystery."
--Kelvin Christopher James
Author of JUMPING SHIP AND OTHER STORIES

Customer Reviews:

Tales of romance and amusement from the border.......2007-07-18

A fun book of entertaining short stories about the people who live in the small border community of Tecate, Baja, Mexico. Good insight as the author, tho American-born, lives there on his rancho. Several surprise endings, some superstition. The first romantic tale is so engaging it's worth the price of the book.

¡Delicioso! Yummy! A very tasty treat! .......2006-08-22

Sorry - I couldn't help but continue the conceit of the book, that this is a plate full of "chismes" (tales) from Tecate, Mexico... tales that are truly delightful to the palate.

You will meet a host of intriguing characters, from El Gato, a man who is larger than life, and resident of my favorite novela, "Of Time and Circumstance"; to Fito, who fulfills a promise in "The Man In White"; to our un-named narrator, our "servidor". Mexico and the city of Tecate are characters too. The settings and happenings are ordinary, but imbued with magic, which is part of the delight.

Another reviewer states that this isn't a true depiction of Tecate, and I have no doubt that they are correct. For instance, I'm sure the peasants aren't actually blissfully happy in their poverty. But one of fiction's jobs is to take us to places that don't exist, and in that, the book succeeds admirably. And if the stories make you want to learn more about Mexico, then so much the better!

This is probably the best author you've never read. Pick up a copy ASAP! I can't wait to get a hold of his other two books... my mouth is watering in anticipation!!!

jeemy.......2000-12-06

THIS BOOK WA ASSIGNED TO ME BY MY TEACHER AND AFTER READING THE ENTIRE BOOK, THE THING I MOST REMEBER IS THE CHAPTER ON JEEMY A WHITE MALE THAT WANTS A CALM AND PEACEFUL LIFE AND HE IS RICH TOO.

Characters bigger than life, like EL Gato make it great.......2000-07-27

I enjoyed the stories in Enchilada, Rice and Beans, but my favorite was the one about El Gato, who is a character bigger than life in all that we find out about him at the party in his honor. Reveles tells some good stories and I think they don't have to be super great to please the critics,just warm enough to encourage a good look at out neighboors to the South, who embrace life slightly differently in some ways, and yet just like us in others. Very enjoyable.

Awesome! A book everyone could fall in love with!.......1998-11-24

What an extraordinary writer! I'm jealous! How can one person be so talented? The book is so sweet, so full of heart, so sad and so delightful all at the same time. Reading it is like eating the best feast you can imagine, with all your taste buds engaged. I can't wait to read the next book: "Chips and Salsa".

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Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans
DANIEL REVELES
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVFSCU

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Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans
Daniel Reveles
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7BC0M

Book Description

The latest title in a series based on characters from the best-selling War of Souls trilogy.
This title is the next in a series that explores the lives of key characters from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's New York Times best-selling War of Souls trilogy. The Lake of Death describes events that directly overlap events during the War of Souls and is an unofficial sequel to Rabe's Dhamon Saga trilogy. Author Jean Rabe is well known by both recent and long-term Dragonlance novel fans.

Customer Reviews:

Worth the read.......2007-09-24

This was a much better book than I had expected...I could not finish Rabe's "Dragon's of a New Age" series and was very skeptical about this book. I'm glad I picked it up. The only problem with the book is her in accuracy with draconians...they are NOT thousands of years old. they were created during the war of the lance.

Sad but expected.......2006-06-25

Let me first say that I love Jean Rabe's work..I know many people think her characters are to powerful and behave inhumanly and unrealistic,but these are fantasy characters,not real people.. One thing you must do when you decide to read any of her novels is try not to compare the characters to real life people..If you do that,then none of her books are for you..Matter of fact,reading fantasy DL or FR novels aren't for you...

Anyway,I loved all of the main characters in this novel,especially my favorite character of all,Dhamon.. Ragh was also pretty cool and some senes had me dying laughing.. I kinda felt bad for the Draco..For a Draconian,Ragh had a high sense of honor which I liked..The best part was of the story was Dhamon being reaquainted with Feril..It would have been nice If the 4 book quest ended differently,but the series was great nonetheless..
I hope Rabe writes moer about Ragh and Feril..I've really come to enjoy Ragh's character,and I liked Feril from the New Age trilogy... If you haven't yet read these books,you definitely should go out and get it...

Could have been better.......2005-05-18

Jean Rabe has done many good books, but this one he lacked alot of suspense, danger, and excitement. Most of the characters is this book are just lead ins from the other books about Dhamon and his adventures. The Lake of Death looks at trying to get a cure for Dhamon to turn him back into a human after being tricked by a shadow dragon and then becoming one. Throughout the whole book he is constantly fighting himself trying to figure out if he wants to become human or stay a dragon. He enlists the help of his only love of life the elf Feril. She sets out on a journey to help find him a cure in what they call the lake of death which was the lake that was made when Qualinesti was flooded after the green dragon Beryl buried it when dying. The fun part was Feril going into the lake to find the sunken city, but Rabe doesn't go into detail about the lake, I thought this was the most interesting part. To go down to a lake and find a sunken city with treasures and adventures of finding something down there. The final act of Dhamon was also one of the best parts, by this time it was the end of the book and anything in between wasn't needed. It acted more as a filler than adding anything to the main line of the story. Could have been much better, by looking at some of his other books.

Another Fine Book by Jean Rabe.......2004-10-08

This is another fine book, indeed. Jean Rabe has written some of the best of the Dragonlance novels and she does herself proud with The Lake of Death. She's negotiated the many shifts and changes in the world of Krynn with grace and managed to tell exciting stories throughout.

To Ms. Rabe, I say: Way to go!

This was a disappointment..........2004-10-06

Jean Rabe is perhaps best known in the Dragonlance fan-community for her `Dragons of a New Age' trilogy. The Dawning of a New Age, The Day of the Tempest, and The Eve of the Maelstrom were the first Dragonlance books to come out after Weis and Hickman's Dragons of Summer Flame. Rabe's trilogy ushered the world of Krynn into its new age; the Fifth Age, known as the Age of Mortals. Opinions on these books vary, though none can deny that the changes made to the world were drastic and irreversible. I, personally, was disgusted with what was done to the world I'd been escaping to since I was nine years old. I was horrified by the destruction of Kendermore, and the `Dragon Purge' really irritated me. The writing, however, was quite good. I found myself enjoying Rabe's characters, despite being nauseated by the story. Because of her fantastic cast, I was able to read through all there books without any trouble. However, I could never say that I `enjoyed' them, because... Well, let's face it. Krynn was raped and abused and can never, ever be the same again. Change is good, but the author had trouble with the `global scale' of things. I was very displeased, overall, with these books.

Years later, a new trilogy came out. `The Dhamon Saga', which focused on arguably the main character from Rabe's first trilogy. I picked these books up as they came out with a great deal of hesitation, expecting the chances that I would hate them to be very high. However, I was mistaken. These books, while not the absolute best that I've read, were quite good. Her characters, once again, intrigued me. Her story was original, and -small scale-. No more of those world-changing events she had so much trouble with in the first round... This was a trilogy about a man, not about a world or a grand quest. It was about individual character interactions, progressions, and relationships. It was fantastic, believable, and definitely helped redeem the author's standing in my eyes.

So, when `Lake of Death' came out, I was thrilled. "Yes!" I thought, "Another great Dhamon book!" Wrong. I can't even finish this. It was, quite simply, not worth the money I spent on it. Sure, the story telling is fine. The characters are the same ones I loved before. But the horrible, -horrible- inconsistencies make me want to puke different colors all over the pages. At least then it would be something worth looking at. Despite having written in the Dragonlance world for YEARS, Rabe seems to have forgotten basic Krynn chronology. Sorry, Jean, draconians are NOT `centuries old'. They were created for the War of the Lance, in the year 342 AC. (That's about 85 years before the War of Souls.) Some things just don't even make any sense at all, and left me wondering what the heck Rabe was thinking when she wrote that. Or, what the heck her editor's were thinking. (Compare the description of a certain body of water found in this book to the description of the same lake found in Douglas Nile's new book, `Wizard's Conclave', which hit shelves in June, for an example of this.)

All in all: Jean, I love your characters. I really do. You're a gifted writer, with a lot of talent. (You made me cry over a kobold's death, for god's sake. That character was truly beautiful.) But this book will go unfinished, at least for the time being. I just can't get through it. I've tried. One thing after another make it impossible for me to see it through to its completion. I haven't lost complete faith, but this was a major disappointment.

Book Description

Ted Braden is just trying to collect on a basketball bet when he telephones a fellow Lakers fan one night. That phone call makes him a witness in a sensational murder trial and launches him into a dangerous battle with the California criminal justice system—the year is 2056, forty years after the 37th Amendment has removed "due process of law" from the United States Constitution.

Join Ted as his calm world is rocked by an angry girlfriend, a beautiful prosecutor, and an eminent defense attorney who has had enough of a legal system tilted against defendants. Then meet someone who has a different view.

A wild ride through a surprising future, The 37th Amendment is a startling look at what our society has given up to crime, what we might do about it, and what the next generation might think of our choices.

This remarkable novel includes an appendix that tells the true story of "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing." You'll never look at the U.S. Supreme Court the same way again.

Customer Reviews:

Thought Provoking.......2007-09-05

It is the year 2056 and the 37th Amendment has been ratified ensuring that all individuals, regardless of race or gender, will be treated equally. This has effectively rid the county of anything that would give preference to a particular group including concepts such as affirmative action and quotas. It also left the individual States with the ability to govern themselves without federal oversight - especially without the Supreme Court.

California has taken this liberty and implemented extremely tough crime fighting laws that have significantly shortened the time one has to come to trial and prepare a defense. California has also become a frontrunner in the use and execution of the death penalty. As a result, crime rates have plummeted reacting to the swift and certain punishment associated with the harsher criminal justice system. But when one man is arrested for a brutal murder, those that come to his defense believe that he is innocent and it appears that the criminal laws, in place because of the 37th Amendment, will not provide them with an adequate opportunity to mount a defense and prepare for trial.

This novel presents an interesting philosophical question - is society willing to suffer a loss of due process rights in exchange for a safer, crime free community? The plot poses a circumstance where a loss of liberty has essential resulted in a safer community because law enforcement is free to walk up to gang members and search them for weapons without probable cause or even reasonable articulable suspicion. Most law abiding citizens would likely initially vote for the safer community. But how would they feel if they were the innocent accused? The book sets a sympathetic stage so that the reader will fight an internal battle throughout while enjoying the experience of the plot unfolding. The story suffers from some plot weakness, but ultimately succeeds in setting out an intriguing issue based in a fast paced storyline.

liberal nonsense.......2005-03-10

This book is just another exercise in fear and hatred by liberals. This time
directed at mainstream americans who want reform of the 14th amendment.
Contrary to the premise of the book, the 14th Amendment was never leagally
ratified to begin with and was never intended to apply the constrants of the
bill of rights to the states.

As to the rest of the premise, its the usual liberal nonsense. If you give
people freedom, it empowers them. Susan Shelley seems to think that people
can't be trusted with freedom. In particular, she thinks that people need
to be protected from their own state and local government while washington
is the source of all freedom and security. What nonsense. The founding
fathers feared and rejected an all-powerful federal government because they
knew that it, not the states, would become a tyranny to America.

What she wrote in the book is a good view of what liberalism would be like
if they still ruled the country. If the 14the Amendment were done away with,
we would see a return to true federalism, an end to big government stepping
on our rights, the supreme court returning to the original intent of our
founding fathers and an ownership society where freedom florished.

Freedom in free fall.......2005-01-17

Set in 2056, Ms. Shelley's novel examines what happens when the due process clause of the United States Constitution is eliminated and states are truly free to set their own laws, no matter how draconian, without any federal oversight. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this is a thought provoking examination of a United States legal system where the constitution has been amended to accomplish the states' rights agenda of many current politicans. The story presents both sides of the debate in a way that is simultaneously entertaining and intellectually challenging: a formidable accomplishment.

Interesting concept, but the novel never develops.......2004-08-17

I was drawn to this book by the concept and my enjoyment of "What if..." fiction. The idea is an interesting one, but I wish that Shelley had spent more time on developing her characters and plot and less on proselytizing her views on Federalism. Instead of telling a story with the concept as a background, Shelley uses most of her characters as straight men to lob up nice, slow softball-pitches to what becomes the book's main voice, the grandmother who fears a return to the "bad old days" of due process of law, who lectures the other characters and the reader with Shelley's opinions.

As to the depth of the characters, I was fascinated that the character who knew the least about the law and who acted with the least amount of common sense was the only female lawyer in the book. With the exception of the above-mentioned grandmother, the two main female characters are vapid, easily-manipulated sexpots. While both characters have careers that would seemingly require intelligence and character, neither seems to have any concept of what is going on, pout and cry when they don't get their way, and revert to a junior-high level of catty jealousy when their shared boyfriend, who is 20+ years older than both, mentions the other. I don't necessarily expect a female author to always write strong female characters, but these two were such shallow stereotypes that I just could not take this book seriously.

I personally disagree with many of Shelley's ideas about due process, but would have respected them more if she had worked harder on the delivery vehicle of the novel as a story, rather than a pulpit for her views. The addendum in the back, in the guise of a law review article, shows that Shelley did her legal homework. I just wish she had worked harder on the voices that delivered those facts.

Riveting, Exciting, Thought-Provoking........2003-08-06

This book is advertised as a legal thriller and it is -- it certainly keeps you turning the pages -- but it's a lot more than just a story about the lives and loves of lawyers. What Susan Shelley has done in this novel is amend the U.S. Constitution to solve the crime problem, and then start the story forty years later, in 2056, to see how it turned out.

It's fascinating in kind of a back-to-the-future (but not quite) way. Picture the 1950s with modern women and without the bother of marriage.

While you're flying through the story (it moves!), thinking about how nice it would be to live in a nearly crime-free Los Angeles, the characters in the book are battling over a case of justice gone wrong and trying to change everything back to the way we do it now.

You'll find yourself identifying with the senior citizens in this book, the ones who remember how things were way back in the 1990s. These kids today....

This is a dazzling novel. It also includes an appendix, an amazing history of "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing." You'll definitely want to read it if you're interested in the Supreme Court, or if you're on the Supreme Court.

Five stars.

Book Description

In this, his sequel to the best-selling The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (over 350,000 copies sold), Rabbi Lamm helps mourners not just get through their grief, but also grow through it. He gently steers mourners on the path that allows their sorrow to teach them important lessons about life. And he shows consolers how to listen and speak with their hearts so that they can provide real comfort to others.

His marvelous insights on the days of shiva, the year of kaddish, and the lovingkindness of others reveal the richness and true purpose of Jewish mourning rituals and customs. They prepare us to receive consolation and ready us for the journey that will take us beyond grief.

His "Words for a Loss When at a Loss for Words" is a treasury of readings for finding and giving comfort by transforming the spiritual ideas of an ancient faith into contemporary language. Here there are stories and fables that illuminate our complicated lives, meditations from the depths of human experience, and a gallery of unforgettable images that speak to our souls during times of loss.

Customer Reviews:

Advice for dealing with difficult transitions.......2005-05-13

Consolation: The Spiritual Journey Beyond By Grief by Maurice Lamm (Founder and President of the National Institute for Jewish Hospice and Professor at Yeshiva University's Rabbinical Seminary, New York) teaches the reader how to bring consolation to those struggling with grief and loss. Though intended especially for those of the Jewish faith, the spiritual and healing principles transcend individual religious affiliations. From restoring a fragmented soul to learning how to make one's own future rather than settle for one, Consolation is a powerful compendium of advice for dealing with difficult transitions, and as useful for friends helping friends in need as it is for professional counselors and religious leaders.

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Ethnic Sausages

A Poor Pamphlet

Creating Health Sausages

Creating Health Sausages

Creating Delicious Sausages: A Detailed Guide to Making Sausages
J. D. Gilson
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Meats | Meat, Poultry & Seafood | Cooking by Ingredient | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 075961993X

Book Description

Impress your family and friends with your culinary skills making venison, ethnic, fresh and smoked sausages. It is easy and fun with clear, complete instructions using no special equipment or with techniques for using sausage-making equipment efficiently. Creating Delicious Sausages contains over eighty recipes from over thirty different countries.

Customer Reviews:

Ethnic Sausages.......2002-07-30

This book was directed toward the United States. Our grandparents and great grandparents prepared sausages but very few recipes were documented. The recipes were located at univeristy libraries, public libraries, cookbooks, newspapers and personal interviews. Generally the recipe sources extended back to 1948 and recipes were very large with some methods questinable. It took seven years to modify recipes and simplify methods. A sample of the book was submitted to six midwest hospital nutrition departments, a government agency for review by a nutritionist and microbiologist, a univeristy professor of nutrition and culture. Each and every response was valuable in eliminating recipes and methods considered unsafe. The sources established a starting point and deserve credit for preserving ethnic traditions. This book is directed at the first time sausage maker wishing to try something out of the ordinary or the individual trying to recapture a childhood memory.

A Poor Pamphlet.......2001-09-03

This very thin tome demonstrates that the author has no understanding of research or scholarship. It is nothing more than a plagiarised version of the very few sources quoted in the lamentable section entitled "REFERENCES". Anyone seriously interested in sausages would be well advised to give this booklet a wide berth and perhaps purchase the somewhat antiquated but nonetheless scholarly work of Antony and Araminta Hippisley-Coxe entitled "The Great Book of Sausages".

Creating Health Sausages.......2000-06-04

The book contains many unique, savory, mouth watering ethnics recipes with pleasing and appetizing venison sausage recipes. The detailed, clear instructions making sausage making easy with very pleasing results.

Creating Health Sausages.......2000-06-04

Book Description

This is the first book to catalog every collectible card game ever released. From thousand-dollar Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon cards to more obscure games—they're all here. More than 400 releases for over 100 games! That's an amazing 60,000 cards listed and priced. Plus, your customers will appreciate complete set descriptions, more than 600 photos and colorful text written by gaming experts describing each game.

No collector, no player, no kid-absolutely no one-has been able to determine if they have all the cards for some games-until now. The information has been scattered and hard to find until Scrye Magazine's experts put it all in this one easy-to-use book.

Appendices include foreign card games, popular not quite-collectible card games, and all-important cross-references for Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon games. Plus your card game collecting and playing customers will depend on the set, box and unopened pack prices when making trades and purchases.

- The only book that lists and prices every single collectible card game, Including Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon
- More than 60,000 cards checklisted and priced
- More than 600 photos to help identify and evaluate any collection

Customer Reviews:

Surprisingly Useful for Anyone Involved in C.C.G.s.......2001-09-04

While appearing to be merely a checklist and resource for collectors attempting to catalog their collections of cards for various collectible card games, the many and varied types of information provided in Miller and Greenholdt's encyclopedic volume actually have valuable details ready to assist everyone- from the most casual players to the hard-core enthusiasts.

This veritable tome on collectible card games does contain a complete list of cards and prices for every game and every expansion to every game published in the English language up until the book's publication date in 2001. Additionally, it contains some lists of cards for expansions and games slated to come out after its publication date, but no prices are given for sets not available on the secondary market at the book's press time. These lists are very complete, and are specially tailored to each individual game. Thus, the lists can provide extra info such as the color, type (creature, instant, etc.), and rarity of every magic card; the alignment (light or dark), type, and rarity of every Star Wars card; and other type and rarity information modified for each individual game. The lists also place a checkbox next to every card name, allowing you to mark which cards you acquire.

However, it is not only the lists, but the extra info that truly makes this first-of-its-kind book shine. First, every game and every expansion has a short essay preceding the card list in which experienced players and "industry insiders" discuss the merits and flaws of the game. These discussions are usually very helpful in determining the quality of a game you have never seen, and are a remarkable resource for anyone trying to decide which new collectible card game to begin playing, or which expansion to buy into for a current game. These essays often contain a brief version of the game's mechanics, as well as how the game was received in the general market. Also, other bits of info, such as what the company was doing or planning when a particular set was released is in these essays, helping you to see how the themes and cards of the sets link together (or how they were supposed to link together). Additionally, special boxed sets and other unusual releases sometimes get their own mini-essay, a nice extra touch.

As useful as the essays are, Scrye has gone further, giving every game (not expansion) no less than 4 different 5-star ratings: one each for the quality of the game's concept, game play, card art, and the size and availability of its player pool. Providing an alternative to reading the essay (or a reminder of what it contains), these ratings help to sum up the reviewers' impressions of the game in each different area, and also allow you to focus on one specific issue most important to you (game play, for example).

Aware that their readers would be unfamiliar with many of the games in this volume, Miller and Greenholdt have provided a number of different tools to help readers navigate through the releases of unfamiliar games. Most impressively, there is a full-color section containing pictures of the backs of a card from every game, as well as the fronts of one or more types of cards from every game. This allows you to identify a card's parent game by appearance, and also gives you an idea of the quality and style of artwork on games you haven't seen (which may help you decide whether to purchase some of that game). Next to the card art in the color section, there are complete lists of every expansion for each game, neatly categorized into basic sets, expansions, and special sets, useful for quick reference of all the parts of a large game such as Magic: The Gathering. Also in the color section is a guide to determining a card's physical quality (poor, good, fine, near mint, or mint), an extra bonus.

All this would have been enough to make the Scrye CCG Checklist and Price Guide more than worthwhile, but there is still more excellent info stored within its hundreds of pages. In the front, there is a time line, organized by date, of every release for every game in the book. Also in the front are a variety of introductions, some on the general trends in CCG during each year, some on determining how to sell your cards and what price you might expect (there is even a page on online card auctions), and a foreword by Peter Adkison, the founder of Wizards of the Coast, the company that created Magic: The Gathering. And yet, there is still more! In the appendices, there is info about CCGs in foreign languages, about the collectible miniatures game Mage Knight, and even a section on "pseudo-collectible card games," or card games that had interesting features or were similar to CCGs, but were not truly part of the genre.

Miller and Greenholdt have created an amazing volume of valuable information for almost anyone involved in collectible card games in any way. From the exhaustingly thorough listings to the helpful essays and introductions, The Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide is an invaluable tool and a fine chronicle of a new genre of game that could only be fated to grow in the years ahead.

Not bad..........2001-05-09

I found Mr. Miller's book extremely helpful. I was really surprised to find the Christian game "Redemption" in there but was pleased to see it. If you are an avid CCG player you must have this book.

Scrye Review.......2001-04-26

This is a great product! It gives valuable, accurate information for tons of CCG's and many checklists. Althought the system for card organization can be rather confusing at first, after a while one gets used to it and it becomes even easier to locate the cards you wish to have priced! A Great Value!

Book Description

Fabulous pillows in coordinating and contrasting fabrics are the finishing touch that pulls together a design scheme and they are in an inexpensive way to introduce punch and style to a room. Includes suggestions for using borders, trims, and decorative edgings to make pillows distinctive, plus pointers on choosing linings and fillings and caring for pillows. 100 color photos. 100 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Best pillow book around........1999-06-14

This is the best pillow book I've ever seen. It has many different designs to copy and/or use as inspiration. The photos are exquisite and the layout is quite ingenious. Each pillow project is explained on a fold-out page. It also comes spiral-bound, so it lays flat while you're working. I highly recommend it.

Amazon.com

In brilliant color, Miami: Hot and Cool pays tribute to the diverse and distinctive architecture of this city of contrasts. Blending the exotic with the suburban, the historic with the up-to-the-minute, the deceptively humble with the ultra-extravagant, Miami is an amalgam of classic Art Deco, sleek modernity, tropical lushness, and palatial elegance. The warm tints and cool stonework of the Mediterranean tradition are a natural fit with Miami's climate, as evidenced by the Italianate splendor of Villa Vizcaya or the more modest but nevertheless stylish bungalows of Coconut Grove. Everywhere the colors shine in electric-hued walls, bright pottery, mosaic tiles, lush vegetation. Boasting more than 400 photos of more than two dozen homes, this volume also provides a mini-lesson on the cultural history of a unique city. --Amy Handy

Book Description

Miami is an original, a city that celebrates its good looks, flaunts its vices, and exhibits its wealth of sensual pleasures. This survey of Miami's diverse designs for homes and gardens shows the rest of America how to take the heat with an up-to-the-minute, sizzling lifestyle. With more than 400 full-color photographs, Miami: Hot & Cool perfectly captures the essence of staying cool in the Miami sun--or shade.

Customer Reviews:

A Cool Book For A Hot Place.......2000-09-29

I purchased this book when in graduate school in Chicago, Ill. Along with Caribbean Style, which is by another publisher and still in print, this book offers beautiful color photos of the real Miami "style". If you are looking for the tropical look this book is an excellent reference as well as the variety of architectural styles prevelant in Miami. It is also a nice reminder of the residential lifestyle of Miami not often seen by the tourist. Along with Caribbean Style, this book ranks high on my list as a book I keep pulling off my book shelf.

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MIAMI: HOT & COOL
Laura Cerwinske
Manufacturer: Clarkson N. Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3Y4YQ

Customer Reviews:

Dud.......2000-04-28

An outsider's recount of the fab four. This book has no factual information that Beatles fanatics would be interested in. Books by Mark Lewisohn are the best books about the Beatles.

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