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The Great Bagarozy (Dedalus Europe 1998)
Helmut Krausser
Manufacturer: Dedalus, Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1873982046 |
Customer Reviews:
perceptive, disturbing, funny.......2006-03-05
this book describes the struggle between Lucifer and God as dictated by the devil himself, who has come down on his luck, to a psychiatrist who gradually falls in love with him. that sounds serious, but consider this: the battle between the father and the angle of light takes place at the feet of maria callas, with God and the devil as white and black poodles, respectively.
in many ways reminiscent of dr. kassler (Jeremy Leven), but more condensed. a groovy read that will not leave you flacid.
Book Description
Who's been killing the vampires of London, tearing open their coffins to let in lethal sunshine as they sleep--and then drinking their blood?
"Hambly's examination of vampirism is beautifully detailed, with a fine realistic background and strong sense of atmosphere...Will give Anne Rice a run for her money."--Publishers Weekly
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-02-10
I really like this book. The vampires are so "real." Much better than the vampires of Ann Rice. The story is good, the ending leaves you wishing there was more. Read Traveling With the Dead also. More about James and Lydia in it.
This is the one!.......2002-07-02
Without writing a long winded review, I will keep it short. If you only read 1 book on vampires in your life, this is the one you read, nothing like it except possibly its sequel. Ms. Hambly ruined me from this genre since I have never found anything else that can compare.
Forget Dracula..........2002-04-06
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I absolutely loved this book from the first few pages, and I absoluely deplore its current inavailability. Hambly crafted a thrilling tale, using stunning writing, great logic, and memorable characters.
When I rave to my friends, I always stress Hambly's genuis at writing this fine peice of literature. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of words. She strings her sentences like fantastic jewels on a priceless necklace. The setting was so realistic, the people so intriguing, the story itself so engrossing, that I'll be rereading this book till the day I die.
Hambly dealt with vampirism very intelligently. Few authors actually try to explain that state, and I think Hambly offers the best explaination, a combination of science and fantasy. Her vampires are believable, something I require when dealing with fantasy and science fiction.
Don Simon Ysidro has made his way into my personal hall of fame. He refreshingly offers no apologies for what he is, and doesn't go around biting at every other neck he sees. Forget Dracula...compared to Don Simon, he's a dead corpse. While the rest of the main characters--James and Lydia Asher-- perhapse pale against the magnetism of Don Simon, they are nevertheless well-drawn. James and Lydia both have their own voice and personalities, as do all the minor characters that populate this book.
I enjoyed Those Who Hunt the Night better than its sequel, Travelling With the Dead, but I'd abvise anyone who loves vampires and well-crafted tales to read both. I can only hope that Hambly will eventually return to the characters she created in late eighteenth century London.
VAMPIRE MYSTERY! ENTHRALLING, THE BEST!.......2001-06-01
You'll love it! What a fun, frightening, captivating, creative, well-written page-turner of a book. Thoroughly refreshing and entertaining. Surprising twists, well-written. Absolutely fabulous what else can I say? I loved it and started TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD immediately following which I'm enjoying just as much. They both gave me scary nightmares and I'm 37 yrs. old!
Dark delights.......2000-12-15
I picked up Barbara Hambly's vampire novels in a fit of boredom, and was unable to put them down. They are dark and rich as a Black Forest cake. The characters, human and inhuman, are enticingly complex and fascinating. Unassuming professor James Asher, erstwhile spy, makes a dogged if reluctant sleuth. His wafelike bride, Lydia, has guts, heart, and brains. And Don Simon Ysidro, who blackmails Asher into helping him hunt a murderer of vampires, shimmers with compelling menace. And between Asher and Ysidro grows a bond as strong as it is macabre.
Even tangential characters come alive under Hambly's artful pen, especially Don Simon's companions in immortality. And the killer of vampires, and the mad, fragile stranger to whom Asher and Ysidro turn for help, are perhaps the most fascinating characters of all.
All, from the Master Vampire of London to the stevedore on the quay, move against a rich tapestry of historic Europe that invites you to believe.
Try, if you can, to read each novel in one sitting -- alone.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-02-10
I really like this book. The vampires are so "real." Much better than the vampires of Ann Rice. The story is good, the ending leaves you wishing there was more. Read Traveling With the Dead also. More about James and Lydia in it.
This is the one!.......2002-07-02
Without writing a long winded review, I will keep it short. If you only read 1 book on vampires in your life, this is the one you read, nothing like it except possibly its sequel. Ms. Hambly ruined me from this genre since I have never found anything else that can compare.
Forget Dracula..........2002-04-06
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I absolutely loved this book from the first few pages, and I absoluely deplore its current inavailability. Hambly crafted a thrilling tale, using stunning writing, great logic, and memorable characters.
When I rave to my friends, I always stress Hambly's genuis at writing this fine peice of literature. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of words. She strings her sentences like fantastic jewels on a priceless necklace. The setting was so realistic, the people so intriguing, the story itself so engrossing, that I'll be rereading this book till the day I die.
Hambly dealt with vampirism very intelligently. Few authors actually try to explain that state, and I think Hambly offers the best explaination, a combination of science and fantasy. Her vampires are believable, something I require when dealing with fantasy and science fiction.
Don Simon Ysidro has made his way into my personal hall of fame. He refreshingly offers no apologies for what he is, and doesn't go around biting at every other neck he sees. Forget Dracula...compared to Don Simon, he's a dead corpse. While the rest of the main characters--James and Lydia Asher-- perhapse pale against the magnetism of Don Simon, they are nevertheless well-drawn. James and Lydia both have their own voice and personalities, as do all the minor characters that populate this book.
I enjoyed Those Who Hunt the Night better than its sequel, Travelling With the Dead, but I'd abvise anyone who loves vampires and well-crafted tales to read both. I can only hope that Hambly will eventually return to the characters she created in late eighteenth century London.
VAMPIRE MYSTERY! ENTHRALLING, THE BEST!.......2001-06-01
You'll love it! What a fun, frightening, captivating, creative, well-written page-turner of a book. Thoroughly refreshing and entertaining. Surprising twists, well-written. Absolutely fabulous what else can I say? I loved it and started TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD immediately following which I'm enjoying just as much. They both gave me scary nightmares and I'm 37 yrs. old!
Dark delights.......2000-12-15
I picked up Barbara Hambly's vampire novels in a fit of boredom, and was unable to put them down. They are dark and rich as a Black Forest cake. The characters, human and inhuman, are enticingly complex and fascinating. Unassuming professor James Asher, erstwhile spy, makes a dogged if reluctant sleuth. His wafelike bride, Lydia, has guts, heart, and brains. And Don Simon Ysidro, who blackmails Asher into helping him hunt a murderer of vampires, shimmers with compelling menace. And between Asher and Ysidro grows a bond as strong as it is macabre.
Even tangential characters come alive under Hambly's artful pen, especially Don Simon's companions in immortality. And the killer of vampires, and the mad, fragile stranger to whom Asher and Ysidro turn for help, are perhaps the most fascinating characters of all.
All, from the Master Vampire of London to the stevedore on the quay, move against a rich tapestry of historic Europe that invites you to believe.
Try, if you can, to read each novel in one sitting -- alone.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-02-10
I really like this book. The vampires are so "real." Much better than the vampires of Ann Rice. The story is good, the ending leaves you wishing there was more. Read Traveling With the Dead also. More about James and Lydia in it.
This is the one!.......2002-07-02
Without writing a long winded review, I will keep it short. If you only read 1 book on vampires in your life, this is the one you read, nothing like it except possibly its sequel. Ms. Hambly ruined me from this genre since I have never found anything else that can compare.
Forget Dracula..........2002-04-06
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I absolutely loved this book from the first few pages, and I absoluely deplore its current inavailability. Hambly crafted a thrilling tale, using stunning writing, great logic, and memorable characters.
When I rave to my friends, I always stress Hambly's genuis at writing this fine peice of literature. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of words. She strings her sentences like fantastic jewels on a priceless necklace. The setting was so realistic, the people so intriguing, the story itself so engrossing, that I'll be rereading this book till the day I die.
Hambly dealt with vampirism very intelligently. Few authors actually try to explain that state, and I think Hambly offers the best explaination, a combination of science and fantasy. Her vampires are believable, something I require when dealing with fantasy and science fiction.
Don Simon Ysidro has made his way into my personal hall of fame. He refreshingly offers no apologies for what he is, and doesn't go around biting at every other neck he sees. Forget Dracula...compared to Don Simon, he's a dead corpse. While the rest of the main characters--James and Lydia Asher-- perhapse pale against the magnetism of Don Simon, they are nevertheless well-drawn. James and Lydia both have their own voice and personalities, as do all the minor characters that populate this book.
I enjoyed Those Who Hunt the Night better than its sequel, Travelling With the Dead, but I'd abvise anyone who loves vampires and well-crafted tales to read both. I can only hope that Hambly will eventually return to the characters she created in late eighteenth century London.
VAMPIRE MYSTERY! ENTHRALLING, THE BEST!.......2001-06-01
You'll love it! What a fun, frightening, captivating, creative, well-written page-turner of a book. Thoroughly refreshing and entertaining. Surprising twists, well-written. Absolutely fabulous what else can I say? I loved it and started TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD immediately following which I'm enjoying just as much. They both gave me scary nightmares and I'm 37 yrs. old!
Dark delights.......2000-12-15
I picked up Barbara Hambly's vampire novels in a fit of boredom, and was unable to put them down. They are dark and rich as a Black Forest cake. The characters, human and inhuman, are enticingly complex and fascinating. Unassuming professor James Asher, erstwhile spy, makes a dogged if reluctant sleuth. His wafelike bride, Lydia, has guts, heart, and brains. And Don Simon Ysidro, who blackmails Asher into helping him hunt a murderer of vampires, shimmers with compelling menace. And between Asher and Ysidro grows a bond as strong as it is macabre.
Even tangential characters come alive under Hambly's artful pen, especially Don Simon's companions in immortality. And the killer of vampires, and the mad, fragile stranger to whom Asher and Ysidro turn for help, are perhaps the most fascinating characters of all.
All, from the Master Vampire of London to the stevedore on the quay, move against a rich tapestry of historic Europe that invites you to believe.
Try, if you can, to read each novel in one sitting -- alone.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-02-10
I really like this book. The vampires are so "real." Much better than the vampires of Ann Rice. The story is good, the ending leaves you wishing there was more. Read Traveling With the Dead also. More about James and Lydia in it.
This is the one!.......2002-07-02
Without writing a long winded review, I will keep it short. If you only read 1 book on vampires in your life, this is the one you read, nothing like it except possibly its sequel. Ms. Hambly ruined me from this genre since I have never found anything else that can compare.
Forget Dracula..........2002-04-06
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I absolutely loved this book from the first few pages, and I absoluely deplore its current inavailability. Hambly crafted a thrilling tale, using stunning writing, great logic, and memorable characters.
When I rave to my friends, I always stress Hambly's genuis at writing this fine peice of literature. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of words. She strings her sentences like fantastic jewels on a priceless necklace. The setting was so realistic, the people so intriguing, the story itself so engrossing, that I'll be rereading this book till the day I die.
Hambly dealt with vampirism very intelligently. Few authors actually try to explain that state, and I think Hambly offers the best explaination, a combination of science and fantasy. Her vampires are believable, something I require when dealing with fantasy and science fiction.
Don Simon Ysidro has made his way into my personal hall of fame. He refreshingly offers no apologies for what he is, and doesn't go around biting at every other neck he sees. Forget Dracula...compared to Don Simon, he's a dead corpse. While the rest of the main characters--James and Lydia Asher-- perhapse pale against the magnetism of Don Simon, they are nevertheless well-drawn. James and Lydia both have their own voice and personalities, as do all the minor characters that populate this book.
I enjoyed Those Who Hunt the Night better than its sequel, Travelling With the Dead, but I'd abvise anyone who loves vampires and well-crafted tales to read both. I can only hope that Hambly will eventually return to the characters she created in late eighteenth century London.
VAMPIRE MYSTERY! ENTHRALLING, THE BEST!.......2001-06-01
You'll love it! What a fun, frightening, captivating, creative, well-written page-turner of a book. Thoroughly refreshing and entertaining. Surprising twists, well-written. Absolutely fabulous what else can I say? I loved it and started TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD immediately following which I'm enjoying just as much. They both gave me scary nightmares and I'm 37 yrs. old!
Dark delights.......2000-12-15
I picked up Barbara Hambly's vampire novels in a fit of boredom, and was unable to put them down. They are dark and rich as a Black Forest cake. The characters, human and inhuman, are enticingly complex and fascinating. Unassuming professor James Asher, erstwhile spy, makes a dogged if reluctant sleuth. His wafelike bride, Lydia, has guts, heart, and brains. And Don Simon Ysidro, who blackmails Asher into helping him hunt a murderer of vampires, shimmers with compelling menace. And between Asher and Ysidro grows a bond as strong as it is macabre.
Even tangential characters come alive under Hambly's artful pen, especially Don Simon's companions in immortality. And the killer of vampires, and the mad, fragile stranger to whom Asher and Ysidro turn for help, are perhaps the most fascinating characters of all.
All, from the Master Vampire of London to the stevedore on the quay, move against a rich tapestry of historic Europe that invites you to believe.
Try, if you can, to read each novel in one sitting -- alone.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2005-02-10
I really like this book. The vampires are so "real." Much better than the vampires of Ann Rice. The story is good, the ending leaves you wishing there was more. Read Traveling With the Dead also. More about James and Lydia in it.
This is the one!.......2002-07-02
Without writing a long winded review, I will keep it short. If you only read 1 book on vampires in your life, this is the one you read, nothing like it except possibly its sequel. Ms. Hambly ruined me from this genre since I have never found anything else that can compare.
Forget Dracula..........2002-04-06
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? I absolutely loved this book from the first few pages, and I absoluely deplore its current inavailability. Hambly crafted a thrilling tale, using stunning writing, great logic, and memorable characters.
When I rave to my friends, I always stress Hambly's genuis at writing this fine peice of literature. She weaves a beautiful tapestry of words. She strings her sentences like fantastic jewels on a priceless necklace. The setting was so realistic, the people so intriguing, the story itself so engrossing, that I'll be rereading this book till the day I die.
Hambly dealt with vampirism very intelligently. Few authors actually try to explain that state, and I think Hambly offers the best explaination, a combination of science and fantasy. Her vampires are believable, something I require when dealing with fantasy and science fiction.
Don Simon Ysidro has made his way into my personal hall of fame. He refreshingly offers no apologies for what he is, and doesn't go around biting at every other neck he sees. Forget Dracula...compared to Don Simon, he's a dead corpse. While the rest of the main characters--James and Lydia Asher-- perhapse pale against the magnetism of Don Simon, they are nevertheless well-drawn. James and Lydia both have their own voice and personalities, as do all the minor characters that populate this book.
I enjoyed Those Who Hunt the Night better than its sequel, Travelling With the Dead, but I'd abvise anyone who loves vampires and well-crafted tales to read both. I can only hope that Hambly will eventually return to the characters she created in late eighteenth century London.
VAMPIRE MYSTERY! ENTHRALLING, THE BEST!.......2001-06-01
You'll love it! What a fun, frightening, captivating, creative, well-written page-turner of a book. Thoroughly refreshing and entertaining. Surprising twists, well-written. Absolutely fabulous what else can I say? I loved it and started TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD immediately following which I'm enjoying just as much. They both gave me scary nightmares and I'm 37 yrs. old!
Dark delights.......2000-12-15
I picked up Barbara Hambly's vampire novels in a fit of boredom, and was unable to put them down. They are dark and rich as a Black Forest cake. The characters, human and inhuman, are enticingly complex and fascinating. Unassuming professor James Asher, erstwhile spy, makes a dogged if reluctant sleuth. His wafelike bride, Lydia, has guts, heart, and brains. And Don Simon Ysidro, who blackmails Asher into helping him hunt a murderer of vampires, shimmers with compelling menace. And between Asher and Ysidro grows a bond as strong as it is macabre.
Even tangential characters come alive under Hambly's artful pen, especially Don Simon's companions in immortality. And the killer of vampires, and the mad, fragile stranger to whom Asher and Ysidro turn for help, are perhaps the most fascinating characters of all.
All, from the Master Vampire of London to the stevedore on the quay, move against a rich tapestry of historic Europe that invites you to believe.
Try, if you can, to read each novel in one sitting -- alone.
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Walpurgis III
Mike Resnick
Manufacturer: Signet, #AE1572
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KKAQRM |
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- A Shadow of the Future
- Shadows of the Future
- The fun things in life: Torture, Murder & Assassination
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Walpurgis III (Questar Science Fiction)
Mike Resnick
Manufacturer: Warner Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Resnick, Mike
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ASIN: 0446363200 |
Customer Reviews:
A Shadow of the Future.......2000-07-17
Along with Patrick O'Brian Mike Resnick is my favorite author. I love his satirical, cynical, ironic style as seen in his later works. This novel gives us an insight into the development of the style found in such works as Santiago, Birthright, the Widowmaker series, etc.
Shadows of the Future.......2000-07-16
Mike Resnick is my favorite writer. His style as seen in Santiago, the Widowmaker series, Birthright, Bully, et al, is one of ironic satrirical cynicism. Walpurgis 3 gives the reader an insight into the development of this style as it grew into brilliance. This is a shadow of the brilliance to come.
The fun things in life: Torture, Murder & Assassination.......2000-03-27
Conrad Bland has finally found a world that accepts him. Bland is a man so evil that evil needs to be redefined to describe him. Having perpetrated atrocities on several worlds, he finally comes to Walpurgis III. Here, where Satanism, witchcraft, and black magic are the norm, many hail him as a hero, and he revels in his freedom to torture and murder. But, not everyone is so enamored of him, and they have dispatched the galaxy's best assassin to terminate Bland. Detective John Sable picks up the trail of the assassin, and must decide whether to stop him, or let him continue with his mission. He will be forced to face his own inner fears and demons, and make an irrevocable choice, for good or evil.
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In Bittersweet, Alice Medrich continues her mouthwatering crusade to educate chocoholics everywhere about her passion. With 30 years experience, first at her famous Berkeley bakery, Cocolat, and then as an award-winning cookbook author, there is little Medrich doesn't know about chocolate. And what sets this book apart from all others is her willingness to share what's she's learned.
As the American palate has changed, and we've learned to appreciate better quality chocolate, more and more of it is has become available to us. These premium chocolates come labeled with their percentage of cocoa solids. This delectable book is made practically foolproof thanks to the "chocolate notes" that follow any recipe where the percentage would affect the outcome. In them, Medrich provides equivalencies which allow you to use your favorite chocolate, and tweak the recipe to make it work. She's brutally honest, too, so when she says you can't mess up the rich and magnificent Queen of Sheba cake, or the Cold Creamy Truffles that started her love affair with chocolate, believe her. And when she warns that there are possible pitfalls for novices when attempting Extra Bittersweet Ganache Truffles, read carefully. The vast majority of her recipes, mostly sweet, some savory, are quite simple; her instructions are painstaking and reassuring; and the tales with which she introduces each chapter are enchanting. So dive into Warm Bittersweet Mousse, White Chocolate Ice Cream, Raspberry-Laced Chocolate Cake, or Chocolate-Flecked Cocoa Soufflés, because doing the dirty work has never been so delicious! --Leora Y. Bloom
Book Description
It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today's world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only is the quality better and variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed.
To do justice to these new chocolates, which contain more pure chocolate and less sugar, we need a fresh approach to chocolate desserts—a new kind of recipe—and someone to crack the code for substituting one chocolate for another in both new and classic recipes. Alice Medrich, the "First Lady of Chocolate," delivers.
With nearly 150 recipes—each delicious and foolproof, no matter your level of expertise—
BitterSweet answers every chocolate question, teaches every technique, confides every secret, satisfies every craving. You'll marvel that recipes as basic as brownies and chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate mousse, can still surprise and excite you, and that soufflés, chocolate panna cotta, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful.
For the last thirty years, Alice Medrich has been learning, teaching, and sharing what she loves and understands about chocolate.
BitterSweet is the culmination of her life in chocolate thus far: revolutionary recipes, profound knowledge, and charming tales of a chocolate life.
Customer Reviews:
Great!!.......2007-09-02
I have used many recipes in this recipe book COUNTLESS times already. My family especially loves the bittersweet chocolate ice cream recipe and i have made that one alone many many times!!! The freezer is now the local gathering to see if more ice cream has been made.
A really great book; i enjoyed reading about her early history in the chocolate world and i HIGHLY recommend this book to EVERYONE!!
Jessica
The best chocolate dessert book.......2007-08-25
I love this book - great recipes with lots of options - especially if you are lactose intolerant like me. Favorites are the mousse and marquis - brownies and peanut butter chocolate torte are winners too. I've also had success substituting sugar-free chocolate and splenda to make near zero carb versions of the mousse and marquis and tortes.
Three Recipes I Use The Most Come From This Book.......2007-07-18
It's one thing to collect cookbooks-I own hundreds and use most for inspiration only. Some simply are entertaining with gorgeously appetizing photos-as one of my friends refers to as "Food Porn"!
However, I have surprisingly discovered in this cookbook some recipes that I rely on frequently. Alice Medrich's recipes have become a part of my everyday 'go-to' repetoire.
I get consistent results and find her directions clear, her suggestions helpful and sound. The recipes for brownies, cheesecake and formula for ganache are excellent.
As someone who definitely prefers darker chocolate, I find this book to be a tremendous asset in my culinary library!
Surprisingly mediocre.......2007-05-25
I bought this book about a year ago and have made some of the recipes and even too a pastry class with a friend that utilized some of the recipes from the book. We were both surprised at how mediocre and overly sweetened the items all were. The brownies were just okay. Poor texture, too much sugar. The meringue was too sweet. The truffles were about average in terms of taste and texture. I've had much better at Godiva. A very disappointing book for all the hype because it is so average. I feel let down as I had heard great things. The pictures are beautiful and inspiring, but I would recommend looking elsewhere for good chocolate recipes.
greatest chocolate book .......2007-05-13
I am a professional pastry chef and this book is the one I use when it comes to the basics of chocolate. I have only made a few actual recipes from the book; they both came out perfect (the chocolate grappa/current/pine nut cake & the chocolate wafers). I like this book mainly because she explains everything I need to know about the intricacies of chocolate itself. I read a ton of dessert cookbooks and I was very impressed by this one.
Book Description
Fifteen to twenty percent of dogs are born with a tendency towards introversion and fearfulness, leading to behaviors like uncontrolled submissive urination, fear-aggression, and inability to bond with humans. With understanding and the right training, fearful dogs need not be condemned as bad pets; rather, they can become some of the happiest and most deeply bonded dogs around—the epitome of great pets.
Customer Reviews:
Help for your shy dog.......2007-07-31
A lot of good ideas for helping a shy dog to become a great member of your pack. It helped me to realize that my rescued shy dog will get better with time and there are actions I can take to help her adjust to her new family. Thanks for the encouragement in helping me deal with my timid dog. I would reccomend this book to people who have a shy dog.
So reassuring and helpful.......2007-07-19
I'm so glad I found this book. The real-life stories she shares have helped me understand my sweet-but-fearful dog so much better. It's great to know that there is hope for helping my dog become happy and content.
Encouragement and Useful General Info.......2007-04-09
There is a lot to like about Deborah Wood's book. She has an obvious compassion for dogs who are shy, and shares the story of her own timid dog, as well as others. Wood gives tips on how to make the shy dog's everyday life easier (for example, keeping a regular routine), and gives examples of body language that indicate fear, which is invaluable to owners. I liked the brief section on what specifically to watch for when training a shy dog, and the suggestions on games and fun activities. My only wish for this book is that it had more specific step-by-step information on what to do for shy dogs in specific situations, for example, when visitors come over, or when the dog has to visit the vet. But all in all, the book should be very helpful and encouraging to owners of shy dogs as well as those who rescue and foster dogs.
- Nicole Wilde, author Help for Your Fearful Dog: A Step-by-Step Guide to Helping Your Dog Conquer His Fears and So You Want to be a Dog Trainer (2nd edition)
I'm so glad I found this bood!.......2007-03-22
We recently adopted a dog, from the south, who had been in very abusive living situations and was incrediby timid. She hid from us, in the house, she panicked at every sound or person she encountered outside. I was very worried that we may have made a mistake. This book helped me feel so much better, just reading that other people have gone through this same thing and come out the other side with happy healthy dogs. The advice in this book and the sharing of others experiences has made the process much easier for us. I particularly appreciated the stories from other dog owners that are included. I would strongly recommend this book for anyone who is adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue organization!
Loved this book.......2007-01-09
Tons of great and useful ideas from someone who's been where I am now, with a timid, scared rescue dog. I have used lots of the suggestions in this book, and have, more importantly, been reassured that my dog isn't hopeless, that she is wonderful and deserving of some help to overcome all her many fears.
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How to Speak Furniture With an Antique Victorian Accent: Buying, Selling and Appraisal Tips Plus Price Guides
Jeanne Siegel
Manufacturer: Bonus Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Furniture Design
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Furniture
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Furniture & Carpentry
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ASIN: 0929387376 |
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Creative Bird Carving
William I. Tawes
Manufacturer: Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0870331418 |
Book Description
Master waterfowl carver gives easy-to-follow instructions for completing 7 different projects, along with expert advice on choosing wood, using tools, repairing blemishes, painting or varnishing the completed works, and making polyester copies of the carvings. Includes photos of superb carvings and 94 black-and-white illustrations.
Book Description
Decorating the bedroom poses some unique challenges, but with this Country Living Easy Transformations guide walking you through the process, you’ll successfully create an attractive and relaxing personal sanctuary. From transforming the room with color to updating a look that’s become passé, these exquisitely illustrated ideas provide the answer to any problem. Find out how small changes can yield big results; go retro or romantic; soundproof for true tranquility; incorporate a home office into the space; and fully express your personality. There’s special advice on designing welcoming guest rooms, too. Boxed tips offer suggestions on such details as decorating with flea market finds, and making the most of contrasting textures.
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Just about Beds.......2005-12-06
This book is not really about bedrooms. It is really about the bed itself. There are alot of photos of beds and different bedding and headboards. There are no real photos of bedrooms themselves as a full room or suite. Therefore there is no real inspiration for designing a master suite or kids room at all. It is just a book of bed and nightstand photos. A real let down.
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- The Real California - in Three Dimensions
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The California Pop-Up Book
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ASIN: 0789305003
Release Date: 2001-11-17 |
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The California Pop-Up Book is a creative exploration of the California experience through 3-D op-ups, pull-outs, booklets, and narratives. Produced jointly by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Universe Publishing on the occasion of the LACMA exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, this extraordinary book highlights the dynamic relationship between the arts and the way the Golden State has been portrayed and conceived in the popular imagination. Whether promoted as the Edenic paradise early in the twentieth century or viewed as a mulitcultural metropolis of the future in our own time, California has exerted a profound fascination the world over for more than a century. Arranged chronologically form the Gold Rush to the Walt Disney Concert Hall (scheduled to open in 2003), this commemorative book will be a keepsake for audiences worldwide.
Filled with an array of surprises, the book features many of California's great treasures fashioned into pop-ups pop-ups, including:
-Balboa Park, San Diego
-Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22, Los Angeles
-Chicano Park, San Diego
-Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
-Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
-Hearst Castle, San Simeon
-The Mission Inn, Riverside
-Sea Ranch, Sonoma County
-Frank O. Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
-Watts Towers, Los Angeles
Other places visited in The California Pop-Up Book:
-Central Avenue, Los Angeles
-Disneyland Park's Tomorrowland, Anaheim
-The Gamble House, Pasadena
Paper engineers have created unique pop-ups and pullouts of original works by California artists:
-David Hockney's Mulholland Drive
-Edward Ruscha's Standard Station
-Robbert Flick's Wilshire Boulevard
-Gilbert "Magu" Lujan's Our Family Car
Customer Reviews:
Pop-up is Tops.......2007-01-11
Now I know why I love California so much - this pop-up book tells it all! Well worth the money.
I have lazy eye.......2005-10-14
Even with lack of proper stereoscopic vision, due to serious lazy eye, the figures appear vivid and dimensional. The book includes a set of postcards that may be sent to taunt the less fortunate who haven't witnessed the wonders herein.
A Novelty Worth Having.......2004-07-01
As a California historian and author of the book: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MISCELLANY, I found this California pop-up to be a charmingly fun novelty book to share when company comes over.
The Real California - in Three Dimensions.......2001-12-03
The book looks like it might just be a decorative coffee table item, but the content belies that impression. The pop-ups are fun and attractive, but the real story is in the choice of objects and the writing. The selections speak to the myth of California that was consciously created by early explorers, developers, and movie moguls but became its own reality as people migrated to the state ready to play the roles the myth-makers created for them. In exposing the history through objects and some remarkable writing by such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn See, Graham Nash, Alice Waters, Terry Gilliam, and Richard Rodriguez, the pre-mythic history and the development of a true California culture emerges...one in which the tinsel is a little tarnished around the edges, but glows as brightly as ever with its own special light.
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Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America today.
According to the author, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain "a race apart." He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: "authentically black" people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. He terms this the "New Double Consciousness" in homage to W.E.B. DuBois' description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago.
Within this context McWhorter takes the reader on a guided tour through the race issues dominant in our moment: racial profiling, getting past race, the reparations movement, black stereotypes in film and television, hip-hop, diversity, affirmative action, the word nigger, and Cornel West's resignation from Harvard.
With his fierce intelligence and fervent eloquence, McWhorter makes a powerful case for the advancement of true racial equality.
A timely and important work about issues that must be addressed by blacks and whites alike, Authentically Black is a book for Americans of every racial, social, political, and economic persuasion.
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"Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America today. According to the author, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain ""a race apart."" He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: ""authentically black"" people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. He terms this the ""New Double Consciousness"" in homage to W.E.B. DuBois' description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago. Within this context McWhorter takes the reader on a guided tour through the race issues dominant in our moment: racial profiling, getting past race, the reparations movement, black stereotypes in film and television, hip-hop, diversity, affirmative action, the word nigger, and Cornel West's resignation from Harvard. With his fierce intelligence and fervent eloquence, McWhorter makes a powerful case for the advancement of true racial equality. A timely and important work about issues that must be addressed by blacks and whites alike, Authentically Black is a book for Americans of every racial, social, political, and economic persuasion."
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The real deal.......2006-09-05
Once again John raised issues nobody wants to hear back into why Black Americans seem to hurt ourselves and not help one another.
Eye-Opening.......2005-11-14
McWhorter considers himself a moderate black man. He is an academian in linguistics, but his second career is in writing and speaking about black issues. He has written a series of essays about the current problems facing blacks in America, many of which have been previously published. In this book, he expands on these essays, giving us a profound overview of the victimization attitude which contributes to the resistance to deracialization of blacks here in the USA.
I have a black friend who likes to play the race card at the drop of a hat. This leaves me with nothing to say, unless we both are willing to have a lengthy private conversation, which may or may not be productive. McWhorter has covered in this book topics I would like to discuss with my friend - has said it much better than I could - and has done it from a personal, studied, and comprehensive vantage point. Below are short excerpts from the chapters of this excellent book, mostly in his words.
Chapter I - Many blacks are careful to portray a pessimistic public outlook in order to "keep whitey on the hook." Privately, their silent mainly middle class majority wish they could have just one generation that didn't absorb this complex cultural victimization attitude. One generation would do it.
Chapter II - Racial profiling is a fact. Other than inconvenient examples of thoughtless inconsideration - which are just as easily overlooked - this remains the last bastion of overt racism. Yet a young black male usually did it, a problem that began with the war on drugs. A powerful and thoughtful analysis, advocating that a cultural bias (within the black community) against real achievement and education works against blacks.
Chapter III - The reparations movement - re: Randall Robinson's book, "The Debt." With the advantages legislated in by Johnson, blacks have been given all the boost they can expect. "Most blacks about fifty or younger tend to tacitly process affirmative action...as a 'reparation,' although they would not put it just that way...The fact that Robinson and the reparation crowd cannot see the alternative views as even worthy of addressing indicates their true interest - assuaging the sense of inferiority to whites that gnaws at the black American soul."
Chapter IV - Review of Bogle's "Primitive Blues," or playing the "can you find the stereotype" game. Bogle blames the TV industry since all shows are not like his preferential type (Cosby), criticizing all actors involved no matter how they perform their role. McWhorter gives the optimistic view, reflecting how the TV industry is well on its way toward an integrated and "deracialized" future.
Chapter V - Diversity - "There comes a point where a people can only achieve at the same level as the ruling group if the safety net is withdrawn."
Chapter VI - McWhorter analyses the "N" word from all vantage points: "Once we have done the right thing for ourselves - which is what interests me - the word will no longer seem so interesting." A fascinating chapter.
Chapter VII - African History - "Black Americans would benefit more from a conception of history focusing not on Africa but on the US: blacks in America speaking english, worshipping a Christian God, living with whites, in a post-industrial society." This chapter then gives a brief essay of McWhorter's idea of what black history should be.
Chapter VIII - Black academics and doing the right thing.
Chapter IX - A seething indictment of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; then a thoughtful presentation of new black leaders who are quietly doing the right things.
This is a superb book that builds interest gradually until it can barely be put down. If you're not black, there is probably much that has escaped your notice. Having read "Authentically Black," I now possess a vastly better understanding of the situation and recommend this book be promoted to the top of your list.
On Afro-Americans and Asians, Latinos and Gringos ..........2005-10-20
John H. McWhorter, 37-year-old Afro-American and linguistics Professor, criticizes the image identification of his brothers and sisters with a certain maliciousness, an image as on the one hand constructed by liberal left-wing politics, on the other hand advanced by pop culture . The politics is tightly still too much attached to the no longer quite realistic, melodramatic idea, that the blacks are still the victims (Al Sharpton) in a territory, where still racism subliminally exists. McWhorter denies this. He slaughters a sacred cow, of which many blacks think, though, one still needs her for milking. However John McWhorter thinks that all non-whites, whether Asians, Latinos or Afro-Americans have fair chances at school or at professional areas in the USA at present. Perhaps he overflows (to the joy of some Republicans eternal of yesterday) with such an assertion to the store of the opponents. Perhaps he formulates something which has been already recognized by psychologists as important: take a look at the book of Martin Seligman, "Learned Optimism". A passive victim mentality is dysfunctional, only self consciousness seems saving - and if it is only an individual bridge, at first one makes progress alone (without the populace, following later). McWhorter preaches, that restrictingly is a self-produced whininess, is to bury oneself with gestures of a subculture behavior: Hip Hop is not important and also not important is to wear the cap turned round differently. Of such irrelevant nonsense, please one shall come loose. Black identity may not be equated to the dead end of "reparations payments" (Randall Robinson) or with hip swing acrobatics. One should copy the joy of achieving great things like the Asians practice -- instead of equating himself with the failed eternally. One by the way does not fail. One has gigantic success: Britney Spears or Mariah Carey are pieces of evidence for the imitation rage of the white individuals, which wanted to learn something from the blacks. It would therefore be counterproductive to show itself eternal in the dress of the failed beggar. It would be the reality already, that the most influential Americans would have a black skin color. McWhorter does not think only of Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell (the system critics Howard Zinn despicably counts them as members of the "staff for the rich and powerful"), but he thinks of the Hip Hop music Mogul Russell Simmons (a little illogically). However, nowadays, it therefore would be absurd that (in Hip-Hop-song-lyrics) artists would talk about the discrimination against the blacks. McWorther, who likes to mention, that black men could marry white women nowadays, wishes all his brothers and sisters to have a self-confident basic ego and a little of that self consciousness, which the Latino disparagingly lets speak of the "Gringo"...
Illuminating, Not for Michael Eric Dyson fans.......2005-09-30
I wasn't sure what to expect, but this book was brilliant. John bravely deals with touchy issues in/and facing Black America.I'm personally surprised his amazon rating is as high as it is; Since boooks like this tend to make people defensive and slinging "Uncle Tom" after 2 paragraphs. Anyway If you have an open mind about the concepts widely accepted about Black America, give this book a try. It won't be a cormfortable read, but the points brought up in the booking are worth consideration and discussion. His thoughts about Afro-centrisim are priceless, sure to shock and anger many.Theres no going back from this book, my world view hasn't been changed this drasticly since reading "The Color Complex".
the higher McWhorter climbs, the more he shows his behind.......2005-08-30
When I first learned of McWhorter via his article in the WILSON QUARTERLY, I smelled a rat. Nevertheless I surmised that McWhorter was a tad more intelligent than the run-of-the-mill black neocon nitwit. Then I read his book LOSING THE RACE, and while I found his argument highly flawed, especially his scapegoating of affirmative action, I thought he was of interest as a barometer of the rigidification of America's class structure. Then I came upon AUTHENTICALLY BLACK and realized that McWhorter is not only wrong, but he's as much an imbecile as the rest of the black neocon pack.
This book reveals the vacuity of McWhorter's political perspective. Its conspicuous stupidity reminds me of how thoroughly incapable most Americans are of honestly appraising our social structure. Is there really any reason anymore to expect an ambitious black middle class professional to display any more insight than anyone else? No, the ignorance is no longer strictly color-coded; it is a unique all-American ignorance, a fragmented view of social organization, an inability to put individual responsibility and social structure together in the same sentence, an unwillingness to penetrate beneath the canned positions, hype and BS that pervade our political and cultural discourse.
The tip-off is McWhorter's exclusive focus on ideology and cliche among his 'opponents'. It is the easiest thing in the world to skim off the bad arguments and ideas floating around in this society and criticize them. Leftists, liberals, old-line civil rights leaders, black intellectuals and culture critics, etc. are as liable as anyone else to make stupid arguments based on faulty logic and stereotypical notions. Such shallowness is how our ideological discourse is structured. But to focus exclusively on confused thinking and to channel-surf the ideological superstructures of society while taking everything else about the status quo for granted, as if nothing is really wrong with society other than the usual generic imperfections of human nature--this is real cluelessness. This is what marks the black conservative as a moron.
To hear McWhorter tell it, leftists, liberals, and the civil rights establishment have misled the American people for the past 40 years by drumming into people's heads the notion that black people should think of themselves as victims helpless in the face of adverse prejudices and creating a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't approach to any evidence of inclusion of black people in mainstream society.
To repeat, McWhorter abstracts out of the ideological flotsam and jetsam of other people's bad arguments to concoct a generic liberal-left conspiracy that disguises how much progress has actually been made and how little the persistence of adverse circumstances should discourage anyone. The tipoff is how much admiration McWhorter musters for blacks in the conservative elite: Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, the black bourgeois preppie who wrote an autobiography about his life among the black elite, et al. In this respect, McWhorter is indistinguishable from the white middle class suburbanite who worships success in mainstream terms and sees nothing wrong with the world except for the losers who lack the initiative to make it. McWhorter's whole argument is predicated on the notion that black success should not be equated with selling out (the victim mentality). Success as defined in mainstream terms should not be racialized, an attitude that paralyzes individual initiative.
Now can you see how mentally retarded this view of society is, _especially_ if you demystify race as McWhorter suggests? How thoroughly embroiled in ideology, how restricted the terms of discourse and analysis? McWhorter finds knee-jerk defensiveness among black Americans dysfunctional, but does he ever stop to link instances of excessive defensiveness to the lack of political and social consciousness of the society as a whole (not to mention its general viciousness), which inhibits the articulation of any perspective beyond competing canned positions? This man is professionally a linguist, but the one aspect of language that evades him is its perverse relationship to concepts, its facilitation or blockage of the potential to form systems of concepts adequate to penetrate to the inmost core of the structuring principles of our man-made world. He can only criticize one layer of ideological symbolism and has nothing to replace it with other than the facile acceptance of the status quo. The class structure of society is taken as commonsense, a given.
And for this reason, this nation is doomed.
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