Selected Poetry And Prose Of Shelley (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

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A fine bargain edition.......2003-01-05

I would recommend this volume for all casual students and readers of Shelley. It is inexpensively priced, and I believe it contains all the pieces printed in Mary Shelley's 1839 version of her husband's "complete works," along with their corresponding prefaces (rarely provided in more insipid 'best of' collections of Shelley). However, I am unable to award this book a higher rating because it is plagued by some very glaring typographical errors and misprints (example: "and if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit/Had been with purer nutriment supplied" from "The Triumph of Life" is presented as "purer sentiment" in the Wordsworth edition). Nevertheless, at less than 5 bucks, this book is a great introduction to the unjustly neglected poetic achievement of Shelley, in my opinion the supreme genius of the great triad of the younger Romantics.

Small Print makes reading hard.......2002-02-14

Personally, I thought the Poetry itself wasn't too bad. Unfortunately the print was way too small, making reading difficult. For that reason, it didn't hold my interest too well. I hope to return to the book again later, once I get my new prescription specs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Selected Poetry and Prose)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (Selected Poetry and Prose)

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Compiled works of the famous poet Shelly

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe; Kenneth Neill Cameron [editor] Shelley
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Selected Poetry & Prose of Percy Bysshe
Percy B Shelley
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Selected Poetry & Prose of Percy Bysshe
Percy Byssh Shelley
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Selected Poetry & Prose of Percy Bysshe
Percy B Shelley
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Perch Byssshe Shelley

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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Perch Byssshe Shelley
Carlos, Ed, with an Intro Baker
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy; Baker, Carlos Shelley
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Modern Library College Edition, T50

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Katherine Kurtz has collected eleven original stories based on the legendary Knights Templar in a book that serves as a sequel to her earlier collection, Tales of the Knights Templar. The stories, written by such authors as Andre Norton, Diane Duane and Kurtz herself, are separated by interludes that chronicle the actual history of the Templars and that also set the background for each successive tale. As with most collections, the stories vary widely from about average to pretty good. What's most compelling here is the Templars themselves, a mysterious order of knights founded in the late 11th century, ostensibly to protect pilgrims in and around Jerusalem. But the Templars grew to become one of the most powerful political and religious orders in the world, only to be brought down by a jealous King Philip IV of France. In the aftermath of their destruction, tales and legends that persist today sprang up around the Templars, creating fertile ground for Kurtz's band of imaginative storytellers. --Craig Engler

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Katherine Kurtz has collected eleven original stories based on the legendary Knights Templar in a book that serves as a sequel to her earlier collection, Tales of the Knights Templar. The stories, written by such authors as Andre Norton, Diane Duane and Kurtz herself, are separated by interludes that chronicle the actual history of the Templars and that also set the background for each successive tale. As with most collections, the stories vary widely from about average to pretty good.What's most compelling here is the Templars themselves, a mysterious order of knights founded in the late 11th century, ostensibly to protect pilgrims in and around Jerusalem. But the Templars grew to become one of the most powerful political and religious orders in the world, only to be brought down by a jealous King Philip IV of France. In the aftermath of their destruction, tales and legends that persist today sprang up around the Templars, creating fertile ground for Kurtz's band of imaginative storytellers. --Craig Engler

Customer Reviews:

More Tales of Pure Knights.......2005-11-28

_The author's _On Crusade_ is my favorite single volume on the subject of the Knights Templar- and this volume is a worthy successor. Like the original it combines both fact and myth in an a blend that comes across exactly right. The introduction,as well as, the "interludes" between stories, are an excellent, readable history of the order, while the stories themselves cover the mythology and legend from many differing perspectives- from the founding of the order, to the present day, to the far future.

_You get an good overall sense of what the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (later, the Knights of the Temple) were really all about. These were men from all over Christiandom (and perhaps beyond) who were pledged to protect pilgrims and holy places with their lives and honor. The took a vow of absolute poverty- individual knights owned nothing. Any wealth the order amassed was put to the purpose of the protection of pilgrims- and later, all of the Christiandom. A measure of their success at fulfilling their original purpose lies in the fact that, from humble pilgrims to kings, all knew that they could trust their lives, as well as, their last penny to the Templars. Even the infidels knew that Templars were honorable men, for they neither asked for, nor accepted ransom, nor would they retreat in battle (unless out-numbered by at least three-to-one, and even then only under direct orders.) It is said that even the famed Assassins feared and payed tribute to the Templars.

_Are the Templars still among us?

Exciting, puts you right in the action........1999-03-18

A collection of very good writing styles. Believable. Exciting. Excellent escapist work, lets you get away from the daily grind and live in the adventure of the Middle Ages.

Fill your night with more Tales of the Knights.......1998-04-28

The Knights Templar have proven to be a durable subject of historic fascination and literary speculation for more than 700 years since their alleged end. These elite warrior-priests, answerable only to the Pope, amassed wealth, knowledge and power through their Crusades in the Holy Lands.

ON CRUSADE tells eleven new tales, mostly fantasy, based on the exploits and actions of the Knights Templar. It continues the explorations began in TALES OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, and shows both the humanity, and inhumanity of soldiers who straddled the hyposcrisy of being warriors for Christianity. The individual tales are wonderful dips into the waters of literary talents both new and old. Highly Recommended

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This is the third installment of David G. Hartwell's annual Year's Best collection, and he writes that it is "full of science fiction--every story in the book is clearly that and not something else."

Hartwell chose 22 stories this time around, a healthy increase from last year's collection. (This doesn't represent more pages, but rather in selecting stories of shorter length, Hartwell was able to fit more of them into the same space.) As usual, Hartwell does a masterful job of picking wonderful works from a variety of venues, and the names here include Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, and Gene Wolfe. This is the perfect collection for readers seeking stories that are quintessentially science fiction. Year's Best SF is rapidly becoming one of the most important annual anthologies in the science fiction field. --Craig Engler

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Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year.

Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3 is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites and rising stars, all calculated to blow your mind, scorch your, senses, erase your inhibitions, and reinitialize your intelligence.

With stories from:

Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe and more...

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Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year.

With stories from:

Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe and more... "

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A Good Batch of Stories.......2003-07-29

The one piece of dross comes from an unexpected source: William Gibson and his story "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City". It's a minute, camera-eye examination of a cardboard structure in a Tokyo subway and obviously inspired by J.G. Ballard's work. I detected no point to the series of descriptions, or, indeed, anything of a fantastical or science fictional nature.

Nancy Kress' "Always True to Thee, in My Fashion" gives us a witty satire with a world where the seasonal variations of fashion cover not only clothes but also your pharmaceutically modulated attitudes.. The caged dinosaur of Gene Wolfe's "Petting Zoo" represents not only the lost childhood of the story's protagonist but a vitality lost from the race of man. Tom Cool gives us "Universal Emulators" with its future of economic hypercompetition that has created a black market for those who impersonate, in every way, the few employed professionals. In effect, the emulators grant them an extra set of hands. Its plot and characters would have done Roger Zelazny proud.

The voice of past science fiction writers echos through many of the anthology's best stories. Jack London's _The Sea Wolf_ provides the inspiration for Michael Swanwick's "The Wisdom of Old Earth". Its heroine realizes, despite whatever dangers she overcomes guiding posthumans through the Pennsylvania's jungles, she will never bootstrap herself into being their equal. H.G. Wells looms over Robert Silverberg's "Beauty in the Night". Its child hero undertakes the first successful assassination of the brutal aliens that have occupied Earth, but his reasons have more to do with his oppressive father rather than the aliens' behavior. John C. Wright's "Guest Law" is a welcome return to the flashy decadence of Cordwainer Smith's fiction. Its hero, a slave-engineer, watches in disgust as his aristocratic overlords corrupt the customary requirements of hospitality to justify piracy in deep space. Gregory Benford's "The Voice" responds to Ray Bradbury's _Fahrenheit 451_. Here the convenience of implanted intelligent agents, hooked up to a computer network, led to literacy fading, and not a repressive regime of firemen. Benford agrees with Bradbury about literacy's value but also undercuts him on the supremacy of writing as a means of communication.

James Patrick Kelly and Brian Stableford tackle similar themes in two excellent tales about children, the needs they fufill for parents, and the possiblity of replacing them with surrogates. The heroine of Kelly's "Itsy Bitsy Spider", estranged from her actor father for 23 ages, is horrified to discover that her enfeebled father's legal guardian is also equipped to simulate her as a child. Stableford's "The Pipes of Pan" has a future recovering from ecological catastrophe where real children are not allowed. However, parents can have children genetically altered to never age and reproduce. But those children suddenly start growing up.

Jack Williamson's "The Firefly Tree" is a Bradbury-like tale of aliens who travel far but whose invitation to join an intergalactice republic goes no further than a farm boy. Though I usually hate stories narrated by smart-alecky teenagers, I didn't mind S.N. Dyer's "The Nostalginauts" with its problem of time travelers going back 25 years to reminisce about their younger selves. The technological speculations of Greg Egan's "Yeyuka" are interesting. However, I didn't find the political criticisms inherent in this story of First World companies exploiting the misery of a Third World cancer epidemic that convincing or plausible, and they seemed a bit of a repeat of those in his novel _Distress_. While Terry Bisson's "An Office Romance" was fun and poked fun at, in passing, Microsoft and those who find the computer screen a satisfying substitute for the world outside, its romance, in the bowels of a computer system, reminded me of _Tron_ in that both stories borrowed computer terminology to create a cyberverse that only superficially resembles the real thing.

Inspiring two works in this book, Ray Bradbury also puts in a direct appearance with "Mr. Pale". As to be expected with Bradbury, its superficial science fiction trappings clothe a fantasy tale of a doctor encountering a desperate Death aboard a spaceship.

The abrupt ending of Tom Purdom's "Canary Land" is at odds with what, at first, seems a tale of corporate espionage on the moon. However, Purdom's real story centers around the bitter experiences of an American immigrant to an Asian dominated lunar society and how his life replays the themes of past immigrants. R. Garcia y Robertson's "Fair Verona" features a virtual-reality obsessed hunting guide who discovers that the joys of his Renaissance Verona might not live up to rescuing a real damsel in danger of being murdered. Kim Newman's "Great Western" has some problems. Rather than just examine the real effects of an alteration to past events, it seeks to gain some signifcance by throwing together a mishmash of non-contemporenous events and cultural icons. Here we have mad cow disease, British political disputes about privatization, and the aftermath of a war fought to free England's serfs. Newman makes the whole thing readable by using the plot of the movie and novel _Shane_, but it doesn't say anything interesting about culture or history.

Paul Levinson's "The Mendelian Lamp Case" has a great premise: a forensic scientist encountering a centuries-old battle between groups that practice genetic engineering via old practices of selective breeding. However, while the biological speculations are detailed and interesting, Levinson should have provided more details about the Amish genetic engineers and their foes. It would have been nice to know their exact motives for spreading allergies, disease, and general social unrest. Michael Moorcock's "London Bone" has plenty of interesting details about London geography and history. However, I think a little too much of the cantankerous Moorcock showed through in its complaints about British and American culture.

The anthology also has a couple of humorous stories. "Turnover", by Geoffrey A. Landis centers around a real scientific question about the seemingly uniform age of Venus' craters. Katherine MacLean's puzzling, but somewhat funny, "Kiss Me" involves several questions about frogs, including what happens when you kiss them.

A good bet for solid science-fiction stories.......1998-11-14

As with most anthologies, there are some hits and misses depending on the reader's personal taste. Easily recognizable SF conventions are recognizable in some, but a new, intriguing spin is put on them to put things in a new light. Some stories, however, are just bizarre. "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" by William Gibson is just that, thirteen views of a city at different angles and locations. My favorites were "Petting Zoo" by Gene Wolfe, "The Firefly Tree" by Jack Williamson, "The Nostalginauts' by S.N. Dyer, "The Voice" by Gregory Benford, "Mr. Pale" by Ray Bradbury, and "Great Western" by Kim Newman. There were other good ones, but these stand out.

Taken together the 2 yrs bests make a wonderful whole........1998-08-13

They complement each others strengths & weakness quite well. Dozois chooses more long serious stuff while Hartwell chooses more short humorous stuff. Humor & shorts was the one area I thought Dozois' was weak, but Hartwell's covers that pretty well. To be brutally honest though this isn't quite as impressive as Dozois' usually is. There were fewer stories I hated, but also fewer that impressed me. In its defense it did a better job with the truly SHORT stories & three of that kind were by "legends" in the field. Legends meaning those respected for decades. Williamson's surprised me by being more aware of the modern world then I expect a 90 yr old be. If that's sounds insulting let me say it was more aware of the modern world then I'll probably be at 90. It was nice to see a Katherine MacLean story anywhere since her works have largely disappeared. Vintage Bradbury's still in print so it wasn't really necessary to pick one of his stories except to have a big name linked to the anthology. Bisson's story about office romance is the kind of story I usually don't like, but I was surprised to find it was one of the ones I liked best. It was a great deal more risque then the others & since some seemed Young Adult I was surprised by it. By the way the risque parts were what I meant by "kind of story I usually don't like" well that & the computer jargon was a bit heavy. The Kress, Dyer, & Purdom I enjoyed in Asimov's. Tom Cool's was also good, but that name is so goofy I'm guessing it has to be real. Benford's "Voice" retread old ground, but I liked it anyway. I could go on & on & rate each story, but I'll stop there. In Dozois' a story generally amazes or infuriates me, in Hartwell's I generally liked it or was indifferent. I didn't avoid reading some the way I do with Dozois' so I'm of a mostly mixed opinion. Nevertheless if Rusch is coming out with one I think I'd probably stop buying this one before I'd stop buying Dozois'. One last thing "Turnover" by Landis was neat in that it talked about a scientific debate I'd just recently heard about, but I think he wrote "Ouroboros" which was the best short/humorous story I'd read last year. I hope it's in Dozois', but his isn't really good with short humorous stories. Oh well I still have the issue of Asimov's it's in I was just hoping it would get recognition. I just mentioned that because some reviewer was saying Landis wrote more worthy stories that year, but I thought I understood the choice since he was trying to counter-balance Dozois'lack of short/humorous stories.

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Year's Best Sf 3

Manufacturer: HarperPrism
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Stories from 22 of today's best sf authors, including William Gibson, Greg Egan, Brian Stableford, etc.

Orbit 3: The Best All New Sf Stories of the Year

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Orbit 3: The Best All New Sf Stories of the Year

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YEAR'S BEST SF 3
David G. Hartwell
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Aroma in foods and fragrance

Enticing

Aroma seizes the senses, says Superchefblog

With a special focus on 27 concentrated aromas

Groundbreaking Work

Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance
Mandy Aftel , and Daniel Patterson
Manufacturer: Artisan
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A New Way of Thinking About Food and Fragrance

Turn a brilliant natural perfumer loose in a chef's kitchen and you get vanilla perfume, saffron, ginger, and blood orange bath salts, and a cucumber mist. Turn a brilliant chef loose in a perfumer's pantry and you get rose-infused steamed bass, peach-jasmine sorbet, and scores of other startlingly original recipes using floral and herbal aromas.

Aroma permeates every cuisine, from ancient to modern, in every culture and at every level, but what this pioneering cookbook, by chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel, makes evident is that aroma, not taste, is our primary experience of food. Without aroma there is no flavor. By focusing on aroma, we intensify all aspects of food, and immeasurably enhance the experience of cooking and eating.

While many cookbooks include some discussion of the use of aromatics in cooking, none concentrates on this essential link, where a few drops of a fragrant essence can make commonplace dishes memorable and good dishes great. Both the food recipes and the fragrance recipes in Aroma are powerfully alluring, whether it's a coffee cologne or an orange flower custard. Cumin vinaigrettes and lemon verbena mists waft off the page. Lavender makes a grilled steak sizzle while white ruffle makes for a haunting perfume.

Explicit information on ingredients, equipment, and terms and techniques complements one fragrance recipe and three food recipes for nearly thirty ingredients—lime, mint, green tea, black pepper, vanilla, and ginger, among others. This seminal work will open your senses to the aromatic, even sensual, dimension of food and fragrance.

Customer Reviews:

Aroma in foods and fragrance.......2007-05-07

The book is so beautiful. It has lovely recipes for food and fragrance. I want to try them all.

Enticing.......2005-11-13

A successful collaberation between a master natural perfumer and a master chef, with luscious results! The photographs are gorgeous---the formulas unique. Attractive enough for a coffee table, this book will be frequently used and treasured. Well worth seeking out for a present for someone special!

Aroma seizes the senses, says Superchefblog.......2005-06-03

How much should you smell what you eat? How important is aroma? Read Superchefblog's review to find out: http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats&site=sm3JulietteRossant&visit=77&report=9&vlr=14&pg=1&rnd=2006111.

With a special focus on 27 concentrated aromas.......2004-11-11

Mandy Aftel is the owner of Aftelier Perfumes and custom designs one-of-a-kind blends for individuals and formulates fragrances for private labels. Daniel Patterson is a professional chef and the owner of Frisson in San Francisco. In Aroma: The Magic Of Essential Oils In Food & Fragrance, Aftel and Patterson effectively collaborate to reveal how aromatics play a critically important role in the perception of flavor in cooking. With a special focus on 27 concentrated aromas, recipes are crafted around the fragrant quality of a single ingredient providing such illustrative examples as enhancing a white peach sorbet jasmine, or augmenting asparagus soup a mint-infusion. Kitchen cooks are shown how to incorporate concentrated oils in their homemade dishes such as adding a bit of oil drizzled into the dressing to invigorate a salad, or sprinkling several drops into a batter to add an additional note to a dessert. The combination of basic information with aromatically enhanced recipes makes Aroma a highly recommended addition to any personal or professional cookbook collection.

Groundbreaking Work.......2004-08-05

At last, someone has combined my two loves- food and natural essences.I have been interested in combining essential oils and food for some time, and this book is full of terrific creative ideas for doing just that. And as a dabbler in homemade body care products, I love the pairing of the food receipes with the body care recipes.

The food recipes are well within the skill level of the average cook. Some of the ingredients are a bit exotic and might be hard to find for some readers (e.g. shiso and saffron absolute- I finally found the saffron absolute at Liberty Natural). Otherwise most of the ingredients are readily available at your basic supermarket. The essences themselves can be ordered at a number of sites on the internet.

Chef Patterson's recipes are creative and provacative combinations that "go outside the box". Seared Scallops With Tarragon Sabayon combines tarragon essential oil with a sabayon sauce normally associated with desserts, but modified here to work in a savory dish. Wild Salmon With Marinated Cucumbers utilizes a cucumber hydrosol in the vinaigrette and the unusual technique of slow-cooking the salmon so that it is completely cooked through yet moist and delicate.

The "In the Everyday Kitchen" vignettes in each chapter offer quick and simple suggestions for using the essences in food. For example, "Mix a little lime essential oil with lime juice, simple syrup...and sparkling mineral water..." The lime EO adds a kick to the drink that it wouldn't have with lime juice alone.

Ms. Aftel's fragrances and body care recipes are glorious and most are relatively simple to do. The novice will need a little practice handling some of the more viscous essences, such as peru balsam and labdanum absolute in the Jasmine Liquid Perfume. I was quite surprised and delighted that Ms. Aftel chose to share with us the recipes for some of her own perfumes that she sells on her website and in retail stores. Parfum de Maroc and Cepes and Tuberose are two favorites. It is exceptionally generous considering that most perfumers keep their formulations under lock and key for obvious reasons.

I also want to add that the photography and food styling in this book is mouth-watering and drop-dead gorgeous. I almost wanted to eat the book! (Almost.)

Three cheers for Mandy Aftel, Daniel Patterson, and their creative team for giving us this beautiful work!

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Those who love their dogs will find a wealth of clear, precise and sensible instructions here for teaching their canine companions to be the ideal pet. In the ultimate guide for teaching your dog good manners, two award-winning authors take the reader through a short course in dog behavior, highlighted by original cartoon art. Humorous yet practical suggestions are presented for preventing bad habits, dealing with a dog's basic needs, growth stages and why things happen and when. What All Good Dogs Should Know abounds with practical information on a motivational, humane and highly effective approach to dog training. This book is essential for anyone who values a dog as a friend, pet and companion.
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction

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You need to flip through this book if you have a puppy.......2004-01-08

A friend on mine gave me this book, she currently has 6 dogs and havs used this book to train all of them. I really enjoyed the book. It was an easy read with very easy to understand methods, funny little comics, and it got right to the point. Grant it my Pup is only 11 weeks old and I'm still having some trouble with a few things with her, but not much. I suggest you give this book a whirl especially if you have read other books and feel they haven't helped much.

A must for new puppy owners!.......2003-05-23

So easy to follow & understand! And, the cartoons throughout are great!
Without this book, I would have been completely clueless when it came to getting our first puppy housebroken & trained. Because of this book, we now have two fantastic dogs (one who is 1 year and one at 6 mos. old). This book completely debunks so many age-old dog training myths - how to dicipline, not rewarding inappropriate behavior by accident...etc. I would have done a lot wrong without this book! Very humane, thoughtful & insightful into the world of puppies and dogs. If you've ever wondered "why does my dog do that?" you'll find the answer here. Bravo to the authors!

Wonderful!.......2001-10-09

This is one book that every dog owner, or potential dog owner, should buy! It doesn't matter if you have a Rottweiler, a Chihuahua, or just a good old Heinz 57 dog, this book is for all dogs. Cute illustrations and sound advice on how to make your dog the good doggie citizen of the year abound in this book. It addresses common issues like housebreaking, walking on a leash nicely, crate training, and much more. I highly recommend this book!

GOOD, but not GREAT........2001-05-10

This is a good, basic book about dog training. Some of the insite into why dogs do what they do and what they are really thinking is great information to have. But, if you are serious about dog training it will take more than just this one book to give you all the base knowlege you need.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in dogs though. The information it has is accurate and useful and the illustrations are fun and educational. I agree with the person who said it would be a great dog training book for younger children to start with. The illustrations make this book very understandable for everyone.

Add it to your collection for the pictures and basic information, but do keep reading because there are more comprehensive dog training manuals out there.

Great Entry into Dog Training.......2001-02-17

Best part is the simple approach with its cartoon art which illustrates comically the training point under discussion.

Parents with children would do well to get and use this book. Later on, however, probably like to move on to other, more detailed helps.

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The thrilling world of NASCAR racing is captured in the Collector's Value Guide! The guide includes an overview of NASCAR Winston Cup racing, die-cast collectibles for some of the top Winston Cup Series drivers, biographies for some of the biggest names in auto racing and up-to-date secondary market values! Be sure to check out our other fun titles such as: Hot Wheels, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon and more!

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nascar madness.......2000-12-29

The book was very well written, with much research. Very useful for for all Nascar cars collectible's fanatics. Much information on each Nascar driver.A good source to keep track of value of current and older cars .Being able to keep track of your own cars with space provided for each car with driver . It also has a lot of history about Nascar Legends , living and decseaed . The only part that disappionted me was,that ther where only NINE drivers listed,with pictures of there cars. Granted these were the Top ones , I was still not 100% happy with the book .To me ,there are way, way more than NINE great NASCAR drivers that sould have been mentioned .

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Nice designs, execution lacking

Joan Elliot's Native American Cross Stitch

Native American Cross Stitch

A must for cross-stitchers

Awesome Book

Joan Elliott's Native American Cross Stitch
Joan Elliott
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-The latest collection of stunning designs from a leading cross stitch designer

-Native American designs are extremely popular

-Features 50 pages of full-color charts, and stunning color photography throughout The distinctive imagery of America's indigenous culture is a powerful reminder of the values the native people lived by. Now, leading designer and bestselling author Joan Elliott presents an evocative collection of Native American-inspired cross stitch designs that will delight cross stitchers everywhere.

Stunning dream catcher designs; striking decorative borders; uplifting celebration pieces for the birth of a child or a wedding; and creative cards, pillows, jewelry, and accessories are all featured in this beautifully illustrated book.

Elliott's guide features fifty pages of full-color charts, stunning color photography throughout, and information on both materials and stitching techniques making this book ideal for beginners and more experienced stitchers alike.

Customer Reviews:

Nice designs, execution lacking.......2007-09-05

The designs in the book are interesting and challenging, though they are certainly not authentic Native American designs. I've put a good 10 hours or so into the "Indian Maiden" design only to discover that there is an entire column missing from the chart. I don't know yet if the other designs have problems, but do check them over carefully before beginning.

Joan Elliot's Native American Cross Stitch.......2007-02-22

Fantastic and breathtakingly beautiful designs, as a first time cross stitcher (now hooked) I found these designs very user friendly.

Native American Cross Stitch.......2007-01-10

This is one of the best books I've come across for Native American cross stitching. The patterns are easy to follow and have many options. I recommend this to anyone interested in cross stitching Native American designs.

A must for cross-stitchers .......2006-08-10

A must for cross-stitchers who also purchased Joan Elliott's Oriental Odissy.
The book is very colourful & the patterns are bright & easy to follow.
I love all of Joan Elliott's patterns & books. I'm always looking for more.

Awesome Book.......2006-06-29

This book is full of designs that cover a variety of the Indian tribes and contains key information as why particular colors were chosen or the significance of a motif. I have several designs in the book started and cannot wait to finish them. Easy to read charts with the colors to help guide along make many of the projects come alive off the page as you are working.

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Native American Cross Stitch by Julie S. Hasler
Inspiring Cross Stitch
Amazing Book for Lovers of Native American Cross Stitching.
Good subject coverage

Native American Cross Stitch
Julie S. Hasler
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715312405

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Original designs from every corner of the Amerindian nations are skillfully adapted to make up a range of projects for the home, including a rug based on a Navajo pattern and a bed throw adapted from sand painting pictures. Authentic items to make include a sun catcher and a Cree bag, while detailed pictures capture scenes from traditional life.

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Native American Cross Stitch by Julie S. Hasler.......2007-02-22

Beautiful and breathtaking designs. As a first time cross stitcher (now hooked)I found the instruction in this book very user friendly.

Inspiring Cross Stitch.......2006-08-27

I wanted to make everything in the book and/or adapt some of the designs into my own creations.

Amazing Book for Lovers of Native American Cross Stitching........2000-05-10

I live in Cape Town, South Africa and my husband and I travelled to london for a holiday in July, 1999. I saw this book at Harrods while I was there and promptly bought two copies, one for my youngest sister, and one for a very good friend. It is amazing that an English designer of the stature of Julie Hasler, who has published many other fine cross stitch books, has been able to, so perfectly, portray the wonders of the Native Americans and their culture, both ancient and modern through this medium. The two people I have bought this book for have been stitching non stop from the more than 40 patterns featured in this high quality book. The picture of the Nes Pearce woman featured on the cover is but a small taste of the wonders to be found under it. I would recommend this book to anybody who loves the art of Cross Stitching and who loves the culture of the Native Americans. For cross stitchers who hate back-stitching, this book is ideal as Julie has managed to portray her subjects poignantly, using mainly whole cross stitches and using little or no back stitch. A fabulous buy. Stunningly easy patterns to follow, and the colours are amazing. I have found myself totally inspired by the contents of this book and have, as a result, started to read up as much as I can on the Native American culture. If you have the money and you like this type of work....buy it...you won't regret it! :)

Good subject coverage.......2000-01-24

I really liked this book - I did find the large designs rather "busy" but very striking never the less. A nice varity of design complexities and sizes. Well worth owning.

Hollow Horn Bear - Cross Stitch (Leisure Arts, leaflet 834)

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Hollow Horn Bear - Cross Stitch (Leisure Arts, leaflet 834)
Carol Emmer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000P487NI

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Native American Cross Stitch
Joan Elliott
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715327585

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This evocative collection features over 40 designs by leading cross stitch designer and best-selling author Joan Elliott. Readers will find wonderful project ideas inspired by the spirit of native American culture including samplers, table linen, jewellery, hangings, cards, bags, pillows and stitcher's accessories. Stunning photography and beautiful full-color charts, accompany step-by-step instructions for every project. Information on materials, stitching techniques and full making-up instructions are provided, making this book ideal for beginners and more experienced stitchers alike.

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Native American Designs in Cross-Stitch
Frankye Jones
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Native American Cross Stitch
Julie Hasler
Manufacturer: David & Charles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WS7HE2

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Although often depicted as a barbaric and uncivilised society, in the full pejorative meaning of these words, Merovingian Gaul was clearly a Christian society and a direct continuation of the Roman civilisation in terms of social standards, morals and culture. Using insights provided by social history, archaeology, palaeography and anthropology, this book studies the problem of Christianisation in early Medieval Gaul from a cultural point of view. While exploiting a huge range of primary and secondary material, Dr. Hen does not confine himself to a functional analysis of various cultural and religious activities in Merovingian Gaul, but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of such activities for the people themselves, and for the subsequent developments in the Carolingian period.

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During the time of the British Empire 1880-1960, advertising pervaded every aspect of British life. It was also the period which witnessed the rise of the British Empire. This is the first book to trace the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. The book reveals the historical and production context of many well-known advertising icons, as well as the specific commercial interests that various companies' images projected. It also develops a detailed textual analysis of the images.

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A German Fairy Tale in Rural Missouri.......2001-12-06

Original version published by Paul Fessler in H-Net Book Review for H-GAGCS listserv

An academic's recommendation of a book as a "good read", however, can often be regarded as suspect by undergraduates and general readers. Perhaps our overexposure to dissertations and monographs have perverted our sense of what constitutes an enjoyable and easy to read book. To counteract such biases and perversions, I asked my wife to read Hauser's book. This book passed my wife's test. If only all books published by academic presses could boast such accessibility.

Originally published in Germany in 1950, My Farm on the Mississippi was clearly written for a non-academic audience. In this brief, very accessible book, Heinrich Hauser, an opponent of the Nazi regime and wartime German refugee, turns his three years from 1945-1948 on a Missouri farm near the German-American community of Wittenberg into an engaging adventure story. This book caught the eye of Curt Poulton, a historical geographer and translator at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, who translated this work into English. Poulton argues that Hauser, as a German living among a German immigrant community in the wake of World War II, offers invaluable commentary upon this 1940s "postimmigrant America" where immigrants' native language and customs were still alive.

In 1939, Hauser, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, escaped from Germany with his Jewish wife and two children. After unsuccessfully trying his hand at farming in upstate New York and then at city life in Chicago, Hauser and his wife yearned for the romantic fresh air of the proverbial American heartland. With no prospects or firm destination, Hauser set off for St. Louis and points southward in an old 1928 Packard in search of his dream farm. South of St. Louis and just north of Cape Girardeau, Hauser and his wife began passing signs to "Stuttgart", "Dresden", "Altenberg", and "Wittenberg". In Cape Girardeau, Hauser spotted a "Dr. Schultz" and paid this German-speaking physician a visit to inquire about the region and the German-sounding places. Working through the German-American subculture, Hauser soon bought a farmstead south of the town of Wittenberg, Missouri on the Mississippi floodplain.

Hauser recounts how his wife Rita and son Huc struggled to make the farm a working proposition for the next three years. Most of the profits, however, were used to provide care packages and other aid to their German friends and relatives back home. During the rest of the time, his family survives horrific floods, raging forest fires, and a comic shipwreck. During the summers, his son Huc devised plans and adventures such as making a boat with an outboard motor in ways reminiscent of a Little Rascals episode. By 1948, however, low crop prices and homesickness convinced the reluctant Hausers to return to Germany and abandon their Missouri farm.

Nevertheless, Hauser offers a useful window into this German-American society on the banks of the Mississippi. As Hauser notes, it is this region's rural isolation that permitted its German culture and language to survive both World War I and World War II and beyond. Hauser knew he was among his own kind when he saw women working the fields---a practice Americans generally avoided. In the local bars, these German-Americans would add salt to modify the sweet American beers like Falstaff and Budweiser. When the war in Europe was over, Hauser's family celebrated with a crowd of itinerant German-American lumber workers playing "schottiches" and singing songs such as "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore" and sea tunes like "In Hamburg da bin ich gewesen". Also particularly interesting (and useful for immigration and ethnicity courses) are Hauser's recollected interactions between these German-Americans and the nearby African-Americans.

Just as Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America offers an outsider's critique of early nineteenth-century America, Hauser's observations present a valuable perspective of postwar America, its rural traditions and ethnic relationships. Hauser is an "outsider/insider" within the postwar German-American community. Though an outsider as a recent German refugee, he can speak the language (both linguistically and theologically). This allowed him to enter into the culture and bring a unique perspective to bear upon it.

Because this book was originally written for a German audience unfamiliar with many aspects of American society and culture, Hauser's narrative is particularly instructive to an American audience today. For many undergraduate students in particular, Hauser's emphasis on the basics of everyday American life proves more fascinating to American readers today than when it was originally published. Approaching the daily life of the post-World War II America from the cultural distance of a foreigner is in many ways similar to the approach of today's readers and students separated from that cultural landscape by the passage of fifty years. Thus, Hauser's cultural observations, which may have seemed less interesting to an American reader in the 1950s when the work was first published are met with a much different perspective.

Without Poulton's sparkling translation, however, these observations would have lost much of their power to English readers. Poulton's work arouses comparisons to other recent and notable translations such as W.C. Kuniczak's translation of Heinrich Sienkiewicz's monumental Trilogy beginning with the novel "With Fire and Sword" (popular Polish nationalist fiction written during the late 19th century-a useful assignment for courses dealing with 19th century European nationalism, by the way). Poulton remains faithful to Hauser's intent to provide his readers with an adventure story. So dependent upon narrative flow and colorful description, this value and attraction of this work would have been irreparably harmed by a poor translation.

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Title: My Farm on the Mississippi: the Story of a German in Missouri, 1945-1948.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Robert W. Frizzell
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 998(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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